Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, September 2, 1888, Page 20

SE THE OMAH A DATLY BEE: SUNDAY g SEPTEMBER 2. 1888—~TWENTY-FOUR PAGES. ASTOPOL 16th St. Between Binney & Wirt. PAIN'S GORGEOUS Every Night Du AMPHITHEATER, “Seating Capacity, 10,000 People. MILITARY SPECTACLE, ring FairWeek! 350 People Take Part in This Nover-to-be-For- gotten Performance. ADMISSION, 50c. RESERVED SEATS, 25¢ EXTRA Special trains from Union Depot to Grounds, stopping at 10th, Davenport, 12th and Locust Streets. Cossack Drills, Intricate Marches, Novel Pyrotechnic Effects. Colossal Scenery, covering 10,000 square yards, Representing the City and Forts of Sebastopol, before and after their Destruction by the Allied Armies and Fleets, as given with the greatest success at Manhattan Beach, New Yurk, the entire season of 1887, Monster Military Band, Wonderful Feats by Clever Acrobats, Nubar Hassan, The Frisky Arabian, in his performances on the slack wire, Maj. McGuire, the champion British Swordsman. $1,000 Display of Pain’s Manhattan Beach Fireworks every performance. Specially engaged for this production, The Omaha Guards in Their Unique Correctly costumed and drilled Russian Troops, Cossacks, Sardinians, Turks, French, English and Scotch Soldiers and Marines. WONDERFUL TIMES COMINC, When the Expectations of Sclence are Accomplished. RECENT SCIENTIFIC PROGRESS Limiting the Progress of the Waves —An Interesting Medley of Boientific Intormation—Texts for the Thinkers. Much in Little. A method proposed for preventing the encroachment of the ocean upon the shores at watering places and else- where, is to make a submerged bar somn little distance from the shore and running parallel therewith., The top of the bar comes very near the surface of the water at low tide. The force of the waves is spent upon the side of the ba» and the waves, which are ladun with sand when they strike it, drop that sand upon or very near the bar, so that instead of washing away the shore they protect it. There are several hundred feet of such bar opposite the Manhattan Beach hotel at Coney Island, and anyone can see for himself that the beach in front of that hotel has not been washed away for some time, while that in frout of the hotels to the east and west of the Manhuattan are cut into. In fact, one in the hotels has had to be moved back this spring. “The proof of the pudding is in the eating.” The May bridge is over two miles long and has olghty piors. The Natal ernment has decided upon extending the raitway along the coast to Zululand. Taming Zululand by a railwe Merv Turcomans were tamed b Transcaspian line, would be a ch vestment, There are said to be more persons killed by falling out of windows than in railway accidents. This is, however,no argument against provid- ing incroased appliances for safety on railw: Several of the I'rench steam- ers which are required to have high speed have been greatly helped in this Dy bronze screws ~ Forced draft is boing tried, but so far not adapted by reason of certain complications. The new “steam turbine’ runs atonly 18,000 revolutions per minute. It would ‘be at least as much trouble to gear such an ongine to ordinary high speed ma- chinery as to gear our’ ordinary stoam engino ug‘ to running the same ma- chines. here has been considerablo improvement in floating elevators for grain in bulk. The elevating machin- ery is carried by a pontoon moored alongside of the vessel to be unloaded, and can be carried along the pontoon upon a railway, so as to serve various hatches with but one elevator. Rubber- making machinery has been improved by an automatic mixer for the com- pundin!. The Japanese admirality have de- cided to coat the buttons of all ships with a material much like the ovdinary lacquer which we know on furniture and cabinet work. PROUBLE WITH ALUMINIUM, ‘When there isa good solder produced for aluminium, theve will be more use in having the metal cheap. Anyone who has ever tried to cast it or to forge it, to weld it or to turn it in a lathe, knows that there will be many troubles attending its use, even if it is produced cheaply. There is a field for somcone 10 put upon the market a writing Nluid which shall be black when written and shall be permanent and not corrode the pen. Some of the substances used for making the dye for silk haws should prove useful in this connection. The “imitation leathers” which are put upon the market are made of tough stoek, sometimes rope only and some- times with the admixture of a little Teather scrap, and the surface is got by passing them between the rollers, one of which (the one in contact with the face of the artificial skin) has a surface made by taking an electrotype of a real skin of the kind desired to