NEWS OF THE WEEK —AS Patrick Moore, Joh O'Willlams and John Hughes, miners, were descending the Warrior Rur slope, at Wilkesbarre, Penna,, on the afternoon of the 19th, a rope broke and a trip of cars ran down upon them, Moore was killed and the ether twq severely injured, A new sewer In Pittsburg caved in en the 19th, killing J. B. Sands, the contractor, and & bricklayer named Charles Baker, The) bad gone nto the sewer to do some work, when the side caved in. Mrs Thomas Fitzpatrick tried to light fire at ber home, in Bridgeport, Con- necticut, on the 10th, with a parlo match, The head fell off and 1x nited her clothes. Her father and son wert badly burned in endeavoring to extin. guished the flames, It Is thought that Mrs. Fitzpatrick and her father are fatally burned. —Committee reports were recelved and discussed by the Convention of the Knights of Labor in Indianapolis, Indiana, on the 19th. So far as Is known the Committee on Law favors the consolidation of the offices of Gen- eral Treasurer, and also recommends that the General Master Workman shall select his own cabinet. General Master Workman Powderly and Secre- tary Hayes are candidates for re- election. —Snow fell in Northern Illinois, Indiana, and E-stern lowa on the svening of the 18th. Two inches of snow fell at Davville, Virginia, on the evening of tne 18th, followed by sleet and drenching rain, Two inches of snow also fell at Cumberland, in West ern Maryland, ~The auditors who have been ex- amining the books report that Warren P. Copp, the ex-Tax Collector of Saugers, Massachusetts, now supposed to be in Canada, bas a shortage In his accounts with the town of $23,000 J. PF. Hill, the defaulting Treasurer of Harrison county, Iowa, was on the 10th, sentenced to two and a half years in the Penitentiary. Hill bad been Treasurer of the county for 12 years, and when he went out of office last January was found to be short in bis accounts about $20 000, The shortage has been made good by his bondsinen. Joseph Cattigan Hotel Putnam, Roxbury, setts, on the 20th, while trying to tween the elevator and the wall, —There were 42 new cases of yellow never and one death in Jacksonville on the 20th. of yellow fever in Gainesville, Florida, of the 20th. ~— A passenger train on nati, Indianapolis, St. Louis and Chi- cago Railroad left the track, near Harrison, Ohio, on the moruing of the 20th, by reason of spreading rails, and five coaches were overturned. There were about 40 passengers on board, nearly all of whom were more or less injured. The most severely hurt are Mrs. Marta Moore, aged B0 years; Mrs. Margaret Campbell, aged the Cinvin- L570 A telegram from Holyoke, Massa. chusetts, says that Charles T. Parsons, of Northampton, “notorious for hiring ignorant numigrants at Castle Garden ind hiring them to farmers'’ in that section, was arrested in Holyoke on he 21st ‘for having a Polander, ressed only in overalls, shoes and a tuin coat, chained to the seht of his buggy and suffering intensely from the old, which literally froze the tears op is purple cheeks.” The people are (reatly excited over the matter, and Parson’s arrest saved him from being mobbed, Government secret service flicers have arrested seven of a gang f counterfeiters who have Deen operating in Erle, Warren and Oil City, Penna, and Jamestown ind Buffalo, New York. *‘Squire” Richardson, one of the men who, itis Jleged, attended to the manufacture of the money, is expected to make a confession. A thief threw a stone through the window of a pawn shop of Simon Lewis, in Boston, on the even: ing of the 20th, and, reaching through the hole. grasped a tray containing ten diamond rings and fled. Lewis and his daughter attempted to pursue the thief, vut could not open the door, which had been locked on the outside by a chaln «nd Yale lock. In his filght the thief dropped all but two of the riugs, and these are valued at $165. The rings which were dropped were recovered by Lewis, A policeman stood at the corner almost opposite the scene of the robbery. —A telegram from Quebec says a northwest gale, with bhnding snow, has prevailed since the 19th. The gulf shores are ice-bouund, and some of the fishermen, who were caught in the snow, are badly frozen, Three feet of snow have fallen in the past three days at Sault Ste, Marie, and the thermome- ter marked 6 degrees below zero on the evening of the 20th, At Worcester, mometer registered 11 degrees above Bro. —E, 8, Lucas, a Grand Army vet- the evening of the 20th. self 1n the head, severed the arteries at his wrists with a razor, cut his throa! and slashed his temple. F. 19 years old, telegraph operator at Wheloek Siation in lberville Parish, Louisiana, committed suicide on 21st. He