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r 1 A - r 3 SALISBURY,' VOL. I. NO. 52. 1 "-""t.i i 1 L i HJ The Astorshave made $220, 000,000. in forty years by real estate speculations. The mackerel fishery is almost a dead industry in the State of Maine this season. , Except last year there has been more railroad track laid so far in this country than during alny previous year. Good judges estimate that the Cali fornia wine crop this year will reach 30, 000,000 gallons, which is double that of last year. Three thousand million pounds of sugar are consumed annually in the United States, one-tenth of which is grown in Louisiana alone. " Stilson Hutchins, the Washington newspaper proprietor proposes to buy a place at Amherst, where Horace Greeley was born, and present it to the State of New Hampshire. The Comptroller ef Tennessee esti mates that the increase of valuation in taxable property over the entire State since 1887 will, be between $75,000,000 .and $100,000,000. " .v- A few years; ago it- was a common thing lor a novel to contain four or five hundred , thousand words. Later it be came the fashion to use about- 250,000 words. To-day a publishing house will hardly touch a novel with over 75,000 words. ' The Old Colony Memorial has figured it up, and asserts that the Old Colony Railroad Company dispatches daily from . its various termini in Massachusetts the enormous number of 1174 trains. This business is probably exceeded by no company in the world. The latest metropolitan wrinkle is a Turkish talh for horses, in which they are put through the same sweating and cooling processes as human - beings. Such a bath .is run in connection with a New York stable, and its patronage has ha3 become large and profitable. There were 43,357,000 pounds of tea shipped from Japan last year to Isorth American ports. The Canadian Pacific steamers carried forty per cent, of the consignments, and the tame line con veyed nearly twenty-five per cent, of the amount sent to Kew York and Chicago. The fastest trains in tlii3 country are1 two flyers on the Baltimore and Ohio road that me scheduled to run the fo; tv miles' iJeiweenlrtatiniorff and Washing ton in foity-!ho minutes. The slowest train is a North Carolina 4,e tress, " which consumes nine hours in running 100 miles. , 7 ' V The catch of Canadian fisheries. last year, according to an estimate just pub lished, was valued at $18,200,000 against $l,2;M,oaO the year preceding. The lobster catch declined $894,000, and the cod catch .?;54"),OO0. The exports to the Uniied States were valued at $2,717,00( forty per cent, of the tolal export. The number of rabbits killed for the bounty last year in one Australian colony was 1?P, 182,5il, and the bounties paid in that year have been estimated at .$V)00,000. In addition millions of dollars have been paid for hundreds of miles of rabbit-proof fence. And still the raVbits teem to be as numerous as ever. ' A New York woman. Mrs. Schaff ner, has been giving bail for so many people at the Tombs that the other day the Re corder refused to accept her as security, lie said: ' "I tbink Mrs. Schaffner ha a mauia for going bail. he will go all to pieces some day and won't have a cent left in the world. I lefuse to accept bail from her." Russia imports annually 300,000,000 pounds of cotton, chie:ly from America and Egyptj but it is believed that recent acouisitions of the Czar in Central Asia are excellently adapted for: cotton rais ing. . Some has already been grown at Khiva and Bokhara, and an extensive system of irrigation is being created to develop other land for this crop. Walter Paring British agent at Cet tinje, Montenegro, reports that there is only one road lit for a wagon in the whole country, and that there is practically no industry, Montenegrins scorning any pursuit but that of arms. All the tai lors, painters, carpenters, masons, and other artisans are foreigners, and all goods except those which are the direct product of agriculture are Imported, and are of the commonest description', except the green and white cloth used for men's coats. . Mrs.Ada H. Kepley, who edits at Ef fingham, 111., a temperance paper called Fr'uni of the Hume, is engaged remarks the Chicago Times, in a novel piece of temperance persuasion. She publishes each month a list of the men seen drunk in the streets of the town. : A citizen whose name appears in the latest array given out claims that he was not drunk, and had the editor arrested. ' A Justice of the Peace fined the lady $5, and she promptly appealed. The trial in the higher courts may throw light" on the rights of a drunken man to keep his name out of the papers. THE OLD LfeATHER LATCH-STRINO. How dear to my heart is the home of my childhood, A clap-board roofed cabin half hidden from , view Where I grew like a weed springing up in the