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TILLAMOOK HEADLIGHT. JANUARY
TALES OF THE DERBY
NEW YORK’S BOWERY.
HIS MISTAKE.
Why th. Upper Part of It Was Named
Fourth Avenue.
It Was Costly, but Cured Him of an
Irritating Habit.
In the early forties of the last cen­
Bunsen was always a great klddcr
Sums of the Winners That Were tury there lived in Brooklyn a Mr. He Isn't any more.
and Mrs. Smith. Mr. Smith was a ris­
Bunsen is a lawyer, although, of
Not Liked as Youngsters.
ing civil engineer, and most of bis course, be Is known by a different
rOUGHT FOR A MERE TRIFLE.
Little Wonder, Who Carried Off the
Blue Ribbon In 1840, Coet Hie Own­
er Only $325—The Successes of Vol-
tigeur end Thormanby,
work was tn New York, It was nec-
essary that he be nearer bls place of
business than Brooklyn, for in those
days ferries were slow and Infrequent,
no bridges spauued the river, and horse
cars were the speediest means of
transit. Being a man of moderate
means, Mr. Smith went house bunting
through the streets of New York, seek­
ing a modest but respectable abode.
Near the upper end of the Bowery be
found a small house. Elated with his
success, he rushed borne with the news
to bis wife. But when be mentioned
the name of the street in which this
house stood his wife’s face fell.
“How could you think of It?” she
asked. Smith was I d despair.
Even as far back as 1840 the Bow­
ery had acquired an unenviable repu­
tation. Mr. Smith tried to explain
that the upper part of the Bowery
was still untarnished; that many very
respectable people lived in that part
of town; that it would be many long
years before crime and sin would
spread that far north.
It was all wasted energy, The fact
that she would be living on the Bow­
ery was sufficient for Mrs. Smith.
As a civil engineer it was Mr.
Smith’s custom to overcome obstacles.
The following day he hired a convey­
ance. and he and Mrs. Smith went
house hunting together. Mrs. Smith
knew her Brooklyn thoroughly, but
had only a slight acquaintance with
New York.
After driving through
many streets without finding a suita­
ble bouse the husband quietly turned
Into the Bowery at Union square aud
slowly walked the borse in the dlrec-
tlon of the bouse be bad fouud the
previous day.
Suddenly Mrs. Smith exclaimed,
“Why, there's a pretty place to let.
dear!”
“Where?” listlessly questioned ber
husband, purposely looking in the op-
posite direction. Had Mrs. Smith not
been so intent upon the bouse in ques­
tion she might have noticed the mer­
ry twinkle iu her husband's eyes and
suspected something.
“Right over there,” she replied,
pointing to the house with the “To
Let" sign.
An examination of the premises con­
vinced Mrs. Smith that she must bare
the place, and when she learned that
her neighbors were old friends of hers
she bad her busband close the bar­
gain at once.
All this time no mention was made
of the street. How Smith managed to
move into the house and keep Mrs.
Smith in the dark as to the name of
the street is a mystery. But there
came a day. and there was a storm.
The tear fall was something heretofore
unknown in the Smith household.
Once again Mr. Smith's habit of
overcoming obstacles stood him In
good stead. His wife would not live
nu the Bowery. Her home was Ideal,
her neighbors were good people, but
they lived on the Bowery. So Smith
and one of his neighbors went before
the board of aldermen. The neighbor
bad lutluence. The street signs from
Union square down to Fourth street
were changed. Instead of “Bowery"
the words “Fourth avenue” were sub­
stituted.
And Mrs. Smith was happy ever aft­
er.—New York World.
Stories of Derby winners having
been sold as youngsters for exceed-
lagly small sums are fairly numerous,
and without going too far back into
the recesses of the past at least two
instances can be cited of animals des­
tined ultimately to win the “blue rib­
bon of the turf which as yearlings
no one thought good enough to buy.
Voltlgeur was one of these, and the
other was Thormanby.
Voltlgeur was bred by Robert Ste­
phenson in 1847 and as a yearling was
sent up to be sold at the Doncaster
sales, a reserve price of $1.750 being
placed on him. Not a man was found
to bld that much for him; consequently
he was withdrawn,
In all probability he would bave re-
tnained unsold bad not Williamson, a
relative by marriage of Lord Zetland,
seen him and, having taken a fancy to
him. finally persuaded bls lordship to
buy him.
Ills Judgment was triumphantly vin­
dicated, for not only did Voltlgeur win
the Derby and St. Leger, but he «ug-
ceeded tn establishing a line of thor­
oughbreds which Is at present domi­
nant on the English turf and likely to
remain so for some time to come.
Thormanby. too, was sent up to be
disposed at the Doncaster and, like
Voltlgeur, did not reach a nominal re­
serve. Desirous of getting rid of him,
however, Plummer, his breeder, re­
quested his famous trainer. Matt Daw­
son, to come and have a thorough look
at him.
This Dawson did and, perceiving at
a glance good points about him, which
no one else apparently had noticed,
bought him for Merry, his patron.
