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Mr. Keith has contracted with the
Costa Rican Government for the con¬
struction of a suspension bridge over
the Reventazon River. As security Mr.
Keith receives a concession of 800,000
acres of national territory.
Professor P. H. Carpenter, the aeep
eea student, like Ilugn Miller, the geol¬
ogist, has taken his own life after a
period of madness. What is there in
the pursuit of science that drives some
of its greatest votaries to insanity and
suicide.
■ In a letter written shortly before his
death Historian James Parton illustrated
his views on the financial side of author¬
ship by saying: “An industrious writer,
by the legitimate exercise of his calling—
that is, never writing advertisements or
trash for the sake of pay—can just exist,
no more. By a compromise, not dis
honorable, although exasperating, he
can average during his best years $7000
to $8000 a year. But no man should
enter the literary life unless he has a
fortune or can live contentedly on $2000
a year. The best way is to make a
fortune first and write afterward.”
It seems likely, notes the Chicago
Herald, that electricity is to be called
in to explain many of the celestial
phenomena which have hitherto been
ascribed to other agencies. That won¬
derful yet beautifully simple instrument,
the spectroscope, which has revealed tc
us so much of the cosmos, still seems tc
be baffled in some directions where
difficulty would scarcely be anticipated.
Strangely enough, the phenomena which
It fails to satisfactorily explain ^are
either such as are known to be electrical
in character or are at least strongly sus¬
pected of so being. From this and
other facts, Stas has been led to suspecl
that the ordinary interpretation 'of the
spectroscope are not to be relied on
when it is applied to electrical phe¬
nomena.
y G. W. Childs, in the Philadelphia
ledger, is authority for the statement
that American gardeners are now pro¬
ducing as fine chrysanthemums as those
of Japan, which, thinks the New York
Post, will scarcely be credited by Sir
Edwin Arnold, who has sojourned so
long in that country and expatiated on
its floral beauties. Probably the finest
specimen of this flower to be found in
America to-day is a product of the slip
sent from Japan to Mrs. Alpheus Hardy
of Boston, and named after that lady.
The wonder is that Americans should ex¬
cel in the cultivation of this flower after
a comparatively few years of familiarity
with it. The chrysanthemum did not
become generally known here until 1862,
when a number of varieties -were intro¬
duced from Japan. We have now up¬
ward of 2000 of them. They have al¬
most supplanted the rose in the favor of
rich and poor alike.
The Breeders' Gazette says it recently
visited the Union Stock Yards at Chi
cago, in company with a gentleman from
England who is carefully studying
American agriculture. His exclamations
were not called forth by the magnitude
of the yards and the multitude of animals
gathered there, but to the ill fattened oi
immature condition of nearly all the
cattle in the pens. “We tried” con¬
tinued the Gazette, “to interest him bj
calling attention to the characteristics of
lots from widely different sections of the
country, but the diversion was but brief,
and he always came back to the same
point of wonderment. ‘Why do you
Americans send such ill fatted beasts as
these to market when there are great
maize fields on every hand?’ We offered
as excuse overproduction, the partial
failure of the last corn crop, and that
growers were discouraged, but failed to
quiet his mind. The well matured
animals—only a handful in number—
were bringing from $5.50 to $6.20 per
hundred pounds, while myriads, seem¬
ingly, ranged down, down, down,
reaching $1.50 per hundred pounds.
Our English friend left shaking his head,
puzzled that America should have
maize fields of almost unlimited area,
with scarcely a well fattened animal in
the Chicaoro stock varda.”
REV. DR. TALIAGE
THE BROOKLYN DIVINE'S SUN¬
DAY SERMON.
*'XUoJLord’s Mercies.”
