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r ] ' i i ) -. ABBEVILLE PRESS <T BANNEltSl . BY HUGH WILSON AND W. C. BENET. ABBEVILLE, S. C., WEDNESDAY, JULY 3, 1878. NO. 4. VOLUME XXV&Jj^ '- * ' -' Hj War X. Fwo mothers lifting prayers unto one God, In alien language and on hostile cod. Two maidens walling, in a different tongae, The Jfory mass of silent men among. Two monarch* oouchVl in indolent repose, Reaping ambition by tUeir subjects' throep. Foes, that have never done each other ill; Frisnds, whose sole union is the aim to kill. Banners clutch'd fierce?the death grasp of the brave? * A tatter'd lag that glorified the grave.! Far-roUng smoke above a vnlture plain; 1 Artillery piled on ramparts of the slain. K attire swathed ronnd in one close crimson shroud; Blark speechlessness of the low thunder-cloud. The fields untll'd, the rich Heavens raining dearth; Weeds in the garden; weeping by the hearth. * ' n. Now, in the Land of Shades, two mothers meet, I' Mourning, embracing?with ensanguined feet. Two maidens clasp one urn that doth enclose The ashe* of their lovers, who were foes. Two kings to silence meet?in silenoe part? _ 1 They And, too late, thoy have a human heart. Nations of slain, whose armies won or lost, Mingle their shades : Death holds no hostile ghost. Their record* shall Instruct, with heartfelt moan, Their sons to combat with life's ills alone. Nations, who (trove to waste each other's lands, Turn swords to ploughshares for thair common hands. I Oh, misery! before that day can come. War-floods may thrust their fan in many a home HALF AN HOUR OF AGONY. I 1 MR. THUHBLEDIRK S TERRIBLE PREDIOA- , JCEXT. Yesterday afternoon Mr. Jasper Thurubledirk, who is forty-three years 1 old and unmairied, dashed into oar sanctum and evolved a remark, the intensity of which fairly :nade our blood J curdle. And when he completed the 1 remark, which was neither very long nor remarkably complicated, he picked . up a dictionary, hurled it at the proof 1 reader with great asperity, and before ! that good nature-.! and greatly abused angel of the editorial staff could recover from his emotion and get his umbrella | Mr. Thumbledirk was gone. He dashed 1 out of the door, missed tke stairway and ( stepped down tbe elevator, falling a dis- ( tanoe of three stories, but he was too ' mad and excited to get hurt, and we J heard him rushing away down the alley, j yelling and swearing tui ne was out 01 ; sight and bearing. As he is usually a very severe man, of habitual reserve, very particular and guarded in his language, we were amazod not only at his words, for which his excited manner afforded not the slightest explanation. During the day, however, wo became possessed of certain facts which may give the reader some clew to the causes of this worthy and respectable ci-izen's violent and disrespectful manner and language. It appears that about two o'clock in the afternoon, Mr. Thumbledirk dropped in at the Union depot to ask some r questions relative to the arrival and departure of trains, and while passing through the ladies' waiting room, he was accosted by a lady acquaintance who was going east on the T. P. A W. at alf-past two. She wished to go up town to make some little purchases, but didn't want to take her baby out in the rain. Would Mr. Thumbledirk please hold it for her until she came back ? She wouldn't be gone more than five minuteB, and little Ernest was just as | ? ^ on/1 Koai/ln V?A TTOC I gWU HO Oil UUU UVUAVtV) MW ? I sound asloep. I Mr. Thambledirk, with a strange flutter of his feelings, lied, and said he would be only too delighted. Then he took the baby, and the ticket agent, who has two, knew by the manner in which the man took the baby and looked anxiously from one end of it to the other to see which end the head was on, that he had never handled a human baby before in all his life, and promptly closed his windows to shut out the trouble that he knew was on the ove of an eruption. Mr. Thumbledirk is a very tall, dignified man. He was rather annoyed as the mother disappeared through the door to observe that all the women in the waiting-room were intently regarding him with various expressions, curiosity predominating. He sat down and bent nis arms at the elbows until 8 they resembled in shape two letters V's, with the baby lying neck and heels in I " ? ? -3 l? t 1? j tiie angle at tne eioowB, ana ae loosen, and he felt that he looked, like the hide- ( ous pictures of Moloch in the old Sanday-school book. 1 Mr. Thumbledirk felt keenly that he was an object of curiosity and illy repressed mirth to the women around him. * Now a dignified man does not enjoy be- j ing a laughing stock for any body, and it is especially humiliating for him to feel ' that he appears ridiculous in the eyes of ] women. This feeling is intensified wben ' the man is a bachelor, and knows he is * a little awkward and ill at ease "in the 1 presence of women, anyhow. So, as he } gazed upon the face of the quiet, sleep t ing infant, he made an insane effort to { | appear perfectly easy, and to create 1 the impression that he was an old married man, and the father of twenty-six ' children, he disengaged one arm, and ' | chucked the baby under the chin. About such a chuck that you always ' I fpftl like crivine a boy with a "putty . blower" or a "pea shooter." [t knocked } the little rose-bud of a mouth shut so j quiok and close the baby couldn't catch 1 its breath for three minutes, and Mr. Thumbledirk thought, with a strange, ( terrible pinking of the heart., that it was 1 just possible he might have overdone I the thing. A short, young woman in a ' kilt skirt and a pretty face, sitting di- ' r rectly opposite him, said, "Oh!" in a 1 mild kind of a shriek, and then giggled; 1 a tall, thin woman in a black bombazine dress and a gray shawl, and an angular 1 woman in a calico dress and a sun bonnet, gasped, "Why!" in a ntartled duet, 1 a fat woman with a small herd of children and a market basket, shouted, J "Well!" and then immediately olapped her plump hands over her mouth as though the exclamation had been startled from her, and a tall, raw-boned woman -who wore horned spectacles and talked bass, said, "The poor lamb!" in suc> sepulchral tones that everybody elsf laughed, and Mr. Thumbledirk, wh: didn't just exactly know whether sht meant him or the baby, bl ashed scarlet and felt his face grow so hot that 1 he smelt his hair. And his soul was filled with such gloomy forebodings that all the future looked dark to him. The baby opened its blue eyes wider than anv man who never owned a baby would have Relieved it possible, and stared at Mr. Thumbledirk with an expression of alarm, and a general lack of confidence that boded a distressing want of harmony in all further proceedings. Mr. Thumbledirk viewing ti <3se signs of carelessness with inward alarm, conceived the happy idea that the baby needed a change of position. So he stood it upon its feet. It is unnecessary to tell any mother , of a family that by the execution of this apparently veiv simple movement, the unhappy man had every thread of that baby'8 clothes under its arms and around its neck in an instant. A general but tmppressed giggle went around the room. . . . Mr. Thumbledirk blushed, redder and hotter than ever, and the astonished baby, after one horrified look at its ! n, strange guardian, whimpered uueasily. j y Mr. Thumbledirk, not daring to risk | p( the sound of bis own voice, would have j ]a danced the baby up and down, but its ! j8 little legs bent themselves into such ap- i p, palling crescents the first time he let the j w cherub's weight upon them, that the : wretched man knew in his heart of j je hearts that he had forever and eternally : most hopelessly "bowed" them, and i m felt that he could never again look a j 13 bow-legged man in the face without a fj, spasm of remorse. As for meeting the j1< father of this beautiful boy, whose life ; p] he had blighted with a pair of crooked ! tfc legs?never, he would face death itself; rc first. And in coming years whenever g] he met this boy waddling