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SATURDAY, JULY 10, 188 G.
OUR CHURCHES.
J*^ i n“f 1 ’ 8 ., (P - ® h “reb’ Mint St. Ser
atTp M l A ' M ”d ,kl B , P ' 51 Sunday School
at 41. M. Rev. p. p Alston, Pastor.
Church, South Graham 8t: Services
w a ’ and ? P- M. Sunday School at
10 A. M. Rev. g. M. Haines, Pastor
First Baptist church, Soulb Church St; Ser-
T f “A, *!;> i P - «' 1«P. M. Sunday
heol as 1 P. M. Rev. A. A Powell, Pastor.
gienezer Baptist church, Ea.,t Snd Bt. Ser
0n? t , U , A -M- :i P M., and \8 P. M. Sun
-4 ino !<l " 11 11 P- M. Rev. Z. Havghton,
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erian churh, corner Tthiand College
w ,o eaaie .1 2?" and 8 P„>M. Sunday
W -C. SIWII.M. Rev. R- P. Wt-che. Pastor.
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r ' ltead our advertisements.
Watermelons arc plentiful, but high.
Send in your money for the Messenger.
The Messenger may be found at Hen
derson’s barber shop.
Our headquarters arc at Goode’s for a
few days.
C. H. Jones will assist us in collecting
for the Messenger.
Send us $1.50 and have the Messenger
sent to you one year.
The colored teachers association is now
in session at Kittrel Springs.
Mr. Cleveland has proven to be a
much stronger man than he was thought
to be. He is a Democrat nevertheless.
The Messenger is the peoples paper.
It is bound to no church, society nor
party.
Charlotte has two daily, five weekly,
and two monthly newspapers, and four
job printing offices, besides the Southern
Newspaper Union which does a very
large amount of printing.
The work on a new paper is heavy, but
it seems unusualy heavy with us this
week. This issue is a warning to our
friends that we arc coming.
The A. M. E. Zion Church iu Salisbury
raised $70.06 on Children’s Day. What
do our large churches think of that?
Congress may adjourn some time in
July or August, but if we are governed
by what some of the Democratic papers
s.iy of it, we need expect nothing good
of this Congress but adjournment.
The Democratic county convention is
to be held in this city to day to send
delegates to the Judicial, Congressional
and State conventions. We hear nothing
of any other party organizing.
The good people of Biddleville are anx
ious to have that village incorporated.
They claim over seven hundred inhabi
tants and will apply to the next Legis
lature for a charter. Riddle University
will be inclosed in the town.
Much is being said by some of our
neighbors about the Concord P. M. They
say she is a Republican and must go,
civil service and all to the contrary not
withstanding. Ti e Oljsemr says much.
Well, it is none of our fight.
The Bishops of the A. M. E. and the
A. M. E. Zion churches will hold a joint
meeting in Philadelphia, Pa., on the 15th
inst. to consider the proposition of the
union of the two churches.
r Rackett Store is a new feature in
our trade circles. The store is in the
Central Hotel building on Trade street.
There is no question about it; they sell
gooda just as they claim—cheap. It is
the place for poor people to go to Bave
money.
We arc to have electric lights for our
streets instead of gas. Also a $2,800
frame building for our colored graded
school. The site for the school has been
purchased on Myers street, between
Stonewall and First streets.
A prohibition paper is to be published
in this city. Three thousand dollars has
lieen subscribed, and we are informed,
the outfit purchased. It is not yet
announced who will edit the paper, but,
is expected to appear yithin one or two
Miss Cora Allison, a member of Zion
church and Sabbath school, was buried
yesterday afternoon.
Clinton Chapel Sabbath School will
run nn excursion to Gastonia on the 23d
inst. The fare will be about 75c. Par
ticulars will be given next week.
The excursion for Winston left yester
day morning accompanied by the Steel
Creek Brass Band and a fair crowd. It
returned last night.
Charlotte has a pqpulation of 10,000.
