NOTES OF INTEREST ON NUMEROUS FEMININE TOPICS, Charming Frocks for Little Girls—Unique | Card Cases When One Grows-One | Secret of Youth Punching the Bag a Complexion Tonic. Ete, Ete. | i —-— i Charming Frocks for Lijtle Girls. Frocks for little girls have not, In many seasons, been so charming as now. They reproduce the general characteristics of the gowns worn by the children’s elders: but, fortunately, these features are at present effective upon the wee women. Empire frocks with rather long skirts and soft sashes are delightful upon small girls, and the inevitable bolero, with its infinite vari ety In shape and trimming, redeems even the simplest child's dress from the commonplace. The broad collars, floating scarf ties, shirred skirts, flap ping straw and lace picture hats, all are adaptable to childhood, and the gold braid, galloon and buttons bright- en up little school and morning frocks that were too serviceable to be pretty. The small girl who doesn’t look attrac ferent mother.—New York Sun, Unique Card Cases. Two of the newest card cases are, satin. This is cut square like a letter envelope, with a broad flap folding over a point or In two rounding flaps, each buttoned down to the case itself by a cabochon stone set in gold or sil ver. Another is the conventional card case form, but of the finest finished leather, richly tooled In empire designs, Numbers of women who profess the full skirts, long shoulder lines and un- dersleeves of 1860 and 18635, carry old style silver card cases of that day. The mid-century card case was made of sil- ver, elaborately chased on in filigree work that, for beauty of pattern and durability, is hard to duplicate to-day. When One Crows. The problem of “How to live when one grows old” confronts so many self- supporting women that any suggestion of a practical nature must be welcome, Such a suggestion Is found in the col- onies of youug women of similar tastes, now so frequently found In New York and other Half a dozen women take a flat and live independently and comfortably, but the by, youth departs and they drop out of the happy little colony and disappear into—who knows where? Why not extend the idea into a larger and permanent arrangement? Eight or ten teachers, newspaper art ists or otherwise congenial spirits might easily apply their small savings to the purchase of a plece of land some suburb and build a commodions house thereon, that should be a home to live and New Tribune, cities, Years hy pass one one women, in real dies in, York One Secret of Youth. If you wish to retain your youth to “a good, old ag portant things to remember is eat too much meat. Meat once a day in small quantities is sufficient Végetables and fruit should always be eaten water, [It people drink much water: at desirable. A slowly before eating is very good when a tendency to rheumatic exists, Always eat slowly: nothing will age you more quickly than in improper as similation of food, and this the fauts most of us burg Dispatch. one of the most im not to and of curious little least a quart freely drink i fact instead Menty ix a that most too of too a day is pint of hot water sipped troubles one of Pitts in commit. Punching the Bag a Complexion Tonic,” The girl who takes her exercise by punching the bag believes that she has at last found the real complexion ton fe. Certainly her appearance frequent ly justifies this belief, and it is prob gable that in a month or two all of her girl friends will be having punching bags added to their own particular be longings, A punching bag outfit may cost any where from a couple of dollars to twenty, and the girls who have tried It declare that tne Inexpensive bag, if properly placed, is just as effective as the finer one, The girl who aims to profit by the punching bag makes use of it just after the morning bath and before assuming anything more calculated to bind her muscles than a loose dressing gown. She then devotes ten or fifteen minfites to scientific punching. The bag should be placed by an ex per, and should hang about on a level with the user's eyes. The striking mo- tion must be upward, and the left hand should be used as much as possible, The immediate effect of this splendid the chest and arms. The advantage of using the left hand even more than the right will be evident at once when it is remembered that dressmakers habit ually complain of the difficulty in fit. ting their clients, the majority of whom have the right shoulder higher than the left. This state of affairs, of course, comes from the habit of using the right hand almost