to school on a w pair of legs like ibe-tongs, he weuld t gaze upon them as his own guilty work, 8j and would tremble lest the wrath of the rg avenfiring gods should fall upon him. tit Alarmed at the gloomy shadows which fc, these distressing thoughts cast over w Mr. Thumbledirk's face the baby drew fr itself up into a knot and wailed. Mr. cc Thumbledirk balanoed it carefully on q, his bands and dandled it, for all the (jj world as he would " heft" a watermelon. n( Instantly the baby straightened itself ]0 out with such alarming celerity that the g tortured dry nurse caught it by the v8 heels just in time to save it from falling Wl to the floor. m "He'll kill that child yet," said the co ploomy woman who talked bass, and Be Mr. Thumbledirk felt the blood curdle in m cold waves in his veins. By this time J n( the baby was screaming like a calliope, co and the noise added inexpressibly to cj, Mr. Tumbledirk's confusion and dis- hi tress. He would hwe trotted the baby on his knee, but the attempt occasioned T1 too much oomment. The fat woman (|c with the market basket said: go "Oh-h, the little dear 1" jjt And the short, pretty woman snapped J th her eyes and said. he un-n-n j now cruei i I W( And the woman in the black bomba- qT sine, and the woman in the sun bonnet j i1 jaid: j pj "Oh-h-h ! just look at him 1" And t'n woman who talked bass said, | gj( n her ru .st sepulchral and penetrating ilc iccen f : pj "Tlio man's a fool." * nc And the baby itself, utterly ignoring 8y ;he fact that Mr. |Thumbledirk was labor- ^h Jig in its own interests, threw all the )bstruction it could in the way of furth- th ir proceedings Sy alternately straight- jj, rning itself out into an abnormal con- f0 lition of such appalling rigidity, that tie Mr. Thumblekirk vas obliged to hold its aead tightly in one aand and its heels on m the other, and tiien suddenly doub- ^ ing itself up into so small a knot that j)f ;he poor man had to hold his two hands {?>, :lose together, like t bowl, and hold ;he baby as he would a pint of sand, and he ;hese transitions from one extreme to ga ;he other were made"with stich startling gj -apidity and appalling suddenness, that pr Mr. Thumbledirk had to be constantly on ^ ;he alert, and his arms ached so, and he exhibited such signs of fatigue and distress that the depot policeman looked in ^ ? Bay to turn tnat it lie was iireu ouu,ne rj, ;vonld send in a section hand or the qa steam shovel to give him a spell. m It seemed to Mr. Thumoledirk that ie never heard so much noise come from jo small a baby in his life. The more ie turned it around and tossed it about ;he more its cloak and dress, and Bkirts M< md things became entangled around its i thi leek, and now and then the mass of tai Irapery would get over the baby's faoe ha ind stifle its cries for a second, but the as loise would oome out stronger than ever lot vhen the tossing little hands would tear ed may the obstruction. And the louder ru ;he baby screamed the faster the vigor- bcj )us, fat legs flew, kicking in every di- an ection, like crazy fly-wheels with the thi im off. Sometimes Mr. Thumbledirk thi nade as high as a hundred and eighty we jrabs a minute at those leg* and never ya nnfl nf fhp.m TT.' Was hot. Wfl )Iind and wild with terror and confu- mi lion. Once he tried to sing to the baby, tin )nt when he quavered out a " Hootchy, tw x>otchy, puddin' and pie," the women thi aughed, all bnt the gloomy woman who frc alked bass?she sniffled, and he stopped, pli 3e gave the baby his pearl-handled de mife, and the innocent threw it into the foi itove. He gave it his gold watch, and ha t dashed it on the floor. He gave it his to >merald scarf-pin, and the baby put it po nto its mouth. pe The pretty woman screamed. fai The 6ad woman. in the bombazine tei ihrieked. thi The angular woman in the sun-bonnet thi relied, "Ob, mercy on us!" sle The fat woman with the market-basket co jailed wildly for a doctor. an The gloomy woman who talked bass th< ihouted hoarsely: cr< " He's killed it!" or And Mr. Thumbledirk hooked his th inger into that child's mouth and cboked un t until its face was purple and black, thi ;rying to find that pin. And Mr. Thum- ed jledirk couldn't hear even the chattering hu voman. It beat the air with its clenched ly - * * i ? i-vi 1 ni. a... J ists, and tdrasnea ana kichou wim ius gr 'at bare legs, and wailed and howled tei tnd choked and screamed and doubled th lp and straightened out until Mr. gj Thnmbledirk, steeling his nerves to the vrl iwful effort, clasped the screaming baby co n his arms and rose to his feet. an He was going to go out and throw ca iini8elf and the baby under the first be xain that came along. in The baby*8 mother sprang in through ihe door like an angel of mercy. She took the baby in her arms and yith one slight motion cf one hand, had ts raiment straightened out so exquisite- on y smooth there wasn't a wrinkle in it. cr The baby lay in her arms as placid, 8j' luiet, flexible, graceful and contented nj is a dream of Paradise. an The mother thanked Mr. Thnmbledirk aE :or the agony and torture he had endnr3d so patiently for her. This was the ^ way she thanked him. She did not look it him. She looked straight ont the ^ window with a stony glare, and said, in , tones that made the thermometer shiver: ^ " Mr. Thumbledirk isn't a very good _j onrse, is he, baby ?" ^ All the women smiled, except the aa gloomy woman who talked baas. She p oodded approvingly. The baby looked np into Mr. Thumbledirk's face and laughed aloud. What Mr. Thumbledirk said when he f0 dashed in at the sanctum last evening was this: ji " By the avenging daughters of Night, the everlasting, snake-haired Erynnes, w the terror-haunted shades never knew ^ the horrors that haunt the soul of a sen- w sible single man that tries to take care ^ of some other fool's howling, squalling, fg squirming baby!"?Burlington Hawk- ^ eye. a iCCnnnnh I onnnol) I Tdltfl him off i JUIUV/U?U . ? , qj gentleman, take him off!" yelled the bottom man in a fight before the second blow was delivered. " What made you w give up so soon ? Ton could have licked H him easy by holding out a little," said y one of the bystanders to the man as he stood with trembling knees after being released from his antagonist. " What made you hollow * enough' so quick ?" a " Do you think I'm a glatton and don't Q know when I've got enough ?" said the f( defeated party as he limped away hold- ^ ing his sore jaw. e ' u The South Australian government has n offered a bonus of $50,000 for the dis- s oovery of a coal field within the limits of n the province, d How Victoria Beenme Engaged. There have been published sevei swspaper accounts of how the Princt ictoria brought Prince Albert to t apping point. The following is t test sketch of that delicate affair, not at all like the others, but rea retty withal. It is by " Ignatius,' riter for the London Figaro'. Certainly the young queen thoug ss of England than of marriage. T [inisters would fain have made h arriage a sort of international treat eyond all doubt, Victoria was tl nest match in the world. The qnee 5wever, waB full of a host of litl rejects, ever shifting and changing li ie little heaps of sand the child ri kise in the garden of the Luxembour tie told her mother she would wi ith no one whom she did not lov he Duchess of Kent reported tl >eech to the ministers, who thought ivolutionary in the extreme. Ooron an day came, and the next day tl dl at Windsor. Among the dance as a tall, handsome, slender studeD oin the University of Bonn ? h< tusin?a Coburg, like herself. Tl leen noticed him, and Prince Albe d not return to Bonn. Even had 1 )t loved he would have stayed; and 1 ved. But his cousin was the quee ere the woman had to make the a ince. Victoria, deeply touched as si is by this love, (which was nev ore to leave her,) could not easi 'nquer the maiden timidity due to h vere education. Nevertheless tl orning came. I assure you I iuve: )thing. Although the queen has m insented to relate these delightful ii ients, Prince Albert has told them i s friends. Nevertheless, then, a