Summer by the Sea. —— Cape May. The coming season always leads one to think of the seashore, hence our readers will take an interest in the following extracts from a well written letter : Cape May is no exception to the rule of solid improvement and, substantial progress, which is the rul® that prevails everywhere on the ceast. To thousands of people “*Cape May’ always has been, to thousands of people ‘Cape May” always will be the ideal watering place. For nearly half a century Cape May has been known ; long before the teem- ing brood tbat bask in the summer sun from Seabright down had acquired a local habitation and a name, It was a household word from Philadelphia, through Baltimore, Washington City and all the way down the coast and up the Gulf and river to New Orleans. It has always been the favorite sum- mer retreat of Baltimore, Washington and other Southern cities, Its suitableness as a winter resort was left to be demonstrated bythe in- vestigations and reports of the New Jersey Board of Health. In the record of vital statistics its annual death-rate is among the very lowest anywhere, Its local authorities are zealous in their endeavors to maintain its deserved reputation, and the testimony volun- tarily prepared by the State board only a few weeks since, that “Cape May would need no further official visitation from their officers for four years {o come,’’ shows the perfection which all the sanitary regulations have attained. Indeed, no place, perhaps, on the entire coast has more natural advantages ol situation. The only possible land breeze must come from the north. The southerly winds come, uncontaminated, up from the sea and sweep over the town, while on the westerly side there is the broad expanse of Delaware bay, over which, at night, the light-house at Cape Henlopen is saluted by the flash- ing light of Cape May. Whenever there has been danger of encroachment by the sea upon the land pilings to the depth of twenty feet have been driven in, and inside of these the whole has been made solid with stone, * * * * * * The amount invested in entire new buildings, in extensive additions to the capacity of hotels and cottages already built, apd in other special improve- ments, will aggregate several hundred thousand dollars, Mens, Denizott’s new Hotel Lafayette, with its 100 rooms, furnished in most exquisite style, will cost well up into $100,000 itself, and the solid as well as ornate additions to the New Columbia, will cost quite half as much. The Stockton House $10,000 in repainting, in putting in a new system of sewerage, whicl had the cordial endorsement of the State Board of Health, and in a thousand and one little improvements which will add to the comfort and pleasure of its guests, The New Atlantic bas been elabora- ted and repainted. A hotel and two new cottages are going up on the **Mt, Vernon tract,” and the “Knickerbocker Ice Company” kas gone to $5000 ex- pense in repairs, Many new cottages of the neatest and most cosy kind been built, costing from $5000 up to two or three {imes that amount, The Messrs, Crump will fly their hospitable banner from above Congress Hall, and Mr, Th. Mueller, of Philadel- phia, will soon open the doors of his new and charming Aldine Villa. North of Cape May several new places have recently sprung up or been projec- ted, Holly Beach, Anglesea, Sea Isle City, Ocean City and South Atlantic City. Ocean City is in one sense a rival of Ocean Grove, for members of the same powerful and religiously aggressive branch of the church have made it a citadel whose banner bears the legend, “‘Holiness to the Lord.” Sea Isle City, farther South, lapped all along its ample front and almost environed by Ludlam’s bay-and Town- gend’s inlet, is the project of Mr, Charles K. Landis. A spur from the West Jersey Railroad at Sea isle Junc- tion, five miles long, brings it within sixty-five miles of Philadelphia in dis- tance, and little more than two hours in time. The season is not far off when all the multiplied and multiplying re- sorts along the coast, from the High- lands near Sandy Hook to Cape May Point, shall be strung upon one or mote continuous lines of railroad, and where now spare hundreds or single thonsands of population are found during the summer months, tens of thousands will be congregated, governed by equal similar laws, and shariag with each other a like spirit of local pride and jealous rivalry, CAPE MAY POINT, This little resort, which became so popular last season under the new pro- prietors, ‘“The Cape May Improvement Company,” has improved wonderfully, On Lake Lily the