FOR THE FAIR SEX.
Tk. Cap of Tea-
First you lake and warm the teapot,
Let the water boiling be,
Tnat'e a moet important secret,
And see you do not spare the tea.
Put it on the hob to draw it
For some minutes—two or three-
Then fill up and nhake and pour it,
And bleat fiie man who loond Out tea.
lovely woman is the sugar,
Spoons the poor man seems to be.
Matrimony is hot water,
Love is like a cup ot tea.
Spi inQ/Uld Hepublitan.
Kaahlon Rates.
Little girls wear their hair loose
and flowing down the back, not braided
or curled.
Rich and substantial fabrics are
necessary when plain untrimmed suits
are preferred.
Almond, drab and biscuit colors pre
vail in de beige, bunting and other light
all-wool suits.
When imitation pearl beads are used
for embroideries they should be very
fine to look real.
Surah silk comes in all shades ef
color, including those of red, yellow,
heliotrope and violet.
The new gold threads introduced into
laces and embroideries are not tarnished
by washing.
The favorite colors for figured lawn
dresses are heliotrope, pale blue, pale
rose and old gold.
Black •white and cream-tinted Surah
silks are all used as linings, as well as
the brighter colors.
The ecru goods of this summer are oi
a darker and richer shade than those of
revious seasons.
Breton lace plaitings in many rows
cover one side of some of the dressiest
Japanese fans.
New Lisle thread gloves are in all the
new shades of almond, biscuit, drab,
gray and wood color.
Low shoes are worn a great deal this
rammer to show the colors nnd em
broideries on stoekings.
Fashionable stockings are embroid
ered in rosebuds, forget-me-nots, but
tercups and nolka dots.
New hosiery comes in all the new
shades of old gold, orange, red, helio
trope, wine color and blue.
Sunset colored linings under red
paragon frames gain favor with ladies
who affect the picturesque in dress.
The latest thing in lingerie is a dol
man visite camisole for negligee wear in
place of a dressing sack.
Almost every fashionable toilet has
some hint oi the rage for the bright
and clever notions of the Japanese.
Quantities of gold lace, gold net,
gold braids, galloons und cords are
seen on summer bonnets and dressy
hats.
Foulard handkerchiefs are trimmed
witli Breton and Languedoc laces, and
made into bow , jabets and fichus.
Pockets of velvet, silk, satin and lace
are trimmed with jet and suspended
rom the waist by a satin ribbon.
Gold threads are introduced into
some of the prettiest laces, each figure
being outlined with gold chain stitch.
Japanese white straw hats are trim
med with white lilacs and bows of white
satin ribbon for children's wear.
Turbans, F&nchons, Derbies, Japan
ese Fayal and rough-and-ready broad
brimmed hats are equally fashionable.
The strings oi small bonnets are more
frequently tied in a bow in the bark
over the chignon than under the chin in
front. .
Small Japanese round fans, with long
handles, are covered with silk and satin,
on which are hand-pointed designs of
great beauty.
Turkey-red calico costumes, profusely
trimmed with I>anguedoc lace, will he
worn indoors and at archery and lawn
tennis gat he rings.
till mat. * WfiMlM Toilet*.
At a recent notable wedding theeight
bndemaids entered the church in pairs
picturesquely dressed in English fash
ion in white muslin, with hats, fichus
and pnrasois. each carrying a prayer
hook in tier hand, and a basket of flow
ers hanging on her arm. There was an
effort to return ta the poetic " simple
white muslin " in the quaint design of
these dresses, yet the exquisite fabric
was silk muslin, and the trimming
flounces of embroidery. The waists
were round and gathered into a belt,
and were worn with wide white satin
ribbon aronnd the waist, with ends
hanging on the left side. The back of
■he demi-trained skirt was straight,
full, and flowing from the belt, below
which it was finely shirred two fingers
deep; a broad scantily gathered flounce
of thick embroidery on muslin was
around the skirt. In front was a deep
wrinkled apron extending only as far
as the sides, where the shirring of the
back began; a wide frill of em
broidery edged the apron, and ex
tended up the sides to the belt.
