Greencastle Star Press, Greencastle, Putnam County, 7 October 1893 — Page 7
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Important Discoveries at Cambridge College, England.
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PYTHON EGGS.
A Itlg Snake In Couneeticat l.aya Half ■
Ituahel of Kac*.
Perhaps about as curious a thing a? Dr. Knox ever had in the line of curiosities, says 'the Danbury (Conn.) News, is his African python snake, Ere, as she lies coiled about a halfbushel of eggs laid a few days ago. It is an event that ophiologists will be
interested in.
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Several Stories as to Why It I* Called th» ^tui Can Judge Charaeter by the Way
•* Curse of Scotland/* j Caeh Is Curried.
During the reign of Mary a man | if you want to know something named George Campbell entered Edin- ! about n man's charaeter, watch how ha burgh eastle for the purpose of steal- handles his money. The generous ing the queen's crown. In his effort, careless man carries his money loos* says tlie San Francisco Call, he was ( n his pocket—copper, silver and gold partially successful, in that he did se- all mixed up together -and when he is cure nine large and valuable diamonds going to pay for anything he takes out from the crown and made his escape n handful ami picks out tlie amount he
American shrewdness is well illus- from the country*. In order to restore requires, says tlie St. Louis 1‘ost-Di*-
The discovery was made one morn- trated in a real estate transaction that! these precious stones a tax, against patch. He seems to have no {ear of ing. For sometime Adam and Eve, occurred at a small town not many which a very general outcry was robbery, for he is of a trustful dispost two big African pythons, have been miles from Pittsburgh, says the Dis- raised, was laid on the people They tion, and, being perfectly honest himdomiciled in the big snake cage in patch of that city. On a capital of 75 characterized the tax the curse of Scot- self, thinks most others mast be like
the doctor’s hack office. The bottom cents a man possessed himself of $2*20,- land. him.
of the cage is covered by a deep* layer 000 worth of property. Six or seven j Another and perhaps still better rea- of course, he is often cheated and of dirt and gravel. Both these snakes months ago Mr. Blank met with some son grew out of the battle of Culloden. imposed upon, yet he never entirely have been in Dr. Knox’s possession a losses in business which cleaned out by which the hopes of the Stuarts were loses hie faith in his fellow creatures.
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BIO FOUR.
N m ^‘ A9T 8 a m '* ^ ,u ‘": bridge; hut Jesus chapel, in its own Going Wist—8:«a. m., 12:50p.m., 8:48p.m., way, is only less fine if lit first glance 12:30a.m. ROUTE muM seem less imposing, while in Going North M Yi:4o\. I m. ll |^5 p. m., 1:27 historical associations and significance
a. in.; local, 12:10 p. m. it is supreme.
Going South-2:55 p. m., 2:05 a. m., 5:17a.m.; Recently an aged fellow of the col-
lege, remembering that when masons
local, 1:55 p. m.
VANDALIA LINE. j
In effect May 22. 1893. Trains leave Greeneas-1 were putting a new coat of plaster on
the inner cloister forty years ago he ' had fancied he distinguished the spring of an arch partially concealed
tie, Ind.,
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FOK THE WEST.
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5, Ex. ^un.. . 1 s.'v, a. “ “ ’ in the old stone work, determined to 3, Ex. Sun . 5:2Hp. m., “ Terre Haute have the plaster pulled off. What he l: Ex. sun 3-00 P. m.: •• Dwatur. ’ llfts P n,veR to ° f . the m _? st for the east. important architectural discoveries No. 20, Daily 1:49 p. m., for Indianapolis, ma(le in England for many years. The el Daily!.”” ..! 3:36 a! m.’, " “ * arch, which had been just indicated in 12, Daily 2:24 a. in., “ " 1 the stonework, has turned out to be
2, Ex. Suu 6:20 p. m., 44 44
Pittsburgh Heal Ewtatr Tm» saotloo That Serves to lllustTate the Ea-
terprifilng Spirit of Some
Amerlrant.
