For the Fair Sex.
—
Long wrinkled gloves are now worn
inside the sleeve instead of being drawn
up on the outside.
The large flat collars of Irish point
have taken the place of the Mother
Hubbards, except for small girls,
Ivory-white Canten crape for a basque,
train and lambrequin flounces,and a skirt
of terry velvet make an exquisite ecom-
bination for dinner dresses.
There is a variety in the battlemented
basque bodies. They are cut a little
longer and the form of a tulip petal,
rounded and pointed in the centre.
Draperies across the hips remain very
large ; back draperies do not descend
very low on the dress skirt, especially
when there are flounces all around the
skirt,
Japonica, prawn and strawberry pink
are the pale shades to be used to com-
bine with all the dark fashionable reds,
such as scarlet, garnet, strawberry and
terra cotta,
The fashionable for
rage is
for
which
black hats and white dresses,
fants; and
will be worn with
STOCK INES,
In hosiery, the new cream, fine Bal-
briggan and Lisle thread, as delicate and
become
almost as costly as silk, are to
ith
iti
fashionable for wearing w all colored
shoes and light dresses.
Dress sleeves are fitted very closely to
the arm; they are high on the shoulder
and short at the
seldom
embroidery are worn outside the sleeve.
wrist: linen cuffs are
used, because white cuffs oi
The Jersey tunic is a short overdress
of Jersey webbing trimmed with sou-
tache. It may made
polonaise to wear with the skirts of
dresses after their basques have become
shabby,
A simple and graceful overskirt has a
be useful as a
deep, round, apron front that reaches to
the foot of the underskirt.
thick, full plaits are laid at each side of
the apron, and the back has two full
breadths of the material to be draped in
soft folds.
Jersey cashmere isa new French all- |
wool fabric which is intended for suits
made in the Jersey style; and is well
adapted to its purpose. It is firm, not
elastic, like stockinet, but soft, and de-
lightful to the touch. t is made
the newest of the fine shades of colors
topaz, terra cotta, bronze and the like,
Several
in
a — i
Forests and Haiistones
The utility of forests as a safeguard
against avalanches and a hindrance
freshets and snowdrifts has often
pointed out, but it has never
suggested that
Suselrumas 3
i Ore
forests are a preserva-
tion against hailst« however,
is the opinion of is
chief forester of Canton Aargau, Swit-
ti
He Savs thal wii 1
erland. re there ;
forests there are no hailst
support of
markable
which he and many others
ally vouch. In the south of
there is a little chain of meuntains
known as the Lindenberge, Lin-
denberge are about 20 kilometres long,
of an average height, above sea level, of
some 800 feet, and completely covered
with wood. About twenty years ago
the forest was divided in two places by |
wide gaps, with the consequence that |
the valleysat the foot of the mountains |
were soon afterward visited with fre- |
quent hailstorms. The hail-charged !
clouds were seen to traverse the gaps.
In 1868 the wider of the two open spaces |
was closed by a plantation of firs, and |
since 1571 no hailstorm has crossed the
forest. In explanation of this phenom-
enon Herr Riniker suggests that, as |
hail-clouds are saturated with positive |
electricity and trees conduct from the
earth negative electricity, the meeting |
of the two currents develops sufficient
heat to prevest the complete congelation
of the clouds and even to thaw the hail-
stones contained in them—for the clouds
of this description pass very near the
earth-—and so convert the frozen parti-
cles into rain. If further observation
should confirm the accuracy of Herr
Reiniker’s conclusons in this regard, the
importance of forests in countries where
hailstorms are frequent will be greatly
increased,
Fis
this theory he adduces
are
of
on -
Aargau
fact. for the accuracy
can pel
The
ns —
Rules on Tree Planting,
1st. Dig for large trees a hole four
to five feet in diameter; two feet or
1 ore deep, according to soil.
