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The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1897-05-26
P. ter Maher's 50ming Battle.

Peter Maber promises TO enter the ring
in better shape than he ever did before
whom he meets "SaiIor" Sharkey at the
Palace Athletic Club in New York on
June 9. Some six weeks ago, when the
fight was first talked of, Peter made up
his mind that in order to give the Sailor
good stiff fight he would have to be as
fit AS fiddle, so he engaged quarters near
the Morris Park race track in Westches
ter county, New York, and is now peg
ging away in "A most satisfactory manner.
His daily routine is something like
this: At 9 o'clock In the morning he is
called and at Z o'clock he takes slow
walk around the Morris Park race track.
returning at s O'Clock To- breakfast. Then
he rests until $3.50 when he puts on his
heavy underwear and two sweaters and
with his trainers. takes a twelve uile
run. He returns at noon, and after being
rubbed down, be dimes. Then ho is given
another rubbing and aftor taking IA bath,
rests for ali hour. AT o'clock Peter
mounts his bicycle. takes "A five or six
mile spin. Then he punches the bag tor
45 minutes and tackles the various appa-
ratus in the gymnasium, ending up with
four fast rounds with his trainer
He feels confident of defeating the sailor
and expects To enter the ring dipping the
scales az 10 pounds. AT present lie
weighs ia
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1897-05-26
Buffalo, II; Roch Ster, s.

At Rochester yesterday the Bisons run
up such lead In the first few innings
while Gallagher was pitching that 1t was
unable for the home team TO win. Dan
Mcfarland was substituted in the Roches-
ter's box in the fifth and pitched an ex-
cellent game. Besides this Rochester could
not get hits when she needed them most.
The summary:
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1897-05-26
Harvard-Yale Yacht Race OFF.

A refusal of harvard's challenge for n
yacht race at Newport this season was re-
ceiyed from the Yale Yacht Club yestcr-
day. When Harvard hrst challenged Yale
accepted ON condition that the race DO
held at New BonGon instead of Newport.
Since New London was unsatisfactory to
Harvard, and since, owing TO the lateness
of their commencement this year. Yale is
unable To race at Newport, the race has
hppn DECLARED off
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1897-05-26
No Bicycle Exhibit.

Gle shows. AT the meeting of the directors
of the National Cycle Board of Trade on
Monday In New York, the resolution
passed doing away with the exhibitions
was as follows
Resolved, That no national or local cycle
exhibition shall be held or sanctioned by
this board between June /, 1897, and June
!, 1895, and that the Board Of Directors
recommend that Feb. - be designated as
general opening day throughout the
country -
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1897-05-26
BOSTON COLLEGE.

Earned runs-Brown s; Boston College >.
Tyyo-hase In s-Dunue, Copk Phillips Lau-
dor, Perkins >, Ro man, Casey 3 Fultz,
Brrwin, Lyons, Cassidy Thrro.base hit
Cook. Stolen haScs--Fultz ,, Gammons 5.
Rodman, CASEY, Lauder ,, Duane, Cook,
Phillips. Double rlays-Phillips to Fultz u
Rodman: Fuitz 10 Phillips TO Rudman. First
base ON balls-fhllips, Cook ?. Lauder, Gam
IN errors-Brown a. struck oat-sv Per-
kins, Brewin, Griffin; 10y Griihn. phillips,
Fultz ,, Lauder p GammOns, Rodman ?,
Casey, Perkins Passed ba Is McDermott 3.
Wild pitch-P-rkins. Hit hv pitched hall
Gammons. Time-2h. Ism Umpire-H Hanley,
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1897-05-26
Yale's Punting Con test.

On Monday Yalo's annual spring punt
ing contest for the foOtb candidates was
held. William j Bull was rlferee. The
men kicked at different angles from the
twenty, twenty-five and thirty yard line.
Winners Of the three silver cups were
George Chauncey, '8S; A. j.. Franklin,
1900 aud NJ. l.. Mcbride, 1900.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1897-05-26
PROVIDENCE.

Earned runs Wilkesbarre 8; Providence /.
Two base hits-knight, Bassett, Drauby.
Stolen bases-Odwell, Gonding. Double
plays-Mc Mahon 20 Mills TO Goeckel; Mills
Goec<el tunassistedD. First bases on balls-Of
Kocnan B: OF Egan 8. hit bv PITCHED bali
struck out-By Keenan, 4: by Egsn 2. Passed
ball-Coogan. Left on bases Wilkesbarre 3:
Providence 1. Sacrifice hits-Aills, Neigand,
Cooney. Time-lh. I5m. Umpire --Gafiney.
+Goeckel declared out for attempted bunt
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1897-05-26
l'ew England League.