Nowadays, in England, if old buildings are touched at all, it is too often with a view to their restorationword which in this case is a synonym for destruction. Therefore, when deliberate i ffort is made, not to give a new version of old work, but to free that old work from every modern encroachment, the event is one of no small interest to all who are concerned
with the history of the past, of no 1 .V'' ar ' have sometimes been on ex- what capital he had and left him with crushed, and was so called a national A fine nature is his—in fact, too flue to small importance to all who have made hil >ition. _ 75 cents in his pocket. He realized curse. The duke of Cumberland was cope with the many greedy, grasping
One evening Dr. Knox passed the that something had to be done. I lav- a great card player, and always hud mortals that flood the world. The cage several times, going to and from ing a place where he was always sure about him a deck of cards. W hen he man who. if he has to pay a few* pence, his front office. Every time he passed of accommodation lie wasted no time, had won the battle of Culloden he won’t even take the trouble of count* the cage the python snake hissed at hut on the very day he met his loss he drew from his pocket a card, and on i nfr ou t the amount of coppers, bnt him. He paid no attention to the began to look about to turn eomething its back he wrote a dispatch declaring throws down a piece of silver to be snake, and was more amused than up. the fall of the house of Stuart and his changed—and by tlie by ho rarely otherwise at the incident. Later in For a long time he had noticed a 283 great victory. The card happened to counts his change—is a type of “a fool the evening he locked up his office and acre tract of land adjoining a town of be the nine of diamonds. and ids money are soon parted.” I’eP* drove over to Brewster, where his fain- 5,000 inhabitants which he thought | Still another reason. Tlie infamous haps a love of display, almost insepa^ Uy is now stopping. When the doctor would make a great real estate invest- massacre of Glencoe was the work of able from such a chareter, has someopened his office the next day the ment. He went to the agents of the the eldest son of the earl of Stair, who thing to do with this, first thing he remembers doing was to estate and secured a ninety-day option signed the order for its consummation. \ careful man always carries a purse examine his snake collection. He on the place for $350. He didn’t have and was at that time secretary of an ,i keeps the gold, silver and copper looked in the cage and saw what ho the money, hut being well known in state. The family coat of arms was a in different compartments. A man like supposed were several new potatoes the neighborhood was given credit, shield on which was the nine spot of this never wastes ids money. He lying under the python snake. Eve. . He next engaged a surveyor, who laid diamonds. So the people called that values it us it ought to be valued, and, He opened the cage to remove them, the plat out in 1,000 lots and charged coat of arms which bore the diamond though not niggardly, is determined to Going close to the snake, it hissed at him $750 for his services. This, like- spots tlie‘‘curse of Scotland." have his money’s worth. He quite hehim. This made him pause. Then he wise, credit. lie thought it would be lieves tliat “any fool can make money, took a second look and was surprised a good idea to have a street railway A RELIGIOUS SIGN PAINTER. ; hut it takes a wise "" to keep it,” to see about one hundred snake eggs located, and as time was money in his ! : atl ,i he is right. under her. case he sticceeded in getting a charter So »“e Curious Combinations on Frurr* mean man never lets you sea Two of the eggs are on the writer’s through, being a friend of the governor r and Lead Wall*. what money helms. When he is go* desk as samples. They vary in size In those days. ! 1 he town of Attleboro is in a state ing to pay for anything he turns hla and are rather heavy. They are soft to lie next announced through silver- °* excitement relative to the action of back to you, clutches his money tight, the touch, oval in form, and ashy gray { tisements obtained on credit that he ^ oniu L,rillll< "'h 0 is painting on tlie an d,80 to say, draws it out of his hand, color. The smaller of the eggs is the desired to sell a number of lots at $250 fences and curbstones of the streets pi ac i n g the coins down one by one, for size and shape of a duck's. The larger each, conditionally; that is, no money sentences which tend to startle tlie be Is loth to part with tliem, even for one is no thicker, but about six incites was to be paid on the purchase until I nervous, says the Boston Herald, necessities. Such a man is not far relong. They were slightly speckled. ' he had broken ground for the location ^° r ^ 1 ^* l ' M street and tlie streets on m0 ved from a miser, who rarely carIt is said that the shell will become j of some manufactory employing not , e '"'"levaid have been decorated ries money about his person at all, unhard. I less than 200 men. When such a fac- w Hh such questions as these: ^ Are less it be sewn up in his clothes. Perhaps a snake laying eggs in cap- tory was started the buyers were to ynu ready for the bridegroom? ’ "Do. Remember, the man who jingles his tivity is not unusual, but the only case ; hand him half the purchase money. ^ ou ''j* 11 *^ f ri,m wrath to mone y j n ninety-nine cases out of a
a study of architecture. And this is exactly what is happening just now at Jesus college, Cambridge, says the New
York Nation.
