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*9$ JMBER io, 1892'. BRIGHT BITS OF GOSSIP, WRITTEN FOR WOMEN AND ABOUT THEM. l Ilomr Nude TurkUh llnth—now Cel ery li Ncrrr.l -A Fnrorlle Per fume- Goa.lpr Noteu* An; one onn fix up a Turkish or ■vapor bath in his own bedroom at little or no expense. A woodseated chair can be placed over a tub of boiling •water, and the bather has only to sit «u the chair and cover himself from bis shoulders downward with a heavy blanket to get a flrst-olass vapor bath. Some people vary the arrangement by putting hay into the tub as well as the boiling water, but this is unnecessary, and only adds to the trouble and mess. The problem of how to serve celery has been solved, at least temporarily, in the prevailing fashion of laying two or three choice stalks at the side of each plate. Nobody regretted the retirement of the tall celery vases, but the flat dishes were about equally as awkward nnd inconvenient. The pre sent idea is sensible and satisfactory, and should be preserved. The huge muffs that look as if one were hiding one’s hands in a drum- major’s lint horizontally placed arc appearing, a notable contrast to the dainty bits of silks and feathers which did duty only last season. White lilac is the present favorite in perfumes, but no liquid preparations can equal the subtle fragrance of saohet powders. Little scented bags can be sewed into the facings of dresses and also in the' hems of silk skirts. Victoria silk is a new, soft variety, not unlike sicilienne, and is much used for evening wraps. I11 oream white tints it Is also the latest Parisian ele gance for evening dresses. The linings of seal and fur-trimmed cloaks are unusually gorgeous this season. Palo brocades, gay tartans, brilliant silks and high-colored satin effects are common. SATISFIED WITH IIKH 8U It HOUND I NOS. As Corydon and Phyllis full* Paused In tho sliado to rest, Ho throw his nnns around her tlicro And drow her to his brenst. If I had gold, ho said to her, ’Twould bo my dearest duty To soo that your surroundings were Polltting to your beauty. Sweet Phyllis blushed and softly sighed A sign of deep content, And whispering said, Pm sntisfled With my environment. -Life. BhcTdould Teft A French ohroniqueur records an interesting and perhaps valuable dis covery on the part of a child of a means of ascertaining whether peo ple are young or not. The child, a little girl, had been playing merrily in the country with a gentleman who was known to have come very close, to say the least, to his fiftieth^iear. The little girl’s mother, seeking for her, came up just as she left this gentleman’s company. ‘‘What have you been doing, my dear!” the mother asked. “Oh, I’ve been playing with that young man over there.” The mother smiled. “What is your way of telling when people are young, deart” she asked. "Oh,” answered the little one, "young people are those that have a good time I” A Kait Application of a Proverb. When Frau von Eisenhart one day thanked the late Dr. Dollinger for a gift of a little hook, he replied “There is an old proverb, ‘Lee petita cadeaux entretiennent l’amitio.’ Mon tesquieu applied it once very happily. He was at variance on some parlia mentary question with a gentleman of position and influence, hut who was also somewhat bigoted. Twould stake my head on it,’ said the latter to Montesquieu, ‘And I accept it gladly,’ Montesquieu replied, ‘for trifling presents cement friendship. ’ A Peculiar Apology. A. —Sir, I must request you not to Btare at my daughter. B. —I beg ten thousand pardons, thought she was only your wife.— Texas Siftings. ■ How to get a Georgia exhibit at the World’s Fair should be one of the most important measures before our legis lature. Feeling In the Gober trial is so strong that it has been deoided that the arguments must be handed in in writing. It was feared that the law yers in the case would come to blows. It appears from a distance that the whole trial has been characterized bf * feeling of intense prejudice. 60L. GRAHAM, ’OF POSEY^COUNTY. 