HENRY A. PARSONS, Jr., Editor and Publisher.
NTILi DESPEKANDUM.
Tmo Dollars par Annum.
VOL. IX.
RIDGrWAY, ELK COUNTY, PA., THUKSDAY, SEPTEMBER -11, 1879.
NO. 29.
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Ovcrthe Wires.
I hour a faint, low singing,
Like the sound oi distant choirs;
Tis a message gleefully winging
Over the telegraph wires.
And what are the glad wires humming
As they stretch in the sunlight away T
" I am coming, coming, coming
I am coming home to-day 1"
And now I hear a sobbing,
Like some soul sitting alone,
With a heart that is weary throbbing,
And lips that can only moan.
Oh ! what are the sad wires sighing
As they reach through the darkness ot
night T
" He is dyin g, dying, dying
Come on the wings oi light !"
The tit illation oi laughter
Next tails upon my ear,
And a burst of mad mirth after,
Like the sound of a distant cheer.
And what is the gleeful story
That the round wires spread afnrT
" Our Nine is orownod with glory
Hip, hip, hip, hurrah !"
Oh ! what are the wires relating,
Morning, and noon, and night T
"The market is fluctuating !"
" Uoports of the Sonnto fight !"
Cashier S a defaulter !"
' Arrest a ninn named Drawn !"
"Jones died to day by the halter !"
"Wheat went suddenly down !"
" Deal ." Horn'." "Going!" "Coming ?'
"Oelugo"' and "Drought!" and
" Fires !"
Singing, and sobbing, and humming
Over the telegraph wires.
Ella Wheeler.
A MOUNTAIN RIDE.
Of course we girls all pitied Rachel
Tinklinti), but wc never quite made her
one of us.
Siio was such a shy little tiling, and
Mushed if you spoke to her, and aeted
afraid of her own voice, and wore print
dresses alt the time, and never was in
vited to our partus.
She iived in a tumble-down old house
which had been a very grand mansion
once.
The Tinkhams had been great people
in my grandmother's day. Nothing was
left ot their grandeur now, however, for
there had been wine in one generation,
and whisky in the next, and delirium
l.vuieriK in the third.
Hay's father was the third. She had
a. wretched time keeping house for him.
Her mother was dead.
' Wo" were the girls of Mrs. Bland"
private school.
A dozen of us were out upon the east
verandah one morning. We were all
talking at once. Some one, it seemed,
had said the high school girls were bet
ter scholars than we werfc
" Very well. So they are."
This was Kate Avery, and site was
standing up by the lattice where the
morning-glory vines grew, and where a
hundred clusters ot little bells swung
out blue and purple ami rose-pink, li
Kate was anything, she was honest,
though she was handsome too.
" Wc have music and French conver
sation, and Lou has a phaeton, and 1
have two donkeys, and Queeny has been
to Europe; but," lowering her voice,
"it's an awful secret though it's the
truth. The high school girls are miles
and miles beyond us in Latin and mathe
matics." " Indeed they are," said I. "I'm what
mademoiselle calls an 'idgit' in arith
metic. I really suppose that two and
two make four, but if one of those girls
were to tell me that they made five, I
shouldn't dare dispute her."
"The fact is," said Kate, "little Tink
liani is the only one of us who is sure of
her multiplication table. But then she
doesn't really belong to us Site would
not bo hero if it wasn't for sweeping and
dusting to pay her tuition. There site is
this minute."
A small, tirod-Iooking figure in a coarse
a-ess came in sight round the corner. It
Wiw R'tchel with her load of books in
her arms.
" Shu 1.33 worn that dress every day
for three months," said Lou Stedman;
" I verily believe she goes to bed when
it is done up."
" My dear, she ean't. Site lias to wash
,-ind iron it herself. Oil, there is Queeny !"
cried Kate. It was such a gentle, grace
ful girl who came walking fast to over
take Kay. caught step as she overtook
her, and began talking pleasantly.
" Doesn't she look nice in that seal-brown
suit? Ard isn't it just like her to carry
Hay's books for her?"
Qiieeny's real name was Alice You
would have known why we called her
Queeny if you had seen her walk beside
little Tinkham that morning, open the
gate, and stand still, erect, with that
grand way of hers, for the girl to pass
through. I believe we all rather wor
shiped Queeny.
Kate met them with her forehead all
tied up into hard knots, and asked Kay,
"didn't she 'want to be an angel,' and
help her with those dreadful fractions? '
So they two sat down on the door
ctep, and the rest went into the school
room. Then Ixu called out to Ray to
come and dust her desk. She said "it
wasn't half dusted." Queeny said:
"Ray is busy, I will do it;" and she,
silent and looking prouder than ever,
dusted Lou's desk herself.
It was this morning, Friday, that
Mrs. Bland told us that to-morrow
would be " Mountain day."
All the schools in our town drive to
the mountain once a year. Our day
always comes in September.
