NEWS FOR THE FAIR SEX. ITEMS OF INTEREST ON NU- MEROUS FEMININE TOPICS. A Queen's Hobby —Faney of the Hour —eads Fortane in Tea Grounds Sigms Her Full Name, ote, A Queen's Hobby, The Queen of Italy has a peculiar hobby-—a collection of gloves, boots and shoes which have been worn afl different periods by royal and imperial personages. She has a pair of white slippers and a fan which belonged to Mary, Queen of Scots; also shoes worn by Queen Anne and the Empress Jose phine, ———— A Fancy of the Hour, One of the newes: fads is the collect- ing of belt buckles from different parts of the world as souvenirs. Travellers can pick up curious coins in odd places, and many bits of fine silver and gold are found in old junk shops and pawn- brokers’ shops. Uncut jewels are seized upon and set in upique designs, owner esting tales, Reads Fortune in Ten Grounds, One of the newest devices for the in reserve for her is the fortune-telling teacup. This cup, deep, has its inner surface covered with a network of lines and a border of stars, fishes, lions, other signs of the zodiac, If the tea signs certain things may be surely ex. pected to come to pass, and the for tune teller, upon consulting a mysteri ous booklet in scarlet covers that comes with the cup. will authorita tively announce the advent of sweet hearts or gifts, or bid the Inquirer “be ware is soon to meet. addendum to the New York Tribune. Signs Her Full Name. There are styles in which a woman signs her name, just as there are styles’ in everything else: and if they have changed less frequently than have the fashions In dress, carpets and wall papers, they have changed no less surely. In times women pot in frequently subscribed themselves by using the initials, or ns the case may have been, of the Christian name, but since women have ered 80 extensively into the professions and employments and have become tomed to handling business correspondd- ence and signing checks, M. Bmith and KE. J. Jones are rapidly giving way to Mary Smith or Elizabeth Jamison Jones. Changes in the character of the names themselves are no less observ. able and equally interesting. There scems to be a reaction from fancier names, such as Gladys, Beatrice, Pan- ay, to the Mary, Margaret, Elizabeth and Katherine of our grandmothers’ time. Even the once much despised Sarah, now spelt without the “h,” has become fashionable. Nor are diminu. tives as popular as they once were, In this direction the influence of higher schools and colleges for girls has been exerted to excellent purpose. —FPhiladel- phia Times, jrast one more, €©ns accus Some Handsome Fans, Parisian fanmaker is the design. of the present day, and Dauvelleroy. in Eagland, is not only a designer, but has a rare col lection of old fans. The lace fan among the finest of the Duvellroy fans, the sticks being of tortoise shell or mother-of-pearl. This artist also shows some beautifully of the louis XVI style and Vernis Martin. In our own shops we find a splendid collection of the most exquisite de- The er of the fashions is of the “Cabriolet” style, which is very beautiful. The pearl sticks are inlaid, and upon the mount are painted dainty Wattean figures. Another is of black & Louis XVI. fan of black green medallions, fovers with chubby near. The fans are from nine to ten inches in length, the tiny empire fan not being as popular as it was several sea. sons ago. There are many pretty chif- fon fans, one having a pretty pastoral scene painted upon it. Another of white chiffon has white silver span- gles decorating it. One very unique fan is made of silk, upon which are appliqued designs in Chantilly lace, and alternating with the lace medal lions are pretty little hand-painted figures; the inlaid sticks are painted and spangled. A pale cream-colored silk fan, einborately ornamented with figures in the style of the Vernis Mar tin fans, is among the most expensive, Paillettes of shining steel are used to sew the delicate patterns of flower sprays appliqued on the net and chif- fon. Washington Star, New Fremeh Lingerie. Very dainty underwear in colored fawn is sold nowndays. Figured nain- sook is also used and makes charm. ing nightdresses, as well as chemises, short petticoats, ete. For wear with linen and muslin frocks long raffled petticoats of buff, pink, blue, green and lilac muslin are sold. They look well when the dress skirt is raised, and wash as well as white petticoats, The new chemises taper at the waist fine or have belts of ribbon beading to draw in the fulness of the material They have elaborate yokes of fine tucks, rows of Insertions, ribbon bead. : Tiny puffings between rows of effective, 80 Uilie convicts wad sivas of lace or of alin mye ) inserted with lace | or embroidery are new and dainty, The