We have seventeen churches: eight color
ed and nine white, divided among the
different denominations as follows: Col
ored Methodists 3, Baptists 3, Presbyter
ian 1, Episcopalian 1. White Methodists
li, Baptists 1, Presbyterian 3, Episcopa
ian 1, Lutheran 1, Catholic 1.
Our old correspondents assure us of
their hearty co-operation in helping us to
make the Messenger a lively newsdaper.
It gives us pleasure to mention among
those who have promised to write and
work for the Messenger: E. L. Thorton,
our old Washington correspondent; P.F.
Oliver, our Columbia, 8. C., correspon
dent; Rev. G.W. Clinton, Chester, 8. C.,
Rev. D. Brown, Statesville, N. C., and
Mr. J. W. McDonald, of Wilmington,
N. C.
Bishop J. W. Hood filled an appoint
ment at Clinton Chapel last Wednesday
night, A large audience greeted him.
Presiding Rives made a few remarks
welcoming the Bishop's return to us after
an absence of three years. He referred
to the fact of his having been pastor of
this church at one time, of his being
ordained Bishop here. &. The Bishop
responded in few well chosen words.
He then announced for a text, Galla
sians vi., 7-8. In the pulpit and altar
were Bishop Lomax, Presiding Elders
Tyler and Rives; Revs. Slade, Mc-
Corkle, Smith, Mosley, McNeill, Dav
idson, Johnson, Thomas and Stitt. A
collection of $lO on general fund was
taken up.
The Fourth.
The fourth, coming on Sunday this
year, our people celebrated the sth. Nep
tune fire company paraded the streets in
the forenoon. At night they had a fes
tival at Carsons hall. Members of Ebc
nezer Baptist church gave a festival at
Hargraves hall. Ail entertainment was
given at Gaithers hall by a number of
gentlemen. The Fearless and Nameless
baseball clubs played a match game in
the morning. Good order was observed
throughout the day. Many country
people were in town and but little drunk
eness was seen.
WISE WORDS.
Apology is only egotism wrong side
up.
• The way to do good is to be good-
There must be light, then it will shine.
Trust not to the omnipotence of gold,
nor say unto it: “Thou art my confi
dence.”
There is nothing so sweet as a duty,
and all the best pleasures of life come in
the wake of duties done.
There is no trait more valuable than a
determination to persevere when the
right thing is to he accomplished.
Love does not aim simply at the con
seious good of the beloved object: it is
not satisfied without perfect loyalty of
heart; it aims at its own completeness.
There is a beautiful moral feeling con
nected with everything in rural life that
is not dreamed of in the philosophy ot
the city.
Be cheerful: do not brood over fond
hopes unrealized until a chain, link after
link, is fastened on each thought snd
wound around the heart. Nature in
tended you to be the fountain-spring of
cheerfulness and social life and not the
traveling monument of despair and mel
ancholy.
The Cow* of Buenos Ayree.
A Buenos Ayers letter in the Chicago
News has the following: Down the
cross street comes a native leading twe
cows, and to the tail of each is tied tht
calf. He stops in front of a house, a
servant comes out with a pitcher, the
man turns the calf about, gives him t
moment’s hope and a taste of reality.
These cows are so motherly that they
will not give down their milk except foi
the calves, which must always stand b)
their sides. This must be in the climate,
as cows brought from North Amerirt
snd trained to more generous habits
soon develop the same domestic pur
pose. The man shuts off the calf, fillt
the pitcher and goes his way. Tha‘
seems to be a clear case of pure milk
There is no use to look for fins in yout
coffee now! There is a Society for thi
Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, whicl
is quite efficient and is doing much good
It has forbidden the tying of calves tc
the tails of the cows, but the cruelty ii
not all prevented.
A Knowing Terrier.
A friend of mine living in Liverpool
bad a terrier of the most sagacious na
ture. It knew all the slippers of the va
rious members of the Ismily. In thi
evening, when any of them arrived home
they would ssy: ‘‘Fetch my slippers.’
