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"WHEN LOVE PASSED BY. I wu busy with my ploughing, When Love passed by. "Com*;' she cried, "forsake thy drudging; life's delights are few and grudging; What hath man of all his striving, All his planning and contriving, Here beneath the sky? "When the grave opes to receive him, Wealth and wit and honors leave him? Love endures for aye!"' Bat J answered: "I am ploughing. When with straight and even furrow All the field is covered thorough 1 will follow." Love passed by. I wi) busy with my sowing, When Love passed by. w elm /irin/1 uorira f\'or fViv fftilinO" VVUtU, OUU V* I'.", For tbou moil thou hast but moiling:? Follow me, where meadows fertile Bloom unsown with rose and myrtle, Laughing to the sky: Laugh for joy the thousand flowers Birds and brooks?the laughing hours All unnoted fly." But I answered: "1 am sowing. "When my acres all are planted, Gladly to thy realm enchanted I will follow." Love passed by. I was busy with my reaping, When love passed by. "Come," she cried, "thou planted'st grieving, Ripened sorrows art thou sheaving. If the heart lie fallow, vain is Garnere.l store. Thy wealth of grain is Less than Love's least sigh. Haste thee?for the hours fast dwindle En the pyre of Hope shall kindle In life's western sky." Bat I answered: "I am reaping. "When with song of youth and maiden, Home the hock-cart comes, full-laden, I will follow." Love passed by. I had gathered in my harvest, TYhen Love passed by. Bay," I called?to her, swift speeding. Turning not. my cry unheeding,? 'Stay, 0 Love, I fain would follow Stay thy flight, 0 fleet-winged swallow Cleaving twilight sky: J am old and worn and weary. void my fields and heart?and dreary, "With thee would I fly. Garnered woe is all my harvest, Sad ghosts of my dead hopes haunt me, Fierce regrets, like demons, taunt me? Stay.'?I follow:" Love passed by. ?Solomon Solis-Coben. Adventures With Lions. While trapping lions in the Hottentot country for the Hamburg animal house ! I had opportunities for seeing the king j <oi beasts at his best, and for making j close observations of his traits of, character. When a so-called lion tamer ' tells yon that he understands his pets as j well as if they were human beings, there i is a powerful signiticence to his words. I understands them as well, but no ! better, aud this means hourly peril to j kim. If iive desperate criminals were i shut up in a room and a keeper entered ; it several times a day to whip them about, ho would be in the same peril as i the man among the lions. No two lions ' arealike, except in a few leading traits, ! any more than any two men are alike. ! Every lion is supposed to roar at night I when abroad after prey, but not half of j them do so. , When you read of one I ckarging- into a camp you praise his | courage, but for every one such case I i can show ten where the lion skulked j about like a dog. You never find him | twice alike. He may charge you in the i morning and run from you in the after-1 soon. He may come roaring about your i camp one night, putting you in fear that i be means to defy tho blazing fires aud the I wide-awake hunters, and the next night he may creep up as softly as a cat and ! lie bidden tor an hour for the sake of picking up a native dog. We were once camped in a grove on ; the bank of a creek, our party number- I ing over thirty people. We had horses, ! oxen, wagons, and dogs, and were spread out over two acres of ground. It was in the lion country, and they might be expected to approach at night, but on the ! econd afternoon of our camp, white all' were engaged in cleaning up and making t! repairs, an alarm was suddenly raised, j! I supposed that some of the animals had j' iatnpeded, aud ran around the wagon to ; < get a clear view of the space between ! ( us aud the creek. This creek was 200 ; feet away, and was so nearly dry that', one could step across it. The bauk on (; the other side was rocky ground, pretty ! thickly covered with scrub, and right on j | the brink stood one of the largest lion3 j, I crer saw. He was out in full view, ! j head and tail up, and stood so still for a ; moment that I doubted if he was alive. ; There was a light breeze blowing toward I! as, and as soon as our animals got the cent it required the efforts of every na-'! live to prevent them from breaking; away. My gurs were being cleaned anu i oiled, and my two white companions 1 were looking after their horses. No one had the least idea that , the lion meant mischief, and we were presently duiufounded to see him spring j across the creek and come walking into I camp. We measured his leap, and found it to be twenty-eight feet. He made it without an effort. 1 was to the right of , him, and the center of the camp was his ', objective point. The lion advanced at j a walk, uttering no sound, and the i ( ihouts, screams and whoops of the men, i, backed by the bellowing of the cattle and the snorts of the hories, had no ef- !, feet on him. i, "We had a new milch cow tied to the wheel of one of the wagons, and the lion ; advanced to within thirty feet of her, ! and then made a spring which landed I him fairly upon her back. She fell in a heap, and he seized her by the neck. gave her two or three shakes which broke the crass rope around her head, j and he then got hi* right shoulder under ; her and started olf. The ccw weighed i at least 500 pound*, but he carricd her with perfect ease, her hind feet dragging on the ground. At the creek he made a jump of eleven feet, ascending a sloping hnnk without a halt, and soou disappeared in the broken ground with his i prey. He was gone before we had a gnn ready. Indeed, we were lucky not to have lost half our animals. I was no j greeuhorn in the animal busine-s at that! date, but this was the first time I had i ev?r witnessed such check in a lion, i "Had I been told that lie had such cour- ) age and coolness I should have laughed the statement to scorn. A3 