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COLEMAN & KIRBY. Proppielors.
ELLIJAY COURIER
PUBLISHED EVER* THURSDAY
COLEMAN 1 KIRBY. !
Office in the CBurt House ■ |
GEWERALJM ECTORY.~
Superior Court 3d Monday. is'i t
Hay and 2d Monda# in November.
Hon. Jamei R own, Judge. *." :
GeorgoT. GobevSolicitor-Generak
COUNTY COURT.
Hon. Thomas P. Greer, Judge. v ,
MonltTie M. Sessions,County Solicitor
Meets 3d Monday in each month
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Court of Ordinary meets first Monday
ih feach inonth.
TOWN COUNCIL.
M. J. Mears, Intendent.
M. McKinney, T. H. Tabor,
J. Hunnicutt, J.R Johnson, j tjom '
W. H, Foster, Town Marshal.
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COUNTY OFFICERS.
J. C. Alien, Ordinary,
T. W. Craigo, Clerk Superior Court, •
H: Ml Bramlett, Sheriff,
J. H. Sharp, Tax Receiver,
G. W. Gates, Tax Collector,
Jas. M. West, Surveyor,
G. W. Rice, Coroger,
W. F. Hill, Schokdjjkmmisaioner.
The County Boamtof Educationmeels
at Ellijay the in January .
April, July and October. V tj ;
• JUSTICES’ COURTS, fjW
BSoth Dist (L M., Ellijay. It-t Ttiirs''
day,A. J. Dooley J. P., G. H. Randelljj;
N, P. ' w s
■B64th Dist. G. M., Tickaueteßy, Ist'
Saturday, J. C. Anderson, J. P., J. ‘
Parker, N. P ■+ . .. .
907th D ; st. G. M., Boardtown, 4t1,.
Saturday, J S. Smith, J. P., W. E‘
Chancey, N. P.
932d Dist. G. M, Cartecay, 4jh Sa'
urday, S. D. Al en, L. M. Siinmrfns,'N
P.
968th G. M., Mountain! own, 4th Sa -
urday, J. M. Painter, J. P., J.'W. With
erow, N, P
lto9th Diet. G. M., Tails ' reek, 8r,.,
Saturday, Cicero M. Tatum, J. P„ hips..-
fea cliff, N. P.
1036th Dist. G. M., 'teacher, Ist Sat
urday. Joseph Watkin.i, J. P.' Jos. I:
Rilis, N. P.
'l' 91st Dirt. G. M., Ball'Ground, 2d
Saturday. l A..M. P.,
P. Kvima. N. P. \ '
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' Saturday KusSclt, J . P., ' J-ohn l.
Keetd“p . „• * •;
1136th Diet. G. M., Cherry Tog; let
Saturday, John H.Whittier, j. 1\; J: At.
Ward, S.*P.
1274th Dial. G. M., Ridgeaway, 2d
Salaiday John M. Quarle-, J. P., W
>. O. Moore, fif. P. ’ - -
lßo2d Diet. G. M., Coosawa'tee, 3>
Saturday, M. C.. Blankenship, J. P., A
J. Hensley, N. P.
13415 t Dist. G. M., Diamond 2d Sat
urday, W. I>. Sparks, J. P„ Jesse Hold- •
•en; N. P. • '
1.355 th Dist., G, M., Alto, 2d Satur
day, Maxwell Chastain, J. P., B. H. Ah'
derson, N. P.
EILIGIOUS SERVICES. J •
Methodist Episcopal Church, South.—
Every 4th r unday and Saturday before,
by Rev. C. A. Jamison.
Baptist Church. —Every 2d Saturday
and Snnday, by Bev. N. 't. Osborn.
Methodist Episcopal Church Every '
Ist Saturday and Sunday, by ReV.T. D.
Ellington. Every 3d or sth Sunday, by
Rev. R. H. Eobb.
FKATE* i.ECORD.
y Oak Bowery Lodge, No. 81, F. A. M.,
meets first Friday in each month, ‘
P. H. Milton, W. M. V
L. B. Greer, S. W.
w. a. Cox, j. w.
