Evening Star Newspaper, May 2, 1894, Page 7

ATE SPORTING NEWS FORFEITED TO BROOKLYN. the sixth inning, Umpire Stage gave the game to Brooklyn, @ to 0, the score at that time really being 3 to 1 in favor of Wash- ington. Brooklyn went to bat first and failed to score. For Washington Joyce took first on balls and stole second and third. Abbey waited for four bad ones and a moment 4 later purloined second. On Hasamacar’s 2 bunt Joyce trotted home, Abbey going to EMPEROR CHARLES II, third and scoring soon after when Catcher Recorpanied by half the nobility of Austria, wont pompano endeavored to catch Roaring SS ee Saasiaai takin tach Sra ceeds cane eta Comemt herens, co tbe | sexth, when the trouble ccourred. With © —— Teccnmary to soavey the | determined look on his face Pitcher Shar- ee rott walked to the plate and made a line The virtue of the water is as great at the Dre | nit between short and third. Daly follow- cas day es it was in the time of Charles Il, and | oq with one in the same direction. Griffin itbough the expense attached to 8 journey thither | sacrificed and Stephens deliberately sent —_ Treadway to first on balls. Three men on Shoes: customers, the saleson thele Ce to a ‘you (an save bu car oF tha dasier udvartiged helo free upon application, Addres RUPTURES CURED (‘KITHOUT OPERATIONS, PAIN, OR DETENTION FROM BUSINESS. Giscomfort from wearing a truss is one of the smallest objections to its debility, constipation, vitality, and id iilfte il if sf i fi if j i] al Family Medicine Chests, tumors, ab- Bright's disease, hare the pen: $2, $2.50, $4, $4.50 & $5 i os with supplied “A mer resorts where drug stores and fore are unavailable. Every fam all the at the emergencies. leather and cording to size. . S. Thompson, Pharmacist, 703 15th St. sf HL i < |Phenomenal. Our HEALTHFUL, 3 DELICIOUS Boston Brown Bread is being all over the city. Letters and telephone orders are received FSeSrSeary Pie Si wes Boston Brown Bread Is sold entirely on its merits. It’s | the most HEALTHFUL bread tn the || world — anti-dyspeptic and delicious, er warm. cold or toasted—spe- lig delightful for luncheon. Served « loaf. TF Beware of tmitations. ‘@ alone make and sell the genuine. Krafft’s Bakery, | Cor. 18th St.& Pa.Ave. } telephone. to appreciate nature's . have us J. Georges & Son, CHIROPODISTS, 1115 PENNSYLVAN well-known reme- seashore or sum- doe- ly should with @ medicine chest in case board. Prices, $2 to No cheaper in Wash: Rot at all gentle in their actions or remarks and tain Joyce, George Tebeau and others kicked determinedly. The discus- sion at the plate continued until to the sur- | ae of every one Mr. Stage walked to the players’ bench and said: “Manager Schmelz, I have given the game to the Brooklyns, 9 to 0.” men had not refused to play, that they were on the field and ready to continue the game. He informed Mr. Stage that the latter had no right to disappoint the pub- Uc. If any action was necessary he could discipline the players who kicked. In the A crowd of men sur- rounded Stage as he left the grounds and _ and hooted until he had driven away @ cab. President Young,who witnessed the game, was of the opinion that the umpire pursued the proper course. The rules declare that &@ game shall be forfeited “in favor of the club not at fault, at the request of such club, if, after the game has one side refuses or fails to continue playing, unless been 01 such game has after the umpire has called Stephens made a work in the box. faultlessly and the good = a President Byrne of the lub said last night that the action of Umpire Stage in giving the game to Brooklyn was absolutely correct and in strict compliance with the rules which the umpire is em- Ployed to enforce. Whether he was right or wrong in declaring Foutz safe at first base in the sixth inning is immaterial, as it was purely a matter of judgment on his bart, from which there ts no appeal. The club regretted the incident, seta te, Bos mt @ time come to enforce the rules, and the action of Um- pire Stage would command the approval of fair-minded patrons and compel captains — players to cease senseless and useless S. it is said that Joyce’s action in refusin; to continue the game lays the Washington club open to a fine of $1,000 for lea: the field, but as a matter of fact they leave the field and were ready to Play, but the game had been declared forfeited. The champion Bostons today. IN OTHER CITIES. Cleveland and Boston Now Lead in t Base Ball Race. The feature of the game between Cincin- nati and Pittsburg, in the former city, was the fielding of Parrott. Pittsburg won the contest, but the Reds came dangerously close to tieing the score in the eighth. The batteries were Parrott and Vaughn, Killen and Mack. R.H.LE. McMahon was touch- ed up quite lively. The batteries were Mee- kin and Farrell, McMahon and Robinson. RHE. New York..40002010x7 11 0 Baltimore....0 0 200001 1-4 1138 Cleveland administered a shut-out'to St. Louis and thereby took the third game of the series, Gleason was hammered very badly, Hawley later