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B*lh Ring I'ierer Twice the Same.
Do not tbink that yonder hell,
Hung reapotnfive In tbe tower,
Minds not whether funeral knell
Or a happy marriage hour
It aball next with peal proclaim—
Bella ring never twice tbe same.
Never twice the «nme hud blows,
Though tbe plant mar blossom oft;
When the wind dies no one knows
If It sinks or soars aloft—
Or If yet the new breeze may
He the breath of yesterday.
Yonder grow tbe apple-trees.
One bioouis pink and one blooms white
There in May the honey-lsees
Hum a chorus of delight;
But no bee* one sees or hears
On tbe blossoms of past years.
And when youth departs, none dream
They can find It; yet they go
Hearcbing up and down the stream,
By the paths they used to know,
Through the meadow, up the bill—
Their lost youth evades them still.
Breezes come to greet each day,
Bells ring glad and mournful strains,
Apple-trees bloom still In May
Only this sad faet remains;
Our lost youth, Its flowers, its chimes,
Were the sweets of other times.
—[Mary A. Mason in Frank Leslie's.
LITTLE WHITE STONES;
It was in a lonely little fishing ham¬
let that poor little Ruth was born, on
u night when a storm raged along the
const and made sad havoc amongst the
shipping near the shore; on a night
when m ro than one great steamer
was wrecked at sea, and on (he night |
when her father * little fishing-smack
Avcnt down with all on board—all men
of tier kindred father, grandfather i
and uncle. 'l he old grandmother
kncAV Iho worst, as she held the new¬
born bubo upon her knee before the
drift-wood fire. The mother never
know; at dawn her soul had passed
away, and the old woman of seventy
and tlio babe of seven hours Avere
alone left of the family that had tilled
the little cabin the day before. A
happy, healthy, loud-voiced lot they i
hud been, ami a strange silence settled
down u]*>n fho place Avliero they had
been. Tlio old Avoman could not even
Weep.
“I’m too frightened!” she said, in a
trembling voice, and shaking like an
aspen rim who had been firm of step j
mid lofbl-spoken as the youngest, a
fow.day* back. “I suppose 1 must
have been left to mind the child.
Maybe I'll live to be terrible old—
ninety or a hundred. It’s awful to
think of! Awful! Awful!”
But she did live, and the child
throve. She had the cabin and a boat.
The hire of tho boat was about all she
dopended on. Somebody planted her
little garden. Neighbors lent m little j
gifts of food. Some fisherman always j
had her dinner in his basket. And
after a while, the baby, with its
cunning ways, its creeping, its walk¬
ing. its first little babbling words,
gavo ltor an interest in life.
The baby changed into a littlo girl,
flaxen-haired, blue-evcd and rosy.
The grandmother was still the tremb
ling erfia lire with terror in her pale
old eye* that that awful night had left
her, but she grew no older, She w as
never ill, and sho loved little Ruthy
Avith a love approaching idolatry.
By and by, Ruthy began to make
friends of her own age. \\ iieii
the sloop ho sailed in avus in port, Jack
Barker, the cabin-boy of tho Dancing j
Jennie, avus nearly always with her. I
Littlo parties of boys and girls used to j
play upon tlio sand, or sail about the
shore, or catch crabs and pull the little
shell-li-h from the rocks.
Before they were more than children
Ruth and Jack loved each other dear¬
ly, and when she Avas fifteen lie had
asked her whether she would be his
wife when he had Avagcs enough to
marry on, and she had promised befoiV) j
lie sailed next time. He had given j
her a little blue-bead ring, and she had
eut ofi a look of her flaxen hair and
wrapped it in her only bit of ribbon,
which he wore next his heart through¬
out the voyage.
Once when lie came home lie brought
her another present.
“Nothing much,” he said; “only
some little white stones that 1 found i
in some oysters 1 was opening for tHo
captain's mess. I said they arc pretty
and Ruth will like them.”
