FOR TUB FAIR SEX* Autumn ami Winter IVrapa I The cloths lor autumn nnd winter Rwnips are made witli figured or rough HBsurtaees rather than witli the smooth Hi lustrous finish of broadcloth. They are Sol unusual thickness, yet soft and flexi- Hble; and as colored threads in cheviot Reflects are introduced, it is more than Rpver necessary that they lie pure wool, f > or else they will not lie serviceable. For I plain wraps tlie choice lies between the 1.-J serviceable diagonal cloths .with inside Recce, or else the loosely woven yet htavy cheviots. For dressy sacks for Joung ladies tho coachman's drab Jlllbades arc much used, though the nov |%lty introduced by l'ingat, who is the .•vleifiing Parisian designer of cloaks, is for basket-woven cloths combining as . Jjfeany colors as are found in the hourette Roths worn two years ago. Seal brown or black diagonal cloths are chosen for ♦ Jieivieenble plain cloaks, while the hrviut checks, irregular plaids, or mixed surfaces are used for jaunty coats for general wear,'.and for the useful Rpisters that are by no means confined to traveling wraps, but serve often for •hopping and instead of waterproof gar ments. Larger plaids are for mantles In the McGregor style, 'hough these are fanciful Madras plaids instead of, SSlho s( ' of the Scott'sh tartans. Another 1 novelty is the repped cloth like empress •loth, with half an inch of long warm Rpece on the inside; this is used for the long ricli cloaks with plush or fur bor- I Above all else plush is the favorite Rtriuinilng, especially for maseuline- Rshapcd jackets that men ly require a Rcoi'.ar, cuffs and pockets. The hood, which is added to many jackets, should Ip be arranged to button on, so that it need no: always be worn. A lining of piusli or of some striped or spotted Surah satin is seen in most hoods. There is a fancy , lor single-breasted jackets, nnd for those Without the ,-kirt piece sewed across the hips,yet many skirted coats with double -1 breasted fronts art' worn. What is called the Jersey coat dispenses witli collar, eati s and the double fronts, and is made to fit as closely as possible; even the pockets are without flaps, and are set underneath the fronts, witli a diagonal I opening bound on each edge. Rows of Buttons set on the seams are the only ■rnaments. These are for very young ladies, and are shown in gray and blue Cloths for sl3 50. The genuine Jersey webbing, of which tlie Jersey waists pre made, is made up into more ex pensive jackets for autumn wear, but ■here is no attempt to give the close Jersey effect to these garments. They ar.. 1 simply English double-breasted jackets, of dark blue, brown, black I plum-colored, and are piped no edges with satin ot the same le. pearl or metal but i are their only trimming. Well le jackets of cheviot cloths witli h cloths and collars cost from sl2 125 each. These are of the stylish ium length, not long enough to ;eal the dnpery of short costumes, so short as to look scanty in tho lencc of longer garments. One of newest caprices is that of adding a :t pelerine rape to jackets. To give jflisli effect this cape must lie cutoff ight across the hack—not rounded— must cling closely to the shoulders, liing just below the armholes. This IOWD on the Charlotte Corday coats i tit like sacks, and also on the long eeloaks with full-gathered sleeves, ltle shapes, or those with dolman :ts, are considered more stylish hut youthful than the jaunty coats, and mristly chosen by older ladies, re is a fancy, however, for .miiitary ;ing mantles with double capes in ,t for young ladies, and even for xiigiris. Some of these arc trimmed ti gilt or silver braid, and are made flue cloth, hut black braid, rows of :hing, or else the Havelock piaitings better trimmings. The monk's cloaks also unique garments in favor with ng Indies. They are loose and long, b gathered slieves and a gathered d, and sometimes little capes ar i place of the belted ulster that was teneraily unbecoming, there are now gracefu.ly-shaped long cloaks . JMade of the English cheviot cloths of qpllct colors. The English driving cloak l| an excellent " over-all" wrap of this Jrß'l ; H lias a circular back fitted and by seams, square sleeves in a ||Roc front, and a pointed hood. This Ijmiide of cloth of mixed colors, with lining for the hood, and costs $35, Others of much less expensive dbths are shown witli dounle-breasted flwt* cut off across the hips and lcngth pMwd like a polonaise. Another style '-■'■■ fifes r ape