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THE MINISTRY OF SONG. Not the child's song with careless laughter rising From rosy lips in childhood's sunny clays, Not that sweet strain which youth delights in sinking, Are life's best melody and truest praise. Gladsome are these, and beautiful; their cadence Floats down long years; life's morning song seems best; Although maturity, with sighs, confesses Her children's song3 bring pit> and unrest. Wno soothes tne ear or griet witn Hint 01 pleasure? Who comfortsage with hope of things to be? Why hare youth's song and life's maturer measure No oommon keynote in life's harmony? None know?and yet, from out our care and clamor We hear the wondrous music silence holds. In piteous need, one human lament.ition Most beauteous strain o? sympathy enfolds. Joy's happy lay and griefs heart broken wailing No concord know, till some poor, .stricken herxrt. With faith sublime, turns from its own repining To comfort with a song some life apart As even song of bird seems holier, sweeter, Than any note the noonday's riot knew; So that faint voice from desolation rising May solace and uplift the wide world through. ?Edith K. PerryWITH HIS LEFT HMD. BY OriK r. HEAD. There lived in the neighborhood of Bearwallow, Ky., a notorious "bully" named Alf Featherston. Unlike the aspiring man of a mining camp he did not real ms reputation upon mc kqiic nor | the burniug of powder, but upon the vigor of his arm and the? agility of his body. "I don't hunker airter killin' a man," he often rcmaikcd. "I jest wantcr break some uv his bones an' see him grin like a 'possum." One day, while a number of men were at work ou a log meeting-hou e, Alf came along, and. after lending a helping hand in the placing of a large log, he turned to the men and said: ''Hands, I see some ". putty stout lookin' timber 'muugst yo.i, but I ca;; whup any man in the crowd." 4*Now, Alf," replied old man Summers, "we air engaged in puttin' up a house uv peace, an' it would look rather out of keepin' in us to stop and light." iuu \ ci j luuuuatiuu uv jvic ia built on blood," Alf rejoined, "an' I don, t see why you air so mealy-mouth over this here log contrapshun. They tell me that when churches wuz fust built folks uster git around 'em an' hit each other with clubs an'hack out one another's blood with scythe blades an' rich." "Iain'tgoin'to arpry with you, Alf," said old n an Summers, "fur I don't reckon it makes no dilTunce to you whuther the church wuz baptized in blood ur raiu water." "Urambier," suggested Alf. 'I say I ain't goiu'to argy with you. Boys, who's that a comin' yauder?" "sim Peters," some one replied. "That jc3t stan s me in nana, ' saiu Alf, with brightening countenance. "I had one little flirt with him wunst an' I didn't give him quite enough, as I have hearn that ho wa'n't sadisfied." " Mawnin', hands, mawnin'l" shouted Sim as ho approached. ' Buildin' a she p pen, hah ?" he remarked as he came up and glanced at the logs scattered about. '4 Sheep pens air mighty fine things, Uncle Summers, but It reckon you'll have to chink 'em putty I tight to keep the goats frum gittin* in." I i4I reckon we ken manage to keep you ! ...i t:: )? i.1. ? " ~1 * J rp|K_ uuv, dim, tut; uiu iuuu repuuu. 1 iiu men roared, and Alf, after snorting contemptuously, said: "Oh, be chiwed you that time; jest ! nachully chawed both yore years oil." I "Wall, now," Sim rejoined, "he'd! have a mighty big job ef lie wuz to undertake to chaw off both uv yonrii." " Vou bet him ur anybody ehe would; | not becaze my years is so big but becaze ! they air the inherited property uv sicli a 1 man." "? h, let up about bein' sich a man," j Sim replied. "We aiu't hearu nuthin1 | u rnop ur f a*A 1m11 Imar trr\r\tl a man ' a ui a jvhi u? niv wui i*v tw w mi*u , jou think you air. You air ez big ez a crap mortgage." Alf?"^es, an' ez stroug." Sim?"Yes, an'ez much nv a cut-, throat." ! Old Summers?"Come, gentlemen,you air a gittin' a leetlc too clost to each other." Alf?"He ain't ^ittitr cone too clost tn ?no T L-pn at:irut nnvthimr nv tlinfc sort, 1 ken. I wuz raised, tlirce in a bed, . me. I don't kcer how clost a man gits j to me, ez long ez ho sticks to the' truth." Siiu?"Bat the clostor a man sticks to , the truth the furder he is away frum you." i Old t-ummers? "Come, gentlemen, don't mowl an' jower. It aiu t beconiiu'; in men to ack Outer way. Turn to here an' he'p u? up with th.it big side log." Alf?,4I ain't thinkin"bout he'pin' up with no log. I'm thinkin' 'bout walkia' somebody's loir, roe." i Sim?"Mine, I rcckon." Alf?"l'ourn." j Sim?"You better put spikes iu yore hoes ur you inout slip otf." Alf?"Oh, I'm rough shod. ' Sim Peters, I ken whip you with my left hand." I Sim?"That's what you said some time ago, but when 1 got to pushiii' putty ! hard you tuck two hands, an' woulder tuck three ef you'd a had 'em." j Alf?"If I did take two hamls it wuz becaze I forgot niyse'f."' Sim?".No, I think it wuz becaze you recollected yourself. Gentlemen, I ain't had no peace fur a good while, on account of this yere feller. Ever'whar I go I find that he has been thar just befo'! ae, giviu' it out that he ken make mo eliinb a tiee urgo down in a sink-holo, ; - an' I'll tell you what's a fack, ef this 1 ?ortcr talk ain't stopped, somebody'9 gom aown rnioa lioie never to come oui ttg'in.*' 1 Alf?"Who wuz it that snapped a pistol at me last fall? Who wuz it that flung a hatchet at me ouc day when I wuz drunk:" Sim?"I ain't on the witness stand." Alf?"You wouldn't tell the truth ef you wuz.'' Sim?"Kf tlio truth wuz told ahout you the folks would ruu you ouluu the neighborhood." i Alf - "That jnout be, but nobody never hung my daddy." 'd Summers?"Come, Alf, don't thater way." siui -"My daddy wuz hung?hung by tin* bushwhackcru, an' yore daddy, 1 A!f < itherson, wuz the scoundrel that ti-'vl t erope." A I! -"An' they tell ith* that he put up ; a mighty fine job. But 'hat ain't got1 nuthin' to do with the pi nt in question. I I said that I ken whup you with* mv left lwad " Old Suramt r3?