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THE mercury. PUBLISHED EVERY TUESDAY. notice. V I ——nfaWfc— iBUmlxi to- Ud> ** m0|t be Moompoafad with the (nil ^oitfce enter, not necessarily lor pnbU. glion, bat m e K a<rmn ** e of 8 00 * 1 W***' yr, ere in no way reeponeiWe ler the Tiewe i ot eorreepondente. the mercury. A. J. JERNIQAN, Proprietor. DEVOTED TO LITERATURE, AGRICULTURE AND GENERAL INTELLIGENCE. 81.50 PER ANNUM VOL. II. SANDERSVILLE, GA., APRIL 5, 1881. NO. 1. G , w. H. WHITAKER. dentist, fleadmerille, Ge. Tnm Cask. *t M, reridenee en Henta Street April*. IMOi. A D. EVANS, Attorney atLaw, Agssjm S—rienvIUe, Qe. DR. WN. RAWLINGS, Physician & Surgeon, hstaniiUtQt, OKM Wl ■■ limllta HotaL amBO. M»» E A SULUVAN, NOTARY PUBLIC, SpMfcl •Um*. Slew* H Ge. •oUeclion o' OKseta the Oowt*Honee. 0. H. ROGERS, Attorney at Law, ■udenrille, Ge. Prempt tatanttaa given to ell bee!nsee, Oflae in eosthweet toon at Oovt-Hoo**. Mat ♦. IMG- C. C. BROWN, Attorney at Law, Bendesirflle, Ge. WDl preettae In the State end United State* Ooutt. Otaee in Court-Hewn. H. N. HOLLIFIELD, Physician & Surgeon, " Our First Gray Hair." As the first big pattering drops that fall With splash on our lattice pane, Maker us sldver and start as they warn us all Of a storm, or of coming rain, So it is with life, when we are growing old, And age steals unaware, Wo shiver and start, If tho truth were told, At the sight of our first gray hair. We mark not the light of our noouday hours, Like the first streaks of dawn doth bring; We hall not the birth of tho summer flowers As we do the snow-drops of spring; On tho bleak winter wind we look not with grief, l'liough it howl through the branches bare, But we sigh when we witness tho brown autumn leaf And behold nature’s first grey hair. Gray hairs may come whon tho boaming ay* Hag none of its brightness lost, When with buoyant heart we would deny Youth’s Rubicon has boon crossed; But tho ivy clad tree looks young and green, Though a sapless trunk may be thore; And naught of decay on our cheeks may le seen Whon wo witness our first gray hair. Oomo early, come late, like a knock at the gate Is that first soft silvery thread; And it joins with its silonco the years that await With Uio years forovor fled; It Hilontly tells ns wo’re Jonmoylng on— It ■silently questions us—Whore? h I a faithful milestone, weio the truth but known, Is seen In our first gray hair. —Mrs. Charles T. Ohiekhaus. DR. JEX’S PREDICAMENT. iHlUlAflB « dM* to Mr*. Bum 1 * millinery Mm on Hunlt IumL OR. J. B. ROBERTS, Physician & Surgeon, W«j in in—h*il at MM, la Ike Maaoate 9m. on Haynes 1* Lodj* bnUdlnn, tronn I trOM ft* In mi daring ridanoM, on Church street, bu lot professionally April I, IMG. ottarhosnal Vb.BBOt Watches, Clocks AID JXWXLBT JERNIQAN. POSTOFFICE HOURS. 7:00 to 11:10 a. to. 1:10 to 0:00 p. to. I. A. 8 PRATT AM, P. M. Subscribe for the MERCURY, Only f 1.A0 par annsto. JtRNIQAN A SCARBOROUGH. BUY YOUB Spectacles, Spectacles, FROM JERNICAN. ®“ N °n» (tannine without oar Trmda Mark. On hand and for tad*, Ms, Nose Glasses, Etc. filusic, Music. eoTo JERNIGAM BOLINS, accordeons, BOWS, STRINGS, J*081MBOXES, BTC. Machine Needles, OIL and SHUTTLES For ^W»fc ol Machines, lor aale, I will ^ ord « r parts ol Maehinee that gel broke, and new pieoea ’ piooee are wanted. A J - JERNIQAN. Thtl 1 jK 0 , 1 1 "'*>ea Steel KRILL POINTS. thtutd beautifully, and Instead of erotodfn# i.?£b der, « raor * nourishment from tho goU. ecomo more vigorous, produce bettor developed Mewgo head*. Rend for Uluotrated Pamphlet j.A.JONKS.'WILMINGTON, fill. » taUeve t^ere^nnn^^ A who&t * tbout a week ago, and I fou7°, Ur Points. Tn«.° *» .* ,r6 . more wheat where H was drilled tiro U/kty'-three hcra, uhc ,la ‘ l nwwWed some rowa, and jot flvn v,.,.'”" 1 * Hank of MlililLtifin n.i nn A r***L**v' totth * 01 flve bukhpu’iA f\ ank °f Middleton,Del.,and Farmer,' hit, !&£*** ."