TIMEI.Y TOPUIS.
The number of visits made to the
Paris Exposition was 16,082,735.
During the last flsoal year
letters were mailed in the United States
and received from foreign countries.
The government failed to deliver one in
every 289.
No season within memory has beeu ao
unfortunate for the Greenland whaling
fleet as that just past The whole
Sootoh fleet secured but six whales, and
one steamer waa totally lost.
In summer London has free public
bath-houses, situated at convenient local
ities. Last session parliament passed a
bill authorising the city to convert these
bath-houses into gymnasiums for the
winter.
South America is suffering from grass
hoppers. The valley of the Oanoa, one
of the most fertile and populous sections
of the republio of Colombia, has been
ravaged by them. All growing crops
have beeu ruined, and the people are
threatened with famine.
Among the curiosities at the dead
letter offloe, in Washington, is a letter
containing S6O and addressed to Hobo
ken, Sniffy Tiddlewinks A Co., pig
dealers, 222 Hoffensnipper's Terrace
<oorner Fiddlekee avenue and Four Hun
dred and Filth street), Nantucket, Mass.
At prominent railroad points in the
United States there aie now forty-six
organisations known as the " Railroad
Men's Christian Association," The first
was formed in Cleveland in 1872. There
tB now an active membership of 2,500,
and an associate membership of over
100,000 railroad men.
A Parliamentary paper just issued
shows that in the year 1877 2,602 lives
were lost in England and Wales by
drowning in inland waters. Of the per
sons whose lives were lost 2,140 were
males and 522 females ; 1,428 lives were
lost in rivers and running waters, 637 in
wanals, and 602 in lakes or ponds.
While a farmer of Monroe, N. Y., was
prying up a flat stone in a quarry last
week his hand touched something cold
and clammy. He raised the stone and
found a ball made up of forty-five large
black snakes. They were matted to
gether as though they had been braided,
and were separated by beating with a
elnb.
A plant christened elect rices, in con
sequence of its curious electrical prop
erties, whioh are so strong as to cause
sensible shocks as from a galvanic bat
tery to the hands of any person attempt
ing to gather it, is described in a Belgian
horticultural journal as growing in Ni
caragua. The needle of the compssss is
affected by proximity to the plant.
Mr. Ony Carlton, s robust farmer
seventy-five years old, living near the
village of Wyoming, N. Y., has bought
his coffin and has it ready for nse. He
also has ready for erection s solid
marble block, chiseled in the shape of a
dwelling, with doors and windows. The
block will be pnt over his grave to svm
bolixe by its form and solidity the last
long dwelling of man.
The German papers quote some sta
tistics comparing the proportions of
married persona in the populations of
the different countries of Europe. Ger
many ranks only seventh in the list.
To 10,000 souls in each country, there
are in Hungary 6,475; in France, 6,566;
in England and Wales, 5,398; in Aus
tria, 5,271; in Italy, 6,270; in Denmark,
6,191; in Oermanv, 6,107; in Norway,
5,066; in Sweden,'4,3s2; in the Nether
lauds, 4,948; in Bcolland, 4,678; in Bel
gium, 4,684, in Switzerland, 4,6*2, and
in Ireland, 4,818.
Pirates are again becoming numerous
in the Persian gulf, and the device prac
ticed a quarter of a century ago by an
English navy captain is suggested. The
English government had mads repeated
complaints to the king of Muscat regard
ing the injury to British commerce, but
with our effect, and the officer in ques
tion gave hia veaael the appearance of
an unarmed merchantman. He sailed
to the waters whioh the pirates moat
frequented, and waa soon surrounded by
a swarm of their craft. Hia portholes
then opened, and they were treated to
successive broadsides of grape, canister
and round shot. Two-thirds of the
vessels were sunk, and at least six hun
dred pirates were killed or wounded.
How to live cheaply ia aa erer-recur
ring problem. A correspondent from
the prorinoe of Quebec tells of a woman
who was rejoioed at the increased wsgea
her husband was to receive. On in
quiry the amount was found to be filO a
month, and on this the family of four
lived luxuriantly, according to the
economical woman's idea. Mr. Ward, a
Manchester (England) man, does even
better. He is lecturing on "How to
live on twelve cents a day." He wants
people to live altogether on a vegetarian
diet, which he thinks would prevent
rheumatism, cancer, epilepsy and many
other ills that flesh (but not vegetables)
la heir to, and besides, the cost of living
would be reduced to the economics]
limits stated.
