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Many of our readers who bare heard of Madison Square garden all their lives prob-

ably don't know what it is like. Well, it ^is ashed occupying a whole square in the heart of the best part of New York. It corners on Madison Square park.

Every large exhibition, from Moody add ^Sankey's revivals to a prise fight, that comes to New York holds forth there. In **^the center is a great oblong space. Covered with

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Perche, a province south of Normandy, in France. They are of Arabian extraction,

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very docile and intelligent. A famous animal of kindred blood at the exhibition is St. Elmo, an English stallion .. Imported into Canada. He weighs 1,930 wj pounds, and has taken seventeen first prises. His muscles are incomparable, and his measurements perfect. St. Elmo is a romantic, high-sounding name, too. But as we turned to look at the next horse .«» beyond I heard St. Eimo's groom slap him on his mighty breast and say:,

I "i-j "Well, when we're over there we say it Arrai ,k* is, but when we're in the statej we don'i i„f| call ic that. I wish it was American, then •'"•'"I ')}, we wouldn't have to pay 30 par cent, duty -n on all horses we bring into the country." "Mustyoudothatf "Yes, and they won't take our valuation, v'S either, but they appraise 'em theirselvesi"

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NKW YORK, NOV. 4.—The horse show it going on this week at Madison Square gar*l?den. It is tha third annual exhibition of Ttbe National Horse Show association ol jfl America.

Fashion in New York smiles on the hone '!show. So she does on th dog show. She 'frowns on walking and roller skating matches. The two latter are called into "existence and backed by gamblers. Fashion gasps while she speaks the word. These sporting men are quite too utterly horrid for anything.

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'O^ot this space tiers of seats rite. At the ends are offices, committee rooms, eta There is a promenade around below the seats. The •'''great spaca in the rear of ani unJer the -"seats is now filled With rows upon rows of ,pine stalls for the horses. "iffe You can form some idea of the siae of 4i Madison Square garden when 1 tell you there are 412 horses entered for this exhibition, all stabled oil the premises.p

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FKBCHXLLON STALLION.

You can picture to your mind's eye the types of horses displayed from our illustra,^tion9. They are from original drawings by C. Gray Parker, the best horse artist In the country. The animal in the picture is nineteen hands high and a wonder of -strength. The Percberons come from

"Jim, stand overthar." The Canada horses were by no means the least interesting part of the show. There H! was a pair of noble draught mares, nearly as large as Elmo, alias Jim. Tuey were

"Are they American bred?" we asked J? the man who had charge of them.

"No, they are from Canada." ,' j. s''Isn't Canada American?"

A ST? 'RJ THOROUOHBBXD RACKB. '*'$ Quite different in every way is the type *'v'of racer. This is the English runrnng hone. The illustration represents him in /*'u trim for work He is not in trim unless be fi is so thin that Us ribs stick out like that,

Running horses begin to be rather more common in America since we are going over anything English. It is a fooiV* ish erase. Our own American trotter is '^the horse for this country, and the horse ,t,for my money every tim&

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Woodstock, a youn? imported brown horse, is a good type of the racor. He attracted his share of attention at the show. Woodstock is 4 years old, and was bred in the stables of Baron Rothschild, "the beat iatables in England, by g»i, sir!" ?v The regular .pri»i amounted to naarly %4t $19,000, and several special prises wars tit offered besides. Every evening there is a .-ii grand horae dresa parade, so to speak. All if* animals that had taken prises during the day were tricked out in their ribbons, stars and medals, audi walked, trotted or other- & wise cavorted around the sawdust, track,

amid music by the band and wild applause among the spectators. When the two lady hcrse artists, Miss Ines Stewart and Miss Hellie Vernon, rode the women's saddle horses dfcer the track, the enthusiasm rose to a 1k wL Some hunter# showed off their yftva by being made to jhmp over two hurdles. They.played that a long wooden was.aBriciABtone wall, and jumped

over it, thodgh what use we have for "hunters" in this country the dear knows. It's another piece of English snobbery. When we get an idle class in tbis country, rich enough and influential enough to ride over Yankeo farms and ride down Yankee crops, as they do. in England, then good-by republic.