<;Xow, boys, we don't want any fightin' here; do we, Brother Hensley?" Brother Ilenslcy?''Wall. I b'levethnt under the sarcumstanccs we mout ez well have a little. Neither oro uv these j fellers is any account, an' it would be a good thing fur the neighborhood efthey wuz both out uv the wav. I say let 'em fight." Alf (to Ilensley)?"An* will you sec that nobody interferes?" Ilensley? ''Yes." Alf? ,kNot even ef I aui about to kill | him Henslev?"Xot ft* lone as vou onlv I use your left hand, as you agreed to do." j Sim?'Til see that he don't use none i but his left han'." A If stood with bis right hand resting j on a stump. Sim, after remarking that he would see that Alf used none but his left hand, slily took up a broad-axe, and, with a lightning-like blow,chopped off Alt's right hand. The hand rolled off the stump and fell upon the ground. The church builders stood as if stupefied. An expression of horror settlea upon Alf's face. He made no outcry. He held up his right arm as though he would examine h's wrist, i Blood spurted in his face. Sim stood ! waiting for him. "Only your left hand ' this time," said he. Alf sprang upon j him and caught him by the throat. "Part'em! part 'em!" shouted old Summers. "Hands off!" exclaimed Ileusley. "One hand's off, at any rate, .hist stun' back, now, gentlemen, an' let 'c:u have it out. The community hain't got nothin' at slake.'' Alf choked Sim down to the ground? j choked him down between two logs. "Part 'cm, for heaven's sake!" old j Summers pleaded. "Stop?let'em alone," Hensley de-j manded. "Heaven aiu'fc got uotUin' at j stake here." "He'll bleed to death, Brother Hen- i sley." "Let him bleed. He wanted a diffikilty, now let him waller in it." Both of the men had ceascd to struggle. still, Ilensley would permit no one to approach them. Fome of the horrified workmen took up their coats and turned away from the sickening sight. "Take 'em apart," said Ilensley. The church-builders turned over one of the logs and nervously removed All's stiffening fingers from Sim's throat. Both men were dead.?Arkaituiio Traveler. The Yalue of E^rgs. Eggs are a meal in themselves. Every element neccssary to the support of man i is contained within the limits of an egg- j shell, in the best proportions and in the j most palatable form. Plain boiled, they j are wholesome. The masters of French | rookery, however, affirm that it is aasy ; to dress them in more than .'>00 different ways, each method not only economical, but salutary in the highest degree. No honest appetite ever yet rejected an ei?g in some guise. It is nutriment in the most portable form and in the most connonfrotnd cVinrio Whnlft riAHnnsnf man. kind rarely touch any other animal food. Kings cut them plain as readily as do the humble tradesmen. After the victory of Muhldorf, when the Kaiser Ludwig sat at a meal with his burggrafs and great capitains, he determined on a piece of luxury?"one egg to every man, and two to the excellently valiant Schwcpperman." Far more than ti h? for it is I watery diet?eggs arc the scholar's fare. They contain phosphorus, which is brain food aud sulphur, which performs a variety of functions in tho economy. And they are the best of nutriment for A^Jlrlvon fnv in a HAmnftAf. fnrnv fllAV contain everything that is necessary for the growth of the youthful frame. Eggs are, however, not only food?they are medicine also. The white is the most efficacious of remedies for burns, and the oil extractable from tho yolk is regarded by the Russians as an almost miraculous sulve for cuts, bruises and scratches. A raw egg if swallowed | in time, will effectually deiacha fish hone i fastened in the throat, and the white of < two eggs will render the" deadly corrosive i sublimate as harmless as a dose of calo- i mel. Thcv strengthen the consumptive, invigorate the feeble, and render the ] most susceptible all but proof against i jaundice in its more maligant phase. The i merits of eggs do not even end here. In i France alone the wine clarifiers use more | than SO, 0U0,000 a year, and the Alsatians | consume fully 38,000,000 in calico printing and for dressing the leather used in mnkin? the finest of French kid gloves. Finally, not to mention various' other J j employments for eggs in the arts, they j may, of course, almost without trouble ] on the farmer's part, bo converted into | fowls, which, in any shnpe, are profitable , to the seller and welcome to the buyer. , Even egaa-shells are valuable, for allopath , and homeopath alike agree in regarding ] them as the purest of carbonate of limo. | ?London Standard. The Highest Waterfalls In the World, i At cording to Dr. Wertsch, the highest 1 waterfalls are the three Kritubs Fall-, in ! the upper Prinzgau, which have a to^al i height of 1,148 feet. The three falls < no \t iu height are found iu Scandinavia < ?the Verraa Foss, in Korasci.tl (U8i ' feet): the Vettis Foss, on the Sogne Fjord (853 feet); the Rjukan Foss, in Thelomarken (804 feet). With adeprca?e in height of 2 i;i feet the three Velino Falls ( >! ! feet), near Zerni, the birthplate of the historiau Tacitus, follow next, and are succeeded by the three Tossa Fnlls, iu the Val Fonnazza (.">41 feet). The (Ja?tcin Falls, in the Gastciu Valley (40!) fee;), are midway between the Skjaggedid Foss, in the Hardanger Fjord (524 feet), ond the Boring Foss, in the same fjord. Tho great Anio Cascade, near Tivoli (315 feet), appears small by the side of the foregoing, but is stiil larger than the Falls of the Elbe in the i?if>?nncrehirrrA which are onlv 148 feet 1 n-, ? high. If the width of the falls is taken i into consideration the most imposing i are those of the Victoria Falls of the I Zambesi, which are I5D4 feet high, by a > width of S,'JO0fect. A long way behind ] comc the Niagara Falls, 177 feet high i and s feet wide. The third largest ' f dls is that of the Rhine at SchaiTliauscn, I 11^ feet wide by only 33 feet high. The I highest waterfalls mentioned cannot i compare with those gigautic falls as re- < irards cubic contents. 