Evening Star Newspaper, November 8, 1894, Page 11

THE EVENING STAR, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 1894—TWELVE PAGES. WASH. B. WILLIAMS, Cor. 7th and D Sts. N.W. The Rush Continues. $50,000 Worth Of Carpets —of all the leading makes to be sold ata great sacrifice. Remember, this gives you a selection from our entire stock. This is no “remnant sale.” We will give you just exactly what we advertise. The following prices are the lowest ever quoted for such sterling qualities: Our Prices Always the Lowest. No Competition. Body Brussels. A full line of these goods from which to select. At 80c. yd. imit to quantit; Wilton Carpets. Our own special designs and color- s, Worth from $2 to Now $1.45 yd. Our entire stock; no remnants. not remnants. - | Tapestry Brussels. Smith's Tapestry. Bigelow : Axminster. est Hoe mer y Now $1.40 yd. Our entire stock The from. Fe Ia the elty to select B All-wool Ingrain Carpets. qualities. Now 5oc. yd. Patterns Hmt Regu- “Gobelin Carpets. ‘The choicest patterns of the mills’ prod Regular price, $1 rapa Now $i15 yd. | _, Fur Rugs. . 28x64 inches. At $2.15 yd. Japanese Rugs. Size 6x9 at = = $6.25 Size 7.6x10.6 = $9.00 Smyrna Rugs. re ~ AX minste r Carpets. In all the latest effects. At $1.10 yd. no ends to se- limit to quantity; from, Size 26x52, Was $3. Now Size 30x60. Was $3.7: ize 4x7. Was $10. Nov In this particular grade of goods we muvrke 4 specialty of We don't buy jobs, but give you the full line to se- leet from, Rag Carpet. Our Price, 95c. yd. At 28c. yd. WASH. B. WILLIAMS, Cor. 7th and D Sts. N.W. THE CITY'S ROAR. WOULD RETALIATE. May Be Netated and Used in Coming Years of Air-Lite. Secretary Morto: dent Should cts. Thinks the Presi- Jude German Pro- How Fr a I-known musician, eeretary Morton has come to the conclu- “(hat the Sun has b publishing the | sion that there is vested in the President by opinion of some artist (ellow that each city | law sufficient authority to-order the exclu- has its color tone. 1 suppose he’s right; | sion of German products from American don’t know much red splashes and | ports in retaliation for German discrimina- green smears. But the publication of that | tion against American goods. This has an item brin to utterance point some- | important bearing upon the question of how thing that 1’'ve had in my mind tor many | the United States will receive the announce- years, and that is the actual tone, the nt the German authorities may decide sound tone, the keynote of cities. to exclude American cattle and other goods You know every sound of nature has|to prevent the possible importation into its notation, whether it is the buzz Germany of Tex fever. The Secretary sect im August or the roar of Ni has already suggested that some measure , 1 believe that every , and that the | in lat April. its retaliation may be secured by a strict could be reduced to no- | inspection of German wines. He now says 1 am positive | that it seems to him to be fair to require wo cities Is bape PY | the governments of Germany and France to ¢ the roar of a city differs in| C@USe a chemical analysis to be made of all wines, brandies and other liquors exported for use in the United States. d intensity according to the time " day. The roar of we Yor on Sunday morning in August,| “]¢ neither Germany nor France will take for instanes, is a very different thing trom | American pork or b says the § that ew-York on a Saturday morning xcept with a governmental certifi in Oct and, again, very different from | tion to its wholesomeness, why should the that of any time in the dead of winter, | United States take any edibles or beverages when ali the streets are covered with sno from them without requiring, likewise, gov- But different sounds could be cata-|ernmental certification of their absolute logued, herein wilt lie the practical | purity and wholesomeness? ne th Travel and wartare | Germany sent to the United States in are bound to come, you know, | $7,000 worth of champagne wines, they do the catalogue of city 0) of still wines In cases, $517,000 of be as much of a necessity as a s in bottles. In 1892, $72,000 of cham- nd barometer , $941,000 stilled w example n You 4 In 1s the wind bh still wines for a ‘ week. The captain | jtary reasons m: di : easons well dictate the know how much he’s out in his | clusion of these wines in view of the t when he hears a loud-booming | mony regarding harmful a the clouds. ‘What | ‘They amount to much more er- of the mate. T ican me ca exportations 0} meat to Germany -— + e+ IN OUR CE TAL SPHERE hi flat tuning that it B ft pipe to is BBB Are Countless New and Distant Worlds Beyond Computation, Sir Edwin Arnold in th Galileo, in his made a map of sig! had discovered in Orion’s belt and the then astronomer after well known, has added ous groups and galaxies to