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THE BROOKLYN DAILY EAGLE SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 10. 1884. ana PEDESTEIAN CHAMPIONS. BONIFACES. HIGH SCHOOL COLLEGES.

TAXIDERMISTS. Some oV rJPlieuf Anne chimney pieco. The fireplace is a recent addition to tho inn and is exceedingly picturesque. Tom Blank ley Ib a great dog fancier, and a year ago ho owned ono of tho best bull teniors in tho country. He now possesses a lovely fox terrier, which ho purchased from Halstead, Haines" Co.

Mr. Blankley informed the reporter that ho owed his succeBB in part to the management of his kltohen. TOM BBOWNE. Thomas Browne, who Is at present proprietor of hotel next door to tho Eaolk office, and of a very anus tavern aud chop house on Washington street whloh ho i opened a few months ago, commenced bust nosa about twenty years ago on Fourth street, near North Ninth, I where he furnished weddings and receptions with their neceBBary outfit. For a short time ho had charge of 1 the Bupper rooms attached to the Masonic Temple, and hero ho mado himself very popular with many oltizens of the "Burg.1 Mr.

Browne removed again to the cor ner of Fourth and South Third streets, but his stay thero was Bhort. Believing that a ohange was necessary i to success, he routed a placo called the Odeon and i changed the name 'to Apollo Hall, which has eiucg 1 beon converted into the Novelty Theater. Browne was i there six years and made a reputation as a caterer. Still, with an eye to business, ho removed to that crowdod thoroughfare, Broadway, and opened a hotel aud restaurant near the ferry. Mr.

Browne met with great buccosb there, and at the same time he kept a ohop house on Fourth street near South Tenth. Be twsen the two he made a very profitable thing. After Browno sold the hotel on Broadway, he removed to the cornor of Gates and Ralph avenues where he opened a small placo that waB, from first to last, pretty well patronized Browne next tried his luck on FlatbUBh av enuo, opposite tho Long Island Railroad Depot, but as ho did not meet with tho suoccsb be anticipated he removed to his present quarters on where fortune seems to favor him. The building he now occupies has been ueed as a hotel for a great number of yoars. BILL CLEAVER.

There are few English restaurant proprietors better known in the city thau Bill Cleaver, who keeps tho Stag's Head, on the corner of Downfug street and Putnam avenue. He was born in London in 1835, and camo to thia country in 1857. Cleaver commenced life as a trunk maker, and though very successful in this capacity he was hardly three months in tho country before he embarked in tho liquor business. He went to work in a browery in Forty first street, New York. The place was called Tho Old House at Home, aud home brewed ale was ono of the specialties of the same.

Bill took os a partner a man named Tom King and they converted the brewery into a retail establishment. Cleaver ran this place on an eutiroly English basis and supplied his customers with the famous pewtor mugs to drink from, and large olay pipes, with waxed ends, which the guests filled at their pleasure from a large canister that stood in tho center of the table. These things were an innovation in American barrooms and becamo the means of making custom. After being hero four years Cleaver opened a larger place called the Houbo, which waa located on Eighth avenue, New York. Tho placo was pulled down many years ago, but Mr.

Cleaver carried on a very sucoeasf ul business before he left it. In 1872, he came to Brooklyn and purchased his present tavern, which was then known as tho Light House Shades. It was kept by an Englishman Darned James Light, who haa long been dead. Cleaver was not long in Brooklyn before he became a member of a number of sporting clubs, and ho is at present ono of the moat ardent members of the Fountain Gun Club to whioh many Englishmen belong. Cleaver changed the name of his house to tha Stag's Head, and a few years ago ho enlarged it and added to its attractions a Bklttle and quoit ground.

It is now one of the coziest places in the city, and the Englishmen of the Seventh Ward often meet in the Stag's Head to discuss the events of tho day over a bowl of tripe or a provorblal mutton ohop. A few months ago a number of wealthy gentlemen offered to furnish Mr, Cleaver with a Queen Auno fireplace, If ho would burn the old fashioned hickory logs whioh make such a cheerful blaze on a Winter's evening. Mr. Cleaver has promised to do so. The interior of this restaurant is ornamented with stag aud ibex horns, whloh give the resorts picturesque appearanoe and remind one of the old lodges of England.

HARRY MILLER. There aro few ohophoufle proprietors in the city better known than Harry Miller, whoso plaee of business on Flatbush avenue, near tho park, ia known to every sporting man In Brooklyn. Though Harry haa not beon tho keeperof au inn so long as some of the mon mentioned above, yet he possesses that knack of making and keeping friends which is the Bnre road to success in the management of a public house. Mr, Miller was born in the Math Ward, New York, about forty years ago. He has been for a long time a resident of Brooklyn, but it was not until 1870, that he opened his cuopbouse on Flatbush avenue.

Tho plaoe was previously occupied by a Gorman named Smith, from whom Mr. Miller purchased tho premises. Tho Fountain Gun Club, of which Mr. Miller is one of the moBt prominent members, hired apartments from him as soon aa he established his buBlneBs, and the club still meets in the same building, but on the top door, whero their rooms are fitted up in style. It ia nearly three years Bince Mr.

Miller enlarged aod beautified bis establishment, the walls of which are presont hung with some splendid ploces of art. Tho restaurant Ib also orna mented with a fine vavioty of stuffed birds. Occasionally there is to be seen a cage of live quail which Mr. Miller has thoroughly domesticated and trained to such a point that they loavo tho cage and return to it at will, Harry is also tho posaoBsor of one of the best retrievers in the country. "Doc" is his namo and ho can handle a wounded bird without even hurting it.

Being a member of the Fountain Gun Club and tho man who furnishes that Institution with all Its sport, Mr. Miller makes a speoialty of pigeon pie; but his other dishes are alao of ei col lent quality. He haa a Btoady clasB of customers, who are scattered all over the city, and are nearly all prominent citizens and invete rate sportsmen. ALEXANDER FRASEB. The Scotchmon of the city are not ao woll provided aa Englishmen with restaurants, but as the Scotch and English are protty clannish they make good friends at the festive board.

There Is only one chophoueo in the city with a Caledonian proprietor, and it is located on Nevius street, near Atlantic avenue. The owner's namo is Alexander Eraser, who for a long time had oharge of Hubol's restaurant at Coney Island. He formerly owned a place in New York called the London Chop House, nd there he met with considerable success. Mr. Fraeer is chief of thB Caledonian Club and la also a memher of the Produce Exchange.

He is an Intelligent Scotchman and a strong and abiding friend. aurplua means. Their zeal, however, often takes a aomewhat extraordinary turn, and not infrequently we find that all their benevolence and all their thrift but serves them as a path by which they may depart from their purpose. Thus the press quite recently informed us that The eccentric old Canadian Arunah Huntington, who left $200,000 to bo divided among the public schools of Vermont, has done something which will be of littlo praotical value to the schools. Each dis.tnot will be entitled to tho insignificant sum of about five hunered dollars." Had ho left his $200,000 to ono Bchoolit might have, beau looked1 to lot "valuable re Blli The report of tho Commissioner shows that tho total wealth of nearly four hundred universities and colleges in this country is about FIFTY MTLIJONS in buildings, and about fifty five millions In funds available for their use.

