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' -v P P - * home, where peace is | found, jEBsgs^Pre gentleness anil love their fragrance WSsEBr breathes around; Where gladuess and content makes pleasant w every day. While sorrow, sin and care are banished far f away. Where, when the day is o'er, my darling one returns To share with those he loves the honost wealth ho earns; Where happy children are?without them home is naught? Where truth is gladly learned and just as gla-lly taught, Where piety prevails, and faith in Providence, And each to each the rhoicest gifts presents. That is a happy home where sadness is unkno^gt Where loving words are said and loving precepts shown. ?Mrs. Harry Don, in Good Housekeeping. V NABCISSA'S MISTAKE. It was "blackberry-jam day." Every nation has its movable and immovable feasts and -festivities; every noui-enoiu uoasis its great anniversaries, anil to Xarcis-a llall the blackbcrry-jani season always brought plea-ant a.-socia, tions. There was the gathering of the beautiful, sparkling, jet black fruit, to begin with, not always unaccompanied with reminiscences of rustic swains, who carried her baskets and found the nicest vines and bushes for her: the impromptu lunch eaten under the shadow of great. | mossy rocks, with the mellow whistle of j linnet and thrush overhead; the draught, in vine-leaf cups, pinned together by j thorns, from some deep-hearted woodland spring; the homeward walk in the j lengthening afternoon shadows. And ; then Aarcissa was a born housewife. Hef jellies were always a success, her i preserves were beyond criticism, and she ' was innoc.-ntly proud of her prowess. She was a dark, brilliant little brunette, with large, liquid eyes, whose curled lashes turned pi<|Uantly upward, an I a mouth as red and fresh as a wild ro-e.? The prettiest girl in all the couutry!" as Walter .Milli nan said to himself, as he leaned over the kitchen window sill, and beheld her stirring the bubbling mass of sweets with an immense silver spoon, which had comedown, a sort of heirloom, through half a dozen generations of Halls. % "Narcissa!" he ventured to say, after a second or two of icspectful silence, ' during which, although she must have known perfectly well that he was there, she never raised her eyes. "Oh! is it you, Walter?'' '"Don't let me interrupt you," said Walter, a little stithy. "I've brought - you one of Dora's little white puppies? here in a basket." 2 "A puppy !" cried Narcissa, conterapt uously. "'Me a puppy! 1 hate.dogs!" " Walter's countenance fell perceptibly. "I thought you snid you would like one of Doras little ones," began he. "I don't see what can possibly have j put any such nonsense into your head!" tartly retorted Narcissa. "Then you don't want it?" "No, I certainly don't want it." ''Hut \ou took a gray African parrot from Mr. Silber last week?" dubiously. 'Well, why shouldn't 1? I do so dote < on parrots?and this one says 'How d'ye | do?' already." "Oh!" said Walter, bitterly, as he put the little, downy, blue-ribboned puppy i back into its basket, and addressed it satirically. "Yes. go back, Dorettc; you're not a cackling, chattering parrot. We'll have to !!nd another home fcr you, Dorottc." Narcissa bit her lip. "I dare say Alice Jeffreys would like ! the do?r," said she. "Alice is fond of pets."" "I dare say so. too." Walter rejoined, dryly. "Good morning, Narcissa! Oh, 1 bv-thc-wav?" '"Well?" Narcissa waa stirring away more vigorously than ever now. i "About the New Moon picnic. I suppose you will be going with .Silberr" "I"shouldn't wonder," said Narcissa, I coloring up. i Then I needn't trouble about coming | ' for youf". ' Certainly you need not." >o these silly young people parted. Walter Milliman would have given his ( life for Xarcis-a Hall. Narcissa loved ^ the very sound of the young fellow's J free, frank voice; and yet, nobody cn j earth knew why. they had both contrived ' to build up between themselves the framework of a very pretty <;uarrel. "Howridiculous! One of.Dora's pup- ; pics, indeed!" said Narcissa, tossing her ' head. ' That fat, old Silberl" pondered Wal- ' ter. "A man old enough to be her father! And weighing two hundred and fifty pounds at the very least! Is the girl craxy?" 