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, 1890-01-02
Young N-aocinaton.

Two young assistant city physicians
paid u visit TO the Washington school
the other morning which they will
remember to the longest day they live.
SO will sixteen young misses who
rank nearly or quite as young ladies.
Professor Ridgewly had a hand in the
affair, and, keenly ~appreciative of a
good joke, he enjoys the telling of
this one.
There is some sort of a law about
the vaccination of children, and the
young medicos called at the school
with the request that a number of
the pupils be brought out for examina-
ton as to whether their scars were of
a recen enough date. Their pockets
were stuffed with points ready for use,
and they were eager and anxious to
experiment. Professor Ridgeway, the
obliging principal, told them they
should have all the subjects they
wanted, and, stepping into a recitation
room, spoke to the pupils of the sew
enth grade. Then they filed into the
hall-sixteen as fair young ladies as
one could wish to see.
The doctors stood aghast, while the
young ladies stood up in line with
wondering interest.
Professor Ridgeway introduced the
young specialists, and tersely explain
ed the object of their visit. The young
ladies blushed and hesitated. The
young men blushed and looked for a
of escape. One bright young
miss with a convenient pair of scissors
quietly cut a slit in the left sleeve of
her dress, and this brought the young
ladies to the giggling stage, which
threatened to become hysterical as a
companion whispered:
Don't start that fashion, Mine isn't
on my arm"
Then the young medicos fed wildly,
the girls Wen into commissions, and
Professor Ridgeway erased every black
mark against everybody for the day.
Kansas City Times.
, 1890-01-02

rarest chance, in the hours Of day. This
is the time when the otter-little known
of fera nature, yet far more plentiful
han supposed, indeed, ons high author
ity says hardly q stream exists how with
out its otter, albeit he be rarely seen
makes his journey for ~foraging purposes.
Far and away from his holt up stream
comes the swift, shadowy, stcalthy am
phibious creature, nearly always going
down stream, yet leaving that strong
scent behind wherever he touches shore,
which the hounds hours afterwards dis
cover. He makes his journey, feeds,
and retires again always before dawn.
At certain points he leaves the stream,
and traversing the bank re-enters it fur
Their on, and usually shows a curious
preference-just as the hare will in the
run" in a hcdge-for the same precise
spot OF exit and re-entrance. Here and
there he may leave a fine fish with his
oct piece bitten out of the shoulder-the
'~'otter's mark"
Much rarer, but still, especially in the
wilder and more solitary parts, to be
met with is the badger, a fine young
specimen of which was found among the
timber loads deposited some time & on
a timber wharf by the canal at the City
road, London. The badger burrows in
the most lonely and isolated recesses of
woods and hills, and those who have ex
plored one of the burrows can say what
u fine specimen of engineering and sani-
Gation this clearly and illuminated
beast-for dirty as a badger" is simply
another exemplitication Of popular fall
lacies-presents to his superior, man.
The badger is very little seen, being,
perhaps. the most retiring and conserva-
tive of British beasts, pursuing the even
tenor of his way much us when Cesar
landed in Kent.
But it is of his appearance as one Of
the night wanderers we would speak.
II you are lucky enough to be in his To-
cality in the small hours, you may see a
grayish reature curiously like a little
bear waddling and granting in the
moonlight, very uneasy il to your lee
ward, as its scent is keen. 1t goes long
distances at night, when humanity and
most Of the animal population with
which man is familiar are, as Carlyle
puts it, Lying in horizontal swathes."
OF the fox as "A night traveller it were
trlte 10 speak, everybody, ana especially
in the case OF fowl keepers or farm
yards, knows about him. -Weasels are
fond of gliding across roads, and along
bitches too, during the witching time,
and, like its tame town relative, the cat,
that has taken to field life, poaching and
evil ways generally, is always a most
prominent feature in nature by night
Chambers Journal.
, 1890-01-02

