FOR THE FAIR SEX. IVfwa And Hfotro for Wnnirn, There is scarcely a girl at Ogdcn Utah, who can't swim creditably. l)r. Klixa I-add Campbell, of Attle boro, Mass., has lieen elected a member of the American Institute of Homeo pathy. Mrs. Mary Howitt hns received from the English government a pension of 9600, in consideration of her literary services. Miss Harriet Hosnier, the American , sculptress, so long resident at ltonie, isin her fiftieth year. She was liorn in Water- i town. Mass. * * Mile. Grevy, daughter of the president, of the French ropublit, is an excellent shot, and habitually accompanies her father in his shooting excursions. Mary Ilnll was made a commissioner of the Superior Court of New Haven lv the appointment of Judge Bcardslcy. ft is the tirst of the kind in the State. Scantily-gathered flounces, finished ! with needlework or with Breton lace, are worn on white dresses; but tucks also find a place oil many of these cool gowns. Spanish and Italian ladii - waltz and dance beautifully, but they are anything hut graceful walkers. American and English women appear best as pedes trians. A disconsolate wife tells the Detroit /W that sin- does not believe that there is a woman in the whole United States that "ever got credit for raising a step . child." Fifteen years befori the Revolution the wife (if Washington kept sixteen spin ning wheels running, ami *nw the fabric made in her own house, under her own direction. Mrs. Gladstone ha- opened a "home for business girl-" in Ixindon. The es tablishment will accommodate twenty five young women, who will be cxpect< d t<> pay according to their means. I .mens of pale colors trimmed with white Breton lace are preferred to I'om padour patterns hy women of quiet taste. Bows of velvet or ribbons are u.-eti to fasten them up in graceful folds. Maryland. Delaware. Virginia and I-ouisiana are tlie only State- now left in which the male teacher- outnumber the female. In New Hampshire there arc five women teachers to one man, and in M assachusctts eight to one. A deputation representing the young maidens of Great Britain recent lvwnited upon the Duchess of Connaught, at Buck ingham l'alaee, to present to" her a hand somely illuminated Bible us a gift of the maidens of Great Britain. Croquet has never become popular in 1 France, it seems, and the reason- given are that French girls wear high-heeled boot* even in the country, and that, as thirty or forty families live in one house, i ( and that house has ii.ithing but a stone paved courtyard, it is difl'n ult to find the required lawn accommodations. Tin- Paris Uiizetti >l<t F> im*tx gives a list of French women who have (de tained the academic degrees. There are five doctors of medicine, three licentiates <if science, two bachelors of science and letters, six bachelors of science and twentv bachelors of letters. These de grees nave all been con (erred since 1M66. The Pacific coast has ju-t liad it - first wedding where the marriage ceremony was performed by a woman. Rev. Ada < Bowie- of tie First I'nivcr-aii-t cliun h at San Francisco was the oflh'ia ting clergyman. Dr. Jennie Bearby. of Oakland, was one of the high contracting parties, no mention lieing made of the man in the ease. Several young ladies, among them Miss I.ulu Wickham. daughter of the ex-mayor, and the daughter of William K. Dodge, Jr., have lately Is-en giving gratuitous lessons to the elder girls of tin- New York Five Points House of Industry in housekeeping, and recently the fir-t exhibition of the proficiency of the pupils was given. Sixteen giri* were seated at arable, and in turn they practically illustrated various phases of household work. Mi-s E. A. Fazakerley isawell-known lady in London society, and sin has her own steam yacht, the Violet. She pre fers the society of her sex. and just now is cruising in the Baltic with three lady companions. She intends in this inde pendent fashion to vi-it St. Petersburg, and subsequently Christiana and Bergen. She will then do the coast of Norway, avoiding, of course, with instinctive feminine caution, the neigliborhood of the maelstrom. Ixitiisc, Victoria ano Maud, the young daughters of the Prince of Wales, rarely appear in public in any hut the simplest of dresses. They nre sometimes seen with their mother at the theater in plain white linen or cotton sailor dre-es, with a little red trimming, and they are often met riding and driving in neat sailor dresses of dark blue woolen. They went with their father and mother to the re cent French fair in gowns of plain tdnk cambric, with sashes of crimson har monizing with the pink. The last English census giv*s the follow ing figures with regard to the women em ployed in the metal trade: Pattern de signers, 137; surgic al instrument makers, 230; gun finish •, 366; percussion rap makers, 060; cartridge makers, 1,4!#/; machines maker. 1 243; tile makers, 1,091; cutler*, 837; scissors makers, 376; needles, 2,110; pins, 403; steel pens, 1,577; thim bles, 144; goldsmiths' and jewelers' trades. 