The world ia crasy for show. There is
not one perhaps in a thousand who dares
fall back on his real, simple self far
H power to get through the world and ex
tract enjoyment as be goes along. There
is no end to the aping, the mimicry, the
falee airs. It requires rare oourage, we
admit, to live up to one's enlightened
convictions in these days. Unless yon
consent to join the general cheat, there
is no room for yon among the great mob
of pretenders. If s man desires to Uva
within his means, ami is resolute in his
purpose not to appear more than be
really is, let him be applauded. There
is something fresh and invigorating in
such an example, end we should honor
f and uphold such a plan with all the
energy in our power.
A Western paper says: "We are
living at this moment under absolute
despotism." What does he mean f Has
ha just been married f
An Indignant Hend and Neck.
A moat extraordinary senaatiou has
oocurred in the American oolony of Lon
don, writes a correspondent from the
British metropolis. A young lady from
Philsdelphia was walking down Regent
street with the mother and sister of s
young gentleman of rank, whan the at
tention of all three was attracted by
some photographs of notable people nnd
others exposed in a window, and they
drew np to look at them. Fancy the
astonishment of the American girl on
seeing her own photograph exposed
there among the others, but in the most
amazing shapa it is possible to oonoeive.
Her head, her faoe, the arrangement of
her hair, the tnrn of her neck, it was 1
impossible to mistake ; and vet, there
she was, almost m nmlraped as the
Venus do Medid—in fact, got np in
tights and fleshings nnd labeled " Ma
zeppa I" " What can this mean ?" she
cried to the elderly lady, her lips
blanched with shame and terror.
"I really cannot tell yon," replied
Lady Disdain, with steel-bard eyes and
icy voice. " Yon perhaps can tall us
whether on any occasion in America you
were in the habit of appearing in this
dress?"
" Oh, what do yon mean to insinuate,"
uttered the poor girl. "Do you think
I ever stood as Mazeppa? Oh, how
cruel of you to speak so.
" It is certainly yonr portrait," added
the other lady.
By this time one or two bystanders
had drawn np to the window, and notic
ing the likeness were nudging each
other.
••It is some coincidence—of coarse; it
cannot be meant for me."
" You had better take a cab and go j
home and tell vour father abont it,"
said the lady, still with her frigid man- I
ner. "My danghter and I have some
calls to make."
In a half-dazed state of mind the |
young Philadelphian drove home and !
told her father of what had happened.
To get back to that ahep, to have that
photograph ont of that window, to de
mand an explanation of the stationer,
was not the work of many minntes for
the enraged father. Bat, though it was
easy enough to demand an explanation,
it was not so easy to get one. Suspicion
falls upon the servant* in the house, one
of whom might easily have abstracted j
a photo out of a package of them, which
has been kept hitherto in an unlocked
drawer of theyonng lady's writing desk.
Of coarse, it is a "cooked " picture;
only the head and neck of the American 1
lady's photograph, the rest that of some ,
one else, and together the picture rep- .
resents one of the most beantifnl women
it is possible to conceive. Tbe matter
has caused so much indignation and so
much comment that it is not impossible
it may check the mania now so preva
lent among society beauties for having
themselves photographed for sale at a
shilling a carte de virile.
The "Twa
A correspondent of Pr>rr*t nnd
Stream, who has been camping at In
dian river, Florida, writes about hia
two favorite setters ;
At the 8b Sebastian river we remained
some time, and hare an accident befell
which bereft tbe writer of a favorite set
ter. Poor Dash could not resist bis in
stinct to retrieve, and while swimming
the river one day in hot pursuit of a
crippled dock, and deaf to all remon
strances of his master, a huge alligator
rose to the surface.
A veil of terror from the doomed dog;
the deadly sweep of the reptile's tail,
the metallio clash of its jaws; a splash; a
struggle, and poor old Dash sank to rise
no more. Peace to his body I
It was also here that the surviving
setter distinguished himself by a panic.
