fflf. MUMRSMO WVTKD WASHINGTON DIVINE •VADAY MiMXKfMM. *> ■■ :■ h.;’ - M >WMWg ttv« Star*—Our Own World . too iMUMt *T Tlwm AM. Waa N ' brtli aa Dm IhMtn Vte ll* *ad Iw \ warn mmm Awfot tnapl* to other*. • Tnr “It to Ho that tralhleth His storiss to the Iwavu*."- A aoi.lt.. A Ah to first-rats poetry from Anon, th# herdamaa. Whll* nutting hi* Book* vt light, to* got watching th« heaven*. Ha mw atars above it an, and tho un Irena —will to him like a gnat mansion many atoriea high, allver room ahova silver room, —rar pilitm bvHfden silver pillar*. and win* dews ot sllyvr and doom of ailror. and tat* nto and dome* ot illrcr rtoiag Into fo* tnasensttfs*, and tho prophet's saneti- Had tongtnMllon walk* through that groat allrar palaoo of tho naif erne, tluooguthe •rat atory, through tho second atory, throogh tho third mory, through tho twen tieth atory, throogh tho hundredth atory, through tho thousandth atory, and raalis* a -that God to thoarohttaet and carpenter njaason ot all that apbanrad splendor, tot erie* out In tho words of tho text, “it to Ha that hulldoth Bis xtbclvs In tha Tho fact to that wa have all apant too much time oa one story of the groat man- Aon at God’s uoirocae. Wo nood occasion ally to go a pat aim or downstairs in this mansion; downstairs, and In tho collar Study tho rock*, or upstates and saa God fa —aa ot tho higher storiaa, an.l learn tho meaning or th« text whoa it says: “it to Ho that boildeth His stories in tho hearoo." fc "Astronomy was bora In Chaldea. Its ■other waa Astrology, or the science ot femtelllßg areals by Juxtaposition at stars. Tho Oriental*, itrlng much oat ot doors god In « very clear atmosphere, throogh Which the stars shone especially, tustroas, got the habit of studying the night Scareoe. in the hot seasons caravans journeyed chi -fly at night, an 1 that gave travelers mooli opportunity ot stellar In formation. On tho find page ot the Bible As sun an.l moon and stats roll in. The SO a, n body nearly three million »0«s In Ulcvav foresee end more titan twelve thoo gaad times aa largo as oar earth; the moon, osoro than two. thousand miles In diameter, tot God Is used to doing things on such aa omnipotent scale that ha take* only one —so to toll ot into solar and Inner manu facture. lea, in throe words all the other .worlds are thrown Is. The record says, *“J’be stars a too." It takes whole pages (or • man to extol the mating of a telescope or salmon*opo or a magnetic telegraph or « tores Mug machine, or to describe a line Minting or statoo, Iml it waa so easy tor God to hong the eelaetlal upholstery that toe story to com passed la one versa; 'God Mode two great lights, the greater light to sale tho day and tho l«*a-r light to rule the Wight. Th« stars stool* Astronomers have Men trying to anil tho roll ot them ever stars, and they have oouoted multitudes ot them pasdeg la review uetore the observa tories built at vast ext>ea*e. and the also and number o( those heavenly bodies have taxed to tho utmost tho scientists ot all God finishes all He has to say about toast In threo word*. "The stars also!” That Is Hare, with its mom than Ittty-flve ■lldoa square miles, and Teuus, with 1U mors than one hundred nod ninety-one ■nitons square miles, and datura, with it* ■on than nineteen billion nqnara miles, and Jupiter, with Us mote than twenty fear Miltoe square mrhp.and ail the planet* of our system of more than seventy-eight Hillon square miles, end these stars o! our system, wl;en oomiarc.l with the stars of the other eysteio*, as * handful of sand Compared wilh all the Body Mountains and all the Alps. “The stars also!’' Par brevity, for ponderosity, for splendor, for gßNKesilrsaess, tor sublimity piled on Sublimity, these words excel all that human Spoeoh over uttered or human imagination svr* seared alter: “The slats also!” It to fut In aa you write a postscript—something you thought of lifter ward—-as hardly worth putting into the body of a totter. “The •taw stool" Oh, what a God we have, and Be Is oar Father! Bead on la your Bibles, and after an hits the Bible flashes with the aurora toßS'h or northern lights, tlist strange Ahuplnation, tu> mysterious and ondefiaed Aow 1 as wlwm. In the book ot . Job U was Written: “Men see not the bright light ■bleb is la the clouds. Fair weatuer someth put of the norm." While ad the Wat lon* sapposed ttiat tba earth was built aa is foundation ot some sort, and many supposed