Ruth thought them beautiful, and |
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made a little blue silk bag to keep
them in. 8he had a few pretty
things.
And so the youth grew oldftr and
became a sailor, and Ruth was no
longer a little girl; and at. last the
Dancing Jennie went upon a longer
voyage than usual, and time wore on
without news of her.
limit's „U1 grand mother taken
very ill and sion died, and Ruth was
loft alone. A few debts had been con
trlcted, and at all events a girl could
not live alone, and should be in the
way of earniug something, people
said.
The cottage was to be sold with all
in it. What with her grief for her
grandmother and her anxiety about
.lack, Ruth -was well-nigh broken
henrted. She accepted the fiat of her
neighbors, that “now she must go to
s crvicc,” and she asked for the vacant
place at Captain Bright's and got it.
After the funeral she sat in the little
cottage, and watched the sale at auc
tion of the poor old woman's pots and
pans, big feather-beds and old wood
slove, of the long settle that had stood
in the chimney-place 6inco she was
born, aud the eight day clocfc that had
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licked out every moment of her life.
Then when the house wm empty she
took hef little carpet-bng with her few
clothes, a black paper silhouette of her
mother when a girl, and the little bag
of old blue silk in which she kept
Jack's last gift—the pretty white
stones, and went to her new master's
home as sad a little maid as ever
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crossed a strangers threshold.
She had no time for sighing in the
captain’s brand-new red brick dwell
ing. She washed the dishes and pol
ished the spoons, and waited on the
door and the table, and carried the
big baby about, and blacked the cap
tain s boots, and at night climbed to
her garret-room and sobbed herself to
sleep, thinking of young Jack lost at
sea and the old grandmother lying in
the little church-yard. No one cared
for her tears now—no one knew of
them. The boy Avho Avould have
kissed them away, the old dame to
whom she had ever been a darling
chi hi avUo must be soothed and
Avalchcd over, avcic both gone, and
so the autumn wore away. Winter
came and Christmas-tide Avas near.
“Go to the store, Ruth, and tell
them to get me ten pounds of raisins
and five pounds of currants and a
pound of citron,” said Mrs. Bright
one evening, ju9t before dark. “Run,
Ruth, or the store av i 11 be shut and old
Simon away home. 1 must begin my
pudding. It is Christinas-eve and a
pudding is nothing without stirring—
nothing at all, and tell them I shall |
Avant a little keg of lard th "first thing
in the morning, for the crullers and to
send it by Sam, for you av ill be busy
enough Avitbout running errands. i
like things fresh. I’ll not make my
crullers days before, as some do.
Now, run like Avild, Ruth. 1 don’t
see how I forgot I giadn’t the fruit;
and be back as quick as you can.”
Ruth obdYcd. Her light feet took
her down to old Simon’s store iu the
shortest possible space of time. She
had given her order, and had the fruit
in her basket, and was hurrying to¬
ward tiie door, Avhen some one opened
it and burst in.
“News! News!” he cried. “News!
I'hc Dolphi’i is just in, and brings
three men picked up at sea on the
wreck Ot the Dancing Jennie, all that
'vere left l ihe crew—Captain Parker,
old Sum G 11 and young Jack Parker.
There’s voi* little left of them. They
wore starving to death, and nearly
frozen. They’re just skeletons. Not
a man of them can stand oh his feet;
but they’re alive, and doc'or says
they’ll get well. Mrs. Parker is al
most crazy Avith joy! Old Gil's
daughter, too! As for little Jack
Parker, lie hasn’t any kin, as far as
we know; but the boys’ll give him a
Avclcome.”
