The American Eagle.
Monarch ot Ilia realms supernal,
liaiiging over land and son;
Symbol of the great republic,
Who so noble and no froo !
Thino the houndiu— ... ' of ether,
Heaven's abyss unlathoin'd thino,
Far beyond our loeblo vision,
On thy bars its snnlieains shine '
Borne on iron-handed pinion,
On from jxffo to pole you sweep;
O'er sea islands, craggy mountains,
O'er the hoarxo resounding deep.
Now. thy funning plumes o'orshndow
Northern cliff and iceberg grim;
Now, o'er Southern, soft savannahs,
With unflagging circuits skim.
He that feeds the tender raven
And the sea bird ol the rock,
Tempers the inclement tireer.es
To the shorn and ideating thick,
{.end* tins- o'er the wastes of ocean,
Guides o'er savage flood atid wood,
And irom bounteous nature's storehouse
Feeds thy clamoring hungry brood.
O'er the mountains ot Caucasus;
Over Appeninc and Alp;
Over Kocky mounts, Cordilleras;
Over the Andes' herbless scalp;
High above those snowy summits,
Where no living filing abides,
lie. that notes the falling sparrow.
Feeds thee, lusters thee and guides.
Thou wingest where a tropic sky
(tends o'er thee its Oclcstiol dotna;
Where s|>arkling wnters greet the eye,
And gentlest breezes fan the loam;
Where spicy breath tram groves of palm,
Isuleu with aromatic lialtii,
Blows ever, mingled with perfume
Of luscious truit and honeyed bloom;
Green shores, adorned with drooping
woods;
Gay grottoes, island solitudes;
Savannahs, where paluicltoes screen
The Indian hut with living green.
Behold thy pinions as they sweep,
Careering in the upper deep.
haac Mcl.tllon.
A HUSBAND'S DOSE.
"I wish you would tell .lames, when
he comes in, to turn the cows into tin
lower lot. And if Turtiin calls, tell him
I have concluded to take those sheep— l
want the merinos. And while lam
getting ready, please take my memo
randum book and note down lour har
ness straps. five pounds of nails, and a
gimlet, half a jockey strap, and—and—
yes, I believe that is all. I forgot tln-m
wln-n I made out the items this morn
ing."
Mrs. Streetcr rose w<-arily, laid her
s.eeping babe carefully in its crib, anil
proceeded to record the articles named.
She was young, not over twenty-five,
but the complexion was sadly faded,
and faint lines were already marking the
white forehead, while the tired eyes
told of care, and hinted strongly of an
nnsatisfied heart.
And this tlin-chocked, pink eyed
woman had been called a beauty only
seven years before! And when she
gave her hand to Newton Streetcr site
could sav what few girls can, "fcmar
ried my hrst love."
Judge Streeter, the father, was sup
posed to be wealthy. But soon after his
son's marriage a financial crisis came,
and the thousands dwindled into hun
dreds.
It was false pride, perhaps, hut the
young man shrank from a position tinder
those who had once looked up to him,
and his thoughts turned wistfully to
ward the Western prairie*.
He PX net-ted objections from his
™ young and accomplished wife. But she
■aw with his eyes, anil was not only
willing, but eager to go and help him
make a home that should be all their
own. The purchasing ot a prairie team,
aome farming implements, and the ex-
Cie of building a small house, ex
sted his capital; and the young
couple commenced their married life as
many others had done who had Ix-cn
bleswd with their advantages. The
small dwdling contained hut three
aleening apartments, and this (Suit, added
to tfieir uncertain income, induced Mrs.
Rtreeter to take upon heasclf the entire
■are of the household.
Two children had come in the seven
years to nestle in bar bosom. But one, a
fairy child of three summers, iiad slid
away from them, and was now sleeping
beneath the flowers of the prairies; and
the tired wife had sighed as she looked
an the eold. folded hands.
**'Ahe will never toil as I have done;
bat oh, I wanted her so much," the
loneiy mother sobbed forth.
Mr. Streeter was considered a wealthy
farmer His acres bad broadened and
bk stock increased. Physically and
mentally strong, and with a gentle loving
wife ever studying his taste* and wishes,
why should he wear out fast?
Rut of her. Naturally frail, she had
been like a willow Iwnding beneath a
harden voluntarily taken up. With the
exception of an* efficient girl for a few
weeks when little Mary died, she had
oerfbrnied all the labor required in the
noose since she itecame it* mistress.
Newton Streeter took the memoriui
durn, glanced hastily at the neatly-writ-
Iro items, and then lie stepped into the
ight buggy and drove away.
Rat no longer might she linger, for the
apnnge was waiting in the kitchen to he
kacaded. and the baby's naps were like
angel's visits And helhre the task was
well over ids bugle note sounded to
arm*. and the fretful child was taken up
■nd cammed and soothed to quietness.