11 j. Squirrels Drive Off Turkeys. | The other day two turkeys belonging ' to u poultry raiser in the suburbs of Mix- I' souri City, flew up in a tree. Shortly ! afterward a fox squirrel came out of ;i! lio'.c abo.e and appeared to be greatly I discomfited by the presence of the fowls. 1 Not being nb!e to drive them from their | perch, the little animal ran back to its i den, returning with n companion. Both I adopted the tactics ar.d maneuvers of | the first until at last the turkeys showed ; signs as of annoyance and bother by i ru.Hinjjf thoir feathers nn 1 turning red in j the gill", finally mc capers 01 inc squirrels became too much for tho turkeys, when they spread their winga and sailed away, much to the sat sfaotion of ths squirrels, as they jumped around in f;o icsoane glee. ? Qm'jc-1* vtxrut. ~ WOMAN'S WOULD. ~ PLEASANT LITERATURE FOR FEMININE READERS. An Oregon Girl Bags a Deep. Miss Mollie Bergen, a lass of sixteen summer?, whose parents reside on Pool's Slough, Yaquiua, heard the dog making a great noise the other morning, and on looking out saw a deer jump into the slough. She stepped quickly into the house, picked up her father's Winchester, returned to the door, raised the rifle and fired. The first shot struck the animal in the head, the second in the shoulder and the third and last went through the animal's heart, killing it. She then stepped down to the bank of the slough, unmoored a sma 1 boat, rowed to where the buck lay floating in the water, pulled the carcass into the boat and succeedcd in getting it on shore before any of the men folks appeared. The buck when dressed weighed 200 pounds.?Port'and, Or&jonian. Blondes Becoming Extinct. A highly interesting question is being agitated in Europe. It has been asserted | thnt there has been a gradual decrease j of blondes in Germany. Almost 11,000,000 school children were examined in Germany, Austria and Belgium, and t the result showed that Switzerland has j only 11.10; Austria, 19.73, and Ger-) many, 31.80 per cent., of pure blondes. ! Thus the country, which since the days of ancient Rome has been proverbially known as the homo of yellow hair, has to-day only twenty-two pure blondes in 100, while the average of pure brunettes Is fourteen per ccnt. The tifty-three per ceut.'of the mixed type are said to be undergoing a transformation into pure brunettes. Dr. Bedloe, in England, has collected a number of statistics which seem to point in the same direction. Among 726 women he examined he found 3U!) brunettes and IM7 bloudes. I Of the brunettes he found that seventy- J eight per cent, wore married, while of the blondes only sixty-eight per ccnt. were married. Thus it would seem that a brunette had tc-n chances of getting j married to a blonde's nine. In France ' a similar view has beeu put forth by AI. j Adolph de Candolle. M. do Candolle j found that when both parents have eyes | of the same oolor eighty-eight per cent, inherit this oolor. But it is a curious fact that more females than males have black or brown eyes to the porportion of forty-five to forty-three. It seems that with different colored eyes in the two parents fifty-three per cent, follow the father in being dark eyed. An increase of five per cent, of dark eyes in each generation mint tell in tho course of time.?Toronto Truth. Mrs. Cleveland's Mail. An early riser, like the President, his wife is also, like her husband, busy dur**??*? ] */* r\ n tt QK/? rlnA. n:\f m n flip XU^ llJLVs UUJ UUW UUV- uvk IW-7U1IIW v uv , management of the house, beyond such occasional supervision us may be necessary j to maintain order and regularity. The morning brings to her a \olumcof letters that has been cou3lautly growing. A thoughtless writer in an otherwise friendly paragraph, wrote a while ago that Mr.-s. Cleveland personally respomlad to all letters received by her. An clwllamhe followed. She had boon receiving more letters than she could answer. Now there wore more than she could take time to open; most of them contained requests for scraps of her wedding dress. Distressed women, anxious to fave a homestead, wrote for loans of $ ">,000 to $10,000, to "save the old place." One woman wrote to ask for a specified number of yards of velvet, that was to be mazarine blue in color, and in addition she wished to have enough material for a wrap. Of application for autographs and photographs there is no CLIU. To attempt to answer all these letters would be out of the question. To read 1 them all is uunece-sary. If Mrs. Cleveland undertook to respond favorably to j all who write to her, she would keep ;i stenographer and photographer constantly at work, ?ho would gradually 1 rob herself of her wardrobe, and she wou'd bankrupt the Pre ident. So a large part of the correspondence is turned 1 aver to one of the Executive clerks to by inswercd with a printed form sign d by Col. Lamont, ilrs. Cleveland personally responding only to letters from her per- : 3onal friends.?Epoch. Empress Josephine's Toilet. I have been hunting in an old book, published in Paris in 1807, for particu- i iars of the Empress Josephine's toilet, i Four to six times a day did she change bcr dress, and she never twice assumed j my plain gown. Her weekly allowance ] jf stockings was four dozen of silk in i summer, and In the winter two dozen of French sillc hose and three dozen of the ( 5ncst English cotton stockings. As for } jlove-; and shoes, Mine. Bonaparte used up three dozen pairs a week, and she never wore any stockings that had been washed, nor donned more than once the same pair