THF FASHIONS.
Turbans are still in favor.
The fashion in children's suits varies
but little.
Solid dark colors prevail in the latest
styles of hosiery.
AU dresses for little girls are now
j made high in the neek.
Some of the new black stockings have
red hands woven into them.
The "washerwoman's overekirt" is
worn with very showy dresses.
I Fluid stockings are the rage, and the
Maegregor colors are favorites.
The hoots worn by little girls are
higlu'r than those of last season.
Black gloves are always in order, and
are worn this season more than ever.
Silver is now produced in delicate bufl
tints, so as to lie a perfect imitation of
batnlxx).
The newest gold cloth is of fine net,
wrought with leaves and blossoms and
bright colore.
Renyon is a new shade of coppery yel
low that is very handsome and luminous
Ibr evening wear.
Some of the new chemisettes are
Blade of rows of lace placed witli tho
•dgc pointing upwards.
Military-looking mantles with double
in front for young ladies, and even
ftor school-girls, are in favor.
I The new packs of cards that I)e la !
ißue lias sent over have backs in a cash- ,
■Kmi're pattern with that blending of ,
Hcoiur which just now is the rage.
| The most fashionable low shoe for the !
HFhouse is go low that it would appear
Hs difficult to keep it upon the fix it
A new device for a hridemaid's pres
ent is a silver arrow with the initials of
the bride and bridegroom in gold.
I The latest freak in finishing a basque
is t" cut the lower edge into leaves and
'llnsi rt a pleating between the leaves.
■ Surtouts are especially meant for the
■Btrei t. hut are often worn in the house,
■hough not made as part of house dresses.
1 Bridemaids sometimes wear short
©bosses made of mull, trimmed with
embroidery or with Langucdoc lace.
| The belt which once went all round
tin > waist is now seen in front only, and
■con nothing will be left of it but the
bii'-k'e.
I lairge sleeves form the conspicuous
feature of the new cloaks this season,
fur -trimmed garments taking precedence
in that respect.
£, Note paper with eoniie designs in
■bronze at tho head of the page is a new
JfWrinkle, but is not likely to bcconsider
*d "good form."
■ On e of the nio-t pleasing features of
■ lb. present toilettes is the profusion of
pjjjac'. Cascades of it run and ripple all
Hwver the costumes.
B The fancy for red is displayed this
■k*on in cloaks made of fine scarlet
migloth and trimmed with a new braid
called vermicelli.
ft ° n one of tlie French pattern bonnets
tihis season is a coronet of eight hutn
ning birds, each in its nest. The Ixmnet
fc called the aviary.
■ Street costumes are now generally
IBsadi np with warm linings, so that a
wrap may lie dispensed
fAyith as long as possible.
I T1 le first tiling to do after buying a
lead s-made plush jacket is to remove
.ybbou' two-thirds of the wadding, which
Mi quilted into the lining.
B Tl "' solitaire jewel for tinger-rings
fu* bas ceased to he in favor. Instead, two
■■ -or three stones are set slanting on a
. benvy gold band, or a blazing diamond
to guarded by two pearls.
9 For plain wraps just now the choice
Bos between th" serviceable diagonal
SOtll with insid' fleece and the loosely
pven, yet heavy cheviots.
■ present whim is placing a genuine
inning-wliia . in-tic smaller model of
ke, in the drawing nxnn, among other
■eels pertaining to a picturesque past.
Btoi proper paper-knife to accompany
the ■ck and Itomnn trifles seen on a
tody's secretary i- a doitb',. edged dagger,
I a little classic figure on the handle,
ethyst, bronze, myrtle green, nnd
t are the colors that arc the most
Ivein plush. Th" lu st qualities are
Ik. with smooth deep pile M hunvy
it of moleskin velvet,
sre is nothing " patchy " in the new
gements of two materials in
. As a rule one fabric is used fid
pper part of the costume and an l
for the skirts, though this rule hat
fpeptiona when plush, or broondnJ
or drapery, are necessary or
the lower skirt.
■
Medical and Surgical Journal
I used to think thnt any present at
to find relief tor shop-girls, ex
-0 ill-health from long-continued
ig, is impracticable, and that it
1 than probable thr.t the matter
jain lie quietly shelved. Dr.
