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liill" FAKM1M " IAKVELOUS EXHIBIT \T TE nunuu a r .im. Sea, linke and Stream Despoiled the Perfection of the Great Show at Chicago?Wonders ot the Deep. ^een severa' Sr< iSi^mKlr^v' expositions e s p c>aUY devoted fish and fisberii \f8fefe The cultninati: IMiililnS p?'tin ,ht!fe ) ITllDiliHTHlini r%r?2ifinnc will and fisheries building on the Work Fair grounds are opened to the wot May 1, 1893. No such marvelous d play of piscatorial research, culture at utility has ever before been attempted Perhaps greatest of all the divisions this comprehensive exhibit will be t development of commercial fisherie From the eariiest times the utility of t product of the deep to the purposes man has bred a continuous race of fish< men. Not alone are food fishes the o jects of the keenest search. Ten the sand are the uses of fish and fish pro nets. The most delicate perfumes i a*.y lady's dressing case are evolved fro fish products. Creatures of the bri deep are born and die to furnish some the rarest gems that encircle her sno\ throat. Sea monsters are dissected 1 oils, bony products, or the sable coverii that furnishes winter attire for the ri and fashionable. The commercial vali of the annual product of the fisheries almost fabulous, and there ar^ enti communities in various quarters uf tl globe that have no other mode of su siatence. Another great division of the genei fish exhibit will relate to food fishes at their culture. Steadily, year by yes the use of fish as an article of hum; food has kept pace with increasii knowledge of its value. There are wii ranges of coast territory where the nativ subsist entirely on fish or fish product and there is not a quarter of the glob civilized or otherwise, where fish do n form a portion of the dietary habit. T1 demand for certain specie9 of food fish had led to the modern science of fi culture. Where commerce, in its gree is depopulating the waters of ocean, lal or stream, science steps in and restoc the waters with every variety of the fini tribe that is desired. The breeding fish has its economic as well as scicntil . side. Governments of all the great N tions early recognized the importance perpetuating this food supply and esta lished fish commissions, which make specialty of fish farming. In the ezbi its of this countrj alone the whole theo * - - * ana science 01 aruuciui pm^nganuu fish will be magnificently illustrated the display to be made by the Unit States Fish Commission. Aside fro the Government display, which will i elude propagation in both marine ar inland waters, several States will she their methods of fish culture. To the biologist and student of natui history the fisheries building will po sess countless charms. Here, as n ? where else, can be seen actual specimc of the myriad forms of subaqueous lif According to a recent estimate, the are more than ten million species in tl insect world. Professor Forbes, tl eminent biologist, estimates that t different forms of animal life in t' ocean are vastly more numerous than either the earth or air kingdom. Ti fisheries exhibit at the World's Fair w include specimens of every importa species 01 marine me mm is kuuwii science. Not only fish themselves, b their companions, curious and beautif; forms of life that exist fathoms belc the surface of the oceuo, "will be show The aquaria will be decorated with cost and rare marine plants and fiowt brought from their marvelous depths skillful divers. Sea anemones, th blossom miles below the nurface of t ocean; the coral animal, that buil islands; the sea horse, sea robin, toa fish, trunkfish, porpoise, sunfish and thousand ether remarkable marine spei mens will be included in the exhibit. PLAN OF AQCAKIA IN THE GOVERNME DEPARTMENT OF FISHERIES EXHIBIT, The sportsman and angler will find ! special department full of suggestive : terest. Every true disciple of Iza Walton wil! linger over the models the angling pavilion. Ancient as is t angler's ait, modern invention 1 evolved a hundred methods of adding the amateur fisherman's enjoyment. Co pleto specimens of outfits that a prii might envy will be shown. Records all the waters where game fish about their habits, culture and value to 1 sportsman, will form an instructive fi ture of the exhibit. The question of \ limited fishing for a sport as distinguish from commercial fisheries will come in the records of game laws that will full and complete. The value of fish and fish products 1 decorative purposes will be' one of l remarkabb features of the exhibit. 