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THE SUNNY SOUTH.
My Little Ite«l Georgian Rose.
No life is so sunless bat sometimes it seems
To catch II stray sienna, thro’the portal of dreams
Home ravishing g imi s« oi the nwee unwou, ’
On is'at ds ui.kimwii;
Wliiffe. sweeterthan winds from Arcadia blown:
And such the d lights at the Kay's dewy close,
1 foumi in h litiln red Georgian r.>»a.
Gsy flowe’r of tl e green country hedges! forme
Borne away wlnle the gray moruit g curtained
the lea;
Ere the warm naiads-sunbeams—were darling
to sup.
Or gales scat’ered up
The glitieiing wine of your odorous cup.
To me you are dearer than anyone knows.
Sty b dutiful, blight lit'le Georgian roee!
And I hear, as I gzeon your gold honeyed mouth,
The hum of my lady s hn.wn heoBof the Hou’h;
And I follow their flight over meadow and
wheat,
Till a sweet villa peeps
Emm its leafy retreat;
Ilut a memory fonder awakens and glows.
Deep down in my heart, little Georgian rose.
And I seethegreat, banqueting iris-winged fliee,
< iiqnetting abroad under blue sunny skies.
I hear, where the mowers stand tawny and lithe,
1 he tuneful tat tat—
Of the s'oue on the i-cvthe;
Tne reapers I hear, singing airy and blithe;
Hut it ts not that, see e, nor the mimic that Hows,
I hat abides with me most, little Georgian rose.
It is that my love's gentle fingers did touch
iou, ri se, lovely rose, that 1 love IIV- rniuch.
And Aurora's own roses, on a cloud-breast of
snow,
Afl.-a in the blue.
Were not blest, were not rocked, or breathed
on. (-,s were yon).
On the mori ing you 'ay in th-1 rarest ret>ose—
jMy swee .doubly sweet little Georgian rose!
’Tis for this you are dear, and because 1 have
d'earned
Jlcr mouth s pearls and rubies shunt you were
f ranted,
Awhile, as in kindnpssthe pages she traced
That 1 fo dly have placeit
Secure on the pul->e of my pissionate breast;
And ilie b's gratnude tliat a poet bestows,
I give for you, red little Ge irgian rose!
The bush where you grew, where the revelers re
mained.
Too soon w.ll bp lone - when the honey is drained.
The wi’d that in transport inhaled the per
fume.
Will shatter the bloom
On the li ugh you adorind -and the petals con
sume.
Dear flow r! thro’ springtimes, and summers,
and snows
Of my life, in my breast y m will live to the close,
My odorous, red little Georgian roee!
—Jainee Heed Dills.
Our Portrait Gallery
rOHTRAITS AND BIOGRAPHIES
OF DISTINGUISHED MEN
AND WOMEN,
Grover Cleveland, Democratic Nomi
nee for President of the
United States.
Grover Cleveland was born in New Jer
sey, March, 1837. At the age of fifteen he
van sent to the academy at Clinton, Oneida
county, but his studies were of short dura
tion. When he was sxteen years old be
was obliged to accept a position as clerk in
a country store, but soon after was offered
and accepted a position as teacher in the
New York Asylum for the Blind, where he
remained for one year. While thus em
ployed he was persuaded to start for Cleve
land, O., to seek his fortune. Stopping at
Buffalo on the way to visit an uncle, Hon.
Lewis F. Allen, he was dissuaded from pro
ceeding further, and soon after began the
study of law. Be was admitted to practice
in 1850, and in 181!2 was appointed Assistant
District Attorney for Erie county, in which
position, although but twenty five yny? ?!•?,
he displayed great ability. In 1865 he was
nominated by the Democrats for Di-trict
Attorney, but was defeated by the Repub
lican nominee by a small majority. He
then resumed his private praeuce of law,
being a member of the firm of Laning,
Cleveland A Folsom.
In the fall of 1870 he was elected pheriff of
that county, and held the effloe three years.
In 1874 he was elected Mayor of Buffalo, re
ceiving hundreds of Republican votes, al
though he was the Democratic candidate.
As Mayor he confirmed the good opinion
entertained fer hint by honest men of ali
parties. Exercising the veto power nnspar-
iegly, he was the means of detesting many
corrupt municipal jobs originating in his
own as well as the Republican party, and by
the utmost care and vigilance he saved to
the tax payers many thousands of dollars,
which, if he had performed his duty less
conscientiously, might have been ruthlessly
squandered. It was while administering
this » ffice that he came into notice outside
the city of his residence.
