VOL. XIII.

OCEAN CITY, N. J., THURSDAY, AUGUST 17, 1893.

NO. 20.

Ocean City Sentinel.

PUBLISHED WEEKLY AT OCEAN CITY, N. J.,

BY R. C. ROBINSON, Editor and Proprietor $1.00 per year, strictly in of ince. $1.50 at end of year.

Restaurants.

MARSHALL'S DINING ROOMS FOR LADIES AND GENTS, 1321 MARKET STREET, Three Doors East of City Hall, PHILADELPHIA.

STRICTLY TEMPERANCE. MEALS TO ORDER FROM 6 A. M. TO 8 P. M. Good Roast Dinners, with three vegetables, for 25 cents. Turkey or Chicken Dinners 15 cents.

Ladies' Room upstairs, with homelike accommodations.

PURE SPRING WATER. BAKERY, 601 S. Twenty-Second St. ICE CREAM, ICES, FROZEN FRUITS AND JELLIES. Weddings and Evening Entertainments a specialty. Everything to furnish the table and set free of charge. NOTHING SOLD OR DELIVERED ON SUNDAY.

H. M. Sciple. J. M. Gillespie. H. P. Sayford. H. M. SCIPLE & CO., DEALERS IN Boilers and Engines, Every Size for Every Duty. DUPLEX STEAM PUMPS, Third and Arch Sts., PHILADELPHIA, PA.

D. SOMERS RISLEY, No. 111 Market Street, CAMDEN, N. J.

Conveyancer, Notary Public, Commissioner of Deeds, Real Estate and General Insurance Agent.

Properties for sale and to rent. Money to loan on Mortgage. TELEPHONE No. 16.

PETER MURDOCH, DEALER IN COAL and WOOD, Ocean City, N. J. Orders left at 806 Asbury avenue will receive prompt attention.

Artistic Printing. Material--The Best. Workmanship--First class. Charges--Moderate. R. CURTIS ROBINSON, Ocean City, N. J.

L. S. SMITH, CONTRACTOR IN Grading, Graveling and Curbing. PAINTING BY CONTRACT OR DAY. Eighth St. and Asbury Ave., OCEAN CITY, N. J.

Plasterers and Brick-Layers.

W. STONEHILL. G. O. ADAMS. STONEHILL & ADAMS, Plastering, Range Setting, Brick Laying, &c. All work in mason line promptly attended to. OCEAN CITY, N. J.

Try an advertisement in the SENTINEL. Physicians, Druggists, Etc. HOWARD REED, Ph. G., M. D., Physician and Surgeon, EMMETT HOUSE, Cor. 8th Street and Central Avenue, OCEAN CITY, N. J.

DR. J. S. WAGGONER, RESIDENT Physician and Druggist,

NO. 731 ASBURY AVENUE, OCEAN CITY, N. J. Pure Drugs, Fine Stationery, Confectionery, Etc., constantly on hand.

J. HOWARD WILLETS, M. D. Cor. 7th and Central, Office hours: 8 to 10, 4 to 6 DR. WALTER L. YERKES, DENTIST, Tuckahoe, N. J. DR. G. W. URQUHART, 2265 North 13th Street, PHILADELPHIA, PA. Will practice at Ocean City during the months of June, July and August.

Attorneys-at-Law. MORGAN HAND, ATTORNEY AND COUNSELLOR AT LAW

Solicitor, Master and Examiner in Chancery, Supreme Court Commissioner, Notary Public, CAPE MAY C. H., N. J. (Opposite Public Buildings.)

LAW OFFICES SCHUYLER C. WOODRULL 310 Market St., Camden, N. J. Solicitor of Ocean City. Bakers, Grocers, Etc.

JACOB SCHUFF, (Successor to A. E. Mahan,) THE PIONEER BAKERY, No. 703 Asbury Avenue, OCEAN CITY, N. J. Fresh Bread, Pies and Cakes daily. Wedding Cakes a specialty. Orders delivered free of charge. Nothing delivered on Sunday. HARRY G. STEELMAN, DEALER IN FINE Groceries and Provisions, No. 707 Asbury Avenue, OCEAN CITY, N. J.

Contractors and Builders. S. B. SAMPSON, Contractor and Builder No. 305 Fourth St., Ocean City, N. J. Jobbing promptly attended to. Plans, specifications and working drawings furnished. JOSEPH F. HAND, ARCHITECT, CONTRACTOR AND BUILDER, Ocean City, N. J. Plans, Specifications and Working Drawings furnished. Estimates given on Application. Satisfaction guaranteed. Nicholas Corson, CARPENTER AND BUILDER, OCEAN CITY, N. J. Estimates given. Plans and Specifications furnished. Buildings put up by contract or day.