She ww conscious of a strange dixzi
nnm. When she arose from a stooping
position her head wns aching miserably,
and her eves seemed burning. What
was coming over her? Nlio must lie ill.
Oh. >; she ha<l no time for that. And
then her thoughts drifted away to the
gear old home of childhood, and she
asked herself, for the first time, if she
Vd one wise.y to leave it for tills lifeol
and care?
H was a dangerous question for a wife
mid mother, and she ciaapcd her child
more closely to suppress in her heart the
disloyal answer.
When Mr. Streeter returned exultant
aver the dollars he had depoaited in the
iwsk, he found no supper prepared, and
.jit wife helpless upon the bed. with
■tisflii tiinlr-1 with fever, and the wall
fag child listnw'ting her with demands
A physician and nurse were noon sum
moned from the city, and the weary
wife enjoyed the luxury or being 111.
Rut convaloMocncje noon foliowwi; ftnd
before leaving Ilia patient the old doctor,
a clone observer ami a deep thinker, took
the husband aside and asked :
" Did you know what brought this
fever on your wife, Mr. Stris-terP You
have worked her nearly to death."
" You are speaking of my wife, not my
horse."
"Granted; and I say again you are
working her to death."
'• Kenny, doctor, such language is un
pardonable."
"And yet you will pardon it. And
futhcrniorc, by your great love for the
self-sacrificing woman we have just left,
I shall perform an operation on your
eyes that you may sec as I see."
* And then he placed the cold, hard facts
before him. from the time she became a
bride, beautiful and accomplished, to the
village, up to date of present illness, in
which domestic cares only had haunted
her in feverish dreams. In concluding
he added:
" I truly believe, if she takes up her
old burdens at once, that before the year
has passed the grave or an insane asylum
will receive her."
i The strong man shuddered.
" As Heaven is my witness, sir, I have
only permitted, not exacted, this sacri
fice. She voluntarily took her place by
I my side, and has uncomplainingly kept
i step with inc."
i " No, she has not kept step, to follow
your own figure. Unable to keep up
' with your long.* rapid strides, she has
i fallen, faint and footsore, by the way.
1 I tell you she must have rest for both
; mind and iMidy, or I will not answer for
the result. And it would he better found
awav from home."
"Yes; I Itegin to comprehend, and it
can he fount! away." And offering his
hand, "I will take care, doctor, that you
: do not get a chance to administer another
such done to me."
Mr. Strcctcr went back to the room
where his wife was sitting propped up
: by pillows, and a gush <>7 unutterable
j tenderness swelled in his heart as he
I glanced at her pale face and almost
transparent hands. lie sat down beside
' her and said, softly :
"You don't know how glad I am that
you are better."
"Thank you. Yes; lam almost well
now —shall soon be able to he in the
, kitchen. I an sure I must Is- sadly
j tussled there by this time."
" No, you are not needed there. By the
way, would you like to have me put the
| farm to rent this summer, and you take
the lxy and i;o hark to the old granite
; hills'"
"Oh, could you? May I go?" and
J the voice auivensl with excitement;
then wistfully, "but the expense. New
! ton. It would put us hark s, much."
" Yes, then* it is ; the old doctor was
right," In* thought. And then aloud,
" Do you know what 1 went to the city
for the day you were ill?"
" To deposit some money for more land
1 think you said," she replied, wearily.
" Yes; hut Ido not need that land. I
have far more land than I can cultivate
now. And you shall have that money—
at bust all you want ol it—and go home
and stay all the summer, and trv to get
Some of your blood back. I shall write
to-day that you are coining."
Mrs. Strcctcr could not lielieve it was
! not one of her feverish dreams.
But it all came about in good time,
and she arrived safely at home, where
she was petted anil caressed to her heart's
content.
"You are all trying to spoil me," she
would expostulate; "I shall never lie fit
for a farmer's wife any more." %
And thus among loving friends, rid
ing, walking and, when at home, read
ing. music and writing long letters to
her husband, the summer wore swifliy
away.
Anil now he hail written that he was
coming, and she was counting the days
that must elapse ere she could look upon
his face and be clasped to bis heart. She
was eager to go now. HIT holiday was
over. Health had returned, and not an
instant did she shrink from the old life.
And wlu n the husband came and saw
the wonder one summer had wrought,
he again told himself that the good doe
toi was right.
A few flay* were given to the old
friends, and then they turned tlu-ir face*
toward their Western home.
It was evening when they arrived, and
the wife looked with bewilderment on
the change. \ handsome front had been
added to the old dwelling: and b-ford
she hail time to question she Was usheroi™
into a parlor newly furnished and already
light ed. An ehgant piano stood in a
recess evidently constructed for its ro
i eeption.
