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LADIES COLUMN.
Fashion Notes.
Velveteen may be used for street
wear, but not velvet.
Bonnets seem to have reached their
greatest height for this season.
Tan-colored undressed kid gloves are
worn by fashionable men as well as wo
men.
Skirts, tunics and polonaises are all
made with plaits or gathers at the waist
line.
Velveteen skirts will be worn with
wool overdresses and basques, and vel
vet skirts with silk dresses.
The bracelet with a spring is no longer
worn; those witheflexible gold links
and fastened with old-fashioned clasps
are the correct wear.
Woolen lace with boucle figures is
worn with velveteen dresses, the lace
and velveteen corresponding in color,
though differing in shade.
Small rosary beads are used to cover
frills, dress fronts, the panels usual with
this style of trimming being of plush
stripes.
The favorite colors of plush for bodices
and children’s dresses are all shades of
green and brown, navy blue and red.
A brown silk jersey cloth hat is
trimmed at the back with a large fan of
golden brown velvet, reaching above the
top of the crown and confined by an or
namental gilt pin. In front is a felt bird
with Bird of Paradise feathers.
The most fashionable cloth caresses
are made with vest and several rows of
narrow 7 gold cord or flat braiding, or are
gold embroidered to simulate vest cuffs
and high collar, and sometimes in de
signs also round or pyramidal upon the
lower front of the skirt, which is laid in
clustered plaits, and has hip and back
drapery, closely laid and moderate size.
There has been an attempt to discard
all drapery from the overdresses of
cloth and wool or silk costumes intend
ed for the promenade, and instead to
have the overdress or polonoise as long
as the underskirt. These dresses have
the appearance of one skirt and a jacket,
and will be becoming to short figures,
but will not look graceful on large or
slender women.
Stripes take the precedence this year
in all fabrics, silk as well as wool. There
is no sameness about them, however.
They are longitudinal, horizontal, diag
onal and waved; there are smooth
stripesand ronah stripes; stripes of un
equal width, floral stripes and stripes
composed of geometrical figures. In
the arrangement of these stripes, the
ingenuity of the modiste is allowed full
scope.' In one costume there may be a
combination of diagonal, vertical and
horizontal effects. A vertically-striped
skirt may have diagonally-festooned
drapeties and panels of horizontal
stripes.
A dress for a young girl of rose-pink
satin marveilleux has three flounces of
Egyptian lace on the left side, over
which fall Jong ends and loops of pink.
watered ribbon. The drapery is shirred
at the waist line and falls straight on
one side. It is caught up on the other
6idu to show thculeap tare flounce which
extends quite around the skirt. The
—drapery at the back is quite full; a loop
and end of broad watered ribbon fell**
over it from beneath the point of the
bodice. The pointed bodice,
high collar edged with pearls, fastens al
the throat, whence it opens over a lace
chimisette. *1 he sleeves are short and
edged with pearls.
Household Uinta.
Sponge Cake: Three eggs, one cup of
sugar, one cup flour, one and one-naif
teaspoons baking powder.
Orange and Apple Preserve: Peel
some oranges and simmer them until
tender. Then cut. them into slices, re
move the seeds, and put them into jelly
pots. Now’ prepare some apple jelly,
nnd pour it over them so as to fill the
pots.
Removing Warts: Touch the wart
with a little nitrate of silver, or with
nitric acid, or with aromatic vinegar.
The silver salt will produces black and
the nitric acid a yellow stain, either of
which will wear off in a short while.
The vinegar scarcely discolors the skin.
Fried bananas are a pleasant break
fast relish. Choose very firm bananas;
peel and slice them; sprinkle with a
little salt | dip the pieces in thin batter
and fry in butter a delicate brown
They must be served immediately.
A little turpentine in the wash hoiler
will make clothes very white, and will
often remove incm liable stains from
white goods. A tablespoonful to a large
boiler, or a teaspoonful to two gallons of
water. There is no smell, the boiling
preventing it.
