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WOMEN WHO RIDE THE TRICYCLE. The Seasons ot'tha Year Best Suited for the [f'ojyyvinh ted, 1887.] Nmv York, Nov. 5.—A representative of one of the big bicycle houses told me the other day that he was rather expecting an order to build a tricycle for Mrs. Cloveiaud. The first lady in the land isa proficient with the wheel and ustsl to enjoy the exercise immensely, making fine records in her school-girl and college days, though she gets little opportunity at present to practice the accomplisluneut. Washington streets ara delightfully wide and smooth and she looks •wistfully at times upon the ladies gliding about on their noiseless wheels in the perfect autumn days that we have had. Her appear ance in like guise would be ths signal lor the assembling of a mob of lookers ou and dig nity has thus far forbade the spectacle. President Cleveland too, who used to be a sturdy if not a skilled rider in Buffalo and Albany i is a stranger to the wheel in Wash ingtoii. With the example of the President and his wife to encourage the timid and irreso lute, with the spreading conviction that the apart is a fine one and the exercise benefi cial, with fashion making up her mind to favor the new pastime, modistes bending their energies to devise pretty gowns for it and a host of escorts of the sex masculine enthusiastically praising it, there is no won der, perhaps that the numbew of Xvomen riders of the tricycle in the country has in creased this year by at least 1,000, as a con servative estimate. There are already be tween 4,000 and 5,000 confirmed feminine devotees of the habit, and the proportion of increusoin the number of riders is at present freater among women than among men. ins is true the country over, but especially true in New York, where tricycling has leaped into sudden fame since Central Park was thrown open to wheelmen. There is a well-known lady who lives in Harlem whom the iiabitues of Central Park are quite used to seeing wheeling along its drives at certain hours of the day. Every pleasant morning she mounts a tandem tricycle with her husband. Together they wheel the machine to the lower end of the Park, where he leaves her to make her way home alone while he goes on to his day’s work. Toward nightfall she wheels the tricycle down again to meet him aud they ride pleasantly back together in the crisp autumnal twilight over a brown* carpet of fallen leaves. Washington, Hartford and Rochester caught the tricycling mania first and have been the paradise of wheelwomen. In Wash ington it is not an uncommon spectacle for a Senator’s wife to pay a call on a tricycle instead of in a carriage, or for a staid and sedate matron to carry the spoil of a shop ping expedition home in her “luggage carrier.” In Hartford the entire group of literati is infected with cydomauia. In Rochester, Buffalo and Chicago sensible use of the wheel is made by hundreds of women. Even Boston includes in its mani fold culture the culture of wheel craft. New York, which sets the fashions in many frivolities, follies, and ex travagances, has hitherto lagged behind in this sensible sport, and now seems to be hurrying to catch up. Perhaps the fashion able "revival of interest in athletics and semi uthletics cannot last, bin it is here now and girls are making the most of it. There was a party of eight who toured it on their wheels as far as Saratoga this summer. There were three couples, husband and wife, on tandem tricycles and two unattended ladies ou singles. They had the best of sport and the reddest of cheeks to bring back to New York. A Boston touring party covered some 500 miles at about the same time. Its numbers varied somewhat from day to day, but there were usually about eleven ladies along on tandems or single machines. One woman who went the whole 500 miles declared that she felt much better at the five-hundredth than at the first. A New York artist of repute has been spending October and the early November days with his wife touring on a tandem tricycle on Long Island, and the pair will not return to the city until the last of the bright autumn foliage ha-> faded. They have taken with them a sketch book, water and oil colors each and are making studies of leaf tints for winter work in the studio. The tandem is an accommodating machine that doesn't complain against a hand satchel swung beneath for a little necessary luggage, and the country farm houses have barns where the machine may be stored at night and beds where the jolly tourists may sleep. Ttv number of lady members of the cy cling ciubs is growiug, and thoso institutions are planting themselves everywhere along the parkside where a woman may call, get her wheel, trundle it into the smooth park wavs, enjoy an hour or two of exhilarating exercise, and return it to cover again with out a long journey over paved streets and jolting cobblestones. The wheel for women has come to the city to stay, and within three months the sight of a woman on a wheel has grown so common that it ceases to provoke a single “Hi! hi!” from the observant street gamin. For two people the tandem tricycle has almost entirely displaced the sociable. In the sociable the riders sit side by side. The masculine propeller of the tandem sits be hind his partner and looks over her shoulder. When she is tired she stojis working: one pair