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f, + . t .ft' X, "" I I \ . "' '."" ' '{'' ' V '. + VOL. XXXYIIL* CAMDEN, S. C., SEPTEMBER 25, 1879. .. NO. lOf A ?be Camden fouraal, PUBLISHED EVERT THUB8DAT ? AT? CAMDEN, S. C? ?BY? C. G. ALEXANDER. Subscription Itatest (IX JLDVArCCE.) One Tear $2.00 6ii Months 1.00 . Over the Wires. ^ ^ 1 hear a faint, low singing, Dike the sound oi distant choirs; 'Tis ai message gleefully -winging Ove^ithe telegraph wires. And want are the glad wires hamming As Jhey stretch in the sunlight away ? "I at? coming, coming, coming? I am coming home to-day !" Anci now I hear a sobbing, ' Vj J} Like some soul sitting alone, "" With a heait that is weary throbbing, And lips that can only moan. Oh ! what are the sad wires sighing As they reach through the darkness ot night ? v-v " Ho is dying, dying, dying? , \ Come on the wings of light!" The titillation of laughter * Next falls upon my ear, And a burst of mad mirth after, ' Like the sound of a distant cheer. And what is the gleeful story That the round wires spread afar? " Our Nine is crowned with glory? IL'p, hip, hip, hurrah !" , Oh ! what are the wires relating, Morning, and noon, and night? "The market is fluctuatifig !" " Reports of the Senate light!" ' Cashier S a defaulter !" " Arrest a man named Brown !" , "Jones died to-day by the halter !" * : "Wheat went suddenly down !" " Dead I" " Born!" "Going!" "Coming ?' "Delugo"' and "Drought!" and "Fires!" Singing, aud sobbing, and humming Over the telegraph wires. ? _ , - , **' ?Ella Wheeler. s??r^^~??+ v A MOUNTAIN Km. i Of course \vc girls all pitied Rachel Tinkham, hut we never quite made her one of us. She was such a shy little thing, and ( blushed if you spoke to her, and acted afraid ot her own voice, and wore print dresses ah the time, and never was invited to our partus. : She lifrcd in a tumble-down old house which had been a very grand mansion once. The Tinkhams had been great people j in my grandmother's day. Nothing was left of their grandeur now, however, for i there had been wine in one generation, i and whisky in the next, and delirium tranai$ in the third. ' Ray's father was the third. She had 1 a wretched time keeping house for him. ; Her mother was deaa. " We" were the girls of Mrs. Bland's ' private school. . r < A dozen of us were out upon the ?wf I verandah one morning. We were all 1 ? ia.iu.iug at once. Some one, it seemed. 1 had said the high school girls were bet- ' tf>r aphrilars thin wp wavo ' I " Very well. So they are." ? J This was Kate Avery. -jmkMSIH; was t standing up by the lattice where ?>" morning-glory vine*'cr.?2T' ?na wnere a bnn'ir a.tauiters ot little bells swung 1 -^-orCt^TTTue and purple and rose-pink. If < Kate was anything, she was honest. ' though she was handsome too. "We have music and French conversation, and Lou has a phaeton, and 1 I have two donkeys, and Queeny has been 1 to Europe; but," lowering her voice. < "it's an awtul secret though it's the i ' truth. The high school girls are miles I and miles beyond us in Latin and mathematics." " Indeed they are," said I. " I'm what i mademoiselle calls an 'idgif' in arithmetic. I really suppose that two and ? two make four, but if one of those girls < were to tell me that they made five, I j shouldn't dare dispute her." . "The fact is," said Kate, "little Tinkliam is the only one of us who is sure of < ' her multiplication table. But then she ] doesn't really belong to us She would j not be here if it wasn't for sweeping and dusting to pay her tuition. There she is ; tlijs minute." A small, tired-looking figure in a coarse ] dress came in sight round the corner. It i was Rachel with Iter load of books in i her arms. I "She 1..13 worn that dress every day 1 for three months," said Lou "Stecuuan; " I verily believe sue goes to bed when . it is done up." " My dear, she can't. She lias to wash j and iron it herself. Oh, there is Queeny!" cried Kate. It was such a gentle, grace- < ful girl who came walking fast to over- j take Kay. caught step as she overtook | her, and began talking pleasantly. , "Doesn't she look nice in that seal-brown J suit? Ard isn't it just like her to carry . Kay's books for her?" Queeny's real name was Alice You ] would have known why we called her Queeny if you had seen her walk beside . little Tinkhani that morning, open the gate, and stand still, erect, with UiatT grand way of hers, for the girl to pass through. I believe we all rather worshiped Queeny. ] Kate met them with her forehead all : tieoup into hard knots, and asked Ray. "didn't she'want to be an angel,'and : help her with those dreadful fractions?' ! So they two sat down on the doorstep, and the rest went into the school- ! room. Then Lou called out to Kay to come and dust her desk. She said "it wasn't half dusted." Queeny said: " lluy is busy, I will do it;" and she, silent and looking prouder than ever, dusted Jxm's desk herseli. ? It was this morning, Friday, that Mrs. Bland told us that to-morrow would be " Mountain day." All the schools in our town drive to the mour.tain once a year. Our day always comes in September. This time Mrs. Bland couldn't go, so she sent along her cousin to matronize us. She was a fidgety person, afraid of spiders, and no good any way. "We are to start at nine o'clock," Queeny said. " Ray, can you be ready so early?" Queeny was a new scholar. She didn't know that Ray never went with us to such places. !Now