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TRENTON, GEORGIA.
Electric lighting wires have killed
over 200 persons during the past two
years. .
General Boulanger seems, according to
the Chicago Herald, to have won the
greatest victory ever recorded in politics.
| The United States, with over 00,000,-
000 population, has 5000 students of
theology, while Germany, with 45,000,-
000, has 7000.
The United States Court at Mont
gomery, Ala., holds that cotton-future
contracts are not gambling transactions,
but valid trades.
The mild winter of 1888-9 has not
proved an unalloyed blessing. Eight
6leigh manufacturers in and about New
York State have failed.
In some parts of the West they define
a White Cap as an immoral and good
for-nothing man who takes upon him
self the duty of punishing all other im
moral and good-for-nothing men.
Last year fifteen Chinamen were
married in Queensland —one to a native
of the colony, one to a Victorian native,
two to Scotch womrn, three to Irish
women and eight to English women.
Water competition is felt by European
as well as American railway lines. In
France it is the canals which cut under
the railroad tariffs, and the French lines
are u.ging taxes on the canals to even up
things.
Recent statistics show that the num
ber of colleges and institutions in th(
country is the same as it was ten years
ago, but the number of students has in
creased from 11,101 to 32,310 in the
same period.
Says the New Orleans Times-Democrat:
“In the present state of our coast de
!ences a foreign force would find but
little difficulty in entering any of our
great ports or landing on any eligible
part of our coast.”
The Corcan Kingdom bachelor is nrd
spoken of as a man but a “person.” He
becomes a man only when he marries.
Such a rule in the United States would
, promote marriage, declares the N
York Graphic, failure or no failure.
Philadelphia Inquirer believes that il
the plan of instructing pupils in the af
fairs of the day with the aid of the daily
newspapers were more generally prac
ticed, we should have few’er juvenili
pedagogues and more bright scholars.
A correspondent of the London Times
says that the word “teetotal” had its
origin through a stuttering temperance
orator, who urged on his hearers that
nothing less than “te-te-te-total” absti
nence would satisfy temperance reform
ers. Some one at once adopted “teeto
tal” as a suitable word, and it sprang
into general use.
A singular exhibition has just been
held at Meningen, Germany. It consist
ed of 250 newspapers containing articles
upon the death of the Emperor William
L, representing no fewer than fifty-four
languages, among which, of course, all
the European, with their dialects, were
represented; wlile Bengali, Hindi, Guz
zurati, Chinese, Japanese and Hawaiian
may also be found.
An old fellow in a YVisconsin town
who has been running a private bank for
some years was recently requested to
publish some sort of a statement. So
he posted the following on the door of
his bank; “Notice—This ’ere bank has
got $50,000 behind her. She don’t owe
nobody a red cent. Good paper dis
counted as heretofore, and nobody pro
poses to cut sticks for Mexico or Cana
da.” There was no run on that bank.
According to the report of Adjutant-
Generai Drum the organized militia
force of the United States consists of
106,500 men, of whom 8397 are commis
sioned officers. But back of this force
stands, 104,028 available men subject to
organization in case of war. This
showing, the New York World thinks,
ought to cause foreign nations to think
twice before knocking the chip off our
broad shoulder.
There will be an important congress of
the Scotch-Irish race in Columbia, Tenn.,
on the Bth of next May. Distinguished
orators and scholars of that race will
read papers commemorating the deeds of
the Scotch-Irish. Columbia was chosen
is the place of meeting because it is cen
tral in location, and was the home of
two famous Scotch-Irishmen, Andrew
Jackson and James K. Polk. The date
shosen is the most delightful season of
the year in that latitude, and every
tffort will be made to insure the comfort
tad promote the pleasure of those who
itteud. The congress will be a revela
t;on to many people, in that it will show
liow numerous and influential the Scotch*
Irish in this country are.
THE DRUM.
Oh, the drum!
There is some
Intonation in thy grum
Monotony of utterance that strikes the spirit
dumb,
As we hear
Through the clear
And unclouded atmosphere,
Thy palpitating syllables roll in upon the ear!
There’s a part
Of the art
Of thy music-throbbing heart,
That thrills a something in us that awakeDS
with a start,
And in rhyme
With the chime
And exactitude of time,
Goes marching on to glory of the melody
sublime.