*** where I drilled favlr 110 0111 ,tjlc ' 1 K av0 thorn > f»lr ° 8UUA CLAYTON, J B , Mi , P J„.»B|, D .l. It was the funniest thing that 1 over saw in my life. Cmikshank would have gloried in it. I wish I hod him here to illustrate that scono with the spirited vigor that only his dancing pencil gives. It was in Kentucky that it happened— that pleasant land of blue-grass and to bacco, and lino stock, with llne-teethed girls. Mabel, my sister, had married Dick Hucklestono, and thoy had begun life in great contentment and a little three-roomed bouse scarcely big enough to hold tho bridal presents. But they were happy, hearty, healthy. They had two cow’s, icc-cream every day, a charm ing baby, and Uncle Brimmer. Who shall say that their cup was not full ? Indeed, they thought it full before Uncle Brimmer added himself thereto—a very ponderous rose-leaf. He was one of our old fninily servants, who fondly believed that Miss Mabel and hor young husband would never be able to get on without him. He walked all tho way from Mis sissippi to Kentucky, with his things tied up in a meal saok, and presented himself bofore Mabel, announcing af fably that ho lmd come to “stay on.” “But I haven’t any place for your (Ju-ilo Brimmer,’ 1 said Mabel, divided between hospitality and embarrassmont. “ Lor’, lionoy, you kin jes’ tuck mo iiroun’ anywhar. I don’t take up no room." Mabel looked thoughtfully upon the big, brown, gray-whiskered' old negro, whose proportions wore those of a Her- oulos, and shook hor head. "You are not a Tom Thumb, Uncle Brimmer,” “No, ma’am,” said ho, submissively, " but I’ve got his spirit. Couldn’t I sleep in de kitchon, honey?” he went on, with insinuating sweetness. “ No, indeed," cried our young house keeper; “ I put my foot down on auy- »ody sleeping in the kitchen.” Aunt Patsev, the cook, stood by, bal arcing a pan of flour on her hand. I juspected her of a personal interest in the matter, and indeed she afterward acknowledged that she thought Uncle Brimmer’s coming would prove a “bless- in’ to her feet.” Those feet of hors had been saved many steps through the ser vice of her ten-year-old daughter Nancy Palmira Kate—called Nauky Pal, for short. But of late Nanky’s services had been called into requisition as a nurse, and Aunt Patsoy, who was fat and scon of breath, thought she had too much to do; and so she viewed with evident de light the stalwart proportions of our good-natured giant from the South. "Dar’s de loPj-Miss Mabel,” she sug gested. "It’s too small, and is clutterod up with things already." “On, eho, chile, dar ain’t nothin’in dat lof’ ’cep’ de ’taters, an’ de peppers, an’ de dried apples, an’ some strings o’ t whacker, an’ de broken plow, on’ some odds an’ 'ends o', de chillen’s an' Lucy Crittenden's pups. Lor’, dar aiu t noth- nl ter speak of in de lof’.” “.vgtf-qa'n’t ge t in at the window,” said Mable,''shifting hor ground. “Lemmo try’,” said Uncle Brimmer. The kitohen was a small log cabin some distance from the house-“in good hollerin’ reach,” to quote Aunt Patsey. Above it was a low room, or loft, crowded with the miscellaneous'articles enumer ated. The only way of getting into it was from the outside. A ladder against the side of the cabin admitted one, through a little window, no larger, I am sure, than that of a railway coach, into this storehouse of treasures. Nanky Pal, who was as slim as a snake, was usually selected to fetoh and carry through the small aperture. But Unole Brimmer! “I’m pretty sho I kin do it, hesaid, squinting np one eye, as he took off his coat and prepared to try. We stood in the doorway as he cau- ously went up the ladder; and after an exciting moment he pushed himself tlirough the window, and turning, smiled triumphantly. This settled the matter. A cot bed was procured for Uncle Brimmer, and he soon became the mainstay of the family. Cheerfully avoiding all the work possible; indifferently as an ostrich eating all he could And in cupboards or highways grimly playing hobgoblin for baby; gayly twanging his banjo on moonlight nights—memory recalls thee with a smile, Uncle Brimmer 1 I can close my eyes and recall him—big, sluipelesa, in distinct in the semi-darkness, as he sat under the mulberry tree singing. After a time Uncle Brimmer fell ill, and we sent for a doctor. Dr. Trattlcs Jex was the medical man of our county. He lived at Middlebum, seven miles away, and he came trotting over on a great bay horso, with a pair of saddle-bags hanging like Gilpin's bot tles, one on either side. He looked as diminutive os a monkey perched on tho tall horse’s book, and iudeed he was 11 a wee bit pawky body,” os was Baid of Tommy Moore. But, bless me 1 he was as pompous and self-important as though lie had found the plaoe to stand on, and could move the world with his little lever. A red liandkerohief carefully pinned across his ehest showed that he lmd lungs and a mothor. His boots were polished to the last degree. His pink and beardless face betrayed his youth ; and his voice—ah! his voice I What a treasure it would hove been .could ho have let it out to masqueraders 1 Whether it was just changing from