that may be hut'oned up to ifrni a hood, while still another lias kjjlt-plaiting at the back and double l^Rpcwhile most picturesque of all is ffce monk's ulr.ter, with a cowl, cape -aßßid rope-like cords and tassels. hTIk stately long cloaks of brocades HHitin do Lyon, Sicilienne, velvet, and plush are chosen for dressy wraps, nnd rival the richest fur do'mans in their Black is the favorite color these garments, with satin or plush of red, old gold, ecru or laven '.er The elaborate passementeries Hfeii' are banished from cloth wraps are here in prolusion, and these, with heavy linings, mnkc the great cloaks HRncthingformidable in weight. The ■pair, satin de Lyon of these cloaks is shirred heavily down the middle hack, or else around the neck and HR> lull sleeves. The brocaded velvets fir tho figured satins nre of courso kept and plain, and it is in tiiese that the large figured bro- Bfcde* are found most effective; feather tulips, lilies of natural size, and peonies, with each flower separate, lire preferred to tlicclogo niatc lassc figures and Persian designs form erly used. When wool Roods arc used or such cloaks, the India camel's-hair is preferred, as it is clinging and pliable, while for mixtures nro tho repped Siciliennes. Occasionally a plush cloak is shown in brown or gray mottled shades; but black plush does not rival velvet in beauty, and, like satin, it is used to best effect in small quantities for Iwrders, collars and cuffs. For lus trous garments the heavy satin Surah (mcrvcilleux) or else satin do Lyon is preferred to plain satin. The beaded trimmings rival plush borders in popu larity, and have even made their ap pearance on sealskin cloaks, though they seem incongruous, as they conceal the beauty of the deep pile of the fur, and make the weight too groat for com ort. A small soft muff in Img shape is made to match many of tho richest cloaks.— Harper's liazar. Women Workers The Massachusetts industrial census has brought to light some interesting acts about women who work in that State, where there arc nearly 70,(Ui0 more women than men. Over half a million women in Massachusetts earn their own living and help to support others: 10,295 are in professions. Of these, 9,531 are school and music teachers and musicians, 336 are "authors and literary persons," while there are 16-1 women doctors; 60,000 work in fac tories, shoe factories, cotton, woolen, linen, carpet and paper mills, etc. There are over 24,1KK) sewing women and milliners. Compared with I*6o, women's wages in all kinds of work h:ts increased. Managers of dressmaking establishments average $12.19 per week; women under them $7.12 per week. Milliners get from $7 to $lO per week. Some 700 women are employed in the printing industry,mostly as compositors, and perform work lor $7 to sll per week that men ask and receive S2O to $25 per week for doing. They are in all the gov ernment departments, city, state and national, even to the police and paying and lighting departments. Not many of them are in business for themselves however. They work for wages; 4050f them are bookkeepers. 94 are engaged in the manufacture of machinery, and 42 work at gis&s making. There (are ten florists. One woman earns her living by catching fish. Innumerable branches of manufacture, other than those men tioned employ women—leather, work, rubber goods, the making of brushes, balls, buttons, coffins, carriage trim ming, jewelry, etc. There is hardly any manufacturing in which they do no not take part in fact, in one capacity or another. What One New York ttlrl Old. When a girl concludes to put up ho hair and make herself look sweet, the best policy is to let her have her own vay. She can't be drawn away from her mirror by any of the ordinary things of this life. A fire will some .mcs do it. but it has been shown that even a fire may fail to excite soruo girls The other night a New York lodging house took tire, and at a most uncom fortable hour, when most girls probably have their back hair down. One of the young iadieg heard that the place was burning down, but she didn't feel like making her appearance before the crowd which hnd gathered in the street look ing Ike a perfect fright. She shut tho door leading into the hnll to keep out the flames and went to her mirror to fix her hair. Anybody who lias waited for a girl to fix her lialr knows that it takes time and a great deal of it. This girl wasn't any quicker than the average, and she was very particular about hav ing her hair done up exactly as it should be. The fire had cut oft' her chances of escape by the stairs, and her iover, after appealing to her for some time, finally lost his patience and got away without her. A fireman got up to the room on a ladder and she marie him sit on the edge of the window and wait until stie had arranged her hairpins and ribbons for a right sort of public appear ance, then she threw herself into his arms—it was so romantic—and slid down the ladder with him, looking just sweet. The whole thing was a tremend ous success, but when the earcful young girl was safely landed on the pavement found that she had forgotten her stockings.