At Taunton
Fal River ....,......S o X q 2 Ill
Taunton ...........0 0 5 / o 0 l o. Q
ton and Burke.
At Brockton-
Brockton ......00 10000 100000 o0-l
Pawtucl;et 80 0 0 o q 0 o I 0 0 0 0--1
Ratteries-Dowd and Crisham; Todd
and Buelow.
scheduled 10 play, but as they did not
arrive at the hour qet the umpire for
teited the game to the home team.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1897-05-26

Baldnoss can be avertcd. and many
timcs heads that are already bald can be
made 20 grow flne healthy hair. of a
natural hue, by Halls Hair Renewer.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1897-05-26
X. II. T..
Toronto Defeated Syracuse.

The game played at Toronto yesterday
between the Canadians and Syracuse was
"a pitchers battle from start TO finish.
Toronto secured l2 hits off Willis, out they
were scattered too much to be effective.
Wanger's batting and Shiebeck's fielding
were the features.
The Scranton-Sp Springiield game was
postponed Oh account of wet grounds
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1897-05-26
National League.
At IOuisvn..--

Al IOuisNilt 80
The Bostons had everything their own
way from the start yesterday as the
Colonels could neither bat nor field. A
catch by Long. and a stop OF liner BY
Clingman were the only features.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1897-05-26
GrayS Win and Lose.

At Wilkosbarre yesterday Providence
played two games winning the first by
timely hitting coupled with errors On
the part Of Powell and Mcmahon and
losing the second on their inability 60
repeat the trick. Summary OF game
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1897-05-26
SPORTING WORLD.

Struck ont-By Sheehan 2; by Braun 9.
Passed ball-Coogan. Left on bascs-Wilkes-
barre IL; Providence 10. sTime--2h. Um-
pire-Gaffney.
.Coogan declared out ON attempted bunt
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1897-05-26
wILKESBARRE.

Earned Wlkesbarrc 3: Providcnro ?.
Two hase hits Braun, Welgsnd, Knight,
Weigand. Drauby. stolen base-Mlls First
base on bails-On sheehan 2; off Braun 2
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1897-05-26
Eastern League Standing.
Games Today.

Providence at Wilkesbarra
Buffalo at Rochester.
Springfield at Scranton.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1897-05-26

Successful busincss depends largely
uron Intelligent mvinR and selling. Tie
News great self Educator Feature will
furnish manv useful suggestion TO tho
school boy, business woman or business
man.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1897-06-16
COLLEGE FASHIONS.
When Judge Robert Grant Was n Fresh
man at Harvard.

When Judge Robert Grant Was "a Fresh
man at Harvard.
With tho beginning of the second
term the freshmen were privileged to
wear tall hats and carry canes. They
always celebrated their emancipation
on tho first Saturday of the new term
by going in force to the theater in all
tho splendor of their new possessions,
and they were apt to show themselves
ON Beacon street, Boston, ON the follow
ing Sunday. In regard to dress ON week
days | recall that among all the stu
dents little round gray soft hat was
very popular. The times were rather
hard from 1870 to 1880, and many men
went in for old clothes. Short pea jack
arbiters of college fashion chose to wear
silk hats with them when they wished
to appear swell, thereby producing u
somewhat mongrel effect English
clothes, or indeed suit of now clothes,
was 80 much an event that l recollect
ON the occasion when n member of the
GLASS of 1874 imported suit of lively
checks, his friends hung it outside the
window of one of tho buildings ON ex-
hibition.
The yard at that time, as very likely
now, was often II lively center for ami
ablo Incidence. Besides tossing cents
mt II mark in front of Holworthy and
dropping hot coppers out of the win
dows for the Cambridge urchins to pick
up, j recall the slogan of Heads outl"
which brought every one to his window
and from his books many times u week.
Nowoman could cross the yard without
hearing it, and events of much less inn
port evoked 1t. Frequently we had the
pleasure of listening to the Cleo club.
which was then fourishing body
whose repertoire included Seeing Mel
Ito Home" and Dearest maiden, dance
ever with me; cnn'st thou refuse me?
can st thou but choose mei' yet pander-
ed to less noble emotions in Shoe Fly"
and tho then popular
Ila In ha, you and me,
Little brown Jug, how love thee
-" Harvard College In the Seventies"
by Judge Robert Grant, III Seribner's.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1897-06-16