The earth, travelling in its orbit
around the sun and onward with the
entire solar system around some I'M
known and still greater center of at,
traction, says The American Geolo-
gist, is constantly traversing new re-
gions of space, which it depletes
of meteoric dust and meteorites,
thus steadily-no matter how slow
Embarrassing in diameter. Now
let this growth continue till the earth
has just twice the attractive power
which 1t now possesses; we would then
have twice the number of meteorites
and double the quantity of dust falling
annually upon it than now.
Fortunately for our heads the earth
has not as yet attained very formula
BILE dimensions, but we may look upon
it as an established fact that it con
stantly gains in weight, and that in
proportion TO such gain its attractive
power steadily increases.
The attractive force of the sun is SO
enormous that a perpetual hail of me.
teorite and a torrent of dust particles
must rush upon it from all directions,
and some of the foremost observers are
now of the opinion that these falling
bodies are the sole cause of the suns
heat.
In the light of this theory our earth
is a young and growing, not an old
and dying planet, a planet with a flu
ture, which ought to be cheerful news
to all of US, although we shall not live
to reap the benefit of it; and the sun
far from beihg on its last legs as an
expiring luminary, is steadily gaining
in heat and lighting capacity.
, 1890-01-02
MINIONS OF THE NOON.
SIGHTS AND SOUNDS BELONGING
TO NATURE BY NIGHT.

Birds whose Sweet Notes Arc Never Heard
by Those Who Retire E~arly-Four Footed
Midnight Prowlers with Bright Eyes and
Keen Scent.
To all inhabitants of great cities, and
to many dwellers even in the rural dis
tricts, the night sights and sounds by
river, wood and field are quite unknown.
For, during the hours when the wild
things so hidden by day are at large,
and the birds whose notes are not dis
tinguished in the full chorus of the day
are at their sweetest, the majority of
people are asleep, OF at any rate in bed.
Yet the summer nights, brief as they
are, are full of life when the darkness is
most complete, with a fullness which is
vivid in our memory of many OF the
small hours passed in the meadow Or
by lonely wood under the starlit sky.
And first of all TO be mentioned is the
amount of bird music to be heard at
night by those who are present to hear
it. Nor need one go afield for all
though some Of the rarest will only be
found in the solitudes-for some of the
songsters in the Silly night pour forth
their music in the garden-that one
compensation, however dull or
place the locality, to all who really live
in the country"
NIGHTS SWEET SINGERS.
The nightingale, as every one knows,
is u night singer, whose exquisite gush
of melody in the ivory moonlight"
while the air is fragrant with the dewy
a. =. ,,lt1- 1T .,,a,,IL ., 9,,,,I
the dullest hearts with some echoes of
romance.
Beginning nearest home, in the quaint
garden, the shrill yet soft and vivacious
trilling of the whitethroat meets the ear
"A bird not very generally known, but
a haunter of the same spot year after
year, loving well an evergreen on a lawn
as a home, at whose base its well feath-
cred nest is built. 1t is a bird of lively
song, contrasting in the moonlight with
the most musical, most melancholy fiut-
ing of the nightingale.
Step forth from the garden, and ira
verse the more remote ground by seques-
tered coppice or double hedgerow, where
ancient trees entwine, and the rich music
of that shy songster the woodlark, which
ID 40 llNtlt IDPuldll1 hIO"H NJ ~ clio
tive the skylark is, generally floats out
on the night Cross the meadows, over
which echoes in every direction the
harsh cry of the landrail, toward the
winding river, ripping through its rushy
margin on either side, and shining like
silver in the moonlight. Pause, and you
will neal the humble but pretty lay of
of the reed sparrow seldom recognized
by day; and what is far rarer, and can
indeed be said to have been heard but
by few, tho merry carol OF the water
ousel, that snowy breasted little bird
which has such quaint ways, posing mo
tionless in the day on some rock or stone,
and then darting under water, where, on
the shallow gravel, for brief moment it
can be seen running.
MIDNIGHT PRowLRhs.
He who wanders in a summer night
ere dawn has shown its earliest sign by
meadow, grove, and stream" will see
strange things. rot to be seen, save by
, 1890-01-02

Tne rigid punctuality of Washington
was illustrated by an incident during his
visit to Boston just a hundred years ago.
Having appointed 8 O'Clock in the morn
ing as the hour at which he should set
out for Salem, he mounted his horse just
as the Old South clock was striking that
hour, The company of cavalry which
was to escort him did not arrive till after
his departure, and did not overtake him
till he had reached Charles river bridge.
San Francisco Argonaut.
, 1890-01-02
Tho Box on the Platform


