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bare few superiors, if any, of year. So sen tbreo year old Parole won three times out of seven Btotts. TOTJR YE ABA EIGHT VICTORIES. PARIS RESTAURANTS. A GREAT ROGUE'S DEATH Parole, and ho won by half a length, Alcbomlat second.

The cup Itself is valued at 600 guineas, ft is an tx qaMfe work of srt, "introducing the 'subject of Proteus in one of bis endless transformations, tinder tbe tbo fastest half mile on record at Saratoga, in 1874, In 47' aecondB, and is now a brood maro at the Belmont Nursery Farm, near Babylon. She la the dam again of the Btill fleotor Olivia, who, at Saratoga, on the fifth of August last, being then a two year old, carrying 9T ran the fastest five eighths of a mile on record doing the distance in Aristocratically connected was the little brown oolt as regards bis sisters and his ooualns and bis aunts, AND HE THBIVED AND OEEW on the sunny hills that ovorlook the Wissahlckon. He was a plain looking but hardy young one. with logs which were beyond criticism, doep shoulders, long quarters, wide hips and powerful loins, but be was not handsome about tho head, and his owe neck was not a point to go into rapturos ovor. When a yearling ho left bis pleasant home at Chestnut Hills, aud, with sundry of his brethren, oama up to New York to be offered at auction.

On the 15th of Juno, 1874, he came to tho blook, and for tbe sum of $780 bocaino the property of Mr. Plorro Lorillard. Lncky Parole to find such a master lucky Pierre to secure euch a servant. They were, by this fortunate coming together, to anblevo for each other enduring fame aud tho regard of a nation. In due time tho little brown colt was put blm, surrounded by unkompt plolns.tbat remind one of nothing but death, that are scattered over with tho bloaclted and gaping skulls of tbo buffalo.or tho vtblton ing bones of antelope, to remind him of times that glittered with meroles abundant.

It is bis rigid, voloanio home that breeds tho moteorologlcal porturbations tbat wo so liberally oondemn whon they ooiuo, or cry for If they stay aviay. Tho poet who wrote about tbo desoendlng night finding tho whole earth frozen, probably got bis inspiration from a patch of soonery bounded on tbo North by a woodshod, on the Bast by a rail Tanco, on the South by a cherry troo aud on the West by a hen coop. lie would possibly rovise bis viows, could bo compare tbo back yard which appears to havo been upheaved by a oouvulBion of poetry, with the bolt lying between the Western line of Manitoba and tbo Uocklos, tho upper Missouri and the North Saskatonowan. Winter in that bailiwick leaves no doubt as to Its signification. Aud yet above this belt and in tho valley of tho Saskat' chow.in are populous villages aud thriving towns.

Around about is a great wboat growing country, claimed by its poople to boeomo tbo greatest In the world when Its resources aro developed. Its outlet now is down tho Saskatchewan to Lake Winnipeg, thonce up tho lied River of the North to Fargo, Dakota, wbero tho Northern Pacific orosses thence by rail to Dulutb and by boat to market. Considerable dlstauoo for wheat gulse of a hermit crab lodging himself in a discarded triton Bhen or conoh, fixed in tho sands and surrounded by a lnxurious growth of sea weed, from amidst whioh sprightly sea nymphs gather to look at iof intruder. These figureB, entwined In their rise, or retting on the floating blades, form the base end handlo tor tho enp. Shells and zoophytes adorn tbe bate.

Tbo oup is in tha Cellini fantastio style, and was designed by Slgnor Monti. In the fancy of the artist, Parole, who had oome across, If not trom the sea, had driven the glory of tbe British turf from its native abode and bad taken possession of tbs vacated shell. Parole ran ten days later at Ascot in the two mile handicap, carry ing top wolgbts, but did not succeed in getting a place, ooming in fourth, Lord Roseberr'a Kidotto, with 109 won. Paroio now became etalo and lost oondition, when it became necessary to treat htm. On the 31st of July, bofore he had recovered form, ho started for the Goodwood cup, bnt camo in third, Isonomy, with 129 winning.

Wlth 125 lbs. Paroio next started in the groat Yorkshire handicap, at Donoaater, September 9, over the Donoaster St Legor course, 1 mllo furlongs and 132 yards. Dresden China, 3 years, 84 won, Parole third. On October 7, with 118 lba. np, he ran in the Cosarewitch Stakes handicap at Nowmorket, 2 milos, 2 furlongs and 28 yards, won by ehippendalo, 3 years, 103 Parole fourth.

He also started October 10 for the second Groat Chollouge stakes at Newmarket six furlongs, won by Count do Lagrange's Rayon d'Or, 3 years', 126 Parole, same weight, unplaced. He thon retired for tho soason, having run eleven racoB and achioved five victories. It would bo dlfttoult to exaggerate In description the excitement these triumphs of an American brod horso on British soil excited all over tho civilized world, and particularly in this country. Tbo victories of tbe Froncb Gladlateur avonged In Gallic sentiment nnd belief' tho overthrow nt Waterloo. Parole's buccossob atoned for all tho slights and scorn and blockade running and giving up of Mason and Slidell, and all that sort of thing experlenood during tho rebellion.

Every American felt proud. Southerners, whose love for the thoroughbred is Intuitive almost, deolared that it healed tho bloody chaBm and that thore had been nothing lu tho national history half so glorious slnoo the battle of New Orleans. And the raoeborse breeders aet about to bring on the planet a peer of tho as yet peerless Parole. The English, who are a gonorous raco when thoir best feelings are stirred up, at ilrst dooriod Parole's performances. He had run oloven races and bad won, with heavy impostB, fivo of the beBt of them, boating not only somo of the beBt but tbe aotuslly bast horso in England, Isonomy.

There was no denying, after the chagrin of the first raoe wore off, tbat Parole waa a great race horse, and John Bull honestly admitted it and admired Parole and backed bim ofton. A contemptible Canadian sheet stated, with a great allow of authority, that Paroio wat bred in England, and the story was copied into a rotpeetable English sporting paper, which ought to have boon above it. But no effoot was produoed and Parole was always thereafter a favorite, if not in the betting, nt least in English ap preciation of the pluck, courago aud speed ho bod shown and his daring to oross the Atlantio to meet the great oracks of England. SEVEN YEARS OLD FOUR VICTORniS. So Parole wont into Winter quarters again, Ho did not do aa woll as was expected, aud born it gives grief to be obligod to say that Parole, although in tbe Spring and Summer of 1880 starting In England no loss than ton times, not a raco could bo win.

Amorlcans are rather prone to romember ouly tholr victories, aud to ignoro or pass lightly their national defeats. But tbat is not always the best way. In Parole's case those suc cessive defeats were owing to bis condition, the great imposts and tbe distances. Tbey piled tbo weight on bim vory liberally lndood. Ho waa disqualified for the Liverpool Spring oup by an unfortunate oross, was Unplacod for the city and suburban, 130 mllos, unplaced for tho Prince of Wales stakos, 133 Rowley mllo; was second for tbo Epsom gold cup, 135 IX miles was unplaced for the Koyal Hunt cup, 126 new mile was unplaced for tha Ascot high wolgbt plate, 146 1 miles was unplaced for the Nortb umbarland plato, 121 2 miles waa second lor the Lennox stakes, 132 T.

V. Course, throo quar tors of milo straight was third for the Singloton stakes, 131 new mile, and was unplaced for tho Brighton etakos, 121 ly miles. Ho had now run twenty one races in Eugland, five of which ho had taken in fine style. It was evident bis career there was ended. The Amorican admirers of the old brown goldlng wero greatly afraid Mr.

Lorillard would dispose of him in England without giving the American publio a chance to pay the old follow the personal honor he had so grandly earned. But Mr. Lorillard was not that sort of a man, and Parole, doubtless homesick and longing for KancocaB, set his faoo westward. Tbo cods aud goddessoa whom he typified in his most valuod trophy safely guided the keel that boro Parole toward tbe setllnu sun. lie arrived all right.

He reoelvod a big ovation whero ever ho went. As if to show his deep gratitude for be ing brought book again to the scenes of bis childhood and for not being compelled to lay his bonos among those of foreign quadrupeds, wben brought to tbo posl'at Jeromo Park bo showed his old spirit and gaily gallopod away from Ripple and bis oomrades in a mllo dash, and then proceoded to win every other race ho started In during the season, four in all, beating Rosalie and others, a mile and a quartor, at Baltimore, and Gabriel and Checkmate, a mile dash, in the fast time of 1:42, and winding up by winning a nine furlong beat handicap race on Election day at Jeromo Park, having a real triumphant and approciativo timo of It nnd beiug lookod upon oa quito tho exponent of Amorican institu tions nnd Yankee greatness. Counting both sides of tho water, ho had started fourteen timos as a sevon year old or aged racer, and bad wou four of his events. EIGHT YEARS OLD TWELVE TRIUMPHS. Parole's performances last year wero fully up to his average, or hia twelve failures to take firBt place out of his twonty four raceB, it is about enough to say that bis in and out running, though vexatious sometimes to his backors and calculated to leave still unsettled whethor be can go a distance and carry weight, bas beon, through personal regard for tbo old follow, quito forgiven.

A good many people, romom bering his failures in years past to win the Great National handicap, and making up their minds that ho would really do it this time, having carried weight and gone distance bo well in England, would have beon very woll pleased indeed to be aBBured that Feakes really trlod for it. Paroio showed no speed in any port of tbo race. Mr. Lorillard it reported to havo askod Fcakos whon he came in The weight and distance were loo much for tho old fellow, weren't they And FeakeB nodded assent" a queer race ell tbe way through," aa a well known eporting authority characterized It. But a mere enumeration of Parole's twelve eight year old victories will suffice.

He won the Westchoster oup, 121 lbs. up June 7, the first time it baa fallen to him, although he ran socond in 1878. Ho did tho distance this time in 4:09. He beat George McCullough a purse raee, l'f miles, for $700, at 8heepshead, Juno 28. Ho boat Gabriel and four othors a handicap sweepstakes, 1 miles, at Monmouth, August 17.

Ho beat Mary Anderson, Dan and Ella Warfiold, mile beats, at Sheepshead, September 2, in 1:43.14 and 116 beat Greenland a mile and a quartor for a purse of $600, same place, September 6. He beat Eole and Greenland a mllo and threo furlongs in the Gravesond handicap, September 8. Ho won tbe Manhattan handicap, ljf miles, from Compensation and a field of six other good ones, at Jerome, October 1. He beat Forlda threo other good ones, a mllo and threo furlongs, for a purse of $600, October 4, and be won three purso races at Baltimore, one a mllo and a quarter, Octobor 19, one a dash ot a mile and ono a mile and a half, October 20, beating In tbe latter Monitor and five others, in Of tho twelve racoa in which be was defeated, tho most memorablo was the race for tho Coney Island cup, in which Luke Blackburn broke down. Glenmore, who won, and Uns who made running for Paroio, carried each 114 lbs' Monitor, who was second at tbo finish, and Parole, who ran third, carried top weights, 118 each, soven lbs.

of which, in each case, was penalty, Monitor for winning tbe Monmouth oup, and Paroio for winning tho Westchester cup. Blackburn corrried 108. Thero was no withstanding Glenmore, and Monitor got second placo from Parole more by skillful riding than anything else, as the old brown gelding was coming very strong at the finish aud was beaten for second placo by a short half length only. And that finishes up the story of Parole to dato. He ia the most popular quadruped in tho world to day.

The Baltimoreans fell heavily financially when four years ago last Fall Parole polished off Ten Broeek and Tom Ochiltree, and tbey have bad little reason to love blm, yst at tbe last Baltimore meeting, where tbe old follow scored bis three victories, He's a grand old horso," was hoard on every side, lays Vigilant," and they teemed to be tickled with the eight of tbe battle scarred old hero. spread eagling fields of horses who were unborn in tbo days when ho waa winning oups. He is a great race borse," said one old turfman the older I get tbe mora I'm convinced of it. Why, if be should die, I dare eay they'd euepend business in New York and give bim a publio funeral," yes, and raise a monument to tbe memory of tbe steed that stiffened Yankee self esteem, and on its marble bo engraved Heat thy soul. Bravo Paroio.

RACES AND VfCTOBIES BY YEARS. Tbe following tablo summarizes tbe performances of Parole witb sufficient accuracy, no attention being paid to anything but a winning placo, and simply adding tbat two of tbe races which bo did not win were hie, had It beon intended tbat he and not a atablo companion should be first, and tbat in several, not less than four, more hie defeat was tbe result of bad generalship, where victory was a certainty if tbe right tactlos bad beon pursued. Year. 1875 187ii 1877 1878 1879' ISSOr. iasi Total I Age.

Starts. First. .2 a 4 .3 7 3 .4 12 8 .5 1(1 8 .6 11 5 .7 )4 4 .8 24 12 THE MANITOBA WAVE. What is it and Where Does it Come From Tlie Frozen Lund of the Extremo Northwest. Composition nnd Habits of the "Dlt7.zo.rd." Wheat Lands Almost on the Alaska Iiordcr.

