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The Latest Modes. fmphe emue is the newest shade ink. a ig silk gloves of pale sage green ry fashionable. low linen lace trims many of the Spring bonnets. The patterns are (hick, raised figures, resembling ire laee in design. I wly imported silk hose, showing some shades of dark wine color or are embroidered over the instep jale yellow butterflies, new Alpine hat called the Mon- irde, with high peaked crown load brim shading the eyes, is to ' very popular chapeau at the sea- this summer. Sumatra straw is a new braid which L the appearance of heavy canvas, id is of a soft shade of beige or buff. iis new fiber is quite as popular as tanilla or Belgian straw. [AH dressy bodices for young ladies laced at tbe back ; they open in a hare or heart-shape in front, and are dually bordered with lace, embroi- r, or beaded applique bands. >ur different materials, harmoniz- |in color and effect, are sometimes upon new French wraps. Two Urials at least are used, and few ide garments are exhibited which hade wholly of one fabric. 1 lish traveling costumes are ex- \d, made of Vigogne of a dark Ad color, a neutral shade of beige, silver gray, with waistcoat, cuffs, and bias band for the lade of plush of a contrasting |dner silks of light texture are fshown with groundworks of claret, moss-green, marine-blue, Fgolden-brown, with haudsomely- Juted designs of birds and flowers I ted in natural eolors upon their race. taw silk in Roman plaided designs, png artistic combination of color inch used for children’s and misses’ spring costumes. Some mdsomest of these are made conjunction with dark myrtle- Fn velvet. re gypsie bonnets of Tuscan 1 domed with placques of cream- Spanish lace, nodding ostrich- iale willow-green, and bunches ik oleander blossoms are novel |pretty. The brim inside is faced pale pink surah veiled with iiih lace. ivorite artistic combinations of are pale green and silver, tur- » e-blue and violet, copper-red and yke-brown, fawn-color with gold, jreen with heliotrope and silver, with coral-pink, sapphire-blue amber, amber willow green, and srcup-yellow with black or Vene- [-red. fsiping Reports of Fashion- jle ijpibles for the Fair. k^his season, there seems to EyTe of dress which seems to be [ding one, so that one may wear ccords with her particular style [jy. This is bsst seen by study- je representative toilets which [fresh from Paris, or from the our American modistes. To ’lashion, then, seems to be an [matter. One moment we notice fcuine severely plain, with narrow id long, straight sr sh or pelisse, ->ve it with but little “raping, ie next attention is attracted 5ilet resplendent in sliirrings, lngs, and plaitings, with wide liers and full scarf draperies so iminous as to defy all artistic, indary lines. The little cap bonnet ruite as much the vogue as the large rnsborough hat, A short visite, jian,coat, cape or barque, is as fasli- "" as the long clinging mantle. Fcrinoline or no crinoline as you Be. You can wear your hair high mfled, waved, braided, banged Montague, cut short, or combed 5wn fiat over the temples a la Mrs. iyes, and be still in fashion. Every- [ng seasonable that one is likely to re in her possession can, just at ksent, be worn without the fear of eclal notice, exbfcpt perhaps a one- itton gl^s^mjue is a larger choice hats Home the covered like the beaded lace over the face- They are Fben’t into three cornered form, [arlborough is a large flat shape, ^lightly on one sidejof the head, singularly becoming; it is made and Tuscan straw, and is |id with loiuMjutded feather Lf thejmU^^^Htraw is us has a square crown. The new straw bonnets are light in weight, the braids are narrow, fine, and shine like satin. Besides cream, white and ecru, they are dyed green, garnet, black and blue, and in many instances the straw will match the costume in color. The newest veils are real lace, with bor ders a 1 in one piece, and others have straight borders and spots. A pretty style of bonnet has a row of flowers in front, and another forming a curtain, over which falls jetted lace. Both rows are placed underneath the straw. Large steel, jet, and iridescent beads are now dotted over the flat crowned bonnets, which have a cluster of feath ers and an aigrette on the left side. Moire ribbon is used mostly for bon nets. Tneie is a piretty new watered ribbon, which has single rosebuds scattered all over, or else a narrow bordering of them on both sides. For young girls of fourteen or fifteen, pleated skirts, either in kilting or box plaiting,[are used for general occasions, and flounces and bouillonea for party dresses. A costume of silver grey woolen material has the skirt covered with two wide yleatings, the long polonaise being open front and turned back with grenat moire revers to a little below the waist. The polonaise is double breasted, with two rows of silver buttons, a narrow scarf of grey su v ah being loosely draped on the hips and fixed in front with a moire bow. The upper part of tbe corsage is cut out square and filled with a plai ted chemisette of suran ; facings and collar of grenat moire completed the costume. For little