“
For The Curious.
The highest range of mountains is
the IHimalavas, the mean
000 feet,
The loftiest mountain is Mount
Everest or Guarisanker, of the Hima-
laya range, having an elevation of 20,-
002 feet above the sea level,
The largest bell in the world is the
great bell of Moscow at the foot of the
Kremlin, Its circumference at the bot-
tom is nearly 68 feet, and its height
more than 21 feet.
The largest city in the world is Lon
don. Its population numbers 3,020,871
souls. New York, with a population of
about 1.250.000 comes fifth in the list of
great cities,
The largest theatre is the New Opera
House in Paris. It covers nearly three
acres of ground. Its cubit mass is 4,
987.000 feet. It cost about 100,000,000
francs.
The largest suspension bridge will be
the one now building between New York
and Brooklyn. The length of the main
span is 1,595 feet six inches; the entire
length of the bridge is 5989 feet,
The loftiest active voleano is Popo-
catepeti thirty-
five miles southwest of Puebla, Mexico.
It is 17,784 feet above the sea level and
circumfer-
“smoking mountain’
has a crater three miles in
ence and 1,000 feet deep,
The largest island in the world, which
is also regarded as a continent, is Aus-
tralia.
east to west, and measures 1950 miles
from north to south.
9287 square miles
It is 2500 miles in length from
Its area is 2
The greatest thing in the world is the
Falls of Niagara; the cavern,
the Mammoth Cave of Kentucky;
largest
the
jes |
i
of |
largest river, the Mississippi, 4000 mi
in extent ; that
the Mississippi, its area 5,000,000 square
2 = a} —
the largest valley,
ts. y
Pre, that of |
2700
miles : the
Philadelphia,
the greatest grain port, Chicago ; the
greatest city
containing acres ; |
biggest lake, Lake Superior; the longest |
railroad. the Pacific railroad, over 3,000 |
miles inextent. The most huge
of solid iron is Pilot
250 feet,
mass |
Knob. of Missouri, |
circumference, two |
of
sre. Philadelphia ; the
largest library is t Bibliot N a-
tional. in Paris, founded by Louis XIV. ; |
it
pamphlets, 175,000 manuscripts,
h eight,
miles: the best specimen architec.
ture, Girard Colle
ne nique
1.400.000 volumes, 300,000
contains
200.000
maps and charts, and 150,000 coins and
medals,
the
en ba ‘
Tlie largest span of wire in t world
is used for a tele lia over the
river Kistuah, between De
sSectanagrum. in GK)
it § wore th
. 3
feet long, and is stretel
h is 1,200 f.et high.
id
tween two
illig ot 0 hy F “ 3
hills, each of whi¢
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Oaths of all Nations.
The Forms of Oaths in Foreign Leg-
islative Aseemblies.
The following summary of the forms
of oath in use in foreign legislative
assemblies is extracted from the reports
received at the British foreign office in
New York:
Bavaria—I swear
So help me God and His holy gospel.
Denmark—I promise and swear
- a So help me God and
- .
His holy word.
Greece—I swear in the name of the
holy and consubstantial and invisible
Trinity.
Hessé Darmstaat—I swear .
- " So help me God.
Baden—I
-
Saxe-Coburg and
So help me God.
Holland—I swear. So help me God.
Portugal—I swear on the holy gos-
pels.
Prussia—I swear by God, the al-
mighty and omuiscient of ’ .
So help me God.
Saxony—I swear by almighty God.
Servia--I swear by one God and all
that is according to law most sacred
and in this world dearest, . sz
. * » So help me God in this
and that other world.
Spain—After swearing the deputy on
the gospel, the president says: “Then
may God repay you ; but if you fail,
may He claim it from you.”
Sweden and Norway-—I1 (president
or vice-president only) swear before
God and His holy golpelj » » .
I will be faithful to this oath as'sure as
God shall save my body and soul,
Switzerland—In the presence
Almighty God I swear . .
80 help me God,
United States—1 do solemnly swear
. » 80 help me God,
In Bavaria, non-Christians omit the
reference to the gospel. In Holland and
the , United States, affirmation is
optional. In Prussia and in Switzer-
land, afirmation is permitted to those
who object on religious grounds to the
osth. InTAustria, a promise Is in
every case substituted for an oath, In
Belgium and Italy, the adjuration in
used without any theistic reference,
and France and Roumania, the Ger
man Reichstag and for deputies in
Sweden and Norway, neither oath not
Swear.
of
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How it Ended.