Text: “Beasts, and all cattle; creeuftio
and things maidens: and flying fowl; both young men
old men and children; let
them praise the name of the Lord."— Psalm
cxlviil., 10, 12 and 13.
thiHation » ohmt
Ood. But the day was too short to celebrate
the divine goodness of such a year. The sun
did not rise over Brooklyn until one minute
before seven o’clock that morning, and it set
four o’clock and thirty-five minutes that
which evening. What a small space of time in
to meditate upou twelve months of
benefactions. So 1 add to that day this
Sabbath morning service, and with the fruits
and harvests of the earth still glorifvin* the
pulpit and the galleries, ask you to continue
the rehearsal of the divine goodness.
By a sublime egotism man has come to ap
fact propriate that this world to himself, when the
is our race is in a small minority,
The instances of human life, as compared
with the instances of animal life, are not
one to » million. We shall enlarge our ideas
of God’s goodness and come to a better un
derstanding pf the text if, before we come
to look at the cup of our blessing, wo look
orentine’ 0C> ^ neSS to irrational
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SJSt in ita ,!““n urpri ^ t0 flnd th ?
rrmttinn 1111 V n^°a n a p! J^m U mT aeS r day ^ ° f when t i! l . la the air
and th«mM B
s nest, beartless^schoolboy or a hunter has broken has a robbed bird s
wing, or a pasture has been robbed of a
lamb and there goes up a bleating s from the
flocks.
The whole earth is filled with animal de¬
light—joy and hoofed. feathered and scaled and horned
The bee hums it; the frog
croaks it; the squirrel chatters it; the quail
whistles it; the lark carols it; the whale
spouts it. The snail, the rhinoceros, the
grizzly the shellfish bear, the toad, the wasp, the spider,
have their homely delights—joy
as great to them as our joy is to us. Goat
climbing through the rocks; anaconda crawling
the jungie, buffalo plunging across
the prairie; crocodile baskingin tropical sun;
seal puffing on the ice; ostrich striding across
the desert are so many bundles of joy- they
do not go moping or melancholy; they are
not only half supplied; God says they are
filled with good.
The worm squirming through the sod up¬
turned of plowshare, and the ants racking
up and down the hillock are happy by day
and happy by night. Take up a drop of
water under the microscope and you find
that within it there are millions of creatures
that swim in a hallelujah of glad¬
ness. The sounds in nature that are re¬
pulsive to oilr ears are often only utterances
of joy—-the growl, the croak, the bark, the
bowl. The good God made these creatures,
thinks of them ever, and will not let a plow¬
share turn up a mole’s nest, or flsUer
man’ shook transfix a worm, until by
eternal decree, its time has come. God’s
hand feeds all these broods, and shep¬
herds all these flocks, aud tends all
these herds. He sweetens the clover top
for the ox’s taste, and pours out crys¬
talline waters in mossed cup* of rock
for the hind to drink out of on his way down
the crags, and pours nectar into the cup of
the honeysuckle to refresh the humming
bird, fields and spreads a banquet of a hundred
of buckwheat, and lets the honey bee
put his mouth to any cup of all the banquet,
and tells the grasshopper to go anywhere ho
likes, and gives the flocks of heaven the
choice of all the grain fields. The sea - ane¬
mone, half animal, half flower, clinging to
the rock in midocean, with its tentacles
spread universe to catch its food, has the owner of the
to provide for it. We are repulsed
at the hideousness of the elephant, but God,
for the comfort and convenience ot the mon
ster, his proboscis. puts forty thousand distinct muscles in
I go down on the barren seashore and say,
“No animal can live in this place of desola¬
tion;’ little but all through the sands are myraids
of insects that leap with happy life. I
go down by the marsh and say, “In this
damp place and in these loathsome pools of
stagnant water there will be the quietness of
log death;” but,lo! I see the turtles on the rotten
quake sunning themselves and hear the bogs
with multitudinous life. When the
unfledged robins are hungry God shows the
old robin where she can get food to put into
their open mouths.
