Sweet Sorrow,
Jife's chinlice overflowed with wine
Throughout a joyous year,
I quafled the dranght; 1 drained the lees
I drunken was, with cheer,
swore that life abould never be
Less flerce, less strong, less sweet,
What bad been, should be evermore,
«OF, rapturous and complete,
Naxt year that cup was filled with myrrh
Instead of pleasure’s wine,
And mingled with the bitter draught
Were tears, and they were mine
I spurned the cup, and dashed the draught
Down over desert sands,
And fled the plage, and many years
I roamed in distant lands.
i sought again to fill the cup
With wine, as sweet and strong
As that I drank, that wondrous year
W hen life was naught but song.
I sought in vain—the grapes 1 pressed
Flowed ever juice of gall;
Aud wars and blood were blended there,
Till I despaired of all,
And after many years had sped,
1 sought that desert land,
And 10! a spring was flowing there,
From out thearid sand,
1 drank the crystal water then,
To kill consuming thirst;
{ found it sweeter than the wine
Tuat filled my cup at first.
IS TERT
AN OBEDIENT HUSBAND.
The first time 1 me: my old chum
Vital Herbelot, altar leaving
old pupils of our provincial lycee.
I was not a little surprised to find the
Vital Herbelot of mature years quite a
different looking person from the youth
1 my friend
I knew him
painfully
ling the man I bad suppose
would grow into. When
ie was slender and tinted,
eat in his dress,
his manners and somewhat reserved,
;ies of a young lad determined to make
1is way in the position
wad obtained for him.
ompactly built, large
I now saw
limbed
she loud, clear, decided way of speak-
ing of one unaccustomed to weigh his
words. There was a free and easy and
aot ungraceful manoper about him a
lifferent as possible from that usually
wsumed Ly the building officials Ir
whose ranks 1 supposed him still to be.
to him. **Areyou no longer in govern
ment employ?”
gor less than a stupid old farmer. i
have a Mitle place half a league from
here at Ohauteraine, where i
wheat and black Burgundy grapes, the
wine from which you shall taste when
sou come to see me,”’
“You don’t mean to tell me that you,
he son and grandson of a government
model employee at the bureau, and for
whom the most brilliant future was
of distinguishing yourself in
shosen career?’
“Yes, that’s the simple truth.”
“How did it happen?’’
“My dear fellow,”
ing, “great effects are often produced
by very trivial causes,
was a couple of peaches that compelled
me to offer my resignation.”
“A couple of peaches?”
“Precisely so, and if you will drive
with me back to Chauteraine after we
have had our coffee 1 will tell you ex-
wetly how it came about.”
After coffee had been served we left
the Lanqueters, and while discussing
over cigars my friend began his story
as we skirted the banks of the canal,
It was a warm afternoon toward
end of August,
“You koow,” he said, *‘that I was
born in the profession, and that my
father, himself an old employe of the
be compared to the career of a govern-
ment official,
seived my degree, and as nothing more
brilliant offered, I was installed as a
clerk in my father’s office.
ular babus and bad been taught from
the cradle to respect my superiors and
to pay them the deference that was
their due, 1 was in great favor with the
heads of the bureau, When 1 was 25
a liking for we, took me into hio office,
flow clerks, 1 was, in fact, already
motion.
“1t was at that period 1 married.
My wife was an exceedingly pretiy
young girl, but who, though as good as
she was pretty and very affectionate,
had no fortune, This was considered
a grave mistake on my part in the little
world of employes in which I lived,
wany going so far as to assert that I
bad made a stupid blunder, and irre-
parably compromised my future. Nev-
srtheless, as my wite was allractive
ard amuable, and as we managed by
sconomy to make both ends meet, peo-
ple atter a while stopped talking of my
want of prudence and the society of the
provincial town in which we lived con-
jescended to receive us,
“My official superior, the director,
was wealthy. He gave frequent recep-
Lions, generous dinners, and now and
then a dancing party, to which his em-
ployes and the celebrities of the town
were invited, At the end of the year,
my wife, who was in delicate health,
wus compelled to remain at home when
invited on these occasions, and although
I should bave preferred keeping her
company I wus obliged to go alone, for
my host could not permit his invita.
tions to be refused.
