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6( R. S. HOWARD.
VOLUME VI.
A 3;other’s Diary.
ill? ,bHl)y on the floor,
Vt ; og lor,hefender; .
.. t se eni9 to make it sneeze;
“on a bender!”
the spools upset and gone,
Chair? drawn into file,
59 strung across,
Jo.ht to make one smile;
c i pan . curls smooth, eyes bine,
4 ‘ flow these "harms will dwindle,)
f or 1 father think—don’t yon
Bfibv “is a swindle!”
a tangled, silken floss
' getting in blue eyes;
. , nn that would not keep clean,
If a baby tries!
V blue shoe untied, and one
Underneath the table;
, a : rs gone nmu, and blocks and toys,
fl>U as they are able;
jdby in u high clmir, 100,
Yelling i° r his dinner,
voon in mouth; I think—don’t you—
gaby “is a sinner!”
S^ht -chairs all set back again,
Blocks and spools in order;
One blue shoe beneath the mat
p e lis ot a marauder;
Apum folded on a chair,
plaid dress torn and wrinkled,
I*o pink feet kicked pretty bare,
Little tat knees crinkled;
In the crib and conquered, too,
By sleep, blessed evangel,
>'ow I surely think—don’t you—
Bativ “is an angel!”
—Baltimore Sun.
A little mystery.
■Yes. Will,she is the prettiest little
man y< u 1 ver set your eyes on,” said
'ire Red burn to his friend, William
forton. “ 1 have been happier since
Umarriage than at any other period
tjring my past life. In fact, I feel
rented with myself and all the world
itothe bargain.”
“Is she a blonde or brunette?”
eked Will. “ I prefer the former style
if beauty,”’ lie added.
•Another reason why you will like
j wife, her hair is of the loveliest
jlden shade and she has the bluest of
*es.‘
"01 <vurse she’s young? Though it
s need less for me to ask such a ques
err; for y u surely would not marry
■elderly person, thatjs to sy, one as
t as yourself, h r you are on the shady
lie of fort v, you know?”
"W . WIJ, •.he is only twenty-five,
mi a witlo’v.”
■‘Mint, have you married a widow,
tove? Oh, have you forgotten the ad
deethe chin Weller gave to his son
towel? Oh, Dave, that you should
ne reached years of discretion to
tftken in in that manner! You
iif' tied yoursei* to some designing
rViim, who will either lead you a
av.if or put a few soothing drops in
[oorcoffee some fine morning.”
Will, if I didn’t know that
w remarks were made out ot pure
*ort, I rhould it acken those two mis
fel-nuik;!’'s. 1 vitikliug eyes of yours
air casting aqu s;<*ns upon the charac
:;r of my r little wife. If all the
ibws were like the one you shall be
ttwideed to to-morrow evening, then
■■would be well for all m n to take old
tiid s advice, for she is enough to
- “i!y man’s head, however unim-
Jressible he may be.”
The friends parted.
At the appointed hour on the follow
- teaing Will Norton made his ap
fearance at Dave’s house. •
being introduced to his friend’s
'l’M* ill exclaimed:
-ure Jy 1 have seen you before, Mrs.
Ul ‘1 where I can’t recollect at
time.”
1 'bushed when he made the remark
-unnecessarily, Will thought.
s ’r l)ave? wllat was y°ur wife’s
I)etore s be married you?” asked
■ when Mrs. Redburn had with
,Wn’,ind them to talk over their
w school days
•0r... ....
Tilton,’ he replied,
j,, . liiUst have married again since
* 1(1 which was a year ago—
"U hei- name was Dale. I’m
„^! u s the same person.”
lV ’. sure you are mis
‘ s “ e was never married but
I: aiii i! U 1 met * ier S^e assure d me.
one of those strange resem
. ■ ' s now and then met with. Yes, I
'/ " u :ue Mistaken for once in
f believe every word that
fr om her lips.”
