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HOW DEMPSEY FIGHTS
Jack Describes His Only Defeat
by La Blanche.
THE MARINES coWARDLY BLOW.
Fruitlsss Efforts to Secure Another
Match-Not Much Pain in Being
Knocked Out.

PORTLAND, Oct. 4-ECopyriehted, 1880.
II have been asked what I think Of the
action of the California authorities ia shut
ting down on boxing exhibitions. My cam
did opinion is that the prohibition can not
continue. There is too much interest
taken in the sport in San Francisco and
the other great towns and cities. The
movement in San Francisco is only .
wave from the agitation begun in the East
= few years ago. and will not last long.
The opposition to glove contests comes
from those who have never Witnessed
them, and who judge of them merely by
one or two facts or impressions.
Speaking as man who has had some
experience wish to say most emphatically
that boxing contests are not rough sport.
In the frst place the contestants, if properly
trained, are in such fine physical condition,
SO strong of limb, so hard of flesh. that
blows do not hurt or cause them distress,
but only invigorate. Every man who has
faced furious hail storm, and has felt the
blood mounting higher and higher, and his
spirits rising. till at last he has laughed a.
the hurricane whirled him about, knows
something of the exhilarstion felt by those
who face each other in the ring and stand
up under showers of blows.
The beauty Of boxing is that 1t exercises
and brings into action every muscle in the
human body, from ne tip Of the toe to the
end Of the finger. The muscles OF the
legs, the back, the arms, the neck, all have
fuil play, and the natural combative STRAIT
egg of each man is AS fully developed as
though he was engaged in duel with
swords.
Boxing is also the ultimate and final test
of physical power and endurance. BY its
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<aHLS
UPPER olo. sHGM
miooL e. Old IRISH
'LoweR-oLD lRlsH
fnsy HUMAN RELICS
cNsrAlliNe sctpsT
cNEISs
PRIMARY cRANrTe
pRMARY cRAMrTe

Those now being used upon the new aque-
duct were secured by the public-spirited
contractors at not less than $4,000 900,
while few of the blocks in the Broadway
pavement have run as high as 1000 a
square foot.
This granite has one remarkable quality.
flame of q conflagration or . reading of
Ella Wheeler Wilcox's poetry, it splits and
crumbles into small fragments.
Immediately on top of the granite is .
dirty rock called gneiss. The word is of
Welsh origin, and is pronounced mice"
In Welsh all words are pronounced oppo-
site to the way in which they are spelled.
Gneiss is of little importance in tho arts.
Ages ago it was used by the populace to
throw at policemen. then known as peel
ers. The historic practice became obsolete
upon the invention of the putty-blower
and rubber-sling.
Scattered here and there in New York
are layers of hard, white rock, which geo.
logical sharps call schist. This beautiful
word is copyrighted by the people Of Bos.
ton; any one else using it must pay roy
atty of cent each time it is employed.
Its beauty lies in the fact that it can be
applied to any and all rocks which are un-
known to the spectator.
The two strata described, and that of
the crystalline schist, are devoid of life,
dead as the London Times. Immediately
upon them is formation in which have
been detected the traces OF human life.
Words fail to describe its venerable age.
1t wore whiskers and had gray hair when
Adam first met Eve.
Passing upward from the Eozoio or
Knickerbocker period, formation is en-
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An aroma of tobacco, gray beard and
red tie are the chief characteristics OF that
jovial-looking gentleman leaning against
the rails over there. One American owes
a great deal to him, that is Weston, the
walker. for the jovial man with the gray
beard is Sir John Ashley. better known as
'the Mate. He has lived life of sport.
Horse racing was his hobby for years. but
his fallen fortunes do not allow him to pur-
sue it.
Memories of Peter not decade ago call
to mind the fight between the Mate and
the plunger Walton, and again the famous
match ridden, not ten years ago, by Sir
John Ashley himself. Boxing and, indeed,
every kind of sport has been his hobby,
and what he does not know need not be
known in all the branches. His hair is
now gray, and he has lost good deal of
the old swagger. but the eye is as clear. the
cigar just as big and the tie just as red as
when he had twenty thousand year and
spent double that sum. There are worse
men than the Mate in the world.