fleet of pleasure - beats has been increased and the man- agement have also secured several has invested have yachts which are intended to convey guests to the fishing banks or on an ocean pleasure trip. Ten thousand magnificent foliage plants of various colors will add beauty to the walks leading to the hotels, The Cape House was thrown open to the public, by the management, at the close of the summer season as a winter resort. It is well known a that the climate at the Point iF¥ery mild in winter, and the hotel in consequence leaped at once into popularity, and it has done an excellent seasoi’s business. The Carlton House will reopan in June, while the Cape House will continue open hereafter all the year around.— Correspondence Phila. Press. The New Dress. r— a farmer, from: Lake county, as I afterwards found out, came info my shop. That was when I did not have a stock of coffins in the front room, and when my shrouds were hanging in neat cases. Well, he looked at several of them, and finally he chose one and took it home with him, saying it was for his wife. I condoled with him, and, though he seemed mystified by my talk of grief, he paid for the shroud and earried it off. Two or three days after he came back with a middle- aged lady. The woman was In great rage, while he was much downcast, He called me aside and, in a whisper, asked me what the garment was I had sold him. Well, sir, I began to see what was the matter, but I kept a straight face and whispered back, ‘a shroud, I thought, sir, ye see, that you had lost your wife.’ He grew more downcast than ever, and pointing to the lady who was in the front of the store said: ‘“That’s my wife. Don’t look as though she was dead, do she ?’ Well, sir, I thought I should die from trying to keep back the laugh. Then he whispered to me, ‘I unfolded the thing before her. She screamed right out and said: ‘Samuel (that was his name), what are you a-thinkin’ about ? I don’t want to be buried just yet, no much. Ye needn’t think ye are goin to get rid of me that easy.’ Then she and cuttin’ up, of sorts. Finally I told her that it was a pretty dress, Then she went off again, but finally she came to, and she gave me a good tongue lashing. Finally, to quite her, I promis. ed to bring her in and get two pretty dresses for her, and here I am. Now, won't you give me back the money, and take back your shroud ?' ‘Of course | will,’ said I. ‘Anything person in Well, next said his good wife | “One day commenced cryin’ 80 that I felt all out to oblige a I gave him I saw distress.’ his money, and the time wd never got- anted to get “in Exch him he ten over rid of her the idea that be w A fi 51 nl riaks a’ i --- Marble-Time and Marbles. kite-time, ball- ime, There time and marble-t appears to know the of these What exact dates of these seasons we do not know : but we do know that a boy of proper principles would no more be found playing marbles in top-time than he would be caught at some mean act, If we could learn the early history of marbles, we should find that they were played by the ancient Romans, and it is very likely that boys before the Christian era had their marble time, just as you now. It is said that marbles are found in the ruins of Pompeii, which shows that the game is a very old one, In ancient times, the roundest natural pebbles that could be found, were used for playing, and it is not known when manufactured marbles first came into use, It is known that they were im- ported into England from Holland in 1620, and they were no doubt made much earlier than that, Some very common marbles are made of clay and baked, but the best kinds are made of different kinds of stone includ- ing marble and agate, Holland and Ger- many are the countries which produce nearly all the marbles that are used, The stone is broken up into pieces as nearly round as possible. These are then placed between two millstones, which grind them into shape, but leave them rough. To make the rough mar- bles smooth, they are placed in a wood cask, in which are cylinders of hard stone, the cask revolves, and the marbles rub against these stones, and against ome another, until they become very smooth. The dust formed in this operation is then taken out, and emery put in, when the cask is again make to revolve, and the, mar les are polished. Some marbles, eo of a porous stone, are dyed, and some very coarse snes are painted, The finest kind is made from agate ; thege are costly, as they are made singly, each being ground | by nand by holding it against a Jurge grindstone. Marbles are ‘divided “taws,’’ as the common ones are call and “alleys” for the finer ones. Taw is anabbreviation of tawny, the color of the common marble, while alley is from ala- baster, the stone from which the finer are Lop-time, and every proper season for boy each sports, are do | kinds are made for her Nushand’s sensation. doctor gave her a prescription, and told her : “Get that prepared at the drug store, and rub it well oyer your hus- band’s back. ‘And if it does any good, come and let me know. I'vé got a touch of rheumatism myself.”’ She was an indigent woman when she came and an indignant woman when she left. A little girl said to her mamma, “ Mamma, have you heerd of the man that got shot ? ‘* No, €hild, how did he get shot 7?’ asked mamma, -, A Oh,” said the young precious, ‘*he Fought ‘em. Pog said a. lady to hePseryant, ‘1 wish, you would step over ang see how old Mrs. Jones is this morning,” In a few minutes Polly returned with the information that Mrs, Jones was 72 years, 7 months, and 28 years old, At W regent party a Miss Joy was present, and in the course of the even- ing some one used the quotation, *'A thing of beauty is a joy forever,” when she exclaimed, “I am glad I am not a beauty, for I shouldn’t like to be a Joy forever! A clergyman, with a cough, préached recently to an irritated congregation at St. Patrick’s, Dublin. The next morn- ing’s post brought him the following communication : "Tis passing strange when we reflect And seems to beat creation, That when '‘oration’’ we expect We got “axpect-oration.’”’ Danbury has the champion patient He comes from a chronically bor- rowing family. The other day he went to a neighbor's for a cup of sour milk. ‘* I haven't any but milk," the woman, pettishly. ** I'll wait till ** said the obliging youth, sink- intoa buy. sweet said it sours, ing chair. — Thorought red. We believe we express the sentiments of the intelligent when we assert it is alone in the Thoroughbred are to look for favorable results, not alone in what are too frequently termed of a majority citizens of that we large our country, “dumb brutes,” but in the genus homo. We will not argue the virt blood.” time immemorial filled with elicacy of ues of “blue but will simply state that since the instances world has been of the tone to the How notable blood | Ti rel] as to society. ofte it is while solid tr generally “hlood said in of uth, CAIrTies a apprech We Ix much in the blood of men and women one that ated, lieve as we do in that of “blooded stock.’ inheritance, so is bad the generation, inevitably develop in third, It is that proges from genealogical blood is an it may appear in the Croond 3 : 1 | blood, not in atler case first but will the second rarely families are : 3.4 : or 2 fii] + FOO HIGO0 we sti i Wie 3 iy the icious, we will of the ancestral tr was of mixed or corrupted blood, It the out parent stem ee spectacle to see an every-day it is and ous names of the past reproduced in the men of power of day. not advise the heroic treatment of blood conditions as applied by the and others, who were for exterminating those whose physical or moral ailments unfitted them for contention with the more athletic or moral ; yet we think some theory should be adopted and put n practice for restricting the extension of inferior lines of humanity-—multi- tudes who from their birth through organie defects, mental and moral, unfit them for the duties of life, and who become a tax upon the fittest who sur- vive, who fill hospitals and poorhouses and finally fill pauper graves. There are deflections from this principle, but they are the exception, not the rule, “fike father. like son.” is old but trite. Show us a thoroughbred stock of men and women, and we will point you a corresponding descent. But, per con- ra, the evileminded or the bestial will not fail to bestow upon society an off- spring equally offensive to the world as their progenitors. There are instance. where an unknown individual, withoat a record, ascends the ladder of fame and perches in one of the highest niches of fame's temple. The admiring multitude exclaim, “A self-made man ; but, if so, he is but one of ten thousand : he is the exception. The rule is, that the wise, the honest, the great, come from a descent of sturdy, fixed princi. ples, and noble fmpulses, establishing what is termed ‘good blood.” We have no rule of ethics by which to improve the stock of men and women, nor have we any medicing, hor elixir, to give per fection to the anirnal in man. There is something needed to produce the tho- Yoghired. | This journal is open to sug- pus, and will be willing. 