Evening star., 1876-11-03

The nunntDg Races n Bemm10ED.
sLookD DAY OF THE rALL NETTING OF
THE NATIONAL JOCEEYCLUB.
The programme for the second day Of the
fail meeting Of the National Jockey Club
was very successfully carried out yesterday.
Good weather. good horses. and good at
tendance made the contests very Interest.
ing.
was dash OF one mile and a half, for all
sges. Tne entries were Tom ON eill Inspi
ration, Kenny, Burgoo and Libbie L. In
ond. Inspiration secured an adyantaSe a.
the start, BurROO holding the second place,
LihRie l.. third, Tom O'Neill fourth, kenny
nnM Al the nrst quarter Burgoo was q
In the third place. The same positions were
neld at the half At the end Of the ffth quar-
Ter BuTgoo led Inspiration by length. The
spiration drew steadily up and passed under
the wire q length and half ahead Of Bur-
goo. Time-24S. O'Neill third, Kenny
fourth, and Libbie l.. last.
THE SECOND RACE
was In mile heats for three year olds. Jeni-
fer, LeamiDgton ID, Gale, Sunbeam, Hattie
and Moorhen entered. Lady Clipper had
been the favorite, but was drawn out or the
race. and Courier became the favorite. Jeni-
fer was also drawn, leaving eight starters.
First Heat-Leamington led, then Sun-
beam, and on the last quarter Courier, the
favorite. The latter led length at the close,
1t
lowed by Hattie F., Hobkirk, Waco, Moor
hen and Gale. Time-I44a.
Second heat.-On the second quarter of
this heat Courier, Waco and Leamington
were running tight race ahead OF the other
horses, and neither had any advantage.
Courier again shot TO the front, and was
leading at the third quarter, with Waco
second and LesmiDgton third. The horses
came down the stretch with Waco and
Courier In the advance. and fighting hard
for The lead. Courier got q slight lead, but
here waco crowded and fOuled him. The
two leading horses came In side by side.
Les mington was in the third place and
MOoIhen fourth. Courier and Waco both
against Waco Waco and Bennington S the iatter nGer
horse having crossed the track near the third
quarter. Their riders were disqualified. The
positions were then arranged as follows:
Courier first. Moorhen second, Hobkirk
fourth, Hattie fifth, Sunbeam sixth, Leam-
ington seventh, and Waco eighth. Time of
heat 1.i6.
The day closed with hurdle race over q
mile and nalf, with six hurdles. Risk, Gull
pepper, Paladip. New York, Bay Rum and
Risk led at the start, but Paladin soon
showed TO the front, and cleared the secOud
hurdle ahead, and led a length at the third
hurdle, Risk second, and Culpeper third.
Palsdin kept the lead until the last hurdle
was reached. which he had to clear in COM
pany with Risk. New York third. Down the
home stretch Risk gained on Paladin and
ahead. Time 256. Palsdin came In second,
New YORK, Bay Rum, CClpeper and Lorena
followed.
MANY PERSONS who desire to seek infor-
nation concerning the patterns and STYLES
OF goods to be worn, often hesitate, before
purchasing, 10 do so from a fear OF being
considered as trespassers. We desire to saw
To strangers, patrons and friends, that the
establishment OF Messrs. b. Robinson & Co
next to NJ. Williams, has no restrictions or
tbey are anxious to have the people obtain
correct information as to what are the true
iead1pg style In boys and children's CLOTH
Ing. That Information can best be obtained
by personal inspection of their stock. Do
not allow the thought OF putting them to any
trouble oefer any one for moment from so
purpose; 1t is one of the principal features OF
their business; their salesmen all understand
this. and the public can be sure OF receiving
courtesy and the Information desired The
stock OF Messrs. Robinson 4 Co, the Bows,
ClothierS, 1903 Pennsylvania avenue, next to
WilliaB's, Is now complete in every detail,
ranging In sizes from child 2H years up
vards.-Adt.
LAST CHANCE at low rates by Brad
Adams excursion TO the Centennial. To.
day and tomorrow closes the low rate To
Philadelphia and return by the Baltimore
and Ohio railroad. Be sure to call on Brad
Adams during the two days, and secure all
The tickets on want; they are good for ten
days. Tickets purchased of Brad can be
used by late trains Sunday, which leave at
and 10 p. m. I
"AyTBREMUs SCRoPHULARIE H. The
Carpet. Eaters Coming Soon 1t is said that
there is an old colored man down at the
wharf, who for trifing sum will swallow
glass amp chimneys. This may not be true.
but one thing Is certain, and that is that the
Anulrentus ScTOphuloritE, or carpet-eaters are
ard, like the western grasshoppers, have
entered Zealously upon their work of masti.
eating carpets-Brussels, ingram, tapestry,
and all otner kinds. The AIatrem,Gs Scrophu.
tdTfP is very com mon and destructive Eu
rOpean insect, and has Ouly recently been
detected in the United States. 1t belongs TO
the family DeTTestiCIG, which includes also
the furniture eaters, and book chewers and
Is entirely different In appearance and habits
from the well-known carpet moth. 1t con-
cesls Itself beneath the borders of carpets
tions- Occasionally IL locates itself in the
cracks OF the iioOr, following which IL cuts
across entire oreadths OF carpet, leaving a
lire which seems TO have been cut by the
scissors. 1t destroys new as well as old car
pets, and, II allowed to breed and multiply,
may reduce us to bare floors soon. Fortu-
pate!y 1t eats only during the summer
Prof. j. A. Lintner, a we'll known ento
mologist, describes these interesting insects
as small ovate objects, about one tenth of an
inch In length, thickly clothed with numer-
GUS short, bristle like hairs, and terminating
In pencil Of the forming tail. 1t ls ex-
ceedingly active in Its motions, and glides
away very rapidly. The professor Captured
several OF the larve and fed them upon pieces
of carpet. The detection Of this insect adds TO
our fauna another species OF the dreaded
genus OF dyuhTeblGs perhaps to equal in its
destructive agency the well known muses. m
pest, the n. udrius formerly known as A. natt-
S6OTulH), the obtrusive guest OF all our col
lectiOns OF natural history, whose ravages it
seems impossible TO fully guard against, and
so exceedingly difficult TO control. Toe car
pet bug, as IL Is called, has already caused
alarm in New York and other cities.
A MATERIALIZED HoLE.-Take q sheet
OF stiff writing paper and fold 1t into q tube
an inch in diameter. Apply II TO the right
eye ard look steadfastly through IL, focus
sing the eye on any convenient object; keep
the lelG eye open. Now place the left hand,
held palm upward, edgeways against the
side OF the paper tube, and about an inch or
two above Its lower end. The astonishing
effect win be produced OF a hole, apparently
of the size OF the cross section OF the tube,
made through the left hand. This Is the
hole In which we propose to materialize
another and smaller hole. As we need a
genuine aperture, and 1t would be incon-
venient TO make one in the left hand let q
sheet OF white paper be substituted therefor
and similarly held. Just at the part of the
paper where the hole eoualling In diameter
NENE