imi- tate—morocco, alligator, ete, There is yet room for some one to invent a process for the cheap and rapid produc- tion of pure copper castings. To get this would be of more importance than the re-discovery of the long-lost art of hardening copper. While melinite has about the same explosive force as gun- cotton, weight for weight, it is much stronger, volume for volume. The risk of shells loaded with high explosives bursting in the bore of the gun has been overcome by some means not made public. Shells filled with high explosives burst in going through the side of a ship, and thus tear away a large portion of its armor, while those filled with gunpowder go through the armor and burst inside the vessel, causing less damage. On the other hand it does not take a very heavy armor to break up the high explosive shells. A new German dynamite gun has been tried at Kiel. It is twelve inches in bore and seventy-five feet long. Firing it at an old hulk 2,111 yards from the muzzle, two shells, cach containing 598 pounds of nitro-gly ine, completely destroyed the vessel, breaking it in two. The new cast-iron gun which is being made at South Bos- ton, will be delivered tothe government in the fall. Tt will bo twelve inches bore with a steel tube and stecl hoops. One of the principal troubles is to get a perfectly tight jeint at the shoulder casting of the gun. There a1d 0 be mounted upon foreign navies 129 guns, said to throw projectiles ton miles and upward, their calibre being 12 to 17 inches and their projectiles weighing up to 2,000 pounds each. This is more 1ikely 10 'say s0” than a fact. Thor- ougli discussion of the question of torpe- does versus big guns puts the sentiment about as follows: That torpedo-boats advancing end on have little to fear from the marine gun even in broad day; that the discharge must be below rather than alongside tho hull, and that sev- eral torpedo boats should be set to at- tack a single gun-ship instead of leav- ing it to one ELECTRIC EXECUTIONS, For legal executions the alternating electric current is said to be more sud- den and sure in its action than the con- tinuous, and the commercial opponents of the alternating current system in the field of lighting are making use of this statement to quite a considerable ex- tent. A new incandescent lamp is said to have a duration of 2,000 hours without etting dark. Almost any good incan- descent lamp would last about twice as long if run at a voltage alittle lower than its rated capacity, instead of, as is generally the case, a little above. Tele- hones are offered anew kind of electric ell signal, in which the usual battery is replaced by a magucto generator. There is a fortune for some one who will improve lithographic and ecopper- plate presses to within anywhere near the perfection reached by those for lot- ter press printing. The “wasters” in needle manufacture are now made into black pins, and prove to be very much better than the pins that are made for pins and vever intended for anythin, elso. A manufacturer of carpets sai some time ago that the perfection of textile machinery had so kept puce with the demand for adulteration of fabrics that the mills nowadays could spin almost anything but sand. England pays £8,000,000 a year for her foreign supply of eggs, while, thirty vears ago it paid only £250,000. There seems to be no reuson why the Irish farmers should not furnish this large amount of staple merchandise. Russia is said to have several blast fur- naces which employ petroleum as fuel. Sonoma wine growers are putting down artesian wells with great success. The temperature of water from wells five miles apart being the same—seventy- two degrees F. Australia is more both- ered about the mouse pest than about the rabbits. - Flammarion says that the temperature of the planet Mars is at least as high as that upon the earthand that the polar snows melt more rapidly than ours do. Reading, Pa., has had a cloud of motes, attracted by the electric light. Faston, Pa., has had about the same thing. A gigantic fossil discov- ered in Kansas is of an andmal over 16 feet in length, the joints measuring 5 feet 8 inches long and the neck four to five feet. Natural gas is used in China for fuel. A new style of filter shown in Denmark isa well having porous bot- tom composed of closely joined paved ment of terra cotta, and with walls of like material which has been treated with asphaltum to prevent the water near the surface from entering the well, which obtains its entive supply from the water percolating through the bottom. Biting the finger nails is said to be a cause of so-called sore throat, by reason of the particles of nail lodging in the tonsils. * There are 324 claimsin the great Kimberly dinmond mine in Africa. The total production