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I 2 THE BROOKLYN TIMES, FRIDAY, MAY 19, 1893. GENERAL SPORTING NEWS. AFFAIRS OF INTEREST IN THE ATHLETIC WORLD. Chicago's New Club. -Some of the Matches They.

Have Made and Others They Are After- -Jack Dempsey Offered a Chance -MoCarthy Defeats La Blanche--Jack Letter-4 Fight at St, PaulTo Pitch Quoits-Annie Oakley, the Shooter Matched-Other Notes. May is to have 8 pugilistic club larger than the famous institutions of New Orleans and Coney Island. The club's property 18 located just beyond the State line dividing Illinois from Indiana. The arena will seat in the neighborhood of 18,000 spectators, This is now in progress of erection and the contract calls for its completion on June 5, five days before the opening event is scheduled to take place. This will be a finish contest between Martin Costello, of Buffalo.

and Jimmy Woods of Denver, June 10 next. Other events will be the feather weight championship contest between Solly Smith and Johnny Griffen, Billy Napier and Bobby Burns, Tommy Ryan and Denny Needbam aud $1,000 has been offered for the go between Jack Dompsey and Dominick O'Malley, of New Orleans, and local sporting men are behind the soheme. L. M. Houseman, who has charge of the match-making for the club, cabled an offer to Pritchard of $12,000 purse to meet Dempsey last night.

Australian Billy McCarthy defeated George In Blanche, the marine, before the Crescent City club of New Orleans in BIXteen rounds last night. It was a terrifically fought battle and was largely in McCarthy's favor. La Blanche fought gamely, but his opponent proved too much for him. Steve Brodie is in high feather over the resalt. The following letter has been received at this office from Jack Skelly To the Spartina Editor: SIR: day in receipt of the BROOKLYN TIMES of May 13, Looking over the sporting column I saw notice in regard to my show.

stating thet I did not make enough money in Albany last week to keep the members of In company from starving. I hope you will kindly correct that statement. a8 it is untrue, Am playing in Troy, N. this week to big business and hope to reach Brooklyn next week with my company. Yours respectfully, JOHN J.

SKELLY. John Young replies to Fred Bird's challenge, published yesterday, as follows: Having seen what purports to be A challenge from Mr. Bird to myself in behalf of his protoge. I wish to have it understood that I will meet any one in the world--that is, if they be white-but draw the line on darkles. Then, again, what reputation has this man Hopkins? None that I know of or have heard of.

1 now looking for big game and not the kind of men the lot of challenges I bave received of late seem to be from. Then, again, the big deposit he claims to have made at a newspaper office does DOL stamp his challenge as being genuine. Therefore I will have nothing to do with Mr. Bird or bis club. JOHN YOUNG, 130-pound champion, Dan Gallagher, the trainer and backer of Billy Ernst, it is reported, has accepted the offer of the Crescent City Athletic Club to tight Martin Denny, the crack pugilist of Australia, for $3,500.

date of the men's meeting will be in the Intter part of June. A rumor 19 current that the Stag Athletio Club, whose headquarters were In the old armory building, corner of Bushwick ave nue and Stagg street, this city, has digbanded. The club Was organized about A year ago, the heads of which were young well known in the political world. Mr. McDonald, Stanton Abbott's trainer, has gone to England in comphance with a cablegram received a short time ago from a millionaire 80100 of a noble family with sporting proclivities.

'This sporting man 19 said to be richer than Squire Abingdou had been, and will back Abbott against MoAuliffe or Any other light weight in the States for any sum from 81,000 to $20,000. ST. PAUL, May than 1.000 people gathered at Phonix Athtale letic Club last evening to see a contest between the welter weights, Dick More, of St. Paul, and Thomas Murray, of Miuneapolis. A knock-out resulted, the first in Minnesota since the milina prevented the Ball-Fitzsimmons tight in July, 1892.

More had wou eighteen fights previous to last night but had twice failed to knock out Murray in teu rounds. For eight ronuds the mill was a very even one. After this More had the best of it, and at the very beginning of the eleventh round ha hit Murray on the point of the chin and he lay anconscious for nearly a minute. Joseph Wongo, the Indian pugilist who lived for a number of years in Eistern District, this city, and is now a resident of Obio, refereed a well contested prize fight in Lawelton, Ohio, yesterday between Mike Hawley; of Wheeling, and Jim Gillespie, of They fought for a purse of $500. The fight took place in a driving cold rain and in mud: almost ankle deep by a vicious blow over the heart Hawley WAS knocked out in the fifth round.

The men fought with skin-tight gloves. Gillespie is the lightweight champion who accompanied Austin Gibbons to England two years ago. It is reported that the Crescent City Club, of New Orleans, has offered a 820,000 purse for Jack McAuliffe and Stanton Abbott for a tight to a finish in August. No credence is placed in the rumor, as it is not generally believed that the southern organization would offer that sum as a starter. Billy Veruon is reported to have jumped his contract with the New Jersey Amusement Company for a figut for $500 with Billy Dacey and signed with the Coney Island Ulub to meet Billy Ernst for more.

Mike Dempsey, who fought Billy Ernst before the Ariel Club Philadelphia under the name of Jack Reagan, has taken on Mike Harris, of New York, who challenges Bull McCarthy or Billy Vernon to a finish contest. Monday, the 2d is the date agreed upon for the contest at the Grand 'Theatre. Eddie Sweeney, who was matched to fight Bobby Burns, of Providence, will meet Jim Barry, of the Greenwich A. C. of New York.

Joe Kyan, the little demon catob-as-can will attempt to throw G. Lynn, of Ratland, for the ught weight championship. Harris, Sweeney and Ryan have been engaged by the Boston Lyceum Ideal Specialty Company to meet all comers. Johnny Dunn will also appear as a mimical ebaracter singer and dialect humorist in addition to the athletic part of the entertainment. His act should be worth seeing.

