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REV. DR. TALMAGE. THE BROOKLYN DIVINE'S SUNDAY SERMON. Subjectf "The Sabbath Rest." Text; "Verily, My Sabbaths ye shall keep."?Exodus xxxl.~, 13. The wisdom of cessation from hard labor one day out of seven is almost universally acknowledged. The world has found out that it can do les3 work in seven days than In six, and that the flfty-two days of the year devoted to rest am an addition rather than a subtraction. Experiments have been made in ail departments. The great Lord Castlereagh thought ne could work his * * -* 1 ? ? >?<? Kuf offar omHila Drain aoj aaya m luejuiu, Vu; ??u..v . broke down and committed suiolde, and j Wilberforce said of him : "Poor Castlereagh f j This is the result o! the nonobservance of the Sabbath!" A celebrated merchant declared. "I should have been a maniac Ion? ago but for the Sabbath!" The nerves, the brain, the muscles, the bones, the entire physical, in- j tellectual and moral nature crv out for the . Sabbatic rest. What is true of man is. for the most part, true of the brute. Travelers J have found out that they come to their places or destination sooner when they let their horses rest by the way on the Sabbath. What is the matter with those forlorn creatures harnessed to some of the city car?? Why do they stumble and stagger and fall? It is for the lack of the Sabbatic rest. In other days, when the herdsmen drove their sheep and cattle from the Far West down to the seaboard, it was found out by experiment that those herdsmen and drovers J who halted over the seventh day got down sooner to the seaboard than those who passed on without the observance of the holy Saboath. The fishermen off the coast Of Newfoundland declare that those men during the year catch the m'03t fish who stop during the Lord's day. When I asked the Rocky Mountain locomotive ena-ineer why he changed locomotives when it seemed to be a straight route, he said, "We have to let the locomotive stop and cool ofT, or the machinery would soon break down." Men who made large quantities of salt were told that if they allowed their kettles to cool over Sunday they would Bubmit themselves to a great deal of dam"" * * 1- I age. i ne experiment was uiuue, sumo w- > serving the SabbHtb, and some not observing the Sabbath. Those who allowed the fires to go down and the kettles to cool once a week were compelled to spend only a few pennies In the way of repairs, whiie in the cases where no Sabbath was observed many dollars were demanded for repairs. In other words, intelligent man, dumb beast and dead machinery cry' out for the Lord's day. But while the attempt to kill the Sabbath by the stroke of ax and flail and yardstick has beautifully failed it is proposed in our day to drown the Sabbath by nooding-it with secular amusements. They would bury it very decently under the wreath of the target company and to the music of all brazen instruments. There are to-day in the different cities 10,000 hands and 10,000 pens busy in attempting to cul out the heart of our Christian Sabbath and leave it a bleedin? skeleton ot what it once was. The effort Is organized and tremendous, and unless the friends of Christ and the lovers of good order shall rouse up right speedily their sermons and protests will be uttered after the castle is taken. There are cities in the land where the Sabbath has almost perished, and it is becoming a practical question whether we who received a pure Sabbath from the hands of our fathers shall have piety and pluck enough to give to our children the same blessed inheritance. The eternal God helping us, we will! I protest against this invasion of the holy Sabbath in the first place because it is a war ! on Divine enactment. God says in Isaiab, j "If thou turn away thy foot from doing thy j pleasure on My holy day, thou shalt walk apon the high places." Wnat did He mean by "doing thy pleasure?" He referred to secular and worldly amusements. A man told me he was never so much frightened as in the midst of an earthquake, when the beasts of the field bellowed in fear and even the barnyard fowls screamed in terror. Well, it was when the earth was shaking and the skies were all full of fire that God made the great announcement, "Remember the Sabbath day to keep it holy." Go through the streets where the theatres are open on a Sabbath nlght.go up on the steps, enter the boxes of those places of entertain- | ment and tell me if that is keeping the Sab- i bath holy. "Oh." says someone, "God won't j be displeased with a grand sacred concert!" j A gentleman who was present at a "grand | sacred concert" one Sabbath night in one of j the theatres of our great cities said that during the exercises there were comic and senti-. I mental songs, interspersed with coarse jokes, i and there were dances and a farce and tight- j rope walking and a trapeze performance. I ! Buppose It was a noiy dance ana a consecrated i tight rope. That Is what they oall a "grand J sacred concert." We hear a great deal of talk about "the rights of the people" to have just such amusements on Sunday as they want to k have. I wonder if the Lord has any rights. You rule your family; the governor "rules the State; the president rules the whole land. I wonder if the Lord ha3 a right to rule the nations and make the enactment, "Remember the Sabbath day to keep it holy," and if there is any appeal to a high court from that decision, and if the men who are warring against that enaotment are not guilty of high treason against the Maker of heaven and earth. They have in our cities put God on trial. It has been the theaters and the opera houses, p'aintiCts, \ersu3 the Lord Almighty, defendant. The suit has bean begun, and who shall come out ahead you know. Whether it be popular, I now announce it as my opinion that the people have no rights save those which the great Jehovah gives them. He has never given the right to man to break His holy Sabbat b, r.nd as long as His thronestands He never will give that right. The prophet asks a question which I can easily answer, "Will a man rob God?" Yes. They robbed Him l*st Sunday night at the theatres and the opera house*, and I charge noon them the infamous and high handed larceny. I hold the same opinion as a sailor I have hear J of. The crew had been discharged from a