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has filrbed from
Tb ^J r h *»e fouorf a
ravoorm tho board be measures,
/ With a leer.
-jQj $/*• world’s turmoil and fretting,
'Th^d no * l ““* aad ral “ re ** <sttin *
be time far radios
M !•.
2««refimT.. npo , 0 . -ow,
Berlinutbatlieiodau
_Bnt—“JQ|y •wiHi*'
How with pobM-tiutobUns stoodyr
Hand in band, <bey*re waiting * *•
Not a s igh
For the time that* swiftly
There will be a joyous*
By and by.
—,Hollis W. IW*'
beauty's treasure* The upper halL
ard be measures, and wmnpg f<
1 ft the house. Rising dizzily to her
Ret, she tottered from the nom and
softly c osed the door. In her pertur-
«* »*ui3. »uo iiw» u ui iem guapc, ann oe-
“Murder! murdert" ihricked the laml- »ore it thoroughly harden! frequently «f
l»dy. hy»tcriea!Iy.- ’ - c.yrteliue clcarne«. It u surwted id-
“Hu*h. ipoke the visitor’. while in that condition a retta lr- jl
spoke
▼o'ce. ‘ - We are only '■
“Oh; I know it all!” gasped bis strug
gling captiwe. “Let roe go—you assas
sinator, you distilled sleep-r!—let me go
this moment, I tell you! Murder!—
thieves!—watch!—police!”
rOPCLAR SCIENCE.
At the Vciuviaa Observatory, Falmieri
has found that when steam is condensed
by cold negative electricity is developed,
but that positive electricity is produced
during evaporation.
A new and pausible explanation of the
destructive fires occurring in pine forests
is offend. The pine ream exuding from
the trees is often of lens shape, and be-
WOMAN’S WORLD
PLEASANT LITERATURE l’OH
FEMT^JLX'E READERS ■
' ■'Trres in TBlSW'
is an effort to avoid all manner of dis
play cn the part of mrn.
'lhc ltdics run riot in d amonls,
rubies, sapphiro*, pearls, nnd especially
in opals. Tue opal seems now to bj
Our First Scoot.
Early in 1862 our regiment, the First
West Yirg'oia Cavalry, was sent to New
Creek, Virginia, on the Baltimore md
Ohio Railroad. We were there but a few
— - r « . _ *».„ Vtu I vuw jwuiwou. i» c were mere uus a lew
coming out trim under tho tarn which d fterc M orfer for
h»! lam upo! ,! for » many year*. It m lc h u t to go to Sheet’! Milla.
“>w in high favor and han advanced Tt( . on) , to „ k
wi0 “ d in le « t,mo ttan
you could think the scout was full.
into all kiucU of jewelry with brilliant
effect.
Another stone which has lately ap-
frar. tic effort to rear*- ..<0 In m last
■--vitus ca — ’ -4 chaoUirs, and the
focus the sun’s rays upon J may
resinous point, and so fV* _ae twig or
quickly cats up a -ft a blaie that
A Pari*^
for* M . -dan has brought be-
tVaTmolt' -ich Academy of Medicine
. ® rj/- jf his investigations conccrn-
lng^co* jT i^iiQ^ness. lie has examined
/5 persons. Two of these only were
*»*r- . "? 4ea over the first 1 ’.acapablc of distinguish one color from
sttp. ^An ■ -•* .m^d oa tho I another three were blind lor red and six
fie***'
~*Z,
jioeting—
JTha V
J, in Detroit Free Pre
mysterious Lodger.
BT EMILY H. HOUGH.
“I don’t like it! and the more 1 think
of it the worse it stems!” soliloquized
Mrs. Benson, letting her sewing fall in
her lap for a moment. “I made
she w»..
O o, oer arms flung wildly out
attempt to regain her balance, and then
over she went, accompanying each revo
lution with n most ear-splitting shriek,
while the two men, with a bir.t of min
gled consternation nnd merriment, pro-
cipitat d themselves after her, although
in a somew. at more orderly fashion.
Just as they reached the hall,and Mrs.
Benson had succeeded in picking herself
up, the street-do w was burst open, and a
policeman’s a tonishei eyes took in tho
scene. The landlady on one hand, her
face covered with perspiration and dust,
i fW green, eighteen could not distinguish
**•» from red, ^ fteen no difference
Pf- -v oia m mr - * nd
b.-twMi. ,grc.- JTW
. ... . “* m , “P.flv-iNl giving vent to ,brick niter shriek
mind that them w«! a mjatcir tbout him „ m f ch pwsUtcnce and Kpidity ns
from the grit—tud now thit that brigan- 1 g„ WO nld allow—and the eon-
dish 1 coking voug feller has taken to vis
iting him and acting so queer, it’s get
ting really dangerous. That comes of
being a lone widow woman with no
protector! I’m sure, when he came here
so pleasant and civil, and offered n good
price for the room, and didn’t mind if
tho accommodations weren’t first-class, I
could never have been expected to Im
agine ——V
A vigorous pull at the door-bell inter
rupted the lady’s musings; and jumping
up all in a flutter, she hurried out into the
hull. A tall, slender young man with
iiiercing black eyes and long, waving
hair, and carrying a somewast bulky
pap t roll, stood before her.
•‘Mr. Brown in? Don't trouble your
self to call him—I’ll go right up.”
Mrs. Benson fell helplessly back, and
tl-.e visitor mounted the stairs with pon
derous strides. A door above oj.cned
and shut, and after hesitating irreso
lutely in the hall for n moment, the land
lady, in a state qf increased perplexity,
returned to her sewing.
