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A FUNNY WORLD IS THIS. This world is very funny, For no matter how much money fcn is earning he will spend it, and be bard up all the time; To bis utmost he is straining To catch up without attaining, IB be makes his life a burden when it should be bliss sublime. He who earns a thousand merely, Thinks two thousand dollars yearly *bald be just the figures to make happiness complete; But his income when it doubles, Only multiplies his troubles, iter his outgo i hen increasing makes his both ends worse to meet. It. is run in debt and borrow, Flush to-day and broke to-morrow, *aanciering every which way to postpone the day of doom; Spending money ere he makes it, And then wondering what takes it, * - *? -M1U UaUo rosf. 3212 US,, giving up me nuuiu, wwa within the tomb. Oh, this world is very funny To the average m:tn whose money Soesu't quite pay for the dancing that he does before he slioiid: And he kills himself by trying Just a little higher Hying Tttian is suited for his pocket and his own ! eternal good. ?GoodalVs Sun. j KATE'S POCKET-MONEY. "It's all very fine to be adopted," said late Kaswell, running her hngers des-: jjtraiL-ly through her short, brown curls ' ?' 'ad a rich uncle reads delightfully ' % a newspaper story, or at the end of a ! jovel; but what is a girl to do for a Ittle pocketmoucy?*' "A^k your undo for it, .m'ss, dear," j jnggc?ivd Cleo. the old housekeeper. ' *i\ot that he'd give it to you?the mas- I :s dreadful close in his calculations. | Jat there's nothing like trying. Now, is | a?eie.? i ! ate fixed her great sea-blue eyes full si l'leo'3 wrinkled face, and considered 4ic question dispassionately. -I've heard of m:;rchiugup to the can- j " oil's mouth said she. "I would almost i Wiber do that than ask Uncle hasweil j 4>r a dollar. But you are right, Cleo? j here's nothiag liwe trying." the eyed herself in the glass?a bright, I sadacious faced little brunette, with a vop of short, brown curls parted em- j jhat'cally on one side, cheeks flushed "with rosy health, and a captivating dim-, in her chin?she pulled her sailor , jollar straight, and threw away a cluster 1 *i marigolds which had wilted in her j 4)M>na. leo," said she, "shall I do?" 'lie old woman looked lovingly at 1c " i the Major hadn't a heart of stone, *i-s. ' >aid she, "he couldn't refuse a ii ; >i>'i iisked of him!" iitt; imighed. ' j w su every one was of the same mind as you, Cleo," she said. Ar.d ;hen she marched out to the j jtunu- oored portico, where her uncle, | ara e i iu a huge basket-chair, was read ?i. 1^**? .i??u ? mii in mornings leutjrs imuuyu a jjun jis;eel-bound spectacles. .Major Kasweli looked up, with a smile. 3& a'most always smiled when Kate appeared before him, but it was a cold, | nr. encouraging, smile. "Well, ray clear said he. "Uncle," stammered Kate, ''I should Ske a little- a little pocket-motaey!" "What forf" said the Major, still with j She immo . able smile widening his mouth. ' Kate hesitated. She had wanted a yard of Smyrna fcce, a pint of peanuts, two postage I Stamps and a bottle of cough mixture *1dt one of her proteges in the village; I Hat all these things seemed so pitifully Significant in the cold light of Major Xa-well's frigid blue eyes and stony xnle, that she lacked courage to anamerate them. < \ "Oh. various things!" said she, feebly. , arious things, eh?" said the Major. I Te*, I dare say! But that isn't the way ?do business, ivatnarine. Anyreasonauie iillsihat you may contract may be sent k> me, and I will pay for them by check. 1 always like to know where I stand, Jnancially." ' But, uncle, a little ready money in rcie's pocket?" "Is the most wasteful system in the world, my dear.'' "No! be off about your business, or Xll have you arrested I (to a swart-laced ;an organ-grinder, who, accompanied his tattered wife and monkey, were ' lidlin^up the broad carriage drive). And l\ate shrank back, almost as aervou>ly as if the stern rebuif were addressed to her own individual self. No, there was no use to protest. Tncle Kaswell was an autocrat in hia way. She could only retire as gracefally as possible from the tield of action and coufess to old (,'leo that she hud been ideated. "It makes me feel so helpless':" said skc, clenching her hands. "Oh, t'leo, n't there any one in the village that wants a little sewing done, or a bit af house-cleaning done, or someth ng SSutt represents money value?" '4 think you're goiDg crazy, miss!" j jaid Cleo, with a gasp. "Aloney I must hare!" assyerated 1 Sate. "Docs Uncle Kaswell think I am Vie the savage tribes of Africa, who Jive on bits of colored glass and wax Hemds? And money I mean to earn, ; we way or other. Else I might as well ; ^ a pauper! Checks, indeed! A check \ Jw ? paper of pins, or a package of! .1 l.i i t 3 l a r : imm euucuisiea ; 1 wuuucruuw iiuviu laswell would like it himself 1" For a minute Kate hesitated whether % laugh or to cry. . And iu default of ather, she caught up her hat and weut ml into the garden to hunt butterflies. for her collection. "Bless and save us, miss!" said John, | &se knotty-faced mnn who ofliciat.d in double capacity of gardener and stableman. "Why, you nearly knocked - aKover." j "Fm very sorry. John," said Kate, picking up her butte tly net. "Hut if 1 it had not been for you, I should have j emght that lovely terra-cotta specimen. I lH?at were you staring at? One would | think you might have gotten out of the -irmy." "It's the boat, miss," said John. "It fcn't running away, I suppose:" J fBaicastically.) "No. miss; but it might," John nswercd. in rather a nettled fashion. . "if 1 didn't keep my eye on it. It's litem bictcle men and tourists from tlx-; Betel want to hire it. And they're that and because master has given orders to I aay no that two of 'em has tried to sneak H away on the sly a'ready. Boats is acarce hereabouts?that kind o' boat, at Inst. But it's locked tight, and the key aader the tool-house mat I" ?concluding Ms speech with a chuckle. "It's too bad!" said Kate. "No one over uses it here. Some one ought to leave the good of it." "It's a private boat," asserted John, jtabbornly. "No one hain't no business #hh it but ourselves," "John!" "Ye3, Miss Kate." 