THE GLOWWORM.
Beneath the hedge or near the stream,
A worm is known to stray,
That shows by night a lucid beam,
Which disappears by day.
Disputes have been, and still prevail,
From whence its rays proceed ;
Some give that honor to his tall,
And others to his head.
But this is sure, the hand of night,
That kindles up the skies,
Gives him a modicum of light,
Proportioned to his size.
Perhaps indulgent nature meant,
By such a Jafnp bestowed,
Ta bid the traveller, as he went,
Be careful where he trod;
Nor crush a worm whose nseful ligh®
Might serve, however small,
t'o show a stumbling stone by night,
And save him from a fall.
Whate'er she meant, this truth divine,
Is legible and plain,
*Tis power almighty bids him shine,
Nor bids hin shine tn vain,
Cowper.
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Pictures in Our Homes.
HELEN EVERTSON SMITH.
In a country house in summer we
can dispense with pictures on our walls,
for Nature has provided them so liber-
ally out of doors. In our shortsprings
we are so hurried with the pressure of
the work that the season entails, that
then we care little for in-door pictures,
and in the melancholy gorgeousness of
autumn we still care comparatively lit-
tle for pictures of human painting.
But in winter, though there is a species
of stern white beauty in a snow covered
country where twisting branches stand
athwart a clear, cold sky, and once in a
while there is a day when Nature decks
herself in her own
frost diamonds and astounds us
her regal magnificence, we find many
davs when the out-look is not inviting
and this is the time when our in-look
not only with upholstery and other
furnishings but with pictures on our
walls,
It is not so very many years ago
when the walls of even a well-to-do
farmer's house were as innocent of pie-
tures as his wife's face of paint, save in
a few cases, when, in the doubtful
was hun near the ceiling of the ‘‘best
room,” cheerful scene like the
“Death-Bed of Harrison,” in which
the dying president was shown lying on
his bed, looking ghostly white, and on
the point of smothering beneath the
rapidly descending weight of a heavy
red and yellow canopy, which was part-
ly sustained by the wooden-looking
fignres of Mrs.
clad in vivid purple and green,
Daniel Webster, Henry Clay and John
Tyler, standing about the room habited
in brown and blue were carefully gath-
ering their filbert-sized tear drops into
soma
On turning to get relief from this
our eyes would be met by a landscape
wainted in oils, perhaps by the good
be use wife during her six months of
“polishing” at a boarding-school. In
the fore-ground of this picture rises a
hay-cock-shaped mound of a pala green
color, and of a texture resembling a
coerse cashmere, tufted at intervals of
an inch or so with dark green worsted,
On the top of this arrangement which
is supposed to indicate a grassy slope,
is a small searlet colored house of which
three sides are simuitaneously present-
he beholder. At the right hand
ieture stands a misshapen girl,
full head taller than the house, clad
and lavender, vigorously
t either extremity what ap-
a huge boa-constrictor with
arent intention of using it as a
} 0} In the left fore-ground
f this imaginative creation rises the
semblance of a large green feather
duster, which the artist supposed to be
to brush away from an intensely blue
skv, a ragged bit of dark bine flannel
Let no one imagine this picture of a
picture to be an exaggeration, for the
writer could to-day sccompany any
donbting soul to houses where sim-
tlar triumphs of art are exhibated by
their owners with a comical pride as
evidences of the superior culture of
their early days.
When we remember the before men-
tioned, and other productions of an
undeveloped taste, we are genuinely
grateful for the day of good cheap pic-
tures, for the day of photographs and
engravings, and even for that of the
despised chromo; for now even the com-
paratively poor can possess good copies
of natural scenes od genuine works
of art which shall ealtivate the taste of
their children.
that they cannot attain, will in time in-
evitably drive out the atrocious danbs,
the gaudily engraved marriage certifi
cate and the black vordered mortuary
record, which have too often and too
long made hideous the walls of some of
our country houses. And when we see
that some exclusives are dissatisfied be-
csuse they can no lomger lock up the
treasures of art so that no eyes save
those of a privileged few shall be able
to get even an idea of them, we thank
God that their selfishness is impotent
sod that He has given to men the power
of —at least in a degree—making these
things common property
There are in our Poy land few in-
dustrious and sober heads of families
who can not afford to bring into their
homes either a fine photograph, or en-
graving, or chromo at least once a year,
and there are few things which have
gre-ter educational force.