low corset has given a new im- petus to designers of fanciful chemises, and even the woman who has thought an embroidered monogram and a nar. row edging of hand embroidery the acme of elegance In lingerie succumbs to the fragile beauty orf the new French underwear. In batiste and lawn and soft China silk the new nightgowns are made em- pire fashion, with short waists and low necks and short puffed sleeves, the belt, neck and arms edged with trails of embroidered flowers, The fronts are lald in fine tucks or narrow accor dion plaits. Nightrobes, with wide col. lars, tichus and long stoles with frilled edges that fall froma the neck and taper down to the feet ure very soft and becoming. Some of the short sleeves are slashed and hang loose, an- gel fashicn, from the shoulders to show the arms. A good deal of lace insertion and frills of fine net are used on the revers and collars of night. dresses. A pretty gown has a trans- parent lace yoke lined with white net, this terminating in a rosette at either shoulder seam, while the gown itself hangs straight from the yoke, a being drawn round whist back to the front.—New York dvertiser, A Mending Factory, juried in the heart of the dence portion of Boston is the oddest little factory in world. There, in a alcove overlooking Governor Walcott's mansion and adjacent dwell ings of fashionable Back Bay, unbe Known to many of its nearest neigh is a reconstruction factory-—a the quiet resi. the 1 a DOrs, less fragments of glass and china are annually reconstructed into hundreds of thousands of dollars in the form of a-brac of stone or vitreous material, From the outside yon would ne recogpize the little factory, for window, though fronting is at the top of a fine old man and is bordered by ivy without and a trailing vine within, back of which are lace curisins, * glance into the interior after lab. oratory hours would scarcely suflice Sherlock Holmes to tell its character, for all that any a luxurious aivan, a harp, a cary bookcase, a heavy mahogany table a covered chair. But you happen to visit it is there and fous closet within kale placques and clent and modern, upon the drawerfuls of piebald pleces, and there a pile of fragments assorted so carefully that could reconstruct innl cup or statue Day after day shatterea of rare ornaments beautified high places collected here. Rome and far Cathay Egypt; some fro Yer the the street, even trae Oe BYR IS od leather should prietress rather wotild of precious spac open you Hau done OWS pie Yases, an halves ROaeIves, and here #vYen you the form of the yourself Wig rAagments that have of the from from anci n caves and rains truria; some from modern courts Europe ad the Vaticaa and some from the famous art contres of Amer ica. They are first sent to a great om porium of Boston, which immediately packs them in 2 bandbox or something similar and delivers shem to the queer little factory by a private messeuge as a Paris milliner delivers his marvels to wealthy patrons of his fashionable establishment. When they from the factory they have been fitted together with such marvel and rare artistic judgment that none but the most practiced eye could fell that they had been frag. nents Labor and capital are in pe rie mony in this little factory. for t anoe earth are india “fit of of Ome SOY energy ft har. i two person propr iestor. rather is all that it can boast, but judging from the value of her fin- ished products and her luxurious style of living, wages there must exceed ~Mise Anna B. Smith, ” os This laboring capitalist, or moneyed is perhaps the most aristocratic ing a competence that she wonld be foolish to exchange for that of her neighbor, the governor, she Is a gradu. ate of Wellesley College, Las a conch. man of her own and travels with the smart set of the Hub. — Chicago Record, Gleanings From the Shops, Crystal fan chains with heart-shaped pendants, Foulard batistes stripes and figures, Tie-chains in gilt or silver with Jewel-mounted pendants, Quilts of all descriptions in shades of white and gray for sailor hats. Frinted batistes in innumerable de. signs reproduced from choice silk pat. torne, Broad displays of Plauen allovers in cream and white as well as fancy: figured nets, Bathing shoes and caps in all color ings to match the flanoel and brik liantine suits, Much neckwear made of lace and cotton point d'esprit nets of various. sized meshes, White pique suits made with tunics elaborately trimmed with white Ham. burg embroidery, Gilt bracelets with crystal. ame. thyst. sapphire and emernid charms of various shapes attached, ilk organdies showing beautifsl and rich persian designs aventuated by in polka dots, A great variety of cotton veils Ia cream and white, as weil as in taste ful combinations