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THE REALM lints For Sprlnff on ct Stimm or. Fashionables of Paris are now be finning to think of summer bats, traw will be, as usual, universally worn, autl tho novelties are very charming. Among tho now ones aro ny Gr, un the effect ie charming uer of usiug tullo ie layer ; '?no over ^ , quito . '/iv rVV'rT' 11 either if. .? i '^'i^V'rm euaP v, .t $$.%f-vi i of a ber .oose - of ?4i tullo s ike thp h '.ves ' a brok, a" ono r 1.? ..itfa v y ?i ayr s? ? i . - row cf .mn;- > s or ... ;.?.3. In Pn - ilowt . lui ?..jd bonnets a. ,u-eadyi ? IS cb . ur . Ith v.-tc, uuob i rib nail bats , and r.iu^c closely plaited conran R'IMWS in all abades. Finely sewn straws, Puna toas, Leghorn:; and manillas will also be worn. Tnu coarse straws, how ever, will bo deemed the most ele gant for toques and bonnets. Tulle will prove a strong rival of Btraw during the early part of tho coming ?eason. Even now the new models are built of tullo aud velvet. Chiffon and tulle are also employed for deep plaited frills to soft velvet crowns, and [gay blossoms will doubtless be exten sively worn in the early spring. Large open roses ure tho most fashionable. ;Fclt bats and toques have entire ^.vns made of them. As is usual in lato winter, violets aro all tho re, and tho provident dame is now ling a fresh note to her winter bat ,the shape of these delicate and mt if ul flowers. iirlH* Costume In Iilsht Weljjlit Ser^o. Ijftiatevcr number of more elaborate ?to gowns the growing girl's ^my include, ono of sturdy made, is essential to her |ell-being. The model puble-column illustra [anton, is of light ed blue and is ftlack braid. But md all the now as cashmere, lined throughout, but unstifTonoil, and is trimmed with two rows of fancy braid. To ruako this costume for a girl of eight years will requiro two and ono half yards of forty-four-inch material. Stylen in Sashes. Sashes of all kinds and conditions aro well to the froilt 'in fashion, and tho now ribbons aro moro beautiful thau over. There aro Kornau stripes, checke and plaids, with satiu bordered edges, and flowered, corded, and watered ribbons of all kinds. Not, ohifibu, and lace sashes will continuo in favor; but it is not alono sashes for tho waist that swell tho lisr. Tho sashes lor the neck aro quito as con spicuous and moro generally worn, for all women seem to Uko tho long silken cravats around their throats. They aro made of liberty gauzo, chifl?n, and thin ?ilk, or. of Swiss, with hemstitched and laoo-trimracd onds. Tho newest of these neck sashes is a scarf of net with au elaborate laco pattern nfc tho cuds and an edgo all around. They rango in price from $L to ?15, and ave really very elegant. In smaller thin qa for- the uco.k thoro is an unlimited variety. Short bows and knotted cravats of puro white lawn, with kn i fa plaited frills on tho ends, are added to an array cf lace knots and neck frills which ar?! "omi description. Now Mu .. l> . .. Spring? Wear. Among tho nc . M ater?ais this spring aro several weawsvof crepon, which aro not intended for anything but mourning wear. They look as though part wcro made of crape, and thou of OST?.ttE. shirrings of silk and wool. They are also to bo seen with o sort of blistered surface, resembling matolassoor quilt ing. They aro always of a doep black, not a blue black, nud wear well, but are amoug tho extensivo materials. However, as they do not require much trimming, they are not so cxpensivo as might be.thought. Novelties in Buttons. In lino buttons for bodices and jackets some handsomo novelties aro Bhown in celluloid, jet, steel and por celain. The latterare especially love ly, and often look like miniatures, so exquisitely aro ideal heads painted upon them. Latent Spring Blouse. Tho bloused fronts open over a plas tron of whito satin or of a silk which matches one of the colors in tho ploid of the waist material. These froata nro held together by cufflinks through; button holes. The revers are faoett', GOOD HOADS NOTES. Frodtltnc Turnpike Compwil?, . A law has boou passed by the Miobi gnu Legislature requiring the turuy pike companies in the State "to con struct, reconstruct, repair and nioili* tain their roads in good repair, arid of tho saino material and in the same manner ns required by .their charter, within six months