While hunting quail one afternoon,
about a mile from the boat, Don con
cluded to investigate a tangled swamp.
In >s minutes a howl was heard,'al
most human in its agonised expression
of terror.
Ont of the swamp came the dog as an
arrow from a bow, " each individual
hair standing on end, like qnilla upon
the fretful porcupine," and, regardless
of its master a appeals, sped frantically
to the boat Gloae behind him came a
panther.
Whether the panther would have
caught the dog or not must remain a
mystery, for a couple of loads of bird*
shot, poured into the animal at short
range, turned its eonrae, and it slcnk
away into the thicket As it was nearly
dark, and no bnokshot handy, the writer
declined to follow; but it waa many days
before poor Don recovered the tone of
his nervous system.
_
A heading Ran.
reasing on to oell Mo. 4, Hijall
bronglit out Bnrke Reynolds, who
claimed to be leading man in the play of
" The Vagrant." When the curtain first
went np it revealed Burke in a barn on
Woodbridge street, eating crusts of
I bread on the oat bin. In the second
scene the proprietor of the barn entered
upon the left, oaugbt sight of Bnrke,
and called out:
"Loafer, who art thou, and what
doeat thou here ?"
" My lord, putapadloek on tfay jaw t"
i was the tender response.
Exit lord in search of an offloer, who
entered the barn and found the leisding
man stacked away for the night under a
lot of bay. The next soene opened on a
knock down, and the curtain fell lost as
Burke was registering at the Central
station.
" I think yonr drama ia a failure," re
marked the court as the esse closed. " I
don't like the soenery st all, and there ia
too much waiting between acts."
" Tea, I waa waiting for the officer,"
replied the prisoner.
And now yon are waiting to go up
for sixty days. Ton can have a full-dress
rehearsal np there every day, if yon
want to."
" 111 have nothing, sir I"
"Yonll have an extra thirty days (f
yon don't go qnietly in," remarked the
court, and the prisoner entered the cor
ridor in a lamb-like manner, sat down
on two old chairs, and in a few minutes
was so thoroughly penitent that be turn
ad over to the officers six gimlets he had
stolen from some hardware store.—De
troit Free Press.
There are 3M counties in Texas, t
i these Tom Ureeo and Crockett are as
; large as Mr fsaobqsolts. Peons aa Con
necticut, and Hank as Rhode Island. .
A JSAI* BABY.
Tk Uiatrkaklt Case mf a Blsa Tirnlr-
Tw Yran Old Wk* la HUM aa lahil.
A New York paper un: In the sec
ond story of one of the low, rickety
wooden buildings on the east side of
Chatham street, in humble apartments,
there lives one of the moat curions
of human monstrosities. It is a boy, or
man, twenty-one years and nix months
old, having been born in 1867, that is in
all respects, physically and mentally,
nothing more than an overgrown infant.
Its parents are Mr. and Mrs. Jacques
Jenn of No. 166 Ohntham street, indus
trious French people. The child was
born on the 10th of June. 1857, and
was christened Jule. Up to his eighth
month he did not diner from other
children, but at that age be was taken
sick with the measles, and for six months
it was thorght that be could not live,
ono childish disease following rapidly
npon another. His ailment, and the
on j to whioh his parents ascribe bis de
formity, was one that baffled the attend
ing the physician, and is described by
the father as "the English disease. '
Both physioat and mental growth seem
ed to be arrested bv this disease. The
boy is not quite three feet high, but
measures four feet around the waist,
being inordinately oorpulent. His head
is well shaped, but looks much too
large for his body, beingmore than two
fuet in circumference. His hands and
feet are exceedingly small, like those
of a one year old infant, and he weighs
160 pounds. Every effort has been
made to educate him,but he is not capa
ble of learning anything, Whon he
was ten Tears old he was scarcely two
feet high, but weighed almost 100
pounds. Tne physician who attended
at his birth predicted that he would
not live to be fourteen years old, but
he is now in good health. The boy's
akin is remarkably sott and white, like
a baby's. All of his habits are child
ish, and he can speak only a few words,
such as "papa,' " mamma," "yes,"
and "no." His extreme corpulence
prevents him from walking, but he is
very active with his hands and feet-
He aranaea himself with childish toys,
and is very shy when strangers are
about Ex Police Burgeon Baker, who
has watched the case closely for several
years, says that it is the most wonderful
case he ever beard of. The boy has
been examined by a number of scientists,
who have all come to the conclusion that
he is s perfect baby in mind and body.