exclusively. Philadelphia North American, Snir Denver Cirl's Work in Paris. Miss Jane Ward, called by all her friends “Janey,” the sixteen-year-old daughter of William Shaw Ward, holds an official position under her father at ment salary. She acts in the full ca- pacity of interpreter to the distie- guished gentlemen who have charge of the department of mines and metal- lurgy in the United States exhibit, Of this department her father is as- gistant director and has full charge of all the technical work, French himself, and being in actual contact with Frenchmen more than any others of that daughter Is almost constantly him. Upon her fall all the conversa exhibit, even to the hiring and partment’'s employ. stove, was going on, and had even to direct the workmen in the details the arrangement of the exhibits, As her father's protege the little lady has seen much of the side Paris, and has been included in the In. social attendant upon the exposition, Miss Ward lived in France with her parents for three years, and was edueated un- der a French governess until ten years age, that, although her father never spoke the language, she learned it almost as well as her native tongue, 80 Denver Post, Work of a “Book Surgeon.” Miss Mabel Cook, occupation of “book that this is a compartively unexplored field of activity for self-supporting wo- the SAYS who pursues surgeon,” men, and one which can be made prof itable con the “book surgeon” sists of mending and renovating books, The work of and her discovery of this as a profes sion was the outcome of the Knowledge that private library needed a certain |} + ae of repairing. Miss Cook was spending t owner Sug proficient Paris, where the library resided, that if winter the itl and it was gosted ghee were in this line of work she could easily ob Miss Cook. immediately the the order. who is tain lover i 10 place by studying of books, began herself for fit } . wokbinding with Paris £ +} one of Hae INost ex pert binders in “In must Miss w order books to how to repair youl them,” devoted said the Know hind Cook yesterday l in and The found from ter stiddy of bookbinding r to gild ing, or ts it Is called lessons cost a small sum, and | work delightful, The whom I took lessons lived in what had 5 fooling the man of at one time evidently been a sort palace. His wife was an expert binder, and helped him have the prejudice against letting wo In France they do not men learn trades in shops as in New York, where, if a woman attempts to learn the the trade in a regular refuse to work with A specimen of Miss Cook's workman ship which lay on the table was a book bound white bindery, men her.” in decorated with a finely executed design of trail parchment ing grapevines The design was with clusters of grapes Miss hat the book entire, originated by Cook, who stated 1 with its rich binding, had cost 14 COUTTS in ma- terials “In up t just cents of sixty the has the take Miss bind. press dir binding you said finest kind of he book times,” Cook. “and in ing, the book for two weeks in in the during to be all the ferent processes.” For three years Miss Conk has wen the Binder for the old Astor Library on Lafayette Place, where workroom is situated on the ground floor. When need hes the library books get torn or In of repalr they are sent down to Miss Cook, repairs about books When the bindings are oid and who three a day valuable, every effort is made to pre- them with “board” or cover off, and others with the strings which bind the pages cover broken The books that in need of repair are the genealogical books and “peerages.” “When a book comes down of the condition of ‘Invalid,’ give it the necessary ‘treatment.’ ” said Miss Cook. “There is always plenty of work to be done, and It is surprising to note how viciously some people will treat the books, The other day one of the finest and rarest books of refer ence came down with four pages cut clean out close to the binding. In or der to get those four pages out, the per Herve Nome come down one to the are most often the and NOTES AND COMMENTS No doubt two people can live cheap er than one, but nobody ever saw an instance where they did, Only one Chinaman has been regu- larly ordained a minister of the Gospel. Francisco. The municipal control of the gas works at Rochdale, England, is so suc cessful that a profit of $65,000 has been turned over toward reducing the rates, The most characteristic feature of Si berian farm life is that the farmers As near as possible to land they are cultivating, Notwithstanding the great enlarge ment of the city of Liverpool in 1885, when