G. P. MOORE, ARCHITECT, BUILDER, AND PRACTICAL SLATER, Ocean City, N. J. Best Roofing Slate constantly on hand.

HENRY G. SCHULTZ, CONTRACTOR AND BUILDER, 2633 Germantown Avenue, PHILADELPHIA. BRANCH OFFICE: Seventeenth and Asbury Avenue, OCEAN CITY, N. J.

ARNOLD B. RACE, UNDERTAKER, PLEASANTVILLE, N. J. All orders by telegraph or otherwise will re-

ceive prompt attention. Bodies preserved with or without ice. Office below W. J. R. R. at the residence of A. B. RACE. ARNOLD B. RACE.

Plumbers, Steam Fitters, Etc.

J. T. BRYAN, Practical Plumber and Gas Fitter, No. 1007 Ridge Ave., Philadelphia.

Circulating Boilers, Sinks, Bath Tubs, Water Closets, Lead and Iron Pipes, Etc., fur-

nished at short notice. Country or City Resi-

dences fitted up in the best manner. Sanitary Plumbing and drainage a specialty. Orders by mail promptly attended to.

ROBERT FISHER, REAL ESTATE AND Insurance Broker, CONVEYANCER, COMMISSIONER OF DEEDS, AND NOTARY PUBLIC.

Agent for the Aetna Life Insurance Company, of Hartford, Connecticut, and some of the oldest and best Fire Insurance Companies of America.

What's the matter with Ocean City? She's booming, that's all. New water supply system; new electric street railroad; electric lights; new hotels; new cottages; new tenants and new guests; every-

thing is on the jump, and Fisher is rushing the business.

Call and see him, and put your money in Ocean City be-

fore things get up to the top notch.

Fisher is one of the few pioneers of Ocean City and among its first Real Estate purchasers and Cottagers, in-

timately associated with all its history and identified with every step of its progress and the operation of its Real Estate, has extraordinary opportunities for the transaction of all kinds of Real Estate and Insurance business.

FOR RENT--Having very extensive and influential connections, he has superior advantages in bringing those who have properties to rent and those who require them together, and at present has some of the finest cottages and other houses on his books at liberal prices. FOR SALE--Long experience and personal dealing in Real Estate has made him expert in values of both improved and unimproved property. Occasionally even in such a prosperous town as ours some one wants to change or get out. Then we help them by helping some one else to a bargain. From Ocean front to Bay, and all between, you can be suited with fine corners or central building lots. A few cottages, new and well built, now offered at cost.

Write for information of the Lot Club.

Headquarters for every house-hunter and investor, Fisher's Real Estate Office, the most prominent corner in Ocean City. Insurances placed on most advantageous terms in best companies.

For any information on any subject connected with any business enterprise write freely to Robert Fisher, Ocean City, N. J.

The National Institute

COMPOUND OXYGEN FOR Sickness and Debility.

GOLD CURE FOR Alcohol, Morphine, etc

For nearly a quarter of a century the firm of Drs. STARKEY & PALEN,

of 1529 Arch street, Philadelphia, have dispensed Compound Oxygen Treatment for chronic diseases and debility, with a most brilliant record of cures. They have treated over 60,000 patients and in spite of opposition have forced the world to acknowledge the potency and usefulness of Compound Oxygen. Over 1000 physicians have used it in their practice, and this number is being continually increased. The original Compound Oxygen made by this firm is pure, comparatively devoid of odor or taste, and one of the greatest of natural vitalizers, building up broken-down constitutions, supplying nature's waste from disease, excesses or old age.

