————————————— SA ————————————_———— 1 —— TO R EPEL INVADERS. sides the tubes tor Nandy Hook his com i pany is to construct a battery of three | 15-inch pneumatic tubes for San Fran TORPEDO cisco nnd one of them will be shipped to { Ban Francisoo this week. T'he contract | price for all six with their foundation complete, is, in round numbers, 8150, - They Are to be Placed at Sandy Hook | V00. Two more tubes of 15-inch «libre to Protect New York from Hostile | 87% 10 be built for Boston harbor, Foreign Ships. i For the test for the Sandy Hook tubes | old hulks will be selected to, be de introyed, The trial will be severe and a | large number of projectiles, both loaded { snd unloaded, will be fired at all ranges | and degrees of elevation. AERIAL THROWERS, MAMMOTH Within thirty days, says the New York Herald, there will be placed at Sandy Hook a battery of guns capable of throw. fog fifteen tons of dynamite an hour at noy fleet ol hostile foreign ships that At the hombardment of Alexandria the might try to force their way up to New | British fleet deliberately anchored at York. These guns ars pneumatic dyna- | distance of 1,600 yurds—less than one mite throwrs and will be completed | mile—from the forts and opened flre. during the present week for the United | The effect of the fleot's high powered States government at the West Point | guns, even those of the heaviest calibre, Foundry at Cold Spring, near Newburg, | wns not as disastrous as was expected, There are three tubes in this first battery | Mortar fire wus needed, and commenting to be placed at Sandy Hook-two 15. | upon this fact Lieutenant Vreeland, U. inch and one 8-inch aerial dynamite |S. N., of the Naval Intelligence Office, throwers, {AVS : If this battery proves a success the | ‘‘Had the fleet included a dynamite United States Government, it is hoped | torpedo thrower that vessel could have by those interested in the invention, | placed herself behind any one of the will place a score or more of these tubes | huge armorciads of the attacking squad- at Sandy Hook for the better protection | ron nnd from that position could have of New York. The manufacturers easily landed within the shore forts at lieve that a large battery of those dyna. | an angle of fall of about twenty-five de mite throwing tubes could prevent the projectiles filled with the enor combined navies of the world from enter. | mous charge of five hundred po mds of ing New York harbor. dynamite, the effect of which « un be im- This battery was provided for by the | agin «dl. Conversely, had the shore w irks last Congress. Work on the founda possessed one or more dynamite throw tions for the tubes was begun several be attacking fleet prolmbly weeks azo, and everything is now in readiness to receive these powerful | weapons of war, each of which can drop | from one hundred to five hundred | pounds of dyusmite into the water be- | tween Sandy Hook and Coney Island, to | a distance of from one to two miles. As the channel for deep water vessels extends only about one mile from Sandy Hook, war ships trying to enter the har. bor would be exposed to the heaviest charges fired by this battery, i 1 i ! i bee ress ors 1,600 yard range. THE BODY AND ITS HEALTHC Laue Juicer, —Lime juice is very simi lar to lemon juice in its nature, medical writer, nrd issold in the mar by the bottle, [tis generally acknowl edeed to be an antidote {or yy English law it is rendered comp for every ship to take on board For the navy the adm The SCUrvy, ary WHERE THEY WILL BE MOUNTED, {lemon juice. The three tubes will be mounted at use ime Juice only constant ase Sandy Hook temporarily, pear the end of the sand strip from which the place tales its name. They will be placed side by side on the level of the beach, the 8-inch tube being on the right hand | # side. All three can be trained entirely a 3 d, grea around the horizon. It takes two min- | : Wi 2 id utes to make a full cirovit. On board | Placed on the dinner table in the Vesuvius the tubes are set at a fixed | Yinesar bottle sogle, but those at Sandy Hook can be raised or depressed like a gun, fifteen seconds being required for the maximum change. The time required for loading ead firing varies with the weight of the projectile used. I. takes three minutes to load and fire a 500.pound projectile and only bali that time for