tried to beat + jack knife and while bleeding to across Lhe cut off by a passing to have It train. — A telegram fro severity alontreal, Que- and suddenuess Harvey Hamilton and Scott Small. A work train collided the Union Pacific Railroad at Creek Station, Wyoming Territory, on the 19th. An engineer and were fatally hurt and ten laborers on Daniel Barnbart was struck by a train at Harrisburg, Penna., on the 20th, and died in a short time, —The Convention of the Knights of Labor in session in Iadianapolis, In diana, on the 20th, adopted port of the Committee on Law, which recommended that General Master Workman Powderly be allowed to nom- inate candidates from which members of the General Executive Board shall be elected by the Conven- tion. It was also decided to consoll- date the offices of General Secretary and General Treasurer, It was eaid that General Secretary Hayes must wave this office if Mr, owderly isto pe the General Master Workman, ~— At the old concentrator r £1 the it Meadville, Montana, on the 19th, a boiler exploded, killing M. G. Ed- munds, engineer; W. O'Connor, car- penter; Jacob Kramel, pipe fitter; Henry Winters, laborer, and fatally injuring Rickard Wing, machinist; George Hecker, pipe fitter, and John Eustis, carpenter, and foreman Hank Pickering. ~Frederick Trenstrupp, Peter C, Petersen and a man supposed to be Ar- thur Sepli went out rowing in a small boat on Jamaica Day, Long Island, on the afternoon of the 18th, When but a short distance from the shore the boat sank and the occupants were drowned, ~-1t is reported from Taquetiville, Quebec, that Foreman Vandyke, of the Hereford Railrcad, with 50 armed men, took two locomotives fru. the Italian strikers on the evening of the 20th. The locomotives were held on account of wages due, A Justice of the Peace read the riot act, The Italians resisted and the railroad roen fired on them, Three Italians were wounded and one killed, Vandyke re- moved the engines, The men are not paid yel for September work, ~(zilbert Johnson was run over by a train and killed in Patterson, New Jersey, on the evening of the 20th, He was on the way to the house of his betiothed to make final preparations for their wedding. A passenger car containing 25 persons rolled down a rallroad embankment near Blooms. burg, Penna, on the evenirg of the 20th, All the passengers were injured, but none fatally. «It is sald that the stealings from the Moline, (Illinois) Wagon Company by its paymaster, W. IL. Stoughton, will amount to $25,000. He had, by a system of false entries, been taking $200 every fortnightly pay day for more than a year, O, F. Adams, City Treasurér of Macon, Georgia, was on the 21st reported $20,000 short in his accounts, and was suspended from of- fice. He can give no satisfactory ex- planation. Two masked robbers entered the Louisville and Nashville depot in London, Kentucky, early on the evening of the 20th, took what money was in the cash drawer and the ets of the night operator—about in all—and rifled the mall bag. | } e in that section so eurly In I'here is good skating on the St Law above Montreal. low Montreal, where river nai the channel Is blocked with ic , Ke reports from 1 n and Quebec, communi n between the Poiut Levis is inter. Atl Rimouski, where the Eu- Water ~Twelve new cases of yellow fever, but no deaths were reported on the 22d in Jacksonville. “otal cases to date, 4659; deaths, 4005, — A despates from Omaba regarding the Valparaiso Bank failure says that from present appearances the failure is one of the most gigantic swinddles and defaleations ever known in Saunders county, It 18 thought Beoville and Crafts are now in Canada, Scoville deserted his wife, an aged mother and two Invalid sisters, leaving them in destitute circumstances. Burglar: broke into the Boston and Maine sta- tion, at Pine Point, Maine, on the evening of the 224, and blew open the safe. The station agent declines to state how much money was stolen, but suys that the burglars were well paid for their work. Two thieves entered the meat store of George Burggraff, on the outskirts of Chicago, early on the morning of the 22d, Burggrafl was awakened, and a fight ensued with cleavers, in which Mrs. Burggraff, her mother and sister took part. One of the burglars fled, but the olher Henry Walter, 24 years old, was se- curad. Burggraff and the women were badly hurt, —A cave-in occurred on the after- noon of the 23d at Parsons’ Station, three miles from Wilkesbarre. It 18 located between the Mineral Spring coltiery of the Lehigh Valley Coal Company and the Laurel Run col: Mery of thé Delaware and Hudson Canal Company, The cave-ln covers pearly half a mile square, and Is about six feet deep over nearly the entire area. Both water mains, six- teen ches In diameter, of Lhe Wilkesbarre Water Company, which extend under the caved district, were snapped off and an of water from the reservoir rushed In consequence, work made and the Ower the until repairs can be water pumped out of the mines. 