-—
Curiosity.
[ wonder who those people are
That live across the way;
[ wonder what their business is,
And how they pass each day.
I wonder who she is that lives
Upon the upper floor?”
Lind if those children both are hers,
If she be rich or poor?
Aud who is she that always wears
That deep~dyed erimson sack;
Whose face as pure as marble gleams
Neath hair of raven black?
And who is he with whitenad locks,
And who the maiden fair,
With ros s in her rounded cheeks
And sunlight in her hair?
[ wonder if I always will
Go wondering on this way,
Or shall 1 get acquainted,
And know them al! some day?
Know who they are, and what they have,
And how thev came to be
I'lie tenants of the house that stands
Right opposite to me?
Know who the man is that goes oud
So early in the moru;
And why the parlor window shades
Are always closely drawn?
And why
Inside t
Jt I sha
Of curiosity.
~-but there, 1 must arrange
10086 LO sae,
1 know 1 shall!
FOUND IN THE ASHES.
She wasn't
o own to that and he could judge
anyone could. Joe was an
Ward Nine, and used to see her three
summer and
the basement door
remove the ash bajrels,
was always In such a hurry!
forthe 1
e flung to others; indeed,
| like joking with her,
He always felt
hiroat ICH made
ioarser still whe he
n front of No, 72
sling througi
then it was
Millie when
pen!
So it went on, and the lump hi
Diroat Kept growing,
Ames a week,
thie Opened
And she
A)
net ug!
Joe
tc
his deep
called ** Ashes!”
stubborn door did
ing he lock, and when
lew
jeard
ninute he
Arms w
inder it
Wot,
He carr
rance uj nme sieps
ticked at the kitchen door.
uickly. and Joe walked in and laid his
Xs
tr!
little ery,
a was whiter than ever
ong en-
and
the floor, saying
ce, mum, do ye think
Lis
‘she fel the
ion
she's killed?”
Next
t him in
mlrels Rick 10
,
\
a strange giri
rol
came to
the emply
ash day
i }
ANG as jie
led
¢} Bilao
i jaces
place
er
*Was she hurt bad?”
it would lay her up for six
wpital right away.”
1ired with much stammer-
huffling of his big cow-
ther’ was a gal taken
I ined ankle t'other day?”
I'he man the gold nose glasses
said **Yes: are you her brother?"
“0! No, sir,” said Joe with
red face, Ah!” the questioner,
Every week Joe made his appear-
wee at the office and said: Will she
ye out this week, sir?'’ at last they
old him ‘Yes, to-morrow 10
y'elock,” and
‘riend to go with the cart in his place,
and half the next
his best, waiting
n wit
said
at
+ ina
Past nine
ound him dressed in
it the door
Presently a thin, poorly-clad girl came
lowly down the step and started in sur-
rise as a big, bashful man stepped up
her and said, “Millie!” She don’t
tnow him. How should she, when his
ywn mother would scarcely recognize
2im in his week-day garb of dshes and
nud, and she had never seen him in
any other? *‘I’m Joe, the ash-man, ye
snow!’ he spoke quickly, and then her
rightenedd look gave place to a wan
answered, “Oh! I dida't
Y ou must excuse me,”
Ye
sntle as alie
iow you,
“Course
“No, 1 didn’t
[{ knowed.”?
“That's why I come; 1 thought meb-
we you'd
wemed
wr nel
s.ink to see anybody
no friends
» 1 jest slip-
like ye didn’t bav
ly to care for ye, =«
Ain't goin’ back to 72, be ye?”
jon't know nobody else in this city, an’
Miss Benton is kind hearted if she is a
ittle cross onct in a while.”
“Well, I'll go ’long with ye, an’ see
what she says.”
After that they walked on slowly and
yasement door,
Mrs, Benton spoke to the girl kindly
and told her she might stay there til
she found another place, for
souldn’t discharge any of her “help.”
