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JOHN H. HODGES, Publisher.
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Dispatch,
“Jud, they say yon heard Reuben-
stein play when yon were in New
York.”
“I did in the cool.”
“Well, tell ns about it.
“What, me? I might’s well tell you
about the creation of the world.”
“Gome, now, no mock modesty.—Go
ahead.”
“Well, sir, he had the blamedest,
cattycorneredest piauner yon ever laid
eyes on; somethin’ like a distracted bil
liard table on three legs, The lid was
heisted, aDd mighty well it was. If it
hadn’t a been he’d a tore the entire in
sides clean out, and scattered ’em to
the four winds of Heaven.”
“Played.well, did he?”
“You bet he did; but don’t iuterrnp’
me. When he first set down he ’peer
ed to Leer mighty little abcut playin’,
and wishthc hadn’t come. He tweedle-
Icedlp’d a little on the Iribble, and
twoodle-oodied-oodled some on the
base—jest foolin’ and boxin’ the thing’s
jaws for bein’ in his wav. And I says
to the man settin’ uex to me, s’l, ‘what
sort of fool playin’ is that?’ And he
says ‘Heish,’ But presently his hands
commenced chasin one ’nether up and
down the keys like a passel of rats
scamperin’ through a garret'very swift.
Fart of it was sweet, though, and re
minded me of a sugar-squirrel turnin’
the wheel of a candy cage.
“Now.’M says to my neighbor, “he’s
showin’ off. He thinks he’s a doin’ of
it, but he ain’t got no idee, no plan of
nothin’. If lie would play me up a
tune of some kind or other, I’d—”
“But my neighbor says "Heish,"
very impatient.
“I was jest about to get np and go
home, bein’tired of that, foolishness,
when I heard a little bird waking up
away off iu the woods and calling sleepy-
like to his mate, and I looked np and I
see that Reuben was beginning to take
some interest in his business, .nnd'L
set dowu again. ■ The music began to
make pictures Tor me faster than yon
could shake a stick; to tell tales like the
story books, ami to • sta/'t all sorts of
feelins—it, just toted me like I was a
child wherever it pleased, and showed
me all kinds of things that is and that
isn’t and could’nt never be'. It w'aB the
peep o’ day.'' The light come faint from
the east, the breeze blowed gentle and
fresh, 6omo moro birds waked up in the
orchard, "and then some more in the
trees near the house,and ail begun sing-
in’ together. People begun to stir, and
the gcal opened the shutters* - Just
then the first beam of the sun fell on
the blossgms, a leetle more,''and it techt
•the roses on the bushes, and the next
thing it WR§. day, the sun fairly blazed,
apd the little birds sang like they’d
split their throats; all the, letJV.ea were
movin’, and flashiu’ diamonds of dew,
and the whole word was bright, and
happy as a king. Seemed to me like
there was a erood b^spkfagt. in every
ibonse in the. laud, aud not a sick child
or woman any where. It was a fine
mornin’.
“And I says to my, ppigltbpr, “tk a l' s
music, that is.”
“But he glared at me Ijtgg be WQllJd
like to put my throat,''
“Presently the,', wind turned, it her
gun to thicken up, and a kind of grey
mist come over things;' J got low spir
ited directly. Then a silver rain be
gun. to fall. I could see the drops
touch the ground; some flashed up ].ike
long peavl ear-rings, and the rest roll-
eu nway like round rubies. I|. w a s
pretty, but meianbbnly. Then tjie
pearls gathered themselves into long
strands arid necklaces, and then they
melted away in thin silver, streams run
ning between golden gravels, apd then
the streams joined each other at the
bottom '-of the bill and jnade p brook
that flowed silent, except that yon conld
kinder see tjie music, specially when
the bushes op the bank moved as the
music went on down the valley. I
could smell the flowers in the meadqw.