of gloves or sho?s. Every three 5 months she exchanged her diamonds and i 1 jther jewels, or had them newly set, ;tc- j ?ordinfr to the mutations of fashion: and I ' ;? ? ? our times a year her plate, china, furoi- | * :ure, tapewtry hangings, aud carpets 11 vere renewed. She had thirty -six horses n her private stable, and her Master of i he Horse was empowered lo dispose of i ;welve steeds once a mouth and replace i ;hera by animals of a fashionable hue. Jnce a month, too, all the domestics in , losephine's household received fresh liv- j, sries, and eveiy thirty days her ward- j obe was divided among her maids of lonor. Of these toilets the court lady lad four, with an equal number of sets of 8 ewelry?one for the Tuileries, one for ? St. Cloud, one for Ma'maUon, aud one f 0/ traveling. By touching certain ipriugs she could command for her bath ? ivhut perfumes her caprice required to ( nix with the water, the reservoirs al- f ivay9containing 12,000 fiaucs worth of .lie tiocst odors. By touching other ? prings a whole gnliery of pictures and jl w \ri irur i/UK f'll *1 TApf ? <. [HIULOUL t* r,**J ***?'-? TKHWtvMv .... .. - . made its appeatauce, and when she I wished to leave her bath she had hut to couch a hell, wheu, by a mechanical eou- , :rivancc, she was lifted into an elegant s moderately warmed nud perfumed bed, ( tvheie she was nicely drie<l. Then, by | mother mcchanic.al contrivance, she was lifted on to a splendid clastic sofa, which glided into the adjoining boudoir. Who ] shall accuse any American woman of ex- : i'avalance after that.'?Aho York Sun. 1 i AVifffi and Wigmukprfi. A New York batber says that one of the few kinds of woman's woik which I Is r.ot overcrowded, and at which competent girls can always earn good wages, 1 is thai which includes the working, cut- J ' 1 4. ?V.k I J ting and general ninnHgciueiib ui uuu j h>:rain hair. The average pay of female ' dairdrcssers is $S a week. Sometimes it roaches as high as $18 a week, and sometimes goes down to $5. A girl who understands the business thoroughly can command $18 a week anywhere. One hairdresser in this city used to employ 140 girl-, and paid out $700 weekly in j wages. The profit lies in false hair. Women that have th.'ir hair cut short, and are tired of it, buy wigs or "switches" to wear in the street. Those whose hair is poor, or who suffer from baldness, wear false hair at all times. Girls who confine their attention to hair-working alone earn from $8 to $10 a week. It is an art that needs skill and no small amount of persevcreirce to succeed with. The hair with which the wigs are made is \ collected by commercial travelers in Ger- I many and France. England and Belgium j are poor marKeis ior our, nut ucuuw of the scarcity, for both English and Belgian women have fine hair, but because they will not sell it. When collected it is put through a cleaning process, severe enough to fctch the dirt out | of an elephant's hide, aud then dyed : several times over. The best h lirdress- j ers never buy hair from the head or from i private hands. Perfectly white hair is rare and com- i matids almost any price. Natural curl- ! ing is also Of considerable value. A good wig of white costs $40. The material of which these wig3 are made is clipped from the goat, and se'dom from the human head. A plenteously soft silky kind of snow-white hair comes from the Angora rabbit. A perfectly white and abundant wig of human hair would be worth at least $1,000. Hair cut from the head after death is never used by any good hairdresser. It cannot lin iicnH tn nnv flflVJintfirrfl. flg it will neither curl nor twist, hair can be proved by pulling it to its utra03t capacity. When loosened it will contract to its former length.?Mad an>l Expreif. A Suggestion for tho Girls. The girls of a family have it in their power at all times to do a great deal of work in behalf of the male members of the household, or oft heir acquaintances, who are out in the rough and tumble, : and among all the temptations of the ' open world; but the winter weather af- I fords them ampler oppoitunity than ail I tin? nnt-door davs of boatincr and shoot ing and lawn-tennis and piiknicking do, for it brings about a closcrand more constant contact, a much fuller vision of line qualities, and a much more effective ground for their exercise. Young girls, then, who understands this will soon ' find that they have all they waut to do, if they will undertake to make their homes so thoroughly delightful that not only other youth* will come to see them i there, but their own brothers will contentedly aud proudly prefer to stay therein. With the parlor or sitting room made tasteful aud cheery, as girls can j make a room, even when forced to depend upon themselves for mean3, with pleasant people coming in?coming in j because the place is bright and attractive | and the people no less so?with perfect j good nature preserved among them, no matter what happens to upset the temper, i and therefore the absolute prohibition ' of wrangling or of excited argument, with as much music as may be had, with I a little amusing rea'ling, happy, merry I . .. , ! I Itlllv, games UI Ulie sun anu uuiriaica, vi- | fort9 being made to have the newest and those most likely to attract the brothers, ! according to their idiosyncrasies?with j all this, mid more that will suggest it" 80If to those girls who are in earnest about it, the house may be made by them a place in which the brothers shall look forward to spending the evening with nearly as much gratification as that with which lovers look for th"hour that shall lind them together; and all the more if the girl who has a lover docs not count out her brother as a supernumerary.? Jlarpers Ba:ar. Fashion Notes. Badger is a fine and deservedly popu- j lar trimming tur. i Astrakhan and Persian lamb are coming iu favor again. Stoles and capes of