'V... 7 .. ^ ' v. "What do people generally chargc for a boat:?people that have it to hire, you know?" "A quarter of a dollar an hour, miss, for rowboata. without the boatman," John answered, as he resumed his normal occupation of pruning out the Jacqucminot roses ready for their full blooming. Ma or Kaswell went to the city the next day; John accompanied him. There was to be a great auction sale of Holland bulbs on Chambers street; and the Major was fond of tulips. John was a good judge of bulbs, and although the Major pretended to pay no attention to his advice, still he m.ide an excuse to take 'ohn along also. if you really want a new stock ol gladiolas," snia he, "you may as well pick out the varieties fur yours> If." "Ye/.zei," said John, who knew perfectly well what it nil meant. No sooner had the pair disappeared along the wiuding path that formed a short-cut to the railway station, than Kate tied on her bonnet, haviDg previously eclip-ed herself in oue of Cieo's most faded gowns. "viooJness me, miss!" said the old woman, "what are you going to do?" "I'm going boating," said Kate. Under the shadow of an old willow, on tlio edge of the mar-hy shore, there was a rude wooden bench. There Miss Kaswell seated herself, with her book ?a fair young spider, on the <;ui dec for flie3. She had not loug tc wait. Presently a youn^f man sauntered quietly along. He did not see her at tirst, so completely was the screen ol lioating willow tresses, nnd with a furtive smile .-h'j watched him try the fa?tenincr of the chain?once, twice, three times. "Deuce take it!" he said, straightening himself up at last. "It's a3 tight &< a jail." Kate put the green boughs aside. "Did you want anything?" said she. The young man reddeued all o.tr hi' handsome face. "Oh, I beg your pardonsaid he? "but I was looking for a boat. Could i fellow hire this?do you know?" "Certainly," said Miss Kaswell. "Your father was rather short aboul it, the other day," said the young man. "In the garden, you know?cutting the ed?:es of the box-borders. lie nearly set the dog on one of our club. I'm one of the Bicycle Six." "He is a little peculiar," said Kate, calmly. "If you want the boat to-day, you can have it for two dollar*, paymenl in advance. Here is the key." "3Iuch oblige. I am sure!" said the member of the Bicycle Six. "You will find the cushions in the boat-house," added Kate. "Thanks, awfully!" said the young man, thinking how very pretty the gardcner'9 daughter was, as he felt it his pocket for the two dollar bill which represented payment in advance. , Ka;e took it, witli a curious sensation. She h id never earned anything before, and it seemed like a prodigious sum oi money to her. The customer reported promptly the next day. This time Miss Kate was gathering flowers in the garden, close to the edge of the river. "I should like the boat again," said he, doffing his cap, and looking verj bright and sunburned,as he stood among the tall blue-flowered rushes. "You can only have it until noon to day," said Kate. "It's engaged aftei that." . for she had bethought herself that il would never do to have the liiver Queer gone, when Incle Kaswell and John returned from the sale of Holland bulbs. "Three dollars in pocket-money P she said, exultantly, to herself. "That's something like. -Now I can buy a papei of needles without asking permission ol all the i ank directors 1" Major Kaswell came back on the threeo'doclr tra:n, in t^igh spirits. The bulbj hud been line, and had gone for reasonable prices. "Oh. bv-the-way, Kate," said he,after he had kissed her, patted the dog'ssilkj head, ana iookcu at nis iec:ers, - i \t nsked a friend to dinner. I met him at the Sachem's Head, as I carne through the village. Hadn't an idea he was stopping there. And he asked permission to briug young Jack Sigourney, who, it seems, is staying there, too. Tell Glee to have everything in ship - shape. There's some of those black Hamburgs ripe in the grapery, and the Magnum Bonum plr.ms am in fine order foi dessert." Kate was in the garden picking the Magnum Bonum plums?her uncle would trust no one but herself or old John to gather the fruit?when she heard the .Major enthusiastically welcoming hi; guests on ihc portico. Peeping, with a remnant of Mofchei Eve's curiosity, through the plum boughs, she 8aw?horror of horrors!? her customer of the day before,standing beside a stout, short old geutleraan, under the shadow of the fluttering awnings. Kate had nearly dropped the basket of plums, in her consternation. What was to become of her? In all the possibilities of the case, she had never contemplated this emergency. "I won't come down to dinner," sift said, to herself. "I'll hide!" But Cleo came up stairs, after the gong had sounded, to summon her, without delay. "You must come down, miss," said she, with a troubled face. "Master says so!" "Did you tell him that I had a headache, Cleo?" "Yes, but he looked at me in that stony way of Irs. -Tell her to come down.' says he, slow-like. And miss, he m ans it." Kate clutched her curls in both hands. "I'll have to go down." groaned she. "There's no help for it." "Is your head very bad, miss?" said Cleo, sympathetically. "A little bayrum " "Oh. don't talk about bay rum!" cricd Kate, hurriedly adjusting her laces. "Give me my brooch, Cleo, and