MIDSUMMER MADRIGAL. ————————— Behold “Madam.” “Did you recelve a telegram from Paris for a sleeping compartment?” a fow moments she wos shivering, In vain she drew herself together and | wrapped her beaver cloak around her cor AA ES A ad Trisks, If you went to see curious sleight-of - | hand performance, you must go to In- THE FASHIONS. .. ~ Braid and elaborate galloon ars in HORSE NOTES —————— : i SF _puitils 8 for sale at $15.00 The tenebrific curtains of the night “Yes, madam, and I sent on a dis- |} { Phillis is for sale at $15,000, o » * o The twilight's haw .s let fall, The sunset glory with the dying light Fades from the western wail, The go'd, The crimson, purple, silver coloring Fhe flowers their netals cif The stars begin to ope thelr tw And dewdrops gem ths rose. dies, eo kling eves RIDE 6FCs Now see The lovesick youth approach the garden gate, With rapturs in Lis eye, The maid, he knows, his coming doth await With fond anxiety. And he E'er shed her beams upon-— The maiden’s guileless heart he's sure he's won And it is all bis owa. How sad To think our fairest, fondest hopes Jécay When burgeoning to bloom! The bud and blossom, and alackaday! Our sunshine turns to gloom, Too bad! Bee from his eyes the joyous sparkle fade! The swain arrives too late— Another youth is swinging with the maid Upon the garden gate! A i 1 TRAIN ADVENTURE. ln our little circle of friends there was general astonishment when we learned of the approaching marriage of Valentine Sancerre. What! he, the hardened bachelor, the Parisian skeptic, rebelling against any idea of matrimony ! the gay high-liver who swore a hundred times that he would never have any- thing to do with it! Valentine, in short, was coing to enter the great brother- hood. And who was he going to marry? A widow? Worse than that — a provin- We could not understand it. So the first time I met him I collared him at once and asked for an explana- tion. —+] have hardly time,” he said; ‘I have a hundred things to do. But if you will walk along with me.” So we went down to th arm in arm, “The story 1s very simple,” sgid Valentine, “and devilish commonplace; but since 3 to know it will tell ” Abe wall all Tae e¢ boulevard 1 wish Fabruary I set out for Nice to attend the carvival festivals, I have a horror of traveling at night. I therefore tock the 9 o'clock train, which would bring me into Marseilles at five minutes past midnight. 1 was to pass a day at Marseilles, where my good friends, the Rombeands, expected me to breakfast, The next morning I was to go to Nice, where I was to ar- rive at 2 o'clock in the afterneon, “At the Lyons station there was a perfect jam, but, thanks to the prover- bial obligingness of the station agent, M. Friegnonl, I managed to find a cor- per in a coupe. 1 was alone with an- other traveler, who wore decorations, and had a severe, administrative bear- ing, and his sole baggage a portfolio. Assuredly he was not going far with such an equipment, and I should soon be Alone!—the only thing that renders traveling on a railroad endu ble, veryone was in his place and the , was about to leave when we heard ng voices at the car door, : e + . said some wot a clear, fresh voice, with an im ible Southern a “I have ordered a sleeping compartment and I must have one.” “But, madam, we have none,” “You ought to have paid attention to my letter.” "We have received no letter, madam, “Pat on a car then,” “Impossible. We have on the number. Come, come, be quick. train is starting.” “But I moet have a seat,” “Well, I offer you two in this car.” “In there.” “Yes, there,” A little brunette face was thrust into the door and immediately withdrawn, as if startled. “Why, there are two gentlemen in there.’ “But, madam, I cannot give you a ear all alone to yourself,” “Very well; I will not go then.” “As yon please. The train will go. 1 am about to give the signal,’ “Stop, sir, stop, 1 really must go, and since there is only this car I shall have a sleeping compartment at the next «tation; shall I not?” “Yes, madam, yes madam,” “Do you promise me?” “Oh, yes.” “Surely?” “Yes, yea, yea.” The door opened, the little brown face was lost in a pile of packages, and rugs; «shriek from the engine pierced the air, We had started, The administrative gentleman had seated himsell near me to leave a place free to the new comer, Without even casting a look at us, out of breath and red with anger, she arrauged her bundles in the strap and around her, with that haste common to all who have many hours to spend in the oar. There were one, two, three bags and rugs, From the corner of my eye I watched iT oh ip toe mo