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Aids to Digestion. A Love Letter. The following was sent to a young man by his sweetheart. The first lines were on the envelope as an INSCRIPTION : Please take this letter, Unole Sara, Anh bear it to my beau , He lives In the town of Durand, Way up In Pepin Co., In tho north part ol Wisconsin, Please recollect the State ; His name is Ozro Allen, He has a flaxen pate. You'll know him very well, I'm sure, When this fact I declare; He's the handsomest lellow In the place— When nobody else Is there. The following lines compose THE LETTER : My Darling Ozro—01 course, you well know That to write to you, long have I tarried, For last winter, my dear, I really did hear That my Ozro had gone and got married; And since, though I’ve heard not even a word, I will not believe It Is so. And have taken my pen, to write to you again, My dearly loved, beautiful beau. Now, you olton have told, till the story Isold, How the girls all in love with you be, But their love let them tell, I know very well That you never loved any but me. And though I don’t hear from you often, my dear, I love you much better, you sinner, Than the brtal made of rye, or the dried apple pie, That’s put up every day for my dinner; And now, Ozro, in on cher (which Is French for rny dear), l want you to write toyour E'la I T.l you don’t. I declare, you awkward old bear, I’ll marry some other feller. Musical. “What is thut noise we hear, mother ?” ‘‘That is a man learning to play the violin, my child.” “Is he sick, mother?” “No, he is not sick, my child, as you suppose ; but every one in the neigh borhood is. They wish he would be sick and die.” “Will he die, mother ?” “No my child, he will not die. He will keep on this way for years, and finally get so lie cv.n play second fiddle in a very poor orchestra.” Judos. A gilt-edged youth was passing down the street the other day, when a friend, stepping up behind him, slapped him on the back and asked : “How do you feel to-day, Tom?” “With my fingers, I reckon,” smartly responded Tom. “Well,” said the other, “you reckon that if you was to take a right hard reckon, that you’d reckon another such a smart reckon as you reckoned just then.” “I reckon not,” answered Tom, faintly. She Had a Wart. She had a wart on the end of her nose one of the white, horny kind. It worried her right smart, so she hit on a novel plan to i e ex- e be taken. There a h^^^paerrknot on ihe place 'whore the'wart had been. She is now in sackcloth aud ashes, and it would be a brave one who would daie to mention corn solvent in her hearing. Couldn’t Count Him. “Sambo, have you fed the pigs?” “Yes, massa, me feed um.” “Did you count them?” “Yes, massa, me count um all but one.” “How was tnat?” “Dere be one little speqfcled pig, he frisk about so much me couldn’t count him.’ Mirthful Moraels. A man went out the other night to see if he could ascertain the color of the wind, and found it blue. When a Kansas editor takes his affidavit that he saw a grasshopper light down on the back of a robin and lift him two feet high, in an effort to carry him off, is simply one solitary instance of the richness of the soil of that State. Next year they are going to tame the grasshopper to hunt rats. ‘ Is that marble ?” said a gentleman, pointing to a bust of Kentucky’s great statesman. “No, air; that’s Clay,” q uitlly replied the dealei. “I’ll give you ten dollars or thirty days.” “Well, I’ll take the ten dol lars, squire.” When a Boston girl Is presented wiih a bouquet, she says: “Oh, how decidedly sweet. Its fragrance im penetrates the entire atmosphere of the room.” A Kansas girl simply says, “It smells sorumptious; thanks, Reuben.” A MiMionary Biddle. The following riddle is said to have been written iu aid of the funds of a London Missionary Society, and is called on that account, “A Missionary Riddle.” It is at all events very in genious, and can be solved only by those who have looked carefully into one of the hooks of the Old Tesl ament. Come and commiserate One who was blind, Helpless and desolate, Void of a mind; Guileless, deceived, fhougn unbelieving, Free lrom all sin; By mortals adorned, .Still I Ignored The world l was In, King Ptolemy’R, Cwsar’s Aud riglath-PUeser’s Birthdays are shown; Wise men, astrologers, All are acknowledgers Mine Is unknown. I ne’er had a father Or mother; or, rather, If I had either, Then they were neither Alive at my birth ; Lodged In a palace, Hunted by malice, I did not inherit, By lineage or merit, A spot on the earth. Nursed among Pagans, no one baptized me: Asponsor I had who ne’er catechized me ; She gave me the name to ner heart that was dearest, She gave me the place to her bosom was nearest, But one look of kindness She cast on me never, Nora word In my blindness [ heard from her ever, Compass'd by dangers, Nothing could harm me By loeman and strangers Nought could alarm me; I saved, I destroy’d; l bless’d, I alloy’d ; Kept a crown for a prince, But had none of my own ; Fill’d the place of a kiug, But ne’er sat on a throne ; Rescued a warrior; baffled a plot; Was what I seem’d not, seem'd what I am not Devot ;d to slaughter, A price on