The shoulders were covered with a
muslin iir.hu that reached nearly as low
as the elbows. The top edge of this
mantle was tamed over, ana trimmed
witli 1-anguedoc lace like that on the
lower edge of the mantle. The hats
were of fine Tuscan straw, in gypsy
shape, trimmed with a scarf of white
muslin and lace, and white marabout
feathers. The parasols were white
Surah, edged with wide whits lace,
! closed by an ivory ring; they were
carried by a hook on the handle passed
over the finger, and the ivory-bound
prayer book and handkerchief were
also carried in the hand. The flower
basket was oi straw, shaped like a hat
inverted; the natural flowers were dif
ferent in each, and matched the large
bouquet worn in the belt, either of
Jacqueminot rosea, or Marrhal Neils,
lubets. dairies, violets, etc. The Jong
ioose-wrfsted gloves were of white on
dressed kid, and scarcely any jewelry
was worn. The wedding favor, fastened
on the right shoulder, was of white
satin ribbon holding a stalk of iilieo-of
tlie-valley. There were no groomsmen
at this wedding. The eight gentlemen
who served as ushers, and preceded the
bri<!iniaids up the aisle, wore black
En.yish frock-coats, blaok vesto, and
gray trousers. The bridegroom and his
best man were similarly dressed, anil
awaited the bride at the altar.
The rich drees of ttic bride was
modeled alter that worn by the Queen
ofSpain, with an elaborate double train,
and a high wired Medlcis collar, of his
toric shape, made of pearls. The rnate-
rial wns creamy white satin—plain, not
brocaded~nnft instead of lace the trim
ming was made of egg-shaped pearls
that covered the front of the dress as
though it was im-rusted with them.
The Wok of the waist and the long up
per train were cut in one. This train
was rounded at the end. and lined
throughout with satin-striped gauze,
and was edged all around with three
apped plaited frillaof silk tulle, on each
of which was a bias band of satin. Trie
under train began at the waist, and was
square-cornered; it was slashed at in
tervals, and the openings were filled with
plaitings and pearl trimmings. Orange
blossoms and white lilacs were the
flowem used. The neck of the dress
opened in a square quite low, while the
collar was very high at the back and
sides, and was held in place by line
wires. The sleeves were of lace and
pearls. The point lace veil was in long
scarf shape, and was confined to the
back of the head.
_ Two-thirds of the guests at this pret
tiest of weddings wore white drasses,
with small white gypsy bonnets, hrim
mod with white ostrich plumes, white
soft muslin scarfs, and ends of Languc
doc or else point Ravuse lace. The
white dresses wore of Surah, or bio
caded silk, India mull, or else nuns'
veiling. The white fichu mantle was
the javorite wrap, and was worn also
witli colored silks, and, indeed, with
black siik dresses. A few lavender and
heliotrope dresses were worn, and some
of skyblue were of cashmere with high
puffed sleeves and ruffs, while others
were oi pale blue silk and satin. Trie
bride's mother wore an elegant sutin
brocade witli limb-colored ground and
margiold'yeliow ligures,>ith point lace
flounces. White Mlin dresses were made
with low linings and lace sleeves of in
8' tion sewed in lengthwise rows. In
the few black dresses worn were black
!S| anish lace sleeves. White bonnets
were the rule, though occasionally a
rough straw gypsy was trimmed with
he brilliant Prince of Wales red. either
Surah or satin—and sometimes daisies
or a single sunflower appear on such
bonnets—though the preference this sea
son is for plumes rather than flowers.
Both ostrich and marabout feathers are
used. When bonnets are not worn at
day weddings, the coiffure is very simple,
showing the outline of the head, being
arranged very low, and without puffsor
any appearance of false hair. The low
round coil at the hack of the head, with
a dagger or shell thrust into it, is the
favorite style; the front hair is irregu
early disposed in thick short locks, and
an appearance of carelessness is care
fully studied.
The traveling dress for the bride is
Chuddah of coachman's drab shade,
made up over silk and trimmed witli
satin. Ttye skirted coat basque has a
wide directoire collar of atin. above
which is a high standing collar with the
points turned over in front- The skirt
foundation is of silk, but this is not
visible, as it is more stylish to show
only the wool goods in the costume. At
the foot is the narrow plaiting of the
drab satin, and this is nearly concealed
by a tucked flounce of the Chuddah that
falls over it. This is a straight, scantily
gathered flounce four yards around nnd
begins at the knee; it has a hem a finger
deep, with a tack of the same depth
above it. and there are eight rows of
stitching 011 the upper part of the hem,
and also on the tuck. This straight
flounce gives the effect of a straight
round skirt, though the silk beneath is
narrowly gored. Above this is a fully
draped apron of the Chuddah perma
nently attached to the silk skirt. A
triple ruche of box-plaited satin is set
on to border the npron. and conceal
where it is joined to the head of the
flounce.— Harper's Bazar.