of feet make tolerably easy work of propulsion on level ground. Tne process of improving the tricycle has gone pretty far. At present there are a number of makers that offer a good machine for all purposes nearly as fast as a bicycle; quite as fast, indeed, if it be a tandem with two skilled riders. There is even a practic able water tricycle which a Jerseyman has patented and which a New York man is going to manufacture, and there are several inventors who are ambitiously proposing to run cycles by steam, so that the ridel's will have nothing at all to do but steer. It is to be hoped they won’t succeed. The work of trundling a tricycle is its chief value from a hygienic point of view. A steam tricycle may tie practicable and is probably anioug the things that are to be, but it will be even more unromantic than a steam yacht when compared with the genuine thing. The fair trieyclist has as good a chance to wear pretty go wns as the tennis players and she is as apt to make use of them. The sesthetic cold gravy-colored breeches of the masculine wheelmen, their natty caps and ribbed and sometimes stuffed stockings have proved very effective indued on parade, but equally fine effects can bo pnshiced in the garb of the feminine cycler. Of course the dress must be loose and yet not baggy, the skirt scant and of walking length, the blouse of any pretty cut, the stockings dark, the shoes low cut and fitted with rubber soles. A jaunty cap upon the head and the outfit is completed. In England whore cycling is something like live times as popular as here, partly because the roads are so much better and partly liecause aristocracy, with the family of the Prince of Wales at its head, has led the way in it, the divided skirt is common in tricycling suits, but it is not in the least a necessity, and is even of doubtful advantage. The tricycle makers don’t de mand any sacrifice of the conventionalities of those who use their wheels. They can even make a bicycle which shall not involve any such sacrifice I don’t know that it ever has been done, but it can lie. Autumn and early winter are the best tricycling seasons. In New York and south of it every month of the winter yields lino wheeling days. The summer is too short for out of door Hjiort. Alas, it is often too hot as well. The fall and winter are really more relialilo for people who have opeued their minds to think so. Tho doctors indeed— and where the city woman’s recreations are concerned the doctor’s decreos have to be taken respectfully, for he is the city woman’s idol—the doctors and the wheelmakers do not encourage summer riding. When there is no snow on the ground the cooler months afford better traveling. Eliza Putnam Heaton. The forfeited railroad grant in Michigan, held liy fraud fur nearly thirty years, is lieing pre en.pted with a rush. L'Anse Is nearly depopu lated. Even the editor of its one paper has dropped his shears and gone into the wilder less. NOVELTIES IN CURTAINS AND POR TIERES. The Way the Rich Spend Money For Home Decoration. New York, Nov. s.—The newest things in window curtains and portieres for warm winter decoration are Florentine velours, plush aud brocatelle. These are all renais sance materials and come in renaissance colorings, copper, olive. Gobelin blue and bronze, and in bold conventional renais sance designs. The velours, which is perhaps the richest, as it is the most novel of autumn fabrics, isa heavy, soft, luxurious hanging which makes an agreeable transition from the un defined, hazy harmony of last year’s Indian and Egyptian colorings to the more modern and more striking if also somewhat more raw, effects of the decided renaissance pat terns. Velours curtains are double-faced, aud effective sets recently seen for window or doorway are a ruddy copper, solid color, with contrasting border on one side, and silver gray with detached figures hi blue up on the other. Cora! and bronze, old red and Gobelin blue, copper and olive in plain col ors make beautiful curtains, while the fleur delis, the shamrock, the thistle, the rose, the passion-flower conventionalized make ar tistic designs set off against rich iiued back grounds. Such curtains cost anywhere from •850 to $ 150 or S2OO a pair, but they would last many years if that fickle wretch, fash ion, did not change. For a richly furnished interior which can stand the color effect there is nothing more daringly successful, when successful at all, than curtains or portieres of solid color in brocatelle. Electric blue, silver gray, old red and other shades are chosen to harmon ize with upholstered parlor sets in broca telle, sometimes repeating the hues of the furniture exactly. The heavier brocatelle are $5 or thereabouts a yard, and heavy silk fringes mq up their prices indefi nitely. Brocatelle is a material to which the abused term magnificent is properly ap plied. It is out of place in a small room or a low-ceiled room, but lends emphasis and character to a city palace on the renaissance plan. CHENILLE IS THE ONE ORIENTAL curtain left. The thick rich silk chenilles, which when you try to reproduce them in wool approximate a Turcoman, are har monious, graceful hangings'in dull tapestry tints or blending Eastern colors, and they cost to the tune of SIOO a pair. Turcoman luckily can be had for less than *5 Tapestries we have always with us, and it is easy to run their