Evening Star Newspaper, January 12, 1895, Page 17

THE EVENING STAR. SATURDAY, JANUARY 12, 1895-TWENTY PAGES. A CARNIVAL OF BLOOD A New Year Day Bull Fight in Havana. FOR A BENEVOLENT PURPOSE a The Distinguished God Mothers to the Fated Bulls. SPECTACLE PITIABLE > A Gta Correspondence of ‘The Evening Star. HAVANA, Jenmry 7, 1895. HE BOSTON MAN G | who sat by me on | r, a the top row of P ae benches at the New | fU%e é Year day bull fight y 6 RE) remarked that if ee sa2'S ||| one traveled half 4 oy way around the ag £4 1'| worta he could not ? ("get further away from Boston. And yet we were within a hundred miles of the United States. The scene that drew out this comment was, indecd, a strange ene to Americar eyes. The amphitheater with its mers of red and orange, the erewd tkrenged the benches, the swarthy r faces, the women with their dark eyes and powder-whitened complex fons, auly colers affected by the 4 dalusian beauties in their attire, the chat- tering and shouting in Spanish—faces, dress, speech—all were un-American. It is not li either, that one will ever see a crowd publicly assembled in any city of the United States to witness such a spectacle +o long as humane societies ex- ist. And yet the bull Sght was given for the benefit of the Society for the Protec- tion of Children, one of the benevolent or- garizations of Havana. Six splendid Span- ish bulls and half a score of horses were slaugbtere ene matadore and one pica- dor imtimed, to make a Spanish holiday and to advance th cause of benevolence. The bull fight was to have occurred Sun- day, which is the day dedicated to such pleasures, but Sunday rainy and cold. The Plaza de Toros, er amphitheater,where the fights are held, is merely a circular h.- elesure, 0 “suspended” until New Year day. All Bound for the Bull Fight. The road to the Plaza de Toros lies by the Paseo Tacon, a broad avenue in the yut the nar- newer part of the city. Frot tow alley e thoroughfafes of old Ha- vana into this broad boulevard poured streams of equipages and pedestrians, all bound for the bull fight—all sorts and con- J. Palomar. Aitions of men and women being represent- ed in the throng. There were showy car- riages with gold-laced coachmen and foot- men, pidated cabs with broken-down horses, carts drawn by mules, "buses filled with noisy parties, men afcot and men on horseback. It was a careless and happy threng, in colcr and animated in ac- tion. Th. ‘oad avenue made a fine piace for such a gathering. Along etther side are rows of one-story dwellings of the Cuban style, some with | classic colonnades, suggesting a restora- tion from the ruins of Pompeil. Rising above garden walls, majestic palms give a tropical touch to the scene. The avenue Is ill-kept, and many of the houses shabby but in the bright sunlight and marvelousiy clear atmosphere everything takes on a vivid hue. So far as picturesque effects go | the Avenue ‘facon could hardly be im- | proved, but from the prosy standpoint of a sanitary officer or an engineer commission- er it would not be regarded as a model thoroughfare. A mile of the avenue was made brilliant by the throng bound for the bull fight. ‘'ne amphitheater is near the outskirts of the city. It is a circular frame structure, rudely constructed, and about lwo hundred feet in diameter. In the Amphitheater. In the roadway near the entrance were stationed mounted cavalrymen, who regu- lated the carriages and prevented con- fusion. Soon several thousand people were seated in the building, and it was then the Boston man made his remark. In the cen- ter of the Plaza de Toros Is a ring, about one hundred feet in diameter. Around this 1s a stout board fence about six feet high. In this are gates or openings—through one of which the matadores and other partici- pants in the bloody sport enter the arena and from the other the bull rushes out, to ke worried and baited and finally to die. All around the fence inclosing the ring, about a foot from the ground, is a little shoulder or shelf, the purpose of which be- comes apparent as scon as a bull goes charging about the ring. A matadore hotly pressed by the bull puts one foot up- on this shelf and escapes by nimbly leap- ing over into the narrow passage left be- tween the fence and the first tier of seats. ‘The seats extend backward and upward from this passage, the front row being on @ level with the top of the fence. At the top, and consequentiy furthest from the Srena, are the compartments or boxes. The charge for a box containing four seats fs $20. ‘These hoxes are sheltered or roofed, dat the root does not extend in so as to ade the seats below them. As the bull fights are held in the afternoon, one-half of the amphitheater ts in the shade, while the other halt ts in the sun. So the general admission is divided into two classes, “in the shade" and “in the sun.” The sunny Seats correspond with the “bleachers” in @n American base ball ground, and the price for admission to them is one dollar. A seat on the shady side costs two dollars. Distinguished Sponsors. At the New Year day fight the captain general of Cuba was present, accompanied by his wife and attended by several of his officers, gaily uniformed. The captain gen- eral Is an elderly man, with a careworn face, covered with a closely cropped gray beard. He was attired in black and wore a black silk hat. His wife, a stout blonde, with rather coarse features, was arrayed in a gorgeous straw-colored dress, adorned with Jace and sparkling jewels. The box they occupied was draped with the Spanish col- ors and overhead were displayed the royal arms of Spain. At the left of the captain general's box was the box occupied by the | “president” of the day—one of the mayors | of the city—for Havana has an intricate | municipal government, with an assortment of mayors, who presided over and directed the sport. At the right of the captain gen- eral were several boxes, in which were seated the special patronesses of the par- ticular bulls and bull fighters who were to do battle. In the posters the names of these six “distinguished and beautiful se- noritas’ were announced, together with the fact that they would grace the fight by their presence. They were there in all the glory that an abundant supply of face powder and rich toilets could give them. They were young ladies of high social standing in Havana, and each was the center of a bevy of pretty girls. As a Spaniard ex- plained it to me, these six “distinguished and beautiful” senoritas were the “god- mothers” or sponsors of the six bulls. Con- spicuously placed in front of each “god- mother’s” box was a huge rosette, elabor- ately wrought of silk, satin, lace and Spangles, supposed to be a decoration for the bull. In other boxes, and scattered through the crowds of male spectators, were women of every class