[•; aS tUe y bad finished this sub
‘ .> a, journed to the parlor, where
tuteriained by Mrs. Redburn,
J' lU ' was finely cultivated, and
:la no il Skillf m Performer upon the
W’ 1 '! )Ilversa ti° n and music, both
vij. 1 ‘ instrumental, the evening
P f!^ ail tly, and Will Norton con-
Pow ’ a,s lieu d that Mrs. Redburn’s
. • "i fascination were very great,
itr es j s , ;h ‘ n lCt - that she was perfectly
B .
: 4t |* ' k:s own mind he was certain
. nad met Mrs. Redburn under
of Dale.
"ttiK’ n " more was said about tbs re
liance.
Some
found i) w . wce hs passed away and
' wi' lV ° JU3fc as muc h in love with
ried v as w b en they were first mar
n one evening he took a gen
..Jf 1 home to dine with him.
°- f W pa,r d° n what you may think
Jog,. ’ s * ° n my part, but what was
%?>> le 8 name when you married
a informed a that she was
o'* , ) J |°re he married her.
r t iiton,” he replied,
ici j " to me that I met her under
It ‘. l l U!, me—Mrs. Waldon—though
Jbt mistaken.”
THE FOREST NEWS.
i l ' ar<Uy k “ ow what to think of
hil ™“,TT? Davc timaelf when
n s guests had departed.
“ Here are two men who think they
names She* tW ° different
aSßUred me that she had
unfoided all her past life to me. It
isn t possible she has deceived me in
any manner, but still it’s strange she
should bear such likeness to two differ
nt women. Confound the thing! I
really don’t know what to make of it.
, ie w * d think that 1 doubt her verac
tj, and good-bye to love and happiness
when anything that savors of mistrust
comes between us,” he thought.
1 at s ttie matter. Dave?” his wife
asked, who had entered the room just
then. “ Come,” she said, in the most
persuasive manner, “tell me what wor
ries you?”
1 might as well tell her, ana relieve
my mmd,” he thought. “ She will only
laugh at me, for it isn’t true.”
He really did not know how to break
it to her; and for a moment he sat still
puzzled and bereft of speech.
‘‘lt concerns you, my darling,” fie
said, at last. “ Mr. Norton said that he
thought he had known you under a
different name from that of Tilton; and
Mr. Sands, who was here this evening,
says the same. One met you as Mrs.
Dale, and the other as Mrs. Waldon. I
told them that they were laboring under
some strange delusion of sight, as you
had only been married once, and had
wedded a Mr. Tilton, and that I placed
entire faith and confidence in what you
had told me.”
He raised his eyes to hers as he
finished speaking; and on her face,
which was flushed, was what looked
very much like an expression of shame,
and her glance did not meet his, for her
eyes were cast down.
“Dave,” she said, “ you have heard
tne truth. They have met me under
the names you mention.”
He uttered a startled exclamation; but
she rapidly went on:
“ Dave, I unfolded to you all ray past
life, excepting only the character ol my
late husband.
“ He was unsuccessful in business dur
ing the first year of our marriage, and
having no means of supporting himselt
and me, and being unable, after several
efforts, to obtain a situation, he thought
the world was using him roughly, and,
being nerved to desperation, cast all
principle aside, and took to swindling
people as a means of maintenance.
“ He went from one place to ancther,
changing his name when he removed to
a diflerent section of the country to pre
vent discovery or recognition.
“ I pleaded with him on my knees to
try and gain an honest living; told him
I would be willing to live in the plainest
possible manner; but in vain.
“ I only refrained from telling yoi
this through fear that it might pain you
to know that I had led such a miserable
life.
“ This is the truth.”
He had listened to her in silence; but
as she finished he clasped her in his arms
and said:
“ Forgive me, darling, for my momen
tary suspicion. 1 believe all you have
told me. The mere thought that you
were false maddened me, for I love you
as woman was never loved before.”
And he proved his assertion; for their
after life was one of peace and content
ment —of unclouded happiness.
Some Things Not Generally Known.
Coaches were fiist used in Boston in
1669.
The first paper money in New Eng
land was issued in 1689.
A mint for coining silver was estab
lished in Boston in 1652.
Bears were very numerous within two
miles of Boston in 1725.
Horse-racing on Boston Common was
complained of in 1769.