figures up into tne thou sands. People who have original ideas aud tastes of their own are quite apt this season to choose a plain satin sheeting in any color that fits well with their belongings and hang it to suit themselves. In the lace curtain line the Nottingham has bowed itself out. It was durable: it had a strong “tape edge;” it would wash, but it was not aesthetic, and the places that knew it know it no more. Its mission in life has been undertaken by the Irish point lace, which is about as cheap and much prettier. The Irish points are cream tinted instead of white, and they have bold aud decided bor ders with plain lace middles. A finer grade of the same curtain is the Colbert, which is often areally beautiful and artistic thing. People who are equal to S4O to $75 buy the Louis XIV. curtains, which come in striped borders with fine lace effects Most beauti ful and most expensive of the new lace hangings are the Brussels curtains, on which branching vine and flower sprays run riot in delicate, cobwebby designs. All these are parlor and library hangings Up stairs one uses for stuff curtains or por tieres the damassee fabrics in silk and woo! m renaissance colors, or the Samarian cross stripes in gay bayadere illuminated effects on olive, terracotta or Russian green. Madras goes at the windows in gold and white stripes, Tuscan gold or old pink, or, if white is preferred, then gui pure for the soft effect of its folds, scrim o Florentine lace, Irish point, but never Not tingham. The Indian silks continue the favorite material for sash curtains and bed hangings, and there are no other fabrics so delicately beautiful as its many tinted designs iu their soft, but rich hues. The Indian silk is thin, almost a transparent texture, aud shows perhaps to best advantage in kismet patterns in green and brown or gold, or in flower fancies ou rose antique silk. THERE ARE QUITE AS MANY NOVELTIES in curtain hanging as in curtain materials. The two conventional front windows of the brown stone parlor are quite apt to be groujied to break up the monotony of effec in a repetition of drapery nowadays. If they are placed as close together as is apt to be the case in a narrow city house, they are treated as one effect in the furnishing of the room. This means that after sash curtains and shades have been placed as usual but one pair of lace cu tains is hung. Suppose these are to lie Colbert or guipure. Next them and for inside curtains one will take a rich silk plush o f any hue that will go well in the room and hang one pair of cur tains on the same rings and directly over the lace curtains, drawing them well along at the top to cover the upper sash of the win dow. Now, for a finish, comes a long scarf of plush, which is draped between the two windows and over the nearer ends of the two curtain poles in any fashion that one desires. Sometimes ii is flung from pole lo pole and then hangs straight down by the side of either window, sometimes it is draped about a picture that hangs between the two windows and is them carried to the wood work on either side and fastened in a great knot with drooping end from each. Some times it is swung in a great loop, shawl fash ion, between the windows, aud again it is arranged in some original device that the ingenuity of the woman of the house has devised. The upper part of the window recess is filled in this fall with a fretwork of some dark wood frequently ebouized, in a va riety of interwoven conventional patterns which intercept the light prettily and takes the place to some extent of the plush val ances so long used above curtain.: of all sorts. This wooden valance is too open and cobwebby to darken the room and is a fav orite in cottages of the Queen Anne tyjie. The curtain rod is run just below it, and to break up the heavy luxury of lace and plush duplicate draped hangings for inner and outer curtains come in the delicate tinted satin sheetings which are taken in scarf, or shawl or sash forms and draped against the lace, not as formally hung curtains at all, but Hung once., twice or three times over the curtain pole and hanging in artistic loopings differently arranged for every win dow, offering as much variety as there is ingenuity put into their arrangement. The least concession that a house mistress can make to the desire for something new in cur tains is to gather back one side of a hang ing with its girdle or drapery chain aud let the other fall straight unconfined. Portieres have not had as much attention lavished on their ar rangement, but they afford a nov elty or two. With Florentine velours hangings, for instance, the plush valance is still in order, but it is not hung in duplicate on either side. It takes a light rod set in the door frame just below the heavy cur tain rod. The velours curtains will be hung one ou one side of it facing the parlor and gathered back with a heavy cord, the other on the other side of it, toward the library, and either gathered or allowed to fall straight, the result being that but lialf the valance shows from either room. Tho same rules apply of course to portieres of any other description. E. P. H. Consumption, Scrofula, General Debil ity, Wasting Diseases of Children, Chronic Coughs and Bronchitis, can be cured by the use of Scott's Emulsion of Pure Cod Liver Oil with Hyjiophosphites. Prom inent physicians use it and testify to its great value. Please read tho following*: “I used Hcott’s Emulsion for an obstinate cough with hemorrhage, loss of appetite, emaciation, sleeplessness, etc. All or these have now left, and 1 believe your Emulsion has saved a case of well developed consump tion.”