Y——— CURRENT FASHIONS, 1f the few days of warm weather, which that much abused gentleman “the clerk of the weather” has lately vouchsafed ug, are a specimen of what we may expect during the coming sum. mer, then sorely we bave no time to Jose in the preparation of our summer wardrobes. With all varied ma- terials now in the marked, this ought not to be a difficult task. All the stores are fliled with such beautiful stocks of goods of «very de- soription, that one had be'ter not ven- Sure within their portals until she has a very definite idea of what she needs and wants. For afternoon wear French challis will be very popular; these dresses to be cool should be lined with sateen aud trimmed with ribbons $0 match the color of the flower. Some modistes trim them with velvet ribbon, but this takes from them the cool look which is sc desirable in a summer gown. A new fancy is to have the yoke, sleeves and skirt ruffies of these dresses of colored silk; those of light grounds have ecru lace-like embroidery for the yokes, cuffs and skirt borders. Black challis, having colored figures, are combined with black satin and colored erepe, or black lace and the soft be- coming crepe. Cotton dress goods show an almost Oriental richness of color, exceeding any thiog seen in the same goods for some time. In plain chambrays and bordered zephyrs, the tints are for the most part delicate, the varieties of gray, heliotrope and lavender being un- usually prolific and bLeantiful, indicat ing that these colors will be among the most fashionable this Summer. French batiste has almost nsurped the place of sateen in popular favor, while French percale which varies but little from year to year in pattern, shows this sea- son many new tints. The latest style of making these cot- ton gowns precludes the possibility of their ever being luundried, and wh | ever invented the fashion must surely have been ignorant of the meaning of the word *‘laundry.” Instead of fan-pieated, back breadth, many of the new skirts are simpiy| gathered, while others are arranged 1n | 8 cenire, triple box-plait; others again’ have the back laid in two single box-| plaits, | All black lawns or batistes for] mourning wear are trimmed with gros- | grain ribbon as a belt, bretelles, collar, | and cuffs. Black and white designs are trimmed in the same manner and are equally as appropriate. Lined gingham and lawn waists may be point- ed, back and front. Colored lawns have round skirts fivished with rufiles ten inches deep, the sleeves full at the shoulders, and at the top of the deep] enfls of embroide ry. A deep ruffle of | embroidery at the lower edge of the waist gives it a coat appearance, there- vers and eo llar being of edging and the belt, of ribbon. f A very light-weight, wool for | summer wear chould be found in every lady's wardrobe; this, worn at proper seasons will do much towards keeping cotton gowns in wd order. Another item which is often forgotten by] those who cannot afford the luxnry of maid 1s the fact, that all articles wearing apparel last twice as I and keep nimost to the last their fresh | look, if properly brushed and ecare- fully folded or bung up when taken] off i The prettiest trimmings for zephyr ginghams and batistes are of open work | embroideries or light, fine, linen lac a, | These trimmings, form jacket fronts, | deep basques, entire sleeves, or the | uff of the sleeve only. Bretelles and | Fobu rho ed pieces of lace and : broidery are employed; also point | belts and balf-high peasants wai-ts for | a finish to dressy morning costumes, Later on the new and soft twilied gilks with their charmingly npovel de-| signs, and the delicate wash silks, will] be all the rage, with trimmings of Niv- | jt lace which Messrs. Redfern & Co. rave just imported from St. Peters burg. ‘I'rimming laces are again very fashionable and can be found of ali] widths and devices, and very beautiful dress-nets ean be purchased to match nearly every pattern of edging or flouneing luce. These laces are oddly or gracefn ly di posed on skirt and bodice: they form coat fronts, lashop or mntton-leg sleev. 8, collars, cuffs and points; and, prettiest of all, they are mace into dsiuty cburch-capes for country wear, exactly after the fashion of tie cloth cupes now worn. For mountsin and yachting dresses, serge ws still the favorite material, and the plainer the skirt the better; skirts for bouting purposes are made narrower | than «ver, bat the jackets worn with | then are made longer, and have flap pockets and deep gauntlet cuffs; the sh rt worn with this jacket, disappears jute a silk Swiss belt, A practical part of the toilette which is often overlooked is the petticoat. For these garments silk is the most ex- 1 dress $e 80 a of i i {11 y Wiis Dy ermg- pensive material plain taffeta, surah, and glace taffeta are used with a shell AY No. healthful, cleanly and pleasing for street wear, besides being