the little silver bangles. There! Now for rnv doom!" And with the courage of sheer desperation, she marchcd straight down stairs, and was formally introduced tc Colonel Courtenay and .Mr. Sigouiuey. "How do you do, .Miss Ka-wcll?" said Jack Sigourney. wiih the impressivene^s of :i red Indian. He had recognized her?Kate knew that by the sparkle under his eye'ashe ?but ho made no sign of therocogni tion. and in her heart she thanked him with an exceeding great tide of grati tude. And after the tirat meeting thing; were not so bad. Colonel Courtenaj had traveled a good deal and Mr. Sigourncy had plenty of small talk at his command. The dinner went off charmingly, am' it was not until the two elders hac strolled out, after the black Hamburg grapes and the Magnum Bonum plums, to smoke their cigars, that Kate venturec to look her late customer in the face. "ltow did you like the boating this morning?" said she, a little hysteri cally. j "Then it was you," said Mr. Sigourney, "and not the gardener's eldest i girl, or a water girl in disguise?" ! "Yes, it was 1!" owned Kate, redden ' ing to the roots of the short, brown curls. s j "I am sure I beg jour pardon," said I Mr. Sigourney. i "You won't betray me?" faltered she. n II "Certainly not! But why did you do it?" ' ij "Oh, for fun I" , j And that was the only answer she ] would give him. i Until six months afterward, when she 1 ? drew a little silk crochet purse out of her ' 1 pocket and showed him two crumpled bills?a two and a one. : i '.Jack," said she, "do you remember 1 that?" He shook his head. -r^W"" : "No," said he. 1 i "Vou paid them to me for the hire of . the boat. Oh, Jack, I wanted some i pocket money so much, aDd 1 did not 1 know how else to get it. but it didn't ] do me any good aiter all, because, after i I had met you, I couldn't nake up my mind to spend it, and?and?" "My darling girl!" cried Jack, enthu* 1 siastically. "Did you really keep those 1 because of me? But I can assure you of < one thing?you shall never be short of 11 pocket money while you are my wife." j i And he kept his promise.?Sunday :' l Nijiit. \ Uses or Mineral Waters. # { J Mineral waters, as to their sources, are ' [ of two classcs, the imported and the ; ; domestic. As to their nature, they are ' i f artificial or natural. Not all of the best I . waters will bear exportation,oreven long I keeping in stock. Many of them throw jl ? down their mineral constituents and i decompose -ahen exported in wood; and J i . even in glass not a few of them become JI , inert by keeping. The waters that are ' I the most stroug.y mineralized, especially . I those that are the most fully charged j' with carbonic acid gas, bear exportation J i , the best. Those of weaker constitution, . i ; like some delicate individuals and some delicate wines, do not stand a sea voyage. k 1 "Old books to read, old wood to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to talk i to;" but no old mineral waters for a cure. 11 , borne physicians hold, indeed, that all mineral waters begin to lose their virtues ! , as soon as they leave the spring. This is , 'j an extreme view; it is quite unproven of , some of the best waters, yet most of them are effective in proportion to their fresh- j ' ness. The be>t importing houses aim, ! 1 j very properly, to keep little stock on ! [ hand, in order that it may be fresh. We' have a full list of excellent mineral ! , waters to choose from, whether native or imported, whether natural or manu, factured, whether medicinal waters or I table waters. I can not say too much for ; , a good table water, meaning by this a ; drinking water that is (1) but slightly [ mineralized, that is (2) charged more or j t less freely with carbonic add gas, and (:j) that is absolutely pure, hygienically 1 1 speaking. Such waters are the Apolli- ! j naris, the Clysmic, the Giessbubel, the : f ' Poland Silica, the Underwood Spring ! | Water, and many others. The \ichy, 1 , I Seltzer, and Saratoga waters, though more strongly medicinal, are used as r ' table waters by many. The appetizing I and digestive qualities of all the waters just named are well known, and their pleasant flavor and sparkle; in many | r caseB of impaired digestion I have found ! , nothiug more useful than they, and I ' regard them as useful in chronic diseases , when impaired nutrition is a main ; r feature. Pure sodawatcr (more properly j j called carbonated water), whether natural I ! or manufactured, is a poweriui aia ro ; ^ digestion by stimulating the stomach, j 1 and also, probably, by aiding to dis1 solve the mineral ingredients of the ; food. It is very appetizing; it corrects acidity in the stomach, checks the dis' position to nausea, and cools the system ' in febrile complaints; it lessens the desire ^, for spirituous liquors, and is indeed tha ] ideal beverage for the water-drinker, . " j provided always that pure water is used ' in its preparation. The consumption ol i ' ; table waters in this country increases i i probably about 10 per cent, per year; ' that of medicinal water has nearly ; doubled since 1SS0. Table waters 1 prepared from distilled waters, as thej | ' should be. have the great advantage thai j 1 they can uot carry tbe germs of disease. 1 . ?Dr. Tiiua Munson Coan, in Harper. Curiosities of Appetite. 