VOL. XIV. OCEAN CITY, N. J., THURSDAY, JULY 12, 1894. NO. 15.

Ocean City Sentinel.

PUBLISHED WEEKLY AT OCEAN CITY, N. J.,

BY R. C. ROBINSON, Editor and Proprietor.

$1.00 per year, strictly in advance. $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 Entertain-

ments 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.

WALLACE S. RISLEY, REAL ESTATE AND INSURANCE AGENT, 413 MARKET ST., CAMDEN. Properties for sale and to rent. Money to loan on Mortgage. PETER MURDOCH, DEALER IN COAL and WOOD, Ocean City, N. J. Orders left at 806 Asbury avenue will receive prompt attention.

D. S. SAMPSON, DEALER IN Stoves, Heaters, Ranges, PUMPS, SINKS, &C., Cor. Fourth Street and West Avenue, OCEAN CITY, N. J.

Tin roofer and sheet-iron worker. All kinds of Stove Casting furnished at short notice. Gas-

oline Stoves a specialty. All work guaranteed as represented.

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.

D. GALLAGHER, DEALER IN FINE FURNITURE, 43 So. Second St., PHILADELPHIA, PA.

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

Bakers, Grocers, Etc.

JACOB SCHUFF, (Successor to A. E. Mahan,) THE PIONEER BAKERY, No. 706 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.

Physicians, Druggists, Etc. 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.

DR. GEO. R. FORTINER, HOLIDAY COTTAGE, No. 809 Wesley Avenue, Ocean City, N. J. OFFICE HOURS:--Until 10 A. M. 2 to 3 P. M. 6 to 8 P. M.

DR. WALTER L. YERKES, DENTIST, Tuckahoe, N. J. Will be in Ocean City at 656 Asbury avenue every Tuesday. DR. E. C. WESTON, DENTIST, 7th St., east of Asbury Ave., OCEAN CITY, N. J. Saturday to Monday night until Oct. 1st, and August 4th to 20th. GAS ADMINISTERED. DR. CHAS. E. EDWARDS, DENTIST, Room 12, Take Elevator, Haseltine Building, 1415 Chestnut St., Philadelphia, Pa.

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 in Ocean City.

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. SAMUEL SCHURCH, PRACTICAL BUILDER, MAY BE FOUND AT Bellevue Cafe, On beach bet. Seventh and Eighth Sts.

GEO. A. BOURGEOIS & SON, Carpenters and Builders, OCEAN CITY, N. J. Estimates given. Buildings erected by contract or day.

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, Pumps, Etc., furnished at short notice. Country or City Residences fitted up in the best manner. Sanitary Plumbing and drainage a specialty. Orders by mail promptly attended to.

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.

ROBERT FISHER, REAL ESTATE AND Insurance Broker, CONVEYANCER, COMMISSIONER OF DEEDS, AND NOTARY PUBLIC. Agent for the Ætna 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 rail-

road; 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 before 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, intimately 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 ex-

tensive and influential connec-

tions, he has superior advan-

tages in bringing those who have properties to rent and those who require them to-

gether, 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 househunter 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.

ODDS AND ENDS. Aluminium does not rust or tarnish.

Sicilian sulphur deposits employ 18,000 men. The way of the world is to make laws, but follow customs.--Montaigne.

North Carolina is first in tar, second in copper, third in peanuts, fourth in rice.

It is estimated that altogether there are 400,000,000 mummies of human beings in Egypt. The horseshoeing smith first appeared in Germany, where iron shoes were first used for horses. The art of dressmaking, as distinct from tailoring, originated with the present century.

Woman leads the world. She used smokeless powder for ages before man ever thought of adopting it. Pliny describes a reaper in use in his time, which gathered the heads of the grain, leaving the straw still standing. Bolata, a new discovery in the forests of Surinam, is a substitute for the rapidly disappearing india rubber and gutta percha.

"This is a high handed outrage," as the boy remarked when he found that his mother had put the cookies on the upper shelf.

