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Fifty Numbars to ths Volume.
The Fathions.
Shot silks and satins will be worn in the
fall.
Waistcoats for ladies are revised and
worn under cutaway jackets
Skirts trimmed with lace, pit on in half
moon shapes, are ery fashionable.
Flannel for traveling or for the seaside
appears more frequently in njvy blue and
gray than any other color, and is always
made up with close sleeves and c’o=e Biting
Jersey bodice.
A new neck arrangement is a plaiting of
lace sewn down one side of a narrow band
reaching from the throat to waist, with a
succession of loops of satin ribbon down
the other, forming a heading.
The fashionable shade of pink for even
ing wear is topaa
Bonnets of straw fringe are the present
novelty in millinery.
Plaited blouse, waists and Ijng apron
overskirts remain in favor.
The latest importations of Paris dresses
have large tournutes and hip draperies.
An inside waist of the same shv ie should
always be worn under ev ry Jersey.
Silk stockings are embroidered in front
with colored steel b-ads and silk chenille.
The hair is worn' in a braid twisted low
over the n ck and secured by a silver ar-
x row.
Lace milts comiug'Jar up on the arms,
are run through with narrow velvet rib
bons.
Nuns’ gray riding-habi'S, relieved by a
dash of crimson, are «ry stylish and fash
ionable.
Bows and bouquets are more frequently
worn on one side of the throat than direct'
ly in front.
Muslin bonnets with cap crowns and
plaited lace brims appear among other
mi’Hnery novelties. '
The newest Spanish lace is ihe Escurial’
with its figures outlined with heavy cord or
braid.
White satin vesta trimmed with burnish
ed silver buttons are worn with dark color
ed dresses.
Light mourning muslins have d its on
white g-ounds.
The new Suede gloves, with elas ic w rists,
take the name; of “gams Tarmes,” the
‘‘Bourse,” and the "Coppelia’ glove.
Belts are worn quire uairow. They are
fastened with buckles of oxidized silver,
cut steel, or stemped Lather called 1 Gauda
micle."
Flowered foulard neckerchiefs are worn
with cambric or lawn dresses. Those of
white emoroidered mull are popular for
wearing with white dresses.
The Mother Hubbard s ip, without
sleeves, and low in the neck, worn over an
under waist, or guimpe, remains the p< pul..r
dress for little girls.
Ribbon ties are popular worn with puffed
vests or where there is at* arrangement of
crape or illusion used for filling in the V or
Pompadova shaped neck.
Black grenadine dresses are much worn
by young ladies. A low-neckcd and short
sleeved bodice of black silk or satin is worn
under the grenadine, the bare arm asd
shouldirs showing threguh.
Both printing and lace on one fan is a
popular method of decoration, the lace
serving as a sort of frame for a large paint
ed landscape in the center, or for two or
three medallions placed at irregular inter
vals on the face ol the tan.
I ♦ » ♦» . ■■■
I dreamed last night of being in a large
city where the street" ”ra paved with dry
toast and that the blildta ,8 were roofed
with toast and the soi. was bran and oat
meal, and the water was beef tea and gruel.
All at once it came over me that I had solv
ed the great mystery of death and had been
consign! d to a place of eternal punishment.
The thought was horrible ! A million eter
nities in a city built of dry toast and oat
meal! A home for never ending cycles of
ages, where the principal hotel and the pest
office bui'di g and the opera house were all
built of toast, and the fire depaitment squirt-:
ed gruel st the devouring eh mtnt forever 1
It was only a dream, but it has made
me more thoughtful, end people notice
that I am not so giddy as I wax—Bill
Nye in Free Press.
Down in Tama county, last wetk, a cat
was born with two heads. It is lively
and healthy, and can yowl with one mouth
and waul with the other. If this breed of
cats becomes common it wil- just set the
millenneum back about four thousand
years—Hawkeye.
The Northl
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Volume VI. HELLTON. BANKS COUNTY
An Austrian Joke.