Small potatoes are very nice cooked
in this way: Peel them and boil them
in salted water; do not let them boil
until they me soft. Beat one egg. and
have ready some fine cracker crumbs;
roll the potato in the egg, and then in
the cracker, and fry in butter until a
light brown, turning frequently that the
color may be uniform; or the potatoes
may be dropped into hot lard. In this
case a cloth should be laid over a plate
ami the potatoes afiould be drained for
a moment in this before sending them
to the table.
: Very nice alnn nd cakes for coffee or 1
afternoon tea are made by this recipe: |
Half a pound of butter, half a pound of I
Sifted flour, half a pound of blanched :
almonds beaten fine in a mortar or grat i
ed; two eggs and the grated rind of half
a lemon. Beat the buner to a cream
ami mix it to a paste with the other in
gredients, saving the half the sugar and
grated almonds to sprinkle over the <
cakes. Wuen the paste is made roll it {
out nearly half an inch in thickness;!
cut it in loaenge shaped pieces; glaze <
with beaten whiteof egg; aprinklethem
with the mixed almond and ugar avd f
bake in a moderate oven until they are I
yellow.
The citiaens of La Grande, W. T.» |
have posted the following notice: ’'Tin- t
horn gamblers, opium fiends and !
stranglers are hereby warned to leave j
this camp within twelve hours. Their \
dishonorable conduct must, will and I
shall be avenged.’ ‘
There are 'AXi,OCO,OOO Mohammedans ‘
in the world.
I
AGRICULTURAL,
Farm anti Gardea.
Those who grow sorghum should al
low the seed to partly npenjjefore cut
ting the crop. The yield of sweet is not
less, and the sorghum seed is worth as
much per bushel for feeding as corn,and
is an important part of the product.
Pears should not ripen on the trees
Plucked when fully grown and kept in
a room of even temperature, the color
and flavor of the fruit will be much bet
ter than if allowed to remain on the
tree. Some of the best kinds rot at the
core on the tree, but escape such injury
when plucked before fully ripe.
The suggestion for getting rid of
stumps from the land mentioned some
time ago is again mooted, and is worth
repeating. Bore holes in the stumps
in the fall, insert saltpetre, fill the holes
up with water, and then plug them. In
the spring remove the plugs, pour in
kerosene oil and set fire to it. The
stumps will smolder aw’ay without
blazing, and leave nothing but ashes in
the ground,
High Farming: An interesting ex
ample of what may be accomplished by
“high” farming is reported to the agri
c Jtural bureau from the neighborhood
of Milledgeville, Ga. Mr. F. U. Furnam
had a nearly worn out field of sixty
acres that was accustomed to yield eight
bales of cotton. He was not satisfied
with this, and set about securing a bet
ter result. He took five acres of it,sandy
boil with a stiff red clay below, and with
a shovel plow ran furrows ten inches
deep at a distance of three and a half
feet apart. The spaces between were
then plowed with an ordinary turn plow,
the soil bein'” thrown <ach way against
the deep furrows,leaving a water furrow
in the middle of each seven foot section.
At planting time the w- er furrow was
deepened with a ten incli shovel plow,
filled with compost and covered with a
.urn plough. The compost applied was
composed of cotton seed,stable manure,
phosphate and kainit—-500 pounds to the
acre. When the plants came up they
were “chopped out” to eight inches
apart,and several days afterwards chop
ped out again to sixteon inches apart,
and the field cultivated with frequent
light ploughings. '1 he crop was twelve
bales of 470 lbs. each, worth, at 10 cents
a pound, $564.
WIT AND HUMOR.
Angelina—“ The man I marry must
be handsome, brave, and clever!”
Tompkins—“ Dear me! How f—fortun
ate we have met!”
One hundred New Jersey girls have
bound themselves not to marry any
man who chews tobacco. There seems
to be some good in even the worst of
habits.