8. Tracy, ono of the Sanitary In
s of the New York Board of
, has lately made an investigation,
instructions from the Ixiaril, into
ent of tho injuries complained of,
ind tho girls and their parents,
as tho employers, averse to gi v
r authentic information. Ho so
id, and the result is tlmt tho in
tion was abandoned. Tho vigor
fitat ion recently begun by the
<i Lancet, in regard to tho treat
f shop-girls in London, has been
r fruitless ol roaulto.
I ho Motu Dialect.
There or* many onrioaiHes met with
during n lifelong study of languuge.
Herodotus understood the foot when ho
said of the Persians, "They had one
peculiarity which, though they were not
aware of it themselves, is notorious to
us ; all those words which are expressive
of personal or of any other distinction
terminate in the Doric aati, which is the
same as the lonic aignta; and attentive
observation will further discover that all
the names of Persians end, without ex
ception, alike." Having fulfilled a
twelve-mouths' engagement on tho sub
ject ot language, I will only speak in
brief of ono of tho characteristics of the
Motu dialect of New Guinea, which is
tho duplicating of words. Tho word
aniani means to eat, or fond ; bukibaki,
cane armlet; dimuradimura, very
smnll ; dodo, high tide ; htihn, bananas;
kcrnkcru, to-morrow ; katikati, doublo
teeth; luahta, dig; tilafailamataila, very
difficult; paipai, call ; rrvarcva, tut
tooed ; tiliaili, flying-squirrel; tnutau,
distant; unauna, small bananas ; varo
vu.ro, scar. I have arranged a list of
of about 100 of these repeated words,
and have compared them in order to un
certain the general meaning or cause of
repeating tho tonos. It seems that the
idea must be to increase tho strength of
the word by speaking it a second time,
us a child would do in its demands for
attention. There is one practice among
tho natives of New Guinea, as also
among our own aborigines, which seems
to sustain this hypothesis. I refer to tl:u
plan of explaining distance. Tho one
giving directions will make a wave
motion with his hand in the desired di
rection, then repeat the action from its
terminus. We find this repetition of
tones more among aborigines and chil
dren than among adult civilization.
Progressive Journalism.
A Bt. Louis correspondent says : The
other day I met here Col. George Knupp,
proprietor of tho daily Jtrpublican.
He is a medium-sized, gray-haired, rud
dy-faced gentleman, not apparently over
60 years old—quiet, interesting, pleasing
in maimer. He was with his large and
genial editor-in-chief, Mr. Hyde, both
of tliom enjoying a mutual interview
and a lean against tho iron railing along
side the magnificent architectural pile,
the •' Republican building." Our con
versation turned on the past and pres
ent of journalism, and their contrast.
Col. Kuapp indulged in this interesting
bit of retrospect:
" Fifty-throe years ago I begun with
the Republican. It was a weekly then.
We linil nothing but a wooden hand
press. Our city circulation was less than
'2OO. I delivered the pajx-r* myself. It
took two stout men several hours each
week to work off on that press our
small city and conntry edition. Tho
entire edition was only 000 or Too. Our
office was in a little old frame building
then."
" And what is the statistical difference
now, Colonel?" was asked.
" Oh, it can hardly be stated in words.
You sec this morning's issue (cqx'Tiing a
copy). Well, our new press prints luith
sides at once, ami cuts tho pages and
pastes them together and folds them up
as this is, at tho rate of 30,000 copies an
hour. I have thrown up the job of de
livering our city edition, as I've grown
old, and concluded to let the poor boys
'tend to that."
TSic Carefnl Irish Law breaker.
No Irishman ever breaks the law with
out having one eye watching ov -r his
shoulder, to he sure his way of cscajie is
open. T rememWr when I first wen!
over a characteristic story was current.