0. Rerfateri In HI. English Clothes, bn. He’ll Never 1)0 It Again. Colonel Graham, latje of Posey county, Ind., had a very fretful time with the hoard of registry in his district. “Why, do you know,” the colonel said, "I never was so insulted in my life. It was perfectly awful. There was a regular bench show of inspec tors there, sir.” The colonel has recontly returned from London. He is very proud of being an American, hut of course when a man lives for six months ill England he buyB some English clothes. At any rate the colonel did. * ‘These clothes are all right in their way,” said the colonel, looking down with pride at his long brown over coat, with plaits marking tho top of the skirts in the back; “they’re all right, don’t you know, except that they are a bit noticeable in New York. Now what right had that in spector to talk to me in that wayl What right, sir?” The colonel left Indiana many years ago, nnd he claims the right to vote in New York. It wasn’t so much what those in spectors said," grumbled the colonel, “but it was tho nasty way Hioy said it. When I entered the room a man with whiskers jumped up and pushed n Bible violently against my broust. Before I recovered my breath ho shouted: “ ‘Take off that hat I’ “Now, wlmt do you think of that inspector) Why of course I took off my hat. I also advised'tho man to ho less abrupt, and to calm down just a little. He really made me nervous. The follow then mumbled something, ending up with ‘S’elp you gawd- kiss the book.’ Then he shouted, ‘Put on that hat I’ Now, is that tho regular proceeding) It isn’t) Well, then, what do you think of that in spector) He didn’t stop there, hut looking at me very hard, he said: “ ‘Whin did you come over)’ “ ‘Think of that, will you) ‘Why, I was bom boro,’ I said. “ ‘H’m,’ said the fellow. ‘A na tive, eh!’ “ ‘Why, certainly, sir,’ said I, be ginning to feel peevish. ‘I was born, sir, in Poseyvillo, Posey’ “ ‘Never mind where you were bora,’he interrupted. “You’reana- tivo.’ “I gave him my address and some other personal details, and he said ‘That’s all. You may go.’ “These proceedings were a bit ir regular, you say) Well if they were not God help us all. As I went out of the door I heard the fellow say: “ ‘ I wouldn’t mind having enough from the tails of that coat to make me a pair of pants,’ and the whole bench show laughed. Now what do you thing of -that inspector, eh)”— New York Sun. INVENTOR OF THE BAGGAGE CHECK. A Device That Maile Its War HapliUj to • General Adoption. The alleged origin of the decidedly useful baggage checks has been told by Mr. D. Morrell, of Union City, Mich., as follows: > John Palmer, of my town, is the inventor of the baggage checking system. I will tell you his story as he told it to me. John Palmer was bom in England some eighty-two years ago, and came to the United States in 1829, and to Union City in 1835. In those early days he was in great demand, for his violin enliv ened many and many a winter night. Ono great annoyance he experienced was tiie constant trouble people had in finding their coats, hats, wraps, robes, etc., after the party broke up. Well, it was announced that there was to be a big dance at Burlington on Thanksgiving evening about I860, and Mr. Palmer was to have charge of tho music. He knew that there would he a terrible crowd there, nnd that there would ho lots of trouble with the clothing, and he went to work to dovise a plan to obviate it. Well, after studying on it lor a lofig time he had Bolved tho mys tery. He got out eight cards nnd marked them in paiys—11, 2 2, 3 3, 4.4—nnd one of tho greatest bless ings to tho business world was bom. Now for the first test. He had four children, ho took thoir shoes and stockings, tied each up by them selves, put tags 1, 2, 8, 4, on each lot and put them away. When the children got up they inquired for their shoes. He gave each one tho check that corresponded with the check on their shoes, and told them to go into the other room and pick out their own by comparing the numbers. Each child got its own. Now for a trial on a larger scale. He prepared a lot of checks in the same way for the guests at tho party. About the first to arrive were the four railroad men from Marshall. Three took their checks; one would not have the thing and threw it on tho floor. When they called for their clothes they hod forgotten all about the checks and demanded their clothes. Mr. Palmer asked them for their checks. After hunting some time the three produced their checks and at once received their goods. They had to identify the goods for the fourth man. Shortly after that there was an other party at Burlington, and among the first to arrive were six railroad men from Marshall, including the first four. They said they wanted their things checked the same as be fore. They watched the plan the whole evening, and went away con vinced that they had found a grand idea. Inside of three months it was adopted by the railroads of the United States.