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MIGHTY PEKIN.
AIL ABOUT IIS QUEER SIGHTS
AND STRANGE PEOPLE.
(aplta! of One tit r l of the World—
Walls of IVkln anil Three Dif¬
ferent Cities Enclosed—
Its Great Markets.
p EKTN, Htar, least penttr is known writes iu perhaps the Frank cities Washington one O. of of Car- the the
world. I have paid two visits to it,
and I spent a month iu it six years
ago. Daring the present spring I
prowled about it ts for days and
devoted myself to making a study of
the town and its people. It is an im¬
mense city. It contains about fifteen t 1
hundred thousand, but those are scat
tered over an area of twenty-five
square miles, and the people ns a rule
live in one-story houses. The city is
surrounded by walls which were built
hundreds of years a ;o, an l which
mud have cost many millions of dol¬
lars. These walls nre in good condi
tion witn the exception of one or two
,.l r.r». f? ,,,.?« nf | aa f «rinbr
underminded them and carried part
of th,..r fH-in-H nwav na'idea It is hard to
give an American of one of
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walls of Pekin are sixty feet thick at
the bottom counirv Tl.ev wo old till t he av.
erage road or citv street, and
they are as tall ns a ft.m-.storv house,
They arc so wide Rt tin* top that you
«on)d run three railroad trains aide by
tide around t eem,and tbev ‘ are so solid
thtit the cars would move more
smooth I v over the-e tracks than thev
do on the trunk Hues between New
York and Chicago. These walls afe
faced inside and out with bricks, each
as big as a four-dollar Bible, and the
space between is filled wdh earth and
stones so rammed down that the ages
have made the whole one solid mass.
Thev nre built in tact much like tlm
great wall of China, and the bricks of
the two are almost ex,icily the same,
I have before me a brick which T
brought from the great wall, j.
weichs about twenty pounds, or ns
much ns a two-vear-old baby. It is
blue gray in color, and it is covered
with patches of white lime mortar jud
like those that 1 saw in tne broken
places of the walls of Pekin.
In approaching Pekin, long before
you get to the city, you see the im¬
mense towers which stand on the top
of this wall over the gates which enter
the city. Those towers nre os tall ns
n big New York lint. They rise mue
stories above the wall, aud they have
roofs of blue Liles. They were used
iu the past as watch-towers, and they
have many port holes for cannon.
There are thirteen gates which lead
into the city, and tho towers and the
walls near these nre plastered over
with proclamations and bills much
like a theatre billboard. The gates
of Pekin are merely holes through
this wall, and they are about as wide
as the ordinary street and perhaps
twenty feet high. They are lined
with stone and are beautifully arched.
They are closed at, night with great
doors sheathed with iron, and thev
are pnved\vith heavy slabs of
The -- 11 --^ Pekin are twenty-seven
B^d He-ul-ir tbe ir- i which audit thev
bi’S'^T^sflielograms. in shape,
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The or he north is tlvKr,.,!
of China, for it contains the Tar¬
tar city, the great Government de¬
partments, the foreign legations aud
the imperial city, m which, surround¬
ed by from five to ten thousand
ennuchp, the Emperor lives, The
lower parallelogram joins the Tartar
city. It has half a dozen temples, in¬
cluding the Temple of lleavou, wnich
was burned down not long ago, and
whieh now is being rebuilt of Oregon
pine.