Omr U4l| tValklac-BUcka.
Walking-sticks for ladies, so we are
told by an orao eof fashion, are coming
into favor again. Thus does the whirli
gig of time bring round his revenge for
i a discarded custom. The Empress Eu
genic made the carrying of canes fash
ionable for her sex during the gay da y
of the second empire. But backens
another century we find the woman is
appreciative of the walking-slick as
ever was
" Sir Plume of amber snufT-l>ox justly rain,
And the nioeoonduot ola clodded cane."
Ladies advanced in life walked with a
staff between five and six feet in height,
taper and slender in substance, turned
over at the upper end in the manner of
a shepherd's crook, and " twisted
throughout the whole extent." Some
times these wands were formed of a
pale-green glass, but oftener of wood,
ivory, or whalebone. A writer of 1768,
speaking of the most fashionable sticks
of this period, says: " I)o not some of
us strut about with walking-sticks as
long as hickory boles, or else with a
yard of varnished cane scraped taper,
and hound at one end witli a waxed
thread, and the other tipped with a neat
ivory head as big as a silver penny P"
It is, indeed, us an appurtenance of
fashion more than as an ap;*endage of
personal utility that we regard the
walking-sticks of modern times, though
in all ages man has made the sons of the
forest contribute to iiis support under
weariness and old age.— London (Jlobe.
Ad Tic* to Jlrl.
The lady who fills the chair of profes
sor of domestic science in the Illinois
Industrial university has been giving
sensible advice to girls in a lecture at
Bt. Louis. She called women the world's
home-makers, insisted that reform in
women's education was the nrgent need
of the tiiree, and emphasised the tact
that intelligent cooks, educated house
keepers and enlightened mothers were
beginning to be appreciated. Women
were not instinctively good housek<ep
ers any more than men were good
mechanics or good farmers. It was an
error to suppose that iu matters per
taining to ths home instruction was not
needed. It was said that common sense
alone was necessary. but common senw?
and proper sense differed. Despite their
general un preparedness she said that
ninety-aineout of a hundred girls would
still persist in getting married. This
last assertion, which would be true if
there were men though, possibly sup
plies the key to a remedy. Let it be
enacted that no girl shall get married
until she can pass an examination in
domestic science.
Bulgaria is a nice kind of a place to
live In. A resident says that when
three or iour aimed Bulgarians meet an
unarmed Turk alone, they generally cut
off his head; and wiien three or four
Turks meet a Bn garian under similar
circumstances, tliey generally cut off
his head. When the Turk loees bis head
the case is ended, but when the dead
Bulgarian is found there is an inquiry.
Turks are arrested and examined, and
encouraged bo speak the truth by the
application of red-hot irons to the soles
ol their feUt.
TIMKLY TOPICS.
The iron workers of England include
140,000 laborers in furnaces and forges,
160,000 in the manufacture of machin
ery, 5.500 in steel works, 48,000 in ship
building. snd about 800,000 in various
branches of iron and steel manufac
ture, making about 570,000 in all. The
mining population is about 530,000, and
the laborers in cotton mills about
ann nno.
An incident which occurred recently
in Paris shows with what aversion com
pulsory military service is regarded by
industrial classes in France. A young
seller of sponges, aged twenty-one,
shot himself witli a revolver in prefer
ence to taking his turn of military ser
vice according to law. Death was in
stantaneous.
Sherrard Clemens, who died in a Bt.
l/ouis hospital a short time ago, was a
notable figure in the politics of twenty
years ugo. lie represented a Virginia
district in the Thirty-fiflh and Thirty
sixth Congresses and was one of the
most promising orators of his day In
1856 he fonght a duel with O. Jennings
Wise, son of Henry A. Wise, receiving
a wound that lamed him for life. Wise,
who was also a man of brilliant talents,
edited the Richmond /inquirer, lived to
he killed in the Con federate service, at
Roanoke island. Clemens never for
gave himself for his part in tiie duel,
being at heart opposed to that mctiiod
of settling disputes. The last years of
his life were passed in obscurity.