When Secretary Folger was nominated by
the Sialwarts for Governor of New York,
the Democrats responded by nominating
Grover Cleveland, and his election over Mr.
Folger was one of the most remarkable
events in American politics. He carried
almost every county in the State.
The Governor’s official acts since his elec
tion have been widely discussed. Bat no
one has impugned his honesty or sincerity.
His veto of the 5 cent fare bill has been
widely complained of, but no one has inti
mated that he was not governed by a strict
sense of justice to all the interests involved.
HIS PEBSONAP APPEABANCE.
His face, no less than hi- figure and ac
tion, indicates strenuous vital force, and
that admirable oo ordination of faculties
which is best expressed in the phrase, “a
oool head.” Those traits which are in part
the result of early and constant self-train
ing have given him the air of conscious and
quiet power whioh belongs only to the tri
umphant antagonist in the world’s fight.
His figure betokens Herculean strength—
massiveness is the best word for it—and
there is in the smoothly-shaven face the
same token of solidity of character, wi*h
the suggestion of physical vigor in the
soft, brown moustache that strongly con
trasts with tbe scantiness of hair on his head.
There is a slight tendnecy to corpulency—
as is usually toe case in vital temperaments
—and a double chin is beginning to hang
down over the simple white necktie. There
is nothing phlegmatic in the man’s man
ner. His face lights up with a sympathetic
smile, and, without becoming animated or
brilliant, he is at once interesting, un
affected and intensely real.
Thomas Andrews Hendricks
Was born in Muskingum county, Ohio,
September 7,1819, but in 1822 his father set
tled in Shelby oonnty, Indiana, and all of
his life has been identified with that State.
Thomas graduated at South Hanover Col
lege in 1841, studied law at Chambersburg,
pf WB s admitted to the bar in 1843. and
returned to Indiana to practice his pi ofe--
sion- He soon grew into prominence, and
in 1848 was elected as a member of the In
diana Legislature, and in 1850 a delegate to
tbe State Constitutional Couvention. From
1851 to 1855 he represented t e Indianapolis
District in Congress: frrm 1855 to 1859 w®«
Commissioner of the General Land Office,
nmd from 1862 to 1869 wee a member of tbe
United States Senate, in which he
chided as the Democratic leader. In 1868
C'SJ Wrongly supported for the nomi
nation to the Presidency, in the Demo-
National Convention in New
York! In I860 and 1868 he was de-
as a candidate for Governor,
h^t was elected in 1872 for the term ending
1877- His administration of the
Htate affairs in Indiana, was very popular,
8t d l h« was chosen by acclamation for the
“find nUceonthe ticket with Samuel J.
TUden, ?n«S76. at the Nation^mooratic
Convention at St. Loots. In 1880, Mr. Hen-
JriSto positively declined theupeof his
before tbe convention, where it was
TPif;. d “ ir# x L to indicate the “old ticket”
WR8 Bn irresiatable ground
Tf J for the‘‘old ticket” from the Atlantic
coast to the Pacific slope, which wonld have
DO “jDation by acclamation, but
Mr. 1 tlden emphatically declined in the face
ot su arguments and permasions that were
rongbt to bear upon him and it was again
made impossible to pnt the “old ticket”
13. “u®*!? acceptance of the second
place bv Mr. Hendricks, however, seoures
he mfluenoe of the old ticket in favor of
Uie new and his selection was the strongest
that oopld have been made.
RAMBLliNG TALKS.
We were walking at the sunset time. The
streets were freehened, the air cooled by a
late shower. Oat of her belt, where it had
nestled, in a cluster of pink roses, she took
a letter and gave me a glimpse at its manly
superscription. I knew the hand and smiled
well pleased, for did it not belong to a mem
ber of the pen fraternity to whom my heart
naturally goes out? I said a good word for
the writer.
But my comrade gave her heod a quick,
little toss that set brown bangs and pink
plumes to trembling.
“No literary mate for me,” she declared.
“Writers make charming lovers, but as huB
bauds—excuse me. Haven’t I read about
them often enough. Living hand to mouth
at home and giving suppers to actresses or
to their chums—leaving all the bills and
family cares to their wives, while they write
sonnet- to other women. No, may my guar
dian angel deliver me from a literary has-
band.”
“If you had psid a genius, 1 wonld have
responded amen.” I answered, “Genius, I
am bouud to confess, makes an erratic yoke
fellow often times. Splendid, impracti
cable, ardent, but capricious thing that it is.