Winter is not allowed to come until the
ants have granaried their harvest and the
squirrels God have filled their cellar with nuts.
shows the hungry ichneumon where it
may find the crocodile’s eggs; and in arctic
climes there are animals that God so lav¬
ishly clothes that they can afford to walk
through snowstorms in the finest sable and
ermine and chinchilla, and no sooner is one
set of furs worn out than God gives them a
new one. H« helps ttie spider in its archi¬
tecture of its gossamer bridge, and takes
care of the color of the butterfly’s wing,
and tinges the cochineal, and helps the
moth out of the
animal creation also have its army
and navy. The most insignificant has its
means of defense, the wasp its sting, the
reptile its its tooth, the bear its paw, the dog
its scale, muzzle, the elephant its tusks, the fish
the bird its swift wing, the rein¬
deer its antlers, the roe its fleet foot. We
are tusk repelled at the thought of sting and
and hoof, but God’s goodness pro*
vides them for the defense of the animal’s
rights. Yea, God Bible His
in the announces care
for these orders of creation. He says that
He has heaved up fortifications for their
defense—Psalm civ., 18, “The high hills as
a refuge for the wild goats; and the rocks
for the conies.” He watches the bird’s
nest—Psalm civ., 17, “As for the stork, the
fir trees are her house.” He sees that the
cattle “He causeth have enough grass—Psalm civ., for the 14,
the grass to grow
cattle.” He sees to it that the cows and
sheep and horses have enough to drink—
Psalm civ., 10, 11. “He sendeth the springs
into the valleys, which run among the
hills; they give drink to every beast of the
field. The wild asses quench their thirst.”
Amid the thunders of Sinai God uttered
the rights of cattle and said that they should
have a Sabbath. “Thou shalt not do any
work, thou nor thy cattle.” He declared
with infinite emphasis that the ox on the
thrashing floor should have the privilege of
eating some of the grain as he trod it out,
and muzzling was forbidden. If young
birds were taken from the nest for food, the
despoiler’s life depended on the mother
going free. God would not let the mother
bird suffer in one acv the loss of her young
and in olden her own time liberty." conduct And He of whoregardea toward
the man
the brutes to-day looks down from heaven
and is interested in every minnow that
swims the stream, and every rook that
cleaves the air, and every herd that bleats
or neighs did or lows God in the pasture. all these, and why
make Why them happy? make How account for all
so
Uhls singing and dancing and frisking amid
the irrational creation? Why this heaven for
the animalcule iu a dewdrop? Why Why for the the
condor a throne on Chimborazo?
glitter of the phosphorus m the ship’s wake
on the sea, which is said to be only the frolic
of millions of insects? Why the perpetual the
chanting of so many voices from irra¬
tional creation in earth anrl air and ocean
beasts and all cattle, creeping things and fly¬
ing fowl, permitted to join in the praise that
goes up from seraph and archangel? Only
one Ood solution, one ‘-The explanation, is full one of the answer— good
°f 18 good. Lord earth
ness “* e
1 t»ke a step higher, and notice the adap
tation of the world to the comfort and hap
™ *
Leviathan ruled the deep; the eagle the air,
the hoa the ? eld - was \ b0
which created. should , rule all? and A new style of being
was Heaven earth were re
presented m his nature. His body from the
eflrtb beneath; his soul from the heaven
above - 1 he one reminding him of his origin,
the other speaking of his destiny—himself
the connecting link between the animal crea
tion and an £ elic intelligence. In him a
strange commingling of the temporal and
eternal, ttje finite and the infinite, dust and
8 lor y* Tfie earth for his floor and heaver
for his roof; God for his Father; eternity
for his lifetime.
