Boy Inventors. Some of the most important inven tions have been the work of me re boys I ; The invention of the valve motion to the steam engine was made by a mere [ boy. Watts left the engine in a very 1 incomplete condition, from the fact that I he had no way to open or close the i { valves, except by means of levers oper- < i ated by the hand. He sot up a large engine at one of the mines, and a boy J was hired to work these valve levers; f although this was not hard work, yet it * required his constant attention. As he ' was working those levers, ho saw that I parts of the engine moved in the rigtit I direction, and at the exact time that lie i 1 had to open or close the valves. He I procured a strong cord and made one I end fast to the proper part of the engine. | and the other end to tlio valve lever; I the hoy had the satisfaction of seeing I the engine move off with perfect regu | laritv of motion. A short time after B- the foreman came around and saw the 1 boy playing marbles at the door. Ixiok ing at the engine he soon saw the in- I genuity of the boy, and also the advan- I tag< s of so great an invention. Mr. I Watts then carried out the boy's inven | tive genius in a practical form, and [ made the steam engine a perfect auto | matic working machine. The power-loom is the invention of a I farmer boy who had never seen or heard | of sueli a tiling. He whittled one out 1 witli his jack-knife, and after he had E got it all done, lie, with great cntliu 1[ siasiu, showed it to his father, who at f once kicked it in pieces, saying he would |, have no boy about liiml that would K spend his time on such foolish things, j The boy was delighted at the idea of I earning a trade, and he soon found that i his new master was kind and took a I lively interest in him. He had made a | loom of what was left of one his father I bad broken up, which lie showed to his ft master. The blacksmith saw be had 1 no common boy as an apprentice, and I that the invention was a very valuable B one. He immediately had a loom con- R structed under the supervision of the i boy; it worked to their perfect satisfac- I tion, and the blacksmith furnished the I means to manufacture the looms, the K boy to receive one-half the profits. In I about a year the blacksmith wrote to E the boy's father that he should bring I with him a wealthy gentleman who was I the inventor of the celebrated power 1 loom. You may be able to judge of the ft, astonishment at the old home when his I son was presented to him as the in- H ventor, who to id him that his loom K was the same as the model that he had ■ kicked to pieces but a year before.— ft Western Trails. Cinderella. ; The story of " Cinderella" has con ■ netted with it much curious folk-lore, B some of which it may be worth while to R collate from the London newspapers. If which hunted the stories up apropos of R the general interest aroused by the pre- H aentation there of the little cinder-lass's Btiniple and touching story as a Christ- Btmas pantomime two years ago. Ac- Bor<ling to the French version of the Bfitory, a woman had two daughters, only B.PP'' of whom she loved. The other, ■ liKmed Cendreusettc. she once directed Eto spin some cotton. Now, Ccndreu Bgettc could not spin, and would ccr § tainiy have been beaten if a cow to E which she had been kind had not done B her task for her. Next day the other Bf aistcr tried to get tiie cow to spin, but B the cow, which knew its friends, played ■ her a trick. The mother then ordered ■ the cow to be killed, but before its death B It bade Cendreusctte to gather its bones I Into its hide and to wish over them for B anything she desired. The wishes ■ brought to Cendreusctte three beautiful H(drcsses on which shone the *un, the ■ moon, the sky and the sea. In these flnhe captivated a prince, who traced her Bby means of the familiar slipper, which. Bby the way, scholars say was not of ■gold, nor jret of glass, hut of fur. In Bphc Scotch story a dying queen gives her HRaughter "a little red calfy," which is Hldlled by the cruel stepmother. From Sj&e call's bones Rash in-coat ie, as she is from a coat woven of rushes, gets R 4 ' braw claea" very much as Cendreu- Hbettc did. In an Italian version, also, n Bcow plays the good fairy's part. In the B Modern Creek story two daughters boil HRieir mother and make a meal of tier, Kant the youngest sister prefers to go and wiien she goes to mourn tier mother's hone* she is rewarded Bp? finding three .benutiiul]dresses. One BEbress is as beautiful as " the sea and it another as "the spring and it