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THE WINDS. ©f the sons and daughters of Ocean, Nursed in their mother’s lap, The wind called East. I’m sorry to say, Is a peevish, tyrannical chap! The West wind is calmer and kinder, And, in her feminine war, Che often rebukes the lowering clouds And carries t he raindrops away. In his wild, stentorian fash’on, The wind of the North is free, Wasting his life hr riot and noise, The prodigal son of the In a purely n: id nly manner, The wind o; the South is mild; And the Ocean's ri opiral daughter Is doubtless the ’ est-belov«l child. -Wit iam 11. Ha i jne, in Independer.t. ULOiii JJ A 1 ill.ixijij. “The Singapore Trading Comany, limited,” was and is an organization owning half a iloen brigs and schooners "which voyage among the islands of the Indian Ocean, and traffic for pepper, spices, cinnamon, beeswax, figs, rare ■woods, medicinal roots and herbs, etc. On ono occasion—this was twenty years ago—this company received an order from Sydney. Australia, for a great quantity of sharks’ brains. It seemed that some eminent quack doctor in the colony had made the discovery that sharks’ brains was the great panacea the medical world had been looking for to cure all diseases. They were dried and then pulverized and mixed with a certain root, and, as silly as it may look to you, the people went wild over the new cure. I presume that the quack had a center on the root part ot the cure, but he could not corner the other por tion. Sharks are plentiful all about Australia, but they could not be caught fast enough to supply the demand. The price during the b ght of the excitement was $4 an ounce "lor the dried brains, and $7 an ounce for rke mixture. The craze lasted about 7 months, by which time the swindler had made his pile and was ready to skip. Then everybody ridiculed everybody else, and the price of sharks’ brains d.opped to 50 cents per pound, at which figure the Chinese used them for a banquet dish. When the order was received at Singa pore 1 was mate of a small schooner called the T ittle Duke, and it was plan ned that I should be set ashore on some of the islands to the north of Australia to fill it. 1 had voyaged from Singapore to Torrcsi Strait several times, and after a little talk 1 selected South Aroo Island as the most convenient ltlace for carry ing out the purpose. There are seven of these islands in a group oil' the New j Guinea coast. While fhe water from the .-Traits of Malacca to those of Torres | are really the Indian Ocean, they are | laid down on maps and chaits as differ ent seas .java, Elores, Banda, and Ara fura We had once been cast away on the coast of South Aroo, and had found the waters almost alive with sharks. We knew it to be uninhabited, and about twenty miles long by ten broad. Our outfit was very simple. I was to have a couple of men with me, and we took a tent, a lot of shark lines, a couple of lances, and bedding and provisions, j For firearms we had revolvers, and dou- ' ble-barreled shotguns, and after a long j and tedious voyage, during which we ! called at several islands, we finally cast j anchor off South Aroo, and were safely lande l on a sandy beach. The schooner was in haste to get away, and two hours after landing us she was out of sight, j We were to be left on the island lrom i fourteen to twenty days. Near where we j lauded was what sailors* call a rip, that! is, a narrow channel between the main’ land and a sand bar. This channel was about sixty feet wide, fifteen or twenty deep, and open at both ends. The sand bar was not over four feet above high tide, half a mile long, and not so much as a spear of grass grew upon it. We didn’t have to look twice to see that this rip was our sharking ground. A dozen dorsal iins could be seen cutting tlie wa ter, and a piece of salt pork flung out resulted in a fight, in which a score of the monsters participated. We ere ted our tent in the edge of the fore t, set up our windlass above high water, and next morning after landing were all ready to begin work. Our method of proceding was \ ery simple. Our windlass was a roller, provided with a handle on either end and resting in crotchets. One end of the shark lice was made fast to this and the hook at the other was bated and flung out. When a shark was fast we brought him in by turning the windlass. "While the two men turned I stood at the edge of the water with a lance and jabbed him as he got near enough. 'TU, u; .... , . 