"FOR THE FAIR SEX. BEASONABLE HINTS AND MAT- TERS OF MOMENT. o——— A Dove-Colored Gown—An Alteraoon Tollette — Double Skirt House Dress ~ Fashion Notes. FASHION Cloth jackets, have jackets ot velvet. Feather boas are made of black and white coques’ piumes. Black plush capes are trimmed with jet and a feather boa. Magenta or cream accessories are used for black wool or silk gowns. Shaded felt hats are made of contrast. ing colors or two shades of a color. Cream felt Alpine hats, are trimmed with black velvet and wings. NOTES tiny Zouave with double faced satin ribbon, Opal earrings, surrounded by small dismonds, are being more cxtensively worn than ever. Silk bodices in Paisley designs are coming into favor, snd are very effective with braces of lace over the shoulders. A PLAID STREET GOWN, This gown is made of plaid wool goods, trimmed with black velvet facing and bretelles of velvet. The vest is of plaited surah in a blending shade. After the unsuccessful attempt to harmoniously blend all the colors of a gorgeous parrot in one gown, it is a re- WILL MOTHS EAT SILK! For all of these years we have put away our silken fabries with the utmost com. placency, in the belief that moth and rust at least would not deprive us of the enjoyment of their beauties; but of late when we unfold these glossy treasures find here a little spot that looks as though it had been scorched, there a tiny hole, and somewhere clse a furrow with a very suspicious sppearance. Investi. gation reveals the fact that some insect depredator has been at work, and on several occasions a moth has been found regaling himself on this, to him, new dainty, Just why moths should take to silk after all these years is one of the un- solved problems of life. Whether the treatment of the silk, the dyes or the finish has anything to do with this or whether it is a new species of moth, or maybe, if tired of one sort of diet, this insinuating pest has made up his mind to try new pastures, some one well up in the science of insectolozy might decide, greatly to the satisfaction of the per- plexed housewife. Certain it is that women who own silken garments are finding it necessary to take great care of certain sorts of silk. Some fine Japanese crapes seem to have offered a very tempting bait to these small creatures, for thd fabrie is perjorated with holes as clean-cut as though made with a die. One woman is having bags made for all her dresses. Two-yard wide sheeting is cut in suitable length for the skirts, A hanger, such as is used in the shops, is fastened to the bag, the skirt is put over this, the waist is attached by tapes, then the bag is drawn over and closely tied with a draw string. 1f these bags are washed and starched, they are almost impervious to moths, and a little pre- caution of this Kind may save a dollar's worth of dresses, The bag is equally good {or wool or silk, and half a dozen of them should be in the wardrobe of every woman who owns good dresses. — { Brooklyn Citizen, BONNET PINS. At one time every one fastened on her hat with a piece of elastic. Then this was discarded and far from ornamental black and white headed pins, as the case might be, were used. The appearance | of many a pretty little bonnet was marred | by the reckless use of these unsightly | articles. But we have changed all that, | and nowadays bonnet pins are made a special study of, with the most « harming results. It is necessary to have a set of | pins to tone with each hat or bonnet, | and they may be obtained in all shapes, | sizes and colors. Some of the prettiest | simulate flowers. | Blue corn flowers have a tiny crystal glistening in the center of the stamens, and brillianey is added to counterfeit Neapolitan and wo yd violets by the same means. Pink tipped daisies make pins, natural be. witching goms in with crys { nore Co if an ummense as do sweet pea blos Pia heads set s are always effective. Of v and elaborate designs there variety Moonstones mach used in conjunction with moods, snd many fanciful ideas carried out in the malti-colored stones | which have been so fashionable of ! tints Re dia are New York Commercial Advertiser of black and white or black and are popular again, cream Sloped gores let into the back of a effect. a noticeable characteristic of fashions, jonable floral sweets of the moment ruie. are slashed in tabs each of equal length on some form, others graduated and made several inches shorter on the sides. Beautif:' costumes, following the present craze for magpie effects of black and white, are seen at Newport just now that are formed of white cloth either i i rows of narrow velvet ribbon. trimmed with velvet and wings is the invariable addition. jot gimp, or black SALE AE POUBLE SKIRT HOUSE DRESS, Bhot velvets are used in millinery and fn wrap and gown finishing. esc shot velvets are newer than their name indicates, ns they are not the shaded velvets