wildwood, And clung to the home which had sprung up there too; The old lean to kitchen, the smoke-bousa be side it, The straw-stack with shelter of thatch covered o'er The ash hopper near, where the wood-shed could hide it, And e'en the rude latch-string which hung on the door; The o'.d fashioned latch-string, The brown-faded latch string, The long leather latch-string ' Which hung on the door! The latch-string! how oftin when hungry and jaded I grasped it quite cai-efully lest it should catch; For I knew it was rotten as weU as quite " faded, So I pulled it down gently, to lift up the latch; The noon meal was ready how quickly I seized it " . A bowl full of mush with sweet milk brim--' ming o'er. " "" - . . ' Not a full-blushing, goblet could tempt me to leavo it, '- ," ' . ' " - When I pulled the old lafccfe-string which " ; hung on the door; The old-faSifioned latch-string; . The brown faded latch-string, ; Th 3 lon'i leather latch-strins . Which hung on the doorl " " : . The shot-pouch I carried (methinks I still see And the same fr.'sky squirrel that pestered my soul, .' :--- : As I shouldered my flintlock and hastened to ' tree it, .. w -".'J .' ... Bvi alas, it fled, from me and hid in a hole. The old weedy cowyar J still fondly I view it, And the path, with tall horse-nettles thick v " - ly grown o'er, How I scratched my bare feet every time I r i ran through it, . To reach the old latch-string which hung ' on the door; The old-fashioned latch-string, The brown faded latch-string, The long leather latch-string Which hung on the door! And when far away I strayed from that ' dwelling, ' Returning, I hailed it with many a shout, For 1 knew at a glance 'twas a signal un failing That the folks were at home when the latch string was out But the dreams have all faded, which fondly I cherished, When barefoot I romped on the old puncheon floor; And the clap-board roofed cabin itself has nigh perished, As well as the latch-string which hung on the door: The old-fashioned latch-string, v The bro wn faded latch string, The long leather latch-string - ; . Which hung on the doorl ..... - T: The spring- branch, still rcn.3at the foot of , , , ' tatf'meadow;' Wha e wa cut tha tall clover'and pastured our flocks, ' ' ;- -.l Eut the harvest-time held o'er my life a dark shadow Tor I hated to "cradle," and pile up the shocks; And now, whon removed from that loved situation, " The tears of regret will intrusively pou As fancy reverts to the old habit xtion, And sighs for the latch-string which hung oa the door; The oid-fashioned latch-string, The brown faded latch-string, Th j long leather latch-string Wh'ch hung oa the doorl Helen W. Clark, in St. Louis Magazine AT THE 'DRAWBRIDGE: Polly Gardner had been spending her vacation with her aunt Mary in the country. he would have been "per fectly happy," but that her father and mother were obliged to remain in the city. It was five weeks since she had seen them, and it seemed to Polly like as many( months. -,; , . One lovely afternoon Polly sat on the "horse-bl ictc idiy kicking one foot back ward and forward, watching aunt Mary as she drove oil on a visit to a sick ne;ghbojr, Just as aunt ; Mary was hiding from sight by a bend i in the rond she heard the crunching c wheels, and on look ing up, found it was the grocer and post man fro n Willow Grove. He checked h:s horse at the gate, and fumbling slowly in his coat, drew out a white en velope and read in a loud voice: "Miss Polly Gardner, in ca e of Mrs. Mary West, Willow G rove,. in hastev Then he peeked over hi- glasses severe ly at Polly, and asked sharply: "Who's Miss Polly Gardner? Po you know, little girl:" "Uh, that's me!" cried Polly, jump ing from the horse block, "and Mrs. Mary West is aunty. Please give me my letter. It's from mamma. I am so glad." '-- "Can you read." , "Yes, of course." said Polly, indig nantly. "I'm nine next week." Th:S was the letter: Dkauest Poi.lt Papa finds he can leave h.s business for a short time, so that wa have concluded to spe:id the remainder of our va cation with you and aunt Mary. We shall take the train that roaches Willow Grove at 4:20 p. m. on the xMth. Tell aunt Mary to meet us if she has t.me. Love to all, and a thousand kisses from Mamma and Papa. As aunt Mary' would not return before five o'clock, Polly determined to walk down to the station ar.d'mect her father and mother. She had often i eea there with aunt Mary to watch the trains come and go. If was a sma 1 s-tation aud very few people stopped the e. .Just before leaching the station the railroad crosses a drawbridge. Polly liked to watch the man oen aad shut the draw as the boat? op the river passe I through. There was "a foot path over this bridge, and 1'olly had once crossed it with aunt Mary. They had stopped to speak ta the t'agman who wa3 pleasant and