a.one. Ta- al with roen d Cenk. fall The that she was cherming, I say delight, for really 1t is always more agreeable to travel with a pretty woman than with an old Englishman with spectacles, The air was sharp and cold. The covered with snow and lighted by a pale sun, seemed to be flying rapidly away on both sides of the car, The fair traveler, wra up to the chin in her rugs, looked steadily and rather sullenly out of the window on the left; the official gentleman drew out large yellow, green and blue papers from his porttolio and read them most carefully, and as for myself, being com- fortably seated, I looked over the pile ol papers that I had bought at the sta- on, It was twenty-one minutes past 11, aud the train stopped at Laroche, The official gentleman arranged his papers, outed whan ih staiion agent y wi sta agen addressed him by the title ol ag ’ ns | patoh for one?” i sont on a dispateh! ! one at once?’ “Impossible, mada, sare here. | reach Lyons.” “Lyous! At what hour?” “At 5:45, madam,” “All day to wait, then. Why, sir, 1 . cannot remain in this car until | hour. It is impossible, I will not.” “I'ake care, madam, the train | starting,” The train moved on and she buried | herself in her corner in a rage, without | casting a look at me, while 1 buried | myself in my tenth journal. Can't I have | to read that one journal than all the | other nine? I read the same line twenty times: I even believe that I held it up- | side down, Devil take it, it couldn’t { be helped. Yon know what a French- | woman on a long journey without feel- | ing some emotion. with ker, but what pretext, what sub- i jeot could I find? perature, the classic resource of win- What was there to do, then? % commonplacejromark? dred times better to be silent the keen perception of au old Parisian, I saw at once that my neighbor was a woman of the best society. To speak to her thus abruptly, without knowing Attempt eyes for a common traveling clerk. The only thing to do was to find something supremely original to say to her, jut what? What? 1 racked my brains in vain, and I was still racking them when | the train snddenly stopped, thanks to the modern inventions so good in case of accidents, but so bad for travelers. ““Tounerre; stop twenty-five minntes for refreshments,” cried the condnetor, opemng the car-door, My neighbor arose, threw aside Ler rags, which she left in the ear with ber three little bags, and alighted. She went to the refreshment room in the station on the other side of the trac! I followed her, 1 ecauld at my ease an elegant figure, well defined by a long beaver cloak. I also remarked that she had pretty biack frizzles at the ! back of her neck, a gay felt bat and very small feet, At the entrance of the room stood the head waiter, in a velvet cap, and highly | favored by bearing a striking resemb- lance to Napoleon III, With a flonrish { . aapoire a long table ready for an attack, | I entered with the stream of hatless, | breathless, rumpled travelers, In short, I was one of that file essentially gro- tesque and painful, as re gards human grace and beauty, that pours onl from an express train to fe in hurry. I seated myself and hastily swallowed the courses served me, and my In traveler took some soup at a separal itsell f iv I was one of the first to rise io go and smoke a cigar on wharf, The twenty-five minutes, as usual, reduced to twenty, would soon be consumed, and the passengers were leaving the station in groups and hurrying to the cars, and I entered mine. ‘Lhe lady had not yei ret ) thie nrned. I saw her looking at the books al the little book-stall at the dopot, on the other side of the track. Although her back was turned to me, I easily recog- | nized her by her pretty figure, beaver cloak and gray hat, Her hair did not the effect of distance, no doubt, ! the conductors were noiselessly closing the doors, | “Why, she is going lo remain here” | I thought, “she is crazy,” aud | shouted: “Madam! madam! but 1 was to start. What was to be done? An | iden, swift as lightning, flashed through | my brain, She | there, in that norrible cold, without her | baggage. She must at least have some jof her small packages, poor little wo- | man, So I made an armful of the three toa cried: “For that lady wonderi” to the lady at the bookstall the car, near the wharf, the door opened | and my lady traveler, flurried and hur- | ried along by a cross conductor, sprang | into the car and the train started, Hor- frorsl I had made a mistake, The | traveler at the bookstore was not the real one, The same cloak, hat and figure, but it was not she, It is absurd to