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tsgftt IRR Break Tomorrow 'Wmit though oar skies be overcast And doods o? trouble lower? Though disappointments crowdingfal Seem s\u%rateful dower? ho gh feials throng upon our way, Stinll lie succum to sorrow9 Hof Latus gainer, hope, and say, The 2gbt wi break tomorrow! . Tbouga fickle Fortune hides her foes, Oar brave endeavors scorning. And robs ns of some prorated grace Without a moment's warning, Let us not tremble at her frown. Nor care and trouble borrow, But eru&h our dark forebodings down The light will break tomorrow! Beyond the shadows of the night The welcome sun is shining, The clouds that loom upon oar sight Save all silver lining ; The darkest hear precedes the dawn, And joy succeeds to sorrow The longest night wilt yet be gone, And fight will break tomorrow! - -[Helen Whitney Claris in Saturday 2 ii EQUAL TO TIE TEST "Oh, dear, no! Bessie Hant'l] ne' amount to much of anything. Pre enough, if any one fancies red ii and eyes that baye a yellow glint them like a tiger's, but that never v my style of beauty ! Give me a g that has something more substant than mere good looks to fall bs on if the time should ever come wh it is necessary, instead of a girl w bas nothing more than some moul classic OD the end of ber ton gue, some frittery fancy work forever her fingers!" "La, sakes, brother,'7 feebly expc tnlated Mrs. Hunt, "you look as if were really going to be! I know Bc sie is fond of her books and pr t feminine fancies, but I don't blan the giri. I used to like 'em when was her age! But I know she ait any more like Jessica or Minerva th* they are like her." Abram Alvey was too deeply e grossed in his subject to heed ti quiet sarcasm in the last portion < her response. "Eight, Emily," retorted, quickl; "no more she ain't! Jess or Mi could take hold and do for themselv< if they should ever have to, but Bess there-laugh!" Nobody saw a slender shadow fl across the window near which Abrai Alvey sat, neither did they near til footsteps which approached the ope doer, then stole swiftly and quietl amy. A tail, slender girl, with wav masses of red-brown nair duster in around a sweet, serions face, out c which shone the wide brown eye Which had in them the "yellow glint to which Abram Alvey objected. Unwittingly Bessie Hunt had over beard the whole of their conversatioi - which alluded to her! She had a boo) in uer hand, and as she turned awa; there was just a suspicion of tears 01 the long, silken friuge of lashes aroum toe . brown eyes, a tremor in th* curved, sensitive lips. "I wonder.'7 she murmured, as shi went swiftly do wu the grass-grow i path to her favorite haunt under : clump of graceful, silvery larches, "i: I am so very useless? Cuele; Airej certainly thinks so! But," with sigh, "I never had the streng 1 h tc do ail that Jessie and Minnie might 1 I wish I bad, 'though !" Poor child, she did not Know, ai sae uttered this vain wish, that it wai literally like grafting the fair, frai orchid blossom on the strong, hard; Horthern rose! The harsh remark that she had overheard rankled deeply in her heart just now. But "tru;h is stranger than fiction/ Sunny skies and fair promises sur rounded Myrtle Farm and its inhabi tants at present. T tere was no feai of casualties iii the heart of hones! Joan Hani, for, as lie said, he'd "laid by a considerable pile to use on rainy day," if the time ever came. Bat they had no fear of: it coming, not they ! Bot, las for the consistencies of hu manity! Down in the progressive town, near the outskirts of whici stood Myrtle Farm, once a week John Hunt carried a goodly load of farm pi od ace; there be heard conversations which set him to Thinking. Men talked of making a lifetime fortune iu some bold speculation; of getting comers" in grain, buying "low,v the selling "high," and, although he did not just understand as clearly as be ought, he would ponder these things as he j dted homeward ever the rough country roads, aud the more lie thought the more fascinated and tempted he became. At last, one bright morning he started for the market as usual, but beneath hi* coat, securely wadded into a snug roll into his vest pocket, was a large roll of bills. He was going to try Iiis luck. It would be such a fine thing for the home folks, he arg ted to him-elf, if be happened to come ont ahead. No thought of the other possibility seemed to tronble him. . He seemed unusually restless for the next few days after his return. He was singularly anxious to read thc daily papers. "A body'd think you'd been speen LUin', J hu," observed Mrs. Hunt, one day, as she repeated some remarks z third time before lie heard her. A queer look settled over his face but he made no response. Bat all at once he uttered a stifled exclamation aud started to his feet; bis face had grown unusually pale and the hand which grasped his hat trem bled with nervous agitation. "I most go up to town, Emily," he exclaimed, "at once ! Where's Bess?" Mrs. Haut looked lier astonish ment. "To town!" she repeated, blankly, "Why, you wa t tere only last Sa ur day! Anything happened?" wi.li