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Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane are a striking FINE FEMINIZE FASHIONS CUREENT LITERATURE. tively illustrated, with a view of her unfinished monument and other Virginia scones. "The Lowell Offering" is a literary reminiscence, by Harriet H. Robinson, of one of the most notable of New England developments in tho way of study combined with industry, and in the livos of women. For 1889 the magazine proposes views of Now South dovolopment to keep pace with New England history and life.

"Mostly Fools" is tho pithy title, from Carlyle, of a littlo brochure by Guy Hampdou, in tho Vox Populi Series, Hatch Publishing Company, Now York. The foolB in the caso are such as those New York City is full of, who give away to a few men a franchise like that of tho elevated roads, declared by one of those men to bo worth $50, 000,000. Mr. Cyrus Field, under tho screw of Governor Tilden or Jay Gould, is supposed to havo made this outcry. Tho figures and the reasoning of the tract may perhaps be questioned, but yet thatthoro ib something in the growing clamor of such socialism as its author's, which would mako the elevated roads serve the people under city management, with tho at leastfmuch more moderate cost of police and lire service, it is too late to deny.

In tho January 1'oitular Science Monthly Edward Atkinson considers the future of cotton manufacture and the chance of the South's being a competitor therein of New England, beside illustration of Chinese methods of manufacture. Herbert Spencer's recent contention with Pro. fessor Huxley and others on nationalizing land is republished, with emphasis of the right of tho community to any or all of the land. George Ilea gives the causes of tho decline in interest rates. II.

J. Philpott shows the efi'cetR of irrigation on on the right sido, showing a Bido adornment of solid jet. The bodice is turned baok coat fashion, showing a jetted plaBtron, with a jetted stomacher below. This is very elegant, of course. The ohief objection to such a dress, however, is the weight, which can hardly bo estimated except by actual wearing.

Black silkcan bo made up very handsome without jet, and is one of the most serviceable of drosseB, being appropriate for so many occasions. Another dinner combination is a velvet princess, with plaited front of crepe de chine or other thin, soft The shapod bodice best suits the pompadour silks, opening over a chemisette of white lace; also slightly open in same style, a la Martha Washington. The skirt of tho pompadour is often cut out in tabs, which fall over a flounce of lace, which is put on over an under silk skirl trimmed round the edge with a pinked out rucho or narrow fluting, just showing beyond the laeo. Sleeves made small of a drapery of laee and silk. Accordioii plaiting was too pretty a desigu to soon disappear.

A pretty dinner dross has accordion plaited vest and skirt of white cashmere, with a polonaise of pink and white foulard, with rovers caught back at bottom and lined with pink faillo. An accordion plaited skirt of light blue or pink with black velvet bodico over full white guimpe, is a very Bimplo and coquettish dress. Sometimes the bodice is but slightly open and laced across, this being a la Normandie and suitable for a miss. There are Btacks of these dainty dresses, and if the girls are ablo to attend all tho balls, private and otherwise, that are being plannod for tho season, thoy will need them, everyone, for society's news columns tells of many such. Every now and then the peal of wedding bells is hoard and a quaint woddiug adds another engagement to the long list.

At one of these recent weddings the bride wore reputation of beine a hard hitter and received tbe trophy offered by tho manager of the Stars for the man making the greatest number oi safe hits during the season. Tho Madison Square Gardon Company say that tho National Horso Show Association will havo a grand exhibition in the ne.w building from November 3 to 10, 1890. Tho records of all previous years aro far surpassed by tho 2:30 roll of trotters and pacers of 18SI). The list up to Monday last showed no less than 78a names. James Carter, who trained J.

K. Mcgibbin ifc string of horses tho past season, has signed a contract to handle tho horses of Buddy Bros. Chicago, next year. Prominent mombors of the Twenty third Regiment Athletic Association are considering the feasibility of holding an open amateur athletic meeting at the regimental armory early in February. In 18S7 twenty seven 4 year olds and upward won $5,000 and over in stakes and purses on tho American turf, and they won 248 raced, worth Will McDanicls, who has for sovcral years past handled so skillfully the horses of Bookmaker Brady, among which were thoso two good performers, Ed Mack and Poteen, has been engaged by Talbot Brothers, Paris, to train their horses next season.

By common consent Ed Corrigan's great colt liiley has a sort of lien on tho next Kentucky Derby, always provided ho retains the form ha displayed at the Latonia Fall meeting. He is also in the American Derby. Outside of El llio Hey liiley was about the best 2 year old that showed this season. Tho Twin City Jockey Club, of St. IPaul, announce a list of liberally endowed stakes and they will give closo to in added money for ton days of racing.

The Portland (Ore.) Speed Association will give a Spring and Fall meeting this year. About $3,000 for the Spring and $12,000 for tho Fall meeting will be added. President Hammond, of the Olympic Athletic Club, San Francisco, has sent a cablegram to Jem Mace, asking him to accept tho position of box SPOET OF ALL VAEIETIES. Activity Among Men of Nerve, Muscle and Agility. Intcrestlne; Notes Concerning Hose Ball Play or.s, Pugilists, tho Turf and the Cinder Path.

Keartins for Those Concerned in Outdoor Exercises. Thero is strong revival of the old interest in trotters. The Yale ltecord Foot Ball Cup has been awarded to Captain Gill It has not yet beon decided who will train Maud S. next Beason. The New York Jockey Club now has over eleven hundred members.

Clarkson'K salary with the Boston Club next year will bo The colors of tho Kings County Whoelmon aro cardinal and brown. It is said that El Ilio Key will run in the West during Juno and July. American dealers havo ordered 20,000 safety bicycles from England. Some half dozen tournaments will open in Brooklyn after January. Work will shortly be begun on the now grounds in Brooklyn and New York.

They have both running and trotting races at Audubon Park every Sunday. The membership of the Prospect Wheelmen, of Brooklyn, now numbers thirty. John Ward owns stock in both the New York and Brooklyn brotherhood clubs. Eddie Daly, the Provideuce lad, will be the next man to face Eugene Hornbacher. Yon der Ahe, it is claimed, offered Captain Comiskey $7,500 for ucxt season.

The San Francisco press calls for reformation in turf matters ou the Pacific Coast. S. S. Brown profited more by tho winnings of tho li year olds than any other ownor. The Dcmpsey McCarthy light will take place in San Francisco on tho iHth of January.

Tho League of American Wheelmen has now passed the 12,000 membership mark. Jockoy Day has fully recovered from the effects of his bail accident at Jerome last October. Ed Hall is becoming one of the best expert bowlers on the Brooklyn Bicycle Club's team. Frank Glover has sensibly concluded that ho is not cut out for a fighter and has retired from the ring. The Harvard Chess and.1 Whist Club has boon holding a chess tournament during tho past few weeks.