Bnt the gun didn’t shine, nor the birds
sing: it was a foggy day, bnt n °fc cold—
the littje white angle boy, Jike yop see
in pictures, that ran ahegd gf till {glSip
brook, and led it op up 88? BBMb*
the world ^hefp gfi ¥S§—J
never was, per|aju ; | pflpfd j^jgSa
boy just as plaiii gs | gee yqu. Thpn
the moonlight C£W fithfiftt ^ny sui}-
?et, ftfid ehPPri op the graveym:^.
whpre gqpie few ghosts lifted
hapdg upd went over the wall, and her
twppp the b^ack sharp top tjrees splen
did h°5 se §^o§o IfP. Wfth guq
ladies iri the lit-up windows,* and mjiR
that loved -’em, but could never git a
nigh ’eg, apd played op guitars under
the trees, and made me that miserable
I could a pried, because, I wapte/I to
loye somebody; f don’p know who, bet
ter than the men with the guitars did.
Then the sun .wept aovrn, it got dark,
d. thar and ' preao
didn’t want the mnsicto stop one blame
bit. It was happier to be miserable
than it was to be happy without being
miserable. I couldn’t understand it.
I hang my head and pulled ont my
handkerchief, and blowed my nose loud
to keep from cry in’. My eyes are weak
anyhow: I didn’t want anybody gazin’
at me a snivhn’, and its nobody’s busi
ness what I do with my nose. It is
mine. But some several glared at me,
mad ns Tucker.”
“Then, all of a sudden, old Reuben
changed hie tune. He ripped and he
rared, he tipped and hetared, he pranc
ed and he charged, like the grand entry
at a circus. ’Peared to me that all the
gas in the house was turned on at onse,
things got so blight, and I hilt up my
head, ready to look eny man in the face
and uot afeerd of nothin’. It was a
circus, and a brass band, and a big ball,
all a goin’ on at the same time. He lit
into them keys like a thousand of brick;
he give ’em no rest, day nor night; be
set every lim’ jint in me agoin’; and net
bein’ able to stand it no longer, I jump
ed spang onto my seat, and I jest hol
lered
"Go it, my "Rube!"
livery blamed man, woman and child
in the house riz cn mo and shouted,
“Put him out! put him oull”
“Put your great giandmothers’s
grizzly, grey, greenish cat iu the mid
dle of next month!” I says. “Tech me
if you dar! I paid my money, and you
just come a-nigh me.”
“With that, some several p’licemen
run up, and I had to simmer down.
But I would a ’fit any fool 'that laid
hands on me. for I was bound to hear
Ruby out or die.”
“He had changed his tune' again—
He hop-light ladies and tip-toed fine
from eend to eend of the key board. He
played soft, [aud low and solemp. I
heard the church-bells over the hills,
the candles in lienveu we::e lit. One by
one I saw the stars lisa. The great or
gan ol eternity began to play from the
worlds end, aud all the angels went to
prayers. Then the music changed to
Water, full of feeling that couldn’t be
tSonght, much less told about,"and be
gun to drop—drip—drop—drip—drop,
clear and sweet, like tears of joy falling
into a lake of glory. It was sweeter
than that. It was sweeter than a sweet
heart sweetniu’ sweetness with white
sugar mixt with powdered silver and
seed diamonds. It was too sweet. I
tell you the-audience cheered. Reu
ben lie kieder bowed, like he wanted ta
say ‘Much obleeged, bnt I’d rather yon
wouldn’ jnterrup me.’ ”
“He stopt a minute or two to fetch
breath. Then he got mad. He run his
fingers through hja bar, he shoved up
his sleeves, be opened his coat tails a
Jeetfp further, hp drug up his stool, he
leaned over, and, sir, he just WPB 1 Tor
the pianper. He slfipt fepr fape.hp foo$pd
her jaws, he pulled her noge, he pinched
her ears and scratched her cheeks until
she fairly yelled. He knoct her down,
he stompt on her shamefully. She
bellowed like a bull, she bleated like a
calf, eke howled like a hound, she
squealed like a pig she shrieked like a
raf, and then he wouldn’t let her np
He run a quarter stretch down the keys
fq the bass till be got plpRV out among
the echoes, ppd yqu hppxd thunder
galloping after thunder through the
hollows and erveg pf .perdition, and
then he foxed chased pi s Tight hand
with his left, till he got a f w(iy ont of
the trible jptq the clouds, wbar the
npfes were finer than the pints of ciim-
brib needles, and yon could’t hpar noth
ing but the shadders of ’em. And then
he wouldnk let the old planner go. He
for’arded two’d he crost over first.gen?
tJemai), he crost over first lad-y, he bal
anced to pards, he cha sade right ajtd
left back to your places, he hands #11.
roun’ ladies fo fh. e fight,
all, in and °rit, here and thar, b^h.
apd forth, up an.d down, p'erDatQal.jpot
trap, dogble and twisted and -•fIS9 k and
turned and tapked and tangled into for-;
ty-’leven thousand double bowrknets.
