VOL. XIV.

OCEAN CITY, N. J., THURSDAY, JANUARY 31, 1895.

NO. 44.

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.

No. 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, 35 cents. Ladies' Room up-stairs with home-like comforts. PURE SPRING WATER. OPEN ALL NIGHT.

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. WALTER L. YERKES, DENTIST, Tuckahoe, N. J. Will be on Ocean City at 656 Asbury avenue every Tuesday.

C. E. EDWARDS. J. C. CURRY. DRS. EDWARDS & CURRY, DENTISTS,

Room 12, Haseltine Building, Take Elevator. 1416 Chestnut St., Philadelphia, Pa.

A Famous Actress. Mrs. John Drew says: "On Sept. 26, 1827, at the Walnut Street theater, Philadelphia, as the little Duke of York, in Shakespeare's play of 'Richard III,' and with Junius Brutus Booth, the great elder Booth, father of the late Edwin Booth, as that crook back tyrant, I began my stage career, and as I have been continuously before the footlights ever since I have had a longer stage career than any of my contemporaries.

Though so many years have passed, I remember my first performance as well as though it were last night. The performance of the elder Booth as Richard made a most powerful impression upon me. His dramatic force and magnetism were like a giant whirlwind, sweeping all before it. I have never seen any one else in that part who seemed to com-

pletely realize it. It seemed as though it had been written for him."

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.

BAKERY, 601 South Twenty-second Street. 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. 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. Gasoline Stoves a specialty. All work guaranteed as represented.

JONATHAN HAND, JR., Attorney-at-Law, SOLICITOR AND MASTER IN CHANCERY, Notary Public, CAPE MAY COURT HOUSE, N. J. Office opposite Public Buildings.

Origin of Football.

According to Stewart Culin, the curator of the Museum of Archaeology of the University of Pennsylvania, football originated with those beginners of everything, the Chinese. Mr. Culin has a curious and ancient drawing showing a personage in the dress of a prime minister playing football with a kuge, or noble, and two of their chamberlains.

The time is somewhere in the tenth or eleventh century, but long before then the game was cultivated as an exercise suitable for the training of soldiers. About the eighth century it was introduced into Japan, where it became very popular. From these two countries it spread over the entire world.

The gold mines of Peru were so rich that Atahualpa, to buy his ransom, filled a room 22 feet by 17 to a height of 9 feet with golden vessels. When melted, the produced $15,180,710 of gold.

Y. CORSON, DEALER IN FLOUR AND FEED, No. 721 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.

GEO. A. BOURGEOIS & SON, Carpenters and Builders,

OCEAN CITY, N. J.

Estimates given. Buildings erected by contract or day.

D. GALLAGHER, DEALER IN

FINE FURNITURE, 43 South Second Street, 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.

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., fur-

nished 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.

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.

McCLURE, HERITAGE & CO., Successors to Finnerty, McClure & Co., DRUGGISTS AND CHEMISTS 112 Market Street, Philadelphia. Dealers in Pure Drugs, Chemicals, Patent Medicines, Paints, Oils, etc.

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.

HARRY HEADLEY, OCEAN CITY HOUSE, 717 Asbury Avenue. PLASTERING, BRICKLAYING. Ornamental Work of Every Description. All kinds of cementing work and masonry promptly attended to.

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

Women are undoubtedly the large majority of the [?]. In no other [?] is [?] wide-[?], it is [?].

ISRAEL G. ADAMS & CO. Real Estate AND Insurance AGENTS, Rooms 2, 4 & 6, Real Estate & Law Building ATLANTIC CITY, N. J. Commissioners of Deeds for Pennsylvania.

Money to loan on First Mortgage. Lots for sale at South Atlantic City.