She turned toward her husband to
assure herself that he too, had not
changed into something or somebody
else. But the merry t winkle in his eye
told her he was enjoying her surprise,
and slowly she began to realise the
whole situation. Yes, now she under
stood his strange reluctance to mention
what he was doing, and his willingness
to have tier remain, even after she hail
expressed her anxiety to return.
"Come, I have more to show you!"
and lie showed her into a large, com
modious room, furnished for her own
sleeping apartment, even to her baby's
frili.
"Thiads for you. And now lay aside
?rour dusty garments and prepare for tea ;
t must have been ready an hour ago. I
will go and see."
When he returned he found his little
wife sitting in her little rocker and weep
ing silently.
"Have 1 wounded where 1 wished to
heal?" he asked, reproachfully.
" Forgive me," she said, smiling; "I
am a goose, hut a tired-winged one, you
know. And I am so hniipv to he at
home in such a home, that I have no
words in which to tell my happiness."
He stooped to kiss the offered lips.
And what a different life It was—busy,
not burdened. Time for the wants of
the niind s well as the laxly. Good
help in tlu< kitchen nil the time, and
choice reading for any b isure hour.
The farm was an unfailing source of
income, fully defraying all expense, with
a balance in favor.
" Been improving, I see," said Dr.
Meeker, as lie reined in his light enr
riage to the neat fence.
"Ye*. doctor. Come in; I want to
show you all the improvements. Here,
Mary, the doctor wants to see vou."
And as she came to greet film, rosy
with health and happiness, lie nodded
his lirad at her husband.
"Yes, that will do," and then glan
cing at the open piano, " I am going to
stay just long enough to hear one tune
played. Will you favor tae?" and with
the old gallantry, fitted so awkwardly to
his brusque manner, he led her to the
instrument, and stood, hat in hand,
while she played.— Amcrir/in
Connecticut has l,(M8 public reboots.
Jefferson Davis at Home.
Alighting Ironi the train at Bcauvoir
Station, Miss., you can sis- two or three
small brown structures, a grove of pines,
and the white vistaof vanishing railway
track glittering with millions of minute
refractions of the bright sunshine for
miles along its sandy way.
Taking the half-perceptible roadway
! to your right, ten or fifteen minutes'
wafk through the pines brings you to
the beach. Hero you sec a house built
i in the airy fashion of this region of per
petual sunshine. This is the residence
of the itcv. Dr. Uncock, an aged Episco
palian clergyman, once chaplain to the
Dttke of ('ambridgc. Beyond the rever
end gentleman'* estate you s--, fronting
beach, the another estate, the residence
of Mr. Davis.
Entering the gate, you pass across a
lawn dotted with live oak and other
trees, festooned with the picturesque
.-jpani-di llioss. Before you is a low and
spacious mansion, painted white, with
broad verandas. At cither side, a trifle
nearer the fence, is a small building, a
sort of pavilion. While resting on the
veranda, waiting for your letter of intro
duction to is- handed to the master, your
eye takes in the hospitable provisions
for ease afforded by several comfortable
rocking-chairs, a table and a settee.
Uife Tn-re is n' fresco. The broad hall
which goes through the house is open to
the breeze, but not to the anb ni sun,
whose rays an- intercepted by I lie ver
anda. Here, on tin* front veranda, sitsi
of a morning the ex-President of tin-
South. In full view is the Gulf of
Mexico, that dazz ing. radiant expanse
of shimmering blue. Its summer waves
glide softly, to break in lulling sound
upon the white and sparkling sand.
'I in- breeze is ladeii with the strange
perfume of the sea. It is the land of the
lotus-eaters, where 'tis always afternoon,
i Sitting on this veranda, into what rev
eries may not the Confederate i-X-Presi
dent fall, as he gaz.es out upon this Mex
ican gulf, which, had the dreams of tin-
Southern statesman been realized, would
have bi-cii the inland sea of a mighty
empire, stretching to the tropics.
1 was soon summoned to the little
pavilion to the right of the mansion,
i i'his building is divided into two parts.
The rearward is occupied bv an ain-ienl
arid favorite negro servant, whose idea
of housekeeping is to display lii furni
ture and tools on his little veranda. He
has a notion of raising vegetable odds
and ends in IMIXCS. and bis vagaries cx
; eit<- but a smile. No one dreams of in
tcrl' ring, even for the ake of order, with
the privi)egis of this nncicnt servitor.
The front portion of this pavilion is oc
cupied by Mr. Davis as a library and
study. Here I found him. slightly in
dispi *sl anil lying upon a lounge. His
tnani.cr is genial ami very kimfiy. with
that charming courtesy characteristic
of the high-bred Southern gentleman.
Seventy years of age. Mr. Davis ha*
i yet a fresh and vigorous look. His hair,
mustache and whiskers are white in part,
but his eye is bright and cheerful. 11 i M
face in rejxifM- is almost severely intel
lectual. hut the smile which iiglits up
liis mouth and his quietly - h- rfui laugh
dispel the first impression of coldness.
