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A COUNTRY EVENING.
Away from sounding shore and mountain
side,
I came to where a country village lies;
And here I watch the moon rise through the
trees,
And sit at rest beneath the summer skies.
The twilight thickens fast,and now the birds
Are sleeping; hushed are all their happy
Across tho village green tbe parish church
Stands, ivy-clad, with moonbeams on its
walls.
The house-dog, lying near me, starts to hear
The re>tless horses neighing in their stalls;
The cricket chirps above the willow's sigh,
While flits the bat where deepest shadow
falls.
The night wears on; the village lies asleep;
My soul drinks deep a draught o? perfect
rest;
Old dreams come back mid future visions
fair;
Old loves awaka that slumbered in tbe
breast.
On such a night the soul is free, and flees
The world of care, and pain and troubled
sigh;
And could I sing that deep, sweet peace, the
song
Would rise to angels' ears and thrill the
sky.
?Edmund S. Middleton, in Independent.
A SECRET OF THE SEA.
"I suRDOse that by this time to-morrow
we shall anchor in the Bay," said Col.
Gray.
"Ves this is the last of our pleasant
evenings if the Ocean Greyhound is true
to her promise," said pretty .Mrs. Mortimer.
It was a very pleasant evening, too,
though chilly, as September evenings
are apt to be on the Atlantic. A glorious
full mooD, extinguishing the stara
and,casting a glittei ing trail athwart the
6ea, scarcely rutHcd by the gentle brce/.e
that tilled the sails and urged the Hying
vessel with soft murmurs. Most of the
passengers were below, playing cards, or
enjoyiug the music, of which an occasional
strain floated up on deck, adding
one more touch to the weird sweetness of
the scene. A little group of four or live
persons sat in the moonlight, chatting
and watching the man i uvres of two or
three stray couples, each seeking to monopolize
that nook behind the wheel-house,
where the moon can be seen to the greatest
advantage, and a fictitious isolation
encourages the interchange of sentiments
as ardent as they are transient.
"You will not be sorry to exchange
these pleasant evenings for something a
little livelier, though," exclaimed Mrs.
Mortimer's niece, a brilliant creature
whose magnetic vitality rang in her clear
voice and scintilated in her rippling hair
and Hashing eyes. "After two years'
hard study in Milan, you can fancy how
I feci at the near approach of New York
and Newport!"
'There's not much to keep one alive
on the ocean trip nowadays," said the
young man who sat opposite her, and
who had been rambling all over the
globe for a year seekiug adventures and
finding none and was now returning
home, convinced that whatever might
happen tJ him in the future, it could
hardly be more interesting than the past.
"This is my first sea voyage," said the
Colonel, "and I have enjoyed it. But I
should be glad enough to see land
again."
"And I," said the only member of the
little group who- had not previously
spoken, "Jcve the sea, and have had
many adventures on it, and am never
tired of its sights and sounds."
The speaker was a woman in the Indian
summer of her life, sweeter and
more beautiful than many a young
woman, stamped as she was with the indellible
traces of great joys and great
griefs
"Tell us something, Mrs. Odell," cried
Mrs. Mortimer's niece, imploringly. "I
Know you must luive secu rcui irageuies |
?shipwrecks and such things."
"I have seen many tragedies and more
than one shipwreck," frhc said, half reluctantly,
"and if you like I will tell you !
an incident that happened on a ship that j
was wrecked when 1 was on my way to j
the Cape in it."
Mrs. ilortimer drew her fur cloak |
closer about her, and her niece sat down
on a low stool, clasping her slender white !
hands round her aunt's knee, and rest- !
ing her cheek upon them; the young j
tourist took up a position from which !
he commanded a good view of her pretty j
face, and the Colonel settled himself
with an air of interest. He was a good \
listener, remarkably so for a military |
man.
Mrs. Odell began her story, acccntuat- j
ing by a slight but impressive ge?ticula- j
tion her soft, rich voicc and quiet de- i
livery.
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"several years ago?ien or aaozen--i
w&3 oq my way to the Cape of (iood
Hope, in a sailing ship. My husband
and children were living then?all three i
are dead now?but I left them in EDg- j
land to visit my parents in Cape Town, j
and I went 011 a sailing ship, because I
had been very ill and was ordered a voyage.
There were but few passengers ?
six or seven tirst class and some twenty
cmigants in the steerage. Among the J
saloon passengers was a very pretty .
young woman, scarcely 20, going out as j
governess to Australia."
"We put in at Maderia and took on |
board two passengers for whom the Cap- (
tain's cabiu was secured, a newly mar- '
ried coupled not long over their honey* '
moon. Everything becomes knuwn on j
board, especially during a long voyage, j;
and the young wife had amaid with her, j i
who probably supplied kit the details she ;
knew, and tilled up the gaps with her i
imagination. It became known, at any
ffate, within a few hours, that the ludv 1
was an heiress of immense wealth, and i
the gentleman was thupennilessyounuer !
son of a good family. The marriage j
was much against the wish of the bride's
family, but she was just of age> and per- j
fectly mistress of her property, and she j
had been married a few weeks before I j
met her, and had gono to Madeira, in- j
tending to spend the winter there. It j
was qu!lc a sudden freak, their coming
on board,and could hardly have been the
poor thing's wish; for she was a wretched
sailor, and for two or three days after ;
we put to sea again she remained in her !
ibcrth, waited on by her maid and tin? j
noticed by everyone else. The husband
Wa3 about 3'>, a very handsome and !
attractive man?dark, tall, with a heavy j
black mustache and gleaming white j
teeth, which were often enough seen, ,
for he was a most lively and agreeable j
talker, full of wit and nonsense, with an
amusing anecdote for e ery occasion, and !
generally the sort of man to be a prime :
favorite on board a sailing ship, where
every one is sure to be bored more or !
less. Kspecially was he attentive and !
considerate toward the ladic3, and 1 i
heard, though I did not see anything ]
then, that the pretty governess usurped i
a large portion of his care. This seemed i
natural enough, as she was alone, and j
most of us took a little extra notice of j
her on that account.
