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THE WEEKLY GWINNETT HERALD. ■ kM pjckPUM.I f : t'KOKRIWK. | ■i u f In DUD ■ *v*»‘ B ' I[fPLESUBOWLES.l [f PLESUBOWLES. t kipi *‘> n « ATKS! ■ u.as . «l-50iu advance. » , ~■ .75 in advance. feSS.' .50 in advance. ■ EQuU *h for Everybody I - AS '“ m^di 'ertisimj Medium H HERALD in unetjualeU by , ,/ s e/tensive circulation anil m'u.n, low rules, busmens men jcmember thin. ■nKS BLANK t> ■ (iU USDS NK*TLV fKINIKO) Kr sale at t h e Mesal .< i <'■! **< * H, i cor MY IHR K(’T(il(Y H — o — SMITH, Mayor ■ council. ■ L Moore K I' Herrin, W K Brown ■ Brown ■ujVji. A>o DFPARTIRKOH TRAIN Hrnv'o iron) Suwannee, t.yii p m Him lor SiyWannee, 7 b in HIITAI a'D dhparti rh oh MAII.S. Htfimon— Anivcs 12 in, depart* 1 ■ Vion lov and Thursday. L.» Stork Popart? 6a in ar H^p U i Monday and Thursday. Ho.tMii.ix Arrive* 10 a rn, dc- H 1 p m.- Daily. Hni.ow Bivkr. Arrive? 12 in., de H 6 * n.. W i Inefduy ard Saturday ■ W. H HaKVEY.P M churches lit v.l K K ing, Pu»l>ir. ibe lot mid Stii Sunday*. sHltllM Si H.M.I Al' Pul 11 1 ill, SII pi Sunday at J p in liiv.l I' Mil k Hand Services on ~ Jr d Sunday in each ■ Si'hooi. I It Powell. Supt. Sunday at 9.30 a nr ■iiu> kvii., r Masonic I.odue. it B m ff M , 8 A llagood, S \V ~ full moon in each ■ Vhwon Chapter, No .'(9, It A B-J D Spence, it P, a I Patlillo, B Meets Bril Fiiday in each month. Superior Oocrt—N. L. .1 uilye. Convenes on the lot Briny in Mareh anil September. ■ COUNT? OmcKRS. BloiiaifsioNKßs-.I 1) Spence, Chair N Bennett, Jefferson Mr it t, J J K Cloud. J M Patterson. BJidinary--,) T l.amlun. Bum S 0-D T Cain. Collector -J (’ Lowery. Bieasurkr.-K N Kobinson IWMrJI ■?*!% nvemiv 100.-.leit h‘ (iwin- !i‘ii(lci's his professional us ' l tu tlii* citizens attention to all culls will he Hu-. HUII 1 MHiileiu e at tile real ■“■MWArniuon the Huiriiaue rogil. 2tth 18M -tiuiu ■ farm Loans. ■ Flve year loans on improved Middle and Northern ■® or g‘a. negotiated on cheaper W®* than any one in Atlanta. H Addres, ■ PKANCIS FONTAINE, H Fitter Building, H, ... Atlanta Ga. ■ A N 19th.— lino. i non | ILL E, GA Monday the 2«th mat, the WZ**V [ Wlll °t ,eu the <i lobe ■ml Lawi «ti<’eville, for the uc ■"wnodatioa of the I Prepared to other first ■tern CO , m ‘ uodttlK)tlß prompt ■ 08,0 all who patronize the I House. ■ v A. L. HA TKS. ’B3-tf. tots.” V Pllil minrirwr-tr-r M ISC El I. ANY ()\LYA HIT t <)\ A cheerful siutb room, with a bay window full of blossoming plants: a bright fire glowing be hind a burnished grate; a carpet whose soft, velvety pile was shad ed in blues and wood colors to correspond with tho damask cov ered furniture; and a little gilded clock, which had just struck nine at night—all these things met Mrs Chickerly’s eye as she laid down he r book and yawned as widely as her rips cherry of a mouth would admit She was a plump fair faced young matron of some four or five and twenty, with bright auburn hair, soft b/ueeyes, and a com plexion whose roses stooa in “no need of artificial rouge to highten their charms, while her dress of soft crimson merino was exquisite lj adapted to her semi-blonde style. ‘‘Fannie,” said Mr. Cbickerly, looking up from bis newspaper, “did you call ou those Carters to day 1" “No; I never tLougbt of it.’ “And they leave town to-mor row morning; and Carter is ab surdity sensitive to all slights, fancied or real. Fannie, I desired you to make a point of calling.’’ “Well, I did intend to, Flank,” pouted Mrs. Cbickerly, “but ouj cau’t think of everything.” “You cannot, it seems.” “It appears to me tka' you are making a mountain out of a mole hill,” said Faunie, rather tartly. “It may affect my business very seriously. Carter's house carries great influence with it.” Mrs, Cbickerly was silent, pat tiug the velvet carpet with her foot in a manner that indicated some annoyance. “I shall have 10 leave here very early ie-morrow morning,” said her husband, presently. “To go to Hcenersville, about Aunt Elizabeth’s will “Yes.” “Oh, I woulou’t, Frank.' 1 “Why, not ?” “It’s such bitter cold weaihet to travel in, and Aunt Elizabeth is such a whimsical old woman, it's as likely as not that' she’ll change her mind about making a will when you get there. I would wait a little if I were you.” Mr. Chickerly smiled. “That w >uld be your system of doing things. Fanny, Lu‘. not mine.” “My system, Frank ! What do you mean f” “I mean that you believe in put ting things off indetinitely, and nol always in the wisest manner. I wi»h you'd break yourself of that habit, Fannie. Believe me. it will some day bring you to grief.” Mrs Cbickerly contracted her pivtty eye brows. “I don’t believe iu being lectur ed, Frank.” “And I don't very often lecture you, my dear; pray give me credit for that.” “You didn’t think you were mar rying an angel wheß you took me, 1 hope ?’’ “No, my love. I thought I was marrying a very pretty little girl, whose few faults might easily be corrected." ‘■Faulte! Have I any great faults, Frank ?" “Little faults may some'im*sen tail greai consequences, Fanny." “If you sold me any more I shall go out of the room." “You need rot, for I am going myself to pack my valise. By the way, there’s a buttou off the shirt I waut to wear to morrow. I wish you would comb upstairs and sew it on for me." “£ will, presently.” ‘ Why can't you come now ?” “7 just waut to finish this book; there’s only one more chapter And Fanny opened her volume so resoiutely that her husband thought it best not to contest the question. Kitting all alone in front of the bright tire, Mrs. Chifkerly grad ually grew drowsy, and before she knew it she uad drifted off into the shadowy regions of Ireamland. She was roused by th 6 clock staking eleven. Lawrenceville Georgia, Tuesday July 8, 1884 “Dear me, how late it is !” she thought with a little start. ‘1 must go upstairs immediately. There, I forgot to tell the cook about having breakfast at five to morrow morning, and of course shes abed and asleep by this time 111 be up early enough to see to ii myself—that will be just as well.’ And layiug this salvo to hereon science, Mrs. Chickerly turned off l he gas aud crept drowsily up the si lira. fanny; Fanny, its past five, and cook hasn't come down stairs yet. Are you sure you spoke to her last night ” d/rs. Chickerly rubbed her eyes and stared sleepily around. “Oh, Frank, I forgot all about speaking to her last night,” she cried with conscience stricken face. “But I’ll run right up—she can have the breakfast ready in a few minutes.” She sprang out of bed. thrust her feet in a pair of silk-lined elip pers, and threw a shawl over her shoulders. Mr. Chickerly bit his lip and checked her. “No need, Fanny,” he said, a lit tie bitterly. “I must leave the bouse in fifteen minute] or miss the only through truin. It’s of no use speaking to cook now.” “I am so sorry, Frank.’’ Mr. Chickerly did not answer ; he was apparently absorbed in turning over the various articles iu bis bureau-drawer, while Fanny sat shivering on the edge of tne bed, cogitaiing how bard it was for her husband to start on a long journey that biiter morning with out any breakfast. “I can make a cup of cofl'ee my self over the furnace fire,” she ex claimed, springing lo her feet.— But Mr. Cbickerly again inteipos ed : “Sit down, Fanny, please. I would rather you would sow this button ou the neck of ray shirt. I have packed the others—those that are fit to wear. I have shirts enough, but none in repair. Fanny crimsoned as she remem bered how often, in the course of the last month or two, she had solemly promised herself to de vote a day to the m job needed re novation of her [husattnd’s shirts She looked around for her thim ble. “I left it down stairs last night I’ll get it in a minute.” The housemaid had just kin dled a fire in the sitting-room grate it was blazing and crackling cheer ily among the fresh coals, and Fan ny could not resist the temptation of pausing a moment to warm her chilled fingers and watch thegreen ish-purple spires of flame shoot merrily up the chimney, until she heard her husband’s voice calling her imperatively ; “Fanny, Far uy! what are you doing ?” “Oh, dear,” thought the wife as she ran upstairs. “I wish Frank wouldn’t be so cross. He’s al - ways iu a hurry.” Lit'.le Mrs. Cbickerly never stop ped to think that the reason was that she was never “in a hurry.” The needle threaded, the thim ble fitted ou, an appropriate but. ton was next to be selected. “Oh, dear, Frank, 1 haven't on e the right size !” “Sew on what vou have, then bat be qnick !” But Fanny was quite certain there was “just the right button” somewhere in her workbasket.and stopped to search for it. “There,l told you so,” she cried triumphantly holding it up on the point of her needle. “Well, well, at»w it on quick,’ said Mr. Chickerly glancing at his watch nervously. “That's just your worrying way, Frank; as if anybody could sew a button on well in a hurry. There! my needle has come unthreaded !" ‘•Ob, Fanny, Fanny!” sighed her husband, fairly out of patience at lasi, “why didn’t you do it last night, as I begged of yau? I shall miss the train; and what little chance we had of a place in Ann Elizabeth’s will be sacrificed to your miserable habit of being al ways beliiudhan 1.” Fanny gave him ihe shirt and begau to whimper a little; but Mr Chickerly had neither the time devoted to news, literature and local affairs uorthe iuclinatioo to pause to soothe her petulant manifestation of grief. He finished his dress iug, caught up his valise with a hurriedly-spoken “good by.” and run down stairs, two steps at a time, into the street. “There he goes.’’ murmured fanny; “and he s gone away erosa with mo, and a.l for nothing but a miserable button ! 