girls under thir teen the polonaise and redingote are found to suit better than anything else. The back drapery is often sus tained by a small tournure made of whalebone to draw the dress behind, and to make the front hang well, it is not very comfortable for children, and if used at all should be small. Kilt skirts are still popular because they show most materials to the best advantage; there are so many striped goods which would be inadmissible were it not for the toning down of tints by the use of kilt plaitings, which conceal the brilliancy of the coloring, and add to the pictures queness of the whole by showing brilliant dashes of color, without making the costume at all conspi cuous. “Jumbo Souvenior,” is the name of a new bracelet brought out for young people. It is of the snake pattern, coiling two or three times round the arm, and is made of the hair of ele phants’ tails, braided in a light open tress, finished off at one end w 7 ith a snake’s head in silver, with emerald or ruby eyes, and at the other with silver tail. From the tail is suspended a miniature silver elephant, and it is this ornament which gives the name to this bracelet. Scraps of Humor. It takes several scruples to make a dram, and yet there are men win can toke a dram with out a scruple. Douglas Jerrold said savagely: “Truth is like gold, people manage to make a little of it go a long way.’’ “Jane,” he said, “I think if you lifted your feet from the lire we might have some heat in the room.” And they bad not been married long. Washington scene: Deep-voiced guzzler—“Hi, waiter! bring me t'«ree more schooners!” Awestruck sp?cta- tors, whispering— “ That must be the new secretary of the navy.” A little girl, who had been to a chil dren’s party, being asked by her mother on returning how she enjoyed herself, answered, “I am full of happi ness. I couldn’t be happier unless I were to grow.” “Grandpa, the sun is brighter in summer than in winter, is it not ?” “Yes, and it's warmer and enjoys bet ter health.” “Why does it enjoy bet ter health?” “Because it gets up earlier.” Bo sad: A pretty girl in Sweden turned up her nose at her poor but de serving lover and it froze in that posi tion. Now she doesn’t know whether to retire frmn the world or hire out to stand in swiebody’s hall as a hatrack. A traveler who had just read on the The Wail of a Banner-bearer. Well, what if I am only a banner- bearer? You let me get a “speaking part,” as soots me, that’s all. Oh—it “would be all,” eh ? Why—but, there! you’re a baby in the purfession ! you are ! When you’ve been a Capting of the Guard,, and Third Noble, and a Bandit Keerousin, and First Hancient Bard, and fourth in the Council of Ten what listens toOthfeller,and intheMob in the Capital, and a Harcher of Msrry England, and a Peer of France, what doesn’t speak, but has to look as if he could say a lot; when you’ve been all this, you may talk ! Why, I should like to know where they’d be without us—all them old sproutin’ tragedy merchants. They’d have no armies, consequently they eouldn’t rave at ’em, and lead ’em on to victory and things. They wouldn’t ’ave no sen nits, so they’d ’ave to cut ©ut their potent, grave and reverent senoirs—an’ that ’ud worry ’em. They wouldn’t ’ave no hexcited citizens, and so they couldn’t bury old Ceser nor praise him neither. They couldn’t strew no fields with no dead soldiers. They’d 'ave nobody to chivy ’em when they come to the throne, or return’d from the wars. They couldn’t ’ave no perces- sions; as for balls, and parties, and tornemongs, why, they couldn’t give ’em. And where ’ud they often be without the “distant ollerings” behind ilie scenes, alius a-comin’ nerer and louder. Why, I remember a ’eavy lead one night, as had insulted his army fearful, at rebersal; he stops sud den, and thumps his brestplate, and says, “ ’Ark, that toomuit,” when there warntno more toomuit than two flies’ud make in a milk-jug. We jest cut off his toomuit, and quered his picth in a minnit, for the laugh come In ’ot. Wer’re just as much wanted as they are, make no error. What do you say ? They could do without mein the modden drarmer? The modden drarmer, my boy, ain’t actin’ ! It’s nothing but “eufl-shoot- in’.” You just has to stand against a mankel-shelf, with your hands in Poole’s pockets, and say nothing, eler- gantly. You don’t want no chest- notes ; you don’t want no action ; you don’t want no exsitement; you don’t want no lungs, no heart and no brain ; only lungs an’ soda, heart an’ potash, brain an’ selzer. Everything’s diloot- ed, my boy, for the modden drarmer; and the old school, an’ the old kos- tumes ’ud bust the sides and roof too of the swell bandboxes, where they does the new school and the new kos- tumes. P’raps I’m right? Of course I’m right; and I’m in earnest, too! Why, my boy, if they was to offer me an engagement as a “guest,” in one of them cuff-shooten’ plays, and ask me to go on in evening dress, I’m blest if I wouldn’t “throw up the part.” Trousers and white ties cramp me. I wants a suit o’ mail an’ a ’alberd ; a toonic, and my legs free; a dagger in my teeth, a battle-axe in my ’and. I likes to be led to victory. I like.! to