"Well, after a day or two the brido i
j
began to come on deck a little, and
when she gained some flesh and color
we would see how pretty she was, and
how full of charming ways. Another
thine was soon easily seen also, and that
was that whatever might be the state of
her husband's alloctions, she simply
worshipped him. Her eyes followed
him about with a kind of reverence, and
when iie spoke she listened with parted
lips and glistening eyes, as though she
heard the very angels singing in h.aven.
It is sad enough to sec such maducss
| where it is mutual, but when, as is almost
always the ease, one gives all, and the
other takes and gives nothing?well, j
well?that's no part of my story.
"I should say that he was quite kind
tn hrr. and wranoed her uu in shiwls
aud made her sit in the deik-house while '
he read to her, for fear she might take j
cold. But of an evening, when she had I
gone to her cabrn, he would always re- \
turn to tke deck to finish his cigar, and ;
the little governess, who was as strong ,
as a lion and not afraid of any weather, !
would be out there with him, leaning '
over the tafTrail, and the two would stand j
there talking in low tone3, until the
o;Hccr of the watch sent them below.
"We had be^u about a fortnight out
from Madeira when the weather, which j
had been pleasant enough, though cold, |
changed suddenly, and we were driven I
by storms every way but the way we
wanted to go. For several days the j
hatches were on, and none of the pa?sen- |
?ers were allowed on deck. Most of the
Indies, myself among them, were ill, and i
the rest were too frightened to notice '
anything; but I was told afterward that
the only woman who was neither sick j
nor terrified was the governess, and she
seemed fey?full of wild spirits, and
keeping up a constant banter with the I
bridegroom, with whom she played at j
cards half the day.
"I do not remember how long the J
storm contiuued; but, just as we were j
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Deginning XO laKe courage uuu jitui uui- |
selves together a little, we heard one
rooming a sound that made our hair rise
with new terror?a peculiar, slow, regular
clanking?and a whisper went round
that the ship had sprung aleak and the
pumps were manned. Oh, you who have
only made this luxurious voyage of a 1
week cannot imagine the feeliugs of I
those who have been for days together |
in a straining, struggling ship, pitched ;
back and forth and from side to side j
like a cork on those tremendous waves, [
and then to hear, hour after hour, the i
dull, steady clauking that proclaims the j
pre-eticc of the enemy within the walls, 1
gaining upon you hour by hour.
"For two mortal days and nights |
those brave, indefatigable men struggled j
with the encroaching foe, while signals J
were hoisted and rockets sent up to at- \
tract passing ship*. At last the Captain j
came to tell us he had no hope of saving
the ship, that the storm had abated, and
that as sojn a* it was broad daylight he j
would get the boats out. He begged us j
to take some food, and added, as he left j
the saloon: 'I hope, by God's help, to;
save everv one: but remember, it is'
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women ana cnnaren nrsi, anu u any <
mus stay behind, I shall remain with
them.'
"Nobody attempted to cat anything, !
but most of us went to our staterooms to
secure such portable valuables a? we
thought it worth while to take, and then
sat through the live-long hours waiting ,
for the order to go out and trust our i
lives to those frail boats upon the toss- j
ing. The gradual sinking of the ship !
made her steadier, and besides, the wind !
h:id almost subsidod, and the heavy J
swell of the sea wa* being beaten down i
by the steady rain which began to fall, j
"I was standing at the loot of the
companion when the bride came out of j
her cabin, which was immediately be- ;
hind me. She was deathly pale, and her j
eyes was slightly distended, but other- j
wise was perfectly cool and collected. J
She had on a thick waterproof cloak and i
a woolen hood, and carred a little satchol i
in her hand. 'Where's your husband?'!
I asked. She made a little moveinentof ;
her head toward the cabin. 'He issecur- i
ing [some important papers,' she said, i
and 'I think,'she added, 'our marriage!
certificate and my will.'
"At this moment the officer came
down the companion. '.Mrs. Odell,' he
said, seeing me, 'there are but two j
serviceab'e boats?the others were in?,
jured during the storm. Come up at!
once, and I will put you in the first, i
Oh. Mrs. Blank,' he added, seeing the
bride?come, too; and I will try and
put you together.'
" Sir!' said the poor g'rl, 'I will not
cfir without rav husband.'
" 'Come, then,' he cried: 'there is no
lime to lose?I will call your husband? ,
but ?ro up stairs with Mrs. Odell. and I
wiil bring liira to you?take her up,
there's a good soul,' he added to me. I
took lier hand and almost forced her up,
but further than the top of the com- .
panion she would not move.
"The sight that met us there was !
startling enough. The ship had already
sunk so low that I cannot imagine how
the water kept out of the saloon: it
seemed as if we could step on board the
life boat that had already been manned
and was raised by every wave almost
to the level of the deck. All on board
was perfectly orderly, except for the
crying of one or two of the steerage
passengers who were being separated
from their male companions and passed
into the boat. It was nearly full when .
the Captain saw us, and grasping Mrs.
