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states, and winning five out of the six prizes offered.
 This success prompted many clubs to try the new theory, and at the coming congress it will be 6 prominent factor i'll the result. An intellectual game like whist cannot stand still. Two years ago everyone thought that American leads were the foundation stone of the entire edifee. To-day no one attaches any importance to them, attention being entirely directed to the theory of se- lecting suit, either long or short.
 Many of the teams that will compete at the congress will combine both sys- tems. One from the Brooklyn Whist club has been very fortunate with q compound system. It's captain, A. E. Taylor, believes that whist is a skir. mish for position, and the other mem. bers of the team, Rowe, Herring and Newman, are experts at fnesse and tenace. The Hamilton Whist clubs captain, Gus Remals, believes in the lcng suit game; but with the other members, Work. Ballard and Mogridge. he adopts system of showing the mum. her of trumps held and believes in leading small cards from ace and four others. The St Paul team, of which the famous George Bunn is captain, believes in this system They adhere more closely 10 the long-suit game than any other club, but have several pc culiarities in their way of opening suits. The Minneapolis team, J. H. Briggs, captain, plays on much the same plan. Chicago, which now holds the cham pionship, has five teams in active prac- tice. ], T. Mitchell will probably di- rect their play, as he is one of the win ming team, and whist editor of the h. ter Ocean. He is bitterly opposed to the short-suit theory.
 DANIFI, CIEvFRToS.
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AZ HE PATENT OFFICE.
Some Peculiarities Which Crop Out in
 Applicants.

 Some Peculiarities Which Crop Out in
 Applicants.
 It has for many years been the GUS tom of the patent office to give an ap- plicant an interval of two years be- tween the filing of an application and final action upon it. If, at the end of two years, nothing was done about it, the claim was looked upon as aba1l- doned. aud was thrown out.
 Recently q new ruling was made, lim- itfng the time to six months. 1t might have been published in many of the newspapers it certainly was in some but 1t did nor become generally un- ferstood throughout the country.
 In consequence of this state of things n great many inventors have, without notice, found their claims thrown ontof the patent office, and are thus compelled to make new application in order to sustain said claims.
 While it is necessary to have time limit, and while ignorance of the law excuses no man, it would be ne more than justice to the inventor 10 print upon every letter acknowledging the fling of claim and upon ali forms re- lafing to correspondence on applica- tions and claims the statement that the six-lnonths limit had been made, and that eases not considered within that time would be barred from further action. Within the last few months several persons who have been in the habit Of taking out patents, and who are tolerably familiar with patent office business, have had claims thrown out because they did not happen to be aware of this new ruling. They made their applications, supposing that the two-year limit existed, and now find themselves compelled to make another application or throw up their ease al- together. This is not only unjust. but unreasonable and extortionate. It looks like an utter disregard of thea applicants interest and an arbitrary inclination to take advantage eff his Ignorance.
 Ks rule, patentees are people of eX- .tremely small means, and the fling of q second application, with fees, etc, is no trifling item to them.
 The attention of the patent office, as well as the congressional committee on patents is to be called to this, and ef- forts are to be made to have the clause containing the six-months limit print cd on every form that is used in eorre- spondence between the patent office and the applieant--N. I. Ledger.
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from a suit of three cards or less. how. ever strong, if he has a four-card suit, however weak. Not only all the writers, but all the teachers, adhere to this sys- tenn, and the official organ of the league. Whist, follows it in criticising plays and answering questions.
 For a long time this was the only paper to which questions could be re- ferred, but when whist became so pop ular among both sexes, the managing editors of the large dailies began to take it Up, and now it is firmly estab- hshed as a newspaper game" like chess. The first paper in New York to take up whist was the Sunday Sun; and although everyone expected from this paper an interesting whist column, no one expected that it would turn the game upside down. But the whist ed itoT was no respector of authorities or theories. Instead of following the we'll know track, he said: Let us see if all this that is claimed for the long-suit game is true;" and in a remarkable series of articles he proceeded to show that in aA the championship matches between the great whist clubs belong ing to the league, the long-suit game had lost more tricks than it had won. He tabulated the official records of the results of all these matches, showing tbat out of every 200 tricks won, with cut tlumping, in the long suits origi- nally led, the adversaries got 110 to the 90 taken by the leader and his partner.