The Christian anatomist, gazing upon the
confirmation of the human body, exclaims,
“Fearfully and wonderfully made.” No
embroidery color so elaborate, no gauzo so deli
cate, no handiwork so exquisite, divine. no mecbanis quietly u so
graceful, no so So
and form mysteriously does the human body per
its functions that it was not until five
thousand years after the creation of the race
that the circulation of the blood was discov
ered, and (hough anatomists of all countries
and ages have been so long exploring this
jar ti ' ey oa ‘ 7 tosu “ •» “■
Volumes have been written of the hand,
Wondrous instrument! With it we give
x- Mea-Ity r recognition, the and grasp the sword, ,
and climb rocks, and write and carve
and build. Parthenon. It constructed It the made pyramids and
hoisted the the harp,
and then struck out of it all the world’s
minstrelsy. In it the white marble of Pen
teiican mines dreamed itself away into im¬
mortal sculpture. It reins in its the swift
engine; it holds the steamer to path in
the sea; it snatches the lire from heaven;
it feels the pulse of the sick child with its
delicate touch, and makes the nations quake
with its stupendous brought achievements. the
What power down forests,and
made the marshes all the blossom,and cities that burdened thunder the
earth with ou
with enterprise and power? Four lingers
and a thumb. A hundred million dollars
would not purchase for you a machine as hand. ex¬
quisite Mighty and hand wonderful 1 In all its as bones your and own muscles
and joints I learn that God is good.
Behold the eye, which in its photographic
gallery, in an instant catches the mountain
and the sea. This perpetual telegraphing
of the nerves; these joints, that are the only
hinges that do not wear out; these bones and
muscles of the body with fourteen thousand
different glands; adaptations; these two these hundred one hundred million
thousand
pores; this mysterious heart, contracting four
thousand times every hour; cuts chemical
process the of digestion; this laboratory, beyond
understanding of the most skillful philos¬
ophy from this furnace, whose heat is kept up
cradle to grave; this factory of life,
whose wheels and spindles and bands are
God directed. If we could realize the won¬
ders of our physical organization we would
be hypochondriacs, fearing every moment
that some part of the machine would break
down. But there are men here who have
lived through seventy years, and not a nerve
has ceased to thrill, or a muscle to contract,
late. or a lung to breathe, or a hand to manipu¬
I take a step higher and look at man’s
mental constitution. Behold the beuev
olenee of God in powers of perception, as the
faculty of transporting this outside world
into your own mind—gathering into your
brain the majesty of the storm and the
splendor of the day dawn, and lifting into
your mind the ooeau as easily as you might
put a glass of water to your lips.
Watch the law of association, or the mys
tenous linking together of all you ever
thought or knew or felt,and then giving you
the power to take hold of the clew line and
draw through your miud the long train with
indescribable velocity—one thought starting
up a hundred and this again a thousand—as
the whole chirp of of one voices, bird sometimes the thrum wakes of a
forest or oue
string will rouse an orchestra,
Watch your memory—that sheaf binder,
that goes forth to gather the harvest of the
past and bring it into the present. Your
power the and velocity and of thought—thought lightning foot; of
swift wing the
thought through that the outspeeds the, star weighs aud worlds, circles
heavens and
and, from poising amid wheeling constella¬
tions, comes down to count the blossoms in a
tuft of mignonette, then starts again to try
the fathoming of the bottomless, and the
scaling of the insurmountable, incomprehensible to and be swal¬
lowed up in the lost iu
God!
In reason and understanding man is alone.
The ox surpasses him hound in in strength, keenness the ante¬
lope in the speed, eagle the in far reaching sight, the of rab¬ nos¬
tril,
bit in quickness of hearing, spider the in honey bee
in delicacy of tongue, the fineness
of touch. Man’s power, therefore, consist
eth not in what he can lift, or how fast he
can run, or how strong a wrestler he can
throw—for in these respects the ox, the os¬
trich and the hyena are his superiors—but
by his reason he comes forth to rule all;
through his ingenious contrivance to outrun,
outlift, outwrestle, outsee, outhear, outdo.