vessel because they would not work while they were in port on the Lord's day. The captain went out to get Bailors. He found one man, and he said to him, "Will you serve me on the Sabbath?" "No." "Why not?" "Well,"replied the old sailor, "a man who will rob God Almighty of His Sabbath would rob me of my wag03 if he i;ot a chance." Suppose yon were poor, an l you came to a dry^oods merchant and asked for some cloth for Rarments, and he should say, "I will give you six yards," and while he was oflf from the counter and binding up the six yards you should ko behind the counter and steal one additional vard. T.iat is what every man does when he breaks the Lord's Sabbath. God gives us six days out of seven, reserving one for Himself, and if you will not let Him have it, it is mean beyond all computation. Again. I am opposed to this de33cratijn of the Sabbath by secular entertainments because it is a war on the statutes of mo3t of tho State?. The law In New York State says: "It shall not be lawful to exhibit on the first day of the week, commonly called Sun^ day, to the public in any building, garden, grounds, concert room or other room or place within the city and county of New York, any interlude, tragedy, comedy, opera, ballet, play, farce, negro minstrelsy, negro or other dancing, or any other entertainment of the stage, or any part or parts therein, or any equestrian, circus or dramatic ? ?s\r? onv nar'ftrrnfinf'ft of itl??? l^iUilUUU^V) vr*. ? ?w glers, acrobats or rope dancing." Was there ever a plainer enactment than that? Who made the law? Yoa who at the ballot boxes decided who should 1:0 to Albany and sit in the Legislature; you who iu any region exercise the right of suffrage. They made the law for you and for your families, and now I say that any man who attemps to override that law insults you and me an J elerv rnnn who has the right of suffrau?. Still further, I protest against the invasion of the Sabbath because it is a foreign war. Now, if you heard at this moment the booming of a gun in the harbor, or if a shell from some foreitrn frigate should drop into yout rtreet, would you keep yourteats in church You would want to face" the foe. and ever? ?un that could bemanasred would be brought Into use, and every ship that could be brought out of the navy yard would swinq from her anchnrase, and the question would be decide 1. You do not want a foreign war, and yI have to tell you that this invasion of God's holy day is a foreign war. As amon? our own native born population there are two classes?the good and the bai, so it is with the people who come from other snores?triers are^Ttte" laflr abfdlhg ancTTtre lawless. The former are welcome here. The mor-3 of them the better we like it. But let [ not the lawless come from other shores expecting to break dowa our Sabbath and in! stitute in the place of it a foreign Sabbath. How do yon feel, ye who have been brought up amid the hills of New England, about giving up the American Sabbath? Ye who spent your ehlidbo^ I nn-ier the shadow of the Adirondacks or the Catskills, ye who 1 were born on the banks of the Savannah or Ohio or Oretron. how do you feel about givin? up tho American Sabbath? You say: "We shall not give it up. We mean to defend it a3 long as there is left anv strength I in our arm or bloo i in our heart! Do not | brin? your Spanish Sabbath here. Do not bring your Italian Sabbath here. Do not bring your French Sabbath here. Do not brini? your foreign Sabbath here. It shall be for us and for our children forever a pure, consecrated, Christian, American Sabbath." I will make a comparison between the American Sabbath, as some of you have known it, and the Parisian Sabbath. I speak from observation. On a Sabbath mornincr I was aroused in Paris by a great sound in the street. I said. "What is this?"' "Oh," they said, "this is Sunday." An unusual rattle Ql VJJUlCiys uu 3u;ic. xuc> vi/icca ancmau more bo.sterous than on other days. People running to and fro, with baskets or bundles, to set to the rail trains or gardens. It seamed as if all the vehicles ia Paris, of whatever sort, had turned out for trie holiday. The Champs Elysees one great mob of pleasure seeking people. Balloons flying. Parrots chattering. Footballs rolling. Peddlers hawking tholr kaickkaacks through tae streets. Punch and Judy shows ia a score of places, eacb one with a shouting audience. Hani organs, cymbals aad every kind of racket, musical and unmusical. When the evening cams down, all the theaters were ia full blaze of mu3ic and fuil blaz? of light. The wine stores and salooas ware throagei with aa unusual autnber of customers. At eveatlde I stood and watched the excursionists coming home, fagged out men, women and children, a gulf stream of fatigue, irritability and wretchedness, for I should think it would take three or four days to get over that miserable way of Sundavine. It seemed more like r.n American Fourth of Juiy than a Christina Sabbath. Now, ia coatrast. I preseat oae of the Sabbaths ia oae of our best Amerlcaa cities. Holy silence coming down with the day dawn. Business men more deliberately looking into the faces of their children and talking to them about their preseat 'and future welfare. Mea sit loager at the table ia the moraing, because the stores are aot to be opeaed. aad the mechaaical tools ar9 aot to be taken up. A hymn is sua?. There are coagratulatioas aad good cheer all through the house. The street silent until 10 o'clock, whea there is a regular, orderly tramp churchward. Houses of Go J, vocal wit*a thaaksgiviag for mercies received, with prayer for comfort, with chiritios for the poor. Rest for the holy. Rest for the soul. The nerves quieted, the tnmple9 coole 1, ttie mind cleared, the soul strengthened, an i our entire population turned out on .Monday morning ten years younger, better prepare ! for the duties of the life, better prepared for the life that is to co-ne. Which do you like best^-the American Sabbath or the Parisian Sabbath? Do you know in what boat the Sabbath came across the seas and landed on our shores? It was in th9 Mayflower. Do you know in what boat the Sabbath will leave u?, if it ever goes! It will be in the ark that floats over a delude of national destruction. Still further, I protest against the invasion of the Lord's day because