Evening Star Newspaper, January 17, 1893, Page 9

_ THE EVENING STAR: WASHINGTON, D. CG, TUESD Aye JANUARY 17, 1893—TEN PAGES. > ONE ENJOYS Both the method and results whea Syrup of Figs is taken; it is pleas ent and refreshing to the taste, and sctagently yet promptly on the Kid- a Bowels, cleanses the system effectually, dispels colda, beadaches and fevers.a ix cavesiake itual constipation. Syrup of Figs is the only remedy of its kind ever produced, pleasing to the taste and acceptable to the stomach, prompt im its action and truly beneticial im its effects, prepared only trom the most healthy and agreeable sub- Stances,its many excellent qualities ommend it to all and have made it the most popular remedy known, Syrup of Figs is for sale in 50e. and bottles by ali leading druggista, @ny reliable druggist who may not bave it on hand will procure it Womptly ior any one who wishes te Ye be wok uccept any substitute CALIFORNIA FiG SYRUP Ca SAN FRANCISCO, CAL, oureviie. a7. wEW YORK oO | Infiuenza, A 1a sure relief ain a will see the by 0 cents and $1. Large bottles, {ME PHILADELPHIA COUNCIL OF PHYSICIANS ARE HERE AND HAVE OPENED BUILDERS’ | and you can. | big pa | world on the same terms as his match with Jack McAuliffe Done With Finish | Fights. | BACKING VIGNAUY AGAINS? THE WORLD | ES The New Base Ball-Cycling Com- bination. JACK McAULIFFE He Says That He Will Go in “Fin! cht Profiting by the experiences of Jack Demp- | sey snd John .. Sallivan Jack McAuliffe, the | only survivor of the three champion Jacks, #0 ‘ng the idols of the American pugilistic world, has decided not to “‘stey too long,” and last night declared his intention of never more fighting a finieh fight. | Jack says, though, that it was no fault of his that be didn’t fight Burge, the Englishman. RETIRES, ALL KINDS OF SPORTS| do with the cycling organization, it being m the hands of other parties. Such old-time fessionals as Eck, Howells, Robb and men of their class will not be taken into the association. The originators of the movement claim to have contracts with Zimmerman and many of his class to join the organization, so that it seems that the chief riders will come from the amateur ranks. They say these riders are becoming weary of winning a barn full of prizes each season ranging in variety from medals to cook stoves and pianos. They prefer to handle the | cash instead. The feature that is counted on to meet with the most favor is the proposed international | races to be given each fall. The gentlemen are already in possession of letters from cycling representatives of France. Germany, ngland, Austraha and other nations, all promising their hearty support and co-opera- tion It is expected that,these races will bring together the best wheelmen of the world and be full of interest. The purses for these events will be large and all the money will be guaranteed. The track for Pittsburg will be laid in Ex- position Park as soon as the danger of floods is over. The incorporators are not known at present, but the base ball club will be inter- ested. FRANK SHA BIG BID. He Secures the Betting Privileges at Wash- ington Park, Chicago. Cuicaao, Jan. 17.—The figure at which “This question of weight they brought on them- | selves,” be said. ‘They published statements | in the papers that Iwas compelled as light- weight champion to fight at 133 pounds and 1} kept them to that. Iwas not at all sorry, | either, when I saw Burge. for he is bigger in every way and taller than I am, and the smaller man isa fool to give away weight under any, circumstances. Tcould lick any man in the world five pounds lighter than myself, and I | thould certainly be crazy to give Burge, who is | quick, active, taller and younger man than | myself, that advantage. Let him come to} weight, though, and Ill fight him,” concluded | the light-weight champion. | Burge is reported to have stated that Me- | Aulilfe, in their last interview, requested him to lay down, but Jack emphatically denies this. | The English pugilist says that McAuliffe had been ‘Grinking cod was verv liberal in bis con- | fidence, aud approached him on the matter of | putting ap a fake fight between them. | ccording to Burge, McAuliffe, after stating be did not want fo fight because « beaten was no good in this country, said: “Now, | k, you would like to make some big money | We can make a match and get a | and youcan make a smail fortune, | but I will only make a match on condition that | I must be the w You can make more | by it than you make in a dozen fights | nd, and as long as you are not going | nin in this country it won't burt you | | this, adds: | ce to Post, which publis! mention the amount to the Post s | informant. VIGNAUX BACKED FOR THOUSANDS. | He Has a Will Match Him Comers. | A special cni New York Herald from | Paris says: ‘This afternoon an American gen- | tleman entered Vignaux’s billiard academy and, addressing Eugene Carter, who is one of the professors there, said: “Iam willing to back Vignaux for $5,000 against any man in the Schaeffer, that is, 1,200 points, balk-line bill- ards, two seances of 600 points ea: Carter said that if the -gentleman was ready to it 21.000 at once as a proof of good faith be would submit the matter to Vignaux