and the third na "the heaven Kith its stars." In Sicily nnd the a sheep takes [the place of the Bood and wonder-working cow. The can also be traced to the remote Hpast, to Oermany and to Egypt, and it Ills indefinitely o'.d. A Corloas Will Case. I A very curious illustration of the of litigation is found in the case. A colored woman of this by a long life of industry and accumulated a property estimated §76,000. She left a husband, who at least a part of the property, Knt offered to waive that claim on re- Kslpt of fft.ono. This was refused by |||tjbe other heirs, but while overhauling papers the old man found a will Bpy which the deceased bequeathed to Hoi the entire amount. This will has Hst been approve), and the other heirs nothing. How mnoh they now re- Hpet they did not accept the old man's BEropoflition.— New York Letter. City and Country Cousins. | The difference between "city" and their country cousins is more marked than most poople believe. The first im pression which a man has on finding himself tor the first time in a great city is of vague excitement, accompanied by a sense of danger. The multiplicity of 1 objects appear fantastic to an eye accus tomed to rural scenery; the uninlermit tent noises, the entangled yet purposefu, movements, and, above all, the shifting panorama of unfamiliar human faces, combine to throw the visitor into a state of mind totally strange to him. And amid'so much tumultuous life he , sees death everywhere on the lookout for a victim. Hut if the visitor to these strange regions looks at the faces of those he meets in search of some reflec tion of his own purturbation. he looks in vain. The countenance of the city man, as he treuds his way along the street, is curiously impassive. At a first glance it appears also to be unob servant ; but this it is not. For although he seems to look at nothing, it soon be comes evident that he sees everything. He mechanically informs himself, out of the corner of his eye, of everything that might tend to obstructor threaten him; and though he passes througii a thou sand people without encountering the gaze or treading on the toes of any one of them he will recognize an acquaint ancc or calculate to an inch the rate of speed at which he must make the cross ing in order to escape the omnibus from one direction and the truck from the other. Doubtless custom and memory will account for a large part of it; yet the impassive face would probably ap pear far less impassive than it does had not the contraction of the facial muscles brought about by the constant assaults of innumerable impressions and'the im possibility of responding to them all, be come in a manner fixed. The houses and the pavements, the vehicles and the hubbub, produce an effect on these mus cles just the rever-c of that exercised by the hills and dales of the country; t ut 'v press tliem in instead of drawing them out —in other words, the mind resists them instead of sympathizing with them. Sportsmen's Mishaps. Joseph (lunn, of Honey Bend,lll., six teen years of age, carried his gun by the barrels, struck the hammers against a log, and was killed. Young Jeffcote, eighteen years of age, of Troy. Ala., had the breech pin of his gun lodged |in his brain, liecause the piece was overcharged. B. I'abeston, a sixteen-year old boy. of' Sullivan. Ind., while swinging his gun ! carelessly during a gunning trip, cnuiht i the hammer in his clothes and was I killed. While Julius Mollier, a harbcr of J Cambridge. N. Y., was drawing a gun out of a boat at I>ake Lauderdale, the j firearm was discharged, blowing off Mollier's arm. The son of John Donohuc, of Alk in- • son. Ind., went shooting, threw himself on the grass, caught the trigger of his gun on the bottom of Ids trousers, and had his right hand blown off. The parents of Theodore Boss.ofßudd's Lake, N. J., not only lost their son, who was killed while shooting, but as they were diiving rapidly to visit the dying boy, their carriage was wrecked, and the mother suffered a fractured arm and the father serious internal Injuries. While fishing at Cos Cob, Eldridge Piatt, of Ansonia, Conn., caught a large fish that flopped about in the bottom of 1 his bout until it struck the hammer of his loaded gun and discharged it. He was terribly frightened, for his coat sleeve went into ribbons, as did also his shirt sleeve, but the shot did not strike his arm at all. The fak. To the Kirghiz the yak, or knsh-gow, s as invaluable as the reindeer to the Laplander, or, in another way, as the camel to the Arab. Its milk is richer than