The Little Grave on The Hill,
There's a spot on the hillside far away,
Where.dn summer the grass grows green;
Where, beneath a rustling elm tree's shade
A moss-coveral stone is seen,
"Tis a quiet and unfrequented spot,
A solitude lone and wild;
Vet —somebody’s hopes are buried there—
"Tis tho grave of a little child.
[o winter, alas! thy mossy stone
Is bid "neath a shroud of snow;
But around it, in gpring time, fresh and
sweat,
The daisies and violets grow,
Amd o'er ft the rummer breezes blow,
With a fragrance soft and mild,
And the autumn’s dead leaves thickly
strew
. That grave of a little child,
Aud every year there's a redbreast comes,
When the month of May is nigh,
And builds her nest in this quiet spot,
"Mid the elm tree's branches high;
With her melody sweet, by the hour she
irilis,
As if by the scene beguiled,
Perhaps—who knows? "tis an angels comes
To tue grave of that little child.
Yes, romebody’s hopes lie buried there,
Some moter i# weeping tn vain,
though years may come and
MAY RO,
"Twill never come back again,
Yes blessed are thoy who die in youth,
The pura and the undefiled;
road to Heaven, perchand
through
That grave of nu lit
TO SL ERS TW,
\BNT HULDAH’S STORY.
‘Do you suppose I'll get a valentine,
Avont Huldah?”
“For mercy’s sake, Kitty!” said I,
Javing down on my lap the vest upon
which 1 was working buttonholes, *'do
you never think or speak of anything
tut valentines at this time of year?”
Kitty pouted, and shook her yellow
braids-—-the real corn-stalk yellow that
matched her Dlue eyes as perfectly as if
some designer in high art had picked
them ont to correspond,
“Well, aunty, why shouldn’t I?”
said she. *“Just look at those blue-birds
darting in and out of the old cedar
tree! They're twittering ‘St. Valen-
ine’s Bay,’ you may be very sure.
Look at the crocus-buds peeping out
from under the dead leaves!”
“Well,” said 1, curtly, ‘‘you’re
neither 8 Blue-bird nor a crocus, so how
would it de if you were to go to work
on Lizeie Barrow’s new dress?”
Kitty was a quick-tempered
thing frem her cradle, and she fired
t this rebuke.
“I might bave known better than to
any sort of sympathy from an
old mai’ said she, catching up her
work-basket, and out of the
FOOT.
For, YCAars
oT a,
tle child.
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iii
up
expect
Heine
nying
before she returned, tearful and
tent
“AUD
sorry!
I didn’t mean to call you that-
name!”
“Uh,
mind
One
said
t Haldah”
that
bless vou child!” said I. *l
lon't wing called an old maid.
I am know, and the truth
waghtn’t to sting.”
But you are
prettiest old maid in the world,
Huldahl’* cried the girl, caressingly.
“Fuidlesticks!’ said I. “I'm as
winely as a hedge-fence, and I know it,
Now eave off coaxing and flattering,
and go about your business!”
And Kitty obeyed, singing a snatch
Ou
the dearest, nic
est
ww that she was forgiven,
Yer the words
with the yellow February sunshine
ng through the white-curtained
window, and the blue birds whistling
to each other outside,
Yes, | was an old maid, 40 last birth-
1s ¥
strean
ay it
niece, Kitty, to expect me to sympathize
on the question of love am
Well, I would make the best
or ih 1 resolved, and to try to be as
cheerful as possible,
“What's for dinner, Aunt Huldali?"
said Kitty, coming to me at last,
‘Pork leans, You
with ¢
NiLly her
vers,
and
Wik
nice, small,
the beans to
It will
w sure apd pick out a
wjuare piece, and bring
¢, and I'll pick them over,
wwe you Lime, dear.”
white beans,
Huldah,”'
aver Lie
Aunt said she, *‘you've
feed! 3
vhen you were 0 girl, Aunt Huldah,
thy did you never get married?”
Becanse Cupid never came my
way,” said I, with a laugh. “Here
uve the beans, Kitty, Get them a-soak
8 quick as possible,”
Just then Detsey,
maid, eame in, :
“Could you lend me a yeast-cake,
Miss Darwin?” said she, “P’ve some-
how got clean out o’ yeast cakes, And,
Miss Darwin"
“Yes, Detsey.’