she flushed and replied: " I don't think I can go to the mountain ? "Certainly, you are going." Alice said it in her queeniest way. " If you can't eo to-morrow we will put off going. * * "Saturday is my (lav to clean the school-room." Ray answered. " \Ve will clean it. Let's begin this minute," and off came Queeny's cuffs ! and Kate's, all the cuffs, 4a faot. We | ' went to work, and had fuoh' iun 8Weep- I V ' \ J'r -z * ^ - ineand scrubbing. Just imagine Kate and Queeny washing the floor. They did it well,"too. 44 Now, remember, Queeny -said, the last thing, 44 everybody is to wear her oldest dress. Ana, Ray, would you be 1 kind enough to bring hard-boiled eggs : fo^your luncheon? One apiece for us all round ?" Ray looked bright ail overhand said , yes. ' # ! Now I think it was just beautiful of Queeny to think of that. She knew Little Tinkham couldn't bring frosted cake and French rolls as the rest of us ! did. i So she spoke of the eggs. We all remembered that Ray had wonderful i chickens. I am sure the word about old dresses, too, was meant to help her. ] The next morning Obed Taintor came ( round with his uncovered omnibus and < his two great horsey and jricked us up. We- went for Ray last. She was stand- < ing in front of the old house, beside the ; tumble-down gate, with her basket of < eggs in her hflnd. i She looked perfectly happy, and her 1 dress was so clean and smooth Kate whispered to me: 1 "That dress has been washed and ironed since last night. Just think of it!" I It was a clear, warm morning and j every one was in such a glow ofgood t spirits. I think we were all glaa we had Rachel with us. 1 But if it hadn't been for Queenv Ray 1 would never have gone, and if Ray hadn t gone the rest of us would never have ] come home, and this story?for there is ( a story?would never have been told. ^ It is eight miles td the mountain and ( there is a carriage-road to the top. The t last two miles are very hard and steep, r because you rise nearly a thousand feet above the Connecticut river in that dis- ' tance. t But Obed was a steady, good driver 1 and his horses were steady, good horses. 1 We always drew lots for the seat be- 1 side Obed, and it was one oi our treats t to get him talking about his " team," as he called it. s "What are their names?" asked i Queony. " 4 " Well"?a pause. Obed was a slow 1 talker, but he had a great deal to say. " The off one there is Cnesar an' the nigh a one lie is Alexander." I " Are they afraid of the cars?" 6 " Aint afeard o' nothin' in natur.l' f Obed paused for us to think this over, t and then went on: " Know too much, them creeturs do. 1 They've carried a load to the mountain }. four times a week nil summer. They'd ' take ye 'bout 'S well ef I wa'n't along. 1 They know?well?beats all what them c mimals know. Understand't I'm talk- } in' 'bout 'enf this minit's well's you do. They're used to being talked to. My wife she thinks a sight of 'em. Beats, all! ' She'll go out to the barn, and she'll r carry 'em apples, and she'll be all over 'em; an* one week when she was si< k, | an' kop' in the house, you c'n b'licve it ! or not, l;ut it's ajact that tlym creeturs [ lost flesli. She braids up their front * liair for'em, and ties it with a red rib- c bin one day, an' then the next day she , upbraids it, and it'sjamjMHh all in the r:ushion1j^'h-?rtTCt5fand. As ?<~7nrrrrto a party tv-uay, they ve got 1 dieir hairs crimpod." Put atas for Caesar, and alack for ' Alexander. It was a terrible piece of ' work tliat you came near doing that r 1..,, 4 n.11 ,tra liflff/lr cllall fnol ( 4tlJTf ( iiUU^II It V/ ?,1110 Itvr vft OlIHii IVVI hat you were much to blame. 1 You see this was what happened. "We v;ere all tucked into the wagon as 1 .ight as tigs in a box, that afternoon. J ready to start for home, when Lou called ' >ut that she had left hjr parasol. She ' nust get out, and run up to the tower to ;ct it. ' 1 ' You just keep y'r sittin\" said Obed. Til fetch yer uraberilland he started "or the tower. It was about ten rods ofT. The tower ' ind stable are built in a small cleared >paeeatthe top of the mountain. All iround and helow are thick, old woods md great rocks. Obed had just gone out of sight when i ^ueenv gave a little scream, and put her t nana to ner eyes, oomeuung uassiung j aie," she.said, and tJien, that instant, j while we were all looking at her, it happened. The horses both reared, then gave a plunge, the onulrbus seemed to rise from the ground with a great leap, and sooner than I can tell it, we were all being borne, at an awful speed, down that narrow rocky road. I glanced toward Ca;sar ADd Alexander, \nd saw a terrible pair of wild animals. [ looked toward the girls, and saw two rows of white, frightful facu-s. The reins were dragging on the ground. Some of us were shrieking, " Whoa!" A [ew were getting ready to jump. All this in an instant, and then, suddenly,, ibove the noise of the wheels and of everything else, we hearc. a voice ring nut clear: " Sit still, girls! I think I can stop the horses." It was Ray Tinkham, of all people, in eyes. I must explain here tha: theroad from the tower runs down a gentle slope for half a mile, and there comes a sharp turn. Beyond that is Long hill, the steepest, most dangerous part of the way. Kate seized my hand and whispered: " If the horses are rot stopped before they get to the turn, we 3nall all be killed." Ray was climbing over the driver's seat." She always could