Now, estimating that a university should havo at least $10,000,000 and a college $2, 000,000, this sum would provide for tbroo great universities and thirty six colleges. Tho generosity of the American publio IB unbounded. Over five million dollars aro annually bequeathed to collages alone, and if a plan of concentration could bo fixed upon the effects of this liberal endowment, year after year, could bo mado to practically tell in the spread of a high intellectual development. It is useless to look to the State for aid in this matter, for under a republican form of government tho subsidy system may safely bo oaid to havo never given satisfaction. Few who have wltnoasod the ingenuity displayed by mechanical inventorB and chemical investigators, can have helped from wondering what theso men might accomplish wero they enabled to carry forward thoir work in a thoroughly equipped machine shop or laboratory, with every improved apparatus at band, and carte blanche as to material and assistants.

Such conveniences aro only to be had in the work rooms and laboratories of a great university, and, as successful work always redounds to the credit of tho university where it is performed, a really successful investigator, instead of being pensioned, as in the Old World system, might, under a republic, be taken under tho protection of a great university and bo permitted not only to pursue and extend his scientific researches, but be accorded also a generous support during their, continuance, or at hmst as long as they gave any promise of a successful issue. A tithe of the vast sum employed to maintain a net work of fourth rate colleges would, if properly laid out, suffice to support ono groat seat of learning wherein tho physical department, whloh is at the same time the most expensive to equip and whence tho most valuable work may be looked for, should bo directed by ablo and conscientious men. Properly provided scholarships in connection therewith would lead, there is good reason to believe, in well dirocted work In pure science, of which it may be said that thero is in this country at tho present time a plentiful lack. A practioal people believe in practical work, that Is to say, work the offlcioncy of which will bo Immediately apparent In commerce, manufacture or in adding to the convenience or enjoyment of tho general public. But pure science should not bo forgotten, for upon that is based all the practical work accomplished.

Tho men who practically apply arc and incandescence lighting to the illumination of streets and dwellings may very justly claim publio recognition; but wher3 did they get tho elucidation of tho principle upon which all their labors aro based Was it not from a Faraday, who toiled Incessantly without hope of reward in the realms of pure scleuoe and who died a poor man? Eminent scholars have assured ua that, pride our Bolves.as wo may upon tho accomplishments of the presont century, that which wo know of nature's laws, compared to that which there is reason to boliovo remains yet unknown, is so Insignificant as to be hardly worth tho mentioning. We explain the motion of the planet by THE LAW OF GBAVITATION, but when will the man appear who shall be able to ox plain how two bodies, millions of milos apart, aro attracted toward each other with a certain force 1 Wo have reached that point where we cannot only measure but also weigh oleotricity, and do but wait tho comiug of that investigator who will bo ablo to explain to us the phenomenon of electricity. We have been assured on excellent authority that light is an undulatory motion, but when we have sought to ascertain what it is that undulates, we have been informed that science has not yet reaohed the solution of thio question. Heat is motion that uaa boen proved but what is it that moves Ordinary matter, we are told by eminent investigators, is a common substance, but whon will theso gontlemen bo in a position to reveal tho mystery of its internal constitution These are but few of the probleniB which investigators In pure science are called upon to solve. Nearly all the work of tho past of a purely sciontlflo nature haB beon performed by unselfish, unworldly mon who, without that promise of reward which is constantly held out to those who labor in applied science, havo struggled unceasingly night and day, experimenting and thinking.

Such men should have every facility offered them for their investigations and, as the State has nover shown a disposition to look after them for they must have bread as well as workshops it remains for some well freely endowed university of tho future to give them sholtor. Nothlug in tho foregoing la intended as inferential condemnation of such admirable institutions as Columbia College, Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Cornell, Bow doin, Dartmouth and many othors. But oven at Harvard, which seems to be rolling in wealth, money is not to be bad, except for particular purposes, and the faculty is often at its wits' end tc raise small sums of money for necossary work. President Eliot will toll you that in nearly ovary case the endowments are for specific pnrposos and cannot legally be ueed for any othor than that for which the donor wished tham to be devoted. Thus you will find in some of the colleges vast sums on hand for religious instruction and elucidation, for Hobraw, for arckreolo gy, geology, geodesy and tho like sums of which the accrued interest would Buffice to pay for four times all tha work that could be dono in those departments while at the samo time there is not a red cent for a department which imperatively demands development of the most elaborato and consequently moat exponsive description.

Tho expense of a thorough scion ti tic library itself, which is, of course, a sine qua nwi, only those can Imagine who have ever purchased a foreign scientific book in this country. Under what would suem to.be a misconception of ita own mterots, tho State levies a heavy tax upon all foreign publications, and, owing to tho lack of a wide spread intellectual culture, there is no market for domestic publications in abstract scion co. In fact, only a wealthy man, who expects no return for his outlay, could afford to publish a work on pure scfenco in this country, and as the wealthy are not. to any very large extent, devoted to pure acionco, no Buch works aro published. F.

H. N. i ble in tho tent In Madison Square Garden, if I would throw the race. 1 AN HONEST SPORT. ''I told him that the building full of monoy could not induce rae to do it." "The man that offered him tho money is now backing up Fitzgerald and employed Mr.

Smith as bis trainer. You seo ho had confidence in 'Happy' Jack and 'knowB that ho cannot be bought. "That's so," said auother man. Fitzgerald said Hint he folt in fino condition and was ablo to stand any amount of training. "I ran in three six day matches insldo of nino months; so you can understand that I must have pretty ffood endurance.

In tho race iu which Hazael mode tho GOO miles I camo second, making 577 miles. I mado 583 miles in tho American Institute. I finished a six day run Now Years' Eve, 1881, ran again in tho following February, and seven months iater ran iu a third six day race." "Fitz boat all tho champions in Oatobcr, 1882, and at present holds tho title of champion of tho remarked a sport. "As I snid beforo this will bo tho best race that wo ever bad and Fltz Is the coming man," said Mr. Happy Jack Smith.

'Iu the last race tha: Fitz won he did the niofct work in Si hours on record. MB. VINT'S AMBITION. "I am not over coufidout abouc winning the said Mr. Vint, "but I don't think I will be last In it My ambition is, any way, to havo Brooklyn represented.

I wyi give a good account of Sir. Hazael, who tho GOO miles when he "broke Howell's heart, as Mr friends generally put it, Bind that he was in flno trim now and exj ected to win tho match. "Tho race is going to be a flue oiii" continued Mr. Hazael, "for wo are nil iu good condition. Charley islootiing good, and I understand feels better than ever ho did.

Fitzgerald looks fine, and Vint and Noremao are in good condition." THE PEDESTRIANS' FINANCIAL CONDITION. The five pedestrians are in comfortable circumstances, duo altogether to their swiftness of foot. It is well known that Mr. Rowell is rich. Ha stops at the Ashland House and brought a fino blooded stallion and a mare with him.

It is his intention, as ho stated, to retire from tbo track after tho coming contest, and buy a farm in the West, on which ho purposes settling down for life. Hazael keeps a saloon on Orand street, near Fifth, and is said to havo a nice little bank account. George is popular with the Eastern District sports and is milking a good living. Mr. Vint, as already stated, keeps a saloon on Fulton street, near Henry, and is the owner of a fino farm on Long Island.