—Chicago Tribune. THE ARBUTUS TREE OF CALIFORNIA. HOW BAGGAGE IS HANDLED. Io the aforetime, when the ecu m young, But yet the moon nlruady waxen old. Nymph, god and eetyr wandered through tho wold. And Memnon’e stony Ups at eunrlse rang. Atone have poised like hours sines sirens suug. Since Jove wooed Dnnno In a shower of gold, But Duddhn, lord of Barth and Time, was old, Whon Jove and Juno, Time and Earth wore young. A mystery broodeth over the forest dim, Whero solemn redwood, laurel green and bay All bow obotBauce to groat Buddha’a throno. Ghosts of doad gods whisper a phantom hymn-. Trdcs, birds and humans, awod and cower ing pray: Moved by tho night breexe, moanoth tho ma drono. -Jerome A. Hurt In San Frnnolseo Argonaut. Why f’eoplo Stammer. Stammering depends on a want of harmony between tho action of tho muscles (chiefly abdominal) which expel air through the lurynx and that of the muscles which guard tho orifice by which it escapes, with that of those which modulate tho sound to the form of speech. Over oither of the groups of muscles by itself a stammorer may havo as much power as other people, but ho cannot har moniously arrange thoir conjoint action. Nervousness is a frequent cause of stammering. It is possible that the defect in some instances may result from malformation of tho rts about the hack of the mouth, e fact that stammering people are able to sing their words bettor than to speak them has been usually ex plained on the supposition that in singing the glottis is kept open, so that there is less liability to spasmodio action.—Brooklyn Eagle. A Groat Man’s Way. Frederick the Great looked with serene indifference on all that his enemies might say of him. One day, as he rode through Berlin, he saw a crowd of people Btaring up at some thing on the wall, and on sending his groom to inquire what it was, found it to he a caricature of him self. The placard was put so high that it was difficult to read it, so Frederick ordered it to be placed lower in order that the people might not have to stretch out their necks. The words were hardly spoken when, with a joyous shout, the pla card was pulled down and torn into a thousand pieces, while a hearty cheer followed the king as he rode away.— Youth’s Companion. v It is a noteworthy fact that the Legislature is taking an active Inter est in the advancement of higher education especially among the farm ing classes. The introduction of the measure providing for an agricultural oollege at Griffin, where farmer’s sons are to be taught the higher branches in connection with their art, and which is tobe supported by the funds arising from the inspection of fertil izers, is a mo¥e Iff'ilfeetrfjfiit directing and wilj be oaloulateCtp interest J’the entire State Tn thehigher education of All olasses within its borders. Belatlre Expense. A certain minister, not a thousand miles from here, loves a dollar with a dose affection. Not long ago a young man asked him how much he would charge to marry a couple. “Well,” said the preacher, “the bridegroom pays what he pleases, but I never charge less than ten dol lars.” “Whewl’’ exclaimed the prospec tive bridegroom, “that’s a good lot of, money. I thought that kind of work went in with your regular sal' ary." “Oh, no," exclaimed the minister, “salvation is free, hut it costs money to get married.”—Detroit Free Press. How a Hlahop Deceived Trespassers. The bishop of Exeter it seems was constantly annoyed by the intrusion of strangers into his grounds, ailfl he had put up-very stringent notices forbidding trespassers. One morn ing he was walking along in a medi tative mood when suddenly two la dies broke through the shrubs and stood awkwardly enough confront ing him. They stammered out some excuse, saying they did not know they were in private grounds. His lordship made them a profound bow, pointed to the printed notice, adding, “But perhaps you do not read; however, as you seem to have no scruples, pray go on, go along the paths, Into the flower garden, across the lawn, enter the house, visit the drawing room, dining room and study, but let me recommend you not to penetrate into the bedrooms at this early hour, as the housemaids may not have done their work.” The intruders must have wished them selves in another diocese.