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MOTHER'S MENDING BASKET. Over and under, and in and out. The swift little needle flies; For always between her and idleness The mending basket lies; And the patient hands, though weary, Work lovingly on and on At tasks that never are finish >d; For mending is never done. She takes up the father's stocking; And skillfully knits in the heel. And smooths the seam with a tender touch, That he may no roughness feel: And her thoughts to her merry girlhood And her early wifehood go, And she smiles at the first pair of stockings She knit so long sgo. men snespeaKs to rut* uiue inaiuen Learning to knit at her side, And tells her about those stockings Uneven and shapeless and wide? "I had to ravel them out, my dear; Don't be discouraged, but try. And after awhile you'll learn to kuit As swift and even as I." She takes up a little white apron, And thinks of the woeful face Of her darliug when she came crying: "Oh, mamma, I've torn my lace."' So she mended the child's pet apron; Then took up a tiny shoe, And fastened a stitch that was broken, And tied the ribbon of blue. The maiden has wearied of workiug And gone away to her play; The sun in the west is sinking At the close of the quiet day. Now the mother's hands are resting Still holding a stocking of red, And her thoughts in the twilight shadow To the far off future have fled. "Oh, where will the little feet wander Before they have time to rest? Where will the bright heads be pillowed W"Vion flm K??/iocf ?? jucu vuv ittvuuci a ivs>iu? uitwu Is under the spring's blue violets, And under the summer grass, When over her fall the autumn leaves, And the storms of winter pass?"' And a prayer from her heart she utters; "God hless them, my dear ones all! Oh, may it be many, many years 'Ere sorrow to them befall!" To her work from the mending basket She turns with a heart at rest; For she knows that to husband and children She is always the first and best. ?.466c Kinne, in Ledger. A FAWN THE PRIZE. A FIGHT BETWEEN A GRIZZLY AND CALIFORNIA LIONS. Undoubtedly the grizzly bear is a grass feeder. Although his main source of food is roots, herbs, acorns and such nuts as are to be met with in the countries through which lie ranges, he nevertheless greedily devours the carcasses of any dead animals that fall in his way. No doubt the so-called "monarch of the Sierras" is often very meat-hungry. By stratagem lie may sometimes capture . small animals, but. lie is too slow and | clumsy to overtake deer, elk or antelope, ; unless he shall happen to come upon these animals when they are badly wounded. Mountain men have often wondered how the grizzly bear manages to subsist at that season of the year when there are no berries, and but few pine or other nuts to be found. That the "monarch " is not above highway, or rather, high Sierra robbery, will be seen by what is recorded of him iii the following sketch: "Tii October last, in company with a West Virginian named Richards, I went up into the high Sierras for a two weeks' hunt. "We went to hunt deer, but were well prepared to encounter a grizzly bear i or anything else shootable that might cnmfi in nur wsiv Wo liorl v.-'ili 11c I a mule on which to pack our blanket*, ^provisions and camp utensils, which latter Richards, for some reason unknown to always called the i'herring fixing." we led a regular camp life, which was a reminder of our old prospecting days. Richards declared that this was almost good enough without hunting, but combined with huntiug it was the next thing to being in heaven. As Richards can play on ,110 instrument except the jewsharp,he was probably much more at home up in the mountains than he will be when he 'pitches his tent in the New Jerusalem. After spending a few days in the neighborhood of Hope Valley, we struck ill w est oi IjUKC lauoc, among tik; iriu-i utaries of the American river. This is a ! region justly celebrated among hunters, j Along the creeks, about the springs, and j in the great dark canons, are to be found j deer, grizzly and cinnamon bears, Cali- | ^fornh lions, lynxes, and many smaller j animals. ,-f The d&y after wc made camp in the new place Richards was unable to go out with me, he having sprained his ankle the evening before in leaping across a small stream,therefore I struck out alone. I traveled for nearly three hours without seeing any game larger than a grouse or a woodchuck, when I came to a large and deep canon that led down toward the American river. Along this canon were i many lateral ravines and gulches, bordering which were numerous small steep valleys. In one of these dingles I presently saw among some low bushes a herd of four or live deer, all quietly feeding. By descending the slope of the mountain a few rods to a line or ledge of rocks that projected from the side of the canon I saw that I could get as near to the bend as I cared to be?even nearer?for I i would not again come out in sight of the deer until at the edge of the vale in which they were feeding. Moving cautiously along the edge of ; the ledge of rocks, which formed a sort : of terrace on the side of the cannon, and j carefully avoiding the starting of lose atones down the precipitous slope, I at I last reached the bank of the little j ravine on which was situated, some j thirty feet below me, the d?