climb anywhere, like a cat. She didn't pause an instant, but she called back to me: "Natty Brock, put on *he brakes. The rest of you sit still. Only pray as hard as you can." ? < I sprang to the driver's serft, and 1 jammed down the handle of the brakes. : I prayed, too. I believed I should < never pray again. : I saw and thought of a hundred things 1 at once. I saw tne great tree trunks and < the huge black rocks close upon us. I 1 remembered the clematis over the front door at home, and wondered who would j tell my lather that I was dead. i Meanwhile, Ray was over the dash- i board, and down with her feet over the wliiffletree. How she did it, I shall never know, but the next we saw of her, she was creeping along the pole between the horses, steadying herself with her hands on their backs. The horses went tearing on like wild horses, their manes flying, and their great bodies quivering all over. Every instant the girls were becoming more excited. Queeny was holding Mrs. Bland's cousin with both hands, to prevent her leaping out. Kate cried: "We are almost to the turn. What I # ' is Ray doing? She will Irighten the horses worse than ever!" and she covered her eyes. The brow of the hill was not forty feet off. Far behind, we could hour Obed's voice screaming to the horses to stop. The kepper of the tower was flying toward us. But they were too far away to do any good. There seemed not one chance in a thousand for us. But that very instant, when we all believed we were lost, we looked at Ray. We saw her reach forward with one hand, and grasp the reins which joined the heads of the horses together. Just where the connecting straps crossed one mother her fingers clutched them. One sharp, fierce jerk of those great heads backward, and the horses 6lackjned their speed, and in an instant more stopped. The wagon stood still, although the creatures were snorting and plunging yet. But that small hand of Ray's held m with a death-grip, and in a moment nore Obed caught the horses by their leads. His face was as white as it ever could je, and he spoke one word only. It was: " Hornets!" The horses had been stung in more ;han twenty places. They were unharlessed at once, and we were all out on die ground directly. We laughed and we cried, and Sirs. Biand's cousin distinguished, herself by "ainting away. ? " I dbn't blame the horses in the east," Queeny said. "Onesting is bad ?noueh," and'she showed where her eye' vas beginning to swell. "The hornets ame swarming out of the woods ;here." As for Obed, he was a humiliited man. " But I was the one to blame," he said. ' I thought the horses would 'a' stood ill the'rnides dropped ofPn the'rribs; iut I tell ye ther' never was the team litched un yet that 'ud stan' hornets. Blarst the cree*urs!" lie added, in underone. " But Ray Tinkham!" cried Kate, and ihe went up to where the little thing vas sitting on a rock, looking pale. 'You saved us all, you blessed child, low did you ever think of doing that?" " My grandmother stopped some runiway horses in that way once," gasped lay. " I didn't know whether I could top these, but I knew somebody must lo something, or we should all be dashed o pieces." " Well," spoke Obed, "I've known o' hat thing's hein' done just once afore in ny lifetime, but it was a hoy that did it. There's a sayin' 'mongst teamin' moni hat, when, you haint got the reins, you ?n stop a runaway if you walk out on j he pole and* grip hold o the bridles, but taint every horse that'll stand it." " Bui;wasn't it splendid of Ray?" criedxm, going over, and putting her arm ound her. " Never knew a girl c'd have so much duck," answered the driver. "If she" ladn't, 'a' been light on 'er feet, an' level n 'erhead, she never c'd 'a' done it. I ell you if these horses MpnTbeeri-dn ommon good horses, irothiij^u^111 V*) vouW V f ] ungjcsrory of it, but I must tell you ! hat we gave 4era party soon afterthis. Ul the lathers, and mothers, and brothts went, and we earned her a carpet for kt room and a new chamber set, am! lice new clothes all through; and a few >f the gentlemen gave her a bank-book, vhatever that may mean. I only know hat she was to have the income of cer* "?' ?? -v > v>/I i 4- Timo I /\ am liiuJirjy ?iun uiut iu Wiio (v> iducate her thoroughly. We had the iest time that night, and Queeny's uther took Ray out to supper, and she lat at his right hand, and everybody reated her as though she had been a princess of the blood. I do believe there never was a happier rirl on earth than Rachel that nignt.? Youth'' s Comwn ion. American Honey Abroad. Twelve months ago no American honey n the comb was sold in England, al,hough a considerable quantity was exjorted from New York to Europe inglass ars. Now the trade is a large one, and lie New York Commercial Advertiser ells how it has been worked up by Mr. ;Ioge, a well-known bee and honey man. Vfter contriving means to ship the proluct without breaking the combs Mr. [logo set himself to get it introduced on lie royal table. Accident suggested a dan to this end which onlv American nterprise would have ever dared to carry >ut. Mr. Hoge, white dining in an Engish chop house in London, took up a x>itle of sauce, and on the label found ;hat the condiment was prepared by one vho liad been high steward at Windsor Uastle. "There's my man," thought Mr. Hoge. and away he went in search )fhim; ultimately succeeding in obtatnng ar introduction to the inventor of ;he sauce. The