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The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1892-12-11
BURLINGToN'S FINE FINISH.
TIE BLACK HORSE KEATS BLITzEN
BY A NOSE ON THE HILL.
IL Was the Race or the Day and . Great
Netting E~ent-Feaeion. Berwyn, and
Thorrdnle Enrich tho Racke Of Favorttes
-OndnvSH the 1.oagest shot Of the Day.

IL Was the Race or the Day and . Great
Netting ESent-Feaeion. BerwyH, and
Thorndnle Enrich the Rack Of Favorttes
-Onsassr the 1.osse.t shot Of tho Day.
largo attendance. lively betting. and good
racing marked the sport at Guttenburg yes
terdny.
The third race. with Bitten. Burlington. and
Bel Demonia going at about equal odds. was q
great betting event. as well as stirring horse
race. Martin outrode Jones at the flnish and
landed Burlington winner by nose from
Bitten. Mr. iIough ono OF tho former owners
of Burlington. shook Martin warmly BY the
hand. and com i'm ented him on the mastery
way I'm which ne had won the race on the win
ner OF the Wither. and other rich stakos;,
The racing began with Martin landing rene.
0 eS 0SSs 0 snns oeS oSr
lengths for second place McDsrmott. In the
second rafs rn; Gray h"Gs ro, ssfe second
winning the purse by u length from Bob suth-
Undawa. n seven to one shot, got away. with
fying. start in tho fourth race. cd all the
WAY, and won under the whp by length and
place. Berwyn. first chocc in the NTH race.
won In a drive py length from Gold Digger.
led Start ns and Won me sS'n raSs
Glenlochy boating Freezer head for second
place.
Purse $500: behtsn allowance six furlonga
" s,pyy'Ls; ,r f.neIon. aged, by k.fotm-Ms
j.%hsl.n,scr : Z bolivar " .stswar,!. 80. :
p Wtliams's gr e cray Rock. T. l2u lMcGlonel.,,
Haiontown. Jamestown. and SEoovsf also rsa. Time.
1:lsA
SECOND RACE.
Purse $500: selling ailow ances. hve furlonca
C. sAn.l.rssE Gray Lock. 4. by sttattord-.Vic.
c.. ". Newton. b, H. Bob sutherland 8. lilo III.
e. H. Posts b +. Belle u, - los Vcrplanki ...,... 3
Curepper Turk II. Coldstreain. inu,go AMI Hob A..
thur aa.o ran time Oa bettins Against Gray
THIRD FACE.
.rrrse $500; penalties anu Allowances; Eve and half
Baden stab shk b. burlington. 9. by Powhattsn-.
Hrsllsys hr. {. Rtss" >. liz al Joney.....,.''.
d. ilsginss l.. Be- D-mon!o i ~ a. rennyl..
Lord Harry and fiat,tIy A.so ran. time. l:iO Bet.
Demon!o . to 2.
FOURTH RACE.
rrrss $500 for twoyear.olGs: five furnurn
ReRans c. ondhwa. by cuon!aga-kclp 100
y. y Mccormick SCH Miss Fisher. Jos !McGlone,...
Baden stables l. Mas Rcsr. ~ a. Leigh 80.
Aiss fhGr. u: Miss hess. ato /.
FIFTH RACE.
Purse 5000 selling a.!o wancua: I'VE furlonss
j. Mllhrsb & Betwyn. D By stratferi-GaLeils. Jos
sonerys stables CHI c Gold digger j. los tRaiiardr
". Parkcrsb 4. Express = lOi N. fitlD .........
ran. iiri". l:o4. B.ttimg-ARanst Berwyu, to 8;
CELL Digger. 9:o2 Express. Stoi.
SIXTH RACE.
Purse $500 selling ailo wan,ss: one mile.
John Rostrss h; c, Thorndsis =. by Eoius-Lizzts
J. Murray. GcnocIy. l. ioi iii.vlrij'
X Braisys CHI trset-f IO4 H. Lune.>... .,.... S
Time. asN Ee,,ink-t,ye 10 on Thorndais 70 to i
agAinst ulsnochy. 6 TO Freezer
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KncinE In South Jersey.