One of the beauties of using this treatment is that you take no medicine whatever, your system is not shocked by it, business or travel are not interfered with, and treatment is actually a pleasure. You simply inhale the Compound Oxygen and get it directly into the circulation, where it will do the most good--where your system can absorb every atom of it without any objection being interposed by your digestion. A book of 200 pages mailed free to any address tells all about it. TESTIMONIALS. Drs. Starkey & Palen, Philadelphia, Pa. About five years ago I was a broken-down man and a sick man, suffering with nervous prostration and lung trouble. To-day I am strong and rugged and doing heavy work every day, and I owe my health and life to Compound Oxygen and your kind help and advice. During the interval of these five years, I have been recommending your treatment far and near, and by my advice and your treatment we have saved several lives and benefited others. R. W. Wheeler. Jasper, New York. Drs. Starkey & Palen, Philadelphia, Pa. About a year ago I was suffering from overwork and consequent exhaustion. I used your Compound Oxygen Treatment with good results. I never had anything to clear up my head better and put me in better shape than your Compound Oxygen Treatment. Rev. R. A. Hunter. Irwin, Pa. Drs. Starkey & Palen, Philadelphia, Pa. My physician, who has treated me for five years, remarked to me several weeks ago that the Compound Oxygen had certainly done wonders for me. It has also relieved me of the dreadful spells I used to have. I firmly believe that I would have gone into consumption last winter, after I had pneumonia, if I had not taken the Compound Oxygen. I must say that I am in better health than ever before since I was a child, and all from your Compound Oxygen Treatment. I feel that I can never say half enough in its praise and of the great good it has done me. Mrs. J. E. Wood. Marianna, Ark.

Drs. Starkey & Palen, Philadelphia, Pa. About two years ago I commenced using Compound Oxygen, as proposed by Drs. Starkey & Palen. I was suffering from throat and lung troubles, the left lung having had an abscess; and having tried all other remedies known to me, I was induced to try your remedy. It cured me permanently, and I rejoice that it was ever made known to me. It has done everything for me I could have asked. I have recommended it to several others, who have tried it and been benefited. I recommend it with the greatest confidence. Mrs. Rev. H. W. Kavanaugh. Frankfort, Ky.

Drs. Starkey & Palen, Philadelphia, Pa. My mother used your Compound Oxygen Treatment for Hay Fever; she has not been troubled with it since. Albert Gifford. Valley Falls, N. J. Drs. Starkey & Palen, Philadelphia, Pa. Compound Oxygen did me more good as a sufferer from Hay Fever than anything I had ever tried. Rev. J. L. Ticknor. Napton, Saline county, Md. Drs. Starkey & Palen, Philadelphia, Pa. It is now seven months since I received the first Treatment for my son's use, and he has not had symptoms of a return of the Asthma since taking the first dose. I take pleasure in recommending it to all my friends who are afflicted with any chronic disease. It seems to act like a charm on the diseases peculiar in this climate. Mrs. E. A. Porter. Sedgwick, Mo. Drs. Starkey & Palen, Philadelphia, Pa. It is no secret that after coughing fully four months, and treating with the very best physicians, I obtained my first rest and help from the use of Compound Oxygen. Belle K. Adams. Cleveland, Ohio. Now that science has proved beyond a shadow of doubt that Intemperance or Dipsomania is a disease subject to the same natural laws that govern all diseases, susceptible to treatment, and as large a proportion of cases cured absolutely as with any other morbid condition of the system, we have added recently The National Gold Cure for Alcohol, Morphine, etc. This is at present the nearest perfect of any known cure, advocated by leading temperance reformers, National W. C. T. U. officers, clergymen and physicians. Frances K. Willard says of it: "We are warmly friendly to this movement and believe it to be doing great good." Such papers commend as Union Signal, W. C. T. U. organ; Watch Tower, Illinois State W. C. T. U. organ; Chicago Inter-Ocean and Chicago Herald, New York Evangelist. The Philadelphia Evening Star of February 8, 1893, says of it, "It is but a recent experiment in our city, but it can refer to as remarkable evidences of success as older institutions in other places. Those afflicted by an ungovernable appetite for liquor and really want to be cured, can by a few weeks' treatment have evidence of its power." Among our hearty co-workers are Bishop Fallows, Rev. Sa Small, Hon. Walter Thomas Mills, Hon. James R. Hobbs, Gen. S. R. Singleton, Gen. C. H. Howard, Mary Lathrop and others. We have organized a Temperance Extension Fund to be used in treating cases who cannot pay for treatment, at greatly reduced rates, taking their obligations to repay the fund in easy installments, after being restored. By so doing we use the money over and over, curing

many cases with the same money. Money sent for this purpose enables the sender to name any one they please to be treated, thereby enabling them to see the direct results of their subscrip-

tion. We cure over 90 per cent. of applicants, and they are as pleased as we are to be inter-

viewed regarding it.

Our cure is safe, swift and sure. We don't take whiskey from a man. We place it before him and defy him to drink and he begs us to

take it away after a few days. We cure the disease upon scientific principles by taking away the appetite without impairing one at all or in-

curring any risk. Any subscription received will be placed to the credit of the Temperance Extension Fund and appropriately applied where most needed. DRS. STARKEY & PALEN, 1529 Arch Street, Philadelphia, Pa.