good-natured. He told Polly where he could iind some beautiful white lilies in a pond not far away. That was more than a week ago, and the flowers were not open then, and now, as Polly ran down the road, she thought she-would have time to gather some for her parents before the train arrived.. When Polly reached the station she found no one there, and on looking at the clock, she saw it was ten minutes past four so she had twenty minutes to wait. Then she ran on quickly. The flagman stood by the draw, and Polly saw some distance down the river a small vessel coming toward the bridge. She ran along rapidly, and a3 she passed the flagman he calied out : "Going for the lilies? The i pond was all white with them when I went by this morning. sir: I want to pick some for mamma and papa. They wrote me a letter and said they were coming on the next train." "You don't say so! Well, I guess you're glad. Look out for the locomo tive, and don't take too long picking your flowers, and you'll have plenty of time to get back before the train comes in." Polly thanked him and ran on. In about five minutes sha reached the pond. - How lovely the llilies looked a with their snowy cup resting uponth dark waters. But their stenjs, -we're long and tough, and most of them" grew be yond hejTeach. Polly was sorry to Je.aye-.io many behind, but was afraid if she lingered too long she would miss the train. So, gathering up the blossoms, she pinned them into her belt, and scampered back toward the bridge. The boat had just sailed through the draw, and the man stood ready to close the bridge when Polly came up. He looked over at her from the center of the bridge, and called out with a smiler - "Couldn't you get any more flowers than those? If I had time to go to the pond you should have a3 many as you could carry." Polly smiled back at him and then be gan to watch him a3 he made ready to turn the great bridge back into place for the tram to pass over. His hand wa3 on the crank, when a rope dangling over the.rui.iug of the bridge attracted his attention. As he tried to pull it in it seemed to be caught underneath. Polly wat-hed him lean over to get a better hold, when to her great horror, the piece of railing to which he held gave way. There was a sudden - scream and a great splash in the water. But before the waves of the swiftly flowing river closed over him Polly heard the cry: "The train the flag !" Poor little Polly ! bhe was so alarmed for the poor man's safety that for some moments she could think of nothing else, and ran backward and forward ringing her hands in despair. Ashe rose to the surface she saw that he made ! I'ranctic gestures to her and pointed up the road from which the train was to come. He se'emed to be able to keep him self above the water with very little ef fort, and 'oily saw with joy that the accident had been observed by the crew of the vessel. The man in the water struck out toward the boat, and Polly could hear shouts and cheers from the men on board. All at once she was startled by the far-ofE whistle of the approaching loco motive, s -In ; & "moment she understood the meaning of : the flagman's gestures. She looked at thepen space and then at the bridge, rr In five minutes or less the train would come rushing into that awful chasm. Polly's hair almost rose on her head with horror It was as much as she could do to keep her senses. There must be some way to avert the awful calamity. She ran swiftly along toward the rapidly approaching train. Lying on the ground, just by the small wooaen nouse wnere me flagman gener ally sat, iJouy saw a red nag membered havinor bearrl flint She re- , this fla"- : was used in case of danger or when there was any reason for stopping the cars. She did not know whether there wa3 yet time, but she seized the flag and flew wildly up the track. "Oh my papa! Oh my mamma:" she cried. "They will fall into the river and be drowned! What shall I do?" and Polly waved the flag backward and for ward as she ran. Then came the train around the curve. She could see the white steam puffing from the pipe, and could hear the pant ing of the engine. "I know they'll run over me, but if papa and mamma are killed I don't care to Hi e," she said to herself,-as she ap proached the great, black, noi?y en gine When it was about three hundred feet ! away from her she saw a head thrust out of the little window by the locomotive, and then, with a great puiiing, snorting and whistliug, it beg m to move slower and slower, until at last, al nost upon Po'ly, it tirely. when it stopped was en- All the windows were alive with heads and hands. The ' passengers screamed and waved her off the track. She fctej.ped off and ran close up to the side of the engine and grasped out: " . he bridge is opeu and the man has fallen into ihe river. Please stop the train or you'll be