of black and white, teolored and white taffeta para. stripes in $1,000 WOULD BUY ‘NOTHING. | S80 the Hobo Hunted Up the Owners Celebrated aos nn Honest Tramp, “I've glent under a shed with the thermometer "way below zero,” sald the tramp, “and I've gone two long days with nothing to eat, but I'm tell Ing you straight that when 1 once had $1,000 in my pocket I was worse off than at any other time I ean remember, I had just been let out of the Bride well, in Chicago, und was begging on the streets and being turned down on every hand, when I picked up a $1,000 bill on the sidewalk. I thought it was a dollar, and you bet | made a hustle to get down a side stree When 1 dodged into a doorway nnd made out that I was a thousand dollars ahead of the game the sweal started from every pore and my knees knocked together. I was regularly seasick for ten min utes, and my heart thumbed away un- til 1 thought it woul. break out. you understand, but I was so excited that it was two bours before 1 do any planning. to buy a new sult of clothes and I en terea » store and picked them out, When 1 wetbited that £1,000 bill the clothier ran 1c the door to call man. 1 got away hy and then 1 realized Tramp that 1 was, | changed at a bank por me more fortable a ten I could have had lodgings and a bed, I'm telling you that walked | the streets as hungry as a shark, and slept at police st and in lumber | yards. a police a close the couldn't BO ueeze, gituation, wet it use it to make | If it COL but ations the « bill of of | Was no ran the! a butcher $100 § to got but he refused to | have anything to do with it. I'd hb ave | soid it for half price am qd been giad but there was no such t as making i in despair, 1 to | a deal. | one of the newspaper offices ans di ooked up the advert for woek | past. The + had advert and | | went to his offi building and gave up the was $50, but he © of tl and said “1 wonuk ireaomstances the a “Under might as well have been brown pap:r. 1 tried dodges to get it busted, go. Every time I sl risk of arrest. 1 off : it ch Prev © all sorts but it wed it | ered anged, 10, ing inally, nent spin the wed, iat | in't have believed there Ii honesty world have Kept the bill as well as “He took ind was You could not.’ nine in the sue down my gave fh They te m ‘H+ ramp’ and had my the papers, bat you may guess [ didn't | enjoy I had £69 in place : of £1.000 and ax for my honesty, it all I had to, and though dead broke and don’t in for the for ROY more with a figure "2 about Gt Herald wr pipet niciy i aver much whos | bos I returned the bill beenuse and foe tO I'm know nunyry whe mm not lookin hing will just turn g Rom ow * OTM pocket ios foston he French Intelligence Department, When the E fident nglishnan drops a con communication into the letter box has no missive will tents read and copied before it into the hands of it is addressed. In reality, izh hardly realize it, the invielability of our correspondence is one of the many precious privileges we enjoy as a mat | ter of course, the mass of which make | up what we understand by “liberty.” | To find a different state of things pre vailing we need make no more hazard ous journey than the short sea pas sage that separates Dover from Calais, | During the crisis in the of which France is still writhing the | French Radicals have not been back ward In insisting on the burlesque character of the scenes of which the | War Office Is the theatre. Surely a Gilbert, even in his best moments of | inspiration, never imagined anything | more ludicrous and topsy-turvy than | a score of stalwart, fiercely mustach. | loed professional fighting coutred in all the glittering of war who pass their days from morning to night labor jously piecing together filthy little scraps of paper supposed to have been grubbed out of some dustbin or waste paper basket in one of the foreign em- bassies. The branch of the War Of. fice where this sort of thing goes on Is known as the Intelligence Department. Chamber's Journal, ial he misgivings that his be opened and is oon Ces thoy we throes men, ao panoply | Some Fallacies About Dogs Removed. Possibly it may have been generally | noticed that with the increased value of the dog and hi. treatment, when ill, in a scientific manner have gone far to remove many fallacies and super ptitions in regard to “man’s faithful friend.” The dog fancier of average intelligence now no longer believes that the shortening of his dog's ial gives inereased strength, nor that the choicest puppy of the newly born lit ter can be told by holding the little creature up by the tall, or by finding out which pup is the best favored by its mother. With the destruction of these fallacies have also disappeared certain superstitions. Not so very many