Mr. Chandler’s
up all Mr
agin”?
“You shouldn't have left the cold.
frame sashes off, Betsey,”
“Well, p'raps we should an’ p'raps
we shouldn't, remarked the independ-
ent Betsey “But our lettuce, it's
a-growin’ in our garden, you know,
mm’ 18° no way pleasin’ to hev the neigh
bars’ cats a-haulin’ of it outer the
ground with their claws, And it was
only yesterday week the dratted creetur’
broke the glass of the dairy-window,
rier the pans o’ cream!”
‘1 am very sorry, Betsey,” said I;
bat
“But I'm not!” flashed back Kitty
whose maternal grandfather had come
from County Cavan, in Ireland, and
whe thereby bad Inherited a strain of
tighting blood), “Didn't your Nero
break down our prettiest chrysanthe-
mums last fall? Dida’t he worty our
nicest white kitten to death?’
Betsey took her yeast-cake
flounced out of the room.
“Now she will go and repeat all this
to Mr. Chandler,” said I,
“Lot her!’ said defiant Kitty. “It’s
pothing more than the truth!”
“Put he has always been such a
pleasant neighbor,” said I, piteously,
“and Nero is a very nice dog, after
when bo isn’t in mischief,”
“Well, he wouldn't remain zt Elm
Lodge much longer, anyway,” said
Kitky. “If he’s really going to nmrry
Chandler's seed-lettuee
and
Miss Poultney, at the Court, it’s likely
that he'll go there to live. Though it
is rather nice, having the minister for
a next-door neighbor, the dog to the
contrary notwithstanding. Handy in
case of a wedding,”
“Kitty!”
I shook my head at her.
“Well,” cried the wild gipsy, *‘how
can one think of anything else on St,
Valentine's Eve?” :
Just then Grayette came in-— our
great, purring, beryl-eyed household
pet, who was dearer to my old-maid
soul than I cared to acknowledge, even
to Kitty,
“Poor puss!” said I,
with my disengaged hand,
caressing her
“Bul you
ing a nuisance to the neighbors,”
And then and there it was that I
secretly made up my mind what to do,
The sun set fair and golden, as if it
were a spring evening, the stars glist.
ened like dots of fire against the heavens,
Kitty came home from the postotlice
with sundry significant letters in her
bag, and scarcely less significant roses
on her cheeks, and presently the light
dow, on the other side of the fence.
In the summer-time it was hidden in
i a hedge of lilacs, but the boughs were
| all leafless now, and
him sitting by
hand on Nero's head,
‘‘He is fond of his dog,’’ 1 thought
| *“Well, pussy shall not make trouble
i between us any longer, Oh, dear! it
will be terribly lonesome when the light
doesn’t shine these nights any
when he is married to Judge Poultney’s
daughter!”
Kitty kissed me oftener than usu:
that night before she went to bed,
“Dear Aunt Huldan,?’ said she, “‘we
have been very happy here, you and I,
haven't we¥ Even though you are
only a poor little ‘hand on vests,’ and I
a dress-maker!”’
“Why, of course we have!”
“And we should
{ ribly, shouldn't we,
parted?”
“Nonsense, chi
us?"
“Oh, I]
might.”
“(xo to bed, and don’t be silly!" said
laughing.
Early in the dawn of the next morn-
g, I rose and dressed myself, I had
determined to take Grayette over
the Widow Singleton’s | Kitty
was up in the morning, to make a fuss
about it. Mrs Singleton was fond of
pets, and I knew my cat would
good home there,
And, spite of my Spartan 1
tear splashed down ay
as I tucked her under my plaid
anket shawl and stepped boldly out
the melting snow, now all
with the glow of sunrise.
| “Poor dear pussy!” thought I **You:
| little, flannel-lined basket by the fire
| will never be of any use again! And
¢
|
S00 his fire,
1
si
sald I.
iiss each other ter-
if—if we
1d!
know!
don’t something
I,
to
wore
gave a
aril d »
esolutions
solutions,
on pussy’s gi
}
1 ilo piuk
the cracked saucer that you lapped your
milk out of—I shall never bear to look
at it any more; for, oh—-"’
{ Involuutarily I uttered the shriek.