storm castles and trample on the foe. I likes to hang our banners the outward walls. I’m a born and Ophelias, and other sufferin’ par ties, as I’ve often forgot my hexits and been fined a tanner ; and if that ain’t actin’, I should like to know what is. Have to do as the “stars” tell us? Well, of course we does, only if the stars don’t treat us like gentlemen, we know- how to queer their pitches; rather! Why, it ain’t so very long since I was a-playin’ a Roman Lictor in “Virginius,” and when we was a rehersin’ of it, ’im as played Happyus Clordyus called me a “#ig.” “All right,” says I, “aside” like. Accordin’ when night come, and he makes a exit in the third act, and says—didn’t he enjoy hisself with it—“And I shall surely see that they reseve it!” he chucks his toger over his right shoulder, and turns round as mage- stick as a beadle to walk off—well, some’ow, just then I drops my bundle ot sticks (“fusses,” they calls ’em), all accidentle like, and Happyus Clordyus with his heye3 in the hair, comes to grief, slap over ’em. He was the unhappyest Clordyus all through that play as ever you see. What did he call me a “pig” for, the idoit? Decayed wood is also liable to spon taneous combustion if heated some what, At Winchester, Conn., work men discovered smoke arising from barren upland. The sun was exces sively hot at the time. When they went to seek the origin of the smoke an old decayed hemlock log had burst into a blaze, and was burning fiercely. Many other curious cases are re lated. A gentleman on a cold, keen winter night, retired to his sleeping room. He had worn eilk stockings over his woolen ones during the day. On un dressing for bed, as he drew off his silk stockings, he heard a sharp,crack ling noise, put paid no special atten tion to it. In the morning, on look ing for his stockings, he found them consumed to ashes, without having set fire to the chair on which they were laid. A workman in the Jersey City abattoir threw off his blue blouse, and in a short time afterwards it was found to be on fire. guid^post: “Dublin thought to make game Irishman miles to take to Pat, “at Wits uuei two of a. y asking: “Ifi lin, Pat how lc ere?” “Faith! heels is as si ire about kies,” ssing two [ill it lrned fas yer judg- banner-bearer, aud I glories in it. No, my boy ! none of your milk-and-water “guests” and such, for the likes of me! An’ if I was the Lord Chambermaid, I’d perhibit the modden drarmer alto gether. Them’s my sentiments. If he clon’t perhibit it, actin’ ’ull soon be modden’d out of existence; an’ we shall ’ave Macbeth in a two guinea tourist suit, aud Looy the Eleventh in nickerb ickers on a bisykel. It’s tlieold banner beuiing school as got us all our big actors, m’ it stands to reason, my boy ; lor a cove can’t spred hisself in a frock coat and droring-room lanwidge. They’re both on ’em too tame for what I calls real actin’. What! you have heard say as us banner-bearers don’t act—was only machines ? Well, some on us don’t, p’raps, but some on us does, and uo mistake. Why, I’ve been that work’d on when I’ve seen Joan o’ Hark goin’ in a perisher at the stake, au’ matin’ that last dyin’speech and confession of hers, that I’ve felt a real ’art beat against my property brestplate, aud felt real tears a tricklin’ down to my false beard. I’ve been so struck with admirashun for some O..hellos that when they’ve been a addressln’ of me as the sennet, I’ve felt as dignerfled as if I’d been the Doag of Venice hisself, and I bet I look’d it. As for patiietlsm, there isn’t a man living as has died for his country- willing, mind you—so often as I have; and I’ve strewed many a bloody field of batH with a ernest corpse, I have. An’ as far as regards simperthy, it’s stood in my way, for I’ve been that upset by Queen Katherines and ince Arthurs, aud even old Shylook ano do< Spontaneous Combustion. It has been known for a long tim that things have burnt up without any one setting them on fire, and much thought has been expended to find out the reason. Among the substances subject to spontaneous combustion is pulverized charcoal. A load was delivered in an out-liouse of a clergyman in Leipsic; the door by accident w r as left open, and the wind blew sprinklings of snow on the charcoal. This caused the charcoal to ignite, and as the day was windy the whole range of build ings was burned to ashes. The same thing will take place with ashes from wood. Sometimes these are stored in barrels or boxes, and if they are acci dently wet ignition takes place. This is the cause of mysterious fires in cel lars in rural districts. A gentleman had been having his house painted, and one night the pain ters left their working pants, their pots and their brushes on the aspbal- tum floor of the cellar. They had previously with a bunch of rags re moved from their hands with spirits of turpentine the paint with which they were soiled. The ball ©f rags took fire, the pants and paint pots followed, and the house was burned to the ground. It was a wild winter night, and the family barely escaped with their lives. # In the carriage factory of Messrs. Eaton & Gilbert, Troy, New York, a drop of linseed oil was seen to fall