The subject of her interrupted soliloquy
—a prepossessing young man of thirty or
thereabouts, givingthenBire^sugvwii^
had cnoaa «i ** •v*uunu The house about
two months before, as a lodger, limply.
His pay was prompt, his hours and man
ners unexceptionable, and his wants few
—and the good lad jV heart had unite
hZZi ^12 • ’ »n; mopping her f«e with her .pron.
i 1 habit Of!.,in,-, “Jn, t holu on till I hear their aide ot
V -SSSRS’.ftaS? 'ecdomnily, ,n thc storJ ,.. repUed lh „ offlc(:r ^innin,
! h ° fa * l fr or - on pwjnr «« 1 “Come what’, the row aboil?" He
iutionwoie, to the widow’s sen-itive ear, turned to Brown
1 of and latterly, he I .. Suppose w0 ^ in here , nd .it down
“igfcE?SJ2E2 “” d P ro : i -111 make it ailclear in two minutes,”
tracted Wt. fromflie stranger she had replied the lodger, as he made a motion
. * ttcii. Once or twice sho had to enter the sitting-room.
p .'ie 1 ^ l hi r ^ ,m ’ .“l ll,, ™ od I ■‘-'•o, you don’t!" shrieked Mrs. Ben-
jyiSiRf* but iaiiing to catch .nythiog 80D- plunging forward. “My bank-book
in there, in the right hand bureau
be robbed
Beside,
«sv ... V nfiMfl Ti* /**,”: "— racy « «ae as not lump out or the win-
5Mr 1 32S?'“.*j!ft no »-A‘b P .f the way they
knowing what dreadful plot may be y
lmt died in my house. I might be ar
rested, tco, ns an a:compli
•pirntors on the other.acarce able to stand
in their excess of merriment, holding
their handt to their sides,convulsed with
paroxysms of laughter.
“What’s the muss here?” demanded
the public guardian.
“Arrest thoie two villains right
away 1” sputtered Mrs. Benson, gasping
for breath.
“Arrest ’em?” echoed the o'ficer, as
Brown and Moore went off into another
convulsion. “What for?”
“What for?” sobbed the landlady. “A
nice reliable set yon police are, to be
sure! Hera they’ve gone and murdered
somebody, and carried off that girl the
papers are advertising for, as well os a
lot of monev, and—oh, dear!”—wring
ing her hands—“they were calculating
to attack me, a lone widow woman, ana
distill mo to sleep, and take away my
hard earnings, and carry me off to take
care of that young girl!” and her over
wrought imagination found vent in a sec
ond burst of tears.
“What does she mean, anyhow?”
asked the oftiror, hopelessly mystified.
‘•Just wait till I get my br.athl”
choked Mocre, with a renewed buret of
merriment.
“Distill her to sleep!—oh, hold me!”
exploded his friend, following suit.
“Ain’t you going to arrest them before
they murder me?” demand.d Mrs. Bcn-
intclligible, and fen ing detection, she
“’««e* *• |ve.t u^uTig^ , drmwer, and I^t'X .““bl
iik’e ruo??«»“oi
Coutroling his usabilities with diffi-
n , -kVWH| iifcB “itVwell I cul ‘y* ® rown held the opened roll of MS.
I thought of that closet—the good-for- . the officer,
nothing villains! I’ll circumvent’em! ^ ,QW ' ' rn
“This will solve the mjstory,” he said
lushing the information.*" ‘ ’ ' V *' >• | came attached to the staff of a local pa-
Inspired by these mingled idea., Mrs. 1 ! ,cr > " nd ,s ot ? res< ; nt co “P oa “8“ thr ‘ 11 -
-clad aside hertewin- ! n S r . om . a ” c f ’M. “'“"""J: Ile ''as
-> • rpijg roo been in the habit of bringing tl
instalments to me, for icvisiou and crit-
, and it occurred to h'm to day, a<
s talking over thc plot, that it
„ He has
a odf ! ,cen * n ^hc habit of bringing the several
_ . w - , contained a
closet .built against the partition wall,
from _l *''*
and >tjl ♦: o.'t’.y up-stairs,
joining that of her lodger,
closet bnllt against the i
from whih somj of the plaster had we weretalking over me plot, ttint il
fallen leaving aSUF crack. Creeping would be a good idea In h»vo my land
rautioni.lv In xirz iu„. nn ,i n „i * lady figure as one of the subordinate
cautiously in, Mrs. Bcnsou gut down
her knees and applied ber car to the wall.
Presently she heard Mr. Brown’s voice:
“Yos^ that will do—leaves no trace
for suspicion. Did you use poison?”
“Poison!” gasped the eavesdropper.
“I thought he looked like a villain l”
“Nq—I decided that the dagger was
better,” was thc re] ’
lady figure as one of the subordinate
characters. That is the entire extent of
our conspiracy 1”
“But how did she get wind of it?’ 1
asked the perplexed offic r.
•‘Eavesdropping, of course! There’
vacant room next to mine, with a clos.'t
in it; and wc a ere talking over the sub
ject somewhat animatedly. We came
What kind did yon use?” queried out * nto the entry at the same time that
Brown, jocularlv. she did, and ran against her in the dark.
