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'JJatlc <£ounlij ?\ciis* TRENTON, GEORGIA. In enforcing, in a recent sermon, the point that there are no conditions, how ever unpromising, which may not he utilized for developing good results, Rev. S. W. Lee, of Mobile, Ala., relates how Rey. I>. C. Brown, a circuit preacher, raised his missionary assessment. He was sent to a very poor circuit in North Georgia. He recognized that if he raised his missionary money he would have to adopt extraordinary measures. This he determined to do. He made a round on his circuit and asked his sisters cf the church if they would give him a hen each. Forty-five of them complied with his request. lie also had them promise to set these hens, and to let the proceeds go toward the missionary cause. At one time he had forty-five missionary hens, each sitting on as many eggs as she could well cover. In the rourse of a few weeks the preacher had perhaps as many as 500 missionary chick ens. When they reached that interesting age in the life of ach cken known as the “ frying size, ” they were sold, and the proceeds applied to the missionary cause. War was never actually declared be tween the United States and France, though various acts of hostility' were done. Jay’s treaty with Great Britain, signed in 1794 and ratified in 1793, set tled various matters in a way France did not like. France thereupon issued vari ous decrees against American commerce, which were hardly those of a friendly nation. In 1797 the relations between France and the United States were so threatening that President Adams called an extra session of Congress for May 13. C. C. Pinckney, Elbridge Gerry and John Marshall were sent to France to adjust a 1 difficulties. The Govern ment refused to receive them, but inti mated that money would smooth mat ters: if the money didn't come wax would. Then Pinckney made the famous remark: “War be it then. .Mill ions for defence, not one cent for trib ute.” Preparations for war were made by Congress, and had we not begun fighting at once there might have been war. The U. S. frigate Constellation, Commodore Truxton, took the French frigates L’insurgente and La Vengeance, and so startled the French that they made overtures for a renewal of nego tiations, and in 1800 a treaty was made between the United States and Napoleon. So, says the New York Sun, we never de clared war with France, but came out • victorious in a war that never was fought. The New York Mail and Expres has become worked up over the fact that the uncouth home appellation of our be loved country is not accepted by nations using other languages than the English, but is translated by them into their re spective vernaculars. It says: “In France and French Switzerland we are ‘Etats Unis;’ in Austria-Hungary, Bel gium, Geimany and German Switzer land, ‘Vereinigte Staaten” in Bolivia, Brazil, Chili, Colombia, Costa Rica, Salvador, San Domingo, Ecuador, Guatemala, Hayti, Honduras, Mexico, Monaco, Nicaragua, Venezuela, Uruguay, Spain and Portugal we are ‘Estados Lnidos.’ in Norway, ‘Be Forenede Stater;’ in Sweden, ‘Forento Staterne;’ in Greece. ‘Enomenai Politeiaiin Russia, ‘Soedineneia Stadtds;’ in Italy, ‘Stati Uniti.’ Besides the British empire we have the honor of being called by our own name, United States, only in the limited and despairing republic of Lib eria, in Africa.” Mr. Shepard declares that “the name of our country ought to be the same in all languages employing the Latin letter, by their importing the words: “United States,” and in all other languages the American spelling should be insisted upon. Mr. S. apparently forgets, argues the Chicago Time , that, as regards most European countries, ye ourselves “call them out of their names.” We designate Espaniaas Spain, Italia as Italy, Deutchland (or Germania poeti cally) as Germany, Preussen as Prussia, Baiern as Bavaria, Ungarn as Hungary, Hessen as Hesse, Kossiya as Russia, Polska as Poland, Norge as Norway, Sverrige as Sweden, and so on and so on. A man who made and paid a debt of $75 ,000 on Tilden’s election was begging • money to take him to his birthplace on the streets of Mobile the other day. “Knock - around and-do nothing - all day” was the name a Kentucky father gave his son, whi<*h the last Legislature consented to change for him . A Man to be Avoided. Lambrequin -“There is Brown crossing the street; let us turn down here and get out of the way.” Robinson —“What’s the matter, do you owe him anything?” Lambrequin—“No, but he has just got back from a week’s fishing excursion.”