By jingsj it wag a mixtery. And Wen
he wouldn’t let the old planner go. JHp
fetched up.hip right wing, be"fefjeted
up bis left wing, he fetched up bis pen-
ter, he fetched up his reserves.. He
toes, his elbows and his nose, striking
every single, solitary key on the peaner
at the same time. The thing busted,
and went off into seventeen hundred
and fifty-seven thousand five hundred
and forty-two hemi-demi-semi* quavers,
and I know’d no mo’. ”
“When I come to I were under
ground about twenty foot, in a place
ifiey call Oyster Bay, treating a Yankee
that I never laid eyes on before and
never ’xpect to again. Day was fast a
breakin’ by the time I got to the St,
Nicholas Hotel, and I pledge you my
word I didn’t know my name. The
man asked me the number of my room,
and I told him ‘Ho. music on the half
shell for two,’ I pintedly did.
Moses Adams.
THE YOUNG- LADY FROM BOS
TON
Rockland Courier.
Among the city visitors who are
spending the season in our place, is a
Boston gentleman with his daughter, a
highly cultured young lady of twenty,
with refined manners, aesthetic tastes
and eye-glasses. At the boarding house
table, one day last week, young Mr
Sampson, who is a clerk in a dry goods
store, observed as he waited for his de
sert.-
‘Did you see that tall book agent in
town to-day?”
It being very warm, nobody vouch
safed a reply, but young Mr. Sampson
not at all disconcerted by the outburst
of silence, cootinued:
‘He w»s into the store this morning,
to show me his book—medical work or
illustrated bible, or something of that-
sort. It was right hot, and I was sit
ting on the counter, kinder thinking
like, when in he comes, takes off his
coat and pants—”
Here Mr. Sampson was interrupted
by the smashing of a plate wkich had
fallen violently to the* floor, beside the
young lady from Boston. After the
hired girl had removed the broken
pieces* ar.d the confusion had subsided,
Mr. Sampson resumed his narrative,
wildout noticing the agonized expres
sion on the Boston young lady’s face,
“As I was saving—he comes puffing
into the store,, sets his valise down with
a bang, t ikes off his coat and pants—’
“Oh!” screamed the v oting lady from
Boston, in an awful voice that cracked
the soup-tnreen from Alpha to Omega,
and fairly made the hair of the bachelor
boarder’s wig stand on end. And then
tis Mr. Sampsou opened his month as if
to continue his story, she fell under the
table'in a stony faint, aud was borne to
her room in a state of rigid insensibili
ty. .
4fter. quiet had been restate^,
eyeryhody had sileqtly said nothing fo;:
some iflofljefltg, yq\p;g »{r. S.aqjpsqq je-
giar|ied ip a very sqft apd gentle voice,
as he waited fqr hjs second piece of pie:
“He coipes jnto the store, you know,
and takes off hjs poat, and pants: “Is
this hot enough for you?”
■*+++-
Cop. H- It- Hunter, who is engaged
in taking the census of pity, caflpd
at a house op Wfiype gtrpef, wherethere
was a layge family of children, the
youngest a babe of several months of
age, had not been named. p a =
rents fiad pypyipusly djgpussed the
question and concluded they had al
ready psed up all the names suitable
for boys. DWhpt’s the name of the
baby?” a8l;ed the pengus iTaker. And
the mother had to decide upah a naipe
then aDd there, We spy to mothers,
name your babies, and don’t keep the
enumerators waiting fpf you / to select
the prettiest name fof youf
Milledgeville Recorder.,
SOME STRANGE AVOCATIONS.
From Chambers* Journal.
