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THE BEST OF GAME BIRDS. hunting the forests denizen THE WILD TURKEY. Very Wary and Swift of Foot—Way lavi»s Them, Shootinj; by Moon' light anil Trapping the Bird. Of all the game that runs or flies, says the St. louis G!o'e-Democrat, the wild tur key of America is the noblest and most beautiful when taken at its best. In one sense the ostrich of the Arabian desert or the emu of the Australian plains might be deemed an exception. They, however, do not fly, and though their si/.e, fleet cess aad plumage invest them with a sort of grandeur, and their feathers are valuable as ornaments, they are neither so beautiful nor so useful and excellent for food as the wild turkey. Indeed, the flesh of the latter is hardly surpassed by anything in succulence, richness of i avor snd nutriment, and it is \astly superior to that of any barnyard turkey that ever was fed aad roasted or boiled. The wild turkey is a bird of the forest rather than of the prairies or plains. It makes its haunts in the timber land, large pieces of woods and groves, and betakes itself to thick brush and the neighborhood of impassible swamps to breed. It comes out, however, at uiglit, or at the earliest dawn, and feeds in the corn and wheat iields in the fall, and many broods are sometimes seen in a flock a huudred strong, led by old gob blers. In the beech and maple woods it feeds upon beech nuts with great relish, and, indeed, its principal food in winter is the berr.es of the bushes and the “mast” of various trees. The wild turkey,, though so gregari ous, is a shy, a wary and fast-running bird, hardly ever taking to the wing if it can avoid so doing. When closely pur sued by a dog or impeded by deep snow, it is compelled to flight. The running qualities of the wild turkey can never be fully realized until an old twenty-pound gobbler suddenly Imagines that he has argent business within the next county within an hour, and it looks to the hunter who conies upon one as if the next State was the destination of the fleet-footed bird, and he had only a few minutes to get there. it is beautiful to see au old gobbler on a level stretch of road light out for the seclusion the forest grants. Theye is a momentary patter of feet, a cloud of dust, a streak of turkey, then silence: and you stand and wonder, in a vague sort of way, whether you really saw a turkey or not. and are not fully,convinced until you look for and discover the star like foot prints in the road. There are many ways of hunting the wild turkey successfully, and every sea son has its own. The best way to get turkeys in the early fall is to follow' .the example of the native. Down in South ern. Missouri, where turkeys are plentiful, the native seldom fails, when he goes out, to bring in at least one or two tur keys. He doesn’t do a great deal of walking, but enters the woods early in the morning, conceals himself near a clearing along a road and waits. The wild turkey is very partial to wagon toads that run through timber that is thickly grown with underbrush. If the turkey sees a man coming—and they generally do see the man before or as soon as he sees them—they quickly dart off into the underbrush and in that case it is useless to follow them. They are too fleet and have £ way of concealing them selves under the low bushes even when traveling. Some turkey hunters are successful in getting the wary game by strolling noiselessly as possible along the edge of cornfields when the t urkeys come to feed about seven o’clock iii the morning. The hunter looks carefully up betweeu each row of corn until he locates the birds. If they are within shooting distance, one barrel is discharged while they are un consciously picking their breakfast from the corn ears or other seeds that ripen and fall to the ground along the rows, and the other is reserved for the flight. Shooting turkeys from a horse’s back is sometimes indulged in; but it is sel dom that a horse can be trained to stand when a heavily loaded shotgun is tired aver his head. I tried the experiment twice in turkey shooting, and on both occasions I had to walk home after be ing dumped among the bushes. The wild turkey does not seem to have much fear of anything but a man. It is a common thing to see a drove of tur keys trot along the railroad in front of a locomotive for a short distance and leisurely walk oil at the side to let the train pass. The engineers on the t ape Girardeau and, Lakeville road all carry guns in the cab of their locomotive, aud often