A Valentine.
Little lasses, lair and flnet
Who will be my valentine T
On this morn
I'm forlorn!
Kvery bird has found his mate —
Must mine lie a harder tato 1
Many maidens near and far
Bright and sweet and gracious are;
Bell nnd May
Are fair, they say;
Sue has shining goldatf curls,
Kate's the prettiest of girls!
Peachy cheeks and golden hair,
These are very line and tair
But my lass
Must surpass
Ail her mates iu something more!
Hear the charms that I adore:
Red lips, parting in a smile;
little tongue that's free Irom guile;
Little loot
That are fleet
Older people to obey—
And to sohool trip blithe away !
Dress as neat as neat can be,
Troesea combed back tidily.
Never pout
Or saucy flout
Doth my darling one disgrace-
She is lull ot gentle grace.
U she'll have nie lor her love
I wilt ever iaithinl prove,
All our life
We'll have ao strife—
for when Iwnnty fadee away
Kindness and good-temper stuy'
May her lite be bright and Inir,
free I com pain and pressing care;
On her head
Be blessings shod;
May the world grow every minute
Better lor her living in ♦ •
Cupid, although you are blind,
Such a lass I hope you'll And!
Take with you
My billet doux,
And thi# tiny golden ring-
Tuck Ihetn sale beneath your wing.
Should she deign to read this page,
Bid her send her name and age
Unto me
Speedily!
She shall have this heart ot mine,
I'm her laithinl valentine.
—AHct William B olhtrlon.
INFATUATION.
There was a little group on the pret
tiest croquet-ground imaginable—a cro
quet-around witli a dinipleo brook flick
ering ry on one side and a semi-circle
ot fine old -trees standing guard on the
other.
An elderly gentleman, in a linen coat,
was hall-kneeling on the grass in the
mental nnd physical agony of a " split
shot;" a youth of fifteen, awaiting his
turn, was watching the operation with
emphatic ennui; a little apart, a young
man with fine features and symptoms of
a mustache--agood-looking fellow, take
him all in all—was conversing content
edly with a young lady—one of those
tall, fair-haired creatures, witli grand
eyes and superb complexion, who fairly
bewilder one with rare coloring.
"80 your aunt will be here this nftor
noon, Miss Penroy?" lie wits saying.
" Ye, in the 5:10 train."
The young fellow calculated in the
depths ol hi* spiritual consciousness •
"It is now three. Two hours' grace.
Would that an accident might befall the
train! Of all things a maiden aunt! No
more pleasant tctt-a-lcUs on the piazza—
no—"
"Blue! Here, Mr. Remington, it's
your turn. You've got the most splen
did chance!" called out the old gentle
man, enthusiastically. "Just knock
Augusta into the brook and go through
Hie middle wicker; then you can take
Charlie coming back, and—
Here the pleasant vision was demol
ished by Mr. Remington's sending
Augusta just the other way, and going
anywhere but through the wicket him
self. His counselor gave him a look of
reproachful despair, and grasped his
inallet as if he were going to commit
suicide, or " suthin'," with it.
Miss I'enroy took her place, and so
the game went on.
An hour or two after, when returning
to the house to dress for tea, Mr. Rem
ington caught sight of an angular figure
in gray alpaca vanishing up-stairs, nnd
n few minutes later learned that Miss
Penroy's aunt had arrived.
• • • •
Just about seventy miles from the
pretty emouct ground and iu accom
panying farmhouse " might hnvc been
seen," on the hanks of the Hudson, a
handsome villa, and in its library, at
the moment at which I write, were the
family assembled—a red-faced old gen
tleman, a white-haired old lady and two
pretty girls, as like as two peas and as
pretty as two pinks.
The daily budget bad just come from
the postoffice. consisting this time of
one letter for the old lady, who, accord
ing to the superscription, was Mrs. C.
H. Remington.
" From Fred," she announced ; " it's
really astonishing how contented he is
in that little, out-of-the-way place."
"I thought he w mid be back after
two days fishing, utterly disgusted,"
said Minnie, one of the peas.
"Oh. I'm very glad to imve him away
from temptation.' 1 went on the mother.
"A fashionable watering-place is a terri
ble training place for a gay young fel
low like Fred—and with his money, too.
He seems to have fonnd picas int com
panions at (his little place. He says:
' There are some very agreeable people
stopping here—a Mr. Wane and nis
family, and a Miss Penroy. a very beau
tiful girl, and her aunt. Miss Boggs.'"
