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Lase Fashion Notes.
Feather fans and parasols are made
to ourrcspohd.
The “Langtry" bonnet is little of
crown and large of brim.
Sheila cloth is much used for portiere!
and other hangings.
The trim-fitting plaited waist is re
vived for summer dresses.
Cotton Sioilienne is a glossy fabric
much resembling foulard silk.
Gold lace and Isabella roses trim hats
and bonnets of dark-green straw.
Gold colored lusterless straw bonnets
in “Langtry" shape are exceedingly
elegant for dress occasions;
Carrackmacross lace is much used
upon fancy round hats of cream-white
straw, also trimmed with white os
trich tips.
Terra-cotta satin dresses, trinied with
real Spanish lace, relieved by huge
clusters of “Jack” roses, are imported.
Among the rapidly appearing eccen
tricities in fancy jewelry’ is an ornament
for millinery in’ the shape of six tiny
birds transfixed on a gilded spit.
The Alpine peasant hat, called the
Montagnard, with broad brim bent down
over the eyes, is an exceedingly popular
head covering for seaside use.
Pure wool-mixed cheviots with a dash
of Cayenne red in the woof will be much
employed for traveling dresses all sum
mer. The facings and cording.? are of
red satin.
Black openwork chenille wraps in the
Directoire shape are much worn this
season. They form a rich and elegant
addition to promenade costumes of
moire, foulard, or satin, and have all the
- becoming effect of a black velvet man
tle.
One of the prettiest and newest ber
thas for the summer is of violet-tinted
mull, upon which are appliqued natural
sized heartsease blossoms of gold and
purple velvet. The edge of the bertha
is bordered with violet-tinted Spanish
lace.
The „ skirts of carriage dresses are
often made of dark laurel-green nuns’
cloth, with pannier ;■ drapery, panels,
and ruche-lining of Oriental brocade in
crimson, green, and gold. The Conti
nental coat is open to show a Nnis.se, or
beadle vest, of the brocade, closed up to
the front with silk cords and frogs of
darkest green.
Among pretty French house saoques
are those of quite heavy white Austrian
flannel, trimmed with rows of cream
white braid about an inch and a half in
width, and finished on the edges with
ficelle lace, set on in double nifties. In
less delicate styles are those made of
hunters' green vigbgne, trimmed with
small gold-washed buttons and rows of
very narrow gold braid.
Pretty French bonnets, lined with
tinted satin and trimmed with rose gar
lands, with parasols to correspond, are
now placed in wise juxtaposition in
many store windows, and the purchase
of one without the other shows a power
to withstand temptation beyond the
capabilities of most women. For ex
ample, we see a sunshade entirely cov
ered with myrtle green Spanish lace
mounted on a pearl handle, associated
past severance with a stylish Gypsy
bonnet; also trimmed with green
Spanish lane, beneath the filmy folds of
which peep phenominal pale blue roses
held by a mother-o’-pearl clasp. It is
this connection between one portion of
dress with another that is so pretty and
yet so inexpensive a feature of present
fashion.
At a stylish wedding, in a fashionable
church up town, the bridesmaids con
sisted of six cherubic little girls, rang
ing in ago from six to ten years. They
wore attired in charming-looking Kato
Greenaway costumes made of seashell
pink foulard, trimmed with lace and
natural rosebuds, with broad sashes of
i>ink moire and bewitching little Queen
dab bonnets of white shirred surah,
tied down with moire silk strings, the
crows being wreathed with the moss
roses. They carried French gilded bas
kets of white and pink roses to scatter
the bride's path as, unaccompanied, she
walked up the church aisle to the chan
cel, whore she met the rest of the bridal
»a-ty. who preceded her into the church.
