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The Child's Face.
uf Love you, mamma,” my little one sald,
As close to my heart crept her golden head.
“1 love you lots,” with a clasp and Kins,
“The best of Mammas my mamma is.”
“And I think.” said she, looking up in my eyes
With a glance that was tender and wise,
“That you've got just the lovingest face, O,
OQ,
“I'm glad you're my mamma, 1 love you so.”
What was the praise of the world to me
To the jove of the little one throned on my
knee,
And this was my prayer as 1 kissed the eyes
That were smiling up at me, pansy wise,
“Mav the face of thy mother for ever be
The ‘lovingest' face in the worid to thee.”
ean
AUNT KATES INVITATION.
BY LILLIE E. BARR.
Cute, chp, elip, went Certy’s 801s.
sors: and that was the only answer
Rachel got, although she was calling
“Gerty," at the tip-top of her voice.
«] am not going to be bothered with
you, ‘Miss,”" said QGerty to herself;
“wou ure always wanting something.
It is ‘Gerty, Gerty, Gerty,’ morning,
noon and night, and I am quite tired
of it."
+Oh! Ger—ty!
are to take me for as walk,
Rachel again.
Gerty settled herself gtill more com-
fortably behind the eurtains, and the
snip, snip of her scissors was the oaly
answer she made to Hachel's request.
But somehow the lovely green silk
basque, trimmed with rose colored satin,
whioh she was making, did not fit Mir-
Mamma says you
" called
but it wasalso a good lesson, for
over sinee, sho has tried to avoid that
mean goodness, which does the right
thing only because of some selfish rea-
#OD.
cnn, sais A
Hints forthe Amateur Dress-Maker.
The plain, simply-dr skirts now
in vogue require so little material that
they are a veritable boon to the econo-
mist, while, for the fancy bodices rem-
pants of silk and velvet work in most
effectively. The close of the winter
season, too, offers frequent bargains in
dress iabrics, so that a pretty and taste-
ful gown is within the reach of every
woman, For those skilful with the
needle, who do their own dress-making,
a few hints may, therefore, be in order,
Stylish, showy, and attractive are many
of the pattern robes, bordered woolens,
aad and striped materials, marked
at temptingly low prices; but she with a
Limited purse should resolutely pans
them by, and wisely select a plain fab-
rie, not in the newest shade, but in that
most becoming to her—a camel's hair
for a street suit, a cashmere for a house
dress, or a dainty silk or wool crepon
for an evening costume—these being
what might be termed ‘‘all the-year-
round-frocks.” and having ‘‘all seasons
for their own.” A fair-lmired blonde
will find that her delicate tints are
thrown out to advantage by the fashion-
able drabs and Leaver hues, or, if she
have much color, may venture on the
rofined silvery grays, or army blue.
inds half so well after this, and Gerty's |
sonscience felt as if it was turned |
wrong side out, and it pricked her all |
Iver. i
«There! If Rachel had not bothered |
me I +hould not have put this sleeve in |
wrong, 1 do wish—"
But here the door opened snd her |
mamma and eldest sister came into the |
nursery.
“Are you going to let Gerty go to
Aunt Kate's, Mother,” asked her sister
Jessie as she slowly paced up and down |
with baby who was almost asleep.
«That will depend on how she be-
haves this week; she has been very
aross snd impatient with the children
lately.”
“Will you tell her about Aunt Kate's
invitation?”
“No: I shall watch her behavior this |
week; on Friday evening it
time enough to tell her.”
“I do hope she will be good, for the
peaches are all ripe and it will disap-
point both Bob and Rachel if she can-
not go.”
Just here callers were announced,
and mamma and Jessie went softly out.
Clip, clip, clip went Gerty's 8CISSOTS
us she heard the door close.
“I'l be good this week,” said she as
she bit off her thread, ‘and what is
more, I will begin right now.”
So Mirinda and the green silk basque
were put away, and it was wonderiul
what lots of things she found to do.
