CUR BOYS,
TELLING FORTUNES.
I'l] tell you tv o fortunes, my fine little lad,
For voir to ace pt or refuse;
The vie of them god, the other one bad:
Now hear them, and say which you choose.
1 see by my gifts within reach ol my hand,
A fortune right fair to behold:
A house and a hundred good acres of land,
With harvest fields yeilow as good.
I see a great orchard with boughs hanging
down
With apples rus<et and red;
I see droves of cattle, some white and some
brown,
But all of them sleek and well fed.
I see droves of swallows about the barn door,
See the fanning mill © hiviing so fas*,
I see them threshing whea on the floor-—
And pow the bright pleture has past.
And | see rising dismally up in the place
Of the beaut itn! Lous» and the land,
A man with a fire-red nose on his face,
And a Hittie brown jug in his hand.
O! if you beheld him, my lad, you would wish
That he were less wretched 1o 598:
For hus boot toes they gape like the mouth of a
fish,
And lus trousers are out at the knee,
In walking he staggers now this way now
that,
And ns eyes they stand out like a bug's,
And he wears an old coat and a battered-in
hat,
And | think that the fault is the jug's.
For the text says the drunkard shall come to
e poor,
And that drowsiness clothes men with rags,
And he doesn’t look much like a man, I am
sure,
Who has honest hard cash in his bags.
Now which will you choose? to be thrifty and
Snug,
And be right side up with your dish,
Or go with your eyes hike the eves of a bug,
And your shoes Like tue mouth of a fish?
~~ ALICE CARY.
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ROUND MOTHER'S KNEE.
M. B. MANWELL,
us about
mother,
“Tern
little girl,
chorus,
Outside, it rained hopelessly, In-
doors, it was afternoon, and all the
games bad bien played over and over
again; all the picture-books looked at;
one or two little quarrels begun and
atched up. Still, the rain kept the
fittle ones prisoners.
“Well, my dears,” said mother, see-
ing there was no hope of auything
else; “I must sit down to my basket
of unmended stockings, but Il daresay 1
can talk «nd mend at the same time.”
“Let me stand next mother,” suid
Ed y, pushing Johnny and there was
an out cry for place between the little
men.
“Father
after the
acrewing
when you were a
please!” was the
I
always says, ‘Gentlemen
ladies,” remarked Rosie,
ber chubby face, as she
e's voice and look.
goperal la gh at the
maid's apiness, but Eddy aud
th rather red faces, stepped
to let their
n
cked fatl
wi
There
emall
Johnry, w
back at once,
stand closer,
“Nw,” said mother cheerfully, *'is
it to be a funny story, or what?”
“Ob, somefing dre please,
mammy,” lisped Ollie, t youngest;
““we likes dreadinl things best.”
“Well, a very dreadful thine once
happened when | was quite a little girl,
just like youn, Ollie; it was a fire!”
The children pressed :o0 close
mother was nearly stifled.
“1 lived with Aunt Betsy, you know,
in those days, ' she we.t on, “and yon
also know that I haa no little brothers
nor sisters. In the big house, with
many rooms sand many stairs, ther
was only one pair of small feet to trot
about, and they belonged to little,
lonely me.”
“Why didn't Aont Betsy buy an
other child?” asked Rosie, with aston-
ished, round ey:.s; ‘she had ought to
have done that.”
“You shouldn't say ‘had ought to’ I”
adn onished Johnny; “and they don't
sell children in shops, miss.”
“Gently, gently,” said mother, her
needle going in and out of the heel of
one of Johnny's socks. “Instead of a
child, Aunt Betsy got a kitten for me;
it was the sweetest of kittens—grey,
like this sock, with lovely small stripes;
its motoer was a French cat.”
“Are French cats dressed bettor than
ours?” asked Rosie.
“You mesn, is their fur prettier?
This one's certainly was.”
“I shouldn't have liked that kitten,”
remarked Johnny, decidedly. It
would have wanted to be talked to in
French, I guess.” Johnny was a little
boy who hated Freneh verbs
“No; it seemed to know every word
I said, and I christened it Flaffy. All
day long we were together,
night Fluffy slept in my little bed.”