that it stood on a huge turtle, or #oms great marine creature. Job kaew Oaoegh of astronomy to sav It had no foundation, but was suspended on the in vtoiido ana ot tho Almighty*, declaring that “Ha hangeth the earth upon noth fog." While all nations thought tho earth was level, thg eky spread over it Hke a teat Over a flat serfs*, Is-vtoh declared the World to be globe Ur, elreular, saying of #O4: “He elttetk apoa the circle of the earth." flee them glitter in this scriptural Sky—Arrtams. Orion, the FloUdee, and toe “to ar with bar yaeng." Without the use of telescope and with out any observatory and without any as 'AMhomiaal ea'culiuion, I know that tba Other wemds are fababitet, be Basse my Bilde and myeontmoa oeaea tell me so.' It hss been eetlmstal that la tho worlds Belonging to our solar system them Is Mem for at lewt twenty-live trllHoa of glathm. And I believe It to all oeeu or will to* occupied, by lsteMgeot lo> God will sot All theta with bretca. rou'd certainly put Into tho** worlds •singe iMteHlgeot esoage to sppreolsto too arehheetuM. the oolerleg, the grao oar, tba lisauty, tba harmony ot their eur roendlasa. Tea, the inltante of those Worlds have rapacity o* locomotion, for flbry would not have had sueb npaelous op pettUMUy ‘for inpvem* nt If they had not pearls of uatloii. Tea, they have sight, glee why the Hght. sad hearing, else how get on with necessary language, and bow ftoarthrnweivei from advancing peril*? Tea, ae God made tor bneias rave In Hie own hr age, Ue prortsi'dy made the Jahato Hants of atiwr worlds In Hi*own image; la other words. It to as soar demonstration as I rare to hare ft. that while thelnhaMtauts Os other world* have adkplatione of bodily ■rectors to tbo pnrticeUr climate In la wMeb thee dwell, there to yet situltarliy mi «ratal and SfdrWeal ehsraelertottas fliaceg all the fshaMtaateof the aeiverse «f o*3, sad made |a His hasgs they are rsrirg. a? WAxzrx. —tkmThow pAwSIUa, which seams to roll back tho —eenym os wfth the thosght toat ts God BWW Nl w*iy in#W Os M wed fooonoltoed tho shammer of Its popo’ Etoosi hy grace they are to bo mo— rWhaTfl msaaitowHy of Iflaoraaaa that r • ' r T w ~'. to the voieae of other worlds, although tba Book says. "The heavens declare the glory of God,” and, again, “Tha works of tho Lord are great and to ha sought oat.” How much ham you sought them one? Too have been satisfy lug yourself wltb some things about Christ, tost have you notiood that Paul oalls you to oomdJer Christ aa tha Creator of other worlds, 'by whom also Ha mads tho uwrlda." It fs time you Christians Wart oa a world hunt. Thai to tho ohk>! reason why God mak« the night, that you may other worlds. Go out to-night sod look up at tho greet elook of tho heavens. Listen to the silvery chime of tha midnight sky. dsn that your ebildrea and grandchildren mount tho baaveas with teleeco|»e for alpenstock, leaping from aoollvlty of light to activity of fight. What a thoughtful aai sublime thing that John Qaluey Adam*, the ax- Pmsldent, borne down with year*, under took at tns peril of bis life tho Journey from Washington to Cincinnati that ho might lay tha oomer-stooe of the pi«r of tho great refracting tele-nope, ssd th-re making his last oration. What a SArvtoe for all mankind whoa, la 1.133, Lonl Rosas lifted on tho lawn ot his ca«tla eighty miles from Dublin o taleeeope that revealed worlds as fast as they could roll lo and that started an enthusiasm which this moment concentrates the eyes of many of the mom devout In all parts of tha earth on select lat dfamovery. Thank God that wo now know our own world to, bounded on all sides hy rsaluw of glory, instead ot be ing where Hesiod in his poetry described It to be. namely half way between heaven and hell, an anvil hurled oat «t heaven, taking ten days to strike tha earth, an t hurled out ot earth, taking tan more days to strike perdition: From tho high heaven a brazen anvil east. Nine days sad nights La rapid whirls would !m6£ And ranch the earth tha tenth; whunea strongly hurled. The same the passage to th* infernal world. I thank God that we have fouad out that our world to uot half way between heaven amt hell, bat to iu a staler hood of light, and that this sisterhood joins all thy other sto terhoods of worlds, moving round scute great homestead, which to no doubt heaven, where God to. and our departed Ohrtotlan friends are, and we ourselves through par doning mercy