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The evening world., 1888-08-11
Why He Couldn't Bring IL.

Among the Sunday -school children of a
certain church was q poor little boy. He
could not tell the number OF the house i'll
which he lived, ana was charged when he
next came to school to bring It.. The next
the number. mo, sir" said he lit was
nailed on the door 80 tight that l couldn't
cat IL off
The evening world., 1888-08-11
A Case of Dome.t,c Anre,,ou.

A girl in one of the public schools applied
to her teacher for leave to be absent halt a
day on the plea that they had company ut
home. Tn teacher referred her to the
printed list of reasons that the school CON-
mittee think sufficient to justify absence, and
asked her If her case came under any OF
them. h naively replied that it might
come under the head of domestic attic
fion
The evening world., 1888-08-11
Viewed at Both Ends.

A short time ago q little boy wen with his
father to see u colt. He patted the colts head
and made quite a fuss over it, until the sta
bleman told him to be careful that the colt
did not III round and kick him.. When
young Hopeful went home his mother asked
HIM what he thought about the colt. :"
Like HIM pretty we'll, F" was he reply. 4" He's
very tame in front, but he's awful wild be-
hind ~
The evening world., 1888-08-11
Only just Landed, bnt These Foreigners
NnOw n Thing or Two.

Three, Austrians who had been in this
country three days, beat Chauncey Depew's
railroad out of ~ cents very nicely the other
evening.
They got on a north bound train of the
New York Central and Hudson River Rail
road at Peekskill and had tickets allowing
them to ride to Cold Spring. The fare for
this distance is "a cents.
One of the men was very bright. On the
seat i'll front of hun was Prof, A. A. Yates.
superintendent o. the schools in Fishkill, and
the two talked for some time, Prof. Yates
explaining to the Austrian the meaning of
many English words
When Cold Spring was reached the Pro-
fessor told the fellows that their ticket only
took them that far. hut they smiled know
ingly and indicated that they were oil " all
right enough.
Before the train reached Fishkill the con-
ductor, through an inter- refer, told the
three foreigners that they would have to get
off at he next station. They did not get of.
however, and after the train left Fishkill
they pretended not to have understood what
they had been ordered to do.
At New Hamburg they were fred from the
train by the combined forces of conductor,
brakeman and newsboy. They said they
did not know where they were going. but
had been told if they would get into the
country they might he able to secure work.
The fare from Cold Spring to New Ham
burg is "a cents.
The evening world., 1888-08-11
From n New Standpoint.

Said the teacher: And it came to pass,
when the king heard it, that he rent his
clothes Now, what does that mean. chill.
dren-' he rent his clothes 2" Up went a
little hand. well. if you know, tell us. u
PLEASE. ma'am," said the child, timidly,
- s'pose he hired 'em out"
The evening world., 1888-08-11
sCRorULA I YEAR. CURRD.

1have been troubled with sorofula seven year., which
first started on tho top Of my head. giving me infinite
trouble. with constant itching, casting of Of dry scales
and a watery liquid eIuded from under the scales. 1
treated 1t for seven years unsuccessfuliy. and was unable
to check II until I found your CUrIcURA REMEDIES. Ono
box CuT1cURA. one c'ks CUTTCUnA SOAP and one bottle
CuTIcUnA REsoLvEsT completely cured me. my skin
becoming perfectly clear and smooth. 8. j. DAVIS,
Artesia, Los Angeles Co., Gal.
The evening world., 1888-08-11

Judge John W. Wheeler, OF New jersey, de-
lvered a lecture last evening to the East River
Harrison and Morton CLUB In the hail Ut No. 200
East Eignty-sixth street. His subject was ..Free
Trade or Projection, which is best for.the people Of
the United State 2" A novel feature of mis- lecture
on a political subject was that he illustrated ms re.
marx, from time to time with stereopticon views
of well-known cartoons fr m pictorial papers, and
also OF advertisements OF various commodities,
Ken from Inc ne wspapels
The evening world., 1888-08-11