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HER PHOTOGRAPH. You are posing for a lassie, But I voew you are an elf. On the morn that you were taken How the sun enjoyed himself! Lucky Sol! I feel quite certain That he turned an azure hue When he couldn't catch the color Of your winsome eyes of blue. I gaze upon your features; Fairer none will ever find. I'm glad that I'm not Cupid, For you know that Cupid's blind. Do you like my jest? You're smiling; Pretty picture, let us laugh. I am tempted much to kiss you, Oh, you witching photograph! All the world proclaims you charming; I can well believe it so, Yet there is a look about you Wakes my pity for the beaux. You mock them when their hearts ache, And their wounds you scorn to heal; And you're lacking in compassion For the pangs you never feel. Alas, I'm growing solemn, And you're much too sweet to scold; Who could blame a pretty blossom That is not sad and old! Like the roses and the lilies You were born the earth to race; And the men, like silly nothings, Should be taught their humble place. It is theirs to kneel before you, It is yours to be adored; But the beaux are stupid beings, And I'm sure you're often bored. So, for fear I, too, may bore you, Just a wish, and then adieu; May the skies that beam above you Match your winsome eyes of blue!--Samuel Minturn Peck in Boston Transcript.

HIS CLEVER RUSE.

Augustine Lafont was the confidential agent of a large banking house in Paris. Early in the spring of 1832 he set out from Paris with bills, notes, drafts, etc., to the amount of 1,000,000 francs, for a house in Chaumont. Much secrecy had been observed in the preparations of his journey, as the kingdom was at that time infested by a secret organization of thieves. Lafont had the notes concealed in various parts of his dress, and taking the heavy diligence as the best mode of conveyance he set out on his mission.

Nothing worthy of note occurred to arrest Lafont's attention until he had passed nearly through the department of the Seine-et-Marne, when just at nightfall two well dressed gentlemen hailed the diligence and claimed passage to Chaumont. It was already too dark for the agent to distinguish the features of the newcomers, but yet from what little he could see he at once made up his mind that their countenances were not familiar to him, and having come to this conclusion he determined to watch their movements, for a vague suspicion that they had by some means become possessed of his secret business took possession of his mind.

The diligence crossed the Seine at Nogent and there remained for the night. As soon as Lafont had opportunity to examine the countenances of the strangers at the supper table he became satisfied that his first impressions were correct, for one of the travelers at least

had had seen in Paris on the day before his departure, and he could not but notice that they both eyed him with marked interest.

After supper the agent lighted his cigar and walked out on to the bridge, where he remained nearly half an hour, at the end of which time he started back toward the inn, and just as he arrived at the door he noticed his two compan-

ions entering the stable door.

Prompted by a feeling of curiosity, he followed them, and as he came round by the stable door he could just see the two men crouching away in an empty

stall.

With a stealthy, catlike tread he approached, and he was fortunate enough to make out the gist of their conversa-

tion.

When Lafont left the stable, he knew that the two men had left Paris for the purpose of robbing him, and that they intended to put their plan in execution as soon as the diligence should have entered the department of the Upper

Marne.

He returned to the inn, and after considerable reflection he determined to procure a horse and secretly continue his journey. Having come to this conclusion, he went to the driver of the diligence, and under the plea of having to remain in Nogent on special business for ad ay or two he settled his fare thus far. Then he went to the stable and ordered a horse to be in readiness for him by 3 o'clock in the morning, at the same time enjoining upon the garcon the strictest secrecy with regard to his movements.

As soon as these arrangements were made Lafont retired to his room. He of course knew that his secret had leaked out, and even in his proposed course

was not entirely free from danger. A million francs was a large sum, and if the two Parisian robbers had set their hearts upon its possession he had yet some work to perform ere he would be entirely free from them. Last of all, a new idea struck him, and obtaining a number of papers, he neatly folded them in an envelope, which he strongly sealed and bound with a blue ribbon. At 3 o'clock in the morning, while it was yet very dark and before any one else was stirring, Lafont quietly descended from his room and went to the stable. The garcon was easily aroused, and in a few moments the agent was on his way

to Chaumont.