*U wherein j were the deer. I not only had the shelter of the ledge of rock several feet in | heighth, but also that of several small j trees that stood on the bank of the ravine and grew out from among the j lower rocks. i With my Winchester in my hand, I j peered around the corner of my sheltering rock and saw the deer still feeding, ancl I only about fifty yards away. Among ! them was a noble buck, llis antlers spread like the branches of an aged re- | dar. He stood facing me. I could see : every wink of his eyes. I raised my rifle, aimed at the centre of his forehead, and was just pressing my finger to the trigger when lie suddenly wheeled about, gave a snort and bounded away, followed by all the others of the nem. Before I had time to even conjecture what had frightened the animals?indeed simultaneously with their first bounds? a large California lion darted from a clump of bushes, leaped upon the neck of a fawn that was in the rear of the herd and dragged it to the ground. The fawn gave one or two piteous bleats, when the teeth of the lion rent its jilgular and silenccd it forever. Being unable to see the animals distinctly when they were on the ground, on account of a patch of bushes two or three feet in height. I climbed to the top of the ledge of rock, which was about ten feet high. I was now after the lion. When I reached the top of the rock he was in plain sight. He was tearing at the neck of the prostrate fawn. I was about to move a little further up the ledge in order to get a shot at the lion's fore parts, when a large grizzly burst out of a patch of chaparral on the opposide side of the little valley. With a snort and a growl he made at the lion. The new arrival rendered the situation somewhat complicated, and I lowered my rifle, concluding to await further developments. When the bear came up the lion retreated a few paces, and then stood snarl 1 1 1" * a _ 1 !i.L msc anu lasnmg 11s muus wiui an Hilary tail. The bear?which was evidently very hungry?paid 110 attention to the lion, but at once began gnawing at the neck of the fawn. I supposed this was the end of the affair between the two animals, and was beginning to thing of putting a bullet, or two into the grizzly. This I might have safely done from my perch upon the rock, and with two or three trees at hand which I could easily climb should the bear attempt to scale the ledge. But while I was still considering the chances I observed the lion flatten itself to the ground and swiftly glide round behind the bear. Suddenly?like a flash of yellow lightning?the lion bounded through the air and landed on the back of the bear's neck, raking him over the face and eyes with its sharp claws. The bear gave a snort of pain and rage, stopped eating, and for a time stood? or rather sat up?on the defensive. While the bear was thus on guard, ready to strike o\it with his huge paws, the lion stood off snarling and lashing its sides with its tail;but the moment he attempted to resume his meal the lion quickly circled about and again landed on his j back?bounding away, however, as soon ! as the bear began striking at him. The ' fight had now become so interesting that i I determined to await the result. The at- j tacks of the lion were evidently far from j painless to the bear. He bawled lustily i under the sharp claws of his agile enemj-. He soon grew cautions, and, hungry as he was, endeavored to keep his head conQtnntlv turned toward the lion. This the clumsy beast was unable to do, as the lion circled about him very swiftly, and crept so low as to be continually ready for a spring. Beside, while the bear was turning in one direction his more nimble antagonist would suddenly whirl about, circle in the opposite way, and make his leap; and at each leap he made the fur fly at a lively rate. "When the bear stopped eating and stood on his guard the lion stood off and snarled, but the moment he put his nose to the fawn his alert foe was upon him. Finally the bear gave up trying to eat, and lay down by the carcass, twisting himself into such a position that he had the use of both of his paws. Had the lion then leaped uponthcbcar j he would have found himself in a death-1 hug. The battle now seemed to be a | sort of tie or draw. Neither animal could | touch the prize over which they were i contending. Matters were at this pass for nearly five i minutes, when the lion elevated his head j At* +Vi -?n cTiv?ll cr>rr?nmc A ! UUVl 0444K* .,V?V??4.W. ticrec answering cry came from across the main canon, and soon another lion came bounding up the ravine into the little valley. The bear noted this accession to the force of the enemy, and arose nnd seated himself upon his haunches in boding attitude. The two lions then began circling about the bear, by turns darting upon him. raking him with their j claws, and then bounding away. It re- j minded me of two cat-birds persecuting an owl. Presently, while the bear was wheeling about to strike at one of the lions, the other made a rush and dragged away the ' carcass of the fawn. He was hauling it [ oif toward the bottom of the big canon, j some fifty yards away, before the bear j had recovered from his surprise. Even when he comprehended what had happened the bear did not dare to at once go to recover the carcass, as the lion that remained behind still circled around him, crouching cat-like, and threatening to sjmuf;. Iii a short, time, however, this lion also left and went down into the canon, the bottom of which I could not see from my perch on the ledge. The bear looked j thoroughly beaten, and, as I thought, not j a little ashamed of himself. He sniffed | about the ground where the carcass of I the fawn had lain for a time; then, elevating his nose, snuffed the air in the direction of the canon, whither the two lions had gone with the prize. This prize he had h'.'ld just long enough to fairly arouse his appetite. After snuffing the air and licking his chops for a time the old fellow moved slowly toward the canon. He did not advance as if he were going to awake the battle anew. Both spirit and flesh seemed weak. When within about twenty yards j of the bottom of the canon he sauntered j out