This being done, Vignaux consented to play | #ny comer within twenty-five days from this! date, This is considered a chance for George S. Sloston, who has now plenty of time to cross the Atlantic and return in time for the four- nament at the world’s fair at Chicago. A GODDARD-SMITH MATCH. ‘They Will Fight for 500 a Side and the Biggest Purse. Joe Goddard, the Barrier champion, who re- cently whipped Peter Maher before the Coney Island Athletic Club, afd “Denver” Ed Smith have been matched to fight to « finish at catch | weights for 22,500 a side and the best purse of- fered. Each man deposited $500 and signed articles of agreement. It is expected that the fight will command at least a $10,000 purse. ENTRIES FOR THE FUTURITY. Prominent English Owners Send in Their Nominations. EXCHANGE HALL FOR THE “FREE” HEALING OF THE SICK. THEIR OFFICE, G17 13TH ST. N.W., 18 ALSO OPEN, WHERE THOSE WHO ARE ABLE AND WILLING TO PAY MAY GO AND BE CURED. DR. J. SEMMES, SPECIALIST ‘BALDNESS, ON A wow an # ereatest biewsima is @ good suit of Hair. seurs TRIC HAIK RESTORER, 1 ISTHST. Nw ® ¥ hip of the world. It is pro- Me te W growth of 2 t bair ws r ved by the leadine analyzed by Auld. for the © weeks. No ramets eit. All orders Va. Wusos & Can Great Reever STORM RUBBERS, LIGHT RUBBERS, RUBBERS OFZALL STYLES. DON'T FORGET OUR $3.50 Snors FOR TENDER FEET Wrasox & Cann, 20 F ST. NW. ore 4and 6 W. Baltimore st. saeett | The Windy City Wanted to Have the Na- | race come to this country | of the Yale-Harvard ra | BASE BALL AND CYCLING. | win the In One Park Be Suec- ar prices beral. | ‘The Coney Island Jockey Club has received forty-nine additional entries to the futurity of 188 from Engiand, making a total. of 1,092) entries. The English entries are from the stud of J. F. Brocklehurst, G. A. Rallie, James Me- B. Botterell, Mrs. Chaloner, L. E. Sehoentield, Alwine Gravi RT mbton, Capt. A. Whitaker, J J. Bell, R. Sidney and A. J. Swabe. | shire, Dog Rose, Sheen, Pete Friars, Balsam, Saraband, Barcaldi G ard, St. Simon, High!and Chief, Prince Ru- Fullerton, Bread Knife, St. Gatien, Quicklin, Royal Hampton, Mac Meathaovntes and Queen's Counsellor. Col. North aiso enters El Diablo, Iddesleigh, High Commissioner, Miss Simon, for the su- burban handicap, aud Iddesleigh, High Com- r h and Ready for the Sheeps- ANS DISSATISFIED. tional Regatta. A. G. Spalding of the Chicago A. A. yester- ¥ afternoon had a consultation withthe offi- cials of the Amateur Athletic Union in relation to the world’s fair athletic championship meet- ing. In relation to the trouble that existed be- tween the old Western A. A. and the A. A. C he stated that everything had been amicably tled. The Chicago A.A. has decided to sume all the responsibility of the world’s fair | tournament, and has also decided to join the | Central Association of the A. A. U., and. Presi- | dent J. St. John of the old Western Association has promised Mr. Spalding that all the clubs of | his association will apply at once for member- ship in the A. ALU. Mr, Spalding was much surprised to h | that Detroit had been selected as the place of holding its next championship regatta. There | Semcemes on foot at Chicago to give a ed. r world’s fair regatta, as has already been stated | in Tux Star. It is also the intention to give a | professional regatta. Mr. Spalding has hopes of having the winner of the Oxford-Cambridge Base bali patrons do not exactly know what think of the Professional Cyclers’ Associa- anized recently in Philadelphia by the ding base ball men. It is safe to say that no base ball crank favors the idea of having « ck skirting the diamond with races by pro- nal wheelyen. He cannot believe that magnates are in earnest. Of course it is Feast the tion that will fill their parks while the home club is Of the five months’ playing sea- son each bail park is unoceupigd half the time, or, say. two and one-half months, The mag- | antes probably realize that they are put to great expense to have returns from their in- Yestment only two and one-balf months out of | twelve. ‘The eveling races would be the attrac- tion that would give them returns for the un- occupied time. Of course it is supposed that itw tch on” like horse racing. It will have the advantage over the latter in being much less expensive, and being more easily managed, while the are more readily ac- cexsible. President Buckenberger of Pittsburg says that the gentlemen in attendance at the Phila- delpbia meeting were very enthusiastic and felt confident that the scheme would be a success, ‘The general sentiment among those present was that many amateurs would join the movement. According to the statements made there it would seem that the spirit of true amateur sports was frequently violated. While cash prizes were prohibited many of the best-known amateurs made it a steady practice to convert their winnings into cash or tu realize on them through trades aud sales, Cleveland is the only ieague city that will not | Stamford. | referee. ea of the magnates to provide an attrac- | Frank Nutting Shaw secured the betting ring privileges of the world’s fair meeting at Wash- ington Park must remain a subject for con- Jecture, as the officials of the club rogard the transaction as a