the 2,000 or 3,000 conspicuous stars of the first six magnitudes, which can always be seon with the naked eye. It is curious and not complimentary to the good sense of mankind that those stars should have been looked upon as merely in- North American Review, “Sidereal Messenger,” y new stars which he the constellation of and since onomer, as 1s “Sword,” st Ilarlein manuscript, Nos. 980 and library of the British Museum, s made of the most, extraordinary has ever been known in the The parties were a Scotch ot wives), who were of sixty-two chil- istary ric of the offsprings of this Pere hove (oeaetiy Low many | tended to spangle the sky an give light x is not known), for the record | at night. As lamps they were always a s the fact that forty-six of the } failure. Mren Hved to reach manhood’s es Sixty time 4 only four of the daughters lived | > *t¥ times the total starlight on the a i irest night would not equal the illumi- yen-Up wor sons we still ving in the year nation given by the moon, and 33,000,000 major! f them then residing in and about | times their radiance would be required to Newcastle- yne. It is recorded in one | equal sunlight. Yet the stars which are of the old ries of ee ee seen even by a powerful telescope are now an of lari known to be only an insignificant propor- thr Hes b d the Tyne | * this worderful story.” It is fur- | tion of those actually existing inside “visi- 1 that Sir J.eRowers adopted ten | ble sps ind that three other “landed | ‘Telescopic photography, as practiced to- ncn” took ten each. The remaining | day in all the observatories, reveals, in al- this extraordinary family were | most every apparently blank region of the ap by the parents, celestial sphere, countiess new and distant re werlds, lying far beyond all methods of sala iodo GES Salk Se weet mortal computation and measurement. ‘The only foot rule with which we can at From ua all estimate the scale of distances in the On t eat epecteienn et the mcm | “VES univer is lHght. This travels ee along the ether at th 2 of 186, arch the forest ever seen in the eastern | 2107S the ether at the rate of 186,000 miles in a second, so that the ray which we re- ceive from ‘the sun left his surface eight minutes before it has reached our ey By ingenious processes based cn complex arithmetic, astronomers determined part > was few cent brought tm o Bangor a ose was a magnifi- was shot near Chairback rays as AB gy = mounta . Katahdin iron works re- | the distance of about eighty stars, and the gion ced in front of | nearest of all of them to our system is Al- one of which had also | pha Centauri. a fine «i her game, such as deer, | ‘The radiance of this star takes, however, caribou Woodcock, ete, giving | alout four years to reach human vistor. the mar * the appearance of a hunts- | while that which we perceive from Alpha man’s camp than a shop in the middle of a | Taurl or Aldebaran was projected from its Photographs of the whole » taken, | glittering source twenty-seven years ago, t wge moose well in front. ‘The | and inost of those seen deeper In the night animal purch by 8. L. Crosby, who| sky are so far off their present light left will mount it entire. It wetghed 1,000 | them 300 or 400 years back. pounds, was seven feet in height at the| Many are today visible whose beams have shoulders, measured nine feet from the tip| traveled to our gaze only after a lapse of oft »se to the root of the tall, and the | thousands of years, and there must be radi- antlers spread four feet and four inches. ‘The antlers were a fine set, and the whole mimal was remarkable in every way. ant streams now on their way from heaven- ly bodies in the empyrean which will only reach the eyes of our very far-off posterity, | Where frauds NAVAL ARMAMENT Annual Report of the Chief of the Ordnance Bureau. A RESERVE SUPPLY IS NECESSARY Remarks in Relation to the Frauds in Armor Plates. os INTERESTING EXPERIMENTS ——__—. The annual report of Capt. W. T. Samp- son, chief of the naval ordnance bureau, shows that the work of arming the new ships is progressing rapidly. Of the 453 sets of gun forgings required all but three have been delivered; 340 guns are completed and are afloat. The built-up system re- mains the favorite, but as an efficient and probably cheaper gun can be constructed on the plan of a forged steel tube reinforced by wire, it may be weil to develop this system as a means of rapidly arming ships in an emergency. Beyond this no other gun sys- tem is worthy of development at govern- ment expense. Capt. Sampson says: A Reserve Supply Necessary. “Although the modern guns required to arm the vessels thus far authorized by law are now practically completed, the bureau considers that it would be unwise to cut short the work of gun construction until a reserve supply of guns of all calibers has