“Did you sleep in a room by your-
self?” interrupted Eddy, s little boy
who bated the dark as much as Johnny
hated French verbs.
‘Yes, in a small room next to Aunt
Betsy's. But after I got Fluffy I
didn’t mind, for I was always so busy
hushing him that 1 dropped off to
sleep myself. Ome night Flaffy was
particularly good. He closed his eyes
in the prettiest way, and fell asl ep
with his little he.
Then I suppose I went to sleep. The
next thing that happened was a very
loud noise that awoke me. It was quite
light in the room, and patter, patter
sounded something on the window.
‘It’s a thunderstorm,’ 1 said to myself.
Now, I was not afraid of thunder, but
I knew Fluffy couldn't bear it, so I
drew his head under the clothes. The |
room seemed to get lighter, everything |
looking quite red. The noise outsiae |
became louder, and all the people that
3 3
litlie sisters
rel ful,
he
that
lived in our street seemed to have come |
out of doors, for 1 could hear loud |
talking and shouting. |
“Fluffy,” said 1 at last, “IT think |
we'd better get up and hide under the |
bed until the thunder ~oes away,” and
we did so. We erept right under, and
there wo waited, Fluffy ana 1.”
“If shere wos thunder, now mother,
I'd run and hide my head in your
gown,” smd Ollie
‘Yes, dear, of ocur-e; but, you see,
1'd no mother's go vm to lude in, and
Aunt Betsy would not have liked a
child to worry her, 80 tho kitten and I
bad to ~omfort each other under the
“The storm seemed to last a long
time, and I should bavo fallen asleep
only Flufly was so restless, and I was
afraid he might escape ont of my arms.
Preseutly 1 got + meat fright; I heard
come {ramping into the
heavy feet, and volcer
“om
seemed to be ealling for someone who
was lost.
* ‘Mee-ow mee-ow!’ began Fiofly,
but I squeezed him very tight snd he
stopped,
‘ ‘Why, there's a eat somewheres,’
said a hoarse voice, ‘Come out, puss,
we may as well rave you; but where
can the child be, mate ?'
“ Meeo-ow! mee-ow!’
| * ‘I'he cat's under the bed,’ eaid an-
| other choky voice, and a great hand
fel: under the vallance, seizing my
{ shoulder,
| * ¢Hilloa, what's this?
i nowhow,’ and 1 was dragged out.
"Tain’t a cat,
The
{ could see two big men-—soldiers, as I
{
| mets,
“ ‘Oh, pronase, soldiers, don't take
| Fluffy to me.
“ ‘Poor little soul! we sha'n’t hart
tied a wet towel round my mouth, to
my terror. He was going to kill me, 1
felt sure, and 1 shut my eyes; then, I
felt myself liited np in strong arms,
but still I held Flufiy tightly. Pres-
ently, there was a ru-h of cold air; we
seemed to be outside somewhere on the
roof. In fact, children, it was no
thanderstorm, but a fire, and the
soldiers were firemen. Everyone had
been save l out of the burning house,
Aunt Betsy in a swoon; when she came
to herself she asked for ‘‘the chi d,”
then the firemen became aware that J
, was somewhere in the wu per room.
Two brave men rushed back into the
{ flames, and by means of Fluffy’'s faint
| eries discovered me,
| “When they appeared with me on
{ the roof, the flames darting round us,
i and the water from the engines patter-
pattering on us, there was a great
cheer from the crowd below, then a
sudden hush, as they watched me be-
ing slipped down th« fire-escape.
“When I stood on the gronnd safe
and sound in my little nightdress,
clutching Flafly tight, there was a
louder cheer, and everybody wanted
to clap the brave firemen on the
shoulder.”
‘And wasn't Floffy hurt either?”
asked Eddy.
“Yes, just the tip of his tail bad been
burut by a flame, but that was all"
m, it's o'clock, tea's
guite ready, and the in the oven
have rose beautitnl,” announced Jane,
putting her bead iu at the door, and,
mother's story being the cll
dren trooped off, eager short
work of the
five
cake
‘Please
Oldie d,
10 make
lofi Cakes,
RL
i
i
iT
SULPHUR MININ : IN ACRATOR.