“My learned brother,” says the acurt
^kindly, bnt significantly, to a yonng
lawyer who is about to sum np his
pron^enade--first case, “my learned brotLer will ob
serve that it is near dinner time and
that brevity is the soulof summing np.”
“May ii please Your Honor, I will
not long detain you. I am right; my
learned friend opposite is wrong; yon
are a good judge.” Judgment in his
client’s favor with costs.
The most curiops thing fhongh, was' fired by file, he fired by plattoons, by
regiments, by brigades. Hp opened
his pannon Jiere, seige-guns down thar,
Hapoipong here, twelve poundera yon,
der, big ggns, little gaps, middle-size
gaps, T,Q a jfd shotg, shells,; sharpnels,
grapq, papistsra, jpojtars, mines and
m$gaz|p/eg, .o?exy liyiil’ battery
'agoin' af * the same time,
jjgggg'fjjmbbled, the lights
gpljs shook, the fjoor pope up, the
npf]jn? pQffio.^oyn, the sky apfit, fije
$ar|h pqpt, pF*a#Pn, sweet potatoes,
Moees, ninerpeqees. 'glory, ten : penny
nails, my Majry Ann, hallelujah, sweet
Csesar in a gimpion tree, Jeroosal’m,
Tamp Thonjpsop in, a lumber carf,
roodlejtoodle-roodle^o.dle-flodle-ood^e-
ruJdle-uddle-udd]e-uddj.e--raddle-addle-
addle-addle—riddle-iddle-iddle-iddle-id-
dle-iddle—^reetle : eetle- ; ; eetle-eetl&-eetle-
eetle—p-r-t-r-r-Iangl—p-r-f-fcHriS-r'PPT-
Iron monritain, Missouri, is all that
its name ijnplies, being seventeenth
pufe fron. It is fleayly a mile long,
half as broad, and several. hqndred feet
high. If i§ being carried ayajgt the
rate of 850 tong a day
•‘How do yon pro^iqnce s-t-i-n r g-y?”
Prof, ^teapps psjfed the young getleman
nearest the loot of the class. And the
snjapt boy said it depended a good deal
rfhethep %o word applies to a man or a
hpp. ij° fo.fhe h^d, yonng fellow.
:*No, thank you, never waltz; ma
says jf any of the yonng men wants tq
hug qje fhey ginst do it on the sly; she
Yqn’t have them mossing my dress up,
and leaving finger marks on my waist,
so long as she does my washing. ”
ABrookly man stole up fcehipd a la
dy in a dark room and kissed her. and
when he found it was his wife, and she
Said a witness nnder cross examina
tion: “I am an Early caller, I call dif
ferent tradesmen at early hours, from 1
till 5.*30 in the morning, and that is how
I get my living, t gets up between 12
and 1; I goes to bed at 6 and sleeps till
the afternoon. I calls bakers between
1 and 2—the bakers are the earliest of
all.” What sort of a living he made is
not recorded. A pound a week, we
"should say, would be the outside figure,
and to earn that he would need a coup
le of scores of customers. The early
caller’s fee is well earned, since but for
his intervention his clients would often
lose a day’s pay, if not be thrown out
of work altogether, by failing to keep
time. Not so deserving of encourage
ment are the ! ‘tup-pennies,” carrying
on their vocation in those quarters of
London where pawn-brokers and poor
people abound. They are femiuiue in
termediaries between the pawnbroker
and folks auxious to raise a loan upon
tlieir belongings, who, rather than
transact such business for themselves,
are willing to pay two-pence for every
parcel conveyed to everybody’s “uncle
or redeemed from his clutches. These
go-betweens, it is averred, also receive
a quarterly commission from the trades
men they favor with their patronage; and
so, one way and another, contrive to
make a comfortable-living oat of their
neighbors’ necessities.
There are men in Paris, birds of a
feather with the chiffonier, who go from
hospital to hospital collecting the lin
seed plasters that have served the turn
of doctor and patient; afterward pres
sing the oil from the linseed and dispos
ing of the linen, after bleaching it, to-
the papermaker. Others make a coup
le of francs a day by collecting old
corks, which beiDg cleaned and pared,
fetch, it is said, half a franc per hun
dred.
