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THE DEAD LETTER,
BY JOHN O. 3AXK.
Aud can it be ? Ah, yes, I see,
‘Tin thirty year* and better
Since Mary Morgan ewnt to me
TUU musty musky letter.
A pretty hand, (ahu couldn't spell),
A* any man must vote it;
An 'twraa, a* I remember well,
A pretty hand that wrote it!
How calmly now I view it all
Kb memory backward ranges,
The talks, the walk*, that I recall,
And then—the postal change*!
How well 1 loved her I pan guess,
(Since earth is Oujud * hostago.
Just ono-and-Hixpence—nothing less—
This letter cost in postago!
The love that wrote at such a rate,
(Hy Jove ! it was u steep oue 1)
rive hundred note* (I calculate)
Was aertamlv a deep one :
Aud yet it died--of alow decline
Parhap* auspiciou chilled it}
I’ve ouiie forgotten if 'twa* mme
Or Mary’s flirting killed it.
At Ust the fatal message came .
“My letters—please return them ;
And yours—of course you wish the same—
MI sent them back or burn them.”
Two precious fool*, 1 must allow,
Which ever was the greater ;
I wonder if I'm wiser now,
Home seven lusters Inter ?
And (hut alone remained l Ah. well I
These words of warm affection,
The faded ink, the pungent smell,
Are food for deep reflection.
They tell of how the heart contrives
To change with fancy's fashion,
And how a drop of musk survive*
The strongest human passion !
THE SECRET TRIBUNAL
Brightly gleamed the lamps in tin; im-
Crial palace at Vienna, shining in their
)g rows upon a scene of gayety and glad
ness. As Edgar passed through tlio crowd
ed room, he paused to address the lord
chamberlain.
“Ah, my dear Marquis ! ” said the lat
ter, “I am delighted to see yon ; all the
world is here to-night; hut come with me,
I have a word for your private ear." He
drew him into a recess. “Marquis, you
have a rival for the hand of Adrianua.
See, she is in the next room, and notice
by her side that tall dark nobleman. It is
the Count of Palatine. He lias returned
from Italy. Without success, he has long
nought the band of your lady. This yvo
uing he has 1 *o*u ouimtaully by her sido ;
be means no good. Beware of him ; you
will Hud him a dangerous rival, for,” he
lowered bis voice to a whisper, “he is sup
posed to bo connected with the tribunal of
the Holy Vehme. You know its power;
but I am called. Farewell ! Remember
my warning.”
Wheu Edgar awoke the next morning
the bright sun was shining iu his chamber
window. Ha turned upon bis pillow and
started, "as if an armed foe bud liven
near.” Iu the very pillow on which his
head had been lying, buried to the hilt,
was a long dagger with a cord- twisted
around tlm handle, to which a slip of
parchment was attached. Tremblingly Ed
gar read,—
“You ate summoned to appear this night
at twelve o’clock before the Tribunal of
the Holy Velnno. A gudie will ho with
yon at eleven.”
Edward turned deadly pale as he read
the fearful words. A fearful summons it
was in truth, for rarely did any man leave
the presence of that dread tribunal a living
mar. Originating as it did, with some
who wished to preserve the law which
their rulers were unable to enforce, it soon
fell from its “high estate,” and became
the instrument in the hands of many for
perpetrating the most atrocious outrages.
The most powerful dukes ami the greatest
princes had been summom id to appear be
fore the Holy Velmie ; and too well did
Edgar know that he who failed to obey
their cull perished by the hand of n mid
night assassin.
Conscious of his innocence, lie deter
mined to he ready at the appointed hour,
ltising, bo sought Adrian on at the palace
of be.r father; to his astonishment and
grief he learned that she had that morning
left the city iu company with her father.
Slowly dragged the day along ; at length
the appointed hour arrived. Edgar heard
a kuock upon the door of his appartment,
aud he arose and opened it. A man cloth
ed in black, with a mask upon- his face,
entered the room.
"I am ready,” said Edgar.
“Come, tbeu,” suid the guide, “we have
t>o time to lose."
They descended into the street ; two
horses, saddled and bridled, stood before
the door. They rode rapidly through the
oity ; when they had passed the gate, the
guide turned to Edgar.
“Sir,” said he, "you must consent to be
blindfolded.”
“As you please,” said Edgar.
The guide drew a handkerchief from his
pocket and quickly blindfolded him. For
some time they rodo ou in silence; at
length they stopped. In an instant Edgar
felt himself lifted from his horse and hur
ried forward. They passed through what
appeared to him to boa long hall, then
down a stone staircase. A door was thrown
open, tho baudkerchief fell from his eyes,
and he stood in the presence of the Tri
bunal of the Holy Vehrne.
Seated around a long room were some
thirty or forty men, dressed in black robes,
with black masks upon their faces. At one
end was a raised platform, on which was a
table. Behind the table sat one who ap
peared to be the chief. By his side was
seated the secretary-. Two iron lumps
threw a dim light upon the scene.
'•Edgar, Marquis of Alloudule,” said
the chief, in a loud harsh voice, “you have
been summoned to appear be lore the Tri
bunal of the Holy Vehrne. ‘Tin well that
yon have obeyed our commands. Listen,
while the secretary reads the accusation."
The secretary rose and read from hie
parchment book :
“Edgar, Marquis pf Al]oq.dale, is charg
ed with having dared to aspire to the hand
cf a German Countess against her father's
consent and contrary to the law of our
land.”