been created for use in an emergency. The guns needed for new ships hereafter author- ized can well be built concurrently with the construction of the ships themselves, but a certain number of guns of each caliber should be kept in hand to replace any dam- aged in service, and more especially for the purpose of arming such improvised war- ships as will be called into service in the event of war. No private manufacturer can afford to keep on hand a stock of guns of any considerable size, and it will be only prudent for the government to maintain such a stock itself. In the bureau's opinion there is not the slightest danger of the pres- ent system of gun construction being so far improved upon as to render the guns now in use obsolete, and accordingly the recom- mendation is made that the construction of an additional number, equal to 10 per cent of those now authorized, be begun at once, and an estimate therefor.is herewith sub- mitted.” Secondary Batteries. As to secondary batteries, the report states that while trials have been made of guns submitted to competition, the grave disadvantages resulting from the use of different types are such that nothing but marked superiority can justify the intro- duction of new types. The equipment of vessels with their secondary batteries is well advanced. Of 431 Hotchkiss and 165 Driggs guns ordered 26 and 50, respective- ly, are afloat. A good brown powder for the five-inch rapid-fire gun has been re- ceived from the California Powder Com- pany, and some progress has been made in the manufacture of this kind of powder for the twelve and thirteen-inch guns, but not as much as desirable. Smokeless powder made at the torpedo station has been found fully equal to that accepted abroad as sat- isfactory. The forcign powders tested have not given satisfactory results. The nitro- glycerine powders have given excelient ball'stie tests, but they have been found to be ctkerwise unfit for military purposes. Satisfactory progress has been made in the mounting of heavy guns. While the hydroulic system works well, the lability to injury of the numerous fittings has in- cuced the bureau to design mounts which can be manipulated entirely by hand, thus saving much weight and cost and complex- everal new designs for mounts for -fire guns have been made, and It is intention to place this type of gun the abcard some of our commerce destroyers, instead of their present guns, Considerable delay in procuring the smaller mounts ha resulted from imperfect steel castings, le ing Capt. Sampson to remark that under the present system of competitive bids manufacturers often take contracts at prices which forbid good castings. Temptation to Deceive. “The temptation to evade the specitica- tions and deceive the inspectors in passing upon material,” he says, “has, of course, steadily increased. Certain of the castin supplied by two firms were found to con- tain defects which had been concealed from the inspector. In addition, one of these firms, by remarking castings which had been rejected and returned to their works, and a fraudulent manipulation of the tests, again endeavored to secure their accept- nee. These frauds have been placed in the hands of the United States district at- torneys of the districts in which they oc- 4 for prosecution. It is bel nt that the criminal intention fraud the government into the acceptance of inferier or unsuitable material other than that required by the specifications of the contract agreed to, whether for ordnance or other material intended for the national de- fense, should be sultably punished by law, somewhat as is prescribed in the case of boiler material. The system of inspection is being improved and made more thorough as experience indicates the necessity. are perpetrated, however, they are seldom, if ever, of such a techni- cal nature as would deceive the most inex- perienced inspector. They consist usually of substitutions, evasions, secret treat- ments and concealments | which require rather a knowledge of chicanery and double dealing than metallurgical processes. No ¢ pjectiles, No further contracts were let during the year for projectiles, a sufficient number rn | having already been ordered to equip the common shell, for the thirteen-inch guns. These will be selected after competition, The Johnson cast-steel shell promises well for this work, and there is good reason to believe that as efficient shells can be made of cast steel, properly treated, as have yet been produced by forg- ships, excepting ing, thus considerably cheapening this v expensive ordnance material. Of the armor-piercing shells ordered ail but Capt. Sampson sa have been delivered. ys: projectiles ‘The work of manufacturing for the navy has been practically com- pleted. The Sterling Steel Company, the United States Projectile