Strange enough. Dawson inve the
an me figure for Thormanby as that
paid for Voltlgeur.
As a two-year-old Thormanby ran
fourteen times and out of this number
scored nine wins, and In the Derby of
tlie following year he beat a field of
thirty. It was said that the race net­
ted Merry the nice sum of $200.000.
The cheapest horse that ever won
the Derby was Little Wonder, which
was successful In 1840, for he cost his
owner, Robertson, the meager sum of
only $325.
Spaniel. too. winner of the race In
1831. was picked up for a very small
sum. Lord Everton. bls breeder, letting
him go for $750.
Pyrrhus J., which won in 1848, was
purchased by John Day. the noted
trainer, as a yearling at Doncaster.
Gully, the pugilist, taking a half in­
terest In him.
As a two-year-old the horse never
ran, and seemingly his abilities were
then of an unknown quantity, for at
the end of the season Day agreed to
sell bls half share In him to Gully for
$.700. Day’s chagrin at his subsequent
victory In the Derby was very great.
Teddlngton. the winner of 1851. was
bred by a blacksmith, who frftld him
as a foal, together with his dam, to
Sir Joseph Hawley for $1.250 and a
further $5.000 If be won the Derby.
A Curious Spanish Custom.
Str Joseph and his confederate. Mas­
Ellen Maury Slayden In the Century
sey Stanhope, to whom the horse real­
In an account of her own and her hus­
ly belonged, profited largely over the
band's
lavish entertainment In a Span
success, and the Jockey. Marson. who
Ish household says:
rede the horse, received $10,000 as a
“No custom of the bouse was so un­
token of victory, which In those days
accountable as that of having people
wns unprecedented.
Sainfoin, which carried the colors of come ‘to see you eat.’ Enjoying a
Sir James Miller to the front, was an square meal while «>ur guests inhaled
exceptionally fortunate purchase by cigarette smoke seemed so inhóspita
John Porter, the trainer. He bought ble that I sometimes playfully Insisted
the colt out of the Hampton Court lot upon their having something with us
of yearlings tn 1888 for the very rea­ It was always laughingly declined, ex­
sonable price of $2.720. Sir Robert Dar- cept once when a particularly lively
youth took a piece of ham and ate it
taklng a half interest in him.
a two-year-old be was seen only with all sorts of self conscious little
In public, and he won his race antics, as if he were acting a panto­
the greatest ease. The year fol­ mime.”
lowing be won the Esher stakes in a
Shortening of the Day.
canter, after which he was sold to
It has long been known theoretically
Sir James Miller for $30.000 and a con­
tingency of half the stakes If he won that the tides act as a brake on the
the Derby. It was Indeed a profitable rotating earth and tend to lengthen
the day. The effect, however. Is so
deal for Torter and Sir Robert
Another Instance of Porter's shrewd­ slight that It cannot be measured In
ness as a horse dealer was bis pur- any length of time at man's disposal.
. chase of the great horse Isonomy for It may be estimated with the aid of
the bagatelle figure, comparatively certain assumptions, and. using the
speaking, of $1.800. The real owner data available. W. D. MacMillan made
the necessary computation by the for­
■ was Fred Gretton.
Isonomy gave no real promise of his mulas used by engineers. He finds for
worth as a two-year-old. his only vlc- the Increase of the length of the day
ory belug a nursery stake in the lat- one second In 460,000 years.
■ ter part of the season. As a three-
Waiting.
ear-old be wss not seen In public un­
"Where are yon lunching now?"
ll the Cambridgeshire, which be won
“Over here at one of these places
aslly by two lengths and incidentally
med no less than $200.000 tn beta where you wait on yourself. Where
ere you eating?”
br bls owner.
“Oh. I’m still over there where you
Had he been in the classic races he
ould In all probability have cleaned wait on the waiter.”—8t. Louis Post
Dispatch.
the board.
As a four vear-old he won tbe gold
A Good Ouesser.
fitp at Aaeot and tbe Goodwood and
Aubrey—I say. old chap, I suppose
righton cup« and crowned tibese feats
’ literally running away with tbe you can’t lend me a fiver? Plantagenet
rent Ebor handicap, earryln* the —No. my dear boy. but a man with
vour capacity for guessing the right
usbing weight of IM pounds.
The following year ksonomy proved thing ought to be able to win a fortune
ms«Jf
’ ? a better borne than ever, not on the turf.—London Telegraph.
by *ti Inning tbe Ascot goid cup again.
Expert Criticism.
*1SA ,b* Manchester imp with the
"1 don't like that Judge." said tbe
Impossible burden, one would
smooth crook; “his speech la so Jerky ”
__ JMnk. of 138 pounds.
"I would say." remarked the Roeton
" jl* haa been calculated that altogetb
I «onorar won for his owner up- burglar, "that, though they are unrte-
1 of C3M.0Û0 tn staken and beta, torlcal. I rather like bia short aa«-
b for an (1.800 tnvewtnwnt waa a tencea" — Baltimore American.