"A very beautiful girl," laughed Bes
sie, the other pea. That explaias the
mystery."
Penroy is a very good name," said
the old lady, " I hope she is a nice
The letters continued to come regular
tvery week, ano the old lady contfnuid
to read them placidly to her husband
and daughters. Miss Penroy and her
anntsti I (figured largely in the missives,
but there was not much said about be
ing awfully jolly—there were vague al-1
lusion.l to happiness and miscrf and
other contradictory emotions.
At this period the old lady began to
get anxious.
" I don't know but that we oujjht to
go on 10 this Kastrodes, Minnie.. I
atu sure Miss Penroy must bo a sweet
girl, but I'd like to see her."
" We might take a run on tliore next
week." suggested Minnie.
" I'd like to go," said Bessie. " I
think we need a little change, and vou
won't take us to any fashionable place
because we don't come out for another
ycnr."
" I'll think it over," said the mother.
But while she was thinking it over
the next day, a letter came y tat sent her
tlying to Iter girls.
"The climax has come," she cried,
half-laughing, and yet with tears in her
eves. "lie is engaged to be married.
Just listen to this."
And with a daughter on each side,
she read as incoherent,'happy, illogical
an epistle as ever lover indited since the
days of Adant.
"That settles it; we go there next
week. In the meantime we must all
write to him, and to her, too."
And they did all write that very day,
dear lovir.g home letters, giving Miss
Penroy a sweet welcome to their family,
and telling Fred how charming they
wore sure she must be, and how glad
they would be to meet her the following
Monday.
That was Thursday afternoon. On
Friday evening a thunderbolt was
handed Mrs. Remington at the tea
table. Outwardly it was one of Fred's
regular letters, hut inwardly it was a
thunderbolt. .
She opened' it all unconscious, read
the few lines, and clasped her hands
' almost tragically.
"Oh, husband!" she gasped, "oh,
Minnie—Bessie! that my boy should
evcrWlo such a thing. It isn't Miss Pen
roy lie's engaged to—it's her aunt!"
" I lor aunt! Stuff and nons nse!"
spluttered Mr. Remington, upsetting
tne powdered sugar into the pickled
sninion. " I never heard of sueli a
thing."
"Oh. no; it's only too true. Just
listen to this: 'Dear mother for good
ness sake, don't write nny more letters
to Miss Penroy. lam not engaged to
her at all. lam cniraged to her aunt.
Miss Boggs. You'll he hereon Monday,
so I'll ten all then. In haste, your lov
ing son, Fred.' Oh, I'll never forgive
her for entrapping my poor, innocent
boy. Such a vulvar name, too—-Boggs."
" Horrid old tiling!" muttered Minnie.
"Dreadful creature!" chimed in
Bessie.
"(firls," said the mother, suddenly,
" it does no £ood to abuse that woman
—we must simply go on and stop it."
No dissenting voice was heard, and
the old lady arranged the entire plan be
fore they left the table. Mr*. Reming
ton and the girl# would start hv the
first'train in the morning. Mr. Rem
ington would stay home [to look nfter
the establishment.
"I am so glad he didn't wan'l to
go," Mrs Remington -n tided to the
girls, "!. might say something harsh
to that poor boy nt:<i be sorry for it
afterward."
The next day—will Minnie and Bessie
ever forget it to their last hour— the
dust, the heat, and the depression of
spirits combined. At iast the conduc
tor yelled some unintelligible sound in
at the door, which their instinct and
the time-talile told thorn was Eos trod rs.
A lank kind of cattle-shed was pointed
tut as the depot, and in the oven-like
waiting-room of it Uiey bestowed them
selves.
"This i dreadful, girls," sighed Mrs
Remington, surveying the blistering
hnyfielcis on every side, and the long,
straight, treeless road, where two cows
were choking themselves with the dusty
grass on the edges.
" I wonder if there is anything like
an hotel in the place? Just ask the
ticket-man. child."
Minnie crossed the room, and held a
| consultation witli a blank-minded old
i man. who was postmaster as well as
I ticket agent, and who insisted at first
upon informing her that tlirre v*ere
"no letters." At last #hc ramie him un
derstand, and gleaned the fact that
there was a " sorter hotel" just back
of the depot.
A tall, angular woman here entered
I the building—a strong-featured, hig
i eyed, black-haired woman, wlio might
have been very handsome, say a hun
dred and fifty years ngo. She stalked
over to the postmnster, and Minnie
joined her mother.