Company and the eel Company have fin- {1 wp all their contracts and their pro- jectile departments are at a standstill, and the Carpenter Steel Company will soon be in the same position. It would be the part of wisdom for the department to place or- ders for the manufacture of a considerable reserve supply of projectiles of all calibers, not only because*at any moment an emer- gency may arise making them urgently necessary, but also to prevent the scat- tering of the skilled labor which has de- veloped this manufacture, and to keep 0 cupied the plants which’ were established solely to meet the government's demands, and which, without further orders, will de- terlorate or even disappear. Accordingly the bureau recommends the further pur- chase of projectiles to the extent of $130,000, and submits herewith estimates covering their cos Interesting Experiments. Interesting experiments have been made with shells loaded with wet gun cotton fired at low velocities, 1,400 feet per sec- ond. When fired into a hillside such six- inch shells exploded with tremendous vio- lence, making a large crater and throwing stones and mud hundreds of feet. Against seven-inch armor plates they were inef- fective, bursting outside without injuring the plate. On increasing the velocity to 1,800 feet per second the shell burst in the gun. But this was owing to the thinness of the shell walls, and it is now proposed to make 10-inch shells, carrying 70 pounds of gun cotton, which can be used in safet; at 1,700 feet’ velucity. Since October last 4,165 tons of armor plate have been accepted all but 782 tons being Harveyized, The manufacturing facilities at Bethlehem and Homestead have been greatly tmprov- ed, making these firias the best equipped in'the world. The armor plate outfit has steadily increased, with greater experience and appliances. The Bethlehem makers have practically completed their contracts, while the Homestead works are well ad- vanced. The report says: “Should additional armored vessels be au- thorized in the coming session of Congress it is evident that the Bethlehem Iron Com- pany would have completed their present contract when the appropriations became so far operative as to permit the armor jor Iron and § shapes to be ordered. In the case of the Carnegie Steel Companf, a similar condi- tion would exist. At both establishments the forging and rousif machining of all armor will be comple’ at a much earlier date. Should seding Congres be deferred until the succeeding Congress, becoming operative July 1, 1596, both armor planis would have been practically idle for more than a year, the orgenizations would be broken up end the skilled labor, created at much expense of time and money, either lost or diverted. = “It Is believed, therefore,that better terms should be obtained on peW contracts at the present times than Mater.” Armor Development. Under the head fof armor development Capt. Sampson has uch to say in expiana- tion of the difficulties encountered in bring- ing into existence an entirely new industry in this country and achieving results su- perlor to anything accomplished abroad. One effect has been to thrust upon the de- partment responsibilities which in an es- tablished industry. would be borne by the contractors. The manufacture of armor now being thoroughly established, so that a great regularity in the quality of the out- put may be expected, it is consideréd im- portant that in future the minimum re- quirements be raised to a point known pos- sible to be attained by careful and skillful manufacture, the contractors still being pledged to preduce the best armor possible under the conditions existing at the time of placing the contract. The objection urged abroad against the Harvey process that it distorted plates be- yond use has been found groundless, and makers can now produce such plates of any required shape or thickness, provided the original plates are sound and homogeneous. Surface cracks have resulted from the un- equal yielding of the carbonized and soft parts of the plates, but these do not re- duce the ballistic properties of the plates. The difficulties met in drilling or bor- ing the plates for fitting have been met by the Introduction of an electric weld- ing process, by which the temper may be drawn at bolt holes. A brief reference is made to the armor plate frauds, which attracted so much attention during the last Congress, and attention is called to the re- ports on the subject already made to the department. The deliveries of torpedoes are being made with satisfactory rapidity, and as the present allowance of torpedoes for each tube Is entirely too small, an esti- mate of $242,500 is submitted for procur- ing 100 more. Guns for Subsidized Vensels. In view of the act of Congress providing that steamers registered under the