1 In the desire for change in articles ol 11 food, some strange things have been ; ' swallowed, tfucli, for instance, as Cleo- j; , patra's famous pearl solution, which sh? j ; quatfed to prove her regard for Marc 1 | Antony; the similar draught which Sii I i | Kicbmond Whittington had prepared foi j ! an entertainment he gave to King Henry ' j V.; the diamond which Sir Thomaj I ' Gresham had dissolved in wine, and j drank to the health of Quceu Elizabeth , ! when she opened the royal exchange; and tbe love pledges of their own blood . j 1 which the young gallants of former dayi j usea to drink. The claims of such arti? j1 cles as foods are, however, shadowy, j and, if they may be admittod, so ought the penknife, the ounce of tin tucks and innumerable sixpences, -which the typicaj ;, boy, from time immemorial, has shown a ( 1 predilection for swallowing. I ' One of the earliest aristocratic recruits , to the stage, Betterton's successor, Bar- ! ton Booth, "a relation of the Earl of War* j 1 rington. and not far remote from the j title," had such an unappeasable appe. * tite ihifc his wife had often to "order the table to be removed, for fear of over* charging his stoma: h." He had pre previously been a devotee ot uaccnus, i 1 aod from one extreme fell into the other, j1 , That food has an effect on the mind antj j < actions was believed in by Mossop, whd always ordered his dinner to suit thf character he wa< about to play. Fot 1 /anga, in the ' Revenge," sausages; fot 1 Barbaro;sa, veal cutlets; and for Rich ard, pork.?Gentleman1 s Maga-ine. Climatic Influence on Social Traits. A French publicist calls atteution tc . the curious regularity in the geographical ; distribution of crimes. The prevalent [ standard of morality, it seems, is to a , lurjje extent a question of climatic con. ditions. l ow latitudes and low morals, - however, are not always concomitant. Thus habitual imtemperance prevails . chie iy north of the forty-fifth degree t parallel in Europe and the twenty-tifth , in America. Sexual precocity increases with the distance from the isotherm of [ Stockholm, the courtship? of the short. lived pigmies of the Polar reg'ons being quite as expeditious as those of the West Indians Creoles. Sieil}', too, anticipates ; J lie iegal minimum of our marriage cus. torn* by several years: but the ne plus i ultra ot precocity seems to be evolved by . the climate of Southern Brazil, where ) marriage of boys in their earliest teems r and girls of ten and nine are nothing . . unusual. Thrift is a virtue of pastoral . i highland regions, while the maximum ! of tinancial extravagance is a reproach ol 1 lar<re seaport towns. Bngandagt n I flourishes chiefly in Nevile plains; Tunis c r and Turkestan in the East, and the Rio j Grande border lands on this side of th? t I great ferry. The time may come when c accomplished attorneys, in their plea ol r extenuating circumstances, will urge tht t ! ''unavoidable influence of climate."? j Yankee J>l"de. ( ? -:v -v ^ vV r - WOMAN'S WORLD" PLEASANT LITERATURE FOI FEMININE READERS. Taking Music as a Tonic. - " ?? >1 1 ? .iuiius tticnoerg, tne weu-Kuowu x>ua ton musician, tells this story of an earli experience: One day a lady somewha dvanced in years came to make arrange ments for taking private lessons in sing inff. At the end of the second lesson th< tea: her felt constrained to tell her tha her ear was not true. She received th< remark very coolly, and at the nexi lesson sang ns badly as before. "I an afraid," said Mr. Eichberg, "that yov can never learn to sing in tune." "Oh, it doesn't matter," was the surprising reply. "Doesn't matter I" said the as tonished teacher. "Ao," said the pupil, "I don't care anything about music, bui my doctor said that singing would b< the best thing for my dyspepsia, and sc [ decided to take lessons." Early Marriage. The marriage of damsels under nine teen ought to be forbidden by law. ac cording to the London Telegraph, whict lial been trying to find out whethei matrimony is a failure. If the Tclegr-vil will scan the marriage records of thu town, it will see that such a law woulc lp?d tn t.lifi nnstnnnement. if not th< prevention, of several thousand of thi weddings that are celebrated here everj year. The earliest marriages here ari unong the Germans and the Italians many of whose maidens become wive: between seventeen and nineteen. In olc times girls were encouraged to wed at i 3till earlier age. When Canada wa under France, the French King gave i handsome gift of money to every girl ii the province who secured a husband b; the time she was sixteen, and a reprimanc was given to those fathers whosi daughters were not in wedlock at tha age. Small Hands a Bailee of Nobility. "We infer from some of the letter re ceived by us from our young readers tha a number of them cherish the ridiculoui opinion that to have small hands am feet is a sign of noble descent and higl breeding. We can assure these deludec damsels that race and breeding havi nothing to do with the size of the ex tremitics. The biggest hand we eve saw attached to a human arm was tha of a young officer, the sc'on of a famil; ennobled six centuries ago, and we hav' seen hands of the most delicate size anc texture belonging to persons of the low licst origia. Witness, also, the chubb; paw of her most gracious Majesty Queei Victoria, whose race has been of roya rank for fifteen huudred years. Natur proportions the hands and feet, with th utmost exactness to the other parts o the l;ody. Consequently, the hands an< fpflf. arp alwavs ust riorht. To chaneri them would be to destroy the liarmon; of the frame. To be dissatisfied witl them argues a real vulsarity of mind, want of good sense, and we may add, i thankless impiety.?New York Ledger. The Java Mother Hubbard. The sarong and kabia from the nativ dresj in Java, adopted by the Europea: ladies for comfort and convenience ii the climate, and worn by them as sleep ing attire, as also during the day in i richer form. Imagine a piece of calico two yards long, cut from a web. Se\ together the raw edges, and you have petticoat without band and hem. Imag ine it covered with floral patterns o curious devices of crawling creatures, o having a village with houses