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THE DARLINGTON HERALD. VOL. I. DARLINGTON, 8. C., WEDNESDAY, JUNE 24,: 1891. NO. 42. CHURCHES. Presbyterian Church.—Rev. J. G. Law, Pastor; Preaching every Sabbath at 1H a. m. and 8 p. m. Sabbath School at 10 a. m., Prayer Meeting every Wednesday afterno on at 5 o’clock. Methodist Church. - Rev. J. A. Rice, Paator; Preaching every Sunday at Ilf a. m. and 8 p. m., Sabbath School at 5 p. in., Prayer Meeting every Thursday at 8 p. m. Baptist Church.—Kev. G. B. Moore, Paster; Preaching every Sunday at Ilf a. m and 8:30 p. m., Prayer Meeting every Tuesday at 8 p. m. Episcopal Chapel.—Rev. W. A. Guerry, Rector; H. T. Thompson, Lay Header. Preaching 3rd Sunday at 8:30 p. m., Lay Reading every Sunday morn ing at 11 o’clock, Sabbath School every Sunday afternoon at 5 o’clock. Macedonia Baptist Church.—Rev I. P. Breckmgton, Pastor; Preaching every Sunday at 11 a. m. and 8:30 p. m. Sabbath School at 3:80 p.m., Prayer Meeting every Tuesday evening at 8:30 o’clock. COUNTY OFFICERS.’ Sherihl—W. P. Cole. Clerk of Court.—W. A. Parro.t Treasurer.—J. E. Bass. Auditor.—W. H. Lawrence. Probate Judge.—T. H. Spain. Coroner.—R. G. Parnell. School Commissioner.—W. H. Evans. County Commissioners.—C. B. King, W. W. McKinzie, A. A. Gandy. Iprofcssicmnl €ati>s. F. DARGAN, ATTORNEY AT LAW. BROTHER, AWAKE! Brother, the dawn In the east is arising. Sparkling and bright from wild oceant embrace. See how her blushes new beauties awaken; See what a tender light beams from her face! Eos, fair Eos, her fleet steeds are waiting. Eager to speed in advance of the wind, Longing to bear thee away on thy mission. Cheering and blessing the hearts of man kind. Brother, awake, for the sun hath arisen I Dazzling is he in his gorgeous array; Golden his palace, and golden his armor— Wilt thou not welcome the king of the day? Helois, Helois, thou art majestic! Daily thy duty is patiently done; Brother, thy duties demand thine attention— Wake, ere day endeth and night is begun. Brother, awake! Awake, O my brother! Moonbeams are gently caressing thy brow; See, the moon peeps through the darkening shadows; Soe her sweet smile as it lights on thee now. Selene, Selene, stars round thoe glimmer; Dost thou ne’er linger to gather a gem? “Why should I tarry, or turn from my path way? While I have peace, I’ve a rich diadem.” Brother, O brother, awake from thy slum, her. Open thine eyes while ’tis yet called to day! Vain is thy dreaming, for not it availeth; List to thine impulse, be swift to obey. High be thy purpose, aye, heavenward reaching; Firm thy endeavor, persistent and true; Faith be thy watchword, and hope thy com panion. Peace will not linger but hasten to you. —Lillian Stiles We&sfer, A POINT OF HONOR. Darlington, C. H., 8. C. Office over Blackwell Brothers’ store. E. KEITH DARGAN, ATTORNEY AT •LAW, Darlington, 8.- C. N ETTLES & NETTLES, ATTORNEYS AT LAW, Darlington, C. H., 8. C. 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DARLINGTON MARBLE WORKS, DARLINGTON MARBLE WORKS, DARLINGTON, S. C. FIRE! FIReT I Represent Twelve of the most Reliable Fire Insut&nce Compa nies in the World—Among them, the Liverpool and Lon don and Globe, of England, the Largest Fire Campany in the World; and the ACtna, of Hart- lord, the Largest of all Ameri can Fire Companies. |3F~ Prompt Attention to Basinets and Satisfaction Guaranteed. F. E. NORMENT DARLINGTON, 8. C. Office between Edwards, Norment & C«., and Joy & Banders’. BY ASNA SHIELDS. It is a fact too well proven to need comment here that mental excitement will produce upon the human counte nance a change m re rapid and lasting than even physical pain. But it would have scarcely seemed possible that oue hour could have made a beautiful, blooming face so pallid and deathlike as that of Isaura Gardiner became in that brief time one June morning, when all nature was in jubilant mood. She was young—not more than twen ty—and had been Julius Gardiner's wife a little more than one year. They had been married at a time when the firm employing Julius had wished him to un dertake a prolonged Southern and West ern trip to collect outstanding debts, and the young couple had made this business errand their wedding tour. Early in March they had returned to their home, and a few weeks later a wee blossom had come to hind the parents’ hearts in yet closer bonds of mutual love, a little daughter they named for Isaura's long dead mother, Bertha. After the baby came tr gladden her, Isaura found her time so filled with ma ternal cares that she had never availed