after the pnssago of the Act." If they fail to comply will the law. the roads aro to bo consid?rai ns abandoned, and no further toll omi bo charged on them. How It Helped tliw Farmen.. "Tho beauty of goo\l roads wa^^Atr amplified Saturday," cays the Quincy (111.) Herald, "when tho farmers of Riverside aud Ellington townships came to town with loads of hay atti straw and produce, and tho farinors'ef other townships had to stay at bonis. Tho Riverside and Ellington township farmers carno to town via tho Locukt street tolforded boulevard. The farm ers of tho othor townships had to in main ut homo, because tho roads we|o too muddy. To start meant to .le mired, and so no start was made. A?jd all beeauso of lack of cuterprisoju providing good roads." 'l Tower Kcuuirctl on Groden. 1 American highways have often close ly followed tho old Homan model, aid run straight ahead regardless of ob stacles. It seems not to havo occurred to our road-builders that les3 power is., expended in going three miles around a hill than ono milo np it, cr that it is easier to cut down a hill butte than for all travelers to climb it thou sands of times, or that no heavier load can bo hauled thau can bo drawn up the steopest part. To nttaiu higher levels the precipitous sidon of hills have been scaled, requiriug extreme grades, when such could have been avoided, aud moro circuitous courses, not materially longer, would havo ar rived at the same spot with less ex penditure of energy. Mountain rouis can be kept in order only with extreme lufficiilty. Tho work on them, ?hc time au\? unnecessary energy wasted in surnionnikig them, nnd the half loads that only cni?be-haulod on them aro sources of great and' constant los*. In foreign countries overy efi?r?; is made to keep grades down to' four per cont., that is, a riso of four feet.in overy hundred, aa this has been shown by exporionco to ho tho maximum on which loads can bo advantageously hauled, and even it necessitates the expenditure of os much energy in one milo ns in traveling three ou a level, SoStuat but one-third as heavy a load can be drawn. A.^ tho grado increases | mbpv.eVt' * j -i . ?. iago tho labor in-1 .yolvc<r . 9. oxcosfuve that i\t xnAximuiu ol itu .'.et rise'iii ?H?rtri.^ is usod abroad for mountain rt? &..?>;'." "atid on thi3 less than one-half calif bo hauled of what is possible nt'four jin a hundred, aud but one-sixth as mu,ch ns ou tho leve!. So little attention has been paid to this subject hero that a riso of ten iu ono hundred is often found ott,' main roads which are constantly us.?d- by heavy trafile, and even twelve and fifteen in a hundred aro by no means uncommon. This is wrong. Tho nouvscs of old vonda could be slightly altered in many cases to their great advantage, and in other esses new roads could be laid out. Th!*ee points ought to be thoroughly looked into be fore making hilly roads permanent by macadamizing thom.-L. A. W. Bul letin. Why Slate Alii ia Necessary. In .addressing tho Maiyland Slato Grange recently, General Stone spoko of conditions which may exist in other States ns well. Ho said in parti "Ifindthnt the questSn of State aid is eliminated in -Maryland by a constitutional provision "which pro hibits tho use of State funds for such a purpose. Get up a sentimentstrong enough, and amend your"Constitution, like othor Stales aro doing. It is a vicious Bystcm that requires localities to keep up the roads. It is a work that concerns tue"|i?n^le.'0> the whole State, and is not a local, question. Ronds'aro of vital interest to the cities. Blockade your country' roods to-day, and to-morrow you^oUy will begin to scatter. Tho benefits .'o^jgo?d roads aro equally sharoa"(byilfK|ui?ie8, but thoy must assist iu' the work of con struction before th?"? can reap tho ad vantages. "About throe-fourths of tho. prop erty interests of'^the country are "to be found in the oiti?s,j|and held by the corporations.. New,-the farmers, repre senting about o^i-fourth of the prop erty inter esta, h::vo boen endeavoring up thejroacls for the whole country. The i/esult i? obvious. The .bidden: was toe/much, and bad roads &r&?bTiJ?&SB?P' trvwhero; or>jecmoiisa?mployiu0 ' ' f>' . public ro^M A happy sci ii <u o? tlli" lli^gR-however, presorts it v?tf. Ijfl?. your convicts in pre gar i n ?v ^??ai for bu i ! d?fi ggo o d r o ads. This ha\^HR?i'.tiied in a number of States,?