“Ob, thc regulation kiml--It*Uan, I ^7 friend instinctively caught hold cf
with a jeweled handle. I loft it there, ! her, but she pulled away,and being close
so hs to inn licate tie over, von sc.*; then by the head of the stair.-, thc rest enu be
had tho girl ab lucted and* carried to a summed up in a few words. Oh, what a
lonely house on t o moors. I hopo she 1 fall was there, my countrymen!” a:d the
feels comfortable- ha! ha! luiF* conspirators broke once more into a peal
“Merciful powers”” ch .k d Mrs. Ben- of merriment, in which they were heart
son. “That’s thc girl thev advertised for *ly joined this time by the policeman,
in y >te; dav’s HoMld! To th nk what aw-1 In some way the landlady's mind had
M ch. meters I’ve been harboring and | become suddenly enlightened, and she
abetting! It s just a miracle that I’m * J u : !, ‘
alive to tell of itr 1
“Well,” sho hoard next, “flow about
thc wil‘ and jewels?”
“They'ic sccu ed. I'll make a division
to-n. arrow.”
“Not forgetting me, I hope!” laughed
Brown.* “And does that wind up the
plot;” - - .
’’Not quite. I have one more scheme
to dc .’clop.” * n j -
‘ Why what an insatiable fellow you
are: Is it another murder?”
. “>'o; I want to secure an tnsy, unsus
picious body of middle age to act ns rfu-
ennti for the heireas. One with a small
bank-m-coiiat that l can .withdraw after
1 have hu- sa'c, and then hi\e it given
out that she has moved into thc country.
That diverts suspicion again, you see.”
“ vs. very clever! you are coming on,
Yoon?! How will you manage .that
point?”
“•• h. I'll come in a carriage with an
in itation for her to spend ui2 evening
with sonic friend; then if she becomes
su pici .us and makes any trouble, 1*11
fix her with a little \listillol sleep.’ i*m
bound to have her, nolens volens.”
“i’ irst-rate! only dott't make the dose
toi bigl” said Brown, with a blood
curdling !augh.,V p
“I’ 1 look out for that; and—I tell you
what, Frown—^ ' r-;- v
“Well, wbntt^doh’t keep a fellow in
sus; case. ”
“I've hit upon the middle aged pereoi
—your worthy landlady! ”
Mrs. 1 enson’s he rt stood still:
did the wretch find out that she had a
little money? Breathlessly she listened
for the next words. - --
“Ha! lia! ha!” rcarel the lodger.
“You’ll bhssom out into a first-ebiss
body snatcher, Moore! Heally, yen’re a
credit to the profession! \yhaV.would
the poor woman think If shs should
cha- ce to overhear us? ” .. ae v .
“I believe sho considers me a -suspi
cious sort of ch*mctcr as it is, by the
sidelong looks she casts at me every time
I call lately,” said Moore. “But I re
gard that idea as a gena'ne stroke of in
spiration, Erown. I’ll stop in and have
i look at my victim before I go, and also
- ... bo devoted by tile husband
_4ch one of his wives, in case ho 1ms
more than one. This rule of law has its , — , v . , .*
initiative in the organic law that each peared m the market is a beryl, dug
man has a right to four wives, and that from an American mine. It is of various
a man has tte ab oluto disposal of all colors, straw, aqua-marine, ruby, and
thc hours of the day for himself. Tiic others, and in brill ancy surpasses all
came forward with a beaming smile.
“Oh 1 is that it?” she exclaimed, cc
dially. “Are you a story-paper man?”
“I have thc honor to be associated with
thc T/tUnde er, madamreplied M«
with a low bow. “And one pa: t of my
errand here to-day. was to ask you if yi
could accommodate me with lodgings,
will pay whatever Mr. Brown does.”
“Ch certainly, certainly!” cried thc
dcl’ghted widow. “So* long as you
ain’t •”
Quite such a vil’ain as I appeared to
be, ch:” laughed Moore. “And yon shall
have complimentary copies of all*my pro
ductions.”
Well, since there ain’t nobody to
:>t. Til bid youjgood afternoon,” re
marked thc policeman, in lofty defiance
of Murray’s Grammar; and he bowed
himself out, while Mrs. Benson, leading
the way herself to the sitting-room, in
vited the gent’emen to “rest a bit.”
while completing the arrangements in
regard to her prospective lodger.
Mr. Moore took possession of his roon.
the next day. Mrs. Benson’s bank-book
Remained undisturbed, and her “savings”
gained monthly. Messrs. Moore and
Brown are two *of the brighest stars on
the staff of the Thunderer, and Mrs.
Henson has never been tempted to re
pent the dangerous experiment of c ives-
droppinr, but stoutly maintains that she
always did and always will consider her
two lodgers as “the two very nicest,
de crest gentlemen in the whole city.”
-Tid-Btt.
ue or gray, and
„ ^•'kness in color
fiftv-two had a pecui
vision in general. , . „
An area of about four anj ° n e-half
square miles forms the nucleus tnc
whole oil-bearing region of the Call '
eases. The naphtha-bearing beds con
sist of sand, calcareous clays, marls, and
in places compact sandstone, often of
great thickness and penetrated by bands
of pyrites. As in Pennsylvania, the
naphtha is in some places associated
with salt water, which gives much
trouble in driving bare : holes. The pla
teau is on a level of about 140 feet above
the surface of the Caspian, and a depth
of *00 feet below the great lake Las been
reached by the borers.