AT the dinner station, where we stopped
n day on a certain Tennessee railroad,
almost the first sight which greeted the
eyes Of those who got off was a rough
burial box on the platform, and seated
nea it was an old black woman with a
handkerchief II her eyes. When kindly
asked the cause of her sorrow she pointed
to the box and replied:
"De ole mans in dar."
"Your husband?'
Eyes; died two days ago back yere in
the kentry."
"And what are you doing with the
body here?'
81 wants to bury it up at Charlestown,
but 1 hain't got money huff to take it on
de railroad"
What nonsenseI' exclaimed a man,
as he came forward. whats the diff
ference where a niger is buried? They
want her to bury it here, but she won't.
She's determined t. take it to Charles
town.
For what reasonY' asked the passen-
ger who had put all the previous ques-
tions.
"'Kase, sab, all de TO chilIn is buried
up dar', an his mudder an sister, an de
poo ole man will be lonesome down
yere."
"What boshr' growled the kicker.
"Look hereI" whispered the other, as
he went over to him, I'D rather be a
niger with her soul than to be a white
man with yoursi She's right. Let the
family dead sleep together"
He entered the express office, paid for
the shipment of the body, bought the
widow a ticket to Charlestown, and then
dropped a $40 gold piece in her hand and
said:
"Giye him a decent funeral, nanny,
and this will put up h~eadboard to mark
the grave"
May the good Lawd Dress you for
But he hurried in to snatch a bite to
eat. While he was gone 1 made inquiries
as to his identity, and finally found a
man who replied:
"Why, that's Col. Blank, of Alabama
He owned over three hundred niggers
when the war broke out."-New York
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, 1890-01-02

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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1890-12-25
rnp ErNns rlR TILE N0SPTALS

once again the Hospital SATURDAY ardSAn'"y hs'o ~
ton ~ Nov YORK forward with ltiinnual co''u'n
in .hc churches synagogue. t'ad@s and ro'cosi"h' inc
a,oel Of the association ~ the noblt Of all hnn"
cba-itia dc-ervedr meets generous repon'e rom inc
,rlir The association cmbaccs thirty losIndls, cover
inc ovory branch Of medical and surgical science ana u
general collection is dSifd among them % the bass q" e
work reformed during t. preceding yesron behalf u me
suffering poor. During i.c last year tehs'"ea''d Hos,
itals cared for more than IA 900 bed sufferers 1890
those heinz free patients while no less tan 100 600 f''
dispcnsarv patients operated or ccoF'd Wcd'ch
aid The collection will be taken up on The approaching
s,rd,y and Sunday The association crncs.ly entfcats
ALL employers and employed. 70 Join IN H." 0nm"n cause %
relieving their suffering fowcTaufcs return for the
collection in the trades and p0fossons the
association through the hospitals taxes care
durlng treatment Of any contrlhuun c0poye or
any one requiring free hospital treatment who
is recommended 10y contributing employ, at the rate Of
II day each patient until the cntrcamount contrib
uted by each trade exhausted The mobers Of the
ecut!vc committee George Macculloch iier the Rev
(eor-e s Baker John S. Bu-sn9 Dr. Rihard II. Derby
A. g. Agnew, jacob II. Schir and George. Magoun.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1890-12-25
no ESCAPE FROM THE SHOWER OF RICE.

The marriage took place not long ago of two youna
persons who are cmnently matter OF fact in every thns
one form which their lack Of romantic sentiments took
WAS strong objection to any observance OF the time
honored customs which supposed to bring goodiucs
10 the newly married pair. Especially ridiculous dd
they consider the fashion Of throwing rice after thS
couple As they start on their honeymoon, and they
LET their friends and relatives understand that they
would feel hurt II any practised the rite OF the
absurd superstition as they called It,
Well the marriage ceremony went CT as smootnN
and prosaicaly as Imaginable. No one, apparently.
VA, willing 10 disregard the wishes Of the pair one
younc man. however could not resist the temptation "
play a Joke on tho couple. In the course OF the re-
pton that followed the wedding breakfast. he stole
away from the crowd and took the bridesooms UNI
,r,,la into a secluded part Of the house. lie put
r handful Of rice into umbrella, and then wrapped
a.. M nicely again When he put the cover on again.
t,e ric. WAS so firmly tied up that il did not fall ont
When the happy couple drove away from Inc mouse
m ,balr yuv ~ ie railroad station Ia start on their
noneymoon trip. they congratulated themselves that 10
,,ne lad been 50 Foolish a. lombard them with 1ce
and old shoes, Well. everything went along All riehs
r1tl The couple reached Washington. several GAYS
.f,ar leaving this city. They were Visiting some OK
Inc nace, II interest. when rlnstorn came UP SUD
dsnlr The husband hugriedly unwrapped his nm
Irea and raised it, have shower OF rice fall on MS
bride and himself. -. -, .L ,,r o,n
There wa, shadow the rest of the trlp ana
when the pair returned to this city. no one dared ten
InSm Who lad piiycd the joke them. Consequently
no wedding present has been returned ana no irleho'
hi lrOkc
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1890-12-25
DIR. HAEPERS PLAN or EDUCATION.
THE TRUSTEES OF THE NEW BAPTIST UNIyER
Silly LIKELY TO ANrEPT III