2d. Deposit in the bottom of the hole
any stones, rocks or the like, fora good
bottom drainage and fill in with loam,
to the depth the tree is to stand. Sods
reversed or washings from the side of
a road is rich and good for the retention
of moisture,
8d. Set the tree in position and see
that the roots are free from buises ;
cover the roots with fine soil and settle
well by watering while planting. The
tree should be headed in with elip pran-
ers or knife, equal to the disturbance
caused by removal ; and giving a form
to start with,
4th, Secure the tree firmly with big
stones after the work is completed ;
HYMN TO THE NIGHT.
No —
Sweep through her marble halls ;
From the celestial walls.
I folt her presence, by its spell of might
{ Stoop o'er me from above, :
The calm, majestic presence of the night.
As of the one I love.
I heard the sounds of sorrow and delight,
The manifold, soft chimes ;
That fill the haunted chambers of the night,
Like some old poet's rhymes.
From the cool cistern of the midnight air
My spirit drank repose;
The fountain of perpetual peace flows there,
From those deep cisterns flows.
O holy night! from thee I learn to bear
W hat man has borne before;
Thou lay'st thy finger on the lips of care,
And they complain no more.
Peace! Peace! Orestos-like I breathe the
prayer!
Descend with broad-winged flight ;
The welcome, the thrice prayed-for, the
most fair,
The best-loved night.
~—LONGEELLOW,
a
RESUME OF THE TOBACCO
MARKET.
PHILADELPHIA. So far as selling
goods 18 concerned, dullness remains
lers of manufactured hard tobacco, and
were it not for the compulsory necessity
to
requisite for handlers assort and
i
arrange stock preparatory to inventor-
ing the same, in accordance with regu-
of the
f Mav, we
lations Grovernment, on the fst
Oo are quite sure el
would have their time occupied in read-
the news of the day.
(evertheless, a number of our large
i
i, seeking orders for any brand
dingl
i $ a rx 1 ser fia Dai TS En
jobbing houses are Keeping salesmen on
the ro:
which they are able to understan 3
specify definite figures for the month of
May,
much of it is coarse, short and flea-
bitten,
Between 400 and 500 cases of old
tobacco were sold last week on private
terms. It is understood that holders
are a little stiffer in their demands, now
that their stock is growing less than
they were earlier in the season,— Intel-
ligencer,
Dayron, Onio,—The ragged, last
end of the tobacco season is here;
the wind-up of three months’ rush
among the buyers. The sheds are
empty and the warehouses full, Farm-
ers and dealers are more than satisfied
with the business done, The '82 crop
has been profitable to farmers.
‘What there is unsold by farmers here
in the Miami district is held by them on
speculation ; there are probably 6000 or
8000 cases of it.-
Miasispunra, Ohio. — Interest and
activity in this market are well main-
tained, though the fact that fine crops
are scattered and the principal dealers
| well supplied has a tendency to depress
prices,
Journal,
There is a brisk demand for old
{ or sweated, goods which dught
81 Seed 1a
such crops of the
merit, premptly. Fine crops of "82 Seed
leaf are very fine, vet very large
growths command »
| and the cause
here, I’
fourth of
are
robabl
the
YET as Pi nnsviy
» balance will go
Zin
but it will 3
1 Tas
rags .
of the
shipped
| (rerman
is in hands of I:
will be used in thei
i The
with
crop of
and,
disappear
Yar §
daily placing upon
}
2
to be shipped next month as early as
possible at prices allowing fair margins,
nt
It 18 very evide
nary favorable outlook, that a large
amount of manufactured tobacco will
be handled next month in this market,
and jobbers must be busy ; buf, whether
this condition will hold for any length
of time is a question which, just now,
is causing inquiry and quiet
consideration, leading to conclusions
frought with doubtful
and questionable issues, and,
much
as the
Tobacco trade so far is imbedded on a
solid rock pecuniarily, we hope they will
weigh caref ¢ the circumstance before
they venture too far into deep water.
Fine
nse in
cuts are being sold for immedi-
3 $
moderaie ntit
quantities, willie
nave been giv
next
to adorn their
'
shelves wit) of every des rip-
tion of granulated or cut and dry to-
bacco,
Clo Ans
quantity,
books are full, so much so that trouble
is anticipated in filling the same
promptly as parties desire. Work
fold in limited
Are
while
being
manufacturers’ order-
as
tivity.