Too much presence oi mind is a rare
surplus in man or woman. It may
make as qneer mistakes as excitement
itself. A Southern lady while prepar
ing to retire for the night, thought she
saw the eye of a full-length portrait of
Washington wink. She had heard of
burglars hiding behind pictures, but she
did not scream and faint. She took off
her diamonds, and opening a drawer as
if to put them in it. took out a revolver
and quickly discharged six shots into
the head of the portrait; and the ser
vants rushed in and found ther? was no
burglar there, and tne $2,500 picture
was spoiled for nothing. Presence o
mind and coolness don't want to be acf
companied by too much imagination.
It appears that Japan is likely bctore
long to commence a new branch of ex
port trade with Europe. Dr. Gagliardi,
un Italian geologist, who is a professor
at the .Japanese Poiyteolinieum of
Tokio, was charged sometime sinoe to
inspect and report upon the mineral pro
ducts of the Hraki mountain range.
He has come upon an extraordinary and
almost inexhaustible treasure of mar
ble. One mountain, wliich has the ap
pearance of being a pure white from
base to summit, is almost wholly com
posed of the very finest statuary marble.
In another part of the same range Pro
fessor Gairliardi found immense quanti
ties of black marble, equal to the best
known in Europe. He reports that if
the discovery is properly utilized and
sufficient mentis for transport arc pro
vided Japan cannot fail to become one
of the first markets of the world for the
marble trade.
Tristan d'Aounhn is the rame oi a
small group of islands lying midway be
tween South America ana the African
coast. Two years ago the ship Mabel
Clark was wrecked on one of these
islands, and the crew kindly rescued by
the islanders, for which noble conduct
they received a suitable reward from
the United States government. These
islanders are estimated at lott in num
ber, mostly decendnntsofoneHnyes, an
English corporal, and one of a garrison
placed there by Great Britain while
Napoleon was a prisoner at Bt. Helena.
There have been but four deaths there
in thirteen years, says the Foreign Mis
sionary, and no death in infancy has
ever been known on the island, even
though no vermifuge or soothing syrup
was ever known to tLosc mothers and
nurses. The greatest wnnt felt there is
that ola missionary or some clergyman,
whose services are much desired, and
lor whom not a few would-be brides
and bridegrooms are anxiously waiting.
The Now York Herald has an article
describing the filthy condition oi many
of the city tenement houses, nnd in an
editorial it says hundreds of thousands
of people are living in abodes such as
are described. Many of them, the
Herald says, know no better than to se
lect such places to live in, and others
could not or would not understand, ii
told, the dangers to which their fami
lies are continually exposed; but what
are the cleanly and intelligent people to
dof The business oi tenement house
builders is to crowd as many seta of
apartments as possible upon a qiven
space oi ground, and to do their work
cheaply. The business oi the owners
is to get as much rent as possible and
make no repairs except when com
pelled by law to do so. Some ol the
neighborhoods described are as bad as
any from which London's plague
started, and some of the worst nouses
belong to ppople whose standing in so
ciety presupposes at least common hu
manity. It the law does not enter such
neighborhoods to protect human life a
greater power will some day sulk from
the filthy houses and menace life every
where in the city.
Argentine Republic, in which
civil war is reported to have broken
out. is a confederation of the Rio de la
Plata, fourteen states or provinces con
taining a population in 1870 of about
1,800,000. Its area ia some 543,000
square miles, and it ia situated between
Bolivia on the north and Patagonia on
the south, the latter country being
claimed as part of its possess lor *
There are in the Republic about 800,-
000 foreigners—Americana, Italians,
Spaniards, French, English, Swiss and
Germans. Exocpt the Andes, In the
west, and other mountainous ranges
in the northwest, the whole region is
composed of vast plains, covered alter
nately with rich pasturage and huge
thistles. The climate is both temperate
and tropical. As agriculture ia very
backward, leas than I-1.000 of the soil
being under cultivation, rearing live
1 toe It it the chief employment of t'e
people. Millions of cattle grnae on the
plain*, along with great bards of mules
and horses. Minaa of rock salt, which
plentifully inorusis the broad levels, are
of much benefit to the roaming beasts.
The name. River of Silver, is a misno
mer, though silver, with gold, oopper,
sulphur and coal, la found to a moderate
extent near the Andes. Very Rule
mining has yet been done.
Four smalLswlft propellers have been
built at Pittsburg, Pa., for the South,
wbers|thsy ara.aaatiaad to play an tm-
P® rt ®P, t P**t In the sanitary condition of
the Mississippi valley daring this and
nubeequent lumnun in oarrying on
what moat be an effective campaign
against the spread of yel low fever. The
boats were ordered by the United States
medical service. They will distribute
provisions and medicines to infested
cities, and can be turned into hospitals.