30, pale Millie went and told Joe, and
he promised to come the next evening
and tell if he heard of any place, As
ne walked away, he muttered to him-
wif: “What's the matter with me,
anyhow?” That was just it. He
souldn’t have told, to save his life,
Ah! Joe, Joe, that same question has
puzzled wiser, shrewder brains than
yours, lo, these many years,
The next evening he rang the base-
nent bell and was led by Sally into the
same kitchen he had entered so many
weeks before, and Millie stood up to
shake hands, with much blushing, and
then Joe said: “It won’t hurt ye to
sake a little walk, will it? The night's
real clear and purty, an’ it ain't
muddy.’
So they went out, and was it the
witchery of the night or the subtle in-
fluences of the moonshine (or can such
things affect hearts that beat under
such uncouth raiment) that made Joe
say what he did?”
“Ye didn’t hear of no place?’ he
asked, hesitatingly, after a bit.
“No; I went to some places that was
in the paper, but they all said I didn’t
laok strong. an’ I 8’sose '
oy
mind easy 'bout a livin’’' She spoke
despondently, and just then Joe put his
anl bright on his hard hand. That
settied Joe,
“Millie, will ye marry me?” He
hurried over the words as if they chok-
ed him, *Iain’t got much to offer ye,
but I'll work to make ye a home, ef
you'll come an’ share it with me, Will
ye?”
“0, Joe, you mustn't! I
you're sorry fer me, but you mustn't
marry a girl jest ‘cause you feel sorry
fer her, you know!’ This last very
timidly and tearfully.
And then Joe knew ‘what was the
matter” with him! He knew that he
would rather have this girl to work and
slave for all his life than the richest
beauty In all the land.
*“Tain’t that Millie, but I love ye an’
will be proud and happy to call ye
‘wife.’ They had reached one of the
small parks now, and le made her sit
down on one of the rustic seats and
one of her hands in a strong clasp as he
repeated: “Will ye, Millie?"
GLIMPSES AT CANTON.
om ————
Hostile People.
lavishly hospitable
Seymour, Esq., we
sallied forth to view the city. Sedan
chairs ware provided for us, carried by
coolies, who were under the supervision
of vy superior Chinese guide. This
Ki ad brought a covered chair or
palauquin for me, as 1 was the only
lady in the party, and was very much
disgusted when I declined to use it, but
as 1 had gone to China to see, I did not
propose to hide my light under a bushel,
Our guide consequently appropriated
have gone through Canton blindfolded,
however, he was quite as well there as
head of the procession, while we fol
lowed,
It was evident that we made a great
impression upon the natives. They
you, my reader, would lave never be-
stowed even a passing glance upon its
ing of a true soul, in the eyes that met
hers, and love, the great beautifier,
made this common face beautiful in her
One line in the daily papers, under
the heading, *‘‘Marriage
“Joseph Rivers and
Liceuses,’’
Mildred
Grant,”
For the rest, a few words mumbled
by a fat, good-natured 'Squire in his
stuffy office and Mr.
walked out into the sunlight of that
They had dinner in a cheap but clean
of the house across the alley.
During the year that fo'lowed
coaxing, won his consent to go out for
a day’s work, ant
1
i
ts
“
gathered, piece by piece,
ed, and, as I fancied, with intense ad-
until I discovered that the
word ‘fanqual,’’
after us, means
The streets are paved with
stone and narrow, not more than six
seven feet
room enough for two chairs to
The
# o“Panqual? We
these two foolish creatures,
low dandelions showed their
heads above the ground, a tiny yellow
head nestled on Millie's breast and Joe
boasted to his comrades that ‘that little
chap of mine is the purtiest little feller
And he was pretty!
And then, O, sad in-coming of the
dent while at work. The Ice seemed to
have a special grudge against these two
warm young hearts, for
struggli
its contents
into the cart, Joe's foot slipped on the
frozen curbstone, and down he went,
barrel and all, They lifted him from
and fifteen minutes later Joe
was inside the stone walls that
sheltered Millie so long.
