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13 THE BROOKLYN DAILY EAGLE SUNDAY, MARCH 9, 1890, TWENTY PAGES middle of things mailt be conceded to bs excess SPOKT OF ALL VAEIETIES. FINE FEMININE FASHIONS CUERENT LITERATURE. were 45 inches wide( however. A pretty piece of white tulle, with tiny sprays of green ohenille and gold, cost $1.50. Plain blaok grenadine is a favorite material with elderly ladies.

This material is found this season, like all the othors, decked With flower sprays. They are seen, also, with borders of gold and silver. Those with broad satin stripes of yellow, scarlet and blue are to be used with part plain. Colored broche overlies stripes of faille in applications to plane and solid geometry and mechanics. It demands but an olemontary knowledge of trigonometry and the differential calcn Iub as a preparation for tho study of a remarkable mathematical system which has been singularly neglected by mathematicians since its discovery in 1844.

Among the somewhat unformed and freely thought and strongly phrased "Songs of Help and Inspiration," by Brewer Mattocks, American News Company, Now York, is one at least which is whon its full meaning is extracted of draraatio force equal to Browning's in his short poems of great deeds, oveu if it iB not bo elaborately constructed. "The Lad o' Lucknow," from the mouth of an old trooper, tells in very vigorous fashion of a vory heroio act in a fifor boy whose physical outfit for tho purposes of courage was very slender. There is at tho same time much othor soldier character Comprossed into tho story and a glimpse given of the frightful conditions which prevailed at Cawnpore and elsewhere during the Sepoy Rebellion. Cricket League, and W. J.

Wood, member of the Executive Committee of that organization. Moflsrs. Wood and Snelgrove will also act as Ground Committee of tho club. President Nimick, of tho Pittsburg league club, claims to havo discovered a new way by which he can biing Rowe, White and Dunlap, three of his deserting players, to terms. When this cruel base ball war is over there will be lots of base ball stars, now drawing all tho way from $3,000 to $5,000 por season, go back to their little $9 a week jobs.

BusBlan wolf hounds aro coming with a rush. Seven are to be shown at Chicago and a kennel has boen formed in Pittsburg to develop tho breed. C. M. Hedden was the winner of 1889 for tho Essex Gun Cliib diamond trophy, a lockot set with diamonds.

He is credited with 77 out of 80 live pigeons shot at and also a scoro of 95 out of 100. Thero are plenty of good sized piokerel in Bar negat Bay, and they bite well. The rivers of Maine wore planted last season with 92,000 fingerling Penobscot salmon. Flounders aro being caught in great numbers in Sandy Hook Bay and at tho inlet of Barnegat Bay. Over 50,000,000 lobsters aro annually consumed by people of the United States, and Maine does the most of the canning.

The Sporting News, in speaking of the third baseman of the Brooklyn players' club, says: "Through the recommendation of Captain Com iBkey, of the Ohicago brotherhood club, Billy Joyce was secured to play third baso for John Ward's Brooklon Club. I do not think Ward has ever seen Joyce play aud ho does not roally know the valuable man whom he has secured." Another pugilist from England has arrived on our shoreB and he has a lot to say for himself. He is a lightweight, hiB name is James Martin and he hails from Manchester. Tho Boston league team is to day nearly as strong as it ever was. At the annual meeting of tho Brooklyn Heights Tennis Club the P.ev.

J. Price Collier was elected to fill the vacancy caused by tho resignation of of Soth Low, whoBe office as president of Columbia College necessitated his residence in Now York City. Tho Myrtle Athletic Club, of Brooklyn, has organized by the eli etion of the following officers: LouiB Loushlin, president; John J. Gillespie, treasurer; John J. Gillen, secretary, and James Weaver, sergeant at arms.

John J. Kieruan, the long distance runneri wsb appointed trainer and captain. Tho Brooklyn American Association team will be mado up as follows: McCullough, Lynch, Toole, Powers and Williams, nitchors: ltcip sehlager, Toy and Bowes, catchers; O'Brien, first baso; Gerhardt, second base; Sweeney, third baBe; Fennelly, short stop; Dailey, right field; Simon, center field, and Peltz, loft field. Five members of the Cincinnati Bicycle Club Horace Phillips is very ill again, are phyBicians. On the Delaware below Philadelphia, duck hunting is exceedingly good.

A paity of six ive, ovon for the traditional Englishman, whoBO brnsquonesa is certainly most poetioally illustrated by him, to tho unneoeBsary damage often of dignity and the ease and grace which should mark poetic composition, unless of the moro in tenBO sort. His lines aro alwayB pregnant with mcaniug.no doubt, but compression may bo over, donoin verao and amputated conversations there in aro not agroeablo for Btoady reading and not good literary manners. Tho Seveuteonth Century pootioal writors, Horrick, Herbert and tho rest, seem to have boen Mr. Browning's models to some extent in tho matter of conceitB and quips of sentimont and expression, and oven American examples appear to have been followed by him, as heretofore suggOBtod by somo of hia English critics. Certainly ho reminds ono at times or Emerson in hia employment of curt couplets as the embodiment of strong thoughts, though ho certainly did not dorivoany of his motrical bumptiouanoss of mail ner from tho rcposofnl New Euglander, and has pervading his versos none of the latter's "eventual calm" of philosophic thought, as he has nothing of superior essential vigor in that way, howovor ho may surpass him in the fussiness which sometiraeB accompanies action as ho do picts it.

The English speaking world will hardly bo weaned from Shalcspearo'B self withholding universality, or Milton's splendid and yet delicato pootic imagination and diction, or Pope's philosophic verse, or Byron's fascinating lineB, or even from the obvious though perfect art of Gray's "Elogy." by Browning's neodlossly unmusical and unintelligible forms of utterance of his great or his beautiful imaginations. More of "linked BweotnoBS long drawn out" might at least have aaved them from the Edinburgh reviewer's surmise that they would hardly survive except as curiosities or puzzleB. Note. Tho St. Louis Magazine haa a paper by Rov.

Charlo8 It. Treat on "Sanitary Entombment," ex tenBively illustrated with tho architecture proposed for such innocuous disposition of the dead. Tho Fobruary Statesman, Chicago, treats of the latont talent of the masses in a paper by W. E. Snoll; of the oight hour movement, tho Cotton Scod Oil Trust, the organization of the ijederal Government, the negro, prdhibition and personal liberty, and other live matters.