expect to beeorna permanent residents. O, what a God we have, sad Ho to our Father. Furthermore, I gat now from all this an answer to the question which every Intelli gent man and woman nines the earth has stood ha* asked and roeclved no answer. Whv did God let ala and sorrow eome Into the'wnchl when Ua could have prevented them from coraingf 1 wish reverently to any I think I have found tho wtsoa. To keep the universe loyal to a Holy God, it wa* Important Iu souio world oomawharw to demonotmta tha gigan tic dUastor* that would come upon any world that allowed sin to enter. Which world shoqbl it he? Well, the smaller the world tbo bettor, for less numbers would an Ter. Bo on r world was selected. The stage wa* plenty large enough for the ena Ament or the tragedy. Enter oa the stage Bln. followed by Mar der. (*«•*, T , ’- ,f Sri* I i—«f*»v,fih». hood, Ma*sere, War ant all tho abomina tion* soil horror* ■ .igoxtes >*i *mu.iu<"*. Although we know comparatively little about the other w-»rl to, lest we become eompleteiy dismtton«>t with our own, no doubt the other worlds have heard and are now hearing ail about this world In the awlnl experiment of sla which tho human race bn* been making. It to no hii'gor to me a mystery why so small a world aa ours waa ohossn for tha tragedy. Aehamtot ean demonstrate all the taws of earth and heaven let a small laboratory, tea feat by live, and our world wa* uot too Binall to demonstrate to the universe the awful chemistry of unright eousness. its explosive and rivieg and con suming power. On the tower of Pharos, Kgy|*. a mntslllo mirror was raised w'doh reflected all that occurred both on land sea for a distance of three hundred miles, and so Egypt was informed, of the coming of her enemies long to fore t.beir arrival. Hy whac process l know not. but In -omo way this ship of a struggling earth, I think, is mirrored to distant worlds. Bn rol y this one disastrous «;wls>9it of a world un loosing itself from God will ho ouougb for all worlds and ail eternities. But notice that as other worlds rolled In to tha flrot book of the Bible, the Book of Gonesto. they also appear lo tha lost book of the Bible, the Book of Herniation. They will taka part to the scon**, or that occa sion which shall be the earth's winding up, and atromendons oneaslon for you nod me (.traouaily. My rather waa one night on tho turnpike road between Trenton and Bound Brook, N. J. He was coining through the night from t>ie legislative halls, whero he was serving nto State, to bis home.when there was stoknroe. I often heard hiu tell about It. It wa* tho sight of tha 13th and tha morning of tho lfltb of Norsmbor, 1199. Suddenly the whole heavens booans a seen* never to »*e forgotten. From tho eSnsttolatton Leo meteors began to shoot la all directions. For tho two boars be tween 4 and 4 In tho morning. It wo* mtt msted that a thousand meteors a ml no to flashed and axolrud. It grew lighter than noonday. Arrows of lira. Balls ot Are. Traits of Are. Showers or Urn. Some of the appearances were larger than the full moon. All around tho limvoos oxpltMloa followed explosion. Bounds ss wall as sights. Tha air Ailed with uproar. AH tho luminaries of the sky seemed to bare ro se! vod marching orders. Tim heavens ribbed and Interlaced and garlanded with meteorie display. From horison to hort son everything to combustion and voulto grstioa. Tho oiwetaela Maned ant until th* rising son of it* November morning uellpsad it, and tho whole Aan-rlean nation eat down exbnastod with tho agitation* of a night to ho momornble until thaoacth Itself ehall be come a falling star. The Bible close* eUh such a ooehe of falling light*, not only Itdgoty meteors, hat grave old Star*. SC. John saw it In pro* pc at, and wrote: “Tho stars of hoavsu fell onto the earth, even os i flg ires ea*teik her untimely Ag» when oholo shaken of a mighty wind.” Wn*t a time that will Im.when world* drop. Bain of- plaoels. Gravitation lotting locs*, her grip on world*. Constellation* flying nnart. Galaxies dissolved. The grout, orchard of tha anlroroe swept hy the last hnntoano lotting down tbs toon like rioeoed troll. Onr old earth will go with the not, and lot It go, for It will have ex isted long entfngh to oomptot* Its t retenti on* experiment. Bat there wIB bo enough worlds loft to mxke a tomvon of, If any am hoavaa needs to ha befit, That day Hading as lo Christ, oar nature regene rated, and o«r