out-districts all ‘around the city were added to the municipality, bring ing the population up to the estimated total of 700,000, a movement is on foot to extend the city boundaries seven line. — London Globe There are no pillows in Chinese beds, They hollow y have instead including, in tha Inited States, Phila- delphin, Bt, Louis, Milwaukee, Cinein- nati, Buffalo, Cleveland and Baltimore, The percentage of Germans Is given ax 39 in New York, 37 in Chicago and St. Louis and 18 in Philadelphia. Pall Mall Gazette, {one's creed for daily living. Proverbs ence, and that particular saying com | mends itself to the observant mind. {direct in its result. It has a physical | movement, causing the arteries to di- thus promoting an increase of vital i processes and a mental action through i stimulating the blood of the i brain. A nervous invalid was induced ito try a “langhter treatment” a year |ago. She read all the funny books she vessels lecomic weeklies, and when she could find nothing else to laugh at laughed at { herself for the effort, Every one knows how inevitably a forced laugh, If con- tinued, will merge into a genuine burst iof hilarity, and the invalid found her- self shrieking with laughter over the {absurdity of it. In a month she began to feel gtronger and in less than a i year wholly recovered, of wood fashioned so that they fit the nape f the neck and support the head when lying on the side, People who say they are much more comfortable than soft, hot feather or hair pillows wenther In warm The Philadelphia Times as to the necessity for the continuance of the Grand “We would of the " querying Jury system, says regard the abolishment Grand Jury as a mistake, as we do me of performed as well se how many ta duties conld as the grand juries now render that service, but there cer tainly should be a very material modi fication of the old common law secrecy, conceived centuries gulating preliminary proceeding sinal CARER In Maine farmers the fake langeley deer are so troublesome that it is shall shoot The and dig this season tion of whether a man give up farming altogether ot the deer thus and invade get into jail animals the gardens up pota r toes and carrots with their hoofs fast conld and scarcely than throw them out with er a mon a hoe ANY crop os capes thelr ravages. As between bears and deer, the | say that bruin is far the Armers less destructive last nna ie A fruit tree propagator at produced a seodless apple, fruits have been seen by many inter ested In ology, so that In a few HY 1 Don years’ time a good supply of these pip less apples will be found the ket It is apples pon mar that superior in flavor to the or sald. too these new are prices which up dinary kinds Already high the trees H Ix being paid some time w bought rich amate General Greely has received dis nforming him that the signal witeless telegraphy stations had A pateh corps’ established and were in success Alcatraz Island isco Harbor and Fort Mason, It has been impossible to maintain ca hile points owing to interruptions by ship ping, Incoming vessels dragging their anchors and injuring the misplacing the cables continually. This is the first system of wireless telegraphy es tablished as a practical working sys tem where other means have falled heen ful operation between Ran Fran these communication between Lupo Ralvatore, an Italian, passed himself off ax a solicitor, and so com mitted sixty three acts of fraud. He forged the signatures of the President and Judges of the High Court and the Chancellor. For the latter splendid piece of frand he ac separate this bold and have given a sentence of ten-—possibly fifteen years’ penal servitude. But the however, had not been taken away. | never seen, I received the appoint. iment here when [ had completed my {studies In Paris, so 1 never applied {for the position to repair the private {library which bad been the cause of ' my undertaking the work. There are few women who can do binding and t repairing, and, if more would take the i work up, I am sure they would be kept {busy all the time at private Hbraries, and find it remunerative, too.” New York Tribune, a ek Belskins for Rheamat fom. The ordinary eelskin is about twe feet long and two and one-half inches wide, But the use to which it is put is the strange part of it. These skins are purchased as a rem- edy for rheumatism, If an ankle knee or other joint Is subject to rhea matic pain the skin is wrapped about the joint and the pain Is stopped ai once, The skins are thoroughly dried and seem to retain their properties for any length of time, the