1 wish there wasn t such a thing as a button in the world. (A wish which, we much misdoubt, many anotner wife than Mrs. Fanny Chickerly has echoed, with perhaps better reason.) Mrs. Chickerly was sitting down to her little dinner a la solitaire with a daintily browned chicken, tumbler of currant jelly and a cur ly bunch of celt ry ranged before her, when, to her surprise, the door opened and in walked her lord and husband. “Why, Frank, where on earth did you come from*” cried tje as tonished wife. “From the office," coolly answer td Mr. Chickerly. ‘-But 1 thought you were off for Scentrsville, in such a hurry?” “I found myself just five min utes too late for the train, after having run all the way to the de. pot.” “Oh, that was too bad!" Chickerly smiled a little aa he began to carve the chicken. “Yes, I vas a little annoyed at first: it did seem rather provoking to be kept at home by only a but ton.’ “What are you going to do?” “Why I shall make a second start to-morrow.” “I’ll see to ii thatyour breakfast is ready this time to a second, and all your wardrobe in trim,” said Fanny, rather relieved at the pro# pect of a chance to retrieve her character. “You need not. 1 have enga ged a rouiii at a hotel near the de pot. I can’t run any more risks.” He did nol speak unkindly, an 4 yet Fanny felt that he was dis pleased with her. 4 But Frank ” “We will not discuss the matter any further, my love, if you please I have resolved to say nothing more to you about reforms. I see it is useless and it only tends to foster an unpleasant state of feel ing between us. Shall I help you to some macaroni?” And fairly silenced, Fanny ate her dinner with what appetite was left to her. Three days afterward Mr. Chick erly once more made his entrance, just at dusk, carpet-bag in hand as Fanny sat enjoying the ruddy shine of the coal-fire and the con sciousness of having performed her duty in the mending and gen eral renovating of her huband’s drawerful of shiris—a job which she bad so long been dreading and postponing. “Well how is Aun*. Elizabeth ?’’ questioned Fanny when her hue band, duly welcomed aud greeted, had seated himself in the opposite easy chair. “Dead," was the brief reply. “Dead ! Oh, Frank ! Of her old enemy, apoplexy ?” “Yes." “Was her will made?” “It was. ztparently she bad expected me, on the day she her self had appointed ; and on my non arrival in the only train that stops she sent for a village lawyer made her will, and left all her property to the orphan asylum in Scenersvill. with a few bitter words to the effect that the neg lect of her only living nephew had induced her on the spur of the moment to alter her original intention of leaving it to him. She died the very next morning “Oh, Frank, how much was it?” “Ten thousand dellars." ybere was a moment or two of silence, aud then Mr, CbDkerly added, composedly. “You see, Fanny how muck that missing button has cost me!” Fanny Chickerly sat like one condemned by the utterance of own her consience. Not alone the one missing button the scores —uay, hundreds—of trilling orn missions, forgeifullness ami poet porcm nts which rale her TV o»e ei) lie-* 11, leave to "cat< b up «i‘h t t in ß j iri i ; pressent seems iv oe. What world this end ill ! V S not the pr.