Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-07-19

who can write we'll is valuable but he is not likely to re-
main SO unless he handle saber with charm.
France duels humanely stopped they
approach the Trene danger point .rch ., m
in the Riding School of the Ecole Mitaire the doors Of
which strictly guarded in order to prevent intrusion
The combatants. who fought with swords were in position
at ten o'clock. At the first reengagement Lieutenant
just at the moment his own blade appeared to touch
his adversarys neck Senator Ranc, who was Colonel
that his principal had not been touched the combat con-
tinued very sharp encounter ensued IN which Colonel
mated"
After which, the stretcher and the band
urd with this delicate Irritation have this
fatal duel of day before yesterday in Italy where the
nest Austrian duel in vogue knew eava10t tit
first him in Rome several years ago He sitting on
his notebook poem a challenge something like
that-and the friend who pointed HIM out to me SAID
That Cavaott He has fought thirty dues do not dis
turb him !" l did not disturb him
TT is long time ago. Cavalotti-poet orator,
satirist, statesman, patrlot-was great man, and
his death was deeply lamented by his countrymen
many monuments to his memory testify to this In
his duels he killed several of his antagonists and
disabled the rest By nature he was little lras-
chile Once when the officials of the library of
Bologna threw out his books, the gentle poet went
up there and challenged the whole fifteen His par
liamentary duties were exacting; but he proposed
to keep coming up and fighting duels between trains
until all those officials had been retired from the
activities of life. Although he always chose the
sword to fight with he had never had lesson with
that weapon. When game was called ne waited
for nothing, but always plunged at his opponent
and raned such storm of wild and original thrusts
and whacks upon him that the dead or
crippled before he could bring his science to bear.
But his latest antagonist discarded science, and
won He held his sword straight forward like a
lance when Cavalotti made his plunge, with the
result that he impaled himself upon it. 1t entered
his mouth and passed out at the back of his neck
Death instantaneous
DICTATED DECEMBER o. 1oo71
ok months ago, when was recalling early days
~ in San Francisco, l broke off at a place where
was about to tell about Captain Osborns odd adj
venture at the What Cheer. perhaps it was at
another cheap feeding place, the Miners Restaurant
1t place where one could get good food on the
cheapest possible terms, and it's popularity was
great among the multitudes whose purses were
light 1t good place to 60 to- to observe mixed
humanity. Captain Osborn and Bret Harte went
there one day and took meal, and in the course
of it Osborn fshed up interesting "reminiscences
of dozen years before and told about it. 1t was
to this effect
He was midshipman in the navy when the Cali
fornian gold craze hurst upon the world and set it
wild with excitement. His ship made the long
Journey around the Horn and was approaching her
goal, the Golden Gate, when accident happened.
1T happened to me" said Osborn. 6 fell over
board There a heavy sea running; but no one
was much alarmed about me, because we had on
board newly patented life saving device which
was believed to be competent to rescue anything
that could fall overheard from midshipman to
an anchor. Ours was the only ship that had this
device. We were very proud of it, and had been
anxious to give its powers practical test. This