Children will earlier learn lessons
from pictures than from any other
source save parental example. An en-
aving of our Lord calling around Him
the groups of wondering little children
has given to many an infant mind its
first ideas of a Baviour's love—ideas
which the well known of marvel-
lous Lianardo da Vinei's picture of the
Last bupper has served to strengthen.
But religious pictures are not the only
ones we would choose, Let us humbl
follow the example of our Maker. He
spreads around us, with a lavish hand,
beauty of every variety. Let us bring
into our homes all the beauty that we
¢'n and when choosing pictures choose
them for their beauty rather than
any specific lesson they may be sup-
posed to teach.
Yet we would admit no picture that
conveyed a bad | esson, or one of even
doubtful moral import. No pictures
at all are far better bad ones. B
which adjective we mean not merely
Ity, but
effectually
those which are fan
those which silently ally
teach lessons which you would not wish
your child to learn. A good many
ong years ago there was published in
New York a weekly literary paper
called the New York Mirror (prede-
cessor of the Home Journal of to-day)
which gave every month a fine engrav-
ing by way of a bonus to its subseri-
bers. A pile of these had accumula-
ted in my tather’s garret and 1 was
allowed to look them over and select
one or two at a time to pin upon the
wall of my little room. Among those
I thus chose, was one called ‘‘Satisfac-
tion,” a dismal scene in which one poor
fellow was being carried bleeding from
the field of the duel while a surgeon
was endeavoring to tarn his opponent
who had fallen face downwards. Pistols
and surgical implements were in the
fore-ground and a carriage waited in
the distance. I was too young to form any
idea of the significance of the picture,
but had been attracted by the desolate
expanse of moor-land and sky. As
soon as my father saw my choice he
took it down, saying, to my mother,
while he replaced it with a pleasanter
subject—,
“(Child as she is I do not wish her to
become accustomed to the idea of death
by violence.” And then he told of how
a school companion of his own had for
years slept in a room upon the walls of
which hung a finely executed engrav-
ing of a mau in the act of suicide by
cutting his throat. The picture wasa
strong one and full of a painful fas-
cination to all who belield it. As this
lad grew np he seemed to become mor- |
bidly attached to the picture and when
he entered Willinm's College he took
the engraving with him. It hang in
his room during his stay there and was
next hung on the walls of his law office. |
A few mouths later the poor young fel- |
tion of the victim in the engraving, his
throat ent by his own hand and his |
glazed eve still fixed upon the fatal
pieture.
It is this is a peeunharly
influence, but
we can have no doubt that the minds of
true th
or less jufluenced by the nature
of the picture upon which they habit. |
ns the
above should teach us to exclude from
our homes those illustrated papers which
represent scenes of crime, and to hang
on our walls only those piotures which |
shall convey healthful ideas while grati. |
fy:ng and cultivating our taste for the
true and beantiful in art.
Of Interest to Women.
Nobody with & Keen ippreciation of |
a flower with a wire, and if the beanti- |
ful buds have not stems, or, as a small
to tie together, then they are sent loose
in a box. The enormous corsage bou- |
quets of a few years ago have given
place to a few clusters of flowers, or in-
deed one very rare bud, which Charles
may send vou, delicately done up in
cotton and bearing his compliments at-
tached to it. However, as Charlie is |
the son ot a millionaire—a millionaire
who 1s generous already of his millions,
you receive a great gorgeous basket of
a mauve ribbon broad enough for yon
to wear as a sash. The florist to-day is
a power in the land. People who nsed
to send more material thiogs, or else
nothing, now convey their compliments
with a blossoms or a gorgeous
buneh of eolor, and the florists’ shop-
window decorated with more care
than is the Academy at the aunual re-
ception. Don’t you remember when
tulip-balbs in glass jars jars that were
bloe, green or dark purple—-were
counted quite enough of an ornament
for a florist’s shop? Now, in one win-
Jrondway the decorations are
changed every afternoon, and magnifi-
cent palms form a background fora
great, glowing mass of color, while the
tiniest of blossoms peep out from a bed |
of moss as if they were growing there
in reality. There 18 always a crowd
aronnd this window, and I think it is
the best evidence of the improvement
in American taste within the last few
yoars, There are no wires to stab the |
buds and each one is enframed, either
its own foliage or in that peculiar to
the country from which 11 comes. —
Jab,
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A Terrible Weapon.