a glance at the paper, which had flut tered unheeded to the floor. *No, not much, only-well, never mind." 1 wo, three hours past. Jessica Minerva, came iu, two strong, t girls with loud voices and blunt i uers, and immediately damai -dad,* Poor,mystified Mrs. Hunt shoo! head. < I doo*t know, girls, bat & sal was going:; in town. B usine S "guess." fi Humph " ejaculated Jest "Where's Bessie? Uone with hi '.So. She went for somethi PTO forgot. But any rate she's ro somewhere." The MUses Hunt exchanged glan but deigned no reply to the pati overworked mother, who was ra afraid of these self-reliant daught preferring in her heart gentle, mit dersiood Bessie before either. It was several hours past the t for their early tea when John H came home. Abram Alvey was v him, and his lips were compressed a thin, hard line. John Hunt himself, during short time he had been absent, seen to have grown years older. He 1 pale, restless, and the hand which rested on the table shook as w palsy. His wife came forward, seriou I alarmed. I "W hat happened, John i Any tbic Be yon sick? Just sit down and me get yon a good, strong cup o' I right off! If/ ll do you good," for spite of the clouds which sometin obscured their domestic horizon, Et ly Hunt was loyal and true to t man whom in her earlier youth s had chosen for better, for worse. He made a gesture of r pugnai at the suggestion of food or drink, "I can't eat anything, wife," said, as he threw his arms across t table in a hopeless, dejected fashic and hid his face upon them. "I-I tell her Abram." -. "He has been speen la tin'," went < that individual, the rigid lines in 1 face never softening, the tones of 1 voice hard and metallic as cold s iee "speculating I tell you, and has end by ruining his family. That's alli" Mrs. Hunt sank helplessly into t nearest chair and stared, speechley at her brother. Jessica and Miner clung together on the sofa, au expre sion of almost ludicrous dismay < their faces. <*Well, I never!" exclaimed Mi erva, the first to break the nea* silence that ensued. "Father, wha ever possessed yon?" Jessica suddenly burst into a violei fit of weeping The bent figure besk the table never moved. "Father ! Look up P Without a glance in eiiher dircctioi tall, straight, with a bright spot buri ing in either cheek and a brillia! glitter in her eyes, Bessie suddeul crossed the room and knelt gently sympathetically, beside her father chair. "Father! Don't take it so to heart It cannot be so bad, and," in a lowe tone, "I will help you now." -Then John Hunt raised his head, gleem of hope stealing into his drear eyes as he phic sd his band tender! among the red-bro-n tresses cluster ing above tl ie high white brow. .*Yon, BessieT* "Yes, father," she responded quiet ly. "Try me and see." And so it proved. The test o which Abram Aivey had often boasts had at last come. But contrary to his expectations Jessica or Minerva, the Self-relian girl*," did not come up to his stand ard. Tl&ey 4*hnng around," aa he ex pressed it, bemoaning their un luck; fate and making the place almost nu bearable to the disheartened man. H bore up as long as he possibly could then succumbed to the inevitable. lt was thou hat Bessie, the "use less one," came to thc fore.. The 4 frit tery fancy work" that Abram Al ve] bad so scorn iully condemned, prove its worth. Blithely the bright stee needle flew through gauze and silk and for the dainty creations turnee \ out by the deft fingers Bessie re ceived a snug competence. Her tim was al moat taken up, but some hov she managed to crowd in a few mush pupils, aud so add a trille more t< their income. And it was after giving a lesson om day that she came in, and throwing aside her hat, laid her flushed, brigh face on the pillow be-ide her father's He looked at her fondly, but in a dep recaping way. "My dear," he said, in a strange!} weak voice, "you will kill yoursell working so! If only Jess or Min" She placed her hand on his mouth with a quick, quaint gesture. "No more 'ifs,' papa, please," sin said, lightly. "And 1 am not goin to work so hard now. Papa, Ralph Deane has a-ked me to marry him and 1 said-I would!" Ralph Deane! John Hunt remem bered him. He belonged to one ot the best families iu town. For an instant the broken man gazed into the fresh, fair face, then drew her close to hts breast. "God bless you, my daughter," he said, huskily. And Jenica SR id Minerva? When Bessie was married she took her father, mother and two sister* home with her to the handsome home her husband gave her, and they are there, bemoaning their fate even yet. -[Boston Globe. Beginning of Our Understanding of Storing. Ia the jeir 1821 a severe storm pre vailed along the Eastern coast, which for many years was known as the "great September gale." It held that title until September, 1869, when an other and more remarkable one oc curred, which rather disturbed its claim to the honor. It was a little time siter this first storm that Bed fi la, while making a journey ill Maasach use it s, was struck by a some what carions fact. He noticed that in Massachusetts the trees prostrated by the