known by thet term which have been in use so , They are two-tone fabrics, a v oo shade of a color ery ii og me Vy Me gl wen a r like the black cherry, ho Black che is Snderigned by : . Two colors are asso Jon: as well, red showing through green and through black, AX AFTERNOON TOILETTE, CAUSE OF BAD COMPLVXIONA The main cause of a bad complexion lis a bad digestion. Eating too much, | eating foods that do not nourish or that { do not agree with the system, derange tit, Indigestible or superfluous food, in I T—————> —————— a times beautifully worked up with sliA or are combined with jet or enameled plates. I have seen many shaded gilt and silver galons worked up with jet, But the shaded trimmings are likely to become very common, A DOVE~COLORED GOWN, This dress of lady's cloth has a full frout of sky-blue Bengaline, which passes beneath a vest of cloth that is cut in a new and particularly smart fashion. WRAPS Fon Cloaks for the and more luxurious | They are frequently or bengaline in white shade of color, and are mostly coats in Mother Hubbard style. The yoke, how ever, is merely deep enough to sew the fullness of the skirt upon it. A bunchy effect is reslly aimed at and easily achieved, with the { LITTLE FOLKS, wees ones are daintie than before made of soft faille Any delicate ever or over the shoulders, They are very ias cinating: and they are properly c« mpleted with cunning poke hoods to match them, which come in sizes up to old. seven For misses and young girls there great variety of « ranging short jackets to long redingotes boucle snd other rough, but heavy and soft, cloths are used for ; fancy mixtures The trimmed with beaver as is also a with gray | is A Ris, I'he these, in many b uct handsome, ong green coat trimmed f while for a Drunette brown is very fox sthing could be more be dark red-and.bisek diagonal Hercules braid, nd 4) garment of a heavy with black trimmed weave, from th ROTH Many coats have ee tof overlapping skirts, shape and ] seams of the bodice part | with three of these skirts is { effective, and are { narrow they have the effect | | Demorest # {eri oa Lime circle the Le SOME imes when thes S———— PERS AGAIN he whistling winds eall #i ping shoul fer The shawl ! like effect i goodby 1 | shoulder, athletic tailor-made and Minerva like, the gjuare 0 at ' 54 inches long, and all ! from a line over the point of t shoul. | der, which adda to the sloping effect of he the mode 8t. Louis Republic The great Russian family of Menschi »- ’ part in the history of the empire, is now extinct. The first Menschikofl was the | WON of a pratry cook, who, after becom | Siberia. one of the most ardent relative, Prince Londos World, (sagarine, | composes and causes either a yellow t {akin is a simple diet. face is time and effort wasted, ease is inside, and that remedy must be applied. is where the basis. After that temperance, land dieting will do the work. | what the diet should be will depend upon the individual, but simplicity, ab- stemiousness and regularity sre indis- penile to heslth and good lonks, eople who go to prison and into con- vents and monasteries are always healthier and handsomer when they come out than they were before they went io. Bread and water may not be toothsome, but it is wholesome. Children and babies who leave asylums and institu. ions for homes in private families get sick the first week, proving that nature does not require either rich or abundant material for beauty aad health. BRAID, BRAID, BRAID, Braid is to be the prime trimming braid straight or wavy, woven more or less fancifully, wide and small combined, fantastically arran as embroidery, braid of every conceivable kind, in short, black, white or colored, The new jackets are braided in straight lines or stripes on sleeves and plastion. The pew oloth skirts are braided in either horizontal lines or groups of vertical lines tc the knee. Of course, shaded braids are to be used, and alerge amount of shaded metal braids or made of tinsel or silk and tinsel combined. Some splendid effects are obtained in the shaded metal galons, They are some. - LITTLE GIRL'E GOWN, i Velvets and bengalines will be used for coats, and so will cloths, the newest of which are ro cheviots in plais colors and in ugh effects, A — Tabliers, tuoics and overskifts are a foregone conclusion. wl SOMEWHAT STRANGE. ACCIDENTS AND INCIDENTS OF EVERYDAY LIFE, Queer Facts and Thrilling Adven- tures which Show That Truth Is Stranger Than Fiction, ES —— Ir is alleged of a gauger, not long ago dismissed from the revenue service, that he, lost his place because of a tin breast- plate. ‘This chest protector followed in shape the contour of his form, fitted on beneath his vest, It was hollow and held about a fluid gallon, Its frequent filling at the expense of wholesale liquor dealers led to his downfall. Wesley Everett of Mullan, Idaho, while hunting cinnamon bear, wounded