“Your defense, young man ; ” said the
chief.
In an instant the truth flashed upon the
mind of Edgar. He was the victim of a
base conspiracy ; but who would summon
him thus ? Ah I it flashed through bis
brain like lightning ! It was the Count of
Palatine. H turned, fiercely,—
“Wretch, do you think your cunning
Artifice is not discovered ? That Ido love
the daughter of the Count of Merlin I will
avow before the world : but as for thee, I
will maintain—”
“He has confessed his guilt,” said the
chief, rising and clapping his hands. Two
men-at-arms entered. “Away with him;
you know his punishment.”
Edgar was seized and hurried away.
When they reached the hall through which
he before had passed, he was blindfolded.
He was then led along a second passage, a
door was opened, and the night breeze
plaped softly upon his heated brain.
s**#* * * * >A
All the day had Adrianna remained
mournfully within the castle of Dracken
fels. Her father had summoned her to de
part with him on the day after the im
perial ball, without assigning a reason for
his strange proceedings. The thought of
ber lover, mourning his absence preyed
upon the spirit of the gentle gtri.
(salW)cv's 3mVumticnt.
VOL. 111.
The day passed sorrowfully away, and
the night brought no relief to her troubled
heart. Finding all attempts to sleep wore
iu vain, she arose and seated herself at the
window overlooking tho garden. For a
tune she remained seated thorn gazing
upon the stars or at the bright moon, or
at tho silver waters of tiic lake that lay iu
the midst of the garden. She was gazing
upon the latter aud a statue of Venus that
stood by its side, when her attention was
arrested by the sight of men advancing up
one of tho walks that led to tho lake.
They were three iu number, aud two ap
peared to be dragging the other. They
reached the margin of the lake. The
moon, which hud been obscured by a
cloud, at that moment shone fortli upon
the sceue, and to her horror, Adrianua
saw tho dress aud countenance of her
lover.
Tho life blood turned to her heart, as
she saw that he was evidently a prisoner.
Oue of the men-at-arms walked to the
: statue of Venus, and simggd 4, b.V the loft
hand. It turned slowly®-*, trap door was
discovered, which one uMliem raised. She
saw one ot the men descend, then Edgar,
and then tho other. The stiltue swung
buck to its old place and nil was still-agaiu.
Still Adrianua gazed, as if fascinated, upon
the spot where they had disappeared.
Suddenly the statue turned again ; lirst
oue and the other of the uiou-ut arms came
forth ; lint the third person, Edgar, was
uot with them. Again oue of them touch
ed the left hand of Venus; ag‘Ugthe statue
was restored, aud ail was us befwc. Adrian
ua roso and tottered toward her couch ; but
before she reached it she fell insensible
upon the door.
When she recovered, she found it w
broad day, and thut sho was upon her bed,
surrounded by her attendants. Complain
ing of sickness, she dismissed them all.
As soon as they had left her, she rushed
to the window. All was still; the lake
shouo in all its placid beauty, and the
statue looked as it it had not been moved
for ages. Could it have been a dream ?
No ; the terrible scene was impressed too
strongly ou her mmd ; it must have been
reality.
But how eamo Edgar there ? Why was
he a prisoner ? Mini pondered on it for u
moment, when the thought of the Holy
Vehrne suddenly crossed her mind. All
thut she ever heard of this terrible tribu
nal rushed upon her. Her father’s sup
posed connection with it; the ('omit of
Palatine Ah, she saw it all ! Mho knew
the terrible nature of tho Count, his great
passions— his iron will ; this must have
been his work. But how to save her lover ?
Mho thought for a moment, and decided
upon her plan of action.
Night had come, and silence reigned
over the eastle of Drnckenfels. A figure
steals from a private portal aud glides very
rapidly across the garden, toward the lake.
It is Adrianna, Gliding behind the trees
she at length reached the statue. Mho
places upon the grounds lamp and a small
basket of provisions. Then leaching up
ward site grasps tho left hand of Venus.
A grating noise is heard, and the trap-door
lies open before her. She finds, as she
hail expected, a flight of steps ; slowly she
descends, pauses and lights her lamp. Mho
looks around; she is in what appears to
be a small chamber ; before her is an iron
knob ; almost micouseionsly she pulls it,
a grating noise is heard, the trap-door falls,
and the statue resumes its place. Alarmed,
she presses back the knob, again the sound
is heard, again the trap-door opens. De
lighted to have discovered the mode of
escape, she causes the trap-door to fail,
and then fearlessly begins to descend.
Down, down sho goes, far into the
ground, while the water drips from the
stones by her narrow staircase. Mho lias
arrived at the bottom ; before her is an
iron door, which is bolted upon the out
side ; t>ho draws back the bolt, enters the
coil, and is in the turns of her lover, and
weeping upon his breast, In a few mo
ments she was calm.
“Come, dear Edgar, let us leave this
dreadful place. I am fearful every mo
ment that the Count of Palatine will dis
cover us. You do not know that man as I
do. ”
Hastily refreshing himself with the food
she had brought, Edgar left the cell with
her, rejoicing in his escape. They were
about to ascend the stairs when the harsh,
grating sound, made by tho turning of the
statue, fell upon their cars.
“Quick, quick, Adrianna, blow out the
light, and come hither,” said Edgar.