German peasants make a paying winter industry of gathering pine cones, drying them and extracting the seed, which they sell. A historical writer of recent date says that in the year 1820 it was nothing uncommon to see teams of trained bisons in Illinois and Missouri. At least 500 years before the Christian era the Egyptians had axes of various styles, chisels, mallets, planes and saws, together with levels, rules, rollers, wheels and pulleys.

Grains of wheat found in Egyptian mummy cases have been known to ger-

minate after lying dormant for 3,000 years. The plant they produced is almost identical with the wheat grown in [?] the present day. It was a custom among the Pharisees in the time of Christ to have a trumpet sounded in the market place when they were about to distribute alms. This was done ostensibly to call together the objects of charity, but really to herald the magnificence of the donor.

The banyan tree is a grove of itself. Its branches send out stringy filaments which finally reach the ground, take root and become trunks. One such tree in India has 400 main trunks and over 8,000 smaller. An English army of 7,000 men has been sheltered at one time under its branches.

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AN AGILE HISTORIAN. What Brother Bill Won In a Canadian Bicycle Race.

The thick necked barber was telling about a road race in which his brother, who is somewhat of a bicycler, had ridden.

"Why," he said, "that race was just like pie for Bill. He won that medal as easy as if he had found it." "Where was it?" asked the man in the chair.

"Over in Canada. You see, it was this way: Bill hadn't been doin much trainin, but I says to him that that race was a puddin, an he went into it. He won in a walk. The prize was a $150 bicycle."

"Had an easy thing, did he?" asked the man in the chair. "Easy ain't no name for it. He got that horse an buggy that was hung up for the prize as slick as if some man had come along an give it to him. It was a cinch."

"Were there any other good riders in the race?" asked the man in the chair.

"Oh, half a dozen or so was scratch men, like Bill, but, you see, Bill didn't mind no little thing like that. He said to me before he went over that he was out for that

grand piano that was put up for first, an he didn't take no chances. He just cut out the runnin from the very start, an when he got home he says to my sister, says he, 'Sis,

I won you a grand piano over there of them blamed Canucks, an it will be over here in a day or two,' says he. An, say, that piano is a daisy an no mistake."

"Pretty valuable prize," ventured the man in the chair.

"Oh, sort of. Besides the piano, there was a $250 watch that was hung up too. Bill he just naturally cabbaged the hull outfit. When it comes to ridin a bike, Bill's as good as they make 'em."

Just then a lantern jawed, stoop shoul-

dered youth strolled into the shop. "Hullo, Bill!" said the thick necked barber. "I was tellin this gentleman about the prize you took over in Canada the other day." "Yes," said the man in the chair, "as near as I can make out it was a medal, a bicycle, a horse and buggy, a grand piano and a $250 watch." During the recital the lantern jaws of the youth opened wide in astonishment. "Was that what he said?" he asked.

"As near as I could make out," replied the man in the chair. "Well," said the lantern jawed youth slowly, "that's pretty close for him. What [?] an oak rocking chair." Ah, the thick necked barber took an inch of skin off the chin of the man in the chair for revenge.--Buffalo Express.

A Yale Student With a High Stand.

It was during the period when President Porter was holding recitations in the Athenæum that the following story is told, the substantial truth of which is vouched for here: In one of the class divisions was a young fellow active in athletics, who found it difficult to blend proficiency in baseball with the 40 pages of advance and review which made up the normal day's lesson in Dr. Porter's bulky volume on "The Human Intellect." Taking advantage of Dr. Porter's easy going recitations, the young fellow hit on the following device: He divid-

ed the 40 pages into eight sections of five pages each. For each section he prepared an answer, usually based on a suggestive line or two, sometimes evolved from inner consciousness. At recitation he simply watched Dr. Porter turn the pages, basing his answer absolutely on the number of pages turned. From pages 5 to 10 meant answer number two, from pages 25 to 30 answer number 6, and so on, not the slightest attention otherwise being paid to the question.