A simple walking-dress for a young
girl is made of limousine striped beige
and dark Chinese red silk. The round
skirt is in two rows of kilts, and the
second skirt is very much draped in the
back. Ln front it is crossed slantwise
and looped high on one side. This tunic
has no trimming beyond several
rows of stitching in dark red silk. The
basque is slashed at the back, and
underneath the opening is set a sash of
the dark red silk. A small round pel
erine, with collar and revers stitched all
around, and fastened in front with a
bow of dark red ribbon, can be put on
and off at pleasure. The dose sleeves
are finished with rows of stitching
around the wrists, which are piped on
the edges with red. Small round but
tons of red corozv are placed in a double
row on the front of the basque and upon
the sleeves and small pocket-flaps.
Getting Particular.
“Nevada isn’t the country it used to
be," he rainarked, as he slowly cut a
slice from his plug of tin-tag, and sol
emnly shook his he.nl.
‘•What’s the trouble!”
“Folks are getting too particular to
do business. Twenty years ago I could
sell shares in a railroad to run from
Denver to Russia, and never be asked
a question, but now they want to know
all about it, even to how many locomo
tives you have ordered. Why’ it’s get
ting so you can't hardly sell mining
stock any more.”
“Indeed.”
“Fact, sir; 1 was three months work
ing off S6OO worth of stock in the Golden
Paradise, and my expenses ate up all
the profits. Men had the impudence to i
ask me where 1 came from, what ma- I
chinery I had, how many hands I
employed, who elected me ‘President; !
and some went so far as to doubt the I
certificate of assay that I paid a fellow j
$5 to write for me.”
“And you leh?”
“Left? Os course I left. Why, im
another week some one would have had
the brass to ask me in what country my 1
mine was located, and I could never I
have stood that—never”— ll’ill Street I
baih/ News.
T/m annoiincemwit is made that the ;
•■•HI not be open for i I
llaiiic iiil July 4, 18<83. |
Terrific Natural Forces.
The present year bids fair to be noted
for its frequent and violent elemental
disturbances. Cyclones, tornadoes,
heavy and long-continued rains, fol
lowed by terrible floods, hail-storms,
unseasonable and severe cohl and frosts,
have thus far strewn the path of 1882,
and if all predictions turn out to be cor
rect, the next two months will give
additional variety to the meteorological
programme in the shape of terrific
thunder and lightning showers. \\ hat
is the matter with the powers of the
air? While no new forces seem to be
apparent in this general weather melee,
it is yet quite evident there is an un
usual combination of forces at work
somewhere. The kaleidoscope of
Nature is revolving rapidly, and sending
her hidden machinery into new po
sitions and displaying constantly a
succession of fresh and varying phe
nomena.
But high scientific authority declares
that this world, like a huge bead, is
strung upon a thread of law, and if this
be so, we must not suspect any element
of chance or capricious uncertainty in
the regular and orderly movements of
natural forces. Vennor has recently
giv<‘n out that he bases his observations
and gues-es in part on the periodical re
currence of certain courses or demon
strations of atmospheric phenomena;
that about once in so often peculiar
seasons appear, and unusual occur
rences take place in earth ami sea and
sky, and that by a careful study of the
past he is able to predict to some ex
tent the future. It would thus seem
that in the original constitution or ar
rangement of things, uniformity and
regularity were to be the prevailing
rules of afl natural movements and
sequences, and in addition to this the
law of variation was also to come in at
s a 1 d intervals ami mo lily or inter
rupt the otherwise monotonous proces
sion of events. Just a- in a skillfully
composed piece of music, there is the
central theme of melody running
through t <■ whole, ami lin n, harmoni
ously mingling with it. an almost in
finite number of divergencies and varia
tdns, so in the grand plan of the world,
as revealed in the operations of the ma
ter al universe, there is a main chord
of regularity and uniformity visible,
ami. coupled with these, any ntimber of
variable and extraordinary divergen
cies from the usual course.
Many years ago, among the popular
ami instructive lectures of the Rev. T.