Lire and Winter Scenes In tho Upper Country It is ft littlo queer how storm centers, or calner the birth plaoes of storm confers, obey the rigid 3 ulcs and rogulutloua of civilization. A fow centuries the stunly Dutchman roostiug on tlio Battery, or Xiay be as far uptown as Bowling Qtwn, when lio felt a oold shiver run up Ills back, or a twitch of rheumatism in bis hip, informed his wifo that a Uarlera wave was ooming aud wont for his schnapps vigorously. A littlo later, when hugo shoes wont out and tight boots camo in, evory man's corn was his weather bureau, ana as the tide of population rolled away from tho coast, tho origin of tho wintry blasts fled before it, until the niau With a twlngln too figured out of bis consciousness She convlctiou that an Albany nave was on its devattat Jiit' truck south. Later still, when tho defaulting bank cashier had given up financlnz for farming and moved a far out as tho Ohio border, ho oast longing looks to ward tlio forests of Michigan, satisfied that in them "Winter look its rise, and from thorn ho must ojtpoct every breed of disaster to bis wood crop aud water jiipaa. Tho Impression that cold snaps are croatcd in speol localities is wide spread, thouijb one must admit im refloetiou that tlio localities aro migratory.

There ire cltlzona of Brooklyn who can remember when Minnesota and cvon Wisconsin woro the hot bode of cold Jvavos (a perfectly proper expression, for between oold and heat there is only difference In degree); thoy Jinve learnod now to look beyond those States, aud this eonorstiou has settled down to a profound faith that (Winter is mde up in Manitoba and shipped east or Couth, as tho market may bo advantageous. It Is a favorite theory of tho Signal Sorvtce Bureau that oold snaps origlnato in that territory, and the estimable Mr. Probs becomes ecstatio In his solemnity wbon a northwest wind affords opportunity for a warning to look out for "falling temperature," superln Quced by the Influences of that locality. And careless people take It in good part, albolt inolinod to wonder What tho Manitoba person thinks of it and how ho manages to scratch along, As mater of faot, tho Manitoba jman is comparatively a happy creaturo, for Uo turns a jonteinptuoua back on the slmpls mlndod Brooklyn Jmau who tbiDka his lumps of oold corns from the groat wheat land," and In turn looks away to the bouutry northwest of him for tho causo of his augmont. Gd plumber's bill.

He has a righteous and a riotous disgust for any buroau that holds him responsible for tho variations in Eastern teraporaturo, and points to the sllout, frozen oountry beyond as explanatory of the discomforts that sweep down through the States. ALASKA. II tnuBt bo conceded that the Winters In Manitoba jh cold and heartless, but the little territory is a para, fllsa to the bleak laud that rolls turbulently toward tho Alaska bordor. Arctic resoaroh has scarcely developed a more sterile and cheerless aspect than the brokon, louoly oxp.inso that reaches to the Rocky Mountains. From tho northwest corner of Manitoba to the North Saskatchewan Rivor lios a tract that in Winter might bo tho ghost of all Iho oxtluot volcanoes.

Jlore tho winds bavo never been tamed by the comforts and conveniences of civilization tho snows never sullied by tho touch of the civilized boot. And it is here that tho wind aud snow meat In aavago marriage whoso Offspring is tho blizzard, nnd it ia tho old, haggard and Worn out blizzard, onfeoblod by dissipation, uround Btaultoba, perhaps, but Dakota and Minnesota as wall, that comes crawling down to tho Atlantic coast, suddenly to fiud itself rehabilitate as it were, at least dignified by tho high souudiug title, bearing official ptamp, of "Manitoba wave." It Is no more a "Manitoba ware" than It Is an A rizo tJa zopbyr no more than a California lino Is a Colorado taxpayor. becauso he travels through, that State on ills way to New York. In Its youth and vigor, tho blizzard is an oxisteneo that admiration. Comparod with it the blasts that sweep across the Easterns States, oven on the coldest nights of tho Atlantio Winters, are but Florida puffs.

Rising In a oountry. almost as uiauk as northern Siberia, In a laud whore tho tliormometsr ranges at fifty five degrees below zoro (and tho lowest reglstor found by North Polar uavijators is sixty nine tielow), It tears along tht wretched, ragged region that Opawuod It, as relentless as doalh a white, snow ridden, rasping shaft of frozen air, conscienceless and Altogether unlovely. It Is estimated that a blizzard Mill, If in good health, travol at a volocity of a hundred and sixty miles an hour. Dakota men put tne Opood of Ibeir galos at a hundred aud twouty miles, but those aro ouly side blizzards. The original urtiolo, Sho native of tlio Canadian Northwest Territory, does business at the rate of a hundred aud sixty, and It is tho split up, meteoric gusts, that really don't belong to tho genuine oomot, but only figure on the outskirts, bearing the sanio relation to tbo blizzard a postmaster to the Presidency, that wo got, and whioh wo are to term tho great oold ware, So far from Setting any blizzard, It takes most all of tha most industrious to freeze the average Manitoba man.

'A characteristic of tbo blizzard, balling from the Extreme Northwest, is, that it does best in fair weather. It Is not aocompinied by snowstorms, though it ap. pears to be a frightful snow flurry, from the amount of flakes it picks from the hilltops and carrios with It, Bor it it a wide Institution. Its palb Is comparatively Harrow, something llko that of tho Southwestern tor Wado, only the latter Is a oyllndor that bumps along from town to town, while tho former ia a long, narrow fcand, better illustrated by a piece of white tape. It is Oald that nothing con wltbBtaud it, and the only well authenticated case of a successful odvorsary to tho tillzzard Is that of a mule In Northern Montana.

The tnulo was on the prairie grazing on some barrel staves, 'thrown to him by a kind hoarlod driver of tho Fort JBeuton and Helena stage, whon a blizzard bit hlra Squarely on the bridge of the nose. It appears that iho niulo had been born nnd raised In that neck of tho 'svoods, and was comparatively p03leJ as to tho habitR of bis onemy. Ho kuew if ho turned tail tho blizzard bad film, and that ho would probably land In Washington tud bo reported as a Manitoba mulo, with falling, followed by rising, barometer and clear or cloudy weather ixud light thunder showers or snow. 8o bo Btood IiiB fironnd, faeed bis enemy and began to kick. He had Viothiug but thin air to kick against, but that answered bis purpone, and.

artor fourteen hours of dcBpcrato ibittlo, the blizzard gavo it up and wont over another tine. It is recorded that the kicking of the mule cre a vaouum that took throe weeks to All in. But no white man haB ever beon known to stand a blizzard. A horse will turn and sock shelter lender a bluff, and no amount of Industrious belittling bis anceBtry will induco him to come out until he Siears Ibat tbo blizzard has gouo, and then he'll bang around a littlo while awaiting confirmation of the INDtAXS AND DIAZZARDS. i One reason a white man can't face a blizzard Is be tnuso there are not any white mon In that upper country.

The vast, uphoavod, mountainous region Is de populated In tho Wlutor, save by hero and thoro a lono Jy Iudlan family, boused in a tent under tho Iso of a Ifoluff. How thoy live is a mystery to themselves. There nro no buffalo. The antelopo are in the South. Not a 3ck rabbit is to bo found.

Even tha gophers and prairie dogs are away down undor ground. They can't Ond wild turnips, for the Bnow covors everything. The Onion graBS is dead. Thoy can got no fish, for the titroams are frozen, and the air is destitute of birds. Should the bead of tho family happen to have boon irovidout during tho hunting season and If be was he Is a phououional savage he may bavo most carhtd on' jtho prairie.

But ho oan't And it. Not that it is lost, for tiothing iri lost to an Indian. It Is somewhere, though he ferny not be able to put bis thumb on it. Ho has nothing; to guide blm to any locality. His Summer compass, tho Jpralrlo grass, which always lies to tbo eoutboast, bo causo the prevailing winds aro from tho northwest, is (hidtion under a blanket of snow, lilts landmarks, the feuttcn, are distorted boyond identification by tho drifts, rOud there be is pinned down, doomed to inactivity, lerrlblo uffor'iug, and worse than all, to hoar tho cries his children for food, while ho stands powerless to ifcolp them.

It may not bo understood, but the Indians' lines art not cast in a pleasurable round of being shot 'y Brooklyn school boys. Ho has at hard a tints as If fils uaoucy was In a savings' bank. He has the power to suffer and capacity to Btarva nswoll developed as has white brother, and yet that inhospitable land Is his ioountry, his home, and he clings to It with an affection and patriotism that can only be appreciated by an placeholder. Bometiuias a blizzard will drop around tho oorner fend hoist bis tent out like an old tooth, and if he be outside when it happens he phllosoplcall; thanks Ood Slul ha wasn't In while If he bo inBids be stoically thanks Qod that he wasn't out. Not infrequently a re tiiorceless blast will carry off bis family and strew them alone the frozon prairie, doad.

Then with a Btony he stands forsaken and alone, outlined against the Ctoriuy background, mourning In bis lienrt as ouly tbo parage can mourn who hat nover learned to logically 'demonstrate that faith is uttorly without logic, and that oomfort Is to be found for boroavoniont In thao 'Jloglcal vans draw by croodi. Tbo Indian pony taket ears of blmeolf as well in tho fiome of the blizzard as he doos in tha perennially firasty plains of the South. Ho Is naturally a self reliant, self sustaining prooess, and be knows that under jthe snow there Is grass. This he digs for. finds and saving his owner much trouble and somo oxpenso.

ifTbe untutored savage never glvet blmBOlt any un about bit steed, who is warmly olad by nature, a good provider for tho inner horse. That which troubles the Aborigine most Is th solution of the problem bow to keep warm. Thero 1b no timber in his "country, except on the wtr ooursea, (Da tuorfl Stds too oxpoeod for successful or prolonged tamping, 43equentlally ho has no fuo). Iiii drags is limited to leggings, a tblrt and suoh buffalo skins as ho may have aved over, dry, undressed, hard Implements of corn fort. He has no foot gear save moocsslns, but as bis eot froeae early in the season, tbat don't mako so much Idffforouco.

There are no faollltlea for bathing, and therefore be accumulates considerable land during a ard Winter. He bas no ntlghbort. He Is simply a Jost, abandonod, almost Qod forsaken human being, mltorabla aud poor, hungering for a crust And starving for firo, yet erect, unshaken, with the bearing of a man and disdaining oomplalnt with almost os lofty a contempt as lit has for any hard work outside tbo labor and danger of tbo bunting season. This Ib the man who lives in the OBEAT STORM OENTEK, And not the Manitoba man. The latter, clothed in soft, warm furs, goes to his office or shop pretty much as people do.

Ho Is not au Esquimaux, but on whole, a rather civil gentleman, a little exuberant 'n Iieallh, perhaps, but certainly not the man to on oourago tho manufacture of wares as a steady occupation. It is not ho who should bo bltmed for th fow that ride down toward us seml oceaslonally, (gut rather the solitary lavage away up Northwest of Wbat Tbey Toll of tho Growing LentftU ot the Day and ot th Birth of th moon. Nature. From a soientifio point of VfeTV, the work done by the tides is of unspeakable importance. Wheneeia this energy derived with which the tides do their work If the tidos are caused by the moon, tho energy they possots must alto be derived from the moon.

This looks plain enough, but unfortunately it is not true, Would it be trne to assert finger of tbo rifieman whlch pulls tbo trigger supplies the energy witlr which tbe vine bullet lsanlmatod Of course it would not. Tho energy is derlvod from tbo explosion oi too gunpowuer, and tbo pulling of the trigger ia merely tbo means by which that energy is Unrated. Iu somewhat Blinilnr manner tbe tidal wave producea oy the moon' Is the means wboroby a parV of tho ouorgy stored in the earth is compelled to ex tond'ttself in work. Let me illustrate this by a comrert uon between tho earib rotatiug on its axis and the fly wheel of an engine: Tho fly wbeol is a sort of reservoir: into which tho engine yours its powor at each ttroko er the piston. Tho various maouinee In tbo mill merely1 uraw on me power iron tne sioro accumulated ill tho ny wnoei.

xne oartn like anieautio flv wheal detach ed from tie engine, tbongh still connected with tbe maouiues tne mill. In that mighty fly wheol a stupendous quantity of enorgy 18 stored up, aud a stupendous quantity of energy would be glvau out before that fly wheel would come to rest. Tbe eartb'a rotation Ib tho reservoir from whence tbo tides draw the energy tbey roqulro for doing work. Hence it Is that though tho tides are caused by tho moon, yot whenever they require energy thoy draw on tbo supply reatly to hand iu tbe rotation of tho earth. Tho ourth diffore from the fly wheol of the engine In a Tory Important point.

Ab tho energy is withdrawn from tho fly wheol by tbe maobine8 in the mill, so it is restored thereto by tho power of tbo steam engine, and the fly runs uniformly. Bnt the earth Is inorely tbe fly wheel without tho engine. Wben tbe work done by tho tides withdraws onorgy from the oarth, that ouorgy is nover rostorod. It, therefore, follows that tbe oarth'e rotation must b' deoreasing. This leads to a consequence of tho most wonderful importance.

It tells us tbat tbo speed with whioh tho earth rotates on its axis is diminishing. Wo oau state the result in mauuer which bat tho merits of simplicity and brevity. Tho tidos are increasing tho length of the day. At preaont, no doubt, tho effect of tho tides in changing tha length of tho day Ib vory email. A day now is not appreciably longer than a day a hundrod years ago.

Kvon in a thousand yoars the change in the longth of tho doy is only a fraction of a second. But the importauce arlsea from tbe faot that tho change, tlow though it Ib, lios always in ono diroction. The day is continually increasing. In millions of years tho accumulated effect becomes not 'only appreciable, but oven of startling magnitude. The obango in the longth of the day must involve a corresponding ehango in tho motion of the moon.