Arrangements have been completed by the Canarsie Yacht Club for its annual opening aud review for the season of 1893, to take place off the clubhouse at Sand's Point, Canarsie, Saturday, May 27. The review will take place at 3 o'clook and the reception at 5. The start will be made from in front of the clubhouse and following the flag ship will sail thence to a point opposite Canarsie Landing, through the breakwater to Big Channel; down Big Channel to a point opposite Waterman's Bar; return through Big Channel to a point opposite Murray Gut Hassock, thence to clubhouse, where the parade will dismiss. At the annual meeting of the Brighton Athletio Club the following candidates were placed in nomination for officers for the ensuing year: President, William Cox; VicePresident, Gilbert Sinnott and Frank Rbodes; Financial Secretary, Frank Maucher; Corresponding Secretary, Charles Dowling; Treasurer, Thomas Eore and Charles Sackman; Captain, Charles Maucher; Lieutenant, Thomas Henry; Board of MnnAgers, Daniel J. Cox, Lonis Hooper, Maxwell McGloin and Addie Hatfield.

The at election the will clubhouse, be held two New weeks from date on Jersey avenue, near Atlantio, Another Australian oasman is anxious to get a crack at Edward Hanlan, Jake Gandaur and other American oarsmen. Lambert challenges any souller in this country. He is twelve stone in weight, 20 years old and six feet in height and great streugth and endurance. The famous female rifle shot champion of America, Miss Annie Onkler, who is better known us the Prairie has has at last found a woman who will shoot against her. She is Berlin's crack rifle shot, Miss Bertha Hayden, who, during the past few TURF NEWS AND GOSSIP.

NOTES OF INTEREST TO FOLLOWERS OF THE RACES. Yesterday's Events at the Gravesend Track--Why Courtship Was Withdrawn -That Diablo Story--Mr. Lorillard Asks for an InvestigationTo-morrow's Card -Same Good 2-YearOlds Coming to Morris Park. A raw, penetrating wind swept over the course at Gravesend yesterday afternoon and made things decidedly uncomfortable for the 15,000 people assembled to witness the day's races. The card was an attractive one and the several events were, with two exceptions, hotly contested.

Richard Croker, Tammany Chieftain, placed another rich prize to his credit, when his handsome chestnut colt, Dobbins, won the first BrookLyn Control Stakes with comparative ease. Dobbins has shown a remarkable burst of speed in ench of the events in which he has been entered and bids fair to develop into another Morello. Dobbina was a strong favorite for yesterdny's event, at four to five. Haltom finished second and Bowers, a handsome chestnut colt, who led most of the way, was a good third. 'The prize was worth $4,000 to the winner.

Mr. Croker's high-priced mare, Yorkville Belle, favorite for the opening event, could not do better than third to Lowlauder and Hamilton, and Joe Kelly, at forty to one, and ridden by H. Jones, surprised the talent by defenting Lyceum, the favorite for the second event, by a length and a half. William Barriok's Emin Bey easily defeated M. F.

Dwyer's Metuchen for the Falcon stakes, Jobuetta being third. Emin Bey went to the post at four to five. Sunglimpse, favorite for the 2-year-old selling race, justified the opinion of his backers by defeating a wood field. Gideon Daly's Dr. Rice as easily defeated Mr.

Coker's Prince George in the closing event. the other horses ID this race were benten off. The odds on Dr. Rice closed at one to $4,000 Tenny Pulsifer, is reported Kelly, to have over Jockey Taral, who had the mount on Bowers in the third rave, broke both stirrupa. But for this fact his horse, which beld a good lead until well into the homestretch, might have turned the tables on Dobbins.

Courtship was withdrawn from the second race yesterday after betting had been going on for some ten minutes, but contrary to the usual custom, time for a new book was not allowed, the Board of control ordering all money bet on Courtship to be refunded. 'The explanation gIven WAS that Jockey Evans was not within seven pounds of the allotted weight, nud that there Was no time to secure the services of another rider, In spite of the denial in some quarters that an investigation has been requested by 'Trainer Huggins or Mr. Lorillard, of the Raucocas stable, relative to the alleged suspicious riding and interference of Lamplighter in the Brooklyn Handicap Monday Inst, Mr. Lorillard, according to a morning paper, is contident that there was a job and 18 determined to have the guilty parties, if his charges can be proven, punished. I thank God that I got my horse out of that race alive, and when I think of that pack of villains and scoandrels who were in the scheme I feel doubly thankful," are the words the master of Rancocas is reported to have used in disoussing the matter yesterday.

Mr. Lorillard, it is further said, Acting on the advice of Trainer Huggins, has wired President H. De Cources Forbes, of the New York Jockey Club, asking him to see President John Hunter, of the Board of Control, and arrange for an investigation of the rACe. In his telegram to Mr. Forbes, Mr.

Lorillard 18 said to have paid his respects to some horse owners who have been noted for their antagonism to him, and incidentally referred to an nupleasant incident of the turf which occurred last year. Mr. Lorillard in this telegram, it is said, also deuounced the running of seven horses in one interest in the race as not at all condusive to the elevation of the turf and declared that he would not have started Lamplighter had it not been that Mr. Hunter earnestly requested him to do so. The seven horses in one interest referred to were Bill" Daly's Fidelio and Terrifier, Michael F.

Dwyer's Knceland, Banquet and Nomad, Green B. Morris' Judge Morrow and J. E. Madden's Illume, trained by Green B. Morris.

Strangely enough P. J. Dwyer and Leonawell are left out. Mr. Lorillard also announced that he would never start a horse the Brooklyn Handicap again.

Mr. Forbes, when questioned about the matter, admitted that he bad received a telegram from Mr. Lorillard but declined to make public the contents. To-morrow's card at Gravesend inoludes the Hudson Stakes for 3-year-olds, with $1,500 added, distance five furlongs, and the Brooklyn Jockey Club Standard Stakes for 3-year-olds and upwards, the guaranteed value of which is $3,000.000, distance miles. In the latter are entered Pactolus, Yorkville Belle, Montana, Tammany, Banquet, Demuth, Kingston, Longstreet, Raceland, Leonawell, His Highness, Russell, Lamplighter, La Tosca, Locahatchee, Major Domo and others.

CHICAGO, May hundred and -six of J. B. Haggins' yearlings passed through Chicago last night on their way to New York, where they will be sold at auction on the Morris Park Race Course on June 1. The youngsters St. Blais, Salvator, Sir Modred, Darebin, Tremont, Tyrant, Ben Ali, Hidalgo and other wellknowu sires.

