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Show IN most rigorously avoided. A IXClJIATim. riiiidir was lliei. arranged AN PHIL ARMOUN.i CR AN iJCHILD'S STRANGE DELUT. i f tli Lltlla llua Kariim ilia I Hi Mililoa imiur It ill It tbe Klrh Uiaadfaiber iprrinn raid bjr rlaalilti- - Vl'MIlUlt. loiter.) (Special MILLIONAIRE baby, tlie only granddaughter of Philip Armour, the Chicago pork packer, la living tn a little world of It own, ijiilte rut off from the rest of humanity. The tiny girl fche aB l0ru Ej-"'- waa quite aturdy enough to lireolhe the air that mortals breathe and alie wax at once put into a brooder," or incubator, aa It Ih commonly railed. If the doctors succeed In making her live old Phil will give the midget J1 .000,000 when they are able to take her out of the machine. When John Howard, a hundred years ago, told the world that in a Wallacji-la- n prison he hud seen men kept in cells only four feet high and alx feet long and two feet wide women fainted with horror at the philanthropist's description of the living death to which these wretched creatures were condemned. Rut the sky of Miss Armour's world Is only twelve Inches above her head and from one harlxon to the other the apace is only two feet, and yet the young lady does not find her sphere or action limited, for the only movement she makes Is to wiggle her pink toes and open and shut her microscopic flata. When a chicken first comes out of the shell It hides under the wing of the brooding hen, cosily nestled little glAi so that I would hold half a donn spoonfuls o. milk, and at the ends of the cylindei two rubber bulbs were placed, one o which was perforated. Prom Hill tiny exit iho milk in slowly forced down tin child's throat, a drop at a time. A spoor fill of milk lu given every houi hours o' throughout the twenty-fou- r each of the first days of life, am' the weight of the little girl, which wu: four pounds wiien she was burn, hat not decreased at all. This, In Itself la considered a great success, and it will not lie until the fourteenth or fifteenth day of her life lb fit any lucreim will be expected. When niie Is a moutl. old, she will, if nil you well, weigl At wtelii about eight ounces in of age her weight imzhi to lie flvt pounds, at seven wick,- nix pounds, ant' at ten week;! she i. H probably weigh seven pounds, enl h.- - removed from the this lime she will brooder. Tlininyh-'.ii- t have four or five drips of brandy hal! a dozen limes on i.iiy day when shi seems to ini fixing strength. The milk upon which she is fed !; In Itself rr extraordinary product ol the chemiat's skill. When a child L esiieciaily delicate the quality of tie milk upon which it Ih fed has to ehanged every day, and KOiucLiiiiiv even every hour. The proportion of fat, of sugar, of prolelds. not only varies greatly In the ease of milk from different eows, but varies also in the milk of the same row, Une day a cow will feed at a part of tha pasture in which the grass Is of such a quality a to put mure or less fat iuto her milk than would be produced by the grasr only a few yards away. In the same way human milk varies from hour to hour, according to the food taken by the mother, the condition of her general health, and-thamount and natur' of the exercise she takes. It cannot, of course, bo expected that these variations in the romtltncnu of natural :. at Fleetwood he won the fastest rara iu turf hts'.ory to daie-2:'i- 3ft, 2:U3ft, on u track far from a 2:93ft-a- nd There lx n stiff SOME NOTES AND REVIEWS G? in tha third quarter, eh(,ri homo CURRENT EVENTS. stretch and the turns are short und uo! thrown up. Quitter though especially Sharkey's I'owr Shoeing with Jahe . he has hern accused of bHug. and I Sullivan Tha Ijtia Harry Hill liiad la really think he at times has deserved Iuvariy A Woman Challaaxaa lac tbe charge, he certainly was a marvelbalk ous horse at Fleetwood. Grand circuit fbllowera stuck to Robert J. at 14 to K, and before they got iiway for the lSkt L. John liy heat played even money on the chamr a n should pion, but he was beaten by a nose ip from tergi-a hair-raisifinish. Early In the race re-- t he was too unsteady to make use of, to ruin of his so let Frank Agan fight It out with the snd little stallion. The once sensational servs as Star Pointer, 2:04ft, cut a sorry figure second bag for snd was behind the Lag In the lie la either acting very heat, badly or Is a back number. Young quantity they say, drives him as well as of pugilism, and on what ground Thomas Sharkey bases did Geers, hut tbe conclusion