This time Mrs. Bland couldn't go, so
she sent along her cousin to matronize
us. She was a fidgety person, afraid of
spuine, nun jiu guuu any way,
"We are to start at nine o'clock,"
Queeny said. " Ray, can you bo ready
so early ?"
Queeny was a new scholar. She
didn't know that Ray never went with
us to such places. Now she flushed and
replied :
" I don't think I can go to the moun
tain." "Certainly, you are going." Alice
said it in her queeniest way. " If you
can't go to-morrow we will put off
. going." .
"Saturday is my day to clean the
school-room." Ray answered. N -,
We will clean it. Let's begin this
minute," and off came Queeny 'e cutis
jn.d Kate's, all the ouffa, in act. We
went to work, and had such fun sweep.
Ingand scrubbing. Just imagine Kate
and Queeny washing the floor. They
did it well, too.
"Now, remember, Queeny said, the
last thing, " everybody is to wear her
oldest 'dress. And, Ray, would you be
kind enough to bring hard-boiled eggs
for your luncheon? One apiece for us
all round?"
Ray looked bright ail over, and said
yes.
Now I think it was just beautiful of
Queeny to think of that. She knew Lit
tle Tinkham couldn't bring frosted
cake and French rolls as the rest of us
did.
So she spoke of the eggs. We all re
membered that Ray had wonderful
chickens. I am sure the word about old
dresses, too, was meant to help her.
The next morning Obed Taintor came
round with his uncovered omnibus and
his two great horses and picked us up.
We went for Ray last. She was stand
ing in front of the old house, beside the
tumble-down gate, with her basket of
eggs in her hand.
She looked perfectly happy, and her
dress was so clean and smooth Kate
whispered to me:
"That dress has been washed and
ironed since last night. Just think
of it!"
It was a clear, warm morning and
every one was in such a glow of good
spirits. I think we were all glad we
had Rachel with us.
But if it hadn't been for Queeny Ray
would never have gone, and if Ray hadn't
gone the rest of us would never have
come home, and this story for there is
a story would never have been told.
It is eight miles to the mountain and
there is a carriage-road to the top. The
last two miles are very hard nna steep,
because you rise nearly a thousand feet
above the Connecticut river in that dis
tance. But Obed was a steady, good driver
and his horses were steady, good horses.
We always drew lots for the seat be
side Obed, and it was one oi our treats
to get him talking about his " team." as
lie called it.
"What are their names P" asked
Queeny.
" Well "a pause. Obed was a slow
talker, but he had a great deal to say.
" The off one there is Cresar an' the nigh
one lie is Alexander."
"Are they afraid of the cars?"
" Aint afeard o' notliin' in natur."
Obed paused for us to think this over,
and then went on :
" Know too much, them creeturs do.
They've carried a load to the mountain
four times a week all summer. They'd
take ye 'bout 's well ef I wa'n't along.
They know well beats all what them
animals know. Understand 't I'm talk
in' 'bout 'em this minit 's well 's you do.
They're used to being talked to. My wife
she thinks a sight of 'em. Beats all!
She'll go out to the barn, and she'll
carry 'em apples, and she'll be all over
'em; an' one week when she was sick,
an' kop' in the house, you c'n b'lieve it
or not. but it's a fact that them creeturs
lost flesh. She braids up their front
hair for 'em, and ties it with a red rib
hin one day, an' then the next day she
upbraids it, and it's crimped, all in the
fashion, you'll understand. As they was
acomin' to a party to-day, they've got
their hairs crimped."
But alas for Ctesar, and alack for
Alexander. It was a terrible piece of
work that you came near doing that
day, though we girls never shall feel
that you were much to blame.
You see this was what happened.
We were all tucked into the wagon as
tight as tigs in a box, that afternoon,
ready to start for home, when Lou called
out that she had left lur parasol. She
must, get out, and run up to the tower to
get it.
" You just keep y'r sittin'," said Obed.
" I'll fetch yer umberill;" and he started
for tlie tower.
It was about ten rods off. The tower
and stable are built in a small cleared
space at the top of the mountain. Ail
around and below are thick old woods
and great rocks.
Obed had just gone out of sight when
Queeny gave a little scream, and put her
hand to her eyes. "Something has stung
me," she said, and then, that instant,
while wo were all looking at her, it hap
pened. The horses both reared, then gave a
plunge, the omnibus seemed to rise from
the ground with a great leap, and sooner
than I can tell it, we were all being
borne, at an awful speed, down that nar
row rocky road.
I glanced toward Cresar and Alexander,
and saw a terrible pair of wild animals.
I looked toward the girls, and saw two
rows of white, frightful faces.
The reins were dragging on the ground.
Some of us were shrieking, " Whoa!" A
tew were getting ready to jump. All
this in an instant, and then, suddenly.
above the noise of the wheels and of
everything else, we heard a voice ring
out clear:
" Sit still, girls! I think I can stop the
horses."
It was Ray Tinkham, of all people in
the world .
She stood up with a steady look in her
eyes.
I must explain here that the road from
the tower runs down a gentle slope for
half a mile, and there comes a sharp turn.