Starr King -who, as a far-seeing ami
subtle thinker, has never had an equal
in this country was one entitled “’t he
Laws of Disorder,” in which he demon
strated with rare beauty ami force the
fact that the most uncertain ami appar
ently capricious of all earthly events
ami movements were under the control
of fixed and unchangeable laws. In
like manner the results of the patient
ami protracted studies of all modern
scientific naturalists, like Darwin and
Spencer, go to prove that the idea of
unity and uniformity, coupled with the
power of variations, forms one portion
of the ground-plan of the world. This
is seen alike in the perpetuation of spe
cies or types of animals and vegetable
life, in the movements of history ami
the unfolding of civilization, in the re
currence of natural phenomena and in
the rolling of the worlds through the in
finite spaces.
It can thus be seen at a g’ance how
erroneous are the views of those who
would attribute all the extraordinary oc
currences of life to the direct interposi
tion of an unseen and divine hand. The
conception of a Creator and Ruler of
this and other worlds sitting on a hid
den throne and hurling thunderbolts at
his own will and pleasure far and near,
as Jove was supposed to do from the
top of Mount Olympus, may be Grecian
and classic, but in the light of ascer
tained scientific facts ami laws, it can
hardly be called either Christian or civ
ilized.
, Another thought in connection with
the working of these terrific natural
forces is, that any now light which can
be thrown upon the times and seasons
which they observe, or the methods and
laws which they follow, would be a
great public benefaction. Ami to this
end the recent efforts of General Hazen
and the Signal Service corps to observe
more accurately the origin ami courses
of tornadoes in the various portions of
this country are worthy of all commen
dation. It is not much, at the best,
which can be learned or communicated
concerning these terrific aerial visita
tions. but all that can be known should
bo known ami distributed broadcast
throughout the sections of country most
liable, to suffer from their desolating
ravages. The recent exhibitions of cv
clonie power in lowa and elsewhere
make this subject a most pertinent one
at the present time, and call for renewed
activity in the direction which the
(Signal Corps has so happily and oppor
tunely marked out.— Chtcaao Journal.
He Had the Russian Accent.
The Russian is the most difficult of all
Continental tongues to acquire. One
must have a t hroat made on purpose,
ami vocal cords strong as the hawser of
a ship, or he will never be able to speak
with ease and freedom. The following
true anecdote will serve to illustrate
the nature of these awful gutturals
with which the language is filled. The
! Russian Minister, a most accomplished
gentleman, was seated at table by the
side of an American friend, who was
taken with a sudden fit of sneezing.
I Now there are sneezes and then again
I there are sneezes. There is a little”cat
sneeze in which some delicate ladies in
dulge, and there is the robust sneezft of
j the full grown man, and, lastly, the
| sneeze immense, the earthquake sneeze, 1
I loud enough to waken even a watchman
I at the dead of night, and strong enough
j to lift a heavy mortgage off the house.
Os the later kind was the sneeze we are i
i describing. At the third report, which i
I brought the entire dinner company to
■ theii feet in dismay, the gentleman from
| St. Petersburg quietly turned and said
i to the sneezer: “Sir, I congratulate you
on having perfectly mastered the Rus
i stan accent.”—A’. K Herald.
- Dr. Bell, of New York, is sure that i
germ of disease remain in ice after it !
is frozen. / /v.on/r. If t| )CV arp in I
i''" a! ab it must b- ,a f ter if js frozen. - ;
V. e .on t huv- any unfrozen ice ip this j !
country, Noirisiuwn Herald. j t
Alison in Natural History I h-IM
“Professor, what is a Dodo?"
“There are several species of thel
Dodo, my son, and there used to be”
several more before the fool-killer cut *
the country up into regular districts.” I
“ Please describe some of them to me?
“With pleasure. You have pro)-
ably attended a Sunday-school picnic
given on the banks of a lake or river?
Six fat women, two girls who wear eye
glasses, and a very good boy who lisps
make up the party to take a ride on the
water. As they are ready to shove off,
the Dodo appears and keeps them com
pany.
“What is he like, and what does he
do?”