The Cliiueso city is where all the
mercantile business of tins great
capital is done, It is cut up into
narrow streets, and it is title 1 with all
sorts of stores. It has markets of all
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kinds, an 1 its fur market covers
several acres. It h is its wholesale as
well as i*.s retail fur market, and I
have gone out at (> o’clock in the
morning an l found perhaps a thou
saud almond-eyed merchants dressed
in gorgeous silks moving about
through great, beds of iuis of all
kinds. The fur.- are piled upon the
ground, aud you can buy sables for
about j?d a skin, and tiger skins for
$75, which will be worth twice that
amount a in where else iu the world,
You esu buy the finest of ermine, and
for $10 you can get a coat ot lamb’s
wool, of the kind that our ladi s use
for long opera (floats. This Chinese
city if, a city of banks aud of i-toek
exchanges. I visited one morning
tne silver exchange. It was a room
like a barn, and the people were buy
ing and selling stocks just as tuey do
on Wall street, veiling an l howling
and pushing ei,-a otuer like mad as
they did so. It is a e t v of book
stores, and there are some streets which
eontaiu no otuer suojis. We hare the
idea that the Chinese merely live upon
rice aud on ra s, an l that their cuief
industries are the making of matting,
of fans aud of siln*. L’he ir itu i
that China does a vast business, and
she produces all sorts of commodities,
Nearly every one of these Chinese
streets eon tains shops of all kinds,
and the main business oi China is not
the supplying goods for toe foieign
market.-, but the making of those re
qmred for her own people. They
Lave as many wants as we have, and
they require as good goods. Tne
noules oress in the.finest of silk, and
therlf are nundreds of stores which sell
nothing but pictures. The art dis
played in most of the paintings
alKMuiaabie, but they are pictures
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uevertbelew, and the Chines® pay
good money for them. ;
I wish I mold show yon tbe markets
of Pekin. Ton can get as good meat j
there as yon can in New York, and
there is no tinpr mutton in the world
than that of North China. The sheep
are of the fat-tailed varietr, and I saw
many which had tails weighing over a
pound. It is queer how they kill the
animals which they sell. They have
no slaughter houses, and a sheep is
often butchered in front of the shop
and th< blood lies on the ground
while you buy. There are all sorts of
fish, and they are always sold alive.
No Chinaman would buy a dead fish,
and in case you want to buy less than
a whole fish at a time, the Chinese
peddler will pull the fish out of the
water, lay him sqnirming on tbe block,
and cut a piece of quivering flesh out
of his side for you while you wait. He
does not kill the fish, and after you
are through he throws it back into a
separate pail of water and waits for
another customer to take off thereat.
One of the chief meats sold is pork,
an l you see hogs trotting about
through the streets of Pekin. They
wallow in the puddles right under the
ahftdow oi tbe Emperor’s palaces and
they are the dirtiest hogs iu tbe world.
the m,irkets ™ f kiud and * you can iox get ^e suipe in
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and anJ of «11 kinds
ihe < -' tjineMe ar « the best raisers of
l> ollit, T w f ld - They have duck
finnan l goose farms, and they know
all about artidcial incubation Thev
wl \ Pfeat quantities of dried geese
and ‘ r / ed duck ;’„ and * bo Y f ar fT
bushel-baskets full oi dried due as
aho “ t tbe clty Hale. They sell all
k inds ? f , frud;and tbe Y ara adepts in
the , . of tl choicest of vegeta
rd]Hin S »e
b ‘ ep - Tlte / imr V tbe >r grape vines in
north in the winter, and you can
buy your nuts by the bushel. As to
dogs and rats £ did not see any
^ ’ n Peii111 - and 1 don * belie ™
that the better 1 class are accustomed
tu ” se thom ‘ 1 arn however, that
such Crtts as uro 8old 111 tUe 6 °Wh are
rai maraet *f anJ and fat that f ened their especially diet m usually for the
rice. Dogs flesh is supposed, by the
people, to give heroic propeities to
those who leod on it, and the same
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effect is produced by bears’ meat and
ground-up bones of wild tigers,
things ought to bring a high
P rice J UHt llo ' v iu Pekio » for tllQ P eo *
l ,bj certainly have reason to increase
their courage. Another queer article
that yon boo iu the Pekin market is
felse hair. I passed several Places
where locrgtqneued Chi«auamen stood
beside a boa which were hung
long buuches of black Chinese locks.
