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A NEW FRENCH FLAY. 'Vllh ti riol l.nlit in u„. i „|,rrt “Le Nouveau Monde," a four act >liama which ia creating a sensation in I‘aris has its scene in tiro United States during the War of Independence. The principal personages are Lord Cecil, commanding the English forces; Ruth! his unacknowledged wife; Mrs. Andrews, an adventuress, and Stephen Ashwell, who is loved both l>y Ruth and Mrs. Andrews. Toward the close of the play wo are introduced to the interior of a squatter s house, the hist outjxiHt on Rhode Island. The war is at its height, Washington's army has been thoroughly organized and for soruo time past hits been engaged in repeated tights with the English under Lord Cecil. Mrs. Andrews lives amid the troops. Ilcr courage and devotion to the wounded excite general admiration. She trasses for being the noblest of women, and no one suspects the odious nature of plans. Nor are Mary and Ruth less heroic. Ruth has even been wounded in the houhler during a recent engagement, in which she had followed Stephen. 1 he attack on the English has Wen fixed for the next day, when, to the ■Wuuwlnnont uf ti,,. Americans, Lord Wil's soldiers, which were believed to W at least ten miles off, make their ap pearance on the Sonne. Unless they are driven back an irreparable disaster is inevitable, Washington is vuinly trying to un derstand the strange movement of the enemy when word is sent him that his plan of attack laid been betrayed to Lord Cecil by Ruth. The real traitress is. of course, Mrs. Andrews, who brings the infamous charge against her rival. All appearances, however, are against her victim and Ruth is compelled to own that she is the wife of Lord Cecil, the commander of the hostile forces. Though the revelation has almost over whelmed Stephen he .!■ fends her; but she is put in chains. Her trial is fixed for the next day. The enemy is close, at hand, and as the safety of the army is of paramount importance, Ruth is aban doned. Mrs. Andrews then sets fire to the house and : '.’4M|M:iig forest. Lord Cecil finds his wife amid the flames, has her chains broken, and carries her away to Boston with his retiring armv. The first tableau of the fifth net shows ns the hall of the Military Court, at Bos ton, ou the morning of the 4th of duly, 177(1. Boston, besieged bv Washington’s army, is in a desperate strait. The En glish troops are Wtween two fires threatened from without by the besieg- j iug forces, and from within by an upris ing of the Bostonians, which seems im minent. Lord Cecil, seeing no prospect of re lief, embarks the remnants of his armv, and only keeps with him one company of 120 men as a guard of honor. With these he determines to brave death for the honor of old England and let thv town be carried by assault rather than surrender. *. Before starting, however, lie teils Ruth that he has informed Stephen and Washington she is innocent of the trea son she was accused of. The fodcrals rush on for the last as sault. Lord Cecil and his companions are killed in the breach. Stephen ar rives only just in time to save Ruth from the dagger of Mrs, Andrews, who is herself sill J|, and tile piny ends by la/,I a/, solemn proclamation of the Independ ence of the Unit 'd States. lii a Single Might. Many remarkable tales have been told of portions who, bv reason of fright or other causes, have found that their hair has turned white in a single uiglit. But there is not, we believe, Hays the Boston Journal, anywhere on record a case where a person went to tied at night in a calm state of mind, rested soundly until daylight, and awoke in the morning to find that during sleep his or her hair had changed from ebony to silver. That is , to say, there never was such a case until last week, when just this sort of an inci dent occurred in Boston. The subject was a lady, who retired at her usual hour, taking with her to her room another and an elderly lady, a visitor, who had ar rived late in the day, and for whom no other accommodation could be arranged. The subject of this incident was noted for the fineness and beauty of tier hair, which was said by good judges—people w ho had been abroad and were acquaint ed with the appearance of ravens—to ri val the raven's wing in blackness and lustre. Being bl< ssed with a good con science, and having eaten nothing indi gestible at supper, the lady slept peace fully during the night and awoke re freshed in the morning. But on looking toward the mirror, she saw that her hair, instead of being black as when she went to bed, was plentifully streaked with gray. She sprang up at once to assure herself by a nearer survey, and just be come convinced that her first view was correct, when at that moment her elderly companion, who had already dressed and gone down stairs, entered the room, and, with the words, "It was sodark when I got up that I put on the wrong switch,” re placed u]>on the bureau a black and glossv coil. Catching tip then the gtsy tresses that had for a moment so alarmed the younger lady, she deftly arranged them in their appropriate place and ftgjiin quietly with<lxoiv. Thouble.