Tne hearth needed brushing np; Bob-
bie's and Bachel's toys were all over
the room, and a large solemu-looking
fly was making invisible hieroglyplies |
all over the baby’s little bald head. (If
you do pot know what bicroglyphics
means ssk your big brother, who
pows everything, and he will tell
you.
will be |
aud then Gerty remembered how un-
tidy ber bureau drawers were, and she
began with desperate zeal to separate
stockings and neck ribbons, gloves and
doll pieces. This took some time, and
when it was finished couscieace remind-
ed her—not for the first time either—
that the tissue paper which ought to be
folded about her best hat, was all
crumpled up in a corner of the box
This was soon set right, and then
Rachel’s and Bob's voices in long, dole-
ful howls, with little gasps between,
called her hurriedly to the garden.
There she discovered that Bob had got
a splinter in his floger, and that
Rachel was crying in sympathy.
“Just canse Bob was trying to chmb
on the wood pile,” sobbed Rachel.
“Don's cry any more, 1 will take it
out and thén we will have a lovely
walk,” eaid Gerty soothingly, sod
Gerty kept her word. |
The week passed swiftly away, and
Friday afternoon came. Gerty was
darning her stockings, but there were
several little lines down the middle of
her forehead, and a very troubled ex-
pression sbout the corners ef her
mouth.
“Miss erty, yous mamims says you
are to go to the parlor; yous Aunt Kate
is there;” said Gretchen laoking into
the nursery.
Gerty rose, gathering her stockings
up in her apron snd hastening down
stairs,
“Well, Gerty dear, you sem I am
come for you. Are you ready to go
back to the farm with me?” said Awmb |
Kate, stooping to kiss the little girl.
| meant to give her a surprise, sis- |
ter Kate; said Uerty’s mother, smiling;
“a0 I did not tell her anything abou |
your mvitation. But she has been such |
a good girl this week, that it gives me
real pleasure to let ber go with you |
now,
“Oh, mamma! 1 must not go, if you |
please, 1 ought not to go, indeed 1 |
ought not!”
“What for?” eried mamma and Aunt
Kate both together.
“Because because I was in the nar-
sory, when you and Jessie spoke about
Aunt Kate's invitation, and I have not
been good to help you, or becanse it
was right to be good, but only because
I wanted to go to Aunt Kate's. It was
pot real goodness, Mamma,” sobbed
poor Gerty, Steppin all her stockings,
and hiding her face in her apron.
«But, Gerty, you are sorry for your
fault, and jt will be such a point
ment to Bob and Rachel,” sid mister
«No, no; I can’t go, Jessie; you
please’ "with them, 1 will mind baby,
ad bop mamma a can.”
is quite ht, Clerty,” said
tly, * 1 am very glad
fault so plainly.” 1
»
she
down the avenue, aod
Bob amd Hachel ealling
”
Sd went sofly down stairs and
mae le ct oa
: from her deay loving Li
momma
mai
Billy trotting
heard Jessie,
“*(Jood-
dish browns, the new Eiffel eolor, and
the blue verging on violet, which is |
blondes belong the lady-like heliotrope,
grayish groens and navy bine. Black,
Eight yards of wide cloth or camel's |
yards are enough for =» medium-sized |
sleeves, An extra |
yard or so of matgrisl however, is al- |
For the foundation-skirt !
and waist-linings, modistes use a lus-
trous, twilled cotton, known as French
sateen or Oxford eloth, and three
are sufficient for the skirt,
t-en finishes the bottom, with an inter
moderately stiff crinoline,
while, on the outside, the dress iabrie
If desired, a
Many ladies have discarded all steels
and tournures, but, if a slight extender
is liked, one reed, ten or twelve inches
across the back,
twelve inches below the belt. A draw-
ing-string, run in a casing, also helps
a slender appearance.