being substituted. The batteries were Gleason, Hawley and Buck- ley, Clarkson and O'Connor. RH. St. Louls....0 000000000 83 Cleveland....2 1220000 x7 w 2 Boston clearly outplayed the Phillies and thereby captured the game. The batting of Nash was the only noteworthy feature. A vicious inshoot from Carsey knocked Mc- Carthy down, Stivetts playing in his place. The batteries were Carsey and Clements, Lovett and Merritt. R 10200000038 20020102 x7 There was no game scheduled for Chicago and Louisville. The games today are: Boston at Wash- ington, Philadelphia at New York, Brook- = Baltimore and Pittsburg at Cincin- nai the Clubs Stand. J ° a ouceans wemened L. if 5 att 5 5 8 8 Amateur Base Ball. ‘The Crow Hill Vets have beaten the Crow Hill Kids by the score of 8 to 0. The fea- ture of the game wus the pitching of J. Dunn. ‘The Elver base ball team has organized for the season with the following players: C. Lawler, J. Lyons, M. Miller, B. Downey, G. McDonald, A. Forney, F. Yorcum, J. Sheley, M. Cook. They would like to hear from all clubs whose members are not over eighteen years. Address challenges to C. Lawler, 56 I street northeast. The Atlanta Juniors defeated the Pointers Sunday by 25 to 15. The battery for the Atlantas was Carroll and Holcer. They would like to hear from all teams whose players are under the age of seventeén years. ress challenges to M. Sexton, 609 41-2 street southwest. The Banners have organized for the sva- son and would like to hear from all clubs whose members are not over fourteen years. Address challenges to E. Dice, 41 R street northwest. The Young Selbacks have organized for the season and would like to hear from all clubs whose members are not over the age of fourteen years. Address all challenges to G. Giesler, 1624 7th street northwest. A QUICK KNOCK-OUT, Joe Bateman Easily Does His Oppon- ent From Wilmington. The much-discussed fight between Joe Bateman and Tony Stannard’s “Unknown” took place last night at the Rock Hill Park pavilion, on the Virginia shore of the Po- tomac, just above the Aqueduct bridge, and lasted exactly a minute and a half. George- town’s favorite won a signal victory. In the classic words of one of the spectators, all of whom answer to the description cf “dead-game sports,” Stannard’s champion “wasn't in it at any stage of the game.” U would be Glynn, the doughty Wilmington lad who whipped Bateman so handily in their recent fistic encounter at the Columbia Athletic Club, In his stead, however, there appeared a young man giving the name of Jimmy Kerrigan, who is said to have been the hero of many pugilistic bouts in his native city of Wilmington, Del. Mr. Stannard said he was a “good un,” and to hear him tell of his powers one would tmagine that the defeat of the local champion was a foregone conclusion. The result, however, did not bear out his predictions. The two men weighed tn at 114 pounds during the afternoon, and faced each other with five-ounce gloves in the sixteen-foot ring at about 10 o'clock. It was to have been a fifteen-round go. Mr. Queen of : was selected as referee, and Mr. Richarison as timekeeper. Mr. Stan- nard seconded his man, Wheeler looked after “Tt tly Sa ites eicwt week tee it evident reach spot Ke keeled upon the and fur- was unconscious for several minutes after the fight had been awarded to his it, and did not regain his senses was able to walk to his room, and did not seem to have been badly hurt. The bout was probably the shortest and most blood- Jess that has ever occurred in this vicinity. Two hundred homing pigeons of the American Star Homing Pigeon Club, the Jong | headquarters of which are at No. 1305 Plum alley, Baltimore, were liberated from An- mapolis junction at 8:05 o’clock yesterday The intervening distance is eigh- and the first bird reached the distance in to liberate the same num- ber -from Hyattsville tomorrow morning, and to repeat the performance from Wash- ington on Sunday morning. The Regatta at Nice. Interest in the regatta to be held at Nice, France, in 1805, is already keen, owing to the announcement that James Gordon Ben- nett and Baron de Rothschild will offer unusually valuable prizes to be contested for both by sailing and steam yachts. Mr. Bennett will offer a cup of the value of 4500, together with £500 in money, as first prize for each of three events, while Baron de Rothschild will offer as second — for the same events a cup of the value One of the races will be for sailing yachts of over 200 tons; another will be for steam yachts of over 100 tons, and the third will bea race for steam yachts. The cups given by Mr. Bennett must be won twice, the challenger for the second race giving six months’ notice of his or their desire to contest, and the holder of the cup having the privilege to decide whether the race shail be held at Nice, Cowes, or Newport, R. L St its Postpones Play. The twelfth game of the chess match for the championship of the world and $2,000 a side between M. Steinits and Emanuel Lasker, which ought to have been played at the local chess club at