GrorrEs-cr RACE TRACK Dec. lo-Rssuits OF to.day'a
races were as follows:
First Race--Pnrss $500: ono mile. Won by s,rursler
Ceri"ann. se'o nd. Rose Howard third Time 30
Second Race-fnrse $500: Two tur!onxn Won by
JuiNc Ely. silver queen second. ksime third.
Time 90.
Third Kace-fnrse $500: four and . half furIonRs
Won by llawkeye. Silence second. verbenA third.
Tire. 0:1Sh
faurth KIce-Purss $500: seven ,urlsnrs Won By
l:a3
f:th Eace-Pnrss 5000. six and . half furionCs
Won by Can't Tell. Netdmore uecuni. Levecr third.
Time. l:2s.
sixth Rnce-Purse $500: i've furlonga. Won by
LOG.
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A $50 to shot a. East st. Louis.

ST Louis. Dec. lo-Probaby one OF the biEgest win.
nngs rr"portonac to the money put up ever made 10
S s0Ty o, 'nr american tnrf va. r"corhea At .hs
shot. who was thought to hay. no show at ALL got
best OF had start and took the with appxren
ease lie was ridden by Pierce. who Ia not ed
me nrst locE"y IN the world by any menns.
Nut -four nets wers made Plenty In tho hooks
Arthur White put ~ s. nnd won $500 Another bot OF
At such odds %ns made. and two dollar bets ut
1ou TO and 40 to l. respectively.
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KonKKt 7; Don X r sq; r on Kt4: KIT on o Kt s;
B on Q Z; Ps ono kt O. Qkt 4. al & Q. and X 4 &

wBirK-IEN PIECES
White to play and mate In three moves
The name Of Godefrey Heathcote OF tfnn.
chester. ts quito familiar to the readers OF THE
SUN. He is com petit or in many of the prob
and MAGAZINES and seldom fails to carry OF
some OF the ton prizes The problem below
has beeI composed for and first appeared in
tho London Chess Fortni9htiv:
PROBLEM NO. Spy DIR. G. HEATHcorE.
sLACk-FIvE PIECES.
Ken -; r on QR5; Kits on Q b and x 6; p on
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3nhlit alntires..

are hereby noted to be present tho imo and MAC
mentioned In the application ''">
MICHAEL O BLAkk, Clerk Commn on CnnnrI
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1892-12-11

The Seniors and juniors Of Passavant / Co. rolled
series Al the fremont House on Friday. the former
team wnAing two games:
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1892-09-29
Blossoming Fruit Trees.

The peach is always beautiful in
flower, but occasionally some individual
tree is almost startling in its attractive
ness. The rule seems to be that the
finer sorts of peaches have less conspicu-
Gus bloom. The handsomest trees in
flower are the wild ones along the way
side in Kentucky, Missouri and Arkan-
sas. Some Of these ought to be selected
and treated purely as Towering trees.
Cherries, so far as / know, do not have
blossoms which. sport into colors, but
a morello is sufficiently attractive in
white. 1t is complete globe of flowers,
and small enough to occupy place in
an ordinary shrubbery. Then, too, it
has capacity for blooming when very
young, and tree three years old will
burst into a miniature flower garden
three or four feet in diameter.
There are few shrubs which can rival
the beauty of a ounce tree in full
bloom. had small orchard of forty
of these trees covered with flowers and
it was a superb spectacle. grew few
of them in my shrubbery for the sake of
the flowers alone, although the pale
flower is delight to the eye. There are
few finer shrubs than the dwarf apples,
and both the apples and cherries can be
managed very readily in this way.-Cor.
Garden and Forest.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1892-09-29
Russian Fatalism.