and color, and little girls and boys. It was an occasion for fine dressing and many pretty toilets were displayed. All through the bloody perform- ance these black-eyed beauties looked on languidly through their lorgnettes, chat- ted with their friends or coquetted behind their fans, just as they would have done at the opera. The Distinguished Performers. There were six bulls that day, three cele- brated matadores, five picadors and six banderillos, besides a little band of attend- ants, who have not yet risen to the dis- tinction of wearing a gilt-trimmed jacket and flaunting a red cloak at a bull. Before the bull fight a company of the captain general's guards marched into the ring and gave an exhibition drill, executing fancy movements at the sound of the bugle and winring great applause. ame the ceremony of opening the bull An attendant approached the “president” and ootained from him the key of the bull pen. Then a bugler, stationed by the president, sounded a call. The band ationed opposite the captain general struck up a march, one of the gates was opened and into the ring marched the matadores, the picadors and _banderilios in the picturesque costume of the bull ring —short jacket, adorned with gold or silver, sash, knee breeches and the peculiar three- cornered block hats. The picador is mounted. He ts supposed to fight the bull from the saddle. Unlike the matadore, he wears long trousers, which are padded and stiffened with armor, so the bull, when he charges, can do his little damage. He is armed with a or pole, about ten feet long, having arp iron point at the end. He wears a . broad-brimmed hat like that of a Spanish vaquero, and at the back of his head, as a part of his head dress, Is a little round black cushion, the purpose of which is made manifest when a picador is toppled over backward and strikes the ground with the back of his head. The bull dees not wear any armor or pads, nor is the picador’s horse given any protection of this kind. The picador’s horse is the comical thing of the show, or would be if it were not in so pitiable a plight. The horses supplied for this purpose are the most forlorn, bony, wretched specimens that Havana can furnish out of its vast proken down and foundered The picador himself, with his jaunty rig, and his lance at rest, makes quite a brave appearance, which, however, is rendered ludicrous by his sorry mount. The horse is blindfolded, so that it cannot see the bull. “The Ball! The Bull!” ‘The band stops playing, the bull fighters toss their hats to attendants on the safe side of the fence, the mounted picadors take position around the ring, the others take up the “capotas” or long red capes used in worrying the bull, the bugle sounds again, and there is a moment of breathless silence. Then there are shouts, “The bull! the bull!” The door of the bull pen has opened, and presently out of the dark pen into the light of the arena rushes a splendid black Spanish bull, already wor- ried into a rage. To the very center of the ring the animal goes, pauses for an in- stant, then turns partly around and makes a charge upon a matadore, who ts flaunting his red cloak at him. The matadore deftly springs aside; another one is in front of the bull, playing with him In the same way, leaping eside just as the bull seems about to impale him. The bull fighters thus play with the enraged brute, winning applause by the daring they show and the skill with which they avoid the bull. Some- times the bull carries the red cloak away on his horns. Meanwhile the bull is wor- ried into a grand rage; the crowd shouts vociferously and the excitement increases every minute. The Carnival of Blood. Next the bull charges a plcador, or, rather, the picador’s horse, and the carni- val of blood is fairly opened. With low- ered head the bull rushes at the horse, and makes a vicious lunge with his horns into the flank of the poor, trembling beast. Over go horse and rider, the horse with a great wound gashed Into {ts side. The pic- ador is sprawled on the ground and quite helpless because of the armor he wears. At the instant he goes down the matadores come at the bull again and decoy him away. The pfcador is helped up, and so is his horse. The picador ts mounted again on the bleeding animal and makes a pretense of charging at the bull. it is a sorry pre- tense. The poor horse will not move. Some boys employed for the purpose come run- ning out from behind the fence and try to urge on the wounded animal by beating it with sticks. These boys are ready to fly in case the bull turns toward them and to scramble for safety over the fence. At last the horse is induced to move a little toward his enemy, and the latter makes another charge. | The horse and rider go down this time, the horse never to rise again. The fight goes on until two horses lie dead in the ring and a third has been taken away almost completely dis- emboweled. The Banderillos. ‘The bugle sounds again. This is a signal for the banderillos. The spectators by this time are wild with excitement shouting vociferously. The banderillo’s business is to take two darts, each about a yard in length and trimmed with colored paper, and implant them in the bull's shoulders. Each banderillo takes one or two turns at this sport. He gracefully poses before the bull with a dart in each hand and invites the animal's attack. When the bull rushes upon him he thrusts the banderillas or darts at the animal and leaps aside. Sometimes he attaches only one dart to the bull's flesh. When his work is perfect one banderilla is attached to the bull on each side of his neck. The derts make painful wounds, from which the blood flows down over the bull's shoul- der. Before the banderillos finish several of these banderillas will be hanging to the bull’s flesh and swaying about as the ani- mal charges about. The Espada. The bugle sounds again. This is the sig- nal for the final scene of the tragedy. It is the call for the espada or swordsman who {s to slay the bull. In an instant he is in the ring, bearing a long, straight sword and a cloak of vivid red. He first approaches the box in which fs seated his especial patron, makes a bow and a little speech that no one can hear, bragging how he is going to kill the fierce bull. ‘Then he goes forth to encounter the panting animal. The other bull fighters make way for the swordsman, arranging themselves about the ring, so as to be r2ady to decoy the ani- mal away if necessary.Tho espada’s purpose is to get im front of the bull and make the animal lower his head so that he can thrust the sword down behind his shoulder into the heart. It takes a powerful thrust and a steady hand and a cool head to do this. The espada plays the bull with his red cloak, dodging and leaping from side to side and warily watching his chance to make