The college, it will be remembered, was not an independant foundation, but sprang from the old nunnery of St. Radcgunde. The chief portion of the earlier buildings still remaining is tlie chapel. Its attraction to the modern tourist, no doubt, is found in the liurne-Jones windows, which, it may be noted in passing, a^e quite the finest examples of stained glass that artist has yet given us. But, to the architect and archaeologist, it is the church itself, with its nave and triangle and its beautiful early English piers and arches and arcades. Of j course, King's stands alone as the great architectural marvel of Cain-
called to the writer’s attention was | In eighteen days $85,000 worth of prop-j
when a python did a similar thing at erty was disposed of to some of the ' N'iW repent, fear God. the I’aris zoological garden in 1844. j most solid citizens of that town and) ^ lese sentences are done in black This serpent laid three dozen eggs. Pittsburgh, a great deal being sold in P f ^' ,t * t ' u ' letters are two or more She brooded op her eggs anil hawned j blocks. About this time the creditors inches in length
■Are you ready for Jesus?” hun( i rod hasn’t got much. A bunch of
keys and a few coppers make a good
deal of noise.
The owners of the i
“FATHER WINTER."
4 4, Ex. Sun 8:3*1 a. m.,
For complete Time Card, siving all trains-almost entirely set iree irom me wan i *— -— J’ *~ *--■—— . - - - - • n-v, ~ ...i ,.i„. and stations, and for full information as to i (lur j ng . lonp t . en t ur ics gradually built ‘ ono made its appearance <on the 2d of . to hasten a Consummation Ids jjlatM , i , T -’ 1 It clued upon a prominent manutac- 7-'“an omcer I* ienTt rt * lt * i'd-uin ( Iqpjjm original character in the penal
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J. S. DOWLING, Agent, .up about them. They belong to the Or J. M. Chksbrough, 0r< ‘ t ' ncaflUe ’ Ind ‘ ' purest period of the thirteenth cefltury, Asst. Gen. Pass. Agt., St. Louis, Ho. I good authorities affirming that they
“ [date back tooy thereabouts. The
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central shaft with bands.
The moldings and the carved foliage of the capitals are in the most wonderful state of preservation, and the stone is of almost dazzling whiteness—a whiteness to be attributed, perhaps, partly to whitewash and destined not long to survive exposure to the foggy*
ETC.. ETC.. | English atmosphere and the smoke of T LOWEST PH ICES, ,1 / Thanks to their chance
burial, the arches have escaped the restorer; indeed, they have been brought i to light at the best moment, now that I u few men, at least, begin to understand the folly of tampering with the
July.
Whether Dr. Knox’s collection of
pythons will be augmented or not by
the eggs Is a matter to be seen.
A ('hArartcr Who 1'ntll Rerently Ailomed t Freuch I e^wintlvi* lliilln.
roird to em-1 >ph c French chamber of deputies has
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moved is the time when the old piscina was discovered in the chapel; then the one idea was to restore it; now college dignitaries arc of another way of thinking. The arches form the doorway and near windows of the nuns’ chapter house. Its floor evidently was much below tlie level of the present cloister, but the necessary excavations have been made to the very base of tlie central door, so as to show the proportions of shafts and arches in their
original grace ami purity.
Nor will the floor be filled in again. The cloister here is. in term time, one of the very busy thoroughfares of Jesus; but for a little space it will be narrowed, in order that the effect of this beautiful bit of the old .-wruastlc building may be seen in all its loveliness and perfection. In the course of digging, the workmen came upon a fine stone coffin with sculptured top— the coffin of an early prioress—and this probably will be left lying exactly where it was found, turned to east and west, even though a part of it must remain hidden under so much of the pavement as utility refuses to sacrifice to arelneology. This discovery rightly has aroused great interest in Cam-
bridge.
A LESSON FROM LIFE.
A Magnetized Cane I sed by a Frugal Old
Man of IHttshurgh.
