FOR TilE FAIR SEX. Winter Honiirli, Gold enters largely into the materials of millinery thin winter. It is seen in the ciselc velvets as a background for black, red, or olive raised figures; in cloth of gold for crowns; in gold ribbon for strings; threads of gold are wrought on satin in rich brocades; a great deal of gold galloon is used again; and there are gold bends on all parts of the bon net, the small ones being wrought in net on the crown, while large faceted gold beads edge the front of the brim. Gold lace is also used, but less than the other gilt garnitures. There are few gold brooches or similar ornaments, except the long nail or other ,iong pin used as a bonnet rest. Dark velvet, plush, and brocaded bonnets worn in the daytime for visit ing, at church, or at afternoon recop ti ons, are most often trimmed witli gold. Silver trimmings, and the darker steel bead ornaments, are most effective on pale blue nnd black bonnets, and are seldom combined with other colors. For full-dress white bonnets the beads most used are opal tinted—not pure white pearl, but iridescent—and these are on wide laces for strings and for covering brims, while the crown is wrought in set figures with these beads, and even the marabout pom pons stuck low on the left side are tipped with iridescent bits of pearl. The small close shapes that do not conceal the hair are preferred for dress bonnets, while a poke front, especially the new shape that pokes down rather than up ward, is chosen for general wear in the long fur beavers or plush fabrics. Opal tinted and white plush bonnets arc chosen for full dress receptions, the opera, etc. A new fancy for colored dress bonnets of light blue, pink, or cream-color is to almost cover the bon - net with the smallest ostrich tips, hav ing a row pointing forward on the brim and a similar row turned down ward on the crown ; then, to keep these in place, the whole is veiled with tulle, either pink, blue, or cream, whatever color prevails in the bonnet, and this tulle extends down each side to form strings. There is also an effort to revive the flowers that have been banished for awhile. These are finer than usual this season, and are principally made of plush foliage and flowers that have silken petals. The silken roses in variegated wreaths, or in different shades of red, are very hand some when covering the brim of the bonnet that is finished on the opposite side by a long plume. For instance, the brilliant new red tint, which is bright cardinal, is chosen for the plush crown, large red roses cover the right side otthe brim, and ademi-long plume, shaded from cardinal to pale pink, trims the left side. For more quiet colors young ladies choose black beaver or plush bonnets, edged on [the brim with large faceted jet beads, and the entire trimming is a wreath of crushed roses without foliage, varied through red, yellow and pink; this passes across the top from ear to ear. Smooth broad crowns prevail, but there is also a fancy for shirred crowns of light materials, such as Surah satin, and there are other full crowns that are broadened to foim the scarf which trims the brim; this scarf is sometimes fasten ed by a gilt hook and eye, or else it is shaped into a very iong and flat Alsaeian bow. Strings of ribbon are very much enriched by being bound with plush on one side only. The youngest ladies now wear bonnets, na they are quite as youtuful-looking as round hats; indeed, the only round hats that receive much favor are the beavers with long nap and flaring brim sur rounded with iong piumes, or else trimmed with several short nodding feathers. Importers of Ivondon hats for ladies show many fur bonnets in small sizes, with gay plaid satin or vel vet crowns, while the brims are of seai or other fur. There are also many large pokes and Gainsborough hats of seal ■kin that arc found to be very becoming to young ladies. The novelty of the season, however, is the leopard skin bonnet, made close-fitting, and for its only ornament a leopard's paw with gold claws. The most popular seal turbans have dented crowns and rolling brims, and arc nc/iriy as large as those worn by gentlemen.— Uarptr't Btuar. Kcwianil IVaIM fot Women. Queen Victoria danced several reels at a recent ball at Balmoral. The husband of the loveiy .Jersey Lily, Mr. Edward Langtry, is now in this country on business. In the sums which she receives from her books Miss Hraddon ranks among the half-dozen best-paid writers of fic tion. The queen of Italy is much more pop ular than the king, and the people have made the marguerite the national flower n deference to her name. Miss Kellogg was called before the cur tain at the Imperial Opera house, in St. Petersburg, one evening, twenty times, and in order to empty the house it was found necessary to turn out the lights. In the reopening of a church in Mans field, England, which had been closed for repairs, twenty-four women, who were unable to give money, contributed thirty-five days of bard labor in cleans ing the church. A favorite paragraph with Lucretla Molt, when her£autograpb was asked for albums, was: " in true marriage re lation the independence of the husband and wife is equal, their dependence mu tual and their obligations reciprocal." The law of California provides that the same pa} shall be given for similar work whether done by men or women; and. as a consequence, the women vice-prin cipals in the Bun Frnneisco schools re ceive as much pay ns the male vicc principals. A large gray wolf made a raid on the