years ago people of more than average intelligence believed that the howling of a dog was prophetic of death in the family to which the dog belonged. It was also believed that dogs were more liable to madness at a certain period of the year than at any other. This was supposed to be be tween the end of July and the month of September, when Birius, the Dog Star, rises and sets with the son It has kept down the unnecessary mongrels and has thus tended to en- force better care by the owners of those dogs that remain, He Wan Not Observing. “It seems almost Incredible,” said the rallrond man, “but | saw a man the other day that couldn't give ap intelligent description of his wife. He came in the office to get transportation for her, to which he was entitled, and under the present rules we must have # description of the person that is going to use the transportation. On the margin of the ticket are places where the agent can punch out a very good description of the person who is entitled to use ticket in their posses- gion. “1 asked this man first how old his wife was, He could not tell within five years. “Next I asked him how tall she was, The best I could ascertain was that she was not very tall, neither was she short. 1 punched out the word ‘medimm’ and let it go at that, “Next | asked the man what the He studied if he was sure whether they were light blue or light gray. “When it came to the color of the He was not dead sure whether was dark brown or black. “The only thing this husband gure of was that his wife was slim." Duluth News. dary, it was The Veiled Prophet. forenoon that two mid. out Sixteenth herdic. They had unmistakable air of of the Car: an book hem in the #1 women in an indefinable and ustrated gulde wore spectad los, This be the ott." one, It was age rode 1 £ Open the but fonrists one “ih Both of of General trundied is Gen- mast Ktante as the herdic “Yes, It 8 wild wwii] Neott' “But what's that there? asked the other woman. per {ing nearsightedly at a al rowned with a tall figure swatched in white draperies “That wasn't Washington before other statue ovel pees! fiere when we were in * “No, | the fir wered it pid don’t remember IL” ans 3 “It must be new How it's a mast be rae y gerry it if me not gnine it nhet voman said fsin't it Poxt The mar in Chinese learn the re the how $ gn of Hoang Emperor plains of ’ try embarras the for fo distis raised bis SEVETE 3 Lg tlad ii indicating ish strument ns gu points, and was thas enal adversary and capt r of sinrity a § ¥y + POW f $34 wate Iw in iron is explicitly men onary, find Lie Joadstone which an odie * appear fo have az India by the ald Pearson's Week iy first time hye Chinese dict n : defini giiractior 21. where in with eat De given to the n The Ch & “a stone Ms Gnoe 1% far of the compass A Stone for a Throne, thirone of Eaogland, of silk Ince and tassels, is simpl fashioned high-Dacked chair It has been in use for more years, but its early history pane of its maker are un known. The wood is very hard. The back and sides were formerly painted in various colors, The seat is made of rough sand stone, This stone, which is believed fo pos. powers, is 29 inches inches In breadth and Legends are told io connection with it, but the truth prob ably is that it was originally used in upon which the Beottish kings were seated while undergoing the ceremonies on: nected with being crowned King of Scotland, The its trap slo $e ings velvet wire, than six ¥ in length, 17 Mixed Helationship. In Ohle Coevnty, Kentucky, a man named Miller married a widow who His father fell in love with the stepdaughter. The father became the son's son-in- law and the stepdaughter became his mother. Recently the son's wife had a child. The child was Miller's fath. or's brother-indaw aml Miller's own uncle, for he was a brother of his step. daughter. Miller's father's wife-his gtepmother—also had a son, who was, of course. Miller's brother and incl dentally Miller's grandehild, for he was the son of Miller's daughter. Thus Miller's own wife was the mother's mother and Miller became hie wife's grandehild at the same time. And then, to top the whole thing off, as the husband of his grandmother he was his own grandfather. tmweloome News, Professor Hyslop, president of the Paychical Research Society, has re ceived evidence through a spiritualis tie medinm which convinces him of a future existence. In reply te a gues tion as to whether anything of value hind been learned about the next world, the professor Ix reported as saying that “his father remarked at one time that he needed no cont, which would seem to indicate a warm climate” It would seem also a reflection upon the way the Mither conducted himself in this —— A HSL FAR SIREN OW. DI A FAMOUS FORGERY. How “ Three Hundred " Was Raised fo “ KEighty-three Hundred.” “In filling out a blank form.” writes Fanlel T. Ames, the handwriting ex- pert, “say one word is omitted. After the paper {3 finished the writer notices the omission, goes back and writes in the lacking woid, The insertion is dif. ferent from the writing immediately preceding and following it. showing that it was written at azother time and not in its natural order. The Pot. ter-Gibbons forgery, in New Jersey, turned upon tnis very point. The for. gery consisted of one word added to a receipt for three hundred dollars, mak- ing it read ‘eighty ’-three hundred. The ‘eighty’ was written by the same hand that wrote the remainder of the re- cetpt, but was added at another time, “Gibbons, by whom the receipt was given, held a mortgage of ninely-three hundred dollars cn Potter's farm. Pot. ter called to pay him three hundred of it on aeccouni. <iibbons had been i, and could not write well, asked Potter to draw up the receipt. The re ceipt was drawn for three hundred dollars, and Gibbons signed it, Then, poticing that the figures ususlly in serted in such papers had nol been put in he returned it to Potter with the suggestion that the figures added, Potter took the receipt, added some thing, folded it and laid it on the ta. ble. Gibbons did not examine it, sup posing that the other man bad written in the figures as requested. “When another listallment mortgage fell due, Potior set claim that he owed only thousand dollars instead of eight thousand, as Gibbons maintained. He produced the receipt in support of his statement. The form of the paper was so unusual, bowewer, and the examination of the handwriting expert showed so plainly that the word eighty had been hastily written in after the receipt was com pleted, that not to stand.” —Ainglee’s Magazine DETECTING Hy hw he of up the the Ole was allowed Selence and the Servant, Before marriges teacher and it fook a masculine tact to wean she school goou deal of her from Was a the Put little be re. out the interference of a hushand she presides over a happy in Detroit, and gradually domesticated, Among the of amily from iiked by t ne off some ric day when her Beene mm know that lions of mi now home is coming Cent Possessions ied to and boy, and mm was skim hired other cream the mistress appeared “Jan she said there are in that pute organisms of baci rid under “There's not tortod Jane thin $i on th “io 5 milk mil i that look hor mum.” banged ner, by one, ax she with skin 1 sis and irs the cow. 1 mseald the milk rat “There's not one, stand It, either I scot 1 was and 1 hos the 3 the rm cover the in Xe: me [| was I've allt the fi not 1% been 6 “Rh % ings in fave woman bout ttered at because iH not find a that and 1 mus face BR over clean my Ge milk. you to be talkin’ millions.” “Bat listen “I'l listan I've heard need to within Jane I won't. And you ne ther, fur that now 50 more much give me notice, {O06 leave the hour, mum. they's plenty of places and them don’t be slanderin’ a honest worki n' The busband came home to find his wasn't “smart.” Owned 30,000 Autographs. The owner of probably the greatest private collection of autographs in the world, Vienna. His collection was so large his house. Polonyi possessed the auto graphs of over 30,000 persons, not only of moderns but of medieval and Renalssance persons as well pot particular a= to age religion or All he stood out for was that the autograph was to be that of a person of cortain historical importance, ile posscased original writings which bave not yet been printed of Michael Angelo and Marie Antoinette, letters by Goethe, pages of music by Wagner and Beethoven, original documents from the eleventh century, private let ters of Canovas, old Hebrew scrolls aud sermons by famous Hussites, It was Polonyl’s greatest pleasure to show his treasures to scholars and to bewilder them with the wealth and variety of the materials which he placed before them in the calculated disorder we have attempted th de scribe. He began life as an apprentice to a Lelpsic bookseller. His greatest success was with a magnificent collec. tion of Duerir's drawings, which he happened on quite accidentally and sold to thr Royal Gallery, in Berlin, for a prodigious sum of money. Pol- onyi had no scientific or historical knowledge, but be had a genius for col- fecting, and It was as a collecter he was known throughout the world. Philippines Long Ago American Ters ritory, Texas was at one time and for many years called the “New Philippines.” The first settlement in what is pow Texas was made by French emigrants in 1085, During the next twenty five years there was an intermittent strug: gle between the French and Spanish for supremacy, resulting in favor of the latter, and