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PHYSCON. On our knees before tho monarch Pleading with a grim despair, Tears in streams her cheeks o’er flowing, Falling on her infant’s hair, Falling in great drops of anguish At the cruel monster’s feet. Frayed the good Queen, Cleopatra, Frayed her infant's life to keep, Through the monarch’s grand old palace, Flowed a music low and sweet, Gentle music, soothing music, Like the tread of angels’ feet Becking every room and hallway. > Rising softly to the dome, 1 Filling every ear that heard it With the sweetest sound of home, wi lt was merry, rippling laughter From the harmless baby prince, But it came as if by magic, And it made the tyrant wince. But for one brief njoment only Did the subtle spell hold sway, Then the angry, brutal monster Brushed the mother’s hand away. And the infant’s merry laughter, And the mother’s tearful plea, Did not move the heartless monarch To revoke his stern decree: But the flashing steed descended On the guileless infant’s head. And the merry laugh was ended; Eypt’s baby prince was dead. Leroy M. Davis, in Current. “SIG,” $ One Saturday afternoon my brother ttnd I drove oier to Crossfield station to meet our father, but f ound that there iad been a change of time on the rail road, and the train would not arrive for nearly an hour. After loitering about for a few moments, Harry proposed that we walk down the track a bit, to pass away the time. We had gone but a short distance, when we came to a place where the rails crossed the highway, and there we saw an old man, evidently 7 a cripple, sitting in a J wheel-chair. lie seemed to have purposely planted himself in the middle of the track, and he now sat unconcern edly readiug his newspaper, apparently unconscious of our approach. “I declare,” exclaimed Harry, if that isn’t stupid to sit right between the rails! Suppose tho train should come along ?” Then as we drew still nearer, ho ad dressed the stranger: ‘•Don’t you think, sir, that it is rather dangerous to sit there ou the track in that way?” The old man looked up from his paper, a little surprised at first, and then apparently much amused. “No, young man,” he answered, at length; “I don’t think it ‘rather danger ous.’ I’ve been a flagman on this road a great many years, aud I never got run over yet.” “Oh!” said Harry, altering his tone considerably at discovering that the old man was an employe of the road, and uoticing for the first time that the stranger had a litttle red flag rolled up beside him. “And be-ides,” continued the flagman, *Tve got into the habit of sitting here ■when no train is due. People feel per fectly safe to drive over the street when they see me between the rails.” “I should think they would,” said Harry. And then, quite willing to change the subject, he asked if there was anything worth seeing farther down the track. “Yes,” was the reply. “There’s a | new bridge a quarter of a mile beyond that’s worth seeing, particularly as it was there we came near haviug a dread ful accident two years ago, when one of the piers was carried away.” We thanked him, and were moving on, when he added : “Perhaps you’d like to hear the story before you go down. It •won’t take long to tell it, and it’s well ' Worth telling, toot” We were not so old yet that we were not always ready for a story, and we gladly sat down on the grass beside the track, and listened to the following in teresting narrative, which 1 give as nearly as possible in the flagman’s own words: “If you should go down on the track,” he began, “you would come to a stone bridge ( a new one, because, two years ago this April, on a dark, rainy night, the river rose and carried away the old | one, which was partiy wooden. There is a train—an express—that goes through here every night in the year, except Sun day nights, at '.t:35. It does not stop at the station, but comes straight on down here, and over the bridge, and away for Hoston. Two years ago it was a part of my business to go up and down the track every night, to see if the track was in condition for that train to <ro through. My boy has to do it* for me now. “On this particular night I took my | lantern—l always took a red one, so as to have it in case I should need to signal tho train—and, calling my dog, started off down the track about half an hour before th<J train was due. It was very dark, but it’s about as easy to walk on the track at one time as another, and I went on at a pretty rapid gait. All of a sudden I felt the ground giving way be neath me, and I knew I was going down. “I dropped my lantern, and tried to save myself, but there was nothing to hold of, and in an instant I felt my self going faster and faster. And then I seemed to lose breath, and strike with great violence against something solid, sfter which I must have become in sensible. “It was hours after that I awoke, to find myself lying in my own bed athome. It seems that the first pier of the bridge had been carried away, and I had walked off the embankment on this side. It was by one of God’s wonderful mercies that in some way I had being caught among the fallen timbers below in such a way as to save me from drowning, though, as it was, it cost me dear. My spine was so injured by the fall that I ha e never walked a step since. “One of the first things I asked, when I was able to talk of the matter, wa« shout the train. Joe Varnish, the engineer of the express locomotive, who was off duty while the bridge was down, was by me at the time, and told me the story. “ ‘How comes it that you are here, Joe, instead of at the bottom cf the river, jou and the whole train?’ 