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The daily sentinel., 1912-04-25
TURK QU|TsIN
WRESTLING GO

He was Turkish lemon. A juicy,
citrus-flavored, saffron-hued fruit
that couldn't stand the roughing of
man of his own strength.
Hassan Youssouf quit cold after AZ
minutes tumbling last night at the
Armory in a bout which was sched-
uled to go two best falls in three to
finish. Alex Christofferson. his
opponent. was ready and willing to
continue the match, but Hassan was
through.
When the two men first stepped
on the mat every bet in the crowd
would have been on the Turk. He
seemed to be almost as strong, faster
and much the cleverest. He was the
aggressor for practically all the
match. He brought copious draught
of blood from the big Swede's nose
but he couldn't throw him. He ap-
piled toe holds galore. half nelson's
till his head ached and body. and
bodys clasps. too, but Alex simply
wouldn't go down.
There was nothing in the previous
record of the Turk to indicate that
he would prove to be such a fiasco.
He has a real record for long dis
tance work, but it took the Swede
less than three quarters of an hour
to develop his yellow streak.
AS an elimination contest to deyel-
op an opponent for DuCray the match
was as much of failure as the Turk
himself proved to be. Christofferson,
although he won. will need several
years experience before he can hope
to be fast enough to meet Du Cray.
The Turk, of course, is out of the
question.
Christofferson in practice is some
what different than the same man in
a real bout. He was dilatory in TAX
ing his advantages, procrastinating in
defense and hopelessly slow in at
tack. He is powerful fellow, pos
sessing fair amount of science and
seems to be a man who will develop
into a real one So far, he Is merely
a willing conner"
He. with his brother-manager left
this morning for Glenwood. where
they will spend a few days and will
later go back to Salt Lake City, where
they have matches galore.
1t might be added here that
criticism of Christofferson should
not be harsh. except in comparison
to Du Cray. There are plenty of big
fellows who haven't a chance with
Chris. but as an opponent for a
champion like Du Cray-well, that's
different.
The daily sentinel., 1912-04-25
SEE THE NEW
FOOTWEAR STYLES

This house of good Shoes is radi-
ant with New Spring Footwear We
show the hest models in high and
low cut shoes that the best makers
in the world have produced. We cor
daily invite you to come and see
The new last in pumps, the new re-
ceding toe, the new colonial pump.
and the high button white buck The
new suedes and tans galore. In all the
displays of shoes we have ever made
we have never had such choice foot
wear as We are showing now.
MCCONNELL & LOWE,
The Home of the Best Shoes.
The daily sentinel., 1912-04-25
NOTICE.

For Something Fine in Nursery Stock
Have surplus of Bartlett, Anjou
and Kiefer Pears. standard and
Dwarf. Josselyn Columbus and
Chautauqua gooseberries. Concord
Niagara and Campbell Early Grapes.
Cherry and Fays Currants. Jonathan
and Winesap Apples. Yard 529
Grand avenue. Phone Hickory 1902.
Call, write or phone.
d. VOLLMER.
The daily sentinel., 1912-04-25

The City Van. Transfer. Livery 4
Storage company. All kinds of haul
ing and the best of livery equipment
Prompt attention to all branches OF
the business, Barton & Terrill. pro.
pretors
The daily sentinel., 1912-04-25

Times are hard, money is scarce
and meat is high; but we can furnish
you absolutely the best meat at the
lowest prices in town-C. F. Bow
man, wholesale and retail market.
The daily sentinel., 1912-04-25

(By Edward H. Sothern in the Chi
cago Record Herald
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-12-29