soon as order had been restored the three of us mounted our horses and, pre- ' ceded by rive or six natives and their dogs, cro?sed the creek and took up the trail. After going about half a mile, we 1 discovered the lion sitting beside the j carcass in a little hollow. lie was sitting up like a dog. head turned totvard oa but as soon a? he saw us divide he ran otl with his tail down, evidently 1 thoroughly alarmed, and such was his1 * ?peed that we soon lost him. We cou'd count on his returning to the body dur- j ?g the night, and the natives.were there- j lore set to work to dig a pit and conceal j \ . it. They regarded the lion as being as cunning as he was wise, and the pit was not dug near the body, but thirty feet away from it, and in "the direction in which it was believed he would drag the body. If a lion or tiger leaves a body during the day and returns to it at night the first act is to drag it some distance, as if fearing an ambuscade. While the rule is not invariable, it holds good in most cases. During the night a dozen lions scented around our camp, but without causing any alarm, and soon after 1 daylight the natives went out to investi- 1 gate ,the trap. No hunter ever 1 had such a windfall before or since. As night came sev- < eral lions must have scented the carcass, i and gathered for a feast. The rightful i owner objected, of course, and there 1 was a tight, the result of which was that three full-grown males tumbled into our pit. This fact did not prevent others from pickiug the carcass clean. One of the captives was the cheeky old fellow who had entered our camp, and the other two wer: fully as large. In the j course of the forenoou we bad them out | and in the cages, and two of them are in j the United states to-day in zoological j gardens. j There arc plenty of instances where men have been seized by lions and lived to relate the particulars, though no two agree as to sensations. A week subsequent to our capture of the three lions I had been out with some of the natives ; to prepare a bait in a rocky ravine. We had built a htout pen of rocks and logs j and placed a calf as a bait. The sun' was nearly down as we started for camp, I and no one had the least suspicion of the presence of danger until a lion, which . had been crouching beside a bush, sprang out and knocked me down. In springing upon his prey the lion or the ticrpr sirilce* as he seizes. This blow of j 1 the paw, if it falls on the right spot, h disables the victim at once. I was so i ( near this fellow that he simply reared up, | c seized me by the shoulder and pulled me t down, and I was Hat on the earth before i I realized what had happened. I was on i my back, and he stood with both paws ] on my middle, facing the natives and | j growling savagely. The men ran olf j ^ about :JU0 feet and then halted, which I < was doubtless the reason why I wa3 not j "< carried oil at once. I can say without j t conceit that I was fairly cool. It had i t come so suddenly that I had not had time j t to get rattled. I had been told by an c old Boer hunter, if I ever found myself i in this fix, to appeal to the lion's iears. ( Had I moved my arm to get my pistol, < the beast would have lowered his head : < and seized my throat. So long as 1 lay j1 quiet ho would reason that I was dead, jt and give his attention to the natives, c All of a sudden I barked out like a dog, a followed by a growl, and that beast c jumped twenty feet in his surprise. He i came down between me and the natives, and I turned enough to see that his tail; f was down and that he was' -1 scared. I uttered further barks and j t growls, but without moving a hand, and, jg a nlonr oronnd m r? i fi till L'i liiatvini; u en v/ic vivui ui vuuv*. >uv| ( ? tho lion suddenly bolted aud went off ; 1 with a scare which would last him a i g week. If you had picked up a stick , I aud discovered it to be a snake you : \ would do as the lion did. He supposed ' s he had pulled down a man. The man j a turned into a dog. It appealed to hia i "v fears. 11 After the lion had gone I <rrew so a weak that I had to be carried to camp. r He had inflicted a pretty bad bite on my j 2 shoulder, and it wa3 a fortnight before I J ? could hold my gun for an off-hand shot, >11 I had the presence of a fourth captive ! * during this time to console me, however. No animal went near the calf the 0 first or the second night, but on the j ? third we captured a fine half-grown: * male, and got him caged without trouble. ' ? Curiously enough, he had offered the ? calf no violence, being overcome by the J1 situation, aud when we found him the j two seemed on the best of terms. About_ four months later, on the ^ Orange Hiver, 1 had a close can lor my ; life, with no one at hand to aid mo by 8 distracting the attention of the iion. I ' * bad only one white irau with me, and he a was ill of fever. We had dug a pit on a }' path frequented by lions coming down ; to drink, but were much annoyed by I ? other animals falling into it. On the *? first night we caught two hyenas; on j * tho second a panther; on the third a j ( wild hog. These would have been prizes j , had we not been after lions and lions [ alone. On tho fourth night I stationed j J a couple of natives in a tree near the path to frighten off all game but lions, j They were hunters, and knew the walk ; . of a lion from that of any other beast. ' When going down to drink the lion * generally snuffs the air, probably to see I what game is abroad. On a rough path J1 his tread is as heavy .is a man's, and no one who has hunted him need be afraid ! of making a mistake. On this night, i ^ after the native? had driven several use- !'