Fitzgerald was enabled, after winning a couplo of matches, to build himself a comfortable homo in Astoria, and is said to have a bank account. Noremao keeps a large, finely fitted up sporting saloon on Eighth avenue, New York, and is uaid to De making money. NEW UOOKS. Patents on Inventions. A Quarterly Patent Law Review.

Containing Information and advieo for inventors, patentees and manufacturers. Henry Con nott and Arthur C. Frasor, author and editors. Vol, I. Burlie, Frascr Connott, publishers.

New York. I This publication contains carefully prepared articlo3 on Patent law, briefs of the moro important decisions and general information on all subjects relating io tho protection of inventions, designs aud trademarks, and is written for practical readers who aro not faint liar with technical and lejial expressions. Tho volume is distributed free, and succeeding ones will bo published in March, Juno, Soptomoer and December. The Methodist Centennial Year Book, 1884. Tho ono hundredth year of the Separate Organization of American Edited by V.

H. DePuy, D. 1). Published by Phillips Hunt, Now York. Tho Centennial Y'ear Book of Methodism is ono of tho finest, as it is ono of tho most elaborato, demonstrations of denominational bookmaking that have been issued from tho press for many a year.

It would bo difficult to secure anywhere such a thorough compendium of the history and processes of church work. No Methodist who would bo intelligent, can afford to bo without this book. It contains everything a Methodist wants to know, and its contents aro of a character to interest and inform the general reader. Herein arc to bo found many a secret as to the growth, progresc and development of Methodism in tho United States. The volume bears tho evidences of painstaking and industry on the part of the editor.

The great and varied work of one hundred years has been carefully gathered and discreetly digested so as to form a book at once attractive aud useful. After even a rapid perusal of tho book, ono does not wonder at tho great power of Methodismhow it has ramified itself in all directions, in city and in country, at homo aud abroad, everywhere, in the hovels of the poor and in the mansions of the. rich. The Year Book is auother evidonco of the grit which characterizes the Methodism which it represents. Rambles Overland.

A Trip Across tho Continent. By Alinou Gunnison. Universalist Publishing House. Boston. Not many travelers havo made the trip to tho Pacific coast and back and written so entertainingly as has Mr.

Gunnison in his book, "Rambles Overland." Its charm is its freshness. Everybody ban read enough accounts and descriptions regarding the West aud its scenery to bo familiar with the country and its sights, so that to attract attontion and command interest a book on tho subject muse bo original and strong, aud Mr. Gunnison's volume is this and moro. It is characterized by grace of expression, andis written in an animated, cheerful and happy style. The author was evidently happy In his journeylngs, a philosopher In all situations and a man who becamo for the timo a part of thoKconoshe was enjoyiug.

He did not make his pilgrimage a penance but an inspiration, and between the lines ono may read the delight ho felt in tho mountains and rivers, tho valleys and the cities. Even of tho Bad Lands in Dakota he has a pleasant word to say and makes this picture of thorn 11 It is a region of desolation softened by spots of tender beauty. Great buttca of clay, seamed with gulches, fields compared with which the dreariest desert is beautiful bluffs scarred with such washings as the storms may give vast nniphi theater like spaces tho soil walled around with hills carved into bucIi fantastic sculptor rings as a raco of. giant goblins might fashion. There aro wondrous colors hero great buttes, girdled with yellow bands, aud bright vermilion patches set against the neutral tints of thi weird, spectral land.

Tha very grass is wiry, as though made of steel, covorinji the fields which havo softened into vegetation with Bueh decoration an tho frost rimo makes upon a TrVIntor'P day. Tho day of our explorations ia well suited to this somber woirduosa of landscape, for although it ia in Midsummer tho cold hail falls, and the wind, whistling around tho buttes, chills us to tho marrow." The chapter entitled, "3auntorings in Wonder Land," is tho moat delightful in tho book, if a comparison may be made, in a book whose every page is good. Lover of nature that he is, tho author chooses felicitous phrases in which to tell Ids readers of tho keenuosa of his joy, Tho Lower Falls in the YoUowstono Park ho sees witb the poet's eyes, and says "A great wall beside tho falls on yonder side it seems to be of porphyry soisiit colored but there Is rare tenderness of hue, as though a rime spread over it, and thero are touches, too, of softwr naturo in fern and muss, with little odgings of green enamel such as nature loves to lay around tho sharp edges of crack and seam. In great, majestic, even poise tho water, alluubrokon. Hows out into tho air, gathering soon littlo folds of laco like Btreams, then breaking into mist beforo it changes into smoko three hundred feet below.

Strip this wonder gorge of all these banucrs that cover it; change it Into bare walls of stone walling in the silver ribbon at its base, anditisstill marvelous, for on the eastern tide it rises up steep ascent, ridged with great, protruding veins, shaped into stem promontory and projecting walls, with littlo hint of any pitying earth upon it, till up against tho sky it breaks into woods and fields running back into the hills." The temptation to quote is very strong, but extracts from the descriptions will not properly show their beauty. They should bo read as a whole. The "Fifty Mile Walk" and "Ovor the Itockies by Stage" aro chap tors of great interest. San Francisco, tho Yosemito, the orange land of California and tho desert aro each in turn described, and our traveler, who takes the northern route in going and returns by tho southern way, gives us a completed picture of all the sections. The journey is one not prolific of adventure, but tho descriptions are excellent and the style of the writer is very enjoyable.

It is a book of travel In our own country that io freely recommended for its delightful qualities. i( Roto Songs of the Normal Music Course. By John W. Tufts. D.

Appieton publishers. Now York. "Marplot Cupid a Novel." Illustrations by Frank T. Merrill. Second Edition.

W. B. 01ark Carruth, publishers. Boston. SENATOR ING ALLS' LURID Chicago Nowb.J If Senator Ingailts should over retire from the Senate, somo newspaper will grab him up to do its conflagration reporting.

Mr. Injiils writes of tho lato John Brown "Out of tho portentous and menacing uf anti slavery sentiment hu sprang like a terrific thunderbolt, whoso lurid glare illuminated tho continent with its devastating fiamu, and wbono reverbora 1 tions among the splintered crags of Harper's Ferry were repeated on a thousand battle fields from Gcttys burg to tho Gulf." The Most Noted English Chop House Keepers in the City. A Talk with an Enclish Landlord of the Olden Time The Gastvonomical Delicacies ot the Briton Men who Say They Promote Longevity with Their Culinary Preparations. A reporter met "BUI" Cleaver the other day and asked him whether he could tell when the first English chop houBO was opened In America. The jolly Englishman Bald "That's a question that's not recorded in the history of gastronomy, but I think that John Smith who married Pocahontas opened an ale and chop house when ho landed.

It ia said that 'Poca' was the bartender, but don't putthat in tho Eagle, for it isn't down in Bancroft's History. Well, to bo serious with you," continued Mr. Cleaver, I am not only unable to inform you who opened the firBt English chop house in America, but I don't know who opened the first one in Brooklyn. The man who invented the first chop house, if we know his namo, would bo as immortal as Shakspeare, for ho conferred an inestimable boon on the human race. Without any egotism, I may say that to the Englishman belongfl tho credit of really knowing how to cook a mutton chop, and to enumerate the substantial dishes of which ho was really tho founder would bo a tiresome task.