morning cam aey were riding together, he and sh >wn the great avenue of oaks at Win< r; Those oaks were younger thei it old enough already. After a gallc ey found themselves alone. We kno >w how dangerous it is for man ar >?nnn risla at- Stlrldfinlv t} leen took a sprig ;of honeysuckle fro ir bosom, and, stooping, offered it 1 rince Albert. Bending to reach it, h >s touched the tips of his cousin ores. Perhaps 'twas the fault of tl rses. The woods of England at :ance know well how many loves tt ible brutes have been the cause, ence followed, more sweet than an; ing ever sung to the heart of Mozar Next morning Prince Albert still wo] e honeysuckle in his button hol< 0 kept it even when it had faded, rtnight after that ride the plenipotei try minister handed King Leopold < ilgium a tiny letter, closed by a ormous rad seal, as though it had ighty secret of state. It began, "M sar Uncle," and was signed "Vii ria." A month later the queen mentione ir intention to marry Prince Albert < xe-Coburg-Goth to her ministerf te asked their counsel, but with etty air of decision which caused thei reply with*a "unanimous "yes. te wedding took place on the 10th ( sbruary, 1840. The Queen of Englari irried for love?Lord Melbourne wi jht -when he told England that tt een's marriage was the queen's n mce. What an Earthquake is Like. A. correspondent writing to a friend i Dntrerl from Caracas,Venezuela, givt a following additional interesting d Is of the late earthquake shocks: V* d, about 8:40 r. m., as lively a shal I want to experience. I first heard id, rumbling noise, ana then it seen as though a thousand-ton engine wi shing over the pavements, and then ream like a hundred engines run mac d then the house began to shake an 9 floor began to rise up, and abot at time I was in the open yard. Thei ire a few risings in the floor of tt rd, and all was over so far as Caracf ,s concerned. A few pictures an rrors fell to the ground in some < 9 houses; in the cathedral an image( o fell down?and nothing more. Bt 9 town of Oua, about twelve mil< >m here?a beautiful and flourishin ice?was by the same shock entire] stroyed, and from three hundred 1 ir hundred lives lost. Our Presidei s sent money, provisions and troop the place, and has done everythin ssible to alleviate the sufferings of tb ople. His wife, "Nina Belen," an xuly ruRhed into the plaza and ha its put up, and for many days slej erein. Thousands of people left tow at day; in fact, all that could; tberei >pt in the flaza, some in tents and o ts, but the majority on the bench< d on the sidewalks, and for a few daj b appearance of the city was really lud 3ns?every park, square, wide stree open place was filled with tents, an e middle of the streets with soldi? id?r arms. Mosquerias coffee yard0 one you visited while here?was HI with people?one hundred to oi indred and fifty?sleeping there nigh for a week or more, some on the bai 1 - - 1 i.?4.1 ouna auu some uuuor icuto, auu n its were wonderful to behold, bol ere and in town. Tents, shantie pay encampments, tents of canva lite, striped and speckled, of calioo, < ffee bags, of old sheets and of paperything answered. Finally tliing9 b mo more quiet; we had daily shock it light ones; people began to slef their houses. Origin of the Judge's Black Cap. The practice of our judges in puttii i a black cap when they condemn iminal to death will be found on co: leration to have a deep and sad si ficance. Covering the head was icient days a sign of mourning. "Hat i hasted to his house, mourning ai iving his head covered." (Esth. -s .) In like manner Demosthenes, wh< suited by the populace, went lion th his head covered. "And Dav * wept as he went up, and had h >ad covered, * * * * and all the pe e that was with him covered eve; an his head and they went up, weepii they went up." (2 Sam. xv. 3C arius, too, covered his head on lear g the death of his queen. But among ourselves we find traces similar mode of expressing grief nerals. The mourners had the ho< Irawn forward over the head," sa osbroke in the "Encyclopedia of A unities." Indeed the hood drawn fc ard thus over the head i h still part ie mourning habiliment of femal hen they follow the corpse. And wi lis it should be borne in mind that x back as the time of Chaucer the mc 3ual color of mourning was blac tropos, also, who held the fatal scissc hich cut short the life of man w othed in black. When, therefore, the judge puts i ie black cap, it is a very significant ell as solemn procedure. He puts i tourning, for he is about to pronoun ie forfeit of a life! And according ie act itself, the putting on of the bla ?p, is generally understood to be si ificant. It intimates that the judge doui to pronounce no merely regiB&er r suppositions sentence; in the ve jrmula of condemnation he has p imself in mourning for the convict alprit, as for a dead man. The cri ial is then left for execution, and nnli lercy exert its sovereign prerogatr offers the sentence of the law. 1 looming cap expressly indicates ] oom.?English Votes 'and Queries, COUNTERFEIT COIN. al 1 A Description of the Different Methods Employed in Counterfeltlnc Gold and Hllrer 9? he Piece.. W It would hardly be supposed that so ti\ " large an amount as two million dollars ge ds in counterfeit silver and gold coin is now ho ' a | afloat in this country, but such, accord- ge ing to the estimate of treasury experts, fie ht is the fact, and, moreover, the total is ar< constantly increasing. This spurious set er money passes through thousands of in- thi 7- nocent hands, until finally it is caught mc he in the meshes of the nets laid by the as secret service or is recognized by a lynx- Th eyed expert in some large bank. Then gr< ke the unfortunate holder becomes the vie- oni en tim of the counterfeiter's skillful ras- an< {? cality. nei In order to imitate a coin successfully sw e. fViAt. in nn that it will deceive, not the acc general public, because probably most ty, ^ persons never take a second look at the pei a* coin they receive, provided its appear- oc( 16 ance seems right, but the clerk or cash- plfi re ier moderately well accustomed to hand- Th ling money?the counterfeiter must re- th< 3r gard both execution, size and weight, sto ie The last is most important in gold coin, cei rt because the least current weight of the wit 16 latter is established, whereas in silver a nol 16 coin of light weight, so long as the re- i D' duction is not manifestly too great, will agi d" paaB. The standard weights and least usi 16 current weights of gold ooin are as fol- to er lows: gre Jy fSOpieo#?St'nd'rd, BIS rralni; 1?M'. oar'nt w'ght, 615-43 -Aer " ' " " T" #ro .. .. JOJ .. .. .. liU le ? " m e * " w-ia lot jji Any decrease in weight below the lat- ^ n ter figures subjects the holder to a loss ^ ^ equivalent to the difference. Tins ae- -" crease may occur by wear, or, as is very . often the case, through sundry nefarious ' processes, which, though not properly 86E a* counterfeiting, nevertheless belong to re.? " that species of crime. J ' These operations are perhaps the P most dangerous to the community, be- ?? l(j cause as a rale the coin preserves its appearance, is apparently genuine under ^ the acid test, and in fact is genuine except in weight. It is impossible, for PT" ?a example, to tell whether a ooin has been P ?g " sweated " or not without weighing it, . ^ ' and by sweating is meant the use ctf the j coin aB the anode in the electroplating cru bath, the gold being abstracted from it ove ^ and deposited on another surface. Of nes course a uniform quantity is removed ?Te from the entire surface, and the imprint , .g retains its original sharpness. As much ,l ' as two dollars' worth of gold is some- n.? 1 times taken from the double eagle in this way. A less scientific plan is one too commonly adopted by conscience- i n less jewelers, who when they want a , 'a little gold, instead of buying the prec- ? imio mofal Tinrr?liaa? n. twflntv dollar . . ? piece, file off with a dead smootfi file a sufficient quantity, reburnish the place, ,6 1(j and pass off the coin at full value. The ? . most extensive fraud perpetrated on nc i gold coinage is "splitting." The Pft8 ^ operator uses a fine saw to split the coin neatly in two. Then he gouges the ? >, gold out of the center until only c, thin . outside shell is left, and substitutes a . j silver and platinum alloy for the metal ,,j w thus abstracted. The two parts are . then joined with gold solder, and the . edge is remilled. In this way, we are ,, informed, gold to the value of $15.50 has been taken from a single piece. , Tlje operation, however, generally de- ? stroys the ring or tone of the coin, J in leaving it, besides, either too light or , js too thick. Another swindle is to bore ^ , b- into the edge, and it is said that John ,, 1 Chinaman favors this game, buying up ce the pieces, sending them to China, so ( a that his dexterous compatriots may i- there manipulate them in safety, and *2 is subsequently reimporting them to set . a them adrift upon the unsuspecting American public. The holes whence ^ d the gold is taken are refilled with silver, .j: it covered with gold solder, and the edges e are neatly finished ; but the light weigtt " te reveals the theft. From five to seven is and a half dollars' worth of gold has neS! d thus been taken from one coin, and the A )f pieces of course have every appearance UP >r of being genuine^ Real counterfeits? 8 CK xt that is, coin wholly Rpurions because ea? ja made of base metal?are almost invarig ably below weight, An exception to ,y this, however, exists in a five dollar X) piece which is of the exact standard cr?! it weight of 129 grains. It is composed ^ >8 of an alloy of gold and silver, and is g worth from 82.70 to $3.40. Its appear- *or ie auce and tone are excellent, but it is box d thicker than the genuine coin, and hence uPj d may be detected by the gauge. Still it _ it is one of the most dangerous counter- ~r? n feits in existence. ^U1 3t As we have stated a silver piece passes m current so long as the imprint is not 38 badly defaced or weight greatly re?r duced. A hole through the coin, how- ~ i- ever, condemns it?a fact, we believe, t, not generally known. The low value of d silver prevents any such proceedings as 6 rs in the case of gold, as the amount which _ could safeiy be abstracted will not pay 1- for the trouble of doing it. Consequent- I ie ly all silver counterfeits are true imita- gro t- tions, and there is hardly a date of dol- and re lar, half dollar, or quarter which has eioi ie not been copied with remarkable aocur- con ;h acy. The counterfeiter either makes a kuc s, mould in plaster from the real coin and to 1 s, casts from it, or he stamps his imitation the of in dies. As this last process is the same Bui _ as is in use in the mints, the counter- efft q. feits thns produced are more difficult to 1 s, to detect, because, besides being more to sp accurately finished, the compression ?t which the alloy receives brings it nearer tun to standard weight. A large number of to t counterfeit silver ooins are made chiefly its of type-me'al. A very dangerous half ? dollar is composed of silver, copper, pre j[ and zinc, and is worth about seventeen ha^ a_ cents. It is from seven to ten grains qu( ' too light. Spurious half dollars have enc appeared whicli constantly deceive bank sue Q_ tellers and other experts because they the ^ are of full weight. They are made of a ate r> compound similar to German silver, and the ^ are so well plated with genuine silver liqi ~ that the acm does not aneci tnem. xuey yic are, however, too thick, and the gauge, the as usual where the balance fails, shows W1 the fact. Counterfeits of the quarter po1 dollar, though very plenty, are less dan- it a ^ gerous than those of larger pieces. They rJ I ? are composed of antimony, tin, and lead, son 2' and are both too light and too thick, al- wh though they have a good ring. A pecul- &g? 0j iar composition has been employed, to fre aj. whioh powiered glaas is added togive a 3(j clear sound; but this is but a clumsy expedient, as the coin is far below prop- c ^ er weight, a fact easily appreciable by ,r; mere handling. . 0j It is a difficult matter to lay down any e8 general rules for detecting counterfeit ^ coins, as it will be seen from the fore^ going that the closest ooular inspection , )Bj. may be wholly at fault. In general the k milling on the edge of the counterfeit . irfl coin is always poorly executed as com- ? pared with the genuine.; but wear of the mf latter often renders the distinction diffl- m. " ' ;_j. J-11 cult to araw. AUOIUW pumu hui m idag membering is that absence of clear tone ^ in a coin is not necessarily proof of its' jj. falsity, because it may and does happen ,v_ that a crack or flaw is made in the metnl ' l during the rolling, and this, just as in a , f bell, will of course destroy the vibra- aQ tions and make the sound dull and flat. , ^ ?Scientific American. try ' lie iut First Law Pill?" Gad, Jones, a most su ~ Awoon 1 rt f nlr ^|? ea CUflUUO qUCBliUil UOO Qliocu tuivij! vu m- There's a man in Newtoo, and the law's be 388 suoh that they can't bury him 1" Se- tic ire, oond Law Pill (earnestly)?"Very as- tii "he tounding, to bo sure ! Why how on ch tiis earth can that be ?" First L. P. (de- nt risively)?" Why, he isn't dead yet!" la * Western Hurricanes. ] The frequency with which reports me of diBastrons hurricanes in the est, like that which proved so destrace in the town of Richmond, O., sug- < pts the propriety of choosing nearer ( me the scenes to be depicted in the 1 ographies, in which the effects of 1 rce gales are shown. These pictures i 5 commonly of West Indian land- t ipes, but there is reason to believe 1 xt destructive hurricanes are as com- y >n in some parts of our own country t in the border lands of the tropics, c e West, from Central Indiana to the ? jat Rocky Mountain ohain, is in effect 1 a vast wind-swept plain, broken here f 3 there to the eye, but in the main i irly as level as the sea. The wind c flens over it without let or hindrance, i iniring tremendous force and veloci- e and when sudden changes of tem- i rature and of barometric pressnre i jur in any part of the vast area of the 1 dn, the rush of wind is irresistible, t e writer of this paragraph has seen c ) sudden bursting of these western c rms on more than one oocasion, and t tainly only personal acquaintance t ;h them can give one an adequate r tion of their character. a L cloud shows itself sharply outlined c iinst the sky, just above the horizon, f lally when there are no other clouds be seen. As it rises a strong sea- J sen tint mingles with its blackness, g few miuutes suffice for its passage g m horizon to horizon, amid the pro- ? mdest stillness of the atmosphere. c en come little whirling gusts, striking ? on/1<1on1r ojanaincr t.Vinir ? 4UC111J OUU ?-o ?a ul disturbance. Then in the midst o the stillness the storm strikes straight r ; from the shoulder. Its onset re- v ables nothing so much as the sudden, ? istlesB blow of a pcgilist delivered p hout warning. It hits the earth, and o earth trembles. Houses, trees, fences e down before it?not blown over, but n jcked down. They do not sway and c ber, but fall prostrate at once to be e irled forward like leaves. They are \ shed, mangled, shattered by the first w. They have been hit suddenly as ^ a solid bolt, not blown upon by an u reasing wind. They have been 8, shed by a hurricane, not toppled e< r by a gale. There is a great dark- a s, too, over all the landscape what- & r the time of day may be, and its & ckness adds to the terror of the de- ii iction which it conceals. One sees 8] hing and hears nothing but the Bi ieking of t&e gale. Jtie is aione wiin d giant forces of nature and is utterly <j heir mercy. g 'he hurricane lasts only a few min- a s, ending as suddenly as it began, g when the sun appears again it is to t] ae npon a landscape so changed by q malignant forces that have been p ping npon it that one may scarcely 0 w whether he is still living or has b sed into the land of shadows. ^ The Shape of a Dog's 7?ose. ' 'I say the dog's nose wat. blunt and r( bby," exclaimed the beefy man, ^ king his fists and rolling his head. y reckon I have eyes, and I don't need f( put on specs to tell a dog's nose & n an ice-pick when I see it!" : Ma-oh a not whan von're sober." said fi lathy man, "bnt if you say that ;*8 noBe wasn't sharp and pointed, i was too drunk to tell a lamp-post 8' ii a toothpick, and consekently your gement was too foggy to know much, ?' . if you bet on it you'll back down or n s. I saw the dog before sunrise, b 2n I hadn't touched a drop, an* I ^ 'pinted' an' stand by it up for all 11 worth, and you dasent meet me." b 'he crowd by this time had increased C( k jam, and was growing faster than a 61 of costs. 