New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1889-01-04
CHANCES HERE AND THERE.


The REPORTS of the solar eclipse on New Years Day
contained repeatedly the name OF the leader Of the
Lick Observatory party OF Observers, j. e. heeie'
Recent maps of California show new United states
reservation, including Mt whitney and surroundings,
which is named Keclcr,T and the prospectus OF
railroad in the foothills Of the Sieras gives as the
proposed southern terminus town OF the same
name This immortalization OF Mr.. Keeler's name,
strangely enough, originally duo 10 q physical
achievement, lasting but few minutes, OF which he
was the hero. Professor Edward 5 Holdesl's chief
assistant In 1882 on the staff OF Professor sam
uel p Langley in tho scientific expedition TO Mount
Whitney. The party had established camp on tho
mountain as high practicable, and to'k OBJ
servations khere for several weeks The actual
summit Of whitney, however, still above tho
camp at the top of steep spur, and short time be-
foro departing Professor Langley was anxious to so
barometTic observation the actual summit,
I'm order to he able to approximate more nearly the
altitute Of the mounta.u Young Kcelcr volunteered
to climb the spur with mountain barometer, and did
So Hall IN Jest, Professor Langley dubbed the spur
was actually incorporaied in the official report of
the expedition. The Keller" Signal Service station,
account OF its peculiar advantages, now promises TO
become one Of the best known in tho whole meteor
illogical world
Mr. Blood, of bethlehem, Penn, was here during
the holidays, and told of tragedy real life which
occurred recently IN Moravian settlement near the
town named. One OF the many curious customs of
that strange sect Is to marry of the young people
by lot. OF course, It is not 10 be expected that
young couple shuhled together In this mechanical
way VIII always feel the Romeo-Julict degree of
passion. In order to be generous therefore, the
Morayian Intellectual ancestors made it rule that
both the young woman and the young should
have the right to refuse, once, the hepmeet drawn
In the lottery of love. In the present case young
girl was first allotted to middle aged sultor who
had been waiting for years TO his name drawn
from the wheel She could not reconcile herself TO
his physical deficiencies and exercised her right TO
withdraw. The rejected sutton sought revenge by re-
fusIng another young woman, who had been assigned
to him, and In the meantime the heroine of this
story had herself been refused. The names were
theieupon thrown back into the wheel, and after
several months, strange freak OF fate brought
the two names ont together again. Neither could
refuse 10 we'd this time and the unfortunate girl
rather than be tied Tor life Win unwecoine bonds;
jumped INTO the Bethlchem milt pond and drowned
herself. The mourning bridegroom. says Mr. Blood.
is now wandering disconsoately about the village,
waiting for another BRIDE
The philosophical beggar stIll hovers about Park
Row, and the good nature with which humanity was
imbued last week has left in him prr sslon that
the milk of human kindness has not y'i II curdled
One Of the genus was working TIE approach TO
the Brooklyn Bridge the other night. and when
substantial looking citizen came up tho tramp stag
gered toward him, and exclaimed;
Please, misher-hlc-m short m lodgfn, hant
-hlc-eat FIR two days.
Co away replied the solid man, "youre
drunkard. You've been drinking now"
Well 'zallrgh'," was the answer. " I DIDO drink
wunceawhile-h ic-but never drink s much as
t Interfere with my business and, as the beggar
Strengthened up, and spoke the last words carefully
he threw wtherlng glance at IT,, the Dr c,aen' ana
Four young men who werc celebrating" New
Years Day got out of the Thirdave.
elevated road at Flfy-ninth-st. and started down
the stairs ahead Of the crowd of passengers that
got out there also When the young men were
about half way down the stairs the two In 'front.'
stopped, caught hold of the railing on each side,
completely blocking the stairs, and began singing
There are no flies on u.s. there are no flies on us
There may be one or two you, but there are no
flies on u.s. The people in the crowd laughed at
first but began grow impatient after the jewellers
Rad sung the same words two or three times ana
some of them called out: Go home y Git out"
Go down stairs !" But they hung on and kept up
their monOtonous song until those behind began
10 push and the strain was so great met they
Obliged to let go and went tlmblng down ,no
remaining steps BY the usual good luck OF drunken
men they escaped injury
James Heartt, Of AmyvIlle. Long Island. told his
friends at the Fruit Exchange tie other day that
he has two trees in his orchard which bore last season
wcn'y-six barrels of Titus ppplns, which he sold for
s45 90 in this city Mr. Hcdrtt says that these trees
arc over twenty years DID, and II he had picked up
all the fruit which fell from their branches he would
have had several barrels In view of this show
ing Mr. Heartt boldly challenged the fruit men around
him 10 tell him what was the matter with Long
Island.
Since the sad fate Of Lord Sacvlle, the exBriiiSh
Minister to this country. and of Mr. Basset the eX-
Consul General Of Hayti at this port. both of whom
fell from place because Of too much talkatiyeness
the rctcence of the representatives OF foreign govern
rnants in this city has become almost tmpenetra0le
and reporters of the dali. press to whose lot 1t falls
10 question them have difficult experience. PrOo-
ably the most pronounced case OF severe reserve o
this kind in this city IS In the Office of the Dominican
Consul, Carlos Julien. A. san Domingo Joins Hayu,
the fate Of Mr. Basset has made particularly deep
impression on Mr. Julen's oi.ce a reporter called
az the office one da- last week, and found several
hacl-bearllcd and sa.low mon In the front room. As
soon as the news gatheer announced his mission
there was a stampede of swar nv Dominlcans TO the
inner Office where through The hafOpcn door the
visitor with, ssed a whispered fvemlnuc cons latOn,
after which a small bO. sent out to sa- THAI Mr.
Julien was not in, was I'm to speak for him,
and nobody knew If he would ever be back