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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
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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
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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
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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
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£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
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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<iourths of the sentence remit.
ted, but the threo weeks the lady
spent in prison completely cured
her, and she is almost afraid to
into a store now lest she should
suspected of an offense of which she
is never likely to be guilty again.”
PHOSPHATE INDUSTRY.
The Growth in the South is a Com
mercial Marvel.
The growth of the phosphate indus.
It is located in the
States of North Corolina, South Caro-
Florida and Georgia. But little
however, in the first and last
The commissioner's
187 phosphate mining
106 being in Florida,
South Carolina and
Phosphate “
eport covers
establishments,
in
wore
one
Carolina
ft
importance of the discov-
precinted both by scientific and
business men. In 1868 the
i
1801 they produc:
while in
\ ,
Florida phosphate
covered in 188K. a
tual output was 992 024
amount
ed. NN
AMM (HN ton
Hes 1h
$8 ri
g
shows
futu
f Iain
Field and
Stopping a Runaway.
is asserted that in Russia a horse
abit of ran.
cord with a
at the
8 tied to the
this
Corso a
horses
Indy,
des
struction. But the lady coolly grasped
a thin cord and within thirty yards
horses eame to a stop. 1
afterward met the lady a* Nice and
expressed surprise at the skill with
which she stopped the runaways.
She treated it as a trifle, and told me
accidents from runaway horses are
unknown in Russia, as no one but a
lunatic would drive without the
cord. When a horse bolts he always
takes the bit in his teeth, and the
skill of the driver is useless, The
moment the pressure comes on the
windpipe the horse knows he has met
his master. =< Farm, Stock and
Home.
is addicted to the
away has a thin
‘At Rome
informant, ‘1 saw
with two
They were driven by a
SAYS
in hig
spirited
full
Turkish Bedrooms.
Turkish bedrooms are models of
simplicity, the beds though luxurions.
ly soft and furnished with heavily
embroidered pillows, being made
upon the floor, from whence they are
swept up early in the morning by
slave girls the moment their ocen-
pants’ eyes are open, and stowed
away in closets, while the visitor is
left to dress himself in a room from
which all traces of night occupation
have disappeared as if by the wave of
Sveti hand — Pd,
rn . :
Mussulmans who
dulge in brass bedsteads