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Thanks to the discovery of Pasteur, the average mortality in France in cases of persons bitten by rabid dogs has been lowered from 15 to 3 per cent. The total number of marriages upon Friday in England is only five per cent, of the whofo. number, showing the influence of the "superstition tor. garding the day. Japan has celebrated the ?o!%th an niversary of the coronation of the first emperor of the country, “an affair,” comments the New York Witness, •“which makes cur little 250th anui- Tersaries seem insignificant.” A Judge Garry, of Chicago, who presided at the trial of the Anarchists in that city, recently decided that it is not libellous to apply the term “An archist” to another, since the mere term itself docs not necessarily impute any offence to him. Some missionaries in Africa are greatly troubled by the fact that the natives are not at all eager to ado^t the dress of white men. Not even the converts are willing to wear the amount of clothing which, according to missionary ideas, is essential to re spectability. “It’s rather queer,” exclaims the Portland (Me.) Journal, “that the Boston and Maine had to suspend operations on its Kittery-Portsmouth bridge for a whole season because the company could not find suitable timber for its completion. The depletion of our forest treasures is no myth.” The Rochester (N. Y.) Post ob serves: “According to the scientific people even the poorest of us contain six or seven billions of bacteria, stored up in different parts of the system, but if we can't put it to any practical use we don’t see that we are any better off for knowing it. What most people are ^>pking_f0r is bacteria with a cash ue. 19 William Waldorf As tor has em ployed artists at rn expense of some thing like $10,000 to illustrate one copy each of his novels. These copies form a private edition de luxe, each $ne being labelled ‘ ‘my personal copy,” and occupying a prominent place in his library. “Verily, few can thus indulge in the embellishment of their awn literature,” soliloquizes the Epoch. A New York arithmetical genius figures it out that the $1,000,000 worth of flannel that was auctioned off in that city one day recently “would make enough flannel shirts to fill a clothes-line that stretched around the world.” This won’t do, asserts the California is rcportixl to be making wonderful success of her orange, in dustry. Wyoming contain^rtrt),000 square miles, of whicj^aboul one-sixth is good timber land. Twenty-five states and territories— a majority of the Union—have given women some form of suffrage. You cau get 100 acres of land in Samoa for $1.37 and the taxes will be only thirty-nine cents a year. The government pays annually tc the railroads the sum of nearly $40,- 000,000 for carrying the mails. The New York Herald states that New York is the great fruit producing state in the Union and Michigan takes second rank. Agricultural colleges in this country, established under the United States law of 1862, are now educating nearly 10,000 students. There are now thirty thousand dis ciples of Buddha's doctrines in Pans, where the Buddhistic cult is growing with remarkable rapidity. The Atlanta Constitution Observes: “It is already the fashion in Germany to sneer at Bismarck’s ideas. The great man out of office is no longer a great man.” Marshal McMahon is in favor of re taining the red trousers of the French soldiers. He says that the fuss made about them is altogether too great, be cause future fighting must be at long range, and red is a color which is lost sight of at a comparatively short dis tance. Throughout the Southern States, asseits the Chicago Sun, far greater activity prevails this year than last, when the attention or the whole world was drawn to the South as a favored field for the investment of capital and the employment of labor. In St. Louis the proverbial “law’s delays” arc having the excellent effect of diminishing litigation, remarks the Commercial Advertiser. The dilato riness of the courts deters business men from instituting suits, and leads to the private settlement of disputes. Volapuk has received a very severe blow. An English society of scientists has decided that the German pro fessor’s universal language is wanting in many particulars, and that the lan guage most suitable jtor general use is mediaeval Latin, “adapted to modern needs.” V ' The population of Ireland continues ‘•Now I Lay Me Down to Sleep.” In the quiet nurseiy ch unbers, Snowy pillows yet unpressed, See the forms of little children Kneeling, white-robbed for their rest. All in quiet nursery chambers. While the dusky shadows creep, Hear the voices of the children— “Now I lay me down to sleep.” In the meadow and the mountain Calmly shine the winter stars, But across the glistening lowlands Slant the moonlight's silver bars In the silence and the darkness, Darkness growing still more deep Listen to the little children Praying God their souls to keep. “If we die”—so pray the children— And the mother’s head drops low (One from out her fold is sleeping • Deep beneath the winter’s 5now), “Take our souls;” and past t o casement Flits a gleam of crystal light, Like the trailing of His garments Walking evermore in white. Little souls that stand expectant, Listening at the gates