far more durable than those of other material. The prettiest stockings for evening wear are of silver gray silk with open work fronts—in harmony with the fash- ionable silver kid shoes. and eardinal, gold and gray, mignon- ette-greon and cardinal, pale blue and yellow are pretty combinations. Bronze favor, but the newest stock- brides ara ribbed white A. R L 15 still in ings for silk. of No. 1028, Faxcy SBgimnr Axp tt, lored surah, the botto square and monnted erm. broidered white talle. Embroidered silk decorate the {tom and stn top of t Ob, Bkirt SLEEVES, Skirt of pale m m out in over a deep Hounes MIZE tabs of designs in pale green of the tae bw aller placed at the e slashes a green 8'lk and broeaded silk, The back of the skirt is of plain silk; the the bottom edge of which is ent in shallow seallops, is em- broidered with a fine vine pattern in old go'd silk. Knots of old gold-color- ed velvet ribbon are placed at the up- per point of each seallop. Beu«ath the scallops is se: a flonnee of white lace with the edge embroidered in gold silk. i ¢. Pompadonr sleeve of camel’s hair with deep waistband of silk open at the bottom. Battons and a narrow gold braid ornament the wristband, d. Tha suitable for Sum mer dresses or any thin material. The top is of figured founlard shirred three times, lengthwise, thus forming puffs. The lower part is made but rather © in plain ot of ribbon is place sleeve in two small very loug foulard. the inner arm “, Close «Jeeve ‘rom the O%6 d on seam, at the wrist, n failie open in the sh alder is filled with coutre I to the el. a gui ing the lower edge of which is # with fine gold-brad. pel ferent shades with light foliage. In the back is placed a large knot of green velvet, om «Salmon Caught in Wheels A novel mode of taking salmon 1 oy means of wheels, The wheels thus used are very similar in appearance sad con. struction to those of stern wheel river steamers, and they are the cheapest and most effective methods yet devised. for catching their finny prey. The wheel consists of nine arms ate tached to an iron shaft, and these arms are stroogly netted in groups of threes at their outmost ends. The shaft is sur. rounded by a cone of wood, whose face or widest part is on the port side. The narrow part of the cone, or its apex, ls at the end of a wooden trough. The wheel iz pivoted on a gallows frame, and can be raised or lowered out of and into the water at will by mcaus of block and tackle, The papdlewliet: metholl of lishing can only be employed in the ragids pf the tiver. When ia use the wheel is sub. merged about one-third of its dismeter, snd is slowly revolved by tho action of the water. The salmon encounters the wheels in swimming up stream, and sre by them lifted out of the water, thrown against these cones and thence slide inte the troughs, down which they glide into the receptacles prepared for them. four hours. — Mail and Erpress. #Hot Milk as a Soperifio, while still hot, before going to bed, as a better sleep inducer than all the opiates on the pharmacopmis—as better sven than a clear conscience, which isa’t very good ethics, you know, but which may be very good wedical doctrine notwith standing, At any rate, hls explanstion Cherefor The hot fluid taken into the stomach brings about an increased is a solid one. activity of the Liood vessels of the stom ach—a slight temporary congestion, which relieves the overcharged blood so induces a To Hive vestels in the brain, and 1 Bt this remedy its utmost potency, however, patarsl and refreshing ep. oo food should be taken with it, not even a tiny wafer, and the liquid should be sipped as hot as it cas be borne. Diroit Free Prem, - a ———————— The Telephone in Mining. &. F. Browne, speaking of elec hat miders were qui alive to the advantages offered by tl mountains, The telephone enabled the and day. When difficalt grdund hours in communicating the necessity. clioes. The touch of the button tools of men afe coming up, sod what lovel they sre coming from. Another sigoal tells us if timber, wegges, tools or the foreman is equired below... Formerly, when & bell rope from five hundred to one thousand feet in length was used it was 80 heavily counter-weighted or beld by such a counter spring that it took an able-bodied man with a six.