Montreal yester- day, was not contested, as Steinits sent word that he claimed a day off. So far the champion has canceled play three times and Lasker once. According to the articles the champion cannot postpone any more, but must meet his opponent on Thursdays and Saturdays in each week until the match is finished. Las- ker, on the other hand, may still cancel games. Putting the Vigilant in Summer Dress A number of men were put to work yes- terday scraping and repainting the yacht Vigilant, which was recently purchased by Howard Gould from the syndicate which owned her when she won the famous yacht race last fall Mr. Gould and Capt. French, Who, it is said, is to sail her, yesterday made a thorough inspection of the yacht. Mr. uld left orders to have the Vigilant launched as soon as possible. Mr. Be tt’s New Yacht. Abe Hummel of New York is authority for the news that James Gordon Bennett has Placed an order with the Hereshoffs of Bristol, R. I., to construct a yacht that will outsail the Vigilant. The new yacht is to be built under a guarantee that she will show a clean pair of heels to the Valkyrie and is to cost $45,000. She is to be called Prunelle, and will be a center-board. For- ty-two American yachtsmen will man her and she is to be put in commission in time to enter the yacht races to be held in the Mediterranean next autumn. Capt. MacCalmont, a well-known member of the Royal Yacht Club, England, is sup- posed to have ordered a yacht with which he hopes to carry off the America cup. Among those who will take part in the autumn races in the Mediterranean will be the Prince of Wales, James Gordon Bennett, Lord Dunraven, Baron Rothschild, Capt. MacCalmont and others, A Spectators View. To the Editor of The Evening Star: As a fairly regular patron of our national game, and as a spectator of yesterday's fiasco, I would like to enter my protest against the silly action of Captain Joyce in disregarding the umpire’s command to “play ball.” Kicking against the umpire's decision (unless a question of interpreta- tion of the rules is involved) is not only useless, in view of the fact that he can- not change it even if he wants to, but is calculated to set an audience whose sym- pathies are naturally with the home club against the umpire, no matter how honest he may be in the discharge of his trying duty. To my mind Foutz and the ball ar- rived at first base about the same time, and under the rules he was entitled to the ben- efit of the doubt. The umpire thought so, too, and he gave his decision accordingly. Granting Capt. Joyce the moral right to ob- ject there was not the slightest excuse for the senseless wrangle which ensued. Mr. Stage, being firm, did just what was right in pulling out his watch and telling our club (for all the members of it seemed to be around him, when the rules specifically prohibit any one other than the captain of the club to argue with him) that he would give the game to Brooklyn unless play was resumed in one minute. Play was not resumed, and a game which Promised to end in favor of our side was lost through bullheadedness. Captains of other clubs have also, and probably fre- quently, objected to the umpire’s decision, but I have never seen, though it may have occurred, a club other than our own forfeit @ game in yesterday's manner. I claim that five innings is not a game unless dark- ness or rain interferes. I am entitled to see the game played out. I pay my money for that purpose, and consider myself de- frauded, or, at least, badly treated, when a game terminates as it did yesterday. Quite a number of gentlemen who sat around me expressed themselves as of the same opin- fon. If Joyce did not know better it was Manager Schmelz’s fault in not instructing him. In either event, the whole business so disgusted a number of spectators that the turnstile will show the effect to some ex- tent, anyway. In conclusion, permit me to compliment Mr. Stage on his firmness. He is human, and therefore lable to error, but if he continues to take the stand he did yesterday he will be respected by those lov- ing fair play, and who want to see the club play ball and not the baby act. SPECTATOR. —_>—__ Against the Cigarette Trust. In the United States circuit court at New York yesterday Judge Lacombe denied the motion of the American Tobacco Company, or otherwise the cigarette trust, to restrain the National Cigarette and Tobacco Com- pany from using certain machines. It was claimed that these machines, which are used in the manufacture of cigarettes, were infringements on patents owned by the rust. The decision is the second blow re- eived by the trust this week, the other be- ing an order of a similar nature in Chicago on Monday. But for these two decisions the entire right to manufacture cigarettes in the United States would have been vest- ed in the trust. —+-e+—____ Indiaza Republican Victories. Municipal elections were held in a num- ber of cities in Indiana yesterday. Returns received up to midnight indicated republi- can victory in a majority of cases, In Terre Haute the republicans elected their candi- dates by the largest majorities known in years and secured nine out of eleven coun- cilmen. Goshen reports a clear republican sweep. Frankfort and Crawfordville tell the same story. —!