The youngsters bore the journey from the coast well. THROWN FROM HIS WAGON. Ex- Sterling Slightly Injured Yesterday Afternoon. Ex-Alderman George H. Sterling, of this city, while returning from the Gravesend races last evening in a light wagon, had a collision with an electric trolley car on the Fifth avenue branch of the Atlantic Avenue Railroad and narrowly escaped being killed.

'The accident occurred a few minutes after 6 o'clock at Berkeley place and Fifth avenue. At the Seney Hospital his skull was found to be slightly fractured, bat after the wound Was dressed he was able to go howe. At a Inte hour be was reported to be getting along nicely. An Enjoyable A fair. The Sabbath Observance Bicycle Club, of the Seventeenth Ward, held a social reunion last evening at the residence of Mr.

Edwin J. Clark, 141 Oakland street. During the evening there were piano selections by Miss Jennie Collard; sones by glee club consisting of the Rev. W. H.

Layton, the Rev. A. S. Kavanagh, Mr. and Mrs.

Nelson and Edwin J. Clark. There was 8 fine collation served. The evening was very pleasantly passed. Among those present were the Rev.

and Mrs. W. A. Layton, the Rev. and Mrs.

A. S. Kavanagh, William W. Taft, Frederick W. Kristella.

Mr. and Mrs. R. Martin, Mr. and Mrs.

Henry Faller, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Collard, Miss Jennie Collard, Mr. and Mrs. 'Theodore A.

Powell, Miss Clara A. Powell, Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Jones, Mr. and Mrs.

John Willson, Miss Lena Dibba, J. J. McGuire, Eustace Ritch, Mr. and Mrs. J.

J. Clark, Mr. and Mrs. WID J. Clark, Mr.

and Mra. Colberger and others. Presented With Piano. The Rev. F.

W. Oswald, pastor of St. John's Evangelical Lutheran Church, was visited during the week by the official menbers of the church and presented with check for large amount of money which the members of the church, Sunday school and the societies of the church had generously contributed for the purpose of purchasing a piano. The money wAs given so that the clergyman could use his own judgment as to the kind of instrument he should get. To Decorate Farragut's Tomb, special train has been chartered to convey the Farragut Association of Naval Veterans of the port of New York to Woodlawn Cemetery, where the tomb of Admiral D.

G. Farragut, United States Navy, will be dedicated on Sunday next. The train leaves the Harlem entrance of the Grand Central Depot at 1 P. M. Vice-Admiral Kaznacoff and his officers of the Russian Navy.

Capt. John C. Watson, United States Navy, and Lient. Loyall Farragut will be among the guests. BUSINESS IN THE SESSIONS.

Arraigoments and Sentences rot Before Judge Moore This Morning, The first person arraigned this morning in the Court of Sessions to plead to indictmenta presented by the Grand Jury WAS James Pasara, who is charged with murder in the first degree for the shooting of Louisa Donata on April 11, 1898. Pasara is also charged with shooting Madaiina Castaquello, but not fatally. He pleaded not guilty to both indiotments. Other, indictments preseated to which a plea of not guilty was entered were Emil Buebler, Jobn Ehlers and Dora Eblers, grand larceny second degree; Charles E. Wallace, assault: James Burns.

burglary thrid degree. Frank Coakley pleaded guilty to burglary third degree. Judge Moore passed the following sentences: Christian Hext, burglary, third degree, Sing Sing 8 years nad months: Charles Adams, burglary, third degree, penitentiary 4 years and 6 months; John Murphy, alias Duffy, grand second degree. penitentiary 4 years and 6 months: Louis Donohue, alias John Reilly, aiding prisoner to escape, peutentiary 1 year and 6 months; Henry Mobr, grand larceny, seoond degree, penitentiary 2 years and 6 montbs; Uharles Smith and. Christopher Wilhenhauser, attempt at burglary, second degree, Elmira Reformatory; George Kris, attempt at burglary, third degree, penitentiary 9 years and 6 months; Conrad Duokmeyer, burglary, third degree, grand lardeny, second degree, penitentiary 4 years, John Duckineyer, assault, third degree, penitentiary, 1 year; Thomas Quinn, attempt at grand larceny, second degree, jail 29 days; James Cox, assault, third degree, discharged on his own recognizance; William E.

Murray, robbery, second degree, Elmira Reformatory; George Seitz, burglary, third degree, discharged on bail bond; Charles Hoheu, burglary, third degree, House of Refuge; Thomas Kerrigan, attempt at burglary, third degree, jail 20 days; John McPherson, William Ecker, and George Triggs, burglary, third degree, House of Refuge; Morris Sohoonbolz Joseph Cohen, Charles Solomon, conspiracy, penitentiary 1 year; Michael Nagle, attempt at burglary, third degree, Elmira Reformatory; Emil Tengzelius, petit larceny, penitentiary 9 George Wilson, petit larceny, penitentiary 1 year; Gideon De Angelis, attempt at grand larceny, second degree, discharged ou own recognizance; Peter McGloin, attempt nt burglary, third degree, sentence suspended; William Holst, nttempt at burglary, degree, sentence suspended; John McBride, attempt at grand larceny, second degree, sentence suspended. JAMES E. MURDOCK DEAD. The Veteran Actor Passes Away In Cincinnati. CINCINNATI, May 19.

-Jaines E. Murdock, the famous actor, died at 5:80 o'clock this morning, aged 83 years. For two years he bas ill from various ailments. He WAB tenderly for to the last by his daughters, the Misses Fanny and Ida. CHARGED WITH GRAND LARCENY.

Treasurer Conrad, of the Waterbury Society, Under Arrest. Paul Conrad, aged 47, of 249 Stockton street, was arraigned before Justice Haggerty in the Myrtle avenue police court this morning on charge of larceny, Johann Holsten, of 35 Clermont avenue, the President of Waterbury Society of the German Evangelical Church, being the complainant. Conrad was until recently the I reasurer of the society and as such, it 18 alleged, he collected which he filed to turn over to his successor in office. The acoused pleaded not guilty and went to jail in default of bail until Wednesday next, when he will be given a hearing in the matter. ORGANIZED FOR WORK.