“He is generally a soft-headed young
man under twenty-three years of age,
and he stands up and rocks the boat to
hear the fat women scream and to in
duce the girls to call him Gweorgc.’
“Does the boat upset?”
“It does.”
“And is everybody drowned?”
“Everybody except the Dodo. lie
always reaches the shore in safety, and
he is always sorry it happened. He is
sometimes so affected that it takes away
his appetite for lunch.”
“And is anything done with him?”
“They sometimes rub his head with a
cheap brand of peppermint essence and
turn him out to grass, but no one ever
thinks of doing him harm.”
“And the next species?”
“The next species is a youth from
sixteen to twenty. He labors under
wfiat the ancients termed the swell
head. lie gets out the family shot-gun
or revolver to show off. He points it at
some bov or girl to see ’em shiver, and
after he has testified before the coroner
that he did’nt know it was loaded the
affair is looked upon as ended.”
“Is this species on the increase?”
“Well, no. The friends of Che victims
have got to making such a fuss over
these trifles that thc-didn't-know it-was
loaded Dodo isn’t quite holding his
own.”
“What is the third species?”
“The third species belongs to the
female sex. Os course there are two
sexes of t;.e Dodo. She buys arsenic to
kill rats, or corrosive-sublimate to dis
courage bed-bugs, or Paris green to
give cockroaches a hint to skip, and she
waves the packages on the pantry shelf
alongside of her baking-powder. She
may keep ’em separate for two or three
days, but it isn’t over a week before the
family begins to lose their appetite and
hire a cheap boy to go for a doctor and
a stomach-pump.”
“And is she sorry?”
“Oh, yes. She didn’t mean to, you
know; never thought of killing the
family; always lived happy with her
husband; had entirely forgotten that he
had any life insurance; was in a hurry
and didn’t stop to look.”
“And is there yet another species of
Dodo?”
“Several others, but wo haven’t time
to take ’em in detail and give full par
ticulars in each case. The man who
thinks the best horse wins is a Dodo.
The woman who gets into society on
the strength of her false hair, small
waist, painted eyebrows, chalked checks
and cramped feet is a Dodo. The man
who thinks he can take comfort on a
steamboat excusion—the woman who
weeps over the heathen—the girl who
writes poetry on sunsets—the young
man looking for a necktie to become
him—the old man who marries a young
wife—why, it would take me an hour to
mention them all. Put away your books
in a careful manner and we will walk
out and see some live specimens of the
Dodo. I know of one who has engaged
to deliver a Fourth of July oration, and
perhaos we mav get a shot at him. ”
Mulligan Sails.
A large schooner lay at the foot of
East Twenty-eighth street on Sunday
evening. Just before nightfall a bare
headed man rushed down Twenty
eighth street, closely pursued by two
policemen, and sprang on board and
climbed the mainmast with the agility
of a monkey. The policemen watched
him, evidently puzzled at the situation.
“We sail in half an hour,” said the
Captain.
The elder policeman, a gray-haired
man of fifty years, hesitated for a mo
ment, and then proceeded to climb the
mast. The man in the rigging smiled.
'Die policeman pushed steadily on, how
ever, and the man above finally frowned
and proceeded to climb higher. A crowd
gathered upon the dock watched the
two men with deep interest. Up and
up they went, until the pursued man
had reached his last foothold. The
policeman was a few feet below
him, and both still climbing. Both
seemed determined. A struggle
at that dizzy height was likely
to result in the death of one or both.
An unexpected incident called forth a
loud cheer from the crowd. The fugi
tive seized a wire rope stretched be
tween the two masts and swung him
self into the air. Hand over hand he
went until he reached the second mast,
which was without support for him
other than the wire rope afforded. He
locked his legs about the mast and
clung to the rope. The policeman de
scended to the deck.
“How can I get that man?” he said
to the Captain.
The Captain smiled grimly. “If it
was any ordinary man 1 should say you
could pick him up on the deck pretty
soon, or what's left of him. After see
in' him cross that rope I should say you
couldn't get him until he comes down.
