FOR THE LADIES, A FIVE THOUSAND DOLLAR Kiss, At a recent charity bazaar, given at the Princess d’Aremberg's residence in Vienna, Austria, one of the most beauti- ful stallholders was the Marchioness Pallaviccini. An English gentleman who was present offered to pay $3,000 to the charity if the marchioness would give him only one kiss. This she did, to the great joy of the onlookers. The kiss was paid for on the spot with a bank of England note,—[Chicago Herald. a ———— THE NEWEST JEWELRY, The latest fads in jewelry are little green frogs and tortoises made entirely of emeralds. Besides these there are lizards and serpents, A wild fowl on the wing is the newest design for a dia- mond brooch. The daintiest little brooches consist of three tiny birds carved in colored stones and perched on a gold or enamelled twig. Diamond or- naments for the corsage are made to represent bows and strands of ribbons. The bow is usually worn on the shoulder and the ribbons follow the curve of the low bodice.—[Detroit Free Press. CAPES OF LACE. Lace capes, fashioned much like the winter models, with velvet or jetted yokes and collars, have made their ap- pearance, like many other of the season's fashions, long before they are required. These capes are very handsome, indeed, especially those which are only garni- tured with expensive cut ist ornaments and fringes, Some costly French capes have yokes and collars of gold and jet net, dotted with cabochons, and a few models are lined throughout with rows of jetted galloon in stripes falling over the cape from the yoke.—[New York World. WOMAN IN JAPAN. Every fold of the dress, every turn of the sash, has its meaning in Japan. You can tell the sex of the tiniest baby by its garments, for the little girls have the brightest, gayest colors. Every woman is a walking biography of herself. You know by the dress, the coiffure, the sash her rank, her age, her position. The wife's dress differs irom the maiden’s and womanhood has its insignia of honor which other women may not wear. You might object to the dress eti- quette which betrays years in the ar rangement of the costume, but in Japan it is considered quite as much of a com- pliment to ask a woman her age as it would here be considered an impertin- ence, saying: ‘‘How old do you think!" —{Oak- land (Cal.) Echo. FEMININITY'S MANY BADGES, Women who meddle with the affairs of the world are beginning to wear as many badges to represent their orders as did the knights of old. The college woman has her class colors in ring or pin, and if in addition she be a colonial dame, she will probably wear a badge of blue, testifies to her ancestry. It is said that more women are proud to wear this badge than to display the modest little silver cross with the purple ribbon that belongs to the Daughters of the King. The women of the Federated Clubs have an order of pink and blue, and the mem- bers of the Isabella Society and the Women’s Relief Corps still another. A woman of great energy may also find time to wear on occasions the white ribbon of the Women's Christian Tem- perance Union sad the yellow of the female suffragists, and mourn that there are no more societies to demand her time. —[New York Post, A DRESS THIRTEEN HUNDRED YEARS OLD, The oldest dress in the world is prob- ably that described by a French traveler in Japan. It belonged to an Empress of Japan who lived in tue Thirteenth Cen- tury, and it has been kept all these oen- turies in atemple near Yokohama, where the priests sometimes exhibit it for a sufficient reward. It is kept in an old coffer, and it is shrouded in white silk. ‘The robe or robes, for there are seven of them, are described as a disphanous mass, crumbling at the edges with de. cay. The material is crepe or some filmy stuff, and the effect must be like that worn by the serpentine dancers. It is made with a long train, pagoda sleeves and a high collar like a Medicis cuff. ‘The upper layer was once white, and is now the color of ivory, embroidered with flying birds the size of crows, with dragon’s heads, green, blue and violet. ‘Then come seven layers of the silk mus- lin, yellow, blue, violet, old gold and green, on which seem sca st animals, all in flight. The seventh, which touches the body of the long dead empress, is violet embroidered with figures like phantoms. The embroidery on this wonderful robe is said to be as transparent as the gauze. The effect of the whole is smoke colored.