The best drivers aro tho most careful, and the best horsemen aro those who are always on their guard. The horse Cupid, that won a good race at Elizabeth in tho snow on Saturday last, ran barefooted. John Splan writes: "I am surprised at the interest the Englishmen take in the American trotter." Jockey Magoe, who was so badly injured at Latonia during the Fall, is nov riding at New Orleans. Tip O'Neil has signed with the Chicago players' league club and Comiskey witnessed the contract. Paul Cook, who has signed as catcher with the Brooklyn players' club, had a fielding average of There will be a now racing stable on the Western circuit next season, backed by tho capitalists of Denver.

Mr. Vonderhorst is credited with having sunk more than in three years in the Baltimore. Club. Captain A. II.

Bogardus, so long tho champion of the United States with the shotgun, is coming East again. Thus far the present season has been the most successful ever given by tho Seventh llegimeut Rille Club. The hookmakiug firm of Claypoole it of Columbus, 0., is said to have cleared the past season. The Victoria Pacing Club havo decided to add 10,000 guineas to the value of the Melbourne Cup next year. The National Trotting Association now has 4 members, being 1 more than at any other period of its history.

The champion jockey of 1880 in England, if winning mounts are to settle that question, is Tommy Loates. The next congress of the National Trotting Association will bo held at the Iroquois Hotel, Buffalo, in February. Michael Landman, the ex Jersey City pitcher, is now open for an engagement. His address is 10." Central avenue. Yale will depend in a great measure on Sherrell, Sherman and Lloyd for her championship honors at Mott Haven next May.

Dave Orr says that while he has been offered a big salary to go with the Pittsburg players' club he will stick to Columbus. Mike Kelly will remain on the coast and do most of the catching for tho Bostons in their games with the St. Louis Browns. George, the center rush of Princeton, who snapped a ligament in his leg in the Yale Princeton game, is able to be abou t. Tho most prominent jockeys at New Orleans are Barne, Francis, Freeman, Fox, Magee, Hollis, Newmau, Willis and Warwick.

Jimmy McLanghliu, the ex Jockey and present starter at Clifton race track, and E. H. Garrison, the jockey, are at loggerheads. Jack McAuliffe, who will leave shortly for California, sparred every night last week with Billy Madden at a Brooklyn theater. Ed Smith, the Denver heavyweight, has posted a $500 deposit in Ban Francisco to fight any 158 pound man on the Pacific slope.

It is reported that a :5 year old sou of Signal recently trotted a trial mile in and that an offer of $10,000 was made for him. Charley Courtney has been engaged to train Cornell for another year. He will begin work in January instead of March, as formerly. Pitcher Terry has begun his bicycle practice. He believes that it is one of the best exercises in the world to condition a base ball player.

The Bobton league club has eight men under contract, as follows: Clarkson, Ganzel, Smith, Scholhasse, Donovan, Hardie, MeGarr and Lowe. John E. McDonald, tho well known bookmaker and one of tho best liked by the betting public, was a stable boy at Saratoga eigiit or ten years ago. Itacing is booming in Buenos Ayres. The recent race for the Premio International was worth $10,000 to the first, "0b to second, $1,500 to third.

There is talk of having an athletic contest for a stake of 1, 000 between fifty Irish athletes and a like number of Highlanders next Summer at Dublin. L. A. Stuart, of the Manhattan Athletic Club, is considered one of the finest pool players in the club. A feature of his play is his bauk and break shots.

A handsome gold watch will bo presented by the Pennsylvania Bicycle Clnb to B. F. McDaniel for his twenty four honr record of 211! miles, which gives the local and State championship to the Pennsylvania Club. The well known professional oarsman, Frederick Flaisted, in reference to the rowing championship, said: "I have nevor been beaten by either Searle, Kemp or O'Connor, and I can't see why I haven't as much right to row for the championship as anybody else." Company Forty 3eventh llogiment, will hold a big set of athletic games on Monday evening. February 10, at the armory, Heyward street and Marcy avenue The committee is working hard to make the affair a success.

Tho following handicap events are open to all amateurs: Sev cuty tive yard dash, tSOO yard run, 880 yard run, 1 mile run. 1 mile walk, 75 yard dash (novice), scratch; running high jump, l'A milo bicycle race and mile run, invitation. President Johnson, of the Cleveland brotherhood, at a recent dinner in New York, was presented with a gorgeous leather medal bearing this inscription: "Champion Beefsteak Eater of the Brotherhood of Ball Players of IS 90." There has been formed in Brooklyn a ladies' billiard olub. Its members aro all uromiuont society ladies on tho Hill, and some of them are already excellent players. A base ball boom has broken out on tho Sandwich Islands and tho royal poker game is suspended every afternoon while his Majesty und suite attend the ball contest.

Charles Heilfer, of Brooklyn, who played first base for tho Stars, of Long Island City, last sea season, oxpeots an engagement on some professional team for the coming season. He has the fringe to the vast expanse of that barbarism. And even these are not yet quite denuded of the primeval. In their outskirts the gigantic oucalyp. tun tree riao.s to the height of 450 feet, though it often HtandH stripped of its foliage, and of all life indeed, having been girdled that the grass beneath may nourish at its oxponBe.

But the author is soon beyond sighing over colonists' vandalism near the cities. Ho speodily encoun ters tho animal and vegctablo wonders of the country in the back settlements and beyond, the marsupials and the rodents, migratory swarms of which, in the form of rats, rival at timos tho Australian rabbit in numbers: tho treachery of the human native.sof the soil, which is not altogether guarded against by tho native mounted police employed by the settlors' government tho high heat, miming above 100, which yet does not make the country unhealthy the devices of tho natives, with their swerving but in the end terribly truo missiles and their extemporized ladders, or branches looped about tho trees, with which thoy ascend the tallest trunks by leaning steadily away ami shifting the loop continually upward; the animals found in these ascents; tho kangaroo hunts; the cassowaries; the new types of mammals discovered by tho author: his camps; the varieties of method in troo climbing, without the device above described, and in ways which the wdiites acnuire as well as the natives: tho borboby or Australian duel, frequently fought on a largo scale to establish rights to wives and for other causes, but rarely fatal, through female intervention before such a result; the religion of tho natives and the status and physical condition of their women; the diseases and epidemics of the country and their treatment by the native doctors; the devil of the blacks; the author's lonely Christmas in the bush, so far as European company was left to him, in fact a new world of outlandish fact and experience meets the reader in the book, all told in brief but picturesque style. Tin: fauna of Queensland afforded the author not only an inexhaustible fund of interest and occupation in classifying its animals but abundance of adventure and amusement in the hunts by the natives of the kangaroo, the boongary und the rest, in dances, pantomimes and other diversions of an unknown character hitherto. Hut things were often far from festive with the traveler. His own native escort furnished one murderer least, though the native police were met in time for his apprehension before the author became a victim.

