FOR THE LADIES, AD GEAR Womany pretty universal com bination of color. such as dark blue and brown, red and yellow or blue and black These are every hats, the up with soft C casions, For the little shirred bonnets rushing of lace under hats trimmed with flowers ¢ 1 Ty tie PHONY hool i" tay ws being m de for tots with capes,and a the brim La or fir y # pa AANCY ir rowns dress o there are full Aree small field Ty shapes of the much l York Recor TION lo and Pol Silverton wi A good look lar young | being teased club for n “I'll marr secret wife.” Th club Ea used ballot The were nine on a ind result ri One i i VO i ul ¥ i CROrY the pop ] CAsuy Bew Yery better coat-* that ne Natur A sy ti an chiffon sompict DANE Woven w al ink gellow str novel } Panan slight black appliqued rOown ribbons, game cole combination of inl reeen raw ich is lined geranium-pink vels wile mauve ibn rash Leslie's Yeekly. straw, 8 fea with with trimmed with TS Teaching ACHING MILLINERY millinery is a thriving busi ness, The demand for milliners to go from house to house and work by the day or hour at rates which economical folks can afford to pay is at present greater than the supply. Several millia ery schools run by modistes who origin ally learned their trade abroad have pupils. The girls who learn arc from cighteen to twenty-five years of age. They give three months or there abouts to diligent practice under train ing. Some of them fail entirely, for establishing patronage The house-to-house New Yor Advertiser, FARHION NOTES, s and diamonds are more fashion- any other combination in jewelry, A beautiful ind rose pink bro ile is a recent order A hat bunches of Ince, with large & Nusans, 1s prett V heavy lace show with beads never in the went history of made i onside moire fod with bet , Hed with being over ruff + v hich makes it unnecessary clee to waist of rive f th a dressy appearance Scoteh Plan of Making the Eye Clear, French 1 to na attention the ving children =o as in them quickness of percep } power of ppreciating at a objects in every In tra ining the mind of hisson, iC tice of M. Houdin to a« unpuny him to some business street, pan and, pincing the bov befor a shop win dow, all one glance at its con Th the window was asked to describe what he had seen In the earlier of these ob ject lessons it was a diffienlt matter to remember more than one article ina well. filled window, but by degrees the power of perception ly devel oped that it became possible for him to aame not only the various goods shown, frat ten HOY i 1 became so acute details to color, fabric, and minute ns At the Allen Glenn's Bchool, Glasgow, Scotland, the principal has arranged an fn her can be a milliner. Many, however, succeed. When they are equipped they find circles of employers waiting for then, and they go from house to house I'ke the peripatetic dressmaker, doing up the family millinery by the day. [It is an immense saving when the results are satisfactory, for they chr ¢ $2 to $4 for time in which to concoct four or five $30 or $70 creations, nnd some nf the more | dividual effort in observation and com. prehension and in verbal or pictorial ex ression., fed that is made to revolve, On this board are placed some articles, on one side of which some letters dots and fig- ures are painted, At asignal the board revolves, and the pupils must brace them selves up to grasp the words, note the figures, or count the dots, After gradu. ated preliminary exercises of this kind the pupils are trained to catcha sentence, un up a» sum of several digits, or On paper the various markings on the board, If a boy cannot wake or pre I he can have all repre. Rent ure a re volving board, the benetit of the trick by of boy, who turn in his hands wooden ball upon which the letters and figures are drawn, Other objects may substituted for the ball, and in a short the ass another slow ly He time the will be astonished at the boy practice, AN INTERRUPTED TALE. Hovrs Some Wives Listen to Their Husbands. thing more than another t man rnashi- tearing -o el into Hr the ' OF s to attempt to HI AN {CCon to which aske d in the said that ou've mae am half hour, just because | Jack Burroughs said that -[ do not w= Mr i tell v dinner «0 painfu { Retires iy Capes an afi 10 Know what cannot room, sent to my for vou to eat with Botanical Freaks, f A whole book and one of too. might be written the wonders of the world Even Mala yan know that it is possible for a plant or a flower to be a real oddity, large Rize, on vegetable the RAVALes them by a name which signifies ““Wonder- flower and a flower It ix a globular parasite, about three feet across, and bursts into a dream of love. The “swonder-wonder” is of known flower, the Victoria regina of Ceylon, which is five feet across, India, the home of serpents, has what a species of climber which twines them to death, “The butcher plant,” on®* of the car. nivorous vogetables, is found only in the near