fur are almost as ( fashionable as boas. Beaver is the favorite fur for young i ladies1 shoulder capcs. The most fashionable boas reach nearly to the hem of the dress. Softcap crowns are now finished with L'ap like knife pleated bnrdcrs, double or triple, of the same velvet. Iu bonnets extremes meet, fur for the promenade bcingofTsct by tulle, lace and Ilowers I or incaire, ur uiuu ujkmj wear. A novel slmwl is made of feathers. It is very soft, but looks like a fiue woolen shawl, not resembling feathers in the least. Waistcoats of scarlet leather sprinkled with small yellow dots are a feature of 3umc of the newly imported English tailor gowns. Reindeer glove? are the latest novelty in their line. They look like thick wash leather of an almond color, and arc said j \o be very durable. Toques were never more popular thuu j :hc present season. Very u;etry ones ire made of ruby velvet ana cloth and similar combinations. There is a tendency with young la lies :o wear the hair low upon the ucck. anil ionic of the newest hats were designed ! witli this end in view. Hons composed of uncurled ostrich feathers are woru by I'arisiennes. Mulls :o match these boa3 have cocks' heads ittachcd, combs ami all. "Pinking" upon the edges of the ikirlsand draperies is very effective. It s often in double rows, and sometimes ests upon a band of velvet. Among recent noveuies in icn guwuo ,vas noted one of crcam-colored Clrna lilk, trimmed with Huffy gray fur and u profusion of yellow ribbon. The English fancy for fine bonnets is a ilender strap and bow of fur, in place of itrings, which, in seal or astrakhan, is laid to be parti ularly fetching. For dressy mourning, black watered iilk, .shirred on cord over a conc shaped ;rown and bordered with a twist cf silk I md crape, is stylish, world without end. j Round hats, with wide brims of | ihirrcd tulle, and crowns of loosely j oldcd sash ribbons, or else velvet or j :urali, arc among the startling novcltie-. or o.oiling ?>ti?i. A charming eveniug toilet was mad.! wholly of pink moire ribbon. The ! itraight skirt, of lacc, was completely Jovcred by loops of ribbon falling from Lhe waist to the hem. A novel ribbon decoration for a hat i was of rib'mn woven in two colors, with I i narrnw libbon of t!i fame sort put j :m branchwi>e. and fu-tcned only in the j middle to the middle .?? the b:oa ier | libbon foundat on. Simple, lo:?se litting frocks fur little jirlsa:e made entirely of red or red and white becomingly i>oin!>iucd. A pretty ! model was of crcam-colored casiuricrc I serge, the loose iackct and skirt being | ilike trimmed with u triple row of red brai? I. Striped fabrics sewn to We gradually | mperseding plaids and checks, and except for very tall, slender ladies they arc iecidcdly more becoming. Strijies of Bvery width and design are seeujsoine of the broad, many colored stripes having lis lively an effect as the mo3t variegated plaid. . v. -.j SUGAR MAKING. THE PROCESSES OP MANUFACTURE IN LOUISIANA. A Machine Which Chows up the Cane Into Pnlp-Op?rating the Juices ?The Three Products of the Mill. The Magnolia sugar house is gencrully known in Louisiana as having the best mnr-hinnre ntnl nil thi> nnw nnwssps Tt is not much imitated, for two reasons: First, the conservatism of the older class of planters, which leads them to stick to the methods they understand, and second, the tact that the business of sugar making has not been sufficiently profitable in recent years to enable planters of moderate capital to purchase new apparatus. They are obliged to hold on to their old pans and kettles for want of money to buy new. Let us now go into the great irregular brick building, with its three tower-like chimneys and its geueral big factory air, which contains WAV OUgUl ?v the start to go through hastily, and not to bore the reader with details about machinery, or with tho fine scientific points of tho business. First the owner of "Magnolia" calls attention to his bagasse burner, which makes more than half the steam used to run the mill. Formerly the b.ifjasse, which is the cane after it has parted with as much of its juice as the mill will extract, was cither burned in a furnace to get rid of it or thrown out on the levee to help fight off the river from eating away the bank. Now every economically managed mill burns it to make steam by the aid of the draught of an enormous chimney. The I est method is tsv Uiinn ? 4- AM ili<\ /V Mn I 11 n el n r rr* 1 ^ 1 /"> Ail* iu uuiu it uu 111c yuinj:*, uuuti au is forced by a blower. The canes, hauled in the bi^ carts from the fields, are dumped upon au endless band and carried into fthe mill, usually direct to the big iron rollers, but at Magnolia first to a "shredder." There are only two shredders in the State, the machine being a new invention. Its revolving teeth chew up the cane into pulp. The pulp and juice fall upon a rubber apron, which carries them into the mill; grinding is simply squeezing between three or four sets of iron rollers. Now the juice inns in a trough to a strainer, where a woman gathers up now and then Mipsa shrnds nf rnnp romftininrr nnrl Likes them bar k to the mill. Next the juice is pumped into an iron cylinder called the "juice heater,",and heated with exhaust steam to 190 degrees. This is a new process not much in use. Next it runs into tho claiifiers or defecators, which are large iron vats with rows of steam pipes at the bottom. Here slacked quicklime is added, which brings to the top all impurities, to be skimmed off into a division of the pan at the end. The juice is then boiled and " brushed " w ith a long paddle until the bubbles become white, when it is allowed to s^ttie for T n i-n i a n c!