El Reno Daily Eagle. (El Reno, Okla.), Vol. 1, No. 243, Ed. 1 Saturday, July 13, 1895 Page: 3 of 4
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Chips Thrown to Him in Pity Ro-
bult in a Fortune.
TRAIN.
Story of a Drummer Illustratin'; the Slow*
ness of Southern Hoads.
QUEER TEXAS SNAKES. the women were game.
SUNKEN SIIIUS.
There Is a fallacy in the north that 5omo cllrab Trees and Rob tho
A Gnmbler Whose Life History Is Well
Worth Knowing--How Ills Sister
Persuaded Him to Give tp
Flaying Faro.
A party of horse-racing- fellows were
standing in Willard’s lobby tho other
night, says the Washington Star, when
a tall, soldierly looking man, with white
hair and snowy mustache and imperial,
strode in and advanced to the clerk's
desk.
“See that feller,” said one of the el-
derly men in the group; “that’s ‘Lucky
Jack Doty.’ Never hear of him? Well,
he’s got a story that's worth knowin’.
Thirty years ago there wasn't a
higher roller in the south. His people
had died out one by one, till only a sis-
ter was left, and Jack and her had loads
of money and lots of negroes. She got
religion the worst way, and all of a sud-
den went into a convent.
“As I said. Jack was a high roller, but
he’d kept within bounds up to that time.
When the girl left the world, as they
call it, Jack was crazy. He was de-
voted to her, in spite of his runnin’
around, and he just cut loose and raised
a fog. He played the limit, and it
wasn't long before the brace players
had layouts fixed for him in every town
he struck. His money went, and his
negroes, too, and the time came when
he didn’t have the price of a shoestring.
He drifted up to Memphis one night
broke and desperate. He went into a
farrer bank and watched the game for
awhile, but he didn't get a nod, where
not long before the negroes used to
break their necks to shove a chair up
right in front of the layout for him.
“Old man Galloway had a farrer
streak on him that night, and was play-
in'blues at a hundred a stack. Jack
sat down near him and seemed to llus-
southern trains are lamentably slow as
regards speed. A New York drummer
told a story to a reporter for the At-
lanta Constitution the other day in
which this idea was illustrated.
“I heard of a drummer,” said he,
“who got on the train at Atlanta to go
to New Orleans, lie had a dog that he
was very fond of, but the conductor
wouldn’t let him carry it into the coach.
Meant Adopted by Two Sluter* fr» Stop »
Levy on a Steer.
Two miles east of Coosa is a moun-
j tain called Judy's mountain, at the foot |
of which live lietsy and Judith Lewis,
generally called Uet and Jude, for i
J short. The Rome (Ga.) Tribune says
I that a merchant has u small ti. fa. |
• against Ret, and told a bailiff to levy j
on Hall, a large white-faced steer,
•‘There is a species of whipsnake in I which hail cost Hot about $150, buying j
die Lone Star state, the male of which I him in u bailiff’s sale, besides the orig- , across the Atlantic it has become roa
Noets of Birds.
(low n Yellow Racer and a llonpnn-tkr
llad Lot* of Fun Together—The Opos-
sum Snake Feigns Heath When
It 1* Touched.
Amorican Gunboats That Wont
Down Forovor.
Ilrlef Review of Naval I.n*sr* During On-
tivy — Famous Men - of - War That
llavo Mysteriously Disappeared
from Vlen.
# 3 jet black and the female pea green,” inal purchase money. . ^ ..........- •• ••
I suppose you 11 let me tie him on said a former resident of Texas. “They The bailiff declared he wouldn't go sel has lK*en swallowed up in the waves.
lin t* *» .*1* ♦ I*. . .11 il. .1 .... I * « . . , . I .. .i i* . .
DEATH OF A FAMOUS GANDER.
Ilo \Va» a I).coy Fowl Noted fur the Suc-
cess of in. Methods.