drowned." The eng neer stared in amazement, as well he might, to see a small girl with a flushed face, hair blown wildly, about, and four lilies pinned to her beit. wav ing the red flag as though she had been used to flagging the trains all her life. At that moment another remarkable figure presented itself to the astonished eyes of the passengers. A. man dripping wet, bruised aud scrat hed as though he had been drawn through briers, came teanng toward the cars, stumbling and almost falling at every step. As he reached little Polly he snatched her up and covered her face with Kis3es. "You little darling," he cried 'doyou ; know what vou've done? You've saved the life of mor? than a hundred people." Tolly, nervous and exeited, began to cry. One after another the passengers came hurrying out of the train and crowded around her and kissed her until she was quite ashamed, and hid her head upon the kind flagman's shoul der, whispering, "Please take me away to find papa and mamma." Almost the last to alight were Polly's parents. "Why, it's our Polly I" they both exclaimed at once. The draw was now closed and the, conductor cried "All aboard!" The pas sengers scrambled back to their seats again. Polly's father took her into the seat with him, and nojnr she looked calmly at the people as they gathered round, and answered politely all ques- tions put to her, but refused the ringaj chains, bracelets and watches that the grateful -passengers pressed her to ac cept as tokens of their gratitude for saving their lives. r At last Polly grew tired of so much praise and spoke out: , : ' "Keally, I dont deserve your thanks, for I never onceythought of . any one but papa and mamma. So keep your pres ents for your own little girls. Thank you all the same." Those that heard her laughed, seeing they could do nothing better for her than to let her remain unnoticed for the short distance she had to go. - When Polly was lifted out of the .car and stood upon the steps of the station while her father looked after the lug gage, the passengers threw kisses waived their handkerchiefs to her until they were out of bight. A few days afterward Polly was ished at receiving a beautiful ivory containing an exquisitely medal, with these words it: ''Presented to Polly Gard , whose saved a courage and presence of mihd hundred lives." Yankee Ftode. Wise words. Least said is soonest mended. -Those who excel will succeed. ' Laughter is the daylight of the soul. Three things to do Think, live and act. The most effective coquetry is inno cence. Whenever the speech is corrupted so is the mind. The world itself is too small for the covetous. - Laziness - travels so slow that poverty soon overtakes him. Three things to hate Cruelty, arro gance and ingratitude. Popularity like a warm south wind i9 very pleasant, but like the wind, when it changes may bring a storm. Powerful organizations crush out op ponents often, "by stiding their virtues and appropriating their failings. When two persons are too modest to speak of their own greatness, it may be accomplished by flattering each other. The reason a man is surprised at the success off another is because he cannot comprehend beyond his own standpoint. He who . is positive without real con victions is a tyrant, he who has real con victions without being positive is a craven. We cannot overestimate the fervent love of liberty, the intelligent courage, and the saving common sense with which our fathers made the great experi ment of self-Government. The greatest of fools is he who imposes on himself, and in his greatest concern thinks certainly he knows that which he has least studied, and of which he is most profoundly ignorant. Friends must be torn asunder, and swept along in the current of events, to see'each other seldom, and perchance nd more. Forever and ever, in theeddies of time and accident, we whirl away. . ; . :r; A. Primitive Berlin Cafe. - I visited an eating house r in Berlin which for iprimitiveness, says "Blakely Hall in the JSTew York Sun, is rather ahead of anything else I havejseen in the world. The dining table consisted of a log in which eighteen cavit:.e3 appeared at regular intervals. Each cavity was of about the size of a large soup bowl, and fastened near every one was a big iron spoon attached to the log by an iron chain. The method of dininsr was neimer complicated nor prolonged. A taDie a note ainner consisting or one course, which, by the way, was the only dinner served in the house, cost five pfennigs about one cent and a quarter of our coin. The diner enters and planks down his money before taking his seat. Then he chooses one of the broad cavi ties, seizes the iron spoon, and waits for the waiter. That functionary is usually a sort of Poo-Bah, combining in himself the duties of cashier, proprietor, head waiter, and