that of the cow, and its hair is woven into clothes and other fabrics. Where a man can walk a vak can be ridden. It is rcmnrk&hly sure-footed; like t'jc elephant, it has a wonderful sa gacity in knowing what will bear its weight and in avoiding hidden depths and chasms; and when a pass or gorge becomes blocked bv snow (provided it be not frozen) a score of yaks driven in front will make a highway- This strange creature frequents the mountain slopes nnd their level summits; it needs no tending, and finds its food at all sea sons. if the snow on the heights lies urn deep for him to find the herbngo, be rolls himself down the slopes and eats his way up again, displacing the snow as he ascends. When arrived at the top he performs a second somersault down the slope, and displaces a second groove of snow as he eats bis way to the top again. The yak cannot bear a tempera ture above freezing, and in summer it leaves the haunts of men and ascends far up the mountains to the "old ice," above the limit of perpetual snow, its caif being retained below as a pledge for 1 the mother's return, in which she never 1 tails.— Blackwood's Magasinc. " I can't go to the party to-night," said Jones; "the truth is, my shirt is in the ' wash." " Shirt in the wash!" shrieked Smith, "why, man alive, have you but one shirtf" "Oilc shirt I" exclaimed Jones, in his turn; " you wouldn't want : a fellow to have a million shirts, would youf" i " Would you know the sad lesson of i my llfeP" he whispered, confidentially. • "Well, then, it Is this: Never to make i love to any girl in a village where there an ice-cr earn saloon." FARM, IIARDKH AND HOUIKHOLBK Farm nml Unrdrn IVotaa. Save the soot that falls from the chimneys. A pint of soot to a pailful of water will make a liquid manure of tto greatest value for flowers and plantH of all kinds. When good eartli is used for potting, plants seldom need any special manure. The best soil for plants is found in old meadows, and the corner of fences where the sod has grown a long time. Boiled apples and meal are excellent food for fattening hogs; apples are cheap, lucil is not dear, pork continues to advance, and to-day the outlook is a profit in pork for'lie producers. Time intelligently given to the bees will pay as well as any other farm work, and wh- n too many are not kept, most of the work can be done either before or after regular working hours. There are twenty-six pounds of phos phoric in twenty-live bushels of wheat; if there are not twenty-six pounds of available phosphoric acid in the soil, it matters not how much there may be o' other elements, you cannot have twenty-five bushels of wheat to the acre. The Cleopatra and Marguorita are said to be the finest varieties of gladioli. The ono is a lino fresh rose color tinted with lilac, with large and effective flowers and broad slisded lines, and the spikes arc unusually long; the other is an enormous flower, wiiite, rose and cerise with dark carmine spots and beautiful, softly-shaded throat. Each of thes- hai upward of twenty flowers to each spike. the hens the run of the orchard, and piow up several open places where the sun shines longest, and mukc the land mellow Hint the liens may have plenty of room to scratch and dus themselves at pleasure. Hens are fond J of picking at pumpkins, squash, melons, tomatoes, cabbage, etc. They are sel dom diseased when they have free ac cess to a variety of food. When they cannot find worms, grubs, flies, grass hoppers and similar insects, they shouid have small rations of liver, lights and other cheap moats. But the increased j quantity of fruit and its improved qual ity, of every variety, will amply pay for the labor and expense of turning a portion of the orchard into a poultry yard.— Stockman. The Ixindon Live Block Journal says a new idea for fixing shoes on horns' hoofs without the use of nails is carried on as follows: The inventor takes a shoe of ordinary construction, iiaving, ■ say, four hoies therein, and througii l these be passes hands or wires of metal, I two extending from or near the hinder I extremities of the shoe, and the other I two at short distances from either side i of the toe, the positions being varied with the number of bands employed. I To ii x the shoe the hinder wires or bands arc first drawn tightly around the front and upper part or corona of the j hoof, the ends passing through a buckle or ring, or they may be twisted together. The ends of the other wires are also pa'sed througii the ring or under the first bands, and being drawn tightly downward, the hinder wires or hands, owing to the conformation of the hoofs, are, as it were, wedged tightly, tl.us lix ng the shoe firmly to the hoot. This in vention receives only provisions protection. ItreltK*. APt-LJE CHOI'TES.