my head, A king’s lovely daughter Watch’d by my bed ; Though gentle she dress’d me, fainting with fear, She never caress’d me, nor wiped ofl a tear: Never moistenM my lips, though parching aud dry, (What marvel a blight should pursue till she die?) ’ fwtu- Royalty nursed me, Wretched and poor; Twas Royalty cursed me In secret; I am sure. I live not, I died not, but tell you I must, I’hf t ages have pass’d since I first turned to dust, L'his paradox whence ? This squalor ! this splendor! Say, was I a King, or a sill' Pretender ? Fathom the mystery Deep In my hlRtory Was I a man? An angel supernal ? A demon Internal ? Solve It who can ! The Lovely Jewesses. There is a touching legend of why the Jewish women preserve their beauty, while that of the men has somewhat departed. An ancient riter tells the story quaintly: “When ye Christus was driven to Golgotha, ye men of Judea Hun exe- craded, wounded and derided, but ye women, oil ye women, bowed their beauteous heads and veiled their eyes in their raven hair, and wept salt tears of grief to see ye Lamb so tor tured and slain; and ye Christus decreed that henceforth, yea and forever, ye eyes that wept should re-* tain their beauty, ye foreheads that bowtd should shine as ye moon, aud ye hair that was wet with ye dew of pity should grow thick and lustrous on ye he ids of their children and their children's children to ye last generation.” Venezuela. Venezuela celebrates her centenary July 24th, 1883, and the arrangements have been made for an International festival beginning on that day, which is the 100th anniversary of the birth of Bolivar, the Liberator, and ending August 2. The proclamation of the national holiday in honor of Bolivar aud the ensuing festival invites the United States to join with Ventzuela in the celebration, and sets apart tne 31st day of July to the exclusive pur pose of offering “admiration and homage to the great North American Republic,” by unveiling a colossal statue of Washington, “ The Father of the great people who founded Re publican institutions in the New World as a model to the Spanish- American nations.” The Turkish Messiah. The Mehdi is a messenger from on high, who is exueeted to come in ihe last days, a little before the second Christ. He is to reform Islamism, and heat down its enemies. He is thus to prepare the way for Jesus Christ, who, according to the Moslem belief, will then appear and unite Moslems and true Christians into one vast body for the utter destruction of Antichrist. Any good Moslem will say that the Mehdi is to be a man who is to bear the same name as Mahomet, and who will appear either from the east or from the west. He is to come from one of the two cities labulka or Iabulsa. In answer to inquiries as to the localities of these favored cities your good Moslem will take down a ponderous tome from his library and will turn to the heading “ labulka,” to read the description: “labulka, a great city in the west. It has 2000 gates and 2000 gate-keepers.” Then he will turn over a little further to read : “ Iabulsa, a great city in the east. It has 2000 gates and 2000 gate keepers.” The oriental mind is not given to scientific curiosity, and is thoroughly satisfied to build upon the ponderous tomes of the library, faith in the existence of a suitable birth place for so great a per.»ouage as the Mehdi. The Persian blanch of Islam, re garded as heretical by the western Moha nmedans, believes that the Mehdi has already come to earth and is somewhere secreted till the fulness of time shall arrive. Tne Persians hold that in the latter part of the ninth century the twelfth of the Imams of the line of Ali mysteriously disappeared. This Imam is the Mehdi, and i ? properly called the Expected. In the village of Samara, in Mesopo tamia, is a sacred snnue, carefully guarded by Persian doctors of divin ity. In the centre is a magnificent dome lavishly gilded upon the iuside and ornamented with a profusion of precious stones. The inclosed space is lighted only by a skylight in the top of this dome. Directly under the dome is a deep well in which the lost Imam i3 supposed to have established himself. To this place come thou sands of Persian pilgrims, who enter awe stricken the golden hall of gold, aud crawl on their knees to the edge of the well to see in the sparkle of the water below the dome, the glory of the Mehdi who waits below. To this place also comes an occasional Moslem of the western rite—some Turk or Kourd in disguise—who enters the sacred place solely to gratify nis hatred of heretics by surreptitiously spitting into their well as he pretends to gaze into its depths. iftth of the great branches of Mohammedans unite in expecting the Mehdi very soon. The Moslem year 1299 ends in November. With the year 1300 great things are expected to occur. Every new century is set down in the Moslem history as having br< ugut some marked event with its early years and the consensus of opin ion fix ^s upon 1300 as a peculiarly im portant figure. Among the many com binations which make up the portfolios of those who divide events by means of numerals this one appears most fertile in portent. Thus the popular mind