bouncer-in-chief. After the guest is seated the waiter walks up to him bearing two steaming cans and asks shortly. "Thick or clear soup?" The diner usually, after snithng the fumes ol the cans and giving the matter weighty consideration, makes his decision, and then the factotum fills up the nearest cavdy with soup, turns on his heel, and "washes his hands of all further consider-1 i ation- x aia not gam the impression ; from a casual inspection that the waiter" i had ever washed his hands in any other than a figurative sense. The diner ; scoops the soup out of the hole in the ! log with his iron spoon," and, having ! thus dined wisely and well; is promptly ! ordered out by the bouncer-in-chief. ; There is no lingering over an a;ter-din-: ner cigar, nuts, raisins, fruit, or coffee. The expedition of the meal is its most striking characteristic, except, perhaps, its simplicity. Datective Fallacies. A prominent English detective, who recently visited this country to work up a case in the interest of the Bank of England, told me that he was called to the South Kensington Museum, in Lon don, a few years ago to arrest a gentle man on suspicion of having stolen a very valuable old Roman coin, believed to be the only one 'of the kind extant. Upon presenting an official order he had been permitted to take the coin from the case, to which he had seemingly returned it after examining it for some time. But when the attendant was about to lock the case the coin was missing. The gentleman indignantly denied having it. and re-. fused to be searched. The detective I have mentioned, by a forcible search. f :und the coin upon him aid was about to take him to prison when, a3 the at tendant was about to replace the coin in the case, he discovered the one belongs ing to the museum, just where it had slipped out of light when the gentleman restored it. It seems there was another of the coins, and that the gentleman had purchased it and had been anxious to compare it with the one in the museum to establish its genuineness. Thus you see how black circumstances may some times appear against the most innocent persons. Phiiadelphin Kelts. Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes is to fur nish the chapter on the Massachusetts dialect in a forthcoming book on Ameri-1 canisms. j and col aston f b&. enaneled ivedn.pon MCHITECTrJfaiABBLR HEWING THE XTED SHAFTS FBOXX8 QOBDBOCS. Methods of Eriraottnc it From the Quarry 1 the Hands of the Sculptor Various Qualities. Few people Uho stand before a fin ished monument or mantel, or even a soda water fownt in a drug store and ad mire he highfiy polished variegated mar ble realize, . observes the New York Com merciai A&vtrtiser, the amount of time and Iaba that has been expended in the evoluUn of the completed structure fronxAhe raw materials. The highly ired varieties are found chiefly in IJfolv. Spain. France. Belsrium or Portu- ;aL, though slmetimes in Mexico or Al geria. Thewhite stone is common in this State. Among the marbles which most frequently enter into the composi tion of fancy apparatus are : Italian white, vernal and : clouded with bluish gray; Etrurian-f-pure por celain white; Saragossa shaded cream white, veined with dark gray ; Algerian and Mexican onyx translucent white, veined with opaque white, yellow or pink ; Bardiglio delicately .veined gray ; Sarrancolin shaded pearl gray,, dashed with cornelian red; Sienna golden yellow, clouded with white and veined with olive and brown; Tennessee chocolate, frosted with white; Genoa green; Brocatel richly mottled, yellow, purple, brown, white and red ; Violet Brocatel purpie, mottled and veined with golden yellow; Lisbon reddish; Gryotte of Francedeep red, shaded with red and brown; Gryotte Fleure purplish red, mottled with pearl white ; W4rwick brilliant red, veined with white; Belgianvelvety black; African yellow ryehow with purple veins; Rouge Antique deep red; Knoxville grayish pink, with light blue veining. The colored marbles retain their fresh ness longer, and can be re-polished after many years use. The marble is extracted from the quarry in oblong blocks, cut out by means of wedges. Except when designed for statuary or building purposes, the first thing the manufacturer does is to place the block of marble under a gang-saw in order to saw it into slabs. The gang-saw con sists merely of a series of parallel saws, to which an oscillating -motion is im parted while they are kept fed with sand and water. When they come from the gang saw the slabs are generally about one and one-eight inches thick, so that they may dress to one inch when rubbed on both sides. The slabs are then in spected. To the inexperienced eye the rough slabs are much alike, and while the good qualities of the slab are only f uUy brought out under the polisher's mop, the imperceptible defects are also