^J[as proved to bc an eeonom ical ari \vflHf? i? healthful way ot" work ing QOnv^K. i .> TI satisfied that Mary-., land c(AH employ its short-term prisonc^Bind of Correction in mates i|H|gis \, . 'id deliver road fifty it* a ton in any JState. tb convince your legisla ryland is eo lation us nuj' p\You must howHhem to jxj?*>ii cat?, tell fto?*!gencral Wv, tor ronds, without moro taxes on farm proporty. "Third-You want an efficient State supervision to ranko sure that the now money spent un ronds shall be spent to the best possible advan tage. , "Fourth-You want to make snro tor the futuro that all property, and di tho peoplo interested in or bene fited by good highways shall contribute their proper sharp toward building und maintaining those roads." KiiUurnnce ot Hornea. Tho Vodotto, tho rogimontnl journal of tho Twenty-first Laucors, gives an interesting account of a march carried put between Cairo and tho Bitter Lakes and back-205 miles in live days. This ir-as-done to -cst thc relativo merits of the three classes of- horses in usa in tho regiment, namely, Arabs, Waters (bronght from India by the Seventh Dragoon Guards), and Hungarian re mounts lately suppliodrto tho regiment. The Arabs were six to ten years old, the Wafers fourteen years and upwards aud tho Hungarians four to five years old, "rather young for such a trial Tho verdict was that, oven allowing for ago, tho Hungarian horses were decidedly, inferior iji breeding and stamina; aud tho Walors, though in a more tomporate climato they might bo superior to tho Arabs, under tho pre vailing conditions of service in Egypt, "with short rations and plenty of sand, long periods without water, and tho temperature at 180 degrees in tho shade," were decidedly inferior to tho Arab, which, iu a desert march, showed itself well ablo to carry tho British soldier, with his impediments. As tho weight carried was an average of nearly sixteen stone, thu marches wore decidedly good, namely, thirty-live, fifty, thirty, fifty-oight. aud thirty-two miles per day. One Arab, thrco Wal ors and cloven Hungarians wero "laid up iu tho sick lines" after the trial. London Sketch. Tim Locality of DixciiRO. In nu interesting article on tho areas of disease tho London Saturday Boview remarks upon -tho consensus of medical opinion that diseases in gouoral have their local habitations some, like tropical animals aud plants, living only in tho tropics; some, liko consumption, gradually spreading over tho wholo earth, whilo others, liko leprosy and smallpox, aro by de grees becoming limited in their dis tribution, possibly tending, it may be, toward extinction. On the other baud, however, there are regions to which diseases have never reached, for instance, on tho summits of high mountain ranges and in tho circum polar snowfields of tho earth and air and water aro as barren of tho mi trobo9J9BHjSSI as they arc of animal life. '4?B?SBKfflr* in til0 Kcvicw ad mits tlufeill'"a:c^untry liko Britain, i-ixicul?populatedll for maay centuries, and witpj fe?Trae'BVmrc?fotion of popu lation, ifceannot be doubted that every yard of euffaco contains tho germs of tho moro .common diseases, and tho native of some newer land, brought over to Britain's shores, falls a victim to its plague-stricken soil; but by gen erations of a destructive elimination Britons have become highly restraint to their nativo diseases-yet not fully so, for cancer and consumption, two of tho most common scourges, still hold nnwoi'fnl ?HIK?TT Australian Fever Cure. k "What's that fired gravo for?" [tsked the recruit. "Fella all sick: weather bad and budgery no good down 'bout Womba. Plenty rain one time, fella catch cold; plenty fever this time;by 'm-by fetoh'im longa that place," explained Warrigul, is a litter emerged from a wurley of the camp, aud the sick man was borne :o tho curious grave. The doctor ivalkcd in tho roar. Thrusting his baud into the long litch, to test its warmth, tho doctor signaled to lower the patient into it. Ha was then covered from neck to bot, feet and all. His head alone .ested above tho dirt. Sergeant Dal on explained: "The blacks put fever patients in ho ground like that, and steam the evor out. They say tho earth will haw off tho evil spirit, und then fill dm with life." "Electric currents, by