—This simple and dainty little dessert is one t iught by Miss Corson: I'eel and oore the apples I and halve them; take half slices of bread, spread thickly with butter and sprinkle with sugar, then lay apple on bread, ! core side down; sprinkle on more sugar ard any kind of spice to taste. Bake, j SNAPS.— Take one cup of molasses, j three-quarters of a cup of sugar, one tablespoon each of powdered cloves, ein l nanion and allspice. Add these to one j halt cup of melted butter and bent in j two teaspoons soda and flour enough to | roll. Roil very thin, cut out with a tin j cutler and bake in pans in a hot oven. | APPLE CUSTARD.—' Two eggs, six ! tablespoonfuis sugar, one cup cream; j heat the mixture thoroughly and flavor strongiy with lemon, un ess some other I flavoring is preferred. Then take n tea | cupful o f stewed apples, mash them, j and add them to the other ingredients; | make crust and bake same as egg cus tards. They are delicious, j CHICKEN BROTH.— Cut a chicken into small pieces; put it in two quarts of water with a little salt, and boil it two hours; a tablespoon of rice and an onion may be added if you wish. This will make one quart. The chicken should be skinned, and the fat taken out. STurrtNO FOR VEAL.— Chop half a pound of suet, put it into a basin with three-quarters of a pound of bread crumbs, a tenspoonful of salt, a quarter of pepper, a little thyme, three whole eggs, mix well. A pound of bread crumbs and one more egg may be used; it will make it out firmer- APPLE PANCAEM.—To an ordinary batter made with a quart ol milk and four eggs, add six or eight apples, peeled and chopped fine. The batter should be made thicker than usual, as the juice of the applet in cooking thins it. Make these cakes of large size and hake them on a hot griddle. Serve them hot, lay ing one of them on top of the {other, with mixed powdered sugar and cinna mon spread between. ROLL!.— Two quarts of flour, one-hal cup of sugar, a piece of butter or beef drippings the size of an egg. Scald one pint of sweet milk, and let it cool; then make a hole in the middle of the flour and pour in the milk ai d a half-cup of yeast, and a teaspoon of salt. Set to rise In a warm place through the night until ' very light. Knead it and let it rise again. When well risen cut the rolls half an inch thick, shnpc round, spread on each round a little melted butter, and double over so that the roll is a half-circle; then let it rise very light, and hake. Place the rolls in contact in the haking-pan, BO that they may keep in shape. Profit In ftlirt> ><! Wool. " Twelve years ago,"says a breeder in Missouri, " I started out witli 600 full blooded Merinos. I have now over 0,000, and have sold several thousand during that time. I have made money every year since I started, raising a large increase, and shearing heavy fletcus each year. The (ntire llock • sheared last May over eight pounds per | head of a class of wool Unit brings tbe j highest price in market." This gentle man throws out some hints of value to , all sheep-growers. " Tlie most critical time in a shepherd's experience," he , says," is in getting his llock ready for ; wintering. I find it pays to give the ' lambs, yearlings and breeding ewes > some corn after about the 30th of Ojto - j her—one-half an ear per head on the I start, and gradually increasing the j amount as the grass grows poorer. I usually feed in flocks of 200 or 300, ; being careful that each flock is graded as to strength and condition. The key- , stone of success in the matter is to keep | your flock young, fed well and bred . with good judgment. If it docs not pay j to keep them well, it docs not pay to j keep them at all. I expect every sheep on my -place to cat two and u half bushels of corn between fall and spring, as well as what hay they can consume. t 01l for Malt. A writer in the Hural New Yorker says that the salt Question is always on the carpet, and while it is very certain that salt is not a manure it is equally certain that its application is a decided benefit. The retardation and often com pletc ruin of crops by insect depredations is well known, but it is not at all appre ciated to its full extent. Salt can act in but three ways beneficially. It attracts moisture, and hence is useful in dry seasons; it drives away insects, and there lore is useful in all seasons; and when