The flagship of the fleet is the Bcuner:
she is named after the late Lieutenant
Henry A. Benner, whose life was sacri
ficed lor others during the last yellow
fever visitation. Her cnhln is devoid
of staterooms forward, ami the space,
fourteen by flfly feet, is to be taken up
by thirty iron cots f<r patients. Altol
.his space are two handsome apart
uents for the two doctors on board, and
Ihere are also accommodations (or a
:rew of eight or ten. On the boiler is
ocatedaniron tank, six by eight feet,
10 contain bedding, etc., to be cleansed
with a steam pressure of thirty pounds.
\ well appointed medicine case frrms
t part of the Bonner's cabin furniture:
also a bathroom, with " hot and cold "
water facilities. This vessel is for duty
as a patrol, and as furnishing supplies
to the following stations: Cairo. Mem
phis and Vicksburg As adjuncts to
the Benner are three small, swift steel
propellers—the Picket. Lockout and
Patrol. Their duty is to overhaul pass
ing steamers, and to see that such are
observing quarantine regulations.
The Cattle Herders ef Florida.
A letter dated Fort Myers, Florida,
says: The Caloosahntrhee at this point
is a deep and wide stream, atlording
easy navigation for ocean craft. From
here eastward tlie river narrows, and
drains open prairie, or savann
oountry. This region is a vast cattle
range, and inhabited only by herders
and the remnants of the Beminoles.
Some of these cattle raisers are wealthy,
andjpridc themselves on their aequsi
tions. Cuba affords tlum a market
and tbeir available wealth is mostly in
Spanish doubloons, though a great den!
oi it is in Mexican dollars. The silver
money is kept in sacks representing S6O,
SIOO, or S9OO and never untied—pass
ing trom hand to hand for the amount
marked on the tag. Every man is his
own banker, and his coin is a good deal
safer under his own roof than it would
he in the custody oi any bank. It would
be impi'ssible to rob one of these cattle
men of his money and get away with it.
The wt ight ol the coin would prevent
rapid flight, and there is no place to fly
to if flight wore possible. Hemmed in
by swamps and ocean there is no safety
for him who would rob his neighbor,
for he could not get away or make; use
at home of what was another's. If
theft were attempted swift punishment
would follow the offense. No useless
judge or superfluous jury would con
sume time in determining the magnitude
of the crime. The offender would die
with his boots on, and there would be
no cumbering of a court record with the
transaction.
The people of this region are honest
trom a desire to be so. Everybody's
house is open. The merchant, who is
always bis own clerk, leaves unclosed
the door of his store when he goes to
dinner. If a customer should come in
during his absence and want a plug of
tobacco, he would take the tobacco and
leave the value of it in coin in its place.
If he couldn't make the exact rhangpat
the time he would mention it after
wart} and square the account. There is
no Stteli thing as cheating on the part of
a merchant. He couldn't keep store if
he was known to cheat, and he never
attempts it. There is unlimited mutual
confidence on the part of buyer and
seller.
One of these "cattle kings," as the
herders designate each other, is a miser,
and iives in a miserable hut, with no
company hut dogs. He has boxes of
doubloons in untold numtiers secreted
about his premises, has no visitors and
no neighbors, for, in addition to being a
miser, he is a hermit. Perhaps fancy
has credited him wib more wealth
than he actually possesses, hut he Is
reputed the richest man in Florida,and
marvelous stories are told of the gold
and silver he has burled. As poorly as
this miser cattle king lives, there are
none of them who live much better.
Bacon is their staple meat, and with ail
their cattle, they have neither milk nor
butter, and fresh beef but seldom.
With a climate and soil that would
produce fruits and vegetables the year
round, they have nothing of the kind,
except what is gathered in a wild state.
One or two families at Fort Myers Itave
done something in the way of producing
fruits, but elsewhere about here no -
forts are made in this direction.
The Caloosahatchee is a favorite
home of the alligator. Thousands line
its banks, basking in the hot sun ol
April. Deer are found in abundance
and bears and wild cats are too numer
ous to mnkc the rearing of hogs or
sheep possible except In inelosures.
Fish of fine quality can be had for the
catching. Birds of gaudy plumage and
ravishing song enliven tlie forest, and
hush and tree of exquisite flower and
foliage make a picture oe which the eye
delights to linger.