magnified very much. It is therefore necessary to detect flaws before the' polishing begins. . The perfect slabs are cut into required lengths by a ripsaw and passed to ' the rubbing bed to be rubbed? smooth. , The rubbing bed consists cf a solid horizon tal cast-iron' wheel t.or.t , inches, thick and usually about twelve or thir teen inches in diameter. This wheel is fixed to a vertical shaft which revolves on two chilled steel friction balls, placed one upon the other, and enclosed in a cast-iron box which Is kept well supplied with oiL The box itself is firmly im bedded in a stone foundation, and the entire structure is made as true and as steady as possible. It requires a great deal of care and attention to keep the rubbing bed perfectly true; and it is sometimes necessary to rub it down for a whole week with bluestone in order to keep the surface smooth. When the slab leaves the rubbing bed it is comparatively smooth, and is ready to be cut out by hand into its final shape. It then passes into the hands of the pol ishers, who are provided with rubbers made of ordinary ticking rolled up into a mop of about three or four inches in diameter and sewed firmly through and through. With these they rub the sur face of the slab back and forth, hour after hour, until they bring out the high polish so much admired. The marble is first rubbed with grit, then with pumice stone and then with bone. On some white marbles oxalic acid is then used, and' finally the finishing touches arc given with putty of zinc. On colored marbles emery and French putty, pre pared with sulphur and lead, are used. It is estimated that each square foot of surface po. ished costs one man about four hours of steady work. In gilding, four or five gold leaves are blown into a cushion made of a board jovered with chamois. The gilder cuts it into strips a quarter of an inch wide, liys it on the marble with his "tip," then "cottons" it on, after which he rubs it down with a tine hair brush in order to smooth the laps and f crm an even and continuous surface. lie then cleans off the edges with cuttle fish. Great dexterity is acquired by gilders, and they seem to handle with ' the greatest ease the delicate gold leaf which the slightest breath of air is sufficient to carry off, and which in inexperienced hands is ntterly unmanageable. The variegated, dark-colored marbles are most expensive, but they are also generally harder and more durable, as well as more beautiful, than those that are white or light colored. The common white marble, which is not so valuable from an ornamental point of view, has a separate value as being the best basis for the production of carbonic acid gas for the manufacture of "soda' water and all other carbonated beverages, and a large trade is done in it for this purpose. It ha succeeded whiting and bicarbonate of soda in this respect on account of its cheapness. As far as chemical composi tion is concerned, marble and whiting are analogous both are carbonates of lime, and when equally pure, both contain about the same amount of carbonic acid. Whiting,, however, is rarely, if ever, a pure as marble. It consists chiefly. of the remains of extremely small animal cules. - Dr. Diagnosis "Why, young fellow, you're badly off ; you hare dyspepsia, your liver is torpid, your-circulation sluggish, you are too fat for -your years, your eyes are dull and heavy; you must take some exercise in the open air every day. What isyoni business s" Pati nt ."District telegraph messenger." Dr. D. That's what I thought. . Now you must get out of doors and walk a little every day or you'll die, doctors or no doctors. Burdette. LI 01 ni NEWS AND NOTES FOR WOMEN. Black dresses have been revived, t The Czarina is an expert angler. Sashes and girdles are again appear ing. - ; All white cloth jackets are - still in fashion. . 1 Seal brown cloth is a favorite material for riding habits. Belts to wear with dressy blouses are of silk belt ribbon. The directoire styles have extended even to morning dresses. . Capotes are very small, DUt bonnets grow larger for autumn wear. There are thirteen women physicians now practicing medicine in Paris. Isabelle, ex-Queen of Spain, dresses in a costume much like that of a nun. Voile in all shades and figured in largt tartan checks is a popular material. The loose .sailor or Garabaldi blouses are good wearing for growing girls. Princess Letitia Bonaparte is said to be' a beautiful performer on the violin. Palest baby blue and black is a fash ionable color combination . at the mo ment. . . . ,. The Hindu woman is taught that she can only get to heaven through her hus band. : " Mourning costumes have a trimming of lace worked on tullo, with fine jet beads. : It is not considered good taste in Paris for ladies to wear bright -colors in the street. " - . . . Kate