Each of these was a false pigtail, and
it is said that one of the chiec articles
of export from Korea to China is hu¬
man iiair. The Chinese branl extra
locks into their queues and they often
patch out their queues with silk
thread.
I might write a fn’l letter about the
queer tilings shown iu the Chinese
part of the city of Pekin. I could
tell you of a vast busiuess <!one in gold
and silver paper which the Chinese
nnrn at the graves to furnish their
dead with money to pav their passage
to heaven. I could show you shops
selling nothing but coffins, in which
single artic es of this kind cost as high
as four thousand dollars, and where
the dutiful son ofteu buys his father a
coffin and make it a present to the old
nan years before his death. 1 could
tell you of stories where thousands of
dollars’ worth of incense or joss sticks
are sold every month, and I could take
you into establishments which sell
nothing but birds and gold fishes.
There are big stores full of furniture
and shops which make nothing but
porcelain stoves. There are places
where wood is sold in bundles by
weight and establishments where coal
dust is mixed up with mud and sold in
lumps the size and shape of a baseball
at so much apiece. Tuere are great
markets for the selling of ckicnens and
flowers, aud all sorts of toy stores and
stores for the selling of paper and
cloth. There are lock peddlers by
hundreds and hardware establish
ments, and if you are very hard up
and in want of a meal 1 can show you
a little hole round the corner where
you can get camel’s meat soap and
mule roast at low prices. There are
places for gambling and dime museum
shows. There are restaurants of every
description and opium joints without
numoer. There are, in tact, stores of
every sort and description, and the
Liest thiugs iu China come to Pekin.
The most interesting part of Pe
km, however, is the big Tartar city,
It is the capital of one-tfiird of tbe
population on the globe, and in it
lives the son of heaven, the Emperor
of Chino, to whom all his subjects
must bend their knees. It contains
the thousands of Mancha officials, the
foreign legations, tne Government ae
partments and all tne parapneraaliaof
this queer Chinese court. It is the
most interesting city on the face of
the glooe, and its sights ready beggar
; description. From the walls the
wnole citv Iooas like an immense
' orchard, with here and there one
story buildings shining out through
* the tries. la its centre there is a
walled off iuclosnre filled with massive
Buildings roofed with yellow tiles,
This is the Imperial city, in the inner
ocost parts ot which is a brick pen
closing several square miles, where
tue Emperor lives, surrounded by
eunuchs. He is perhaps the rarest
bird in the whole Cninese aviary, and
I will follow tais with a special letter
describing some of his antics. He is
kept apart from Chinese and foreign
era, aud you might Uwo la Pekin fluty
year* and not see him. He
knows nothing about hi.® people or tus
Btirroundings, end he i* a sort of a
puppet who stands still or dances
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when his highest officials or the old
Empress Dowager pulls at the string,
No better idea of the condition of
the Government of China could be
gotten than by a trip through this
Tartar city. It is one of the oldest
towns in the world. It was founded
more than a thousand years before
Christ, and it has been the capital of
millions for ages It ought to be the
peatest city on the face of the, globe
but thereis no spot more filthy and
slimy and foul. The city knows noth
ing of modern improvements. Jt 18
cut up into wide streets, but tbe roads
have no sidewalks, and the rude Chi
nese carts sink np to their hubs as
they move through the city. There
arena water closets lhe streets are
the sewe J s ‘ and the most degraded
savage of our Western plains has a
greater regard for the exposure of his
person than have these pig-tailed, silk
.Iressed, gaudy, fat Pekinese. The
city has absolutely no sanitary im
provements, and the street lamps are
iratnework boxes tacked with white
paper, and they are seldom lighted ex-
cept. during full moon. It is abso¬
lutely unsafe to move about in the
uiirbt time without a lantern, if you
wish to keep your feet clean, and you
have to balance yourself in the day to
keep out of the mud. All of the houses
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the State, War and Navy, which cost,
you know, more than ten million dol¬
lars, and which is the biggest granite
building in the world. Toe street was
a mud puddle, and 1 hugged low,
shackly buildings till I finally came to
a gate at which a dirty official was
standing. He shook his head as I en¬
tered. but I pretended not to see him,
and pushed my way in. I entered a
court, which looked for all the world
like a barn yard surrounded by low
wooden stables, with heavy tiled roofs.