| for Grayette had sprung of my
farms, and was arching her back and
| magnifying every separate hair or
{ tail, while Nero, on | side of
| fence, was barking a shrill series of de-
{ lances, and leaping up and down in
| vain rs to get at v's adversary
| and tear her limb from limb,
“Oh, pussy, pussy!’ cried I,
| to recapture my feline favorite,
“Nero, gir, behave Fours iin
stern voice of Mr, Chandler, once
| more recovering his grasp of the chain,
| which Nero had jerked out of his hand
lin the saddenness of the fray, “Miss
| Darwin, I have to make you a thousand
i apologies for the anooyance Nero has
caused you of late, and
| for the forbearance you
| ward him. He shail never trouble you
again, I am going to send him by ex-
press to my brother in Wisconsin, We
| are way to the express
14
Os
1 her
1s the
: %
enageay
treinge
trying
uttered
the
office
| now, so that Nero may get the early
i train.”
“Oh, dear!" cried I; “and I am just
taking Grayette to Mrs, Singleton, so
| that she need not scratch up your gar-
| den seeds, nor rob Betsey's dairy any
| more,’
“What! that
Mr. Chandler.
| lowing such a thing.
her, Miss Darwin.”
**Not unless you will promise to send
Nero back to his kepnel,”’ pleaded I.
‘“*You have been forbearing enough
on the
cat?”
think
must
beautiful
“I cannot
You
of al-
’
**I shall not Impose upon your good
nature any more,’’ sald I, firmly.
Just then the shutters In the upper
casement opened, Kitty thrust out her
cornstalk-colored head. Her eves were
sparkling like blue stars, She clapped
her hands,
“Oh, I have caught vou two, have 1"
said she, “‘So, Mr. Chandler
Huldal’s Valentine,*’
“The first you see at the window,
The first you meet on the way,
Shall be your loving Valentine
For a year, a month and a day.”
Her sweet, saucy voice rang out like
a flute on the frosty air.
I stood transfixed with horror at her
| audacity, my cheeks burning with
| blushes, my eyes riveted to the ground.
{ But Mr. Chandler flung the loop of
ped bravely to.my side,
“1, for my part,” said he, “can wish
for no bappier fortune, if you, I Tuldah,
will consent,”
“But you are In jest!” murmured 1.
“I never was more in earest in my
life," said he, taking my hand, “We
are neither of us young, Huldah, but I
think that it is not the young alone who
know what true love means. Nor have
I lived your near neighbor for a year
without learning to appreciate the
sweet unselfishness of your character.
Dear Huldsh, I will be your faithful
Valentine all my life, if you will but
accept my devotion,”
Well, perhaps it is Snot necessary to
say what my answer was, We are to
be married as soon as the new rectory
is finished, and Grayette and Nero are
to be trained to be the best of friends
Mr, Chandler says he will not
house without Grayette at our hearths
stone, am really getting fond
of Nero. As for Kitty, quite
content,
‘Because, of course, after the valen-
tine that David Ely sent me,” said she,
1
i *‘I shall be married to him very soon,
{ and I couldn't bear the Idea of leaving
dear little Aunt Huidah allalone, And
I take all the credit to myself, because
I don’t believe either of them would
{ have had courage to say what was in
| their heads if I hadn’t put my head out
| of the window and sung that St, Val-
i entine’s refrain!” :
“But, of course, that is only Kitty's
nonsense,
a —— —
How a Woman Pays a Fare,
Few women will ever learn of the
comfort which comes to one who pre-
| pares for the conductor before entering
| the street car. At a season when a
woman bundles herself from head to
| foot, the preparation is of more import.
{ance than at other seasons, The
{ woman who puts ber purse in her dress
pocket, buttons her wrapover the dress,
| ties up her head, puts mitts on her
liable to be confused before she gels out,
| she pulls off one mitt, and in a fit of
| abstraction she puts the mitt in
mouth, No woman ever looks
under such circumstances,
{ unbuttoned her wrap she
i the purse. Of course she knows where
| give to the beloved disciple,
{ the mitt from
{ from the purse and places that where
the mitt was, "Then
the bill, thus creating the mmpression
into a for the surplus,
{| Then she takes the money out of her
| mouth, places It in the purse, closes it,
:
receptacio
| wrap, puts on the mitt, takes the other
f
i end of it.
