FOR Tu LADIES, n——on. DRESSING PRETTY NRCKS. It, is frequently noticeable that the slender woman covers her neck with illu- sion when wearing a low-cut dress, but even a beautiful neck is often more lovely if fitted over with a seamless yoke of transparent or semi-transparent material. A tiny edge of ruffle may finish the yoke ot the neck, or it may be drawn full with a dainty narrow ribbon, or, again, it sury simply disappear under a vecklace. ~-{8t. Louis Star Sayings. PANNIERS COMING. Scaroely has the panic created by the erinoline subsided, than we ure threat eued with panniers. In these days of exaggeration who shall say whether they may not develop into farthingales? At | present the sole indication is a slight fullness on the hips; but it is whispered | by those in authority that these folds | will be inoreased in the near future to | unmistakable panniers. As a rule, the | latter are singularly ungraceful, more | especially if the wearer thereof is short i and not particularly slender. Short | women, be it observed, are generally addicted to a bunchy style of dress, [Chicago Herald. A FRONTIER MOTHER. Not far from Oak Bar, Oregon, aj woman lately made a heroine of herself | with her little gun in front of a child. seeking panther that her dog had treed. On hearing the growling and the row | she dropped her stitches, picked upa | rifle, took a good aim and at the first fire brought down the brute. Then she hurried with her children to the mining | camp where her husban I worked, fear- ing that the panther had a mate prowling not far away. It is believed that she saved the children from the terrible fate that befell another child over a vear ago near the same plage. —{ New York World. | DRESSING THE MAIR. Plain parted hair can be worn caly by women who have calm serenity countenance and a gracious dignity « figure, for somehow it makes every line and wrinkle plainly visible and makes | a short woman look dumpy. But a] slight fringe with the hair parted behind it is generally becoming and very be- witching. Fortunately, most women have a wholesome horror of the pompa. dour, for it is a fashion very few faces can stand. If you wear a bang keep it in soft, light curls. There is nothing more ridiculous than a riotous brush of frizzes, involuntarily reminding one of | hastily screwed-up curl papers, There | is only one way of managing a fringe, ; and that is the curling-iron, have gray hair. [eat spoils the color of gray hair. If you will only make the best of your hair you are bound to make | the best of your face. A of ¢ rs unless you v HORSES FOX D OF WOMEN Not long ago a muscular, 20) pound | man, with his wife beside him, wasdriv- | ing a fast, high spirited horse, harnessed | to a light wagon. The horse pulled very | hard, and at last, tired out, the d r handed over the reins to his companion, saying, ‘‘Hold on to this Least for al minute, if you possibly can, so that I may rest my arms.” Accordingly, the woman took the reins, and no sooner had she done so than the horse stopped pull- | ing, siackened his pace snd became calm and obedient. But when the man resumed control the animal immediately began to pull and to fight against the bit as hard as ever. A second time the woman took the horse in hand ; as before, he submitted at once, and under her guidance he trotted gently along till their destination was reached. | Another case that fell under my ob- servation is the following: A gentleman | who is a good shot and an expert tennis | ayer, but who has no ‘‘faculty” for | holy drove out with his daughter, a delicate girl of fourteen. Their steed, a very strong, mettiesome animal, soon began to plunge and pull, Unable to control him otherwise, the driver, in a moment of exasperation, struck the horse with a whip, the result being that he | pearly run away. At this the child | began to cry, for she loved the animal and sould not bear to see him abused “Here, take him, then,” said her father, handing her the reins. At once the | horse detected the new driver, his anger | and fear began to subside, and a few soothing words from the girl-driver com- pleted the couquest, rive COIFFURE CLUBS. Girls who cannot afford maids or fre- quent trips fo the hairdresser are form- ing ‘‘coiffure clubs,” writes Dorothy Maddox in the St. Louis Republic. Whimsical as the idea may appear to outsiders, the young women are them. selves in thorough earnest. Every mem- ber when initiated pledges herself to contribute at the monthly meeting of the club at least one coiffure hint. This she may beg, borrow or steal from whatever source she pleases, but the idea must be forthcoming when fellowmembers meet to compare