—[ Washing. ton Post. ——— i THE ¥EW BODICES, a Jodi of taflete silks are y quite . are made with Brahe: or wide colts aud cuffs of Venetism guipure or Russian em. broidery; or w the skirt is trimmed with ruffies, edged with point d'esprit or Valenciennes lace, there is a deep in berthalike fashion, sigilarl with lace. Where this i ip effect is mot becoming, the aS i the caught » i Mon : on fall of guipure lace, in which the pattern was run with threads of gold. Swiss muslins and organdies are more suitable trimmed with ruffles than any. thing else, The fine dotted Swisses are especially pretty when finished with point d’esprit rutfles, while the sheer or- gandie is made in genuine old-time fashion with ruffles edged with Valen. ciennes and full waists and lace-edged berthas and trimmings of satin ribbon. —{ New York Tribune, FASHION NOTES, Serpents of silver coil around umbrella handles. Moonstone flowers with gold and | jeweled centers are shown, Hair ornaments that appear to be pop- | ular are large rings of gold through | which puss arrows of shell. | » i The latest hair-pins are of shell with | two long curved lines in diamonds fold. | ing back and terminating in whirls, A new hair-pin is tipped with a row of gold feathers. They form a curved ornament and are drawn and modeled with great perfection. The chrysoprase is green and in high the Prince of Wales | having recently bestowed it as a bangle | set in diamonds as a wedding present, Yellow is said to be a favorite shade | for children's dresses this summer, and | is especially becoming to those who have | dark hair and eyes, | Galloons and ribbons are among the | most stylish of skirt-trimmings, both | being frequently applied to the same | skirt. When used together they should | agree in color, Pale violet stockings are embroidered with black fleur de lis, and black ones | with tiny violets or miniature rosebuds. The street gown should not measare | over four and a half or five yards at the | bottom. It is close at the waist, Baby ribbon is much used for trim ming children’s dresses, The tiny loops | are ruched up so closely that actually miles of the ribbon are used on a gown, A child's party gown of cream colored bengaline is bordered with a ruche of this ribbon, over which falls a frill of fine blonde, headed by another ruche of | the baby ribbon. Grass linen and linen canvas are used with all materials except those of very light weight, for which crinoline or tar latan is preferred. Young ladies abroad are wearing in the | hair with evening dress a flat bow of | velvet corresponding in color either with | the gown or the trimmings. This bow | is put on wire covered with velvet and | curved to fit round the coils of hair at | the back. Sometimes the velvet is very finely wrought with gold, silver, jet or jewels, and it often serves as a back ground for some sparkling diamond or. naments, A pew capote is the Charlotte Corday | cap. It is a full crowned cap like that which bears the name of the famous French woman, A twist of black satin ribbon, with standing eads in front and perhaps a rose or jeweled aigrette, com- | this summer for an elaborate bonnet. The daintiest new trimmings are com. | posed of arabesques of suede leather on | a background of fine guipure lace or of | bands of gold canvas set thickly with spangles of vario-colored metals, The favorite shoe for travelers to the World's Fair will be a laced boot of rus. | set Russia leather or one of fine kid foxed | with patent leather. The cape which covers the waist line or a picturesque empire coat of tan cloth with miroir velvet trimmings, is the favo. rite wrap. Embroidery on footwear is more general and more elaborate than ever before, A | stylish cottage Oxford tie is shown of French kid, with close jet embroidery | on toe snd each side the instep. Some of the new bodices are finished | with deep collars, which cover the shoul. | der-seams and give the sloping effect to the shoulders now esteemed elegant, Pluck of an Opera Singer, DISTINGUISHED BY HAIR. Ita Color in Relation to the Pusults of Man. Dr. Deddoe tells us that there is a di- rect relation between men’s pursuits and the color of their hair. An unusual pro- portion of men with dark, straight hair enter the ministry; red-whiskered men are apt to be given to sporting and horse- flesh, while the tall, vigorous blonde men, lineal descendants of the Vikings, still contribute a large contingent to our trav- ellers and emigrants. The plumage of canaries canbe con- siderably altered toward red or orange by feedin + them on a stimulating diet of red pepper, and though