The description of his arrest and his tolerated escape, and of the dilliculty of maintaining European authority on tiie frontier, is full and interesting. The cannibalism treated of, though less warlike and murderous than thai of some tribes, is perhaps all the more harrowing ami disgusting ou that account, and yet will doubtless lie eagerly read by most readers. It lias already been sampled in these columns. The book is one of rare interest and value. rvotcs.

"Five Thousand Miles in a Sledge." by Lionel (lowing, 1). Appletou A authorized edition, is as pleasant a book of adventure and hardship as one needs to read by the tire in an arm chair, rt describes a mid Winter journey across (Siberia. Among many interesting Mibjeots which engaged the author beside the natural 'cant res of the country anil the aspects ot its civilization were the projected railroad line aoro. tiie Eastern hemisphere, witli the possible clients it wouid have upon that civilization, and the diverdent, opinions entertained concerning the same by such noted travelers as George Ken nan and llev. views of the i them.

The Dr. Lansdell, with their different xile system as it presented itself to author inclines to Mir. Kc mum's than to the more optimistic one of view rn I he Dr. I.ausdell to the horrors of the system. Tle ri: is a prefatory chapter or two on China and Corea and then the route lies through Vladivostok, Irkutsk, "Die Talis of Siberia," Tomsk and sc.

forward to Moscow, with a hunting episode now and then to vary the frigid motto tany of travel. The book is illustrated with many interesting sketches and has a good map. Messi i. Appletou aiso publish in dainty fashion llenrik Ibsen's play, "The Doll's House," translated from the Norwegian by Henrietta Frances Lord, with a biography of the author: Justin Anglo American social and military novelette, "Lily Lass, "and "The Awaking ot FYnwiek," by Whitby. That delightful romancer of Tonqiiin and Iceland.

1'ieiTe l.oti (Julian Viand, of the French navy) litis written a boot more strictly of travel, which is characteristically clever ami entertaining, entitled "Into Morocco." It is handsomely published by the Welch. Eraokor Company, New York, and worthily illustrated from the designs of Conslaiil and Marot. "A Portrait in Crimson," byt'liarl' Edward Barns, from the same press, is anothir piece of quaint, curious knowledge am! thought, by the author of "Digby, Chess 1 1 is as odd as is its title, somewhat too odd indeed for either the drama or the novel character to which it iays claim. "Arctic Alaska and Siberia." by Herbert Aldrich, Kami. McN.illyit Coinpany.Chicago, slows what a young with a ready pen and a camera can do to make whaling and hyperborean scenery and people interesting, in description and photography.

The writer made an eight months' erui with the Arctic fleet, and out of it lias made a very readable book. A somuTyhat. relieving episode of the Russian mind from Nihilistic subjects is Roman I. Zubof's "Vii ra. a Koiuance 'twixt the Leal and the published h.v Thomas Y.

Croweil Company. New York. It skims science ami Psychology in many European climes pleasantly and has a distinct matrimonial "Sesame and Lilies," John cliires on "Kings' Treasuries. Euskin's quaint "Queens' Car dens' bv Nud ami "The Mystery I'. I'ntiiam's Sous ets Series.

ol' Info," is published the Knickerbocker The French type of industrious idleness in a life of luxury, or worse, is exemplified, together with oi' its redeeming features and eharac t' i in a handsomely printed edition of Liulo vic ll. icvy's "Abbe by Maud, Me Naliy Company, Chicago, further illustrated by rather weak photogravures, from pholograv of Madame Lemairo's characteristically Erem drawings. "Love by Induction," and several other plays, lor private acting, by Eorbes ileermans, author of "Third: Stories of tin: Far West," ''The Mind Healer," are published ill pamphlet by the DeWitt Publishing House, New York. visoe, Ulakcmau A New York, publish "The Conversation Method for Speaking, Heading and U'riting icrman," by Edw.uvi (Jastincaii, A. author of a similar manual for Trench and principal of tin: Conversation School in New York.

II in intended equally for private study and use in schools. Its pronunciation is based upon Webster. Mr. Thomas G. Shearman offers a prize ol'St 'oO I'm' tic best prize essay, of ,000 words at tiie out ide, on State and ioeal taxation of personal property in this country.

It must answer the inquiries issued by Professor llichiird T. Ely, of the American Economic Association, iialtimoro. The time given is up to December 1., llu rpfi 's llV e.Wi will close the year with "Life at an Indian Agency," by ii. E. Zogbaum, both text and illustrations, and a story by M.

G. McClelland, of the Southern school of current literature, entitled "That Wagon of Ours." Ynumj 'eoptc has a story of Nora Perry's, "A New Year's Call:" some verses by Derrick Dodd describing a call upon Mayor Grant, and the. tirst of a series of papers by William Hamilton Gibson on natural history, "The Cocoon Harvest," illustrated by the writer. The articles arc for city dwellers as well as for rural strollers. The Jinzur begins the "new year witii a tci'ial story by Walter JJesaiit.

The December Xcw h'miliittil Mariizini' makes good use of its best hold, as the hoys say, in the description and illustration of New England, and tiedt of Virginia, though it wanders ineffectually when it accords the frontispiece place to the overrated and raged over "Augelus," or illustrates Mr. Scollard's somewhat hackneyed rhymes wilii a bad and badly foreshortened view of Cologne Cathedral. "Christmas in Boston" is admirable where the old conies in, and sometimes the new in architecture. Tho John Brown war song paper is not untimely as a piece of history, on In principle of "hear the other side," though as anything else than history there is now no use for its sentiment W. Blackburn Harte writes of literary life in Canada.

The Boston Handel and Haydn Society is sketched. Professor Hosui' r's "Haunted Bell" continues. "Guilford, is the subject of another article, racy of the soil, with rich village scenery and good likenesses of Lyman Beecher and liev. Dudley Field. Edwin I).

Mead's of Washington" is an interesting paper, descrip The Fate of the Bustle is Irrevocably Sealed. This Year's Debutantes Will Appear Without tho Monstrosity Materials for Evening Wear A Peep Into the Jewelers'. Nevor in the history of fashion was woman's dress more beautiful than now. There may havo been times, and wo know there have been, when it was more elaborate, when it took more material and more time to completo a costume, in tho time of skirts and overskirts, loaded with heavy drapery; when shirrinffs and ruffles, bands, folds and putt's were in voruo, but thero has never been before the freedom, tho woar what yon pleaso fashion, so lone as it is jaunty, graceful and becoming. It looks as if the artistic had stepped in and stopped in to stay.