thoroughly dissolved by heavy rains, it acts by assisting inert or insolu ble material to become fit for plant food. The first mode is a slight gain, ho enough though to pay for the salt; the second is very valuable, paying for the salt and trouble of application from ten to one hundred times over, accord'ng to the prevalence and destructivcness of the insects; the third mode is of but little value because insolubles arc gen erally proof against its feeble action. If we sum up the gain from the three modes of action, wc perceive such a very decided gain that one fair trial is sufficient to convince the most skeptical. The only danger Is in an excess, but as five bushels per acre will do no harm, the danger is not likely ever to be aiarra- I ing, as few farmers can afford to waste i salt anywhere. Nawrthlni a Farmer Should Know. As a general tiling the farmer is liable for all the public injury his hired man may cause wliiie actually employed by him. If he sends him into a lot to burn old brush and he, for any purpose what ever, leaves', it and runs into hi* neigh bor's lot, destroying his fence and injur i ing liis rro|*s. the farmer is liable for the damages caused by the wanton neg lect ol his man. If he eends a hired j man on the road with a team and he by negligence runs into another vehicle | and injures it, or the persons who may 1 be in it, the farmer is liable for the damages; but should the hired man leave the road he was directed to go and tis.vel another road for his own pleasure and profit, then the farmer is not liable for the damages, should any occur. If a hired man. in going to or from tne lot with a scythe, and by the careless hand ling or carrying he injures a passer-by, the farmer is liable for the damages. If in cutting wood the hired man ruts down a tree in another lot, the owner is liable for tr<spass and damages, nl thougli he distinctly showed him the boundary, and though the man may , have cut the tree w itli malicious intent. Should the hired man, from malicious ness, run into a team, even if it block his way. yet the farmer must pay the damage, though done contrary to his positive orders. In all these cases the farmer ran compel the hired man to pay him hack, if he has anything to pay with; but this is rarely the case unlcs the farmer keeps back his wages and only settles when his time expires.— American Cultivator. A Letter from the "Bead." Rays an English exchange: Upon the tin water-bottle of one of the dead men brought out of the Seaham pit, Michael Smith, there was scratched, evidently with a nail, the following letter to his wife: " Dear Margaret, there was forty of us altogether at 7 A.M., some were singing hymns, but my thought was on my little Michael. I thought that him and I would meet in heaven at the same lime. Oh, dear wife, God save you and the children, and pray for myself. Dear wife, farewell. My last thoughts are about you and the children. Be sure and learn the children to pray for me. Oh, what a terrible position we are In.— Michael Bmith,ft4 Henry street.' The little Michael he refers to was his child whom he had left at home 111. The lad died on the day of the ex loslon. The man who knows morn about your business than you do yourself, always has leisure to entert tin you- TIMELY TOPICS. The daughter of ex-President Zachary Taylor, now residing in Virginia, re cently received fit9,ooo from the treas urer of the United Slates, that being the balance of salary which General Taylor would have rocHved had he Jived until his term of ofßu, expired. The pay ment was made in accordance with the authority contained in the deficiency appropriation bill which passed June j 16, IHBO. The chiel justice of England is paid $40,000 a year, the chief justice of the common pleas and the chief baron $35,- ! 000 each, and the master of the rolls ' (who has not to go on circuit) $30,000. The puisne judges are paid $35,000, out of which they have to pay probably about S2,KM) a year for circuit expenses. Beside this all the presidents of divisions have extremely valuable patronage, ap pointing as they do the officers of the high court, the officers of the probate registries and the officers of the record office. Mr. Fawcett, the English postmaster general proposes to come to the United States during the recess of parliament to make a personal inspection of the telegraph service in this city, lie also intends to examine into the practicabil ity of sixpenny telegrams in Ixmdon, and the development of telephonic com munication. Mr. Fawcett is one of the remarkable men