/"! n Ann r*_ UllUCU liJill uao, 1 UtK- AO <b CIVH, ation for saving the sugar in the skimmings by putting them through filter presses. In the advance! process at Magnolia the juice next goes through bone black filters instead of to the ordinary settling ' tanks, to settle for six or seven hours. A filter is a big iron drum containing 10,- \ 000 pounds of animal bone black. The "char" must be washed with hot water ( every two d?ys and dried in a kiln. After filtering, the juice, still thin as when first pre.-sed from the cane, goes to the "double effects." This is a newappa ratus, resembling two upright boilers of ' a portable engine. Each cupola like ; machine contains 500 tube.4, iu which the juice is boiled in a vacuum by exhaust steam. The usual plan is to boil in au open cylindrical pan, having coils of steam pipe at the bottom. Now the j juice goes to fresh filters, and next to the vacuum pan, which is not a pan, but a big iron cupola-shaped cylinder, with : an apparatus for exhausting the air and multitudinous coils of steam pine. This is the process requiring most skill. The I chief sugar maker attends to it himself, ! watching his vacuum gauge and thermometer carefully, and testing every j few minutes his boilintr mass by drawing : out a tube which does not break the , vacuum. |1 lie seeks to keep the temperature down to i:?0 degrees. If it is too high some of the surcose will ' invert" or "caramel" into glucose, and the pro- 1 portion of sugar will be lessened. First j1 he fills the pau only in part. Then \ j when he sees fine granulations of sugar ; ' against the light in his test tube he ad- iJ mits more juice, and thus builds up the I grains little by little to latgcr size, j When sufficiently boiled the thick syrup j is called the "massa cuite." The "strike" j is now done, air is admitted to the pan ( and the contents are run off into the "mixer'?a huge oblong iron pan in which 6tcam arms revolve. Next the "masse cuite" falls into the "centrifugals," which are small drums holding about 120 pounds of sugar. Within the i drum is a wire screen basket revolving i at the rate of 1,000 turns per minute. 1 The centrifugal force throws out the (i molasses through the wire network and j < 1 il.. .rolur ; i icavus nil- su<;ur, i uivxuv ticui nuivi is thea spurted iuto the drum from ! a syringe. This water is thrown out s through the sugar, washing out the re- j < maiuing coloring matter. Thejnotion c of the centrifugal is now stopped and , i the sugar let out of a trap in the bottom'* into a screw conveyor, from which a-" bucket band is carried to a big bin. A. i man stands in the bin and shovels the f sugar, as if it were wheat, into a tube ,8 under which the barrels are placed one t by one to receive it. ' t This first product of the sugar mill is 1 called "firsts,"' and is the whitest and i best sugar. The molasses is boiled j again in llie vacuum pan, goes a^ain through tho centrifugals, and a light i brown sugar called "seconds" results. ! . Vet again the remaining molasses goes 1 the pans, but the "masse mite" is now , sticky and stringy, and will not yield i its sugar to the centrifugals. It is put ^ into iron ta-tks on wheels called * "wagons," hi h of which holds about 2,500 pound*, and wheeled into the hot ' room. The temperature here is from i'O to 100 degrees. Here the wagon* stand j in closely packed rows for lii.rty days. 4 The mass is now very still';md wavy, ll ^ is next ihrown in'.o thu boil -r. stiired up ^ well and ]i;it into the centrifugals with j c >l?! which wishes out the mo- i ssisms. The limit remainder of sugar is tat'ctl 'Mhiids'' and is of a dark brown y color. Thi? separated molasses is of a very poor ijnulity and sells for only about 13 cents a gallon. Distillers use it to make alcohol and the glucose manufac- 1 turers buy it to give a canc llavor to their glucose sytup. ? K. I*. SmaUry in Century. < Paris is said to harbor the largest number of cats of any city in the world in j ^ proportion 10 na size. n huik L-uumius of them," remarks a Frcnch journal, "are to be found in the vicinity of the j markets, whero they feed on broken victuals and make incessant war on the j rats. i ' - . ' ' ; " ; i v -ir .,: What tlie Men of Greece Wear. They are tall, with great broad shoulders and waist a as small as those of women, small hands and feet, with manly, fearless faces and dark, keen eyes. They usually let their hair grow a la Buffalo Bill and wear long moustaches which curl upward. Add to their natural appearance the picturesque costume find they become very handsome. The jackcts thev wear are of velvet with loose sleeves, which hang down, leaving exposed long, full, crape shirt sleeves, as white as snow, the jacket fitting tight in the back, but open in front and stiff with gold or silver emIirnir1r>rr Arrmnrl tli<? wnicf in ft erfirlflt. sa-=h in which are stuck several pistols and knives, all richly ornamented, often jeweled. Below this is the fustanelle, or white petticoat which reaches nearly to the knees, and which is so full that it stands nearly straight. In some of these fustanellcs there are nearly 1,500 pieces, wedge-shaped. This garment is always of tine linen, and snowy white. The more pieces, the handsomer and more valuable, and the prouder the wife is whose | atient fingers have made it. Below this are worn white drawers and leggings to match the jackct, and low shoes with red rosettes on the point of the toes. A red fez with a long blue tassel complete? the costume. In winter they wear a beautifully embroidered cloak of thick, white wool, which is carelcssly thrown over one shoulder only, and it readies to the bottom of the fustanelle. All the public e.nployes andofficerswear this costume, and the soldiers, aside from those who would not abandon it anyhow, but the Greek brokers and merchants, who mix mostly with foreigners, do not wear it, which is a great mistake if they set any value upon their appearance. ? Olltc Harper, in InterOcean. Governor Mnrmadnke's Duel. It was at Bayou Metre that the famous duel between the late General Marmadukc, of Missouri, and General Marsh Walker took place, in w?.ich the latter rrUo. mi3 MllUU. 