sins par iowod, and oar now triampbaat. wa will foal ao moro storm than whaa In Meptomhsr, passing through aa orchard, you hoar tba apples thump to the ground, or through aooMarvatory sod you hedr aa aaiimaly fig me long tool boxes whose lids were uard and cold. There wa* no Are and the wind bleu throngh a broken giaaa ou tbs beck of my head. The ladies chatted away merrily, for they were go ing home, but i wasn't and 1 couldn't ebat to oave my life, for 1 woe very tired and thought of that good, soft bed at homo Sy and by the conductor came in with a iautarn and took np our tick ets and last us .in tha dark again. About that time the animals gat restless and the lion gave an unearthly howl. Yon see this wee a menagerie train. “Tha animals want in two by two, Tha elepbaut and tba kangaroo,” and every time the cars careened about or awung round a curve we oculd bear some devilish noise ahead of ns. “Oh, mercy.’’said tho voungeet girl, “sup pose they break ont!” “They will eat the sweetest and teudereat first,” said J, “Lions always do. ” I pulled aiv e'osk up over the book of my head and rum mated. For two long hoars we jnggt'd along, for the train wo* run ning alow to suit the wild beauts and we were us uo oonoeqnenoe. It was near 8 o'clock when we gut to the su burbs of Charlotte and stopped. No body' waa luok>ng for us—nobody rnshed forward to meet ns, no iwrter nor buck man -no omnibus or street cars, not even a wagon or an ox eart or a darkey. The moon bad hid herself to keep from seeing onr misery, but we seized onr gripe and wraps and satchels and mad# a march for tba electric lights. My eomi«nions noon, saps rated from ms and J marched in single line with my big valise fall of olothes and the drag store, and struggled for three quarters of a mile up the long and bard sidewalk. lam not used to arc lights, and the flicker ing shallow of every tree and telegraph pole lookedi ike a man in am bothwho waa fixing to hold me up. I had forgotten where the hotels were, and nneun* ecivrtsly passed them, for the doors ware ell shot, and there was no sign. Hy and by I met a polieemeu and be eon ductoa me back to the hotel, sad I wee aa thankful ae l was tired nod humble. My pitiful tone of voice secured me kind attention and a bed. When amen Is far away from borne, bis warmest welcome is an inn. lint I did not rest welL AlO o’clock supper, on fried *an*ageand scrambled eggs and else jvstera, distoibed my oon>oro*ity ami I dreamed that the direr got loose and earns prowling nod howling around the car and somehow ( got a hatchet ont of tbo toolbox flud lifted the ynnng lady through the port bole upon the roof, and volunteered to defend her with tuy life and my saored honor. The tiger tua.l* desperate leapt to setup there, but every time he gut d paw on tba save, I cut it off an 1 let him fall bflok ■irara. I don’t know what become of the other ladles, but think that other wild beasts got in sod eat them up. Tha man bad all fled prematurely, but I saved the pretty girl, the sweetest and tondarest, before i woke np. Who won Id n’t, in a dream? What curious thing* arc dream* anyhow 1 The next trouble oa tho old mao'a mind came over him at Haikbnry, where I was billed to lectors that night. On my arrival I fonad that August body, tb. ; ITesbytorian synod lo session. I reach ora and aider* innumerable were shut fared among ibe good people all ovet town. They war* bolding night see sione. and wouldn't have adjourns., for MOotnlsy or O rover c level nan ortho yellow foyer era fire. Bnt tbo wno nut all, tha Episcoi-al bishop wa to lecture oa the Holy Land, where bo had beau rvesaUy. and 1 kaew that would foil between and got sawtherul , v. . • • Mr. Marsh seemed to feel vary bad, am apologized by saying that when to booked ua he did not know of these meeting*. “Well,”eaid I, “the aaiuto will all go to these meetings, bnt yon have sin uara in this town. ’’ Ha admit ted that there arts noma. And eo 1 weut ahead and lectured, and wa* snr prised to see before me a select and cultured andisnee, select, and 1 bo|« elect according to PxesUytanan theol- Oif V v So all is well that ends w'slL The next evening found me at the nice little town ?f Merton, in weatern North Carolina, away up in the land of the sky. They ore good people there, 1 ttio«, lor they Riled tha court holt** that night. ami gavs na au ovation. Ike old soldiers are thick in that region, aud they cam* ont