For two hours he rode on his way, but instead of pursuing the highroad from Treves he again crossed the Seine and kept going by the banks of the Anba.

Daylight was just beginning to streak the heavens when Lafont thought he heard the sound of horses behind him, and it was not long ere he knew that he was being pursued, and in ten minutes he was assured that the two robbers were after him.

In a moment the agent leaped from the saddle, and seizing a heavy stone he inflicted a severe bruise upon one of his horse's fore legs. The animal reared and plunged, but Lafont managed to hold him, again mounted and rode on, but the horse limped and staggered beneath the effects of the blow he had received, and in a short time the robbers came up.

"Ah, good morning, gentlemen," said the agent as he reined in his lame steed, at the same time raising his hat with affable politeness. "So, it seems you, too, are tired of the lumbering diligence." "Yes," replied the foremost of the two men, "the diligence did not exactly suit our convenience, so we took horses."

"And you are bound to Chaumont?" asked Lafont.

"Yes, on important business." "That is fortunate," said Lafont, with the utmost earnestness, "for you may, if you see fit, do me a great favor. I, too, have important business at Chau-

mont, but I fear that without assistance

I shall not be able to accomplish it. I have, gentlemen, in my possession, a

vast amount of valuable papers and intended to have continued on my way in the diligence, but at Nogent I received

the intelligence that a plan was on foot to rob me.

"Do not start, gentlemen, for what I

tell you is true. And for that reason I set off thus alone, but my horse has met with a sad mishap, and I fear the robbers, who, I think, are yet at Nogent, may overtake me. Now, if you are going directly to Chaumont, perhaps you would be willing to take my package in your charge and deliver it to M. Augient at his office. Any one there will tell you where he is. Then, if I am over-

hauled, the robbers will find nothing, and of course you will not be suspected. If you will thus accommodate me,

you shall be suitably rewarded. What say you, gentlemen?"

The two men exchanged significant glances during these remarks, and after a moment's hesitation one of them said: "You seem to be ready in trusting strangers, sir."

"Oh, not at all, sir," retorted Lafont,

with a frank smile, "I would much

rather trust honest travelers than run the risk of meeting with robbers. You

see just how I am situated, gentlemen, and if you will do me the favor I ask you shall not regret it. I shall stop at Arcio and change my horse and then

follow you."

"Well," said one of the men, "we will do your wish and meet you at M. Augient's office." "Then I thank you most heartily," said Lafont, and as he spoke he took a closely sealed packet from his bosom and handed it over. "In this," he said, "there are valuable papers, and I trust you will use all discretion in your care. Now the robbers may overhaul me as soon as they like." After some further directions, given in an honest, confiding manner, Lafont bade his new messengers godspeed, and ere long they were out of sight. The agent turned his horse's head back toward Nogent, where he arrived in safety, and on the next morning he procured a guard and once more took the diligence. The robbers stopped at the first convenient place to examine their prize, but their chagrin can be better imagined than described when they found that they held only a securely bound parcel of waste paper. They knew that they were suspected, and of course they dared not to push the matter further.--Exchange.

CONDOR A DISAPPOINTMENT. Visitors Expect to See a Bird That Rivals In Size the Fabled Roc.

If the visitor to the zoological gardens will make his way to the vultures' aviary, he will find a condor of the Andes. When he sees the great somber plumaged bird sitting on the tree stump in the middle of a not too roomy cage, his first feeling will probably be one of disappointment. Some of this disappointment must be put down to the highly exaggerated accounts of early writers. The measurement of 18 feet has been given as the wing spread of a bird actually killed and taped. Darwin shot one in 1834 with a wing spread of 8 feet 6 inches, and measured 4 feet from beak to tail. The measurements of one that fell to Humboldt's gun tally pretty closely with those of the bird that Darwin killed. Part of the disappointment is no doubt due to the surroundings. One has formed vivid mental pictures of the bird sailing at a great height without an effort, soaring up in graceful circles, or gliding down like lightning upon its prey. One sees it sitting with its head drawn down between its wings, and its plumage draggled, without sufficient space over which to run to gather momentum for a rise, or height enough to fly if it could leave the ground. Sometimes from the top of its perch, it attempts to use its wings, but its efforts result in failure.