As she extinguished the light, Edgar
drew her into a dark recess by the side of
the cell door.
“Keep silent, and we are saved,” said
he to the tremblum girl.
The heavy trcair of a man descending
tho stairs was heard. Soon they saw the
glimmer of light, and the Count of Pala
tine stood before tho cell door. A entile
of malicious pleasure was upon his coun
tenance.
“Well, my pretty stranger, we will see
if you have come to your senses yet. If
not, this must finish the business.”
As he spolce he drew a long dagger from
his breast, aud grimly surveyed the point.
Then replacing it, he entered the cell.
To rush forward, shut the door, and run
the bolt, was with Edgar the work of a
moment. Seizing Adrianna in his arms,
he ran nastily up the stair-case. When
they had arrived at the landing Adrianna
pulled the Knob, and in a moment they
were in the garden of the castle.
The statue was replaced, and the Count
of Palatine left to the fate lie so richly
merited. Edgar and Adrianna proceeded
to the stables, mounted their horses, aud
before the morning sun had risen were far
beyond pursuit.
They reached England in safety, and
were married. Though both lived to see
the secret tribunals, in a great measure,
destroyed, yet never did Edgar hear them
mentioned that he did not think with hor
ror of the terrible night, and tho fearful
death, to which he whs doomed by the
Tribunal of the Holy Vehrne.
Quick Tbbegbaphin'o.—The land wires
and sea cables have now beeii extended so
as to cover nearly three-fourths of the cir
cumference of the globe. Were a cable
laid under the Pacific, the circuit would
be complete. Telegrams can now be sent
to Hong Kong, by way of India and Eng
land, to Man Francisco, and it was only
within a short time that a telegram, leaving
Hong Kong Tuesday morning, was re
ceived in New York Tuesday night, whence
it could have been sent in a few minutes
to San Francisco had thatcity been its des
tination.
A yonng lady who had no time to spare
for making garments for the pour lias been
engaged threo weeks embroiding a blanket
for her poodle dog.
QUITMAN, GrA., FRIDAY, .11 LY 2L 1*75.
Scienee vs Robbery.
MoN.tritUßii, July 7. —Shortly after 12
! this morning, Charles A. cashier of
! the Barre Bank, and his wife, vith their
little girl, were peacefully sleeping in a
chamber of his house in Gospclville, about
j a quarter of a mile from the bank, when
they were suddenly aroused by a shout
and a red flash of light from a bull's eye
lantern. Starting up, Mr. King says, he
saw four men standing .over the bed.
One said, “Hush; noth bit of noise,
I ami no one will bo hurt. 1 suppose you
know what we came for." Mr. King said,
“Yes.”
They then requested him to get up and
dress, which he did, delaying as long as
possible. Tho burglars tore a pillow,case
iu two strips, made a small gag and put it
|on Mr. King's mouth. Then they reques
ted Mrs. King to get up, which she did,
! wrapping a sheet around her. One of
1 them took the child iu his arms. The
| mother said, “Keep quiet, darling ; you
I shan’t be hurt.” Going down stairs with
j the mother rnd child, leaving Mr. King
with the keeper, they placed two chairs in
a small bedroom and seated them. Screw
ing some rings into tho floor, they strap
ped their aukles to them with leather
straps and tarred ropes, placed handcuffs
nil their wrists and otherwise socured
them. Leaving them in the cure of a
young man about twenty years old, charg
ing him to keep close watoli, they pro
ceed with Mr. King to the bank, one
walking some five rods in tho front and
the other in the rear, while a third led
i him. The front aud rear guard, taking
| the kuyes, went to the bank, while ho
| was left behind a ulrort distance. After
reconuoitoring the premises, they rcturn
!< and and took him into the bank. Mr. King
! opened the vault, taking as much time as
J could. Here they found sl,llOO in nn
| signed bills, which had been received
from the government the previous even
j ing. These they immediately appropria
ted to their own use ; also about $l5O in
I revenue stamps.
Inside of the vault was a safe secured
j by a time-lock, which had been set to open
[at nine o’clock Wednesday morning. It
; contained all the valuables of the hank,
. some SO,OOO in currency and a large
! amount of bonds. Guo of the fellows or- j
j derail Air. King to open the safe, when he j
iiu formed them it had a time-luck. They
then probed tho kuye-liole to see if it
I could be opened with powder, but liuul-
I ly gave up the work.
All this occupied about an hour, after
j which they took Mr. King back to his
( house, placed him in a chair beside his
i wife and child, and strapped him to it and
i tho floor. The gag was then taken out of
| his mouth, and the burglars were then
| given a glass of milk and water, and a
| enp of cold chocolate, which Mrs. King
t told them where to find. All of this time |
; there w< re three lights burning about the i
j house. The burglars were' also joking i
! each other and eating and drinking. They j
finally took their departure about half past i
j one a. m., bidding Mr. King aud wife
good bye with mock courtesy and sarcasm.
Home fifteen minutes later Mr. King
| freed bimselt from his bonds. Both he
j and bis wife had been handcuffed. An
| attempt was made to handcuff the child,
I but sbo easily drew her littlo hands
through the iron bracelet. Mr. King ran
1 to the house of Mr. Cruley, the President j
lof the bank, having c::!y his pants and j
' slippers. He went, to the Cottage Hotel i
land called Mr. Ordwuy from his bed, who!
went to McGovern’s blacksmith shop and |
got a cold chisel with which they cut the
chain of the shackles and afterwards un
locked them with a key which they for
i innately found. Messrs. Ordwuy and Ahl-
I rich then took a team from •Jackson’s sta-
I files and came to montpieler, where they
i made a call on Deputy Sheriff Tuttle,
I reaching the capital about 4 A. M.