London Nature says: * ‘The following
facts exemplify the strong migratory in
stinct of trout. At the fish-culture es
tablishment at Delaford, where the ut
most care is t iken to isolate thc various
specie3 of Salmonidae, a few of the fi>h
occasionally are found in ponds long dis
tances from tho.e in which they xvert
riginally located. Considering that
ten pond is so constructed &9 to prevent
ich a contingency, the o'currcn c is
cry remarkable, and c an only be ac
counted for in twp wav*, vij , that the
fish cither burrow through holes that prob
ably are made by rats nnd moles, or they
jump out of the water and so proceed to
the next pond. It is not likely tbnt they
are borne thenco by birds, as the appear
ance of the fish on the occasions referred
to does not justify such an assumption.
It will be interesting to inquire further
into the subject with a view of eliciting
the real facts of th .* case.
The average pitch of large rii ers, ex
cluding regions of cascades, seldom ex-
ce.ds twelve inches to a mile, and is
sometimesbut one third of that amount.
According to Humphreys and Abbot,
thc pitch of thc Mississippi from Mem
phis down (355 mil.s) is only 4.82 inches
at low xvatcr; from Cairo, at the mouth
of the Ohio (1038 miles), (5.04 inches;
and above the Missouri, from its source,
only 11.75 inches. The Missouri, from
its highest source (2908 miles), descends
about 0,800 feet, or23 inches'* mile; but
from FoTt Bent in to St. Joseph (2,108
miles), about 11.50 inches; and below
St. Joseph to thc mouth (484 miles.*,
9.2» inches. Dana gives thc average,
pitch of the Amaron as a little mo:e than
0 inches n mile; of the Lower Nile, less
than 7; of the Lower Ganges, about 4.
The Rhone is remarkable for its greet
pitch, it being 80 inches per mile from
Geneva to Lyons, and 32 inches below
Lyons.
The Dendlj Cobra.
Once I witnessed a wonderful escape
from the almost invariably fatal effects
of a cobra bite. Writes an English army
officer in Chambtn't Journal. I was
marching with some native troops in the
cold weather, and halted for the night
at a place called Maiker, where, instead
of having our tents pitched, my wife nnd
1 preferred occupying a small bungalow
belonging to the Department of Fublic
Works, which was situated opposite the
encamping ground. Sitting outside the
bungalow after dinner, I had occasion to
call my head servant to give him some
orders for the next morning. As he
ran up, I saw him kick something off his
left foot, and at the same time he called
out; “Samp, sahib, samp!” (“A
snake, sir, a snake.”) There was a
bright xvood fire burning close b_v, and I
saw by its light the snake with its hood
up. It was immediately killed by some
of thc camp followers, and was biought
to me, and proved to be n small cobra.
On examining my servant’s foot, I found
cnc tiny puncture on the ankle, on
which was n single drop of blood. The
man was at once taken to the hos
pital tent, and attended to by the hos
pital assistant in medical charge of the
troops, who applied ammonia and did
all that was it his power. I was very
anxious about the man; but ho woke me
at the honr for marching next
morning as if nothing had
happened, and for some time
apparently experienced no inconvenience.
S me weeks later, however, after we had
reached our destination, his left leg
swelled very much, and he suffered great
paiu for a considerable time; but he
eventually recovered. The snake was
seen by eight or ten beside myscif,, and
was beyond a doubt a cobra: and the
only possible explanation of the man’s
escape seems to lie that the reptile must
have bitten something elie very shortly
before,and so to a great extent exhausted
the deadly poison in its fangs.
One of our children had a narrow es
cape, though of a different kind, when
quite n baby. My wife picked him up
day from the floor, where he was
law allows no right to the wife to claim
the attention of ncr husband during the
day time. It creates an obligation upon
thchu>bandto div’.dc ths rest of his
time equally bitween bis wives, or at
least he is not bound to make h s court,
or to be with one wife, more than once
in iour days, and this whether he has
one wife or more.—Min'ter Cox.
How Mrs. Pullman Travels.
Roya’.ty does not travel in half the
sn’endor that accompanies Mrs. Pullman,
ttm of thg palace car inventor, when
rue *•—. - nlace to an-
she elects to move.. ’ •
o’her. it takes a good many cars tap*
to carry all her impedimenta—four chi!'
died, twelve servants, five horses and
three vehicles—not to speak of trunks
and various sorts of baggage. There is
a stable car with six stalls and room for
the carriages, besides berths, locks and
sitting rooms for the grooms and host
lers. This moving stable is as elegant
the mo3t extravagant of stationary
Moonlight Nights Bad for Locamolive
Engineers.
Moonlight nights—they are the ban
of railroad • ngioeers,” said a head official
of the Baltimore A: Ohio Railroad. “All
engineers dread moonlight nights. They
try their nerves to the utmost. Engineers
like to run on dark nights. On a mom
light night the trouble with them is no
trouble at all—shadows. An engineer,
’ooking out from his engine, see3 before
him all mraners of shadows. He is sure
that the dark shadow across the track he
sees is a roan or arock, or some kind of
an obstruction. Going around curves,
along hill sides, many carious shadows
are outline 1 on the track, and very often
up over a night’i
able to
enjoying himself in baby fashion,
ind hardly done so, when n cobra
fell from the roof on the very spot on
which the little one had been disposing
himself the moment before.
On one occasion a curious native su
perstition with regard to the subject of
these notes came to my notice, A cobra
which had been killed in a hut of one of
the men was bronght up to be shown to
me, when a havildar (native Sergeant)
called my attention to the fact that the
end of his tail was bluut. saying in Hin
dustani: “Look, sahib; this is a down
right vil’ain; he has bitten some man,
and so lost the tip of his taiL” On my
making further inquiries I was con
fidently assured that whenever a cobra
bites a man, the tip of his tail invariably
becomes blunted ‘
ones built for racing favorites, and
model of convenience and square com
fort. There, are compartments for feed
and hay and everything necessary for
thc comfort of these pampered animals
and their attendants.