The first duel in the United States
was fought at Plymouth, Mass., in
1621.
Captain Kidd, the pirate, was ar
rested in Boston and sent to England in
1699.
The Egyptians made glass and col
ored it beautifully 3,000 years before
Christ.
For nearly eight hundred years Lon
don bridge was the only one over the
Thames.
The first child in New England was
born in Plymouth Colony in 1620, and
his name was Peregrine White.
The epoch oi Abraham may be fixed
by that of Joseph, who went to Egypt
1,730 years before the time of Christ.
The original name ot Albany, N. Y.,
was Beaverdyck. It was founded by
the Dutch in 1623.
The first armed vessel commissioned
by Washington sailed under the pine
tree flag, a white flag with a green pine
tree upon it.
Rome Attractions,
When love and affection are banished
from home life loses its greatest charm.
To constitute a truly happy home,;tliere
should be pretty little personal adorn
ment on the part of the wife, who
thereby shows a desire to please her
husband and add to the general attrac
tions of nome. A pleasant word on her
part, when the overworked man comes
home, often eases any raw edge of some
trouble on his mind, and draws out a
corresponding desire to be both agree
able and respectful, which character
istics are always recompensed by affec
tion ; while roughness and impatience
are soon followed by insolence, and
when sweet temper gives way to anger
and discord the home circle is no longer
attractive. A disrespectful manner on
the side of the husband or wife leads to
disastrous consequences,
JEFFERSON, GA., FRIDAY, JULY 16, 1880.
TIMELY TOPICS.
The employment of foreigners in the
Japanese service is an annually decreas
ing number. The Japanese government
is having its subjects taught in Europe,
in order that they may become compe
tent to do the work which Europeans
are now paid for performing. One by
one foreign employees are being super
seded by natives in various departments
and public works. The Japanese are a
self-helpful people, and will not keep
foreigners to do what they can accom
plish themselves. Japan, therefore,
will soon cease to be a field for the ener
gies of educated foreigners.
Under the United States postal laws,
if you spoil a stamped wrapper or
envelope you can have it redeemed at
its face value at th*' postoffice. When
postal-cards were introduced postmas
ters were instructed to redeem such as
were spoiled before using at t he rate of
four cents in stamps for every five cents
in face value of the cards. Many postal
cards are spoiled in printing, others in
direction, while many printed cards are
simply unused. These can all be ex
changed at the rate mentioned. A
stranger appeared at the Louisville post
office recently with 1,000 or 1,000 of
these postal-cards per day for several
days in succession. The cards were re
deemed, but there were so many the
stamp clerk inquired, to satisfy his
curiosity, where the stranger got them.
He said he was buying them up at
various business houses, paying forty
and fifty cento per 100 for the useless
cards.
A lieutenant of the Imperial Guard
artillery recently confessed to a stern
Russian father that he knew something
about a revolutionary plot. The news
so exasperated the old gentleman that
he blew out his son’s brains on the spot,
and discharged a second barrel of his
revolver in his own breast, inflicting
upon himself a mortal wound. Upon
entering the house the gendai-mes found
father and son lying side by side, the
former dead and the latter dying. A1
the members of the household were
taken into custody, and among them
was discovered the notorious socialist
Jurkowski, whom the Russian police
had long sought tor in vain. He had
arrived at the house with the lieutenant
under a false name, and had remained
there several days as a guest when the
catastrophe led to his detection and ar
rest.
Jews, Mussulmans and Christians now
live in harmony in Palestine, and a non-
Mussulman seldom suffers in any respect
on account of his creed. Even the red
fez is not obligatory on non-Mussulman
government servants. European cloth
ing is now common, both with men and
women, and many of the latter may be
seen dressed in the latest Paris fashions.
The pashas no longer move about in
constant state, but may often be seen
on foot in the streets with only one or
two attendants. European furniture,
chairs, sofas and tables are now com
mon. Great bells are now allowed to
be tolled in the Christian churches; old
Christian churches have been restored
and new ones built in Jerusalem, Naza
reth, Tiberias and elsewhere. So, also,
have a number of synagogues, especially
in Jerusalem, been built during these
twenty-five years. All this progress
must not be taken as a sign of any lax
ity in religion on the part of the Mo
hammedans, who have during this time
built many new mosques and otherwise
shown themselves as much attached to
their religion as ever. Justice, also,
is much more impartially administered,
and the old barbarous punishments have
been abolished. In Jerusalem the san
department is in charge of a Ger
man physician and building affairs are
in the hands of a German architect.