—. Life. The late Sultan of Zanzibar is said to have been the father of 232 children. What a cheerful time such a father would have in trying to rent a house from a New York landlord. The largest meeting of Kentucky distillers (forming the Whisky Pool ever held has been jin session at Louisville. They formulatedan Agreement to restrict production of ciy-’isy to 11,000,000 gallons. rHIENDSHIP. Who is to me a moral looking-glass, In which reflects my smallest blot; Who kindly warns, or gentle chides When I fulfil! my duty not; He is my friend, I deem, However much my foe he seem. But he who Hatters, ever praises me, Who ever loves, and ne’er enlightens, For every fault a pretext finds, And me forgives before repentance; He is my foe, 1 deem, However much my friend be seem. —T. S. Stout. OLI) MR. NICKLEPOD. BY ELEANOR KIRK. “I haven’t the slightest objection to Jack, my dear, and when he has saved money enough to provide for you in case of sickness or misfortune, I will gladly give my consent to your marriage.” “110w t much money, papa?” “Keally, Flossie, you are incorrigible. Say live thousand dollars.” “And that, with his present salary, would take five years at least.” “And you would have reached the ad vanced age of twenty-three.” “Pretty old, papa.” “Y'es, in the neighborhood of ‘thesere and yellow.’” “I’ve a gbod mind to marry Sir. Nick lepod.” “Excellent idea. lie would doubtless settle a million on you, and be accomrao dating euoughto die in amonth or two.” “lie’s most old enough to die, isn't he?”. Judge Somerton looked up from his pile of papers, and gave his daughter's speaking countenance a quick examina tion. There w T as something in her man ner of asking this question a little dif ferent from usual, and the Judge was an expert in detecting shades of this kind. “Mr. Nicklepod told me one day that he would give anything if he could have me about his house all the time,’ the girl went on, half laughing and half pouting. “You would make a splendid trum peter, Floss.” The judge’s -suspicions were quite allayed now, and the easiest way out of these annoying love complications was to treat the matter as lightly as possible. “oh, my lungs are good,” said Flossie; “and I wouldn’t mind singing into the trumpet. Papa Somerton, what a lark! Think of how mauy edifying things I could say with my back to the poor old gentleman. I could abuse him to all the furniture in the house, and he’d never be the wiser. I’ll consider it, papa.” “When a woman considers, she is generally safe.” At this point the judge resumed his search among the intricacies of chirog raphy, and his daughter went on with her dusting and putting to r'ghts. After a while the silence was again broken by the latter. ‘You were poor when you married, papa?” “As a church-mouse, Flossie. ” “Why did you do it?” “Because I didn’t know any better.” “But you and mamma were very happy?” “Florence,” and now the kindly, middle-aged man brought his hand down hard upon his desk, “if I had waited until i had saved some money your mother would be alive now. It \ hardship and poverty that sowed hie seeds of a fatal disease. In three years, Flossie, there were two children born to us. My salary was quite inadequate for all the added expenses. Then came frettings and heartaches, and a // mouths illness of my own. We suffered as none can understand save those who have had similar experiences. Your mother was eighteen, Flossie. She should not have married at that age. Ou.r love was all right, but our marriage at that time was a fatal mistake. Now you know why I advise you aS 1 do.” Long after the judge had left the house the saddening effect of his word remained, but youth is unable to remain very long in the shadow of another’s grief, and so after a while Miss Florence do'ed her sweeping-cap, put away her sad thoughts, and went out into the garden. It was a warm April day, and shrubs and grass were responding in their brightest manner to Nature’s caressing invitation, Such a day was too much for Flossie. She could scarcely have been sad under any provocation, but a look at the bright, sunny face and sparkling brown eyes was enough to convince one that the. spirit of mis chief was exceed ngly strong within her. Her coquettish garden hat was posed at the exact angle for becomingness, and her plump little figure arrayed in a dress she had cut and made with her own fair hands, was one to be looked after and adored by ever lover of harmony. There was agate leading from the Judge’s gar den to that of his millionaire neighbor, the latter being possessed of that genial and generous disposition which likes to share its pleasures with others. Mr. Nicklepod, who was fond of working with his flowers, spent much of his time in his large hothouses, and thither the young voman, humming and smiling, betook herself. Mr. Nieklepod’s ear trumpet reposed by the side of a bed of carnation pinks, while its owner busied himself with some orange trees further on. “I wonder how long I could stand it to yell into an ear-trumpt:’, the visitor so liloquized. “Of course I could hide it when I didn’t feel like talking. But then I suppose he’d be making signs and faces at me, and 1 should have to make faces and signs at him. and that would