-vs.ul lesson sutticicnily rnomeu'eus to ten h her to riin herself i.i a Gif’ er<nt school ' Sl.c rose and rame o lur Lns bao.l s side, Hying one trernu lons hand tn his shoulder. •1 i ere shall be no more miss in,; battens, my live,” ehe sail earnestly. H Complete nJed all that she left, unspoken and silently press ed the Lt!lc hand in his own ; ai d not a word w: s s-.tid more upon the subject. Hut it was not forgotten. Fan ny Chickerly net, herself resolutly to work to uproot ihc lank weeds growing in the garden . f her life. And she succeeded ua we all may do when we revive to do a wise thing. H it} lieroviue Ki |> I oilve Iu the first place, kerosin* nev er does exp'ode Ordinary kero sene is a mixture of oils which i re convened into gas, or vapor ) at different temperatures. This gas, when mixed in certain pro portions with the air, forms a most explosive compound, The danger, therefore, from kerosene comes from this gas. which, of OAiutse, caunot be seen. From the best quality of kerosene all, or nearly all the (be oil which evaporates at a low temperature, and thus becomes explosive, has been removed. This latter oil is naptha or benzine. Ho long as it is kept confined, so that its vapor cannot mix with the common air, it is safe. But the moment the gas mixes with th« atmosphere it beco »es explosive and danger oue. These facts give the reason •why it is never safe, under any circumstances, to fill a lighted lamp, or to pour kerosene from a can on a burning fire, The lamp needs filling; there fore there is a space over the cil filled with the gas of the oil evap orated by teat and air, It is con fined, and as long as the cover is screwed down no spark can get to it. But when the cover is trken eff the gas is pushed out by the oil entering ihe lamp, miked still fur ther with the common aii, be comes explosive, communicate i with the flame of the lamp and im mediately explodes. So, too, there is explosive gas in the top of a half emptied kero sene oil can, and when the oil is thrown on the fire the flame com municates with that gas and caus es an explosion. The sellers of cheap oil fre quent/y declare in selling the dan gerous fluid that it ta so safe that a lighted match can be thrown in to it. That this can be dene witn safety only shows that the condi tions for making the explosive gas are not met ii the experi ment, But if the same oil were used in a defective lamp, or with any but the extremist care, there would be an explosion. Always remember that it is a (•as which explodes and not the oil, and thut you cannot see the gas. And if yon value your lives, be sute that you do not bring a spark uear any place where there may be a mixture of air und oil gas.—Youth’s Companion. C'ipt• in R M Andrews, a well to do 'a; t*;cr i.f Fun p‘<r windy, S. C.niuey f ur yarn old, i>io ! pt.es ti. vak fiom Sampler to I Bust n, oi. a wager, over'he same 1 route he n-ed lomake the 'rip in wagoiis rears before railroads were c ustriu-te.l. Captain Ai drews, uo> withti.it.tiding his year , is u tin. specimen of physical man boo 1 . His carriage is as erect as th.t if a h< v< f sixteen, ai d In perfoiu s tlie 1. bor of a field l and everv dry. H- i c uiideut of h s ability to t'cconiplish the journey Captain Andrews has two sisters 1 living in Tennessee, one of whom lis one hundred and six years old I and the other one hundred and | ten.—Chronicle aud Constitution - I alia'. We struggle with adversity, tint success disarms us. Tbs %% Mlrb.-r iu Church His neck is titled on a globe socket that turns clear around. He sees every thing that goes on The man that comes in late does not escape him. and it is in vain for the tenor to think he got that little note to the alto conveyed between ibe leaves of the hymn book unobserved. The watcher saw it. He sees the hole in the quarter that Elder Skinner drop pod on the plate. He sees tha Deacon Slowboy has but one cuff If the door swings lie looks around: if the window moves noise lessly he looks up. He sees the stranger in bis neighbor's pew>. and lie sees Brother Badrnan, sit ting away back under the gallery, furtively takings chew of the in hibited fine cut All things that nobody wants him to see the watcher sees. He sees so much that he has no time to lis'en.—R. J Burdette. lU till- .VIUNCUIU A teacher was showing a class through a museum, explaining many of the wounierful tilings to be seen. “Now, this is the the skeleton of a mastodon, Johnny : can you tell me to .vlmt kind of a masto don this skeleton belongs?” “It belongs to a -lead one sir.” When Col Baldwin editor of the Jounal came toPeoria.lie (aught school. /1 was iu his capacity as pedagogue that he first mei Emma Ab >ott, for she was one of his pit pils. He says she was not a pro ficient scholar, because she nog lecteil her studies and was always thruming an old guitar,which she hadgot posessiou ofby somejnoans or other ; but he remembers that even in her childhood, Emma was adept iu flatory, or as he now puts it, “a daisy on taffy.' lie tells in frustration if this a sto ry to effect (hat he anbunoed one day that he would have lo punish Emma for some violation of the rules. While he was searching for bis ferule, Fauna stood in the middle of the schoolroom soblnug 1 1 te a big baby. “Do you think' “She Wailed, “that I am crying through fear of the pain you in flict. I weep because of the re morse I suffer that I should have wounded the feeliugs ol' you my dear old master.’' This precious diplomacy so unnerved Mi. Baldwin that he postponed the punishment indefinitely, and af ter that ermbryotic prim a donna had pretty much her own way in the Peoria schoolhousu. “Dear me," gasped Mrs. Kro awl, “here is a terrible item in the paper. My, liow the poor man must have suffered !’’ “ H'hat is it?” asked her hus band, coming to her side “Why, one of these poor walk ing match fallows swallowed a sponge.” “What? Let me see!" After carefully reading the ar tide, Mr. K; threw the paper down, growling : “You women ain't got a grain of sense; it don’t say hs swallowed a sponge.” “I know it don't, in those oxact words,” answered his wife; then brightly continued,“but how could he throw up the sponge if he didn T shallow it ?”—Constitution. A terrapin has been found on W iite Oak Mountain, near Bing gold, (Ja., with “Union, Co, F, 2<;th Ohio Volunteer Vetran In fantry, March 10th, 1804, ’ cut on the shell in large letters Over twenty years have elapsed since i,he cutting was done, and yet it ieems to be sprightly und will eat anything giveu to it in the way of food. A Massachusetts editor has no •iced that the smaller the girl, the more ice cream she will hold. A Burlington girl has a di>*ry devoted entirely to noiing down the visits of her beaux. She calls it her court docket. A health journal says that you ought to take three-quarters of an hour for your dinner It would be well also to add a few vege'a bles and a piece of meat. “Will the coming man be hap pier?” asks a writer. It. depeuds to a great extent upon whetntr his wife has got tired and gone to sleep or ia still waiting up lor him. Tam iug n Horse A late friend and neighbor of mine in the country kept a mon key who took to riding his hogs, especially one of them, wliiqh he commonly singled out as fittest for his use and, leaping upon its back, with his face toward the tail he whipped it unmercifully, and drove it about t.i.l it could r-n no ’onger. A well known noblemen onee had a wild horse whom no body could ride. “I know nol win t your lordship can do with him," said one, “but to set the monkey upon !uh back.” So they put a pad to the horse, and set the men key upon it with a switch in bis hand, which lie used upon the horse, and set, him into a furi ous kicking and galloping; but, Peg kepi his seat, and exercised his swi'ch. The horse lay upon the ground, but.when he threw bi.nself on one side, tho monkey was up on the other. He ran iu to a wood with him. to brush him "ft; but if a tree or a bush ecenred oa one side, the monkey slipped to the other side; till m lasi the horse was so sickened, fatigued, and broken spirited, that lie ran home to the stable for protection When the monkey was remove,-, * boy mounted him, who managed tho horse with ease’, and he never gave any trouble afterward. Postponed Papa, you are a philosopher, what do you see in the rain drops pattering against the pane? I see a congress of greatness my daughter. Do you see Frobey the r e and I at his side.’ Yos, Frobey is there. Wiiat; nol as a member of con gress I hope. No, not as a member of the Nations Congres, but— Oh, the cabiner, 1 know lie’s there, for my Frobey# proud lips and lofty mind would igti ire a less exalted position. No, not a member of the cabi net either but he’s tending bar across the street and you--. And 1 ? Are starving in a dingy attic many flights above. Bnt if Frohey’s tending bar why nui I starving? Because he’s tending on the wrong side, the fellow on the oth- Hjde has got all ilia money. Cards will not be out for July —the weilibrg is indefinitely post poned. Moral: Young man, as yon es’eem your own happiness and value the prize in her whose hand yju’d wiu, dou'i drink on the sly. t spa's are very suspicious, and paint mauy pictures in a philoso phical way often hurtful to you' - cause. J. T. Norris, of Springfield Ohio die detective, does a trick that probably no o her man it the country can immitute. He tnkes a silver coin usually a dol - lar, and places it on his tongue between the teeth with the sound of a telegraphing instrument, the opening and closing of the circuit being exactly Imitated. Norris used to beopperator.and