chickens at Captain Sim Green's, near Greenland, Col., and the captain's daughter, Miss Jessie, went to tiie res cue of the poultry, revolver in hand, and put live bullets through the wolf in quick succession. Three ladies in France wear the rib bon of the legion of Honor —Mile. Dodes, who cut the telegraph wire in 1870; Mmc. Abioot, wife of the mayor of Uson, who defended her house against the Prussians, and Rosa Bonheur, the artist. live other ladies, all of them Sisters ol Charity, possess the decora tion. Miss Jennie Hogan is creating some what of a sensation in Washington as an inspiratior.al poet. She hails from Ver mont, is a brunette oi ordinary height, small feuturcs and a face with a bright expression, though she is not prett.,. She gives exhibitions of her talent ai 1 rhyme on the slightest pretext. Anger. The Emperor Nerva died of a violent excess of anger against a senator who had offended him. Valcntinian, the first Roman emperor of that time, while reproaching with great passion the deputies from the Quadi, a people uf Germany, hurst a blood vessel, and suddenly fell lifeless to tbe ground. " I have seen," said Tourtello, a French medical writer, "two women perish, the one in convulsions, at the end of six hours, and tiie other suflo c .ed in two ays, from giving them selves up to the tran -oris of lury." The celebrated John Hunter fell a sudden victim to a paroxysm of this passion. Mr Hunter, as is familiar to medical readers, was a man of ex traordinary genius, but the subject of violent anger, which, from the defect of early moral culture, he had not learned to control. Suffering during his latter years under a complaint of the heart, his existence w:is in con stant jeopardy from his ungovernable temper; and he had been heard to re mark that " his life was in the hands of any rascal who chose to annoy him." Engaged one day in an unpleasant alter cation with his colleagues in the board room at St. George's hospital, London, he was peremptorily contradicted; he immediately ceased speaking, hurried into an adjoining apartment, and in stantly fell dead. When the fit of anger is of long con tinuance, or frequent recurrence, it fre quently lays the foundation of some most serious and lasting afflictions; thus many cases of palsy, of cpiicpiy, of convulsions and of madness may be traced to violent anger And ungovern able temper. I)r. (Hood cites tbe case cf Charles VI., of France, " who being violently incensed against tbe 1 >uke of Brotagne, and burn ing with a spirit of malice and revenge, could neither eat, drink nor sleep for many days together, and at length be came furiously mad as he was riding on horseback, drawing his sword and striking promiscuously every one who approached him. The disease fixed upon his intellect, nnd accompanied him to his death." Creeping Things. Tlte sight of certain creatures is enough to give us a "crawling" sensa tion. Bare memory of them must be enough to any person who lias traveled in Australia. Jesse Young, the explorer, talks very coolly, however, about tbe bug and snnkc creation in that queer clime. He says: The reptiles are realiy very beautiful; crocodiles in the North, and snakes, liz ards, scorpions and centipedes in the South. I shall not readily forget the sensation I experienced when one night a huge black centipede, eight inches long, crawled upon my neck with his horrible sixty-four legs, and made his way to my feet leisurely, much to my disgust, and though he was probably only a few seconds, I thought him slow. He is in tbe museum at Adelaide, with all the whisky be can drink. Insects are wonderfully prolific mosquitoes nnd flics being particularly abundant. The native children ar sometimes hardly recognizable, so com pletely are they covered with flies, filling their eyes, noses and mouth. When eating it requires a dcxterou maneuvering to get a piece of meat into one's mouth without its complement of flies Spiders are very common, as also are ants, the tarantula being tbe moat for midable of the former, and the bulldog ant the worst species of the latter. These ants are an inch or more in height, and about two inches long. They all fight fiercely, and their sting is not at ail M be desired. They catch hold of your skin with their nippers, bend the body under like a scorpion, and put the sting gently in, leaving tbe venom, and some times the sting itself. When camping near a nest of them, we generally thrust a fire-stick in the hole, which has the effect ol keeping them st home. A Yonthful Warrlsr. The youngest soldier in the Union service during the war was doubtless the only son of Jacob W. Messick, now member of the legislature of Indiana. He enlisted as sergeant in Company A. Forty-seoond Indiana, and took with hit; his son Johnnie, then but nine years ol age, as drummer boy. The lad va present at every action in which the regiment was engaged, and was at tiie last duly mustered out at the mature age of twelve yean. The Keren Chum* Who Beraine Senators Seven young men, early in the war, says a Washington letter, were board era at the Rurnhani house in Omnha. Tlioy were all pushing, driving men. Six of them were inseparable compan ies. The entire company separated in the early days of the war, only to meet afterward as members of the United States Bcnate. The six companion i were William Pitt Kellogg, Spencer, ex-Sen ator from Alabama, Saunders and Pad dock, prominent Senators from Ne braska, and Hilcbcnck and Merrill, ex- Senators from Nebraska. The odd man. who was