One day Russian village official was
riding with me in search of some strayed
horses The black soil was like dust,
and he sighed heavily as his mare sank
in the light stuff.
.Ah," he said, "what land is this? It
is like a woman broken with sorrow.
How can she find food for her child?''
"Has it been so all summer" l asked.
"Not so, indeed. There was frost in
spring, and men said Frost and fair
weather. But then came the dryness,
and though mass was said in the fields,
it went to nothing. And then we dug
up the drunkards"-
"The what?"
"The drunkards, your honor, Often
it is, that when the drunkards are pulled
out Of their graves and flung into pools
of water, that rain will come; we know
not why. But not only rain came, but
hail and fierce storm and fire, and with
cred the little that was grown. Then
after that. dryness again and now," he
shrugged his shoulders, ''the famine"
''Must there be famine?" asked.
Surely" he said with a smile; "the
grain we have is soon eaten, and then
WHAT"
"Will no provision be made for the
future?"
"Who should make provision2 Now
we can buy much and eat much; after
ward-well, the little father will not see
us dier'
So depending on the czar and public
charity, they rest content in making no
provision for the future.-Temple Bar.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1892-09-29
The American Ak HelYe.

All the world admires and wonders at
the American ak helve. The American
ak fitted with that ingeniously curved
and gracefully fashioned handle is a
marvelously effective weapon, vastly
more apt for its purposes than the
straight handled headsman's ak with
which the Italian fells trees, OF the
broad faced hatchet used for the same
purpose in France. The American AK
helve is just what might have been ex-
pected of an inventive people laden with
the duty of conquering and civilizing a
forest clad continent. The world had
been using the ak since prehistoric times,
but it remained for the American pioneer
to fashion the ideal ak handle, at once
light, strong and elastic. The AK such
as is familiar to all Americans is rare in
Europe, and it sells in all the British
colonies as the American ax.-New York
Sum
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why Men Defer Marriages.

The habits Of modern young men are
antagonistic to that prudence and prep
aration which make it possible for them
to marry at twenty-five. There are
many exceptions of course, but it may
be safely said that vast number of the
young men who live in our time fill their
spare hours with expensive luxuries. It
costs them a great deal TO dress, and
still more to keep up their social engage
ments. In a score of ways they accus-
tom themselves to ways of life that
leave no margin between income and
outgo. This having gone on until they
are twenty-five it then calls for more
resolution than many of them command
to begin the sacrifices which accompany
the saving of money. Without money
they cannot marry.
Not few greatly exaggerate what it
should take two sensible young people to
begin life on, and hastily conclude that
it would be impossible, on an income of
81 900, to start in comfort. So they put
off marriage until after thirty, or do not
marry at all; and it is well that such
men should remain single. We do not
need any such weak fiber in the coming
generation.-John l.. Payne in Ladies'
Home Journal.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1892-09-29
The Dinner Hour inHistory.

It is believed by some that the word
dinner springs from a corruption of the
word dixheures, indicating the time at
which in the old Norman days this
meal was taken. The mere idea of hay
ing dinner at the barbarous hour of 10
o'clock in the morning would, in all
probability, send modern chef into
fit, yet it was at this early time that per-
sons of quality, both in this country and
France, partook of the meal. Froissart
mentions waiting upon the Duke of Lam
caster at . in the afternoon, after he had
supped, and during the reigns of Francis
/ and Louis XII of France fashionable
people dined from 1880 and supped at
the latest at G in the evening. And again,
from Northumberland household book,
bearing date 1912, we learn that the
family rose at 6, breakfasted att, dined
at 10, supped at 4, and shut the gates at
9p. m.
Speaking generally, though the dinner
hour then, as now, was later in this
country than in France, Louis XIV did
not dine till 10, while his contempora-
ries, Cromwell and Charles II, took the
meal at 1. In 100 the hour was ad-
vanced to 2, and in 1851 we find that the
Duchess of Somerset's dinner time was
8. In 1850 Cowper speaks of A o'clock
as the then fashionable time. After the
battle of Waterloo p. m. was the time
at which the beau monde took their sub
stantial meal, while at the present day
many of the nobility do not dine until
or 8. so we see through 400 years the
dinner hour has gradually moved
through twelve hours of the day-from
o a. m. to 9 p. m. When the dinner hour
was so early often no previous meal was
taken.-Chambers Journal.
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A Relationship Problem.