upon a point of rock, sat upon his I haunches anu looked down toWSrd where i the two lions were feasting. There on the rock he sat for so long a time?twisting about 011 his haunches, snuffing the air and licking his chops*? that I became satisfied that he would not renew the contest. As he sat there, wrinkling and twisting his nose, the mark he offered ine was too tempting to be resisted; beside, he was liable at any moment to drop down upon all fours and i < re T 1 1...1 _ I mUK(! Oil. 1 IC.YL'HIll IUV I I 111' 1U1 JIIB iitau, and at its crack the great boast pit died { headlong into the canyon and rolled to the bottom, causing a great crashing of chaparral and carrying with him about a cart-load of loose rocks. The sudden apparition of the bear i coming in such a headlong and tumultu- j ous manner evidently look the two lions ; by surprise, and for the moment demor- 1 ali/.ed them. Roth bounded into sight on the opposite side of the canon, and ! did not halt until they were ten yards j above its bed. Evidently the animals had not observed the crack of mv rifle, or if they had ob- j served it they probably connected the rc- j port with the impetuous charge of the ! bear, for soon one of them leaped upon a 1 bowlder and began stretching his neck i and peering back into the canon where j the bear had fallen. As he thus stood he afforded a fine mark, and, taking careful ; ; aim. I brought him down. j This time the remaining lion undoubtedly heard the report of my gun. and comprehended the danger of its position, for it bounded away down along the rocky slope of the canon, and T saw it no more. Descending into the canon F found the bear lying across the carcass of the fawn. I built a tire, before which, on sticks, I placed to roast, several venison steaks. ! while I employed myself in skinning the bear, cutting up the meat and hanging it out of the reach of foxes and coyotes on some alders, to be packed away the next | day, when I expected that Richards mmmmKamammmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmammmmmm would be able to assist me. When I had taken the skin off the bear I did not much blame him for giving up the fight with the two lions; indeed, I felt not a little pity for the poor old fellow, whose hunger had made him endure so much. Their claws had scored him terribly. In several places, particularly about the shoulders, the cuts had gone quite through the skin into the flesh. In fact, the skin was so cut up that I preferred to pack home with me the skin of the lion?which was a large one?and leave that of the bear to take its chances along with the meat until the next day. Richards cursed his luck high and low when I returned to camp with the saddle of the fawn and the lion skin and told him what a spirited and remarkable fight I had witnessed. He declared that he would not have missed such a sight for $500 in gold coin. Indeed, he became so excited that, he forgot all about his sprained ankle, and "patroled" in front of me, when he could have heard my story quite as well by remaining seated. ?Dan Dc Quifle, in Cincinnati Enquirer. Criminals and Tlielr Ways. Criminals glide back to their old haunts and their old companions with a fatal facility. There may seem the fairest hopes of reformation, but at the I first fire of temptation the frost-work of new habits melts away at once. There is a story that a man bought one day, in an j old curiosity shop in Rome, a ring with a | secret spring, in which poison had been j imbedded ever since the days of the Borgias, and the ancient venom had still sufficient strength to poison him. There | is the story of a girl of Indian blood who was thought to be fully reclaimed to civilization. "When some offense had been given her by her mistress, she tore up her clot ties, squatted on tne ground ann howled. Keen insight into human nature is exhibited by Victor Hugo when he makes Jane Valjean, even after the forgiveness and generosity of the good bishop, rob the little Savoyard of his two-franc piece. It was the temporary assertion of the tyranny of depraved habits. '*Now, here is a remarkable case for you," said a great prison authority to me one day. "I knew a man who lay under sentence of punishment of death. It was either for murder or for burglary, for the sentence was passed a little while bfffore the death penalty for burglary was abolished. If for murder it must have been with extenuating circumstances, for the extreme sentence was commuted into transportation for life. He went out to Western Australia, and there behaved so well that he departed for another part of Australia with a free pardon. He came to one of the great Australian towns and became a constable, and by degrees chief constable. Then he thought he would come over to London for a time. He did so, and had not been in London many weeks before he met with eorae of his old pals in the Strand, got rpixed up in some of their evil ways ancj sent back again to Australia as a convict, I can tell you, sir, we see some very queer things, we who are conected with the convict system. In this very room where we are there were two men talking one morniTio- Tim one was the old Marouis of Westminster and the other was a re- I leased convict. The Marquis did not know it was a convict, and the convict did not know it was the Marquis. "I think the convicts have' not so much to complain of, and enjoy an extremely healthy -air at Portland," said the Marquis. "I agree with you, sir," said the convict, "for I happen to have spent a rood deal of time there myself."