It would then run to any part of thi
house, and bring down tint the right
foot slipper, and place it beside the right
foot of tho owner, amt would then fetcl
the left.foot slip|icr and place it bunds
the left foot.—. London Truth.
PERSONAL. *
Mr. R. P. Bearden, left us last week
to spend two or three months in New
York.
Miss Mary Bonner has gone to Raleigh
to visit relatives and will spend the sum
mer there.
Prof. N. W. Harlee has returned from
Texas and will spend the summer with
friends iu the Old North State.
Miss Annie E. Long, of Macon, Ga., is
spending several weeks in our city, the
guests of Mrs. A. W. Calvin.
Mrs. J. W. Brown is visiting her moth
er-in-law in Morganton. Mr. B. is
also testing in the mountains for a few
days.
Mrs. Caroline Hall returned from States
ville last week.J after a stay of nearly
three months.
Rev. A. M. Caldwell was in the city
last week. He was looking well and said
the madam was enjoying good health.
Prof. J. F. K. Simpson, of Fayetteville
is spending the summer in our city.
Mr. R. L. Holland, of the Dallas Light
House was in the city this week can vasing
in the interests of a weekly paper he pro
poses to establish in this city.
We were pleased to meet last Wednes
day. Mr Frank Martin, who was on his
way to Union county.
Our good friend “Jesse” heard that
The Messenger was to appear this week,
and hurridly sent us some items from
WilmiDgton.
Mr. Thad Tate, returned home last week
after a two weeks stay with his relatives
in New York city.
Mr. J. Will Brown has-been removed
from the mailing clerkship in our post
office to make room for a white democrat.
Mr. R. L. Parrott, of Kingston, was in
our city last week in the interest of the
Good Samantan order.
Mrs Sallie M. Hall leftjon Wednesday
night last for Wadesboro where she will
spend several weeks visiting relatives.
Miss Mary Lynch has gone to Union
county to teach.
Bishop T. H. Lomax left yesterday to
attend the joint meeting of the Bishops
of Zion and Bethel churches. He will
spend Sabbath in Washington city with
Rev. J. W. Smith.
Mr. Geo. C. Scurlock, of Fayetteville,
has resigned tho clerkship held in’ the
Pension Bureau the last four years.
Mr. Will K. Price, of Wilmington has
been removed as was reported a week or
so ago. He is still one of the best clerks
in the Treasury Department.
Col. Geo. T. W.sssom or Prof. C. N.
Hunter will visit us on the 26th inst. in
the interest of the litdeigh Fair. Let all
come out and hear.
Miss Josie Eady returned home last
week after a visit of several weeks in
Georgia.
Miss Georgia Williams is visiting Miss
Annie Walker of Chester, S. C.
Mr. Green H. Henderson has been re
lieved from duty in the Treasury Depart
ment, Washington, and arrived home
Thursday.
FUN.
A clothes call is made by the laundry
robber— Waterloo Observer.
Uniform prices—What the tailor
charges for soldiers’ clothes.
Poople who throw banans skins at large
are now called bananarchists.
The cyclone raises everything on the
farm but the mortgage. — Boston Post.
The “melting look” most come from
the man with “fire in his eye.”—States
man. g ,
First love snd first shave come but
once in a man’s lifetime. And neither
usually has much result.— Somerville
Journal. ■-*.
When a man falls In love he courts his
sweetheart. Afterward she sues for a
breach of promise and courts her lover.
—New Haven News.
“Isn’t it heavenly 1” ejaculated Miss
Gush, in reference to Miss Pedal’s per
formance on the piano. “Yes,” replied
Fogg, “it is indeed heavenly. It sounds
like thunder.”— Boston Transcript.
“Grandpa,” said Teddy, aa the old
gentleman woke up from a loud sounding
after dinner nap, “if you’d give your
noae a spoonful of paregoric don’t you
think you could put it to aleep tool'
Burdette.