1 hero may be spots where the slim tv is more numerous than off the New- Guinea coast, but I doubt it. There •was no waiting about the business of catching them. No sooner Cvas the bated hook thrown in than a shark seized it and was fast. They were not ground sharks, nor shovel-noses, but the genuine man-eater, ranging from nine to hlteeu teet in length, and terribly strong and fierce.. An ordinary man would be snapped in two by one of these fishes as easily as a boy bites into a cracker. Wo had to se ure the brains and spread them in the sun to dry, and this made it slow woik. Our catch the first day was seventeen. We increased this lo twenty on the second day, and for four da vs maintained that figure. On the after noon of the fourth day a sad calamity occurred. The spring at which we got our water wa> about four hundred leet inland, and we had cut a path to it. We had seen a few snakes, but thev seemed desirous of avoiding us as much ss possible, and none of us were a arnw l about them. On this afternoon, as one of my helpers went after water, he was struck by a snake lying in the tangle, and although he was back within live, minutes, I could tell by his looks that he lad received a deadly bite. In ten minutes he was rolling on the ground in agony, and in fifteen liis body began to swell. While ha had not seen the ser pent, we had no doubt of its species. It is known iu the East as the collar snake, and is found on all the islands in the Indian Ocean. It attains a length of two l'eet. and has a white ring or collar about its neck. There is no more poisonous snake. In forty m nutes from the time the man received the bite he was dead, and his body was a terrible sight to look at. When we had buried our companion in the sands we loaded our guns with fine shot and went snake hunting. We killed a round dozen of the collar snakes between the tent and the spring, and felt assured that the firing would rid the neighborhood of any which had es caped us. They had probably been drawn that way by the scent of the blood and meat. The tragedy had upset us both, and neither was inclined to sleep that night. It was well that we were in wakeful mood. Ever since the Indian Sea was navigated by European vessels there has been more or less piracy. At this time almost every island had its boss wrecker, who was no better than a pirate. While not daring to attack a ship, if she was caught in distress it went hard with her. It was a quiet,star light night, and I was sitting outside the tent while my comrade was lying down inside, when I caught a sound from the water which alarmed me As I rose up and advanced I caught sight of a native craft stealing into the rip from the lower side. She was from the Pindo Islands, to the north of us, and was a spice boat She had a single mast and a lateen sail, and during a ca m was pulled by oars. I ran back to my companion, and we crept forward on hands and knees to discover the object of the visit. Had the men been honest they would have been talking and singing. They would not have come into the rip had they not known of our presence and the fact of their coming so quietly boded ill lor us. The craft was grounded about ICO feet above us, and twelve or fifteen natives leaped out on the beach. When we had seen this much we re turned to our tent, secured the three guns and course ammunition, and took up our stations between the tent and the water. In five minutes we had burrowed cur rifie pits and charged the guns with buckshot. It was not for us to open the light. We cou;d just make out the group of figures around the boats and they would soon let us know whether they were friends or enemies. We had just got fairly settled when we saw the crowd stealing over the sands in the direction of the tent. All had spears and clubs, aud their cautious movements proved them bent on mischief. When they came up quite close to the tent they raised a loud yell and dashed forward, hurling their spears and swinging their clubs, and it was two or three minutes before they discovered that the tent was unoccupied. Then, as they huddled together, we opened fire. They were not more than sixty feet away, and the buckshot had to tell. There were screams, and shouts, and a stampede. All broke for the boat—all who were oa their leet after our fire. Two or three men had been left in charge of the craft, and as soon as they heard the firing and yelling a panic seized them, and they pushed the boat off, spraug into her, and made off down the rip. Nine natives were thus left in the lurch. They raised a great cry, calling and command ing, but those in the boat did not even reply. The situation was this: We had the fellows penned up ou a neck of sand without cover, aud we had firearms and they had none. I have no doubt we had been spied upon before they came to make the attack, and very likely they believed there were three of us. They were afraid to attack as, and as for sur render it was not to be thought of. In the five years I sailed among the islands I never knew a quarrel between white men and natives to terminate in a draw. One party or the other ran away or were wiped out. These wreckers hath meant to butcher us. Had I offered thewterms, they would have refused. Had they captured us alive, they would have lauced us off-hand, and been astonished at any protest. Lying in our rifle pits, we noth realized that it ques tion of the survival of the strongest, and that we would have no relief until the last man was wiped out. We heard them chattering and cursing for an hour or so, the leader evidently seeking to work their courage up to the attacking point, and then alt was quiet. Daylight came at last, aud what was our astonishment to discover that the nine had crossed the channel to the sand bar, leaving most of their weapons on the