The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1894-11-30

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had seen and|heard, Anuaking q note or a
diagram here ey there And being wonder
fully assisted blythe operation.
II tried in a dozen ways to connect the
supposititious young roistere1ss, whom no
body had seen and Qnly one man had
heard, with the ak, theAbow of ribSon and
the cigarette.
1T was the only thing Teould do Slust
at that iuncture, and it wax the easiest
thing in the world to conne&t them in
theory, all except the bow OF ribbon,
which would hardly be thought oEin con-
junction with>a man, young or old, and
of course it wasn't a woman who haddone
the deed.
"This led me to fauratively hold the RED
ornament up against a feminine back
| ground, and | was struck by the curious
thought that If such a small and peculiar
ly shaped bow had been worn by a female
at all it must have adorned a very small
girl. 1 certainly could not remember ever
having seen such a one about the person of
a woman, either in her hair or upon her
garments.
"sThis is nnimportant, however, said l
to myself after revolving the matter in
my mind, for it might really have been
dropped by a little girl in the daytime,
perhaps from her DOLL
sYet I could not dismiss the matter
wholly from my mind. Having reached the
end of my theory building for the present,
1 mechanically took up the morning pa
per, partly as a duty l owed myself and
my country as a good citizen and partly
to get a moments respite from my
thoughts.
lone of the first things my eye fell
upon was an article describing the defeat
of the Yale baseball team by Harvard the
day before and what was thought about
it by the sporting world. I was somewhat
interested in 1t, being a baseball crank
myself, but probably moro On account of
the curious fact that the victory had been
with the crimson
"With the crimson!
"Like a lesh the red bow of ribbon
came to me again. 1t fairly Haunted be-
fore my eyes as I read farther down the
column about the crazy goings on of some
of the Harvard undergraduates over the
defeat of the hated blue in Cambridge the
night before. :
1.-The hated blue!
"Another electric shock fairly set me
the second color.
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dressed in q blue suit.
Here was the whole plot unfolded be-
fore me in a flash.
1.-THE boisterous men whom the hard
ware dealer had heard were Harvard stu
dents out celebrating the victory in their
own peculiar Harvard style.
lone of them, either drunk or made
temporarily insane at the sight of the blue
| suit on the unknown victim, had snatch
ed the ak, rushed up TO him int commit
ted the mad1nan's deed that had sent me
forth upon the trail. In the scuff1e the
crimson bow had been detached from his
coat, and here it was now in my hands.
apparently nothing remained now but
to find out just what particular party had
struck off through this section of the
town, and the fact that there were more
than two in the crowd made the ultimate
discovery of their identify almost certain.
"My conclusions proved to be exactly
right, for a half a days work put in be-
tween the spot where the deed was COM
mitted and Craigie's bridge resulted in a
complete description of all Of the members
of the party-they Were fear in number
and the exact identity of one of them.
Furthermore, / discovered through a
barkeeper whom I knew that every one of
the four had a crimson bow in his button
hole when he loft his place.
HWell, after that it was mere child's
play, . said the inspector as he glanced
up nervously at the old statehouse clock.
II had no trouble at all in fastening the
guilt upon the particular member of the
party who had lone the cutting. The ar
rest was made in the yard, and I can tell
you it was a dramatic one. I would give
you the details, but / am due On the next
block in just three minutes"
but the murderer" I said, "What
was done with him?p
1.-The whatl Oh, he was arraigned in court
next day, of course. The evidence was
conclusive, and he was fined $50 and
costs. The judge came pretty near send
ing him to the island without the option
of q fne."
Fined $50 for an atrocious, cold
blooded deed like that!' / gasped. "You
must be crazy"
"Not at ALL replied the inspector
suavely as be stepped off the curb. Il for
got to tell you in the first place that the
man who was chopped up was a very life
like dummy that had stood in front of the
furnishing store.
THAT doesn't prevent it from being a
first class detective story, however, does
it2 Just give my regards to Sherlock
Holmes when you see hin."-Thomas F.
Anderson in Boston Globe.
Making Socks In Sections.
A novelty has recently appeared in ho-
siery, the new idea being to make it possible
to repair hosiery so that it will appear as
if new. To this end fast seams in the mesh
are made across the toe, ankle and heel.
If, therefore, a hole appears in the toe, it
is cut off and a new one attached, which
is easily and quickly done by hand, the
seams appearing practically the same as
whcMslew. In like name the heel is re-
paired, or, In case of general debility"
the whole foot can be removed by cutting
it off at the ankle. lii order to make it
possible for all to repair their own stock
ings it is the design OF the nan 1facturer
to furnish with every dozen pairs of ho-
siery one dozen extra pairs of feet, three
dozen pairs of toes and three dozen pairs
of heels.-Textile Record.
Honey Dew on Leaves.
The peculiar deposit often noticed on the
upper surfaces OF leaves, especially upon
those of the Eastwood and the hickory, has
been accounted for in two ways-by the
excretion Of a species of minute insect
called aphides, and also as an emulation
of the leaves themselves. 1t may be truth
f,l1y caid that tho ca1sa If this emulation.