— Philadelphia Time*. Peculiar Matrimonial Kelatlons. Adolphus Andrew Hoagland, o! Shadevilio, Va., is seventy years old i and has had three wives. The first was a widow when he married her, and had a little daughter. When this wife, died her daughter was a widowed mother, and Hoagland within a few years mar ried her. There was some feeling, lie says, against his making his step daughter Ids wife, but they were a happy couple, and the prejudice died out. Ten years ago the second wife died. Her daughter was then fifteen. Five years elapsod, and then Hoagland again married his step-daughter, who was also his step-granddaughter. Sho is still living, and her husband's age, aside from the fact that she hnd no daughter when site, became his wife, prec.udes the idea of his peculiar system being carried any further. He has children of his own by each of the three wives, and tho complications of their relationships are almost, endless. Hoag land declares that his matrimonial ex perience, covering about fifty years, bus been exceptionally happy. The last two wives inherited the good qualities of their mothers, and all were so much alike that tbey have seemed to bim the same woman, with her youth occasion ally renewed. TIMELY TOPICS. Tho Hebrew calendar for tho year 5641 is published. Its editor is tlie Grand Ruhbi Scrvi, director of tho Ves sillo hraclitico. According to this authority the Hebrew population of the earth is divided up us follows: Europe claims 4,500,000; Asia, 3,800, worth of United States revenue stamps were sold in the fiscal year 1880, an increase of aliout fifteen per cent., or nearly $900,000 over 1h79. The sum received in the shape of penalties diminished from s3oO,(hk) in 1879 to $228,000 in 1880. The aggre gate receipts on salesof adhesive stamps less commissions, were $123,981,919 in I*Bo, an increase over 1879 of a little more than $10,500,000. The consumption of mule and horse flesh is steadily increasing in France. The weight has risen from 171,3(K) pounds in 1860 to 1,982,68!) pounds in 1879. In the principal cities of the provinces the consumption of horse flesh may be considered to have fairly taken r. ot. The average price ot horse meat is from twenty-live to thirty-five cents per pound. Each horse furnishes about four hundredweight of meat, which is capable of being prepared in many ways, such as boiled, roast, hashed, haricot, jugged, filet, etc. Otto Berger, an inmate in the asylum for the insane on Blackwell's Island, died on August 9, 1878. His body w a removed to the New York morgue, where, the next day, it was subjected to an embalming preparation, the inven tion of Dr. Rogers, of California. The body laid in the dead house ever since, and showed no sign of decay. It was dried and shrunken, and resembled the mummies of ancient Egypt. The pre pamtion having been sufficiently tested a burial permit was issued a short time ago, and the body was buried in the potter's field- Next year New York will possess a new opera house rivaling that ol I'aris. The site lias been obtained, money enough subscribed and paid in. and the plans decided upon. Nothing but work is now needed, and a large numiier of laborers, mechanics and artists will be at once employed. The Metropolitan opera house will occupy aplotot ground just west of the Grand Centra) depot, bounded by Vanderbilt and avenues and by Forty-third and Forty fourth streets —a very eligible and cen tral site. The architecture will he of the early Italian renaissance style. It is designed to seat 3,(hk) persons, all of whom will lie able to see and hear well. The not receipts for tho forty perform anroa of theObenimmergau passion play were $520,000. These performances were attended by no fewer than 176,000 persons, including the king and queen of Wurtemburg, the prince imperial o Germany, the Grand Duke