A man wns nrulcr sentence of death for
some bad crime. A gentleman whom lis
used to live near chanced to know that
the man had meant to shoot liirn. H
w-cnt to the jail the day lujforo the man
was to 1M- liangcd, and said to him : " You
aiight as well tell me. I'nt, since it can
now make no difference to you, why
you did not shoot me ; for I know
you meant to do it?" The gentleman
was a eapital shot, and always carried
arms, and was known to be very
resolute. The answer was : "Well,
your Honor, it's true* it will make uc
odds to me now ;so I'll tell ye. I had
ye covered twice from behind a ditch,
and as I was going to pull the trigger
the thonght went through my head, ' By
heavens, if I miss him, it's all up with
Zie.'"— Afacmiikui'a Magazine.
I)R. J. MARION HIMS, who has re
turned from Europe, tells n New York
reporter : "There never was anything
in the world that oxciU'd such an inter
est as Tanner's fast. Everywhere I went
in England, at the tables of tho aristoc
racy, among all kinds of people, nothing
else wns Ulkcd of. First it was Tanner's
fast, and then Tanners subsequent
feast. Tho subject pervaded all classes.
When I was in Paris I sent him tiiat tel
egram to encourage him. I was satis
fied lie was au honest man. Bui ha
mode mistakes. I wonld not have lot
him go to the park every day. I would
not have let idle visitors go to see him
every day, And so use up his nervous
energy. When I went to London the
day after I sent the cable telegram I
found thnt half the people did not l>e
lieve in tho fast simply because of th
way in which it was conducted."
HOUftKnOLD.
A few slices of potatoes put in tho lord
while frying doughnuts will keep them
from burning.
Buffs: One egg. tcnspfxinftil any
powder yeast, one gill milk, one
pint flour, salt, and butter size of a wal
nut.
Plain corn bread: One pint of sour
milk, two eggs, one teaspoon soda, salt,
make soft enough with corn meal to
pour out.
The color of ferns can lie preserved, we
are told, by dipping them in strong
brine colored with verdigris—in short
by pickling them before drying.
Sago pudding: Two tnhlespoonfulß
sago, four or six apples, four tablespoon- ;
fills sugar, one quart water, flavor with
wine and rose water, hake in a deep j
dish.
Tart paste: One-half eup water, one
half cup of lard, white of one egg, threo
tablespoonfuis white sugar, one teaspoon
ful maun of tartar, one-half of sodu,
flour.
Ella's cake: Two eggs, one cup ol
sugar, two cups milk, one-half cup but
ter, one tenspnonful soda, one and one
half cups flour, flavor with lemon of
vanilla.
The following recipe makes a mosl
agreeable wash for clearing the complex
ion: Benzoin, two ounces; pure alco
hol, one pint. A tablcspoonful to a ba
sin of water.
In washing silk handkerchiefs wash
in water in which the best white castild
soap has been lathered. Then snap be
tween the lingers until nearly dry, fold
and press under a weight. Never iron.
Spice cake: One-half cup molasses,
one-half cup of sugar, butter size of an
egg, one egg, one-half cup sour milk,
salt, one teaspoontul soda, one cup ol
raisins, chopped, two cups flour, spies
to taste.
Ginger cookies: One-half eup mo
lasses, one cup sugar, one-half cup sour
miik. one cup part lard and part butter,
one teaspoonful soda, salt, one and one.
half teaspoontuls ginger, flour to roll
out and cut.
Stewed oysters: One quart oysters
and one pint of water; boil until oysteri
are done, then strain, putting the liquor
back on the stove and adding to it on*
pint of milk, piece of butter and salt and
pepper. Heat ladling hot, ;>our over
oysters and serve.
To remove grease spots from bright
colored carpets, scrape French fuller's
earth on the spot, let it remain several
h"Ur*. then brush it off with a clean
brush and apply a hot flat iron over a
piece of ordinary brown wrapping pa
in ;• unti. all the grease is on the paper.
Doughnuts: Two eggs beaten with
one cup of fine granulated sugar, sail
and nutmeg; add throe toaspoonfuiil
baking powder or two of cream tartaf
and one of soda; stir into the egg and
sugar, then add one cup miik and stir in
fl'iiir at once. Mix not very hard; il
they -lcuild soak tat, roll in a little
more.
Delicious pumpkin pie: Pumpkin
the size of a two-quart howl, steamed
and sifted, three pints of milk, one cup
of eream or two tnhlrspoonfuls of butter,
four eggs, qunrter of a teasponnful of
cinnamon, the same of ginger, one-half a
nutmeg, sugar and salt to the taste.