And the guest
Of the breast
That thy rolling robs of rest
Is a patriotic spirit as a Continental dressed;
And he looms
From the glooms
Of a century of tombs,
And the blood ho spilled at Lexington in liv
ing beauty blooms.
And his eyes
Wear the guise
Of a purpose pure and wise;
As the love of them is lifted to a something
in the skies,
That is bright
Red and white,
With a blur of starry light,
As it laughs in silken rippies to the breezes
day and night.
There are deep
Hushes creep
O’er the pulses as they leap,
And the murmur, fainter growing, on the
silence falls asleep,
While the prayer
Rising there
Wills the sea and earth and air
As a heritage to freedom’s sons and daugh
ters everywhere.
Then, with sound
As profound
As the thunderings resound,
Come thy wild reverberations in a throe that
shakes the ground,
And a cry
Flung on high,
Like the flag it flutters by,
Wings rapturously upward till it nestles in
the sky.
Oh, the drum!
There is some
Intonation in thy grum
Monotony of utterance that strikes the
spirit dumb.
As we hear
Through the clear
And unclouded atmosphere
Thy palpitating syllables roll in upon the
. ear!
—James Whitcomb Riley.
CATCHING A GORILLA.
I have seen nearly every one of thm
gorillas on exhibition in the zoological
gardens of the world, and in only
instance have I found an animal in any
way up to the standard of the beast as
found in the African jungles. That
fellow I helped to capture while in the
employ of the Hamburg house, and the
Sultan of Turkey paid a fabulous price
for him.
If Du Chaillu exaggerated at all in his
stories of the gorilla country, it was in
the number of animals he killed. No
writer can exaggerate the temper and
fierceness of the dangerous beast. Men
who have encountered him in his wild
and savage state have lived to tell of it
more by good luck or accident than by
nerve and judgment. This is so because
the beast is never met with except by ac
cident. You can hunt for lions, tigers,
and elephants and find them, but the
gorilla always finds the hunter.
We were about seventy miles inland
from the coast, on the Lutigi Hiver,
where we had a permanent camp, when
I received w r ord that a lull-grown speci
men of the gorilla family was wanted,
and was authorized to spend three
months’ time and employ a thousand
natives, if necessary to secure one. We
had been in camp ten weeks, capturing
serpents and a variety of animals, and
only once had s’jgns of the presence of
a gorilla been detected. Two miles to
the north of us there was a heavy jungle,
and if there were any gorillas in the
neighborhood they were hidden away
there. Ugly as he is, the beast hasn’t
the nerve to •tack a camp or a large
body of men. One had come down with
in half a mile of us, probably at night,
and had stood beside a lone tree and
had broken off branches and then broken
the branches into fragments to show his
temper and courage, but we neither saw
nor heard him.
When I found what was wanted, I
called some of the oldest and w isest na
tives to counsel, but none of them had
ever heard of a full-grown gorilla being
captured alive, and none could suggest
what steps to take. Therefore, to make
a beginning, I sent out several parties to
scout, and on the second day one of these
located three of the beasts, father,
mother and a baby gorilla, in a thicket i
about five miles away. It was a piece of
rocky ground covered with a dense
growth, and lrotn a hiding place the men
had seen the gorillas enter the thicket j
by a path. The el phant and bullalo
and the various species of deer are al
ways on the move, and have no fixed
place for even a day. Lions, tigers,
serpents, gorillas, leopards, cougars,
panthers and bears will make one par
ticular spot at home until the presence of
danger or the absence of water or food
forces them away. The gorillas seen by
the black scouts would not run away
until disturbed, and I gave orders that
no one should go in that direction with
out my permission. I could think of
only one way to effect a capture: by
setting one of our largest traps. We
had them stout enough to hold a lion, or
bear, and one of them had once held a
buffalo all day long.
The strength of a full-grown male
gorilla is something wonderful. One
swipe of his open hand will knock an ox
down. He can bend a gun barrel double
with his hands alone. He lias as much
power in his aws as a lion. I was, un
fortunately an eyewitness to some feats
of strength which lost me several valua
ble men. We were in no hurry after
locating the animals. I sent out other
men to watch, and after three or four
days it was found that the thicket had
several paths by which the gorrillas left
and returned. It got sight of them my
self, and I found the male to stand
about five feet eight inches high when
erect. He was terribly broad and heavy,
had muscles like whip cords, and I saw
that he had the strength of any four of
us. In about a week we found that one
path led to a spring where the beasts
quenched their thirst, and another to
several trees loaded with a peculiar sort
of pea or bean enclosed in pods, of which
the gorillas seemed very fond. It
was while they were eating this
fruit that I saw them, the little fellow
was just learning to go alone, and the
mother carried him much of the time.