In the midst of the $500 Coeopah
volcanoes of Arizona stands the lake of
ink, into which run scores of streams of
clear, hot, mineral charged water. 1t
is only quarter of mile long by half
MS much wide, but no bottom has ever
yet been found To its gloomy depths.
The black water rises to within three
or four inches of its level shores. and
the temperature Mt the edge is 10 de
grees T., rising ut II depth of 200 feet
to ZIG degrees-l degrees above boiling
point. Ip the tpueh tho wntpC fools
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1897-06-16
OVEREDUCATED.



IL is ono Of tho curious apparent con
Predictions of the ceuuhy and tie ppo-
pie tina; WEorcas n large percentage of
tho population can neither lcad nor
write the hane Of the nation is over ed
ucation, says the London journal in IN
article upon the Greeks Tho university
and high schools act Us magne Is. attract
ing all the clever or ambitilps youth of
tho country, large numbers Of whom
a hGa G4H s{amapqa Ind eYhfln adfdFIh WITH
larger demands ON society than thcii
fathers ever had and less means Of sat
isfying thcm. Hence considerable
number 81 young men throughout tho
country who can speak several Ian
guages and have acquired largo stores
of general or technical knowledge arc
forced to earn their bread by means Of
uncongonial work These individuals
are dissatisfied with the established or
der Of things. which makes no special
provision for them, and they gladly
lend thor aid to social reformcrs or
political agitators Of all PARTIES and
professions.
Not that there nre any political par
ties in Greece in tho sense III which
these exist iii most constitutional coun-
tries. Men, not measures, is the uni
versal cry; individual interest is the
limo of cleavage. The crowd follows one
Of the two men whose heads arc above
those of their fellows The successful
leader then provides places for the few
who ro chosen IN we'll as called, and
high sounding rhetoric for the many
People change sides from time to timo
according to the outlook, and nobody
accuses them of being rcncgadcs In no
case Is there any principle at stake. Tho
members Of the little parliament at Ath-
ems receive but II couple of thousand
drachmas year troughly speaking, Eb0)
from the state, but III some cases this
constitutes the sole support of the legis-
latOr's family.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1897-06-16
A DWARF IN BATTLE.
Casan Won Praise and Honor From the
Great Genghis Khan.

From time to time Mrs. Mary Shears
Roberts has contributed to St. Nicho-
las papers on Historic Dwarfs. +" In
one number she tells of Casan, Tar
tar dwarf who took. service under the
great Monaghan khan. Mrs. Roberts
thus describes his first appearance In
battle:
Now. 1t so happened that Genghis, i'll
order to subdue tho deserters from his
fathers tribes, had dethroned several
princes or khans. These petty chiefs had
been in tho habit of paying tribute to
tho great sovereign of the, Kin empire
in North China. This high and mighty
potentate now demanded money from
Genghis Khan, thereby rousing tho ire
of our Monaghan warrior, who an
nounoed that. rather than pay one cont
for tribute he would fight tho whole
Chinese kingdom. Preparations for war
were Mt once begun, and Casan was de-
lighted whom he received orders to join
the army. At last his dream was real
lied. He was going to fight real battles,
and he was i'll command of body of
troops. He babe adieu to his family and
with a proud heart set out to meet his
sovereign.
As first step, Genghis Khan invaded
western Hea, captured several strong
holds and retired in tho summer to a
place called Lung Ting, in order to es-
cape tho great heat of tho plains or
steppes While there news reached him
that several other khans were preparing
for war. He thereupon descended from
tho heights, marched against his foes
and in pitched battle on the river
Irish no overthrow them completely
Casan attracted great deal Of notice
on this occasion He was here, there
and everywhere. On his mettlesome
charger he bounded into tho thiokest of
tho fight, hurting his lance with unerr-
ing aim and displaying great courage.
After tho fray he was summoned to
appear before the oonqueror, who COM
plimented the dwarf. saying: "Thy
yalor and thy courage have completely
justified thy promises. From this day
forth thou shalt be khan. Thou shalt
have command of large body Of troops
and shalt hereafter be my companion in
arms "
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1897-06-16