Seventy-five trotnng hortes were exhibited. Among them were Don Coesack, Almont, Jr., Co3sack Maid, Confederate Chief and Budd Wilkea. Con* federate Chief is a Kantucky bred stallion, 18 years old. He if| a beautiful animal, black, with a fiery eye, thin nostril and long powerful limbs, the ideal trotter. H« is of Mambrino blood. Tha old Confederate put his ears back at some visitors who entered his stall as though he thought the war wasn't oteryet.

The trotting horse fs purely an Americas, development In the year 1788 the English blooded gray stallion Messenger was im* ported into Philadelphia from England. Alter ene long and fatiguing voyage by sailing vessel, he dashed down tne gang way plank from the ship and up the wharf, "with a negro groom on each side of hint holding him back." And there he dragged tham all the way, 90 strong and.spirited was he. From Messenger the American trotting horde is descended. Messenger had a "large bony bead and windpipe, and nostrils nearly twice as large as ordinary." To this' day every great trotter has the sama 'distinctive marks, for they are all of his blood.' Maud S. is noted for her "large bony bead." She has four strains of Messenger blood in her teim She comes of fiambletouian stock.

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AVBRICAN TNOTTKB.

Messenger was imported as running horse. 'lYotting races had .not been heard of in the year 1788 any more than the Baochar scandal or the telephone. .The Messenger horses were trained for running in the English fashion. As to Messenger himself he lived to a goad old age, and died suddenly of a colic in 1808 on Long. Island, where hie was at that time owned. He was probably .the only horse in any country or of any time who was buried with military honors. A volley of musketry WAS fired over his grava

It is strange what small snags change the current of destiny. Running horse3 were developing handsomely in Pennsylvania in the early days of the republic. Messenger at first was taken to Bucks county and kept there a numbar of years. All went swimmingly on, when unexpectedly the legislature of Pennsylvania passed a law prohibiting horse racing. That threw the fanciers of the noble sport topsy turvy. What n»xt? If horses could not run, they might at least trot, though that was but poor fun. So the development of the trotter began.

In a few years it be^an to dawn on horsamen that there were infinite possibilities in tho trotter as a source of sport. From that day to this tha evolution of ths "flyer" has continued. If the solemn old Quaker legis* latura had not passe that law against horse racing, we might naver have had the American trotter.

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COACHING STALLION.

The first trotting race that took place in public for a stake was in 1818, for a purse of Si,000. The bet was that a mile could be trotted in three minutes. It was won by Topgallant, a son of Messenger. Topgallant made hit best time after he was 20 years old.

That was sixty-seven years a^o. The great horse question then was whether a mile could be trotted in 8 minutes. The question is now whether a mile can be trotted in 2 minutes. Some are living who will probably see it. Maud S. has brought tha time down to 2:8$£. When Vanderbilt owned her it is said he had offers of $50,000 for her. Fiora Temple's best time was 2:19S£

The handsomest equine animal is the coach horse. Toe racer is no beauty. The fast trotter is frequently as homely as anything in horseflesh can well be. In these everything is sacrificed to "points.' But the carriage horse has time to be bean tifuL The Cleveland bay is now considered the finest animal for this purpose.

The animals used to mount cavalry are coaching horses. When Gen. Von Steuben visited America at the Yorktown centennial in 1881 one of his criticisms on our army referred to the poor grade of horses used.for our cavalry and artillery carriages. It may be now we shall remedy ••Ma At the horse show there are five fine Trakhene stallions of tha breed that furnish horses to mount the Gar man cavalry.

One of the coaching stallions at the show was sired by an English horse that the Prussian •Trakhene farm in east Prussia.

government paid .$40,000 for. ie" is the name of the imperial

Come we now to the stubborn small "Shelties." A pony is as obstinate as he is little. If be sets bis head that he will go one way, vou caonot coax him with bread u»d sugar to go another. If he starts your way and sroes oa a bit he will nresentlv 'j- ,(

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mate up his mind that he nas traveled far enough, and he will stop and draw the line on you with a suddenness that throws you over his bead.