It is tho ago of simplicity in dress, straight lines and simple folds, but materials are fine enough in toxturo and design to make up. Debutantes cannot find costumes original enough to suit their varying fancies. Old magazines are studiod, illustrated editions of novels which portray certain epochs are oagorly searched in the hopo of finding something more unique, more peculiar than tho last new robe. Every dance is a fancy costume ball. Drosses that wore essayed only ou the stage, as fitting tho particular time or place this season will grace private 'parlors and small dinner parties.

"All the world's a stage" for tho display of dross of every age, every country. Old English waists mingle with tho Chinese kiwino, Turkish fixings with Parisian dainties. The basque still exists, but not tho basque of a short time ago, which, fit as it might, was nevor anything very artistic or beautiful, chopped oil at the hips or just above, as fashion decriei its length should be. Tho latest bodice arrange ments have some quirk, some tying of ribbon, brought from side seams to front point with pretty silver clasp or knot, or ribbon sash caught up in front its full width, to give etfect of girdle, then tied behind just one side of back bodice points in a graceful bow; or it may bo thero are two bauds of ribbon round waist, tied in two bows on right side with lower one ending in gathered point and dagger. The styles are countless.

There have boon all kinds of fashions from time to time, but none that combined the gracoful with the simple and comfortable so thoroughly as tho change which has been going on of late. Tho river of fashion flows on and on, sometimes with current swift and steady, sometimes so slow and sluggish it hardly seems to move at all. The bustle held Us own for a long time and though there were those who shook their heads, as if a dress without a bustle were a monstrosity, still it has almost entirely disappeared, and now with the closely fitting garments, following tho outline of the human body, than which there can bo nothing more beautiful, thero are many of us, who fee! that the bustle was the monstrosity. The dressmakers were so accustomed to it, they used to tell us wo had a hollow in the back (as if that were a deformity) which didn't look well, so a hump was put there instead and fashion said for a long time that it did look well. But woman's innate taste aiut better judgment came to the rescue and this Winter's debutante will appear in tho whirl of gay revelry just as she is, her own dear self, with no shams, no artificial delusions.

Our young girls aro beautiful creatures. The American girl may fade earlier than her British cousin, but in her brightness and vivacity, her grace and peculiar style, sho is a creature we all love, nay, almost worship. The Winter's season would lose much of its charm without the season's debutantes. Society matrons give balls and parties for those fair daughters. Luncheons and dinners, receptions and teas fill eacii day's programme.

From now till the middle of February the social wheel turns round and round to the tune of gay music and lively sports. Crepe de chine, silk muslin, waitings, gauze; beu'dalinc, surah striped with lace, insertion, brocaded and foulard silks are materials for evening wear. In a display of these goods by tho many firms it is hard to tell which to select, all are so pretty, so suitable for the purpose. Tho brocades or pompadours have designs like tho old fashioned, indistinct ones of our grandmothers. The favorite patterns have dead white grounds, with bniiqiieti of (lowers.

Embroidered China crape is one of tiie most expensive of evening materials, so it lias been imitated by stamped muslin. It is generally better taste, however, to wear a cheaper article than an imitation, though some of these are quaint and dainty, as was the dress of a damsel at a recent ball, the design of which was blue and ripe ears of corn, the light drapery being looped up carelessly on one side a blue sash. Crepe do chine is found embroidered in soft silks. This is favorite materia: for drapery, made up over a silk skirt, th chief colors being blue, yellow, mauve, dove and pale green. It can be bought for a yard, twenty four inches wide, pure silk quality.

When embroidered materia' is used the embroidery goes round bottom and round low bodice, forming, also, shoulder strap. The skirt is very slightly authored at waist, the embroidered crepe de chine being caught up over silk underskirt. i Such a dress has much the appearance of those worn by the Greek women of Alma Tadema's pictures. When surah, with lace insertion, is used the skirt and bodice are finely plaited, sur i plice fashion. Three rows of black (ace insertion are also often used with other materials, black i being used with all colors this Winter.

Three rows are also carried across bodice, mid lace in sertion is carried spiral fashion over plain sleeve. I All these thin materials are used with under slip ol' thin silk, either black or same color as dress. One dress exhibited was a combination of deep yellow, plain silk ami yellow pompadour, the front being of the plain, slightly plaited at waist. Side panels were of the figured, richly ornamented with leaf tracery and heads. The train was finished with yellow ostrich tips round entire circuit, as was also corsage, cut shaped front, high in hack.

Another was of black bengaline over yellow, drapery so arranged that the front showed deeper than the sides. The distinctive features of this dress were tho black velvet jacket pieces, fitting into shoulder and arm somewhat likp a zouave, extending only half way down the waist, a trifle below bust line, finished with yellow silk drop trimming. Corsage was finished with heavy yellow silk cord round bottom, which hung in loops from pointed front. Bodice high, with long sleeves of black over yellow, somewhat full and Blithered at wrist into a baud of black velvet. Two dresses for debutantes were of liuht blue cashmere and light pink, skirts of which were very simple.

The light blue was made picturesque by a bodice of velvet and beads, a shade darker, over a full guimpo of the material, shirred low at neck. The pink had a waist bodice of same material as skirt, trimmed with a silver hand, which was worn over a guimpe of pink tulle. spray of pink blossoms and green leaves, tastefully arranged, hung down tho skirt, which was quite full, being shirred from live to six inches below waist. A white evening dress had trimmings of white ostrich feathers and Polish sleeves lined with silk. A erepe de chine embroidered with white silk was quite as beautiful as any.

The bodice was cut low, heart shaped front and back. The skirt was plaited behind and plain in front. A scarf of gold otamine. draped across bodice, fell over skirt on left side, while the tiny sleeves were covered with white daisies having gold centers. Among tho imported ball dresses was a silver gray peau de soie, with square cut train, bordered with silver gray fur on which were placed at intervals bunches of violets.

'The sirle panels in this dress are a continuation of bodice and aro trimmed with passementerie. Tho uudcrdress of pink crepe de chine shows tho whole length, from bust to feet, being caught up at bottom with flowers. Otherprettydiosses for young ladies are of silver and white tulle overwhite silk and dainty colored tulle over the same shade of silk. Some of these tulles are spangled with beads, tho front, of bodico being closely studded with beads at waist. Tho bodice is simple in these dresses, often fastened on shoulder with knot of ribbon, cut rounding or heart, shaped and ending with waistline.

The favorite materials for dinner dresses is poau do soie, one being seen in idle green, adorned with head passementerie to match, with side panels handsomely beaded; another was of a tricot pcau de soie, with fiymrna embroidery in gold and many colored silks. Tho embroidery forms a over bodice, also is used round skirt bottom. Nothing can take tho place, with many, of rich black silk and jet. An expensive dress of this has a princess front Blushed way up to tho waist Mark Twain's Drive at Fifth Century Nonsense and Cruelty. Yankee Views of Man's Inhumanity to Man.

