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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1889-09-27
Railroads..
ERIE RAILWAY.
TIE ONLY SOLID TRAIN ROUTE
BETWEEN
NETWORK AND CHICAGO
And the only line running It's
DINING CAR THROUGH TO CHICAGO.

DINING CAR THROUGH TO CHICAGO!
300 F. NJ, 500 z. NJ, s 80 Z. IL
ALL SOLID EXPRESS TRAINS. AND EACH
TRAIN RUNS THROUGH TO CHICAGO WITHOUT
CHANGE Oh ANY ILASS or OAISS
BOwery.. Battery Place, Chambers aud West 2sd a.
Broadway Williamsburg corner Newark and Hudson sts.
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Suburban Homes with local timetables
w. J. MURPHY, L. y. FARMER
General Supt General Passenger AgeaA
A DVERTIsEMENTS FOR THE w.YoRK
A IgIBt NE WILL BE- REcEfvED AT Tnh
UPTOWN OFFICES. No. L. 3S Broadway. corner Thirty
hrstst until . p m $50 Broadway, bs.ween Twenty.
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srstst lies Erstsyst 100 IVES, Forty .scond,sI
the HARLEM OFFICE. $50 East one. hundred and,
twentY. nfthst. I'd TO m. 81 regular ONCE ratea
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1889-09-27
n ROpOSATS For IMPROVED DESIGNS
Dream Cleaners

CUNARD LINE
NI,yyoRK TO LIVERPOOL via QUEENSTOWN,
from Pier 10. North River
r-,h-,a SIT % 80 a. m. Aurania. Oct 10, 1 D.
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Cabin passage $50, $50 and sl00: ln;erme Hate $50
c,cer1e Tickets 70 all parts OF Europe at very
low rates freight and passage apply to the company
Office 4 Bowling Green, New.York ~
'"'' VERNON H. BROWN CO., General Agents.
C,AVANNAU FAST FREIGHT AND PAS
> sENGER LINE.--FouE steamers weekly from New
Pier IS, n. r., foot OF Sprlng'St. ,o-
IS. CHATTAIOOCHEE. FRIDAY september - o D. m.
IS. NACOOCHE SATURDAY september ~ D. m
IS CITY OF BIkMINGIIA ~ ohd2y SEPT % ~ I'
IS. TALLAHASSEE W .dnesddy' ,OcoutF =, y. m
Connecting with Central Railway OF Georgia ana SaVa'
nah Florida and Western railway Iof az points IN ,coIEa
Lso,id, south Carolina Alabama and LOUISIANA. I'm
suTpa ssed o1atOns fFst eIasS taOe HO1 hoI
freight and passage apply TO . - -,,r,.-,r o. -.
81 ~ and w R'y savannah Fast Line,
=" " .51f Roadway BIZ Broadway
WAIKFR AGENT Ocean steamship Co.,
" " New Pier 35, North River.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1889-09-27
Che Curt.

Che Curt
DROOKLYN JOCKEY CLUB RACES,
ID FALL MEETING. 1889.
RACING EVERY DAY THIS WEEK.
DIRECT ROUTES To TRACK LANDING PASSEN
GERS AT GRAND STAND
Via Culver Route. foot Whltehallst.
att 40 IL 40 70 10. II 40, 10. 80 and 2 10
From Long Island City. via L. l. r. T., Special Trains
at and 90 Leave 34th-st. 10 minutes earlier.
FIRST RACE AT . O'CLOCK.
II d MCINTYRE Sec. p J. DWYER, Pres
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1889-09-27

- aasfien Sales Of neuf &9futE.
FORECLOSURE SALE.-Saturiay. September %, at
Il IL at Court House. White Plains; one OF The
finest country Hudson River. at D0bDs Ferry
near Willard and Field Mansions; over 81 acres and fine
buildings views unsurpassed known as Cole or Oyph9n
place For particulars Opply TO CoUDERr BROTHERS.
Is and 20 Williamst.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1889-08-22

