AH Te
The Forsaken Farmhouse.
Against the wooded hills it stands,
Ghost of a dead home, staring through
Its broken lights on wasted lands
Where old-time harvests grew.
Unploughed, unsown, by scythe unshorn,
The poor forsaken farm-fields He,
Ones rich and rife with goldon corn
And pale green breadths of rye,
Of healthful herb and flower bereft,
The garden plot no housewife keeps;
Through weeds and tangle only left
The snake, its tenant, creeps.
A lilac spray, once blossom elad,
Sways bare before the empty rooms;
Beside the roofless porch a sad,
Pathetic red rose bloows.
His track, in mould of dust and drouth,
On floor and hearth the squirrel leaves,
And in the fireless chimney’s mouth
His web the spider weaves,
The leaning barn about to fall
Resounds no more on husking eves;
No cattle low in yard or stall,
No thresher beats his sheaves.
30 sad, so dear! It seems almost
Some haunting Presence makes its sign;
That down yon shadowy lane soma ghost
Might drive his spectral Kine!
THE BOTTLE.
“She blamed me, but I knew it was
the evil spirit 10 me that she meant.
¢ +You've lost your piace, Jack," says
sho. ‘Everything has changed. You
don’t care for the children, It's all that
bottle,’
“But Jack was too tipsy to care
what she said, He staggered over to
the table, took me be the neck and car.
ried me to a liquor store, There they
put another evil into me, That one
drove the furniture out of the house; bit
by bit it was pawned,
“‘Then they left the house itself and
were living in a cellar somewhere, She
took in washing; some of the money
she earned went for more evil spirits tc
fill me,
“Didn't I loathe myself? One night
1 sat on the table and saw the old grand-
father lying dead and Jack drunk on the
floor at the foot of the bed. Didn't I
loathe mysel? I tried to topple off, but
1 couldn't manage it. If ever a bottle
did desire to smash itself, Idid. Batit
was no use, Happy bottles, beautiful
cat glass cologne bottles, innocent water
bottles have been broken when they
most desired to last, no doubt; but I,
who had become a dwelling place for
| devils, I lasted.
“They carried the old grandiather
away, and his poor daughter got a black
dress somehow, One night Jack went
thing comfortable,” said Tom Barnaby,
Tom Barouby was pot a member of
Not that he was a drinking man,
dear, no! Never was drunk io lus life; |
never even slightly overcome by liquor.
Bat still—well, still, a nice glass of |
something comfortable struck Tom in a |
pleasant light, and he generally took It |
when it did.
To-might it was cold and chilly and |
gloomy, aud the wiud rattied the shut- |
ters and crooned down tne chimuey,and |
wade a banshee of itwelf along the |
street; and Tom, who was not very fond
of reading, could pot lose himself in |
book or magazine, and there was no one
io talk to, and the resolntion above re
sorded seemed to be the most natural
thing in the world. *“'A glass of some.
thing comfortable,” said Tom, *‘and a
biscuit, aod then I'll turn in.”
Then Tom went to the closet to look |
lor a vessal in which to bring the neces- |
sary liquor for the comfortable some- |
thing from the ccrner store, and spied {
an an upper shelf a green bottle, with a
lat body and a long neck, which had |
nothing in it, and smelled of nothing, |
and he set it upon the table, while he
stirred the fire aud put the kettle on,
that everything might be ready on his |
return, i
Mrs. ‘I'om was absent from home, and |
Tom was keeping house ‘or himself, He |
was on his knees before the stove, rak- |
ing it, when he heard a groan; but it
bad such a ghostly sound that he |
started,
“What's that?” he cried; and some- |
thine answered: {
“Oaly me,”
And jumping to his feet, Tom Bam.
aby stood star ng aboat; for there was |
aothing in the room that ought to have |
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and a voice but himself—not even a kit- |
‘en or canary rd,
“Who is me?” cried Tom.
“Tom ought to know,”
voice,
And this time Tom saw it came from
she green bottie,
‘Hanged if it isn’t the bottle!”
Tom. *‘Is it emirits, or what?”