Mouvel Los Tanos of Chihnahus, Mox.
he ascent.of this mountain,
orse than climbing the Matter.
It costs about $50 in the frst
lace, takes several days and is very ex-
PE I was let down into the crater
the same way that the Mexican miners
who dug sulphur at this elevation of
18,000 feet—by means of a windlass and
a rope. The moutlt of the crateris more
than half a mile across. The mine is
owned by General Ochoa, who lives ip
the City of M I saw there and ex
amined carefully thousauds of tons of
the purest s@iphur ever mined.
“When Cortez and his soldiers visited
that countrysthey needed sulphur for
gunpowder, and ascended the mountain
for the first time in its histoty, the na
tives said. I tell you it must have taken
a vast amount of nerve to go up an un.
known mountain like Popocatepet! and
ther. descend into a crater like the mouth
of that volcano. I think, everything
considered, it beats anything I have ever
heard of in history or fiction. The na
5 8
8 §
ICO.
fasten to their backs. They thea slide
the manner of the woodcutters of France,
For this venturesome work thoy get
about twenty “ceats a day."-{Kaosas
City Tunes.
Nine Solemn Owls.
om
Here is a row of the qreerest creatures
imaginable, nine solemn owls, whose
monkeylike faces—they are woll named
~—are ususliy enough to cause a general
| Inugh among the beholders. This brocd
{of owls are raised from one that was
| given to the museum, with the aid of »
couple that were taken from the towers
‘of the Smithsonian building. They are
not as a rule indigenous to this clima
sbounding in such States as Florida an
| Texas; but of late there have been sev.
eral broods discovered here. They are
| about the size of a large dove, of a light
| brown or snuff color, and they spend
| most of their time standing on one }
| apiece, appacently asleep. But they are
| not, usually, for it is said by the keepers
| that each and every.one of them has its
| eyes fixed on a certain small hole ia the
floor just in front of the perch.
Through this hole it is the misfortune
nover go back, for at the first glimpse of
& rat each of those nine owls dives down
to the hole, and in soother minute poor
rat has furnished a meal for one of them,
It is related that one day a mink escaped
from one of the cages and there was a
stampede of rats all through the build.
ing. A hundred at least tried to esca
from the ravenous aaimal through this
hole, but as fest as oné would put its
head up into tha opening it would be
nabbed by one of the waiting nine: The
owls had more to eat that day than they
ever had since. «| Washiogton Star,
Tuene is a kind of aid which it is
ly immoral for another to receive; it
is the aid which takes ths place of
work we ought to have done, some
energy we ought to have put forth,
and of character
EE Dongs
KR, AND MES. BOWSER
By Mrs. Bowser.
When 1 have a sick headache Tknow
{| exactly what will happen when Mr,
Bowser reaches home. He will let him-
with my head tied up will gize at me
for a full minute without speaking.
{ Then he will finally remark:
“Didn’t 1 tell you so?”
“What?”
“You got your feet wet.”
“Oh, no, Mr. Bowser.”
“Then you went out bareheaded, or
' you have been eating ice-cream or some
other balderdash.”
“On the ¢ trary, Ihave been very,
very careful.”
“+Oh. you
very, very carcful.
himself t. e
be dead in six months,
tor?"
“No.”
“That's it! Want to let the typhoid
fever ret hold of
women are always
If a giant was to
way von do he'd
VeSs,
CX IVORe
YOu,
“Don’t call a doctor. My head is
much batter than it was. and I shall be
ul right tomorrow.”
“Well, if you are not I'll eall
of them and have vou taken to the hos-
pital.
do.
tre, and here I come home and
you flattened out, perhaps to
velop a case of yellow fever or small.
pox.”
Mr
find
Jowser goes tramping around
pens to think of, and the evening is
rendered very cheerful and happy.
If I happen to be looking down the
street when Mr. Bowser gets off the
car I can tell whether he has & head-
ache or not, i
arms hanging down, e
sidewalk, » nd as |
him he growls out:
on the
open door for
“lemme git on to that I unge us
s$00n as possible.”
“Why, what
“I'm un
t
Have
tia NOY fim.