Lumholtz Campins: With Cannibals Sleilg in in Itiissiu ami Other Travels, Arctic and Tropical Magazines. Mark Twain, in his "Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur" Court," Charles L. Webster New York, has out, tone himself. Mr. ami tin: rest in the queer type of wit, or humor, or fun which is America's criticism upon Old World absurdities, and for that matter upon her own absurdities ami injustices as well.

In "The Innocents Abroad" Mr. Clemens merely brought the Nineteenth Oenturj to bear tentatively, as it were, against the Aires of Faith and their legacy to modern Europe of prescription and privilege in social, religious and lesthetio opinion. But in violently knocking the tviiical Conneeticut Yankee, the sum of all the mechanical talents ami of Ameiican improved ideas of living, out of Ids own century back into the I'it'th. ami the supposed state of barbarous luxury winch prevailed in Artlmr's dominie'is, and the more barbarous oppression dt' what the Yankee persists in considering the people there, merely because they have numbers on their side iu tins daring conception A i v. has little precedent, ami is forced In make up for its violent incongruity by a rollicking deluge of improbabilities and by absurdities as great as the supposed lusforie ones satirized by him.

His ta. is cv. harder to commend t. toe reader than Mr. Id Haniy's in his picture Lit' life a hundred years hence, in "Looking Backward." mueli harder tliau the one Clemens himself disehare.es to admirably in "I'riiice ami j'.

inner," where he keeps his rha rae tei tu lie i own age, merely transposing their roles and environments. In Prince and Pauper" he needs not to force the fun: hardly ma use of humor at all, in fact, lint "A C.miicvtieut Yankee in Arthur's Court is an extravaganza from the start, though an vxtravn jaiiza in which a vast deal of human nature and human destiny are involved. evolution of the race's condition of life which has taken piaee sine the Knights of the liilltllll Table the local govern men in the llntaiu of kin Arthur is not allowed by Sir. Clemens to in the background; and iocs ant jokes are let olV he expense of tin; Hint: and his kni ami the whole system by which th.it par! of the 11 i.mlat ioa which wore iron collars and the portion above them which figured the freemen ol' that day. but would he eon idered slaves now.

were kepi in place Tue es kes atu alteniat' 1 others on tile impr nv.l state of society 'oniieetieut Yankee is Hit) to na t'j i behind in America wileil hi fellow or understr.ipp at ihet'olt, li ll in a iiisundoruan.liiii,' with eroiv rs. sent him one rn in ra veidig tow or. I tin: beddming of th Christian era. The lords of labor in this day and country come in for not a few tls Well t't 1 H'ds oi I and tie serfs in the fifth "enturv. Indued it is not always ay to determine the author is msiiily driving at, a hook wlii di wdi sel: on ihe mere stri ndth of its uproarious preposicrousncss of fun and trav, sty or on in uhieh he would cioeily unpack his ic sri of its accumulated iu ii at tie: wiln of most men to lie ridden by i.

noiilesaud priesis and the will i i of this comparative minority to do the ri If tie' latter lie hi; design here is Bom. what too ne ol tin: didactic and the laboia imported into cxci ntioti as well i. too little ivcogni' ioe. ar tie' sane tit perhaps, of traits in the ait" prtm ii id' rellrct, 1 upon liy him which challenge ice. or hi ail time and without which i'lne'Iand il ii i given its so nuieh of I'.

nl tioiiiiiiy in our pr tit civiM'tiiti m. to rsoi tie sham with wiiv'i she Ctl't nds ihe rl'l to lav II in history. show how in is ied by its l. el' l's tie rOllri.e" to his Yank, at tie In a i of King ad liiini tration. un ler the at American divine right title of boss.

A bo iiow. ver. th" Yankee is not suffered to am 'iior: tc things 'itiiuiousty, but is fov, ealef such opinion as the time h.v going in search of a.i turcs in a of hardware called armor, ma him i to till against imr; of lii" k. who as the pcr: 1 in 'd' Holy Uraii aie no, ruth eh a rae'e rize.b and who i to nl to fetch them l. a.

k. ale tie hiii our polar research to day. Mr. Clemen does not intimate what stib th'tle he wottl 1 for i i i i kind ii iVi a in mi ii fXi Wei'. it p'i.

ii'h tear such faitii and the e. e.imin i i'out hist ore, as he ha. his hero i of i' i i and sec to making Inn of an i ari; Ami here is where. Mr. C'I iik ns is pot o'.

rhaps. a In: i.s funny, ami fin rms at hueian l.ia,: and tnoym 1. it easje to lii'iim' things and smie iuto i nam than i1 i toetiuses alike of and of the ami mpr io tii ou. (Jr crude an 1 cr i e. There are umpics tmuably as u.

1 i Mr. Clemens to throw don and In skillfully makes these the foal birds the fil'ili and of tin! I 'mdnry at Ofeodr tie no in the th ay; of tr for any the of probability a id V. rm: ami hi seji. ol in in i He dd.i. i ua it th ir wonder stor; 'l ie iiim e'd Vankee, witli ail lin I hlai.ewhandind vd at the exp of the too much I li vin 's an tu oiile.

ami ail his dem in of the ce mnioti rd. e. to: 1 1 1' a i OV 1 ele. tri Ity. pow r.

dvnatni: and much evm tl.in mo. i but th" tt ok iip" railway, I widi id" most fairyliii the aim I withadeinan 1 for id k. in f.i"t. from the ader iviih'ii has rate 1'. roan, the entire i.

i Pi r. ach i ven i the i.nm cr rati try of ieim um wa.fire lit ou tlm miotis. of lirileriiil iaiiorauce, di. eomfoit and 1 de Th" author is hippy in tip a isla of Mr. aid.

who I'er'iiityof fun anlfaueyaul wh.i drawind not el iom relieve la text with ii 'iin ion whoa it midhi otlierwise be loiiii ia trill iii.i lerl tn its hum)." 1 or ponderous in the in.liamoit denuin iai ion, whi. li eclils sonie tiuie ri to dio'ee in to vary the. fun. I Attstrnlia. A worthy com at ni ei 1, oolt to tic 'd A an by the famous traveler an! apiarian.

iiaillu, is that on avai: doi traihi. by a born He andiiiavian philosuph. and vnya Car! Lninholiz. i ntitle i aunibais." Like tin former world it is Irimi the press of Cliarh eribner's Son. Xew 'fork, a nd is witli i a imiiar wealth of in int 'tive iliiisti'.