«al profit. - Brooklyn-Ewla
If y<- Intend to do a mean thia*
von will not take pains,tpf naswfll wait till tomorrow If yon Intend to
to a noble thing do It now.
you— Wbately.
name. Don't ever get the Idea, though,
that this didn’t really happen Just tie
cause Bunsen's real nomination Isn't
mentioned.
As we were saying. Bunsen used to
be pretty much of a kldder. He would
even kid bls own patient little wife
Those who care to read on down a
little farther will learn why be ceased
to be a kldder.
One evening last week when Bunsen
got home his wife bad a new hat to
show him. It was some bat. Any
body could have seen that It was the
final phrase In female headgear
But Bunsen started In to make
of it. He said it looked ns If it
been trimmed by a cross eyed milllnci
on an empty stomach. And he made a
lot of other disparaging remarks that
were extremely harassing to poor Mrs
Bunsen.
“D'Je buy It sight unseen?" be In
qulred "Say. how mu h do they pa'
the girl that sold you that? She ourrht
to have a raise Any girl who cou'd
put that one over a customer must bt
something of a smooth saleslady. I’m
here to remark.”
Mrs. Bunsen was almost In tears
Bunsen bad to go Into the other room
to have a quiet laugh at her expense
Oh. he was the great kldder. nil rl-bt
The next day. though, be had forgot
ten all about the hat.
The day after that he was reminded
of his little jokefest, Mrs. Bunsen
handed him a slip of paper when he
came home to get his victuals that
evening. It was a bill for retrlmming
that hat: $18.34 It came to.
Bunsen paid It without a tnvrmut
and said the revised edition of the bat
was Just exactly right. He Isn't rnak
Ing fun of hats any more.—Cleveland
Plain Dealer.
FIRE
The Entire Stock of
BOOTS AND SHOES
cf the
Red Front Shoe Store
Is offered for Sale at COST
Owing to the damaged condition of the store building
compelled to dispose of my stock at a sacrifice on account
Remember the place: The Red Front Shoe Store.
BROWNE, Salesman
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NOTED ANAGRAMS.
We carry a Large Stock of
Ingenious Transmutation of Names
Well Known Persons.
Anagrams that transmute the names
of well known men and women are
often startlingly appropriate. What
could be better tn this way than these
announcements, evolved from two
great statesmen's names when the
reins of power changed hands: Glad
stone. "G leads not!" Disraeli, “I lend
sir!" Quite as happy la the comment
on the devoted nursing of Florence
Nightingale, whose name yields "Fill
on. cheering angel." Among those that
are most often quoted we may men
tlon Horatio Nelson. “Honor est a
Ntlo:” Charles James Stuart. "Claims
Arthur’s seat;” Pilate's question
"Quid est veritas?" (“What is truth?")
answered by “Est vir qut adest" (“It
Is the man here present"); Swedish
nightingale. "Sing high, sweet Linda:"
David Livingstone. “D. V.. go and visi;
Nile;” the Marquiss of Ripon (who re
signed the grand mastership of Free­
masons when he became a Romanist),
”R. 1. P.. quoth Freemasons;" Charles
prince of Wales. “All France calls
Oh. help!” Sir Roger Charles Doughtj
Tichborne. baronet. "Yon horrid but< h
er Orton. biggest rascal here." and
many shorter specimens, such as tele
graph, “great help;" astronomers. "n<
more stars” and “moon starers;" one
hug. “enough;” editors, "so tired:"
tournament, “to run at men;" penlteu
tlary, “nay, 1 repent:" old Eng'and
"golden land;’’ revolution, "to love
ruin;" fashionable, “one-half bias:"
lawyers, "sly ware;" midshipman
“mind his map;” poorhouse. “Oh. sour
hope;" Presbyterian, “best In prayer:'
sweetheart, “there we sat;” matrlmo
ny, “into my arm.”—Chambers' Jour
nal.
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Then a Christinas brightened by song*
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ft taken Its own time, and you cacao;
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“What’s that?”
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It Is a remarkable fact that, as with music, dances and stories; then l<»nx
various natural so called “mineral w:i evenings made short throughout tl«e
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winter by this same great entertainer.
people find beneficial, no one has ye’
clearly and decisively shown. In th.
first place, whether they exert anj
chemical effect of a special kind oi
the people who seem to benefit In
drinking the one or breathing the < t!i
er. Still less has any one shown wh
is the particular chemical lngredlnni
of the air or of the water of any give:
resort which exerts the beneficial ef
feet attributed to that air or that wa
ter.—Sir E. Ray Lankester In Louden
Telegraph.
A man who signs himself “A Son o‘
Rest" sends us the following:
“Several people have asked me wbj
I never work. I take this means oi
replying to all.
“The habit of working Is like a habh
of taking dope. If a man Is a dope
fiend and stops It be dies. Now. If a
man gets the habit of working and
then stops It be starves to death. Same
thing. I shall never contract such a
habit”—Cleveland Leader.
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