SHETLAND PORT.

Nevertheless, the ladies go into raptures over the "Shelties.'' Bless 'em, maybe they are of a kin, with the obstinacy Of both. The fellow you see in the picture is only two feet two inches high, no larger than a good-siied dog. The ladies see hfo and exclaim: "Oh, you dear little thing I Come here and let me pet you this minute 1"

The Shetland pony is the hardiest of horses. Like the flea, too, he is tremendously strong for bis size. Now and then there is one so small that an athletic man can lift it, and at the same time so strong that he can ride upon its baqk if he holds his feet up.

We began with descriDing the largest horses at the show. From that we have come down regularly to the smallest ones. We close with a picture of an animal fcnown to most of you. He is familiar wherever civilisation has extended its lines. In truth, there probably wouldn't have been any oiviliiationrltbout him. He is not a horse, but he is a (kor relation of the horse, and sits with the family on great occasions liks the present one. Ha is not beautiful, but he is good. He contributed quite his shart of interest to the show, along with his fins cousins. Lang life to him I

There were 119 classes of animals, all told, at the tair. Premiums were offered for fire engine horses, for cavalry and polioa

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mounts, for Normans, Clyde3dal6? and Arabians, for roadsters, tandems, high Jumpers and cobs, fr* "Horses, they're curious," says the superintendent of tha Madison squaro stables. "They run a good daal like people. Some of 'em know so much they all but talk, and others actually are too dumb to go to their feed." PHIL TANDEK.

St. Io(il* Music HalL (Special Correspondence!

ST. LOUIS, Nov. 3.—The powerful German element in St. Louis, combined with the native American yearning tor country fairs, originated the Exposition and' Music Hall association of this city. That auto elation in time originated the Musi It il building herewith illustrated.

ST. TJOXTIS MUSIC HALL.

it' is a magnificent building, just Completed. The size and construction are such that the greatest musical compositions can here be given on a scale commensurate with their importance. The building was erected with an eye more to music than to the industrial arts. The interior decorations are handsome, but quiet, with bronse and copper tints.

The drop curtain reproduces Hans Mak* art's painUng of the "Siesta of the Medici.'* When it rises there appears to view a Co« rinthian palace in marble and blue and gold The stage is very large and so dosigned that it can be changed from opera to concert with little resetting. From this there is a gradual slope upward to the back. There are 4,000 seats on the floor of the auditorium.

The last week in Octobe# this temple of art was dedicated. Theodore Thomas inaugurated it with his orchestra. Then was a glorious chorus of 800 voices. It was composed of three singing societies combined. These were largely German. It is the work of the singing societies that makes •the musical' culture of a place. Mme.

Fursch-Madi and Emily Juch were among the soloists, and fittingly, too, M. W. Whitney's great thundering bass rolled and echoed to the dome of the grand building. Gounod's sacred trilogy, "Mors et Vita," was performed for tbe first time in £his country. Its first performance anywhere was at the musical festival of Birmingham, England, last August. P« V. H. -,.j?

Norristown Herald: Natural ists say that the feet of the common working honey bae '^exhibit the combinations of a basket, a brush and a pair of piachers." Persons who ha«re bad a honey bee walk on them in an exposed place will marvel that a red-hot base burner stove is not also found in the 'toombination." •.» -r

THE FIRST METHODIST CHURCH.

A Shrine Which Marka the Birthplace ol American Methodism. rSpeclal Correspondence.]