3,022; plated wares, 704; copper manufacture 100; tin trade, 032; tin plate workers, 1.883; bras* trades, 1,887; wire workers, 407; lacqticrrr-. 608; bur-' nishers, 1,390; iron manufactories, 9,093; blacksmiths. 436; nail makers. 10.864; anchor makers, 010; press workers, 8&>; screw cutters. 1.479 Ptrl> milliner*'. Directed to the fourtli story ny the con cierge, I ascended and found myself In t rigid apartments, sparkling in gilt, mir rors. frescoi 1 * and lines. An infinity of confection* were upon exhibition, and. though their construction justified the prices, they exceeded wiint I was aide to pay. No bonnet for less than twelve dollars, and many for twenty-five, and I should have turned away bad it not been for theeourtesy of theaeiomnlishcd sales ladies— I may apply tins word " Indie- "in its every acceptation—in manner, in ap pearance and in education. Both hand some, the younger past youth, the elder hail crossed the meridian of life, and yet either of them would have "shaken the snintship of nn anchorite" hv subtle grace anil liquid voice and talking eyes; nnd so they succeeded in selling ine a bonnet. How could I resist the Influence of two such seductive flatterers nnd liars? They comfielled me to lie seated before mirror, and one bonnet after another adorned my pate; for site was quite sure she could suit madame. If one was too costly, there was another hanging upon the next peg, just as beautiful, for eight teen francs less. If madame did not Tike the rouge, madame should see herself in the ceil-Ncu; it was just mad nine's color, hut then madame was so easily coiffod: madame was—ah,a belle in anything; and then these two handsome, crafty females indulged 1n a dissertation in their own tongue, largely interlarded with Kngliah, upon my constructive attractions. This last coup U'tUtl clinched the bargain. Tne next "madame" who purchased a more expensive article would lie still more beautifttl. and would undoubtedly hear her charms extolled in still more winning tones. Still. I admire the rude philosophy of these people; it made us all happy; they sold their merchandise; I went away in a slate of beatitude, in being compared to "flowers and angels and sunbeams, the calmness of moonlight and the sparkle of champagne." Annas i passed away towaigl the hook shop my 1 meditations were upon the cruel fascina tions of these French women. With me their influence had been potential; what would such sway be with the opposite seyp I could only find little rensura for one who yielded to the spell, whetherex ercised for good or evil.—'• EnCly" in I Forney's I'royrtss. .\t A iltitmrtl of 111-. >1olli-l . The late Jolin t'ro-sley once enter tained the I'rince of Wales and a num ber of other titled people at his magi litis cent house of Manor Heath. One even ing alter his guests had been shown over tile beautiful place some of them sat conversing with him respecting his ear lier days. And concerning his mother lie answered thus: "Oh, my mother was a remarkable woman ; she was once a tarm servant; she lived fourtci n years in the same family; she had to milk the e-iws and churn the butter, and carry it to market; she had for a long 'ime only i!tt a year wages, and yet she managed to save a nice sum, and her leisure hour-- were tilled up with spinning wool, her mistress allowing her a fourth of the profits for herself." " Ah," said a friend who was present, "perhaps you nre in debted to your good motle r for some of your success in the spinning .world?" "Oil, y-s." lie replied; "under toil*- blessing I owe everything to my mother." How •ihr Krrpw lirr nt llmur. Wives who have diflieuity in keeping their husbands at home at night should profit by the plans a Chicago wife adopted. The Chicago 'lYibutt< says that a young wife of that city who is anx ious to keep her husband honjc even ings flatters him about the cxqui-itcly dofnty proportions of his feet, and in duces him to wiyu" Issils alsiut two si/.es too small for him. He is on his feet all day long in town, and when he comes home at night, she has a soft chair and a pair of loose, cool slippers lor him, and by the time he. with great drops of agony pearling on hi- brow, has got oft his ituO'.S, lie comes to the conclusion that tlore is no place like home after all. and has no desire to go down town to lodge or sit up with a sick friend. What the Ejc- See ill Heading. M. Javei has lately published ohserva tions on the mode in which the eye " takes in" the successive letter* on a printed page. We are not to -lip pose, he says, that in rending a line one passes successively from the lower part of a letter to the up|*>r pait. then down the next letter. Up the next, and so on. the vision describing n wavy line. The fixation takes place with extreme pre cision along a straight line, traversing the junction of the upj>cr third of the letter with the lower two-thirds. Why is this line not in the middle? Because characteristic parts of the letters