to hear me, ami sotne of us got to gether and talked of old Hob Lae and uoa-lohueton and rianeral* Early aud Bender and Whiting au.l Hoke and ban-ora and Pettigrew and < Iroguian aud others. lhe:r eye* watered and their heart* burned within them, and they got closer and closer together, vi beta people these tor bad* are th<--« descendants of theoooicb! Aboutev t> other name is ." cotok, a Me su« «r Me Fall or Mot. eur in or .do .rthur or MeiouieihiNgtilnv. and then tbo-e ■re Alexander* every where sad t a.d wells and Carlyle*. Af<«r tho lector* w*had a monies c at th; boiel by the gifted Cl ruber family, who keep tha hotel, Mr. Umber aud Airs. brnWr and their seven children, i have brai-d lUQeb iiiUttio during inr long lira# iw I never heard any fodter anj whc a i How the old man * fingers dMI .u-.ce . upon the strings; bow eweotl v did tue , still handsome matron sing tue **< •*''* ! Bose of Hnmuier” sad other old-i-iu# | songs of Scotland! What delight ful chords came from the piano under the touch of th* young ladies and the sweet little black eyed girl of only ten summers! And *hcu they played “Home. Sweet Home." withvanotu-us, I could hardly restrain my team. I fe t tike we all ought to bold a scaice if we could with -John Howard i ayne and tell him how the world loved him for hit song I had street dreams that niirlit. I aui still on tue grand rouuds talking to the uui reloading psoi-leof this grand o!d Stats It seem* to have got out, however, that l had joiued John ilobturoa’s circus and gone oil with it. Some of there uiiHckiev.iU* drummers told that. Tour’* ou the wing—t ill Arp, in Atlauto, («Ja) Con stitution. TRUMPET CALL#. Case's Born Snead* a Waratssc Ret* to the liir(dctu«d. worlds. Every dollar Is saved that Is spent to help the needy. It requires industry ,to make, and wisdom to save. If the man does not show at ten. he will not at forty. Society's trouble mill is ran half the time by whispers. The common saint la aa uncommon stranger to himself. Aggressiveness without control Is the animal tamed loose. The gospel, and the long face d" not travel well together. - Christ taught to teach; not to win ad miration or applaoM. Os Is a safe counsellor who profits hy his own blunders. The beet family medicine la large donee of good example. People are known by whero they spend their leisure time. Be Is well balanced that will take advice against Inclination. The man who loves bis neighbor a* himself cannot be a hermit. A dollar has more power In America than the Ten Oommamlments. The Careless man wrecks bis com fort: the covetous man bis destiny. The eagle bathing her pinions In the clouds Is but one of God’s thoughts materialised. If your schooling does not help you to better the world, your time and money are both lost. The man Who thinks he knows ail there Is to know I* already too dead to know that be Is dying. Scatter sunshine ss you peon along, end by nod by you may gather bun quota of immortal gbulnMia. Ws may gain n reputution for piety hy looking solemn. I*qt we ehall slan der the T* ft,,l J^ |^|iiii J^ | A Card to the Public. > We baveaoUerdleewerai papers la North G*ruhtt* that we leiseil* 4 wpettiuK a Seeley luvtHuiwtu WUialOtftuu, 9. C. Wo.Suppose k k»w oat us the Met tba we are arhtastog lo epea on* lu Wa-h o*l*ll, D. C-, and «ee la Baltimore, Mil, Wv tuve so tntatlea us etxmiou an litetKitte In esy other town la North Carolina at i-rt-eut, a* we l«ve ample •euoiMßiodauufarforfcl) iboee Who imhcm to «• ts omt urn and wwi appointed In-thnte at Orvvxatiory, N. (I Fur farther uuvnua •uM, athinro. lie Nerl>-y luetituto, Gnatae »»J«.J»r.L«»hJtilw^ Pnbllc officials wifi do well to reiaem • r when hr mtervltwer la sround inav an ouace of keepyobMOOUih-ehut/is wurtb a pound es aeteriald-ic # - NV T kicks its keeper. 