Make the Best er Things.
We excuse a man lor occasional de
pressions, just as we endure a rainy day.
But who could endure 366 days of cold
drisslef Yet there are men who are,
without cessation, somber and charged
with evil prognostication. We may be
born with a melancholy temperament,
but that is no reason why we should
yield to It. There D away of shuffling
the burden. In the lottery of life there
are more prises drawn than blanks, and
for one misfortune then are fifty ad
vantages. Despondency is the most
unprofitable feeling a man can have.
One good laugh is a bombshell explod
ing in the right piece, while spleen and
discontent lea gun that kicks over the
man who shoots it off. Some must have
to get into heaven backward. It
o* 'tend off from our despondencies.
Listen for sweet notes not discords. In a
world where God has put exquisite
tinge upon the shell washed in the surf,
and planted a paradise of bloom in a
chila H cheek, let us leave it to the owl
to hoot and the toad to croak and the
fnuliflnder to oomplain. Take outdoor
exercise and avoid late suppers if you
would have a oheerful disposition. The
habits ot oomplaint Anally drops Into
peevishness, and people become wasp
ish and unapproachable.
Two bulldogs wandered, two years
ago, from the ranob of Brett * Co.. Ne
braeka, nod joined e eeok of roving
wolves. They never returned, and now
a species or dog-woll, infesting that geo
tlon, are more dreaded than the ooui
mon prairie wolf, being more bold and
savage.
heme Tery Old People.
H.Warren, of Warrens
viue, Ohio, is ninety-eight years of age,
end occupied the first lo'* cabin built in
that city. He made his own garden
last spring, and is in excellent health
and spirits.
Mr*. Nellie Ligon, of White Chapel
Hill, Ky., is ninety-five years of age.
She still sews on fine muslin and has no
use for glasses. Inspeakingof berearly
life she relates many escapes from bears
and Indians.
Near neighbors during their lifetimcL
Uncle Timothy Doxeey, of Pearsall's,
L. 1., and Zachariah Story, of Christian
Hook, were born on the same day. They
are now ninety-three years of age, and
both spry and hearty.
Lewis Rockwell lives in
IV, Mid is 109. His wife when she
died was ninety-five years old. He is
nottheonly living merub< rofthe family,
but has seven brothers and sisters, whose
united ages are 671 years.
Mrs. Mary Ilodgins, of Lucan, Toronto,
died recently aged ninety-one years
She settled in that region iorty-seven
years ago, when the country was an un
broken wilderness, and was the only
white woman thereabouts.
Annie E. Potter died in the New York
Baptist home for aged people after liv
ing long past her centennial anniver
sary. When ten years of age she was
kidnaped from school in India and
sent in a ship from Calcutta to New
York.
Statesville, N. C., has two old but
active citizens. J. W. Miller does his
own plowing, although in his eighty
seventh year. BartleU Morgan walks in
and out of town, a distance of eighteen
miles, although he is eighty-four years
old.
The Indian chief Ixiuis Waiso, who
lives at Lake George, is over 100 years
old. The British govemmi nt has just
paid him a long-expr-ctod pension for
services rendered as t ulcf of the A bene
quis in the contest of 1813.
The father of the Reverend William
Itoberson, who died recently in Bold
Camp Creek, Va., did not marry until
be was fifty years of age. and liv<d with
his wife seventy-five years, dying at
125. The minister was in his ninety
seventh year when he died.
" Old Pouipey Phillips," a colored
man, died at Berkshire, and is supposed
to have been 109 years of age. He was
once a slave in Hillsdale, N. Y., and
said In saw Washington in 1755. He
h-aves a daughter eighty-six years o
age and a son seventyfour.
Tlie Rev. Noah M. Wells, the oldest
Presbyterian clergyman in the country,
died recently in Erie, Mich., at the age
of ninety-eight. 11 preached in Eastern
New York until 1H95, when he went to
Detroit and organised the hrt Presby
terian church there. •
Mrs. Peter King, who died reoentlyat
Otsego, N. Y., wss just rounding a cen
tury of life. She was a native of Ire
land, and settled in this country when
there were no railroads or stages, in days
wh< n people used to go to Albany, a
distance of eighty miles, to get groceries.
Her eyesight was as perfect up to the
day ot her death as it had been in her
youth. She was the oldest person in
Otsego county.