kill turkeys while making their runs; and they never fail to stop the train to pick up their game either. Following turkeys l>y their tracks in the snow is hard work. In the great \yoods of the forest counties the favorite method is to find the liock, scatter it all around by means of a dogt and then from ambush imitate the call of the tur keys until they come near enough to be shot with a rifle. The best way to hunt them, when their tracks can be readily followed in the snow—that is, if you aie a good pedestrian and a stayer —is to follow them until they tire. Turkeys in the show, with a man after them, soon begin to tire a little it the snow be damp and no crust on top of it. After some time the hunter will see where one of the turkeys has diverged from the route of the flock. Following the track of the sihgle turkey it will be found that after having gone a little way, commouly not more than 200 yards, and often less, it has squatted under thick brush or in the top of a fallen tree. As he draws neat it will start to run or fly, and -it must then be shot. In this kind of sport No. 1 shot is quite big enough. A turkey intern on flying has got to run sight or ten feet in order to get headway before rising from the ground, and there is time enough for the hunter to shoot them in the head before they take wing. After having killed the single turkey ’.he hunter must take up the track of the bock and go until he sees that another has straggled off tuckered out, and so on just as long as you can stand the tramp ing in tljie wet snow. Some of the settlers m Cape Girardeau county trap turkeys in the winter season. This is done by digging a trench, say six feet long, two feet de p and a foot wide. A little house is built of fence rails, after the style of a quail trap, but, of course, correspondingly large. One end of the treuch ruus under the trap about a foot. All around and over the iop straw is scattered, ana corn and I wheat are spread along the trench into | the trap, where it is thickly strewn. The j turkey picks up the gram clear to the eucl of this trench, which is under the rail | house. The bird then steps up and I tackles the corn and wheat that are I thickly stiewn over the ground in the interior of the trap. Sometimes a whole j flock will follow an old gobbler through the trench, and not until they think of going do they realize that they are trapped. Strange as it may appear, the turkeys never think of going down aigl out through the trench. SCIE NTi FI C AND IN I) USTR I A L The use of oil on water to prevent or remove fogs is suggested. A physician says that breathing througli the nose is the only way to sleep. Celluloid lias recently been experi mented with as a substitute for copper in sheating vessels. To prevent the condensation of vapor in lenses of instruments for examining the throat coat them thinly with glycerine. _ , , The pollen of tire German plajno tree produces influenza, exactly like what in this country is cai.ed ‘nose cold ’ and “hay fever.” It requires just double the power to propel a steamship twenty miles an hour that it does to drive the same vessel sixty miles an hour. It is stated that two-thirds of the wood used in paper-making is waste, though experiments iridic.ite that this can be profitably converted into fertilizer?. A new utilization of a waste product is the manufacture of paper from the cedar ships of pencil maker s. The paper is said to keep rno.hs from carpets, wool and furs. A curious monstrosity lias been ac quired by the Paris Museum of Natural History. It is an apparently healthy sow, having one head, one thorax and two forelegs, with two trunks, two tails, and four hind legs. Means for the accurate comparison of electrical standards'and apparatus are to be supplied at .iohn Hopkins’s Uni versity, no provision for such measure ments having been made elsewhere in the United States. Borax, as has recently been discovered, is the sovereign remedy for hoarseness of any kind. Hi-solve a piece the size of a pea slowly in the mouth and swallow the saliva. The effect is magical: it is within the reach of every one, and for its simpliciiy is worthy of trial. Each soldier of the Netherlands is to be supplied, in case of war, with a cart ridge three inches long by, two wide, containing anti-optic dressings. These will consist of a bandage about three yards long and two pieces of gause, all rendered antiseptic by a sublimate solution. C. A, Paillard, of Geneva, Switzer land, after fourteen years of experiment, has determined that