Count Sandor, who lived in Vienna about
twenty years ago, and was related to the
celebrated Prime Metternich, was not only
the wealthiest nobleman in Austria, but he
was also the wittiest of men. His pranks
and practical jokes were the subject of uni
versal Jconvesration, and are still told with
much gusta
One fine afternoon, Count Sandor haps
pened to be in a coffee house with some
friends, when a row secured in the estab
lishment. A man was arrested, aud lead
off by the police. Nobody seemed to know
what his offence was, but it was conceded
that he must have been guilty of something
very wicked. “The man may be as inno
cent as an unborn bab-,’’ remarked Coent
Sandor, quietly "Innccentl” exclaimed
one oi bis friends, "why, if he was innocent
the police would not arrest him.”
"That does not follow by any manner of
means.’’
The Count was decidedly in the minority,
all his friends insisting that the arrested
party must have b-en guilty of eome great
crime.
“Gentlemen, I will bet a basket of cham
pagne that I will be arrested by the police
before four o’clock to-morrow without hav
ing committed the slightest effsnee what
ever.”
“Impossible!” responded his friends in a
chorus. We are not living among the Hot
tentots. We are living in a country where
law aud order prevails." However, the bet
was liken up.
About three o'clock in the afternoon of
the next day, a miserable looking creature
sue&kes into the elegant establishment, and
having glanced around, as if in fear of being
arrested, took a seat off by himself in a
earlier. - The tramp, for such he seemed to
be, was most shabbily drtlMd, and motion
ed to a waiter, who approached with every
mark of disdain in his face, for he was not
in the habit of waiting on that class of
customers. The disreputable creatures whis
pered to the disgusted waiter to bring him
a cup of coffee and a roll, which he proceed
ed to devour as ravenously as if he had not
eaten anything tor a week or so. Having
finished his meal, the intruder’bnce more
motioned to the waiter, and having glanced
around to .ee if anybody was looking,
squet s’d a bank note into the waiter's hand.
The waiter had been watching the suspic
ious character like a lynx He knew al
most by inrubion that he had a thousand
guilder note between his fingers, but he
managed to temporarily suppress hie aston
ish t> ent, and remarking, in a trempulous
voice “I'll get you the change in a mo
ment,” he went apparently to the cash
clerk. We say “apparently,” for he disap
peared like a flash through a side door,
without hie hat, but, with protruding eyes
and a scared look. He was not long stop
ping with the thousand dollar note. His
object woe merely to obtain the services of
a stout policeman. Darting into a saloon,
he scon reappeared with a policeman, who
hurried y wiped eff his mouth on the back
off his hind, as he hastened to the coffee
house with the bare-headed waiter, who was
incoherent with excitement. The villian,
who had probably committed highway rob
bery at the very least, was still in the coffee
house. He bad made no effort to escape.
The representative ol the law almost climb
ed up on the supposed dangerous malefac
tor, who made no resistance, but merely
groaned and looked guilty, when the hand
cuffs were s ipped on his rists.
The supposed ruffian was immediately
taken before the police commissioners.
Tipsy were men who had great experience
with the criminal classes, and knew all
about a villian as soon as they looked at
him. They put him down as one of the
moat depraved looking wretches they had
ever seen. He was interrogated aslo how he
came by the bank note. The guilty man
admitted, with fear anu trembling, that he
had not earned it by hard work.
“Where are you frem ?”
"I—l am not from this city,” stammer
ed the poor wretch.
“I am glad to hear it. Where were you
born ?”
“In Hungary.”
“You look as if you might be hungry,”
retorted the chief inquisitor, and a smile
spread out all over the court-room.
“What’s your name?”
“I don't like to give my name.”
"Have you any relatives in Vienna?'
“Yes, I’ve got a son in-law io Vienna.”
“What is the name of your vagabond
son-in-law f
"Prince Metternich? 1 am Count San
dor.”
In a country like Austria, where rank
and title are regareded little short of the
Deity, this announcement created a sensa
tion. Count Sandofs friends, who bad
been invited to attend, were satisfied that it
was possible for an innocent man to be
arre-ted in Vienne, and they cheerfully
paid the wager.
Borrowiaa Capful.