1 breeding ot purely ornamental fish, si as goldfish, will be illustrated. T decorative uses of shells will be shown exhibits from the pearl and coral lis eries. In all the aquaria the decorat feature of the exhibit will be especia prominent. In the taoks where live t will disport themselves the most curi< aud valuable specimens of rock, seawei marine plants, etc., will be used for d oralivc purposes. The center tank the aquarium of the United States 1 commission will be wholly devoted ornamental features, including specimi of nil the highly colored tish that can artificially bred. One of the greatest features of the fcibit will be a complete illustration i2r-' '? - ' >' '1 " . :< - ) the methods of ocean, lake and strean exploration, ancient and modern. Th< most practical part of this division wil [E be the illustration of every knowi method of catching fish. There will b< | j| ||jjfIP' be "FTf i 5 jj/ / >' f' / 1 a4 jn i AISLE BETWEEN AQUAIUA. illustrated models, full-sized specimens of boats, vessels and apparatus of all ? kinds. The methods of commercial fishermen will be shown in models of paiking houses, wtoarves and appliances. b" Side by side will be found the methods '"?* employed in various quarters of the globe, as well as in the United States. on Spectators may learn from models of m fishermen's dwellings how the majority of this hardy class lives while in puisuit of its calling. From Canada and Norway in the far North, Australia in the far or South, Japan in the East, and Washing* ton and Oregon in the West these exch hibits will come, giving a comprehensive *5 outline of the conditions under which \ 2 3 iII -3s 5c '^1 5ti w m lits i =$=|pp ry ? ? ~ . t ??IIbbb oj ^. , -(?..? sntuUlBB! 10 I fi h. =^===--Z^; : Uil IfH ; ire v ARCHITECTURAL DETAIL 1 tie he the world's fishermen live. he The models of fishing boats will be he specially instructive. It is a curious fact in that in both Norway and Greece, the be most northerly and southerly fishing ill grounds in Europe, the fishing boats or nt to-day are almost exact reproductions of to the war vessels of ancient times. Thus ut the modern fishing vboat, manned by ul | Greek fishermen, has a prow exactly >w similar to the trireme of the ancients. It ii' - also has the banks of oars that were in ly use when the deeds of Grecian warriors :rs went hand in hand with poetry and song, by Similarly the fishing boats used by Norlat weigan fishermen to-day have both the he prow and stern of the old war ships of ds the vikmgs. Models of fishing boats d- from other countries will show how well a the ancients understood the science of :i- navigation as well as the art of catching fish. From the canoe of the North Amer? lean Indian and his fish spear to the highly equipped vessel of the coast fisheries the change in method is not of kind but of degree. The buildings on the World's Fair [ grounds where this comprehensive exA hibit will be shown constitute a much A greater area than was ever before devoted J toa similar purpose. The main exhibit m| of the United States Fish Commission will H be in Government building. The fish and fisheries buildiocr proper is across y the north lagoon from the Government / building and is 365 by 165 feet in area. The two annexes for live tish exhibits are connected with the main building by arcades. Each annex is circular in form, and 135 feet in diameter. There is a NT total floor area in building and annexes of three acres and a fraction. The main I building will contain the general fisherbig ies exhibit. The east anuex will contain the live fish exhibit of the United States aj. Fish Commission and the west annex the jn angiing exhibit, betides the exhibits of be several 8tatcs and one foreign country, Jag Brazil. The glass fronts of the aquaria to in the east annex are 575 feet long and m. have 3000 square feet of surface. The ice water capacity of the nquaria is 140,00C gallons, of which 40,000 gallons will bf Kj sea water for marine fish. In the division of fisheries exhibits at ea_ the World s Fair eleven foreign counm. tries will be represented as follows. ie(j Great Britain, France, Australia, Canada, up Greece, Norway, Russia, Mexico, Japan, be the Netherlands and Briiail. Of these | the largest diplajs will be made by Ncrfor ! way, Russia, Canada, Australia, Japan t}1(; i and Brazil. There will be important >jjC exhibits from eleveu States iu the Union, [C*a as follows. Maine, Rhode Island, North Hjg Carolina, Oregon, Washington, Minne:n sota, Louisiana,Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, 5jj. Ohio and Missouri. Of these the jve largest exhibitor will be Rhode jjy Island, which has nearly 2400 square jsjj feet of space; North Carolina, Wisconsin, U3 Pennsylvania and Oregou. The mosl complete and elaborate exhibit of all ec_ will be tnat