it wrongs a vast multitude of employes of their rest. The play actors and actresses can have their rest between their engagements, but how about the scene shifters, the ballet dancers, the caliboys, the innumerable attendants and supernu merles of the American theatre? Where is their Sun lay to come from? They are paid small salaries at the best. Alas, for them! They appear on the stage in tinsel and tassel with halber is, or in gauze whirling in toe tortures, and they might be mistaken for fairies or queens, but after 1 o'clock at nitfht you may sen them trudging through the streets in faded dresses, saiveriug- and urea, ll UUUUlO uuua uiou c**. au, svcmu^ their homes in the garret9 and cellars of the city. Now. you propose to take from thousands of these employes throughout this country not only all opportunity of moral culture, but all opportunity of physical rest. For heaven's sake, let the crushiag juggernaut stop at least one day in seven. Again. I oppose this modern invasion of the Christian Sabbath because it is a war on the spiritual welfare of the people. You have a body? Yes. You have a mind? Yes. You have a soul? Yes. Which of the secular halls on the Sabbath day will give thiit soul any cultura? Now, admitting that a man has a spiritual and immortal nature, which one of the places of amusement will culture it? Which one of the Sabbath performances will remin 1 men of the fact that unless they are born again they cannot see the kingdom of God? Will the music of the "Grand Duchess" help people at last to sin? the song of the one hundred and forty and four thousand? Besides, if you gantltifmen of the secular entertainment have six days in the week in which to exorcise your alleged beneficial influence, ought you not to allow Christian institutions to have twenty-four hours? Is it unreasonable to demand that if you have six days for the body and intellect we should have one day at least for our immortal soul? Or. to put it in another sbapj, do you rdally think our imperishable soul is worth at least one-seventh as much as out' perishable body? An artist has three gems?a cornelian, an amethyst and a diamond. He has to cut them and to set them. Which one is ht? most particular about? Now, the coro?Uas Is the body, the amethyst is the intellect, the diaraoui is the soul. For the two former you propose six days of opportunity, while you offer no opportunity at all for the last, which is in value as compared with the others like $100,000,ODO,ODD to one farthiog. Besides you must not forget that nine-tenths ?aye, ninety-aiue ono-huuire Itks?jf all the Christian efforts of this country are put forth on the Lord's day. Sunday is the day on which the asylums and hospitals an 1 the Srisons are visited by Christian men. That i the day whttn the youth of our country get ttieir religious information in sua my schools. That is the day when tha most of the charities are collected. That is the day when, under the blast of 60,00.) American pulpits, the sin oi the lan I is assaulted and men are summoned to repent. Waen you make war upon any part of Go l's day, you make war upon the asylums, an 1 the piuitentaries, anlttio hospitals, and the reform associations, and th;? homes of tho destitute, and the church of the living God, whica Is the pillar and the grounl of the truth. I am opposed to the invasion of the Sibbath because it is a war on our political Institutions. When the Sabbath goes dowu, the republic goes down. Men who are no: willing to obey God's law iu regard to Sabbath observance are not tit to govern themselves. Sabbath breaking means dissoluteness, and dissoluteuess Is incompatible with self government. Thev wanted u republic in France. After awhile they got a republic, but one day Napoleon III., with his cavalry, rode through the streets, and down went the republio under the clatterlnz hoofs. They have a republic there again, but France never will have a permanent republic until she emits her roistering Sabbaths and devotes one day in everv week to the recognition ot God and sacred institutions. Abolish the Sabhath, and too abolish your relisious privileges. Let the bad work ro on, and voa have "the commune." and you have "the revolution," and you have the sun of national prosperity going down in darkness and blood. From that reigrn of terror may the God of peace deliver us. Still further, I am opposed to this invasion of the Sabbath becau*e it is unfair and it is partial. While secular amusements in different cities are allowed to b? open on the Sabbath day, dry eoo ls establishments must be closed, and plumbing establishments. and the butcher's, and the baker's, and the shoemaker's. and the hardware stores. Now, tell me by what law of justice you can compel a man to shut the door of his store while you ke<?p open the door of your worldly establishment. May it please your honors, judges of the supreme court, if you give to secular places the right to be open on the Sabbath day, you have to give, at the same time, the right to all commercial establishments to be open, and to all mechanical establishments to be open. If it is right in the one case, it i3 risrht in all the cases. But we are told that they must <?et money on Sabbath niehts in order to pay the deficits of the other nichts of the week. Now. In answer to that I say that if the men cannot manage their amusements without breaking the Lord's day they had better all go into bankruptcy together. We will never surrei> der our Christian Sabbath for the purpose of helping these violators to pay their expenses. Above all, iny confidence is In the good hand of God that has been over our cities since their foundation. Bnt I call this day npon all those who befriend Christian principle, and those who love our political freedom, who stand in solid phalanx in this Thermopylae of our American history, for I believe as certainly as I Btand here that the triumph or overthrow of American institutions depends upon this Sabbath contest. Brlnp vour voioes, your p<;ns. your printing presses and your pulpits into the Lord's artillery corps for the defense of our holy day. To-day in your families and in your Sabbath schools, recite, "Remember the Sabbath day to keep it holy." Decree beI fore high heaven that this war on your religious rights and the cradles of your children