The telegraph operator was next roused,
j ami dispatches were forwarded to St. Al-
I ban’s and iu all directions. To one of
these Mr. Tuttle afterwards received a re
j ply from Radford stating that persons
| answering the description of the burglars
Itll.ni>! VIIW lll.l> I1JJI,1"I1 til'/ will f/uiu
had crossed the Piermotit, N. H., bridge
nt six a. ni., with Sheriff Juokman in close
pursuit. Mrs. King says she informed
the young man who was left with her af
ter the others had gone to the bank about
the time lock and that they would get no
money. On hearing this he almost swoon
ed away and said it was the first job of
the kind he had ever attempted. She
says he treated her and tho chlid very re
spectfully. Tho burglars had a double
and a single team. The former was thought
to be the one which Mr. Dudley of this
place let last night go to Mutsfii Id. One
them was hitched, while they were, at
work, in the horseshed of tho Umversal
ist church at Barre, and the other at the
fence of the cemetery.. At the former
place they left a burglar’s jimmy. They
were perfectly armed and equipped, and
wore white dominoes over their faces aud
brown overalls.
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The Stockings of the Period.
The Paris shops are full of tho most fan
ciful designs in ibis one detail of feminine
attire. They are made in cream color,
lemon color, orange, yellow, straw color,
pink, pale blue, pale green, lilac, light
brown, dark brown, crimson, scarlet, pur
ple—in short, in every shade of every col
or. But the precise tbit i only half tho
question ; the designs worked upon the
stockings are by fur the most important
pdrt of it, as regards fashion, and these
are of the most varied description.
One pair of stockings which excited
much admiration from the passers of a
certain well-known shop iu Paris was in
lemon color, and the instep of each foot
was covered with bunches of bluck cur
rants, with their twigs and leaves, most
delicately embroidered in the colored silks.
Another example of ornamentation lay
close at hand, in the form of a black silk
stocking, round the leg of which a garter
of pink rosebuds aud leaves winding up
ward from tbe ankle was exquisitely em
broidered. This last fashion is very pop
ular just now. Stockings so embroidered
are, of course, enormously dear. Few
women can afford to buy many such ex
pensive articles of dress as these garlanded
stockings ; therefore it becomes a matter
of eager competition among the leaders of
fashion to secure as many specimens of the
latest rage as their purses will allow. The
mania is justified, and henceforth the wo
man of tho world takes lank according to
her stockings. Garlands of flowers do nut
hold the field alone, it must bo observed.
Iu some cases inscriptions and devices are
embroidered round the legs of the modern
stockings, and rows and patterns are work
ed in colored silk star-- or spots. The
ground, however, of >' York must, on
no account, be
The “Fever Tree.”
The eucalyptus, or blue gum tree of
Australia was discovered by a French
I scientist, Lalullurdiere, who visited Van
j Diemen's Laud iu 1792. Tho great size
j and beauty of tho tree soon gave it aplace
in tho botanical gardens ol Europe, its
medicinal qualities, however, for which it
lis now so famous, do not seem to have
become known until about thirty years
ago. The colonists of Tasmania used it
| for a great variety of purposes, but were
1 ignorant of its power as an antiseptic,
j This was apparently discovered in Spain.
!In 1860 the neighborhood of the city of
j Valentia was planted with, the eucalyptus,
j A marked improvement in the healthful
lness of tho locidity followed. The Span
iards forthwith dubbed it tlie “fever tree.”
It was soon afterward introduced into
j Algeria, tho olimatc of which seemed
j especially adapted to it. It may fairly bo
said to be naturalized there, at tho Capo
lof Good Hope, iu tho La I’latta States of
| South America, and iu'California.
After a trial for rnuyiy years in Southern
| France, it has failed, as a rule, to become
hardy, or to suck up and destroy tho
I poisonous vapors of the swamps in which
■it was planted. The few dozen specimens
| which were planted within the walls of
I Rome aro nearly all alive, but very few of
' them are vigorous. 'Within a year or two
Hie Trnppists Monks at tho Tro Nontaue
Convent have sot out large plantations of
' the trees, and are tending them with tho
! utmost care. This may bo fairly looked
upon as a decisive experiment. The place
known as tho Tro Fontune—tho three
Fmintaius -lies some miles south of Rome,
I and is the seat of a magnificent monastery.
Yet its climate is so deadly that the splendid
buildings, rich in mosaics, marbles mud
frescoes, are wholly deserted during tho
summer. Trying to live in them then
would be certain death. If the blue-gum
tree makes tho Tro Fontano healthy, it
can bo relied on to do the same work any
where else. Its record as an autiseptid
and disinfectant is already a good one.