?All the Year ltoan1. Hie Shop-Lifter's Muff. The French muff is the latest device of the female shop-lifter, and by those familiar with its construction and perfect adaptability to its business it is conceded to be the neatest thing known. Until the advent of the French muff the ladies who lived by pick Vug ;.p valuable laces, silks, "lid. fancy articles in the large stores had no particular comfort in their calling, but with the new device they have been able to reap a harvest despite the lynx-eyed professional counter watchers. The shoplifter's muff is outwardly above suspicion, there being nothing about it to betray its capacity for concealing plunder. It is covered with any kind of fur, just as honest muffs are, with the significant exception that, instead of being padded with cotton, the fur rests upon a framework of wire. Between the fur covering and the wire supporting C A * w I frame the space usually filled with cotton is left vacant, thus providing accom- ' modfttion for quite a stock of valuable 1 lace, articles of jewelry, gloves, or anything else small and valuable. In the bottom of the muff there is a small slide on the inside, worked by the hand of the wearer, who, after introducing the article stolen into the muff, presses back this slide and drops the plunder in the cavity between the frame and the fur. "With one of these muffs shop-lifting is so easy as to be success- | fully practiced by novices, as not one store-walker in a thousand would suspect that his counters could be worked through a muff worn as these are when in action. The operator rests her hand, with the muff 011 it,on the goods which she proposes to sample, and a moment of diverted attention on the part of the salesman or saleswoman is ample for her to transfer to her ingenious warehouse such samples as she can conveniently and quickly pick up with one hand. The movement of concealing the stolen articles is istantaneouslv executed, and however well the muff may be stuffed, it can not be bulged out to attract attention, like a cloak or dress.?Chicago Neics. Hendricks and his Foot. During Mr. Hendricks' serious illness j a couple of years ago. I went into his room one morning and found him looking at the afflicted foot with an amused smile on his face and the familiar sparkle in his eye. "What do you find so interesting in that contemplation, governor?" I asked, as I took the hand stretched out. to me. He pointed to the foot wrapped up in numberless bandages and elevated 011 the footboard of the bed at what ! seemed, as Mr. Hendricks was a tall man, I a good distance from the head. "Doesn't j it. look like a rabbit sitting 011 a log?"he ; said, and with two ends of the bandages j accidentally exposed on either side like cars, it certainly mu. -?cn, m- vuu- | tinned, "I've been thinking, though T j haven't shot for a long time, that with a ' good gun I could hit it, and it' 1 sue- ! ceeded it would at least have the efleet of j changing Thompson's everlasting ques- i tion of "How is the loot doing,' to i 'Where in the deuce has the foot gone?"' | Thompson was the family physician, to j whom he was much attached.?>7. Louis I Itcpublicau. The remains of the distinguished French officer. Major L'Knfant, who j planned the city of Washington at the J request of the immortal George himself, i lie buried in a garden on the Riggs es! tate, in Maryland, unmarked by any I monument. I FOR FEMININE READERS. A Japanese Nurse. There is at last something new under the sun. One of the fashionable mothers up-town has brought home with her from abroad a Japanese nurse for her little one, and the sight of the odd-looking creature going about the streets of i New York with her infantile charge is indeed a novelty. She is clad always in her native costume, and is as much of a curiosity as was Mrs. Langtry's famous Japanese "tiger'' who attended her upon the occasion of her last visit to America. The child seems much attached to her almond-eyed nurse, who, in her turn, appears to be perfectly serene and happy, as though she thought her lines had fallen in pleasant places. It goes without saying, however, that this new importation is not regarded with high fa vor by the others of her guild.?JSew York World. A Loaf from Baby's Diary. To-day I saw papa sticking knife and fork into a chicken, and the chicken never moved. So I took a fork near me and stuck it into the kitten, lying on my 'lap; the naughty kitten sprang on the table and upset the gravy-dish over the cloth. Everybody jumped; some caught the kitten, some the dish, some wiped the cloth. I never saw so much excitement. I never created so much excitement as that kitten did. Now, if they had fixed that kitten on a chair as they fixed me she never would have jumped on the table. Everything was taken away from me then: so I played with a button on my bib; the button came off, and I, trying to find out how it tasted, swallowed it. From that moment everybody left the table in a great hurry. Mamma took me up. turned me on her knees, face downward, stuck a linger in my throat until I thought I should choke to death. After she had half killed me she began to cry, and screamed; 'Send for the doctor!' Everybody looked at me as they expected me to do something; but I was so scared that I couldn't do anything. Then the doctor came, and he laughed, and, as I couldn't laugh, I cried. My mother asked ever so many questions of the doctor, but he only shook his head and smiled, saying it would be all right in the morning. I never heard any more about it, so I suppose it was all right in the morning." Producing BloomWitlioiitCosmetics. It takes from three to five visits to make the "rose" permanent. The treatment is painless, and the girls seem rather to enjoy it. The young lady who was being operated upon during the reporter's visit was a pale-cheeked lass from up-town, whose face needed but the l'oses to make her interesting. She was undergoing the first