“It so Lappened that just when my
wife was a little more indsposed than
usual there came a summons Lo a great
ball, and 1 was thus compelled, much
against my wishes, to don my dress
cont again,
“Jus as I was about starting and
was engaged in tying my cravat, my
wife begun to shower observations on
me,
* “That will do capitally,. Now don’t
forget Wo notice everything carefully so
as to be able to give me a detailed ac-
count of all that happens, Ishall want
to know the names of the ladies, how
they dressed and the bill of fare of the
supper, for they’re going lo have a
splendid one, I hear that there are a
heap of good things coming from
“Cheyet’s, including some early fruid
The grocer says that there will be
peaches that cost three francs a piece,
Oh! 1 adore peaches, Do you know, if
you were a very, very good boy indeed
you would bring me one?”
“Against this preposterous demand I
entered at earnest protest, but the
stronger the objections offered the more
my wife insisted that I should gratify
her whim,
“On the contrary, nothing 1s easier,
Promise to bring me at the least one,
Swear you will,” »?
“What can one say, when the wife
of one’s bosom takes so decided a stand,
especially if she is in delicate health?
It ended by my giving a vague prom ise,
and was hurrying away when, just as
my hand was on the door knob, she
called me back. I saw her great blue
eyes fixed on me, her face aglow with
the pleasure of the expected treat, as
she cried:
* «You promise?”’
“It was a very attractive ball.
ers everywhere, fresh toilettes and an
excellent orchestra, The prefect, the
president of the court, the officers of
Flows
place—were there, At mudnight
them in some agitation, and
e of honor in the mid
dle of the table, the
sent by Cheyet.
“They were superb,
»
Arranged like
leaves, with which the dark red and
whitish green of the fruit coutra ted
feasted on
and could easily imagine the stite of
carrying home with me a specimen ol
this magniticent fruit,
“The longer I looked at them
Luneville vase of one or two of ils treas-
But how
my nefarious design. The
duets of the hothouse, and it presently
appeared that my host had reserved
hem for the consumption of a
From time to time,
silver knife and offer the two
rich plate of Sevres ware 10
watche
and feild
a3 the
surely
halves ona
the person designated. 1
cold
chills creep over
slowly
me
but melted
“Still the vase was not quite emptied
the dancers, recalied by
in
hastily returned to the ball room.
precious fruit still lying in their leafy
bed.
+1 followed the crowd, but made only
a pretended exit, I had left my hat in
a corner in the upper room, in order to
have an excuse for going back alter it,
was a silk bat, and
considerable trouble in properly dispos-
ing of it during the evening. As I was
quite Intimate at the house the servant
Besides, at that moment they were busy
ed fruit had now been placed.
“After furtively glancing to the right
my bat, frst wrapping them in my
handkerchief. Then very calmiy and
with much dignity. although my heart
was beating frightfully, 1 left the sup-
against my
breast and holding it there by my right
hand skillfully thrust in the bosom of
my vest, which attitude gave me
not to say Napoleo-
My intention was to cross the ball-
victorioualy home.
“This litt!
as dancing bad just commenced again,
All around the room was a double row
of black coats and wall flowers, sur-
empty chairs of the dancers, Then
came a large empty space in the mid.
dle, where the latter were enjoylug
themselves. It wus this space that I
had to eross in order Lo reach the door
of the waiting room,
“f timidly wended my way between
the groups and glided adroitly among
the chairs with the suppleness of an
adder. 1 trembled with anxiety lest
some awkward elbow should displace
my head covering and cause the covel-
cotild hear them rolling around, and I
turned red up to the very roo's of my
hair.