Old Simon’s store Avas empty in a
twinkling. The loungers hurried up
the road toward the dock, but before
them flew a little figure that seemed to
have wings. It Avas Ruth. Site had
forgotten all about the basket of fruit
which she bad thrown from her into
the road Avitbout knowing it. Raisins
and currants lay scattered in the dirt,
and the chickens Avere making short
work of them. The citron was trod¬
den under foot. Ruth’s littlf black
hood had caught to a branch and hung
there, and one of her old shoes had
dropped off, she never knew Avhcrc;
and so she came to the old house by
the dock wftore they hail brought the
feeble shadows of -three men; where
the captain’s Avife kissed her husband’s
hand in silence, and little Annie Gill
shrieked hysterically; and passing
through the crowd as one Avho had
a right, stood looking down on Jack.
Was it Jack? Could he grow so
pale, so thin? Coul.l his curly hair
bang so lankly about his temples, his
.full throat shrink to this? Oh! yes,
yes, it was Jack, for tflfc big brown
eves turned toward her, and a little
sigh of “ltifthy” faded on his pallid
lips.
“Are you kin of his, la«s?” asked
tbe captain of the Dolphin, kindly.
“1 never knew Jack had any one.”
“I’m his sweetheart, sir,” said
Ruthy, simply; “and he is dearer to
me than any kin—I guess because we
are to marry each other some time.”
“You came near missing it, lass,"
said the old man. “If the Dolphin
hadn’t met that wreck when she did,
those three souls would be in heaven
this day, oifcl’m no sailor.”
Then Ruthy took his hand and
kissed it, and thanked him and Heaven
silently.
“'NYliero ou earth have you been?”
cried Mrs. Bl%ht, standing at the
door, as Ruth approached the captain’s
Lo m c. "Where's the raisins and.be
currants; where’s your hat, and, good
gracious! your shoes?”
“O i, 1 don’t know, Mrs. Bright,”
answered Ruth, amidst her tears,
‘Jack has got home—Jack Barker.”
“The cabin-boy of the Dancing Jen
nie? said Mrs. Bright.
•‘lie used to be a cabin-bov ; he s a
6ailor now,” said Ruth. “Oh, Mrs.
Bright, if you could see him!”
“I see him, indeed!” cried Mrs.
Bright. “And so because a cabin
boy or a common sailor before the
mast has come home, you've forgotten
Captain Bright’s pudding.. It’s my
belief that’s mutiny!”
With which exposition of maritime
law, Mrs. Captain Bright boxed her
poor little maid-sewain's ears, and
sent her ofl'to bed, Avitbout a candle.
1 It was a Christmas-dav, and Ruth
sat with Jack. She would lose her
place for it, but she could not stay
away. lie could talk to her a little,
and he raid over and over again that
if lie had but the means to buy a little
place that he could farm, he would
leave her no more. But that could
not be. They were too poor. She
must go to a service place, he to sea,
for no one knew how long.
It was on a bed in the infirmary of
the poor-house that he lay. Thcother
two men had gone to their homes, but
he bad none to go to. But it seemed
to him that after all fate was
kind. When he grew well he would
work hard to rise. Hath w£s lit to be
a captain’s lady.
Poor little Ruth! Her bundle was
put away in a cupboard hard by. Mrs.
Bright in her wrath had bade her
“take it and go.” But Ruth, too. had
a hopeful heart, and certainly might
find a kinder mistress,
“1 can’t even gi\'e you a Christmas
present, Ruth,” said Jack. “I have
your hair o\er my heart now. It
Avould have gone down Avith me.”
“Aid I have your little ring and
those pretty stones,” said Ruth.
“What stones?” asked Jack.
“Those you found in the oysters,”
said Ruth; “a handful. Don’t you
remember?” •
*T had forgotten,” said Jack. “I
comes back to me iioav. Ruth, do you
know, I believe they arc pearls. I
have seen some since, and they are
found in such shells.”
Ruth ran to the closet and got out
her bundle and the two Avere looking
at them, Avhen the doctor made his
rounds.
The good man heard their story,
and examined their treasure.
“Pehrls, of course,” he said; “and*
Jack, there are not many men in this
place able to make such a Christinas
present. These pearls are worth a
little fortune.”