main shore. We also soon discov ered why they had braved the sharks to reach that spot. The boat had run down the rip, circled around outside the surf, which was very light there, and at tempted to land on the nead of the bar. The fellows had swam over expecting to be taken off, but the craft had struck a rock and filled and sunk in fifteen feet of water. There must have been three men with her, for the number on the bar was now twelve, ff'he only explana tion of why the sharks did not seize any of the nine was that they had followed the boat out aud around. Well, that was the situation, and no two men ever had a neater drop on a gang of cutthroats. They had their knives alone, while we | had shotguns, and it would have been j the easiest sort of work to bowl them over in succession by off-hand shots. By our volley when attacked we had killed three and wounded a fourth so that he could not leave the spot. That made the strength of the attacking party six teen. I could talk all the lingoes of the islands, and 1 asked the wounded man who they were and why they had at tackeu us. lie said the boat was from tire Pindos. and the name of her Cap tain was Abyan. They had attacked us for the sole object of plunder. The fel low hadseveial buckshot in his left groin and others in his leg, and I told him he was fatally wounded. “It was so written,” he calmly replied. “Be so kind as to finish me.” “Kill you!” “Certainly. I would do as well by you “But I cannot do it.” “Then I will. I waited for morning in hopes my friends would kill you, but as they have not, and as all must die, I will go first.” He had his naked knife in his hand, 1 and before I could move to prevent he drew it across his throat, and two min utes later was dead. We now had the living to look out for. As 1 told you, it was only about sixty feet across the rip, and we could look right into their eyes. A more bloodthirsty dozen could not have been scraped together in the East. Had they been humbled by the situa- I tion I should have at least hoped to see ; them get away, but they were not. On 1 the contrary, they were brazen and de- I fiant. As soon an they saw us moving they uttcie 1 shouts ol’ defiance and brundished their knives, and because we did not begin shooting they taunted us with cowardice. Just what steps to take I did not know. 1 stood guard while my com panion prepared breakfast, but there was little fear of any of them crossing the channel. The sharks had come in until they actually crowded each other, and out beyond the surf we could see their dorsal fins by the score. The na tives saw the situation in all its dangers, but they continued defiant. I called tc ask them why they had attacked us, as we had done them no harm and were not trespassing on their domain, and tho leader shouted back: “Vou are a dog! You are not fit to live! Yes, yon are a dog and a cowardh I have wet my hands in the blood of half a hundred white-faced dogs, and I am only sorry that I haven’t your heart to throw to these fishes!” “Well, what are you going to do?” I asked as I choked back my anger. “What is it to you, dog? Come! You are a coward. Now that it is daylight you tremble before us aud dare not shoot! Ilq! I believe you wiii run away!” My companion was for killing them off at once, but I was more merciful. While I knew they thirsted for my blood, and would kill me if they got the chance, it seemed awful to shoot them down in their helpless situation. After breakfast we sat down opposite them with our guns in our hands, when those who had knives began to flourish them, and their taunts were renewed. The leader finally worked himself up to such a pitch of anger that he threw his knife across at me. It came whirling and whistling through the air and entered the sand beside me. I replied with a snap shot which stretched him dead. His fall only enraged the others, and I had scarcely finished reloading when my companion said: “Take care! They are going to try and swim the channel!” They scattered along the bar its full length, like skirmishers going to the front, and at a given signal all sprang into the water. Had there been no sharks we could have answered foi every black head crossing the channel. By spreading out they hoped to distract the attention of the monsters, and reasoned that a portion of them would get over to attack us. But there were too many sharks. For about five minutes the sight was terrible. It seemed as if there were three or four sharks for every victim, and they fought over the feast like so many tigers. Not a mac lived to make twenty strokes toward us. In ten minutes after I fired my shot we were rid of the whole gang and ready to resume our labors, nor were we annoyed again before the schooner took us off.