wind, all lay with their heads to the southeast, showing that the Yale there, was from the northwest; ; but iu Coiiuectioat the trees blown down in the same storm lay head to the northwest* showing that the gale had been a southeast one. He ascer tained, moreover, that when the wind was blowing southeast in Middle town, his home, it was northwest at a place not seventy miles from there. It was then that the idea flashed across his mind that the gale was a progressive whirlwind. That was a great thought, it was such a flash of perception as came to Newton when he connected the falling apple with the planets in space. It was such an insight Into the meaning of a fact as James Watt had when he saw the possibilities of the force that was rattling the lid of the kentle on his mother's fire. The development of that idea was destined one day to pat Redfield in the ranks of the great scientific thinkers of his day. He made this storm the basis of his in vestigations, following his researches into its movements by a careful col lection of facts in relation to others like it. For ten years he studied, and examined aud compared his facts, be fore he published hia theory of storms.-[Popular Science Monthly, In Praise of Celery. Celery is one of the finest of all our j garden vegetables. The air of uiys I tery which formerly ming over its cultivation has, happily, been cleared I sway of late, and it is becoming much ! more common in private gardens. It is a healthf al as well as delicious veg etable, and there is really no reason why it sbould not be universally raised, at least wherever the soil is naturally moist enough, or can be kept so by artificial means. The old giant, or tall-growing kinds were, no doubt, rather discouraging to the ordinary cultivator, as they required, either deep trenching when first planted, or i very high earthing up afc the last I an arduous task in either case. But modern horticultural skill . bas developed many dwarf varieties I of the highest excellence, which may be planted upon the ground level and S need but little earthing up in tho fali ; m fact, one or two varieties are of fered which lo some degree are self blanching, and though they are all improved in tenderness by some arti ficial process of whitening the " stalks, i hey are quite palatable without. The old green and red kinds still remain, however, the best for their crisp ten derness and the possession of that peculiar nutty flavor which is the dis tinguishing excellence of celery, and. these require a certain amount ox banking to blanch them properly. The portion of the crop which is in tended for early use should be earthed up early, say from September l to October 1. That intended for late Iwinter supply should, on the contrary, not be earthed, bot kept growing well and put in storage quite green, as in this condition it keeps better, and it will blanch quite well while in storage. At Kalamazoo, the great celery raising centre of the country, they still regard the old "Boston Market" as the best I lafe-keeping variety. Two thousand acres or more are devoted to thc culti vation of the vegetable in that region. The process of blanching is accom pli-lied largely by the use of boards, whereby quite a saving both of time and labor is secured,- [Boston Trans* cript. How to Hake an Egg Dance For the boy who loves to play ma gician and to keep the whole family en thralled by his remarkable feats here is a new trick, that of making an egg dance: Place a hard-boiled egg upon the underside of a smooth, but dull-not poli-hed-tray. Move the i ray aroaud and around horizontally, gradually increasing in speed. The egg, resting in the middle of the tray, is carried around aud around by .be movement and gradually begins to rc vo.ve on it* own axis, faster and fast er, till at last it is seen to rise on end and spin away just as a top would do. In ail experiments involving egg balancing you will find it a material aid to success to keep the egg upright iu the saucepan while it is heine boiled. The air chamber will ia such case be kept central with the longer .ixis of the egg, which will, in conse quence, bo much more easily bal anced. To set the egg spinning as described demands practice, not to mention some s reng h, and, still more, address. For the benefit of those wiio are um nitiou* to succeed at the first attempt we indicate a simple plan of pro cedure. Piano the tray on tho table, letting it project so far over the edge us to be readily and rapidly grasped by the hand. Place the egg in thc middle, and with the thumb of tho left and the first finger of the right hand placed at opposite ends, set it vigorously spinning, it will imme diately rise on end, still spinning. Quickly seize the tray and you will then have uothing to do but to keep the edge still rotating, which is a very easy matter. This is done by moving the tray in horizontal circles, but in the reverse direction to that ia which the egg revolves. - [New York Advertiser. Began Alike. Braggs-I upi a self-made" man, air. I began life ai a barefoot boy. Cooley-Indeed! Well, I wasn't boru with shoes on either.