of life, Hearing far away the murmur Of the tumult and the strife; We, who fight beneath those banners, Meeting ranks of foemen there, Find a deeper, broader meaning In your simple vesper prayer. When your hand shall grasp the standard Which, today, you watch from far; When your deeds shall shape the conflict In this universal war, Pray to Him, the God of battles. Whose strong eye can never sleep, In the warring of temptation. Firm and true your souls to keep. When the combat ends, and slowly Clears the smoke from out the skies; When, far down the purple distance, Ail the noise of battle dies: When the last night's solemn shadows Settle down on you and me, May the love taat never faileth Take our souls eternally. —[Hartford Times. MY MANICURE. “The Northumberland,” Now York, Oct. 1, 188-. Dear Mr. R. C : Will you kindly send one of your as sistants to my rooms Saturday, at 12 u., and oblige, Yours truly, E S Such were the contents of a letter, sent by me one memorable Saturday, to a well known manicure establish ment. I was in the habit of having my nails treated at home every Satur day. Having a large flat, it was not only convenient, but eminently proper. Besides, the manicures were only too pleased to come ,knowing that there was a double fee to be gotten. I had had thin manicures and fat manicures, manicures tender and man icures tough—blonde, brunette, stupid and fascinating manicures—but bad always found them to be essentially vlilgar,with an eye to the main chance, fond of flattery, able to give and take in a game of chaff, in short, young women thoroug^^^ln fn And how 1/" P^l they wielded the spidci like sBi ■ '1 on which were cn- graved the B B“M. J.I” But she B| |B>ishing now. I be- gan to feAg SB-ous about paying money to stHf ^Biperb creature. She ai-osB IBcd up her instru- meats and B |B her hat, which she had laid asiB I handeiB B double the usual charge, my B |H always. She took it calmly, tiH IB me and passed out, with a bow flE Bsmile, I holding the door open fB SB. and speechless as a 'i.vt: vatB Bo?- 1 was cfl Bd by the thought. however, thB [Bhould see her again the foilowinB Birday. Judge of m\ disgust, to B Banother sent in hei place, who B Bv nothing of Miss LADIES 1 DEPARTMENT. lay I called on Mrs did not even know fess—she was not one •srators, but had been jwn staff being pre- So sorry, etc., etc in. I had contracted >f promenading the that Fortune would it I might meet hei J— at allj The folloi C . Ma Miss J— of her regui sent to her, viously engi Months rej the bad hal streets, in tfi be kind to accidentally. I never di , “Delightei^K sec you, Mr. S . 'To whom sh^H present you? Oh! 1 know. My^Bece. Awfully clevei girl. SuppoflH her mother and her self for a Ion \ time after her father's death. An u ncle left them a legacy a month or two ago, sufficient to enable them to resin ac their rightful place in society. Wh ire can she be? Don’t see her anyi /here. Never mind. I will later.” < M|i4ukful for my escape from this parr^^n, I left my hostess ests, and threaded my crowd of gay mask ing the shelter of a y leading into a con- t which I leaned with I had come to this “bal masque” <pt Mr*. W ’s princi pally to escai>e jjfi'om my own company. >^e not in keeping with Inge, and I soon found ndering when do?” a soft voice at “You do uot seem to ends.” icre had I heard that s the self-same tremor n my dotage? Could ,k to me without my ce? Truly, it seemed to receive her| way through ers, at last gs friendly door- servatory, agaJ a sigh of rebel My spirits w| this gay asseml my thoughts wl “How do yoj my elbow said.l recognize old f | I started. W voice ? There vl again! Was Ij not a lady sp<] losing my bal not. “Yon hav| me, with th^t fusedly, al standing" ither the advantage of ask on,” said I, con- falling over a plant I clutched the door- mp i uj'H. REVERSIBLE HATS. Reversible bats are quite the latest and most curious invention. They are so manipulated that the wearer can put them on any way she chooses. The reversible bonnet has no strings, of course, and is formed of a thick twist of velvet ending in a loop with a plume or flower rising from a nest of lace frills. When this plume is re moved and the loop of velvet stands in front, tho bonnet is a hat suita ble for street wear. With the decora tion added, the whole thing turned about and feathers or flowers nodding from its back it makes a dressy little bonnet, suitable for afternoon or evening wear.—-[Now York World. CHATELAINE FINGER BIBLES. Have you a finger bible? It’s the latest thing to hang with the rest of the danglers and janglers on one’s chatelaine. Tne theory that the fashionable girl does not consult the good book outside of Lent is thus con clusively disproved. The finger bible is only an inch wide and three and one- half inches long. It is printed on very thin India paper. It doesn’t weigh an ounce. One that I saw yesterday had a jewelled clasp and was bound in per fumed leather. Its nearest neighbors were a ihiy crystal bottle, holding some sort of cordial, that swung on one side, and a small box bolding a smaller powder puff that swung on the other. Good company?