— New York Sun. The German Soldier’s Equipment. A new outfit is being rapidly intro duced throughout the whole German army. One, indeed, of the alterations, as it does not involve any new equip ment, has been already taken up by all the regiments—that is, the strapping of the overcoat round the knapsack instead of over the shoulders and across the body. This has the great advantage of allowing the man to breathe more freely and to open his coat if he wishes. The knapsaett itself has been changed and is of a longer shape than before. It con sists of two parts, the knapsack proper and the pocket, the former contaiuihg the soldier’s linen, the latter the famous “pease-sausage” and bacon. The belt is, in the new outfit, all important, and serves to make the whole equipment fast. From it, on the left, hangs the bayonet, which has been so shortened that it is now merely a light dagger not a foot long; while in front two pouches ape at tached, each containing thirty cartridges (the non officers have smaller pouchre holding only fifteen each). Behind is a third pouch, which contains forty cartridges, made up in two pasteboard cases. These are a re serve, aud were formerly kep; in the knap ack. By this change the soldier carries twenty cartridges more than for merly. On the right hangs the bread wallet, which is larger than the old pat tern. It has no longer a belt of its own, but hangs directly from the sword belt, thus relieving the chest. The water fia'k is hooked ou the bread-wallet. The pannikin used to be fastened in the mid dle of the knapsack, but is now laid flat on the top with the forage-cap, which was formerly under the flap of the knap sack, below it. The combined result is that the soldier’s chest is almost quite ‘ free, and that the air can circulate be : tween the knapsack and his back. He j can also by merely undoing his belt take off the whole of his accoutrements. r fhe j trenching tool is not carried on the sol- I dier's back, but hangs at his left side with the bayonet.— St. James's Gazette. One New Yorker’9 Physical Training. I was at the country house of a New York lawyer the other night, says T. C. Crawford, in the New York World. II all New York business men follow his course, the English cannot reproach us with being negligent in the matter of physical training. This friend, who has as many busy and hard-worked hours during the day as any one in New York, when he reaches home drops all care and goes in for riding, walking and I athletics. In the morning he is up at | (i, into a cold plunge, and -then he is off for an hour’s run or ride on horse ; back. Then when he returns he has his rub-down, liis solid breakfast, and is away before 9 to the city. In the | evening he puts on flannels and runs for j a half-hour before turning in. After the ! run he hits the yielding and defenseless bag until 10:30 and then to bed. The result is that he is brown and hardy, al ; though engaged daily in a nervous strain ! ttiat would soon pull down a man of average frame. Oiffgln of “Boom.” A writer *n Notes and Queries traces the history of “boom” in it 3 present half slang sense of exceptional prosperity, and can carry it no further back than 187'.*, wherefore the Woo (father rises to remark that for at least a century the word nas been current in the middle South, as ex pressing a superlative condition. At first we make no doubt that the appli cation was a trille onomatopeic, a stream was “booming” when its flood tide roared through the land, then crops, when warm rain and hot sunshine made them grow ashy magic, were metaphori cally “booming,” too, so it is no wonder that when coal and iron and wondrous water powers builded cities in a night, as it were, and made the was!o places precious, that their habitat was spoken of as having a boom UNIQUE INDIAN JEWELRY. ARTISTIC SILVER ORNAMENTS OT THE PUEBLOS AND NAVAJOES- Remarkable Results Produced by Primitive Implements —Earrings Bracelets and Rings. In the quaint Territory of New Mex ico there still flourish two aboriginal j races, wholesale wearers of jewelry, j whose silversmiths turn outwork uniquq j and characteristic in design, and of re j markable neatness when we consider | their rude appliances. These are the Pueblos aud the Navajoes. The Pueblos are commonly classed as Indians, but Indians they are not. Pure j blooded descendants of the ancient Az tecs or Toltecs—there be ethnologists who pretend to tell which, but their grounds are ludicrously shadowy—(the : Bueb'os) dwell in neat, substantial j adobe houses, til! the soil, build irriga i tiug works, weave their blankets and tend their flocks as they did centuries before the first European foot trod the new continent. They are the oldest civi lized race in the western hemisphere, and the most interesting. Of the count less Pueblo villages whose ruins mark nearly every township of New Mexico, only nineteen are now inhabited. Of the flat), 000 Pueblos whom the Spanish couquistadores tound, only 9000 remain, but the little remuant is at present hold ing its own very fairly. This is the sim ple race whose ancestors made old j .Mexico and filled it with its wonderful monuments. ff'he Navajoes, on the other hand, are straight Indians—nomads, warriors and hunters—who never till the soil nor in habit a house, and whose rude hogans are tenanted no longer than suits their roving disposition. Their only indus tries are stock raising, weaving the most beautiful and the most durable blankets known to the world, and thumping out a semi-barbaric, but