The car of matrimony is seldom smoothly
drawn by this restless leopard-natnred
creature. It wants a uniform jog trot.
But believe me, mo<i amje there is not a
strong enough infusion of genius in the
average literary man to spoil him far a
husband. U-nally be is quite tame and
prac'ioal; sometimes he is a domestic
model. 1 remember onoe I visited the home
of a poet and journalist whose fiery sougs
and bold paragraphs I had often admired.
1 fancied there must be something eagle-
like in his look, and almost regretted that
he shou'd have a home. It seemed fitter to
think of him as a sailor of deep seas, or a
wanderer among mountains, or a soldier
with only a tent above his head. I found
him mending his wife’s slippers. My lady
had a fit of bad temper and headache—the
two always went together in her case—and
he took her coffee to her bedside and meek
ly bore her snubbing-. But what am I talk
ing about ? I can show you, right at hand,
an instance of a writing man who is a model
paler familias. Do you see that old brick
house with the great, black-looking mul
berry-trees around it, and th6 wide, old-
fashtoned verandas ? There lives tempo
rarily a gentleman who writes “thrilling"
serials for Heaven knows how many New
York story papers. D >es it pot money in
his purse ? It must, since it puts bread in
the months of a large and increasing fam
ily. He lives well, too. Yonder he sits,
out on that little back porch, writing.
Let’s stop at the fruit etall opposite and
watch him. A plump, ro-y, well-fed
disciple. You S66 he has a baby's pretty
crib close to him, and, every little while,
he jogs it with his foot. The little girl in
the rocking chair is making a crazy quilt.
She calls to him to observe her success, and
he gives her an encouraging smile.”
As 1 spoke a small boy, who had lagged a
watermelon almost as big as himself into a
corner of tbs porch and was slyly plugging
it, screamed mt with a cut finger. The in--
ditcr »>I tliriiffSjtfcc,- *»t6 laid dAwu his pen,
-oolderi tbe small culprit gravely and then
tied up his cut finger with a scrap of the
girl’s orazy quilt and went back to his nov
' “Husband,” called a voice from the inte
rior, “Isn’t it time to get that chicken re idy
to broil?”
‘•Yes,” he answered cheerfully, and he
rose, gathered up his papers, put them in a
drawer of the table and went in.
“Dees he oook?” Delphine asked, with
wide-eyed wonder.
“Yes, on occasion. He gets the family
meals in excellent and economical fashion
when his wife is Dot well, as is tbe case just
now. He rises in tbe midst of portraying a
sentimental scene of love and parting t >
wring the neck ot a chicken or peel a pan
of potatoes. While he is depicting a des
perate encounter between the hero and the
villain, his foot rocks the peaceful cradle
where his latest olive branch sucks its pink
fist. Can you imagine a more docile mate
than this literary man? i s there any him ot
the leopatd or the eagle in this barayard
domesticity?”
I should say not, but this is an extreme
e.”
Possibly, though I know others to par
allel it. But every literary man in this city,
whom I can call to mind, is a pattern hus
band, a thoughtful provider. Uncle Remus,
whom the Detroit Free > less pictures as a
broken-henrted bachelor, is the happy owner
of a loviDg wife and a bevy of bright-faced
responsibilities, and so well does he love
his pretty West End home that tie oau hard
ly lie lured out of it. Mr. Wiiliam Heury
Pi ck, of Ledger fame, does not let the woes
of his heroes spill over into his own domes
tic cap, when is well watered with con
tent. He sits in bis pleasant house, snr-
roundea by his handsome family—the pic
ture of a satisfied man. I might use a dozen
lesser lights by way of illustration, but this
is st.ffioient. I see you are looking relint-
ingly at my literary brother’s love missive,
which you have stuck back into its nest of
roses, just under your heart. Who knows to
what ambitious undertakings you may in
spire him? You may be Laura to another
Petrarch."
“Laura wasn’t Petrarch's wife,” she pout
ed. “1 have noticed that it is seldom the
wives of literary men who inspire them. The
women they apothet-s ze in song and story
are not of their own hearths and homes.
Would Darte have worshipped Beatrice so
wildly, or Tasso so madly adored Leonora,
or Byron woven so many garlands of senti
mental rhymes aronnd Lady Chaworth if
these ladies bed been their wtdded wives?”
“Now again you are harping on the chil
dren of genius—the erratic ones of a past
generation. I have said that the wild Bo
hemian spirit has|leparte-i from the gnild
of the pen. A few errata like Joaqnin Mil
ler try to keep it alive, but it is spasmodic.