Garden and Forest closes the last month of Winter with the Prairie Rose of tho Southwest; tho Orange Treo Alley of tho Tuilories Garden; the planting of the open spaces of Paris; a dis oussionof grafting; tho alleged poisonous prop erties of the primrose: "Garden Flowers in Mid winter:" "Fern Notea" and "Botany for xoung Poople." Tho Transatlantic, BoBton, begins March with Colonel Baron Stoffel's schomo of an alliance be tweon Franco and Germany, to avert war; a novelette by Daudet; some recollections by Ibsen, translations from the Italian poet, Cardueci, and Miohel Glinka's account of Russia's national opora, "Jjito lor tue uzar. The Commonwealth, Denver, is a hand somo bl moniniy, mo January auu oieumm nuinbor of which contains a paper by James Red nath. "Noither Traitor nor Rebel," defending Jefferson Davis with much use of italics from tho charge of having been either tho one or the other. It will go with no little weight into the revised estimate of tho Confederate leader, not withstanding the writer's rather sudden and eft'usivo affection for him expressed in it. There iB a great variety of respectable literary matter in the magazine beside.

Harper's Magazine will soou publiBh a paper by Russell Stnreis on "Painted Greek Sculpture," illustratod from examples of it recently discovered at Athens; also Daudet's new Tartarin stories in advance of Fronch publication. Tho Weekly for tho beginning of March describes West Virginia, and Charleston, its capital, in a paper by Ernest Ingorsoll, with illustrations. The Bazar haB "The PosBibilitioa ot urn jrarmture." by Mary G. Humphreys, and a story by Mary E. Wilkins.

Young People is going into fairy stories afrosh, written by Bicknou and illustrated ny Pyle. Tho February Nationalist, Boston, treats pung ontly of what is called tho Eleventh Census conspiracy, which will not be required by tho terms of the law. as was that of 1880, to inquire into the employment or nou employment of individ uals, and so will not be chargeable, as was the census of 1880, with a breach of law in neglect ing the investigation of involuntary poverty. Tho negro's part in Nationalism is discussed Dy tno author of that novel of Christian Socialism, so called, "Metzerott, Shoemaker." Charles L. Weeks shows in "Chicago's Advance" how tho city of the World Fair proposes to do ita own lighting and save $000,000 now paid to the Gas TruBt.

Tho March Outing has descriptions of hunting and fishing in the Northwest, by Professor Aus ten, and tho National Guard performances at Creedmoor, by Lieutonant W. R. Hamilton, gen erally illustrated, and in some cases by instan taneous photograph. Captain Hawley Smarts tory is finished. Tho yachting outlook is ketched by Sindbad the Sailor not the original of the name, for there is a lacking in it.

Wheeling receives attention in "Our Home Made Trip to England," by P. Darrow. England being thus done in au amusing way "on this sido of the water." Cornell University comes forward a paper on college athletics. "By Ways near Natchez" is a lady's Southern trip on horseback. Thoro are also "Silhouettes from Snowland" and Quail Shooting in California." Rand.

McNaily Chicago, print a beautiful edition of "The Journal of Mario Bashkirtsefr," translated from the French by A. D. Hall and G. B. Heckol.

In it the reader will find complete, as ho has not in other editions in English, the written thoughts of thia rarely endowed repre rentative of that overwrought portion of modern humanity which does not find work enough for ta hand to do to keep tho mind and the ambition and tho passions in tune and healthy tone. With something like physical health and firm nerves the girl author might havo made a Bond and enduring as well as a brilliant but ephemeral eputation, unless indeed tho fine faculties dis played in her autobiography are to bo regarded aB but one more instance of precocity, owing thoir very brilliancy to tho forcing process to which thoy were subjected by a life of material. social and lesthotic luxury. The March Magazine of American History cel ebrates tho birth of William Bradford iu a paper by Thomas Bradford Drew, of Plymouth. Charles K.

Tuckerman writes of "Sir John Bowring and American Slavery;" W. R. Garrett of "The Northern Boundary of Tennessee," disputed for near sovonty years and revived in interest by tho pending Supreme Court boundary suit of Vir inia against Tennessee; Kate T. Woods of Hawthorne's First Printed Article;" M. T.

Ad kins of tho "Greatest Auditing Oflice in tho World; "Frank Button of "Tho Neglected Gravo Soth Pomeroy" and the editor of "Life in New York Fifty Years Ago," including the opening of the Erio Canal and glimpses from the diary of an old New Yorker of politics, business, panics, in ventions and society of tho time. March St. Nicholas entertains wonder loving readers with a story by Harry P. Robinson on the effect of trying dynamite in the Bhape of a mining cartridge upon a pack of wolves which followed tho travelers of a mountain trail in Montana. "Tho Crows' Military Drill" is by AgneB F.

Sandham, illustrated by II. Sandham. Margaret J. Preston writos biographically on Georgo and Nellio Oustis, of whom there aro many miniature and other portraits reproduced. W.

O. Stoddard's Btory "Crowded out o' Crow field" is onrichod with the doings of firo and storm and flood. Margaret W. Bisland writes tho life of an old doll. "Friends or Foes, a Comedy for Children," is by Ebridge S.

Brooks;" Fifteen Minutes with a Cyclone" by M. Louise Ford: "The Screech Owl" by Ernest E. Thompson and "Tho Ducking of Goody Grill" by Alice Maude Ewoll. Ginn Boston, publish "Fractions," by Helen F. Page, of the Connecticut Normal and Training School.

It is in two pamphlets, one for the pupil, in which tho subject is treated, on the object teaching principle, by diagrams, colored and other, in which tho circlo is dividod into parts or fractions, to be copied on tho Blato or on papor, and tho answers also expressed in drawings or by figures; ulao another for toachors with similar diagrams and written directions for reduction, addition and subtraction, multiplication and division of fractions. Tho samo house an nouncus "Directional Calculus," by Profossor E. W. Hyde, of tho University of Cincinnati, giving the theory and fundamental ideas and procesBee of Grassman's geomotnc method and Activity Among Men of Nerve, Muscle and Agility. Interesting Notes Concerning Base Ball PI ay.

era, Pugilists, the Turf and the Cinder Path. Reading for those Concerned in Outdoor Exercises. Speedwell, the sister to Kingston, started in fifty races last year, of which she won twenty, was second in thirteen and third in seven, her winnings amounting to $9,386. Garrison is now reported to have signed with the Dwyers for the approaching season. Glory, by 111 Used, started no fewer than fifty four times in 1889.

Royal Garter tops this by two. Oivil Servioe probably started oftener than any other 2 year old last Beason, his record being forty eight races. Harvard's athletes are hard at work training for the Mott Haven games in Spring. Princeton will have a good lacrosse team in the field this year. In the international figure Bkating contest at St.

Petersbnrgh, Rubenstein, of Canada, won, with Lo Yedeau, a Russian, second, and DinBtel, of Yionna, third. The fund that is being raised for the erection of a suitable memorial to old Hambletonian, the great sire of the most renowned of trotting strains, has reached $1,300. The word Abdallah is really composed of two words, Abd and Allah, in Arabic it means the servant of God. The most celebrated Abdal lah, for whom horses were named, was the father of Mahomet and was represented to bo so beauti ful that 200 virgins broke their hearts on his marriage from disappointed love. Exchange.