? less animals away a large lion nnd imnooo ramp flnwTi the natli. When 8 first discovered the lion was ahead, but j f he got the scent of the men in the tree J1 and stopped short to growl and sniff, J while the lioness, who wa^, perhaps, ? very thirsty, advanced slowly and went I into the pit. j * The pit was two miles from our camp, 1 and we heard nothing of the row which c took place when the lion discovered the 0 tr ck played on his mate. He tore around 8 for a spell like mad, and then lay down n at the foot of the tree and besieged the ', men. As soon as it was daylight, I left i ,J camp on horseback to ride over and see j11 what luck. I rode straight for the Jr' place, and, when within forty rods, u called to the men. They answered at e once, and though I could not make out 7 what they said, I knew that they were s excitcd over something. I was riding j s around a clump of trees on to an open P space, when my horse suddenly started. 11 Next instant I was on the ground and a | lion standing over me, and I could hear c the horse tearing away through the scrub v like mad. The lion had pulld me down, ; r nearly tearing the back out of my coat, 111 a. ?A Knf r?/\f lilnnrl ^ VCU, (II1U nilili, 17UU UVV M4M.f M?vwv. with his claws. j c As in the previous case, I was not a frightened, because it had occured so v suddenly that I had not time to loose n ray nerve. I was on my left side, bare-; E headed, and the lion stood for a moment I with h s right paw on my shoulder, | v looking after the horse. The natives ; v saw the fleeing horse, knew very well: u what had happened to me, and at once n descended the tree and made for camp, j ? I did not blame them any, and perhaps , J1 that very action saved my life. I had ; v time to collect my thoughts in that i .v single minute, and as I had routed one 11 liou by barkiDg like a dog, I decided to follow the same plan in this case. But as I said at the beginning, lions are as J Tinlike as man. At my tirst bark this j 8 fellow growled savagely and gave me a . t terrible bite in the hip. Had I cried s out at that or made any struggle he j t would have finished me at once. I re-1 r> ?J ^nrtrl fl Pflfl T ] urcsuu tujr icvuu^o u.iv^ ? ? - - * had a revolver strapped to my back, but c it would not do to reach lor it. After .i biting me the lion watched and d waited for signs oi' life, and c when he could detect none, he seized c my right shoulder in his teeth, gave me 1 a shake and a twi>t, and next inomsnt I was being carried off on his back. His teeth did not touch my fle?h, and as I ^ ' . #" LJl - . /i--> >* lay almost across him on my side mj hand struck the butt of the revolver. had it out of the holster in a second, anc then I felt I had a show. Whether th< beast felt any movement or not, he growled at intervals, and his breatl came back on me so strong that I was nauseated. I intended to fire into him as he carried me along, but he was sway ing about so that I dared not risk it. After carrying me half a mile throuql) the scrub and over broken ground, th* lion halted at the head of a ravine, it which he doubtless had his lair. H? turned about as if to see if pursuit had been made, and the mu/:zle of the pistol came against his left hip. I fired at once, md next instant was flung in a heap 3n the earth, while tne lion uttered a scream of pain. I was od my knees in a flash, but the beast was ten feet away, going round in circles md biting at the wound. He did not nntirA mo in iVie Ifiist. find I sentanothei bullet into him just back of the shoulder. He uttered another scream, and, instead if rushing at me, as I fully expected, made a leap into the ravine and I could aear him running for some distance. ] was badly shaken up, but I lost no time in getting out of the neighborhood, and in the course of an hour reached camp. Nearly everybody was out looking for ne. See now how inconsistently that ion arted. He came out into the opeD rrouud and charged the party of ovei ;wenty men, although they had not disturbed him. He had run from me in lis surprise, and now felt ashamed oJ limself. He knocked over a native ai le charged, but was then riddled with jullets and gave up the ghost.?Neu York Sun. ' The Man With the Lantern." One of the greatest terrors of th? Pennsylvania oil region is "the man with the lantern." He has been thccaust )f more needless conflagrations among >il wells than anything else, and has cosl he region millions of dollars. He is lsually an employe about the wells, and, n nine cases out of ten, a man of ex jcricnce and intelligence; but he will persist in taking the chances in paying 8 risit now and then to some gas-enveloped )il tank, carrying the ligtited lantern vith him. The result isn't always disistrous, but that is not to the credit oi he man with the lantern. l"sual!? aD sxplosion results. If a destructive fire loes not follow that, the fact will be vithout precedent. Sometimes the cause >f a fire of this kind will not be quite :ertain at first, but it only needs a roll :all of the employes of that particulai jroperty and the taking of an account of he tool house stock to ascertain the :ause. There will be one employe short, ind the number of lanterns will be less me. Then it is known that the man vith the lantern has been wa king. The man with the lantern first ap>earedin history in 1*14. It was at Marietta, Ohio. Nobody knew whatperoleum was in those days, but in digging a well out there once oil was discovred. It was called ''fossil oil" by the ocal savants. There was a great deal oi ;as with it. A lot of the oil was colected in a cistern. One night the mau rith the lantern came stalking on the cenc, but the pyroteclinical wonders nd splendors that were displayed in that icinity for days and nights as a result ol lis visit failed to compensate his widow ^ Atvtnll f S\W fronofi fftl UU SJACUinil UUliUlbU iUl UiJ kl uuuu^ atioQ. He materialized with the i e;inningof oil operations in the vicinity f Titusville twenty-eight years ago, and lis dread apparition will continue to valk abroad a9 loDg as oil wells last. The girl with the oil can has a mission n earth similar to that of the man with he lantern. But her work being conormed to the domestic hearth, of course, loes not concern the oit trade in a