One of the Lynn primary school teach
ers a few days since asked her scholars
the question: “What is dust?” .One lit
tle fellow answered: “Plesae, marm, it
is dirt with the water squeezed out.”—
Lynn Item.
A tramp who had been furnished with
e good breskfast, was invited to saw
some wood after he had finished.
“Thanks, awfully,” be said, “but I don’t !
consider it healthy to work between
meals. ” — Siftings.
Live near to Go<L and so all thing*
will appear to you little in comparison
*ith eternal realities. —B, M. M’Ohevne. I
A FAMOUS JAIL.
■JUEER SIGHTS IN A VISIT TO
NEWGATE PRISON.
Jells with Doors as Thick aa Tho«o
of Large American Safes—The
Prison Graveyard and Its
Unknown Dead.
When I was In London s short time
igo, writes Alan Dale in the New York
Vail and Express, I visited Newgate jail,
nto which but few sightseers penetrate,
•nd an inspection of which can only be
■btained by a written order. The great,
olid-looking building, in the street
tamed after it, stands just where busy
.ondon commences, and seems to cast n
'loom even on the foggy, smokc-bc
;rimed quarter known to the postman n r
.ondon E. C. Newgate has stood in nil
ts grim, importance for more than six
lenturies, and historians say that they
lave read of King John commanding the
Sheriffs of London to repair the jail and
»f King Henry I. imprisoning thoic as
■ute officials for having allowed a con
rict to escape. During tho great fire of
London Newgate jail was utterly de
itroyed. It was rebuilt in a stronger
’ashion, only to be again destroyed by
ire during the Gordon riots, when a
irowd of desperadoes forced their way
nto one of the keeper's houses, delibor
itely piled up the furniture they found
’.here, lighted it and plied it against the
gates. The flames spread on all sides,
ourning the chapel, fore-lodge and wards
with relentless indiscrimination. New
gate jail, or Newgate, as it is called,with
t familiarity that is not the result of af
fection, was rebuilt with improvements,
snd you will find some Londoners who
will tell you it is a beautiful building.
Where the beauty comes in I can’t
imagine. I don’t consider the Tombs a
very grateful sight, but it is certainly
more pleasing than Newgate, which,
ilmost hidden by fog and smoke always,
looks to me to be the very acme of every
thing awful. The warden who greeted
me when the heavy entrance gates had
dosed behind my puny person first
showed me the grim paraphernalia of the
prison, snch as handcuffs, chains, irons
md pinioning straps, all of which were
aept in a small closet close to the en
trance. Jack Sheppard’s irons were on
view, and how Harrison Ainsworth’s hero
could escape from such massive custody
is a problem which my ingenuity cannot
solve. Some of the irons weighed from
twenty-eight to forty pounds, and were
so roughly made that they had to be
padded in order to prevent the flesh they
inclosed from being injured by their
pressure. In a shelf above these little
louvenirs were two rows of plaster heads
,-epresentfng about three dozen of Eng
land’s most nortorious criminals, among
(hem Franz Muller, Jeffreys Mullins,
Elizabeth Brownrigg and Courvoisicr, all
as whom had been hanged at Newgate.
The warder took me through the little
chapel, a bare, uninviting-looking place,
without even the harmonium or piano
which in America is always used to ac
company the hymns. One chair, covered
with black leather and apart from all the
others, was assigned to the prisoner con
demned to die. He was thus a conspicu
ous figure at divine service. From the
chapel we passed into the exercising
yard, a bare stone promenade, and thence
into the cells, which resemble those used
in the Penitentiary on Blackwell’s Island.
Each cell was provided with a hammock
ilung from side to side, three blankets, a
Bible and prayer-book. Underneath the
cells was a large carpenter’s room, which
had been unused for many years and in
which were six dark cells, only used in
ultra-refractory cases.