The sad news of the death of old
1M ingo ’ lias come to the gunners along
tiie line of the Old Colony road, and if
lie was only a gander ho had a host, of
friends, says the Boston Globe, lie has
been at Widgeon point at the lake now
for more than thirty years and wasone
Sinee the last great storm swept I tZ'-.FT l,ec”Ptive bird*
•ross the At hint ie it has tee...... rea- I !,^r fm.m his "'"l
I sonalily certain that more than one ves- ! t|„. sportsmen J ' ‘ 10 u{
hrw I .............. i in; spur is nu n.
to the rear coach, then?’said the drum- I are long, slim reptiles, and they climb unless the merchant went along to j In «>“'« instances the fate of the lost years ngo "from"the'1 rl-m-irlm'.f
UK‘r' ‘ J ’ ....... ' point out the property. Then Joe Lewis, vessels has been learned from the j the gunners who was shimtin- over
a man about town, but not related to wreckage seen by passing ships; but It l,jm. It „ .,s lll)out thc tl "f
Het, concluded to go along and see the *ias happened, many times since men • • •
fun.
v
i 7m>. , /j
,, , . trees and rob birds’nests with remark-
t)h, yes, said the conductor, deri- | able celerity,
sively ‘do that, by all means; but,’ he j ••Tl,e yellow racer of Texas is another
added, ’I shouldn’t guarantee that j interesting snake. When he crawls his
movements are from side to side, hut
when he races he undulates, with his
head several inches in the air, and he
can get over thc ground almost as fast
as a jack rabbit. You will often see a
yellow racer chasing a red-bellied hoop-
snake, and vice versa. Sometimes you
will see them racing side by side neither
seeming to try to outspecd the other,
and both getting over the ground for
the fun of the thing. The most amus-
ing snake race I ever saw out there was
between a hoopsnake and a racer.
There was a big bulge in the hoop-
snake’s body, evidently caused by a
large toad in his stomach, and he
wabbled so that every little while he
would lose his balance and tumble side-
ways. The racer also had a large lump
in his body, hut it didn't bother him
much in traveling, and he stopped and
waited whenever the hoopsnake tipped
over. The hoopsnake would look up
and start in again, and he and the racer
covered more than two miles in that
THERE SAT T11K DOG.
you'd have much dog by the time wc
got good started.’
“ oh, that's all right; I'm willing to! way, going ahead of the horse I was
risk that,’ he said, and he tied his prize riding.
canine to the rear coach. The conduc- “While trying to net pigeons one
tor spoke to the engineer about it, and season 1 saw a yellow racer crawling
it was agreed that the train should d > toward the stool pigeon. For the mo-
some of thc swiftest running of its Ids- ment I was more concerned about a
trate the old man, because he bet nine- | l°ry. It fairly llew until the first sta- : hawk that had been circling overhead
teen chips on a double seven and got tion uas reached. Then the conductor ; for some time, and I didn’t pay much
split, lie was madcler'n a hornet, but cam‘‘ around with a smile to where t'.i • j attention to the snake. At length the
he laughed just the same, and said to I ‘H’ummcr was sitting and asked about hawk dived at the stool pigeon and
Jack, as he handed over the split check I ^u‘ | knocked the breath out of it. Without
to him: ! “‘Oh, he’s all right,’said the dm-- waiting for the hawk to snatch the
‘I reckon you wanted a stake, and mer, carelessly, and continued his rea^- stool pigeon the racer wound himself
made me bet odd chips. See what you | I conductor went hack an 1 j around tho hawk’s neck and breast.
saw that the animal was trotting along j Suddenly a hoopsnake rolled past me
The three rode up to the Lewis house
and called for Hall. Het said he was
on.irhe turn. Then thc deuce won twice.
can do with that. ......t________ _______ _________
“Jack grabbed tho two and a half behind without effort, the rope hang-I at top speed and brought up near the
like a hungry man catchin’ a bun, and | slack. lie gave the cue to the en- | stool pigeon, as if he was goingto help
shot it into the square. The king won rHm*er. and some magnificent running | the racer strangle the hawk. The
was the result. A few miles further I
down the conductor came around to the
drummer and said: ‘Where's your dog-
gie now?’ ‘He’s keeping up,’ said the
drummer. The two walked back to the
rear eml, but there was no dog. The
rope was trailing along behind. The
conductor smiled triumphantly. The
drummer laughed easily.
“ 'Hv Jove, he's gnawed his rope and
I gone on ahead.’ and sure enough it was
| true. When the junction was reached
there sat the dog patiently waiting for
his master.”