If tbo moou autt on the earth and retards the rotation of the earth, bo, oonvorsoly, doos the earlb react upon tho moon, Tho earth is tormonted by tbe moou, so it strives to drive away its persecutor. At presont tho moon revolves round the oarth at a distance of about 210,000 miles. Tbe reaction of the earth tends to increase that distance, and to force tbe moon to rovolvo in an orbit which is continually getting larger aud larger. At thousands of years roll on, tbo longth of tbe day lnareaset seooud by second, and the distance of tho moon Increases mile by infte. A million' years ago tbs day, probably, coutamod some minutes loss than our present day of twenty four hours.

Our rotrospeot doos uot halt hero; we at onco projeot our vlow back to an inaredibly romote opocb wnlon was a crisis In tho history of our syttem. It must havo beon at least 50,. 000,000 years ago. It may have been very much earlier. This crisis was tho interesting occasion whon the moon was born.

Tbe longth of tbe day was only a very few hours. If wo call it threo hours wo shall uot be far from the truth, Porbapa you may think that If we looked back to a still oarlier opocb, the day would become Btill loss and finally disappear altogether. This Is, however, not tbo caso. Tho day can never havo beon mnch Iobs than threo hours in the present order of things. Everybody knows that tho oaith Is not a sphere, but there is a protuberance at the equator, ho that as our sahool books toll ub, tho earth la Bhapod llko an orange.

It is well known that this protuboranco Is due to tho rotation of the earth ou Its axis, by which tlio equatorial parts bulge out by ooutrifugal force. Tbo quicker tbo earth rotates tho groator is the protuberance. If, however, the rate of rotation oxciods a certain limit, tho equatoriui portions of tbo earth could uo longer cling toaethor. Tbo attraction which unites them would bo overcome by centrifugal forco, aud general break up would occur. It can bo shown that tho rotation of tbe earth whon ou Ilia point of rupturo corresponds to a length ol tho day somowhere about tho critical value of tluvo hours, which wo have already adopted.

It is thorefore impossible for us to suppose doy uiuoh shortor than throe hours. Let us leave tho earth for a fuw minutes nnd examine the past history of the moon. Wo bavo Beon the moon revolvo around tho earth iu an over widening orbit, and consequently tbe moon must, In ancient times, havo boon nearer tho earth than it ib now. No doubt tbe chaut'O ia slow. There is not much difi'eronco botweou tho orbit of the moon a thommud years ago and thu orbit In which the moon ia now moving.

But whon wo rlso to millions of yoart, tho diil'oronco becomes very appreciable. Thirty or forty millions of years ago the moon was uiuoh uioicrto tbo uartn than It is at present; very possibly the moou wuh then only half its present distance. Wo must, howovor, look etiil uarllor, to a certain epoch uot Iosb than fifty million of yoars ago. At tnat opocu tuo moou must have boon so close to tbo oarth that tho two bodies wore ulmo.t touching. Everybody knows that tho moou revolves now around the oarth In a period of twenty seven deys.

Tbo period depends upon the distauce botweou the oarth and tbo moon. In earlier tinier tho month must havo beon shortor than our present month. Some mil. lions of ycais ago the moou completed ita journey iu a week, Instead of taking tweniy eiuht days, as at presont. Looking back earlior slill, ivo find the month has dwindled down to a day, thou down to a fow hours, until at that voudrnuB epoch, when the moon waa almost toucblug the earth, the moon Bpnn round the earth onoe every three hours.

In thOBo ancient times I bco our sarin to be a noblo globe, as It is nt present. Yet it i9 not partly covered with oceans and partly clothed with verdure. Tho primeval earth seems rather a fiory and. half molten musd, hero uo organic life can dwell. Instead of the atmospbore which wo now bavo, I see a dense mast of vapors, in which, perhaps, all tho occanB of tho earth are suspended as clouds.

I see that the tun still rises and Bets to give Ihe succession of day and of night, but tho day and the night together only amounted to three hours, instead of twenty four. Almost touching tbo chaotlo mass of the earth Is another much smaller and equally chaotlo body. Around the earth I see this email body rapidly rotating. Tho two rovolvo togotbtr, as if thoy wore bound by invisible bunds. Tho smullor body Is tbo moon, A COJiXEVIWVT A Tale ot l.ove, itlurnaifu, Jenloimy and I'crliapn Atloiiipioil ffIurUor Now Haven ltpglster.J A romantic story comes from the little vil lago of South Willlngtou, in Tolland County, A year ago Mlsa Kditb Ilawes, a beautiful young lady, ad mirod by oil tbe young mon lu tho neighborhood, especially favored tho advances of two suitors for hor baud, and finally became Mi'3.

Divight Non comb. Tho honeymoon and tho following months pasod, and apparently brought no cloud to mar the happiness of the nowly wedded couple until a short time ago, when the demon jealousy entered tho ricmticKu. It is rumored that the husband, with or without reason, look umbrage at tho attentions of Thomas D.mnam, Ins rival beforo inarriago. and forbado him the house. Mr.

Dou bain paid uo hood to the cbnro, but continued to meet Mrs. Nowcomb at ber home and olsowbero, tho husband meanwhilo becoming quito irieud ly with tho supposed destroyer of his peace. Things weut on iu tliiH way until hist Thursday, when Mr, Nowcomb went to sneml the dv at U'il nuiantic, where he purchnked a demijohn of lieturuiug to uis noma at nlut, uo lotluu i.v. Ucnluun visiting his wife, ami after conversing while ho invited the former to go out to the barn with bim, ns lr had soiuothi.ig there to give blm. Denham unsuspectingly accepted the Invitation aud waa rewarded for his confidence by a deep, deep draught from theUounjohn, and Mr.

Newcomb.in his newly born generosity, l'urthei loaded bim up with a plut bottla of the tiro wator, and saw tho now jolly Den ham ou his way rejoicing. Some time uftorwai'd a company of youn men returning from a pleasure party discovered tho appsroiltiy lifelosN body of Mr. Detiunm stretched by the roadside, and they took blm to bis borne, whore Dr. Kelsey, ot Wellington, was Boon in attendanoo. It was found that the unfortunate man was suffering from stryclinlno poltoiiing and the propor antidotes wore ndmlnlBtcred.

He was very low for soma tlmo, but on Saturday oveu lng thero was a Blight improvement aud hopes aro on tertaluod of his recovery. HUNTHOKNE'S MAMMA. A Itcmiiiibconce of Fir uro in tlicgGiiy Society of Dublin. Philadelphia Timos. Saeiiig a groat deal of free advoi'tisomeiit concerning tne lutost crank's Btyle of attire reminds me of Ibe last time I saw bis lady mother (who Is generally known in Dublin as "dalt Lady Iu 1871 with a Irleud, was walking on Arran Quay, In that city, when a sudden comuiotluu and Imirabiag among tbe jarvlea (cabmen) on Carlisle Bridge caused ut to gluuce bohind, wben we saw approaching us a barouohe, dashing at full speed, and a score or more of gamins surrounding It as a body guard, yelling as only Dublin gauilUB cau yell.

A lady of very larrm proportions, dressed, as the children sav. "from top to toe all iu a suit of grecu," of tho must "utterly uttsr" shade, was seated therein. Tlio horsos, trappings, nH well as the cushions, were of tho same emerald tint. Iter ladyship was, as a byttander remarked, "out on tbo rampago" to attend an amnosty meoting hold at Phoenix Park. Ur ladyship was spread out to bor full dimensions she weighed seven toon stone).

Tho horses dashed at breakneck paco, the gamins grew moro enthusiastic as their number increased, and, taken aa a whole, it was a sight that has remained over slnco "in my memory lockod." No doubt some of your readers remember tho "Travers versus Wilde" caso, in the Four Courts, Dublin, iu 13115. Wildo, who had been a dentist in Dublin, was oalled upon in some sort of an emergency to administer to one of Queen Victoria's sous wlteu visiting her Irish subjects, and, of oourse, having touched royalty, could no longer be claidod as a commoner and was knighted by the Viceroy of Ireland, Hence tho sir and ladyshl). Her ladyship, as tho Sunday's issue of the Timea stated, did write poetry, and somo of It was vory good, too, but tbe wholo family was thought to be daft, A DUEL WITH SWORDS. New Orleans Democrat. Yesterday morning, on the 7:40 train, there left our ttcy a party of gentlemen, two of whom had cause of griivance against ono anothor which could ouly be Battled by the code.

The usual preliminaries had passed, and promptly at the appointed timt both parties boarded the train. The principals were Mr. Kdmond Brou and Mr. It. Do Bautho.

The former was assisted by his frionds, Messrs. Ld Poyohaud end Charlos do H. do Lasus, tho latlor by T. Dlnveau and Captain Louis Iianeom. '1'ho weapont selected were the short swords, or collohemardet, and after arriving at the spot, about ono mile and a half above Keunerville, the party prepared for tho combat.

The permission of tbe owner of tho plantation, Mr. Louque, was obtained, and tbe combatautH, a drizzling rain ailing at the timo, assembled beneath the sugar shed attached to the sugar bouso. Here tho usual ceremonies were had, and the principals, weapon iu hand, wero placed iu position. In the shortest space of time there was an attack and defense on eithor side, both well executed, but uot sufficiently well to prevent tbe weapont from doing barm. At tbe first pass Mr.

Brou wat sllgbtly wounded in the abdomen and Mr. de Bautbs In the neck. Tho wounds fortunately were not serious, and all parties rcirnod to tbe city on tbs evening train. Both tidos ditplayed brilliant tonrago, and their friends bave reason to congratulate thtu on tbe bappy outcome of tbe affair. FIFTH AVENUE PALACES.

Carpet Trade Review.) In some of the Fifth avenus palaces the deeoratlve work represents, not only tbousands ot dollars, but tbe combined taste, skill and labor of scores of artlstt and In quaint oombinatlone of colorB, rlcbnets of drapery, wealth ot carving and the beauty of the painted decorations, somo of the apartments in these private residences are splendid btyond description. Many of the reonis are so adorned is to illustrate a poem, depict a celebrated battle or give form and expression to eome familiar legend or fable. On the frescoed wall of a broad ball, for instance, tbo lover of SbakBptare may eeo bis favorite playt raprc eented, scene by scone, with all tbe vigor and feeling of a master mind. In tho carved celling of an adjoining room be may look upou the portrayal. In almost living figures, of some deed of knightly horolsui renowned lu medieval history, whilo tbe sunlight trlokllng through the ornamented window of still another apartment Brings Into lellof some exqulslta psjtoril scene, touder in its expressiveness aud rich In Its natural colors.

All of liioao ueautiful things are striking evidences of tho Pfbfvesi that has been made in the art of Interior decoration within tho patt few yearB. They have supplanted a style of decoration wblrli was without art, without Bystoa and often without ittraotiveueja, Although Parole bad started once with bis seniors for a cup while a throe year old, ho did not repeat the per formance. He did not winter any too well and, as tbe last year, started In bis four yoar old eampafgn lnans ploionsly. Uo was not quite himself for a long time. He ran sooond In a three quarters dash at Jeromo, beating some good ones bat himself beaten by Janet Norton, who was a year bis senior.

Ho ran a fair raoe In tbe Woodburn stakes for four years olds at Jerome, beating Ambush, Fiddlesticks and mllas, In oolts carrying 108, and three pounds allowance for miles and geldings then he got off his feed and did not show up at Long Branob. Ho Btorted in tbe All Aged stakes at Saratoga with his old enemies, Tom Oohlltree and Vera Cruz, in the field against bim. Six started, but only these three might be regarded as in the raco. It was a desperate engagement at closo quarters for tbe trio, tbe wbole distance of a mile and a quarter. Parole made running and led at tha half mile.

Vera Cruz, a fines year old bay gelding, by Virgil Regan, lay away until a mile wob done, and then got up to bis horses and a throat outtlng struggle to the finish ensued. Vera Cruz got there first, a short bead before Tom Ochiltree, the latter a nose only before the now almost reeling Parole, weak and ran to standstill, but game to tbe last breath. In the raco for the Saratoga cup, 2f mllos, soven started, among them Parole, Tom Ochiltree, Atblene, Pat Malloy and Vera Cruz. The belief that Paroio had not got around to himself yet, or that he oould not stay at tho distance, made Tom Ocbiltreo tho favorite. Tbe weights were 118 and 115 lbs.

Barrett was up, and ho let tbo others run oa they would, lying away with the brown gelding until two miles and a quarter had been traversed. Half a mile from home Ochiltree and Vera Orui began to deBlroy each other. Tbey had mutually accomplished this at the head of the stretob, and then Paroio oamo away in gallant Btyle, beating Tom out by two lengths, time, 4:04. Tbo Summer handicap, Parole's next vlotory, run August 11, waa won from Vera Orua and three or four others very handily, although oarrying top weights a mile and three quarters in ho conceding Vera Crnz 20 and beating him two lengths. Bushwhacker, a 3 year old, tben carried only 88 and was next to nowhere.