Miss Jane Beagle had lived years
enough in this wicked world to know
went too far when she refused Billy
Winkum because he was poor and un-
known. for Billy had in him that stuff
that makes a man rise in some place
opinions of his own, a lou 1 voice, a feel-
ing that he was as good as anybody else,
if not a little better, and a talent for
Fourth of July orations. So that in these
years which had changed his old lady love
from *‘that there handsome Jane Beagle’
to “Miss Jane Beagle, that basn’t
ever married,’ he had risen in the world
and been to Congress, and was a person
of such distinction that no one would
have dared to call him Billy Winkum,
Mr. William Warrington Winkum was
his designation ; a finer coat, more watch
and chain, or a larger diamond in his
cravat were owned by no one in Bill-
berry.
He had never married, but that had
He bad met Jane very
often there: and now Jane would very
I
berry society.
willing® have proved to him that her
decisive No of fifteen years ago had been
repented of. either Mr. William
Warrington Winkum no longer grieved
No, or he it
1 '
JAAS
over that regarded as
final,
“And yet he
Miss Jane, ‘‘and
hasn't married,” said
he don’t flirt around
tion to widows. I have not a gray hair,
than 1
should
am any-
He is five years olde:
like
Way. Suppose he me
still ?"?
did
to prey like a worm in the bud on Mr.
However, concealment not seem |
| hinting at things which brought blushes
| to Jane's cheek. She peeped into the
| drawer. There lay the silver spoons and
| forks, the sugar tongs, a broach set
| with pearls, Jane's only costly bit of
i jewelry, and a roll of bills, Miss Beagle
| drew her little income once a quarter,
| and kept it in the house in fear of the
{ savings bank, which had once ceased
payment for awhile,
The bright eyes, set close together in
the gypsy’s head, saw all at a glance;
and her smile was very bright as Miss
Jane put the twenty-five cents into her
hand,
“1 have taken a notion to you,’ she
sald, looking at the palm of the beauti-
ful if not youthful hand that lay in
hers. ‘‘There’s luck afore yon, There's
one that is liked, not far off, eh ¥"’
Jane blushed again,
“He'll give you a handsomne house,
and set you up in carriage,” added the
“Now own up, lady, your heart
is toward him, is it not?”
“He does not care whethe
¥
it is or not,”
that had
sighed Jane, unaware she
spoken,
“Lady,” said the gypsy, solemnly,” |
I can bring together
ited, I can
11
as 1 tell
disun
Do
the
bles,
to you again.”’
“* What am
cure love trou-
you and he shall come
I to do?" asked Jane,
i
emotions and
ae *11 i y 1% 1
I'll tell you, lady,” said the g
YPSY.
““ Kneel down here beside this chair, |
Let me cover your face with this hand-
kerchief, Don’t be afraid,
it's clean; |
Now think |
i
Think of him and
until I tell you.”
love are generally a little |
of him,
don't move
People in
you love
been |
of Mr. i
for
mad, I am afraid, and Jane had
the Image
Warrington Winkum heart
on Winkum’s damask
He shouted on the platform at |
illiam Warring
election with unimpaired lung power, |
himself a house on the hill
wherein he installed a housekeeper, his |
: }
ndmother, who
sit iin I Frruree ¥ silvery ¢ f at vite
CELINE fourteen children, ana al nines
y hersell :
“*All this
had said
herself very ofter
Ve
4
must
Nobo iv
If 1 feel
longer.”
boarders
speak tw
nobody to do for me.”’
all day |
floor
The rag carpet |
The
were
Jane was down on the kitchen
scrubing as she spoke,
was hanging on the line outside,
rushbottom ch
turned upon the grass to dry, every pan
but the
worm eaten and the smoothest white-
wash would not make the walls flaw-
loss,
“Hedgh-ho!" sighed Jane; ‘‘I like a
handsome house; but I shan’t ever have
one of my own.”
She said it aloud —a habit of talking
to herself had grown upon her—but to
her surprise she was answered on the in-
stant,
“Why. who knows!’ saida voice,
“You may have the handsomest house
in the village yet. Who knows? Don't
you want me to tell you how #"
1
irs, well serubbed,
shone beautifully wood was
“Good gracious!’ cried Jane, jump-
ing to her feet, *‘who is that ?”’