The young pioneer in psychology, who rattled off the answer with all the flexibility of speech and earnestness he could command, always met a gracious smile from Dr. Porter and found subsequently by this audacity he had secured a stand in psychology among the first half dozen in the class.

Years after he met Dr. Porter and explained the trick and its result. The president turned the thing prettily. "Mr. Blank," answered he, "if you got eight ideas out of each 40 pages of my 'Human Intellect,' you got so many more than most of your class that you deserved your stand."--New Haven Cor. New York Post.

An Entomological Paradox.

Of all the wonderful creations of nature few will excite greater amazement if given microscopic examination and careful attention than the common little insect known as the "vine fretter." Catch one of these little mites at the moment of its birth, this in the spring or early summer--they are actually born and not hatched as other insects are--and put it where it has no chance of contact with others of its species.

Within a surprisingly short period it will give birth to others of its kind. Instantly isolate the new arrivals, and after they have acquired a certain growth it will be

noted that they, too, are reproducing their kind, just as their progenitor had done, all of which proves that these beings of extraordinary fecundity are real androgynous creatures without distinctive sex.

During the spring and early summer all vine fretters are viviparous--that is, they bring forth their young alive. Toward the beginning of autumn, strange as it may

seem, all is changed among the new as well as the older generations, each laying eggs which are not hatched until the return of warm weather the following spring. --St. Louis Republic.

Had Written Some. There never lived a man to whom osten-

tation and self advertisement was more distasteful than the Rev. Thomas Mozley. There is a story told of him to the effect that when he was in treaty for the publication of one of his early books, his publisher, who only knew of him as the quiet country clergyman, and was rather doubtful as to his literary capacity, asked whether he had ever written anything for publication before.

"Yes," replied Mozley, "two volumes of sermons"--the publisher's face dropped--"and about 7,000 leaders for The Times.--London Tit-Bits.

Saying a Prayer For Himself. Robert Little, a boy of 8, never forgets to say his prayers. Not long ago he had just finished praying, when his mamma remarked that his prayer must have been very short. "Well," he said, "I prayed for brother and for you. Now, I think I had better put in a [?] for myself."--New Orleans Picayune.

A GREAT EGYPTIAN TEMPLE. An Account of the Excavations That Have Been Made at Deir el Bahari.

Built for the worship of a dead man, like all the great tombs on the left bank of the Nile at Thebes, the temple at Deir el Bahari has no progressive national character. Successive dynasties have not altered nor enlarged it. It re-

mains an expression of a single period, the zenith of Egyptian greatness. Its history as a building is comprised in the additions that the queen herself made to her own plan and the mutilation of her names and titles by order of her vengeful nephew. The heretic Ameno-

phis hacked out here, as everywhere, the figures and names of Amen-Ra; here as everywhere, the inevitable Rameses II restored them in a style unworthy of the first hand. In neglectful times the mountain was allowed to slip and break

in roofs and fill up courts. A Coptic convent, built over part of the highest terrace, added its rubbish to the mounds formed already over the lower levels.

Hardly a third of the whole temple was visible two years ago, and the rest seemed doomed to lie forever under 40 feet of earth and stone.

The Egypt exploration fund, however, came to the rescue in the early part of last year, and with 200 men and a Decauville trainway succeeded in clearing the greater part of the highest terrace before the hot season began. The finds made in the process were as re-

markable as unexpected. The buried north end, instead of being symmetrical with the south, as Mariette had sup-

posed, upheld the general character of Egyptian buildings by being utterly unsymmetrical and abnormal. To balance

the small "chambers of offerings" on the south there was found on the north a large hall, in the inner part of which rose a high altar dedicated to Harmachis by the queen. The displaced stones have been built in again now, and the great platform of brilliant white limestone,

with its frieze of hieroglyphics and its

graduated ascent, stands almost as com-

plete as it ever did, the only such altar extant in all Egypt. Beside it a little