A Photographer's Story.
“I can do
| sitter, said one photographer who hadn't
I remember where it was impossible to
| keep the sitter still. After repeated
i trials and the use of the head-rest
last succeeded, as I thought, in impress.
i ing upon the the necessity of
keeping absolutely quiet. It was in the
| old days of the wet.-plate method, and
$
sitter
had to be made, 1 had my subject as |
wanted him, gnd took
the room for a moment, and, re.
turning, found everything all right, ap-
parently. Apparently, I say, but when
room and develop-
it most terribly
sitter had
1nf't
i ICAN
the plate I found
urred. It looked as if the
turned a hand spring
somersault, When I went back
mad,
*““‘What did you do?’ 1 a
“iNothing,” was
swer; ‘why?’
at that plate,’
then tell me you didn’t move,’
Here my sitter began to laugh at his
pictu “Well, I swear, I wouldn't a’
thought that just going over to the win-
dow spit would have done all that,
because I sat right down again.”
Or
I was
1 3
SRN,
“Look
=.
0
he Battle of Koniggratz.
in the recent production by Doro-
thea Roberts, entitled some *“‘Royal
Lives,” there are some very interest.
ing pictures illustrative of dramatic
incidents in the career of the crown
prince and his wife. One of these pic-
tures I give, as it illustrates well the
character and relations of this noble
couple: **It is the eve of the battle of
Koniggratz, The guards were deflling
past a little below where Frederick
William stood. See his figure, erect
old, turning toward the soldiers, reso-
lation
‘March for
battiefleld]” Every man present felt a
that followed,
| decided the day.
The prince’s movement
{ fought, the victory won, the king and
his son were each riding slowly over
| the battlefield, seeking to succor the
wounded and the dying, when they
{ met, As they embraced the King said:
| * Thou hast shown capacity as a leader.’
! Bismarck was a spectator of the his
| toric meeting, a fine picture of which
{ adorns the Rulbmeshalle in the Zeug-
{ haus at Berlin. The horrors of the
| Beld were appalling to the prince.
| the pen koows not what he is calling
{ up from Hades,’ was his entry in his
| Journal on that momentous day.”
i The Age of Ship Canals,
i
1
{ Ths is the age of ship canals. Italy
| is proposing to cut a canal, navigable
for large craft, across one of the nar-
rowest parts of the peninsula—the in-
step, so to speak, of the boot, At pres.
ent vessels trading between the Gulf of
Santa Eufemia, on the western coast,
and the Gulf of Squiliacio, on the east-
ern coast, have to pass through the
a
| Stralt of Messina—a considerable voy-
| age, although the distance by land
across the peninsula is not more than
sixty miles,
Professor Proctor reasons that the
moon bas grown solid six times as fast
as the earth, a comparison of the mass.
os and saduting surfaces of the two
bodies making it evident the earth’s
internal heat was originally sufficient
$0 Init six Linus as long as the moon's
supply. very moderate
tien, therefore, that only ga
lions of years have passed since the
earth and moon were at the same stage
of planetary life, this astronomer shows
us that sixty millions of jours must
* before the earth will have reach-
ed stage through which the moon
18 now passing.
ist AM,
COFFEE, TEA, MILK, SUGAR.
A Brief Chapter on Food and Its
Adulterations,
“A cup of coffee,” says Alexandre
Dumas, the elder--who, by the way,
was as great a gourmand as he was
romancist-—*‘a cup of coffee is the re
view of the dinner,”’ M., Dumas was
right. Of all the food adulterations
that of coffee is the most palatable.
Not only is the roasted and ground ar-
ticle adulterated; but— incredible as it
may sound-—the green bean is imitated
from common clay, colored with ar-
senic. If rumor has it correct, there is
a green coffee manufactory in Chicago,
where nature 18 ‘‘corrected” by ma-
chinery, Mechanical appliances mold,
press and dry Cook county clay into
coffee beans, as it is said, at a cost of
about eight cents a pound. Of course,
this artificial coffee cannot be used in
its purity, or rather impurity,
| used to mix with the genuine article
4
and, strange as it may sound, the clay
| bean assumes the same color in roasting
that the natural bean does,
Coffee roasters all over the
mit that they use stale
ing coffee,
| erust and
land ad-
then cut into small
The roasters claim that the presence of
this bread during the process of roast.