It was long supposed that condors hunted by scent, but experiments have proved that the sense of smell in these birds is by no means keen. They probably discover their food by sight, and the descent of one bird serves as a signal to others at a distance. A young condor is a much prettier object than an old one. It is clothed entirely in white down, and when it settles itself to sleep, with its feet hidden and its head tucked away, it looks like a fluffy white ball.

The plumage of the adult is black, with a white ruff round the neck, and the quills have a white edging, which becomes broader at each successive

molt.--London Sketch.

Dumas' Suffering.

When Alexandre Dumas, the younger, was just out of college, his father took him on a hunting trip. They put up at a farmhouse and occupied two little bedrooms which opened into each other. In the middle of the night the

son was awakened and saw his father walking back and forth.

"What are you doing?" asked the

boy.

"You see. I am walking."

"You are sick?"

"Yes, I am in great pain, but I am used to it. I have it every night." "Is there nothing to cure it?"

"It is incurable."

"But can't it be relieved?"

"No. When it takes me, I get up and

walk. If it is very bad, I go to reading."

"And when it is insupportable?"

"I go to work."

It was true, and in later years his son

often saw him in the night sitting at his desk writing with one hand and hold-

ing upon his stomach with the other. "How can you work always?" some

one asked him on such an occasion. "I have nothing else to do," answered Dumas.--Youth's Companion.

Dropping Their G's. The best bred men in England have the habit of habitually dropping their "g's" in words ending in "ing," such as going, running, walking, etc. Some of the younger generation of America are horrified when they hear this thing done by older people and set it down as a mark of ignorance. Those of them who have heard the eminent Dean Hole of England in his lectures are now surprised to find that he invariably drops his "g's," and they are looking up his authority for it. His authority is simply common usage

among the university bred men of England.

It would always be done by a dean of Christchurch or a master of Trinity, who must be pretty well educated, better educated even than young American girls that guard their "g's" and frown on the old folk dropping them. Now that Dean Hole is on record here as a dropper of "g's" perhaps these orthoepic champions will forgive native vulgarians the same habit.--Town Topics.

Mustache, Versus Music.

Anton Rubenstein is quoted thus in reference to women artists:

"I think ladies ought never to study music as an art. At least, they ought not to take up the time of teachers who are able to teach and make true artists. And I will tell you why. There is no question but there are 20 musical ladies to one musical man, and my own experience is that they learn more quickly, have more poetry, and, in fact, are more

diligent pupils than me. But what is

the invariable result? When a young lady has become a perfect artist, some handsome mustache comes along, and she chooses the handsome mustache in preference to art."

Sure Sign.

Jack--Congratulate me, old man! I've won her love at last.

Tom--Has she accepted you? Jack--Just as good. We had a terrible quarrel last night, and she said she'd never speak to me again.--Pick Me Up.

Boring an Editor. "Are there no times," said a man, entering the office of a busy editor, "when you can write better than at other times?" "Yes." "Ah, I thought so! That men who write must consult their condition I have no doubt. Now, tell me, when can you write best?" "When I am alone," the editor replied.--London Tit-Bits.

In Rome, during the days of [?], apples were 3 cents a [?] were 1 cent; [?] a half cent; currants, 1 cent; [?] were sold at [?] for 12 cents; [?], [?] cents, and artichokes at [?] for [?] cents.

[?] is a corruption of [?] "stony river."

The treasury of treasures in the [?] mosque at Tripoli, Syria, is a magnificent gold casket in which are placed three hairs from the Prophet Mohammed's beard.