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SUNDAY MORNING. .WITH WELL DRESSED MEN It Is true that, there is very little variation in men’s dress and that the masculine mind is apt rather to do as others do than to affect any decided originality. The Suburban provided occasion for one of the last gatherings of society before the watering place season. A month ago at Morris Park and at the Brooklyn Handicap men were still in spring attire, oow they are beginning to exhibit their summer clothes. Adrian Iselin, Jr., Is tall and thin „>6S&, and his mustache and hair are gray. Yt He Is wearing a AvfcSs gray suit in the A small pin-checks, J very much on the /< /ill"’ style of Mr. Van- W~'\ Zf derbllt’s. The coat, 7 /yff however, is made I /f\ ' more In the new I/ £ \ cutaway style, and M/\ \ preference is 1 I \ shown for the tall, /f/flMjli/IH-i straight standing '/a;iii|\%|lV collar and black >IVqSHvV' * four-in-hand. Mr. Iselin wears a ” flat straw hat with black band. “Jack" Follansbee has a very neat flannel Bult of dark gray, with a darker stripe running through It, The coat Is the cutaway. Mr. Follansbee wears tho flat-brimmed straw hat. William K. Van- derbilt wore a f Panama at, the races on the day of the Suburban. It is very large hnd Is a genuine and very expensive hat. Mr. Vander bilt has quite a preference for gray. The sack suit, which he wore on that Sat urday was pin check, the coat single breasted. Mr. Van derbilt •vears the all around turn-down collar and the nar row knotted black four-in-hand. Peter F. Collior wore a very dark, almost black flan nel suit, with a greenish stripe. The eoat was made in cutaway style. Tho very extraordinary costumo of K. Berry Wall has been described. In detail and effect it was the most re markable thing seen at the clubhouse. The cloth from which the suit was made la one which Is exhibited fre quently In tailors’ windows. It Is a large gray shop- f-M herd plaid check, \y reminding one of /TCDjYrx the old-fashioned 1 l Jl \ Paisley shawl. Aji The trousers iMwi ( tS. were extremely U® \V\ wide, hut tapered M xOVy, at tho ankle. They fljft In 0 Yl\ P were turned up //wit M 'v\ several Inches to //\> display white spats and highly | |yf varnished patent Pj n| leather boots. But the crowning glory of the get-up was a dust coat of reddish Havana brown, an extraordi nary shade for suttlug. Tho coat wus made as a modified Weller, such as Phiz has delineated In the old editions of "Pickwick." There were wide, flaring skirts and great pockets with flaps. A colored shirt, all-around collar, urlght red carnatlon-nued tie, the red shading Into purple. The smallest of low-crowned "dinky" brown derby hats, such as one associates with the appearance of Mr. Chevalier In the "Coster's Sere nade," completed the outfit. It was in keeping with the races, and when the cool breezes began to blow, Mr. Wall looked very comfortable. One very remarkable costume was worn by one of the Hempstead men. It was of deep vivid brown. Tho l coat was a cut away, with wide VA Skirts and pocket flaps. Avery . K m a 11, narrow - I '"'tnim.'d straw hat and a red tie VI fa • with all-around I* IcA I c °Har were worn. f Hamilton Carey /s Jif wore a very dßrk rrQ / ftjM Kray flannel, the fu J mt\ c °at cut square ll / l ! alUl coming well \ A if ll ovpr ,:he hips, yel- IVI low nankeen waist- IV I coat, dark tie. I J and flat-brimmed > / t fl straw hat. 1/1 \i. Sidney Smith >/ ' vas ln Kray check, K; black four-in-hand, 9 and flat-brimmed w straw hat with black banu. The canary-colored kid glove Is an other one of the fads of the summer. These gloves are made with one but- j ton —not a clasp—and iyo rather 1 Smart. They go very well with gray and blue, and even with brown, and are much better adapted for general outing' than the gray suede so long In favor. At the Suburban nearly every other man wore these gloves. Reginald Vanderbilt, blue flannel, with a dark stripe, sack coat, threo button single breasted, all-around Col lar, dark green four-in-hand tie, flat brimmed straw, with black band. John W. Gates was in a yellow /w'YSrY.P ish-brown suit, al- iaL/vV most ecru in v shade, Panama QjfpSF.f (jwf hat, and dark four in-hand tie. Harry Payne Whitney wore U “ dark blue serge, " with plain, flat brimmed straw hat. The long semi-frock, semi-cutaway coat has not. taken. The majority of men are wearing a species of coat, single or double breasted, which is made on the lines of the old pea jack et. It is cut square, is not as snug, and haß more clotb. In fact it is almost the length of a Norfolk jacket, without, of course, the belt and the pleats. William 0. Whitney has a dust coat of warm Havana brown. He onlj werys this when the air becomes quite chilly. His suit at tho Hand!