ing improves the coffee, Of course, if
the latter is sold in the bean it is im-
| stale bread, but if ground the bread be.
| comes part of the coffee, Think of M,
Dumas’ glowing tribute to the
dinuer cup, and then imagine a
{ pound made up as follows : Chicory,
| peas, beans, date stones, biscuits, figs,
| roasted hominy, burned sagar, acorns,
| mangel-wurzel, dandelion, turnips,
parsnips, carrots, rye and potato flour.
i The introduction of chicory
i
i
i
1
i
into
the gi
{ coffee and does no mischief
| drinker, Dut Dr. Hassell,
| authority. says chicory in prolonged use
| is injurious to health,
the root—belonging to the class of
| radishes, by the way-—produces heart-
| burn, cramp in the stomach, loss of ap-
to the
| petite, acidity in the mouth, constipa-
i tion with Intermittent diarrhoea, weak-
i senses, Professor Deer, the
Vienna oculist, goes so far as to claim
| that chicory in large doses produces
{ blindness,
The adulteration of teas are
worse than those of coffess, The prac.
| tice of using exhaustea tea leaves is 80
| well known as scarcely to bear mention.
These exhausted leaves are “faced”
colored, and fixed up with plumbago,
| gum, indigo, Prussian blue, turmeric,
China clay, mica, soapstone or French
sulphate lime, rose pink,
Venetian red, carbonate of copper, are
| senite of copper, chromate and bi-chro-
mate of potash and carbonate of lime
and magnesia, Other subtitutes for
even
or
i
all ¥
chalk, ol
elder, willow, aloe and other plants and
| trees, lye tea, paddy husk, sweeping of
tea house floors, sand, quartz, starch
and magnetic oxide of iron,
The most dangerous all
swindling practices is that which lowers
the nutritive quality of milk. Its
direct effect is largely upon infants and
small children, It is the opinion of the
ablest medical observers that haif of
the infant mortality in cities is due to
phisticated milk, Professor Wiley,
of the United States department o
agriculture, asserts that “it is doub
ful whether 10 per cent. of the milk
which reaches the table is pure.” TI
¥
of food
Se
modern times is water, The cream is
{ skimmed and water is added to restore
{ the bulk and weight, The color is re.
{ stored by coloring matter, Flour
i starch, boiled white carrots, milk of
| almonds, sheeps’ brains, gum traga-
| canth, carbonate of soda and chrome
| ants,
There is practically no limit to the
adulteration of sugar. Cane sugar is
manufactured from grape or starch
glucose, wheat and potato flour, tapioca
| starch, blood, pipe clay, marble dust,
| gypaum, bone dust, lead, iron, lime and
sand, The confectionery sugar con-
rowroot, sand, wheat and potato flour,
and hydrated sulphate of lime,
articles are colored, as the case may re-
quire, by cochineal, indigo and Pruse
sian blue, carbonates of copper and
of copper, Indian red, umber, sienna,
Vandyke brown, cobalt, smalt, Naples
yellow, bisulphate of mercury, sulphate
of arsenicum, bronze powders or alloys
| of copper and zine,
Speaking upon the law concerning
adulterants, Manager Robert M. Floyd
remarked : “The Eoglish have dealt
| with the question of food adulteration
very intelligently, and, as experience
has shown, very profitably to the em-
pire, Adulteration of food bad grown
to enormous dimensions some years ago
in England, A parliamentary com-
mission reported that scarcely an arti-
cle that was served on the table was
free from fraudulent admixture or was
what it pretended to be. The result
was the passage of an act of a simple
and comprehensive nature, which re-
quired that all manufactured articles of
gud should be inhaled with . statement
of all their ingred fraud upon de-
tection, being Dan with extreme
severity. If coffee contained chicory
the manufacturer and seller must make
this fact distinctly known, The pro-
portion of corn starch employed in tera
pering mustard, and incidentally ex-
panding its bulk, must be stated, And
so through the long list of comestibles
and condiments the law enforces perfect
candor between buyer and seller. The
effect of this tion was to purify
the trade Ana to it to un-
preceden proportions, reason
why Great Britam has a monopoly, or
somethi like it, in the condi
ment trade of the world, is becauso her
great houses guarantee purity.”