private business deal, the de- tuils of which are not of vital interest to the public. The contract between the club and the lessee of the concern was signed yesterday, Shaw filing the necessary bond. The cash con- sideration w@l be paid over when the meeting opens, June 24. After that the individual book- makers will do business with Shaw, who will collect the usual rental of $100 a day from exch. It is expected that the entries to the Wash- ington Park stakes, which closed yesterday. will reach a total of 700. ‘The eastern entry is very heavy; many of the best all-nged performers, including the likeliest suburban and Brooklyn aandieap candidates, are nominated for the Co- lumbus, Wheeler, Great Western and Oakwood handicaps, and the best of the last year’s two- r-olds are named for the Dearborn, he annual race meeting of the Citizens’ Northwestern Association of Trotting and Pac- ing Horse Breoders will take place September 4 to 16, inclusive, nearly a month later than usual. The dates were set yesterday. It is the intention of the association to hang up nearl; $100,000 in purses, added money and premiums for special events, Col, Pfeftor Tatke, “TI do not know what I will do, the great second baseman, the other day. “T want to play ball, vet I have interests here which I do not feel justified in sxcrificing. One thing is certain, if I play ball at all it will be in Louisville. Ido not think Iwas treated right last season. I did not want the management of said Pfeffer, the club and did ome here with the inte tion of trving to gét it, effort was being rmined to take a hand in it and make the best defense possible. There is no trnth in the re- port that I want to go either to Boston or New York, for if 1 exercised my preferenee I had rather play ball in Chicago than any place in the world. But now I cannot afford to think of playing with any club except Louisville, as I am located here permanently.” Barnie’s New Plans, Manager Barnie is expected in Louisville in a few days. It is not known yet what changes he will make in the club, yet he has intimated that anew third baseman will be secured. Unless Pfeffer decides to play, Taylor will be put on second and a new right fielder signed. Whistler will be retained at first and Jennings at short. ‘There will probably be two additions to the pitcher's_box, another catcher may be signed. Manager Barnie is now in correspond- ence with a third baseman and a pitcher of the California League. recom- mended by Tom Brown, and played in the Western Lengue last reaton. ° The Clermont rink, Brooklyn, was crowded last night, the attraction being an eight-round go between Walter Campbell of Philadelphia and Billy Ernst of Brooklyn, The men fought at cateh-weights, Ernst tipping the scale at jounds and Campbell 126. ‘The first round was rather a tame one, but in the second Ernst got in a lucky blow on’ Camp- bell’s jaw and ended the fight. Abont 300 Philadelphians were present and they lost « heap of money, laying odds of 2 to 1on their man. Joe Donoghue, A. in and John nis have agreed to skate 100 miles at Stamford, Conn., on January 26, for public glory. Frank- lin wanted torace at Rockland lake, but, as the other two were opposed, he agreed to go to William 1B, Curtis was chosen Donoghue is anxious to make a match with Norseng, the Norwegian. His backer, Gus Walton, received word that the Minneupo! Journal had received $1,000 from the N wegian rink as a forfeit for Norseng to race Donoghue, and asked if he would forward a like amount. Walton sent the following reply: Jonoglne will race A. D. Norseng # series of races, one, three and five miles, at the Nor- mannia rink for $1,000 a side ‘nnd all gate receipts. ‘The contest is to take place in Fe Tuary at times to be mntudlly agreed upon. ‘The Normannia rink must forward £250 for ex- penses, as Donoghue spent over this amount hen he went to Minneapalis recently and no ce was arrai The rink mst also put up 31,000 with the New York Herald as a forfeit for Norseng.”” Harold Hagen, the Norwegian skater, again defeated Fred Breen, the Canadian, in the mile skating race at Minneapolis yesterday.” Breen got the best of the start as well, but Hagen soon ade up ail he had lost. For the first two laps een seemed to be holding his own, but at the end of the third Breen’s endurance was on the wane and Hagen gained rapidly, winning the race by forty vards in 249 4-5.” ‘Breen’s time was 2.5414.” The third and last of the series of races, u five-mile race, will be skated to- morrow. Charles Gillespie of St. John, N. B., claims ating championship of prid and is willing to meet Hagen in a kward championship skating match. If Hagen agrees a race will be arranged to take pluce at St. John. ‘The Giants Still Hold the Grounds. Aconference between the committee from the New York Base Bali Club and the commit- tee from the National Horse and Cattle Show Association was held yesterday afternoon at the office of Col. Wm. Jay in New York. The mat- ter of getting the base ball men to turn over their lease of Manhattan field and the polo grounds to the association was discussed, but no definite conclusions were reached. It is desired by the association to throw Man- | hattan field and the polo grounds into