Would you have evor heard of rarebits, of stewed tripe, of shoeps' wool, of golden buck and other gastronomlcal delicacies if it had not been for tho Englishman He was the inaugurator of them all in thia country. The English ale bouse is as different from tho ordinary lager beer saloon and our conventional liquor tores as anything is posBiblo to be. In most English places you miBs the bar. All that you seo is a window through whloh drinks are delivered. Sometimes thero is a small bar, but tho customers seldom gather around It to imbibe.

Another feature of the English oh op house is Us drinking goblets. Men ask for mugs of alo and tobies of ale, or a little 'alf aud 'alf, but thoy seldom seek a glass of ale. There is a divine pleasure derived from sipping your spicy nut brown alo from pewter mugs and old crookery tobies. An Englishman has also a craze for dogs and birds, horns and antlers, and the walls of his 'pub" aro usually adorned with pictures taken from tho London Illustrated New, and representing all sides of life and all aspects of society. Another distinguish ing feature of tho chop house is ita open grato fire placo with Kb poker and tongs, Still you must havo seen theso things for yourself or road them in tho works of Dickens, But to tho main subject, TOM DENT.

'Ton might as well put Tom Dent down as the oldest chop housekeeper In Brooklyn. He has been thirty five years In the business, and think be has a littlo laid by for a rainy day. Tom first opened a place on the corner of Main and York streets where be did a Bplendld business. The Fulton Market was in this vicinity at that time, and the butchers and farmerB wont to Tom's for thoir "tod" Whon tho market was abolished Dent went to Jay Btreet, whera ho Is now located. Ho has a dog that ia about thirty years of ago and it has an insatiable maw.

It is eating all the time and 1b more afraid of a pohoeman than is a drunken woman, HUMPHREY HARTSHORN. "Tho name of Humphrey Hartshorn will over be dear to the lovers of the English ale house. Though a tailor by profession he was a splendid caterer and a jovial companion. Ho purchased tho well known Abbey, on Fulton street, near Flatbuah avenue, from a man named Jones. Hartshorn sold out his business to John Burke, who for many years made a very profitable thing out of the Abbey.

Burke lost his license over a year ago, and is now in business again on Flatbush avenue. Paul Meade was another good soul who once did thriving business on tho corner of Adams and Wil loughby strocts. Ho was a particular friend of ex Mayor Howell and several other well known gentle mon, FORCE AND RUSSELL. "Johnny Forco and Johuny Russell wore two of the most popular chop bouse keepers that evor lived in this city. Russell has already been noticed in the Eagle.

no was onco a bartender for Captain Hopkins, who kept a placo called Montague Hall, on Court street. Tho Washington stroot house was tho first and last placo ever owned by Mr. Russell, and it was at ono time the rendezvous of tho principal epicures in the city. Nobody seemed to be ablo to cook a ohop like Johnny, and tho boys knew It. Ho was twenty five years in Washington street.

Force was ono of the best catorors of his timo and one of the most popular men of tho city. He first opened a placo in High street, then he moved to Pierrepont Btroet, whither his excellent business followed him. When ho died he was buried from Holy Trinity Church and it was one of the largest funerals I evor saw. Tom Ivory was Force's successor and he did a fine business until his death. Tho place was theu taken by Henry Segilky, but he did not succeed.

The house was closed for Bix months and then reopened by George Wright undor the name of the Pineapple Inn. BOB CALVIN. "Among the best known English restaurateurs of this city is Robort Oalviu, of Front street. Mr. Calvin was born In Manchester and came to thi oountry in 1859.

He first opened a wme. room in West street, Now York, where he remaiuod ten mouths and then wont back to EDgland. Returning from tho mother country Boon afterward ho opened tho old Rabbit Warren Houbo In Carroll street, South Brooklyn. Ho purchased this property and remained proprietor of It for live years, when he opened another house next door to tho old Rabbit Warron, which was known as the Eagle Hotel. It was here that Mr.

Calvin first made rarebits and golden bnck3, and the placo baoame famous for theso two famous English dishes. It was tha only skittle and quoit ground then in tho city. Smith and McLaren two of tho greatest quoiters who ever camo to this country, played Reveral important, matches at the Ea glo Hotel for gold and silvor medals. In 1880, Mr. Calvin sold his property on Carroll street and removed to his present place of business on Front street, which is known as tho QUI Bank Shades, from the fact that tho wqb occupied by iho first bank established in Brooklyn.

Mr. Calvin, in his younger days, was quite a ppdestriau. He won twenty four racoB in Manchester, and has now in his possession some of the trophies repraaentiug theso early victories. "Bob" is ono of the old staudbys aud does a good substantial trade, which he built up by enterprise and lnduatry." JOHN HOLDER. John Holder, who Is now looated on tho corner of Da Kalb and Clermont avenues, is a native of Yorkshire, England, which ho loft in 1840.

and took up bis residence In this city. Mr. Holder, shortly after his arrival hero, opened a butcher shup on York streat, near Navy He supplied the Marino Corps with meat and made quite a sum from this source. In 1869 Mr. Holder thinking that it was but an easy transition from tho occupation of a butcher to that of a public house and restaurant keeper, opnned the Dolmonlco House on De Kain avenue, which is now tho rosort of many young "bloods" on the Hill, and several Brooklyn poets and philosophers.

Holder Is thoroughly English in ail bis tastes, and keeps a. fine stock of dogs on hand all the time. Ho is very fond of and protends to be able to tell any kind of fowl without tho head and feathers. John is about fifty years of ago and has raised a largo family. TOM BLANILLEY.

Tom Blankloy, beeps perhaps, tho moBt elaborato chop house in this city. It as most poople know, located on tho corner of Fulton streot and Hanover place, whoro for twenty seven years the business has been carried on. John J. Blankley, father of Thomas, was born in England, but the latter was born In this country. It was the father who first oponed The Bank, but It was the 'son who brought the business to its present state of prosperity.

Tom Blankley. af tor bidding goodbye to the shipping business in 1868, took his father's pi ace i at the hend.df tho house, and he has made a good successor. About threo years ago the ros taurant underwent some very Important and benefioia changes. The house has no bar to sDeak cf and it is conducted principally on the English plan. Many pleasaut associations aro recalled by tbis place.

Hither resorted Tom Placido and his brothers and old Blake, and after they got through with their night's performance at Wallack's Theater the3o gentlemen made the long trip from Now York to The Bank for tho purpose of a tripe feasC This was a dish named thon (as now) the chief of English chop house preparations, and It is Bauclioned by the medical fraternity. Saturday night is the time set apart by nearly all English restaurant keepers for the preparation of this gaBtronomical delicacy. It is said to be best served up stewed, with boiled onions and roasted potatoes as concomitants. The Bank ia still tho resort of many noted epicures and politicians and business men, who prefer tho cozi ncss of its interior to tho opennc33 and publicity of the modern barroom. Blankley has Borne flno pictures.

