Evening star., 1896-12-31

much sreater range and penetrative power
that distinguish them The organic sub
stances nave been found to be penetrated
much more readily than Inorganic accord
ing as some think. to the varying atomic
weight OF objects interposed in the path OF
The rays The flesh of the hand is pene-
rated Tar more readily than the bones
The discovery was taken up with enthusi-
asm. Its Importance in surgery was seen
al once and numerous operations hav, bren
rendered possible by the use OF the rays.
Professor Neasser of Vienna was the first
10 iise the ray In medical diagnosis Janu-
airy - he located gallstones and vesical
calculus by its means. Great results are
also expected in the metq'lurgic arts In
fact the practical ralae of the discovery
must be left TO the teld of speculation.
SPORTS.
The year opened with a blow at the
squared circle. Congress passed early ia
February a bin prohibiting prize iishtiag In
any territory of the United States or I'm
any ships under federal control This was
passed TO prevent the projected fight OF
Fitzsimmons and Maher in New Mexico.
The pagilists and their friends corse-
quently went over into Mexico. where the
hight took place. FifZsimmons won In one
round. chess contest by cable was play
ed between English and Am rican players.
the latter winning by IA games TO 3la.
picnship in chess. leading Steinl;z by two
games. The two are now engaged in a
match in which Lasker is far in the lead
oxford won the annual university boat rac.
with Cambridge, making her ihrty-first
victory. Cambridge has wln TWENTY-FIVE
The annual Yale-Hsrvard race having been
discontinued, there was widespread interest
In the boat race on the Hudson at Pough-
keepsie between university eights from
Harvard, Columbia. Cornell and PennSvl-
vania. Each university had university
ana freshman crew. and the order of I'm
ishlng was the same in both races, Cornell
winning, Harvard second PENNSYLVANIA
third and Columbia fourth. The university
race was four miles and the freshman two
cornell made a new record for the distanc,
IN the former race IL minutes 81 seconds
Harvard's time, 10 minutes 81 seconds also
broke the record. The annual congress OF
the American Whist League was held at
Manhattan Beach, and the Hamilton club
of Philadelphia won the Hamilton Gun the
Baltimore Club won the Minneapolis trophy
and the New York Club the American
League trophy. Showalter won the AnerI-
can chess championship. Sir Walter won
the Brooklyn handicap, defeating Clifrord.
the fayorite. Gaudaur defeated Stanbury
of Australia for the worlds sculling cham
pionship over the Putney- -Mortlake course
on the Thames in % minutes l second Yale
University sent an eight to the Henley re-
gatta on the Thames, hut the New Haven
poys were no more successful than other
american crews and were defeated In the
first heat by the Lea nder crew undoubtedly
the best eight al Henley this year An in
ternational yacht race between half-raters
was won by the Canadian GlencsIrn. de-
ieating the American Ell Herie in three
straight races The Canadians were also
successful on the lakes The Canada defeat
ing the chicago yacht Nencedor; the second
race was won by only 40 seconds and the
third on time allowance. r. ID. wrenn won
the American tennis championship at New
port for the third time. and owns the ALL
comers cup. John r. Gentry beat the
no
2oO12. John S. johnson, on a wheel rnade
a mile at Trenton. n. J.. September 2s in
L4!, making record. The Baltimore Rsse
Baii Club again won ;he pcnnant of the
National Base Ball League.
DEATHS.
Death has reaped a great and notable
harvest during the year The most NOT
able of whose who have been called from
their earthly labors are: Fraf els G. Bar
low, Henry c. Bowen. William II. English
Gen. Thcs. Ewing, Rear Admiral Fyffe.
Gen. joan GibboE, Gov. Fred T. Green
halge, Bishop Haygood, Archbishop Ken
rick Col. 1hos. w. Knox. Edgar w Nye,
eX-Gov. George D. Robinson, Ambassador
Runyon. Rear Admiral Wake Prince
Henry of BattenbeTg, eX-Premer Floque.
Thomas Hughes, President Hyppolite Sir
Frederick Leighton, Alexander Macmillan.
Admiral Won Stosch, Paul Nerlaine Austin
B. HI. Bristow, III. c. Bunner. Col. John A.
Cockerill, Austin Corbin, Wyatt Eaton,
Kate Field, Gen. Noah l.. Jeffries Isaac H.
Maynard. Frank Mayo. George Munro
Mark Nj. Pomeroy. Bishop Ryan, Justus
NJ: Gilliman. Gen. q. w. Smith, Rear Ad-
miral Stevens, Lyman Trumbull. Enrico
Cernrschi, Baron de Grimm Sir Angus
tus Harris. Baron Hirsch. Nasr ed Din.
Shah of Persia; Col. John Il North. Sir
Henry Parkes. Lon Say, Jules Simon, ex-
Premier Tricoupis, ex-Gov. Geo. T. All
thony, Prof. +. j. Child. Bishop A C.
Coke, Col Henry l.. Crdrford Prof
Crouch. Mary Abigail Dodge Gail Hamil-
tori. Robert Garrett. DR.. @. Brown Goode,
ex Minister A X. Lawton, James Lewis,
ex-senator Henry b. Payne, EnoCh Pratt,
Pref A. n. frentiss, ex-Gov. VIM. e. Rus
sell, William Henry Smith, Mrs H. b.
Stowe, Prof. ]. ID. Whitney. Ernst Curtins,
Edmond de Goncourt, Lebanon Rostovski,
Sir John E. Millais, Eugene Spuller VIM
Steinway, President Cheesman OF Siberia
Prof Hermann, John r.. Fellows, Alex
ander Salvini eX-Representative w H.
Hatch, eN-Speakcr Chas. f. Crisp. Arch
bishop of Canterbury Benson. George du
Maurier, Gen. Trochu, Baron Mueller
Luigi Palmieri, ex-Secretary Columbus
Delar o.