'he beefy man reiterated his opinion jj \x a loud voioe, and said he would jer all of his property, and every- 0j )g he could borrow on the correct- ^ s of hiB proposition. p lie crowd grew larger and blocked ej the street. Those on the outer edge a] )d on tip-toe with open mouths and jE er eyee looking at the backs of others fl wondering what they were doing aj re, ana wnac it was un uuuun. ^ 'he lathy man glanced aronnd at the tvd, winked at the beefy man, and I: I guess that'll do, Sam, save the rest * next time," and stepping npon a which nad not been noticed, he held ? i bottle and put his lungs to work: " Here you are, gentlemen. The >at North Ame;ican Wart, Corn and lc lion Extractor ! Sure as death, and n aper than you all feel; only twenty- h cento a bottle, and cheap at half the tl iey." Ivery man in the crowd said "Sold I" ai suddenly lost all further interest in r< shape the dog's nose.?Cincinnati F akfast Table. s< ? B Sunlight. a: t is a familiar fact that a potato-vine wing in a dark cellar is white, puny, s . without strength. It would be al- g at precisely the same with a child w tlned to a dark room. It is also well o >wn that light is somehow essential s< lealth, and that simple sunshine is ii best medicine in many diseases, ai b it is not known how the hygienic set is exerted, though there is reason ^ aelieve the effect is mainly due, not 8( the color rays, but to the actinic rj he invisible rays that paint the pic- j 9 in the photograph, and penetrate w iho seed beneath the sod and quicfeen ? germ. ? k>me experiments, however, recently sented to the English Royal Society, re a bearing on the solution of the ration. They prove that.the pros- o :e of light, bat especially of direct ^ ishine, prevents the development of a microscopic fungi which are associ- tl d with putrefaction and decay. When si re are germs already present in a h aid, it destroy* them, and perfectly ri serves a putrescible fluid in which F y have not yet been developed, n lile this preservative quality is most a verful in the direct rays of the sun, ,lso exists in diffnsed light. n Flie hvcnene of light will doubtless l aetime be fully understood. Mean- t ile we know enough to make it a sin t linst health not to let the sun have v est admission to all our dwellings. t ? t Homesickness. ^ 5o commonplace a disorder as home kness has been made the subject of entitle investigation. Dr. H. Rey es it a high-sounding name, "Nolgia," and regards it as a form of inlity from which grown men often suf- 1 severely, and of which they some- * les die. He gives particulars of his c servations among the French soldiery, } iere it is of very frequent occurrence, 1 >re particularly among the infantry. 6 ie cavalryman, he thinks, is less liable f suffer in this way, probably because < has less leisure time on his hands, j ia the young foot soldier who is prone { pine for his native place. The young ' nsciipt becomes gloomy and taciturn, ( $es his appetite, is fond of solitude, 1 d often gives way to tears. He sufrs from incessant headache and is un- i le to sleep, and after a while, unless i i can be aroused and interested in his 1 rroundings and distracted from his \ earns of home and friends, gradually < icomes the victim of general prostra- : >n, followed by delirium, and some- 1 nes bv death. Dr. Rey believes that : lildren do not often suffer in this way, i >r do very old persons; and women are gs liable to it than man. FARM, GARDEN AND HOUSEHOLD. J Feeding Fowls and Chicken*. ' For old fowls in summor a mixture of I jne-half bran and one-half Indian meal , [scalded) for breakfast. Buckwheat, 0 wheat, oats and corn at night. Oorn is ;he poorest grain for producing eggs; a wheat or buckwheat the best. Screenings t ire of not much valne, I keep old mor- f: &r, ground oyster shells, gravel dust, box s pith dry earth and a little flour of sulphur s herein. There is nothing your fowls ^ lelight in more than a box of hard coal s ishes. In winter I use chopped chand- t ers' scraps or boil beef heads all day in a i boiler in my poultry house, also add- d ng chopped turnips, potatoes, onions or a sabbage, and at night turn the whole r nto a large iron vat, thicken it suffici- <] rntly to be as dry as it can be well t nixed. Cover the vat, and in the morn- n ng it is just warm enough. Those b :eeping only a few fowls need not at- d empt anything like this, as the scraps o if this and that from the table will t< lause your poultry and eggs to cost next p o nothing. The drinking vessels should tl >e frequently (every day in summer) g ubbed inside and rinsed to prevent the fi ^cumulation of green slime, so detri- tj aental to health. Fowls will do best if tl eed is constantly varied. Feed fob Chioks.?In early spring, ndian meal scalded, meat once per day, 0frass if it can be had, where they can o ;ather it for themeelves. If too early n or this, raw turnips chopped very fine, lf abbage, lettuce, etc. When warm ir reather comes I discontinue the meat, ? s it has a tendency to make large ombs; but if your chioks have a good a. un and they are not too numerous, they w rill pick up considerable animal food in _ he shape of bugs, crickets, grasshop- ^ 'ere, etc., which reminds us that a few g hicks can be raised at little or no ^ ipense. But when you crowd a large nmber on a small piece of ground their _ ost is more. Fresh fish in summer is " xcellent (boiled) for young chicks. Vhen I go fishing the chicks always get ov lieir share. Bone meal is good mixed 5" ith their feed. For their last feed I ^ se invariably cracked corn, wheat, or 0 ame other grain they can eat, aa soft Don digests, while grain will last nearly 11 night. Although corn and corn meal re not good for the egg producer, I onsider it the very best thing for growig chicks. I also provide ground oyster st bells in plenty. Do not neglect their tt apply of pure water, several timeB per si ay, if necessary, and rub out the water a, ishes every day to clear them from the ei reen slime. When you shut them up bj t night do not let many huddle to- tb ether, nor shut them so secure that a ley will be without plenty of pure air. b< lut holes in their boxes in different tb lacea (for summer) and nail on pieces tb fwire netting to exclude rats, etc., or ore inch holes with an auger. Separate of axes as soon as they show signs of ma- tb irity, if you desire large fowls. When fc le chicks begin to roost see that their ac xists are large enough so the chicks of ill not be deformed. The roost I in- or ariably use for all my yards is a two by to >ur inch joist (four each side up)Jround- se 3 on top. Sweet or sour milk is excel- ai ;nt for fowls and chicks, mixed with it leir soft feed. oi Young Asiatics (Brahmas and Cochins) lould be fed all they can eat, at least ft iree times per day. But do not expect re Id Asiatics to lay eitlier large, fertile or in umerous eggs if fat. They should not in e fed all they can eat. I feed old stock m vice per day. A young cockerel needs so tore food than old hens, and when I ta reed this way I nail a cup or box of fl< )rn high enough that the cockerel may ai it from it, but too high for the hens. y( A grass run is inJispensable for the f1 ealth and comfort of any flock of fowls. v be more hours per day you give them f this the better they will do. In win- Q1 )r, cabbage hung by a cord in their ?