— On a holiday in China town, San Francisco, a matinee perform ance'in the Chill's:; Theatre was an nounced to last from 4 o’clock a.m. un til t p.m., but the manager attempted to get rid of his audience an hour earlier. The result was a riot, in which tho benches and other fixtures were smashed. Poet- -“But, my dear air, it is now four years since you accepted my epic, and yet no steps have been taken to pub lish it.” Publisher—“ Don’t be in a hurry, young man. Homer had to wait three thousand years before he got' into print, and you will hardly claim that your poem "is an Iliad. ” - Meg- njr Rial. ter. VOL. X. The Treatment for n Cold. The Monthly Magazine (London) re ports Dr. Oralmm as Raying that it is not a correct practice, after a cold is caught, to make flic room a person sits in much warmer than usual, to increase the quan tity of bed clothes, wrap up in flannel, and drink a largo quantity of hot tea, gruel, or other slops, because it will in variably increase the feverishness, and, in the majority of instances, prolong rather than lessen the duration of the cold. It is well known that confining inoculated persons in warm rooms will make their small-pox more violent by augmenting the general heat ami fever ; and it is for the same reason that a simi lar practice in the present complaint is attended with analogous results, a cold being in reality a slight fever. In some parts of England, among the lower order of the people, a large glass of cold spring water, taken on going to bed, is found to lie successful remedy, and in fact many medical practitioners recommend a re duced atmosphere and frequent draughts of cold fluid as the most efficacious rem edy for a recent cold, particularly when the patient’s habit is full and plethoric. Dr. Graham further says : It is generally supposed that it is the exposure to a cold or wot atmosphere which produces the effect called cold, whereas it is returning to a warm tem perature after exposure which is the real cause of the evil. When a person in the cold weather goes into the open air, every time he draws in his breath the cold air passes through his nostrils and windpipe into the lungs, and, conse quently, diminishes the heat in these purls. As long as the person continues in the cold air, he feels no bad effects from it ; but as soon .os ho returns home, lie approaches the fire to warm himself, and very often takes some warm and comfortable drink to keep out the cold, as it is said. The inevitable consequence is, that lie will find that lie has taken cold. He feels a shivering which makes him draw nearer the fire, but all to no purpose; the more lie tries to heat him self, the more he chills. All the mischief is h re caused by the violent action of die heat. To avoid this when you mine out of n very cold atmosphere, you should not at first go into a room that lias a fire in it, or if you cannot avoid that, you should keep for a considerable time at as groat a distance as possible, and, alsive all, refrain from taking w arm or strong li quors when you are cold. This rule is founded on the same principle as the treatment of any part of the body when frostbitten. If it were brought to the fire it would soon mortify, whereas, if rubbed with snow, no bad consequences follow from it. Hence, if the following rule were strictly observed—-when the whole body, or any part of it, is chilled, bring it to its natural feeling and warmth bv degrees—the frequent colds we ex p lienee in winter would inn great meas ure be prevented. A New Profession. Anew profession, that of accompanying young girls to and from balls, lias been recently started, the New York Hoar tells us. Hairdressers, probably of the fair sex, advertise that they will dress the hair of ladies and then escort them to their destination. The pressure of engagements which is apt to reduce mamma to a limp and wilted condition long before the season is over, and ex asperate papa to a point which unfits him for polite society, makes it necessary to employ the services of some dispas sionate) and fresh attendant, and maids are not always trustworthy, as was proved on a recent occasion when Abigail, being dispatched for her youth ful charge, somewhat after midnight willingly confided the young