Of the kind of “ nobility ” that exists
only in name, France, like Poland and
Italy, seems to have a supply sufficient
to meet the demands, for years to come,
of American girls ambitious to support
some impecunious count, and to live in
titled unhappiness. Here is a sample
advertisement from a Paris paper: “An
honorable English lady, married to a
French nobleman, is well acquainted
with three dukes, four marquises and
five counts, belonging to the highest
French nobility, who are desirous to
marry English or American ladies hav
ing enough income to keep up a high
rank in the St. Germain society of Paris.
The titled persons in question are from
thirty to sixty years old. They do not
require titled ladies, but honorable
ones. The same English lady can pro
cure the title of a marquis, and the title
of a count to gentlemen of fortune, aged
from thirty to thirty-two or thirty-five,
if they consent to marry the young
ladies who, by contract, can give that
title to themselves and to their descend
ants. The greatest discretion is prom
ised and will be observed. Apply, dur
ing a fortnight, etc.”
Saved by her pet dog is the experience
of Miss Priscilla Harrison, of San Fran
cisco. She went out for a walk recently,
and for eight days was not seen. When
found she was far up in a mountain, and
the party was attracted by the barking
of two dogs that had accompanied her.
It is thought that the dogs saved her
life by keeping her warm at night—one
sleeping on her feet, the other by her
side.
The editor of one of two rival news
papers in a Western village boasted
that he had just obtained a font of new
type. To which the other retorted:
“Why, we procured ours a long time
ago ”
FOR THE PEOPLE.
A Hermit’s Lite.
A letter from Dingmrn’s Ferry, Pa.
to a New York paper, says: Austin
Sheldon, who has occupied a rocky
cave in the forests of Lehman township,
Pike county, seven miles from that
place, for more than thirty years, living
without a companion of any kind, has
become tired of leading a single life,
and recently became enamored of a girl
yet in her teens, who resides within a
few miles of the hermit’s abode. The
hermit has frequently visited the girl’s
home, and the last time he was there he
asked her parents to consent to their
marriage. Of course, they refused, and
ordered the hermit to make a hasty de
parture, and never trouble them again.
Sheldon felt greatly injured, and has
since been looking in other directions
with a view to matrimony.
Sheldon’s life has been a sad and
checkered one. .He was born in the
village of Bradford, Conn., in 1806, and
consequently is seventy-four years old.
In his boyhood he learned the black
smith’s trade, and arriving at man’s
estate he mysteriously left his home,
came to Pike county and purchased a
few acres of wild, uncultivated, worth
less land. Upon this land was a cave,
in which, with a.few alterations, the old
hermit has since made his abode. Dis
appointment in love is said to have been
the cause of his leaving his home. His
parents were well-to-do farmers, and it
was not until a paragraph appeared in
a New York paper a few years ago that
they knew of Austin’s whereabouts.
A brother and sister came here and
visited their long-lost brother, and after
staying with him in his cave over
night, used e very inducement to have
him abandon his lonely and rocky habi
tation and return with them to the
home of his childhood, where he would
be well cared for. He refused, stating
that he preferred to die as he had lived,
a hermit. They left him some clothing
and money and returned home. Shel
don has frequently received letters from
his family since then, entreating him
to abandon his wretched abode. A
short time ago he partially concluded
to do so, but becoming acquainted with
the young girl above referred to, he
gave up the idea altogether. Sheldon’s
dress and appearance has of late years
improved, although he is a wretched
looking object yet.