the sun in q path small that an entire
revolution about the orbit is performed in
only three and one-third years This is
by far the shortest period Of any known
comet; as the orbit is a much fattened
curve whose nearest verteX is within the
orbit of the planet Mercury and whose
farthest vertex is but four hundred mill
lions OF miles from the sun, it follows
That during much of the time the comet
is near enough to the earth to be seen
by us. Sometimes. indeed. it has hap
pened that the earth and the comet have
passed so near TO one another that the
comet has become visible to the naked
eye, but it almost always appears to US
as a faint telescope object merely.
1t has long been observed that the
motion of this comet has been at times
irresularly disturbed in manner that
cannot be accounted for by the action
of any of the known bodies of our solar
system. The most probable explanation
of the disturbance is the assumption that
during some of its revolutions the comet
has passed near or into a cloud of re-
sisting matter. When farthest from the
sun it is also noticed that the apparent
size of the round comet is very large
while as the sun is approached the size
decreases; altogether the cometarv cloud
is seen to shrink from a diameter
of 100000 miles to a diameter Of only
about 1900, this very possibly because
all of the portions of the cloud except the
innermost ones are rendered invisible
as the sun is approached The comet has
never been followed, however. to its
greatest distance from the sun: it has
hitherto been lost sight of before it reach
ed a half of this distance. On this year
its greatest distance will be reached April
II. when the comet will be in the con-
stellation of Aquarius. The attempt will
be made to secure photographs of ii at
about this time, and il is hoped that
with our very powerful modern telescopes
and extremely sensitive Photographic
plates the attempt may be successful
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1t Worked

or these reformers would only ref0r"
i themselves!
The speaker was Mayor Gaynor. He
continued:
"Of course, L am not now referring
to the sincere reforIner, but to the phari-
saical one, the one who is always rushing
into print.
would that this fellow could be served
like Starr!
See here, Starr said a friend. you
were going to get your wife to mako a
New Years resolution of rigid economy
did it work?
.Well-er-well, yes WAS the reply.
1T worked in a way. | now shave my
self and Mary cuts my hair; and instead
of getting the new winter overcoat had
expected i have decided-or at least
Mary has decided-that IL will be best
for me to have my year before last
oyercoat turned.
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last August 1t weighed 200 pounds and
stood six feet high. Among the ingredi-
ents We're 100 pounds of raisins, 100
pounds of currants, 80 dozen eggs, ,
1t took two weeks in the making and was
guaranteed to last twenty-five years
without crumbling or molding.
Tell it not in Gath-but really and
truly-there is a man in the world who
has never been kissed. Besides, he is
forty-four years of age and married. He
divulged the fact last August when be-
fore a magistrate in connection with do
nestle difficulty.
Yes, l am man in ten Million" he
declared, for 1 never kissed woman
and have never been kissed by one. And
/ never expect to change my views on the
subject, either!"
There was really lively time lover on
the Jersey side.' as New Workers con-
temptuously phrase it. one evening last
June, when a bouncing, twenty-pound
baby boy was given as the first prize at a
party held under the auspices of a
church society. The mother. a young
widow in desperate straits, was content
to donate the little fellow when assured
that he would thus receive a good home
with plenty to eat and the best of cloth
ing for his little body.
Speaking of church affairs, the clergy
man in the parish church at Stockton,
Warwickshire, England, pulled off last
held under a church roof. Eight years
before he had had his coffin made, and
placed on exhibition in the music room
at the rectory. On the evening in ques-
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Der, when it will have drawn too near
the sun to be observed
The motions of Mars throughout the
year will be of special interest. This
planet is now near Jupiter in the summer
group of stars known az Ophiuchus, or
the Serpent Holder When, early in
June, the slow Transformation of the
heavens has brought this group into our
evening sky, we Will see the larger plan
ct shining out with it's steady, golden
radiance, but Mars will not then be visi-
BILE. This is because the Red Planet is
itself moving very rapidly eastward over
the face of the heavens. Its eastward
motion is so rapid that by March it
will have moved entirely across the sum-
mer groups .of the Serpent Holder, the
Archer and the Water Bearer, and will
have passed the Nernal Equinox, at ".
Figure 1. By the end Of the year it will
have moved we'll across the winter sky.
attaining position . little to the right
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Poor Economy.