Bake in a slow oven one hour and a
half.
Learn to cook without scattering
about, for your own comfort and ease,
and without gathering many utensils
around. After a while thought and
practice will simplify the work, and one
is surprised to see how few tilings are
necessary to work efficiently and well,
and how much confusion and running is
saved by a little management.
Strip barberries, cover them with wa
ter. put tlmtii over the fire and be care
ful they do not burn: don't boil them,
tint, when cooked squeeze and strain
them carefully; tonne pint, of warm
juice add two pints of sugar; put tho
sweetened juice into a pitcher, which
pitcher put into hot water until the
juice is dissolved; then bottle it.
A nice way to cook chickens: Cut
the chicken up, put it in a pan and cover
it with water; let it stew as usual,
when done, make a thickening of eream
and flour, adding a piece of butter and
pepper nnd salt; have made and baked a
pair of shortcakes made as for pie crust,
hut roll thin and cut in small squares;
this is much better than chicken pie and
more simple to make. The crusts should
he laid on a dish and the chicken gravy
put over it while Ixitli are hot.
Cream pie: Outside—three eggsjono
eup white sugar, one cup of flour, one
half teaspoon saleratus, one teaspoontul
cream of tartar, nnd lemon to suit the
taste. Inside—three eggs, one eup of
white one cup flour, one pint o
milk, scald the milk, and when scalding
our in the mixture, let it boil, win I
old, add a little lemon, cut the pie in
uilves and bake on separate plates
I tread the mixture on evenly.
Justice Smith said, on opening liis
court at Connorsville, Tcnn.: "William
Henry Smith is arraigned for assaulting
his father." The magistrate had on the
previous day knocked Ills father down
with n club, and it ashiinsclf thnt lie
was now arraigning. He continued:
" The evidence is conclusive, and I'm
not sure hut I ought to send myself to
jail for ten days. But as this is my first
offense, and I certainly had a good deal
of provocation, I will simply impose n
tine of ten dollars."
MINI).
BT A FOHRKime*.
When I arrived first in the country o
England, my fori igu acquirement of tlie
language did not keep mo from difll
cultioH with Home words and their several
meanings and applications. The old
story of u person situated as I wus, and
the word " box," made me escape from
mistakes in that word. But another
word was as difficult for me. It was the
word "mind." All the association I
had before of that word were of the
intellect—the soul; naturally, therefore,
I was surprised and confused by the use
of this word in circumstances utterly
incompatible with my previous ideus !
Largo as the power of the mind nniHt
bo as the nj>irit, 1 found its power as a
ward almost equally great! Its uso I
first discovered ut Calais, where I com
menced the use of my knowledge of the
English language. That I spoke it well
was shown by the Commissionaire ad
dressing mo as an Englishman, for, as
we passed along the pier in the dark to
the Dover boat, he constantly railed
out "Mind do rope!" This, at first,
puzzled me, but I have found lie meant
" avoid do rape." I have since found
the English never "take care." They
alwuys "mind/" "Mind what yon
are about!" "Mind your own busi
ness, and don't mind mo 1" "Now,
then, stupid ! mind your eye 1" exclaims
vho cabman who has nearly run over
you. " Mind how you get down !'' says
a polite omnibus conductor. "Mind
and don't miss the train !" Those in
stances might be increased ad infinitum,
but aro enough to show one's mind the
different uses of the word.
But notwithstanding all this telling
people to "mind," there is a counter
phrase, quite as often used. It is "n>n r
mind t" If a little child falls down, it
is told to "never mind!" If you lose
anything, you are told to " never mind!"
In fact, I found in England you are con
stantly cautioned against evils and ac
cidents, by being told to "mind!" And
when the ills of misfortune do come on
you, you are immediately told the con
trary—you aro to " never mind !" This,
doubtless, has a go<sl effect on character,
producing carefulness to guard from UI,
and a stoical, or philosophical bearing
of it, when the caro taken has proved
unavailing.
