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British Royal Commission has investigated
Pasteur's method of treating
hydrophobia and declares it to be one of
the most important medical discoveries
Of this xsentury.
A Chicago citizen talks of transplanting
one of the big California trees to his
summer residence near the city. The one
he has selected is 300 feet high and
ninety-eight feet in circumference. It is
estimated that the transportation will
cost him $18,000. The weight of the
leviathan is about 40,000 pounds.
Many of the men who took claims on
tho Crow Creek reservation in Dakota,
under the Arthur proclamation, have put
in large crops thereon and intend to liarvest
them, -while the Indians declare tlicy
will harvest those crops themselves. Over
a million forest trcw have been set out
this spring by the settlers.
Another case showing the commuuicability
of contagious diseases by clothing
is reported from Bath, Mc., where a
girl had scarlet fever at a boardingschool.
After recovery she returned
home, and a trunk containing the clothing
she wore while sick was put away in the
garret. Six months later two little children
were playing in the garret, and
opening the trunk, took out some of the
clothing. In a week both were taken
verg ill with the disease, and one died.
There was no other persons ill with scarlet
fever in the community.
The extreme richness of the milk of
the reindeer that feed on the wild mosses
of Sweden, has led to an examination of
the moss as an article of food. These
researches have resulted in the establishment
of a number of moss dealers in
Russia and Sweden, and a prosperous
and growing interest has been developed.
The moss employed yields, on an average,
as much alcohol as good grain,
and three times as much as potatoes. The
supply is practically inexhaustible, as it
isspread over vast tracts extendingfrom
the Baltic to Behring Straits.
r Most people know the benefit of lemonade
before breakfast, but few know that
it is more than doubled by taking another
at night also. The way to get the better
of the bilious system, without blue pills
or quinine, is to take one, two or three
lemons, as the appetite craves, in as much
ice water as makes it pleasant to drink
without sugar, before going to bed; in
the morning, on rising, at least a half
hour before breakfast, take the juice of
one lemon in a goblet of water. This
will clear tha system of humor bile with
emciency without any of the weakening
effects of calomel or Congress water.
People should not irritate the stomach
by eating lemons clear.
English sparrows have become such a
nuisance in New Jersey that th;y are
hunted regularly. The professional
hunters usually perform their work at
night, in the vicinity of hayricks, where
sparrows pass the night. The method
pursued in catching them, which is known
as bat-fowling, requires the presence of
four sportsmen. One carries a long heavy
stick, with which he beats the sides of
the rick, and starts the game. Another
bears a lantern at the end of a long pole,
toward which the birds fly when awakened
from sleep. The other two hold
close against the roosting haunt of the
birds a wide-mouthed net, into which
the sparrows dash, bewildered by the
noise and dazzled by the light.
The report of the work of the life-saving
service for last year, which has recently
been ipsued, shows that during the
year 1885 there were 371 disasters
to vessels within the field ot the
life-saving service. The total value
of property involved amounted to
$4,634,380, and of this amount
only property valued at $1,254,797 was
lost. The number of human beings imperiled
by these disasters was 2,439, and
of these only eleven were lost, while 568
shipwrecked persons were given shelter
and succor at the live-saving stations on
the coast. The report presents these details:
In addition t.n riprsnna onvnd
from vessels, thirty-seven others were
rescued who would probably have perished
without the help of the life-saving
crews. Eighteen of these were taken
from the water into which they liai falfen
from wharves, piers, etc.; ten from
isolated cribs and conduits, from which
they were in imminent peril of being
swept by the waves, and nine from houses
in danger of being washed away by inundation.
The investigations held in each
case of loss of life show that in no instance
were the life-saving crews at
fault, and that the fatality was
beyond human prevention. Of the eleven
persons who perished, one, a boy, was
swept away and drowned through recklessly
climbing out of the breeches buoy
and attempting to hold on by the sling
while being drawn ashore from a wreck;
eight were lost by the breaking up of their
vessel on an outlying shoal beyond reach
of the apparatus, the terrific surf and sea
rendering boat service impossible; one
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win Buuiui'u 10 ueam Dy tne breaking of
: a steam-pipe upon a stranded steamer,
and one was drowned from a steamlaunch,
which was run down by a passing
vessel and sunk. With one exception all
these fatalities occurred during the houra
"Si darkness."