Some of the best are "The O.de Shoren; "Judgmenton the Wine," "Cattle in a Snowstorm," by Mlesner; "Sheep" by Brissort; "The Doll Painter," by Eggert; "Cheap, upon My SouV'by Ludwig Blumo; "Tho Poultry Dealer," by ftobor, and "Moonlight," by Sllva. Many of the i pictures aro illustratlvo of sporting matters, and some of them represent tho most comical Bide of the chase, Tho Bank is rendored especially oheerful, on oold nigbtBj by the log firo, which la surrounded by a Queen I Daily Training for the Coming and Decisive Race. The Bleu and Their Pccnlifirltics Rowell's Full Recovery and What Ho Has to Say Regarding His Chances in the Contest A. Talk with Fite gerald Vlut's Ambition Row the Walkers Conduct Themselves Some of the Records MadeThe Private Pursuits of the Ambitious Ones. The great and, aa it is now regarded, final six days' race between tho champions In the pedestrian matches for the past six years or more comas off at Madison Square on the 25th of February.

In a contest between tho champions in the Garden named Rowell, Hazael, Fltzgorald, Vlut and others participated. It will be remembered that Rowell was taken siok on the second or third day, and that Hazael won with a record of G00 miles. Fitzgerald won the race of the champions, defeating Hazaol and tho others, thus becoming tho obampion of cuanipiouB. Rowell, who retains the ABtley bolt, went home to England a physical wreck. He placod himself under the care of ono of the most eminent of the Court physicians and a complete restoration of his physical and staying powers waa the result.

Hia great ambition was to retrieve his lost laurels, and when ho received the assurances that he was in trim to undertake a six days' run he camo back to Now York and challenged Fitzgerald, who promptly took up tho gauntlet. Mr. Vanderbilt was wailed upon and he consented to let them have the use ot tho Garden for 15,000, on condition that they would adhere to their proposition to charge only fifty cents for admission. Theretofore the rent of tho Garden was $10,000 and tho admission fee $1. The terms of tho match are that they put up C500 each, and that any man who desires can outer tho raco by putting up a like sum on or beforo the 4th of February.

Tho winner gets tho sweepBtakos and fifty per cent, of the gate monoy after all the expenses shall have beeu paid. The remaining fifty per cent, will bo divided up among the men ooveriug 525 milos, and tho man who falls to perform that feat receives nothing. After arranging the terms of tho match Rowell and litzgerald Immediately went into active training in Woods' Athletic Grounds on Second and North Ninth streets. Hazael, Noromac and Vint went into training at the same grounds with the intention of entering the raco. They will put up the money shortly.

THE TRAINING PLAOE. The five pedestrians named exercise on the grounds in the forenoon. The track is a handsome, iuctosed and covered sixteenth of a mile ono. It is covored with sawdust and tho men say that it is In evory way suitable for practice. Fitzgerald and Rowell with thoir trainers arrive each day shortly before nine o'clock.

Fitzgerald, who Is an ox Aldormon of Long Island City, walks from hia homo in Astoria, and his trainer, "Happy" Jack Smith, who resides in New York, meets him with eachellnbaud at the grounds, and not infrequently walks to and from Astoria with him. Rowell and hiB trainer, Charley Barusley, who receutly came from England to handle tho littlo champion, put in their appearance at about tho same time as Fitzgerald. Hazael, who is in business on Grand streot, EaBtern District, ia not so punctual, but ho never misses exercising at some part of the day. Little Vint, another Brooklyn man, whoso saloon on Fulton Btreet iB well known, gets on the track about an hour later than Rowoll. Noremae, who is engaged in business in Now York, Is not so regular as the other four men in his i hourB of exercising, but ho rarely ever misses a day.

The appearanoe of the mon, who invariably meet to gether on tho track, some whon about finishing aud others when jUBt beginning their morning's exercise, is somewhat novel, as their gaits or styles of una ing are widely different They aro dressed in thftir run nlng costumes, with heavy woollen underclothing. I Rowell wears a soiled aDd unattractivo white shirt, whllo Fitzgerald affects a btuo flannel shirt such as a mechanic wears, with a green trunk around his loins. Vint looka tho neatest aud most attractive In his dress as well as hlo stylo of running. His stockings aro red, white and blue, his lights, dark velvet. Hazaet'o costume essentially resembles Rowel Ta, and Noremae's is mora attractive.

THB MEN AND THEIR APPEABANCE ON THE TEAOE. Fitzgerald and Hazael are about five foot nlno inches each in height, and resemble each other vory much In build and appearance as well as in thoir style of running. Each has a lumbering, awkward gait and strides along with his shoulders stoopod and his head thrust forward and chin elevated as if ho was ne.irly winded and was gasping for all the air possible. Rowell moves along with his steady, determined, but rather labored trot, while the lithe, wiry form of little Vint skips, or rather hops over the sawdust as lightly and apparently gleefully as a dancing mastor would glide over a waxed hall room floor. Little Nora mac, too, has a tioinowhat light gait.

Rowell, Vint and Noromac are small of stature and of about the same siae. but Rowell is strongly built. The men don their walking costumes in a small apartment partitioned off tho track, whioh is well heated by a large stovo. Thoy then enter the traok and run at a brisk gait, just about the Bama as that which they will adopt at tbb contest. Onco they begin running thoir troinors do not permit them under any circnmstaKcea to stop oven for a moment until they get through.

uitzgeruld and Hazael usually cover from fourteen to sixteen miles, and Vint and Noremao twelve miles each. Rowoll has been training at Woods' for over four weeks, Hnzaol a fow days loss, Vint over threo weeks and Noremao Ibbs than two weeks. As for Fitzgerald lie has been exercising since last Summer, bo as to keep himself in trim, out ho did not go into i activo training undor tho tutelago of "Happy" Jack Smith until about the flame time as Rowell. Ha la doing more than doublo the work of Rowoll, and in the post weok nearly treble. For the past eight days he exercises twice a day, forenoon and afternoon.

In addition, he walks to the grounds in the morning and walks home to dinner and back, and tramps home again in the evening. In all he covers forty miles a day. During the present weok ho will begin exorcising threo times a day. Rowoll and tho ather mon exorclss only In the morning. Each of the men claim to be iu excellent trim, in better condition than they wore ever in before, and three of them Fitzgerald, Rowell and Hazael nro confident of winning.

Only tho fire men named will enter the race. The writer had a conversation with the pedestrians. A CONVERSATION WITH BO WELL. "I norer folt In better condition in all my life," said Rowell, "and tho very faot of my being in. the race io proof that I believe that I will win." "Are you not afraid that the machinery will break down, the same ajrln your laBt race." have thesurance of Sir William Gull, my physician, jyhtrls alao physician to the Queon, that am In excellent condition and ablo to undertake the run without any dangor of breaking down." the rumor which prevailed after your breakdown in New York, to the effoct that you had tho hoart diBsaeo, tiue uNo Sir William Gull that my heart was all right; that 1 was only temporarily affected witb palpitation produced by weakness.

I was under his direct care three mouths and was at the soasido for five wook3fc after going to England that time." "What do you think was tha cause of your sickness during the raco of champions 'I contracted malaria while training in New Jersey for ihe race. "And you have fully recovered I never felt in better condition." "Why do you want to run agalu "Ha don't want to labor under defeat, that's tha ahort and the long of it," answers a friend of Howell's. "I suppose that's so," added RowcIL ''This race," he proceeded, ''will bo ray last one, win or lose. I brought somo horses with mo and I intend buying a farm somewhere in the West and settling down. I am very fond of farming.

ItwiU make my home here and live the quiet Ufe of a farmer. 'I havo made," added Mr. Rowell, "150 miles in 22 hours, tho best on record, and in three days I have covered over 350 miles, the best on record, also." FITZGERALD SAfe. Mr. Fitzgerald and Mr.