Serglus, of Russia, and others of distinction. The proceeds have been divided into four parts, one-quarter being put aside for the expenses of tlie construction of the theater, a second being allotted to such iniiabitants of the village as are house holders, a third quarter to the actors, and a fourth to schools. Joseph Mayer, who filled the role of Christ, received the sum ol $155, and 600 other persons engaged in the play shared in the profit. Some three years ago an intelligent mineralogist discovered specimens ol pitchblende on the waste dumps ol Denver City, Col., and. recognizing the value of tliemineral,gathered aqunntity and sent it to Swansea, where it brought live shillings a pound, 'or at tiic rnte of $2,500 a ton. To what extent the mineral occurs In that region does not appenr; but, remarks the Scientific American, the incident affords another illustration of the facility with which unscientific miners may throw away minimis of more value than those they arc looking for. Pitchblende, or urani nite, is an oxide of uranium, obtained in Saxony and Bohemia, and used in tine glass making. Glass colored with uran ium lias the peculinr property of show ing green when looked at, although per fectly and pureiy yellow wuen looked through. There was a clearing out of the out laws in the Newcastle region of Ken tucky three years ago. Six of the offend ers were hanged by lynchers, hut Jack Simmons, the worst of the gang, escaped from ids pursuers in the mountains, and was not afterward seen. It was sup posed that he had made his way out of the State. The opening of a cave was recently discovered, and within was the skeleton of Simmons. lie lay on a bed ol straw, where he is presumed to have died of a wound received during his flight from the mob, and by his side wa a tin box full of booty. An editor out West was in prison for libeling a justioo of the peace, and when he departed the jailor asked him to give he prison a puff. BURNING FOUR YKAKM. A llliln|{ Coal Mine aiifl a Hundred Mlier at Work In n Vein t u.icr the fr'lre. A recent letter from Scranton, Pa., to the New York Herald, nays: It Is more than four years ago since what is known OH the upper vein of the Butler colliery, at Pittaton, a short distance from tills city, was discovered to be on fire. At first it created but little alarm, as it was thought that the fire would exhaust itself as soon as it had consumed the out-croppings or exposed portions of the anthracite on the edges of the cave hole in which it broke out, but it re quired only a short time to show the fallacy of this theory. It made rapid headwav through the worked-out por tions of the colliery, where it was fed by wooden props and pillars of coal, and the rush of air through the numerous cave holes caused it to gleain and roar like a furnace. The sulphur flames emitted through] the cave boles fur nished a picturesque scene at night, and gave the place the appearance of a volcano. At length tlio company be came alarmed, and their alarm was in creased by a notice from the Pennsyl vania Coal company, whose property ad oins the Butier colliery, and who noti fied the proprietors of the burning mine that they would be held to account for any damage done by the spread of the lire. The Butler Coal company then secured the services of Mr. Conrad, a practical engineer, to devise a plan for extinguishing the flames and preventing the threatened disaster. After various unsuccessful experi ments Mr. Conrad became convinced that the only effective way of ;arr> sting the progress of the fire was by isolation —namely, digging a deep trench around the entire area of the fire and sinking it from the surface below the burning vein. The work WHS undertaken and carried on at an enormous cost. In some places the ditch had to he constructed as deep as from eighty to 100 feet and corre spondingly wide. It was a great task At one point, owing to the grent eleva tion, the plaee had to be tunneled through for alxiut 100 yards, and it was feared even then, owing to the rspid progress that the fire was making in that direction, that it would secure a lodgment among the rocks and "bony"' coal overhead and cross the tunnel to the workings beyond. It is) still burn ing fiercely at this point, hut it is hoped that the fire will not extend k outside the limits of the isolated area. Just now the greatest danger is that encountered by the miners who are working the second vein, direct ly under the burning mine. The heat is