THE TRUSTEES OF THE NEW BAPTIST UNIYER-
SITY LIKELY TO ACCEPT IT.
chicago, Dec. ~ (,pccial.t is tiled that the
new educational scheme submitted by DIR. Harper
Baptist University. will be accepted by the trustees at
their next meeting. Dr.. GoOdspeed. one Of the
trustees. said to-day The plan Of DR.. Harper Is
for college extension. !; IS proposed to bring higher
education within reach Of the common people, and to
do 80 will be the purpose Of the new university TO
operate through a system Of branch schools or
academies scattered through the country. This plan
has been generally misunderstood These branches Will
be nothing more than preparatory. with no power Of
comforting diplomas degrees All Of these branches
WILL however, be under the supervision Of the central
Institution Of learning great object will not be
much to graduate IS TO educate. and We hope to ac-
ccmplsh the greatest good by bringing the means Of
higher education within reach Of the poorer classes.
The plan. l understand it, is not aterncd after
any other now In existence, but is original with DR..
Harper.
hut that portion Of DR.. IIarpcr's plan which i'm
presses the trustees most favOrably is that which dis
penses with a regular curriculum. and gives the
brighter students the privilege OF completing their col
lego course and receiving their full degrees and hOnos
In less than the mediocre student can accomplish
this. Students will have the benefit Of their own
energy In this direction, and may complete the WORK
I'm shor long term, their circumstances or am
billions may direct. The plan ~ organization will
doubtless be adopted at the next meeting of the Board
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1890-12-25


9'''4 y i'''"N''" SNNI-"' NN' DIM ''' '''
Tie most Ihi''r' iHf OF outdoor sports -''cf"i'i
JOY '"o"l ' ''' I''''" h'''" ~ inc F"'' ''''''.'
l''"eeh INC ''.'- "i tue ''.'.. 7''.'F 'H' 'I.
american NLlcIl cab Although M" season i'f
Rugby football Ir over Inc "a"ifs season h-is
the year Ion;d I''I teams contain among Their nui"
beers name u'i "ir "cH known among iooibh phi'e''
ON tine other -d". AID their contest da' promise
." be m@"IF struggle Jog supremacy. i"e """A''
WI play TIE SAIL" men lh'l "IF'"'.I 90 ''' ''''.''
indoor meeting ~ te staten Island fiA'ilc Club. tn
Madison square Garden. ~" ZANE "In De- ..1r'"d
at 80 Ocl'r aud u The wc thcr b. Of All favorable
10 eoodly gathering OF the admirers q; Gacl0 football
wlN turn ont 10 -cc the game.
There Wa good stating ~ Van Courtundt Lake
Yesterday and , ,,o,ry ,r.,ad cuioyct the epor. al
o'F. van ''N'.'''I ''u' ''i W. '""'" ~ ''
Of the Sow NurI I.d Northern Railroad. skater, On
thi, CIV MI Lro.Al.a are til al4iously awaiting
tito t,.. 81, Chm ~ d.,,tf,. .,.,t,.. 10, d.. t,lr.
'"' N-" vi "' '''' ''"'''"7 '"''''0 '' ''- '
ln Central and Prospect PARKS.
Tt. ,o,.,... ~ fla. ,f,ub.,t,p Athletic CIil are
lI'uH "l i'H NaiilS I'p sentative 'y' '"'''""''
nov 100 England ! cable dispatch Wa received lat
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1890-12-25
IT ALL LAY WITH THE" MEDIUM"
THE MIND READER" SUCCESSFUL ONLY WHEN
HE HAD A CERTAIN MANS HAND.