shall bring ignominious defeat to the enemies of God and the public weaL For those who die in the contest battling for the right we shall chisel the epitaph, "These are they who came out of great tribulation and had their robes washed and made white in the blood of the Lamb." Bat for that one who shall prove in this moral crisis recreant to God ana the church that there shall be no honorable epitaph. He shall not bo worthy even of a burial place in all this free land, bnt the appropriate iuterment for such a one would be to carry out his remains and drop them Into the soa, where the lawless winds which keep no Sabbath may crailop over the crave of him who lived and died a traitor to God, the church and the fr<?o institutions of America. Long live the Christian Sabbath! Perish forever all attempts to overthrow it! POPULAR SCIENCE. Artificial auroras have been produced. Red spots in the lieart-line of the hand indicate liability to disease. A Parisian dentist filled a hole the size of a silver dollar in an elephant's tooth with composition and tin. The Massachusetts Legislature has passed a law requiring all the wires in Boston to be put under ground. Tiberias, Palestine, has n meteorological observatory situated 682 feet below the level of the Mediterranean Sea. A Chicago chemist has discovered a method for rendering all kinds of wood incombustible and practically indestructible. The Government is about to start a psycho-physical laboratory in Washington, and Professor Elmer Gates T ~~~4-oL-o nf it.. ilttO UCCii CU^CU^UU VU Uuav vuw^^v v. ... It is computed tbat all the houses in London and New York could be built of the lava thrown out by Vesuvius since the first recorded eruption in A. D. 79. A Paris physician who lived to the age of 107 ascribed his longevity to placing his bed so that it stood north and south, in the direction of the great magnetic currents. The bodies of persons who have perished in the sandy deserts become so thoroughly dried by the sun and wind as to be reduced to thirty-nine per cent, of their weight in life. A bicycle ambulance is one of the latest inventions, and consists of a bicycle with an ambulance attached. The stretcher is fastened to the top of the bicycle, and the wounded or sick person lying on the stretcher can then be rolled along in a very gentle and safe manner. An order has recently been issued from the British Admiralty to the effect that sentries on duty on men-ofwar. Hvill not wear side arms in the neighborhood of electric dynamos. This is because the bayonet becomes highly magnetized through close proximity to dynamos, with the result that compasses are affected by sentries passing near them. "Water is compressible theoretically, but not practically. That is, when an amount of water is subjected to an additional pressure of one atmosphere it is compressed one-twenty-thousandth part of its bulk. Thus, for all practical purposes, it is correct to say that you caunot get more than four quarts of water into a gallon vessel under any circumstances. The following instance of tenacity of life in land snails is given by Mr. Stearns, of the United States National Museum: "Certain snails were collected on Cerros or Cedros Island off the coast of Lower California in 1859. Six years later one of them, on being placed in a box of moist earth, began ? ' *--il to move &DOUI. Anumtsr Ducix, from Lower California, woke up from its lethargy after a long nap of two years, two months and sixteen days." It is surprising in how high latitudes are to be found animals that live on herbage, thriving as though pasturage were abundant. The musk ox, reindeer and hare belong to this order, and are found as far north as explorers have yet gone. These creatures have to feed under the snow for a large part of the year. They remove the covering with the hoof or paw and feed over large patches of ground even when the snow is several inches in depth. A Lynx on llis Back. George Maschmeyer, out in the Weed Patch, tells of an experience he had a few days ago near his home that is hair-raising in its details. The other day while among the brush he heard a strange and unearthly noise, something like the concentrated hum of a thousand angry rattlesnakes. A paralytic sensation seized him and he turned to retreat, when suddenly the source of the noise bounded upon hid back. The animal straggled and clawed, growled and moaned and tore his coaj into strips. George completely lost his head and did not regain it until he had covered fifty yards in the direction of the house, when his burden suddenly released itself and sprang back into the brush. Then the frightened man had a chance to look at his assailant, and to his amazement saw that he had been carrying a huge and savasre she lvnx. George hastened home and with his I brother and some dogs returned to the scene, and in short order they captured the whole family, the old one and three young ones about the size of half-grown house cats. The capture of the mother was secured by placing the young in an improvised trap. In the fight, however, she received injuries which caused her death. The three young ones were taken home, where two of them afterward died. The third one is doing nicely, and is now a real civilized lynx, as gentle as a house cat.? Bakersheld Californian. Chicago's Phenomenal Growth. M According to the tabulated returns of the school census canvassers, just completed. Chicago has a total population of 1.562,796 souls. This is an increase of 124.78G over the population as recorded by the census taken two years ai:o WOMAN'S DRESS. HOT WEATHER NOTIONS AND CHANGES IN FASHIONS. Blouses and Tailor-Made Suits Ever Popular?Fine Vests?Summer Silks, Cotton Dresses? Popular Straw Hats. On the cars and on the steamer's deck we note that covert coating has almost superseded serge for traveling dresses. Covert is an admirable fabric. At present it is seen in light tan. and fawn colors and occasionally In light green and or gray blue. For traveling, I think tan, on the whole, the best shade. To be sure, it is not always la harmony with the complexion of a brunette; but this can be remedied by adding a vest of warm red basket cloth or of light yellow pique; while a blond can choose a vest of white blue twill, with white lines and cross-bars. I notice also