subsidy law may be called into use as cruisers and transports, It is suggested that means must be found for arming them. Many months would be required to prov le batteries, and for this reason the bureau recommends that a small annual appropriation be made for the purpose until guns and mounts have been provided for at least 33 Atlantic and 8 Pacific steamers. This would require 6 six- inch, 159 five-inch, 158 four-inch and 277 secondary guns, and to begin their manu- facture, an estimate of $500,000 is submitted ‘The estimates submitted for the next fiscal year aggregate $6,564,552, as against $4,362,- 304 for the current year, the principal in- creases being for torpedoes and advance stores, and for the armament of the new vessels, a THE INSTITUTIONAL CHURCH. The Feeuliar Demand for Such Work in Large Cities. Rey. Josiah Strong, D.D. “The only way to save the city is to save its citizens. As the. city grows larger and the more needs saving, the weaker relative- ly are the two great saving institutions on which we must rely for its regenera- tion. “Look now at the pélytions of the institu- tional church to thi® problem. Many churches are planted #7 the midst of homes, where there is every “opportunity for the development of a ‘ormal, physical, intel- leetual, social and morg! life. Other ¢hurch- €s are located in tie midst of great tene- ment-house populations, where there are few homes. This is where the institu- tional church is. pectarly needed, and it is the pecullar provtice of the institu- tional church to perfotm, so far as possi- ble, the functions. of ;the home. It must give opportunities tor: physical, inteilect- val and social culture, which the lodging house district does mot afford, so that in the institutional churel mest the two great saving Institutions Of society, “If, now, the neglected part of every great city could be divided between the vario denominations, each accepting the respon- sibility of its own block of ten or fifteen r twenty thousand people, and each de- nomination should plant in its own district a thoroughly equipped institutional church, with its kindergartens, its trained nurses, its deaconesves, its gymnasium, its baths, its facilities for clubs, for evening and lectures, this would be no great bur- den upon a large number of churches. In New York city several churches are each equipping such a church, “No church work makes larger returns for the money invested in it. Comparing the institutional churches of the Congrega- tional denomination with the remaining Congregational churches, we find the number of additions on confessions last year averaged six times as large in the former as in the latter, and notwith- standing the fact that institutional church- es are generally located in the most 4is- couraging districts, where churches on the old lines of work ‘have died or been com- relled to move away, the number of addi- tlons on confession of faith as compared with membership were last y thirty- three per cent larger in the institutional churehes than in the other churches of the denomination, indic: t the re neni tion of the whole uses the ual life instead of decreasing It, as have feared. “Around — these should be pla plan, as man the district institutional churches ted missions on the McAll y be needed to cover to that institutional ne church, In vlew of the demonstrated suc- cess of such missions and such churches it is not too much to say that a sufficient number of them established on the plan indicated would solve the religious problem of the citv, and that is by far the m t important factor of the city’s problem.” see A Fingerless Family. From the Philad In a Lincolns > in England lives a family who suffer under the curious de- formity of being fingerless. This peculiari- ty does not seem to be «ne of those fre of nature which may appear in one in ual and not be transmitted to the next vid- “n= eration. From what can be learned, the singularity has existed in this family so far as history or tradition extends, and there seems at present no signs of its dying out, as the grandchildre is devoid of fingers as their grandsir hands of this remarkable family pres ance of having had the fing or chopped off roughly and unevenly below the second joint, leaving’ a short stump. There is no nail or hard substance, and were it not for the absence of anything like a cicatrice casual observers would conclude that the defect was due to an accident; but, as though nature had attempted to com- pensate for the absehce of fingers, the thumbs are abnormally large and strong. The family are in othgr respects fully en- dowed by nature, and do not appear to suf- fer the disadvantages the absence of fing- ers might be expected to entail. One of the daughters, aged twenty, can write, sew, knit, and is in every. way as dexterous