_+o+—____ Officers Elected. The Father Mathew Total Abstinence So- ciety has elected the following officers for the ensuing six months: President, Mr. D. J. Waters; first vice president, Mr. B. J. Redmond; second vice president, Mr. P. A. Byrne; secretary, Mr. T. A. Harlow: —a — Ls eed financial secre- tary, Miss Jennie ‘inson; sergeant-at- arms, Mr. James Carmody. IN HOTEL CORRIDORS. ‘THE EVENING STAR, WEDNESDAY, MAY 9, 1894—TWELVE. PAGES. ANOTHER TROLLEY PERIL. “This stone was smuggled on the first] A Baltimore Woman Blinded by an trip the City of New York made to this side of the Atlantic.” Electric Flash. Mrs, Sterner of 1482 Gough street, Balti- George Meigs of New York tossed | more, was rendered totally blind by @ flash Sparkling, uncut diamond in his hand at| from a trolley wire on one of the electric La Normandie last night as he spoke. “I| street Tailway lines that pass her house bought it as a memento of the best plece | about three weeks ago, and has not yet re- of work I did while in the customs service. gained her sight, though attended by one of Don’t think I'm bragging when I tell the| the most expert specialists on diseases of story. We had been having a great deal of| the eye in the city. The accident has trouble with diamond smugglers. Dead | caused much grief to relatives and friends loads of fine, new stones were being offered | of the unfortunate woman, who fear that by Maiden Lane brokers, and the service|she may never again regain her sight. knew they had never paid a cent of duty. | Everything possible has been and is being Every boat coming over was closely watch- — for the lady, but apparently to no @4 and suspects were put through a course they had never ed possible. - heels were bored to find hidden gems; trunks searched for secret drawers; cloth- my! Le yar in i gate and cakes of soap @ possession of suspected pas- sengers cut up and mashed fiat, but to no Se he eect ee ee les 0! ie jers. @ day, in my walks up town, I saw a good-looking man talking with apparent familiarity to a well-known diamond broker at the 238d Street entrance of the Fifth Avenue Hotel, and as I approached I heard her tell him to be sure and be home to dinner. That remark assured me that she was the broker’s wife, and then it suddenly struck me that I had seen her face before. I on my thinking cap and soon remembered that she had recently made several trips to Burope. It didn’t take me long to make up my mind to search her baggage pretty thoroughly if she ever made another trip, and then turn her over to the lady in- Spectors for closer investigation, for her husband had been one of the brokers who had recently been selling numbers of dia- monds at very low prices. Two months afterward the New York came in on her initial trip and who was a passenger on board of her but my Mrs. Broker. No pas- senger ever submitted to a more thorough search with better grace, and I was knock- ed out when she was reported clear of all contraband goods. I knew, as well as I knew'I was living, that she had smuggled diamonds somewhere in her possession, but was at my wits’ end to discover them. She was about to leave the office when I sud- denly noticed that the hat she wore was trimmed with grapes. There were several compact bunches of them on her bonnet, and with a sudden impulse I politely ask- ed her to let me examine her hat. She ive me one look of malignant ferocity— can describe it in no other words—and rect, The accident happened in the evening. Mrs. Sterner was sitting at a window of her home, watch: denly a particular! froi with no success, and Mrs. Sterner still re- mains age 4 blind. Whether or not she will ever regain her sight no one can tell. Put! But lttle hope is being held out to her. The optic nerves are paral; “This erican, chance blow. It was thought that the only danger lay in unconsciously, heedlessly or accidentally getting in the way of the car, but no thought has come to them of the danger from the bare sight of the inoffen- sive-looking trolley wire, “Since the inauguration of the electric Ines in this city it bas been a favorite pastime of many to sit in the evenings and watch the cars as they speed along, leav- ing behind them sparks of electric fire. The danger from such enjoyment is now, for the first time in this city, called to their attention. “In other cities of the country where elec- tric lines have been in operation for some time such accidents have also tly one occurred in Ome ERRONT f ———-+e then fainted dead away. While the ladies| MEN GAIN NEARLY EVERY POINT. were bringing her to, I broke open one of the grapes and found a diamond imbedded in its interior. This is the stone. grape had a diamond for a seed, and the gems altogether were worth $17,000. The End of the Strike on the Great North- ern Railway. The strike on the Great