one weighing | £78'8 an 100 potnds, The pressure by which the projectile is discharged is ordioarily 1,000 pounds to the square inch a substantial shed about seventy feet the rear of the guns greatly discourage a variety cum plaints, such as dyspepsia, bilious disor. gers, ote, state of living on liberal flesh. alcohol iet, without its corrective osters, This vegetable should +, and 88 regularly While as an ingredient {i ane d 5 a salad dressing, to mix with oil than Yi # wo sAuces, fi most every Kind of it has no more wholesome Dox'r Wonny. », whether it accomplishes anythin SLT T eLnr, VEIY movemens muscle 3 : 2 " Or not, whether voluntary or involuntary { OF outing DOGGY strengtd Every thought ture also involves an expendi Therefore, all th FOLTY, It is supplied from | trouble, i¢ so much strength unprofitabl, . in ied You may aiwass tell a man where the air com man whose existence been a pressors are placed. By an ingenious fret by thier SAFEWOM, matt system of chambers and the hey are never healthy ¥ ret amount of pressure can be exactly regu lis more people than cholera, It leaks Iated. stren At last The tubes are smooth bore, organ of + gives way. east iron in small sections I'he doctor comes with fianges, which are bolted together, forming a piece having = length of fifty feet aud an internal dismeter of fifteen foches. The points are provided with a oew and vesy efficient packing which automatically tightens with the iscrease of pressure. The trunnions, which hollow, communicate with an annular | air space surrounding the barrel batween them and the breech. The trunnions turn in boxes which support the barrel | both original and at the same time serve to convey air through the truonions to chamber in whatever way they may be placed. f atrenot ME ORLTel fear. or borrowes fas valves gth constantly, funct This we call diseass, and giv the disease a Latin The disease may atismck the heart, liver, lungs, or other parts of the body, but the real at work years in the patient's min It may st be called automatic m or body action, or setonatic exhaustion. REay wenkest on made of provided Lis] id underiving ar cause for has Deen KO Are A THRRATHEST treatment, recommended douki, of Moseow, bh snd sin M the merit « Dour f being While exam iN in jie, atrocious the cranium, to nscertain whether there was any appa i rent material lesion, Two or three min utes after finishing his exan the firing head.che he used percussion of A POWERFUL PIECE, The total weight of the 15-inch tube is 40 tons. The total weight of the full calibre projectile is 1,000 pounds, the explosive charge alone weighing 500 pounds. The range of the piece at 33 degrees elevation with a large projectile is 2,400 yards; with a 10-inch subenlibre projectile weighing 800 pounds it is 4,000 yards; with an S8.inch subcalibre projectile weighing 340 pounds the range is 5,000 yards, and with a 6inch sub- calibre projectile weighing 250 pounds | the range is 6,000 yards. The weight of the explosive charges io the subealibre projectiles named would be respectively 200 pounds, 100 pounds and 50 pounds, Up to the present time heavy wrought | | fron tubing has been used in the con- | struction of the storing and firing reser- | | 4 according to the old saying, can’t do voirs, having a diameter of six feet will | © por even if it don't care. be used for two of the tubes to be placed | Tax Foon Yate at Sandy Hook. This will reduce the! : : i large egus will weigh about a pound. number of joints and the labili : : ey Joints and the liability to], a fleab- producer one pound of eggs is 80 far no plans have been definitely { equal to one pound of beef, About one. made for the protection of the tubes from | third of the weight of an egg is solid wn eoemy's fire, Placed on a lovel sand | BUtriment, which is more than cao be spit as thoy will be at first : nothing | #8id of meat. There are no bones and could prevent their being knocked to | tough pieces that have to be laid aside. ieces by a vessel far out of their range. | Practically, ao egg is animal food; and probable that after the tests are | Jet there is none of the disagreeable over high and wide breastwork of sand | WOTK of the butcher necessary to obtain will be build all around them. As they | It: Kuga at average prices are among the cheapest and most nutritious articles u inh