Blank's arm. was about to haud lier forward,
when sue wrested herself from
him, and with sudden fury flashing over j
her face, exclaimed in a tone I can ngver
forget: 'I can die here, if necessary,
Captain, but I will not stir without my
husband.'
"Hp did not sav another word, but '
seized me unceremoniously, and before I
could draw my breath I was in the
loaded boat. The painter was cut, and
one great billow carried us many yards
away. Then we lay to, to watch the
second boat, and witnessed what was unseen
by her occupants. i>he was full, all
but a very small space, and almost every
one was off the ship. I saw the young
couple standing together, her bands
clapped round his arm, and evidently refusing
once mote to he saved without
him. At the same moment the pretty
governess darted forward and flung her
self upon his other arm, evidently imploring
to be saved. A stentorian voice i
from the boat shouted: 'We can make I
room for two.' They evidently saw the '
wife's struggle to die with her husband,
and were willing with true sailor-like
generosity to risk sometning to reward
her heroism. I saw him clasp the girl
with one arm and push his wife away, j
preparatory to making a spring. Then ;
as she clu:ig with agonized strength, he
raised his cowardly list and struck her'
full in the face. With an unearthly i
shriek she fell back as he sprang into the j
boat with the other women in his arms, j
"The whole thing was like a flash of!
lightning, aud as they cut away the boat, !
almost before she was clear, the ship
sank slowly forward and went down
head foremost, carrying the Captain, the
bride and about a dozen men to the bottom
of the sea."
As the thrilling vibration of the narrator's
voice ceased there was a momentary
silence. Her excitement at the
picture conjured up by memory com- j
mundcated itself to the list;aci>, and at,
s ' - .'ix ;
first no one seemed able to break the
spell. At last the Colonel spoke:
"We are very glad to know that you
were saved by ocular demonstration,
Mrs. Odell; but how about that scoundrel
and his companion in guilt; for she
I win every bit as bad as he: were they
[drowned: One could not help hoping
so, except for the sake of the innocent
people in the same boat."
"No," said Mrs. Odell quietly- every
trace of her agitation had passed away
now, and her tone was calm and inexpressibly
bitter. "We were picked upn
few hours after, having separated from
the others in the fog; but they were also
soon rescued by a home-bound \essel,and
carried back to Jingland. There this
loving husband proved his wife's deaththere
were plenty of witnesses, though
none had seen Ins brutal act, and most
believed, as I afterward heard, that she
was left behind by mistake. He then
proved her will, which he had carried
off the ship with him, and which had
been executed in Madeira within a month
of her marriage, leaving him every cent
of her immense wealth. Her relatives, I
understood, made an attempt to upset
the will, but without success, but before
she had been six months dead, he bought
an elegant villa near Florence, aud
married the rescued governess. I never
saw him after that, but I have reason to
believe he is living and prosperous."
"I suppose you never saw his second
wife agaiu?" asked the niece, thoughtfully.
"Yes," said Mr9. Odell, slowly,
"I have seen her?quite recently."
"Vour story was really quite too interesting,
Mrs. Odell," murmured pretty
Mrs. Mortimer, rising languidly from her
steamship chair. "You quite made us
forget how late and cold it is getting.
Thanks, so much. Colonel,, may I
trouble you for that shawl? I think I
will go down now. Come along, Sybille.
A demain, gentlemen. Mr9. Odell?
rrnnrt nifrht."
o ?o
The eye3 of the two ladie3 met as she
moved away; but eyes tell no tales,
and some women can keep a secret.?
Drake's Majazine.
Traveling in Persia.
When we enter Persia we are in the
poor man's paradise?a country where
existence is possible upon 2d. a day;
where meat costs id. a pound,and bread
a quarter as much in ordinary times;
where a fowl may be purchased for lid.,
a partridge or a wild duck for 2d.; where
a serviceable pony can be had for a fivepound
note and a valuable thoroughbred
l'or ?20; where a servant can be hired
for Ss. a month and his rations, and you
can feed a hor-e on yd. a day. In most
of the cities a large house can be ren:ed
for from ?10 to ?30 a year, and ail the
necessaries of life are to be had at the
very cheapest rate. The very mules upon
which we are to march to the capital,
each of which will carry a load of 230
pounds,aiehired at tho rate of ! d. a day;
and yet from this small sum the muleteer,
if he be fortunate, will obtain a good
profit. The beasts are fat, there is plentilul
herbage for the first live stages, and a
handful of barley and eight pounds of
cut straw is all that the mules will get
during the other six days' journey, and
each day the mule3 will march their
twenty to twenty-five miles, and go
merrily along under their :i00-pound
load, for the great pack-saddle cannot
weigh less than twenty to thirty pounds,
while the load itself is seldom less than
230, and they will steadily maintain
their pace at an average of four miles an
hour, save in the case of mountain
passes,storms, swamps and the numerous
contretemps incidental to Eastern
travel. The pack-saddle is a very important
part of the mule's equipment.
Save when he is currycombed, the packsaddle
never leaves him by day or night;
it supports the load and acts as his
clothing, for,however severe the weather
may be, the hardy Persian mule gets no
other. Of course, the pack-saddle is of
the most solid construction; its high
peak towers at least eighteen inches
above the withers of the animal, and the
padding is nowhere less than six inches
thick. This padding i3 composed of cut
straw, and the muleteer is accustomed,
' IT, mrtn r? a nf o nnnl'inrr npprlln thrust I
UJ uiv^uug V 1 H u vv w.w V.W w
through the lining of the pad, to shift
this stuftiug in such a way us to remove
the pressure from any part of the animal's
back which may become tender.