R. Z. Robelts, Treasurer.
‘ “S P. .Garren, Tyler.
T. W. Craigo, Secretary. . ,
J. W. HENLEY,
ATTORNEY AT LAW
JA3PER. GEORGIA 4
Will practice in the Superior Court of the Bluij
Riiige-Circipi. Prompt attention to a 1 busi
lios intrusted to liis care. --
lands for Sale, Mines fo, -Sale,;
TIMBER FOR SAL ,j&,
Water Power for Sale,
LEASES NEGOTIATED BY THE ‘
M tofila and Land Minint
-TEjxrcrsr.
We are at all times prepared to.negoti
ate birth purchases and sales of all kinds
•of real estate, including Mines, Farms,,
and Town property, Water Powers, &c.
Titles to laud examined and transcripts
furnished on application at reasonable
cost. Send for cii cular, or address
T SCE
North Georgia Land and Minins Agency,
ELLIJAY, GA.
E. W. COLEMAN, Manager.
THOS. F. QUEER, Attorney.
H. M. Bmkioss. E. W. Colima s,.
SESSIONS & COLEMAN, .
ATTORNEYB AT LAW,
EI.UJAY. GA.
Will pruuic* in Blu- Kitlge Circuit, County
Court Justice Court of Gilmer County. Lugai
business solicited. ''Promptness'' is our motto;
THE ELLIJAY COURIER.
TSS Tf^Cr.DI^EAUS
r met .one in the iapd of sleep
Who seem'd a friend long known sad
' true.
1 woke. That friend I could not keep,
For him I never knew. ■- - •.
Vet one there was in llfe’e young morn
Loved me, 1 thought, as I loved him.
‘ iow from that trance I waked forlorn,
To find hirlove grow dim.
*t % *
. Ha by whose side in dreams I ranged,
Unknown by name, my friend still seems,
>Vhii4 he 1 knew so well, has changed.
< ‘So both were only dreams.
■ ' ‘ —C. P. Crunch, in the Critic.
DRAGGED DOWN.
BY EDWIN At WELL;
.
Regularly twice a week, about 11.
o’clock in the morning, falls a peculiar
* ftl? on my study door. It is a short,
light, impatient tap, such as might be
given by an obstinate person, under pro
test. ’ I hate to be interrupted at work,
and am liable to grumble at a knock,
but on these occasions I, appear submis
sive— ajmost thankful,
i* .“That fellow’s here again,” says
Phoebe, the maid, looking severely over
my head. Phoebe threshed me when a
boy, and long ago lost all regard'for mv j
'feelings. |
“Very well. Show him in, if you
please, Phoebe,” say I mildly.
“Humph! THe day’ll come wen you’ll
tell me to show him out, and wen it does
don’t say I didn’t warn ye. Here, you!” !
she then, cries shrilly,, through the open !
jdoor, to somebody in.the hall, who was !
JJoiMjd to have' heard this, oocouraging
ih here, and be (puck
atmut ifpSgpjff ' niy old nurse marches
stiffly oißxnd slams the door behind
l .My visitor,' of f
lyi disapproves, is an unwboiSjOTse-tetjr-
In'g mah of perhajfe f|e T siaig
apologetically into, the' roprgand-,r
me with uneasy familiarity.,.
•hair scrapes his. ,colnw,’l9l
i his hard, blotched
*arfinsinuating leer. 'Paisjniijy mi
j styeei, the sturdiest optimist wouf&Kfve
■givjeo'hiip rb.om! Thete.was about him
-smnething tso meau * and. abject, with
something else so flaunting and defiant,
that dMI wrath and insurmountable dh
'flußt would rise at contqmplatitig him.
But I nod to him kindly as .he pulls a
.package ,of pencils or a subscription
book or a patent corkscrew out of his
pocket. lam nodding to a memory; the
-of; a, man I
1 shake handr; fpr I ji ave -set myself to
trv to kindle the ashes of --self-respeot in
this reality I am familiar with to-day.