CHARLES VI. SCHwAB. apnopos oe
~ his work i'm aid OF released convictss
said modestly in New York.
oh il is economy to help these men.
Help them little and their lives. in
stead of being wasted, are of value to the
nation.
TO he niGgardly and timid about help
ing such men is Ia be like the chap who
was asked. the first OF the year, to buy
Il calendar.
This chap. after studying tho calendar.
handed IL back with a frown.
No, no. he said. Il can't afford II,
! may he dead before the year Ii out "
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an. lovely woman, was that evolved by
thirty-four brides on a steamship en-
route from Bermuda for New York. Still
aglow, no doubt, with the romance OF
honey moon i'm that beautiful isle they &C
tually swore solemnly never to nag thelr
respective husbands. More than tnat'
each agreed to prepare "hubby's' break
fast in the morning and to be neatly
dressed for that meal; to kiss him on ms
return from the Office in the evening; 10
account to him for every penny lntrusteu
to her, and-ye gods and Titles hshes.-
to give him a might OFF, once week 10
spend where and with whom and in what
ever manner he pleases 1t is intimated
that even the little fish in the wake OF
the ship chuckled and laughed in high
glee much less these lucky devils of hus-
bands
X X
Over in Leeds. England, last October,
the rector of Midland chapel unconscious
ly qualified as an able right-bOwera to Dan
Cupid himself in way that he had not
exactly bargained for. In the midst of
his sermon he was exceedingly annoyed
by the sound of whispering coming from
the semi-darkness under one of the gal
leries. He stood it for while. but finally
stopped and declared
IF the young couple making love under
the gallery do not come to me in the YES
try before service next Sunday morning 1
will name them to the church publicly"
Imagine his surprise then when on the
following Sabbath he opened the door OF
his vestry room and found twenty couples
waiting for him!
The most extraordinary wedding cake
ever baked for blushing bride, perhaps.
was that given a Philadelphia damsel
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of the bright star Pollux. al B, Figure 1.
When Mars has thus reached the highest
point of it's path it will be in remarkably
favorable position for observation, for its
place will then be three degrees higher in
the sky than that attained by the sun in
midsummer, and on the early morning of
January /, 1914, it will have drawn to its
least distance from the earth. Doubt
less this most interesting world will be
attentively studied during the last few
months Of the year.
x
The observer who is not possessed of a
telescope will find that the ever-chang-
ing position of the planets furnishes one
of the most interesting of all the features
of the heavens for his study. Several
times during the present year two plan
cts will be seen to approach apparently
very close to each other and our own
moon in it's rapid journey around the
sky will necessarily be seen to pass each
one of the planets at least once during
every month. On some occasions the lat
ter approaches will be very close ones.
but unfortunately at no time Will our
satellite pass directly in front of a planet
and so hide it from our view. Many
brighter stars will. however, he occulted,
and during every month of the year the
moon will move over the little group or
the Pleiades, although observers in the
eastern part of the United States will not
nrst witness this most interesting occur
renee until next September.
Of the five eclipses of the present year
here will be three of the sun, which will
,o wholly invisible to us. and two inter-
sting total eclipses of the moon. The
Ia ter to observers in the eastern part of
our country will be seen to begin about
sunrise, just as the full moon is setting.
They will, however. be wholly visible
throughout the western part of the
United States
1t is also of interest to notice the re-
markably early occurrence of Easter
during the present year. The time of this
festival has been fixed as the Sunday fol-
lowing that full moon which first occurs
after the passage of the center of the
sun across the equator, at the point V.
figure 1. 1t happens that this year the
center OF the sun reaches this point at
eighteen minutes past midnight on the
morning Of Friday, March p, and that
full moon occurs but one day later-a-
z o'clock on the following Saturday. Con
sequently the following day is Easter
Had the full moon occurred a day and :
half earlier, our Easter Of this yea
would have occurred about a month late
than it does.
Nearly nine months of the year 191:
had passed before the first comet of tn
year was discovered. This is IA faint
through the constellation of the Dragon
and rapidly receding from the earth.
Tho second comet to be discovered ha:
now been found to be identical with
periodic comet first seen in the year 1862