elevation. this will | : ) usually fire at a high elevation, this will | of diet. Like milk, an egg is complete { food in itself, containing everything that not obstruct their use, but will protect | them almost completely, not only | i pT Only by the | is necessary for the development of a per. fect animal, It is also easily digested, resistance of the sand, but also by con. cealing their exact position, Th I : : £ ote js, if not damaged in cooking. Indeed there is no more concentrated snd nour. of course, no smoke to betray this, EXCEPTIONAL ACCURACY OF Ping. ishing food than eggs. The albumen, At all ranges the tubes can place | oil and saline matter are, as in milk, in seventy-five per cent. of their projectiles the right proportion for sustaining ani. mal life. The valuable or important within a rectangle 90 feet wide by 360 salts are contained in the yolk, and hence feet long. A duplicate of one of the tubes was recently purchased and tested | this portion of the egy is most useful in some forms of disense. A weakly per. hy the Eaglish government for const de. fence. The most skilled rifle practice | won, in whom nerve force is doficient and was thrown in the shade by its perform. | the blood impoverished. may take the snoes. At the close of the target prac. | yolk of an egg with advantage, The tice during two days British military | iron and the phosphoric compounds are authorities who witnessed the experi- | in a condition {5 be easily assimilated, ments declared that the accuracy of | and, although hommopathic in quantity, this aerial torpedo thrower was unparal- | nevertheless exert a marked influence on leled on the system, The yolks of eggs con- taining, ms they do, less sibumen, are not so fojuriously affected by heat as the whites; and a hard-boiled yolk may usually be eaten by invailds without in- convenience. ARE SR A Ax English lady owned a big St. Ber. nard which would kill lambs, One day a farmer gave the dog's mistress ig Ismb, she put it on the lawn with ths dog and sternly commanded him to jet it alove. He did, and the two becamo disappeared, has succeeded in his hands there was no material canse for headache, producing any disagreeable sensation, but increasing gradusliy the inteasity of the taps the distressing symptom. It is evident that this relief can 4 momentary {and that the cause must be discovered {in order to be sure to cure the headache, only be pain in nervous, people. It is at any rate easy to try, At a range of 3.948 yards or 21-4 miles the error in direction was 3 0.10 ards; at 3,044 yards it was 1.5 yards, wind at the time vas moving at the rate of eight fest per second and the de. viation from the range wus from 17.2 to 22.6 Javds, 1t is believed that this aerial torpedo thrower will largely supersede the sta. tionary torpedoes heretofore introduced for coast defenoe. : i Accordin a La Mr, ACCIDENTS AND INCIDENTS OF EVERYDAY LIFE, Queer Facts and Thrilling Adven- tures Which Show That Truth is) Stranger Than Fietion, Bon Vonvs hates an alligator. At least this statement is made by the Lump- | kin (Ga.) Independent. The vncunny | appearance of the big ugly saurian is | sufficiently forbidding to most people to | make them despise him: but Bob has a | better reason than that: they destroy his fish and pigs and would destroy his | geese and ducks if he had any. Bix or | eight years ago Bob started a goose farm on his mill pond, He knew the value of feathers, and thought the people would appreciate the opportunity of obtaining them pear home for making pillows and beds. His big mill pond was such a fine place for them to swim and live and raise | in. So be got up five or six hundred | wirs of geese 0 put them on his pond. | I'hey were in their glory, and the water was dotted with the white and blue of their plumage from morcing till night as they graceiully glided over the placid expanse of the pond. Their nests were built in the rushes along its sides, and their melodious voices reverberated along its banks from end to end. But they did not increase according to Bob's notion their pumbers were diminishing peccept- A dead one could be seen occa the At first Bob thought it might be minks, otters, skunks, pos sums, or what not, that were destroying found out that it was alligators, for he actually saw one day one of the ugly creatures catch a