Is be hi pretensions to championship hon- Isnt right this season, maybe suffered ors, was a mystery to 5,000 persons acclimatization early In the year In who went to Madison Square Gardens their cold eastern country and will not the other night to see the sailor "drawn round to In time to be of any account out. Sharkey displayed a physique which would do credit to a weight-lifte- r, Stir Cballancc Corbett. behaved modestly as beflitlng a Mrs. Edward Whl.e of New Yura stranger, and that Is all he did do. An city is a remarkable woman. She has essential element of pugilism, the abiltacitly challenged Corbett to a boxing ity to box, he. failed to display, and match and she fights regularly with those who saw him concluded that be her husband two times a day and could not. The exhibition, however, makes no secret of it. raises the question no to what can be In other words, Mrs. White, a handthe matter with Corbett, whose recent some and modest woman some twenty d contest with Sharkey did odd years of age, holds her own against not at all redound to hla credit. The bout between Sulilvap and Sharkey was announced as an exhibition of boxing, and a moment later the crowd roared as the old champion appeared, lie was old, he was gray, and It was no more proper that he should be in a ring than that he should easuy skirt dancing. Sharkey, when he threw off his robe, displayed a remarkable specimen of manhood, mere picturesque because of swelling muscles and graceful form than Sullivan showed at hla beat. Sullivan, In response to the cries for a speech, said: "Its not necessary for me to make a speech, gentlemen, for the referee has told you that this la to be an exhibition bout. I've had my day, and am now almost too fat to fight. Rut you will have a chance to see what the young man can do. He wants to get up to the top, and deserves all sorts of luck." Then time was called, and Sullivan, from start to finish, made the best MRS. EDWARD WHITE, showing. He could not moVe his ponderous body, but he had almost the old the champion welterweight boxe of quickness of the arms; he could duck the world. She is willing to enter cona little, which waa more than Sharkey tests with male professionals and fight could do, and twice he dodged, but this to a finish. Her specialty Is Three years ago when she was effort was almost too much for him. Sharkey was so slow that a watch married she was weak and delicate, might have been put on his blows, and almost an Invalid, and to gain strength he Judged distances badly. At first had her husband, who Is a boxer, put It was thought that possibly he did not her through a course of training such want to display tbe old champions as athletes and professionals undergo. weakness, but that Idea was quickly Her muscle developed in a surprising dispelled. He was a great disappoint- manner and now her right arm biceps ment. Sullivan hit him In the face al- expansion Is an inch and a half, her chest expansion two and seven-eightmost at will, but even the rounds tired the old man. In the third inches and she weighs 140 pounds, and last round he tripped and almost though only five feet four inches high. fell. When the exhibition was ended Her muscles stand out in knotty Fitzsimmons said: I've changed my bunches like those of a mind now. Sharkey's even easier than man and her husband has hard work I thought. preventing her giving him knockout blows In their contests. They exhibit on the vaudeville stage. Tha Lata Harry Hill. t Last May in Philadelphia Mrs. White veteran the Hill, man, Harry sporting a challenge to any local issued n of New Yorkers of one the expert, and that means much his time, and well known throughout most the country, died at his home In Cor- in that city where some of the who man The live. noted ona, Long Island, the other day. The cause of his death is attributed to responded was beaten by his feminine now issued a drinking Impure water from the water antagoniet. She has In to formal any challenge supply at Corona. He was 76 years of In a contest acmeet her to world 111 less than two the and had been age weeks. Harry Hill had the reputation, cording to approved rules. of which he was proud, of being "the Tha Saasoaa Heavyweights. squarest man" who ever owned a sportThe season's brew of fresh heavying resort In New York. A decade and a half ago his resort at Houston and weight has been so numerous that the follower of this colCrosby streets was known all over the umn will doubtless evince no surprise to learn that there is still another on the