The Board of East Kiver Bridge Commissioners. The East River Bridge Commissioners went before Justice Andrews in New York yesterday and took the oath of office. 'They then organized by appointing Mr. Joline Chairman and Mr. Milbank Secretary.

The commission consists of Thomas L. James, Adrian I. Joline and Samuel W. Milbank. They were appointed by the Supreme Court, under the Rapid Transit act, to take testimony and report whether the court should give permission to the East River Bridge Company in lieu of the consents of the property owners to build the bridge and elerated railroads.

'The first public meeting of the commisBion will be held May 31, at the office of the bridge company, 29 Broadway, New York. AMPHION MUSICAL SOCIETY. The Management of Its Affairs in the Hands of the Rev. Dr. Darlington.

This month sees new regime in the management of the Amphion 1 Musical Society. 'The new President, the Rev. Dr. James H. Darlington, has taken hold of affairs with a vim and the society 18 promised an awakening such as it knew in, its former days.

The first affair of note that is promised will I be lecture by Mr. William Blaikie, the famous exponent of physical calture. This event is down for Saturday evening, May 27. It will be for men only and is sure to be of interest, Mr. Blaikie is known throughout the land.

Ench member of the society will be entitled to two tickets and extra tickets may be obtained of the Entertainment Committee at $1 each. The Entertainment Committee also Announce for the early part of June what will be known 88 Cecilia" night. The date bas not been positively determined upon. The entertainment on this evening will consist of a programme of music rendered by members of the Cecilia Ladies' Vocal Sooiety. The last part of the evening will be devoted to dancing.

Aldine Dramatic club. The Aldine Dramatic Club, a company of Eastern District amateurs, gave a very pleasant entertainment on Wednesday evening last at the residence of Mr. H. Staok, 180 Marcy avenue. The programme was of varied character, consisting of comedy, singing, dancing and recitations.

The Misses Staok vivaciously rendered a choice selection of songs. Mr. J. Conridy 1n Oh! Promise Me," WAS enthusiastically spplauded, and Miss Stella Gaslay's performon the piano pleased the audience immensely. After a bounteous collation 1 the rest of the eveuing was spent in eujoying the fANCy dancing of the Misses: Stack and others.

Among those present were Miss May Tully, Miss 8. Gazlay, Miss Wilson, Miss Thompson, Miss' Anna May Conklin, V. Stack, Miss N. Staok, Miss J. Nichol, Messrs.

A. Janookey, J. Conridy, (. Daly, H. Stack, L.

Nicholson, J. Campell, J. Gallagher, C. Hull, H. Fickle, A.

Russell, A. Lee, Mr. Mckee, Mr. Porter and many others. Flatbush Notes.

Prof. Annis and pupils, assisted by Prof. Morris, Prof. John Norton and others, will hoid a reception from 10 to 12. P.

June 5, at the Town Hall. The Fifth District Republican Association will hold primary on Wednesday night, the 28d at Blossfeld's feed store, city line. At a meeting of the Flatbush Co-operative Building and Loan Association held Inst night the Town Hall D. Lovejoy bought 88,000 at a premium of 15 per cent. The BROOKLYN TIMES always be parchased at the office of the Flatbush Press, Flatbush avenne.

St. John's Evangelical Sunday School. The following are. the bewly elected officers of the Sunday school connected with St. John's Evangelical Lutheran Church W.

O. Lehsten, Superintendent; Charles Niedner, Assistant Superintendent; Mrs. F. W. Oswald, Secretary: Miss M.

Jones, Treasurer; E. and D. 'Ten ken, Librarians; A. Simminger, Organ1st. Officers of the mission are F.

Gramlich, Superintendent; Miss A. sis ant Superintendent: H. D. Christoffers, Secretary, Mrs. C.

Schwalenberg, nrer; F. 'Lipp, Librarian; Miss E. Lahrs, Organist. A St. Louis man claims to have discovered that the free consumption of watercress, at least three times a day, will cure the ciga.

rette babit. There is a market in Salt Lake for bales of it, if that is the case, -Salt Lake Herald. HOW LONG HAS MAN LIVED NEW BELIEF A8 TO THE HUMAN FAMILY'S AGE. Var More Recent Animal Than Has Been Imagined Hitherto--Not. Older Than 50,000 Years and Perhaps Only 80,000 Years Old.

WASHINGTON, May old is MAD OD the earth? 'The question came up for discussion Among members of the National Academy of Sciences here last week, a revolution has recently taken place in the scientific theory on this subject. In fact, the belief held hitherto has been turned upside down, the best evidence now at hand going to show that the speaking and fire-using animal classified by Linnaeus as Homo sapiens may not have lived more than 30,000 years ago, and probably did not exist 50,000 years B. 0. The glaciers appealed to for testimony on this are, subjeot. It is reckoned that the first ice invasion of the Pleistocene, which spread a frozen sheet over this continent as far south AS New York City, 00- curred about 200,000 years ago.

Subsequently there were animals in North Americe wholly different from any that are found here now. The mammoth and the mastodon roamed through the forests 10 herds. There were camels, elk of enormous size, musk oxen and giant beavers six feet long. This ancient fauna has entirely passed away; the strange beasts mentioned are extinct species. If when they existed man bai lived on tho earth, the rooky strata inolosing their fossil remains would almost certainly yield some haman bones or relics.

As matter of fact, none such bave ever been found thas associated. On this continent human bones and implements have only been found associated with the remains of modern animals, such as have existed here since the last ice sheet Was withdrawn, 7,000 or 8,000 years ago, But on looking across to the Old World evidence of a different sort is discovered, pointing in the same direction. The valley of the Nile WaS one of the earliest regions on the earth to be inbabited by mau. Every year the flood of that river leaves a thin deposit of mud covering the land. By digging a hole in the ground the successive annual overflows can be clearly traced back for century after century by the layers superimposed one upon another.