in 1814 the name of the New Philippines was given to the nish records Tor many years and wail the uaine of Texas, from a tribe i i i : i i : : i | AMONG THE BEST OF DIVIRS. Coresn Women Whe Make un Dasiness of Diving for tke Pearl Oyster, A Brooklyn man recently received a letter from a friend in Seoul, the cap- ital of Korea, describipg a visit the writer bad recently paid to the large island of Quelpaert, just south of Korea and a part of that country, It appears that one of the main lines of business is diving for the pearl oyster and that the diving operations are wholly monopolized by women. i.ere is an extract from the lettBr: “I think the most unique sight ¥ ever saw was the women divers at Quelpaert, Perhaps you may have heard that only women divers are en- gaged In the pearl oyster fisheries there. Every day | was there | saw a lot of them going to thelr work and returning with the fruits of thelr guest under the sea. They were not a very handsome crowd, but they have fine, supple figures, and can swim as well as any fish of the deep. Each wears a very scanty bathing dress that looks as though it might be made of gunny Tied a stripg around thelr waists is a gourd with a stopper in the neck of it to keep the water out. Tied to the gourd is a little bag, The i and last article of the equipment irkie, which also fastened to waist, and “til fishing sack. 10 ! is the the rests he get of the wotnen out to the nds, “You might think kept to carry toil, but Fron that boats would women out 1 they their lesson in the art They wade the long, water swim out favorite much as nt opera- glass They would and little bag and about the sur they told fifty be those thelr no, york d it is a gEWwWitniming few of to see them and then breast seaward with and ting t shell. They My yards moving strokes, he A racing about half a Amusement mile, was watching as of their subseque them floating Then, sickle 20, first, 10 bottom. on in hand, down Was or face, head and 1 they had sink forty to the About the time | would never would the #ometimes made up my mind be seen again alive, wetimes right floating away. or two or take a they Coine yg Bg ly BOVEY near where was rods »v would put their oyster and al The them in the little | ree Of Hein in mg, few long and down thie process it said hours rather all the into the ire them nee and th more you breatl Has, again, repeating bag was filled. iw will return before stay out for t than hey have that can be crowded r must adm Any both t ndid end L8 wor tank formances per used to cut bottom the : CRICK ATe at may away that stones and oysters fasten very rarely a diver captures the made, pearl large island and on the divers at to which the TOR, A but seg weed WO thie get arta the for jap] In qd, pear! is when thinks her fortune is her eaten is peed as mot of the quantities both on the mainland.” OyYRlers are in the Kauai The Garden Island.™ I made my landing on Kaual at Na- wiliwili, a very pretty crescent-shaped bay with high bold land at the points, barking from a smaller steamer runnicg to Hawali and after one of the roughest trips in Hawaiians calli Kauai Island of the group--and aise expectations at Hono- which will not be realized by a {rip across the disturbing channel, It iz the oldest of the islands—and there fore freer of lava-—but it is also the must add, with the least agricultural possibili- ties for Immigrants In point of fact, there are no possi- hilitiex at ail. Not for lack of arable land, indeed, but for lack of any kind worth cultivating. The island iz prac- tically owned by about six plantations, and has never beea surveyed in whole by fone government. Bome of these plantations are on very rich soll-and one of them, at Lihue, just inland from Nawiliwili, has stretches that yield pine tons of sugar to the acre; but the majority do not yield more than half that amount. Physically the isiand is somewhat like the others, save that its centre, rather than ragged mountains, is occupied by high (3.000 feet) table. land densely covered with forest, and it has in the Hanalei and Waillua riv- ers two fair sized streams.-—Casper Whitney, in Harper's Weekly. disem than those Maui, Two Grim Relies Two grim relics have just been ade ded to the collection in Paris known as the Musee de "Armee, which was recently installed in the Hotel des invalids, They are the wooden leg worn by General Daumesall and Gen- eral @'Abovilie's steel shoulder. Dane mesnil, a Napoleonic veteran who had left one of his lower extremitios on the field of Wagram, happened to be in command at Vincennes when the Allies entered Paris, He refused fo surren- der, erying from the battlements: “1 won't give up the place till you give me
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