THE LITTLE DOG UNDER THE WAGON. "Come, wife," said good old Farmer Gray. "Put on your things, 'tis market day--

And we'll be off to the nearest town,

There and back ere the sun go down.

Spot? No, we'll leave old Spot behind."

But Spot he barked, and Spot he whined.

And soon made up his doggish mind

To follow under the wagon.

Away they went at a good round pace, And joy came into the farmer's face. "Poor Spot," said he, "did want to come. But I'm awful glad he's left at home. He'll guard the barn and guard the cot And keep the cattle out of the lot."

"I'm not so sure of that," thought Spot, The little dog under the wagon.

The farmer all his produce sold

And got his pay in yellow gold,

Then started homeward after dark,

Home through the lonely forest. Hark!

A robber springs from behind a tree--

"Your money or else your life," says he. The moon was up, but he didn't see The little dog under the wagon.

Spot ne'er barked, and Spot ne'er whined,

But quickly caught the thief behind.

He dragged him down the mire and dirt And tore his coat and tore his shirt.

Then held him fast on the miry ground. The robber uttered not a sound

While his hands and feet the farmer bound And tumbled him into the wagon. So Spot he saved the farmer's life, The farmer's money, the farmer's wife,

And now a hero grand and gay

A silver collar he wears today. Among his friends, among his foes, And everywhere his master goes, He follows on his horny toes, The little dog under the wagon. --New Orleans Picayune. AN AIR CYCLE NEXT. THAT IS WHAT'S WANTED BEFORE THE FLYING MACHINE. The Bicycle No Longer Satisfied the Longing of Mankind for Free Movement. We Want to Travel as the Birds Do, but Must Learn Essential Lessons First.

The Frenchman who covered the dead walls of Paris with calls for subscriptions to a Society of Aviation, to start with a capital of 500,000 francs, may have been lacking in the highest qualities of public spirit. He was placed in jail for taking

money for his little private flying ma-

chines, costing from $500 to $2,000, which he failed to deliver. But his merit lies in discovering the want that fills the breasts of a large number of men today. It is only the somewhat headlong method of gratifying that yearning which has interfered for a time with his loco-

motion. Had he but had the forethought to invent, to beg or to borrow a fairly efficient flying machine, nothing short of a cage would now prevent him from tak-

ing a leave as French as himself.

Though he should languish for the rest of his days in prison, M. Delprat will have the glory of the discovery that the bicycle no longer satisfied the longing of

mankind toward a freer movement over the face of land and water. If we are

to believe the evolutionists, man is the result of gradual aspiration, from the

worm that walloweth on a portion of its anatomy unsuited to ears polite, through

the many footed, the four footed and four handed beasts, up to the natural lord of

creation who runs perpendicular on two feet. The present century has seen man

become what the old legends would have termed the "whirling one foot." Why

should not this progress continue and the next century find man rising from that single pied a terre into more or less sustained aviation?

The flying machine still holding to earth by one wheel has already appeared sporadically in England, according to

Engineering. Mr. Philipps published the results of his trial of a machine resting on a light car and claims that he flew, but the front wheel of the car nev-

er left the ground. This is quite as it should be. We creep before we walk,

we graduate from tricycle to bicycle, and now we are at the unicycle age. Who is the man to lift us finally clear of the earth?

The principle of the balloon, useful as it is in overcoming gravity, has carried generations of inventors into a fool's paradise.

Birds are lighter than beasts, but they are not soap bubbles. And to the bird

we have to return indirectly or directly for lessons in the navigation of the air. The aeroplane, in which our able aviators are now reposing so much confi-

dence, but upon which they take care not to repose their own brittle bodies, is

the result of a study of the soaring of birds. Latterly it has been reasoned out that individual feathers have a powerful influence in supporting the

bird in air. So the aeroplanes are made not solid, but with slats, and in some cases jointed in sections, so that while one portion is in one plane another may be tilted up or flown to get the lifting power of a change of angle. This power is so great that our leading aviators, like Hiram Maxim and Professor Lang-