merits of the sauce was )f course the firstf thing spoken of, and he American praised it. to the utmost. He then mid tint hj^ phiai1 "'Ir* tuan UlirwimT was to introluce the sauce into the United States, vhere of course "it would certainly have l large sale through the New York house vhich had sent him to England. Arrangements were made to have ,he jauce introduced here, and ;he ex-liigh steward was in good lumor. This Was the time to inroducc the real object of the visit, and ;he American said: Now, I want you .0 do a good turn for me. Can you not ;et a case of American comb honey Maeed on the Queen's table? The honey vill tell for itself afterward* as you will ind when I send you a case for your >wn use." "Nothing easier." replied ;he ex-hieh steward; "I am well acquainted with the present high steward :>f Windsor Castle, and he will do any:hing I request of him." The next day 1 case of the best honey was sent to the 3x-high steward's house, and soon after < ' 1*t,? UHJIIier one waa ill tt inuaui ..im beautiful coiqfcaJM^pc*"placed on tjie Queen's tahjj^lna ner grandchildren, the daughtew-oCthe late Princess Alice, were no pleased with it that the Queen, gave orders that ten eases should be at once purchased for the use of the castle, meaning, of course, her own table. The fact of this order having been given bv the Queer., soon became known through the enterprise ot the American, and the London press took up the subject o:f American comb honey, praising it to the utmost. Even the BritishBc.c Journal took hack all it had said against the honey, and was loud in its praise. The result w:is that the American comb honey was to be found in a very short time on every " fashionable" person's - ii- ?J CHOIC, :mu US suwra m UICIH inuniu as ured. An order lias been received to ship nt once 500.000 pounds of the new crop, to bo followed by n- like quantity at a later period; TIMELY TOPICS. At the close of last year there were 81,841 miles of railroad in operation in the United States, with a population of about 38,000,000. The number c'miles of road in operation in Europe was about 94,000, for a population of something over 300,000,000. The United States thus has a mile of railroad to about 464 inhabitants, and Europe one mile to about 3,323 inhabitants; or, in other words, every inhabitant of the ; United States has about seven times as ! much railroad as every European. A congress for the improvement of : thecondition of the blind lias been held in Berlin. Foremost among the questions was that of the printea or written character to be nsea by~t ie blind, and the congress decked .that the system of writing and printing by combination trf raised points, first introduced by Louis nrauie .in ibm, snouia De anopiea in Germany without modification. Another important decision was that the practice ot uniting the blind and the deaf in the same institution was highly objecttonable. The congress also recorded the fact that in the experience of German institutions rope-making is one of the best trades there practiced by the blind. The funeral of Herlig, a Socialist master turner, was the scene ot a great Socialist demonstration at Dresden. Several thousand sympathizers followed the body to the grave, but the police took advantage of an old Saxon law against the public exhibition of repulv lican emblems to forbid the wearing of political ensienia. No funeral oration was permitted, ana wnen a woman stepped forward and spoke a few words an order was given to- arrest her, the execution of which was, however, rendered impossible by the closing in of ! the crowd. Several wreaths were thrown on the coffin, but not before the police i had insisted on the removal of the red silk ribbons with which they were tied. 1 A great business is being done this year in the importation of iron from I Africa for use-in American manufae Jorios. The great reason for preferring African iron to native ore is, of course, its cheapness, but It has the further advantage of bein^ remarkably free from phosphorus. .1Jas ore has been imported to some, j^jCvShtTor two or three years, bgl^fc^ff'snfch quantities as "now. bn^&KuOrrty rsjtjjjuiting that two'hundred thousand tons will be shipped to New- York this"" year ..and half :xs much to Philadelphia,, the latter for uscatthe iron "\eorkn in Bethlehem and Johnstown and by the Pennsylvania Steel Company. Another notable 'feature in the iron trade is the.importation of Bessemer ; pig, of which forty fiv9 thousand tons are known to be under contract for the Uuited States. TherdTiave been no iinportationk of this sort before The great-diJtportaofee which oslrh4* ufamiing has, A fr j^.'aaw w" Trim an ost.non auction recently held at Middleb.urg, Uatffe Land. The lowest price paid for-dilic pair of these birds was ?180, SS^d several pairs fetched ?285. A few years ago ostriches, were obtained by hunting only, ana nt that time a good bird could be bought for a menagerie or a zoologi, cal garden at a moderate price. But ! since their domestication and the dovclI <-vv.rvmr.t- nf net,-w.il f.irtninnr na nn influx. W|'I&ll?ll V/' try their price lias risen enormously. At present the Zoological Garden in Ixindon owns not one living ostrich. From the Cape of Good Ilope 2,207 pounds of ostrich feathers were exported in i860, at a value of ?19,261; but in 1873 the exportation had risen to 31,Sty pounds, at' a value of ?159,679, and recently a bunch of picked bloods were