the alloy of pal ladium is non-magnetizable as used in watches, and is a satisfactory substitute for the metals commonly used. Only the hair-spring and compensation balance are made of this metal, and the cost of the watch is not increased. A Swiss inventor has perfected a method of making artificial boards and is advocating their use in building. They are made of a mixture of plaster of paris and reeds pressed into shape by hydraulic presses. The material has the advantage of incombustibilita and light ness, and will resist the waging action of atmospheric changes. The discovery of a new gas has been reported by two English chemists, Pro fessor Thorpe and Mr. .T. AY. Bodger. It is a sulphofluoride of pho%horus, best prepared by heating pentasulphide of phosphorus with lead fluoride in a leaden tube, and has been named thiopho sophoryl flouride. It inflames spota neously on contact with air. It will not be long before the shoe maker can add to his stock of raw ma terials a waterproof leather. The pro cess, which has recently been perfected, is not only of service on the uncut leather, but can be used in rendering worthless leather valuable by plumping, stiffening and waterproofing it for in soles, counters, box toes, etc. Every part of a boot or shoe can be “water proofed” either before or after it is finished. Cute Thief, But Cuter Detective. A lady and a gentleman were travel ing together on an English railway, say 3 the New Y ork Graphic. They were perfect strangers to each other. Sud denly the gentleman said: “Aladam, I will trouble you to look out of the win dow for a few minutes; I am going to make some changes in my wearing ap parel.” “Certainly, sir,” she replied, with politeness, rising and turning her back upon him. In a short time he said: “Now, madam, my change is completed, and you may resume your seat.” AVhen the lady turned she beheld her male companion transformed into a dashing lady with a heavy veil oyer her face. “Now, sir, or inadarn, whichever you like,” said the lady, “I must trouble you to look out of the window, for I also have some changes to make in my ap parel.” “Certainly, madam,” and the gentleman in lady’s attiro- immediately complied. “Now, sir, you may resume your seat.” To his great surprise, on resuming his seat, the gentleman in fe male attire found his lady companion transformed into a man. He then laughed and said: “It appears that we are both anxious to avoid recognition. AVhat have you done? I have robbed a bank.” “And I,” said the whilom lady, as he dexterously fettered his compan ion’s wrists with a pair of handcuffs, “am Detective Jones of Scotland Yard, and in female apparel have shadowed you. Now.” drawing a revolver, “keep still.” And he did, A Bog Killing Feast. unique feast of the winter will De aa ’ old-fashioned hog-killing” at Pied mont Park, Atlanta, Ga. A number of ladies will undertake it for the benefit of the Girls’ Industrial Home. A cold day will be selected, aud twenty Logs killed, scalded and quartered. The regular work of hog-killing time on the plantation will be gone through with, and sausages stuffed and dropped, fatty bread, cracklings, backbone, spareribs, jowl anil pigs’ feet will be served with good milk aud butter, torn bread and pickles. There will be a charge of twenty-five cents admission and fifty cents for dinner, breakfast aud supper. THE FARMS OF JAPAN, BO ECULIARITIE3 OF ORIENT AL CULTIVATION. Raisinj; Rice, Barley, Rape Seed, Buckwheat, Peas anil Flowers — Systematic Weed Culture. In a farming country like Japan, Where in the best districts the roads are as smooth as.a floor, jinrikisha travel af fords the joliiest of opportunities for observation. The jinrikisha, a Chinese invention, is an overgrown doll chaise, of a size to carry one or two men, and di.awn by a team of one, two or three Japs. They whisk you over the road at a steady pace of six miles an hour on the level—sometimes exceeding that rate — and will average nearly live miles on mixed grades. I have one lecord of nine and three-fifths miles made in one hour and twenty-three minutes by a single man on a level. My first drive was into a rice region. The fields were cut up into all sizes, and arranged upon ever varying levels. Some were but a few feet square, while a quar ter of an acre was a large field. The *best land yields fifty bushels an acre, more or less, and the poorest about thirty. It is rare to find two adjai eat fields on the same level. Sloping land is of course more convenient for irriga tion, but on this flat area