Mother" said a little boy the other day.
~ know what / would do if was at sea and
lots TO see who should be killed and eaten,
and if it should be me I'D jump into the
wafer" But" said the mother, they
would fish you NJ % mo they wouldn't, u
said he, for | wouldn't bite"
The evening world., 1888-08-11

Young American We never heard Of such q
yacht club as you mention.
j. P.-Your aye docs not debar you from being q
citizen, but you cannot vote until you are twenty
one.
C. G. H.-If you wan TO he very formal indeed
sign your husbands name with - Mrs. I" prenxed.
Ordinarily your own name with the Irenx "Mrs. "
Should be used. In writng 10 a iri.ud you may
Sign ypur own name without the prehx, I. e., Mra
John Jones, Mrs. Mury Jones, Mary Jones.
The evening world., 1888-08-11
True TO Life.

Let us play we are married" said little
Edith, and I will bring my dolly and say
See, baby, papa!'" Yes" replied Johnny,
land l will say Don't bother me now, l
want to look through the paper!'"
The evening world., 1888-08-11
SKIN, SCALP AND BLOOD
DISEASES CURED BY CUTfCURA REMR-
DIES WHEN HOT SPRINGS, DOCTORS
v ALL OTHER MEDICINES FAIL.

Having been . sufferer for two years and q half from q
disease caused by . bruise on the leg. and having besu
cured by the CUTIcURA REMEDIES WHEN all other meth
DDS and remedies isrIed. deem II my DUTY to eoommsnd
them. Vi tied Hot Springs to no avail. and tried sew.
crsl doctors without success. and At last our principal
druggist, Mr.. John p. Fintay IT, whom I shall ever feel
gratefaD. spoke to me sbout CuTIcURA. and l consented
to give them a trial with the result that I am perfectly
cured. Their 10 now no sore about me. I think I can
show the largest surface where my suff rings sprsng from
OF any one in the State. The UUTtoURA REMEDIES are
the best blood ami skin cures manufactured. refer to
Druggist John p. Fnlay and DR.. ID. G. Montgomery.
both OF this plAce. and to DR.. Smith, OF Lake Lee, Min.
ALEXANDER BEACH. Greenvills. Miss.
Mr.. Beach uset the CUTrcURA REMEDIES. al our re-
quest, with results as above stated.
A. d. FiNLAY a o Drusaista.
The evening world., 1888-08-11
A Little Rows Pbuosopbv.

A little boy running, struck his toe and
fell on the pavement. Never mind, my
little fellow; you won't feel the pain to-mor.
row: -" said a bystander. Then" answered
the little boy, Il won't cry tomorrow"
The evening world., 1888-08-11
A Sky Terrier.

A little boy, six years old, and little girl,
eight. we're looking at the clouds one beauti-
full summer evening, watching their fantastic
shapes, when the boy exclaimed: oh.
Minnie. 1 see a dog in the sky! |" "Well,
sky terrier"
The evening world., 1888-08-11
A Church DIxnitarY.

A school teacher lately asked q boy :
" Which is tho highest dignitary of the
Church ?" After looking up and down.
north and east, south and west, the boy re-
piled The weather cock"
The evening world., 1888-08-11
N DISAPPOINTMENT.
A TRUE STORY.
\ INA SHERWOOD was

INA SHERWOOD was
an orphan, and had
been left TO the care of
her uncle. a man of
wealth and good social
position.
Norman Sherwood
had reared his niece
with the same care as
that he bestowed upon
| hNa 4utH lan-kAa.a
The evening world., 1888-08-11
BUSINESS NOTICES.

THE PLAINEsT FAC BECo e PLEASING
when Rraced with beau iful hair and PARKER's HAIR
BALskM greatly sIcels in producing 1t.
The evening world., 1888-08-11
No,.. or,be CRmpaIsn.