Thc car in which the family travel is
as luxurious as their own home in Chi
cago. Turkish divans surround thc
drawing room, which is in the center of
the car, while easy chairs and little
tables are scattered about. There is
a magnificent cabinet organ at one
end and a low bookcase at the other;
papers acd maga: ines are scattered about,
big bowls of roses stand on brackets,
and. except that’ they are moving, they
would never realise they were out of the’.r
own parlors.
The dining car has little cabinets with
glass doors, through which are seen sil
ver, crystal and costly china, and the
kitchen attached is no less perfectly ap
pointed. They sit in arm chairs at a table
set in the middle of the car and glance
out through plate glass windows, shaded
with silk and lace, at the moving pano
rama of landscape.
The sleeping c r is not less perfect it
all its devict s lor comfort and conven
ience, and the dressing rooms are hardly
equaled in any modern house for all that
can make the toilet a pleasure. When
Mrs. Pullman ^akes her walks abroad to
eastern watering jplaces, sho simply steps
from a house set vu a cellar to one se'
rail", and tne onfy change is that
stays in Chicagufemd the other goes to
Saratoga.— '?eie aork World.
Knew Her Darn.
a mu«.t tell you someth'ng that *\ap-
pened once in a country town where dis
noncsty in the educated classes is not sc
safe as it is in cities. A girl I knew was
one day ransacking an old dower-chest,
and found, among other things long laid
by, an old-fashioned white lace veil. It
w*as about a yard and a quarter in length
and was quite a yard wide. The design
was heavy and rich along the <dge, and
the rest wnV~“sprigged” xvith small
orange buds. It had been tho wedding
veil of some ancestress. The lace was
beautifully fine old Brussels, and, of
course, was valuable. The girl was so
delighted to find it. rolled up among a
lot of old linen, that shs impetuou ly
dragged it out of the chest, and,
doiug so, caught one corner of it on
wretehed nail that lurked unseen ind
thc big box. However, she d-irned it
skillfully that it hardly showed, and she
used to wear this veil as a fichu, and
lovely it locked.
One very hot day, at a garJea party,
she left it in the bedroom of her hostess
and, coming up to get it in the evening,
could not find it anywhere. It had dis
appeared, and, though she was very > orry
just at first, she soon forgot all about it,
as girls xvi.l. Sho married and went to
India with her husband. Her mother
left the village. But last year, when my
oli. friend was home xvith her hus
band o.i furlough, they met some old
acquaintances who hid a place near their
former home, and,being asked to go and
stay with them, they accepted. On the
very evening of their arrival there was
an amateur concert got up by thc mu
sical people about, and, of course, every
one xvcnt,Jcanic and her husband among
the rest. They sat immediately behind
a girl whom Jcanie had known formerly,
and whom she recognised with pleasuie,
only waiting for a pause in the perform
ance to attract her attention. This,
however, she did very effectually before
any pause came. In a very piano part of
the solo that was being sung, a loud
whisper rang quite audibly through the
rcom. This was Jennie, who had found
her long-lost lace veil, recognized her
own dainty little stitc hes, ana uttered
aloud: “My darn!” The girl before
her turned roun 1, as did every one, and
when she saw Jeanie she grew white as
the la c itself. You see she had thought
herself quite safe in wear.ng it after a 1
that long time -thinking ..eanie was in
India. What mnst she have felt when
she turned, round and saw her sitting
beside her? The veil was restored next
day, and some plausible explanation
given, which Jcanie feigned to believe
satisfactory. A woman msy forgot her
own child—women often do; bat what
woman could forgot her own darn.—
London Truth.
stones except a fine diam nd.
Solid bracelets arc not worn. The
styles are now for flexible circlets which
fit tho contour of the arm. The most
fashionable are in Oriental style and
thickly set with jewels.
Wedding rings- are rounded and of
mcd'utn width. The flat rings hav$
fallen into disfavor.
Necklace' ar*» hot worn to any extent,
probably because they are too expensive,
** atricffs of jewel* are tho omj
things. ** Pearl ne. klace9 ure for mourn
ing.
A novel design in engagement rings is
to divide the ring and bend the ent ends
hold them so by a small gold
, - . **■**•! is then set on each end,
-d thesis
close together, but still not u- 1
are thus quite typical of engagements.
Ladies' watches are made with open
faces, and it is quite impossible to have
them too fine. They n-e Vorn w th a
small chain with ball attached.—New
York Sun.
Fashion Notes..
Orange and gray are a frequent com
as much in
bination.
Tailor-made dresses
demand as ever.
Navy blue and brown will bo the col
ors most generally worn next season.
Velvet bodices will be worn this au
tumn with skirts of different material.
An immense sash of black velvet is an
effective finish to a gown of white mull.
i’dered more stylish ia’Francc
for a brida to wear a long plain tulle veil
than a lace one.
L'nen d ck is used for tailor-made
dresses and is made up in the same t
woolen material.
Jet continues in high favor and is
in great variety. Jet galloon is used for
trimm’ng skirts nnd bodices.
Dresses of woolen material are nov
made so light that they arc not a burden,
en in the warmest weather.
Canary-colored pique vests are ve~;
popular, ar.d are worn alike with dressy
promenade or house costumes.