In a hundred pound raoe Paroio thon beat Vlrginins and Glasgow a mile and a half in the vory tart time of 2:36, winning by half a dozen lengths. A walk over two and a halt miles for tbe All Aged stakes finished his Saratoga victories, and back be went to oontest tho Maturity stakes Ootober 2, at Jerome, throe miles. Only three started, and Parole, under Barrett's tactics, lay away to within a quarter of a mllo of home and then went np and won easily. The Grand National handicap, the American Cambridgeshire it may be oalled, was run three days lator over a heavy track. Paroio never oould oapture this event, two and a quartor miles.

Sometimes he seems to hare trlod, and again not, the latter last Fall, for instance, when Foakts started behind four lengths and staid thore, without any visible effort to got up, tbe erowd thinking old brown was lying away as usual, and boing qnite obagrlned and somewhat astounded wben Parole was not oalled on. $ho Grand National handicap of 1877 was won eaBlly by Tom Oobiltreo, as Monitor easily won tbat of 1881, and Paroio was In both, finishing second in the former race, and last iu tbe latter. In tho first Instance, Parole was evidently not right, and his race wag, under the olroumstanoes, a good one. Four started, Oohlltree oarrying 121 Parole 115 lbs. St.

Martin was four length! a third, and the rest, Virginlus, Algerlne and others away behind. A walk over for a purse of $200, two and a half mllos, $100 entrance, olosod bis year's performances at Jerome, bis live year old competitor, Ten Broeck, paying forfeit. But Parole, Ten Broeok and Tom Ochiltree mot in the last race for the year at Baltimore, October 24, in a raco for a purse and stake, $500 each, play or pay, witb $1,000 added by tho Maryland Jookey, Club, distance 2X miles. This was a sort of East and West fight, Tbe Kentucklans thought Ten Broeck, who bad out down the fallacious time reoord at almost all and whose one mile and four mllo time has nover been equaled, was Invincible, and great interoat was excited all over the country. It was reserved for the 4 year old brown gelding to break the heart of the yoar old eon of Phaeton aud Fanny Holton, invincible though he might be regarded.

The two 5 yoar were to carry lHes.cn, oonoedlng to Parole only his year and Bex, be thus oarrying 105 lbs. Ten Broeek was favorite over the field at more than two to one, and the betting was boavy. Ten Broeck made tbe running and led at a elow pace for a mile, wben Oohlltree went up to him, Paroio lying behind, aocordlng to Barrett's UBual taeties. Ochiltree forged ahead at a mile and a quarter, and at tbe beginning of the last mile was two lengths in tbo load, Parole still lay away. Ten Broeok olosed up with Ochiltroo and the pair raced at a fearful pace, Parole still going along behind aa fast as hie leaders did.

Thon be seemed to go np to them, but he didn't bo simply kept going and tbe other two came back to blm, having dono each other np, At the head of tho homestretch tbo trio wero running head and bead, and tbe excitement of the spectators was Indescribable. But the race was Parole's. Ochiltree and Ten Broeck bad devourod oaoh other, and Parole, full of running, came away again, as bo so often had done and was yet so of ton to do, and won by five lengths, be'atlng the great Ten Broeok that distance and the great Oohlltree, both bis seniors by a year, by three times that distance. That defeat broke the heart of Ten Broeck arid took tbe coneelt out of all $aniucky. Ten BroeeVSVftod ones again this year, winning tbe BowlestakjTand twice as a 6 year old, once in a mllo and aTbaJf tweepstakes in which he beat Vera Crnz, Aristides and' two others, and once in a four mile match heat raoo with MoIIte McCarthy, in which be dletauood tbe mare tbe first beat In Blow time.

Ten Broeck's race at LouiBvllle, May 21, 1877, In which, as a four year old, carrying 110 bo ran a mile in has nover been equaled as far aB the time Ib concerned. It waa for a purse of $650, against timo, to boat the fastest milo then on record, Kadi's second beat at Hart foVd, whioh was Since tben Boardmau, with 91 lbs. up, ran a mile at Sheepshead Bay in Ten Broeck's two mile record mado at Louisville, May 29, 1877, carrying the same weight, 110 was Tbs consideration was for half the gate money to beat True Blue's reoord of True Blue's two mile timo was beaten at Louisville tho day before Ten Broeck beat It, by years, 100 and Courior, 4 years, 101 ip two consecutive races, the first beating Vera Cruz in the other beating Glasgow in Ten Brooclc's three mile made when 4 years old, oarrying 110 lbs. at Louisville, was beaten last Summer by Thore in the Baden Baden handicap at Saratoga, she running three mileB in tbe three yoar old carrying 99 tbe best on record. Ten Broeck's lour mile timo, made in a race against time at Louisville, September 26, 1877, carrying 104 noror beon equaled.

Aa a four yoar old Paroio bad run twelve times and wou eight of bis races. FIVE YEARS EIGHT VICTORIES. Ho took the field aa a fivo year old in 1878, at Baltimore, starting for tbe Baltimore oup, which ho won from two otbora easily in 4:03. Ho tbon started for tbe Westchester oup at Jerome Park, Against him wero General Phillips, a four year oldby Glouolg La Polka and another, and Parole came in second, beaten by eight lengths. For the Monmouth cup he was measured against Virginlus and General Phillips, aud won without trouble, carrying top weight 121 lbs.

At Saratoga bo next beat Danger, Vagrant, Susquehauna and Milan, in a mile and a quarter sweopstaket, winning easily. There be met General Phillips again in tbe race for tbe Saratoga cup, which be won by fivo lengthB iu 4:08. Ho next walked over a mile and a half for a puree of $500, aud beat Loulanier'and Princeton for a purse of $500, a mile and three quarters. Ho beat Hat tie F. a mile and a quarter for a purse of $350, and then mot his belt noir ia tbe Grand National Handicap again, 2 miles, won by Loulanler with 99 Parole unplaoed with 125 lbs.

His last race before going abroad like an Amerioan thoroughbred knight errant was run two days later, October 12, at Jerome, for a purse of $800, IX mllos. Parole carried 126 bis antagonist, the three year old colt Danicheff, by Olenelg Sallua, carrying 100 Parole beat bim with ease. He had now run ten races as a five year old, winning eight of tbem and losing tbe other two from no causo tbat affected hi, qualities as a racer. He was regarded as a sort of equine Alexander, and having conquered everything in the Now World, be was about to lower the quadrupedal pride of the Old. ENGLISH TRIUMPHS ASTOUNDING THB WORLD.

He made tbo grand voyage In safoty, and did woll through the Winter. He began bis preparation for hiB groat EngliBh campaign early. Ho was now a six year old, too old to run in any of tbs threo year old races; but thero wae plenty of opportunity for blm to lower tha prido of tbs Briton if he could beat what he should meet, some of tbe best horBea of England in tbeir great handloaps. Ho came first to the post in the Newmarket Handicap, April 16. The entries are 23 each, with 10 forfeit, tbe second to save his stake, with 100 added, distance yi miles.

In the raco was Mr. Grttton's four year old Isonomy by Sterling out of Ieola Bella by Stookwell, 124 Connt F. de Lagrange's six year old by Uonarquo out of Begalia, 105 aud tbreo others. The' betting was 100 to 15 against Parole, Isonomy, who was later to show himself the Dest horse In all England, being tbe favorite. Parole oarried 116 and Is said to bave coma to tbe post untried, his trainer having no horse to try blm witb, Isonomy bad run once before, tho previous year, tbo Cambridgeshire, In which with 99 lbs.

up he had beaten a field thirty seven horses, JMorbty was upon Parole and the old tactics wero observed. Parole lay away until tbreo furlonga from home and then wont.up witb one of his terrific rushes and beat Isonomy out by a length and a half. Then all England did quake from cantor to circumference. Six days lator the greatest of tbe EugliBh Spring handicaps, the City and Suburban, was to be rnn on Epsom Downs. This is a handicap of 15 each, 10 forfeit or 5 It declared, with 200 added, 50 out of the stakoa to tbe second.

It bad closed with 103 subscribers, of which all but eighteen declared or paid forfeit. Tha value of the stakes waa 1,085, tbe distance about a mile and a quarter. Parole, who had now to carry 119 whioh included 6 lbs. extra, was tbe favorite in the betting at 4 to 1 against Aroher rode Parol this time and tbs old tactics again here. He waited until within a furlong of borne, then took the lead in the gallant old style and won In a canter by a length.

The next day, April 23, tbe great Metropolitan handicap, 25 each, and 15 forfeit with 200 lbs. added, was to be run; distance, 2V miles. It bad olosed with 43 subscribers, of whom twenty six declared, fifteen paid forfeit, and only two, Parole and Mr. Butt's fonr year old Oastlereagb, by Bpeonlnm, oame to the post. Parole took up 124 lbs, lnolnding 10 lbs.

extra; Oastlereagb, 110 lbs. The odds were five to two on Parole. Be again waited until a convenient distanoe from the winning post and tben came away easily first by three parts of a length. On the seventh of May, Parole started for tbe Chester Trades Oup, 1 miles, carrying 124 lbt. Ten ran, and Reefer, four years, 110 won; Parole fourth.

The odds In this race were 6 to a on him. On tbe 28th tbe Great ChoshJro handicap stakes were ran, 20 each, 10 forfeit, witb 500 added, Grosvenor course, 1 mile, 1 furlong and 216 yds. Paroio started, carrying '134 giving the next one to blm on tbe weights 11 and won by three beating Itoofer, 1 years, 118 and six others, olererly. The betting was nine to two against blm. He now rested until April 30, whon he started for the Epsom gold oup.

This race is a swoepstakes of 20 each, distance 1 miles. Only thrte started, Parole, witb 125 lbs. Aloheml et, years, 112 lbs and Primrose, 3 years, 105 lbs. Tbe betting wss lQQ.to 30 on Peter1 Burns' Wicked Life Ended. SoiSe' Interostiffa; Facts Abont a Philadelphia Thief, Coiner and Foruer who Died in an Itall'Mi Dnngoon, and Left in tho Bank of England.

Jrom tbe Phirxdslphla Times. On the floor of a stoae dunoeon in nn TfjL. Ian prison, cu tbe morning cf January 2, 1833, was found the dead body of Pete Burns, one of tbe most daugeroniB anrt notorloua orimlnals' over brod lu this city. Ho was cool, calculating, plucky, selfish and mercenary, aud dnrlni? thn uio uin career as a snetlt thief, burglar, corner and forgor bis ibuslness associatM wero such prominent crooked peoplo as Jimmy Hope, Billy Forrester. Bill, Jimmy Log Colonel William Creagor Iftinny Jim Ferguses.

'Sailor Jack vrty. Shay Nolan, Curly Harris, Colonel J. Buchanan Crose, Walter Sheridan. Dutch Dan. j.

Jimmy Hagerty. Ho aooumulatod $100,000, thn profits of hie kuavory, and was iu the habit of boasting, when in liquor, tbat he never tarv.d I (if imprisonment In hia hfo. ThiB saying mar still ba truiuiuiiy used, as ho choatod tho Itallau authorities by uciuio no waa io do tried. bo was appronticod to a marble cutter named PteFrit on Hace street, below Seventh, where he romaluod two Y'Ui th' 1,0 wlth robbine tllft till Of A Rn tttrnul ofr.ifn bocame int.mate witb a notorious thief called Funnr Jim i'l'frnnnn nlin la ir tho oldest detectives lu tht city tells how, a Quarter of conturv affn hriirlit nn.l l. Central Police Station and asked about Ferauton nha umticuvo was struck by tho lad appearanco, ana asked his name and em.

nliivmont Thn vnilnnytnn it. Peter Fritz's apprentice." uatt" A ritOPHETIO REMAHK. 1 1. i in uo voy wo taxing; hie Initiatory degrees as Ferguson's kid, said boy, I soo you are in bad company. Bo artvited by ma and leave Ferguson aud bis associates while you can or you will die iu prison, as tho majority do." Hia ant dai'lucr crimA waa ,..1 slBied by his broiher Johu, ho broko 'into a Mar no.

miooi uwiuiug store anu carried off several hundrod dollors' worth of goods. The tuoeosa HI this (liOir' nnrl vo. Bya iiuiu arrest led nim Id abandon bouost work and aeek the companionship of such oongenial spirits at "Funny Jim'' and "Jimmy" "rwara ne was a professional thiof. His small, wiry nguro was always adorned with the most fcBbiouable clothes, and his love of Jowolnr was only exceeded by his admiration of womon Although possessing ouly a common school education ha i.uYuinuuiiuaiiai, ana tuis, with tii uoiitlemanlv ntliiresn anrl uuuuKiimuoir. miat bim particularly dangerous.

He was never a aghUnc man, and looking physical courago be avoided buralaiv ies and dovotod himself chiefly to tnoak tbloving In 18(10 1 or 1801 ho opouod the Bugle, a den on the oorner of if th and Alaska Htroots, which afterward became notorious as tbo hoadquartcrs of all themoBtdangoron orlmtnals In tbo city. Horo it was tbat Jimmy Haaerty killed bv "Koil.lv lli lti.nl i rii. muij oiovru or nisi friends robbod and beat a conutrvman named Hugglna so terribly that bo died on tho following day. So many luiiuciimauu ouuKus wore perpetrated in this don tbat Bums docidcd to glvo it up, and wbon a dSBnorado named Keiser Phot and killed a companion named Ik Harris. "IVIn" soli! nut tn John lobiu, who conducted tbe placo until tus nolloo broke it up.