Literary men have growu quite like other
people. They no longer live from hand to
mouth, dow eating a crust in a garret, now
feasting on boned turkey and champagne
with their (test coat in pawn. They have
trimmed their locks (all but Joaquin) and
pruned their habits. They live in decent
houses,i,are capital husbands,and pursue lit
erature in a matter-of-fact methodical way
as a business.”
“'Tis but to snip bis locks they follow
The golden-haired Apollo.”
Delphine chanted as she stole a rose that
thrast its pink faoe between the high, green
paling of a sunken garden. “I think 1 like
the old time literary folks the Bohemians
best. They were not common place. They
wore crowns, although like Lear’s, they
might have been of straw. They were not
molded by the pressure of the almighty dol
lar. A ragged robin singing and swinging
on a free green bongh, is a more inspiring
sight than that gaudy parrot yonder in a gil
ded cage. I like the Bohemians beet.” And
unconscious of the glaring inconsistency of
this with her previous utterance, Delphine
repeated:
“Then corns my bonny bird.
Come to my garret nest-
And give new spring to my fiddle-bow,
A ad to my aoi-gj Jew zest.”
“And the literary women of to-day ?”
Delphine asked.
“They are like other women. Because a
woman writes, she no longer thinks it
necessary to neglect he 1- hair and rails Rnd
advertise her avocation by an inky fore
finger. Among the best dressed women 1
snw at a reception in New York were the
journalists and auttiors. They hud a corn-
women of Cincinnati, aided by steamboat
companies, give poor folks river excursions,
and pend hundreds of work worn women
and feeble, sickly children for long, dreamy
rides on the oool river and sweet hours in
the heart of some rocky forest. Postman
j juiumintn «*»'u ounmiPt a i:u/ ■* *« «• ~ - - • , . ,
fortable, cored-for look and quiet manners, working girls, grocerymen, butchers, rich
Just a touch of picturesqneiieBB in appear- folk*, all get down to ail equality of giving,
anoe and conversation seemed to di j tin- so that little children may learn how sweet
gnisb them. A gentleman who sat by me - it is to be in God’s country and un ” cr the
oDe of those dapper little men who know dewy canopy of wild trees. ‘ In New Orleans
everything and can gossip more artistically there are thousands of forlorn children who
than women—told me interesting things never touched a wild flower in allI their lives,
abont most of the literary ladies present— j Why may not these induce ns to start a fresh
gave me glimpses behind the scenes in their | air fnad ?” _ ,
lives—aud from these it transpired that sev- [ Atlanta n not so large as her Siuthern
eral of those quie 1 -looking women were i sister, who guards the mouth of the mighty
moral heroines—bre id-winners and snp- | river, but there is within her limits mnch
porters of childreu and invalid or good-for- i desti ntion. much sickn ss o, heart and body,
nothing husbands. B it there was nothing many narrow lives, and a great deal of
of the martyr in their pleasant faces. The$, hungering aud thirsting after a little beanty
too, look upon their profession in a busi- and kindness, which the more fortunate
GROVER CLEVELAND.
ness-like way, and put on do dramatic airs,
as though they belonged to Fome order of
romat.ee and mystery, or were princesses of
some grand misty domain, out of sight of
common mortals.”
“A la Mrs. R dclyffe,” De’phine said.
“You remember see made a pilgrtma. e to
Germany, wasn’t it ? and got shot tip in a
dun aeon as a conspirator, merely that she
might dt cnbe, wilh the intensity of real
experience, a prisoner’s feelings and snr-
ronndings. Imagine Miss Braddon or Mrs
Burnett doing anything of this kind. But I
think this writing, merely as a business,
with no higher aspiration than money-get
ting, is carried too far. We who read dis
cern a certain flatness in what is written.
‘Wlmt is dune for broad
Will taste of common grain, instead of grapes.’
A writer, if she has any real genm j , feelp
a certain degradation in lowering her ideals
to meet popular demands and catoh the
pennies of the masses. Mrs. Mary J
Holme?—prolific book-maker that she is—
must have felt a sting of humiliation at d
•-e^T-’t rho h.. !e her ~d
daughter from reading her novels, saying.