notes. Fach girl hands in to the secretary her written suggestions for dressing the hair, which is read aloud and commented upoa by the club critics. The moat feasible idea, or the one at least which seems to be the most popular, is selected and given into the hands of the girl whose turn it is to play the role of hair- dresser, while another volunteers to sub. mit her tresses to the ‘‘new styles.” Members gather around the fair amateur, and enrefully scan the work as it pro- At one meeting fluffy effects are sought after; at the next only smooth and satin. like locks are given attention. In this way chic coiffure modes are develo for the morning negligee, the tallor- made costume and the evening frock. It is ald that the “‘soiffure club” is ‘ to a great run as a morning Panion at summer resorts, en FATE OF WOMEN IN OHINA. Women of Bosition in Ching are : utercourse w aay i ways offcred to visitors, a good deal of gossip is indulged in, and new clothes | and jewels are displayed. Diamonds are ! not worn, but most rich women own | large numbers of beautiful pearls and many jade ornaments. Their ordinary | daily occupations consist of the direction | of household matters, spinning flax, and | embroidering their dainty little shoes. In the evening they tell stories (a favorite | diversion of all Chinese, both old and | young), sing ballads, and play dominoes, | In every rich man's house the family | circle is a very large one, for not only do his sons bring home their wives, but | a number of poor relations are sure to] form part of the group. If a man has no son of his own, he adopts at least | forces | It is not uncommon | two hundred, but | must they support, and invited to remain—at a distance, Among the very poor people, women do the roughest and hardest kinds of | work, laboring in the fields, and even | breaking stones on the roads, shina | tries to make of them beasts of mere they are all POSSESS od puppets. In most inferior beings, of reasoning powers, but practicall I have tried to show, their influen the country is, though unas knowledged very great, while they win th command the respect ns ¥, 2 in love and FASHION Black Bourdon | from three to made of nun’ PONS ana Dressy suits are trimmed with ri are comp Bi wk bonnets horse-hair and straw balls ular fon winter Shaded velvets are qui IOusiy nothing be al and desirable in more sarant A popular combination is French cloth . shoulder-rutfles of shaded have + most approved mo fo reached their limit and lels are less ba r Sleoves $3 th A simple and stylish traveling costume is of Harris tweed made with a blouse, a flaring Empire skirt, sleeves and a belt embroidered in mohair braid. The braid ornaments the of the skirt Hussian very full same foot Kid belts are of many designs in the round and bodice shapes, and this prom ises to be a splendid season for them hats violet are 1.4 id Pretty straw in trimmed with lace, and a single piok rose. ' sae : green velvet Snow-flake woolens, sackings, ging for sum It is an with snow-flakes The Sleeves are running 10 extremes from the shoulders the better Black Bengaline, Ottoman faiile and - tly used for church, reception and The pretty fashion of wearing dainty bodices of colored silk both in the day | time and in the evening seems likely to be in this season, Some of prettiest new bodices possible to imagine They are delightful in color and arrangement aod novel in shape and style tha vorie hi vo tho What is called “white wool grenadine” handles for sunshades into blossoms of various will have violets, another or, perhaps, buttercups. The newest tine It would be most interesting reading if some of the writers, who profess to economical young women who entire costumes of the most at up five cents, would give information on the ways and means for doing this. Such articles will not, as a rule, bear very close investigation, The revival that promises decided popularity is the old-time long skirted basque which is not unlike the Chester field jacket of twenty-five or thirty years ago. The lower edge of the jacket is trimmed with a flat fold or may be | finished with passementerie or merely left plain and stitched, according to fancy. i Lace and embroidery, embroidered lace especially, will be among the leading trimmings for the summer. There scoms | to be no limit to the ways in which these | beautiful garnitures are uscd, as some | thing new is brought out almest every! day. Parasols seem to have become merely | forms on which to exhibit the most | enormous quantities of lace and other | thin materiale. The amount of goods! that may be put into one of the fasuion able parasols of the day is almost