A fashion journal says that plain
white French china is coming into
vogue again. This will be welcome
news to husbands. The dazzling effect
of decorated waflk makes it the most
difficult dodge.
- * ‘Did you come dov. s on a street car
this morning?” askei) Jones of old
man Hunter. “No, sW, 1 came down
on a darned innoceyft-looking banana
peel,” was the reriut -
limped along.— CAristian Advocate.
A young in St. Louis recently
doused a yodßbg’man wfth a pailful of
urkaMFlift’ on his knees beg
ging her to be his de. Never get on j
your knees before* ©t. Louis girl; grab
her around the wain at once. It makes !
her mad to lose time.
The aut lidreif the “Story of a Coun- ’
try Town,” is spoken of as the coming I
novelist; but then any photographer I
could write a thrilling story of a coun- |
try town if he would take the trouble \
to listen at the key-hole when a sewing
society meets.— Philadelphia Press.
At a recent Sunday-school meeting
in Chicago a long-winded clergyman
consumed too mucli time with a wordy
address. When he sat down the lead
er of the meeting unwittingly
nounced the hymn beginning, “llalle?
lujah! 'tis Done.”— Christian Stand
ard.
A Northern Texas editor complains
that the number of marriages is ridi
culously small when compared with
the time squandered in buggy-riding.
The Texas editor forgets that it is the
money squandered inbuggy-riding that
diminishes the number of marriages.—
Philadelphia Call.
The Digger Indians have incurred
our everlasting animosity by predicting
an “open Winter.” When the Digger
Indians promise an open Winter, the
weather is so cold that iron hitching
posts split open and there Are six weeks j
of down-to-zero weather in January.—
Norristown Herald.
The latest style in marriage cere
monies is for the bride to come up the
aisle of the church alone, while the
bridegroom sneaks in at the chancel
door and meets her at the altar. We !
protest against the fashion; it creates a
masculine predisposition to be hen- :
pecked.— Burlington Free Press.
“Come, soldier, tell us what you i
know about this matter,” said "ex- I
Judge Black to a witness. “I am no
soldier; I am an officer,” haughtily re- :
sponded the witness. Whereupon the !
old lawyer calmly said: “Well, then,
j officer who is no soldier, tell us what
you know.” And the warrior wilted.
“Young man.” said the professor,
“you should not allow’ yourself to be
j guided altogether by your own opin
■ ions. You should defer to the opinions
of others." Student—“ But the poet
says, ‘’Tis madness to defer.’” Pro
fessor—“ True; but the poet was
Young when he said that?’— Boston
i i
by don’t you call me a donkey
- and be done with it? You have hinteil
I at it long enough,” he snarled out. I
“It wouldn't be quite true,” she re
plied. "I suppose not. I suppose I
haven't ears enough for that animal,” ■
he retorted, sarcastically. “Oh, yes,
you have,” she returned, sweetly, j
“You don't need any more ears.”
••What do I need, then?” “More
.legs.”— lNtily Graphic.
“Mary,” said a Philadelphia mother,
the other morning, “Mary, I heard you
coax young Mr. Blank to remain, as he
arose to go when the clock struck ten
last evening. Mary, it was wrong in
you; why did you do so?” “iMiy,
now,” artlessly replied the maiden, i
“Mr. Blank is very good company, and
you know yon have always taught mo
to keep good company, and I kept
him.”
Some advertiser says he has found a
sorrel mule with no hind shoes on.
Pshaw, man! You can’t identify a
sorrel mule in that way. Nowell regu
lated sorrel mule has shoes on behind.
As soon as it gets home from the black
smith shop iV'fastens one above the
front door of the barn and one above
the stable entrance, with one motion—
and all just for luck.—Pittsburg Chron
icle- Telegraph.
Lord Panmure’s stolid want of com
prehension is amusingly illustrated in
Lord Malmesbury’s memoirs. The
Queen, he says, had been presenting
medals to the Crimean heroes, many of
whom were maimed or suffering from
wounds. “Was the Queen touched?”