Of course, a mule with a bad sore back
is useless and has to be turned out to
grass; and, strange to say, though there
are many millions of mules and ponie3
used as beasts of burden in Persia?for,
be it remembered, there are no railways, |
no risers, no canals, and only one road,
that from Kasvin to the capital (except a
few thave been made for the Shah's personal
convenience)?still a mule with a
sore back is a very unusual sight. This
says a srrcat deal for the care,intelligence;
and skill of the Persian muleteer.?Good
Words.
How to Efface Tattoo Murks.
Europeans who have been foolish
enough, either in youth or age, to tattoo
themselves like Fiji Islanders, Pata
gonians, or any other race of picturesque
savages, may be interested to hear
that Dr. Variot, of Paris, has discovered
a simple but effective method of remov-.
ing red or blue pictorial device? from'
the human skin. Mr. Variot has embodied
the resuits of his experiments in
an elaborate treatise on tattooing in ancient
and modern times, which has been
sent to the Paris Biological Society."
Further, the doctor has experimented
on prisoners in the Central Infirmary, to
w hich he is attached, and on hospital
patients, all of whom have, of course,
ol!cred themselves voluntarily for the
operations. Mr. Variot has also tested
the efficaciousness of his method in removing
black or brown beauty-spots or
moles from the skin of animals, and has
found it eminently successful. His modus
opeiHndi is to prick the marks or
spots with needles until the blood flows,
then to iniect tannin, and finally to cauterize
with nitrate of silver. Very little
inconvenience is felt by the person
operated upon, unless of course, the
* i e rni
marks extend over a large suriauw. i ug
wounds caused by the pricking and cauterization
become black for a time, then
turn red, and after a month or so the
parts which have been treated are almost
indistinguishable from the adjoining
flesh.?London Telegraph.
Skillful Hocus-Pocns in Japan.
At a recent Japanese dinner a foreign
guest determined to have no optical delusions
about what the juggler did. He
never let his glances be distracted, and
was not once off his guard. Noticing
this, the old juggler played to him entirely.
An immense porcelain vase \va3
brought in and set in the middle of the
room, and the juggler, crawling up, let
himsflf down into it slowly. The sleep
tic then sat for a half hour without !
taking hiseye3 from the vase that he had
lirst been convinced was sound and firm
and stood on no trap door. After this
prolonged watch the rest of tho company
assailed him with laughter and
jeers, and pointed to his side, where the
old juggler was seated, fanning himself,
and had been seated for some minutes.
The skeptic was dumbfounded and
wanted the trick repeated, but the
whole company protested that he had
had a fair cnance to catch the wizard
and had failed.
....
WOMAN'S WORLD.
PLEASANT LITERATURE FOR
FEMININE READERS.
An Aid to Memory.
"While you're in the city, Ned,
Won't you buy some.10 thread?"'
Phyllis a3ks, and while I linger,
Taking that which is the due
Of him who wins the bread for two,
She ii?s somo thread around my finger,
Adding, "Dear, lest you lorget,
I'll teach you memory's alphabet."
"First, the thread suggests a string;
Any string may be a measure;
We'll say a .yard?the very thing?
Remembering that will be a pleasure;
A grassy yard (what's in a name.')
Will make you think of lawn with ease,
And lawn and muslin are the same,
Add muslin's cotton, if you please.
Now, cotton wound, as I opine,
Js nothing, after all, but thread,
And 5'J is your age and mine?
I'm sure you can't forget it, Ned."
I answer her as best I may,
f But now within the shop I linger;
What in the dickens did she say
About the string around my finger?
?Harper's Bazar.
A School for Chippewa Girls.
The House of the Good Shepherd in
Denver, a school for Chippewa girls,
conducted by Koman Catholic nuns, is
doing a good work for the little squaws..
Twenty-five have recently gone to their
homes in Northern Dakota after finishing
a three-years' course, and thirty
more have come to take their places.
It is said that the parents of the girls
are very prond when their daughters
come home able to read aud write and
versed in many of the way3 of the pule
faces. And the influence of the girls is
considerable in changing the habits of
the old folks and bringing about an era
of cleanliness hitherto unknown in an
Indian tepee.
Quaker City Cooking Schools.Besides
having plenty of literary women,
Philadelphia believes in having
women who can cook. Beginning this
week the art of cooking will be taught
in the public schools. Thirteen classes
have been formed, containing twenty
pupils each. The course will consist of
twentv lessons. The basement of the
Normal School building Las been fitted
up as a kitchen and there the dreadful
orgies will be held. The girls will be
taught how to bake bread, how to construct
all sorts of cakes, and also how to
turn out pies. They will have to sweep
the kitchen and scrub the floors and
scour the pots and pans until they will
act as mirrors. Food is to be analyzed
and the mysteries of baking powders
made known.?Detroit Free l'rca.
The Lack of Good Servants.
The same story seems to be told on all
sides, that while there is no lack of
servants the difficulty of securing good
ones becomes every day greater. In simple
defence people are forccd to frown
upon the old proverb ihat good masters
make good servants, and yet it is hard
to see why it is not as true as it ever was.
The truth is that American women become
every day less domestic, and it is
too like a consequence to be wholly a
coincidence that the inefficiency of
servants lias kept pace with the change
in the character of their employers.
Whether the result of tbo present state
of things is to be a co-operative housekeeping
scheme, or the training of the
daughters of the iand to domestic uses,
it would be rash to predict, especially as
the outcome of the difficulty is more
likely to be something nobody has foreseen.
It does not seem, however, as if
thing3 could go much farther in their
present direction without some sort of a
break.