and scene of daily life depicted on it, and you se a sarong or skirt. Put this over you head, draw all the fullness in front anc form of this n large plait; put arounc your waist, to hold it, a cord with a rid tassel depending, or a gay silk sasii Then put on a dressing jacket of lin lawn, trimmed with lace; loosen you hair and let it fall down your 1 ack; sli] your stockingless feet into Indian look ing panto;'r!es, with gilt or silver em broidery. Take row a fan in yourha:< and promenade before your mirror. Selecting Saleswomen. A traveler in foreign lands says: "I one were to judge of the physique o English women from the specimens h Bees in the shops, behind the counters he would sec mem uown lor a very iai race, but if he inquire? into the subjec he will find that these women ar selected for their very height?the tallc their figure the heigher their salary, ver; often. A stranger with au observing eye will also notice that English an< French saleswomen, or salesladies, a they arc called in New York, dress ii black while on duty. This, however, i not a mere caprice on the part of th women; in most shop9 it is compulsory The shopkeepers believe that shopwo men look neater and better in black thai in colors, and so all of tliem wear black The gowns may be of any material, 'ou the color must be uniformly black. No are they allowed to wear showy trim mings; and as for jewelry, either real o imitation, it is out of the question. Ii some shop3 they may, or rather the; must wear a simple, plain linen collar an< linen cuffs; thi3 is the case at Whitely' the largest shop in London, and som jay even larger than the world-famou Bon Marche of Paris." Renounced the Gay World. A mysterious and striking auctioi sale touk place in New York the othe .lay, in an up-town fiat. It had evi iently been occupied by a woman, young beautiful, and refined, and she had gou< jut of it without removing even he ings that lay in the Jewel-stand on thi Ifiinty dressing-table. Everything wai iold unreservedly. A piano, with a pil< songs and sheet after sheetof classica nusic; a library containing all the bes )f modern authors, and many of whon :he verdict of the ages have consecrated jooks finely bound and artistically ilustrated, showing that the reader liked ;o have her mental food served up or lainty dishes: pictures that, while thej ivere not, perhaps, very costiy, showed he owuer knew the best and appre:iated it; brie a-brac of all sorts anc veil selected; a table service, consisting >f naperv-like satin and china, showing he best of the Wedgwood, Sevres, and Worcester manufactures. And wearing ipparel dainty enough for a princes? ;iny satin slippers, five-and-a-half gloves, itockings fike silk cobwebs, and handkerchiefs a=t tine?quaint, pictuies |Uc, nade evidently for a tall, slim woman: \astern shawls, delicate lace-trimmed ingerie ?all the beautiful things with vhich a high-bred and luxurious woman urrounds herself. Apparently no selec ions had been, nothing kept back, and he woman had walked away beyond a loubt with nothing but the clothes she vore. The auctioneer, said, briefly, in .nswer to all interrogations, that the >wner had suddenly determined to gc nto a convent, and had directed that ho entire contents of the flat be disposed if for the benefit of the institution she lad entered. It was plain that the great ragedy of a life lay behind it, but what t was, the details of it, will never be cnown.?A rgonant. - V S"-/; .. 3 Mrs. Cleveland's Encasement Ring. Mrs. Cleveland's engagement ring is net, as Is generally supposed, the t beautiful diamond ring which she wears 0 just above her wedding ring, but is a | large, old-fashioned seal ring, wlncn ^ now adorns the President's tinker. There is quite a little history attached . to this ring and the way it came to be ' j bestowed upon Mrs. Cleyeland. " t A few days before the departure of . Mrs. Folsom and her daughter for p . Europe it will be remembered the Presi- b< 3 doDt went on to New York for the purt pose of seeing and bidding them good- tl ; by. It was upon this occasion that the; lc t President! first definitely asked Mrs. 3t i Cleveland to become his wife and fixed: j the date of their marriage immediately ^ upon her return to this country. Taking ^ r from his finger the seal ring which he w ! had worn for years, and which had been _ originally a gift from Mr. Folsom, the ^ t President placed it on her finger, in- . > tending, almost immediately thereafter, r > to forward her the handsomest diamoud !9 which could be found. This plan Mrs. I " Cleveland herself ultimately changed, as ei she decided it would be less likely to . attact attention if, during her stay . abroad, she wore the old seal ring which ci i had belonged to her dead father. 0 On the dav of her m irriasre. as is well ^ <t known, Mrs. Cleveland received a mug3 uificent ring and necklace of soltaires tl [ from the President, diamond pins for 3 the hair and breast from Secretary and tl j Mrs. Whitney, in addition to numerons j other small gifis of a similar nature from 3 others. But, curiously enough, the ci first diamond ring which Mrs. Cleveland o 3 ever possessed was a tiny little star of tl I diamonds, which she wore upon the e: x little finger of the right hand on the a 3 occasion of her marriage. This ring was t the gift of a friend in New York, who l had known Mrs. Cleveland from early n p childhood, and who hearing her mention ^ 1 the fact that she had never owned a dia3 mond, sent the little glittering star ^ t from Tiffany's the day before her departure from Washington when she came on to be married. This friend was , anions the number of those who came on , in the same train, and was present at ? j. the ceremony. ?Baltimore American. j Fashion Notes. ? t Black