1 asked. He looke dat me with a queer look a momeftt, and then he stooped over, and took up from the floor a red lantern. I knew it the moment I saw it, as the one I had carried that night, and I remem bered dropping it as 1 began to fall. “ ‘lt’s that that saved us[' said he. “I was puzzled both at his manner and at what he said,but I was more puz zled -and startled, too—when ho weut ou to explain: “ ‘We were coming down the road a little late, full drive, at forty-five miles an hours,’said he, ‘arid ha 1 just passed the station, and I had whistled for the crossing, when I caught sight ahead of us, and not a great way off either, of a danger-signal, the red light. It was right in the middle of the track,and evidently approaching, moving up and down quickly, as though the man who car ried it was running with all his might. “ ‘Of course, I reversed and whistled down the brakes in an instant; and it wasn’t half a minute, maybe, before we came to a standstill, with the light now almost upon us. And almost before wo were fully stopped, I jumped down and ran ahead to meet it, and learn what was the matter. “ ‘lt was some rods ahead yec, and 1 could still see it swinging from sido to side, as though the person bringing it had now slackened his pace to a walk. “‘A second later it seemed station ary, and seemed to be waiting for nss to come up. As I came close upon it. you may imagine my astonishment to find it set down in the middle of the track, and not a soul to be seen anywhere around. “ ‘I spoke, and then called aloud and then shouted, but got uo rospon-u. And beforo this, I had not heard any sound or footfall. And when, a moment later, the conductor and some of the train men came up with lights, wo searched out, and could not find any traces of the per son who seemed to have left it there. “‘Then we went on down the road; and there we found the bridge gone. As we approached, your dog commenced howling, and we found him on the of the embankment, and inferred that you had fallen down the embankment. We searched at once, and found you al most dead, though I am very glad to say not quite that.” “That was the way .Toe told me the story. And when he had finished, I lay there thinkiug it over for some time. At last I said: “ ‘Joe, how could it have got there— the lantern?’ “Joe shook his head. “‘I can’t tell,’ said he. ‘All I know about it is, that it was there, aud it saved the train. But Em sure it wasn’t done by any human hand !’ “I thought it over some moments longer. I did not belie ein ghosts, or spirits, or anything of the soit. Some body or something living must have taken the lantern from the spot where I dropped it as I fell down the embank ment, and carried it up the track to the place where Joe Varnish first found it. And all at once I was sure I had solved the enigma. “ ‘.Joe,’ said I. ‘I have it!’ “ ‘How is that?’ he asked. “ ‘ There were three of us that went down, and found that bridge gone,’ said I. | *“ Three?” repeated he, more mystified than ever. “‘Yes,’said I. “Myself, the lantern and the dog. Now 1 i ould not have taken the lantern up the track. And it couldn’t have taken itself u|Mrdhere. Therefore, it must have been tfe third one of us—don’t you see?’ “Joe stood a moment puzzling over it. Then his face broke into a broad smile, and he nodded his head : _ “‘Yes,’he said, at length ®Yes, I see. ’ ” The old flagman ended his story, and looked* up at Harry and me as we stood there, not quite comprehending even now 1 just how it all happened. “What, don’t you see, either?” asked he, and he lftughed heartily to himself, for a moment. Then ho put his fingers to his lips, and gave a shrill whistle. The next instant a large bla k dog came bounding down the road, and came to the old flagman's side. His master laid his hand ailectionateiy on the black, curly head, and looked up at Harry and me once again. “I ll make you acquainted with Sig,” said he. “Signal is his full name. I’ve called him by it ever since that night. It was Sig that carried the red light up the track.” Youth's Companion. How Gourds Climb. The way the gourds climb is by means of spiral, curled tendiils, which are in reality small abortive stipules or leaf-appendages, specialized for the work of clinging to the external objects, be it bough or stem of some other plant, over