Sometimes the simple action of a man will indicate his character. One of Pittsburgh’s wealthiestold gentlemen, according to the Dispatch, was seen walking along the street the other day* pointing his cane upon some object upon the pavement every now and then. What “caught on” he raised and placed in his hand. He was collecting tiny nails that had fallen from merchandise boxes. He continued until he had gotten a handful. Then, picking up a piece of paper from the the pavement, lie wrapped up the nails carefully and pocketed the package. A bystander asked him what sort of a cane he had. “Oh,” he said, “it's nothing but a steel rod covered with leather." “It must be magnetized, for
The Paru<li«* of tLc TTyhrldlzrr and Nur •eryman. California has become the paradise of the rosarian, the seed-grower, the hybridizer and the nurseryman. The wild grape is used as a stock for wine and raising grapes and in some cases that I know of men have grafted Italian chesnuts upon one species of the native oaks, says a writer in the Century. All the hillsides of the tree region, when not too steep to plow nor too far above the sea level, will grow the fruits and varied horticultural products of Spain, Portugal, Italy and southern France. The pomegranate is a garden shrub in many districts and the almond is a roadside tree. The drooping', acacia-like leaves of the searlct-fruiWl pepper tree grow with magnolias, palms and cedars of Lebanon. Oranges grid lemons stand in many an orchard with apples and peaches. Among the notable plants of tiie state are many adopted species, such as the acacias and eucalyptuses of Australia and the bamboos and persimmons of Janan. When Americans came to California they were surprised at the variations that they observed in familiar plants. The elderberry, which is only slightly different from the elderberry* hush of the Atlantic slope, often becomes a tree of from two to four feet in diameter and thirty or forty feet high. This is merely a matter of local environment, rich soil and shelter; the same species is a mere shrub on the rocky hillsides of the coast range. The bronze-leaved ricinus, which makes a semi-tropic summer garden in front of many an Atlantic coast cottage, grows for j'ear after year in California, until a section of its stem a foot and a half in diameter can be obtained by any collector of vegetable curiosities. Geraniums, nasturtiums, tomatoes and many other plants, useful and otherwise, escape from cultivation, modify their habits of growth and soon become wild again. Many plants of Mexico, Peru, Chili, the Hawaiian islands, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa and the Mediterranean chores have already become dangerous weeds. The loquat, a choice fruit of Japan, is already* growing wild in some canyons where picnic parties have left the seeds. Apricots, peaches, cherries and English walnuts have been found in the forests—chance seedlings, growing with the madronas and manzanitas.
turer of Pittsburgh and made him a an ' 11,rin f? hiln before the court. ! of y L ae ‘•‘‘■sW, deputy for Brest, says proposition that if he would move his other hand, some of the the London Globe, if? lvai < ft works to this point he w-uld give him church people say that tlie one who honest fellow, and enjoyed the esteem so much ground and a cash bonus be- paints the religious warnings on tlie not only of ids colleagues of the left sides. ■ fences has as much right to do so as but also of his adversaries on the right AH this time the promoter had noth- i the 4 P at f nt tnedicine men have to ad- H e made himself celebrated by his ing but his 75 cents, and creditors were 1 vertlSl ‘ 111 u 81m,lar manner their pills everlasting fur coat, which he wore in
pressing him on every side. The man- j ufacturer refused to locate until he ,
rj,, fence in town
and bitters. One of the clothing all seasons, and which earned for itim
received a deed of the property.
houses in Boston had stenciled on a
“Doy’ou wear pants?”
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Gold In Africa.
