STORIES OF THIEVES.
OF INGENUITY AND
COOLNESS,
Good Tales of Light Fingered Gents.
INSTANCES
It has not been many years since a
well-known jurist chanced to ask a
friend the time of day as he entered
the temple of justice, remarking at the
ame time that he had forgotten his
ratch at home. At the conclusion of
his day’s duties he returned home, and
when he asked his wife for his chro-
nomeler was not a little surprised to
hear that she had given it to a young
man who had come for it, representing |
that the jurist had sent him. The
young'man was a thief. He had heard
the Judge remark that he had forgot-
ten his watch. Without a moment's
delay the cunning rogue ran to the
Judge’s house and told the good lady |
of the house that her husband had sent |
him for the watch. It was a clever |
story, plausibly told, and it won the
watch,
Tue proprietor of a large jewelry |
house in Cincinnati can scarcely have |
forgotten his e.perience with an ex-
pert knave. It was along toward noon
pune very hot day in the summer of
1876 when a ministerial-appearing fel
low in a black suit, with a white tie, |
entered the store. Je leisurely walked |
to the showcase and asked to see some
diamond studs. After some hesitation
be bought a small stone for £35. Ie
then wished to look at some rings—
thought of making his wife a present.
As he followed the clerk to the show-
tase containing the diamond rings he
began to eat an apple. Several valua-
ble gems were looked at with dissatis-
faction. One valued at $500 pleased
him, but was not just what he wanted.
At length he saw one in the case he
thought was just the thing. - As the
clerk reached to get it the parson-like
customer pressed the £500 ring deep |
into the apple he was eating and clev-
erly tossed it out of the
clerk didn’t notice the 1
low who was
door. The
, DULL & fel
standing on the outsid
ed that
i folds of the
Ivers garments.
am the Rev. Dr.
customer, in
wrath, naming s
in a village about rity miles distant, |
“and I'll give vou to understand that 1}
did not come here to be insulted.”
Well, the proprietor became angry
snd called. a policeman, and the al.
leged clergyman was removed to a
back room, protesting idnignantly at
the treatment. A short consultation
was held, and a telegram was sent to
the address given by the prisoner, mak.
ing inquiry as his character and
thereabouts. The reply was slow in
coming, and it was decided to search
the prisoner. He was forced to strip,
and every fold and crease in his clothes
was searched. It is needless to say the
ring was not found.
The telegram to the village, thirty
miles away, came, saying that the Rev.
Dr. G no was one of the most reli- |
able men in the town, and that he was
visiting friends in Cincinnati. Up to}
this time the proprietor had been of
opinion that the customer was a pious
fraud, but the telegram changed the |
tune. He wanted to make amends
right away. The parson talked heavy
damages and law, but was at length
soothed into silence by four crisp £100
bills. In some way the story of the
minister's insult leaked out. His!
friends heard it and asked him about |
it. In the end he called at the jewelry
store to see about it, and the preaprietor
was amazed to find he had been duped.
Detectives were at once put on the
case, and in a few days srrested the
bogus clergyman and his confederate
trying to pawn the ring. They were
the famous ¢‘ Frenchy” La Mountain
and Cal Duncan,
A night watchman wno was employ-
ed to protect a jewelry store in Denver |
against the ravages of thieves, was
neatly outwitted by the notorious Billy
Forrester some years before his death.
The firm carried an immense stock of
gems, and kept them in a large old-
fashioned safe. Forrester had, by
long years experience, become so fa-
miliar with safes of that pattern that
he could tell when to reverse and when
to turn the Knob forward, by placing
his ear close to the door above the com.
bination, and in this way could open
the safe in a short time. By taking a
wax impression of the key-hole he
made a key for the front door. Hav-
ing previously located the safe in the
store, ho was now ready to begin. If
was a cold, snowy, stormy night,
about 10 o'clock, and Forrester walked
up to the stors with an air of owner-
ship and unlocked the door. He car-
ried a small sample-case 2in his hand.