And the bottle suswered:
“Yes, worse Inck. Itis spirits, Bad
spirits, too, Gn, rum and brandy--
whiskey and alcohol’
“Oh, that kind!” said Tom.
“Yes,” said the bottle. *'F ve devils,
I've been possessed by them all, Years
and years they led me such a life that 1
wished I was smashed; years and years
antil your wife got me and put blessed
vinegar in me Nice, sharp, respectable
vinegar, that never did worse than give
some poor cabbage eater the colic, And
I thought I should end my days as a
decent vinegar bottle, and here I am—
going to have one of the devils back, I
know, Oh, what did that dear woman
ge away for? Why did she go?”
Tom, who had grown used to the phe-
pomenon of a talking bottle, and did
not mind it at all by this time, nodded
his head sagely.
“Right there,” he said, *'It's ex-
reedingly nncomfortable to have wile
away, but you are very foolish to talk
as you do, What harm 1s there in a
moderate drink?’ All you'd hold
wouldn't hurt a fly. You've been listen-
ing to teetotallers.”
“I haven't been listening to any-
body,” said the bottle. “I've formed
wy own conclusions, There wasa time
whez I thought as you do. 1t was when
I was a brand new bottle, with a gilt
label, ‘Best Holland Gin,” on me, snd
wy owner, the liquor dealer, took me
otit of my case and handed me to Jack
Barker, who had just finished painting
the store,
““ ‘Here, Jack,’ says he, ‘this will
help you keep Onristmaa.’
*““Thank ye," said Jack; and off |
went under his arm.
“And there, 1n a bright little room,
with a preity wile and nice old grand.
father, and two cunning little babies
looking on, he opened we,
“ ‘What a nice smell!’ said she—the
pretty wife,
“And then he made some stufl with
Jemon and sugar, snd they ali draok
some, and the babies looked at the lignt
shining through my green sides and the
gilt label on me. Aud the o'd grand
father said the drink bad gone to his
bead, and he should have to be owrried
ap-stairs, and they laughed at that, be
cause it was such a joke,
“I hiked myself then and what was in
me,
“Before 1 was empty the first time 1
felt pleased to be such a favorite as I
was.
“Ah, dear, 1 was filled up again and
again, and ; and after awhile I be-
gan to seo change in and about
mo. The wile’s face was not so bright;
the old grandiather never laughed; the
baby's toes were out und one day Jack
staggered in, took mé up, drank the
last drop from me, ana tumbled tuto a
chair, 0 wife begun to ery,
“Oh, Jack!’ says she, ‘Oh, Jack!
how I hate that dreadful bottle, We
were 850 Lappy vefore it came Into the
said the
said i
| sneaking ont of the house with a bundle
| und ar one arm and me under the other,
Tne bundle was his wife's mourning
dress for her father, He took it to a
pawn-shop and pawned it for enough to
fill me twice. ‘I'he poor woman never
“She was in rags. . She was hungry.
I've seen Jack cintch her hand and
wrench themoney she'd earned for her
cluidren’s bread from it and then go off |
with me, Think of 18! I had to mad and
did not know how I hated the devils |
that lived in me, but that were hard to |
But he fell down stairs with me
m his pocket, and broke his head, and |
He hit me against
things, to their imjury, not mine, I|
must have a guardian devil, I lasted so, |
“One day—it was such a bitter day,
ice and snow and sleet everywhere— |
just five years from the Christmas I'd
been made a present to Jack, he stood,
ragged and dirty, at a bar.room stove,
with me in his pooket—my neck stick-
ing ont. In came the proprietor,
* ‘Now, Jack Barker, says he,
don’t you go hone?’
“He was ashamed to have him there,
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‘why
He used to be called Handsome Jack
to filling me,
Think of that,
“Now he looked up with a miserable,
abject whine,
** ‘(Go home with an empty bottle on
a Christmas eve? says he. ‘You didn't
with fall pockets, Mr. Jones,
“ “Well, no, I did't,’ said the man;
ker.’