-foo? rua to sound the gong above. Wants were only known by tickets attached to the bucket or skip or after the toilsome climbing of m ts to the surface. Now the tool *‘gippers” and the ‘powder-monkey” are the only traveling men in the ground be- low, remainder of the shift stays at the level until relieved. When the fact that the human voice casuot be beard over owe hundred feet yader ground is considered the advantages of electric communication for uiuing putposss, be- come manifest. Chicago News. Use of Oats’ Whiskers. The long hairs on the side of a cat's face are of touch. They are at- tached to a bed of fine glands under the skin, and each of these .halre is con. nected with the nerves of lp. The contact of these whiskers h ény surrounding object is thus felt most distinctly by the asimal, although hairs themselves are insensible. They stand out on each side Of thé lion as Brom polat to polat they are equal to t to are the width of the animal's vl, we imagine, therofore, a lion stealing through light - a covert of wood in an im 24 frat at outs soe the use , A NEFARIOUS ART. Se The Professional Pickpocket and Wow He Relieves His Victims of Valuables, “There is no class of artists,” said a renowned thief, “who<in their calling aro as doxterous as pickpockets. This is due to a double incontive. Notonly doos your pickpocket find a Lait for ef- added spur of a fear of failure, any man, and failure meansagreatdeal more. A vocation im which tho slightest of life, will ever bo apt to have a degree of expertness In its followers not press ent in more reputable and safor avenues of trade. hand must be as complete in make-up and accomplishments as llerrmann's, and as strong as steel while light as down. Out of the vast army of human. ity who aro soldiers of the shadows only one-fourth of ono per cent can or do becomo pickpockets. These form the nobility of thieves, and are erenced by the burglar, the fooipad, the sneak, and the ‘con’ man as of a higher class than they. The practico of a pickpocket while not realiy at work is as constant as toast of somo famed pro- fessor of the viol or harp. lle keeps pace with the procession. does some jeweler invent a new fasten. ing Yor diamond pins or studs than these mon of finest touch devise the motion which evades its purpose. “Tho chief object of a pickpocket after cortainty is speed. Ho can not dally with his victim by the hour. What he does is to be over in a flash. Speak- ing of pins and studs, there has never been a fastening so complex but the expert thieves could defeat it in 3 mo- tion. They do in their business as fine work as any Houdin, and the thief him. self could not analyze or explain its de tail His powers of execution bave gone far beyond his power of percep tion or relation **A pickpocket consults his own nervy. { ous condison constantly. ever has such a as this aristocrat of the outlaws, does not feel right ho won't ‘work.” When he does, I've known ono on the impulse to take a car on somo well. dressed and wealthy street, and seating himself side to the window, survey tho | shirt front of every would-be passenger as the car came up. The moment ono stewed a diamond ir linen or cravat the thief would burry platform to got off. Ho we mARCUY- ers 80 as 10 meet his man on the step o the car. They would ¢ thiel's hat—a stiff silk his left hand timag with her nerves If he d right, whick its owner tho newt sparkles, an hat in the oth gy the thief sl ——— Gutla-Percha is Disappearing there exists a serious he extermination of the plast or ba is obitai hich gutta. per 3 18 Ue i in many y rely in the manufacture of submarina “ # ae it is capable of susteining its insulating when under water fepths ie] : mn fact th insulation of Gutta-percha sctuslly im- w qualitics an 3 t great «< under water. The disappearance of the curious tree fromm which gutta percha is of world-wide importance, yet it would appear from a report recently made to the French Academy of Sciences that we are actually threatened with such a calamity. Mr. Serulias, 3 French scientist, spent three years in Malay and studied the acquiring a complete knowledge of ils patursl history and physology, but be reports that there is absolutely no method in the manner employed by the nativesin robbing the tres of its sap, and thst no effort 1s made to cultivate and propagate s0 valushle a member of the plant world, The oatives adopt the wholly barbar. in order to extract the gum; this each tree only gives one yield, sod is then dead forover. No wonder gutta-percha is rapidly getting to be worth its weight in silver, — Electrical Review. —— I —— The Shah's Little Favorite. Meli Djeck (Little Sparrow), the favor. ite of the Shah of Persia, is hardly more than a pigwy in size, but his authority in the royal palace is uodisputed. He has the rank of a (General 1a the army, keeps an establishment thet costa the BSheh pearly $750,000 a year, and has horses and & military band at his Saposal. He trata the royal Princes as hie equals, and the latest rumor is that he has been be. trothed to the Shah's youngest daaghter, The hoy a the son of a Burd, who occupied a humble position in the palace, Lut is now & maa of authority. — Chicago Tino A IO 5 SR AS Maybe Land, Beyond where the marshes are dank aad wide Ts a ladder of red and gold, Where the sun has sunk in the shifting tile Of the clouds that the night elves mold It lends to the portals of Maybe Land, Whose castles and groves we see, On a vapor bank eer the mists expand To darken the windswept lea *Tis (bere that our wishes