P. Beaird, of Texas, , invented a hand device for propelling sewing ma chines. ' Miss Mary Creel, of Kentucky, is said to be the most beautiful girl in the country. Polonaises may be draped alike on both sides, or long on one side and short on the other. The bodice without any basque is al most universally favored by fashionable dressmakers. The smile, bow and ready words of Queen Margherita, of Italy, are the per fection of royal art. Margaret, Lady Sandhurst, maintains a home for sick, crippled and incurable children in London. Black and yellow.black and pink, and beige and red are favorite color combi nations in millinery. Bows of light green ribbon are some times combined with white artificial flowers in lieu of foliage. : A daughter of W. F. ("Buffalo Bill") Cody is presently to be married to a young doctor in Colorado. . In London dressmakers and others are fined heavily for allowing their girls to work over-hours in the shops. Hot water is the best cosmetic in the world, and it is one that everybody can have in an unlimited quantity. Miss E. T. Wragg, of Charleston, 8. C, is gaining a reputation as the leading -woman, engraver c " ' ricaw ,;; r uring - L ; r v I -; Am erica' jfrs.: Laura Orxiistcn ,L. - spoke- at 125 meetings and traveled 13,000 ; miles. "" '- ' i Mrs. James Brown Potter asserts that a society girl must- not be intense. Frivolity ii the fashion at present. White feathers, either alone or Com bined with ribbon; are by far the most elegant trimmings for Leghorn hats. The Queen of Roumania says man and wife should jnever : cease to do -a little courting; no matter how old theyjaiay be. ., ni i. ;n . iil-.i- . T. a - jTI ouubsuiL petni;uaui verjr ixiutu uuuuceu, the flounces, either pinked, fringed or edged with woolen lace, are all the rage in London. I Mrs. Ada M. Bittenbenderwas the au thor of the Nebraska law which makes mothenrjoint guardians of their children with the father. ' i . Dressy costumes of silk are often made with pinked-out edges, and a plastron composed of silk scallops in layers com pletes the corsage. ... Miss A. L. Wilson of Cynthiana, Ky., is reputed to be the best informed woman in America on pedigrees and the history of trotting horses. Miss Mary A. Rice, a graduate of the Kansas State University,is said to be the first woman in that State to receive a li cense as a pharmacist I Several charitable ladies have organ ized an "ice mission" in Nashville, Tenn. They hunt up poor people who are sick and give them ice and tea. A hat that has every appearance of felt, without the objectionable weight of that material, is made of crepe, lightly stretched over a foundation. , Lace, tulle or net mixed with velvet or moire upon straw and forming a ma trix for numberless long-stemmed flow ers is the feature of millinery just nOw. If the calico-patterned India silks are combined with plain stuffs, the under skirt must be figured goods with drap ery of the plain, and waist in which both appear. . j During twenty-two weeks of this year 8133 patents were issued by the United States Patent Office, but of this num ber only fL'TmweTe issued to women. l' ; Pelonaises approach the directoire shape when of thick material, but of thin are gathered fully in the shoulders, lapped to the left, and very much draped in the skirt. Green hats or white trimmed with green have more and more the call, while greeny white flowers hops, snowballs, briar rose are a positive rage upon black straw. - Young men in Philadelphia who have girls to supply have started the story that Mrs. Cleveland does not eat ice cream, believing that it encourages the growth of pimpleS. " Again the glass fabric comes to the surface, and we are told that it is finer and softer than silk, w'th the lustre of gems, and capacity for taking more than 11 their rich hues. Miss Ella C. Sabin, Professor of Rhetoric and Elocution in the Uni versity of Oregon, has been elected superintendent of Lducation in the city of Portland, Oregon. Black hats are allowable with any colored costume, and are more and more trimmed with green ribbon in variety, while in Paris they add short, green plumes as well. content: Why should w mourn o'er a sorrowful past Am crave for a peace that will come at last? Each life hath woes that are keen to bear Ip PaJn8 and its he&rtarhM mt tx , m . - -www vx. bju U is better to laugh than to sigh and grieve; sorrow in tears Is not to live- From pain win gain and be content! V "vthy Should we fear in a halting-place ; hath gloom and bewildering waste fruits grow fair that ' are bitter to ;.: --: -..