one large | fleld, in which can be heldall open-air horse and | cattle shows and ail kinds of athletic games. In | order to do this it will be necessary for the club | to surrender its lease to the polo grounds, A | bandsome bonas will be paid fer the lease and | the Giants will be allowed to play out the sea- | son on the enlarged grounds, Protection That Doesn't Protect, | ‘The demand of the Eastern Base Ball Leagne | for the reservation of its players of the past {season remains unanswered by the national | board of control. ‘This is wrong. The East- tion $1,500 in cash for protection, and in every y lived up to its obligations and is entitled to its players. The National League is disposed to treat the minor organizations fairly, it is said. MeGill Goes to Chicago. The Chicago ciub has taken Willie MeGill in j band, and will give him a chance to win back a | place in the base ball world next season. The youngster's reformation is said to be complete, and President Hart, who has kept close watch on him all winter, says that his conduct has been exemplary. Thursday Hart sent for Me- Gill and offered him « position, which was gladly accepted. His contract is an iron-clad one. McGill receives but « small salary during the playing season, being given his pay in bulk in the fall. Sporting Notes. Fitzsirmymons’ training quarters at Bay St. Louis are ready for him, ‘Nelson will sent for the world’s stallion record next season. Catchers anticipate ap next season if the be represented in the association. President Robinson of the Cleveland team telegraphed that he had no time to attend to the matter. In Chicago, Philadelphia and one or two other cities the baseball people will have nwhing to pitcher is further back. Leon Vian is to. travel for « Chicago house. He prefers to be a commercial tourist to ife in “'Dr. Carver bas accepted the challenge of J. L. Brewer td shoot a match at 200 live birds each for $1,000 side. Carver says he cannot shoot until July. J.C. Chapman will be found at Buffalo next season if he decides to accept a half interest in aclab there. Catcher Connie Mack is pretty sure tobe found here during the coming season. ‘Stivetts has signed with Boston and will not receive over $2,400. The various ball clubs not to negotiate for players until the 15th instant. Rumors of deals will now come thick and Jack Skelly, who was beaten by Geo, Dixon at New Orleans last September, will accept the Buffalo Athletic Club's offer of a $1,000 purse to tight John McTiernan, provided .the latter agrees to fight at 125 pounds and make a side bet of €1,000. Base Ball Director Scanion shakes his head when the new bicycling-base ball combination is mentioned. Shortstop MeKean of the Clevelands and Al H. Wood of that city will sign articles today for a wrestling match, to take place within the next few weeks. a8 A Singular Man. * From Temple Bar. The Hon. Henry Cavendish was s mathema- ticiun, astronomer, geologist, alchemist, recluse and—eccentric. Mr. Cavendish was intensely shy. He hud quite a decided aversion to all, ‘and especially to female, society. ‘The only way to get him to speak was never to look at him; talk, as it were, into a vacancy, then it was not unlikely that ke might be set going. Never- theless, men were a trouble to him and women an intolerable nuisance. We mention this as an eccentricity, but there are doubtless many men who share his prejudice. He avoided communi- cation with bis female housekeeper by deposit- ing notes on the hall table. A female servant he would never see. If an unlucky maid showed herself she was instantly — dis- missed. In his villa at Clapham he had a second staircase built so that he might prevent the almost inevitable encounters with the hated sex. To Mr. Cavendish’s town house in Gower street few visitors were ad- “mitted. 4yThe favored ones who crossed its threshold reported that books and the neces- eary apparatus for a science student were its chief furniture. He hada socond repository for his bulky tomes in Dean street, Soho, where he kept a large number of works on science. He did not object to lend these books, but they were to be well taken care of and re- turned quickly. In fact, so fond was he of method that he would himeelf actually sign a receipt for any of his own volumes which he wanted to take away. Whenever Mr. Cavendish entertained his guesis he would always give them the same fare--a leg of mutton. A story goes that one day when four friends were coming it was asked ‘him what should be ordered for dinner. He ve “A leg of mutton.” was tl that will not be’ enough for fi , get two,” Kaid the host, When died ho was the largest holder of bank stock in England. He owned £1,197.000 in different public funds, besides freehold property of £4,000 vear and a balance of £50,000 on acconnt. ‘This large income was al- lowed to accumulate without attention. On one occasion, when the bankers had in hand a balance of £80,000, they thought it well to ac- quaint Mr. Cavendish with the fact. “If it is rtrouble to you I will take it out of ands; do not come here to plague me.” “Ni the leust trouble to us, sir, but we thought you might like some of it'to be invested?” “Well, what do you want to do?” “Perhaps you would like