this may fail for be done toward increasing the pigment in the hair and give hope to many a Suppose, for a moment, that a protec- tive color, like that which obtains in the pearance of affairs. If a rogue could but at will assume the perfect guise of an honest man, and the gilded wasps of or were saints and sinners alike com- pelled to wear their own unmistakable of ours be! If men, like canaries or caterpillars, could but change their complexion by then we might indeed imagine an Alder- man, after years of calipash and calipee, Scrooge, the miser, after a life of secret hoarding, would turn as yellow as his guineas. Mr. Carcass, the butcher, on his stall, instead of appearing as a But outside the limits of a nightmare We have to be content with a mediey of far sober realities. where, though ’ “It is an age,” victions, paralyzed intellects and grow There is an in- bare existence of many wise men will it never be This fellow's wise enough to play the fool And to do that well demands high w while the foolish one, in cap and bells, apes wisdom, and, save in his own coun. it; ’ Century. RELIABLE RECIPES, Karrorrer Sure. —The famous kar lent soup maigre, though it is often made with stock in place of water. Boil a the mixture, When boils bave six large potatoes, well mashed, with a large tablespoouful of butter and 8 scant Ceo of salt ready in a to it mixture over them. Press the potatoes through the colander with the liquid and add the puree to the remainder of milk and water on thestove. Bring the soup. to the boiling point, stirring it contin usily. tablespoonfuls of milk; add a spoonful of the hot table. soup, which must fire, where it will not boil. Stir in the beaten eggs and milk very carefully, stir. ring the soup all the Pour the soup Brorep Mackenger. —The best way to cook a mackerel, like a shad, which it succeeds in market, is to broil it. For ordinary family take two sprin been well scaled and cleaned. Re Fifty years ago European audieuces | listened with rapt admiration to Rubini, | a tenor of whom it was said that, though he himself could not act, he made bis | voice act for him, says a writer in the | Philadelphia Press. The intensity of expression he gave to his voice, the ju. | dicious use of the tremolo and the | man ent of light and shade produced | a thrilling effect. But his best vocal | feat consisted of taking the bass of the upper stave without preparation, thus retaining it for a long time, and then let it iin putceptibly die away. The listeners could haidly feve their ears. The adventurous are always on the edge of danger. On one occasion Rubini, after repeating this vocal fest, and being a second time encored, found himself us. able to ftoduce the expected note. De. termined not to fail, he gathered up his vocal strength and made 8 supreme effort. The note came with its wonted power, and brillancy and duration, but at the cost of a broken collar bone. A surgeon examined the singer sod found that the tension of the lungs had been too powerful for the strength of his collar bone. Two months rest would be vired to reunite the clavicle, and this the singer claimed to be impossible, as he had only finished several days of a I en f, a" all with a broken collar an | sin bone ?" he “Yes; it will make no difference in your voice,” answered the su “But you must avoid lifting vy weights and any undue exertion—above all, you must leave the B flat alone.” Rubini continued to sing with a broken clavicle until the on of the engagement. taking care to remove as little of the flesh as possible. With a little care, this is an easy matter and a great improve. ment to the fish. Rub the fish thoroughly with a little sweet oil, season it with pper, and lay it over a grid- iron, flesh down. The fire should be of clear, bright coals, and the fish should be allowed to cook steadily for about ten or twelve minutes without turning it. Whea it is thoroughly done it should be an even brown on the flesh side. Tum it and cook it for a minute or two on the skin side, and slip it st once on to 8 hot platter, Spread a little maitre d'hotel butter over it, and garnish it with watercress aud as lemon cut length. wise in six sections, The Butcher Bird. The shrike bird {8 very common here in Florida sud generally known by the name of butcher bird, It is a most eruel snd vindictive bird, and it seems to have the Sine trgite North or South, ost varieties of orange trees, especiall steding How, are covered with ; often three or four inches long. It is common to find