MIND READER SUNCf@>SFUL ONb1 WHEN
HE HAD A CERTAIN MANS HAND
p. Alexander tombstone, who says he is a MIND
reader, gave an exhibition of his powers yesterday
before committee Of newspaper men, and colonel W.
Forsyth, a Worlds Fair Commissioner from Chicago
About 80 D. NJ Colonel Forsyth entered the Hoffman
House and asked for friend who happened not to be
in. Al the clerks suggestion, the Colonel consented
to act the committee The Colonel and three news
paper men then went to the Gsey House and selected
the name of a guest the hotel register. The three
newspaper men made note Of the selection, while
Colonel Forsyth copied it upon his cuff. The com
mtee then went to the Fifth Avenue Hotel and con
ccacd a large steel needle in the curtain Of the
window Of the stairway leading from the Office 10 the
second floor. This done they returned to Mr.. John
stones room I'm the Hoffman House tombstone was
then blindoldcd After working himself to the proper
state OF excitement by dancing and swapping his
fingers, he finally selected Colonel Forsyth as his
medium
Accompanied by the Colonel and one watcher john
stone withdrew 10 Il side room as the mind reader had
taken the cloth from his eyes in the meantime, it
was possible for him-of course, without the knowl-
edge Of the Cooncl-to see the name written on the
cuff. tombstone then went into a room from when
he soon emerged, blindfoldcd. holding CoNncl FOR
>yth and his assistant by the hand They made ther
way to carriage and Johnstone and the Colonel
took seats with the driver
The mind reader, sill bllndolded took the reins, and
succeeded IN guiding the carriage after fashion,
to the Giscy House. Followed by hundreds OF people
and still holding the ColOnes hand. he made his way
the hotel register and after another series OF finger
swapping and dancing, called ont the lame selected
by tie committee. His vision to the Initials 81
the man. his place OF residence and the
number Of his obscure however, that
he was unable 10 them. lie complained that there
was not sufficient sympathy" In his surround.ngs'
lie entered the corridor " the Fifth Avenue Otcl Od
ing two newspaper men by the hand and rushed up
tho stairs e. sofa In tine hallway OF The second hOOr
lie continued hls mi hunt for quarter OF an
hour when he was forced TO declare than the TWO
new paprr men were not good mediums.
colonel Forsyth then again took tombstone Manu.
and the mind reader quickly walked 10 the place
where lie needle hidden.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1890-12-25
he GOT AWAY FROM TER
From The Cincinnati Post.

From The Cincinnati Post.
They -at SIDE BY side on Of the long seats IN fhs
crint CENTRAL Dcpot Her face looked As hard ana
rugged stick OF cord wood while his nose sSa
hnf,cd hi, feet for fully ten minutes, then broke tho
silence 49,. . 49,. and 600 ,t,,u. that thar
u'2 To ANU Won DON'T You is, sit right thar. That
trunk ard basket is all right. I've got inc 'he'A''
"''G" Silence Of twenty minutes, broken asain by;
ION IIanrar hear the fir bells. ana want 10 SEQ
,h., engines ID lbs and nnd ont where III" tire is'
Y'u s,t keep ,tlll; 'nln1 none OF your properly
u ,iod once aeain I'm his seat with sigh. but
came once more Ia the attack with -.
Lord lIannar. thar'S dog fight across the street
' a for the S2or but was YSu pg say r Sss
by the od lady VIII We r"ne OF your honery hounds
cr nchtn'. know ye' ,...o. ono ov,,or,,v :,
He %S, au tea nor broke l"oIc once again with
,o, nn ~ be,nd hand and I'm going TO find ont.
Won can't count on these here clerks telling the tru'h
KNOW Wv, T aud know Won. Don't stir; this train
Is T ~, "i d man collapsed once more, but there was
rlitt"r in his eye that meant he had not given up TIC
'uuf lunar ~, tRars coln' he fight twixt two
h,clnicn out thar, and I'll find out all about IL ana
tel we haven't got no call interfere, and you stay
Ir,t then lady acquaintance OF the ola lady entered
o,S ,ehne Exchanging greetings the old man saw hA
nlu and madc dash Tor the door. and in the twlnk'
n, an eve was across the street In beer saloon.
I In IA i,dy missed him Instantly and. turning 10
nan in the next seat asked; " when way oid 'hh'
laid headed. red nOSed man go
v" \cro-, the street. ma,aIi. ,.,., r.
"Ddn't know IT. Didn't Gist kh9w mt ,,.bin sAtS 20
him a plugged quarter. and he's eist 6eet Irnils 70
mend Nh and fl his honery hide full OF CINCINNATI
wH.t,y Nv only hope and salvation Is nc can't pass
hit and he'll git fred out -, l., Ill, 81. ,,r ..
Bnt he passed it and came back IN nan an nef -
drink n, delegate Ia onchose Poltlcai convenuo,,
and with wink and eer at me he softly tenla, ,
% I bain mo- fool If | do have fits mister, you OCT
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