Going in, he turned up the gas in the
rear of the store and shook down the
stove. He leisurely worked the com-
bination to the safe, and in less than
half an hour he had before Lim thou-
ands of dollars worth of costly jewels
od watches. At this very interesting
wint the night watchman came in.
“Good evening”, said the cordial
urglar, as he continued to remove
aluables from the safd to his sample
hse.
“Come back to the fire apd warm
G——n,” said
the tones of ex:
ir
h
to
do
yourself; it is very cold out to-night.”
The patrolman allowed that it was,
and sauntered back to the stove.
“I'm packing up my samples,” went
on the thief, suavely, “Going out on
ready to-night.
man to examine.
In this way Forrester packed over
to his sample case, cuatting cheerfully
wll the while.
As he was about to close his sample
by a happy thought, and then picked
up a very pretty ring. Turning
the watchman he asked him if he had
a wife.
a careless laugh Forrester tossed him
the ring, saving;
tell her it is a mark of appreciation
her husband.”
ple’s property was delighted, and was
It was not until the next morning that
that had
been practised upon him. Forrester
by that time was well out of the way,
and his connection with the robberry
fore his death, when he confessed it.
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HISTORICAL.
The steamship Savannah made the
first ocean vovage in July, 1819, sailing
from New York to Liverpool in twenty-
six dave,
The government of St.
which claims to have the only original
bones of Columbus, is desirous of
forwarding them to the United States
i
in return for them $20,000 cash down,
and twenty per cent. of receipts on
public exhibition of the same.
The repeal of the embargo, which re.
ceived the
t od tha ”
is CI { we ONE 1
resides ture March
it's signa
Of
WES A ITY
In earlier
wn for
OW ined : OrsaxKe tf
Tower Hill
lowing of 100 or 2 gentlemen in
ery and white frieze, lined
son tafletas, and to spend two or three
times their yearly income in a merry
dave it
$i rey x
fie B i
:
Helr
or Shoe Lane with
estales an
fit
rigid
ing in Gray's Inn Fields, 1sii
and Highgate, and in buring
fine enough to adorn court j
and processions, where i
nobles of the land accepted the honor
of bearing the queen's litter.
A correspondent to the Pall
Gazette sends the following extract
from Pepy’s Diary, which is very
dangers of a mild
Winter. After recording in August,
1661, ‘+a sickly time both in the city
and country everywhere (of a sort of
dresses
©
greatest
rd
*
iis
unless it was in the plague time,” he
1662,
the following remarkable entry: «15th
January, 1662. A fast day order-
ed by the Parliament, to pray for
more seasonable weather: it having
hitherto been Summer weather, that it
is, both as to warmth and every other
thing, just as if it were the middle of
May or June, which do threaten a
plague (as all men think) to follow,
for so it was almost the last Winter;
and the whole year afier hath been a
very sickly time to this day.”
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Popular Books,
Charles McDonald—The book whic)
had the greatest run in its day fre m
iny counters was ‘Lorna Doone.” 1
havn't had a call for it for months, but
for a long time everybody who came
begin to get enough to supply the de-
mand. Of the old books, Dumas’
“Monte Cristo,” “The Three Guards
men” and “The Mysteries of Paris have
# hold on my customers, I sell a copy of
Vietor Hugo's ‘Les Miserables” every
ten days regularly. Occasionally 1
have an order for some one of Guan
ter’s books, ‘‘Barues of New York” be
ing in the lead. 1 had a box of Steven
son's “Jekyll and Hyde" which I had
left over after the rage for Stevenson's
books. I got this box out the other
day and put the books in front of the
house, but people look at them and
then laugh at me Poor Hugh Con.
way’s books seemed to bave drop
out of recollection. What a ran
had! And there was John Habberton,
When his “Helen's Babies” came oun’
people stood in a line in this store te
buy them. I don't believe I could give
)
A mirror brought to this country In
1776 stands in the window of a Chester
(Penn, ) furniture store.