Donovan, tho Engliah champion, is engaged this year in the Biennial and Rous Memorial at Ascot, and in the 12,000 Lancaster Plate at Manchester. Boy Wilkes can probably beat any horse living, bar one, and yet he only won $4,000 last season. Horse ana Stable. Spokane's new trainer, Mr. Elm'ire, says the Kentucky Derby winner is in perfeot health just now.

He thinks ha will be able to down Proctor Knott at any distance. The pair will probably meet in the early Spring at Nashville. Owners of horses are beginning to object to the prices thoy have to pay for clipping. The ordinary clipper charges $3, sometimes $4, wh ile the more reasonable and often more artistic operator is satisfied with $2 and $3 50. Of the fast muo records last year seven were made at Washington Park and thirteen at West Sido Park, Chicago.

Maori's 1:39 4 5, at Washington Park heads the list as the fastest mile ever made in a race. Beipschlager, of the old Mets, has signed to catch for the Brooklyn association team. The fund for tho new athletic grounds at Col umbia already amounts to more than $10,000. Hypodermio injections of cocaine are used reg ularly at Clifton and Guttenberg to nullify the roguish propensities of some of the runners. Axtell, 2:12, has just been shod, and atandB 15 Teddy Hayes, his efficient attendant, is jogging the $105,000 crack on the road at Terre Haute, Ind.

One horseman is so enthusiastic over Jack, the champion race trotter of 1889, that ho thinks he can go three heats better than 2:13. Jemmy Carney, of Birmingham, isaues a challenge to fight the winner of the MoAuliffe Carroll prize fight for from .500 to 1, 000 a sido and the lightweight championship of the world, and will give or take 100 a side for expenses, The California Athletic Club has offered a purse of $5,000 for a fight between Slaviu and Peter Jackson. Jaokson is more than willing to fight, but Slavin says nothing but a $15,000 purse and a bot of $5,000 on tho outside will satisfy him. Here is a good definition of an amateur athlete: He is one who has never competed for a staked bet or other monetary consideration, or under a fiotitious name, or who has never, directly or indirectly, either in competition or as an instructor, as an assistant, or through any connection whatever, with any form of athletic game, obtained any financial consideration, or whose membor Bhip in any athletic organization is of no pecuniary benefit to himself, direct or indiroct, or who, having transgressed any of the foregoing provisions, has been duly reinstated. Excliange.

Silver Flint, the great Ohicago catcher, will retire from base ball after thirteen years' work on the diamond. Among the Yale students who are training hard for a place on the team there is a full blooded Yankton Indian. George Finkney, of the Brooklyns, hasn't asked the Brooklyn Club for advance money in three years. A bowling tournament has been arranged between fivo clubs for a serieB of ten games to bo bowled on Hindi's alleys, 1,100 DeKalb avenue, Brooklyn. The total mileage of the Philadelphia Bicycle Club last year was 35,862.

Of this sum 8,000 miles were made by the ladiea of the club. The total membership is 155, thirty five of whom are of the fair sex. The senior class at Cornell contemplates the erection of a fine boat house as a memorial to the class. Bob Leadley got $1,000 for inducing Bennett to sign with the Boston league team. President Von der Ahe haa offered $7,500 for the Sioux City Club and franchise.

He has taken this step to getGcmuB, Powell, Brosuahan, Black and Cratty. The men play in the field, in the box and behind the box, respectively. A bill has been introduced in the Now York Legislature limiting the time for racing on eaoh track in this State to ton days in any one year. Its passage would be ruinous to the big jockey clubs. The Philadelphia Record is authority for the statement that there are 0,000 bicycle riders in that city; also four bicycle schools in whioh ladies aro taught to ride.

Dr. Ulnch arrived by tho Bohemian in New York recently with eight great Danes, represent ing Borne of the finest strains of that breed in Germany. They will be exhibited at Chicago. A number of ducks have been shot during the past week upon the meadows of the Delaware, between Bayside and BordentoWn. The Sale of thoroughbred yearlings during 1889 shows a fall iu the average.

During the year 802 head offered brought $530,845, an average of $022.79. This Is a falling off from 1888, when 778 head brought $520,238, an average of $007.82. High Water mark was reached in 1887, When 092 brought $405,395, an average of $072.54,. A few shad have made their appearance in the lower part of tho Delaware. Striped baas and yellow perch have appeared in immense numbers iu Barnegat Bay.

The black bass in Hartshorne's pond, near Free hold, N. have so largely increased in numbers that great sport is anticipated. Gilhgan. the now pitcher signed by Manager Mutrie, is 0 feet high. The value of last year's prize lists in England reached an aggregate of 480,800.

Tho total for 1890 will scaroely come up to this, as they have neither an Eolipse Stakes nor the big Kemp ton prize of last year; but to make up to a cer toin extent for this deficiency there will be the Prince of Wales' Stakes, to be run for at the Leicester July meeting, tho value of which will be 8,500. There will be over 150 "Great Danes" entered in the Ohicago bench show Of dogs. Collins, the American sprinter. Won the great Sheffield, England, handioap. The great bulldog Harper, said to be the best ideal representative of that species yet bred, is coming to America.

Au advico from San Francisco says that by an accidental discovery a scheme was exposed by which the bovoii pool rooms have been systematically robbod of a great deal of money. During tho closing months of the season of 1888 Eddie Seward, of tho Athletics, was countod aB the star pitcher of the aBBoeiation. Last year he was practically of no service to his club, but now he has fully recovered the use of his pitching arm. The Kings County Cricket Club has eloctod officers for the ensiling year as followB: W.J. Wood, prosidont: G.

Williams, vice president; E. Snelgrove, secretary; T. Ayres, treasurer; H. Manley, first captain; T. F.

W. Stiles, soeond captain; J. O'Reilly, third captain; J. Douglass, cap tain of tho Sooond Elovon; C. Franklyn, A.

Hop kins and H. Hynos, Executive Committee; W. J. Wood, H. Manley and E.

Snelgrove, Matoh Com tnittoo and Delegates to the Metropolitan Distriot The Succession of Books on Stan ley's "Wanderings. A Volume of Browning's Shorter But Not Less Bark and Dissonant Poems March Maaa zlnes The. Struggles of Science and Faith. Stanley books increase apace. Beside the newspaper matter which has been gathered into a volume, in the shape of the voyagor's letters.

written undor the pressure of his difficulties and hardships, and the full story of his wanderings and discoveriog yot to bo published by a Now York house, the LIppincott Company, Philadel phia, issues a handsome duodecimo volumo con taining an account of the Emin Pasha Expedition by A. J. Wauters, editor of the Mouvement Geo. araohiaue, of Brussels. It goes back to tho con quest of the Soudan and its government by Gordon; the rovolt of tho Mahdi against tho Khedive's authority; Gordon's return to Khar toum: Lord Wolseley's futile expedition and fail tire to rescue him.

and to Luptou and Emin Bey, in their equatorial conquests and government. t)r. Junker and Casati are next referred to, and the safo return of the former from tho Southern Soudan, leaving Casati and tho otlior Europeans virtually prisoners within their own jurisdiction there. Hero commences tho history of tho relief expedition, which includes an acoount of its famous native Arab purveyor, Tippoo Tib, and the rendezvous of Stanley's forces and the collec tion of his material or travel and of war upon the Lower Congo. The district of Stan ley Falls is described, the stations on tho Upper Congo and tho oamp at Yambuya.