The practice of going into business on
borrowed capital and paying an enormous
rate of interest, is one that has caused more
shipwrecks on the sea ot commerce than
any other single agency. Under ordinary
circumstances, a man who seeks to contend
with others for success in trade must pos
sess equal advantages, or he is very nearly
sure to get stranded. If a man starts on
borrowed money and hat to compete with
the strength of capital, and conflict with
business [sagacity equal to his own, there
are very few chances of his succeeding.
Nevertheless the business history of every
year is marked by numerous instances of
reckless embarkment in enterprises of such
a character. Money is gotten at any rate
ot interest the voracious bill-broker chooses
to ask. It doesn't matter how much the
hapless victim of his own folly pledged
himself to pay. He only looks at the mon
ey he gets and not at what the lender will
demand from him in the future His extrav
agant dreams of success blind him by their
glitter to all practical lessons drawn from
the experience of ethers. Once in the
vortex he is drawn on by the necessities of
his case until he is found at last running
about the street with eare-worn brow, offer
ing his paper at any price it will bring to
raise 'the means of staving off disaster a
little longer An incident, now going the
rounds of the press, illustrates very aptly
the true nature of thia practice of borrow
ing.
The late Peter Cooper once offered to dis
count a merchant's note for three years at
the rate (three per cent a month) which he
was paying brokers for six months' accom
modation. The merchant was overjoyed
and agreed.
“Very well," said Mr Cooper; “just sign
this note for $lO 000, payable in three years,
and give me your c-eck for SBOO, and the
transaction is complete.”
"But where is the money for me ?” asked
the astonished merchant.
"You do not get any,” was the reply.
“Your interest for thirty six months at
three per cent per month amounts to 108
per cent, or $10,800; therefore, your check
for SBOO just makes us
It is singular that there are so many busi
ness men who’never realize the simple fact
how interest eats up especially as
instances of the tuin and distress wrought
are constantly being brought before the
eyes of business men. The fact that once
in a while a lucky move will float a crazy
craft over he breakers and deposit it in
smooth waters leads hope on, despite the
wrficks that line the shore. Only a few men
have efer succeeded in this way. The road
to success lies in any business through long
years of experience and accumulation of
capital; in thorough knowledge of detail,
and the possession of means to apply that
knowledge. Without these, the chances of
success are as small as those of the man
who throws dice with a professional three
card monte man. It is a dire misfortune
tor a young man possessed of energy, in
dustry and application, to place upon his
brow such a crown of thorns as is certain
to be placed there by going into business
on borrowed money. Even in the rare in
stances of success the way lies through a"
path of care and anxiety that will curdy
crush the buoyancy of his spiritsaud render
him prematurely old, and if, as is more
probable, he sinks beneath the weight he
carries, he is handicapped for life with the
odium of failure. These facts should be
well pondered by men who have it in mind
to enter upon a business career, for pru
dence, caution and foresight are qualities
necessary to continued success, even where
success is doubly important at the outstart,
when ihe futureTs a problem yet to be
solved.—Sea World.
A Tramp Lays Down Lav.
A frowsy tramp, who had got out of New
York byway of the bridge, called at a
farmer’s house, near East New York, to get
something to eat, was told to chop up some
kindling wood in the yard. He worked for
half an hour, and then was fed. After he
had finished, he said to the farmer. —
"Now, give me a quarter for chopping
wood, and we'll be square."
"But I gave you your dinner, man,” said
the farm r.
"I don’t work for my victuals I work
for bard cash when I work, aud the victuals,
you see. is a bonus.”
"Well, I won’t pay you.”
“All right, boss; then I'll sue you. I
know the law. Work means mo.ey. not
victuas. I can afford to wait. I've got
lots of time; but I'll have you before the
courts, sure, if you don’t agree to fork
over."
The farmer at length paid the quarter,
but he angrily protested that he wou'd
never giv<. another tramp a meal.
“All right, boss,” said the tramp, hiding
the coin in his rags; “but, if you do, don’t'
ask your guest to p rform manual labor.” i
UndomeathZTlie Ocean.