—Temple Bar. 9hi Talm of Gmt Telescopes. I should like to call attention to the fact that the history of the great t< * scopes at Mount Hamilton and at Washington will serve to layaway finally a widely published opinion which we used to hear repeated every few weeks—namely, that great tele scopes are of little use. The work ot tlieso two groat telescopes (not to speak of many others) has conclu sively shown their great superiority over lees powerful instruments in every field of astronomy, in the ob servations of planets, nebulas, stars, comets, satellites, in spectroscopy, and also in those, departments of astronomical photography for which they are adapted. Smaller instruments have their ap propriate fields, and in some of these they will always be more convenient than larger ones. But the great tele scope, when properly used, 1b and al ways will he pre-eminent—Professor Edward S. Holden in Forum. bard rr success of the Normal School project. It merits a carefu consideration and a good appropria tion. toSg Buttoning. “Miss De TrOp.had on the longest gloves last night that I ever saw. She buttoned them from her wrist to her elbow.”. , , “That’s nothing. , My girl buttons hers all . the way. from home to the theater.”—Exchange. It is hardly probable that the legis lature will wind up Its important busi ness in the time! allotted. Either the time is too short or the law-makers are trying to pusti-through too much leg islation.'' f"*"' v - : The force-bill fssue was.a good pro moter of Democraticharmony. Wonder* of Engraving. It is now known that precious anil semiprecious .stones wer» engraved with all the delicacy of modern fila gree work os long ago as the time of Horaco, centuries before drnery pow dor, wheel nnd lathe were known. In more modern times, nnd with the tools and appliances which civiliza tion naturally places in the artisan's hands, engravers have performed wonders, even going to tho extent of carving relief pictures on the hardest of all mineral substances, tho dia mond. The first artist to engrnvo a diamond was Jacorno da Trozzo in 1567. The earliest instance of any kind of an engraved gem is the em erald signet ring of Polycrates, 740 B. C. In the time of Francis I, Mat- teo del Nassaro, an Austrian citizen of Italian parentage, cut his famotiB ‘Crucifixion" upon a bloodstone, the lines conforming with the red spots and specks in such a manner ns to make it appear that they wevo drops of blood issuing from the mortal wounds of tho Saviour of tho human race.—St. Louis Ropublic. An Anocdoto of Tope. Mr. Jesse narrates an anecdote of Alexander Pope concerning one of tho old watermen whownsomployod for many years in rowing Popo on the Thames. Pope was in the habit of having his Bedan chair lifted into the punt. If the weather was fine, he let down tho glasses; if cold he pulled them up. He would some times say to tho waterman: 'John, I am going to repeat some verses: take care and remembor them the next time I go out." When that time came Pope would say: ‘John, where are the verses I told you of I" "I have forgotten them, Blr." “John, you are a blockhead. I must write them down for you.” John says that nO one thought of saying, when speaking of him, “Mr. Pope,” hut that he was alwqya called “Mr. Alexander." The Srxt.ni Employed on Olio Itnllrnail In Now EiiKlund. "Tho summer tourist business of Maine, as wo are able to meusure it by our baggage, has increased from 12 to 15 per cent, a year for the last four or five years," said General Bag gage Agent Towle, of tho Maine Cen tral, the other day, “The amount of haggngo carried is a very good moasure of the number of persons traveling. On an Average two persons go with every piece of oheclced baggage, hut tho number of pieces of baggage cannot bo depended oh as an exact indication of the absolute number of persons travel ing, since the system of returns adopted by tho railroad gives on some routes two reports for each pieoo. But