Oa, the wretched cellar; the |
1 remember |
wife lywng sick npos it,
‘She was very sick, and there was a |
little baby beside her, Jast think of |
another baby there,
“Happy Christmas!’ said he, as he |
‘Happy Cbristmas, old |
giril’ :
“ ‘Happy! #aid she, *Oh, this dread- |
ful day! That bottle came to us first |
on Christmas.”
It takes so little to put a drunken
man in a rage, He answered with an
oath,
“* ‘Anybody would think | was drunk |
to hear you talk,” said he. And the
POOT Woman answere.!:
“*Oh, good heaven!
sober? On, Jack! Jack!
* And then he flew at her, He took |
me by the neck and beat her over the |
bead with me, The cork fell out aud |
the liguor poured over her breast and
over the face of the little baby ying
apon it. It mingled with her blood,
“At first she screamed. Tuoen she
lay still, Her face grew white, 1 knew
I was a murderer, ‘Oh, let me break!
I cried, ‘Let me be broken into frag
mental!’ Bat ber fair flosh was mashed
to pulp, ber delio te bones hrokea, snd
1 was sound as ever, when Jack, led by
Heaven knows what mad fancy, left his
victim and stagrered into the street
again, The%now was falling. The amir
was white with it, He staggered along
muttering to himself. At last he eame
to a wharf, and stumbled across it, 1
believe a boat 1ay there on whieh he
had been ounce before and on which they
had given him drink,
*‘ ‘Sea Bird, ahoy! eried he. ‘Hullo!
hallo! Sea Bird, aboy!"
“Nobody answered him,
“I'm coming abroad,’ he muttered
‘I'm coming abroad, I shan't stay st
home to be preached to, I'm my own
master,’
“Then Le fook ome step more,
Splash-—erash! He was through the
thin ico under the water,
* “Thavk Heaven,’ said |, my miser-
able career is ended,
“Then I turued cond as ico myself,
and there was a roaring iu my neck
“Next thing | kuew 18 was broad day-
light, and I was floating on the water,
“ “There's a bottle,’ said some one, It
was a bare legged boy. He stooped
over the side of a boat and canght me,
“ ‘There was 3 man drowned here last
sight," said ing to another boy st his
0.
“Did yon ses him ?° said this one,
“ Yes,’ said the first, ‘He was drunk
and killed his wife, They've got an ia.
guest on her, down in the cellar over
say, I'm gomg to sell this
are you ever!
hous?’
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vinegar-—and I've been a good reformed
bottle ever since, And now you —yol—
her husband, are going to put the dav.
lish spirits into me again, For Heaven's
sake, break me first! 1 don’t want to
destroy another household.”
“You shan't,” smd Tom Barvaby.
“Here you go back on your shelf, I
leave you to innocence and vinegar; and
I think I'tl make a cup of strong
coffee,”
“Right,” said the bottle.
And so the bottle stands still beside
the crnet on Mrs, Barnaby's dresser; and
Tom Barnaby is still a sober man,
Opium Auctions,
A certain number of chests ot opium,
as fixed by notification from the Govern-
ment of India, are sold by public
auction every month in one of the rooms
of the Board of Rsvenue in Calcutta,
The Secretary to the Board presides at
the auction, The auctioneer is one of
the assistants of the Board, The
action-room is filled with the intending
purchasers; several of them million-
aires or their representatives, who have
their recognized seats to which they are
admitted by tickets, The auction is
usually conducted in that calm and
quiet manner which is suitable to trans-
actions in whieh hundreds of thousands
of pounds are involved, Each lot con-
sists of five chests, and a native clerk
holds up a blackboard, on which he ex-
hibits in chalk the amount of the last
bid, The excitement about the bidding
may have led to au alternation in the
valae of opium subsequently to the last
The rival millonaires
ecoutend by a quiet nod to the auctioneer
HOW MILLIONAIRES BATHE,
The Bath Rooms of the Vunderbilis,
Mr. Marqvand, Mr. Garrett and
Others.