The amatenr dress-maker can now,
by tha aid of the Woman's Journal
patterns (which we are importing di-
rectly from one of the most famous
fashion honres of Paris) secure better
of even twenty §éars ago. |
Favor ia divided between the lapped |
its one long revers, ex-
tending from the right shoulder to the |
loft of the waist-lines, and the basque
with jacket fronts, revealing a vest Do
The back of the bodice 1s cut
in & slonder point or two short, flat
tails, without pestillion pleats. Hooks
and eves are more popular than butt ‘ua
for fastening waists, and bent hooks
should be used, as they are more secure
than the old-fashioned kind. Small
rings for hooks that are apt to show are
neatly button-holed over with embroid-
ery silk. Velvet sleeves add much to
the dressiness of & wool gown, and
these are generally large, and wrinkled
above the elbow. The small mutton-
leg shape is the prettiest, but a
coat-sleeve, simply widened at the top,
to stand well out above the arm-hole, is
A very exaggerated
sleeve, however, is awkward and unbe-
coming; particularly so to short and
thick set figures,
Never was it possible to remodel an old
gown more satisfactory than at present,
tor, if the fabric cannot be matched, black
may be combined stylishly with all ool-
nea bh
vices for concealing worn or soiled
parts. Is the edge of the basque
frayed? Then, thrust it beneath the
skirt, and coteceal the join by a wide
r.bbon or folded velvet girdle, and you
have one of the new ronnd waists,
which, however, are becoming to slend-
er figures only. Light sleeves, out at
the elbows, can be replaced by fresh
ones, of a contrasting material. Ii the
gide-forms, under the arms, are rnbbed
shem, while trimming, of ribbon, gal
el in any odd style that will serve a
eoreflully employed, else they will loo
patchy.
ed and greatly freshened by having, to
wear with them, a jscket-basque
of one of the new and charmin
cada, displaying tiny bunches of roses,
leaves or berries, upon & black, brown,
or dark-green ground. Jabots of lace
make these bodices very jaunty, and
they are sometimes even worn at small
evening parties, with white or pale.
tinted ab skirts. For plainer wear
a “Jersey” of good material fitted to
the figure is inexpensive snd serves a
useful pu andsowe men -
trie sets off a dress wondertully, and it
mood only be purchased in short lengths,
one yard being sufficient to trim the
collar and wrists, or to outline the
front of the waist.
Leather is again receiving attention
as a garniture, but it is stiff and inaer-
tistio, and never likely to be very pop-
ular.
Slender girls look well with a sash,
that starts from the wideseams of the
basgus.ls knotted at thepoint in front,
and in long, graceful ends over a
plain skirt. Ribbon belts, worn with
round waists, are narrower than the
have been, and are very stylish {aston
with a long, slender silver buckle.
For street woar, collars are as high as
ever, bul, in te house, may be as low,
round ov peinted becoming.
ited as is
Our desires always increase with our
ions. The
Pe
Earning Money at Home,
From the beginning, men have en-
deavored in all things, to find out a
“royal way” by which the disagroe-
ables of life may be avoided snd only
the smooth and easy things be left.
To earn money is & very Decessary
thing to nearly all men and to many
women, and to the latter, the “royal
way" seems now to be thought to “earn
money at home,” and various are the
devices to attain this desirable end.
For our own part, while we concede
that there are conditions, which render
it desirable for a woman to earn money
without leaving her own home, as that
of a wife wishing to make a happy
home for her husband, while at thy
same time aiding him in his efforts to
provide for the future; or of a mother
of young children, it is our opinion
that there is little lost and much gain-
ed by a cautious, yet firm step out into
the world.
But for the benefit of those, who
must stay at home, we take the follow-
ing from the Woman's Journal,
“The most satisfactory and lucrative
work that 8 woman can do at home is
cooking. Unless, however, she has a
liking for such work and can do it well,
it is not advisable to try it as a busi-
ness, for only the most delicate and
For these things
because people prefer tc go to an
agency snd buy just what they know to
be good, rather than to have a servant
the attempt.
Aside from the food in certain Ex-
or cake made by certain women.
ecialty of some one kind
of food, and their reputation for good
work brings them plenty of patronage.
There is in Boston a woman who be-
gan by making eight loaves of bread a
Soon strangers came
with orders for more. As she needed
money, she took all the work she
could. Her business increased so rap-
for a larger one,
she was sending out
loaves of bread a day,
additional orders.
Another woman,
in two of
regularly 500
with constant
a cake
grocery
who has
the best
tend to, besides managing her own
household. Cookies of a daluty brown,
with a fine crispness, are the work of a
woman in one of the suburbs. She
first sent them to an Exchange, but
now orders come directly to her from
families who want them regularly, and
from others who want them for after-
noon tess and lunches
roast meats. They all involve labor,
time and expense; but undertaken with
opportunity of getting good food. The
are best undertaken
near large cities or towns,
food must be sold when first made.”