At (he meeting of the National Academy
of Science, Prof. A. E. Verrill, of Yale Col
lege, described the physical and geological
character of the sea bottom off the coast,
especially that which lies beneath the Gulf
Stream. He has made 1,500 observations
this summer for the United States Fish
Commisioners. He has cruised from La
brador to Chesapeake Bay, and about 200
miles out to sea. About sixty miks outside
of Nantucket is a streak of very cold water,
and animals dredged up are like those
caught in the waters of Greenland,
Spitsbergen, or Siberia The watir is
fifty fathoms deep," and the bed of the
ocean is of clay. . Boulders weighing 800
or 1,000 pounds are dredged up. Prof.
Verrill believes that they are brought down
by icebergs from the Arctic regions and
dropped when the ice melts. The boulders
are found as far south a» Long Island.
Further out to sea. 70 to 120 miles south
from the southeastern coast of New Eng
land, the bottom of the sea, which has in
clined very gradually eastward, forming a
table-land, takes a sudden dip downward,
so that whereas the water on the edge [of
the bluff is 100 fathoms deep, at the bottom
of the basin it is 1,000 fathoms deep. The
slope is as high and as steep as Mount
Washington, and on its summit, which is
level, a diver, could he go to so low a depth,
could not put out his hand without touching
a living creature. The bottom of the eea is
covered just there with a fauna which has
never been before found outside of the Med
iterranean Sea, the Gulf of Mex'co, the
Indeis, or other tropical regions. The
number of species of fish dredged up is
800, and over half of them have never be
fore been seen by naturalists. Seventy
kindsof sisb u ninety of crustaoca, and 270
tnolluses have been added to the fauna.
The age of many of the specimens shows
that they must be permanent in that region.
The trowel let down from the ships by a
mile of rope brings up a ton of living and
dead crabs, shrimp, star fish, and as the
trowel simply scrapes ever a small surface,
the ocean bed is plainly carpited with
creatures.
jIRAs to the quantity of light at the bottom
d the sea there has been much dispute.
Anima's dredged from below 700 fathoms
either have no eyes, or faint indications of
them, or else their eyes are very large aud
protruding. Crabs’ eyes are four or five
times as Inrge as those of a crab from sur
face water, which shows that light is feeble,
and that eyes to be of any use, must bi
very large and sensitive. Another strange
thing is that where the creatures in those
lower depths have any color, it is of orange
red, or reddish orange. Sea anemones,
corals, shrimp, and crabs have this brilliant
color. Sometimes it is pure red or scarlet,
and in many specimens it inclines toward
purple. Not a green or blue fish is found.
The orange red is the fish's protection, for
the bluish green light in the bottom of the
ocean makes the orange or red fish appear
of a neutral tint, and hides it from enemies.
Many animals are black while others are
neutral in color. Some.fish are provided with
boring tails, so that they cun burrow in the
f mud Finally, the surface of the submarine
mountain is covered with shells, like an or
dinary sea beach, showing that it is the eat
log house of vast schools of carnivorous
animals. A codfish takes a whole oyster
into its mouth, cracks the shells, digests the
meat, and spits out the rest. Crabs crack
the shelh and search out the meat. In that
way come whole mounds of shells that are
dredged up.
The Diet of Japanese.
Few natives, except officers in the capital,
sailors aud soldiers, cat beef. Mutton and
pork beyond the treaty ports are scarcely
yet known. About two hundred varieties
of fish are eaten, one half cf the people eat
ing fish everyday. The food of the masses
is "ninety per cent, vegetable.”
A list of the food plants in u.c, not in
cluding eea plants, has been prepared, with
their analyses, by Professor Eblard.Kince,
of the Tokio University. A large number
s os thsse substances are unknown, or at least
unured in the United State’. Ol rice, which
occupies in its culture one-halfof the culti
vated laud, there ar- two hand ed and fifty
varieties of seed in the country Millet is
extensively used, but bread raised from a
"sponge” of yeast is scarcely vet known in
the popular diet, the old Latin Portuguese
word “pan” being, however, in use.