herself of her husband's permission to ex plore the old homestead, until the Juue morning already mentioned. It was a very large, rambling old country hause, the legacy of three gen erations of Gardiners, to the last survivor Julius, and I«anra was sure that it was tilled with treasures of past occupants, though its owner laughingly assured her that he was quite sure she would find but little to reward the thorough ran sacking she threatened to make. When she was first engaged to Julius Gardiner, Laura had thought she would bring him a fortune equal to his own patrimony. She had been from infancy the supposed heiress of a maiden aunt, who bed a moderate income under bci cwn entire control and no heir hut her niece. But, from some unexplained freak, the venerable maiden, upon her death-bed, left her home and money to found an asylum, bestowing upon her niece her clothing and jewelry, the one much the worse for use, the other of but trifling value. Isaura had been sorely disappointed, but Julius had laughed at the long face, assuring her he had ample means for both; his private fortune and large salary combining to make a handsome income. So Isaura had forgotten the temporary trouble very quickly. On the June day, already referred to, she had at last explored some of the long closed rooms, and entered one early in the forenoon, her lace bright as the June sunshine pouring in at the open windows, her checks rivaling the blush roses clambering over the wide porch roof to nod at her, her eyes as clear and blue as the summer skies arching over the old homestead. In one brief hour she came out again. But the pretty pink flush was gone from her cheeks, leaving them as white as new fallen snow, her eyes were heavy and dull as lead, gazing vacantly forward with an expression of utter misery; her step was slow and feeble, and she trembled as if unable to support her own weight. She seemed to have aged years in that one hour of anguish passed in the room en tered with such a light step and happy heart. Slowly she went to her own room. Baby Bertha lay in her dainty cradle sleeping profoundly in a morning nap, and the young mother, sinking upon hei knees beside her, found some relief from her agony in a passion of tear* and sobs. Again and again her husband’i name mingled with the moans wrung from her white, quivering lips, till the violence ol her grief wakened the sleeping child, who broke into wailing cries. For a moment the mother forgot her own grief, as she soothed the little one with all love’s tender caresses, kissing the velvet cheek, and whispering soft worls of af fection. But wheu the child lay quited in bet arms, the shadows fell again over Lau ra's face, and her tears dropped fast upon the little face nestled against her bosom. The burden of grief was not lifted, though the first wild paroxysm was over. Laura Gardiner was a fair woman, tdi but slight, and possessing much beauty, of a purely blonde type, rippling, golden hair and blue eyes, with a soft, delieak complexion. Her disposition was gentl and loving in a remarkable degree, suit ing well the exquisite beauty of face an form. It is no exaggeration to say that she actually lived in her affections, and these were centered absolutely in her husband and child. Orphaned when only ten years old, she had been under the guar dianship of her aunt, passed from one boarding school to another, spending even her holidays in the care of her teachers, unless invited to visit a fellow- pupil. It was during such a visit in the vil lage that wa~. to become her future home that she met Julius Gardiuer, and her heart, starving for sympathy and com- pansionship, sprang at once to answer his warm avowal of deep, sincere love. She had never known what it was to re ceive such affection as her lover gave her, and she gratefully returned it. And in her love she had found only happiness. It was Julius who had consoled her when her aunt died, leaving her alone in the world. Julius who had urged a speedy marriage, that he might have the right to comfort and protect her. Julius who had made a bridal tour of his long busi ness journey and given her every leisure hour to explore all the sights of the many new places in which they sojourned. Julius who had watched her tenderly when her life seemed going from her, after baby came, and gave her new life by his loving voice and gentle caress. She had thought their love perfect— as strong in his heart as in her own. But ou that June morning, all this happy cer tainty had gone from her, and her heart seemed breaking