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Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-04-27
A FAD OF YALE JUNIORS.
Tabs of Shirt Bosoms Forciby Obtained and
Nailed to a Tree.

Tabs of Shirt Bosoms Forciby Obtained and
Nailed to n Tree.
New York Sun.1
A novel fad has recently taken possession
of the Yale juniors, and is causing much
amusement about the college. Every after
noon and evening the members of the three
upper classes gather round their respective
portions of the new fence in front OF Durfee,
and here it is that the Juniors practice their
new trick. As new man strolls up to join
a group of classmates, he is suddenly
pounced upon, his vest is unbuttoned. and,
in spite of his struggles, the tab on the
bottom of his shirt bosom is cut off,
This trophy is then tackled up on an elm,
where are some 30 or more similar ones.
The custom is peculiarly junior one, and
the members OF the other classes look on and
cheer while the struggle is in process. As
many of the tabs so taken have the owners
initials embroidered upon them, they are
easily recognizable as they hang upon the
elm, and among them can be seen tabs once
belonging to the best known men in the
class.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-04-27
TREES THAT MAKE MUSIC.
One Species That Whistles and Another That
Plays Like a Flute.

One Species That Whistles md Another That
Plays Like Flute.
New York Ledger.1
Accounts of reliable travellers describe
musical tree, found both in the West Indies
and in Nubia. This vegetable phenomenon
has peculiar-shaped leaf, and pods with q
split or open edge. As the wind blows
through these it gives out the sound which
gives the tree its peculiar name. In the
Barbados there is valley filled with these
trees, and when the wind blows across the
island, constant moaning, deep-toned
whistle is heard, which, in the still hours OF
the night, has weird and mourntul effect.
A species of acacia, which grows very
abundantly in Nubia and the Soudan, is
also called "whistling tree" by the natives.
Its shoots are frequently, by the agency of
the larv@ of insects, distorted in shape and
swollen into a globular bladder from one
to two inches in diameter. After the insect
has emerged from circular hole in the side
of this swelling, the opening, played upon
by the wind, becomes musical instrument,
nearly equal in sound to sweettoned flute.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-04-27
HIS SHIRT WAS NUMBERED.

Tho Insignificant Clew That Led to the Idcn-
tihcation of Drowned Man.
New York Times.1
It doesn't seem possible that man could
be identified by a number printed on his
shirt, and yet that was what happened in
the case Of young man found drowned in
Brooklyn a few days ago. There was moth
ing on his person to lead to q discovery of
his identity until an officer noticed on the
tag of the shirt the name OF the maker and
the number 100,026
The manufacturer was called up on a
telephone and asked if he could tell who
had bought shirt with that number on it,
and, by referring to his book, he discovered
that such shirt had been made for John
Robinson over year before. At Mr..
Robinson's residence it was learned that he
was missing, and member of the family
quickly identified the dead body.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-04-27
MAKE THE FORESTS GLORIOUS,
Huge Butterfly That Is Known Only In the
Solomon Islands.

Hugo Butterfly That Is Known Only In the
Solomon Islands.
London Spectaror.l
One day, when off the savage island of
Malaita OF the Solomon group, Mr.. Wood
ford and others, under the protection of
sentries, went to bathe in pool. While
in the water he saw huge butterfly
coming slowly along the beech, and, hurry
ing out as he was, he seized his net
dashed of, fell over the stones, rose again,
and just in time to catch the fy. What .
pictured
81 leave it to any ardent entomologoists, 4"
he says, "to imagine my feelings" He had
"rediscovered the long lost Ornithoptera
Victoria," and why should he not feel like
Alexander on the Granicus or Hannibal at
Gamma.
These "bird-winged" butterflies are some
nine inches across the wings. One is blue
with a yellow body, another is velvety
black and metallic green. They excel in
size, but other kinds wear equally mag
ni6cent raiment, and make the glorious
forest beautiful.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-04-27
THE POETS AND LABOR.

Two Hundred Contestants for n Prize All
Take Pessim,stic View.
Current Literature.1
The French Academy gives prize of
1000 francs every year for the best verses
upon whatever subject it may select; at the
close of 1889 tine assigned theme was labor,
but of the 200 poets who entered the contest
not one considered labor in any other light
than that Of pessimism; they all dwelt upon
its pains, its hardshIps, its drudgery and its
miseries, without once touching upon its
benefits, its duties or its saving influences.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-04-27
oneen Victoria n, an Author.