maiden to the tender mercies of a gallant cavalier, and returned peacefully to her couch and slumber. The arrangements were perfect, save in the neglect of one item— the latch-key—tho absence of which rendered all other precautionary meas ures null and void, and when the young damsel and her cavalier arrived at tho paternal mansion, the hell was found quite inadequate to the aw akening of the door-keeper. Hotels and friends’ houses were out of the question—and to spend the remainder of the night, on the cold doorsteps, not the most enlivening pros pect in the world—“especially,” said the lady, “when no one will believe that we did spend it in that way. But her com panion was a man of ready resources, lie espied a policeman, and hailing the guardian of the public peace, bribed this functionary to remain with them in the capacity of chaperone, and pace the pavement in front of the house until daylight. The noise of voices, however, effected what the sound of the bell had failed to do, and Abigail herself, roused from her indiscreet slumbers, rushed to the aid of the wanderers, and their an guish waß at an end. The most extra ordinary part of the story, however, is that two women and two men—one a policeman—kept a secret inviolate; that is, with one or two exceptions to this praiseworthy reticence. A Sad Fate. —Female children are sold from the establishment for found lings at Canton at seventy-five cents each. Their future may be imagined. This commerce re. not approved of by the Government, it is said, lint no means have beeu taken to email it out. SUMMERVILLE, GEORGIA, WEDNESDAY EVENING, MAY 30. 1883, THE COMING MAN. The President of tlic IJiiie-Klln Club Tell* I’m Wiini lie Shall lc. [From the Detroit Free rrcus.] ‘‘I)o cornin’ man hasn't come yet,” said Brother Gardner, as he looked Giveadam Jones square in the eye and motioned to Elder Toots to draw in his feet and let the heat of the stove have a chance to circulate around the hull. “No, gem'leu, do cornin’ man hasn’t arrove in ilis kentrv yet, an’ if do rheu matics keeps on bodcrin' me, I can't expect to be on airih when he gets heali an'take him by the ban’ an’ toll liim how powerful glad 1 is to s o him. But some of our chill'on may lib to see him, an' dar’ll he sich a celebrashun as no Fo’tli of July kin hold a candle to. “Do cornin’ man, my friends, will go to Congress unpledged, an’ como home unhribed an’ widout fear of mootin' do people who sent him dar’. “Do cornin' man will be 'looted State, County or City Treasurer, an’ when his term has expired his books will balance an' his accounts will be sqnar’ to a cent. "Do coinin’ man will have a reverence fur de Constitusliun of do Union an' a respect fur de laws of his own State. "Do cornin’ man w ill look sternly upon embezzlement, bribery an’ all sorts of fraud, an’ he will take a squar’ stand upon an honest polyticnl platform. “If de cornin' man should happen to lie looted to de Common Council do peo ple of dat. city would 1 1 ’nr such a rattlin’ an’ blinkin' of dry bones dat. do music of ten brass bauds couldn’t drown do noise. "As T menshuned bofo’ de cornin’ man hasn’t got heali yet, an’ when I pick up de daily paper an' scan do daily record i J crime, I can't help but fool dat do hero will find sich a job laid out fur him dat ho will go down into his butes an' nobbor bo seen nor beard of again. “While 1 don’t want to occupy downl unlil? time ol) dis meet in’ ober ail hour all’ n-ltalf furder, I feel it my dooty to remark did dis Lime-Kiln Club isn’t gwino to wait fur any coinin’ man to come. De Committee on Finance am gwiue to look into our lodge safe once a week all freudo y’ar, an’ if de money fioan’ tally wid de Secretary's figgers a cyclone will begin to circle. While de janitor ob dis club am only allowed to handle seventeen cents per week, de fast time he makes seven an’ five count up thirteen lie will be missed from his ac customed paths. “While dar am naterally a fraternal foolin’ in a lodge of dis sort, dat feelin must chop squar’ off when a brudder member am seen promenadin’down to do stasknu in company wid a purleoeenmn. J.ove one anoder, but return borrowed money exactly when you promise. Btan’ by a member in distress, but let him know dat as soon as he gils well he will be expected to airu his own meat an’ ’bi ters an’ liah-wood. Anticipate a redue- B j,un in house rent, but doan’ move out in de night owin’ do landlord hack rent. Bo olileegin’, but when a man returns your coffy-mill minus de handle an’ boat cog-wheels, doan’ fail to drap a hint dat it would be less trubble fur him to drink tea or pound his coffee in a rag. Let us now embarrass de reg lar order of biz- Adulteration of Sugar. Our Washington