ROnUEKIKa HE TOOK TAP.T IN. Whlln at llnnl Lnnsdale bond robbery, tho Beneficial Saving Fund burglary aud tho attempted breaking of tho Southwork Bank. Tho latter lob whs inniki n.i.i. John, wboso business It was to lie ou tbe bank roof and olnorvo tho movements of the watohman on tba outside, while Pote and tho otbera were working on fell asleep, allowing the watchman to diaoovor tho praa on no of tho robbers, who, however, got away in safety. uuspiuinu or I'olne one Of tho NorrlBtowu Hank rnllii a nnd escaped.

Colonol J. Buchanan Cross, a noted lorgor about tbo beginning of the war, let Pete into the mysterios of his art. and appreciating the colonel's! arguments, Burns a few years lator adopted that branolt ol tlio business, Beforo Ibis bo hod marrlod a daughter or William meager, "Iho Culoucl," who wat ono of the most successful anil wimliliv country. Burns' wife died shurtly after this, and ha astonished everyone by fnlilng violently in love with uiu uiixuin wuo or Uls friend. llolnnn) Crcnpnr.

with ni.i i i .7" 1 p.winnj uaaraunni tio of lniBbauds, objected to tha love making. STEALING ANOTHER MAN' WLPB. Rnrn than Infnrmnrl PMia rt niimii eroaRer WM mulling counterfeit inonoy aud tbey arrested blm Oreagor was sont to prison for Qvo yoars, and a few weolis after his Incarceration his wifo and Burns were married. When she marrlod Burnt Mrs. Croogor bad in hor own name a $110,000 farm in Montgomory County which Crooner bad purchatod with bit ill gotton gains.

Burns mortgagod tho farm in a mouth or two after tbe bridal tour, spout the cash and boforo the sooond anniversary of bis inarrlago desortsd bis wife In favor of lmiro Kttraotlve fomalo, who has Binoo passod as Mrs. Burns nnd who was in Floronco when ho dlod. After Mrs. Creagor'e death ho produoed a will giving blm all hur ostuto, but tho court sot It aside. As a forgor ha connected with a scoro of big cases.

He waB ona of tlio blading spirits iu tbo forged check for which wW passed on the Corn Exchange Bank. This. check boro tho names of General W. B. Thomas and a Chestnut street merchant namsd Campboll, who were unable to dotect tho forgeries Trom tholr gonulue signatures.

Pote was arrested for this and oompromisool by giving back $6,000. For this offonso ho rootivod the small puuishiuout of ouo yoar in Moyamtnsiug. Later bo served a abort form for circulating bogus railroad, bonds. A HAUL IN Wl SHINOTON. Iu 1873 he and two confederates captured $100 000 in bonds from a contractor In Washington, and of this, "swng" Burns got tho lion's Bbaro, $50,000.

In tba Winter of 1879 80 Burns and Wilkes, a uotod rogue, who Is uu American by birth, a gentleman iu address appearance aud education, went to Europe to carry out project which, if successful, would bavo ecllptod any previous scheme of tho kind In the world. Later In tha year "Bill" Hartlett, a famous Philadelphia criminal, Al Wilson. Henry Clay, Charles Bakor aud George Kn gcl. who were confederates of Burns aud Wilkes alto went to London. Boforo leaving boro Burns (old bla rrtomla that he would remain In Kit rope until the storm occasioned by tho Washington bond robbery bad blown over.

The Kiiropr.au scheme: was to flood the continent with forged circular paper, aa Beoker and a party of American rogues had flooded Turkey a few years before. The London police, bnwever, kept tbe orookod American visitors undor such close surveillance tbat they wero nfraid to operiiio. Memo of the party gave np tlm scheme and came back to America, liut Burn and Willies wont to Florence, with their wlvoa. where tbey were errctlwl on 1880. Both Kiwo assumed uameu, but they woro recognized, and bumllex ol' the spurii woro found In llii'lr trunks they wero committed to prison.

Wilkes lined money, got out of prison mid is now In New York. Although Bums nnd In tho Bank of England he was looked upon us such a dangerous man that ba eoiil.l uot brine hia cash bear upon the Kalian of rials. Ho was In jull without trial from that time nu.d he died. His trial, Imtrover, Wiis not for February 0. Tho fear of bis ilylng in prison so wtigbod upon bin nlljjod wire's mind that sho became crazy In August last, and has since then becu confined In nn asylum la Flnrcnao.

IU bus another wife, who has renounced all claim to bis property. His brother Tom, armed with a power of attorney, sailed on the Arizona from New York a few days ao lo get the 10,000 wblob Pata placed iu thn Bank of England. Through Samuel Jo sftfihs, F. Carroll Brcwcter was Induced to visit Florence last year in behalf of Burns, but tbe mission did uot result as happily as was eipoctad. Homo "crooked" acqunintii'ices of Burnt, who bud nn oye on bis casb.

cirt'tilstcil rumor or bis donth lastyosr and ondoavorod to draw his nionoj out of tho Banlt of England. Tho scheme, howovor, failed, tud the piimo mover in It, an Kiiiillsb thief called "C.mky" Major, Is now doing tlms In Loudon for tho uttompt. 111(1 BONES. Miarniillc Reninins arc Worthy of Aruliiuolotrical'Iiivetligation. Little Hocli Gazette.

YcKleriluy Captain Jones, of Prosootf, brought to this city the jaw und shin bone of a moat remarkable animal. The rello, orldontly of a prehistoric age, was placoJ on exhibition a room of lba Capital Hotel, where during tho day a large numbor of uieu visited nnd passed opinions as to tbe origin of tba wondorful osseous formation, Momo time ago a mau named Chestnut, while digging a well lu Louisiana, found, sixty feet under tbe surface, of the earth, what ht supposed to be a wonderfully large bout of somo wonderfully large animal. Aflu excavating the juw aud tibia bones, tbe water rusbtd In upon him so rapidly that ho nu compelled to teavo furtlier invesligatioua to tiina and ourlosity. He sno cee'led, however, lu bringing up with him the jaw aud chin bouos of the monster, It it almost incredible to epeak of a jaw bone three foot lu length, yot ouoh is tba length of a part of a jaw bone exhibited by Captain Jones. The rotle, together with tho Bbln bono, was purchased several woeks ago by the captain.

Tbs teeth aro oxnrtly like tbe teeth of a buinaii, and the Jaw bone, lu all its peculiarities, lndloates that it belonged, to some gigantic specimen of the family renaotoly and orlhordoxly represented by Adam. Several physicians exunmioil the bones, aud declared tbeir Inability ta name their origin. One prominent physician, tbi best anatomist probably in the Stall, after consulting work upon the subject, deolnrod the bonot to be tbote of a gitt antic mastodon. Men, though, who bave visited tba world'! best anatomlotl museums, say tbat tbe jaw bona does not resnmble that of a mastodon, but tbat it is aa enormous type of tha human jaw bone. The sblu bona also Id strikingty corrtot in comparison witb the known bone of human being.

Captain Jones and Dr. Lewis, who have beou instrumental In tbe exhibition of tha gigantlo remains, do not pretend to Bay wbat tbey aro but only dosire to get the opinion of the bosk physicians, in order to determine whether or not it will bo of valna to dig for tbe remaining bonet. The bones have only been exhlbltod iu a few nmali towns, and It Is thought that when comparative anatomists are shown the relics they wll give something that will be of lnetllmabla value to archioojoglal retearoh. LIVE ANIMALS TIUtOWN I.1TO A CBATEB. Illlo Lotlor In tbe San Franolsce Chronicle.

The boast of tho missionaries' and their friends aa to tbe work toooinpllihed by them In Christianizing the Kanakas received a rude rebuff about tba tud October last, Aucient Hawaiian hittory attributes the periodical outburst! of tht volcano Ktlauea to the power exercised by a mythical femalethe goddess Peio. From time immemorial It hat bu tbe custom whenever a volcanic aruptlon took place for soma notable chief or cblefUlueit to proceed to the moutb of tho crater and to throw various articlea of food or drink into the burning mass as a of offorlng. Tbo eruption of 183C passod over without any such ojlorir.g beiug made, but the avalanoht of lava whlcli threatened to destroy the town of Illlo during last Felt having assumed glgtntlo proportions, tbe native! clamored for a rtpetttlou of the old custom. Notwlttjtland lng tbe remonstrances of the mltilontrlta and the religious advisors of the present royal family, tht Prlnetsa Hutu a sister of tbo Kamebiraoha aooompanled by a nember of Kanaka chiefs, came from Honolulu maa asconded to tht carter, Into tht burning, ittthlBg mass of lava two or three dozen fowls wert thrown, a couple of goats and pigs Immolated; some garland ot flowers and a dozen bottles ot wbltky, rum and Hot land gin torved to wash the solid meVtir down tbaln satiablo maw of Pels. 8trange to aty.

tbe day alte this performance, which wound up with a hula hola, the lava stopped short ot a thousand yards of the, town. Tbe natives attribute tblt ocourrtnot to tba sacrlAoe mado by the l'rlnuesi, muob to the dliguitof the gospel spreaders, who bad vainly loterpoted tbele objoctiona. TUB COKDUt'TOIt'S WAT St. Loult Itepubltean. A too imiuinitiva passongor was asking a couJuotor bow he managed to build a housiand buy a fait borse out of bit ISO a month.

The answer was one ol tbe frankest. "Von 509." said this noble man, "sometimes wo get a way paBteuger who pays a quarter or a half dollar far bis farD, Woll, we flip the money up htadt for tho conductor, tails for company," "But," perslttcd this Investigator after truth, "tome tlinoB It must turn up tallt. Wbat do you do (hen "Ob," replied, the conductor, witb ineffable contempt, "then we dip up So tbat paftenger l)9Ui u4 told ont hl3 rap road ib.B$eo, Tabu's SiitecJ Taste to Eery Where to Seem First Class Dinner in Tstte The Cafe Anglais Its Specialties anil Wines Parisian Breakfasts A Hush to1 the Restaur rants After tho Close of the Theaters Tho Cafe Riche and Its Class of Patrons The Favorite Resort of tha Membors of Hie Paris Press Tho DccaacacB of tho Paid Royal antl Other Restaurants Correspondence "Of the Eaglo. Pxnis, For once or twice that ono has spent a week or ion days in Paris bow ofton is not one assailed with tbo question, "Whioh do you oonsider to be tbe bast restaurant 7" or, "Where do you advise us to break fast?" or dine, as tho case may be. Theso are ques tions easier asked than answered, ae the larger is ono'e experience of Parle restaurants, tho more diffidence one must fcol in making roply.

Not beoauso thore is any laok of places to which tho average American may bo recommeudod in tho full bollef that bis wants will be supplied, but because it is so diflloult to docldo be twoon their conflicting claims. To a friend, wboso Idio ByncrasloB aro familnr to ono and to whoso taetea ono bas already minlstored, It is easy to say, go to this restaurant Or to that but wbon one does not know whothor tho questionor'a special fancy llos In tho direction of fish, made dishes, gamo or ewoots, so far as solids aro concernod, or in the dirccllou of claret, burgundy or champaguo, in regard to wlnet, tbo responsibility becomes almost opprossivo. But a few general rules may, nevertheless, bo laid down, adherenoe to which will insure any viaitor to Paris a good dinnor nt a minimum of' say four dollars. Lot blm go to tho Cafe Anglais, upon tho Boulevard dos Italious; to Durand's, opposite the Madeleine to the Cofo Voislu, ot the Ituo do Luxemburg, or to the Brebant's, other wise known as Vaobotto's, on tho Boulevard Mont rnartro. With tho mort elomontary knowledge of tho art of living, and with the merest emattoring of French, it will go hard with him if he does not emerge from either of those restaurants with the firm determination to come there again.

Eaoh of them, of course, has ita specialty, and those who aro aware of tho fact are not Blow to avail themselves of their knowledge. THE CAFE ANGLAIS, for instance, justly prides itself upon tho collar, and thoBS who are fortunate enough to possess tbo rlond tnip of Ernost bave doubtleBS been conducted by tbat functionary into tbe spacious vaults where repose vintages which are not to be gotten for gold at the groateat of wtno merchants'. Anothor specialty of tho. oaf An. glais is tho "pomme de torre a' l'ananas," a dish which cannot bo appreciated to ptrfeotion when it sueceeds or accompanies a "fliot do boouf A Russian salad Is also one of the bo eaten at them.

Tho oafo Anglala casts itt nets at all hours, aud catcheB customers of nil olasses. It begins in the morning witb membere of tho genuine jeunemu dorcc, iu tho shape of financiers, brokers, and tho confidential employes of millionaire men of business. To those rich breakfasts which make a foreigner marvel at the digestions of Parisian men, and diot on whioh so many of them habitually train for the wear and worry of inoessant braluwork, succeed the heavy luncheons of Englith and American tourists. And after brief intervale, when tbo 'last of the lunuheon tables havo been cleared begin tbe small aud early diu nora of family parties who are bont on doing tbe theaters conscientiously. And the oloso of the theaters is tho elgnal for the Incursion of a mora reckless company, who, coming with a rush on tho cabinets, mounting boisterously by the side stalrcasea, give their orders as if they had uoitbor dined nor broakrastod.