At his all conquering decree the forest
that has stood for ages step aside to let him
build his cabin and cultivate his farm. The
sea which has raved and foamed upon the
race has become a crystal The thunder pathway cloud for com¬ that
merce to march on.
slept lazily above the mountain is made to
come down and carry mail bags. Man, dis¬
satisfied with his slowness of advancement,
shouted to the water and and drawl” the fire, “Come “Come
and lift!” “Come and
help!” And they answered, hands—the “Aye, aye, fire we
come,” and they joined shuttles fly, and the and rail
the water—and the
train rattles on, and the steamship the comes deep.
coughing, panting, flaming across the heavens,
He elevates the through telescope the to stethoscope the
and as easily as of the lung,
physician hears the movement
the astronomer catches worlds the throbbing pulsation of with dif¬
ferent systems of
life. He takes the microscope, and discov¬
ers that there are hundreds of thousands of
animalcules living, moving, working, covered dying with
within a circle that could be
the point of a pin—animals to which a rain
drop would be an ocean, a rose leaf a hemi¬
sphere, and the flash of a firefly lasting
enough to give them light to several genera¬
tions. look
I take a step higher and at man’s
moral nature. Made in the image of God.
Vast capacity for enjoyment; capable disordered, at first
of eternal joy, and though cuperative now force of
still, through the able to mount to
heavenly its original grace, felieity; faculties up that more may
than inexhaustibly. Im¬
blossom ana bear fruit capacity;
soul mortality destined written to npon in every unlimited spheres a
range
of activity long aftsr the world has put on
ashes, and the solar system shall have
snapped it; axle, and the stars that, in their
courses, fought against Sisero, shall have
been slain and buried amid the tolling
thunders of the last day.
You see that God has adapted everything Pleasant
to our comfort and udvantage. music for the
things for tne palate; for the nostril; ear;
beauty for the eye; aroma
kindred for our affections, poetry for our
taste; religion for our soul. We are put in
a garden, and told that from all the trees
we may eat, except here and there one.
He gives the sun to shine on us, and the
waters to refresh us, and food to strengthen
us; and the herbs yield medicine when we
are sick, and the forests lumber when we
would build a house or cross the water in a
ship. The rocks are transported for our foun¬
dation, and metals upturned for our cur¬
rency, and wild beasts must give be us tunneled cover¬
ing, and the mountains must
to let us pass, and the fish of the sea come
up in our net, and the birds of the air drop
at the flash of our guns, and the cattle ou a
thousand hills come down to give us meat. their
For us the peach orchards bend down
iruit and the vineyards their purple clusters.
To feed and refresh our intellect, ten thou¬
sand wonders in nature and providence- wonders of
wonders of mind and analogies body, and anti¬
earth and air, and deep
theses, all colors and sounds, lyrics in the
air, idyls in the field, conflagrations in and the
sunset, robes of mist on the mountains
t!t:> “Grand March” of God iu the storm.
But for the soul still higher adaptation;
a fountain in which it may wash; a ladder
triumph by which that it may climb; a song of endless
it may sing; a crown of un¬
fading light that St may wear. Christ came
to save it—came with a cross on His back;
came with spikes in His feet; came when no
one else would come, to do a work which no
one else would do.. See how suited to man’s
condition is what God has done for him,
Man is a sinner; here is a pardon. He has
lost God’s image; Christ retraces it. He is
helpless; lost wanderer; Amighty grace is proffered. He is
a is blind, Jesus brings Him him home. He
and at one touch of who cured
Bartimeus, eternal glories stream into his
soul. Jesus I sing Thy grace! Cure of worst
disease! Hammer to smite off heaviest
chain! Light for thickest darkness! Grace
divine! Devils scoff at it and men reject it,
but heaven celebrates it!