—T. J. Findley, M. D., Lone Star, Tex. THE MORNTNG NEWS: M IN'DAY. NOVEMBER 7. 1887. THE CRUCIFIED HAND. A Weird Tale of Retributive Justice in Early War Times. From the Baltimore Herald. Beside the road leading from the fertile “Neck” of Tuekahoe, in Caroline county, stands a huge poplar tree, with wide-spread ing branches, at a distance of four miles from the county seat, Denton. A “worm fence” of oak rails, built in the primitive style peculiar to that section, passes close behind the tree, the boughs of which pro ject clear across the sandy highway and even beyond the fence which bounds it on the other side. Save for its larger size and evident age, this stately type of the English forests woujd hardly attract a greater share of attention than many others which, like watchful sentinels, stand guard over the “Neck” roadways. But at a distance of a few feet from the ground the observer sees a big nail, rust eaten , and almost of the same color as the seamy bark into which it is driven. Look closely at the shape of the bark which sur rounds it, and you will perceive the form of a human hand! An indelible impression it is, with the iron spike driven straight through the centre! In the summer of one of the first years of the war. while the simple-minded farmers, who were little disturbed by the great struggle for the Union,were living out their quiet, uneventful careers, a tragedy oc curred which created a greater sensation than has ever before or since stirred the feelings of the staid farmers of Caroline. A charming little girl, the daughter of one of the widest known and best respected citi zens of the qounty, failed to return one day from the unpretentious wooden school-house a short distance from her home, which she attended. The anxious parents, aided by their kindly neighbors, searched for the missing girl during the night, but no true - of her was discovered. At daylight, with an increased force, the search was reuewed, and during the day the lifeless form of the little one was found in the vicinity of a thicket of pines not far from her home, with the weight of a panel of the rude rail fence of the period resting upon her delicate neck. It was evident that both outrage and murder had been committed. Suspicion pointed toward a colored man in the service of the family, one Jim Wilson. He was immediately arrested, and confessed the deed. He had been at work in the thicket when the little girl passed on tier way home from school. The frail dinner-pail she had carried and her bundle of books were found not far from the scene of the crime. Sheriff Saulsbury assumed eharg of the prisoner aud lodged him in Denton jail. But ho was never tried for the crime. A night or two after the incarceration of Wilson a cavalcade of armed men rode into town. They dismounted, having tethered 1 heir horses to the fence inclosin g the pub lic square, in which was situated the court house and jail. A log of wood was pro cured, and in an orderly, compact body the nien marched to the jail. Not a word issued from a single throat save the leader’s. In grim silence, with patient determination, fifty neighbors of the sorrowing father and of the heart-broken mother of the pure young innocent whose promising life had lieen snapped by* the infamous wretch at that moment lying in a cell in the square brick building before them gathered in front of the door with the log like a battering ram suspended above their shotilders. At the word of command they rushed forward, breaking down the jail door with a fright-, ful crash. The prisoner, in the rear cell on the top floor heard them coming and be gan to pray and bee for mercy. Axes were quickly brought and the cell door cut open. To this day, the- same door, bearing the marks and cuts of that eventful night, if used iu the crazy old jail. A rope wa placed about the neck of the miserab'e wretch, aud fifty hands from the outside jerked the criminal headlong down the nar row stairs. Tho lynchers yelled and whooped in wild exultation, while the shrinking wretch prayed fervent ly and fast. De termined to make the punishment fit the crime, the mob placed a noose around Wil son’s neck aud tied the other end of the rope to an axle connecting two cart wheels Horses were attached to a shaft fitted to the axle and through the streets of the quiet town the doomed man was dragged. Behind followed the mob on horseback, glut ting their revenge in seeing the fellow com piled to race at his utmost speed to prevent himself being choked, and even then half the time being pulled over the ground at his full length. The feminine and juvenile por tion of the population locked themselves in their habitations, aud ia t r or listened to the wild clamor of the avenging mob. When Wilson became exhausted he was carried back to the jail and strung from one of the tall trees which surround it. When he had ceased struggling and while slowly choking to death the crowd began fir ng at him. The contents of scores of shotguns and revolvers were poured into his body. Not content with this, when the corpse, rigid and ghastly, was at