beetles, grasshoppers, ids, ess chameleon impaled on these thorns, and omg often surprises the bird in his cruelties, most as quick as lighting, sefzéd and twisted off the end of the tail and flew away with some four inches of it to ornament some thorn on au orange tree, ~{Bpringfield Republican, The Power of Telescopes, The following curious statement by Prof. H. 8. Holden on the power of the eye and the telescope, as they are con- trasted in actual experience, is of special and permanent interest: If the brightness of a star seen with the eye alone is one, with a 2-inch teles- cope it is 100 times as bright, with a 4. inch telescope it is 400 times as bright, | 8-inch telescope it is 1,60) times as 32,400 times as bright. That is, stars eon be seen with the 36-inch telescope | which are 30,000 times fainter than the faintest stars visible to the naked eye. While the magnifying power which can be successfully used on the 5-inch teles cope is not above 400, the 26-inch teles- more than 2,000 diameters objects, stars, for example, This power cannot be used on the | moon and planets with real advantage for on same conditions as if it were to be viewed by the naked eye at a distance of, say, 200 miles. This is the same as saying that objects about 300 feet square can be recognized, so that no village or great canal or even large edifice can be built on the moon without our knowl edge. Highly organized life moon will make itself known in this in- direct way if it exists, ing at the earth under the same condi: tions, the great works of hydraulic mining or the great operations of Dakota farms or California ranches would be obvious. Blushing. Blushing is not au art. Neither is it The fact is, it blush on one occasion as it is for others to turn pale on another. The same laws of nature which govern the one rule The capillaries or small | blood vessels which counect the arteries { and veios in the body form, particularly over the cheeks, a network so fine that it | Is necessary to employ a HiiGroleope to distinguish them. Ordinarily the blood | passes through these veins in normal ! volumes, leaving only the natural com plexion. But when some sudien emo | tion tikes possession of the heart its ac- | tion increases and an electric thrill in. stantly , to the cheeks. The thrill TOV. { is nothing more than the rush of blood | through the iovisible capillaries; the | color is nothing more thas the blood just ! beneath the delicate surface of the skin, The causes that bring about this condi- tion in the circulating system are called mental stinuli. They consist of joy, anger, shame and the many other emo- tions. Sudden horror, remorse or fear, on the contrary, influences the nerves which control the blood vessels, and the | fags becomes white. Blushing aod pal- lor result from the sudden action of the mind on the nervous system. So, if the mind be forewarned and prepared for emotions, both habils can at least be partially overcome. But when the nervous system is highly strung it would be a lifelong if not futile task to en. deavor to effect a perfect cure. {Boston Globe. | It has long been known that six or | tained from turacio, a crimson pigment | nielded by the feathers of the turacou, {the African plantsin-esting bird, of | which there are twenty-five distinct | species; but some new light has recently | been thrown on the subject by Professor iA. H. Church, of London. Of the | twenty-five kinds of turacou, eighteen, | namely, all those belonging to the three | genera, turacus, galurex and musophago, | contain, according to this gentleman, the pigment turacin in from eight to eighteen of the primary and secondary feathers of each wing. It occurs also in the head feathers and crests of some of these birds. The pigment may be ex- | liquids, producing a magnificent crimson solution, and it has a perfectly well. defined absorption spectrum, hen a | | single red feather is burned, the green | flash of copper can, it is stated, be dis. tinctly seen. The presence of copper is easily wmecounted for by fact that bananas, the chief food of the msay of the turacou birds cootains this metal. The amount of copper in the turacin of a single bird is not quite one. fifth of a grain. Did the turscous yield metal of greater value than Soppat 4 is possible that their special would have proved a more remunerative procesding esting in man gah mines. As it is, their capacity of yield: ing copper is mercly ed as a scien: tific curiosity. —{ New York Telegram, He Nover Caught Anything. 