is ready to seize upon any token of the event of the Expected One. Borne loox at the Mehdi as a Monjed- did or renovator, who is to effect his reform bv peaceful exhortation. Others hold he will be a Sahibai Khourowj, or one who abandons his allegiance to the ruling powers in order to Initiate reform by the sword. The vast ma jority of Moslems look for this more violent method of reform. But each individual regards his neighbor as more worthy than himself to ba a sub ject for the avenging sword that is to purge the lands of Islam from all con taminating influences of false disciples or of contumacious infidels. Therefore each man is eager for the loug expect ed appearance. The Mining of ‘‘Bonanza. The Fashions. It is 'predicted that black lace will lie as stylish this fall for neckwear as last. Now that the handsome gui pures are again in vogue, soarfs and oollarettes will he formed of them. Embroidered oostumesgrow in favor from day to day, and are likely to be he prevailing style through the au tumn aud renter. I tuning Vfck Re The Stick Report inquires the meaning of the word “Bonanza.” It is a Spanish nautical term, meaning primarily a fair and hence a favoring wiud, but is employed by the Mexican miners to designate the period when they ire in good ore, or in bonanza, in contradistinction to in borasca, or poor ground. It lias been borrowed by our miners and given a more com prehensive significance, aud, like many other words taken from foreign languages, has come into popular use to designate In a vague and general way any big thing or luoky stroke of fortune.—LeadviUe Herald. Dreia Material*. Hoops are not fashionable In New York. Redingotes are meant for the street but often worn in the house. More small bonnets of velvet are shown than of any other material. Velvet Scotch caps are being im ported for misses and school girls. There is an air of good taste about a well-made cloth costume that women are not slo w to realize. Children’s dresses are still preferred made in the princess style. The shape, however, is much concealed by elabo rate trimming. Lovely cashmere and opera flanDel suits are made for girls from 2 to 6 years. They are edged with a flounce of embroidery done in silk on the ma terials. India shawls are still utilized by being transformed into wraps. The pelisse is the style best adapted to this use, being very long, and broken by a few seams, and therefore well calculated to display large designs to advantage. They are trimmed with bands of velvet, edged on each side with shells of black lace; or if les* elegance is desired, with marabout or moss fringe. Applique embroidery similar to that at present used for ladies’ dresses, is new for slippers. A single applique figure for the front, another lor each side of the heel, the edge finished with si utaehe, and a little soutache scroll- work is simple, and can be made beau tiful by a judicious selection of colors and materials. For example, Indian red cloth for the ground, oarker voi vet applique, aud ornamentation in lighter silk or gold cord, or the same combination in a warm dark brown or old green. Among other rich embroideries, "what is know as Lire Damascene is iu favor ; this is made with three strands or threads of metal, one of gold, one of stiver, and one of steel, laid side by side, very close together, so as to form a single braid in appearance, ami set on in arabesques. This is an effective trimming for opera wraps, aud for dresses designed for large dinner par ties and evening assemblies. Every thing will be embroidered during the coming winter ; and all kinds of em broidery, without exception, will be in fashion. An immensely popular style will be embroidery mixed with appli cation cut out of velvet, plush, or satin. Among the favorite materials for dressy visiting toilettes will be t-e elegant Scotch plaid satins, for Scotch plaid will be one of the most popular winter styles. These satins are won derfully effective, combined either with velvet or plush, or even with plain black or dark satin. Ottoman reps and all the variety of plushes will also be much worn. We are al ready beginning to think of furs ; be sides seal, which was so much iu vogue last winter, fox will be worn, and a revival of ermine is even talked of, but this fur needs such costly ac companiments to be oommeil fault hat it must always remain the appanage of millionaires As a counterpart to this elegance, cloaks will be lined with furs that are coarse in appear ance but really costly—Persian lamb, etc. Velvet is being much worn. Ail the grenat shades, Lincoln-green, Rus sian-blue, dark-prune, seal-brown and black form the line of coloring. French-gray and chinchilla will form a combination much favored. The fancy for the grenat shades is univer sal, and as blonde and brunette may both wear these tints their popularity is easily understood. A pure blonde— that is, one having light eyes, pink and white complexion and light hair —should select the medium shades ; a blonde with Titian red hair should chooid the deepest toues; while the brunette’s beauty is best brought out with the brightest tints, those verging upon cerise. Undoubtedly one