“ w mt you to read much better books than
mine.” Mrs. Holmes’ novels are always
what is nailed moral, and they are devoured
by the young and crude, but one catches in
them here and there, tokens of much greater
power and subtlety than is employed to
mouid the stories She has sacrificed her
ideal of art in order to write popular and
money-making books. It is a pity. We
must all work for money, I suppose, but we
need not let the necessity crush out the
higher ins'inct that woald teach us to be
t'ue to our best sense of art and beauty,
h ugh this loyalty somewhat narrowed our
purse aud popularity. I remember—hut
see what a sweet woman is seated in that
carriage, and what quantises of lovely
flowers she has in her hands and at her feet.
Sue looks like a fl iwer herself in that pate
yellow muslin, printed with sprays of red
geranium, with that wide, creamy leghorn
hat, aud the r re face under it.
‘Oh, call it fair, not pale.’”
She dresses so partly to please her father
and partly because it delighls the eves of
the children sod poor people at the Home
end the hospital where she is taking her
flower-. Yon have no idea how those no
fortunates appreciate this attention, and
could hrlp to alleviate (as that sweet woman
with her fl - were is doing) withom detracting
from their caste or sensibly diminishing
their purses.
Maiiy E. Bbyan.
Never Too Late to Learn.
Socrates, at an extreme old age, learned
to play on musical instruments.
Cato, at eighty years of age, learned to
speak the Greek language.
Plutarch, when between seventy and
eighty, commenced the study of Latin.
Booaccio Wiis thirty five years of age
when he commenced his studies in light
literature, yet he became one of the greatest
masters of the Tuscan dialect, Dante and
Pc rarer* being the other two.
Sir Henry Speimsu neglected the sciences
in his youth, but commenced the study of
them wh >n he was between fifty and sixty
yefir..^? ^ge. after (his ho became a learned
-m--•dr^T^r-ra'KTF'i. -* *- ■*-
Di»c.or Johnson applied himself to the
Dutch language bnt a few years before his
death.
Ludovico Moenaldsco, at the great age of
115. wrote the memoirs of his own times.
Ogilby, the translator of Homer aud Vir
gil, was unacquainted with Latin and Greek
un'il he was p .st fifty.
Franklin did not fully commence his phi
losophical pursuits till he had reached his
fiftieth year.
Drydeu, in his sixty-eighth year, com
menced the translatiou of the Iliiad, his
most pleasing production.
Michael’s Midnight Call,
In wee sma’ and very dark hours of Sat
urday morning Mr. Blank's front, door-bell
rane violently. The worthy citizen went at
once to the door, where he found his man
Michael in a troubled state of mind. Mi
chael said that he had that night been
blessed with an addition to his family; that
the doctor called in attend moe and de
manded immediate payment for his per-
vices. Having no money in the hon-=e, he
had called npon Mr. Blank to borrow some.
Michael immediately received what he
w inted, and, with profuse apologies for
THOMAS AM RE o A,' HENDRICKS.
how pleased they are with the flowers.
Sometimes she takes a carriage full of little
ones to Ponce de Leon, and enjoys their
happy looks and laughter more than she
ever did the German. Last Sunday’s Pica
yune jogs the New Orleans folks about their
backwardness in summer charities, and de
clares that New Orleans is ‘one of the few
cities in the United S stes whose wealthy
people do nothing to alleviate the weariness
of the summer for the sick aud poor chil
dren. In St. Louis lovely and kind
hearted people have just sent off 150
orphan children to rough it on Lake Minne
tonka. In New York, Boston and Philadel
phia every day has its chronicle* of the good
acts of the Fresh Air Fund Societies. There
are happy stories of tired mothers and little
childreo being aent to tbe wonderful seaside,
to the sweet meadows and fields, to daisy
land and oonntriea where oowa and flowera
and sweet, pore air are common. The
calling at suoh an unseasonable hour, de
parted. The next morning Mr. Blank’s
daughters, who had heard the bell ring,
asked who it was that called so late, and
they were informed of the circumstances.
“Poor little thing!” sympathetically ex-
olaimed a bright little mis? of twelve sum-
men; cam© o. o. d., didn’t it?”
Mr. Charles Dougherty, son of the late
Hon. Wm. Dougherty, formerly of Athens,
has been nominated as a candidate for Con
gress from the First Distriot of Florida.
He is a D moorat, of oourse, and is in the
district now represented by Mr. Davidson,
also a Democrat.
The Altai estates of tbe Czar of Russia
oover an area of 170,000 square miles, being
about three times the size of England and
Wales.
There is one ooaohtnan no ordinary Amer
ican daddy wonld object to having as a son-
in-law— Andrew Carnagie, the iron king of
Pittsburg and Duke of Dongeness, who has
recently been driving his coach through
England and Scotland. The only trouble
is that he is already a son-in-law.