that of youth to that of man, or, whether like reading and writing, it “ came by nature,” I can’$ toll. Ono instant it was deep and bass, the next, squeaking and soprano. No even tenor about that voice 1 ne held out his hand with, “Good- morning, -Mrs. Hncklestone. I hope t he baby has not lmd an attack V” I popped into the dining-room to gig gle, but little well-bred Mabel did not even smilo. “Oh, no,” sho cried; “it is Unele Brimmer.” Tho doctor offered to see him at once. Mabel got up to lend tho way. Up to ♦liis moment I warrant it had not struck her as anything out of tho way that sho must invite Dr. Jex to climb a ladder and crawl through a window to get at his patient. But, as she looked at him speckless, spotless, gloved, scented, curled, then at tho ladder loaning against the wall in a disreputable, rickety sor- of way, a scene of incongruity seemod borne in on her soul. To add to hor dis tress and my hilarity wo saw tlmt Undo Brimmor lmd hung out on tho window some mysterious undor-rigging that ho wore. Long, red and ragged, it “flaunted in tho brooze” as picturesque ly as the American flag on a Fourth of July. “I am afraid, doctor, it will be a little awkward,” faltered Mabel, “Uncle Brimmer is up there; ” and she waved her lily hand. “ An’you’ll have to dime de ladder," put in Nanky Pal, with a disrespect ful chuckle. I thought the little doctor gasped; but he recovered himself gallantly, and said: " As a boy I have climbed trees, and think I can ascend a ladder ns a man;’’ and lie smiled heroically. Wo watched him. He was incum bered by the saddle-bags, but he man aged very well, and had nearly reached the top when suddenly Unde Brimmer’s head and shoulders protruded, giving him the look of a snail half out of its shell. “ Here’s my pulse; dootor," he cried, blandly, extending his bared arm. “ Taru’^ no place for you up here. An’ here’s my tongue.” Then out went liis tongue for Dr. Jex’s inspection. The doctor settled himself on a rung of tho ladder, quite willing to be me* half way. Professional inquiries began, when “A deep sound struck like a rising knell.” “Good gracious!” exclaimed Mabel; “whatis that?" Nanky Pal sprang up, with distended eyes, almost letting the baby fall. Again, “ Nearer, clearer, deadlier than before.” “ Bakes alive! Miss Mabel,” cried Nanky, “ole Mr. Simmon’s bull’s done broke loose 1” She was right. A moment more and in rushed the splendid angry beast, bel lowing, pawing t£e ground, shaking his evil lowered head as if Satan were contra dicting him. Dr. Jex turned a scared face. My lord bull caught sight of the fluttering red rags, and charged. The next in stant the ladder was knocked from under the doctor’s feet and he was clinging frantically round the neck ol Uncle Brimmer. Fearful moment "Pull him in, Uncle Brimmer—pull him in,” shrieked Mabel, danoing about. “ I can’t honey—I can’t," grasped the ohoking giant; “I’m stuck.” “Hold me up,” cried the dootor. “ Send for help.” Uncle Brimmer seized him by the armpits. The saddle-bags went clattering down and about the head of Master Bull, a cloud of quinine, calomel, Dover’s and divers other powder and pills broke in blinding confusion. Aunt Patsey, go for Mr. Hucklestono at once,” called Mabel. Aunt Patsey looked cautiously out from the kitchen door. “ Yer don’t ketch me in de yard wid ole Simmons’ bull,” she said, with charming independence. " Theh I shall send Nanky Pal." “ If Nauky Pal goes outen dat house Til break every bone in her body." Thon Mabel began to beg: "Aunt Pat- sey, let her go, please. I’ll give you a whole bagful of quilt-pieces, and my ruby rep polonaise that you begged me for yestc lay.” Aunt Patsey’s head came out a little further. “An' what elne?" , “And a ruffled pillow-sham,” said Ma bel, almost in tears, “and some white sugar, and I’ll make you a hat—and that’s all. Now 1" “ I reckon dat*ft about as much as the chile is wuth',” said the philosophic mother. " Let her go,!’ " Fly I fly!’’ cried Mabel. “I ain’t skoered," said Nanky. “I ain’t dat sort. Mammy ain’t nuther. She was jes’ waitin’ ter sea how much you’d give.” Nauky's bate legs scudded quickly across the yard. The bull took no no tice of her. He was still stamping and bellowing under that window. Unole Brimmer and the doctor clung together, and only a kick now and then testified to the little man's agony. “ Suppose Uncle Brimmer should let go ?’’ I suggested, in a hollow whisper. "Oh, hush,"cried Mabel. "Thodoc tor’s blood would be on our heads." “ Or the bull’s horns.” It was not far to the tobacco field, and in an incredibly short time brother John came riding in, followed by half a dozen stout negroes. With some delightful play that gave one quite an idea of a Spanish bull-fight, his lordship was cap tured, and our little dootor was assisted to tho houso. Gone was the glory of Dr. Trattles Jex. His coat was torn, his knees grimy, his hands scratched, and lie looked—yes as if he had been crying. "Gan you ever forgive us?” said Mabel, piteously. Sho hovered about him like a mother. She mended his coat; she asked liim if ho would not like to kiss tho baby. And finally a wan smile shone in tho countenance of Dr. Jex. For mo, I felt my face purpling, and leaving him (o Mabel I fled with brother John to the smoke-house, whero we—roared. Uncle Brimmer got well and went in to see the doctor. Ho returned with a now cravat, a cone, and several smart articles of attire, from which we in ferred that in those trying moments when he supported the suspended doctor that, little gentleman had offered many inducements for him to hold fast. Whon questioned he responded cliiofly with a cavernous and mysterious smile, only saying: “Master, Dr. Jex is a gentleman; starch in or starch out, lie’s do gentle man straight." And brother John, who is somewhat acquainted with slang, said, with great laugh: “Well, old man, you liai\ a bully chance to judge, so yon must be right.’’ FOR THU t'ATH SIX. Altutor* ud Her Ouiklcn. Every morning at nine o’clook the three daughters of the Prinoess of Wales take their music lesson. They have “maminn” waked up, who, a few moments later, appears in her dressing-gown and re mains with them till the lesson is over- Nothing interests the princess more than the education of her daughters. In muBic she can fully appreciate their progress, being herself a consummate musician. The three young princesses—Louise, Victoria and Maud—differ as greatly in oharaoter as in phyaiognomy. The eld est, Louise, has the fine features and the grace of her mother. She is gentle, gay and affable—in short, the Parisienne of the three. Victoria, the second daugh ter, is the image ol her father. She is proud, rather reserved and attaches her self little to people. When she does grow fond of some one, however, her affection never wavers. She unites to a thorough consciousness of her own dig nity a generous heart, easily moved. Her intelleot, which is greatly devel oped, only renders her the more engag ing. The youngest sister, Princess Maud, can still be called a baby. She is but ten years of age. In appearance she bears a striking likeness to her grand mother, the queen. She is good-hearted, and at times even a little serious. Ilavenlna IVolvei In Flnlatul. A correspondent from Finland writes respecting a terrible evil which is now besotting the country in which he lives and to suggest a remedy. The woods about fiity English miles from Hango are tho haunts of a great number of wolves, which of late have been so auda cious as not to be contented with tear ing cows and sheop but are now con stantly attacking even human beings. In loss than two months eleven chil dren have been carried away and eaten by the beasts. Very recently a little boy aged nine years was overtaken on the high road by a single wolf and dragged into a neighboring field. The lad escaped with his life only by the approach of a stalwart peasant. An other case of very late occurrence was that of a man who, while driving sledge, was attacked by a wolf, which sprang up from the ground and tore his arm. The animals are especially nu merous in the southern and most popu lous parts of the country, where they come down to the very thresholds of the houses; and in some instances children have been carried off under the very eyes of their parents. Seldom more than one wolf is seen at a time; and the belief is that, like the man-eating tigers of India, these beasts are either embold ened by hunger or have been rendered doling by impunity and the acquired zest for human blood. A price on the head of each wolf killed or captured alive has been fixed by the Finnish gov ernment; but the peasantry appear to be incapable of coping with the in vaders. Hunters are now being ap pointed and sent into the woody districts frequented by wolves; but hitherto with small success. Our correspondent is of the opinion that English gentle men fond of sport and adventure would, if accompanied by a number of bull dogs and shepherds' dogs, and properly equipped lor a winter campaign, do wonders at wolf-stalking for the Fin landers.