His father has been approached by many
showmen, who were anxions to add the
boy to their list of attractions; but Mr.
Jenn has declined every offer, not de
siring to have his son exhibited to the
public.
Who Invented the Steamboat I
Everybody who has visited the nation
al capitol has heard of Brumidi, the
fresco artist, whose work ornaments and
enlivens every part of the building. One
day, while Brumidi was engaged in '
painting a picture over the door of the
Senate committee room on patents, a
gentleman entered, and after looking at
it for a few moments, asked;
" What is that yon're painting ?"
" A picture of Robert Fulton, the in
ventor of steam power," replhd Bru
midi
" But be wasn't the inventor of steam
power," retorted the stranger somewhat
earnestly.
Brumidi, who occupied a platform
that raised him almost to the ceiling,
stopped bis work, laid down bis brush,
and turning towiard the stranger asked
in his quiet way: " Didn't Fulton in
vent the first steamboat ?"
" No, be didn't," answered the gentle
man.
" Well, then, who did f"
" Why," replied the stranger, " John
Fitch. He was a long way ahead of
Fnlton. I know that, because I've been
in Fitch's workshop myself."
" Well, you're an old man," repliad
Brumidi, respectfully, "and I won't
dispute your word. I've always thought
that Fulton made the first steamboat,but
if you say he didn't, it's all right Have
you got a picture of your man Fitch ?"
" No, I haven't gut his picture, but
I've got s book tbat tells all about his
life and his works."
" Will yon send me that book 7"
"Yea, I will, just as soon as I gat
borne," answered the gentleman.
" Well, you do that, and 111 paint a
picture of Fitch, too," said Brumidi.
" I won't decide who made the first
steamboat. You send me that book ami
111 paint pictures of both the men and
i leave the public to decide who m entitled
ito the honor. I'm a painter myaelf and
j don't bother about inventors."
I The stranger left, and in a few days
1 Brumidi reoeivod s small book oontain
! ing a personal sketch of Fitch and an
account of his works. From this sketch
I the artist painted a portrait of Fitch, re
senting him in his workshop engaged
upon the model of s stern- wheel steamer
j with three paddle* as motive power.
1 Those who visit the capitol now will see
1 a picture of Fulton looking upon his first
steamer over the committee room on
' patents, and on the opposite of the hall
| is the representation of John Fitch in all
j his glory. As Brumidi said, the people
sre left to deride whichjof the inventors
I is entitled to the honor. The artist does
not bother himself about the question at
all.— Washington Jtef.
Washington's Re bake.
Gen. Washington was dignified in
manner and speech. He exacted appro
priate consideration for himself and his
position; but be exhibited a trait rare
among man of high station—he waa al
ways considerate toward his asaoriatcs.
An anecdote illustrates this high-bred
courtesy, and also his tender sympathy:
Btopping one day during the war at a
house in New Jersey, he found there a
wounded officer. The man waa confined
to bis bad, and waa so feeble that the
least noise agitated him, Washington
sroke in such a low kmc, and while at
dinner was so quiet, as to influence his
officer* to a similar consideration for the
wounded man.
When be had dined he left the room,
and the officers, unrestrained by his
presence, forgot in their hilarity the
p- r sufferer. Hnddonly the door opened
quietly, and Washington entered on
tip- too, waited to the mantel, took a
book, and without uttering a word
quietly retired.
The delicate suggestion, too courteous
for e hint, was not lost. It was followed
by a senator rate quietness.
Bismarck aa An Eater and Brisker
The London Timet, in giving extracts
from Dr. Bosch's book on Ilium arok
furnishes the following summary of the
acoounts of some of his personal adven
tures:
" The personal incidents recorded in
the boou are nam tier lees. From his
student. aye he has had no end of duels.
He has beaten topers in beer-houses
with such a glorious sense of manly ela
tion that he takes two pages to reoonnt
his victory twonty-five years afterward.