An experimental boring 2,500 feet deep was recertiy made in the Witwatersrand gold field of South Africa, with a view of testing the lie of the auriferous deposits. The result was of the most satisfactory character, and the “strike” has led to calculations of the hidden wealth of these fields, and possibly the following by Mr. Scott Alexander may be interesting as showing the rich possibilities of the future:
it attracts nails and saves you from j Circumference of basin, 400 miles; distooping. ” “Not that 1 know of. un-! aineter, 127 miles; area, 12,580 square less the placing of leather over the miles, or 300,710,272,000 square feet, steel has done it,” lie replied. “I saw j Taking average thickness of eight you picking up some nails a short time series of blanket beds at 0 feet (equal ago." “Yes," interrupted the old man, i to 48 feet), equals 10,834,093,050,000 “I need some of them.” Then looking cubic feet of reef or at 15 cubic feet to downward, he exclaimed: “There’s the ton, 10,521,433,160,000 tons. At 30 one I missed:" nnd picked it up with ! shillings per ton (very low) value of his magnetic servant. Taking the gold equal to £1,578,196,224,000, or one package of nails from his pocket he ; billion five hundred and seventy-eight placed this last in with the rest. As thousand one hundred and ninety-six an instance of frugality this incident | millions, two hundred and twenty-four is interesting, and as a key to the thousand pounds sterling. Taking the man's success in life it is perhaps ! population of Witwatersrand at 48,000
promoter here met another difficulty. He couldn’t get a deed until he paid for it. He finally saw a way out of it, and asked the manufacturer if he wouldn’t begin digging for the foundations, assuring him the deed would be forthcoming in duo time. This the manufacturer did, and no sooner was the stone hauled and the ground broken than the real-estate man called upon his purchasers for half tlie purchase money, according to agreement. In a couple of days he had 842.500 in his possession. With this he able to pay the manufacturer his bonus, to settle all his debts, and by placing several mortgages to purchase the property. He now has four manufactories under way, two squares of railway laid, and 1,200 lois left, after having paid for everything and allowing himself a liberal salary besides.
and following this the religious painter had put the words: “You had better ,
repent.”
A REMARKABLE CASE.
BIG FISH IN THE HUDSON
KenuItN of Work of th«* Federal Fish Commission. For a number of years the United States fish commission, cooperating with the New York commission, has been engaged in stocking the Hudson and its tributaries with salmon fry. This river, though never a salmon river, seemed to present the natural conditions for the establishment of the
species.
There are, however, according to th»* Washington Star, on both the main river and the tributaries, natural obstructions which would prevent the ascent of salmon to the spawning grounds, at tlie sources of the stream. It was, therefore, determined to test possibilities in this direction by continuing to hatch out and plant the fry in the headquarters, in the expectation that they would go to sea and on their return show themselves at the different obstructions in the river. Several hundred thousand fry* have been planted in the river each season for some years past; and two years ago ten thousand yearling fish from the Maine station were also planted in tlie river below the Troy dam. Though no salmon fishery is prosecuted in tlie river, and no salmon were taken only incidentally in the shad nets, recent reports from E. G. Blackford, of New York, indicate the taking during the present season of more than eight hundred salmon, varying from ten to twen-ty-five pounds in weight. With proper pratection in reference to the fishing, and with provision made to permit the salmon to reach the headwaters of the river, there is now no reason to doubt that the Hudson will become as important a stream in this respect as is the Penobscot in Maine
souls, this MkMm
allows each £89,454,090 pie.”
Koiulfth Church
The origin of the title of cardinal goes back to the early ages of the church. Certain bishopsof dioceses near Rome, the priests of the principal churches, the chief deacons of the fourteen districts in which Rome was divided, formed the pope's council and assisted in tlie great functions and ceremonies of the Christian ritual. There are still fourteen cardinal deacons, bat the number of the other orders of tlie “sacred college” has varied at different periods till it was settled by Scctus V. at seventy for the whole college, “as Moses chose seventy elders of the peo-
The First litialjaiid Did Not Want to
Meet fils Kennirried Wife Again. A Detroiter who was in Cincinnati
was at one of the railroad depots one afternoon and met a man whom he used to know in Albany fifteen years ago, says the Detroit Free Press. After handshaking and talking for a was few minutes the Albany man re-
marked:
“Come and be introduced to my wife. That’s her over there.” ' | "W hat!_ Is that—that lady your wifeV* stammered the Detroiter. “Why, certainly—come along.” “Rut—but—” “Why, man, what ails you? Don’t you want to meet my wife?” "Yes, of course. That is, please ex- 1 cuse me. I’d rather not meet her—not 1
to-day.”
“Say!” said the other, as he stood back and looked the Detroiter over for a minute, “my wife was a divorced woman when I married her.” “Was—was she?" "And I’ll bet one hundred dollars you were her first husband! Yes, I'm sure of it! Out with it, old boyi”
“Well, I was.