" Well," sighed Mrs. Remington, "I
suppose we had better go to this hotel,
or whatever it is, and send word on to
Fred—but, oh, dear, it's dreadful—to
think he should ever do such a thing!
I'll rn-ver forgive that Miss Boggs as
long as I live—she has just entrapped
my Imy for his money, dreadful old
thing—oh. girls, only think of it!"
' Air you Mrs. Rcmirifjton." asked
the gauat woman, stepping up to the
group.
" Yeg," answered the astonished Mrs.
Remington, "and are you—" she could
not finish the question.
" Yes, I am," the gaunt woman tartly
said; " und I'd like to know what you
mean by dreadfull Your son ain't none
too good for a Boggs, 1 can tell you—
and you needn't suppose you're going to
marm it ever us, 'cause you ain't," wax
ing wroth, and glaring down at Mrs.
Remington with her big eyes.
"You awful woman!" the poor old
lady gasped. " what would Fred say to
dinar his mother abused in this way—
periiaps hat might cure him—oh. dear!
oh, dear!"
"And a# for your son, he wouldn't he
half the man he is. if it warn't for me—
if 1 hadn't nust-cd him. and nussed him.
and rubbed talier on bis nose, and here
you come raisin' a fuss about it—awful
womnn, indeed!"
" Mother," cried the girls, " you
sha'n't stay here-come to the hotel at
once."
Ho Minnie picked up the sari.els, and
Bessie gave her arm to Mrs. Remington,
and they all three I ft the demit, the
gaunt womnn snorting and exclaiming
nft<r them to the last minute.
The "sorter" hotel proved as clean
and ugly as it was possibly for any
building to be. They were shown nf
rectly to an apaitment commanding an
extensive view of a blank Wall and the
root of the depot—anything more unlike
their own pretty bedrooms could
scarcely be imagined. The girls tried
to make Mrs. Remington lie down,
when they had dispatched a messenger
for Fred, but she would not.
"Wliat dreadful infatuation!" she
sobbed, sitting on the edge of the bed.
" I can't understand it."
"Just one of those coarse creatures
men fall in love with," said Minnie.
"Fred talked of Iwr eyes-great
saucers," pouted Bessie.
"I can't understand it," repeated
Mrs. Remington; " she has neither
youth nor beauty—nor oven mcr.tal at
tractions—vulgar—bad tempered; but
I suppose she got round him by taking
care of him wlien lie wns sick—rubbing
" taller," lis she railed it, on his nose j
—ugh!—artful creature working upon ;
his sense of gratitude—oh, dear, oil, ,
dear 1"
" Rut suppose Fred persists in marry
ing her—we can't do anything," said j
Minnie.
• " I wander if we couldn't fix her up,"
suggested Bessie; " she's not really bad
looking, you know."
Minnie caught ongerly at the idea.
" No, she's not bad-looking, and dress i
lias so much to do witli one's appear- ,
ance."
"Oil, girls, don't give in that way;
do try to persuade him," begged the
mother. .
"Oh. of course we will; you needn't
bo airaid of our giving up- only in ease
you know."
And so they rang the changes until
their messenger returned to say, " Mr j
Remington was coming now."
"I'll go and meet him," said Mrs. j
Remington, getting up; " you stay here, !
girls." I
So down she went, crying all the
way. In lire lower hall she was caught
in the aims of her son, who kissed her,
exclaiming:
"My dear, dear mother! What on
earth is the matter?"
i "Oh, Fred, Fred! how can you ask
! sucli a question? You wicked boy, to
break my heart in this way—to think of
marrying that dreadful creature!"
" What dreadful creature?" demanded
Fred, sternly, standing up straight.
"That Miss Roggs. of course—oh, to
think you should lie so infatuated—such
j a coarse, vulgar creature."
"My dear mother," began Fred, giv
ing an anxious glance at the parlordcsir.
j " you'll be overheard."
"I "don't care if I'm overheard lilty
1 times! she's a coarse, vulgar woman,
who just wants your money, and doesn't
care for you one hit."
"Mother!" Fred half pleaded, half
commanded.
" If you only know how miserable you
I have made us all —you must give her
! up!"
I Fred turned white.
" I will not give her up!"
"Oh, you wicked, dreadful boy! to
speak to your own mother in that way,
I and just lor the snke of that vulgar, ill- '
, tempered, mercenary woman!"
And with that she left him. and
f rushed up-stairs.
I The miserable youth turned into the
I parlor, and was confronted by a very
I pretty young who was almost
| quivering with inrignution.