sold at Port Elizabeth for ?67 15s. a pound?that is, about 15s. a feather. The Anthracite Conl Fields. At the meeting of the American Science Association in Saratoga P. W. i s nearer, 01 I'otisvuie, irenn., spoKu <u the anthraci te coal fields of Pennsylvania and their rapid exhaust ion. Hesaid: The work of mining anthracite coal in that State was begun in 1829 with 365; now 20,000,000 tons per annum are produced. Mr Sheafer asserted that only one-third of the coal goes into consumption; two-thirds are wasted, lost in the mines and in preparation. He put the maximum product at about 50,000,000 tons per annum, and at the present rate of increase this limit will be reached in the year 1900, and in 186 years, say in the year 2065, our anthracite coal fields will be exhausted. Then we must fall back on our bituminous coal area, which reaches the enormous tocal of 200,000 square miles, say over 400 times the area of the anthracite. Mr. Sheafer said that the competition between our several coal companies and by them with the | bituminous coal will always keep the : price moderate. He doubted if fir 111 il lin 11will ? "" 11 1,1 H 1 1111 reilUl'mtmsprodUCt of 136,000,000 tons, yet at her present rate of increase she win oylionet- imr rn.'il?sihove 4.000 fee ?in about the time in which our anthracite output will cease. But she has no 200,006 square miles, as we have in the West. Czar Peter and tl?<e Wig. Peter the Great was lialf-savage in his manners. ,He never had pleasantry i enough to play a joke, though some of ' In's rudenesses had a very comical effect: On his second visit 10 a town in Holland, he and the burgomaster of the place attended divine service, when an unconscious action of the czar almost upset the gravity of the congregation. Peter, feeling his head jprowing cold, turned to the heavily-wigged chief magj istrate at his side and transferred the ! wig, the hair of-wliij?l. dowed down over | the great little man's shoulders, to his own head, Mid sat so tflr the end of the i.uervlee," ^fnfcifchejtrelurned it to the in sMted^tfrgomaster, bowing ms tnanKs The great man's ftiry was not appeased till one of Peter's suite assured him that it was no practical joke at all that his majesty had played; that his usual custom, when at church, if his head was cold, was to seize the nearest wig he ?ould clutch? Belgrariia. It is estimated that there are in the United States 400,000 railway cars of alj kinds, also 16,000 engines. These engines i .? >/! /??!? ?} in h*OTTolinop ntrnr fho rnft/lc InQP i annually between 4.000,000 and 5,000.000 i of,nuts. These will weigh over 1,500.000 pounds, and their cost is between $30,000, and $40,000, and this loss is j continued from year to year, saying ' nothing of the nuts thrown in the scrap j- heap, with their bolts worthless from I the use of the jam nut, also the liability j to accideclfrom loose huts. r ' ?.' * ?>* FOR THE FAIR SEX. e V t Incompatibility. f j At Inst, 3inco thon art all my own, a I My love, my lilo, my promised bride!" IIo murmurs softly, sinking down ^ Clarinda's peerless lonn beside. ( Let's figure, sweet, how we'll,begin t Our married state that is to be." a " Yes, love. To out a figure in The world is all my wish!" says she. " For house," says ho, " what better than A tiny cot by ocean's flow 7" ! " 'Twould do." shesavs, behind her lan, "If marble lronts were scarce, you know!" ^ "Ahem! And we might well engage t ! One maid-ol-all-work, stout and neat!" S . " Y-e-e-g! and a lootman, cook and page, And coach and pair!" she murmured sweet, ? " Why, really, dear!?but words are air? With lovb lor guests at home a field, Our food shall be the sftnplest fare, Our driuk the dairy's snowy yield!" y " Y-e-p-s! with etceteras rare and blest," I She coyly adds: " that money brings? Fishj game in season; wines the best; Broils, stews, fruit cake, ice-oream and * * things!" " ? " In Midas'name!" he cries, with look, { And tone and mien from rapture tree, " Dost, deem a millionaire to hook, j, Ambitions girl, in wedding me J" t " Whv. not at all. Sir Stineiness!" ? She quick responds, with scornful shout; n " But just remember none the less, a As servant I'm not hiring out!" They sover?she with angry look # ' y That never bids him pause nor stay; ^ He clutching tight his pocketbook, * . And p recious glad to get away. g " Dissembling might have done with tact, II 'II not too soon betrayed," says she; ' , * " How lucky that to sober lact I brought her ere too late!" says he. ' b .vf: " Fashions of the Season. a Among the new dress goods in siik ^ and wool mixtures are found some P novelties in the form of welted striped a {pods, the stripes running across, not 8 engthwise the goods, producing a cor- a duroy effect; and upon this surface, whose ground is eithpr gendarme blue, a bronze, plum, dark green, brown, or black, bright silk threads produce a.'? flowered design in jardiniere effects, the l! figures being for the most part small set a I designs. This stuff is intended for the 31 paniers, back draperies, cuffs, revccs, P and collars of costumes whose under-- 'l skirts, sleeves, and minor narto^are com- ' posed ^^rrT^ods of tints anfUk?-^,7^r,'<!: B( sponding ^v^l]JJJ-?