are more frequently above than below, in the proportion of about seventy-five per cent. That this i- so. we can sec by ap- j plying on a line of ty|>grophic rharae ters a sheet of paper i overing the line in its lower two-thirds, and leaving the upper third exposed. We can then read the letters almost as well as if they had not been concealed in greater part-. But the ease is very different if we rover the upper two-thirds of tile line; tic lowest third alone does not furnish sufficient for recognition. The characteristic part of the letters, then, is chiefly in their up per portion. M. Javel next compares tlie ancient typographic character* with those of modern book*, and maintains that the latt' r have too much uniform ity. so that, taken in their upper jsirts alone, many ol tie m may lc confound'd in reading. Tlie ol 1 letters, on tin other hand, hail each a particular ign by which tin y could !*• easily dis tinguished. In the Ixsiks printed by the celebrated old publishing house of tin- Elzevir- the a, for exnmple, had no re semblance to o. the r could not Is* eon founded with tin 1 n. as now, nor the e or e with the t>. the b with h, etc, Tliis too great uniformity in the upper part of tyjKigraphle characters should is- err reep'd, sine- it is to tliat part we chiefly look in reading. A Balloon with raddle Wheels. There is a balloon man up in Canada named Cowan. His principal object in life is to steer a In ,""ii and make the air navigable like water. lie hasn't got quite to that point yet, but he lias made a step or two toward it. His balloon is called the ('anada. It is fUt-d with two paddle-wheels, which are worked by a crank and which can be turned in any direction. There Is also a sort of helm. The balloon made nn ascension in June, hut a storm nearly wrecked it. A second trial was made at St. liyacinthc, and, as to the success of the enterprise, accounts differ somewhat. The paddles work something iikc oars, and, after a stroke has been made, feather and offer no re sistanee. When the crank was set In motion it wns found that the network interfered, and the rords were broken in spot*, consequently n fair trial could not be given the paddles. When the wind bIOWS strong it Is not claimed that the machinery will amount to much, hut sevcrnl times during the trip the Imlloon was made to ascend nnd descend by means of the crank for n few hundred feet. The speed was also considerably accelerated when going with the wind. The aeronaut- at one time undertook to chat ge the direction of the balloon by means of the rudder—" tacking " they call it. -Tliev managed to "tack" for a couple of miles, then the helm swung the great gas ling around nnd it forged ahead, rudd r lirst. The balloon meiij how ever, claim that they have achieved a triumph, nnd expect in time to run the machine with a considerable degree of success. Some Improvements will now he made nnd another trial had in n short ! time.— Philfuldphia Hmo. TIIK FANTASTIC. A Morierii I'ayrhe IVonrtfirful Nll|>|*rs - !>> M Ikruyed Tooth .Irw Fly li( Mortiliae* Tlirrr comntonewupiipiT office# every day in the year, half H dozen or more real incidents that boar n* strongly upon the extravagant side of life n* do ihe va garies in " Midsummer Night's Dream" upon its funciful side. That these inci dents are oiten overdrawn by the chroni cler, and as oft<'n exaggerated by those who copy them, cannot be gainsaid, but that they are in the main true is known, because more than one paper of the same locality give the same or similar ac counts. Atlanta, (leorgia, and Sioux City, lowa, journals, for instance, are now busy at their respective ends of a brand-new, golden thread of romance, bast spring a Soulier lad, hrlongingto the Kightccnth t'nitix! States Infantry, then stationed at Atlanta, fell in love with a hiss jn that city. Though lie of Uncle Sam's blue was but eighteen years old, and she of the school-book little more than fifteen, they cut their engagement short and were married. On the wed ding day an order for the transfer of the Kightccnth to Fort Assinihoinc, Mon tana Territory, reached Atlanta. The bridegroom, in spite of tears and woeful protestations, was forced to leave his wife behind. The poor little lady was disconsolate for many weeks after his departure. Early in the summer, how ever, she started, like Psyche, to search for Iter lover. She traveled alone to Savannah and set sail for New York, and, as in the old story. t 'iideriH-iitli tier Icet the uioiiiitit HCA \V rut fdieixirding his waves disorderly, so that after many trials she found her self moving over the Pennsylvania saii road toward the We-t. Food was given her hy kind passengers, and interested gentlemen saw that the conductors were not troublesome. At < 'hicugo r ma.st. r-(!eneral lugnlls was -unpriced one day to see on Imr knees licfirr him a verv pretty girl with tears in her eyes and the story aforetohl on her lips. General Ingalls grew sympathetic and gave her a letter to the railroad officials, from whom she got a pass to St (,'nul. There s||, procured anotluTpass t> Hi— inarck. and went thence to Coal Hanks, from with h place she droppial down upon lier husband at Foil Assiniboinc, having traveled I,(too miles without a penny in her pocket. A Sioux City reporter describe# the meeting as some thing to shout over. Students in general, and medical stu dents particularly, enjoy things outre. 