Next day, fortunately,” was
day and Millie, with her chubby boy in
her arms, asked, with tears in her eyes,
to see her husband.
“0, Joe, my poor Joe, how bad is it?"
she sobbed,
“*There,
I'll get along all
“But how
wouldn't tell me.*’
“‘It's my leg, the left one, the doctor
set it right away, an’ says it'll be as
strong as ever, how are you to get
m here?” he groan-
visitor's
tant ory
aon’ cry
Millie, they
b say
right,
are you |
wa hurt? They
ut
I
ed.
““‘Don't worry about me, I'll get
an' come an’ see you every Lime
Now kiss Joey for I see them
to tell me to go.”
drew the baby away who had clutched
both dimpled hands into h's father’s
along
along,
I can.
.
comin
Light.
They saul “good-bye” soberly, and
Millie kept back her tears until she
knew he couldn't see them, then she
buried her face in her baby’s soft frock
and sobbed, *O! baby, baby, what will
we do?”
It was a hard time for her, but she
worked bravely, taking the boy with
her when could, and when
could him at the home
ashe
not, leaving
lasting Love,” and through the street
of “Refreshing Breezes,” which
tainly a misnomer, for Canton beals
Both
Restaurants abound,
dogs, dried rats and
The flesh of black
cats and dogs is much
prized than that of cats and dogs of
any other color, and the unskinned tall
chaser, I had a black chow dog, WW
f
hungry glances cast by the coolies upon
that unoffending quadruped whenever
we took our walks abroad
me to part with it
In the fish market the
about In little tanks, 1 saw al
man select one, from the side of wl
the vender cut a pound or two and
returned the bleeding, ga
object to the tank to swim
sOotne other customer ix
it, or until death relieved its su
ings. During our ramble we met Mr,
Howqua, one of the richest mandarins
in China, and he took us to his house
and introduced us to his wives, They
were much powdered and rouged,
Their feet were about three in
length and their fi
to seven inches longer In
keep the nails from breakin
slipped into gold sheaths
aimlessly from t little
Howqua's wives are
beauty, though 1 am quite preg
believe they may be joys forever,
conversed as fluently as our very limited
acquaintance would allow, examined
each other's clothes and hair with in-
tense interest and drank enough
ing tea to float our internal
~ wa found time hang a
compelled
fish
PROT,
about until
ght the rest of
fy
+} \
ChHes in
nger-nalis from live
Wh
he 4K
scald-
organs
‘
Laid, iittie heavy
“Ch
and move on,
was very warm and
our coolie bearers became,
y degrees, alarmingly conspicuous by
its absence, They their
garments at the earliest oppor
heat and the
trotted it seemed
in-chin’
The day
clothing of
b
shed nether
tunity,
zeal with which t
cruel to protest,
Qur ears were greeted Ly the shrill
sound of Chinese pipes and the mono-
wonous beating of gongs, which always
heralds the approach of a procession of
some kind, and **following hard upon,”
hey
wheres she knew he
was when for him at
night!
Joe could hardly wail for his weekly
sight of wife and baby, and 80 the slow
weeks dragged on, and on baby’s birth-
day Joe, with eager steps, limped along
she came
ed and how good the dinner was!
and made everything tidy, she said:
able, an’ I don’t see how I could have
an’, O, Joe. it’s so nice, and we'll go,
won't we?"
“Why, Millie, I didn’tknow ye cared
about such things.’
**1 didn't either, Joe, but it rests
me.”
“Well, we'll see about it; it won't
hurt us, I know, an’ mebbe there is
something in what folks call religion.
I never knowed much about it,”
They did ‘see about it,’ and with
recovered strength Joe worked with
good heart and his new friends founda
steady, honest worker worthy of their
kindness, and, as one bright young girl
said, as she gave Baby Joey a great bag
of Christmas sweets with Sweeter kisses
thrown in. **Who would have thought
of finding such a precious, pretty jewel
in the ashes, mamime?’’