-;: It is betta- to haste through a thorny way ' Than to halt .ita path to wait a new day- Make fair eae, care and b4 content ! Why should we Bighl. adearWe. deadf Thatwaslosttoourlifebyvitkmigieaaj -tftfyi With its promise of hope and sad dolavj'Vo ;ua It is better to watch by a fading gleam Iw., v xnan to waxen to gloom irom a vanish dream- Endure, and thou'rt sure to find content; . . t - ... Why should we fail or falter in strife 'Twlxt good and the ill that prevail in life! In reaching for heights, unblest or blest, Each soul of us hath some war with rest; . Crowned or uncrowned at the end of the fight, ' , . '- . ' Tis better to battle than flee In affrisbV- . Better to lose than to lament .... -He hath enough who hath content t 'Harriet Maxwell Converse," nunait OF TI1E DAY 'V A fine place A police court. '. A sugar trust Candy on tick. The first theft The baby's crib. . Heavy reading A ship's log booku. Misplaced affection A lost love let" ter. ; ..; ,. . . . :. ' Spot cash The price paid for real cs-' tate. ; Writers of fiction generally havo a good many novel ideas. Advice to a dressmaker Bo sure you're right then gore ahead. Lite. To forge a successful chain of evidence requires qualities of the i lynx. Syling.- Bachelors and old maids are naturally quite self possessed. Oil City Derrick. The left bower the man who isn't recognized by the lady to whom ho lifts his hat. j It is quite a paradox for an English lady to request her page to turn over a new leaf. , "ftttanrrftW an1 'nrirM are synonyms, and : "passing but passing strange" queer" are not. It is a curious thing that on the rail roads it is the freight rather than-the iteam that makes the cargo. Harper's Bazar, . A Scotchman said that he did not leave his country for want;" he had enough of that there. Commercial Ad' vertiser. - - You can't always judo of the quality of-a city's inhabhants'by ths "sanif-' i tnen'VIt tends tver ; the. country. ri:U '-j JmtyiGhrfinide -i'.' V-.. . '. ' ' ' ,; : The diHerence between a ripe wcter- melon and a tailor-made suit Una i3 fit - -r to cut. and the other is cut to fit. De troit Free Presu -We have at last found out why pretty things are called "knobby." It is be cause they are Something to a door. Burlington Free Press, '"You don't seem to relish wit much .this morning," , said a ,would-bo , wag. "Your, haven't Hried me yet," was the cruel reply." New Fork News. . Mr. Oldbeau meeting an old flame at the Springs) "ijtell you, my dear Mrs. . Passay, Saratoga isn't what it used to be." Mrs. Passay (bluntly) "No, Mr. Oldbeau, nor we either. "8iftings. To dream of a ponderous whale, J . Erect on the tip of hie tall, ". It the sign of a storm (If the weather is warm), V" Unless it should happen to fail. . New York Star. The rooster would be "a much more popular bird if it could only be induced to feel that there is no real vital neces sity for its reporting its whereabouts be tween midnight and three a. m.- New York Herald. 3Ir. Yeast (in restaurant, after order ing breakfast) "So you eay you are passionately fond of dogs?" Mr. Bacon "I just adore them." Waiter, breaking in suddenly "Here you are, sir, here's your sausage sir I" Fullof Interest. The "Forty Thieves" has -been played in Montreal recently, and a local paper observes the best seats in the orchestra were filled by former residents of New York, who enjoyed it immensely. Mercury. Tender and Juicy. Old Lady (to butcher) "I want to get a couple o' pounds o' meat for a dog." Butcher. (wiapping,op the .meat) "There you are, madam; I think you'll find that werry nice." New York Dispatch. ' A Portland (Me.) doctor carries a cans in which are contained some small sur- . gical instruments and thread. It is very . convenient. . He can break a man's head with the cane and then sew it up while he waits. Burlington Free Prut. Twenty Years a Whaler,' " said the old Arkansas schoolmaster, reading with a contemptuous pucker of his lips the title of a new book. "Twenty years ! J kin beat that record by more'n fifteen years, b gosh!' Chicago Trilunc. Some women will say 'twas a tell-tale bird ! That whispered toner the scandal or won- uci f - But oft from the size of f erred oer. the tale, it's in- , That the bird mast be sorely a condor. Detroit Fres Press. Charlie (walking out with his sweet heart) a ow that we are in the coun try, darling, we can tell our little love secrets without fear of being overheard." -Mabel "Hush, Charlie? You must re-. member that even corn has ears." De troit Free Press. Summer Visitor (at farmhouse to old ' lady) "Your son, I understand, is a pedagogue in Boston.", Old lady "I guess ooV unless it happened lately. When ho writ me last month he was . teachin' school and doin' right smart." Wasfdngton Critic Young Mrs. Perkins (at market for the first time) "Are you sure this chick--eu Isn't an old hen? It feels very tough. Marketman "I can assure you, ma'um, that fowl is very young. (Open- - '. ing bill of the biped.) 4 'See, ithasn't & single tooth yet." Mrs. Perkins takes the hen. Jim. - eo'v
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