length cut down, it was carried to another part oi the town and hung in front of a church. Again it became a target for the weapons of the crowd. A fire was kindled on a hill just back of the village, whi se foot was washed by the waters of the Choptank, and the body was t ken down and conveyed thither. The two resident butchers, armed with long knives, quar tered the remains, and the sections were thrown in the flames and cremated. A hole was dug near the spot and the ashes and charred bones interred. Years afterward the latter were excavated by a party of venturesome boys, but the blood-curdling tales told th in bv old villagers of the fear ful crime and horrible death of Wilson caused them to quickly re-inter their an atomical find, and to this day the bones lie undisturbed beneath the grassy surface of the hill within a stone’s throw of the rickety old jaiL As the butchers dismembered the bullet riddled corpse one ot the rioters, half drunken, obtained the right hand. On his way home in the early morning he nailed the ghastly object to a tree, where it re mained for I know not how long. And since that night a legend is current among the dwellers in the countryside that the ghost of the lynched man, full formed save the absence of the right hand, haunts the vicinity of the gigantic poplar in a vain search after the missing member. I have met people who assured me that, in the lonelv watches of summer nights, they had personally come into contact with his mal formed aud forlorn gbostship. But whether this be really so I know not. Keeping House for Little Money. Letter to the Editor of the. London Daily News. As the women are accused of being tile chief spendthrifts in u household, may I say that for the first ten years of married life "I kept house for the two of us on 10s. weekly (no rent to pay, for as thrifty people we bought our house before we married.) The distress and suffering witnessed iu many cases of middle-aged and elderly people through unexpected casualties determined me. Now we have little fear, because the future is provided for. We have had all the necessaries, many of the comforts, and some of the luxuries of life, and the husband has al was had tho little extras that men, under all circumstances, seem to expect. As one of your cor respondents states, thousands live on less. It is not the clamorous for charity that suffer most, and such should be met with caution in giving. Let us help the sober, the industrious, the clean, and the shrinkers from public notice. Everything in the way of necessaries is so wonderfully cheap that nine-tenths of the industrious might have enough if economy in little things were ex ercised. The remaining tenth demand con tinuous self-deuiai on our part that their bare wants may bo supplied. As we who have tried abstemious living for our own and others’ good find it physically benefi cial, let us—oven if there be no pecuniary need for it—continue the habit “that we may give to him who needeth.” Rough on Rats,’ Clears out rats, mice, roaches, flies, ants, bedbugs, beetles, insects, skunks, jack rab bits, sparrows, gophers. 15c. At druggists. E -PER-xt JOSEPH’** HORSES. Stables of th Austro-Hungarian Royal Fumi.y— the Empress as a 'lamer and Rider. Frank* Richardson, writes to the Baltimore Sun from Viennu about Francis Joseph, emperor of Austria-Hungary. He says the nobility of Austria is of the haughtiest, the proudest and ihe poorest; that tile finances are the most deplorable, and that the music is the best ami sweetest. He draws the fol lowing pleasing pen picture of the royal stables; “All the royal family are fond of horse back exercises, and the empress when in England two or three years since, was pro nounced the best lady rider in Europe. It was her custom always to accompany tho emperor on his gallops through the great public parks of Vienna, but it is now a year or more since she has been on the book of a horse, having been positively interdicted such exercise by the learned doctor of Amsterdam who attends her. As she is 50 years old, it is perhaps time she should give up such violent exercise as she made it. 1 visited the stables of the emperor, which, with the courtyard, cover I dou t know how many acres of ground, and Saw the spaeiou inclosure where the emoress used to break fractious steedsliefore riding themiil public A private dressing-room for her special use is attached, with all conveniences, including mirrors ail around, for her to admire her self in her riding habits, and a gall n v for a band of music, which played while s e displayed her skill and nerve nuiid tla plaudits of the select few who were admitted to the exhibition. “The stahlns are not more fhseHaiv'ointed than several I have seen belonging, to pri vate gentleman in the Uni us i Butt s, ou were many times larger, and the stalls an immensely roomy. The emperor owns mon than 3,000 horses, distributed through the stables attached to his various palace: in town and country. In the Vienna stable there are now about 440 horses, aftoflded by 200 stablemen and grooms and guarded bv a regiment of infantry. The horses are al picked and all young. Over each stall is tin name, pedigree ami the year in which foaled and 1 saw none that were over ti, When they get past that age they are roiusidere no longer fit for the emperor’s use, but 1 could not discover whether they art