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Poetic Selections.
THE JOLLY OLD PEDAGOGUE.
OIOBOK ARNOLD,
’Twas a Jolly old pedaeogue, long ago,
Tall and tlinder, and tallow and dry;
Hit form was bent and his gait was slow,
id is long thin hair was as white as snow,
But a wonderful twinkle shone in his eye;
And he tang erery night as he went to bed,
"Let us bs happy dowD here below;
The living thould live, tnough the dead be dead."
He taught his scholars the rule of three,
Writing aud reading, and history, to-?;
He took the little ouei upon his knee,
For a kind old heart in his breast had he,
And the wants of the littleat child he knew;
"Learn while you’re young," he often aald,
"There Is muoh to enjoy down he e bilow;
Life for the living, and rost for the dead I"
Bald the jolly oli pedagogue, long ago.
With the stupidest boys he was kind and cool,
8peaklng only in gentlest toner;
The rod was hardly known In his School-
Whipping to him was a barbarous rule,
And too hard work lor the poor old bones;
Beside It was painful, he eoraetimee said;
" We should make life pleasant down here below,
The living need charity more than the dead," *
Bald the jolly old ptdtgogue, long ago,
He lived In the house by the hawthorn lane,
With roaee and woodbine over the door;
His rooms were quiet, and neat and plain,
But a spirit of comfort there held reign,
And made him forget he was old and poor;
"I need solitlle," he often said,
"And my friends and relative* here b. low .
Won’t litigate over mo when I am dead,"
Bald the jolly old pedagogue, long ago.
But the pleasantest times that he had, of all,
Were the sociable hours ho used to pass,
With his chair tipped back to a neighbor's wall,
Making an unceremonious call,
Over a pipe and friondly glass.
This wssthe finest pieaauro. he said,
Of the many he taslej hire below;
"Who has no cronios had better be dead I”
Bald the jolly oli pedagogue, long ago.
Then the jolly old pedagogue’s wrinkled face,
Meltid all over lu sunshiny smiles;
Ho stirred bis glass with an old school grace,
Chuckled and sipped, and prattled aptce,
Till tho house grow merry, from cellar to tiles;
"I’m a pretty old man," he gently aald,
"I have lingered long while hero below;
But my heart lsfroih if my youth Is fled I"
Bald the jolly old pedagogue, long ago.
He smoked his pipe In the balmy air,
Evory m»ht when thosuu wont down,
While the loft wind rlaytd in bis tllveiy hair,
Leaving its tender klsaos thrro
On the jolly eld pedagogue’s Jolly old crown;
And foellng tfce kisses, he smiled, and laid:
" ’ 1’waa a glorious woild down nere below;
Why wait for boppiness till wo are d< ad T"
Bald tho jolly old pedagogue, long ago.
He sat at tli9 door one midsummer night,
After the sun had sunk in tho west,
And the lingering beams of goldea light
Made his kindly old UCa look warm aad bright,
While the odorous night-wind whispered "res:!'
Gently, gently, he bowed his head,
There were angels waiting foi him, I know;
He was suro of happiness, living or dead,
This jolly old pedagogue, long ago I
Stories and Sketches.
ANAESTHESIA.
INTERESTING FACTS CONCERNING
ITS DISCOVERY.
Bow Vork Times.
Mr. B. F. Carpenter has just finished
a nearly full length portrait of Dr*
Crawford W. Long, late of Athens, Ga.,
who used ether to destroy pain in surgi
cal operations March 80, 1842, nearly
three years before Hoiace Wells, of
Hartford, Conn., discovered that nitrous
oxide gas was also an effective agent to
produce a similar result, and mere than
six years before Sir James Y. Simpson,
. of Edinburg, demonstrated that chloro
form was as effective. Morton’s claims
will rest on the fact that he administered
ether in 1846 to patients in the Massa
chusetts general hospital, who were op
erated upon by the eminent surgeons,
Warren Haywood and Bigelow. Dr.