I buy bis trifljs' and press on him a
package of food’, ready at hand—it needs
little enough pressing, heaven knows!
and talk to -hita hopefiilly of better
times ahead. Then I watch him shuffle
away, to devour the bread and meat and
drink up the money at.the nearest.saloon
Reason snarls “fopl!” but conscience re
minds me that if knows no outlawed
obligations. lam payinar the interest on
an'tild debt.) .
On'an old ,For once the mem- !
'Cry of this 1 man ‘‘gave me a five-dollar
g6!d pie'ce, at a time when gold pieces
lqoked Very huge to si spendthrift school
boy. , My.patrdn of those daya was a
\ff. 0 . r fj c< fts gentlemen', all blue broadcloth
add .patent leather, boots and gold chains, 1
whb drove out to j)r. Flab bee’s academy |
fqr young gentlemen, at Inwood, in a 1
splendid green chariot drawn by dancing
borsfes, glittering with- silver buckles
and rosettes; and we youngsters used to
count the days between his fortnightly
visits. . He was always good for a gen
erous tip all around, and, to me par
ticularly, as his sop’lT chum, he came
down most handsomely! You may be
Sure thdre. w.ap no more popular man ip j
thd CoUptry with.uSjthan Siqpe’s.father,
aiiiTfte' cheer we'used to giYe him as he
drove off' magnificently, with Slope
proudly .beside him, could be
heard a mile. ~Air, Slope had an impos
ing office down.town .and w.ns.' spoken of
generally as a broker; hut his business
. was'of a diversified nature.. "He was a
real; fstate .agent and the .manager of
property and president of •
'ft® Hpreas.Mining company, treasurer of
ft® . Co-operative • B.uilcling association,
correspondent of a noted, wine house qt,
Borderiif and director in a vast number
or enterprises. -He also dealt
largely‘Jn commercial paper, and speed-.
latefl dp,t)ie sftek.exchange. ’ Asa con
sequence .of these man if old ind ustyies, -1
shouldn't .wonder ,i£ t Mr. Slope enjoyed
l° r Some years a large annual income.
. Living4a tine style, entertaining lavishly
.anffbeiugsef dis
position, was .naturally.-much respect-:
®d. ‘ His wife and daughter, moved in a
• selefct circle, were noted for their costly
dresses—thougp Miss Ada was bub fifteen
—atid gavefreely tdthe cause of religion.
Tommy Slope was''the worthy sen of
Such a father. With trinkets galore and
-anything- more for which Tom had a
faney,-he was liberally Supplied. His
treats were something Yo look -forward
to, and-when subscription’ papers-were,
“handed around Tommy’was always down:
for,the largest'sum. ,A wonderful dandv
was Tom, too, Laving afhTiis clothes
made by his father’s' tailor, and quite
setting the fashion tp,the r§stof usbovs.
•He had A private parlor all to himself,
and Was never kept in .at recess, by his
father’s express '-request! With all these
advantages, however, Tom was incorrig
ibly idle and stupid at his books. Ciga-1
•rettes were a .novelty then, but Tom
puffed them unremitteutlv.. Claret punch
TJf in the nature of a vriid and awful
. dissipation >to most of. us,' But' Tom
mixed his bowl and took otf his 'glass
wjth the air of a eonnqisseut His Jove
for sweets wo* inordinate, and 1 am
afmid'hf was a glutton.. When Torarav
Lad bpen yours nt FlabberV bis
, father presented hint with a bewitching
Shetland poay. The boy. soon discov
** Al. Map of Busy Life—lts Fluctuations and its Vast Concerns.”
Ellijay, ga„ Thursday, January 21, im.
ered it waa poor fun to ride alone, and
the next week what should arrive but a
duplicate nag for myself. Our delight
ful adventures, however, were soon cut
Short, for my mother shook her head at
spbl extravagance, and my father
sternly commanded me to return 4 the
beast. He further intimated that the
less I had to do with Master Slope the
better he should be pleased. This was
the first intimation I had that things
with Slope were not what they ought to
be.