always graceful, ! jewelry. The tribe numbers eighteen thousand souls, supposed to occupy a reservation lying half in Mexico and half in Arizona, but generally well scattered over the whole circumambient county, ff'he tribe has about SIOO,OOO worth of silver jewelry and ornaments. Silver is the only metal used by either Pueblo or Navajo for purposes of orna mentation. For gold they have no use whatever, aud it is only those approxi mate to the railroad and therefore con versant with white man’s ways who will even receive Uncle Sam’s yellow dinero. Silver, however, is in universal demand with them, and it is astonishing what store they have of it. Their supply is now drawn almost exclusively from the cartwheel dollars of the Yankee and Mexican daddies. The silversmith among either Pueblos or Navajoes is a person of mighty in fluence. Upon his inventive and me chanical skill each aborigine depends for the wherewithal to cut an imposing figure at the feast-day dance or the bet staggering horse race. His tools are simple, not to say crude. A hammer or two, a three-cornered file, a rude iron punch or two and a primitive arrange ment for soldering comprises his outfit. If he is a Pueblo, one of the little rooms in his house, equipped with a bench, serves him for a workshop; if a Navajo, his smithy is under the alleged shelter of his hogan—an open-faced hovel of cedar branches and earth -and a smooth stone is his workbench. ffhe simplest form of silver ornament is the button, a decoration of which both races are immensely fond. Akin to the buttons are the striking bell disks which glisten upon every well-to-do Pueblo aud Navajo on festal occasions. These are always circular, slightly arched, average four inches in diameter, are handsomely made, and average $8 in weight. From four to a dozen of these are worn, strung upon a narrow thong, as a belt. Some ultra dandies have a shoulder belt of them besides. In horse trappings the well-to-do Nava o is particularly gorgeous. Be sides a large weight of sundry silver ornaments on his saddle his “Sunday ’ bridle is one mass of silver and but an infinitessimal fraction of the leather sub stratum is visible. It is nothing uncom mon to see $lO to S6O weight in silver on one bridle. The straps are covered with silver sheaths, aud more or less heavy pendants dangle upon the foretop and from the bits. The Pueblos occasionally thus besilver their bridles, but are not as daft on the fashion as the Navaioes. i The most popular form of jewelry with both races is the bracelet. In early days it had its useful as well as its orna mental adaptation. To protect the wrists from the vicious sting of the bow string the men very commonly wore a broad wristlet of leather, tied at one side with a buckskin thong. The sim plest bracelets—commonest with the Navajoes —are simply rouud circlets, generally tapering a little to the ends, and marked with little file-cut lines. A silver dollar is usually entirely used up in hammering one of them out. Finger rings are a little less numerous than the articles aforesaid, but are still common enough, and remarkable skill is often displayed in their workmanship. Plain round rings of the American mat trimonial pattern are almost unknown here, the fashion being in chased bands and sets. The Navajoes set native gar nets or turquoise in rude box settings and the Acoma smith sometimes makes a curious stagger at a crown setting. One of the most unique native rings is of the nature of a cameo ring, the “cameo” being cut from an American dollar with Liberty's head protuberant thereon. A silver ornament peculiar to the Pue blos is the dresspin worn by the women.’ Their dresses are something like blank ets, worn over one shoulder aud under the other, reaching just below the knees ; and fastened down the right side with j huge pins. These are something brass, [ but generally of silver, made by solder- I ing two or three 25 or 50-cent pieces i upon a pin. Sometimes the coins are left intact, sometimes polished and chased. I have seen a really elegant one made of a polished and concaved dollar, I covered with relief work and set with ! imitation opals from a cheap American ; piece of trumpery. —San Francisco C , ro:i tele. The Bank of England has just finished l series of experiments with electric light and likes it so well that it has de cided to adopt it permanently instead of ' gas. SELECT SIFTINGS. London contains 120 hospitals. The temple of Diana was four hun dred feet high. The Koran says all flies shall peris p save one, the bee fly. The palaces of Rome each accom modated about 850,000 people. It is regarded as a death warning in Germany to hear a cricket’s cry. A real, live princess keeps a millinery store ip Fifth avenue, New York. Mr. Robert Bonner paid Mr. William 11. Vanderbilt $40,000 for Maud S. The Tapuya Indians in South Amer ica say the devil assnmes the form of a fly. In China the highest recommendation a man can have is the fact of his having a wife. Cremation is still illegal in France, so Frenchmen have to go to Italy for the purpose. In Mexico young ladies give a few drops of their blood as a