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Journalism is taking a spurt in Italy.
In Naples there is a regular newspaper
reading craze, and even the beggars
gather around some fortunate possessor
of a daily paper as he rends aloud in tho
street. But tho people soon get tired of
any otic paper, and clamor for a new one.
The consequcncc is that almost every day
some paper dies and another takes its
Hnn rvf Vw* *w/?of nni?f?iin wove r?f
jftiivv* \/ii\j vi iiiv uivou vi;i m*?* ???j ?
killing a newspaper in Italy, by the way
is to till it with news. What they want
is good local lies and blood-curdling senCflt.'Anu
The dangerous custom prevalent in
Oriental countries of allowing madmen
and lunatics to roam about free, in conscquence
of the superstition that they are
sacred and under the special protection
of the Divinity, has just been attended
with unfortunate results at Beyrouth in
Syria. A madman residing with his parents
killed his father, while the old man
was asleep, completely severing the head
from the bod)7. When asked for an explanation
of his conduct, he stated that
he proposed hiding the head in order to
see if his father would be able to find it
on waking up.
In conversation with a New York
Mail and Express reporter, an authority
at Fulton market said: "The superior
flavor of Welch or Highland mutton is
be}rond all doubt due to the aromatic
plants which abound on the pasturage of
these hills, and on which the sheep feed.
The hills in Wales arc thickly covered
with wild thyme, while those in the
Highlands are full of lady's mantle aud
other aromatic herbs which are seldom,
if ever, found in other pastures. This
is a hint of nature's own giving, which
the farmer who iroes in for sheen misinn
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or dairying cannot afford to dispise . in
these times of hard competition. The
aromatic herbs may be no less nutritious
than clover or rye grass, but they nrc
just as needful to the formation of a perfect
pasturage ns the other varieties of
plants. For this reason they should be
grown in nil pasturages. They arc easy
of cultivation, and will grow in the
worst ground, but some arc of course
better suited to certain kinds of soil
than others. Parsley, lovagc, cumin,
coriander, carrayway, angelica and wild
fennel delight in loamy soils, wild thyme,
rock rose, hysop, sage, savory and horehound
in dry, poor soils, and peppermint
in moist soil. All these plants nrc
obtainable, and all of tlicm arc easily
propagated from seeds."
White Elephants.
Oriental poets and historians have
compared the fairness of the white elephant
to the brilliant purity of the snow;
but this is a license, and an exaggeration.
Some experts in natural history acccpt
the white elephant as merely an albino,
the color of which is described as a pink
white, to be aptly compared to the nose
of a white horse, while others are inclined
to regard the animal alternately
as a leper. Sir Einerson Tenncut incidentally
defines the white elephant as
one which exhibits tho^e flesh-colored
blotches which occasionally mottle the
skin of this huge pachyderm chiefly
about the head and extreme tics. The
front of the trunk, the tips of the cars,
the forehead, and occasionally the legs,
are thus diversified with stains of a
yellowish tint,inclining to pink. "These"
says Sir Einerson, "are not natural, nor
are they hereditary, for they are seldom
exhibited by the younger individuals in
si ncru, out appear to be the result of
eruptive affection, the irritation of which
has induced the animal in its uneasiness
to rub itself against the rough bark of
the trees, and thus abrade the cuticle.
This is confirmed by the fact that the
scar of the ankle wound, occasioned by
rope on the legs of tlioso which have
been captured by noosing, presents precisely
the same tint when thoroughly
healed." Even in an example of the utmost
perfection of its quality Sir EmerBon
Tennent "apprehends that the tint of
a white elephant is little else than a flesh
color, rendered somewhat more conspicuous
by the blanching of the skin and
the lightness of the colorless hairs with
which it is sparsely covered.?London
Society.