Beyond that is Long hill, the steepest,
most dangerous part of the way. Kate
seized my hand and whispered :
" If the horses are not stopped before
they get to the turn, we 3hall all he
killed."
Ray was climbing over the driver's
seat. She always could climb anywhere,
liken cat. She didn't pause an instant,
but she called back to me:
"Natty Brock, put on the brakes.
The rest of you sit still. Only pray as
hard as you can."
t I sprang to the driver's seat, and
lammed down the handle of the brakes.
I prayed, too. I believed I should
never pray again.
I saw and thought of a hundred things
at once. I saw the great tree trunks and
the huge black rocks close upon u. I
remembered the clematis over the front
door at home, and wondered who would
tell my father that I was dead.
Meanwhile, Ray was over the dash
board, and down with her feet over the
whiftletree.
How she did it, I shall never know,
but the next we 6aw of her, 8he was
creeping along ihe pole between the
horses, steadying herself with her hands
on their backs.
The horses went tearing on like wild
horses, their manes flyiner, and their
great bodies quivering all over.
Every instant the girls were becom
ing more excited.
Queeny was holding Mrs. Bland's
cousin with both hands, to prevent her
leaping out. Kate cried t
"We art almost to the turn. What
is Ray doing? She will frighten the
horses worse than ever 1" and she covered
her eyes.
1 lie brow of the hill was not forty
feet off. Far behind, we could hear
Obed's voiee screaming to the horses to
stop. The keeper of the tower was fly
ing toward us.
But they were too far awav to do anv
good. There seemed not one chance in
a thousand for us. But that very instant,
when we all believed we were lost, we
looked at Ray.
We saw her reach forward with one
hand, and grasp the reins which joined
the heads of the horses together. Just
where the connecting straps crossed one
another her fingers clutched them.
One sharp, herce jerk ot those great
heads backward, and the horses slack
ened their speed, and in an instant more
stopped.
The wagon stood still, although the
creatures were snorting and plunging
yet. But that small hand of Ray's held
on with a death-grip, and in a moment,
more Obed caught the horses by their
heads.
His face was as white as it ever could
be, and lie spoke one word only. It was i
.nornets r
The horses had been stunar in moro
than twenty places. They were unhar
nessed at once, and we were all out on
the ground directly.
We laughed and we cried, and Mrs.
Bland's cousin distinguished hoYself by
fainting away.
" I don't blame the horses in the
least," Queeny said. "One sting is bad
enough," and she showed where her eye
was beginning to swell. "The hornets
came swarming out of the woods
there." As for Obed, he was a humili
ated man.
" But I was the one to blame." be said.
" I thought the horses would 'a' stood
till the'r hides dropped offn the'rribsj
but I tell ye ther' never Was the team
hitched up yet that 'ud stan' hornets.
Blarst the creeturs!" he added, in under
tone. " But Rav Tinkham !" cried Kate, and
she went up to where the little thing
was sitting on a rock, looking pale.
"You saved us all, you blessed child.
How did you ever think of doing that?"
"My grandmother stopped some run
away horses in that way once," gasped
Ray. "I didn't know whether I could
stop these, but I knew somebody must
do something, or we should all be dashed
to pieces."
" Well," spoke Obed,, "I've known o'
that thing's hem' done just once afore in
my lifetime, but it was a boy that did it.
There's a savin' 'monirst teamin' men
that, when you haint got the reins, you
can stop a runaway it you walk out on
the pole and grip hold o' the bridles, but
'taint every horse that'll stand it."
" But wasn't it splendid of Ray ?" cried
Lou, going over, nrM putting her arm
round Iter.
" Never knew a girl c'd have so much
pluck," answered the driver. "If she
hadn't V been liuht on 'er feet, an' level
in 'er head, she never c'd 'a' done it. 1
tell you if these horses hadn't been un
common good horses, notliin' on airth
would 'a' stopped "Pm'."
Ami Ray? I never meant to make so
long a story of it, but I must tell you
that we gave her a party soon after this.
All the fathers, and mothers, and brot it
ers went, and we carried her a carpet for
her room and a new chamber set, and
nice new clothes all through; and a few
of the gentlemen gave her a bank-book,
whatever that may mean. I only know
that she was to have the income of cer
tain money, and that it wm enough to
educate her thoroughly. We had the
best time that night, and Queeny's
lather took Kay out to $upper, and she
sat at his rigltt hand, and everybody
treated her as though she had been a
princess of the blood.
I do believe there never was a happier
girl on earth than Rachel that night.
Youth'' t Companion.
American Honey Abroad.
Twelve months ago no American honey
in the comb was sold in England, al
though a considerable quantity was ex
ported from New York to Europe in glass
jars. Now the trade is a large one, and
the New York Commercial Advertiser
tPlls how it has been worked up by Mr.
Hoge, a well-known bee and honey man.
After contriving means to ship the pro
duct without hreaking the combs Mr.