But Joe 1s no longer calling ** Ashes!”
but 1s raising day by day in the esteem
and good will of his employers, but he
never will regret the humble work that
Ted him to his wife, *‘the best and bra-
vest listle woman in the world, with a
heart big as all outdoors,” he fondly as.
serts,
~Traveling cloaks are made of
striped limousine, with visite sleeves
and a pointed hood at the back,
a string of small boys bearing banners,
lanterns and red flags, and beating
gongs, tom-toms and drums. Some
musicians were behind them, and they
in turn were followed by men beanng
richly decorated canopies, under which
the like, ornamented with bright red
paper roses with vividly green leaves,
Then came a coffin shaped precisely like
the trunk of a tree and drawn by a
number of bearers, and behind it the
mourners in jéinrckshas drawn by
coolies. There were two mourners in
each ricksha, their faces concealed from
view by pieces of thick cotton cloth,
under which they were supposed to la-
ment without ceasing. Two or thres
’
and, in the event
yf any mourner ceasing from his labors,
he was reminded by an energetic prod.
i
i
would be apt to create. The din was
deafening. There were some women
in the procession, but not many, and
the small boy there, as everywhere,
seemed to predominate,
Many coflins are deposited by the
roadside on trestles or little piles of
matting or pleces of tin, but oftener
with no covering at all, and there they
remain for years and years, until they
finally burst open and fall apart. They
are never disturbed, Very few coffins
seem to be buried under the earth.
They have the appearance of being
placed under the ground and turfed
over, At first sight these little mounds
and hillocks of irregular shapes dotted
about here, there are everywhere in the
middie of cultivated fields, by the road-
side, in private grounds, and especially
in large vegetable gardens surrounded
by beds of lettuce, spinach, radishes,
ote., struck me as horrible, but one
grows to like them, They give some
relief to the otherwise perfectly flat ap-
poatancs of the landscape, There is no
eadstone and apparently no mark by
which to distinguish these graves in
any way from thelr neighbors, but that
they are so distinguished is beyond
auetion. for the Chinsse. mora than
|
i
|
!
| any other nation, hold their head in
| reverence, and the severest punishment
| cause whatever disturbed a coflin or a
| grave, transportation, strangulation
and decapitation being among the
mildest forms of penalties Incurred.
———
SHAD THAT si
NG.
Musical Members of the Finny
Tribe Giving Concerts at
Cape May.
The singing shad has been seen and
heard in lower Delaware Bay this
spring, It hasn't been seen in large
quantities, of course, for the appear-
ance of this odd fish In these waters is
arare occurrence, But few of the sing-
ing shad have enchanted the [ishermen
since the season began. They come
from the South and only when the wind
has died down and the water is quiet,
They come in schools, emitting musical
notes as they swim along. The sounds
they make are soft and something like
those of an wmolian harp. Its hard to
express, or rather imitate, on paper, the
melody they sing. It runs something
like this:
dum.
This sound cannot be made with any
effect except when the shad travel in
The singing of a single shad
| #3 too feeble to be heard above
ple of the water,
the first, probably
i no shad had
singing shad has
schools,
This year has been
for a decade, that the
favored the fishermen
of Delaware Bay, Captain Arnold, one
of the oldest and most truthful of
South Jersey fishermen, said the other
day that he had heard the singin
i a number of times in his
{ career, ‘‘They are rare, of
far North as this, Even when
coms only old fishers are apt
and distinguish them. We
about them and are more or less on th
lsokout for their occasional arrival
They really belong off coasts of
and Chill. There they
quite common,
are narrated about
fishermen,
breed In
pls
©
the
them by
The singing
also Japanese walers,
when they strike a school of singing
shad. They follow thew up reverently,
fish are
ed. They throw them food and ne
catch or eat them.”
The singing shad
common buck or roe shad,
large and there is a slig
the formation of h. Only an
pert fishermen can tell when he has
ught one of {
finny songsters, Oid
herman regard i
rizes and do not
is different fron
Jt is n
ifference in
the mout
the
the musical
nless they
hem.