the fatal thrust. If the crowd thinks he is too cautious they shout in ridicule and call him coward. Finally, the thrust is made, but the blow fs not a good one; the sword is driven into the bull's flesh, but does not make a vital wound. It is left sticking into the flesh and serves only to further madden the animal, which new has its sides flecked with blood. It paws the ground, moans with pain and anger, lowers its head and makes vain charges upon the matadores, who begin to taunt it again with their cloaks. The crowd meanwhile shouts at the baffled swordsman in derision. The sword is whisked out of the buil’s side by a mata- dore, who skillfully entangles it in his long cloak as the bull rushes by him. The espada, armed again, begirs anew the spar- | tring with the bull amid the taunting cries ef the crowd. At last he makes a suc- cessful thrust, the sword is buried to the hilt, just back of the bull’s neck. The bull rushes on a few paces and pauses. Blood gushes from its mouth; it begins to stagger, turns completely about, then falls to the ground. The death of the bull is hailed with acclaim, the band strikes up a triumphant air, and the swordsman struts around the ring. If he has shown extraordinary skill or prowess the crowd throws hats, cigars, bottles of wine and other objects into the ring. Attendants gather up these trophies, flinging the hats back to their owners and keeping the other things for the espada. From the box of the bull fighter’s patroness is thrown into the ring a handsome present, a jeweled cigarette case or some other valuable arti- cle. While the espada is gathering his honors three mules fantastically harnessed and ornamented with jangling bells are riven abreast into the arena and drag out first the dead horses and lastly the dead bull. Some Exciting Features. The ring is cleared again and the bugle sounds for another bull. Thus the sport went on until six bulls had been killed and half a score of dead horses dragged out of the ring. The general conduct of each fight is the same, although, of course, they differ in details. Once a lively bull in pursuit of a flying matadore fairly leaped over the fence and charged around the narrow passage, creating much ex- citement until he was let out again into the ring through a gate that was deftly open- ed. Once the espada killed the bull by a skillful blow that severed the spinal cord, the point of the sword being thrust into the back of the neck just behind the ears. The bull reared up, then fell back dead. The last fight over, the band strikes up the national air of Spain. Some of the crowd makes a rush for the arena to se- cure banderillas or Other souvenirs of the fight, while most of the spectators make their way out of the amphitheater. Again the scene on the Avenue Tacon and the people go to their homes, for there will be no more bull fighting until the next Sunday. = ‘fhe American who sees a bull fight for the first time goes away disgusted with the scenes of the arena. he killing of the horses is brutal and sickening. The ski!l and daring of the matadores are, however, a redeeming feature of the show. They are little, athletic men, as quick and grace- ful in movement as panthers. It is a sup- position that the picador is to defend his horse from the onslaught of the bull. That is one of the traditions of the bull ring, but as now managed the horses are simply ridden out for the purpose of being gored. ‘This satisties the demand for blood. Fur- thermore, it gives a practical illustration of the terrible power in the neck and horns of the bull, and, therefore, keeps constant- ly before the people the great danger the matadores are in. 1 saw one bull lift a horse and rider completely from the ground on his horns and throw them over. The picador fell under the horse, and was borne trom the ring insensible.’ Sometimes the bull will drive his sharp horns into a horse and rip the poor beast open from shoulder to flank. So one can see that it eciairon no ordinary courage to face the bull. ‘The New Year day fight passed without serious injury to any of the bull fighters, but the next Sunday the bull had its fn- nings. The Bull's Innings. It was a black and fierce Spanish bull. The espada was Jose Palomar. The bull made a rush for him just as he was about and are} to thrust the sword. Palomar, though agile as a cat, was not quick enough; the bull's horn entered his side and in an instant the bull fighter was on the ground. The others hastily decoyed the bull away and Palomar was borne out of the ring dangerously hurt. Arother espada, Ortega, then faced the angry brute. Twice he essayed without Success to make the thrust. Then the bull, with a quick movement, caught him and tossed him in the air. There was a cry of horror from the crowd. Three times Ortega was tossed on the sharp horns of the bull, each time being dreadfully torn and lacer- ated. Then the torreors got the bull away. Ortega was carried out nearly dead. Another espada advanced to meet the buil, but as the animal was charging around the ring Palomar’s brother made a thrust at his side from a gate, which brought it to the ground. It was a foul blow, and Palomar’s brother was put under arrest. Today the results of yesterday’s fight are the taik of Havana. I suggested to a Spaniard that this might tend to putting an end to bull fighting. He shrugged his shoulders and said that the people liked a fight like that. Poor Palomar! I talked with him just be- fore he went to the fight. He is a hand- some fellow, twenty-four years old, and a native of Seville. He considers himseif the second-best bull fighter in Spain. All the bull fighters so consider themselves. They all agree that Mazzatini of Seville is the first. Palomar said he was going to America next summer, going to Chicago to give an exhibition. He had already learned one English phrase. It was “wine, woman and song.” He repeated these words over to me in childish glee as he sat at a cafe table with me, smiling in a way that show- ed his handscme feeth. They were words that perhaps gave better than any others could the keynote of his careless life. He promised me a banderilia as a souvenir of the fight. The bull tossed Palomar, so I did not get the banderilla. He will proba- bly recover, but the other injured bull fight- er Hes in a critical condition. eS IMPOSTURE OF THE TOY WORLD. eeeees The Mistakes of Childhood and the Blunders of Muturity. From the St. Louts Globe-Democrat. That is a bitter hour in the life of a human being when the fact of the impos- ture of the toy world is first realized. And yet wisdem has its beginning in just such a blow—that kind of wisdom, at least,which takes us by the hand and leads us into paths of endless perplexity and disappoint- ment. Things are never so charming after- ward; but we know more