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But whether Tor r.ch or poor Persian play
ing cards are made 10y hand. When they first
came into Use IT is difficult 10 ascertain with
precision. Details of fact are not easily OBJ
talnable IN oriental countries. especially in
matters Of historic record. But | have see"
sets OF these ca.ds which. by the style of thei:
art. belonged to tie early part of the last CEN
tury. The Perslaus are always very careful in
preserving the numerous articles made Of this
previous material and when a mirror case or
pack of cards becomes dIngy or cracked they
have II carefully cleaned and covered with a
fresh coat Of varnIsh. The chief game PLAYED
with these cards resembles brag or poker. 1t
Is always played for stakes. and the sums lost
or won IN the houses Of the nobility are some-
fImes larga-
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As for the Persian dancers there is little TO
be san about them tAIt can lead to an intro
ductioE % that form OF entertainment into
the United States. They are professionals.
brought up TO the business from .he cradle.
The female dancers are practically forbidden
- eNrC!5e their vocation bv The present law
OF Persia. but TIE law u Il dead letter in one
respect. These women are invited To dance in
the EaTcMs before women Oaiy and II they 90
not dance before men they are not molcsteL.
Their figures are supple and theIr movements
are mol "lthpu: grace. But the dance really
represents lasCIyIOIs ideas in pant0mine and
lis moral tendency i anything but cleyatIng
10 the -@ngUid hut yoiuptuoUs inmates Of the
Etrem.
The male dancers shave their faces smooth
and the head from .he forehead 10 the nape Of
the neck. the latter = custom OF AL Pcrslaus,
but the side lJcn- they allow 20 grow down over
the shoulders 20 resemble women. They also
wear long skirts. still further TO carry out the
Resemblance. 10 a European the appearance
OF thc lH1Ic dancers = exceedingly disgusting.
The performance goes Oh in accordance with
te exciting aElStOry strains played by musI-
clans seated IN a row Oh tin hUor and Is in
tended 10 stimulate the sensual passions. IL
seems 10 give immense qualification To- orien-
tails, who. such Is the absurd Inconsistency of
custom, would be shocked ~ the improprIctv
OF any one dancing himself for pleasure. much
less IN company w.;h dancers OF the other sex.
The Mar" EneHZ OF Black Eyes offers one Of
the most amusing sources OF popular enter
tainnscHt In Persia. II = an itirer.nt pupprt
show analogous to Punch and judy. There Is
the SAME little booth, the Crotesoue dolls
moved by human hands. and the comic.! con-
yersalpn m squcIkInC falsettc. The Kara
EneuZ Is undoubtedly very funny. and gives
immense satisfaction 10 the iIluvs N a Persian
market place. Whenever 1t appears a crowd
collects. listening with rapt attention and
greeting the coarse sallios OF wit and satire
with pca.s Of laughter and earnes, expressions
OF "BarIAallah," and bah. bah. BAH IL
must be confessed shat the Persian Punch is
not as good as I'll amusing. IL is permitted
great license. and while u often Iniulges in
shrewt hats ~ puu!Ic fuuctOnarIcs and CRYING
public abuses II more often desccnds TO sallies
of obscene EUmOr moro than R.abeIlais.an in
its character.
ATHLETIC GAMES.
Next to the Tczieh the least Objectionable
and most popular sport in Persia is that Of
athletic exhibitions. Al! people with a health
fully developed manhood enjoy displays OF
physical strength. which need never be demon
AliZing when Kept above :Ac bru.alities of the
prize ring. AS one strolis about the streets
of Teheran he often sees Il crowd collected in
tenscly absorbed in some exciting scene. They
arc dead to all else but whs.: is going on before
them. On approaching and peering through a
chink IN this animated mass one lnds that they
are gazing On a wrestling match. Such Is the
steadineSs of the climate that almost the whole
year round sach exhibitions occur out Of doors
under the clear sAy. But these are the cheap
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M~oSoNdAHELA HOUSE, PTrsBURe, PA.-Re-
opened June 3. Messrs. Holmes & Arnold, tho
proprietors, so inform the old patrons and pub
lie generally. Remodeled and entirely refur-
nished, and will be under the MANAGEMENT CT
Mr.. j. E. IL. Kelley, formerly manager. and
lately OF the Louisville Hotel, Louisville, Ky.