bal! of it invested?” “Do so, do so, and do not come here to bother me or I'll remove it,” was the churlish finale of the interview. Cavendish was seventy-eight years of age when he died, in 1810, and_he had never changed the fashion of his dress for sixty year: ——_oer ‘The Criminal Type. From the Manchester Times. An important result of the recent oongres# at Brussels on criminal anthropology has been the discrediting of the so-called “criminal type,” or habitual criminal, The person who was born a criminal and must be one “nolens volens” was supposed to havea smaller capacity of skull than the average, a more retreating forehead, the back of the head large, the lower jaw very strong and pronounced, the ears often deformed, the hair coarse and thick, the beard scanty. and so forth, Dr. ‘Tarnovski of St. Petersburg and Dr. Naecke, from a very large collection of data, maintained that there was no special peculiarity in the physique of criminals, male or female. and the general tendency of the papers read and discussions on the subject ern League paid over to the National Associa- | was to regard crime as the result of social and psychical rather than physical peculiarities. It is true that physical departures from the normal type are commoner among the criminal class than the rest of mankind, but no constant relationship between these and crime can be detected. Many criminals inherit a tendency to som@ form of mental irregularity, but many also ‘go to the bad” imply from deleterious personal and social influences, Society, it would appear, is far more to blame for their delin- quencies than has been recognized, or at least acknowiedged, and if crime ix to be stopped we must institute sounder moral teaching in schools, better systems of legal procedure and an improved doctrine of punishment, eee. ‘sin Massachusetts. Tenth Century ¢ From the Bag:on Herald The great oaks at Waverly, Mass., are sur- vivals of an oak forest that must have existed region, according to the ge@logists and of trees, as far back as the tenth cen- They bear every evidence of great age, and an elm tree in the neighborhood, with its reat limbs lying on the ground and nearly all of its branches decayed, is the most venerable object in the line of trees that can probably be displayed in any part of New England. It is well worth » visit to Waverly just to see this venerable elm. It ix immense in the size of i and its dignity in decay is very im- ‘he dozen oak trees in the neighbor hood are of the sort that attain a very great age, unimpaired. We know of only one other oak tree in New England that can be compared with them. ‘That is located in Ipswich and is larger and more vengrable, apparently, than any of the Waverly oaks, and that and’ the Waverly oaks, we are glad to know, have been inspected by the state park commissioners and are likely to be preserved. It ix worth oge’s while to see and study these majestic ouks. “They are seen to great advantage in the winter, when the rugged limbs are bare and their immense strength is revealed, and in summer, when they are covered with folinge, they are objects of wonderful beauty. The ‘state of Massa- chusetts has a duf¥ to enfranchise these trees and make them public property. They are the glory of the state and almost as much an object of interest as the old state house or the venerable structure called the Old South Meet- ing House. tee For the Eye of the Boys. From the New York Sun. It is to be regretted that so few of our Ameri- can boys learn any trade or are willing to serve as apprentices for the term of four or five years, Almost any good and smart boy can procure employment in some one of the hundred shilied industries that are carried on in this city, and the boy who serves his apprenticeship faithfully gets a training that will be advantageous to him all through life and that will very surely enable him to earn a living as long as he lives, We should suppose that any real sensible boy would like to think of becoming a skilled workman in good trade: would like to look forward to the time when he could stand up as _an indepen ent journeyman, for example, in the carpenter's trade, or the brassworker’s, or the tailor’s, or the stonemason’s, or the watchmaker's, or the bookbinder's, or the fresco painter's, or the weaver's, or’ the printer's, or the machinist’s, or the locksmith’s, or the gilder’s, or some other trade werthy of his manhood. It isa | splendid thing for a young fellow to start out "in the world with a good trade. He can be as foreman, if he minds his own business and steers clear of gallivanting. He can nearly al- ways get a job at fair pay, and can often have a chance of traveling to some other part of the country to look for a better job ‘What long-headed American boy to have such a show in life? Yet a vast number of our American boys — VERSUS THE SOFT. A Broadway Hatter Talks Interestingly on the Subject. From the New York Sun. “The soft hat is having a run that it has not enjoyed for years,” said a Broadway hatter yesterday. It did not take long for the style to commend itself to wearers of soft hats. Then stiff-hat users heard so much about the new hat that they gave ita trial, They found, what city people are coming