1UU UUt l ?lUUpUl WW sunrise, seven miles south of Little IiOck.N One version of the affair is that General Marmaduke during the battle was hard pressed on the field and sent for General Walker at his headquarters to know what he should do, as Walker was the senior in command. Walker vis'ited the field, but left soon after, and Maimaduke made a remark which came to Walker's ears. General Walker was determined to kill Marmaduke, and at the word brought his pistol down, and carefully and deliberately took accurate aim, but Marmaduke simply threw his pistol out and fired at once. The discharge made Walker flinch, as the bravest man will do under similar ! circumstances, and spoiled his Aim, so j that the bullet just missed Marmaduke's leg. This rattled Walker's nerve to some extent and make him uncertain, but Marmadukc had been forming his plan for the next shot. He could not see Walker j distinctly, but he noticed three weeds in I line with him. The two nearest Marma- j duke were short, and the third, about j midway to Walker, was tall and had a : sm-ill bunch of seed at the top. but on a j level with Walker's stomach. The weeds j gave him the line of his shot, and when ! the next word was given he raised his pistol in line with the ncaicst weed and aimed at the head of the tallest. His aim was true, and the bullet passed through General Walker's stomach. Burned at the Stake. A horrible crime, and one of the most1 diabolical ever committed in Wyoming, j says the Cheyenne Sun, occurred last week ; iu the northwestern portion of the Terri- j tory, not many miles from Fort Washakie, J and on the Shoshone reservation. An j Indian woman, who was probably re- i garded a; a burden by the balance of her band, was unfortunate enough to meet j with an accideut, whereby she sustained a fracture of one of her limbs. The bucks, who appear to have everything t their own way, counseled together ana i came to the conclusion that the best thing to do with the poor old woman was to put her to death. In pursuance of this plan, and after divesting licroi every garment; maicouiu i protect her from the cold, they drove | stakes in the ground and tied her to them, and left lu*r to freeze to death, j At the expiration of two days and nights i both of her arms wi re fro/en solid, but she was not dead. Concluding that some more expeditious way must be adopted, tlu*y gathered a lot of old blankets, p led them upou and around her. and .set them on fire. The result of this terrible torture was that her body was t>o badly burned that j the inner organs were left exposed. They | :hen let the fire go out and left her again j to freeze. At the expiration of twentyfour hours death at last came to her re- j I in f I A Fisherman's Telephone. On some parts of the Coast of Sumatra ind the neighboring islands the fishernea test the depth of the sea and also ;he nature of the sea bottom by the loises they hear on applying the ear to >nc end of an oar of which the other end s plunged in the water. At a depth of twenty feet and less the tound is a crepitation similar to that proiueed when swlt is thrown on burning :harcoal: at fifty feet it is like the tickng of a w?teh, the tic tac being more less rapid according to whether the )ottorn is entirely of coral or alternately ; >f coral and miidorof sand. If the bottom ia entirely of saud the ! """"1 n]?nr* if nf mini it. Pf>sf>m1ilns ! he humming of a swarm of bees. On | lark nights the tislicnncn selcct their j ishery "rounds according to these inlications.?iki> nw Proof Positive. Mr. "VY. Hawker, Bournemouth. s:iys: I 'To me, a Warwickshire man, the immt i lonelusive proof that Sh:ik?^peare wrote j Antony and Cleopatra' is the line in j vhich Antony salutes the Sjpent of the S'ile as 'mv chuck ' This term of j endearment is still heard anions: the j >easantrv of (lie Midland counties; aud j o suppose tha! a davsicul scholar, such | is liac'iu, should have introduced n: loiiH'ly provincialism, so Knglish, ?nd | o utterly destructive of tlv unities, into j in Kgyptian trajfedv is so improbnhie ' hat i piu my faith to the Stratford 1 mtcher's inspired son as the author o! j hat robust imagery nit her than to the ( uantlc of the great but pedantic i t'erulam."?I.-j/,<!on Times. *? i.J HL' j A Jicjoeicu IV'hen Madge cunie to church in a rose j colored Irtmm-t. She touched to the quick ray susceptible ! heart, >o I out with my pencil anil scribbled a son- j net To beauty enhanced by a milliner's art. I iVhich I sent her. Alas, how I wished I ha 1 j burned it! For she flouted my verse like a tragedj? j queen, iiad wrote on the wrapper in which she returned it: "Have you taken me, sir, for a poor magazine"?"' ?Boston HtraJd. ?? - - ? ? j .25SB CURIOUS FACTS. !, A petrifie 1 fish about 17$ inches long and six inches thick wns found rccentlj on the Oregon Mountain, 8,000 feet abort the sea level. The sexes can be distinguished in ducks by noticing that a duck quacks in a loud, coarse voice, while a drake has a sharp, thin, peeping voice. . ? The time of the ocean steamship pas sace has been reduced by more than onehalf since lfUO. and hv mnr? than fortr per ccnt. since 18G0. A New York State man proposes to make a railroad car entirely of wood pulp. He claims that it will be indestructible either by fire or by shock. A turtle was recently hatcnecl out in the parlor of a Jersey . ity woman from, an egg which she brought home as ft souvenir of a trip. It was placed on the card "receiver. The invention of the organ is attributed to Archimedes, about 220 B. C. It wM brought from Western Europe from the Greek Empire, and used in religious devotions in churches about A. D. 657. A cnemical explanation of Ireland's distress is that it is due to too exclusive subsistence upon