for the increases of volume of travel from year to year, tho baggage returns aro n very good measure. Tho mouths for tho tourist travel ore July, August nnd Septem ber.” Mr. Towlo’s system of handling the baggage of tbo Maine Central system is eimplo and effective. Evory train baggngo mnstor nnd evory station agent makes a daily report of evory pioeo of baggage that ho lins handled, describing its nature, whether trunk or vnliso, the number nnd kind of the check placed upon it, tho placo whonce It starts nnd its destination. The return forms aro uniform in ev erything but color. Those for tho main lino are white, except for that portion east of Bangor and on the mountain division, which nro huff. For the branclios blue forms are used. In a large case, with a pigeon hole for evory station, aro filed tho station agents’ daily returns; tho train returns are separately filed. If a jiassonger loses a piece of bag gage Mr. Towlo’s office is informed, the number of chock and name of station whence it started being given. The clerk steps to tho caso, takes the roturn of tho station from its pigeon hole, finds the baggago reported and complete description of it, nnd the train on which it was put. He then turns to tho train report nnd finds what was done with it nnd the sta tion whero it was put off. The re turns of the second station will show its receipt. In less than five min utes tho piece of baggage is located If it has simply gone astray. Of courso if it has been stolon there must be further search. As an evidence of the thorough ness of tho system it may be men tioned tin. 1 for all the great amount of baggago handled in four monthB by the Maine Central there was hut one piece for which it is responsible that it has not been able to acoount for successfully. — Portland (Me.) Press. Zola nml tho La to Emporor* M. Zola, in The Figaro, in reply to some critics, insists that the emperor rouged his cheeks at Sedan. The emperor’s friends, he soys, have talked as if to have done so would have been humiliating—“the role of a buffoon.” “On the contrary, this seems to me a great mistake. I find the act superb—worthy of a hero of a Shakespearean play, heightening the figure of Napoleon HI to a tragic melancholy of an infinite grandeur.” That is a characteristically. French exaggeration. We presume M. Zola means that it was noble of the em peror to take the trouble to conceal from his troops his desperate phys ical weakness. But even granted that it was a prudent thing not to show a cheek of ghastly pallor, we fail to see that it was heroic.—Lon don Spectator. A Story of Hard Task. 'The latest ‘hard luck’ story that I have heard,” said a racing man in an up town cafe the other evening,"is that of a young man who went to the track and lost $180. He had ten dol lars left. He liked a 20 to 1 chance in the last race. He went into the betting ring, got into a crowd at a bookmaker’s stand and was holding his ten dollar note high in the air when the wind caught it and blew it •way. His hone won in a canter." —New York Times. Boston nnd Birmingham. Any one who knows the two cities of Boston and Birmingham, England, which have about the same popula tion (Boston 448,000 in 1890 and Bir mingham 480,000 in 1891), will admit that Birmingham enjoys every re sult of nfcnicipal enterprise, and to at least as great an extent as Boston. Many persons would, be inclined to state the case much more strongly in favor of Birmingham, which also confessedly possesses many develop ments of local activity not yet ap proached by the sister city. Birmingham’s • government costs per year $2,610,000, and Boston's gov ernment costs $12,570,000. Is it pos sible to give any reasonable explana tion of this discrepancy, which may well suggest misgivings to the minds of the American tax payers, and which goes far to account for the deficiencies in the services rendered by municipal government of which they complain)—Joseph Chamberlain in Forum’_ ' Think of it I $200,000,000 s year for pensions to mote Federal soldiers than were in the army at the time of the surrender. This Is half the total expense of the United States govern ment; and still names are going on the lists at the rate of 1,000 a day. Opposition In - The Democratic non t; offices in Thomas count; some strong Third Party d Tho Third