Canary Birds.
Several years ago, when living with
my sister in Boston, one of my daily
pleasures was to whistle and talk to her
canary birds; the birds and I were on
terms of the most intimate relationship.
We whistled in the friendliest, if not the
most entertaining, way.
After an absence of two years or more
from Boston and my pets, I returned for
a short visit, arriving at her home after
"gas light" in the evening, when the
IltflA fpllnwo wai*a oclAAn nn tlinir tvirnlmo
I never for a moment thought of going
to wake them up at that time in the
evening, just to see if they remembered
their old friend, but I had not said moro
than a half a dozen words, in an ordix
nary conversational tone of voice, when
"Dicky" pulled his head out from under
his wing and began to chirp in a right
lively manner, and, before I could recover
from my feeling of gratitude and
delight, the little fellow was singing
with all his might a song of ingenious
pleasure. There was no duplicity in
Dicky's song. It was right from Dicky's
heart, and as honest as a voice from
Heaven.?Detroit Fru Prctt.
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I Anticipate t
I Promise is sweeter than the lull fruition,
i The first soft breath that whispers in the
car
J Of budiling crocuses and pussy willows
Is dearer tl&n the ripeness of the year.
The first fair glinting of the sail approaching
That brings the loved ones from a sunnier
land
1 Is dearer than the close ani tender clasping
! Of eager heart to heart and hand to hand
j The first quick glanco of love, half unexpected,
Half hoped for, quickens in the trembling
breast
Sweeter and purer throbs than all the later
j And fuller passion openly expressed.
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} Sweeter by far to watch with beating pulses
Tbo slow unfolding of the first success
j Than to reap harvest from the later
triumphs
x imv unug at oesc a ansa or bitterness.
Ah, fair anticipation! might we never
Stray from thy borderland of ecstasy,
Nor seek to set our all too eager footsteps
In the worn paths of dull reality.
J.. E. Kirk.
ORIENTAL NEW YORK.
A PHASE OF CITY LIFE.
It may be questioned if any city in
world can compare with New York in
cosmopolitan characters. Like every
great metropolis, it has its French, German,
Irish, Jewish and Italian quarters.
Unlike most, it has colonics of Russians,
negroes, Swedes, Bohemians, Hungarians,
and even Turks. And still more
unlike the great capitals of Europe, it
has an oriental clement varying from tea
to twenty thousand in number.
This element in New York is made up
of sailors, cooks, peddlers, clerks, and
occasionally tradesmen and merchants.
They arc brought together by the
mighty dollar, and usually remain in
Gotham until they have secured what
seems to be a snug sum and to their faroff
fellow-countrymen a fortune. The
Chinese preponderate and already have
a settlement of their own in Mott street.
After the Chinese come Japanese, Javanese,
Hindus, Maoris, Hawaiians, and
Ijlisf'flrs Tn nnn lornn I-innr(l!n?
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I 011 Water stieet no less than 12 Asiatic
languages are spoken; in another on
Baxter street the proprietor has on his
business card: "English, Chinese,
Manila, Japanese, Danish, Hindustan;,
Cochincse, and French spoken here."
These eastern races herd rather than
live together. Rent in their own land
is so cheap that they cannot bear the
high rates of this country, For this reason
tlicy will crowd ten and even twen- j
ty persons into a room usually occupied
by two Americans. By co-operating similarly
in buying and preparing food,
they succeed in reducing the cost of living
to 20 cents a day. It is easyv there- i
fore, to see how upon $2 a day wages or
profits one of them can amass $1500 in a
few years, and with it buy a small farm j
in the frugal east.
The homes of these people are chiefly
in the 4th and 6th wards?Water, Cherry,
Oliver, Baxter, and Pell streets beinir
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their favorites?and comprise both
boarding and lodging houses. The proprietors
of some of these arc quite rich.