1a advanct the intent of this fedture: in’ humanity | AS in ade of stock. Phila. the Spartans A discovery of silver ore, ‘assaying $26,000 to the ton,” is reported to hay been made in the Turkey Creek Valley, 28)miles sou thwest of Prescott, Arizona Value of old Gold. ———— It is not so long ago that an eminent dentist, in calculating the loss of gold to the world in the one item of teeth fillings buried with the dead, prophesied that in a few hundred years the entire gold in the world. would ex- hausted, Thismay or may not be so, Life is far too short to enter into illogical rea- sonings ; yet we cannot ignore the fact that the waste in precious metals alone is perfectly enormous. A trifle of a trinket, bearing upon its surface but a particle of gold, is care- lessly cast aside as worthless; and yet men toil and suffer and die in quest of particles of no greater value, for it is an established fact that the small parti- cles known as gold dust, obtained fre- quently under almost insurmountable difficulties, have not only greatly enrich- ed the world but they bear no inconsid- erable part in making up the world’s riches, The gaudy bauble of the lady of fashion, no matter how beautiful in itself or how much improved by the artistic mind and work of some artisan, carries perchance in every dazzling flash of its beguiling lustre the sad story of the pain and the suffering of some hu- man being. If the man, who makes two blades of grass grow where only become then, one grew before can justly be regarded as a philianthropist, how infinitely is the philianthropic work of him who husbands the riches of the world, who from the dirt and mire and of work and trade and wear brings back the lost particles and the hands of men the bright, erude, glitter- ing lumps of gold for further use which but for him would world forever. Is there such a man ? you ask. greater and muck places in have been lost to the Yes, we answer ; and to him is due the credit of reclaiming hundreds of t dollars worth of gold, silver and other: precious metals, Mr. J. IL. Clark that man, and his extensive refining and smelting establishment at Phila- delphia, from a small beginning now almost monopolizes that branch of the for nearly of the gold and silver in the city upon his science and skill housands of is mechanical arts, all workers of are dependant to glean back for them which, without his or other equally skillful riches, have been lost, compli- is genius cannot » busin There is 3 nothing too small or Mr. Clark does a large as dentists’ remainders, fillings and sweeps ; silversmiths’ polishings stonings ;: photographers’ sil silver-platers’ wire and chlor snd gold the sweepings and gold nr battered and silver also Wale, tested on These latter articles are and on a4 basis of Lis and the price obtained causes gratified sur- Four smelt Mr. ¢ wg fur- operation in lark’s The over $2000 a week. ni American Fables. A peasant who had often heard that Truth was a Jewel lying at the bottom of a well, day descended into his well to search for the treasure. He skinned his koees and elbows, barked his nose, ran an old fork into his foot, and shivered around for six long hours before his wife drew him up and asked : ‘“ What in Goodness’ name were you doing down there?’ ‘*‘Looking for Truth.” ** Why, I could have told you before you went down that you were the biggest fool in America I’ Moral : You can get more Truth than you want around the well-carb, ——The Sailor and the Shark : A sailor who had fallen overboard and was speedily interviewed by a shark, cried out to his enemy: “ Have pity on a man who is down ?" “ My friend,” replied the Shark, "a man who keeps himself above water is of nouse to me. Now is my time! Moral : The man who falls overboard in business can expect no favors of the sheriff.~——The Fox and the Farmer : A Fox one day made a call upon a Peas. ant and bitterly complained of the cus- tom of shutting poultry up at nights in Fox-proof pens. “It isn’t because I suffer at all,” added Reynard, ‘but think how uncomfortable it must be for the poor fowls. Tt is their condi. tion I wish to mitigate.” The Peasant took the matter under advisement, and next evening he neglected to shut up his Fowls. Next morning he came across the Fox just as he had finished feasting on a fat Pullet and cried out: 5¢ Ah! this is the way you take 10 pity my poor Fowls, is it!” see,” grinned Reynard, * ° feel sorry for the Fowls, but at the same time cannot afford to miss an oppor. tunity.” acres of land to sell is the chap who first sees the need of an orphan asylum./| every «Detroit