so in tense that the men are compelled to work in these chambers almost naked, and the sulphurous nature of the atmos phere has prostrated many of their number within the last year, while sev eral have been compelled to quit ar.d seek work elsewhere. A few months ago the water from the roof came down upon them boiling hot, and after Mine Inspector Jones visited the scene lie caused a suspension of operations and had an air shaft sunk outside the burn ing area so|as to introduce a fresh sup ply of air to the workmen. But even this is int ffectuni now, owing to the ter rible heat overhead, and again the sui pliur and calorie arc unbearable. Men arc in per A their; lives every time they fire a shot, and in some places it is impossible to blast because of the sul phur and great volumes of dangerous g.ascx|gcnorated from above. The vein of coal being worked at present is so in tensely hot at some plncos as to be un bearable to the touch, and frequently the workmen arc compelled to let the coal lie for hours before they can land it on the cars, owing to its blistering heat. The situation is really terrible, and even if some sudden and awful calamity docs not ensue, it will cost many men their lives if they work there much longer. It is line working in an oven. Nothing but their extreme pov erty could possibly induce the miners and laborers to accept such labor. The coal they mine comes up hot out of the colliery. Cremation of the Dead. Exactly how to dispose of the ashes of the dead in the most satisfactory manner, after cremation is accom plished, is still a question. The ancient practice was to deposit the ashes in a funereal urn, to be preserved in a tomb or other sacred place. This is also the modern custom. But if tombs are to be required then there is not much need for cremation, as the corpse may as well be buried in the tomb without cremation. A recent American patent consists in providing a parlor bust of tiie deceased, cut in marble, and in making a hole in the back of the bust, wherein the ashes are to bo deposited after cremation of the body. A further improvement, suggested by one of our lady correspondents, is to prepare a wet mixture of cements for the artificial stone or marble, and sprinkle the ashes of the deceased into the mixture, which is then to be cast or pressed into the form of busts, statuettes cr other objects. In this way various members of a family might possess en during portions of the asiies of the de parted one.— Scientific American, When we read the statistics of educa tion in Ruasin wc get a new cause of the discontent of the people, and find another justification of the hatred of the despotic government. A Russian journal of edu cation shows that if nil the Russian people arc to be educated, theve will be 1,000 new schools wanted in the Bt. Petersburg district, V.floo In that of Novgorod, and, not to 'mention other instances, as many as . r >,ooo in that of Charkow. Raising a Crop of New Hair. It was one of the by-laws of Hcart ache's Heavenly Hair Raiser that It be used liberally before retiring, rubbing St well into the scalp. Just before lie went to bed that night the man bolted the back door, put the cat in the wood shed, came in whistling the "Fatinitza" waltz, danced up to the clock-shelf and pouring out a handful of what lie sup posed to he his fertilizer, he mopped it all over his scalp and stirred it well in around the roots of she little hedge of hair at the back of his neck. The glue Ixittle, by an unearthly coin cidence, was nearly the same shape and size as the hairsap bottle. He went to bed. " George." said his wife, turning her face to the wall, " that stuff you put on ycur hair smells like a pan of soap grease." " Perhaps I hail better go upstairs and sleep," snarled George. "You're mighty sensitive! You wouldn't ex pect that a man can put stuff on his head that will nak his hair grow and make it smell lixe essence of winter green, would you P" They went to bed mad as Turks. This particular bald-headed man, like a good many other bald-headed men, hail to get up and build the fires. When lie arose [next morning the sun peeped in at the window and saw the pillow cling to the back of his head like a great white chignon. At lirst he did not realize his condition; lie thought t must have caught on a pin or shirt button. It looked ridiculous, and he would throw it back on ttie bed before his wife saw it, so be caught it quickly by one end and " yanked." "Gii! Ob! What's been goin' on here!" and he began to claw at his sc.