be worse thau the trumpet.” With this, the Judge’s daughter seized the some what formidable-looking instrument and went to meet her faiend. “Why, Blossom, good morning,” said the millionaire, heartily. “Nobody but you ever thinks to bringme mv trumpet.” “And nobody but me would ever think of hypothecating your trumpet,” said the naughty girl, under her breath. “How’syour pa?” Mr. Nicklepod con tinued. “Quite well, but a little cross,” said Florence, bending over the “porringer” as she called it. “I hope you are not cross, Mr. Nicklepod?” The smi'e deepened about the girl’s mouth as she wondered what must have been her expression of eounteuance when giving utterance to these words. She felt it to be the- most designing speech of her life “Cross with you:” protested the old man, gallantly; “impossible. I can’t believe t ie Judge is ever cross, Blossom; but if he is, you can run right away to my house any time, and you shall have everything you want as long as you live.” “I seem to be traveling by lightning express, and on the locomotive at that.” said the minx, sotto voce. “But what would papa do?” she asked of the trumpet. “You will be leaving him sometime, I suppose, Blossom:” “Yes, in about fifty years,” »aid the girl to herself. “And you see, child,” Mr. Nicklepod went on, “it would be very handy for your pa if he only had to come next door to see you.” “I never thought of that,” said Flossie; “and I guess I’ll come.” she said aloud, and then to herself. “I wish I dared ask him how long lie thinks he is going to live.” “I’ve a good mind to take you at your word, Blossom. I’m a pretty old man, but hearty yet, and there is one thing I haven’t forgot, and that’s how to treat women folks. I'm a very lonesome old duller, too, with all my money, child.” “The back gate would be real con ven ent for papa, wouldn’t it?” said Flossie into the trumpet, and in a tone which was on the edge of a sob. “But by what gate would Jack come in,” was the next thought, and now the sob was softly shattered, and the April tears fell in a blinding mist. “Blossom, what's the matter?” said the old man, with real concern. “It can’t be possible that tin judge has really been cross enough to make you cry?” “Oh, no, indeed!” said Flossie. “I was thinking how nice it would tie to have all the flowers I wanted.” “You could have had those at any time,” was the somewhat disconcerting response. “Yes, Mr. Nicklepod”—Flossie was determined to be honest even in the hour of her greatest deceit —“and all the money.” The seamed and wrinkled face took on a grave expression, and the old head shook a little at the mention of this word. ‘ ‘Money isn’t everything. Blossom, ” he said. “Money won’t provide me with ears, or keep the rheumatism out of my knees, or the loneliness from my heart. But you shall have money. Now go and tell .John to cut all the flowers you want, and then run home and tell your pa of my offer. 1 think you had both better come in and take dinner with me to night, and we ll talk it all over.” “He doesn t act particularly hilarious, seems to me,” said Flossie, as she turned away. “But I’m engaged, any way— plighted to an octogenarian, or a centurion, or something of that kind. Jack’ll hate me, of course; but when he finds I have done it for his sake he’ll have to relent. If I don’t have but a million, that will be better than scrap ing and twisting for years to save five thousand dollars. Papa always said that riches would be very becoming to me. Poor papa! Poor Jack!” When the judge returned to his home, about three o’clock that afternoon, he was much surprised to find his daughter reclining upon the library-lounge with her head tied up. “What’s the matter, Flossie? What is it that smells so?” “Yir.egar, papa. I’ve had hysterics, and this is the reaction.” “1 hope you are not getting cranky, and weak, and nervous, like the girl of the period, Floss.” “I’m not getting anything, papa; I’ve got. I’vegot all I want, and more thau I want, and nothing that I want. I’ve got old .Mr. Nicklenod and his ear trumpet for my futuP. husband, papa, and there’s millions m it; but where— oh, where is Jack?” For a moment the judge stood as if petrified, and then burst in a perfect tor rent of laughter. At this point the vine gar bandage was discarded, and the prospective millionairess came to a sit ting position. “Isn’t it funny? Isn’t it very funny?” she remarked, wi'h flashing eyes. “But you are responsible for it, with your talk about five thousand dollars. I went de liberately into Air. Mcxlepod's. and made him propose to me. I w’as bound to settle it to-day. And now, papa, will you break the news to Jack? AVe are to dine with the ear-trumpet to-night, and then exeunt parties and dances, with Jack so handsome and lovely in his full dress suit, and enter long-sleeved gowns and old age without ears. ” “ Y'ou'll have ears enough for both.” said the Judge. “They