The coast line of Alaska exceeds in
Jeugsi by 3020 miles that of all the re-
ma of the United States, .
At the present sacred pigs roam
inviolate about the as Is rokm
les of Canton and elsewhere in China.
Electricity drives drills
Apples as Medicine.
Chemically, th: apple is composed of
vegetable fibre, albumen, sugar, gum,
chlorophyll, malic acid, gallie acid,
lime and much water. Furthermore,
the German analysts say that the apple
phorus than any other fruit or vege-
table. This phosphorus is admirably
for renewing the essential
the brain
It is, perhaps, for
understood,
and spinal chord.
sent the appie as the food of the gods,
who, when they felt themseves to be
growing feeble and infirm, resorted to
Algo, the acids of
{ the apple are of signal use for men of
sedentary habits, whose livers are
| sluggish in action; those acids serving
ito eliminate from the body noxious
| matters, which, if retained, would
| make the brain heavy and dull, or
bring about jaundice or skin eruptions
| and other allied troubles,
Some such an experience must have
led to our custom of taking apple sauce
with roa t pork, rich goose and like
dishes. The malic acid of ripe apples
either raw or cooked, will neutralize
any excess of chalky malter engen-
| dered by eating too much meat. It is
also the fact that such fresh meats as
[the apple, the pear and the plum, when
| taken ripe and without sugar, diminish
| acidity in the stomach rather than pro-
i voke it. Their vegetable salts and
juices are converted into alkaline car-
{ bonates, which tend to counteract acid
| ity.
A good, ripe, raw apple is one of the
easiest of vegetable substances for the
stomach to deal with, the whole process
tof its digestion being completed in
eighty-five minutes. Gefrard found
(that the “‘pulpe of roasted apples
| mixed in & wine quart of faire water,
{ mind and body.
be as apples and ale, which we call
lambes-wool, never faileth in
fiseases of raines, whieh
rained
' “The
an apple cut pnewhat thicl
inside
; certain
the
hath often proved
both
crownes and «
ing of
and the
§ TEN
i
Lat ii
* FAME Tesson, A
h#t: To eat
the docts
Hospital,
i wire
fo bed,
rh
gh
A Whim of Fortune,
Probably the most striking ijgastra
tion of the whim of fortune in con-
nection with the turf is the story of
iy and their beautiful
is bread.
filiy, Reciare.
that was little more than sufficient
keep himself and family.
the boy was sent to Jimmy Shields, at
Bay. He made some
nature soon clamored for her rights,
and young Warnke found that he was
much too big and heavy to ride any
reducing. About this time the father,
who had put by a couple of hundred
dollars, clubbed his savings with the
earnings of his son, and set off for the
sale of Commodore Kittson's yearlings
at Erdenheim. A handsome black
caught ther eyes, and when she was
put up at auction they went their limit
and secured her for $425,
The filly was brougut to Brighton
Beach and a stable constructed for her
near the littie cottage where the
switch-tender made his home. Reclare
was the name bestowed upon the filly by
Mrs. Warnke, and, as the winter passed,
the young miss improved in sppear-
ance, until she was the finest looking
youngster around the Brighton Beach
track. When Spring came and Re-
clare began to take her gallops, young
Warnke, now trainer and exercise boy
combined, found that the black filly
had a world of speed, and visions of
big winnings at Gravesend and Sheeps-
head Bay filled his mind. The first
time Reclare ran was at Sheepshead
Bay in a big field. «She was a very
long short in the betting, and every
member of the Warnke family was
there to see her debut. Johany Rea-
gan had the mount, and after the first
furlong there was nothing in it but
Reclare, the filly winning under a
double pull. Mutuel tickets costing $5
yielded a dividend of $195 on the
race. From that time forward Raclare
was the champion of her age and sex,
suffering defeat but three - times, her
earnings in stakes and purses alone
footing up close to $25,000. It is a
modest estimate to place Mr. Warnke's
fortune at £50,000, besides which he
still owns Reclare, and should she train
on as a three yesr-old and retain her
form of Inst season he can with perfect
safety write down his winnings at
$25,000~perhaps double that sum.