'dioi. Ills' an account of four y. ar. of travel in lan'l, Korlh elm An in hi i i) the a utnor camped with tie I'rcif. or l.umholtz is a member of lie Koval Society of Sinences of Nor way, an i in I sso s.

out for Australia to make collections for ihe lmtseuni: of tie of Christiania ami hes into tin: mode of life ff Aii'tralian lie nivi the results of I his oliservat i on i in and vm, irons style, ineludind his aeiiuaiiitiuiee with tl auuihal 1 isiu which he was a witnes, but not the victim of. The book has b. en a juatejy tran lated by lias jyiis II. iate oil Stab inistcr to Denmark. It is i'n 1 ii i I to that honorary 1 Scandinavian, as ho may be called, the author of the "Vikind Th" siohof mfe i es to th.e unsatiKf'actijry outcome in nme of hi as in bis trip int iislaml with results not adeipiate iii liani His, andm.

en in those in Northern biud, wh i dodi'ad nutives did not in tie end to himseli' fin; th: it. ven 1 1 1 by him on I he s. ore of th ir cruel tn atliieid by odtlers. JSui hi adventures are ipi.te as itit' r. when the results are barren to him a.

lmn I le are more fruitful Many of tin 'noes p. el are yet in the stone am of liiiie in ihe Australia iih before vi iP by travelers have generally been the more need southern trib lent am! iu'e jily Pe 'i riiJive illustrations of the wos'k Ii: and French art jsf and taken from author's original photo i pe, 'ihe an' nor la at in South Aus I jia. a mi. ra lim: inroiieh anlN'ew Soi'th Wsa di is en ib ed togive hi iuiprcs i if do ''iviidadm before plunging into barb.ir. dll.

The s'ni ini.d cities of Adelaide, the Pacific slope upon agriculture and State de velopment, "Hare Forms of Orchids" shows several varieties in illustration, as does the paper "Palm Trees and Their Uses" some magniticent examples. "Birds with Teeth," by Otto Meyer, is also illustrated. Warren G. Benton writes on "The Taouist Jleligion," a Chinese creed which chiefly fights devils. The products of sea weed are described by Professor C.

M. Straluin in "A Harvest from the Ocean." Miss M. A. Eieldo contributes "The Chinese Idea of Evolution:" Pro fessor A. S.

Packard "The Effect of Cave Lite on Animals;" the editor, a review of Tolstoi's Confession," "The Land Question," "Tho Twentieth Birthday of Nature," etc. There is also a sketch of tho pioneer American ornithologist, Alexander Wilson, with a portrait. In the January XiclioUm Harriet Prescott Spofl'ord writes a Yule log song; Nora Perry, May Bartlett's (1. V. Lummis, A Legend of New Mexico in the Fifteenth Century," which is beautifully illustrated; C.

G.D. Roberts. "Tracked by a Panther," which stealthyjbeast is shot at the camp lire: Elia W. Beattie, "Bertha's Malcolm Douglas, some Christmas lines, "In the Mabel L. Todd, A Well Filled Katharine Pyle some verses on January, winch niiiKe one shiver with their Wintry embellishment; the litor, a sketch of the late Helen Thayer Huteheson, several of whoso remarkable poetical pieces are also given; Edmund Alton, The Routine of the Republic;" W.

T. Bull, "The Drop Kick," which momentous athletic performance is adequately illustrated: Walter Camp other kick ing achievements in his third paper upon too; ball; Grace F. Coolidgo some lines called "Christ mas on Hie Polly:" William O. Stoddard the lively story "Crowded out o' Crowtield;" J. 0.

Davidson "Pilot Boat Torching by Night:" Anna E. King "An Ostrich Ranch in the United States," liuely illustrated: Julio M. Lippmann "A New Fashioned Christmas;" Helen P. Strong "The Little Buttonwood Man," and other contributors other things in prose and verse. ntest E'ltbliciUioiltta Oli.lXOE Judp Co.

New Yorl; January American Gixn it Boston. Enunciation and Hon. Ella M. Boyce. Jennkss JMllek Magazine, New York.

Artictila January Aumoer. AitRNA PunusiuN'o Boston. January Arena. Ckxti'uy New York. January St.

Nicholas. D. Aitletox A New York. Popular Science Monthly. Foitfji New York.

January Forum. Hati'I! New York. Mostly Fools. Guy Hampden. Maoazini: or A Histohv, New York.

January Number. New Enoland Mauazixz Boston. January Magazine. TuouNii Chicago. December Statesman.

Hahi eu BuoTnKiis, New York. Prince For tiinalns. William Black. CitAiti.Es SottinxEit's So.vs, Niw York. Scribner'u Magazine for 18HP.

Ceuuent LiTEitATUiti New York. January Number. Delta Ei'silom Quautkiilx. New Y'ork. Christmas Number.

Funk Waunali.s, Now York. Ilomiletic Review. W. II. BuiiiiAN'K, Brunswick, Me.

American Amateur Photographer. A.vpKiisoN it Gillette, New York. Souvenir of Brooklyn. Aliiany Book Albany An Experiment in Marriage. Charles J.

Bellamy. F. T. Nf.ei.v. Chicago.

Looking Forward. Alice B. Siockhaji, Chicago. The January Kindergarten. The Home Skekeii, Brooklyn.

December Number. Nonni Amkiucax Review, New York. January Number. MEN ARK GROWING TALLER. iitiiiciiceK WiiicSi Tend to Elongation of the li It no Spiia.l 'o1iiiim.

Mr. Edward Atkinson, of Boston, finds time while conducting an extensive business to collect information on a great variety of subjects. Ho has lately ascertained, by means of circulars addressed to leading tailors, the makers of ready made clothing and Ihe manufacturers of underclothes, that the men of this country are growing taller decade by decade. He thinks that we shall eventually become, a nation of giants. As yet he has elaborated no theory to account for this steady increase in height.

Some physiologists, however, have suggested that it is due to the large consumption of meat in this country. They state that people who, like the, Chinese and Hindoos, subsist almost entirely on grain and fruit, arc invariably shoi" in stature, while ilesh like the North American Indians, aro generally quite tall. II is likely that diet may have something to in influencing the height that men attain. But it is obvious that there are other causes that exert a much greater influence. There are a great many inducements held out in this country for men to become tall.

Nearly every boy desires to gain admission to the. military or naval academy, and each learns as soon a i he can read that it is necessary to reach a certain standard of hoighc in order to be eligible. Men must also stand a certain number of feet and inches in their stockings before they can attain positions ou the police force in most cities. As premiums are. offered forbeeomingtall.it is by no moans wonderful that men and boys should seek to add to their I nre by taking thought or taking anything that will produce the desired result.