past | belief. New jackets have sleeves large enough to accommodate the enormous puffiness | of the dress shoulders, and while this, of course, accentuntes the size of the arm, that fact seems to be no objection. a a A Curious Beast, nd A curious beast, killed near Weston, Umatilla County, Oregon, was on exhi. bition at Pendleton the other day, It is about three feet long mad a foot and a half in and has a coat of dark and light brown. Its resem. bles that of a bear, but its loog tail pre- cludes the idea that it be a cinoa. mon, [tis su to of the s Soren fox teadition says ware once plenti mountaing ia that viciniey. is an ¢ SOMEWHAT STRANGE. —————— ACCIDENTS AND INCIDENTS OF EVERYDAY LIFE Stam" Facts and Thrilling Adven- tures Which Show That Truth Stranger Than Fiction. is A wneckiNa gang on the Delaware ing up a wreck at Nobody's Block, not far from Cochecton, N. Y., when i attention was called to a curious, shrill, cooing sound which came at short sand . Pn. | minutes a drop of oil would rise snd | float on the surface. During a pericd of | twenty-four hours the surface of the water | would become covered with oil, It was | taken internally and applied externally | for **all the ills that flesh is heir 10.” A most remarkable discovery was made by some laborers employed on the | farm of County Surveyor W. 8, Gholson | near Paducah, Ky. A poplar tree five | feet in dismeter was sawed down, and in the hollow of it, the remains of a | { human skeleton were found, in a perfect | | state of preservation. The tree, to nll | appearances, was perfectly sound, ex. | cept about seven feet above the ground | was a notch, as if the tree had once | been chopped into, but the cavity had grown over, The placing of the skele. the work of Indians, from the children of a German farmer, field to scare away the crows from pull ing up the young and tender shoots of corn. The farmer had been unusually ing borne him no less than twelve chil dren, including four pairs of twins. He had been yearly bothered with crows in corn-planting time, He had adopted all the scarecrow devices in common usage among farmers, such as placing stuffed straw men in the fields, stringing twine over poles with bits white rags fluttering in the wind, ete. but | the crows had become used t things, and, crow-like, would post sentinels on lofty tree-tops to give warn ing of danger while their wi at work uncovering the hills A happy t strick the farmer by which he could protect his corn and util Arming two of COMPpanions re ize Lis several offspring. them with old tinpanseach day, he nia ed them in the field at four o'clock in the morning and told them to eall out **Coo! coo!” and pound their pans whenever they saw any crows flying near the children became tired the father re piaced them with two others, and thus by successive relays the crows were Kept away. This process was repeats « each day until the corn wns of a size suffi to protect itself. It was this strange noise, kept up all day long, from early morn till eve, that made the Erie wreck ers marvel, It is said that this econd year in which the Wayne county 5 fs ficids with 543 x LAR Lat) rier is the srmer has protected his corn living scarecrows, duel correspon fent I WITxESSED A strange tine, writes a ranchers were enamored of the dark-eyed senorita. Now, when South American is hit by the archer, he is hit hard, He is not fied to visit his charmer one evening in the week and give up the rest of the time if he another g about in Argen- | Two same your bliad satis to his rivals, catches ad mirer hanging amorata, there is apt to be trouble, two sighing swains question agreed to settle by a duel with the lasso which should wed the damsel. A bua dred piratical-looking cow punchers as sembled to witness the fray. The rivals appeared on two nettlesome mustangs, each with a long powerful lariat of tough bull-hide., They were 1 ex. perts with the lasso, and their horseman. | ship was a marvel, They approached to within forty or fifty yards of each other, then began to manauvre for a deciding cast. After several feints t iariat of the younger of the rivals went whizzing through the air so swiftly that the eye could scarcely follow it ‘he otherfsank his spurs into his mustang. The auimal shot forward just in time to save his master {rom the deadly noose, and as he did so, the second lasso rose | and settled round the shoulders of man who missed, pinning his arms to his sg. de as in a vise. He was jerked head- long out of his saddle. His successful the »f his in The had u house . “0 ik soth he haif-lifted him from the ground by th tenacious thong, and put a bullet square. y between his