Then begins tho more dramatic part of the Story, which runs through fiftoen months of un certainty in tho mind of Christendom as to whether Stanley is dead, a prisoner or only lost indefinitely in tho hitherto uuoxplored forests and junglos between the Congo and Lako Albert Nyanza. The finding of this not unfamiliar water by Stanley iB at last accomplished and also an interview with the effectually interned Emin. Next is told tho vexatious indecision of the pasha, or hiB honest inability to be rescued, and Stanley's return to bring up his rear guard, which meanB mure long mouths of struggling with savage nature and barbarous man. Whon at laHt ho succeeds in bringing to Lako Albert his entire force, or rather the scattered remnants of it. there is moro difficulty and indecision to relate, on Emin's part, who has in the meantime been at the mercy both of tho Mahdi and of his own insubordinate followers, and at last baroly gets off with Stanloy, as the latter resolves to delay no longer his march to the Eastern coast.

ThiB march, comprising all the divorso elements of race among the people of both leaders, with its severe though mitigated hardships and its im portant discoveries of mountain, lako and other features of the country, is detailed, more aro portraits of Stanley, Gordon, Lupton Bey, Emin Pasha, Captain Casati, Dr. Jenker, Tippoo Tib and other Africans; also many views of African scenery and of tho progress of civilization in tho new Congo State and a complete map of the territory traversed from ono ocean to the other, and often retraversed, by Stanley and his originally enlisted or his rescued followers. The Ulind ami (lie llnuiptioas in Verse. The Messrs. Appleton have opportunely published in paper covers Robert Browning's shorter poems.

They are handsomely printed, with but few typographical errors, and no doubt correctly in the main in tho matter of punctuation, though recent editions of tho dark poet, as he might be called, have been tho occasion of much literary tribulation, to author, publishers and worshipers, alike, in this very matter of punctuation. Perhaps tho difficulty is one test of the poetry itself and of its capacity to live. Poets may be "born, not made." But nobody ever claimed that poems did not have to be made. The very name nieaut, among tho Greeks at least, a making, or, rather, a thing made. Why, then, should a poem not be expected to be thoroughly made in all that pertains to the process And as poetry is a form of beautiful as well as of lofty or profound expression it may as well be conceded that it should be pleasant and musical in its flow.

And why should it not bo in the first place intelligible, even when it deals with profundity or grandeur in its subject matter: intelligible at least in its construction, and not a puzzle to the grammarian, as Mr. Browning's verso bo often is? All the great poets have sung right on, smoothly when the rugged character of the thought or tho things described did not warrant tho suiting of the sound to the sense in rougher numbers. Neither have they depended on a whole ainiory of commas and.dashes whsrewith to make a show of intelligibility in obscure, abstruse, recondite, curt and abrupt, or, on the other hand, interminably digressive lines. In fact, the musically flowing verBO may be taken at first sight to bo tho truer poetry, the verse being tho body of which the poetic thought is the soul; and if it does not come spontaneously from tho poet's pen it must be smoothed into presentable shape by him or ho will not long havo readers. Even Homer would have had few hearers for his heroic songs had they not been sung musically.

It is this musical test by which Mr. Browning will be tried in the future, as he has already been severely tried, and certainly not satisfied tho test, in the sense that Tennyson, or Byron, or any of the enduring popular poets of the past have stood it. It cannot be denied that Browning had in him a mine of poetic thought, as have multitudes who never attempt its expression. His failure consited in the iuabilityor tho unwillingness to mold it into golden lines of clear and beautiful construction. It is by Bimo suspected that he did not care thus to weave his Btrongost and mot touching conceptions into a perfect poetic texture, but preferred to Jar the ear with dissonant syllables and to startle the mind with abrupt but not necessarily dramatic turns in the Bense.

What great poet before has shown such a petty taste for tongue taxing, ear vexing cacophony even in titles, such, for instance, as "Pippa the quadrupled tripled and repeated a in which seem to have been studied, in addition to the guess provoking element in it. Thoro is, certainly, such a thine as poetical good manners, and it may be questioned whether Browning's apparently willful shooking of the reader's car and blinding of his perception be not discourtesy. Another powerful writer, though in prose, George Meredith, the novelist, has muoh tho samo sort of odd fancy for losing his roader and often, it is to be suspected, himself, in intricate and shadowy analogies, allusions and conceits, which hardly deserve the name of thoughts or even suggest thoughts. There iB a sort of idleness after all in thus allowing the pen to run away with tho poetic will in a lazy kind of wool gathering expedition, as it were, after simileB and metaphors. Nor is it very difficult to furuish tho requisite rhyme for such episodes.

Indeed tho suspicion is often that the rhyming instinct has the lead in them and that thought is made to follow it instead of loading. By running down the ends of the lines, over the rhyming words, this suspioion is strengthened. There iB such an episode, or a number of them, in the poem, "Waring," in tho present volume, which, with its finest touches, leaves the reader in a vague Btate of mind after all its abrupt humor or flippant levity. Though the incident at Ratisbon, on the contrary, is unmistakable in its nobility of conception and clearness of narration, in tho picture of Napoleon and tho Spartan heroism of his devoted young follower, yot thero is a dash of tho melodramatic about the last lines, which represont tho dying youth, who haB ridden so far with his breast "all but shot in two," as bandying words with his emperor and replying to the latter's anxiety as to his wound with, "I'm killed, sire." But no doubt it was meant to be characteristically French and hence is not perhaps to be taken as a fair examplo of Mr. Browning's lovo of startling effects.

Even the famous pieces "Herve "The Pied Piper of Hamelin" and "How They Brought the Good News from Ghent to Aix" are more or less infected with this ostentatious Kg gressiveuess of treatment, and "My Last Duchess" and the "Soliloquy of the Spanish Cloister" have so much of the trick of blind or abrupt dra matio force aB even to lose force thereby and become cheap to what they might havo been somewhat differently treated. Horn and there are pieces that aro at once flowing, plain anil touching, with perhaps a trace only of that affectation of sudden scene shifting and that weakness for leaving his reader in the dark for a moment, or permanently, with which the author is so much possessed, such pieces as "Count Gismond" and 'The Italian in Italy." Bnt ordinarily his itching for what tho Latins called plunging into the Already Preparing for a Display of Spring Goods. Constant Changes of Style Not Always the Secret of Doing Well Dressed The Fabrics Which Will bo in Demand. New Spring goods continue to interest the shoppers. I am told that the early demand for new styles of wool dress fabrics has induced mauy houses to put forward at once novelties intended for later display.