The districts in which it is indigenous
are healthy, and into which it has been
transplanted and in which it has thrived
have become healthy. A few miles from
the city of Algiers there was a farm which
was noted for its deadly fevers. Life on {
it in July was almost impossible, in the
spring of 1807 thirteen hundred eucalyptus
trees were planted there. They were nine
feet high by the next July, and not a ease
of fever appeared. Nor lias one appeared
since. Near Constantine, Algeria, there
were vast swamps, never dry even in the
hottest summers, and productive of violent t
periodic fevers. About fourteen thousand j
eucalyptus trees dried up every square loot j
of swamp and killed tho fever. Maison
Carree, near llanaseh, was ouce a great
market for quinine. The demand for that j
drug has caused since tho blue-gum tree
was planted there. Mercantile books are
said to Show a similar dee.iue in the
amount of quinine consumed iu Mexico j
and Cuba of late, aud a similar cause is I
given for it. Avery unhealthy railroad j
station in the Departinentof Var, Suuthern ;
France, has been made healthy by a grove
of forty of these remarkable trees.- Chica
go Times,
■ *.
How Cupid Stubbed His Toe.
Jersey City is amusing itself with a bit
of gossip which is very amusing to all save
one person, and that person a young lady.
Some time ago a grocer of Jersey City,
well-to-do, young and handsome, fell in
love with a pretty school teacher, arid was
apparently loved tremendously in return.
The two became engaged, and would, per
haps, now be married, but for an accident.
The school-marm, in talking with a young
lady friend one day, confided to her the
fact that, the grocer had plenty of money,
and that as soon ns they were married they
were going to live in a brouriwfpne house
on a certain fashionable etreW. Tire friend
told another friend in confidence, and so
the thing traveled until it reached the cars
of the grocer. Ho wus astonished. He
had dreamed of a pleasant little, home over
his store, with a wife to sympathise with
his objects and to aid him, not a wife to
spend his start toward a fortune in mere
display. It dawned upon him that tho
school teacher might be in love with his
money rather than with him, and he con
sulted an old friend, a regular Major Pei>
dennis. Major Pendennis had u sugges
tion. He proposed that the lover should
put on an air of deep dejection before his
lady love, Slid only after a time explain re
luctantly that lie lmd loaned his money
without good security, and lmd been ruin
ed. The grocer, graceless wretch, follow
ed the advice of "the heartless bachelor,
and was dumbfounded at tlie result. The
school teacher became as cold as Diana,
and finally jilted him. He got back some
silver ware and a gold watcli and other
things he had given her, and that was the
end of the love affair. Eventually the
truth came out, and there was woo in the
shoemaker’s family. Her mother made
advances to the grocer with a view to re- j
conciliation, but the grocer wouldn’t recon
cile. And Jersey Oity, just as auy other
city would, rolls tho gossip under its tongue
and chuckles.
The Fikht Steamboat. — At Slieperds
town, in Jefferson county, West Virginia,
the first steamboat was built. General
Washington aud -Governor Johnson, of
Maryland, were the patrons of the enter
prise. After the war, they procured to
gether the incorporation of tho l’otomac
by their respective States. And in 1785,
ltumsey demonstrated to them on the Po
tomac the discover} 1 that a boat could be
propelled by steam up stream against the
current. The boiler and machinery for
Rumsey’s steamboat were made at the Ca
tootiu Iron furnace, in Frederick county,
owned by Johnson and some of his broth
ers. The gentlemen of the Potomac coun
try then used to go to tho Baltimore
Springs, to drink the waters, und this ex
periment of Rumacy’s, of steam navigation,
was certified to have been a success by
Washington, Johnson and other men pres
ent. The first steamboat was propelled on
the Potomac ; the first boiler was made in
Frederick county, twenty years before Fill
ton perfected the idea and applied it on
tbe Hudson.
“Well, Mr. Miller,” said a Yankee,
proudly, to a traveling Scot, as they stood
by the Falls of Niagara* “Is it not wonder
ful? In your country you never saw any
thing like that.” “Like that!" said the
Scot; “there’s a far muir wonderfu’ con
cern no wa miles fra whar I war born.”
“Indeed!” exclaimed Jonathan, with an
air of superscillous skepticism, “and pray
what kind of concern may it be?” "Wcel,
man,” replied Sawney, “it’s a peacock
with a wooden leg.
For the Ladies.
Madras plaids are greatly worn.
All styles of flshus are fashiouablo.
Bows have taken the place of buttons on
dresses.
The knife pleated linen collars are still
popular,
The fronts of basques are all longer than
the backs.
Laces and fringes are tho only trimming
now used for silks,
| Knife pleutiuga are used on all materials,
, either thick or thin.
Watteau plaits are coming up again, par
ticularly for party costumes.
It is said that combination suits will be
worn all the next fall and winter.
Bustles are made as narrow as possible,
and now very few are worn at all.
Llama laee saeques and mantles are tho
only wraps used for summer weather.
A liueu suit of gray aud dark blue is cool,
and dressy for mormug anil street use.
The fiirhionable color for stockings this
duty weather is dirt color without*atripcs.
Striped nudfplakl oollarl and cull’s are
more stylish when worn for traveling pur
poses.
A dressy lingerie to wear with handsome
visiting suits is Valenciennes, slightly
niched.
The Foulard calico suits are very popu
lar and cool, aud they are very dressy for
breakfast use,
For summer brill drosses white muslin,
trimmed with black velvet, are very popular
and simple.
Batiste embroideries, consisting of in
serting and borderi-ngn arc shown iu ecru,
brown? gray and blue.
Pearl jewelry and embroidery for wed
dings is much used. It is now put on slip
pers and tho wrists of gloves.
Tulle veils are the coolest for this weather,
though of no protection to tho skin, they
rather encourage freckles.