funerary chapel runs into the rock, its walls a marvel of brilliant coloring. During the present season operations

have been carried on with a larger staff,

including two artists, to reproduce the sculptures for publication. Two hundred and fifty men have been set to work on the great mounds under which the northern half of the central terrace was buried, and bit by bit they are being carried away in the Decauville cars to a deep pit a quarter of a mile away. Pillar by pillar the graceful colonnade which ran round the north side and northwest corner of the terrace is emerging from

the earth. Until this year not one person in a hundred who visited Deir el

Bahari knew that it existed, and still fewer suspected that it ended in one of the finest painted halls in Egypt soon

to be opened to light and air.

It is always interesting to watch an excavation in Egypt at any stage of its progress, for so many treasures of so many kinds lie everywhere in the preserving sands. Here at Deir el Bahari the diggers, drawn from Theban villages, have been tomb robbers to a man and have lynx eyes for small antiquities. Pecking away at the lower layers of the mounds, they let hardly a minute pass without picking up scarabs, amulets, beads or bits of that wonderful blue glazed ware which ranks among the finest products of the ancient world. Here a fragment of potsherd, inscribed with Coptic writing, slides down the earth slope; there rolls a limestone chip covered with Demotic characters. These are the archives and, it seems, also the library catalogue of the monastery built here in the early days of Christianity. Now and then a refuse heap is reached, and bits of papyrus, Greek, Demotic and Coptic, are taken out in handfuls, together with broken objects of every sort and kind and many precious fragments of sculptured walls.--London

Times.

The Blue of the Sky. The explanation of the blue of the sky is not to be sought in the fact that the atmosphere itself is blue, but rather in the fact that air or its constituent particles reflect the wave lengths, which are readily refrangible, and let the less refrangible long waved rays pass through. The short waves of light--the blue color--are much more strongly reflected than the long waved red ones. Lord Raleigh has proved that the blue in the light reflected from what we call "the sky" is four-fifths times stronger than the yellow and six-sevenths times stronger than the red. Even the violet is six-eighths times stronger than the yellow and nine-tenths times stronger than the red. These relations of intensity must, therefore, necessarily cause the rejected light to appear blue. The blue of the sky is also peculiarly connected with the phenomenon known as the "polarization of light," that color in the projected waves always being polarized in a certain direction, a fact which proves that they are quite independent of the turbid particles which are continually floating in the atmosphere. Astronomers say that they can

see where slight changes would cause the wave lengths to reflect as violet, but as long as present conditions exist the "vaulted canopy above all" will be in blue color of varying shades and degrees of intensity.--St. Louis Republic.

France, Belgium, Greece, Italy and Switzerland constitute the "Latin Union." Their coins are alike in weight and fineness, differing only in name. The same system has been partly adopted by Spain, Servia, Bulgaria, Russia and Roumania.

A LITTLE GAME OF DRAW. He Was a Novice, but He Had a Bit of Leadville Experience.

There was a little game of draw on the other night. Four friends sat around the table. One of them was a novice. He had never played a game of poker in his life, but he was not averse to paying for a little instruction, he said, and besides he had to have something to do whereby to while away what would otherwise be a very stupid night.

He asked all sorts of foolish questions and threw his chips in so recklessly that his three friends were sorry for him. It did seem to be a shame for him to lose so much money, but then he wanted to play, and it wasn't their fault if they held the better hands. Finally a jack pot came around, and the novice, who sat next to the opener, raised the ante to the limit. Some one else saw him and went him a chip or two better. Then the novice tilted her to the limit again, and after he had done so looked over his hand and asked, "What did you say a straight flush would beat?"

The other players gasped. One of them said that it would beat anything in the pack but a royal flush, and the three promptly threw up their hands. The novice smiled blandly as he raked in the big stack of chips. Then he threw his hand down on the table. It was a simple straight, and that was all. "What did you say that was a straight flush for?" asked one of the others, who had laid down three sevens and a pair of jacks. "Well," said the novice, "it is, ain't it?

