New-York tribune., 1908-07-19

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THE following very recent telegram that also in
France duels humanely stopped as soon as they
approach the (French) danger point; ,
"REUrERs TELEGRAM. PARIS, March 5-Ihe duel be
in the Riding School of Ecoe Miaire the doors of
which strictly guarded IN order to prevent intrusion
at o'clock At the first reengagement Lieutenant
Colonel Henry slightly scratched in the fore and
Just at the SAME his blade appeared to touch
his adversary's neck Senator Ranc, who was Colonel
pcouart's second stopped the fight but found
that his principal had not been touched the
very sharp encounter ensued IN which Colonel
Henry wounded in the elbow and the duel ter11l
After which the stretcher and the band
In urd contrast with this delicate Irritation have this
fatal duel of dav before Yesterday Italy where the
Austrian duel is in vogue knew Cavaott1 slightly
first saw him in Rome several years ago He sitting
a block the Forum and was writing something IN
his Notebook poem a challenge, something ike
that-and the friend who pointed l1m SAID.
That is Cavalot He has fought thirty duels do not dis
turb him" did not disturb him
TT is a long time ago. Cavalotti-pOet, orator,
satrist statesman, patriot-was great man, and
his death was deeply lamented by his country1nen:
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 iras-
cible 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,
hamentary 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. he waited
for nothing, but always plunged at his opponent
and rained such of wild and original thrusts
and whacks upon him that the man was 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
lance when Cavalotti made his plunge, with the
result that he impaled himself upon 1t 1t entered
his mouth and passed out at the back of his neck
Death instantaneous.
DICTATED DECEMBER 20, 1907
ok months ago, when | was recalling early days
~ in San Francisco, | broke off at a place where
] was about to tell about Captain Osborns odd ad
venture the What Cheer, or perhaps 1t was at
another cheap feeding place, the Miners Restaurant
1t was place where could get good food on the
cheapest possible terms, and its popularity
great among the multitudeS whose purses were
light 1t good place to go to- to observe mixed
humanity Captain Osborn and Bret Harte went
there one day and took a meal. and in the course
of it Osborn fshed up interesting remnscence
of a dozen years before and told about it. 1t was
to this effect
He was midshipman in the navy when the Cali
fornian gold craze burst upon the world and set 1t
wild with excitement. His ship made the long
Journey around the Horn and was approaching her
goal. the Golden Gate, when accident happened.
a. 1t happened to me, said Osborn i fell over
board There a heavy running; but no one
was much alarmed about me, because we had on
board newly patented life saving device which
was believed be competent to rescue anything
that could fall overheard from a midshipman to
an anchor Ours the only ship that had this
device We were very proud OF 1t, and had been
anxious to give its powers a practical test. This