"Take me away instantly!" she said;
I "you should never haw subjected me to
j this!"
" I never expec ted it. believe mc.tJ
oried the distracted Fred. I had not
the least idea—you shall not stay here
lan instant longer if I ean help it. I'll 1
! get the carriage at once."
( ' And away lie bolted, leaving the
! voung lady pacing the ingrain carpet
; like, to use an entirely new ntnile, a
j caged lion.
To get a carriage out of a country |
stable is rather a lengthy operation, <
j even when superintended by a frantic
i young man, and. consequently. Fred
was abscntsomc time.
Meanwhile Mrs. R'-mington, anxious
I about her boy. wandered down stairs
again and into the parlor.
" I>o you know if my son, Mr. Rem
ington, is still here?" she inquired of
j the young lady.
"Mr- Remington has just gone to
| order a carriage," was the answer, very
stiffly delivered.
I The old lady sat down.
"Are you acquainted with iny son?":
t "I have that pleasure," yet more !
i stiffly.
A light seemed to flash over Mrs.
Remington's mind—this was Miss I'en
| roy.
j "My dear." she said, getting up and
putting her hand on the yonng lady's
shoulder, " 1 know you will help me to
bring that boy to his sense*."
" What do you mean ?"
I "Oil, my dear, lie is perfectly infntu
i ated with that horrid woman. I don't
; know what to do."
" lie's not infatuntcd with any horrid
woman," cried the pretty girl, hotly.
"He told me so himself," said-Mrs.
i Remington, solemnly. "Of course lie f
is desperately smitten, and tries to make
: her out perfectly beautiful; hut I have j
j seen her, and she's the most dreadful j
creature —at least." recollecting herself, I
" she's perfectly respectable, and all that
' sort of thing; but she's so much older
j than he is."
"Oh. I can't believe it!" moaned the
! young girl. " I don't believe it!"
" It is quite true, I assure you," said 1
Mrs. Remington, sorrowfully. "Do
help me. my dear, you are so sweet and
pretty! If it had only been yon! Do
try to make your aunt see how utterly .
out of the question it is."
"My ..unt!"
"Yes. youraunf.dear; don'tbeangry. '
I know she's very nice, hut she's so
much older. Don't you see It your- !
self?" j
" I haven't any aunt."
" Why. yes, you have. Your aunt.
Miss Roggs. On, my dear, do explain
yourself; I'm nearly crazy. Are you
not Miss Pen roy ?"
" No, I am Miss Roggs."
For the space of five seconds two
utterly bewildered women gazed at each
other in the face.
" Hut what—who—was that tall
lady?" stammered Mrs. Remington
"that tall lady with a blue alpaca dress
and red flowers in her bonnet?"
"Why, that was my old nurse, Je
| mima Stamfield."
"Oh. my dear, I am so glad!" sobbed
j Mrs. Remington, folding Miss Penroy's
aunt in her arms, and giving tier a most
I motherly hug.
At this juncture Fred came tearing in, !
! and fairly gasped at the sight of his |
mot fan unci lady- ovc in an affectionate
p"ibia( e.
"Oh, Fred!" half-cried Miss*Boggs,
"just think! Your mother thought
you were engaged to our old Jemima!
Only think of it!"
" What on earth—"
Then they had to explain it to him;
they ha<l understood it by Intuition them
selves, but of course he, being a man,
didn't.
"Why, didn't you know that Miss
Penmy's aunt was a good deal younger
than .Miss Penroy herself?" he queried.
"No; how could I. you foolish hoy.
when you never said so? I thought she
was some dreadtii old maid, and I
thought that woman at the depot was
tho one/'
"Jemima!" now quite laughed Miss
Roggs, "Just imagine our Jemima
marrying anybody. It's too absurd!
Why she perfectly detests all mankind."
* " I ain't jest so sartin ev that," said a
decided voice in the doorway.
" Why, Jemima!"
" I've ben tliinkin' ev niarryiu' this
some time buck, ever sence i sen you
was a-lhinkin ev doin' the same, an' to
a likelier man than you'll ever be," turn
ing witli sudden asperity upon Fred.
"I've no doubt, said Fred, good
humored lv.
"Come, Jemima, don't be cross,"
coaxed Miss Roggs.
" Well, Miss Nelly, I ain't a-goin' tor
sec you nut upon, ami if you'd only
beared —
"There—there, Jemima, it was all a
mistake."
"Yes," -aid Mrs. Remington, gra
ciously, " it was all a mistake, ami you
ean scarcely love this'dear girl yourself
more than I do."