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the dust and the grease ard the interior
workings of the auto when he heard
the Nhirr OF an aeropiane overhead. He
signaIed the aviator. who descended. ana.
upon learning the urgency of the ply
sician's call the birdman made a place
FOR hun aud his surgical KIT In the aero
plane and got him To the patients homo
IN less time than would have been con-
sumed had not the auto broken down.
Thus did old 1872 witness the passing OF
the auto and the substitution of the
aeroplane as the prototype of the old.
old fashioned horse and buggy"
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s.ars that now fill the sky with beautiful
consultations in the south, the bright
Venus and Saturn also shine out high in
the evening sky. and these worlds are IN
many respects the most interesting of all
the planets. As the months OF the ne"
vear 90 on. and our earth in it's journey
around the sun finds its dark side turned
successively to different portions of the
great cloud of stars around us. we VIII
again witness the constant and evcr-in-
teresHng transformation OF the appear
ance of our evening sky
The MAGNIFICENT Orion and the two brill
liant Dog Stars. now so high IN tho south
with the beautiful winter groups sur
rounding them, will not finally reach the
western border of our evening heavens
until Nav: at this time the striking sum-
,uor group of the Scorpion Will be seen
inst entering our evening heavens in the
east and the great, reddish Arcturus will
shine out high in the south, almost on
the meridian.
how for the past many weeks the most
brilliant Venus has been rapidly climbing
inward i'm the southwestern part or the
heavens. Throughout the first months OF
tho wear Il will mount ever higher and
grow brighter until 1t will become by far
the most conspicuous object In the sky.
February 80 II will reach Its greatest dis
lance east Of the sun, when IT will set
four hours after sunset. 1t will not at
tain its greatest brightness, however. un-
till March "A, at which time it will set
three hours after sunset. 1t will then
rapidly sink in the west. passing the sun
and entering the morning sky April p
From this time until the end of the year
il will remain a morning star.
The planet Saturn is so far distant
from the sun and moves very slowly
among the stars that it's motion presents
a striking contrast to that OF Venus We
now see the outer world Just below the
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FIGURE 2 PRESENT APPEARANCE
OF SATURN AND VENUS IN A VERY
SMALL TELESCOPE. THE TWO
PLANETS NOW APPEAR ALMOST
EXACTLY THE SAME SIZE. THE
CONTRAST IN TINT BETWEEN THE
BALL AND THE RINGS OF SATURN
IS VERY STRIKING.
This body was seen to be moving very
rapidly eastward and southwark among
the stars. it's extremely rapid apparent
motion being due to the fact that it and
the earth when nearest together We're
moving In almost exactly opposite di-
rections. January 1 it will be found low
in the southwestern sky, almost exactly
one hour to the west of the star c, figure
], but at this time 1t will probably be
invisible even in the telescope on account
of its great distance from the earth.
One of the most interesting of all the
comets is the comparatively small object
known as Encke's comet. The motion
of this body was long ago so disturbed
by the planet Jupiter that the comet was
thereafter added to the bodies of our
solar system, and forced to revolve about
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ton he had it removed to the church,
sat down in it in full vestments and was
the chancel to the west door of the edi-
flee and back again before the astonished
gaze of his parishioners.
:: *
Then standing in his coffin, he blessed
them and led in the singing of a hymn
He wished to impress upon them the fact
that death is the gate of life, he said in
explanation of his strange conduct, and
also to rehearse his real funeral in order
that it would be just so. He has be-
queathed his body after death to the Bir-
mingham University for anatomical pur-
poses and his bones are to be wired to-
gether and put on exhibition in the
Psychic Museum at bennington.
But his was not the only strange event
in which coffin figured. In Sullivan.
Wis, for example, laborer who had
fallen from a scaffold and, apparently
lfeless, been placed in his coffin, was
brought back to earth again by the rum
ming away of the horses dragging the
hearse and the consequent dumping of
much alive when he did come to is at
tested by the fact that he caught the
horses, patched up the driver and assist
ed him back to town.
Owing to the lack of a baggage car,
the body of a woman in its coffin was
Vile. Va, last March. strapped to the
pilot of the engine; and the trip was
made without miShap. Three months
later one of the big ships from Copen-
hagen to New York passed close to a
floating coffin containing the body Of an
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" FULL @ RE BEFORE THE