into an open paper of lampblack. It set it on fire, and came near, for many com bustibles were close by, burning down the whole gr< at factory. In several instances oilcloth in large rolls has taken fire in damp weather. A planter :n Virginias ent liis servant to Fredericksburg for a roll of oilcloth. It was a warm day and the wagon was open. During the journey home it began to rain, aud the roll of oilcloth took fire on the load. Auother in stance occurred in Philadelphia. An order from the War Department came for knapsacks for a regiment. The sacks were all finished aud collected, and counted over and left in a pile in the paint shop about ten o’clock on Saturday night, so as to tie sent to Washington by cars early on Monday morning. On entering the paint shop before daylight on Monday morn ing uo knapsacks were to be found. In their place was nothing but a heap of smouldering ashes! Newly pressed hay frequently ig nites, as does also oatmeal and corn- meal in barrels. During the famine in Ireland in 1847—48 a vessel was dis patched from New York with a cargo of cornmetl for the relief of the suf ferers. In discharging the bags from the vessel the last three were found to be on fire. The American Journal of Science gives a remarkable instance of the spontaneous combustion ot wood. A gentleman, two years previous to the occurrence, received a piece of wood supposed to be cedar, detached from a large piece dug ub thirty-nine feet be low the surface near Lancaster, Penn. The piece weighed a few ounces, and it was broken in two and laid upon a white pine shelf. About four days be fore the discovery of the fire he had occasion to wipe the dust from the shelf and from the piece of cedar with a wet cloth. Three days afterward it was discovered that the piece of wood had ignited and combustion was pro ceeding so rapielily that in a few min utes the shelf would have been on Different Species oi Oaks. Mr. Trimble calls attention in The Student to some of the more obvious characteristics of the various oaks. They are all, he says, monoecious, that is, with sterile and fertile flowers on the same tree, the former clustered in slender drooping catkins, the latter in little scaley involucres which latter be come the cups inclosing the acorns. As the oaks come into blossom twigs with the flowers and partly developed leaves should be collected and pressed, the tree marked, and the specimens carefully labelled. Another batch of specimens should then be taken from the same trees in July, when the leaves havejfully matured, and again another set in October with the ma ture fruit. With these three collections there x will be little difficulty in deter mining the various species. Of the annual-fruited species, the white oak, Quercus alba, is the most common, and is readily identified. With this may be cum pared the less frequent Q. obtusiloba, having the segments of the leaf, as the name im plies, much more obtuse or rounded. And these again, with the still rarer Q. bicolor, which has the under sur face of the leaf covered with a soft white villous pubescence, and the out line of the leaf closely resembling that ot the chestnut, thus forming the transitional species to the chestnut- oaks, which with the exception of Q. monticola which might[easily be taken in its younger stages fora real chesnut tree, are not common. Of the biennial- fruited species, probably the pin oak Q palustris, is as distinct and fre quent as any. It may usually be recognized by the short branches of the lower portion of the trunk being hori zontal, or often drooping. The com mon Q. rubra is easily distinguished by its large acorns in a very shallow, broad cup. Q. coccinea, though not quite so common, has the acorn half covered, or more, by the large scaley cup. But the leaves of this species are characteristic, having very deep, broad sinuses, which are often wider near the mid vein than at the margin. It is well named the 4 Scarlet Oak,” on account of the autumnal tint of its leaves. What is commonly called black oak is classed as a variety of the last by Gray, hence the botanical name is written Q. coccinea,variety tinctoria. The leaves of the variety are less di vided and larger, changing to yellow or brown in the fall, aud the acorns longer, more slender and tapering at the apex. The New York student will find all of the above varieties, together with some others, as the large fruited oak, Q. macrocarpa, the Turkey oak, Q,. cerri«, and the English oak, Q. pedunculata, well represented in Cen tral Park. Tardiness of the President. A young man named Folsom BoweJ applied to a wealthy Austin stockman] for a position on his staff, to go Westf and herd sheep at $10 a month the stockman said he was not hirini anybody to herd sheep. “Have got all the shepherds you require?’! agked Folsom Bower. “No: I’m need! iug several, but I’m going to wait tilj the President has made his appoint ments.” “What’s that got to do witl herding sheep ?” “It has a great d< to do with it. As soon as Arthur made his appointments I can hav^ pick of disappointed applicants, will be willing to hire for nothing' their country.” ([Ihe *h ee P industry suffer