He has been over ana over again in
peril of his life, from the old Roasian
days when a sentinel offered to shoot
him, to the entry inlo Paris, where
s fierce-looking individual was disarmed
by the prince coolly asking him for a
light He has jumped over abysses in
the Alps, with a fair burden in his arms;
he walks sbout alone st night in Ver- I
sallies, revolver in pocket, ready to kill
and die; and, to excel hia neigbliors in
everything, doea not Scruple to tell us I
that he is the roost accomplished diplo
matist of bis age, so he can alao chal
lenge assembled hnmanity to outdo him
in point of drink. Bo terrific are his
achievements in tlio potatory line that
one dreadful day King William IV., i
happening to witness his libations, bad
recourse to hia sovereign word of com
mand to forbid further display. Then,
as regards eating, who can oompare with
the chancellor in poiDt of diaoernment
and reoeptivenes* f When the crown
prince diuea with the broad-shouldered
chief of the foreign office in the camp
before Paris, his imperial highness is
astonished at the daintiea served no and I
the rotundity of all his officials present.
'This,' explains the oompleoent Bis
marck. ' is due to donations we get from
fatherland. The German nation is de
termined to have a corpulent chancellor.,
To which the crown prince replies:
• Burlier is the only leau fcpocimen here;
I dare say he has not been with you
long.'
" Columns might be filled with the
culinary knowledge diiplsyed in the
memorable work before n*. The in
telligent prince dilates upon every im
aginable variety of fish contained in
ocean or river. He laya down the law
upon crabs and lobsters, disdbursea j
freely upon eggs, and claims the honor
of l>eing a heaven sent benefactor to Aix j
la Chapeile, having taught the benight
ed citixeus how to fry oyster*. Hia dis
crimination in cheese is perfectly won
derful. He can bold forth by the hour
ttpon wine, and on dire oocaaiou, spirits
becoming acaroe in the tents, causes a
desperate appeal to be telegraphed
home as to the strong need of a supply
of gin inoontineotly. Always good
natnrcd after dinner, be threatens cor
poral punishment to the steward of
Baron Rothschild for refusing to bring
forth wine for the k ng when every If A •
tie is paid for. Nay, albeit a loyal sub
ject, be allows the rumor to circulate nn- j
contradicted that he has killed a brace
of pheasants in M. Rothschild's park,
contrary to the express prohibition of
his sovereign. His excute, it appear*,
is the paramount duty of self-preserva
tion. the winged victims having I wen
the first to begin the affray."
Natlsfjlag the Barber.
One time there was a barber. Aud
one day a feller he cum into the shop
fur to git sbafed, and he banded the
barber a card which was wrot on like,
this way:
" For my Hair—Taller, clone, lard,
bergmot, pomatum, oil. touuiek, reator
atif, pitobnoly, gum, beeswback*, ker
riaeen and tar.
"For my Face—Cole creem. cam
fries, powder, ham fat, aof sope, glis
aeru, poltioe; rooje nammel, giant ce
ment. shoo blackn.
"For my Wiski-rs- Barnes for the
hair, only more taller.
" For my Mncbtaah—Do., starch,
glew. morter and sodder "
When the barber he ml it be was just
dlited, and Mid to the feller: " Ynq are
the most sensible man which baa ever
set in this chair; yes, indeed. I never
see a man of such good taste."
And then the barber shafed the feller,
and tola him all the newa which heende
think, and never atopt tockin, the bar
ber didnt, while be shafed, cos he was
dlited. But, jest as be got dun shafn
the feller, and was gotten reddy to put
them things on him. eordin to the .
mommy random, a man wocked in and :
took the feller by the ear. and be aed to
the barber, the man did: "This feller's
got to go now, ooa he is s escape; if you !
want to finish him you must fetch them
things over to the def and dum ward of
the lunattic sylnm."— lAtttr Johnny.
Disturbed by an Earthquake.
The newspapers long ago had their
laugh over toe deaf old lady who said
" Come in " when the third shook of an
earthquake bad roused her just enough
to fancy tbat "somebody rapped!"