Two ladies out walking met gentleman; he
raised his hat TO one and the other said " Do you
know that gentleman?" The other lady replied,
his mother was my mothers only child. The pub
fishers of the Ladies' Pictorial Weekly will give
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speaking last. An elegant suite of PARLoR FURN-
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given for the second correct answer. Ahrst-elass
combination lady's or gentleman's BICYCLE, val
ued at one hundred and thirty-ye dollars, will be
given for third correct answer. An elegant suite
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Ten elegant GOLD WATCHES good mOyemenD
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swers, and VALUABLE PRIZE will be given to
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A Skeleton Story.

DR.. W. S. Howell, brother of the
editor of the Vienna Progress, had a
skeleton in box. One day he pulled
out the ugly, ghastly, grinning skull
and began to handle it. Finally he de-
cided that he wanted that skull opened
so that he could study the inside struc-
ture. There being several seams in the
skull he decided to fill the skull with
peas and soak them in water, thinking
that they would force the seams apart.
He asked the editor to help him, and
the latter poured peas and water into
the hollow bone and corked up the eye
and nose holes to keep them from run
ming out. Some time after the editor
was startled to see that peas had sprouted
in the skull and the vines were of most
wonderful growth. Out of the hole
where the backbone is joined to the
neck an army of little vines had grown,
and by some unknown instructive power
they had twined in and through all the
bones of that body.
The young tendrils had wrapped
around the stovepipe and table legs and
the whole skeleton had been reared up
ward in the middle of the room. From
the nostrils and eyes vines were stream
ing that had clustered around and upon
the presses, stands and tables, and from
each joint hung pod in likeness of
small skull, the exact counterpart of the
large one. 1t is rumored that when the
editor beheld these things he left the
Office by the window route, and the
skeleton is still in full editorial control.
Chicago News.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1892-09-29

A party of gentlemen were the other
evening discussing literary subjects
when one asked another to point out the
grammatical blunder in the Lords
Prayer. Half a dozen tried; some
thought it lay in the words, (which art
in heayen;" others placed it elsewhere,
but not one detected it in the expression,
"For thine is the kingdom, the power
and the glory" To be perfectly correct
the word sis" should be ''are," but people
have used it in the present form SO long
that they never think of regarding it as
blunder. There are teachers who say
such an expression is right, because it
sounds right, but reverse it and say,
"The kingdom, the power and the glory
is thine" and the fault is soon perceived.
st. Louis Globe-Democrat
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A Prize Hen Party.

If three hundred hens lay three hundred eggs in
three hundred days, how many hens will it take
to lay one hundred eggs in one hundred days?
To the first person answering the above problem
correctly the publishers of the Ladies' Pictorial
Weekly will give an elegant Upright piano valued
at 1926, or its equivalent in cash, as preferred.
To the second person will be given an elegant
Safety Bicycle, valued at S125 or its equivalent in
cash. To the third person, a handsome Gold
Watch. valued at S75, or its equivalent in cash.
The next fifty persons sending correct answers
will each receive prize, valued at from twenty
five dollars to fixe dollars. Prizes awarded in tile
u. 5. will be sent free of duty. Contestants must
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The Difference,

"Whoa there, l say; whoa, you brute!''
The man jerked his horse savagely,
pulling him right and left for the simple
reason that when he had left the poor
animal a moment it had moved toward
a spot of rrass, which it began to nibble,
when it was reined up by its angry
master.
At the same moment another man
who had stopped his team opposite was
lifting dozen jolly boys and girls from
his truck and dropping them gently on
the grass.
"Thank you, mister" they chorused
as, smiling, he drove away.
Out of the goodness of his heart he
had treated them to ride His neigh
Dor vented his bad temper on his horse.
The conditions of the men We're paral-
lels, but their souls were as far apart as
the poles. Smiles and scowls indicate
the moral. temperature.-Detroit Free
Praaa
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1892-09-29
The Electric Fire Engine.