Snuff manufacturers are running over
with orders from May delivery.
result, double set of hands are required.
Seep LEAFY.—A casual visit among
the cigar leaf dealers the past week,
does not indicate the activity hoped for
at this season of the year, They say
selected stock, especially in wrappers of
every grade, while binders and fillers
cannot be surpaseed in quality, all of
“Nevertheless, cigar manufactnrers,
while they hold as a general thing light
stock, still hold back, and as they say,
desire to see how trade will open next
month before acting or laying in a large
supply of stock.
A short season longer and something
pooming or destructive will be known.
Sumatra leaf is handled in very mod-
erate quantities at the advance, while
Havana fillers loom wup in demand;
Vuelta holds the fort and weekly
makes new admirers ; Havana wrappers
are fast becoming something of the
past,
LANCASTER, PA.—Quite a number
of buyers are yet driving through
the country and buying freely at
prices ranging from 8 and 2 up to 18,
6 and 2, according to quality. They
complain, however, that goods such
as they want are getling scarce, and
although there isu good deal of leaf
yet in the hands of farmers, most of it
is low grade and much absolutely trashy,
It is estimated that fully three-fourths
of the crop of 1862 has been taken, and
there will be no difficulty in cleaning
up the balance if farmers will sell for
what their goods are worth,
There continues to be great diversity
of opinion as to the condition of the
crop. Some buyers say their purchases
are equal to anything ever secured in
eave the rest to nature and time,
this county, while others complain that
DANVILLE,
hiya!
$305
well maintained ; alt
the demand has
The prospe
plants for the coming crops are
Va.—The
hown an
| are very large
up with the supply.
RICHMOND,
ket the past week has
in dark goods, and sales have been ac
and prices firm.
up by the manufacturers,
| change
are scarce and higher.
The sug
held s
RCA
in bright wrappers and old fillen
ST. J.ouvts, Mo.
{ been large and prices have
Te be lf oo} ‘
tory. The stock of old tol
fast ¥ Trice gatigfantary tn
ASL AL Prices SaliSiaclorny
™ § ¥ ¥ . § . 3
There is a prospect I Al
pleostiie COMING Week,
rather irre ar an lower
of i sii. We quote
ge at 43
viv]
gual
poorer grades com-
i mon lugs, at 34 to 44; good lu
to 54 ; common leaf, at 5 to 6;
Jeaf, at 64 to 8B: good leaf, at 8} to
fine leaf, at 10 to 114.
offering.
! reduced
Selections,
for
demand
}
| must recede until a point is reached
that demands will be stimulated, and
| export grades will move with a slow
{ and halting step until this point
reached,
i hopped out to enliven the scene, W
is the ‘‘gay and festive cusa?’’ (
some speculator start a fly report?
will make talk anyhow,
{ Evaerton, Wis, The ware-
houses at this point have been ex-
tremely busy this week receiving from
the growers, and the town wears a
lively appearance. Several buyers are
riding, taking contracts where
can do so at moderate figures, generally
lower than previously paid.
The best crops held by farmers who
are anxious to sell have in a measure
been picked up, leaving the poorer
grades, which must find a market at
lower prices. There is, however, a
great deal of gilt-edged tobacco remain.
ng in first hands, men who are able
to hold until they obtain their price.
But there is no marked improvement
in the market, nor is there likely to be
while there is so large a per cent. of
damaged leaf in the ceuntry. Tom.
Cromer, Jr., reports the sale of a dozen
crops of Spanish, running at figures
like 10 and 4¢ ; 7¢ round and 10c round
with fillers excluded ; broad leaf at 5, 3
and le, and 6c round. These are
about the rulirg figures paid by other
dealers, — Thbaceo Reporter,
Coxxrcricur VaLLey.--The mar
ket remains very quiet, A goodly
number of dealers have been drag-
fing through the mud searching for
such stray lots as can be secured at
the present low figures. When they
can find a farmer pinched for money
ere
ant
1
they offer him 6 or 7¢ per pound for his
crop, not over one-half its real value,
and too often they succeed in getting the
crop by persistently decerying its value,
But, oh, how speedily the tune is changed
when they own it! There is no sense
or propriety in the farmer selling his
crops at Kller prices, In Pennsylvania
the crop has nearly all passed out of the
growers’ hands.