The Richard A. o'Brien Cleveland and Thurman
Campaign club, OF the Twelfth Assembly District,
met On Thursday evening at Frederick Schmldt's,
So Avenue d, anu elected the GLOWING oflceI,:
President, john K McCabe; Vice-President, Will
lam Lingnam; Secretary, samuel harrlgan; Re-
cordlng Secretary, Thomas Brenzing: sergeant-at-
Arms. Thomas Sullivan.
The evening world., 1888-08-11
BRIGHT BITS VI CHILD TALK.
Sayings Of the Sage. and the Humori.ts Of
tho Future.

A boy OF six years, after thinking a few
moments, said to his mother: Mamma, was
papa to your wedding, too 2" to which the
mother replied Yes, sonny, l invited
him." This is original, rs my brother
brought out the question before my mother.
JOE LEVY, 206 East Seventy sixth street.
The evening world., 1888-08-11

Lights and Shadows" will open the
regular Geason Of the Windsor Theatre to-
II ght. The cast includes Miss May Newman,
Miss Agnes Herndon, Miss Jennie Williams,
Miss Adelaide Thornton, Miss Ida Jeffreys,
Sheridan Block, w. L. Doyle, ID. A. Hanchett,
Charles Klein. II. 3. Dutield, q. +. Goffhold
and w. l.. Gleason.
The evening world., 1888-08-11
SKIN DISEASE > YEARS CURED.

Your CUTIcuRA REMEDIES did wonderful things for
me. They cured my skin disease. which has been Of ave
years standing after hundreds of dollars had been spent
in trying to cure It. Nothing did me any good sptii I
commenced the use of the CurIcURA REMEDIES. Our
house will never be without them.
MRS. ROSA KELLY,
Rockwell City, Calhoun Co., II.
The evening world., 1888-08-11

The Kafir Diamond" which is to sue
coed The Queens Mate " at the Broadway
Theatre, is now being rehearsed AT the Met
ropolitan Opera House.
The evening world., 1888-08-11
FROM THE ClTY'S WHIRL.
DRIFT CAUGHT BERE AND THERE By
EVENING WORLD" REPORTERS.
How Presence or Mind Turned nm Impcnd.
ing Catastrophe Into n Comedy

How Presence or Mind Turned nm Impcnd-
ing Catastrophe Into n Comedy.
A comical episode occurred on Sixth avenue
Yesterday afternoon. A small four-year old
with a short frock and shorter hair on his
round tow head was busily engaged in play
ing with alphabet blocks on the sidewalk.
That they were alphabet blocks may have
been the reason the urchin seemed under a
spell.
A tall lank man was walking down the
street immersed in some bills or accounts
which he carried in his hand. Suddenly
the white-haired youngster made one of those
sudden turns which children will make. and
the man suddenly discovered he was on the
point of running him down. He did the
first thing that occurred to him.
He raised his off leg" spread out like O
pair of dividers, and the innocent block
builder emerged from between his legs on
the other side, perfectly unconscious CT the
Colossus of Rhodes under which he had
passed, rs the man neatly cleared the boy
without touching him at all. He looked
back, The urchin was standing rapt in Gu
rious astonishment ut the laughter which his
tactics had awakened in three or four by
ISLANDERS, the reason for which was perfectly
unknown to him.
The man looked at him, laughed, straight
ened out his legs, and, wagging his head,
continued down the street.
The evening world., 1888-08-11

+. II. Sothern declares Tint he will have
to leave Herbert Kelcey's fiat. which he is
now occupying. He says that the work of
forwarding Kelcey's voluminous mail to Cal
ifornia il beginning to tel upon him.
The evening world., 1888-08-11

THE Battle OF Gettysburg" panorama, ut
Fourth avenue and Nineteenth street. has
i hnceme new no%r lease on Will ti,G + SINCE m,r man, EE er n mr.t
week it has been largely attended.
The evening world., 1888-08-11
Ariosto's Epic Rend In n Strange Place aud
Under Difficulties