Are you goin' out with us?” and he
ordered his crew to cast off.
The policemen went ashore, and the
, man remained in his dizzy perch until
' out of sight in the twilieht.
The fugitive was William Irwin, alias
Mulligan, who, on May 23, inflicted in
juries on Edward Marron, of 344 East
Thirty-first street, which kept Mr. Mar
, ron confined to his house until last Fri
day. The policeman who made the
plucky pursuit was Michael Kellard, of
Yorkville Police Court.—iV. Y. Sun.
—The Ga:ctla de Napoli is authority
for the statement that the number of
deaths from delirium tremens and ,
chronic alcoholism jire: In Italy, 1.65
per th ms.ind in England. 2.0 I: Nor
v;*.v .’. 6: Seo'l.tnd, Belgium and 1
;■’v t•:erl.r;<|, each, 3.83; .Sweden, 6.2A I 1
and New York, 12.08. | J
seemed a heavy burden for ■
crea’ ire would stop every few
to take a breathing-spell, and at these
times it would spread its wings upon
the ground and lie perfectly motionles-.
then, as if receiving increase of strong th i o
from contact with the earth, it wou.d |Ji
shake itself and return to its wearisome n
task. We soon discovered that its pur- o
pose was to find a perfectly dry and
safe spot in which to bury its burden, e
until the occupant of the egg that she y
was about to lay in it should come to t
life, feed on the entombed insect, and at t
lart rise from its grave, expand its in- r
descent wings, and fly away.
'There were four of us, officers of the 0
army, watching the performance, which f
was new to all, and, as the sequel proved,
very interesting. After a few moments,
the*fly dropped her burden and went off t
to select a spot suitable for her purpose. I
But in a short time, apparently fearing t
that her treasure might be disturbed ]
during her absence, she started to fly <
back. While she was gone, howevea, i
one of us moved her prey a short dis- i
tanee away from where it hail been left,
and when she returned and did not find I
it, she fell into a flutter of excitement. *
She flew swiftly about in circles, widen- i
ing at every round, until she became
wearied, when she spread herself prone
on the ground until rested, and then re
traced her path, lessening the circles
and never becoming confused. Soon the
insect was placed where she «>uld find
it, when she seized it with unmistakable
pleasure and bore it away to the site of
the grave, and, after resting a second or
two, began to dig with might and main.
Iler manner of excavating was peculiar;
she stood on her head and, spinning
swiftly around like a top, bored into ths
ground like an auger, making a hum
ming noise with her wings. When ex
hausted by this violent exercise, she
was not satisfied with merely resting on
the ground, but sought the shade cast
by a blade of grass or a leaf of a tiny I
shrub, which afforded a cool retreat to
her slender body.
The hole was soon bored out and
smoothed to exactly the right width
and depth to receive the seemingly dead
insect, although no measurements had
been made by this Liliputian engineer,
who had worked with unerring skill,
unheeding the giants watching hes.
Having completed her task, she took a
good rest within the shadow of her fa
vorite leaf, and then sought her burden.
But, again, it was gone!
At this she acted precisely as if she
were saying: “Oh, dear, dear! I laid
the thing there, close by the grave, as
sure as sure. And yet I must be mis
taken ; for I had paralyzed it with my
sting so that it could neither fly nor
walk; and those hulking giants stand
ing around here would not be so mean
as to steal it from me. Oh, fie! there it
is. I fear my brains are in a whirl from
overwork in this hot sun. I could have
sworn I laid it on Z/zi'v side, instead of
that.' 1 ' 1 (One of us had moved the in
sect again.) Then she laid an egg in
the insect.
The burial did not take her long;
deftly she patted down the dust, and
butted at it, using her small head as a
battering-ram; but before she had half
finished she was forced from sheer
weakness to seek again the shady covert
of the leaf.