which they rapidly spread themselves. The tendrils push themselves out on every side, revolving as they go, till they reach some slender twig or leaf-stalk to which they can attach themselves. Tt is curious and interesting to watch them as they grow, and to see how closely their movements simulate intelligent action. The little curled whorls go feeling about on every side for a suitable foothold, groping blindly, as it were, in search of a support, and revolving slowly in wide-sweeping carves, until at last they happen to lay hold with their growing end, of a proper object. Once found, they seem to seize it eagerly with their little fingers (for in the gourd the tendrils are branched, not simple), and to wrap it round at once many times over, in their tight embrace. It is won derful how far they will go out of their way in their groping quest of a proper foothold, and how, when at length they stumble upon it, they will look for all the world as if they had known before hand exactly when and where to scareh for it. These actions’come far c loser to intelligence than most people imagine; they are deliberately performed in re sponsive answer to external stimuli, and only take place when the right con ditions combine to excite them. — Popu • lar Science Monthly. Window Gardening in Bremen. A feature that adds greatly to the beauty of Bremen, Germany, is the win dow gardening. There is no home so humble that it may not have its bright pots and running vine and clean white curtains. The handsomer houses are simply bowers of beauty. They are all built back from the street and surrounded by gardens. Owing to the severity of the climate the pia/zas are inclosed in glass until April or May. Afterward they are thrown open and every nook and corner of window and step is covered with bloom and color. SMUGGLING JN ENGLAND INGENIOUS SCHEMES FOR EVAD INO CUSTOMS LAWS Antiquity of the Practice—Fomah Con trabnmlsist s —Modes of Con cealing Tobacco and Spirits. Since the days of Ethelrcd, when cus tom- duties were first levied, every con ceivable device has been practiced i: order to avoid payment of tho-e duties, and undoubtedly so long as dut.es are imposed attempts will be made to de fraud the revenue. Toward the close of last century smuggling was very r fe,and many a valuable cargo of contraband goods was successfully “run” and dis posed of, rcaliz.ing a handsome profit for the contrabandist. At that time, how ever, a Jar larger number o! articles were taxed than at the present day (in fact, a hundred years ago no fewer than 420 articles were liable to duty), and this, of course, greatly increased the temptation to smuggle. Nowadays smuggling is almost exc.usively confined to small quantities concealed on board oursteam sliips, but even in effect,ng these c«n ceulment9 the smuggler exercises great cunning, aud does his utmost to outwit the customs’ “rummager.” About a century ago it was no uncom mon thing to find a vessel fitted With false bows or stern, a hollow keel, or with the spare ma-ts, spars and oars which she carried made of tin, but painted to resemble wood, the cavities b ing utilized for the concealment of dutiable articles. Logs-of timber were also hollowed out and employed for a similar purpose. .Many a cask of spirits has been towed under the bottom of a vessel, a fear existing that a revenue cruiser might board the smuggler and discover the casks were they carried in the hold. When it was necessary to get them ashore they were weighted and kept under water, a mark being.set as to their whereabouts so that they could be taken away at a favorab e opportunity. An other ingenious artifice, practiced on the east coast, was to cover casks of spirits with a kind of cement, and attach some seaweed thereto, which gave them the appearance of rocks, and then cast them ou the bonders ashore,from whence they were ultimately removed. Chips’ car penters have been known to smuggle spirits and tobacco iu what passed .or puts of pitch, aud a presumably studi ous individual, who frequently left his vessel with a book under his arm, car ried in it a tiu ca-e containing sp ritsin order to avoid payment of duty. Tobacco appears to generally have beeu the favorite object of thesmuggier, and he still devotes his clo-e attention ; to its importation. It has beeu fre quently made up iu ships’ fenders or into cordage of all shapes and sizes, and brought ashore as such, while the wheels of some of the blocks iu the running • gear have been found to be made of cavendish tobacco instead of iron. It ka3 been introduced into cades of pitch and casks of various kinds of seeds, i alse bottoms have been added to dog kennels, hencoops, drawers, chests, etc., | in order to make these innocent looking articles the receptac es of contraband goods Tin cases, containing tobacco aud cigars, have often been discovered in the water tanks and in casks of spirits and oil carried by vessels. Wooden fenders bang ng over a ship s side ha e been