“Step in,” said the warder playfully,
“and see how you like it.”
I did not feel particularly easy in my
mind but I did as he suggested. When
the warden had shut first one door, big
and massive as that of one of the im
proved modern safes, and then another
about a yard distant from it, I can’t say
the sensation was delicious. It was pitch
lark. Not a solitary ray of light pene
trated the blackness. It was impossible
to hear a shout from the cell. Had I
called at the top of my voice the warder
who was outside the second door could
not have heard me.
“Twenty-four hours of that,” said the
warder humorously, as I emerged, blink
ing, from the darkness, “was sufficient,
so I am told, to reduce the most refrac
tory cases. ’’
We next inspected the gallows, which
had been dusted up that day, so the
warden told me. It was like most other
structures of that character. The “drop”
was disclosed for my benefit,and also the
chair on which prisoners were hurried
into eternity, when in a fainting condi
lion. Iu 1876 four murderers were exe
cuted at the same time on this gallows.
On that occa* ion the authorities of the
prison were b -sciged by applications foi
admission. F :oplc begged that the rule
which had forbidden public hangings
since 1868. might be set aside for that
occasion, or at least that exceptions
might be made. Home of the aristocrats
of London craved admission, offering as
much as ten or fifteen pounds for the
privilege.
To the left of the gallows was the
burying ground, though no ground, in
the hue meaning of the word, was visi
ble. The criminals were buried undei
the flagstones upon which wo were
walking, snd the first letter of the pris I
oner's name was engraved rudely upon'
the opposite wall. It was rather a crud?
method, tho warder cfnfesred. There
were no means of distinguishing thi
graves in cose two of the prisoners’
names began with the same latter. “But’
as the warder said with his elephantine
good-nature, “they were not personages,
or they would have been buried in the
Habbey,” by which I presume he meant
Westminster Abbey.
This burial ground has been in use foi
more than 150 years. The bodies wen
all interred in quick-lime, so that they
were rapidly destroyed to make room foi
others. On the left hand side of thi
burial ground were the letteis T. B. I. D
T.,the initials of the five Cato street con
spirators, who were executed in 1820 foi
hatching a plot against the government.
The warder had committed to memory
the significance of most of the initials oi
the walls, and gave me glib trauslatiom
of them. He had acquired his knowl
edge from his father, he said. It wai
the only legacy the paternal parent had
left him. As I left Newgate I re
warded his verbosity with a shilling,
which caused his expressive features tc
distend into a capacious grin of satisfac
tion.
The Bell of Justice.
It is a beautiful story that in one of tho
old cities of Italy the King caused a bell
to be hung in the tower of oncof the pub
lie squares, and called it the “bell of
justice,” and commanded that any oue
who had been wronged should go and
ring the bell, and so call the magistrate
of tho city, and ask and receive justice.
And when, in the course of time, the
lower end of the bell rope rotted away a
wild vine was tied to it to lengthen it;
and one day an old and starving horse
that had been abandoned by its owner
and turned out to die wandered into the
tower, and trying to eat the vine rang the
bell. And the magistrate of the city
coming to see who had rang the bell,
found this old and starving horse, and
caused the owner of the horse, in whoso
services he had toiled and had been worn
cut, to be summoned before him, and de
creed that as this poor horse had rung
the bell of justice, he should have jus
tice, and that during the remainder ol
the horse’s life his owner should provide
for him proper food and drink and
stable.
A five-ton coal car or jimmy is eleven
eeet six inches in length, from bumper tc
jumper. An eleven-ton car is twenty
•wo feet one inch. A car holding from
fourteen to sixteen tons of anthracite ii
•wenty-four feet two inches. A gondoli
if twenty tons capacity is put at twenty
■even feet four inches. A large gondola
*ith twenty-five tons capacity, is thirty
two feet in length. There will be 46(
•f the jimmies to the mile, and tha‘
neans 2,300 tons of coal, perhaps. Then
will be 230 of the double jimmies, anc
that means 2,640 tons. There will bt
!18 of the large cars, and that may meat
1,270 tons. Os the gondolas there wil
tie 193 cars, and this may mean 3,841
■ons. Then of the larger ones there arc
iay, 160 cars, which will equal in capacity
1,000 tons. All which goes to show
lhat when you see or hear of a mile o*
■woof cars standing loaded it really doei
lot mean so much coal.