Long’s discovery was made and well
known to physicians and others in his
neighborhood; also to Dr. 0. T. Jack-
son, of Boston, in 1854, and to congres*
when Morton made his attempt to get
that body to recognize his claim by giv
ing him $100,000. Senator Dawson, of
Georgia, proved to the committee that
the discovery was made by one of his
constituents, Dr. Long. Some months
ago Mr. Carpenter received the order to
paint a portrait of Dr. Long for the
alumni cf the Georgia university, to be
placed in the Stat9 capitol in Atlanta,
Dr. Crawford W. Long (now dead), of
Athens, Georgia, was born in Daniels*
“LET THERE BE LIGHT.”
Subscription, $1.50 iD Advance.
VOLUME III.
BUTLER, GEORGIA, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 1879.
’ NUMBER 149.
effect. One of the young men present
said he had inhaled ether while at Bchool,
and was willing to do it again. They
were all anxious to'witnesa its effects.
Dr. Long got some ether immediately
and gave it to the young man who had
previously inhaled it. He then inhaled
it himself, and afterwards gave it to all
present. After this the young doctor
and his pupils indulged occasionally in
ether frolics. On several occasions Dr.
Long became furiously excltod and
could not be controlled. After recover
ing from the ether intoxication he fre»
quently noticed that his arms and hands
were badly braised, and yet he was not
conscious of having felt any pain at the
time he was under the influence of the
ether. He also noticed the same thing
in his pupils. They were often hurt by
falls and blows, and were not conecious
of pain at the time. These facts,
repeatedly observed, suggested to his
mind the idea of using ether to prevent
the pain of surgical operations. He
frequently spoke ol this to his students,
and at last he determined to give it a
trial.
Dr. Long having made up his mind to
try the experiment with ether on the
first favorable opportunity says, (South
ern Medical and Surgical Journal, De
cember, 1849):
“The first patient to whom 1 admin
istered ether in a surgical operation, was
Mr. James M. Venable, who then re
sided within two mileB of Jefferson. Mr.
Venable consulted me on several occa
sions with regard to the propriety of re
moving two small tumors situated on the
back part of hia neck, but would post
pone from time to time having the opera
tions performed, from dread of pain. At
length I mentioned to him the fact of
my receiving bruises while under the in
fluence of the vapor of ether, without
suffering, and, as I knew him to be fond
of, and accustomed to inhale ether, 1 sug
gested to him tho probability that the
operations might be performed without
pain, and proposed operating on him
while under its influence. He consented
to have one tumor removed, and the op*
eration was performed the same day-
Tho ether was given to Mr. Venable on
towel; and, when Inlly under its influ
ence, I extirpated the tumor, it was
encysted, and about half an inch in di
ameter. The patient continued to in*
hale ether during the time of the opera
tion, aud when informed it was over,
seemed incredulous, till the tumor was
shown him. He gave no evidence of suf
fering during the operation, and aisured
me, after the operation waa over, that
he did not experience the slightest de
gree of pain from its performance.”
The names of I«ong, Wells, Morton and
Jackson, all Americans, will doubtless
be associated, and to these must be ad
ded the name of Sir James Y. Simpson,
who introduced chloroform and enlarged
the domain of a^sestheala.
Sir James received the highest honor
from his government in recognition of
the great service he had rendered hu
manity. The fate of Wells, Morton and
Jackson is most pitiable.
Wills, disappointed in carrying off the
honor of the great discovery of an«thesia,
became insane and committed suicide in
New York in 1848.
Morton, disappointed at not receiving
a pecuniary recognizUionjfrom congress,
for his labors, fretted himself into a
gestion ot the brain. In July, 1868, he
returned to New York, from Washing
ton, in the wildest state of excitement.
Dr. Lewis A. Sayre and Dr. Yale were
called t-> him on the 16th July. They
considered his condition as critical,
placed him in the hands of a trained
nurse, ordered leeches to his temples,
cups on the spine, and ice on the head.
Dr. Morton would not submit to treat
ment. As soon as Dr. Sayro left, he
ordered hia buggy to go to the Riverside
hotel, saying he knew he would soon bo
well if he could get out of the hot city.
He drove furiously up Broadway, and
through the Central Park. At the upper
end of the park, he leaped from his
buggy, and ran to a lake near by to cool
his burning brain. Being persuaded to
get into hia buggy again, he drove a
short distance, then leaped out, and
jumping over a fence, he fell down in a
DARKENING THE BLOOD.