This littlo treatise on the word "mind'
will, I trust, l>c useful to other foreigners,
who may come to England, as I did, with
some knowledge of the language. I
recommend them to study the use of
the word "mind" before they come
over, so that they may " mind" and
make no mistakes. But if they do not
take care, or "mind," and do make
aome— why then—' 4 never mind !"
A htranop. story of the hardships ot
Russian captivity is related by a (I. r
man engineer names! Neumeyer. He
was busily engaged in superintending
the construction of a now railway in the
South of Runsia, when he saw himself
suddenly surrounded bv a body of police
and made prisoner. On being shown a
photograph portrait, ho innocently ex
claimed : " Where have you got this
picture from ? I havo never had my
likeness taken." This extraordinary re
semblance of his to Louis Hartmann, or
rather Wolknff (the allcgwd author of the
Moscow attempt on the Emperor's life),
and a scar on his right hand, brought
poor Neumeyer into a serious predica
ment. He was put in chains, taken to
Moscow, submitted to a wearisome in
vestigation, then dragged across the
country on foot to Warsaw, with no
nourishment other than bread, eabbago
and siKiiled fish on a journey of forty
four days. Alter spending aliout six
weeks more in prison on bread and
water, surrounded by a low set of crimi
pals awaiting their transsudation to Si
beria, he succeeded in forwarding a let
ter to the Governor General of Poladc,
whose brother had formerly employed
Neumeyer on his estates in Esthonin.
Thanks to Count Kotzebue's interces
sion, Count Is iris Mdikoff allowed the
poor victim to return to Germany in a
jienuiless condition, covered with ver
min, and wearing the same clothes in
which ho had boou seized, and which
had never leon washed.
His Breakfast Order.
Mr. Set cm up came down stairs to a
10-o'cloek breakfast with a vacant coun
tenance, and a backward tendency in
the hair that made his two eyes nolle.
He sat down at the table, and, picking
up a knife and fork, glared iu uneasy
wonder at something in the platter lie
foro him. It had evidently lieen fried in
butter, and was intended for food. Mr.
Hetemnp harpooned it with his fork, and
lift.h! it up bodily, gazing at it with cver
inerenaing wonder.
" What under the sun," ho exclaimed
at last, " is this thing?"
"Well," replied his patient wife, with
just a shadow of a sigh, "it looks like
your new soft-felt hat,, and that is what
I thought it was, but you pulled it out
of your pocket when you come home
this moruing, ami said it was a porter
house steak, and you wanted it broiled
for breakfast. You needn't give mo any
of it; I'm not hungry."
And Mr. Betemup, who was just wild
to know what else he said when he cams
home, and what tirao it w as, for the life
of him didn't dare to ask.
JUNKN ANI) THK UAIIY.
BT FAWNT BATIiOHD.
"It seem* to me," Haul Junes to his
wife, who was walking around the room, ;
with the baby in her arum, "that women j
make a great deai of unnecessary fus
about putting a child to sleep. Now, I
would chuck him into bed, and let him
aquall it out."
"It seems to me," said Mrs. Jones,
quietly, " that all men aro born idiots."
Jones couldn't, for the life of him, see
what that fact had to do with putting
the baby to sleep, but he wisely held his !
peace.
The next evening, Mr. Jones earns
into the sitting-room, where Jones was
reading the market reports, and Haid :
" J am gouig down to mother's after
that recipe for yeast. Baby is asleep,
but, if he should wake, I presume you
could put him to sleep again—men are
so handy with babies."
"All right 1 I'll put him to sleep
again iu less than no time ; run along,
my dear," said Jones, cheerfully.
Mrs. Jones vanished, and Jones re
sumed bis paper.
Boon after bis wife's departure, Jones
beard a little premonitory grunt from
the vicinity of tbo bedroom.
" Hullo 1 what's that ? " exclaimed, as
he assumed a listening attitude.
no soon found out, for the juvenile
member of tbo Jones family set tip a
series of yells that would have done
credit to a prima donna.
Jones dropped liis paper, rushed into
the bedroom, s< ized bis offspring, and
carried him wrong end up back into the
sitting-room.