hollowed out and the cavity filled with tobacco. Bladders containing spirits have beeu secreted about the body, and tobacco and cigars ha e been brought ashore iu like manner. female sm ig«>-lers had petticoats spe cially prcparecjjfjor the introduction of tobicco, cigar* and spirits, the former being concea ! ed in small pockets adapted to the purpose. When duties were levied on silks and laces, large quantities of these goods were imported without the cognizance of the customs authorities. These were the favorite articles of the female contrabandists; and by them many a package of costly silk and lace has been brought into the country. Vessels from France have been found attempting to import lace made up in boxes in the shape of apples and so painted as to pa«s for fruit. Silks and lace were also frequently found in loaves of bread, and tobacco,on many occasions, has found its way into the same place of concealment, in fact, a large quantity so concealed was recently seized at Hull. When foreign watches were subjected to duty many a gentleman’s great coat has had for once a “silver lining,” the smuggler attempting, by its assistance, to elude the vigilance of the customs officials. Snuff has been made into cakes and imported as oilcake, a con siderable quantity being landed before the lraud was discovered. On the abolition of the duties on coals many of the colliers on the coast were engaged in the illicit trade. The modus operandi of these vessels was to obtain a part cargo at one of the coal port-, and subsequently, at a point previously agreed upon, load a quantity of tobacco or spirits from a smuggler. Some of these ves-els succeeded in making very profitable voyages in this manner. An ingeti.ous mode of concealment was disclosed in 1381 and a large seizure of contraband goods was the result. From “information received” the cus toms authorities sent a detective to Rot terdam, and he there discovered that boilers, evidently made for the purpose and quite unfit for anything else, were being made the means of importing large quantities o& tobacco into this country. Some time after arriving in England the boilers and smugglers were seized, and the tobacco found on this occasion weighed five tons. In many cases, too, accomplices have come forward and furni-hed information of anticipated “runs,” but their infor mation generally proved inaccurate, the object being to get the officers out the way while the “rui ” was being etTected. The customs and coastguard officers have had many a wild goose chase owing to these good natured accomplices. In 1771 a tax of so much “per head” was charged on the introduction of certain animals into Paris, but one ingenious individual sought exemption from this impost by presenting the animals minus the head, at the same time informing the bewildered customs officials that as the charge was only on the head it was | not leviable in his case. The East and South coasts formed the happy hunting ground of the smuggler in bygone days, their proximity to the Continent making them a favorable field J for his operations. When the spirit of j smuggling was so rife, the customs and I coastguard officers had frequent encoun- ters with those engaged, and desperate ights were the result. The assistance, f Parliament has been often sought in irder to put a stop to smuggling. It \as formerly a common thing for a ■‘muggier to be sentenced to several years’ service in the navy as a punishment for lis offenses. The law even now is some what severe, but the penalties inflicted io not appear to be suificiently heavy to mt an end to the illicit practices.— Nautical Magazine. SELECT SIFTINGS. New York received 717,399,340 eggs last year. A Nottingham bass singer is said to go down to B fiat. A French physician reports an attack of gout in a boy of fifteen. A mocking bird in Albany, N. Y., whistles “Boulanger’s March.” The longest street in Paris is the Rue de Wngeiard, 4400 metres loug. Bald-headed Indians are becoming numurous since the adoption of hats aud caps by the race. In Maryland no man can become Gov ernor until he has beeu a resident of the State for ten years. Birds’ nests of the edible sort bring their weight in silver for the tables of rich Chinese mandarins. The railroad bridges of th's country if placed continuous.y would reach from New York to Liverpool. The latest English word in Paris is “struggforlifer,” meaning one who has to struggle for a living. A boy who was playing on the beach near Liverpool, England, was engulfed andsmotheied iu a hole of his own dig ging- The most northern electric light in the wbrld is at Hernosand, r-wedeu, on the Gulf of Bothn a, about the >.d degree of latitude. Light is needed there at 3.30 e. m. Excavations made in Tzint/.untzan, in Yacatas, Mexico, in search of treasure, are said to have revealed a magnificent | palace which is an archeological wonder. In England it has become quite com mon to eat pepper ou strawberries. Some thiuk that