charm to the young men. Rain is, in some parts of our own country, expected to follow unusually loud chirping of crickets. Some interesting prehistoric relics have just been found buried under 800 feet of lava in a table-mountain tunnel, near Sonora, Cal. Babylon was sixty miles within the walls, which were twenty-five feet thick and three hundred feet high, with one hundred brazen gates. A woman living near the banks of the Tiber once sold her possessions in Rome, and it was learned that she possessed four hundred slaves. The Bank of England monopoly was established by the prohibition, by act of Parliament in of auy company ex ceeding six persons acting as bankers. Mrs. G. Booth, of Washington County, died recently at Knoxville, Tenn., in the log house she was born in, ninety eight years ago. She had never been away from home over five miles. In 314 Constantine declared that liberty was a right which could not be taken away, affirming that sixty years of captivity could not take from the free born the right of demanding liberty. When Queen Victoria went this year from Windsor to Osbprne she took a number of her favorite cats with her,and now every English lady takes her cats with her from town to country or country to town. Mr. Bloodworth, of Griffin, Ga., has grown this yea*- twelve ears of corn upon one stalk and fourteen squashes upon a single arm of vine, so it is entirely cred ible that from a garden one-sixteenth of an acre he has sold $35 worth after sup plying his family. One of the English regiments is ex perimenting with a machine called a centrecycle, which has four small wheels a foot in diameter and one large one in the center. It is said that theiuveution makes climbing a hill as easy for a cycler as rolling off a log. An eagle, six feet from tip to tip, and with talons nearly two inches long, was killed in Georgia the other day, but it took two loads of shot and a rifle ball to do it, and then the bird took such a death grip on its perch that the tree had to be cut down to secure it. Sumner Howard, formerly Speaker to the Michigan House of Representatives and now a lawyer with a fine practice in an Arizona town, accepted a few shares of stock in an undeveloped mine last fall as a retainer in a murder case. A few days ago he was offered $85,(100 for the stock, but declined to part with it. A modern French custom at baptisms is that of presenting all the guests with sugar almonds in a bonbonniere, which has the appearance cf a roll of parch ment. On this roll are inscribed the names of the child, of the parents, god parents, the date of the birth and christ ening, and the name of the church where the ceremoney was performed. The weather vane in the shape of a large grasshopper, whi ffi adorns Faneuil Hall in Boston, is said to have been placed there by the owner of the hall, who was also a wholesale grocer, as a sign of his occupation. The grasshopper was the sign ot the Wholesale Grocers’ Association of Boston. Mr. Faneuil was a prominent member of this association. Railroad conductors get a great deal of medical information and the under standing of many helpful little schemes in the course of a long year’s run. Many of the conductors, who, among the many other ills and ailings of their passangers, have found that of a particle of dirt or cinder in the eye to be of the most fre quent and painful, carry with them a supply of horse hair. Their experience makes them experts in dounling the hair and drawing it over the eye while the lid is closed. Mollie Stark. The speech popularly attributed to General John Stark on going into the battle of Bennington, August M, 1777, was: “Boys, we hold that field to-night, or Mollie’s Stark’s a widow.” His wife, the daughter-of Caleb Rage, of Starks town, now Dumbarton, N. 11., was named Elizabeth, and though there i 3 much discussion about the matter, it is probable, that the legend is correctly given by Rev. J. P. Rodman in his cen tennial poem of the “Battle of Ben nington:” The morning came —there stood the foe; Starlc eyed them as they stood; Few words he spoke—’tvvas not a time For moralizing mood. ‘‘See there the enemy, my boys! Now, strong in valor's might, Beat them, or Betty Stark will sleep In widowhood to-night.” Washington Star. V - . A Hi flerence. “When I was young,” said good Miss Jean, “Girls weren’t ashamed to learn to cook. They didn’t spend their time between The parior and the fashion-book, Nor did they t ike three hours to dress!” (She ruis-d her hands in consternation.) “And dream of nothing more nor less Than picnics, parties and flirtation, W nen I was young!” “When you were young! I dare say, when, Ah! when indeed.'” mused naughty Alice, “I'm glad 1 didn't live just then,” She said aloud, with playful malice. “Not flirt! I’m sure the cause is clear— They never knew my Cousin Harry! Another reason, aunty dear— You see the maidens didn’t marry When you were young!” —Martha T. Tyler in Judge, Nr.WS AND NOTES FOR WOMEN. The white petticoat is] a thing of the past. The most fashionable women wear no bustles. The plain hem at the bottom is again in vogue. Jacket fronts are a feature in the new