And during this interval—so eager
were we to observe the little worker’s
queer ways—we took advantage of her
absence to remove the insect from its
hole and lay it on the ground alongside.
When she returned, she looked at it in
' tently for a moment, and then patiently
went to work to put it back; and this
was repeated twice, with the same re
sult. finally the patient fly, after rest- ■
ing a longer time than usual, returned
to give the finishing touches to the
grave, and, finding it again despoiled,
seemed to become terribly enraged, as
if convinced that the insect was trying
to make a fool of her. She fell upon it
and stung it again and again, and final
ly destroyed it by repeated blows.
At this unexpected dc>ioueme?il, we
walked away to our tents, amazed that
so small a head should contain, such a
volume of wrath.— St. Nicholas.
Photographs of Horses in Motion.
The method by which these photo
graphs have been taken—the result of
years of experiment—is substantially as
follows: At one side of the track is a
long building arranged for photograph
ic work, containing a battery of twenty
four cameras, all alike and standingone
foot apart. On the other side of the
track is a screen of white muslin and a
foot-board. The screen is marked w ith
vertical and horizontal lines, and the
foot-board bears numbers indicating sep
arate intervals of one foot each. The
instantaneous shutters of the cameras
are operated by electricity, and their
movement is governed by such power
fid springs that the exposure is esti
mated to be about one live-thousandth
of a second. The contact by which the
shutters are sprung is ma le bv the
breaking of a thread drawn across the
track at about the height of the horse’s
breast, there being one thread for each
camera. In his flight through the air,
therefore, he brings each of the twenty
four cameras to bear upon him at the '
moment when he passes in front of it, i
and that camera represents his position
at that instant. The series of represen
tations indicates the consecutive posi
tions at each of the twenty-four feet cov- •
cred by the instruments. In a series
showing a horse trotting nt speed the
spokes of the sulky are shown as dis- ! <
tine) lines quite ’to the felloe of the
wheel, indicating an extremely short
exposure. In a fast run, the tufts of the
horse s tail, as it waves with his stride,
are clearly marked.— George E. H'ar- •
f»*7, Jr., in the Centum.
—M. Tiolle has determined the bolK
Ing point of zinc to be 988 deg., or very |
near the temperature (982 deg.) given (
py Bjauere], _ (
11
wj ” '
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tnd oats were late in' w
have grown slowly, and continued we«
weather has prevented proper growth,
but yet seems not to have seriously in
jured the crop; as a tb ® ir J “J
has been confined to particular portvons
of farms and to particular localities
The worst feature in the season, how
ever, is that continued rains have pre
vented the planting, or when P anted,
the cultivation of corn. It is tru «'that
disabilities of a season are always ovei
rated. As a rule the worst view of the
season is apt to be taken by farmers,
and naturally so. If the soil is wet it is
always concluded to be disastrously so.
If too dry crops are burning up. If
frost strikes the blossoms, fruit is en
tirely killed, while succeeding da y^ sho *
perhaps that a fuU crop 's left rims
this season the outcome c. fruit now
promises fully half a full crop, or more,
except as to early blossoming varieties:
the severest loss being strawberries, and
next peaches. Winter wheat will proba
bly make half a full crop, which means
almost or quite an average crop, lhe
damage early anticipated from destruc
tive insects will prove next to nothing.
For the weather that was bad for crops
was fatal to insect life. So far there
seems no cause for being disheartened
over small grains, as a whole.
In relation to corn the matter is more
serious. Our great corn years are those
when the corn mav be planted early
and cultivated right along. Dry sea
sons <rive better crops than wet ones,the
best seasons being moderately dry warm
springs, followed"by warm, rather moist
weather during June and July. As a
rule corn planted in June does not make
a full crop to ripen on the stalk, but if
cut up at the time of the first frost, it
will ripen sound. If the autumn is late
and warm, the June plantings ma,y
ripen perfectly on the stalk, but this
i may not be expected.— Prairie Farmer.
New Arithmetical Problems.