A pretty and sinple way to trim a sleeve
is to finish it at the wrist with a double
cornet-shaped trimming, with a bow in the
centre.
The newest parasols are those of black
or brown gros gran, trimmed with white
yak or thread luce, about one and a quar
ter inches wido.
Polonaises have not disappered entirely.
They are used for ucgligo costumes, aud
aro worn at the watering places at breakfast
and for morning walks.
For traveling costumes, very little trim
ming is necessary, and no jewels should be
worn, other than a watch and chain. Plain
liile thread gloves should be the glove used.
Cremo de la Creme is tho name for the
yellow white silk, which is so much used
for scarfs and bonnet trimming. This is a
soft twilled silk, very delicate becoming
and expensive.
Muslin overskirts and jackets arc made
this season in many varieties, ami for even
ing nothing is more dressy and cool than
these accompaniments to a black liluo ur
browr. silk.
Tho most fashionable veil of the season is
white tulle, with largo mesh, or small mesh
with white chenille dot. Sold by the yard.
Some get enough to put all round thebon
not and then over the lace.
Skirts are clinging closer and closer to tho
figure throughout this heated terra. Elastic
bands are substituted for strings that were
I formerly used, so that they may give to the
‘ person as she sits down without breaking.
—
How Vanderbilt Became Rich.
Commodore Vanderbilt seemed to be in
an unusual communicative mood and be
bad made tho following suggestions to the
reporter: “When you have lived to carry
us many gray hairs as Ido you will have
learned that there is little sympathy with
or appreciation of your efforts, it matters
little what may bo the circumstances. If
you aro successful in accumulating a for
tune yon will bo called a speculator and a
monopolist, while if you should fail to
amass riches, it will he about the same, as
you will be talked of in that case as one
who does not amount to much anyhow. I
have never speculated on the market, and
regard it as nothing less than a gambling
operation. When I was 30 years old I
had been working for several years for my
employer at 81,000 a year, anil when I left
him I had not more th .ii $20,000, all told.”
“After a long and very successful fife
Commodore, wimt in your opinion is the
true secret of success iu making money ?”
“Save what you have and live within
your income. No matter what I was mak
ing, I always made it a rulo to save some
thing, and this course, if persisted iu, is
sure to succeed. The money will pile up in
time. While I was working for the gen
tleman I referred to n moment ago, I per
suaded him to let me use the profits I
should realize in the business in further
extending it.
This I did until it had grown so large
that in his eyes the amount was too large
to risk, and he refused to let me go ahead
any longer although ho had such con
fidence in me as to offer me a partnership,
which I declined. Since then I have been
operating for myself. 1 did not accept
the partnership because I knew his other
partners and I could not agree, and I nev
er could quarrel where I was one of the
interested persons. I did not object to
insisting upon the rights of my employer
as long as I was not directly interested,
but to enter into a partnership where I
knew I should liavo to maintain my own
lights by repeated quarreling, was more
than I would agteO to do.”
A Brussels paper gives a painful account
of the ex-Empress Charlotte of Mexico.
Her physical condition is good, but lier
mental condition is hopeless. Sho lives
in constant communication with imaginary
beings, and dislikes the presepc i of any
living person. She speaks only when
obliged to do so. and gives orders to her
attendants in writing. She dresses her
self without permitting assistance, takes a
fixed walk in the park .every morning
when fine, frequently plays on tho piano
forte, and sometimes draws and paints with
decided taste. She recognizes no visitors,
not even,her brother, King Leopold or
the queen. Tho hitter always accompa
nied the physician on his monthly visit,
when, in reply to his inquiries as to her
health, tho empress coldly says sho is well,
and immediately retires. She has become
stouter, and shows a tendency to corpu
lency, but at present it is stated that this
has only increased her beauty, which is
now truly striking.
It was in Chicago, the other evening
and, it demonstrates tho difference in two
dispositions. A little man, with an auburn
nose, kissed his young wife and said he
was glad to get homo so early to be with
her, and she only opened her eyes aud
yelled: "Oh, Poll. Sheridan, you’vy boen
drinking again u’u't you';”
The Man with an Item.
[Detroit Froo Press.]
It wasn’t right, and future generations
i wiil say it wasn't. He canto trumping up
! stairs, tossed his hat .on the table, and as
j lie sut down iu a chair he carelessly re
marked :
“Suppose you’d like a big item ? ”
“Yes, of course," replied the lone re
porter.
“I haven’t been to any' other paper with
it,” he continued, its he leaned forward ;
“I’ve taken tho Area Press for tweuty-nino
years, aud I’ve walked four miles to give
you this item.”
“Well, I’m very much obliged, indeed.
What is the item."
“Well, you know the Grand Truuk
Junction 1"
“Yes, out hero about throe miles from
the Oity Hall.”
“Well, it was about a milo beyond that.
Me an’ another fellow was coming iu on
the track. Ho was a stranger, aud seemed
down-hearted and gloomy ; said lie didn’t
care two cents whether he lived or died.”
“Poor fellow I Can you describe him ?”
j “Y'os, he was about five feet six ; had red
; hair, big feet, coarse clothes, bluo eyes
and no whiskers.”
"Well, go on.”
“We’d got within a mile of the junction
when the express train from the east came
thundering along.”
“Yes."
“And of course we stepped off the
track.”
“Y’os.”