- u like a lunatic. His wife sprang up froui her couch and began to sob hysterical Iv. " Oh, don't, George! What is it? What's the matter?" George was darn ing arxiut the room, the pillow now dangling by a few hairs, his scalp covered with something that looked like sheet copper, while the air was redolent of war.ike expletives, as if a dictionary had exploded. With! a woman's instinct the poor wife took in the situation at a glance, and explained: " It is the glue!" The bald-headed man sat down in a chair and looked at her a moment in contemptuous silence, and then uttered the one expressive word : "Giue!" Now began a series of processes and experiments, unheard of in the annals of chemistry. "Jane, you must soax it off with warm water. I've got to go to L'tica to-day." " I can't George," she returned, in a guilty tone; " it's waterproof." "Yes; I might have known it; and I s'posc it's fireproof, Ux>, ain't it?" He scratched over the smrxitii plating with his finger nails. " It's hard as iron," he said. " Yea—lie said it was good g.ue," re plied she, innocently. "Can't you skin it off with your razor, George?" " Don't bo a bigger fool than you are, .lane. Get me that coarse file on the woodshed." It may be imagined what followed, and now as the bald-lit aded man sits in his office, he never removes his hat. for his entire skull is a howiing waste of blistered desert, relieved here and there by oases of black court plaster. Syra cuse 7Y me*. A Knowing Bog, Anecdotes of dogs abound. Perhaps nine out of ten which appear in the public prints arc manufactured. Captain Marryatt and Alphonse Kane made them in quantity. Marryatt's best was about the Newfoundland dog who, hav ing half a dozen hats to carry in his moutli, assorted them as to size, shoving one into the other until he made a nest of them, and thus showed his superior iuteliigcncc. Here is a story about a dog which seems authentic, as it is vouched for by the owner of the animal and a numoer of newsdealers. The dog belongs to suburban New York, where the h uses are far apart. Buster's master taught him six months ago to fetch a New ;York daily paper, which the newsdeaier left at the garden gate, some 100 yards from the house. Buster did the work punctually and with groat intelligence up to a recent date. Since that time, however. Buster has brought to his master not only his own particu lar paper, but all the newspapers, irre spective of politics, which had been left at neighbors' doors within the area of ahalf-miic. This became such a nuis ance and caused so much trouble that Busier now goes muzzled until nine o'clock in the morning, at which time it is supposed that all the newspapers have been secured by their legitimate owners. This same Buster has. however, one very excellent trait. When he was a puppy, wanting to be petted, he never would allow any one to keep their hands in their pix kets. A hand to him was something to be used to fondle him with. Now that he is three years old, he still believes that human hands are out of place in pockets. No matter, then, who Is seen by Buster with bis hands in iiis pockets, he has them re moved by the dog. He insists on insert ing iiis head and nose under the person's arm and forcing the hand out of the pocket. This trait of Buster's, uncom fortable for adults, is, of course, very advantageous in regard to the small boys in the family, as the dog never permits one them to keep his hands In his pockets. Perhaps, If dogs were quite generally trained for this particular purpose, they would be invaluable. The Battle ef the Elks. A Now York Ilerni/i oorrrespotideiit accompanied General Crook and several other gentlemen on a hunting excursion in Wyoming Territory. The results of the iiunt as a whole are best Bummed up hy the following "bag of (fame," much of which wan brought through to Omaha and points beyond: Four boars, eighteen buck elk, with magnificent antlers; sixteen mule deer, ten ante lopes, grouse and sage hens without number. This passage from the corro- H pendent's letter will be found interest ing reading: At General Crook's suggestion it was decided that owing to the abundance of the game, a fact amply proved, the party should only kill such quantities as could be eaten or transported to their friends, and not leave it to lie or rot on the plains, as is frequently the case when game is abundant. As a result of this determination not a single cow or calf was