seem to have grown longer since morning.” “But, papa. Air. Nicklepod is cer tainly oven eighty, isn’t he!” “ Flossie what have you been doing? ’’ “ Truly, papa, just what l said. Oh, dear me. how my head aches! Alercy! how my heart aches! ” “ l pen my word I thought better of Nicklepod,” said the Judge to himself a wh le afterward. “ But I pity the mau —young, old or middle-aged —who gets my Floss! ” and then the Judge laughed again, though there was a touch of some thing besides merriment in his heart. That evening the millionaire was at his best. Carefully dressed and “valeted,” as Flossie remarked, he looked much younger than when in his garden or on the street. “Good for forty years, I should sav. Floss, whispered the Judge wickedly. “He is real handsome,” was the as tonishing reply, “and I shall live to be proud of him. ” “ I suppose Blossom has told you of our compact,” Air. Nicklepod began, when at dessert, the servants having left the dining-room. The Judge nodded, the ear-trumpet being on Flossie’s side. “Are you agreed?” was the ne :t direct question put by the old gentleman. “Nod un and down.” said Flossie. “Don’t you dare do it sideways.” The judge reached for the trumpet and yelled into it. “AYe’ll talk about that later. “Very well,” said Air. Nicklepod; “I am, as I told Blossom, an old man, and perhaps not very good company; but I know how to treat women folks—let ’em have their liberty, and give them plenty of money—eh?” and now the millionaire’s face was fa'rly radiant. “That ought to be satisfactory,” said the judge; “but there are those who would abuse such broad privileges —and one of them is not so very far off, either,” he added, under his breath. “Perhaps! but Blossom wouldn’t be : oae of that kind. No, indeed; lam sura of Blossom.” j The judge shook his head “sideways’ t time. It seemed an involuntary movement. “Can’t you circumlocute to how old le is. papa?” saiu naughty Flossie. I was telling Neighbor I!avis this morning,” the Ifost began, as if in answer te her question, “that I really look o'der ! than I am, being only seventy-two last week." “You are in for it,” the judge re marked, as the speaker paused a moment to till his glass. “Feel of your ears. Floss, and learu for yourself if they haven’t grown.” “My father,” Mr. Nicklepod resumed, , “lived to be ninety-six, and then died from an accident. My mother was in her ninetieth year when she passed away. In fact, we are a ve y long-lived race, though we seem to age early.” “According to precede ‘-venty years at least,” said the judge. “The reason I haven’t married again,” the tnilliona’re went on, “is because I could never bring myself to believe that any one whom I cared for could ever care for me; and to have a wife whose con i stant wish was for my death would be rather hard lines—eh. Blossom?” “Blossom” managed to nod her head, but her face was turned away from her host, and her father was surprised to see how pale it was. “Why are you like Cmsar’s wife?” the latter managed to ask. in his old joking manner. If Flossie lost her grip at this ! crisis the consequenceswould bemoredra matie than he cared to contemplate. Blit happily the change from the dining-room to the beautiful library caused achangein the conversation, and the victim of her own folly had a chance to recover her ! se’f. It w'as a long, strange evening, and one to be remembered while life lasted, j The two men played checkers, while the girl guest wandered about among the j books and pictures, stealing occasionally into the great drawing rooms and coming back again as white and scared as if she had a ghost. “Will it be lonely for you, Blossom?” i the old gentleman asked, as she returnad from one of these excursions. “I’ve been 1 thinking, he added, without waiting for an answer, “that it’ll make things about right if I can persuade your pa to come, too. He Las no one but you. and th*i 1 - need some business help, and itwoulu be a heartening thing to Have a true friend at hand.” “Oh, dear! he is eoingto marry us both,” muttered Flossie. “What do you say, Judge?” Mr. Nick lepod went on. “Suppose you try it for a year? There is no reason why this house cannot be a home to you both in the truest sense of the word. Do t ike pity on me, neighbors, for I believe lam the lonesomest old vagabond in the ! whole world.” “Judge Somerton, I wish I w r as dead,” said Flossie; and then, seizing the j trumpet, she said,in broken tones: “Mr. j Nicklepod, you are an old angel, and j papa don’t know what to say, and I am |in just as bad a state. I’d love to live | here with all these beautiful things, and with you, so kind &ad generous, and so would papa—that i-, if he lias a single I sense left. And I made up my mind I ! would live here list because I loved I Jack—you know .Tack and he hadn’t , any money, and he couldn’t marry mein I about ten ages.” “For mercy’s sake. Floss,” the Judge I put