This court was filled with donkeys,
horses and dogs, and half-naked chil¬
dren sprawled in front of tbe doors to
these buildings, which were, in tact,
the offices of the department. The
buildings were filled with clerks, who
wrote away at bare tables, the light
coming in through latticework walls
backed with white paper. They
scowled at me as I looked, and one of
them gave me to understand that I
had better move on. I next visited
the famous Hanlin College. It was
worse than the State Department, and
everything about it was shabby and
going to seed. I tried to get into the
board of punishments, where the hor¬
rible cruelties which the Chinese Gov¬
ernment metes out to its rebels and
criminals are passed upon, and where
j torture the door is common, and but positively I was stopped told
at was
that I could not go in. It was the
1 same with all the Government depart
j ! shabbier ments. They had they could been not knocked have been
odd up
j out of pieces of old Noah’s ark,
j and everything was filthy and the pic
. ture of ruin. The only really new
things in the city seemed to be the
clothes of the officials, and I laughed
again and again as I saw these man
darins bow down in the mud and go
through the forms of the Chinese
court amid their filthy surroundings.
They are among themselves, as far as
words go, the most polite of all na
tions, and they look upon us as boors
and barbarians. The most of the
people believe that they will eonquer
the world, and I doubt whether a
thousand out of the million and a half
people in Pekin know anything of tbe
Japanese victories. The court officials
distribute all sorts of lies, and they
have probably told the people that
they have whipped the Japanese
on botn land and on sea, and that
the Mikado will be brought to Pe in.
The majority of the citizens of the
Chinese capital really believe that
America is subject to China. They
thins that Colonel Den hr is sent to
the capital to pay Uncle Sam’s tribute
to their Emperor, and this, I am told,
is their opinion as to every foreign
legation. Tney have nicknamed
street upon which the foreign minis
ters live “the street of the subject
nations,” and they would consider it a
disgrace to ask our ministers to din
ner, and I venture that Colonel Denoy
has never been on intimate terms with
a dozen highclass Chinese officials.
This, I know, will seem strange to
Americans, but it is actua'V the 1
trnth.
Pekin is a most cosmopolitan city. !
We have in America only the Chine-e
of Sonth China. These coxae from the
hot countries at the southern part of
the empire, and they are small and
lean in comparison with the neople of
the north. They dress differently,
and thev bstve a different dialect and
different habits and customs. Pekin
is frozen np for six months of the year,
and you can have ice-sledging on the
Peiho at Christmas. I found the
people of every Chinese State differ¬ i
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ent, and the dialects are as various
as the languages of Europe. Hero
in Pekin yon find representa
tive.s of every Chiuese State, and
there are celestials from all the big
cities. Thibet, Mongolia, Man¬
churia and parts of Afghanistan are
all tributary to China, and people of
a half dozen religions jostle each other
they wade through the streets. The ;
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strangest sights to me at first entrance
were the nomadic Mongolians, who
into the city on great came’s or
dromedaries, which were covered
with wool from six to twelve inches
long. These come from the cold
regions-of Mongolia or Siberia, and
during my visit to the Chinese wall I
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passed caravans of these camels march¬
ing in single fiie and fastened together
by sticks thrust through the thick
flesh of their noses. They were load¬
ed with great bundles of furs which
they had brought down from the
North for the dilettante mandarins of
Pekin, and were carrying back brick
tea and coal to the Tartars and Piixs
sians. Many of these w r ere ridden by
Mongol women, who, iu coats, panta¬
loons and lur caps rode astride, and
in other cases by men, who were clad
in sheepskins with fur caps pulled
well down over tbeir fierce Tartar
eyes. I saw hundreds of Thibetan
lamas in their gorgeous robes, and I
met many Mohammedans from the
west part of China.