of diamonds at the four great African mines last year was 8,646,702 karats, of the declared value of £4,033,332 sterling, or about $20,000,- 000. To get this cost 133 human h Coal is worked in Kilkenny ten to twenty miles of three railwuys, but there is no branch railway to the mines, From the (alleged) ona Kicker: Our amiable and gentlemanly sherff entered our office day before y day in his usual urbane manner, and an- nounced that he must serve papers on us. It was a notice of a breach of promise suit against us by the Widow Clixby, who alleges that we have been toying with her heart-strings, and that it 'will take $5.000 of her cash to settle her thoughts back in the old channel. ‘We first met the Widow Clixby twen- ty-eight days ago in Carter’s grocery. She asked our opinion of herrings, and ‘o asked hers of soap. She invited us 10 call at the house and see some poetry sbe hud written on the rise and }nll of the mastodon. We complied. We called three or four times afterward, but only as afriend. On oneoccasion the widow showed us a olipping from an eastern nowspaper to the effect that it was bet- ter for # man who had passed the age of twenty-threejto marry a widow, if he was to marry, but we didn’t mte. ‘We know our gait. If the Widow Clixby can prove to the world that we have toyed with her affections we'll cheerfully go to jail. We are not on the toy. 'The widow will find us no jack-rubbit, aud the encmies who have encouraged this new move may hear somothing drop before the trial 1s over. Fra bl A faith-cure catipmeeting was held at Greenville, N. J,, but its success was light, owing, as Chief Exhorter Hancox explained, 1o the large and enthusiastic attendance of mosquitoes. Faith may wmove mountains, but it will not move a mosquito of the New Jersey breed unless something is the matter with its health. TROTTING COURSE ARTISTS, ‘Western Men in the Grand Centra Group. FINANCIAL PECULIARITES Some Qualifications «f a Successful Driver—Very Successfal Collec- tors—Drivers and Train- ers of the Fiyers. Noted Jockeys. The grand central trotting circuit of 1888 is now in its glory,with the Albany meeting to begin on Tuesday and the Hartford week with its $10,000 stake for the 2:20 class—‘‘blue riband” of the trotting season-—and two $5,000 stakes to come u week later, and after that the richly pursed meeting at Hampden park, Springfield, Mass.,and that of the New York driving club, says the Kan- sas City Times. The grand circuit draws within its meetings each season the trotting cracks of the country as do the great running cracks the choicest blood and from among the thoroughbreds. Not s0 much money is won and lost on the trotters as on the thoroughbreds of course. But the grand circuit of 1888 cities with Detroit and Philadelphia added give $275,000 in purses alone and about $2,000,000 will have been bet upon the races in it by the time the Philadel- phia meeting closes with September. There are about one hundred and fifty crack trotters and pac going down the 1888 line and the spe. far have been very much lower those of i Cleveland’s speed averag Buffalo’s 2:198, and s Hartford may equal Rochester or Buffalo average, but the Cleveland mark will bhardly be equaled this year. Among the drivers of the one hundred and fifty great horses in the grand cireuit parade about twenty stand out as artists in their line. This group is to the trotters what Barnes, Garrison, McLaughlin and Murphy are to the runnevs, a handicap on the rest of the party in a race with them. Itisthe purpose of this article to tersely touch upon the w men in this groupand show their faces to the public, whose acquaintance with them is puvely newspaper one. Nextweek the eastern stars who drive the trotters will be sim- ilarly treated. On the trotting track the driver i usually the trainer., He fits and ovel sees the worlk of his horse, and more often than not trots him on shaves with the owner. Some of the dri have a novel way of making the division. They take the profits and the owner the losses. But the trotting-horse driver, no matter how financially peculiar he may be, is alwuys with his stable in the soason, very shrewd, very sunburned, and deep in the mysteries of trotting- horse pedigrees, weights and rigging. Then, too, he must have an eye for the horse that hus uo pedigree, but has the speed and _“wnd” to get the money, like White Stockings, Kius- man and other such unfashion- ably bred oncs, who ure getling the money this season. Often the driver is an owner. “Kuup” McCarthy and Or- rin Hickok own most of their horses. Sometimes, like Millard Saunders and St Georgo Fuller, be is enguged to drive for au owner on a yearly salary, but ie most, cascs he is a Spian or a oulee ie his business methods and shares