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' North PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY .’ AT HELIzrOJC. <3 A . By JAMES A. PINKSTON Office «ut of RaUroni. opiKiette J C. Quit- Ilan’s stars. TKKMB: -gI.OS par auusm ; SS eeuta tar six moaltui, IB ADV AMO. 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 /gg3 / f. 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. - 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.