NEW YORK, NOV. 4.—One hunlred and nineteen years ago, on or near the very spot in Park place where these lines were written, stood the humble little on3-story house of Philip Embury, and hare, on Oct 80 of that year, was held tbe first Methodist service in America. The congregation on that day consistel of four parsons—Mr. and Mrs. Hick, a laborer, and a colored woman. Mr. Embury was a carpenter, and a native of that green isle that has sent more Christian missionaries through the world than probably any other land. Embury had been converted to. Methodism through the »xhortations of John Wesley on one of the letter's visits to Ireland. The anniversary of this first meeting at Embury's was recently celebrated by a jubilee at the John Street Methodist church, in this city, which is built on the site leased by Embury ?°r tbe first Methodist Episcopal church in America. After that memorable meeting at Embury's weekly meetings were held in a rigging loft in Horse and Cart lane, now William streat. Among the "dissenters," as they were then called, who congregatod in this loft was a Capt. Thomas Webb, a British soldier, who afterwords figured with Embury anl Hicks as the'leading zialous workers in tho interest of the church. Their honest, earnest efforts soon drew around them too large a congregation for the rigging loft, so they leased a plot of ground on John street, on which their carpenter preacher, Embury, built a substantial structure 42x60 feet in dimensions. This he dedicated on Oct. SO, 1768

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TBI FIRST METHODIST CHURCH AND PABSONAOE IN AMERICA, 1768. From this church Capt. Wefbb went out as a missionary and organised churches in Philadelphia and Baltimore. To here also came emigrants from thS'old country, who settled around the church, soon making up a prosperous congregation. They purchased the. property for £600 in 1770. In 1772 Francis Asbury began his ministrations here as pastor, and before the close Of his career he is said to have preached possibly 17,000 sermons of the genuine oldfashioned lengthy order and ordained no less than 8,000 preach a rs. So this church may truly be called tbe cradle of Christianity as preached by Wesley. Though Wesley did not honor New York with his presence during his visit to America he watched with interest the progress of this John Street church. In 1770 he sent them a clock from

Eagland. This clock with its wooden works and ponderous weights still ticks away behind &he altar rail in the basement of the church. Its large, open face stares at you as it did at the generations past. It is the same old clock that measured the length of sermons for many famous preachers whose voices have rosoqnded here. To many of the old members, and many have been such for upwards of fifty years, tbis clofek appears !to beat at a quicker pace tban it did a half century ago. When they were

roHNwxsLET'sCLOCK, young men and maidens they still remainbor how painfully slow its hands moved during tbe sermon hour, but now, though these very same hands are credited with keeping as correct time as ever, they appear to spin around in '•meeting" time.

There are many other relics retained with reverential care by the present congregation. There is still in use the altar rail built by the first pastor. There is a beam from the William street rigging loft, and bcoks and cards used at the first church. There i* also the first organ, which was a French one about the size of an ordinary melodeon, and a dangerous innovation it was considered at the time of its introduction. Under the basement of the present church rests the bones of many of its earlier members and in its walls are many memorial tablets inscribed to the memory of tost bishops, pastors and prominent members.

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THE PRESENT JOHN STREET CHUBCtt. The present church was bnilt in 1841 and is the third crectel on the site of tbe one built by Embury. It is one of the places of interest pointed out to sightseers coming :o the metropolis and to Methodists it grows to interest from Tear to year as the first

mile stone their wonderful growth, as the very cradle of their creed on this side of the Atlantic. Notwithstanding the marvellous spread of this denomination and tbe wealth of its members throughout our city and country, it is not at all creditable that this, its first church in America, is obliged to beg for its very existence. At this recent jubilee anniversary of the birth of American Methodism, after the justly merited congratulations on the progress of tbe church and a recital of tbe glorious history of tbis old structure, a patnetic appeal was made for funds to keep it alive. Its founders left, besides the church, two stores as a soufce of reveuue. These have been sold to meet obligations. Now the old church stands like a parent deserted by its children, many of whom are more than favored with wealth. This is not as it should be. Some readers ol tbis article could without much inconvenience endow this little church so that it would remain not only a memorial to themselves, but a monument to Christianity in America.