It seemed too good to be true, but
true it Avas, nevertheless. The doctor
Avrotc to the proper persons, and a
jeweler came from New York to ex¬
amine tlie pearls, pronounced them
line, and bought them.
There Avas no more sea-going for
Jack, or serving for Ruth; and the
dream of the little farm became a
reality, and Ruth and Jack lived upon
it, as happy as the king and the queen
in a fairy tale, forever after.— [The
Ledger.
A $50,000 Dinner Set.
The Astov family possess a gold din¬
ner-service that is the envy of every
Avoman Avho has ever seen it. It is
one of the most costly in this country.
It is valued at $50,000, and is no\A r the
property of Mrs. William Astor. It
has been in the family’s possession a
long time. It would be hard to de¬
scribe, as it was made in different
parts of the Avorld, and Avas picked up
ou odd occasions. The larger dishes
consist of an immense plateau and 1
centre-piece, end pieces, candelabra,
Aviue-coo’ers and pitchers. In the de¬
sign is represented fruit of all descrip- >
lion, together Avitli the unicorn and j j
Jion in repousse Avork. Mrs. Astor !
uses a white linen table-cloth of the ;
finest texture, made especially for her,
Avith a wide lace border, showing a
lining of pink satin. Her table is al
Avavs decorated witlx Gloire de Paris
roses, their exquisite shade of pink
matching exactly the satin underneath.
[Ladies’ Iiome Journal. ;
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Romantic Caribbean Islands. I
Trinidad and Tobago, that small ro¬ |
mantic island of the Caribbean, were
discovered by Columbus on his third
voyage. Fowley, who wrote in the j
Tobago that i
last- century, gave name
from a notion that it resembled a
fubical instrument so called by the In
dians, Avitli which they inhaled the •
fumes of tobacco, The Crusoe Cave
is this Island, and as an illustration j
on
of the slowness with which the world
learns geography, Tobago is still often ;
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confounded with Juan Fernandez in
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the Pacific Ocean, Few Caucasians
are on the island, It is the natural
home of the negro, the 73,312 acres of
land having 15,172 Africans i
upon
them, while there are but 100 Euro
•
neans, Labor commands but 16 cents
.
a day. — [New Orleans Picayune. !
An Advertising Dodge. |
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An anecdote Jo told of Driesbach. j
the once famous lion-tamer. At an j
exhibition giAen in New York twenty .
years ago he Avas taken out of a cage
covered with blood, and apparently
dreadfully injured, fight |
after a severe
1
a fortnight afterward Driesbaeh ap- \ j
peared with his arm fn a sling and face
covered It ith bits of pi 03 CD ter. Then it j
leaked s that his C3 *~ were im
aginary. The gore had come, from a
sponge filled with rose pink, aud the
whole performance was nothing but a
of advertising. j
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Machine-Made Prayers. !
Praying by machinery is usual
among the inhabitants of Central Asia, '
A large, hollow* cylinder like a drum
is erected, and within it are inclosed
the prayers than any one may wish to
offer, written out neatly. The cylin
der is then made to revolve by wind
or water power, and every time that
it goes round the deA'otee imagines it
to be equivalent to a verbal lepition
of all tne praters it contains.
IN UNCLE SAM’S PAY.
Two Hundred Thousand Em
ployes of the Government,
Their Salaries Amount, Annu
ally, to $175,000,000.
It requires the services of about
200,000 persons to run the govern¬
ment of the United States. Their
salaries and wages amount to about
§1(5,000,000 per annum. The “Blue
Book” for 1889 contains the names of
58,000 employes, but those in the
general postal service.numbering about
90,000, are not included, and the
names of the officers only of the army
and navy are given.
The pay-rolls of the United States
government, if W’e should include pen¬
sioner's, must contain nearly 1,000,000
names, for, according to the last re¬
port, there were nearly 540,000 pen¬
sioners on the rolls, to which from
250,000 to 300,000 more names are
shortly to be added under the new
legislation, making in all nearly 800,
000, and requiring au annual disburse¬
ment of over §150,000,000. So we
may estimate that, in the year 1892,
there will be required to pay the
salaries and Avages of tbe persons on
the government rolls, including pen¬
sioners, a vast sum, approximating
8325,000,000.