calendar; nevertheless, It is a queer thing to account for, taken as a whole, why heavies should keep bobbing up at this ono particular point In the continent. It Is to be remembered that both Corbett and Joe Choynski were born there. Some of those of tho 1836 crop hve not first seen the light there nor near there, but have sprung suddenly into fighting form from fooling about the coast, so that It amounts to about the same thing. I advise any pug who may have had his ambitions squelched In other quarters to go out there and smell around. The newest of the new of 'Frisco Is named Jack Btelxner and he claims Chicago as the city from which he hailed.' He never did anything la this climate and the chances are he never would have done But In Frisco last week anything. HARRY HILL, Stelzner got In the ropes and made a draw with Van Busk Irk, the country and no rural individual of any stand-of- f who one haa.been talked about considered at all big cportlng proclivities a visit to New York complete unlees It freely as a comer of late. The men Included a visit to Harry Hill's. The boxed ten rounds, with honors about proprietor was genial and hearty, and even. it waa his boast truthful so far as Is known that no person was ever Tart Katas. robbed In hlo place. Many New YorkBessie Wilton, 2:09', has a bowea ers who have memories, and not un- tendon and It la doubtful as to ber racpleasant ones, of Harry Hill occupy ing again this season. places high In politics and In the busiHoover, 2:27ft, a new one by Aller-toIt waa their cusness world Is from the dam of Elloree, 2:11ft. tom to open wins" with the thick-se- t, He la said to be a good prospect for a popular Englishman who conducted It, 2:20 mark. and who owed hla success to his hooBelle Wells. 2:17ft. is a great card ts ty and good fellowship. Hill, who for her sire. Pactolua. She took her was at one time reputed to be worth record In a three-minuclass at Hed$.700,000, died in poverty, and It Is a rick last week. fart worthy of note that of all the men Roan Wilkte. 2:07ft. rccrntly worked who have achieved success and under a quarter in 31 seconds on a half-mil- e obligations to blm not one went to his track. He Is ticketed for a 2:03 record assistance In the days of his adversity. ere the Reason's close. Directum. 2:05ft, Is at Highland Tha Halt RrrarJ Is Data. Park, Octroi:, and working moderately It is noticeably conspicuous th to sulky. He ts down for an exhibition when a hoic Is -- eported lame and i there during the meeting. the next heard of ta a grand victor Gen. Turner is working Jcttle, 2:16ft, Just so with John R. Gentry. At Bo lightly again. She has been undergo- ton he hit his quarter hard and hi Ing treatment for a curb thrown at been reported isme in consequence, y Boston tn her race last June. GENERAL SPORTING. ilium: s aed fa i' TfiEATRIC.U. GOSSIP. breaker. up-gra- y, four-roun- nYIMC3 AND D;lIGS OF THE PLAYtll: j i ilntitrt It. Manttll lauil, Kilui itRii In In AniMlni to tb la Heuf mil l.nvrd IZorn lnliiit "lUil.leiit'A i:ium : In the of 18S2 he returned to America ami was tngtigiil by John Stetson to tu p remote S:r Clement lluuting-foii- l, iu "The World. '' opening at the Grand (.ipcru ) louse In ihi:i city. Af-- n r phjiiii; there for two weeks be went or. tlie road fur four weeks, and was iatur record-- (Cyuih !!i:i"), Othe la. Tifo n ier ("Amy Itobsar:). put then rvcal.ed io lioolh'a Theater, to e John Norton ux Jack lleanic, in The Romany ltye. which toic lie fomi.'iiu-to play on tour until the end of the nCiiaon. a Mias T.CKTLru-- e I he Man-el- !, eeleiru:ed i.c'.nr, was born in diipfMirtliiff fanny Davtnporl, The following season be appear? 1 with Funny Havcnpurt and established himself thoroughly in popular favor in the role of Loris, in Fedora," a rob; which he created in this country at the Fourteenth Street Theater, this city. He next appeared as Guilhert Vaught:, iu Called Back," in the Fifth Avenue Theater, thlH city, and afterward In all the principal cities of the United State. The following setuon he returned to MIbb Davenport, playing his old pari of Loris, in Fedora. He had also opened the Lyceum Theater, this city, under the management of llie' late Steele Markaye, playing the part of Dukala in his piece of that name. After that season Augustus Fitou launched him as his star before the American public in John Keeler's play of Tangled Lives. He remained with Mr. Fitou for six years, in which time Munburs." he udded tc his repertory Corsican Hamlet, Brothers," Othello," Marble Heart, Lady of Romeo and Juliet," "The Lyons, Veiled Picture" (by Mr. llavenl. "The "Louislanan" (by Mr. Alfriend). "Parr-haslu- s. The Husband. The Qucea's Garter" (by Espy Williams), and "Tho Face In the Moonlight. which he proMantall m lacn. duced under Mr. Proctor's manageHe never thought seriously of goin ment. Ho then managed himself for on the stage until he played lago at a two seasons, thus making ten years benefit performance in Belfast. That that he has been before the AmiTicau sterling old actor. Sain Johnstone, cl public as a star. His eleventh will bo n the Lyceum Theater, London, adviied drei.