James has six apples and divides one
among his five brother and sisters. How
many has he left?
If a quart-box of strawberries holds a
pint and a half, how many boxes will it
take to make a peek, and how quick can
a tramp get away with them?
If a farmer can mow six acres of grass
in one day, how many liars will it take
to mow thirty-eight acres of grass in
three days?
A guest at the hotel pays the porter
twenty-five cents to take his trunk up
stairs; ten cents ,to a colored boy to
bring him a pitcher of water; twenty
five cents further to the porter to get
his trunk down stairs; fifty cents to the
omnibus driver, and $3 to the landlord
as the regular rate of the house. How
much has he been swindled, and what
is he going to do about it?
A coal dealer has a driver weighing
185 pounds, who is weighed with 750
loads of coal during the winter. What
would have been the gain to the con
sumers had the driver only weighed 150
pounds?
If a policeman on night duty sleeps an
hour and a half each night for thirteen
years, how many years of such arduous
labor will it take to reduce him to a
walking skeleton?
In each county in the United States
are seventy inhabitants who believe they
would make good State Governors. Os
this number only two per cent, ever get
to be even a constable. What is the
exact number of constables, and how
many law-suits can a wide-awake officer
provoke in a year.
A grocer has a horse which he asserts
. can trot a mile in 2:40. He puts him on
the track under a watch and finds his
best gait to be 3:28. What was the dif
ference between the grocer’s estimate
and the watch, and why did he wollop
the poor horse all the way home?
A father at his death left $12,000 for
the benefit of his only son, fourteen
years, eight months and twelve days
old, the money to be paid him when
j twenty-one years of age, with interest
at six per cent. How much money did
the lawyers leave for the boy?
A merchant who has a stock valued at
$8,(i00 advertises that he will dispose of
it at one-fourth oft’. How much does he
make?
A citizen has a cow which gives six
quarts of milk per day, while his sales
toot up nine quarts. 'There is nothing
for the student to find in this case.
Simply turn on the water.
A grocer buys a chest of tea weighing
eighty pounds. He sells twenty-seven
pounds of it as “my unapproachable
sixty cent tea, ’ and the remainder as
“our splendid forty cent Oolong.”
How much did he receive inall and how
much *lid he have to give to the heathen
that year to quiet his conscience?
A plumber who does sixteen cents’
worth of repairing desires to charge for
four pounds of solder in his bill. Please
suggest how it can be done without in
jury to his system.— Detroit Free Press.
—The Philadelphia Medical and Sur
gical Reporter, after describing the “cu
cumber taste” of Boston water as due
to the fresh water sponge, tells us that
Philadelphia and New York also receive
their water from polluted sources—that
is, their “feeders” pass through a set
tled country. It appears also by the
Chemical News that the water at New
ark, Jersey City and Hoboken has
become noticeable for a marked flavor
•of carbolic acid, anil t±st.even Wilming
ton, Del., must be numbere<\among the
towns whose drinking water is'Unfit to
drink.
—Mr. Hidden, the suceelß
Frederick C.^i^ rd'K CIN-
Cominons, > AND WIIEII-
keeper a
mil). He afterwFM.S. * , an‘JO ly
preacher among
tlr prominent, "
l>"= -tr-ngly
p< ‘ ..us w xnanufo' r
z> mm*
j M ' S 11
■ *'.’ ’ wills’
a calico Zng
set herself died one ... /M
week from using the sole * of her shoe to
strike a match, the staid Philadelphia
/ edacr suggests that all women who
adopt from their male relatives this
method of striking a light should bor
row their clothes, too.
k Jersey City man has patents
two improved floor coverings. Oneli
a fabric coated with a mixture of ground
leather and mineral fiber and a binding
of hard varnish, and the other is i
coating of ground wood or some othei
vegetable fiber, mixed with minen
fiber and a binding of copal. Thes
coverings are claimed to be remarkablj
cheap and durable.—X K Herald.