in, imploring’y, “don’t be a simple ton.” j “It’s begun, and it las to’come,” was i the girl’s quick answer. “And, Air. Nicklepod. I thought sometime I could i take Jack a lot of money—that is, if he would wait for me—and I didn’t see how I could really do you any harm— that is, if you were truly fond of me.” j “You are an honest, blessed girl,’’ said I the old man, brushing away a tear, “and I am truly fond of you, and truly desir ous to promote your best interests. But, Blossom. I would no sooner marry you than I would kill you. Such a wicked l thought has never crossed my mind. I Y'ou shall have two fathers. Blossom,and j vou shall have Jack, too : but not to marry h ; m now'. Ik cause you are not old enough, and Jack hasn't had a chance to show' what kind of stuff there jis in him vet. Fi e years from now', if he is worthy, you shall go to him with a dowry. Then we will have the jolliest wedding that ever was, and I will dance with the bride. For a moment there w r as utter siienee in the room, and then Flossie lifted her right hand, and with a characteristic movement of her little forefinger, said ; into the trumpet: “You two men have had your heads | together. That is as plain as the nose on your face,” giving’her father’s nasal organ a little tweak. “But, T’apa Nickle- Judge Somerton and his daughter will be with you anon, and the way you will have to stand round and mind the housekeeper will be a caution ” “All right,” said Mr. Nicklepod: “giveme a kiss; and Ido wish T could tell you how happy you-have made me!” The kiss w'as given, and it was no dis grace to Flossie that her eyes overflowed with tears. — Frank Leslie'e. The Distribution of the Sexes. Although over the whole earth a gen eral equality in the numbers of the two sexes prevails, nevertheless each land has its peculiar, apparently constant characteristic sexual composition. In Europe there was anciently and still is a greater excess of women in the North than in the States of Middle Europe and the Fast, in some of which the women are in the minority. Through Europe as a whole the number of women is very definitely in excess of that of the men, and the excess appears to be increasing. It was very great after the Napoleonic wars; then the numbers gradually tended toward equality and nearly reached it (1817 to 1830, 100.) to 1000); they di verged again, and stood, in 1870, 1037 to 1090. The phases of increased dif ference are generally observable after wars, and latterly appear to be the re sult partly of the enormous emigration which has taken place to other quarters of the earth. In America as a whole, and in Australia and Africa, on the other hand, whither the emigration with its preponderance of males is tending, the men are in excess, and the excess is in creasing with the constant arrival of new parties of immigrants. Nevertheless, a near approach to equality prevails over the earth as a whole, and this whether we regard the white, black, or red races, or their mixtures. —Popular Science Monthly. IN A CHINESE HOSPITAL. MEDICAL PRACTICE IN THE FLOW EBY KINGDOM. Absence of Cleanliness and Vonii’a tion—Sicß Smokers—The Wo men's Ward. I recently visited the Tung AA'a Hos pital at Hong Kong,and saw there many things of interest, the routine ;na Chi nese hospital being very different from that of a European one. In the early days of the colony the Chinese inhabi tants use I commonly to thrust out their sick and dying into the street, these to perish. To remedy so scandalous a state of things the Government offered to pro vide a hospital for the exclusive use of the Chinese community, and this offer they accepted, with che provi-o that it should be under their own management. A suitable building was accordingly erected and handed over to a Chinese committee in istL. The me.lical staff are all Chinese, and their practice, I was informed, is qu.te uninfluenced by Eu ropean science. As our chair coolies deposited us at the entrance to the hospital, a line stone building situated in tue centre of the Chinese quarter, we obser ed a crowd of people in front of a series of a large frames suspended against the wall and containing some hundreds of photo graphs. The stolid demeanor of the crowd gave us no hint as to the tragic nature of the exhibition ; and it was only on our way out that a. casual glance at the photographs revealed to us th ■ ghastly truth. A few days previously one of the passenger steamboats wiiich ply b tween Hong Kong and Canton took fire while she bad on board over 300 Chinese, who had gone to the jubilee celebration. Nearly all these poor people were lost, though the steamboat was run ashore and and there were plenty of native boats about. The few who were saved owed their lives to a passing European vessel. The committee of the Tung SVa Hospi tal had had the bodies photographed, and the gruesome picture was shown in public for the purpose of