100 men are at work repairing damage. ~The principal bank of Osceola, Iowa, closed on the 21st, and is In the and there is but $300 in the wauils, can be made, and the steamers Oregon take Lhe ce-bound =il winter, as Lhe 3 wiles below Quebec is ime passable, and may remala so. ~-Jt 18 said that the town destroyed by the falling of rock from a cliff at the foot of which the town is built, A number of families have removed to places of safety. —On the top floor of the Boston idiotic salesman yelled (re, panic. The five floors of the bullding were crowded with about a thousand shoppers, mostly women, and was made for the stairways, wheat J. Macintosh & Co., stock brokers in Boston, have lalled. The [allure ls owing chiefly to the decline in Flint Pere Marquette R ilroad securi- firm being unabe to respond stocks, speculating In ties, Lhe -8ix pew cases of yellow fever and two deaths are reported In Jacksoavil'e on the 234. Total cases to date, 40060; ~—Two freight traios land and 'tsborg Railroad came into collision near Hammond Ohio, early on the morning of the 254. En gineer Dolph and DBrakemwan Slavin killed, and Et W hiteacre and Conductor Heese badly Injured. While clearing ashes from a stove Rochester, New New York, on the 221, Mrs, Lonise Haeppel, aged 79 years, was 20 badly burned that ber d i resulted on the 23d. on the Cleve- sviile, or vr gineel sath Gea - According to a despatch from Win. Ohio, Adam Derkes, of Sar evening of the 17th, upon a charge that he had been stealing coal, has become a raving maniac, ~The General Assembly Knights of Labor, in session in papolis, on the 234d, Master Workman of the India- re-elected General Powderly for two L. John W. Hayes, General Secretary- and children were Lav] year-old daughter, who live near Ox- ford, Kansas, were found dead on the tiack of the Southern road, on the evening of the 21st. It is Investigator of Woman's Work; A. W. Wright, Join Costello, James J, Hol- General Executive Board, The latler were named by General Master Work- man Powderly. Views of an English General nd Southern States of America both — Patrick Waters and Jessie Bates were married, in St. George, West Virginia, on the 20th, and took a wed: ding trip to the Great Falls of the Blackwater, one of the most pictur- in West Virginia, In | i 3 | Waters fell into the stream. band plunged after her, IHer has. At water, but too late {0 save band’s life. Mrs, Waters recovered. Heaven born genius, unallied with military edueation and knowledge, bad therefore the best chance of making itself felt and of coming to the front, Yet what is the lesson the history of that war teaches us? All those whose names will be forever remembered in connection with it by the English speaking race through- fee and Grant, Stonewall Jackson, Sherman, McClellan, Sheridan, Long- Hill, and a host of othiers, whose names are and will long be household words in thelr own States, were all graduates of West Georgia, was one of those who lost their lives in the European botel fire in Chattanooga, Tennessee, on the night of November 12, which is supposed to have been of iocendiary origin. On the 21st his wvalise, filled with stones, was found in the Tennessee river. The money which be was known to have carried In the valise was gone. A negro named Walsh was arrested in Cincinnati, a few days ago, and he Is believed to Le the mau who stole the valise, When arrested he had $1400 on his person, Detectives are still at work on the case, ~A3oorge L. lewis, a clerk in the City National Bank in Springfield, Massachusetts, bas been detected in a plot to rob the bank of §30,000, He made a confidant of a man whom he supposed to be a criminal, but who turned out to be a detective. «The business portion of Pocomoke City, Maryland, including two hotels and six warehouses, was destroyed by fire on the evening of the 224. The loss is nearly $500,000, Professor F. H. Vandegrift made a baleon ascension in presence of 12 000 spectators at Exposition Park, in Col. umbus, Georgia, on the afternoon of the 224, When about a half mile high the balvon burst, but Vandegnrift ent the rope that held the parachute, snd it seemed for a time that he would es. cape death. He fell in the middle of the Chattahoochee river, however, and was drowned before a boat could reach him, He was 25 years of age. colieges, One of the greatest men of that ex. cited and memorable time was Abra- ham