busiiess way. She is first mentioned in listory back in the early days of Oil 'reek. The Widow McClintock, ownci f *he great JlcClintock farm, was thi rst one on record who hastened her fire nth the oil can with the result that has ince become painfully familiar. It was hrough that carelcss act of hers that her dopted son, John Steele, was leftfather?ss and motherless on a cold aud cheer2SS world with only $2 TOO a day coming n from the McClintock wells for him to :eep the wolf from the door with. Everybody knows how Johnny Steele "Coal Oil Johnny") got along. Hisforune disappeared almost as quickly a; lie oil can that gave it to him.?Neu Zork Times. The Sperm Wliale. The sperm whale is the largest of the DOthed cetaceans. It is not u handsome uimal, but is has a marked individuality, t has a great commercial value. Its abits are peculiarly distinctive. Th? irgest males average about eighty-three set in length. The head is over oneuarter of its length and nearly one-third f its whole bulk. Unlike the whaleone whales, the sperm has but one pout-hoie, which is located very near ne end of the snout,and is ten to twelve aches in length. In color they resemble lie linback, with the exception of the reast, which is a silvery gray. It Is esimated that the head alone produces bout one-third of all the oil obtained. )n the right side of the head is a cavity ailed the "case," which contains pure il and a granulated substance known as permaceti. From this case alone as lany as fifteen barrels of oil lia\e been aken. The spout of a sperm whale may e seen from a distance of three to five liles. He has the wonderful power of cmaining under water from fifty mintes to an hour and a quarter. If fright nerl when lying or moving in a horiontal position it has the faculty of intautly sinking without changing its poition. It 19 often very active when at lay, sometimes throwing nearly its enire body out of water. The sperm whale, unlike the other etaceans, roams the arctic and tropic raters of the Pacific Ocean the year ound irrespective of seasons. The lother will never desert her young, and rhen pursued will assist it, as best she an, to escape. The females always stay nd sympathize with one of their rounded or captured mates. The young lales will, however, in such instances', aake off in great trepidation. The aged sperm whale is sometimes ery vicious. Instances are on record in i'l ich they have made furious attacks pon ships and speedily sunk them. Its manner of obtaining food is singular. It wirns through the water with its lowet aw dropped to nearly a right angle pith .its body, and thus readily catches whatever prey comes within the pale of ts huge jaws.?San Francisco Chronicle. Wonderful Sense of Touch. .Jarnes Cooper, proprietor of a store in >teubenville, Ohio, has been totally lind for a number of years, losing his ight by disease contracted in the army, tut attends to his business without help, uake3 change of all kinds of money, mper or silver, as though he had both yes, it being impossible to deceive him n tlie denomination of the bills. He Iraws a large pension on account of his Usability, and in his business has ac:umulated quite a fortune. ? Cincinnati inquirer. _____ Ovesr eleven million dozen of eggs 9ere imported from Canada last year. WOMAN'S WOULD. PLEASANT LITERATURE FOR FEMININE READERS. Where an Eternal Leap Year Exists. Equal rights prevail in the Isthmus of Darien, so tar as courting is concerned. Either the man or woman may "pop the question. ' ]n Ukraine, Poland, the girl always does it. She goes to the house of the mAn she loves and boldly makes known her sentiments. Should her suit not be successful, she makes it awkard for the man by hanging round until it is, or till its hopelessness is proved by long delay.?Neio York Witness. Rairi,1n?ln>r Wnmcn'A In medieval times, when it was quite an every-day occurrence for laws to be passed regulating the quality of the material, as weil as the fashion and embellishment of clothes to be worn by various grades of j society, it is no matter of surprise to find that head dresses shared in these sumptuary laws, and that, a9 one instance, the Mayor of Chester issued, in the thirty-second year of the reign of Henry VIII., an edict that, to distinguish married from unmarried women, no unmarried woman was to be allowed to wear white or colored caps, and that no woman was to wear a hat unless when 3ho rode or went abroad into the country.? Woman*s Workl. Two Smart Women. The town of Chelsea, Me., claims to have among its residents the two smartest women in Maine. They are spinster sisters, and they run a farm of sixty-five acres, doing nearly all the work themselves. One of the maids is an expert axe-swinger, and goes into the woods every winter to cut their year's supply OI XJrewoou. cut; uues a mau a nuia iu I the haytield, and this fall dug and put into the cellar, without help, seventy bushels of potatoes. The other sister, besides doing general farm work,is quite a carpenter, and in order to avoid exposing the cattle to the severe cold of winter while watering, she lately built a substantial well-house, with gpouts to : conduct the water to troughs in the barnyard, some distance away. In addition to regular farm work, the sisters cultivate a large garden in summer, and their crops are among th finest raised.? A/cw York Sun. A Clever Woman. Once, while an Englishwoman was; traveling in the West, she was obliged to take a seat in one crowded car, while | her friends entered next. Her neighbor in the seat was a dis-1 agreeable-looking fellow, whose features ! showed an alarming amount of low cun- j nin<r. nromisine1 actual knaverv. In! ? o* A O ? spite of the Englishwoman's distrust of ! him, she fell asleep, and was awakened i by feeling hor companion withdrawing his hand from her pocket. Her first impulse was to raise an alarm; her second, to ascertain the extent of her loss. It proved that the thief had only succeeded in