course. Under the 1 impression that the visitor was a student, 1 she made no objection to his presence. The doctor began his operations with a soft, dry towel, with which he rubbed < both cheeks of the patient until they glowed. Then he alternately patted and ] rubbed the cheeks with his bare hands , until the blood was brought sufficiently near the surface to make the girl look as is she had been standing over a hot fire cooking a dinner. After a rest of ten minutes the process was renewed, and before that was over ! there was a spot on each cheek that glowed like a burning coal. This had to be toned down, and the toning was done < by application of an ointment rubbed 1 into the skin with a piece of soft sheepskin, so that when this was done the j young lady who came in pale-cheeked and colorless left the office with a pair of roses that will be the admiration and j envy of her uninitiated companions. This , proccss is continued for several suecesHitfil tlm l%l.-vrvm lmr.nmoc uro*. PI v f UUJi> lllllll I lit l.MUV/111 i;vv/V/n?to |/v? . mancnt.?Philadelphia JVeics. j Love-Making in a Newspaper. There lives in New York, said a recent importation from the East, a newspaper , < man who is a striking; illustration of what I '< love-making through the papers may ac- ' complish. He is now a grey-bcarded man of leisure, but years and years ago he was a struggling young editorial < writer on a Western paper. He wrote i with a good deal of- earnestness on sentimental topics. Having conceived an ] earnest, devoted, absorbing love for a . young lady, and knowing that she was , greatly interested in certain lines of work and thought, he managed to put his heart in his editorials for her benefit. I do not mean that he did not write for the public, but that he wrote for the public better because of the warmth in his heart to- 1 ward the woman he loved. At the same time he was carrying for- ^ ward an ideal character in a series of sketches. He had pictured this young 1 lady so plainly that many recognized her J as the heroine of his romance. But so tenderly, so delicately was the character handled that any one might have felt flattered at all that was said. In fact, 1 the lady herself was in the habit of say- i ing that she whs content to be regarded i as the character so finely pictured. But < in time the heroine was carried toward i the hero of the story in a way to leave open the question of her regard, and there the sketches were broken off. At j this time the writer was the bluest man ] I ever saw. , He told iric that he had come to a < crisis in his affairs, lie had carried the discussion in his editorials to a point where he was in danger of showing to the public: his attachment to the ideal who had inspired all of his work on that j line, lie could not take the story of his ! sketches any further without hinting at a !; denouement that might be very offensive to this lady who had been kind enough to be pleased with his picture of the ideal woman. There was only one way out of the trouble, and that was to tell the object of his love how highly ho regarded her. He did this in one of the most beautiful letters that I have any recollection of, and in six months his ideal woman was his wife. ? Vhicayo JitterOcean. A Southern Girl's Gift. <lI tell you, boys,'' said an old Southern army oflioev at St.Paul the other day, ' Southern girls for rich beauty and loyalty take the cake. You've got pretty girls up here, ihu mere isn l uuu m .? hundred of thorn that takes a cent's worth of interest in the financial condition and political phases of the country. Down South it is different. Especially in war times was it so, and a soldier, whether he was of low or high birth, so long as lie wore the uniform of the Confederacy, was j at once tendered the wannest, favors of; the Southern ladies. I remember once j we were encamped on the Rappahannock < and 1 had been invited to dine with a ! widow and her daughter at a neighbor- ! ing house. We had been on a long march ; and I hadn't an opportunity to wash my shirt for four weeks. It was the only I shirt I had, and I concluded to wash it J in the river before going to the. dinner, j 1 went down and washed it., and in the! middle of the stream T noticed a rock.and I I thought it would be a capital idea to j lay the shirt on the Took to dry while I swam around and disported myself in the , water. I did so, and when I went to get my shirt, thinking it would be dry, I found.that the wind had blown it off the rock and it had disappeared down the stream. Here was a pretty mess. A splendid dinner staring me in the face and no shirt to wear. But a good dinner in those times was not to be lost, so I put on my military coat that buttoned high up around the neck, and, tying a handkerchief around my throat. I gave the impression that I had a boil on my neck and went to the dinner. A beautiful yonng lady got opposite me at the table, and after a few moments' conversation with her I noticed that she colored up and looked confused. I didn't understand what the trouble was and began to stir myself to find out. Happening to glance down I saw that the front of my coat was unbuttoned. The button-holes were well worn and the buttons had slipped out. I knew then the reason of the lady's discomfiture, and, without a word buttoned the coat and went on talking as though nothing had happened. The lady soon recovered from the shock, and I spent a delightful afternoon. Just before I took my departure the young lady left the room, and. as I stood in the hall bidding her mother and sisters goodbye, she came down-stairs, and, handing me a package, requested me not to open it until I reached camp. I pledged my- j self and went to camp. When I reached ! my camp, with no little curiosity I opened i the package and found a neatly-laundried lady's night-dress. You sec the girl had taken in my condition, and, in her eagerness to do something for me, had given J.l_* A. 1. * "L ~ ^"U ~ 1 4. sx mc mis garment, wiucu was ijiu ul-su sue could do. These are the kind of girls we have in the South, and any man who wouldn't honor and respect them should be shot."