braiding is the rage. 1 Open sleeves appear upon many dressy > toilets. Very larjje collars are a conspicuous J r | feature of the winter wraps. ' | Many of the most dressy wraps are E ? . still made of three materials. ^ j i Puffed sleeves in Queen Mary style are I a feature of the new tea gowns. i jr I But few of the corsages of the present I i season show a visible fastening. >1 GreeD, especially in the gray, rush and s * * i . * j e | reseaa snaaes, is lae iavoreu cuiur. ? ? Dressy mantles combine colored cash- ? mere or camei's hair and black lace. 1 1 c Dresses for little, girls under six ^ should reach to the top of the shoes. ( i Embroidered vests bid fair to be a f a feature of mantles and winter cloaks. \ a A ball of cut steel mounted upon a s stem of black enamel is a favorite hatpin. i Chatelaine watches with peculiar e etched designs are the fancy of the ( a hour. 1 l Two materials are utilized in most of 1 i- the wraps, and even for the shortest t x garments. ? Dong and wide lace scarfs, in cream ot 7 black, are likely to be revived the comft i ing season. t . " | Blue serge, with sash and facings of i J | black moire, is a popular combination in costumes. Q i Bear's fur and others of long, shnggy r : fleece will be fashionable trimmings for ( j winter cloaks. ? i I Russian sable promises to be the most * h fashionable as well as costly fur for the ] u : coming season. 1 el It is predicted that velvet and lace r ! will be combined in elaborate toilets \ ? j the coming winter. " j Green, brown and sulphurino, a new ? ,* red which is described by its title, are ? 1 fashionable colors now. As the season advances, cloths of rich, t dark colors are chosen for costumes in c preference to stripes and plaids. t * The new toques are very long oval i crowns without brims, which are pointed t low at the back and very fully trimmed in front. VI The new shades of terra cotta that 1 e approach mahogany are often worn with < r mignonette green, and goblin blue with I P steel or dove gray. t | Some of the rcccnt importations of * | jet trimmings are so unfamiliar in de- ] 9 sign that t!:ey may be classed among the ] a season's novelties. s Blackbirds, quills aod ribbons appear l e on hats of any shade, for any purpose, j . while white ard light green are reserved - for full-dress occasions. 1! A great many ulsters and street iack ets this season will be lined with the t ' gray Siberian squirrel. Black astrachan ^ r is also popular for lining. i The new bonnets are longer in the i crown than of late, indicating a return 4 to a low arrangement of the hair. The * ^ brims are in coronet shape. 4 g i Cashmere colorings are prominent in J g 1 all the trimmings intended for dressy ' 8 ; costumes, and their beauty is enhanced by a judic;ous intermixture of metalic j threads. Green is an extremely fashionable 1 i color, and in its various shades of emerr aid, lapis lazuli and beryl is fashionably c - combined with blues, olives, browns and t , dull reds. t 3 The favorite style for the cloth gown a r is the Directoire, but dressy toilets of a ' silk, broche, moire and plush demand 1 J | the dressier lines and fulness of the } pi re styles. Jj The new big-hooded capes made in satin-faced cloth, in all shades of gray, 1 * ; tan and drab, the hoods lined with some S " soft y contrasting color, promise to be ; j much worn this winter. a {j Narrow ribbon of any preferred color n p : and with fancy edges are tacked in the jj neck and sleeves of many traveling .! gowns, in place of the linen collars and [J culls hitherto consideied indispensable, rj A novel trimming for large hats is a e] | boa and l?ands of ostrich feathers. The 0 [ bands lie flat on the outside of the broad jt r j brim, and the boa hangs down behind, 0 !: and is intended to be passed around the a] | neck. ti ! "Watches for ladies' wear run small in c< size and the present taste seems to be for : 1 decorated eases. Enameling is much i used in the ornamentation of watch cases. i j On silver watches appears much fine tl i etching. sr In all the wilderness of winter trim- vi ' mings there is nothing at once so artistic, m 1 so stylish, and so deliciously costly as the it 1 new galoons of either gold or silver, or m 1 in cashmere colors, with just the sus- ct 1 picion of tinsel shining through. m Many of the new corsages of visiting ai and promenade toilets are cut slightly bl J V-shape, leaving the throat a trifle ex- ^ posed. A small lace or embroidered net re [ fichu is always worn with such a bodice, e3 and a velvet dog collar or velvet ribbon is la worn around the neck. ta n< POPULAR SCIENCE. Myopia may be alluded to as a aperies f seasickness. The latest remedy for snake bites is a rash of carbolic acid solution. Philadelphia is to have another indusrial school The manual training sysim is verv Donular in that citv. An able-bodied female oyster thinks roducinsr 9,000,000 eggs is only a fair iason'B work, when she is feeling well. According to Professor H. C. Fernald, le boror in quince is the same as that l the apple tree, and should be dexoyed in the same manner. The experiment of exploding shells etween decks has been tried in the ship esistance. bhe is said to be a complete reck internally from the repeated exlosions. Yellow fever makes its first appearance y a pain above the eyes, and the victim blissfully ignorant whether he is going ) have sick headache or the deadly pidcmic. Oxalate of cerium, a recognized palliave for nausea, is said to be helpful in ises of seasickness w hen taken in doses f ten or twenty grains every two or iree hours. German savants have been discussing ie duiation of dreams. They conclude iat, while most dreams are momentary, ley may be extended sometimes to the ingth of a minute. ur. .jasrrow, or