taking her baggagechecks, and as his ticket was marked > "Chicago," the lady resolved to wait until they reached that place, also her ! destination. The train ran into the station at j Chicago, the pickpocket made his way j to the door, and the lady walked beside 1 him. A baggage express messenger was passing by the car, and the lady stopped him. "This gentleman has the checks for my baggage," she said, pointing to the thief. The messenger turned to the man who, | astonished at the suddenness with which i the tables had been turned, hastily pro- ! duced the checks and disappeared in the crowd. Education of Japanese Women. The better class of Japanese women ! are by no means uneducatcd. They re- I ceive, I am told, a better training than i the women of any other Oriental nation, j and they arc better treated than those, > of any other Asiatic nation. The Japan.! ese girl can, as a rule, read and write Japanese. She learns ail about house- { hold matters, and she takes the whole charge of the household. This is her j sphere, and she is known as the honora- J ble mistress of the household. Her' husband has no right to be meddling ! ? -L 1-: cu? ?u? ! Willi Hie UUUIklUg fliuvu L'UU pnjra lUO servants and the market bills. In the case of the poorer merchants she often j acts as one of the clerks in the stores i and takes the placo of the husband j when he is not present. In the country j you will find her often working in the j fields, and at Kikko J saw great nuni- j ters of women who acted us the leaders of pack horf.es carrying copper and goods J up and dowu the mountains. Still, 1j think thu women here have an easier! time than those of the lower classes of ! Germany or Holland, and you see fewer \ labor-hardened faces among the other J sex here than you do in many of the J countries of Europe. The wife is, however, after all but lit* * " - i? A. _ 1 1 J tie Detter man a servant 01 toe ausuunu. i and the ties of marriage and divorce are ! here so loose that he can dispense with ! her at pleasure Marriage in Japan is | not attended with the solemnity and re- i ligious ccremony of the American wed- I din?. It is a civil contract and the negotiations for it go on, as a rule, j through the parents. The young man 1 and woman have no preliminary court-1 ship, and the seeing one another for one I or two times is the only chance they have of deciding whether there is any compatibility of temperament.?Frank O. Carpenter. Successful American Women. About ten years ago a family consisting ot mother and three daughters came to Paris from the United Statas for the , purpose of educating the girls and giv- i inn* tliom cnpMnl nflrunfafffiS in the Work, i ? . 0 ^ which they had undertaken. The mother was American, the father, then deceased, i German, but the daughters, who were very young at this time, were thoroughly American in pluck, and in their determination to get on and make the most of their opportunities. I will pass over the years of trial and struggle this brave little family endured before they began to experience the benefit of th?ir many sacrifices, or before they began to meet with the recognition their tftlent?-deserved. To-day, however, one daughter is a rising* artist with a much praised picture in last year's salon, for which she j received "honorable mention;" the second daughter is the ouly womaij physician in France who has been admitted } to the most famous surgical hospital j here in Paris, and is now the wife of a j distinguished young scientist who taKes | her name with his own. The third girl I ?a charming young woman she is, too * ?chose astronomy for her profession, and is at this momeut the only woman employed at the observatory here; in fact, the only one of her sex who has been intrusted with the responsible position of an "observing" aetronooier regularly employed by the Government. This is an uncommon record for one family, especially to in a country where the progress of women in the higher professions is still viewed with surprise, ; ' 'j and any advance outaide of the beatei tracks thought revolutionary, not to say unfeminine, in the extreme.?Boston Herald. Nature's Cosmetic. No surer preventive of wrinkles or a worn-looking skin can be obtained than sleep at the proper times or at odd moments, but of course this does not apply to the sleep obtained by artificial means. Healthful and natural slumber is of all remedies for a skin prematurely old the best, and the society belle who has the good of her complexion at heart will contrive a regular re9t daily, if possible at a stated hour. One of the most famous beauties of the day, the wife of a wellknown artist, and whose social life is not altogether one of inclination, since there are actual duties involved in it, told me that she made it a rule to sleep daily after her afternoon exercises from six to seven, arising refreshed and ready for the duties of the evening, while she was certain that the delicate texture of her sicin had been preserved by this means. Certain it is that at forty years of age this woman has the peculiar bloom of a girl of twenty. "Beauty sleep" is only so-called because among the women of the Orient the practice of early sleep at night was cultivated, and in Paris there are few belles who do not take a siesta before attending a ball. Of course, the busy houskeeper will smile at suggestions which her home and often hor nursery make impossible, but I am inclined to think that with a little effort even such a one could contrive u brief period of rert which mi^ht recuperate not only the complexion but the spirits of the governing head of the house.? Til.