?Chicago Tribune. Fashion Notes. Bodices remain long waisted. This is emphatically a velvet season. Homespun is meeting with great popularity. Cuffs as well as linen collars are again fashionable. Small plush wraps will be worn again in the spring. Beaded woolen costumes are supplanting braided ones. Corsages will be shirred on the shoulders in the spring. Young girls should never wear trained or demi-trained dresses. In Paris they are wearing jersey-cloth costumes trimmed with fur. Walking skirts are as long as possible without touching the ground. Round waists and belts a la Josephine are by no means out of fashion. Honey-comb satin trimmed with swansdown is the proper thing for babies' capes. In Paris the new underskirts have detachable flounces to correspond with the dress worn. Buttons continue large, but on the most lady-like suits the largest sizes do not appear. A garland of natural flowers about the svaist is a fashionable garniture for an evening dress. Young girls arc especially favored tms season in having materials made purposely for their use. Even some of the long cloaks have cushions under the plaits in the back to form the tournure. Childrens' pinafores must be ample now, quite covering the dress, and being very richly trimmed. Notwithstanding the rage for skunkfur. astrachan comes second on the list, seal being the most popular. Cord ornaments are shown. They arc heavy, and are worn with best effect on the coarse, rough materials now in vogue. Since the hair is worn high again, the opportunity is afforded of wearing flowers ind feathers to complete the pretty coiffure. Among the novelties is a trimming in which iridescent beads mixed with chenille are so arranged as to be worn edgewise or perpendicularly. Muffs are said to be larger this season, but it would be quite impossible to And anything smaller than some of the suit muffs capable of holding two hands. So arbitrary is the fashion for wearing different materials in the same color, that hereafter gray astrachan alone must trim plush, velvet, corduroy and rough i. !1 ? ' ni.nr frmiT C 111 fine millennia in LUU IIUIT giuj No matter what the age, beauty or liomeliness, grace or uncouthness, of a woman, the hair is at present worn off the neck and high on the head. The effect is sometimes beautiful, but more frequently frightful. Set pieces of soutache embroidery or of silk cord and jet can be purchased ready to sew on vest fronts, collars, sleeves, and tabliers and panels of costumes. These make handsome additions to a plain dress, and the various pieces are easily applied. Ladies who wear black from choice or from motives of economy must bear in mind that many contrasting colors cannot be worn with black, and that, quite as much as any other color, black must be suited to shades, or the eye of the artist will be offended. In almost every line fashion has been very comprehensive?variety in color, tut and material. In every small detail there was never so much variety, and in gear for the feet there is 110 lack of styles. The Parisian shoes and sandals are marvels nf exquisite workmanship, and the combination of lining, buckle and style arc quite dazzling. Youthful Army Officers. The Bulgarian army, which, to the surprise of everybody, has been greatly distinguishing itself against its supposedlytnnni'inr fops. is. CUHOUSlv CllOUgh, } v commanded by mere youths. There is no officer in the tield of higher rank than that of major, and the senior of these passed his iirst military examination as recently as 1874. The commanding officer of the artillery is only a captain, and | passed into the army in 1878, and the I battalions and squadrons arc commanded by lieutenants and sub-lieutenants. The oldest officer in the Bulgarian army is only thirty-live, and the remainder average about twenty-seven. Prince Alexander, who has the chief command, is but twenty-eight. Patio nee at a Window-Pane. "Patience on a monument smiling at i grief' is a poetical picture, but impa ticnce on a window scat, with her nose I pressed against the window-pane, and j Iier ear strained to catch the sound of a , footstep, Gathering hor brows like gat hiring storm, Nursing her wrath to keep it warm. as she waits for her husband coming home from the club at 1 :1 "> M.. is a more imposing picture, and a much more familiar one in real life.?Buxton Co>rri'r LORDS OF LUCRE. MAGNATES WHO ARE POSSESSORS OF MANY MILLIONS. Some of the Enormous Private Fortunes of Europe?Wealth of Foreign Rulers?Some Rich Americans. For many years the richest individual in all Russia was llerr Steiglitz. When j he retired from affairs in 1860 he held I property to the value of $9,000,000. But 1 the richest men in the land of the czars | j at the present time are the two Noble j brothers. They are of Swiss origin. ' WV>?ln fTOTTnlinit in inf/>rinr T?n<3Sin tllPV saw thousands of acres of land aglow with the light of oil-gas. They at once purchased entire districts of the apparent- j ly worthless fields, sunk oif wells, and now control more petroleum than anjr concern in the world. Their wealth is really beyond calculation, though the London Times correspondent thinks that $400,000,000 is not an extravagant estimate. It is to the Rothschilds, however, that belongs the honor of being the rich- J est among men. Their united properties ?and their properties must be