Free Press, one Etiquette and Steel Forks. The writers of treatise on etiquette, however much they may differ upon many points of behavior, all agree in telling us that one should not eat with the knife. Now, this is a questioning age, when the caustic intellect of the rising generation bites into all asser- tions which our predecessors have ac- cepled as axioms, and it may not be out of place to inquire if there is any good existing reason why man should not carry food to his mouth with a knife, The prejudice against the use of the knife grew up when the guests at an Anglo-Saxon dinner-party brought their knives with them to the feast and cut therewith their portions from the com- mon dishes, Now it is obvious that it would be improper to eat with the knife which was to be put the common dish, Our refined ancestors, therefore, conveyed their portions to their mouths with their fingers, after having cut them out with their case knives, Refined ladies then would have had reason for shrinking with disgust from a man who did not eat with his fingers, The well- known saving that **fingers were made before forks’ was once replied to by a clever by the assertion that his fingers were not. But when forks came in and supplanted fingers the rea- son for the prejndice against the use of the knife faded away, and sensible forerunners of the last century, finding it impossible to balance their small veg- the two-pronged forks of used the into ostonlan our etables upon ¢ period, and in a few with their roun ir knives fearlessly, knives ded edges and broadened manner of animal old families the ends stil showing the a bygone ag world of the si But, silver forks have come into use, exist, e, as fossils show the lurian period, vithin the last few years, since Knives the mouths, er would prefer that his guest should backbite neigh. make than that they should eat with their knives. It that the objection that the mouth may be cut the knife, is not tenable : one might as well assert that the sharp points of the fork are likely are not allowed to approach and a host at a ding their bors or puns, rather is obvious by to put out the latter's ¢ It is simply man minds and which people observe, just as they retain two buttons over the after the reason for them The prej s0 deep-rooted that courts have taken Not long ago as eating a piece ail, long Coal ~18 udice is judicial cognizance of i a German traveler w of Bologna sausage in a railway The train the edge of the inst his mouth, and ie train, ie niy using his Knife. gue . a8 knife stopped, just Was Aru man’s cheek was badly sued TGA ompany for damag but the cla the eat with a kn the « was not sustained for resson i - Making Fiddle Strings. Violin, guitar and bani strings of all sorts that c and y strings, 4 ome under the ‘gut,’’ are made from om used for sewing overs up to the half-inch thick After seven months old its entails are no longer fit for making strings for violins ; consequently this branch of the manu- facture can only be carried on a few months in each year. All the work of making gut strings is about the same, but greater care has to be exercised in preparing those intended for musical justruments than others. The process of manufacturing those is comparatively simple, but far from easy, When the entrails, for which a good price has to be paid, are thoroughly cleaned, they are split with a razor. Only one-half is fit for use in violin strings, That isthe upper or smooth half. The lower half is fatty, rough and of unequal thick- ness, The strips are put through rollers turned by hand for eight or nine days to take all the stretch out of them. Then they are spun or twisted, Five or six strands go to make an E string, eight or nine an A string, and twenty are put into a D string. Then they go through a bleaching bath of sulphur fumes, After that they are twisted again, Then they are softensd in pearlash water, again subjected to the action of the sulphur fumes, twisted again, dried and finally rubbed down smooth with pumic stone. Altogether, it takes ten or eleven days to makeastring. When done they are each seventy-two inches long—four lengths for a violin-.and thirty of them coiled separatély and tied together make up the *‘bundle’’ of the trade. We can make just as good violin strings here as the best that come from Saxony or any other part of Germany, and very much better than any that are made in France, but we cannot compete with the best Italian strings in point of quality, Except in the latter, not more than one in three will be absolutely correct and equal in tone throughout; but