is less apt to tire of Linden green and seal- brown, and therefore they possess un told advantages. A very elegant velvet costume is of Liucoln-gre n. The short skirt, esca; -• iug the dust of the pavement, is tlnisn- ed with a narrow box plaiting of the ve vet daintily lined with satin surah of the same shade. The |:erfeut fitting polonaise is slightly draped, producing by its comparative plainness the pale tot effect. Large, round, orochetted buttons of the same shade close the ba que-like fronts. A gilet is outlined by the application of green silk em broidery on eaoh side of the closing, while square pocket and turn back cuffs of tho same embroidery add much to the general effect. A “cu rate” collar .of white linen, with a cat’s- eye button, constitute the lingerie, and the mittens are long and of cream undressed kid. The hat is a large Montagnarde of cream-colored straw. On one side is a jabot of the green em- oroidery, and on the other is a long, full, green plume. The under facing is of velvet like the costume. Natur ally, with such a toilet would be worn a bouquet of dandelions or yellow chrysanthemums. Grenat velvet of one of the darkest shades is used for an evening dress, dead white being combined with it. The skirt is of dancing length, and of dead white moire finished with a rose- quilling of the velvet having under it a balayeuse of Spanish lace. The paniers are of velvet and have their edges trimmed with full frills of Spanish lace, while at the back is a broad sash of moire ribbon, having great crimson roses upon it. The bodice, which is of moire, is cut out at the throat, and has a high, rolling collar of velvet, trimmed with laoe. Strings of Roman pearls are worn at the neck. The sleeves each consist of a deep frill of lace, and long lace mittens of white silk reach beyond the elbows. The fan is of white moire, and the bouquet of Jacqueminot and white roses. Grenat silk stockings are worn, and the dainty slippers are of moire to match the g«wn. A mingling of pongee silk in its natural hue with nun’s veiling or cashmere—the embroidered usually being chosen—is much to be commend ed. As pongee is not expensive, and the amount of ihe embroidered fabric used depends entirely on individual t >ste, a stylish and inexpens’ve toilet may be evolved from the two ma terials. Undoubtedly th< b si ffsets are obtained when the woolen material displays a mode ground with spots, leaves or crescents embroidered upon it in scarlet, dark green or brown ; yet it is not unusual to see a bright grenat embroidered in cream combined with the pongee. Suc h a mingling is cer tainly striking, but it is equally certain that it is not elegant. And, hy-the- bye, the furor for red toues still con tinues, and any mainea of cood com plexion, endowed with many skirts that will stand rejuvenating and many bodices that will not, should get herself a Jersey jacket of lady’s cloth of the red tinge most becoming to her. Its fit should he as perfect as that of her glove, and sitting down should not cause it to wrin kle. It will be most useful if entirely untrimmed, and she should wear with it “curate” collars of immaculate whiteness t tit her throat closely; and, if her gi be not worn over her sleeve, about inch of equally white cuff shoul visible at the wrist. But to return to the pongees. In the first place, they may be worn on the street during the early fall, and will be found to make charming house dresses when colder days are at hand. One that seems to whisper a thought of the autumn tints has a short skirt of pongee finished with a narrow box-plaiting of the same. A box-plaited tablier of the silk extends across the fronts, stopping at the sides. Short paniers of nun’s veiling of the pongee shade, embroidered with cres cents in bright scarlet, are at the sides, curving away from the front, at the centre of which they are caught by a bow of eoru satin ribbon. The full drapery at the back is of the stuff goods, simply finished by a hem. The bodice portion is of pongee, with cuffs of the veiling ; and a kerchief of the latter, laid in stiff folds, is held in position by a small satin bow. An embroidered collar, slightly rolling, is worn at the neck and fastened by a branch of red coral. A small oapote of red lace, ornamented with wheat- ears and having a double set of nar row strings, one scarlet and the other ecru, is also worn. The Chimpanzee. There is one kind of native African that has never yet been able to endure the climate of the United States. This is the chimpanzee. Eight of them have been brought to this country, only to catoh a had cold in the winter and die of pneumonia. But, undis- oouraged, two more have come over for the purpose of taking up their resi dence in Philadelphia. They are both young females of a most affection ate disposition, with all the fondness of their sex for ice-cream, candy and bananas. They will put one arm ten derly about the neck of a young man, aud with the other search his pockets for go idles. Their human-looking faces are very intelligent. They have no tajjp, are very neat and clean and, altogether, will prove extremely agreeable acquisitions to Philadelphia so^ety.