The new gun with which the German
infantry is to be equipped bids fair to
revolutionize infantry tactics and to
will be a matter of difficulty. The new |
instrument is the small calibre repeat- |
ing gun of the model of 1888, Its eali- |
bre is bet eight millimeters and its |
range is 12,500 feet, or 1600 feet great- |
er than that of the weapon whose place |
it takes. It 1s very light and 1s con- |
structed for the use of the new smoke
less powder. Earth breastworks less
than 2} feet are no protection against
this terrible weapon. A description of
it says: “From now on even the stout-
est trees will give the foot soldier in
battle little protection, for the balls
from the new guns will simply pass
right through the trunks. Six men in
column, each seven paces from the man
before Lim, may be shot through with
one bullet, provided that it comes in
contact with no metallic substance on
the person of any of them. The ad-
vantage that the bullet of the new gun
leaves only a small hole behind it is
comparatively insignificant. Moreover,
should an enemy, as has often happen
ed, defend himself behind a village or
court-yard walls, he will be protected
only in case the wall is remarkably
stout, for balls from the new guns have
repeatedly penetrated with ease walis a
brick and a half thick.” With a range-
finder attached to such a weapon as
this, making every bullet that it fires
effective, its murderous qualities will
be so complete that no one exposed to
ite fire could live. But when wars get
to be as dangerous as this, and recruits
know that the chances of escape are not
more than one in one hundred, where
will the governments get their troops?
«Chicago Tribune,
Tb color white pasteboard the color
of leather, soak in solution of copperas
and then in ammonia,
S——
It ia proposed to substitute 0 new
measure of light as a standard in place
of the candle, and it 1a thought that
some ove of the measures already us
will be adopted, S Sued
Magicians and Maglio.
REMINISCENCE,
The cloverest of people are liable to
mistakes and mishaps at times, and so
are magicians. We have all seen and
know of the watch trick. It happened
that an amateur conjurer in his early
stage of experience gave an entertain-
ment. His friends all kindly volun-
teered to assist him, The watches were
carefully changed and the magician
smashed to destruction the sham watch
but when he came to change again and
show the real watch in excellent trim,
he found that his friends behind the
scenes in their zeal to help him had
simultaneously imitated him. While
he was destroying the sham they were
doing likewise with the real one. Mis-
takes like these cost dear.
On another occasion 8 bank note for
quite an amount was borrowed from
one of the audience and through the
ross carelessness of an assistant it per-
ished in the candle flames. When the
conjurer came to return the note he
found only the piece of paper he had
prepared for the burning operation.
There was a man who particularly
excelled in producing eggs and his fame
spread abroad, One evening he was
invited to perform before & very fash-
ionable gathering. It was his eustom
to make a point of using hard-boiled
eggs for his experiments, but in some
In the mide of the performance he
it had not been boiled
and fell on the dress of a lady present.
Nor was this all. The egg soon proved
a disagfeeable sensation that the party
Some of the many wonderful things
that magicians do are worthy of special
mention. There hasbeen no one to equal
royal favor. We refer more particu-
thus made. He was the originator of
more than one trick and noted for his
remarkably clever treatment of others,
ments is that with the flowers, raising
anywhere and at any time without any
visible aid.
entertainment of the magical order.
expansive and full of business,
His first
A little funny, finger
rose flame spread over the water to the
delight of his boy auditors. Then the
blade of an ordinary steel table knife
was made to melt like wax in the flame
of a tallow candle. A bar of lead was
hands in the molten metal.
ing to the water which had been burn.
ing all this t.me he dipped a pen into it
and wrote on a foided paper. The let.
ters and words he 1nseribed stood out
in green flame, when exhibited to the
gaze of his sadience,
If wo bad stepped behind the
scenes for a moment while the pro-
fessor was packing up, and if he
inclined to be talkative or disclose
any of his magic we should have
heard something like this
ing water, why bless you, 1 only
dropped a small quantity of potassium
on the sur'ace of the water and it pro-
duced hat rose flame. The blade of
the knife I make red-hot in the flame
of the eandle and then touch it with
brimstone and the steel melts like
tallow. A stick of phosphorous at
tached to my pen inscribes the letters
which make such a show in the dark.”