through which we were traveling the little rice fields were laboriously divided up at different heights, so that, the water might be made to flow easily from one to the other. The water is raised to the higher patches mostly by treadmill pumps. We were on the ground in season to witness the earlier stages of rice cultivation. In some fields the bare stubs of the last crop were dismally peering out of the mud. In others laborers were tearing up the stubs with heavy pronged forks, stand ing nearly to the hips in water and slime. Bullocks drawing long-toothed harrows were engaged in the sqme oper ation. Wooden ploughs were also at work, mere stirring-up implements of wood with one handle. They had a rounded nose, fortified with an iron chisel, point beveled downward. Then there was a rude p'orndi with broad iron share for turning a shallow furrow, and heavy oblong hoes for working the soil over and over. Grading scoops com pleted the grand utensils, but for shap ing the causeways, or narrow dykes be tween the fields, the coolies used the usual hand weapons. The crop is sown in May and reaped in October or Novem ber, being grubbed or puddled three times during the season. This means that the whole population wade into the slime, pul! out the weeds, and stir up the mud about the roots of the plants. The first thing that struck us in the barley and wheat region was the peculiar furrows. They were very shallow at first, varying somewhat in depth, and considerably in width and architecture, so to speak. They were in the rough at the outset, so far as anything in Japan is entitled to that character, though they would be smooth and elegant fur rows anywhere else. Then they began to be sloped up slanting, smoothed off as evenly as the sides of a house. Others were squared with mathematical > precision. On the ridges the barley is sown in thick-set rows, apparently by hand. On the narrower ridges but- a single row appeared; on the broader ones were two rows, and more rarely three. Outside these grain rows the ridges were utilized for other crops, mostly rows of buckwheat, but we saw also sweet potatoes, turnip?, beans, and the like. In one place we observed a man waterinor this extra crop, which ap peared odd, as the ground seemed moist enough. accomplish this primitive irrigation K carried two buckets slung over his shoulders on a pole, and used a wooden hand-dipper with a slit in the side at the bottom, which let out a thin disk of water. Throughout the fields of this vast region were numerous wells, with the old-tashioned well sweep. Not only the ridges but the furrows them selves are sometimes utilised for crops. The only thing we saw growing there, however, was what our courier informed us was bird seed. Aside from the barley was wheat also, used mostly for the manufacture of ver micelli —for we did not discover any use of bread by the Japs, except in rare cases where- the custom had been bor rowed from Europeans. There were im mense fields also of what our guide called oil plant, which we took to be rape seed." This crop was harvested, as also was the barley in warm localities, it being the latter part of May. There were also large patches of beans and peas, and one of the thin grass like reed whose pith furnishes Japanese lamps with wicking. We were, however, more occupied with the style and character of the farming than with crop statistics. And this style was really gardening on a grand scale. The nice little^arrows, to which I have referred, all had the ap- Searance of being carefully patted by and, so smooth and even were their surfaces. Then, in addition to the nice regu larity of the sown crops, there was another peculiar gardening feature. No fences or hedges appeared in the fields, for good land is too valuable, being worth five to nine hundred dollars the acre, and even more in some- cases. Boundaries are marked by stakes or stones, with the owner's name or symbol attached. This is not difficult to regu late, as many of the patches are very i small. But in place of fences there were crop boundaries in many places on the rim of the fields. For example, a thickly sown row of wheat would extend all around a barley field. The rows of grain usually ran with the ends toward i the road, and the bordering row of another crop had a preity effect. In some cases, however, the grain rows would , run one way for a certain distance and j then would come another patch sown at 1 right angles. This was also quite novel and picturesque.. Sometimes the orna mental border would be of