A ladysresident of the Faubourg St.
Germaiu is credited with earning a good
income by hatching red, black and
brown aDts for pheasant preservers.
One Parisian gets Iris living by breed
ing maggots out of the foul mc-ats he
buys of the chiffoniers, and fattening
them up in tin boxes. Another breeds
maggots for the special behoof of night
ingales; aud a third marchand d'asliedts
boasts of selling between thirty aDd for
ty millions of worms every season for
piscatorial puposes. He owns a great
pit at Montmartre, wherein he keeps
his store. Every day his scouts bring
him fresh stock, for which he payg
them from 5. to 10 pence pey Rqqqf], ac-
tq quality; reselling them to
anglers at just double t^osq rates, and
clearing thereby gonftetlqng oyer $3.00 a
yeaf.
Ttqs puyjons avocation is no,t qnknotvq
in England. Some twelve years ago,
we are tq}c}. %. Wefet a fiskiqg-tapicle
maker, of Nottingham, iq qrdpr tft in
sure a "constant supply of bait for His
customers, started a farin for the rear
ing qf lobwo^rgs, poe^spursj ring-tailed
bundlings, aqd ‘othey wqrms in de
mand among the disciples of Walton,
wL(q abound in the old lacc town. To
l;eep his farm stocked, men and boys
go out at night collecting worms in the
iqegdfl’ffs and pasture’s; a moist, waim
pight yjpldjng from two to six thousand
Vfprnfts, As soon as they are brought
tfrey are p^ped in properly selected
moss, field-mosg <-:for choice, to scour
until they become little more than skin
—fr#f>hly caught worms being too ten
der for the anglers to handle, while
“when a lyorrq is properly educated he
i§ as tough as a bit of india-rubber, and
behaves as a worm should do when put
upon the hook.” .When this'condition
is attained, the- worms are packed in
moss and put up in light’canvass bags
for the^muvket. This worm-merchant
does not entirely'depead-upon .the in
dustry of Bis collectors, bnt breeds large
quantities himself in his own garden—
the component parts of his breeding-
heap being a secret he uot unnaturally
keeps to himself.
THE DOG RODE,
I Detroit Free Press.
Before the train left Bay City yester
day morning for Detroit, a woman
nearly six feet tall, and having a com
plexion like fresh bnrned brick, enter
ed the depot followed by a dog almost
as big as a yearling calf. Having pur
chased a ticket, the woman stood be
side the train until the conductor came
along, when she led off with:
“Yon have been pinted ont to mo as
the boss of this train,”
“Yes’m” was the mpdest reply
“Well, I’m going to Detroit for the
old man.”
“Yes.”
“And this dog is going along with
me. He goes where I go every time in
the year.” '
‘Yes, lie can go down in the baggage
The Elder who was Deaf.
A rather amusing incident is told as
having occnrrpcj recently at a church in
Connectiput. The clergyman, if ap
pears, desired to call tjie attention of
hjs congregation tq tie fact that it be
ing the last Sabbath in the month he
wonld adminisfpr the rite cf baptism to
children. Jlrevioas to his having en
tered the pnlpit he had received from
ore of his elders, who, by the way, was
quite deaf, notice to tjip effect that as
thp phildren wogld be present that af
ternoon, ant} be had the new Sabbath
gpliool books ready for distribution, he
W&M fc aTO them there to sell fq aji wbo
flp.Sfred them. ’ * • - - * 1’
After the sepjjjop }he -clergyman be
gan the notice of -thq baptismal service,
thgs: “All of those having ph|l<Jren. and
desiring to have them "baptized, will
bring them this afternoon.*”
At this point the deg,f- elder,
the mention of children,'-
they tci 6 ~ Someth'
Not any he can’t! That’s wliat I
stopped you for. This ’ere dog is eo-
’long iu this ’ere car and nowhere
else!”
The rules of the road—”
“Rules be-haDged! My old man can
be banged around by every bodv, and
he never demands his rights, but Lu
cinda ain’t Thomas—not by a jug
full!”
