New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1889-02-01
CHANCES HERE AND THERE.

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man in this town wrote to the Commissioner OF
Patents few days ago for Information, inclosing a
2-cent stamp for reply. The stamp came back, &C
companted by this communication:
Sir: Herewith please find Enclosed postage stamps
TO the amount Of cents, which accompanied your
letter Of January "a No 2o4, lO6) ordering informa
ton You are Informed that postage stamps are not
receivable by this Office in payment OF fees dues.
Your order has been placed on file and viii receive
attention Very respectfully,
JAMES W. JIPSCoMB, Chief Clerk.
Enclosures: 2-cent stamp. Total, cents"
Persons who are extremely particular about their
health decline TO support themselves by holding on
10 the straps In tho elevated cars.
What vast amount of money such a two-year-old
as fremont King Fox could win this year In
addition to the 100000 Of the Junior Champion stakes
at Monmouth Park the $4,000 Of the second Futurty
the 100000 Of the Realization Stakes the $4,000 OF
the Double Event and the $4,000 Of the Great Fast
ern Handicap at sleepshead Bay; tho $4,000 of the
Titan Stakes at Jerome Park; the $4,000 of the ST.
Louis Futurity; the go 900 Of the Great American
Stakes at Brooldyn-in addition to these princely
prizes, to say nothing of dozens Of stakes worth from
$1,000 to $500. the NewYork Jockey Club comes
TO the front with the Great Eclipse Stakes which, with
$4,000 added money and $3.50 each for starters,
will be worth over 100000 Like the Junior Cham
pon and Great American Stakes the conditions OF the
Great Eclipse Stakes impose penalties. youngser
carrying lis pounds might win the three and put
100000 to his credit. But by winning one Of them
he would have to take up 100 pounds for the Futuy
Last year Proctor Knott won s607s0 fl. six races.
This year It is possible for twoyearold to win moro
than that In q single journey. King Thomas, the
S4O,OOO son Of King Ban, IS being saved for that
journey, but don't be surprised to see $3.50 scrub
Lieutenant Aaron Ward, Of the Navy, sailed for
Europe few days ago. to become the Naval Attache
to the American Legations In France, Germany and
Russia with headquarters at Paris He win relieve
Lieutenant b. H. Buckingham, now at Paris. Lieu
tenant buckingham viii then proceed to London to
relieve Commander II. Chadwick the present Naval
Attache at the American Legation there, who is
coming homo presumably TO take command Of one
Of the new Navy vessels. Lieutenant Ward has
served as aid to AdmIrals Worden winsiow Upshur
and Luce and is of the few Russian scholars in
the service, having taken Of study at Paris
and Stuttgart At the Lycee Bonaparto he carried
off the French essay prize she subject Of which was
a supposed letter from General Carnot an ancestor
of the present President of France, to Napoleon /.
Lieutenant Wards father was Ward D. Burnett, q
commander Of q New-York regiment in the Mexican
War. His grandfather was Aaron Ward, at ono time
a member Of Congress from this State, who, dying
without sons, made request that his daughters
son tale HIS name, which acceded TO. HIS great
CraDQfather was Elkanah NatSOns WuOi IN 20, was
In Paris with Benjamin Franklin working for the
embryo American Ropublic. The Lieutenant married
one Of the daughters Of n. P. Wills, the poet
II doesn't take much to interest crowd. The
casual encounter of street dogs, the crash and bang
OF the steam flre-engnes as they rush through tho
streets, or the antics OF runaway horse are
features always of romantic and absorbing interest,"
and can always be depended upon to arrest the at
tention Of people In the thoroughfares. But the
average crowd find entertainment in affairs Of less
significance and import. Any one who passes
along Broadway at Fourteenth-st., where worf1nen
are buslly engaged IN hauling away heaps of I'M
romantic dirt and IN bringing I'm piles Of unpootc
stone, will find veri1cation Of this statement 1t
IS impossible TO estimate the intensity Of the delight
which anmates the crowd Of people as they watch
ono cart go and another come on its dull errand.
From morn TO noon, from Doon to night the crowd
watches and fingers with the usual comments Of 40,
sorbed slghtseers One can almost hear for blocks
away the murnur Of discomfort arising from the
throng as the signal 70 shut down work Is given
The crowd departs, only TO assemble again next day.
Look on Tho TrIbune's fifth page to-day for those
short. crisp advertisements which contain 80 much
in nutshell