POB THE FAIR SEX. ruklra HMm. I Surah is the fashionable silk. I Velvet will be the rage next winter. I Many narrow flounces are among the styles. K Black wood furniture and brass orna- Hkncnls are all the rage on the other Hpide. B Black toilets are as much worn at weddings as colored or white B Instead of Valenciennes the durable laces are used for plain gar | Brocaded plush is shown in designs to those imported in velvet, but Hrith longer pile. ■ Peignoirs of muslin or cambric arc made with a tucked yoke in back front, and arc quite full, so that conceal the figure. B Gold colored stockinet is made into Pftersey tunics that are rather too striking Gso be worn by a quiet woman, but are ■fery elegant, nevertheless. K Ribbons of three different widths are Bmc<! to trim the waists of dresses, the m widest forming sash bows, the narrowest Iplrosctte at the front of the waist, and ■bnt of medium width making the bows Hpcr the neck and sleeves. B Fine white muslin dresses having the lined with Jacqueminot silk and a ■plaiting of Jaqueminot about the skirt, made up for very young girls. B Imported thin dresses are often com- with sashes made of Surah silk, dark red or peacock blue, and ■be ends terminate with spikes—gilt on red, silver spikes on blue. sashes are easily made. The is cut in two lengthwise and then ■own together double, th^er's of the are gathered and the spike put on. A Drcaay Toilet Described. Bla very dressy toilet is of cream-colored and bands embroidered witli ; Wed. The skirt has a narrow plaited JBouncc, with a red balayeuse under- Above the plaiting is a deep embroidered with red and scal- Bfeped on the border. Above this, in BBont of the skirt, is a deep creaui- Hwlori'd plaiting fastened down. The Hglouble tunic is bordered with an em ■koidt red band, with a very narrow plaiting falling below. |Kbe lower part is raised in the middle, Ppflbl the upper part is draped diagonally ■hd raised on the side. The back forms * three loops, the lowest one falling flfanble over the plaiting on the skirt. HBhe waist opens in heart-shape. The ■Basque is cut up in front to show a caroa- Her surah plaited plastron vest. The ■N't is trimmed with embroidered placed on flat. Around the open "collarette Medlcii," made of ■pree rows of white lace. The sleeves at the elbow, with deep em ■pidrml revers. On the left side of IKb Waist is a bunch of red roses. Tho jflHpir is dressed low on the head and ■■ilirt over the forehead, The back a simple twist, fastened up by a / toOd comb.— Philadelphia Times. |: The Remit of Kotlng Araeale. A young lady of Indianapolis has If v bMn for some years eating arsenic in ■■Mfer to improve her complexion. The consequences are now reached, her sight is almost gone. The man to whom she was engaged, who was possibly captured by her skin, declines to keep the con ■pct— that is, he says if she becomes he will not wed her. The doctors Bps doing all they can to restore her but with small hopes of success. Exaggeration. ' ■ome habits are so unconsciously that a movement to mend is the only way to detect them, beam in one's own eye is less no- than the mote in another person's family while at the breakfast table ■p morning pledged to observe the veracity for that day. A mem ■k ol the family tells the "conse ■is a first fruit of the resolve, we asked who suggested it: ■VFhat made you so late at breacfast morning?" ■She hesitated, began with, " Bsc use " and then, true to her com said: " The truth is, 1 was iazy ■■didn't hurry, or I might have been nßyn long ago." one of them remarked that been very cold, adding: "I was so cold in my life." Hp inquiring looa caused the last to modify this statement in- with: "Oh, I don't think it was HBtoold, after all." jm third remark to the effect that ■piss So-and-So was the homeliest girl ■ the city," was recalled as|soon as ■pde, the speaker being compelled to that Miss Boand-8o was only ■pier plain, instead of being excea- homely. it went on throughout the day, much merriment, which was accepted by the sub- HB*b, and giving rise to constant oor ■ptlonA in the interest of truth. ■One thing became more and more sur. IHjlsing, however, to each one of us, and was the amount ol cutting down our moat careless statements de ■Bbnded under this new law. Khc Rev. Phillips Brooks is said to b ■je first American who has preached in Abbey before the queen. Emigration Figaros. Up to 1890 no statistics of emigration into this country were kept officially, but the numbers were trivial, only 8,385 foreign emigrants being reported for that year. In 1830 the number was 23 . $00; in 1810, 84,000; 1849, 104.500; 1880 806,000; 1854, 497,800. That was the maximum number for nearly twenty years. In 1855 and 1850 the number was but about 200,000 each; it rose to 251,000 in 1857; was 153,040 in 1800; in 1801 and 1809,f0r the obvious reason that our war was a deterrent, fell to 91,000; the labor demand so far overcame this that the number arose to 176 000 in 1803, 193,400 in 1864, and 249,000 in 1805. From 1805 to 1873, during the term of post-war paper prosperity, when labor was immensely in demand, emigration was heavy, reaching the highest tigurc in 1873, 459.800. It fell to 313,000 in 1874, 227,000 in 1875, 170,000 in 1876, 142,000 in 1877, 138,000 in |B7B, but