it improves tlie r flavor aud others believe it renders them more healthful. Candidate Harrison has been presented with ap eceof the curtain under which Christopher Columbus walked when he called on 1 erdinand and Isabella, after .discovering America. - As a test of his memory a gentleman of Athens, Ga.. read through au article a column and a half in length in a news paper he had not previously seen, and then repeated it without au error. Photography on a small scale and with amateur equipments is now a favorite pastime with Englishmen of lei-ure. i-.ven the Peers have taken up the craze and cany their cameras with them. Colonel Fremantle, of England, kept a regi cent of volunteers man euvring for two hours in a drenching rain, and iinslly the s'gns of mutiny became so mauiiest that the inspection was brought to a close. Jack Williams, a Maltese sailor, has been bieakiug all records on the Missis sippi 'Fiver by swimming twenty-five miles with his arms strapped by his side and his legs bound together. It took him eight hours to do it. Kentucky claims to have the largest man in the world, one Hansen Craig, who weighs 792 pounds. He is an ab normal expansion of avordupois. His mother weighed but 122 pounds and his father but lib. Strange to say for a Kentucky man, he “never touches a drop.” t In China, a tendency to go straight to the highest authority is corrected by the bamboo. A law prescribes that if a complaint is made to a superior official which should have been original ly addressed to an inferior one, the com plainant shall receive fifty blows with the bamboo^ A barber fn London recently made a wager that he could shave sixty men in sixty minutes. The bet was accepted, the men were lathered, and the razors stropped and opened, ready for use. At the end of the fifty-ninth minute the sixty men had all been shaved, and the barber was complacen ly counting his gold. This, it is said, breaks the record. The Queen of Englan 1 never sendPs her personal correspondence through the regular mail as her subjects do. Every trivial communication, whether of a personal or private nature is deliveied at its destination by a Queen’s messen ger. She is the only European sovereign who does this. The other potentates are democratic enough to use the mail. WISE WORDS. Know thyself. • One feast, one house, one happiness. Praise uuderserved is satire in dis guise. Wit is folly, unless a wise man has the keeping of it. The reward of one duty is the power to fulfill another. Fidelity in trifles is the ladder which leads to greatness. Cultivate forbearance till your heart yields a fine crop of it. If we still love those we lose, can w r e altogether lose those we love? There is no courage but in innocence, no constancy but in an honest cause. Time is never more misspent than while we disclaim against the want of it. Agitation is the marshaling of the conscience of a nation to mold its laws. Men love to hear of their power, but have an extreme disrelish to to be told of their duty. I .> Of great riches there is no real use, ex cept it be in the distribution; the rest is but conceit. We are never made so ridiculous by the qualities we have, as by those we j affect to have. Knowledge without discretion is like i force without direction—never useful but by accident. Doing is the great thing. For, if res olutely, people do what is right, in time they come to like doing it. Re’ason requires culture to expand. It resembles the fire concealed in the Hint, which only showes itself when struck with the steel. THE BRICKLAYER’S TRADE. THE OLDEST CALLING IN THE HIS TORY OF CIVILIZATION. Facts Which Provo the Antiquity of This Handicraft—Slave Brick layers of Ancient Babylon. While brick-laving is not the oldest trade in the wold, it is certainly the next to the oldest. There must have been brick-makers before there were brick-layers, but with this one exception the calling is perhaps the oldest iu the history of civilization. Tiie tower of Babel was built with brick like that used in America today. The third verse of the eleventh chapter of Genesis says: “And each one said to his neighbor, ‘Come let us make brick and bake them with tire,’ and they had brick instead of stones and slime instead of mortar.” Even the record of Genesis, however, harkly gives an idea of the great anti quity of this vocation. It appears that tfie builders of Babylon used brick al together rather than stones. There are still to be found in various placet very curious accounts of the Babylonian brick laying and the manner in which the workmen were paid. Thu walls of Baby lon town were raised chiefly by slaves who received no wages, but who were led, housed, and clothed at a rate of pay equal to about half ill value of a bushel of wheat, which would mean some thing over forty cents a day, or about what the m dern brick layer gets for one hour's work. The slaves of Babylon were worked from sun rise to sunset, and their overseers were provided with lashes