ot cne unitea oteies r ise jn Commission, whose officers have th< isti benefit ot forty years' experience m pis^ to catorial explorations and culture. ;ns The main floor aud galleries of th< fisheries building will be chiefly devotee to commercial fisheries. In this part o: ex. the building are the exhibits ot ten o! 0f the foreign countries, Brazil, as the las< 11 comer, being crowded into the western < 8 annex. The foreign countries will i 1 occupy the entire west half of the \ i main building and part of the east sec* 3 tion. The domestic exhibits in the rest i * of the building will consist mainly of appliances for the capture of fish, products, and special exhibits which illustrate the fisheries of certain sections or States. In the western annex Wisconsin and Pennsylvania each have aquaria for exhibits of live fish. Here also Missouri and Ohio will show stuffed specimens, preserved in alcohol. The remainder of I this annex, besides the Brazilian exhibit, I will be chiefly devoted to a display of boats, tackle, and other .appliances used in angling, the whole to be known as the "angling pavilion." Amoug the domestic exhibits in the main building one of the largest individual exhibitors will be the American Net and Twine Company, of Boston, Mass. This concern will exhibit all forms of netting, rigged and otherwise, in full sized models. Among the most interesting displays will be the exhibit made by the board of trade of Gloucester, Mass., the largest fishing port in the United States, and in the matter of product perhaps the tirat in the world. The Gloucestei exhibit is primarily in- ' tended to show the present condition 6 and methods of the ocean fisheries of S New England. It will include models t > of clipper schooners and other vessels, A besides models of wharves, packing 0 houses and dwellings of fishermen. There ^ will be photographic reproductions of c fishing scenes in the city. In this ex- ? hibit will be a life size figure of a man 8 on the crosstree of a fishing vessel look- * ing out tor bah and anotner 01 a man at *the wheel. ? The Rhode Island exhibit will illus- ^ trate the most important fisheries of that ? State, including those for menhadeD and i> oysters. In this exhibit will be shown c ^v 1 . ! n 'ROM FISHERIES BUILDING. 8 the sea trap used by fishermen in the a open ocean. There will be models of ' famous steamers employed in the Rhode t: Island fisheries. The Oregon exhibit will i elate chiefly to the salmon fisheries c of that State, with illustrations of the fi methods employed. One exhibitor, who a calls himself "Whale Oil Gus." will illustrate the methods of whale fisheries, i with sneeial reference to the use of am bergris for perfumery. The monster aquaria of the United States Fish Commission, in the east annex, will undoubtedly contain the greatest display of live fish ever attempted. The aquaria are arranged in eccentric circles. In the centre will be a highly ornamental aquarium, containing the j rarest specimens of rock, marine ve#eta- 1 tion and ornamental fish. Outside of this centrepiece there is an inner circle j of tanks. In these will be massed most of the finny specimens that are large | and imposing. The outer circle will contain thu largest number of tanks. In this outer circle will be shown most s of the food fish, such as cod, { i I 8ETTING STAINED GLASS ABOVE AQUABIA. | 1 shad, flounders, blue fish, mackerel, sea ' bass, smelts, lobster, shell fish and scores ! of other marine varieties. Of the food fishes from inland waters there will be Bhown cat fish, sturgeon, shovel fish, big gars, dog fisb, trout, varieties of white fish, lake herring, buffalo fish, pike, pike peish, varieties of bass, sun fish, ?heepshead, carp and scores of 1 others. In one tank will be shown every known variety of small fish, including minnows. The whole salmon family will be separateij aeaic wun. mere will be a separate set of tanks for inland fish that are indigenous to the Atlantic Blope east of the Alleghanies. The water for all the tanks will be re! peatedly filtered until transparent, and ! its temperature will be regulated ac' cording to the natural habits of the fish, i Most of the marine tanks will have a , ; temperature of sixty degrees, while the , L fresh water fish will live in water at its ] ' natural temperature. The marine fish ( 5 will be in three principal classes?food | fist, beauties and monsters. There will ( be about 175 species of fresh water fish 5 in the aquaria, not less than 13U specil mens being indigenous to Illinois waters, f Crossing the lagoon to the Governf ment building tbu visitor will see the main exhibit of the United States Fish Commission. About