Thus at depth of 1,000 layers is the surface level of 1,000 years ago. Now, excavations made at great expense for scientitio purposes have not disclosed any human relics at a greater depth than 15,000 layers or years. Below that point the strata are barren. Until recently it has been supposed that people in the Stone Age devoted infinite labor to the production of their implemeuts. A stoue axe was imagined to be the result of the toil of generations.

If A man began to make such a tool in early youth lived to see it finished by his grandson he might die happy. This notion 18 now exploded. Not long ago J. D. McGuire set up little workshop iu the Nauonal Museum and proceded to manufacture primitive tools of Hint and other kinds of a stone with no other means than such as the earliest savages had at hand.

He proved that he could turn out a first-rate stone axe in two hours, though he might have done better if he had had As much practice as the toolmakers of the Stone Age. 'The latter did not pick up fragments of rock at random for their purposes. They selected from the nearest stream pebbles which were not far from the shape they wanted, and pecked at each one with another pebble until it assumed the required contour, finally grinding the edge on 8 piece of sandstone, if desired, and perbaps contributing a final polish by rubbing with sand and water. 'The scientists holding the belief that man 18 8 very ancient animal ou the earth have referred for evidence to numerous caves in Southern Europe and elsewhere, which were doubtless inhabited by many generations of human beings for the sake of shelter and bers of human bones and primitive tools, security. 'These caverns contain great: numwhich, it is alleged, have been found in nuIn6rou8 instances mixed with fragments of skeletons of the huge cave bear, the sabre toothed tiger, the wholly rhinoceros, the giant beaver and even the elephas antiquus, which was the ancestor of the mammoth and the elephants of to-day.

The flooring of ashes from ancient household tires 11 these CaVerns is sometimes A8 much AB twenty feet thick, representing the accumulation of hundreds if not thousands of years. Scattered about the ancient hearths are ever 80 many bones of men, women and children, which bear not only traces of tire, but marks of instruments employed to split them lengthwise for the purpose of getting nt the marrow. Thus it would 8801 that these savages of antiquity were canuibals. In these caves 1 testimony is found of many murders committed thousands of years ago. Skulls of women cleft by sharp weapons prove that they often were victims of savage violence.

One such cranium of female bears the marks of three penetrating wounds. 'The fact that two of them exhibit signs of having healed shows that she recovered, only to succumb to a third assault. The ancient occupants of the caverns appeared to have depended for food chiefly on the meat of reindeer, which in their time were as plentiful in the south of Europe 88 sheep are now. Reindeer horn was their earliest raw materinl, employed for manuiacturing purposes. They fished with hooks made of splinters of bone pointed nt both ends.

I'wenty pounds of the bones of water rats, half rousted, were dug up in 0 single cave at Chaleux, from which it is inferred that these animals contributed to the food supply in times of scarcity. It has been alleged that the dwellers in the CaTeras used the lower jawbone of the CAVe bear 88 a weapon, the great canine tooth serving n8 a point with wuich deadly blows could be struck. Some of the caves were regular factories for making tools and weapons. From the one at Chaleux 20,000 flint hatchets, daggers and knives have been obtained by digging. A workshop of this kind in Perigord WAS devoted to the making of spear heads, while another contined itself to fabricating tools of reindeer from horn.

the first Curious whistles were turned out joint of the reindeer's horn. Many of the implements and weapons discovered were rudely decorated with representations of fishes, of reindeer and even of mammoths. 'There were hunting sceues carved in bone and horn, in which men were shown in pursuit of game or in conflict with beasts. One carving is landscape, with reindeer browsing in admirable perspective. 'The British Museum owns a supposed paleolithio poniard of reindeer horn, with a handle carved in the form of 8 reindeer, which would not be worthy of modern art.

The trouble with these works of art is that they are entirely too admirable. It is NOW believed that they are all of them frauds. Scientists are often credulous in proportion to their enthusiasm, but the limit of credulity is passed by paleolithio carvings in perspective. No modern savages have the slightest iden of perspective. It represents the very (latest development of artistio culture.

Even the Chinese and Japanese possess no notion of it worth mentioning. Undoubtedly the objects described were fabricated by ingenious persons for the purpose of supplying an urgent and protitable demand. For a small collection of them which included the poniard referred to the British Museum paid $1,600 not many years ago. The testimony 88 to the discovery of them in the caves was as readily manufactured as the things themselves. Thus does the whole fabric of theory built upon these alleged finds fall to the ground.

'The carvings of the mammoth and the cave for bear being frauds, the there is no resson supposing that dwellers in the caverns ever saw either of those beaste. As for the finding of human bones mixed up with skeletons of the care bear and anbre toothed tiger, the evidence does not endure sifting. Doubtless those animals--the former much bigger and more powerful than a grizzly, and the latter twice as big and strong as tiger of Bengal-made use of the SAVES as dens when they lived, and left their bones behind them. Primitive man would have found it to contend with such terrifie creatures. That he did inhabit the same refuges for ries long afterwards, chasing the reindeer, manufacturing tools, roasting water rats and eating human flesh when he could procare the luxury, there in every reason to Delieve.

The law of supply and demand has established the business of producing bogus tiquities on a profitable basis. Scientists, offering money for them, have been con- The stantly workmen duped by employed fakes of by this them have description. commouly been only too eager to engage in systematio imposition on their credulity. Some years ago, in Cala veras County, a tunnel was run under a mountain for the purpose of getting at a stratum of gold-bearing gravel, which, once upon a time, had been the bed of a river. Subsequently hundreds of vertical feet of material had been deposited by water on top of this layer, and finally a lava flow from a volcano had spread a thick crust ever the whole.

In the course of centuries streams cut out valleys and left a high hill standing between. Into the bottom of this hill the tunnel was dux. Prof. Whitney chanced to be in that loonlity at the time. To him one day the workmen brought a human skull, which they said had been got by digging from the very heart of the monntain, where it WAS found baried in the auriferous gravel.

Together with it were discovered certain implements, including a stone mortar and pestle. This was destined to become famous all over the world as the Calaveras skull." Most satisfactory affidavits were obtained from the laborers as to the circumstances under which it had been discovered. If what they said was true the man to whom the skull belonged must have lived hundreds of thousands of years ago. At the same time the cranium was suffciently large and well shaped do have contained the brain of a philosopher. At present the opinion best accepted in regard to it is that 16 WAS 8 cold blooded fraud.