This cave is only about 12x14 feet,
with a slab roof. His furniture con
sists of four blocks of wood for chairs,
a box used as a table, a fireplace, over
which he does his cooking, and an old
rickety rocking-chair in which he
sleeps. He has about an acre of land
cleared, on;which be grows a little corn
and garden truck. What he grows and
what is given to him by the neighbors
keeps him. He is as deaf as an adder,
has been so for years, and persons who
visit him occasionally, out of curiosity,
converse with him by writing upon a
slate, which the old hermit keeps for
that purpose. He is intelligent, and
reads a great deal. The book he most
loves is the Bible, which lid has lead
through many times, and most of
which he has committed to memory.
He has had many hairbreadth escapes.
A few years ago his cave was sur
rounded by the forest tires, and the old
man came near being roasted alive.
He once fell from the uppermost
branches of a huge chestnut tree,
breaking several ribs and otherwise
crippling him, and he has been fre
quently found in his cave in a freezing
condition. That he will eventually be
found dead there is almost certain.
The Dark Side of Leadville.
A letter from Denver. Col., to the
Utica Herald, says: I must confess that
I have been very much disappointed.
Denver is a busy town, but outside this
place there is not much of Colorado.
You may believe as much as you please
about Utica people doing well here and
set the rest down as all talk—nothirg
more. For instance, I met a carpenter
here who is well known to you on
Genesee street. He was glad to see one
from Utica. He received $2.25 per day
in Utica; here he gets $2.50 per day.
It cost him $4 per week to live in Utica;
in Denver $7.50 per week at the lowest,
and not as good as you can live in Utica
for $3. All whom I have heard of
from Utica as doing well, with one ex
ception, would gladly be back in Utica
if it was not for pride or fear that they
could not get their old jobs. I met a
young man the other day driving a dirt
cart at S2O per month. I remember
him inUUtic a proud, nobby young
chap, who would hardly recognize a
common person. His parents are well
to-do, but he is ashamed to go home
again. After living here a short time,
young fellows do not care to leave, as
they frequently get in loese habits.
Gambling seems to be the most profit
able business, and leads everything else
from the newsboy up to the merchant.
There are five thousand people in Lead
ville “dead broke,” and they are dying
by the dozens. The road from here to
Leadville is lined with prospectors,
gamblers, banco steerers, cut-throats
and thieves. Along the way are dead
horses, mules and bronchos, and the
stench is fearful. Neariy all that have
money start back after staying there a
day or two, but the majority “go
broke” and fly to the drinking and gam
bling shops to see if they cannot pickup
enough to get away with. Poor devils
come here from Leadville on every train
and present sorry sights.
An experienced physician says when
you wake in the morning rise and dress
at once. Never lie and “drowse.”
There is no refreshment to be derived
therefrom. There is a Vigorous tonic
in the morning air.
OLD FOLKS.
Facts and Incidents abont Men and
Women who Have Lons' Passed Three
Score Years.
Mrs. J. H. Gibbins, of Mount Sterling,
Ky., is 108.
Sallie Gray, a colored woman of
Meridian, Miss., is 117.
William Baylis, of Plainfield, L. 1.,
is ninety-five, and his wife ninety-seven.
The baby is sixty-six.
Mrs. Frankie Williams, ol Mulilen
burg county, Ky., is in her 104th year.
W. F. Hicks, of Westville, L. 1., is
in his ninetieth year, and has not a
gray hair in his head.
A Waterloo veteran, named Corneliu
Woods, died at Halifax recently in his
ninety-third year.
Admiral Westphall, the oldest com
missioned officer in the British navy,
died recently, aged ninety-nine.
London, Ont., has two centenarians —
Christy McLean, aged 108, and Mrs.
Diana Calvers, aged 101.
For forty years Mrs. Abram Scott, of
Hempstead, L. 1., has been called
“ Granny Scott.” She is now ninety
seven.
A body recently found in the canal at
Trenton, N. J., proved to be Thomas
Coogan, who _was in his ninety-first
year.
Henry Green and his wife are inmates
of tbe Suffolk county (L. 1.,) almshouse.
He is 104 years old, and she is ninety
four.
Mrs. Mary Simms lived in Quebec
when the city was besieged by the
American troops, and was born there
107 years ago.
Near Rutland, Vt., lives Mrs. Moses
Lester, who does ail her own house
work, although she has lived a hundred
years.