There exists in New Bedford, lowa, a
very curious optical phenomenon in the
parson of a little girl about ten years old,
oy the name of Nancy Taylor. She at
tends school up in Grant Township. II
:he current philosophy of vision, that wt
•eally see things upside down, be correct,
then this little girl is an instance of a
aerson who secsobjccta as they really arc.
Bhe does her figuring and writing with
inverted characters, begins at the right
tide of the slate or paper, and reads with
the book upside down. Objects within
two feet Os her eyes look inverted, while
'f removed further off they make tho
lame impression on her visionary organs
that they do on other people's. Hei
lyea are light blue, and have nothing
ibout their appearance to indicate them
ess capable of performing their (unctions
■han ordinary optics. They have been
txamined by prominent specialists, but
>0 malformation could be detected.
“Sketching by telegraph” it ’lie latest
aovelty. An ingenious system of adapt-
Jig the alphabetical messages of tho
flectric telegraph, or any other signaling
ipparatus, to the reproduction at distant
points of some kinds of drawings has
acen contrived by Alexander Glen, ol
England. It seems likely to be of much
itility in military operations, as it is es
pecially suitable for the transmission ot
tmall maps or plans of a locality, and
tor indicating the position of troops,
jatteries, and {mints of attack. By it,
t is claimed, portraits and sketches can
aa re-produced with a fair degree o
idelity.
An Indiana man who, under the la*
admiatration, held the position of India
agent in Dakota, told the Chicago Joui'
nal recently that the excessive dryness a
the atmesphere there affected his health
causing him to have the rheumatism a
badly that be was net able to walk hal
a mile, though he was never thus at
flirted at home. A subsequent trail *f a
to the Indian Terri lory sed a grea
improvement in his h* eat He said h
knew of many pecsonV erie * { to tear
Montana also on act \ ' simila
rheumatic troubles, ‘ \
tcSirg AND NOTES FOR WOMEN
Ti c kilt is as fashionable as ever L
walking costumes.
Tho taller the walking hat is this aea
son the more stylish it is.
Garnet passementerie is worn withgom
effect on black silk costumes.
Ruchings of lace arc used as paneL
and ns edging for the basques of bodices
Plain colored bodices are worn witl
summer plaids and checks by young per
sons.
Long, loose, black draperies and short
full aprons arc arranged over kilt-plaited
skirts.
Narrow flounces are still worn. Thosi
of luce are often lined with bright
colored taffeta”.
Short jackets for children have fuli
plastrons. Long coats merely show th<
bottom of the frock beneath them.
Deep la-o flounces arc employed foi
draping the backs of skirts. The front!
of these dresses usually are beaded.
Openwork striped tissues and trans
parent canvas have corresponding taffe
tas or faille to complete the costume.
Bonnet crowns are a continual surprise
—horse shoe, heart shape, indented;
puffed out, square, oblong and round.
Kilt-plaited summer dresses have plait)
wide and scant, thereby reducing thi
weight and the amount of material used.
Pink and mnuvc are rival colors thil
season. Pink is combined with a variety
of colors, as green, heliotrope, and blue.
Collars and cuffs for evening wear are
of ribbon covered with net, gathered full
snd finished in a frill at neck and wrist.
A Michigan bride braided and mad<
enough straw hats recently to pay th«
minister for his services on her wedding
lay.
Os the forty-eight women lawyers iu
’.he United States only two have con
lucted cases in court during the past
year.
Cashmere of fine quality and nun’s
ceiling have overdresses of oriental lace.