Hoge set himself to get it introduced on
the royal table. Accident suggested a
plan to this end which only American
enterprise would have ever dared to carry
out. Mr. Hoge, while dining in an Eng
lish chop house in London, took up a
bottle of sauee, and on the label found
that the condiment was prepared by one
who had been high steward at Windsor
Castle. "There's my man," "thought
Mr. Hoge, and away he went in search
of him: ultimately succeeding in obtain
ing an introduction to the inventor of
the sauce. I he merits of the sauce was
of course the first thing spoken of, and
the American praised it to the utmost.
He then, said that his object in seeking
the former high steward was to intro
duce the sauce into the United States,
where of course it would certainly have
a large sale through the New York house
which had sent him to England.
Arrangements were made to have
the sauce introduced here, and
the ex-high steward was in good
humor. This was the tine to in
troduce the real object of the visit, and
the American said : Now, I want you
to do a good turn for me. Can you not
get a case of American comb honey
placed on the Queen's table? The honey
will tell for itself afterward, as vou will
find when I send you a case for yonr
own use. .Nothing easier." replied
the ex-hieh steward: "I am well ac
quainted with the present high steward
of Windsor Castle, and he will do any
thing I request of him." The next day
a case of the best honey was sent to the
ex-high steward's house, and soon after
another one was in Windsor Castle. The
beautiful combs were placed on the
Queen's table, and her grandchildren,
the daughters of the late Princess Alice,
were so pleased with it that the Queen
gave orders that ten cases should be at
once purchased for the use of the castle,
meaning, of course, her own table. . The
fact of this order having been given by
the Queen soon became known through
the enternrise ot the American, and the
London press took up the subject of
American comb honey, praising it to
the utmost. Even the British Bee Jour
nal took back all it had said against the
honey, and was loud in its praise. The
result was that the American comb
honey was to be found in a very short
time on every "fashionable" person's
tahle, and its success in Great Britain
as ured. An order has been received to
ship at once 500,000 pounds of the new
crop, to be followed by a like qu intity
at a later penoo.
TIMELY TOPICS.
-
At the close of last year there wero
81,841 miles of . railroad in opera
tion in the United States, with a popu
lation of about 38,000,000. The number
of miles of road in operation in Europe
was about 94,000, tor a population of
something over 300,000,000. The United
States thus has a mile of railroad to
about 464 inhabitants, and-Europe one
mile to about 3,323 inhabitants ; or, in
other words, every inhabitant of " the
United States has about seven times as
much railroad as every European..
A congress for the improvement of
the condition of the blind has been held
in Berlin. Foremost among the ques
tions was that of the printed or written
character to bo used by t ie blind, and
the congress decided that the system of
writing and printing by combination of
raised points, first introduced by Louis
Braille in 1834, should be adopted in
Germany without modification. Another
important decision was that the prac
tice ot uniting the blind and the deaf in
the same institution was highly objec
ttonable. The congress also recorded
the fact that in the experience of German
institutions rope-making is one of the
best trades there practiced by ttie blind.
The funeral of Herlig, a Socialist mas
ter turner, was the scene ot a great So
cialist demonstration at Dresden. Sev
eral thousand sympathizers followed
the body to the grave, but the police
took advantage of an old Saxon law
against the public exhibition of repub
lican emblems to forbid the wearing of
political ensignia. No funeral oration
was permitted, ana wnen a woman
stepped forward and spoke a few words
an order was given to arrest her, the
execution of which was, however, ren
dered impossible by the closing in of
the crowd. Several wreaths were thrown
on the coffin, but not before the police
had insisted on the removal of the red
silk ribbons with whicli they were tied.
A great business is being done this
year in tlie importation ot iron from
Africa for use in American manufac
tories. The great reason for preferring
African iron to native ore is. of course.
its cheapness, but it has the further nd
vantage of being remarkably free from
phosphorus. Tins ore has been imported
to some extent for two or three vears.
but never in such quantities as now.
one authority estimating that two hun
dred thousand tons will be shipped to
Now loi'k tins year and half as much
to Philadelphia, the latter for use at the
iron works in lictuieiiem and Johnstown
and by the Pennsylvania Steel Com
pany. Another notable feature in tlie
ii on uaue la me importation oi nessumer
pig, of which forty five thousand tons
ire known to be Under contract for tlie
United States. There have liech no im
portations of this sort before since 1&.'1.
The great importance which ostrich
farming has acquired :n Southern Af
rica may he seen from an ostrich auc
tion recently held at Middleburgj Cape
Land, the lowest -price paid lor one
pair of these birds was 180; and several
pairs fetched JLaba. A lew years ago
ostriches were obtained by hunting
only, and nt that time a good bird cou'd
be bought for a menagerie or a zoologi
cal garden at a moderate price. But
since their domestication uhtl the devel
opment of ostrich farming as an Indus
try their price lias risen enormously.
At present tlie Zoological Garden m
london owns not one living ostrich.
From tlie Cape of Good Hope 2.207
pounds of ostrich feathers were exported
in 1800, at a value of 10,901 ; but in 1873
the exportation had risen to 31,581
pounds, at a value of 159,670, and l e
cently a hunch of picked bloods were
sold at Port Elizabeth for 07 15s. a
pound that is, about 15s. a feather.