correspondent re ports that when the bill to prevent the importation of adulterated tea is brought into the House an effort will he mad - to add to it a clause forbidding and pun ishing the adulteration of sugar and mo lasses also. In the light of a letter from Mr. Duncan F. Kenner to a glucose manufacturer in this State, which has become public, we hope that not only Congress but the State Legislatures also will make haste to declare fraudulent the selling of a mixture of sugar and mo lasses with glucose, unless the quality and proportions of the mixture are open ly stated. Whoever wishes to use glu cose Inn: a right to do so. And if any one prefers to use a mixture of cane sugar and glucose rather than pure cane sugar he lias the right to do this. But whoever sells such mixtures as “sugar” or “molasses” commits a fraud on the public, and ought to be liable to severe pu> Glucose is a much cheaper article than cane sugar. It is worth only about half as much and it is much less sweet. It does not improve, but, on the contrary, it debases the cane sugar or molasses with which it is mixed. The mixture is made for the dishonest purpose of get ting a high price for an article of inferior value. It is a fraud upon the public, and ought to he severely punished. Wo hope some member of our Legislature will make haste to introduce a bill pro tecting the public against this abomin able swindle, and making its commission a punishable offense.—xV. Y. Herald. Tire Cow Bovs.—The leading cattle men whom a newspaper correspondent says he met in Arizona had a Southern cut and accent, and were apt to have hailed from Missouri or Texas. Some few appeared in full suits of broadcloth. The wide felt sombrero was invariably worn. The landlord of the hotel de scribed them as “perfect gentlemen, some good at the bar for S2O and $25 a day.” _ Adjourned. —Tho Legislature of .Ar kansas adjourned out of respect to tlio memory of a member who had commit ted suicide while intoxicated, SOMETHING ABOUT EARTHQUAKES. The province of Murcia in Spain, had a pretty lively shaking tip on Tuesday. Twenty-two successive earthquake shocks were felt there, several houses were destroyed and consternation pre vailed among the inliabitiuils. The day before there was a heavy earthquake shock in Bohemia. Last week, southern Illinois and western Kentucky were shaken. Siuoo tho beginning of the year, there have also been shocks in New England and Canada. These disturbances of the earth’s crust, occurring in rapid succession, at tract attention to the theory thill, earth quakes are sometimes, at least, tho result of onuses affecting a large portion of the earth, or perhaps tho wholo globe. Various so-called earthquake cycles have been pointed out, but it cannot be said that any one of them has been satis factorily established. It is impossible to predict earthquakes, and the utmost that careful observation has so far proved is that there arc certain periods when earthquakes are unusually numer ous. All sorts of theories have been in vented to account for these periodic dis turbances of the earth. Home h ive as cribed earthquakes to the influence of comets, although the idea is about, as well founded ns that of tho astrologers, that comets foretell war's and famines. Others have thought that earthquakes may result from the varying force of at traction of the sun, the moon, and the other planets upon the earth. There is, at least, some appearance of plausibility in this theory, but the, whole question is yet, open, and a great deal more informa tion is needed before it can bo in any de gree set tied. There is, perhaps, no other display of natural forces, not even excepting vol canic: eruptions, so frightful as a grout earthquake. Earthquakes have des troyed many thousands of human beings, and laid wuiste whole cities and provinces. They are entirely beyond human control, and experience has shown Ihiil they are just as likely to occur now as they were centuries ago. Tho questions, what causes them, and is there any means of foreseeing their visitations, are therefore of great interest, and we have reason to be thankful that in this part of tho world, tho solid ground is not often shaken, and that when the earthquake shock is felt it doss little damage. Buttered Yiitli Humbug. A man is not more justly known by llio company he In rpi than by the char acter of business lie chooses in follow. One would not willingly confide, in a mock-auctioneer, or lend a denier in pinchbeck “ live dollars lill lie call nil his dog.” We could not think of George Washington as engaged, xanqile, in degrading with cheap glucose the stand ard of sweets, or conseniing to re all/.o profit from adult