LORD cHEsrERFIELD.
American heiresses should marry noble
men, is . maxim that is held by mammas
and detesteo by papas. but no American
neiresSeS nave as YET captured LORD CneS-
terrified. though at one time he was said to
have succumbed to the personal and golden
attractions of Miss Garner. He is tall and
has very aristocratic face, but not the
looks that once made him known as
"beauty Stanhope;" still. an .undeniably
handsome man. with ian air" that few
possess. Everything. indeed, but money,
and that the American heiress or the Eng
lish one is to provide.
LORD HAY AND OTHER NorABLEs.
Lord Hay, of Kinfarms, forsoothl He
who appeared at Lennox some years ago
and made himself SO notorious by present.
ing the lady with him as Mrs. Hay when
she was the runaway wife of q brother
officer. Since then the Captain Hay has
blossomed into Lord Hay, and his mis-
deeds have been overlooked.
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GEOLOGY MADE EASY.
Priceless Information as to His
tory Of New York.
THE RECORD OF THE ROCKS.
PstriGed Clubs in the Old Irish Period
The Old German. with Fossil Pref
xeIs-Recent Remains.

New York, Oct. L-[Copyrighted 1890
The vast excavations now progressing
on the upper part Of Manhattan island,
which are converting . series of high,
rocky piateaus covered with goats and
aborigines into . monotonous and melan-
choly mass of FLATS" and apartment
houses. have done much good in arousing
public interest in geology and in enabling
local scientists to gain new and priceless
information as to the past history of New
York.
The backbone of Manhattan island, or,
to be more precise. its lowest and oldest
rock, is the primitive granite. This beauti-
full material comes to the surface in Gen.
trail park, where it forms the rounded
hillsides on which little boys slide sitting
down, to the injury of their pantalettes and
their mothers peace of mind. In the
lower part of the city it Is seen in its ug-
lest form. the new postoffice. Small
chunks of it are found in the Western
Union and Tribune buildings, and give
those noble edifices the cut-ham-sand-
wich appearance for which they are so
much admired by artlovers.
This granite is very precious, costing at
times as much as malachite or oroide jew
elry. The polished specimens in the New
York courthouse cost the city 81 ,O00O00
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workmanship arc now and then turned nm.
Few if any have been as yet deciphered.
One common type has on the reverse some
thing that suggests . crown. and around it
the inscription: ATLANT CART .
and on the diverse, GUTFUER EMS .
The strata over the old German period are
undoubtedly italian. The few fossils
found are stilletto blades and tomato cans,
al greatly corroded. The absence of other
articles is very convincing. as the italians
were never known to throw anything
away.
In one excavation in Thompson street
large number Of bones of the coon family
in close proximity to chicken remains,
poker chips, policy slips and antique razors
were unearthed. This would seem to indi-
cate local settlement OF some other spe-
cies, probably of African or Virginian ORR
gin. Upon this important discovery, how
ever. more light Is needed. Above the Ital-
ian period the rock remains begin to be-
come familiar
The layer above. the last in the tertiary,
Is the modern or hustle. Fossil bustles OF
great size and beauty occur, associated
with archaic hair and tooth brushes, petri-
fed cats, tomato cans, primary election
tickets, pool-for-drink checks, false hair
and numerous other fossils similar to COLI
temporary species. w. Il. 8. FALEs.
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Where have We seen that hat, that eye
glass and that peculiar wa!kf What play
goer does not know s. B. Bancroft and has
not watched him and his talented wife in
hundred different scenes? l forget the
real name of the Bancrofts, but they are
better known IS Bancrofts than any other.
Not alone on the mimic stage is the actor
known. He is power in the financial
world, where his ready wit and tact have
given him . chance to show that man
can play two parts and be q successful
Spectator as well as successful actor.
suppose no man is better known in Lon
don, and his face is as familiar as that Of
the Prince OF Wales. He is tall aud has q
quick, nervous way of walking.
OSCAR WILDE our WALKING.
Mirabile dictu! Oscar Wilde out for a
walk. Generally he is TO be seen in q ham
som. as his finances do not run to a
brougham. 1t is not the Oscar Wilde of
old, with the long hair and pantalets of
olive velvet.