to find out, that a soft hat is better adapted to the needs of city life ‘than to thofle of the country. Take one in- stance only, We spend a great deal of our time in street cars, A skillful conserver of vital en- ergy will use every chance in the city’s rush to snatch moments of rest. Now, suppose you live above the fifties. If you get aveat on the ‘L’ you can rest your head on the side of the car, Close your eyes and have a nice snooze till the guard calls your station. Hundreds of New Yorkers have so trained themselves that they can sleep till the guard calls their station. The call acts like an alarm clock and they are awake in an instant. “You can sleep thus comfortably, provided you have a soft hat. There are two reasons for this: First, the soft hat adjusts itself to the head as you lean against the «ide and acts as a sort of pillow, taking up the vibration of the cai Of course, the stiff hat, «ilk or derby, never does, Always stiff as a board, it is on the point of falling off whenever you incline your head, Second, you can shade your eyes with the soft hat by turning down the rim. Thus, no mat- ter what position you may be in relatively to the light, you can always avoid the glare. To do this with a derby you must be an expert bal- ancer to hold it on the end of your nose as you tilt it forward. “But not only in sleeping is the soft hat su- rior. In the city one often finds oneself hat in hand in large gatherings, such as receptions to public men. Then it is that the stiff hat suf- he tlightest blow may damage it per- manently, while no such injury can come to a soft hat. “it can go through the worst crush practically nnharmed. “Another thing: Men are finding out that the soft hat is better for the hair. Instead of binding the veins and arteries ou the side of the head that supply blood for the hair, like the stiff hat with its solid edge, the soft hat exerts binding pressure anywhere on the head. blood thus flows freely and falling hair and a hot, dry scalp are avoided. “The artistic feeling has, too, much to dowith this growing demand for soft hate. People ure coming to see that the lines and curves of a soft hat are more pleasing than those of a stiff one, Why, Ican take a soft hat and by turning the rim alittle or indenting the crown, or vice versa, ean change my appearance almost to the extent of a disguise. ‘This adaptability of the soft hat is what is making it popular. If on putting on your hat at the hall rack mirror before going out you think @ deep crease in the top would become you better that day yourcan make it. Of if you wish one side lower than the other or in one of many other ways wish @ conform the out- line to your mood, you have but to make a touch here and there. Such changes are not possible with the stiffs, and that is why wearers tire of them fo easily e but one example. How would a stiff hat become Buffalo Bill's flowing hair and free-and-easy make-up? His | whole appearauce would be spoiled by the stiff lines of a derby. Now, there are hundreds of men to whose Iqoks asoft hat is specially adapted, not so markedly, perhaps, as in Cody's but still toa marked extent. “Soft hats are no longer what they used to be, a citified reproduction of a rural pe- culiari THE STIFF HAT ete Ne Os The Anatomy of the Oyster. From the St. Louis Kepublic. Every oyster has a mouth, a heart, a liver, a stomach, besides many curiously devised little intestines and other organs—necessary organs such as would be handy to a living, moving, in- telligent creature. The mouth is at tie end of the shel! near the hinge and adjoining the toothed portion of the oyster's peariy covering. This tiny iittle apol- ogy of « mouth is oval in shape, and, although hardly visible to one unused to making such anatomical examinations, can be easily discov- ered by gently pushing « bodkin or a piece of blunt, smooth wire along the surface of the locality mentioned. When the mouth is at Inst located you can thrust your instrument through between the delicate lips and a considerable distance toward the stomach without causing the oyster the least prin whatever. From this mouth there is, of course, a miniature canal leading to the stomach. Food passes through this canal to the stomach and * from the latter organ into the intestines, just as really as though the little bivalve were ax large as.an elephant or a rhinoceros. Remove the shell (this operation is rather rough on the oyster, but can be done in « comparative painless manner by an expert), and you will see the crescent, which lies just’ over the o- called heart. ‘This half-moon space is the oyster’s pericardium. Within is the true heart, the pulsations of which can be readily seen without the aid of a glass. ‘The heart is very | human like, made of two parts, one of which | receives the blood from the gills through a net- work of real blood vessels, the other portion contracts and drives the blood out through the body. | The other organs of an oyster’s anatomy are all in their proper places and pertorming their several functions. = toe Carving-Knife Nomenclature. From the St. Louis Globe-Democrat. “It’s fanny to think what changes have been made in our language in the past generation or two,” said Edward Fullwood, an