rat ion of tea. Tho truth cannot abide in a person whose money is got by deceit, no matter how large the siib-liancment where lie works, or how expansive the superstructure in which he displays his lying goods. J)o we draw good water and bad from tile same fountain V May we, expect figs from thistles’ Do “ die peaceable, frails of righteousness” grow in disguise? “Yu cannot sene two masters.” It was lu cidly said of a certain parson that lie was an angel--in the pulpit. But lie killed official utterance by ltis week-day walk arid conversation; “the simple fact is, his preaching wasn’t sanctioned by his practice.” Bo it is a cold day for Reform when it is championed by a man who feeds on fraud. Everybody known, or may know, that oleomargarine never appears with its proper name when it can palmed off as butter. Hundreds of thousands of per sons in this city, in every town, and in foreign countries as well, are to-day buy ing and using this refined soap-grease as genuine product of the dsiry cow. Tin very completeness of the counterfeit gives the more occasion for criticism. If by the shrewd arts of the laboratory, de cent suet, or the refuse fats of tho slaugh ter-house, or of worse sources, can, in open competition, be made to take the place of butter (as they do secretly take it to the extent, according to figures, of 17,000,000 pounds per year), no one could fairly remonstrate ; hut the simple fact is that not a tithe, of that vast quan tity could be marketed if it were placed on grocers* counters for exactly what it is—as not only a sense of honor would require, but us tho law itself directs, This is the ground of tho objection we urge now to oleomargarine, and to the man who has come to be known as the mogul of its commerce ; who, using the machinery of an extensive trade, tills his pockets by circulating the article against which even the barriers of legislation have been set apparently in vain.—jY, V. Tribune. Pkactioin’G RErAKTEK; “How inatten tive you are, Tommy! Wliaf 1 say goes ill at one car and out of the other. And why do you lean your head on your hand like that?” “Toprevent wlrat you say going out at the other ear, Miss Sharp.” Scene in a Chicago .hoc store: “What size?” “Two’s, please.” An interval of hard work. “Do you want a pair of shoes, Miss, or only one?” “A pair, of course.” “Ah ! yes, f see; twie - two are four; John, stretch a pair of No. I gaiters,” Life in n Lighthouse. There are Horrible stories told of for mer days, when a couple of men being i a duty on some isolated rock, one of them happened to die suddenly in rough weather ; when tho survivor, foaling of being charged with tho crime, remained shut up in the closest proximity to tho corpse of his comrade ti'l the lull of tho storm brought relief and the opportunity of explanation. This very week we hear of a case which might well seem incredi ble were it not amply authenticated. The watchmen on the Wolf Rock, oppo site the Cornish coast, were out off from nil communication with their kind through the two dreariest months of tho winter; and it was nearly the middle of January when relief reached them at last. Nowadays, however, the light warders in similar circumstances invari ably consist of three at the least; and both on the light-towers and in the lightships, the men are surrounded by all manner of material comforts. They have rooms as snug ns the limited struc tural arrangements will admit; they have ample rations of excellent food, nor are the needs of their minds by any means in glide,l. still, il must be an unnatural life at the best. and one Hint is perilously lilted to nourish sombre fancies. We iimv conceive that in the men who take most kindly to the occupation, the imag ination is seldom strongly developed; hut nevertheless, they must lie quick and intelligent. Generally speaking, some moderate amount of exercise is be lieved to be indispensable to.preserving tlio balance of the bodily and mental powers ; and in the dullest routine of or dinary drudgery there are usually occa sional changes of scene and company. But in many a lighthouse the occu pants are hi Id fast by the logs, for exor cise becomes something more than ef fort, when il is reduced to practicing tho treadmill upon the steps of a corkscrew staircase, or to taking half a dozen stops upon a slimy rock at low water. The crews of tho lighthouse are somewhat more favorably circumstanced’in this ro sped, since they can do their walking on a more or less roomy deck, and they en joy, besides, a greater variety of com pany. But the life in bolh cases must be intolerably monotonous; and to a landsman tln.