Ribbon is used in profusion on toilets
the form of bows of every description
ladder.*, bridles, sashes and ends.
Morning dres :cs of seersucker arc much
worn at thc summer resorts, those with
crinkled stripes being much affected,
The stylish traveling dresses this i
either pin head checks or hair
Ab Epitaph.
1 he following epitaph is on a tomb
stone in the ancient churchyard of Glas-
tonbary. Conn.:
“Here lies one whos
lifes thread’s cat
Asunder, she was
struck deal by a dap
of Thunder.”
In June, 1719, the victim was standing
in the wide, old-fashioned fireplace at
home during * severe thunder storm,
when the emmney was struck by light
ning and a brick was thrown upon her
head, by which she was killed on the
spot. The brick was laid and kept npon
her grave, and what is remarkable, it
lins there 165 years after.
Fashions in Jewelry.
Fashions in jewelry change from year
to year, and arc generally imported lrom
Europe. Jewelers copy foreign models,
but the new designs rare y become .pop
ular here until well introduced by Amer
icans le.urning from abroad. Just now
all thc rage in Europe are largj ball
rings of dull gold, sometimes wil
jewel sunk in them. Tne fashion ha*
reached such an extent there that balls
are worn an inch and a half in diameter
—sometimes like tenni - balls. Very few
- of them are seen here except on passen
gers cn incoming steamers. T hey will
soon be rivals of diamonds in favor.
This fashion strikes the keynote of
fashions for women. Everything in
tended for their use is of a like ample
character. Their watches are covered
xvith engraving and set with jewels;
there i* much" barbaric splender_about
their bracelets and pendants, while for
the men the contrary is just the case.
"Watch chains are very short and of small
links. Platinum is often alternated with
gold. The favorite ring is of gold and
platinum wire interlaced in a knot. Ecarf
pins are small cubes of gold with a small
diamond boxed in, or a claw holding a
pearl or some unpretentious stone. An
other simple design s an enamel with
polka dot pattern, so that it can hardly
be distinguished from the necktie. There
lines of white on blue or dark drown.
Black velvet ribbon is worn tied
tightly around the outside of the collar
and ending in a bow immediately be
hind.
Tho moonstone is fast gaining favor ns
i ornament. It is used in silver filagree
breast pins and earrings with much
effect.
Garden hats, xvhich may also be worn
during rambles in thc count; y, a- e m istly
trimmed with bright woolens, mull and
pompons.
Striped linen is the rage at present,
not only for gentlemen, but for girls and
ladies also, ‘llic contra*t of cardinal
stripes with a white dress is particularly
stylish.
Some pretty b.is .ucs of all-over goods
have been m ule for seaside wear, and
are used xvith skirt* of silk, cashmere or
other goods of like texture, or those of
mull or organdie.
A blouse waist, closed invisibly at the
back,has tight lining with a ribbon belt.
Lace sleeves. At the neck is a r.arrow,
long-pointed yoke,covered with la .e*likc
that of the sleeves.
Dog collars of beads have a deep point
in front composed of a network of beads
edged with pendants of cut glasi. Other
necklets are composed of disks of ham
mered gold linked with garnets.
The colored mulls so fashionable this
season make it possible for a lady to have
a bonnet to match every costume, by
changing the triming of, nerhaps, her
only one, to correspond xvith the dres;.
Some of thc latest Parisian evening
dressses have kilt-plaited skirts adorned
with ribbon, terminating in loops nnd
ends at a short distance from the edge,
bodices shirred horizontally and short
draperies.
Rather broad-brimmed sailor hats are
again fashionable for young ladies.These
hats are trimmed generally with crape or
tulle to match the color of thc dress with
which they are worn. They arc decidedly
nobby and becoming.
Millinery received from Paris shows
no reduction in the height of crowns,
but many striking novelties in the way
of pretty striped, speckled and wide-
stranded straw, which is smoothly fin
ished on the surface, and often, trans
parent.
A blouse bodice going down under the
skirtb&nd s taken from a white cashmere
cjstume, richly trimmed with guipure
lace of a very marked design, with a
pointed lace yoke at the neck, and an
swering sleeves, which may be lined with
bright silk or left plain.
Effective' overdresses of white sicil-
ienne or surah, for youthful figures “di
vinely tall,” are made long and full and
slightly draped on the left side. Over
the right shoulder a wide scarf is
draped, and the back drapery is covered
by sash loops and ends of the material of
Only thirty men end a lieutenant were
xTohted, and the boys were all wanting
the chance. We felt then as if we could
swallow a common-sized regiment with-
out batting an eye.
_ We saddled our horses, loaded our car
bines and revolvers, buckled on our
sabersj and mounted, and away we went
over the mountains, down the valleys,
Nwith all eyes watching, but no enemy.
On we went till wc came to a field
where there were fifteen head of fine fat
Cattle. We concluded we would borrow
them for a few days. We turned them
out into the road, and were about to
start, when an ojd darkey rode up and
said to us: “Massas. you ns betta look
oow »* r pUin - Sheets will be uy arter
young,'*
“WW;« Captain ' h « ts *” m <l“' t ' d
the lieutenant.”
“He’s down dar to de mill.”
“Now, Sambo, jou’re lying.”
“No, I isn’t, Massa.”
“Ye9, you are.”
“No, fo’ God I isn’t.” . v
“How n»u,T men he?” 4 A
“A ? hole company, ^ a5sa - ’’T™
“Well, boys,” said ih(? ^putenant.