considered J as united, from their peculiar family and business relations?pass even beyond the millions. In the past twelve years they have I loaned to certain European governments | nearly $475,000,000. Their lordly power is shown in a modern instance. In 1866 the Prussian government demanded an indemnity of $2.'5,000,000 from the city of Frankfort. The head of the Rothschild house in that city sent word to Count Bismarck that if an attempt was made to force the levy, he would break every bank in Berlin. And Bismarck was compelled to give way. Of course it would have been different if it had been a question of hogs, when Bismarck would have felt himself right at home. The enormous wealth of the Rothschilds is doubly remarkable from the fact that the familv was totally unknown a century ago. Inferior only to the Rothschilds are the Baring brothers, who have <lat instantaneous command*' $300,000,000. It is noteworthy that the Barings owe their commercial rise to an American, Mr. "Wm. Bingham, of Philadelphia, who many years ago had the house appointed the American agency in London. Glaus Spreckels, "the sugar king of the new world," as he likes to call himself, is said to derive an income of $5,000,000 from his sugar plantations in the Sandwich Islands. In his domain he wields the most .autocratic power of any monopolist in the world. His home at Honolulu is like the dream of a Sybarite. His wants are served by an army of negroes. Among the richest of moderns is the czar of Russia, who enjoys from his personal estate an income of $10,000,000. The sultan of Turkey is allowed for the support of his court $6,000,000; in addition to this he has a private income of $4,000,000. The emperor of Austria is granted a yearly allowance of $12,000,000, and as wiener-wurst and beer are not expensive, he continues to save a few dollars for his children. Queen Victoria's personal estate is estimated at $30,000,000, and her lands and ? i.illir ?1 " Ortrt flflfl mnrfv estuics are ?uuu muj ? But there are several noblemen in England with wealth greater than that of their sovereign. The dukes of Buccleuch, Devonshire and Norfolk, and the Marquis of Bute have each of them rent rolls of $2,000,000 per annum. The Duke of Portland, who died recently, left unentailed property of $10,000,000, and this, too, after a long life of the wildest extravagance. The greater par; of his palace was constructed under ground. His banquet-hall, ball-room, riding-gallery, and any number of superb guestrooms are veritable tunnels, decorated in a fashion so splendid as to seem when described like a story of the Magi. Richer even than any of these titled millionaires is the Duke of Westminister, who undoubtedly has the largest income of any individual in tne worm. jtns iurtune lies largely in tlie diametrically opposite regions of London known as the West End and Seven Dials. He owns acre upon acre of the most aristocratic domain of London, and his tenements cover miles of the worst slums in the world. His income quite passes the limit of the credible, and is said by some to amount to $50 a minute. Among the richest American estates ever gathered is that of the Astor family. Efforts are made to conceal the enormous figure that would express the worth of the property, but it is probable that $80,000,000 is not an extravagant estimate. The estate of William H. Yanderbilt was $200,000,000. A. T. Stewart was worth at the time of his death fully $60,000,000, a large part of which has gone one way or the other, but mostly the former. Jay Gould may be credited' with $100,000,000, and just as much more as he pleases to make. Armour, the Chicago hog-packer, is worth $15,000,000. Mackay, whose step-daughter, the child of a California camp-barber, married the prince of the ancient house of Colonna, is worth at least $20,000,000, and Fair, his former partner, has fully that amount. Edwin D. Morgan, the heir of the exgovernor, has $30,000,000. James Gordon Bennett, one of the richcst of the vounger men of America, has a fortune of *" ' ^ 1 T TJMnn $15,UUU.UUU, ana so nas rjjuuuci.i. mum. Miss Catherine Wolfe, the richest spinster in the country, has nearly $1.1i.000,000, slid is the last ot' her line.?Philadelphia North American. His Name was Immaterial. A New York letter to the Cincinnati Enquirer says: The police captain or sergeant, behind his desk in the station house, is no small personage, though his stronghold is performing routine work with precision in respect to required details that are not required. For instance, the man's true name is of very little account in most cases. An occurrence will serve to illustrate. A i young blood became hilarious in the street at an hour when all soberminded citizens arc .supposed to be in bed and asleep, lie was taken in by a policeman. "What's your name.'" the sergeant asked. Henry ." the prisoner began, but he *hiid sobered up enough to recollect * i fSa.il tf> Tliar ins lamiiy liugui not w pi.ni.n.? , see hi< name in :i police court item in their paper, and he hesitated. "What's the rest of your name:" the sergeant demanded. "Oh, that's immaterial," faltered the youn<; blood. Henry Immaterial,'' repeated the sergeant, as he wrote. "IIow old are you, and where do you reside?" The prisoner gave as his place of residenee a street number that would have located the house weli out in the North river, and the next morning he was arraigned as "Henry Immaterial," and tilled the usual amount for being drunk and disorderly. He considered himself in luck and [?aid up cheerfully. ' TO-MORROW. "You'll come to-morrow, then;" light word^' lightly said. j Gayly she waved her little hand, gayly lUr bared his head. "You'll come to-morrow, then," and the ra& on his errand went, With a tender