goose found in months Bob had the would sometimes be course of s few 1 of water, but not a single goose and, as aforesaid, Bob hates an reese the been occupying the dull summer months in killing them Mun. Texas, the of exterminating them with the sgn, re Carney, Lig mancher whose scheme for by inoculating not long ports that the plan promises success. His plan is tocatch wolves or coyotes in a trap and put them in a corral with a dog ! after they have become infected to turns them disease is incurable. Mr. Campbell has infected and turned lox about twenty coyotes and wolves in this way in three He Lins found any dead wolves, but he has trapped sev an advanced which he concludes it is He FAYE nothing but a car nivorous animaliwill take the discase and consequently there is no danger to stock in spreading it. Wi and have greatly increased in recent years in spite of all attention to cleans them out, 1 stookmen are watching Mr. Camp. with interest, nr "ne not Yet disease in stage, from spreading ives covoles bell's scheme A contovs accident recently befell the four-year-old child of Frank Larsen, a , in the little fellow swallowed =a hatched turtle The creature, ii was about the size of a half dollar, had been sent the mother from the South, and the boy was playing with it, put in his mouth. after the pe culiar fashion of children to clap everything there that comes in their way, The mother heard the boy gasping for breath, and runsiog to it some which newly wii saw that hard « bject had become lodged in the upper throat. A doctor was hurriedly summoned, and after some diffe ity succeeded in getting hold of the obstrus tion, and drew it forth to his own and Mrs. Larsen's astonishment. The turtle had drawn in its limbs on indi: g itself in close quarters, and was fittle the worse for its singular experience, but the boy was almost suffocated Freemax Bioos, of Hutton township, eight miles from Charleston, 111, entries the scalps of 21,000 squirrels at his belt, 80 to speak. As his reputation for truth and veracity is good, his neighbors do not dispute his cinim that he has siaugh tered 500 deer, 300 wild turkeys, and to count. The mighty Numrod is 71 years old, and his sight is just as good as ever, so good, in fact, that if the bullet from the rifle he bas carried for many | years fails to strike Mr, Squirrel between the eyes he will hardly throw the sninal in his game bag—and squirrels are worth from 124 to 15 cents, For thirty-five years “*Freem” Biggs bas hunted ‘bush tails,” and the proceeds of his accurate aim have bought a fine farm on which he reared a family of ten children. Tur natives of the San Blas coast, part of the western const of South America, | have many peculiar customs, The Indian boy, after his marriage, becomes the slave of his father in-law, and must sub- mit io all things to his will until eman- cipated by his own daaghter's marriage, when he sets up his own home and be- comes thenceforth master of his son-in- law. The men are very jealous of their women. and, in case of war or other grave danger, their first step is to kill their wives and children. "They believe dreams and inearity to be the work of evil spirits, and the dreamer, upon reil- ing his dream, is killed, The insane are burned alive. They allow no foreigner to sleep in one of their villages. The total population of San Blas is supposed to be about 20,000. Wour, Chief of the Palouse Indians, is rich and happy. According to a Walla Walla paper, he owns 160 acres of land on the Suake River, all under culti- vation, with a good house and barns, but he prefers to live in his tepee. Ie raises horses principally, sand now has over 2,000. He is forty-nine years of age, and dresses in Indian costume, with moceasing, blanket, eatico blouse shirt, trousers, and a bat decorated with tur- key feathers, pxeept on great occasions, when his favorite headgear is a hat brim ndorned all around with coyote tails, For jewelry ho wears rd beads, shells, Fe Jewel antl a, of brass, Tur immense sycamore tree on the banks of the Sandusky River, u of the village af ; speoies east of the Rockies. [It is forty- one fect in girth at the base of the truek, and for years it has beet one of the siglits of Northern Ohio. Near iy Colonel Crawford was burned at the stake by Indians, and the tradition is that he would have been