 This being so, he argued that when the hand was too weak to bring in al long suit, it would be better to sacrifice the few good cards in it to help one's partner-whieh might be done by lead ing strengthening cards, such as hines, tens, jacks and queens. He also advised holding back suits containing tenaces. until they were led up to. and fnessing freely in all suits. and published q number of hands showing how success fuI these tactics were. The new game was called the tshort suit game.
 This was the beginning of great awakening among whist-players. The facts presented were so indisputable, and the writer's arguments so logical and convincing, that thousands of players who had followed the long-suit game for years gave it up. Rival whist editors did everything in their power to belitt1e the facts and ridicule the arguments, claiming that the theory would not work in actual play against strong teams. The belligerent innovator then got three other players who agreed with his views to join him. and they entered the inter-city tournament, which was held to decide the cham pionship of New York, New Jersey and Brooklyn. They made the top score at the start. and stayed in first place during the entire eight weeks that the tournament lasted, defeating 14 of the strongest whist clubs in the eastern
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great social and athletic clubs. for in- stanee-which they never get.
 And just observe what the liquor men can do, in New York state, for example, whenever they please. I will cite two instances. In 1883 the democracy put up Judge Isaac H. Maynard for secre- tary of state. The liquor men found out that he had been against them while member of the assembly, and promptly. scratched him. The democratic leaders made every effort to pull him through. but he was beaten by something like &5,000 votes, while every other candi- date on the ticket won by majority of 10000 or more. The year before. Grover Cleveland and David B. Hill were elected governor and lieutenant gov. ernor, respectively, by majorities rang ing from 192,00o to 196,00
 Again, in New York city a few wears ago, when Tammany hall had every thing their own way and their rivals. were dead to the world, the wigwa1n put up Judge Gildersleeve for renomina tion for the court of general sessions. Ex-Senator James Fitzgerald was non- mated by the almost defllnct county democracy. The liquor men got it into their heads that Gildersleeve was against them and they went against him. Tammany elected it's whole ticket, with the exception of Glider sleeve, by 10000 majority Fitzgerald beat aildersleeve by 5000 majority. Here It Will be seen that the liquor deal CTS controlled something like 40.o0o or b0,0o0 votes in New York alone.
 l believe that we should be far more .ormidable scdy than tae liquor men.
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GREAT WHIST TOURNAMENT.
Annual Congress of American
 Whist League June %.
will Meet at Manhattan Beach-one Hun dred and Fifty Clubs, with Member ship of 14,OOO, Will Be Represent
 ed-Ladies to Participate.
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Fourteen thousand whist players, dis tributed among q hundred and fifty clubs, make up the American Whist league, which is to hold it's annual con gress at the Oriental hotel on Manhat- tan beach during the week beginning June %. The whist players have en- gagged almost the entire hotel, and the demand for accommodations has been so great that the proprietors have given notice that they will be compelled to put some of them two in room.
 Besides the number that will come just to have good time and to meet other whist players, there will be sev. eral hundred who will take part in the
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TREADMlLL PUNISHMENT.
It Is About to Be Abolished in Eng
 land

It Is About to Be Abolished in Eng
 land.