1 The jam was a success. Of course it would be, being Nareissa's work; a>.d ; she was portioning it into gla-s jars with dainty precision, when she heard a 1 heavy .-tep among the sweet-williams and 1 johnny-jumpups that bordered the pa h outside. "That founds exactly like Mr. Silber," ' she said to herself. "Horrid eld mau!| what brings him here again? It was j only last week that he came with the ! : parrot: and father is with him. Well, T dn hone father won't tel! htm that T gold the parrot to Billy Johnson for five dollars, becau e he polled the roses off ray best hat, ar.d killed the canary, and kept tis ail awake niehts, shrieking i 'How d'V" do? how d'ye do?' " , And, thus mcditnt'ng, Xarcissa shrank behind the e'emath vines, that made a; curtain of natural gtetu acro s the casement. Hush' those were surely the rumbling, sonorous tones of the Squire himself! ' I s'pose, Hall,'* said he, with a rhu -kle, "you consider me too old for that sort o' thing." "Well, 1 don't know," the good farmer r. plied, slowly. "Tastes difter 1" "But cf I've took a fancy to the little thing?" "Hum!"saiclMr. Hall, doubtfully. "And I'll give her a real good home. ! Every lut.as good as sh.* has here.'' "I never <J*ubted that. Mr. Silber." "I'll go lail she'll be happy with me." "She ought to be happy with you? sartin, .squire."' "Come," said Silber, insinuatingly, "is it a bargain?" "I can't take it or, me to decide," said Mr. Hall, mcditatingly. "You must ask Narci-sa your own self, Mr. Silber." "But yo i don't think she'll object?" "I don't know," said .Mr. Ilall, shaking his head?"I don't know. Girls are queer. There's never no telling which wav they'll iumn. Youaskhcr vourself. I say." Hut Xarcissa did not wait for the sequel of this strange discussion. Her checks bla'ed crimson; her eyes sparkled like jet stars as she caught her pink gingham sunbonnet off its nail behind the kitchen door, and caving the jars of garnet-colored sweetness ou the table, sped away over the daisy-spangfed fields to a certain uplftnd meadow, where "Walter Millimau was harnessing the old horses to a glittering mowing machine. "Xarcissa!"'he cried, in ama ement. ""What's the matter? What has happened?" She caught nervously at his arm. "Oh, "Walter,'.' said she, "I am so frightened! I?I don't know what it all means. I don't know what I ought to do!" He hung the bridle over an old stump, and led Nareissa into the shadow of an umbrelia.likc oak that grew near the stone fence. "Tell me all about it," said he. It was strange how each had settled into his and her relative p sition?Narcis<a clinging, trusting, hiding herself, as it were, uudcr tlie;vgis of his protection. "Walter calmly superior in the midst of his tender s< licitude. "Why, child," said he, "the old idiot wants to?marry you!" Narci-sa crimsoned to the very roots of her hair. "I thought so." she whispered. "I was almost certain of it. Hut?but what am I to do?" lie took both her little cold hands in his. "Don't be frightened, Xarcissa," said he. "You can t marry two people at once, cau you;" "No?at least, I suppose not." "And you're engaged to me, aren't you?' "If you say so, Walter," hanging down her head. "I do say so, Narcissa! And now let me take you home. We'll see whether old Silber is to have everything his own way or not." "But the horses, Walter?" ' 'They'll stay h .re,contentedly enough, until I come back, pet ?never fear. Oh, by-the-way, Xarcissa! little Dorette is in the basket under the hedge. I haven't given her to Alice Jeffreys yet." "Oh, Walter, do get her!" whispered Nurcbsa. The little, white, fluffy darliug! I've been thinking of her ever sinr>f??pvai* tinft* r.mi wont. jiwilv And. Walter*' (nervously playing with the button of his coat;. "I told you a horrid story about the parrot. I couldn't endure the screeching thing. and Billy Johnson took it away three days ago." "Narcissa, j-ou arc the dearest little girl in the world!" cried the enraptured lover. "N'o, I am not," confessed the fair penitent. ''I am a cross deceitful, treacherous?" But here the catalogue of sins was cut short with ab-orbing kisses. S ;uire Silber. a rubicund and portly gentleman, well on in the forties, sat on the porch, fanning himseif and waiting, while Mr. Hail peered restlessly up and down the road. "Here she is now," said Hall, with a ion# sigli of relief, as His dauguter came up, with Mr. Milliman carrying h.