SOME OF THE EFFECTS OF ALTI
TUDE IN LEADVILLE.
Leadrlll* Latter.
I saw but very few cases of intoxica*
tion in the streets, though the three
hundred saloons in the city held out
their best inducements. I was surprised
at this, as one of the notable effects of
the great altitnde of the place (10,800
feet above the level of the sea) is that
all fermented liquors intoxicate more
quickly than at lower elevations. The
boiling point, owing to the decrease of
atmospheric pressure, is much lower than
at Chicago, and the alcohol is sooner
vaporized and taken into the circulation,
producing intoxication much quicker.
The boiling point ot water hero is
about 190 degroes, instead of 212 degrees,
♦he effect of which in boiling beans, eggs,
potatoes, eto , is that it requires a long
while to cook them in an open vessel, and
it is necessary to keep the pot well cov*
ered or the water will vaporize and es
cape before being raised to the requisite
degree for thorough cooking. At this
elevation much air is required to fill and
satisfy the lungs, and breathing must be
quicker in order to properly oxygenize
the blood. It is said, too, that after one
has been here for some time the coloring
matter of the blood becomes darker,
being changed from the peroxide to the
sesquioxide of iron. With a person suf
fering under any difficulty or disease of
the heart, the effect of any long-con
tinued exertion is to cause a dangerous
degree of palpitation, and even with per
sons entirely well the pulse runs extreme
ly high.
There are other and notable facts con
nected with this altitude. There are
few birds seen here—perhaps for the rea
son that flying is difficult in the light
air. The common house fly, the sum
mer pest of our eastern house-keepers, is
unknown here. There aro some of the
outdoor bluebottle variety, but they
seem languid and tired. It is said, also,
that cats can not live here. This is
probably owing to their delicate organ!
aition being unable to resist the rigor of
the night air. So the “voices of the
night” are not heard in this locality, and
bootjacks are reserved for their natural
uses.
Another result of the lightness of the
air is that, having so little density, it is
easily heated by artificial means. Our
nights are uniformly cold—so cold that
it is uncomfortable to sit without a fire;
but a few pine chips or small sticks will
warm an apartment very quickly,
At the same time the sun’s rays
do not seem to have the heating
power that they do in lower elevations.
This seems to confirm the theory that
there la no substantial caloric in the
rays of the sun, but that heat ia the re
sult of chemical action, generated by the
direct rays with the elements of the at-
mosphere—the directness of the rays
and the density ot the atmosphere,
While standing high upon these moun
tains, even at a distance from any snow
drifts and where the air is still, the sum
mer sun has only sufficient power to
make the air refreshing and pleasant,
while you on the plains are sweltering
under a torrid heat. In the shade of a
rock or two it is always cool enough.
The effect of the altitude is the same
as that experienced by balloonists, who
in ascending from the surface ot the
earth, even on the hottest day, soon
find it necessary to don their overcoats
and warmest clothing. In the night,
here, a good supply of blankets is always
necessary; and nearly every morning
heavy frosts are found, and sometimes
thick ecales of ice are formed. The
crests of some of the mountains and
many of the deep ravines upon their
ides are still full ol masses of snow so
compact that one can walk over them
without sinking. A day or two ago, in
visiting a mine close to the summit of
Mount Bross, I was compelled to cross
field oi snow, hanging over the edge,
which must havo been a mile in length
and probably in places twenty-five feet
in depth.