Tommy’s governor was as splendid
and jovial atid popular as ever. But
though gas blazed and corks popped still
in the big house uptown, it was getting
to be 'a matter for dexterity ana'
diplomacy to see Slope at his;
office. There were rumors afloat
of hard straits and ugly re
ports abodt malfeasance of trust. And
when the heirs of Hhe Cbventon estate
applied to the court to get an account
of the property which Slope was hand
ling, there promised tcr-be a very pretty
scandal. It was settled somehow, though,
and Slone went on and held up his
head. Many still trusted him. Fortune
failed but slowly, and business fell off
by almpgt imperceptible degrees. Per
haps was the more unfortunate.
Ferhmhad ruin come at once the
weig)u| of the overwhelming disaster
might &4e given the man the courage
and epuigth of despair to struggle
fiomjihder it. Fate him the
chance of a mighty effort. Armed with
the-wisdom of care; full, possibly, of
rectitude and honest regret,
congjgidui of daring, of strength, of pride,
of born of the Conviction
of Repentance, and m face or ruin and
thajpftowning future, what might not
Thppig Slope have done and been and
eMjjpißd? There was none of all this.
81m lost ground too slowly. Slipping,
sfinping slowly downward, he dug his
ffinfers into every fissure of pledge, of
obXgation, of trick, that could delay de
scent. Such is the instinct of the drown
ijijf and the Jailing they say; of lost
j#retches always; postponing the end—
-6m end that comes.
big‘house was given up in course
W titpe. There was a heavy mortgage,
But few kuew that. Slope took an
equally big house at a’ monstrous rent.
Some of the costly upper furniture had
to be sojd the truckmen. The
parties add’ diVners still went on and
the world told how Slope sold his
.hotlse Jor *, heavy profit and was
gettiogieady to build another Those who
had JpAned Slope inpney, however,drank
the wine that .was no longer paid for and
wagers on how long it would last.
Nd.bqdywsa more; not the
tailorr and milliners,-who still believed
Slopes credit good; nor the servants,
who were getting.'.abnormally insolent;
nor the grocer and the butcher and the
wine merchant,nor the man who mended
the chair, nor tbd poor devil who put in
the coal. There was still a brave front.
But there came a time when Mrs. Slope
borrowed money from a neighbor on fur
niture which Slope afterward sold; and
the tradespeople clamored no longer in
whispers; and an execution was put in
and humbug and disguise and imposition
were out of the question. Lying and
twisting and shamming and scheming
and wasting and pwing had not retrieved
51ope!s fortunes, It had placed them
and him. beyond salvation, rather.
The offices down-town gave place to a
poor desk in a cheap corner. Mrs. Slope,
who had keDt boarders in early life, and
was ah honest spul in the main, went
back to her old calling with a stout
heart and belief in her Tom’s genius and
resources, unimpaired. It was only a
temporary arrangement she told her few
friends;, and'she believed so, poor soul!
That Toin should get on his feet again
she believed As firmly as that she should
kfep on using her own. Tommy was
taken out of school and put to work,
where he failed deplorably and was held
only, out of pity for his father. Miss
Ada. made over her old dresses, gave
herself airs to her mother’s boarders and
clung desperately to the skirts of her
fashionable .friends. Slope worked hard
to recover himself at first; but
his spirit was broken. Commercial dis
trust he could stand. He had come to
laugh over his sharp practices as rather
tine business tactics. Under the le
prpaches or- contempt of a “pigeon” he
had “done” he could now chuckle and
grin. But he. loved the easy respect a
spendthrift buys and the cheap popu
larity of the barroom Stripped Of the
■ power to be lavish, to back up loud talk
with the stimulants. to louder, to be
called a good fellow, to brag and strut
ancl swagger, Slope was a peacock with
out. its tail. There was little of real
heartiness or generosity in the man. He
shone only with ( the reflection of money
Poor, though still voluble, he was fawn
ing. No longer treating, he sponged,
and the poor, shabby, bowing, scraping
creature would put up with slights and
sne.ers and brutal jests that once would
have drawn a hot blow, to get his dram
and a chance to show his dun, the bar-'
keeper, that he could still kebp good
company. He talked jauntily of hie
prospects and liked to expand on his
past opulence at this period. • '
Meanwhile he kept away from the
boarding house, from Mrs. Slope, as
much as he could. He was still ashamed
to take her money and meet hef custo-
and he sneaked nut early to avoid
them and ate alone. One day, however,
he confessed to his daughter that he
regarded himself as an injured man. -His
wife,' though her purse seemed to be
filll, did not give him money enough
'Gript heaven! Was his own wife going
to oblige him to ask her for money ! The
next d>y his ‘allowance wai silentiy
doubled, but on his wife’s face was a look
of *qxiety and reproof he bad never seen
before. He was to see it again many,
many time* before that last time, the
horrsr of which comes, at times, even
now. into his sodden, ropy brain. The
shau* of the act soon wore away. He
began to take an Interest in his wife’s
receipts sfid the management of the
house. He gate up going down-town,
and pretended to believe he was needed
in the house. He no longer shfinued
the boarders. On the contrary, he went
to market and collected the 'bills. On
the first of the month his wife discovered
the money he had taken was gone,' and
that her market bills were unpaid.