Uriah Bedell, of East Meadow, L. 1.,
is ninety-two, and an active veteran of
1812. Thomas Smith, of Freeport, L. 1.,
is ninety-one and his wife eighty-three.
Although Mrs. Sally Wilder, of Pitts
field, Ohio, is in her 101st year, she at
tended the Sunday-school festival held
recently.
Reading, Pa., boasts of its centenarian
in the person of Mrs. Merritt, who is
now 107 years of age. She has been a
widow for fifty years.
Mrs. John Wellstead, of Far Rock
away, is still active, in good health, and
attends to her domestic duties daily, al
though she is 101 years of age.
Mrs. Sarah Macauly died recently in
Baltimore at the age of ninety. Sh i
was out riding only a few days before.
She wasj a member ol the society of
Friends.
The oldest practicing lawyer in New
York State is Argill Gibbs, of Roches
ter. He is in li ; s ninety-third year,
lie has had six sons, all of whom have
been admitted to the bar.
Mrs. Catharine Roberts, of North Al
fred, Me., is a brilliant member of so
ciety and enjoys excellent health. She
celebrated her centennial on the ninth
of last April.
Two hundred and thirty-five of his
children and children’s children were
at the cemetery at the funeral of Max
Paletski, of Warsaw, N. Y., who lived
to be 118.
“All that I am intellectually and
morally,” said the bishop of Man
chester, “I owe to my mother”. Mrs.
Fras°r has just died of paralysis at the
age of ninety years.
Nicholas Manet was 101 years old
when he died at Meadville, Pa.
One hundred and twenty-three chil
dren, grandchildren, great-grandchil
dren, and great-great-grandchildren
belong to a Mr. Shearer, of Planters
ville, Ala., who is ninety-six.
When Springfield, Mass., had but
4,000 inhabitants, Elijah Blake made it
his home. He died there recently in
his ninety-sixth year, lie was an ex
member of the State legislature.
John Marsh, of Wawayanda, N. Y.,
although ninety years of age, is pos
sessed of a robust and vigorous con
stitution, and has nearly all his teeth
in as sound a state as when he was a
young man.
Mrs. Sarah Sanford, of Baldwin’s, N.
Y., is in her ninetieth year and ofunim
paired mental powers. Two of her sons
are Methodist preachers, and two of her
daughters married Methodist preach
ers.
Matthew Robinson, of Lafayette, Ind.,
is 130 years of age. He says he took
the first boat through the Lockport,
N. Y., locks; that he went to sea at
thirty years of age, and followed that
vocation fifty years, and for forty-three
years ran on the Erie canal. He nevir
wore spectacles, never carried a cane,
and never was sick.
Bologna.
80-logn-ya is a walled city in Italy,
yet it invented sausages. Bologna has
no hogs, yet the shops reek with the
odors of leeks and garlic. Cairo may
have forty-nine smells, but how many
has Bologna? There are nineteen kinds
of cheese (that are good), and each with
a smell—oh, what a smell! There are
the shops of cooked vegetables where
you buy a boiled hot potato for a soldi,
or a half-kilo for five of mem, all these
smell; then the sausages. It’s a per
fect sausage fair, an industrial exposi
tion of Bolognas. They are in links, in
gut, in bladders (of all sizes), in cakes,
in stomachs, in membranes, in nets, in
flask-like forms, in clubs, in cudgels, in
canes; sausages smoked, dried, leeked,
fatted, lean, spiced, plain, mildewed,
decayed, greasy, moldy, red, gray,
mottled, broken, tottering with age, or
plump with youth.
FOR THE FAIR SEX.
Curious Statistics of Marriage.
It is found that young men from fif
teen to twenty years of age marry young,
women averaging two or three vears
older than themselves; but, if they de
lay marriage until they are twenty or
twenty-five years old. their spouses
average a year younger than themselves;
and henceforward this difference
steadily increases, till in extreme old
age, on the bridegroom’s part, it is apt
to be enormous. The inclination of oc
togenarians to wed misses in their teens
is an every-day occurrence, but it is
amusing to find, in tbe love-matches of
boys, that the statistics bear out the
satires of Thackeray and Belzac.