with the owner. Some d s excel simply in driving. Splan is the most notabie example of this. Others, like Sanders, get along well enough with colts and horses of peculiar disposition, while the majority are a little less able than Dodge and Hickok, but are known as all round men, and can “fit” train and drive their horses. All are well able to collect their purses and pool tickets, though some—and Hickok is a notable example —have wonderful financial judgment. He can ‘‘size up” a race in which he is driving a_horse, pick out the winner, even if he isn’t driving him, and “place” the money for a syn- dicate shrewdly and wisely. BUDD DOUBLE. Budd Double leads all the drivers in social standing, ability and honesty and earnings. He is a Pennsylvanian, 46 years old, and is an all round horseman of the first clas: In his stable this year are Oliver K, 2:16; Johnston, 2:06}; The Pacing King (Charlie Hogan, 2:184; Jack, 2:20%; Arrow, 2:13} the latest pacing wonder, Editor, 2:22%. Lady Clingstone has been turned over to him. He drove the Demon_ last Thursday against Prince Wilkes. With Double’s fame that of Goldsmith Maid is associated. He managed aund drove her with consummate skill and returned her to her owner as sound as when she was foaled, No job or crooked race has ever been laid to Doble’s door. A le: ing driver once said ot him: *‘If I had a horse and he was going to trot for my life, Double should train and John Splan drive my horse:” ORRIN A. HICKOK, Next to Budd Double in point of all round ability comes Orvin A. Hickok. He is a northern Ohioan, for ight years old and a consummate reinsman. trainer and race accountant. This se son so far he hasn’t joined the line, be- ing engaged with his stable in Cali- fornia. Hickok came from a race of horsemen and associated with his name sses of L 2:18}, with beat Goldsmith i Judge Fullerton, St. Julien, Santa Claus, Arab, Hilton and Conde. He discovered Julien and was one of a group to pay $20,000 for him. Hickok still owns half of Avab. ‘‘He is brain) and tricky, ready to win by any means, if he starts out to do so, but a wonder- fully clever man.” This is a turfman’s y of Orrin Hic JOHN SPL. Third on the list of western drivers comes John Splan, now of Clevel the dare-devil and turf. No such di p! He takes longer chances, has a finer and firmer hand and better balanced L than any of his rivalsand is asmerciless as he is bold. Splan can ““help” home a tangled gaited ov fuant hearted horse better than any other man, and can S1ift” a tired one better than the rest. Splan was a Utiea newsboy and amassed his knowledge and wit in a thorough school. In his stable this season are Governor Hill 2:18, Jane I 2:19%, Argyle 2:104, most deceptive and unreliable of prcers, Black Jack Fred Fa 2:20%, and Guy’s full brother Prot 2:20+, In 1856 Splan drove the Gordon stable, but in the past his fame has been linked with Rarus, Wedgewood, John- ston, Clingstone, Fanny Witherspoon and a score of other eracks. n has a handsome wife and is a general favor- ite. Hiseasy nature handic teaining. whom he twic Geo yeurs 0ld, present trainer of the For City farm, and past trainer of Mc ran’s Glenview, where Pancoast and Cuyler lived away their best days. He is in the list of western driv He is a carefui «nd fine coaditioner and one of the best of drivi Patron made him famous and he is now keying up the great son of Puancoast for another foray in the records. KNAPSACK MCCARTHY. In general ability, Knap McCarthy, so called because of soldiering in his youthful days, ranks close to Doble and Hickok. He is an Elmira man, thirty- threo years old and the hardest worker on the trotting turf. He learned his trade under Dan Mace and drove sec- ond to him. Knapsack is one of the best of trainers and a plucky driver of all kinds of horses. He owns an inter- est in most of the horses in his large stable. This season he has Geneva S., Rajah, Shamrock, Sir Archy and Mam- brino Prince. His past successes were with Darby, Hopeful, Bonesetter, Little Brown Jug, Von Arnim, Flora Belle, Zoe R., Felix and Richbail. Knap Mc- Carthy is a truthful, plain spoken fel- low, who does ‘business at times, but in the way he agrees to do it. His atten- tion goes to his wife and his work, and until he *‘crossed” White Stockings at Pittsburg this summer, his promise was good among his fellows. MILLAKD & One of the youngi last company of the circuit is Millard Sanders, who controls the Gordon trot- ters. Heis a Missourian, twenty-five years oid, and earned his spurs last ummer w hen he defeated Patrc th Clingstone. This spring he surprised the trotting world by bringing out Guy, a horse thought to be uscless on account of his nervous untamability. Only care and a deep study of the horse’s pecul ities