The soy b< an, which in chemical compo
sition closely approaches animal fibre, is
extensively cultivated. Probably no coun
try excels Japan in the variety of legumin
ous plants raised for food. Os tubers and
roots, the sweet potato is the most popular,
though, strange to say. as much tabooed by
the aristocra'ic classos, as onions are sup
posed to be among us. Sixteen million
,bushels cf these ‘ Satsuma ; otatoes" were
/produced last year, while “Java" or" Dutch"
I—our common white potato—is left to for-
eigners, the native palate not liking it Lily
bulbs—sixteen varieties—serve as food, boil
ed and served with “drawn butter." The
lotus root is eagerly eaten without oblivion
of country or decay of patriotism. Poppy
seeds powdered as condiment, infusions of
salted ch.'.rry blossoms for drink, horse-chest
nuts and acorns are among the articles of
diet.
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A Change of Sent'ment.
The newspaper editor who has been vex
ing his soul over the way the youth of the
land gulped down dime novels of the blood
and thunder sort can feel better. A change
of sentiment has already betrayed itself,
and there is reason to hope that“One.Eyed
Dick" and “Dead shot Jim" will soon be
out of print. Yesterday a lad of 14, who
has devoured about a'thousand five and ten
cent novels during the last year, entered a
Woodward avenue news store, and when
the clerk handed him down The Black De
monos the Prairies” and other late publi ■
cations of the sort he turned away with a
sigh and remarked:
I don't care for ’em any more."
"Why, what's the matter ?"
“Well, I read Injun stories and run away
to become an hij un-slayer. Dad brought
me back and whaled me half to death. I
read pirate stories and shipped on a schoon
er for Buffalo and almost died of sea-sick
ness. I read hunting stories, but there's
nothing to hunt around here except cats.
I've tried to be a trapper, but the only
game I ever caught was the milkman, and
he’s laying for me yet, I kinder wanted to
be a train robber, but the train wouldn'tstop
to be robbed, and when I read of boy heroes
and looked around to sflve rich girls in a
runaway coupe or old men from the river
there never was any chance. Urt.going to
change and read something else.”
“Well, what aljmll it be ?”
“I want something about a boy who be
gan low down and worked up. He murn’t
rush into any burning houses, save any
stores from being robbed, disccver any
plots to blow up steamboats or save any old
woman from mad dogs. He must be just
like the rest of us —have headaches, gel
licked, hate to get out of bed, fight his broih
era and steal sugar and take it to bed to
eat.”
The dealer couldn't find such a book, and
the lad went out with the remark that no
body seemed to care to write anything for
boys, and that be guessed he'd have to get
a pair of bones and a song book aud be
come a song and dance man. Who can
write a boy's book which will reflect the
characteristics and adventures of the
modern boy ?—Free Frees.
Courtship in Arkansas.
“1 tell you, sir," indignantly exclaimed
Colonrl Webley, addressing a young man
who aspired to the hand of bis only child
“that I shall never give my consent to a
union which I know would bo unhappy."
“We love each other,” replied young
Balecuff
“Love be eternally b’oweJ I So I could
bare said years ago. I was devoted to the
woman I married and she was devoted to
me.”
“You have lived happily with each other,
have you not?”
“Happily I” the Colonel contemptuously
repeated. 1 1 didn't have money enough to
nsure happiness. Even in Arkansaw a
man must have money. His wife may be
devoted to him, but if he fails to provide
those little delicacies which make life so
enjoyable to a woman she will speak of this
sad lack of comfort and instead of attribu
ting it to financial inability will regard it as
willful neglect. At timed she will be melt
ing with affection and vow that your love is
all she caies for in this world, but when
some one who in worldly goods seems tro
richer than yourself rides in a buggy with
his wife she loses sight of the great sustain
ing love arid hankers after tangible affec
tion, a street display of love.”
“1 am a young man of energy aud good
business capacity. I can work and earn
money."
“No use in prolonging this conversation.
I have told you that you should not marry
my daughter. I shall keep close watch,
and if 1 see you here again I shall act
with violence.
“Well, Colonel,” said the young man with
firmness; “as the gentler have failed I am
compelled to adopt the last resort. Some
time ago before you suspected that I was
attached to your daughter, you borrowed $lO
from me. Do not wince, sir; hear me
through. You thought that I had krgotten
the transaction, but I haven't. Now, cir. 1
int'nd to marry your daughter. If you
persist in annoying me, I shall dun you for
the money every time I see you.”