1 lie skull and cros*-bom* being too old a story for Max Weidon, of lafiiyrttr, Inl , that young patron of a Cincinnati medical college has procured a pair of slippers made from the hide of a human subject. The subject belonged to one of Weldoii's fellow sawleines, whose name he will not give. The nameless student got it into his head to send the hide to a shocmnk'r in Cincinnati. The Intt'T tir-t had the thing tanned, and, without so much as a shudder, gave it over at last to the knife and awl. The footgear show their peculiar texture. To the in nocent s, ribeof the I-af.ay<'tte Courier, in which a sketch of the shppcrs appeared, "the lent Imr seemed a light brown in eoior and was streaked with parallel veininga of a darker shade, the whole as soft as silk." "Among his friends," continues the f'ourier. " the doctor in ikes no secret of the mysteTy of the slippers." lie thinks, in fa-*t. that there is no more harm in wearing them than in wearing rings made from human ltonc. or, indeed, of i*irting wadi guards of human hair. The Courier had some fears at first it was being hoaxed, but to verify the matter such of the hide as had not fa-en put into the slippers was pro duced, thus si tting all doubts at rest. Henry Wilson, a young man who lately n-sidiil in the town of To halo, ('hnsc county, Kansas, probably is the lirst jv rson whose ileal 11 was caused by a decayed tooth. The Emporia. Kansas, !.edy<r tells tin- story: " Mr. Wilson, a ' few days previous to his death, had Iss-n in this city having his teeth re pain d. and while undergoing the o|x-m -tion struck his arm against one of the in struments, almvc slated. The wound was a very slight one, but the vims on • lie instrument from a decayed tooth was sufficient to inoculate liis blood with a poison, wbieh gradually perme ated bis whole system ami eventually terminated bis life. This is tin- first in stance of poisoning and loss of life we have ever noticed from a similar muse anil is a sad illustration of the |oisonoiis effect of bad teeth. Itentists should he, ami we presume good ones are, very care ful to have their instruments rxTfeetly clean and free from debris of <(< ad and decaying teeth wtp-n tlievarenot in use." Dr. George Kzekial Thomas was at Otlio. Alatiama. na-ently Mid exhibited himself t> a few persons, among whom were Dra. Haird unit Crawford, of Hi 1- liardville. Heexhiblted a double set of rilis on his right side, dropped his heart to the low -r portion of his abdomen, on tip- left side, and thenelinngid it to a similar position on the right aide, and afterward stopped his heart anil pulse fnim Is ntinir for a short time. Till* all seemed to lc so and t lie doctors said it was so, hut there were some around who looked inenstulous. He is negro, me dium size, nnd talks with good sense. He says lie was born a slave at Ameri- i cus, <>a.. in 1*20; that he has traveled . over the United States, Frnn<-e, England. 1 Germany and Cuba, nnd that his home is now in Syracuse, N. Y. Henry W. Earl, of the Northern Cen tral railway freight depot, in Baltimore, has taken out a caveat for a patent "flying nnd life-saving apparatus." A 1 hag of gas to float the body, and a sail on the back, with wings for the arms, are the appliance*. Mr. Karl says he has not tried the apparatus on himself, but on a wooden doll, which lie caused to float in the air. Of MUM. until lie I tries it on himself he will not be nhlo to demonstrate conclusively that lie "can make the wings work as he thinks tliey will work, hut he hones to be able to try it successfully at the Maryland Institute this autumn. He thinks the apparatus will i.e useful in saving life from the up- I per stories of purnitig buildings. For Small-pox nnd Scarlet Fever. A correspondent forwards to the New York Tribune; the following prescription j for amtU-PnX and Si ariet fever, which | he assert* has tp-cn singularly successful In hundreds of eases. It is: Sulphate of zinc, one grain; foxglove (digitalis), one grain; half a teas|HM>p of sugar: mix in two tahlespoonfuls of water. When thoroughly mixed add four ounces of water. Take a spoonful every hour. Either disease will disappear in twelve hours. For children, small doses ac cording to age. Hon a I hiring Man Saved Ills Life. Of a Captain Akey,whokilled anion in Nevada recently, the Eureka (Nev.) Leader tells the following story : At the '""caking outof the war Akey was mining in I uolumme county. California, and, with a number of other residents, vol unteered bis services. A company was raised, all good men, and lie was elected captain. Much