identification. A less careless glance now shows us some pathetic groups—wives, husbands, par ents, children, searching for what might turn a terrible fear into a no less terrible certainty, but the indifference and stolidity of the ( Line e character were still very apparent in the crowd. The hospital itself is a large two-story building with verandas, and it contains large airy wards of the usual character. Each ward, however,is divided by incom plete wooden partitions into eight cells, in each of which is accommodation for two patients, w T ho thus enjoy a certain degree of privacy. The Chinese have yet to learn the paramount Importance in a hospital of cleanliness and good ven tilation. The beds consisted of boards resting on trestles and covered by a grass mat, with a bamboo pillow, and by each was an earthen pipkin containing medi cine. Many of the sick were smoking— some tobacco, more of them opium. AVe heard that in cases which were considered hopeless patients were allowed to smoke opium ad lib.; if so, the percentage of hopeless cases must have been high, judging from the number of patients who gazed at us with lack-lustre eyes and listless expression. The other pa tients nodded pleasantly to us, and the present of a cigar or cigarette evoked numberless “Chin-chins.” The wards themselves were fairly dean, but the pa tients as a rule were dirty, and among the surgical cases we observed many with undressed, unwashed wounds, and othei evidences of neglect. In the women’s quarter we came upon a group of some thirty or forty young girls, many of them really pretty, whose merry laughter and the vigor with which they plied their chopsticks, emptying bowls of rice, fish, etc., suggested that they could not be patients. AY r e learned that they were kidnapped girls, mostly from the main land, who had been rescued by the police and were lodged at the hospital until claimed by their friends. The dispensary was the place of great est interest, perhaps. It was most neatly and methodically arranged and the staff were hard at work making up prescrip tions. Round the walls were numberless drawers, mostly containing dried plants, shredded roots, minerals, etc., also ves sels filled w ith bones, huge, nauseous looking boluses, as big as plums, etc. Among the bonessome fragments of a tiger’s frame were showft us as a great treasure, their use being to “ rnakee strong,” as the dispenser explained. As each prescription was read portions of various roots, leaves, etc., were weighed out, wrapped up in brown paper and marked with a brush. In an adjoining room we saw the rest of the process. Each packet of drugs was placed in an earthen pipkin, with water and set to simmer on a charcoal tire and the result ing decoction was sent to the patient in the pipkin in which it had been made. AVe then glanced at the small-pox patients, each of whom was isolated in a large, dark, stone cell. \ r aecination is little practiced by the Chinese and conse quently small pox is very prevalent. But the committee of the hospital have or ganized a staff of vaccinators w’ho are doing good work. AVe found a few lunatics confined in strongly barred, padded cells, clean, but dark; a few of the patients had chains on, but the majority were free. Our final visit was to the out-patient depart ment, where we found a very portly and cheery native physician, who greeted us courteously and showed us his imple ments, etc., consisting of pitch plasters. His last patient, a wizen-faced, voluble womau, was just going away, but sho turned back and showed us a sore leg, With a plaster on it. Evidently she was improving, for, pointing to her doctor, she exclaimed : “He number one piecee,” and then her English being too scanty to give expression to gratitude, she proceeded to sound his praise in her own language, somewhat to the old gentle man’s embarrassment, though he smiled and nodded pleasantly at her. After glancing in at a somewhat tawdry joss house, we departed.— St. James Gazette. A Boston lady, in fear of possible burglars, tied up her diamonds, worth Beveral thousand dollars, and dropped them every night in her waste basket. One fine morning she was paralyzed to learn that an early rising servant had emptied the basket in the fire, from which about half the jewels were finally rescued in a damaged state. NEWS AND NOTES FOR WOMEN. 