rose to l/H.ooo in 1879, and was, of course, very much increased in 1880.. England and Ireland (taking 1873 as a stand ard) sent about one-third, 152,000 out of 467,000; it may surprise most readers, however, to know that those two countries send al out an equal num ber, and that in 1872, 1875 and 1876-9, England sent more than Ireland. Thus! for 1879, 24,000 emigrants' were of English nationality, and 20,000 were Irish. Scotland contributed 13,000 in 18,3. Germany sends nearly ns many as England and Ireland combined— -150,000 in 1873, against 152,000, 'ana 34,000 in 1879, against 44,000. Among the |other European countries, Sweden stands next; then Norway; then France, Italy and Austria. Not China u me, but all Asia, overwhelms us with hordes as 20,000 in 1873, and 9,800 in 1879. In itho twenty-three years, 1855- 77, almost 200,000 Chinamen came in, of whom not more than onc-hnlf have since gone back. It would be interest ing if the outward as well as the in ward movement were recorded. In 1876, according to British statistics. 54,554 ' persons went from'the United Kingdom to this country, and 54,697 went thither from this country; to Can ada, 9,335, and 6,229 from Canada; to Australia, 32,196, and 9,579 from Australia; total emigration. 109,4G9.and 71,404 total immigration. The total movement of Irish from May, 1851, to the end of 1876, according to these re ports wns 2,415,000 leaving Ireland direct, of whom ninetcen-twentieths came to this country; 67 per cent of the whole numbgr leaving the United King dom from 1853 to 1876 also nunc here. It is perhaps a hopeful that the human tide which will for yet many years set to these Western shores con tains a larger proportion of skilled or half-skilled laborers, and a smaller pro portion ol the least desirable class than used to be the case. Bonnets and Jewelry as Necessaries of Lire. This is difficult to answer, because the amount allotted varies with the styles of living, the husband's means and other circumstances. A Maine lady recently took her little child and went to Europe on an extended pleasure trip, and the husband's lawyer objected that pleasure travel abroad could not be deemed neces sary. The judge refused to decide this, and said it was for the jury to deter mine whether.taking into view the means of the husband and the health of the wife and child, they would allow the expenses of such a journey. Not many years ago a wife bought a gold watch and other jewelry to the amount of 9175. The husband argued that these things were ornaments, not necessaries; but the jewelers proved that the husband kept a fast horse and wore diamonds, and the court decided that if a man marries he engages to support a wife ac cording to his social conditions and wealth; and if they enable him to keep a horse and wear diamonds they may well make it necessary that she should have some moderate ornaments. A Georgia milliner sued the husband of a lady for a bonnet which she had refused to take because it was a " botch." The husband proved that she was well sup plied with bonnets, and that she had in tended to give thirfone to a iriend. The oourt said he was justified in refusing to pay for it. A bat might be neces sary to a lady herself, but making pres ents to one's triends was not necessary. But how about Christmas, New Year, and birthday presents? If a lady in society orders these little things, can her husband refuse to pay for themf Hiding Money. The fact that Spain, though chrono logically in the nineteenth century, is really living in the seventeenth, is illus trated by the following from Templt Bar. In old Spanish houses there is generally a very cleverly-contrived secret receptacle for money, akin to the "secret drawer" of the English desk. Even now this secret cupboard is much used, the Spanish idea of security b Ing (an idea founded on bitter experience ol many years) to cage the windows in iron bars, lock up the house at night in winter, look at thf money, and then say in security and self-congratulation: " Why, I am very safe; all I love and all I need is oontained within the four walls of my casa." There is a vast deal ol distrust ol banks and government securities, and great holding to the proverb: "No friend save God, and a dollar in yout pocket." And now with the middle class there is no hanking of money. The bankers, to begin with, give no interest as a rule; and so, just an in Scotland in the troubled year of 1650 the goldsmiths were the only bankers, no now, in Spain, the gentry constantly hoard their money in their own houses; some put their jewelry and plate in the monies de pied ad." FARM, HARDER AND HOUSEHOLD. Value of rut Turnips. Many farmers will not grow any of the best varieties of roots for cattle on account of the expenses of weeding and proper cultivation, and it may not be out of place to remind them that after any grain crop some kind of manure can be applied, and a great many tur nips grown to feed to sheep, to calves and to any cattle excepting cows giving milk, lurnips will do well sown broadcast, if the soil is well prepared and the seed evenly and not too thickly distributed; but a drill that will not run the seed more than is required, without thinning, will be better, because there are so few men who can sow at all regu