haunts the bright scenes—a sorry sight
Superannuated beaus and timid strip-
inga fall to her lot. It begirs to
become very dreary. Still she trips
it on a toe which perhaps never was
fantastic and has certainly long since
ceased to be light. Whatever may be
her faults, no one can deny that she has
courage and perseverance. People would
almost wish that she neither. For
the world is a selfish world, and people
who give dances like to see fresh faces
and lovely figures in the ball-room. Here
is the third page of the life of a flirt. It
is not a pleasant picture to look at. It
is not—except from the moralizing
cynic’s point of view—an agreeable ob
ject to contemplate. Quick 1 let us dis
miss the company. Let our guests
hurry home. The dawn comes breaking
through the windows. The musicians
arc tired. The waterman has let his
lights out. The bright sun is in the
heavens. Aud here comes the pretty,
fresh young girl, her face beaming with
the roses of youth and health, and it
may be love, to thank her kind hostess
for a pleasant evening. The old flirt
takes charge of the little creature that
London society will Boon turn into a
young flirt. The admiring beaus escort
both down to their carriage door and the
coachman drives home by the park. The
blackbirds are piping loudly in King-*
ston Gardens. The market-gardeners
are reposing on flat forms of cabbages
and salads that the sleepy horses are
chanically dragging to the great mart at
Co vent Garden. It is just another ball
got through, but the season is at its
height and there are many more to fol
low. Perhaps the elder sister might give
word of advice to the younger, and
warn her before it ia too late of the fate
of a faded flirt.
ville, Madison county, Georgia, on the
first November, 1815. He er»du«ted at 1 BtJlte of Jn«»»ibility. He aae then
the University of Georgia (then the I uten moribund to St. Luke’s Hospital,
where he died an hour or two later.
Jackson has bean for some time in an
insane asylum, hopelessly incurable.
In Boston, Mass., a monument has
been erected to the “discoverer of ante
theaia,” but no man is designated there
on by name. The citizens ot Hartford,
Conn., have erected a bronze statue of
Wells (by Bartlett) in their Capitol
Park. We have no objection to it; and
would suggest that the name of Long,
Wells, Morton and Jackson bo inscribed
on the Boston column, with dates, and
suitable inscriptions. The state of
Georgia will, at no distant day, erect at
tho national and at its capitol or its
university, a statue of Long, wbo was
unquestionably the discoverer of eurgical
anaesthesia.
Franklin College) in 1835. He studied
medicine and graduated at the medical
department of the University of Penn
sylvania in 1889. He then went to
Jefferson, Jackson county, Georgia,
whore he practiced medicine fer many
years. In 1842 he hadfour students in his
office, viz: P. A. Wilhite, John 8. Groves,
D. I. Long and H. R. Long. The two
last were relatives of Dr. Long, and they
are both dead. Wilhite and Groves are
stilllliving (1877). Dr. Long was twenty-
seven years old. His pupils were all
from nineteen to twentysone; they were
on the best of terms with each other, the
Doctor entering into all the sports ol his
pupils with a hearty good will, while h
never neglected his duty as their teachere
On one occasion they wore talking about
tho inhalation of nitrous oxide gas, when
ono of his pupils asked him to make some .. When a paragrapher gets up some-
for them. He said he did not have thing too stupid to go in the funny
f-uitable apparatus for it, imt that the in column, ho gives it to the literary editor,
halation of sulphuric eiher would pro- who puts it in a column headed “ Pearls
duce precisely the same exhilarating 1 of Thought.”
The Ageing Flirt.
London Mayfair.
•She was supreme five years ago. But
five years have told upon her complexion
and her beauty, while the young men
who adored her are young men still, and
woo her little chit of a sitter, who seems
to iter only fit for the governess and the
children’s dinner. The retrospect is not
pleasant. She Ihinks of time wasted, of
nonest hearts toyed with, ombittered,
rejected. Hhe has seen, one by one,
pretty girls of not half her beauty or
style reaped and garnered by the proper
husbandmen. And now eho stands out
rejected, abandoned and in the cold.
The retrospect is not pleasant. But how
about tho prospect 7 It is sadder still.
Tnere is the gay music, the bright rooms,
the polished floors. Still her name
figures on the invitation cards, though
she knows that she is asked, not for
her own but for her sister’s sake. She
might indeed give up the game and
retire with the dignity of years. But
she can not take the hint of tho period
or read tho handwriting with which
Time autographs her brow. She still
Coddling a Streak of Lightning,
Au American lady writes: “At night
my husband comes home with a rush,
hangs his hat upon the floor, throws his
coat upon the first chair, sendB his boots
flying in another direction, works hia
feet into his slippers while unfolding his
paper, reads, eats, reads again uutil bed’
time, throws his paper down for some one
else to pick up, and rushes off to bed.