Flowers for Winter.
When one can have only a few. they
should be very choice. Salvias, fuschias,
and selections from the many varieties
of geraniums make a very fine appearance,
and we do not know of any one
plant that pays much better than the
rose geranium.
Begonias are very pretty,"the] white,
or the pearl, or the scarlet ones planted
together are beautiful. They do not require
much water, and hardly any sun.
(Jalla lilies will take all the water you
have the patience to give, out mey pay
as ihey go with their bright, green
leaves as well as their regal and fragrant
blossoms. Hyacinths may be grown by
placing the bull>s in a slit cut in a coarse
sponge, in a vase nearly tilled with water.
The growth will be rapid, nnd the vase,
when the hyacinths are in bloom, will be
an ob ect ot much interest.
Those plants which have been in pots
since spring will need new earth, and
they require good soil. Liquid manure
is a good fertilizer for most plants, especially
those which blossom freely and
arc great growers?St. Ijouit Magazine.
Orange Bridal Wreaths.
To some people the chief charm of the
orange tree lies in its beautiful and
fragrant biossoms, and it seems strange
that it i3 not more cultivated in our hothouses
on this account alone.
Nothing can be more delicious than
thf> nerfume of the orancre-ilower. al
though it is possible, according to the
opinion of some over-sensitive individuals,
to have too much of it. There
are, lor instance, places in Spain where
it certainly is rather overpowering, bays
Chamber* a Journa', nnd at Seville, in the
month of April, the whole nir is laden
for several weeks with the strong pungent
odor.
To most of the visitors to that picturesque
city this c in only be a delightful
experience, but there are others who
allege that the intensity of the scent, or
rathor perhaps its persistency, night and
day for so long, produces headache, and
even nausea. Of the ubiquitous blossoms
themselves, little use is made in
Spain.
In some of the convcnts the nuns employ
a certain <|iiantity in the manufacture
of orange-flower water, which they
dispose of at a ridiculously low and
merely uominal price, but which, by the
time it has been retailed in England at
a moderate profit of several hundred per
cent., becomes almoet as dear as an
An^i'nnpn r\orf 11 mO
UiUlUUt J
At Nice, however, and along the
Riviera, precisely in that region which
in the last century supplied our gardeners
with their orange-trees, a considerable
trade has sprung up in orange-1
blossoms.
They arc dispatched in boxes to all i
parts of Europe for the purpose of being j
fashioned into bridal wreaths, or the !
wreaths themselves are sent ready made j
up, at prices varying from a few francs
to almost a small fortune.
About Earrhiffs.
There is a custom, a relic of eavnge:
life, by which the women of our day
seek to add attraction to their beauty?
the piercing of the lobe of the car and
wearing in the hole some form of ornament?an
eurring. This operation is '
performed as a rule, as soon as the little I
miss has arrived at the age of accounta-1
bilitv, and it is relegated to the hands I
of artisans ?jewelers. A piece of flesh
is punched out of the lobe so that a
small canal remains; a piece of string, a
: -vp 'V"v'' ' :
straw, or anything convenient that will
go through, covered perhaps by grease
or vasalinc, is pushed into the hole. The
little girl may go around for a week or
two with a dirty string or straw in her
ear; the lobe is swollen and looks ugly,
but never mind, it will add to her
beauty in the end. The wound may become
very much inflamed, so that an abce?s
of the lobe may take place, and when
this is cured the ear may be disfigured
for life. The lobe may be shrunken in
consequence, or the nolc may be too
large. This, perhaps, does not happen
very frequently, but it nevertheless happens,
and the work has to be repaired,
if possible, by the surgeon. It is a pity
that this operation cannot be relegated to
surgery. Surgeons operate daily for
cosmetic effects; why may they not do
this? It would be prophylaxis rather
than cure.
Some women will insist upon weaving
heavy pendant earrings. These, by their
weight, will enlarge the hole and make
the lobe unsightly. The surgeon's knife
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IUi3 UlSU UCCU 1CIJUI1EU vu .?.w
evil. These pendant earrings are very
apt to catch in drapery. In this way
the lobe may be torn through. Such
accidents have been known to happen.
It is gratifying to know that pendant
earring* are less frequently worn now
than formerly. The concensus of opinion
seems to be in favor of those that lie
close to the ear?that do not haDg down.
A silver leaf or a diamond drop set into
the pink of a well-shaped lobe is a
"thiug of beauty and a joy ferever."?
Medi.ul Classics.
Fashion Notes.
The best evening gloves are in
mousquetaire shape.
Ostrich feather fans have reached a
size that iif phenomenal.
j Moire, although still used, is not so
j generally seen as last year.
All steels are short and flexible, looseI
ly tied to form small curves.
! Black silk is a much favored material
! for the close fitting Directoiro coats,
j Jaunty house jackets are made of
: fleecy flannels, in dull blue or old red.
i The fronts of the new dress skirts are
perfectly flat, and fulness at the hips is
; seldom seen.
The ideal cloth costume of the present
season is as severe in outline and
finish as a riding nauit.
J Striped faced cloth3 of dull contrasting
colors are used to make entire dresses,
'I and also to combine with plain cloths.
Cloth, velvet and plush sleeves are
i now made Bomewhat full from the
j shoulder seam half way below the
j elbow.
Black, tan, white and gray are the onlj
I allowable colors in gloves just now, but
I as there i3 no limit as to shades and tones,
j the hand of the period is by no means
monotonous. S
Large plaids should be made up bias
of the goods, tho skirts but lightly
draped. The bodice should be made ol
plain material, of the color most prominent
in the plaid.