On the robe tables can be seen the latest productions in Paris dress patterns, gold embroidered and wrought by hand with the needle in beautiful colors. Some of these dresses are Imported with made up skirts and waist material for bodice and sleeves. The skirt requires only the bolt and front and back length to be finished ready to wear. Ladies who are desirous of simplifying the troubles of dressmaking as much as possible find this arrangement convenient, as the waist only has to be made. Fine dressmaking and remodeling are becoming fashionable accomplishments.

Ladies are beginning to realize that the secret of being well dressed does not consist in one constant change ofBtyle, but in finding a style partieularlyjbe. coming to their form and size and varying it only enough to prevent too much sameness. Many are learning to be their own costumor. England's titled dames have set tho ball a rolling. With our love of everything English, we cannot be long in following the fad which this time at least is a most useful one.

The intricacies of dressing, with its at teudant big bills for goods and make, keep many a man in the harness the year round. He often cannot Bpare time for the neoded Summer vacation, perhaps, because the family's Summer outfit has been such a drain on his bank account. If daughters learn to make their own clothes it will be a small means of lessening the expense of dressing and remove one of the pulls on fathers' poeketbooks. A now assortment of cheviots, tweed suitings, in irregular chocks and stripes and bouclette mixtures and plaids, accompanied by plain goods, have taken tho place of the first line put out and already sold. Thero is a new twilled fabric in mode shades for combination with fancy cloths, having an insertion of silk net work, coin spots for a border and other novel devices, called cameletta.

Silk warp henriettas in jet black are shown for mournivig goods. All wool Tricot cloths in Spring shades, at 50 cents per. yard, muke an inexpensive droBB. There is a great variety of silk goods which this season will be, in many cases, made up with wool. Fashionable modistes mention poult de soie as likely to be much worn.

This is a very brilliant gros grain. The bengalines are found in solid colors and in figured for combination with sheer, delicate tinted wools. A silk and wool bengalino can aho bo had 24 inches wide for 49 cents. There aro new eameo effects in silk and scale patterns in. satin, larger than the scales of old armor, also to bo used with thin wools.

Glgot sleeves, flat points and silk girdles characterize this style. Musoovite greens, dove, silver grays, steely. Saxon blues are among the shades in silk. Many of the new pieces have leafy, all over patterns, with a mossy line of black. A suit seen of silk and wool combined was of India silk of a soft nenbrai ground, with long, short darts in white, made up with nun's vailing of same shade.

Tho straight skirt had a plaited front of the wool. The over dress was of the India, with a redingote effect, which was modified, however, in the waist front by a short, round jacket, trimmed with open vandykod embroidery over a Bomewhat full vest front of nun's vailing. This jacket was held at waist by straps. The silk sleeves had a shoulder puff of nun'B vailing set in as a gore and tied with ribbons. Stanley plaid silks are used for dress fronts and whole underskirts.

Satin regence is a soft satin with an almost invisible stripe in the weave. This and faille francaise vary from $1 to $2 in street shades, but sometimes light shades in good quality can be found cheaper. For good wearing Summer material thero is tho double warped surah, which can be had for 11 per yard, twenty four inches wide. The Shanghai surah costs the same. Poult de soie with the all over vino pattern will be used for fronts of tea gowns.

Shanghai Biirah in oashmere patterns like the shawls, Damascus styles and French flowered Indias are used for matinees and house dresses and are said to be wash proof. The India silks are just as popular as last season, and deservedly so. Thoy havo a style of their own, that renders them charming Summer drosses. They are suitable for one and every occasion. A lady with one nice India silk needs no other dress up or best dress.

They vary in price from 59 cents to $2 por yard. The satin striped aud those with black grounds are the moat expensive. Some of the Katin striped have also gay flowers: scattered over the Biirface and single sprays with long green stems, the stem indicating the shade of ribbon to be used for trimming. Flowora are also massed near the selvage to form a bordei, which iu the make up Berves for the trimming. Plum colored and green grounds aro considered quite fashionable.

Stripes, polka dots, Persian patterns arranged in zigzag stripes alternating with cream white, and black figures on light colored grounds are a few of the many varieties. For the last, black ribbon, black lace and beading will be the trimming. Fine striped grounds, strewn with small flowers are shown for young ladies. Dark blue indigo Indias aro again found this season, with designs of white flowers, which are spoken of for mourning wear. These Summer silks are made Up full bodice, full sleeves and slightly draped skirts.

In some cases the bodice is lapped to one Bide from shoulder tb waist with a frill of lisso or jabot of lace down the lapped side. Many bodioes will be made like tho Frenoh waist with only under arm aud shoulder scams, the fullness at waist being tucked or laid in plaits. The silk foundation skirt has moro foot trimming than last season. Gros grains, satin and velvet ribbons chantilly insertions, headings and pointed lacoB, alao open worked muslin embroideries are used for trimming. The ribbons used Bhonld be two or two and a half inohes wide and match design rather than ground.

These ribbohB will be used to edge the pointed bodice, long loopa being left at points. Where a silk is chosen with white flowers for design a double jabot of white lace down the wholo side ia suggested. Those trimmings allow of every vart ation. Now three rows of velvet ribbon aro put on the left side, set on straight from waist to hem, while shorter loops are seen on right side with a square bow at ends, the front breadth tween beiug slightly draped, the back being lfjp; plain and straight. Again, tho ribbons are lowed to droop from belt iu a loop below the whore they are tacked and then allowed to drop free to the foot.

Where a full straight skirt is chosen the trimming may be one row of chantilly lace insertion above hem, with a saBh drapery behind made of black surah, fringed at ends and barred with rows of insortion. Sots of laoes and embroideries, consisting of shoulder, ouffs and pointed corslets make pretty effects on these silks. Changeable and striped gloria Bilks, pongee and twilled, will be used for Summer traveling wraps, made Connemara. They are light and comfortable. The gloria wears like iron, does not show dust and from its width makes one of the most seasonable of garments.

Ulsters of checked or striped cloth have double breasted fronts and redingote backs, large Bleeves and often a triple Bhouldor capo. Choviot jackets for morning and Bummer yachting aro made of small checks or plain navy blue in sailor shapes, With looso double breasted fronts, ample coat sleeves, smooth backs fittod by wide side forms, and will bo popular for mountain and sea shore wear. Shoulder capos will bo used all the Spring and Summer. Thoy appear ia countless varieties of Btylish mako up. The thin goods in tulles and nets are wonders of skill and texture.