one-sixth of the irea in the National building is devoted to the fisheries exhibit. The science of fish farming will b? more elaborately illustrated in the Gov ~~f I ONE OF THE ARCADES. rnment's exhibit than in any other. Ipawn in all stages of development will ie shown. As Uncle Sam is the greatest ish hatcher in the world, this portion >f the exhibit will be highly interesting, lit a single station on the Massachusetts oast last year the Government batched ifl,000,000 codfish and 20,000,000 lobters. Great work is now being done on he Pacific coast, and a model of the Aliatross, the Government's principal ishing steamer, will be shown in the Vorld's Fair exhibit. The Government loo has fishing stations and hatcheries a twenty-two different States, prinipally in the West. Many of the most aluable models to be shown at the Vorld's Fair will be brought here from he National Museum. Snow Shoe Exercise by Soldiers. There are now being made in certain orps of the 'German Army some very oteresting experiments relative to the atroduction of snow shoes, to permit of larchinar and service on a campaign in he severest weather. The snow shoes used by the German oldiers are the same as those that have een employed for centuries in the counries of the north of Europe?Norway, <apland, etc. They consist, as may be een from our engraving, of a thin, strip f wood about a yard in length, a little rider than the foot, turned under and urved at the extremity and shod with ron. Every one uses them in Norway, nd the results obtained are truly wonerful. During the deepest snows the ural postman owes to them the possibil;y of continuing his service, not only without delay, but wkh amazing rapidly. The hunters of the country, proided with snow shoes, pursue the hare nd dispatch it with a single blow of tie cane. The Norwegian soldiers, it i unnecessary to say, could not remain Grangers to this National sport. 80, ince the middle of the last century,there as existed in their country companies f light infantry broken in to marching n snow shoes and capable of rendering be greatest services in case of a winter ampaign. At present all the Norwegian orps of infantry annually perform aaneuvers upon the snow with the aid f these shoes, and, in their cantonments, even get up racing matches on now shoes. The foot soldiers of the Dutch Army re exercised in the same way upon the rozen canals that abound in their counry Dtteaian A t>m? i n j.'iuanj| m kuc jivuooiau ww?huu orps (the sharpshooters of the Imperial imily and the Finnish sharpshooters) re provided with analogous snow shoes. Not wishingto remain in a state of inGEIUIAN SOLDIERS ON SNOW SHOES. eriority in this regard, in face of his leighbors, the Emperor of Germany has iad snow shoes tried in the Eightyecond regiment of Infantry, stationed it Goslar, upon the confines of Hanover ind Brunswick. A model platoon, composed of non;ommis8ioned officers under the direction ^ ?? e\(Knay Kaa Koon trainpH in tViP nap )f the snow shoe, and thus shod, has :xecuted lone: marches in the mountains lear the city, and all the imitations of jattle possible. Our engravmg represents one of these :xercises, the piatocn making a march "or ward in battle.?L'Ulu3tration. Oldest House in America. Down in old Santa Fe, the capital of New Mexico, the oldest seat of civil and eligious government on American soil, ;here exist many remains of buildings ;rccted by the old Spanish conquerors of the country. One of these, the Adobe Palace, has been used as the"executive" mansion since the first Governor and Captain General, Juan de Otermm, occupied it in 16S0; while the cathedral, built in 1761, is now rapidly crumbling iwav, and will soon be replaced by a modern stone building. Another interesting ecclesiastical ediBce is the Church of San Miguel, erected in the Sixteenth Century, but destroyed during the Pueblo revolution of 1680, and rebuilt in 1710. Close to this ..Mlk 6 ? 1 ml 1? I TITE OLDEST HOUSE IN AMERICA. structure stands a house generally recognized as the "oldest in the Uuited States." It was built before the Spanish conquest, and it is traditionally reported that Coronado lodged in it in 1540.? Chicago Inter-Ocean. It is a noticeable fact the ninety-four universities of Europe have 1723 more professors and 4814 more students than the 360 universities of the United States. A Novel Warship. He new coast defence vessel, known as the "Ammen" ram Katahdin, is built upon the plans drawn by Rear Admiral Darnel Ammen, and iB something of a novelty in naval architecture. The principal peculiarity consists of a number of tanks which, when filled with air, give her a covenient free board for coasting service, but when