“Ah! But how flo you wash your
hands in molten lead?”
“Simplest thing in the world.
onnece of quicksilver, two ounces bole
ammoninco, ball an ounce of camphor
gether with & pestle in a brass mortar,”
The great Hermann was fond of
plucking cons from men's beards to
their utter amazement and awe. A
hand in his pocket in a natural way to
got a cigar. Out came the cigar with a
diamond ring on it. The magician
laughed, placed it on his finger and
then gave him a handerchief well
knotted to hold in the same hand.
After a little preambling movement he
blew on the hand, handerchief and ring.
The latter disappeared und at the same
time the knots vanished from the
handkerchief, He would take a picos
of paper, tear it into minute shreads
before near witnesses, toss it to some
one in the room and smile to see that
paper.
There was a favorite trick of one
known as the wizard of El Kahira,
which puzzled many and none could
make clear. This magician used to
hand round colorless pellucid balls,
as light as gum, to his sudiences. His
entertainments were given in open air
and vast space. After the examination of
the balls he threw them into the air and
the spectators tracked their upward
course to mid-air where in plain day-
light they beheld them vanish as though
by some quick meltin which
none could understand. Fhe balls com-
rlotely disap without a sign.
‘he only explanation that could be of-
fered would border on chemistry in all
probability, but the secret is still with
the magi who performs the trick.
Since petiamy startiea us out of our
nineteenth contury wits it leaves us no
sronders to speak of in the state called
trance. 'I'be lon we have heard of
any subjecting themselves to lasted a
narter Sf 4 your The sulject was
en un- and seemed lik
dead. Nota stirred, and a bright
mirror held mouth and
nostrils remained un-dimmed. Yet in
ry short time he came slowly to
himself. So the faculty of throwin
one's self into this state rests no! wi
cold blooded animals alone.
Perhaps one of the prettiest and
most variations of the magico
art was exhibited by a certain
who the of
enersl course of things their affection
or humans takes time to ripen.
It may be a freak of nature that ac-
counts for the art of the night seer,
Perhaps there are a few parsons gifted
with owl eyes. Btranger things have
been known. Certain it is that such
men as night seers exist. An investi-
gator on this and other subjects under-
took a test with aSamarac and conjnrer.
His tent was completely shrouded from
the hight and yet he could read in the
dark the print on the page of a book.
1t was A in thought that the white
paper helped the spirit and a more
critical test was prepared. A number
of dots were made with charcoal on a
board and the professor asked Hakim
to read that. “Fifteen spots,” was the
answer. ‘Very near,” sail the exam-
iner, “but there are only fourteen.”
The night seer removed some of the
heavy drapery that shut out the light
and discovered to the astonished gaze
of the other exactly fifteen spots. »
a A, N.
Current Fashions,
BUMMER DRESSES,
Time has proved that the fancy for
plain, clinging dresses, which seemed
to gain favor earlier in the season, was
merely a fancy and had no real deep
sort, for the style was too unbecoming
and lacking in grace to be adopted by
the majority. Drapery, to be graceful,
should be loose and 1n flowing lines, a
style which we are glad to see is rapid-
ly gaining ground.