J
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How P.ns are Made.
articles in a lady's toilet-box. They
and cumbersome as skewers. In those
davs there was mo question
“Where do all the pins go?" because
they were too valuable to lose.
adays, when we can buy s hundred for
a cent, they are so little valued that
millions are lost every day.
manufacture, each
stely snd by a different hand. Now a
single machine turns out a stream of
pins at the rate of two hundred a min-
ute,
The wire is prepared by
from a large coil on a revolving drum
through & hole the size of the pin wanted.
The coil, wound on another drum,
is then suspended at the end of the
machine,
The wire passes into the machine
throughs bole and a series of iron pegs,
which keep it in place and straighten it,
A pair of pincers, moving back and
forth, pull it slong and thrust the end
| through a liole in a small iron plate, on
the further sice of which a little ham-
mer beats a tattoo on the end of the
| wire, and so forms the head of the in.
Next a knife descends and cutsoff the
pin to the proper Jeagth. The pin falls
the head cannot pass, and is thus sus
pended so that the lower or point end
1s exposed to the action of a cylindrical
file, which has bots a revolving and
! lateral motion. Br the time the pin
has passed this file it has a smooth,
| sharp point, and is a complete pin so
far as the shape is concerned.
These processes are all performed
with such rapidity that the pins fall in
| & constant stream from the end of the
machine.
| They are next put in quantities into
| revolving barrels, which sre turned till
| the pins are scoured and cleaned. Next
they are boiled in an acid in which »
of tin has been put, and
they emerge from this bath white and
shining with thear new tin cost. They
are then dried in sawdust, again shaken
in barrels, and dusted.
The machine which sticks the pina
upon the papers om which are
sold is very ingenious and simple in its
details, but too complicated for
description. The mackine orimps the
r and holds it while the are
rought up in long rows, a whole row
being stuck st one push of a lever,
i ——
| fine powder
Gesriewess ar Houe.—Be merciful
in Jou judgment of one another.
not encourage yourselt in the habit
criticising snd commenting upon
foibles and faults of any member
your own junily. There is
gained by it, a great deal
ve itself
HOW TO TREAT A WATCH,
Simple Rules for Keeping a Pocket
Timeplece In Good Order,
A watch, even of very good quality,
ean only give satisfaction if treated ac-
cording to its subtle construction. Its
possessor must prevent it from falling
or being knocked about. A jump from
a street car has more than once caused
a good timepiece in the jumper’s poe-
ket to change its rate. A watch must
be keptin a clean place. Dust and
small articles of the pocket lining
gather continually in the pockets, and
even the best fitting case cannot pro-
tect the movement from dirt, diag
its way to the wheels and pivots of the
movement,
- Watch pockets should be turned in-
side out and cleaned at regular inter-
vale. A watch ought to be wound up
regularly at about the same hour every
day. The best time to do it is in the
morning, for two reasons. First, be-
cause the hours of rising are more
regular than the hours of disrobing
and retiring. Second, because the full
power of the mainspring is more likely
to reduce to 8s minimuimn the irregular-
ities caused by the movements of the
owner during the day. When not car- |
ried in the pocket, a watch should al-
ways hang by its ring in the same po-
sition that it is worn. As a rule,
watches will run with a different rate |
when laid down. Only high grade |
watches are adapted to position, and |
will show only a re seconds’ difference |
in twenty-four hours, while common
watches may be ont
minutes 1n one night. |
Ladies otten complain that their |
watches do not run regularly. This |
may be on account ot smaller size and |
more difficult regulating, but the main |
reason for the taulty rate is to be found |
in the fact that ladies do not always |
carry their watches, and consequently |
often forget to wind them. Never |
leave a hunting-case watch open during
a considerable length of time. A care- |
ful observer will find in the morning a
layer of dust on the crystal of a watch i
that has been open during the night. |
The dust will ind its way into the move-
ment. The dust on the outside of the
ease will be unconsciously rubbed off by |
the wearer, but when the watch is’
re
uss
remain there. The ofl will change. |
It will become thickened by the dust, |
that eannot be kept out of the best clos-
ing case. The dust will work like
emery, and grind the surfaces of the |
pivots of the train. The best of move-
ments will be spoiled if this require.
ment is neglected. Fven after being
cleaned and put in order they will not
recover their former exaciness. Many
times it has been observed that a watch
ran well for years, and that it was un-
reliable after having been cleaned.