After Matilda Jackson, of Paris, Ky.,
had closed a century of life, she left
what she called the white Methodist
church and connected herself with tht
colored Christian church, and was im
mersed in a pond.
Moses Howe, of Dracut, Mass., is now
in his ninety-second year. He preached
his first sermon sixty-six years ago. On
a recent Sunday afternoon he preached
from the same text, and occupied an
hour and a half. He has married 1,990
couples and buried 9.630 persons.
Crashing lata an Iceberg,
The British war ship Flamingo had a
narrow escape ncently. while cruising
off the cosst of Newfoundland, from
being crushed to pieces by an enormous
iceberg. Trie presence of icebergs on
the coast was known to the captain and
officers of the Flamingo, and a very
sharp and careful outlook was kept up.
Two msn were posted on the jib-boom
end at tlie time, and it was one of these
that first decried the hugh mountain of
ice ahead, and sounded the word of
warning. The officer in command im
mediately telegraphed to the engine
room to have the engines reversed at full
speed In a moment the propeller was
at wn£ pulling the warship hack out of
the gmsp ot what nearly proved a fatal
foe. The two men at the lookout on the
jib-boom end hod barely time to scam
per in over the boom and bowsprit,
when crash went these two spars,
driven in on tlie deck with terrific force,
smashing and unlocking all the fasten
ings and couplings on fleck.
When the steamer forged off from the
huge her* the ice towen d inn tect above
her mastlica<ls, with terrible menacing
projections threatening in their fall to
sink the little war vessel deep down in
the Atlantic. At a later season of the
?rear such a collision would probably
lave been attended with complete de
struction to the steamer and all on
board, bat tb icebergs now sailing
along the coast of Newfoundland are
bard and oohesive and not liable, as in
autumn months, to shiver into pieces by
the least jar or impact, or even by the
ordinary detonation of a gun.
Had the iceberg broken up as the bows
of the Flamingo crashed upon it there
could be no survivor to unfold the
dreadful tale. The berg was at least a
half mile in length, and >raped about
960 feet above the surface ol the water,
or mare than 100 leet above the naaat
tops of the ship. It was fortunate, too,
that then was no sea on, as la such a
esse the berg might have rolled over on
the steamer when close to It and
crushed it into staves. Afbr porting
company with the iceberg the Flamingo
was got round and headed for St. Johns,
where she arrived about an hour and a
half after the accident.
During the past year thirty divert in
the pearl fishery of the Persian gulf lost
their lives, moat ol them by sharks.
The value of the pearls taken in the
Persian gulf in 1879 is estimated at
$1.600,000. _
The first real ditooverer of cop per on
Lake Superior, whose exploration led
to the development of the Cliff mine.
Is now on old and poor man, living on
charity, in an obscure village in the
Wisconsin lead region
Miss Polly Hanson, aged fifteen, ol
Lake oounty, Cal., is a wonduriul shot.
She reoently killed fourteen out of fif
teen pigeons at twenty-one yard* rise.
MiasHiuisnn is the daughter of District
Attorney Hanson, of Lake oounty.
A Hklp'. Collision Witt u Iwtti.
Contain Nyberg, oI the Russian bvk
Condor,told a reporter of A thrilling ex
perience while on the TOT age to New
?I wa* during a fjettrj toil, h#
aafid, and a *ailor named Harigo wag
making the main royal fast, when sud
denly there came a cry from the look
out in the Ixjvr, to " keep her off." My
nephew, W • Nyberg, is mate and wee at
the wh<*<*l at the moment. He inetantly
olieyed the warning, which wae echoed
by the after watch.
At tliat moment I came oat of my
cubin by the after companion way, and
an it seemed to me, in that exact second
of time the crash came. The bark wa
moving at about the rate of fonr knots,
and fortunately obeyed her helm read
ily, else we would have struck the 'berg
squarely, and beyond question would
have gone to the bottom. Aa it vu
she sheered off so that she struck first
with her port cathead, broke the chain
and whirled the anchor upon deok. At
the same time her maintopsail yard arm
smashed into the 'berg, as did the lore
topgallant mast and the miaaen top
mast. The great pressure against her
yards caused the masts to bend and the
vessel to keel over on her side partially,
and as she did so the main chain plates
on the port side struck the 'berg with
terrific lorce, parting her lanyards and
allowing the mainmast to go by the
Ixiard. It came down with all the top
hamper over her side, and the mi seen
topmast and the fore topgallant went
along.