Chin-Chin, a Cochinese, is worth $40,000;
Akwah, $10,000, and La Cruz,
$15,000.
These boarding houses are of one general
type. You pass through a dark
hallway or plunge down a gloomy cellar
stair and find yourself in the ante-room
or office. It has a small desk or counter
behind which either the proprietor or a
clerk perpetually sits, a few chairs, and
a pile of trunks, boxes and barrels.
Against the walls are shelves and cupboards,
on and in which are the goods
in demand by oriental races. To one
familiar with life in Cathay most of the
articles are familiar. Dried dragon fish
from the Japan seas, bamboo tips from
Cochin-China and Siam, brown tobacco
from Corea and yellow from Formosa,
opium from India and Hong Kong, has
heesh from Calcutta and Singapore, ginseng
root, preserved ginger, and Manilla
confections, are but a few of tlio many
wares which supply the boarding-houso
keeper with a profit of seldom less than
100 per cent.
Behind the office is the main livingroom.
This is generally a long apartment.
of 20 by 40, whoae walls are lined
with bunks three deep. These bunks
nre sometimes separated by partitions as
on shipboard, but are generally deep
shelves running all around the room. 1
With sepurate bunks the room described
accommodates fifty lodgers o*- hoarders;
with continuous shelves alxrtit eighty.
In the middle of the room are chairs,
tables, and generally more or less luggage
of tho guests. In some of the low
cr grade cstabJ'^hmcnts where hygiene
and the board of health arc bid defiance
to, garbage and dirt are piled up
in the center of t\* living-room until a
miniature "East river dump" ig produced.
In these bunks the lodgers lit?
off day or night and frequently day and
aiglit, according to their vocations. Tobacco,
opium, and hasheesh consume all
their energies and convert them for the
time being into almost veritable corpses,
[t is no uncommon sight to see at noon
at uruzs notei in isaxtcr street or Quonp
Pat's in Parle street as many as thirty
persons lying in a dead stupor.
To the rear of the living-room is the
.titcbcn and work-room." The furniture
is painfully simple, and consists usual It
of range or cooking-stove, a charcoal j
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brazier, a chopping-block, table, and i
few culinary utensils. Here the meal
are prepaied and the crude opium o
commerco converted into a smoker'
paste. Here also in the early mornin*
each guest takes his tub bath and waslie '
his daily supply of linen and cotton.
Life begins in these strange caravan l
series at 0, when the proprietor or clerl
opens the front door and sends out foi
the breakfast material. These compris<
rice, fish, pork, bread, and vegetables.
The lodcrers next nut in an Jinnnarsinrw
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crawling out of their bunks, still drowsj I
with sleep or sleep-giving drugs. A pail i
of water and a coarse rag in the kitcliet
soon restore the circulation of the bod]
and fit one and all for the morning
meal. This is made of the articles described,
but cooked in ways very differ,
ent from those employed in civilizcd
circles. The rice is plain boiled, the list
boiled or stewed and served with an aromatic
sauce in which ginger, cloves,
and red pepper are prominent factors;
the pork and vegetables are chopped
into thin picccs and sewed together.
The drinks employed are hot and cold
tea, and sometimes minute quantities ol 1
strong arrack or rice brandy. Aftei
breakfast many of the lodgcr.s depart foi
their daily work. Among these earlj
birds are cigar-makers, clerks, peddlers,
and shipping runners. Those who remain
are usually seamen, merchants, gamblers,
and agents. These after their repast
light a cigar or cigarette, opium oi
hasheesh, and take "solid comfort" for
an hour or more. Those who have literary
tastes lie down in their bunks and
read, for, strange to say, most orientals
assume a recumbent attitude when rend.