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tee remedles that dcfect. II present advan-
tage is sacrificed to future proficiency. the new
player will begin with the first overland sery-
ice and perseverc in it until lie has conquered
its difficulties.
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tically pushes the ball over the net. He is
very apt also to send it into the net. There
Is no reason why the stroke should be made in
this manner. 1t is bad form and is never seen
where good tennis is played.
THE RACEuANn nrrrnN
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tennis player. He feels for that instant that
he owns the court and holds the game in his
own hands. so he does. Those who remem-
Der Mr.. Bcrry's playing will recollect that his
smashing was one Of the features of his
splendid game.
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spectator who knows nothing of the game in
forming the opinion that tennis is a kind OF a
hamby-pamby game, that is very good for girls
and girlish young men. but hardly worthy the
attention OF men who love genuine sport.
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opponent soon gets onto the curve and the
merit OF the service is lost. 1t is not an easy
service to acquire. but if used in conjunction
with the overland service can become quito
effective. But, rs stated before, it is not pop
ular among the best players. '.".
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prevents awkward movemcnts and i'll addition
gives a PLAYER a great advantage. Without it
he would find that an adroit opponent would
manage to send nearly all the balls on the left
side and he would lose many a point by fail ure
to use the backhand volley.
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he SERVICE

Is very effective at times.
AS may be seen, the ball
Is struck from below
with II cut, which sends
1t over the net rather
slowly and revolving in
its way, SO that when it
strikes the court it
bounds to one side or it
makes a straight bound.
1t is a curved ball, to use
q base ball term. but it
cannot be served with
any great force, and the
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it Is approved by the best players. 1t is some
what similar to what is known III base ball as
trapping Il ball. 1t is a quick, graceful stroke
that appeals TO the eve.
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SENAToR RICHARD COKE says Of Preston's "Hed-
Axe: Il have tried this medicine and found it
very elective Cures headacne, nothing else:
absolutely harmless; relieves In nfteen minutes.
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The CONTESTANTS in The Stars advertise
ment contest are not restricted to prose. Blank
verse or jingle may win.
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FAD OVERLAND SERVICE.

A comparison between
the first style of service and
this style shows at once
how weak and Ineffective
the latter is. 1t is often
used by new players and
must be abandoned TO en-
able the player to attain
any rank in the game. Tho
position of the body is bad
and there can be but little
force TO the stroke when
the racquet is held in that
manner. 1t is probable
that this str oke with the
beginner is more accurate
than the other, but prac-
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Written for The LrEyISG SIAN

playing. although with much less variety of
games than with European cards. Games of
chance are forbidden IN the Koran; so also are
pictures or sculptures of human beings; but
the facile. pleasure-lOvirg Persians have found
means to evade the Precepts OF the prophet on
these points.
TEEsTlS CARD PLAYING.
A Persian hand Of cards Is complete with a
Bet OF -Four. ali face cards. They aye called re-
sPcctively the prince. the baby. the hunter and
the courtczan. These characters are repre-
scented. as on our cards. with conventional fig
ures, but the Persian pictures may vary consid-
erably in design and are far more exact 20
nature than the groteslue figures on our cards.
This is doubtless due TO the fact that Persian
cards are all painted By hand on little tablets
OF papIor mache two inches long and one inch
and a quarter wide. The design is executed in
water cOlOrs. sometimes on a gold ground, and
protected by a glossy coat of thick varnish.
Tho back and edges are always black. Some OF
;hese cards are very expensive. a pack costing
az high rs so 20 "a. although. OF course, such
expensive sets are for the wealthy.
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After this sport is over the w~restlers begin.
When they are ready TO grapple each places
his right hand on the head of the other as a
salute. They then grasp each other with de-
liberation, placing one arm over and the other
under the shoulder OF the opponent. Then
the struggle begins in earnest. With us the
chef object Ill wrestling IS 10 throw ones an
tagonlst, and on the back, if possible. 1t is
quite opposite in Persia. There the wrestler
does his best to drop on his hands and knees
and his opponent tries to prevent him.