I don't SU ppOse that one hash ne
8 hundred sets out to find fant
the It's inst their
know They are boss,
around
house way, vou
and
that thes fact duly
nds of their wives
No husband is ever to blame for any
accident ut the honse. The wife
always is. For instance, a waler pipe
down in the basement burst the other
day. Mr. Bowser got home just as )
was about to telephone him.
“Pipe busted! Who busted it?” he
shouied, as he pulled off his overcoat.
«Why, no one.”
| “Yes, they did!
bust without help! Some of you have
' been knocking on that pipe with
{ hammer.”
i
i Iwontdown and showed him that
the leak was at a point wheres none of
i
this
npr
P
impressed on the mi
Bir
i us could possibly reach it, but he re-
plied:
“Well, some of you are certainly to
blame for it. That's the way-—the
minute I leave the house something
happens! Now we shall have
! plumber around here for a week or
more, with a bill of forty or fifty
dollars!”
The back kitchen door had to be
taken off its hinges and planed off a
little, and in rehanging it Mr. ‘Bowser
got in a hurry and only put one screw
in the lower hinge. The cook found
the ochers and laid tam aside. One
day, after he had got home to dinner,
the door fell askew, as might have been
expected.
“Now, what have you done!” shout.
ad Mr. Bowser to me as the cook came
in and reported.
¢¢J—1I didn’t break the door.”
“You didn't! Then who did?” |
“You didn’t put the screws back |
when you rehung it.”
“I didn’t! I'll bet you a billion dol-
lars 1 did. You or the cook went
deliberately to work and took those |
screws out in order to desiroy some- |
It is a wonder we have a roof
left over our heads. Next thing you'll
be knocking down some of the parti
tion walls.”
One day a center-piece on one of the
bedroom ceilings fell to the floor.
Knowing Mr. Bowser’s peculiarities I
left matters untouched until he came
home to dinner,
““This is a nice state of affairs!” he ox.
claimed, as he looked inte the bed-
room
“ didn’t you knock all he chim.
sbout it Wiiis you .
“
What did I have to do widh it, Mr
*
¢*Weren’t you right here all the time?
Did I do it? Did baby do it? Did
some of ‘he neighbors come in and
knock it down with a erowbar?”
“It fell because it was poorly put
ap in the first p ace.”
{ “It fell, M.s. Bowser, because you
got the step-ladder and climbed up
timough the scuttle-hole and went
walking across the joists in the attic.
I expect to come home any day and
dnd the house in ruins.”
But Mr. Bowser goes even further
than this sometimes. One day a high
wind blew down a portion of the back
fence, and when he came home he
stood and gazed at the wreck for a
moment and then turned on me with;
“Well, what less could huve been ex-
| pected?”
“What do you mean, Mr. Bowser?”
“Oh, it's all right! You just keep on
and see how you will come out!”
i “Butdid I blow that fence down,
| Mr. Bowser?”
| «Did I? You were here all the
time. You say it was the wind. but
{ where are your proofs? Why didn't
about it?
And one evening when he
home looking out of sorts and I asked
| me up with:
“Boil coming on my leg!”
“That's too bad.”
“Yes—um-—1 understand |”
“What do you mean, Mr. Bowser?”
“Never you mind. You keep right
on and see where you will end.”
“But am 1 to blame that you have #
| boil on your leg?”
“It's all right, Mrs. Bowser.
| see through a mill-stone
next man.”
I can
Ing n——""
“That's a'l right.
{ Away from me!
suspicions, and this confirms them. I'll
look over my ants tonight and
have a plain talk with you in the morn-
ng.
BOC
A is
A siatee of Mary Queen of Reots
bas been offered to the city of Elin-
burgh by the Countess of Caithness,
hav.ng been previously offered to and
refused by the Municipality of Paris
Lady Caithness thonght that Mary
Auart, as a Uueen Consort, of Fr RIO,
pl in the {
Our woart of
niniry where all the
had a claim to a
brief
enjoy
the © Hapn
r sad life was
French ba
they ni fier
ness of Le
the
nt
wiiom
Perhaps
wen
Every newspaper
seriously and histor cally
¢ blood of Rizzi ini ted
boards on which it was shed at
i. hy the express ore of
Queen Mary, that she might remember
to avenge it nt who econld |
} Tot
fers
mid belie
tuis who knows the mmple trath of the
case?