A Funny Fish.
A peculiar fish was captured recent¬
ly in the East River at tho foot of
Adams street, Brooklyn.
The fish is peculiarly shaped,weighs
about seventy-five pounds, and meas¬
ures three feet in length and two feet
in diameter. It has tw r o wings, each
of which measures fifteen inches in
length. Its head resembles that ot a
moon fish and has a small eval shaped
mouth about two inches wide. The
fish has one upper and one lower
tooth. The upper part of its body i*
a bright silver color, while the lower
part, including the wings, is the color
of bronze.
The story of the capture is about as
peculiar i|s *the fish itself. Morris
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FISH AND COIN FOUND UNDER ITS FIN.
Doyle took a stroll down to the river
front about 10.3 ) Wednesday evening
and boarded the tug-boat Flint, whieh
was lying at the foot of Adams street,
to have a quiet chat with Michael
Rcbinson, tne steward. During the
conversation Doyle saw an object in
the water which he thought was a
drowned person. He hastily discarded
his coat and vest anfl jumped in the
river.
As he neared the object and dis¬
covered it was a large fish he grabbed
its wing and held ir, despite its efforts
to escape. Robinson came to Doyle’s
assistance, stuck a pike pole in the
fish’s body, and with a rope hauled it
aboard. Doyle said •
“I have had experience with ail
kinds of fish in my career as a swim¬
mer, but never have I had such a
struggle as in trying to hold tnat
fish.”
A peculiar incident occurred while
Mr. Doyle was showing the fish to a
New York World reporter. A Chinese
coin was found imbedded under the
fish’s fin. How it got there is a
puzzle to fishermen, Beneath its
ponderous tail were hundreds of
Darnpcies, evidently swept from soma
old hulk.
Au Anarchist Toy.
France is anarchy mad. The craze
has even spread to the toy shops, in
which baby bombs are every wuere for
sale. Two small springs project en
ergetically against the capsule, which
with fulminate o. mercury and
r est3 on an anvil, over it a cylindrical
hammer; as long as the cover remains
on the box the small hammer is stopped
lts course by a prop. As soon ns
OQe 0 P en3 the maculae the prop is
loosened, the spring worxs, tne nam
mer explodes the ca jsu e. and the toy
becomes a dangerous thing. It has
^ itself the ingen.ous simplicity which
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To prevent lamp chimneys from
cracking put them into a kettle of
cold water, tradnally heat it till it
boils and then let it as gra ualivcool,
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WOMAN’S WEAR.
HANDSOME CAPES AND WRAPS
FOR THE WINTER.
A Cape That Is Stylish In Either Cold
or Rain—Brilliant Ornamen¬
tation for Hats—Cold
Weather Fashions.
5 l S gowns and the handsome. season grow more advances The startling wraps the
and coats for the street,
which are all very long or three-quar
ter length, even to pelerines, are par
ticularlyhandsome.
One very beautiful cape is of curly,
jettv Persian lamb. It reaches, in full
pleats, to the waist, but is so full it
stands out from the bodv. From the
shoulders flare a wide bertha of the
^tteoMuriafro^ *1 ££
is caine.l br two piec» of Persian
lamb 1. m. dronoinry Hioppin., from from tbPRA these ro.et.t mspHps s to
almost the knees, and finished with a
ball trimming of black silk. A deep
yoke and a hi K h Elizabethan betwaaii collar,
whiek extends down the front
tbe stripe of black far, forming a vest,
are ermine
The comfortable cape in the
tion is one of the most popular, and
deservedly so, ot the garments for
general wear. It makes the very best
sort of a traveling wrap, serving
equally well for cold or rain. For
walking, shopping or marketing noth
ing better could be desired. The
double pair tweeds are most used in
making it, but any of tho heavier
wool materials are appropriate.
may be lined or not. Plaids or red
are both much used for lining. When
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an elaborate double cape re- l
produced from the Mail and Express,
Upper cape of velvet, with graduated
trimming of jet, in rows. Under cape
of heavy white satin brocade, shot
with gold and blue. * The wrinkled
collar and rosettes are of chiffon.
unlined the edges may be bound with
braid, or hemmed and stitched.