sold o given away. Nov or less than eight hors s are put to the great coaches on state occa sions, nor less t an four for the smallci '■arriages. To very few of the roaches i h --e n drive"’- eot postilions t'-e mos' gorgeous and elaborate livery are put, up in , . i -es. i e e .i.e two- safe ui lio. si: particularly, which, if I may tie permite to borrow that favorite feminine eipros ion. were ‘just too lovely for anything. There were twenty mik-whites and twenty coal blacks used for the s ate coaches on grant occasions The whites were as white asen be, aud the blacks, twenty magnificent stallions —who carried their prou l heads a* high as any emperor—were black as black could be. Such flowing manes, such tails, airly trailing on the ground, aud combed as fine as the hair of women, were a sight to behold. “There were nearly 100 horses in stable used only under the saddle and upon whom no harness had ever been placed. It would be quite impossible that Francis Joseph or inv other man could get much use out ol •:>,OOO horses,even if be devoted his whole time o filing and driving. But the entire stock has a chance to show what it is made of, for t is the custom of the emperor upon all state occasions to provide the numerous staff which attends hint and the empress with ■ouches and horses. This staff Will include hundr ds. male and female, of the bloo r >yal and of the obility, besides the mi, itary officers. The collection of carr a ,es is ot less interesting than the hot'-es. The number here is about 150. There are a dozen or more grand coaches, blazoned all over, even to the wheels, axfc-s 'a¥fd' poles, with gold and gilt, aud the panoTs ortia uentrd with paintings. The onumie.ntat.ion on the coach first made for Marie Theresa could not have cost less than SIOO,OOO. This coach is never used now. Standing by its side is tho coach in which Napoleon Bonap irte and Marie Louise first rode as consorts, uid not far away is the little roach upon which rested the infant limbs of their un fortunate offspring, the Due fie Reiehstadt. “A tiny little coach of rich and artistic iesign, and which was drawn, by goafs, is there to remind Francis Joseph of the drives ieenjoyed before he put on trousers. There ire several carnages which belonged to the Archduke Maximilian, tho I rot her of the emperor, and al-o the saddle which he rode in Mexico before the Mexicans put cold lead into him. These are regarded as precious relics, and no one is allowed to put his finger on them.” TYPE-SETTING IN JAPAN. The Composlt- re’ Race About Looking for Letters n a Long Box. From the Pall Halt Gazette.. The office of the Niehi Nicnf Skinbun, a Japanese newspaper, is thus described: The features of the Shinlrun office was its type cose—for there was only one of body type. And such a type case! It is divided, for utility, into two sections, sloping toward an alley 5 feet wide. Each section is 4 fee. wide by 30 feet io:.g—l by 00 feet. There’s a new case for you! This is divided into small compartments or boxes, into which the type is laid in regular piles, several piles in a box, with faces all to wal’d the compositors, mostly boys, big and little. Each holds u wooden “stick,” with brass rule. The ty n; are all of a size; the “stick” is not set to the measure of the column, which is twenty phis pica, but to about half the measure, it being the business of tho other workmen to impose the lines in columns, take proof and make up forms. Now, then, the type-set ting. Armei with "sticks” and rule and copy, the dozen compositors read the last in an earnest, sing-song way, each rushing to some box, far or near, for the needed letter, then back ton or twelve-feet to the needed one: all are on the lively move, rushing and skipping to and fro, right aud left, up and down, chasse, balance to partners, swing the xorners, up and back, singing the copy, caching one letter here, another there, prancing and dodging, humming and skipping—a promenade cotillion, Virginia r el, racquet, and all hands around ujion the same floor at the same time, and the same dancers in each—a perfect maze of noise and confusion, yet but of confusion bringing printed order! It was a sight to be seen. “How many different characters are there In this case anyhow'” was asked our guide. Then our giiidc asked tho print ers, and none could answer better than say: “Nobody knows, sir Noboby knows— many thousand.” Later on we repeated the same question to a more intelligent pervin, who said: “At least 50.000.” That will ac count for the remarkable size of the case and the racing to and fro of the composi tors. Just why they intone their copy all the while was not made so clear other t han the remark that it was the custom. Tokio mono|lizes the Japanese newspaper busi ness, there bring only one other point— Kofu—in eastern Japan where newspapers are printed. Tho masses of the people are able to read in their own way, but com paratively few can grasp the full flow of Chinese characters. In point of illiteracy the statistics place this nation at only 7 jier cent., or next to Bavaria, which is the lowest on the list. "Rough on Corns.” Ask for Wells’ “Rough on Corns.” Quick relief, complete cure. Corns, warts, bun ions. 15c. “Rough on Itch." “Rough on Itch” cures skin humors, erup tions, ring-worm, tetter, salt rlioum, frosted feet, chilblains, itch, ivy poison, barber’s itch. 50c. jars. “Rough on Catarrh" Corrects offensive odors at once. Complete cure of worst chronic cases; also unequaled ns garglu for diphtheria, sore throat, foul breath. 