Mrs. Morton asked. “Bless my soul
no!” replied Lord Panmure, “she had
a i rass railing before her, and no one
could touch her.” “I mean, was she
moved?” “Moved! She had no occa
sion to move.”
An anecdote. Years ago a Vermont
farmer lost many sheep' through the
depredations of wolves. He journeyed
tef Boston and returned with a wolf
dog which cost him many dollars. He
started out the next day and soon his
dog was following up a scent rapidly
and disappeared in the woods. The
farmer on horseback followed and met
a chopper. “Well, stranger, did yetj
see e’er a dog and a w’olf go by?”:
“Yaas.” “Wall, how was it?” “The,
dorg was a leetle ahead.”— Somerville I
Journal.
De healthiest lookin’ men is some-!
times de soones’ ter die. De bigges’l
tree is de one whut am aptes’ ter be;
holler. It ain’t no use fur some mem
ter try ter be great. It doan’ make no’
difference how much a mouse eats he;
nebber will be er rat. Dar’s dis differ-!
ence twixt men an’ wimin. Er ’oman :
tries ter make her heart show on herj
face; de man tries ter make his mine
show on his countenance. De trouble
is dat de ’oman ain’t alius got a heart
an' de man ain’t alius got a mine.—
—Arfcansaw Traveler.
A lady called on a friend" who had
only been married a few years and was
surprised to find her in tears. “lam
the most unhappy woman in Austin, j
and it is all on account of my husband.”)
“Why, your husband lives for .you;
alone, fie stays at home afl the time;
he never goes away from home; he
never brings any friends of his to the
house.” “Yes,” replied the unfortun
ate woman, putting her handkerchief
to her eyes and sobbing convulsively,
“that’s—what—makes me—so miser
able.” — Texas Siftings.
At a fancy dress party a short time
ago a young lady was dressed in a
marvelous dress of green and red in
which imaginative eyes were supposed
to discover some more or less resemb
lance to lettuce and lobster. “What
do you represent, Miss M. ?” a gentle
man inquired, as they took their places
in a set. “Don’t you see?” she re
turned, laughing; “I’m a salad.”-
“Oh!” was her partner’s retort, whilgi
he flashed a quick eye over the verto
liberal exposure of her person; “but
h.a.veu’t. * forgotten to pAt oiu tlise
dressing?”—« Boston tfourier. Jr '
A. vent iijito a
He’was
a short distance, win t'
walked up to him and threv" r nwj§£us
j around the thief, calling him pet names,
i such as “old boy,” “birdie darling,’*
| etc., etc. The thief didn’t know what
j to make of this outburst of affection on
the part of the clerk, but wasn’t long
'in finding out. After he had been hug-
■ ged for a few minutes he discovered
j that the hen fruit had smashed in his
I pocket, and, what was more, there were
! just enough last year’s ones among
them to make the air in that immedi
ate vicinity smell bad and appear as
though a thick fog had settled around
tb^eT—Peck's Sun.
The Reason.
“Look here,” said a judge to a jury
man, “I do not desire to ivound your
feelings, but why don’t you put on a
clean shirt?”
“Because my wife has been very busy
for several days and I have had no one
to sew on buttons.”
“Hasn’t your wife had timeto sew on
a button?”
“No, sir.”
“What’s the matter, children sick?”
“No, sir. children somewhat dirty,
j but in good health.”
i “What is your wife doing that keeps
her so constantly employed?”
