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The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1896-08-20
THE RACES.

Finest Ever Seen at Rigby-Witnessed nv,
Big Crowd
For the first time in the history Of
Rigby Park the grand stanu was crowd
ed yesterday afternoon when the races
were called. There was not seat to
be had in 1t for love or money. This
ssena alone seats 10000 people and If
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1896-08-20

every one of them did not go home wei
satisfied with the days sport on tht
track they will never enjoy horse rae
ing.
1t took seven heats to settle the g. i
pace and the hot heats between Calypso
Lantana and Dalghetta were the mos
interesting ever seen at Rigby. Lantans
was the fayoiite of the pools in this race
but could only get the fist two heats
She went the first one in 2.09 "a, lower
ing her former record from 2.161-4. Dial
ghetty and Calypso also made new
marks for themselves in this race, ant
the talent was thrown down with terri
BILE force by the little Dalghetty.
Then came more fun in the Q. 40 trot
1t was red hot fight from start to tipist
and although the last heat was trottef
in the cleaning of the eyentfuI day
the crowd fingered to see it and wers
well pleased that they did 40. for Easel
nation did not give up the battle until
Van Zandt had stuck her nose under the
wire a winner in the fifth heat.
The youngsters foaled in 1898, put up
an excellent race. Lu cite, a Maine bred
fllly, owned by l.. Morrison Of this state,
and out of the famous Neslon stock. land.
ed this race and made mark for herself.
1t was hot contest from the first score
until the last heat. The races by heats
follow:
THREE YEARS OLD TROT.
There were seven starters in the first
heat OF the race. Tbs pace was too hot
for Gen. Wayne, j. G. and We in this
heat and they were distanced. The heat
was very exciting. Bellisant led to the
quarder when she lost the pole to Suzette.
Master Del Mar came up from third po-
sition on the stretch and by a great drive
landed first by half a length. BeIlisant
broke as she entered the stretch, but won
third place.
In the second heat Suzette led from the
wire to wire, leaving the field strung out
behind her in single file. Master Del
Mar made An attempt at the half to head
Suzette, but broke and fell to the fourth
place, but by hard driving finished SEQ
ond.
Master Del Mar was drawn at the end
of the second heat and this left Suzette
practically alone in the field in the third,
She headed the strung out procession to
the wire, but as she turned into the
stretch was given a hard fight by Bel
iisant, who finished second.
In the fourth heat suzette had an easy
thing, leading from start to finish with
Dellisant second and Decoration third.
2.4o Stake. Trotting, Purse $1,000, Foals
of 1888.
Suzette, b f, by Nelson Louette,
by Kentucky Prince, (Gilbert), 81
Bellisant, h f, (Trout) 332
Decoration. b 6, (Jones), 443 8
Master Del Mar, b @, by Del Mar
Lilly Hill. sire unknown, (Bald-
VIM, 1 2 DIR.
We. br g, (Marsh), DIS.
J. o., b g. (Golden)i DIS.
Gen. Wayne, b c, (Abell), Dis.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1896-08-20
A King Among Porl ers.
40 Stake, Trotting, Purse $1,000.

$40 Stake, Trottipg, Purse $1,000.
Van Zandt, b m, by Chime hell,
Ale Ida by Alexander H. SHEER
z man, (Deyereaux), 1911
Fascination, b m, by Epaulette,
Charm by Santa Claus, (Ken-
nedy, 2122
straight Line, N, Roy sMiller) Q 8
Lightmoon. b IN. (Prootor), 5543
victor viking, br g, (B. Walker), 4
Albert II, br q, (nuster), 6 dir,
derreshoff, br h, day, DIS.
TIME.
ID. 80 Ia. "a, .ss Ia, 80.
1-2-1.05 Ia, LOT 1-2, los Ia, LOS IA.
4-l.39, LAO "a, lao, lao.
Mile-s.14 IA, 2.15, 3-4, 2.141-2, ala Ia
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1896-08-20
TIME.

IA. So ga, 80 IL, 1884, So.
Id. II "a. 1.0s 3-4I1i l-2, 10 3-4.
3-4-l. 40. 1.4S, LAG, 1461.2.
Mile-2 20 3-4, 2.2os1-4, 2.23, 2.23.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1896-08-20

Billy.Ech g, (MiddIeburg), es23 8 70
spalpeen, b h, (Lapbam), 8s6 70
Hollister. b g, (Parker), 1854 4 70
Iowa Maid, m. (J.O'Neil) 9 6 IT DIS
Daisy, br m, (Twitchell), 5 dr.
Gem D., b h, day, IDS
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1896-08-20

get,B: f. & F. H. Briggs, lst; G. F.
Copb, Cd; r. o. Jones, Winslow, g.
Bull years and under 3-Stoughton
% ournhAm. lst; 8. NJ. King, South Par
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1896-05-17