The old tellow maintained a pretty sharp
watch, though he did not appear to be
particularly suspicious, and now and
then he unbended his dignity and played
with the little one in a manner to make
us laugh.
About twenty days from the time we
located the gorillas we set our traps, one
on cacti path. The one on the path lead
ing to the spring was within thirty feet
of the water and carefully concealed just
below the surface. The beasts, as near
as our scouts could determine, visited
the spring only every other day, and it
was on the off day we set that trap.
There were seven of us, I being the only
white man, and as we returned to camp
we took a different route from the one
we had come. It was a very hot day,
and when half way back we stopped to
rest. It was in a beautiful grove, pretty
clear from underbrush, and most of the
natives at once fell asleep, as is their
custom when making a halt, even if only
for ten minutes. Only one of them, so
far as I saw, was awake when I rose up
and walked away about a hundred feet
to examine a curious excrescence on the
side of a tree. From where I stood I
thought I could distinguish the figures
“58” standing out on the tree, but when
I reached it I found only a wart or knot.
This tree was to the right of the party,
and as I started for it one of the natives
sleepily cautioned me not to go too far
alone. I was standing beside the tree,
lopking upward and around, when I
heard a shout of alarm, followed almost
instantly by a shriek of pain and terror.
I saw the men spring up, each uttering
a yell, and then came the sounds of
blows and screams and the angry and de
fiant roar of a gorilla. It was all over in
a minute, and before I had time to ap
preciate the situation two of the natives
came running toward me, half dead with
fright, and 1 heard another roar and saw
a dark object moving swiftly away.
As well as could be ascertained a big
gorilla had been passing through the
grove, and he had stumbled upon the
men just as the one who had spoken to
me rose up. This action was sufficient
to arouse the ire of the beast, and he had
seized the native and fiung him ten feet
away. The second one received a blow
which knocked him fiat, and the gorilla
then let himself out to kill. The other
four mon were dead when we approached.
One had his neck broken, a second had
half his face torn off and his breast
crushed in, and the other two hud their
skulls crushedas if by blows from'the
hand. My the muskets of the
had notbeen meddled with.
> The two natives who escaped were lit
; betG”than jabbering idiots for the
and it was only after our re-
tk&t I learned all the par-
Mfc'&rs It aM/appened in fifty or sixty
and the attack had come so
suWbnly that no one thought of de
fence. The adventure so rattled the
camp that I had great difficulty next day
in persuading any one to accompany me
to the trap. I got five men at last, by
arguments and threats, but when we
came to examine the path we lound that
the beasts had not traveled it. They
had either decided to skip a day, not be
ing thirsty, or else had suspected some
thing and avoided the path. On the
next day, however, the natives having
meantime recovered their pluck to some
extent, a party of ten of us set out, and
when within a mile of the spring we
had reasons to believe that one of them
had put a foot in the trap. Yells, roars,
and screams reached our ears, and at the
distance of half a mile several small »nw
mals passed us in affright.
“We have got the big fellow!” whis
pered my head hunter to me as we pressed
forward. “We must be careful now, for
the sight of us will make him strong to
break away, and he will want all our
lives to pay for the insult.”
The pow-wow grew louder as we
neared the spot, and the cries and wails
of the mother and offspring mipgled
with the snarls, growls, barks and (oars
of the father. When we finally ijrept
forward to a spot whence we could ob
tain a view, we found the “old man”
fast in the trap by the right hind leg.
The trap was a toothless one, witl the
faces of the jaws covered with feltj but
it was strong enough almost to hold an
elephant. We had to bend dowa the
springs with levers, and'it was a good
weight for two men to carry. The chain
attached could not have been broken by
a horse, and we had securely fastened it
to a tree. It was well we had, apd it
was well that the beast had been caught
by a hind leg.
I do not th nk he had been in thedrap
long when we first heard him, peohaps
not over five minutes. He was, doubt
less surprised and frightened for a lime,
but by tfie time we had reached a point
where we could see him his terrible
anger was fully aroused. His mats and
offspring stood by, wailing and g owl
ing, and just as we got settled it our
places the female lifted up the trap and
w’renched at it with all her streigth.