at the loss. She took no further interest in the exploring ex pedition through the old house upop which she had started so merrily, but rocked her baby in her arms, and mused over the one appalliiig discovery she had already made. Julius found her so when he came in to his dinner, and anxiously inquired the cause of her woe-begone lace and red eyes. But for the fitst time his tender sympathy met a repulse; not an angry one, but one that was equally puzzling to him, it was so full of mute reproach, and no entreaties could give him any ex planation of the cause. For days, this atmosphere of gloom and mystery hung about Isaura. She neglected all the little household duties in which she had delighted; she would sit for hours in silence and idleness, her face white, her eyes fixed mournfully on vacancy. Julius was distracted. Loving his wife with all the fondness of a tender, true heart, he was grieved and angered to see her fretting constantly, yet refus ing to give any reason for such excess of sorrow. In vain he tried by every tender de vice to win her confidence. She only kept a more profound silence, while yet most evidently doubting the sincerity of his professions of love and regret. At last, the result Julius dreaded fell over Laura, and she was prostrated by low nervous fever and became very ill. The pbysicisu hinted at some mental dis turbance, and prescribed quiet; and the husband,thoroughly aroused by fear, ex cited his authority with some show ol harshness. “You are nursing some chimera, ”b< said to poor, pale Laura, “and I iosisl upon knowing what it is.” “Oh, Julius, don’t he angry!” sbt moaned, pitifully. “Perhaps I may die, and then you cau marry Magdalene.” “What upon earth are you talking about? ‘Magdalene!’ Who is Mag dalene?” “The woman you love. I am sorry, Julius, that I have stood in the way so long. It would have been better to have been frank with me and told me the truth before we were married.” “She is insane,” thought poor Julius, bursting into a cold sweat of horror; “she has been nursing some delusion till it has turned her brain and made her a monomaniac!” All anger was gone fiom his voice as he bent low over his wife. “Darling,” he said, “do not think of such things. You cannot doubt my love for you I” The blue eyes that had grown din with excessive weeping searched his faci eagerly. Then, as if nerved to a desper ate effort Isaura took a toldcd papei from the drawer of a table beside her bed and handed it to her husband. “Read that,” she stid. “I found it in the room up-stairs that you told me was your room while your parents lived. It was in the drawer of a bureau there, with other papers. You told me I might overhaul auythiug I pleased, and I rend that.” Wonderingly, Julius opened the paper, while Isaura scanned his face, watching for the confusion of detected guilt. To utter amazement, Julius, after reading the paper, burst into a fit of laughter, clear, ringing and hearty. “Oh, Laura,” he cried, when he could catch his breath, “the sins of my youth are being visited upon my head with a vengeance. Oh, it is too good I” And another paroxysm of mirth fol lowed. “I don't see anything funny about it,' said Isaura, crimsoning with anger. Julius read aloud, with mock em phasis ; ‘'Dear Dice —You utterlymistake both my heart and principle if you imagine for one moment that I will avail myself of th< itiful excuse of Isaura's loss of fortune tc reak our engagement. Dearly as I love Magdalene, bitterly as I regret the tie that binds me, I will never, never so disgrac; my manhood as to desert, the fond heart that loves me. “Isaura knows nothing of my mad infat uation for your sister Magdalene, my hope less love for one I may never seek to win She trusts the professions of love I made be fore I knew the secret of my heart Sh< loves me! Aud I who sought her whet she was a supposed heiress, consider it a point of honor to keep my faith with her “Guard soy secret from your too fasciu ating sister, from my promised wife, and ” Here the paper was torn and the con fidences of the lover brought to an ab rupt conclusion. “Oh, Laura,’’said JuTTua, who had .ceu interrupted by frequent spasms of aughter, “have you really been fretting yourself sick over this balderdash?” Then, looking into the pale, wan f tcc, Julius became grave again. “If you had only looked further, dear,” he said, “you would have dis covered page after page of just such stuff. For you must know that one of the delusions of my youth was a settled conviction that I was a great literary genius, a Wilkie Collins