Things for Girls to Know.
A United States Senator is reported
to have said recently that he wouldn’t
give a fig for a girl who could not an
swer these questions: “How long
must a hen set before chickens are
hatched ? How long does a turkey set
before hatching a brood? How old
must chickens be before they are fit to
broil? and at what age are young pigs
fit to be roasted?” He says he has
trained his own daughter on these
points, and thinks that no girl’s educa
tion is complete until she can am
swer these questions. It all means, of
course, that we need more practical
education and less of the ornamental.
Above all a girl should be educated to
be a housekeeper before everything
else.
Fashion Notes.
Red grows more and more fashion
able.
Parasol costumes are tbe last freak of
fashion.
Red balayeu es are worn by girls and
women of the period.
Iridescent bead embroideries on jet
continue in high lnshion.
Red makes better accessory than a
component part of a costume.
Black parasols are made very dressy
w ith iridescent bead embroideries.
Embroidery is preferred to lace fo
trimming young girls’ white muslin
dresses this summer.
Calieo and percale suits, with um
brellas to match, are pretty, effective
and inexpensive novelties.
Some silly old women are wearing
pretty white muslin parasol hats, such
as young girls affect for garden and lawn
parties.
Large rosettes of white or pale-tinted
satin ribbon, with swinging loops join
ing one rosette to the other, are set on
the back of white or tinted satin belts
to form sash draperies.
Square bows of gros grain ribbon,
made of three loops and one notched
end, drape the sides of taffeta silk over
skirts.
Close-fitting jackets are preferred to
thoie which are loose, and are worn
with short dresses, instead of the peler
ine mantle, which should always be
accompanied by a half-long skirt.
For inexpensive thin dresses that will
last a season only, tne colored seaside
zephyr goods is bought for twenty-one
cents a yard, and is in double fold,
though not wide. It is a soft cotton
labric, very much like English barege,
and is shown in pale flue, cream, black,
rose and drab. D makes pretty dra
peries over a silk skirt, and will be used
for furbishing anew lesses partly worn.
— Bazar.
A Specimen Wambling Trick.
A singular method of “ fighting the
tiger ” is thus related by a writer in the
London Truth: l happened, in re
sponse to a pressing invitation, to find
myself in a law court, when a curious
mode of cheating at faro was shown.
The game is played thus; Thirteen
cards are spread out on the table, that
is to say, an entire suit. A pack o f
cards is shuffled by the banker, then cut
by a player, when the banker proceeds
to draw the cards, one after another,
from the pack, first removing one. if
a player has put a stake upon any one
of the cards which lias been laid out
upon the table, he win 1 ', provided his
equivalent is an odd card in the
pack, and he loses if it is an
even one. Now, it would seem
impossible that a player could cheat the
banker. This i3, however, how it is
done: In shuffling the banker generally
shows the bottom card. When he hands
the pack to be cut the player cuts an
even number of cards, so that when the
cut is put back by the banker the player
knows that what was the bottom card
■will be an odd one, and knowing also
what that card will be, can stake upon
it with a certainty that he wili win.
But how does he cut the number of
cards that he chooses? By a very simple
process. One side of the nail of his
thumb is allowed to grow straight, and
a little notch is made in it. Provided
the length of the nail from the notch to
the end be always kept the same, and
that he presses the nail against the cards
in cutting, he must always take up ex
actly the same number of cards.
It is estimated that there will be a
production of about 2,250,000 tons cf
steel rails in Europe in 1880, which
would suffice to lay 25,568 miles of track
with fifty-six pound rails. Of this pro
duction 775,000 tons are credited to
England, more than 400,000 to Ger
many, 275,000 to France, 250,000 to
Austria-Hungary, 150,000 to Belgium
and 150,000 to Sweden and Russia.
The hen is a revengeful bird, always
“ laying” for somebody.
PRICE—9 I >SO PER ANNUM.
NUMBER 6.
Her Sweetheart.
My sweetheart'has a red-brown beard,
And bonnie eye of blue,
Oi no ten men is he aiear’d,
To one wee maid he’s true;
For I stand lowly by his side,
A lily by a yew.