Their singin
OwWin
¢ “rd $e py # .
A consians 1
Ady
wt
Aci it i
few sounds,
that
He Bane
theses pecull
Delaware or move on to New York ¢
mingle with the plain every-day Hud
son river shad is 1 They lo
t huand
Ler
LEH Ar 18h ever go on
iy ait ity
inde MLL}
fish and i
Why Germans Use Glasses,
‘It comes I:
oculist,
“Yes, but why
more near sighted t
Do they read more?’
**1 don't think do, bu
kind of books they read ti
their vision to be defective.’
“How so?"
*The German books are j
the dazzling old English
tries the eyes more than any other type
use in civilized countries, It
quires such close scrutiny that the eyes
are Invariably strained. >o well known
is this fact that recently the Austrian
minister of public ti
very sensible decreas forbid
of books printed in smal
public schools. Now, w
school books this would not be 80 nece:-
sary, but German books to be harmiess
must be printed large, bold faced
characters, is a large party of
v 1 >
HE reaiing,
a} sid
SA
Lan
Germans be
Americans?
they do, but it is the
Wa
iat causes
rinted in
types, which
in [¥
nm issued a
ling the use
type in the
$natri
INSLT Ud
:
:
it
{
'
in
There
iy changed to Roman, and the use of
English script has largely taken the
place of the German script in «
pondence. Educated Germans read
one style as readily as the other, and
the former is growl rapidly in popu-
larity, It will not be before
books will appear in the same char
ng
ong
when that time comes the eyes of suc-
ceeding generations will be stronger
than those of the present, but I don’t
apprehend that this will happen early
enough to injure my business,
come slowly and physicians will find
their hands full until the dawn of the
a
He Iospired Hope.
In Queen Anne's reign, Lord Bate-
man married three wives, all of whom
were his servants. A beggar-woman
meeting him one day in the street,
made him a very low courtesy.
“Ah God bless you,” said she, “and
If you do but live
long enough, we shall all be ladies in
time,’
~Treasurer Powers, of the National
Trotting Association, has completed
his bond In the sum of $20,000. His
sureties are William Edwards, Morgan
(G. Burkeley and E. A. Buck,
Sheer white woolen fabrics are
combined with Roman red India milk
in the construction of gay afternoon
dresses for the seaside,
«The tennis shoes of the season are
of soft, good-wearing leather, with
ankle straps, But for those who do not
like straps there are laced ones,
— New French basques, close-fitting
at the back, with deep pointed yoke
and semi-loose fronts snugly beited,
are oom by handsome silver
girdles with chatelalne and attach-
manta
| FASHION NOTES.
i
Summer mantles are short and
more in the mantilla than in the visite
| style,
~The magpie style of dress is still
in high vogue, and stylish costumes of
black and white are being made and
imported suitable for every occasion,
from the pretty morning dresses of
French zephyrs to luxurious gowns of
satin and lace.
— Dancing gowns of tulle In quaint
colors will be garnitured with orchide,
hops, dandelion blooms, thistle flowers,
sweet pea blossoms and other flowers
that have hitherto been little used, or
else the ornaments are entirely of gilt
or silver leaves and vines,
—**Orlental crape,’’ costing 35 cents
a yard, or cotton crepe de chine, as
some call it, is a beautiful summer
fabric, fine, soft and exquisitely dyed,
made in excellent imitation of crepe
de chine, and at a short distance not
unlikely to be taken for tho article
itself,
~The Marguerita 18 still
{ gant, being of some Lne woolen ma-
| terial, beaded all over with jel; lace
basque at the back, peaked lappels,
| trimmed with lace and jet In front;
| sleeves, composed of alternate rows of
| jet fringe and gatherd lace fril do
| not come down below the elbow.