'There 18 A skall at the Smithsonian Institution which is actually made of iron. It was dug out of hill of iron ore, the metal in solation having taken the place of the original partioles of bone so as to preserve the shape in A wonderful manner. One might imagine it to be extremely ancient, but such a transformation could be accomplished in a few years. What sort of animal was the immediate ancestor of the speaking And fire using creature called man? That is the question asked by science. There is A beast on earth at present that is very like man.

It is the chimpanzee, which may be called the manlike ape, par excellence. So olosely is it related to man that there is almost no gap between man and the chimpanzee anatomionlly or intellectually. Prof. Huxley has found that there 18 much less difference between the skull of this ape and the lowest type of human skull than there is between the lowest and the highest human skulls. 'The same is true of the brains, Likewise, there is less difference in intellectual capaoity between the chimpanzee and the lowest savage than between the latter and the highest baman type.

It is often asserted that the ape differs from wan in the fact that it is not susceptible of improvement by education. That is not true. The chimpanzee can be taught to do many things 10 a humanlike manner. If the animal were instructed through generations it would, doubtless, develop a surprising degree of intelligence. Even the comparatively degraded monkeys of India, which have been long domesticated, are taught to sit at table and to use finger bowl and napkin with much dexterity.

At the same time, it is not imagined that man is descended from the chimpanzee. Both are believed to be derived from a common ancestor. That progenitor is the longsought missing link- man-like ape of whose species no remaius have ever been found. That the creature will be discovered in fossil shape some day is not unlikely. Many of a its kind must have fallen into the water and been drowned.

That 18 the way in which animals are usually fossilized and proserved. Sinking to the bottom, their bodies are covered with mud, which subsequently hardens up, into rock. At length the water dries up and the fossil remains are dug out. Animals which die on the land are destroyed by decay or by other creatures which devour their carcasses. 'The reason why the missing link has not already beeu found 18 that he is too reticent.

The water in which his fossilized representatives lost their lives or into which their bodies were carried by streams and floods has not bad time to dry up and disclose them to view. Science declares that on the earth there will never be higher species than man. Evolution on the has anatomically stopped. now going abead on the intellectual plane. The lower animals develop as man wants them to, or they die out.

Man is exterminating all animals for which he has no use and is domesticating the few remaining ones. He is wiping out all plants which are not valuable to him and is cultivationg those which he can utilize profitably. 'The Hev." Sam Jones asks: Do you know anybody who ever saw anything evolute 'The question shows that he has failed to consider the breeding of animals by man, who, by ntilizing the processes of evolution, has trausformed the ravenous wolf into the faithful dog, and has crented score of varieties of pigeons from the wild and unornamental Blue Rock. Evolution still goes on, but under control by man. The anthropologists say that 500 years hence man will be far more intellectual than he is now.

He will by more vigorous physically and will enjoy a longer life, because he is making a study of health laws. The female of his speoies will be handsomer, because life will be more BABY for her. Comfort and ease are the conditions which produce beauty in woman. Savage Women are almost never pretty even in youth, because they work hard and live roughly. Through the aid of the telegraph and modern means of rapid locomotion man has become almost independent of time and soace.

The earth is now what he chooses to make it. If lands are not suitable for a growing produots of the ductive he fertilizes them. If the climate soil which he requires he alters it by conserving the solar heat under glass. It is not unlikely that all the northern part of New Jersey will at no distant day be under a glass roof, for the purpose of supplying New York with vegetables, fruits and Bowers. An interesting exbibit at the National Museum shows the physical ingredients which go make up the average man, weighing 154 pounds.

A large glass jar holds the 96 pounds of water which his body contains. In other receptacles are 3 pounds of white of egg, little less than 10 pounds of pure glue- which it would be impossible for him to keep body and soul pounds of fat, pounds of phosphate of lime, 1 pound of carbonate of lime, 3 ounces of sugar and starch, 6 ounces of fluoride of calcium, 6 ounces of phosphate of magnesia and 8 little ordinary table salt. Dividing up into his primary chemical elements the same man is found to contain 97 pounds of oxygen, enough to take up under ordinary atmospheric ten pressure the space of A room ten feet long, feet wide and ten feet high. His body also holds 15 pounds of bydrogen, which, under the same conditions, would occupy somewhat more than two such rooms as that described. To these must be added 8 pounds and 18 ounces of nitrogen.

The carbon in the corpus of the individual referred to is represented by a foot cube of coal. It ought to be a diamond of the same size, because that stone is pure carbon, but the National Museum has not such a one in its possession. A row of bottles contain the other elements going to make up the man. These ounces of chlorine, ounces of fluorine, 8 ounces of phosphorus, ounces of brimstone, ounces of sodium, ounces of potassium, one-tenth of an ounce of iron, 2 ounces of magnesium and 3 pounds and 18 of calciam. Calcium at present market rates 18 worth 8300 an ounce, 80 that the amount of it contained in oue ordinary human body has A money value of $18,800.

Few of our fel-citizens realize that they are worth as much intrinsically. What makes this metal 80 costly is the difficulty of separating it from the elements with which it is found com biued in nature. It seems odd to know that four of the constituents of the human body will take tire by spontaneous combustion. Everybody knows how quickly phosphorus will do that when dry. A sorap of sodium, on being thrown into hot water or upon ice, will burst into a rosy flame.

Potassium acts similarly, but with greater violence. On touching water. it flames up and at length explodes, throwing fountain, of sparks into the air. Magnesium, which is used in the form of powder for dash lights by photographers, is so readily and fiercely combustible that it has to be kept tightly corked in bottles. RENE BACHE.

Puritan Congregational Church Quartet. The new quartet of the Puritan Congregational Church for the ensuing year is composed of the following persons: Miss Hilda Hoffman, soprano; Miss Marian Gilwer, contralto: Mr. T. G. Claridge, tenor, and Mr.

Hubert Matthews, basso. Mr. Lawrence Bogert will continue to preside at the organ. The Young People's Association and Sabbath school of the Puritan Church have voted to unite in an excursion this year. They will go to Greenwood Lake ou June 10.