majesty of the law, pronounced one all. It is not generally appreciated that of various kinds long distances from their habitats, A large iceberg that had floated out into the Atlantic some years ago was boarded by a sealer for the purpose of taking the seals that had clung to it. To their surprise the men found embedded in the ice a large polar bear, The assumption is that years before the bear in crossing a crevasse of a glacier had fallen in and bad been caught and frozen in. Fin ally, this section of the glacier reached the sea, broke off and drifted away, the bear being finally taken out as per- fect as when it died. It was skinned, and some of the flesh eaten, According to German statisticians, there are nine cities with more than 400,000 German inhabitants, though the term German seems to be rather elastic. They are; Berlin, 1,650,000; Vienna, 1,146,000; Hamburg, 626,000; New York 583,000; Amsterdam, 518,- 000; Brussels, 458,000; Munich, 411,000; Chicago, 407,000; Liepsig, 400,000, Forty-four others have aver 100,000, * The lawyer, New York Mr, fended a negro murderer, the strong indorsement of the negro's ap “AS a de World says of Kansas, and after his a Stanley, sentence wrote to (:overnor plication for a pardon. Now, as Gover of Kansas, pass upon a new application for his old letter, as a lawyer laid be tut he refuses to grant the nor Stanley he has had to cilent’s pardon, and his own written has been Ore Him pardon and says that as Governor it is matter This ing though by his rigi AI i to view the wv " ight “in an entirely different | 1 question in the code « what does passion nt to the present nal and amateur gilism ompanies, study of vi and as inNsuranos Wile tal i wml ath bad least musculs profession letes all classes “risks regard minis exis “ius class of all thie as the very best risks here are many A who preachers pulpit of eighty. Fitzsimmons n prize-fighter {ean ght is a enter the 1 he £10 a year at thirty-el in R rarity average minister earns Fhe average prize- much for a 1g. But the for him, but muscle about fighter earns about that single appearance in the ri longevity Is not or the man of only enough to carry his frame about difficult approximate [gures concern of deaths resulting but para- graphs tell something of story During the terrible fires of 1804, when It thing but in extremely fo get any number {ing the from forest fires, isorated he millions of feet of lumber burned, town of Hinckley lost over 200 souls In 1871. a year made conflagra the towns Huron was a of its population by its great of life memorable the iy tions, Joss from west shore of Lake this mere tithe of the burned-over country. in the Years ago the villages lying on a line between Pine City where course, 150 towns on the aver 5.066 and territory was fires of four Minnesota Carlton and the miles were flames took their in territory over twenty ’ 0d in Carlton and Pine counties alone the loss of life was over w iped ont and 1.068) persons, If one considers the fact that these figures from small tracts and that they are from but one fire, while millions of acres are burn od over every year, and the fires have been doing their work since America | hag been in existence some idea of the awful loss of life may be approximat ed. It is safe to say that fire in the forests has been for the (deaths of millions of people, i 4 come responsible i There has long been a legend that {there is Mohave County, Arizona, It is report ied that this mine has just been re runs 8240 to the ton. This mine was lenty-five years ago. Itz abandonment {was caused by the Haltpi Indians, who massacred all the miners and filled up the shaft. The rediscovery of this mine was made by FF, B, Johnson, of El Paso, who came into the possession of the plot and description of the prop- erty while in the city of Mexico a few years ago. An old Spanish gold mine is located in San Diego County, Cal, and is alleged to be haunted. It was discoveread about five years ago by two Mexicans, The two Mexicans went to work to clear the shaft of its rubbish, and bad only got down a short dis- tance when a terrifying manifestation took place In the shaft where they wore working. They fled for thelr lives, leaving their picks and shovels behind them. They never went back, Several different persons to whom they related their experiences have tried to open up the mine since, but In every case they have been frightned off. The mine will remain abandoned until some ote with courage undertakes to open It, Japan got its first telegraph line in 1860. Today it has 144.570 miles of lime in