It will be observed that about one
sixty-second part of the population of
the United States is drawing money di¬
rectly from the government. There
were in 'Washington alone, in 1889,
over 16,000 persons employed by the
government, 12,213 being men and
4021 women. Of these the district
government employed 906 men and
667 women, and the number in the va¬
rious departments was as follows:
Department of State, eighty-seven
men and twelve women; treasury de¬
partment, 2334 men, 1308 wo¬
men; Avar department, 1747 men,
seventy-nine Avomen; navy de¬
partment, 1430 men, twenty-seven
women; interior department, 2308
men, 801 Avomen, but this number has
been largely increased lately by the ap¬
pointments in the pension bureau;
post office department, 481 men, 147
Avomen; department of justice, 82
men, 15 women; department of agri¬
culture, 156 men, 120 Avomen; depart¬
ment of labor, 44 men, 9 women;
government printing office, 1504 men
and 709 women. The 16,000 employes
of the government in Washington in¬
clude the army and naA r y officers sta¬
tioned there-,-the -district government
organization, the Smithsonian institu¬
tion, national museum, etc.
Nearly all the employes are uoav in
the classified service, and are appointed
after competitive examinations from
the registers of the civil service com¬
mission. There are certain exceptions,
as the officials appointed by the Presi¬
dent, chief clerks, and heads of divi¬
sions or bureaus, persons occupying
confidential relations or custodians of
money, and a few others. Specialists
and skilled Avorkmen of almost every
kind are attached to the departments.
The salaries of clerks and copyists
range from $2000 to $720 per annum.
— [NeAv Orleans Picayune.
How Red Cloud Guyed Our Statesmen.
Judge J. J. Noah, of the census
bureau, has the dignity of being a
chief of the Sioux Indians, Avrites
Frank Carpenter from Washington.
In 1849 and 1850 he Avent to the West
Avith Governor Ramsey, of Minnesota,
to settle up the Indian troubles of that
time, and while there he defended a
noted Indian chief on the charge of
murder. This chief had been out Avitli
a band of his tribe when a party of
Avhite settlers drove, up. He gave
them what he claimed avus a salute,
but unfortunately the chief’s gun sent
a bullet through the head of one man
and through the nose of the man’s
Avifc, who was riding behind him on
the horse. The man Avas killed, and,
strange to say, Judge Noah was able
to get the chief fre 2 .
The judge is one of the best lin¬
guists in Washington, and he claims to
have a perfect knoAvledge of the Sioux
language. Not long ago Red Cloud
and a number of other -Sioux chiefs
were at Washington, and they had a
meeting or a reception at which Major
Xoah Avas present. At this reception
jj e< j Cloud talked to a number of
ladies and gentlemen through an in¬
terpreter. He did not think that there
was anyone present who understood
{j 10 §j 0ux language except himself and
* he to ‘ WP " ,CT ’ heke «' t ^ l "*‘ h «
ladies and saying all sorts of mean
things about the people present in
Sioux to the interpreter, who trans
lated his denunciations into compli¬
ments.
Red Cloud understood some English
and he had no idea of insulting the
whites. There was a perfect under
standing between bim and the inter
preter, and be was saying the mean
things for fun, supposing that only
the interpreter understood him.
Major Nbah waited until tbe rest of
the party had gone, and then, with a
smile, asked Red Cloud how he liked
Washington, using the Sioux lan
guage. Red Cloud started back in
surprise, and when be found that
Noah had heard his whole harangue,
fie Avas very much annoyed and begged
him not to tell anyone of it.—[Chicago
Herald.
Old Wells.