Lincoln, a shrewd, clear headed man of business, of very great natural ability and quick apprehension, possess. ing, too, a keen Insight into human character and endowed with a splendid patriotism, Ail the best qualities be possessed are indispensable to the gens eral, but he knew nothing of war or of the soldier's science, Can his most ardent admirer imagine for one mo- ment that, had he been pitehforked into the command of any of the Northern armies he would have suc. ceeded? Can It be supposed for a moe ment thal our greatest of artists, Ine stinct though he was with artistic genius from his birth, could ever have produced any great picture had chance made him in early life a vicar or a doctor? It cannot be too forcibly im- pressed upon all who aspire to high military positions that no amouut of inborn genius, unless accompanied by deep and thoughtful study, can ever secure them success, New fron works will soon be opened at Kobe, Japan, by a native capitalist, who has engaged several hundred men trained at the Alabama Iron Works and elsewhere in Tokio, It Is also sta- ted that as the iron yielded by the ore of the Shimonida mine has proved it. self to be of a very fine quality it will be employed hereafter for the armor of Japanese war vessls, accord to in. structions issued by the Naval Depart. ment. MARRIED ABROAD, ——————————— Wives Europeans-—-A Page From Mrs, American of Distinguished John Sherwood's Notebook. The list of American wives of dis- tinguished Europeans is a long one, and very much to the credit of Ameri- can beuuty and of the solidity of Ameri can forinpes, To their pride and to their erediv be it spoken, these Ameri- can wives have, as a rule, behaved with extreme propriety and tact in thelr new positions, und bave in many instances increased (as a wife can al- ways do) the social prestige of even a titled husband, It 18 many years now since the three beautiful Carrolls married into ihe house of Wellesley, and into other well- known English families, The story has been told so often that my pen would be caught repeating the thread- bare theme were 1 to tell it here, For many years afier they ceased to be beauties, their example wus rarely fol- lowed by their American sisters, For- eign marriages of this kind became in- frequent, Perbaps the first to open the became Duchesse de Lanti and Mar- quise Gavotli, many years ago. Then the daughters of Mr. Thorndike be- Bauuelos, Our rich Mi. Thorn, of New York, also some forty years ago contributed 4 genie, by givipg his daughter to Count le Roclies, the Then lollowed the marriage of of New York, Lieau, the rich Mis Ray, Viscount defourval, who died years ago, Jhis lady moves highest runksof the best society in the Faubourg St Germain. and the Countess d’'Aemere, who was Biss Fisher, of Riladeiphia, have alway: enjoyed distipguished consideration hie Dest socigly of Paris, Then cang the daughters Phalen, of dew York, who A : { Gariac and the Count two | to in the She Hays npe Baa. The 2 of Mr. Hulton, of t Bekard, marie 15.4 s and Count de an $6 Lin od Tel i i { a Aa argh ny. ya * VO Hpaon Jer N¢ " Mout Saul rich Mis many, Pris Vienna. Carroll, « bast . Esterhiazy - og gh . Ger ff Washi sear relatiy ris and 1 © se i who shed | HOW § present si birthplace. By far evi - = v “ = +11} — aiid y Am joe. je two mos contracted Miss Mary Y ork, wh narried first th Noer, a bijliant au Oo used to lead the ste balls, He was fesent German ked to marry Miss | : proposed in periect g faith a mdiganatic alliance, whi Europeani:yes has every sanctio morality. [But the American girl in- dignantly fefused, and he wedded her with all tis formalities and granted her right-hani seat in his car- riage. Afr remaining 10 years a widow, ts fortunate lady married Count Wallersee, the cluef of the staff of the Ge phan army, and successor of Von Moth This is a very unusual tb i ! 5, . OW ¢ old Prince handsome el "= 3 TLS the y The Gehan and English papers last see in no Goice terms as an nlriguanie and a person disposed to make trouble in Berlin But those who remember her in Awmdrica will recall a person of very Stsistucralily and of undeniable truth and correctness, so that these scandals ci hardly be believed, She , been the most *‘successful American? in making two good matches, | loman Beiety 1s deeply indebted to American! beauty and money, No more popdar, no more elegant prin- cesses orn@pent the court of Queen Marguerit@than two young Americans, Miss Spicer, daughter of Lorillard Spencer, Bharried Prince Vicovara Cenci, callgl then the handsomest man in Rome. tle is a liberal Roman prince of highest lineage, was immediately called to the court of King Humbert, his beautify wife was made a