The Anthracite. Coal Fields.
At the meeting of the American
Science Association in Saratoga P. W.
Sheafer, of Pottsville, Penn., spoke of
the anthracite coal fields of Pennsylva
nia and their rapid exhaustion. He said :
The work of mining anthracite coal in
that State was begun in 1820 with 305;
now 20,000,000 tons per annum are pro
duced. Mr. Sheafer asserted that only
one-third of tlie coal goes into consump
tion; two-thirds are wasted, lost in the
mines and in preparation. He put the
maximum product at about 50,000,000
tons per annum, and at the present rate
of increase this limit will be reached in
the year 1900, and in 186 years, say in
the year 2065, our anthracite coal fields
will be exhausted. Then we must fall
back on our bituminous coal area, whicli
reaches tlie enormous total of 200,000
square miles, say over 400 times tlie
area of the anthracite. Mr. Sheafer said
that the competition between our several
coal companies and by them with the
bituminous coal will always keep tlie
price moderate. He doubted if Great
Britain could much increase its now
enormous product of 136,000,000 tons,
yet at her present rate of increase she
will exhaust her coal above 4,000 fee
in about the time in which our anthra
cite output will cease. But she has no
200,000 square miles, as we have in tlie
West.
Czar Peter and the Wig.
Peter the Great was a half-savage in
his manners. He never had pleasantry
enougli to play a joke, though some of
his rudenesses had a very comical effect:
On his second visit vo a town in Hol
land! he and the burgomaster of the
place, attended divine service, when nn
unconscious action of the czar almost
upset the gravity of the congregation.
Peter, feeling his head growing cold,
turned to the heavily-wigged chief mag
istrate at his side and transferred the
wig, the hair of which flowed down over
the great little man's shoulders, to his
own head, and sat so till the end of the
service, when he returned it to the in
sulted burgomaster, bowing his thanks
The great man's fury was not appeased
till one of Peter's suite assured him that
it was no practical .joke at all that his
majesty had played : that his usual cus
tom, when at church, if his head was
cold, was to seize the nearest wig he
coumciuicn iseigravia. ,
It is estimated that there are in the
United States 400,000 railway cars of alj
kinds, also 16,000 engines. These engines
and cars in traveling over tiie roads lose
annually between 4.000,000 and 5,000,000
of nuts. These will weigh over 1.500.-
000 pounds, and their cost is between
30,000, and $ 40,000, and this loss is
continued from year to year, saying
nothing of the nuts thrown In the si-nip
heap, with their bolts withle fi
the use of the jam nut, also- the liability
iv Kviuec uvta juvie buisy .
FOR THE FAIR SEX.
Incompatibility.
At Inst, sinoe thou art nil my own,
My love, my life, my promised bride!"
He murmurs softly, sinking down
Clnrinda's peerless form beside.
" Let's figure, sweet, how we'll begin
Our married state that Is to be."
" Yes, love. To out a figure in
The world is all my with!" says she.
" For house," says he, " what hotter thnn
A tiny cot by ocean's flow T"
" Twotild do," she savs, behind her fan,
" It marble lronts were scarce, you know!"
" Ahem! And wo might well engage
One maid-ot-all-woik, stout and neat!"
" Y-e-e-s! and a footman, cook and page,
And coach and pair!" she murmured sweet.
" Why, really, dear! but words are
With love for guests at home a field,
Our food shall be the simplest lare,
Our drink the dairy's snowy yield!"
" Y-e-e-s! with etceteras rare and blest,"
She coyly addsi " that money brings
Fish game in season wines the best i
Broils,, stews, fruit oake, loe-oreem
and
things!" . . , - ,
" In Midas' name!" he cries, with look,
And tone and mien from rapture tree,
" Dost deem a millionaire to hook,
Ambit iotip girl, in wedding me?"
" Why, not at all, Sir Stinginess!"
She quick responds, with scornful shout;
" But just remember none the less,
As servant I'm not hiring out!" .
They sever she with ongry look
That never bids him pause nor stay;
He clutching tight his pocketbook,
And precious glud to get away.
" Dissembling might have done with tnct,
II not too soon betrayed," says she;
" How lucky that to sober fact
I brought her ere too late!" says he.
Fashions of the Season.
Among the new dress goods in silk
and wool mixtures are found some
novelties in the form of welted striped
goods, tlie stripes running across, not
lengthwise the goods, producing a cor
duroy effect: and upon this surface,
whose ground is either gendarme blue,
bronze, plum, dark green, brown, or
black, bright silk threads produce a
flowered design in jardiniere effects, tlie
figures being for the most part small set
designs. This stuff is intended for tlie
panicrs, back draperies, cuffs, rovers,
and collars of costumes whoso under
skirts, sleeves, and minor parts are com
posed of self-colored, nil-wool, welted
striped goods of tints and shades corre
sponding with the grounds of the figured
goods. In the plain goods intended for
the underskirts the welted stripes are
also crosswise the goods.