vicinity of Wilmington, N. ©, -- (St. Louis Rapublic There is a firm of London opticians whe nalko a specialty of supplying spectacles for OTHOs. NOTES AND COMMENTS, | February they experie i i ACCORDING to the census bulletin the on | largest the Mins bales with Tue total amount of money in the United States is §1,665,390,000, or a per capita circulation of $25.62. The total | is divided into $687.000.000 in and $422,500, 000 The us 810.57 in gold, cotton producing Mississippi riv Washington Js j 185090 was RT 0292 Miss, , comes next gold, ilver in upeovered note di vind and $6.50 iu paper AT the recent opening of the Institute of Homeopathy at Washir I « the President boasted tl 31,194 patients treated during ior thie 34 | ie r ta hi . ing tos ow crossed the kind his time in of tr but, needless unlimited what may be best des and is culiarly American he himself puts it a man laugh I've got there is a which IRL, i« gifted with an ribed idence, art of him! sublime assurance must force victims system from his has, of ticular ron dependent on be content with what he direction. Our cir not hime for his Yi {ree COUurse, sot ite he is has to in that Vage, as passes and can got Some prospectors who bave just re turned to San Francisco from an ex pedition in of a “lost mine” supposed to be situated in the Lieart of the Colorado desert (which, of Course, they did not find) came across some in teresting relies of a bygone age. One of these was an old fort some distance north of Indian Wells, which is near the border line of Mexico. From the pottery picked up in the ruins it was evidently of Aztec origin. Near Sackett's Wells the explorers found the ribs and prow of | an old boat half buried in the sand. How it'came there is a mystery, since no stream of water flows within hundreds of miles of the spot. In the neighbor. hood «of Cabasos Mountain a shallow | cave containing the skeletons of ten Indians was discovered. The Lagunas, a local tribe, have a superstitious dread of “his opening, because the Indians whose bones are tacre deposited were all killed by a stroke of lightning. While the prospectors were searching the desert uorty of Mountain Springs in the end of BOAT h another time, while He suite ri i open almost under th OLLA PODRIDA, A i A bundle than a bud half a make one (ira fa ine ong Philadelnhi Philadelphia The COmmon « IMICTORCOE prepared Iv and mas be The Can tongues Some business thus ted may gathered from the fact 1880 100 000 000 transa be ago fresh beef were canned that as long unds of in this country, industry i veloped To j nothing of the amount consumed by our own people, thie export of beef for 1885 reached the of dol four over nn since which time th 3 H nas very JArgeIy AV canned valuation miilion large and fourth Good Houseke oping about one lars How Ir Feria 10 Farr. —The experi ences of many persons who have under gone all the sensations of death by fall have been collected by Prof. Heim, of Berlin, who finds that the feelings are by no means such as the witnesses of the ac cidents imagine, The victim retains his knowledge of what is going on, suffers no pain or paralyzing terror, but has his aroused to marvelous In a few brief moments his long forgotten, many of them-are compressed into the seconds of his rush through the air to the earth. Then a gentle ringing fills his ears. He hears his body strike, but does not feel it, and the rapid visions of the seemingly long time of his fall The retained consciousness, is that no pain is felt. In a fall So the Alps, at the end of which he was still perfectly conscious, Mr. Whymper bounded from rock to rock with absolutely no pain; and those who have had limbs broken by falls, or on the battlefield, have heen unable to tell the Cg affected until after trying to use t | AROUND THE HOUSE, with a soft rag dippec Antidotes for Snake \ terrible About Curiosities Amoer, It is a cur r exhibit exami OI th 4 1 white REFER when Cros or and exami 200 to ned 500 i opagn Ap Pearan (114 SOAP bubbles tained in these mis fresh amber be exposed for some minutes it» ishes in appear that this peculiar fossilived resin will admit of water diffusing through its substance, Another oddity in this connection (tak ng the above into cone fact that the insects found in it are always perfectly dry, —« {8t. Louis Republic, woerht i A Bone Collector, s While the Chinese seem very anxious to live in America they do not like to die here and have a horror of being burted away from the resting places of their ane cestors. Moy Hoe, a Chinaman of San Francisco, has taken advantage of this feeling in his countrymen, and does a lerge business in collecting the remains of his defunct countrymen and shipping them for burial in their native soil. For this end he visits all the principal cities of the country and has penctrated even to the mining camps where Chinese are employed. He says that the has shi Ia many hundred bodies to China, — yune,