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The milllonaire’s bath room marks
the age. N othing so gives the sign of
the material prosperity of the country,
the growth of luxury, the indulgence
of the sensas, In the past few years
there have been placed in private resi-
dences a half dozen bath rooms that are
veritably latial, In fact, the pre-
vailing style of the bath room of the
money king has been suggested from
those of royal palaces, and particularly
from the famous one placed by Francis
I. in the chateau of Chenonceaux on
the Cher.
The chateau of Chenouceaux 18 now
the home of M. Daniel Wilson, the son-
in-law of President Grevy, and the bath
room still remains one of the features
of the interior, The walls are covered
with small beveled mirrors, scarcely
larger than a span. Datween these pa-
nels runs a slender line of gold, and at
the intersections hang metal drops like
tears, and just long enough to be re-
flected in the glass, The effect is most
hmpid and britliant, and the panels are
so small that the purposes of a mirror
are skillfully frustrated. The bath is
rs PAIRS SH SWS
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of solid silver with the water issuing
from swan’s heads, which, with a mir-
ror behind, produces the illusion of
swans on the surface of the water, All
the other appointments are in keeping
with this magnificence, even to an ante
room, where repose can be found with
cigars after the bath,
The famous bath room in the palace
off Fontainbleau was modeled after the
Chenonceaux bath by Louis XVI, for
to what limit they may safely go. The
purchaser of one lot of the chests is at
liberty to claim the next tea lots at the
The suction list is thus
quickly run through.
When the millicraires have satisfied
their wants for the day, the smaller
quirements, As each lot is knocked
down a clerk goes about with a little
book to each purchaser, in which he
From an
Failure to complete a bargain
occurrence; but if
default occurs the chests are put up for
sale at the ensuing suction, at the risk
who is
is taken.
resale takes place.
In the course of an hour the anction-
room is empty, and the noisy outside
Pay -
Bengal, aud on the production of »
certificate of payment
which he has purchased, and he at once
tuem from the Government
warehouse and coosigns them to his
agents or correspondents in China and
the Birsits by the swilt steamers which
trade between Cideutta and Calas.
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JOAQUIN MILLER.
The Eccentric Poet of the Sierras.
The life of Joaquin Miiler has been
an interesting one, Hus trae name is
A: 13 years of age
He
served with Walker, in Nicarsgos, and
afterwards sojourced with the Indians,
the breaking out of the war he publish.
ed a Democratic paper at Eugene City.
in which his expressions of
opinion were of 0 rank a character that
the authorities saw fit to suppress it for
dusloyaity, Hs had then achieved a
reputation as the author of poetio pieces
known as the “Poet of the Sierras.”
In 1863, his attevtion was attracted
by & scenes of gracefnl verses in the
Western papers, which bore the signa
tare of **Mionie Myrtie.” Ta: name
of the writer was Miss Minnie Theresa
Dyer. Mr, Miller called upon she lady,
aud after a three days’ soguantance
married her. Domestie trouble soon
followed, and in 1870 the eouple were
divorced Miller went to Eaglwad in
1871, and published a volume of poems
called, “Songs of the Sierras,” a por-
tion of whieh had already been pubiish
ed noder the same name inthe Uuited
States, Hm efforts met with better
success in Eagiand than they bad done
m America, and from that time forward
his publications met with a ready sale,
The poet is a most veoentrio man, sod
for many years his long hair, red shirt,
unpolished boots and tram p- like appear-
ance were a source of muoh eomment
After his divorce from his Pacifio coast
wite he married into the Lisland family
of hotel fame. It is claimed that the
fortnne he had scoumaiated from hw
enocessfal sale of his books was lost ou
W il street, aud the fact that to-d«y he
works nard as a Now York newspaper
wan, for moderate pay, leads to a belie
mn the report. His hair aod clothing
are now of oonventional cat, and he
save by
those who koow him, Perhaps his
most popular book is “Songs of Italy.”