that, almost without exception, the skirts in such gowns are plain. The skirt, which should escape the floor all round, is untrimmed, except by stitching above a nem, ana is usuauy vimuuc uuui?. mo coat may be long or short, according to fancy, and either single or double-breasted. The revers and collar are. of masculine cut, and there are no fancy collarettes, butterfly collars, or epaulettes seen. I notice that the pockets are more modest, being mere slits, cut diagonally, and stitched, without flaps. Fixe Vests.?Covert coating suits are sold ready made in many of tho stores, and at prices that are within the reach of all. While this is the case, I have seen suits of the same material made expensively, if not elegantly. I have see yachting suits of this material, at a tailor's, with two coats, one short and tho other reaching to the knees. With these coats, several vests are provided, in old style brocades. Otherwise i' e richest of these costumes that I have seen have been rigidly simple, and can be made with very little cost. I have noticed in some crowds of summer travelers that mohair gowns are to be seen. For Bummer travel they have the advantage of being light and they are rather more elaborate in design than the usual tailor gown. One of light gray blue, with a coat quite long in the back, and belted there by folds of dark blue coming through tho sides on the front of a short coat, attracted attention. _____ , ' Sommeb 8rr.ES.?The ahrap and pretty Chine suits introduced early in the season are being superseded by tho new check silks. These silks are shown in black and white? which are especially popular this year? though I have seen soma ia violet, white, rose and turquoise, and f.ther .shades that were very attractive. The most popular way of making up these silk? is with a plain skirt, rather full and flar ng, round bodice with a garniture and ecru lace, full bertha, and large sleeves reaching nearly to the elbow where they are mot by wrinkled gloves. A dress of palo rose, turquoise blue and black check is made with plain skirt and round bodice. The bodice is finished with points of black satin, back and front, extending from the neck to the waist line. The remainder of the body of the bodice is covered with blue satin, overlaid with ecru guipure, the scollop of the lace bordering the blaok satin points. The sleeves of the bodice are of plaid silk, and the wrinkled stock collar, soft bolt, and soft trimming at the bottom of the sleeves, are of turquoise velvet. This combination of turquoise and black is one of the most becoming and popular I have seen this season. TVprrwrvn <7nTrriv TliiFssrs?Ot-.hnr rnnlA. rials may como and go, but for summer wear the dainty cotton gown must go on forever. The most becoming o? these dresses are made with four breadths, a gored breadth in front, one gore on each side, and a straight back breadth, very much as they were made before the introduction of th? belt skirt. This pattern can bo recommended for all dresses of serviceable wear that aro intended to clear the ground. Tho skirt should bo cut four yards around tho bottom, gathered slightly at tho belt in front and at tho sides, while the greater part of the fullness is massed at the fiack in round box ploats, or gathered, if tho gown is cotton. I have Beeti some very dainty gowns in cream white, figured with tiny blossoms in the colons and pattern's of Drosden china. They resemble the t>ld-fashionod brilliants; but tho dress- , makers call them "dimities." These dimities are not to be confounded with tho dimity lawn, .vhich is a sheer goods, and has been In the market for a long time. These new dimities are almost as heavy as satine. A. most becoming way of making up these dresses Is with a four gored skirt, edged with three narrow ruffles overlapping each other so as to make the-group of ruffles only five inches wide. Three rows of laoe beading of the-narrowest kind border each ruffle, and in thee? rows of beading the narrowest black velvet ribbon Is run. The effect is very pretty; and the black velvet may be revived when the dress is washed. The bodice of frfri* gown is made with a full round waist, finished with a five-Inch bertha trimmed with three rows of black velvet run in the beading. Similar rows of velvet trim the collar and end in little rosettes at the side. The full leg-or'-mutton sleeves are finished with five rows of beading run with velvet and tied to form rosettes on the outside seam. A black velvet scarf about two and a half inches wide passes around the waist and ends at the left side of the front breadth. ?'opula-b dtkaw hats.?uunng me pas | three years a very becpming little bonnet haa been generally worn with tailor-made dresses, but this is now being superseded by the straw hat. The woman of middle age wears this hat as becomingly as a school girL There Is one thing I like about this straw hat, and that is that it is genuine. It makes no pretense to being a bonnet, either In its trimmings or in the position in which it is worn. These trimmings are usually made o! amour braid. This I remember was introduced wwt seMtST. hut did not become a success. There is no accounting ror ta3tes, for what was rejected last year we And decidedly popular this. A small Russian turban of amour braid with rather a small crown and rolling brim I And quite popular with tailor costumes. The hat is generally of some delicate color to harmonize with the mixed colors of the suit, or to contrast with it if the suit is dark. This hat is quite often trimmed with a twist of biack nat or black chiffon, finished at the side with a cluster of quills or a wing, or aigrette of black sparvgled with jet Another most becoming hat is In the English walking shape, with a brim rolled up at the side instead of being turned up sharply. This hat is called the Duchesfi of York, and is to bo found in various picturesque straws as well as in the amour braid. I notice that the tendency of all shapes in millinery, and of all trimming, is toward low, broad effects. For elaborate wear, however, the tiny bonnet, which is so small that It has become a head-dress of lace and spangles, Is generally chosen. Only the sheerest and most gauzy materials are used in these little bonnets. OF LNTEBEST TO WOMEU. Professor Bruhl, of Geneva, Switzerland, who, like all sensible scientists, has cotno to believe that tfc.