lady-in- waiting, im vhich position her dignity and lovelings has long been the pride of all Amefcans visiting Rome. Un fortunaely, the health <f a delicate child bas oflate made it impossible for her to live h Rome, The only daughter of Mrs, Hickson Field, of New York, married a Neapol- itan prince sf very high family, Prince Bracaccio. It would be difficult to find & mordattached couple; simple in the midst ef ur, having every. thing windl the world calls success, yet loving é&ch other, home and chil- dren better than anything else, “Bes sie Field" sas beautiful, well educated and charmitg, She married the man of her heart, she is now the mother of 8 glows up ion, she is very beautiful still and shows perfect taste in dress, She is, too, a lady-in-waiting to the Queen, and u great favorite, y Another very successful aod ha marriage has been that of Miss stance Kinney, of New Jersov. to Count Cesare Gianottl, now first chamberlain, und always dearest friend of King i Humbert. This lady, a handsome { blonde, captivated the young officer of the Italian Army somewhere on the Italian lakes, about sixteen years ago, She has had an exceptionally happy and distinguished life, King line | always been very kind to the Glanottis, | and their house i8 full of his regard for them, The Queen stood as godmother to the yonng countesses, and gave them each a watch decorated with her monogram, Every year re 4110 OWnh azzo Reale, Milan, and bears testimony to her delightful private character, tireless industry, her splendid accom- plishinents, and to that patriotism and love of Italy which makes both king and queen so dear to thelr subjects, Another distinguish:d American- Italian alliance is that of Miss Edith Story, daughter of the distinguished first chamberlain of King Victor Em- manuel, Count Giannoti 1s the handsomest blond man in Italy, He is | a man of fine manners, amiable temper, { one of the best of husbands and friends, { and a faithful and devoted servant his beloved King. A Mavor of Rome, Poggio di Saasa, allowed by courtesy the title of Prince Rospoli, married two years ago the daughter of Joseph CO of New York, A younger | married Mrs, Riggs, {of New Y ork. {men are Rospoli, courtesy, | The elder Miss Curtis “Al Vears 5 considered iris, brother born Van Zandt, Aithough these gent of the real Prince they only bear this title by has 3 le COUSILS married about $ de Talleyrand, an r couple came to America un in Florida on some land | belonging to the wile, The e ment, the divorcee, the marriage Marquis to Mrs, Fred Stevens sumption by him of his f; Duc Dino, are ail fresh to Parisian and American gossip. American tirst wife is allowed fa 118 « s de Talleyrand. A ago the Mare Lhe young 3 1 » 91 1 ad “"seltied § vik Fy OF ES trange- 114 gLlier’s { Litie ! r “ £ é § de ies of | 1 © be granddan New York out 1 de Kergo- 1a Grange, I hese hiers of a Gover- to rival iu r lovely rela- danced away { at the the night Le- ich Byron has im- is lines begi it Jear } 5 op 1G ACES wi rin son] Oradea “There 1 afl i Was uning: a sound of revely by night, Boston has given ils quota and countesses of Europe, Miss sell has lately become Lady Lyon Piay- fair, and many years ago the beautiful { daughter of Motley, the historian, mar- i nied en ne (she belng Mrs, | Ives) Sir William Vernon Harcourt. | One her sisters married Into the | Sheridan family. Another Sheridan | descendant, Mr, Algernon Sartoris, | married Nellie Granb, » lus. s greomuie cls 01 Paria, noble Brittany family, but has recently died, at an early age, much regretied, Miss Minnie Stevens, a renowned beauty and heiress, can be credited to both Boston and New York, She mar- {de Coellogon, of | sea, a son of that Lord Alfred Paget, the Queen, a gallant genlleman aud a son of the famous man who lost an arm at Waterloo. Thus it will be seen that, although she has no title, Mrs. Paget is in the very highest circles of English aristocracy, and, 1 may add, a great favorite, One of the American twin beauties whom the Prince of Wales used to call “Girofle-Girofla,” the Livington twins, 80 like the Princess of Wales, married George Cavendish Bentinck, Jr., and has a very nice position in London. Indeed, the list is endless, I might oon and mention Lady Hesketh and ady Waterpark and Lady Waterlow, all Californians; Lady Arthur Butler, alas! recently dead, who was a Miss Johnson, of Utica; Mra Adair, the splendid Cornelia Wadsworth, who be- came Mrs, Ritchie, now the widow of an Irish gentleman, one of the best en- tertainers in London: Lady Vernon, nee Laur-nee, of New York, and so on, almost without end. Most of these marriages have been notably respectable and happy, some of them neither; but that is the