—London Telegraph. UreM and Complexion. Speaking of the colors most becoming to women of different complexions an expert told a New York correspondent: The large class included in tho interme diate and ineffective type of women gen erally set down as plain, because they ore not brilliant, are often endowed with great delicacy of form, refinement of ex pression and fine eyes; but they have dull, ashy-brown hair and no brilliancy of complexion. Their eyes are oftoner gray or grayish-bine than brown or hazel. Red is not becoming to these women, and they should not wear fawn-color nor gray. Brown is just as bad. Black, particularly black velvet; white, particu larly creamy white woolen fabrics; water-blue, flush-rose, black and white laces, jet, pink, cameo, delicately enam eled jewelry—all theso are becoming to such women. They must avoi 1 tun color, fawns, grays, bluish-white, pronounced blues, yellows, reds and browns. Golden blondes, with rosy complexions, may wear blue-white, all shades of blue, rose, pink, all shades of green, yellow and purple ; but of all colors red must be avoided. Brunottes may wear ambor and all yellows, browns, maroons, reds, olive- groon and very dark blue, especially in velvet. They cannot, ns a role, wear light or medium blue, though some who have brilliancy of complexion can wear pale blue. Light greens, grays, purples and all shades of violet mnst be avoided by the brunette. However, if she has black hair, pale, smooth skin, and blue or gray eyes, sho may wear both reds and blues in all shades, croam-white and pure wliite, bluish-gray, block and stone color. If her eyes are dark she may add amber, and almost all shades of yellow. She may wear diamonds, topaz, garnet, coral and etroscan gold jewelry. Women who have chestnut hair, pale, smooth skin and hazel eyes must not.indulge a fancy for reds, brilliant yellows medium blues, and creamy white. Corals, turquoises and Bmall diamonds set with other jewels in dull gold or platinum, as well as enameled, mosaic and cameo jewelry, are permitted to women of this type. Shepherd’s cheok, shaded blocks and stripes lengthwise and across the piece of goods appear in the stuffs prepared for summer wear. Dressmakers may be ingenious, buf the best of them cannot keep a princess# dress from looking like a wrapper with out heavy drapery. The bands of filagree silver which it is the fashion to wear in tho hail- are set with Lnbrndorite, garnet, topaz or moon stone, or even pearls. The very fine stripes used in organdies last year now appear in camel’s hair'stnffs. The border is a stripe of solid color or is woven like chudda cloth. The Hamburg rufilings a half a yard wide are used for the flounces of chil dren’s dresses, and the collars and cuffB are cut from the same material. BayonMuse comes in all the delicate light tints this year, as well as in wliite and black, so that ladies in mourning will no longer have a monopoly of it. High Friee*. The highest spot on the globe inhab ited by human beings is tho Buddhist cloister of Hnnie, Thibet, where twenty- one priests live at an altitude of 10,000 feet. The monks of St. Bernard, whose monastery is 8,117 feet high, are obliged to descend frequently to the valleys be low in order to obtain relief from the asthma induced by tho rarity of the at mosphere about their mouutain eyrie. At the end of ten years’ service in the monastery they are compelled to change their exalted nbodo for a permanent residence at tho ordinary level. When tho brothers Schlaginswoll explored tho Glaciers of tho Ibi Gamin, in Thibet, thoy once encamped nt 21,000 feet—the highest altitude at whioh a European ever passed the night. At the top of kit. Blanc, 15,781 feet abovetbelevel of the sen, Professor Tyndall spent anight, and with loss discomfort then his guide, who found it very unpleasant. In July, 1872, Mr. Glaisher and Mr. Coxwell ascended in a balloon to the enormous height of 88,000 feet. Before starting Mr. Glaisher's pulse beat seventy-six strokes per minute, and Mr. Coxwell’s seventy-four. At 17,000 feet Mr. Glaisher's pulse lmd increased to eighty-four, and Mr. Coxwell’s to 100. At 10,000 feot the hands and lips of the Aeronauts turned quite blue. At 26,000 feet Mr. Glashier could hear liis heart bout, and his breathing became op pressed. At 29,000 feet lie beeome sense less; notwithstanding which he still as cended another 0,000 feet, when his hands were paralyzed, and ho had to open the valve with