“I wasn’t looking for nor expecting any
such thing, you know, for the man didn’t
let on nor betray himself by word nor
look. If I’il only suspected it, why I could
have grabbed him.”
“Yea ; I see."
"Well, we stood facing the train. I
was a leetle ahead of him, and wlmt did
he do ns the train got within 111 rue hun
dred feet of us.”
“Rushed ou the track ? ”
“No ; not that. Ho made a jump for
tho rail, kneeled down, and—”
"Great blazes, but it was awful!” in
terrupted the reporter.
“Awful? I guess it was. I was never
so weak ill my life. He deliberately laid
bis neck on the rail, shut his eyes, and—”
“And the loeomotivo took his head
clean off, ” shouted the reporter, springing
up.
“No. As I was saying, ho deliberately
laid his neck on the rail, held it there —”
“And was mashed I "
“No, sir—held it there for a moment
aud then—”
“And was then struck by the pilot!”
“No, sir—and then lie deliberately took
it off again, and is now in a suloon around
the corner inquiring fnr a job.”
The reporter leaued back aud looked at
him for a long time.
The stranger leaned back and looked at
the reporter.
Nothing disturbed the deep silence but
the ticking of the clock.
By and liy the man with the item looked
up at the skylight, down at the floor, and
softly slid out into the hall and was gone.
Useful knowledge.
Sweet oil rubbed ou tho skill is said to
be a sure antidote for ivy poison.
A putty of starch and chloride of zinc
hardens quickly, and lasts, as a stopper
of holes in metals, for mouths.
Frosted glass, useful for screens, etc., is
made by laying the sheets horizontally
and covering them with a strong solution
of sulphate of ziuc. Tho salt erystatizes
on drying.
A good welding composition is made of
borex fused with oue-sixteenth its weight
of sal ammoniac, cooled, pulverized and
combined with an equal weight of quick
lime. Tho compound is sprinkled on the
red-hot iron, aud tho latter replaced in
the fire.
Mahogany Staining.—Wash the wood
be to stained with diluted nitric acid, ten
parts of water to one of acid. For rose
wood, glaze tho same with carmine or
Munich lake. Asphultum, thinned with
turpentine, forms an excellent mahogany
color for new work.
Land Drains. —An excellent subsoil
drain may be made by digging a trench
and filling in the bottom with sticks of
wood, compressing them together with
the feet, and then covering them with the
mold. The affectiveness of such a drain
will euduro for several years, and the finul
decay of the wood will serve to enrich the
soil.
Spirits of turpentine poured upon seed
corn before planting, and thoroughly
mixed by Htirring, so that all the seeds
shall be impregnated with it, is a specific
for the terrible ravages of the cut-worm.
Put one quart of turpentine to a bushel of
corn, or iu that proportion, which is suf
ficient, and corn comes up two or three
days quicker when thus treated. Besides
tho scent of the turpentine, which can be
detected several weeks after the planting,
aids much in keeping crows at a distanoe,
Says tho Massachusetts Ploughman:—
Green rye or clover may be cut green and
fed to tho horse in the stall to better ad
vantage than turning out to pasture. But
probably a liberal supply of Swedish tur
nips or rutabagas cut in slices and literal
ly covered with Indian meal will fluy on
fat as fast as it is desirable. It is, we think,
about the best substitute for green food,
gives a soft and glossy coat, an elastic step
and lino spirits. Wo do not think the
yellow, or Swedish turnip is appreciated
as it ought to be, as a food for horses.
A Cruel Rebuff.
While tho balloon was filling at tho park
yesterday a curious young man made him
self conspicuous for a brief season by ask
ing a rapid series of close questions con
cerning tho art of air navigation. Having
secured from Taylor all the information
possible, he accepted an invitation to seat
himself on a carboy from which the acid
laid been emptied, except so much us re
mained on the top. This trifling remain
der of acid assimilated itself rapidly with
that part of his pantaloons which oame in
contact with it. Then it took hold of the
slrin, and the young man stood up. It bit
again, und lie glared wildly around for nn
iiiHtant and started for town. He did not
wait for any street cur or bus, but ha just
let himself out, and distanced every one on
the road. He seemed in a hnrry to see
someone, and ou business of considerable
importance. But when be finally bolted
into Hie first drug store, ho meekly whis
pered, "Swe. t oil. For heaven’s sake,
some sweet oil,"almighty quick I” —Utica
Herald.
Recent advices from tho Sandwich Is
lands stuto that “rum is digging the grave
sf tho Hawaiian race.”
Fun and Frolic.
What is the form of an escaped parrot?
A polly-golle.
Ohio men are bashful. Oue bit? under a
hog pun for half a day rather than testify
iu a lawsuit
It seems like n great waste to port a
buckle six inohes square oil a waist only
six inches iu circumference.
Why is a pig the most provident of ani
mals ? Because lie always curries a ifpMW
rib or two about him.
The Cardiff giant is to be sold to a BU
Francisco Chinaman for an idol, though
he has been idle for a long time.
Even a country prenoher don’t consider
it lying to tell yon his town has 16,000
inhabit unis when the census only makes it
0,781.
Why is a church bell more affable than
a church organ? Because one will go when
it is tolled, but the other will be “blowed’*-
first,
It. is said that there are only three wo
men in tndiuna who cull make a good
cup of coffee, nnd these thrus don't have
any to make.