The heavy face remains, but the hair is
gone; . decorous ''cIose cut" and q clean
shave show the dccadence of the apostle, -
while the olive pantalets have been con-
signed to cupboard and the trousers of
responsibility reign in their stead.
He has . cigarette between his lips un-
lighted. Oscar is Illuminating.
POLO PLAYER PEAT.
Almost alongside him is J. Peat. the polo
player who intends coming over to En-
gland next year to show how polo should
be played. He is tall. and SO is his brother,
and has hard, sinewy look that bespeaks
wonderful condition." and shows that
polo and hunting can be INDUCED in with
out cessation for years without leaving q
man wreck or making him into groom.
Mr.. Peat has wonderful stable of ponies.
and he pays big prices for good ones.
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Another bud who in New York was
known as Mr.. Giynn. and was great fav-
orite. Now he is Lord Wolverton and a
great swell, while behind him walks the
Duke of Roxburghe, man of parts and
bearded like the pard." as Shakespeare
says. A respectable man, though he is q
duke. and a kindly man withal. much
liked and looked up to. He breeds his
cattle. looks after his affairs as man with
a high position and a moderate income
should do, and will die of ripe old age
without an enemy.
A middle sized and broad-shouldered
man. with a complexion by summer suns
embrowned until il is almost the hue of
copper. Ii is Murdoch, the captain of the
Australians, a man who has been watched
by hundreds OF thousands OF cricketers this
year in England. until his face is as famil-
lar as if he was an Englishman. His stall
wart form looks better in the cricket fam
nels of the present day than the light coat
OF fashionable life, but he is not gene by
them, and his demeanor shows he is at
home there as at the wicket.
The PERIPArErIc.
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BLES OF LONDON.
il Many Scandals and
6 Divorce Courts.
upen VINO 90 MISCHIEF.
q sampls Arissocrsts-Liber-
- nsps ssd Patrsns Of Race
ce.rss and Priss-Rlng.

Sent 2l.--fCopyrighted, 1890 -
- 81 London is ia no way more
1own than by the number OF men
Is the surface of its ssciai sea for
md after . short summer OF
~. disappear. and leave not . ripple
an. London ID the capital Of :
NJ nafion, and its social world IS the
- 81 Great Britain and its coli
- other city can claim this. not
~. although the latter comes
= IS than any other.
o1e, however, always . certain
a. men whom fortune, the acct
Fl NTH, brains or impudencc brings
lent rank. and keeps them there
1rafh usss his scythe with its usual
Ihese men acquire reputation
sx1ends over the world, although
n1nnas ore never heard in the political
"a happy is the foreigner who has
= 1870 Of Ciceronc, who can point
~ ard describe their lives. and tell
1led and one little anecdotes with
1|1 1k1ir names are associated.
= = = Hyde Park in the Row costs
= SG6ny, and yet the show provided
eennll sum exceeds anything the
Irons caterer 70 public amuse-
= show. All the worlds . stage.
- md I'll the men are players. On
Iiaic and microscopic stage, not
~ vide and half mile long. can
n s multitude whose histories would,
"a, iill more books than have yet
Slifsen, and ousrival the strongest
~ fction that hare yet been pre-
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means men may reach as satisfactory
conclusion as to their physical merits as
can re reached in any manner short of
deadly combat. The practice of this mimic
war imparts hardihood, readiness of re-
source. a cheerfulness in adversely, and
above all, good temper. I don't say that
no bad-tempered man can ever become
irst-class pugilist, but | do say that such
cases are very rare. Hard knocks make
men good-natured, and proficiency as
pugilist gives a nervous man self-confi-
dence that banishcs irritation. The best
men do their fighting only in the ring.
Outside of it they sre as peaceahle and
amiable as most other citizens, and are
deadly enemies of roughs and harroom
terrorS
Our nineteenth century civilization can
not afford to quarrel with any form of
healthy, wholesome athletics, especially in
America, where SO large q proportion of
young men find their only exercise in
swinging pens and lifting ledgers. Half
an hours work with the gloves each day
would give to these young men the sure
foot. strong arm, the hard muscle, the
clear eye and tie steady brain of the ath-
lete.