Baby has been forbidden to ask for des
sert. The other day they forgot to serve hi m,
and as baby is very obedient, he remained
silent, although muoh affected. “Jose
phine,” said the father, “pass me a plate.”
“Won’t yoa have mine, papa ?” oried baby ;
“it is very clean.”
“Go for somebody quick I There’s a bag
down my baok I” oried a young girl to her
lover in the park on Wednesday evening.
“Hadn’t I better go for the bag ?” he sug
gested. Then Bhe fainted dead away, and
when she had unawooned the bug had flu
ished its evening atrool and gone home.—
Baltimore Day.
A gentleman with a large mouth and
proolivity to smile was only brought to a
complete rest by being asked by the photog
rapher to please “try and smile within the
limits of the camera only.”—New York
Commercial Advertiser.
FASHION, SOCIETY, Etc.
Lovely Sommer Costumes.
The newest thing in the way of a sofa pil
low is a huge egg of pale blue satin cut in
five gores, and on one side a hand-painted
decoration appears in the form of a scene
of ‘ Sinbad the Sailor.”
The wide neckties of white mull, so much
worn a few sea-tons ago, are again offered
by those who import Frertoh tin lerie. Tnese
are a quarter of a yard in width, and are
hem-stitched act oss the ends.
Black stockings are still commended with
dre-sea of all colors and for all occasions
Those of silk or of brilliant lisle-thread
with a slight clocking at the sidep are chosen
in preference to those elaborately deco
rated.
One of the dressiest of snmmer toilettes
of snrah, trimmed with lace, has a deep
lace drapery of border lace around the bot
tom of the bodioe, lace elbow sleeves, aud a
full lace yoke, strapped with ribbon match
ing the surah.
Black toile's of the richest description are
at pre-ent the leading dresses with fashion
able women of middle age. Jet-beaded
grenadines and tulles over black snrah con
stitute one of the richest and most elegant
toilets a lady can choose for dinner or re
ception wear this season.
Silver-gray mohair or etamine doth
dresses, fastened with silver bnttous, made
to fit the form perfectly, and trimmed with
kilts or fine side pleatings of the dress fa
brio, are among the most stylish and ser
viceable of traveling costumes.
Lawn tennis, when played to excess, is
said to Vie an alarmingly unhealthy game.
It requires immense exercise of physical
power?, and many bonuy, bright, plump
young girls have, by over-dav.itiou to lawn
tennis, pulled themselves down into haggard
and sal ow-faced women.
Pretty little dressps for children are made
in Russian style, of veiling, shot silk, oash-
mere, pink-check surah, or creatn-whi'e
woolen of finest texture, dotted with tiny
bouquets of flowers. The short _ skirt is
kilted all the way round, and over this is the
jaunty jacket, which gives the sait its name.
The Eoglish “wide awake” hat of gray or
beige fancy straw of feather weight for ten
nis n-=e is natty and chic. A satin ribbon of
the same shade goes round the crown, and
f >r gentlemen two silver rackets in filigree
are crossed on the left, side of the crown,
while the feminine “wide awake” is gar
nished with scarlet poppies mingled with
feathery clematis blooms, made to resemble
a pompon or aigrette.
A m taming costa tne, simple and artistic,
recently worn, was made of black surah
and bordered with three crepe ruches. The
pleated tablier was of crepe, surrounded by
a narrow rnooe. Tne French rediugote of
snrah fastened from throat to belt with
handsome cut jet buttons, small aud round.
The baca was tight-fitting, the skirt laid in
full pleats. N arrow folds of crepe were laid
from the shoulder seam down each side of
the front, aud at the throat w-.s knotted a
wide mounting ribbon. T-ie hat was of
lustreless straw, trimmed with jet-powdered
plumes, and edged with lustreless beads.
It may have been a trifle sensational or
theatrical, but no one can deny that Mrs.
Oscar Wilde’s wedding dress was an ex-
quisi<e beauty. 8'ie wore a robe of cowslip-
colored satin, the long corsage out square
in the neck, and from it rose a Medici col
lar of superb lace. The skirt was long and
full and perfectly plain, and oonfined at the
waist by a girdle of rare workmanship. Her
veil was of India silk gauze, and fell from a
comb in her hair, not covering or conceal
ing the face. Tbe flowers were white, min
gled with myrtle leaves.
Among the novelties is the Rnssian vest,
which is first pleated and then joined to the
rtisi os •» ehJvlc piasiiuii and tnen beht-a.