* en is excellent. Instead of this I gen- th rally use large raw turnips cat in two * !' ad run through the half a one-fourth ac ich pointed wire, with the other end rmly nxea in a ooara to Keep me iunup ways out side up.?O. S. JosseJyn's fr 'atalogue. 8e Honsehold Illnu. 8C To Remove Grease From Carpet pj nd Restore Colors.?A handfol of 9 rushed soap bark (Quillaya) to a pail ?( f water. So rub the spots and sponge le carpet all over. To remove mildew, take equal parts of >mon jnice, salt, staroh and soft soap; lb on thickly, lay on the grass in the j( ot sun. Renew the application two or c0 iree times a day. m A mixture of red lead, Indian meal p< ad molasses will be eagerly eaten by qi caches, and will soon exterminate them. n< 'aris green, phosphorus or arsenic are os jmetimes used,but are very dangerous. h< iorax, to whioh roaches have a great di atipathy, will drive them away. H To Brighten Gilt Frajc.?Take y< afficient flour of sulphur to give a ^ olden tinge to one an.l one-half pints of H 'ftter; boil in this wut?r four or five ?J aions, strain, and when cold, wash with ol 3ft brush any part that requires restor- a lg; when dry it will come out as good w b new. E If pegged boots are occasionally b' ressed with petroleum between the ^ jles and upper leather, they will not u ip. If the soles of boots and shoes are 01 ressed with petroleum they will resist 'et and wear well. The pegs, it is said, M re not affected by dryness after being w rell saturated with the liquid. V( An effectual and inexpensive deodori- tc er is obtained by dissolving half a dram ci f nitrate of lead in a pint of boiling p, rater and two drams of common salt in la pail of water; the two solutions are hi aen mixed and the sediment allowed to w Bttle. A cloth dipped in the liquid and tl ung up in the apartment is all that is ai squired to purify the most fetid atmos- ia ihere. It is recommended for its cheapess, a pound of the materials costing a< bout twenty-five cents. T A recipe for varnish suitable for wal- b ut, etc.: Japan 2 quarts, coach varnish tl quart, turpentine spirits 1 quart, fs leeswax 4 ounces. Shave the wax up di hin, put it in the turpentine in a tin di essel, and place the latter in hot water ti ir?H1 l'fra /tnnfanta am fnflfid? thfin add it o the other ingredients and shake well. The varnish should be of the best qualiy. The mixture dries without crack- ., ng, and has a beautiful,soft appearance; j t is suitable for either inside or outside . pork. ? French Pancakes.?To make French p jancakes, take two eggs, two ounces jj mtter, two ounces sifted sugar, two >unces of flour, half a pint of new milk. ^ Beat the eggs thoroughly, and put them a nto a basin with the butter, which y ihould be beaten to"a cream; stir in the p ingar and flour, and when these ingre- 8 lients are well mixed, stir in the milk, B) seep stirring and beating the mixture j, or a few minutes. Serve with a cut c emon and sugar, and pile the pancakes j; )n a dish with a layer of preserve or j narmalade between each. b Cane and Umbhella Stand.?Get a e jection of earthen, sewer pipe, and a stand it with the projecting point at the r bottom. Paint the inside some delicate i: int to harmonize with the illumination ii ?f the hall, and the outside some bright, t nnh nnlnr. Paint, a black band around c the top and bottom. When dry, deoo- c rate the outside -with Borne decalcomanie i designs?vines, flying horses, heads? anything odd and antique, and then oover with two coats of white varnish, t Paint a'small, tin baein both inside and rat, and stand the vase over it. These >ear so close a resemblance to imported 'ftses as almost to defy scrutiny, and are ar more ornamental than this imperfect lescription would imply. How to Starch.?Every housewife, a well as laundry maid, should know low to starch. Here are good directions rom an experienced hand: When hot tarch is used, take one heaped tablepoonful of starch to a quart of boiling rater; after it has been beaten down mooth with a little cold. If it does not arn into a jelly, put it into a saucepan, nd stir it while it is over the fire till it loes. To prevent the iron sticking, stir piece of wax-candle two or three times ound in the hot staroh, or add four jops of turpentine. Strain the starch hrough a piece of muslin, and cover it p till nearly cold. When the things to e starched are drv, they should be ipped into the staroh ; then wring them ut, and when half dry place them in a swel, sprinkle with a little water, and oil them up till you are ready to iron nf Hio mndla. it is a LiUILU Alioucxau va huv w^v..V| .. ? _ ood plan to keep a small piece of skinny it beside you, and eaoh new thing you ike up, touch the tip of the iron with tie fat. . Recipes. Portable Lemonade. ? Take one once of powdered tartaric acid and six ances of powdered sugar, and wet the lixture with one drachm of essence of imon; dry in the sun: rnb, and divide lto twenty-four parts, iSach part will take a glass of lemonade. Stbawberby Jelly.?Orush the fruit nd strain through a coarse linen bag, id to eaoh pint of juice allow one ound of sugar; boil ten minutes, skim* ling as necessary; pour hot into jelly lasses andfstand the glasses in the sun i for preserves for two days. Labd to Keep Thbotjgh Summer? repare it in thisjway: To one gallon I lard put one ounce of sal soda, dis >lved in a gill of water. Do not fill 3or kettle more than half full, for it ill foam and perhaps boil over. No her water is required than what the >da is dissolved in. When it is done i is very clear, and will keep two years, train through a coarse cloth and set ray. Blueberry Cake.?One small cap or igar, half a cap of batter, and yolks of iree eggs beaten to a cream; one tea>oon, even, fnll of soda, dissolved in cup and a half of sweet milk, and flour 1 lough for cake batter, with two tea ' voonfuls of cream of tartar in the flour; 1 ten the whites of three eggs, beaten to 1 stiff froth; dredge a quart of blue 1 jrries, or huckleberries, and stir into ! e mixture just before putting into ie baking-pan. Bake quickly. Flannel Cakes.?Warm one quart J milk with two ounces of butter until j oroughly mixed; dissolve a fceaspoonil of soda in a little rich cream, and , Id alittle warm milk. Sift two pounds flour, with two tablespooniuls of -? A?l? ?j _t:_ 6flm ox uuruiri tuiu dull iuiu wo ***??^ make a thick, smooth batter. Beat yen eggs until very thick and light, id add gradually to the batter, beating hard while pouring the eggs in. Bake 1 a hot griddle, well greased. Chebby Pudding.?One quart of aur, three cupfuls of dried oherries ibbed in the flour, four eggs, two cupIs of sugar beaten very light after beg added to the eggB, a cupful of sweet ilk, one teaspoonful of bicarbonate of da and two teaspoonfuls of cream of rtar sifted into the flour. Wet the )ur and fruit with the eggs and milk, id add a teaspoonful of salt. Scald >ur pudding-cloth or mould, allowing nple room for swelling, and boil for tu KJL VJLUCO UVlUOf Presebved Stbawbebbies. ? Three j aarters of a pound of fruit and a pint 1 water to seven pounds of sugar. Put , ie sugar and water into a porcelain ket- , 9 and boil from seven to ten minutes, wording to thickness; then add the ' nit previously washed and drained, id boil four minutes; skim out the , nit; turn the syrup into tin pans and ' it in the snn, adding the borries as J on as it is cool; let stand in the sun? , otecting from insects?the sunny part two dajs; put into glass and screw J )wn; it is not necessary, however, to , kve lbuui air-tight. , In Autocrat of Credit. 