Then both seized the chain and tujged
and pulled and growled and roared but
it was no use. What I feared wart that
the old fellow might gnaw his leg of, as
coons cr muskrats or beavers wi 1 do
when trapped, but he showed no i ten
tion of the sort. Indeed, it would lave
resulted in his death, and he doul dess
so figured. For a long hour he re; lsed
to give in, biting, leaping and tug; ing,
and another such picture of fer city
would be hard to find. He frothfl at
the mouth, exhibited his great fnigs,
and his eyes glittered like diamond. I
should have been willing for the Mate
and her little one to go, but as the re
fused to leave the spot, and as the
natives said that the mother wouh not
hesitate to attack us in her exciter ent,
I pushed forward my rifle and gaveher a
bullet, which dropped her dead if her
tracks. The young one immedhtely
sprang to the father’s shoulder, an 3 was
sitting there when we advanced.
The resemblance of the big gorila to
a native was so striking that I paused to
wonder if a mistake had not been made.
W T hen he saw us he stood upright, arms
hanging down by his sides, and he
looked far more like a human being
than some of the natives in my camp.
He was so mad that he did not know
what move to make first, and as he stood
there clots cf foam fell upon his breast
and down to the earth. By and by he
seized the young one and fiung it aw ay.
Half a dozen of the men rushed to seize
it, and as it scrambled back one of the
natives pursued it too far. The gorilla
uttered a terrible roar, made a savage
spring, and the native was caught by
the hair. I was not over twenty feet
away, and I saw all that happened. He
was flung down, and the gorilla stooped
and gave him a blow on the chest which
crushed it in. He then hit him right
and left on the sides of the head, and th<
man was dead. This did not satisfy the
monster. He lifted the body up and
literally tore it to pieces, pulling off the
arms as you would pull a stick of kind
ling wood out of a bundle. It ther
seized the young one by a hind leg, and
slammed it on the earth and flung the
body away, and then beat its breast and
roared defiance at us.
By the advice of the natives I decided
to let the old fellow alone for a while and
allow hunger and thirst to work on his
temper. We made a temporary camp
half a mile away, and did not go neai
him again for two days. During the
first day he roared at intervals, but on
the afternoon of the second he was very
quiet. One of the men went to take a
look at him, and reported the captive as
sitting down on the trap and crying
with pain. Next forenoon we went out
with nets, ropes, nooses, and chains, and,
after a long, hard fight, tangled him up
and secured him. When we sprang the
trap off his leg we had his hind feet
shackled together, his fore feet, or arms,
secured with a chain, two ropes around
his body, and a muzzle over his jaws.
We then bound him to a litter and car
ried him to the main camp, where a cage
had been made. His leg was badly
swollen and he was pretty well beaten
out, but three days after we got him in
to the cage he was all right and as mad
as ever. I sent him down the river and
arouud to Zanzibar, and after months he
brought up in Constantinople, so fero
cious and dangerous that the utmost
precaution had to be taken by those
who came near him. He was living
during the Russo-Turkish war, and one
who saw him informed me that there
was no hope of sweetening his temper oi
subduing his ferocity. —-New York. Sun.
Future Land Battles.
Speculating as to what the future land
battle will be like, Lord Wolselev says:
“The battles of the future will be very
different from even those of 1870, and
will bear very little resemblance to those
of Crimean times. One remarkable
change will be the absence of nearly all
that terrific noise which the discharge of
five or six hundred field guns and the roar
of musketry have caused in all great
battles. We shall have, practically, no
smoke to mark the position of the
enemy’s batteries and troops in action.
The sound of cannon will be slight, and
will no longer indicate to distant troops
where their comrades are engaged and
the point upon which they should con
sequently march. Our sentries and ad
vanced posts can no longer alarm the
main body upon the approach of the
enemy by the discharge of their rifles.
The camp or bivouac will no longer be
disturbed at night by the spluttering fire
of pickets in contact with the enemy.
Different arrangements for giving the
alarm upon the approach of hostile
columns will have to be resorted to. The
main column on the march cannot in
future be warned by the shots of flank
ing parties, of the enemy’s proximity,
and a battle might possibly be raging
within a few miles of it, without that
fact becoming at once apparent.”