-. , P r_-_ ?.? j-niuiaeipaia x nnen. Fashion Notes. Only black crocheted buttons are used. Twisted wire bracelets are again in vogue. Cloth is a favorite material for day dresses. Large silver waist buckels are a fancy of the hour. Parisiennes are again wearing long pendant earrings. India cashmere in white or some light tint is a favorite cloth. Velvet by the yard is a good substitute for galloons and appliques. Garnitures for bodice trimmings take the form of a Figaro jacket. Polonaises of black wool are often worn with colored silk skirts. Embroideries and braided garnitures were never in greater demand. Separate motifs are preferred to passe menteries for handsome toilets. A very pretty boa is made of soft green tinted flat ostrich feathers. The newest bordered fabrics admit of some novel features in simple gown3. Muffs and boa of contrasting fur are worn with sealskin cloaks this season. Even bady's cloaks have wool lining, and pure wool instead of cotton wadding. Cloth walking costumes are decorated with silk braid of the same color as the cloth. Yellow is experiencing a revival of popularity, but mostly in the pale shades. Broche goods and damask material are popular for elegant gowns for ceremonial occasions. Jet trimmings are more popular than ever, and are worn in every variety ol new aud elaborate patterns. Pale almond-colored brocade, made up in conjunction with golden-brown velvet, is a late French fancy. A tastv cloak is of white and sold brocade lined with pink plush and adorned with pink marabout bands. Black furs are much used on wraps, cloaks, jackets, and redingotes of Roman red, moss green, terra cotta, or reseda. Dinner gowns are made in various fashions, with low jackets and sleeves, with V-shaped bodices and with the classic draperies. Quilting is being largely introduced into children's garments, especially the old-fashioned patterns, such a3 the diamond medical wool. The fancy for green extends to dinnei costunes, many of the handsomest being of that co'or, or combining green with copper red, Venetian pink, old roses o: blacK. The richest black costumes are made of brocaded silk, in combination with faille peau de soie, or plain velvet. The plain material is always used for the lower skirt. The large, square knee buckles of the oro utilizer] n* liAlfc htirkles UiUCU Limw ? V WW ? by young ladies who are so fortunnte as to gain possession of those ornaments of their ancestors. The taste for strong contrasts is carried out in fur as in other trimmings, black fur3 being used on colored cloths a?d brocaces, while light colored furs are used on black. A rather dainty wrap is of blue and gold brocatelle on a pale gray satin ground. It is lined with pale blu? plush and has gray feather bands powdered with gold. Short wraps are made as dressy as possible with embroideries and passemteries of jet, silk cord, metal, lace, ribbon fringe*, and "motifs" or agraffes, glittering with rain fringes. In spite of the oft-repeated assertion that long cloaks alone will be worn by fashionable women, there are innumerable Bhort wraps in velvet, bengaline, clpth, broche, and plush to be seen on fashionable thoroughfares. Of white dress fabrics there is no end. Brocades, plain or striped velvets, watered silks, bengaline, Ottoman silk, faille, Irish poplin, embossed satin, and Henrietta cloth are obtainable in white and make up very effectively. The great advantage of the populai color, liussiuD blue, is that it is equally becoming to women of light or dark complexion. The shade appears in broadcloth, 'faille, cashmere, camel'sha:r, vigogne, velvet, tricot, fancy silk and velvet combinaticus, woolen armure, and English serge. A Lady Locked in n Safe. A young lady clcrk in a millinery store in Washington Las had a narrow escape from death. She went into a large safe vault in the rear of the store about 5::K) r. m., to put some articles away, and another clerk passing by clo;cd the safe door upon her without knowing that she was inside. The < lerk turned the knob at the same time,Jand thns set the combination. The young lady's predicament was soon discovered, ana caused great excitement, from the fact that there was no one present who knew the combination. The question of engaging a safe burglar was being seriously discussed when the proprietor of the store happened in accidentally and put an end to all fears by opening the door and rcie^sing the young lady from her perilous position. She had been locked in for over an hour, and might have suffocated to death if her release had been delayed much longer.?Neu Toi k Times, \ / *:' J-.-*:-: ' COFFEE CULTURE RAISING THE BERRY ON A BRAZILIAN PLANTATION. An Interesting Detailed Account of How It is Treated from Seed Planting to the End of the Gathering. "New rrmmd of tho best oualitv. in places free from frost, are chosea, the 'erra rocha pre!erred; and if this soil is gravelly ana rocky, it is even better. When designed for coffee, the clearing is more thorough, and care is taken in felling the trees. Should the largest escape the tire, they are cut down; nothing is let standing. On a suitable occasion, during a hot day, fire is set to the fallen mass of vegetation, care being taken to surround it with a clear space, to prevent the flames from passing to the surrounding woods. The ground, after burning, is then comparatively clean, and the leose trunks are straightened out awaiting some copious showers to cool the earth. The holes are then dug and the ground staked off. After being moistened, the coffee plants of one or two years' growth are taken from the nurseries and planted in the holes about i foot deep. The plants are always planted in rows equally distaut one from another?a distance varying from eight to twelve feet according to the soil, so that standing at any given spot a laue twelve feet, or less, is formed, running it right angles in every direction. At times when there are many ridges the plants follow the curvatures, and ending in short rows a large space is left open and the line commenced in such a way that from the foot to' the summit they run in a straight line invariably equidistant. At certain distances between a certain number of trees a road is left wide enough for a wagon to pass by limnlir nmiH-incr ft mw nf nlftnts. Such "o - ? I 