New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1888-11-25
CHANCES HERE AND THERE.


on the Champs de Mars. Paris, which was expected to
be one of the ornaments of next years Exposition is
said TO be, In point of architectural beauty dismal
failure. II mars the Champs dc Mars said face
tious person yesterday. A letter from an American
In France is pronounced in its condemnation Of the
great iron structure. The writer says Il wanted to
stay in Paris, but that tower which is now 500 feet
high, worried me out Of my plan 1t is worse than
Mark Twan's Punch, brOthers, punch punch with
csrcp IL haunts you. You cannot help seeing 1t.
and the more you do see 1t, the crazIer you get l
now 200 miles from Paris, yet the first thing see
when get up in the morning, is that awful tower
is a terrible bore When reaches It's full height
one will be able to see IT, guess, all over France. /
shall then go to Africa
Charles Mitchell, the pugillst the biggest VIC
tory Of his LIE the steamship Umbria which
brought him here few weeks ago. In the course
of the voyage he made the acquaintance Of Miss Mary
Anderson and persuaded the actress to give him her
autograph Jake Kilraln also presented to Miss
Anderson who could scarcely believe that the gentle
board were the same that put grown men TO sleep.
II is not generally known in this country that
Pasteur's claim to famo rests upon more sub
stantial foundation than the discovery Of the method
Of preventing hydrophobia by incubation. "If it
had not been for Pasteur,1 said woll-known ply
stefan who recently met Pasteur In his laboratory
we would not to-day be drinking the sparkling
wines OF France and the wine making industry would
have been ruined. blight had come upon the
wine. Some insldous agent that could not be de-
tocted was at work IN the wine and affected IL
so that il would not keep. The exported wine be-
came acid and bitter and the domestic lost It's favor
and value The large wine m akers were in despair
and knew that II something not done their
business would come to end and this meant desti-
tuition in thousands Of happy French homes that de-
pended upon this industry for support. Pasteur at
tackled tho evil. lie found that the deteroratlons in
ID hv yrhi
be destroyed by low degree OF heat without af
fccting the quality Of the wine. The remedy was
applied Immediately on large scale to all the wines
which had undergone acid fermentation. and they
were made sweet and pure. Another industry was
also parslyzed. 1t was silk culture. plague called
pebrIne attacked the silk worms nhicting loss Of
$40, 100000 in one year. Myriads Of worms were
destroyed, and those that left only turned out
a small quantity of silk Pasteur traced the disease
its origin and found It 70 be the work Of a living
organism parasite. The germ was picked up
by the worm from the leaf upon which It fed and
speedily got into the sack which contained the ma
terial from which the spun its cocoon, and IN
creased rapidly that the killed, or fits
silk producing power Destroyed Pasteur dis
covered the time when the poisonous germ could
be killed and the method OF doing IT, and again
saved the commercial prosperity Of the French. This
investigation took many years, during which Pasteur
profoundly abused BY men Of science but they
The inclination to insert stalned-glass memorial
windows in churches amounts almost to a craze It
exists not only among the rich, who can afford IT,
but also among the poor. who cannot j. c. Cady
the noted architect, speaking this subject the
other day, said: Building committees that como
to for designs always limit at the outset as TO
the expenditure for staincd-glass windows.
but we find that the church people
invariably overstep their bounds in this d.
recton before the structure IS completed. As tho
house grows they become deeply interested and are
easily persuaded by one another to buy window
and dedicate 1t To wife, husband, son, daughter or
other relative friend. We now building
Swedish church in the upper part Of the city for
Of WORKING people R Sor psGD yel
windows of costly design, some Of them made by me
best artists The disposition to insert such windows
less Of the milk Of human kindness in his composition
than Mr.. Cady expresses the opinion that many so
called memorial windows are nothing moro nor less
than gaudy advertisements for the persons who buy
and insert them
What becomes Of all the cracked and usedup
billiard balsl Real ivory ones are bought up and
cut into dice other small articles, for there Is
| constantly growing demand and diminishing supply
Of the best ivory. Ivory sensitive to weather Ex-
posurc TO cold soon cracks 1t and renders billiard
balls untrue They are easily knocked out OF shape,
| too, II not we'll seasoned not well made. The
centre OF the tusk should 60 through the centre OF
| the ball to preserve best true spherical FORM The
best ivory comes from Zanzibar, the African eephant
| being more highly priced than the Asiatc on that
| account Little ivory now from India, where
the animal is so highly priced as beast OF burden
| that only the tusks Of elephants that have died
| natural death are obtainable Tho tusks OF the
warus and seahorse form but small part OF raS
worlds product so the African iungles are secured
| m keen mn with the demand. Considering the In
creased facilities for hunting in that dark
| and marketing the catch which recent e1PorauoiIs
| and settIements afford, the fact that the supply
steadily fails off seems TO INDICATE nat the eepn a
london is the worlds auction mart for this product
and the great annual sale occurs there this month
Tor e,obt columns of crisp and interesting announce
nents about servants, situations, real estate ana
4,.rr, nj ninth tO-day.