eyes. He then turned and rode directly to the hacienda, where lived the cause of this barbaric scene. She mounted behind him, aod he came galloping back, swinging his sombrero, iy Lionrsixe played a queer trick the other day out in Montana. The burned a hole | carried in his clothes struck his silver watch, between the outer and inner cases, and made its exit pear the stem. A match could be inserted in the hole. When the body was found the watch had stopped, time since The blades of the dead man’s knife were welded together, and the brass ends were melted, Axmoxo the strange things that strike the eve in Vancouver city is a boat.col- It occupies, a strip of beach back of the town on the salt-water * arm” or fjord, and consists of twenty or thirty little floats, few of them over forty feet long, that are built over and supplied with beds and cooking uteasils, Bome of them are ocoupied by laborers, but gether with a good deal of art and are really handsome pieces of wood working, are the homes of Japanese artisans. The soows float at high tide, but are moored to the shore, The strangeness of the Indians on a bluff just above the water, Oxe of the strangest superstitions of regard the cockroach. Joha holds the ugly black pest as something sacred, Slaiming that it is specially favored by the gods and a particular favorite of the g Joss, @ most unfortunate mis. ap that can befall a Chinaman is to step on a cockroach, Instantly visions of terrible disasters and calamities arise before him. In some instances the superstition bas been known to so prey on the minds of the Celestials as to drive them insane. As a result of this state of a Chinaman would ss soon think of killing himself as of kill: ing one of the Nino, I. T., walls because Boyd's oil spring ceased to flow five weeks ago and still rewanins dry. The was about sixty miles , of T It has first A cuntous operation has been rep ried to the French Bocicte d'Ophthalmolgie. Ac the ; cordingly an incision was made in in a kind of checker work. It adhered perfectly, and the wound was completely healed After about five the eyelid recovered its power of move- A tiny transverse line across the | lid is the only the frag ment: borrowed (rom the {ro “Ravroessaee Pere,” of Penn., as his name would indicate, is & He is now prou ily wearing a iouble-breasted sack coat anda rattlesnake yea over. months visibie © sign { v H Oil City, Rates, air of trousers made of so arranged that the hiaok stripes form a fi t: that is, Pete thinks they ieCLi 8 him four vears to gather the SKins PW ian i It Look do skins for K his suit, and he Dad 10 Kil 195 snakes to do it, ‘he buttons of hi : heads mount with gold Tux $0 and Mr 1 non. i 4 Coat it a n of double conscious. Hr means uncom F118 2 in Jekyil fiens, 50 ous Q wunted sistent my ster wap pe ATANCES : Are ACK A maunper wholly « the missing parent sanily. case was that 1181 rf 48 of Bernards pind etler whose ey ago He » traverses twice nakes a mistake in the He walks confidently troubles Dim A peMankanLe chs , is Arno Sixty-seven yi id, f i ton M i.e t % carrier “ sight was lost Cars a long route s day, and rarely delivery of letters in sgmmer, but ww hat in winter « of the neighborhood and he has never be ass the snow Mr. Beo't's Knowl said to} kKaown to | PS i we ¢ 3 periect en snt loat RE O85 Tom Rox, Tex run afoul of some of the supposed fighters they would not get off very easy. Sev eral davs ago his horse, that hal been k fa Waco chiter, but if he should i 8 tru rmer, of a ds not aprizet made a rush for Tom with open mouth, and would probably have serious.y in jured him had be not leaped aside and struck the the neck with his fist, killing him instantly horse on ir is said that as usmarried woman's chanoes of matrimony at from 15 to 0) years of age is 144 per cent.: from 20 to 25, 52 per cent from 25 to 30, 18 per cent from 20 to 35, 154 cent from 35 to 40, 3} per cent. : frem 40 t 45, 2} per cent.: from 45 to 50, § per cent. . and from 50 to 55, § percent. A widow's chances at any age are far bette: than those of a spinster. r Mus. Mercy Jonoax of Greene, R. L, has celebrated ber ninety third birthday by a family re-uniom, at which there | were present her children, grandchildren, great grandchildren to the number nore than one hundred. She is the mother { 0% vive, the oldest bein old. Live rattlesnakes are sold for $1 a snake by peddlers in the streets of southern California towns. Buyers are found among persons who want to tan | the hides for various uses, and each | buyer can kill his snakes in the manner hat he regards most conducive to the | g seventy-three years | A cuentas Mile, Zelie, in the course of a