-r pink suubonnct as reverently as if were a queen's crown. "Narcisan, here's Squire Silber wanting to speak to you." ' .Miss Narcissa?" ingratiatingly commenced the stout gentleman. ' It's of no use," said Narcissa, putting both hands to her little, pink ears. "J never, never will consent!" "Yes; but won't you hear me, Mist Nar?" "No, no, no!" and Narcis-a stamped her foot with renewed emphasis. "Hearreason, daughter," gentlyurged the farmer?"hear reason!" "But I don't want to hear reason,'1 said Nar issa, almost crying. "He'd be just as good to the little horse as you yourself would be," said the farmer; "and :j50v) is a price that don't often come our way. He's going to train her fo a trotter, ri>>n't you see:" "To train who?" said Narcissa. "What are 5*011 ta kiug about?" "About little Nannie, the bay mare," explained her father. "Squire Silber wants to buv her He's take n a fancy to her, but I told him she be'ongs to you, and it is for you to decide the matter. Say yes or say 110?I won't interfere." "Oh, he may have her in welcome!" cried Narcissa, uncertain whether to laugh or cry. "I thought?I supposed ?1 don't know what I did think!" And she rau into the house and hid behind the great Japanese screen in the best parlor, followed straightway by j Walter Milliman. "(!h, go away!" she sobbed I feel 1 as if I could sink through a crack in the floor, I am so dreadfully, horribly ashamed of myself. It's all a mistake." "No, it is not," said Milliman, reassuringly. "About our being engaged, aearcst?mat s not a mistake; "No, that isn't a mistake; but?" "Then I don't care a straw about anything else,'' said Walter, rapturously. "And it is a consolation, too, isn't it. to think that after all old Siibcr is not such a lool as we took liim for?" "Yes," said Narcissa, in a low voice, "I think it is."?Hthn For res', Grav&s. Songs for Meat. In June. 18li4, I was one of thegunrda lnr?L-ir>rr nftr?r i-lovpn Vmnrlrort ! eral prisoners captured by Forrest at Tishomingo Creek. On our way to Andersonville we had short rations. Among the prisoners was a jolly captain, and s.ich a singer. After every song he would call for <;Mcat, meat." I shall never forget the first verse of one of his , songs: ' Tho sun was rising in the east. To dry the leaves of morning: The little birds began to sing, Rejoiced at its returning." We left the poor felloes in wretched Andersonville, returning to net our pait in the grand "Minie ball" in fiont of Atlanta, given by Professors Hood and Sherman. SELECT SIFTINU9L The bathroom of Mmc. de Leweps cost $8,000. The exposed faucets and pipes are all gold-plated. J roue nave migratory inhum-ia, oui how they manage to go long distances to ponds from those in which they originally located, remains an unsolved ques tion. A newspaper devoted to matters of science snvs that it is calculated that not less than one cubic mile of earth is deposited every year in the Atlantic Ocean from America, Africa and Europe. The fashion of introducing a bowl of wine into the church at a wedding, alluded to in ''The Taming of the Shrew." is very ancient. It was drunk by the bride and bridegroom and persons present immediately after the marriage ceremony. The Sachscnspicgel, a German code of the thirteenth century, says of the wife that she must live after the will ot her husband, and be subject and obedient, i for she is not competent of herselt with- ' out her husband, whether to do or leave undone. A custom that has existed for four centuries is still maintained in some towns on the Lower l?hine. On Easter Mondaj-?auction day?the Town Crier or Clerk calls all the young people together, and to- the highest bidder sells nriviincrn nf Annrincr with the chosen J" 1? O . girl, and her only, during the entire year. The fees flow into the public poor box. Thomas Jefferson appears to have been the first American who made experiments to solve the problem of the true form of the mold-board of the plow, in his time the gieat want. He communicated his theory to the French Institute and in 1793 he put it into ] raetice on his own farm in Virginia. His moldboard was about the same in form as the most approved of our day. According to the religious conceptions of the Egyptian, it was important for him t> i re pare a permanent house for his death-sleep; he had more at heart