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U\i MS S.'iJ THE LATE OEN. GEORGE B. M'CLELLAN. Gen. McClellan was born in Pailadelphia on Dec. 3. 1826. His father was a physician, and (be founder of Jefferson oolieg&. After a care ml education, completed in thd University of Pennsylvania, he entered the military academy at West Point, though not quite 16 years of a & In 1846 he graduated second in one of tbe largest classes that ever left the academy, one in which "Stonewall Jackson" ranked seventeenth. This was at the time of the Mexican war, to which younz McClellan was immediately sent in command of a company of sappers and miners. Before Vera Crus he was a brevet second lieutenant under Capt Robert E. Lee. These men afterwards met as foes in the terrible series of conflicts on the soil of Virginia, known as the seven days' battles, in which Gen. Lee compiellel McClellan's army to retire to Harrison's Landing, fibre, at Vera Crus, he was also thrown under the command and was once saved from capture by Lieut. P. S. T. Beauregard, the afterwards famous Confederate general. In 1848 be returned to West Point, having witnessed the close of the Mexican war a3 a gallant young officer of 21. He pursued his studies of the science of war with increased zest In the winter of 1849 be prepared a manual of bayonet exercise which Gen. Scott recommended. In 1853 Capt McClellan was given charge of an exploring expedition in Oregon, and in tbe following yew be. was sent to the West Indies to select a coaling station. His choica wa* Sam an a bay, on thedorth coast of Hayti. On his return from this mission Jefferson Davis, then secretary of war, chose him as one of a commission of three to visit Europe during the war of the Crimea and study the military system) of .Europe, with a view of improving the armie3 of the Uoited States. Tbe results of bis observations were published in 1861 under the title of

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Armies of Europe." On his return in 1857 from Europe Capt McClellan resigned from the army, as the routine duties had become monotonous and the prospects of promotion or active duty appeared distant indeed.

He accepted the position of chief engineer and vice-president of the Illinois Central railroad, with headquarters at Chicago. He managed this property so well for three years that in 1860 he Was elected president of the Ohio and Mississippi Railroad company. Their offices were in Cincinnati, and here be resided until the outbreak of the civil war, when he was requested by Governor Dennison, of Ohio, to aid in the organization of the Ohio volunteers. In a few weeks tha war, department commissioned him a major general of the regular army in command of the department of the Ohio, in less than two months after he was first called on by Qovernor Dennison. Gen. McClellan was in tbe field in the first campaign of the war in West Virginia. This was June 22, 1861. On July 22 be was ordered to organize the troops arottnd Washington. By Oct 15 he had collected and drilled 152,051 man. On the first of November Gen. Scott retired and McClellan was appointed general-in-chief of the armies of tho United States.,.

OEM. M'CLELLAN*S HOUSE AT ORANGE, N. J. He had now reached the highest honor and position in the aripy at a most trying time, when everything wai in chaoi ani tha a1 ministration was experimenting with commanders. Before he took tbe field in March, 1862, he had been relieved of the command of all the forces excepting that of the Army of the Potomac. He set out for the peninsula of Virginia, laid siege to Yorktown, and compelled the Confederates (o fall back into Richmond. His campaign thus commenced against Richmond was brought to a close by the battle of Malvern Hill on July 1, when McClellan wus compelled to fall back to Harrison's Landing. The president having appointed Gen. Hallock general-in-chief of the armies Halleck ordered McClellan to return with his forces to Yorktown. Just then Pope, having been defeated at Ball Run, Oan. McClellan was appointed in bis plac3 in time to check the

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advance of the Confederates on Maryland. Tbis was at the battle of Antietam, whenin it is held by the friends of McClellan that he saved the north. He was ordered by the government to follow up tbis great victory by pursuing his adversaries. This be failed to da Here came the turning point in his career. He was retired from his command and ordered to proceed to Trenton, N. J., there to await further orders, which never cam& He resigned his commission on Nov. 8, 1864.

On Aug. 29, 1864, Gen. McClellan was ehosen by the National Democratic convention, held in Chicago, as their candidate for president In the spring of 1865 Gen. McClellan sailed for Europe, returning in 1868.

On his return from Europe he made his home on the summit of the Orange mountains, about eighteen miles west of New York city. He was for several vears chief engineer of the department of docks of New York city, where he outlined a system of wharves, which when built will be a credit tb him. He planned a bridge, which has not yet been built, across the Hudson at Poughkeepsia He superintended the construction of the formidable Btovens battery until it was abandoned.