to their disappointment the government decided to keep them in California, and they were ordered to Humboldt bay. Akey's le-nil w turned by the authority eoii/i iT' u upon him, and he began a series of petty pi r- Hccution- which almost drove bis men mad. They bore it for months, until it passed beyond the limits of endurance, and then they resolved to end it. This resolve took the form of a determination never ti> obey ntiothc command of Akey's. This was nothing more nor less tliim mutiny, and was punishable with death; but tile boys preferred that to the tyranny under which they had groaned and suffered so long. An order hiul been received to proceed from Humboldt bay to Red Hlulfs, nnd Akey went by the way of the ocean to San Francisco, while the company crossed the mountains. They were en camped on the bank of the Nneraincnto river when in- arrived, and the crisis came as soiiii as in- put his foot in camp. Hi- railed tile company out on parade anil ordered all tlio-i who hail resolved to repudiate hi it i to step two paces on the front. Ninety nun, the entire strength, firmly took the sti-i>. The sheriff of Tehama rouiuy was with him. and, turning to that officer, lie asked if lie would assist him in arresting the orderly sergeant. The officer replied that In- would, and the two started to do so. when tlicy were both covered witli fifty revolvers, tie- ominous click of which sounded painfully intenci. The slieritl lisik tii hi* lii-rls ami never stop ped until lie reached tie ferry, a quarter of a mile distant, but Akey euniroiiU'il the angry ruin as coolly as if nothing extraordinary was happening. The eoior never left hi- fa'-e, nor flit a tremor disturb his equanimity, although lie fully realized that tie- iiu-n wer- tliirst ing for his blood. Nothing but his bravery sayed him. for they iuul fully determined upon killing l.iiii, but as he an Ids eyes up iiiiii down the line and aftl: "Hoys, tie odds are too much," they ia-pet ted his courage,dropped tle ir weapons and allowed him slowly to re tire. flic upshot of the affair was 'hat lie was relieved of his command, and, after an Investigation of the circum stance s, was discharged from the service. There was at lirst a determination on the part of tie- government to court martial tile Soldiers, but the offi-nee was finally condoned and they served out t)u ir enlistment. It is the only instance of the kind on record of mutiny going unpunistf'sl. Tricks of London llooksellers. A seller of old l>nok in Ixndon has written fur tie-/Hff Mall (hwtb a eon fi-- -ion of aff. w of his sin. which would gladden the heart of many an American buyer if the writer gave any evidence of rc|ientanec. " A nuiiilsr of us." he says, "i rowd into an aucth n-room, wiii-re a library i* brouglit totlie hammer, and buy every article. Here all know eue anotin r. and cai li one lid- for tie re-t. Tliery is. tie n fore, no advance on tic firl i>id, unles an outsider interferes, wlieti we siKin run the pri- up beyond what lie cares to give. Tlii* trick, re pi ati d as often as necessary, disgusts the outsiders and sia ur- s the whole stock for .ourselves at far 'ess titan it* real value." When the auction i over they "retire to a neighboring tavern and repeat it " among t hem-elves. Tliere the volumes go at fair priei -. wiiieh allows the buyer forty per oiit, fur profit on his private business. •• All I* ing sold, we east up tic total- of t lie two sales, sulitraet tic smaller from the greater, and divide the remainder eriuallyamong those present." This is not ail; nor is it the most start ling oonfi-ssimi "One of the <'raft"lia* to make. "We have a good many ways of enlianeing tic value of our wares. Celebrities of all sorts, who arc as ser viceable to us in away aiMiUt to Is described as those merely literary, arc dying off every day. and their libraries disposed of. In tli'-sc eases we look Up from our stock all likely honk*. fumisli tli'in with !,am plates and autographs and usm get rid o| them at flatty prices. It is n fact tliat afti r Ixird Mncnulay's death thousands of volumes wliieli he never - iw were sold in this way a* com ing from his library " The Author of Cheap Postage. I'rolnbly not wne person in atiiousand in tlie United States is aware tliat the so justly celebrated Sir Rowland Hill, who was t fie means of the introduction of the pennv postage -ystcm into Gn at Hritain and Ireland, is still living. But such is the ease. Though Imrn near Birming ham in 1705, and consequently an octo genarian and four years bettor, he is still in good health and it. the full possession of iiis faculties. The Court of Common Council of iiondon, having regard to the vast lienc fiits conferred upon the commercial com niunity by those measures of postal re form with which his name will ever lie associated, has paid him a graceful com pliment by sending a deputation to his house at liampstead to confer upon liim the freedom of the city of Ismdon. The veteran reformer replied at some