The reason is to be found in the fact
that the pivots and their thick oil fit
of time several |
and their clean oil do not fit the same
jewels, — Providence Journal,
-——
Mra, Custer.
Concerning the brave and beautiful
to be known, as the wife of the great
cavalry leader General Custer, a curres-
She spends most of her time in New
York, earning ber living Ly writing for
I recall her when she
was a beautiful young girl, known to
3 Bacon, She was
the daughter of Judge Bacon, of Mon-
, and long before she was of
age was one of the most popular girls
in the Wolverine State. i he name of
Custer is still revered by the old
soldiers, especially those who live in
Michigan, where he is looked upon as
the real hero of the late war.
Mra Custer is almost as mach sd-
mired ss ber illustrious husband, After
she marriel the general she was nearly
always by bis side. For two years she
valise in band, waiting to go to the
front. She was always the first woman
in camp after a battle, and wonld
have been delighted to have followed ber
gallant husband in his impetuous onsets
upon the enemy. She never seemed to
know what fesr waa, and many times
ut herself in great peril. She was in
ichmond two days before her husband
reached there, and almost before the
sound of the guns had ceased to
reverberate abont the confederate capi-
tal Just after the surrender, when her |
hnsband came up from Nottaway Court
House to take her to his headquarters, he |
remarked, ‘that it looked pretty bad for |
a general to be beaten into Richmond |
bv his wife, after he bad been trying for |
four years to get there first.” i
Mrs Custer has a great many relics |
of the war, left her by her husband and |
given to her by different officers of the
army. Besides posscesing the first flag |
of truce the confederates brought into
our lines, as the beginning of Lee's sur- |
render, she has the flag of truce carried |
by her husband into the confederate |
lines. She also has much valuable data |
about the cavalry arm of our service |
that has never yet been given to the
blie. It is really a pity that a fair
ry of this branch of the service has
not yet been written, or even seri-
ously contemplated. i was pleased to
earn that she 1s getting a good income
rom her books and other writings
A Raliroad on Tree-Tops.
It may wot be generally known, but
it is nevertheless a fact, that in Bonoms
County, Cal, there exists an original
and suecessful piece of original en-
neering snd building that is not to be
ound in the books. In the upper part
named, near const,
seen an aotual resd-bed in the
tree-tops. Betweea the Cli Mills
and Stuart Point, where road
orosses deep ravine, the trees are
sawed off on a level with the surround-
ing hills and the timbers and ties laid
on the stumps,
In the centre of the ravine mentioned
two huge redwood trees, standing side
form a substaatial sn
ta have been
seventy-five feet above
This natural tree
considered one of the wonders
Golds and for safety and
a bridge framed
may be
Our Fashion Letter
— a
The signs of Spring proclaim them-
selves on every side, and in no diree-
tion are they more pronounced than in
the Spring toilets, Among these,
laids find & prominent place, they are
indeed the “Lions” of the season, not
only in wool goods but in beautiful
failles, and even in richer silks.
Sleeves of different material from the
body of the garment will still be worn,
but not of velvet. They uppear in
plaids, peking and in delicate embroid-
eres, Corsages remain invisibly closed,
ustyle, which isvery pretty and effective,
as it affords so many varied ways of
draping. A few gathers at the waist
line, firmly held, give an appearance
of slenderness and grace to the form.
With lighter materials it will be very
difficult to wear, gracefully, the cling-
ing costumes, which met with so much
favor in the winter. But there will be
nothing found more elegant than these
costumes, the drapery raised slightly
over the lower skirt, showing on its
edge trimming of an original design.