» At last, after much tribulation and
soveral false alarms, I made my way
out into the open space just as a new
figure was being ananged.
dle of a circle of dancers who, Joining
hands, pass around their backs toward
her, While this is being done, she
places a hat she holds in her hand on
the head of the gentleman she wishes
for 8 partuer in a quadrille, On this
occasion it was my host's daughter who
wis to perform the hat trick, snd I bad
hardly taken two steps on my way Lo
the waiting room when she called out:
“A hat! 1 must have a hat.’
“Then she caught sight of me with
my stovepipe glued to my breast I
saw that I was recognized, and could
feel ull the blood in my body rush into
my face, while my heart seemed to
stand still i a spasm of alarm.
“Ah!” she said, you come juss in
time, M, Herbelot, ‘Your hat please,’
w Before 1 could stamioer out a word
of protest. she had seized that useful
article of my attire, and so suddenly,
that the peaches were Lirown some dis-
tance in one direction while my hand
kerciliof and the vine leaves flew in an-
other,
“You can imagioe the scene, The
dancers laughed in thelr sleeves at the
disclosure of my thett and my utter dis-
comfiture, My host frowned and look-
ed annoyed, while the staid wall flowers
eved me askance, I fet my limbs
giving way under me, How I wished
that there had been a trap in the floor
that I might have disappeared from
public view,
“The young girl bit her lips to keep
from laughing as she politely returned
me my hat,
sM, Herbelot,’ she said in a slightly
ironical tone, *had you not better pick
up your peaches?’
*“T'his was the signal of an outburst
of laughter from all parts of the room,
Even the servants had great difficulty
in restraining themselves from joing
in the general mirth, As for me pale,
haggard and trembling, I fled from the
room, 1 was so upset that it was some
moments before I could find the out-
side door, and when I finally reached
the open air I lost no time in returning
home to pour my sorrows into my wife’s
sympathizing ears,
“The next day the story was all over
town. When I went to the office my
fellow clerks saluted me with:
* sHerbelot, pick up your peaches,’
“It made me blush again, I could
not walk a step in the street without
having some one behind me say:
“*That’s the gentleman with
waches,’
“Phe situation became intolerable,
| and a week later 1 sent in my resigna-
on,
“An uncle of my wife’s had an estale
| in the neighborhood of my native town.
I asked him to take me as an assistant;
! he consented, and we moved to Chau-
teraine, What more is there to tell?
1 went resolutely to work rising at
dawp and not shirking any necessary
Libor. It turned out that I had a
greater talent for agriculture
drawing up official documents, for in a
| short time 1 became a
The estate throves so well under my
the
i ab his death,
which you will now find It,
We had reached Chauteraine,
| ing through an orchard where the trees
ing so heavy with their luscious burden
of apples and pears that they touched
the ground, After leaving the orchard
and going through a vegetable garden
| we could see the white front of the
trelliswork had been made, whence
ung a fine show ot peaches ripening in
i the sun.
“You see,” said Vital
conclusion, *‘that 1 worship
i 1 owe my happiness to them.
the amusing incident I have
i should still be a slender
i ling at the
the crowd
{ who Oi
PERCHOS,
But for
related I
treme
swelll
official,
prefect’s frown,
of underpaid subs
ud the utmos. difficulty
| ing both ends meet, and fearing
should be blessed
srdinales
with a large family
| for my offspring; while now 4 am my
own master, raise my own
iam not afraid of a whole bouseful of
children,’
At that moment my ears were assail-
ed by the joyous shouts of boysand girls
fssuing from the interior of the dwell.
ing. And at the window of the ground
floor, framed in by the peach covered
plump and handsome yet, although ap-
proaching 40, bersell resembling a ripe
peach gilded by the light of the selling
san.
Sonsa——————— AI SS
Facts Worth Knowing.
| There are 385 colleges in the United
| States, 4856 institutions of learning,
and 65,718 students in them,
| to Liverpool in 12} days—the fastest
| time on record for a sailing vessel,
{| The public land is not all gone yet
{ There are still 9,000,000 acres in Color.