Immediately after the death of Riz.
zio, Mary was imprisoned in her apart
ments by the couspirators, Bat
sncoeceded in showing Darnley
blunder in joining in a plot aimed at
{ her hife and that of their ehildd. Pro pi-
ly, Darnley was faithless to his fellow
conspirator
to his wife, and he a ded in ber escape
from the palace, This el spement to.
gether of the royal couple kept Mary
out of Holyrecod for weeks alter the
death of Rizzio. All the fresh traces
of that murder would thus be cleared
away long before the Queen was at
i Holyrood again. Moreover, so
from being revengeful,
that rough cruel age becaisse she had
not the harshness to destroy proven
traitors and unserupulons enemies when
they were in her power. Not one per-
| son was executed for the outrage of the
! murder of Rizzio in the Bovereign's
| presence; and ultimately every one of
| the conspirators engaged in this dis
ve
gha
, a8 be had previously been
ary, excepting only the trooper who
had beld a pistol against her own side,
{ and he was not punished, but merely
Yet in face of these facts the hasty
newspaper reader of to-day is led to
, suppose that it is actual history that
| the blood of Rizzio remained un sashed
to deliberately nourish the revenge of
his mistress!
The Conntess of Caithness is a very
remarkable woman. She believes that
| a portion of the soul of Mary Stuart is
reincarnated in Lady Caithness’'s own
| person. It is only a portion of the
soul, however, which she claims to
possess, She believes that at this mo-
ment the soul of that Queen animates
five different bodies! The theory of
reincarnation, which the Blavatskyites
| adduoce as a novelty, is, of course, only
{ a theory of one of the oldest of relig-
| jons — Buddhism. But, ae far as I
know, Lady Caithness is originsl in
| her idea that one soul may blossom
| forth in after-incarnations divided into
| several personalities, as a number of
roses spring from one root. Lady
3
:
born at Madrid, the daughter of a
Spanish father and an English mother,
and married, in the first Pe the
Spanish grandee whose title is now
borne by her son—the Duke de Medina-
Pomar. Her second marriage was with
the Earl of Caithness, who is also now
dead, It was in his ancestral home
that it was revealed to Lady Caithness,
pernataral manner, that she
is a portion of the sonl of Queen
of Soots, From that time the
devoted herself to collecting relics of
Mary. In the magnificent Louse in the
centre of the Boulevard Malesherbes
| King Francis, hangs in the room; and
in nn antique armoire there ‘s a most
imteresting collection of we ll-anthen-
ticated relics of the unfortunste (Jueen.
Lady Caitiness—hai{-Spanish supersti-
tion, half English philosophy-—is her-
self of a stately and imposing beauty,
and is altogether so uncommon and so
interesting that her own iheory as to
| the fasciuating personality that rules
her spirit is not too ridiculous,
i
EE a ————
FOOD FOR THOUGHT,
nmr
The born liar can’t help it.
There is value In experiment.
Love is mutual understanding.
They most assume who know the
least,
Idleness is the nurse of naughti-
Less,
| Hyproerisy is a sort of soclal
{ son,
Proverbs are literature on
shell.
It isa poor mule that won’t work
{ both ways,
Never let a woman know she is
pretty.
A poor man saved by thee shall make
| thee rich,
trea-
the half-
not
| A sick man helped by thee shall make
thee trong.
Light a cizarette and ses the under-
taker smile,
| Benelcence—the salt of all
| possergions,
:
i
earthly
Pride requires very costly food—its
keeper s happiness,
| A man wiih a lot of money Is gener-
ally satisfied with his lot.
The reward of one duty done is the
| power Lo fulfil another,
Magnanimits owes no accountto pru-
Nature 1s the master of talent, genius
is the master oi Nature.
| How quickly Nati e falls to
| when gold be comes her obj-ct,
: There 1s never jealousy where
| Is uot strong regard,
revolt
there
Roses ani thorns grow on the same
! bush —and close together,
In lending money to the Lord always
be sare of your md ie
nen
He who knows right principles is not
equal to him who loves taem,
Etiq
Lo Keep fools al 8 distance,
The test of
ed ur
litical o
nivical or
Wely system, Ix
’
ational, is ten it forms,
s Who des cifd will
2 sorved hy evi
MATE A.