“we had better git out of this. }?
“No, we wifi go down and see.”
* No, there are too many of them.”
“We’re going down to see Captain
Sheets.”
So we forme! in platoons of fours an l
sent out our advance guard, and down
we went to the mill. As wc turned
around the hill in full view, there they
were. So wc opened on them anil
charged, and as wc went charging
through the village the women became
terribly excited. We were the first Yanks
they had seen. They began to scream
and halloo at a terrible rate. I remem
ber one woman close by the road, who
jumped up and down, and cried,O! Lord,
save my poor husband, and my son John,
too!”
But Captain Sheets and his men did
not wait for thc Lord to save them. They
just let their horses do it by carrying
them off.
Wc concluded to return to camp with
out borrowing the cattle, for fear the
Johnnies might take some turn on us and
borrow some of us.
We reached camp all right, and what
wonderful feats xve had performed! We
had put the whole army to flight, and
captured a Confederate horse buyer, and
I need not tell you that there was plenty
of Confederate States money in camp for
a few days.
On the Safe Side.
“Ain’t you one of the Smiths?” asked
a man of an acquaintance who for half
an hour had been hoisting in four drinks
sour-mash to the hour, and was
solemnly, stationary drunk.
“Smith! Well, I should (hie) say so.
B’long to the mos’ important branch of
the family.”
That so? Why ain’t you at the reunion,
then? There’s a great meeting of all the
Smiths at New York to-day.”
“Course, I know it” (hie).
‘Why ain’t you there?”
Mr. Smith regarded his questioner
gravely.
“Take me for n fool (hie), I guess.”
“Oh! no, not at all.”
“Then what for making siggy sulles-
tions, mean, silly suggestions? Why,
(hie), if I should get down there
On the Safe Side.
“Ain’t you one of the Smiths?” asked
a man of an acquaintance who for half
an hoar had been hoisting in four drinks
of sour-mash to thc hour, and was
solemnly, stationary drunk.
“8mith! Well, I should (hie) say so.
Bffong to the mos’ important branch of
the family.”
That so? Why ain't you at the reunion,.
then! There’s a great meeting of all the
Smiths at New York to-day.”
“Course. I know it” (hie).
“Why ain’t you there?” *
Mr. South regarded his questioner
gravely.
“Take me for a fool (hie), I guess.”
“Oh! no, not at ill.”
“Then what for making siggy sulles-
tions, mean, silly suggestions? Why,
man (hie), if I should get down there
among the Smiths (hie), I coulden't re
list temptation to celebrate, and I’d get
drunker a boiled owl!” 1
It was ’one of thc genus tramp. Ho,
knocekdat the door of a house, ana when:
a kindly looking woman opened it he
said: “Madam, I am very hungry. I
have had nothing for a week back."*
“Why, you poor soul,” said the good-
<<—•«,t a moment, and i’ll find,*
I trumani ’ —” And she gave him
] something for you. * ~ioscd the!
; an old porous plaster, anu v. " J
j hw f h®* 0 ” h ° had tinished thanking
j The lady who wears point lace is not
j expected to know how to cleanse if.
The small boy who plays circus with the
*trIck-Roat”in his back yard should see that
the St. Jacobs Oil bottle U not empty.
There appears to be an epidemic of loncev-
y this year, so to speak. Andrew Lucas, a
colored man of Brantford. Ontario, is entitled
the premium ribbon—or would be had he
diedaf. * ... .. .
few days ago at the alleged a
e hundred and thirty-eight.
“Michael StregeflP.”
Mr. O.C. Staley, while playing the leading
part in “Michael Strogoff,” at Oakland, Cal.,
“Doctor,” said a patient, “ I suffer a great
deal with my eyes. 1 ’ The old gentleman
adjusted his spectacles, and, with a Socratic
Air replied, “I don’t donut it, my friend; but
then you would suffer a great deal more
without them.”
. . boltlo of Bigelow’s
Positive Curo will promptly and safely cure
them. Dollar size cbeai*est for family use or
chronic coses.
tf afflicted with sore eyes use Dr. Isaac Thomn-
Gentlemen or ladies
present season, will And it greall;
•fussing any part
tho accuuv
„ Richmond,
tive aid fast
lio contemplate can-
' ,cir time dnring the
j their in-
son & Co.. aMUehi
lowest prices.
oiling books at t
Mensm an'8 Peptonized hkcv tonic, the only
preparation of beef containing its entire nutri
tious properties. It contains blood-making
forcejrencrating nnd life-sustaining properties;
invaluable for indigestion, dyspepsia, nervoua
prostration, and all forms of general debility;
also, in all enfeebled conditions, whether the
result of exhaustion, nervous prostration, over
work or acute disease, particularly if resulting
from pulmonary complaints. Caawell,Hazard&
Co., Proprietors, New York. Sold by druggists.
among the Smiths (hie), I coulden’t
sist temptation to celebrate, and I’d get
drunker ’n a boiled owl!”
lie was very Tired.
“Poor man, and you’re very hungry.”
“I’ve had nothing to eat but garlic
root since last week.”
“And x f ery tired.”
“Ti ed ma’am! I’m afraid to rest for
fear of getting paralyzed. I don't care
for that, though, it’s these city sidewalks
that weary me. I’ve got a starving family
at the other end of town. If you’ll give
me some money to ride ma’am, I can lie
down and die xvith them.”
“How much do you want ?”
“Only txventy-flvc cents, ma’am.”