larly. Turnips must be singled out and the ground hoed thoroughly, but the very mention of doing any labor to a root crop will deter hundreds from try ing them. I can well remember the old-fashioned English farmers growing turnips about the year 1820, and some being had between the rows of horse beans, which crop grows and ripens like corn in the United States, much later than grain; but labor being cheaper in England, there were men who would thin them out and cut all weeds for from two up to three dollars an acre. Farmers should consider the advantage of growing turnips, because of the difference it makes to young stock, if they have them every day in sufficient quantity to distend the stomach, not in a "pot-bellied" way, but by bowing out the ribs in a barrel shape. It is the absence of roots and thejfeeding of too much meal and rich food that causes the degeneration of many pure-bred animals. I nm not recommending the cultiva tion and growth of the common turnip in preference to other roots, but in con sequence of the difficulty of persuading farmers to go to the trouble of produc ing the better sorts, f have myself been hindered from growing carrots for more than twenty years, excepting in very small plats, but this year I have nearly three acres of great promise. These carrots arc from four pounds of seed bought of Landreth, and at least ten plants have been cutor pulled outfoi every one left. It is of essential conse quence to obtain all varieties of agricultural seeds from reliable sources. Common turnips, although of less value per ton, and not proper to give to milch cows on account of the un pleasant flavor to the butter, are yet of great service; for as they can be cheaply grown, a farmer can well afford to give a little meal shaken over the cut or pulped mess fed to the animals which it is desired should most increase in flesh. It is admitted that Indian corn Is to a certain extent an equivalent, but for young cattle, and sheep especially, tbcre is a decided advantage in feeding both, on the score of health. If all the labor and attendance on a corn crop u reckoned, it will be found to fall little short of the cost of raising a good root crop, and certainly an equal number of acres in roots and corn would be quite an advantage on every stock farm, and the manure is always much increased where there is an abundance of roots. Therefore let common turnips be grown, which will lead to the growth of other roots and the increase of fertility gener ally, which of course means prosperity to the proprietor George Gardiner, in Gounlry Gc nil mum. Small Karmi BM. Apropos of this subject, the Spring field (Mass.) Union says: There has been some lament over the tendency in this country to mass great arena of rem estate under one management, and fears have been expressed that, in the West at least, we shall some time experience the evils of landlordism which have cursed older parts of the world. But such fears appear to be groundless. We have no law of entAil, and the prob ability that these vast areas will remain under a single management for more than one or two generations is rather small. The big farms of the West are proving comparative failures. I>al rymplc, the Dakota farmer, and Glenn, the California nabob, have not suc ceeded well. The Sullivan farm in Illinois has been cut up, and the work of subdivision is more likely to go on than that of accumulation. The To ronto Globe points out that great farms require a vast amount of machinery, which, to be made profitable, must' be kept at the same work year after year. The most successful farmers of the West are those who own comparatively small farms, which they can keep entirely under their own supervision and man age with little help, and improve rather than deteriorate, by a proper rotation of crops. A still better example of the superior ity of small farms over big ones, is found nearer home, in the market gar dens near the great cities. Some or the finest of these we know of are in the vicinity of Boston. For an example, there is one of five or six acres within the limits of that city which produces its owner a clear annual income of from 93,000 to SO,OOO. Instead of spending his money for machinery and labor, the fanner devotes his capital largely to the enrichment of his ground. The amount of manure he applies to his few acres seems almost wasteful, but the results prove his wisdom. Within two or three weeks he has marketed from a small patch 0170 worth of string beans. His early potatoes are already dug and have brought him something like 99,00 ft, and the ground where they grew is already at work producing a second crop of vegetables. The amount of ttuck which he maneges to secure from his few acres, which lie about his house and barns, is really marvelous, but the secret is high cultivation and a scion tlflc method. The same method may be applied anywhere in Massachusetts, and the dawdling away over hundreds of acres, and getting only half a crop, and at tbe same time impoverishing tbe soil, is the sheerest folly. Clean Cereal rood. While ingenuity seems almost to have exhausted its<fff in devises to secure the entire purification of tho grain of w heat before it is ground into flne flour, it is strange that so little care is taken with