-teand popu- by the Irvine. Ayrshire. iLoiUnd. Feb. 7, 1874. His father, tn Eni;l simian, and bib a mother, 3eotch soman, re Tm ,1,ovr'1 lo Belfant. glrelaitr.. when RobI ert r.as but four jears of age, ami there he wax reared and educated. When fifteen years of age be contested with ethers for a prize for elocution, a gold medal, which he won. Relng fond of tbe stage, he became a member of several amateur societies. At the early sgp of fourteen he had enacted such parts as Polnniits In Hamlet;" Sir Edward Mortimer, In "The Iron Chest;" Carwin, in Thcr " the Orphan of Geneva, and other roles, and displayed to much ability that he was admitted into the Belfast Dramatic Club, with which he performed several times In the Theater Royal. It w;as originally Intended that he should become a lawyer, and he studied with this rad in view, but, having failed to pass his final examination, Ms father had him apprenticed for five years to a wine merchant. I'M 'i'l well-know- hs one-minu- te ed best-know- rs MRS. OGDEN ARMOUR. er against tbs breathing an by passage atmosphere tempered barbulcs of the through the close-splumes. In the mechanical brooder In which the Armour bffby may have to spend several months the air Is sifted and thus through layers of crflton-wocleansed Is supplied with sn added proportion of oxygen from a tank attached to the apparatus before being warmed and fanned Into the tiny roll. The temperature Inside the brooder ts kept at 93 degrees Fahrenheit so that no part of the child's strength nerd be wasted in the generation of animal lieat. Warmth, darkness and silence are the three chief characteristics of a thllds environment before it is born and the use of the brooder makes It , fasy to exclude both the light and the noise, which disturb the incomplete human being. Another requirement Is that the delicate morsel of humanity should be touched and handled a little sa possible. If It were possible to keep It floating In a bath all the time so that there would never lie unequal pressure on Its body, tbls would bo 'done, but It le not practicable to do more than provide the softest of beJs. As It Is necessary to have a minute knowledge of its changes tn weight from hour to hour, the mattress on the brooder is supported by a scale which can at' any Instant be observed by the nurse without disturbing the baby. A special form of stethoscope, fitted with an India rubber cap and made of ouch small caliber that it can be easily Introduced between the ribs of the smallest chUd, la fitted into the roof of the brooder and the attendant physic'an Is thus enabled to delect the earliest symptoms of derangement In the chest. Mias Armour's wardrobe at present consists of nothing but absorbent cotton, In which shr Is carefully wrapped, and this Is changed so often that she does not miss the hath uh'c: Vi ts not yet strong enough to take. Her nutrition. too, Is a complicated cask. The old system of garage, which was to stuff food down the throat of a child tin weak to oat, just as r.;eal t.i stuffed . down tha throats of chickens which are being fattened for the markrt, proved unsatisfactory, for the baby made nil Involuntary effort to struggle against this process of stuffing, and every effort Involve fatigue where fatigue it to be mother-dow- n, et ol milk should coincide with the variations for the best possible nourishment of a feeble child. The artificially modified milk is prepared by a sequence of chemical processes. the (list of which is sterilization. When this has been accomplished, tin milk Is cooled and its respective proportions of fat, sugar and pro'.elds ascertained. These proporilonx vary ao greatly that In an assortment of a hundred tubes of natural milk there will be found samples in which the percentage of fat Is as low ax u.03 or as high as 4.3. The peiccntage of sugar will be seen also to range from 0.87 to 20, while there may be from 0.23 to 4.0 of protciils. Those various sort of natural