 At last. we are told, the crank and the treadnill and oalIum-pieking are to be abolished. These punislIneats are so ioliotic that all who thought upon the subject without special knowledge, probably, took 1t for granted that there was some occult but overpowefing req sen for maintaining them And they were apt to seek that reason, impelled both by charity and experience to as sEme that the authorities would not persevere in an indefensibie system un- less it had some advantage not appar- ent from the outside. We have heard it stated, for instance, that no machines will pick oallum quite in the manner desired human fingers alone turn out the proper article. And most people fancy that the crank and treadmill do necessary work in grinding corn or raising water. That is all imagination
 at feast the cases are few where con- viet labor of this sort effects any use- fuIpurpose. The eonmittee on prisons tately reported that the stupid old GUS toms ought to be done away with. and behold without the least difficulty sensible varieties of hard lahor have been discovered. There are articles in everyday use by sailors and soldiers which eonyiets turn out. and pattel9s are being made for distribution among the prisons. It is quite unnecessary to teli us what those articles are, for any one could suggest boundIess number. Hand mills for grinding wheat will supessede the barbaroos crank. a1ti fe- Iaale prisoners will be employed in washing and needleWork for 1epart- neIts of the government. Nc max ask now why this reform was not intro daced ages ago. Duilnesss and official ohstinacy are the only possible ex- plantations =London Standard.
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They blew their bazoos too hard aBf praneed about defying the lightning so brazenly that they at last woke up the authorities, who thought they were being guyed.
 But I started to tell you how fakirs, pugilistic, political and all the rest, can be stopped; or, at least, their senseless crusade against boxing rendered abor- tive. For the fstic frauds 1 will say, make them fight or drive them out of the business. The moment they attempt to throw con into the public by the is- suance of challenges with strings to them, that moment let them be exposed by the sporting writers of the press. As for the other guys. have a scheme by which I think | will do them in two moves.
 In conjunction with Arthur T. Luni- ley, of New York; Parson Davies, of Chi eago; Bat Masterson, of Denver; Char ley Dexter, of San Francisco; Eli Marks, of Louisville; Dan Stuart, Of Dallas. Tex; Bud Renaud, of New Orleans, and number of other sportsmen of the United States, I am going to organize what will be fitly christened the Amer iean Liberty league. We shall be duly incorporated in every state in the union and have chapters in every city, town and village in each state. We shall be a body polite, and the State Liquor Dealers association won't be in it with us for power, influence and public spirit.
 Here is our plan of action: Just after the two great parties in the various states put up candidates for office, es- pecially for congress and the state leg islature, we will send them a committee of ot body and invite them to write down their views upon sports general ly, and upon boxing and horse racing in particular. and to send them to the local branch of our association as speedily as possible. This is no held-Hp. mind you, but simply Chesterfeldian request that they define their position If candidate, be he democrat or repub- 1ican, silyerite or goidbug, populist or eorporationist, attempts to jolly us or con us, or give us the marble heart for fair, why. then, we will getout and fight him. Partisanship cuts no figure with us. < man must be either for us or against us. We are with the man who is with us and against the man who tries to peter us.
 As between ten candidates who pro- fess to be favorable to our side. we will favor the man whose record is the bet ter as regards honest sport; and it's dol lars to utter destitution, too, that we shall get the records right.
 By the formation of such society throughout the union I am satisfied that we can easily hold the balance of power. We shall have support = the
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Hamiltons have won it the greatest number of times ana have spent up- wards of thousand dollars chasing it The first club to win it 20 times will keep it. The Minneapolis players are second, but they have never been obliged to leave home to get it, as they have usual ly been successful in defending it right along after winning it at the congress.
 Besides these principal prizes there will be the following: Prizes for pairs, one being called the Minneapolis trophy; S prize for teams not in the league, but belonging to auxiliary asso- citations; a prize for fours at progress i've whist; another for teams playing series of matches with one another at progressive whist; pair contest at pro- gressive whist; a free-for-all at dupli cate whist between players from the east and from the west; and, finally, grand drive-whist affair at straight whist. in which the first prize will go to the player that holds the most aces and kings.