his teeth. In tho Alps, at tho height of 18,000 feet, climb- era suffer from the rarity of the air; yot, in the Andes, persons can dwell, as at PotoBi, at a height of from 18,000 to 15, 000 feet without inconvenience. n’kMjrfHf Couth. Whooping cough, called pertnsaia by physicians, is said to be [owing to tha presence of bacteria under the roof of tha tongue. The cough is so urgent that tha breath becomes exhausted, and in tha effort to draw in the needed air the top of the windpipe seems to nearly cloee, causing a whooping sound. The old plan was to let the disease run its course, boiug careful that the symptoms were not aggravated by cold. Oertain medi cines seem to act favorably in some cases, and in others to have no noticeable effect. The following have been recom mended: The fluid extract of hyoocya. mus, from one to four drops, depending on the ago of the patient. A blister to back of neck. Frictions to the spine twice a day, with onion juice. Beat a fresh egg in a pint of vinegar, nod add half a pound of loaf sugar; take two tablespoonfuls every four hours. The beet treatment for the enre of whooping cough hat has yet been discovered undoubt, edly is to expose tho patients to the vapors arising from the purifying boxes in gas works. But it is not always con veuient for the patient to visit these places; and it has been found to answer just as well to procure some of the liquid hydro-carbon that is always found at tha bottom of the [purifying boxes, and ' vaporize it in a metal dish in the closed «oom of the little patient. It almost al ways affords immediate relief, and the whooping will not return for hours. This liquid can be obtained at any gas works at little or no cost, and no expense need bo incurred for vaporizers. A table- spoonful or more may be evaporated at a time and repeated once a day or oftener. A large iron spoon makes a good evapor- atiug dish. It may be held over the flame of a lamp, or a coal shovel may be heated and the liquid poured into it and allowed to evaporate in the room of the patient. This treatment would probably bo beneficial in throat and lung troubles. It is safe, convenient and inexpensive.— Fall's Journal gf Health. The average time consumed by men in buying hats is seven minutes. The average time of the other sex is 177 minutes.—Detroit Free Frees. Faahlon Note*. Mourning veils are made long. Many ot the new calico patterns imi tate embroidery. The coal-scuttle shape is heralded as the coming bonnet. Polonaises appear on many pt the pat terns for summer suits. Tho condor and the canary bird furnish the rival colors in millinery. The greens and blues for spring and summer wear are very dark. Round hats are in picturesque shapes, with wide, soft brims, not wired. Black net veils, with polka dots of chenille, are worn in the street. Slashed sleeves, showing a gay lining underneath, are a promised novelty. Sword sashes will be worn by littl gii-js and little boys during the summer. A great deal of red and yellow is used in the patterns of the new woolen goods. Yeddo crape comes in deep reds and blues this summer as well as in soft colors. Steel and silver beaded laces are con spicuous among the new millinery fabrics. A very handsome finish to sheer white dresses is to have the white muslin edged with black lace. The orange blossoms seem to be get ting out of favor with brides, and has been replaced of late by white roses and jasmine. Fowers are arranged in large and small bouquets, and with or without leaves almost as one pleases, to form the waist bouquet. A new barege is really made of albatross down, unlike the albatross doth, which was pure wool. It comes in forty dif ferent shades. Corente Tout. The Oorean ande or boy is very fond of playing with little dogs. He puts a coat on Master Puppy, teaohing him to sit with his forepaws on his knees. When the dog grows up ho may be traino l to hunt the tiger. Tigers are very large and numerous in Gores. If you were to stop into the! parlor of a fine Corean house you would see a tiger skin spread out ns a rug. On this the lit tie boy plays, rollicking with his com panions, or beats the dram, on whioh a dragon is painted. For a rattle the Oo rean baby plays with the dried skin of a round flsh filled with beans. When the Oorean boys wish to “ play soldiers ”or imitate the king’s procession they can beat the dram, blow the trumpet and march with their spear-headed flags. These are made of silk, embroidered with flowers and tipped with white horse hair. In