Party nominees ordinary, J. A. Chastain; l J. E. McMillan; for tax. re R. Wynn; for tax collector, J. 1 son; for treasurer, James for coroner, Gus Braswell. Tho Times-Enti-rprise says Third party will try to oqnti Negro vote in the oounty oleotion the indications are that there i to bo another Dcmooratio tii in that part of the country. swin The shades of political oblivio soon be n muoh sought nfter reti England gives the Prince of $300,000 per year for waiting King. It Is a fat job. Won’t there be a lot of Interest oi tered on the first fire that breaks i after the now water-works departme is organized nnd ready for Every fireman will be on his' meti and then nnd there the new will oither mnko friends or eneml? those who will be influenced tho enpaoity of tho system to tho blaze. But tho fire laddies v, not fail to do themselves nnd tho n system credit when the time con The newspapers from all scotl tho Stnto contain accounts of practiced on the peoplo -of cities, by gamesters nnd clients uootod with different oirousoi traveling in Georgia, for llsoenso to show tn Alba been inndo by several advntioo of olrcuses this year, but tl llsoonse that tho city fathers orecd shall be paid by every log to tho oity, has had the di feet of making them pass us b; it's the best thing that aould Im pelled to us, as is evident wails that are being sent up of our sister, oitles. Large shipments of orana Westonln Grove received wee' 22-d30t B. R. Weston HflVlfN A Common Ilford.' ' The ass is gonerally supposed to bear tho same name in all families of speech. In Accadian its sound is doubtful, but in Turkish speech it is as as-ek (with the noun ending in ek), while in Egyptian it is sn. Tho Aryan asinus has been compared with the Semitic athon, for “i and all these words seem to come from tho old root os, “blow,” or “breathe,” and to be thus connected with the softer form oh, and so with the note of the animal, which is its greatest peculiarity. In other lan guages the ass is called khara, "he who odes out,” from a similar origin. It may be conjectured that the ass was not unknown to primitive man. —Scottish Review. Photographic Mirage. M. Gaston Tissandier draws atten tion to wha t he calls “photographic mirage." Three years ago M. Paul Boy photographed his son in the open day, and on 'developing the picture found to his surprise a vague image of himself in the background, at? he stood in the act of* removing the cap from the lens to take the photograph. As a matter of fact his image had been formed on the atmospheric haze, and although invisible to his oyesight it was strong enough to af fect the plate.—Boston Transcript No Imitation. Stranger—That's a very fine imita tion of an old colonial residence. • Proud Owner—Imitation 1 That's genuine. Come in and I’ll show you the roaches,—New York Weekly. There are plenty of needed reforms. They will begin to diminish sfter next Msreb. Politics is s risk; business, but ob servation slone doesn’t seem to teaob the lesson, . ■ Thh American foreign polio;, as Il lustrated at Brussels, appears to be rather weak-kneed. ■ i—— H i i—I The contingent-fee fight has taken on the shape of a legislative measure. Mr. Br;sn Cumming, of Blohmondi is the author of s bill which imposes sev eral restrictions upon the oontingent- fee business; ' Thebe is some talk of legislation In Congress in favor of a graduated In come tax. There is no doubt but that something should be done to p^evetR the accumulation of vast and unwlejflp- 1; fortunes in the hands of one man. " Proper means for fl, reorganization of the Central Railroad Co., are being discussed in New York.b; the board of dlreotors. This valuable piece of propert;, so Important to the develop ment of the State, should be put In or der as'soon as practicable. A LARGE AND I STOCK OF . v ' * GENTLEMEN, BC CHILDRE Wo nro prepared to nt extra slz Long ami Slims as well as vcgi *~ Hock Bottom Trices, too—to si lino line of FUIINISHINQ sorted stock of NECKV Manhattan Shirts. Tho Kv tlcmcn and Dora—'best and market. The Stetson nnd if era In styles. Also, othor i assortment ITats and Caps dreu. Samples kept for clc lade. FT -GIVE 1 mvo_mnde._F|ts gua^„ CDTLIFF t 86 BROADWi) < .1/ Rhe i SUBS PAPER HAI Ei E. MOUL1 PAPER h Call on mi,or drt I will call on ;cm. specialty! tubal • E. 1 — : --.'