to keep the un fortunates up to their task. It seems, howe er, that brick-layers soon came lo be recognized rather ns artists than art sans, and into their hands was com mitted tiie history of the country. The bricks of the Persian Empire, cemented like those of Genesis with slime, contain upon their surfaces inscriptions which modern ingenuity has unraveled, and which tell the story of the i erian kings.. Iu the records tiie brick-layers ha e not forgotten themselves, and accord ingly there has been left for modern times a clear idea of how these men worked. They understood the scaffold and the trowel, as the pictures o a the buried vvafls still show. They knew how to keep a line of bricks plumb and horizontal. They had a square—not like the one ued in the nineteenth century, hut still one which a uine eeth ventury brick-layer could use. Iml -ed,. the cuts given in iho hooksof the arch i olog.sts show that a Chicago brick layer could have put up the walls of Thebes, or that a Persian workman would have been able to make, a good showing in a Chicago house, using the u;eases and materials of the trade then and now. In Egypt the Bi le again has much tc say about bricklaying and br.ck making. The bricks without straw that the children of Israel had to make go to show one of the first labor dis putes in history. The Egyptian brick was not baked with i re. It was left in the sunlight until it was thoroughly hardened, and was then set up in the wall with mud, and not with mortar. As a consequence the brick build ngs of Egypt have perished and only the stone monuments of the people have survived, but history shows that the palaces of the Pharaohs were largely of brick. These, to >, were decorated as highly as the artists knew how to accomplish ilia work, and basso-ie i ivos or sun dried play < ar ried upon their surfaces the stories ol Egyptian progress. The Egyptians taught brick laying, along with the other arts of civilization, to the Greeks, and Athens, Sparta, and the towns of the peninsula carried the work to a high degree of excellence. The Greeks used three kinds of brick, or rather three sizes, the (ledoron, tetra don, and pentadon. which were combined in the same building. From Greece brick-laying traveled to Borne, and there are brick houses now standing in the Eternal City which are more than 1700 years old. In the time of the empire brick-layers weie paid wages which, talc ing into cousiderat on the difference in vaiue between American money and Bo man, amounted to about $1 a day. The hours of work were from dawn to dark, and the men were allowed about an hour aud a half off during tile day and a rea sonable amount of wine, v>f course these wages were not ofte t paid to the men themselves, but to their owners, for the workingmen in Home were still practi cally enslaved at that period. From the Mediterranean countries brick-layiug spread westward. John of Spoieto built a brick house in Cologne as early as the year 1.00, and he had to make his own kiln to burn his bricks. In Paris there are stiil brick walls standing which were erected as early as A. D. 110 Q, and this early work compares favorably with that done since The old bri( k-ma'- ers used a good deal of lime in their b*ricks and the result has been a material which seems to be practically imperishable. Of course brick-laving was wrought t<Y a higher degree of excel,ence in the Netherlands than in any other country. The Dutch used brick for everything, street paving and house furniture and bake ovens among other tilings, and the brick pavements in so many cAmcri an cities are relics of Iloiland, as are the tiles about, the fireplaces. Wages in the brick laying trade, ac cording to the best authorities, have been constantly increasing since the his tory of the art began. From'the equivalent of forty cents a day which brick-laying cost in Babylon to $1 a day in Rome at the beginning of the Christian era, the wages rose to the equivalent of £2 a day in London in 1542. Iu this country the trade has managed to hold its own and keep on the material advance, as the pay for eight hours’ work is now $3.20. Chi uyo News. Grafting Chicken Skin on a Cancer. Drs. J. Elliott Chambers and S. B. Houts, of St. Louis, recently grafted jcliickeu skin to the face of a cancer sufferer. The wound on the cheek was about an inch wide, nearly twice a 3 long, and one-eighth inch in depth. It was covered entirely with the chicken’s skin, which was taken from beneath the fowl’s wing. The operation is said to have beea without pain to the patient, and there were strong hopes by the phy sicians that most if not all the grafts will take root in five days, notwithstanding the man is eighty-six years old. NEWS AND NOTES FOR WOMEN. White felt hats are the ’•age. Red and orange do not accord '.veil. Gray and taa-colored gloves are fash ionable. Costumes of poppy-rad, turkey-red, or copper color are worn. The polonaise will be popular in the dresses of the coming season. A