-[New York Herald. Pupils in the third and fourth year of the Boston high schools coarse? may take an elective in shorthand. CURING A COLD. Some Methods That May Be Used to Advantage. A Doctor's Practical Sugges tions and Remedies. If you have contracted a cold," of course you want to get rid of it as soon as possible, says a doctor in the New York World. When the fit st symptoms, which have been described, manifest themselves is the time for action, and this should consist of a hot mustard foot-bath before going to bed aud a hot draught of milk. The covoriug of the body should be linen and wool, the former in the way of the sheet and the latter in the blanket. No attempt to get up an active sweating should be made. The foot bath and the warm drink will give a sense of warmth and facilitate the natural excretion of materials which should pass away by the skin, and any effort to aggrevaie this will be not only superfluous, but harmful. The blanket should never be worn next to the night robe, and should not be so thick as to confine the Sir nex to the body. It is, indeed, of en ad visable to lighten the covering of the feet, and to preserve a certain amouut of weight over the loins, and to have the shoulders protected from the ex ternal surroundings in general. The last measure is not to be under rated; a sensitive lung carries with it susceptibility to take to itself every thing that could possibly affect it to its detriment. Lung diseases belongs to sensitive persons, and may or may not be the sequence of a "cold.0 The majority of them, however, can be traced to imprudence iu dress and ex posure. Pneumonia, plurisy and con sumption are partners of carelessness in the dressing of the chest and back, and "colds," which might stop at the throat by a little prudence, are their apprentices. If one of your ancestors died of a lung disease, you should be more than usually cautious about the clothing of your chest and back. Families and their offspring have tendencies toward certain complaints, and this fact should not be ignored. If you have unconsciously cou tracted a cold and want to get relief from it, you feast, in the first pitee, avoid too much medication A proper* I ly clad skin and a clear digestion ought to shorten the life of the cold." If a little comfort can be secured by ' wearing a light covering on the head during indoor hours it should be re spected. Ventilation of apartments comes in ! for a slight amount of attention, and it should be simply sufficient to fur nish fresh air aud not to produce cur rents which can be appreciated. No thing is more fallacious than the belief that health is promoted and life prolonged by air in excess, and this is proved by tombstones. There are a few good remedie which appeal to us as matters of tra dition. Our grandparents used them with effect, and we might lollow their example without injury. One of these is sassafras tea, another xs boneset tea, and another is senna tea. Each has its office, and each is of value in its peculiar line, and at the same time harmless. It would be superfluous to give di rections for their use, for every one knows about them and what grandma has believed of their efficacy. These teas are good and may benefit you in time of "colds." Forest Fires and Mosquitos in Alaska. Miles and miles of blackened stumps marked the ravages of the forest fires. The Indian, when resting on his jour ney and suffering from mosquitos,seta fire to the twigs and leaves around him, creating a smoke which keeps the pe*t ata distance, and,'when re freshed, pie straps on his pack sud moves along the trail, of course with out extinguishing his fire; when an nouncing his approach to friends at a distance, he sets fire to a half-dead spruce or tamarack-tree, aud the column of thick, black smoke is the signal, to be acknowledged iu the same manner by those who see it, so ; a to direct the traveler to their camp ing-grounds. In the summer every thing is crisp and dry, and the timber is saturated with turpentine. The trees left to smolder are fanned into flame by the slightest breeze; the flames creep among the resinous trees, and spread till whole forests are de stroyed. These forest fires and the mosquitos account for the scarcity of game. Over the vast untraveled re giou th it we visited, there was a re markable scarcity of wild animals. We saw only a few ground-squirrels and some grouse and ptarmigan. The Indians say that, ail the larger animals retreat in summer to the hill" tops, where, exposed to a constant breeze, they are free from the tor ments of insects. At our camp for the night on a grassy knoll, the mofqnitos aud other flies were itt greater numbers and more ravenous than wc had ever pre viously experienced them. The whole insect world seemed to hail our arrival with the same relish that re ervution Indians welcome government rations. Their attacks were tierce and inces sant; our poor brutes, tortured into a frenzy, th<>ugli hobbled, stampeded ck, and sought escape from the tor ment by sinking into the swamp through which we had labored only a few hours before. The