length, saying, among other tilings, tliat a letter i-ouid now be sent from Egypt to San Francisco for a smaller sum than in IKttt was charged on a letter coming from tlie , city of l*ndnn to liampstead a distan of a few miles. It was in 1*37 tliat Sir Rowland pub lislied a pamphlet first developing his new postal system: In I*3* it was re commended by a parliamentary com mittee lor adoption; and in imd penny postage was earriisi into effect. In l*4fi lie rw-clved a testimonial from the public amounting to fun.Hno, and was suhse i quently made secretary of the general |Kstoffice. — Chicago AYte.s. The lYhlsUlng Tree. In the vegetalile world there are many notable productions, but tine of the most curious is a species of acacia, wlileli is | found in Nubia, wlierc groves of the trees may lie seen ovtT lf0 square milfs in extent. The Aralis call it tlie nofTar (. r., flute or pipe), In allusion to a pe culiar property tliat thi neneia possesses. Diving to tlie Inroads of the lnrvie of In, sects, tl e Ivory-wliite slioots of the tree are frequently distoited in shape and swollen at tlielr lst.se into a globular, bladder-like gall about one inch in di ameter. After tlie insect has emerged from a circular hole this thorn-like shoot becomes a kind of musical instrument, upon which tlie wind, as it plays, dls coursca music in tlie regular sound of tlie flute. The i.atlvea or tlie Soudan, on account of the flute properties of the acacia, call it the " whistling tree." HOW HE GOT lIIN MONET. I'ortir l.rouf it's Jonrnry lutalli. tVIIOs of folomilor-A Woman'i Heru WH • WMII'I Vlwlluitre and Flock. Tie- St. Isiuis (JMje Ih-tnocral says: Albert Lindell. the in ir ol tlie Linifcll estate, who recently came of age, lias exe cuted an absolute quit claim on all ol Albert Lindell's estate by his sten-fatlier and attorney in fact. Dr. Davis, in favor of Mr. Lindcir* motlier (who is also Dr. D i .i-' wife). During his minority Mr hind' had an allowance of only $5O a iiiiiiilli, but he was trusted to the amount of thousands by persons who hoped to get tin ir pay on his attaining to Ins ma jority. He owed I'orter Is-onard, a sta hle-keepi r, almost $2,000 for livery and ca-li bin rowed. Suddenly, Lindeil dis appeared, his step-fntlier having taken bllll to ami tliere lie ha- since remained. In a rinnt time tlie d<M*tor returned and with him lie had an absolute power of attorney ovi r the whole of Lindell's estate. Several lawyers who saw it say it put every inch of Albert LindcllY profs-rty completely undi r the control of Dr. I tails, as far as selling it, mortgag ing, raising loans on it, etc., were con cerned. In view of tie transaction of the day before yesterday, it is poinbsl out by a numls-r of Jawyers that al tliotigli the piiwer tran-ferred was abso lute in tin- illrei tinn indicated, yet it did not gin tne doctor any authority to Give a quitclaim deed, A rather sin gular eii umstanee is tliat the transfer ti i>r Davis was uufle on the very day " Al." Lindell iH-eame of age, March 24. , Tie din-tor lost no time in raising a loan of ifcl'.'.otsi or £1.7.000 on some of the property Porter l/i-onard saw that he must get bis money now or never. He had pre pared a demand note for the amount and started for Ix-adville, faneving that he could, in tin ah-enee ot Dr. Davis or Mr-. I i.ii i-. who i- tie- niotln r of Lindcij, induee the iattcr to sign it. To I*OVI rup hi- tracks I'orter Leonard gave out that lie was going ea-t to tlie race-. Only one person in St. knew whip to* ri ally was going, and the ohjis t. In Kansas City the first person Mr Is-onard met in the sleeping ■ oaeh going to Denver was A lis rt Lindell's mother. The t" were well acquainted. With a woman's in-tiriet Mrs. Dai 1* divined what the livery stable man wanted, and In r purpose to put him off the track was promptly made. I'orter Issmard took in tin* situation at a glano He reasoni-d tliu: Mrs. Dai i- i going to so- her son ; she knows 1 am going also to see I.ill), and sle knows I have a bill against liiin : that bill sic does not want bun to pay; she will try and give me tlie 'ip. and telegraph Albert to meet her at some plai i unknown to me; therefore, in order to -is* Alts-rt. I tnu-t follow Mrs. Davis all over the country if to-i-ssary. 'lf course tie v bail to Speak, issin.'irii broki tlie iei- flr-t. and the two dialled pleasantly, each perfi i tly understanding tin-oilier, and yet each endeavoring to conceal tliat knowlislge. \t an int'Tniisliaf* -tation Mrs Davis -tip) . d off anil went to tin* telegraph of fice. I'orter lssmard kept lii- e\i on ln-r. and wh<-n -h* <*nu* out lie s!ip|n d in uno)is<Tvi*d by her. The operator was a lad of fifteen, and h id not \i*t !