| A TAPESTRY AE SISi, MRS. H.W. DART, THE MOTHER OF TAPESTRY PAINTING IN AMERICA. Pictures That Command Attention. = A Glimpse of Her Studio. A pretty and practical studio in New York, which has not been form- ally thrown open to the public, be- longs to Mrs. H. W. Dart, the tapes- try painter. It takes up the whole width of the house, on the ground floor, is simple and unpretentious in decoration, and fitted up with large stretches and easels, all of which are well filled with the work of the artist. Mrs. Dart is the mother of tapes. try painting in merica. She was the first person to do the stained tap estry work in piece yer © south il a vard square 1 of costumes, overs, dressy have been but is not for that while she in her studio Mrs. Dart most ambition reproduction o Story.” It parties who s tapestry +», RN Tha vanrod: Ihe reprodt Mrs. Dart | ors in the tay bition in INT] ed the first priz fr merits of this in his painting Mrs prize was adiplon 1 kind ever tapestry in th “The Missionary He FOR THE YOUNG FOLKS. LITTL} We have a li She says ° To pe and ms As j You serub ar ten White muslin trimmed } In fifteen minutes, often less She's “Little Dirty-Face.’ with But smiles oft break that e dirt, And smiles the dimples chase, And tender eves light up with That little dirty face. love "T is naught but superficial Which serubbing will erase: So ma and pa are rather proud Of Little Dirty-Face. On tot’s small phiz the trouble is To find a kissing place, But stay—I see a rose-bud mouth On Little Dirty-Face. hug’ Thou little toddling Grace— Thy soul's as pure as angels’ robes, My Little Dirty-Face. | Boston Transcript. A CURIOUS EXPERIMENT. with one end just large enough to fit round the eye, and the other end rather smaller. Hold the tube be. other hand); put the large end close against the right eye, and with the left hand hold a book against the side of the tube. Be sure and keep both ayes open, and there will appear to be a hole through the book, and ob- jects seem as if seen through the hole instead of the tube. The right eye sees through the tube, and the left eye sees the book, and the two appearances are so confounded to. ge er that they cannot be separated, e left hand can be held against the tube instead of a book, and the hole will seem to be seen through the hand.~~[New Orleans Picayune. THE UMBRELLA BIRD, Do you think he carries an um. fey Chieago, and for six inthe entrance hall of Mrs. Potter Palmer's mansion. It was to have been hung in the Women's Building at the World's Fair with Mrs. Dart's tapestries of Marie Antoinette, in a space that was offered to the artist for that purpose, but which she was a canvas frame upon which is stretched a large worsted tapestry, upon which the artist is now at work. It depicts an young girl sitting on the bank of a stream, surrounded with wild roses and butterflies; her bare feet harely tip the water us she sits looking into it with a musing ex- | pression, The figure is three-quart- ers life size. Opposite to this, near- ing completion, ix a large tapestry of Charon rowing Psyche over the river Styx. The figures are half life size and beautifully proportioned. The subtle beauty of Psyche, ns she sits reposefully in the end of the boat intensified by the contrast of Char- is TAPESTRY DRORDER ~~ RSE wrrrw § THE MISSIONARY his wonderful crest Shoudn't vou ti be proud of yet the gift in stich large sort of quill iI% IN spread swore the w hole When th fan and c it is like a 3 bird before umbrella al- Did vou ever hear of arries a fan and made for use? These birds are they live that ¢ seldom seen, bee the highest trees, where But their cry it has so deep n Indians call them Of frat heard. the often corder. THE WOODPECKER 8 WAYA, his living by tap, tap, tapping at the trges to find out any little bugs or worms spugly hidden under the bark. His name, as I suppose you know, is Mr. Woodpecker. He finds most of his food in hollow or partly de. cayed trees, where myriads of small insects make their home under the bark, or in the various parts of the decayed trunk. Here Mr. Woodpecker is in his glory. He taps and taps with his sharp little pickax of a bill until he finds a hollow place. Here he runs his long, slim tongue, which natura lists tell us is so sticky that it pulls out the poor little worm or insect easily enough and the creature be- comes Mr. Woodpecker's dinner. If a more thorough search is required Mr. Woodpecker's bill picks off quite muscle 18 highly developed. Another well-known piece of Mrs, Dart’s work is now in the possession of Mrs. Ladd, of Boston, It is a re- r which and feathery and ‘ himself is not ornamental or loose Uses ful to him, for he can prop upon it as he pecks away upon the trunk for his dinner. The funny noise which the wood- pecker makes sounds much like the at a door or a window. And disturbed one looks out and finds elinging to the roof or a post only a saucy little woodpecker it is ensy to think by his mischievous eves that he knows he is cheating rather enjoys the tapping when (he Mr. Woodpecker makes hig nest in the same spot where he gets his dinner—an old hollow tree. He picks out a tree to suit his taste and side of the bark ns a sort of entrance to his house. At the end of this passage he hollows out a nice nest in the dead part of the tree, lines it with soft, dry leaves, moss and wood dust, and then his nursery is all ready for his young family. There are many different kinds of woodpeckers-—the downy wood. pecker, the golden-winged wood- pecker and the commonest—=the red headed woodpecker. This bird is a well-known one and makes himself very useful in destroying the various insects which destroy various kinds