Few of our public men have the quiet
fascination of manner, the old-fashioned
grace and the charming conversational
power* of Jefferson Davis. His memory
is capacious and retentive. One might,
with a facile phonographic pen. collect
great stores of reminiscence from his
lip*.—' 'orrcxpotulcncc /lonian Ihrald.
A Terrible Fall In an Elevator.
Bather than walk down i\ flights of
stairs in a N> w York hotel four servant
girls atta< lusl to the place determined to
ride down th<- slender trunk elevator.
The four managed to squeeze into the
dummy and one of them started the ele
vator. As it reached the fifth story
something snapped with a report like a
pistol, and tin- dummy with its heavy
load shot down the shaft with a whirr
that did not s-s-m to occupy a second 'a
time. The cook* fu*hed to the kitchen
door, which is opposite the mouth of the
shaft in the basement, and wen*just in
time to sis- the dummy strike the stone
floor with a noise like the stroke of a
trip hammer. Kutv fallaghan and
Annie Fogarty were thrown out on their
faces, and in such a manner that when
the dummy rebounded their legs fell
under It. The great wooden l>x
hounded ten fs-t into the air. tln-n the
rope snapped, and the box fell again
with a heavy noise, this time upon the
. limbs of the prostrate women. Nellie
Lllrown and Mary Jane McGinnis were
thrown out upon the liodies of their
mangled com t>anions"w lien the dummy
fell the second time.
The proprietor. Mr. ('ar|*ntT. heard
the whirr and crash of the falling box,
and hastened down stairs. He ordered
feds brought down, and the women
wen- laid upon them, two of them in the
laundry and two in the servants'dining
room. Mrs. Carpenter did whatever
could IK- done for the suffering women,
and her husband ran to tin* New York
Hospital and notified the surgeon ot
what had occurred. In ten minute* Dr.
Knapp, who was in charge of the hos
pital. reached the hotel with Ills as
sistants and an ambulance. The frac
tured limits were put in splints, and the
1 other injuries were attended to is-fore
the patients were removed to the hos
' pital. All four were terribly Injured,
two of them dying on the third day after
the accident.
Leap Years.
Probably few persons are aware that
the year IHOO will not he a ]<> an year.
The Arirttfific American tells nn inquir
ing correspondent that the year IUOO is
' not a leap year because it is not divided
j by trtO, and then, in further explanation,
'tells ail about lean years as follows:
j The earth make* the circuit of the sun
I in .W> days five hours forty-eight min-
I ute* and 49.068 seconds. This is called
, the solar year. The civil year is ordi
narily MS days, the excess (five hours,
forty-eight minutes, 40.0H9 seconds)
| amounting In four years to very nearly a
| day. Accordingly each fourth year is
' given 369 days. Hut this counts a little
too much, the excess amounting in a
c*ntury to nearly a day. So, instead of
calling the even hundred years leap
years, they are made ordinary years of
.*¥ls days. This approximate correction
' involve* an error of a little over one
i fourth of a day every century, which is
: nearly set right by counting each tooth
year as a leap year". By these leap years
| and interrala|f*d clays (every fourth year
! except the hundreds not divisible by 400)
, the civil and solar years are closely re
; i-onrjlcd, the object Ixdng to make the
season* permanently accord with tho
calendar. By making a further correc
tion of one day every toooth year, count
ing each 4000 th year as not a leap year—
the error is so small that 81.600 years
must elapse before It will amount to a
full day.
Why Bon't He Pome I
| This question luia been naked audibly
! and inatidibly quite fri-quently.
His answer is:
j Business. (He is a clerk in a dry
goods store at per week.)
I He promised to take her out in a mo-
I incut of weakness, and the exchequer
' only hold* twenty cents.
! lie owes her a philopena.
! There i* another red-headed fellow
1 going there.
The old man isn't real eordial.
It'* pretty nearly reached the popping
point. H<- II have to sour on it a little
while. Kind a put hack tlx-clock a lit
tle, HO to six-ak.
She took strawberries last time at a
dollar anil a half a plate.
At .Jones' party six- was maslx-d on
that long-legged spider, JODCH.
lie ain't going to stand any more of
her frill*.
Kin-don't like Lulu Smith, and he is
going to see her out of spite.
He don't think she U much, anyhow.
He- well may drop around late— hut
"he'll chill her.
11 IT answer is:
Poor fellow; he is dreadfully tired.
He work* so hard.
Perhaps lie is sick.
lie'* so good to hi* mother, Per Imps
six- i*sick.
He was to take me out. It enil't lie—
no. of i-iiur- e not.
It i* getting late He ought to have
lit me word, a! leant, if )i<- couldn't
come.