Ladies cannot find Words to express their admiration, and many cannot find dollars to satisfy their doBiro of owning. I Even "lovely" and "perfectly lovely" seem inadequate to doscribe these dainty devices of tho manufaotnrors Spanish laoos With Vandyke edges of fringe, ToBca nets, Brussels nets of fine meshes and Mechlin patterns in sprigs or dots, black and gold nets, whito with silver embroidery, are somo of the finorios that oall for now ad jootives. A blaok piece with pink moss rosebuds, that charmed the eyes of every lady at the couu tor, por yard. A fine silk not with inwoven flowers cost to. 48.

Both those pleoei some pieces, while a silk and wool grenadine had figured stripes and zigzag stripes with flowers in between. Mothers, who are still busy planning and making for the children, will be Clad of further suggestions, especially in regard to their small boys who are not out of dresses. It always seems harder to know what to put on a boy of this age than a girl. Zephyr ginghams in white grounds, striped with saxon blue, brown, green aud red prevailed among the made up garments lately seen. They were made kilt skirts, medium length, with white linen bio uses, full sleeves and large sailor collars.

The collars aud cuffs were of the gingham, the collar being tied with ribbon like colored stripe. These suits were remarkably dainty. Where one needs to be careful of waBh, the blouse, instead of being made white, could be made of a plain color, either blue or brown, with a darker plaid gfngham kilt Of course the suit would not be as pretty, but might do for mornings. White flannel suits were made in the same way, with gold anchors. Where white pique is used the blouse is also of linen, and a zouave Jacket of pique is worn outside.

Wraps for small children are made with short Gretchen waists of fanoy mixed oloths, with large velvet sleeves and pointed velvet yokes. Somotimes a tab of the velvet extends from yoke down the fronts. A dress for a girl from 10 to 15 had a full skirt of bright, Tartan plaid gingham, simply hemmed about four inches, fastened to a white shirt waist of linen, with full white sleeveB. The waist line was concealed by a folded gingham sash whicli fell behind in loops and ends. Over tho shirt waist was a Spanish jacket of the gingham, with elbow Bleeves, slashed on the outside and trimmed round with a narrow ruffle of narrow embroidery.

These shirt waists are one of the prettiest features of the Beason. The zouave jackets are UBed on white dresses, but are more suitable for ging hams. Cheviots are made for children with full round Bkirts and medium waists, with under arm and shoulder seams. In some cases the waist of the dress is made with zouave jacket fronts finished by a blouse front of bright surah, the back being a plain waist. A loidoa sash or goods passes arouud the waist and falls behind.

A dress for a child of 4 or 5. of gingham, had a yoke of white embroidery, to which was fastened a full baby waist of pink and white gingham, with full white sleeves and embroidery Where separate guimpes aro used they should be fastened to underwaist or skirt to keep them from hunching up. Nothing but full plain skirts are seen for girlB.from tho toddling ago into the teens. Aftor 3 or 4, elaborate white dresses seem to give way to challis and wash India silks. Parasols seem to invite your speedy attention if you want to bo recherche in your selection.

Ladies who are not ambitious in this line will not hurry, but wait for cheaper prices. The Bteeple topped, long handled eccentricities aro not among tho newest. These show stioks of natural wood, gnarled and twisted with net work of silver or B6t with balls of Dresden china. A plain parasol is decked out with point d'esprit, puffed and gathered in such fancy ways over a silk foundation that they look as if dressed for a ball. More serviceable ones are in plaid silk and pongee, but the dainty affairs in Spanish and marquise lace Just now are put to tho front.

The season closed with quite as much splendor as it showed at first. The ladies did not wear all their loveliest gowna in the beginning, or if they did, they ordered new ones for the end. Mrs Hicks Lord never arrayed herself in a moro beautiful dress than for her last at home, when she wore a Worth gown of white satin, covered with alternate stripes of black chantilly in Bertion and black velvet. A Medici ruffle of black lace finished the neck, while diamond bracelets were fastened at the shoulders. She wore nor nair in a uroes con, neia oy a comb, the most nnique in its arrangement of se lected stones.

The dress was cut princess. Miss Bayard, at her last dance for tho Winter, wore a white silk with a broad, red velvet sash over the shoulders, crossing in front and tied behind in many loops. Mrs. Stanley Brown, the Mollie Garfield of a short time ago, recently ap peared in a white tulle over white satin. Mattie Thompson, the daughter of the Kentucky Con gressman, wore black gauze, flecked with gold lace.

Mrs. Harrison reserved for the olose of the season a heliotrope velvet, with front brocaded iu purples. Mrs. RusbbU Harrison wore a yellow silk with white musliu. Mrs Palmer wore at her daughter's debut a Worth dress of black silk, lilac and insertions of white crape, hand em broideied with flowers.

Through Lent white cloth garments will be worn at receptions and ooncerts which are not wholly forbidden. One of these gowns in a fine cream white had a jacket front, hand embroidered in yellow, opening over a white net, dotted with gold. For oonoert wear a high bodice of dove gray cloth has a vest of gray silk, buttoned close with small crochet buttons Tho bodico has a rolling, notched collar of velvet, turn iug back over two plaits of the cloth each side of vest. Folds of cloth are lapped across from left to right at the bottom, of the long waistod front and fastened with a large rosette of dove colored velvet ribbon. For quiet at homes through Lent and ceremonious reception dresBes medium trains are considered indispensable.

Lent is chosen for a general calling season. The buds intend to be at home sure through that part of the day or evening when their gentlemen acquaintances are likely to call. Gray in all its ranges of shade is the color for Lent. Gray dresses of soft cashmere with fine laces, adorn the young lads' at home; gray coats, with velvet sleeves and gray velvet hats or turbans she wears for her stroll. A fine quality of camel's hair serge, with an open work border, in imitation of lace insertion in fawn or gray, with two rowB of swan's down, one of white above the insertion and one of black beneath, is shown as goods suitable for this season, between the furs of Winter and the real Spring suits.

The fur cape, however, holds its own as one of the most popular garments. One dressmaker in high authority prophesied it would be worn some all Summer for cool evenings at the sea shore or in the mountain region. Long Blender buckles, made of narrow edgings curving to the figure, are found for a center finish of bodice made in Spring and Summer goods. New vails havo large blaok or. whito dots to give the effect of patches.

Net vails have large rings and crescents, with a scalloped edge. Tulle vails in all colors, beaded or dotted or plain, and pointed d'esprit vailB with edge of sharp points wrought in colors, are some of the deviceB worn by fair maids through blustering Mnroh, as some protection to the complexion, for which this Bsiioy month cares not a bit. The girl who knows to her own sorrow What ft trying season this Is for the increase of freckles buys none of these dainties, but doea herself up, ears, neck and all in a real protector. A. H.

W. BURNING HIS FAMILY. The Barborotm Precautions Which an Africau Kiugr Took. The Church Missionary Society has receivad news from the Uganda miBBion up to September 2. Mr.