With the heat of mid-summer the
thinnest of thin dresses are eagerly
sought for and found in the pretty
organdy or French lawns which come
in stripes of the most delicate color, as
ender,
The flavor with which these thin
ly to the fact that it is ympossible to
make them with flat skirts,
which are employed
shows the same desire
lines into
as
to
graceful
trimmings,
transform
curves,
simplicity, the trimmings being of lace
belt and wristbands of gros-graan or
be found in every lady's wardrobe. The
lace most in use is Tosca flouncing,
Spanish hand-run, Chantilly flounneing,
of ribbon, satin, moire, or velvet,
or colored ribbon rum through the
broad hem with knots of the same on
the side of the skirt, sleeves and cor
sage. For Tosca and Chantilly Ince no
trimming is required except knots of
is the prettiest,
dresses are made over a close lining,
the Ince being gathered and pat on in
sarplice style. The skirts are made
perfectly straight without drapery and
with a deep bem. If ribbon is used for
trimming it should be put on perfectly
flat. The sleeves are full, and drawn
by several rows of shirring into two or
three large puffs
The pretty bareges and grenadines
now known as gauges, with their small
borders of contrasting colors; the
heir floral
patterns in beautiful colors, soft in
with fanciful designs on a delicate
lace stripes, all ind fashionable favor.
almost as muchas if the
Very few
to give this subject the
ought to receive, merely
the colors,
attention it
regardless of their complexion their hair,
their style of carriage, (which by the
way has quite as much to do with the
matter as the hair or complexion)or
whether the garment is to be worn in
the day time or in the evening.
A beautifal dress, which attracts
ele.
gance and simplicity of style, 1s of
straight without drapery and gathered
into a waistband, Just above the
broad hem is five rows of gold colored
ribbon so narrow that it looks like a
fine cord, snd is aptly called “thread
ribbon;” the corsage is made ‘‘en sur-
plice with round waist, and a broad
belt of gold colored ribbon conceals
the joining of the waist and sxirt.
The neck isocot low and filled in
with a thick ruche made of the thread
ribbon, this ruche also extends in front
from the neck to the waist. The
sleeves are full, and divided into three
pufls by a thinner and narrower rache
than that used om the corsage, the
bottom of the sleeves being gathered
into broad bands of gold ribbon to
match the belt.
WAISTR,
Belted waists are so much favored
that they are now made of the thinnest
fabrics, as laces, crepes and silk-mus,
lin, which are used only for the mos
Srousy toilettes. They are made overs
fitted silk lining and are gathered very
full at the neck and waist live, where
they are drawn under a fancy ribbon
belt; the collar and wristbands are also
made of the same ribbon. For less
d toilettes, and for morning wear,
are blouses of colored cambrie, em-
broidered nainsook, and delicate eolor-
ed surahs. Figaro jackets of net, passe-
menterie and velvet are sometimes worn
with these.
SHORES,
During the warm weather, low ent
shoes are Fires the preference for
street as well as house wear,
For summer gowns, white canvas
shoes with tips and bands of white kid
Are worn; 0 are also seen dark tan
shades, and reddish russet leathers
take the place of the lighter tan shades
of Ting toll ttes onl but
or etten 0
black in | are ad-
missible, and for
house grey
wear, pale
or light tan undressed kid slippers are
preferred.
Natural History In Season.
THINGS OF LIGHT,
I do not know that you are as fond as
I sm of the cool evenings on some
grassy meadow or in some rustic prank,
but of course you cannot help seeing
the myriads of dazzling fire flies that
abound at the time mentioned and in
just such places. They are very inter-
esting wl 1 am sure you would like to
know something about them more than
you ean learn by catching and making
an examination. 1b is a very easy
matter to trap the little things though,
as 1 doubt not you have found out.
The property of emitting light is not
limited to insects alone. There is a
sort of growth called Fungi which
clings to the walls of dark, damp mines,
caverns and such places and gives a
light strong enough to read ordinary
rint by. And some cases have been
nown where garden plant such as the
masturtinm, marigold, orange lily and
poppy have emitted light iu startling
little flashes, This light is not alone
from the flowers but some leaves and
juices of plants possess the same prop-
erty.