The descent into well* or pits is
often attended with scriou^dangcr in
consequence of Iho rrevalc.ee l» these
situations of air or gases not fit to be
inhaled into the lungs. It occurs to
u ’ ,<w precautionary hints on
.
tu» subject may hot be without their
use. ’
When it is thought proper to clean
out a well of any depth, or to make
repairs upon it, no one should descend
into it without taking care to ascer¬
tain the state of the air beneath.
This may readily be affected by let¬
ting down a lighted candle or lamp to
the very surface of the water, or to
the ground, if the well be dry. If the
flame is not extinguished, after hav¬
ing remained there for at least a
quarter of an hour, it should be pulled
up, and a heavy weight attached to a
cord, made to descend in its place, for
the purpose of agitating the water
freely and fully. The light is then
6ent down again, and if on this sec¬
ond trial the flame is not quenched,
wlfhin ten minutes or so, the work¬
men may descend aud commence their
labors.
If the light be extinguished, the
particular depth at which it ceases to
burn should be remarked. Beneath
that point, a man would as surely and
as quickly be suffocated as the flame i 8
quenched. The mephitic air or gas
which produces this effect may be of
various kinds. Either nitrogen or
carbonic acid gas or eulphureted hy¬
drogen may form the vajjor; or, per¬
haps, it may consist of a mixture of
‘hose gases, all of which fail to sup
port combustion or respiration.
In the uncertainty which must cx
ist as to the true nature of the gas
found in a well on trial Avith tbe light,
there is but one remedial step to be
followed Avith advantage. This is to
alter or renew the air of the Avell by
ventilation. In order to accomplish
this, which is chiefly rendered difficult
by the great specific gravity of the
mephitic air rendering it stationary, a
set of planks must bo laid across the
mouth of the well, so as, with the
aid of plaster, to seal it hermetically
at. all points hut two.
Over one of these points, or aper¬
tures, is placed a small close furnace,
formed in such a manner as to derive
no air excepting from the Avell beloAv.
Then a pipe of leather, like a common
fire-pipe, is fitted into the other hole,
and, being of the necessary length, is
made to descend nearly to the surface
of the Avater. To keep this pipe open,
cross* sticks or some other contriv¬
ance should be used. This apparatus
being prepared, a f re of charcoal (or
of coal or Avood) is kindled in the fur¬
nace,— [The Ledger.
Amber Growing Scarce.
Genuine amber is by no means so
plentiful as it was some years ago, and
amber cigar-holders and pipe-stems
will probably rise in price; The gen¬
uine amber is a fossil gum, which Avas
produced in large quantities by trees
having a resinous sap, AvJiich floAved
doAvn the trunks and collected in
masses at the root. It is found in the
ground of marshes and other places
where forests flourished in former
times, and is also obtained by dredg¬
ing. The German Ocean, Baltic and
Black Seas formerly produced it in
considerable quantities, but the supply
is constantly decreasing, and, .unless
other fields are discovered, real amber
aviII soon be scarce and costly.
The imitation is just as good in
every Avay, so that even if the real
amber gives out there need be no
diminution in tbe number of holders
for cigars or mouthpieces for pipes.
In this country comparatively little is
used save for these purposes; but in
India and China largo lumps are in
great demand, for, from some cause,
an amber idol i3 far more highly es-,
teemed than even a golden imagef and
so the best amber ail goes to the East
to be made into gods for tbe pagans.
— [St. Louis Globe-Democrat.
A Squaw’s Remarkalde Journeying.
In the last century a Chinook In¬
dian woman, known to Father Huk, a
great traveler and missionary of that
period, while he was with the Indians
on what we now call the Pacific coast
T,-oa ™ } If ft " d * m<3t , bj , ,. Um
m Asia. a Through many vicissitudes
and strange experiences, she had
passed from tribe to tribe and place to
place, always moving northward, until
she reached Behring ” Strait, and there, ’
, . of „
laving gone ou. in one the large
canoes used by the seafaring Indians
of that region, in a great storm they
were driven across the strait to wreck
and death to all save her, and she
wandered on nntil she met Father
Huh in the interior of Asia. She had
not sought to retuiu, but following the*
spirit of adventure bred in her by her
strange- experiences, 6he went on to
see new lands.