Passing a Sixth avenue fruit stand one
night about l o'clock, the attention of an
EVENING WORLD reporter was drawn to an
Italian, who kept a fruit stand on the corner.
A flaring gas jet lit up the golden oranges,
the pale green apples, the ruby plums and
the mellow-looking pears, and also the olive.
tinted face of the proprietor, who was i'm.
mersed in a book.
So rapt was he that he did not remark THE
EVENING WORLD mans approach until lie
stood over him. Then he looked up.
What are you reading ?"
The Italian neld the book open at the title
page and let the reporter read. 1t was a
cheap paper covered book of Italian poetry,
and bore the title Orlando Furioso, by
Ariosto."
The Italian beguiled the quiet hours of the
late night and early dawn when there was
not much of a rush in the fruit buying CON-
munlty Il, improve his mind with the Italian
classics. He had nearly finished the book.
The evening world., 1888-08-11

At 8 o'clock Monday night Manager J..
of his season. j.. w. Pigott was 10 have pro
uuced " Fitznoodle " ut that house on Mon
day. He deposited 1850, to he forfeited if lie
failed to appear. He has since decided to
produce the play in 10, don before giving it
in New York. That decision costs him $3.50.
The evening world., 1888-08-11

Willard Spencer's Lit lie Tycoon" Com
pany for the coming season, says j. II. Ros-
enthal, will include fifty six d" artists and
an orchestra. II will go as far West as the
Pacific coast. Prima donna: Catherine Lin
gard.
The evening world., 1888-08-11
"H"s 'O'H "THENe
Rockwell CITY. Calhoun Co.. Il

Sold everywhere. Price. CuTIcURA, 80 cents; SOAR, %
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The evening world., 1888-08-11

Girls Who Play Billiards. m nD," RssO~.
Sketch. See The SUNDAY WORLD, ,Otth its tesnta0
pdQeS Or liQht reading.
The evening world., 1888-08-11

J. G. Roach will open his second season
under j. NJ. Hills management Aug. ~ Mt
tue Park Theatre, Brooklyn, in Dan
Darcy.p
The evening world., 1888-08-11

Col. r. +. j. Miles. who. since he give up
the Bijou Opera House, seems TO breathe in a
relieved sort of manner, is still in G ncinnati,
where he will remain during the season.
The evening world., 1888-08-11

William Favershap, has been %"lent" by
the Lyceuin Thea re to Miss Minnie Mad
little Stars company dur ng the coming sea-
son. Mr.. Faversham went to Frisco with
the Lyceum poop aud would have Hp-
peared in Feather rain " had that play been
produced. He is now returning Last. Mr..
Faversham has been lent" before, last time
to the She company.
The evening world., 1888-08-11
"TroubIe and ~-iecpiess Nights"

Central Park still attracts the suicide. Gustavo
Braun, aye d slXtV-nve, shot h mself through the
heal Just inside The Eighth avenue walk ~
Nm, ty-dfih street late yesterday afte noon. In
mis- POCKETS were found several keys, a few pen
MES and a note in the German language which
READ as follows:
Troubls in business and sleeplesS nights caused me 10
do TINS. q. BRAUN.
The man had occupied n furnished room at No.
1869 First avenue. IL was sald there last niHat that
Braun wa al one time a weil-to-do leWelry-case
manufacturer aud had IA led in bus mesa. His
troubles prey"d u on hi> mind and ne Of,en threat
eued to XII himself Il I lngs did not change. He
leaves a married daughter named Schroeder az No
40 East FIFTY eighth street
The evening world., 1888-08-11
Why Mr. Won Gerichren VIII be Less Reel
less In Jumping After Drowning People.

when I do any more lite saving I'll wear
a bathing costume"
1t was William H.. Won Gerichten, clerk in
the District-Attornev's Office, who spoke, aud
he was relating an experience which befell
him at Fort Lee during the great thunder
shower last Saturday, night.
The last boat for New York was at the
The evening world., 1888-08-11
STAGE MANAGERS PLANS.
Hints OF Their Arrangements for the Com
ing Theatrical Season.