It is not probable that any advance in
price will be offered by the buyers at
present, as it is probable that more
than one-half the crop of 1882 is sold,
perhaps even three-fifths of it. And
now the dealer or packer is interested
in keeping up the price, or will be as
soon as the grower, who i8 holding for
the sweat, is ready to sell, Those who
have good crops will do well to insist on
a fair price, but those holding poor lots
must of see the propriety of
closing out upon reasonable offers,
Sales have been here and there
stoall lots, At Hinsdale, N. H., 8,
Dox sold 2 of
Havana at 7e through, Our correspond-
Course
of
little acres low
| ent writes: The plant beds are being
| prepared, About the same quantity
i i At Nort
ton, at d¢ in
will Dé sel as last Lifield
VEAr.
lost f Reed
100 Of Medd, t
about 1
3 tons each
April 16
and give wort
: 4
ali they are
rices at which they are hel
above their real value
raised and sold
al worth of their "82 crops, and we
izgrest that when they are offer-
not hold for a cent or two,
and then
COs
Lhe
weed] tole
CULTIVATION OF TOBACCO,
The chief object of the planter is to
seed goes into the ground to the time
If the seed if checked,
irreparable mischief will result,
Here is the first step after sowing :
Keep the beds moist—not part of the
time, but constantly. This is imper-
ative,
it is packed.
Here is the way an experienced plant-
er treats sod ground. The sod for the
area of fst planting is turned under
late—about ten days before planting.
is then applied, followed
immediately by two harrowings and
cross harrowing, The ground is crossed
with a sled of four runners, and low,
flat hills made, Cut-worms will feed on
the sods thus turned under,
Mr. J. J. Swartzel, one of our best
growers, will sow the Zimmer's Spanish
about the middle of this month. He
will sow soaked seed three sowings for
four acres, six to eight days apart.
Make your tobacco fields rich. Don't
depend on what you think about it—be
sure—put on manure. The heavy rains
of last summer leached the soil. Get
manure—bonestly if you can--but get
manure. Edgerton ( Wis.) Reporter,
HOW TO GROW DOMESTIC HAVANA,
WHAT SEED TO SOW,
The chief aim of every tobacco
grower should be to provide himself
with good, pure tobaceo seed, known to
be such from experience, and meantime
best adapted to the climate in which it
is to be grown. When the grower learns
from trial and test which variety of Ha-
vans tobacco succeeds best and when
that especial variety attains its proper
size in respect: to the leaf, and when it
shall possess all the necessary character.
istics deemed of value to render it as
neatly perfect as may be in growth,
color, gloss, ete., then a large quantity
of the seed from select plants should be
saved for future use, sinoe it has been
ascertained that tobacco seed carefully
preserved will grow though it be twen-.
ty-five years old. It may take a little
longer for the seed to germinate, yet it
will do so the same as fresh seed with
the exception named,
| It is a fact we have got to constantly
bear in mind that if we succeed in
growing fine Domestic Havana tobacco
in this country we have got to preserve
the identity of the Cuba characteristics
of the plants we grow; we have got to
preserve the gloss of the leaves ; we have
got to grow plants infused with as mueh
oil, or the aromatic principle, nicotine, as
possible to render the tobaceo of value ;
we have got to grow the tobacco of the
right size and preserve the fine texture
of the leaves and the aroma «f the
|
i
i
in a word, grow essentially a Cuba or
Havana leaf fairly and
{ domesticated and acclimated
| climate,
{ hard
0
strive to prevent
obaceo
to
Fs
®OUD,
we must not allow the plants
become as the
We
will
‘eeedy . n
should avoid sow ing
that produce
, located west of
1 proper and (rusiw
commence
3
hybridizing and
plants by sowing the ap-
seed. The. proc
1 grow it. save a large aq
sound seed from the best plants for us
this way
of
10O-
for a series of years, and in
will the growth a
of Havana
inestimable
you perpetuale
Variety
of almost
desirable sn]
bacco,
80, raise a distinetively genuine Havana
variety, in
Sumatra cannot
production of Domestic Havana if we
too large, nor
fine leaf, not
and we need not fear the Sumatr:
raised through Cooley labor in the In-
dian ocean,
May Day.