Queen Victoria has written two books
which have never been published. They
are volumes of travel, and recount her i'm
pressions of various places on the Conti-
nent. She has been 30 annoyed at the
criticisms Of her published works that she
has refused to have these manuscripts put
into print. They will be published after
her death. "Oh, Queen, live foreverP'
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-04-27

A dynamo has just been designed for use
with q gas engine. The practical value of
such machine is shown by the fact that
given amount of gas will give more light
through the medium Of a gas engine and
dynamo than it will directly. In other
words, anyone within reach of gas may use
electricity for domestic lighting at cost
less than his present gas bill.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-04-27
A MANY.SlDED MAN,

The Big Salarled London Journalist Who
Has Married His Typewriter.
Current Literature
George Augustus Sala, the well-known
journalist, who has just married his type
writer, is small eyed, red checked, sharp
nosed and writing his "reminiscences; he
draws salary of $40, 900 year for dicta-
ting four editorials week for the London
Daily Telegraph; his handwriting is like
copper plate. and when conversing he puts
his head on one side after the fashion of
king fisher; he is said to be the best story
teller in Europe, and he is known TO be 81
years of age.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-04-27
NEW WAY OF SAYING II.

When One Has n Dead Sure Thing He Has
the Hilton Cinch.
st. Louis Republic.1
''The Hilton cipch" is the latest slang
phrase for dead sure thing, and has grown
out of the recent publication of the way
Judge Hilton manipulated the Stewart es-
tates to his own advantage. 1t has replaced
the ''lead pipe cinch" in vogue some time
ago, which referred to the plumber who,
while travelling on East River ferry, fell
overheard with a coil of lead pipe around
his body. The "lead pipe cinch" was too
much for him, and he never came ap again.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-04-27
And So She Hanged Herself.

Mrs. Albert Shugg, of Mauch Chunk,
called it "daypot" Her husband said 1t
was "depot." They disputed. She refused
to get supper, and he went out for the even
ing. When he returned she was hanging
by the neck, and on the table was bit of
paper on which she had written: "It's day
pot-daypot-daypotl'
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-04-27
CARRIED A PL0W A MILE,
The Feafs of a Maine Man Who Il Yss
Something OF n Prodigy.

Something OF Prodigy.
Lewiston Journal!
Mr.. Davis Mosher, who lives about mile
from the Twelve Corners, is the oldest man
but one in the town of Fayette. He is al
most 88 years of age. He has been in his
day man of great physical strength and
extraordinary powers of endurance. He
once carried on his shoulders q large, old
fashioned, breaking-up plow, from Mr.. John
Cranes, near Moose Hill, to his own home,
distance OF a mile, across lots, over fences
and among bushes and rocks. From the
same place and over the same route he car
ried two bushels and four quarts of shelled
corn. When lie was SO years old he did the
chores morning and evening, walked across
the pond to the Perkins place and cut, split
and piled cord of wood in day for Mr..
Jonathan Pike.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-04-27
He Sells by the Pound.

Detroit Free Press.
'This internal dust nuisance must dam
age you a great deal, he said to the grocer
as he lodged into the door to let q great
cloud roll by.
ooh, no, sir. Anything added to maple
sugar, prunes, evaporated apples, etc., is
paid for by the public at SO much per
pound. am not doing any kicking"
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-04-27
Ag.in.t Tbirteen ar Table.

W. b. Mallock, author of us Life Worth
Living" has started bureau in London
where men who have no engagements for an
evening may register themselves as "disen-
gagged diners" and there may be sought by
hostesses who have invited IA, but whom an
unlucky chance has set trembling through
fear of having IS at table.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-04-27
What Dixie Got From the North.