- cap was black cheviot, double I breasted coat, cut in the fashion of /]$ vjpl a long pea jacket, Ljijm a V, and a black tie. (/I W „ Frederick Geb- / *H[ ) hard wore a dark gray suit, Rack, //A'lf'i almost the shade /n/ \|\ . of London smoke, k V/iffiVlA jjj dark red tie, I j'f'S IflJj! and flat-brimmed k {Mr'-, straw hat. The four-in-hand fa, does not lose a whit of its popularity. Perhaps as summer advances, the bow ties will again come into fashion, but It. is more than probable that these will be reserved for evening or semi-evening dress, the colors as always, In this instance, being white or black.—New York Times. - Two Good Irish Bulls. The Philadelphia Times gives two good samples of Wish bulls. Dr. O’Hague, health officer at Minneapo lis, when recently In Philadelphia at a gathering of medical men, became engaged in a discussion of tho dan gers resulting from Impure drinking water. “Why,” ho said, “the typhoid fever bacilli call for the most diligent at tention if the health of a community is to be conserved. They are so small, gentlemen, that a handful of them could be placed on the point of ft needle!" Still another bull Is contributed by a reader, who says ho overheard a street ear argument between two Celts the other day concerning the Spiritualistic leanings of tho lato Ferdinand J. Drear. “Well,” said one, “he moight hnve .boon a bit foolish an’ belaved in ban shee an' the lolke, but he knew enough to have himself cr-remated.” “An' do yez be thlnkiii' that’s a good thing?” asked his opponent. "Why, man 1 do that! Whin yes is cr-remated yez can have the ashes put in a little tin box an’ carry ’em around in your vist pocket, wid yez.” A Sea Horse Caugtw. Among the curiosities gathered at sea by the mate of the schooner Me com, in port from Port Tampa, wes a specimen of a sea horse, which he found in a hunch of sea grass he pulled on board while the Merom was in the Gulf of Mexico, says the Balti more Sun. The fish is about I inches long, and has a head raid neck shaped like those of a hon e. The mate kept the fish alive in sea water for two days, but it then died. It was preserved by drying in the sun. The sea horse is rarely caught. The mate of the Merom said it was the first he had ever seen. Dictionary makers speak of the sea horse as a fish with a head like those of a horse and the hinder parts like those of a fish." The Nereids were said to have used sea horses as riding steeds, and Neptune to have employed them for drawing his chariot. There is nothing fabulous about the fish that arrived here. There are now two specimens of the sea horse ia Balti more. Baring-Gould Still Active. Though close upon 70 years of age Mr. Baring-Gould, the author of more nooks than any living Englishman, is as upright to-day as he was thirty years ago. He attributes this erect ness to his invariable custom of writ ing at a high desk in a standing posi tion. Mr. Gould always writes with a quill pen. and his manuscript is not beloved by printers. Asa relaxation from literary work Mr. Gould' like the late Mr. Gladstone, often spends a couple of hours chopping down trees. Midweek Holiday Planned. Merchants in Spokane, Wash., are considering a midweek half-holiday. The midweek half-holiday is already an institution in some parts of Eng land: butchers loaf one half-day, bak ers another half-day and Candiestlck makers another, and so on through all the shopkeeping professions. Me chanics and laboring men have the Saturday half-holiday, working half an hour extra on other evenings to obtain it. .-C THE BRUNSWICK DAILY NEWS. 0000000900303003000093000 I “POCKETJPLANETS,” | v Little World* Only nil Ilijf A* A Farm- O er*B Fields § §OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO3OO It 1* no surprising thing nowadays for the announcement to be made that another planet lias been discovered. Time was, however, when such an was received with much tween the orbits of Mars and Jupiter there Is a belt ring of tiny bodies, “pocket planets,” as Herschel called them, none with a greater diameter than 200 miles and some whose as signed diameter Is less than seventeen miles. There are doubtless some even smaller—about large enough for a former’s cornfield perhaps. So diminutive are these curious mem bers of the solar system that even after one has been discovered It is quite likely to be lost. Of course It is possible to trace the movements