I'm wicked. Perhaps lie ha.* been
run over, or hurt on tlie elevated road.
H<- is real nx-an. It's awfully hot.
Bui he doesn't like en-am. I wonder—
l>o you suppose those strawberries—
hut no. he couldn't—
Can anything have happened to him?
He wouldn't mind pa —out wasn't pa
Iliad?
He is—that tihilonena— that's it; h# i*
shopping for that —out lie needn't he all
nigfit about it.
What? you saw him? with I.ulu
Smith? Oh! look'-d like him! Tie
idea! In- wouldn't look at —yet—oh' if
it w as —ma. I don't lx-licve it.
That Lulu Smith is tlx- meanest, ug
liest —and he did go on a picnic with ix-r
- oh'
lb-never stayed away before ami lie
prep tided to le- atlgry because J thought
Mr. JOR) - splendid and *o be i".
(Now 1 think of it, none of th<-*c rea
son* ever k< it him itway ix-fore.)
She would like t.i know why he treat*
Ix-r this way—and Mr. Jones i* splen
did —ix-tter looking—and more stylish
—what can i tlx- mutter'
It's ttx bad—l won't sp'akto him if
he doe* - ottx- now—-half-past nine.
There lie i* now—oh.tlx- darling' no
I won't go to the d-xir —l'm going to
know alxiut that Lulu Smith.— S'<u<irk
j .Sum/ay ' \ill.
The Champion Advertiser.
An unique incident occurred at Maid
win's Theater tlx- other evening which
was not down in the bill*, and which
sharply illustrate* the proverbial j-u-h
and ingenuity of certain >an Francis, o
advertiser*. It appear*'that tlx'adver
tising agent of a well-known Kearney
street au-'tion-hous- had < ngnged one of
the upper stage lxi.\< * for Thursday
evening, and a few minute* after tlx
dixit* opened the u*!x-r* were paralysed
at beholding a large - mivas transparen- y
tx-ing exjxslitioti.lv atid quietly erected
in aid )ix. and benrinfc on its surface
in t wo-fixit letter* the familiar legend,
("Try (luffey's (Vvndensexl Chowder'"
Tlx-y at otx-e liurrieil tei the ) ox and
I legged the or-eU|iatlt tei de*it. Tiiat en
terprising individual sitnplv shrugged
liia shoulder* and went calmly on light
ing wax tajx-r* Cor hia illumination.
The manager himself rushed breathlessly
to tlx- s|*it and ordered the agent to
! leave the house.
" Not if I know it." replied that indi
vidual. cheerfully. " I paid f-JO rent (or
this ixix until eleven o'clock, and I in
tend to do what I please with it, bet
your life."
In vain the manager stormed, pleaded
and offered tei return the money—to pay
twice the amount, even. At last, as the
audience had ix-gun to gntlx-r. lie ordered
the usher* to remove the sign by force.
At this the agitit deliberately drew bis
revolver, and backing the whole crowd
out of the lxi f x. lockeiFthe iloor. In this
emergency a coupe was dispatched for
the man's jirincs|inl. Mr. f.uffey. wlio
arrived in a few moment* txvst liastc.
He was htigciy amused at hi* employee's
persistency, and at once ordered the re
. moval o( the l*ineof contention. A* the
much disgusted advertiser struck hi*
I tent a bright idea illumined his di>a|>-
pointcd visage. Taking Mr. (iuffvy
aside he said, eagerly:
"Well, if I've got to quit. Wouldn't it
be better to have tlx-m put me out by
! forts ?"
" Why *o B "
" Because, you see. that would make
it a splendid a*ault-and-hattcrv ease; i
!*• in all the morning ja|-rs. Magnifi
ecnt 'ad.' Don't you see?"
But It was not to be. and the chain- '
pion advertiser furled bis banners and
sadlv filial out to slow music by the
orchestra.— Sin Franritco lb*t.
Kntrrprlslng t'orrcspondcnt*.
The Washington correspondent of the
ixiuisville (\mr\cr-Jtmrnal *a\s: M<-m
--lx-rs of Congrt-ss are •onstantlv puzzled
as to how correspondents get bold of
tlx-ir secret prix-eeding* in caucus. After
the last caucus there was a pretty (x>r
rcct rejxvrt given in one (taper of the *ub-
I jeet* reported front one of tlie committee*
and presented for discussion. It was
I afterward learned that the chairman of
the committee had notes in
regard to the subjects presented to the
caucus. When tliey myourned lie tore
the paper to pieces and threw them in
the waste-paper basket. When all bad
departed an enterprising reporter entered
the hall and Ix'gnn a search for items.
He saw the hits of paper and carefully
| collected all of thorn, then he retired and
\ skillfully fitted the particles together.