It can hardly be exaggeration to as
sert that the invention of a noiseless and
smokeless powder will change the aspect
of future battlefields and the conditions
of future war, fully as much as the
original introduction of the “villainous
saltpetre” changed the warfare of a past
age. Times-Democrat,
Living Cheerfully on Two Cents a Day.
Dr. T. R. Allison has been trying the
experiment of living on meal and watet
for a month. His daily allowance was
one pound of whole meal, made into a
cake with distilled water. His account
of his condition after a week is cheering.
In the first few days he felt hungry, but
about the fourth day this disappeared
and he had no craving for other food.
His brain was clear, his luDg capacity
had increased five inches, and both his
sight and heaiing had improved. He
had lost seven pounds weight, but seems
to regard this as rather an advantage.
Altogether he feels thoroughly satisfied
with his experiment. It is a very pcoq
omipal one, the wheat for sevpn days bav
ing cost only sixteen cents. This, he
says, is living on almost two cents a day,
and enjoying it. London Hospital.
An Army in Miniature.
A gentleman by the name of Lawrence,
living at West Salem, 111., has produced
a remarkable piece of mechanism. II
represents an army, and consists of 400
pieces. Horses, men. cannon, cavalry,
artillesy, infantry, and a band of fifty
two men, each holding an instrument,
are represented in this wonderful mechan
ism. Many of the figures move auto
matically, the power being obtained
from a miniature windmill, propelled by
the heat of candles. Galileo’s cowled
monk was not more strange in structure.
Most of the work, strange to say, was
done with a pocket knife, and although
Mr. Lawrence exercised his ingenuity for
a year in the construction of the marvel
ous mechanism, yet he disposed of it for
a mere nominal sum. —lndianapolis Jour
nal.
A Perfect Model of African Beauty.
Paradoxical as it may seem, writes tht
veracious Joe Howard, the prettiest
model in New Y’ork is a colored girl who
lives in Y'oukers. She is a perfect type
of Africa's golden sand, with a low
forehead, jet black eyes, extended nos
trils, thick lips, while teeth, but for all
that, the most attractive in appearance,
with a figure that is statuesquely superb.
She stands straight as an arrow, h
twenty years old, weighs 135 pounds,
aud is as full of life and blood as it ii
possible for human nature to be. During
the months of October, November and
thence on to May, she readily makei
from $5 to $lO a day five days in thi
week.
THE CITY OF THE SULTAN.
CONSTANTINOPLE AND IT3 VAR
IED POPULATION.
The People of Three Continents and
Many Costumes Form Its Daily
Crowds—Scenes in the Bazaars.
Constantinople is a city of strange and
itartling contrasts. From the water the
eye is delighted with its many and varied
attractions. Marble palaces, tall towers,
beautiful gardens, and magnificent
mosques meet the ga/.e in every direc
tion. The city, which appears so attrac
tive from the water, loses its gay and
smiling aspect when you enter it. You
land, perhaps, in a fish market, where
there is nothing to please the eye and
everything to offend the nose. Fscap ng
from this you turn into a graveyard, de
scend a few broken steps, and you find
yourself in a public square crowded with
people, representing every nation of the
Fast, and all busy, some changing
money, others selling fruit, some mend
ing shoes, all cheating if they can.
Constantinople combines in its varied
population the people on three con
tinents—Europe, Asia and Africa —the
Orient, with all its mystery and magnifi
cence, the West with all its dash and
energy, Africa, with all its fervor and
fanaticism. You can light your cigar in
Europe and shake off the ashes in Asia.
The bridge of the Sultan Valide (Sultan
Mother) connects Stamboul with Galata
and Pera, the Turkish with the Euro
pean quarter —the civilization of the
West with the barbarism of the East—
in a word, progress with stagnation, the
nineteenth century with the Middle Ages.
Standing upon this bridge any fair day,
a moving panorama is presented, such
as can be seen in no other city under the
sun. Feople of every nation and every
condition and occupation pass by., Turks,
Greeks, Cossacks, Moors, Jews, Egyp
tians, French dandies, and half-nude
Africans, Caucasian beauty and Hotten
tot deformity, friars, priests, dervishes,
all people, all colors, and all costumes,
from that of Adam to the last Parisian
fashion.