Other fancy silk and wool mixtures
have narrow alternate stripes of plain
wool and figured silk, the silk stripes in
small bright arabesque or armure de
signs. Other striped cloths have parti
colored grounds of bronze, French gray,
cherry, garnet, peacock, gendarme ntid
navy blues, and shades of stone mid
ardoite or slate color.
Plaid Jacquard is a genuine novelty,
tlie lai'ge plaid being produced in a
variety of novel and striding designs
and sharply contrasting colors' woven in
a Jacquard loom, and, while they imi
tate the size and colors of tartans, nr
very unlike them. Broken blocks,
squares, and dashes of color arc pro
duced in the midst of tlie wool mixtures
by bright threads of silk thrown in, the
predominant tints being old gold, sap
phire and turquoise blues, cherry and
other shades of red, and bright shades of
green on dark grounds.
In plain all-wool goods, in addition to
the camel's hair goods, cloths, flannels
and cashmeres of last winter, we are
shown a new material called toile ilv
sanylier. This is plain woven, hut has
a rough surlace, and resembles bunt ing
made sufficiently heavy to serve for warm
winter dresses.
Tlie ready-made suits, thousands of
which are sold every season and sent all
over the world, are shown this fall in
dark cloth colors in the new shades of
amaranth, Rembrandt green, gendarme
or duck's breast and navy blues, dauphin
and dark French grays, Burgoyne and
golden Drowns and black, with garni
tures and parts of the costumes of trim
ming satins, plain, plaided or striped.
silk plush. Jacquard corduroys or welted
stripes, wide woolen braids and Scotch
and Jacquard plaids, or other trimming
goods of silk and wool mixtures similar
to those described above.
The greater part of these suits are
made up in the form of a coat basque,
with pointed waistcoat in lront and a
postilion back, curved shorter on the
hips. When the basque has not a waist
coat it is given a stomacher like a plas
tron, which is pointed below the waist.
and consists of two re vers sewed together
down the middle, extending from the
neck down and tapering gradually na-
rowerto the waist, under this plastron
waistcoat or" stomacher the basque is
fastened with small flat buttons. The
plastron may be either of plain cloth or
satin, or it may be covered with parallel
lines of zigzag braid set on crosswise in
points. Tho postilion backs are some
times pointed, but oftener square, and are
given flat box-plaits beaded with fancy
buttons. The skirts are short, trimmed
with the usual flounce or flounces, in tho
usual variety of kilt, knifeblade and box-
plaitings. Paniers appear on many of
these skirts.or scans arranged to produce
panier effects. Wide bells are seen on
many of the basques, beginning in tho
seam under the arms and fastening in
front. Other basques are halt double
breasted, and others again have surplice
plaits rr gathers in front; and blouse of
ten are also popular in basques, fasten
ing down with three-inch wide belts, to
which the side pocket is attached. The
buttons on the waistcoats are smaller
than those on other parts ot the costume.
Few.outsido pockets are seen, but some
times a lonffsauare or pear-shaped ap
pendage of this kind is attached to the
lower edge of a basque, and made very
effective with trimmings. Plaid silks
and silk plush of the same shade as the
wool material of the dress, and self
colored Jacquard corduroys, also of the
shade of the woolen stuff, are used for
trimming cashmeres. Utile des Indes,
camel's hair and toile de tnnalver cos
tumes. These ready-made suits range in
price all the way from $30 10 $75 and
$100. , i
I .fir He and small bonnets, the first very
large and the second very small, are seen
amopg tlie importations of millinery
goods. The large bonnets are either
pokai with oIom tides, dirsetoirs bon
nets with square crowns and flaring
brims, or Rabagas bonnets that iramo
the face like a halo; The small bonnets
are close 'ottnge shapes, or are square
crowns and almost brimless, such as have
been worn at Saratoga and Newport
during tlie summer, and tlie favorite
Carmen bonnets with greater breadth in
tho back. Other shapes serve as either
a round hat or a bonnet, and English
turbans, Derbies and largo Tyrolean Imts
are all among the new shapes. The
Gainesborouglis and other fanciful, pic
turesque shapes are not by any means
discarded.
All these shapes are brought out in
smooth soft felt, silk plush and fur
beavers, with pile an inch long. Some
times tho crown of tlie hat will be of
silk and the brim of beaver or the re
verse, and sometimes felt brims are
given fur or silk crowns, or felt crowns
are seen with plush or beaver brims.
The feather felts which were introduced
last season appear again this season in
greater numbers, and in tlie delicate ecru
and beige tints and cream and pearl
white, which show that they will be
used lor the richest full-dress occasions.