Next he visited a committee-room and
oski-d the clerk if that was the hand
writing of the chairman. He went front
one to the other, until lie fixisl upon the
member whose writing he held. Next
morning Ids paper hao a pretty correct
report "f the proceeding* in secret cau
cus. Many think It would he better il
the caucus would give correct news to the
fiapers, and thereby avoid the many
maginary reports which correspondent*
semi out as news. A promimxit pa jut
published a sensational report which. I
am told, had not a shadow of truth for a
foundation. When the correspondent
was taken to task about il, he said, " I
was obliged to send something to my,
paper, and. if you will not give in* news,
there is nothing to do hut invent, t
would prefer the truth, but you leave me
no alternative."
FOB TIIK PAIR HKX.
I'uhlon Chinira of Ihr Kulnrr.
Hlowly, yet by perceptible steps, the
IUIXICH of the feminine toilette ARE chang
ing, iM'l the changes ulr iwly riiifl*' arc
but prophecies of what will Hjijx-ur in
the neiir future. The dftVS of the shcath
like ekirtH iioy be numbered, and more
bouffiuit and voluminous drajx-rie* are
I*iii If introduced in the costumes for
early autumn, which arc a nx-re hint of
what the autumn will tiring. I'uffs arid
paniciM arc win on almost everything,
and not only is the hack draped hut the
silica are puffed, and in Home of the late
importation* of aumnu r toilette* the
side patiier* arc very marked, being ar-.
rurigcil in a puff wiilc at the top, grow
>tiif narrower a* it descends the *kirt and
banded aero** the wide embroidiTie*.
giving tliem very much the aji|x-arancc
of the basket paniciH, from which pre
sumably they were nallied at first. Tlx-re
i*. iii trained drma more mpNiilly, a
tendency to a more decided fullness of
the skirt at the tup. A dress now in the
process of manufacture at one of the
leading private establishments in the
city has tin- entire width of tin- train
gathered at the waist, underneath the
coquettish basque, and hanging in one
unbroken line to the elid. Tile < fleet is
very elegant, especially as the material
from wlix-li it is made is of a Ix-av v bro
cade, wliii'li would Ix- spoiled hv fiuneli
ing up and otherwise perverting it from
its proper purpose. The pettic oat is of
plain silk, and the buttons whii h are
Used to fasten the train to are most pe
culiar, being made of silk cord in two
shades with tie enter taxselcd
New materials show tie- increasing
tendency toward bright colors, and the
very newest and most novel of all is the
old-fashioned changeable silk in a su
perior grade, witli a polka-dotted silk in
tw o colors to make a combination with
it. As yet, there is not a yard ol this
silk In the eounlr- but some patterns
have been sent to a private i slahlish
iiient by tin commissionaire in Paris,
which arrived only two or three days
ago. (fneof these js a ehangeahle green
and gold, having a golden sle-en through
which tic* green shines, making the
most perfeet effect; the siik whieh ac
companies it, and whii li is to he used in
conioinntion as a trimming, has over
shot gold eoloreil satin dot- oil u gr* li
ground. Another very lovely one lias
fawn colored and gold combined in the
same way. dn everything there is th
im reasisi color; very few hlaek dresm*
are worn out of mourning except sjlk
and grenadine, ami tin y are lighted up
by embroideries In satin or gauze or by
bows of color. A grenadine dress now
in procos* of making has a satin petti
coat trimmed with panel* of *atin, em
broidered iti Marshal N> and .fa-que
minot roue* in the natural color*; tlx
overdress of plain grenadine i- looj.ol
jauntily over the petticoat by bows of
sat in ribbon, and is edged with a che
niile fringe Imundnl hv siik of the colors
in the embroidering. A v.-st in the same
deign, hut in much smaller pattern, i*
inserted into the cor-age. The < fleet in
most gorgeous
Many of tie illl|xirl< d • ,ohroid< i• <1
off,-, t This ap|-ar* not only in the
coloring hut in the figures used, tine
might think from 11•• ir gayety ttint they
would only he used on house dr< -*•■* ;
hut that i" by no means the ease. They
adorn street costume* as well. A mas.
tie camel's hair cloth recently finished,
and to is- worn at Naliant tlii* summer,
had hands of this Persian embroidery
against hlaek Trivet. The effect was
very lovely. (Vinipamtivcly few o
these dresses wiil )x- worn in town: they
an- for tlx'country or seashore, when*
gay clothes an- quite in place. Prob
ably. if tlx rage for tlx-m k>* ps. tliey
will appear in town in the autumn, but
we can make no certain prophery of
tiiat. I tost on women an- quiet in tlx ir
tastes and don't like to flaunt liright
colors on the street, and they never go
the lengths to whieh New York wontiu
go; so whatever one may *. ~n Fifth
and Madison avenues, lie will not see
the s.-inie on Beacon stn* t.