He 1s the author of that sucoessini
drama, "The Danites,’’
basque underneath,
rounded or cutaway, Nothing is easier
than to transtorm an old waist to suit
the ante room, and 18 just large enough
for its purposes. The walls are paneled
In large mirrors of beveled glass, and
on these are painted Cupids with gar-
lands of lace, above, around, about, and
each as if about to leap from the air to
earth,
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The late Mr. W. H. Vanderbilt's bath
room i8 paneled in mirrors, but over
these is painted a delicate lace like de-
sign that is exquisite in effect, and de-
stroys the power of the glass for reflec-
tion, Its magnificence, however, is
exceeded by the bath room of his son,
The walls are
apple blossoms,
panels ol
The bath 1s a solid block of
ler. mar
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FASHION NOTES,
—Califorma blankets are now made
into wrappers.
~Jugt now straight feathers lead the
ostrich plumes in popularity.
~The full skirt of last season Is
again the favorite of young girls,
- White woolen tulle is a novelty in
ball dresses; it is draped over white or
colored silk,
~ Parisian ball dresses are ornaments
ed by flights of tiny stuffed birds or
real butterflies,
~Sleeve-buttons with erystal tops,
through which peer the faces of famous
actresses, are novelties,
-Delicately tinted gray feather fans
in a variety of forms are favorites, har-
monizing with almost any toilette,
~—QJuite new are the sleeyes slashed
inside the arm almost to the shoulder
showing lace or contrasting matenal
—Silver and gold nets, studded with
balls of silver and gold, are worn over
pale-colored satins and brocaded silks,
— A flat necktie that has just been
seen has size to recommend it if noth-
ing else, 1t 1s 6} inches in width by 10
inches in length,
~Lapes of Persian lamb’s wool,
with sling sleeves, which only reach wo
the walst line, are worn as opera man-
ties by young girls,
white, The wings at the side and os-
prey at the top are all white,
— Panels and scarfs with ends to cor.
respond are to be found in faille Fran-
caise with satin and plush stripes,
They are all in the evening shades,
~A new bath wrap has a black back-
ground both on the interior and ex.
terior, the outside having large blue
polka dots, and the inside the same dots
in red.
~— Buttons are of great size and are
used for trimming without any raison
d'etre. Their excessive use will prob
ably cause the fancy for them to be
short lived,
— Fancy smoking-caps are tufted, al-
though some are capped with a single
button and some in silk and lisle thread,
Others are in bright-colored, even.
colored stripes.
~The newest jerseys are made in
tailor style, with as many seams as any
- Boucle jersey cloth is a novelty.
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that of the chateau of Chenon-
here is a Pompelian table of marble,
Mr. Henry Marquand
bath after the luxurious room in
Bonaparte’s superb house in
In this the bath 1s sunk, Pom
Jerome
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Above
these is a painted frieze, representing
the ceiling springs from this
This is given the semblance of
arch of
The marble bath is sunk several
scent of several steps. It is sad that,
exclusive of the artist's work,
Marquand's bath room cost $4,000,
Works of art are considerey nowhere
more appropriate than in the bath room
when their subjects are significant. In
that of the late Mr. Charles J Osb srne,
at Mamaroneck, there is a large frame
overlooking the bath by Mr. George
Maynard, The sabject Is
Venus with Loves at a fountain, The
figures are life size in Limoges tiles
fired by the Volkmar process, The
walls otherwise are lined and celled
with white white enamel tiles, with a
spotless porcelain lined bath,
Toe last of the new and notab’e bath
rooms is for Mr. Robert Garret’s new
Baltimore house, This is distinguished
not only by the veauly of its decoration
but by its process. The ceiling is by
Mr. George Maynard, and represents a
lattice on which moming glories t sine,
This design is painted on marble by
means of an overlaying composition,
and on being fired the medium melts
away and the color sinking in, becomes
aneorporated with the marbe. This
endolithle process, as it is called, is
new, and itr results in the soft radiance
of the blended color and marble are said
to be very fine. The design is in radia-
ting sections, which make room for
small octagonal panels, which are to be
mirrors on which Cupids are painted.