-^a^^Isof the figured cC<vti?r--Tirtne plain goods intended for _ the underskirts the welted stripes are s: al?o cross wise-tlm good?. ^ .u Other fancy silk and wool mixtures :l have narrow alternate stripes of plain s wool and figured silk, the silk stripes in small bright arabesque or armurc designs. Other striped cloths have particolored grounds of bronap, French gray, cherry, garnet, peacock, gendarme and ' navy blues, and shades of stone and 0 arilnise or slate color. y. Plaid Jacouard is a genuine novelty, 1 the large plaids being produced in a L' variety of novel and striking designs c and sharply contrasting colors woven in :l a Jacquard loom, and, while they imi- 11 tate the size and colors of tartans, are r very unlike them. Broken blocks, 0 squares, and dashes of color are pro- 7 duced in the midst of the wool mixtures 11 by bright threads of silk thrown in, the y predominant tints being old gold, sap- ?, phi re and turquoise blues, cherry ami other shades of red, and bright shades of ? green on dark grounds. j' In plain all-wool goods, in addition to '! the camel's hair goods, cloths, flannels 1 and cashmeres ot last winter, we arc ? i shown a new material called loile dc 13 I cnnnlier This is nlain woven, hilt lias ? ft rough surface, and resembles bunting a m ade sufficiently heavy to serve for warm ^ winter dresses. J The ready-made suits, thousands of ij which are sold every season and sent all 0 over the world, are shown this fall in s dark cloth colors in the new shades of y amaranth, Rembrandt green, gendarme ? or duck's breast and navy blues, dauphin ? and dark French grays, Burgoyne and ! golden browns and black, with garni- 1 tures and parts of the costumes of trim- ? ming satins, plain, plaidod or striped, c silk plush, Jacquard corduroys or welted f1 stripes, wide woolen braids and Scotcli 11 and Jacquard plaids, or other trimming y goods of silk and wool mixtures similar 11 to those described above. ..-? HI The greater part of these Sfe c made up in the form of a coat basque, ^ v-ith^oinled^v^^^ in ^ ;in('a ^ ( oat it is given a stomacher like a plas- | tron, which is pointed below the waist, j ? and consists of two revers sewpd together | down the middle, extending from the ? neck down and tapering gradually na*p^wer to the waist. Under this plastron i a waistcoat or stomacher the basque is J1 fastened with small flat buttons. The q plastron may be either of plain cloth or satin, or it may be covered with parallel lines of zigzag braid set on crosswise in ? points. The nostilion backs are some- *, times pointed, but oftener square, and are given flat box-plaits beaded with fancy ^ buttons. The skirts are short, trimmed with the usual flounce or flounces, in the usual variety of kilt, knife blade and boxplaitings. Paniers appear on ipany of these skirts,or scarfs arranged t o produce panier effects. Wide bells arc seen on 1 many of the basques, beginning in the a seam under the arms aud fastening in c front. Other basques are half double- ( breasted. and others again have surplice c plait?crgathers in front; and blouse ef- t iee\6 are also popular in basques, fasten- 1 ing down with three-inch wide belts, to i which the side pocket is attached. The 1 buttons on the waistcoats are smaller < than those on other parts ot the costume. 1 Few outside pockets are seen, but some- t times a long square or pear-shaped np- ( pendage of this kind is attached to the lower edge of a basque, and made very 1 effective with trimmings. Plaid silks 1 and silk plush of the same shade as the 1 r * " ' ' J 1 r wool material ot tlio aress, arm ?en- . colored Jacquard corduroys, also of the | shade of the woolen stuff, are used for 1 trimming cashmeres, toilc des Indcs, camel's hair and loile dc sanglicr cos- i tumcs. These ready-made suits range in i price all the way from $20 ro $75 and $100. . * Large and small bonnets, the first very < large and the second very small, are seen i: omonor ihp imnortations of millinery I I goods? ?be large bonnets are eitlieV j J pokes with clos? 8ld'*> direotolre bpr^ |: iP ? tets with square crowns and flaring irims, or Rabagas bonnets that frame lie face like a halo. The small bonnets xe close 'ottage shapes, or are square xowns and almost brim less, such as have leen worn at Saratoga and Newport luring the summer, and the favorite barmen bonnets with greater breadth in he back. Other shapes serve as either l round hat or a bonnet, and English urbans, Derbies and large Tyrolean hatB xe all among the new shapes. The lainesboroughs and other fanciful, picnrnsnnA tihnnpq are not bv anv means liscarded. All these shapes are brought out in mootli soft felt, silk plush and fur >eavers, with pile an inch long. Soraeiraes the crown of the hat will be of ilk and the brim of beaver_pr the reverse, and sometimes/, felt brim*' are pven fur or silk crowds, or felt crowns ire seen with plush or beaver brim#. The feather felts which were introduced ast season appear again this seaspn in ^renter numbers, and in the delicateeeru ind beige tints and cream and pearl vhite, which show that they will be ised lor the richest fu^-dress occasions. The felts, beavers and plushes^come n the same variety of colors and tints his season that they did last, or even neater. The new tints of cloth shades hat are seen in the dress goods appear n the bonnets and hats, showing plainy that costumes will require a hat or lonnet to match this' winter, and at east an attempt will be made to revive hat fashion. For the new shades, colors ound in felts and other millinery goods, ,ew names are given. Rembrandt is a , new name for a dark bluish shade of eacock green. A new red with a dash I