Arabian Bables,
Lifo has exceptional difficulties for
the babies of nations, espe-
cially for those who are of sufficiently
high rank to be brought o
to all the ancient customs
bandage about its boay, atier 1t nas
baen bathed and perfumed. The little
creature is then placed on its hack, its
arms and feet are stiaightened and the
entire body swathed to the shoulders.
In this position it remains motionless
for forty days, but the bandage is re-
moved twice a day that the child may
have a bath. The Arabs believe that
this process will make the body
straight for life. Under such ecireum-
stances it seems fortunite that baby-
hood is not a period which can be re-
membered in after years, for no one
would choose to suffer such days of
misery again, even in recollection.
day after her birth, holes, usually six
throughout her life-time, except during
periods of mourning for relatives,
is shaved, a ceremony which
scarcely be performed in our own
couniry, where thick hair is usually of
un latter growth. This operation is con-
gidered a very important one, and
thirty or foity persons are witnesses of
garded as a very weighty matter; it
must not be
tha sea, or hidden in some crevice of a
wall.
The fortieth day marks a turning
point in the child's life. Heretofore it
has only been seen by its parents, the
slaves on duty, snd a few intimate
friends of the family; now, however,
it may be seen by anvbody, and is re-
garded as fairly launched on the tide
of existence.
Several charms are attached to its
body for protection against the “evil
eye,” boys wearing them to a certain
age, and girls still longer. The favor-
{ ite charm consists of a gold or silver
locket worn on a chain,
The smallest children among
Arabians are st y perfumed ; every.
| thing ther use, frem
cies of
their clothing to
$3
the Lnlief, In
covered it
ved hafare i
¥ a fe n t. ¥ L100 esd
ns of : *. DEACON ANG Giana
HORSE NOTES,
~The Latonia spring meetings are
open.
— Landy Bu'lion will be tried double
with Aubine.
~The trotters will perform at Pitts-
burg.
Both local trot!ing meetings were
successes lnancially.
~W, B. McDonald has a string of
twelve horses at Buflalo,
- Jockey Martin Dergen has signed
with David Gideon for the season.
~There will probably be racing at the
Ivy City track, Washington, next fail.
_~Tenny incurs no penalty for the
i Suburban by his win of the Brooklyn.
~Tenny is entered for the St, James
| Hotel stakes at Gravesend, to be run.
-~1t is Likely that Taral will ride Can-
vass in the Great American Stakes,
~The seating capacity at the Sheeps-
{ head Bay track has been nearly doubled
eloce last year.
~Foxhall Keene will race Tourna-
ment under his own name and eventu-
| ally use him in the stud,
—During the first four days of the
Brooklyn meeting J. A.& A, H, Morris
won seven races aud $18,185,
~Mose Addler, of Baltimore, was one
| of the most conspicuous figures on the
track. He was always in sight.
~—Jockeys Camp and Michael Bergen
were set down for the remainder of the
Brooklyn meeting.
—Hon, William L. Scott’s horses,
| formerly raced as the Algeria Btable,
now run as the Northampton Stable,
~0, F. Emery, of Cleveland, has
two strings in training, but pone of his
horses will start in his early circuits,
~The western Bookmakers’ Associ:
iw
tion has secured the betling
for the Bt. louis meeting.