An Ungraeious Definition. Clara-Mr. Nicefello said my face was classic. What is classic? Dora-oh, anything old.--Tit Bits.
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ment as that usually given, to the milk man and other long-suffering vendors.
 The electric storage battery is now used in so many ways that it is no easy task to enumerate them. They made the scintillatiens on the floats used at the Arion ball. They furnished the power that lighted the lamps placed in the foli- age of the Gould wedding at St. Thomas church. They made the photograph talk. the Christmas tree sparkle, and the automatic piano play. They save the eyclist from taking headers, and at a. recent parade of the firemen at Bray, a battery placed in the engine, with wires running along the ropes by which it was pulled, lighted lamps that sparklcd in the hats of the participants Every sum- mer shows an increase in the number of pleasure launches that are propelled by means of electricity, and many carriage makers now place one in every vehicle which they make.
 Tae batteries are rented at prices low enough to place the batteries within the reach of nearly all classes. A sensation was caused a few years ago by the dis covery of an arrangement in coach- mans high hat Ut the Sheepshead Bay race track, by means of which the own CTS of the turnout, a middle-aged man and handsome, flashing young woman, were enabled day after day to send news of the races outside the grounds at time when the track management were doing all in their power to keep the re- suit of the race from being made known in the city pool rooms. It was this dis coyery which opened the eyes of at least one man to the possible uses to which electricity may be put, and now he IS reaping harvest of money by peddling the result of his idea in the form of canned electrieitY.
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IS routes, which he supplies from as many wagons.
 Each morning the IS wagons are load ed with their stores and start out on their various ways. At each place of de- livery the driver grasps a can contain ing the amount required, and deposits it on the stoop or in the area-way, where he finds an empty jar, the contents of which were used the day before; this he throws into the wagon and drives on to the next customer.
 Like the butcher, the baker and can dlestick maker, the electric man is sub jected to all kinds of lectures for his remissness in delivery of goods-a re- missness which is nearly always imag- mary on Ghe part of the patrons. Some women who buy each day about one sixteenth horsepower can full Of the electrie fluid with which to work their sewing machines or rock their babies to sleep, frequently complain that yes- terday's supply was not as much as that of the day before, forgetting that they sewed longer yesterday, or that their darlings were more than usually cross and wakeful, and required more rock ing accordingly. Women do not seem to realize that electricity, like every
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CANNED ELECTRICITY NOW.
The Subtitle Fluid Is Peddled Through the Streets Like Milk
An Excursion with the vender-AIi Sorts of Queer Uses to Which This Bot tied Lightning Is Put How
 Some Customers sKick."
TcopTR1cHr. 1896. I