That was the beginning ot the end.
When his wife scolded—she was not as
amiable as she used to be, poor woman
—be went out and eame back crazy with
drink. It happened again and again.
The house wsus given up. “Of course,”
hi* wife sobbed, “you couldn’t expect
peeple to pay for living under the roof
of- such a selfish, wanton, drunken
brute.” This was when they went into
thofe wretched lodgings where Mrs.
Slope died, and it was on. this occasion
t hat Slope struck her for the first time,
'.da had left them a month, ago, to go
in a shop, she said. The girl’s cheeks
flushed and her eyes flashed when she
said she would never again speak to her
father; and she stopped to l utter a hard,
dry curse upon hjm over the
threshold that she never crossed again.
Theday before she died her mother met
Asp with a companion, on the street.
The next morning they found Caroline
Slope’s body cold beside her straw
The coroner guessed she
died of exposure. The re
porter who described the position of the
bod: when it was found had a curious
thcc y. He said it seemed as if the
won xn.hajl been kneeling when she lost
cons liousness and that the body, with
out nrpport above the waist, had sunk
unti: the head rested on the floor.
Another gentleman of the press insisted
.that the womku died while crouching, as
if from a blow. The woman’s
it appeared, was found drunk in a neigtuij
borihg gin-shop. Hfe wfcj arrested, But
discharged there-being no marks of vifci
fence on the body. 3f . .
Manhood had gone, home and family
had gone, name and friends and money
and the means of living almost had gone,
and yet this man lived. And he lived
and seems content, as ah animal would*
with plenty of food and drink. Now
and tnen he will whimper or curse over
the memory of his misfortunes—which
he speaks cf as wrongs—and mutter
hastily the story of his son’s disgrace—
for Tommy is in jail for picking a pocket.
But I don’t believe he is unhappy. I
doubt that absolute animals have that
capacity. No doubt the world were well
rid of him. But if I dare not take the
responsibility of having him drowned,
dare I let him starve? Beside, he
his ethical uses still.
But I never say all this-id rhoetie' nO,
nob even when lam called upon to pay
for the mfr ,oUr tie gives out, and never
grudges, tit Migrant cats. —New York
Mail and Erpreu.
Draining Ponds for Carp.
The carp culture in the highlands of
central France is a form of industry
which merits a good deal more attention
and imitation than it has hitherto ob
tained On that high plateau there are
ponds of all sizes, many of them large
enough to be dignified by the more
grandiloquent name of lakes, but to the/
country people they are one and all
“etange” and nothing more. These
ponds are one of the chief sources of
wealth of the country, which is mostly
but poor soil for cultivation, As A gVeat
part of it has recently been reclaimed
from moorland and heather. These
ponds are stocked with carp, and once'
every three years a great fishing takes
place. AH the able-bodied- men s 9t the
country-side are engaged for a certain
day in October to meet at one
of the ponds; that on the Lighest
level being taken first. . The sluices
of the pond are opened three days
previously, and the water allowed to
run gradually off,' leaving- the bed of
deep mud which seems to be one of the
necessaries of carp existence. When
there is only a thin rill of water left
trickling down the centre oj the erst
while pond, the fishing begins. ' On all
sides the carp lie’ floundering, panting,-
gasping on the expanse of mud; m some
places the fish are two or three deep on
top of one another. The number of carp
in these ponds is something q'uite extra
ordinary ; they do not seem to- suffer in?
dividualiy from fteir great numbers, for
the fish are remarkably fine ‘and 'heavy.