Short mantles give more scope for
novelty, the shapes and mode of trim
mmg best varying considerably. One ol
the models of this kind is made
of the richest black Velvet, and has
the appearance of being fashioned
with an over-jacket, which is elabor
ately embroidered by hand with jet
and edged with skunk.
Tight-fitting jackets are not very
much worn. Where tney are used
they will be of velvet, very voluminous
of sleeve and very lavish of trimming,
long jet fringes being principally
worn. The cloth coat will be relo
gated to traveling and bad weather,
Ihree-uecker capes are still ultra
smart, the wonderful, putty-colored
affairs, with their serpentina
“strapped ’ garniture, . being replaced
by those in navy-blue, black and deep
purple. Purple and violet, and every
gradation of “wine” color, are pre¬
destined to be fashionable hues. They
are depressing tones, mostly unbecom¬
ing both to blondes and brunettes,
and, except in velvet, have a pecu¬
liarly dowdy aud ageing effect. Tho
gayetv of scarlet or crimson, the
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clearness of green and tbe solidity of
dark blue, perhaps caressed into life
by a touch of vivid orange, the" make
them commendable to neutral
tinted davs of winter.
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anl WpU th»t serre- are\o _ elaborSefn
f ec t only. Thev
their ornamentation that it is ridicu
Ions to call them bands uromLnf so whv not
stvla them collars’ Velvet" Thev
bribiant satin or & withTaTout' d -t w'tl
buckles at either side or
curved ^ one in front ’ and are drawn ont
into big side loops or rosettes. Thee i
they are embellished with lace <-x
chiffon. That sounds much like the
description of a collar, so why not be
wise and have a new hat band made
adjustable so it can be wofn either ns
a collar or a hat band? It is these lit¬
tle tricks that permit small income*
to make a goodly showing.
So many hats are large that the
smaller sizes seem to have been over¬
looked, except for theater and even¬
ing wear, but a small hat is entirely
safe from insignificance and unfash¬
ionableness if trimmed with a plume
or two. A hat worn iu Now York
^strates b!ftck f £ lfc this to G ue P oint . w, , » ‘ b bowf of the
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f ftrno * ost rich plumes rise at tho
back ’ tbeir enda curling prettily ns
the present- fashion demands. T.\t-n
f 0t ' v s leathers are now twised up
tl£r htl , v scrolls in response to this
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gowns in wood checks.
Some of the prettiest costumes of
wool sent over from Paris are in
checks, which take the place of the
check silks. The skirt is severely
plain, flaring decidedly at the bottom,
where it is finished by a band of jet
J galoon. The huge sleeves are of the
| checked wool finished by a narrow
Double cape of Himalaya cloth, or
serge. The lining, a pretty plaid,
which, with the fancy hood, leads it
quite a pretentious air.
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; band of sable at tho waist. The bodice
as far as tho bust line is of plaid wool
edged with fur at the top, and lapping
diagonally Rcrqss the front, caught
down by three large caboelious or
small hemispheres of jet spangles. The
upper part of bodice is of Liberty
satin, which is now made at Lyons. A
touch of this brilliant satin, which
comes in all the dull artistic colors as
well as in rich tints, is seen on a large
number of now costumes. It is an ap
propriate trimming for children’s and
young ladies’dresses, quite supersed
ing moire for that purpose, though the
matron will be likely to select a richer
fabric like velvet or moire. The ca
bochons of jet on this dress are
especially noteworthy. They average
an inch and a half in diameter, and are
used not only as ornaments, taking
the place of buttons on the front of
the dress, but also on hats,
STRIPED SILKS IN STYLE.