tea gowns. Few feathers are seen on the dressiest fall bonnets. Fur will be much used in trimming winter gowns. Many young women are now seeking a business education. Borders are a prominent feature of the best stuffs this season. Mrs. Sheridan is still young, being but thirty-five aud beautiful. . Queen Victoria has had wicker baskets made for her cats to travel in. Strings of bonnets come from the very back, not the ears, this season. The Czarina is so passionately fond of dancing that she is called “la Santerelle.” The Duchess of Rutland has just com pleted an excellent guide to Homburg. Cloth-finished flannels are the pre ferred wear of women of taste but limited means. Mrs. Ella Transom has challenged Mrs. Shaw to a whistling match for SSOO a side. Nearly all the new fall stuffs display solid colors with stripes of different weaves. Fanny Fern never wrote a word for publication until she passed her fortieth birthday. Plain woolens with deep borders of cashmere are among the importations of fall goods. Miss Edgeworth wrote her stories in a common sitting room, surrounded by her family. Twenty-three Montana mail routes are to be run for four years by a woman, Mrs. Ira McLane. Mary A. Livermore began her minis terial life in Chicago as pastor of the 1 niversalist Church. - Dr. Harriet Jones lias charge of the woman’s department of the Insane Asy lum at Weston, W. Va. There ate no plain, tight-fitting tailor gowns among the fall importations of Paris and London dresses. Round hats are very large and elabor ately trimmed, but the brims are not so wide nor so eccentric as formerly. Mrs. E. R. Holbrook is superindent of department of woman’s work in the Minneapolis Industrial Exposition. Many of the newest woolens show a decided double twill with a deep rice lined Persian border along one edge. Miss Sarah A. Brown, of Lawrence, Kan.,is candidate for State Superintend ent of Public Schools on the Prohibition ticket. Many fine twilled woolens have ribbon stripes two or three inches wide in blacks, crossbars or shaded effects woven throughout. ff’he Association for the Advancement of Women, better known as the Woman’s Congress, will hold its annual .meeting November 14, i 5 and IG. In China girls are not obliged to go to school at all. Their position in the em pire is so insignificant that no provision is made for their education. Airs. E. L. Knowles, of Montana, who is studying law, has been appointed notary pnblic—the only woman in the territory holding that office. The Empress of Japan is rapidly be coming the best-informed woman of her time. She is a hard student of German, Russian, French and Italian. Camel’s hair cheviots, soft yet fine, come in cloth shades bordered with a deeper tone, and are among the most de sirable of all the season’s offering. Jet-black'ibirds are worn with straw or felt hats. The black and suede straws are faced with black velvet, a plaiting of lace lyiug next the face. Elbow ruffles of sheer muslin, simply hemmed, and standing frills, with long fichu ends, or else coming down the front of the bodice, aro quaintly pretty. In England women are again taking to wearing gaiters. ff’he-e are made to measure and are of almost any kind of cloth, ff’he favorite, however, is the or dinary drab. The fashionable hat should look as though it had been put on wrong side foremost. All iiat trimmipgs at e placed far at the back, and the front is quite bare of any ornament. Tlie wife of Senator Sherman is one of the leading horticulturists of this coun try. She not only knows all of the at tractions of the garden but understands how to make them thrive. Mrs. Harvey, of Shanklin, Isle of Wight, has founded an institution there which is doubly philanthropic. It is a home for old ladies and a training-school for servants at the same time. Chantilly lace with leaf edges or Greek squares in open pattern ‘is the favorite now for trimming, and is set in two knife-pleated rows, turning opposite wavs, about the hecks of many new gowns. There is a great variety in sashes, both as to color and stuff, but the favorites are the wide half belts which come down from under the arms, the soft, loosely knotted Turkish sash, and the fine di aphanous sash of the tint and texture of the rainbow. The famous “Nelly Bly,” of the New York World, is a pretty auburn-haired girl with pretty, brown eyes and sweet face. Her name is Miss Cochrane and it goes with without saying that it will be famous if the young lady continues her daring exploits in journalism. The will of Mrs. Anne Seguin, the mother-in-law of the charming opera singer, Zelda seguin, gives the latter the annua! interest of $20,000 on condition that she does not again marry. I* lo figure is so small as to be of little ac count to a girl disposed to marry. Horn says that sets of decorated china, such as used to sell eight or tea years ago for SBO, are now put on the market for S2O. This is mainly owing to the decline in the price paid the painters °1 it. A class of girls has been educated as decorators, and do the work as we., and far cheaper than of old. Edwin Booth, theaotor, haunts studios and iAnok.es a pipe.