and accomplished as othr Eirls of her age and station, nt the appear- amputated i udgen Fainting Spells, Epileptic Conyul- ‘sfobs, or Fits, and all nervous diseases, ag Paralysis, Locomotor Ataxia, Epilepsy, or Fits, St. Vitus’s ance, Sleeplessness, ervous Prostration, ervous Debility, Neuralgia, Melan- cholia, Threatened Insanity, and Kind- red Ailments, are treated as a specialty, with great success, by the of the Invalids’ Hotel are urgical Institute, Buffalo, N. Y. y are cured at a distance without personal consultation— the necessary medicines being seus by mail or express. Question b: sent on application. For Pamphlet, References, and Par- ticulars, enclose 10 cents in stamps for postage. Address, WoRLD's DISPENSARY MEDI- CAL ASSOCIATION, Buffalo, N. Y. THs PAKENT OF ALL DISEASE, CONSTIPATION, permanently cured and every bone, muscle and herve of the body, made strong and healthy by using Dr. Kennedy's Favorite Kemedy. LATE SPORTING NEWS YESTERDAY'S RACING. ‘Two Favorites at St. Asaph Won and Four on the Island. Backers had much the worse of the argu- ment with the bockies at the St. Asaph track yesterday, but two favorites winning. ‘The other races were taken by a second choice and three outsiders. The attend- ance was the smallest of the meeting, and the pumber of bookmakers was also the smallest,but fourteen doing business. Specu- lation was brisk and the racing good. The track was safe, but a new top dressing of sand made it the least bit slow. The winners were Leonardo, 7 to 10 and cut; Amsterdam, 6 and 2; Mcintyre, 7 to 5 and 2 to 5; Star Actress, 2 and 4 to 5; Re- straint, 8 and 3, and High Point Belle, 5 and 7 to 5. At the Alexander Island track the talent had {t practically all their own way, cash- ing on four out of the five races. The track was in very good shape, the entries large, and the racing excellent. The winners were Columbus, 10 and 4; Bayberry, 3 and 1; Jack Wynne, 8 to 5 and 2 to 5; Cossack, 1 to 2 and out; and Jersey, even and out. New State Record at Belmont. The weather was not propitious for rec- ord breaking yesterday at Belmont Park, Philadelphia, and the cloudy sky and bleak air kept many hundreds away from Bel mont Driving Park, where Alix (2.03 3-4), the queen of the trotting turf, and Directly, the champion two-year-old pacer, went against their records. Nine heats were trotted and paced in less than 2.19, and Alix made a new record for the state, her mile in 2.08 3-4 being exactly two seconds faster than that made at Bei- mont in 1886 by Jay Eye See. Directly made an attempt to beat his rec- ord of 2.07 3-4, and he would have been suc- cessful but for an unfortunate break just after leaving the three-quarter pole. He did the mile in 2.13 3-4, Park’s New Record. J. D. Park, the young Denver wheelman who recently lowered the world’s record un- paced for three-quarters of a mile, has now cut down the record for a mile unpaced, with flying start, to 2.14. Had to Give It Up. Frank Albert, who was endeavoring to break the bicycle road record between New York and Chicago, arrived at Rochester, N. Y., Tuesday night. While in a restaurant, eating his supper, his wheel was stolen and he had to abandon his trip. Forfeited to Georgetown, Johns Hopkins and the Maryland Agricul- tural College were scheduled for a game of foot ball yesterday at National Park, but Johns Hopkins had to cancel the game ow- ing to the fact that Capt. Janney and sev- eral other players are injured. The second team from Georgetown College took the place of the Baltimoreans, and started to play before 150 spectators. A decision of the umpire did not suit the Marylanders and he declared the game forfeited to Georgetown. ‘The line up was as follows: Georgetown. Positions, “M, A. College. Kelly Left end Banner, Nelson Left tackle Harding. Leonard Left guard Wooters. Bryant Center Walker. O'Leary Right guard Wharton. Douglas Right tackle Rollins. Gillin Right end Blackstone. A. Smith Quarter back Harris, ©. Burke Left half back Millison. Gillin Right half back Harrison. Kirby Full back + Lewis. Umpire—Arthur P. Gorman, jr. Referee— Harley. Linesman—Schell, MARYLAND HORSE SHOW. Another Large Attendance at the timore Exhibition, The Baltimore hcrse show drew another > crowd yesterday, and the exhibitions were an improvement ov given. The principal pri ipally among Philadelphia, Louisville, hington and Baltimore horses. The: re as follows: Thoroughbred over, in hand. b. m., Robert second prize, V Goldsborough, Washington, D.C, Saddle horses, mare or gelding, over 14.1, and not exceeding 15.1 hands, under saddle. First prize, Her Ladyship, r. m., Joseph B. Yidener, Lynnewood stock farm, Ogontz, ; second prize, Patrol, br. g, A. J. Cas- att, Chesterbrook farm, Berwyn, Pa.t very highly commended, Mariolla, ‘>. m.,’ Gen. John B, Castlemar, Louisville, Ky.; highly