The putting together of the petticoat
and train and the skirt and draperies of
tlx- shortdn-ss is only a step toward the
one plain *kirtat least, that is the way
tlx- rnix h in<*ii-tes lilgpft jt ft j*
not iikely that we will return all at once
to seven*simplicity. if. indeed, tiiat jxiint
is ever wholly reached: but the better
<-las of women are n-ally demanding less
trimming and fus*. Plainness to a cer
tain extent i* extremely desirable, and
t lie average dressmaker should ix- made
to restrain Ix-r exuberance in the matter
of ornamentation. When thev learn
that elegance dooan't mean ruftfc* and
puff* and frills and flounces, they will
Itave gone far in the direction of the
artisti- in dress. and they have more
hope in time to reach it. In the mean
time, may the modiatc wlio understands
the meaning of discretion and taste con
tinue togijre lessons to the rest. — JloMon
AdrrrtiMr.
Voo srot Xtntea for Women.
Women are to tx> admitted to medi
cal instruction in the Harvard Medical
School Under certain restrictions.
A training school is Ix ing established
in Kngland in order to provide trained
nurses for the sick in private families.
At Ix-glmrn more than l.ono women
are employed in the manufacture of coral
I tends for Moklmii whtea promise to
be fashionable.
A ball at which ail the guests were
compelled to wear the costumes of work
ingttien and workingwomcn was re
cently given in Paris.
The late Mrs. Hale was active in many
exeellrnt public undertaking*. She hail
much to do with the completion of the
Hunker Hill Monument: fur thirty years
site labored to have Thanksgiving day
made a national holiday; nnd site greatly
influenced hoi- old friend Matthew Yas
sar in the organization of Vassar College.
A flower-girl brigade has liecn started
in Ixindon bv the Baroness Burdctt-
Coutt* and others, with the intention of
enabling the flower-seller* t<> earn more
liy tea< hing them how to arrange their
wares and securing regular customers
for them. The flowers an' bought for
the girls at Covcnt Harden ami made
up at a central depot.
MisV Sarah I-cggett has succeeded in
establishing a " Home for Business
Women" in New York. To give to
working girls a home, such as |K<HMI
women deiserved. and at the same time
bring it within reach of their income,
was the problem she took on herself.
She has more than fulfilled her expecta
tions, and the home has sixty inmates, j
She is of Quaker descent and educated in
all the grace* of wealth and refine
ment. and is not only young but also a
beautiful Women.
Temper In a woman Is such a good
thing that she should never leae it.
A Big Meteorite Fosnd.
A corespondent of the Chicago Trt
butu: write* from Estherville, In., a* fol
lows: Something of sensation wan
canned li'T*' on the 10th, at or near live
o'clock, by the falling of a meteor. The
hint wax whining, amlonly occasionally it
fleecy cloud Visible, when all at once,
; fur nji In mhl-air, there wan a loud rc*jort
' nw uhling the discharge of a cannon,
only louder, followed oon hy another
j resembling a heavy blast, which was
followed |y one or two more rcjK,rtx that
1 might have hecn the echo from the first;
then, for a minute or MI, there wax a
rumbling wound, wecmingly passing from
fiortlicitHt to M>uthwcxl, as near a* I
i could judgi from the location I was in.
About two mil's nortli Mr. baric*
; I'./a wa at work planting com w hen
; tie- explosion came. Ixxtking in the di
rection of the re|iort, he could not sec
anything on account of the sun, hut,
following with his eye the direction of
the roaring pound that followed, he saw
dirt thrown <i;> to some height in the
edge of a ravine a hundred rod* or HO
to the north-northcaat of where he was
at work. Mr. John Ilarber also report*
a ■imllinr appearance a hundred rod- or *
PO further in the warm-direction. Further
observation* were made hy s. W,
Itrown, w lio live- three-fourths of a mile
north of here. |fe wits in the i-dgc of
the timlwr, looking in a northwesterly
direction into the topa of Home oakw, to
pet- if then were going to lie any acorn*,
tic- direction Icing quartering to the
wun ; he - IIV a ri IL - ptreak. and w:ui look
ing attentively at it when Hie explosion
cane. lie i'aims that it was passing
from'west to i a-t, and that when It liutit
there wax a eloud of Ptnoke at tie-h'-ad
of the red streak. whieh rushed forth
like the prnoke from a cannon'P mouth
and then spread in every direction.
I iM>n examining the edge of the ravine
a hole wax found twelve feet in diarne
ter and alxiut ix fel deep, which wax
full of water. I'arth-p have pjnee, hy un
tiring iaUir and pearrh, founil numerous
pierep varying in size fr<im one to eight
otmees. also f<iur jdeeep aliout four
pounds, and one weighing thirty-two
pounds and two ounce*; hut the largcts
was found tedded eight f<*-t in hlue day
and fully f mrten feet from the surface
11- weight wa 4:11 pounds, and I should
judge it was two feet long hy one and
nm-httif w ide, and one foot or so thick,
with ragg'-d. un< ven wurfacc. It iscom
posed. aiitr-ntly. of netirlv pure metal
of some kind, a pice of which has lecn
made into a ring hy flattening out a
small piece. A hole wax then drilled in
it. It wax then drawn over a round iron,
an I inak'-s a V<TV pn-tty ring, n— inhling
*ilv<T somewhat, hut a trifle darker in
, color.