fly that delayed a passenger train, and,
indirectly. caused the arrest of the Pull
man porter. The train in question stops
there every night to pick up Pullman
car On that particular evening, how
ever, the car was locked and the porter
missing; needless to state the passengers
waiting to get into the car were threat
ening to lift it off its truck and stand
it on its bloomin' end
Investigation eventually disclosed the
fact that the porter had asked for
cup of coffee at nearby restaurant an
hour before. discovered fly in 1t. told
the proprietor in vigorous language that
lie knew the difference between a fly and
a lump of sugar and attempted to back
up his contention with his fists. He had
been promptly f1oored and hauled away
to the police station, leaving his car,
perforce, neglected
In suburb of Brooklyn, y. Y, &C
cording to news dispatches, a horse with
q real mustache occasions no end of
amaZement among those who are not
used to him. The hirsute adornment is
blond in color and measures nearly four
inches on each side, from the quite cor
rect part down the middle to the end OF
each tapering tip. The mustache began
to grow. it's owner says, when the horse
was a few years DID, and has become
more luxuriant each year.
FROM two placeS-NeW Y ork ana ltalA =
comes a surprising tale of a woman who
could hold her tongue, despite all provo
cation to cut loose with it upon her hus-
band. The American woman has stuck
to her resolve for eleven years and the
Italian for five months (but with no in
dication of changing her mind in the flu
ture). The New Yorker had lived hap
PLY with her husband and children for
thirteen years: then came dispute.
eleven years ago. over some trivial mat
ter and the wife declared she would
never speak so much as single word to
her husband again. She hasn't.
The husband of the Italian sphinx ap-
pealed to the court at Geneva for adj
vice last June. He had wrongly accused
his wife of unfaithfulness. he admitted,
and she, white-hot with resentment.
vowed never to speak to him again so
long as she lived. She has, however. an
swered his questions with shake of her
head and now and then. as a great favor,
deigned to write a few sentences for his
eager perusal The magistrate, quite evil
IDENTIFY a married man, advised the hus-
band to be especially kind to her and
humble himself in the dust for his mis-
take.
In direct contrast to these unhappy
marital events. listen to the tales of cou-
pies who entered the bonds of matri-
mony under difficulty. Back in the sum-
mer a young Hollander went before a
notary at Wichita Falls. Tex, and reg
istered his marriage vows to a young
damsel over in Holland, who. at the same
time. made similar vows before an Off
cial in Amsterdam. This unusual we'd
ding required the sanction of the Neither
lands representative at Washington and
the officials of the Department of State.
The wife did not join her husband in this
country until late in November.
A remarkable marriage occurred in
May, at Einsiedeln, in the Swiss Lourdes,
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M ANY Odd Things Have
ASA Transpired During the
Past Year Succession of
Events of Minor Moment
That Are Duly Chronicled
Because of Their Unusual
Character and Interest at the
Time-Hundred Dollar Bills
as Dinner Souvenirs The
Animal Dinners"-The Cot
fin Strapped to Pilot of a
Locomotive on Account of
Lack of Baggage Car-Many
Other Queer Things.
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when q Swiss couple were united after a
separation of forty-two years. They had
become engaged in 1870. but, at the out
break of the war between France and
Germany, the fiance left Switzerland to
serve in the French army. During the
ensuing years they drifted apart. each
marrying three tmes-the husband los
ing three wives by death and the wife
three husbands
Last January a man in West Virginia
received a letter that had been mailed to
him six years ago. The letter was an
acceptance Of his proposal of marriage
from the girl of his choice, and took that
length of time to travel the two hundred
miles that separated them. Where it has
been in the meantime cannot be deter
mined. When the expected letter did not
arrive, the man thought it meant a re-
lection of his suit and, after a while,
married another: the woman, believing he
had changed his mind after receiving her
acceptance. waited and waited for word
from him and then she. too. married. 1t
is not recorded that they are now one,
but simply that the missing letter turned
up.
4 woman in Evanston, ILL.,, last Novem-
ber preached a plan to bring together
into the state of marital bliss the sur
plus of bachelors and old maids carefully
sidestepping each other in the town. She
set forth plans for the erection of a COM
bination apartment house and restaurant;
one-half to be reserved for the bachelors
and the other for the spinsters. The first
floor, however, is to be fitted up as a par
lor, with pianos, coy corners and softly
shaded lights-and there Dan Cupid is eX-
pected to do the rest!
An even more interesting plan of wom-
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This body was known to be pursuing a
great, closed path around the sun, making
a complete revolution in the course Of
thirteen years. At its present return to
the vicinity of the earth it was at no
time bright, and it has now moved into
the southern sky and is wholly invisible
to observers in northern ATTITUDES.
November 2 third faint comet was
discovered in the constellation Hercules