ley, expect to obtain great velocities if they can once get their airships under way and under control. The money spent by these inventors and investigators is mounting to a great sum, but who shall say it is wasted, considering the benefits to accrue? The remark attributed to Giffard when dying, that he would not reveal the secret of his airship because "he thought he saw the air ensanguined by war as the seas have been, and the earth," need not disturb us. If he did say that, he was temporarily in a state of weakness, for the flying machine will do more than anything yet invented to break down the prejudices of one nation for another. Wars are the result of such prejudices carefully inflamed by ambitious men, and while the aviation is not going to stop all wars it will surely reduce them to a minimum. More important than such machines as Lieutenants Renard and Krebs successfully steered from Mendon to the walls of Paris and back again are the small flying machines developed from the bicycle, which seem now about to make their appearance. The bicycle with electric motor is invented. Now comes the turn of a combination of bicycle and aviator which shall permit the rider to leave earth and skim along for 100 yards or so without detriment to himself or his machine. By way of these inventions will come the discovery, step by step, of means and methods of sustaining flight for longer periods and also the actual training in motion through

the air which is now wanting to mankind.

The inventors who are constructing on paper or in actuality great flying machines are like men of an inland race who have for the first time seen a broad piece of water. Before learning to paddle a canoe they are already building a

frigate; before understanding the principle of the steam engine they are setting to work to make an ocean steamer. What is wanted is a popular air cycle, an "air safety," to lead the way to larger

air wagons with sustained flight. Who will invent one?--New York Times.

A Cure For Stammering.

A gentleman who stammered from childhood almost up to manhood gives a very simple remedy for the misfortune.

Go into a room where you will be quiet and alone, get some book that will in-

terest but not excite you and sit down and read two hours aloud to yourself, keeping your teeth together. Do this every two or three days, or once a week if very tiresome, always taking care to read slowly and distinctly, moving the lips, but not the teeth. Then, what conversing with others, try to speak as slowly and distinctly as possible and make up your mind that you will not stammer. Well, I tried this remedy, not having much faith in it, I must confess, but willing to do almost anything to cure myself of such an annoying difficulty, I read for two hours aloud with my teeth together. The first result was to make my tongue and jaws ache--that is, while I was reading--and the next was to make my tongue and jaws ache--that is, while I was reading--and the next to make me feel as if something had loosened my talking apparatus, for I could speak with less difficulty immediately. The change was so great that every one who knew me remarked it. I repeated this remedy every five or six days for a month, and then at longer intervals until cured.--Good Health.

An Insurance Curiosity.

"Did you ever stop to consider," asked Lemuel Hunter, "why it is that when a man is burned out he always overesti-

mates his loss about 200 per cent? This is more particularly the case with fires

in frame building towns, where the loss to the building is generally assessed at between three and four times what it cost to erect it. I raised this question not long since with a man who was burned out. He said the loss to his building was $3,000, but he proposed to rebuild at an expenditure of $1,200 and

have a better building. When I ques-

tioned the logic of his calculation, he promptly corrected me by pointing out

that the real estate on which the building stood was worth fully $2,000, and al-

though he didn't pretend to argue that the site had been burned up he seemed

to think himself perfectly justified in including the value of the 25 feet frontage in

his estimate of loss. No one was injured by the calculation, and the good man was

perfectly justified in making it if he desired, but if his idea is a general one it is not surprising that losses generally are greatly overestimated."--St. Louis GlobeDemocrat. When the World Falls to Pieces. The leading English scientists, Jones, Hilton, et al., are figuring on the probabilities of the earth finally collapsing as a result of the modern craze for tapping nature's great gas retorts. They argue that the earth is a huge balloon held up, in part at least, by heat and internal gases, and that when nature's great gas main is eventually exhausted the earth's crust may break in and fall into millions of fragments! Ugh! The very thought of such a calamity is startling. They argue that the steady belching forth of millions of feet of gas every hour of the day and night is surely causing a great vacuum somewhere not far beneath the surface, and that sooner or later the thin archway of earth crust will give way. Then will occur the grand climax of all earthly calamities.--St. Louis Republic. Would Abolish the Ten Commandments. Once, when being heckled during an election, a man suddenly shouted from the gallery, "What is Mr. Merry's opinion of the decalogue?" The candidate,

turning to his agent, whom he always kept handy at such times, asked, "What on earth does the fellow mean by the decalogue?" The agent explained that the man probably meant something about Sunday trains and Sunday traveling, upon which the candidate replied to his questioner as follows: "I beg to inform my friend in the gallery that so far as I am concerned I would abolish the decalogue altogether."--Leeds (England) Mercury. Accommodating. He was evidently a very obliging boy, for when he applied to the merchant for a position and was asked his age he replied: "Oh, sir, I shall be whatever age you wish me to be!"--Harper's Bazaar.