Mackay states in his letter that the revolution In Uganda of October, 1888, which drove Mwanga from the throne and the missionaiieB from the country, had continued intermittently and that disaffection was Increasing among the people as the result of Arab influence at the court of Uganda. After his expulsion Mwanga had taken up his quarters at Ukumbi, where the Frenoh prlOBts had settled, at the south end of the lake. After a time he was induced to remove to the northwest corner of tho lake, where, at a place called Dumo, he was joined by several thousand of hiB adherents, many of them native Christians, and othors from the disaffected Waganda. Emboldened by the posaession of this foroe, ho attacked Kilcma, the reigning king of Uganda, and defeated tho king's troops but in a second attack Mwanga was himself defeated and retreated to one of the Sesse islands. Kiloma was so enraged at his defeat, and fearful that the Christians with Mwanga would follow up their victory and socure one of tho princes, with a view to placing him on the throne, that he had every ono of both princos and princesses (his own brothers and Bisters), as well as his own and Mwanga's ohildron, burned to death in tho huts whoro thoy wore confined as prisoners.

Mwanga had afterward established himself on an island near tho mainland, and was awaiting a ohanco to renew his attaok on Kiloma. Pall Mall Gazette. The March Ecleollc Magazine, Now York, reproduces from English journals the Bishop of Peterborough's paper ou "Tho State and the Sermon on the Mount," whicli has quickened English thought on care for the under classes; Dr. Bamberger's on the Gorman presB; Bos ants, Hardy and Airs. Lynn Linton's views on English fiction; Lovett Cameron's article on Portugal's claims iu Africa; J.

Scott Keltic's on Stanley's African discoveries; Professor Freeman's on "Tho Origin English; Professor Nicholson's on Profit Sharing Herbert Spencer's on Absolute Political Ethics Frank H. HiU'B on "The Future of tho English Monarchy and poems by Swinburne, Cosmo Monkhouso and Peter Bayne. Thero is also a short story, "The Ring of Thoth." Onida's new novel, "Position," will shortly be published by F. F. Lovell New York.

"Los Cerritos," also published by them, boasts a new variety of dialect from a California ranch on which the author resided. "Tho Childion of Tomorrow," by William Sharp, depieta tho hopeless struggle which goes on botweon the artistic and the actual in modern society. "A Very Strange Family," by F. W. Robinson, is a London story which rolies for strength largely upon italiea.

Tho GosBip Printing Mobile, publishes "Juny, or Only One Girl'B Story," by T. C. De Leon, author of "Creolo and Puritan." It calls itself "a romance of the society cruBt, upper and under," but it begins in a camp of moonshiners iu the Alleghany Mountains, in North Carolina. Thenco it travela to New York City, where most of Buch romances must find material as yet, des pite the flight of tho World's Fair to Chicago. This material is drawn from the clubs and the sluniB, the salons and the saloons, impartially.

It begins, "An afternoon of mountain midsum mer. The greenish blue distance of the Alle ghany chain, tempered softly by Blaut rays of a low descending sun; the nearer poaks standing out one might poetizo bold Bentinels before a dimly marked lino of battlo of the Titans," suggesting strongly George Meredith and the Alps. Tho March Boston, comes with a strong array of names on both sides of questions now active. Dr. Howard Crosby writes ou "Rum and the Rum Power" and is also phototyped, as is Madame Modjeaka, who continues her "Reminiscences of Debuts in Different Rev.

M. J. Savage drops for a time his scalpel pen, with which he so cleverly dissects what he regards as the corpse of dogmatic theology, and takes up the poetic one, onlv to dress up a much more real corpse, that of Greek mythology, iu somo versos called "Pan Revenge." Rabbi Schindler discourses with his accustomed force on German religious thought, n. H. Gardner writes of divorce and proposed Federal legislation as to it; A.

C. Wheeler of tho final passing of Shakspearo from the dramatio Btago into general literature; A. A. ChevaiUicr ou "Constitutional Liberty," Emily Kompin, LL.D., on insanity and the criminal law; Dr. Georgo B.

Cheever on "The Bible and Man's Destiny" from the old point of view that the devil is a permanent faotor in the divino Bchome; T. Parkor Edwards on "Social Progress and Spiritual Development." W. H. H. Murray begins an Indian story.

Junius Henri Browne asks "What is Religion and A. B. Richmond "Ib there a Morrow for the Human Race 7" which question is answered by psychological experiment. In tho March Popular Science Monthly Dr. Andrew D.

White resumos his history of tho warfare of scienco in a paper on "Comparative Mythol ogy," giving the course of tho legends about the Dead Sea, including tho salt statue and the Dead Sea apples. Though written in the Bomewhat contemptuous tone of previous articla it dooa full justice to the theological investigators, like Dr. Schaff and Dean Stanloy, who havo done so much to verify by personal visits and frank avowals the mythical character of tho beliefs of centuries in geographical miracles in Palestine. Dr. White says "They have rendered an even greater sorvioc io religion than to science, for they have made a beginning at least of doing away with that enforced belief in myths as history which has become a most serious danger to Christianity.

Mrs. M. F. Armstrong writes on "The Mission of Educated Women." Herbert Spen cer's paper, "Absolute Political Ethics," is reprinted from Nineteenth Century. Sophie Bledsoe Hcrrick has an interesting illustratod paper on the soap bubble and "The Laws of Films" generally.

"The Psychology of Prejudice" is another entertaining and instructive article, written by Professor Patrick, of the University of Iowa. Daniel F. Wing, in "Origin of Laud Ownership," asserts that private property in land is only by social agreement, that it may be improved the more securely, and is subject to resumption by the community when tho public interest demands. But to tax land only is to dofeat tho proprietary provision and prevent capital and labor from improving it for the general enriohment. Robert Giffen'B paper on wages is taken from tho Con temvorary.

F. A. Fornald writes of shrew mice, and Professor C. H. Henderson ou "A Chemical Prologue," involving the initial study of chem.

istry in childhood. "The Physiognomy of tho Mouth" and "The Meaning of Pictured Spheres" are translated articles, tho latter on the fanciful mapping aud naming of the stars by tho ancients, and also by the moderns. There is a Bketoh of the blind philosopher Plateau, who while a child caught butterflies during the Battle of Waterloo, not far off, and whose experiments in looking at the sun brought on blindueBS. It is by Sophie B. Herrick.

Latest I ubliciilion. Commonwealth Publishing Denver, Col. Commonwealth Magazine. Centuiiy Now York. Volume 2 of tho Century Dictionary.

Nationalist Association, Boston. February Nationalist. Oiianoe Judd Now York. March Agriculturist. Gossip Pujnting Mobile, Ala.

Juny, Only One Girl's Story. T. 0. Do Loon, J. B.

Lippinuott Philadelphia. March Magazine. Arena PuiiLlHHiNn Boston. Arena for March. F.

F. Lovell New York. Children of To morrow. William Sharp. A Vory Strange Family.

F. W. Robinson. Plain Tales from the Hills. Rudvard Kipling.

Nohtu American Review, Now York. March Number. E. R. Pelton, New Yorlt.