of Englund. He is now forty-seven. At the age of twenty five lie was deprived of sight by an ac cident when out shooting. Notwith standing this calamity, he lias been constantly writing and .publishing works on* public and political affairs, j and lias taken a prominent position as a debater in parliament. When Mr. Gladstone succeeded to the premiership lie appointed Mr. Fawcett postmaster gencral. Mrs. Fawcett, his wife, is also the author of several works on ! political economy. I)r. 11. J. Klein, who two years ago announced a new crater inlthc moon, lias a brief article in Isi Nature, in which he gave reasons for Relieving that the moon is not dead. He has recently examined drawings of the neighborhood of the new crater, which confi m the theory of recent changes on the lunar surface, and cites also other drawings in further proof thereof. Professor Kiein adds that he announced the new depression near H yginus as a crater, from anology. It is a crater ftm nei, and even one of the largest. To ward the south there is a shallow spoon shaped hollow, which terminates in a second small crater. In full sunlight, when the interior of the large hollow of the crater is no longer in shadow* the spoon-shaped hollow may still be seen as a grny spot. By the use of high tele scopic powers it is remarked that the environs of the new crater appear to be fissured in a bewildering manner. Two fine furrows, iike clefts in the soil, which extend~fron the north toward the Snail mountain, are the finest ob jects on the moon. John Singleton sailed a short time ago for Ire.and by steamer from Mon treal. He has suddenly sprung from poverty to riches. He is the son of the la'e John Singleton, of Que nsville Abbey, county Ciart.and when a young ! man became n ne'er-do-well, and was 1 shipped off to Auslr: lis, with an allow ance from his father of $1,500 a year. After roving over that colony for a RUSH Iter of years under many vicissitudes j he came to Canada, and while on a spree j married Mary Richardson, chamber maid in the St. Nicholas, a third-class I otel, by whom he has two children. He subsequently went to Ottawa, where he was compelled 11 accept the position lof a bread driven - , which he retained until he received the welcome news which called him home. While he was in Australia his father died, and bis brother. General Singleton, at one time colonel of artillery, commanding ttie forces at Bermuda, succeeded to the states He died recently, John is fifty years of age. Independent of the landed estates, he succeedi to $900,000 a year, the proceeds of government invest ments. • Too Much Light. Moore, the poet, once Vhowed his knowledge of human nature by saying that though he should have his hand full of truths, he would open only one finger at a time. The people may be, as Grny says Milton was, " blasted with excess of light," so as to close their eyes to the merits of the Hgbt-besrer. An amusing illustration of the effect of cx ct ssive light upon the fortunes of a can didate once occurred in Indiana. About the time that Stephenson had demonstrated in England the merits of railroads, a congressional election oc curred in Indiana. Judge Tesh, one of the ab est men in tbe Slate, was a can didate for re-election. His vision ranged far beyond that of the people, and he saw much more than they. His error was in telling them all he saw. In one of his speeches on the " stomp," the judge introdccedjrailroade, about which liis hearers knew uothing and cared less. "I tell you, fellow-ciUscns,"he said' at the top of his voice, " that in Eng land they ran the cars thirty miles an hour, and they will he ran at a higher speed in America." A loud, scornful laugh from the crowd greeted this prophecy. " You are craay, judge," bawled out an old man, "or you think we are fools. A man couldn't live a moment at that speed," The ! udge rained hie chances of a re election by that railroad speech. His competitor was chosen by a large ma jority.