prize-fght, to the exclusion of more i'm
portant matters. Mr.. Sullivan is the vic
tor. He has vanquished presumptu-
GUS and aspiring fighter, and the world
has started on its course again. The
man in the moon no longer wears
that expression of suspense on his rubi-
cund face. Those who scorn to read
the glowing, sparkling, and gushing
details of prize-fght which is served
up on the first page, can amuse them
selves with the caustic criticisms which
our thoughtful editor has written for
their special benefit. Those who read
the columns on the front page must
not suppose that the thoughts and SEN
timents therein are unanimously in
dorsed by the editor of that journal,
for such is not the fact. Editors, as a
rule, are in search of the lucre. which
by some of the poor and envious is
called filthy. If you wish to read the
true sentiments of the editorial heart,
read well and digest his editorials
which you will find in some secluded
niche on the tail-end of the paper.
To say that prize-fighting is brutal
practice would be superfiuous, as any
one who is not utterly coarse in in
stinct is aware, but if we were to let
giving them a stinging rebuke in our
editorial columns, they, being natur-
ally ignorant, would misconstrue the
motives of the shrewd editor, who
cares not for prize-fghts, but dishes
up the news with an eye to the main
chance. There is no doubt but what
prize-fighting is practiced more by
reason of the money that there is in it
than for the empty honor of the cham
pionship. There are more ways than
one of testing the relative strength of
two men. Some individual with a
fertile brain would do humanity q
great service if he would invent or in
troduce some new system or some
new method of testing the rela-
tive strength and endurance of peo-
pie with fighting turn of mind.
The writer would propose the follow
posed of heavy boards. These boards
should be at least one inch in thick
ness and have a good supply of knots
in them. The sluggers, instead of
bruising and battering each other,
should compete with each other for the
championship by striving to knock out
the largest number of knots from these
heavy planks. The man who succeeds
in putting daylight through the boards
in the most places in given length of
time to be declared the victor. This
plan would do away with brutality and
a great deal of adverse criticism ON the
part of editors.
If l could write severe editorial on
pugilism, replete with stinging irony
and rebuke, would do so, but what is
the use? The chances are that the
sluggers would not read it, nor heed it
if they did.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1889-08-22
The Way to Keep Cool.

Doctor, give me suggestion as tc
the best way to stand this hot weather."
"Well," replied prominent physi.
clan, there are few simple things to
remember. I'll tell you how I do it.
In the first place 1 get plenty of sleep.
1 do this by eating light supper, with.
out coffee and with very little fluid OF
any sort, and but mouthful of beef.
steak. My days work ends with the
day, and after sunset l just sit around
without my coat and vest. About 8
O'Clock l slip quietly into my bathroom
and soak myself ten or fifteen minutes
in bathtub of cold water. Without
drying myself l draw on my sleeping
garment and go to bed. My tempera-
ture has been reduced, and my pulse
has slowed up. This condition is pre-
served by the evaporation which goes
on for half an hour or more, during
which l go to sleep. Try it. Now, for
the day time, ! eat moderate break
fast, with but little hot coffee or tea.
l avoid the butter and anything else
very greasy. / eat my fill of bread,
toast. tomatoes, cold milk, etc, with
small piece of lean, rare steak / do
not smoke, nor drink anything alco-
holic. 1 occasionally take a glass of
some aerated water, like vichy or self
Ger. L wear light clothes and but few
of them, and am not ashamed to carry
an umbrella. The result is that suf-
fer as little from the heat as is possible
during this sultry weather. Louis
vile Post.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1889-08-22
An Old BOatmun's Lament.

An elderly grizzled man sat on the
string of wharf below Coenties slip
the other evening just as it was grow
ing dark, and gazed in q melancholy
sort of way over the several acres Of
canal boats lying in that part of the
East river, says the New York Mail
and Express.
"Things is gettin' wuss and wuss
here all the time," he remarked at last
to companion.
"How is that ?" inquired the listener.
"How? How enuff," was the gruff
response. "Hev We seen fight round
here fer moren a week? OF course ye
amt. / amt seed but one in moren
month, and that wuzn't good one. l
kin remember wen we uster have 'em
every might've or three of 'em
Yes, sir; b'gosh! an they wuz good
ones, too.
"But there amt no more fun round
here any more. There amt nothin'.
Why, if you listen you can't hear
sound on any of them boats; nary
sound. Wy, / kin remember a few
years ago, wen you could hear fifty
'cordeens goin' on them boats. Every
canaler that wuzn't fighter had a
'cordeen or u poll parrot, and eff you
did't care for tightin', why, you could
have a dance ON the dock or some of
the boats, while the cap'n played ON the
'cordeen. Similarly, if you wanted
fightin', yer could have oceans of it.
"But there amt no more of it," con-
tinued the veteran, with sigh. "There
amt no fightin', there amt no parrots,
there amt no 'cordeens nor dancin
there amt no fun, there amt no moth
in, and b'gosh think I'll give up the
hull thing an go to drivin' truck"
With this the old man struck his
pipe so viciously against the string
piece that the head of it broke off and
fell into the water, after which the
veteran plunged into a deep and de-
jected silence as he meditated on the
days that are not any more.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1889-08-22
The Crisis at Waterloo.