purple in it is Amnrantn, ana uic om Jgyptian or Pompeiian reds are now leux rouge. Japoniers is a new green >lue, and gendarme blue takes the title i Douariere and. duck'aJareast blue, olden brownMs ^anaijue, and the most isbionabloTshade or plum brown is kirgoyne. Old gold is as fashionable s ever, and the ciel blues and rose inks, the befge tints with cream, ivory nd wax white, are all in demand equal a the supply. Fancy feathers will be used to excess gain m trimming bonnets and hats. Vhole and half birds, tails, wings, pomous, and feather fringes and ruches are j II seen in the millinery stores. Long ray ostrich plumes of the natural color re also to be revived, and tips, deraiMprnutio. And willow plumes. re ali to be worn. The fall wraps arc for the most part lantelet visites similar to those worn ist spring, but ulsters, round cloaks nd close jackets will be wQrn as the wison advances. Most of the fall suits ow in the hands, of tlie dressmakers*aye a jacket Of the III il i I I 11 m| '1 11111 nd jin lil iif li ' 1 . ' ' R'ppk lUlllhl in abundance in all the ouses where ready-made garments are aid. Wlipn the jacket is a part of a ostume it is trimmed to match the ime, but the independent jackets are n trimmed ..save with rows of stitching nd effective buttons of ivory, horn, Hell or metal.?New York bun. , Position in Sleep. , Position affects sleep. A constrained^ r uncomfortable posture will often ent repose. Lying flat on Llie back wath lie limbs relaxed would seem to seeUre lie greatest amount of rest for the rriusuTar system. This is the pdsmon ssumed in the most exhausting aise?s< s, nd it is generally hailed as a token of evival wlien a patient voluntarilylturns n the side; but there are several^lsad- , antages in the supine posturWjwhich F' mpair or embarrass sleep, l&us, in ' weakly states of the heart ;uid bldod ves- j els, and in certain morbid conditions of he brain, the blood seems to .gravitate o the back of the head and trip produce roublesome dreams. In portions Who mbitually, in their work or rait, stoop, here is some distress com&quent on traightening tlie spine, ijphose who lave contracted chests, espanally per-; ons who have had pleurisy&nd retain dhesions of the lungs, do nwsleep well n the back. Nearly all who#re inclined o snore do so-when in thip^posiiion, ecause me suji pni>uc mju pTus> n the tongue, and that orgaji falls back o as to partially close the^'top of ttoe windpipe. It is better, therefore, to lie n the side, and in the abseaoe of special hest disease, rendering it desirable to ie on the weak side so as to leave the lealthy lung free to expand; it is well to hoose the right side, becausc'when the tody is thus placed the food gravitates nnrp pnsilv nut of the stomadn into the ntcstines. A glance at any plate ot the 'isceral anatomy will show flferftfTa'p artTcu lar side; flxfiTpossible, the right side should be hosen, and tne body rolled a little forward, so that any saliva which may be nrrpi-pd shall run easily out of the aouth, if not unconsciously swallowed, tgain, sleeping with the arm thrown ver the head is to be deprecated; but j his position is often assumed during leep, because circulation is then free in he extremities and the head and neck, .nd the muscles of the chest arc drawn ip and fixed by the shoulders, and thus he expansion of the thorax is easy. Thechiot objections to this position are hat it creates a tendency to cramp and old in the arms, and sometimes seems o cause headaches during sleep, and Ireams. These small|matters often make i >r mar comfort in sleeping,?Medical j roumal. * Wtfo. ilk kJIIIIU V II a>vv The other morning a citizen called at a j lardware store on Woodward avenue I ind said lie wanted a key to a certain j loor in his house, and he toa%up and I sarried awayalmost the first key handed j >ut to him. On his way down town af- j or dinner hi. stopped and exchanged the j coy /or another, explaining that the first! vouldn't fit. These.changes took place I wice a day for the next four days, the j utizen being unabl| to get hold of a key o fit. On the sixth day he drove tip to ;he store with a door on a dray, and :alling to the proprietor he said: " Bring your box of keys out here and fve'll get a fit to that lock. Here I have iecn runnine back and forth for about a tveek, and I might not have got a fit for i whole month if my wife had not suggested that I bring the door down heie Some of these women are mighty smart.1' " Put whydidn't you take the lock off ind bring it down in your pocket?'1 isked the dealer. The buyer looked at liisi in a vacant way, staved hard at the door, and sat Hip eurbstone with the re mark: " It's a wonder that the whole family wasn't sent to the fbol-house ten. year's ago."?Detroit Fret Frets. O P ' * ' * "V. . : ? ADVERTISING BATESi KbE 1 lin. l^ooi-fkooLll mil I? ~ I - <. 1 Week. 1.00 * 5.00 ? 9.00115.00 ~ 9 " 1.76 7 60 1*95 9&0Q 8 " 9.60 9.00 15.96 34.00 4 " '800 1&50 1800 97.50 5 " 8.50 11.76 90.50 81.00 6 4.00 19 50 99.75 8400 7 M 4 50 18 96 am.9r.Q9 8 " 5.00 1400 96.00 40 60 Smonthi. M44I4I 50 17.00 8X00 60.90 '* 4 " .......... 7.60 19.00 ? 50 60.00 6 " * 8.60 94.00 48.00 8400 * 9 " 9 60 80.00 69 00105.00 19 " 10 96 85.00 68 00190.00 O" Truuioat advertisements mart be uooa panied with the cash to infore insertion. - t > " '. . -.1 Astronomy Made Easy. Ili-diddle-diddle, .6 The Sun's in the middle, ^ AnH nlunnfs nroniiri him so errand Aro swinging in space, . Ileld forever in place \\: In th* Zodiac girdle or band. ^Hi-diddle-diddle, " <v ' 1 The Sun's in the middle, And Merdury's next to the sun; While Venus so bright, . Seen at morning or night, Comes second to join in the lun. v .