think there are women who resemble | each other like that—in their backs. Ah, I had done a fine thing. My lady had hardly entered the ear than she gave a scream, “My bundles—some one has stolen my bundles,” sud for the first time she | looked at me, but with what an expres. | sion in her eyes, My Godl that iook, | do you know, I shall never forget it, “No, madam,” 1 said, “your bundles are not stolen, They are—ihoy are at Tounerre.” “At Tounerre, What do you say?” “] explained all to her. Ab, my friend, I will not describe the second look she darted at me, but I believe I shall remember it even longer than the first, “I am di.treesed, madam, truly dis tressed,” I added, stunpmoting, “but my motive was good. 1 thought yon would miss the train—that you would take cold, and I did not wish you to take cold, Jadeod, Jou must pardon me, Have no fear t your effects, They sre in safe hands-—-a baggage- muster, You cau telegraph at the next station, I will Yeiagtnpis-ns will tele- graph—and they will sent at onoce, Ah, you will have them! I wotty figure; she positively shivered. { “Madam,” I said, “I beg youn on my | kness, accept my rug. Yon will suffer | —and it will be my fault--and I shall | never console myself.” «I do not wish to talk to yon, sir,’ she said, curtly, I was very nervous and excited. In | then I was furious at my ridiculous | great resolutions. { “Madam,” 1 said, *‘accept this rug | or I swear to you that I will throw my- | sel on the track.” ! ” | outer handle of the doqr, “Was I resolved? Between ourselves, not quite, I think, peared so, for she immediate cried out: “Why, you are crazy, sir; you are crazy.” “I'he rug—or I shall jump.” She took the rug and said, in a softe ¥ & i i cold.” | meat for my unpardonable stupidity.” “Hay for your too great haste, for you are right, your intention was goo how could you take that lady forme?” ling.”” She smiled; the ice was broken: | the ice of the conversation, it must be nvderstood, for otherwise I was shiver. ing. But I soon forgot the cold, the jour. ney, and everything, She was delight- ful, exquisite, adorable. She had a distinguished mind-—refined, ively, | original, Likeed to travel, like my- salf: she had been to Italy, like myself; ugglers tn this world ean | ho practice their | enrious art io that far-away land, i I'hey have peither curtains nor tables, | hozes nor drawers, nor do they wear | embroidered mantels with large | sleeves, as Western wizards nsnally do, | FO086 An Indisn juggler is clothed only with | a’strip of musiin fastened around his body, His limbs are bare, Hs stands in an open courtyard, without a tree, intense watehfnl- ness, he calmy performs tricks which look like miracles, For instance, he extends to you his Yon sce that there is nothing in them, He stoops down, picks up two or three pebbles, rubs his Again he shows you his bare hands, picks up the rupee, breaks it in two, or The basket trick 1s a favorite and a very mysterions one. The basket is shown you empty. It is turoed upside | down iu your sight. Yon know per- | neath it; | but the juggler =ings a little song, | “Mieow! misow!” is heard; he lifts the | basket and out jumps a cat, Sometimes | self, dreamed of going to Egypt. In | literature, musio—in everything, in short—ahe had the same laste as mine. And then, imagine, we had numerous acquaintances in common. Bhe was intim with the Baint Chamas, the Lavenoys, and above all, with the Martbazons, To think tbat I had per- haps ot her twenty times in those salons and had not observed her! Where were my eyes? Great heavens! Where were my eyes? She spoke innocently and amiably, and with that distinguished simplicity which I like so much, She had a slight, very slight, almost imperceptible proyineial sccent—a warbling rather | giving her words the chirping of a bird. She said “tete,’ whicn is light, instead of ‘tete,” which is heavy; ‘chatean,’ which is spiritual, instead of ‘chateau,’ which s stupid, It wes fascinating. But although I tried every way in the world not to show ii, good heavens, how cold I was' At Dijon (2h, 20m.) my right foot was nearly frozen. We telegraphed to Tou- | nerre for the bundles left behind, At Macon (4h, 45m ) it was tam f my left foot, fromm Tounerre that the baggage arrive at Marseilles the next day. At Liyon-Perrache (C my left hand becomes insensible. She forgets to ask for her sleeping compartment. At ¥ 3m, ) wy right band Jiows the example of the left—I learn that she is a widow without children. At Avignon (Oh. 59.) my nose be- womes purple. 