"Rut 1 want to see this handsomer
man than me, Jemima." put in Fred.
"All right," assented the mollified
Jemima, flying to the window, "llcze
kiali! llezekiah! come on in here!"
And in about three seconds a tall, j
slab-sided man presented himself at the I
door.
"Come on in. Hezekiah; you ain't!
got no cail to he ashamed," proudly I
said his betrothed, as he lingered, red
and shamfaeed. at the threshold.
"Why, it's Mr.-Terwilliger!" criiil
Fred.
And so it was Mr. Terwilliger, the :
.charioteer of the village.
Jemima surveyed him witli intense
pride from the crown of lib tow head to
the sole of his cowhide boots, and re
marked witli tlie air of a manufacturer
that lie was "about as good as they
made 'em."
Here a crack-toned tell raised its voice
in the hall to announce supper. Mrs.
Remington said thcs ought to tell the
girls nlHiut it. So the two peas were
sent fur. and all the criss-cross purposes
: explained to them. lam not quite sure
that anybody understood just then, but
they felt, it wa all right somehow, and
thnt was enough. They sat down to tke
abominable hotel-tea, as if it had been
a feast for the gods, and all ate "com
binations'' as though each and every
one had been separately in love.
• • • • • • •
"Well," sighed the mother the day
after the wending. " it's a comfort to
think her name is not Roggs now. for
though she's tin* sweetest girl in the
world, that was a trial. I confess."
SI range Food.
Some score or so of contributors to a
French sporting journal dined one day
UpOB the ham and heart of a lion, killed
by Constant Clieret in Algeria. The
flesh of the lion was found to be particu
larly lirm and close-grained, like that
of a horse, but although pronounced
palatable, it only achieved what is
termed a tuccta tCtMimc, while the
Tienrt, skillfully prepared with truffles,
was unanimously voted tough and indi
gestible. In fait the French journalists
were not much better pleased with
their fare than was Bruce, the traveler,
\ when the guest of the Arab Uilw of
Welled Sidi Roojaniin, "the sens of the
; fathers of the flock*," liound by vow to
I cat lion's flesh otiee every day; for the
l traveler found male lion rot at lean,
j tough and musky in flavor, lioness
meat a trifle fatter and more palatable,
and whelp flesh the nastiest of the
, three.
Mindful that an un'.ooked for pleasure
is thriii" welcome, Frank liurklnnd did
! not advise his gumls on a certain occa
sion that they were nlmut to i-nlnrge
tlieir gastronomic ex |>eriences. hut when
; the soup had been disposed of asked a
famous gourmand sitting m-ar him how
lie liked it. " Very well indeed," was
the answer. "Turtle, is it not? 1 only
! ask because I did not find any green fat.
Ruckland shook his head. "I fancied
j it hnd a somewhat musky taste—pcru
i liar hut not at all unpleasant, ' re
marked his neighls r. "All alligators
have," replied the host, "thecayman
| especially—the fellow 1 dissected this
morning, and which you have just been
discussing." Half a dozen of the sud
denly enlightened diners suddenly
started to their feet, two or tl.ree slunk
from the room, and the rest of the meal
was enjoyed by only a portion of the
original company. "See what iniagi
! nation is," said Buckiand. " Hail I
told them it was turtle, or terrapin, or
bird's nest soup, or the pluten of a fish
from the maw of a sea-bird, they would
i. have pronounced it excellent, and their
digestion would have been none Hie
worse. I tell them that it is alligator
soup, ann their gorges rise at a good a
dish as ever a man need have!"
Forewarned, ord therefore- forearmed,
were the gentlemen who lunched on
octopus at the Brighton aquarium, try
ing it in turn boiled, broilid and cold.
They found it excellent eating, resem
bling skate, hut not so tender as might
he. The verdict would probably have
lecn still more favorable hail the octo
pus been boiled first and then roasted,
as is the way in Corsica, where the
monster is esteemed a great delicacy.—
Phombert' Journal.