for the protection of his corpse than of his living body. Thus thousands of graves have been preserved, while science cannot find a single remaining house to betray even the general character of Egyptian domestic architecture. Harrison H. Oliver, of Bolton, Texas, is noted for having one hundred and one bullet wounds on his body. W hen he was a boy a friend thought he was a deer and fired thirty-seven buckshot into him; he was shot all to pieces in the war, and in 1873 a Bolron dentist took him for an enemy and put fifty-one duck shot into his back, perforating his liver and kidneys. Sixty bullets, ranging in size from a duck shot to an ounce ball, remain in his body. ?? V . The Bill Was Altered. 5 A friend of mine theothe- day came to settle for his night's lodging at a little hole in the wall near the railway station in Neuchatcl called the Hotel des Alps. In addition to the charge for apartment, service, lights, etc., was the item, "Un dejeuner." I will put into plain English that which followed: MBut I didn/t order auv brcpkfnst)M| "That was no fault of the house, monsieur." "Do you mean to tell me that you wish to charge me for breakfast I neither ordered nor ate?" "The breakfast was prepared all the same, monsieur." "You pretend that you provide a regular table d'hote breakfast every morning and charge lor it whether your guests take it or not?" "Ves, monsieur. See the menu? Here I it is," and the firm, yet polite landlord | produced his legulnr "a la c.i:tc." My! friend turned it upside down. Then he care ully pcru-cd it. Tlicn fie said: ' How much of this do you serve as your regular breakfast?" "Anything you like, mouseiur." "Very well. Receipt the bill, and, as I am to pay for a breakfast, please God, I will eat it. Bring mc a fillet oi beef with mu<lfrooms, a linlf chicken grille, an omelet and a pint of C hablis. I shall wait over until the next train." Mine host of the Hotel des Alps looked j first stupefied and then disgusted, and | finally gra-ping the situation, he run into his otiice,altered the bill in conformity with the facts, and hurrying back, cried: "Here, monsciur, here is your bill quite correct?six francs, thirty-five centimes-and you will just have time to catch your train."?Uermj Wattcrson. The Liar's Bell and Hie Fox's Tail. During the spring of 1873 I spent 1 among friends a pleasant eveuing in the I old Quartier Latin in Paris. Around us sat a number of medical students, smoking and telling stories. As a new arrival from America I had the floor, and ! a continually increasing number of inter- ! esting listeners. I spoke of our commerce, industries,and finally drifted into a vivid but truthful description of Kingan's pork house, at that time in its infacy. I told my Parisians how rapidly the hogs were converted into pork, and while impressing them with the shortness of the time it took for a hog to be drivcu in at one end of the building at d be rolled out packed in a bar: el ready to be shipped at the other, suddenly there resounded a i gong so loudly and so diabolically that ; it seemed to freczc and crumble the very : marrow in my bones. Of course, I stopped tnlUnrr T was tnn much crushed to ask for an explanation. .My inquiring eyes met nothing but smiles, and while some protested against such treatment of a gue>t, I was laughingly told they had rung the liar's bell on me. L'uring the same yepr I spent a few : days in ltonn, Germany. In a "kneipe" I noticed in the centre over the table a thick cord, the same as you find in some of the old restaurants lor call bells. To n fnr'o foil nnfl IJ1C IU1U ? <13 iUOltUV-U U 1VA O wiui, whenever any one toid a dry story, ot related an exploit that seemed doubtful, there was a call for ''Fox," and a junior student who auteil as waiter, or fag, a9 the Knglish call it, pulled the fox's tail and rang a bell. I was told this custom had existed for fully ,00 years.?Indianapolis Xetci. In ''Old Salem Sea Captains," in liarP't's Magazine, Colonel lligginson points out a curious fa; t in the extreme youth of these marincis when they ruled their ships. They were often captains at nineteen, twenty and twenty-one, and oft< n retired with fortunes before they were thirty. LIFE PHASES OF HUMAN BIG OOEAN STEAM^HBMH Extravagance in Dress?Cliques oir| Siiipboard?The Smoking Room ?Various "Ways