• armxl that gn at e-entiai of keefiing lii- moutli shut. " Alt, all, sonny, hard at work, eh ? Take a cigar. Can you *nd a t'*legriun for me to st. IsitiiC Hy tin* way, that lady who wa- just in liere i from St. Istuis. and site's a friend of mine. Now. I'll let you anything she si nt a nu*ssage to St lxmis and -aid sonneting almut me. My name i I'orti r l/onanl" "Why.y-s," tin* boy inniicntly re plii*d; "she sent a message to Dr. <. \V. Davis, St. Isiuis. and she said, ' I'ort is following me.'" "Just what I thought. Now sent* . me—age to John MeCni'rv, Ninth and Fine strei ts, St Isiuis. and sav : 4 Am on train with Mrs. Davis; will follow Iter to < aiifoi nia if sle* gis-s UHTC ' " I'orter Is-onard wrote out tliis mes sage.. handed it to the boy. gave lilm an - other cigar, toid him he was smart as a chain ol lightning, and pit on tlie train u-t in time. As tlietrain ncari-d Ikn- Vt r Mrs. Davis got very anxious. "What hotel are you going to, Mrs Davis?" leonird inquiroif. Mr*. Itavis said she did not know " Wiiat liotel are you going to?" she asked. " lton't know " Tlie eheekm.'in came round. Porter Iveonard said lie would decide at the depot wlnri* he would stop; he tliouglit lie would go Io a private bouse. Neither did Mrs. Davis want her baggage checked. Porter I icnanlstcppi'diiut on tin* platform, closed tlie door and peeped through the window. He saw Mrs. Davis buy : check. When the cheek* man came out I'orter addressed him: My friend, it's a matter of several thou-and dollars to me to find out where tliat lady is going to stop." "Wi il, sin; told nie not to let vou know. It's nothing to do witli me,"but sin* goes to tlie G ran il Central." A more disturbed lady cannot he im agined than Mrs. Davis when she saw tlie burly form of Potter I/vnard push itself into the Grand Central transfer. Mrs. Davis went to lier room and sent for the clerk. When he came down, 4 t Porl " put on ids most winning airs to tlie clerk, prriscd Denver and tlie Grand Central, and stood tlie cigars. The clerk yielded to tlie pressure. He said tliat Mrs* Davis had told him not to let any- Imdy know where she was going, and tliat she inUusteii him to send a dispatch to Alliert Lindell, Is-advil'ie; that she was going in lite morning to I'uebki or Cannon City, and tliat he must meet lier at one of tlie places on receipt of another dispatch. Mr. lsHinard did not go to lied tliat niget. At early morn Mrs. Davis can itown in traveling custume. She took the ' bu*,,and Mr. Isainard lollnwed. "Where are you going. Mr. Leon ard P" " I don't know, Mrs. Davis. Isn't It ! strange we should both go by the curly Mrs. Davis did think it strange. She -aid site tliouglit she would take a trip on tlie Rio Grande road. " W ell, now, that's odd; I'm going to take the same road, but I don't know how far I shall go." Mrs. Davis went ail the way to Pue blo. So did Mr. ls>onard. and the two ! put up at the same hotel. A liberal amount of treating induced the clerk to j reveal the fact 'that Mrs. Davis would take tlietrain for Canon Cltv ne\l morn ing at five o'clock. Mr ts-onnrd. )• ft posltiv.l orders to lie called up in time. Tlie clerk neglected this duty, but Mr. Leonard was awakened at 4 30 by the ulaeharge of a gun in the neighborhood. Hastily dressing, he went down stairs and saw Mrs. Davis get into the 'bus. From this point she two did not speak, in Canon City Mrs. Davis gave up the fame. She and Porter Is*mard took thesame stage for LeadviJlc, she In in if inside imd he on top. lioth itoppid at the (irnwl Hotel, Mri. Davis having telegraphed to her sen to meet her tliTe. I" " hour " Al." strolh-d in and went to the office. Porter J>onard ■lapped hint on the shoulder and toid liim that It in mother wai up stairs. , l ..,' t i'd. *" n '""1 an hour'* confer ( enee. J fie sights of ly-ad ville were taken lln by Albert Idndell and Mr F>onnrd. w hen they met the next morning A ilert i wanted hi" •*<< mnrv drii I hut hi* friend Leotuud told him lc Ind bctt< r not take any; that lie had Mime impor tant business to transact with him. In the presence of a third patty Mr. I.e>n ard told Mr. I.indelj ofthepurpose of Ida visit. There ia a demand note for t'J.OOV," he aaid: "you know the lU'count it correct, and you mutt -ign it." Alle-rt begged fortune, hut Port<r l/-on ard waa inexorable; ami lie aaid he had waited long enough for his money. At laat young l.indefj consented to sign tlit* note, payable to hie " attorney in fact," 1 *'. Itavia, if would find him ftUKt eaah. Mr. Iyonae' l did this. arid added the amount to the note. Thia huainen- win trannaet'd to Ida |ierf*ct satisfaction. Mr leopard took the firat roaefi for Webster, and returned to I>< ri ver fiy the South Park road. Dr. Davis honored the note, and sccurdd it iiv a di*ed of trust. The deed w* recorded on the day on which it wa- delivered, and Porter l/omtri) ie happy. Hideout. Story of a Pair of Shoe*. for Home time pant the shoes worn hy a youn ft nodical student of tliia city have been a soun of constant curiosity and no little comment among hi* friends, ft was certainly *om -thing iinu-ual tliat created thin attention, for tliey were neither particularly large nor p<< uliarly small, nor yet were they in cither so good or had repair to excite mort than a pacing glance. Tliey