—[Com mercial Advertiser. GRIM FASHIONS. One of the weirdest fads among fashionable women is to have one or two Japanese serpents, which are an exact representation of the genuine rattlesnake, and have a wonderfully life-like motion. Thes* are coiled up in one corner of a sofa, or around the leg of a chair or table. In one of the cottages of Tuxedo, a fashionable belle found one of these serpents climbing, as she imagined, up the side of her chair, and the scene which followed can better be imagined than described. Another grim fashion which prevails extensively is to have a tiny platter of Paris skeletons, a regular “raw head and bloody bones,” fastened with black and crimson ribbons to curtains, lam brequins or under the chandelier. In nearly every fashionable boudoir one of these startling little figures can be seen, aud the owners find a morbid pleasure in looking at them and making them gay with ribbons.—[New York Journal. I suppose the mistake the artists make is that what looks well in a pictura must look well in real life. But there are various reasons why it should not, and tho looking-glass, candidly con sulted, would reveal some of them to the earnest seeker after truth.—[Cou rier-Journal. OLD STYLES NOW FASHIONABLE. History repeats itself iu such trivial . matters as the cut of a garment as well as the revolution of an empire. The ( perfumed glove and the glove with a tiny pocket in the palm for change have been very generally written and j spoken of as something wholly novel. Perfumed gloves were popular in the sixteenth century, and the English Ambassador at Paris wrote to the English Ambassador at Madrid to send him “two pairs of perfumed glove*, perfumed with orange flowers and jacemin, the one for my wive’s hand, the other for mine owne, and where insoever I can pleasure you with any thing in this country, you shall have it in recompense thereof, or els so mnche money as they shall cost you, provided they be of your choosing, wherein your judgment is inferior to none.” Perfumed gloves worn in Queen Elizabeth’s time were called “Frangi- panni gloves,” from the Italian mar quis of that name who invented the perfume employed, and when the noted fop, the Earl of Oxford, re turned from his self imposed exile in Italy he brought back with him,among many other elegancies of the toilet, a pair of “Frangipanni gloves,” which he presented to the Queen, which so pleased her that she ordered more for the ladies of the court, and had her likeness taken with her dainty gift upon her hands. The “Limerick” gloves, popular at a later period, were so fine and pliable that they were packed in English walnut elrells and sold for five shillings.—[New York Star. FASHION NOTES. Glace kid gloves have taken the place of Suede gloves. Glazed black kid is more popular for street wear than tan, which it has to a large degree repulsed. White and plain lemon ostrich feath ers on large white hats produce a charming effect. Narrow velvet rib bons are used to confine them against the crown. Gloves are no longer of the extrava gant length which they attained at one time. They are scarcely ever seen reaching as high as the elbow, and are growing shorter. Yellow and mauve are the colors for under-linen. If white, there are strides in light yellow. Sometimes the PEARLS OF THOU OUT. A man never forgets how good he Is to others. Discretion of speech is more than eloquence. Reflected virtue is no virtue. A fine robe may cover a corrupt heart. If we would always succeed, we must always love. Love never fails. You can flatter the worst idler on earth by telling him he is working too hard. Life is a quarry, out of which we are to mold and chisel and complete a character. Enthusiasm is the genius of sincerity and truth accomplishes no victories without it. He who is truly at peace never sus pects others. But he who is ill at ease and diicontented is disturbed by vari ous suspicions. When thou art obliged to speak, be sure to speak the truth; for equivoca tion is half way to lying, and lying is the whole way to eternal destruction. The infliction of pain &s a punish ment is only justified when the iuflictor js certain or as nearly certain as can be that the pain will he productive of good. It is the habitual thought that frames jtself into our life. It affects us even more than our intimate social relations do. Our confidential friends have not so much to do in shaping oar lives as thoughts have which we harbor. To try too hard to make people good is one way to make them --wse; the only way to make good is \ be good—remembering well the bt \pd the mote. The time for sp g comes rarely; the time for being departs. Saving is a practice best began ear ly—and for this reason. It is a hamt, and, like all habits, easily planted in a child, but taking root with difficulty in an adult. It is no kindness to teach children to spend, unless you can in sure them money to spend to their lives' end. Feet Then and Now. A noticeable thing about the statues found in our museums of art, supposed to represent the perfect figures of an cient men and women, is the apparent ly disproportionate size of their feet. We modern people are apt to pronounce them too large, particularly those of women. It will be found, however, that for symmetrical perfection these feet could not be better. A Greek sculptor would not think of snch a thing as patting a nine-inch foot on a five-and-one-half foot woman. Their types for these classical marble figures