roe university ui y? ibonsin, proves that the ear is the dominant r:?an of the mind in some persons and ae eye in others. Peoplft are therefore it her ear-minded or eye minded. Dogs re usually nose-minded. A vast bed of borate of lime haa been scovered in Curry County, Oregon, ear the coast. The borate of lime is lie crude state of borax. This deposit i said to be a half a mile long, two hunred feet wide and thirty feet deep. Professor Emmens, the inventor of he new blasting powder called emmenite, is connected with the College of lew York, in the city of New York, "his new explosive has eight times the orce of gunpowder and makes scarcely ny smoke. It is now being made up nto cartridges for blasting and also for uns. A recent writer on the origin of the iorse traces the wild horse through radition to Central Asia, as the original tome of the horse, while our Mexican austang and broncho are decendants of lomesticated horse; introduced from Europe. The date is given as the landng of the tirst horse in America, at Juenos Ayres, 1537. Rule for finding the superficial teet of teampipe required to heat any buildiDg vith steam: One superficial foot of team pipe to six superficial feet of glass n the windows, or one superficial foot if steampipe to every hundred square eet of wall, roof or ceiling, or one quare foot of steampipe to eighty cubic eet of space. One-horse power boiler s sufficient for 40,000 cubic ieet of pace. There is, as Professor Thompson emarks, no assignable '^velocity of :lectricity," as this must vary with the :urrent and conductor. Wheatstone, in 18:33, seemed lo show a transmis ion relocity of 183,000 miles a second hrough copper wire; but in late experinent> s'gnal-? were sent over ordinary elegraph wires on poles, and had a rate .f rtniw 14. nrin to i? 000 miles 'With vires near the earth, the velocity was ; 2,000 miles, but reached 24,000 on very xigh wires. The Growth of the Country. The Philadelphia Lecord says: "The Census of 18U0, preparations for which ire already being made, promises to show n the United States a population of nore than 70,00^,000. The population n 18.0, according to the census of that ear, was 00,135,783 persons of whom 13,475,840 were native and 0,070,043 'oreign born. The natives had increased [0,48i,008 fiom the figures of 1$;0? !2,0i>l,142?or 31.5 per cent. The forlign element had gained more slowly, lowever, bringing the percentage for he entire population down to ;i0 per :ent. The same rate of increase applied o the Census of 1880 will give an nciease of 15,040,030 persons during he ten years ending in 18!)0. "The immigration between 1870 and :880 was com; aratively light, only 1,112,714 persons having come to this :ountrv durinij that decade. For the )ast few years, however, it has been mpreccdentcd. The imm'gration since he last census has been as follows: 5:80 417,257 1886 334,203 681 069,431 1887 490,109 SS2 788,99^ 15)88 (8 m'ths). 380,000 S83... 603, 332 884 518,592 4,037,352 88 5 395,34(5 Estimated for 2 years and 4 months. 1,100,000 Total for 10 years. 5,737,252 "Adding this total to the increase in he native-born population at the rate ffhich prevailed from 1870 to 18S0, and t will be found that the probable ncrease in population during the pres"* of tor nriaWincr duft allowances or births and deaths, will have been 10,246,039, and the total population in 18U0, native and foreign born, 70,322,179, divided as follows: 1S70. 1830. 1S90. Native 32,tW1,142 43,475,840 58,521,479 foreign-born. 5,507,229 G,67:),943 11,800.000 Total 38,558,371 50.1.55,783 70,322,479 "It is very evident that tho foreign lement will form a much larger proporion of the population in 1890 than over >efore. In 1800 tnis proportion was bout 13 per cent.; in 187U, 14 percent.; ,nd in 188i', about 15 per cent. In 18! 0 t will be not far from 18 per cent." bponyrin? in Central America. The sponge industry of the colony of iezile, Central America, has had a rapid rowth within the past three years?a rowth which received strong impetus s the result of the specimen sent to the lolonial Exhibition in London. Like lost of the otlier products of the colony, ifherto unknown, the sponges found in tie clear waters surroundiut; the nuraerus caves along the coast have been disuvered to possess rare value, and many uterpri?ing firms, both in 1 ondoa and n the continent, have not only directed lquires to be made regarding the cost f production, but have sent out agents id experienced spongers to institute a aliic in this most valuable article of immerce. ? Time*'Demo:-rut. The Smokeless I'iHe. The fatal power of the new weapon of le French army lies principally in the nokele3s powder used. The army proided with it can conceal from the eney the presence of both its artillery and s infantry. The opposing battalions ay hear the thunder of guns, but they innot discover the situation of the arksmen nor the object at which they e aiming. It will be equally impossile to estimate the distance or ascertaiu le direction in which the lire should be turned. The cavalry .rill be helplessly ;posed to slaughter. Strategy on a rge scale will be impossible, and mili,ry tactics will be placed on an entirely ;w basis. CUBIOUS FACTS. , Holburn is pronouced Hobun. The Chinese always weep at weddings. Shakspere spelled his name in fortythree different ways. Young folks in Chester County, Penn., hunt foxes by moonlight. Dan Jordan, of Tennetsee, is the youngest convict in the United States. The organ was invented by one OtesiUt.. ~ U?