are all made true, Where frowns may not mar (be brow, Where storms never mutier the whole year through, Where Then in transformed to Now, And only the dreamer who idly halts With a pencil and brush io land, Can travel the path to the mystic vaults | And the treasures of Maybe Land. Whiner Jokaaos » Wabpgion Pest { { | i i | | 1 BCILENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL. Pasfebostd pulleys are made in Gen many. In bats the heart is aided by rhythmis contraction of veins in the wings. In Belginm the white insulators om The welding of the spokes of metallid wheels to the hubs by means of elec. tricty has recently been proposed and a process patented. The submarine war boat has led to the dying of balloons from war ships. A coming fo the st’ack. It has been proposed to niko the iy per half of war balloons of very th steel and the lower portion of ordinary balloon material, the whole so constructed as to hold hydrogen instead of ordisary ges. Data of the trials of three large steams ers, showing the comparative of large and small screws, show that propellers of small diameter have in éach case proved the more economical snd effec tive, both increasing the speed snd de. creasing the coal cousumption. Stretton, the eminent English engineer, eays that a locomotive of the present type can run only the least trifle faster than eighty miles au hour. A higher e is prevented by the resistance of the air, the friction, sod the fact of the back pressure in the cylinders because of the impossibility of getting the exhaust steam out fast enough A deposit of sand bas been discovered in King County, Washington, which is reported by experts at Pittsburg and San Francisco to be superior t, any other found in the United States for the manu. facture of glass, Appliances have been ordered from the East, and it is the in. tention of the discoverer to utilize the find as soon as they arrive. Modern methods are changing con. tinually towards simplicity and rapidity in the smallest things. The Pennsyle vans Railroad has introduced the meas. urement of oil by weight in its supply department. Asn odd number of quarts can be run off much more quickly by weight than by lading. Oil averages sbout seven pounds to the gallon, It 4s now proposed to utilize the lig. nite coal, which lies beneath the wheat fields of Minuesota and the Dakotas and which can be bought for §2 per ton, and to turn back into the fire the gases which it throws off. Under this arrangement there is no smoke, the heat Is greater and the fuel lasts longer. This can be dove im furnaces, ranges, or cooking sioves., The investigations of fire ruins show that porous terra cotta bricks best resist fire, 83 well as water and frost; after these in fire.resisting qualities come the various concretes and burned city work. In the most approved building work now in vogue the iron part is incased in terra cotta, tile or brick work in roof, floor snd tile construction, sod the hollow tiles are faced with vitreous tile, slate or any good weath~r-proof costing, or with a single thickness of brick. Iron and steel work, incased in fire-proof materials, is just mow very much io favor, Bravely Dolled the Caterpillar, A veleran who had been through balf a dozen campaigns, and was very parUeular about what he ate, was ine viled out to a grand dinner party. He ext almost directly opposite the host. ess, and was painfally conscious that every move he made could be observed by her. Suddenly, at the height of the festivities, the veteran came across a caterpillar in his salad. A fartive glance at the hostess disclosed the fact that she, too, bad discovered the em barrassing circumstance, It was a was equsl to the occasion. Without changing a muscle he gathered up the The look of grati- tude which he received from Lis host ess a few minutes Jater warmed hi heart. In due time the story leaked “Do you take me for a man who would spoil a dinner party for a imma Tho Snow Sheds of the Rockies. Few persons have any idea as to the extent to which snow sheds have to be wsed in the west by the railroads which traverse the Rocky and Sie:ra moun. tains. The building of these snow sheds and Keeping them in repair form a large item of expense to the railroads crossing these mountains, but if it were not for these sheds many of (hese roads would be inoperative during the greater portion of the winter on account of snow blockades, snow slides, ele. The snow sheds of the Southern Pacific railroad in the Sierra Nevada mountains alons represent an outlay of fully $3,000,000 to the company, and aboat 2,000,000 feet of jumber were required for their ercclion. It cost about $2,000,000 to build them in the first place and about $1,000,000 to keop them in repair during the past twenty yoars. This is an item of ox Jonas tua the Suen roads do nat ve to contend with —[ Atlanta Cow
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