of Gambling. A returning tourist said to a Chicago Herald reporter: ''As you know, 1 cross i the Atlantic once or twice every year, and I seem to notice a change every time, i The gambling has always been carried on to a greater or less extent, but it is i only lately that they have begun to dress, both men and women, in the way they have. Formerly people used to cross in me o.aest aeceut ciotnes iney nuu, out < now nothing is too good for them. Would you believe it, one day a certain Chicago , lady and her sou app ared, the one in a i colored silk dress and the other in a Prince Albert coat, plug hat and patent leather shoes. IYat was the worst break I ever saw. Then another thing, cliques ( and sets are worse than they used to be. The .-et at the captain's table will hardly acknowledge those who sit at the doctor's or chief otiicer's table as belonging to the i same order of b .-ings, and look on them much as the guests at a first class hotel at a fashionable summer resort do upon those residing at a second-class hostelry. | I put this all down to the women. It seems impossible that they can even cross the ocean without what they consider , fashionable dress, but which, to a iy ; sensible man or woman, is in execrable . taste. But, thank goodness, the smokingroom always remains as a harbor of refuge. And what on earth or sea can com pare with the comfort of the sinok ng" ? * ^ 1 inns \ Athinrt t rv iUUUl UII n ill dl'Uluaa nuui. w do?you couldn't do it if you would?except to loll and lounge and drink, smoke, chat and listen to others talking to you. Then in the evenings, if it is blowing hard outside and the rain, perhaps, beating again-t the windows, how cozy does the smoking room look in contrast. And , what good stories you sometimes hear and what pleasant men you often meet. I have made 6ome of the plensantc-t friendships I ever made in my life in the ' smoking-room going over. And then if you want gambling Jfccards or dire or i pools you can have^P In this, however, you have to keep your weather eye ; open more and more every day. The j companies say they prevent known and i regular sharps from crossing, but this is ; nonsense and they couldn't do it even if they wanted to. The day after we sailed this time the word was p isscd by the purser that there was a card shaiper on board, but no attempt was made to point him out; the consequence was that lor a few days every one looked upon his neighbor as the possible Jonah, and to the ei;d of the voyage no one really knew. I had very strong su picions 1 about one man, and if he wasn't the Si- 1 mon Pure he was a mighty good imita- ' t;onofone. I watched him playing one ] night with a well-known Chicagoan in the clothing trade, and if he wasn't | cheating I would be surprised. At any rate, he won a great part of the old man's money. 1 "Another form of gambling that is coming in is tossing or matching c oins a laN John T. Raymond. This is carried to a ridiculous extent. I saw a young ' New Yorker, crossing for the first time, and with more money than brains, lose $1,500 at a sitting match. Anottar sharp 1 i it.'? ? ii?.. triCK is Deuing un meucigut ur uutuuic of things. You know people who would never make a bet on shore from one year's end to another will do anything on board to 'kill time.' Sharpers know this and are well prepared for it. A man will casually lead the conversut'on , to the delusion of distances at'sea. The process is easy to the distance of the smoke-stack, the mainmast.or the length of a particular piece of planking, all of which has been carefully measured by I the sharper beforehand, maybe on the previous voyage. In fact there is hardly , a moveable or likely article on board ship that he has .not got the exact length, breadth, and depth of. In connection with this I heard rather a good tale. A sharper was bothering another man to bet with him in this way, and he, knowing very well all the tricks of the trade, refused to be roped in. At last the sharper took up the sash of one of the smoking- ' room windows, and pointing to the ] leather tags hanging at the end, said: 'Well, now, yon can't guess the number of tags theic are here.' Still he would not t bite and finally strolled away. His would- 1 be victim the first quiet opportunity he and cranted the number of tags, and, 1 finding there were exactly thirty-two, cut two of them off and put them in his ' pocket. Shortly after the sharper re- ' turned and resumed the conversation i 'All right,' said the lly to the spider, 'I'll go you once only.' 