“Well, you see, several days ago, our
minister came around and said that by
I such a time he had to have 200 pairs of
breeches to send to the heathens, and ’
my wife—good soul that she is—has
I been busy ever since. Just wait, judge, !
till she gets through, and then I’ll ;
| come around and dazzle this court with <
| the whitest shirt you ever seed.”— Ar- j
: kansaw 'Traveler'
Fair Philistine—“ Yes. we’ve just re- I
. turned from a visit to Antwerp, and of i
I course we saw Ruben's great picture at
the cathedral. I don't like it a bit I
■ never yet saw any picture bv him I did
like.” Artist (more in sorrow than in
anger)—“Perhaps you have not come
across the best examples of that great
master.” Fair Philistine—“Periiaps
not. By-the-by, there was one Rubens
there I liked.” Artist (much relieved) i
| —“Ah! there was one. I’m glad of ■
that.” Fair Philistine—“ Yes; it was a
picture of his death, painted by some
body else.”— Judy.
The Macon Telegraph describes a
i new kind of fish, which certainly pre
sents some very odd features: “The
. largest ones are not more than two
) inches long, and the smallest so small
' it would require a microscope to dis
j corer it from an atom of green moss.
They have large black eyes set prom
inently in the head, which is the larg
est part of the fish. The tails are red
and forked. There is no numbering
their legs, which seem to perform the
office of fins while they swim on their
backs. Several persons have examined
them, among the number being some
who have made fish culture a study,
but none of theta can tell us what they
really are.”
GLEANINGS.
Six millions of dollars* worth of sil
ver is used in this country every year
for manufacturing and decorative pur
poses.
Forty years ago there was only one
daguerreotype gallery in New York
City. Now within three miles of Union
Square there are not less than 500 pho
tograph galleries.
The town of Newington, N. H., has
no store, no saloon, no debt, no lawyer,
no doctor, nobody in the almshouse,
and “no one to molest or make one
afraid.” It has one church.
It is estimated that more than 3,000
people have moved away from Port
land, Ore., during the last year, and
the town is uncomfortably full of va
cant residences and store-rooms.
Ten pounds of normal alcohol have
been made from six pounds of water
melon pulp. Free sulphuric acid was
added, the mixture was warmed, and
the sugar was changed into glucose.
This product ferments directly.
The number of medical colleges in
the United States and Canadas is stat
ed to be 139. Os medical students
there are 12,000, of whom 10,000 are
“regulars,” 1,200 are homeopathic, 750
electics, and 50 physio-medicals.
There is less blood in cold-blooded
than in warm-blooded animals. The
larger the animal the greater is the pro
portion of blood to the body. Man has
about a gallon and a half of blood,
equal to one-thirtieth of his weight.
Englishmen eat at much shorter in
tervals than Americans are accustomed
to. The farm laborer eats four meals a
day, and in some of the baronial halls
in England the tables are spread for
meals at intervals of four hours during
the day and evening.
“Polographic” is the name of a new
science just introduced in France. It
is the act of discriminr ting character
by the beard. Close-growing hair in
dicates a vigorous temperament; coarse
hair obstinacy; fine hair, refinement;
curly beards, brilliancy, etc.
General Joe Johnson, who is now 77
years old, does not look over 60. He
is as straight as an arrow, and the only
sign of age is seen in his silky gray
hair, which flows in silvery curls almost
to his shoulders, and in his full gray
beard. Otherwise he mighk pass for a
young man. *
A new clock has been invented, and
coming into use in Europe, which is
warranted by its* manufacturers to run
for five years without either winding or
regulation. The Belgian Government
placed one in a railway station in 1881,
sealed with the Government seal, and it
has kept perfect time ever since.
Massachusetts has more railroad
travel than any other State in the Un
ion. The number of passengers ’ car
ried by the roads last year was 53,000,-
000. Pennsylvania comes next with
50,000,000, and New York next, with
44,000,000. Illinois, New Jersey and
Ohio folloy in the order named.
A novel experiment of carrying a
railroad through a forest has been tried
in Sonoma County, California. The
trees are sawed off and leveled and the |
ties are ; on the slumps two o(
which are huge redwoods side by side
and reachbig' seventy-five feet from the
Snd. So firm is this support that
ily loaded cars pass over with per
securiiy t
Mt. George Lunt, the old poet, has
found a fig tree growing in the seacoast
town of Sciknat*, Mass., probably
springing From the scMa of a fig drop
ped in the spot, protected S? * doorsill
and warmed by a cellar. The tree
dies down with every frost, but for five
summers has sprung up aghin, growing
to the heights of nearly six feet, but as
yet bearing no fruit.