a full- rrown animal, which closed in on him. ‘bo bear knocked the gun from his hand, crushed the right leg above the knee, lacerated the right arm in a frightful manner, but expired just at the moment when his teeth had closed on Evereit's throat. ‘The latter will recover, Tite atest development of the iusur ance business is interesting. You can buy suspenders which entitle your next of kin to 8500 if you are killed while wearing them, and there are also hats which entitle your heirs to a similar amount if you are found dead with one on your head. If the hat is found by your side both it and the insurance are off." Tug oldest twins in Connecticut are Mrs. Eunice Pierce of New Haven and Mrs. Louviey Williams of Meriden. They are sighty.seven, and as bright, smart, spry, healthy, industrious, and cheerful bodies .as any in the Siate Mrs Pierce hus just been paying her annual visit to her sister in Meriden, They are members of a family of nine children, all of whom are dead except themselves and a brother in Kansas. GronceE JAMISON, of the most expert snd experienced hunters in Northern Pennsylvania. A few days sgo he consented to take his friend Michael Nelson along with him Jamison kept a watchful eye on hi as they went through the woods, “It is as & man's life is worth,” he Nelson, *‘to go into the woods Hb, 80 you very care The words t of Jamison's mouth when s toe and His gun The full charge entered u's breast, killing him instantly. Hian Rockies a to or KB OK out, Mike, and be shoot me.’ he stuvbed b fell. 18 Liarged wel "iS i slope of the the red upon A SROW.-Liad huater from Fast came upon a curious and tragic ord. Far as the eye could reach there stretched The « had evidently been stretched in mad fight, for hi much further apart have bees had his gait been of A few yards before the ended each print of ihe rabbit's out he trail of a jack rabbit reatu most wore would rail j¢ upon the stretched wings seain and again. Then came evidences of a struggle. The snow was stained with blood, snd there were tults of fur lying about. Then the trail « nded. sUG w of an eagle's out . ais was repeated Tur most curions of all olijects in New Zealand is that which the Maoria call One is uncertain waether to call it an animal or a pisot. In the first stages of caterpillar about three or four inches in ength, and always found in connection awela myrtle, It appears thal when it reaches full rowth it buries itself two or three mches under ground, where, instead of wadergoing the ordinary chrysalis pro- into a plant, which exactly fills the body and shoots up at the neck to a height of eight or ten inches. This plant resembles the two, animal and plant, are always found inseparable. Sevenar hundred acres in Humbolt county that last sumn.er raised the big- gest hay crop in lows, are baroiog and in places eaten away 10 a depth of fifteen feet. Two years ago the land was several feet known as Owl Lake, It was purchased It dried up, leaving a very rich soil. The earth was peatty in char. acter, and a few days ago, when a prairie fire swept over it, the soil itself took fire, burning like turf. All efforts to quench it are unavailing, und unless rain comes the whole bed of the lake will be burned away. The fire eats down to a hard clay, that will be of no use for farmin purposes. Any number of fossil remains ure exposed to view where the fire has burned out. Several acres have already been burned over. A veil of smoke hides the ravages of the fire. T. 8 fit of Knoxville, lows. is the proud owner of a porcine oddity that, to use a strictly original phrase, lays all the elephant pigs and other monstrosities of the swine family ‘*‘completely in the shade.” To say that it is ‘‘strangely and wondrously made,” would be putting it too mild by several degrees. It is of average size, plump and fat, notwith- standing the fact that it never breathed the breath of life.” The shoulders and neck are well proportioncd and resamble those of any other baby hog, but, aside from that and an enormous ear, there is notking to distinguish the shoulders from the hams except the ‘‘sot” of the feet. The beast hasn't the least sign of eyes, snout, mouth or jaws. At about the center of the end which should have carried the head, probably directly over the place where the nostrils would be in the regulation pig, there are three ex. crescences, each provided with a small opening. (Republic. Pronansy there is not another man in New England who has bad such sur week as Mr, William J. n, of Belfast, Me. Years he f Rene Spe he ily being in Sears- sssaban entered the navy snd a had not been heard from, his family naturally supposing that he was dead. Levi, at the age of fifteen, sailed away in a Searsport ship commanded by a Capt. Charles Nickels, bound for South America, For cighteen years he had been considered dead, us no tidings of him had ever reached home. Some weeks