TY
{) se for
" % se % t3l i TT i. seyr ied
i I YOu were piace : in the world.
:
3
: Yiwrts y ‘
Aor is the divine jaw of
our ex-
repose is desertion aud suicid
Hae,
{
Boe;
You say of A man worse
Wat can
than tw call him a hypocrite and a ty-
#
rant
To be properly appreciated one's or-
gas of speech should not be
sLOPA.
However great
ities a e, their
greater,
he self-made man is always an op-
timist. Hs (rienis are usually pessi-
mists,
Our acts our angels are, of good or
ill, our fatal shadows that walk by us
sil,
The man who
woulda’t be s ei a bad
Kept it to hime if,
No idle word thou speakest but is a
seed cast into time, and grows through
all eternity.
Iet your zeal begin with yourself,
| you may with justice extend it to your
neighbor.
Home is next to the last place a man
can go. If he can’t go home, he goes
to the dogs
The turn 1n the long road traveled by
| most men is usaally the turn into the
| cemetery.
By the time a man realizes that he is
| & fool it is usually too la'e to realize on
his realizations.
It is always safe ¢) mistrust the man
| who gives you his confidence the first
| day he meels you.
If everybody knsw what one said of
another, there would not be four friends
| left in the world,
When it comes to making proselytes,
the devil nnderstands his basine ss better
than anybody else.
General tidiness not only pays on ils
own account, but because to be tidy is
| to be economical.
Honesty is the best policy, because it
| is the only policy which insures against
| loss of character.
We are apt to fall into relapses;
wherefore we had batter overcome our
sorrow than delude it.
The trouble with the young is that
they do not do as the old folks advise,
but as they have done.
Just as soon as a man loses all his
property, then we all recollect at once
that he was always a fool.
A man should grapple to hus friend «
with hooks of steel. He need have no
fear of losing his enemies.
It is the work of a philosopher to be
every day subduing his passions ani
laying aside his prejudices,
The intellect has only one failing,
which, to be sure, is a very considerable
one, It has no conscience,
It is easier to make two men who are
in the right, change their minds, than
it is ona, who is in the wrong.
It don’t pay to be a prophet; if. you
hit right, people will doubt it; If you
hit wrong, they will curse it.
Our own actions are the ace dents of
fortune, that we sometimes place to the
credit or luck of misfortune.
Many a garden seen from a distance
Jooks fresh and green, which, when be.
held closely, is dismal and weedy.
A maa never feels the loss of things
which it never occurs to him to ask for;
he is just as happy without them.
poplar bt kh Dob
ve
that be has inherited a large fortune.
men’s abil-
are always
some
Havilities
al”
he
it
if
“knows
feliow
HORSE NOTES,
~John H, Wallace has retired to his
farm at Oak Grove, Pa.
Ea vorrigan will winter his horses
at the Dascombe track Mobile, Ala.
~Jockey Martin has signed a contract
to ride for Eugene Lisigh next year.
~—August Belmont has bought irom
W. C, Daly the fast ware Glory, by
the 1l.Uzed, dam Mehallah,
~~F, Gebhard has engaged Frank
McCabe to go to California to try s
number of yearlings sga'nst time,
~ Lamplighter and Pickvocket have
been sold to J. W. lodgers, trainer for
8. B, Brown, at private terms.
~Z0e BB, 2 17%, the famous daughter
of Blue Bul, wili be sent from Ger.
many to ve ured tw Allerton, 2.00}
—C. J. Hamlin has bred Pripcess
Climes, by Chimes out of rstabella,
daw of Prince Regent, 2.16}, to Mam.
brino Kiang.
~—Lolonel North, the Nitrate King of
Englard, bas made five entries for the
Cuicago Derby of 1503, the Columbian
Exposition year,
~Rulph Wilkes, by Rd Wilkes, has
scored a record of 2.18 at Independence,
Ia., being the second two-year-old to
sie the record of supol «t that age.