old gentleman whocomes to St. Louis from Philadelphia about twice a year and stops at the Southern. “Now adays you hear people talking about things that you wouldn't know the meaning of if you lived when Iwas a boy. We talk now avout ‘flocks,’ ‘covies,” sherds,’ ‘bevies,’ ‘fights’ and I don't know what not when we speak of game. In my days they were all fiocks, but at dinner we used to distinguish them by the different terms we used in carving them. These terms you never hear anybody use today. Suppose, for instance, you were taking dinner with some friends and your hostess was to ask you to ‘sauce a capon?” What would you think ehe meant? The only things that were carved in those days was the flesh of sheep and oxen. To be absolutely correct yon would have to border & game pie, thigh ® pigeon, mince w plover, wing a quail, alaye a pheasant, untack a curl unjoint a bittern, display a crane, disfigure peacock, dismount a heron, unlace a coney, embrace a mallard, frush a chicken, spoil a hen, sauce @ capon, lift a xwan, rear a goose or break adeer. I tell’ you, in those days a man had to know something to mingle in society.” (lcci dd English Pronunciation. From the Rochester Post. Press. Pronunciation is largely a matter of scholar- ship and moderately a matter of fashion. Where there is a well-established pronunciation of a word we should follow it: where there is a choice we should take that which pleases our own taste. But we should not fall into mere affectations of speech such as are prevalent at Present, especially in the ‘smart set.” There & tendency now to make the flat sound of the first vowel serve for all of the vowel sounds of the language, after the manner of the beaux and belles of 200 years ago, as represented in the comedies of that period. We should get the habit of correct speech in youth and trouble ourselvés no further on the matter in after life, making no change consciously to suit the times, A mistake that is natural is no great matter, and not so bad, we think, as a noticeable prim: ness and precision of speech; yet, better than either is that correct use of lay which savors in no way of affectation. but is the clear and natural utterance of individual thought. We should never lower either sentiment or language consciously on the theory of “talking down” to our audience. Let us give everybody the best that we have in the best way we can. serbian In the Brooklyn court of sessions yes! the indicted officials were not arraigned, we ow, expected, and their cases were indefinitely post. ly post don’t want to learn a trade. They are anxious to be office boys, or counter jumpers, or boys, or clerks, oF 801 of that | Stupid fellows, when thev can get a | become skilled mechanics! Why, we ‘agentieman the other day that he | three vouthtul Amecioams ste were | door Boys in a c ment house. What show Hf i i i i zi 4 it signature of “‘Johann Hoff” on the neck of every bottle, and take no Told by Tue Lapies’ Ten Cents on all News-stands A TIME-OBSERVING MULE. | She Won't Work on Sundays, and She Stops When the Whistle Blows. | Mame, a mule that draws cars at the breaker of a Lackawanna valley coal mine, kee track of the time than the 1 a Seranton letter. A minute or so before the whistle blows at noon Mame begins to bray and paw end stamp,but does not refuse to pull the cars. The instant the whistle sounds, however, Mame comes to a dead stop, and no matter in what part of the yard she is working «he cannot be coaxed or forced to pull x pound until a has had her dinner. Then she works as faith- fully as an ox until just before the whistle is | going to sound the quitting-time blast, when she brays again, but does not paw or stamp as at noontime. She won't stir a pegafter the first toot of the steam whistle, and the driver boy knows better than to try to make her haul the trip of cars by whipping her. The mule keeps such a close track of the time that she has not failed in two years to bray a minute or two before the whistle blows at noon and night. She never brays, the workmen say, except when she thinks it is nearly time to quit work for her dinner or supper. Mame also knows when Sunday comes, as the workmen ascertained three times last vear. It became necessary one Sunday last April to do a little extra work in the yard, and the mule was hitched toa trip of cars in the morning. | She wouldn't take a step, and they had to. put her in the barn. On Monday morning Mame went to pulling the cars as usual, and she didn’t flinch a particle in her labors. They tried her | again ona Sunday morning in June, but she | wouldn't even straighten the traces. She worked | all right thenext day. Ona July Sunday the men | hitched her toa trip again, but she couldn't be corxed to pull an ounce, and they came to the conclusion that Mame was a strict Sabbatarian. Since then they haven't attempted to make the | mule work on Sunday. \ “knew Mame before we bought her,” said the foreman, “and I told the boy never to hitch her to more than three cars. One day he hitched her to four, and she went ahead all right till she heard the third link click. She had been used to hearing only two links click and she came toa dead stop the moment she heard the third click, and she