1 A New York correspondent writes: ' )hn Brown has been in the Stewart ' ncern for a quarter of a century or ore, and has risen to a very important , )sition in the palace of fashion, He is a , liet looking man, of oourteous manjrs, and is one of that class ordinarily ' tiled a "shop walker." Mr. Brown, iwever, has a vastly more important ' ity than ordinary men of this class. ! e is the autocrat of oredit, and has for iars studied the vast range of high life , ith a view to know the ability to pay. e has a list of the substantial portion j : the fashionable world, and also one ' : the doubtful class, to whioh ie added , general and rapid view of the trash , hich flits about the world of show. ' very year Brown makes out a new list, , at such is tbe change in social life that ich month calls for fresh inspection. J rown has his "tickler" (as the book is . illed in commercial parlance) but lie ; irries its cod tents to a very large ex- . int in bis head, and he is ready . hen any lady's name is mentioned to ive an immediato reply. Hence it is 1 3ry important for fashionable shoppers i be in good odor with the autocrat of :edit, and many is the favorable tale 1 oured into his ear by importunate idies, but when duty requires it he is j ard as flint. Many of those who forlerly paid cash now wnut credit, and lere are ladio3 who ran bills at Stewrt's of 820,000 in a year. The collector out all the time. He walks about lif;en miles a day, and takes on an averse a hundred refusals to ten that pay. his kind of business is undesirable, at it is found to be unavoidable, and ie collector learns a sad lesson of the .1?tho fnshinnflhlfi world. No UBCUUV/V* V/A. Dubt it was much the same in Pope's ay, for he tells of one "who paid a adesman once to make him stare." No Bones In the Ocean. Mr. Jeffrey has established the fact iat bones disappear in the ocean. By redoing, it is common to bring up teeth, ut rarely ever a bone of any kind; liese, however compoct, dissolve if exosed to the action of the water but a ttle time. On the contrary, teeth? rhich are not bones any moro . than 'hales are fish?resist the destroying ction of sea water indefinitely. It is, tierefore, a powerful solvent. Still the opular opinion is that it is a brine. If nch were the case, the bottom of all eas would, long ago, have been shaljwed by immense accumulations of carassea and products of the vegetable ingdom constantly floating into them. )entine, the peculiar material of which Beth are formed, and the enamel covnng them, offer extraordinary resistnce to these chemical agencies which 1 ? '?A?v>nma ir?fn nr\fV?_ 6801Vd ULliCr UUUUIU ^cuiaiuo auvvs Qgness. Mounds in the West, tumuli Europe and Asia, -which are believed o antedate sacred history for thousands if years, yield up perfectly sound teeth, m which time appears to nave made no mpression whatever. The Most Unpopular Petty Office* in he Army?Corporal punishment. wonHMmm A German Onion Market* I am rare you can not guess what sor of a thing a Zwiebel-markt is. Th< word means onion-market, and I wil tell you about one which I saw in t German city. I was awakened very early one Octobei morning by the rumble of heavy carte under my window, and drawing aside the curtain, I looked out upon the great square all alive with a busy crowd ol men, women and children. There were huge canvas-covered carts, drawn by oxen ; great lumbering wagons, with a horse and cow, or a pair of droll little donkeys, harnessed together; dogs and goats were tackled to small wagons that olnncr mror fVlfl Afl while the drivers' whips were cracking like hundreds of torpedoes, and every c<?rt, large and small, was heaped with onions. Where had they all come from, for it was barely sunrise then ? While eating breakfast, which I took an hour earlier than usual that morning, I asked my landlady about it, and she told me that it was Zwiebel-markt, and would continue three or four days. It is really the season when the harvest is gathered, and the farmers come to town to sell their country produce; but instead cf making it a mere stupid time of traffic, they turn it into a grand holiday. The town puts on its gala attire, the shops arp bright with all manner of glittering things; street musicians draw around them crowds of happy peasants, who stand and listen in open-mouthed delight; Ponch and Judy shows, dancing bears, trained bears, trained doga and talking birds, are all to be found in tents or booths at every corner. So, you see, it is not by any means made up entirely of onions. As I walked through the streets I fonnd that there were all sorts of vegetables, such as we see in our markets at home at Thanksgiving time; bnt an maa fn f.Kfl vIIAIA tU? Ul MCOUUJT WOO QIIVU w Ifuw by the tasteful arrangement of the various articles. Bright yellow carrots, with their delicate foliage, contrasted with white cauliflower and the crisp, curling leaves of red cabbage; turnips, large and small, were arranged in fantastic heaps, their green leaves still bright; and strings of shining onions were piled on the ground in gigantic pyramids, a great deal taller than any man. The peasants take great delight in this holiday season. Whole families come together, and camp out during the night just beyond the city limits, returning each morning before sunrise to their places of sale. The largest Elections of fruit and vegetables are [eft tinder tbe care 01 a guara an mgnc, but the smaller wares, such as poultry, sggB, butter, cheese, nuts, grapes, eto., ire packed into the same carts which brought them to the town, and carried Dff by their owners to the place of their encampment.?Golden Hours. New York Fashions. The short skirt dress for street and )ut of doors wear becomes more and nore popular from day to day. Rich md 'elegant fabrics are being made up in short skirt styles, and are seen along Broadway and Fifth avenue daily, worn by the most fashionable women. Trimmings of lace, fringe, embroidery and plea tings are seen on such suits. The toilet matches in all its details. The aatis trimmed with ribbons and feathers x) harmonize m color witn rne materials jf the costume. The gloves, of unIressed kid,are of fine Lisle thread, with blockings around the wrists, are selected likewise with an eye to the colors of the rait/ and the short skirt shows the stockings or the cloth top of the boots, ilso to match. In fact, cloth tops to boots have become universally popular since the short dresses have come in rogue. Black cloth tops are most sought for, but those with gray or brown tops, :>r checked black and white, are chosen for special dresses. Black velvet tops are also worn, but the shoe of the season is the sandal top Newport tie, with a Louis XV. heel. The straps across the toe and instep show the colored stocking, which, in that case, must match the 3ostume, of course. Such shoes, however, are not intended for street wear. The side-buttoned boot is still the shoe Pah +V?af TIOA Beautiful Balbriggan hosiery is shown this season in improved shapes and finish, and knitted to produce bourstte effects in color on dark sufaces, or in mixtures of white and black, or two shades of grey. For house wear with low slippers, which must be ornamented with bows and buckles, are shown exquisite silk and Lisle thread hosiery, with the foot in solid black and the leg pale rose, blue, scarlet, green, or any fancy uolor, and sandal straps simulated in black bands thrown across the instep, and continued in horizontal lines around the ankle to the point where the swell 3f the calf begins. Such stockings come 3f extra lengths, and are gartered above the knee with ornamental elastic-drawn ribbons, bedecked with bows and jewelled buckles. Madame Raymond, writing from Paris to Harper's Bazar, says: "In general, short costumes are flat only in front. In the back the tunic or polonaise is arapea in a very marked fashion. This is the transitu n which will lead us back to the bouffant dresses, the reappearance of which was announced for this summer, and the final adoption for next winter. With bouffant dresses will be worn, it is said, small paniers, which will form a 3ort of miniature crinoline on each side Df the wearer. Some fashionable ex[juisite^ have already adopted short costumes bouffant on the hips, and supported by paniers. Prince Murat. A despatch from London announces the death of Prince liucien Charles Francois Napoleon Murat. He was the youngest son of Joachim Murat, a celebrated French General and King of Naples (1808), his mother being Caroline Marie Annonaade Napoleon, sister of Napoleon L -He was born in Milan, May 16, 1803, and after living near his mother until 1824, he went to Spain, where, on