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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. - -*•*. -• 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.