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Me trail Times. 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.