Engineering achievements and posi-
bilitics, from the modern point Of view,
arc receiving an additional illustration
in the Gaze Of the projected tunnel be-
tween the mainland Of Italy and the Is
land of Sicily, plans and details of
which, in model. as executed by tho
Italian civil engineer De Johannis,
have attracted much attention at tho
University Of Padua. After thorough
and careful studies Of the strait of Mes
sina, its varying depths, the nature Of
tho ground and Of all other conditions
which might assist or interfere with
such an undertaking, De Johannis dc
cided that the beginning Of the tunnel
should be near san Giovanni di SAM
tello, at the foot Of the Aspromonto
mountain range, the mouth ON the 9th
or side to be located Oh tho degli Inglo-
81 plain. The entire tunnel will be near
ly two miles long ard will consist in
the main Of two shafts Of about 10, 900
feet each, descending at grade not ex-
ceeding 80 feet in each ! 900 Such Il
tunnel is thought preferable to bridge
that would involve such great span
and wind exposure, --lIarpef'a Round
Table
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1897-06-16
PHOTOGRAPHIC A SHOT.
Wonderful Experiments In Determining
the Time of Flash of Electricity.

Wonderful Experiments In Determining
the Time of IA Flash of Electricity.
Recent achievements in the moving
photography that has produced the AMI
matograph, biograph, cinematosraph
and other representations of motion arc
not moro wonderful than the lately per-
feoted photography of the flying bullet.
Professor c. Vernon Boys, f. H. S.. has
worked ON this seemingly unsolvable
problem with great success, as have also
two Italian artillery officers.
In the course of Il lecture ON the sub
Jeet, Mr.. Boys demonstrated that tho
ordinary notion that an electric spark il
instantaneous was quite erroneous and
stated that the light of the two ends of
the ordinary electric spark lasted lit
tie less than the one hundred thousandth
part of n second. 1t was, of course, in
Simultaneous to our senses, but to tests
which could measure accurately to tho
one-hundrcd millionth part of u second
tho electric spark was anything but in
Simultaneous. This spark was no good
for taking the photograph of flying
bullet, M the lecturer showed by exhib-
iting one of his attempts. which made
quite blurred picture.
Mr.. Boys then proceeded to explain
the steps which he took i'll order to re-
duce the length of time of tho electric
spark To this end it was essential that
the terminals should be made of copper,
platinum or some metal which did not
produce readily an ignitible vapor, and
tho electric current must not be driven
through wires at all. He used a very
thick, broad band of copper, not more
than two inches long, which reached
around tho edge of the plate. so that tho
electric current had not more than
three or four inches to 90 altogether.
He explained by diagrams how he had
effected his object and shortened the
time of tho spark to about one-thrtocn
mllionth of second, or about 100
times quicker than the ordinary flash.
To give tho audience some idea of tho
inifinitesimal fraction of time, he said
the time occupied by the spark MS re
duced by his apparatus was proportion.
ately as much less than IA second as IA
second was less than five months, and
during that time u bullet fired from "A
magazine rifle could not travel moro
than one five hundredth part Of an inch.
BY this simple continuance he WAS ablo
to get n brighter and shorter spark and
all that was necessary To make II good
and sharp picture. New York World
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1897-06-16
The sultnn,. Honsehoid.

IN the time of the sultan 4 predecessor
the seraglio buildings stretched along
the banks of the Bosporous for y miles,
and contained some 1000 persons. the
household order and arrangement being
much rs they are ut present. Tho sui
tan s mothcr-whcn he has IL mother
receives servile obedience from all its
inmates. Then comes tho nasnntuf
ousta, or mistress of the treasury, gen
orally II shrewd old woman, promoted
from the ranks Of the servants for her
talent for housekeeping and gossip. If
the sultani valido dies, the hasnadar sue
oeods her. Under Abdul Medjid the
seraglio was long ruled by a washerwo-
man, whose chief adviser was IA bal
tadic, or newer of wood, who could not
read, but had the power of dismissing
viziera. The sultan's four kadines come
next, who rank as spouses till he di-
vorces them and marries them to some
Of the pashas Then there arc five or six
ikbals, or favorites; then the guieuzedes
tfrom guieuz, eye-girls who have at
tracted the masters glance).
Every woman who marries from the
seraglio takes with her, besides large
portion in cash, her clothing, jewels,
furniture, carriages and servants. After
them come the kadines-e ffendis, the
mothers of the aultan's children; then
the unmarried princesses of the royal
blood then the foster mothers and foster
sisters of the sultana or princes or prin-
cesses. Among the attendants are cham
berlains. secretaries, guards, eunuchs,
scullions, cooks, pages, musicians,
dancing girls, dwarfs, bufToons. priests,
astrologers, BARRIERS and shampooers,
tasters of the sultan's food, athletes,
cockiighters, ramfighters, jugglers and
grooms to look after the 800 horses con
tanned i'll the imperial stables, New
York Tribune.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1897-06-16