IIIS SISTEIt CAME UP TO HIM.
Jack let the $20 lay; the deuce won again;
then the king won twice, and then the
deuce won again. Neither the queen
nor ace had showed, but the $320 in
blue chips were still untouched. The
dealer thought he had a cinch, and
never spoke about the $300 limit. The
■queen won on the turn.
“‘Draw down to 200,’ said the
dealer, and Jack took 440 away.
"Well, the last king and all the queens
end aces won, and Jack had 200 on
every one. He kept on plnying, and
turned the box down, and carried off
thc $7,000 bank roll with him along
about daybreak. He got the blue split
he had started on and had a hole bored
in it, and put it on the chain of the
wateli he bought next day. He went to
New'Orleans and won $00,000 in five
weeks. Then he went on a hank-break-
ing trip up the river, and he reached
St. Louis in the spring of '00 worth
$300,000 in solid cash. He was coming
out of a farrer hank the day after he
got there, when a little woman dressed
like a sister came up to him.
“ ‘Jack,’ she said, “gimme that thing
you've got on your watch chain and
hang this there instead,’ and she held
out a little medal. Jack saw it was his
sister. He broke the blue split off and
took the medal and put it on. There
were twenty cooked games fixed for him
at St. Louis, but he never played
against farrer again. He wears that
little medal yet.”
When Doty came out a few minutes
later a dozen pair of eyes searched his j niioww. - watciiixo
vest. Dangling from the heavy gold
chain that crossed it was the little
medal.
RAT RINGS THE BELL.
Peculiar Freak ot a Playful Rodent
Frighten* a Family.
For several nights, writes a bright
schoolgirl to the Chicago Tribune, we !
have been much disturbed by the ring-
ingof the doorbell at all tlmesduringtli •.
night. Mrs. Brown would .irlse iv i
bed, go to the front door, open it quick - j
ly, while Mr. Brown stood with a re-
volver in hand ready to shoot t lie in-
truder, should he be a robber. Hut
they always found the front por b |
empty—not a soul there, and then they
would close the door gently and wait a
long time, perhaps, before the bell
would jingle again. It never rang very
loud. Mrs Drown became frightened;
and mamma was nearly in hysterics all
the time. Mr. Drown sat up one night
trying to solve the mystery of the ring-
ing of the doorbell. It is an old-fash-
ioned bell with a wire from it which
runs through under the lloor in the
basement. We would talk about it and
talk about it all day. And after four
days and nights of dreadful fright Mr.
Drown concluded he would take up his
position in the basement and watch the
*r .yu
first began to go down into the deep in
ships, that an apparently stout stanch
vessel has set sail gnyly from port only
to vanish as completely as if her voyage
had been outside of the solar system,
liven the American navy has suffered
such losses, that are to-day and perhaps
I always will be an unsolved mystery.
The first important loss of this kind,
j says the Hoston Advertiser, was the
eighteen-gun man-of-war Saratoga, one
of the few ships that composed the
American navy 110 years ago. The loss
of the Saratoga was in itself a story
that might well attract the notice
of a writer of fiction, ns it occurred at
the close of what promised to be a sig-
nally successful cruise. The Saratoga
sailed from 1’hiladclphia early in the
autumn of 1780, and in October captured
three vessels bound from Jamaica to
New York. lieturning toward Phila-
delphia with her prizes the Saratoga
sighted the British man-of-war Intrepid,
and being clearly out-matched escaped
j by putting olV to the east. Her prizes
down in the field, but no living man 'ver‘‘ recaptured by the Hritish, and slu
SHE SEIZED THE HOUSE HV THE MIDDLE.
coil hi rope him.
! herself disappeared utterly from human
The party rode down through the i ken.
field with Het and Jude following j Just about twenty years later the
them, lieaping anathemas upon the I nited States frigate Insurgent, carry-
head of tho merchant and swearing ho kig thirty-six guns, sailed from the
stole the shingles from them that were Fhesapcako Gapes under orders to
on his house. cruise between longitudes sixty-six de-
M hen the bailiff and Lewis had grees and sixty-eight degrees west and
passed through a gap in the cross fence to go no farther south than thirty de-
lict squared herself in the gap and .......... **'* : * ' ' ’ ' ' “ *
Swore as long as skies and waves woro blue
The pesky merchant should not pass through.