Tho latest offerings in silks indicate
that stripes will be much worn, and
that bright colors will bo favored.
Taffetas are strewn with tiny flowers,
and striped watered silk is abundant.
Fcr ball, reception and concert gowns
satin damasks, brocaded with tiny
rosebuds in from one to four tints, are
the newest. Tho old fashioned silk
rep does not seem to be able to hold
liking, and has been put forth again
and again without success, Black
brocaded silks aie of very rich ap¬
pearance, and are made up elaborately.
Among other new materials tho
satin damask are shown, with black
ground brocaded in colors, which aro
suitable for elderly women, and oth¬
ers have a colored ground figured
with black. In another the black
ground is broken by irregular silvery
spots, and over the whole is a design
in gray. Dove gray faille is brocaded
with satin vines and leaves that show
very high lights. Another black silk
has corn flower blue garlands entwin¬
ing a satin medallion, brocaded with
one small rosebud in the centre. Al¬
together, there is a chance for every
taste and there is also great danger to
the plumpest purses.
WIDE BOX PLEATS.
The wide box pleats, in a few weeks,
will have completely ousted the very
flat and “cut-away” effect of last
season’s skirts. But if skirts are
threatening to be arbitrary, sleeves
may follow the dictates of their wear
ibe ^ babooa ; audaciously
droo b Wlta a Bmp. despondency»
_T_ ^ e f7, f ar ‘bigb or spread
v, horizontally, till their owner twice
is
ber no J‘“ a l wi/ita; they may hi-e a
woman .V s 1 aands^as^lar ^ J iny as Rmorous her knuckles, fcdda
about her dimpled wrist, . or they may
JO \ d ex * v P assume 0fee eibow a 8 himpy, nd curtailed to air, the
a forearm
bl ^ in " breezes of a winter day. lor
evening wear they may be discordant
e y < ; n » tae right being a very bouquet
of o.ossorns, the left a fluttering bow
or wisp of cooweoby lace.. An abso
rfcVO *^ ‘‘-Beves is taking place,
pieces thTm‘ aS£Ume whatever a: ’P ect
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f Iemeats "
Asparagus is the oldest known plant
thai has been used for food.
THOUC MT-M AON BITS.
With each s'rong thought, with every earn¬
est longing
For aught thou deemest needful to w.t
soul.
Invisible vast forces are set thronging
B tween thee and that goal.
'Tis only when some hidden weakness alters
And changes thy desire, or makes It les.%
That this mysterious army ever falters
Or stops short of success.
Thought is a magnet; and the longed to - ,
pleasure.
Or boon, or aim. or object, is the steel;
And Us attainment nangs but on the measure
Of what thy soul can feel.
—E.la Wheeler Wilcox, in Iu lepsadcnt.
riTH AND POINT.
A skylight—The sun.—ruck.
*>'!«». Pfg *»«>
with lnrge checks.—Hartfora.TonrusI.
Fumigat.' t'm old overcoat b you wdt,
Tao camphor ball o lor haunts it slid,
—Chicago luter-Oo •an.
Organized '"1 VuilT charitv is a sort of cou
J " , «* “’ Ilk of ef lmnvwi human kindness.- i
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When you have failed iu all
you can still give advice.—New York
Recorder.
Very few persons have opportunity
delivered at their doors. — Detroit
Free Press.
“Oh, lie’s nobody’s enemy lint hi?
own. ” “But how vindictive ho is
there!”—Puck.
What a pity it is that our neighbors
d«, not know what is best for them.—
Chicago Standard,
It is very hard for it man who lives
in a cvo’ouo district to remain truth
fill. — Washington Posd.
Many a college boy would be better
off if his English were as good as his
Latin and baseball. — Puck.
There are plenty of people who have are
ver v pleasaut while they can
their own way.—Rain’s Xorn.