~The Miranda is a taste'ul mantle
of black beaded gauze, trimmed with
lace and passementrie, The shape is
well-fitting at the back, with a lace
quilling forming a sort of
basque; visite sleeves and loose fronts
| finished into a point, The
ming forms a quilling down the front.
i
§
il
igs,
18 in the shape of a short cape well
fitted to the shoulders, and continued
It is made of a fine,
| fabric, beaded with jel,
and a strip of wide jet-beaded galloon
each side
The lapels are
ders to the waist on
the
up
jreton
had
made with a
square neck of which
vest,
drawn
permitting the removal of the vest in
play.
too 1s very plain fwith a long draped
tunic arranged s0 as to hamper the
little as possi-
bie.
—Cream-white Flemish lace Is much
deep Charles X collars or lea gowns,
and also dressy summer
that are Intended to have a picturesque
air, In
often of tinted China silk, with a skirt
of moire or faille Francaise, and drap-
ery of lace, Black is frequently chosen
for this combination, and the soft ma-
terials readily lend themselves LO
graceful lines,
quaint siyie,
have deep t
with lace.
We have also a number of pretly
summer bonnets describe. The
on
sleeves
covered
and the puffed
inted silk cuffs,
10
A tasteful mode is of fancy gauze,
trimmed with cross-siripe
with a large cluster of fowers in front,
and strings of faille ribbon to mateh.
The small capote is also
black tulle and lace, with a cluster of
flowers 1n front and faille strings.
The Directolre capole looks very
it Is trimmed with
side the large open border.
made of colored satin straw,
ribbon and ostrich tips.
—For dressy gowns are rich silk
passementrie yokes and cuffs to be laud
One matching
in effective and
of gold and olive-green shot slik, with
cuffs, and a pointed girdle with pendants
which held the plaits of the bodice at
the waist. All these silks and decora-
tions were made in close imitation of
chain armor, The ornaments, though
shades in the changeable silk.
—Piaited shirt walsts for neglige
various fashionable resorts over skirts
of every description. Waists in this
style made in Paris, are formed of
“gunshining.” a new fancy silk with a
These
waists are finished with sailor collar
and deep cuffs of moss green velvet.
Other waists are of plain milk briar-
stitched in various colors, and plain
styles are of figured percale, herring-
boned with Turky red cotton down the
edges of plaits, and on collars and
cuffs, #
—For tennis gowns all sorts of flan.
nels are used as well as all colors,
bright colors, howaver, predominate.
There is very little variely in the man-
per of making or draping, but the style
of trimming is maltitudineus, Braid.
ing and embroidety are both in use,
but the favorite garniture seems to be
the new galloons, both plain and in
tinsek Of course, the bodices are
mostly in the blouse form, and the
skirts with as little drapery as possible,
so as not to incommode one in ran-
Bing
re is almost as much necessily
for freedom of movement in a boating
costume a8 in a tennis gown. This
does not, however, preclude having a
pretty and becoming costume. Fian-
nel seems to be the favorite material,
although all wool goods are popular.
The latest idea In tennis as well as in
pink and qray,
and blue stripes, or polka dots,
are worn with dark blue or red
White serge is also used fat
blouse or skirt, and braiding
HORSE NOTES.
-Miss Ford, whe had been ver
strongly backed for the Suburban
pulled up lame at Jerome on Saturday.
June 24.
— Macbeth, winner of the K-n‘uek)
Derby, Jacobin and Lela May, belmg
ing to the Chicago stable, have beet
shipped to St. Louls,
-~Jewett, pacing record 2.14, is trot
ting this season, Peter Schatz has en
tered the black son of Allle West lp
the 2,22 class at Terre Haute,
~Colonel John Hayes, of Mifflintown,
Pa., has purchased of T. J. Middagh
the 8. ¢. Edmond Lavingston, by Wood.
lawn, dam May Queen, for $500.
—~Aurelia’s Croton handicap at Je
rome Park recently was the best por
formance of the season, and stamp
her a great mare beyond question.
— Virginia's State Agricultural Bo
clety will give $10,000 for trotling and
running races at its Fall Falr, which
will be held in Richmond in October.