wore simply a pair of ordinary low shoes, hut It was thir texture and t lie M rungi material ol which they were constructed that made them at oner curious and remarked, lie leatheri" tight brown in color and streaked with parallel reining* of a darker shade, the whole a* woft a* silk. Among lii- friends tie* doctor in embryo make- no m < r-1 of the mystery of hi* foot-gear. "Tliey are marie from the •kin of a U-lfi- of < "in<-innati," lie ear*, giving tiic name of one of the leading families of that city, and wiiile the hair of hi* listener* Itcgm to assume a pcrt*"n dir'ular |>oition. he goe* on to tell how during hi- term at college he vu nnc night nought out hy a resurrectionist fa mous among tlir- ineriieal nun, who offered to sell him a subject just " snatched" from a city cemetery. How tic corpse (that ofa beautiful young girl whose white fb-*h and tlie costly ring on lir r stnootli, white hand, showed iter to h of no t*>or family) was itought by *• vera! of the student*, and how. whrn tin itody, slaslnd by the knife of the dis- SCCOT. lay upon T li- talile. he crept in and cut tin'skin from tlie round limbs. Tin ghastly bundle, securely wrapped ami ti'-d. was packed in an old gripsack and sent with an explanatory i-tt' r to a well known shoemaker in this city. The skin was then tanned and t*ili*hd. and finally placed in tlie hands of a skillful workman, anil under hi* manipulations transformed into a pair of low summer shoe* The remainder of tip-tanned -kin now lir in the simp, ami it is said may readily be produced to viTity the story. Tim tod\ of the poor dead girl, hacked anil mutilated, found a nameless grave, while the mound reared in her memory ill the cemetery of the city is draped with flowers and vine* piant'-d hy loving hands above tlie empty coffin. The shoes fashioned from Iter flesh tn-ad our street* every day. Their story, in all its hideous grotcsqenoss, is vouched for as strictly and absolutely true, and certainly furnishes no mean leaf in tlie history of the dissecting-room —I/<\fay ctl< ( /iic/.) (bftrici. As to flats. A man's hat. unlike bonnet. i* often indicative of his character, for he is al lowed to choow from a great variety of style* tliat wlii !i ie*t suit* his tcmpcra in mt or nc.a ,<is with his moral sense. And jet a "shocking had hat" docs not always reveal a shocking liaii character. Hats, as w-ell as dream*, often go to con traries Wendell Phii'ips' grav slouched hat Is no sign of any slouchiness in Wendell, anil the bright leavor of the burglar is no indication of shining moral at tribute* in the wi-arer. Tlie chief beauty of the modern hat is that it is eminently useful. Sociates, whose cri terion of beauty wa adaptodnes* to use. would have been delighted with such hats as ninc-p-nth* of modern incn wear, though we fear lie would ask, Cut bono ? if presented with a lx-aver. The idral hat, perliaps. is yet to be niade. hut we have come prettv near to it. It keep* the head warm in winter and coo] in summer, it protects the eyes and faii' from tlie sun. it is im permeable to the rain and yet not to tlie air. it is soft and yielding, it may he sat upon and jammed into tlie pocket without injury, and rolled in the dust or mud and ioms out untarnished, and. above all, it will endure the ravages of time. What more does a man want of a hat? Compared with tlie ephemeral bonnet, it is "a thing of beauty and a joy forever," an epic noem. ripening with" the years. Tin • tore, what man having worn an old I at straightway desireth a new? For lie saith the old is better— fyrtnqfeldVhu <m. Komance of a Hair. This romance ofa hair come* from Vi enna: A poor girl witfi laautiful hair went to a barber to sell it. He tried to make a close bargain, saying hair wa* plentiful this year, and declared he could only give lier eight florins. Tlie little maiden's eyes filled with tears, and she hesitated a moment while threading iter fingers through her chestnut locks. Finally she threw herself into a chair and said: " Then take it quickly." The barber was alxtul to cut off the" tnwscs. when a gentleman, sitting in one of ths chairs, interrupted him and spoke to the girl. '-My child," said he, "why do you sell your beautiful hair?" "My mot lier has been nearlv five months ill. I cannot work enough to support us. Everything ha* been sold or pawned, and there is not a pennv in the lions*, j " So, no, my child; it that is the ease. I will buy your hair and give you one hundred fiorins for it." lie gave the ; poor girl the note, tlie sight of which dried ner tears, *nd lie took up the bar ber's shear*. Taking the locks in his hand, lie srleotort the longest hair, cut it off, and put it carefally in his pocket book, thus paying one hundred florins for a single hair. He took tlie poor girl's address, in case he should want to buy another at tlie same rate. This charita ble gentleman is mentioned as the head of a laig- Industrial establishment In Vienna.
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