The bath room of Mrs. Seward
Webb's honse is like a cave of while
marble, Walls, ceiling and bath are all
of marble, and the only variation of
tint is in the siiver fixtures,
Tue bath rooms in the billiard house
are conceived io a different way. To
each chamber 18 attached a large, lofty
bath room with mosaic floors, walls
biped with white enamel Liles, porcelnin
lined Luth aud marble toilet, and in-
stud of works of art the distinguishing
feature is in the exposure of the piumb-
ing.
mma I INNS. SS
A Shap-Canal for Rome
There seems to be just now a rage for
turning inland cities into seaports by
means of ship-canals, The last propo-
sal of this nature comes from an Italian
engineer, Mr. Gabassi, who suggests
that Rome should be connected with
of twenty-aix feet, so
ships of the largest kind
vantage of it,
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It is made np all
dark colors as well as in cream-white
rose and delicate blue,
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HORSE NOTES
,
Jt. B. Conklm recently re'meed ap
offer of $20 000 for King Wilkes.
~Jack Trout, of Beacon Park,
Boston, will come to Philadelphia, it is
saad,
—A New York man paid *“K
sack’ McCarthy $800 for br. wm. Lady
Miller,
~The added money at Monmouth
Park for the season of 1880 amounts tc
$150,000,
~— Fred, Archer, the English jockey,
is reported to be worth nearly a million
dollars,
—Paradeox, sou of Sterling, is ex
pected to prove the best eap horse in
England this year,
~The once famous Sadie Belle, 2.24
is frequently seen upon the New York
drives. She is now 14 years old.
~E. B. Thayer, Chicago, Il., has
bought the stallion Exception, sever
years old, chestnut, by Btiilson; damn
Abdallah Maid, by Erie Abdallah,
—W. F. White, Jr., Lexington, has
bought from Bidney Taylor, Millions,
Ky., the horse Foxhound, =x years
old, bay, by Foster, dam Carrie 1., by
Don Juan,
—Honesty, the pacer, record 2.22,
and Noontid?, record 2 203. cael once
sold for $100,
—There are prospects of the ergani-
sociation in New Jersey.
—The 2,50 list of horses for Lhe sea
son of 1886, so far as known, has beer
made out. By the 2.30 list is meant
the recorded horses whose records made
last season will require them to enter
the 2.50 class the coming season.
Winnings of American-bred horses
in England last year were: Blue Grass,
$8 800.75; Jolly Sir John, $5,085.37;
Bolero, $3,354.20; dea, $2 473.50; Eole,
$1.091.25; Invalid, $275.73, Aristocrat,
$217.03. Sachem, Passaic and Oliver
did not win anything.
—The Louisville Great Amencas
Stallion Stake of 1888 is represented by
the following stallions: Hindoo, Billet,
Rebel, Miser, Blue Eyes, Wiisper,
Enquirer, Great Tom, Luke Bilack-
burn, Bramble, Ten Broeck, Long-
fellow, Saracen, Kyrie Daly, Outcast,
Springbok, Faustus, Hyder Ali, Grin.
stead, King Ban, Felloweraft, Uuarter-
— The Kempton Park husdle handi-
by Vodotte, out of Sherweed.
considered as at the present season In
sorts of garments and siyles of
goods for dress wear, and sore of the
goods distinctively juvenile are exqui-
-A collarette of wide lace falls over
he shoulders, a narrow straight tam
it af the Lhroat,
where it is fastened by a lace pin, {i
which depends a voluminous Jabot «
the wide lace.
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—The designs of a worn-out brocade
may be cut out and sown on another ma-
terial, finishing the edges with the fine
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plastron for a low or open corsage
—A skatigg costume of dark green
serge has a box-plaited skirt, ornament-
ed with gold braid in a broad design on
each plait. The short drapery is trimmed
in the same way, The jacket and tur-
ban are trimmed with heavier far,
~ Effective dresses are made entirely
of plain tulle in several shades of the
same color, Blue arranged in this way
is exceedingly beautiful, the outer skirt
being of bive-white veiling, the deeper
tints imparting a cloud-like effect to
Shaded ostrich feathers
are used for trimming these dresses,
-A basket-cloth bhouse-jacket, with
pockets and cuffs, and frogs for but.