"Happy" Jack Smith were not averse to talking. "The machinery in Fitzgerald," said Mr. Smith, leading in tho conversation, "is In first class order, and thero is not tho remotest chance of its breaking down. We are working the hardest of any of the men, and wo can stand it. I believe in hard training.

Wo aro working twice day now, forenoon and afternoon, and we will likely work throe times a daV. I think this will be the greatest race that wo over had, and that wo will be able to solvo tho problem of whether 600 miles cannot bo covered by men. It was only covored onco." "Havo you done much in the training line, Mr. Smith?" "I have been at It nearly all my Ufa You see I trained Hart, tho negro, when he wou the $18,000. I trained him well.

I waa only paid S750 for my sorvicoB, and do you know that tho follow, whon he got hia $18,000, never mado me a present of a cent, although a well known sporting man oounted out to me on my little ta Commentary on Tacts Gathered From the Report of the Commissioner. Three Hundred and Fifty Universities and Colleges in the United States What Constitutes a University, WJiat a College A "University" with Two Professors and Eighteen Students. Another with Three Teachers and Twelve StudentsThe Concentration of University Instruction of the Old World Its Advantages A High Order of Intellectual Training Harboring Scientific Investigators, in a country like ours, whera education is not roBtrlcted to a class as In Europe, bat is diffused among the wholo people, it ia somewhat remarkable that the Btandard of higher scholarship is by no means equal to that which obtains in the Old World. Aside from that lack of thoroughness which, it has been alleged, Ib one of our national characteristics, thero is Another and perhaps still mora important reason for Ihe lack in this country of a higher intellectual development. This, no doubt, may be found In tho multiplication of email colleges, some calling themselves universities, though little better than high schools, Instead of a general concentration, at one, two, or pos llbly three points, of elaborate and well appointed seats of learning.

In proof of this a recent report of the Commissioner of Education gives the following table Of 330 so called colleges and universities Q18 havo from 0 to 100 students. 88 have from 100 to 200 studonta. 12 have from 200 to 300 etudentB. 0 have from 800 to 500 students. 6 have over 600 students.

Of 322 so called colleges and universltlM SOS have from 0 to 10 in tho faculty 09 havo from 10 to 20 In the faculty. 17 have 20 or over. Let us look now at the amounts of money possessed by these institutions, lor from that we oan jndge what facilities for higher education they are enabled to offer. In tha subjoined table the value of tho land and buildings is not given, for the reason that it is not portlnont to tha question under discussion, since as good an eduontion may bo had in a hovel, if the professors and appliances are at hand, as in the most elegant structure. Here is a tablo of the productive funds Of tho various institutions 231 have loss than $500,000, 8 have between $500,000 and $1,000,000.

8 havo over $1,000,000. There are more colleges and universities in this country than in all the rest of the wnrld put together, and with one or two, possibly three, exceptions nono of them possess even a tithe of tho money neoesBary for a genuine college or university, which must of a necess ty be composed of a group of colleges. It is doubtful if the whole world would not bo able to support as many colleges as we have, if they were genuine seats I of learning, with every appliance and apparatus necessary for elabbrato instruction. It is a well known fact, so well known as possibly not to require sustaining evidence, which, however, can easily be had, that higher education can never bemad to pay for itself and the great universities of the world do not expect that the fee paid by a scholar for tuition will pay ovou tho half of the sum which Ichascoat the university to educate him sometimes, indeed, thiB cost will amount to moro than four times the fees received. Tho curse of mediocrity hangs over most of these threo hundjtod and fifty colleges ot oura, and a lad, unless he is careful in selecting his oollege.

may pass tho four years which have been allotted for tho college course, and expend more nioDoy than is required to carry bim through Oxford, Cambridge, Gottingea, or tho Univorsity of Berlin, and yet como out with an education littlo bettor than could bo had at a first rate high school. How little the name UNIVERSITY Is understood in certain soctlons of the country Is evinced In the report referred to, whoro institutions, tho one with two professors and eighteen students, and tho other with threo teachorafand twelve students, call thoinselves universities. Nor are those exceptional cases. The report of the commissioner abounds with such misnomers. Some of thBse so called universities have endowments of from $20,000 to $30,000, whereas ono of tho first universities in the world, manogod in the most export manner by an able and roll able faculty nd board of trustees, was long since shown to be hardly able to meet its expenses with a property valued at three million pounds sterling, or fifteen million dollars.

Many, and It is not unreasonable to supposo that most, of those termed professors in these three hundred and fifty universities and colleges are only teachers, witb no claim whatever upon tho title of A professor should bo ono who has thoroughly demon Btrated his proflcienoy or rather his superiority in at least one direction, that in which he proposes to give Instruction, Such a man, In order Jo be of the most value, Bhonld have all the most improved implements and apparatus applying to his vocation, a library and suitable and respectable salary to llv upon. Thon ind then only can he exert himself to his full capacity. Nor Bhould respectable profeaBors OBeay to instruct while at tha same time working at applied scienca or compounding powders and the like for purposes of money getting. For they are expected to devote their whole time toward furthering the particular science they are employed to olucldate. The most reputable and eminent professors of the large universities of the Old World devote themselves to pur science and leave Us application to those engaged in money getting.

Investigators of pnroly scientific fields and those who apply scientific methods to the affairs of every day life for profit are two distinct classes of human beings, the purposes of each being commendable. Money changers are estimable persons in their way and yet they wero once severely rebuked for carrying on thoir trado in the court of the temple. Wealth is absolutely necessary to a univorsity in order that the student shall have everything within his reach which can aid him to a practical understanding of pure and applied science and the professor bo bo situated that he can carry on his examinations, experiments and studies to any extent. "But woalth does not constitute a university; buildings do not," rery truly romarks an eminent authority. "It Is the men who constitute its faculty and the stu flents who learn from them.

It is tho last and highest ltep which tho mere student takes. He goes forth into world and the height to which ho rises is more or dependent upon tho ideas which he has uncon iclously imbibed In his univorsity If tho professors nnder whom he has studiod have been high In their profession and have themselves had high idoaH if they have considered the advance of their particular lubject THETIS HIGHEST WOBK In life and are themselves honored for their intellect Jhronghout tho world the student ia drawn toward that which is highest and ever after in life baa high Ideas. But if the student is taught by what aro sometimes called good teachers, and teachers who know little more thau the student and who are often surpassed nd oveu despised by him, no one can doubt tho lowered tone of his mind. lie finds that by his feeble efforts ho can surpass one to whom a university has given its honor, and he begins to think that he himself Is a born genius, and the Incentive to work is gone. Bo is great by the side of the mole hill and does not suow any mountain to compare himself with.

university Bhould not only have great men in ita faculty, but have numerous minor professors, tutors and assistants of all kinds and Bhould encourage the highest work, if for no other reason titan to encourage iho student to bis highest efforts." Whera evory section of a country Yies with its neighbor to promote and foster collogiato instruction, mediooro standard of excollenoo is apt to be the result all around. This may, perhapB, bo best exemplified by the work of the astronomical observatories which plen teously dot our vast country. Astronomy, that simplest department of physics, has, as is well known, attained to such perfection as a science that little, If any, original work may be looked for save from tho most elaborately equipped apparatus, and this, it is hardly necessary to remark, is very expousiYO, if not absolutely costly. Now, if the innumerable observatories which extend.from Maine to California were couentrated into one, or rather if the amount expended upon the plant and its malntenanco should be concentrated at two or three, or perhaps four points, and sufficient remained to support several corps of trained and oxpert assist. antB, wo might safely vie with tho world.