Tbo suddenness of the attack, and the
unusual position, so astonished his babv
ship that he forgot to serearn for a few
seconds, but when Junes righted him
up, and offered him a pair of sleeve-but
tons for playthings, Johnny shut hi*
eyes, opened his mouth, and liegan
again with renewed vigor and determina
tion.
Jones abandoned the sleeve-buttons,
and tried to " cuddle " the baby up af
ter tbo maternal fashion, hut baby stern
ly refused to " cuddle and, with a de
gree of energy for which Jones wa*
wholly unprepared, and which evinced
a total lack of reepect for the " author
of lus being," Johnny grubbed the in
ternal whiskers with both hands and
howled louder than ever.
.Toms released himself, smoothed his
cherished whiskers, dcfiosited his heir
on the sofa, retreated to a safe distance,
rubbed bis face carefully, smiled in a
▼ague kind of away, as if he didn't
know exactly where the fun came in,
and wondered " what the dickens Maria
would do under similar circumstances."
Bab; put his fist into his mouth, and
looked as if he wondered what his pater
nal ancestor would do next
"There, now," exclaimed Jones, im
mensely relieved, " he is papa's pitty it
tie sonny, so he is."
"Sonny" promptly resented this by
a long-drawn yell that struck terror to
tbo soul of bis dismayf dparent.
Jones was at bis wit's end. He grew
reckless. He whistled to that baby ;he
aung ; lie made faces ; he cut a series of
antics that would have driven a bullet
dancer mad witli envy ; but all to no
purjioso. Baby had evidently taken a
contract to furnish so much yell in a
given time, and was bound to do the
square thing.
When Mrs. Jones returned, she found
a demoralized-looking man wandering
around the house, with a baby on one
arm, while with hi* disengaged hand he
wiped the perspiration from his manly
brow with the tail end of the baby'*
night-dress.
"It *eenis to me," remarked Mrs.
Jones, as she took the baby, "that
men make a great deal of unnecessary
fuss alsuit putting a baby to sleep.
Now, I—"
The front door closed with a bang-
Jones was on his way down street to
"see a man."
NEW YORK appears to t>o the only
State where the pressure of isipulnt.ion
toward the cities, which was in 1875 the
most significant feature of its State cen
sus, continues. The advance in the pop
ulation of New Y'ork city from 942,292
in 1870 to 1,500,000 in 1880 > out of all
proportion larger than the growth of
any Western city, and it has almost all
taken place since 1875, when the popu
lation was but 1,041,888. The increaa
now reported is scarcely credible. It is
matched, however, by the growth of
Brooklyn, fr>m 395,009 in 1870 to 554,093
in 1880, with 482,493 as kn intermediate
figure in 1875. By comparison, Cincin
nati—lß7o, 210,239; 1880, 252,000
makes an advance altogether smaller;
and Chicago, with an incroaae from
298,977 in 1870 to 502,000 now, is the
only Western city which equals the
Cwth of the cities about Now York
bor. St Louis, which had a private
census of its own in 1876, returning a
population of 498,192, is put in a ridicu
lous position by the present Federal
census, giving it 875,000, as against
810,864 in 1870. Philadelphia, whose
census in 1876 gave 817,448, fares letter,
as it is now found to have a population
of 842,000. In 1870 its population was
674,022. Pittsburgh shows an increase
on an even-larger scale, jumping from
*6.076 is 1870 to 153.888 for 188a
Heating If la Wife.
The story was all over town. Every
body was talking al>/ut it It waa too
bawl, they said. What was too bad f
Why, the new minister ha/1 been I/eat
ing hia wife! Was it possible ? Yea ;
there oonld l>e no doubt about it. Mra
8., who lives next door, heard a shriek
al/out 10 o'clock last night— a woman's
shriek from a chain her in the parsonage.
Bho looked across, and through the cur
tain she could see that a man and woman
were running about the room in great
excitement, ib-was flourishing a stiek,
and striking with it. The blows oonld
t>a plainly heard. And as he struck, she
screamed.
Mrs. B. could hardly sleep that night,
she was no excited by w hat she ha/1 seen.
Hhe was up early next morning. Bhe
hurried through her breakfast, and then
started out—to see the poor abused min
ister's wife, and c/jmfort her ? Not a
hit of it. Bhe went to Elder A.'s, found
the family at the table, and told tha
, news. Then she footed on to Elder B.'s
and Deacon C.'s, and over half the town.