This is the programme, with exceptions,
until Saturday night. Sunday morning
he bolts bis breakfast and tears around
while getting into his 'Sunday best,’ and
rushes off to church; comes home and
bolts his dinner (never eats), reads a lit
tle, sleeps a little, and away he goes
again. When he tries to keep quiet he
is sure to make more noise ; if he starts
to go round a mud-puddle he is sure to
step flat into it; If he crosses the room
carefully he ia sure to kick the table-leg
or fall over a chair; and let him go to the
table where a spare clean cloth has been
spread, and you will see more of 'decora
tive art’ in five minutes than you ever
dreamed could be accomplished in so
short a time. He is temperate, naturally
kind-hearted, attends strictly to busi
ness and pays his debts like a man ; was
once chatty and domestic, fond o! his
family and homo, but has a lowed him'
self to drift with this rushiug, reading
habit, until now nothing could break it
up short of breaking his neck. Fancy a
wife trying to coddle such a streak of
lightning.
It is not necessary that we shall be
public speakers, or writers, or function!
ries in order that our influence shall be
felt about us. These outward means of
influence are more direct and apparent,
but not more positive and sure. Our
looks, our words, ou actions, nay, even,
our silence, speak of our characters.
We are impressing ourselves upon oth
ers. Our seniors, our equals in age and
standing, even the children about us, are
receiving impressions of our characters.
Wo are breathing a silent but strong
influence into many a soul, which goes
direct from our characters.
Are not our responsibilities fearful, so
great and constant is our influence?
Hence the vast, the inexpressibly vast,
importance of possessing good ebarac-
actera. Our characters are not for our
selves only, but for others. If they
make us happy, they produce a similar
happiness in the minds of all with
whom we associate, differing only in de»
gree.
Think of our friends, relatives and
neighbors, the dear little children, the
circles in social and business life we on-
ter, dally, weekly, yearly; think how
many we meet with, speak with, and
thus influence from year to year, all
through our lives, aud then calculate
the amount of influence we each one of
exert upon tho world. And then
think that, through all whom wc have
thus affected, our influence, in a smaller
degree, is carried to all whom they do or
may influence, and thus outwari and
onward, till it may be that generation
from generation, even through eternal
ages, shall feel the wave of influence
which wo have set in motion, and then
endeavor if wo can to realize the respon
sibility that rests upon us. If our char
acter is bad, oh ! what a weight of wick<
edness and misery we shall cause! but if
good, how pleasing the thought that we
are thus intrumental in sending tide af
ter tide of joy and peace out on the wiDgs
of our virtuous influence to purify and
gladden human hearts in countless
thousands for as many ages.
Explainiug a Joke.
INTIMATIONS OF GENIUS.
CII4RLOTTR F
A hawthorn bough in full and snowy bloonf;
Strange birds that Bitted ever by the ship;
Built on a broken branch, a little nest
Upon wheie eggs brooded the parent bird;
Things unfamiliar floating on the tide—
All these to greit Columbus gave the sign
Of the new land be was about to touch.
Such tights are manifold with thee, m y soul I
Buch hints are breaking oa thine oager eye.
Strange fancies brood or else go winging past;
Fresh forms and growth of Nature's life appear,
Things oli as Ume, yet to the old world new;
The new expressions of accustomed thought.
Thou art already on a new world's yerge,
That mighty world la Oenlus-ah 1 but know
Thou canst expect no better fate than his
Who found that other I poverty, neglect
Follow tho fate ot him who finds a world
Whether It be of matter or of thought.
Not now, not here, will be thy claim allowed,
Butlang years heocs when thou hast left thy clay
And all thy shackles moulder with its dust,
Then shall men know the greatness ef thy work,
The littleness of those that lived with thee.