burned at the very the vengeance of the Great Father for such an act of sacrilege. Miss Exaa Lixosay, while quarreling with her brother-in-law in Ohio Falls Ind., suddenly became speechless and blind and tell to the floor. The girl, at Inst wecounts, was still blind and dumb, The experience of John Bahler, of Battle Lindsuy's. Thirty-two years ago it was found necessary to remove both his eye- balls. A year ago he suddenly saw a light-—a lamp upon a table It was found new eyeballs were growing on the ends of the optic nerves. Sives that time Babler's eyesight has been gradually improving, and he can pow distinguish pronounced colors, Ricuaro Hovesox, LL. D., secretary of the American Society of Psychical lesearch, tells the following instance of remarkable duality: Aosel Bourne, an home in Greene, RR. 1., while apparently in his usual health, Two months after ward he was discovered in Norristown, Pa., where for six weeks he had been Keeping a smsil variety store under the name ol A. J. Brown, He appeared as a normal but in fact, in & somnambalistic condition all the time, person, Wis i » Two little and heirsases girls, wards in chancery, y $100,000 each, were, it is #aid, recently arrsigoed as vagrants in a London police eourt heir fortunes locked up in chancery that by no process of law can the money be obtained until the children are of ug. B10 BO securely They are at present practically destitute, 1 ¥ t t I 4 is i 1ife4t and unable to procure decent surround ings, cloth g or education. Ax Indian paper saya that the young Ra) sh of Poodookota recently went on & ] expedition to 'ravancore, . and shot an elephant whose tusks weighed 70 his the record two pounds, Mr whose Tr ih heals Sanderson, i was the having killed an Ludia highest, 1 Southern whose tusks us accide The driver stand gevolions cure sicutia Ww hic i was performing his of the conveyance was al Lhe wl when the was Lhirown He rious Con and the driver “ad moved to a hospital in a dition A sox of } irker, of A hay WILLIE PiAVID banks of father's CAns ion bis hb Was re re i hark, on the pear his several Lin id and rom 1%40 to rand fii which containe i 2 6K SUYEr Coins ranging | 1830 The buried money is Pisses] to hiave been bry war, some one during the Vizcuxr Jos Hare, brothers separated in 1844, one going South and the other West One eutered the Union and the service, and each thought the other ds ad, until a receot Monday, when they met by acc dent in Ashland, Ky They have for years been living within hall a das’s ride of each other without knowing it. Mn ord, AND other the Confederate and wife of Mil. have been married sixty-five and have occupied the wuse nearly hall a century. ninety-three years old and two, Jonus Lesreny Me. Rs, sane He she eighty. is AN ELECTRICAL DETECTIVE Novel Way In Which a Murderer Was Brought to ConMsion. Those who are accustomed to frequent the courts in which murder cases sre tried find themselves drifting into the habit of attaching grea. sigaificance to actions, gestures and expressions which under ordinary circumstances would es eape notice, A prominent electrical journal relates how this habit ied to the nid of electricity. The murder had prisoner appeared indiffer- ent. in fact, it absolutely was impossible for the most damaging testimony against him, The prosecuting attorney, however, soscel hold on the arms of the chair in which he sat, but seemed to support himself by Knowing that under intense men. tal excitement, no matter how outwardly cording to the intensity of the emotion and the susceptibility of the person af- securing evidenoe of great value, He thought that if the srs of the chair could only be made to communi. oate the pressure of the irvisible con- tractions of the muscles of the hands and arms of the witness, an important light might be thrown on the case. He called an electrician to his aid, und dur. ing the absence of the prisoner from the court room the arms of the chair were removed and split in hall avd io each was placed a bard carbon plate, which served as a variable resistant. Wires were run from metal plates, placed on either side of the carbon, through the legs of the chair and under the floor to a telephone receiver and battery placed in an ad joining closet. The arms were again upholstered and the chair replaced. E increase in FOR THE FAIR SEX, A QUERBN'S