Tbo dollars of the Novada men and tho IouIb of Daudet's heroes are as genuine as tho coinage of the well known connoisseur who ia served with tbe mot respectful rccucillcmcnt of tbe kitchen. At THE OAFE RIOHE tho wines are also vory excollent, for the proprietor Is himself large grower of Burgundy, and ho cators for tho Kiffiote des AgrloultourB do France, whose monthly dinners aro not by any meant to be despised. Members of tbo society enjoy tbe privilege of breakfasting at tbe Cafe Rlcbo for GO cents, aud of dining thoro for $1.20, and they aro not slow to avoid tbomsolvea of it for thoy would pay for the eame moal elsewhere more than three times that prloo. It Is eaid that tho French do no not know how to oook game, but aasurod ly, the pcrurix aux choux" lias a charm all Its own, and nowhere Is belter cooked than at tho Cafo lllche, whioh also hat a deserved oolebrlty for its "epoume," a sort of ico pudding In layers, with a center of aprloot kernels and pistaehlo nuta. AT voisin'h, tbe wine is of peculiar exoelloncy the perusal of hia libretto of cellarage is nn olemontary oducation in Burgundies, for with Volsin Burgundy Is the specialty, as Bordeaux at tho Uafe Anglais.

This is one of tbe few places at whioh Chateau Morgaux, of 1818, can bo drunk one may order It almost anywhere and the eamo restaurant alBO possesaos the best growths of Potent Canet, a wine whioh, though only ranked in tho fifth claas, is one of the most Improved of clarots Blnco the vineyard where it is grown changed bands Bomo fiftoen years ago. Those whose testes Ho In tha direction of dry champagne can ask for tho "Bellcngor which Is sold at this establishment, aud among the dishes iu which Voieiu's chef excels may bo noted red mullet a la borduialse and roast saddle of lamb or mutton. brebant's, with bis "oeufs a la cocotte'' and his Chateau d'V quern, Is specially favored by such Amorican visitors to Paris as aro not obligod to count the coat. Brebant's has tho disadvantage or tho advantage, whiebovor it may bo, of receiving the patronage of the Paris press, of the friends of the and of actora and actresses. Those 'liboral" professions aro apparently very remunerative iu Paris, for Brebunt's restaurant is not the place for psrsons with a light purse.

But after a dinner thero, In which vol nu vent of carp's roe and a Holmi ot woodcock hold prominent places, there is eomothing ungrateful In adding up tho bill, especially if tho Poulard bas circulated froely. The tide of prosperity has ebbed away from tho PALAIS ROYAL, and tho famous Provenceaux Itestaurant bas beon con varied luto a ready mado clothes shop. Tbo Jtcatau rant Philippe has also sufferod from tho tame cause which has proved fatal to tho Palais Royal it is too far from the boulovards. Yot it is Impossible to forget tho oxcellonce or tho oysters aud of "les (cufs brouilles aux truffes" which formed the foundation of many a good broakrnst In this favorito restaurant of the Orleans princes. Thon there ore OTREIt RESTAURANTS whose custom fluctuates with tho timo of tho year, while others may bo favored or victimized by tbe circumstances over which their managars havo no control; The fino season naturally fills Lodoyeu's, for.nothing can be pleananter than taking your ofrcscomoal uuder foliage among green shrubberies, while your oyes aro gladdened by tbo frcBh turf of the the Champs ElyBeos, tbo gay flower borders, and the shimmer of tho fountains.

Thon whon Lcdojen Buffers, such places os the Cafe Voiain havo a better chanco than usual, When Iho outer atmosphere Is chill ond raw you can call for tho carte du jour in the warmth of Voltln's with a profound tense of well being. Simple as its coucoptlon may be, you know that everything In It is to bo de pondod upon, and you welcome with a peculiar glow of BatiKfaction tbat piquant old acquaintance the sauco Bearnalse. And thero are bouses whose popularity rises and falls with the pieces that make a hit at particular theaters. A gorgoonB epecttclo or a thrilling molodrama at the Porte St. Martin It sure to crowd tho table at Mairo's next door, whilo the success of eomo classical drama at tho Odeon is a godsend to tbe restaurants of tbe arlstocratloal faubourg.

And what strikes one forcibly as to the great Parisian restaurants is tholr concentration. There are some good and comparatively ohoap establishments beyond the Seine, in the crowded blocks of buildings between tho Luxemburg and Tullerles. But at a rule if you go beyond tho quar er that la comprehended between the ashtouablo boulevards and tbe Ituo Kivoli, to south and north, tho Hue P.oyalo and the Palais Koyal to west aud east, you are altogether at a loss. Thero may be gilded fronts and resplendent signboards, but thoro is no mean between the poverty stricken and the oxcellent. MARRIED O.N T11F, STAUE.

Indianapolis Journal. Tho papers have daily contained accounts of marriages iu various unusual places up in a balloon, in Mammoth Cave and others, but it remains for In dlnapolls to seoure a mortgago on the cake, so to speak, iu a matter of this kind. Last night tbe house bill at the Zoo Variety Theater contained tho following announcement in tho middle of tho programme "Tbe marriage ceremony of Mr. Frank Moirose and Miss Kitty Kerr will now tako place." The house waa literally jammed, every seat being takon, the aisles and gal'eries full, and a tew enterprising gamins perched on a heavy ooam near the roof. It was nn audience tbat did uot hesitate to manifest its appreciation of tbe various performances by tbe most demonstrative applause, such as whistling, bowling, and stamping of feet.

The second turn on tbe programme was heralded bb follows "First appearance of tho American wonder, Mr. Frank Moirose, America's most wonderful one legged gymnast, challenging the world to produce bla equal as a gymnast ond athlete." Wbon Mr. Melrose (whose real name Is John Wolf) bopped out on thOBtage, ho was received with howls of apniaue, and bis very clever performance on tho horizontal bar was likewise cheered. After Bomo tolections by a very fresh terlo comic, a burlesque operatic sketch by a man and a woman, who acted badly aud sung worse, and an antediluvian negro sketch, tho curtain wont down, and the orchestra gave an overture preparatory to tho marriage. When the ourtain was rung up the scone on tbs stage was a most Incongruous one.

In the middle at a table, eat 'Squire Schmidt, Blmply awful in hit official dignity. Around him were the various members of the oompany, in costume two white men blacked up aa impossible negroes, an IriBb comedian, who looked as.if bo lived in a sewer, two eerlo conilcs in short skirts and property smiles, and two sparrers with faces tbat would adorn a rnguea' gallery, and dressed only in skin fitting tights, with short tlcoves, beside ono or two supers, Manager Gilmore, and Stage Manager Grady. The bride and groom camo on the stage, attended by Mr. Harry Melville, gymnast, and Sntio Wildo, rather pretty serio comic The bridal party was neatly dressed, and looked appropriately modest. Tbe groom, since bla turn, bad acquired a wooden log to supply bis anatomical deficiency, and wat dressod in a business suit, and bad gentlemanly appoarance.

Tho bride, quite a pretty woman, was dressod a plain black silk. While the orchestra played in a subdued manner. Squire Schmidt performed the marriage coremony, aud witb tbat Ches terfleldian politeness that can only be acquired by long service in a Justice's court, Introduced tho newly married eouplo to the audlenoe, who howled and whistled In the most congratulatory manner. Thon tbe entire comnany sang Bometnlng that aoundod dreadfully like a dirge, and the curtain wont down amid storms of applause. When it comes to concerted music, tbe Zoo company canuot be considered absolutely great.

Molroso is counted a fine performer in tho variety profession, and commands a good salary, whilo his wife is a aerlo comic singer of fair ability. Thoy bave ouly beon acquainted a short timo. Tbe attendants, Mr. Melvillband Misa Wildo, are alao professionals, tho former said to be a brother of the groom, and the latter is a resident, being known here by ber real name Suslo VlrgiL Her sister is tbo wile of Harry o( the "Hearts st Oak" combination. Aged American Horses on the Turf During the Past Year.

The Story of Parole The Romance of the Life of the Conqueror of English Pride Seven Years on the Turf Starting Eighty four Times and Wlnninc Forty four Knees Performances of the Horse who ia Primarily Accountable for tho Present Racing Craze How he Broke Ten Broeck's Heart, Overthrew tho Great Tom Ochiltree, Beat Everything he Came Against from his Second to his Fifth Year, Then Crossed tho Briny Deep, the First American Horse to Vanquish English Thoroughbreds on Their Native Turf Parole's Enthusiastic Roceptlon on his Return and his Perennial Popularity Later but not Less Distinguished Performances The Epsom Gold Cup a Trophy as Precious ns the Queen's Cup. The Greatest Old Race Horse in the World. One hundrod and thirty three aged horses, that is, liorsos seven years old and upward, ran raeet in tbe United States last season, thirteen of whom won eaoh $1,000 and upward. Tho total number of start! was 578, of whioh 135 wore firsts, 116 seoonds, 101 thirds and 2M uuplaood. The total amount won waB $60,238, The following table oomprltos those winning $1,000 or upward each, tbo number of times first or placed, aud tbe amount won by each Name.

Starts. First. Sooond. Third. Win'gs I'srolo Trouble Disturbance 12 6,053 2,4511 2.030 2,000 1.71M l.BSS l.soo 7 8 7 7 1 4 A 5 4 1 2 2 5 I a i i 6 2 0 21 14 tiovernor Hampton za Glasgow Bushwhueker Utnirloy Gorham 16 Victor 1 Poit.

Guard 11 '27 Ohio Hoy 17 Georce IV 2 l.UUU Dan K. started nine timet, running twice; Vagrant started twonty ono times, running twice; second five times, third tbreo timos, Tho horses who won races, but are not mentioned above, rang in the amounts won from $875 to $5 oaob. It Parole. Zong be do atory tole Ob de groat raoo boss Parole. Colored Jockey, First in the amount of money won, first in many a gallant struggle through a long and honorablo oqulno career, and, it might almost bo said, first in the hearts of his countrymen, oomes the brown goldlng Parole, son of Leamington aud Maiden, Thore is a tremondous amount of eontlment felt about this old follow.

The comparison need not be considered altogether fanciful, wben it is said that he is tbe Georgo Washington of race bortos. He never leaves the paddock and parades beforo the grand stand on his preliminary gallop that ho is not Instantly reoognized, nnd forthwith thore is a clapping of hands, a waving of handkerchiefs and any quantity of applauso not altogether feminine. He Is tbe most popular quadrupod lu the republic to day. Ills sire, tho dead Leamington, like ono of tho Pilgrim fathers, was thrust out of his nativo land despised, and braved tbe dangers of tbe doop to help found the free race borse institutions of tbe land of the Stars and Stripes. Leamington's descendant, tho peerlesB Paroio, crossod the raging deep to avenge tho wrongs of his ancestor and bring low tbo pride of the haughty Britons by vanquishing their great racerB iu thoir own ollmato and on their own courtes.

Parole did that. Tbo Saufords and tho Ten ilroocks had gone over with what tbey and all America regardod as incomparable cracks, spont fortunes and failed to win a raco of importance. The Briton was then haughtier. The spirit of tbo Amorican peoplo was proportionately depressed, Thoro was thon one sphere in which tbe Englishman was invincible. Thore was one noblest of all accomplishments, horsemanship, in which the Amorican with his big country and bis big Institutions must take an Inferior placo.

The thought was unbearable but the bitter oud bad to bo chewed. Then up rose Parole and went forth oonqueriug and to conquer. Uo lifted tho banner of Yankeo prido which had been so long in tbe dust and bore it to victory. Ho revolutionized tho belief of tbe world just as eirootually as the old Greek did whon bo drovo baok the Persian, or as the Bunker Hill farmers did when tbey repulsed thojvaln glorious redooats aud fired tbo shots beard round tho world. Grand, honored, forever honored aud venerated old Paroio I Uls memory shall bo moro perennial than brass than that of tbe steeds commemorated by tbe brazen quadrupeds of St.

Marks. See him come out ou the course, say at Jeromo or Sheepsbood going it may bo to certain defeat. Now tho applauso "Thoro goes Parole There goes old brownie What matter it if Glenmore or Monitor inako a holy show of him 7 Did he not down tho Britishers 'I Is he not the representative of the fearless, tlroloBS, aspiring and forever free American national spirit 7 It Ib not big odds that tho old brown gelding Is not responsible, primarily, for the racing croze tbat has conio over the country sinco year before last and which promises to make pool sailing tho obief American industry if it keepa going on as it bas dono. Bofore Paroio went forth to conquer our onomies, tbo paoplo who took interest in raoing wero comparatively fow and they were a spooies of tbomselvos readily reoog nized tbo spocios horsey. Parole sot ovorybody ou firo, and wben the year after hia return to his native land Iroquois, another descendeut of Leamington, achieved a Yorktown aurroudor on the Derby downs, that just finished thu business.

Not to be able to talk horse after that insured isocial ostracism. A few days tince tbo telegraph announced the sale of a farm at a callod Chestnut Hill, near the City of Philadelphia. Tbo new purchaser was said to bo a rich man from the Northwest; tbe solloi was stated to be Mr, Arlelldos Welch, and tho consideration ono hundred aud fifty thousand dollars. Then Ibero went up on all aides a wail of regret. That was too bad, too bad so ovorybody said.

Woll, the telegraph does not generally troublo ltsolf to announce so unimportant an event as a sale of a farm. But suppose tbo farm should happen to be Mount Vernon How about that? Suppose Commodore Vanderbllt had ocoupled it through tho absorptive powor of his millions? Would thore uot bo a national kick Tbat is just tbe case, in a smaller or creator degree, according to your measure of orazl ness on the horse quoBtton, with the sale of tbe Chest, nut Hill farm. That bit of real ostato was tho birthplace of Paroio. It was likowiee the birthplace of Iroquois. Mr.