1 believe | understand her that she never loved band, At past mid- night) violently three times. She holds out my rug and says to me, | graciously, ‘An revoir.’ Ah! her an revoir turns my head. I spent the night at the Hotel WO y $ : or will he, 48m.) v alanoe (Di. f Lier first hus- Marseilles finally (Sm, I sneene her memory. The next morning when I awoke 1 | a human being ever had. Could I venture in this state fo call on my friends, the Rombeauds? Well, I must make the best of a bad matter. A traveler must be excused for mishaps, They will take me as 1 am, and to-mor- row the sun of Nice will cure me. Oh, my friend! What a surprise 1 had! That excellent Rombeaud bad | invited several friends in my honor, and among them she was there -my traveler, | my charmer! When I was presented to her an im percpetible smile flitted across her lips, | I bowed very low, “Have you heard from Tounarre?” I asked, “1 have them,” she answered. The company sested themselves at the table, excellent Rombesnd, “Where the haps,” “Possibly,” I answered, “but truly I do not regret it.” No one understood this answer, but I felt the kind, gentle look of my travel. ing companion reach me through the fragrant steam arising from a superb soup cooling on the table, “What more oan I tell you, dear friend? The next day I did not go to Nice, and I shall be married in a forts night,” ss AW A Vulnerabie British Port, The parbor of Esquimault, the only British naval station on the Pacific coast of America, is one of the safest and mest pict ue harbors in the world. It is about three miles in length with a depth of water upon which the largest iron-clad ships-of-war can safely float, surrounded by low wooded hills, with a narrow but deep entrance from Fuca straits, Esquimault, is, after San Francisco, the best harbor on the west coast of North America, A large naval graving-<dock is well advanced toward completion at the upper end of the harbor, and a small dock yard is near the entrance, Yet, ge to say, TANS ay ook and the village of — A ———————— art to tis oy Smt dove, and one of these emerges instead of Madam Puss, More amazing still it moment, sud the next, on the lifting | of the basket, to behold her the center of a happy family, kittens crowding by her side and a bird shied on her | Sometimes a i placed lances | wildly aronnd it, thrusting long | Oe | and knives into the bamboo until blood i TE Are ror-stricken. But just as they are ready to edge of the circle, and there will be the fittle one quite unhurt; and how he es- caped from the basket, or where the red fluid which looked like blood came from, is not explained. A Franch traveler saw a juggler set a large top spinning on the end of a stick which he balanced on his forhead, The top then stopped revolving or went on at the word of command, just as if it] had been alive, Bome of the juggiers davoe airily on a loosely-fastened rope, their feet bare and earthen jars on their heads. One of them was seen to walk slong the rope without a misstep, al. though buffalo horns were 1? to his {eet I think vou will agree with the gene- that if you want to really clever tricks yon must go u dia, sed BO in A A SS flow to Peck s Trunk. Books and underci then the dres bonnetl-box, and si “pr alt +t apt all things we ¥ AS you ¢ get them on Lhe s, shallow br $hiie Paper toweis 0 Nee that all flounces lie smooth and that waist | and sleeves lie flat, folded only in their | seams, It was easy to give rales for folding dresses when they were made | with plain, straight skirts, and you had | only to divide the skirt into four equal i je thing is possible with polonaises and | Fold in the seams | and across the middie of puffs 1s all | that a dressmaker can tell you. Lay | things smoothly, with no turning up at | If a dress or | If the trunk is too large to | by thin partitions of wood 1f your things only | in place. The moving about of lightly- | packed things ruins boxes and dresses together. Finish by leaving the things | at the top of 80 that you | to the depth of the strata, See that on the trunk, and have a stoul strap | outside of all, riveted on so that it can - oe — : He Couldn't Make It Out. i The proprietor of a tannery having | erected a bullding on the main street for the sale of his leather, the purchase of hides, ete., began to consider what At last what be thought a happy idea struck him. Ile bored an auger hole through the door post and stuck a call’s tail into it, with the bushy end flaunting out. After awhile he notised a grave looking person standing near the door, with spectacles on, gaz. ing intently at the sign. So long did he gaze that finally the tanner stepped out and addressed the individual: “Good morning!” “Morning,’’ replied the man, without moving his eyes from the sign. “You want to buy leather?’ *No.” “Want to sell hides?” *“No."’ “Are you a farmer?” *No. "’ “Are you a merchant?’ No." “Lawyer? “No” “Doctor?” **No," “Minister?” “No.” “What in thunder are you?" Foss great vogue, and will continue during the coming season. Set border patlerns are again Com- ing into fashion. One sees Liein Some- times braided or embroldersd, some- other ma- ned with witli well as omb slripes occasionally broad and narrow floral designs, seaside wear —For traveling and sidered indispensable, The Jackets are short and well-fitting at the back, but the fronts are loose or close-fitting. They are made up of the same Ina terials as men’s suits, and many —Jackets are in a great favor and are of a number of varied shapes and styles, One of the most fayored is the Croiz- ette jacket, which opens with revers upon the chest, and 1s fastened down to the walst under bows of velvet or ribbon. sash. tied at the back or a lilt gide. This jacket is freque of fancy ribbed velvet or of some dark color, and may be worn with dress, —The ie on one any | ana fasnionable co combi. present are is almost impossible to Indeed, it 18 very hard to them, and the only true method of dress becomingly is for @ Ras varied that game them, i il ut 3 ing rate faiseuse, who studies their com- plexion and figure to a nicily, and combines such materials and colors as will produce the happiest eflect. — Velvet much and good used for short 4 ackels, al ith "vt vena t 11 Will grea 1 8 variety of skirts of all kinds and ma terials, Jackets and n es of same material as the costume are worn, Asa rule, these are small can, of course, only be with Mantles and visits The I = reding ant worn one yy young and old. ta 8 very ily Lied a skirts, The disposition to i& very apparent also adapted of tr > oi 4 Velvet iB a8 lace, whethe the latter be white, cream-colored © # year. The fashionable w become more attractive by of a velvet pattern. This covers the & chain or stem-st must a8 the lace itself, The majority are composed of 1 A maternal corresponding w them is used as trimming. Spots, both large and small, are also noticeable and of kinds, but stripes pro- dominate. The stripes are in Var widths and are sometime shaded in con trast with the plain i of velvet and plush are also preily on the woolen ground, look particu- larly wel draper bodices or Over on tah lines iteh lines, of the Of Course, be 001 Bame of wuse/ costumes LW jee terials { WoOien MMaseriadgs, itt id striped ZUres Hii LR Te ts rial HAE Wd. 4.30 As ies ana salon ¥ ek Kirts, a ain or 4} - A nother lady aiil pale bioe el work bands of a p shade of buff, / i" jacket~-bod is rounded off on each side into a ratheg deep basque at the ba OWS a full plastron, confined ud § waist by a peaked belt of biue ¥ ivet, but continued beyond into a 5 puff all around the waist. A second drapery crosses over the skirt u nder the is of o o} a hope ro he in two loose lapels over the back of the skirt. The skirt is quite plain over the striped etamine with a deep hem round the fool. —Another style of jackets, called the Jane Hall, is made quite high up to the throat, with close round basque, the o the tournure, or of brocaded silk. A lace plastron is some- In some GASES of jacket-bodice is comple width of the back to give place t This skirt should be of plain sik or fancy woolen material, either gathered or pleated, and falling over a fluting or This makes a handsome toilet for recep- ~The plain dress is still in fashion but mostly for young girls or the neglige toilet for young warried ladies. it is made with a round waisted bodice either plain or more frequently gauged top and bottom, and with a round skirt simply gathered on to a plain waistband which should be put on over the bodice, so as to avoid any space be- ing left between skirt and plain balt or a wide gash is worn round the waist, the former with a clasp or buckle in front, the latter tied in a full bow with long loops and ends at the back or side.