Northern railway, duty and penalties were paid, and her hus-| which involved 5,000 employes on its 8,700 band sold me this gem in admiration of my ‘gall,’ as he termed it.” miles of line, and which has suspended traffic, both freight and passenger, for two “I reckon I'll bring down the wrath of | Weeks, ts over. 10,000,000 people upon my devoted head,” This was accomplished by adjudication of said Walter Travers of Poughkeepsie at the | te claims of the employes and of the road, Riggs House yesterday, “by expressing my opinion of the cause of the prevailing dis- tress in this country, but I belleve it is traceable as much to the general education of the people as it is to unrestricted immi- gration. The present public school system in this country is entirely beyond anything that its originators ever dreamed of. I think that the teaching of the masses of our children at the public expense should be limited to the primary branches of edu- cation. There can be no doubt that this was the intention of the men who first con- ceived and agitated the idea. Yet, see what the system is today. The taxpayers are paying for nothing more nor less than uni- versity educations for the boys and girls of America, who are largely drawn from the children of the classes who contribute noth- ing toward the expense. They go from the grammar schools into the high schools, where they are taught higher mathematics, the languages, and are initiated into the| the restoration mysteries of all the isms and ologies you | gineers, firemen, ean think of. Such an education unfits a} boiler makers, boy or a girl of humble parentage for hon- est employment. They everyone want to become a member of the learned profes- sions. The carpenter’s son becomes ashai ed of the hammer and nails; the mechanic's | ers, oilers, boy nose at a lathe; the farmer’s offspring | restored, sLeers at the word—employment. The higher education now given by the public schools is a bane to the honest industry of the Union in making its victims dissatisfied with their condition by distorting their desires and turning them to objects beyond their ca- city. It has filled the country with poor jawyers and worse doctors at the expense of practical trades. Why, it has come to hrugs his shoulders and turns up his| the wages of the men were rather than by arbitration, the court being @ joint committee of representatives of lead- ing business organizations. This committee was organized at a conferemce of St. Paul and Minneapolis business men held at the Commercial Club at Minneapolis last Sun- day night. President Hill of the Great Northern at once expressed his willingness to leave the settlement of the strike in the hands of these men. The strikers at first demurred, but finally agreed to meet Mr. HAM before the committee. 4 The conference began shortly after rooms of the St. Paul Job- o'clock in the bers’ Association. President Debs and Vice Railway Union President Howard of the and L. W. Rogers, editor of the official or- gan of the union, were present on behalf ~~ strikers. @ result of the conference, which lasted until late in the evening, is that the strikers gain nineteen-twentieths of points made. President Hill conceded without argument of the wages of the en- conductors, brakem: a en, section men The reductions in the cases of.these men were 10 per cent. The committee took up the case of the car inspectors, car repair- operators, &c. In these cases also practically there being only minor points of lea of following a plough or | difference on which there cou! cleaning out a stable, and rushes off to the | rious d swclhssathew thei city. to find ‘congenial how 1 detest that | ed with the ent. The meeting best feeling throughout. en ia Insuring the Prince. From the New York Times A great deal has been said from time to time about the large amounts of insurance which certain notables carry, particularly the members of the English nobility. Many such a point that one cannot get a man or |°f these stories are pure fiction. At any woman servart of intélligence nowadays of | Tate, the English companies will not re- native American parentage without a great | veal deal of difficulty. As I leave town tonight | ang T'll be beyond the clutches of your public | gati school officials here in case you print my | lite remarks.” “A reform has been adopted in New York the amounts carried by their patrons, So these stories can have no real foun- ion in fact. In England large lines of insurance figure prominently in the settlement of estates, mai 8, and similar contracts, and it is said that in this way the English companies do the by the street raflroad companies that might | larger part of their business. be followed with good results by similar’ The Prince of Wales was very heavily corporations in other cities,” said Thomas | ‘!"8ured at one time, his motive in secur- R. Lewis of Cleveland, at the Ebbitt this morning. “A week ago the ukase was is- sued that newsboys should no longer be al-| of Fife cleared lowed to sell their papers upon the street | by marrying in cars, and now those energetic youngsters | how much ins are compelled to ply their vocations on the} that time is sidewalk. The order was brought about by | that he got the large increase in the number of acci- dents to the boys caused by the fast running cables. Then complaints of passengers who were annoyed by the constant yelling of the lads in their ears, to say nothing of the soiled and torn dresses of the ladies due to their inroads, had a good deal to do with it. In Washington street car passengers seem to to have more cause for a growl on this score than any where else. Coming from the Capitol Saturday evening in an open car there was scarcely a rod that some boy did not shout ‘Evening Star’ in my ear at the top of his voice, notwith- standing I had a copy of the paper open in my lap, and at 7th street I counted no less than five newsboys on the train at one time. I am not more nervous than the generality of people, but such things are an- noying. Boom the idea of such a reform here and the people will cali you blessed.” A broad, muscular young man with good nature beaming in every line of his attrac- tive face was telling about his visit to the Coxey crowd at Brightwood in the Arling- ton last night, but quickly changed the sub- ject to athletics when the outlook for col- lege foot ball this year was broached. He was Walter Black, formerly of Yale, and he is an authority on the sport. “I am looking forward like all other foot ball fans with consuming interest to the report of the committee appointed some time ago to revise the foot ball rules,” he remarked. ‘The committee consists of Camp of Yale, Bell of the University of Pennsylvania, Dashiel of Lehigh, Brooks of Harvard, and Moffat of Princeton. They” have been hard at work for some time, and their report is expected next Tuesday. It is generally known that they have decided on some important changes. One, in par- ticular, is very good. It reduces the play- ing time for each half from forty-five to thirty-five minutes. There is going to be a good deal more open play and kicking this year and the reduction of the time will lessen the strain on the players. Then another rule settled upon is that when the ball goes ‘in touch,’ either by a kick or a down from a point in the field at play, it must be put into play at least five yards and not more than fifteen yards from the point at which it went ‘in touch.’ This will do away with the roughness that cannot be helped under the present rules when the ball is put in play from a scrimmage right at the boundary lines, as is so frequently the case. The new rules, I belleve, will greatly improve the finest sport in the both from a player's and a specta- tor’s standpoint.” —_—_—_ A Bible and Burglars’ Tools. ‘The officers last night brought into Lan- caster, Pa., Jake Buzzard, son of Abe Buz- zard, and Hardy Hower, the alleged Welsh mountain thieves, whom they arrested in Reading. They claim to have the most con- vincing proof against Abe Buzzard, the so- called reformed outlaw,who is in jail on_ sus- picion. Constable Pyle says he secured Abe Buzzard’s satchel, and in it he found a Bi- ble, a pistol, a chain, a set of burglars’ tools and some tickets to Buzzard’s lecture on “Ruin and Reformation.” There are now nine members of the Welsh mountain gang in jail waiting for the courts to act. die iia era rat ay Delegates Elected. At a meeting of the Woman's National Press Association held in the parlors of Willard’s Hotel on Friday evening the fol- lowing delegates to the biennial meeting of the Federation of Woman's Clubs in Phila- delphia were elected: Mrs. E. 8, Cromwell, Mrs. H. B. Sperry and Mrs. L. A. Crandall; ing the insurance being, it wa: tated, to protect the money lender Farquhar, with whom he was implicated before the Duke up the prince's obligations ito the royal family. Just urance the prince carried at not known, but it is certain as much as the British com- panies would give him and then ap- plied to one of the companies im this city. Being a person of high estate, he refused, however, to permit the company’s medical examiner to inspect his royal person, prof- fering instead a certificate from his per- sonal physician, which certificate the com- pany refused to accept, and so the insur- ance was never effected. _ 00 Following the Bluebird North. From the New York Independent. I once set out northward from the gulf coast late in January and observed blue birds as far north as Decatur, Ala. Ten days afterward they were along the south- ern side of the valley of the Ohio river; on the 7th of February they arrived at my home, nearly 200 miles further north. In fact, these plucky little birds play along the surf line of winter until it withdraws from their immemorial nesting region. Or- nithologists seem to forget that the nesting place of a bird is nearly always its furthest northward reach; and that bluebirds and many other migratory birds nest all the way from Canada to Florida. Each bird withdraws southward from his home only just as far as the