of trees, —[ Atlanta Constitution, Tur regulations of the British Post Office require that every unsound tooth shall be taken out of a man’s head before he can be employed. An unfortunate girl who recently was examined for promotion had fourteen teeth taken out at one sitting by or der of the official dentist, who ex iim lained that “we can’t have girls laid up with toothache,” i 1 INTERESTING NOTESAND MAT. TERS OF MOMENT. Queer Facts and Thrilling Adventures Which Show that Truth is Stranger Than Fiction. TatLLess eats with purple eyes are common in Siam. New York has 400 regular egg chandlers, by who their bread telling good eggs from bad, earn "Tis said that drug stores in Mass. achusetts have increased in number from 1,400 to 2,500 in two years. A Binve distributor died recently in New Hampshire at the age of 66, who during his life distributed 120. 000 Bibles. A CAR LOAD of matches was ignited by friction in burned the other Kentucky. transportation and day at Burgio CORDING to statistics, women to- Gi an ave twent two inches taller, than they were thirty years ago nre srage IN certain districts of of Sicily the in dustry gathering the thread substance sceereted by mussels is ci ried on, The fiber thus obtained is d in the { Of siix manufacture MOSQUITO injects poison into order fluid wot nd Makes he i i may ap i sail § IRA 3 CIO%NID Coming ig the Six Fir he in the way of clubs men ber « this particular « lub mn have at least six | An elaborate re secretary shows that there IIZOrs on ong port drawn up bs persons in thie world with six fingers hand and #31 with One individoal., indeed, is ie h sCYen fingers thie proud PORSCRSOT of eight 6 to ngers to one hand Turns is on a mantel in one of the the residences of a Georgia family a i which bears a striking resemblance to an ancient castle the turrets doors and strong foundations being distinctly marked, The peculiar feature about the little wldity is that, to hold itunder a gas- light, gives the stone the appearance of the building with many lights re. flected from the windows, siece Of ston Massive sGorpesiris save’ their floors and gildera their rags with surprising re- sultant One important firm of jewelers in this city requires its factory empldyes to leave their The SOONOMIes, swept nightly. but once in every few years floors, benches and clothes are burned. After one of these burnings the crucibles contain as a residuum thousands of dollars’ worth of pre- clous metal. ’ Turrr may be seen near Kelso, Scotland, the extrnordinary specta. cle of a hen bestowing maternal care on a litter of three Dandie Dinmont pups, the property of John Wait, for. ester there. It seems that the pups, which are about three weeks old, had | been deserted by their mother, and in their aimless wanderings had come into contact with a broody Orpington hen, the result being that hen began to go about with them, When she site down the pups climb over her back and erawl under the wings just like as many chickens, and are, apparently, as much attached to their feathered foster-mothor asthe latter is to her canine family, | “A TRAIN was recently stopped in on the line between Belles ing curious circumstances: A freight] train had in one of its cars some cod | iiver oll, which began to leak away | from the eontaining vessel, By | chance, the escaping stream struc | exactly in the middle of the rail. The | train that bore the oil not affec. ted, but track was thus well greased for the passenger train that followed, which came to a standstill when it reached the oil rails. Nearly three-quarters of an hour were con- sumed in running the two and one- | and dili- Fis the station, by to the next attained gent sanding of the track this rate was only Tis Record tells an interesting about who formerly lived in that eity. husband was critically ill that pened to hear of a Covington (Ky story ft woman Her anid while he was in condition she hap- focal | very have iol. in the cemetery which was for sale thinking she would use for it in a short while that if be the wise her to de 3 ke arranea me i { § | » arrang eI cheap and 3 deci would for vance, Bhe accordingly the lot, but 1 her anda 3 BOOHG] £0 than ive i ill and died, and her terred the lot economy in had inaguoece story properties from China. Anhul a party their was made reat % . 5 ‘ tion h monster 8 head was AEisn pull aog ing in r # rows Of h el t coth glistening the crea- fo attael had and thought with grea and all the tine ture was baying as if about something. Bef: recovered their of using their guns, deep water and the sun sre the hunters SPHses the fish into disappeared or twice after it went under. Once Sure Cure for Kieptomania. ‘“Kleptomania is becoming so gen eral in the East that it will soon have to be treated as common theft,’ said Leonard F. Clifford, of Boston. “In my capacity as an attorney | consulted a year ago by a man whose wife had acquired the habit of pilfer. ing both stores and private houses, He was constantly coming home at night and finding ornaments, vases and jewelry in the house which he knew had not been sequired honest ly. Again and again he compromised with storekeepers, sometimes paying exorbitant prices for luxuries he did liz means. He had paid two or three large doctor bills in trying to get his garded as a disease, and he had come to the conclusiongthat itwas necessary to take measures of a more prompt character. [I advised him to take the bull by the horns and Jet his wife serve at least a week in jail, He did not like the idea, but consented, and the next time his wife was caught he refused to bail her out and allowed astonishment his wife was given ninety days. We managed to get three