Through mortal hurts Immortal glories come-
Push on to keel upon thy new-found shore,
And take possession id thy Sovereign’s name I
The projected line ot fast steamers to
carry mails to all river towns between
St. Louis and New Orleans has so far
advanced that contracts have been
signed by John H. Baldwin and associ-
elate owners of the line, with Billings,
Powell A Co., of the American foundry,
New Albany, Ind., for all the machin.
ery and boilers for the vessels. The
steamers are to be completed and ready
for business by the first of December
next, _ _
. .It is alleged that an earthquake was
felt at Niagara Falls ou the morning of
the 21st. A St. Louis gentleman, now
viaiting Norristown, called at our office
next day and explained the cause of the
supposed phenomenon. His theory is
that a Chicago girl at the falls was
charged five dollar! by a hack driver for
driving her around for an hour and a
half, when siio very properly “put her
footdowu” on tho attempted extortion—
hence the quaking.—f Norristown Herald.
Silent Influences.
a patty ol nine, the reaaon of his mirac
ulous escape being that he “didn’t go
oudt in der poat.”
Autuntil Fashion Whispers.
1,10At. A OVERTIME* ERTR.
Will be inserted at the following rates:
Sheriff sales, per square f 3 50
Sheriff’s mortgage hales 5 00
Application for Jeffers of adnuatration SCO
Application for letters of guardianship 5 00
Dismission from administration 5 00
DWmmion from guardianship 5 00
cave to sell land 4 00
Application for homestead 4 00
Notice to debtors and creditors 4 00
.Sale of real chlate bv administrators,
executors and guardians, per square 3 50
Sale of perishable property, ten days... 2 00
E-tray notice, thirty days 2 00
Anxoi nchmknt.—All bills for advertis
ing in this paper are due on the first appear
ance cf the advertisement, when the money
ia needed.
THE ARRIVAL.
He came into the office modestly and
shyly, as was befitting, and asked to see
the man who put jokes into the Adver
tiser. The joker was engaged in reading
some very exciting tables of trade and
navigation returns, in order to Inform
“An Old Subscriber” how many gallons
of beeswax had been exported from the
Province of Prince Eiward Island in the
year 1871, and was consequently in a
very hilarious mood. The visitor took
ff his hat, mopped his manly brow with
a dirty handkerchief and placed before
the newspaper man a scrap of paper on
which was written:
“When Sir Joseph Porter dies the
company will be treated to half-and-half
•Porter and bier.”
The newspaper man read it, looked up
and exclaimed, “What is it about?”
“It is just a little joke, you see.”
“Ah ! I didn't notice. I will read it
again.”
He reperused, and then asked, “Where
iB the joke?”
“Why, the play on words—a pun, you
know—Porter and bier.”
“Oh, ah, yes. Porter and bier. Well,
did you ask Mr. Porter about this ? Will
he be pleased to see his name in the
paper in that connection ?”
“Why, there is no such person. Sir
Joseph Porter is a character in ‘Pina
fore.’ ”
“Well, ’ mused the newspaper man
“if there is no such person 1 don’t see
how he can die. A person who don’t
exist can’t die very successfully. Any
attempt to kill a man who don’t live
must necessarily prove a failure.”
“But you don’t understand,” explained
the amateur joker. “You see the whole
point is in the play on the two words—
porter and bier. Porter and beer mixed
is called half-and-half. Now you catch"
the idea, don’t you ?”
“Well, I understand it so far. But
where’s the joke?”
“Why, I explained ”
“Yes, I know that you explained.
You said porter and beer mixed is called
half-and-half. But that kind of porter is
not a man—it is a liquor, and anyhow,
you don’t spell beer light.”
“But that's the point. You notice
there the words have different meauings
and the same sound. It is to bring out a
different idea that the word itself con*
veys that I have tried, aud I flatter my
self ”
“No, no,” interrupted the newspaper
man, “not flatter. “Your grammar is at
fault. The joke is flat, not flatter.”
At this point some of the people in the
Banctum interfered and the enemy beat a
graceful retreat without any casualties.
.. We frequently hear of narrow es
capes from drowning, the victims in
nearly every iustauce being rescued
“just as they were going down for the
third time.” Why is it that some are
not saved when about to go down the
second time ? Let us bear of some one
saved before going down at ail, like the
Dutchman who was tho sole survivor o!
Th? Princesi style of dress will con
tinue in favor.
With long trains the balayeuse of
white lace ia still in favor.
Elaborate decorations are in favor for
evening and reception robes.