service, with 1.207 offices FARM AND GARDEN NOTES. | ITEMS OF INTEREST ON ACRICUL. | TURAL TOPICS. | Feeding Calves Rich Lard Mzsded for Parsnips —Enemies of the Squash -Bal- anced Rations for Cows ~How to Stack Small Crain, Etec., Ete. Feeding Calves. When the calf ix a week old com mence feeding ground unbolted wheat. a Then add one gallon of sweet skimmed maa. Increase the wheat as the calf becomes older to one-half pint at eight weeks, water over The mistake ig often made of keeping the center too high in the lower half of the stack. When the upper part is reached, there will be great danger of The center is then permitted to become more flat as the top is approached. At the point where drawing In begins an extra of the center outer row, so as to make the considerably higher than the As a rule, the stack should be at the base than in the The top of the stack need not a very high polat. Flat tops are, of course, to be avoided, but draw in gradually and do not run up too high. Do not allow side of the to extend further out than the other, or it will lean and take water if run to one Rich Land Needed for Parsnips. It requires rich land for parsnips, and in early spring when the seed is sown even the rich soll must sup- plemented with an active manure to furnish avallable re. fults have been had from an applica- thon of well rotted mixed with the soll sprinkled with had he nitrogen, ood hen manopre well in the hardwood that thelr caustic properties just before the soil was covered over This application nitrogenous rows, and ashes not lost he seed, ashes of wood manure 1 strong smell of ammonia. seen] to CAUKeR But as the manure and ashes are at once f this is imprisoned and absorbed by it, and this the Rives the young parsnips growth, that weeded from first a to trouble Vigorous mables them be with hand if planted by far less aan without fertilization in the rows rich soll tl manure Enemies of the Squash. ties of the squash are, first are very easily subdued vator and hoe, whicl ised between the wide rows, 10 strike, should cease; and, sed crop wir i bayer wir jd Dug, yellow stinking aphis bug is easily kept at ig iw leaves a few times nd paris green, just as Te: ¢ Dotala vit cated for After the squash vis weet 4 leaves the beetle ares or four they igrow this insect alae i ISOS ERE FRE - ¥ unless it numerous i he black n his hab It tures the squash vine with its suet is far worse ts, and harder to destroy pine in hose, after the manner of that it attacks speedily Paris ® mosquito, and wilts Any vine and dies not Per catch it RTreen dows injure this Insect's digestion to of baps the only remedy * napping placed « under shingle, and This must morning before t h enough to make the a piece lose to the squash vines, to promptly destroy It he the he early in bh lone sun tg hig ori gi n sect livels A man can easily go over f squashes and kil! the bugs, This inti] the via oO in acre n a short me must be done = ery day 1 ws begin to run. Balanced Rations for Cows feeding the cows the feeding a sided hat the aggregate for t * ¥ try timated In one food is he ine w hols At the coun the least COWS cannoli iw eos aleulation one-third of wt profitable One-half would be a nore accurate estimate Yet there omparatively few cows that are could not be made to return something of a | it. The cause of loss is not so much in the in the sare and feeding. If our farmers could be induced to feed thelr herds balanced rations, they woul It ever, that all farmers will ever do this. But why not approximate to a bal anced ration? It ix not difficult to make a ration of equal parts of corn meal, oats and bran, and such a ration will produce twenty-five per cent. more If it pro- duced much gain than that, it wonld pay to feed it, would it not? Then the forage question is an import If it is intended to make the r wrof cows themselves, as it is be surprised at the resnits, cannot be expected, how jous built and filled. Rilage i= «1. But if sil- age is not provided, clover hay or hay from some of the other legumes, should be. Timothy hay is an inferior rough- good as the legumes, The cow pea is coming more and more into use as a | fodder, and is worthy of much wider | adoption. It furnishes an abundance | of good fodder. The farmer cannot more easily increase his income than to i give close study to the question of prop- | er rations for animals. ~The Epitomist, How to Stack Smali Crain in a wet season only the most care fully constructed stacks will escape | without damage to the grain. Select | a plece of level ground, and start the bottom by putting ap a large round shock, Increase this until it is the size of the bottom of stack, letting the i bundles slant outward gradually, but | not so much as to permit any of the | heads of grain to rest on the ground. i The bottom should be perfectly circu. lar. Otherwise a good stack cannot be | made, One of the main points is » keep the stack highest in the center | and as solid as possible at the bottom. | This will settle more than the outer layers of bundles and form a depres sion, The bundles will slant inwards | and the stack take water. 