—ToutA'i Oompam.n. nm HIE FAIK KEX. Itcfrauded Women. Ye w women have any very clear idea s of finance. Thin baa been illustrated somewhat at the expense of a number of confiding women of various ages in tb e good city of Boston. In the U'ginning of this year it was discovered that a hanking instituticn had been established in that city on Garland street, known as the toadies' Deposit. It was exclusively lor ladies. Nosams were received under S2OO, and Dot more than SI,OOO. The most annoying part of the thing was that eight per ce nt, interest per month was promised and paid for a time. In other words, $ 102 was to be paid annu ally forevery s*oo dc pest i ted. Consider ing that there are few financial institu tions which can afford to pay even six per cent, interest per annum, the enor mous interest promised to be paid by the managers of this institution nat urally attracted a good deal of atten tion. The newspapers took up the matter, and the authorities looked into i t as far as they could. It was ascertained that Mrs. Sarah E. Howe was presi dent, and other women were associated with her. When Mrs. Howe was asked liow she could afford to pay such un usual rates of interest, she spoke vaguely of certain benevolent persons who were desirous of helping along deserving women, that the Quaker's Aid society was behind the institution, and a good deal more of the same sought. In spite of the warning of the press, many con fiding women placed their means in the : " I-adics' Deposit," and it proved;to be a safe deposit in more senses ti an one. What was certain to be the end of the j institution came at last. The concern j hns gone into bankruptcy. It is found i that there were over 1,000 depositors, and their total deposits were over $1,000,000. Of this amount they are not | like !y to realize mrch of anything. The ! thing was simply a bold swind.eonits face, and should nave been evident to the most casual observer.— Sew York ' Sunday Timet. Kuhlon Som. Alcncon lace designs are copied in tbe ; new imitation point lace. I The chenille bonnet is the latest thing in millinery. Red is the leading color for bonnets; plush being the new material. Silver jewelry is more stylish th a ' gold, and is now chosen for gifts to 1 bridemaids from the bridegroom. The Abbe list is a pretty round hat worn by young ladies who get their mil i lincry direct from I'aris. Th< se hats have net yet been imported by New York milliners, but will probably come ; later in the season. Muffs are now a part of millinery, and many of the new bonnets are shown to gether with muffe. which in nearly all cases match in material and trimming, for muffs must be trimmed as well as bonnets. Amaranth red is the favorite shade o this many-ihatfed color. A splendid cream-white satin brocade has for a design a branch of chestnut eaves and burrs, golden green in color. Sashes are worn with nearly all the new costumes. The bayerdere plush is most in favor ; in millinery. ! Gold Devonshire lace is much used for millinery purposes. The new ulster is the Pilgrim, with co srl-like hood and rough, knotted cord, with which it is confined at the waist. Some of the hoods on the new cloaks arc iongfand cornucopia shaped. There are so many red costumes worn by ladies in the streets now that they rival the splendor of autumn foliage. The new peasant dresses arc very short and are made of ladies' cloth. Green lore can hardly be called beau tiful. but is used on the new costumes. Small and large bonnet* are aliku popular. An embroidered bell-pull is considered essential with a Queen Anne style of decoration. One of the new features on walking dresses Is the Langtry hood, lined with some bright color. Velours sublime —a material between velvet and plush—is much used for all sorts of trimmings. One Woman's Movement. Another movement lor the enfran chisement of woman has come to an un timely end. In IHOB the girls of Geauga county. Obio.while nearly all the young men were off at the war, organised themselves into what finally came to be called " the old maids' society," adopted a constitution declaring man to be " the common enemy," and resolved to ex clude him absolutely from all social privileges. To make matters doubly sure, a by-law was devised, providing that any member who msrried should be fined 100 copper cents, and be branded with tar on the soles of her feet. At the recent annual picnic of the association at which eighty-six of )he reformers were present, it was discovered that every one of tbe original members, as well as nearly ail later ones who had reached years of discretion, bore, in a figurative sense at least, the matrimonial tar-mark on her heel. Of all that noble army of martyrs who started out to abolish that insidious viper called msn, not one was left-not one. A good many children paddled in the lake, and csught polliwags, while tuir mother's sat on the bank above, and told how they were charmed by the vtper, and led up to the marking pot like iambs to the •laughter, while the "cause " was for gotten. About 100, mo watches are sold every month in tbe United States.
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