PEARY'S SLEDGE JOURNEY. Reasons For Considering It a Most Remarkable Performance.

To the Editor of The Sun: SIR--In your issue of this morning you speak of Lieutenant Peary's famous sledge trip as being the longest ever performed by two men with a dog team. Is this not an error? Colonel W. H. Gilder's trip across Siberia was much longer, and I understand from him that the first 4,000 miles of it were accomplished with only the aid of a single native. I do not write to disparage Peary, but certainly Caesar should have his own. DAVID A. CURTIS. Our correspondent has unintentionally misquoted The Sun. We did not say that Peary's sledge trip was "the longest ever performed." What The Sun said was, "He made the greatest sledge journey ever performed by two men with a team of dogs, traveling on the ice cap as far as from this city to Omaha without a single advance cache of supplies."

This of course is a matter of opinion.

It is an opinion, however, that is supported by leading authorities in arctic matters, as was shown, for instance, in the recent session of the Berlin Geographical society, when one of the honors of the society was conferred upon Lieutenant Peary. His performanced did not equal that of Gilder or of several other sledge parties, notably during the Franklin search, either in distance covered or in average rate per day, as The Sun showed months ago. It is, however, the conditions under which such a journey is made that fix its relative position among similar performances. In the first place, his journey was made many hundreds of miles north of every other sledge route that is particularly conspicuous both for distance covered and for average rate attained. Some of the conditions were wholly new. It was the first time, for instance, that an explorer had handled a team of Eskimo dogs on the inland ice. Peary did not have a single advance cache from which to replenish his supplies. Many other sledge parties were able to establish such caches, or at least there was the probability that they could secure some game to feed their dogs if dogs instead of men were in the traces. Peary had to face the probability that he would not be able to obtain a pound of fresh meat, and he therefore had to drag every ounce of supplies for man and beast that he expected to use. All previous sledge work had been done at or near sea level. Peary's sledge work was done throughout at a height above the sea of a mile to a mile and three-fifths. For two weeks at a height of over 8,000 feet he advanced among clouds so dense that from the rear of his sledges he could hardly see his dog teams. For two weeks he was

utterly unable to steer a course except by taking the compass direction of the wind and stopping every 15 minutes to see if the wind had not veered a point or two.

Under these and other equally unique, untried and remarkable conditions, Peary made a record which in point of distance covered and average daily rate ranks among the conspicuous arctic sledge journeys, and the conditions under which these results were attained make the journey the most remarkable of sledging exploits. If two men have matched it elsewhere, it would be interesting to know it.--New York Sun.

An Odd Occupation. Cincinnati has a man who follows a unique vocation, of which he says: "A preacher hires me to wander about town and report to him little incidents or queer ideas that strike me. He takes these and weaves them into his sermons. For instance, a preacher who has a large congregation with much visiting to do could not, if he were so inclined, visit all the public meetings, the resorts of gamblers and drunkards, the factories and the slums of the city. I am the eyes through which he sees these things, and using my information he speaks learn-

edly and intelligibly of all phases of life and sets his congregation a-wondering where he gets time to see so much. He is thus unable to interest every element in his congregation."

George Method of Testing Melons. Various persons have what they deem to be infallible methods of testing melons, but we must be content to accept the judgment of the Georgia farmer who, after experimenting for years, finally learned how to easily distinguish a ripe from a green watermelon. "If," said he, "the edges of the skin on each side of the scar are left ragged or granulated, the melon is ripe, but if the edges of the scar are smooth and even, and the thumb nail has dug into the ring in places, and the skin does not come off clean, then the melon is green. You can easily learn on two melons, one ripe and the other green (after they have been cut

open), and noting the difference.--Brook-

lyn Eagle.

Washington a City of Churches. There is no city in the United States which might be called the city of churches with more appropriateness than Washington. They are not particularly large or imposing, these Wash-

ington churches, but there is an immense number of them. As a matter of

fact, the capital contains nearly 300

churches. The Methodist denomination claims 52. The Baptists come next with

45, then the Episcopalians with 26 and the Presbyterians with 21. The Roman Catholics have 13, the Lutherans 10, the Congregationalists 4, the Hebrews and

the Christians 2 each and the Unitarians,

the Universalists and the Swedenbor-

gians 1 each. Besides these there are

half a dozen nonsectarian bodies.--

Washington Letter.