other grains in the preparation for bread making. Even wheat designed for Gra ham flour is rarely cleansed as it ought to be, and it is notorious that for this kind of flour the lower grades of wheat are commonly used. When it comes to rye and buckwheat, and especially to corn, we may say that they are, as a rule, ground in their filth, original and ac quired, and so oomc to the table for hu man food. Wheat must be cleansed to make white flour. This whiteness is a prime element in the price, and there fore of main consequence to the miller. The cleanliness or otherwise of other flours and meals is not so manifest to the eye of the purchaser, and the miller handle them as though it made no dif ference what is ground up with the grain. This fact is known to many, and prevents them from eating what they would otherwise regard as wholesome an d agreeable food. Tb ee x tent to w h ich this disregard of cleanliness concerning an important class of our food materials is carried, is so great that it is often de tected by tlic taste, and people who are fond of bread made from tho coarse meals are given a disgust toward them which endures through life. It is difficult to designate a remedy for an evil like this, so far as the people of towns and cities are concerned; but fanmrs carrying their own "grists" to mill can inaugurate the reform by in sisting upon the thorough cleansing of all grain before grinding. If they will do this they will establish a standard and secure a general use of the proper apparatus in all custom mills, which will extend in time to merchant mills, and be a wonderful boon to all bread eaters. — Rural New Yorker. Pasture for Hoes. The subject of good pastures for hog* in summer is becoming one of special interest to farmers. So also the provid ing of a supply of roots for them during the winter is beginning to receive de served attention from the more progres sive and successful farmers. The con tinuous and excessive use of corn has long been deemed wrong both in theory and in practice, although comparatively few feeders ever seem to have considered who it might be avoided. The light, however, is breaking, and a radical change in the management of hogs as regards feeding seems fast goingon. This change, we doubt not, will result in a very marked decrease of disease among swine. Of the grasses most suitable for ; hog pastures may be mentioned timothy. I red clover, blue grass and orchard grass, in tlmtwr pasture, wlint red bovor would not do so well on account of the ■hade, white clover will be found valua ble. The best pasture is one containing several kinds; but it is no easy matter to keep a variety of grasses on the same ground. The more hardy will sooner or later crowd the others out. We arc sure more hogs arc being grass fed this year than ever before, and men inter ested in pork production arc closely watching the results. We shall be glad to have readers of the Ruralint report regarding any experiment in this way they have made, and give their views on the subject of grass for hogs in summer, or the raising of roots for them in win ter.— Ruralid. Health lllnls. I/cmon juice wiil aiiay tbe irritation caused by bites of gnats and flies. A weak solution of carbolic acid in rain water will cure pimples and simple eruptions. Ammonia, saleratus water, and other alkaline washes are the usual remedies for bee stings. A fresh tomato leaf crushed and rubbed on the puncture is recommended as an easy and sovereign cure. A oormpondent residing at Honolulu, Sandwich islands, says that a good health preservative is to sponge the ! l>ody in cold water, containing a small ; percentage of some alkali, such as am monia. The ammonia combines with the oil or grease thrown out by the perspiration, forming a soap, which is easily removed from the skin, leaving the pores open, thus promoting health and comfort. Milk far Ckkktsi. Sloppy food is unfit for chickens. Their stomachs are formed to grind hard substances, and if given soft food he gixsard, a portion of the stomach— which is mutiple in fowls as in cattle is weakened, and does not perform its partial digestive functions. Milk may be given with coarse cornmeal, both being scalded together until it is a stiff mass, or it may be curdled and separated from the whey, and given dry. But it must not be sour. Sour food is sure to bring on intestinal disorders and pre pare such a weakened condition of the system as will offer favorable oppor tunities for contracting infectious dis eases, as poultry cholera. A Paris merchant, who has been sev eral times robbed by unfaithful csshiero, has invented an infallible test of com petency. The casbier presents himself, offer his services, shows his reference*. Then tbe merchant: "Show me how you would erase a mistake in your figures.'" The aspiring cashier sets to work with scraper, ink-eraser, and what not, and if be succeeds in destroying nil trace of the erasure he is invited to take his hat and leave. The Spider. The spider has never been at school a day in his life, he has' never learned a trade or read a book, yet he con make the Blratghtest lines, most perfect circles, beaut iful little bridges, and many of bis family can spin and weave, some of them can hunt and swim and dive and do mason work almost