about them. T is to say, in parting with the innocence which makes life a delight in all of its re- lations, we get the privilege of secing the toys with the paint rubbed off and their in- herent humbaggery exposed. We learn to distrust every source of pleasure and to pride ourselves upon our lack of fancy and sentiment. The passion of incredulity takes us captive and causes us to be cynics and skeptics. We put on the grave and severe jew of Gradgrind, and proclaim that we want facts, “nothing but facts.” The mul- tiplication table is exalted as the perfec- tion of truth and the ultimate test of intel- | lectual correctness. We credit stati with determining force, and “become f. ists as to the repetitions and coincidenc: in the course of events. This is what we !mean when we boast of using our own judgment, and of being free from imagina- tion and superstition. It is in this way, for the most part, that we manifest our adherence to the teachings and methods of science and philosophy and express our contempt for the toys that we have thrown away because of their unreasonableness. Is it quite true, after all, that we quit visiting the toy world and cheating our- selves with its whim-whams when we cut our wisdom teeth and give notice that we will accept nothing but facts? To answer this question affirmatively would be to say that no mistakes are made except in child- hood, that the adult invariably believes the right thing, that nobody ts fooled after reaching the so-called age of discretion. Such a statement would be preposterous. We are well aware that life never ceases to be a serles of blundering steps and de- feated hopes and calculations, that civili- zation is only a record of crawling out of one ditch to fall into another. The race continues to get forward, notwithstanding all drawbacks and vicissitudes; but there is never a day when its wisdom is not balked and mocked by insoluble problems, and when its schemes of prosperity and happiness are not infused with a large de- gree of the stuff that dreams are made on. In every period and under all conditions, there are chasers of phantoms, builders of air castles, owners of unarriving ships. Is not this aralogous to the traffic in toys, and does it not involve the same lesson of mental deformity, of credulity and decep- tion? ee Woman's Hair Turned White. From the Portland (Me.) Transcript. A Portland young lady received a few days ago a letter from a friend who ap- pealed for aid in finding something to re- store the blackness of her hair. The friend had suffered almost unendurably from neu- ralgia in the head, and had tried many vaunted remedies. Finally she was advised | to have her hair shaved or cut extremely close, and adopted this desperate measure. The ‘result of the experiment has been that with its renewed growth the hair is appearing perfectly white, though it had been previously very dark, and the wearer lis terribly chagrined at’ the unexpected | change. The effect upon the neuralgia was favorable. —ee___ The Coal Vase. From the Bosten Herald. _ Be so good as not to say coal hod any more! The vulgar useful coal nod is hence- forth to he known as a coal vase—that is, when it appears in elegant society. Some of the new devices for that once noisy utensil are so handsome they will decorate any drawing room where they may find themselves. A Reserved Seat. Frem Life. him to take them in his hands and count them back into the plate one by one. He does so and finds twenty. Then ask him to held his hands in cup shape, and you pour the coins into them and request him to hold the twenty tightly. Then turn away as if about to do something else, but pre- tend you see some one in the audience whispering to his neighbor. Stop short and say: “Ah, I see you whispering there; you think I am going to do the old trick and have placed more than twenty in his hands. How can you so misjudge me? Please, sir, count them into the plate once more.” (The count shows just twenty coins and you pour them into his hands as before.) “Now, hang on to them and be sure not to let me get near enough to tamper with them. You have twenty? Yes. Will you count out four on the plate? That leaves sixteen. Now I shall load these four coins into this beautiful pistol and see if I can shoot them into your hands. (Drop the ecins, one by one, into the pistol tube.) But I must have something for a wad. Will some lady loan me a glove? I assure you it will not be injured, unless one or two of the fingers happen to be blown off by the explosion, and, 1 am sure, you will not mind so slight a sacrifice in the interest of science. (Put the glove in on top of the coins.) Now, sir, are you ready? Don't be nervous, there is very little danger. I don’t injure my assistant once in fifty times, and I_promise to be very careful this time. (Cross behind table to opposite side of room, turn and fire. Take tube from pistol and show it empty, lay down pistol and pick up plate.) Now, sir, please count the coins once more, and see if I really suc- ceeded in shooting them into your hands. (He counts and finds twenty.) Thank you, sir, you did it very nicely.”" As you go back to your table he will naturally start for his seat. Stop him with: “By the way, the lady’s glove; we must re- turn that.” He will probably say he hasn’t it. “But you must have it somewhere about you, it went along with the money. May I put just my two fingers in your vest pocket?” Hold up two fingers of left hand, showing the hand empty. He consents, but you find nothing. Look him all over, being careful to show both your hands empty. At last discover a bunch in back of his coat, turn him back to audience, push back his collar and pull out the glove and return to owner. Use a long glove if possible, and pull out by the end of one finger. The Apparatus Used. Figures three and four in the accompany- ing diagram show the apparatus needed in these tricks. The plate is of tin and is called a “Multiplying plate.” It has a double bottom with a space of about an eighth of an inch between the two, in which there is a flat tube to contain four ccins with an opening under the edge of the plate. The first time the coins are poured from the side opposite the opening, and, of course, the number remains as at first, but the second time the plate is held with the opening over the assistant’s hand so that when it is tipped the four coins slide from the tube and mingle with the others. The tube for the pistol is of tin or nickel- plated brass, made to fit closely over the barrel of the pistol. It is about seven inches long and two inches in diameter at the mouth. Within the mouth fits a cup about an inch and three-quarters deep, with the edge turned down all around so as to be easily gripped by the palm when ne- cessary to remove it. After loading the glove