{In Calitornia,
7,000,000 in
40,000,000
Florida, 44,000,000 in
i ldoho,
{ 00J in Utah, 20,000,000 in Washington,
and Territories, while
fertile fields that have
touched.
The man who never changes his opin.
ion is ons who never enlarges his ine
formation,
Alaska
has
below it, and devils beyond it
the New Jersey House of Representa-
| tives by a very large majority. It makes
| the county clerks one dollar for grant
{ ing each one,
| The mines of the United States con-
{ tinue to furnish increasing quantities
| of precious metals, The gold product
| for 1838 amounted to $33,175,000, be-
{ing $179,000 more than for 1887, The
| silver product of 1888 amounted to $43,-
F 000,000, The total value of the non-
| metallic products of the United States
Lin 1887 was $285,804 912, and of me-
tallic products $250,419,283, and of un-
| specified metallic products $6,000,000,
tand in 1888 the valoe of these natural
products is estimated to be more than
| $560,000,000,
According to the'Almanag just issued
by the American Board of Foreign
Missions, the thirty missionary socie-
ties in the United States have an in.
come of $3.900907; 1,193 stations,
2,054 out stations; 937 male, and 1,200
female missionaries; 8,017 native heip-
ers, 2,243 churches with 174,784 com-
municants, of whom 21,978 were added
last year; 3.864 schools with 137,906
pupils,
The twenty-two missionary societies
in the United States managed by wo
men and whese support comes from
women, support 751 missionaries, last
year contributed $10,335,124.
The whole missionary force of Great
Brita'n, Continental Europe and the
Unit States have an annual income
of $0,306,906; mau and equip 9,550
; support 5,431 missionaries;
have the assistance of 82,015 native
helpers, and mission churches that have
588,974 communicants and 1,876,655
adherents,
«John ¥. Taroer has Fred Folger
at Ambler Park,
Stories of Prof. Morse.
When Morse, the father of the tele-
graph, was taking daguerreotypes ou
top of the building at the corner of
Nassau and Beekman streets, New
York, Samuel Colt, the inventor of the
revolver, was a friend of the electri.
cian, Colt had nis mind full of a tor-
pedo for the deteuse of the coast, which
was to be exploded by an electric cir
cuit. As Morse had the wires and
battery, the dabbler in torpedoes found
bis necessary machmery ready at hacd,
Ou one occasion, when Morse was ab-
sent, an experiment was to be tried on
the roof of the house, with a slight
charge of powder, which was to be con-
fined under a drum of figs. The gen-
tleman who tells this story was then a
mere lad, light of weight, and was ex-
actly the convenient resisting medium
which Colt wanted, It was agreed
that the boy should stand on the box
while the powder was fired, Just asall
preparations were completed, and the
jad stood on the box, Prof, Morse ap-
peared, who took in the situation at a
glance, ‘*Stop,’’ he cried, **Colt, bid
that boy get down, 1f you want to try
the experiment, jump up in his place,”
“There is not the eighth of a pound of
powder there,” said Colt, “but, 1 am
agreed. I will get up In the boy’s
place, Professor, do you touch
key,” Touch the key did Morse. An
explosion followed, and it was all Colt
could do, who was a man of large build,
| to prevent himself being hurled over
| into the street below, It the
stood there, he would have been cer-
tainly lifted into the air, 1t was evi-
dent that then Prof, Morse knew that
explosions were intensified 1n accord-
| ance with the means employed to fire
| peculiar substances, and must have had
| an Inkling of the effects of what is.now
called the vibratory influence on deton-
| ating substances. *Once,”’ says an in-
formant, **in Prof. Morse’s later life,
| he wanted a package of papers, which,
he told me, were on histable, I secur-
ed & voluminous bundle of documents,
| sented them to the Professor. ‘You
have made a mistake; these are not the
| papers I wanted, Sill, though they
are of no moment now, aL one time
they caused me a certain amount of
| disturbance, They represent vouchers
| paid by me for lawyers, cosls and ex-
| penses in defending my telegraph. I
once took the trouble to add up the fig-
ures, I cau’t give it exactly now, bul
the aggregate ought to sum up Some-
thing very close to $500,000." Prof.