This gi et is generally made of silk, of
the dress material, and often of lace or
crepe in different colors for daDcing dress.
Next comes the Moujik blouse, also Rus
sian, as the name betokens. This is a sort
of polonaise, rather o!o?e fitting in the back
with a fall paffed drapery. The fronts are
flowing, and covered with a puffed plastron,
shirred at the top, aud finished on eaoh side
with twenty-six small pearl buttons and cor
responding buttonholes. This plas rou is
part of the front of the overskirt, and is
tigtnened at the waist by a velvet belt held
by a silver buckle.
The j-oket opens wide in front over a
blonse-plsstron, ganged at the waist and
aronnd the neck Below the ganging at
the waist is a wide belt, for little boys, of
Rnssian lea her. fastened in front with a
large stiver buckle, and for girls, a sash rib
bon which fastens at the right, side, under
neath the jacket and comes round and is fin
ished iff with a short bow and tnds on the
left. Sometimes the edges of the cutaway
jacket are cut into squares and bound and
embroidered. With this snit a very deep
collar and wide turn turnover enff- of Rns
sian lace are invariably worn. The model
oonld serve as an excellent one in rich Ori
ental fabric-* aDd gold lace for trimming for
a child’s fancy dress.
Quite the most charming bonnets and
ha's now offered by Freuchmi liners as their
chefs d'ceuvre are those of delioa'e cream
hued satin with soft crowns and shirred
brims oovered with lace. The trimming is
very often all while, of tins and white roses
mingled, and cascades of airy lace. N”'t
in attractiveness are the bonnets aud gyp y
hats of lilac, biege, cameo, or crgnm-tintea
china crape, wreathed with arbutus blos
soms, Neapolitan violets, peach blossoms,
or an entire wreath of frORted white roses.
Both styles are the darlings of faphion for
dressy summer head dresses at Saratoga
nd Newport.
Art Notes.
Mrs. J. R. Gregory, the artist, has re
moved her studio to her residence, 155 N.
Collins street, where she is busy with pencil
and brush, and seems to have returned with
new inspiration after her reeent delightful
visit to Washington City, where she filled
several orders while there with her usual
suooess. __
The jury in the Carpenter murder case in
New York was out only twenty minutes when
it returned with a verdict of guilty. The iu-
sanity dodge was tried in this oase. as it has
been in many others, but it failed to make
twelve sensible men believe that a man who
had followed bis wife for years with an
avowed purpose of killing her was anything
but a revengeful brute, wo deserved to be
hnng for his orime as a terrible example for
others of his kind. If we had more juries
like this there would be fewer murders.
©uumts If acts.
The sturgeon fishermen in Winnebago
Like use lines six miles long, and use 20,-
000 hooks on a line/'
In Madagascar the orocodile is sacred and
is seldom destroyed by the inhabitants, al
though it frequently kills cattle and human
beings.
The register of Hyde Abbey, Winchester,
writtou in the reign of Canute, i? still in ex
istence. and forms part of the Ashburnham
collection.
Eveu among the costermongers who go to
the Darby races fashions change, and now
pea-shooters and Punchinellos and dolls are
“oat,” and paper sunshades are “in.”
Q teen Margherita of Italy has a set of
lace worth §40,000, which has descended to
her through several generations. It always
belongs to the chief lady of the house of
Savoy.
Tbe bones and teeth of some unknown
animal were recently discovered near the
Geuesee River. One of the teeth was 3>£
inches long and 2>£ inches wide across the
crown.
Among the odd things made in England
for the Indian and African trade are locks
and keys, which are sold for a half penny,
and are worn by Hindoos and Africans as
charms.
The hazirds of the diamond trade have
bec ame so great and are so wall understood
by jewellers that only §3 000 has been of
fered for the 302 caret diamond recently
fonnd in the Kimberley mines.
Daring the last, throe years the exports of
silk from Japan to England only increased
abont twenty per cent., whereas those for
the United States increased 150. and those
for France aud Italy 250 per cent.
A tenant in a honse at the east end of
London, that last refnge of poverty, recent
ly lestifiad before a charitable committee to
having taken tweuty-two thicknesses of
paper off the walls of a room, preparatory
to repapering it.
In France only sixty atock brokers are
allowed by the law to exist. The intending
stock broker has to give seonrity to the ex
tent of §50,000, then to pay §30,000 to the
committee of stock brokers, and the trans
fer stamn of §5,000, besides providing
abont §80 000 to carry on the business, or a
total of §500 000.