“Madam, let me^”
“I don’t wan’t no clawing off!” she
interrupted, as she peeled a pair of
black mittens off her big hands. “I’m
going and t ie dogs going, and what I
want to know is whether you wau’t to
raise a row on the cars or have it right
now and here!”
The conductor looked the dog over
and was about to shake his head when
the woman began untying her bonnet,
and quietly remarked:
- “I’spose, being-as I’m a woman, it
would bo more than fair for the dog to
sail in with me. Come here, Leoni
das!”
“Madam,” replied the conductor, as
he felt a shiver go np his legs„ “take
j,our dog and'get aboard!-’
“Honest Injun?”
“Yes.”
“No row after the car slart ?
“No.”
“Then that settles that, aud I am
much obleeged ,thongh you dill kinder
hang off at first. Leonidas follow me
and behave yourself!”.
A FOOT RACE FOR A BRIDF .
Polloclmlle (S. C.) Cor. Cincinnati Enquirer.
A novel wedding occurred here to-day.
It scenes that J\fes,3FS. John Miller and
Alexander Bibb, iwq wel}:to;do f:\fiqpf8
were in love vyifch the same }ady, Jj e0 -
no^a H'ojd* a k eau tifol girl of this
place. S&q 7?ag not able to decide as to
whipb she liked best. Sunday morning
HiUh walked, home from church with
her apd left nnder the impression that
sb,£ said she wonld iqarry him. Ifist
nfgkt lover N°. ler—wenj tq see
lier and understood her to say she would
iqaq-.y hinp
Both iqep this morning went to the
Conrt House to get out the marriage li
cense, and there met, each one armed
with the necessary document, and each
one left with a license to marry Miss
Lloyd. They met at the court house
door, and finally, after some talk, they
agreed that the first man who reached
the lady’s house should marry her. The
regidpp.cp. of Colonel Lloyd, the laay’s
father, was one. mile distant, and both
men started on the race for the bride.
Bibb soon left the jnain road and dar
ted into the wppds, expecting to make
a short cat apd reach the honse before
bis rival, b,ut Miller kept tlio road, and
got in on the kome staetch eight min
utes before Iris rival.' \ Both men were
io-sight of each' other going -up the !a ic
tq the honse, and Bibb’s efforts to over
take his rival were, almost superhuman.
When they reaclrecj the house, Bibb,
from sheer exhaustion, fainted on’ the
porch, .falling almost at the feet of his
lady-love. When the matter was sfci
ted to bpg, she said she had come to the
conclusioiPthat she liked Mr. Bibb the
best; arid, therefore, she would roan-y
him." - • Her sympathies were won over
on seeing him faint. She said that she
believed both loved her, Dot that he
who faints at the danger of losing
bride must love her more than be who
is cool qnd uppopegrned in the {Bidet of
it all. Trip affair causes intense excite
ment in tljia small place. A few nights
ago Bey. Aaron Jasper, the Veil-known
Baptist minister, married Bibb'to Mii
Lloyd,
—I- 9 —
An ineenjous chap has invented. an~
alarm bedstead, This bed is attached
to clock work in snch a manner |tuit any
hour desjred an alarm is set ofi, which,
if the sleeper dees not heei} p about
five minutes thereafter he will get a
practical iUnstratjon of the adage,"
“Time (and the alarm Jbeil) waits for no
man,” by being" rolled ont upon the
floor witb.out ceremony.
Aruold bachelor, who particularly ha-
i-asked an anthbrea*
HpYir '«smg-
FLASHES OF FASHION.
CAUGHT AT THE SUMMER OPENINGS.
Ehrichs’Fashion Quarterly.
The Lolotse is a favorite archervliat,
said to have been introduced by The
Jersey beauty, Mrs Langtry.
The Jersey costnme has not ffhched
New York, and will not probably be
here before August or September.
The first painted costume worn in
Paris was made toi Sara Bernhardt, the
great tragedienne, at a cost of $900.
Sunset colored linings under red par
agon frames gain favor With ladies who'
affect the picturesque in dress.
The latest thing iu lingerie is a' dol
man visite camisole for negligee wear iri
place of a dressing sacqne.
Almost every fashionable toilet has’
some hint of the rage for the bright'
and clever notions of the Japanese.