next morning, however, afforded us a delightful rest, for a stiff breeze from tho southward swept the air clear of the pests, and granted man and horse a short re spite. When plagued by flies, our leader, who wore a brass bell, would create a continual tinkling but when unmolested, the baud would seek oft patch of grass and go soundly sleep, profiting by the unusual lull. [Century. ? ? . ^ i ? ? Tepees and Hogans. "While attached to a military exr di lion against the Sioux iu Wyomi in 1877. I saw those Indians constm at the varions camps we made whai take to be the most primitive form house built by human nands. It w si inply a shelter, or tepee as lb caned it, made with tho green boug cut from the cottonwood trees. Wit out any especial pre a rut ion of t ground, they implanted the cut en of the limbs in two parallel roi about eight feet long and five fe apart. The tops were adroitly be over the inclosed space and fas'en< together along the middle line, tin creating a semi-cylindrical shelt open at both ends. These tepees we merely intended for two or three nu to sleep in, all thc cooking and oth< arrangements being performed ou side. In permanent summer camps the tepees are built in a .>ub^hcnii>pheric shape, the ground upon which UK are bniit being cleaned off, moderate! scooped, out, aud thc earth hus o tained banked around the n-8iu< cuds of the boughs on the inside < the structure. They are then trimme up and properly covered outside ir ii long prairie gra*s. so placed a* to SIK the rain. Often, too, they threw old buffalo hide over the top us an a< ditiotial protection. lu 1886 I observed the Navajos i northwestern New Mexico buildiii similar houses to the ones I have ju described; but those Indians al> build a more durable structure i their hogan-a conical house ol 1<>< ! plastered with mud, and with a do* at the side. Navajos, too, aro in : proving in their home-building tnoi { especially where they have taken u i their abode in the neighborhood c frontier military garrison .-[Popule Science Monthly. All He Guarantees to Do The cleverness of the waiters wh stand at the doors of the dining roo ir of the large hotels in charge of th hats which are left outside by tl guests is very striking. Some of thei perform really wonderful feats c memory iu the way of identifying th hat of each person, although they ofte do not see the guest more than one and that for only the instant when li pauses to leave his hat behind him a he 6titers. At a hotel on the Maine coast is colorod man who is famous among tb guests for never making a mistake although sometimes the guests hav tried to puzzle him by going in i groups and by wearing hats he ba never seen. One day one of th boarders talked with him about thi power aud the waiter said that he hs acquired it by long practice. .'And do you never make mis takes?7' the gentleman inquired. 4 No, sah ; I don't cal'late to m ak no mistakes," wa the answer. "And do you give every man h own hat?" Oh, sah," returned the waiter " 'taint none o' my bue'nes whose th hat am. I gibes to ebery mun thc ha he gibes to me."-[Boston Courier. A Marvelous Work of Art A poor sonar, or goldsmith, nama Prayag Ram, of Dumaron, in Saaha bad, India, has constructed a most in gemous piece of mechanism. It rep resents the various household and in du8trial avocations engaged in by thi women of that country. A larg group of figures beautifully model e and dressed, each about two in che high, is seen in the reproduction o: the inner courtyard of au Indian man sion. Some are employed in spinning cotton, others in husking rice, grind ing corn, churning and other domestic work. Their movement!, which an wonderfully natural, are comm uni cated by complicated clockwork con* cealed in the body of the case, whict is inclosed in glass. The invento] having expresced a desire to pr tent his work to Queen Victoria, the mag* istrate of Shahabad has submitted thi offer through the proper channels. Uer Majesty has been graciously pleased to accept the mechanism aa a token of Prayag Ram's loyalty, and his magnum opus, fitted in a padded box, is on ils way to Osborne.-[Chi cago Times. The Antiquity of The Umbrella, The antiquity of the umbrella is un disputed. Tue Chinese, who, in their lavish notions of antiquity, credit their institutions with centuries galore, think nothing of dating the first um* brella back 4000 or 5000 years ante rior to the Mo-aie date of creation. Many distinguished scholars have I claimed to discover in the Bible refer ence to tho existence of a shield against sun and rain, while the San" scrit poets, writing when Latin was young, are full of abusions to it Va rious have been the speculations as to the origin of the umbrella. Some say that the introducing of leafy branches into a sort of a bower first suggested it Others that the nomadic tent was the only natural prototype of what o strongly resem bles it in miniature. lu tho Chaldaic sculptures of Nine veh the umbrella is of frequent oc currence, as shown by the excellent re productions of Lay ai d, who wrote concerning it: "The umbrella or par. asol, that emblem