numbered among the elg killed by the party. When it is known that in the moun tains or on the plains the hunter was frequently within 150 or SSOO yards from herds of elk, numbering from fifty to 500, the wisdom of Genera] Crook's sug gestion is seen. The habits of the elk have thus far been little known, but it was the fortune of memixTsof our party, both on the initial day of the hunt and Inter, to remain concealed for hours in the neighborhood of and occasionally almost in the rnidst of large herds of these animals, with which the moun tains were thronged. It was discovered that each herd of elks was controlled by a few bucks, which proved to be those animals able to maintain the mast' ry over all the other bucks. The proportion of large horned bucks was smail, perhaps one to every twenty-five animals, but there are frequently four or five bucks seen in a herd of this number, the question of superiority not having been settled. Sucii instances, however, were always accompanied by terrific fights between the bucks for the mastery, in which not un frequently large pieces were broken off their magnificent antlers, and in one instance we found a buck whom con tinued fights had left with but one soli tary stump as an apology for a horn, but this veteran was still game. One mem t>er of our party succeeded by per sistent labor and caution on one occa sion in approaching within two hundred yards of a band of not less than one hundred. There were four bucks in the band, three standing outside, not yet willing to acknowledge def.-at and leave the band, and yet whom the fourth had evidently driven out. The conqueror wandered proudly around through the band, shaking his towering horns at the outsiders as if to invite them to return and renew the combat. Finally one of the tucks advanced and a sight was witnessed which it is not often the lot of a hunter, even in the far West, to witness. The two animals came savagely together, their heads striking with t loud report. There was a locking of horns, several fierce plunges, a terrific struggle which lasted for some minutes, the outsider being again van quished and driven out, peveral tips having been broken off bis horns. The defeated buck was completely ex hausted, his tongue protruding and his head down, and withdrawing to a point 300 yards from the band he laid down. The watching sportsman decided at once that the broken antlers of the defeated buck would form an interesting trophy and drawing a bead on the.animal he shot him dead. The hwan. Swans generally pair for life, their whole behavior offering a beautiful ex ample of conjugal fidelity. The two birds show the greatest affection for each other, always swimming in com pany and caressing one another with their bills and necks in the most inter esting manner; and should either be attacked, the other will show fight in ' the most vigorous manner, though, of course, the male is the most powerful and courageous. Both birds help to prepare the nest, the male chiefly gather ing the materials, while the female seems to take tbe.chief part in the actual con struction. A swan's nest is an enormous affair, !cing built up of a large mass of coarse water planU as a foundation, which is lined with finer grasses. In this six to nine eggs are generally laid, which are, of course, very thick in the shell and generally of a dirty white •wlor, sometimes dirty pale green. The imo of incubation has been differently staled, but we believe Bcchstein to be right in fixing it et thirty-five days, though some have said forty-two. The yonng, when hatched, are very thickly covered with down, and are generally taken to the water by the mother when only a day or two old. There they an watched over by both parents with the greatest care until grown enough to pro vide for themselves. A brief descrip tion of the principal varieties of swans will lie sufficicnt.— llluntraied Bookon Poultry. The Mangereu Hare. Some one was telling a story of a lion hunt in Offenbach's presence—a story in which, evidently, he took but little interest. " Bah!" he said, at list, with a yawn; " the lion is a much overrated beast. Kveu the timid bare nan, on occasion, be formidable to man." "Ob, come, now!" said everyone. " Yes, I mean what I say," replied Offenbach; when one has eaten too much of.him." The ladies wear their hats very large this year and their bonnets very small. As usual, they wear their bonnets on the street and their hats at the theater. —New Haven Register.