filled with water depress her so that her turtle back deck is awash. She is intended purely as a weapon of offense against an attacking fleet, and her mission will be to sink battleships or cruisers. She will, mount no gun save a few small ones of a rapid fire pattern intended to keep off torpedo boats. The dimensions of the vessel are as follows: Length over all, 251 feet; length on the normal water line, 250 feet 2 inches; breath extreme, 43 feet 5 inches, and on the water line, 41 feet 6 inches. The total depth from the base to the crown of deck amidships is 22 feet 10 inches; the normal draft of water is 15 feet, and the displacement 2183 tons. The lower portion ot the hull is dish shaped up to a sharp knuckle which runs all around the vessel 6 inchcs below the normal line. Above this knuckle the shap% of the hull is a circular arc, with a radius amidships of 3d feet, rising from 6 inches below to 6 feet above the normal water line. This curved deck will be armor THE AMMEN RAM XATAHDIN. plated throughout, the thickness of the armor tapering from 6 inches at the knuckle to 2 inchcs at the crown of deck. Above this deck, when the ram iB completed, will rise only a conning tower 18 inches thick, a smokestack and ventilator, the lower portions of which will be protected by 6 inches of armor, two light barbettes, within which the guns willbe mounted, and skid beams carrying four boats. The propelling machinery will consist of two sets of horizontal triple expansion engines, the cylinders being respectively | 25, 36 and 56 inches in diameter, and I j? oa cne Biro&e 01 piaiua vcm^ ov lutun. The estimated maximum horse power will be 4800. There will be two screw propellers. The estimated speed with fall power is 17 knots per hour, and must be attained to render the vessel acceptable ander contract. The quarteis for officers &nd cfew are all within the armored bull, and there will be fitted complete systems of electric lighting, artificial ventilation and drainage. Valley Forge'g Owners. The historic camp ground on Valley Forge has fallen into the hands of a syndicate of real estate speculators. Unless the famous locality can be saved very iO'n it will be cut up into building lots and sold. Already there is talk of a summer hotel on the site of the old earthworks. The people of Phocnixville, Norristown and vicinity are quite indignant about it. For years past the Washington's headquarters at val- i v wv vnn/ir. more public-spirited . citizens of the neighborhood have been endeavoring to have Congress buy the whole area of 200 acres and keep it forever as a National park, but so far without success. The Woman's Memorial Association bought Washington's headquarters several years ago, and freed the old house from debt in 1887, but their purchase only includes the mansion and the garden around it. The matter will be brought to the attention of the Daughters of the American Revolution.?San Francisco Examiner. Spain's Boy King. Alfonso XIII., King of Spain, will be seven years old on the 17th of May. He rejoices in seven names, and more titles, military and ecclesiastical, than he can probably remember himself at present. He is a bright little fellow, said by those who know him to resemble bis father, Alfonso XII., who died before he was born. The little King has always been ^11 8PAD?B BOY KING. an interesting object on account of his devotion to his mother, Queen Christina, Regent of the kingdom. She has watched over him with more than a mother's tender care, and has declined tu leave Spain even to open the World's Fair on account of her scruples against leaving the heir to the throne. The little monarch has two sisters, the Infanta Maria, who is twelve years old, and the Infanta Isabella, who is ten. ? ?* * - ? ?? i __ roc Tbe Uhina laianu Mission uss iu,v musionaries, und occupies 103 stations in Tourteeu provinces of the Empire. Including out-stations, there are 172 localities where the work is going on. They have ninety-four organized churches, with 3038 communicants, thirty-two boarding and day schools, seven hospitale, thirteen dispensaries and thirteen opium refuges. FAIR WOMAN'S DOMINION a a 1 * cai an BCliNDS AT A BALL* , . to Men Are Bo Shy of Wall Flower#. The att Difficult Pretense of Enjoyment. ? A Handsome- Ball Gown. f ?1^ * A W0MAN,S FIRS1 * I I hi ' *^fear at a bali "? over . y tbe chance of her bell flu i) I I /ing alone- rbe ncxt lj I sMl / |/is lest her identity be /tjImL. F /WAl08tin a crow(^ ?* * MJ fjk /(ijjj| women. 