“And naturally enough you felt
the name of “Perc Hirer.” He was likewise irreverently called "LTIommoChien,” on account of his shaggy hair and whiskers which he allowed to grow in wild profusion and made him look like a Skye terrier. His umbrella^ his hat and particularly the cut of his clothes also rendered him famous. His colleagues smiled, but liked him none the less for bis eccentricities. He had one great day in the chamber, when as doyen d’age in tlie place of M. Pierre Blanc, who was unwell, he presided over the first sitting of the session. On that occasion he delivered a speech in w)y<dj be omlirn o<mJ every poli^icql question under the sun, bud might have gone on occupying the house till
doomsday had he not found it suddenly empty. He was most assiduous, arm-
ing the first and leaving the last. He was born in 1811, and was originally a civil engineer of the first class. Unlike most of his republican colleagues, he was a staunch Catholic. Every day as regular as clock workihe would mount the tribune andbring]forward some unexpected in< >tion which, much to his sorrow, was invariably shelved. Once, however, his motion was passed, and nobody was more surprised than himself. Of later years he took to female emancipation, and attended the meetings of the strong-minded sisterhood, to which two of his daughters belong. At home in his native Brittany he was beloved by all for his generos-
ity and tlie pleasure he took in doing
bit embarrassed and don’t care to be service to his fellow-countrymen. Bis introduced. I see how it. G an,! we„*t curious figure will long be remem-
bered.
urge you.
smoke.”
I see how it is and won’t Let’s go outdoors and
An ( npIvBaant Pnaalhllit;.
Should Christina, the queen regent of Spain, fail to survive the dangerous operation which now constitutes the only chance of saving her life the regency will devolve on her sister-in-law, Princess Isabella, widow of
RACE TRACK GAMBLING.
The Sharp I’rofcttaional liookniaker Can
Alford to I.nui;ti at Chance.
In a new book called “Chance and Luck,” made up of essays by the late Richard A. Proctor, the subject of racetrack gambling is discussed in a very interesting way. He shows, clearly
Count Girgenti. The princess, who is ' en0uph / any man who follows the one of the most masterful and ambi- ! *1* * 1 Vel * ho °?’ Un !° SS h ® iR tl a tious woman in Spain, is devoted body ! P r( f r si,m , al ^maker, is perfectly anti soul to the ultra-conservative °\, b, ‘ ter ^appointment*, party, and is a bitter foe of every ^ Ramblers Imve systems, butProf. species of reform, progress, or popular i ? r0CtOr ; ": h ° , was a , mathematician, .-nli I rht*nm..T,t A Viiirr!* ir. oil !]<»{„,. u I demonstrates how misleading is any
system of chances. For a lucrative practice of the bookmaker's calling,
enlightenment. A bigot in all religious matters, she would, if she could have her way, revive all the terrors of the inquisition, restrict almost to the point of total annihilation the legislative powers of the cortes, and rule the
the first rule, according to Prof. Proctor, is always to lay odds against horses, never to back them. Next, he
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* j that is so much clear gain to start with. Oi» of the World's Wonders. IIc should proportion his wagers SO The massive six-foot reflector in the that the sum of what he lays against a Lord Rose telescope at Parsontown. | horse and ' vh at he is backed for may Ireland, is justly considered one of the Amount to about the same for each
modern wonders of the world. The horse. Ihe precise system requires
gigantic reflector, the first that ever that it should be exactly the same, hut solved the problem of the nebula of the lx>oltI '‘ ak er often improves upon Orion, is set in the end of a fifty-five- : that * by taking advantage in special foot wooden tube, held together by cases of his own knowledge of a horse’s iron bands. Although it weighs a c hauce and of his opponent’s inexperifraction over four tons it is so sensi- c 11 ! 16 * ever 7 case he lays odds a tive that the pressure of the hand upon P°* n t or two short of the legitimate the back will produce distortion in the a 8' a l ns t' a horse. \\ hen his book reflected image of a star. Compared baS bcen made U P upon these prinwith the human eye this monster re- c^P* 08 * the bookmaker can watch the fleeter is as 130,000 to 1; it has a pene- raco wlth P« rfect calmness.” If he trating power of 500, and can reveal tollowa this course he cannot fail to stars so remote from our earth that it F 11 ' 11 11 steady income from his victims, would require 00,000 years for the light ' v bcreas, ttie fellow who goes into the to reach us, and yet light travels at Getting ring, if he continue patiently the unthinkable speed of 192,500 milas } n hui course * 18 to learn before |~T|TI||