fatality of human nature, If the latest rumor is true, that Miss McTavish is to marry the Duke of Nor- folk and Miss Zerega to marry the Duke of Newcastle, the future court of the Prince of Wales (should he ever be- come king) will be fargely made up of American duchesses, One may look with pride on the pt conduct of American Mr. Astor remarked, © he was Minister to Home, that he re- flected with great satisfaction upon the that even the Italians (one to HI Of manners, hen no impropriety exists) could against any Amerl had married lute the of Home "an iti wive sen lady who titled familie es ——————— . How tne Tiger Kills aud Eats, In a paper read before the Dombay Natural History Society recently, and published in its journal, Mr, Inverarily, which it kills and eats its prey. Some Mr. Inverarity has examiund scores nimals with special reference in every case but one the throat was seized from below, One of a single file of villagers who was once s«ized by the by a wan eater, but had no Wea his senses what Whether dislocation of recovered The tame.hunting leopards always possibly the tiger the same wav, [tis only by accident, if at all, that tigers in kililng no blood to speak of flows from the throat wounds, Very large and pow- erful animals like the bull, buffalo and bison, if attacked at all, are in the first with a view to disable them, Having killed, the tiger almosi in- variably begins eating a bind quarter, consuming one probably both, Sometimes he leaves the s.owach and they are; somelitnes he will remove them to one side, making a neat parcel of A tiger and tigress together will finish ordinary sized animal at leaving only probable fore eaten always OF f Yuga wet. an ere are , he will rent ry f¢ TERE 3 EC a r the in a cool cave } uer rece on rad in the close, upgie, night and * DEVLT PALS A sec on ihe same spol, remna'ns of the prey 40 or Sportsmen cou Gragcging 50 yards a bal devon 10 call ig ng a imal and desinio tie the prey oa t The tige about two hours’ sleau) finish the fore quarters of a bullock, Mr. Inverarity sat over a small tigress one night who ate for ten min. t away for twenty, prob- ink, and on ber return ate for two and a quarter hours fire, as he could nol see shy thn a UL ealin utes, then wen ably steadily He did her. Tigers are cannibals; they will make their mesis off each oiber They are supposed to kill once five or six days, and no doubt the tiger after a heavy feed does not care to hunt much for a few days; but a tiger kills whenever he can. They have been known to kill on fourteen consecutive nights. Mr. Inverarity believes that animals killed by tigers saffer little beyond the panic of a few seconds, The shock produces a stupor and dreaminess in which there is po sense of pain or feeling of terror. The powerful stroke of the fore paw of the tiger is a fic tion: he clutches with his claws as one might with the fingers, but does not strike a blow, Tigers wander Immense distances al night, and, as they like easy going, they go on roads and paths They do pot like to move during the heat of the day, as the hot ground burns their pads and wakes them raw. They can on occasions climb trees, In Salsette one climbed alter a cer- to dr nol in Pandoo, thinking the the tiger and killed. The insuest report stated that ‘Pan. doo*’ died of the tiger eating him; there was no other cause of death, Nothing was left except some fingers, which probably belonged to the right or left Natives have a belief that the point the way to fresh victims. The Use of Perfumes. of the The refinements ncients of a modern age, except, perhaps, in some of the uses appertaining to the toilet, and the Scriptures, as well as other records of ancient customs, bea: testimony that baths and clean linen, perfumes and sweet odors were regarded quite as much of a luxury then as now. Few are, perhaps, aware that the origin of the use of manufactured perfumes had a sacred character, yet they were an invention of the priests who officiat- ed at the sacrificial altars in the olden temples, and, doubtless, great necessity must have been the mother of inven. tion, for from the slaughtered beasts must have arisen most nexious emana- tions which all the water in the land would not have washed clean without the aid of the perfumes of Arabia. the latter was termed Jraukinconse, and was, moreover, with myrrh w gold, the most valuable article of com- merce, ~The hat to be worn with this wan tie 1s of brown felt, exactly the shade of the plush, the crown which is low and square, the brim wide and slightly raised at the back, The trimming of tape-edged ribbon, a large lar brown ostrich feather lies over orown
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