ago William was surprived by getting a letter from South Airica from his brother Jonathan, saying that he was about to leave on a steamer to visit his old home in Waldo County. He also stated that he was a rancher and editor of a paper. Before the family had got through talking over this news William, 8 fortnight later, received an- other letter, dated in Australis from his other supposed dead brother Levi, This also stated that Levl was about to start for his native clime, for thirty years “ Ope of the most remarkable cases in my experience,” said a well-known piano man the other day to a Minneapolis Journal reporter, in speakiog of wave sympathy and its effect in sometimes causing discords in the harmonious sounds of a piano through wave vibra: tion with articles of furniture, loose doors, chandeliers and stoves in the room with the piano, ** occurred a short time ago when I was called upon to tone the pisno of a prominent lady snd a well known musician of this eity. After run- ning the scale 1 found the discordant key, and immediately proceeded to act upon the wave theory in trying to find the unsympathetic tone was produced. I had the lsdy in the meantime sounding this particular key, but after searching and listening all around the room 1 was unable to locate the cause of the dis cordant note, chair, I sounded the ceiling, tinct than in any other spot. | ing the wall 1 found that the paper had | been stretched over a stovepipe hole and that there were some small pieces of loose plaster lying on the paper i these pieces snd immediately the dis cordant note became perfectly | monious.” Bowman B. Law considers himself fortu but without the loss of any or even of a spar or gail, This is his ex perience as he related it: “We left for the Columbia River. All went weil for the first week, time well about ticular job that attended to painting the mizzen topmast, This was wood, the ether masts and topmasts being iron. 1 noticed that the paint on the spar blistered more or less under the tropical sun One fine a clear sky, the storm came on us Theres was hardly any warning. The typhoon shot out of the Gulf of Niam us though it from a cannon. What in the dis tance was a ripple on 1 surface of (he us became a feath dashed mass of and the nurticans struck us, Al AWAY, we poles at locomotive the Was WAS CRIne he sca, as il approa hed ery foam WAVES, next minute the sail wed and abead speed abated, found The mizzantopmast, however, of paint. The wind had blown the blis. off and nothing remained but the un ‘From the Oregonian, was sto 3% und bare we everything iutaet. ters covered wood bought a furnace and had it set up Sat. urday, says a Moline i { the St. Louis Globe Democrat to work it, so she house down, and that evening he took a | sleeper for St. Louis had a vivid dream. He thought his house was afire and his family was Jocked up With yells of desperation which fairly froze the blood of the other pass engers the sleeper he kicked in the door and found the floor burved away, his wife and everything in the house cremated, and he himself landed in the cellar with a heavy thud. The blow awoke him, and picking himseil up he found | himself by the side of the railroad track Glancing about him, exp | train a wreck and the other passengers 3 | killed, he saw in the starlight iis train 3 i ! inside in *3 oi | vanishing in the distanee. He had actual | ly kicked out the double window of his | berth with his bare feet and thrown him | self feet first through the window to the ground while the train was running | twenty-five miles an hour, and was un | hurt save three cuts on his left leg, caused by the broken glass. The passcn | gers notified the conductor, and when | the train was backed they found the man | walking to meet it. He was clad only in his night clothes, sible to believe his story, but his condi- tion and the deserted berth containing his clothes and the broken window con firmed it. It may not be generally known by people in this vicinity, says the Lumpkin {Ga.) Independent, that there is a rocky region in Meriweather County, near the pine and eak mountain ridges, that seems to be a favorite haunt of snakes in that section, aud the following terrible incident occurred in that locality: It was about the middle of May, and Mrs, Richard Smith, the wife of a farmer, had gone to the field with ber husband, who was replanting corn that bad failed to come up regularly. While they were at work Mrs. Smith wandered off to one side of the field where there were a thicket of dewberry vines. While pick ing the berries she stood upos a pile of rocks that had been picked up from the field and thrown in a heap and the vines bad covered them. When she finally started to step down some of the stones were dislodged and rolled noisily down. Instantly the pile swarmed with furious serpents that hissed and writhed about the frightened woman like