1 It is best to use a fork with a rather ax the opera- tor can then avold stepping on the out er rows of bundles, besides making it possible for him to place them steeper and and more slanting on The centre of stack will also be firmer and settle least, The work will be more easily and quickly accomplish ed than when the operator simply uses his hands. lewis O. Tollo, iu England Homestead, the outer row New Success In Market Cardening. For success in gardening of any kind, one must have a rich a favorable either to the market or cheap transportation lines, and then a clear conception of the best method of soil, situation to raising the right crops both in abund- ance and in quantity, Assuming that the first two are supplied by nature, it may be worth while to consider the Market garden intensive farming No at it in any expectations ing is essentially man can make a success other way. Large are looked he soil Not year and for, but to obtain these more liberally ut two aN harvested from treated, three a land than one Or the n produce more crop tivated thoroughly and ma The man who that ired persistently goes { he a good crop of to-~ or other sucoessful He rops in addition Ofte and ma har may pay for invested, ¢) ¢ work with the idea ne ing Daotatoes i lettuce he will have a nakes a great mistake one or two « ne land n the first the and labor of cultivating and The O71 r rop merely pays for wt ing ng second co rop interest taxes, and the third and the owner's time and labor. he profits rest eutirely with Crop. There first the 8 importance of get ting =a early radishes, } beets or other vegetables In the ground cron of ’ lettuce #0 that the harvested in me to transplant from the greenhouse or cold frames the young plants of the next crop—-say tomatoes, egg plants or other midsummer vegetables. It consider the third crop, a fall or early winter har- vest the turnips, kale, spinach, pump- or late peas. In order to crowd three crops into one of our short seasons it is not only crop can be melons, # then necessary to kins these necessary to en- rich and cultivate the soil to the high- ext point of perfection, but it is essen- that one should plan far ahead. The year's work must be laid out beforehand, and everything should like work. Seeds of coming crope must be planted so they whole tw done clock will produce crops ready for trans- When one must be A delay of a few days make all the difference in the world It necessary that the modern market gardener should have plenty of hothouses, cold frames He cannot get along without them, for while one crop ripening in the garden the next must be sown in the cold frames in order to save time, It is in this way only can we expect to make gardening pay in our Northern and Western States where the seasons are so short. -(. T. Fisher, In American Cultivator. planting at the right time, Crop the next ready to clap in its place. is harvested i= also or greenhouses, How British Cavalry Missed Boer Cannon. We learn with considerable aston ishment that, in the movement from Helpmakaar to Laings Nek, Bauller's cavalry, under two such capable cav alry officers as Lord Dundonald and Burn-Murdoch, failed, for some rea son yet to be explained, to capture nearly the whole of the Boer guns which were in process of removal, and which were so imminently threat ened that the Boers absolutely aban taking off their ox teams, and leaving the pieces to their tate. General Brocklehurst in this missed a great chance, for they were within easy striking distance of the Boer guns, which were abandoned for hours together, one gossip says days until the enemy brought back thelr ox teams and removed the artillery under our very noses. Correspond ence London Leader. SANS ANS Japanese Tea Exports. During the last season the export of tea from Japan to the United States and Canada amounted to no less thas 5,931,230 pounds, Of this amount 25, ME.020 pounds were shipped fron Yokohama, and the rest from Kobe. In 1517 A. D. the first Buropeans ar rived in China, In 1675 Jesuit mis