surf line of winter pushes it. This is not true of all migratory species, but it applies to the mocking bird, the com- mon robin, the turtledove, the bluebird and many other oscines. The bluebird, being extremely brave and hardy, is often resi- dent considerably north of the mountain re- gion of Tennessee. That is, he winters there; and he it is who jumps up into mid- die Indiana whenever there comes a week or two of mild weather late In January or during February. When our winters are very cold and wash far south with their glacial tides, the bluebirds huddle along the gulf slope. I have seen them there so num- erous that they made a blue shimmer in the open woodland. It is the same with robins. I have seen them swarm like blackbirds. Pot hunters kill them by the thousands. It is a bad winter north of the mountains when robin shooting is good in southefh Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi and Louisi- ana, and they have toothsome potpies in New Orleans restaurants. —+e+—_____ Ikons for the Russian Millions. From the London News, The manufacture of tkons, the sacred images so universally venerated by the or- thodox Russians, forms a very considerable household industry in the governments of Vladimir and Kursk, where from 1,5v0,000 to 2,000,000 ikons are yearly produced. These images are painted on lime tree, al- der, and aspen boards, by boys, girls, adults and old men. Each family of four to five workers produces annually not fewer than 3,000 ikons, the total earnings being from 200 to 400 roubles a year. The ikon is painted by one workman, as in the gov- ernment of Kursk, or it goes successively to many, as practiced in the government of Vladimir. In the latter case the first workman only lays the ground on the boards; another paints the faces; the third the hands and drapery, while the fourth writes the superscriptions, and so on. Sometimes only the faces and hands are painted and the remaining part of the im- age—the dress, crown, etc.—is covered with trimmings of stamped foil (rizy) various- ly ornamented. The painting of the images is very coarse, but this fact in no way im- pedes the spread of this branch of house- hold industry, not only among the peasant population of Russia, but of that of Servia, Bulgaria and other Slavonic countries, —_—_+e+____ ‘The Broad Silk Weavers’ Union of Ameri- Taragon silk ca has declared a strike in the alternates, Mrs. Pickett, Miss French and | mills, in Paterson, N.J., because the com- Mrs. Stelle. —_—_>__. ize the sho; any refused to recoj eed The commit- tee of the organization. e throws Emperor William will make a Norwegian | 200 hands out of employment, about 100 of tour in June. whom are women, The Secret of Strength, dn 8 Acts.) By the use of the Genuine One Gozen bottles have the same. nutritive and tonic effect as a large cask of ale, without Detng intoxicating. Insist upon the GENULNE, which must have the signature of “Johann Hoff’ on the peck label of every bottle. None other ts “as good." KISNER & MENDELSON ©0., Agents, 152 and 154 Franklin st., New York. AMERICAN DIAMONDS. ‘Those That Are Found Come to Us tn Meteorites From Other Worlds. From the Providence Journal. Though diamonds will never be an im- Portant product of the United States—only an occasional gem of this kind being picked } ly | up here and there—such vast quantities of them are consumed here that the geological survey has thought it worth while to pre- pare @ monograph on the subject, which will soon be issued. The fact has been established that the supposed diamonds found in meteorites near the Caron Diablo, in Arizona, are ac- tually such. This is a matter of profound interest, indicating, as it does, that such stones exist on other planets. Some au- thorities assert that diamonds—like coal, which is so nearly of the same chemical constitution—could not possibly come into existence without previous vegetable growths to generate their material. For this reason they infer that the finding of the gems in the meteorites proves that there must have been vegetable life in the place whence the meteorites came. If there was vegetable life there, it is a fair pre- sumption that there was animal life also. All this may be untrue, but it affords the first guess-glimpse ever obtained into the greatest problem that mankind has at- tempted to handle, namely, the question whether life exists in other worlds than urs. to take a couple of in one’s hand and to is handling the pure material of the diamond. If you could transform it into crystalline form, you could sell those few pinches of stuff for $1,000,000, perhaps. No wonder that chem- ists are eager to discover the secret of effecting this change. To assert that they From the St. Louis Globe-Democrat. Last Saturday a big wolf, which has ter rorived the people of the Bumpas cave re- gion, over in North Carolina, for the last two or three years, entered the cabin mountaineer named Brown during the porary absence of the housewife, and, ing the only occupant, an infant old, by the clothing in the