 All these contests but the last will be played under the system known as du- plicate whist, in which the competing
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i'll politics. Moreover, We k
 more independent, for we arc oua
 rule, tied to party Organization ao' are. I firmly believe that We aa = as tas out difficulty, hold the hala a'l slt power in majority of states q.ce
 that power wisely we shall hara :. y, ge 2 of boxing in New York as vel 7 pfaa Texas, in Maine as well as ;n sal as
 nia. We shall then have na ~, osllf9 graceful spectacles of hypoeritiassll sl dI gressmen from states that nerns;a rlsal ,ees e' plays" and the roasting of naa as sa| the stake declaiming against tba ssOes Fl crime of boxing = s4iq|
 We can beat all the fanatics ..s
 ocrites in all the states if we onlr ,a alg 1 firmly together. The boys over < s'saf g land did it in the last parlismn nl lns1 g election, and we can eertainl,l well here. Over there the sno.. Y " z have started a league on somewb.4 ssae liar lines to that which I have laid Ilsi dsa se They were not well organized w a9Sa defeated 13 candidates who " ,S sael they had calSe-walk in gettino lsasal alsss 2 These men had declared tban,.s ssee against boxing, and they got 2 ,ss,a Ena.'' out blow. ,N'0sS
 After the present theatrical sas... over and my tour is ended I am .sa sss to devote all my energies to buiIdiss4 slss local branches of the American I;as league throughout the country asss particular attention to New York Fss ky ' sachusetts and Pennsylvania I a.a' e.s, know but I might run for congress VII VI. self from my old home, Boston so =, meet some of those glacial guys wbo.s against honest sport upon their en sg ground. I was asked some wears aooI friends to make the trial. am :, stuck on myself at all. and don't tbs s I have the mal1ings of a great ststs man, as some goody-goodies do, 9mt might make a fair legislator. as To5 Morrissey did in America and 1os Gully in England At any rate. INsgl try my best to be square with . friends. and on the level with the mi lie. JoHN |. SULLIVAN
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Englani.s Ciumsy roatN cnr.

X writer who is traveling through England says the very worst things he has seen in that country are the shoes boots, they call them-that men and women wear. They are all clumsy aud unshapely, from the little things that one sees the babies wear each with an adult heel under it, 10 fnjure the child for life upt to the very bestmcY s and women's shoes in the West End. They are not only heavy and nn- shapely, but the fashion appears to make them all too short, in consequence of which the English walk is a vile one, suggesting that the people are. .anoreaor less crippled. The cheaper nachihe- made American shoes are coming into the market in great numbers. and the evident superiority cf their shape lends shoe dealers all over the metropolis to advertise American shoes. Even when Americans take old shoes to the best shops to be used as patterns the result 5 IS not tsuccessful.wC Cincinnati Enquirer.
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TIE POLO BROTHERS.
They Wandered Into the Unknown r..t,
 of cathay.

1he4 W NaHteFeu Into tne Unknown Land,
 of cathay.
 Many hundred years ago, in the rea, E 1295, let us say, before Columbus disea. E cred America, or the art of printinpbai E been invented, strange thing hs. E pened in Venice, Italy. Three men dressed in outlandish garb, parlv ] European and partly Asiatic. appeap
 in the streets of that city, making the5 way to the gates of lofty and hand. some house which was then oceupej by members of the ancient family q E Polo. The three strangers, who's speech had foreign accent, claimed ad E mittance to the mansion. saving ba they were Maffeo and Nieelo poo brothers, and Marco, son of Nicolo. al of whom had been absent in the wild and barbarous countries in the far east for more than 24 years, and had long since been given up as lost.