also a boarder at the same house, was Tipton, also ex-Senator from Nebraska. At the time of the breaking out of the war, Saunders was governor of the Ter litory, Kellogg was chief justice, Pad dock was secretary of the Territory, while the others were interested in various ways in the development of the Territory. Nebraska raised a regiment at the outbreak of the war, and Merrill was its colonel. There was great trouble about appointing a chaplain. Tipton, who was afterward Senator, was a can didate warmly pressed by a band of devoted friends. A "light-of-hand performer, a local i. \urer. was also a hot contestant for the place. Saunders, the governor, who hail the power of appointment, finally, to avoid embarrassment, left the decision to the Federal officials. They assembled with Pitt Kellogg at their head. These lively young men decided to have the two can didates preach sermons in a competitive examination. This was done in the presence of a large crowd. Tipton preached half an hour against an equal ! time by his opponent. There was no ieal contest. Tipton was really a pious man, while the other was a charlatan. Tipton secured the award. Through his services during the war, and his earetul nursing of sick and wounded soldiers, he so endeared himself to the people of Nebraska tbat they made liiin United States Senator nfter the war closed. A Volcano by Might. A correspondent of the New York Tr-itmne gives an account of the erup tion of Mauna I*>a, the only active vol cano of the Sandwich islands: Describ ing the striking scene by night, he rays: A great smoke, highiy illumina ted, was ascending over the southern slope of Mauna i/, in the direction of Kilauea. The clouds to the west of the mountain were almost aflame with light reflected from the Kau flow, which could not be seen from this point. Right in our faces, with not a cloud to ob struct our view, was the burning moun tain side. In the luaimij cra ter the dense smoke, glowing with the light of the mol ten material, was surging back and forth like billows of fire, while now and then a small fountain of lava wouid be thrown above the IcYei of the brink, showing what a boiling, seething mass was below. liowerdown were immense pits and openings, in which the liquid ava itself rou'.d b seen moving, a though endeavoring to break down the wails between, anil rather its forces for more destructive work ; while in various | directions deep fissures could lie marked ■ by the spots of light that were probably ! openings in tbeciust above the fissure j One of these was particularly striking, it being n long line of faint lights from ! the summit, terminating in n great bail : of burning lava, as though an evil eye j from the infernal regions were glaring at us across the black distance. Still lower down and moving along the flank of the mountain, at a very slight angle of declination, was a moderateiy-sised iavn flow that has since attained con siderable proportions. It was without doubt five miles in Irngth, and as the lava seemed to accumulate in a small lake, I watched it all night, Uiinking it might burst out in a large stream di- I rectly down the mountain side. But i my vigils were futile, and the day came, and with it a hard tramp across the o;d lavas to the new flow. Words of Wisdom. A man of courage never larks weapons. Half the ills we hoard in oar heart* are ills because we board them. Without the company of fools a man of wit would often be embarrassed. A man who cannot mind his own business is not fit to be trusted with the king's. It is as easy to draw back a stone thrown with force from the band as to recall a word once spoken. No man is born wise; but wisdom and virtue require a tutor; though we can easily learn to be vicious without a master. No man possesses a genius so com manding that be can attain eminence, unless a subject suited to his talents should present itself, and an opportunity occur for their development. Turn the point ol thy curiosity upon thyself and thine own affairs, and tbon shalt within doors find matter enough for the most laborious inquiries The cause of virtue and liberty is con fined to no continent or climate. It comprehends, within ite capacious limits, the wise and good, however dis persed and separated in space and dis tance. _______ "Doctor, my daughter seems to be going blind, and she's just getting ready for her wedding, tool Ob, dear met what is to be done f" " Let her go right on with the wedding, madam, by all means. If anything can open her cyss, marriage will." Sunlight. The sun, II you will only open your house to him, is it faithful physician, who will Im pretty constant in attend ance. and who will s nd in no hills. Many years ago glass was something of a luxury, hut now we can all have good sized windows, and plenty of them, at moderate cost, and there is no excuse for making ineic loopholes, through which the sun can cast but half an eye, and from which one can gain only narrow glimpses of the beautiful outer world. 