the suspicion of being on a treasonable errand, ho was arrested and thrown into prison. After his liberation he came to the United States and married a Miss Fraser, his wife earning a support by teaching. He returned to France in 1848, and was elected to the constituent and legislative assemblies. He was envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary to Turin in 184.9, and became senator on January 25,1852. In 1853 he received the title of prince of the imperial family. In 1860, when the Bourbons were expelled from Naples, Marat put forth his claims to the throne of the Two Sicilies, but at the instance of Napoleon III. he soon publicly disclaimed his intentions. In 1871 he was with Bazaine in Metz, and when the city capitulated he was made prisoner. His 11--1 Tna/in^ Tnnnfiim Wftr?f*lflnTV emebt bUIi, U uoojyu i/vuvu*M ?x 7 born in Paris July 21, 1834, has been since 1866 colonel in the French army, and in April, ^ 1872, obtained leave to servo four years in the Swedish army. The unequal length of the lower limbe sometimes observed in man can be more readily detected when the man is lying down on the floor than when he is standing up. Experienced tailors assert thai this aberration aocounts for some misj fits in trousers. Items of Interest. * ;J: t Iowa has^390 newspapers. | Disturbing the grave?Making a sober I man laugh, * ^ 1 They have ladies' smoking oars on ' . Peruvian railroads. \ The large white ants are eaten by , many Afrioan natives in the absence ol more agreeable foods. ! The activity of some people is like i that of a boy on a rooking-norse?plenty ' of motion, but no progress. An editor offers a reward of five dol- .. 1 lars for the best treatise on " How to make out-door life attractive to the mosquito." What is the difference between the Prince of Wales and a iet of water? The Prince is heir to the throne, and the jet is thro-ffn to the air. "Isn't it about time you paid thai bill?" said a creditor to a delinquent. " It's not a question of time, but of money," was the response. ;r A devoted husband sava that the pito> ' nograph is simply a machine that "talks back," and he has had one of that kind in his house ever since he was married. He Luxembnrgers have eat raoes, ,rj3 Oats are taken in bags to a point two miles from the city. They are then let out of the bags, and the first reaching the city is winner. A correspondent writes from Parma, "There's always something to charm the eye, delight the ear and stir the soul in . . Italy. The introduction of the scrub* - --5 hi no hrnflh wonld make it anaradise." " The .moon is always just the same," he said languidly, and yetlahray* find some new beauty in it. " It's just so with the circus," she responded. He took the hint and bought tickets far two. " What river is Venice on?"?Janet Tension is not a river, miss; it's a confection, and one which, having once sampled, will haunch yon with a perpetual desire for more.?Yonkers Gotelle. Janet, dear, do not believe the young buck; he is making game of your question.? Boston Commercial Bulletin. An old lady, upon seeing a placard in a store window announcing " one price for all," was mightily disappointed when \L;< she went in and discovered that instead of being able to buy all in the window for one dollar and a half, she must pay " one price" for one article. And now yon cannot disabuse her mind of the idea that some store-keepers will lie. Sound in air moves at the rate of 1,100 feet a second; sound in water moves at -/ the rate of 4,000 feet a seoond; light in either moves at the rate of 190,000 miles a second and electricity in free wires mores probably at the same rate. The nerves transmit their messages'at. th? rate of only seventy feet a second, progress which in these times might weH be regarded as intolerably slow. : r . A hnge snake of the garter specie? . < was lately killed in Atchison, Kansas, and on being opened a female qnail was foond inside. The qnail was also cot open and three eggs were taken from her and placed nnder a hen. In a short time two of the eggs hatched young quails, who were as lively and healthy as any others are, but had defective heads, as they were shaped and had the appearance of a snake? being entirely destitute of feathers. MATED i?I) REXATED. .* 1 A tear stood in tier eye oL blae, She a&id, " Oh, what would Edwin do We*e Angelina fated To quit this happy world and die?" His qoivering Bps made qniok reply, ' HI get you, love, cremated." On rosy lips a pout was seen, " Wnat will you do yourself, I mean?" Bright eyes his answer waited. When from his heart resistless came The answer 'twas almost the samo, "111 get myself remaiedL" A solarium, or sun room, has been provided in the New Tork Hospital for convalescent patients. It takes in the whole upper story of the old Thorn mansion, and has a huge sky-light, and on three sides windows without shades, fliof. +.V>? rnrim in flooded with light. Tanks of running water, filled with j?sh, sheila and aquatic plants, tropical flowers and shrubs, and cages of singing birds, go to make up a delightful and perpetual summer for patients who can crawl from their beds. John Burdette has a new dog, and in a spirit of malicious daring, has named him "Mister." And every time he waves his hand at the canine and shouts in savage tones*. " (Jo home, Mister, or Til land a brick at ye!" every man on the street rolls up his sleeves and waltzes up to the auditor and wants to know "who he's a talkin' to, and what he a ? 3 xi it means Dy icy auu me rcouni id wo boy is on fighting terms with half the men in Burlington.?Hawkeye. Near Waterloo Station in Georgia a ground-hog lately carried off a child from the liut of John Keeshan, a laborer on the railroad tracks, and, carrying it to a hole in a tree, deposited it there* and covered it with leaves, and, returning to the hut, attempted to drag away some of the child's olothing, when Mrs. Keeshan entered the room and chased it out, and, on following it to the troe for the purpose of getting the clothes back, was rejoiced to discover her lost child snugly ensconsed in the hollow. "Ingoldsby," a fair, frail young man, from the Flint river district, sends us a beautiful poem, of which we can only afford space for one line. "I would fly to the woods like the whip-poor-will." He can't fly, there's no use talking or thinking about it; he might go in a balloon, but he never can fly like the whip-poor-will, if he tried all summer. However, if he writes any more poetry like that, we will see that he goes to the woods if we have to carry him there. The woods is the place for that kind of poetry.?Burlington Hawkeye. A SOXQ WITHOUT AN E. [The letter E is used more than any other letter in the English alphabet. Each of the following verses contains every letter of the alphabet except E.] A jovial swain should not complain Of any buxom fair Who mocks his pain, and thinks it gain To quiz his awkward air. Quixotic boys who look for joys Quixotic hazards ran; A lass annoys with trivial toys, Opposing man for fun. A jovial swain may rack his brain, And tax his fancy's might; To quiz is vain, for 'tin most plain That what I say is right Daring the war between Augnstu* Caesar and Maro Antony, when all the world stood wondering and uncertain which way fortune would incline herself, a poor man at Borne, in order to be prepared for making, in either event, a bold hit for his own advancement, had recourse to the following ingenious expedient: He applied himself to the training of two crows with such diligence that he brought them the length of pro nouncing, with greit distinctness, the one a salutation to Caesar, and the other J a salutation to Antony. When Augustus i returned conqueror, the man went out to meet him with the crow suited to the occasion, perched on his fist, and every i now and then it kept exclaiming, "Salve, i CfBsar, Victor Impertor!" ("Hail, ; Casar, Conqueror and Emperor 1") Au gustus, greatly struck and delighted i with so novel a circumstance, purchased ' the bird of the man for a sum which immediately raised him into opulence.