ing or studying; those who desire excitement
resort to dominoes and other
games of chance, while the majority
simply smoke and "swap stories." At
noon a second meal is served similar to
breakfast, but including besides soups
and stews, in which macaroni and vermicelli
are chief features. At 5 o'clock
dinner is given. It is like its predecessors
in the articles served, on'y there is
more of them and all are more highly
spiced and seasoned. House-cleaning |
and bed-making occur usually between
breakfast and lunch, and are very primitive
in character. The beds as described
are bunks or shelves covered wi th
white Canton matting and the pillows
wooden footrests. The mau of all work
simply sponges of! bed and pillow alike
with a sponge dipped in water containing
a little chloride of lime or eau de
javelle, and allows the heat of the room
to dry them off. This novel way of
making beds has one advantage. It
disinfects room and inmate and destroys
whatever vermin there may be about.
In the evening the guests resort, one
after one, to narcotics, and at midnight
nearly all arc sound asleep.
No sight is more impressive or fearful
than one of these living-rooms at 10 or
12 p. m. The dark floor and ceilings,
the gloomy and grimy furniture, the
single lamp, flickering and smoking on
the table, the silence, and eveywhere
the bunks, each containing a man court,
ing slumber through some narcotic drug
make up a strange picture. You enter
the apartment and each inmate turns,
towards you?the Javanese fiercely and
swiftly, the Hindu curiously and
slowly, and the Cochincse with the j
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juiuiirgj ui uuacu. jwery iace belongs
to an unfamiliar or unknown race; every
article is a sealed book. A word from
the proprietor and the eyes leave your
face and resume their former occupations.
Here and there at times arc attempts
at ornament. The black statue of Rama,
worshipped in Ceylon, the bronze image
of Buddha, the allegorical portraits of
Health, Plenty, and Strength of Confucius,
the crucifix of European faith, and
even the sharks' and tigers' teeth of the
Malay, are attached to the wall or displayed
on some fragmentary mantelpiece.
The proprietor of one of these place9
said: "It dosen't cost much to live. I
can board a man for $1.75 a week?per;
haps even less. I don't make much
money on my board, but do on tobacco,
opium, and hasheesh. My folks
drink a very little; not so much as
10 cents a day. When they 'go off on a
spree' they order a fashionable din
ner and eat all they can hold. Then they
smoke five shells of opium [about two
ounces] and sleep for twenty-four hours.
How many houses are there like
mine? No one just like it or so good, but
about thirty in the same business." Five
other proprietors made the same remark.
Chicago, New York.
A Domentic Boycott.
4*Now that you've got your 10 pw cent,
increase, John, you must be more liberal
with your allowance for household ox- j
ponses. I want a new teakettle, and tho
wash boiler needs?"
"Can't afford it, Mollie; I'm onlymak
ing living wages now, and you must wait
until I can declare a dividend."
'Then you refuse to arbitrate ?"
"There's nothing to arbitrate. I
can't- "
Very well! I shall order a strike at
once. The kitchen fire shall be drawn
this noon, and if you dare to bring another
woman into this house to cook as
much as a kettle of mush, I'll smash the
cook stove to smithereens. Come, chil/Ircn,
we musk begin to boycott your
father immediately I"?Bo?ton Record.
LADIES' DEPARTMENT. 1
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How Ilrlclnl Veils Arc Worn.
The manner of wearing tlie bridal veil
now is copied directly from royalty.
Every one is familiar with the arrangement
of Queen Victoria's ever-present
veil, and in this manner do the brides of
to-day fancy wearing them. It is bunched
slightly on the top of the eoilTure, form
ing u coronet or cap, unci thcncc falls
back over the train. This arrangement
requires a skilful band, and is generally
intrusted to a milliner's manipulation. It
is becoming to most faces, but does away
with the traditional use of the veil
I
which lias always been to cover the
modest face of the maiden, it being an
old-time custom always to lift it as soon
as the ceremony was performed. The
bridal veil then was full of significance,
now it is merely an ornament.?New
York World.
Faihlon* lit Fitrnaoln.