mmhrml Sanders to handle Guy, far he has won two out of the four in which he has started. Sanders isa good trainer, improves stendily with ench race as a driver, and will make his mark in the rar ED. BITHER. No list of the leading western drivers would be complete without Iid Bithe who as a new driv 3 his mark of 2:1 his of 213k Ho man thirty-six years he is in the crowd and Brown, with whom, eland he estab- -old record of good trainer and teher for financial Eye See to with James ( three weeks ago at € lished a new four-y 2:18f, Bither is a driver and shrewd wi chances. He expects Jay come again. FRANK VAN NESS, iner and driver | angl ntly drossed hutton show. He bogan v laying several rough boards cut in circular pe on the bottom of the win- lisk about 4 or 5 feet in diameter. > covered them with ordi- nary black cambrie, while around the outer edge he drove a row of tacks far enough apart to allow each tack to come | at the center of the end of a card of but- tons, the cards being placed | side. The next move was to d | other circle of tacks at a distance with- in the outside row equal to1inch less than the length of a card of buttons. After this still other circles were made in the sam@ manuver, and at the same distance apart, until the center was reached. Between thesc several rows of tacks cards of buttons of various descriptions and variegated hues were sprung, the endsof the various cards be- ing slipped under the tack-heads. The effect thus given by the various cardsof buttons, which took on a bulging ap- ] © between the sev- was relatively ngth of the ng the appear- ance of a novel wheel. The zopious use of bright metallic buttons added very much to the appearance of the devics, which upon completion was a remark- ably attractive one. The rosette or cen- terpiece was formed of mother-of-pearl buttons and set off the well formed cir- cle, which made it a thing of beauty, at least for the time being, even if a suc- ceeding now device destroyed its right 0 as ajoy forever, La the oppo- { site window a handsome young lady was no doubt following out the instruction en by her employer in arranging the new lines of rihbons whic] cach this at this time of the In fact 10 line of goods curried in any ew York stores that is more di- od in color. width and goneral vibbons. This very was arranged by cons a frame-work 6 ilar mousure- ment happened to fiv the identical win- dow. Across this were drawn ribbons of various widths aud colors in such or- der us made a solid bed of color, thug forming a nandsome and attractive show The loose ends were pinned to rame and the uncut ends so pinned as to stay in position and still not require cutting or separation from the roll. After this other col colored ribbons w in L which adaed ve shorter than rds emplc is structing feet squar tl it tion of this window gave the ta ow York, | young saleswoman a 200d oppo Rosa- | 1o display h Gossip, jr., Gravie one of the best men Ameri He is a done his hest ¥ 3. and Da in his busin w Yorke has trotte He and his w begun at seventeen. His first hit was made with St. Jumes, with whom in 1887 he won 31,000, His othar successes were Albemarle, Bone- sotter. Little Brown Jug, Albert [rance nd Sister Wilkes, Van Ness isan inal man in his methods and as teainer as any man in the grand He makes mistakes into scrapes at odd of doing business, good clreuit process in driving and g tinies over his but he is a leader Dressing Stor If th is one thing more other that is particularly about New York retail stores it is the artistic manner in which th windows ¢ decked out to catch the eyo of the s1ent custon A Mail and Ex- s8 reporter watched a clerk on Sixth nue the other day who scemed to take particalar pride in arcanging the details of what turned out w be an ele- Windows. than an atvractive kill, and before sh k finished she had con- trived to design numerous geometrical figures, which she considered as a ve- ward to her ingenuity. She was evi- dently well pleasod with this new croa- tion of her handiwork us she stood on the sidewall and smi at her latost production. Tho increase in the re- ceipts of this particular department will no doubt be the joint reward of the em- ployerand his pretty little clerk. sidered he Post Texas Siftings: two cents,” said a postal clerk in a coun= cturning to an old negroa :d through the delivery window, Vhit's do matter wid it lo0 heavy."” " ‘bout like I 'spected. Dat letter wuz writ by imy son, an’ | tole him he wuz er writin’ too heaby a han’, but he kep' on er bearin’ d down o his pen. au’ git him to write it wid Hod carriers in San Pry increase in their wages o duy, and _bave gome on a strike for it present their pay is §3 per day. ack, sah, or pencil,” neisco want an Afty cents per AL