Miss Amelia summerville," said one Of
that lady's friends yesterday, sits oil day
in her fiat in West Twenty. ninth street.
thinking what she can do to reduce her
weight. She has lost over forty pounds in
ten weeks, and still she is not happy. She
diets herself in n most disastrous msnner,
and rigidly excludes 'r m her food anyth NJ
that is over nutriti us. She il determined
TO be sylph-like." Tnis is n very narrowing
story. Miss Summerville ought to be deeply
grateful to her Gd posi- y, which won Ter so
much success as tho merry lit lc mountain
maid in "Adonis," Nei hcr Miss summer
Vile nor her sister have been engaged by
Manager T.. f.. Rice for next season..
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A Wonderful Escape from a Geyser.

The Inter- Nountam of Montana tells of
the wonderful escape of a young man
from a geyser, into which he had
fallen. His companions, who were
watching his movements, shricked as
they saw him fall. They Immediately
procured light, and lowered it into the
crater for as great distance as they
could with the means at their command.
Nothing could be seen; but by dropping
pebbles and bits of wood, they discov-
cred that at the depth of about fifty feet
the crater was filled with water. They
gave him up for lost, and, with sad
hearts, left the scene. They carried the
news to Bozeman, but before any
measures could be taken to rescue their
companion, he appeared among them
alive. He stated that he fell into the
water feet foremost, but quickly rose to
the surface and caught hold of q pro
jecting rock, by which he supported him
self. The water was warm and buoyant,
and soon began to rise rapidly. AS he
rose with it. he graspcd the rocks that
jHtted out from the sides until he was
able 10 crawl out, Just as the water be-
came very not, when hc tainted on the
edge OF the crater from sheer exhaustion.
Such an experience is said to be without
q parallel.
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What Are Shooting Stars =?

What do we know as certain facts re-
gardlng shooting stars 2 1. They are
vastly more numerous than any one has
an idea of who has not watched them
continuously for many nights. Astron-
omers who have kept record for many
wears assure us that the average number
seen by one observer at one place on a
clear moonless night is IA per hour,
which is shown by calculation to be
equivalent to 10000 daily for the whole
earth. 2. They are not terrestrial phe-
nomcna moving in the lower at
mosphere, but celestial bodies moving
in orbits and with velocities comparable
to tho of planets and comets. Their
velocites are seldom under 10 miles
second or over so, and average about 30,
the velocity of the earth in its orbit
round the sun being IS. 8. They are of
various composition, comprising both
la~ge majority of smaller PARTICLES which
are set on fire by the resistance of the
carth's atmosphere and entirely burned
up and resolved into vapor long before
they reach its surface, and few larger
ones, known as metcors, which are only
partly fused or glazed by heat, and
reach the Garth in the form of stony
masses. 4. They are not uniformly
distributed through space, but collect
in meteOric swarms or streams, two at
least of which revolve around the sun in
closed rings which are intersectcd by the
earth's orbit, causing the magnificent dis
plays of shooting stars which are seen in
August and November. 5. They are
connected with comets, it having been
demonstrated by Schiaparelli that the
orbit of the comet of 10GG is identical
with the August swarm of meteors
known in the Perscids, and connections
between comets and meteor streams have
! cen found in at least three other cases.
The fact is generally believed that COM
etsare nothing but a condensation of
meieorites rendered incandcscent by the
heat generated by their mutual collision
when brought into close proximity. q.
Their composition, as inferred from the
larger meteors which reach the earth, is
identical. or nearly so, with that of mat
ter brought up from great depths by vol
canic eruptions. In each case they con-
sist of two classcs-one composed maln-
ly of native iron alloycd with nickel, the
other of stony matter, consisting mainly
of compounds of silicon and magnesium.
Most mctroritcs consist of compounds of
the two classes, in which the stony parts
Seem to have broken into fragments by
violent collision and become imbedded
in iron which has been fused by heat
into a plastic or pasty condition.-C0A-
TEN D0rajV RcriCr.
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Violin Villages.