Morse’s charities were endless, All the
impecunious of the Umited States made
| bim their mulch cow, He gave, if not
| wisely, at least well, and musl have,
during the last tweuly years of his
dispensed a fortune in small sums,
ile,
Co
Physical Caltare,
Dr. Sargent, the noted writer
y
lecturer. and teacher of Physical Caul-
rouse enthus:asm in the department of
{ physical education than any other
If you walk Into any mode
be
Pt 1
son, rn
| of the apparatus which is used there
by athletes, is the product of hi
ous mind, His latest invention is Lhe
“Quarter Circle” chiefly for
the lower chest, although 1t also brings
{nto exercise the upper chest, as well as
the sides and abdomen. This is an ex-
cellent exercise for clerks who sit most
lof the day w ith their chests bent over
| their desks,
| For an all-round exerciser, and one
that can be put up wn your own bed.
room, 1 know of nothing half so good
as ihat compact little invention of Prof.
| L. W. Dowd, of New York, who is
| principal of the Home School for Phy-
sical Culture. He calls it the Home
Exerciser. On this superb apparatus
| any man, wownan or child can secure,
las a matter of pleasant pastime, the
designed
| body. The weights can be adjusted
frow light to heavy, so that it may be
{readily adapted for the use of a weak
person as well as a stroug muscular
| athlete.
| Mr, Emerson says that **health is the
| first wealth,” but sirauge as it may
seein, it is nevertheless true, that peo-
| ple pay much more attention to ge ting
the second wealth than the first, which
often takes upon iteell wings aud flies
laway, and leaves ils victims in the
wretched condition of both poverty and
ill health,
If exercise 1s not taken moderately it
does but little good; in fact if 100 much
lis taken it may weaken rather than
| strengthen the body, Therefore every
person who commences 21 systematic
| course of gymuastic exercises, should
| first undergo a thorough examination
| by a competent person, so that he ma
| know the weak parts of his body which
| require special exercise for develop
| ment. There are many excellent boo.s
| published on Physical Culture, among
| the number one by William Blaikie,
| which gives full instruction on the Lest
methods of developing the different
parts of the body and the best appara.
tus for use in the accomplishment of
that object, to which we direct the at-
tention of every person who intends to
begin the course of gymnastic exercises,
Vanderbilt and His Father,
Here is a good example for boys,
You have all heard of the late Mr.
Vanderbilt and the great sum of money
be had when he died, Thais is how he
obeyed his father and cheerfully vield-
ed to nis wishes, even when he wasa
big boy, and older than any of yo,
The same spirit displayed by ail of you
will bring you out all right.
The son was then Qirty-two years
old, and himself a father. They were
on board the steam-yacht Northern
Star, on their way to St. Petersburg.
William, who was a habitual smoker,
was puffing his favorite cigar. *“Bill,’
sald the molore, “1 wish you'd
ve up that smoking habit of yours.
1 sive you ten thousand dollars if you
will,"
“You peadn’t give me anything
was the son's answer, as he flung
cigar overboard, “Your wish is sufli-
cient.” He never smoked afterward,
used for decoration, for bonnets and
Fawn.
FASHION NOTES.
A pretty spring dress for a young
girl, was of a light fawn color cash.
mere, with the accordion plaited skirt,
and the walst Directoire style, with
the back, in deep, plain slashes. It
was a very neat but plain costume,
—A very handsome epring costume
is of *‘0ld rose” camel’s hair, with a
white border. It 1s made Directoire
style. The revers are of *‘old rose”
velvet, the vest 18 of cream colored
surah, with a broad band at walst
line of the velvet. The sleeves have a
puff of white surah and a cuff of vel
vel.