Eclectic Magazine. Outino, New York. Numbor for March. Magazine of American history, jNew Y.ork. March Number.

Library Journal, Now York. February Number. Macmillan New York. Problems of Greater Britain. Sir Charles Dilke.

Foruji Publishing New York. March Forum. uinn Boston. Jfractions. neien v.

l'age. G. P. Putnam's Sons, New York Jefferson ou Education. John C.

Henderson. Health Notes for Students. Burt G. Wilder. Boy hood and Youth of Goetho.

Translated by Oxenford. Current Literature, Now York. March Number. G. W.

Dillingham, New York. A Fated Promise. Charles Sciubneu's Sons, Now York. March linolt linver. Home Maker, New York.

Numbor for March. John W. Lovell New York. Magic White and Black. i'Tanz Hartmanu, M.

My Sister's Husband. Patience Stanlofon. Rand, McNally A Now York. Trollope's Dilemma. St.

Aubvn. M. J. Iverh fc New York. A March in tho Ranks.

Jessie l'othorgill. Table Talk Philadelphia. March Table Talk. James Viok, Roohestor. Vick's Illustratod Monthly.

James A. 0'Connor, Now York. March Converted Catholic D. Appleton Now York. Frozon Hoarts.

Ct. Webb Appleton. Brooklyn Medical Journal. March Numbor. Drake Publishing Company, New York.

March Magazine. New England Magazine, Boston. March Num ber. D. LoTnnop Company Boston.

Eggs; Facts and Fancies about Them. Anna Barrows. Street Smith, Now York Titled Amorican Ladies. W. W.

Pabko, New York. Maroh Old Now York. Harper Brothers, Now York. Lady Baby. Jjorotuea ueraru.

Philadelphiaus, who wont down tho river on a yacht, killed soventy. four aud a dozen frost BJipo in two days and a half. Manager Kennedy has three Harlem pitchers in his Brooklyn team, McCullough, Williams and Powers. The So So Base Ball Club, of the Twenty sixth Ward, Brooklyn, would like to hear from all uniformed clubs; players to be from 10 to 18 years of age, Only one month moro and the baBe ball BeaBon will be in full bloom. Captain Buggies, of Rochester, tho veteran canoe builder, whose craft have taken many prizes in the Amerioan Canoo Association regattas, is now at work on what is the largest canoe, without doubt, in the United States.

It is foi the Rochester Canoe Club. Tole 1 is endeavoriug to purchase the release of Hea.y, Conawy and Donahue, of the Kansas City Club. Alfredo de Oro, the pool chsmpion, has accepted the chi Vey ge of Charles Manning to play for the i ha pi. t.hip at coniinnons pool. The signing of Catcher Bennett by the Boston Clnb is claimod as a great victory by the National League, but the brotherhood men allogo that, liko Clarkson, Bennett was henpecked and they expected him to go.

Donovan, the new outfielder of tho Boston league team, iB said to be a great player. Muskrat shooting is very good on the meadows in Southern New Jersey. Recently two puro whito muBkrats were shot near Dennisville. Thoy had pink eyos like white rabbits. They are to be stuffed.

The grounds of the Now Yorks, Limited, must be in thorough condition by March 25. For every day they aro ii: rr Dieted ver that time the contractor will bo charged $25 a day. Mr. James Avent, of Memphis and Avent Ken nelB, Hickory Valley, it radyto waeer $2,000 that his pack of foxhounds can run down a great many more than 1 in 200 rod foxes started in either the State of Maine, New Hampshire or Vermont. J.

F. McCleery, tho California billiard expert, haB covered Dick Roche's deposit of $1,000 for a match at straight rail billiards, Schaefer to discount tho Califorman in a game of 3,000 points. Sinco his victory over McCarthy Champion Jack Dempsey has been flooded with offers from all parts of the country for exhibitions and fightB. The Southern Athletic Clnb, of New Orleans, has offered him, by telegraph, $2,000 for a ten round Bet to with Mike Donovan, aud an Eastern manager wants him to go to England and fight Toff Wall and somo other of the English middle weights. Deinpsey, however, would rather stay in San Francisco and fight La Blanche for $1,000 than go elsewhere and make $5,000 giving exhibitions.

A. E. Morganthaler and Alf Oskamp are the only wheelmen in Ohio riding sixty four iuch wheels. The betting in the pool roomB at Nashville is something remarkable. The inventor of tho Winchester repeating shot gun, Mr.

John Browning, has just bcon issued a patent on a tweuty flvo shot repeating rifle. Tod cod fishing in both branches of the Shrewsbury River grows better every day. The fish aro fat and bite well. The hotel guests and early cottagers at Atlantic City are having groat sport on tho cod fishing banks. William Thompson, of Philadelphia, heads the list so far with a fifty pounder.

Roohestor dog fanciers are hurrying about making preparations for the big bench show on March 11 to 14 inclusive. A dog Bhould carry all the flesh that can be hardened on him. Get your dog so, and endeavor to keep him there iu and out of season. Pure blooded dogs are very rarely sheep killers. It takes the mongrel to do that successfully.

In estimating the chances of the various candidates for tho Brooklyn aud Suburban races many things beside tho public form of the horses are to be taken into consideration, notably the jockeys who are to ride. The well known deerhonnd champion Robin Gray, counted the beBt in England, is dead. He Was owned by Mr. A. Maxwell.

Emil Deck, the onoe famous Bprinter of the Pastime Athletic Club, is again iu training and would like to run somo man for a gold medal. The Prospect Harriers have taken the necessary steps for a series of moonlight invitation runs. Unless a challenge for the America's cup comes from England, Ireland or Scotland in a few days, all hope of an international race in 1880 will have to be abandoned. The Crescent Athletic Club has decided to give Up its present location at tho corner of Montague and Clinton streets, Brooklyn, and has takon a five years' lease on a house on Pierropont street, near Hioks. This is a spaoiouB, old fashioned mansion, 28 feet in front by 50 in depth, and will amply suffice tho needs of the club at present.

The Racing Board of the L. A. W. have made a few changes in the racing rules sinco their mooting in Chicago last month, which are as follows: Tho country is to bo divided into seven racing districts, instead of fivo, as previously determined. Chamberlain and Stivotts, the former especially, will not be used a great deal in tho Spring exhibition games.

Anson has thirteen players with him in Florida. Tho inaugural games of tho Brooklyn City Bowling Club in the Carruthers sub tournament wore rother poor. Eddio Sweeney, of New York, says it there is any man in the country who wants a fight a. 122 pounds, give or tako 2 pounds, ho will produco an opponont and namo a club that will give a $500 purse for tho fight. Tho NantiluB Boat Club mado nearly $900 from its games iu conjunction with Company Thir.

teouth Regiment, on February 5. The club is in a prosperous condition, and this sum more than clears it of all but its bonded indebtedness, which is entirely confined to its club members..