In 1S80 he was elected governor of New Jersey. His administration is said to have been the best that state ever enjoyed.

He was at the. time of his death president of various railroad and other enterprises. Though Gen. McClellan's military career bas been tbe subject of most bitter controversy, he himself never compromised his dignity to prove bis patriotism or plead his own case. His memoranda of the war in manuscript, unpublished, was destroyed by fire. He set about rewriting it If it was not finished at tbe time of bis death tbe loss will be an irreparable one. It is remarked that the soldiers who fought under "Little Mac," as they affectionately called him, have persistently clung to the belief that he would come out all right if he bad not been interfered with. This may remain a question forever. 81 H. EL

The Last llall of the Season, ..V (Punch.) (Scene—Grand hotel, Launtennis villa-super-Mara)—

He—I beg your gardon, but—er—I did not quite catch the name— j', She—Miss Fitz-Montmorency^'

He—Thanks, thanks! What a pretty name! and so uncommon!"She (haughtily)— Did you think 1 was called Jones!

He (feebly) —A—pardon—but er my name is Jones!

practical Sympathy. iKew York Sua 1

Sympathizing Friend (to Smith, whose wife ba3 just eloped with the. coachman)—I feel for you, old fellow, deeply. It is difficult for me to find wefrds with which to ex-, press my sympathy for you, in tbis your hour of sore affliction, but if there js anything I can do—

Smith (with suppressed emotion) —M-make me an o-offer for the b-horses, carriage and two sets of b-harness just as they s-stand.

Making Home Attractive to Husband. I New York Tidbits.] She wanted to break her husband of the habit of drink and began to cook his food in liquor, having heard that it would prove effectual. He didn't say anything the first day be showed no signs of noticing the change the second day. but after supper on the third day he said to her: "Maria, you don't know how you've improved in your cooking in the last three days."

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.''Now then, let us see," mused the editot of The Boston Saturday Courier, "thereof tbe ministers' meeting—half a stick will da' for that the meeting of the moral improvement association—three lines will da for that the meeting of the society for tbe suppression of viqe—ten lines will do for that and that just gives us three clear columns for the report of the great slugging match."

Prevarication Wasted. (Estelllne, Dak., BelL]

Nearly every town in Dakota claims ta have the youngest drummer boy thatserved in the late war. Wot that it is tho lying we object to, but it {ain3 us to see so mucli valuable prevarication thrown away, whes it might be applied to the crops, climate^ etc., and thus help lay the foundation foi substantial progress, in the way.of iimaigrauon.

As IT lie as Solomon. [Exchange.]

A judge was called on in China recently to decide between to mothers as to whom belonged an infant His drew a chalk ring on the ground, placed the "baby in the center and told the mothers whoever dragged it out must be the owner. One, from affection, declined to pull at the child, and was awarded it

They Understand tbe Intrleaeiee. [Chicago Herald.) In a pack of cards with whicla two in am ha be a in ok a Stockton, recently, were found five aces, eight kings, six sixes, and so on, showing that the Mongolians understand the intricacies of the game.

Xntirlng a Cold Cycle.

It is known that the climate of ancient Greece was much more salubrious 2.500 years ago than it is now and the same thing seems to be true of many other countries. Is the planet slowly entering upon another of its cold cycles.

T-e "King" il»eory.

It is an exploded theory that one ring grows upon a tree every year. The agricultural department at Washington finds that trees of six years showed twelve rings, of twelve, twenty-one: of five, eleven: and of twenty-four, twenty the trees being, respectively, locust, hickory, crabapple and oak.

Marvelous Congregation of Codfish. [Chicago Herald. The congregation of codfish at the Lofoden islandt, Norway, is stated to be a marvelous sight to sea Billions assemble together and form a mountainous shoal 120 to 180 feet higlt The season lwte two months, and on a propitious day 7 000 boats bring in 2,000,000 codfish.