The merchant, who was on a very
grees north. It is probably within that
very tract of theocean that the Saratoga
was lost, and it was regarded as signitl-
. cant by some of the old salts of the
large horse, rodo hack about tiftv | American navy at the beginning of the
yards and charged the gap, thinking j present century that the Insurgent,
Het would step out of the way, but not I too, sailed off into the list of ships
a bit did Hettie. ! * “ *
She seized tho horse by the bridle
and set him down on his haunches like
a setter dog The bailiff then held Het
till the merchant passed through, she
being too smart to resist an officer.
When they came up with Hull the
bailiff threw the line over his horns
whose faith no man knows. For all one
can say to the contrary tho Insurgent
and the Saratoga lie side by side off the
Chesapeake Capes.
In the same year, the only year in
which two of the American men-of.war
mysteriously disappeared, t he fourteen-
gun brig Dickering was ordered to
and Het jerked it off, which was re- | Guadeloupe to cruise along the coast
pea ted several times. Finally Bet there. In September, ISO!), a heavy
threw her arms around the steer’s I gale swept the ocean, and it was genor-
imrns and blocked the game. When ally believed at the time that the la-
the bailiff told the merchant to hold Uurgont nnd the Bickering went down
I,et, she made at him for alight. lie at about the same time and in praetie-
caiight her by each arm, and by a ally the same storm. The Pickering
superhuman effort held her off at arm’s j was not a very seaworthy vessel when
length, while she squirmed and swore | equipped with guns, and there is little
question that she foundered during a
* _
TIIE RACER worxo 1IIMSKI.F AROl’NI)
THE HAWK'S NECK.
Multie't Herds of Cnrlhou.
About the slope's of Mount Katahdin,
and ranging the bogs and woodlands of
the country at its foot, great herds of
caribou pasture in the fall upon twi^s,
hawk arose before the hoopsnake got a
chance to tackle it. It hadn't ascended
more than two hundred feet when the
racer tied its wings tight to its body,
and the hawk dropped like a wad of
mud, thirty feet or so from the stool
pigeon. The hoopsnake had been glar-
ing at the hawk as if he was disap-
pointed, but the instant it landed he
rolled right at it and commenced to
thump it on the head with his horn.
The hawk screamed and struggled vio-
lently, and the racer tightened his coils
around its wings and prevented it from
rising It couldn't light with its claws,
| and the hoopsnake continued to ham-
mer it on the head, and the racer to
squeeze it, as if it had been a put-up
job between the snakes beforehand to
tackle the hawk in that way. The
hoopsnake pounded until he had bat-
tered its head all out of shape with his
sharp horn. In a little while the hawk
ceased to stir, and the racer unwound
himself, and the hoopsnake stopped
hammering. Doth reptiles gazed at the
dead bird for a moment, and then the
hoopsnake hooked his tail into his lip,
and the two went away together.
“The opossum sualce of Texas
I feigns death if you tap it on the hack
| with a switch, and sometimes when
you make a quick strike at it and don’t
touch it. The natives assert that a
badly scared opossum snake will re-
main quiescent until sunset, no matter
how early in the day you scare it, and
then it will glide off at great speed. I
°nce frightened an opossum snake by
switching- the ground near it. The
snake made believe it was lifeless, and
boll wire. He had sat there perhaps j *n 11 ‘‘lump of hushes and watched
three hours when he saw a small, dark ^ couldn't possibly have seen me,
object moving along one corner of the * an^ fur an hour and forty minutes it
wall. It ran up the post and sprang : remained perfectly motionless. It
over upon the hot-air pipes that run | hielcod two hours and twenty minutes
of sundown, but I had concluded to
for the ;x-
from the furnace to the registers. It
was so large he at first thought it a 1 8*ay there and see whether the snuke
hark ami the ^rnarsli grass and moss, , ca^< Hut as it reached up and grabbed j "’ould clear out. I lost the chance,
however, for within a few minutes a
from which they have to scrape the the bell wire in its paws he saw it v sm
snow with their fore feet, as their kin- a big rat. It played along the pipe*,
dred, tho Lapland and Siberian rein- every little bit reaching up and gr:*'-
deer, do. 1 hey are migatory animals, bing the bell wire, nibbling and pull-
covering wide regions in their travels,
and appearing unexpectedly in locali-
ties which, after a period, they are apt
to leave with equal suddenness. A sin-
gle herd recently seen near Mount
Katahdin was estimated to number two
hundred caribou. In size thc caribou
stands between the deer and the moose,
and his appearance and habits are es-
sentially those of the Arctic reindeer.