IuySICdi cAcIClSc ue0uS uoubdl IeSk
Boxing will cure:
Dyspepsia,
Insomnia,
Consumption lin its early stages),
Malaria,
Melancholia,
Incipient paresis,
The blues,
Colds, coughs. sore throat and fevers.
This may seem like an extravagant state
ment, but do not mean to assert that it is
a good thing for man to rise from q sick
bed to box. l mean to say that tie all
ments named. and scores of others, spring
from a condition of the human system
which could not exist if proper care and
exercise were had. The Christian Scent
lists are very nearly right In their asser.
ton that sickness is sin.
1t seems somewhat inconsistent for the
authorities to prohibit what are called
glove-fgbts, and yet allow wrestling and
football matches TO proceed. have tried
my hand at both, wrestling and boxing,
and can say without fear of contradiction
from anyone who knows the facts. that the
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SLAMS were athletes their arms were irresfst-
lnie; while Grecians were athletes the
banded armies Of the whole earth could not
overcome them; while the Romans were
athletes they were invlncibie. II read
history Alright these cases were all the
same; riches and luxury brought decay,
corruption. sloth, and then came the down
iail. We have riches and luxury new, and
think can see some evidences of slOth.
There are scores of thousands of men in
New York who never give their muscles
any harder exercise than they can get from
pulling on their boots in the morning.
Glove contests seem much more damag-
ing than they really ara. People grow
excited and condemn them as brutal be-
cause they see the men striking each other.
Their eyes are not quick enough to see
how few OF the blows land in the face. nor
do they know how hard it is to hurt the
face Of trained pugilist. OF course, at
times men are knocked out. and am now
in position to state that it does not hurt
to be knocked out. Nature has made ex-
press provisions for such emergencies. The
blow that inflicts the injury dulls the sensi-
bilities, and the only really painful thing
about being knocked out is in the struggle
to retain consciousness and keep up the
fight. Hyams. bruised and bleeding, rose
nine times from as many knock-down
blows in the last two rounds of his fight
with McAuliffe. and was finally knocked
senseless. Yet the next day he stared in
surprise at man who asked him If he was
much injured. He commended that Nc
AIliffe had not hit him at all; and know
. great many similar cases.
You ask me how / anne to lose the figh
to La Blanche. ] should not have lost it
l did not lose it fairly. The match went
against me partly by reason of deliberate
foul committed by the Marine and partly
through the fault Of the referee, who
ought to have Immediately given me the
fight Up to the round before the last
had the best Of it In fact I was winning,
with plenty to spare. When the bell rang
for the end of the round We ceased SPAR
ring and turned my back to La Blanche
and walked off toward my corner. He
started for his corner, but turned and ran
after me. Suddenly got q blow on the
neck that sent me staggering to the ropes.
1t was the most cowardly blow
ever delivered, the most deliberate foul
ever perpetrated in a prize ring. was
dazed and weak from that cowardiy
blow, and my seconds immediately
claimed the fight for me on foul. But
never yet won fight on foul and
would not win from the Marine in that
fashion. Besides. the referees hesitation
had put him in bad position. So re-
fused to win on . foul and evened mat
ters up and took the referee out of fix by
continuing tho round till We were pulled
apart. / never fully recovered after La
Blanche hit me 1T foul blow. l have
tried everything short of striking him to
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The Writing Of "Suwanee River"
Philadelphia Press.

PhilaQelpnl4 free8.
"Did you ever hear how 'Suwanee River
was written?"
"Don't think ever did,"
swell, Stephen G. Foster was In the
zenith of his popularity when he wrote the
words" said my friend to me. HE had
written the song in the frame house en-
Sandusky street in Allegheny, but he
couldn't find the name of . river that
suited him. Finally he went over to the
office of his brother, Morrison Foster, sat
down on his desk and said: Morrison,
I've got new darkey song here and its
complete except the name OF the river.
want Southern river with only two or
three syllables. Give me one. won't your
Morrison suggested several, but they
didn't suit. Then he took down an Atlas,
ran his eye over q map Of the Southern
states for few minutes and finally said:
Here's river in Florida by the name Of
Suwanee how will that d0?'