I wish you good cheer for the national
health.. Pestilence, that in other years has
come to drive out its thousand hearses to
Greenwood and Laurel Hill, has not visited
our well nation. 1 How It is a that glorious should thing keep to be
strange we our
health when one breath from a marsh or tile
sting of an insect or the slipping of a foot or
the falling of a tree branch might fatally
assault our life. Regularly the lungs work,
and their motion seems to be a spirit within
us panting after its immortality. Our sight
falls not, though the air is so full of objects
which by one touch could break out the
soul’s window. What ship, after a year’s
tossing on the sea, could come in with so
little damage as ourselves, though we arrive
after a year’s voyage to-day. national
I wish you good cheer for the har¬
vest. Reaping machines never swathed
thicker rye and corn husker’s peg never ripped
out fuller ear, and mow poles never bent
down under sweeter hay, and windmill’s
hopper never shook out larger wheat. Long
trains of white covered wagons have brought
the wealth down to the great thoroughfares.
The garners are full, the storehouses are
overcrowded, the canals are blocked with
freights pressing down to markets. The oars
rumble all through the darkness and whistle
up the flagman <it dead of night to let the
western harvests come down to feed the
mouths of the great cities. A race of kings
has taken possession of this Wheat, land—King King Cot¬
ton, King Corn, King Rice,
King Grass, King Coal. and relig¬
I wish you good cheer for civil
ious liberty. No official spy watches our en-
trance here, nor does an armed soldier inter
fere with the honest utterance of truth. We
stand here to-day with our arms free to
worl£ and our tongues free to speak. This
Bible—it is all unclasped. This puipit—there
is no chain around about it. There is no
snapping & of musketry in the street. Blessed
be od that to-day we are free men, with the
prospect and determination of always being
free - No established religion—Jew and Gen- and
tile, Armmian . and Calvinist. Trinitarian
Unitarian, Protestant and Homan Catholic
on the same footing.
^ Persecution should come against . the
most unpopular of all the sects, I believe
that all other denominations would band to
gether and arm themselves,and heart would
be stout, and blood would be free, and the
right of men to worship God according to
th ° dictates of their consciences would be
contested at the point of the bayonet, and
with blood flowing up to the bits of the
“arses bridles,
IT FLOATS.
Uncle Sam’s New Cruiser, New York,
Launched.
United A Philadelphia armored dispatch says; The
States cruiser New
York was launched Wednesday af¬
ternoon at 2:35 o’clock from the yard of
the Cramp Shipbuilding Company in the
presence of 15,000 people, included
among whom were the secretaries of
the navy and interior depart¬
ments, United States senators, con¬
gressmen, high naval officials and
representative from business and professional
men all parts of the country. Miss
Helen Page, daughter of J. Seaver Page,
secretary of the Union League Club, of
New York, broke the traditional bottle
of wine upon the great steel rail of the
cruiser as she slid from her wooden
cradle into the Delaware river and cris
tened her New York. When the New
York is finished, she will be the most
formidable cruising vessel that has ever
flown the stars and stripes.
SEPARATE CARS
For the Races is Advised by tho Gov¬
ernor of Virginia.
A Richmond, Va., dispatch says the
legislature convened at noon Wednesday.
In his annual message the governor says:
There is a very general demand for
separate stations for the two races
throughout advise Virginia and the south. I
would the enactment of a statute
vide requiring every railroad company to pro¬
dation separate of white coaches and for the accommo¬
colored passengers
and separate accommodations at passen¬
ger stations, all of equal comfort and
convenience. When travel on the road
is not sufficient to require two coaches a
single coach should be so divided by
partition dations. as The to law secure should separate be enforced accommo¬ by
suitable penalties.
NEWS AND NOTES FOE WOMEN.
Chinese maidens pluck out their eye¬
brows.
Persian lamb is increasing continually
in favor.
Little gold slippers form a now idea iff.
brooches.
Tiny silver chairs have plush seats for'
pincushions.
Silver bracelets make desirablo gifts
for young girls.
There appears to be a call for bead
necklaces again.
Pierced silver belts span the waists of
ladies nowadays.