HADDOCK TAKES REVENG BROOKLYN'S PITCHER SQUARES COUNTS WITH BOSTON. The Hoodoo They Worked on Elm Eastern Park Last Week Had No 1 rors for Him Yesterday at the Hubs The Home Team Defeated in Deeli edly Close and Interesting Contest The Bradford Fishing Club Team Victory--The Score Was' 55 to 22-Nota of the Diamond--The Record. Scottdale, Hood's Praises Itself Mr. John Saxton Kidney Troubles Bright's Disease Cured Able to Work, Sound as Dollar. "I do think Hood's Sarsaparilla la 'worth its weight in For four years I suffered misery with terrible pains in my back and trouble with my kidneys.

The doctors thought I had Bright's disease. Many a time I had to give up work and continually grew worse, and wheu I sal or stooped down I had to be helped At last had to give up and go to bed and remain six long weeks. It was theu I began to take Hood's Sarsaparilla, and soon I found that It was helping me although I had boon told nothing would help me and thought I Would Have to Die. But continued to improve till I am now in perfeet health and have as good a back A8 any man In town, To-day I can do a good day's work and truly feel that Hood's Sarsaparilla was a Godsend to me. I am 88 sound as the best dollar that was ever made, and I want this statement put into print so that everybody can see what Hood's Sarsa Cures It did me.

Every word of the above can be good by a score of people here. I took but six proved bottles. I think no one can praise Hood's garsaparilla 89 much as it will praise itself." JOHN SAXTON, Scottdale, Pa. Hood's Pills. ACt easily, yet promptly and efficiently, liver and bowels.

25c. years, defented all competitors in the Eurocapitols. Miss Hayden will arrive In pean this country about June 1, when A match will be arranged between the female chamA wealthy New York brewer will pions. back the German representative for from 81,000 to $2,000 and Miss Oakley's interest will be looked after by Uncle Sam's ourrency drawn from the bank account of Buffalo Bill," the Hon. William F.

Cody. The match will come off either in New York or Chicago. There will be quoit game pitched on De Decoration Day at Hanlan's court, on Nevins street. this city, between Morris Bannon and Mortimer Shevlin. The disianoe will be 18 yards, 47 points up, spikes 6 inches above the gronnd.

Tae purse is $100, half of which is in the bands of the referee, Edward O'Brien, of Kent avenue. The death of Blondin, who was recognized by medical authority to be the strongest man in the world, will no doubt prove a salutary lesson to a bait dozen or 80 men who are traveling about the country performing wonderful feats of strength. Blondin ruptured a blood vessel in his head and chest while trying to perform a feat of pulling against two horses DO at Lake Placid, N. J. He died three bours afterwards.

Blondin WAB 83 years old and born in France. He defeated every man he met in his trials of strength. 'The Harlem Regatta Association will bold a meeting at the Grand Union Hotel, on Forty-second street, opposite the Grand Central Depot, New York, next Tuesday eveninz. 'The Regatta Committee meeta at 7 o'clock and the A Association at 8. Considerable business of importance will be transacted.

PRINCETON, N. May Below is given a list of mou who will Princeton the Columbin-Princeton gauzes to be held in New York on Saturday, 'The team will lenve Saturday morning at 9:08 o'clock and will return the same evening. 100 yards' dash, Allen, McNalty, Wilson; 120 yards' dash. Allen, McNuity, Wilson: yards' dash, Brokaw, McLampbell, Chapman, Wilson, Swan; 660 yards' run, Turner, Wintringer, Eckoff, Betts; mile run, Woodbridge, Black. Caton; mile bicycle, Grandin, Karnochan; putting the shot, Beveridge, Taylor, Hall; throwing the hammer, Hallet, Taylor, Hall; broad jump, Turner, Sill; high jump, Sill, North, Grey; pole vault, Sill, Offat, Turner: 120 yards' burdles, WilBill; 220 yards' hurdles, Johnson, James.

The games will be held at Williamsbridge, on the Harlem Division of the New York Central Railroad. BOWLING NOTES. Opening of the New Madison Ball-Some Match Games. An informal opening of George Roo's new Madison Hall, at the corner of Knickerbocker avenue and Madison street, took place last night when Messrs. Interman and Rosenthal, two clever bowlers of the Twenty-eighth Ward, played a series of the best four oat of seven games for $25 a side.

The alleys are of the most modern constraction in a large and roomy basement with excellent ventilation, and the entire place is fitted up in a style that will vie in attrao tiveness with any in the city. The alleys are two in number and in addition there are pool and billiard rooms and large A ception room where the boys" can enjoy themselves after match games. Interman WAS in fine form last night and, although the scores made were not up to the general run of these clever experts, he beat Rosenthal for successive as will be seen by the appended recordame INTERMAN. RORKN THAL. First game 143 First 123 Second game 189 Second game.

150 Third game. 191 Third game 146 Fourth game, 164 Fourth game. 152 Total 687 Total. .571 Interman's average to a game was and Rosenthal's Mr. Rosenthal WAS not satisfied with the above result and challenged Mr.

Interman to play another match for the sane amount of money which the latter readily accepted. 'The second series was better contested and although Interman won the first two games it required the playing of seven games to determine who was the victor. Rosenthal then got on the head pin in good shape and he pluced the third and fourth game to his credit. Interman was still in the fight. and by good spare rolling won the fifth game by score of 187 to 127.

Rosenthal took the sixth game and pocketed the greenbacks. The score is as follows: INTERMAN. ROSENTHAL. First game First game. 102 Be, enth seventh game.

149 Fifth game Fifth 127 sixth Sixth game 159 Third game. Third game 197 Second game. Second 124 Fourth game, 9936888 Fourth 176 Total 1,014 Total. .......1,028 Rosenthal had the best average and the greatest number of pins, but lost his money all the same, The well-known Apollos of this city will play the Planets, the champions of Bay Ridge, A ten-mea team patch for $100 trophy and the suppers in Apollo Hall, 127 Meserole street. The ties for second and third prizes in the Capitol men team tournament will be rolled off at the close of which the trophies will be presented to the successful winners.

