Show IN taa or the at aaa la 16 A bout onu in A hat a tol only have the attractions jn this line been more tiu ceroua and varied than ever before but there liao been a perfection ol 01 training a skill in combination and in alie cage of the dumb creature a aucone in hrca ing which have combined to render the season memorable as a period of record breaking tins unique fact may havo been a latent agency in developing the taste for which lias i ow taken fucali a hold on the national mind neur has there been so general an interest in events of this nature as their announce now men and boys and for that matter women and girls too nil go almost vi d with excitement over a contest on hie base ball field or college rowing they hatch knitli eager straining oes the elburt of i lean limbed racers to beat their competitors they bang with trembling expectancy apon the words of lie newspapers regarding a batih for so much a side between this noted prize fighter and some other one equally boastful if not equally noted aliye la a national mania cles competition con petition and low and poor alike partake of it that this tendency restricted to proper limit is exhilarating and beneficial vie will not question but that much which goes under the name of aport is undisguised brutality we resolutely maintain prize right for instance has no defenders with intellect or culture It is debasing should lo 10 strangled out of existence by public opinion as it now is forbidden by the law and it this enuch can be said of engagements between human beings who voluntarily stand before eacle other to be pounded and battered until raw and bleeding aliat terms are strong enough to denounce the crime d pitting dogs against each other to be torn mangled or killed how a human being can find plea auie in urging them onan frenzied fury receiving with demoniac eatie faction aery successful sally one brute males at the expense of the other eur pAStes comprehension there is no aport in it it is a brutal business it is forbidden by alie law and should be presented by the law in all manly honorable competitions for athletic to prelacy there can be clean hearty pleasure bior I 1 he altere can be nothing but disgust for ourselves we would regard it as far more creditable to be able to run a hundred yards in ten seconds and alius outstrip an opponent llian to be able to stand six rounds his fists it is far better to breed whose ambition is to run away from antagonists than to breed dogs only desire is to tear each others in the ono case it is sport in the other ft is TUB louisville editor shepard of the N Y matt awl the Attila of the north and senator jue strown of georgia the of politics BEN HARRISON mckee favorite pran daon of hie president elect is froni the of vaccination nature ia no respecter of persons dully SST PATE the fate of lie brae who from all ai peris lied in africa has been the cause of almost un limitt d reflections upon tha government of great and lias perhaps fur alie basis of more newspaper comments than almost any other single event of thu decade the matery 0 the gallant soldiered erd and lia snover been cleared up it was not knon n whether lie whether lie was taken prisoner when fell and brutally murdered or hu might not even et be alive anda prisoner ia the bands of some of alie inland tribes n its issue of january lolli the san francisco cull in a dispatch from bondon dated the sets this at rest the following is the dispatch the last hours 0 gordon at khartoum were described in dispatches from general grenfell nag at khartoum the night it taken it as a dreadful near daybreak grenel was told all the great oll acera of alie hae pone to fiill gordon pasha lie baw cordon smoking a cigarette on the balcony lie was told to fly but indignantly refused to leave his post an gordon stood facing the dervishes several superior ilah dist generals came up the dervishes all allowed them to pass they ascended the steps and anaed for the gordon met them saying 1 I am he lie handte them hia abord in military faa hiou intimating that h knew abey lial taken the place and consequently lie surrendered according to the usages of war one of alie generals snatched hold of alie haord at the same time in a brutal and most cowardly coa ardly manner striking gordon an unexpected blow alie maslia would have desperately pera tely had he thought ho would not he treated in an honorable manner lid fell rolling down the stairs As lie rolled another general him on the left eide inflating a dangerous wound thus died gordon I 1 was there a spectator to the ghastly deed I 1 kot out of the way when ho rolled to the bottom of the AM OLD PARKEY named ruffia jackson is lia oRing around bloston trying to collatt a claim of against charles francis adams lie has a check for the amount which purports to havo been signed by the railroad pie aident but which of course the banks refuse to honor THE LATE lamented new manzeo mr Cro leybas a w orthy cue censor in a double jointed ape owned by a gentleman in Got liam which in said to reable to speak When hungry this new candidate for the honors belonging to the eing link shrieks out jack his grub TUB doctora Doc TOBa now recommend alt for brighta dieca ao |