They're all red, and they run along in a sequence."

Then the three carefully explained that the cards had to be all of one suit to be a flush, and after much questioning the nov-

ice seemed to understand.

The game went along for a time. Hansd ran low, and not many chips changed owners. About 11 o'clock there was another jack pot. The novice raised the opener to the limit again, and the next man, who had fours, came back at him with another big raise. The other players staid, and the novice raised back. This made a pot with considerably over $100 in it. Everybody staid on the last raise, and the dealer said, "Cards, gentlemen," in a subdued sort of voice. "Hold on!" blurted the novice. "I want to ask another question. I'm a little mixed on this straight flush business. If I've got five cards of the same suit and they form a sequence, I've got a straight flush, have I not?"

The other players remembered the former

jack pot and winked at each other. They hastened to assure the novice that his supposition was correct. Then the man with fours followed the [?] bet with a raise to the limit. The bright smile that

came over the novice's face when he learned what a straight flush was had not faded.

He was actually anxious to get his chips into the center of the table. He raised back to the limit.

"That's a good bluff," said the man with

fours, and he tilted back.

The two others who had been trailing with fairly good hands all the time dropped out, and the novice and the man with fours bet until there was nearly $500 on the table. Then the man with fours grew compassionate and said to the novice: "Now, I don't want to make the learning of this game too expensive for you. Your little bluff went once, but it won't go this time, so I'll just

call you."

Then the novice laid down a straight flush in clubs, running from seven to jack, and the man with fours fell back in his seat in a helpless condition. When he recovered, he said slowly, "I'll quit this game. Such a dodblamed fool as you couldn't learn to play poker in 10,000 years." "I don't doubt that," replied the novice as he cashed in his chips. "They used to tell me the same thing when I was in Lead-ville."--Buffalo Express.

A Relative of Napoleon.

An old friend of the Princess Murat con-

tributes a reminiscent article regarding the life of the princes and princess in Florida.

She mentions the following incident which occurred in 1806, when Mme. Murat having suddenly become ill with symptoms re-

sembling those of paralysis, a voyage to Europe was prescribed by her physicians.

She was received by her husband's relatives (Louis Napoleon and his family) with an affectionate welcome. She related many incidents of the southern Confederacy to the emperor and empress, together with the sacrifices and privations the south was called upon to bear. The princess asked the emperor, if he felt so much for the south, why had he not helped the Confederacy.

His reply was: "Cousin Kate, you all had my warmest sympathy and hopes for your success, but on account of slavery I did not dare to send an army to your assistance. Had I done so, I should have had a mob in Paris."

Mme. Murat spoke of the empress as a person of lovely character, being constant-

ly employed in deeds of benevolence, even visiting the hospitals. The prince imperial she spoke of with much affection, he being then a most interesting youth.--Century.

Then He Went. He had been worshiping her for months, but had never told her, and she didn't want him to. He had come often and staid late, very late, and she could only sigh and hope. He was going away the next day on his vacation, and he thought the last night was the time to spring the momentous question. He kept it to himself, however, until the last thing. It was 11:30 by the clock, and it wasn't a very rapid clock.

"Miss Mollie," he said tremulously, "I am going away tomorrow." "Are you?" she said, with the thoughtlessness of girlhood as she gazed wistfully at the clock. "Yes," he replied. "Are you sorry?" "Yes, very sorry," she murmured. "I thought you might go away this evening," then she glanced at the clock wistfully, and he told her good night.--Detroit Tribune.

A female codfish will lay 45,000,000 eggs during a single season. Piscestorial authorities say that were it not for the work of the natural enemies of fish they would soon fill all the available space in the seas, rivers and oceans. A woman says that a man can stand five hours under a blazing sun to watch a baseball game, but he cannot sit 10 minutes by the bedside of a sick child without falling asleep.