Constantinople is the most cosmopoli
tan city in the world. You can be shaved
by an Armenian barber, have your shoes
blacked by a Hebrew boy, be bathed by
a Nubian, be rode through the Golden
Horn by a Turkish boatman, buy fruit
from a Syrian, pillau from a Greek, sail
up the Bosphorus in a steamer com
manded by a Dalmatian, be driven by an
Italian coachman,have your pulse felt by
an English physician,whose prescription
will be prepared by a French druggist,
and have your teeth tilled by an Ameri
can dentist.
The Turks are tlie laziest people under
the sun, and by long experience have be
come perfect masters of the art of killing
time. With them the highest earthly
bliss is an absolute stagnation of mind
and body. They eat live meals a day,
sleep ten hours, and smoke everlastingly.
The use of wine is forbidden by the
Koran, but many of them drink secretly,
get crazy drunk, beat their wives,smash
the windows, and bieak up things gen
erally, just as men do in more Christian
countries. The Turks eat with their
fingers, for the Koran forbids'the use of
knives and forks. Coffee is a universal
drink,and is ground fresh every time, the
tnilk and sugar being boiled with the cof
fee. It is served in tiny china cups of
quaint shape and workmanship.
The grand bazaars of Constantinople
are full of interest, and give the visitor
a better idea of Oriental life .than any
thing else in the city. As you approach
this region of Eastern traihe you are as
sailed in all the languages of the Orient.
What a rich and dazzling array of goods
fills the eye in this bazaar! Carpets
from IVrsia, shawls from India, silks
from Broussa, brocades from Bagdad,
scarfs of blue and gold, so transparent
and light that they have been compared
to sunset clouds; table-covers embro d
ered with arabesque, golden veils woven
with silver threads, robes of crimson
velvet bordered with ermino and
sprinkled all over with golden stars;
mantles of green, orange, and purple,
bridal veils sparkling with silver span
gles, and the satin girdle worn by the
Turkish lady on which no eye save that
of her husband ever falls. But it is the
jewelers’ baazar that realizes our ideas
of Oriental magnificence. There is a
Brazilian topa/. that would have de
lighted Madame Bonaparte; a diamond
from Golconda worthy to adorn the
necklace of an Empress; a turquois from
Macedonia that might have fallen from
the scimiter of a Sultan; here are piles of
necklaces of opal and pearl; rubies of
priceless value and gems of every kind
known to the lapidary.
The Turks are the most stupid people
in the world. They make no changes;
as their fathers lived so theylivo; what
was good enough for their ancestors is
good enough for them. A tire often
benefits an American city, changing it
as Augustus changed Borne, from brick
to marble; but a tire in Constantinople
destroys houses which are not reouilt,
for the Tqrks, being believe
that what it pleases Allah to destroy the
hand of man must not rebuild.
When we remember that the Turks
conquered the fairest portions of Asia
and Africa, and were the terror of Eu
rope for more than a thousand years, we
are astonished at their present supine
and demoralized condition. The proud
Empire of the Moslems, after a long de
cline, seems about to fall During the
last hundred years Turkey has seen her
finest possessions stripped from her with
out power to prevent it—the Crimea,
Greece, Egypt, Bulgaria, Servia and
Roumama. The Turks cannot but feel
and lament their decadence, but they
calmly and proudly submit to their fate,
believing that whatever it is, is right,
that everything comes from God, that
all things are foreordained, and the in
svitable cannot be changed or stopped.
Ghaulauquan.
The Mind Cure in Agriculture.
Dr. Rice, who believes in the mind
jure, is trying a queer experiment.
Some weeks ago he planted a lot of
wheat in two different boxes. Exactly
the same soil was used in the boxes, and
they have been watered exactly alike
since. On one of the boxes I)r. Rice
threw his mind favorably; on the other
unfavorably. The wheat in one of the
boxes shows a much more vigorous
growth than the wheat in the other; we
know that- —Atchuon {Kan.) Globe.
The position of naval attache in the
continental cities is to be given up in
England.
NEWS AND NOTES FOR WOMEN.
Blue is the fashionable color of the
(lour.
Marten and mink furs are again in
fashion.
White and silver is a favorite com
bination.
The Empress of Austria is attended by
i woman physician.
The State University of Oregon has
150 women students.
Gray and purple are again worn as
half-mourning colors.
Rough wooiens are the fancy of the
hour with Parisiennes.
Bonnets are now worn by the squaws
of the Cheyenne tribe.
The shortest veil now admissible com
pletely covers the face.