'Well, what will it 1 be? Suppose we take those tags there we were talking of?' 'All right, so be it.' They matched for fir.-t choice and it fell to the sharper to make first guess. ' 'Well,'said he. toying with the strap, 'I always used to be a good guesser. Lcmme see, I should sny there would be 1 thirty-six, thirty-seven?no, thirty-four, thirty-;hree?no, I guess there are just 1 thirty-two.' lie gave an exulting grin, which quickly changed when the would- i be victim said quietly: 'Vouareagood 1 guesser. There were exactly thirty-two i when you last counted them, but there 1 are only thirty now. Here arc the other < two in my pocket.' It 9toppeil that man i for the rest of the voyage. Perhaps the ] most popular form of betting :s on pools on the daily run of the ship, and they have got that down to a fine point. On some ships the 'gams'will make regular pools on it, the same as at a liorse race. 1 For instance, the run of the ship ought r, V.o nsn inline. Well anv number be vv/ ... .. twcen :J90 and 370, ten above and ten below, will be the favorite. They will lay ! short odds on either of these ten figures, but they will lay good odds against any particular number, of course lengthening them the further they are away." The Chestnut Bells. Hear the noisy chestnut bellsNickel bells! What a world of merry chat their idiocy dispels! i At the table, on the street, I Where'er we chance to meet, How they fill our souls with terror W ith tneir beating, Lest we fall into the error i Of repeating. j -And one and all keep mum, Sadly dumb, For fear that some cheap ' 'bum' Will ring us down, 1 ?J5osdon Globe. rocks, arc inhabitca^^HBj^^^^^^HK9B c not Bermuda, the lurgcs^^^Hj^DaBH miles long and about one in width. The other principal islands are: St. George's, Ireland, Somerset and St. David's. The islands are nearly surrounded with hidden coral reefs, making approach to them difficult, -but there are several good harbors. St. George's Isle, the military station of the colony, commands the entrance of the only passage for large vessels, which is defended by strong batteries. The climate of the islands is peculiarly delighful, the thermometer ranging from sixty to sixty-six decrees Fahrenheit in the winter season, and from eighty to eighty-six degrees Fahrenheit in the heat of summer,and the air is mortal all.times. The soil is fertile, and vegetation remains green through the entire year. The chief j/roductions of the islands are arrowroot, cotlee, cotton, garden vegetables and fruit. Gum is also made~ and exported. Cedar trees grow abundantly, and their wood is exported and also used in the manufacture of the small, swift vessels with whose aid the islanders visit one another for business or pleasure. The fisheries of the islands are very valuable. There are no fresh-water streams or wells on the iclnn/lo hnf roln.ti'otflr in oifl terns, is used for all purposes. The only large towns are Hamilton, situated on Bermuda, and St. George, on the isle of the same name. The Bermuda Islands were discovered in 1522, by Jean Bcrmudez, a Spaniard, who was wrecked on them. The Government of the Bermudas consists of a Governor and Council nppointed by the Crown, and an assembly of thirty-six members elected by the people. The population, according to the census taken in 1831, is 13,04& inhabitants, of whom about 0,000 arc white people. There was a penal colony established here early in the century, but it was given up in 18 52. There are a number of schools and churches on the islands, and the white persons resident there are possessed of much wealth and refinement.?Inter- Ore in. Windsor (Jn9tie. Windsor Castle is near the town of Windsor, which is situated on the right bank of the Thames, twenty-three miles west of London. It is said that there wa.t a fortress here which the Saxon Kings used before the contest, but the present castle was founded by William the Conijuerer. Henry I. enlarged the plan and completed it, and it was first used as a royal residence about 1110. In lb2t-t> the castle was repaired and enlarged, but little alteration has since been