PHOXOGRAPH. In italy the Queen has found a use for the phonograph, which there has hitherto filled the role chiefly of a harm. Queen Margherita has a but like others who have this power she performing. Now, however, a phono- graph is placed oun the piano, records the fleeting fancies of the mu. NORMAL SCHOOL IX TURKEY. Porte to be organized in Constantinople, as a result us teachers may well step toward the emancipation of the Moslem women from the bondage of the barem, and its influence will be wide and revolutionary, Nothing leparture traditons of the East may in girls’ schools sud and it cusioms than this, gress of the Orient. —{ Courier-Journal. THE HOUSE OF LUCRETIA MOTT. In Nantucket, Mass + the house in which Quiakeress, Lueret Lor "lov the justly-famed is Mott was born, and years livea, it is in "as the huddle of houses or. the iniand's harbor s Very many iv is called, and stand. ut the meeting of two narrow stony high ways known us School and Fair A large frame structure, with the * i Btreets, ap common to its era of architecture paned wind and hos pitable doorway opening ipon a double flight of steps leading street, it is much the roof” wide, any we, i * Eideways to the in general The iis pad 5 Fal first built, voticeably modern touch is in Wh 1s of the nably with finishings of ds ed pearance as when Onuiy creamy dark green f thie hist ie of the Nan i New York OU g fur Lattc a thie wo riv those Years But a servation what has wary io nent is tt sbirmotlen L100 ih A inl nt m Intest book, which is a vainabie contribution to criminal asthiro Pe ¥. although it bears title, ‘Journal for Prison With ail its breadth of view and calm of judgment It carries with it an simost inexhagstible sympathy with J & sympathy which de generates into sentimentality, but has a juality which is born of am intense and ever-present realization of the sacred: of human life and of the awful m ters f ial destiny.~—| New York Ad this woman at th wi translation of her the Vist thodest rE Justjoe iY ct tases , sulliering never th of odivic vertiscer COLORK FOR he AUTUMN AXD WINTER new autumn color cards show + ery many shades in green, all of which are stiractive in tint. Green wiil be among prominent colors {or the fall and winter, brown in rich, beautiful tones being its close rival, Gray-browns are called rossignol. The silver, sapphire, peacock and cadet blues are far more prominent than the navies. The hosts upon hosts of navy-biune costumes worn at World's Fair have given the shade a death-blow regarding ite popularity with best dressed women for some time to Princess dress models from Paris ateliers are made of silver-biue bengaline, brocade and faille Francaise severally he One, teries. The vest, culls and eoliar are of gold or silver crepe de Chine. Yellow, particularly for millinery uses, will be very fashionable in the golden rod shades, also in canary and maize tints. Prim rose, honeysuckle and buttercup tints are lovely for evening. The violet and mauve shades are beautiful, but exceed- The mahogany, rosewood and old cherry dyes reappear with sdded brightness, and some of the fad “art” colors are more than ever dainty asd delicate. — {New York World, LINEN YOR THE DUCHESS OF YORK. It will probably interest fair readers to hear a few details about the house. bold linen provided for the newly wedded British royal couple's menage, writes a foreign correspondent. A Bel. fast firm has supplied a good deal of it notably some lovely hand woven double damask table cloths of various designs. One of these is especially elaborate, a series of ferns being intertwined with ivy, lily-of the valley, ote, and having a centerpiece of a perfect bank of foliage surrounded with ivy sprays. There are two borders to this design, one so woven us always to appear on the table, and an outer one in festoons of fern and bou- quets of ivy. Another pattern has a geometrical scroll with bouquets of arum lilies and palms, and has also the inner border arranged to show on the table a band of trical designs several inches wide, and termivating inside with the Greck key and the ornamental scroll. At cach corner are medallions of lillies and palms, Dotipiete ser oF maAPK Ape, ahle ete set oO ne, Ps, board cloths, doilies, ete, ] iece of white roses and bods, leaves sna slack berries, whose delineation by the cunning art