As is, however, save in isolated cases, our innumerable observatories serve no better purpose than to afford totbo Inhabitants of their several districts an opportunity to view tho moon, tho sun and tho primary planets. The fault of thia does not, of course, lie.in tho communities themselves, nor yet in thoso who oonduct the astronomical work, but may bo attributed to the donors of the bequests. These, with a gonorosity far In advance of their judgment, seem usually to bo moro alert in furthering the prosperity of their particular section than in advancing tho cause to which they bequeath their Whence lie Birds Come that nre Worn en tho JIats of Fashionable Ladies fctiifllnff Pet Poodles Tor Fair CustomersScarcity of Help hi the Trade A Peculiar Business thut is Rapidly Growing. There is probably no business of nny importance In Now York or Brooklyu of which less is known by the general publio than tho business of tho taxidermist. To the general public tho taxidormist is a man who stuffs birds ami animals, and boyond this almost nothing is known of either him or his business.

A few years ago thero was not a taxidermist in the whole city of New York of whom it could bo truthfully raid that lie thoroughly understood his business. Workmen of tills class havo beon gradually disappearing from tho head of tho trade for the last ten years, and, at the present time, they occupy only secondary positions. There nro now five or six establishments in New York, of considerable siz, managed by thorouglih conipotont men, whero excellent work is turned out in an artistic and thoroughly workmanlike manner. These establishments arc owned and managed for the most part by men who served their ap prenticeship on tho other sido of tho Atlantic, and were attracted to New York either by tho tales told them of Die poor quality of taxidormist work done here or by a desire to embark in business for themselves in a now field where they would have a bolter chance of succeed ing than in tho midst of the strong opposition to be met with from the older establishments at home. Th taxidermists of Now York aro looated on Wil liani and Fulton streets and Broadway.

A SPECULATOR. Most persons supposo that tho taxidermist confines himself almost exclusively to custom work and does not flpecnlato as othor tradesman do. This opinion Is entirely erroneous. The taxidermist with any business ability is constantly buying, selling and trading, in addition to attending to his custom work. Ono establishment in William streot, Now York, employed fourteen men last summer as gunners.

Theso men were sent out along tho sonth aido of Long Island and in the interior of Now Jcrsoy to shoot birds for tho establishment. The Long Island men obtained sea gulls, sea swallows, amaU milpe and similar birds, while the New Jersey men shot only yellow birds, black birds, fire birds and mien other birds of nrilliant plumage ai could be obtained in tho interior of tho oountry. AU tho birds killed wero stuffed as soon as thoy arrivod in New York and wero thon sold to the millinery establishments uptown, at a handsomo profit, to bo used In adorning tho hats of fashionable ladies. This establishment also haa several agents in the wostorn States who aro constantly watching for extra fino specimens of bears, door and othor large animals, the heads and skins of which thoy purchase aud send to Now York to bo stuffed. After being stuffed these animals, or, rather, their stuffed skins, aro either sold at a handsomo profit or Kept in stock to bo lot by the week or month to nny person who may dosiro them.

Tho large dry goods and fur houses uptown in New York and also in Jersoy City and Brooklyn rent those staffed animals and placo them in their show windows for the purpose of attracting attention to their goods. A GROWING BUSINESS. The excellent quality of work which the leading taxidermists of New York are now turning out, combined with tho greater knowledge which tho woalthior inhabitants of the city are obtaining from year to year of European work of this description, has increased the demand for taxidermist work to such an extent that it is impossible for the few first class houses engaged in the business to supply their customers, especially afc the approach of tho holiday season. There is probably not a taxidermist in New York who was ablo to supply ono third of tho domand which was mado upon him, during the recent holiday season. The taxidermist, unlike any other business man, is compelled to dopend almost entirely upon himself to got his work properly done.

Ho cannot secure competent help at any price, for tho reason that thero is no competent holp iu tha markot. A man who understands the business thoroughly can very rarely ho hired at any price. Ho will open an establishment of his own at once and make more money than any employer could possibly afford to pay him. A good man who thoroughly understands his business and chousos to work for wages can obtain from twenty five to thirty dollars weok tho year round, and if he should happen not to like his employer and should make tho fact kuown to tho proprietors of other establishments ho could generally choose for which one of them ho would work. THE CUSTOMERS.

The taxidermist's customers are composed of all oortf of people, from tho o'ainty society belle to tho rougiiand sturdy fisherman. Tho principal work done for the ladies is that of stuffing and mounting pet dogs whq have departed this life and consequently brought sor row to the hearts of their fair owners. This is tho most difficult work which the taxidermist has to perform. The lady, of courso, wants her pet stuffed aud mounted In such a position that he will bo an exact representation of his living self. Unless tbo workman hns a photograph of the animal when living to guide him, it Ja almost impossible for him to perform tho work to tha entire liking of his customer.

Every dog has an expression of countouanco which is peculiarly his own. No two dogs are ever found with tho same expression. Tho countouanco of her pet is perfectly familiar to th( lady, but to the taxidermist, who haa never soon tha animal during life, tho expression is a most difficult thing to deteriniuc. in tho absonce of a photograph the best tho workman can do is to take a long lonfc at the face of the animal, aa it Hos dead before him, and try to imagine tho same face active witli life. In this way ho gets a vague idoa of tho facial appearance of tho dog in life, and makes up the stuflcd faeo to correspond with it, Many of the best workmen cast the dog's features in plaster, aud make the stuffed face to correspond with tho cast.

Tho first thing to be done with an animal that is to be stuffed carefully to remove its skin. When removed the skin is turned inBido out, and any little particles of llesh which may adhere to it aro caro fully removed with the knife. Tho skin is thon turned Mid afterward treated with p. lolution or arsenic. Af tc this operation Is completed it is ready to bo stuffed with oakum or hemp.

Tho prices charged by first cla3s workmen vary all the way from $1 up to $80 or mom, according to the pizs of the animal. A Tolar boar will cost about fSO, a black bear $50, a pet poodle 10, and a humming bird, which is about tho smallest bird ever stuffed, costs $1 ITE3IS ABOUT WOKESL Madamo KovftlcfTski, a Russian lady of high rank, has taken a doctor' degree at Gottingen. Lady Burdett Contts owns tbo smallest pony in the world he is fivo years old and it an da thirteen inches high. Tho Queen of Italy is about to undertake the etndy of political economy, tinder the instruction ot Baron Minghetti. Madame Carla Serena is the first woman made honorary corresponding member of the Mar eeills Geological Boolety.

The mother of Edwin Booth has met with a serious accident in breaking her ankle, at tho aga of 80, and her cace ia viewed with concern and sympa thy. Mary V. Young, Brigham'a seventeenth wife, died a few days ago. Thero are still sixteou widows of tho worthy kit, all but two of whom live at Salt Lake. Madame De Bille, the wife of the Danish Minister, who visited the Zunia last Summer and was much interested in them, received from them, under r.rr.