The one first down. firmly fixed on hands and
knees, then has TO resist the desperate efforts
OF his antagonist to turn him over on his back.
One might easily imagine that Il tall. muscular
athlete would have little difficulty in accom-
pllshIng that feat, especially as it is permitted
by their rdlcs TO lift ones antagonist by the
leather band of the brceches. But the strength.
supplcness and q~uickncss of the Persian ath-
Ietes Is such that the maneuver is one OF OK
treme dificulty.
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the wrestler who is down may still further re-
sist the attempt to turn by falling fiat on his
stomach. Experience shows that in this posi-
tIOn a sklllful athlete offers still greater powers
of resistance than on his knees. If the stand
ing wrestler finally succeeds in laying his an
tagonlst fiat on his back the latter remains
there long enough 10 thank him, then springs
20 his feet and once more salutes the victor
with every mark OF deep respect. The latter
receives the courtesy with silent gravity. as
conscious that he in turn may soon be among
the yanquisLed. For the victor must meet all
new corners until he encounters one both
stronger and fresher than himself. Cases have
occurred OF Persian athletes who have success
lye!y overcome every antagonist who has pre-
scented himself at one exhibition OF strength,
men having been known to conquer from
twenty to twenty-four contestants in one after
noon. Presents are showered on each victor,
the one remaining last in tho field sometimes
receiving hundreds and thousands OF dollars
from the wealthy and enthusiastic spectators.
This sport Is highly esteemed in Persia and
men OF rank and physical strength sometimes
condescend to inter The arena and Try a bout
with the professional athletes. The latter are
shrewd enough on such occasions to cede the
victory to their wealthy antagonists, who,
flushed by their success, present costly gifts to
their professional antagonists.
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EEWs OF TEE GAY.

Baker, Whitley & Co. will erect at Can
ton, Baltimore, The largest coal pier IN the
country.
Chairman Couger, of the House Commit
tee on Coinage, thinks free coinage is practl-
cally dead.
The carpet mill OF Samuel White, 10 Phil
sdelphe. was burned yesterday, and the
loss Is S35 600.
The census retlrns show that the popu-
lation of Baltimore Is 432 ,095, g gain OF near
~ 100 600 in the last ten years.
The FIRE in the Kings county penitentiary
at Brooklyn yesterday, did about $50 600
damage, but none of the convicts were it,
jured.
Minister Carter, of Hawaii. objects to the
free sugar clauses of the tariff bill that their
adoption would be violation of treaty
privileges accorded the Sandwich Islands.
Hon George W. McCreary, ex -Secretary Of
War and author Of the electoral commits
sion bill, which resulted in the seating Of
President Hayes. died yesterday at st. 10
seph, Mo-, aged 30 years.
a remarkable faith cure, it is said, was
performed in St. Johns Roman Catholic
Church, at Oswego, N. Y, Sunday night By
which young lady, who for eight years had
been unable to walk, was cured.
Mitchell county is the only county in
North Carolina that has refused TO levy q
tax for the payment of pensions to ez-Con-
federste soldiers snd soldiers widows.
Mitchell Is TIE worst county in the State,
and during the war furnished many troops
TO the Federal army, as well as many guer-
iilss aud msraudera.
Vim. G. Havemeyer is TO be elected 8
trustee of the Sugar Trust next week. he
has Is 600 shares registered in his name Oh
the books OF the company. It is reported
that the Trust is now earning at the rate OF
SOS 900 per day. and that for ahort period
this month 1t carr ed S125. coo day.
At Puryis, Miss, yesterday evening the
grand Jury returned en- indictment charging
John Lawrence Sullivan with prize fight
ing. The indictment was placed on the
docket and will be called up today and
day set for trial. A petition is in crcua-
tipn to Judge Terrell, which Ia being numer-
ousy signed by leading citiz 9ns, praying
that The court bs lenient and impose fine
without imprisonment. The petition Will
be presented in open court.