5 Moire has a new lease of favor. Female bribers abound in San Fran cisco. Silk gloves are promised with kid tips to the fingers. Bows of ribbon and pretty buttons are the favored trimmings. Ladies control theatres in Albany, AVorcester and Richmond. Spanish guipure is a heavy lace and is suitable for elderly ladies. Old black silk skirts ran be utilized for the underskirts of lace dress. Airs. Secretary Whitney owns two of the daintiest Sedan chairs in existence. The violet is the flower of the button hole or breast pocket bouquet at the mo ment. The new r Duchess of Rutland is a fre quent contributor to several English magazines. I’se tepid water for wos’iing the face and hands if you don’t want to have pre mature wrinkles. Of the twenty one committee clerks of the lowa House sworn in recently, nine-* teen were women. A lady recently died in the City of Alexico who was a direct descendant from Alontezumas, A’elvet corsages with square open neck and elbow sleeves will be extensively worn the coming season. The bordered wool dresses require no trimming, and therefore ior reasons eco no.ideal they are very popular. The main features of little girls’ dresses are the kilted skirt and loose jacket bodice with jabot or blouse front. AVhite and pink are so much the bridesmaids’ colors that a bevy of them strongly suggests the belated apple blos soms. The cver-popular sailor hat this sum mer will have a quaint crown of drawn silk, with a cluster of ribbons perched at the top. There may not be anything strikingly martial in the girl of the period, but she is going to wear epaulets all the same this summer. In silk the old-faslroned lustrous taffeta and soft twilled surah with chine figures are more new than either pretty or serviceable. Sir Donald Smith’s gift of $1,000,000 to endow.a female college at Aiontreal, Canada, is among the latest large bits of philanthropy. Those jaunty directoire bonnets made entirely of lace frills arc the prettiest things imaginable, and a:e most becom ing to a youthful face. The widow of General Custer, the In dian fighter, is at work on another book of AVestern experiences. It will not be published for two years. It is predicted that fancy blue and pink collars and cuffs and plain colored muslin pocket handkerchiefs will be worn with the summer dresses. Scarlet upon bonnets, in combination with black lace and jet, seems to lie as much favored as ever, notwithstanding the rivalry of the green shades. C. T Ritchie, member of the English Cabinet, is the father of seven musical daughters, equally devoted to art, har mony and the Primrose League. Striped moire and grenadine, in black or white, is a new material which is likely to meet with considerable favor for both day and evening wear. Aliss Sarah C. Hewitt, daughter of Mayor Hewitt, of New York, is the leading spirit of the Ladies’ Amateur Orchestra, which numbers thirty mem bers. A Gainesville (Texas) belle can prop erly be described as “killing,” as two men have killed themselves in the last six months for love of her beautiful eyes. Open work in straw as well as in jetted wire makes the foundation of many a stylish bonnet for summer wear, and is certainly' both pretty and com fortable. Airs. Oscar Wilde makes green the only color of her garments. She has suits of half a doz.en shades of the ver dant hue, with bonnets hats, gloves and parasols to match. Frocks of light wool for little girls are often made with a velvet yoke, which is cut low to wear over a gimp, the aim holes being simply corded without sleeves, and a velvet belt inserted. AVomen booksellers are not rare in France. One of the largest booksellers in the City of Alsace is a well-e iucated and charming French lady, familiar alike with English and German literature. The two best lady riders in AA'ashing ton are said to be Senator Edmunds’s daughter and Aliss Charlotta French, daughter of Don Carlos French, a Con necticut Congressional Representative. A Louisville (Ky.) girl has Jbeen ren dered insane by the use of liair dye. while another member of her sex in Ohio, who ate arsenic to beautify her complexion, scarcely lived long enough to rue her folly. The only woman lawyer in Georgia is Airs. Hamilton Douglas, of Atlanta. She is a graduate of the Law School of the University of Michigan, and when she graduated was complimented by Judge Cooley on her legal attainments. The simplicity of the summer fashions as a rule are very refreshing as a change from too much elaboration in the toilets for the season when freshness, daintiness and elegance are more appropriate thau elaborate trimming or bizarre effects. Tender greens are seen in combination with almost every beautiful color used this season, and particularly is the gen eral use of these tints seen in summer millinery,bringing a very welcome relief from the glaring reds, which are far too brilliant for summer wear. The late Duke of Rutland had at Bel voir a “confession book,” in which the Princess of Wales recorded that her fa vorite artist was Rubens, her favorite author Dickens, her favorite dish York shire pudding, and her favorite ambition nen-interfereuce in other people's busi ness. Women's rights are evidently recog nized in Lexington, Alass., where at least three ladies occupy positions almost always filled by men. Aliss Emily Wright is the postmistress, Miss Cole is an express agent, and Aliss Atollie Hos kins is in charge of the telegraph office at the depot-