8ome poor 'f'' fy^fffll/ll wSU\Yy/=^: t*"ng9 se*m t0 think / ?' /> || that they are not so ^ In I lit I Ml forlornlvaloneifthey F U I Ih \!ir 8eem to 'ntereste<* ^ A' )| l|T w * in somebody, even if n ill ! P' M the somebody is a woman. Dear me, this is an awful mis* * take. Everyone knows that women cannot possibly be interested in each other at a ball and they only make themselves the ^ more conspiciously forlorn if they do pretend they are. The girl who bravely stands , op all by herself in a picture sort of a way, (S with curtains or portieres for background, keeps her head up well and looks far off as Ji' l/l i - ! onv'o OT-UTT AP TTPTJ MlPnttT- tO ? ?v?- -?7- , . b< Y if she were a little bored with all the peo- 0j pie, or if she were waiting till three or four bi alaves should return from as many errands, ^ is the girl who succeeds. Other women are so horrid they will hardly permit anyone else to do the picture act The only way is to be downright severe and drive them ^ away. One thing that men dislike is to go ? up to a crowd of women. If a man does g risk it, the other women grab so that actual- g ly it does seem as if one's only chance to be ^ sure of one's escort is when one has him by ^ the arm coming from the carriage. Even ^ when you have hie arm going back to the ^ carriage you are not so sure, because men ? ^ (11PM JftI pi tl KNOWS HER GOW?T 18 PRETTY. II are sometimes taken nwny right from under one'* nose by a designing mother or tne 11 girl herself. w Oh. Mr. Smith. Have you seen my Katie? T Do?'' Ql Of course he looks her up. The only safe si way is to keep ^absolutely free of women. _ Also, wise girls, mindful of the reproach in , that phrase "wallflower," will do their beat j " to at least pet a seat somewhere in the room. B There they look as if their partner had just u left them a moment to get a new shoestring ?shoestrings do break so!?and she leans her elbow on the table, uses her fan lang- n< uidly, and really when you get a rear view es of her you haraly suspect her of being des- v olate and all alone at all. Of course no drl who has not a good back should do this,but ^ it is just tbe tbmg ior me gin wuudc ? " PRETENDS SHE IS A10NE FROM CHOICE. ? ? w the best part of her. There are women,you w kuow. who have such a pretty line at tbe w neck and whose hair grows prettily. J bese j and the girls with, handsome arms are^se- ^ cure from being desolate all tne lime tney ? can get a good seat and keep up an air of ex- bi pecting some one back every moment It is enough to make one's heart ache to see the girl suffer because they feel the lack of at- ac tention; yet at every ball only a compara- nc tively few of the women can get any atten- ye tion. There are so many of them and the an men come late. Do you realize that the (j( really available men do not pretend to get in until about midnight, quite in the English way. where a ball room is a waste of gc women until that time, when the men come fr< in shoals? With them come the wise wo- gt men and theyoung matrons. As for the poor young girls and the nuinitiated, who come at ten, some of them have already gone to the dressing room and pretended they were je ill, just to get away from the "no-partner cc purgatory" that everyone is in. Others have t given up and gone shamelessly to sleep. . Some whose carriages were within call have j It gone home, their gowns fresh and unhurt. After twelve, things brighten up, and by supper time there is the proper confusion of , black coat", but, ah me. very few of the a ' women can really feel themselves successes, t mi -1 Lt is only in the fairy novels that the geni yoong heroine sweeps all before her at 3 ball. At the real bail many and many teart mnst ache. Get all the comfort you i oat of tbe fact that your gown is pretty d that, at least, a lot'of women have en'd yon, even if the men have not seemed take notice. It is not alwayj the prettr men and the lovely girls who have aU ention?that is one of the whimsical - fit \i fl ?//Mm 1 SPl 1 I a 11 , A GIBL WHO STANDS WELL. ingB about a ball?Jt is a sort of luck. If ?irl gets started she seems to be all right. she can get two men she is safe, out > itbing will induce a man to go near a girl bo is quite alone It is queer, isn't it? Bt if he comes in contact'with one of the >elles" his only idea is to get her away I to himself. A lovely ball gown is made of delicate epeover silk. Apparently it is all one ece fallingSfrom a square neck. It is very ' II indeed on this square neck band, an4 e girdle that passes about the body under * e arms and up to a point in the center akes a sort of all around puff of the full off. Another girdle pointed a little both ays, up and down, in the back and at the ont, and Terr narrow at the aides, goes >out the waist, and another puff is thus rmed of the full material, which gives a ose effect between the girdles and ia larming. From the lower girdle the marial bangs straight to the hem. At the ick and on the neck band is hung a very - ,J ill train which falls free of the girdles, in ratteau fashion, to quite a distance on the x>r, mingling with the shorter train.of the :irt proper. The sleeves are enormous . - r:.? iffs, or rather two enormous puffa, leaving ^ % e arms bare from well above the elbow.' be girdles are of tine bead work; About the . * * Ige of the skirt and of the train is a Border matcb. The hair is curled close to the . . >ad and bound with a bead worn fillet : .:?