In every day costumes the shades are
neutral, sufficiently clear, but in the
scale of grays, beiges and mastics,
Stripes are employed with good effect;
for example, a costume of brown and
apricot-colored silk has the skirt in the
semble reed pipes, the front is on the
bias with a long redingote tab on the
left side, the corsage is draped and
crossed and the sleeves cut on the bias
This is a very
original use of pekin, which we shall see
we shall also see innumerable yokes
with invisible fastenings: sometimes
they are of material different from that
of the dress, but, if the dress istrimmed
with embroidery the yoke should be
made of the same embroidery. Oum
can hardly believe how many embroid-
rll styles are employed.
for yokes, sleeves, epaulettes, fronts of
vests, cuffs, belts ete.
ments for this season.
for traveling or Carriage wear are very
long. For street wer, we have coquett-
ish little mantles displaying the entire
and light ornamentation of silk. Jack-
ets remain in undisturbed possession of
the fleld. Still, even here there is ev1-
dence of a desire for a little more variety.
Thus, one jucket has a short embroid-
ered vest in the front, while from the
hips back there are long cost tails bang-
the middle.
For the promenade, black stockings
or those with stripes and plaids are
worn and shoes with patent
Lips.
Hats are either very large or very
small, some have an extent of brim that
can scarcely enter acarriage door. while
others are so small and close as to add
scarcely anything to the size of the
wearer s head, Liey are made of fancy
straw or pleated lace. ’
ieather
transparent hats under which the hair,
Lightly frizzed, shows like a vaporous
tissue. The eapotes are veritable noth-
the hair to be seen; a small hat for the
demi-sesson has a crown of gold passe-
menterie or embroidery, around which
is draped a turban of the crepe de Chine
Qa
muslin, or Malines tulle, the whole
light enough to be carried away bya
puff of wind,
rule, or arbitrary fashion, for dressing
the hair; each ope is at liberty to ar-
range her coiffnre according to her
countenance,
ty face has been rendered posi‘ively
uziy by a foolish adherence to the so
air. Smooth bands of hair are com-
with all the features. Ladies usually
wear a pin with jeweled head or an an-
cient poignard with a fine blade of gold,
in their back ha r in order to keep the
bonnet in place; young girls, however,
wear simply a beautiful pin of gold or
tortoise shell. Yet we see jewels in
scattered con-
fosedly in the hair, a fashion of which
the least that can be said is, —it is very
questionable. Frrice Lestan,
Nature as an Amateur
grapher.
Photo~
A curious piece of marble was lately
found in New Mexico on a river near
It is a slab of Mexican marble about
its surface is protured a beautiful moun-
tain landscape, said to be an exact re-
roduction of the scenery on the side
of the valley opposite where the quarry
is located. The picture would appar-
ently seem to be tue result of a singular
arrangement of the veiniogs and mot
tlings of the marble; but the fact that
the scene represents the river and oliffs
adjacent, with their most remarkable
features accurately reproduced, leads
those who have seen the stone to infer
that the picture was photographed
upon the marble when it was in a plas-
tie condition, by the action of the sun's
a But Nature seems to be more
skilled in photography than we are.
When the sun shines on hey murbieths
picture appears in natural colors, as i
an artist had painted it, and perfect in
all its detail. A workman prospecting
for onyx, found the curious bit of stone
which is such an evidence of the exis
tence of much yet unknown to usin the
arcans of Nature
~The new trotting ascociation at St,
Paul, Minn,, has completed its organi.
ration and fled its charter, To dis
Suguish it clearly from the senior as
sociation it js c«lled the Minnesota
Deity ing Club, i a rasutive com»
m id at once a
$25 000 club-houss
bay horse, by Volunteer,
dam Godiva, by Godfrey's Patchen,
weeks , bot the fact was not
HORSr NOTES
—%heridan will tap the drum at the
Memphis weeting.
— Jockey Clayton will ride for W. W.
Withers’ Brookdale stable.
~The Memphis spring meting will
begin soon, and last ten days
— Jerome Whelpley has Bertha (2.25)
and six ethers at Fleetwood Park.
— El Ric Rey's attendants say that
it 15 not true that the colt has turned
TOArer,
—There is some talk of a match Le-
tween Cleon, 2.23, and Charley (Gibson,
2.214.
~The new Minnesota Trotting Club,
of Bt. Paul, Mign., will build a $25,000
club house,
We are pleased to state that Mr,
James E, Cooper is recovering from bis
| recent attack of pneumonia.