Tho Colonel sat for a moment in deep
thought. Finally he said: “Say, Bub don't
say anything more about the $10; lend me
fire mote and take the g ; rl.”—Arkansaw
Traveler.
AU SOBTB.
' Paw Paw must be quite a hand-sdffl
town. —N. Y. News.
A master of free hand drawing—a pick 1
pocket.—Boston Star.
A bad coughin’ spell—C a r-k e-t —Balti
more Every Saturday.
"Silence is golden." So is a pawnbroker's
sign.—N. Y. Journal
Takes things easy--the man who isn't
watched. —N Y. News.
The locomotive fireman makes bis living
by draw poker.—N. Y. Journal.
More people die of excessive eat than
excessive heat. —Boston Transcript,
The mule is apt to be behind in his bush ■
nees.—Boston Commercial Bulletin.
The dunning letter is occasionally a moat
pay-thetic appeal.—N. Y. News.
Our fellow cititMi who lost his nap will
now be found in a threadbare coat. —N. Y.
News,
“Look before you leap," said the man
who brushed a bent pin off the chair.—N.
Y. Journal.
The man who mikes a motion to adjonrn
is not necessarily adjournalist.—lllinois
State Register.
Blobson calls accompaniments “bald
headed music”—because they haven’t got
any air.—Burlington Free Press.
Seeing a carriage full of belles and beaux
driven by, Aminadab remarked that they
reminded him of a load of wooed.—
1 Did the child die under suspicious cir
cumstances?” asked the coroner of a wit
ness. “No, sir, it did not. It died under
the back porch.”—Pittsburgh Telegraph.
"I hare a bright prospect before me,”
said the loafer. “You always will have,"
remarki d Fogg, “I don’t think you will ever
catch up to it.”— Boston Transcript.
“Why don't that engine start ?” "On ac
count of a defunct dog. ’ "How can a dog
stop it?" "I don't know, only the engineer
said it was on a dead scenter.”—Chicago
Cheek.
“The difference," said Twistem, as he
thumped h:s glass on the bar, “between this
glass and a locust, is simply that one’s a
beer mug and the other’s a mere bug.”—
Pittsburgh Telegraph.
Mix Homespun, who has a terrible time
every morning to get her young brood out
of their beds, says she cannot understand
why children are called the rising genera
tion.- -Boston Transcript.
An enthusiastic exchange remarks: “The
hills and valleys are carpeted with the ver
dant growing crops." A neat idea. The
carpet, strictly speaking, is of the in grain
variety,—Pittsburgh Telegraph.
The quantity of beer pioduced in the
United States last year averaged more than
fourteen gallons for every inhabitant of the
country. Somebody has played a wretched
mean trick on us then.—Burlington Free
Press.
A cucumber five feet long is exhibited at
New Orleans. It isn’t size that counts in a
cucumber, hewever. A little, stubby fellow,
three by two inches, has proven enough to
expand an ordinary sis id stomach to an
achre. —Pittsburgh Telegraph.
A celebrated physician advises plenty of
sleep as a means of increasing physical
strength. Perhaps be is right, for a vege
tarian informs us that the strength of <n
onion increases the longer it remains in its
bed. —Somerville Journal.
The high school girl explained to her
particular friend, yesterday, that "He
kicked the backet" was slang, and that the
polite expression was “He propelled his
pedal extremities with violence against a
familiar utensil used for the transportation
of water and other fl-ridx"—Oil City Der
rick.
“And the gentleman who catches the
ball,” said Anabel, “why does he wear a
mask ?’’ And Anabel looked upon her
cousin Ned’s face with becoming pride
when be promptly answered, “That’s to
protect his face, Bel; an ugly mug wouldn’t
harmonize with a nice pitcher, you know."
—Boston Transcript.
This trade dollar agitatatioo must stop
Shrewd young lovers carry two or three of
them in their pockets, pretended that is all
the money they have, and thus escape
treating the girls to icecream.—FhiladeL
phia Bulletin.
F. S. Church has just finished what is
probably the best and most complete picture
he has yet produced. The scene is under
the sea, aad a beautiful mermaid is seen
riding a sea wolf.