“It's only me, ma'am,” replied a
stout, dark woman, with a big straw
hat trimmed with poppies on her ears,
who sat on the door sill and smiled at
her merrily. “It's only 8 poor gypsy
wandering over the world telling folks
fortunes for them. Will you have Yours
told, lady ?"*
“Mine 2! said Jane, laughing, Why,
I'm too old.”
“You are young enough to have lots
ahead of you, lady,” said the gypsy.
“Come, what's twenty-five cents to you
to hear all your good luck? Besides,
luck is misused sometimes if we are
not on the lookout for it.”
What woman does not believe in her
inmost heart that there are more things
in heaven and earth than are dreamed
of in philosophy ?
‘What single woman doubts that some-
where upon earth fate keeps the other
half of her soul ?
“Itjwould be awfully foolish,’ said
she, ‘‘but nobody will ever know, and I
think I'l do iL."
She felt in her pocket for some change,
It was not there. She had given it, she
remembered, to the man that had men-
ded the wash-boilgr that morning. And
she went to the drawer of the little book
case with a sliding desk in it, which
years, She did what bade |
{ moment
iohtly
wed L0 {
3 lf % 3
Gepariesa, |
am was heard. He rushed |
INLET I'itx
h handke i-
her feet and hands bound. i
The
a chair. “Such al
to herself : but Mr.
Winkum noticed that she had nice plump
el up in a black sil
i
ariel
shidta
Ina moment he had ber untied.
next she sat in
Lis .
sight | she said
anus under her tucked up sleeves, and
that her big frightened eyes were blue
indeed,
“I've been tied here for 1 don’t know
how long, Mr. Winkum," shesaid, “Oh,
how thankful! 1 am you came by! have
been robbed of everything I have—my
silver, my money, my jewelry, What 1
shall do I don't know.”
“ Unprotected women ought not to
reside in any house alone,” said Mr,
Winkum seriously.
* Sometimes they can’t well help it,"
said Jane.
It was so singular, in that old ealico,
with such shoes, and no back braid —for
that was hanging over her bureau glass
upstairs— Miss Jane could never believe
it, but then and there William Warring-
ton Winkum changed suddenly into
ouly an older Billy Winkum, and said
without any oratorical flourish or a big
word :
Jane, you don’t need to live alone,
I've always liked you, and 1 sorter
think, arter all, you've always liked me,
Have me, won't you ?"’
“Not even my back braid on!
thought Jane Beagle, afterward. But
all she said was: ‘Oh, Billy: 1 was
such a goose fifteen years ago.’’
“1'm glad Billy had sense to marry
an old maid,” said Grandma Winkum
at the wedding. ‘Gals is so hity-tity,
and widders is 80 kinder overrullin’ and
unsettlin’. Old maids is kinder thank-
ful and willin® to please,”
But Jane was too happy to be offended
by anything any woman could say.
A —————
Try walking with your hands be-
hind you if you find yourself becoming
bent forward,
OE gl]
The stoekraisers of Coloradoestimate
the aggregate value of their flocks and
herds at $35,000,000, The number of
affirmation is demanded.
®
stood in the sitting-room, to get it. The
horned cattle is phuoed at 2,250,000,
Home Dressmaking.
How Every Woman May Becomea
Fashionable and Economical
Milliner.
In the present era of cheap dry goods,
the heaviest item in the cost of a dress
is not unfrequently the making. There-
fore ladies who wish to economize, or
own dresses at home, It is undoubtedly
dress
hands, now that such robes are really
a handsome
modistes can accomplish successfully,
still, outside of these, there is no reason
why every lady who has leisure to sew,
who can use the sewing machine and
handle her needle, may not be her own
dressmaker,
The manufacture of paper patierns
has grown into an immense business and
patterns for the latest novelties in every
article of clothing for men, women and
ehildren may be purchased for a trifling
amount, With these
nished plain and simple directions
are usually fur
for
cutting out and putting together, as
well as instructions as to the quantity
of material required for the garment,
Jefore buying the pattern, take your
ind the
the arms with a tape-line,
bust, under
Cut the
ing out first before touching the material
f Take
ol
cut
HICASUre, easy, arot
iih-
which the dress is to be made
care to keep the goods straight in
ting and pin the pattern down carefully,
with every straight line running true
he thread of the material, A
t
E48)
ano
Arye
skirts, ete., and
next to that comes the top of the
For
din-
ing-table. sleeves folds, and for
lap board serves
Every purpose, the darts with a
Mark
tracing wheel, which willleave a pricked
i
do ne
: +} 2 Yanni # seq 3 .
ine upon whe goods, ul it cut them
ti
more or less,
Basté upand try
up
on with the seams
AS Nay
be ned
ii
CRSATrY.