1 remember & seventeen. year-old cousin J fll unex: pectedly joining a family party town at tes He had brought his portman like one of Mr. Smiles’ ogy; wud, FOR YOUNG FOLKS THE CROW'S REASON, A great black crow sat on a tree, And cawed, and cawed, and cawed at me, Said I, “Old crow, you're not polite To eaw at me from morn to night, ‘‘Pray tell me why you ope your jaws And jeer me 50?” He answered, “Caws.” Which, true as you and I do live, Is just the reason small boys give When they are asked why they will do Some thiugs that they've no business to. —|St. Louis Star-Sayings. BRAINY BANTAM, A pair of full-grown, pure-white Ban- tam chickens, male a female, very tame, delighted to be fondled by the about the house. Bet the rooster on top of a post or on the knee crowing his loudest, with a twinkle of danced around him. I had a “small him, As soon as he saw a rival, as he was foolish enough to believe, he would begin to pick gravel, ruffle his peck and approaching the glass, strike savagely with spurs, and would have broken the glass did I not jerk it away too quickly for him. One day he leaped on top of the frame to find his enemy on the other side, and for a mo- ment seemed surprised. It was then wisdom entered his head, for he could Telegraph. HOW SOME BIRDS LEARN TO SING. A wren built her New Jersey farm. nest inabox ona She sat ig front of them, and sang her whole song very distinctly, her. After proceeding through a few notes, its voice broke, snd it lost the tune. The mother recommenced where the young one had failed, and went very The young bird made a second attempt, commencing where it had ceased before, was able: and, when the notes were again lost, the mother began again where it had stopped, and completed it. Then the young one resumed the tune and finished it. This done, the mother sang over the whole series of notes the second time with great precision; and her. The wren pursued the same course with this one as with the first, snd so with the third and fourth, until each of the birds became a perfect songstor.— Sacred Heart Roview, LEARNING TO FLY, One morning there was great excite. ment amgog a family of robins living in Farmer Larkin's orchard. This family consisted of the father mother, and three children. The young ones had grown to be so large that their nest was too small to hold them soy longer. For several days they had been hopping about on the brasches, exercising their wings and learning to take care of them- selves enough to fly across the road into the garden where they could find plenty of bugs and worms for their dioner. She showed them how to spread their wings and move along on the air, and ea- couraged them to follow her and not to They all tred to do as she told them, and two followed her and crossed the road, landing safely in the garden, good to eat. The third young one was more timid than the others; and he only flew down to the lower branches of the tree, where he stopped to get fresh While this was going on, Farmer Lar. kin was driving down the road. he came slong L the orchard, the little robin made another attempt to get over into the garden, but he only wavered up dropped suddenl;, lighting on the back | of the horse, Billy's harness an comfortable. When Mother Robin saw where he was was greatly alarmed, and circled By and he spread his wings again, and flew to the fence, where she joined him and coaxed him along till at last he reached the garden. was much amused as he watched their movements. When he went home he told his children about the little ird that took a ride on horseback.—{Our Little Ones, wildly about, calling him away. “SIDE- SHOWS” AT THE WORLD'S FAIR. The Art Galleries fill a superb build. ing that is unmistakably c in archi. tecture. Surmounted by a grand dome supparsiog 8 winged statue, the front out a beautiful pillared portico, which is repeated by smaller doorways of similar design. Aseund the whole run galleries, forty fest wide, present. ng surfaces for sculpture, sad rural paintings, Lend! og up from the are ste terraces, u which a aumber of square pedestals oy grou sculpture, Post a the other Standing a large buildings a of Fine Arts need It is of im- not harmonize with them. best thing of all.” But let us ran over just a few of the ‘‘side shows,” outside of the classified exhibits, Here will be found ancient and modern villages imitated; a captive balloon; settlements of foreign nations; s wheel 250 feet in diameter for whirling people up into the air on revolving chairs; a great tower ascendad by an