"hi Repox ed
| price, $50,000,
i
—~Henry Se
stone 11, 4 n
| bul erratic Guy
fast as cindy
ders recently sent Cling
1s and the
ne quariers
train passes , and every
night at 10 0'¢l
tise
bridge and
as f to induce
| But as they do not ap;
gi within a few
there is no time to
| the figures on the bridge are hurled in-
water below.
every night for a week, Last
iseveral men from Hallsville
| near the bridge till the three figures
appeared and
at them without effect.
living in the neighborhood are
panic.~Chicago Tribune.
their stand
wildly
enginee
ar until the
ne is vards of
stop the train, and
to the
in a
———— —
Slow to Understand Browning.
Mr. Wagstafl has been reading
Browning aloud to Miss Wilder.
Wagstall—< And now what do you
think of that particular poem? Deo
{ you think it worthy of Browning's re-
patation 77
{ Miss Wilder It's quite too perfect
i ly lovely. Only Browning could have
{ written it.”
{i Wagstaff— Yon
| fully 2”
Miss Wilder—‘Porfectly.
clear as light to me.”
understand it
It is as
know but it might be a little obscure,
‘as I've only been reading every other
| line, and” the sweet girl bad flounced
from the room.—Ameries.
API»
Blackmalling in New York.
“You can send all letters addressed
i me to my room,” I heard a gentie-
man gay at 8 promivent hotel yester-
day. “Is not yon wife with you?”
quietly asked the clerk, whereupon the
guest flushed up and demanded to
know what the other meant. “There
are no letters coming to me that my
wife may not see, sir,” was his some-
what indignant remark. «Oh, no
offense and no insinuation, 1 assure
you,” said tho clerk with perfect
equanimity. ‘We are obliged to be
careful sbout such things, becsuse
women sharks prey on the male guests
of all the hotels, Before you have
been forty-eight hours in New York
you will receive letters from women
claiming to be old acquaintances, ask-
ing for appointments, and so on.
"ot course ‘you:do not know them
and never heard of them, but that is
their little game. If they can catch
one man in a hundred and weave lum
into their toils they are satisfled. Now,
such letters as those are best not
handed up to a gentleman's room when
his wife is with him. He may be a
saint, but such letters destroy human
nfidence. How do they got address-
of guests? Easily enough, through
hotel papers which are published
ly with complete lists of all the
vals at the principal hotels.” The
‘es anger was appeased by the time
explanation was Fiven and be-
re he walked awny heard him say
‘Well, I guess your rule is safest. i
| got my letters in the office."~N,
Press.
.
A AI LSA
It is not every boy that can make a
bieycle for himself. Yet that is what a
colored lad of Georgia,
4, have filled well
--President Dwyer
hopes to
i about
a dozen of starters
Brookiyn Handicap to try cond
at same welghts avd distaves some ds;
| next week, adding $5000.
i
Tho
the
a— loseph npson,
| speculations on the turf in this country
{ were not successful. He lost §20,000
on the Brooklyn handicap.
- William Hayward will not sign with
i any other stable than that of Hearst &
| holds, and he will be able to get all the
i outalde riding he wants,
--F, Gebhard’s $21,500
| Canvass,
| starter for the Hodson stake, but
i scratched, Rumor |
gone wrong in one of his fore legs.
purchase,
i ————————
An Adroit Swindler,
i le was a detective, yet there was
a |
EE
i nothing that indicated his calling.
{ have had many
criminale, said he modestly to a Boston
{ (xlobe reporter. “There is not a single
would be compelled to admit the same.
“1 remember one case where I was
employed to hunt down a swindler
who bad victimized many wealthy
people in England, but I failed. 1
think, however, I frightened him out
of the business, for he stopped his
crooked work.
‘His name was Haven. He sub.
scribed to a number of English, Scotch
and Irish newspapers and purchased a
copy of Burke's Peerage. When a
notice of the decease of & nobleman or
wealthy commoner appeared he would
read the obituary notice, study up the
family in the Peerage, or if it was not
there he would do the best to find out
what he could of the man, and having
done this he would dedicate a letter to
the dead man, his confederate being a
very beautiful young woman.