History of Billiards,
A New York paper says : Billiards
are- played so much in this country tliat
the game is not unfrequently mentioned
as American, although its origin is
either French or Italian—it is uncertain
which. The game, however, was Im
portid into Britain froin France, and
wns known to Englishmen by name AS
early as the sixteenth century, since
Shakespeare speaks of it—he seems to
have hern liltie less than omniscient —in
several of his dramas. He even portrays
Cleopatra as amusing herself witli bfl
liards, hut this is unquestionably one of
the palpable anachronisms to which he
appears to have been indifferent, and
which he scattered throughout his i
plays. The game itself was. in all like- I
liliood. medieval, hut ns played nowa
days is comparatively modern. For '
two centuries it was played with only
two (white) balls, and when the third
(red) Imli was imported into Britain,
the red winning hazard, or holing of
the re-d hall, was well-nigh the sole ob
ject of the players. The billiard-table
of t ie present is as different as it well
ean he from the hilliard-tnhle of two
hundred jenrs ago, as persons know
who liave noticed their evolution an
represented by the tables of divers eras.
The greatest biliiardists are the Rus
sians, Spaniards, French and Ameri
cans, who now play far more than any
other nation. The popularity of the
game has increased greatly here within
the last twenty years, ft is said that
there are six times as many tallies in
the country as there were at the begin
ning of the civil war. Europeans sup
pus* that all Americans play hilliaras,
irrespective of sex. age or position
Fight /-live percent, of lbs membeis
of ika Utah legislature are | olygnmists.
FOR THE FAIR SEX.
Kuhlon lfo.
Jet lac-e is very fnshionahle.
WhiU* is very fashionable for full even
ing dress.
Beige is the fashionable material for
young girls.
Perforated kid lace tops appear on
new kid gloves.
Curls drooping from the hack of coif
fures are revived.
Black gauze gowns set off jewelry bet
U-r than any others.
Real ncorns nicely varnished are sold
to ornuiiu-nl basket*.
Tulle is the fashionable diaphanous
fabric for hull dresses.
Costumes of Lyons satin and camels'-
liuir are pretty and elegant.
Creamy white bonnets are morf worn
than any ethers for full dress.
Bows of piece brocade stitched with
j gold thread ore worn in the hair.
Jersey waists and fur skirts are worn
| or skating eostumes in England.
Sieilienne wears better than pure silk,
not beifg likely to beeosiK* shiny.
Young ladies who dance wear short
: dresses escaping the floor all round,
i Smoking jackets are lined with ne
i bright color and laced with another.
Jersey webbing in navy blue and myr
- tie green may la- bought by the yard.
I Cashmere colors appear in the trim
mings of many handsome white bonn'-t*.
I/ong Branch scollops are stiff little
, curves of hair that look as faise as they
are.
Little tmnnets of black plush, looking
i like gentlemen's hats, sire worn a great
Ideal.
Isxips of braids at the back of the
j bend are giving place to loose fluffy
; curls.
Ruches, ruffles, and in the
i neck are more fashionable than linen
; collars.
Voting ladies wear their corsage IJOU
| quels on one side of the neck, near the
I shoulder.
I Walking suits are now made of tlie
richest velvet hro- ade, combined with
! Lyons satin.
: White jet and white Spanish hue ap
pear to IK- favorite decorations ol white
| dress bonnet*.
A new kind of <-ash me re is very thick
J and soft, and feel* like ordinary caah
i mere doubled.
Anything may be worn that is pretty
i or liecoming without putting the wearer
; out of fashion.
I There never was a season when so
great a variety was si-en in tiie style of
I dressing the hair.
(lold thread traceries around the de
signs of white Sfonisli la<-e* appear on
late importation*.
White silk and white gauz® form the
composition of many elegant evening
dresses this season.
Spanish slippers have the heel and
sob- made in one piece, and increase the
height considerably.
Satin sunflowers ar' worn in the hair.
They are made in raris, and their price
is something astounding.
Small Japanese fans with long handles
are more fashionable limn large Japan
ese fan* witli short handles.
Young girls wear waistcoats of some
bright silk and wool mixture with gray
or mown or drab beige suit*.
A fancy dress bail held at York, Eng
land, tiie other day.was the first that lias
been held in that city since 1535.
Dahlia* of varieg-ted colors will be
- worn a* prirg advances, lioth a* bonnet
decorations and corsage flowers.
Silk fans arcmade up over pasteloard,
decorated with painted flowers and fin
ished on the edge with plaited ribbon or
lace.
Tidies of colored cotton flannel with
tmrders of a lighter tint, and corner
piece* of a contrasting color, are pretty
and cheap. •
Tulle dresses looped wittt sprnv* ol
apple blossoms, rosebuds or daisies,
make the most effective hail dresses for
young girls.
A small bonnet and a large lie arc the
, fashior. for stn-et wear. Some of the
( ties are twelve inches wide, and nearly
' cover the chin.
White satin duchcssc and white satin
antique, which is only another name for
silk plush, compose a large number of
white bonnets.