New York girl has varied the cus tom by being married at sunrise. Washington has a “Bicycle C lub for Women,” with seventy active members. "A woman dentist in Philadelphia is reported to have a practice of SII,OOO a year. A rich heliotrope of a little darker shade than the ordinary is a favorite color. The tight coat-sleeve is entirely aban doned in favor of the sleeve of puffs aud plaits. Wide sashes of soft silk with immense bows at the back or side are in great favor. Black never produces a bad effect when it is associated with two luminous colors. Mrs. Amelie Rives-Chandler is said to be fond of reading and re-reading Thackeray. Miss Sarah Siegel has invented a step for getting into the upper berth of a sleeping car. Airs. Cleveland now conspicuously figures as a patron of and leader iu church work. Stylish collarettes are made of foulard, and are cut -o as to display the throat to advantage. A new bangle is made of gold wire in the shape of an arrow which curves around the arm. Bed an l blue accord passably, espe cially if the red incline rather to a scarlet thau a crimson. Dryden’s wife to’ 1 him she wished she were a bo ik that she might have more ol his companionship. The marriage of a West Point, Ga., couple was solemnized iu a boat on the Chattahoochee River. The “bang” is going out of fashion in London, and high, intellectual fore heads are again the mode. It is becoming the custom a nong well to do Chinamen here to send back to the old country for the r wives. The most fashionable women of France are introducing small dinner tables instead of one large one. The buttons used are very small. A set recently seen were made of gold with a genuine diamond in the center. An evening dress may be made up in goods of the color of ashes of rows— a light gray just t nged witft pink. A woman suffrage club, a woman's pre-» club, and a woman’s paper, have just made their appearance at Cincinnati. Feathers and ribbons trim' fall hats and the latter have plain edges, with a cord or satin stripe interwoven along it. A swell wedding in London must have something novel about it or it does not receive the approval of the l ean monde. Mask veils of white ifct, -with a thick woven selvage that simulates a limn and tucks, are new and stylish beyond every thing. Directoire sashes are made in twe shades of the same colox - . The bow is arranged so as to give the effect of a flower. Green is more than ever the weir in autumn silks and ribbon, and the gray with bronze green shades easily first choice. Outside pockets will be worn with fall gowns. As they are convenient and can be made ornamental they will be heartily welcome. A very new fancy is the overdress cut from soft wool, ttiat is laid-all over in fine flat tucks, by consequence three ply ail through. Healism permeates all arts—even the milliner’s. The latest decorat on f. r b uinets is a b inch of common red-clover blossoms or thistle-heads. Bows of plaited braid appear aj; the foot of the skirt in all new gowns. They are well received, as they loqk well and save the dress from wear. i a-hioti prescribes a highly colored bow at the e d of the parasol. The ribbon cannot be too loud in color and the costlier it is the better. Lady Randolph Churchill, Lady Man* deville and Mrs. Arthur Post, writes a London correspondent, are probably the most popular Americans in Europe. Mrs. Cleveland has become an expert lawn tennis player this summer. She is able to serve a ball with skill and energy, and her volleying is remarkably effective. In the London American colony this season Miss Chamberlain, Miss Winslow, Miss Yznaga, .Miss Garner and Mis 3 Murphy have held their own against all comers. Paris gowns are being made with the old-time tlounce. The style has not reached this side of the water yet, how ever, and it will probably be some time in coming. A Scotch woman, seventy years of age, who has lived fifty years in this country, took out her naturalization papers last week to qualify herseives to vote for school committee. A new style of epaulet, worn with a costume of black v ienaa, is made of silver embroidery, cut oval shape, and arranged to look as though it were in serted iu tl,e sleeves. The national colors, red, white and blue, are in great favor. In many cases the three colors are combined in one cos tume, although the preference is to wear them singly in stripes. More than fifty of the best known ladies of Battle Creek,Mich., have formed a dress reform club, and declared them selves against bustles, high heels, tight shoes, still corsets, etc. The London School Board have come to the conclusion that whenever school managers are to be appointed hi any division, at least two ladies should W nominated in that division. The Queen of Italy has received an ad dress signed by 11,090 Polish v,omen, .thanking her for having interfered « prevent the destruction of the cell o Stanislaus Ko'stka, which was to nu“ been removed to make way for a nc 6treet in Romo.