the same crop, as barley around barley, but this was not usually the case. The weeding of these fields is perfect, »ud cur cultivators might take a lesson from the Japs. Numbers of women were crouched between the tiles of barley weeding by hand. With the furrow system the cultivator is out of place; and, moreover, hand work is the rule in this • crowded country,and in a day’s drive of thirty-two miles we only saw two horses. Where animals were employed they were bullocks or wretched little cows. All were 9hod with sandals of rice straw. The weeding women were atleuded by bays, who carefully lugged the spoil out of tha fields in baskets or mats. Near the scat tered farm houses the weeds were spread to cure. They are utilized as food for people and cattle, and for bedding for the beasts, but mostly ‘for manure. Along the roadsides men were cutting grass and weeds with short, curved bladed knives. In one little grove men and boys were weeding by hand, sparing only the pretty and harmless flowering plants and shrubs. The roadsides were permitted also to retain come of the flowering weeds, buttercups, dandelions, chickweed, and the like, no mercy was shown to any growth of pestilent pro pensities. There was some yellow dock here and there, but we were surprised at being informed that the Japs had not discovered the beauty of its leaves for greens, although they do eat the dan deliyn to some extent. In fact, one might say that weed farming was a gen uine part of the Japanese agricultural system, since the entire cron was utilized in some fashion, either for forage, food, bedding, beauty, mulching, or manure. Not a savage plant was ah owed to lead a useless life, or to devote its energies to the undoing of the farmer’s work.— American Agriculturist, > SELECT SIFTINGS. Chicago is called the Garden City. The first balloon ascent was made in 170 c. Detroit is often called the City of the Straits. Uouen is often called the Manchester of France. A Hoboken lady has c ompleted a crazy quilt with 24,781 pieces in it. Martin Kellogg, of Norwalk, Ohio, is one hundred and two years old. In Egyptian mythology Isis was sajd to have taught meu to till the soil. F. Strecker, of Beading, Penn., has collected over 80U boxes of butterflies. A Welsh tradition says bees came from Paradise, leaving the garden when man fell. The potato-beetle is said to have more thamtwenty species of parasites that prey upon it. The ancients generally maintained that there was a close connection between bees and the soul. , Borne might have been called the City of Lions on account of many lions kept there by Ca-sar (400). In an engagement near Turin, in 1693, September 24, th bayonet was put to actual and extended use. The first German newspaper was Das Frankfurter Journal , published at the beginning of the seventeenth century at Frankfurt-on-the-Main. In Warren County, N. Y.,'a bounty of fifty cents is paid to every one who pre sents to the proper officer the head and rattles of a rattlesnake. An army of ants of the red species marched into Silverdale Township, Kan., recently. The insects covered a space forty yards long and three feet wide. The grasshopper is a sufficiently un welcome visitant of himself in this coun try, but in Germany his presence is further said to announce strange guests. Tha best violin strings are not, as might be supposed, produced from any part of the anatomy of a cat, but are made from the intestines of a young lamb. A woman in' Philadelphia made pur chases of fifty-eight different clerks aud proved tifty-three of them prevaricators. The goods they warranted all wool had cotton mixed m. It is said that upon the backs of the seven year loccust there sometimes ap pear marks like a letter of the alphabet. When this looks like a W it is thought that war is imminent. One reason why shelled nuts can be sold so near the price of unshelied* ones is that the shells when ground have a slight aromatic taste, and are valuable to adulterate ground spices. A Frenchman wants to introduce anew method of executing criminals in .New York. He has invented a chair in which the condemned sits, and his spinal column is instantly broken. A cottonwood tree in front of John Flad’s residence in Marshall county, Kan., planted in 187(1, measures six feet and one inch in circumference at top of ground and has a spread of forty fefet. Uncle Elias Gibson, of Kilbourne, 111., who is nearing his ninetieth year, lias the distinction of having killed ninety two wolves since the war, a record that no other Illinois man