The men wade through the wind, catch,-*
ing the carp by the gills, and flinging
them on the £ -nk. There tKey are
weighed by men who have some with
carts from the nearest town 'to buy the
fish, and after the weighing the carp are
packed among straw in the carts as tight
ly as possible. When the carts are full
they return.to the town, .and. the carp
are then placed, in tanks. A carp takes
a good deal of killing, and, though be
ing tightly packed in straw for a whole
day and ioltcd down hill for perhaps four
hours, mly strike him as a novel experi
ence, it does hot do him the very least
harm ; and as soon as he is released .f com
durance vile and placed in the tanks, he
resumes the even tenor of Bis way.
Saturday Review. * >*■ -vyr'*
What All, Babies spr.
Babies in China learn to callthejr
fathers l< a-de,” which correspnhcTs to
papa; but de really means ' while
the ais put in for euphony* Mptjiers.
are called “a-ma,” nearly the same as in
this country. Great families sometimes
teach their children to say “siee-ya” for
father, and “aiee-chec” foe mother. The
first means “young lord, ’ and the sec
ond “young lady.” This ma is used by
nearly every nation on to des
ignate the maternal. It is the “one
touch ot nature which makes the whole
world kin.”
A missionary in India says new heathen
temples are being built in 'many of the
cities and villages of thtf country. He
therefore concludes that paganism if in
creasing rather than dying out.
FOR FEMININE READERS.
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To and fro moves the broom
Across the room.
With active grace.
It seeks each place,
While the guiding hand,
With a firm and forceful motion,
Seems to understand,
And pay a true devotion
To the sacred art of neatness.
To 1 lie purity and sweetness <
That should reign In every room,
Through the service of the broom.
Earnestly the patient broom
Seeks the sbreas throughout the room;
Gives to corners zealous care,
I-est the atom* lurking there
Breathe a strain upon the air.
"Many Test may be nave met,
And their impress there have set
But the broom In circling round
Make* of all one common ground.
Gat-ierodain a centered heap,
Each with oil communion keep,
Like the thoughts of men that come and go;
Then togeftfor like a river flow.
Living lessons, grand and strong,
Are taught in this the h >use brooms song—
Bay In day, .
Prepnr- i.owiy,
Sweep from out the soul its selfish aiming!
Bweep away the greed of fodlish gaming!
Sweep from side, from corner, and from
center, 'll
Loose the shutters, let God’s sunlight enter;
Crowning conscience with her trusty broom
As she purifies the worker’s room.
—lnter-Ocean.
Watched Her Wash.
A woman, was in disguise and was flee
ing from some crime she had committed.
She was traveling in a stage, and stop
ped at a country Inn. The travelers
alighted, and the supposed man got out
with the others. All went to the wash
shelf at the end of the porch. A man
was sitting, leaning against one of the
posts of tne porch. He was watching
fee woman in disguise as she washed her
wi and hands, and when she was done
||h once arrested her. He discovered
|M|x by her manner of applying the
IHh washing her face. All men rub
upii|down and sqort. All women
U|>fdy ‘tWi.Water and,'Stroke gently down
ward. V-tf
Winter Basnets.
Velvet cro'wmL on the latest imported
bonnets, are cn&kioiderpd with silk and
illuminated duplicated
on cloth crowns Jti hxquifiSe needlework,
pd there Are other Crowns of odd pleated
wfool braid with a large carved wooden
behd in each opening. These crowns
aft all sold separate!j, for those who de
sire to make thci#uwn bonnets, which
is really a very simplejhing to do and no
. a profound to the novice.