The introduction of the three story and man. sard roof bonnet, with a roost for birds or a vase of Mowers on tin; ridgepole, lias been a most important agent in elongating tho spinal column of men. The man who invests in tickets for the purpose of taking his best girl to the theater linds that he can see nothing on the stage unless ho happens to be very tall. In the ease of spectacular productions this is specially aggravating. As a consequence men who attend theaters and operas make use of every means that will enable (hem to become tail.

In some fashionahlo churches the male worshiper of medium height has no opportunity to see the minister or tho pretty soprano singer. The Tower of Babel bonnets, surmounted by fowls of the air r.nd lilies of the. Held, entirely obstruct his view. The street car also exerts great iiifluenco in causing men to become tall. They generally give the seats to the woman and aro obliged to stand during the entire trip.

As soon as a boy is years old his endeavors to reach the strap attached to the top rail commence. He perseveres in his attempt until ho succeeds in accomplishing the diliicuit feat, lie learu.x to stretch his body out in tho same way that, an earthworm does in order reach a certain place. After ha has availed himself of all his powers of self elongation agencies that are not voluntary aro brought to work on his body. Side pressure is made to bear on it as it is on a bar of iron that is to be drawn out into wire. It also receives numerous blows every time tho car wheels pass over an obstruction, and these produce the same on his body that the blows of a hammer do on a piece of soft iron.

Wilrwo Times. About a year ago William Day, tho champion, ran his tirst race. It was at the Twelfth Regiment games, and the event was a milo handicap run, in which be finished third. Since then he has accomplished wonders and is to day nrobably the fastest amateur distance runner in fne world. a princess dress of heavy cream white faille fran caise, full train, low corsage and short sleeves.

Tho front and one side of dress were richly embroidered with pearls, as was also corsage. A vail of point duchess and d'alcncon was caught to tho coiffure. Her jewels were diamonds and pearls; her flowers were white orchids and white violets. The bridesmaids wore white broadcloth, trimmed with white fox fur, large brimmed white felt hats, trimmed with white ostrich plumes and corsage bouquets of red holly berries and green loaves. They carried white fox muff's, which wore exchanged after ceremony for bouquets of bride roses and Roman hyacinths.

Imag ino a prettier sight, if you can. or lnoro effective costumes, the red and green of the holly showing clear against the white soft background, while the big hats and fleecy fur made a fine setting to bright eyes and rosy cheeks. A peep mica the jeweler's is not out of place to see what these dames and lassies are spending for ornaments to go with these fancy toilets. Verily, this is an age of luxury. No want or fancied want, no whim or caprice is left ungratilled by our manufacturers.

Skillful designers aro constantly at work turning out eome shape or stylo of Jewelry. We hear a good deal about sending diamonds to be reset, but now, as hitherto, tho best setting for diamonds is to show as littlo gold as possible. The brooch of to day is round or nearly so; is a short pin, a cluster of flowers, a single flower or a group. The bar pin is out, to ubc the language of the store man. Tho pansy is yet seen, so is thechyrsanthemuin, but above and beyond all the orchid is favored.

Ouo's eyes could hardly believo that these pins wore not tho real flowers, so true the coloring, so accurate tho design, so line tho workmanship. In one shown the stem was of diamonds, in another a diamond was partly hidden under a petal or, may be. capped the stamen, standing out from the center of tho flower. These pins can be had from np t(0. No wonder that out of twenty live sent to the exposition twenty were sold and a large order given for others.

Another novelty is tho double and single heart, sometimes being a solid heart, sometimes, only the rim of one. A Binall neat heart rim sells for making a pretty inexpensive gift. Tho double hearts are finished with a coronet of pearls or diamonds, selling A dainty design was a moonstone heart, swinging free inside a heart of small enameled forget me nots. This at $'J7 seemed reasonable. These heart pins were in every design, one being a heart studded solid with diamonds, swinging inside a heart rim ot small diamonds, another being a double heart of moonstones.

Miniature pins are also in style, taken from those of the Ninth Century, painted on ivory. These are set in rims of line gold, with or without stones, carved or plain, selling from toftiOO. Tho latest ring is tho marquiso stj'le, very large, so much so that I asked the gentleman if he would measure one that looked more like a man's on account of its size, By actual measurement it was 1 inches long and wide. This one had three large diamonds lengthwise in the middle, completely surrounded by smaller diamonds. I counted in one not as large, twenty small stones.

Sometimes the stones in the center are turquoise, sometimes emeralds, rubies or moonstones. Beside the marquise tho plain, simple band of small stones is in style. The seal ring is again coming into favor. A novelty in tho ring is a reversible one a little locket, made to conceal a lock of hair or a miniature that can be turned in the gold baud, showing side, which is set differently, one side of this having a large stone with hand enamel surroundings, the other several smaller stones. This little caso opened and Bhut at pleasure.

A simple neetdaco of diamonds was shown of live fine gold chains falling successively in front of throat, set at intervals with diamonds, the diamonds growing larger in each lower chain. These chains were fastened to throat chain with fine gold flowers. Tho diamonds were set like stars, making a light necklace for a young girl, with low bodice, costing A briolet had pendants of pear shaped diamonds attached to gold filagree, which in turn was fastened to band of small enameled flowers with diamond in center of each, the middle pendants being the largest, gradually slanting. This cost $1,400. As odd a trifle as could bo found for my lady's hair was a bow knot of gold laee work, the entire edges being finished with small diamonds with larger ones or small clusters here and there.

This was worth $275. Another hair ornamont was a double rose sapphire set inside bow loops of gold set with diamonds. These hair ornaments arc fastened securely to hair pins. Tho combs also had tops of gold lace work of different shapes edged with diamonds, American pearls and colored diamonds are much used. There is no end to these' trifles.

A lady who wished to bo original in her attire might fasten some of these beautiful tinted orehids down the side panels of her ball dress. Women are quick to take suggestions which will improve their looks, and many such were found at the expositiou. It was a grand chance to study peculiarities and style. Man) pn'iuts have been taken from the Spanish, perhaps because, hitherto, their dress has not been much copied, or else becau se having deviated quite a little from the prosaic, we are willing to go still further. The Spanish girl's dress has always savored of the romantic; these are some of the new terms coined from the big fair: Eiffel red, a dull red, a union of terra cotta and old rose, supposed to resemble shade of tower.

Dome Central, a pale blue from color of that building. Manola, a bright, orange 3'cllow. Torreros, a vivid red. Bolero, a Spanish hat, which is the furour, made of black or colored felt, trimmed with pompous. Black velvet bolero, with one large silk manola pompon and one black, is quite the thing.

Torreros cap of gold and silk is tho opera coiffure. Feather boa takes the plaeo of fur for evening, being a necklet of ostrich feathers, rose colored, ciei blue, pale gold, with a tiny speck of black at tho tip of each feather. A. H. W.