can even approach. They tell at Hamilton, Ga., of a won derful jump of a horse in the MOs. It was across twelve feet of a bridge that was down. The rider waited a mo ment, sank the spurs, and the horse cleared the opening. Tom Brooks, a colored boy seventeen years of age, was found dead standing on his feet the other day at Jackson, in West Tennessee. .He was a tenant on the farm of Dr. W. ,A. Wood, who vouches for the truth of the story. The twenty-four men who composed the recent petit jury for the term cf the Buchanan County Court, in Missouri, weighed 56J8 pounds, an average of 235 pounds. The lightest man on the jury tipped the beam at 200 pounds, while the heaviest weighed 205. The water glass is constructed of four boards, about fifteen inches long, nailed together in the form of a frustrum of a hollow pyramid. The small end is closed with a piece of ordinary window glass. This, placed a few inches below the surface of water, enables the observer to see ob ects for a considerable distance under water. It is much used by pearl divers. Wonderful Shooting. According to the Pittsburg Dispatch, Dr. W. F. Carver performed the most remarKable • teat .in shooting at Ex position Park, in that city, ever wit nessed. Dr. Carver had made a bet of SIOO with Foiepaugh, Jr., that lie would break six glass balls thrown into the air simultaneously before they fell to the ground. The shooting was done with a Spencer repeating rifle in the presence of a few invited guests. Dr. ( arver had not the slightest trouble in performing the feat, repeating it four times in succession. The Doctor was not satisfied with this, but threw up seven bills at once, all of which he perforated before they fell to the ground. * PHENOMENA OF THE EYE. REMARKABLE ATTRIBUTES OF THE VISUAL ORGAN The Bail Opaque Eye—How Turks Enlarge the Eye—Valuable Hints for Strengthening Weak Eyes. In an interesting article on the eye, Shirley Dare says in the Mail and K.r~ press: I wish to be understood now as speaking, not as writer or admirer of sex, but from the point of scientific ob servation, when I say that the revelations of physical, mental and affeetional con ditions made by the eye are as*remarka ble as any phenomena of nature. Take, for instance, a young sensitive person of Consumptive habit, in ordinary health and in love. Watch the eyes of such a one, and you will see as p/ettv a specimen of phosphoric light as that which plays about certain flowers in full bloom. The state of nervous excitement uses up the phosphorus of the body pretty fast, and it will flash behind the eyelids like the fire on summer waves. Botanists and other people have seen the mimic flashes a white lily three days blown will send from its petal on a warm electric summer night. I have seen as literal a flash leap bet ween the eyelids of a lad of twenty-five, dead in love as he could be with an absent woman. He was nervous, a trifle poetic and over strung, his eyes dilated, changeful after glittering like a cat’s. In short, a human battery, overcharged with nervous elec tricity. In one case beside that of the Italian actor, I ossi, I have noticed the same flash which appeared to leap from the eye, not play like sheet lightning with it. But then Bossi was as highly electric as human are, in normal condition. Love and genius both are literally a combustion of nervous force, and the eye is the peep hole of the fire in the brain. Somebody ought to write a novel about people with opaque eyes, those black or dark blue eyes which are trans parent as so many Swiss pebbles. They are eyes of intensely passionate natures, strong for good or -evil, but with tenden cies the wrong- way, the eyes of born devils in human shape. When such dull dark eyesishow the red light that comes of caution, insanity in its first stages is at work on the brain, and such a man or woman needs care life long, or some crisis of trouble may lead to an outbreak of madness. It is the eye of one likely in frenzy to commit manslaughter. | The most beautiful eyes in the worjd are the cle£r gray, with large pupils, and iris which changes and daikens with 1 feeling as from the shadow of a cloud. The steadiness, brilliance and suscepti bility of such eyes are index to the rarest intelligence, quick and accurate, and the high romantic sentiments which in such characters become passions. Truth; liberality, loyalty, are the vital breath of such spirits, but alas! those eyes are not of the long-lived. Dust is over them al most before we can say we have known | them for qur own. The