Parasols this season are unusually varied,
and some of the stj-les are exceeding
novel and attractive. In common
with the rest of the toilet, ribbon plays
an important part in their adornment,
while lace, guazc and net are used in a
variety of ways. Some of the parasols
have a full ruching of net around the
top, and full folds are brought down
along the ribs and eauglit in at the tips.
Others are covered with loosely-plaited
crape or net, and still others have the
lace covering shirred around the top,
whence it falls below the silk in full,
loose folds.draood at one Ride with lnnn?
?
and ends of ribbon, and showing the
silk beneath. The en-tout-cas is in demand
this season, as it is large en- . ^h
to afford protection from a sudden sn^ ?ver
and sufficiently attractive to be used
as a parasol. Velvet, foulard, pongee
and sateen are all used as covering for
the many new shapes. The sticks are
often very elaborate, and are generally
longer than those of last season, thus
serving as a walking stick when the parasol
is closed ; the ferrules arc of sicel and
do not suffer by contact with the pavement.
Some parsols have two large lace
handkerchiefs laid one over the other,
forming eight points, and have a deep
fall of lace underneath.?JYeeo York Comvicrcial.
\\oina 11 ' Beit Friend.
A hairpin is a woman's best friend. It
fits a multiplicity of uses and she is never
without one. If her hair is short you
can depend upon it that in a recess of
her purse or a pocket of her reticule you
will find the hairpin. If she buttons
her shoes she uses her hairpin, and who
ever saw a woman button her gloves
with anything else? If her head itches,
does she scratch it with her finger? Nonsense
I She whips out a hairpin and rclcavcs
herself. Suppose a nickle has
dropped between the bars of the wooden
foot grate in the street csr. Does she
soil her fingers as a man would, and then
not get it? Certainly not. Out comes
the hairpin, and the coin is lifted out
without trouble. If her shawl pin is lost,
where so good a substitute as the hairpin?
If she cats a nut docs she take a
nut pick? Most assuredly not. The
hairpin again. It is with a hairpin that
hiiu iipa upuu me uncut, leaves oi a oook
or magazine; it is a hairpin with which
she marks her progress in her favorite
book; if a trunk key is missing, a hairpin
opens the refractory lock as neatly
as a burglar's skeleton key would; with
it she cleanses her finger nails, and, if it
is a clean one, even picks herieeth. And
the feats of hair securing that she will
make a simple bow legged hair; in accomplish
nearly surpasses the belief of
man. Altogether,it deserves to be classed
among the great inventions of the
world, and the grave of the original
man who created the first one could have
no prouder epitaph than this: "That
is the kind of a hairpin he was."?
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J.TCtl O.
Where Lace* are Matte.
The most of the hand-made lace i9
manufactured in Belgium, France, and
England. Large quantities are also
made by machinery in the two latter
countries and in the United States. The
application of machinery to this delicate
and intricate -work has made many kinds
of lace very cheap, which, when made
by hand, never could have been otherwise
than expensive because of the
labor required to complete them. In
Belgium, where a very large part of the
real lace is made (the hand-made laces
are all called ''real," and machine laces
"imitation"), over 150,000 women arc
said to be employed in lace-making, and
the majority of these work at home.
There are 900 lace schools in the country.
Probably the most important center
of the work in that country is the city
of Brussels. A very expensive kind of
lace is made here, known ns Brussels
lace, which is of very fine thread and intricate
design. Mechlin lace, which is
very fine and transparent, is m?dc at
Mechlin, Antwerp, Lierre, and Turnhout.
The manufacture of Valenciennes,
another favorite lace is extinct in its
native city?jwhence it derived its name
?but has attained much prosperity in
Flanders. It is now chiefly made at the
towns of Ypres, Bruges, Courtrai, Menin'
Ghent, and Alost. The productions of
Ypres are of the finest quality. In
France, a few years ago, the number of
lace-makers was estimated at 250,000,
but this total had been considerably reduced
by the use of machinery in recent
years. The point d'Alencon lace, which
is a very beautiful lace, made entirely by
hand with a line needle, in small pieces,
which are afterward united by invisible
seams, is made principally at Bayeux.