The well-known Maine scientist, Hill
Moriarty, who is a great hunter and
woodsman, says that a caribou is “the
handsomest, most forlorn-looking crit-
ter that travels on hoofs.”
Wh*r« Only Turtle* Thrive.
Caycayo, a West Indian island, is in-
habited exclusively by turtles, some of
which grow to an enormous size. At-
tempts to establish human habitations
on the Islands have always failed.
ingat it just enough to make it ring
gently. Mr. Brown laughed to him-
self as he thought what a fright wo a l
had, caused by one rat. Then a bullet
from his revolver put an end to our
ghostly visitor.
A Fort y-Two-I»rli Drldr.
There was an unusually interesting
wedding in Hast port, Me., recently,
from the fact that the bride was oae of
the four Harris sisters, who are known
all over the country on account of their
smallness in height. Two of tho sis-
ters are only 40 inches tall and tho
other two 42 inches. They are all over
thirty years of age, and the average
weight of the four is ninety poun-’s
each. Matilda was the one who was
married. Esta and Mary Ann, it is
said, are considering proposals of mar-
riage.
she would cut his heart out.
At this juncture Bet’s dog, conelud-1 gale, although there is of course no cor-
ing it was a free-for-all fight, grabbed
the steer by the tail, whereupon Ball
kicked loose from everything and
started off on a dead run.
WIDOW AND WILDCAT.
Lainty as to her fate.
\\ hen in 1805 the United States de-
cided to send ten gunboats to help in
the war against Tripoli one »>f these
vessels, known as “Gunboat No. 7,”
met with a mishap after leaving port
It dialled Her Into the House and she and was forced to put back again Her-
o to »«»th. j haps if Lieut. James Lawrence, who
Widow Wilson, of Wcolor's Farms, commanded "Gunboat No. had
Conn., who lives on the Burnt Plains boon assigned to the unlucky "No. 7,’’
road, was running home on foot from which Lieut. Ogelvio commanded,
the village at 8:50 o’clock last Tuesday American naval history might have
evening when, as she turned from tile been different. As it was “No. 0” ar-
Bnrnt Plains road into the narrow cat- ! rived safely, and Lawrence lived to de-
tic-lam’ that leads to her house, she feat tho Peacock und to light tiie Shan-
hoard her dog growl. The animal non; but Lieut. Ogelvie’sgunhoat went
rushed to her skirts and assumed a Bel- forth again after repairs and sailed
ligeront position, ami as it did so she iato the mysterious waters of tiie un-
heard a snarl from the stone wall on known, and another "missing’’ ship
the light and knew it was a wildcat. I was entered on tile navy’s rolls
The widow only caught a dint.glimpse The most famous of all the missing
of some object crouching on the wall, K|lips „f the American navy was the
and then she ran with all the speed her Wasp. In its brief history it had a
sixty-live years allowed. She heard brilliant record, having within a pc-
the creature snapping and spitting Hod „f Uvu months taken fifteen ves-
sels, valued at more than two hundred
j thousand dollars. Its prowess as a
terror of the seas was so remarkable
that its name had grown to he a menace
to Hritish merchantmen. Late in the
year 1814, less than six months after
she had left thc* Portsmouth navy yard
for her career of victory, the Wasp dis-
appeared completely. Perhaps some
damage received in an encounter with
the enemy had weakened the sloop’s
timbers so that she f»*ll an easy prey to
wind aim water; but, whatever hap-
pened, she left no trace.
The last American man-of-war to
vanish was the brig Kpervier, which
sailed from Decatur’s fleet to the
United States to hear tho treaty made
with the I)ey of Algiers. July 12, 1815,
the Kpervier was lad seen near the
strait of Gibraltar. Since that time she,
too, has joint'd the fleet of the missing.