Among the achievements Of science is
the production Of petroleum from lin
seed oil by distillation under pressure.
Two theories have been held as to the
origin Of petroleum. One is that it is OF
vegetable, the other Of animal origin.
1t is not unlikely that it may be a com
bination Of both. Animal and vegetable
oils filter through the ground and might
by changes III the chemical laboratory
Of nature produce this substance. AT
all events, the fact is significant and
interesting. especially as several petro-
leum hydrocarbons have resulted from
the experiments as noted. New York
Ledger
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1897-06-16
POCKETS.
Thirty of Them Made In Pair of
Brecches of the Year 1911.

Thirty of Them Made In Pair of
Brooches of the Year 1911.
Perhaps the best proof of the advance
of the Japanese in civilization is to be
found in their use of pockets. The PEG
pie Of that country have usually six or
eight pockets cunningly inserted i'll the
cuffs of their wide sleeves These peck
cts are always filed with curious mis-
eellany. As common as the Irvine i'll the
pockets of young Americans is the pray
er amulet written ON sheets of rice pa
per and composed by the BONES In &C
cordanoe with their faith these anu
lets are swallowed like pill in cases
of mental or physical distress. Another
essential seldom missing is number of
small squares of silky paper These are
put to unexpected uses such as to hold
the stem of a lily or lotus, to dry tea
cup OF to wipe away u tear. Among the
Chinese and other nations pouch is
used instead Of Il pocket. This was also
the case IN western Europe i'll the mid
die ages and for some time afterward,
The pouch was attached to the girdle,
along with dagger and rosary 1t was
called an aulmonicro or gipeiere. IL was
often ornamented with curious patterns,
gold and silk threads. coats of arms and
religious sentences. A dramatist of the
time Of Henry VIII wrote:
From my girdle he pluelsed my pouch
by your leave he left me never u penny.
Brooches, however, had pockets at an
early date. In an old play written about
IGl1 it is mentioned that man had his
hreeches plated ms if they had 30 peck
cts. But pockets did not attain their
proper position until tho adoption of
the modern style of mons garments.
With waistcoats great opportunity for
pockets presented itself Later thoy were
mndo very broad and deep and were
covered with embroidery and buttons.
In tho reign of George Ill waistcoat
pockets reached such size in England
that they became objects of ridicule. SO
chat they soon began to resume more
moderate proportions New York Post.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1897-06-16

According to the Baltimore News. the
farmers Of Maryland are becoming in
teTested in the movement for general
cultivation Of tobacco and for the intro
duction Of the raising Of rice. In earlier
days tobacco was grown throughout tho
state, but for the last half century it
has been confined TO tho counties Of
southern Maryland. Rice haA never been
grown in the state, but the recent sue
cess with this crop IN lower New Jersey
has led many to think that 1t can bo
proftably taken up in Delaware and
Maryland. The yield of rice il from 80
to 90 bushels an acre, and the net profit
Is said to L. from $2b to $40 an acre.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1897-06-16
The Science of the Morning Fast

DIR. E. IL. Dewey says that the heavy
morning breakfast which is universal
in America il all mistake The hun
ger one feels is abnormal and is simply
tho acquired result of lifelong untimo-
ly meal Moro than this, IL is often dis
ease undergoing evolution, and many
complaints arc CURED simply by not talk
ing anything beyond small cup of ton
or coffee, and sometimes not even that,
until or l9 o'clock The experience
of hundreds of persons proves that even
tho soyerest manual labor can be per-
formed for several hours ION an empty
stomach" and with moro ease, energy
and satisfaction than over il possible
after an early morning meal, and that
IL can be done oven up to high noon
without unusual exhaustion or incon-
yenience from the pangs Of hunger. A
great many people arc now giving this
matter prolonged test, and tho wis
dom of the method is clearly supported
by physiological evidence, Exchange.