The felts, beavers and plushescome
in the same variety of colors and tints
this season that they did last, or even
greater. The new tints of cloth shades
that are seen in the dress goods appear
in the bonnets and hats, showing plain
ly that costumes will require a hat or
bonnet to match this winter, and at
least an attempt will be made to revive
that fashion. For the new shades, colors
found in felts and other millinery goods,
new names are given. Rembrandt Is a
a new name for a dark bluish shade of
peacock green. A new red with a dash
of purple in it is Amaranth, and the old
Egyptian or Pompeiian reds are now
vleux rouge. Japbniers is a new green
blue, and gendarme blue takes the title
of Douariere and duck's-breast blue,
golden brown is cannaue, and tho most
fashionable shade of plum brown is
Burgoyne. Old gold is as fashionable
as ever, and the ciel blues and rose
pinks, the beige tints with cream, ivory
and wax white, are all in demand equal
to the supply.
Fancy feathers will be used to excess
again in trimming bonnets and hats.
Whole and half birds, tails, wings, pom
pons, and feather fringes and ruches are
all seen in tlie millinery stores. Ixmg
gray ostrich plumes of the natural color
are also to be revived, and tips, demi
long and Mercutio, and willow plumes,
are all to be worn.
The fall wraps are for the most part
mantelet visites similar to those worn
last spring, but ulsters, round cloaks
and close jackets will be worn as the
season ad vanees. Most of tlie fall suits
now in the hands of the dressmakers
have a jacket of the material of the suit,
and jackets of light, dark and black
cloths are found in' abundance in all the
houses where ready-made garments are
sold. When the jacket is a part of a
costume it is trimmed to match the
same, but the independent jackets aiv
untrimmed, save witli rows of stitching
and effective buttons of ivory, horn,
shell or metal. A7cm York Hm.
Position in Sleep.
Position affects sleep. A constrained
or uncomfortable posture will often pre
vent repose. Lying flat on tlie back with
the limbs relaxed 'would seem to secure
the greatest amount of rest for the mus
cular system. This is tlie position
assumed in the most exhausting diseases,
and it is generally hailed ns a token of
revival when a patient voluntarily turns
on the side; but there are several disad
vantages in tlie supine posture which
impair or embarrass sleep. Thus, in
weakly states of the heart mid blood ves
sels, and in certain morbid conditions of
the brain, the blood seems to gravitate
to the back of tlie head and to produce
troublesome dreams. In persons who
habitually, in their work or gait, stoop,
them is some distress consequent on
straightening the spine. Those who
havo contracted chests, especially per
sons who have had pleurisy and retain
adhesion; of tho lungs, do notsleep well
on tho back. Nearly all who are inclined
to snore do so when in that position,
because the soft palate and uvula liani;
on the tongue, and Unit organ falls back
so as to partially close tlie top of tlie
windpipe. It is better, therefore, to lie
on the side, and in tlie absence of special
chest disease, rendering it desirable to
io on the weak side so ns to leave tho
healthy lunir free to expand, it is well to
choose tlie right side, because when the
body is thus placed the food gravitates
more easily out ot the stomach into the
intestines. A glance at any plate ot tlie
visceral anatomy will show how this
must be. Many persons are deaf in one
ear and prefer to lie on a particular side ;
but, u possible, tlie right side should be
chosen, and the body rolled a little for
ward, so that any saliva which may be
secreted shall run easily out of the
mouth, if not unconsciously swallowed.
Again, sleeping with tlie arm thrown
over the head is to be deprecated ; but
this position is often assumed during
sleep, because circulation is then free in
the extremities and tlie head and neck,
and the muscles of the chest are drawn
up and fixed by the shoulders, and thus
the expansion of the thorax is easy.
The chiet objections to this position are
that it creates a tendency to cramp and
cold in the arms, and sometimes seems
to cause headaches during sleep, and
dreams. These smalllmatlers often make
or mar comfort in sleeping, Medical
Journal,
A Smart Wife.
The other mornins a citizen called at a
hardware store on Woodward avenue
and said he wanted a key to a certain
door in his house, and he took up nnd
carried away almost tlie first key handed
out to him. On his way down town af
ter dinner he stopped and exchanged tho
key for another, explaining that the firsts
wouldn't nt. These changes took placo
twice a day for the next four days, the
citizen being unable to get hold of a key
to fit. On the sixth day he drove up to
the btore with a door on a dray, and
calling to the proprietor he said :
" Bring your box of keys out here and
we'll get a fit to that lock. Here I have
been running back and forth for about a
week, aud 1 might not have got a ht for
a whole month if my wife had not sug
gested that I bring the door down heie.
Some of these women are might v smart."
, " Put why didn't you take the lock off
and bring It down in your pocket?
asked the dealer. "
The buver looked -at him in a vacant
way, stared hard at the door, and sat
down on , the curbstone with the re
mark: ' "
" It's a wonder that the whole .family
wasn't sent to the fool-housv ton years
ago." vttrou iree trtai, .
Astronomy Made Easy,
Ili-diddle-didille,
Tho Sun's In the middle,
And planets around him so grand
Are swinging in spaco,
Held forever in place
In the Zodiao girdle or band.
Hi-diddle-diddle,
The Sun's in the middle,
And Mercury's next to the sun;
Whilo Venus so bright,
Seen at morning or night,
Comes second to join in tho Inn,
Hi-diddle-diddle,
The Sun's in the middle,
And third in the group is our Earth;
While Mars with hin fire,
So warlike and dire.