tour around the world, gave a con. | cert in the Society Islands, When she | came to reckon up her share of the pro. ceeds, this is what she found: Three pigs, twenty-three turkeys, forty-four chickens, 5,000 cocoanuts, besides con- siderable quantities of bananas, lemons and oranges. | Parnick Bugsxax of Crawfordsville, Ind., received a fifty.cent shinplaster in payment of a debt of ten cents. He | neglected to return the change. Re cently he huated up his old creditor and gave him forty cents, saying that the | matter had so preyed upon his mind that | he could stand it so longer. Fish in Bolling Water. One of the most remarkable discoveries in the shape of a peculiar species of fish ever made on this continent was that made in Virginia, Nev, in 1876. At that time both the Hale & Norcross and the Savage mines were down to what is known as the 2200-foot level. When at that depth a subterranean lake of boilin water was tapped. The accident flood both mines to the depth of 400 feet, After the water had all been pumped out except that which had gathered in basins and in the inaccessible portions of the works, and when the water still had a temperature of 128 degrees—nearly scalding hot—many queer-looking little vias oe resem go . Te 7 wets 14 Hhels mnties enough wi were r ve water--notwithstand did not aven have hen the Something About Stem, Biam’'s naval force consists of two screw steamers of 2,000 tons and eight guns many of which steam yachis, These vessels are as a rule officered by Europeans, chiefly English. men and Danes. A cruiser of There are forts with heavy guns at the mouth of the Bangkok river, and the latter possesses a bar which effec- much over thirteen feet draught. Sinm has a standing army of about thousand men, and generally are liable to be called out as mili- inhabitant from the years upwards is the State for three The following per- exem Priests, tin, Every male age of twenty-one obliged to serve months each year. sons, however, are ot: of three sons liable to service, and those who purchase exemption either by pay- ing a fine or by purchasing substitutes It issald that the government possesses 4 I besides a8 considerable stock of cannon The army is to some extent officered by Eur increased in numbers and equipments The limits of Siam have varied at different periods nearly as can caleulated yntry extends at present from the fo irth to thi twenty-first degree of opeans, and has of late years largely MUCH in its history, but as + the « he north latitude, sixth tothe nun and sixth degree of from the ninety one east longitude a total ares of about 250,000 square Accordine to th i popu 1.000.000 Chinese, 1.0000, 000 Malays bs the I ¢ jatest estimates ation consistaof 2 000.000 Siames 2.000), 000 fx xercised embers appointed if ther ignity is n wuinalls sovereign has th IW SUCCES iu MAY “4 Year Some Stupeadous Kruptions. Few people of this country imagine what terrible work a volcano of the regu. { lation size can do when it once gets fully aroused, In 1838 Cotapaxi threw its { fiery rockets more than 3,000 feet above | the crater and, in 1837, when the blazing | mass confined in the same mountain was struggling for an outlet, it roared 86 loud ! that the awful noise was heard for a dis tance of 600 miles. In 1797 the crater of Tunguragus, one of the great penks of the Andes, flung out torrents of mud and {lava which dammed up a great river, {opened new laacs, Hesides making » deposit of seething mud, ashes and lava, 600 feet deep over the whole area of a | valley which was twenty miles long and averaged 1,000 feet in width! The strean of lava which flowed from Vesuvius in 1837 and : of Terra dei Greco tar ugh t VY Riiey is estimated 16 have been 343,00 1,000 cubic feet of solid ter. passed he Hist a Hood which Ia 1760 Ana poured out melted and covered eiohty gjuare of ¥ 1 oi aslies es of fer ten to Our tile co 1 {¢ : 3 4 forty feet, n this occasion the sand, H oria, mounts two m 4,000 fart hick from the Mt Rosin, umfierence a 128 a ption of Vesuvia VA. DD, the time of the in the ern - i Pr lava vomited {orth of dona d RLOTY snpeil, the so the YOo.iCcan OWInH mass into t SAUL, w- We much are pot in sredence ia that, from have had, we can i readers may have here is one hose of snake yarn } ness demonstrated beyond call at the Merchant this city and Guerneville. Several sine: on the aforesaid ransh a birth to four kittens The cat and tens were housed in the barn on our ranch, between davs gave kit 8 stack of hay near where an old hen was setting on a nest of egg I'he of ranch, William Ingalls, desired to break the hen from setting and to that took the eggs away from her. Since