Arlstidet Welch bred both theso great ones. And here repose iu quiet peaoe the bones of the great Leamington, the sire of tho twain. And wben at last it turnod out that, whon tho purse proud man from the Northwest came to take possession, and whon tbe heart of Mr. Aristides Weloh failed him at the thought of relinquishing the place of Buch associations, and when women's tears were shed and mon's beseeching voices ware heard aud tho heart of the purchaser relented and ho gave bank into his possession the farm of Mr. Wolch with it3 Leamington grave and its sacred memories, then the whole country did rejoice that this equine Mount Vernon or Chestnut Hill wat not alienated to a atranger.

Whioh shows bow mueh the American peoplo aro endowod with prido; for bad not Parole and Iroquois boalon the Britishers as thoy did thoy would be of no moro account than ordinary horse fleab. But now we bavo a now aud delightful subject of self congratulation. We have beaten tbo horses of tbe greatest raciug country on the globe, and by that we have bocomo greatOBt ourselves in ovorything. Starting out iu this spirit it will not be difficult to mako A BOMANTIO SIDE TO PAROM'S LIFE. Tho writor wa3 orosBlng Fulton street, in front of the E.Q1.K office, a few mornings eiuoe.

A long line of teams stretched up tbe street and blocked tbo way. One ugly, biting brute, attached to a dray, stood right on the crosswalk obstructing tbo passage of a charming young lady. Tho writor took tbe horso by the head to turn blm one side so tbat mademoiselle could pass. "Oh, never mind," said she, skipping under bis vicious nose, "never mind, I am not in the least afraid of hoi Bos. Oh, I do juat porfaotly adore them To adoring young ladies it will not be difficult to paint a romautlo Bldo of a borso's early days.

"Privateer," tho accomplished historian of tbo current turf was, two years ago, whon Parole was lu bis EngliBh glory, quite as outbusiattlc as tha young lady was. lit, gave an imaginary scont at Chestnut Hill, whore Paroio made bis advent on tbo planet. This important event took plaoo on the Ulth day of April, 1873. Around the wood fire on the hearth of tbo Bitting room is piotnred Mr. Wolcb and two or tbreo friends.

Tbe boys are there with their tutor. About nlno o'olock John MoCluekey comes in quietly from the stablos. "I shall sit up tonight, Mr. Welob, Maiden will foal before morning," he says, quietly. Now thero is a proposition from tbo boyt to go to ber box and bavo a look at her, which is vetoed, John McCluekey adding, "Maiden don't like visitors to night ebo's turned savage liko." Mr.

Welch does not Bleep aB soundly as UBual, and just at the break of tho April dawn John McCluskey stands at his bedside. "It's all rlgbtr Mr. Wolob I A brown colt, and be stands up, and Uaidon is all right, too." And tbe brown colt foal Was tbe race hoi Bo Parole 1 Vory prosy to tho common mortal but a delightful thing to remember whon tha race horse comes thundering first to tho post in eome groat ing with him your hopes and a slice of your modest fortune In safoty. Then la tho time to "just perfectly adore blm," and even tho incident of tbe hero's birth is of IntoreBt and Importance, This imaginary econe recalls a real one a bit of tbe real romance of tbe turf how a big brown colt, one. April mornlug, at daybreak, Baw the light at quiet Ltttlocote.

The butler was rung up and in bis excitement rushed on tbo scene with his nightcap ou his head and a bottlo of wine in his hand, and, when it was necessary to remove the stranger into a warmer box, got a wheelbarrow and Insisted on "wheeling the winner of tbe Derby for once lu my life." A speech full of propheoy but nothing to what followed for when Itlckaby, the stud groom, got home to his cottage about five o'olock in tbe morning, he assured bis wife there must be somothing extraordinary about that colt, for, In the gray of the morning, be bad just teen the strange eight of a wild duck and a wild drake silting on a quickset hedge oloso to the road. And so they named that brown eolt Wild Day rell, and he won the Derby in 1855, was the sire of Bucoanoer and the grandsire of Brace, who to day disputes tbe precedence with our own Gerald for the favoritism for the Derby of 1882. A very important mattor, sometimes, Ib tbe birth of a little or a big brown colt THE FAMILY QUITE ARISTOOBATIO. Leamington, tbe sire of Parole and of Iroquois, was by Faugh a Ballagh "Clear tho Way" and tho daughter of Fantaioon, she by Laurel out of Daphne. Maid on, Parole's dam was by Lexington Kitty Clark ty Glencoe, Sbe was a fine performer, ber greatest victory having been tbe Travors stake for three year olds, a mile and three quarters, at Saratoga, in 18G5, In which sho beat a field of seven, among them Oliata, tbo dam of the once fleet footed Olltipa.

olltlpa, tbe readers of tbe, Eiaus will romamber, wltU57 ran into training, to whioh ho took kindly and witb Intelligent docility TWO YEARS AND FOUB VICTOBDM. That he would probably prove to bo a good one, be oamo known, and when Paroio first faced the starter and mado his debut in tbe July stakes for two yoir olds, In 1875, he was the favorite over a field of three, the beat one of which was Mr. Belmont's Froebootor, a fast tolt by Kentucky, out of Feluoca, by Buccaneer. The distance was five furlongs and Paroio took tbo lead at the start and kept it to tbe finish, winning by three lengths in a canter, in Freebooter was second. Dan Sparling bad tbo honor of oonduoting Parole to his first vlotory.

The August stakes, distanoe then ono milo, oolts carrying 100 was Parole's next engagement. This, too, was an easy vlotory, for he defeated Shirley, bis etable oompanlon, and Lady Clipper, by whom great atoro was set, in 1:54. Parole set a murderously fast pace for the first half mile, three furlongs of which effectually did for tho filly, who trlod to race with him, and Parole passed tho winning post in a hand gallop. Thenoe to Saratoga, for the rich two year old events to be decided there, tho first of whioh was tho Flash Btakes, half a mile. Klovon started, among them Faithless, a black filly by Leamington, out of Fe lloity, and belonging as well to Mr.

Lorillard. Faithless was a very fleet one, baying already won tbe Juve nilo stakes at Jerome Park, and tbe Thespian stakes at Long Branob, in noither of wblob waa Parole entered. Beside this stable oompanlon thero were other good fines in tjils raco, notably, Sistor of Moroy by War Dance, and Pastor, by Narragansett, Faithless was ridden by Sparling, Gyrus Halloway having tbe mount of Paroio. Faithless won in tbe fast time of 49 seconds, Sister of Meroy second, Paroio maklug no effort to go to the load and finishing with the ruck. Tho next race was a memorable one tho Saratoga stakes, three quarters of a mllo, for two year olds, colts 100 on trauoo $100, half forfeit, with $100 added.

There were nine who faced tbe Sag on this fourth day of August. Colonel D. McDaniols was tbon in tho full glory of racing success and bad in this oontost a oolt known as Brother to Bassett, afterward named Charley Howard, iu whom bis owner believed he bad auotber great crack llko Bassett, and who indeed was a good one, Mr. Belmont had in the race two fillies who have made considerable noise in tbe Adelaide by Australian and Sultana by Lexington. Witb all the prostlgo of tbo McDaniols party Paroio was Btill slightly the favorite in tho betting.

Tbe track was dorp and heavy, but Paroio soon began to go away from bis horses. Brother to Bassett. made a fine fight for it, but was settlod in half a mile, and Parole again cantered homo first in Adelaide sooond and Sultana, now the roigning sultana of tbo Nursory Farm, third. Tho Kentucky stakes for two year olds, then ono mile, colts 100 lbs. run a week latar, excitod great interest as tbo same quartet witb ibroo others were to contOBt it.

Tbo track was bettor, but tbo result was the same. It was iu Almost all respects a repetition of the raco for tbo Saratoga Htakes, Paroio ran away from everything, and although Sultana ran a better raco than beforo and kept well up with Parole to tho last quarter, the four finished in tho same order, Paroio first, Adolaldo socond, thon Sultana and Brother to Bassett fourth. From Saratoga Parole changed base to Baltimore, but started only onoe, In the Central stakes, distance one mile. He wan not intended to win iu this race unless it should bo necessary to call on him to save tbo stake, which it was not neoeBsary to do. So ho cantered in second to hit stable companion Cyril, Flora filly third, time, This was hia last two year old raco.

He had started six times, winning four of the events and second in tbe other two, He could hove won tho Blx as ensily bb the four, and whon be went out of training in tho Fall the race horsemen kuew the coming three year old crick of tho country, THBBE YEARS THREE VICTORIES. Paroio did not do well during the Winter of 1875 6. At one time he was lame and he was backward in condition as the Spring came on. Ilia first engagements were iu tbe groat Kentucky tbreo year old stakes, beginning with tho Derby, to bo run at Louisville May 15. Suoh was Parole's oonditiou when tho time came to start West tbat It waa seriously disoussed whether or not the ongagomonts west of tho mountains should not bo forfeited.

But it was at last determined not to disappoint tbe Western public, ond Paroio oame to tbe post in tho Kentucky Derby. He found himself in line with most formidable oontemporaries. Most of tbe spectators who at Brighton Beach, on tho 30th day of September last, saw an old brown gelding, who had started as favorite over the field in a milo and a quarter race, break oompietely down and not finish, probably did not recall the fact tbat that old follow who thus Ignomln iously finished bis long career war once a great crack, who, as a two year old bad won the Alexander, Belle Meade and Sanford stakes at Loulsvlllo, tbe Spring and Fall two year BwoopBlakos at Lexington; whose three year old career was equally brilliant, aud who had tbe honor of first boating Parole whon Parole was run to win. Tbat old, brokon down follow was Vagrant, onco W. Astor'e Vagrant, by Virgil out of Lazy.

He was ono of Parolo's dangerous competitors or tho Kentucky Derby. Ho had just come, flushed with a great three year old victory from Loxlngton, wbero ho bad won what was then known as tho Pheulx Hotel stakes, now called tho Bluo Ribbon stakes, a mllo aud a furlong, boating Clemmie G. and another by fifty yards, and ho was now the favorite ovor a field of eleven, in which, beside Paroio, there was Creedmoor, a grand Asteroid colt out of Target, and Harry Hill, another good one, by Virgil out of Lark. Parolo's condition was such as ought to have induced bis manager not to start bim. He ran, however, unplaced Vagrant winning easily, Creedmoor second, Harry third.

Parole bad no speed in bim. His other WoBtern engagements were thrown up aud he was brought home. It was determined not to start him again until, at least, be had shed his Winter coat. It took bim till July to get around, and with the public ho was uuder a aloud. Aud now, at Saratoga, in tho mile and a quartor BwoepRtakoa, bo waa to meet an antagonist, a year bis senior, tbe famous Tom Ochiltree, by Lexington, out of Katonah, who, in bis tbreo year old form, had won twice, and now, as a four, had run an oxtraordinarlly brilliant career, having already beaten everything be bad come against, aud having already thus early in the year won the Baltimore eup, miles; tho Jeromo Jookoy Club handicap, 2 mllos tbo Centennial stakes, 2Ji miles tho Monmouth cup at Long Branch, then 2 miles, carrying 118 and tho Capitol stakes at the eamo placo, 3 miles.

He wan contidered invincible, and in the hotting was favorite over the field moro than two to one. Sparling, with orders to run from tbe drop of the flag, was again on Paroio, who oarried 99 lbs, Beside Tom Ochiltree there was but out other slartod, Mattio by Australian, out of Mlnuio Mansfield. Parole went away liko a phantom and had tbe race won before big Tom Oobiltreo could find his stride, beating him out by a dozen lengths. Tho milo and a quarter was dono In a half second slower than it was ruu the following yoar, wbon Tom Ochiltree and Parole were second aud third respectively to tbe three year old Vara and seconds slower than Paroio himself, with the impoBt of 121 ran itjaud won it, boating Danger, Vagrant and two others. This three year old race was a big "dump" for tho backors of the favorite.

Everybody now woko up to the faot that at a mile and a halt at least Parole was a great horse. This race was run July 25, and four days lator Parole started in the race for tbe Saratoga oup, two miles and a quarter. Never, but onco before bad a three year old started for either the Westchester, Saratoga, Monmouth or Baltimore cup, that exception having been Mc Cormack Iz Hamburg, who, in 1870, ran second to Uelmbold for tbe Saratoga cup, yot so high bad he risen In publio esteem from hit performance in tho sweepstakes that he started for the cup a good favorite. Tom Ochiltree boat Parole out a short length in 4:00. Five days later Parole started for the Sequel Btakes for three year olds, a mile and three quarters, beating his old rival Freebooter and two others easily in He wat a favorite here, as he might well be after such raoes as the last two.

In the Fall, at Jerome, he won tbe All Age stakes, IX miles, easily beating St. Martin, Warlock, Virginlus and Iihadamantbus, St. Martin and Warlock finishing four lengths behind Parole and running a dead heat for second place. Thence to Baltimore to crown tbe record of tho year with tho Dixie and Breckinridge stakes, Both are for three year olds exclusively, distance two miles. The winner of tbo first is penalized fivo pounds in tbe second.