and coins the performer turns to cross the room, and, as he does so, he slips out the cup and drops it behind the table on the servante. On the return to the table with the coins, after the final count, pick up the glove, palm it in the right hand and when you feel in his vest pocket with fingers of left hand push the glove up under his coat behind with the right. He knows what you are doing, but the audience can- not see, as you stand close to him, and he Fig u will not say anything. Disclose it as above P “ described. When this can beidone easily practice it with the right hand, moving toward the left, as if to place the coin therein. The left hand should’ be héld open, as if to receive it, and the minute the fingers of the right hand tauch the palm of the left that hand should close,, as if to hoid the coin, while the right should remain open, as if empty, always remembering that the palm containing the coin should be held downward or toward the body, so as to be hidden from onlooke! It is a good plan to practice the pass before a good looking glass, first actually placing the coin in the left hand and then making the pass as néarly in imitation of the real movement as possible. The Melting Coin. A good trick in which the beginner may first apply palming is styled “the meiting ccin.” The patter that accompanies it may be expanded by the young performer, for big words and involved specitications from SOME COIN; TRICKS The Deftness Displayed by a Magician, MONEY PLUCKED FROM THE AIR Parlor It is Also Fired From the End of a Pistol. THE MAGIO EXPLAINED ———— Written for The Evening Star. HE ONE GREAT | principle upon which nearly all coin tricks are founded is called palming, and con- sists of secretly hold- ing a coin in the open hand. This pass is by no means easy to acquire, but it is absolutely nec- essary for any of the better class of tricks. A half dollar is the best size and is the coin usually made use of by magicians. Lay in the open right hand and press it against the palm with the fingers of the left. Then close the right hand a trifle, drawing the fleshy part at the roots of the thumb slightly nearer the center of the hard. By this means you clip the edges of the coin between the two sets of mus- cles, as shown in figure 1, and hold it firmly in place. Hands differ so much that it is impossible to say in just what part of the palm the coin should be held, and the location is a matter to be determined by the individual. Having found the. best place for it, the next thing {fs to learn to use the fingers and hand naturally while holding the coin in the palm. Then hold the coin between the thumb and second and third fingers of the right hand, in such a manner that its weight is supported by the fingers, the thumb only steadying it. Close the hand, moving the thumb to one side to allow the fingers to pass, and the coin will be brought into the position shown in figure Then, by contracting the muscles as before described, the fiagers may be im- mediately opened again and the coin re- main in the palm, as in the first diagram. —__._—_ TYPEWRITER RIBBONS. Their Manufacture a Large Industry— Has Not Yet Reached Perfection. From the New York Sun. The manufacture of ribbons for type- writing machines is an industry which gives employment to a large number of people. On nearly all first-class typewrit- ers these inked ribbons are used. There are at least forty different styles of Ameri- can typewriters, and more than 400,000 machines are in actual use. As the aver- age life of a ribbon is from four to six weeks, the number of concerns which seek to supply the market with this article is surprising. They make ribbons of every conceivable color and variety, from six to ten yards in length, and capable of writing with copy- a youngster will always entertain. An | ing or non-copying ink. Some ribbons are adult, on the contrary, should make as | made which print in one color and show an much haste as he can gracefully. Let the | entirely different color when the manu- is copied by means of the letter For instance, a ribbon which writes may copy blue or green, making the record much more legible on certain qual- ities of paper. The manager of a concern in this city which turns out several hun- dred ribbons daily said to a Sun reporter that, at a low estimate, fifty plants en- gaged in the manufacture of these ribbons have been established in-the United States this year. Each manufacturer bas a secret process for making his particular style of ribbon, and the secret is guarded with the greatest possible care. One maker in this city has each box and jar containing powder or pigment for making the ink distinctly num- bered, and even the employe who mixes it is obliged to follow his printed instructions mechanically, and remains entirely ignorant of the composition he is using. One may witness the whole process and go away as ignorant as before. The best ribbons have selvaged edges, which prevent their raveling and curling when in use. They are nearly uniform in thickness, though one ribbon is made of very thin texture to be when an extra large number of carbon copies are desired, and the imprint of the type must be as clear as possible and free from blurs. The greatest care must be taken in selecting the cloth from which the ribbons are made. If the texture is woven too closely it will not hold sufficient ink, and if woven too loosely it will become clogged with ink and smirch the paper. Moreover, such ribbon will fill the type of the machine and great- ly annoy the operator. ‘A prime difliculty encountered by manu- facturers is how to prevent evaporation of ink from the ribbon when it is in use and exposed to the air. This has been largely overcome in the last two or three years. The man in charge of a large New York house which makes writing inks and type- writer ribbons said recently that the most noticeable thing in his trade was the great decrease in the sale of ordinary copying ink. It is being almost entirely supplanted by the copying typewriter ribbon which gives far better results. Despite the great number of ribbons in the market and the constant efforts of expert chemists every- where to produce cne that will satisfy everybody, those giving all-round satisfac- tion are not easy to find, and dealers in supplies of this nature often have extremo difficulty in furnishing what is wanted. ‘This country furnishes practically all the typewriter ribbons in use both here and abroad. magician begin thus: “Cergain metals | script only melt at a very high temperature. Sil- ver is one of these; it must be heated to rearly 1,000 degrees centigrade before it will melt. If, however, the coin is be- forehand submitted to certain mesmeric passes the mere warmth of the fiame of a candle is enough to melt it."". Having bor- rowed