of the asteroids us well as those of *the larger planets, but the labor of doing so, especially of the many fitly ones Of little practical interest, sur passes the probable value of the re sult, dml In consequence the orbits of most df them are not yet calculated. The orbits of all these diminutive worlds lie in a belt about 100,000 miles wide and with a mean distance from the sun of about 230,000,000 miles. At present more than 250 of these little worlds have been discovered, and more are found nearly every year. How tuaYiy there may be It Is impos sible to estimate. One astronomer thinks there may be ns many as 150,- 000 of them. The total number, what ever that may be, depends largely on whether or not there Is any limit to their minuteness. If there Is no sqch limit, that Is if some are very much smaller than those now known, too small to be seen .with the telescope now In use, there may be an Indefinite number. Several theories have been advanced to account for the presence of the as teroids in that part of the solar system to which Bodc’s law assigned 0 planet long before tlielr existence was known. Others proposed the hypothesis that they had once formed a single planet, which had at some remote time been shattered by a great explosion, tlie fragments continuing to revolve about the sun In approximately the orbit of the original planet. The considerable variation in the eccentricity and inclination of their orbits, not to be accounted for by any present mode of calculation, and the greater probability of their separate formation just ns were the other and larger planets according to the nebular hypothesis, has led to the general discarding of Olbers’ theory. None of the greater planets have orbits whose eccentricity much ex ceeds one-tenth the diameter or whose inclination to the ecliptie is greater than three degrees. Of the asteroids, however, many orbits are Inclined more thun ten degrees and have an eccentricity In excess of one-fourth the diameter. According to the nebular hypothesis, which Is at present generally accepted, the minor planets as well ns the greater ones were formed by the con densation of rings of cosmic matter surrounding the sun. In the ease of the asteroids the ring instead of con- LITTLE WROLDS NEWLY FOUND. Sensing into one mass condensed about many points, the result being a great number of pigmy planets instead of a single large one, as in the case of the others. If all the minor planets now known were to be combined luto one its di ameter would be less than 400 miles. A thousand more of them, supposing them of the average size, would make the globe scarcely a hundred miles greater in diameter, and its mass would even be less than one four thousandth of the earth’s. Assuming the density of these little worlds to be approximately that of the earth, bodies on their surfaces would weigh very little. A man placed on one of them could easily jump to a height of sixty feet, and in a day he could walk entirely around his litflo world with less exertion than Is re quired for his morning walk. A Cnrimiß Thins:. It is a curious thing that the less money a man owes the less credit he has. —New York Tress. Llm. Many a man lies because he doesn't happen to think of the truth.—Chicago News. No man ever made a great name for himself writing anonymous communi cations. THE CARABAO AT WORK An Animal That is Invaluable to tho Philippine Natives. Long of horn and tough of hide if. the carabao of the Philippines. Some times it is called the water buffalo, and it resembles the animal of that name which is found in India. The name Is fitting, for the owner, if left to itself, will stay in the water nearly all day. To the native it is invaluable. It tills his fields and draws his product to the market. It is meek and patient and docile, with great strength and a will to puli whatever it is yoked to over any road. The army has found the bull train to be of great service in transporting provisions and ammunition from point to point. Once the transfer had to be made from the Bag-Bag River to San Fernando, a distance of twelve miles. It took half a day to make the journey, Some of the carabao died, blit as a rule the method of transporta tion was a success, though slow. A buffalo, drawing a heavy load of am munition, Was driven up rt sharp grade at Bag-Bag to reach tile railroad track. Both front feet slipped, and the beast fell to his knees. Yet lie pulled that load up the grade on his knees and did not attempt to stop until the strain had slackened. Then it was found that the knees of the animal