—Dragon-flies, black birds, and black
butterflies are fashionable trimmings
amid flowers and feathers; and lace is
now in great favor, for hat trimming,
Ribbons are in endless variety. Gauze
ribbons, brocades ribbons, striped rib-
bons, ribbons onbre, and others are
employed.
~The high hats have had their
death knell sounded at last. Some of
the new hats are very flat, and some
are nothing but a little piece of silk or
{limsy materal, with a bunch of flowers
in front, The toques are still in de.
mand, but are lower and more pointed
in front than they were,
—Home dressmaking is made quite
{ simple and easy now, The stores in
| addition to their loaded counters, also
offer to fit the waist of bought ma-
| terial, or to cut and pin together the
whole costume, The paper patterns of
| sizes to order, 1s also a great help to
| one who does her own sewing.
| ~The Directolre jersey Is cul away
{over a vest, and fastened with two
| high buttons, Mataleea of silk,
surah and merveileuse are a perfec
delight to an ease-loving woman, There
| 18 comfort in them and good looks, the
yokes are shirred, tucked or smocked,
and they are confined to the waist with
| a loose belt or girdle, They are mostly
| trimmed with lace and are made in all
the new desirable shades,
| ~The full-waisted jerseys are very
| popular for those who cannot stand the
| severe style of the tallor-made article,
| These have yokes of plaits, tucks and
| of smocking, the fuliness belted in at
| the waist with a wide belt and oroa-
| mental buckle, They are made of
| plain and striped goods, and in many
| cases embroidered with braid herring-
| bone stitch or have a plastron of Per-
| sian trimming.
with projecting brims in front and
scarcely any brim in the back.
The Directolire hat,
| face, and quantities of flowers upon iL,
| Lace also belongs to the Empire styles,
| outside the brim,
~A very striking and stylish ging-
| drapery.
and had a vest of pink surah.
were large wooden molds
with the pink, for decoration.
sleeve was lovely, at the elbow
was slashed and a puff of the pink
| the stripes of the gingham crossing it.
~The blouse walsts can be had In
the finest knife plaiting give the neces-
| sary fit and yoke-like effect.
| Belts come of the same material,
| and are indispensible, as some of the
| fullness is left around the walst for
| each wearer Lo arrange for herself, and
ie to be drawn In
| Satin-faced surah blouses have falled-
| in undersiesves halfway between elbow
| and waist, of some contrasting color
in the material,
| skirt, tucked, and shirred on a low-
| necked waist, which had a vest of
| velvet. The balf sleeves were of vel-
| vet. A white waist was worn under
[itas a yoke and sleeves, which set it
| off beautifully.
{| Another one for a child, was of
| rose colored cashmere with the robe
[inmming. It bad a fall skirt of box
| plaits, and the waist was shirred from
| the shoulders to the waist, over a tight
[ lintmig, cut low, and had a yoke of
white surah, Thue shirring at the waist
ribbon.
~The “witch stitch” is something
pew 1a embroidery, and surely there is
witcheralt about it, for the patiern
jvoks as though half or more of it
were in applique, but it isn’t. The
thread 18 carrie! along on the under
side, just outlining the patiern on the
right side; the remainder of the de-
sign 1s worked in the ordinary stitch,
making an exceedingly pretly pattern
and taking novelty. AL some houses
we fod this new feature, and a be-
wildering mass of Hambargs of every
widths and design. The forty-five
inch Bouncing of revering and em-
broldery is ths most popular of all the
widths; some patterns wre made up of
revering as wide asthe insertion with
which it alternates; others have
clusters of cords mingling with home-
stitch effects, while some patterns em-
brace them all,
«The world has moved until now,
leading houses show a live of Scotch
zophyt that for design, style,
finish and range of color rival silk, and
a gingham dress 18 no longer the plain,
simple garment it was of old, Revering
and lace stripes are found in all combi-
HORSE NOTES,
~Bplan’s book is an interesting one.
Parana, 2.194, will be bred to
Edgemark.