potatoes. Though a healthful luxury, this food used alone fnn liffln nnfrifinn fn onnnnrt. iwv vviv uuvi ikiuu vv ouvjtrv* v people other than in a half-starved and dissatisfied condition. It is probable, therefore, that Ireland's woes would be greatly reduced if the productive soil and climate were applied to the growth , of nutritive cereals instead of the tubers. Whether one position in sleep is better than another may be an important ques ~ tion, but it does not seem to have been authoritatively settled that any particular position is the best to adopt. Sleeping on the ri^ht side is more common th;in on the left, and sleeping on the back is comparatively rare. .Evidence has been found to show that sleeping on tho left side favors bronchitis, and sleeping on the right t-idc appears to increase a tendency to constipation. It has been strongly urged that health and longevity are best secured by lowering the head and raising the feet in sleep, though some nervous affections require a partially erect posture. In a paper on color blindness, Prof. W. Ramsey suggests that the particular defect which causes color blindness may lie in the brain, not in the eye. Certain persons, he points out, are incapable of judging which of two musical tones is the highest, even when they are more than an octave apart. Yet such persons hear each tone perfectly; the defect is not one of deafness. "It must be con- .. D - D..; Uiuueu, siija nui. ltuuiMrji, iuai> iu such a coso the bruin is the defaulter. Aud it may equally well be the case that the inability to perceive certaiu colore is ^not due to a defect in the instrument of "sight?the eye?but to the power of interpreting the impressions conveyed to the brain by the optic nerve. If thin is the case, the problem is no longer a physical one ; it falls umong those with which the mental physiologist has to deal." A new principle for keeping plants through the winter without artiricial heat was recently shown at Regent's Fark, London, with the plants grown in them last winter. The essence of the invention is that all light and heat shall previously pass through a shallow layer of water. The water is found to exercise great control over temperature, protecting plants entirely from frost in winter and from excessive direct heat in summer. The application involves no difficulty. In the case of a garden frame, a sliding 41 water-light,'" about three inches deep, is made to lit over the frame con- " taining the plants; the only difference from a g'ass light being that it holds ; water and is always placed in a flat position. '1 he depth of water generally kept in the tank is about two inches, in winter and summer, and half the depth in spring and autumn. } < On Top of the Great Pyramid. The views from the great pyramid, though at all times sublime, vary with the time of day and night, and with the courses of the sun aud moon. The first look is for Cairo. It is plainly visible, with its tall minarets and broad domes of glittering metal and color, and beyond it the dark Mokkatam Ilills aie seen. A fon st of immense palms, Jar away upon the border of the Kile, marks the site of ancient Memphis; still farther South are the pyramids of Sakkarah, the great ' Step" pyramid, "the father of pyramids," ninoug them.- Farther on is the desc-rt; ou the right is the desert; in front is the desert; all around is a vast plain, now golden, now red, now in part black, now gray, changing as the sun changes, as the great shadows of tiie pyramids are projected upon it, or as the moon comes with its pale light and tones down the grand chromatic display. The only variation in the wondrous expunge comes from the molds of sand here and there. These last change agreeably to the whims of the wind. Like draft * 6l\A?r AAAWI f A Kfi anilUU 3, ill UI1U LUWUiCUb nit J SI.M11 WW uw resting ;ind waiting for their call to labor. Then the airy messenger comes and gives the word. At once the sand begins to rise in slender spirals. Body and strength arc gathered as it continue* whirling and ascending, until it towers aloft like a great black column. Now it is joined by a wild company impelled by the wind, aud all hasten across the plain?all rising higher and higher, all all wavering, spinning with awful velocity, until, their destination reached, they llare at the top like waterspouts, break aud burst high in air, and are diffused?a terrible storm?upon the plain below. Woe be to a man or camel on whom 'lc-( en-is the awful weight! As iar :> ihc eye can see southward lies E?ypt, the silvery i\ile creeping i.lonir between the banks of emerald. Within view are over forty pyramids. The Pyramid of Chephren, or the "Second Pyramid, being about three hundred feet away, affords one nu excellent opportunity, while seated ou the edge of the Treat Pyramid, of studying pyramidal architecture from above. There seems to be a great abyss between. The distance is remarkably deceiving. It is almost impossible to cast a stoue so that it will fail clear of the base. It will only drop on the side and bound and reLouuJ. nerhans.to the ground.?Scribner. High Society in Servla. To a grand dinner, given the other day at Belgrade by an nugust j>er*on to some foreigners of distinction visiting tho Servian cmpifal, several members of the Skuptschin:? or National Parliament had been invited. One of the alien etieste, a well-known financier, hapr.enea to sit next to a Sen-inn M. 1\ and was considerably diverted by his quaint cxpedienta for dealing with certnin attributes of civilization obviously unfamiliar with him. Toward tho conclusion of tho fnnat t.lin Frcrhm.in selected a toothniek from a email tray lying near bim and B politely passed the receptaclo on to his 1 neighbor, who, however, peremptorily B declined his offer, exclaiming: "No, B Gospodin; I have already eaten ten of fl the things and I want no more.?1 Oloia. - ^