An electrical application, which is
only waiting until electricity can be as
extensively distributed as water to be
generally adopted, is the electric fire en-
gine. 1t is even now being used to a
limited degree. In an experiment at
the late Crystal palace electrical exhibi-
ton the motor was worked on a circuit
at pressure of 105 volts. With this
pressure, when running at about $50
revolutions per minute, the pump pro-
PEELED jet of water from 1-inch noz-
zle to height of 100 feet. the water
pressure being seventyfive pounds per
square inch.
With two delivery hose pipes on at
once, having nozzles respectively one
inch and seven-eighths inch. the motor
ran at $50 revolutions per minute and
the pressure was forty-five pounds to
the square inch, the two jets rising to
height of about eight feet. The COM
bination of an electric motor and a
pump has manifest advantages over the
steam fire engine, provided supply of
current is available.
In the case of the latter it is always
necessary to keep up steam, so that time
will not be lost when an alarm is sound
ed, and tie fact that the motor is in
stantly ready for service as soon as a
current is turned on makes it obviously
better adapted to many conditions. 1t
is beyond question that the day will
soon come when the distribution of cleo
tricity will be SO general that the pump
operated by an electric motor will be
the most important piece of fire fighting
apparatus.-Pittsburg Dispatch.
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An Original Prize Contest.

To the first person who, by taking Two letters
from the word PLAGUE" can make the name of
a disease that is common in portions of both Can
ada and the United States will be given an elegant
UPRIGHT PIANO, valued at S325, or its equivalent
in cash. as preferred. To the second person will
be given a Pony, CART and HARNESS complete,
valued at $780, its equivalent in cash, if prefer
red. To the third person Will be given an elegant
GOLD WATCH, valued at S75, or its equivalent in
cash. Fifty other prizes, ranging in value from
S25 to S. will be awarded TO the next fifty persons
sending solutions strictly in the order received
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Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1892-09-29

I was too young to understand the
temper of the French where their
rulers were concerned, and though at
the time of my writing these notes l had
lived for fifty years among them, l doubt
whether could give successful psy-
Geological account of their mental at
titude toward their succeeding regimes.
except by borrowing the words of one of
their cleverest country women, Mime.
Emile de Girardin: when Marshal
Soult is in the opposition he is acknowl-
edged to have won the battle of Tou-
louise; when he belongs to the govern
ment he is accused of having lost it"
Since then the Americans have coined a
word for that state of -"cussed-
ness."-"An Englishman in Paris"
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1892-09-29
The Slow Tortoise.

The sluggish motions of common land
tortoises or "turtles" lead many persons
to underrate their intelligence. This
ridiculous slowness," however, arises
from the animals peculiar structure,
and is no proof of dullness.
The legs of turtle look more hke
crutches than legs. And though the
feet form strong graphing apparatus
for pulling away heavy weight. who
could expect swiftness from such toes?
Some large tortoises nevertheless make
long journeys with more rapidity than
might seem possible.
In the Galapagos islands turtles were
found by Mr.. Darwin able to travel four
miles a day-a rate of progress not de-
spicable in creatures provided with such
legs; creatures, too, SO heavy that six
men were often required to lift one Of
them.-Youth's Companion.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1892-09-29
Arsenical Poisoning.

Arsenic, so deadly in acute poisoning,
is also greatly dangerous to those who
use it in their daily work. Much cheap
wall paper is colored with arsenic.
Chronic poisoning by it in its earlier
stages is particularly disagreeable. The
eyes, nose and throat are infamed SO
that the patient continually complains
of having cold in his head. A cold in
the head was not one of the ten plaques
inflicted upon the Egyptians-probably
because they had done nothing to de-
serve such terrible infiiction.
AS arsenical poisoning progresses ihe
person suffering with it is salivated. He
shows nervous symptoms; his limbs may
be numb, or, on the other hand, painfully
awake to the slightest sensation. He
faints, he has convulsions, he dies of ex-
haustion.-New York World.