~Terra Cotta is favorite for the
Suburban just at present,
—FEdwin C. recently paced a quarter
in 83 seconds in California,
—S8heridan will start at Memphis
and then move on Brooklyn.
~The races at Chicago will be timed
by electricity the coming season,
~— Bookmaker and Wrestler are two
3 year olds well thought of at New
Orleans.
~The vill to prevent pool gelling in
Minnesota failed to pass the Senate by
a single vote.
~—Jockey Mclaughlin is carrying a
good deal of flesh, and will begin at
once to train down.
—There will be a running meeting
at Birmingham, Ala., preceeding the
opening at Memphis,
—James Wilson, of Harrodsburg,
Ky., has a fast 8 year old gelding in
the hands of Cnt Davis,
—Seott Quinton will take his $20,000
Mascot to Mentana, ia company with
Prodigal, Patron’s brother.
—Mr. Wesley P. Balch has decided
to offer his $10.000 purse for stalilons
which have never beaten 2.18,
—W. H. McCarthy will ship his
horses from Los Angeles, Cal,
Terra Haute, Ind,, about the middle
of April.
—Jimmy Green, at the Gentlemen's
Driving Park, has a fine 3 year old colt
by Sultan, dam Ella Lewis, record
2.264.
—John Splan will have Pro‘ection,
2.104; the pacer Argyle, 2.14%, and a
fas. green sidewheeler iu bus string
this year.
~—Wesley P. Baleh will give a $10,-
000 stallion race, to be trotled over
some of the New England tracks in
September,
—The famous brood-mare Alma
Mater, who produced Alcantara, Ar-
biter, ete., will be bred to Eleclioneer
this year.
—James Keenan; the well known
Boston sporting man, owner of Frank,
record 2.054, with running mate, is
reported to be dying.
—George Barbee can now ride at 112
| pounds. He has decided to retire
from training and take the saddle
| again,
—A(3abe Caldwell bas been
{to start the borses at the
mee ing, After Baltimore,
Beach,
— Winchell will ride for Mr. J. B.
Haggin this year, he rezular meet-
| ing at New Orleans commences April
| 8,
engaged
Baltimore
Brighton
—Mors than 200 horses are now
{ training at the Lexington track, the
]irgest number the old association has
had 10 many years,
Mr. Arthur Hunter's young horses
at Jerome Park are being trained by
Harry Brown, They are pronising,
| 80 far as looks go.
J. F. Caldwell will handle the flag
Nashville and Washington, after
wh eh he will probably start the horses
{at Jerome Park and go the grand
| round.
| at
—Captain Jack Jardy, one of the
best known sporting men in the Soulh-
| west died at New Orleans recently,
after a short illness of but one day.
He was a well known characier on the
New Orleans race track.
—Senator Leland Stanford has a
magnificently equipped stable at Washe
ington. Eight horses make up the
| string, though there are boxes for
twenty. A pair of blacks valued at
$20,000 are Mrs. Stanford's especial
price.
— Homer Brewster who has recently
returned from South America, has
purchased the Peck Farm ai Fassump-
| sie, Vt,, where he already has half a
| dozen horses in training. He in ends to
| build a bhaif-mile track on the farm
| when spring opens.
§
~Nat. Brown, proprietor of the
Merchants’ Hotel at Omaha, has
| bought from John H. Eriey, of Chi-
| cago, the per U. Bet and his running
| mate Jack Go Easy, and from Ed
| Smith the black pacer New Hope.
| U. Bet and mate have a pole record of
2.054%.
Hanover still keeps up his trolling
exercise, and be goes a gosd many
miles every day. He appears to have
been reduced in flesh a little bit and is
looking well, Sir Dixon, Inspector
B. Kiogston, Oregon, Taviston, Long-
street aud the viher horses in the older
division of the Dwyer siring are look-
ing well and are taking plenty of slow
exercise,
~J. B. Chass, of Sacramento, Cal.,
has had the misfortune to lose his 2
year old Olly Catharine, by Warwick,
. which fell dead ou the
Sacramento track after an exercising
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