Igsrjte scoop front Dircotoire bonnets
of plain or furry felt arepictun*qu< and
stylish, hut they make any face look
needlessly older.
English corduroy is the most fashion
able material for little boys' suit
Mixed csssimeres and Scotch cloths are
the next in favor
Fur turimns are worn by young ladies,
trimmed with bands of feathers, or
when fur bands are used, with n wing or
fancy feather on one side.
New silk handkerchiefs for the neck
are in pale shades of blue and rose, and
edged with plaitings of Breton, Igtaguo
doc or Valenciennes laces.
The novelty destined to the greatest
popularity in fancy spring goods is the
printed Indls cashmeres, in small multi
colored pine patterns over a light ground.
Snoods, simple ribbons passed through
the hair and knotted at the side with
pendant ends, are revived. They are in
the richest Oriental colors, and finished
at the ends with gold fringe r tassels.
New* and Notes for Hnsirl.
One female COOK in a Wisconsin lum
ber-camp has alrtady caused two sui
cides, one stabbing affray and fifty
three fight*
In Cheyenne, Wyoming Territory, a
jury composed entirely of women re
cently rendered a verdict in a case of
the death of another woman.
Mi*s Drevrr, a voung lady belonging
to fashionable society in San Francisco,
lia* shocked her friends by announcing
her betrothal tb a Chinaman.
The wife of Gov. Van Zandk of Rhode
Island, is a daughter of Albert G. Greene,
whose name is widely known as the
author of " Old Grimes is I>ad."
In a paper lately at the State fair on
the "Industries of Indiana." it was
stated that sixty per cent, of all tiie but- !
Unr, rhcew and sugar produced in Indi- j
ana is the work of women.
" Man," says Victor Hugo. " was the
conundrum of the eighteenth century;
woman is the conundrum of the nine-1
teentlt century." An American editor
adds: "We can't guess her. but will j
never give her up—no, never."
Mrs. Marietta K. Bench ley, widow ol
Henry W. RraclUay, who was lieutenant
governor of Massachusetts *U r , , |
fore the war, died recently in I
and willed her brain to fir."jX wk , I
her skeleton, after dfs*< etion ' u „
woman • medical college. ' '
A lady of Bvansville, Ind., who hi
been Kroneiy , w . v ,. r;tl t ; '"
the street* of that pin. e. fin.-.Hy , ln \ 1 "
hatchet and eunk it in th" cheek ~r -i '
niltcr, cutting through to the u, I.
This is oneway to bury the haU ht
and it was a pretty good one.
Marie Ixiuisc, the iweond w,fe <,f tl •
great Napoleon, wa> in the habit
amusing the indies of her court at Ui<
private soirees by turning he r e-.,
almost completely r. :;nd J n an
tier closing them up. She did this by >
peculiar motion of the jaw, and sh<
said to have prided herself on tin .■>'
ploit not a little.
A pretty m la* of eighteen, win. be,or ...
toTa good latnilv in I'tica City, |,,i'
and has been well educated, ha* reeern
been released from jail, where shew
awaiting trial tor kleptomania 'j "
rwmt influential people in tin count-'"
■ nitc.i in an appeal for the disniissa -
th< indictment, and the court gladly
quieaced in a nolle prosequi.
The enormous quantity of so-csi <4
kid gloves is greatly in .-XCCM. o *t .
amount of leather afforded bv the skit ,
of all the young goat* annually kii. d -
supply the demand. There hai
been quite at rade carried on in l'ari>- •
the gamin* i> rat kin*. who hw< „ f( nt
profitable snort in < at< hing tin in at t'
mouths of the great drains ol tin ! •,
Real kid skins come from Swit/.<r;,r,
and Tuscany.
tpache Courtship and Marriage,
Wlu n an A pa. in- bnn concit
m.-trr>, lui the Sea Francisco Pod
lither a tirst or uny subsequent wif.
the manner of iiiscourtship is tin -vj .
He makes no effort to become agr<- : p
to his intended bride— indeed, rare -,
ever notices her or speaks to her, t]
in answer to questions she may put i
hi u. lie pays more attention. how.-, •
to her male relative*, particular-.
brothers, if she has any. Finn •,*. ; <
becomes satisfied that a d.-elarat mn v
not he rejected, tln-n tiie whole (,*)*;
aceomplislnd in a few hours, and g r,.-.
ally in thU fashion : At nigl.t In • un<-.
the presents intended for tin ? j r .
parerts, who alone are entit' d p,
j oeivo any, and places them near .