Jove!" The next day tho late patient was lobbing around like a three-year-old. -Outing. Now HICTCIO Tires. The ingenuity of inventors has been xcrciscd to tho utmost on bicyclo ires that cannot be punctured in tho rdinary way. Various combinations f springs, plates and rubber havo ?een mada, and tho numher of de ices registered iu tho Pateut Oflico n this lino runs far up into the thou aud. Ono of the latest models shows sri08pf sprint**? plT 1 vnderneath ill ? :. .Vi " . .li' I'OV . ' itu ii loavj i ihber casing, it is claimed hat'a greater amount of elasticity is ccured with much ess danger of in ury tb tho rubbi 'In passing over ery rough surfa tho springs yiold o sudden pres: : . and thus insure lore safety to t oro fragilo outer lortion.-New Y >>h '<? ?edger. recliner th? ill'* l'ul?e. . The fanciful n< .. .Tvhioh<men used ometimes to ont n that the earth. ^,in some sense, .< .'. ing thinfc would rob?bly'have dei i suppbf$ ?rom,';. lie ??cunt'obs?i?v-i . s of Processor1' bim Milne and o . on the-shivers nd quivers tarara ? i .tly runthrough ls rocky frame, bu . capOnotice ex-, ept when watched " r withr specially -| onstruoted and exe. tingly dedicate pparatus. Professe" filno y?t?rls bat apparatus of ? th?J-' ml ha^'now eon mnii itted~nT???h < i.'ritisii^^f h td tl mp** I THE CHRIS! A distinctively Christian flag will noon bo adopted by a large ?wnibcr of churchos throughout tbo country with out regard to d?nomination. Buttons on which tho fing is conspicuously shown aro already being worn. Last Tally day at Brighton Chapel, Coney Island, a well known Christian worker lind been nunouneed to maka an ad dress. Tho chapel was well Ulled and when thc time for tho address had como tho speaker failed to appear. Tho superintendent of tho school, C. C. Overton, after apologizing for tho absence of the speaker, was obligod to take his place. Tho subject of bis talk ?was "Tho American .Flag." On tho platform was a bean!ifni dag, the gift of James II. Perry Post, Ch A. Ii. Mr. Overton dwolt upon the principles for which tho Hag stood, tho devotion of its followers, tho loyalty, fidelity and constancy which should be shown by Christ's followers. Tho want of a Christian Hag impressed Mr. Overton, nnd as ho told tho writer, "tho Chris tian (lag nppearod to bo floating in the air as I was speaking, and I gave tho Words by TANNY J.CR0SBT. < 72:76. Thc Christ.ian Fla-!- be . holt Thc Christian Flag? cn - furl The .Clinst-'tan Flag? Cod bles --eoej? see breeze. And lei j? ^?tiffy Tba WouJ starcross o And may it wave tri .Trumpet. long. To, cv . 'ry clime and " na' froe. Tho Christ-ion Flag! un . fail Seas, Till all the wide ere ? a . God speed Its ??o . rious . mis-sion, Ob, nay* it bear tho mes .sage And ail . tho world o - ni . ted, Chorno.. The Christ-tan Flag!be - hold it. A: I "Why is it," askod tho inquisitive ono "that a rooster cro<ws, ami a crow cawa?" It is true that a rooster roosts, but nobody over heard of a crow elbow ing. Thia is n question that should occupy tho attention ol Ibo acion titi A woman, porbnps, IAN FLAfL i rori 0 n description of it then an as it stauda upon our platfori I belioro it \va3 an inspira om beaven of a banner tba' wave triumphant over the . 'ag is most. .symbolic. Tho i white, representing peace, id innocence; in tho upper , a bl no square, tho color of iloudod sky, emblematic of l ! i homo of the Christian, also 1 ' faith and trust. In tho o blue is the cross, tho en jeu symbol of Christianity; red, typical of Christ's y sect of Christ's follow so tho flag, and it is iblo to all nations. It reed or denomination. iy Crosby, tho Christian wril 'ti tho words of tho E. nntingLon Woodman lore 'eproduced. Ncithor vnv.i xor music, has been ll aro dedicated by i followers of Christ 'ookln Eagle. ni. ip. < ni ictitrolof uga an-1 c. the ere blood. , 5 c^rs eau squally stands t Miss Fai )oct, ha. Iiymn an ;he lnusii tho Hag, jopyrightei.i ami M". Overt' i to i; the world o\ r.-.: ... aw Mrsic hy tm - ' iy. rail . lions. Til? ' joy Jtjjj Je - fitts, Wlio 'died ? i um . pluat O'er land. and ?its V?'iih ar . nest hearts wt) "CooJ wL'l - and peace to Our lav . lri2 Sa? - lev. ii 4tail', lt .wl? j'jp, songi, fi I? Cool; Heil, Kor. momo ter seems to fal en you walk into a low is an advancing c room fitted up in smaller than it Vclier Hand, blue of