-ro would ho Utile to choose between the terrors of the one and tho other, when tin- sea is wrapped in im penetrable fogs or jH being lashed into fury by howling lempcs's. In a storm, (he lighthouse is in reality (he safer resi dence of Ihe two, for, thunks to the skill of our modern engineers, it is most un likely that another Eddystono will be swept away. Yet tho waves rush up the side of tin 1 , tower, and toss their tons of si elliiug green water against the lower courses of masonry, seeming to shake the massive structure from tile liglit-room to the foundation, it must need nerve and long habit to resist the belief that the violence of the elements may bring about a catastrophe. As for the lightships, being moored in shallower water, they may ho less exposed to the extreme fury of the storms, though there is always a chance of their being torn from their anchorage, lint, on the other huml, in even moder ately bad weather they must nl ways be emi nently disagreeable places of abode. Tho peculiar jerking motion, when the natural heaving of the ship is being perpetually cheeked by the straining cables, is said tube trying to the most seasoned of mariners, and to be one of those incon venience s to which no custom can re concile one,- Saturday Review. “ Cliunipngnc <lc la Champagne. * The “ Hermit,” of New York City, lias ascertained that during the past year sixty-three women were received at the inebriates’ homo at Fort Hamilton, some of whom were members of first class families. The number of male pa tients is vastly greater, lie says, but wt know that it is much easier to send men to such institutions than women. Physi cians anil others who have the oppor tunity of close observation say that many if not most, of the splendid receptions which mark the highest rank of society nro followed fin many eases) by symp toms resembling incipient delirium tre mens. By flu's is meant Unit reaction caused by intense excitement. The drain on both mental and physical strength inevitable on such occasions calls for stimulus which is only measured by the cxigi ncy of the hour. At such times few who drink know the extent of their potations, llcnee.it has 1 icon suggested that instead of styling the first circles creme de la creme, the proper term would lie “champagne do la champagne,” vinen the hitter is not only the great lonrce of inspiration, but is also the Itondard of taste. Liquor in Russia. The decree regulating the liquor traffic in Russia, recently signed by the Em p. ror, is one of the most stringent char acter. There is to bo only one liquro shop in a village, and where two or three villages are almost contiguous one shop must suffice for their combined inhabi tants. The publican must boa native of the place, appointed and paid by the Common Council, and must sell food as well as liquor. If ho allows any person to get drunk, he is liable not only to dismissal, but to fine and imprisonment. If any Russian village is reported to the authorities as addicted to drunkenness, the sale of liquor may he interdicted for as long a period us may seem necessary. NO. \\) More Than They Asked For. The Whigs of Now York and Boston, wishing to show their appreciation of Mr. Webster, contributed a largo sum to ena ble him to purchase a suitable residence at Washington and to live there during the negotiation with Lord Ashburton in good style. Ho selected a house facing the northeastern corner of Lafayette Square, which lmd been built by Thomas Swann, who had been engaged in mer cantile pursuits at Alexandria and at Washington, utid whoso son had been in recent years Governor of Maryland and a Representative in Congress from Balti more. Moving into this house, Mr. Web ster lived in becoming style, entertaining nearly all of the Senators and many of the Representatives. Ho was not able, however, to pay for the house, which fell into the hands of William W. Corcoran, the banker-beliefaetor of Washington, who lias since resided there, although ho has greatly enlarged and improved it. Soon after Mr. Webster had removed into his now house, Messrs. Moses H. Grimiell, Richard M. Blatehford and Simeon Draper, of Now York, wore one day his guests at dinner. 