Where the vessels of that fleet Be und
what became of the crews are matters
that may never be known until thc
pair of turkey buzzards lit on the snake
together. It began to squirm and flop
and beat tin* grass, but it had waited a
little too long, for the buzzards pulled
it in two speedily, each sailing away
with a writhing half.
“At another time I watched an
opossum snake for hours, and was paid
for it a little after sunset by seeing a j through the opening the widow closed
monster owl pounce upon it, tie it into tiie heavy door on its body. It fought
<nots uml sail off with it.” and writhed und clawed a«d struggled,
----- uttering such blood-curdling sereumi
Death of m Famous Karloan. that “’Lius” Plutt heard tho row at
James Fitzpatrick, the fumous Derby Ids house, almost a mile away. Thc
(Conn.) hermit, was found dead in his ! widow held on like grim death, and be-
hut the other morning. He hud not | fore Mr. Plutt arrived breathless on
been seen for several days. A party the scene she had squeezed the life out
found him lying dead on tho floor, j of the “varmint.”
Half a century ago he was a very prom- I The eat weighed forty-nine pounds,
inent person, but he was disappointed and evidently, from the sears it bore on
in love, and for forty years he had not | its head and back, was an ugly old
spoken to a wonmn. During this time specimen. Mrs. Wilson is the herjinu
he had lived is a recluse in an old hut of Weeler’s Farms now, and she says
in the suburbs. If a woman approached her adventure will not deter her from
his hut he woild run away and hide. i taking her nightly promenade.
TIIE WIDOW CLOSED THE DOOR ON IT8
BODY.
close at her heels all the way, hut it .
never caught up with her until she I Jmltfment «lar* perhaps chance
reached her door. Before she could j lI,Kiy yrct \hrow Bght on the ques-
enter something struck her shoulder *!<m' *n meantime* the theme* is one
and half knocked her over tho sill. | "T11 .lnv.,t^ the attention of
The plucky pup, Tim, came to the res-
cue and sailed into her big adversary.
This for a moment drew off the brute’s
attention, and the widow lost no time
in slipping past and closing the door.
Then she remembered her poor dog.
She couldn’t lot him die without an ef-
fort to save him. Opening the door
about a foot, she called Tim, and the
poor cur made a dash for it. Hard at
his heels came the eat. As it tore
the imaginative novelist.
Plenty of liijj Hntno.
For an old settled state Arkansas
has more game than any other. On
Bloody revolution In San Domingo. The
old i-hap was struck hv a stray shot,
and the gunner picked him up und took
him into thc pen with all the solicitude
of a true sportsman. Thera was Blood
on tlio gunner's hands und tears in his
eyes, and from that day t he old chap
was called Mingo, named after thj
island on whieli so much Blood was be-
ing spilt.
B hen the other decoys were unablo
to entice the northern strangers from
their course, old Mi , was tried, and
he seldom if over fulled of attractIng
their attention and gaining their good
v. ill, for tile time bring at U-ust.
Whether lie had a peculiar tone to ids
voice or whether he was u professional
"masher” will never Be know n, but ffis
record was second to none along the
shores of that sportsmen's paradise, nnd
tho gunners had all the game they
w anted if Mingo could eateli tiie atten-
tion of the geese.
After his long and faithful service
old Mingo scented to know just how t,»
work und when to put In his very best,
effort s. 11 is ideas of enticing t lie geese
seemed based on principles which were
oil a good foundation. lie seldom
failed, and the old fellow lias made
money for his ow ners and lots of sport
for the best gunners in thc county. If
then- was u tenderfoot In tho shooting
camp lie was cautioned to look out and
not hit .Mingo, hut he at last fell a vic-
tim to the gen of an amateur who was
somewhat excited.
Mingo w as owned By Thomas Arnold,
of North Abington, und Mr. Arnold
says that if a man should have offered
him two hundred dollars for the bird it
w ould have been no temptation to him.
Mingo was just what h • wanted, and
tiie most knowing bird in the county.
Tin- gunners gave Mingo a •Christian
burial, and he now* rests in a grave dug
for him near his happy limiting ground.
DOGS IN CLOTHES.