of royalty to uni versally adopted by eastern nations, was generally carried over the King iu lime of peuce and sometime even in war. In' shape it resembled very closely those iu common use, but it ia always open in the sculptures. It was edged with tassels, and was usually ornamented at the top with a flower or some other ornament-"* i [Clothier and Furnisher. A WHITE CITY. The Wonderful Growth of the World's Fair Buildings. A Waste Plain Covered With Magnificent Structures. H. C. Banner draws ia Scribner the following graphic peo picture of the wonderful rise of the World's Fair buildings in Chicago: On the shore of a wide, blue-gray lake, under a northern sky, veiled over half itt horizon with a dim, smoky mist, there spread, two years ago, a waste and desolate sand plain with a streak of marshy pools in the heart of it. Here and there were trunks of scrubby trees and patches of starvel ing underbrush; but it had none of the pleasant loneliness of the country sid ; the bleak desolation of a great city's waste outskirts brooded over the whole tract On the west the pace was bounded by the flat broad road bed of a suburban rail road; eastward a strong wall of pon derous masonry flood between it and the sullen swash of the inland sea. To the south it went out of sight in loneliness; on the north it narrowed to a point where a great town had begun a tight with nature for a few acres of pleasure ground, stubbornly pushing a green covering of young trees and grass across the unwilling saud. Beyond (h s patch of verdure trailed out tho city's myriad streets, sparsely settled here, for the town proper lay eight miles away iu the heart of the smoky haze that floated along the sky Hue. In the mouth of Jane, 1891, a man st nek the nose of a plough into the sand of this plain, by way of begin ning an undertaking which lay before him, and before some scores of thou sand of working men all over the country-day-laborers, like himself; iron-forgers, architects, trackmen, carpenters, painters, surveyors, glaz iers, designers, moulders, joiners, masons, gardeners - men of every trade and art and handicraft, of every notionally, of every class and kind of humanity, working together in widely separate places for the accomplishment of one com mon parp se. lo-day ia the prosecution of this under taking, the surface ofthat waste plain hat bec. me the scene of one of the mott marvellous manifestations o mechanical achievement which the worid hat to o Her; it is the site ol sach a group of buildings as has never before been assembled for tack a par pose, on such a scale, within such s time, and tn stich conditions. It toundt like an extravagance to say that within this space of half a thou sand acree is concentrated the energy, the skill, the intelligence, the activ. ity, equipped with every material requisite, that would suffice to bal ld up a large city in the space of three years; bat to this plain statement of fact mutt be added this other: that the city is built He who goes to that lake-tide desert a year from now will see, rising from a gracious and well ordered garden, a white eily of glasfi and iron, a system of structures gi gantic in plan and scope beyond any thing that science has hitherto held feasible or desirable for the shelter" iug of a multitude of pleasure-seekers. America's Sift to the World's Larder. The discovery of America and of the passage to the E ist Indies around the Cape of Good Hope contributed much to the development of cookery by enlarging the number of gastro nomic productions, and especially by furnishing better seasoning than bad before been known. The ancients had made ase chiefly of cumin, mint, saffron, garlic and oxymel; to these were now added cinnamon from Cey lon, vanilla from Mexico, cloves and nutmegs from the Molucca islands pepper from Java and allspice from the Caribbees. Sugar had been brought into Europe by the Saracens only a few centuries before, and all through the Middle Ages it wat a cottly luxury used only on rare occasions. During the Wara of the Roses, about 1460, Margaret Patton, wife of a wealthy country gentleman of Norfolk, wrote to her husband, begging that he would .?vouchsafe'' to tend her a pound of lugar, All this time honey largely took the place "of what we consider the indispensable saccharine commod ity. In England kitchen vegetables were very scarce until the end of the six teenth century. No salads, carrots turnipt,or other succulent roots were cultivated by the inhabitants of Great Br itain until the close of the reign of Henry VIII. Up to that time the little they had was imported from Holland and Flanders. Potatoes and y .ma, both products of the New World, were introduced later.