Do you want any electricity to-day, ma'am ," This is question put to many New Workers nowadays: and when the reply is in the affirmative, the amount asked for is at once supplied from wagons much as milk is delivered.
 Not that it is dipped out of large 40- quart cans with a measure, nor does it come i'll quart bottles labeled mo adul- iteration" but it is put up in batteries of assorted size, from some as small as cigarette boxes to others as large as soda water fountain cylinders. The trade ill canned electricity is boom ing, the vendors say, and the eleetri- city wagons will soon be as common a sight as the milk wagons. Unlike milk, though, it cannot be watered, much to the satisfaction of the consumers, who, nevertheless, still manage to find enough to kick about. The business of peddling electricity has thriven so rap- idly that already hundreds of business houses and private residences are fur nished daily with sufficient motive power to meet their various require ments.
 The needs of electricity are manifold. The proprietors of many hotels, thea ters, and even the superintendents of public buildings find it much cheaper, though perhaps a little more bother some, to use this canned lightning rath- CT than maintain an extensive electric plant. For the same reasons, owners of private residences purchase the needful supply from the itinerant vender; and so great has the business grown, that the shrewd dealer who first thought of peddling power in this manner now has
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 But no class of persons use this de- vice more, or are more dependent on it, than bicyclists. Many a rider has been saved from possible nights so- iourn in a station house when his light. has suddenly gone out, by coming across q bicycle store where batteries for wheels are kept in stock. These bicycle batteries are generally charged with electricity sufficient to generate bright light for n period of l2 hours, and nearly every bicycle store now keeps q large supply of small batteries in stock.
 The writer recently accepted the in- vitation of one of the electric vendors to go over the route with him. Their first stop was at prominent dentists es- tablishment up town. Taking a can of electricity about the size of pint pail from q rack in the wagon. the driver en- tered the office. The proprietor at once commenced a vigorous kick" because he had been neglected in the previous days supply. The driver said nothing until he had returned to his seat. when he said:
 That man wouldnt tumble if q house fell on him. If he doesn't settle up pretty soon he'll be neglected every day"
 The next customer happened to be in a private house. \ motherly looking old lady came to the door in answer to the drivers ring. and said:
 "What has been the matter with my lectricity these last few days? Itdoesn't seem to be up to the quality of that you left when first began to trade with you. Why, can't do any sewing on my machine. If it doesn't get better soon I shall have to get it of some one else.
 When the driver had resumed his seat he chuckled and said:
 ''That's the wny with all of 'em. They growl on principle. She can't take it from anybody else, because there isn't anyone else to take it from"
 And so it was all along the route. At some places the electric fluid dispenser was treated eourteousiy, but at the ma jority he was accorded the same treat-
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ms trainer, or confederate, indicste. by q shipping of his finger nails tba card or cards which the dor seleo+s = play. v
 Again, a person would be grossly mis- taken if he ascribed to reason in dons a number of accomplishment dna si,7,s ply to their sense of smell. The fac ulty which enables pet dog to discover a hidden object is precisely that wbiob IS made use of in training him for other feats of more startling nature. IL is not intended in this article to beli+tle tb, intelligence of a mans best friend Ha undoubtedly possesses a wonderfpl memory; he really has ideas, and bef. ter still, associations of ideas yybicb amount to true reasoning. Never+ba- less, these are not the lights upon which he depends when he goes to the theater where he exhibits exercises comDosed of movements which have become auto- matic by repetition. It has often baar said, and truly, that dogs have more soul than reason; their intelligence is manifested above all in sudden flashes Ordinarily they are incapable of pro- longed reflection.
 The tricks of learned canines may be divided into four classes: somersanlts evolutions of steps, balancing and clown tricks. A great deal of nonsense has been written protesting to explain the methods of professional animal trainers. It would almost seem as if it had been put forth maliciously to de- ceive the curious.
 Prof. Pierre Hacket-Souplet, in com menting upon the tricks of dogs, re- gently said: q have always taken par ticular interest in the parody of the serpentine dance from the fact that I had the first idea of this trick. I had made present to Mime. Dore, then en- gagged at the Alhambra, in London, of a dog which could dance four ordinary steps upon his hind feet, and finally waltz like little man. Every day the
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thing else. has limit, and that they cannot make four hours worth of elec- tricity do for eight hours.
 The larger batteries are generally purchased by those in charge of in- stitutions; others require battery that is easily transPortabIe. Orders for sizes that can be carried in the vest pocket are frequently received, and are often used by vaudeville per formers on the stage of variety the aters to enhance spectacular effect. Professional men also find various uses for them in their offices, and there are six wagons catering exclusively to law yers, doctors, dentists and the like
 Dentists connect these portable bat teries with small motors, which furnish the motive. power for machines used in cleaning and for drilling holes in the molars of their patrons. They are also used by dentists for generating the small lights used in examining teeth. Surgeons use small batteries, which they carry about in their cases of surgical instruments to aid them in performing delicate operations.
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|s@ply |,'. with the command without
 ms p 0r anything else. The break A.,s p'liy speaking, is a compromise oflorce. 'ne ' p'o' \ 4 Niae' Dore broke in the dog !. 6s ss executed the serpentine ,,,ss S4s became so habituated to waltz I6sh. 1s surroundings that one could tsis sr. q cigarette without the dog's B,a ! 'o DOW and revolve around. lIiebt sone v so accustomed to the bs,a ss as ms signal for his turn that ssns, VI the match seemed to him ltais s,ds' :, Indication to begin.
 lat,sa;l aao"n exercises which appear d0s e' z, our theory, and to show in srans s sus existence of an ordinary ee, su' exercised under circum- ! sa ,pt which there could be no
 uba ubssnce-such as that of "Mu- lalcn,s.polsa I played cards with a spectar 'etea ".ea and formed words--were aad els nply by charlatanry, sig
 ls. 'er arrangements. It would hick as s Volume to explain fully , he,s 2, HIS roles. It is sufficient 'ads z. 'nat the dog passes around
 ''d as they are passed out
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highly developed by the dis
 become the channel by which
 nslowly inculcate a certain num-
 aecomplishments. All that he
 lble of comprehending must be |h great many times until he |n an automatic exactitude, so |Vten he is presented to the public |ldo his turn merely by the indi- |sot his masters whip.
 |nasoning faculties will not count EYthing then. The series of move 2 which he has been taught have Es instinctive, or mechanical, his 10 longer counting for anything. $ nay be taught to walk upright, aaball, to execute a difficult stand Elp and so forth. By means of a sf strap and other apparatus the 7 talning is placed in a series of 1as which he must assume at the 'laemaster. Eventually he learns
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press noticed the appearance of Dick, which was the dogs name. One nighta little figure appeared on the stage ar rayed in robe of cloth of gold. with a dolls blond wig on it's head, and beard upon it's chin. A cry came from the audiences: It is a dog; it is a dog Then the orchestra began the dance. The dog turned and disappeared be- meath the folds of its little robe, turn by turn, lighted by red, blue and violet, and finally made leap of two yards which threw out the robe so as to form a lily.
 Mime. Dore obtained the agitation of the robe by a proceeding analogous to that obtained in boxing. She at tached to Dicks front paws bracelets trimmed with little bells. The dog moved his paws instinetively, and did so more and more as he grew accus- toned to the act. She finally replaced the bells by the wands, or sticks, used in the serpentine robe
 Mile. Marquise is another dog who performs what may perhaps be called the canine extension act. It doesn't perhaps look like very much to do; but if that happens to be your opinion, reader. you might correct your first impression by trying to do likewise say between two chairs placed apart at a distance equivalent to the excess of your own longitude over that of Mile. Maruuise, who, when extended, covers about 24 inches.
 A man who can teach dogs to look round serenely over a crowded music hall from the top of balance pole or the bar of a swinging trapeze, might also be expected to teach them to throw back somersaults; and this Prof. Ricardo, a celebrated dog instructor, has accom- plished in the case of his pet, Mile. Vermouth. It was done in the first place by means of two cords, one round her neck and the other round her waist It took seven months to do 1t, but Mile. Vermouth can now make the vlsl- ble universe circulate round her as neatly as any one-forked acrobat on the stage. From e-balancing, trapeze, har-swinging, somersault turning and the other sort of turning which is called waltzing to steeple chasing and hobby horse riding, is but few steps teehnl- cially speaking, for the professors four footed artists. You may see them hop ping imaginary fences in good cross country style, drawn up in martial ar ray with a.wooden dignity and diversity of equipment worthy of the most ee- centric traditions of regiment of South American regulars.
 A word or two in regard to diet may not be out of place in conclusion. Plain living and high art sums up the matter. Naturally, these canine artists are ex- empt from one of the principal failings which beset certain of the bipedal fel- low professionals. Alcohol has for them no charms, and doubt not they would look with profound contempt, not per- haps unmixed with pity, on many a German students dog that lhaye seen stumbling and lurching about pave ment in condition mournfully resem- bling human drunkenness. Their chief, almost their only drink, is milk; ana bread and milk might almost be de- scribed as their staple article of dlet.
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No Trouble to Marry.