"A frame is simply phttUfiy 1 coVereeF
-with cloth, velvet or plush. The crown
can be purchased embroidered; if of
plain cloth or velvet it may be dotted all
over, crdVvn included, with beads in a
little diamond, dots, or tiny loops, or
rows of the smallest fiat buttons are
seen fastened on cloth or velvet, but
beads are used in the utmost profusion.
The fur felts of a fashion passed away
are again revived; these are trimmed
with narrow fur or bands of Astrakhan.
The trimmings on the winter bonnets
are the reverse qf grace. The tall bows
are lined with a stiff net to keep them
upright ; these consist of six or eight,
and are held together by a band;
across these is placed the brilliant head
or wing or plumes of some bird of the
-tropics. -For a hat, several quill feathers
are used. The fashionable wool ribbon
in frfse is satin on the under side. In
order that the dainty neck garniture
may not be hidden, and for several other
good reasons, bonnet strings have passed
away and' In their place is “a throat
bow;’*- The bonnet is tied fast with very
narrow strings unseen. To this is fas
{ened a flat, large bow, rather pointed,
ike the Midas' ears of the summer, the
pointed part pinned to the side of the
bonnet to keep it in place. These are
decidedly an improvement on the regu
lar bonnet strings, less expensive and
less trouble. The narrow strings, in
some instances, are fastened on the out
side of the bonnet with an ornamental
giit, ; steel, or other pin. Blue ii used
on brown, poppy on sea green, sunflower
of marigold yellow on black when be
coming to the complexion. One of
.ViroL’s Paris turbans, of exquisitely fine
wood brown cloth, has a brim of As
trakhan fur.’ The trimming consist of
broad ribbon, striped moss green, brown
red, made in three elongated
’bows fastened with an antique ornament
of-t>xidiied silver.—©cod Houtekeeping.
Fashion Notes.
Children’s frocks are trimmed with
many rows of braid.
All-around belts are much seen around
the waist and polonaise.
Fichus are fastened at every possible
place with tiny brooches.
Bed velvet, high-crowned hats, are en
circled with jet ornaments.
Jet fringos afe shown in more elabor
ate design* than ever before.
jtlpop earrings are being favorably con
'sTdered. They are of every imaginable
design: J *
’ Dark red is in flavor, and dark green
Js worn in.the street and. on occasions of
ceremony. #
- Next seison, it is safe to predict, will
briQgdfftd fffvdr the cord and tassels of
time lang syne.
Cashmerp, Chinese crape and soft silk
are used for overdress with spirits of
figured material. •
-Chenille is very much used in mara
bout and dep fringes, and the “mouse
tail,” in very fine strands, each tipped
with a bead of wood, jet, gold or Acorn,
is very popular.
* Tailor ma}.e dresses continue plain and
severe. The addition of so much trim ■
ming robs them of their first intent, and
prevents tbeir holding a distinctive
pincq ft the modes.
A black velvet capote, with full
crown, is trimmed with a mass of loops
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and watered ribbon, among which neetle
three Java sparrows. The string! are
of broed watered ribbon.
Drawing a very decided line between
the tailor-made dresses and dressmakers’
tailor dresses, the latter have frise or
boucle wool material for collars and cuffs
and even for the waistcoats.
Plain woolen goods are made up with
sashes of the same material, with exceed
ingly fine stripes of chenille at wide
intervals. The ends of the sashes repeat
the stripes, but in greater breadth, alter
nating with frise stripes.
Glass-Making.
The New York Herald, in a review of
A. A. Sanzay’s “Wonders of Glass
Making,” translated from the French,
■ays: From paintings on the Theban
tombs of Benia Hassan, which are sup
posed to date about two thousand years
before the Christian era, the author gives
illustrations of the Theban glasamakera
at work. The glass bead found at Thebes
by Captain Hervey, of the Royal ma
rines, and described in 1847, contains a
legend which proves that it was made
not far from the year 1,600 B. C. When
Cfesar Augustus subdued Egypt (96 B.
C.) he ordered that glass should form
part of the tribute to be imposed on the
conquered. The manufacture of glass
was thus introduced to the Romans, and
ultimately became a very profitable in
dustry at Rome.