—There are three Derby colts in
traimmng at thé JLoulsville track,
| namely, Prince/ Fonso, Grayson =und
| Outright. !
| —Sultana, Mr, August Belmont’s fa-
mous mare. basifoaled a bay filly by
| St, Blaise, Thi is a full sister Ww
| Padishaw,
— There is a gipat deal of discussion
going on as to whither Gorgo will start
in the Brooklyn or'pe reserved for the
Suburban, {
~—Clara, the ingported brood-mare
which foaled Cartapn and Reclare, re-
cently foaled at Eglenheim a bay colt
by Dry Menopole,
~Sam Dryaut Bas hopes that Char-
lotte Cushman, the sister to Proctor
Knott, will this year fuifill the promise
of ber early 2-year-old form,
—The dates of the Grand Circuit
meeting of Charmer Oak Driving Paik.
Hartford, will be August 26, 77, 28 and
20,
~The Great American stakes for
1801 38 announced by the Brooklys
Jockey Ciub, It is for 2-year-olds
| (mow yearlings), and will be werth $20 -
UU, the club guaranteeing it
—Charles Littlefiell’s bay colt Jubal,
4, vy Jils Johpson, damm Avoca, was
| scratched from the Brooklyn handicap
recently, and he was delared oul of the
Suburban,
—There seems to be the greatest
| nuanimity of opinion that Proctor
| Knott is wonderfully well 1 the Sub-
j urban at 117 pounds; but there is
| withal a doubt in the minds of many of
| the talent whether he will stand Gain.
ing.
| —The Philadelphia Driving Park
should give a day for road-horve troi-
iting, to follow those of the Belmont
{ Driving Club on May 14. May 1f
might suit, They could no doubt then
get the syne class of horses that wil
| trot at Belmont,
| —dockey Barnes, who arrived at New
| Orleans recently from California, saye
| E. J. Baldwin has twenty-feur horses
{ in traaing, including the Emperor of
i Norfolk. The general opinion was
that the latter had broke down year
before last,
—Reports from Memphis state that
Ed. Corrigan’s Riley, who is the most
| prominent of the candidates for the
Kentocky Derby, 18 in great shape,
| and that on the morning of March 27
| he was speedo] in company with Pinkie
T., covering a mile in 1. 43
— With Dradenburgh’s bh g. Me-
| Leod. Condon’s ch, g. Charley Finch,
Ward's bay geldin: and another not
yet named, it should be a good race at
| Belmont Course on May 14. It would
be a still better race, however, with
| Daniel Strouse’s br. g. Hiram Miller in
it,
—James Galway, the owner of the
| Preakness Stable, who was in such poor
| health recently that be meditated in
selling Lis racers and going to frer-
| many, is in greatly improved health.
In fact, he 18 fully restored to his old
vigor.
—Judson H. Clark, Genesee Valley
| Stock Farm, Elmira, N. Y., has sold to
| Hazeler Broa, South Dakota, the Lay
| colt Macey Medium, by Macey, dam
| Alice Medium, 2294, by Bappy Me-
| mum. Mr. Clark bas also sold to Will
| McMacken, of Tennessee, the black
| colt, Elmira boy, by Pocahontas Boy.
Tie members of the associations
| comprising the southeastern circuit
| should begin now to select their judges
in order that they shall have time to
post themselves to rules, eic. They
| should also agree upon some good and
| reputable man for starting juige—one
| with all the necessary requirements,
who would act througtout the circuit,
This would beihe fair thing to do
— As the Eixton Stock Farm, Eik-
ton, Md., the bay mare Myrtie, by
Rienzi, dam by Americ .n Clay, foaled
a bay colt by Merit, a full brother to
Maud Messenger (2.16).) April Sth
the bay mare Mavore foaled a bay colt
by Sar Duroc (2.258), Mavore is by
Messenger Chief, dam by Lyle
Wilkes. April 1uth, Mare, vecord 2.42
to pole, by Mappy Medium, dropped «
foal to Star Duroc, record 2.25.§
~We are in receipt of a telegram
from Colonal RK. 8 Strader informing
us that Percy Talbot, of Lexington,
Ky. purchased from George W.
Wise, ot Paris, Ky., the black stal-
lion
youngest sons of the famous George,
having been foaled in 1850. He is by
Georwe Wilkes, dam by American
Clay, 3 dam by Cassius M. Clay, 21.