The half that she ha/1 not time to call
on so/m heard it from the other h Mlf.
and before noon there was a great sx
citement in Ballville.
The officers of the church dix-ussed
the matter with heavy hearts. Such
disgraceful oonduct could not lie en
dure/1. Bomething must ho done. Hut
what ? Call at once on the minister and
bin wife ami inquire into the matter?
Oh, no ; that would not be dignified and
official. Beside, there could l>e no doubt
slsiut it. Did not Mrs. B. see the heat
ing with her own eyes? Bo they called
a meeting of the session, and summoned
the minister and his wife, he to an
swer to a charge of unmix/is t/rial* con
duct, and she to testify in the case.
They came, greatly puzzled and sur
prised. The case was gravely statz-d by
the senior elder, when the culprit and
witness hurst into a laugh. Che king
themselves when they i.aw how serioua
and sad the session looked, they ex
plained :
The minister's wife, though an excel
lent woman who loved everybody, espe
cially her husband, did not love rata.
But, the house having l/een vacant ft*
some time, the rats ha/1 taken posses
sion. When they went to their charo
lx-r, a huge rodent ran under the tied.
The wife screamed ; the husband caught
up a stick and tried to kill the intrudes.
Every time he struck at and missed tha
rat the lady screamed again. How
could she help it? It was an exciting
scene, and must have looked very funny
to their neighbors, who were watching
through the curtained window. They
laughed heartily when it was all ova*
and the rat waa dead, and they could
not halp laughing whenever tHkry
thought about it. \
The Rf '>n were in a fix. They w.-ra
down 01. In. S. for making fools of
tliem. They - " d her, " Wliy didn't
you go over t minister's and make
sure al/out I natter before you re
ported it ?" ..„<1 she retorted, "Why
didn't you go and inquire into it 1/cforw
you called a meeting?" And all tha
town that talked about how the miniate
abused his wife is talking about w hat an
awful gossip Mr . S. is, and how sba
fooled the elders < f our church.
lam mortified ami disgusted. Is thcia
any way to cure these mischief- leaking
gossips ? Would it lte right to hang
them? It seems to me tbnt the passage
in the third chapter of .Tium sal/out tba
tongue ought to IHJ print/ <1 in biglcttes
on a card and hung up in all our churches.
Don't you think so?
A Mn*hro</m Metropolis.
A strong force of Unoompahgre Utea
camped last summer on the site of Gun
nison, their tepees now being replaced
jby 300 houses, w ith a population of 1,000
| or mo P. A numb/ rof these struct urea
are occupied with stocks of goods worth
$40,000 to $75,000 each, from which salea
arc made to the extent of SIO,OOO to $30,-
[ 00 r i>cr month each. The Bunk of Gun
| nison is a striking example of the rapid
| creation of solid commercial institutions
in a wilderness, its directory represent
ing §10,000,000 of capital, and compris
ing such men as Gov. Tabor, Colorado's
bonanza king. A $15,000 court house,
$20,000 hotel, and $7,000 public school
house, 1/ceidc several churches and ex
oelh nt husinesa blocks in course of erec
tion, arc a few of the surprises in thia
three-months-old town. But the strang
est of all are real-estate values. The lot
occupied by the Bank of Gunnison,
which cost S4O last fall, is now worth
$1,500. Across the street from the bank
is a log cabin that cost about SIOO, and
its occupants pay their S4O monthly
rental cheerfully. Jack Haverly, our
ecoeutric theatrical manager, 1/ought
something like a thousand lots and a
neighlzoring ranch in May for $30,000,
and could probably double his money,
by their sale now. Late last fail tha
Gunnison post-office war the unimport
ant occupant of a dry-goods box. It now
handles some 3,000 letters daily, and
daily receives regularly 200 different
publications.— Gunniiton ((hi) letter
to JYU> LOR* Wcrld.
IT is charged L/y counsel for the prose
cution in the Currio caao at Marshall,
Texas, that at least una of the jurors who
brought in the verdict ol acquittal wag
fambadL