DRESSMAKERS’
RULES
PT
ARES
your dress all
cloth.
of the
best dressmakers use
$13 » Ys 1 wus
failing this, fine gray linen
lining, or, ky
but the best silesia is equally as good,
although Drilling is
heavy, and apt to stretch, although some
less expensive,
dressmakers prefer it. Baste each piece
of the corsage on the lining ; then baste
up, and try on, as before. It is an ex-
cellent plan to work the buttonholes,
and sew the buttons on the front before
this basting up, as it will greatly facili-
tate trying on. To measure the size of
the buttonholes, put a piece of card be
neath the button, and cut itan eighthof
an inch on either side. Having turned
down the piece in front on the right
side. run a thread a sixteenth of an
inch from the folded edge, and again
another the width of thecard, Measure
the distance of the buttons apart, and
cut at regular space, beginning with a
buttonhole at the bottom of the bodice,
It is no longer customary to stitch
down the points when they are folded
back, the buttons and buttonholes hold-
ing them in place, but a straight strip
of the material an inch and a half wide,
double, and with the edges turned in,
should be set on the edge of the left
hand front to underiap the buttonholes
on the right.
FINISHING TOUCHES,
Before sewing on the buttons lay the
two fronts together, edge on. edge, and
mark the place where each button is to
go on by means of a pinst nek inthrough
the corresponding buttonhole, In sew-
ing the buttons on, put in the stitches
orizgsvinlly : if perpendicular, they are
kely topucker the bodice so much that
the buttons will not match the button.
holes. Before stitching up the seams of
the bodice make sure that your tensions
are right ; if too tight, they will draw ;
if too loose, they will stitch out of shape.
After this is done, try on the waist
again, and trim out the neck and arm
holes. If these last are not carefully
sloped, some ugly creases will always
appear between the arm hole and bosom,
The casings for whale bones are inserted
at the side seams, on the left front, in
advance of the buttonholes, and on each
dart. The casings are made of tape, 8
little wider than the bene, firmly stitch-
ed down on each side of the open seas,
The top of the casing is formed alto
gether of the tape which is doubled for
nearly an inch, a precaution which pre-
vents the bone from wearing the dress,
Those seton the darts should only ex-
tend to within an inch or so of the top
of the dart, both on account of the fit
The close-
should have the tails lined with the dress
gocids in case they should accidentally
turn up. When the edge of a Jers ey
basque is cut in battlements they also
To
prevent the bodice from slipping out of
must be faced in the same manner,
place, take the wide tape which comes
for the purpose, place its lower edge to
the bottom of the
it to the middle seam of
waist line, and
the
o draw it ; puton a coupl
the band
stitch
back, tak-
ing care not e
of hooks and eves, let!
sel
In
ing
: X y
easily, though closely
to this, o
put a wide belt
1
i
from
front, where
toy the wails
y Lie waist,
addition
Trier
a x1
exienaing
overseamed {«
that no raw edges
fit to
Close the
He oped ou
modate
i on the Hhael
the
er-seams of the day,
slightly padded on top 10 §
§ ’ wr 3:1 ¥ i
effect now considered desir
i w i
and iawn aresses
Linen
and other wash goods, are not lu
»
are made with
fullness, and
he back, an end a
them out well
wearer be stout
to take up ond
the stomach in
band, mass the fulln
either in large gathers
rupie box plait. Diressn
Usually
inne -
HALE Al
to
sew a full pleating
belt in the back, in or
bouffant effect. More recent,
is the introduction of a narrow
filled with horsehair. This is made like
a bag, the upper half, which is sewed to
the waistband, being empty, and the
lowerstuffed. Alpaca makes the best
foundation for silks, and French silesia
comes next in grade, English cambric
is much used, as well as calico, in solid
colors, black, brown, blue, ete., accord.
ing to the dress.
ier produce a
however,
cushion
All piited flouncesand frill= should
be cut straight, all gathered ones bias
Gathered flounces on wash dresses, how
ever, should be straight, since bias ones
do not wash well, Gathered bias
flounces are coming rapidly into fashion,
Most of them are narrow, more ruffles
in fact. and from five to fifteen of them
are used. All bias folds, pipings and
flounces must be cut exactly on the
bias, or they will not set well, For this,
cut the material perfectly straight from
edge to edge of the selvage, fold the cut
edge along the selvage in form of a
triangle, pin in place, and cut accurately
on the folded edge. According to the
required width of the strip, measure on
the selvage fold, and cut as before.