=rAniothes novel gustuime is made of
Ring a chads ovr waisteoat and
eT pt
ee Fo vor ert
FASHION NOTES,
~ [Homespun material, which
likely to become fashionable for use.
ful and walkiug costuioes, 1s made
in many new colors and combinations
of stripes, and, being both warm and
light, is most suitable for early spring.
which 8 frequently eold, though the
weather may be bright.
A neat costume of this material,
striped In three shades of reddish
brown, has the bodice made with an
open collar, to be worn with a tie;
the skirt is finished with atitched hems
in a plain style, and will keep In good
condition for constant wear. Long
pointed bodices and draperies falling in
graceful folds from the waist, quite to
the edge of the skirt, seem likely to be
or some contrasting color sre chiefly
with manv,
—Narrow gold braid is frequently
sewn Into the necks and cuffs of
gowns, instead of colored silk, canvass,
or cufls and collars, Many waistcoats
(home-made) are composed of three or
four lengths (according to the width
in with gold
The effect is handsome,
the model is the Egyptian em-
broidery now being adapted for waist-
cashmere laid on to muslin, Gimp and
collar piece, cuffs and two graduated
in black and almost every color. Re-
versible collars are novel,
is solid
under the neck-band,
clean inner one stands up alone.
~It is difficult to say which are re-
latter,
without! number, some in delicate
broidered; others in colored cambric,
scalloped edges. A zray-blue and a pe
neither nick nor
are two pew shades. Some are
colors in fine muslias, such as gray and
pink, white and bice, ete ; and again
others have borders of closely set, nar-
row colored lines about an inch deep
*
ored sik ‘show’
popular, and so are Lhe Irish lawn and
cambric ones, with
ers of from one to three inches deep,
~The new braids which are inter-
woven thresds of metal, will be much
*
used both on indoor and walking cos-
being largely (rimmed with them, A
novel gown is made in two shades of
biuish-gray Indian cloth, The waistooat
is of the lighter shade, and the over.
very low at the
silver braid, continued to form
two shades are similarly treated. The
skirt, has underpanels of the light
lined of the same, and an edging of
The
back draperies are composed of two
long curves, also lined andl fastened to
- Among the new jackets a notice-
able one is of paon blanket cloth,
threads in moss-green.
style of braiding 1s quite new, forming
basque
brings the line of jacket well down to
ally becoming to ladies not quite
A military jacket in cardinal
of the front, also on each cuff, and is
lined and finished with rich satin,
-- A noveity, and one that promises
unusual populanty, is a cotton garni-
ture in flax color and white. It is de-
signed as a trimming for either white
or light-colored cotton materials, and
is not expensive. It is made byem-
broidering patterns In white floss upon
batiste. The cloth is then cut away,
leaving the trimming in the open-
work style, wich 1s the leading fea-
ture of the season's garuitures,
~The narrowest width of picot-
edged ribben, too, is forming a large
part of the neckwear, and appears in a
great many of the dainty fichus, vests
and plastrons of transparent materials
which are worn with simple costumes
to make them more dressy. A ruching
for neck and sleeves are made of many
loops of this narrow ribbon set into a
band, and though it is frequently
made up in colors, white is always
prettiest and most effective,
--An exceedingly peat but equally
attractive gown is of plain *“‘home-
Spun. with waistcoat of reindeer skin,
bodice opening from the shoulder
Sud falling away al the waist, while
box ts, is oh Soutie
" w
y brought high on the hips and
falling In folds over the back of the
HORSE NOTE®«-.
~The reparted sale of the pacer Ars
row to Mr, J. H. Shults lacks confire
mation.
~~Frank Harper is reported to have
refused $10,000 for the Ten Droeck
filly Valuable.
— Colonel Stmmons has been invited
to uct as presiding judge at the Kansas
City spring meeting.
—John Conden and John Mcllorkle
recently refused $3000 for their 4 year
old stallion by Dictator,
“Lucky” Baldwin will ship twenty.
eight runners from California to take
part in the Nashville (Tenn.) meeting,
—The track at Yonkers, N, Y., Is to
be made into a full mile running
courses, with a half-mile trotting track
in the centre,
—Willilam Radding shippzd eleven
trotters, including Misty Morning,
2.21, and Molly Wilkes, 2.22%, to Cuba
on March 21st.
