Evening star., 1886-08-09
Affair. I'm Yves. Washiurtou.

| BAsEBALL.-The Olympics meet the Mer-
enants en- nus at olympic park this evening In game
pics. MIR. Charles II. Fickling of this place, has
offered gold medal valued at S25 for the
player ere OF ANY any club In the District & League max
| of that city.
AFoUR-YEAR-oLD GIRL LAssAULTED.-About
halfpast eight o'clock this morning John
Henry, 13-yearold cOlored boy, was arrested
oy Onicer Burrows and charged with making
an indecent assault upon Nahnie Thompson, a
1our-year colOred child on a vacant lot near the
corner of 32d street and Prospect avenue. He
Is now locked up at this precinct.
DISAPPOINTED ExCURsIoNIsTs.-The steam
packet Excelsior started up the canal yester-
day tor the Great Falls with large crowd OF
people on board, but was compelled to return
because one of the lock gates had been broken
during the night
NOTES.-The Rev. Alfred Sutton, the colored
evangelist, preached to q large crowd of boat
men on Water street yesterday morning.-The
funeral OF Lewis Baker took place yesterday
afternoon and was largely attended. lnterment
at Presbyteria cemetery.-Mr. Warren f.
Pickrell returned home from Capon Springs
upon number OF young boys this morning
for bathing in the river. Alter extracting a
promise OF not repeating the ofiense, Lieut.
TEMPERATURES AND CONDITION OF WATER
AT A.M.-Great Falls, temperature, "a; con-
dition, IA. Receiving reservoir. temperature
II; condition at north connection, 9; south
connection, Ii. Distributing reservoir, tenn
perature, SO; condition at intiuent gatehouse,
An Iguana from Brazil.
WHEN HE DIES HIS BODY WILL BE BROUGHT TO
THE NATIONAL MUSEUM.
From the Philadelphia Times
81 want to show you new and wonder
living thing that arrived at the garden on Fri
day." said Head Keeper Byrne, he led the
way to the snake house yesterday. The new
arrival is about as horrible and yet as dandified
a looking fellow as can be found on the banks
of the SchuylkilI. He is in glass case 1t is
the iguana a species of the lizard family and
was forwarded to the garden by the commis-
sloners OF fisheries of Massachusetts, with the
request that when he dies his body shall be
ington. His body is II drab color, mixed with
black streaks His neck and head are erect he
mas long tail like an alligator, and four paws
which spread out fiat upon the sand in his
warm cage just like a lizards feet. Sticking
out from the center of his back, from the head
all the way down towards the tail, is row of
black brlstles. which stand erect and do not
look as II they would make person comforta-
pie VINO would have the temerity to sit down
snappy, and from around the mouth there
hang curious pieces of skin looking like plated
Will probably measure five feet in length.
There is q pool of water in the cage, and he
occasionally takes "a bath
ONE OF BUFFALO BILLS INDIANS INSANE
All the Indians with Buffalo Bil'S Wild West,
on Staten Island were aroused at a. NJ one
day last week by one Shawopee, a Sioux In
dian, who told them that the cowboys intended
TO shoot them. 1t was with some difficulty
that MIR. Cody dissipated their fears. Long
,S Non, known as the medicine man, declared
that Shawopee had had the nightmare. 1t was
decided to send the Indian back to the Sioux
reservation at Standing Rock agency, Dakota,
as IL was found that he was suffering from in
sanity. He was placed in charge OF two men,
bers OF his tribe and white man and taken
west.
The beaters of the Columbia pa rolling mill
saturday joined the puddierS in their strike for
Pliledplplia nricaS and haS hoar,