 In those days, nobody in Europe lneT much about the regions in which ths three Polos had travelled; and what lt | tie they did know was from vague and l and few reports. Two friars, Pla1o Carpini and William RHbruquis, it h true, had reached the borders of CathaY or northern China, and had broughi back accounts of the wonders of that mysterious land, of which they had heard from the subjects of the great khan, who reigned over a vast empirs Butnobody among the learned and mos travelled people of Europe knew exactly what manner of people lived, or whas countries lay, beyond the western boun diary of Cathay. None knew aught oi the inhabitants tor if there were inhab itants) of the regions that we now know as India, Sumatra, Japan. Gorea and tae eastern coasts of Asia and Africa. IT was supposed that the farthest ex. treme, or eastern edge, of Cathay ran of into region of continual darkness, q bog or marsh where all manner of strange beasts, hobgoblfns and mon. sters foamed and howled. And 1t vas not surprising that when the three Polos, for these were they, came back from that desperately savage country and claimed their own, they were laughed to scorn. Itseened reasonabe to believe that the three. having been gone so many years, had wandered of into the Sea of Darkness and had per ished miserably, or had been destroyed by the wild creatures of that terrible region.
 How the three Polos so far convinced their relations, who were fn possession of the Polo mansions in Venice, that they were willing to let in the newcomers we do not know; but John Baptis' Eamusio, who has written an entertain ing history of the Polo family, sets forth what was done by the three P9l@ to prove that they were what they claimed to be, after they had taken pos. session of their house. They explained that they had been in the service of tas great llhan,s or emperor, of the. Mongpls empire. and that sthey had amasssa wealth while in the region various1I knownas Cathay, China. Mongolia anu the far east.-Noah Brooks. in St. Men. lI
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MIllais and the Young slxetcher.

HLL an
 In one of the London law courts ol l q certain occasion a youth wtts ens'aseu in making some sketches for an liils. trated paper, and behind him stooQ hurly gentleman who might have been taken for. county magistrate las latter watched the young artist lol awhile, and then, touching him on fas shoulder, ventured to observe that tn,s and that, and the other points of lh' sketch were not exactly what tnes should be. The artist simply repnea by inquiring: eWhat do you know aooas ,, it?" The gentleman persisted in klnov and persuasive criticism. At length en' youth, convinced that after all the cru, cism was just-indeed, the gentle1nas, had himself taken the dawing block ana ! made the necessarily alterations ~''p his own hand-remarked: Well, yVa do seem to know something about Y certainly" adding: Are you on any paper?" No" answered the gen''sy man. Il am not on any paper, bus e.I ] do a bit of painting now and then. Y. name is John Millais. Chicago ln's'1 Ocean ssI
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u .% S o1A1C AS StSe.SAs Boxing is done for.
 Wherever you go throughout t h i s broad land, north, south. east or west, you have this opin- ion fired into you.
 This tip don't go, as I will probably explain. I sa y this, too, despite the fact that a lot of theatrical fakirs have done all they could to kill the grand old game.
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Primitive Man.

Some anthropologists are of the opinion that the primitive man used both hands equally and base their be- lief upon the fact that the stone imple- ments and rough drawings made by early races of men are so shaped as to suggest that both hands were used with equal skillin forming them. An thropoid apes are ambidextrous. On the other hand, those who think that man began by being right-handed point to the fact that in primitive languages words denoting the left hand always Signify something degenerate and in- 4esior.-N. Y. World.
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Went Him. One Better.

An unedueated man, having inherited a fortune unexpectedly, wished to live up to it, and at once decided to have a large house built. Accordingly, he con suited an architect, instructing him to erect "a mansion like MT. Bungs over there, only better.' The architect pro- ceeded to question him as to various details, and presently asked him what kind of an aspect he would like
 TAspect?" ?" repeated the man, not knowing what was meant; aspect? Has MT. Rung got an aspect?"
 "Of course he has," said the archi- tect, smiling.
 "Then I'll tell you what; if, as you say he has one, just put me in couple of aspects. ."-Tit-B Bits.
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Baron Ferdinand de Rothschild's yacht Roma is floating palace. Forty. can dine comfortably in the luxurious dining room.
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JOHN l.. HAS A BIG PLAN.
He and Arthur I.unnley to Found
 a League to Promote Boxing.
It's Part in Politics-Thinks the Game Is Not Dead. and Proposes to Put Up the Fight of His Life in
 It's Defense.
[coPYR1GHr. 1861

HE game is dead.
 Boxing is done for.