and Charles Dickons of America, born to astonish the world. And this is part of my first, last and only novel.” “Oh, Julius!” Laura gasped. “I thought—I was sure—'' “There, don’t cry, love; don't! Never doubt me again, dear. I cannot imagine now how you could have taken this for a genuine letter. I never knew a Dick or Magdalene.” “How did I know that? Aud Laura is such a very singular name.” “So it is. But you sec, dear, just about that time this singular name stood in my heart for all that was charming, good and lovable in womankind. I was desperately in love with an Isaura, and as ray heroine was to embody all female perfection, I gave her the uamc of the woman who had full possession of my heart.” “And then the loss of fortune—my aunt, you know—” “Bless me, yes! I (orgot nil about that. It does look oddly like truth,now don’t it? But if you will explore the drawer still further you will find a couple of hundred pages explanatory of this precious document you so unfortun ately selected.” The doctor, coming later in the day to visit his patient, was astonished at the wonderful effect of the simple re medy he had prescribed, and still more at the rapid recovery that followed. In less than a week Isaura was singing about the old house, a busy little matron, happy in her husband’s love, her baby’s beauty. But she has still one regret: All her entreaties have failed to persuade Julius to complete that beautiful novel, “A Point of Honor," which lies unfinished in Isaura's care, ami which she is firmly convinced would, if published, place her husband at the very pinnacle of literary fame. But Julius will not agree with her, de- clariug that that precious composition has already made sufficient mischief in the world, since it caused his wife weeks of misery aud a fit of illness, and there fore it is with him a point of honcr to it consign to oblivion as speedily as pos sible.— The Ledger. A Child’s Twelve Grandparents. Elsie Chase, (laughter of Charles and Clara Chase, of Yarmouth, has more grandfathers aud grandmothers than any! child in Massachusetts, all of whom are now living. I give below the names. Edward and Mary Chase, grandfather and grandmother. Charles and Emma Ellis, grandfather and gn ndmother. Charles and Jane Ellis, great-grand father and great-grandmother. Jerry and Cordelia Chase, great grandfather and great-grandmother. Matthews and Ruth B. Gray, great grandfather and great-grandmother. Adeline Nickerson, great-great-grand mother. Jerry Walker,great-great-grandfather. This is very remarkable; six grand fathers and six grandmothers, and all living, making a collection that has no equal in this country. — Cape Cod (.Mat.) Item. Single Eye. In a case of cyclopia, or single eye, re ported by Dr. A. Bruce to the Royal Society of Edinburgh, there was a single lozenge-shaped socket for the eye in the middle of the base of the forehead. The socket had two pairs of eyelids, and the nose was represented by a short process of tissue and skin attached to the fore head above the eye. A microscopic section of the socket showed two rudi mentary retinae apparently springiug from a single optic wsicle. —TVaaLn (-Y. J.) American. RICH INDIANS. EACH MENBEIt OF THE OSAGE TKIBE WORTH ABOUT SIS.OOO Ihey Have a Big Fund in the United States Treasury-How It Was Acquired—A Millionaire Redskin. Speaking of a visit to the Indian Ter ritory some years ago, United States Senator Platt said recently “When I was at the trading post of the Osage Indians I was much amused to see an In dian buying a barrel of good flour for himself and a barrel of cheap flour for the white man who worked for him.” The Osage Indians cau afford to be luxurious. They are the wealthiest In dians in the United States. It is esti mated at the Indian Office that the Osage Indians—men, women and children—are worth $15,000 each in what ought to be as good as cash, i. e., salable land and the Government's promise to pay. So great is the interest on the sum held by the United States to their credit that the Secretary of the Interior will not pay out all of it at one time, and a gradual increment is adding to the millions al ready credited to the tribe on the books of the Government. The Osages came to their wealth through the sale of their lauds in Kan sas when they were moved to a reserva tion in what is known as Oklahoma Ter ritory. One Indian abandoned his tribe and clung to his Kansas land, and it is said that to-day through the apprecia tion in the value of that land he is worth a million dollars. Ho is perhaps the richest Indian