No musical instrument is deserving OF
greater care than the violin. A good
one will last for centuries and improve
with age. A newspaper writer tells
something of the people who make the
best violins. in Markneukirchen, with
its surrounding villages, KliDgenthal,
Fleissen, Rohrbach and Graslitz, in Sax
ony, where there are about fifteen thou.
sand people who do nothing but make
violins. The inhabitants, from the little
urchin to the old, gray-headed man, the
small girl and the old grandmother,
are all engaged in making some parts OF
a fiddle. -
4 good instrument consists Of sixty
two different PIECES. The older men
make the tnger-board from ebony, and
the string-holder of the screws. The
small bows make themselves useful by
looking after the eluc-pot. A man with
strong, steady hands and clear eye puts
the different pieces together, and this IS
the most difficult task of all.
The women generally occupy them
selves as polshers. This requires long
practice, and family having daugh-
ter who is good polisher is considered
very fortunate.
Even young man, when he goes a.
wooing, inquiries whether the young girl
is COOL polisher, and if she is, it GER
tainly will increase his affection for her
at least twofold. The polishing takes
good deal of time, some of the violins
being twenty and even thirty times pol
ished.
Every family has its peculiar style of
polishing, and never varies from that.
There is one that makes nothing but a
deep wine color, and another citron
color, yet another an orange color, and
so on
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1888-02-29
Some Remarkable Leaps.

Mr.. Charles G.. Leland writes from
Brighton England, to the st. James's
Gazette to this effect:
In the year 1865, just at the end OF
civil war, German regiment was sta
toned ut Charleston, West Virginia.
One of the officers of this regiment had
obtained 'leave to leaye,' and the event
was celebrated "mit Sars und Braus, !"
or with abundant beer and Valley wine,
the scene of the festivity being at the
summit of high hill near the town.
Round this hill wound the road, and in
many places it overlooked q literal
precip.ce. About midnight the party
of officers mounted and rode down to
town. The horse of the one who was
about to depart became unruly and
leaped with his master over one Of these
declivities, falling quite sixty feet on
hard stone road. Neither man nor horse
was in the least injured; but the saddle
"A high one, made in the Mexican
fashion, of wood covered with leather
was utterly broken up. vouch for the
truth Of this incident.
In the city of erne there is a tablet
on the terrace overlooking a straight fall
of 100 feet. 1t commentaries the fact
that in the year 175i, or about that time,
while a student of theology was riding
in that place, his horse leaped in like
manner over the parapet. The animal
was killed; but the student was not in
jured.
Finally, in Cairo the leap of the last of
the Mamelukes, which is pointed out to
travellers, is about equal as regards the
dead drop to either of the foregoing.
once saw with my own eyes a gen.
tleman perform feat not much Inferior
as regards danger to taking these leaps.
He was riding on magnificent black
horse after four-year cow-buffalo, and
in doing 30 went at flu speed down a
rocky hill which exactly re embed a
staircase, but was worse in this respect
that it was very full of loose, flat
stones. There were in our party old
frontiersmcn, cavalry officers, Indians,
etc., who all declared, on viewing the
place. that it seemed incredible that any
man could have galloped down it. The
ride was equivalent to about three hum
dred steps. "Not one of them would
have tried it," said o colonel in COM
mand, "for all the horses on the plains. "
This was in Western Kansas, on the
Smoky Hill range, in 1876. am happy
to add that the rider got the cow, and
that helped to eat it.