“The latter purpc~ted to be from a
woman whom the dead man had ruined
and sent to America to live, and the
letter would state that she had not re-
ceived her usual allowance for so long
a time, and that as a consequence she
and her child were suffering. At the
closing she would say that if she did
not hear from him very soon she would
return and expose him.
“It was a cruel scheme, and in nine
eases out of ten worked successfully.
The relatives, rather than have the
name of the deceased dragged in the
mud, usually sent what money was
and then, after telling the
woman that the gentleman was
would negotiate with her for a settle
ment.
“Haven secured many thousands of
doilars in a couple of years. Only on
two occasions did relatives cross to the
On these ocon-
FOOD FOR THOUGHT,
Never be dispirited,
Right the day must win,
Home is a perfect kingdom,
Prayer is religion in action,
A man may be knowing, but no
wise,
Love iz blind, but it has its specta~
cles,
The first principle in politics is selfish
Ness,
Mankind are all hunters in various
degree,
The cheerful giver Is a very lonesome
man,
Btinginess costs more than extravas
gance,
A man can quit loving easier than &
woman can,
Whilst you seek new friendships, cule
tivate the old,
A noble gentleman; he stands in the
face of honor.
After praying for goodness, don’t fore
get to be good.
A man who attempts to flatter you
takes you for a fool
Men are hike wines—age sours the bad
and belters the good.
The only real giver in the world fs
the cheerful giver.
"I'he virtues and vices sometimes live
very close together,
A wise man is always engaged in cor.
reciting his own fauils,
When a woman gets cross
cross at everybody she meets,
No man votes who is persuaded by an»
other how he shall vote,
she gets
To enjoy a good reputation, give pub.
licly, sud steal privately.
Nine times out of
sEvuel
mana
ten, “absence of
' is absence of bral ns,
is apt to torment
: at yh #
v AV Dg.
Man, like the fire,
Nothing but death ean
frieads from each
separate true
other,
or ow 4
*
od nams is a good thing tohave,
every
better 1
fight,
rR.
Smile at some
i tell you all the trout
will
r had,
A fool is always wishing time
AWAY,
man is always enjoying
* who mingles humor with his life
und a cushion for a world of
He who knows not when to bend and
laugh, has scarcely learned philosophy
{ by half,
“horse sense™
The man with the most
lets Liorse-racing severely
tl
is the one who lets
{ One,
Many men have ended by becoming
oundrels, who began by running in
i iebt,
{4
The hardest of all things to get a man
to stop and look bh mseif squarely in the
ace,
People who never worry do a good
deal of missionary work that they don’s
j get credit for.
: ¢
| One of ths hardest times to love an
i enemy is when he is pros ening like a
| green bay Gree,
No man can be provident of his time
who is not prudent in the choice of his
| company.
{ Those peciie who have a great deal
| of perfect propriety don’t have much of
anyibing else,
It is not good for a man to think too
much, He should work a little for ress
and change.
Reputation is the mean of life; some
men have to live up to it, others to live
it down,
To forgive when we have forgotten
is easy; to forgive when we know we
can never forget is noble.
If some men had the nine lives of a
cat they would waste them all in folly
and then bave nine death bed repent~
ADCS,
Nearly every one rates himself at
his true valuation, but he is careful
not to take the world into his confi
dence,
“Hope springs eternal in the human
breast,” but Despondency always pols
lutes the waters before our thirst 1s
quenched.
The half thoughts of the foolish, put
into words, are often the levers that
move the wise to think in silence and
then act.
Our opinjons se a good deal like the
time of our clocks and watches, no two
just alike, yet we all follow and keep
our own,
It takes ua y2ars to Jearn what little
we do know and twice as long 0 une
learn the great deal that we think we
know, but don’t,
II 1t 1s bard to forgive an enemy an
oon dno rys oJ, uel mors
, mi ) ; a
for the same offense, ;
To yield love for service is too much
like & commercial n, )