as well as if they had a trowel and mortar. There is a spider in my garden that makes so many lines and circlet you'd think it had been all through geometry. It makes circles, every one a little larger than the other, about twelve of them, and then from the smallest circle begins and makes about twenty-eight straight lines, going to the outside circle, like the whalebones in an umbrella. It makes its web so perfect and regular that it is called the geomet ric spider. You'd see late in sum mer, clusters of its eggs on bushes and hedges. When hatched the spiders all keep together in a little ball. You touch this ball and the little spiders will scat ter in all directions, but as soon as they can they'll get together again, as I Iclt my silk dress last night hanging over a chair near the wall, and this morning I found that Mrs. Spider had been there in the nightand made a beau tiful little bridge of spider silk between my dress and the wall. The spider that made this bridge for me had eight eyes. It can't move any of these eyes; each eye lias but one lens and can only see what is just in front of it. It has a pair of sharp claws in the forepart of the head; with these little pincers it catches other small spiders. When the spider is at rest it folds these little claws one over the other like the parts of scissors. The spider has eight feet; most insects, you know, have six. At the end of each foot is a movable hook. It has five little spinners, or spinnerets.wilh which it maks its web. Each of these spint ners has an opening which it can make large or small as it likes. There is a tube like a little hall communicating into each of there little openings. In this tube are four little reservoirs,which holds the "gluey substance of which the thread is spun." As soon as this liquid comes to the air it becomes a tough and strong thread. I suppose the air acts upon it in some way. How GrAln Corners are Made. The process of cornering in wheat is brought about by an unlimited number of falsehoods told by those who would not ordinarily be charged with them, hence they work better. The house of (lorn. Barley & Co. conceive the idea that it is its time to make a corner in grain. It proceeds at once to torm a ring within a ring. This ring, consist ing of A, B. C and I), proceeds in August | to quietly buy September wheat, not directly, but through brokers. Belore the end of August this ring, without any Excitement, secures the control of the wheat in market deliverable in Septcm t*r E his sold to these parties, and finds himself unable to extricate himself from the position into which the forced rise iu September wheat places him without buying of A. This completes the ring, and it only remains for E to give his check to A for the difference between the price of wheat bought and the price of wheat sold. This is a mar gin, and that margin is obtained by A, not by the investment of capital, neither by the exercise of brain power, success fully applied to the forecasting of the probabilities of the market, based upon the varying influence of supply and de mand, or the still more effectual influ ence of a favorable season or an adverse one. Now this corner upon unsuspect ing E is accomplished by the four coad jutors, which like four gamblers fleece a victim in the game known as draw poker. B bets, C raises the bet, D and Edo the same. A. who deals either in cards or wheat, raises the bet, B raises also, until poor E often "planks up" his last dollar on 'change or in a gambling hell, without having had a single chance to win in any contingency. An Interesting Cave. Crystal Hill cave, near Stroudsburg, Pa., has just been carefully explored by Pro feasors and Porter. The bot tom was found to be covered with clay, on the top of which was a deposit of a dark substance, and cm this is an in crustation of lime, which has fallen from the roof of the cave. It is the de posit of rich, dark material that par ticularly interests the scientists. The explorers found many indications of the presence in the cave at one time or an other of many animals, some of which were doubtless brought there by ani mals of prey, and others used it for their dens. Among the bones of animals were the jawbones of the raccoon, skunk, weasel, beaver, squirrel, porcu pine, woodchuck, fox, wildcat, elk, deer and bison; the shells of two or more turtles, the bones of wild turkeys, and the vertebras of snakes In large quantities. The most interesting speci mens found, however, were the bead and teeth of a gigantic beaver and a large peccary, neither of which have ever I een found before in Pennsylvania. Besides these were bones which had been burned and split—evidently the work of the aborigines, who sought tbe marrow. Indian reiios>rere also found. A flint spear head was picked up far hack in the cave, imbedded in tbe clay. How it came there is a mystery, unless some Indians, entering the cave and finding a wild beast there, attacked it, and this spear, hurled at the animal, missing its aim, sped far back into the recesses, and there remained. No other traces of any kind indicate that the portion of the cave hac been .visited by man or beast. H<inattr Lire la Hew Yerk. The metropolis abounds with con trasts of splendid intentions and mis carried