A great English authority once de
clared tiiat no good girl would have
more than three proposals—the first she
would be too inexperienced to under
stand what whs coming to pass; a sec
ond offer might happen without her
fault, but the third time she must be
forewarned, and unless she meant to
accept the man she ought to save him
the pain of a refusal.
The streets of Winnipeg, Mxnitoh i,
are very picturesque in the afternoons.
Young exquisites with single eye-glass
es languidly stare at daintily-dressed
ladies of fashion. Stolid half-breeds
walk back and forth with toes turned
in, while Indian squaws trudge along
with their infants strapped to boards
on their backs. Mounted police in
scarlet coats and white helmets add
color to the scene.
A few days ago some dry sage on the
battlefield of Missionary Ridge, near
Chattanooga, Tenn., took fire and the
flames spread with great rapidity. A
stump soon blazed up and in a few
seconds a roar like thunder reverber
i ated down the valley, and the stump
was blown into ten thousand pieces.
! Investigation developed the fact that
three shells were imbedded in the stump
! and exploded from the heat.
The old Schuyler mansion in Albany,
i now to be raised, was built in 1700 by
! the wife of General Philip Schuyler, i
and was a marvel of grandeur in its
early days. Franklin,Lafayette, Aaron
Burr, and Rochambeau were among its
guests. Here Burgoyne was held a
prisoner after bis surrender at Sarato
ga, and in 1781 a desperate effort was
made bv Tories and Indians to capture
General Schuyler. Gathering his fami
ly in an upper room he stood seige un- i
til relief came.
The grown-up Mormons are exceed
ingly hard to convert to anything like
orthodox Christianity. But the teach
ers and missionaries who are trying to
t evangelize Utah are at work on the
* children, who are plenty in that coun
try. Seventy-one school buildings have
been built at a cost of nearly $300,000,
and a dozen or more schools are held j
in rented buildings. There are about :
7.500 Mormon children under anti- |
Mormon instruction, and they are said I
to make good scholars.
In a ease of extensive burn unhealed,
after six years, Dr. Frank C. Wilson, of ;
Louisville, Ky., in the Medteal News, *
says: “I made use of three different :
kinds of skin gratis, namely, from the
skin of a young rabbit, from the hu
man skin," and from the inner mem
brane of a hen’s perfectly fresh egg.”;
Os the three, he much preferred the
egg membrane as being much more
readily obtained, and ope egg wijl sup- ■
ply any number of grafts nSedea.
The great cathedral in the city of
Mexico is the largest in America, and
cost nearlj’ $2,000,000. It was com
menced by the Spaniards in 1573, on
the site of the old Aztec temple, or pyr
amid, and finished in 1667. Its facade
is beautifully carved. Against its
western wall leans its celebrated calen
dar, covered with hieroglyphics, and
weighing twenty-five tons. Its cast,
which the Mexican Government is at
present engaged in taking, will be ex
hibited at the New Orleans Exposition.
At La Canada, at Los Angeles, Cal
ifornia. what is known as “corn grass,”
a wild kind of pampas, is very abun
dant. During the spring and summer
it is green, fresh, and abundant, grow
ing to a straight height of from nine to
ten and a half feet. Yet the stalks are
small, also the roots, but they are so
solid that a wind could not blow them
an iota frem the perpendicular. But in
the fall and winter this growth be
comes still’, with a strong fibre, and,
with proper application—there are
many acres of it—would make better
paper than straw or cactus.