And while I am talking to you about
plants I must mention & very common
vegetable you eat every day which has
this power of evolving light also, 1 re-
fer to the potato from which in a state
light from a cellarful of them was so
strong as to lead an officer on guard at
Strasburg to believe that the barracks
were on fire,
And now we are coming to some of
the animals which give light. There is ¢
marine animal, a boring molluse called
{the Pholas that is a very attractive
specimen. It is told by some writers
{| great that it shone in
they ate it
the mouths
people as One of
was 80 luminous the faces of persons
might be distinguished in its g
| The dead animal was placed in |
| each time it was plunged in warm water
| lasted more than a vear. The Pholas, we
| are speaking about was the animal so
well known to the ancients and about
which such vividly interesting stories
have been written.
Now I must tell you about a live
| creature not nearly the size of the Pholas
|
| able save when it shines, with a name
| you wouldn't remember, It is found
| very commonly in the English channel
| and in damp sand,
{ found out about these
| midgets says: “If yon raise a handful
{of this sand it appears like so much
| molten lava.” Just here I wonld like to
3
ail
shining
| of the phosphorescence of th
Son
beautiful light which overspreads the
water at times is almost entirely due to
| these animals that live in the water and
| damp sand.
Among the common earth worms
{ there are some who evolve a shining
{ light like that of iron heated to a white
{ heat,
| animal in form like a minute cylinder
i which is one gl
phosphorus and numbers of them on
{ the ocean appear like an enormous layer
| of molten lava or shining phosphorus.
| It must be a grand sight and some day
| you will doubtless have the opportanity
| to see and understand it.
ae
| of feet called the centipede. You know
it, don't you? This is also said to have
i the power of evolving light, but there
{is reason to suppose that 1t will not
{ shine in the dark unless previously ex-
| posed to the sun's rays
:
i
i
i
i
i
i our own fire flies that we see so often.
body that contains the light. The fire
| fly emits a yellow light very different
| to the pale blue gleam that comes from
{the body of the English glow-worm.
| This is but a wingless fly—the lady fly.
i All the females are wingless and emit a
Pee strong light which is supposed to
| be for the purpose of guiding their
| male companions, These have a very
| weak little lantern compared to the
glow-worm and on scconnt of their
wings are called fire-flies
{ flies of the tropical regions, however
| emit such a strong hight that they are
| frequently caught in numbers and used
for the purpose of lighting the house.
{ On fete days the ladies fasten them on
| their hair and on their dress as oras-
| ments,
| The English glow-worm is found
| during the summer nights among the
{grass on mossy banks. The luminous
matter that gives the light is capable of
being mixed with water, and thus its
brilliancy increases. 1f the shining
portion of the glow-worm is pinched
off the insect still retains its light for a
long time.
I have told you much that is wonder-
ful abont light-giving animals and in-
ing humans. A very learned man dis-
covered an Italian woman whose body
when gently rubbed with dry linen
would shine with phosphoric radiations.
Other cases of this kind have been
known. Sometimes a human body
shortly before death presents a pale
luminous ap oe.
It is affirmed that it is some chemical
process in Nature which produce these
Mg ne effects, and in some animals
a phosphorescent organ specially ar.
rid and adapted for the dentin
of light has been found.
You will find that the longer we study
and the more we can find out about
Nature, the more wonderful it will ap-
. An sll-creative Father has
light from animals is given us, and it
also looks very much as if some of us
were lights unto ourselves as in the case
of the Italian lady. A Mixun,
A —-
A howe fof Women Jsashers was
grencd just full, its own. Teachers of
yt a ampcturlly
r # day, and en
din of a local teachers’ association,
Retired German teachers oan live hore
with one room for 8150, or with two
for $175 » year. Such homes are not
ould they
HORSE NOTES,
~ Both the Point Breeze and Del-
ment meetings were financial succes-
Ben,
~The Eastern Park in Brookiyn has
not been sold as a race track, as re-
ported,
_~—Black Pllot, record 2 80, died at
Gardiner, Me,, recently, the property
of A. J. Libby,
~All of Secroggan Brothers’ horses,
including English Lady, have been
shipped to Saratoga,
~Jockey Taylor rode at Monmouth
Tuesday, July 15, for the first time
since his recent accident,
~W, H. Crawford's promising 3-
year-old stallion Constantine is quite
sick at Lexington, Ky.