chest, lifted it from the rude bore it away into the mountains. ‘When the mother returned to and missed the baby she rushed just in time to see the & . adit att BE ef : i i F i i : gan to scream. This brought who was chopping wood not the scene in @ high state The story from the lips of the mother almost drove the brave but he seized his ax, called started in hot pursuit. There two inches of snow on the gr providentially enabled the despera! of the kidnaped infant to strik leaving rT é i blige ‘al F i of the wolf immediately after dooryard. Once upon the track of beast he rushed through the with a speed born of distraction. A! miles from his cabin the tracks of led the pursuer under a long shi protruding from the side of the There was no snow here and lost the trail, but he now urged which up to this time he had com remain with him. The dog took and the man followed, fully find the entrance to the which he could hardly hope to get the baby alive. But his fears were il ititee the of le f i will never learn how to make crystals of carbon would be absurd. By means of the Voltaic battery real diamonds of almost microscopic size have been deposited upon ae of platinum. But even if a Process 5! might be that the cost of making a dia- mond by it would be bigger than the price of @ stone of equal size and purity from the mines. One recalls the experiments of Prof. Sage, who turned out gold pieces in his laboratory from gold extracted from the ashes of certain burned vegetable sub- stances. The result was beautiful, scien- tifically speaking, but the expense of mak- tak: mt tals way one & piece was abeat The value of rough gems of all sorts pro- duced in this country in 1893 was $50,000 less than the output for the year before, amounting to only $262,000. The decrease was mainly owing to the industrial de- pression. The precious stones of the United States are sold in large part to tourists, who purchase them as souvenirs of locali- tes visited. ———_+e-+_____ Woman Cyclists. From Demorest’s Magazine. While there is much to be said in favor of cycling as an exercise for both men and women, there is also a very emphatic don't to be uttered with regard to the position which many people assume when riding. The cycle stoop makes all benefit from the exercise impossible; it compresses the lungs, rendering it impossible to breathe properly, and, if persisted in, will produce a very serious spinal curvature. Though, of course the professional “sprinters” are the worst offenders, there are many ambitious riders who fall into the habit from a foolish de- sire to attain speed, without realizing that they are endangering health thereby. To their credit be it said, very few women have fallen into this pernicious habit. As an exercise for those suffering from dyspep- sia, either anaemic or nervous, or from any derangement of the digestive organs, and for persons prone to rheumatism, correct cycling, with the shoulders held erect, has proved very beneficial. It is a great advan- tage also to students and all who lead a sedentary life, for it sends the blood circu- lating vigorously through the whole body, and purifies it with the deep draughts of pure, fresh air’ which the lungs are com- pelled to inhale. a Art for Children. From the Detroit Free Press. The children’s room in every house ought to be fitted out with a blackboard. Any painter will coat a section of the wall with blackboard staining for a few cents, or if there is no painter convenient, sheets of slated paper may be tacked up against the wall, and the result is quite satisfactory. A box of colored chalks and a book of out- line prints will furnish the materials for drawing and sketching, and many an hour that would be otherwise passed in mischief will be employed by the youngsters in learning to draw. There is no better way of keeping the children pleasantly and profitably employed, and the cost will not equal that of a single box of candy, ———_-+0-+ -—____ A Chinese Description of the Piano. From the Das Neus Blatt. A Chinaman, lately returned from a trip to Europe, treated his countrymen to the following description of the piano: “The Eurseans keep a large four-uged beast, which they can make to sing at will, A man, or more frequently a woman, or even a feeble girl, sits down in front of the animal and steps on its tail, while at the same time striking its white teeth with his or her fingers, when the creature begins to sing. The singing, though much louder than a bird’s, is pleasant to listen to. The beast does not bite, nor does it move, though it is not tied up.” ieetlalitiainiaepacsi A quantity of dynamite has been explod- ed near the Church of St. Jacques in Liege, Belgium, and several buildings were dam- aged, but no one was injured. SICK PEOPLE CURED Eminent Doctors at Your Service Free Not a Penny to Pay for the Fallest Medical Examination. Munyon's Homeopathic Remedy Compary employ & number of eminent doctors, who have achieved @istinction in diagnosing and curing diseases. 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