Speaking of the late earthquake felt in
Westphalia, a correspondent of tho
KalholUkr* Volksblati writes:
Some ol the effects of the earthquake
were very laughable. A government
official, as be went through his
bouse on a tour of inspection after
the first shock, found one of
the maid-servants lying on the floor.
She had a broomstick in her band, and
was groping about with it under the
kitobeo cupboard to strike tbat " horri
ble oat," which, while she was in the
sitting-room, bed been rattling among
the dishes. Bbe did not find any oat.
The rattling had bean caused by tba
earthquake.
An rid man stood writing at his deak
in his somewhat rickety boose when the
shook began. A crackling sound WM
heard through the tone*, end the walls
appeared to tremble. At the same in
stant be heard a load knocking at the
door. He hastily tore open the window,
and MW a beggar standing at his door.
"Stopnhakingmy house I NowyouD
get nothing at afl r he exclaimed; and
it waa the work of an instant to slam
down the window angrily, aa a rebuke
for eooh wickedness.
The Russian Invalid# puts the num
ber of troops engaged in actual fighting
during the last war at 282.000 infantry,
87,000 cavalry, at 818,000 men, with
I.2** field gnus. The artillery used
204,928 charger, and the infantry ami
cavalry 10,067,764 eartridgts. The
Turks are reported to have lost alto
gather nearly 160,00P - \tled and wound
ed.
FOR THE FAIR HEX.
News m*4 Nmm far Whmi.
Edmonia Lewes, the sculptor, used to
sell moccasins sua pincushions st Ni
agara fall*.
New York has a society, founded in
1797, for aiding poor widows with
small children.
Mrs. Evert, of Oolfax, Oregon, owns
a hotel, for which she has paid by keep
ing a little inn.
Oarlctte, the widow of Maximilian,
is still at Tervneren, near Brussels'
hopelessly insane.
One lady still remains at Judge Hil
ton's hotel in New York for the original
price of 87 a week.
In Paris black, narrow velvet rib
bons arc braided in the hair. It ia a
very old fashion revived again.
India and French cashmere shawls !
ire no longer worn in Paris. They ere I
used for table cloths aud for furniture
covering.
Miss Graoe 0. Bibb has been appoint
ed a member of the faculty of the Btate
university, at Columbus, Mo., at a salary
of 82,000.
Egypt eanno' be a paradise for ladies,
for travelers tell us that women sre old
there at twenty, nnd very old st thirty
years of age.
The first daily j<per iu England waa
started acventy-seveii years ago. It was
called be / >ai/< / li/urant, and was
edited by a lady.
Cashmere ribbons and Breton lace
are used in combination for neckties,
the ribbon being fastened on plaitinga
of the lace by tinsel l*ees.
Miss Borah H. Leggett, of Brooklyn,
N. Y., has opened a home for young
women, where, for four dollars a week,
they enjoy the social life of a family.
The crown princess of Prussia ia a
sensible woman. When she visits an
exhibition she goes in a simple black j
silk gown, with a straw list with black j
band and a vail.
When the danghter of a RussLin !
nobleman goes into an institute for her 1
•sincation, she is not allowed to go
home until she leavea for good ; so that
she has no home life in her girlhood. j
A writer of fashions observes that the 1
head dn-sses of ladies among the Greeks '
didn't destroy the contour of their!
heads. The dressings of the bair of :
some of the modern girl* have a decided :
tendency thst way. Fists and other
des gua applied to the beads produce
awkward bumps.
Miss Maxwell Graham, an ancient j
anu somewhat eccentric maiden of Eng
land, has left one hundred thousand dol
lar* to four charitable societies, where
with to relieve poor Protestants who are
named Hutchinson or Maxwell, and to
educate iheir children.
Tbe French government, during the ■
summer, sent the school teachers, com
posed largely of ladies, to visit the
Pari* exposition, and paid their expense*
for tbem. They went in batches of one j
thousand at a time, holding conferences
in the morning and then dividing into :
parties to visit different points and study j
systematically.
Misses Roxanna and Elisabeth Lowd,
Hater*, and Miss Elisabeth Wbitromh,
are farmer* in Warner, N. H., who own
nnd work profitably a farm of one hun
dred and sixty screw. They superin
tend personally tbe farm work, do not
hesitate even to take bold of a scythe,
hoe and plow, and are seen almost every
day in the field hard at work.