the middle there will be the royal chariot, with a top like a fringed umbrella, silken hangings, on brass- bonnd wheels. In this the king rides The big hats are as large as parasols and have plumes of red horse-hair. One has a flap around the edge to keep off the sun. The state umbrella, which is only held over men of high rank, is also tosseled with horse-hair dyed red. Tho Goreans are very fond of ornament, and all their flags, banners and fine articles of use are decorated with horse-hair, pheasant and peacock feathers or tiger- tails. .lag Mould on Wall street. No man can control Wall street, said Jay Gould to a Herald reporter. Well street is like tho ocean. No man eon govern it. It is too big, too vast. No man ought to attempt it. Wall street is fall of eddies and currents. The thing to do is to watch them, to exercise a little common sense, and on the wave ol speculation or whatever you please to call it to come in on top. To attempt ts direction and control wonld be aa wild os to try to turn back the Atlantio. Wall street is the arena in which the most daring men of the continent, the greatest speculators of a population of 50,000,000 of people—the majority of whem, each in his own sphere, is a spec ulator—meet. No one man can govern it or them. He who tries it is lost. Public opinion and the newspaper,whioh to a great extent mold publio opinion, magnify individual men in Wall street. One-half of wliat yon read and three- fotirtlia of what yon hear is pure ro mance. Wall street is the business barometer of tho country, and not only of this country but of the world, so far as our relations and the relations of tho world are interdependent. Wall street does not govern; it is governed. It does not control; it is controlled. They say combinations are formed, traps laid, springs set. In this age of instantane ous communication from San Francisco to St. Peterburg, the latest dispatoh will upset the most ounning combina tion that can possibly be formed. What le Wine Hade Off As wine merchants are petitioning the French government to put a stop to the manufacture of artificial wines, the pe titioners asserting that not one-third of the wine used in Paris is made of grapes, Americans will naturally won der what the spurious French wines are made of. An exchange says that there are a number of large factories near Paris in which wines are mode from rotten apples, damaged dried fruits of all kinds, beets and spoiled molasses. But there are not enough of these ma terials to make as muoh wine as is re quired by foreign trade. Turnip juioe has been worked over into wine, and Amerioan oider is the basis of millions of bottles of champagne, but good apples and turnips are too costly to be wasted on cheap wines, snehaa most Americans buy. Some of the temperance socie ties might find the returns they are after by satisfying public curiosity about what wines are made of. The result of the first systematic at tempt to ascertain the strength of Ju daism on this continent has just been made publio. Altogether returns re ceived from 1,000 places show that there are in the United States 278 con gregations with a membership of 12,546. Making allowance for the places not heard from the total Jewish population is placed at 250,000 souls. Of these about 12,000 are located in Pennsylvania. Tho oldest congregation in the country is the Shaary Showaym, of Lancaster, organized in 1776, while the Rodef Shalom, of Philadelphia, is the next oldest, having been organized in 1780. The riohest congregation is -the Temple Emmanuel, of New York, whioh, although only established in 1843, and having but 462 members, owns real estate and other property to the value of 9700,000. The publio in stitutions established by the sect in the United States include five hospitals, eleven orphan asylums and homes, and six free schools. Its dootrines are enunciated by seventeen newspapers and magazines.. The 278 congregations in America own between them property valued at $6,750,000, and over 13,00 children attend the religious schools. m A certain editor of a weekly paper made a practice of “stopping the press to announce,” it he had nothing of more importance to announce than a dog-fight. One week everything was as dull as a patent office report, buttherulingpassion cropped out as follows: “We stop the press to announce that nothing has occurred since we went to press of suffl-; oient interest to induce us to stop the press to announce it.”—Norristown Herald. . - v'! -.'I.- "'.V:' jV.