of the weaver is said to be botanically perfect, There are also | plainer sets of waiting serviettes of the | finest diaper, and all these articles came i from the Emerald Isle. FASHION KOTESR, Blouses of soft silk have collars and { cufls of slashed velvet, Louis XIV, waistcoats of white pique | are decorated with large gilt buttons, Marie Stuart lace has a very open | pattern and closely resembies cluny lace | in appearance Black and white or black and cream is a very stylish combination for new | suites, The revival of white stockings is pre. dicted by London dealers. Bronze ties and slippers, embroidered with colored bends to match the cos. tume, and stockings to correspond, are among the latest fancies. The Parisian style of wearing elbow sleeves in the daytime is not very popu- lar here, as the expense and inconven- iencw are very objectionable, White muslin is worn by young girls for party costumes, with moire or satin empire sleeves and a sash deen in front, ard wie back, and finished off with a small | and long end usrrow tow DOW in, A dainty waist of striped gray and whit gingham, in has 8 round and oe cuffs trimmed braid. | 34 The ir entire se cuffs ms eCugin, so that they can up when oceasion demand fliding habits o } for Are mane v Ver a wai oiland are wear, basque, or th a white tailors HIG RUMmmer iti a round of the worn wi siCconl same site drill, and a Fhe skirls are cut exactly ti ade of the and are white lawn or black satin gaine Leaviest « Wh, bousewife should A thing which every ana which vo vefl pron, fa» 05 Li 5 fer FaREEn,. (5 BR the h ui apron of io whatever would ailine the f ®O Line josey Bie ort one « COessury with Leek of HinOre #0, idea { and raisin spoon wel-s weld ladle, with = silver and and nut perfor. of rations with squirrel on i sas dex clusters, made of over with Fans and tufted oud pincus fluted me new toilet cush ce and muslin diagonal bands of narrow ri f satin st i good form. An is diamond shaped, with around the side t trimming, while a piece « for the top Ons are covered ail bbon, are jon alin # and Baby NMbhron roscites of ince anolaer fe arain forms the cover A collarette that is comin cotton and will wool later on, is a shaped to fit smoothly around the shoul ders, and folded ts points in front, it is effective in the stiff linen aod in heavy cotton goods, : FOW ns, ¢ repeate § pap 3 9 three-quarter Cin A magnificent silk brought over from Paris, to form part of an autumn trons sca, in rather a velvet than a silk, the black velvet ground being striped by white silk in braided weave like hop. sacking Vests of rich black lace laid in ser peatine folds over yellow and [framed with fine gold gimp give a lace toilet a most’ distinguished appearance. Glimp ses of the yellow silk or crepe de chine show upon the shoulders and at the wrists of the siceves Reseda green crepon trimmed with pale ecru erepon bands bordered with jet and gold are | fresh and stylish-looking to a degree, { and very heooming, Entire gowns of white mull or of | figured organdie are worn trimmed with insertions and flounces of Valencienoes lace. As many as nine rows of inser { tion, separated by spaces, are used om | the skirt, with two or three flounces of ince near the bottom. Similar rows of {insertion hold the lower pari of the | sleeve close to the arm and form the yoke, while there is a deep fall of lace at the wrist and down the front. Burial Customs, Corpses were often interred in a sitting posture, sometimes, doubtless, to save the vxpense of a full-sized grave, as in the case of ** Rare Hen Jonson” at West. minster, The hour glass in the coffin was varied in Bweden by another kind —» looking glass —in the coffin of unmarried women, so that they can see to comb their huis when Gabriel blowas his trump, In Yorkshire and other British coun. ties the custom still lingers of sendin funeral cakes to the frivads of a d person, Iz Wales the east wind is called the wind of the dead men’s feet, because the desd are buried facing the east, In some of Scotland the window blinds are taken down during a funeral and the windows covered with white The practice of a plate of salt on a body i. perbape, desotodud fom medimeal custom, body of Henry IL of d was literally salted : wra in a bull's hide and borne for burisi. »
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