-[New Turk Obsorver. France's Friendships. A Russian newspaper has published a leading article on the hollowness of the friendship between France and Bussia. If the French people cared fer Russia, stales this organ, they #ould have shown their friendship in deeds, not in words, dnring the fa mine. France ouly tent $5,000,000 to the relief funds, and then only after being specially requested to do so; whereas England and Germany, who make no profession of particular friendship, contributed mott gener ously. Kurd on the Boga. Firtt Dog-We'll be tied up every Thursday and Saturday nights now. Second Dog-What's up? Firtt Dog-That new dude that comes to tee Mist Susie has money. - TNnw York Weekly. WOMEN'S HANJOS GROW SHALL ER A manufacturer of gloves on Broad Way made a very nu expected state* ment Said be: "Americau women wear smaller glores tuan formerly. We have been compelled to notice the difference within the last tow years. Ten ycart ago we sold very few gloves of sizes fi 1-2 and 6, bat now a great part cf our trade is in those sizes. The ten deucy is to plain gloves, and the fash ions in them change very little, where as they used to alter constantly, often leaving a big* stock of unsalable goods on baud,"-[New York Journal. SKIRTS WILL BR SHORT. The welcome announcement is made in all the best shops that skirts of street dresses will be short enough to clear the ground. Those seen on the newly imported gowns are close-fitting and very simply trimmed. Some are fitted by narrow gored breadths, and others retain the bell shape, with darts at the top and eloping back-seam, pre cisely as is now worn. Various names are given the French skirts, as the trumpet, the umbrella, the cornet; but the motive remains the same for all, the top smoothly fitted in front and on the sides, with slight fulness massed in the back, and the whole flaring gracefully towards the foot The accordion-plaited skirt reappears on cloth dresses and on light silk mousseline designed for evening wear.-[New York World. LACS IS "POINTED" AGAIN. In laces there is a reaction in favor of scallops, fern-points, rose-points, and others, against the straight-edged varieties so long used. Soon they will appear ou stalely evening gown3 of velvet, silk and brocade as flounces, tabliers, etc. Meanwhile, they are employed for jabots, bretelles, ber thas, wide, picturesque collars, and sleeve-frills, zouave-fronts, puffs, and sleeve-caps of greater or less depth. Their creamy meshes blend char mingly with the delicate mauve, Nile green, rose-colored, and golden-yellow ribbons now in vogue. Indeed, a larger use of laces can but lead to a greater prodigality of ribbons, though already they are used in quantities now-in series of loops, in knots, singly or clustered ; iu wide and nar row sashes, in straight rows, points, bara, rosettes, and in broad bows and ends from the belt-in Empire style on the shoulders, in coquettish French fashion, or at the back, mingling gracefully with the Watteau pleat of lace or of gauzy tissue that is cn many silk, chifl n, or brocade gowns. [New York Post FASHION NOTES. There are raiubow-hued glasses, Tates and dishes cf every sort. "The Baby's Friend^ is a little sil ver box to bold baby's safety pius. Yetta of lace shirred on daisy rib bon are much liked by young women. A great deal of very elaborate and expensive passementerie is to be worn. Chippendale glass is in tall, slender, angular pieces with delicate gold tracery. The choker collar is quite the fav orite. This style is seen on most of the tailor costumes. A shirred hat of dark-colored crepe over gold wire has a trimming of lace, wings and aigrettes. A beautiful brocade bas a ground of pale-green, with a design of water lilies sheltered by bulrushes. Vases of glass bubbles surmount ing one another, as delicate and irid escent at soap bubbles, are new. Hats with tiny crowns the height and size of a charlotte-russe still hold their own among autumn fashions in French millinery. Embroidered shoes, with stockings matching the color of the ground of the shoe or some leading tint in the decoration, are quite popular. The quaint high crown that made such a sensation in the spring is to be the popular crown of the winter, ac cording to present indications. Round yokes of galloon, with wide, round corselet belts also of galloon, are worn with dresses of cashmere and oiher thin woolen materials. The Chester carnation and orchid boutonni re have given way to a bunch of half a dozen tiny rosebuds, with a tingle wisp of green in the centre. Plain skirts trimmed at the extreme edge are still ali the rage, and princess dresses as well ai those in imitation of them, and with or with out Watteau plaits, are becoming more popular. Princess gowns have returned. Many are made with Watteau plaits and corslets bands which are rattier unpardonable. The princess gown should mould to the figure with no superfluous fripperies. A new silk it called armure celeste. It has a horizontal rib in two shades, the high rib of one shade, the line be. tween of another. This gives a shot effect. Two shades o heliotrope, eau-de-ml and mauve and maise are shown. Chamois-colored cloth and Suede kid In russet and ecru art much used for the making of vests and long cloie cuffs of Russian and other costumes made with open jack et-fro nts. The buttons used are of cut steel, resem bling studded leather when fastened. Russian cloths and velours du nord, which is not velvet, but a sort of red wool, are among the novelties. Among