made. The buildings connected with the royal residence here cover twelve acres of ground. In the middle is the round tower, on the West a:e the tcmdences of various rotainers of the court, and (thc chapel, and on the East are the Sovereign's private apartments. They stand in the midst of a park known as ' Little Park," which is four miles in circumference, and i9 connected by a long avenue of trees, South of the castle, with the "Great Park," which is eighteen miles in circuit. West of this is Windsor Forest, which has been a famous forest from the earliest times of which we have any record. In the time of William the Conquei-er it was 120 miles In circuit; in 1607 it was 774 miles round, and it has since been reduced in its bounds to 56 miles. In the royal vault connected with St. George's chapel a umber of Kings and Queens are buried. The round tower is said to have been built by Edward III. to receive the round table of the knights in the newly founded order of the garter. This tower contains a keep in which royal prisoners have been frequently confined.?InterOcean. Terrible Responsibility. Mr. E. D. Chandler, now agent for the largest manufacturers of fire-alarm apparatus in the United States, and Mr. rv 1 r* 1 "\f f'nn Marvin HUgnilt, vrcncrai ninuiigvi ui uio Northwestern Kailway system, were once telegraph operators in the same office. Mr. Jtlughitt accepted an office from the Illinois Central Company, became a train despatches and soon rose from that position to be its General Superintendent. After he had begun to rise he urged his old office mate to ''catch on" to railroad business. 4"If you will go at train despatching," lie ^id, "It is only a question of time when you will get up to something better." Chandler wouldn't do it. He had tried it for a short time, but found the r,r> Vq nprvpo ton much for him. He was in consent terror of running two trains together, and he says his hair would have turned gray years ago if he had kept at it. "Ev. ry train despatcher gets two trains started toward each other, on the same track sooner or later," he claims. "He may be able to stop one of them in time to save a wreck, and loss of life and property, but sooner or later both will get away from him. I want none of that kind of responsibility. ? Chicago Mail. American Silks. The success of our American silk mills is hurting the import trade in silk goods. With a considerable degree of revival of fashion for silks, imparting more activity to European manufacture, there is no ini' provement in the demand for foreign silks in this market. But the record of what our own mills are doing and the large importations of raw silk show that Hiorn is even more activity here in the production of silk fabrics than in Europe. It is safe to say that ribbons, handkerchiefs and plain piece goods from one to three dollars a yard, made in American mills, have practically driven out similar imported stuffs, this not bernuse they are cheaper, but because they are better and because buyers find that it is to their advautage to deal where they can more readily treat with principals and duplicate their purchases or rectify errors, etc. Silks are being more worn than in the past few years, but woolen fabrics are likely to maintain their supremacy in general and street wear. ?Journal of fabrics. "'rnings, Fort, : worms at the ^ h|9eBbR|^^H^HBHH Tulle Russe , be had in ull tl^BHBm^9^BD0EH^^M Point d'esprit]^B|B^^B^HH|^HB^B > embroidered wit^E|^D^H^nH^^^9H Tartan stiipes^HHHHNHHflj^R^B especially in wide hSHH^DHH English milliners^Hg^MlB8^B?nQfl covered a way of sue Panels and fronts as overdresses, jeweled beads. A new tone of sa^RHSj^Sj^HHHj has been and silks for brides. ^^wmHBS|Q Dresses for fall are ver^HBHranEBBI j Those are elaborately embroidered. Miss Floweree, daughteiSBSBSB^MR tana cattle king, capture ! i for her decorative art displajHflBHHH|j j fair at Helena. Large stripes and plaids ' added to by almost dailyreviv^H|^BBHH patterns, and most audacious I of the colorings. mHBSB^R Some of the extremely high appeared for fall and winter' wcnj^Hn with them some turbans with low^BBHHB and the very small bonnets. V?H The gorgeousness of velvet has^HR^Hj^ been dreamed of,and the new onestl^B^^Sfl are being imported will rival the^HEBS duction of any loom hitherto known.