Crimped and copeaux fringes are very
pretty, and are favored trimmings.
Puffed paniers have been generally
adopteu in place of plain, tight»-fitting
overskirts.
Belts of leather or morocco have
buckles of strass, nickel, steel or oxy*
dized silver.
Gilets and revers are net quite so
popular as they were last Benson, even in
combination suits.
A tall lady Bhould avoid stripes aud
make her selections from the new fab
rics in checks and figures.
Black dresses, trimmed with pink
bows or flowers, will greatly become a
lady of pale complexion.
For full dress, sleeves are semi-short,
leaving room for the bracelets, which
e worn over the long gloves.
A pretty fichu is composed entirely
of kilted Bretoune lace, and ornamented
with bows of of eaude-nil satin ribbon.
Madras skirts in bright-colored pat
terns are pretty with tunica of some light
fancy woolen material draped over
them.
A stylish lace bonnet is simply yet
effectively decorated with long ostrich
plumes and a dark red rose and foliage.
Plain redingotes,stitched all round,and
very tight fitting to the figure, are be
coming to tall slight ladies with small
waists.
A short costume requires to be made
and trimmed more carefully than the
trained one, otherwise it does no: look
distingue.
Moyen Age fans are painted upon
satin cambric, in floral patterns, rustic
scenes, birds, and animals, and have
plain lining of a different color.
Indian cashmere, beige and Llama
tissues are combined with fancy foulards,
Indian and brocade silks and satins in
the stylish autumn costumes.
Satin de Leon is a new material of
corded silk, satin finished and two faced.
In certain lights the color of one face
shows upon the other, as in the change
able fabrics of olden times.
The new solitaire studs havo a separate
stem, which is introduced into the but
tonhole and upon this stem the stud is
fitted, when it snaps and is locked.
Jewels are in great favor, and necklaces
or lockets and crosses suspended from
chains, ribbons or velvets are worn even
over the high-necked bodices.
Jn stockings, hair stripes of two colors
upon a light ground la the style most in
favor, and in Lisle thread stockings the
lighter stripe of the two is of silk.
An elegaut dress of pompadour foulard
in floriated stripes, all the tints ot which
aro faint and melting one into the other,
has underskirt and trimmings of pale
blue silk.
The novelty in walking shoes is of kid,
with sides of the dress material with
which it is to be worn. The shoe is or
namented with a large bow of embroi
dered ribbon and a steel or silver buckle.
A Diana Vernon hat of white French
chip is lined with pink satin, turned up
with a tiny cluster of pompen roses and
trimmed outside with white ribbon and
along white feather.
The London Spectator thinks that
women care more for nature, and
moro for art. A cynical bachelor might
say that perhaps that is the reason why
men and women care so much for each
other.
A stylish dress for a bridesmaid is ot
rose-colored Surah, trimmed with very
narrow flutinga, and tunics cf fancy
changeable gauze, striped with rose-col
ored satin, made with puffed paniers fin
ished with pretty Bretonne lace.
For a matron a handsome bonnet iH
white with large crown and open border,
lined with old gold-colored satin, and
garnitured in front with a cluster ol
large fullblown roses, creamy-white
yellow, pink and crimson, with tinged
foliage and curtain and strings of Bre-
tonne lace.
An autumn hat of straw has brim low
ered in the middle, raised slightly on the
right and much more on the left side.
It is lined with bronze-green shirred
satin, and the large hollow on the right
side is filled up with a cluster of crim
son roses, outside loops of bronze-green
velvet and a large feather of tho same
color.
Wbat do I hear at tho window 7
Did some one call me ? Nar>
It was only the wind, my darling,
Orieiing tho night away—
Only the wind and the shatter
Talking as two friends may.
But now I hoar rome one speaking;
0 listen and you will heart
Itlsonlytne night-bird calling
To her mate in sudden fear;
Only the dead leases falling—
The first dead leavoe o 1 the year.
Bat now there Is s.,me one coming;
1 hear a slop on tho stair.
Nay, nay, it is nothing, darling,
But the rockers of my chair.
I have juit been out in the hallway—
I am sure there is no ono there.