1t is an interesting point in American
history if, as stated, the Confederate gray
uniform was borrowed from the First Vir-
ginia Regiment. which borrowed it from the
Seventh New York Regiment. The Con-
federate song, Dixie" was of Northern
authorship. Some historians aver that the
South adopted the doctrine of secession
from New England.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-04-27
MARVELLOUS Triumph Over DISEASE
wITUOuT nEDIc1NE

WITHOUT MEDICINE.
DIR. WfLFoRD HALLS HEALTH PAMPHLET
shows how Dyspepsia, Constipation, Piles, Fevers,
Rheumatism, Colds. Liver or Kidney Troubles, or
almost any ailment is CONQUERED WITHOUT
MEDICINE. The Treatment is harmless. easily ap-
piled; relief is speedy and permanent It Is
neither Mind Cure. Faith Cure nor a set Of rules,
but Positive Treatment based upon the Laws Of
Life. For particulars and Endorsements address
with &c stamp) HYGIENIC TREATMENT CO.,
Agents, Z. y. Box S2o, Pittsburx, Pa.
ap10-64-TTssu
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-04-27
A Nation of Beer Drinkers.

A maker of stoppers for beer bottles, with
q suit for infringement before the United
States Court, gave some notion of the i'm
mense business done in bottled beer, by
stating that there were 80, 600, 900 of his
itoppers alone in use in the United States.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-04-27
The Literary Idon of London.

Current Literature.J
Andrew Lang is unquestionably the FORE
most literary power in London at the present
time; among his associates he is simply re-
vered as being OF superhuman genius; in
person he is tall, spare, dark, with noble
forehead, dark furtive eyes, and an ample
lower jaw; he is nervous as cat, gives the
impression OF being in delicate health, and
has the Oxford dravi, and very nervous
laugh.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-04-27
THE LIGHT-CoLoRED CIGARS,

Another great mistake has been rampant
in the craze for light-colored cigars, now
nearly past, or at all events visibly on the
wane. The light wrapper was no criterion
of the color of the filler, and light wrapper
on q dark filler simply destroyed the even
run of the leaf throughout, which is the one
essential of a fine cigar. The light leaf was
immature, plucked before the sun had fin.
ished it by natures process, acrid in flavor,
and in smell, and glaring advertisement of
the fact that the smoker knew nothing what
ever about what constitutes a good cigar.
When Sir Morell Mackenzie advocates the
smoking of a mild cigar he assuredIy does
not mean a light-colored cigar, he means a
cigar in which the tobacco is perfectly ma
tured, fully cured, and SO, being
free from the acrid principle
present in all immature fruit or vegeta-
tion, will form fragrant, smooth smoke,
but OF q moderately dark color. 1t is worthy
of note that the hotter the country, the
darker and heavier the cigar is that forms
the prevailing taste. A Cuban is never
seen smoking light colored cigar, but he
grades their strength nevertheless, BY size.
He smokes bouquet after his breakfast, a
regalia after lunch and after dinner an i'm
perial or celestial, but they will all be Of
dark leaf, and of all people in the world the
Cuban is the best judge of what the finest
quality of cigar really consists OF, and the
proper method for obtaining the greatest
amount of good from it.
WILT P. POND, Editor of Tobacco.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-04-27

lucy IIONCEus
Lucy was an awful flirs,
Very fond Of fooling.
She had manners sharp and pert
Got in early schooling,
Ben. the baker, sought her hand,
But she would not heed him,
Too ill-bred. understand,
So she did not knead him.
Dick, the driver, years ago,
To Lucy love was telling,
Wanted her for wheel or whoa,
To rein within his dwelling.
Months she held whip hand of him,
Dick, meanwhile, in clover,
But to crafty her whim,
Then she threw him over.
John. the joiner, loved in vain,
Lucy's pretty features,
He mitre been trife plane
Though the best of creatures,
Soon he saw he could not nail
Her TO share his pleasures,
30 knot-holely pleased TO fail,
he ihen took other measureA
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-04-27

When notice In the papers
Any so-called weather warning.
Or predictions of the capers
That the wind will cut next morning;
When read the words prophetic
OF "clear calm and warmer weather."
In my language energetic
denounce it altogether.
Morning journal and courier., 1890-03-03

naents in this line.
 Prices $6 to $25.
Morning journal and courier., 1890-03-03
\ nssUmE OF THE WEEKS POLO.