so many demons. The sight was so ter. rible that Mrs. Smith stood horror stricken while the venomous crea- and twined about her teen copperheads and four rattiesnsxes had been killed. Several of them had followed hei from the stone pile, hissing and writhing in anger. As soon as pos- sible Mrs, Smith was taken to her home and assistance summoned, but there was not the slightest chance of saving her lite. Her body became quickly swollen to an enormous extent, and the skin assumed hideous colors, She had been bitten & dozen times in the face, and her features Lecame one mass of bloated green and black. Sight fled and speech left her, The pain soon drove her into delirium, and in the most horrible agony life passed away. on r—— Genius and Tealning. The training of men for work which requires the highest possible nicety of hand is not really training. It is far more the selection, by experiment, of men born with the true touch. For ex ample, we doubt whether the very greatest surgeons —the men whose suc cess depends upon their ability to make sharp steel as sensitive an a finger-tip— perform their hundredth operation better than their fist, They have more confi- dence, no doubt. but the sleight-of-hand is unborn. Nobody can train a medi. cal student into a great oculist. It is only the ordinary man of whom it be sald that practice makes perfeet. The man with the special gift is born perfect. But genius is only the | mental side of this gift, apart, and if the people whose business is with mind were #8 honest and as unsophisticated as those who deal with horseracing or brick laying, we should not hear anythiog more about genius being merely the | capacity for hard work. To say that the bricklayer with the “knack ™ is only a | bricklayer who takes pains, would be a It is not less an ab- surdity, though a less obvious one, to | say that 8 man with a genius for style sud literary form 8 mun who knows how to take pains, but no amount | of takingpains will give him the genius of verse. — London Spectator. Can | patent absurdity. is only Insects In Pharmacopora., industr art, but io utilized to indeed to a by the cock roa hes, in 3 and insects Are now absle extent, and understood A Ev ©n and powdered, are rec gnized now the dust termed anti . S. %.13 ich stimulates the Kidneys Cine Jinn, onsider not gencraiiy irofession A% 4 remeas tains an active for dropsy prin pie 3} wo} pia wil it Probabls with the complain fact that HTMONIS the skin substance latterly potato possess an description wed for sup- fH SO ™AnY ties oh- ee is made for dysen- of ex Are TeSO! {ery tracts derived pl these galis, wi of tann . bein larg iv ered in Asia Mi tl ] | New York Telegram and ti formed on stile Diy pal which contain about seventy gath OAK tres understood ; per cent ! Avenged by His Pets, a famous Swiss saint, who | flourished in the ninth century, led a | hermit's life in a cell at Einsiedein, where he was often visited for advice and help. The companions of his solitude were two tame ravens. to which he was much at- tached. In the year 861 the saint was mur | dered in his cell by some men inspired by greed of gold, which they supposed the poor man $0 possess, After the foul | deed they fled toward Zurich, whither they were followed by the two ravens. | There certain pilgrims identified the | birds, and inquries having been made at once. the murderers were arrested and punished {© The saint's cell remained untenanted | for nearly fifty years, bul was rebuilt of stone about a century afterward, and | some two hundred years later the great | sonvent of Einsiedein, still the richest | and most frequented in Switzerland, {arose on the spot where the lonely preacher was siain.—-[New York Jour nal, {| Meinrad, He Made His Deposit, There is more ot less humbug about the traditional slowness of the messenger boy. At least, there is one of them in Kansas City who is abreast of the age in which be lives. This uaiformed urchin keeps an account in one of the banks, and it is growing mpidly, too. The other day he went in to deposit 50 cents. The teller, with more than his custom- ary haughtivess, informed the boy that deposits of less than $1 could not be received by the bank. The young- ster wasted not a word ia argument, but walked quietly to a desk, wrote a check for $1 and presented the same at the window of the paying teller. The check was honored, of course. Then the car rier of the mcseages revisited the re- ceiving teller, “I'd like to deposit $1.50, if you please.” he said, The deposit was scoepted, and the re- ceiving teller was very much chagrined. «Detrort Free Press. Riaz of European Families I —— Thé Berlin Anthropological Seminary has recently completed some curious tab. ulations on the average size of families in the various countries of Europe. Accord. ing to these statistics the a number
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