Voice of husband, from inside, who
has been reading “The Pirate’s Doom:”
“Mary!”
“Yes, John.”
“Give him no quarter, but let him
walk the plank.”
Five dollars x...
boots and shoes by using I
, cost only 25c.
s Heel Stlffen-
maybe Implicitly relied on w
folia. Take It In tha spring ilm
Impure accretions of the blood 1
ton or the year; and take it at i
Scrofula, 1 iver "
thousand Ills that c
Insure a cheerful dlspoaltlni
medicine, which wUI reinov
restore the mind t*
» Uvea Sr our.
iddent to thot seo-
: the prime couse, ond
iturol equilibrium.
Best, easiest to use and cheapest. Piso’a
Remedy for Catarrh. By druggists. 30 cento.
A QUESTION ABOUT
Browns Iron
Bitters
ANSWERED.
Tho question has probably been caked thousands
jt tim—.-Ilowcon Brown’s Iron Bittera core owj.
thin* T ” Well, it doesn't. But it does cure ipTJInsn
for which a reputable physician would prescribe ISOS
Physicians recognize Iron as tbs best restoratirs
1 hsjofry ©
the bodice and skirt. 1 hese overdresses
e worn with siik of contrasting color.
A very pretty dress, made of «ny of
the summer wash fabrics, bos a draped
skirt. At the side is an open ng and
underneath appears a row of plaited
flounces ed,ed with embroidery. Bread
embroidery is upon the waist and sleeves
and down the side* of the opening of
the skirt. Blouse waist and bows af gib
bon. Hat or variegated straw to mat h
the dress. It is trimmed with tars o!
wheat. -
The Best Race.
You may talk of the pleasure of yachting,
And of sailing before a stiff breeie,
But corn he hod rather be basking,
With the one that he wins may compare!
In grace lovely woman's no rival,
As she skims from the oncoming kiss,
And the lai that's her venturesome captor
Has reached the fair haven of bliss.
—Boston Budget
“Mamma,” said a small boy to his
mother, “do you believe everything papa
says?” “Of course, my child,” replied
thc mother, with wife pride. “Every
thing, mama?” “Yes, dear, everything.”
“Well, I don’t.” “Hush, you wicked
boy l You mustn't talk so. W r at did
your papa ever say that you couldn’t R?-
lieve?” “You know that widow in the
next square who always looks so sour at
us boys?” “You mean that pretty Mrs.
Bonton?” “She’s the one. I heard papa
tell her, yesterday, that she was tne
sweetest woman in town, and then he
gave her a bunch of flowers; and it made
me so ashamed to hear him tell such a
story that I ran away and wouldn’t let
him know that I had caught him in it.”
“That will do, my child,” said the
mother, xvith a peculiar look on her gen
tle face. “Run out and play, and I will
tell your father when he comes in that he
must be particular not to destroy his
son’s confidence in his veracity.”
ooo,Wcakae—,
Malaria, Chllla and Fevers,
Tired Feeliag,General Debility,Pale lathe
Side, Back or Ua^a.Headache and Neural
gia—for all th«M ailments Iron ia prescribed daU/.
BROWN’S IRON BtTTEBS.SrSSlr.
minnta. Lika all ©User thorough medicines, ft acta
alow It. Whan tiken by tE» first wmptorn of
benefit is renewed energy. The muscle# then beowna
firmer, the digestion hnpmrea, the bowelsactir*.
Genuine has Trade Mark and crossed rad Uses
on wrapper. TAKE NO OTHER-
Susan says a dynamite bomb is nothing
compared to a green apple. The one is
an nWantaneous “curlup;” the other
lasts all night long.
Over Many a l.eagae
Spreads the miasma, or poisonous vapor, that
begets malarial an*l lyphus fever. Wherever
there :» stagnant water in which vegetation, or
lefnse i f any kind decays, tbi re, os *urely os
the tun rices, are generated the seeds of fever
and sgne, dumb sgn r , and other endemic
mahdiis of the malarial type. For the effects
of ih'» tnv«mined air.Hoatetter’sStomach Bit
ters furnisher an »ntidotc, and prevents both
the contraction and reoc arence of such mal
adies Ever a*ong the line of excavation for
the Lc*»«ps Panama Canal, where malarial
rV*-r.s ■« a-e not o >ly virulent but deadly,
li, n e ter’s Stomach Bitters has demonstrated
its incomparable pro'cclive qualities. Not
cn’v for febrile complaints, lut also for dis-
oid'.-rs of the stomach, liver and bowels, for
rheumatism and inactivity of tro kidneys and
bladd> r, it is verv effective. It counteracts
the effects of f itigne, damp and exposure.
It costs thc men who support thc sa
loon as much or more money than those
who support the church, and yet theit
outlay does not make them first citizens.
Susan says it takes more than the
average human love to swe ten the vast
>ea of matrimony, *nd yet all the girls
th.nk they can do it.
For preventing dandruff and falling of th*
hair. Hall’s Ha<r Re iewor ia unoj.ua.0 t
Evsry .amity should bo provided wtta Ay- ra
Cherry Pectoral. Cures Colds and Coagha.
ELY'S c,
CREAM BALM
A Godsend ie
Ely's Cream Balm
I had catarrh for 3 m u ^. tnlTD r
years. My nosetcouid fWr Wl.
Need. I thought the^
sores uould never
heal Ely's Cream
Balm has cured me.
-Mrs. U. A. Jack-
tony PortsntOtUh,
N. H.
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/ catalogue and price list. J- P. /
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