The situation may Change Materially
 This week = work Of the League
 Teams-Hartfsrd and Now Haven
 Lead in Playing-SportinE News ana
 Gossip.
 Another week of the polo season has ended and things look little more cheerful in this city. Of course all the cranks in the differ ent cities have not been satisfied, for all the teams could not have won; but everything is all serene at present in the local polo ranks. The Scientists made . decided brace and evened up things with Hartford in making the best record for the week. Every man on the team realized that they had reached the end of their rope, and 1t was case of ''git up and hustler with them or have good fine imposed to make them play as they are capable of playing. At any rate the team seemed to possess new life last week, and started in with the vim that characterized
 their play in the first of the season. Not even the most chronic kicker can complain of the playing last week, and the boys de-
 serve all the praise that can be given them. They won two straight from Springfield, and this alone ought to show what the team is capable of doing. They lost to Aeriden Sat- urday night, but they can revenge them selves by doing up the 'Kids" in the local rink this evening. They won three games out of the four played, and brought last weeks percentage of .436 up to that of .453 at present. Last week they ended in last place, but they are at present in fifth, and if 1 the same gait is kept up through the coming week they will probably go ono better.
Morning journal and courier., 1890-03-03
GEORGE ADEk,s LOVING cUp.

A Brilliant Gathering Honors the |
 Popular Yale Athlete h the Parlors 1
 of the Hotel Brunswick, New York |
 city.
 In response to special invitation about one hundred of the personal friends of George A. Adee assembled in the parlors of the Hotel Brunswick. New York city, at seven o'clock Saturday evening to give him testi. monial dinner. After . pleasant half hour of congratulations dinner was enjoyed in the elegant ball room connected with the hotel. Three long tables extended tho length of tho room and across the end was placed fourth one for the toAstmaster and promin- ent'participants. They were lavishly sup piled with flowers. An orchsstrs furnished familiar college airs from the balcony. The menus were very artistic. There was an etching of the old campus on the Arst cover and representation of the cup on the other. Judge Rowland as chairman soon made the opening speech of the evening. In the course of which he took strong ground for honest ath- letics among college men, recommending Yale's position in the last football controver- BY. He then presented Mi. .Ades with Masonic silver loving cup which bore the inscription, "To Faithful son of Yale." This we pre- sent to you, said the judge, 50 that you may ever have a proper reminder of how much your untiring services are appreciated by all Yale men. As the cup was being passed the hall rang with cheer upon cheer for the recipient
 MT. Adee in his reply seemed greatly overcome by the grand outburst of esteem and said he should treasure the cup as the dearest token in his possession. The cup was filled with champagne and passed from hand to hand, as many well
 known Yale man toasted George Adee. The cup when not in use stands on a wooden base made from one of the campus elms.
 Good speeches were made during the eve- ming by Chauncey Depew, who intimated that the athletic field was the only place left for real enthusiasm and that it had got to be the
 Glad" now to be surprised at nothing in or- dinary experience.
 Brayton Ives spoke of the change which
 college athletics had brought about, co%psr- Ing Phillips Brooks and Joseph Twitchell,
 ministers of to-day, with those of earlier | times. | Mr. Mason of Chicago told of his experi-
 ence as coxswain when in college. He ran
 the boat into bridge and spilled out the
 crew. He was afterwards politely requested
 to resign his position. In this way, he said,
 he had acquired . record which he knew
 would not be surpassed. e--s Speeches were also made by Ike Bromley,
 Walter Camp, R. J. Cook and others. | Among those present were: J. A. Daven-
 port, J. Frederick Kernochan, Frederick H.
 Betts, William K. Townsend, W. w. Skiddy,
 J. T. Whittelsey, Julius w. Curtis, 0. H.
 Farnam, w. L. McLane, James W. Wad.
 worth, Henry s. Hoyt.
Morning journal and courier., 1890-03-03
long time hs was one of the trustees of the aussna ssvIuun at Middlet0Wn