19 the mathematical manner in which they are planted. The shrub is set out with all the roots, which hare a main stem corresponding to tbe axis of the trunk, and the numerous rootlets are placed in juxtaposition with the bottom of the hole. Should no rains fall following the planting, the shrubs are protected as far as possible by pieces of bark and wood, leaving full ventilation. . Though apparently very roughly treated when removed from the nursery, such is not the case, and failure to grow does not amount to five per cent. To obtain a nursery, a large quantity of dry coffee in the hull is sowed in close drills in a shady, rich and airj spot, and in twelve to twenty-four months the plants are ready for removal ?large numbers being always kept or band. Between the rows of coffee plants, foi two or three years, corn, mandioca and pumpkins are planted. It is necessary during the first year with a hoe or billhook, with a long, straight handle, to clean the shrubs from vegetation. During t>ip second and third vears the samt process of planting corn' and cleaning are continued, the loose wood being collected and placed around the roots. In the fourth year the cleaning con tinues and much more care is taken tj keep the surface free of weeds and grass, which grows up in quick succession, requiring three to four cleanings a year. At the end of the third year the shrub commences to bear, fruit, and on good, strong soil a crop is made at the end of the fourth. This process of cultivation goes on from year to year until the shrub-: become small trees, from ten to fifteen feet high. The main trunk sends ofl horizontal branches from six to eight inches apart, placed in alternate pairs, at right angles, so that the first horizontal is on its side twelve to six teen inches from its fellow below anc above. These branches divide from theii main stem at right angles four inche: apart, and sometimes subdivide several time9. From the trunk left exposed when planted spring many shoots, thus giviug the contour of a cone. Th? riowers bloom from the axila of everj leaf, supported by a frail stem about oneeighth of an inch in length, which is not too densely shaded by others, and the berry is formed on the same peduncle, only longer. The longevity of the tree depend! upon the care taken, generally lasting upward of twenty-five years, and ever attaining forty. It yields every year, but the crops of alternate years are the largest. When in flower the plantatioc of shining, dark-green leaves seems tc be covered with snow. The aroma is o: delightful fragrance. The flowers fall off after twenty-four hours, and there is nothing seen of the berry at a distance from the trees until it ii almost matured, which is five to six months, when it as sumes a bright cherry color, and by it? weight bends the branches almost to the ground. In front of the residence of the "fazendeiro" (or planter) is a large surface ol ground, square in shape, smoothed down and neatly swept and cleaned, over which the coffee berry is spread out to dry when brought from th< field. The mode of collecting is simply tc rake down the branches by rapidly running the stems through the hands looaelj closed?which strips them of fruit?intc a round sieve. This then is cleaned o) leaves and twigs by tossing it into tm air. The berries which fall on th? ground are swept up and cleaned by the same process. The contents are then thrown into a basket which holds aboul two bushels. This, when full, is carried to the road and piled with others into heaps, each bearer receiving a check of metal for each basket, all of which at roll-call in the evening are turned ovei to the foreman, who keeps accounl daily. The process of drying is a very tedious one and requires at least a month to gel the berry perfectly dry. Then it is carried into large bins or storerooms, wherf i the cleaning process commences, which j generally begins about the end of tlie j gathering. ? Times-Democrat. A Butler Masquerades as a Diplomat. On one occasion while British Ministei in "Washington, Lord ^ackville's trusted butler asked for and obtained permission to visit Baltimore for a few days. Iin?v.;0 omIvoI there he drove tc uieuici'.ujjr nio win'- - ? one of the leading hotels and registered sis Hon. Lionel Sackville West. Ad hour or two later a note was handed tc him, in which the writer stated that although personally unacquainted with the British Minister they were desirous of extending to him the hospitality ol their house during his stay aud closed with an invitation that he would be theii guest at dinner that evening. This invita:ion was accepted by the butler, who arrayed himself in full" dress attire and actually attended the dinner, whert throughout the evening he maintained his assumed character with such cleverness that neither his entertainer nor tlu guests asked in his honor ever suspected that he was other than just what ne represented h:m3elf to be, the Minister Plenipotentiary from the Court of St. .Tames.? New York Graphic. '? " " .... POPULAR SCIENCE. All the constellations may I be teea ' with the naked eye. The size used for gold lettering 'on glass is made principally from the bladn ders of fishes. There are enormous patches of coal! scattered all over the world, the extent! of which is unknown. 4 V. A flexible cement which is not injured] by remelting is made of equal parts ofl gutta-percha and white-pine pitch. J Chicago lard is composed principally! of cotton seed oil, stearine and tallowJf with a small proportion of genuine lard. 1 An insect preying upon boots and? shoes has been discovered by Professor! C. V. Riley. Bisulphide of carbon vapor* kills it. H A full-blooded man, weighing 200W pounds, and in the best of health, willH freeze to death in a Dakota blizzard inS about thirty minutes. ^ By spraying the region of the external ear with ether, Drs. Henoqueand Fndel, V of Paris, render the dental nerves in-t I sensible, and extract teeth without paia\fl or general anaesthesia. 