had been skinned and were bleeding. One peculiarity about the buffalo is that he must have water and demands THE IVATF.It iirFFAI.O. it twice a day at least. Through the green that surrounds the walled city on the south there runs a small stream that empties and fills with the ebb and flow of the tide. When it is low there is plenty of mud. and when high tlie water is not dear. But the Gov ernment carabao that are loafing there now are not particular about the con dition of the stream. They feed along tho green slope until the bent of the dajfc then they crawl down‘into the mud and lie there until the rays of the sun are behind the walls of the city, when they come out. again for the evening meal. Should they be wanted In the meantime the driver goes down to the bunk and begins to throw stones and shout, “Hoo-o, Hoo-al” When that sound breaks upon them as they stand there with their eyes shut and with jaws elevated above the water linft deliberately chewing their cuds, with one accord they silently sink out of sight. Sometimes they remain under water for more than a minute. Then they begin to come up, one at a time, and as they appear the 'lloo-o, 1100-a” of their tormentor still smites the peaceful air. Slowly they move off. and it is not always in the right direc tion. It sometimes takes a half-hour’s labor to get the drove to the hank. If they are covered with mud it suits them better, for then their hides have a coating which the fly and mosquito cannot penetrate.—Chicago Hecord- Herald. The Latest Corkscrew. An ingenious American has set his wits to work on the corkscrew prob ■ s. lem. and the result of his cogitation,, is here depicted. Pressure on the knob coils a power fill spring, and tho rebound extracts the stopper in jig time. A document relating to the sale fit land, dated 1592 and signed by Guy Fawkes, was recently sold in London | far sooo. “Once in the late ’7os,” said Man ager John J. Murdoch of Chicago, "I had been playing through the south with a company which had the mis fortune to go broke at Selma, Ala. By methods which it might be em barrassing to recount my partner and I worked our way over to St. Louis. We arrived in the Missouri metropo lis with 85 cents as our joint capi ta). “My partner had been reared in the town of Troy, N. Y., and tho first day in St. Louis he ran across a pro fessional swimmer who had been a schoolmate of bis in Troy. The swim mer had been working in a St. Louis natatorimn, hut had been discharged the day before we got to town. He had a total capital of 80 cents, which, after due consideration, he put into the common pool. He also had a partner, who had no money at all. "The four of us lived as long as possible on the mdney in hand. Then matters became desperate. We had tried to get work of some kind, hut had failed utterly. Finally we held a session at which the following scheme was evolved: “The grocers of St. Louis had ar ranged for a grand excursion on the river. It was agreed, after a long discussion, that we should raise as much money as possible, buy tickets on the steamboat, and start on the excursion. When the boat was a good distance out from land my part ner was to give a last despairing wail and jump overboard. The pro fessional swimmer, who was to be on the upper deck, was to throw off his coat and vest, unloosen his shoes, and leap overboard to the rescue at the cry of ‘Man overboard.’ My part ner was a good swimmer, so we fig ured that nobody involved was run ning much risk. "When the professional had beat en toy partner into submission in the water and a boat had put out from the steamer to complete the rescue we had arranged that l —who at that time ran strongly to silk hats and red neckties—should take off my silk hat, drop the cash we had left into it, and collect as much money as 1 could among the passengers for the ostensible benefit of the heroic res cuer. "Wo managed to raise $5, and spent ME EfTT J ||f He Leaped Into the River. 52 for four tickets for the excursion. The minute the boat left the dock they commenced selling beer. The barroom occupied most of one of the decks, and everybody in sight helped himself, paying or not for what he got about as he pleased. As a result of this freedom the partner of the professional swimmer, who bad been on short rations for several weeks, drank more than was good for him, as we afterwards learned to our sorrow. “Finally the steamer reached a place in the river where we thought it safe to spring our great scheme. My partner jumped into the water, and the man on the lookout raised the cry of Man overboard.’ At the word the professional swimmer, who was located on the upper deck, threw off his amt and vest, kicked off his shoes, all his clothes In charge of and made a spectacular dive into the river. "Instantly the passengers were all attention. They crowded to the rail and watched every motion. The swimmer reached my partner in a few moments and pretended to beat aim over the head so that he might be safely handled. The captain stopped the steamer, and a boat pulled off for the rescue. As soon as the two conspirators were pulled into the boat it was my turn to come to the front. I climbed tip on to thedfailing. took off my silk hat, threw the last three dollars we had into it, and called upon the passen gers to contribute liberally to a fund for the hero who had risked his life to rescue the stranger. The re sponse was instantaneous. Almost everybody put in something, and my three large silver dollars set an example which was quickly followed. By the time the boat with the rescu ing party on board reached the steamer I had over a hundred dol lars in the hat. and I had only begun. Out of the corner of my eye I saw the two dripping figures pulled up >n board. Then something happened. Somebody hit me, the silk hat, with ts contents, was pulled out of mv lands, and I was hustled into a dark md cramped little hole. "Presently and in fragments 1 learned what was the matter. The minute the professional swimmer was dragged on board his partner, who had been holding his clothes, came staggering Sown to the spot. ; "Here’s your clothes, Bill," sairf the inebriated partner, throwing them liown on the deck. “Murdoch's got a hatful of money already and I’m tired carrying ’em around.” “Somebody who was wise enough to get on to the scheme heard the remark and he successfully pumped the drunken man till he gathered the whole yarn. Then he spread the ilisi’ w 1 /Of ~ IrVn hPM/jVi /‘V / V i. um / \ J Asleep Under t^vStraw^B -tori of our put up hioh had been <~-> e.ur.e >r for our i lie Imt awa> from mJB& into that dark hole. Tfir • i w.-r- served in tlWfcr.. once in the early Murdoch. “I wan a tie theatrical barn pa ay winch was playing the lIUMK tiie-railroad towns In New i’eiinsylvania. At Granville, rf. mariagt r 'jumped' (he town wlt^B total proceeds, amounting to H ?!", leaving us to get forward we could. I finally was sent to Jamestown, Pa., to see rangements could be made to there. By telling a sad story of misfortunes and enlarging on ttSB dramatic abilities of the company finally persuaded the school commß-J tee to allow us the use of the house on condition that they sboulA have the first money taken in from the sale of tickets. The hotelkeeperw was also persuaded to take his chances on getting his money after the performance was over. So I went back to Granville and by pawn ing two silver watches we raised enough money to hire a farmer to drive the company over to James town in a bobsled. I remember that he first put. a big feather-bed into tho sled box. On that the members of the company knelt down on either side and on top of us all straw was heaped on until nothing could be seen hut here and there the top of a cap or bonnet. At any rate I went to sleep five minutes after wa started out and never have I enjoyed a more peaceful and restful sleep than on that fourteen mile drive with the thermometer fifteen degrees below zero. “I had made arrangements in Jamestown for the daughter of the town blacksmith, a girl named Mur phy, to furnish the music on anew piano—the first in the town, which her father had just bought for her. On arriving at Jamestown with the company I soon learned that there was a hitter feeling existing because another girl, who had always played for dramatic companies on the melo deon, had been overlooked. So we arranged to play two nights, with Miss Murphy as the orchestra on the first night and the melodeon girl on the second night. Asa result we had two huge houses and I got well started on my first experience as a theatrical manager. “At that time the better class of / \ r n-ryr- Ir/f Playing the Plano. companies playing the small towns traveled in big red wagons, usually hiring their horses from farmers or livery men along the route. Not long er ago than 1885 I remember meeting an actor who was still running a red wagon show through the central part of lowa.” , Carried Bullet Long Time. Abraham Eisler, recently ad mitten into the Buda Pesth workhouse (alms house), has for fifty-four years carried a bullet in his head which he received while fighting In the Austrian rebel lion.