Black velvet mantels are again in
| fashion and are cut in redingotc form
with long pointed sleeves falling quite
' to the hem and no end of ornament in the
nf fhp ifit nassementerie.
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* Undressed sealskin, which closely resembles
natural plucked bearer, but is
j slightly curled, is likely to be extensively
used the coming winter for trimming
cloth cloaks and dresses.
I A mo3t coquettish hat for young ladies
j is the handkerchief turban, the crown of
j which is draped with a square of black
I velvet, on which white gros grain is set
| like a hem or binding about half an inch
in width.
Word comes from Paris that the wrap
; must be either short or long, and the
] unhappy medium that for several winters
now has made havoc with the fine
I long lines that are woman's chiefest beauj
ty, will bo sent severely to the rear.
Though Paris has not quite given up
the bustle it is very small and modest,
! barely a ripple below the waist now, and
! if there is uny drapery it must escape the
; faintest suspicion of bunchiness, and
flow or cling in the most truly classic
: fashion.
I Among the higliest of winter's high
j novelties must rank the sleeveless a jgaro
; jacket of seal or Persian lamb, very short
and square cornered, to be worn over
| cloth or velvet costumes when the
i occasion demands but the faintest of
warm wraps.
The women who dress well on least
money have, it is said, given in their ad-1
i hesion to seal plush as the stuff for a
I general utility wrap, and, it it must un|
dergo hard wear, taken the wooleu article,
though the silken one is ever so
much softer and prettier.
The correct way to wear the long veils
j now in use is to bring one end down bej
side the right ear, pass it quite around
j the neck, then draw it through and let
' the extra length flow at will. Much the
same fashion answers for the long
j feather boa that hang3 from the side of
1 the new English hats.
uses oi stmpsTunc.
I have for sometime experimented with
a material called Chinese soapstone as a
I substitute for the ordinary metallic pig!
ments us?l in paints, and I have found
1 this soapstone to possess qualities highly
! culculuted to prove an effectual remedy
against the danger of rust. In China,
j soapstone is largely used for preserving
structures built of sandstone and other
j st'-nes which arc liable to crumble under
, atmospheric influences, and the covering
, of powdered soapstone in the form of
1 paint on some obelisks in China, which
were hewn out of 6t0Qe liable to suffer
; from atmospheric influences, has been
J known to preserve the same intact for
i hundreds of years. b'oapstone may
be said to have extraordinary qualities
j in withstanding atmospheric influences
1 which have a great deal to do with the
j corrosion of steel, and iron, for it is well
: known that the inside of a steamer,
j which is not exposed to the incessant
' action of salt water, like the bottom,
i corrodes very much more qu'ekly than
the outside. Soapstone has, however,
! another quality which eminently adapts
I it as a protective paint on snips, ana iunt
! is the extreme fineness of its g-ain.
Ground soapstone is one of the tinest
materials which can be produced, and
from the experiments which I have made
j I have found nothing to take hold of
the fibre of iron and steel so easily and
(irmly as soapstone. It is, moreover,
lighter than metallic pigments, and if
mixed as paint would cover a larger surface
than zinc white, red lead or oxide
of iron.?Iron.
IViId Doss in (ieonjia.
It will be news to many that wild
dogs are still to be found in Wilkes
Count}*. While some farmers were
burning of! brush the other day a litter
of puppies, long-haired and closely resembling
the Scotch collie breed, were
found in a hollow log. They wt;re exceedingly
fierce, and tradition has it
that their parents have been frequently
seen in the locality. The old dogs are
said to be very wild and ugly-looking
customers to come in contact with.?
Atlanta Constitution,.
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liopns Eg^s.
Artificial eggs have been so'd in the
Pittsburg market and offered to the public
in the place of real ones. A woman
walked into the office of the Board of
Health on Seventh street, with a basket
containing four dozens of eggs. "'Not
one has been laid by a hen," the woman
exclaimed to one of the health officers.
"What am I to do about the matter?"
she then asked.
The gentleman picked up an egg,
looked at it, and he ihen gazed at the
woman in astonishment, saying: "What
is wrong with the eggs? They look all
.i k T /I AnU ma#. nnTT fTnrOll OO lift
I ftiiu j. uuu t sec auj uiucicuvo uotween
them and other eggs. You mean
to say they a-e manufactured? They may
be rotten, but I don't think this egg was
made by the mere ingenuity of any human
mind.'
'You are just a little mistaken," said
the woman, "ard I'll prove it to you.
Look at this egg.
She took one from the basket and
broke it, and, when the officers observed
the yolk they were in wonder. The yolk
was similar to that of a real egg, but its
color diiiered somewhat, being darker
and of a browner tint. Beside that,
however, the yolk of the fa'se egg consisted
of a more jelly-like substance. Its
composition appeared to contain gelatine,
ysrup and starch. The white of this manufactured
article looks exactly like the
white of the real egg. It had the same
transparent appearance and the imitation
seemad to be perfect. But the most
puzzling thing is the she 1. There is no
difference noticeable to the eye at a'l,
and it is not wonderful that one should
buy such an egg as real hen fruit.
The egcr outside of the yolk is a per- I
feet counterpart of anything we see in
the real egg. The woman bought them
iu the market at thirty cents a dozen.
"I would like you to go the market
and arrest the man," the woman said to
one of the officials. "I do not think he
has any rignt to sen xaise eggs as goon
ones."
The officer refused, on the ground that
he had no proot of the eggs being in any
way dangerous to the health.