in the world. Nothing is known of him at the Indian Office be cause, having abandoned his tribe, he has ceased to be a subject of solicitude to the gentleman in charge of Indian af fairs at the national capital. The laud belonging to the other Indians was bought by the Government and thrown open to settlement. In the deposits to the credit of the Osage Indians there is one item of $8, 147,515. The annual interest on this is *407,376. There are about 1500 Osages on the reservation in Oklahoma. The exact number mentioned in the last annual report of the Indian Commissioner is 1496; but this, of course, varies from T time to time. The members of this tribe, men, women and children, are joint sharers in the interest money. As it is paid to the tribe it is divided equally among them. It is drawn by the head of each family for himself, his wife, and his children. The Indian with a large family draws a goodly sum each month. Even the amount to which the single In dians are entitled is large—for an Indian. It has been the policy of the Secretary of !he Interior, acting for the President, who, under the law, is the trustee for the Indians, to pay to the Osage tribe only a part of the money to which it is entitled. The amount paid annually was, for a long time, $250,000. Two years ago the payment was increased, at the request of the Indians, to *300,000 a year. That is less than seventy-five per cent, of the amount due the Indians,and the other twenty-five per cent, goes to ward swelling the amount with which the tribe is credited on the Treasury books. What will be done with this slowly increasing capital and the corre sponding increasing interest on it is a question with which tho Government has not yet Iroubled itself. Occasionally some of the interest money which is due to the Osages is expended for their benefit by the Secre tary of the Interior, within his discre tion The Indian Oflice has on hand now plans for a *30,000 building to be use! as a dormitory and school in connection with the education of the Osage chil dren. The council of the tribe re quested the Secretary to make this ex. penditure. The Governmeut looks after the educatioj of the Osages and a spe cial fund is set aside for educational pur poses. The Government supplies them with agricultural implements aud a great many other things which the Indians could very well afford to buy for them selves. They do buy a great many lux uries. Very few of them save any of the money which is paid to them by the Government. The trade- at the agency gets a greater part of it within an hour after the payment has bceu distributed. The Osage tradership is regarded as the most valuable in the United States. Oth er traders have more Indians to deal with, but not so much money. After the provisions of the recent treaty with the Chippewa Indians have been fulfilled they will be the second wealthiest tribe In the world. They number about 5000. Their wealth is represented by the value of some rich lands bordering the small lakes in Min nesota, which the Chippewa Commission persuaded them to sell. The Govern ment has paid to them this year *200, 000. Next year they will receive $91,- 000 advance interest, an I probably a much greater sum iu the annual interest will be due them. The Cuourd’Alene Indians will receive a payment of hall a million dollars this year. It it not with any degree of willing ness that the Osages allow their principal to increase yearly. They object strenu ously to the policy of the Secretary of the Interior iu refusing to pay to them all of their annual income. Each year they send to Washington a representative 1 of their tribe to beg tbe Secretary to pay over to them the accumulated inter est. They are not to be satisfied with* the full amount new coming to them annually. They want the back interest which was withheld from them paid over in a lump sum. They have been told again and again that when they be come civilized they will receive the money which is due to them; but this promise seems to be no inducement to them to adopt the ways of the white man. They continue to retrograde year by year in stead of improving their condition. They are very much averse lo sending taeir children' to school, and the report of the Indian Commissioner shows that of those who have been sent to the train ing schools and educated a very small proportion prove in any way useful mem. hers of society —.Yew Fork Sun. The Advertiser, of Lawrens, 8. C., realizes the important bearing the expo sition to be held at Raleigh from Octo ber to December 1st