by means of the coincan telegraph so distinctly that any telegrapher can e tidy read the messa e. Iu this manner he telegraphed fifty words a minute. A Republican Keporier wrote out a message on a Western Union blank and handed it to the detective. The operators iu churge at the South ern took down the words us fast as Norris produced them with the coin. Ttie message was rap idly Bounded and written down, all three copies coincided exact ly. a Mr N orris can stand up before a telephone, aiul in this novel manner telegraph a message which any telegrapher can read widi great facility. But the most wonderful thing is to see him tele graph with his eyelids. The dots and flashes of the telegraphic al phabet he imlica'es by more or loss rapid opening and shutting of the eyelids. In this manner lie can converse with an expert with out uttering a sound..—St Louis Republican. John 11. James, a few weeks ago one of the wealthiest bankers in Atlanta, aud who lived in one of the most elegant aud palatial residences on Peachtree street, has now left the city and moved bis family to the old 7/oward place at Kirkwood The latest criminal charge laid against the English sparrow is that one of the most cherished of bis employments is the biting off of the heads instead of the stingers of honey bees. |Vol. XIV.—No 15 Fashiou Motes Bright scarlet lace honest-* are ' very pretty, Turkey red is much used for uu der-skirts. White satin and silver is popu lar for bridesmaids. Colored laces, also gold laces, are used in millinery. Long overskirts appear on some of the new dresses. Long silk mitts are worn in every conceivable color. Glazed taffetas are trimmed with all kinds of emhrodiery. Pompadour velvet figures are seen on some street dresses. Naudvkeredis much used for children’s every-day costumes. New summer bonnets are of delicate tulle over thin lace frames Bronze spun-silk stockings are sold to wear with brenze slippers. China silks, with boquets of carnations us figures, are popular. Plain Brussels net of exceed ingly line quality ami in colors is used for veils. ’Plie now bonne's are many of them small in size and not espe cially new in shape. Waists of black jet diamond net ting are worn over jet-ses or black silk waists. Combination suits are not so popular this season as those all niadaol one material. The velvet figures on black grenadine wraps are often outlin cd with steel beads. Combination dresseß of plaid anil plain mateiiale in the same tints are fashionable. Waistcoats of iridescent beads, arranged ir. Persian patterns, are the newest additions to jerseys. Cold lace, made of fourteen carat gold, is used for making and trimming of bonnets. This is a Paris novelty. Home of ilie new straw hats have the crowns sewed in straight crosswise rows instead of the old fashioned spiral. The bonnets which are veiled in illusion, bonnet, flowers and all, <s called it Manon. 11 is a revival of an old fashion. Ithlnostoucs are now Bet in tor tome-shell hairpins, and make love ly ornaments for the back hair They are also fashionable when so* in silver. The richest materials for even ing toilets are Venetian satins in changeable goods, figured witn the tiny velvet patterns, which are now considered stylish. The riding habit of 1884 is a simile longer than a walking skirt, but only a simile, and it is very narrow. All the material saved by this seems to be in the collar, which is very high. A neat device to make a skirt heavy is the plan of tucking the flounces before box-plaiting them This gives more thickness of th 6 material and consequently nine times the weight really needed. A handsome dress of black Ben galee silk is draped with Chantil ly lace and finished with flat side drapeiies of black net jetted with pendant spikes. The long train of the dress is stylishly square at one corner aud round at the oth - er. Rich trimmings of Chantilly complete the toilet. A scheme is on foot for estab lishing turtle parks on the coasts of Provence, Algeria and Corsica lie who does his best, however little, is always to be distinguish ed from him who does nothing. The Spanish gypsies assert that they know the dance which Heredia's daughter performed be fore King /7erod. In the middle ages women were not physicians but sometimes sur geons of more titan ordinary abili ty. m * - - He who receives a good turn should never forget it; lie who does one should never remember it. There are no persons more so licitous about the preservation of rank than those who have no rank.