1 ? Careful experiments have shown tha6 irfldtp nillr i? thp mnst effpnti Vfl of all nonV conducting coverings for steam pipesL! I and the demand for this purpose promises I to be great, notwithstanding the higtt I price. i I Fluff, bits of paper and wool, dust;, I waste, etc., seems especially attracted t<^ I the neighborhood of steam pipes, and by self-ignition are the oausa of the con-1 demnation of ill-set steam pipes as I veritable fire-bugs. M ?The human voice is capable, it has I Been estimated, of producing seventeen I trillions, five hundred and ninety-two H billions, one hundred and eighty-six I millions, forty-four thousand four hun-,B dred and fifteen sounds. fl An Eastern mechanic attributes somsfl of the mysterious fires which are of fre-H quent occurrence to "blisters" in theH window-panes. If these blisters areH convex enough to form a lens and com-H bustiblcs are stored within its focal dis-H tance a fire would be very likely tol occur. , The plan of utilizing the sun's energy H by means of a thermopile placed in theH focus of a mirror or lens has beeuH patented by Mr. Edward Weston. WifhA the efficiency of thermopiles at not morefl than three or four per cent., this givcfl| little promise of proving the sun-eugin^H of the future. . H Experiments made for the FrenchH Afinitttfir rtf Acrriniltura indicate that^l su&ar is a better preservative of meatH than salt It is more expensive, bat theH powdered sugar forms a coating retain-S ing the juices of the meat without lou?H while the nutritive qualities of the meatfl are considerably lessened by the salt. One of the newest devices for utilizing? sawdust is the scheme of a Canadian^ mechanic. He claims that by grinding? the refuse into a uniform fineness, mix-M ing it with the refuge gas tar from th^H gas house and compressing the substanceH into cakes, a fuel can be made in eyerjM way superior to soft coal for open fires . The peculiar property of pop-corn isfl^ simply more oil than any other varieties? of maize. When gradually exposed toH heat over a brisk fire the oil in the graii^B becomes converted into gas, which, exH panding, tears open the starch cells o^fl the corn. The heat at the same tim^H cooks the staich and enlarges its pai^H tides, so that the popped grain is snoi^| white and many times larger than beforiH it was heated. The Famons Granite Quarries. H As long as there are postofficesv custon^B houses, big bridges, and the like to bnild^f the State of Maine is sure to come in fofl| a generous share of the money expendedH ?in their construction, for there is granit^B enougn aown aere, suys a oxuuur icimib to the New York Sun, to buila a bridg^H to Ireland, and it is of the very fines^fl kind, too. Sections of Maine's geolojri^H cal make-up are distributed all over country in the form of magnificent pu^^f lie and private edifices, and many a p^^| of metropolitan pavement, as far West^^H St. Louis, is composed of granite bloc^H from the quarries of this State. I^H| Island, Yinal Haven, Blue Hill, Waldo, Gouldsboro, and Sullivan, o^H the Eastern coast, have long been famon^f for their quarries, and now Hallowel^H on the Kennebec. is becoming a gres^H place for the knights of the hammer an^H drill. Four hundred men are at wo^H there now, and business is Iboomia^H Granite is being taken out for the Metr^H politan Museum of Art and the Amer^H can Bank building, New York, and fo^fl the ten-story Bank of Commerce build^H ing iu Pittsburg,Fenn.,and the contract^? for monumental and tomb work now oH| hand amount to $100,000. The shaft a^H the John "Wentworth monument i^H ou:?-""a /Miovi.ia/1 and rut at was vjuiaitiku MW?* ? lowell. This shaft is fifty-two feet lonJH weighs sixty-fire tons, and was shippe^H to Chicago on two cars specially buiflH for the purpose. Some very creditabflfl sculpturing is done at Hallowell, a larg^B buildin? being devoted specially to auc^H work. The sculptors are now at wor^H upon eighteen lire-size figures for ti^H Bible Building in Xew York oity, an^H the last of the figures for the Plymou^^B monument has just been expressed. H life-size plaster bust of the late GovernHH Bod well has recently been complet^Hfl and is pronounced a work of genu?^^H art. It will be copied in marble, the reproduction placed on exhibition the State House this winter. A bi^H granite quarry is a handy thing to around a town, for the quarrymea good wages, and there are so many them that their patronage brings joy Vnoft-a nf +Via aVimikfiflners. b9H IUO UCOt bo V4 V"V W ?_j r A Passion for Orchids. referring to the Hon. Joseph Cfaat^^| berlain, the prominent Englishman w?H recently married Secretary Endicot^^H I daughter, the Pall Mall Gazette, of Lo^^| , don," says: ^Hj It is just possible that ]\rrs. ChambeHH 1 laiu's headstrong husband may have curb his devotion to orchids. His hobt^^l is as real a passion to him as wood'choHB ping is to Mr. Gladstone and salmon fis^^B in? ;is to Mr. Bright. He keeps orchid stock book, in which there a^HJ carefully noted from time to time tl^H prices and the origin of his vario^^J flowers, as well as the character of the^^B blooms. "The ily-god of Ekrou hi^^B self," according to Mr. Buskin, "supe^B intends the birth and parentage of tl^ffl orchidacea\" and 3Ir." Chamberlai^^B while not fersonally taking part potting and repotting operations, is devoted in his attention to his $10,0^^9 Van- -ninnt^ are heiner constant^^O bought. There are nine orchid hpusi^^H ranging from feet by 18 feet to 26 fe^^H by l J feet. They are all joined toget^^H and to the drawing room and arc ligbt^^H throughout by electricity. Mr. (;hai^H| berlain began to collect orchids ubo^^| the time he tirst went into ParliameiHH twelve years since. The house of "Lord'of Highbury" is a tine brick a^H| terra-cotta structure, standing upon^^H little eminence at Moor-Green, live from Birmingham. The owner is C(^^B nected with Birmingham by tclegra^^H and telephone..