'While linger ing at table over the raisins and Ma diera, Mr. Grinnell Viaid: "I have a groat favor to ask you, Mr. Webster.” “You ean ask no favor which will not bo promptly granted,” was the reply. “Well,” continued Mr. Grinned, “Mr. Washington Irving finds it necessary to have access to the Spanish archives in completing his life of Columbus, and will soon leave for Spain. As the consu late at Madrid is vacant,, Blatehford, and myself, wi . out Mr. Irving's knowledge, have date . mined to ask you to appoint him.” Mr. Webster, after quite a pause, in quired: “Do I understand you, Mr. Grinnell, as asking the appointment, of Washington Irving as Consul toMndrid?” Mr. Grinnell said they had determined to make the request, and he hoped that Mr. Webster would grant it. Dir. Web ster listened attentively, then, straighten ing himself in his chair, said, in his deep, bass voice: “Why not Minister Pleni potentiary to Spain, sir?” This was more than the New Yorkers had thought of asking for, and they did not say a word. The sitting at tublo was pro longed for some lit tie time, but no further allusion was made to it. The next day the appointment of Dfr. Trving as Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipoten tiary was announced. He went, to Spain and' remained there as Minister for sev eral years. The Siirlng Styles. Tho earliest hint of spring styles, says Harper’s Razor, is found ill the cotton dress goods that merchants display m midwinter, and that ladies have niudo up at home in advance of the busy season when seamstresses and dressmakers uro too much hurried to make these simple dresses. Cotton satteon is tho fabric most largely imported. Instead of tho white and very dark backgrounds used last summer, those now have strawberry red, terra-cotta, robiu’s-egg and part ridge brown grounds in narrow stripes or cheeks with white lines, strewn all over with largo shaded disks of moon and sun, white balls, egg shapes, paral lelograms, wheels, snails, Greek key figures, blocks, and the inevitable polka dols, of all sizes, from tho merest speck to those an inch and a half in diameter. Shamrock patterns are shown, and tliero are nautilus shells and bivalves; the transit-of-VenUH design is among the shaded disks, while all the fioral designs of last, year are repeated in bouquets and in single detached sprays. The newest patterns in polka dots have very large white balls nearly touching each other, and almost covering a pale blue, dark red, green, or strawberry ground. Tho stripes shown are even and very wide, with a color and white alternating to make pleatings, with tho white stripe folded inside. The checks are so small that they are merged into a plain surface at a littlo distance. These goods of (willed surface are nearly a yard wide, cost forty-five cents a yard, and about fourteen yards are required for a dress. Ottoman satteens, repped like coteline, are in similar designs and narrower widths. The solid colors of tho twilled satteens aro handsome enough to bo made up under transparent fabrics, as it is difficult to distinguish thorn from real ■satin. The hall patterns of these goods stand out as if raised from tho surface. Cambrics and batistes are imported in similar designs. The preference for soft muslins without dressing remains, and ladies will do well to warn tlieir laun dresses that starch destroys much of tho beauty of these twilled cottons. Tho silver gray, and black and white cotton satteens for 1 allies in mourning aro in neat ball and striped patterns. Tire Tilton Family. —One of the daily papers furnishes some account of the once happy family of Theodore Tilton. The girls are all married and doing very well. One of the boys is a clerk and the other goes to school. Mrs. Tilton is hoarding in the city with her daughter Florence. Mr. Tilton does not contribute any stated amount toward the mainte nance of his family. Though liis children go to sco him from time to time, Mis. Tilton has never met him since the trial. There are some people in this world who closely resemble mosquitoes. There isn't much of them, but they tease and fret you all the time. THE MAN WITH PUNCH. Whin n Wralrrn lliillroitd Conrfuolar h to Suy About llin I.im* of Huln cm. “Young man, if you are looking for information in regard to tliis business, with a view to following it,," says a Wes tern railroad conductor, “let me advise you, before it is everlastingly too late, to lot up right whero you are. You are not a man of the physical build to stand the strain of forty-eight hours on tho road. As regards our dutios, of course, they are not very had, and a man with an iron will, a four-ply constitution, and tho physical euduranoo of a prize-fighter, can stand it without any trouble. But I tell yon it is tough on some of tho tender ones. You let a man get up in the mid dle of the night and start over a run of a couple of hundred miles, and stand the | wear and tear of knocking about tho | train, or standing in the snow up to the I bosom of his pants, on the side truck of | some out of tho way station,' waiting for j ‘No. 13' freight, that is stalled half a I mile down the track, to pass, it takes the ! tuck out of the best of them. You can j bet that during the winter season, with snow blockades that send tho