An 'Interesting Lecture, The Rev. O. Tree, pastor of the Powers Street E. Church, delivered a lecture last evening in that edifice on Women Ugly and Cheerful and Hew Not to Make Marriage a The attendance was large and the lecture was listened to with much interest. Haddock, the handsome twirler of the Brooklyn team, owed the Bostons a drui bing and his debt yesterday.

Whea the Beaneaters were at Eastern Park the latter part of last week he was put in pitch 10 one of the, games, and though was not hit to any remarkable extent, he was hoodooed by the Boston batsmen so badly that it was with difficulty he found the plate at all. To add to this he had submit to indignity of being retired to the bench, ladies' in day too, and from there to watch his associate, Kennedy, twirl the sphere more ncourately and with better aim than he could command. He then and there vowed to get even al the earliest opportunity and the chancel came yesterday. And perhaps he didn't aoopt it? Ask the Bostons. The way he twisted and squirmed that ball across the rubber made the home team doubtful; at times, as to whether it Wa8 an oblong.

square or ronnd object that shot by them. Just when the local men were most desirous of making a hit count the ball had the most steam in it. At other times he would allow them to place it safely, but then he would settle down and pitob his prettiest. He did not by any means, though, have the game all to himself. He WaR, as usual, admirably, supported in the field, Brooklyn only hav1Dg one error and that, strange to say, being' charged against Mike Griftin.

The Bostons, though, Were a trifle off in their fielding. Five fatal errors were marked up against them, enough to rattle the nerves of any twirler except A clever veteran Nichole. His work in the face of his support was excellent, but he was fortunate. When a white clad ranner got his base through an error the next batter usually came to his Assistance and nided him to cover the distance necessay to tally a point. This was most noticeable in the last inning.

MoCarthy had put an end to Kinglow's hope by swooping down on his long bit fly in a superb manner. After this brilhant display Capt. Nash showed what he could do if he wanted to by letting Haddock's hit go through his lega, This was bad, for Wasu't the next batter Mike Griffin, who had already placed two admirable singles out of the fielder's reach. Nichole felt the force of the mighty little centre tielder's presence and put on au extra twist. Anything that's fair, however, suits Mike, and he caught one of those carves squarely, and sent it: sonring out of the reach of every one of the outfielders, for it was over the Hel made the circuit, following Haddook around with grace and ease.

It proved a lucky hit, for it won the game. Without it a different story would be told to-day. Boston made grand rally in the ninth, but missed by single run. 'The score: Brooklyn. 0 0 0 00000 0 0 3 Earned runs -Brooklyn, Boston 2.

First base by etrors -Brooklyn 2: Boston, 3. Left on basesBrooklyn, Boston, 9. First base on balls Haddock, 3: off Nichols. 3. Struck out--By Haddook, by Nichols, 1.

Home runs -Grain, Burns, Bennet. Sacrifice hits -Scuoch, McOurthy. Nash, Nichols. Stolen bases, "Foutz. schoch, McCarthy.

Double play -Nash and Tucker. Hit by pither By Haddock, 1. Passed bails -Kinsiow, Bennett, 1. Umpire -Garfney. Time One bour and flity minutes.

Other games in the National League yesterday resulted as follows: At New YorkWashington, 1: New York, 15. At Philadelphia-Baltimore, Philadelphia, 10. At St. -Pittsburg, 4: St. Louis, 5.

At Cleveland-Cincinnati, Cleveland, 21. 'The record to date is as follows: THE RECORD. Clubs. Won. Lost.

P.ct. Clubs. Won. Lost. P.ct.

Cleveland. 7 3 700 Washing 'n. 9 8 .529 St. Louis .10 6 .625 Boston .529 Brooklyn 9 .600 10 Pittsburg. 6 .600 New York.

6 11 ,853 Philadelp'la. 9 6 .600 Chicago 5 12 294 ..10 8 .556 2 8 .200 A phenomenal game of ball was played yesterday afternoon in East New York. It wasn't played on the Eastern Park grounds, but attracted a considerable crowd of local enthusiasts. 'The game Was betweeu the Chairsweaters, of Sobiellein's Hall, und piked nine from the Bradford Fishing Club. The members of both clubs are all good fellows, and well known in the Twentysixth ward socially aud politically.

The game was held on Hegeman's Farms, in the immedinte neighborhood of Satter and Miller avenues. George Sobiellein, the popular proprietor of Schiellein's Assembly Rooms, Captained the Chairs weaters, and Henry I Ebriohs noted in the same capacity for the Bradford nine. A well-known local newspaper man umpired the game satisfaotorily. To make a long story short the game WAS called at 2:30. After three hours of lively play, in which there were three times more home runs than base hits, the game was called at the end of seven innings, by previous arrangement, the score at that time standing 55 to 22 in favor of the Bradfords.

two scorers gave up Keeping a record of the errors in the first inning for obvious reasous. After the game the vietorious club was escorted by the vanquished AS A guard of honor to Schiellein's Assembly Roows, where they were treated to an rate collation and regaled with choice musio by Pirkl and Steveuson's band. Hartshon liniment, camphorated oil, horse liniment, anti-stiff and other similar compounds were in great demand this morning and are likely large sales for a week to come in the Twenty will Ward. It is thought recovered that by both the have sufficiently when another match game will be played. Baseball Notes.

The Bryant Stratton team defeated the Brooklyn Latin School at Prospeot Park yesterday by the score of 7 to 8. There is joy in Brooklyn. The team has once more proved its superiority over their New York rivals by defeating Boston. Tommy Burns made a nice home run yesterday. Stein will probably be in the box to-day.

so look out for a repetition of yesterday's offense, Boston. Mike Grittin amply atoned for making the Brooklyns only error. He made three hits, one a homer. 'The benefit to O'Brien next Sunday will be a big affair. The New Yorks will play the Brooklyns and the pitchers of both teams will change off nt different innings.

A big crowd should see the gume, as O'Brien is worthy of good treatment at the hands of baseball patrons. 'The Brooklyn College of Pharmacy and Adelphi Academy team played close and exciting game at the park yesterday, the Pill Rollers winning by the score of 18 to 12. The B. C. P.

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