One of A. T. Stewart's clerks has 144
pairs of pantaloons, whioh is more than
Dr. Mary Walker hud before sho went to
live with tho sultan.
A Pennsylvania ladies’ man says be is
never satisfied that his lady friends under
stand a kiss, unless ho bus it from their
own months.
A Boston paper condemns tho practice
of yelling “whoa!" at runaway horses.
Yus, it is menu. The better way is to jb
at'em with a fence-rail.
NO. 12.
Boarding school uiiss: “O, Charlie! I
expect to graduate at next commence
ment.” "Graduate? Wlmt will you gradu
ate iu?” “Wliy, in white tulle!”
A postal card picked up in tho street at
Norwich, Conn., the other day, bore this
solemn appeal: “Deer mary for luv of God
send me a pare of pants.”
Tho negroes around Louisville no longer
seek night’s rest under freight Cars stand
ing ou a switch. It got so that the depot
yard was lumbered up with heads and
legs.
A tipsy fellow, who mistook a globe
lump, with letters on it, for the queen of
night, exclaimed: "Well, I’ll be (hie) blest,
if Homebody hain’t stuck an advertisement
on the (hie) moon.”
A skiff’containing an old man came so
near going over a two-foot mill-dam iu
lowa tho other day, that “he was drawn
back just as death had reached out its bra
zen hand to clutch his wrinkled throat.”
A Chicago girl just one month married,
upon meeting an old schoolmate iu the
street, put on a very wise look and remark
ed: “You oaunot iuiugiue tho labor and
auxiety incident to the oure of a fami
ly.”
A Philadelphia baker has informed the
police that he has an irresistible desire to
bake his wife, and they have locked him
up. Philadelphians now pull their loaves
apart and look for baked baker's wives.
Two represenatives of the “ruling class
es” have recently held this colloquy:
“Honest men are kinder skecrce now,
Juke.” “Yes,” sayH Jake; “wo uus is the
sort that the cholery is nllers particularly
hard on.”
A Nebraska woman has papered hdr
cabin with the report of tho Beecher trial,
and now she makes wushing-duy shorter,
and causes time to fly while at her knitting
by perusing the cheerful pages on tho
wall.
Thera are 7,000 store clerks working ill
New Y’ork city on salaries averaging 810
per week, but they couldn’t part their
hair iu the centre if they were working
on farms or in shops und making thrico
the wages.
One of our adopted citizens seeing a
bunch of bananas the other day, stood in
silent astonishment for about a nijnuto,
and then broke out: ‘ Begorra, them
Yanks beat the devil, aud now they nail
pickles to a stick.”
A New Orleans man will sit on a log lu
the boiling sun aud fish all day aud feel re
warded with one bite, aud yet if his wife
wants a pail of water brought he will ex
claim: “Oh, yes—keep right on—fix me
for burial I”
A Chicago man thinks thut tho Indians
ought to be exterminated, bocunso, after
all William Penn’s kindness to them, “they
went aud made him stand up one day, anil
shoot an apple offhis little boy's houd with
au arrow.”
Red Cloud has reached homo, and as ha
stumls on an empty barrel viewing tbe set
ting sun, while Mrs, Red Cloud is dressing
for the opera, ho hitches up his trowsera
and says: “I’d like to soe myself hump it
out o’liere,” or words to that effdbt.
A young man calls a “Jabot” an article
of ladies’ attire “used at the neck when a
pointed standing collar is worn, so that
she can jabot in your eye whom you are
fooliug around there.” Pretty good evi
dence that ho has been fooling around
there.
A gentleman in addressing tho charming
Lady X., who has just ro-married in Paris
for the third time, said reproachfully,
“You do not come to London any longer?”
“Oh, yes,”she replied in a most natural
manner, “I always pass my widowhoods
there.”
Now the maiden who attends school
prepares to graduate, and the man who
will frown her down when she stands up
in white muslin, with pink bows, and reads
a short essay on “Art—Past and present,”
or “The Story of a Flower,” is no friend
of ours.
“D’ye see that?” asked Nancy Baldwin,
of Chicago, pointing to a tight board
fence, twelve feet high. “Well, when I
tell my old man Jake to climb that you
bet he climbs," and just then an old fellow
with a orutch and one eye hobbled in and
that was Jake.
A little man with a three hundred and
fifty pounder for a wife has a good enotigh
time unless she is able to jump up and
knock her heels together twice before
touching the floor aguio. In thut oase it
is more than probable that he will have an
exciting time of it.
A lady, returning from nu unprofitable
visit to church, declared that “when slie
saw tho shawls on those Smiths, and then
thought of the things her own poor girls
had to wear, if it wasn’t for the consolation
of religion she did not know what sho
should do.”
Western papers speak of an opern bouffo
singer with a mouth so large that two den
tists worked on her lower teeth nt tho
same time, without in any way hindering
the work of another tooth contractor, who
was putting up a staging to do a little job
on the upper teeth.
A few days sinoe a farmer was telling in
our henring that he had plunted an aero
aud a half of potatoes, and he feared they
would be destroyed by the potato bugs.
“Are the plants up yet?” asked a bystan
der. “No,” replied the farmer, “but the
darned bugs are sitting on every hill wait
ing for them.”
A Lowell man keeps up his woodpile by
making bets that his wife can saw and
split two cords iu twelve hours. The poor
woman is so vain of her husbauds’s praise
that she never can be brought to see the
speculation in it.