50c. CUTICIJ K.V HEM EDIKS. HAVE YOU A HUMOR OF SKIN OR BLOOJ? IP SO THE CUTICURA REME DIES WILL CURE YOU. I was induced, after all other remedies had failed, to use the(Vrn Tit a Ki mkdies on my boy four years of nice, who lmd running nores from his thighs to the end of his toes The nails fell oil. Ilia arms and face were also covered, and he was a horrible eight. The Uiticpka and Cn- TicniA oap were all that 1 used. Two days after their use we could see a change for the hotter, and iu six weeks the child was perfectly well. I was then induced to try them further, as my wife had what we termed dry scale tetter, or psoriasis, for nearly fifteen years, and 1 tried everything that l could get hold of, and asked the advice of the m< t eminent of the profess on. but all in vain. It was all over her oody, and all over her bead and face. She used but one oottle of the Resolvent, two boxes of the CVti itra ami two cakes of Ctticvka Soap, and in one week from the time she began their use I could see a change for the better. It is now nearly one year since she stopped using the Of ricriiA Hum isdiks. and there is no return. 1 pronounce her entirely cured. No one only those who have the disease and those who are constantly about diseased pati nts, can realize the torture in which they are placed. I have recommended tlie U tk coa Remedies to all whom 1 have met that were in any way in need of a skin cure. Oue man to w hom I had recommended them had sutfered for over twelve years, and in that time spent nearly five hun dred dollars to lie cured; but nothing helped, and now after the use of live bottles or the Cu nccRA Resolvent, and several boxes of Otm i'Pra, and two cakert of Cutici ra oap. ivjouvs in having found a cure. I have others at pres nt under treatment, and with good pixspeets. In no case, to my knowledge, have the Cuticu ra Remedies failed. I take pleasure in sending this to you, t rusting that it may prove a Massing to you and to the suffering. Pit. L. JIILURON, Kimball, Brule Cos., Dakota. CtmcVßAj. the grout Skin Cure, and CYti ci’RA Soap, *ifi exquisite Siin Beautifier exter ially, and CfTtcciiA Resolvent, the new’ Blood .'under internally, an* a positive cure for every form of Sfcm ami Blood Disease, from Pimples to Scrofula. Sold everirwjhero. Price, Citicvra, 50c.: Soap, Vsc.; UesoJ.v£nt. 31. Prepared by the Potter Drug ANt) f CHr.MicAL Cos., Bton. Mass. for “How to Cure Skin Diseases.'* 34 pages, 50 illustrations and pH) testimonials. TiVTED with the loveliest Delicacy is the Skin * *-N preserved with Ctthtra Medicated Soap. I C A.N’ r r 11 UK A r n IK. Cues’, Pains, Soreness, Weakness, Hacking Cough, Asthma, Plcursy rf’Vrjj) and Indanimation relieved in one INVTK iiy lie* CITICPRA ANTIPAIN Plas ■i. Nothing like it for Weak &V— 1 mugs. V. It. AI/PMAS EH A CO. Fie Greet Sale STILL GOES ON A. R.ALTMAYER <S CO.’S rpiIIS WEEK wp will give you FOUR GREAT 1 DRIVES iu the following departments; CLOAKS, MILLINERY, BOYS’ CLOTHING and DRESS GOODS. In addition to the unapproachable bargains in KID GLOVES. CENTEMERI KIDS, Genuine first quality still at the following prices: 3 BUTTON 99c. 5 BUTTON TAN SHADES $1 23. 5-BUTTON BLACK . 1 59. Drive One: 1 lot Ladies' Black Silk Ottoman Short Wraps, trimmed with handsome beaded ornaments, silk lined and edged with fur. any size. sl2 50: can not.lie matched for the same money anywhere in the South. 1 lot Ladies' Plush Short Wraps (two styles), trimmed with plush ornaments and satin lined, sis 50; these are very styhs i und a decided bar gain. 1 lot Misses’ Checked and Plain Walking Jack ets, odd sizes, no two alike, $3 50; cheap at $5. Drive Two: 1 lot Ladles’, Misses and Children’s FELT IIA IS, all new shape, FOR ONE WEEK, at 35c. Drive Three: 1 lot Bovs' School Suits, TWO PAIRS OF PANTS AND A POLO CAP TO ACH SUIT, only $3 50; soul m re ul*r clothing stores for $5. I lot Boys'School Hints, plain, checked and plaid goods and pleated coat, any size from 4 to 13 years, only $2 50; auite a bargain. 8 lots Bovs' chooi Overooats, sizes 4to 18 years, at $1 49, $2. and $250: these are just what you need for your boy's everyday wear They are very cheap. Drive Four Will be in COMBINATION STITS. Prices shaved, and real stylish suits now as low as $ > 25. Handsomest at $lO, sl2. sll and sls. Call in this week without fail You should sec these great bargains, even ir you do riot wish to purchase Very Respectfully Yours, A. I ALTMAYER k CO. Our NEW ILLUSTRATED CATALOGUE free on application. Samples sent to any address and close atten tion given mail orders. COTTON SEED WANTED. Per Bushel (sl2 per ton) paid for good COTTON SEED Delivered in Carload Lots at SoQlhern Cotton Oil Cos. Mills —AT— SAVANNAH, GA., ATLANTA, GA., COLUMBUS, GA. Price subject to change unless notified of ac ceptance for certain quantity to be shipped by a future date. Address nearest mill as above. PLUMBER. ITX McCarthy, Successor to Chas. E. Wakefield. PLUMBER, GAS and STEAM FITTER, V Barnard street, SAVANNAH, GA. "Hlao* **• 87k. DRY GOODS. ie-opencd at tie Dili Stand] David W eisbein, 153 BROUGHTON ST., SAVANNAH, Announces to his many customers and the public at larsre that he has reopened business at his former place, 