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~-Starter Chinn gave Rogan $100 fine
and suspended him indefinitely at Gar-
Geld recently. Jockey I'rane was also
given indefinit : suspension,
—Bidney is only 10 years old. Ie
has a record of 2 20 himself, and seven
of his get bave eulered the 2 20 list.
Two of them are trotters and five pa-
Cera,
-The kite track at Independence,
Iswa, will be kept in shape as long as
the weather permite as there are sev-
eral hundred horses there to gel rec-
Oras,
~John Reamer offers to meteh Major
Flowers and mate to trot 8 race, mile
heats, best three in five, with any
donbls team in Philadelphia, for $50
| Or more.
~A half interest in Captain 8 8S,
Jrown’s horses has be n bought by
i Trainer J. W. Dodgers. Next vear
| they will race under the name of Brown
1 & O
be
.
— Lady, a black mare by
a son of
ising Clay, d peed
} a filly colt at the
ilowdale Farm, Crowu Point, Ind.,
T filly 3 by Almont
of Palo
gaged with
and will
standard
¢ Slewart, a graliuats
wk Farm, has e:
i « ¢
J. Davis, of Chica
i Alto ~t
! Will
hereafter
animals
y
if the
have charge
Willowdale,
— The great pac
ned by Michae
burg, strained the
leg at Deaver, Pa.,
i8 sald Wo be in a very bad way.
~— Walter Cutting, of Pittsfield,
Mass,., Las purcha-ed from W. J. Bull-
oek, of Williamstown, Mass, the five-
{ year-old stallion Anstides, 2 by
Bed Wilkes, dam by Almont.
a
ar, Dallas,
McCormack, of
mascles of his
recently, and
33
2.11%,
Pit ;
w
hind
op 2
284,
~Belle Onward, 2 23. made at Inde-
pendence, Ia. recently has been pnr-
chase 1 by Charles P, Ranunels, of Juck-
sonville, Ind., for $5000, She will be
Kept in traimug.
Belle Hamlin 1 Henrietta
(2.17%), Nightingale (2.13, Globe
(2.19%), and Justina (2 20) have been
sent 0 Village Farm wo be turned out
for the balance of the season,
—Ben Franklin, 2 '9, the handsome
son of Daniel Lambert, 15 still “King
of Morgans,” having more 230 per
formers to his credit than any other
Morgan stallion at the same age.
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“Je
Alix, 2.164, by Patronage, hoids
the fas'est rec. rd for a 8-year-o'd mare
outside ol California, Sunol being the
only 3-year-old filly in the world with
a record faster than hers.
~Miiton Young and George Cadwal-
lader, lexington, Ky,, have sold to P.
Dunn, of Memphis, the bay 2-sear-oid
colt Content, by Oaondago, dam imp,
Happy Sally 22, {r $12,000
Brice Steel has sold the 4-year-oid
bay filly Nina Archer, by Hindoo, dam
Morgan Girl, to John E, Madden, of
Lexington, Ky., for $2500. She will be
sent to Guttenburg to race this winter,
—Pike Barnesand Tiny Williams,
the well-known jockeys who have been
giving the Chicago bookmakers asevere
tussle of late, are going to invest part
of their winnings ma saloon in the
windy city.
—The transfers of horse flesh are esti
mated to amount to $2 000,00) in Ver-
mont the past year, and horse-raising
now takes precedence of all other ani-
mal industries in the Green Mountain
State,
No season has eclipsed the present
one in the matter of 2-year-olds, In
fact, there have never been on the turf
at one time such three youngters as
Monbars, 2 13; Anon, 2 144, and Ralph
Wilkes, 2.214.
~The secrotary of the Australian
Jockey Club is paid an annual salary of
$5000, the handicapper $250), while the
starter is obliged to suusist on $1750,
and the judge places the horses for the
imvaest sum of $1250, ’
~Bude Doble has gone nto winter
quarters at Terre Hante Iod., with the
best performers in his stable. Thess In.
clude Nancy Hanks 209,, MeDosl
(2 1564), Graylight (2.164) and several
olbers that have not beaten 2 20.
«Three Anteeos have entered the
list in California within six weeks
Myrtie, 2.19}: Maudee, 2.24}, and Sun
seh 2.20}. A 2-year-old A uteso