* liraln is the organ of thought, concedes that volume, all things being equal, is an evidence of power, but he says that texture and temperament are quite as important factors as size. Judged by these standards, the professor says that the female hrain i*. as a rule. suDerior to that of the male, for what it lacks in volume it makes up in tho delicacy of its formation and the I vitality of its cells as well as the larger ex- j fanso of gray matter in its convolutions. There are no people in the world fonder of j music than the Welsh. From the humblest I hut of the miner to the hall of the wealthy landowner in Wales, music may be &aid to be part of their daily lives. It is a curious fact, however, that with all their love of music, and their ability to render the same, the Welsh have never given the world a great musical genius, either as a performer, a composer or a singer. But it is safe to say that in proportion to the population there are np people in the world who appreciate music so much or can render it so well as the Welsh. Miss Emily James Smith, who has won a fellowship in Greek at the University of Chicago, at which institution she will receive the degree of Ph.D. in July, will enter upon her duties as Dean of Barnard College in October. A marble portrait bust of Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe from tho hand of Miss Annie Whitney, of Boston, has been purchased by subscription by Connecticut women, and placed in Wadsworth Athenaeum at Hartford, Conn. In a square inch of human scalp the hairs number about one thousand, and tho total number on an adult scalp is about ono hundred and twenty thousand. Black hair is tho thickest; then comes fair hair, and lastly the red and light brown. It will interest women, particularly those living in the country, to know that there are eight edible and twelve poisonous varieties of mushrooms to be found in the United 8tates. As these mushrooms, edible and non-edible, resemble each other very much, a knowledge of them can only be had by personal observation. This is certainly a luscious vegetable, but unless one is absolutely sureof it, it is better not to eat mushrooms at all than to run any risk. Professor Garner, who has become famous through his study of the so-called Simian language, is firmly convinced that physically the quailrumana are closely allied to man. "If there were any doubt of this," ho said to tho writer, ono day, "it would bo dissipated by the fact that tho female gorillas do ten times more talking than the males. Indeed," he added, laughingly, "when the female monkeys become excited, and express themselves with indignant llueney, the maloa sit by and scratch their heads, looking as if they had forgutleii every word ip their limited vocabulary." Qu<>'*n Victoria generally breakfasts alcxie, When at Windsor, in a room adorned with tho jK>rtraits of h?r daughters-in-law, the Princess of Wales and the Duchess of Coburg. Toa of a peculiar kind, known as Earl uiiAuiiu, ifj a jyupuu**. uu>uiiv^o ?? ! her majesty. The Queen usually takes luncheon with her (laughter, the Princess Beatrice, but sho has always with her any member of hor family who may be staying with her at the time. She Is very fond ol fine-flavored pi me, and has a thorough English liking for a sirloin of cold beef. EMSITOOffffil] A TPS FOUNDERS WITH A BOATLOAD OF FISHERMEN. The Nicol With Scores of Pleasure Seekers From New York and Vicinity Goes Down Off Seabright, N. J. ? Conflicting Reports as to the Cause of the Disaster. loss of life by the disaster to the fishing tug James D. NIool, off Seabright, N. J., was increased by particulars gathered on, the day aCtor the tragedy. Till then the narratives of the survivors were so conflicting that no one could say, with any degree of accnracy, how many persons were on the tug when she foundered, much less give any definite Idea of.the number of the missinz. A sifting of the recitals and the finding of the homes of all of them proved that there were at least niaety-two persons, including the crew of five, on board when the Nicol went over and down. Of that number iorty-seven were saved, and seven bodies recovered, leaving thirty-eight to be accounted for. As none of the missing returned home or sent word to their grieving kinired on the day following the calamity, it was considered pretty safe to presume that they were all drowned. Had any of them been picked up alive along shore itwa3 thought that the fact would have been reported. Following were the victims whose bodies were recovered immediately after the boat upset; Walter J. Buckridge. No. 982 Halsey street, Brooklyn, leaves a wife and two children: John Dunn, No. 874 Eighth avenue, New York City, leaves a wife and one child; Herman Everard, No. 402 East Eighty-fourth street, New York City; William Keyser, residence unknown: Thomas Massen, No. 157 DeGraw street, Brooklyn ; Frank McAleer, No. 95 Washington street. New York City; unknown man. believed to be Louis Hocherin, fireman of the tug Nicol. The attendants at the Morgue, Police Headquarters, and the various police stations throughout New York City had a busy time of it attending to the dozens of people who kept coming in to report friends supposed to have been lost with the Nicol, or to inquire if missing friends had been heard from. Police Headquarters was probably the busiest place of all. At the Bureau of Information there were women in search of husbands and sons, tattlers in searca 01 sons, onosou muiuug iut a father, and any number of weeping srlrlg whose brothers went out on the excursion of the Herring Fishing Club, who had chartered the NIcol, and had not come back. It was with difficulty that some of the people could be handled. Jersey beachmen say they were not surprised at the accident It had been common remark with them that more than ninetenths of the tugs whioh come down on Sundays to flsh off the Cholera Banks are overloaded. These boats plunge alone with almost as big loads as a side-wheeler would carry, amd they run risks which the bigger boats would shrink from. The opinion along the beach is the Nicol had very little coal, and as a result stood well out of tho water. The higher she stood the more top heavy she became. The waves obtained a