These combinations are only suitable foi
young persons.
One hundred and forty women are cm
sloyed in the annex of the Agricultural
Department building at Washington
mpplying the Congressional demand foi
iced.
Mrs. Elizabeth Wade, of Madison,Mo.,’ -
Is seventy years of age, and yet she has
recently completed a bed quilt of 1,069
oieces, using 1,069 yards of thread in
joining the pieces.
Riding-habits of dark blue or brown
:loth are preferred to those of dark
nixed cloth, which have been lately in
troduced. Dark green and garnet habits
ire occasionally seen.
Black lace dresses many be brightened
Dy colored ribbons. The present lati
tude in the arrangements of color per
mits the use of black silk underdresses
for lace of any color or texture.
Last year’s leaf-shaped basques at tho
jack of bodices of woolen material are
■till in favor. Where these are used the
jodice is trimmed with velvet or moire
intique, and two points of this fail below
-he leaf points of the woolen material.
Skeleton parasols made entirely of ex- |
juisitc loce in black, white, fawn, green*
ind other tints arc both costly and fash
fonablo. Those who have used them in
.he hot sun, however, are inclined to be
ieve that they were intended for moon
ight parades.
The housewives of Norway make their
:ommon flat bread largely of the pow
iered branches of the young pine, not so
nuch to save flour as to secure a light
oaf. The bark proves to be not only in
autritious but actually injurious, and is
jeing denounced by medical men.
Angel sleeves are seen on most of the
louse dresses and wrappers, and are very
tecoming to a shapely arm, as well as
:00l during sultry weather. - Morning
gowns of creamy white surah and Valen
ciennes lace are exquisite. Those who
cannot afford them take ones of white
nus'.in and embroidery.
Black stockings are still the only proper
color for walking, but those of brown,
'awn, pink, scarlet, green arid other
>ints, elaborately embroidered on the
nstep, are worn with slippers and
ow ties for the house, carriage and ball
•oom. A pair of the oddest of these ex
pensive necessities are of pale pink silk.,
with little scarlet lions playing taj;
■round the ankles. Another in electric
Jlue is embroidered in seaweed and clam
shells. ,
There are evidences of a revival of the
ild-timc “harness” that was in such favor
imoog young ladies twenty-five or thirty
years ago. There is a plain band of rib-
Son around the throat, and fiorn this , ,
several perpendicular rows extend below
die waist and are finished by passemen
terie ornaments,bead balls or other fancy
drop trimmings. Intersecting these rows
ire others that cross the bust and
iboulders, and there is a belt with a bow
ind ends finished like the rows from the
leek. Satin-faced velvet is the most de
sirable for tho purpose.
Skirts are draped in various ways ovet
plain or plaited jictticoats. For instance,
i 6kirt of plain veiling is drapesi behind .
ind plaited ou each sido,opening in fro tv*
jvera petticoat embroidered in silks ami c®
Deads. Another iR of open-work beige
'issue draped up with pretty passemen
leric fastenings, over a plaited petticoat
>f brown silk. A skirt of plain bluisli
gray crape falls in full double plaits ovci
i petticoat of bayadere striped veiling.
The crape skirt opens in front to show
the petticoat, winch aLssj comes below
‘.he edge. Again, another skirt is ol
a-oolen guipure, draped over a skirt ol
Freach moire.
The Brightest.
Johnny had a baby sister who was i
particularly bright child. After a shor
time on caith the little one went bock t.
her home beyood the blue. One nigh
shortly after her death the children wen
looking ut the stars, when Johnny eriet
i out:
“Oh, seethe pretty stars; and one o
them is baby si: ter.”
“Which oncf’ asked another of th
| children.
“Tho brightest, of course.” proudl.
answered Johnny, settling all furthe
questions.
The girls in the public schools ol *
! Brooklyn arc compelled to commit to
nemory the Constitution of the United
Hatec.