Quantities of gold lace, gold net, gold
braids, galloons and cords are seen on '
summer bonnets and dressy hats.
Fonlard hanckeroliiefs are trimm’ed
with Breton and Languedoc laces, arid '
made into bows, jabots, and fichus.
Pockets of velvet, silk, satin and lace :
are trimmed with jet and suspended 2
from tho waist by a satin ribbon.
Gold threads are introduced in to some
of the prettiest laces, each ifignre being/
outlined with a gold chain stitch.
Japanese white straw hats are trimm
ed with white lilacs and-bows - of.white,
satin ribbon for cbilflren’s wear;
Tnrbaus, Pauchons, Derbies, Japa--
nese, Fayal arid 1 Bongh-and-Ready
broad-brimmed hats will all be equally;
fashionable.
The strings of small bonnets are more -
frequently tied in a bow in the back,
over the chignon- than : nnder the chin
in fiout.
Small Japanese round fans,-.with Jong-
handles, are covered;with silkand sat-
in, on which are bandpainted designs
of great beauty.
Turkey-red calico costumes, profusely,
trimmed-with Langnedoc lace,, will be-
worn indoors and at archery and lawu--
ifenni's- gatherings;
Boudoit dolWin', viiiles cf Srie riniri--
sook or lawn trimmed with lace a'niF
decorated with ribbon will be very fash
ionable at Saratogn and Newport.
Heliotropes, pansies, dandelions, car-,
nations, gilliflowers, buttercups and?
rosebuds and mignonette are foshiona- -
ble bouquet and bonnet flowers.
When the grounds of oolbred lawns;
are heliotrope, old gold, almond, pale:
blue or pale rose, the fljtv%e-3£& borders |
gre in bright deep tones of re<h osttagfr.
brown and dull greens.
Monograms and heraldic devices are
embroidered in gold cba : n stitch on
many of the new pockets or reticules,
which are now nsed suspended from the
arm oftener than from the waist.
Instead of woolen breakfast shawls.,
there are now large squares of India
fonlard, in bright colois and gay pat
terns, edged yfith I^angaedoe and Ba-
gqga la?§s, pqt fiRslyjJklx fulled* not
plaited.
icess sacqne dresses for little peo«.
pie are made with loose fronts covered,’.
with tucks and insertion, while the
backs are half fitted to the fignre, and *
finished with aS; a rish flounce also trim-,
med on the edge.
Neptunite is a recently patented col-,
orless snhstanoe held in solution, the
apjilication of which to silk, woolen,
linen and cotton fabrics, paper, feath- ■
ers, and other material, readers them,
water repellant and proof against rain,
dampness, mildew and moths.
Large hats with irregular tnrned-np
brims are elaborately tripirned, -with" os
trich plumes, flowers, gold braTds ani
gold ornaments, and used for carriage
drives, archery, garden and lawn par-'
ties, oronali occasions when dressy
toilet? are admissible.
I he most elegant of all summer even
ing toilets are dresses of eern or white
nnn!s veiling, a fine Sea island cotton
fabric, xqaqfe np with jounces Liavily
embroidered in ejrn and wliitefloss with '
gold thread chain stitching* introduced;
as ontlines to the designs. ' * M
Some very pretty white short cos 7
tnmes are made for country wear, com
posed of a skirt of lawn cr nainsook
trimmed with two deep flounces edged
with Italian ,lace and headed with in-'
aer|ions of the same, and a long llaff-
fitting sacone adorned with a similar*
rnffli at the bottom and trimmed with
tacks agd |ace insertion. *
TheTatest novelty for
qjelty for lawn, garden
pot painted red, banded with 'gilded
stripes, and suspended torn a wooden
tripod, seven feet in height, united sev
en inches from the top by a gilded hall,
from which hangs'the bronzed chain
that suspends the pot. ?
A novelty for negligee wear in the
plaqe of a chamber rehe‘or camisole is*
a long, white liwn dolman'visite exqui
sitely trimmed'' with Italian lace and
bows arid’lcTops of pale blue lose or
white ribhon, to be worn over a lawn
jlotinced to the knee and trim-
^ce edging and insertion to
with the eamisole dolman