better chance, too. to wash under her counter and lift her. Had there been plenty of coal aboard she would have lain low and the coal would have kept her on even keel through a much worse storm. It was impossible on the day after to determine where rested the responsibility for the disaster, owing to countless assertions and denials made by passengers and captain and members of the tug's crew. Captain Hyde, who is smooth faced and ruddy cheeked, and says ho is twenty-five years old, though he appears to be only nineteen, asserted that if all the excursionists had been sober no accident would have resulted. "It was a heavy sea." he said, "but the Nlcol was a good little tug and wo could have come in safely but for the drunkenness of a great number of the passengers. They shouted and yelled and climbed all over the tug, even up to the pilot house. If the - * ' -II crowd nao. oeen luainuuicu mi nvum hAva been well. But what they did was to crowd on the port side like a flock of sheep, and when the bis wave3 struck the tug she went over. I saw them coming and tied the whistle down hard to blow for help. The story that I had been drinking Is a lie. I drank nothing until after being rescued, and had swallowed so much salt water that I had to." Captain Hyde'3 official report to United States Local Inspector of Steamboats Fairchild is as follows 'I offer the following report of the foundering of the tug James D. Nicol, on Sunday, June 24. 1894, about six miles off Atlantic Highlands, east of north : ;I left Fifth street. East River, with the Herring Fishing Club at a quarter to seven, and made a stop at Pier 3. East River, for bait and refreshments, and left Pier 3, East River, at quarter past seven and proceeded direct to the Fishing Banks, whera we arrived at half-past ten and anchored, the weather at the fime being fine and the sea smooth. About half an hour after we had anchored the wind breezed up lightly from about east, we iaia sun xmm awui quarter past twelve p. m., and I noticed the wind began to rise and the sea increase, and I immediately got under way to get inside the Hook. I headed up about north-northeast and proceeded cautiously as possible, the sea and wind still increasing to hurricane violence as I got up off the Highlands. "They were bearing about west by south. The boat did not make any water and there was no water shipped other than the spray, until those two heavy seas struck us that sent her down. When I saw tfrea joining, quite_a ways off, I ported fny neln? and tooif~ them head on, the passengers being on the port side. She bad quite a heavy list, causing the water to rush down the port side, careening her over, and j she filled. I tied the whistle rope down to keep It blowing as she was above water for assistance, and then I climbed out of the window on the starboard side and assisted in cutting the life raft and boat as much as possible,and shouted to the people to save themselves, as the boat was going down. In about five minute3 she had foundered. As near as I could tell it was about fifteen or twenty minutes after when the tug Robert Sayres came to our rescue, followed by the tugs Sammie and C. E. Evarts and steamship Algonquin, which latter sent out lifeboats to our assistance. These picked up all the passengers, as far as I could tell, and brought us to the city. "Johx Hyde." A number of ttiose who were saved are exceedingly indignant at Captain Hyde, Oi the Nicol, and assert that he deliberately ran his tug in the trough of the sea in order to "give a bath" to the managers of the excursion, who had made him shift the tug half a dozen times in order to set good fishing. DYNAMITED THE CAE. The Messenger Knocked Senseless, j and the Bandits Got 9122::. Train No. , o* the Savannah, Florida and Western Railroad was hold up near Hotnervllls, Ga., 125 miles southwest of Savannah at 1.50 a m., by six masked white men. Tha safe in the express car was robbed ot its contents. $1222 in cash. Two of the men boarded the train at Homerville, concealing themselves behind the tender. Later they cilmbed ovar the tender, covered the engineer and fireman with pistols and toVl Eugineer JsukLns to stop. J Tuea four other masked men appeared, i While two kept the engineer covered the | others went to the exorsss car. Coudnctor Fnrris and a train hand got oil to investigate tii?* cause for stopping, but did not stand on ceremony when ordered to return. While two of the men kept watch the other two ordered Messenger Cilder to op ?a ths door. Herefused. Tao msn told him he had better get out. Then ho hear 1 one of the men lighting a fuse, and boforo he could reacti the corner a dynamite cartridge exploded, breaking tiio door from its fastening. The explosion stunnod the messenger, and when he came to he was looking into the barrel of a pistol. He did not hesitate long when the robher wuo was in the car told him to open the safe. He also took out the packages as directod. The robber gathered up the moaoy in his arm and jumped out. The sftc then climbed on the engiue, mad* the ilreman uncouple it from the cars and compelled both euginear and Ilreman to get off. Thay ran tha engine eleven miles from the scene of the robbery and took totho woods. <1 THE NEWS EPITOMIZED. Eastern and Middle States. Tboops wens ordered to go to Pui^asutawney. Penn,, as striking miners there wer? miming things with a lawless hand. E. C. Knappe. assistant teller of the Chicopee National Bank, of Springfield. Mass., acknowledged embezzling about $25,000 of its funds. Mas. Lizzie Hallida? was convicted of murder in the first decree in Slonticello. N., Y., for the killing of her husband, Paul Halliday, and the two McQuillan women. About three hundred representative Southern business men met New York and Eastern captitalist3 at the Fifth Avenue Hotel, New York City, ana discussed plans by which Northern capital may be attracted to the South. Secretary Hoke Smith made a telling speech. The eleventh Suburban was run over the Coney Island Jockey Club's course at Sheepshead Bay, N. Y., in the presence of 25,000 w kr iZ1Aat\n Ar OilU WCK5 WVU l/J ? 4 ? chestnut horse, Ramapo, 120 pounds, Taralup, with. II. F. Dwyer'sbay gelding, Banquet, 119 pounds, 81ms up. second, and Gilpin A Taylor's Sport. 