In Paris Japanese crape is the favorite
new stuff for tea gowns.
Two ladies have been elected bank
directors in Atlanta, Ga.
Ribbon striped nets and gauzes are
again ou the'dry goods counters.
Solid twilled serges, soft and fine, will
be long favorites for spring gowns.
It is no uncommon thing to see ladies
smoking in the restaurants of Italy.
The Czarina of Russia prefers English
books to those of any other language.
The most ornamental new hat pin is a
moss-rose of enamel in natural colors.
Double-breasted vests of manilla linen
are among the threats of next summer.
The second patent issued to a woman
was to Mary Brush in 1815 for a corset..
The Empress Victoria, wife of Williamt
11., ignores the use of powder and make
up.
The handsomest new spring mufflers;
are in combinations of black and steeL
gray.
Miss Amelia B. Edwards, the author,,
has traveled over pretty much all of tho
globe.
White astrakhan is the favorite fur’
for long dressy evening and carriage
wraps.
Thick repped ribbon is used for the 1
sashes of black Henrietta accordion;
gowns.
Dr. McCosh, of Princeton College,
says that the best novels are written by
women.
For many years only lady teachers
have been employed in the schools in
Macon, Ga.
Mrs. James T. Fields, widow of the
well-known Boston publisher, is a
Spiritualist.
Mrs. Otis M. Downing, of Mattapo
isett, Mass., asserts that she made 799
pies last year. v
A new teature of dressy short wraps
is the full veivet sleeve gathered to s
deep fur cuff.
Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe is said to
be in better healtn now thau she has
been for years.
Ribbon stripod woolen dress stuffs foi
spring are seen in the saifiple books ol
leading houses.
A few muffs of velvet or dress mate
rial have a broad baud of duck’s breast
down the middle.
Velvet with bengaline or else brocade
and fur is the favorite stuff for visitiug
toilets this winter.
For an all-around serviceable full
dress gown nothing approaches a good
black real lace one.
White violets are the favored flowci
just now with ladies who are laying
aside mourning dresses.
A foreign fancy of the minute is to
turn under the hand of the long glove,
leaving the fingers bare.
The Sara Crewe frock is as fashion
able for little girls as the little Lord
Fauntleroy suit is for boys.
There is a movement of adhesion
among brunettes to the Mexican gold
combs just now brought out.
There are about 210 recently graduated
English ladies who are entitled to writ!
the letters B. A. after their names.
The Duchess of Marlborough, it is
laid, has developed a passion for orchids
even greater than that of her husband. 1
The aspirations of women for a share
in government have been gratified in
England as conspicuously as in America.
A very pleasant and “genteel” way of
making pin money has been found in
the new feminine fad for wood carving.
A cynic declares that Sarah Bernhardt's
best hold on fame will be her introduc
tion of the thirty-two-button kin glove.
The late Mrs. Jay Gould brought her
husband a fortune of £'. 0,000. She left
in her own right property worth £l,-
500,000.
Great Britain has 152 women who are
Masters and Bachelors of Arts and 21
who are Doctors and Bachelors o)
Science.
The Princess of Wales rarely pays over
six dollars for a bonnet. Gne of he»
housemaids would not dare to be sc
economical.
The Comtessc de Pari9 is said by t
London society paper to drive about in
the neighborhood of her English horns
smoking a short clay pipe.
A Kentucky woman has invented a
chewing-gum “quid holder,” to “keep it
moist anil ready for use” when the gum
is not in process of mastication.
Gray hair for women is becoming such
a rage in Paris that locks which until
lately would have been dyed a golden
brown are now bleached white.
A London fashion journal says thal
there is in New York a fashionable board
ing school where young women are
taught to enter and get out of a carriage.
Many of the fashionablo women ol
Paris are wearing huge hats ot white
kill on which are black feathers in reck
less profusion. The effect is startling.
New Y"ork has a restaurant that son
of reverses things. An establishment
fronting Central Park has a sign:
“Ladies’ Restaurant; Reserved Seats for
Gentlemen.”
It is now the “proper caper” in New
York to drive small mules instead of
carriage horses. The society people who
indulge in this fad think that it is in
tensely Southern.
A woman has designed a fan which
ought to be popular with masqueraders.
A mask is folded in the upper part; n
powder pouch hangs under a rosette on
one of the outside sticks, within which
is a case for scissors, pen .il and button
hook. It costs S3O.