Twenty acres of land at the north
western extremity of Manhattan Island
were sold recently for $75,000. Histo
rically this property possesses great in
terest. Irving,in his “Knickerbocker’s
History of New York,” refers to it as
“the promontory which projects into
the Hudson,” and from which the val
orous but unfortunate Van Corlear—
the favorite trumpeter of old Peter
Stuyvesant—attempted, “in spite of the
devil,” to swim across the dark and
;stormy waters of the creek to theWcst
•chester shore. During the revolution
ary war it was at difterent times occu
pied by the contending forces.
Maryland’s Pride.
If there is one product above all oth
ers that Maryland takes special pride
and delight in it is the diamond-backed
terrapin. No royal feast is complete
without the diamond-back ala Mary
land. And yet this delicious and pre
cious product is in danger of extermina
tion. From the little piccaninny to the
seine- hauler, the amateur fisher to the
dredger, all make war on the terrapin,
and, as the prices are so high and the
demand so brisk and universal, the
number of terrapins hooked or netted
during a twelve month is simply enor
mous, and under the best conditions it
is surprising that the stock is not en
tirely destroyed.
But besides these drains upon the
source of supply, there is another more
serious and destructive one, which if
not stopped or checked, will materially
aid to produce such a scarcity as will
run the price of this great luxury far
above the reach of ordinary people to
taste or enjoy once in a lifetime. And
this trouble is in the prevalence of the
fox nuisance. The latter animal de
stroys more in the course of
a year than are caught by all the hu
man devices and traps yet brought into
use. It is well known that the terra
pin crawls up on the beach to lay its
eggs in the sand. This is easily found
and followed, and the nest is scratched
up and eaten with relish. The result
is that at one meal a hungry fox will
destroy hundreds of them.
In staverj times fox-hunting was a
great sport and pastime for the coun
try gentry, and most of them kept their
packs of fox-hounds. And there was
not a negro hut or quarters where there
was not one or more dogs which would,
on their own hook, eaten a fox at every
opportunity. These, with the traps
set by the darkies and the capture of
young foxes to be tamed and raised by
the children kept down the stock, and
this protected the terrapin, which
proved a prolific breeder. But of late
years neither farmers nor their sons
have devoted much time to hunting.
The fox-hound is nothing like as com
mon or frequent as he was. and the
colored people, those that have nnt mi
grated to the cities, compelled also to
shift for themselves,havehad very little
time for sport. As to our city fox
hunting clubs, they are excellent on
dress parade, but not much on fox
catching. Indeed, they rather increase
than diminish the fox population. For
they pay such good prices for tame
reynards that it has become an object
to the colored population of the coun
ties to propagate foxes for the club
market. And as the cultivated fox,
when turned loose for a chase, invaria
bly gets away, the fox census is in- !
creased with each meet and the foes of
the diamond-back multiplied.
Either the counties will have t< offer
good prices for dead foxes, prices that
will make it an object for the country
people to trap, chase, and kill the ver
min, or the terrapin supply will sadly
diminish. A bounty offered by every
county will stimulate the chase, and
will preserve a fine source of wealth to
the tidewater counties of the State. It
is a subject well worth the attention of
our people, and it should not be neg
lected longer. — Baltimore Sun.
Seeking Intellectual Meccas.
A brilliant woman from a Western
city, who is visiting in Boston now, re
marked to me that she had rather live
in her own city than in Boston because
•i was more scope for work there.
She said this unconsciously, with ho
recognition of having expressed any- J
thing unusual, but the remark repeated’ I
itself to me with a certain significance.'
The moment a human being arrives at
that point where he feels the object of
life is to give rather than to get, when
he prefers the place where he may be
| able to do /he most for others rather
■ than to receive the most that others
| may do for him, that moment marks
the transition into another and a high- !
er phase of life. My friend went on’to
say, that Boston seemed to her largely I
in a state cf arrested development.;
The West has attained less, but it is
||Ul struggling, while the East luxur-’
iat» in what it has, and is not all.
; the conquering intellectual terri
| tory. A germ of advantage, of thought.