-l A InvanHria ohnilf 10ft UlUS, a UU1MDI VI aib.tU'tutiwi -W-. - - B. C. Calico was named from Calicut, a city of India, visited by the Portuguese in 1498. Aliens or foreigners were banished from England in 1155, being thought too numerous. o j A child was born in North Carolina a >-= few days ago with two perfectly de- '-1! veloped tongues. ...... The Cymri of Kymri, the great Celtic family to which tjie Britons belonged, came from Asia. There is a dispute as to how tall Goliath was, some holding at nine feet and some at eleven. Chailey Connolly, a young miner, fell 115 feet into a Utah mine, and received only slight injuries. J The earliest prints that are known are ' 1 a set of the seven planets, in an almanac, J by way of frotispiece. It is related of a Lincoln, Neb., man l that he journeyed to California in order 1 to sec an old enemy executed. Turnpikes were so called from poles or bars swung on a staple, and turned either way wiien dues were paid. On the right bank of the Volga, in Russia, is the remains of an ancient town, traceable over a length of two mile3. September 29, 1824, General Lafayette and suite entered the city of Philadelphia on his historic tour through - 4 America. \ A jeweler at Warsaw, Poland, is making a golden bust of Bismarck, which is to be presented to the oldest German inhabitant of the city. S Five different persons in Massachusetts, each of whom had a five leaf clover for luckj were crippled, bankrupted or killed within the year. A carious local name for a plant is "John-go-to-bed-at-noon," applied in England to the yellow goat's beard, which opens at 4 and closes just before 12 o'clock. The just completed spires of St. Pat- , rick's Cathedral, New York City, which cost $200,000, are 3:33 feet high, and are exceeded in height by only five Old "World spires. Mr. Blackburn, the famous chess player, played eight simultaneous games \ blindfolded at the London Chess Club a few nights ago, and won five of them. j The other three were drawn. A bridge gave way in Girard, Ala., the other day, and a mule team, a load of 1 lumber and the driver fell through, a i distan eof twenty feet Nothing suf fered damase except the bridge. It is said that several pretty romances have grown out of the custom of leaving visiting cards on poets' graves in Europe. A more gruesome way of forming acquaintances could hardly be imagined. "The Poodle Dog" restaurant, the San Francisco Delraonico. was yclept by the Frenchman who started it "8e poulet d'or" (The Golden Hen), which was too much of a jawbreaker for the natives; henco the present name. One of the presents to a Pittsburg minister, who recently celebrated the twenty-fifth anniversary of his marriage, was a small ship which, when the hold was opened, was found to contain a cargo of several hundred silver dollars. A deaf mute, thirty-two years of age, > has been arrested in New York City for ' smashing a jeweler's window and stealing five watches through the opening, mnn it on or.mn vio.t. and at one X UC UiUiU ig uu va vvm ?? time had a partner in crime who was j totally blind. The pug dog as a pet had an interest- j 1 ing origin. He was first imported from I China and Japan, and came into fashion | in the reign of William III. It is stated that the king believed his life to hare . been saved by a dog ot this breed awakening him to his danger when a murderous attack was about to be made on the prince. Gambled Away Three Million Dollars. The career of the Baion de Ikstart, the greatest gambler of his age, who has just died in raris, is another proof of the fact, says the New York Telegram, that no amateur gambler ever koeps ahead of the game. The Baion was the slave of the gamester's passion. When the treaty of Villafranca, restoring peace after I.ouis Napoleon's campaign, was signed, a dispatch was sent to De Bastart informing him of the news, which it was his duty, as SubPrefect of Morlaix, to post throughout the province. 4 The dispatch was handed to him at a baccarat table, and he simply read it and went on with the game, for which neglect of duty he was dismissed from the office in disgrace. But De Bastart lost steadily, and those who kept track of his play assert that his losses were $100,000 per veur: so that, in the thirty years that he nightly frequented the Paris gambling rooms, he is estimated to hare lost the immense sum of $:*,000,()00. As h? possessed a fixed income of $130,000 per year he was enabled to in" " " ' * ? * J L. U ?? A dulge i?is passion; uut mm uc ucou a clerk on a salary he would perhaps have crippled himself. Doesn't Consider Marriage a Failure. Justice Screws, of Montgomery, Ala., married 1 awrence Storrs to Fannie HenI derson, after giving the following preI liminary advice: ".Marriage is at once I the most sublime, exultant and soul| enwrapping of nil the heavenly comJ mands. 1 he realization of love's yo:ing j dream is the most blissful of all earthly 8 I joys, or at any rate the poet attunes his I lyre so to say. Yet marriage sometimes I comes to very unromantic phases? I house rent, wash tubs, collaras, occa- | sional domestic broils, and, if you follow I the divine in unction and help people the I earth, you will be a'ilicted with many I lusty squalls. These parties propose to I enter into this state. If there be objec- I ' tion, let it be known." B A~'cs ?," Noted Trees. I A writer in the C'trutian at Work I gives the ages of some noted trees. The I trees remarkable for their longevity he I says, are the Wallace oak, at Ellerslie, I Scotland, 700 years; oak on estate of I James Wadsworth, Geneseo, N. V., 500 | years; yew trees at Fountain Abbey, - I England, 1200 years, and in Scotland, I said to be 25C0 years; elms in Switzer- I land, 335 years: cedars, on Lebanon, $00 I years; olives in the harden of Olives, I tiOO years, and the huge trees of Cali- H fornia, some of which are 400 feet high I and more than 100 feet in circumference, 9 whose period of grewth is calculated by I some to be several thousands of years. I