An amusing story is told of the way in which New England couple were married over 50 years ago in small New Hampshire town.
 The minister had a sawmill which oc- cupied many of his weekday hours, and be was standing in the door of this saw mill one bright September morning, when a horse came along the road which wound down to the mill. On the horse was young man, q amembcr of the min- ister's congregation. and pretty young woman from one of the neighboring yil- lages.
 The minister looked at them for mo- inent, and then said, cheerfully: Want to get married, reckon?"
 Yes, replied the young man, with an ingenious blush.
 Do you take this woman for your welded wife? You needn't get off the horse" said the minister.
 T do," replied the young man.
 And do you take this man to be your welded husband ?' continued the minis- ter.
 T do,' replied the pretty bride.
 'sVery well, then, you can drive on" said the minister, and forthwith he re- aurned his work In the mill.-Y Youths Companion.
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TRAINING DOGS.
aa,a by Kindness S ..,n 1rS Beea Asserted.
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e'Fltl atber branch of the jug
 'ay horn horne such remarkable a1d
 l's sss sII last few years as that hat |''gg ,,'f raining. Of course the the |pl9s ,,'i is nothing new for T, ! I ,I1srs d0ss been ''learned dogs;
 'ln@1 vi tbe modern professors bio 0l .l tbey are pleased to call
 as If sIf l rest I rust, . and |s ,nsnts take place daily.
 l''oP ol,lar impression that trick sPeP z especially dogs, are edu-
 'aa sssans ssp of kindness. Pro ] y .srs ,,,,,' Dromulgate this the |l5a |galI,e,f iar from true. Force, and I l,rsi ? hi cruelty, is almost con 'll's ll9 in educating animals for l'fo l.rs ln or the circus ring. Ger ' ' ,lap das is capable of receiving 2 .a''ste aVs education; neyerthe- 'gs 2 gssnepd entirely upon his in aa'f Y ,,,n considerable risk of 7 " result. It is possible that 7 " net takes pleasure in obey 7. U tbe moment you exact pre- ~ t.6n m him he is another crea- l..t '.t' the intelligence of the ..Y0,,ree lavS which he forthwith ',ss s,s for his own defense for stiou of your plans, and he
 f with desperate address.
 after q long delay and nearly Ig a series of severe cor sst he decides to execute a which he has no desire to .us indeed, his intellectual
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