It is well known that silica is chief
component of glass. To state in a few
words the composition of the varieties
of glass, the author quotes the following
from a scientific expert; * ‘Potash or soda
and lime are mixed with silica to obtain
window and plate glass; add oxide of
iron and you nave bottlo glass; substi
tute oxide of lead and you have crystal;
replace it by oxide of tin and you pro
duce enamel. Plate glass is composed
of silica, soda and lime (nearly in this
proportion—silica, 73, lime, 16, and
soda, 12).
M. Sanzay gives clear ideas of how
glassware is produced from the common
elements entering into its composition.
The furnaces have to furnish a tempera
ture of between 1,800 and 2,700 degrees
Fahrenheit, The pots which serve for
melting the glass vary in form, and some
contain ten to twelve hundred weight of
melted glass. To remove the defect of
brittleness every piece of gloss, when
I finished, is placed, while at red heat, in
| an especial furnace, where It is left to
cool gradually. This Is the annealing
process. A hollow ijon tube, one of |ts
extremities, which ine giassblower holds
in hisytheqd, finished with $ wooden
'cavm§gi--te -ttm - "iDWWUig-'NYm," the
most Indispensable of the glassblower’s
tools. By its aid alone the blowing oh,
the glass is performed, which is the
method employed in the manufacture of
nearly every object of glass. The instru
ment measures from six to nine feet in
length. With another instrument called
the “pouty”—a long, solid iron rod—the
glass is drawn out or twisted to a fine
thread. A workman applies his pouty
to the glass while it is still in a state of
fusion and adhering to the blower’s pipe,
and going backward he draws the pouty
with him, while the blower, who holds the
tube in his hand, proceeds in a contrary
direction or remains stationary.
Struck by the inconvenience of using
delicate human lungs for blowing glass,
M. Robinet, a glassblowcr, invented in
4824 an implement by which cylinders
of large dimensions could bo manufac
tured. The Robinet pump is “a small
brass cylinder, closed at one end, in the
interior of which is an iron spring; in
the lower part is a sort of wooden piston
with an opening covered with feather,
retained in its place bv a bayonet fasten
ing pferced with a hole. The mouth of
the pipe, which is held vertically, is
brought into contact with the piston;
the air contained in the cylinder is com
pressed by a rapid movement given to
; the spring and then iujected to the glass
which is to be made.”
Studying Hydrophobia.
A French writer in an article describ
ing the methods of M. Pasteur, the
French scientist who has discovered a
cure for hydrodhobia, says: Biting dogs
and bitten dogs fill the laboratory. With
out reckoning the hundreds of mad dogs
that have died in the laboratory during
the last three years there never occurs a
case of hydrophobia in Paris of which
Pasteur is not informed. Not long ago
a veterinary surgeon telegraphed trim:
“Attack at its height in poodle dog and
bulldog. Come.” Pasteur invited me
to accompany him, and we started,
carrying six rabbits with us in a basket.
The two dogs were rabid to the last de
gree. The bulldog especially, an enor
mous creature, howled and foamed in its
cage. A bar of iron was held out to
him; he threw himself upon it, and
there was a great difficulty in drawing
it away fram his bloody fangs. One of
the rabbits was then brought near to the
cage, and its drooping ear was allowed
to pass through the bars. But notwith
standing this provocation the dog flung
himself down at the bottom of his cage
and refused to bite. Two youths then
threw a cord with a slip loop over the
dog as a lasso is thrown. The animal
was caught and drawn to the edge of
the cage. There they managed to get
hold of him and secure his jaws, and the
dog, suffocating with fury, his eyes
bloodshot, and his body convrlsed with
a violent spasm, was extended upon a
table and held motionless, while Pasteur,
leaning over his foaming head at the
distance of a finger's breadth, sucked up
into a narrow tube somo drops of saliva.
In the basement of the veterinary
surgeon’s house, witnessing this formid
able tete-a-tete, I thought Pasteur
grander than I had ever thought him
before.
A single chandelier in the mountain
castle of that eccentric spendthrift, the
king of Bavaria, cost $24,000.