Washington’s Handsomest House,
The finest house in Washington to
day . that which ... is being built by
is
Mrs. Zach Chandler. It i3 on the cor
ner of Sixteenth and Iv streets, aud it
must contain about thirty rooms, j t
is a great square structure, of Mil
Avaukee brick, trimmed with a drab
sandstone, and it3 architecture par
lakes of the Grecian order. Here
Mx-s. Senator Hale and her husband
will live, and many line entertain¬
ments will be given.—[Washington
Letter.
You Are In a Bad Fix,
But we will cure you if you will p?\
bility! “ s ‘, .,^ Semin’,T^VeaLe c " ^Uo are Weak, r iT'a..d Nervous V an 1 ’f'- I
s ,m' , rv
foots of early Evil Habits, or later iudis
cretions, which leifd to Premature Decay
in
particular, of a Home Cure. Stat
(sealed) free, by addressing Dr. Parker's
Medical and Surgical Institute, 151 North
Spruce street, Nashville, Tenn, They
guarantee a cure or no pay .—-Tht Sunday
Morning.
NEWS AND NOTES FOR WOMEN.
Chenille is once more in high favor.
The Soudanese women wear no shoes.
Nearly all the women in Corea cau
read.
Sultana silks make pretty evening
gowns.
Queen Victoria’s daughters are al
good cooks.
Bracelets of heavy designs are grow¬
ing in favor.
Beauty is a very line thing to have,but
style is vastly better.
Queen Elizabeth started the style ol
wearing silk stockings.
A great deal of embroidery is used to
decorate winter gowns.
All the favor fans bear the monogram
of the recipient in silver.
The favorite shades in gloves are
gray, tan, mode and pearl.
Undressed kid gloves are now seldom
worn with elaborate toilets.
The new “sac” gloves, as they are,
alloAv the hand to pass freely in.
Marie Antoinette instituted the cus¬
tom of wearing feathers in the hair.
Gold serpents do duty as necklaces,
bangles, girdles, anu even as wedding
rings.
The School Board of Nottingham,
England, has three women among its
members.
The golden-rod’s rise in public favor is
followed by a craze for yellow colors iu
dress goods.
It is a very pretty finish to fancy slip¬
pers to use small gold or silver buckles
on the vamp.
Plaid silk coat scarfs are the “new¬
est,” and no? so trying to the complexion
as plain colors.
Industries in the west of Irelaud con¬
sist maiply of lace making and embroid¬
ery for Avomen.
The average Wellesley College girl
weighs but 119£ pounds aud is but five
feet two inches tall.
A New York woman tried to have her
husband anested because he would not
take her to the theatre.
At the recent marriage of a Middle
bury, Vt., widow the bride was given
away by her daughter.
The Queen of Italy received as a birth¬
day present from her husband the other
day a superb ruby ring.
Tight-fitting coats, like little new
markets, with long capes, are very neat
on girls with trim forms.
An old lady fell in New York, the
ottier day, and hat pins were driven into
her head, killing her instantly.
Gloves, skirts, stockings and caps arc
now made of the finest silk for infants
and children as well as adults.
Hogskin has an ugly ring about it, yet
it is the fashionable leather for purses,
Avallets, bill books and card cases.
New designs of handkerchiefs show a
deep border iu drawn-work, andahand
Avrought monogram of very small size.
Women never give such handsome
presents as men. If a man gives a cheap
present he is put down as shabby or
mean.
A good many women are enjoying life
in Main.lumber camps this season. They
accompany their husbands and fathers as
cooks.
The “bachelor” girl is now the term
applied to the young woman who leaves
the paternal home and strikes out for
herself.
Vassar College points with pride tc
the fact that no graduate of that institu¬
tion has ever been divorced from her
husband. * *
Mrs. A. Lirtz, of New Orleans, La., is
the proprietor of an undertaking estab¬
lishment which includes all details of the
business.