All at once came the tragedy. To
the left of the English and on our
right the head of the column of cuiras-
riers reared with fearful clamor.
Arrived on the ridge, wild, furious and
running to the annihilation of the
squares and cannon, the cuirassiers saw
between them and the English ditch
"a grave. 1t was the sunken road of
Obain. 1t was q frightful moment.
There was the ravine, unlocked for,
gaping before their very horses feet,
two fathoms deep between its banks.
The second rank pushed in the first
and the third pushed in the second.
The horses reared, fell backward
struggled with their feet in the air,
heaping up and overturning their rid
ers. There was no power to retreat;
the whole column was but projectile; /;
the momentum gathered to crush the
English crushed the French. The pit
iless ravine still gaped till it was filled
Riders, horses, rolled in together pell-i
nell, mangling each other, making
common flesh in this gulf, and when
the grave was full of living men the
rest rode over them and passed on.
Almost third of Dubois brigade
plunged into this abyss. - World Of DID,
l1jPnt3lTe
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1889-08-22

The phenomena of cloudburst,
which can only occur in tornado or
whirlwind, are not generally under
stood, says the New York Herald. The
whirl in which it forms is not very
broad and shallow disk, but a tall,
columnar mass of rotating air, similar
to that III which the Atlantic water
spout or the famous pillar-like dust
storm of India is generated. While
this travelling aerial pillar, perhaps
few hundred yards in diameter, is
rapidly gyrating, the centrifugal force,
as Prof. Ferrel has shown, acts as n
barrier to prevent the flow of external
air from all sides into its interior, ex-
cept at and near the base of the pillar.
There friction with the earth retards
the gyrations and allows the air to
rush in below and escape upward
through the fue-like interior as power
full ascending currents.
The phenomenon, however, will not
be attended by terrific floods unless
the atmosphere is densely stored with
water vapor, as 1t was ON Tuesday in
the Cayadutta Valley, and as it was
on May 81 in the Conemaugh Valley.
When such is the case, the violent as
cending currents suddenly lift the va
por-laden clouds several thousand feet
above the level at which they were pre-
viously floating, and hurl them aloft
into rarefied and cold regions of the
atmosphere, where their vapor is in.
stantly condensed into many tons of
water, Could the water fall as fast as
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1889-08-22
Singing Among Mark Twain's Flowers,

I was recently sitting in Mark
Twain's home in Hartford, says u
writer in the New York Graphic, watt
ing for the humorist to return from his
daily walk. Suddenly sounds of de-.
votional singing came in through the
open window from the direction of the
outer conservatory. The singing was
low, yet the sad tremor in the voice
seemed TO give it special carrying
power.
"You have quite devotional domes-
tic" l said to member of the family
who came in shortly afterward.
THAT is not domestic who is sing
ing," was the answer. "Step to this
window, look in the conservatory and
see for Yourself"
did so. There, sitting alone on one
of the rustic Lenches in the flower
house, was small, elderly lady. Keep
ing time with the first finger of her
right hand, as if with baton, she was
slightly swaying her frail body as she
sang, softly yet sweetly, Charles Wes-
ley's hymn, Jesus, Lover of NY Soul. I"
and Sarah Flower Adams Nearer, My
God, to Thee"
But the singer was not domestic
1t was Harriet Beecher Stowel There
sat the once brilliant authoress like a
child grooming favorite air.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1889-08-22