~JTgla May, the filly that has made
the best showing at New Orleans this
winter, was sold at auction as a year-
ling at Lexington for $490,
~The gray Ethel Mediam,
by Colonel L.,
Kip to Jacob Ruppert, Hudson River
Btock Farm, Price $1000,
-Alex Newburger, of New York,
has sold the ch. m. Novelty, 2.234, by
Gooding's Champion, to Thomas M.
mare
Marshall, Jr., of Pittsburg. Price
| $1250,
—I. E. Flaugher, Ripley, O., sold
the bay ware Pearl Medium, 2.27, by
Happy Medium, dam Pearl, by Gentle
Breeze, to J. Fitzgerald, Maysville,
Ky. :
~—Messrs, H. D, and R. C, Thomp-
| son, of Malong, N. Y., have bought of
Iraac V. Baker, Jr., of Comstocks, N.
| X., the noted brood-mare Belle of Paw-
let.
~The bay mare Aloho, sister to the
phenomensl pacer Arrow, 2.14, foaled
{a bay colt by Eagle Birk, 2.21 re-
{ cently. She is owned by A. J. McRea,
| of Cleveland, O,
~ Michael Dwyer has gone on a trip
to the Hot Springs in Arkansas. He says
that he paid all the expenses of his
European journey with his winnings on
the Paris races,
—William Disston, Pleasant Valley
| Stock Farm, sold the chestaat filly Cor-
anza, full sister to Annie W, (2.20), by
Almont, Jr., dam Mary M. Tue pur-
chaser was Robart Steel, of Pailadel-
phia,
—It is announced that as soon as the
weather shall be sufficiently settied Mr,
| Haggin will send from his ranch in
California about 100 head of thorough-
bred horses to New York to be sold at
auction,
~The Rea Wilkes’ 5 vear old Hinda
| Wilkes, which defeated Bermuda (2.22)
and other cracks in the 4 year old
| stakes here last fall, gaining a record
| of 2.25}, will be again trained by Bow-
erman Brothers this year,
| ~The Hampden Park Association,
| Springfield, Mass,, is out with two
| guarantee stakes of $5000 each, One
{1s for 2.22 horses, and the other for
2.20 horses, and both will be trotted at
| the circuit meeting on September 11,
{ 12, 13 and 14.
cent.
The entrance 18 10 par
~{zlenluine was 8 years old when she
| foaled Troubadour, Bradamante was 9
when The Bard was dropped. Galomel
{ was 12 when Raceland was threwa,
{and Bourbon Belle was 15 when the
great Hanover first saw the blue grass.
| These mares are all still alive,
~The thirty one thoroughbred brood-
mares that have been bred to Election.
{ eer have produced fifty-five foals, six of
| which are dead. Tbe age classifica-
tion is: Yearlings, 7; 2-year-olds, 4;
| 3-year-olds, 2; 4-year-oids, 2; 5 year olds,
| 8; © year-old-oids; HM: T-year-olds, 6;
| B-year-olds, 10; 9-year-oids, 3; 10.year-
olds, 2,
—Lyle E. Simmons, the former dri
ver of the trotters Early Dawa, Eagle
Bird, ele., a son of Willlam 8. Sime
mons, is one of the latest additions to
the running turf. iie has a stable of
youngsters at Lexington, and they will
be trained by himself. Among the Jot
is a half sister of Badge and a full sis-
ter of Jack of Hearts,
~The brood -mare Bannereite died
recently in Kentocky., She was a full
| sister to Anna Bash, being a foal of
{ 1872, by Lexington, trom Banner, by
| imp, Albion; grandam Clara Howard,
by imp, Barefoot. She cost $2500 as a
yearling, but was not a success either
as a race-mare or ia the stad,
~In 1878 Jamaica foaled the re-
nowned Foxhall, and since then she
had dropped four colts, which have
sold when yearlings for the large sum
of §15,630—an average of $3010, Fox-
hall sold as a for $658. None
of his high-priced brothers or sisters
have earned any turf distinction,
- Walter Plerce, of ville, I
has matched the eh enrocyilie, Doo
tor Almont, 2.21}, by Almont Boy,
owned by W. A. Lambert, Ocangevilie,
Q., for $500 a side. The race will be
trotted at the Cleveland Grand Circuit