The 1st of May was the chief festival
of ancient times. Chaucer tells us that
in England during the Middle ages, it
was customary for all, even the Court to
join in this carnival, The fairest maid of
the village was crowned with flowers and
seated in an arbor covered with haw-
thorn, where she sat in state and re-
ecived the youthful courtiers who sang
and danced around her after the old
Roman fashion of worshipping the god-
dess Flora. In Henry VIII. ’s time the
heads of the corporation of London
went out on the high grounds of Kent
to gather the May, the King and
Queen Katherine of Arragon coming
from the palace of Greenwich to meet
them. Every town and village had its
May pole on which was suspended each
season wreaths of flowers, and the vil
lagers danced in pretty rings nearly the
whole of the day around it. The Puri-
tans abolished the custom ; but it was
revived after the Restoration and con.
tinued down to the time of many now
living. The May pole is yet continued
in parts of France and Germany.
Instruments of Torture.
Ina tower in Nuremburg, writes @
traveler in Germany, is a room where
are preserved a number of very curious
instruments of torture used in Nurem-
burg hundreds of years ago, before the
days of jails and penitentiaries. There
are thumbscrews of the most approved
patterns and helinets for gossiping men
and women. A singularly cheerful
piece of furniture is a large, heavy
wheel, on one side of which stands out
a large, sharp piece of iron. In the
glorious days of old an offender who
had to be punished with the wheel was
stripped naked and firmly bound toa
plank, face downward, The piece of
fron on the wheel was rolled np and
and across the victim’s back
till justice was satisfied or the victim
was dead. Inasmuch as the spike wa
long enough to get half way through the
man’s body, and was always heated red
hot, the victim generally died and jus-
tice was entirely satisfied. It was not
i it
10
as expe
The only
Ian Wi
ived It was adjudged a magi
% Ak
“1 MIen
i L3AT053
were
ws then
Was
CAYS,
Or HU
it, bakers her was
found selling his goods by false weight
ure, he was placed in a cage and
with his
ng
uously in front. After making the
grand tour, he was taken, cage and all
iwcked and
it was thought that his lesson
to the river, and again
rain till
again, wii
was sufficient to prevent mn.
ad-
repetitic
Prowl vn 4 NS - Lond %
Perhaps some such form might be
Wife
were severely pu
itageous in these days, beaters
nished
Yai
times
with cl
LiIsHeG Yd
heavy
out
put
vi}
i
ouths, and exposed
Y ou are shown all Kind
ling blacks and gallows upon which
noted villains have gone totheir reward,
covered from top to
bottom with pictures of the practical
operations of the various instruments
that filled the room.
A Duelist Laughed At.
while the walls are
A man whose character for courage
ing to conform to the silly “code of
and his challenger will gain
some simpleton,
The centennial of the capture of
Stony Point recalled an anecdote of one
He was
a brave man, and acquired a reputation
While he was Governor, some fellow
committed against his {the challenger’s)
honor. The old soldier did not notice
it. The man who had given public
notice of his intention to *‘ call out *
the Governor was much annoyed at his
silent contempt. After waiting several
days he sought the Governor for an ex-
planation, and the following dialogue
took place.
* Governor Scott, you received a chal.
lenge from me
“ Your challange was delivered, sir,”
“But I have received neither an
acknowledgement nor an acoeptance of
it.”
“1 preswme not, sir, as I have sent
neither."
“But of course you intend to ae
mm
Ror course I do not.”
“What! Not accept my challenge ?
Is it possible that you, Governor Scott,
Drought up in the army, decline a com-
“1 do with you."
“Then I have no means of satisfac.
tion left but to post you up a coward.
“Post me a coward I" exclaimed the
Governor with a hearty laugh. ** Post.
away, and you'll only post yourself se
© And that was the end of it.