It is tbe last trial of tbe year for three year olds and the winner of either or both it a crack of bis age. Colts carry in tbe Dixie 110 fillies and geldings 10T. There wat a strong field iu the Dixie of 1876. Beside Parole there wtre Vigil, Heretog, Algerlne, Sultana and Shirley. Vigil was a Virgil Regan oolt, who had won seven races out uf twelve already and waa now to try his foot for the last two big stakes of tho season.

He was owned by the Dwyer Brothers, and bad been in special training for thest two events. The Dixie was a raoo in tbo mud and Parole was beaten out five lengths, Vigil winning lu The race was between the two, and Parole mado a torrifio pace from the start and led to tbe last quarter, when Vigil overtook bim and oame away from bim, the rest being away off. In tbe Breoklnrldge Parole bad not recovered from the effects of the Dixie, and Vigil beat him oat two lengthe in Virglnius the only other starter being third. Vigil was unquestionably a great raoing oolt and, but for bis unfortunate break, down tbe following year, would, in all probability, bavo shown himself as good a tour year old aa Virgil ever got, not excepting his latest prodigy, Hindoo. Vagrant was a good one, and Virginlus was not to be despised, bnt neitbor could carry the weight, go the distance and atay with Vigil, nor did Hindoo, In hit three year old form, fan any anoh race aa Vigil did when be won the Dixie and tbe Breoklnrldge, carrying in the latter 110 lbs.

aud running like a real race borse be wat, Hindoo's nearest approaob to it being bis race for the Sequel stakes, July 26, when with 123 lbs. be beat Greenland with 118 six lengths, in a mile and three quarters, through ho mud. In 3:21. His performance in the Kenner stakes, two miles, was not as good. Wbat bo might have done in the Dixie as against Crickmore, Eole and Barrett, or in tbe Brlckinridge against Compensation, Aella and Barrett, had he not gone amiss and become a piteous wreck of hit former solf, can only bo conjectured.

Suffice it to say that Paroio, iu bis last three year old pertdrmanoo, whether be Buccumbed on account of bad iaatics in making tbe pace, or whether be could not stay at tho distance, or whether it was the paoe and tbe bad track combined, in the Dixie, yielded the honors to one who could olalm to to travol, for from Battleford, tbo capital of the Territory, in tho heart of tha agricultural district to Dulutb, by the route Indtcatod, it twolve hundred miles. Perhaps thoro Isn't any wheat sent that way, I don't know how that may bo, Out until the Canadian Paolfio Railway is finished, suoh la tbo only outlet thoy bare; tboiiRh thoro bae been a great deal of legislating around with a view to a Hue of boats from Lake Wiunlpog up tbo Nelson River to Tort Nol BOn, on Hudson's Bay, and tbenoo by ship dlreotly to Europe. Then those people will havo, with the tbroo proposed routes, sufneiont competition to keep rates reasonable, aud after tbat they propoRe to got rich. They claim the finest country ou earth, but thoy don't seem to bavo a good time in getting tholr advantages beforo the immigrants. Some two yaars ago the Dominion Oorernmont appropriated money for a pamphlet setting forth the golden welcome offered to tkosu who wantod to move in and enjoy the climate and soil.

But a lot of Dakota follows got bold of tbo compilers, and when the book caruo out. It showed that Dakota wbs the place to buy loud In and that Manitoba and the Northwest Territory were tho beat places on oarth to keop out of. The pamphlet was circulated at Canadian oxponses, and it was a month or two before the triok was oxposod. Parliament took it up and made speeches on it. Tho Canadian press was bitter on tho trickstors, and tho subject finally got into the hands of tho Home Secretary.

I have forgotton what ho did with it. But whero do tho peoplo ou the North Saskatchewan, say at Victoria, five hundrod miles uortuwust of Manitoba GET THEIR OOLD WAVES FROM Thoy aro ou tbo fifty fifth parallel north lalltudo, noarly ton degrees north of Brooklyn, aud abovothem strotobes another waBto to the Alaska boundary. To the Northwest, among tho mountains, are a fow unimportant towns, all In sholtei, but upon Victoria pour tbo savage winds straight from tbo Arctic. Thoro aro only a few ports between her and the octau. Not a shot tower or a mau ufucturlDg smoke stack to sheltor her.

Hor storm con tors come in tho original paokago, are drawn from tho nativo wood, so to speak, and yot tho peoplo of Viotoria havo glorious future before them, thoy think. They aro farming a little in the Summor to koep up with their oxpousos until thoir tlmo comes around, but tbey are tmro to bare It. Tin ho hopes aro based on the lmmsnso nuggets of gold tho Saskatchewan and Saltoaux Indians bring down from tbo North. That thoro is a gold bearing country of unparalleled fertility up thoro, tho Victorians bavo no doubt, for thoy have seen and handled singularly puro quartz brought In by the savages. But the Indians reliu'o to disclose the source of tho find.

It Is to them a great trapping aud hunting country, and they clto the hittory of our own liibea when asked to Bbow whore the "shining dust" can be found. Thoy reason candidly that where there in gold, thero will tho whilh man ba also, if bo finds It out, and where the white man Is thoro is a strong luducoment for tho savage to decamp. Still tho Victorians hope on. Some timo ago ono of them, having acquirod the Saskatchewan language, which is a good deal llko Welsh spelled backward, dlB guisod bitusolf nnd joinod one of the tribes. For seven months ho wandorod with thoin, ondurlng overy hardship, but all in vain.

Tho door to tbo mystery is still locked. Assaying say that tbo quartz averages tho purest over taken from the ground, but it was not to b3 had in sufllolont quantillos to warrant tho orection of stamp rjilla at the time this issue of tho Eaole went to press. From Victoria to Alaska is about a thousand miles, and that finlBbos this excursion. Alaska Is chiefly remarkable for baTing producod soven millions of dollars upon the presoutatiou of Russia's check on tbo American peoplo, aud a fur company that has monopolized Iho procoeds of the territory over Blnce. The staple of the country is seals, an auimal whose habits aro not thoroughly understood.

A seal is a good deal of a Turk in his way. He has a harem, sometimes consisting of fiftocti wivoe, whore funolions aro to keep him straight. For the male seal Is a lazy fish, unless there is a fijbt on baud, and then he becomes energetic. Two old bucks will fight to the death, aud tbe survivor will goto sleep or He around and be fed until another fight drops in socially, and then he takes down the Bbutters again. It has boon olaimed that amphibious animals are guided by blind luitlnet, and have no reasoning faculties.

That Is a mistake, so far as a eeal is concerned. It Is told by a Government ofBoial etationod thero that be saw two seals attack a third, who, after a tedious fight killed them both. A fourth watched the fracas from an adjacent and commodious rock. As soon as It was fiuisbod, ho wobbled over to tho scene of tho conflict nnd whaled the victor so that he did turn'up his fins nnd started off to solve tbe mystery of animal otcrulty. That seal roasoned that tho other follow had expended much energy In tbe former fight and was In a condition to bo liokea, Then he settled down In this dead enemy' harein and prepared to spend Ins days in righteous Qoutemplutiou of bis sins iu tbe flesh.

But 6TOC1UNO A HAREM, docs not always involve a fight. Seal families live very eloao together on laud, a'most witbin reach, and if a buck sees a comuly lady Heal on whom he bas fastened hU affections, he waits until she has managed to get on tho of hor family, and then be wnddlos over, scizos hor by tho nook with his teeth and throws her Into his own harom. Thsro she stays. She makes no eilort to get back, nor does hor former joint high husband endeavor to rescue her. He ouly looks around for somo other fellow's oxtra wife, and thus restores his lacerated It ba3 often beon askod Do seals sleep In tho wator 7 Thoy do.

Vessels off tbe Alaska coast oftou approach very close to them while they aro asleep. The malo seal wiil sleep anywhere. Ho would oven snoro lustily under tho ministrations of tbo Rev. T. DeWitt Talmage.

Water 1b as essential to the dead son! as to the live. Uls ftosh Blicks so lightly to his bones tbat they cannot bo soparated evon by boiling. Consequently, whon soal bones are wanted they are ecrapod as closely as possi blo, and thon attached to a long wire, one end of which is lnada fast to a rock. Tbe bono is thrown out into the water, aud in a few weeks tbe sea lico bavo picked it so it shlneH. But whoro do tho Alaskans got tbeir cold storm oen torsfrom? Being mainly savages aud tho rest being ongaged In getting around paying tho Government moiety on furs, perhaps thoy haven't given tbo mattor much study, but it will be admittod tbat tho suaps do not come from Manitoba.

In short, it Is hard to toll whore cold wontber doss originate, and possibly we shall nover be satisfactorily educated on that subjeot until some whaler has stumbled over the North Pole, nnd thon we may learn why tbe Knickerbocker Ice Company always meets with a short crop and where practical not thooretical but practical plumbers go when they dio. S. H. MAIUIIAUB IN JAPAN. Tim 'Relations of tlio Soxes Adjusted Anionic tlio Orieutaiu by a Very mill lo 1'roceis.

San Francisco Clirnniclo. Mrtrriago iu Japan is au institution unknown as a religious sacrament, or ns a legal contract, pronounced or ratified by auy civil officer or oourt. It is tbe simplest form of matriuiouial union that can bo eonoeivfd uuder tho name of marriage. It is Biinply this Whon the child is iru and named in Japan, It is registered in tho ofliciii! register of tho kon or district where tbo parents live. If at any time tho porson removes to another kon or provinos ho takes his registration from Is leaving and is registered at his new home.

Thero ia no Japanese living unregistered. Whon tbe man wishes to taka a wife, and the consent of the selected ono is obtained, or tbat of bor the husband tbat to bo appears at the konrhn, or olllco of tbe registration, and thero registers tho uauio of the woman as his wife, and the woman is then known and considered aB hia aaorod property, to havo aud to bold so loug as ho likes, and uo lougcr. If the man wishes for moro female ooin panlonship than his wlfo affords him ho contracts for and rogistors another woman as bis mistress, and she is thus known aud regarded as a member of his household. The maunor of divorce 1b just as easy as the marriage that is, if tho man so deBires, as ho only can dlvorco. All that IB dono Is for tho mantoglvotho woman what is known oa tho "throe lines and a half paper," elating to her that Bhe is no longer considered by him as bis wlfo.

She Is then unmamod, andean take her maiden name. The registry Is made to show this fact, and tbe two are "quits. On the other hand, thora is no nower tbat can divorce the husband from tlio wife tbo womnu Ib powerleBS to act as against the mau. Divorce is the prorogatlvo of tbo husband, uncontrolled by any power whatever be alone binds and he uioue cau loose. A CRA.NK'8 FATAL CUT.

Details of tlie Murder ol Dr. Adams in a itlicliigan Asylunit Detroit Correspondence Pittsburg Dispatch. Dr. Adams, stabbed by an insaue patient yesterday foronoon at tbo Kalamazoo Insane Asylum, died this morning, A letter from there gives tbe fol owlng particulars of the tragic occurrence On enter ng tbe ball Dr. AdaniB passed along tbo oorridor, where there aro generally moro or less patients walking about, standing or sitting, aud after a oasual inspection of the north ond, returned to the passage way leading to tho main hall.

Ho was accompanied by supervising attendant J. Ooodenough, Just bofore reaching tbe passage way tbo doctor wst accosted by a patient to whom lie often spoke, Ho was dlsturbod about letters bo had written aud asked the doctor if be bad sent tbetn. The doctor said he had not, but ehould during the day. At this the patient, who had moved nearer the doctor on the latter't right, exolalm ed "You didn't, th aud then struck him twice in succession in tho abdomon with a knife which he hold like a dagger In bis right hand, tho blade of the weapon being concealed by his sloovo. One blow cut tho doctor's coat and vest on tbo left front without doing further injury, but tbe other made a wound, probably two and a half inches deep, and about as much perpendicularly, tho knife entering his abdomen about tbreo inches below tbe main breast bone, cutting upward to tbe bottom bone.

After the doctor bad reoelvod his injury, Goodenough, tho atiendaut solzod tho aBsallant from behind, the palieut still making a most violent effort to use the Unite, aud made a dangerous pass at Ooodenougb, cutting a loug rent In bis pants and nndorclothlng, but missing bis person Another attendant, William L. Hill, who was work iu a room a few feet away, came np tbon just as tbe patient was trying to stab behind him and received the full force of the knife in the loft thigh, making a painful bnt not dangerous flesh wound, tbo depth of the blade. He caught the patient's arm and brought It over and back, when tbo knife flew out of bis hand. One of tbo other attendants came up and assisted, when tbe violent man was leonrod. England.

Ten races in England. THE OTHER OLD HORSES who ran and won last year bave tbeir histories. Trouble, second in tbe winning list bas had a great and otentful eareer as a steeplechaser for many years, be having been foaled in 1870 and having been nine years on tbe turf. To win sevon ont of nine starts and be placed in tbe other two at 11 years of aga shows wonderful vitality and great racing qualities. Disturbance and Derby and Bushwhacker and Charley Gorham and anolent Mlntzer, whose name does not appear lu tbe list above, and who got away with but a tingle race and $225 in tbe season all these and many other veterans of tbo turf have been In tbeir day fine performers, and the incidents of their careers are not without a certain interest with the lovers of good horses.

AN ESTHETIC IHVITATIOX. Cincinnati Enquirer. If Mr. Oscar Wilde will leave his lilies and and daffodils and come West, to Cincinnati, we will undertake to show him how to deprive thirty hogs of their inteattaes in one minute..