of the present year, as well as those which preceed it, upon the subject of immigration. “The South feels the need of more people and more capital to occupy unused territory and unapplied resources; more experience, more skill and more money than she her self possesses, and therefore opens hfr doors to that class of immigrants who shall best aid her in the work of develop ment. She calls for no colonies or bands of unassimalablc people, no Goths and Vandals, no Huns, nor Poles, nor Bohemians, no assisted pauper immigra tion, no expelled criminals, no fugitives from European justice, no organization of assassins, no helpless and no paupers. She invites the Saxon blood in all its branches—the Scandinavian, the Ger man, the Hollander, the Belgian, the English, the Scotch, the Irish. These she already knows: from them she is de rived ; to them she owes her best charac teristics, and for the same reason she wants the people from the North; they are not strangers. But for miuy reasons they do not know as well as they ought the magnitude of the South’s resources, its variety of productions, salubrity of climate, and what is more important, the happy adjustment of social condition. The Southern Exposition will present an astonishing and intelligent compend of all these things. The assemblages of the people themselves from all the United States will be the enlightening lessnn in relation to the social feature; and the presentation of all that is the gift of nature or the Iruits of industry, will best anil most satisfactorily illustrate how much the South can offer to (he new comer. Then he will learn at a glance, or by inspection, what otherwise he could not learn except by patient search and costly travel Irom point to point.” Why an Amputated Limb Pain*. A very singular form of neuralgia is that affecting the nerves of amputated limbs. It not rarely happens that after an amputated stump has healed the nerves of the stump, being compressed in the scar, becomes exceedingly painful. Curicusly enough, the pain is not felt in the stump, hut seemingly in the extrem ity of the limb, which has prolnbly been buried for a yeai or more. In one case coming under the uotice of tbe writers man whose arm had been amputate] above the elbow often referred to the pain he felt in the little finger of the severed member for yeais after the oper ation. An old, one-legged soldier, ap plying for an increase of pension, said: “I have more pain iu the foot that aint than in the one that are.” This was hia terse way of saying that he continued to have pain in the foot which was lost on the battle field years before. The explanation of these curious phe nomena consists in the fact that the ter minal filaments of a nerve are its most sensitive parts; they are the “feelers," the points from which the sensations start on their course to the brain, where they give notice that something is wrong with the outlying districts. When the nerve is injured in this continuity the sensation is often referred to the terminal ends. Everyone who has struck his -‘crazy- bone”—the point above the elbow, where the ulnar nerve is very superficial and easily injured—must have uoticed how much the sensation was affected in the little finger, the pain being often greater than that at the point where the blow was struck.—St. lesuis ItepublU. Soldiers Not Anxious for War. A party of infantry reserves were seca at the Friedrichs-itrasse railway station the other day. They were waiting for a train ti take them back to their homes fine of their number, an elderly man, was indignant with the newspapers for talking so glibly about the coming war and the aggressive policy which it was Germany’s duty to adopt. “I fought at Koenigsgratz and Sedan,” lie said, “but that was mere child's play to what the next war will he. That new rifle which wo have just been testing is almost too horrible a weapon to use against any enemy.” The old Landwehrman said the new rifle carried a bullet which is scarcely an inch long, and about as thick as a good-sized cigarette, which will pierce earthworks of seventy centimeter thickness at a distance of 150 meters. At 170 meters distance it made a passage through live full knapsacks placed in echelon. Fired from a distance of 2000 meters the bullet will penetrate a human body.—Chicujo Herald. LADIES’ COLUMN. FRIENDSHIP (AXES. Friendship canes are to be the fashion with the young women who take long tramps “over moss and fell.'’ The best friend ol all gives the cane, which is long and like unto an alpenstock. Around tbe top is tied a ribbon with the name cf the cane donor thereon, and the date of the first trip upon which the cane did duty. Each successive walk is marked by an other ribbon, which, in turn, hears the date of the trip, and the name of the oue who pleasantly beguiled the journey. In time Little Bo Peep's crook comes to wear as many colors as were in Joseph’s coat. When the cane becomes “suffi ciently suffancified” with ribbons, it is laid away with the scalps of the seisen, and a new one is obtained to take its place.—Picayune. WOMEN rN NORWEGIAN CIVIL SERVICE. The question of the eligibility of ladies, who have passed the requiste ex amination to public offices, etc., is at present receiving much attention in Norway, where the matter s before Parliament. A bill has been in troduced that ladies who have passed certain examinations should have the same rights as incu, and this hill has been referred to a committee. This com mittee views with favor the movement for widening the field for women, hut the majority is of opinion that the change may not be too sudden an-1 sweeping, but should be brought about gradually. The majority of the com mittee is of opinion that the inter ists both of the women themselves and of society at large are best consulted by advancing step by step, as experience may teach. The whole of the committee is agreed that the matter should he more exhaustively investigated, and ha«. therefore, decided to remit the case to the Government. There cau. however, be little doubt that the question will he soon further advanced.— Chicago Past. FEATHER TRIMMING'. Feather trimmings are wide ar.,1 im portant, and many varieties of coquc feathers seem to be newer than ostrich, hut still edgings of the ostrich flue and mossy ruches of ostrich arc much worn ou dinner and court gowus and on the best class of mantles. Peacocks' plumes appear iu many of the feather trimmings, notwithstanding popular prejudice. With regard to ribbons, very wide, soft short silk find favor for hats aud four-inch width for trimmings. Tinsel embroidery appears on the solid colors ol several sizes; but the charming little pompadour sprigs on satin grounds are the leading ideas, while the favorite flowers are the cowslip, the polyanthus, cornflower and the buttercup, ami fruits are preparing for the latter season. Brocades on gold gauze ribbons are much worn, and shot silks, which often dis play brocaded forget-me-nots and pansies and shot spots of large size, are around and sometimes elliptical. The favorite combinations a:e brown and blue, lemon colored and sky blue pink and yellow, yellow and green, black and gold.— Chicago Newt. FASHION NOTES. The fairest of the fair now wear yellow, and look even prettier in it than the brunettes. Although the fastenings of dresses are mostly invisible, many new buttons have been brought out. A charming new lace pin has made its appearance. It is a small spray of maiden hair set in emctalds. All the sun umbrellas and parasol' have long handles. The parasols are of medium size and quite curved. Pleats and wide Hungarian kilts ap pear in the latest Paris importations for dinner, carriage or church gowns. A seamless skirt straight in front, with a bias back seam concealed in the full ness, is much used for wool dresses. The figures in the now brocades are so large that not more than three or four are to be seeu in a yard of material. The “Mercury'' is a new bonnet iu spired by the Greek god, and is made of blue and gold straw, with gold wings at the side. Traveling ulsteis of mohair, poageo and brilliantiue have quite put out of countenance the old fashionel linen duster. Many gowns are trimmed about th-.- bottom of the skirt with a deep flounce of black lace. This is very pretty and graceful on a light weight black silk or on any of the fancy black ground «um- mer silks. The black grenadine gowns, which promise tu be favorites the coming sum mer, are certainly much richer than the usual black lace or net costume A full frill of soft surah, made to resemble feather trimming, makes a simple and pretty trimming for a grenadine gown. The Czar Laughed. A Russian newspaper publish" 1 and the press censor overlooked a joke about the Czar recently. The momri’i hap- potiod to read the |-j»pcr, laughed cartily, ami sent the no Mpapei <- litur, the wriur nt the joke, aud the careless censor to Siberia. All three are sen tenced for lift —Chicago Timet. I CURIOUS FACTS. I The oldest reigning dynasty is that ot Japan. A horned rabbit is the curiosity of tha day at Akron, Ohio. A gum-moistening