a coin from one of his hearers he makes a few passes over the coin and pre- terds to place it in the left hand, really palming it in the right. Holding the left hand closed he picks up the candle with the right, seeming thus to preclude the possibility of the coin’s remaining there, then holding the closed left hand over the flame a moment and continuing his patter he opens his hand and shows it empty, the coin having apparently melted and passed down into the candle. Continuing, he says: “So far we have suc- ceeded very nicely, but 1 should find some difficulty in restoring the coin to its owner, unless I was also able, after having melted it, to bring it back again to its original condition.” ‘Then, pretending to see a bright spot in the tiame, which he claims to be the end of the coin, and making a motion as it to draw it out of the flame, he holds the tingers with the tips gathered together, as it holding something, and asks the audience if they can see it. “You don’t? 1 will take it in the other hand, and you can see it better.” Putting down the candlestick, he pretends to take the coin in the right hand, and as that hand passes over the left to take the imaginary coin, the real coin drops into the palm of the left, the tingers being held bent sufficiently to hide it, and in pretending to show the melted coin he carelessly shows the inside of the right hand to be empty. He next feigns to place the melted coin in the palm of the left hand, and to rub it with the fingers of the right, then turning the left hand over he !eft the coin on the tips of the fingers of the right. Advancing to the audience, he says: “Here it is; take it, sir; but it is still hot, so take care not to burn yourself.” ‘Chis trick, when worked up with appropriate patter, is one of the very best for a parlor entertainment. Coins in the Air. Anéther effective coin trick is called “the aerial treasury. For it hold in the right hand a half dollar palmed, and on the table, concealed behind some object, have a stack of twenty haif dollars tied with a weak thread, so thoy can be picked up easily. Borrow a silk hat and lay it on the table, with the top of its crown toward the audience. hen say: “In this experiment I shall be obliged to maké use of a number of half dollars, an@ as f dislike to borrow so large a number, 1 propose to produce them from the atmosphere in this manner (make a ‘catching’ motion and show coin at the finger tips) Now'd will turn up my sleeves, as they come in for a large share of suspicion in the minds:of some persons.” Lay the coin on the table near hat, and roll up the sleeves, leaving the arms bare to the elbows. ‘hen pick up the coin with the right hand and at the same time get hold of the stack of coins with the left, and pick up the hat with the same hand, with fingers inside, thus bringing the coins against the leather band inside. A slight sidewise movement will break the thread, so that the coins can then be easily drop- ped into the hat one by one. Make a mo- tion as if to put the coin in the hat, but palm it instead, at the same time allowing one of the coins to drop from left hand. Then say: “1 see the air is full of them, so Maine’s Herds of Cus ibou. From the Lewiston Evening Journal. About the slopes of Mount Katahdin and ranging the bogs and woodlands of the country at its foot, great herds of caribou pasture in the fall upon twigs, bark and the marsh grass and moss, from which they have to scrape the snow with their fere feet, as their kindred, the Lapland and Siberian reindeer, do. They are migratory animals, covering wide regions in their travels, and appearing unexpectedly in lo- calities which, after a period, they are apt to leave with equal suddenness. A single herd recently seen near Mount Katahdin was estimoted to number 200 caribou. In size the caribou stands between the deer and the moose, and his appearance and habits are essentially those of the arctic reindeer. The well-known Maine scientist, Bill Moriarty, who is a great hunter and so I shall have no difliculty in getting ali | Woodsman, says that a caribou is “the I require. See! here is one hanging right | handsomest, most forlorn looking critter here.” Repeat the former motions and | that travels or hoofs. continue picking coins out of the air and ee ere off the furniture till all those in the left Frog a La Poulette. hand are exhausted. Then go into the | prom Truth, audience, and while taking up handfuls to show that they are “common, everyday half dollars,” paim three or four, and while some one looks into the hat slide them off the top of his head into hat. By the same Means produce others from lady's muff, handkerchief, gentleman’s whiskers and all sorts of odd ‘places. All this must be done briskly and the patter kept up throughout. At the End of a Pistol. Next ask for an assistant to act as treas- urer and take charge of the coins. Pour the coins from tig hat into a plate and asi THE STYLE OF BEARD As Decreed From Time to Time by Military Regulation. In the English Army the Style of Whiskers is Strictly Specified— Some of the Types, From Good Words. But who shall explain the mysterious edicts which regulate the ebb and flow of hair over the British warrior’s visage? Our gallant infantry in the Peninsula and Waterloo eampaigns fought with lips and chin completely bare. Plutarch says that Alexander the Great first abolished beards in the Macedonian army because they got pulled in battle, but since the invention of artillery warfare has been getting less and less like foot ball under Rugby rules. William IV allowed his foot soldiers a tidy little tuft under each ear. The infantry we landed in the Cri- mea were privileged to train their whis- kers as low as a line drawn between * the lobe of the ear and the corner of the mouth. A more florid style was sanctioned in the cavalry, the only Englishmen who at that time sported § the mustache. When peace was declared mustaches were de- creed essential in all branches of the ser- Time of William vice, but it was not Iv. till after the next war that the sacred fron- tier between the ear and mouth was relaxed. Regiments returning from the Indian mu- tiny campaign found that the authorities had gravely _ pro- nounced that all hair might be grown on the face, save a space measured by the breadth of four fingers on the chin. This was high-water mark; it endured for twenty years. Then came the doom of whiskers, and now nothing may _ be grown on the faces of soldiers of all ranks, pioneers al- 4 i Y In the Crimen— 1854-5. Ways excepted, but the mustache alone. Of course, fashionable young men, the bulk of whom, by chival- rous tradition, con- form to the military type, have had to adapt themselves to these changes, thovgh a new school, the amateur dramat- ic, may be recognized by shaving