"We cannot do anything against the
man unless we have evidence of the article
being made up of ingredients impairing
the health of any one who eats it,"'
was the explanation.?Pittsburg Dispatch.
A Cat Kills a Hawk.
An immense hawk, which had for
some days been trying in vain for a
chance to swoop down on Simon Clay's
poultry yard at Lock Haven, Penn., and
capture a chicken, resolved to make s
dinner on something belonging to Clay,
and pounced upon a Maltese cat that was
sunning itself in the back yard. The
hawk lifted the cat easily enough, and
was moving awa;,, when the cat recovered
from" its surprise and began to
squirm and claw. Feathers began to
tumble out of ihe hawk in showers, and
the big bird, which had reached a height
of 100 feet with its unusual prey, seeing
that he had caught a tartar, loosed us
talons, and the cat dropped toward the
earth like a plumb bob.
The hawk must have been woefully
hungry, for it Bwooped down on the cat
and seized it again before it reached the
ground. That was a good thing f^r the
cat, for if it had struck the earth at the
rate it was going all nine of its lives
would have gone out at once. But this
second capture was bad for the hawk.
He grabbed the cat near the tail, and
had hardly recovered himself sufficiently
to resume his upward flight, when the
cat, filled with fury, twisted around and
reached for the hawk with her clav^.
She caught the big bird's throat in h?r
teeth and set the claws of her forefeet
deep in the feathers of his neck. That
was the end of the fight. The hawk
pounded and flopped with his great
wings, but it was of no use. His wind
was effectually shut off and he fluttered
to the ground with the cat, and by the
time the two reached the earth the big
bird was in his last gasp.
The interesting and novel contest in
midair was witnessed by several persons,
and when they reached the spot where
the combatants came down tne cat sat Dy
the side of its vanquished foe complacently
licking wounds the hawk's
talons had made, which were deep but
not serious.
Hoardings of Years Go Up in Smoke.
Mr. and Mrs. Grube arrived in this
country many years ago, and by their industry
and economy saved $!j00, all of
which on Saturday went up in smoke
through the stovepipe in their home at
11W7 West Twenty-second street.
Grube is employed at the malleable
iron works. His wife on Saturday concluded
to do some extra washing for the
children, so that they could appear in a
better shape at Suuday-school next day.
After lighting a big, hot fire in the stove
she rummaged through the closets for
little fineries which she thought would
nnt. hp needed for the rest of the year,
but which the spell cf Indian summet
urged her to reproduce for a day or two.
In her searc h among the closets she
came across a little bag in the bottom of
which were the whole hoardings of the
industrious years of herself and husband,
amounting to $!>0D in greenbacks.
The roll of bills she held for a moment
in her hands, thrust it into a 6tockin<*
and threw the stocking under a bed,
where she thought it would bo safest
while she was doing her washing. But
worse than burglars were in the house
while she was working.
Two of her little children, a boy and
a girl, were playing and rummaging
around and of course crawled under the
bed. Then they found the stacking, and
in their glee, after thumping each othei
with it for a while, threw it into the
stovo to see what a nice blaze the nice
pictured pieces of paper would make.
The stocking was soon ablaze, and so
?.AAnKoAL?a onrl Tvlion "\f r a
wuru LUC ^iccuuavno, auu n uvu
Grabe found out what they had done
there was but a little speck of ashes to
mark where nil the fortune and the financial
hopes of herself and husband had
vanished. ? Chicaqo Times.
A Scheme to Keimxlcl the Ilorse.
A Northumbrian agriculturist gravely
proposes to "remodel" the horse, which
at present appears to him to be too
".stilted." So he always appears to me,
and unless he gets much nearer to the
grouud than he stands at present, I
shall never patronize the horse again.
The method seems to be very simple, and
beats the efforts of evolution into (its.
The task 1 he wou'd suggest to breeders"
i. l? Unnnnn/Mi.hnn/ia qhfMit nn<?.
IS IQ SUUlbCU lUWtttiiHWii VWMV- Mvw..v
h:ilf, and to srive what you take off them
to increase the length of the thigh and
sh'n bones." Whether this is to be done
with a hatchct or some other ingenious
instrument he does not tell us; but supposing
the operation to be successful,can
it not be applied to human beings? I
know heaps of people who are far''too
stilted," and to whom any alteration on
the lines suggested would be an advantage.
At present, except au endeavor
here and there "to take them down a
peg or two," no improvement has been
attempted.?New York Independent.
Our English cousins grow considerable
quantities of water cress artificially
in ditches through which % flow of fresh
water is maintained.
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CURIOUS FACTS.
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A woman in Meriden, Conn., has fl| i
pet snake.
The Arab who invented alcohol died!
900 years ago.
A prehistoric dam has been discor-i
ered in Arizona.
The MS. of the first letter ever written ,
by Mrs. Stowe is preserved among herpapers.
The old-time broad-brimmed, sugarscoop
Quakers are not dying out in
Thiladelphia.
Manly Luck, at Why Not P. 0., is >
the name and address of a correspondent
of a New York city firm.
Chesly Heal, of Searsmont, the oldest
inhabitant of Maine, died a tew days ago
at the great age of 109 years. ?
"Old John Street," of New York city,
the first Methodist Church in America,
has just celebrated its 122d anniversary.
There is still flourishing in the porch
of the convent at Santa Sabina, in home,
an orange tree that is said to have been ,
planted A. D. 1200.
A hired man Btruck because he had !
worked thirty days for a farmer and had
been served with ninety meala of grid-' <
die cakes during that time.
A fashionable Broadway, New York, **
jeweler makes superstition pay him tribute.
He advertises amber necklaces "to
prevent croup in children."