milk can easily be so arranged and altered that the attending physician may write a prescription for any quality of milk he wants. At first sight it seems hard to believe that a child whose health Is In sc unstable an equilibrium that a bronde: is advisable, should ho ss well nourished by another food ts It would be THE INCUBATOR. It received the nutriment provided for It by nature. It Is. however, to be remembered In this connection tha: If human milk Is liable not only tu change which may be explained by the merely physical conditions of the muthcr, but also to the swiftly succeeding alterations occasioned by the nervous excitability, which la so much greater In the case of a human being than In the ca-- of any other mamma; and which I especially great dnrlnc the few weeks succeeding the birth of a child. e The rreshytcrlan church contribute:! last year for home missions $380,Vdi for foreign, $739,103. Pacific-coastwa- rd n. to-da- y. te him to adopt tbe profession, lie had many difficulties to overcony before doing so, as his family were greatly opposed to it. He resolve.1 to try his fortunra In a foreign lamb and in 1871 he came to thla country, landing In Boston, Mass. He tried la vain to secure a theatrical engagement, and ten days after hla arrival he sailed for England. There he succeed, ed in effecting an engagement to pity small parts In the theater In Rochdglc, Yorkshire, nd In the latter part c? that year he made hla professional debut, under the name of Hudson, as the Sergeant in for xhich he reHe received five shillings a week. mained there two seasons, playing a variety of parts, ranging from thinking roles to that of Maci! tiff, hte salary never having reached higher than ono pound a week. During the season of 1876-7- 7 he was engages In Wigan. He was next engaged as heavy man to support Miss Marriott og her tours, and continued with her foi mmc time. During the Intervale wlwn she rested he filled in his time tra fling In support of Charles Matthews, John Dewhurst and Barry Sullivan, ad playing In the He pantomime at KewcaRle-on-Tyn- e. next traveled with Miss Wallis, playing walking gentlemjA. first Aaaarlua Vlll. During the season of 1878-7- 9 he again came to this country and appeared in the company of Mm. Modjeska, playing such roles as Tybalt, In "Romeo and Juliet, and Guaiave. In Camille. Returning to England, he Joined Mr. and Mrs. George S. Knight, when they made their English dgbut in the Prince of Wales Theater, Birmingham, on July 28, 1879, playlnK Dick Freely, in Otto, and In that eoaracter he made his London debut hi Sadlers' Wells Theater. In September, 1S80, he rejoined Miss Wallis, to play leading business and opened in the Theater Royal, Birmingham, as Romeo. He remained with her two season, and played such parts as Orlando, Benedict. Paul, In Paul and Virginia;" Claude Melnotte and Ernest St. Cyr, iu "Ninon. On June 7, 1831. they began an engagement In the Olympic Theater. London, where he played leading roles Iu the metropolis for the first time. In October of that year he Joined Mias De Cray as loading man, and played Macbeth. Clauds hialnotte. Ionatus Poz- - lar manager. Mart Hanley, with whom he has made a contract for three years. Hlanla Hadifara Batarax tn tha Ktaga. That fine actress, Minnie Maddern Fiske, will resume her tour this season and add at least two new plays to her already extensive repertory. One is an adaptation of a German play by The Right Olga Wolbrueek, entitled to Happiness," and the second is a dramatization of Thomas Hardys n s, novel. Tess of the which should make an excellent play. I fear that The Right to Happiness" will prove a little too German for American audiences, but Mrs. Fiske, who ie unquestionably one of the most Intelligent actresses wa well-know- d'Ur-beville- PAULINE FRENCH. San Francisco beauty recently engaged by Mr. Augustin Daly. have on the English-speakin- g stage, may be depended upon to get out of tbe piece all there Is In it. A KatM of tht Stas. On hU next American tour Henry Irving will impersonate Napoleon in "Madame Sans Gene. Lillian Russell is to take the road this season under the busiurvj management of John W. Hamilton. Tamagno, the tenor, It is exi.l. will leave the stage and become a farmer a: lc the rlore of the next eao;i. Richard score of The Strai. h.; symphonic poein. So Spake Z.irath, ultra.'' is rompleted. and the wurt v, 111 be prod .iced for the first time m tio Frnuklort Museum. November 27. The serend performance will take oln-.-- at the Gursenlch Hall, Cologne. op-rat- e |