114 pounds. Thompson up. third. The time was 2.06 1-5, the fastesti , Suburban ever run by two-fifths of a second.; The stake was worth $12,170 to the winner, $3120 to the second horse and $1810 to tha third horse. These were 10.000 men ia line in the night parade of the National Saongerbund, New; York City. The spectacle was magnificent.) Governor Flower and Mayor Gllroy reviewed' the procession. The Rev. Charles Warmkessel, of Mahantango Valley, Pennsylvania, committed suicide by hanging. He was of the Evangelical faith. While his body was being cut; down his nephew was killed on the railroad., Mrs. Lizzie Haixiday was sentenced at; Monticello, N. Y., to die in the electric ohair during the week beginning August 6 for the> murder of her husband, Paul Hallfday, and< the two McQuillan women. Woxen in State street, Passaic, N. J., by: force prevented workmen from erecting! trolley poles. An unknown man made a fatal plunge from the Brooklyn (N. Y.) Bridge. Biotebs in the Clearfield-Jefferson District of Pennsylvania were held in cheok by; the arrival of State troops, and the backbone of the miners' strike was broken. John Kibchneb, a laborer, fifty-nine years old, killed his wife, Margaret, at Williamsburg, N. Y., as the result of a quarrel caused by Mrs. Kirchner objecting to his actions at tne table. Camden, N. J., experienced one of the hottest and at the same time one of the saddest days in its hl3tory. With the meroury at 108 in some localities ana niiieiy-iuur iu ius coolest part, the mortality footed up a total' of nine children, whose deaths were due, directly or indirectly, to tad heat, and one infant was found dead in a lot. Four oI the victims were boys who sought the cool waters for a bath. Fbedebick Bahb, forty-eight years old, a workman in the United States Babber Works, and living in New Brans wick, N. J., killed his wife. Ida, aged thirty-eic'at. Ho fired at her three times. One bullet penetrated her brain, causing death almost instantly. He then turned thfe revolver and shot himself in two places, dying soon afterwards. His wife was in a delicate condition. Thomas A. Edison.'the inventor, is at his home in Orange, N. J., suffering from what was feared might prove to be serious internal injuries received by falling backward from a chair. A vast audience heard the closing concert of ihe Saengerfest in New York City, the most successful of the series. The five persons drowned by the sinking of a sloop in Gowanus Bay. Brooklyn, N. Y., are found to have been Charles Nelson, of ?-j- i, jo Z04 VJOlUUIUlft aireoi, muuiuju, uu nuu, eldest child, servant and a boarder. At New York City Erastus Wiman Drocured a stay of execution of his sentence lot forgery. South and West. Kelly and Baker, Commonweal leaders, were arrested in Louisville, Ky., as vagrants. The American Railway Union at Chicago declared a boycott upon all Pullman cars la the United States, Canada and Mexico. While Frank and Ralph Lindsay were standing under a tree at Tuscola. Ill, lightning struck it. The flash killed Frank instantly, and Ralph was severely injuredLightning killed two men named Brummend and Hagedorn. whe were asleep in the same shed at Sugartown, Wis. The carriage of J. P. Maddox was struck by a train at a crossing in McHenry, Ky. Mrs. Lewis Maddox, of Texas. Mr. Maddox*s sister-in-law, and her two children were instantly killed. Mr. Maddox died in an hour. Thbee persons were killed and several injured in a railway wreck near Cailllcothe, Ohio. A crcLoxE struck the town of Keighley, Batler County, Kan., nearly wiping it out or existence. A courier on horseback reported that many were killed. Mas. Cabbie Reed, a pretty brunette twenty-four years of age, was shot and instantly killed at Chicago, 111., by an unknown man, who immediately turned his pistol upon himsslf with fatal remits. Washington. -The Montgomery has been placed in commission. jk The President revived the new Korean1" Minister, Mr. Ye Sung Soo. Pbofessor Mendexhall, in Charge of the Coast and Geodetic Survey, has tendered his resignation to the President. Ex-Clebz Cbaio, in the Carnegie mills' testified at Washington that, although ViceChairman Hunslcker admitted that more furnaces were needed at the mills to do Gov ernment work properly, they were not built ; also that Hunsicker knew all about armorplate frauds at tha time they were committed. Pbesident Cleveland, in an interview, commends the New York banks for replenishing the Treasury gold reserve, and saya the financial condition of the country is favorable. Foreign. Trouble Is brewing between the republics of Nicaragua and Costa Rica, and war seems likely. Mb. Gladstone has declined to be a candidate for the British Parliament at the next general election. SaaroAtf rebels, unintimidated by foreign warships, are fighting Malietoa's warriors. Japax has landed an army of 19,000 men in Corea, and has occupied the capital. Sixty cases and fifteen deaths from cholera have occurred at Jemeppe, near Liege, Belgium. A mine was discovered along the line on which the Czar intended traveling to Central Bus3ia for the army manoeuvres. Ax explosion occurred in the Albion coal mine near Pont-y-Pridd, Glamorganshire* Wales. Two hundred men were underground at the time. Eighty were killed. Rebels in Peru were defeated by the Federal troops. A dispatch from Pont-y-pridd, Wales, says that 172 bodies have been recovered fromtha Albion colliery, near Ciifyndd, the scene of the late explosion. ST. GAUDENS FAILS AGAIN. . Secretary Carlisle Finds His Second Design Expressionless. Artist Augustus St. Gaudens, of New York, was notified by the Secretary of the Treasury that his seconi design for the World's F.iir medal, submitted a few days a^o, ha 1 bean rejected, and the mednl would be struck from a design prepared at the Philadelphia Mint. The artist's latest design was a baldheaded eagli>, with wirn^s extended, and bearing a streamer in its beak, on which was to be inscribed the exhibitor's name. Secretary Carlisle informed St. Gaudens that it was objectionable because it "doesn't express auything.'^^^^^^ a colonization* company proposes to s<*ttle between 400 and 500 families on the Big Horn River, near the mouth of Fifteen Mile Creek, Wyoming, this summer. The bri lge across the Mississippi, to be built at New Orleans, La., by the Southern Pacific Railroad, is to co3t '$5,000,000.