Tiny watches are set in the tops of
purses of woven gold.
Vassar College is full to running over
with new girl students.
A curious wool is crimped as though
by machine in feather designs.
The newest patent issued to a woman
is for. improvements in steam boilers and
furnaces.
A pretty ulster is of chenille cloth in
black and white, with the hood and cape
lined in black velvet.
Miss Betham Edwards, the English
novelist, .believes in vegetarianism in life
and cremation after death.
Mrs. Harrison, wife cf the President,;
has been chosen an honorary member
by the Association of the King’s Daugh-i
ters. I
A woman is investigating the Patent
Office in Washington to obtain models of
women’s inventions since the beginning
of our history.
It is announced that there will as¬
semble at Chicago the first congress of
women doctors that has ever assembled'
there or elsewhere.
Japanese women are the best landscape
garduers in their country, and they are
to be employed in laying out the grounds
of the women’s department of the World’s
Pair.
The widowed Baroness Rothschild, of; >
Paris, has so extensive a circle of ac¬
quaintances that she is said to “know,
everybody worth knowing on three con¬
tinents.” i
Soft dull surahs and black India silks,
or those with white lines, flowers or
spots, are made into handsome wrappers
to be worn as deep mourning in the
summer.
Helen M. Remington,of San Francisco,.
Cal., claims that she was the first to devise
the use of threads running- through bank
note paper as a safeguard against coun¬
terfeiting.
Eleven years ago Nellie Hayden was a
salesgirl in a drygoods store in Boston,
and now she is the wealthiest woman in
Denver, thanks to lucky speculations in
real estate.
The real name of “E. Werner,” the
German novelist, translations of whose
stories are so popular in this country, is
Elizabeth Burstenbinder. She is a
spinster and lives in Berlin.
Of all the shapes, the very long and
perfectly round, ioosely-fiowiug cape wind! is ;
perhaps the most graceful. The
will circulate rather freely beneath it,
but who will care for that? It is pretty.
Very large poke bonnets for baby girls
are made of white faille, much shirred'
about the brim, soft in the crown, with
a ruche next the face, and full loops of
white satin ribbon holding an aigrette
in front.
Queen Amelie, of Portugal, is a tall
and stately young woman, with more of
the queen in her bearing than many
royal ladies possess. She is twenty-six
years old, and a daughter of the Comte
de Paris.
An enterprising tailor on Fifth ave¬
nue, New York City, has taken into his
shop three beautiful, clever young wo¬
men,and is teaching them the art of
tailoring. Much is expected from this
new adventure.
The ex-Queen of Naples is as an en¬
thusiastic a horsewoman as is her sister,
the Empress Elizabeth of Austria.
Though extremely poor for a royal per¬
sonage, she devotes all her spare money
to her horses.
Bonnet strings that look as if they
sprang from the back of the coiffure are
now used in conduction with those that
start from the rear of the head cover.
Twisted around each other in the oddest
way the effect is decidedly novel.
At one time, and that, too, not so
very long ago, fashion decrees forbade
the wearing of black to a wedding. Now
it is not only considered the correct
thing, but some of the most elegant
toilets displayed npon this occasion are
black.
Whitman County, Washington, Mo.,
has what is believed to be the smallest
woman living west of the Rocky Moun¬
tains. She resides three miles from Pine
City, is thirty-one years old, is twenty
nine inches high, and weighs exactly 3(Im¬
pounds.
Girls of six to eight yearn wear aprons
of white butchers’ linen—like sheeting
—large enough to serve as a dress in
summer, or to cover a cloth dress in win¬
ter and protect it. They are high in the
neck, with large sleeves.
The firm of Wilson & Wilson, Chicago
real estate dealers, is composed of two
sisters, Cora and Kitty, who started life
Harbor, working in a basket factory at Benton
Mich., and afterward established
a millinery store and dancing school
there. They are said to be very pretty
,girlfl and now making much money.