electric spiral railway ; a panorama of the Alps; an im- mense swimming-bullding, with tank; # great company of trained animals; an artificial-iee toboggan-slide; Japanese bazars ; Bohemian glass-blowers; an Af- rican savage settlement; a great glass factory in operation; a Moorish palace: a volcano panorama; a 199 wiles-an-hour railway, where the cars are driven by jets of water and slide on films of water; gondolas and electric launches plying upon all the waterways: an Eskimo village; a steam-engine, in the power- house, twice as large ss the celebrated Corliss engine, but using oil for fuel; all the Btate buildings; a hunter's camp; » complete Indian village; sa dairy; the largest cannon that the Krupp works have ever built; a moving sidewalk, part moving slowly enough to step upon, and part carrying the passengers quickly along. Most of these amusing sights are in a strip of eighty acres called the “Midway Pinay And the chil- dren’s Building. A Century editorial says of this ex. hibition: *“Those who have time to see only its general aspect will have seen the very best of it.” A government report is quoted ss saying: *“‘This exposition stands alone. There is nothing like it in all history.” And to the boys and girls of America we oan say that to see the Fair intelligently, and with time properly apportioned, will be an education more liberal than can be acquired in any college in the land One great difficulty will be the im- possibility of seeing more than one drop out of the ocean offered. Remember, if you go, that you will have to select the few things that you wish most to see. Then go resolutely snd see them. Never mind the gilt gingerbread ; find out the very jewels that you wish to make your own. If you love art, see the pictures | and statuary If you love machinery, go | see the wheels go round. It will be a good lesson to draw from | the Fair that all its magnificence is the | result of an idea—the idea thet the world was round ; and that the man in whose | honor the people are there gathered was for years believed to be a visionary and a crank. Which brings us back to the homely wisdom of Davy Crockett: “Be sure you are right; then go ahead.” —{8t. Nicho- a8, | Why is it More Highly Developed in i Some Persons Than in Others? If there is any subject that people in | general think they ate specially familiar } with, that subject is their own sense of touch or skin.fecling. Yet bow few will not be surprised to learn that the points of a pair of compasses held two and three-fifths inches apart against the middie of one’s own back feel like but one point? If opened to two and a half inches, they feel like two. This was dis- | covered by Weber in a series of experi- ments to which Mr. Herbert Spencer has | lately called attention. Weber found the tips of the forefingers i could feel the two points when they were | one-twelfth of an inch apart, but not | when closer together. Between this fine | sensitiveness and the coarse sensitiveness { of the middie of the back all the outer | parts of the body vary. {| For instance, the inner surface of the { second joints of the forefiager can dis- | tinguish the two compass points one- The innermost | points have less senstiveness of this sort, but rank in it equal with the tip of the { nose, The sad of the toe, the palm of | the band and the cheek have alike one- | filth of the perceptiveness of the tip of | the forennger, and the lower part of the forehead has one-half that of the cheek. ‘The back of the hand and crown of the | head are nearly alike in having 14 times | Jess sensitiveness of this sort than the The thigh has less near the knee, and the points of the compasses must be an inch and one half | them as one, Mr. Spencer accounts for these differ | tice of some parts of the body in feeling various objects. For instance, the fi - tips are educated in the matter, and qualities transmitted by ioheritance to successive generations, The songue, always feeling the teeth, and often feel- ing particles of food, is still better edu- cated. Its tip can distinguish between compass points 1.24 of an inch a and is the most sensitive member of the body. Mr. Spencer's agrees with some well known facts. For example, he showed what was pretty well known long before he was born, that the fingers tips of the blind are more sensitive t those of who can see, and who therefore do not practice their sense of touch #0 much. He also found that pe-setters were more sensitive
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