After the first piece is cut, it will serve
asa pattern for the others, but care
must be taken to pin exactly, and not to
stretch it, else the bands will be of
frregular width, Bias ruffles require the
length and half as much again as the
space they are to trim ; box plaits with
a space between twice the length ; quilt-
ings and box-plaits which touch call for
thrice the fullness of the skirt. Kilt
pleats take nearly four times the length,
since, in order to hang prettily, they
must overlap each other a little.
The fashionable rose plaiting ws still
more extravagant, its triple box-plaits
req double the quantity of an
0 quilting, or six times the length
of the space it is to trim, The quantity
necessary for any trimming may bo
easily calculated by cutting & strip of
paper and making Wall quantity up
in that, then measure the trimming and
the length of the strip used, and you
may make the estimate without difficulty,
Dresses all have collars, and not unfre-
quently there are two on the same dress ;
a straight band or English collar, and a
round or Marie Antoinette collar, which
last is a kind of fichue forming acollar in
the back and reversin front, The gathered
Mother Hubbard collar is very becom-
ing to slender figures: stout, broad.
shouldered people should never wear it
since it exaggerates the breadth of the
shoulders. The English collar, so fash-
ionable now, is merely a bias strip of
the dress material or of
fabric,
the trimming
a-half wide, faced
of
in
we
left
inch and
with
The ends are turned
al
with the same an interlining
wiggin,
front, English style, or they
rounded off
upright,
over
may
¥ slarioal $4 % #
in clerical fashion and
All the new bodices have the side forms
into the armhole, The shoulder
seams shou
running
far back and
The long flat
gages of the present day require under-
id be taken
turned to the front, cor -
clothing with but scant fullness at the
waist, and will not set well over bulky
Nor the ost skilful
Accomplish a well ning
i ft
1 i 1ii.t 4 3 wv v &
over an ill-fitting corset, a fact
gathers, can i
dressmaker
self-evident, vet
BEC TILE which
to understand, and,
w the blame upon the dre 8
i —
Victoria.
Townsend it is a three
is 1he Straits of De Fuca
"ancouver's Island, and
. he realizes that
It is strange that
similar
living
Atmospheres as do
their daily
This
ire
m Wash-
rx 1 3
UVEr Ss isianag.,
i Te
id well
in the
Bes
of
pounds of
hereditary
up and
in San
When
ne may
in speak-
i hy and
gE are shabby,
of
reer design
2 | 43 13% & 3
ning one of the in-
Oond~class cotnmer-
id the men and
on doorsteps and
if
5 if they might have
Hull But
{ of the town al
lightful, picturesque
ice Out
i= changed
Ue i= gig»
4 Anes §
great
bould«
IVY: ©
$s: old trees swathed in
uried in roses and honey-
comfortable houses, with lawns
and quaint
castledike houses of
stone, with lodges and high walls and
drive-ways ; and, to complete the pic-
ture, sauntering the lane*, or
driving at stately paces along the per-
fect roads, nonchalent men and leisurely
women, whose nonchalence and leisure
could not be outdone or outstared in
Hyde Park.
a a
Sanitary Briefs.
Hall's Journal of Health recommends
the following remedies for common
human ilis, They are simple, always a
hand in the family, and are indorsed by
first-class authority ; :
Try cranberries for malaria.
Try asun-bath for rheumatism,
Try clambroth for a weak stomach,
Try cranberry poultice for ervsipelas.
Try a wet towel to the back of the
neck when sleepless,
Try swallowing saliva when troubled
with sour stomach,
Try eating fresh radishes and vellow
turnips for gravel,
Try eating onions and horseradish to
remove dropsical swellings,
Try buttermilk for removal of freckles,
tan and butternut stains,
Try a hot flannel over the seat of
neuralgic pains, and renew frequently.
Try taking your cod-liver oll in domwato
Sep if you want to make it palata-
ble,
Try taking a nap in the afternoon
if you are going to be out late in the
evening.
Try breathing the fumes of turpen-
tine or carbolic acid to remove whooping-
cough, :
I
tages b
suckel ;
sun-dials
and hedges,
weather-vanes ;
down