A municipal committee in the north
western provinces of India instructs per
sons who see a dog which seems to be mad
to report it to the mnsarim, who will issne
orders to kill it, and, after it has been ex
amined by the native d tetors, it may be
killed. The quarter whence bitten persons
may exDect damages is not s'ated.
The caju is a Brazilian frnit which has
some cqrions properties. The seed grows
ontside the fruit, and is encased in a pnlpy
covering filled with a very powerful acid
capable of blistering the skin. When the
seed is roasted it is edible, but the smoke
which arises from the roasting irritates the
skin, and, if it enters the eye, destroys the
?i 'ht.
Gems of JEliouflht*
There is bu' one virtue, tne eternal sacri
fice of self.—George Sand.
Persistent people begin their success
where others end in failare.—Edward Eg-
gl s/on.
Unclaimed promises are like nnoashed
checks, they will keep ns from bankruptcy,
but not from want.—Hoverg it.
Nothing will supply the want of snnshine
to peaches; and, to make knowledge valua
ble, you mnst have the cheerfulness of wis
dom. Goodness smiles to the last.—Eincr-
-
Jf the Sunday had not been observed as a
day of rest dnring the last three oetftnries,
I have not the slightest doubt that we should
have been at this moment a poorer people
and less civ.lizad.—Macaul ty.
When God would educate a man He com
pels him to learn bitter lessons. He sends
him to school to the necessities rather than
to the graces, that, by knowing all suffering,
he may know also the eternal consolation.—
Celia Burleigh.
L“t a man take time enough for the most
trivial deed, though it be but the paring of
nis nails. The bud swells imperceptibly,
without hnrry or confusion, as if the short
Spring days were an eternity.— Thoreau.
You should only attempt to borrow from
those who have but few of this world’s
goods, as their chests are not of iron, aud
they are, besides anxious to appear wealth
ier than they really are.—Heinrich Heine.
That fortitude whioh has encountered no
dangers, that prudence whioh has surmount
ed no difficulties, that integrity whioh has
been attacked by do temptation, can at best
be considered but as gold not yet brought to
the test, of whioh therefore the true value
rnt Kooa;i,T* —./rt'nion.
■Historical Sates.
For nine ceutu r ies, up to 1850, me only
bridge aver the Thames was old London
Bridge.
Hindoo legends assert that the rock-ont
temple at Etlora was excavated 7,000 years
ago, bnt arct asoiogists find that it was prob
ably made about 800 A D.
Dim front, Normandy, where Claude Du
val was born, always had an evil reputation.
Tne cure onoe expressed his surprise that he
buried so few of the Domfrontois in his
own ohurohy ard. On olose inquiry he found
that all who were born at Dumfront were
hanged at Rouen.
A famine whioh caused much profound
suffering among the Russian serfs was
brought about by the Irish famine of 1847.
The British Government offered very high
prices for corn, and the nobles, tempted by
it, sold that whioh they had stored to feed
their serfs. The result was “the famine
and the fever.”
Toward the close of the seventeenth cen
tury “chipping and coining” had developed
to a very great degree in England, and in
carcerations and hanging were constant for
these offences. In 1692, it is recorded, there
were 300 coiners and dippers dispersed in
the oity. So bold were the ooiners that they
made their counterfeit money even in New
gate. To show their skill they struck a
medal of Newgate, whioh is still to be foand
in English collections.
The Eoglish revival of arohery as an
amusement in the <ast oentnry had a singu
lar origin. In 1794 the secretary of the Ot
toman Embassy, in a field behind Bedford
square, shot, with a Turkish bow aud arrow,
a distance of 482 yards with the wind, and
415 yards partly against it. He declared
that his master, the saltan, oonld shoot 500
yards, and tnat ancient padishahs had shot
800 yards. Hence a grand furbishing of
bows taken from museums, and a grand
muster of rnstio archers, and at last arohery
as an amusement.
The English Lords are getting np a repu
tation in America. Lord Abercrombie
proved to be a frand, although he was in
dorsed to the Coney Island Jookey Club by
Lord Mandeville. Now Lord Mandeville
himself is nnder a cloud. He has failed to
nav his racing debts, amounting to some
$1,500, and a movement is on foot to expel
him from the olob. Lord Mandeville’s part
ner claims that he is very sick, but the par
ties to whom be owed the money are not sat
isfied with that explanation of the matter.
The oholera news is bad. The number of
deaths rapidly inoreases and the plague is
spreading. It will be impossible, doubtless,
to prevent its spread to every oonntry in
Europe. The germs of it may be already
planted in the United States.