It all seemed to be over in two or
three seconds, before we could do any
thing, even to shelter ourselves from the
falling mass or utter a cry of warning.
The bark rolled on her side on a big
wave, with the weight of the mast ana
all that clang to it drafting her ovur,
and it looked as if we were going to
capsize, hut happily she righted, and
were quickly brought, and the wreck
was cut away una we were saved.
Under the lumber of the fallen rigging,
•'lose by the starboard rail amiashipej
we found Harigo—the man who had
been on the main royal —lying senseless.
Near him was an Iryih boy named Tom
Itafferty. one of the crew, with a broken
leg. Nobody else was hurt
in addition to the injury to her rig
ging, the vessel suffered severely.
Thirty leet of the port rail, stanchions
and waterway were carried off, and the
injury where she struck first was very
serious. Still, we patched things up as
well as we could, and managed to get
into port all right.
Harigo had no bones broken, bat was
liadiy bruised and suffered some serious
internal injuries from his fall. ▲ week
afterward he waked up sensible for the
lu st time since the accident, and wanted
to know what had happened. He had
not seen the 'berg, and knew nothing of
what had hurt him. Now both he and
the Irish boy are doing well. None of
us on deck, though we tried to do so,
mu.it make out the height or the width
of that iceberg, it was so enormous.
The Uolorade Rash.
It is ail well enough to sav "Go West,
young man," but when the advice is
accepted it should be with a purpose to
locate in some good farming country or
thriving settlement, and take a hand in
the general development. But a great
majority of those who pursue tue star of
< inpire in its westward course go to
Colorado. The rush just now is im
mense People are pouring into Den
ver at the rate of from 4,000 to ft,ooo
per week, every train from the East
iK-ing loaded to the utmost limit of its
traction power. The streets of the
city are thronged with strangers,
and present the appearance peculiar to
ho.idays. Nearly all the new-comers
expect to secure immediate employment,
either there or when they reach the
mining districts. Most oi them are pro
vided only with sufficient means to get
hark again, and many speedily avail
tbemsei es of the opportunity. It is
like a great tide pouring into the estuar
ies of the sea, only to recede when It has
reached its height. There are no doubt
available chances for the investment of
capital in agricultural and manufactur
ing enterprises in Colorado, but unless
one knows just what to do the risk is
hasardoos. The ad vice of all who write
disinterestedly to those in the East who
have employment, and who are think
ing of going to Colorado, la to stay
where they nn.—RocMMer Union.
Wards at Wleftsm.
One act of charity is worth a century
oi eloquence.
The use of character is to be a shield
against calumny.
The fear of future evil is in itself the
greatest of evils.
Cherish your best hopes as faith, and
abide by them in action.
He must be a thorough fool who ean
learn nothing from his own folly.
A great many pairs of shoes are worn
out liefore a man does all he aays.
Every flower, even the fairest, has
its shadow beneath it as It swings in
the sunlight.
The tie that binds the happy may be
dear, but that which links the unfortu
nate is tenderness unutterable.
Age is not all decay; It is the ri peeing,
the swelling of the fresh life within
that withers and bursts the husk.
Tassions are likened best to floods
and streams. The shallow murmur,
but the deep are dumb.
Better fall covered and scarred with
the wounos of glory than to surrender
through expediency to what is wrong.
How quietly flows the river toward
the sea. jet it always reaches Its destin
ation. This is a point to i muisiilim
when you are trying to " rush things.
Balks la the Bchsslresm.
A mission school In Philadelphia has
In iU basement a large bathing and
swimming department. There are tour
great tubs, in which the dirty little ohil
dren are free to cleaaee themselves and
to take aquatic exercise under pre
scribed regulations. Each tub accom
modates nearly two donsa children at
a time. The surrounding floors and
walla are of brink and concrete, so that
no restriction is put on splashing. A
man with a small whip in bis hand
stands by during bathing hours randy
to castigate way of the young persons
who arc unruly or violent. To their
credit it must be saui that he is seldom
compelled to UM it. The girls bathe
and swim on Mondays. Wednesdays,
aad Fridays, and the boys on Uie other
<W°' * h The rule is that no
child shall he allowed to enter the
baths more than once a day. Many of
the boys dodge this rule by exchanging
riot bee aad presenting themselves In
*uoh combinations of costnme that the
mmjrlth the whip does not recognise