<a ouste, the gown is a queer combination ' . . ^ ! Greek, Emnire. Watteau and modern, it th? general effect is harnaftnious with ^''2; "e ideasof today, and the whole thing is tanning. Bodies Turned to Stone. The work of removing the bodies in?j ' irred in old Smithfield Street German , - iv; { angelical Church Cemetery on Troy [ill, Allegheny, to the new cemetery at [omewood, has been began, and it iff "t ? oped that it will be possible to finish! le work this season. The petrified! -C. odies of a man and wife, who had been uried thirty-fire yean ago, were unirthed, and when taken oat the coffin* ill apart. The bodies were very nat-{ > - r ral-looking and the flesh was hard a* .. Vi one. Fred Hartman, who has been , ixton of the cemetery for a number of ears, speaking about his experience in andling dead persons, said: .1 Alter the new cemetery at Home* ood was ready I received an order from ' \ PS a undertaker to resurrect the remaina v-i I Rev. Waller, a former pastor of the rerman Evangelical Church, who was* uried here some thirty year* ago. His rave was marked by a handsome monu- '1 lent erected by the members of the con-1 regation, and was in the center of the raveyard. I hired two men and we :arted to work at once, and soon struck ie outside box that contained the coffin.' < 7e got our common every-dsy hooks i ad tried to elevate the coffia, but soon . J larned that we had undertaken an im^ I ossibility. We couldn't even move it,' 9 id we all considered ourselves strong) 1 en. j I llkt+mm mnnll IhlnWIllO VA tfti I AiiVi uiuvu viMumi*^ i? v ?.v j et a derrick. We first removed the ] lonument, thinking that the rest wouldj ' 1 be easy. The derrick wis pat in1 Lace and we placed heavy ropes around le coffin. We then commenced pullig and continued doing so until we bad roken two strong ropes. We then got. ronger ones, and, after a hard day's ork, succeeded in elevating the coffin .j he friends of the former pastor were allj otified and they called to get a last look ; their former friend. When the coffinj as opened we were all shocked. Everr N lature of his face was as perfect as ever.; e looked like a bronze statue and was t heavy as iron." J The other gentlemen present had wit-* 1 essed the opening of the casket, and ' 1 itimated the weight of the petrified ^ ody at 1500 pounds. ? Pittsburg1 eader. Blessings of Alfulfa. "It is a great pity," said John raham, a well-known agriculturist of alifornia, to the Star representative at le National the other morning, "that astern farmers cannot avail themselves! f alfalfa, the grass which'so generously] ?. ssponds to a rich soil and plenty 9I ater, and yields from three to six crops) year. We don't grow clover and tim-i thy out in California, but cut barley! id bale it. Next to barley alfalfa isj sed. It is a beautiful grass, resembling over, whether green or dried is nour-j hing to stock, and presents a beautiful icture while growing on the level irriJ ited plains of my State or Utah, li jurishes also in Arizona and NevadaJ Then one comes down out of the moun^ ins over the Denver and Rio Grande to the valleys of Utah he will' e patches and quarter sections ' green alfalfa interspersed in that J iles of dry sandy soil and apparently ' I orthleas sage brush land, but which, ^ ith water, is the richest land in the . fl ?13 ?? - l>loaomi? M farmpr* OHU. lb ?09 a uiW^giUg m# # ! Utah, for they could not raise their ock without it owing to an impossilility of producing other feeds in suffient quantities, and which would be1 laptable to the hot, dry climate. But: >w they cut from three to five crops aj ar and raise great quantities of stock id horses. In Kem and Los Angeles A junties in my State thousands of acre? arlv are devoted to alfalfa, and three] M iod crops a year can always be cut, and! zquently live or six."?Washington' t'tttjow . nft *>nd t,o New York's alousy of Chicago. A street car inductor of Gotham even refused j i accept a Columbian half-dollar at I s face value.?Pittsburg Dispatch. I You may Jocularly tell a man he's 1 !yre, but it Isn't wise to harp on it . J uch.?Boston Courier. J