bluish white of the eye betokens consumption before its hectic IffAghtncss alarms with unearthly i the loss of color in the pu pil, turning brown instead of black, is caused by heart disease. I The Turks regularly cut open the outer corner of the eyelids, if the eyes of a girl are not large enough for their ideas of beauty, and inferior eyes can be gradually enlarged by gently drawing ! the lids apart, day after day, and bath ing them in cool, soft water. The stronger the eye the larger it will seem, for the first instinct of weak eyes is to contract and spare themselves from light. Americans ruin their eyes with too much newspaper reading. The enoimous tax of going over twenty col umns of close print daily, besides office work, is more than human orgtns can bear. One uses his eyes more in this way in a month than our forefather’s did in a year’s study over black letter folios. Beading long lines on a wide page is trying to the sight, as there is a change of focus necessary in following ; the lines which is positively hurtful. So [’ says B. Joy Jeffries, of the Massachusetts : Eye and Ear Infirmary, who gave the warning that the eyes of school children were steadily injured by defective books, | desks and lights. To have beautiful, sightly eyes, we | must have strong, sound ones, and avoid all causes of harm. Never read, write or work,with the light from in front of the eyes. Artisans in jure their sight past recovery by working at a bench directly in front of a window, when they should be placed with the baekto.it. The light in front falls into i the eye, which contracts to lessen what j it cannot bear, with the invariable re j suit of weakened sight. Lamps, gas lets and student lamps are often placed so near the head as to heat the eyes iniuri : ously. The simplest shade stops this by making a current of air between itself and the lamp. Heated rooms weaken | the eyes; so do smill bonnets which do not shad 3 the face; so does a glare of light, or light that is too dim. In short j the eyes need a great deal more care than they get. 11l health of any sort weakens them. Going with cold feet causes more harm to the eyes than anyone ever suspects, and many eases of weak eyes are relieved at once by hot foot baths and thick stockings. The sight is often strengthened by applica tions just above the eyebrows and on the temple rather than the eyeball itself. I like very much Dr. lirinton’s pre scription for weak eyes where there is no special disease. Steep a handful of fresh red peppers or ginger roots in half a pint of alcohol, and wet the temple and brow above the eye witli this twice daily, letting it dry. Very strengthen ing is a lotion of a toaspoonful of table salt dissolved in a tumoler of distilled j water. A little of this is put in any concave glass that will fit the eyeball, : and the eye is opened in the water for a •minute or two, three times a day. Drs. Brinton and Naphcys say a tablespoonful of rock-salt in a quart of water, dip ping the face in and opening the eyes in the water, which is a vigorous and more convenient form of the same appli cation. Probably the best eye-restorer in nature is eight or nine hours of sleep a night in a cool, dark room, the light kept down by dark green shades at the windows, two sets of them if needs be. This is better thai* shading the eyes. Plenty of sleep restores the liquid soft ness of the eyes. Notice how large, ! dewy and lovely are a child’s eyes on -waking from long slumber. I It is no use a-king me for the secrets of making the eyes bright. I know them, but they are dangerous, and as moderation in the use of any cosmetic is unknown to women who adopt such things they had better remain secret Ihe only harmless things for the pur’. pose are the juice of the herb euphrasv or eyebright dropped in the eye, or •> spoonlul of roast coffee chewed for the juice alone. This brightens the eyes for an evening, and is useful to keep watch ers wide awake nights. But it must not be used often or it affects the heart Walking a mile briskly against the wind is good exercise to darken and brighten the eyes. NEWS AND NOTES FOR WOMEN. Gold-wire jewelry is in high favor. Dress skirts arc a trifle longer than last season. Dr. Talmadge says women should be permitted to whistle. Black is nsed to trim bonnets, cloaks and dresses of any color. Plaid stuffs are in high favor for the popular Irish peasant cloaks. . Florence Nightingale is a confirmed invalid. iShe is sixty-nine. Cincinnati has a woman’s press club, a woman’s paper, and a woman’s