long time hs was one of the trustees of the insane asylum at Middletown.
 As mentioned above he was for years director and president of the New Haven Clock company and has been more or less interested in . number of other business concerns.
 Mr. Enelish's first wife died October 2S, 1874. Of this union there were four chile dren born, of whom Henry F. English is the only survivor; the names of the others were James Edward, Augustus O., Edward F. He married his second wife, Miss Morris of New York, October 9, 1885, who survives him.
 The details regarding the funeral are not yet announced. The intefment will be in the family lot in Evergreen cemetery.
 Mr. EnRlish left Will, the terms of which are not te be made known to the public yet, but 1t iEknown that there are number of valuable bequssts tor charitable purposes, which, added to the $20, GOO given for the Enslish drive and SIG, ,000 to the Yale Law school, will make for him an enduring me- mortal in the community. M He was also liberal in his contributions to St. Paul,s church, where he attended divine worship, and to the new Sunday school build ing that has lately been added there are many things that have been supplied from his gen erosity which otherwise the society would have felt they could not afford. 1t le an lntoroeGlnR tRcG that ne n0Q nRrOly experienced day of sickness, until his last illness, from early boyhood. When he found himself really i'll and that nurse had ar- rived to attend him, he called her to the bed side and pleasantly remarked: "Well, I have broken my record" and began, soon after discoursipg in historical vein, as was often his wont, till cautioned to stop by those in l attendance because of his weakened condi- tion.
 Governor English was member of the Quinnipiso club, and while at the club | Saturday evening week ago noticed that he | was trifle hoarse, but never having experi- enced much difficulty from colds, soon dis missed the subject. On last Monday night he began to feel some concern owing to an increase of hoarseness, but it was not until Tuesday that he felt admonished that the cold was of serious character.
 MT. English erected in comparatively late years several prominent buildings for invest ments, among which are the English building on Chapel street below Union, one on State street near Grand, occupied by MT. Moffat,
 and one on State street, corner of Court. | MT. English was ever a genial man. ever a man of charitable heart and impulses, and ever hospitable and devoted to bis friends.
 He was unostentatious, yet dignided in
 bearing, man who would anywhere be
 conspicuous for his fine presence and ap'
 pearance In his death New Haven loses 8 citizen who has indelibly left his name high
 in it's records for usefulness, patriotism and private worth.
Morning journal and courier., 1890-03-03
RADIATORS OF LIGHT.
Rev. George A. Pelton, Fermer Of Watertown, at Dwight Pla' GnurGh.


 Rev. George A. Pelton, FsrmsrIy
 Of Watertown. at Dwight Place
 Church.
 Rev. George A. PeltsD, formerly of Water town, Conn.,, occupied the pulpit of Dwight Place church yesterday morning. He chose his text from Genesis 1, 3: "And God said: Let there be light" His discourse bore strongly upon the need of more spiritual life in the churches. He compared the son of God to the sun of the universe.
 As light and health giving properties were centered in the natural sun when it was lifted to its sovereign place in the heavens, 90 is light snd salvation centred in the son of God, Jesus Christ. In Him is the eodhead himself evident to the world. For us Christ is the fundamental quality of redemptive light. As the stars reflect their light through the abysses of space, so do the rays of the godhead pierce our blackness of ignorance. Jesus, as our sun, has been surrounded by myriads of radiators. The apostles, of course, were the greater lights. It is the mission of the Christian church to multiply its light giving influence. The spirit that brooded the disconsolste voids of tho beginning has brooded the moral wastes ever since. This light giving ia g highly needful work. Our moral voids and wastes are alarmingly large. More light is needed for sinful classes of every kind. It is our common work. To be light-rsdiators we must ourselves be luminous bodies and we must be ife.reoeivers. Jesus is the great sun of our universe and from him should we obtain our light. We cannot rsdiate light among our fellow, men unless we are susceptible to his rays, for he alone can supply our void. Lst us, then, turn our souls toward this blessed sun Of light and of salvation.
Morning journal and courier., 1890-03-03

team. They are Thomas H. Hart of Fitch. burg and L. J. Gums of Millers' Falls. Both are ea&chers.
 These are the days that the base ball men keep moving. The players faces are turned toward the south, while the magnstes are gathering at Cleveland in the west. Mean- time the season for active word draws on apace. Only six weeks off nowl
 Anson may not have . great aggregation of ball tossers, but he fs entitled to the greatest praise for the manly course he pur- sued from the start. We do not hear of any attempts at bribery out there, norSof injunc- tion against players for refusing to accept bribes.
 Brooklyn's Brotherhood players sail for southern climes s.to.day,. Ward will put them through rigid course of training for the hard pennsnt fight they have before them, and the willy shprtstop says he: will have them in the pink of condition by the time they return north.