~The dates of the Amenia (N. Y.
fall meeting have been changed fron
september 4 to 7 to September 11 U
13, bringing it the week after Paw
hing.
—A number of Washisgton (D. C.
gentlemen have decided to bulld a new
half-mile track near that city, or leas
Brightwood Park and hold weekly
matinees there,
~The 2.19 class at Charter Oal
Park, Hartford, June 22, Is a good oue
Spofford, Skylight, Pliot, Starietta, Ids
| Belle, David 1.., Olaf, Rosaline Wilkes
Favonia, Jessie and Lady Kensett ar
in it,
-Lavin'a Belle, winner of the la
{ tonla Oaks at Latonia, bears a ver,
i close resemblance to her full brother
Freeland, having the same siripe 0
white down her face and the same gen
eral conformation.
— Pierre Lorillard, Jr., has trade
the brown Dalesman, by limp
Pizarro, Nutwood Mald, by Lexington
with Mr. John Croker, for the chest
nut mare Witch, 5 years, by imp. Mor
| temer, from Lady Wallenstein, by Lex
ington.
-]t was fortunate the book
makers that thers were only mutual
| sold at Jerome on the day Aurelia rut
the City handicap, for if they had beer
All Haggix
would have about swamped some o
colt
for
— The American Trotting Associa
to meet the amend
| ment to Rule 6, Section 4, made at the
| February Congress of National Trot
| ting Association, by allowing hors
| that have never started in a public rac
to change name without paying a re
| cording fee of $50,
During a race on Thursday, June
5th, at Latonia a serious accident oc
curred to the valuable @lly Irene Dil
of Mr.
She was in the lead and
Scot
run
Hx
struck her on both legs, cutting one o
— Four of Electioneer’s get have en
and al
in races
Stock
Arbutus reduced his record 4
—Prince Wilkes’ frst engagemen
Ollver K. and Mambring
tis owner has declined sev
Cleveland, Philadelphia and New
York. After Detroit, Prince Wilket
will trot through the big circait in the
free-for-all class with Crit Davis be-
~The Gentlemen's Driving Club, of
The officers elected
Presi.
Vice President
Patrick Rodgers, Treasurer, and Frauk
W. Adams, Secretary. The Execu
tive Committee, whica will in the fu.
ture have full control of the track,Wu
James Thurs
and J. D. Mallory.
—The Bard is sick again,
seriously, The veterinary
but
who
no
has
membrane lining of the bowels, It
gives him some pain, and he turns hi
head and sort of bites at his fank, It
1s a recurrence of last Summer’
trouble, and the truth is the horse wil
always be liable to it while he Is In
training, as after such an attack as he
had last Summer there is always a sen
sitiveness or weakness to the part at
tacked, at least for a long time.”’
~The American mare Misty Morn-
ing trotted her maiden race on Euro
pean soil at Lyons, France, on May 13,
over a half mile course with a loom
surface used for runners and trotters
alike. The distance was two and i
half miles and the pole was on the
right hand, Kozyr, the winner, wen!
to saddle, the others in harness. Fo
wore than a mils and a half Misty
Merning led the way, taking the centry
of the track, when Kozyr, who stuch
to the pole, came away with a mixed
ted French mare, and beal the
ankee out. The time of the race
was 6.24, or at a mate of 2.35 pe
mile,
«The Withers stakes seem destined
never to be wholly satisfactory and are
full of sensations. The Dublin incl.
dent of 1874, the of the favorites
Basil and Leonard in s leaving Har
old at the post in 1879, and Mr. Keene
winning with Dan Sparling instead of
Spendthrift, much to of the
public; the disputed finish of Ferncliffe
and Grenada in 1880, the Tyrant run-
away and sensational success in 1885, all
combine to makes a chapter of accidents
such as have rendered the race an object
of superstition on the part of maay,
while with those who are
take a ore worldly view of it
never ceased to be a matter com