158 BROUGHTON STREET, so well and favorably known, and which has been patronized to such extent that it became known as THE POPULAR DRY GOODS HOUSE. \\ f K have in stock every quality of goods up to the VKRY FINKfIT, and our prices will be found f ▼ to be far lower than they have ever been. mid by far lower than the same qualities fan tie purchased anywhere. New York city not excepted. \\V are aware that this is a far-ivarhfyig as sertion hut wc mean exactly what we say Call and test us. We an* willing to risk our r**puta tion that this is not an advertising dodge. We HLuke our honor upon its truthfulness. We Insist That What We Say Are Indisputable Facts and Easily Proven. AITp nniTW LUIYIK VTAPY Contains the best, choicest, and largest assortment in the city, and Util UIILOO UUUUd 01Ul IV our prices are about one thir i less 1)1 R B! ACK DRESS SILKS best Wearing SilkH in any market, and ow fourth cheaper. AITp C|l L’ VITI Ul llCIirC; Plain and Fancy. Moira Satins in all shades, and all the Util oILH TLiivLluy I Id dill A novelties of Trimmings in Jet and Braid are the latest sty lea and at remarkaidy iow prices. AITp DI IVrPT nmiITMrVT I s complete in every sense of the word. We have White vtu DLiUltul 1/LI All 1 Jltill I Bhuil ets as low as 85c. apa r and up to $25. We especially recommend our $5 Blanket; they are simply immense. Arp FI iVVri MPARTUFVT contains every grade, style, quality and color, from the Util I LA JiiLb Ulil illl I JIL.i 1 humbled grade to the ltnesi Eiderdown, an 1 we are 6ure our prices are very low. AITR F\Tfil ICO \VUkl\lf UPI'IiTV Wraps, Circulars, Jerseys, Children's Cloaks are un- Util IJuLIOO II ALAI.’II il ill iVijiO, questionably the best, most fashionable and elegant in the market, and the prices by far lower man elsewhere. A| T p Lin BinVF nFPARTMFVT I*"perh. We an? rtroud of it See our various grades at util All; ULU’L 1/lI Aul JILJI 50c ,Ac , Si, etc. They are positively worth double. Our 50c. 4-Button Ki t cannot be matched anv where for loss than Si. We am fully prepared in every style of Gloves for Ladies, Gents and Child mu at the very lowest prices. Gentlemen desiring a good Press or Driving Glove will And au immense variety and NOT fancy prices. ATP rYMWIHR fIFPAPTMFYT * r ° r Ladies, children and Gents contains every variety ULII tJI 1/LIl n LAII IfLlAKll .VlLil I from the ordinary to the very beat. Children's Vests as low ns 15c. for a very fail* quality. Gents' All Wo >1 Scarlet Undershirts nnd Drawers ns low as spo. Wo direct also attention to our very superior ii eof Half Hoaoand Stockings in Wool, Merino, Cotton, Silk and Lisle Thread. Off V TIDTP PI ATIIC Damasks, Linens of all kinds, Sheetings, Calico Comfortables, Mar uiLiY 1 ADLL LLU I Ih\ sell lex an 1 other Quilts an i Bed Spreads In fact, every article necee sary for housekeeping we have In tli • lar rest variety and at the lowest prices. We offer full width New York Mills Bleached Sheeting at IUV^o. Arp nnVTFCTIP nFIMPTVIFYT I beywnd doubt unequaled. We offer the celebrated Lons- Ulll UU.ULcI lv ULT All I ill LA I dale Bleacm* 1 Sliirtiu r, yard wile, genuine goods, by the piece at Bc. \km the well-known yard wide Fruit of the Loom at Splendid (Tan ton Flannel as low as sc. The very best Standard Calico at 5c.; sold elsewhere at Bc. LADIES’ MUSLIN UNDERWEAR, *•**■&■ >"■ variety at nearly hall OURBAZAR Will be opened on SATURDAY, the 2!)th October, and will contain the best and unapproachable bargains in Fancy Goods, Hosiery, Buttons, Toys, etc. VYe will inaugurate this open ing by a Special Sale of Towels. They are warranted to be pure linen and worth 25c. each, We will sell them on Sat urday, Oct 29, and Monday,- Oct. 31, at the uniform price of 10 cents. DAVID WEISBEIN. DRESS GOODS, WRAPS, NOVELTIES, ETC. DRIVES ~AT USUI’S ISM Best Possible Dress Goods, Lowest Prices. AT ECKSTEIN’S. Best Line Fancy Flannels in the City. AT ECKSTEIN’S. Combination Dress Goods. Prices Defy Competition AT ECKSTEIN'S. Black Goods. Finest, at Lowest Possible Prices. AT ECKSTEIN’S. Berlin and Paris Walking Jackets. Reduced Prices. AT ECKSTEIN’S. Flannels, Flannels, Flannels—Best Value Ever Ofad, AT ECKSTEIN’S. White Blankets. Best in City. Prices Reduced, AT ECKSTEIN'S. Black-Silks, Every Quality, Reduced Prices. P. S.--We have an Immense stock of New Dress Goods, Silks, Cloaks, Hosiery, Gloves, Underwear. In fact, everything in the line, and will make such prices for a superior character of goods as will Insure speedy sales. GUSTAVE ECKSTEIN & CO. MILLINEBY. IvltOU S K OFF S~~ hpening of 110 Fall Season 1887. However attractive and immense our previous season’s stock in Millinery has been, this season we excel all our previous selections. Every manufacturer and importer of note in the markets of the world is represented in the array, and display of Millinery goods. We are showing Hats in the finest Hatter’s Plush, Beaver, Felt, Straw and Fancy Combinations. Ribbons in Glacee, of all the novel shades. Fancy Birds and Wings, Velvets and Plushes of our own im portation, and we now offer you the advantages of our im mense stock. We continue the retail sale on our first floor at wholesale prices. We also continue to sell our Celebrated XXX Ribbons at previous prices. TO-DAY, 500 dozen Felt Hats, in all the new shapes and colors, at 35 cents. & KUOCSKOFFS MAMMOTH MILLINERY HOUSE; HHObliiiXoN bliJSJBfc 5