■ iiccomea a seed that springs tip into
j fair and beautiful growth, while be
! who attempts to Lake the completed ;
! tree finds himself only encumberel I
i with dry wood. So I, looking for years
! toward Boston as my Mecca, hare ■
{ .'oiiie to feel that the East does net ;
monopolize advantages, even intellect
<»ai ones; that to live whore there la J
demand on one for giving out. where :
there is scope to work for others, offere
resources of energy and of growth •
whose value is to be greatly prized.— I
i fAlian Whiting.
Surplus of Lawyers.
Complaint of the overcrowding of
the legal profession is notices.blo i a
widely separated sections of the coun
try. In Vermont, towns whicl4 used to
raise and support solid lawyers of the
old school, learned in do not
afford income to keep one alijve. In
the South it is said that the precession
of law is having dull times in n&iny of
the larger towns, while in Philadelphia,
where a well-known proverb iwiplies
that a superior assortment is maintain
ed, a large proportion of the l,s)ii law
yers starve. A statistician reckons
that in that city only five have ail in
come of $30,000 each and uj»w®rds,
about thirty SIO,OOO each, andl 100
$5,000, while 1,000 average not lover
SSOO a year from legitimate fees. I
There are two or three causes /for
this superfluity of lawyers. In
all the states the old and intricate sys
tem of pleadings has been dons away;
it was cumbersome lumber, but it re
quired a good deal of study to master
it and so served to keep down the num
ber of aspirants to the bar. The much,
simpler modern systems are more easi
ly mastered, while the multiplication of
law Schools has rendered an ed ucation
for the bar much more'accessibl e. Ol<L
lawyers are apt to think that a deteri
oration of the profession has resulted,
but that does not follow. What was
formerly a close trade-union, gmild or
profession has been thrown open to
more general entrance. Nothing has
been lost by throwing aside the old
pleadings, however difficult they may
have been to acquire, if after acquisi
sition they were lumber and encum
brance. The modern layr student may,
if he chooses, spend upon a general ed
ucation the same time he wouli apply
to them, and secure at least-as much
mental discipline. This ought, per-,
haps, to be more generally required.
On the other* hand the avoid ance of
litigation is more generally sought than
formerly. Under the modified system
of codined statutes, all in one volume,
men of ordinary intelligence can con
sult the statutes themselves; as to the
common law, or that rendered by the
courts, the cases ordinarily arising have
now been so thoroughly adjudicated
that honest counsel of fair ability
ought not to lead his client astray.
Moreover, there is a general disposition
among more honorable members of the
bar not to encourage litigation, unless
it is necessary; whether that is more
true than formerly it would be difficult
to say.
It is certainly not a misfortune to the
country that less wealth proportionally
is consumed in litigation than former
ly; if such is the case in the administra
tion of the criminal law, there must be
increasing expense for the maintenance
of courts and public prosecution so long
as crime increases.
Activity of business always gpves rise
to clash of interests, and makes litiga
tion. The great mass of this is now be
tween real persons and corporations, or
between corporations on both sides. —
Springfield (Mass.) Republican.
A Peculiar Plant.
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island of Borneo, has long narrow
leaves, each of which has a thick vein
running down the mhldta tn .the enff
where it forms a cord, to which is fas
tened a kind of a jug, with lid and all
complete; round the top is a thick rim,
stiff like a wire, which keeps the soft
sides of the jug in their place. The
upper part of the pitcher is shaped like
a funnel, which runs down to a bowl
below. When flies and ants se ttie upot
the edge and begin sipping honey
hidden there, they slip down into tho
pitcher, which has some water at the
bottom. The narrow funnel or tho
stiff hooks prevent their escape, anG
they fall into the water. As ioon as s
fly goes in the water begins to flow
from the sides of the pitcher aud dis
solves the body, forming a kind of soup
which feeds the plants. Sometimes
these pitchers are so large that small
birds go in to drink and the hooka
keep them in, so they die there.
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