A bronze statue of General Gordon,
lately unveiled in London, weighs two
tons, and it took two hours to hoist it
into place by means of a huge three- ,
legged crane.
George Ashlock, a farmer residing
near Whitewright, Texas, recently ex- '
hibited in that nlace a cotton Stalk. CUl- !
tivated on his' farm, -which contained !
150 full grown bolls on it.
Gold to the value of $10 was found in
the crop of a chicken bought the other
day in San Francisco market, and now
the buyer is peculiarly anxious to corral
another of the same breed.
Lincoln County, Ga., requires on the
average only a day and a half of court.
At the last session the only prisoner who
has been in jail in the county for several
years was let go on his own recognizance^
the prosecutor failing to appear. >
An up-town New York candy store at*
tracts attention by having a good-look- i
ing young fellow pull taffy in the window.
He throws three or four yards of
India rubber swew'tiess about in a manner
that always procures him a knot of
spectators. ,
Bokhara, after successively forming
part of the empires of Persia, of Alexander
and Bactriana, was conquered by
the Turks in the sixth century, by the
Chinese in the seventh and by the Arabs
about 7G5. After various changes it was
subdued by the Uzbek Tartars, its present
possessors, about 1505.
The phiase, "begging the question,"
is a logical fallacy, the tirst explanation
of wh>ch is credited to Aristotle, who
gives nve ways 01 uaggiug iuc ^uonuu.
The earliest English work in which the
expression is mentioned is one published
in 1584, entitled, "The Arte of Logieke
Plainlie set Forth in our English
Tongue."
Hiram Bobb, of near Cheney, Wash;
ington Territory, was arrested the other
day for stealing a gold ring off the hand
of a dead friend of his. He had asked
permission to take one last look at the
body of his friend and was admitted to
the room where the corpse was lying.
The ring was afterward missed and
Bobb was convicted of the theft.
? A weather prognostics tor and amateur
artist of Prague has painted a landscape
colored with the salts of cobalt. These
colors are very sensitive in - moisture,
and are made still more so by mixture
with gelatine. With an increasing
amount of moisture ia the atmosphere,
the blue heavens of the picture assume a
dirty red hue, and the green grass and
foliage, as well as the background etc.,
ofv.;tri*r?rTlTT ohanrrprf in Prtlrtr.
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A very odd dining organization in
Philadelphia is known as the Ishmaelites.
The apartment in which the feast
is held is always decorated in . tira
Oriental fashion, some of thfc 'features H
introduced being very luxurious and H
striking. During, each season there is
a Muezzin who presides and rules the
feast and T$:ho also delivers a mockH
prayer and/ has a peculiar sons:. All
wear turbans or ier. caps, with long^J
robes and ornaments around their necks.
Typewriters f?r Secret Service.
"A great improvement has been mada
in typewriters within the past few
years. \ HI
A dealcV in these articles was explaining
their (mechanism to a reporter - Ml
''Even inow they have been so fAr per-|H
fected that an expert writer can turn out^fl
I mnv mur/h faster than bv usint? a Den. H
A new departure, however, has been^B
made. 4? Englishman has invented an^H
ingenious!method of producing a cipher
or secret Communication by mechanical
means. Jt is adapted for use on type~flfl
writers d>c similar writing machines^H
where thei type or corresponding ind^z^H
scale, diaA or pointer is capable of being^H
moved ojr adjusted. The typewriting^!
machines! to be used for the purpose are^H
made in duplicates, so that the two
dex scales correspond with each other^H
in the ar/rangement of their characters,
but differ fiom any other pair of ma-^H
chines, i Since the index scale is adjust-^H
able it nbay be shifted in two correspond?^H
ing machines. so that one or more of ttu^H
characters is moved out of its normal po-^H
sitiou and. in consequence, when tntMa
operator strikes a certain letter on
keyboard, another totally different
be printed. Thus he can continue and^H
write oiyt an entire letter which, to th^^H
uninitiated, will seem like nothing tnor^^H
than a .contused jumble ot? characters^^B
To decipher whatever has been writtei^^|
it is only necessary for the individua^^^
who ha^ the clew to .^hift the index seal AH
in the ofpposite direction from that usec^H|
by the [original operator, and then,
striking on the keyboard the character^^H
of the secret communication, the cor^Hj
rect message will be printed.?New TorMH[
Mail au'tl express. BM
A i'east for the London Poor.
The Lord Mayor of London was wisflH
aud good in deciding to do away wit^^f
pompous tomfoolery in his processioiHSJ
this v^ar and to spend the money i^flfl
feeding 1(),(J00 poor people. Your coz^^B
respondent, who saw' ;i000 of them fed^^fl
canno.t say very much for the judgmenJ^H
elw.n.W cnli./itimr thfi food. Some.
am tjald, workhouse inhabitants ant^^H
others, had roast beef, plum puddingHH
ami sb on, but those 'lOO.) fed iu Assembl^^H
Hall,/ erected by Mr. Charrman, wcr^HI
not so lucky. Kach had pork pie, haljHH
a pound of bread and butter, half
pound of cake, a quart of tea and
apple, and as a vast ma.'ority were starv^BH
im; they managed to swallow all of thes^^H
thing's. Anybody who is acquainte^^H
with. 'the quality of English food whe^^B
dealt out by wholesale will feel sym^^Bj
pathy for tho oOOO poor whose interfc^^H
contained an English pork pi& swampej^H
in a (quart of English t*a, in compan^^B
with !& half pound of English ate, a^^H
apple1 and tho re#t.? Ntv York Hun. HH