every- thing. Piccadilly weepers, the giory of Leech’s young men, and the Newgate frill, are as com- pletely out of favor as the homely mut- oe wr Lenreg a After the Crimea— notice that, amid all 1556. these military fluctuations, has been pre- served a hallowed ground where no_hair 9 might sprout. It is terrible to think what calamities might overtake our arms if any future edict should direct the sol- dier to leave his countenance as the Creator designed it. Nevertheless, it is re- jassuring to reflect that Britannia still rules the waves, al- though sailors of the royal navy, who un- til a few years ago were made to shave ¢ both lips and chin, After indix are now at liberty to tiny—1S59. grow as much as they please, without loss either in appear- ance or efficienc: Now, smiling as we do in a superior way at John Chinaman’s pigtail, or the fraud- ulent iove locks of the cavaliers, can any- body devise a reasonable excuse for the time and thought expended by a great de- partment of state in framing minute regu- lafions, altered every few years, for the company barbers of our fighting corps? Even political /significance cannot be al- leged, such as on the fall of the empire decreed the abolition of the “imperial” chin tufts of the French army. To insist on short hair and trimmed beards would be reasonable enough, but to prescribe the exact pattern by which the visages of sol- diers are to be mutilated—for all shaving is mutilation—is just one of those inexpli- cable perversities which puzzle the student of anthropology. HOW CHILDREN OBSERVE. Their Games Are but Burlesques of the Larger Lives. From the New York Herald. How closely children observe the life of their elders any one may see who watches their games as they play them in the streets of New York. I saw five children huddled in the door- way of a vacant store in Ist avenue, near 42d street a short time ago enjoying the excitement of the realistic drama. The theater manager was a boy of about sev- en years of age, the stage was a soap box, the scenery scraps of pasteboard, the wings wocden blocks, and the ectors pebble stones. The actors made their entrances and exits by means of a stick in the hands of the manager. His voice spoke for all of the characters. Imagination filled in all blanks and covered all defects. The manager was catering to the public taste, for his three principal characters were “Jim” Corbett, Peter Jackson and Sweet Marie. These were represented, in their order, by a brown, a black, and a small white pebble. The plot, as I gathered it, hung on the repeated attempts of Peter Jackson to kid- nap Sweet Marie, and his just as frequent failures on account of the appearance of “Jim” Corbett, exactly in the nick of time. These appearances of the hero were follow- ed by an exciting fight, that always ended in tne villain falling at his feet and plead- ing for mercy. On the brown stone steps of a Madison avenue residence were two little girls, with their paper dolis. One small paper lady was evidently calling on another, and their owners were carrying on the conversation for them. “How lovely your new dress is,” said the hostess. “How kind of your husband to get you such nice clothes.” “indeed, he is not kind,” answered the guest. “I have my own money, and don’t ask him to get me anything. Besides, I don’t speak to him now. I really think we must have a separation.” On the steps of the Baptist Church at the corner of 4th avenue ard 23d street one evening was quite a crowd of boys and giris, four of whom were singing and ad- dressing the others in Salvation Army style. 1t was an erthusiastic and success- ful meeting. “I have been a tough ore,” said one of the largest boys in the audience, “but I am going to swear off and join the army. I have been a drunkard all my life, and I have killed my man, too, but I am out with the business now and am going to be a preacher.” At this the band set up a shout and went marching off in triumph with the new con- vert. On the North river, plying along the shore, I saw a strange craft, built of three planks and the remnants of boxes. The craft was manned by three boys and was flying the black flag. “Is that a relief boat going to Corea?” I asked. 4 “Relief noth answered the smagler of the crew. “We're pirates,” and they went on their way to unlawful deeds of danger and daring. 17 ee RAILROADS. PENNSYLVANIA RAILROAD. Station corner of 6th and B sta In effect 4:00 p.m., January 7, 1895. 20:90 AM. PENNSYLVANIA “{LiSGTED—Pan. man’ Sleep ining, Smoking ‘Ubservati Cars, Hareiabarg to Chicago, “Cincinnatt. indians Hee a see ce sce 1 10:30 A.M. FAST LINE—Pallman Buffet Par- Car to Harrisburg. Parlor and Dining Cars, Harrisburg to Vitisburg. 3:40 P.M. CHICAGO AND ST. LOUIS EXPRESS— Paliman Buffet Parlor Car to Harrisburg. Si-ep- ing and Cars, Harrisburg to St. Louw, Cincinnati, ille and Chicago. 7:10 P.M. WESTEKN EXVRESS—Pullman — ing Car ‘to Chicago and liarrisburg to Clev« Dining Car to Chicazo. 7:10 P.M. SOUTHWESTERN EXPRES8—Pul maz Slecping and Dining Cars to St. Louis Sleeping Car Harrisburg to Cincinnati. 10:40 P.M, PACIFIC EXFR#8s—Pullman Sleep- ing Car to Vitisburg. 250 A.M. for Kane, Canandaizua, Rocheste and Ningara Falls daily, except Sunday. 10:30 A.M. for Elmira sud Renove daily, cept Sunday.” For Williainsport dai 7:10 P.M. for Williamsport, Hoc and Niagara Fails daily, except Saturday, wich Sleeping Car Washingtoa "to Suspensicn Bridge vig falo. 10:40 P.M. rer Brie,” Canandaigua, Roch Buffalo and” Niagara Falls daily, Sk Washington to 2italza, ripe eee t . With Dining Car from Baltimore, for New York daily, for Philadelphia week days. Kegular at 7:05 (Dining Car), $:00 (Dining Car), 9:00, 10:00 Wining Car) and” 21:00 (Dini Car) a.m., 12:15, + b: pam. On” Sun 200 ining Car), 3 ing Car) % on per eee 9 a eck ays tty. and 3:15 p.m. dail For Baltimors, 6:35, 7:05, {0. 10:80, 11:00 and 1 3 5, 1:15, 2201, $215, (4:00 Limited), B20. 8:40, 6.05, 6:49, 7-30, 10.09, 10:40 aod 11:33 For 's Creek Line, 7:20 a.m. and 4:36 p.m. Pope daily, except Su-day. For Aunapolis, 7:20, 9:00 and 11:50 am, and 4:20 p.m. daily, except Suaday. Sundays, 9:00 an. God 4:20 p.m. Atlantic Coast Lins. “Plorida Special” for Jack- sonviile and St. Augustine, 10:48 p.m. week days. Express for Richmond, Jacksonville and Tampa, 4:30 a.m., 3:30 p.m. cally. Kichmond and Atlanta, SG Pt dally. “Aiebmond only, 10:57 aan. week Accommedation for Quantico, 7:45 a.m. daily and 4:25 p.m. week azys. For Alexandcia, 4.40, 6:35, 7:45, 8: 5 11:50 <.m., 12:50, 1:40, 3:20, 4:25, 5.00, 8:02, 10:10 and 11:39 p.m. ‘: 345, 955 am, 2: p. p.m. Leave Alexandria for Washington, 6:05, 6: Bs 10, 10:15, 10:28 on Si 3:30, 6) : Ticket offices, ‘Lortheast corner of 13tn strect and Pennsylvania avenue and at the station, 6th and 3 streets, where orders can be left for the check- ing of baggage to destination from hotels aud residences. J. R. WouD, S.M. PREVosT, i General Manager. General Passenger Agent. CHESAPEAKE AND OHIO RAILWAY, Drain wedule $M effect December 2. i594. ins leave daily from Union Si P), 6th and B sts. ae eee oe oe ‘Through the grandest scezers in America, with the Landsomest aud most complete solid tratn serve ice west from Washington. 