That's it, that's it." exclaimed the
song writer, exclaimed the song writer
jumping from the desk. It's Just what
want, and picking up pen, he inserted
the name of the river that has since be.
come the title of one of the sweetest and
most pathetic Of melodies. / believe that
Stephen G. Foster never thought very
much of the piece himself until after it had
taken its place among the popular songs Of
the century"
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tae indescribabIe yose air of fast life about
MIN, and vet : good-natured. boyish facs
wlthal, shows that Lord Dudley is in Lon
don and has come out for . stroll. The
possessor Of immense wealth. he is spend
ing It IS rapidly as possible, and his losses
have been enormous. An instance of his
ability to spend money was recently shown
when he spent $4,000 in one day on year.
lings.
II 10 said that Lady Dudley, his mother.
mas tried every means to get him away
from the fast set with which he is sur
rounded, but il ID no good, and the money
boarded by his father is going to the four
winds. What and when the end will be is
matter Of conjecture, and he is sowing
the wind that will probably give him the
whirIwind at future date. His money
comes from coal and iron. and his posses
sions yield at least f100. COO year.
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countered which is now universally known
as the Old Irish. In the lower Ola Irish
are found petriied head-wear similar to
some styles seen today, and fossil clubs of
great strength. The former are chiefly
clay, and thence known as titles" The
latter are classified as the Shillela Erina.
DR.. Abram g. Hewitt, the distinguished
erinoIogist, states that in all of these clubs
he has found fossil hair, skull-bone and
brain. This theory is fatty contradicted
by DR.. ID. B. Hill and Professor J. G.
Blaine, two experts of equal standing to
Hewitt.
But one fossil harp has been discovered.
It is so badly dilapidated that it is impos-
sible to state whether it is Tara variety
brian Bo Ru II or Roman of the chest
nut period.
Other points of value are the absence OF
fossilized neckties, collars, socksl and sus-
penders in the Lower and their appearance
in the Upper Old Irish. These taken to-
cether would lead US to infer that the Kelts
came to this country in vast hordes, poor,
ignorant, savage and heather. That in the
course Of centuries they became modified
by their new surroundings and acquired
the habits of their more civilized neigh.
bors and finally became absorbed by the
latter.
Upon the Old Irish period comes an in
teresting formation known as the Old Ger.
man, which is replete with fossils.
Among them worthy of mention are
coarse, clayware drinking cups with heavy
handles. These had apparently . double
use, being employed as weapons as well Is
for rotations. Several skulls of the middle
German formation now on exhibition at
the famous Bellevue collections, show the
former use, having fractures along the
parietal and temporal bones which fit ex-
actiy the lower use Of these ponderous
mugs. The early German warrior un-
doubtedly employed them in about the
same way as the Greek athlete did the
cestus and the early Briton the brass
knuckies.
Fossil pretzels and limburger rinds are o
constant recurrence. They are hard TO dis
tinguish from the modern article. Silici-
fed shoes in both wood and leather are
found occasionally. Coins Of inferior
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A lord lieutenant, did you say? Yes,
that man with the dark hair and short
Yorkshire side-whiskers is Lord Zetland,
the lord lieutenant of Ireland. He is well
of. has . pretty wife and family, three
lovely places, capital digestion and love
of horse-racing. What more could be
wanted? He drives ''cab" of the old sort,
with tiger" behind him. and wears
fogIe tie with pearl pin. For further in
formation refer to the Irish papers OF the
past two years.
suppose the English-speaking world has
heard of the celebrated case in which one
MADDEN was consigned to durance vile for
prosecuting Miss Violet Lane Fox, who
recently married Mr.. Herbert. Well, that
tall, slim woman with the prettv face is
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nDomes Sir George Chetwynd. Well
good looking and debonair. His
shows that he knows the seamy
~ veil as the sunny side of life. His
91Qcals the fracas between Lord Ions
r. Of the Violet Cameron opera
~ ieme), and Sir George, over the
~ question Of a photograph of the
LILY. which the baronet had in his
oi1n and declined to give up.
tnco also calls to mind the cause
~ betvesn himself and Lord Durham
wing the speech made by that sup
sr Of the turf at the Gimcrack Club. 1t
cslis to mind the fact that he married
widow OF the notorious Marquis of
tings. the greatest plunger the turf has
II een.