apparatus for post age stamps is also an invention. There are within the present city limits of Milwaukee 30,000 lot* which are unoccupied. Hay thirty-two years old has been found and is said to he well-preserved, i bright and sweet. A Liberty County (Ga.) man has found oysters growing at the bottom of his sixty-foot well. Indiana's building at the World’s Fair is to be constructed of all building materials found in the State. A resident of Parkers’ Ford, Penn , is said to have a ring dove which is twenty one years old, and has been in one cage all its life. A large fox tried to steal a goose from a barnyard near Butler, Penn., the other day, but the fowl fought so bravely that she killed the would-be thief. A cow licing driven through the streets of Hannibal, Mo., charged on a red coat hanging on a post, entangled her horns in it. gave a bellow and dropped dead.. Since it is rumored that marble man tel-pieces arc coming into fashion again, these pieces of interior decoration which have been criticised as vulgar and inar- tistic are now called --perfectly lovely.” A monument will be erected shortly in Tutlingen, in the Black Forest, to Max Schneckenbergor. author of “The Watch on tbe Rhine.” The fund for this pur pose is $9000, aud contributions are still solicited. The father of shoemnking in this country is said to have been one Abraham Lovering, who came ovet in the May flower, bringing with him a number of pelts to be worked into footwear for the colonists. A prisoner escaped from the Browns- towu dud.) jail by cutting a hole through the roof, after which he walked ten miles to his home. Failing to secure a hail bond, he returned to jail. He was not missed by the sheriff, and he re entered by the hole through which he escaped. While an Indianapolis citizen was rid ing on a street ear iu that city the brake handle slipped from the driver’s grasp and struck a pistol in the driver’s breast pocket. A bullet from the weapon killed tin pasi-cngo* instantly. His wife has recovered $5(J0i) damages from the car company. The humps of camels arc mere lumps of fat, and not. provided for in the frame work of the skeleton. When the animal is in good condition the humps are full and plump. 9n a long journey where food is scarce the humps are entirely ab sorbed. the skin covering them hanging over the (lank like ;1 u empty box. Gold, while in circulation, is handled less tham euy other medium. It is usually kepi in vaults of banks for de mands rarely made, and for this reason the loss by abrasion is but one-half of one percent, in twenty years. In a $20 gold piece, the standard weight of which is 516 grains, the Government allowance foi loss by a hr.' -ion is 2.53 grains. A bbe k water snake, which was dis sected at the Michigan Agricultural Col lege the other day. was found to contain the bodies of four fishes. One of these, which was about four inches in length, had partially swallowed another fish two thirds its size. It was, however, not quite equal to the task, and the snake had captured both. This curiosity will he preserved in alcohol as a museum specimen. Lite Convicts at Sing Sing. The thought of the conditiou of tho women life-convicts is harrowing. No wonder thoughtful minds prefer hanging or even deatli by the dynamo to life im prisonment. The pale, furrowed faces and mutHed voices of those women is a sight not easily forgotteu. To piolonga conversation with them would he cruel, unless one was in a position to help them get out. The one ray of cheerfulness in their desolate, monotonous lives is the consideration which they get from the officials aud matron. After a worn in ha« been there ten or fifteen years -he is regarded as a member of the family, so to speak, and if she proves obedient she gets many little at tentions and privileges not granted short-term women. All the life prisoners have two cells at their disposal—one for sleeping, aud the other nicely fitted up with carpet, chairs, pictures and curtains, is used for a sit ting room. Outside the cells of the long-term prisoners many pottei plants were to lie seen. The e eaalincss of the cells, tiers, both lower an 1 upper, in male and female pris > is was remarkable. —Brooklyn Standard t'nion. A PreluaUriS Lenotsry. About Ihrci miles east of I’arkeisburg, West Virginia, well-diggers recently stumbled upon a pri-lu'torii- cemetery, abounding with tin- n-lii-rof an unknown nation. Nearly a bushel c>f trinkets ot shell and hoiie were found tu three graves. All tin skeletons, thus far dis covered, were facing the west.—He* Turk i'oiie.