He took a bullock by the head,
And bore the bullock down;
He threw John Plumber’s lump at lead
From Gallow’s hill to town,
And yet his arm around my waist
Is soft as satin gown.
You may have brighter eyes than mine,
And better oolored hair,
Your hands may be more white and fine,
Your tightened waist more spare,
You charm all other men —I him,
I want no charm you bear.
Tinsley's Magazine .
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
The injury done by insects in the
United States is estimated at $200,000,-
000.
Did you ever observe that when a
blackberry is green it is red?— Kokomo
Tribune.
The Boston Transcrij t thinks the babv
is musical because it has arrived at the
bandage.
Japan has now a large nail factory,
and its products are said to be equal to
our best.
When a man uses his cane to help
him walk it becomes a hurricane. —
Meriden Recorder.
The total value of the tobacco crop
of the United States is about $22,000,-
000 —that is what the farmers realize.
The emigration of Chinese from San
Francisco is now greater than that
from China through the Golden Gate.
In the South there are 144 blast
furnaces, thirty-nine rolling mills and
steel works, and forty-eight forges and
bioomeries.
A young man boasted that he had a
well-stored mind, whereupon a young
lady murmured: “.What a pity we can’t
find out where he stored it!”— Detroit
Free Press.
The Russian army comprises 908 gen
erals, 31,414 officers and 886,425 men.
The reserves number 742,144 men, and
the Cossack troops 1,972 officers and
51,359 men, with 105,946 men on fur
lough.
The express business was organized
in the United States in 1839 between
Boston and New York, and there are
now 160 different organizations engaged
in it, representing acapitalof over $30,-
000,000.
The latest rage among young ladies
is to possess an old fashioned spinning
wheel for a parlor ornament. The de
sire to possess an old-fashicned wash
board and tub as a kitchen ornament
doesn’t rage much among young ladies.
They are about as handsome as the
spinning wheel, but they are not fash
ionable.— Norristown Herald.
Lead Pencils.
Probably there is nothing so univer
sally familiar in use and also so utterly
unknown to the users in its nature and
origin as the common lead pencil, the
consumption of it in America alone
being estimated by the most c ompetent
authority at 78,000,000 per year. Its
very name, perpetuating the old leaden
plummet familiar among the treasures
of the boy’s first pocket, is a misnomer
and mistake, “black lead” having no
more resembla'nde to lead than chalk
has to cheese. Most people suppose the
lead is melted and poured into the hole
in the pencilwood, but it is ground to
an almost impalpable powder, mixed to
a paste with water, made into a long
coil like wire by being forced through
a small hole, just as water issues from
a syringe, straightened, and cut in
iengths and baked like ] ottery. Th
hardness is due to an admixture of clay
The pencil is made in two halves b
machinery at a cheap and rapid rate,
and the processes are among the most
interesting in American manufactures.
The material called graphite or black
lead is as marvelous as India rubber,
although less protean. It is simply
carbon, and is an enigma and a bundle
of inconsistencies. Its unlikeness to
lead is suggested by saying that its
weight is less than one-fourth that of
lead, and that while lead fuses at a low
temperature, graphite is not friable at
any temperature known; on the con
trary, no substance known surpasses it
in resisting heat.
Newly-Painted Rooms.
The danger of inhaling the vapor of
turpentine has been long known, and its
pernicious influence on the health is be
yond all doubt, as has been verified in
several cases occurring in persons sleep
ing in newly-painted rooms, some of
which have even proved fatal. Several
theories, more or less plausible, have
been propounded to explain the reju
dicial effects of the inhalation of these
vapors; but, whatever be the correct
explanation, there is no doubt of the
danger of occupying a room recently
painted in which turpentine has been
employed, before complete dessication
has taken place. It was pointed out by
the council of hygiene that a sudden
death which recently happened in Paris
was attributable to this cause, it being
shown that it could not be ascribed to
the lead which entered into the com
position of the paint of the room in
which the deceased slept. The lead,
being fixed and non-volatile, cannot in
these eases be accused of being the
offending element.