* 1 Hi-diddle-diddle, The Sun's in the middle, * * And third in the group is our Earth; While Mars with his lire, r - So warlike and dire. ' ' Swings around to be counted thelourtb* Hi-diddle-diddle, The Sun's in the middle, i While.Jujpiter s next alter Mars; And his lour moons at night Show tho speed of tag light; Next golden-ringed Sctura appears. . - ~ Hi-diddle-diddle, ' A The Sun's urine miaaie, After Saturn comes TTranua tar; And his antics so queer, Led aatronomei-s near To old Neptune, who drives the last car. ITEMS OF INTEREST. v.. An imperious Qsesar?The sheriff. An indescribable uncle?(Carb-uncle Sound logic?Arguing through the teleohone. How many passengers will a train of circumstances carry? Mount Stanford, in the'Sierra Nevadas, is covered with red snow. a AAnlnvn/1 Ktmcnlf fn Ko In A 111 ftU W1IU UW1IM1.U uiunu vv? uv toxicated with music was considered airtight. . yj A new.Morinon temple now in course of erection at Sal< Lake City is. to cost $5,000,00b. To use the now machines or the oldfashioned'washboards? Aye, there's the rub.?Picayune. There-are now in Texas over 5,000,000"' sheep. Last year oxer 11,000,000 pounds of wool were skippW out of the State In Tennessee. South r*in ntiini jiniJ Delaware i Ti 11 urn n ,i| ii, n w' i tobejatfi*? "'l,W ,,ki A Black Hills correspondent states ; that he believes the development of the mineral resources of the Black Hills has only begun. Miss Porter, of Detroit, paid a hack min less than he"demanded, ana lie angrily struck her. She drew a revolver ' from her satchel and shot him dead. Samuel Nussbaum murdered his wife at Girardeau* Missduri, and. was stopped jn an attempt io kill himself onrthesDot; but he was determined to. die, and'has finally accomplished his purpose by starvation. _ ' * The French lfave been trying, "with some success, the plan of towing canal ^ boats by locomotives. A railway is laid <^L down on the towpath, about one meter (39 inches) from the side of the canal, and on this ara run small .'ocouiotives of |our or more tons, according to the yireiglil to be pulled. Queensland, the youngest of the Aus i-oii-.n r?rnim neeuDies the northeastern quarter of the Australian continent and stretches from the northern boundary of New Sfeuth Wales to the Gulf of Oar- . penturfa. It is twelve times the size of England, twice the size- of Canada and half as large again as England, Ireland, Scotland. Wales. France and Spain combined. It is rich in gold. MISS BAXG8. Tho beantcous, buxom Bertha Bangs Is one ot our divinest girls; trlie |>nng3 the doors ?nd bangs the chairs, And likewise !?u. js her uuhnrn curls. She bunj;s on tho pianny, too, /, And lmngs upon the light guitar? But, oh, of till the bungs she bangs, ' She mostly bangs her auburn ha'i". Oh, banging, bouncing, buxom belle, '' The poet's lyre with rapture twangs? ,Bes|ton8ive to the influence Of thy beloved and benuteons bangs. ?St. Louis Times-Jour mil. An Afroljfb,- 1 Hi ?^?wwMrtTffi" p'2e(TIi oefore the scientists, at Saratoga, dealt mainly on those heavenly bodies called meteors, and which, according to Prof. Xewton, of Yale College, are so numerous that no fewer than four hundred millions of hum pntt r the earth's atmospherc^very year. Fortunately for us, it" is only the largest of these meteoric stones?and these arc exceedingly rare?which do not become wholly-dissipated before reacning the ground: from all others the air is, as Prof. Newton expresses it, " a shield to protect us from an otherwise intolerable bombarding." One oftbese few has, strangely enough, brought up ?HS9| an entirely new question of property H law in France. One night not very long since a peasant crossing a field saw a ?n^por of unusual magnitude, which with a great noise and touched the nd witliin a few yards of his feet. >vored from his fright, he went to spot and unearthed a stone of considerable size, which, in scientific language. is called an aerolith. It occurred Withe man that what had dropped down tdlirini from Heaven mu&t be a rarity aritf might have a money value.. After copsiilting the schoolmaster ofiiis com mime, lie took the mysterious suuswuice, of ip terrestrial operation, to the Issouduu Museum, and there received in exchasigo it tlic, to him, wonderful sum of ?25. Short-lived was his joy. TI16 proprietor of the field visited by a product of the skies, who lives in Paris, rea4 in the newspapers an account of the celestial transaction, and strong in a ma$m prevailing in France to this day?that property in land extends from j 4,hc|?'en above, to hell beneath," instructed a county attorney to bring an j actioi:* He claimed either the restitution EM the aorolith which fell upon his ? . | land; or 82,000 damages, which he judged . to bt the value of it. The case lias not - i J ,1 1 . ? A??? j yet been tieciaea, ana inrrau iia iu u.?b I its weary length for some time to come. It has, however, been pretty ckarly established that the damages claimed are excessive. There is a regular tariff of i the value ol nerolitbs at the Paris Mil* j seum, and ?25 is a high average price. ! Eminent legal talent is engaged on both J sides, and thus, far the peasant is believed ,** j to have the bfettter of the Parisian. y 1