~ A new race track will probably be
built near Pullman, IIL, about thirty
minutes ride from Chicago,
—Racine Is owned by Leland Stan-
ford, but his running qualities have
been leased by the Undine Stable,
~The fields have been light every-
where in the races this season and
book-makers are far from satisfied
— Fritz, a half-brother to Fides,
| foaled and owned by August
| Belmont, died recently at Monmouth
| Park,
1888,
~The conspirator who forged the
| telegram which caused Fides to be star-
i ted in the race in which she broke down
| has not yet been discovered.
| =~Tenny was troubled with a slight
cole the day the Monmouth Cup was
mm. Otherwise be would again have
measured strides with Salvator,
~The 4-year-0ld colt Outbound, by
Blue Eyes, was sold recently by the
Fleetwood Stavle to J. A, Murphy for
$3000,
~ A purse of nearly $2000 was raised
among the horsemen at Chicago for the
mother of Jockey Abbaso, who was
| killed in a race.
The California colts Racine and
Rinfax, who have bern so successfully
running at Ti cago, have arrived at
| Monmouth Park,
| —Senator Hearst still seems to have
i luck on his side, His colt Almon: re-
| cently won the Great Western handi-
| cap in fue style,
| One of the big surprises at Chicago
{ was the winning of the new Hyde
| Park stakes by Balgowan, an outsider,
| against whom the odds were 50 to 1.
~-W, A. Dutton has been elected a
{ member of the Board of Directors of
ithe Philadelphia Driving Park in
| place of Thomas Clements, whose seat
| had been declared vacant,
—The Duke of Portland has retired
Dosovan to the stud, The colt’s win-
{nings on the turf amounted to $267,
400.33, by far the largest amount ever
| credited to a single animal,
~ Wesley P. Balch has opened a Na-
| tional Stallion Race of §10,000, free for
all, The entry list will close on Aug-
| ust 18, the race to take place at Mystic
{ Park, on Wednesday, September 17.
| ~~Spokane has run his last race. He
{ broke down recently while at work,
{ and Mr. Armstrong said the same day
{that the break down was a bad one,
land that the colt would never be
| trained again,
~—At the recent sales of thorough
bred yearlings in Eagland, from the
{| Hampton Court, Yardley, Heather
| Kerielon and other studs, the sister to
| Memoir sol for £5500, or about $27,-
1 500,
~The Prince of Wales has hitherto
not been very successful in Ins at-
| tempts on the turf, and the fact that
he won a race at the Newmarket July
meeting has created quite a blaze of
enthusiasmn among English sportsmen.
~The Anglo-Indian sportsman, Mr,
Apcar, who is the owner of the Aus-
tialian-bred horses Bravo, Moorhouse
and Cyclops, purports taking them to
England next season, with his own
trainer, Southall, in charge ot them.
—A son asa a daughter of Messen-
ger Duroc went to the front on Tues-
| day, July 15. The bay gelding, John
W.., won a race of broken beats at
| Belmont Course, and the brown mare
| Elista. out of Green Mountain Maid,
won a ®ix-heat race at Mystic Park,
| Boston, beating a feild of four, includ-
| ing Gol. en Rod, and reducing ber rec-
| ord to 2.20%.
~F, I. Nobls and Alcryon are under
suspension by the Natioral Trotting
Association, but they are welcomed
{with open arms at Detroit. This
| shows what view Detroit takes of those
| who have sought to tarnish the good
| pame of the tiotting turf. The gates
| of the Grand Circuit tracks are closed
| against Noble and Alcyron, The cir-
| cult is opposed to trickery, and it be-
| lieves in discipline,
~The Chicago Stable was the big-
| gest winner of the Chicago meeting,
with a little over $23,000 to his credit.
The bulk of that was won by Uncle
Bob in the American Derby. The
Santa Anito Stable comes next, with a
little over $10,000, and the Undine
Stable is third, with over §8000 to its
credit. There was too much “‘in-and-
out” running at the meeting to sult
the people, and charges of “‘c
pess’ were made against the Chicago
«The sale of Mr, Alexander's Wood.
burn lings at Monmouth on Satur.
day, July 12 was a pronounced success,
The fourteen col
ht the Splendid
$2485.14, the thirteen
$305.77 the to-