In the United States Senate yesterday the
conference report on the dependent per-
sion bill was agreed to by vote OF "a to Is,
and the bill now goes to the President. The
House was engaged on District OF Columbia
business, aud spent four hours in debate on
the Atkinson bill amendatory Of the act
authorizing the construction of the Balti-
more and Potomac Railroad in the District
of Columbia, Without reaching vote on
the bill the House adjourned In the even
ing the conferees on the navel appropriation
bill held @ meeting and agreed upon re-
port.
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THE G. O. P. IN A FIx.-What with the
Blaine attack upon the Mckinley bill the
assault of the bonarzi miness OIL the Han
rison administration the republican revolt
against Dictator Re de despoIic rule; tina
hostility OF southern republican members 10
the Federal Election scheme the resistance
in Pennsylvania and New York to boss rule,
and the great independent movement Of the
Western farmers, the Grand Old Party mutt
be said to be in condition bordering upon
anarchy and dissolution. The OLD party ed
flee has become 80 shaky in all is beams
and rsfters that 1t threatens to tumble with
a crash about neXt November unless 1t be
speedily put under repairs. The best thing
would be to tear down the old struc ufe
and build anew from the foundation.
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fsrred to gives the club sole and entire pc

fsrred to gives the club sole and entire pc
lice control over their Enclosure, aud pro-
vides that within that Enclosure State ana
ccuply officers, unless invited to enter, Go
an a. iresuassers. Well, the parties holding
Inc charter either have. or else propose TO
do go bought the property DOW held by the
Gaptleman's Dripiog Park Club, near the
Alexandria Poo,'s House. On 1t they WILL
erect an Immense and magnificent
navilion with oil the necessary ap-
nurtenances. and there next 1ali the
nrcposed p,;z, fight between sullivan
and the negro Jackson will take place. Ere
yious to that Ggh', and % n cans 10 tt ST ehe
leg ality of the charter, 8 bull hgnt Wiii take
place there But 20 serious interference on
the part OF the Virginia authorities 10 ant'ci-
pated, as Salliyao, when here recently, Cd,
tained copy Of the charter and submitted
1t to his lawyer in New York. familiar with
Virginia affairs, by whom he was assured
that under it's provisions he could hgnt Id
Virginia without molestation.
Judge Tappsn and MIR. Bernard +. mar
tin, of Tammspy, were at the Caption &c,
dsy to invite speakers for the grand annuai
Tammany dinner on the 5.h OF July. Con-
gressmen Bynum will deliver the SGT
speech, and short addresses will be made by
congressman NlcD1ilin, Crisp, Springer,
McAdoo, Breckenridge OF Kentucky, Ho.-
man. Wikerson and Caruth. Mr.. Martin
saws the republican attempt to hurt Tamms-
py BIZ the trumped up charges against
Mayor Grant, of New York, has already
come to grief.
The House committee on rules at their
meeting to-day did not positively determine
TO call no the national election bill IN the
Honse tomorrow, but it was understood at
the meeting that should everything be out
of the way by that time the bill would ce
laid BET re the House and its consideration
comm ancs a. MIR. Lodge, who fathers IL
| says he doss not think it will be right To
limit debsla Gu il to less than five days.
Senator Barbour has been kept away from
the Senate for the last two or three days by
indisposi.icn. Hs was there to-day how
ever, and was trying to have the bill re-
| funding to Virginia and certain other states
the advances they made the government;
IN 1872. which has ready passed the Sen
ate, attached 10 the Indian appropriation MI
as an amendment thereof. Mr.. Barbour
SAWS be ia feeling too bad to attenc
the meeting OF the State democratic
committee Of Virginia at Richmond
on the 80 h lest. When told that in some
quarters 1t WAS urged that he again take
charge of the State committee, be said
would ba utterly impossible for him to do so
and that some younger and more ACTIVE
man should be elected chairman of the com
mittee 10 the place Of Mr.. Gordon VIII
would not withdraw bis resignation.
The sonttcrn reru hlcan members OF the Hous
will hold their caucus tonight for the vain pur
pose of trying to induce their northern allies t
allow amendments to be mado to the tariff au
federal election bills.