the time that the eggs were taken away the hen has been hovering over the brood of kittens and caring for them ss she would the eggs. The kittens are healthy and weil fod and beyond a doubt the mother cat suckles the kittens at times when the would-be-mother hen is absent from new vocation. This may ssem strange and savor somewhat of the fshy, nevertheless it is a fact County, Cal, Tribune, A Monster Ray Fish. it foreman the end ner but -{ Sonoma Pensacola (Fla about an enormous ‘‘rale” or ‘eagle ray’ there. Few of these fish are ever caught, as they are much dreaded by the men of the sea. They are sometimes orroneously called a devil fish. and also a blanket fish, and have been known to destroy human life They feed on shell fish, which they draw in by means of the large cephalic fins which protrude from the huge mouth. The teeth of this fish, which were pot visible from the outside, are grinding its food, There is great danger in attempting to capture one of these Ssh with a small boat, as it could easily 4 av af one being captured in West Inc waters which weighed 1,250 0 sting-ravs, or commonly corder. “stingarees,” called. — [New York as they are Re- The Monastery Mine, experience. The mine is surrounded by a reef of rotten stone, and encircles about four hundred claims which have evident. at some prehistoric period to a depth of about forty feet when water must have overpowered the miners—and then abandoned, It is difficult to judge whether the ground was washed or only drysorted at that date, but more likely the latter The debris must have deposited round the edge of the mine. The rains of centuries have washed this debris back into the mine, which was again worked at a more recent period, as several shafts and tunnels have been discovered by the sont workers, and skeletons, ostrich ege-shells and pieces of iron have been unearthed. The virgin blue shows in. dications of being rich ia diamonds, — {The Jewelers’ Circular. Different Degrees of Brightness, Professor E. 8. Holden says that if the star seen with eye with a tw Penn closely remained true t he established SLOSS of his sect as have the member { the gVivania, Illinois colony. The latter, the entire 350 of them, wea yotiing in the shape Mf outer « £ sor br yal the and ail ae ny amon & % : £, incl Drm men med black hats, women plain black cali biack shaker American born, ommunity., among adresses are s in t have iw and cducate their children the village of and the township in which they The settlement is kept {rom intrusion of blood other than that of the fathers, beoause no member of any family is permitted to unite in age with any one outside the caur io which all x in the pub schools Arthur ive {ree {ore Inarr a lon 2 The “Hair Ball.™ {| The ball which is fre the stomachs of nr called by writers {a “hair ball.” It bairs getting into either by licking herself mals (her ealf, «ic around some nan juently found ia iminating animals is on velerinary subjects is occasioned by the stomach, or other ani- These hairs form leus of food or other matter and grow | { of matter around them after they are once formed The balls are composed hair, earthy matter and food; sometimes they are partly composed of some calcareous sub stance. They are classed some | writers among the “‘calculi” similar to {those found in human beings. These “concretions,” as they are sometimes { called, are found in many parts of the buman body. Ia lower animals their composition is very variable, some con- | sisting of the same ingredients as are found in those of mien. No use can be assigned to their formation, and they | are surely more harmful than usefull— Courier-Journal. the cow's 13 deposit hie 5% by Vegetable Whisky Shops In the green houses attached to the | White House are many of the curious { plants which Superintendent Smith of | the Botanic Garden calls ‘‘Tegetable | whisky shops,” because their pitchers | distill intoxicating fluids that attract all sorts of insects. The bugs fall inte the drink and the plant devours their sub- stance, as the veritable gin mill eats up that of its human customers. One variety catches cockroaches, while an- other actually preys upon frogs, who are unable to escape from the pitchers on account of two downward projecting thorns which impale them when they would leap out. These receptacles hold as much as half a pint each and the con. tents of three or four will intoxicate a man. They ara admirably adapted to the uses of the tropiesl tramp, who, while pursuing his leisurely travels, can literally pluck his drinks by the wayside, A Druicrovs Dis. When the cold ~~ RMON HE
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