suffrage club. e Francis Hodgson Burnett, the novel ist, was born in Manchester England iu 184!). Queen Christina of Spain has a mania for being photographed with her chil dren. A prominent feature of the new bro cades is the application of black on color. ” The rage for gold trimmings has ex tended to morning caps and ne<dme jackets. A lady was recently clio-en to fill the chair of Greek in a college at Fargo. Dakota. American women have been granted patents at the rate of two a week so far this year. The redingote style is well adapted to display the richness of the new brocades and velvets. Among the new grays are powder gray and thunder cloud, dark, aud sea -gull, orange gray, light. Airs. Davis, widow of the late Justice David Davis, has returned to h&r old home in North Carolina. “Labouchere says that “the American girl has almost entirely cut out the English girl in noble favor.” Elderly ladies now choose plain or striped cashmeres in black or dark col ors for their everyday costumes. In Cuba a woman never loses her maiden name. After marriage she adds her husband’s name to her own. The newest English walking hat has a straight, still brim, and lower, broader crowns than those of last season. . Airs. Mary E. Tyler, the original Mary who had a litlle lamb, is now eighty two aud lives at Somerville, Alass. New camel’s hairs show shaded stripes of dull red, green aud brown, or have indistinct figures in Persian coloring. Dressy corsages for very young ladles are now laced or buttoned at the back, the fronts being elaborately trimmed. Gloves of white undressed kid are the correct thing for brides, and they lit smoother over the arm than those of last year. The new turban hats are much modi fied in height, aud are shown iu various styles, with crowns square, round or conical. Airs. Charles Alexander, daughter of the late Air. Charles Crocker, is proba bly the richest woman of her age jp America. Steel blue is a popular shade for cloth costumes. This hue is much grayer, however, than that known by the samp title a year ago. It is said that Airs. Hopkins-Searle has bought fully $2.10,000 worth of paint-, ings in Paris for her mansion at Great BarriDgton, Alass. Airs. Bridget Uooly is probably the oldest woman in America. She was born in Ireland in 1772, and has lived in Wisconsin since 1577. A very chic little toque for winter wear is covered with green cloth, shirred to the frame and embroidered in silk, with a gailand of daisies. New styles and patterns in furniture are very beautiful and exhibit some very quaint conceits likely to please women who boast that they are artistic. Queen Victoria said recently: “Every movement which tends to raise the position of women and extend the sphere of their influence has my warm approval.’” The fan which the Bonapartist ladies gave to Princess Letitia as a wedding gift cost $5500. Of this Detaille, who painted it, received S4OOO, and the jew eller SISOO. A woman has been elected superinten dent of Schools at. St. Johnsbury, Vt. Her name is Miss Belle P. i-mqll, and she is a graduate of the New Hampshire Normal School, of Amherst. The Women’s College, which has been built in North Baltimore at a cost of $120,000, will open next September with one hundred students. There are two buildings lor physical training. A very stylish coat for a miss of four teen or lift 1 en years is m the Directoire styie, of heavy-faced cloth, with a deep, round cape, and with wide, loose culls of velvet, turning up almost to the el bow*. For the comfort of travelers, London has devised bags for soiled lifien, either of canvas with frame top and lock, or else of red sail cloth closed by brass eyelets, through w hich a bar of flexible brass is run, and then" locked to form » handle. « The new tinted metal and solid silver and gold thread and cord embroidery bands that come for the ornamentation of cloth, silk, velvet, and novelty woo. gowns, will convert them into the cheeriest toilets that we have had for many seasons. Large buttons that are works of art. ‘and, of course, very high priced, are one of the features of th 6 new fall go"' 119 - They are put on more for ornament than use on the open front of the jacket bod ices that are sewed on to the back an side breadths of the skirts. A lady who recently visited Mrs. Lll» AVheeler Wilcox says that the poetess is accustomed to plan her bills of faP# week in advance, subject to such change t as unforseen circumstances may cause. Bho does all her marketing, and talce great pride in her household duties.