The princess of Wales has been or
dering from Paris a number of gloves
embroidered in gold and silver, with .
monograms and crests, some having as
many as twenty-six buttons on them.
Bwediah kid gloves were formerly cele
brated for their delioate odor, derived
from s scent called Bander's water.
Tbe French glovemakera have disoov
pre 1 a perfume which is very similar,
and with it the kid is now scented.
Miss Louise McLougblin, whom the
Cincinnati (hmmercial describes aa a
young Cincinnati lady, slender, with
large eyes and a delioate, bright face—
a necnliarily American faoe, full of in
tellect and refinement—has discovered
the famous process of underglsxe paint
ing pottery, which, if not the identical
> Haviland prooces, is one so similar that
i it appears to produce the same effect.
Tbe Oommervial wonder*, in view ol
J that city's having almost everything else,
' why it should not have s famous art pot
tory.
VuklM SIMM.
Chignon* have gone out of fashion
altogether.
Maroon, sapphire and dregs of wine
are the three oolors most in demand.
Shoe-buoklea of colored eat steel sre
much worn both in the day and even
ing.
Babies' afgbaua are knit in tbe plain
afghan stitch and embroidered in
stripes.
Little girls' cloaks sre long, close
fitting saoquea, with cuffs, collar and
pockets of oontrssting shade*.
Velvet overdresses, bordered with
embroidery in silk floss, are shown bv
the New York importers. Tbay are to
be worn over black satin skirts.
Steamer hoods of gray flannel, with
scarlet tassels and scarlet pinking*, and
sleighing hoods of white worsted gar
nished with whits floes, ere among the
pretty things show* for winter wear.
A superb bridal drees, imported for
a Brooklyn lady, is of white satin sad
brocade silk. The ooraaga of setin ia
basque shape, pointed beck and front,
with heart shaped neck, and trimmed
around the neck and down the front
with heavy fringe of crystal jet The
sleeves are long. Tbe front of the skirt
is composed of white brocade, woven in
large roes* and leavea, and at tbe back
e court train of satin fails. Tbe lower
edge of tbe front breedth to finished
with looping of satin and crystal fringe,
TtodusM* IfMt.
A not unusual kind of bride is that
sanguine creators who baltorea that life
is now to be all hm.ey and butter, and
hat never a cloud will east its shadow
over tbe sunny sky. All is so new—
and it will never grow old ? Holiday
time has come iu perpetuitr, and there
are to be no more painfel lessons of
duty to learn, nod no more disagrees
Temper*, depute*, peevishness, tor
eties, are buried beneath (be sugar and
the almond of the wedding cake, and
life ia to be a fairy tale, wbere "they
lire happily for ever after," flniahea
the picture, All the buttons will keep
sewed to the shirts, and there never
will bo a pair of socks to darn. If
children oume they will be born like so
manv little dor en, Mid give no more
tronble than a covey of cbernhs flitting
about the house. Bbe looks forward to
a halcyon sea which not the faintest
ripple is to disturb, and in her world
blight and storms are to be unanown.
Her also we pity, poor, self-deceiving
creature—taking life as she does at
such a false angle, and looking at the
dost and aebea of inevitable decay or
sure disappointment through spectacle#
of such deluding rose-color. Hhe has
not the faintest idee that her husband
will ever cease to be her lover, and she
imagines that the poetic exaltation of
the courtship—the raptures of honey
moon—are to oontinne far into old age.
Of the sense of reality she ia absolute!/
destitute; and her reasoning faculties
are lost for the time in the rainbow
lined olond of hope and exultation.
Perbapa her marriage baa taken bar
from an uncongenial borne, and she ia
elated and fall of hope in oonseqnence.
Reality will waken her np soon enough,
poor soul! Meanwhile we. who see the
fool's paradise in which she is living,
feel sorry for her, and anxious to know
how she will bear the waking which has
to come to her as to others—aye 1 as sure
as death has to come to us all— ls/ndon
Queen.
Byrea's Island.