wouldn't budge an inch till the boy unkooked the hind car. ‘Then rhe went right along as though she was | satisfied. “Mame is always in as big a hurry to get to | work in the morning on every week day as she | is to stop when the whistle blows. If the boy | doesn’t go to her stall by the time the ma- chinery has been started in the breaker, Mame bites the manger and kicks against the sides of the stallas though she was determined to make him come and harness her. But on Sundays, andwhenever the breaker is idle at other times, Mame makes no fuss in her stall if the boy doesn’t go in to hitch her up, soe About Search Lights, From the Electrical World It seems rather incredible to speak of the candle power of search lighgs as in the millions and hundreds of millions, but this is warranted by facts. The lamp itself does not give a very high candle power when measured in any one direction, but when a magnifying lens is used, which collects all the light, as it were, and throws it in one direction, the intensity of the light is enormously increased. For instance, in the search light which is bemg experimented with upon the world’s fair grounds the candle power of the arc light alone is only 150,000 candles, the carbons being twelve inches long and one and three-sixteenth inches in diameter. When this is surrounded by a reflector four feet in diameter the candle power is multiplied to the somewhat startling figure of 460,000 candies. 8 closer . fay ——_+e-____ A Sure Thi From Truth. Visitor—‘He is a freshman, you say.” Stranger—“Yes. I should think you would guess that from his appearance.” « Visitor—“Why? | eupied sp An inner picture of the great story-teller’s literary methods; his writing Hours at ‘‘Gad’s Hill”; his own story of “Nicholas Nickleby,” as told in a private letter; his love for his characters---a delightful pen portrayal of Dickens at work, as His Own Daughter Miss Mamie Dickens, in the January number of © HoME JournaL. Send One Dollar for One Year to The Curtis Publishing Company, Philadelphia TN GOWER STREET. the Comet; That's What's the Matter, m the Atlant Do vou know where the comet bas gone?” asked one of ourcitizens, “Well,” be continued, T'll tell you that, in my n, it hawn"t gone anywhere. I think i all about ua, We are daily breathing comet, sacezing comet ju > Where Dickens and Darwin Lived and the ntrie Mr. Sutherland, From the London Daily News. Prosaic in its uniformity is Gower street, even now that it has been almost rebuilt ; but it is shown by a writer in Temple Bar to bea “re Place of many bright associations. Charles Shi, ‘souyk comet: | Wecen t sce it and prob. Dickens here passed part of his chiidhood oat it I think it was because we ran into it, or he himself tells us. No. 4 North Gower street it over ut, before we knew it, This cold and was the house from which the little lad was unset weather through the world must sent round at dusk to drop circulars down the ¢ due to the presence 4 th of 0 vaper that absorbs or inter You know some of the savants of the skies said the comet was only a vapor spread throughout a mighty area of apace, luminous by absorption or reflection at a great dista: visible if about us, a solid matter to make are taking a prolonged like it.” A party of wood c found the frozen . ored laborer. in the snow near his cabin « few heat of the areas inviting parents to send to his mother's School childrea who somehow never came. The great lawyer, Lord Eldon, lived in Gower street in days when from its windows it was still possible to look over fields right away to what William Howitt has calied “ the northern heights of London.” At 110 Darwin spent the early days of hie married life, working regu- lariy at his scientific studies from 8 a. m. to 9.30, from 10 to 12 and from 4 to The fame of a Mr. Sutherland, who also lived here, rests upon his having spent forty years miles from Atlantic City nd bandsome fortune in the stupid pastime = of “grangerizing” a history of England—that is, illustrating it with portraits and other en. gravings which did not belong to it. When | death at last laid his bony finger on his shoal-| der Mr. Sutherland bad insgrted 19,000 prints, The end of wo man* peculiar troubles and ail ments comes witht spent £12,000 over them and extended the Dr. Piero re “history” to sixty-seven huge volumes. Per- | vorite Prescrip haps the strangest part of the story is that | tion, It cures minable job. when he died his widow went on with the inter- | rangeaents, pain ful disorders, and From Loné chronic wok, a tae ins wilt | Besses that afflict womankind, it is a certaim When the queen dics her mortal remains will | Totegy tts an tnviowetine, rosea Testin the gray granite sarcophagus with the late lamented Prince Albert's ashes, Under- neath the arms of the queen and Prince Albert, on the monument, is inscribed ‘Farewell, well- beloved. Here at inst I will rest with thes. With thee in Christ I will rise again.” The white marble recumbent statue of the prince consort | is in the uniform of a field marshal, wearing the mantel of the Order of the Garter—this ix on the right; the left side o/ the lid and the unoc- | is where the queen's body will be | laid. 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