tons, is a very handsome garment,
Others: in almost countless numbérs,
have been described, and suffice it to
say that new ones are being constantly
received, and are open in best places for
inspection,
~ Among the novelties in canes are
some having handles that conceal each,
oneof a variety of different articles. One
springs out a candle and candle-stick,
another a dice-box and dice and another
a corkscrew. A barrelshaped handle
can, by unscrewing, be transformed
into a spyglass,
In wristlets, new ribbed silks, in al-
ternate and solid stripedjgoods, are fash-
jonable. There are also new Roman
combinations and tartans and black and
white, which have a plain but tasteful
appearance, Vertical Roman stripes
in cashmeres and wools are pretty and
not expensive,
~- Evening bonnets to correspond
with the costume have the crowns of
the figured material and the brims of
the plain fabric of which the dress is
composed, Tartan ribbons of velvet
are used to trim fell bonnets, worn
with tailor-made costumes, A bonnet
of black tulle, embroidered with gold
filigree, has the brim covered by plated
lace corresponding to the gold embroid-
ered tulle, The only trimming is a
knot of creamwhite velvet ribbon. The
strings are of black velvet, A bonnet
of gray ottoman silk bas the brim ‘ned
with plush of the same color. It is
trimmed with bows of gray satin nib
bon, relieved by delicate pink feathers,
arranged among the loops. The strings
are of gray satin,
~—A very tasteful novelty for trim-
ming half-mourning dresses 18 white
beaded with black jet, arranged
into a slightly gathered tablier, or else
in flounces superposed
tion of either white or mauve silk: a
Mau-of-war was favorite in the
betting, seven to four being offered on
while two to one was offered
against Woodman, The canditions
added, winning penalties, twe miles
eight hurdles.
~ Taking the aggrezate number of
additions to the 2 25 list for 1885 we
find there are three less than the can
Comparisons show that while
for 1885, on the other hand there is an
in the speed a
were new 10 the 2 30 list, 58 old mem-
or
the 2.25 list got better marks, The
2.20 list now includes 154 members, an
increase of 23 over 1884 In theentire
ist 17 of the sires have records of 2.30
Desperandam, 2 24; Saitan, 2.94; Pan-
coast, 2 21}; Black Pilot, 2.30; and
and White Line, 230. These beat the
figures of any previous year. Of the
154 performers in the lisk, 25 made
their debuts last year. Taking these
new comers by families, we find 10 are
by Hambletonian sires, § of the Mam-
brino Chief family, 3 Blue Lulis, 1
Clay, 1 Vermont Black Hawk, 1 Pilot,
and 1 of pacing ancestry. Electioneer
and Blue Bull are the leading pro-
genitors, having 3 each. Ia the famale
line we find six are out of Hamble-
tonian dams, 3 out of Mambrino Chief
mares, 3 out of Clays, 2 out of Yer-
mont Black Hawk, and the balanc:
out of mares of miscellaneous breeding.
~The Coney Island Jockey Club has
opened a new three year old stake, with
$10,000 added, to be run in 1888, and
which will be known as the Realisation.
The conditions of the great event are
as follows: Realization Stakes, with
$10,000 added, to be run at the June
meeting in 1880, for then three-year
olds. Foals of 1886 to be entered by
July 15; yearlings of 1887, by July 15,
1887, as follows: Foals of 1888, at $25
each, $50 forfeit unless declared out by
Jaly 15, 1887; $100 forfeit unless de-
clared by July 15, 1883; yearlings en-
tered by July 15, 1837, when the stake
shall close, to pay $100 eaeh, $300 for-
feil unless declared by July 15, 1888;
$250 additional; the
money and 50 per cent, of the start
money; the third $1,000 of the
money and 20 per cent. of the starting
total amount at $250 each paid by
starters, Uolts to carry 122 pounds; lilies
and geldings 119 pounds; non-winners of
$5 000 allowed four pounds; of §3,
seven pounds; of $1.000, ten pounds,
Handicaps and selling races not
reckoned as races, The produce of
mares or stallions which have not pro-