achievements. Prinoeiineas of space and brilliance of architecture are confronted by dilapidation and OA cleanliness, and even on Murray hip, that pinnacle of all earthly ambition, disreputable little taverns ■/< tene ments exist in sight of the fashionable mansions with their carved balustrades and ample porticoes. But these con trasts, which have led one writer to de scribe New York as Paris with a touch of the backwoods, and another to say that the city is more like a savage, the resplendence of his trinkets, war-paint and chromatic blanket only half cover ing his abundant dirt—these anomalies arc nowhere so apparent as above the southern borders of Central Park. Beaching as far as Manhattanvilic on the west, and to Harlem on the east, the land lias nearly all been graded, and many streets have been iaid out, and in some instances paved, curbed and il luminated. Ten years ago or more, when the imperial Tweed was seated with apparent firmness on the municipal throne, this region, with tfie splendid park as a center, was seized upon by real cptatc speculators, and predictions were made that in a very few years it would be covered with handsome dwellings. But the tide of success turned another way, with what ef fect, as concerns Tweed and his ambi tions, is well known; and though on the east side some of the vacant spaces have become populous, and some nota ble churches, hospitals, armories and houses have been put up, the west side has altered so little that it lias seemed to be lifeless. The new museum of natural history, with its imposing facade looking over the hill and dale of the park, glances from its rear upon a neighborhood which!'in my experience, is quite unique. It is not to be precisely described as city, nor as suburb, nor as the unsettled but broken territory that outlies most cities while waiting to be absorbed in their advance. The antici pations that led to the grading and paving of the streets have had a very limited fruition in isolated rows of pretentious and rectangular "brown stone fronts," which seemed oddly out of place. Here and there a vestige of old times remains in a pre-metropolitan homestead, with an impoverished orchard around it, or in a grand mansion with a classic front of Doric columns, and a genesis tar antedating Fifth avenue. But it is not the new buildings, premonitory oi the city's advance, nor the old ones reflecting the past, nor these two in contrast, that give the region its charac teristics and peculiar interest. All down in the hollows between the graded streets, and in spaces where, no streets having been opened, the gray Laurcn tian rock I'tando with trot a superficial layer of soil upon it, thousands of acres are under cultivation by squatters, and without other inclosure to the land than the embankments formed around the hollows by the trap-rock foundations of the streets. Agriculture is carried ou with a primitive simplicity of life and under a picturesqueness of condition that set an artist on the edge of desire. Many square miles are green with vege tables. You see the gardeners with their wives and mothers bending to their work; you hear the querulous call of geese and the contentions of pigs; and if you oould shutout from the view the immature streets and the precursory dwellings, you would never realise that you are within the limits of the city, or that immense steamers are loading with grain by the river-side a quarter of a mile away, and that the buzzing which vibrates in the air comes from an ele vated railway. The holdings are o! various propor tions, sometimes being limited to an irregular strip, and sometimes embrac ing three or four blocks in. possession of one man. It is not an occasional load, the product of one patch, that goes to Washington market, but a large pro poUiou of all the green stuff consumed in the city is grown in these hollows— the lettuce, the parsley, the celery, the cabbages, and the potatoes. But though one man trebles the quantity his aeigh bor produces, he is no better off nor more ambitious In the matter of archi tecture than the poorest; and in the corners, or in the center of the hollows, or perched high np on the wintry gneiss, is found s grotesque variety of makeshift dwellings, mere concessions to exigencies in many cases, which by no means indicate the pecuniary re sources of the occupants. Some of them are simply squalid, bat upon others the sunshine and the rain haw brought out a soft color, and the scraps of which they are built haw borrowed a quaint graos from the weathering, i; is scarcely safe to Ist an artist looss among them. They abound with pictu resque " bits," which b# dee lane it next to impossible to exhaust; and not long ago, when I soared into the sky ward region where C has his studio, I found him biaok to the wrists with ink. with which he was printing etch ings of some things that be had dis covered among these shanties.—Bt peg's Magmmm. There are hard .times in England, and yet there Is plenty ot mousy. It Is m ii mated that SI,OOO 009,000 its at imwat out of employment there. This Is greatly to be regretted, especially as Urns an hundreds of men la this country also out of employment—who would;gladly take charge of somebody's surplus cash.
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