Strings of mock gems are now em¬
ployed as epaulets, necklets, and waisl
bands, the stones being usually in simu¬
lated uncut state.
Lace trimmings now show the unusual
variety of combining several kinds of
lace in one trimming. This is particu¬
larly the with t
case black lace.
Mrs. Jacob Benton, of Lancaster, N. H.,
has been an invalid for the past five
years. Daring that time she has learned
to speak and write five languages.
The class yell of the young women of
the freshmen class of Colby University is
said to be this: “Co-ordination ha, ha,
ha, tessaras kai cnenekonta dux femina
facta, rah, rah’, rah.”
No less than 150 young women have
taken up timber claims in Western
Washington during the past six months,
and in Eastern Washington probably 100
others have located lands,
Miss Fordham, a well-known English
bicycle rider, has ridden a safety wheel
19 .?° mil ! s ’ at rate of 8ayent £;Sn
miles a day, and hopes to close 2000
miles before the season closes.
A scholarship of 1200 is offered by the
Vassar Students’Aid Society for a student
w ho passes all the requirements for ad
mission to the freshmen class at the ex
amination t0 be held in JuM - 1891 -
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wHh.
European ideas and is a young lady of
taste and accomplishments. She is especi¬
ally known as a pianist ot remarkable
execution.
Miss Flora E. Powers, stenographer to
the Attorney-General, is said to be one
the most indefatigable workers at the
Capital, frequently working far into the
night in a stress of business, not absent
ing herself on Sunday,
The chief gown worn by the Austrian
Empress i3 a straight, black, plaited
skirt with a bodice like a Swiss peasant’s.
Ovef this she wear3 a loose jacket, which
she changes three times a day, the ma¬
terial varying with the temperature.
Archduchess Maria Dorothea is one of
the beauties of the Austrian Imperial
family. She is above medium height,
with dark hair and eyes and a fre 3 h
complexion. She is noted for her chari*
ties and for her skill piano playing.
Beggs’ German Salvo.
q^e j ncrease d demand for Bcggt’ Gor
“erit^u! X 'ata.os h ‘»
univc
x household remedy. When you wish
n d reliable ointment call for Beggs’
Salve .ad you will not ^ di,op
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FEATS OF STRENGTH.
Jaw kins—Have you seen this man who
allows rocks to be broken on his head ?
Hogg- No; but I saw a woman yester¬
day who stopped a street car with one
timrer. ^
Boggs’ Liver Bills
Are put up in Iavo sizes, largo and small.
They are giving wonderful satisfaction as
a laxative and regulator. They do not
gripe or leave the bowels constipated.
Try one box, and you will use no other.
Sold and warranted by B. D. Smith.
HANGING MIGHT IMPROVES HIM.
“The Indian,” observed Rivers, “is a
picture of discontent.” “and is
“Yes,” said Brooks, he in a
bad frame of mind.”—[Chicago Tribune,
A Reliable Cough Syrup.
We have been fortunate enough to se¬
cure ttle agency for Boggs’ Cherry Cough
gyrup. It is a trustworthy medicine,
and avo guarantee every bottle sold to
give entire satisfaction. \Y e would bo
pleased to have our customers give it tj
trial. Sold by B. D Smith.
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RECENTLY DISCOVERED.
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MALARIAL FEVER, DiPTUER!A AND CHILLS.
In short, all forms of Organic and Functional Oisoaso.
Tho euros effected by this Medicine tiro iu
many cases
MIRACLES l
Sold only in Japs containing One Gallon.
Price Three and liollarn—a small investment
when Health Life can be obtained.
'‘History cf the Microbe Killer” Free.
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Forsyth, Ga.
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and the recent Improvements make th< em superior
to any shoes sold at these prices.
direct Ask your to Dealer, and if he cannot supply you send
postal for factory order blanks. enclosing advertised price, or a
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FORSYTH, GA.
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