there is one lambs and cattle, fr delicate. threads wg 3 1 *, racket-ball round belts process of his own, secures and guaran- every thing he makes, He does not > bundles a year, but higstrings commang $10 per bundle here—cost that to the importer-—while other Italian strings are worth only $4 or $4, and others only $1.50. The Italian makers have one great advantage--the raw material is thin, fine, free from fat, and evenly smooth all around, so that they can use the whole, instead of having to split it, as we must, That gives to their com- pleted strings a durability and evenness that we cannot attain, No gut harp- strings are manufactured in this coun- try. v tp se For the Prudent Housekeeper, A tablespoonful of turpentine beilled with your white clothes will greatly aid the whitening process, A Haxpsome LAamsreguix for a corner bracket of ebony is made of dark- blue satin, with a band of plush or vel vet across the bottom, The satin should be fringed out to form the finish ; on the satin paint or erpbroider some stalks of golden rod, with a butterfly fluttering them. Another pretty way to fix a bracket is to have simply a of fringed-out crimson satin tacked to it with a delicate vine painted in oil or water-colors on it. band TOCLEAX STRAW MATTING. it with weak salt and water and well, Wash dry it or boil a small bag of bran in two gallons of water and wash the matting with the water, drying it well When washing lisle thread gloves, do not use soap; instead of that put a tea- spoonful of ammonia in one quart of If this way, is no danger of there being spots and streaks as there be if washed water washed there gloves would the in the almost certainly in usta way. To CLEAN -When painted work is badly put a table spoonful of ammonia water into a quart of moderately hot water, and with the aid of flannel wipe off the surface, Rubbing is not necessary. When the discoloration is not great, the following method is preferable. With a piece of clean flannel wet with clean, warm wa- ter, and then squeezed nearly dry, take up a8 much. whiting of the best quality as will adhere, apply this with moderate rubbing to the painted work, and after- ward wash the surface with clean wa- rub it dry with chamois This method is superior to the soap, requires but half the time , and leaves the surface clean- It PAINT discolored, ter, and leather, use of and labor ed, looking as good as new. will not ate colors. injure delic Sentiment. y Jealousy is a secret avowal of inferiority. Ah ! if the rich were rich fancy riches, — Ke Nothing moral as the poor FRO. is politically right (O° ¢ which is v wrong, — Daniel Onn. The best part of the record of every that of what he has done for others,— Dr, George E. Ellis. more difficult sorrows ; the latter the former grow upon it. man’s life is Cares are often off than $s ime, to throw die with Say nothing respecting either good, bad or indifferent good for that is vanity for that is affectation ; ent, for that is silly. yourself, ; nothing ; nothing bad, nothing indiffer- To know how to say what other peo ple only think, is what makes men poets and sages; and to dare to say what others only dare to think, makes men martyrs or reformers, or both. Although we have no faith in the flattery, the flatterer after all attracts us. We cannot but feel some gratitude toward one whe takes the trouble to lie to please us, — Marie Eschenbach. A father may turn his back on his child, brothers and sisters may become inveterate enemies, husbands may de- sert their wives, wives their husbands, but a mother’s love endures through all. — Washington Irving. Home is the centre of the social SVE tem. From it proceeds the best and purest influence felt in the world, and towards it gravitate the tenderest hopes of humanity, For it all good men labor while their working days last, and around it their last thoughts linger lovingly when those days are done, WA Brilliant Prospects. Yesterday we met Bill Beatty with a gripsack swinging to one of his hands, going down Austin avenue, ** Where are you bound for ¥’ “I'm going to Leadville, to open an undertaker’s es- tablishment, There is millions in it." “You don't say so?’ “Yes my brother has just graduated as a doctor, He is going to practice in Leadville, and if 1 open an undertakers establish. ment, he will give me all his custom. Good-bye, take care of yourself," The Watteau back is very much used and wid much admired for indoor dresses of crape, nun’s veiling, soft and for richer dinner dresses in - man silk and brocade,
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