The castle of Chillon, a thousand years
old, and which looks M if it could last
thousands of years aiiSl, with its grand
architecture, its towers and moat, its
drawbridge and dungeons, is in itself
apart from ita history, one of the moat
interesting castles in the world, rivaling
in picturesque beauty tbe castles of the
Rhine. But it was* tbe heroic self
sacrifice of Bonivard to tbe love of
country and of truth in Chillon's dun
geon which constitutes its true interest,
snd around which tbe geniua of Byron
has thrown s halo of glory. Tbe name
of Bonivard could never fail to command
the admiration of students of history,
but it is Byron's " Prisoner of Chillon
(Francois de Bonivard), which attracts
tbe multitudes aa pilgrims to a shrine.
Immediately opposite the aastle of Chil
lon ia " Byron s island," a tiny spot,
thirty paces long, twenty paces wide,
with three small trees, which Bonivard
oonld see from his prison window—
from his silent dungeon lower than the
surface of tbe lake.
A tmail green isle, it Maenad no more.
Hoarce breeder than tnj dungeon floor,
lint in it there were three email tress.
And o'er it blew the mountain In 1 use,
And by It there ware water* flowing.
And on it there were young trees growing.
This little island wsa a favorite resort
of Byron, where be passed whole days,
and often the whole night. It ia said
that the beautiful verses on night, in
Canto UL.of "ChUdeHarold."werethe
results of s night passed on this island
daring a thunderstorm. Here in this
region, beautiful aa a dream, Byron
lived for montha, winning tbe affections
of all by bis genial manners, kind fad
ings and liberality. 'The room be occu-
FKed is still shown to strangers. Madame
Hsoly, in whose house be dwelt, es
teemed him much for his charming
manners, his guineas and hia fame, but
considered him "a kind of fool, wbo
walked tbe room all night"
Wards sf Wisdom.
Much is written without sincerity,and
more read without profit
Exemption from care is not happiness;
on the contrary, a certain degree of care
ia essential to promote enjoyment
If anger arises in the breast instantly
seal np the lipa and let it not go forth;
for, like fire, when it wants vent it will
suppraes itself.
True dignity abides with him alone
who, in the silent hoar of inward thought
ran still suspect and still revere himself,
in lowliness of heart.
Nothing, says Rrodie, in all tbe world,
is so good as usefulness, which gives to
the individual's own character a finish
snd an influence which mere station ean
not give, which also binds him to his
fellows and them to him
We are apt to be very port at censnr
j ing others where we will not endure ad
vice ourselves. And nothing shows oar
weakness more than to be aharj.ight<-i
at spying other men's faults and so pur
blind at our own. Those have s ngfat
to censure wbo have a heart to be!
the rest is cruelty, not jasthm
Frugality ia good if benevolenoe be
• joined to it The first ia leaving off su
perfluous expenses, the last bestowing
them to the benefit of those that need.
Tbe first without the last brings oovet
ousneas; tbe last without tbe first brings
( prodigality. Both together make an
excel lent temper. Happy tbe place
i where that is found.
Goodness does not mora certainly
make men happy, than happiness makes
1 them good. We most distinguish be
tween felicity and prosperity; for pros
perity leads often to ambition, sod am
bition to disappointment; the coarse is
then over; the wheel tarns round but
once; while the reaction of goodness
snd happiness is perpetual
, T °. Py*ff ■
house in Wwceutar, Maes., recently, were
attracted by a large Newfoundland dog
which kept running toward them, sod
then returning ia the direction of a pond
ia the grove, where something was evi
dently wrong. They followed the dog
to the pond, where they found another
dog in the water and unable to get out.
His front pews wars on tbe eurWtne,
bat he could not get saSafeat hold to
drew himself ap. He mm nearly ex
hausted, and would probably have been
drowned had not the gentleman smistod
him. The dogs showed their gratitude
ia *"i*nlf*fi , kiblfl Ttgrra.
One of the highest compliments a
man can rremvu w to heat a friend my
to him : " Tbe very sight of your pleas
ant face is enough to drive amy toe
blues."— OrpttaJ. But the aattaf* u . u
with which cms hears inch speeches is
matted by the antttpatk* oftoeromL*
that ia almost certain to ensue—" By
the way you haven't got two dollars that
yon, * etc., etc.—Boston TV-wester.