commended, Grey Nun, g. m., Henry M. Earle. Washington, D. C. Qualified light-weight hunters up to carry 160 pounds to hounds, conformation and manners to count 25 per cent and perform- res three years old or prize, imp. Wild Vats, Welbourne, Va. br. m., Dr. E. K. F ance over fences 75 per cent. First prize, Reindeer, br. g., Miss Molly George, Balti- more; second prize, Sh ly Gaff, b. f., J. Butterfield, Washington, D. C. ° The Chevy Chase hounds from Washing- ton have arrived and are quartered in two They will take part In the trials and hounds at 4:30 this afternoon. -Princeton Game. eton will play their annual foot ball game this year. They will play it December 1 on Manhattan field, New York. The decision was reached by the athletic committee of the University A. C. after about five minutes’ conference yester- day afternoon. Whether the University A. c. will manage the game will be deter- mined this evening by the club. he Yo Yale and Prin Insist on having the Qua- ker name and trade mark on every package of Oats. None ‘‘just as good as.” Sold only in 2 tb. Packages. A Cup of Beef Tea. ‘The cheapest, pur- est ghd best, iLiebig Company’s; Extract of Beef. |There’s only one genuine |\kind, and that you can |jknow by the signature in jblue on every jar, nol-th,tu DRUNKENNESS OR THB LIQUOR HABIT PosT tively cured by administering Dr. Haines’ Gol- | den Specitiz. at can be givea in a cup of coffee | or tea, or In food, without the knowledge of the patient. It is absolutely harmless, and will effect a permanent and speedy cure, whether the patient is a moderate drinker or an alco- folie”wreck, It bas been given In. thousands ot cases, and in every instance a perfect cure bas followed. It never fails. ‘The system once im- pated With the Specific, it becomes an utter apenas for, fae, liquor appetite to cris. GOLDEN SPECIFIC CO.; Props., Cincinnati, Obio, Particulars free. To be’ had of F. 8. WILLIAMS & ©U., 9th and F sts. o.w.; 8. F. WARE, under AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENTS. The Work Done at the Different Sta- tions to Be Discussed. The work of the agricultural experiment stations in this country will be thoroughly reviewed and plans discussed at the forth- coming eighth annual convention of the As- sociation of American Colleges and Experi- ment Stations. The meeting will begin in this city next Tuesday and close Friday, and a large gathering of agricultural experts is expected. General sessions will be held daily. Addresses will be made by Assistant Secretary of Agriculture Dabney. Commis- sioner of Education Harris and by various experts in agricultural matters. Reports will be received from committees and sec- tion chairmen, and all sections will meet for organization and preliminary business. Gen. Stephen D. Lee, president of the Mis- sissippi Agricultural and Mechanical Col- lege and president of the association, will deliver his annual address in the evening. Reports received from the colleges during the past two years indicate that while the facilities for instruction in agricultural courses have been increased as the result of the act of 1890, the number of students in the regular college courses in agriculture still continues to be relatively small in many institutions. The short courses, how- ever, are shown to be increasingly popular, and wherever special courses, as in dairy- ing, have been established, they have been well attended. The colleges, say the Agri- cultural Department officials, are principally useful in training the leaders in agricul- tural progress. Colleges having agricul- tural courses are in operation in all of the states and territories, aggregating sixty- five, and separate institutions for white and colored students are maintained in fourteen of the states. Forty-nine of these colleges receive the appropriation provided for in the act of March 2, 1887. Experiment stations are also in operation in all the states and territories except Alaska, numbering fifty-five, exclusive of the branch stations. a Return of Encke's Comet. From the New York Herald. ‘The small but celebrated comet discovered in the last century, and whose periodicity was determined by the Berlin astronomer, Encke, in 1819, has just been sighted again by Professor Cerulli of ‘Teramo, Italy. A cablegram from Kiel on Friday an- nouneing its reappearance as a telescopic object stated that the comet is very faint. Its celebrity is due to the fact that since it was first detected it has been increasing its velocity and shortening its period of revolutiom around the sun at the rate of two and one-half hours in every revolution. Strange as it may seem, the increase of speed is caused by the comet's meeting with resistance of some kind, the nature of which is not known. 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