1 Dull tools do little harm. TrUMtlng God without effort is an nba s * of souse. It Is difficult work to keep bid from you me If. Living without God Is risking the toe* of two SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL Another paving material has been disoovered in Florida at Tampa. It fa the pebbla phosphate, end is said Ae be very good and cheap. The production of India rubber in Mexico la attracting attention, and the samples which have been exhibited ate •aid to ba of fine quality. Coal tar, when used for dye*, yield* sixteen shades of bias, ths same num ber of yellow tints, twelve of orsugq, nine of violet, and numerous other odors and shades. Ths most wonderful axtronouis# photograph in tha world is tlist which hat recently been prepared by London, Berlin and Parisian astronomers. $8 shows at least 88,000,000 eta-*. A New Hampshire qnarry is turning ont a soapstone boot drier. It is in tended especially for rubber boot*. The stone is to im heated aid then dropped into the hoot, to be left there till the latter is dry. Olotst siokuess, a common disease which often rain* clover crop-, has caused German soieutixts to make ex periments. They have succee lei in getting culture* of the baotoua that prodace tho disea*#. They expect that soon farmers will be able to inocu late their land just a* a human being may bn treated. Planters in ths Southwest have fin ally fonad n practical mean* of destroy i in? insect* that infest colton plant# , without injury lo ths boll. Tiro raa» chine, drawn by twoliorxes, looks likw a cultivator. It is provided with roll ing brushes whioh turn In opposite di rections so as to bru*h bot t sides t# the cotton plant, brushing off all inseeto from the plant without injury. The insects are caught on rolling band# placed on each aide of tho machine, whioh carries the insect* b-twesn Im rollers, where they are crashed. The attention of a French surgeon. Professor Lannelongns, was lately drawn to blisters produced on the scalps of 8# veral children who hod been playing in the shadow of a well whose top was antler bright snnliglit. The idea that hi* might be an X-ray effect suggested itself. Etperira*nts were then made on a number of when several who were exposed un protected to similar radiation* were burned, while others who were pro tected by strontium gin** escaped. The investigator deolarcs that X-ray dis coveries will revolutionise the treat ment of sunstroke. He think* the an cient Greek* may have been wiser than we know in covering their heads with brass helmets and their ebc.fs and backs with light metal ouirsrses, ana conolndas that future protection from snnstrnkemay be soughtbehiud foran-' *‘ tiara glass helmets. HmmS la s Steeple. The only man iu ths Uaited State# who lives iu a elturch steeple is Honor kimh Braid*, the next, n of the Baptfat Church at Westport, a suborb of Kan sas City. Ths room is small, scarcely large# thau a dry goods box. In toot tiny room he cooks, eats aud sleeps. Ik fa just under the bells. . Throngh the email window* that soar nish light in the daytime he can see a portion of Kansah City. Above hie head tho swallows twitter a* they fly in and out through the lattice work, In his small room are a bud, a uresaea, a tiny stove and a table. He hoe been sexton of (he ohnroh tor several years, and ban occupied this room iu tho steeple siuoe bis wife left him. Some years ago he married a widow with m grown son. The so# proved a bone of contention, and affafi numerous quarrels the wife last he# husband, taking ths furniture with her. Then the chnroh trustees suggested that Mr. Bradda move into tue tittl# room beneath the bells, Obnrch mem bers furnished the room eo ufortahly, and since then Mr. Braids has lived a lonesome life. ■ y _ wa##i Woman** Week St Broasel* KxMMMaaa At the exhibition at Brussels there is a “woman’s work section,” in whioh a number of girls are daily to lie seen pursuing their avocations. The mu* jority of them, naturally, are lace makers. producing the specialty of the country. It is shocking to know that for the monotonous hand-skilled and eye-trying labor of laca-makihg the wage is bat half a frano for the long clay. Think of' toiling all day, with the attention and the eye-efght oa the strain, for ten cent*! Artificial Howard making ia another Brussels specialty; very few of the blossoms that adorn onr hats are mode at home. It wda interesting to nee the mannfeotura «fl snowdrop; how the blossom had to be qmte elaborately constructed, and wen how the stem bad to be cover## with green paper by deftly tfristfng fingers, and how the blossom had to be caught in. at the right, moment to . hang greoefally—and then to reflect' that the resnlt will be flold retail in America for ton or fifteen cents a dozenl ■ V A Cover •* too AlpfcekoL -. ■-•.* Chemleal names are ueesrioftpar curio as and loom eo everybody knows, i to his cost. Here is another to b» added to the Bate. Div*mosatsdstoj henondiphenilpiperasia#' Ithsslftea gifsq by a#: Italian sbsnuatto a ### whiehhehas Useore—fl. ,