prayer on heart and lip, yet OT> his work intent. The woman a moment lingered; "would h* turn for a parting look?" Then with half a smile and half a sigh, h?P household burden took. "You'll come to-morrow, \hen," and when itu? morrow broke, i r n_i_ i? i.i. 3 a .4 raieups an lae crowuea city, ui uiu nun / accident," spoke; A strong man in a stranger's home, in deaths dread quiet lay, And a woman sobbed a full heart out in A cottage a mile away. So lightly our thoughts leap onward, AO / lightly we hope and plan, While Fate waits grimly by and smiles, towatch her plaything?man? Discounting the dim strange future, whil? his blind eyes cannot see, What a single flying hour brings; where next step may be. And love floats laughing onward, and at hit side glides sorrow, While men and women between them wall^ and say, "We'll meet to-morrow!" * ?All the, Year Round. . .. -Vf: 1 PUNGENT PARAGRAPHS. "Well connected?A train of cars. Preferred creditors?Those who will * not dun. A miser in the middle of his wealth is. l-- - a-- 1 iL .i n. ? ukc a uy 111 muiussc* tiiut vhau l vuw It shows great family affcction when a man continues to draw his pension several years after his death. When an impecunious man marries an heiress he celebrates his golden wedding on th? start.?Maverick. Appropriate sign for church in need of musicians: Wanted?singers; in choir within.?Hot Springs News.Jones must have been pretty sea-sick going to Europe when lie threw up his engagement with his girl.?LouM Citizen. Though a musician may move in the best society, he is still on terms of thf closest intimacy with all of the sharps.?* lioxbury Advocate. :: Letting a boil pursue its course Is like tracing a river to Its source, Thoueh each mav prove quite troublesome, At last unto a head they come. ?St. Paul Herald. Rabbits are selling for fifteen centf each in Sussex county, New Jersey. For >' ninety cents there the amateur sportsmen can have a good deal of sport.?8otmt? ville Journal. A man never appreciates how supremely blessed a married life is until he has to hold the babv while his wife works & pair of braccs for the new minister.? Fall liner Advance. '1 Sum Jones says: ''Live so your children may put their feet in your tracks and be honorable." That don't walk all over the road on the way home nights; Itochcster Post-Express. A tramp wen tinto a house in Missouri and spit on the parlor carpet. Th?f woman was sick in bed, but she got up and broke his collar-bone aud ran mm to the woods.?St. Louis Post. A new kind of cheese is made, which, is said to appeal strongly to a man's imagination. That may be so, but w? never heard a man's nose called by thai name before.?New York Graphic. He's a rude ignoramus, au unpolished churl Who says it (defend him who will), That a sealskin saeque looks on a corpulent the seal it were still. ?Boston Courier. It is said tliat the real name of Stepniak the nihilist writer, is Krawtschinsky. A name like that could never go "thundering down the agesit would have tostop and sneeze too often.?Hartford Post. The best time for a young man to taktf 1 -1 ic rlnrinrr a 'MriinnC^ Ills J^iri ait'Jtiuiu^ 10 uuitug u ^ snow storm." lie can use both hi9 arms to hold his girl in the sleigh, and let tho snow storm do the "driving."?Norrutoicn Herald. "You arc growing fat," said a West Lynncr to his grocer. ''How much doyou weigh?" "Oh, that depends on business. Some days I weigh a ton, and some days I don't weigh much of anything."?Lynn Item. , Outside of a minister's tent, in Idaho, a rcd-shirtcd man was searching for his tin cup. Not finding it, he observed: ' Some infernal thief has stolen my cup.* Then sticking his head into the tent, liftasked: "Any of you gentlemen got itV 4 ?Puck. Butcher (to lady with dog in her arms)?"What will it be this evening mum?" Lady?"Send a pound and a half of calves' liver in time for breakfast, and?let me see, Carlo won't eat liver?and half a pound of porterhouse steak."?Life. Tom Bickson is a San Antonia youth of about seventeen who has not yet grown a mustache. He is also very small physically. He has been paying ccmsidcrabl? attention to a young lady and finally h? proposed: "Miss Mary, I love you," h? , said, sinking down on his knees. ''You had better speak with your pa and see if he will give his consent," was the cutting reply.? Siftings. The choir had kindly volunteered to sing the favorite hymns of the members of the congregation. Each was requested to write his choice on a slip of paper and hand it in. Easily recognized as tho chirograph}- of the butcher, was, 4'Wo shall meat on that beautiful shore." The opulent plumber chose, "All for m^" The favorite of the baker was, "I knead thee, every hour." The young lawyer who had just hung out a sign for which the painter was dunning him, handee ir* ; ' Just as I am, without one plea."?Samy the Sairamuiirh. Making it Plain. A Georgian tells how a colored parson in his State once made clear even to tfca dullest of his flock the difficulty of treading the straight ami narrow path as contrasted with th<' descent on the spacious - hiyhwov leaning m mu m HVi Ulli;^iivu? I Before In* was well started in his discourse lie ran down the pulpit stairs ami proceeded to suit the action to the word. My brethren," he cried, "the road to heaven is like this" and lying flat on the banister he began to jhi II himself up, hand over hand, as laboriously as a boy climbs a greased pole. At last he reached the top and got on his feet again, happy ir^ his Christian victory. Then, having taken breath, lie exhorted his hearers to look at the road to hell, doubled one lcs I under him and slid down the rati, in n half sitting posture, with a rapidity'and grace that betrayed a juvenile familiarity with this route. \