NtK'TUUXK. Trees and the menace of night; 'Then the long, lonely, leaden mere Backed by the desolae fell As by a spectral battlement; and then Low brooding, impenetrating all, A vast, gray, listless, inoxpressive sky Where no live star can havo so much as Bhot Since life and death were one. Hist In the trees full of night Is it the hurry of the rain? Or a noise of a drive of the dead Streaming before the irresistible Will Through the strange dusk of this the dobatablo laud Between their place and oura? Like, tho forgetfulness Of the workaday world made visible, A mist falls from tho melancholy sky. A messenger from some lost and loving soul, Hopeless, wide wandering, bowildered Here in the provinces of life, A great white moth fades miserably by. Thro' the trees in the strange dead night, Under tho vast deail sky, Forgetting and forgot, a stream of ghosts Sets in the ystic more, the phantom fell, And tho dinx, infinite silences beyond.

William AViest Henleu, In Scot's Observer, ing instructor to the club. A handsome offer was made the old champion to mako his home in sunny California. The pigeon shooters at Tuxedo Park aro hav ing rare sport these bright days under the lead ership of Pierre Loriilurd, who is almost as fine a shot as his popular father. A shooting tourney is held almost every day. While Skip, the race horse, was being exercised ou the Guttenburg track he ran against a tree and was so badly iujurcd that it was necessary to shoot him.

He was worth $1,500. Tho evidence taken by the English Royal Commission with regard to hereditary diseases or malformations has resulted in the following imperfections being deemed sufficient for disqualification: Roaring, whistling, ringbone, unsound feet, navicular disease, spavin and cataract. Curbs are not included. It is being mooted round in certain quarters that McLaughlin and Mr. Lorillard will not hitch very well together in their prospective positions of trainer and owner during the coming season.

Two young Australian cyclists, George W. Burstou and II. R. Stokes, of Melbourne, have just completed a twelve months' journey on their machines. One good result of the agreement between the three jockey clubs in New Jersey which make a specialty of Winter racing is a joint decision to recognize each other's rulings in regard to weights, fines, suspensions and other matters of detail.

A turfman has made a good suggestion that the secretaries of the Jockey clubs would do well to consider. He suggests that the big Spring handicaps would bo intensely interesting if they added $2,000 or $1,000 to the trainer of the winner and $500 or $300 to the jockey riding tho winner. William II. llaynor, who recently won tho pool championship of the New York Athletic Club, lias been playing pool and billiards for about twelve years. He is very tall and scarcely ever uses i bridge.

A meeting will be held on Monda.v, January at the Golden Eagle Hotel, this city, by the representatives of the Carroll Park, W. Volunteer, Kings County and Golden Eagle clubs, to perfect arrangements for the tournament which Charles Seulel intends opening. After business hours recently a number of gentlemen of Denver started for a short Sunday shoot and returned' with 238 jack rabbits, 1 08 ducks, also Eeveriil geese and brant, and they were satisfied before sundown at that. A rumor has been going tho rounds in the New York Athletic Club that there was some probability of selling their present club house on Fifty tifth street and Sixth avenue to the Young Men's Christian Association and putting up a new building on Fifth avenue. Whenever a jockey acquires prominence by his abilities in the saddle there are always a number of theoretical bettors who make a practice of persistently backing his mounts, just as other people back certain horses or the entries made by certain stables.

The St. Louis Jockey Club adopted a rule that hereafter no races for 3 year olds and upward will be at less distn nee than a mile, and distances ill the loading stakes have been lengthened. The Washington Park Club, of Chicago, announces $110,000 in stakes and purses for next season's racing. This is the largest amount offered iu the West and will illustrate the progress of racing there. Frank Mcliugh, the clever bantam weight of Cincinnati, who is matched to fight Mike Nolan, says if he succeeds iu winning this light ho will challenge Cal McCarthy to fight for the ZI4 pound championship.

At a recent wrestling match, in which tho eon. testants were Bert Walker and Frank Trickier, the latter threw Walker on his head with terrific force and for live minutes Walker was apparently dead. Trickier was put under arrest, but his opponent fiually regained consciousness and ho was released. Fitzwilliams, tho Hercules and cannon ball juggler of Cincinnati, says he "will back Hattie Leslie, the champion female pugilist, to wrestle any female wrestler at Gra 'co ltoman style. Miss Leslie has given up pugilism and has sought the more refined calling of wrestling.

I will back her to throw any other female wrestler four times in an hour." If Jack Dempsey defeats tho Australian, Professor McCarthy, ho will bo matched against Young Mitchell and the winner of that contest will bo put against Georgo La Blanche. A club composed of Boston sportsmen has purchased a large tract of land in the vicinity of what is known as tho Big Lake, which is situated in the northeastern part of Arkansas. Philo Jacoby, tho famous rille shot of San Francisco, in company with three or four members of tho California Schuotzeu Club, will leave in May next for Germany. Mr. Jacoby and his team will participate in a great shooting festival which will bo held in Berlin in July and which will continue for three weeks.

The California representative marksmen will also take part iu tho big shooting tournamunt to bo held iu Switzerland immediately after the Berlin Bhoot. F. C. Masou, superintendent of tho Telegraph Bureau of tho Brooklyn Police Department, playa a strong game of billiards. Cushion carroms is his style and he is considered tho best player in the department.

Sun. Representatives of the Rockaw.ay hunt, the Meadowbrook, tho Huntington, the Country Club of Westchester and the Essex County Club held a meeting recently at which steps were taken for tho formation of an organization modelod on the plan of tho National Pony aud Galloway Racing Association of England. The Crescent Athletic Club has much work for next Spring. Tho work of getting tho foot ball and base ball field in order has already begun. Catcher Reynolds, of the Brooklyn Club, was a successful schoolmaster in Eastern Indiana be foro bo entered the professional base ball ranks.

The enormous losses which Harris Cohen, clothing dealer, of Baxter and White streets, Now York, sustained on the track havo caused his failure. He has kept his Btore for twenty nine years, and claimed to be the origiual Harris Cohen, of Baxter street. John L. Sullivan says positively that he will not Audit Slavin or anybody else under London rules. He says such a light cannot be pullod off in this country.

Count Genistrolli, owner of the craok English filly Signorina, was rocontly asked by an agent of the Duke of Portland to put a price on his favorite. His reply was "Tell tho Duke of Portland that all tho ly.oney in the world would not buy her; he might as well ask mo to sell my wife." When Mr. Bonner saw his grand purchase, Snnol, go a quarter iu 31, a 2:05 gait, ho said ts Mr. Marvin, his trainer, "The day you beat Johuson'i 2 1 will band you ft 91,000 bill.".