A Itadlsh Feast.
At I/'venw Hall, in Westmoreland,
a i urious 11 iehration t*ok ida*-e on Mon
day last. For a time "to which tlie mem
ory of man runneth not to the contrary."'
it lias le cn thi i u-tom on the I2th of May
to hold a radish feast in the grounds of
that old English mansion, flow it ori
ginated nohody knows exa< tly : hut some
of its attendant circtini!an'<*w suggest
that it sprang out of those luihits <•! pro
fuse hospitality whieh were charaetcr
jstii of the "fine oh! F.nglish gentleman"
in the olden time. The radish feast is
as*** dated with the opening of IUI annual
fair at Milnthorpe, in the same neigh
liorliood, hyjhe mayor nnl corporation
of Kendal. That worshipful Uwly hav
ing discharged the duty of proclaiming
the ancient fair in du<- form in the morn
ing. r< pair to Is ven* liali to assist at tlie
radish feast. I'pon the lKiwling-gre< n a
table is set apart for thm, uis.n wbi< It
tlo y find a filx-ral supply of radish'*, ,
oat-hrcad and butter for their refresh
ment. and at a second tattle close hy all
comers provided with free ticket* take
their turns and • ryoythe feast. Radishes,
oat bread and butter, however, ttould
probably not suffice to attract so many
visitor* were they not supplemented by
a copious flow of peculiaroal ale of great
jMilency, i a!led " Morocco." Indeeu, one
<>f the most remarkable events of the day
i* associated with that powerful bever
age. According to tlie traditions of the
feast, or the custom < f the,country, visi
tors who make their first appearance
there niut prove thHr fitness by a pro
cm* which i* calculated at one* to do
inonstrate the potency of the "morocco"
anil the drinking power of the stranger.
The n> w-<xm<T |* pulled into the ring,
and there and then, in the mid*t of a
crowd of experts, he is required to stand
upon one l<g An old-fashioned glass,
containing a pint of the "morocco," j*
then placid in his hand, and it becomes
his duly first of all to repent the toast:
" I.tick to lgvui*. as long as K< nt flows,"
and then drain the gohh-t in one draught
without losing his equilibrium during
any part of the process If he should
i uc. icd in the feat lie is free of the place;
failure entails the mmlest fine of a shil
ling. which goes to tlie gardeners. Ath
letic sixirts follow, and It seems not im
probable that in the "good old times"
when the capacity for heavy drinking
w as considered a manly accomplishment
this " morocco " test wax looked upon ax
not the leaxt important of the "trials of
strrnglh" which had to be undergone.
I situ lon Pull Mill GnztUt.
Scene* on take Tahoe.
take Tahoe i* a great fresh water
IKHIV twrlve miles south of Tniekee: It
lies in two States—California and Ne
vada; three-quarter* in California and
tlie remainder in Nevada. Tahoe i* an
Indian name, meaning big water or
deep water. Here, at an elevation of a
mile and a quarter above the ocean,
sheltered in it* rock-bound hasin. rests
this inland sen. twenty-five miles long
and ten wide. Its blue waters are en
circled by hills mo*nieed with trees ol
evergreen ami pat* lies of pure white
anow. Pebbles may be counted, and
trout may lie won sporting at a depth of
eighty feet, so clear and smooth is the
water. It changes color according to
the depth, from a beautiful pea green at
the shore to an indigo blue.
It lias been sounned to a depth of 3.000
feet, and Is so rold, even in summer,
that tlie water, when taken from below
tlie surface, i* near to the freexing point,
although it never freezes in the coldest
weather. Fish abound in the waters
near the shore, among which are four
varieties of trout. The silver trout i*
considered the finest, and is always
taken in deep water, sometimes weighing
thirty-two pounds.
On account of the rwritv of the atmos
phere. the water* arc not very buoyant,
ohjeet* sinking like lewd. Nothing ever
floats on the surface, Great logs whieh
have os'-aped from the hands of the log
ger*. 'soon sink and are seen no mors.
At time* tlie lake Is calm and peace fill
as a smiling ha be. again it is in a moment
lashed to fury and beaten to foam hy tlie
winds that spring up in the canons and
sweep across Its water*. Rut look at the
lake when and where you will, it is a
scene of beautiful grandeur whieh pea
and pencil have striven in vain to por
tray. Yon must see it to be satisfied