When a man exhausts every other
method of getting rid of a thing, ho
rallies it oiY.—Atchison Globe.
“No —a thousand times, no!” un¬
doubtedly represents the joyous a Ivau
tages of tho girl millionaire. — Puck.
Blame not tho mail who from the path
Of rectitu l« <to:h rove ,
It may perchance oo that ho hath
Been putting up a stove. —Buffalo Courier.
rie—“Oil, I’m not so big a fool as
you think.” She—“Of course not;
that were impossible.”—Boston L'rau
script.
Every time a woman gives a party
she invites two or three that she
really wishes would decline.—Atchi¬
son Globe.
What a gain it would be to every¬
body if there were fewer talkers and
more conversationalists in the world.
—Boston Transcript.
“rfo your oldest son nolds a posi
tion of trust, eh? Cashier in a bank? ’
“Nop; manager of a big installment
house.”—Buffalo Courier.
He—“You saw some old ruins while
in England, 1 presume?” She—“Yes,
indeed! And one of them wanted to
marry me.”—Brooklyn Lib?.
Commenting on the beam in one’s
own eye instead of the, mote in a
neighbor’s, is quite as jf ten a sign of
egotism as of modesty.—Puck.
You can’t tell anything about a wo¬
man. lf she makes fun of a new style
one day the next day you will see her
imitating it.—Atchison Globe.
When a man says “Of course it’s no
business of mine,” it is a sure sign
that he is going to do the best he can
to make it his business.—Puck.
The dude who said that something
was preying on his mind was advised
not to worry, as it would probably (lio
of starvation.—Lowell Courier.
Ho oallo I on her. Her first worffs m:ulo
Bsveet hope into his ooso u creep.
She turned to him an l softly said,
“My little brother is asleep.”
—Ju Ige.
Student—“Professor, which is the
logical way of reaching a conclu¬
sion?” Professor— “Fake a train of
thought, my boy.”—New York Her¬
ald.
There are two kinds of beauty.
One is the result of youth, aud tho
other is the result of goodness.. The
last named is very scarce.—Atchison
Globe.
The Wife (during a spat) — ‘‘The
villain in the play is always a man.”
The Husband—“Ye3, and it is always
a woman who makes him one. ’—New
York Press.
“Robbie,” said the visitor, kindly,
“have you any little brothers and
sisters?’ ” “No,” replied Robbie, sol
emnly, “I’m all the children we’ve
got.” - Harlem Life.
Young Man- “Look out I There’s a
mouse.” The Advanced Young Woman
(calmly)— “Oh, how cunning. Can’t
you coax the little dear out this
way?”—Chicago Record.
“Oti. it’s joy to be up iu tao morning,”
Wrote ttio poet with level head ;
For, the realistic s< omiug,
He wrote his poem m bed.
—Detroit Free Press.
A quince is about the most worth¬
less thing we know anything preserve®F about. 1^^
is not good when
has a taste tuat reminds you of an old
maid’s kiss; it is simply a suggestion
of something good.”—Atchison Globe.
Smallest of Cows.
The Samoan Islands are the natural
habitat of the most diminutive species
of variety of the genus bos now known
to the naturalist. The average weight
of the males of these liliputian cattle
seldom exceed 2U0 pounds, the average
being not greater than 150 pounds.
The females usual}’ average about 100
larger, are very “stocky built, seldom
being taller than a merino sheep.
These dwarf cattle are nearly all of
the same color—reddish mouse color
marked with white. They have very
large heads as compared with their
bodies, and their horns are of excep¬
tional length.—Chicago Herald.
A Hotel in a Crater.
The project to establish a hotel in
the crater of Mount Tacoma, Wash¬
ington, seems to have vitality. The
English and American capitalists who
have the matter in hand propose to
build m connection with tne hotel a
branch line from the Northern Pacific
and a secon 1 hotel at the snow line.—
Chicago Herald,