^^H^B Mrs. Cleveland has receivpd as a pi^^^BH ent from a firm of shoemakers in WonajH^Hj Mass., a pair of French kid s'.ippe^^^H i rrV?a oi ck iq tiirno on^ I UaUU'UlOUV. JL iiw o> v ?a KA4* vw uu?* half. Old-fashioned ribbons are revived to^^H hold rivalry with very beautiful new^HB fabrications of the cla?s of many varieties. These with pompon and other fancy edges are most favored. Not content with the petty larcenoies /H| from men's fashion list, the manufac- WM turer's are making cloths imitatjitt; ex* BB actly those made for men's clothuHpith the difference of weight. SH he first woman surgeon qualified in II Great Britain was invested with the let- IH ters testimonial of the Irish College of Surgeons recently under the new power HB granted to it by its charter of 1885. . Fichus are much worn. They are HI made of squares of lawn, embroidered, and of dotted net, edged with lace. The^H latter are very long, are crossed over the bust and tied at the left side of the HH waist. A belt of real rattlesnake skin is a souvenir much prized by young women^r 1 who ht*ve the metve to weaf it. It wouter be a thing of beauty if it *yerft?Jt;rt f/ox the disagreeable associatiotft*connwted with it. The fashionable New York girl of today holds herself so erect that she looks as if she had swallowed a tender ramrod in her youth aud it had stiTened with her growth. Your limp, flabby girl is out of style. Dainty boots are what American ladies are coming to by degrees, and now almost as mat h attention is paid to the boots as to the gloves, that they shall tit perfectly and b8 in the Ja-t cut. Fo.\ea boots are the latest, and patent leather is still the style. Fashionable trousseaux now are composed of hut half a dozen costumes, as a change in fashion from one season to another is apt to And a young married woman embarrassed by a greater number. It is much more sensible to save and invest a portion of the allowance for the trousseau, and have a chance to keep up with the change of modes. Acorns are used in trimming bonnets this season. A charming model of an autumn bonnet has a row of tiny acorns set about the edge very close together. The body of the bonnet is a brown bask( t work of the little twigs with brown velvet ribbon run in: a large bunch of acorns with foliage adorns the front and brown velvet strings are used in tying a graceful, pretty bow under the chin. A very unique and natty bonnet it is. The Hindu widows have ghastlv times I of it, but the acutest part ot tncir sunerings comes from the fact that for two days of every month, all during the period of their widowhood, they are obliged to abstain from all food and drink, even to water. The aged mother, ! hardly able to totter across" her floors, j must pay the penalty as well as the young widow of twelve. Weeping sisters and daughters stand about and wring their hands, but not one dares help the sufferer. Among the accessories of the toilet which freshen and brighten it up, we 1 *? -non? foaVitnn nf nave ior iuc tuuuic i,uu uvn small circles of white or colored silk j tulle, twisted around like a miniature turban, fastened by a jewel, and from J the middle of which springs an aigrette I of flowers or feathers. Young ladies also J wear this small tulle puff with flowers or t some fancy jewel in the middle, but I I young married ladies eagerly sei'e this I j opportunity of exhibiting some diamond I j brooch, representing a flower, a bird or I . butterfly. I "Struck down," as the barber said S when he shaved the first crop of fuzz from a youth's chin. H Mr. Chas. Powell, postmaster, Terre Haute, 0., writes that two of his very finest chickens H ! were recently affected with roup. He satura- H ted a piece of bread half an inch square wan m St. Jacobs Oil and fed it to tbem. Next day he examined them and there was no trace of the disease remaining. Throughout the province of Ontario, Canada, the average rent of farming land is $2.75 rior arrtk. Colored people in the South are sold to pay taxes on SW.OUO.OOO. . Mr. E. R. Wilson, Grand Rapids, Mich, re| ports the case of Mr. H. T. Sheldon, of Lan' sing, Mich., who for several weeks suffered from a frightful cough and cold, which was cured by one bottle of Red Star Cough oure. foK It is said that from 3,OCO to 4.G00 horses are killed in Spain yearly in bull-flghting.