In Par!, thn Her Actually Carry
I mUrcIlun.
No matt -rwiiat tiie dress may be, tho
indispensable ......ipanion of the woman
who walks is her little dog. Short-
haired terrier or loug-haired piy, it is
of no moment, provided that it he very
tiny.
At the moment it is, perhaps, tiie ter-
rier which is the most popular, as ho
furnishes a further excuse for tiie ex-
hibition of fur In that his Rtnootli coat
does not appear to his kind hearted mis-
tress a Mitiieie-it. prote tfon from tlm
cold of tills season of Liu' year.
So the little do - has liis tailor as well
as his owner, and Ledouble, of tho
Palais Koval, inav bo called tiie Worth
of the hcnnel. With gar::n-n:s of vel-
vet, trimmed with fur, orof cloth strup-
st it elicit and embroider ■ i, the clothing
of tiie little creature harmonizes with
that of 11is possessor.
Some ladies provide mackintoshes for
their pets for rainy days, and Imvc them
made w ith a full hood, which rovers tho
ears. Others there are who choose tar-
tan, having points turned Back at tho
shoulders and fastened with a strap
around the body, l-’or those believed to
be particularly chilly, the coats are
provided with collars of quite Medial
style, and are lined throughout with
Astrakhan, nutria, or even beaver, as
these short furs are not too cumbrous
for the petted animals.
Thera are some which actually have
umbrellas of dark blue silk, which they
have been taught to carry quite straight
and steadily between their teetli in tho
event of a sudden shower.
They are also provided with handker-
chiefs in eases of accidents, a tiny pock-
et in whieli to carry these being placed
on one side of the coat.
These handkerchiefs, adds the Paris
correspondent of tho London Daily
Graphic, are found useful when mudaino
stops a few minutes at tie- confection-
er's, and can wipe her pet's iio;:o und
paws after his share in tho delicacies
she buys,
NEW YORK'S EXCESS OF WOMEN
Curious I art* About tho lHstrlhlitton of
tho 1 rin n'rie Surplus.
The census reveals some curious
facts about the distribution of New
York’s excess of women. New York
city lias 30,001) of them; Brooklyn, 17,-
000; Albany, 5,500; Troy, 5,000; I'ticn,
a,000; Rochester, 4,000; Syracuse, 1,100.
They ure all, practically, in tho larger
cities i.f the state, tho onecxccptlon be-
ing Buffalo, which has 4,000 more men
than women.
It would he interesting to know more
about these 4.000 superfluous Buffalo
men, says a writer in Harper's Weekly,
whether they are Poles, Italians, lake
sailors, canal boatmen or merely
lively young bachelors from tho c< un-
tho St. Francis river, where tiie cane- | try In the western part of the state,
brakes are tall and dense, thc country j wiio have gone to Buffalo to seek t-iulr
seems alive with deer and hear. They I
have a peculiar way of hunting in
fortunes.
New York city's business opportuni-
tla-su brakes. They keep dogs anil j ties, which attract crowds of men,
horses specially trained for it. Tin- setm to attract quite us many women,
tlogs, perhaps twenty or thirty, ure j Yet tho excess of women In New York
put In tho brake, and the horses are Is comparatively small. The city has
trained to follow the dogs, and that Ik 45 wo :i to every 44 men, whilo Brook-
whut they will do at all hazard. As lyn h. 3U women to every 35 men and
soon us the dogs take a trull anil begin 1 Troy 11 women to every 10 men. Why
to bay the horses strike out pell moll should it happen that in the suburban
through woods, und brake, and swamp, counties nearest New York there should
jumping everything in their course, ] be more men than women?
and plunging in a way that would ter- J It would seem that of the population
rlfy an English fox hunter. The rider | drawn by the metropolis to this end of
lias nothing to do, and that is some- the state the unmarried men would
times more than enough, but to hold his nearly all live in tho cities and the
seat, lie must keep close to the dogs, dwellers In the suburbs would for tho
for when the bear is brought to Ids
hind legs there is danger of losing three
or four of the vnluablo animals before
the beast is killed.
most part bu people with families. Yet
the suburban countries nil show nn ex-
cess of men—1,1100 In Westchester, !,-
700 in Richmond and 3,500 in (juoeus.
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