The towns of Bayeux and Caen are es
pccially noted for the manufacture of line
black laces. Chantilly lace, which was
formerly made almost altogether at Chantilly,
is now made quite extensivly at the
two towns mentioned above. The productions
of the towns of Lille and Arras
are also well known. Lille lace is very
simple in design, but very line and beautiful.
The lace of B.iilleul is strong and
cheap, and extensively used for trimming.
The lace manufacture of the district of
Auvergne, of which the town of Le Puy
is the centre, is considered the most ancient
and extensive in France. Over
100,000 women are there employed, aud
nearly every kind of lace is made. The
headquarters for machine made laces in
France arc at Calais. In England the
manufacture of lace is carried on chiefly
in the counties of Buckingham, Devouand
Bedford. The best known of the
English hand-made laces is the Honiton,
so called from the town of this name in.
Devonshire, where it was first made. In
the city of Nottingham the manufactureof
hand laces was an important industry
some years ago, but this has been almost
destroyed by the introduction of machinery
for lace manufacture. The town
is now the headquarters for some of the
finest designs in machine-made laccs that
are known. Lace is made to some extent
in Ireland, especially in the town of
Limerick, also in Scotland, and in nearly
every country of Europe to a limited extent.
?Inter- Occan.
Fashion Notes.
Lace mitts are again in vogue.
The handsomest grenadines arc beaded..
Belts will be much worn with summer
dresses.
Striped and checked materials are all.
the rage. '**
Lace mantles are profusely trimmed
with beads.
Snowballs make a lovely trimming for . ,
a txille bonnet.
Tucks and plaits are supersedingflounces
and frills.
The bodices of thin woolen materials
are lined with silk.
i enow ana liclitropc are tlie leading
London colors this summer.
Black, white, and scarlet are the preferred
colors for tulle bonnets.
White frocks are not so much in favor
this year for festivals as formerly.
The new peach color combines exquisitely
with gold shades of yellow.
The London turban is a favorite, but
for seaside, mountain, and travelling
wear.
Pongee combined with plaid Surah,
makes a pretty and inexpensive summer
dress.
A tulle bonnet should be the lightest,
most cloud-like piece of headgear imaginable.
Gathered panels take the place of
pleated ones on summer wash fabric
dresses.
Spangled crape fans in iridescent
effects come among other novelties in
this line.
Large Gainesborough hats are again
in vogue, but they have very large, high,
conical crown.
There is a new and delicious shade of
peach color that takes the bloom off
every other shade.
Surplice bodices have the fullness beginning
at the shoulder seam, and crossing
diagonally from right to left.
Necklaces of cut steel and black
pearls, the latter not always genuine, are
included among the novelties of the season.
It is predicted that next fall we shall
have a revival of the old-fashioned puffed
sleeves that were worn in the days of
Josephine.
A standing collar more suitable for hot
weather has appeared, open in front
about an inch. It is one of the old stylesre-introduced.
Tulle bonnets?white, blaek, grayr
scarlet, all shades of red and rose color,.
blue and heliotrope?are worn for full
dress occasions.
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Fans this season are exquisite. Sandal,
violet and other scented-wood stick?
are used, so that a little breeze brings &
delicious perfum;.
Plain surah and silks, with plush or
velvet stripes, are used for the skirt, th&
bodice and draperies being of etamine,
mohair or cashmere.
Serges are in high favor and deservedly
so, for there is no medium priced good?
from which so much wear and general
satisfaction can be had.
Certain Peculiarities.
"Here's a silly joke, Bromley, about &
man talking to a lady three hours, think* ;
ing she was his wife all the time."
"Darringer, the man was an idiot. I
couldn't talk to a lady a minute without ?
knowing whether she was my wife or
not. not even through a fo2-liom. Them
are certain peculiarities of emphasis?" '
"Yes, I know, Bromley. My wife's
got 'em, too."?Philadelphia Call.
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