Laroq the Easton poisoner, is sd
to be farming out West. If he is ed
ployed on a piece of rocky and stumd
•/round, and the plow handles insinini
themselves into his abdomen, dr bendj
couple of his ribs, like croquet Wicked
whenever the plow strikes a snag, bel
'/etting pretty severely punished n
having simply poisoned his fathe
mother and vmcle.—Norristown Herak
—“The fact is,” said the seedy tramp
“I have read so much about the troubli
in the labor market that I am hearti
-ick of the whole business, and I mad
np my mind long ago that I would neve
have anything to do with labor. As
am a man who never forsakes his pm
ciples, I can not work; but if you ha
a nice rare steak and cup of hot cofli
about the premises, I’ll devote ale
moments to their demolition.
—When Emerson last visited Englm
he went one Sunday to the c h“
Stratford-on-Avon, and seated hims
near the monument to Shakespesi
There was an unusually fine sermo
and at its conclusion the congregate
dispersed, but Emerson still sat, sila
ana absorbed. After a little tuneJ
friend touched his arm ai” remind
him that the sermon was oyer- 1
sermon?” exclaimed the phNosoph
startled from his reverie, “I 1
know there had been one.”
Hard and Soft Water.
Ypu often hear of water for houscho
purposes being called “hard ai
“soft.” The reason why some watci
especially spring-water, are “han
is owing to the mineral matters disso. ■
in them. Rain-water is never “han!
because it is nearly free of solid matte
The reason you had such an uneojnfoi
able wash and shave this morning
your friend’s house was owing to t
water being largely charged with 1;.
and magnesia. When the soap is ru
bed between the palms in water of t
description, the stearic acid in the oil
the soap combines with the lime a
magnesia, and forms compounds whi
the water cannot dissolve; and het
the provoking curdiness you obserr
For the lather to be a perfect one, co
plete solution of the constituents of I
soap must take place, and in pure wa
this would be the case. But some wat
are permanently hard, while some
only temporarily so. Permanent na
nessis caused when the water is char"
with sulphate of lime and magnesia, a
temporary hardness by carbonates
lime and magnesia. Pure water disso!
the sulphates, but not the carbons'
Then how do the carbonates come to
in the water at all? The reason is u
All natural waters, but especially sp r
and well water, contain more or less!
carbonic-acid gas in a state of absfl
tion, and, when thus charged, are cs
ble of dissolving the carbonate- 1 : ■
whenever this gas is expelled from
water, say by boding it, the carbon!
are at once deposited; and this aeco'
for the incrustation in the kettle:
when this takes place the water bee’i
quite soft. The boiling does not
the sulphates to any degree in this'
in water that is permanently “hat
Temporarily hard water can be 111
soft by more means than boiling aW
If a tubful of it at night be stirre*
with a little “slaked” lime and aIW
to settle, in the morning there wm '
white deposit at the bottom of the!
and the water will be found to be '|
“soft,” because the lime added
combine with the free carbonic-acr
in the water, and the whole of
carbonates will become deposited
virtue of their insolubility in water«
out this gas.
For drinking purposes, rain''
after being passed through a chat
filter, to remove the organic
contains, is the most wholesome
adults. The general objection >’
tastelessness. A pinch of sa 1
remedy this. For the young, ho"’
solid matter in the water, the rigl> l '
such as lime and magnesia, is g ’ ‘
these go to build up the b >ny s'" 11
of the child.— Chambers' Joura" ■
—A New Haven,Conn., man hasw
out a patent for an invention of
which he claims * ££.|res the »bso
storage of for electric 11
purposes. I I jfeays that by his co«
vance the»A <4 O force becomes
able as oil, atjd P el j
life and property invkien* a . cUII
produced by a dynanu’ Mftnhin.e ’
entirely obviataV .He •Rw'tobK
secure this ele> r
invents-I'*' H ~
- i
W” ’. have fr*. „„p/m
ami will i(K COl . Jiipou ■
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