: lodge in wliicli she livt-s. Iftln pre*.-.
are horses tliry have tin u ■
also, and are tied with m.u ate near
lodge; if a cow is to In- gi v< n.
straw or a ww's horn, whi-1. sind;..
the intention, is tied to tin lodg' I
tb<- pMMtttS are accepted,
most always happens, tin girl p.,,. •
the morning and builds an< w .<s!y<
1 hut for herwli and husband and puu
the straw in it for their bed 1: •
man is rich tin re J* BOOM ?
about tiie marriage; if poor, very li; •
or none. When the partic. are of ecr,.
sequence tine of the orators of the trii*
, is eiuplfijed t>y the bridegroom to i
the presents near tin- If sign ;ir ,d niakf
speech to tiie bride's family for his
The orator stands at a distatn. of set
oral Yards. and in his best styn- msi.-s
the aeclaratifin for hi" pritn ip-t . In tl ♦
he dilates on his client's qualities—i.li
courage, his skill in hunting, or nn\.
thing in which In- isdistingui-ljed Tl,
orator confines himself -ni t yto tie
i truth in his speech, nn<l promisesthai
his principal will maiatain and del -
l.is fnide, but ti.e sane-tin,, nfoi
family that he may at s.nn- futur.
take another wife, ami even may be
come tired f her and s-nl her Ic-ms
all of which are tin' necessary irn• i• i• r'•
of Apaclie married life. He also :•
them that wniie she should remain •
only wife, lie would be fa,thin to ! -•
and should pxpcct fide-lit v. oIK-dieß
and service from her. When be
turnefl from hunting, foray or play
wanted his ff*d prepared as soon a
possible, and lie should expect 1.-T S
ways to have a store of food en hand
On his part he would bring her pm
and spoils of the enemy whenever b
efiuld. Her relatives make presents U
the parents or family of the husband
and this is all that generally i don*
Among these Indiana it is considered!
grcnt indecency for a man to look t his
mother-in-law s faoo. and still mw
to speak to her. If by chance tin y hx,-
pen to come close together, one run? r
one direction and tiie other in an op;>-
site one until they are several y*r '
apart.
Fighting with an tk-topo*.
The occupation of a diver is one tM
offers but little attraction to those wl-#
by temperament liave no fancy for ei
pioring t-.e " mystcrtf* of the deep " 1>
is. however, not so monotonous an eu
ployment as might he imagined. ni
divers oflen meet with exciting adrft
ture* while c-nptgctl in their labors Or
of these the othi r day fell to the lot <>f
government diver in Victoria, Mr
Smale, while at work on the bed of tin
Mov ne river, at llelfast, in that eokmy
and from the account he give* of
the Melbourne Argu.s it must have beer
more exciting than p)eannt. Ilavist
thrust his arm into n hole, lie found that
"it was held by something: tic artier
of the water was stirring up the clay
and therefore I could not see distinct)
for a few minutes; but when it did dca:
away I saw to my horror the arm of *
large octopus entwined around min'
like nbo. K-nnstrietor: just tlien lie tix<-d
some of his suckers on the back of no
hand, and the pain was intinsc. If •'
as if my hand was being t-nlliHi te
pieces, and the more I tried to take it
away the great et t teraiu became; ar.d
from nasi experience I knew this method
would br useless; hut what was I to do
lying In this position P I had the gr< at -
est difficulty in keeping my feet down,
as the air rushed along the interior ol
rov dress and inflated it; and ii my feet
had got uppermost I shou.d soon hare
be.x>inc insensible, held in such a posi
tion; and also if I Iwd given the sign*,
to be pulled up the brute would have
held on. an t the c hance* w uld have
been that I should have had a broken
arm. I had a hammer by me. but cou.d
not ivneh down to use it on the brute
There wu a small iron bar about five
feel from me, and with my foot •
draggdthls along until I oould rescn
it with my lelt hand. And now th
fight commenced; the more 1 struck him
the tighter be sqiieescd, until my arm
got. quite M*numtied; after • while '
found the grip began to relax a little, nu
lie held on until I had alm<wt cut In
to pieces, and then he relaxed ht "
from the rock and I pulhal h® u t'.
wag completely exhausted, having
In that po-itioti for over twenty rolnm _
I brought the animal up, * ** *. r i„,
pa it ol It. Wo lain him out. and
measured over eight fret
feci perfectly convln-ed that this ~
could have Iteld down fire or w ro