conductor out with tho brakeman and fireman, to help bail snow out from under the engine with a fence hoard, or walking ahead of the engine and sounding for track with a pole, the conductor business is full of hardships. The little trials which tlic conductor experiences in being knocked over four seats and jammed up against tho stove by some crowd of drunken lumbermen who refuse to pay their fare, or helping a fat woman with two satchels, three or four bundles, a bird cage, an umbrella, a baby, and who always gets off at some flag station, and is obliged to climb down with tho conductor’s aid, and who persists in falling through a culvert with one leg; while the other waves around in the air and knocks tho conductor over in the snow, nro all the hardships that the public sec about the life of a conductor. But these arc not one half. “And again, while tho conductor gets good pay, he is obliged to squander half he earns in good clothes in order to keep himself up in line with his position. And he is responsible for about everything that occurs on the line of his run from the time he ‘pulls out' until he reaches the end. Everything from the running over of a cow on a crossing to the leaving of some passenger at an isolated station, is charged up to the conductor’s merit account. If he permits a poor, friend less woman to rido free on liis train, because she has not money enough to pay her way, and she must get to the bedside of her dying husband, he is liable to be reported by some ‘ spotter,’ and ‘lsyed off’ by the management. And if he does not allow the poor woman to ride he is judged by tho passengers and the community as a heartless wretch. No. let me tell you sir, as a friend, that you better take no conductor life in yours. It looks rather nice on the fane of it, but it is full of trials and dangers and responsibilities that would turn the hair on some men’s heads gray in a single night. If you are yearning for a little railroad life let me adviso you to get some good soft thing as agent at a flag station or measuring wood for tlio company at $lO per month. There may not ho tire same amount of cash in the business but there is a groat deal less responsibility.” Taking in the Situation. “I wits playing in a minstrel troupe one season and traveling through Texas. Oil" night, I think it was in Palestine, we missed connection and were com pelled to lay over. Frayne was then playing ‘Si Slocum,' with liis wife acting as Lucy Slocum. As he was to occupy the Opera House that night, I, accom panied by several of our troupe, went over to see tho show. The hall was a miserable tumble-down frame shanty, lighted by candles and lamps. The light, you may be sure, was not the best in the world, but, nevertheless, the audience, which completely filled the house, seemed to thoroughly enjoy the play, and mani fested their approbation by loud shouts and liuzzahs. When the time came for Frayne to shoot the apple from liis wife’s head, she was brought on the stage blind folded. She was nervous and excited, and shook like my bass drum when I give it a healthy whack. The light was too poor for Frayno to seo distinctly, and it was plainly to he seen that he had mis givings of liis own power. “The audience seemed to take in the situat ion. Suddenly one of the auditors, a big, burly cowboy, with a sombrero as wide as the Tabor stage, jumped up from his seat and pointed a pistol fair at Frayne, saying out in n|ilrm voice ; ‘Don’t shoot, or T’ll pulverize you!' Frayne glanced down at the resolute looking stranger, and seemed to be glad of his intervention. The whole house took up the cry, ‘Don’t shoot!’ and tho affrighted woman tore the bandage from her eyes and said in pleading tones : ‘Don’t attempt to anger that gentleman, Frank; he means what he says.’ “ ‘Bet yor hoots, gal, I do,” replied the stranger. That part of tho play was omitted for that night, and tho Indians had to ho killed twice to make up for tho cutting of the programme.” The Gout. On the anniversary of his late birthday Gen. James Watson Webb remarked to a visitor that, having had the gout for flfty-nino years, he had become quite accustomed to managing it. Describing liis occasional twinges, he said they re minded him of the Frenchman’s descrip tion of the difference between rheuma tism, inflammatory rheumatism, and gout. He said: “Put your foot in a vise and squeeze it as hard as you can; that srheumatism. Give it one more squeeze, with the aid of a friend; that’s inflammatory rheuma tism. But send out iuto the street and bring in some strong fellows to put on the screws still harder; that’s the gout.'* Frank Fiuy.ne should go to Niagara Fall* and shoot the rapids, ' 'iff. ST'