The location is excellent. the table unex-
ceptionable. and the people charming. But
those who come, for short time cannot
now expect such good luck. By the time
this is in print the city will be SO full that it
will have to be taken to the station house.
Speaking OF hours for returning to ones
lodgings. l know that hurt myself at the
hotel where first stopped by getting in
the first evening at 1920 o'clock. The con-
cierge was II violet-eyed French girl. She
gave me the key and the one franc candle
with which intensified the gloom of my
ID width boys size room. She looked at me
reproachfully. She was panied to see a
man with such noble mien and such
scope Of brow go to bed at 1890 at night.
She mentioned it in pure English to me
and l could see that l had lost good
friend. could only promise her that it
should not occur again. / did so, and now
whenever am tempted to retire early I
can see those blue reproachful eyes again,
and my solemn promise made to that sim
ple gentle girl while the hot candle grease
ran down over my arm comes back to me,
and | smother the wish and scorn the
temptation.
1 will now pause in my literary career to
go and get shaved again. What like about
the French barber is this: If you do not
like his lather you can spit 1t out,
p. S.-Before mailing this learn that the
beautiful Algerian girls who dance the
stomach dance or gastric calisthenics re-
erred to above are natives Of Paris and
i've on the Rue de Rinktum.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1889-08-22

eight years OF age The neghbors did no !
want the tower built They felt certain 1t
would full and strike most anywhere within
nquarter of mile, and they thought it
would be discouraging 10 trade. They
were also afraid that boarding houses near
by would lose money and havo to put the
price OF nourishment up to whore 1t would
harmonize with the tower.
1t Is II iact, as the reader knows. that 1t
is nine hundred and eighty-four feet high
and made of iron. Those who have heited
1t say that it weighs seventy-three hundred
tons, but L would put 1t n little below that.
1t is just rs well to be honest about these
matters and not seek TO startlo people all
the time.
Tho base rests on four legs with concrete
and stone foundations. These form four
arches. which are about two hundred ieet
hi-h which at night are beautifully lighted.
In fact. the tower Is moro beautiful at
night than in the daytime. The top sweys
to and fro about n rod. but 1t still continues
erect. The top Of the tower affords fine
sight for rising young bridge jumper to
display his brains. such as they are. among
the other exhibits.
The structure is painted rcd. The artist
who painted the Eiffel Tower red will no
doubt fiji u drunkard's grave.
There Is constant roar pervading the
structure. caused bv the rising and falling
OF the lifts. as they are called. They are
really large cars with a capacity of 100 peo-
PIE each. These are the lifts to the first
platform. ana are of two varieties. viz, the
Otis system. which is used In the northern
and southern limbs. and the Roux and
Combaluzier systems, which are in the
eastern and western limbs. They do not
work perpendcularly. but are inclined
planes, two cars at II pop, and they make q
noise like the elevated trains. should have
said that the cars are not OF the same size
IN the styles OF lifts, the Otis carrying fifty
people ench. while the others can curry 2OJ
each, II the trucking doesn't break
inc large cars go up ut the rate OF one
metre per second. You can come down in
shorter meter than that If the tail gate Of
inc car falls out. One metor per second Is
equal to 200 feet per minute, SO a man told
me to-day.
The first platform 10 occupied bY fout
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1889-08-22

condensed 1t would be comparatively
harmless. But the continuous uprush-
ing currents support this mass of wa
ter at high level, and as their own vast
volumes of vapor rising are condensed
they add to the water already accumu-
lated thousands of feet above the earth's
surface-making, so to speak, lake
in high air.
AS the whirlwind weakens or passes
from beneath this vast body of water,
which its ascending currents have gen
Grated and upheld in the upper story
of the atmosphere, the aqueous mass,
no longer supported, drops with ever
increasing gravitational force to the
earth. In severe cloud bursts the wa
ter does not fall as rain, but in sheets
and streams, sometimes unbroken for
many seconds. The cloud burst of
1888 at Hollidaysburg, Pa, excavated
many holes in the ground, varying from
twenty-five to thirty feet in diameter,
and from three to six feet deep. In a
similar but milder storm, which visited
Boulogne last May, assures were cut
in the streets eight feet deep and open
ings made large enough to engulf q
horse and cart
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1889-08-22