Swings around to be counted tholourth,
Hi-diddle-dlddlo,
The Sun's in the middle,
While Jupiter s next alter Marst
And his lour moons at night
Show the speed of the light
Next golden-ringed Saturn appears,
Hi-diddle-didttle,
The Sun's in the middle,
After Saturn oomes Uranus far;
And his antics so queer,
Led astronomers near
To old Neptune, who drives tlie last car.
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
An imperious Ctesar The sheriff.
An indescribable uncle Carb-uncle
Sound logic Arguing through the
telephone.
How many oassensers will a train of
circumstances carry P
Mount Stanford, in the Sierra Neva-
das, is covered with red snow.
A man who declared himself to be in
toxicated with music was considered air
tight. '
A new Mormon temple now in course
of erection at Sal Lake City is to ot
$5,000,000.
To use the new machines or the old-
fashioned washboards? Aye, there's the
rub. Picayune.
There are now in Texas over 5,000,000
sheep. Last year over 1 1,000,000 pounds
of wool were shipped out of the State
In Tennessee. South Carolina and
Delaware elerevmen are not permitted
to become members of tlie State Legis
ature. Black Hills correspondent states
that he believes he development of the
mineral resources ot the lilack lints lias
only begun.
Miss Porter, of Detroit, paid a hack
man less than ho demanded, and he
angrily struck her. She drew a revolver
from her satchel and shot him dead.
Samuel Nussbaum murdered his wife
at Girardeau, Missouri, and was stopped
in an attempt io kill himself on tlie spot;
but he was determined to die, and hns
linally accomplished his purpose by
starvation.
The French have been trying, with
some success, the plan of towing canal
boats by locomotives. A railway is laid
down on the towpath, about one meter
(30 inches) from the side of tlie canal,
and on this are run snvill ocomotives of
lour or more tons, according to the
weight to bo pulled.
Queensland, the youngest of tho Aus
tralian group, occupies the northeastern
quarter of tho Australian continent nnd
stretches from the northern boundary of
New South Wales to tlie Gulf of Car
pentaria. It is twelve times the size of
Ensjland, twice tho size of Canada and
half as lursro again as England, Ireland,
Scotland. Wales, France and Spain com
bined. It is rich in gold.
MISS BANGS.
The beauteous, buxom Bertha Bungs
Is one ot our divinest girls;
elm hangs tho doors and ImnH the chairs,
And likewise liungs lutr unburn curl.
She bangs on the piiuniy, too,
And bans upon the light puitor
But, oil, of all tho bangs Bhc hangs,
Shu mostly bangs her auburn ha'r.
Oh, banning, bouncing, buxom belle,
Tho poet's lyre with rupture twangs
i(t.-)Oiifivo to tlie influence
Of thy beloved mid bouutoons bungs.
,S7. Louit Timtt-Journal.
An Aerolith in Court
Prof. Pierce's speech before the scien
tists, at Saratoga, dealt mainly on those
heavenly bodies called meteors, and
which, according to Prof. Newton, of
Yalo College, are so uumerous that no
fewer than four hundred millions of
them enter the earth's atmosphere every
year. Fortunately for us, it is only the
largest of these meteoric stones and
these are exceedingly rare which do
not become wholly dissipated before
reacningthe ground: from all otherit the
air is, as Prof. Newton expresses it, "a
shield to protect us from an otherwise
intolerable bombarding." Oneofthcc
few has, strangely enough, brought up
an entirely new question of property
law in France. One night not very long
since a peasant crossing a field saw a
meteor of unusual magnitude, which
fell with a great noise and touched the
ground within a few yards of his feet.
Recovered from ins Iriirht. he went to
the spot and unearthed a stone of con
siderable size, which, in scientific lan
guage, is called an aerolith. It occurred
to the man thnt what had dropped down
to him lroni Heaven must be a rarity
and might have a money value. After
consulting tlie schoolmaster of hjs com
mune, he took the mysterious suostance,
of no terrestrial operation, to tlie Issou
dun Museum, and there received in ex
change for it the, to him, wonderful
sum of $25. Short-lived was his joy.
The proprietor of the field visited by a
product ot t lie skies, who lives in runs,
read in the newspapers an account of the
celestial transaction, and strong in a
maxim prevailing in franco to this
day, that property in land extends from
heaven above to Jieii beneath," in
structed a county a.torney to bring an
action. IIo claimed either the restitu
tion of the aerolith which fell upon his
land, or $2,000 damages, which Le judged
to be the value of it. The case has not
yet been decided, and threatens to drag
its weary length for some time to come.
It has, however, been pretty clearly es
tablished that the damages claimed are
excessive. There is a regular tariff of
the value of aeroliths at the Paris Mu
seum, and $ 25 is a high average price.
Eminent legal talent is engaged on both
sides, and thus fur the pensivnt it believed
to have the better of the Pwrioiiin. . ,
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