Never a knock at tho doorway,
Never a step in the hall,
Yet Iho Kin* is certainly coming—
How lightly his steps do fall!
A High—and a straightening downward—
And silence is orer all.
Clipped Paragraphs.!
. .The secret of prolonging life ia not
to abridge it.
.. It is good to bo deaf when a slanderer
begins to talk.
None are so old as they who have
outlived enthusiasm.
We can not do evil to others with*
out doing it to ourselves.
Truth is violated by falsehood, and
it may be equally outraged by Bilence.
Nothing i« more easy than irre
proachable conduct.
The public are soon to be permitted
to inspect tho interior of M. Bartholdi’s
istatue of Liberty. She is to have a stair
case terminating in her back hair.
.. A Georgia young man asked his
Bweethe&rt whether sLo had ever read
Romeo and Juliet.” She replied that
she had read Remoo, but she did not
think she had ever read Juliet.
Sitting on a camp-meeting ground
eating peanuts and listening to £dull
sermons may not be a very rapid way of
getting to heaveu, but thon it’s a sure
way.
.. A German gentleman who keeps •
seven-by-nine lager beer phop at the
South Fad treated himeelf to a day's
vacation recently, leaving his son in
charge of “ter business” and a keg of
bser. On hh return be found the keg
empty, and addrcs:cd his offspring as fob
Iowa: “How is dis, Yawcob, dat you
make me only und dollar un dirty cents
for dose keg of beer ? Show me how
you draws der peer ?” Yawcob took a
glass auddrewjit nearly full of beer, with
but the ieast margin of froth, when the
old gentleman, seizing his hand, said;
“ You make dose glasses stand higher
down from der keg, Yawcob, der profit
in der beer bizzineas is in der pubblea.”
Wormy Trout*
lilca4o Time
..The most remarkable unanimity
that is so pleasant to observe between
man and wife is nicely illuUrated by the
following letters of the Bame date: “Ui*
Country, August 20.—Dear John : I
am going to stay another week. Am
having a splendid time. Affectionately,
Julia.” “City, August 20.— Dear
Julia: You can stay another week-
Am having a splendid time. Affection,
ately, John ” For some reason or other,
she concludes to pack up and start for
home immediately, to Bee about hi«
“splendid time.”
A curious fact about the fish in the
Yellowstone is related by Gen. Whipple.
Below the falls the trout are fine fellows
for table use. But above the falls
the fish are wormy. It is no trick
at all for a fisherman to land three hun
dred trout in ten hours, provided his
arm dose n’t become tired and the bait
holds out; but the fish are unfit for ubc
after they have been caught. No trout
has ever been caught above the falls that
did not carry a worm somewhere under
its scaleH. The General examined a
large number of trout, and every one
contained the worm. The worm, when
examined, was found to be in most cases,
about eight inches in length, and resemb
ling a piece of white tape. This reptile,
when freed from Us bed iu the meat,
possibly console ourselves with the re
flection that the sun really shines on tho
United States when it is up. We have
to submit to four hours of sunlessneBS
a day; England is lucky to get four
hours of sunshine. So life has its com
pensation and existence in the United
States remains endurable, though we do
not — geographically speaking—make
quite so great a spread as we thought.
Caught in tho Toils.
Some curious instances of retribution
have occurred from time to time. In
May, 1862, a weaver of Nottingham
brought home a loin of veal and told his
wife to cook it for dinner. As he did
not return to that meal, she put the
veal aside, untouched. In the evening
ho came back and gave her a steak to
prepare for him. After eating the steak
he complained ot horrible pains, and
finally died of convulsions. The meat
he had brought in the morning he had
rubbed with poison, hoping that his wife
would eat it, aud she had fried the steak
in tho drippings of the dish intended for
her destruction. In Englaud, while two
divers were employed in removing the
remnants ot a shipwreck, they found a
tin case full of sovereigns. Both seized it
and struggled for its possession, until
one contrived to smash the window in
the other’s helmet. The unfortunato
man was drowned, and, in hauling his
body to the surface, it became en
tangled with tho air-tube of the other
and broke it. The murderer was found
dead beside the trea-siire lie had wreated
from his victim, whose fate lie shared.