2:25 P.M. DAILY.—“Cincinnat! and St, Louls Special”—Solid Vestibuled, newly Equipped, Elec- tric-lighted, Steam-heat-d’ Train. Pnliman’s finest sleeping cars Washington to Cincianaii, Inéiang lis and St. Lows without change. Dining Car from Washington, Arrive Cincinnati, 8:00 a.m; Udianapolis, 11:40 am, and Chiewgs, 5:30 p.m} St. Louis, 6:56 p.v. 11:10 P.M. DATLY.—The famous “F. P. V. Lim- A solid vestibnied train, with dining car ited. and Pniiman sleepers for Cincinnitl, Lexington and Tuisville, without change. Observation car fom Hinton. Arrives Cincinnati, p.n.; Lexington, 8:00 p.m; m.; Indianapolis, 11:25 p.mn.: :30 a.m., and St. Louls, 6:56 am.; connects in Union d@-pot for all ints. 10:57 A.M.. EXCEPT SUNDAY.—For Old Point fort and Norfoik. Only rail line. P.M. DAILY.—Express for Gordonsville, Charlottesville, Waytesboro", Staunton and principal Virginia points; daily execpt Sunday, for ich niond. Iman locations and tickets at company's of- fices, 513 and 1421 Pennsylvania“ avenue. H. W. FULLER, as General Pussenger Agent: BALTIMORE AND OHIO RAILROAD. Schedule in effect January 6, 1895. Leave Washington from station corner of New Jersey arcone and C street. Chicago and Northwest. Vestibul express trains, 11:25 a.m.. 8:00 p.m. ee For Cincinnati. St. Lovis and Irdlanapolis, Vesti tated Limited. 0 p.m.” express, 12:01 night. ‘tsburz and Clevela: (ees ae, a ind, express daily, 11:25 For Lexinzton and Staunton, 11:25 For Winchester an3 war stations, 35:30 p.m. For Luray, Natural Bridge, Roanoke, Knoxvfle, atta Memphis and “New Ork ~ m. daily stecping ears through. sprees For Taney. iv. ‘or Raltimore, week days, 34:20, 5:00, 6: 0, x7:30. (8:00 45-minutes), 8: om 10-05 45-ninutes) a.m., x12:00, x12:05, 12:1 . 200 #5-minutesi. 3:25, 1. (5:00 45-minutes), 55-05, 5:30, 8-35, , 6-80. x8:00. S: ¥11-30 and 11:35 p.m. Sundays, x4-20. . (9:00 45-minutes),. x9: m.. X12:00, x12:05, 1:00, 2:20 (3:00 45-minute), 3:25, 4:81." 5:00. 45-min: utes), 15-05, 6:30, 18:00. x9:00, 10:60, x11:30, 11:35 p.m. For Annapolis, 7:10 and $:30 a.m., 4:28 p.m. Sundays, 8:30 a.m., p.m. or Frederick, 69:00, a11:25 a.m., b1:15, 24:30, and 95:30 p.m. 30 p.m. or Hagerstown, al1:25 a For Boyd and way points, °7:05 p.m. For Gaithersturg and way points, 212:50, 03:35, a4:33, °5:35, For Washington Junction and way points, 69-00, 29:50 a.m., b1:15 p.m. Express trains stopping at YAL BLUE LIN! NEW YORK AN PHILADELPHIA. se For Philadelphia, New York. Boston and the east, week days, 4:20, 8:00, (10:00 a.m. Dining Car), (12:00 Dining Car), 3:00, 6:00 Dining Cari, 8:00, (11:30 p.m, Sleeping Car, open at 20:00 o'clock). Sundays, 4:20. (9:00 a.m. Dining Car), (12:00 Din- ing Cari, 3:00, ©:00 Dining Car), 8:00, 1:30 Sleeping ‘Car, open for passengers 10:00 p'm.). Buffet Parlor Cars on all day trains. For Atlantic City, 4:20 a.m. 10.00 a.m. and 12:00 noon, Sundays, 4:20 a.m., 12:00 noon. ‘aExcept Sunday. “Dally. bSunday only. tea Yortand checked fi Baggare cal for_and checked from hotels and residences by Union Transfer Co. on orders left at ticket offices, 619 Pa. ave, New York ave. and 15th st. and ‘at depot. CHAS. 0. SCULL, R. B. CAMPBELL, nig Gen. Manager. Gen. Pass. Agt. SOUTHERN RAILWAY @Wiedmont Afr Line) Schedule in effect January 6, 1895. All trains arrive and leave at Pennsylvania Passenser Station. $:00 A.M.—Daily—tocal for Danville. Connects at Manassas for Strasburg, daily. except Sunday, — at Lynchburg with the Norfolk Western, ily. 11:01 A.M.--Dafty—Th> UNITED STATES FAST MAIL carries Pullman Buffet Sleepers Now York and Washington to Jacksonville, uniting at Char- jotte with Puilnan Slecper for Augusta: also Pull- man Sleeper New York to Montgomery, with con nection for New Orleaas: ccmnects at Atlanta with Pullman Sleeper for Birmingham, Ala., Memphis, Tenn, nd Kansas City. 4:45 P.M.—Daily for Charlottesville end through train for Strasburz, daily except Sunday. 10:05 P, M.—Dally-NEW YORK AND FLORIDA SHORT LINE LIMITED. Pullman Slecpers New York and Wastington to Augusta and Tampa aud Fullman Double Drawing Room Compartment Car New York to St. Augustine, Dining Car Charlotte to St. Augustine, First-class day coaches Washing- ton to St. Augustine without — Daily—WASHINGTON AND SOUTH- 10:43 P.M. WESTERN VESTIBULED LIMITED, com ‘of Pullman Vestibuied Sleepers and ‘Dining Cars, Pullman Sleepers New York to Asterille and Hot Springs, N. C., via Salisbury, New York to. Mem- phis via Birmingham and New York to New Orieaas via Adarta and Montgomery. Dining Car from Greersboro” to Montgomery. TRAINS ON WASHINGTON AND OHIO DI- VIS leave Washington 9:10 AM. daily, 4:32 P.M. daily, eccept Sunday, and 6:33 P.M. Sundays only, for Hound Hiti.and 6:38 P.M. daily for Hern den.” Retrening, arrive at Washington 8:34 AS. P.M. daily from Round Hill, and 7:06 except Sunday, from Herndon only. trains from the South arrive at Wastiing- 7:42 AM., 2:25 P.M. and 8:30 P. x. Manassas Division, 10:28 A.M. daily, except iy, and 10:28 A.M. daily from Chariottesville, Sleening Car reservation and information hed at offices, 511 and 1300 Pennsyivania ave- and at Peunsylvania Railroad Passenger Sta- ticn. W. H. GREEN, General Manager (Eastern System). W. A. TURK, General Passenger Agent. nto L. S. BROWN. Gen. Act. #ass. Dept. COMMISSIONERS OF DEEDS. MISSI“ NEI OF DBEDS Of all the Stites and Territories, B17 4% st. nw. aiz-te (ew Equity Building.) JOHN BE. BEALL, JOHN E. MITCHELL Commissioners of Deeds for every state and terri tory. Notary Public, United States Commissioner, 0623 Office, 1321 F st. (first floor). COMMISSIONER OF DEEDS AND NOTARY PUB. He for aul states and territories a SPECIALTY by R H. EVANS. Office (basement), 1221 F st. UNDERTAKERS. W.R. Speare, Undertaker & Embalmer 940 F Street Northwest. Everything strictly first-class and on the most reasonable terms. Telephone call, 340. jal-tr One-Half Of. From the Indianapolis Journal. Decollete—“I'll bet,” remarked Mr. Jason to his wife, as they sat in the family circle at the play, “I'll bet from the looks of it, that the dress that there woman in the box is wearin’ is one of them elegant dresses one-half off we seed advertised yisterday in the papers.” Leuetans avgusr S BURGDORF, PURNISIMNG UNDERTAKER AND BM 1331 AEW YORE AVE NW. e023-tr Telephone: + CARPET CLEANING AMMONIATED STEAM CARPET CLEANING Works—Carpets cleaned in the best manner, Mattresses made to order. 1720 Pa. ave, Works, 1708 and 1710 E aw. ‘804, mb2-tf M. NEW! ‘Manager.