Cushing'a direction, a remarkable Christmas caaJ oi their own manufacture. Mrs. Hartshorn, of Newport, who is spending the Winter in Washington, gives vory pleasant muslcales there at one of them recently Mies Morgan, of New York, de tig Mod every one with her performance on the harp, and Mlos Doremus played the uaujo marvelous ly, Mrs. W. Of.

Noah, one of the great actresses of firty years ago, who played rival ongugoments with Fanuy Kemblo and supported the older Booth nnd Forrest, is still liviug in Rochester, N. Y. She was originally a Miss Mook Bhe married Mr. Frank MuClure, a nephew of tho late Bishop Onderdonk, and after his death, Mr. V.

G. Noah, a wealthy and prominent citizen of tho above named city. "Pa." said tho daughter of the house to the man of the house the othor evening, "What aro wo going to havo for breakfast I have ordered Lyon naiso tripe, my child," was tho father's answer. "And whoro does that come from, pa Dees it como from an animal, or does it grow "It in taken from an animal, my dear." "Oh, I know, then after a pause to think up her natural history "then it is taken from lionesses, isn't it, pa Pa was weak enough to say MONACO AND ITS GAMBLEBS The Casino of Monte Carlo is now the most Important part of the principality of Monaco InBtead of being subordinate to the palace, the latter has become but an appendage to tho modern splendor across the bay. Monte Carle occupies a alto as beautiful as any in" the world.

In front the blue soa laves its lovely garden on tho east tho soft coast lino of Italy Btrttches away in tho distance on tho west bank is the bold curving rock of Monaco, with Its castle and port, aud the great oliff of the Dog's Head. Behind rises the near mountain high above and on its top, outlined nKaluat tho sky, stands tho old tower of Tur bia in its lonely ruined majosty looking toward Rome. From a spacious, richly decorated entrance ball, the gambling rooms opon by noiseless swinging doors. Entering, wo saw tha tables surrounded by a closo circle of seated players, with a second circle standing behind, playing ovor their shoulders, and sometimes oven a third behind these. Although so many persons wore present, it was very still, the only sounds being the chink, chink of the gold and silver coins, and the dull mechanical voices of tho offieiaLs announcing, the winning numbers.

There were tables for both roulette and trentc et quaraute, the playing beginning each day at eleven in tho morning and continuing without intermission until cloven at night. Everywhere was lavished the luxury of flowers, paintings, marbles, and tho costliest decoration of all kinds boyond, is a suporb hall, the finest orchestra on the Contimmc was playing the divine music of Beethoven; outside, one of tho loveliest gnrdonH In the world offered itself to thoso who wished to stroll awhile. And all ot this given freely, without restriction and without price, upon a sito and under a aky as beautiful as earth can produce. But one Bober look at tho faces of tho steady players around thoso. tables betrayed, under all this luxury aud beauty, tho real horror of tho placef for men and women, young and old alike, had tho gambler's strange fever in the expression of tho eyo, all the moro intense because, in almost evory case, so gov enicd, so stonily repressed, so deadly cold I After a half hour of observation, wo left the rooms, and I was glad to breathe tha outaide air once moro.

The place had so struck to my heart, with its intensity, its richness, its stillness and its terror, that I had not beon able even to smile at the Professor's demeanor ho had signified his disapprobation (while looking at everything quite closely, however) by buttoning his coat up to the chin and keeping his hat on. I almost expected to see him open his umbrella. "ffo me, they seemed all said, with a shudder, looking up at the calm mountains with a sense of 'It is a species of madness," said Yernoy. Miss Elaine was with him she had taken his arm while in the gambling room'; she said she felt 'ao timid." Margaret and Lloyd meauwhile had only looked on for a moment or two, and had then disappeared we learned afterward that they had gone io the concert room, whero music bnautiful enough tdr paradise was filling tho perfumed air. "For those who caxo nothing for gambling, that musio is one of the baits," said Lloyd.

"When you reaUy love music, it; is very hard to keep away from it and, hero, where there is no othor music to compete with it, it is offered to you In its dlvinest perfection, at an agreeable distance from Nice and Montone, along one of the most beautiful driveways in the world, witb a Parisian hotel at its best to give you, beside, what other refreshment you need. Hundreds of persons come hero sincerely only to (lear the muBic.1 But fow gp away without ono look' at the gambling tables and it is upon that one look' thtt tho proprietors of the Casino, knowing human na'ire, qulotly and soourely rely. Harper't Magazine, AGNOSTICISM IX A 31 ERICA ft FICTION, Mr. James and Mr. Howells have clone more than all the rest of ub to make our literature respectable during the last ten years.

If texture be tho object, they have brought texture to a fineness never suvpasftHl anywhere. They havo discovered charm and grace in much that was only blank before. They have detected and described points of human naturo hitherto unno noticcd, which, if not intrinsically important, will ono day bo mado auxiliary the production of pictures of bruuilur as wvll as minuter vtivneiry than have heretofore bjen produced. All tlip.t snrniH wanting thus far is a direction, an aim, a belief. Agnosticism lias brought about a pause for a while, and no doubt a pause is pre fe table to some kinds of activity.

Ic may cuablu us, when time cornea to set forward again, to do so with better equipment and more intelligent purpose. It will not do tj be always at a prophetic heat of enthusiasm, sympathy, denunciation; tho coolly critical moud is also useful to prune extravagance and xroiiiote a sense of responsibility. Tho novels of Mr. James and of IIorell.H have taught us that mon and women aro creatures of infinitely complicated structure, and that even the least of these com plications, if it is portrayed at nil, is worth portraying truthfully. But we cannot forget, on the other hand, that hoiiAst emotion and hearty action are necessary to the whulciotneutss of society because iu thoir absonco society is afflicted with a la men tablo sameness and triviality tho old primitive impulses remain, but the food on which they are compelled to feed is insipid and nnsiistoiiilng; our eyes aro turned inward Instead of outward.

nnU each one of us becomes himself the Home towards which all his roads lead. Such books as those authors have written are not tho Great American Novel, because they take life and humanity not in their loftier, but in their lesser manifestations. They arc the Fide scenes and the background of a story that has yet to bo written. That story will havo the interest not only of the collision of private passions and efforts, but of the great ideas and priucioles which characterize and animate a nation. It will discriminate between what is accidental and what is permanent, between what is realistic and what is real, between what is sentimental and what is sentiment.

It will show us not only what we aro, but what we are to be not only what to avoid, but what to do. It will rest neither in the tragic gloom of Turguenieff, nor in tho critical composure of James, nor in the gon tlo deprecation of Howell3, but will demonstrate that the weakness of man is tho motive and condition of his strength. Julian Hawthgrnct in Princeton Review, Young man, stick ter pu'pose. Forked light nin' ain' no sign rain. Do fool neber tries ter hide do nakedness ob his mine by do fig loaves o' larnin.

A smart man has moro ter worry him den a fool has. Do brightes' plow w'ars de aetes No man ain1 so great airter we onco knows him. De bullfraug bellers do loudes when yer kain seo him. I alius feels sorry fur de young feller whut Is smart befo' his time. De flowers whut bloom do soones1 is do soones' ter die.

De Janglwhat doan come nacliul grates mighty barah on de human year. Do dry, hearse laugh o' do owl makes a ckioken feel mighty Queasy Arkantaa IVav.