this would cause considerable coolnes:
between us, but in time it would al
ways disappear. / found it necessary
not to be too intimate with him
in order to be master of the
situation in school hours. Indeed
/ went to the school-room every morn
ing with fear and trembling, as L had
over sixty names on the roll. Some ol
the pupils had been soldiers in the
army. Many of them were older than
l. This has nothing to do with the
story, however.
well, the house where I boarded
had a large fireplace. The old man
and his son Jim would make a big log
heap in the fireplace, and that carpet
less room was most cheerful place OF
an evening. The light from the fire
place was generally the only light we
had. L was very much inclined tc
read every evening, but the old folks
retired at 8 o'clock, and they slept in
the only room that had fire. There
was nothing for Jim and me to do but
to go upstairs to bed at that early
hour"
"How about the cat?" interrupted
some one.
"Oh don't confuse me. I am get
ting TO that. L wanted to get my
bearings first. AS we sat around the
big open fire, each one had his place.
The old man sat in one corner, next to
the window. The old lady sat on the
opposite side of the fireplace. Jim and
/ sat between the two. | usually sat
next to the old man. The cat was a
great pet. He was fine, large animal
one that would attract attention any
where. His regular place was before
the fire. Whenever he got tired OF
lying there he would jump on some
ones lap. He was generally well
come visitor, but l did not encourage
him to be specially intimate with me.
"Once, when we were in the midst of
the morning devotions and the old man
was pouring forth fervent prayer, Jim
gave me nudge, implying that he
wanted me to look at something. l
turned my face toward him, and he
then pointed toward his father. Inat-
urally turned my eyes in that direc-
ton. The old man was on his knees
praying, as | have said, and the old cat
sat on his back as quietly as if it We're
her accustomed place.
"The whole scene was very amusing
to me, but 1 dared not laugh. had
the utmost respect for the old mans
religion, and l would not have mani
tested the least levity for anything il
the world. Besides, Twas the teacher
one of the important personages of the
community, and it became me to be {
model of propriety everywhere.
81 got my head down next to the bacl
of my chair and my handkerchief to
my mouth and tried to be as devout as
circumstances would permit. To al
outward appearances | was succeeding
fairly well. If nothing else had hap
peued l would have escaped disgrace
Without any warning the old cat mad
a spring and lighted on my back. Thi
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1889-08-22
Sharp Criticism.

The Hon. Henry w. Paine, who is
one of the most prominent members of
the Boston Bar, did not entertain the
greatest respect for the Supreme Court
of Massachusetts, as it was at one time
constituted. His opinion of it may be
gathered from some of the sharp re-
marks attributed to him by the Green
Bag:
Once, when asked his opinion of the
wisdom of appointing certain person
of acknowledged ability to that bench,
he replied, at would be like letting a
ray of light into cave of bats"
On another occasion, while arguing
case before the court, he made a
statement of the law as he understood
it to be. He was interrupted by one OF
the judges with the remark, "Mr.
Paine, you know that is not law"
ut was law until your Honor spoke,
replied Mr.. Paine.
One afternoon, as he was riding in q
Cambridge horse-car, reading a book
bound in sheep, a friend remarked to
him, "Ah, Mr.. Paine, 1 see that you
are reading law
mo, sir" was the reply, "I am not
reading law; 1 am reading the last vol
ume of the Massachusetts Reports. ,"
He was much annoyed ON one occa-
sion, when trying case in court, by
the constant and apparently uncalled
for Interruptions of the presiding
judge. Finally he stopped short,
slowly gathered up his papers. and
started to leave tn courtroom.
stop, sir!" cried the Judge, angrily.
"Are you doing this to show your con.
tempt for the court?"
"No, your Honor!" replied Mr.
Paine; 81 was refining in order to con
ceal my contempt"
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1889-08-22
A Samoan Maids Romance.

In the book of Mrs. Laulii Willis,
the Samoan woman whose husband, a
contractor, left Alameda several days
ago and has since been missing, occurs
the following quaint story of how she
fell in love with her husband:
"The first thing saw when we went
alongside the ship was white man
with bald head. That looked very
funny to me, as l had never seen
bald d-headed man before. He was real
fat and nice-looking, but he did not
have any hair on his head, and | got
my brother, who could talk English, to
ask him, just as we got aboard, where
was all the hair that belonged on his
head. And the white man told him
that he lived in California, and they
did not have any cold weather there,
but had what they called "a glorious
climate, and the climate had taken
all the hair off his head. We got very
well acquainted, and liked him, be-
cause when another white man kept
talking to me this one with the bald
head quarreled with him and knocked
him down so he should not bother me-"
Oakland Tribune.