the colors approved are many Warm browns, merging into and mingled with yellow. Changeable effects predominate in woollen goods at well at silk. .4 X Metrical Kinlslursa Sgr eyes display a blended bna Of Kammer skies and violets bitte, With jest a bint of April dew To make her glances bricht; Bot, lest their luster be too lair, And brighter than the world could beal, LoDg lashes like a silken snare, Befringe her lids of white. Shy apple-blossoms flashed with moa Have lent tbeir color to adorn. Her cheek, whereon ig gaily bom A dimple with each smile. Her wayward tresses scorn to rest By ribbon bound or fhlet prest, Aud ever weave at tbeir liehest Fresh graces to beguile. Her curvinir lips by turns recall Red roses, poppies, cherries-al! That wins the eye or could enthrall A bermit or a saint. Her gleaming teeth't were vain to hymn; The brightest words were all to dim; The artist who their light would limn Must crush a pearl to paint. Beneath her kirtle peeps afoot That charms in slipper, gaiter, boot; Whose music makes the birds grow mute With bended heads to bear. Her hand can boast perfection's mold, In winter wann, in summer cold, And just the temperature to hold At any time of year. ^ , A snowy neck, a witching chin, An ear in tint the sea-shell's twin. A saucy nose-just put that in The bonnie little belle! Her name? Ah, there I hesitate; With many a rival at ber gate, Her name, until I know my fate, 'T were wiser not to tel!. -[Samnel M. Peck, in the Century. HUMOROUS. 'T is better to be tried by fire than to be fired after being tried It takes a master-stroke to smooth down a rebellious ec bool boy. It is a wise child that goes out of the room wuen the old man smashes his thumb. "riere is another idle shattered,'1 said thc young man who fouud he had togo to work. The spider is possibly the only thing living that eau have a fly time of it without being punished "We'd like to come," said the rat to his friends in the wall, "bat we'll have to stay here with our traps." Dotley (who notes her black velvet ribbons)-You are in half mourning? Dorothy-Yes, my half brother if dead. Sbe-You say you think Mr. Pinck erly was born lucky. Why, he hat been jilted by four girls. Her Hus band-That's lucky. "That's the burning question,* announcing Gazzam, as he laid down his newspaper. "What is?" asked his wife. "Cremation." Molly-Does your husband still practice economy as ho did when he was single? Wife-Ob, no; he con tents himself with preaching it to me. Mr. Que See-Sneaky sort of man? What do you mean sir? Witness Well, sor, he's the sort of man that'll never look ye straight in the face until yer back's turned. Chappie-I did not catch Mrs, Hi strong's remark. I wonder if it was intended for me? Bess-STo, I know it was not, for she said, "A word to the wise is enough." "I see Miss Sanders and Miss Smi ley are together all the time. What dear friends they most bel" "No| at ail. You see, each of them has an unmarried brother." "There's one thing-J don't under*' stand," said little Harry; "that's why good-tasting things like pie make me sick, while bad-tasting things like medicine make me well. * Mollie, "Whatever induced you to get this horrid-looking material for a dress?" Ethel: "It is the only way] I can be sure of getting back what is left over at the drefamaker s," He-Do you kuow it has always seemed strange to me that I have never married? She - Dear me* haven't any of thc giris ever given yon their reasons for refusing you? .. Invalid Wife-John dear, I do hope if you should ever marry agaiu yon will find a better wife than I have been. Johu-There, there, my love,, don't worry; lhere will be no trouble pbout that He-Miss Emma, I love yon. May I ask your parents for their permission to lead you to the altar? She-Cer tainly. "And do you think they will give their consent?" "Of course they will. I have trained them to be obedient f rom my youth up." Queen Victoria's German Side. 1 heard au amusing story about England's Queen the other day. I don't think it has ever been published, but the authenticity was vouched for. It seems that an English woman, whose name was given to me, is on quite intimate terms with the royal family, though she is without title; just a ptaiu "Mrs," and from a country family. One time she, with her little child, three years o d, was lunching with the Queen. At the table were Princess Beatrice and several others. The Q teen, in thc course of the lunch, took up a chicken wing in her fingers. While she was enjoying the sweetness of the meat next the bone the little child looked up and quickly said: .'Pig-ee! Pig-eel" Every one wai horrified. The mother felt as if sh would like to sink out of existence. The Queen wcut on for an instant with the morrel which she was hold ing in her fingers and then said: "You are right, my dear. An English lady would not take a chicken wing in her fingers, but you must bear tn mind that I am a German woman.19 And she calmly finished the wing. The rest breathed a low sigh of relief and the mother and child were, on taking their leave, invited to come again.-[Chicago Inter-Ocean,