* This is the more dressy style of the two. These wide sashes are very frequently of French moire; they are also made of ribbed Ottoman silk, or of thick {“Vle, Black velvet sashes are also fashionable and elegant to wear with any dresses. Draperies are not, however, entirely given up. Some of the prettiest toilets exhibited this month by our best couturieres are draped, but in a loose, simple style, very different from the mass of heaped- up chiffonage so much in vogue a short time ago. Hats On, In the British House of Commons al the members keep their hals address —~Dunbar is now handling Clemmis G. and Nobby in place of Jack Splan. Maud 8. will probably try to lower her record at Narragansett Park next week. —A two days runuing meeting was held at Callao, Peru, on July 20 and 30. the first on record in South Amer- ica, — Hampden Park, Springfield, Mass, , allows no swindling wheel, although as high as $3000 has been offered for the privilege. ~The stallion Shawmut, by Cornig’s | Harry Clay, was driven to a record of | 2.26 by John Murphy at New York re- i cently. —1t i8 thought that the Hampden Park track, at Springfield, Mass,, will be faster next year than this. Frost is expected to have a good effect on the track. | —A. Newbourger, of New York city, | has brought from the estate of Daniel dace the black fon Adonis, by | Ethan Alllen, dam Lue running mare i Charlotte F. | Ittook a stimulant, Harry Wilkes’ | Heht sulky and Frank Van Ness drive to land Joe Davis a winner race at Hartford. 1hese ments were made in the last } sla I of the big improve eal. —Fole and Blue Grass have been en- tered for the English Cesarewitch, but for the Cambridgeshire. Blue Grass has also been entered for the | Great Yorkshire Handicap, to be run i at Doncaster on Bepls 15 | not puetioer i ~The Coney Island J seared the services © the present has T. Clarke jerome Mon- for Super | Park, and dism« i! : i wath Park, as the official starlex fall meetl i lame 80 was i j race atl Hart- would probably have been LOOK # —DJe Barry wi { not started is { ford. He tired out in id tr t igh 1 Logetlher in the first teen #30 wa and a ECL t two heals ( rn the second us Lo . Charle anford, proprietor of st Grove Farm senectady, died { suddenly at his } Monday morn- ing. Au Was brother i of Senal eland Stanford, of Califor. } wn at the trotting fir ust the A i bresder’s meel Hartford meet. yxy M. was sold H. White, of #% 1 fall f shun lose of @ 6 ie ! ILAre 3 to Mr. 1 ard Las cabled to Eng- land fo } } Fred Archer and Tom Cs at different lard ’s confidence i5¢ their infla- good jockey to : campaign in the & in Mr. I’scherry jacket. Olney is a very capable lad, but he is growing ; reducing weight he 50 t he is unable to him to iw x { have been ance in in me so fast that in some of Free- land and Miss Woodford again coming together, On Tuesday Mr. Corngan telegraphed from Saratoga to the Dwy- er Brothers, offering match Free and against M Woodford, $5000 or 1,000 a side, any {from three q of a mile to ene mile and three-quarters, as the challenged party might race to come off at t Chicago, i's or Louisville. An answer came whggh was to this effect: The brothers were not willing to go West with the Queen, but they were | willing and anxious to match ber | against Freeland for $10,000 a sude the | race to come off at Sheepshead Bay ’ { Baltimore or Washington. wn HBrOSDect pr RPO Lr wo $1 where rp Ariers select, the St. Lo yy wi | Isaac B. Murphy, who piloted Freeland to victory at Moumouth Park on August 18th, is the leading jockey of the Corrigan stable, and is known | far and wide as the “Colored Archer” and premier jockey of America. He is considered the best rider on the turf, and is noted for his excellent judgment | and sagacity in calculating a race, his sstimate of pace being something won- | derful. He is very fond of close and | exciting finishes, and for that very rea- | son is a prime favorite with the d stand, who enjoy the great struggies of | the home stretch. He is a bnght mu- | latto, 23 years of age, and was born at | Lexington, Ky. He first commenced | to ride in 1874, and since that time has | had more winning mounts than any | other jockey in the land, and has been | astride of nearly every famous horse | that has been on the American turf, | ineloding Glidalia, Bendor, Falsetto, | Checkmate, Pearl Jennings, Modesty, | Lizzie Dwyer, Freeland and a host 0 | others. He landed Buchanan, Modesty, | and Volante winners of the Illinois | Derby, Audrain for the Hindoo stakes, and Freeland in his last two jvictories over Miss Woodford, which are the important ones ever run in the states. It is estimated that the ag- gregate of his winnings of stakes and purses amounts to rearly a million dol tars, He is modest and unassuming and a great favorite with everyone whom he meets. His weight is 113 pounds, but if necessary he down to 110. He is a married man, and has a lovely home near Lexington, Ky., where he spends his winters, sisi AI HA Sheep and Rattlesnakes A Connecticct farmer tells how sheep kill rattissnakes in his section by sure rounding the and
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