1 am sufficiently acquainted with tliu conservative charact r of many country people to expressions of dis dain will come from some quarters when I mention bay windows. Never theless bay windows are a good thing. Their effect is very much like letting heaven into one's house, at least ought to be like that, for it is nothing hut absurdity and wickedness to darken such windows witli shutters or heavy curtains until only a straggling ray of sunlight can be seen. If bay windows are too expensive a very desirable substitute can be had by placing two ordinary-sized windows side by side, witli a wide, capacious ledge ak the bottom for seats or for plants. A room with a window like this can but be cheery, and its effect in a simple cottage house is quite sump tuous. There is likewise in its favor the fact that it is less exposed than the deep bay window to outer heat and cold. In a kiteh) n, or a child's bedroom, or in an attic where the walls are low, two half-windows set side by side, and made to slide or to open on hinges, admit a broad, generous light, and give an apartment a pretty and pleasing rustic air. I-et the builder endeavor to have all rooms in daily use, especially bedrooms and sitting-rooms, well-lighted by the sun. "To sltep in unsunned rooms is the unn pmUd sin of half the nation,' vigorously aflirms a prominent wiiter. But tliis should to', lie said of that part of the nation living in the country, far from those towering brick walls whose steps take hold on basement kitchens and in whose depressing shadows many lives must necessarily be spent. In the country, with a whole sky to draw from, let there lie light ! If any rooms in the house must look solely to the north for illuminntlon, let them l>c the parlor and spare chamber. I'eoplo who come and go can be cheerful for awhile in a north windowed apartment, but the constant dweilem in a house need its sunniest rooms. /arm Hoitu.%. An Artist's Drath-llrd John Pope, the artist, died in New York a short ti me ago. His desth-b< d some was remarkable. His wife was watching by bis side when suddenly lie said: "Quirk! give-rue my palette and ■ brush. I must paint. Don't attempt to stop me now, for I have just discovered the art through the influence of visions of exquisitely graduated music. It is 1 plain as day at last!" His wife, 1 vinrmed at his excitement, made a I weak attempt to dissuade him, but as i opposition only increased bis cxiite ment, and it was evident that death 1 was very near, she humored him. His 1 paints, brushes and canvas were brought to him. and his tearful relatives nr ianged the coverings of the lied so that they would look mr>re like the drapery of his studio. He began his work with a haste amounting almost to frenzy. "At last, at last,' he cried, " I have found the beauty which all my iife and over ail the world I have been struggling for." He painted faster and faster, evi cently believing that the canvas would show the beauty that he conceived, al though it was in truth a sad realization of the conception. It was late in the day when he begat, his death-bed pic ture. It grew darker and darker as he went on, and his sorrowing family sat around him powerless to ease his last moments. At last it grew so dark that even he in his excitement noticed it. " us go to the studio," he cried, sud denly. "No, no; not to-night. Wait until to-morrow." "We must go to the studio," he exclaimed, making an effort to rise to his feet. The tax upon his strength was too great; without another word he fell hack on his pillow, dead. Please Slap My-What t " Times are hard, money is scarce, business is dull, retrenchment is a duty —please slop my"—whisky P "Oh, np; times are not hard enough for that yet. Rut there is something else that costs me a large amount of money every year, which I wish to save. Please stop tny"— tobacco, cigars and snuff P " No, no, not these; but I must retrench somewhere; please stop my"—ribbons, jewels, orna ments and tginketaP Not at all; pride must be fostered, if times are ever so hard, but I believe 1 can see away to effect quite a saving in another direction —please stop my"—tea, coffee and need leu and unhealthy luxuries? " No, no, no; not these, I cannot think of inch a sacrifice; but I must think of some thing All I I have it now. My paper costs a few cents a week; I must save that. Please stop my paper. That will carry me through the panic easily I I believe in retrenchment and economy, especially in brains." "What is mother doing to-night t" is the Utleof a new song that will soon be popular wherever there is a girl and a piano. While a fair flower was sing ing it tor her Adolpbus.tbs other night, the old lady walked into the parlor and remarked. " Woll, if you must know, I'm a darnin' your stookin's."— MiddU t, ;u N 7VlUUiWlnl The fieorgla "(,'rackers." A letter to the Atlanta (Ga.) (km ttvlution ssys: In several issues of your paper of late you have had occasion to use the word "Cracker"— "Georgia ! Cracker." It would IK; interesting to some of your readers to know the origin or derivation of this epithet as applic-d to native "indigenous" Georgians. It cer tainly belongs to the country in contra distinction to town folks, and is of ancient origin, coming down from the first or earliest history of our State. It e-ertainly began in the city of Savannah immediately alUr the war of 1770 and was used, if not in ridicule, for some distinguishing habit or feature of our ancestry who traded in that city—as it is now, "the crackers have come to town." The children even recognized anil used the word when, wishing to bandy an epithet of ridicule, or to call attention to their own importance over the coun try boy or girl: " You are a Cracker." Probably a little sting of this kind (whenquitea child) best indelibly im pressed upon my mind, led me often to inquire the derivation of the word. One wcuid say it was because the country piople, in coming to town with their wagons and teams, used long whips which they crack to the disturbance of the city people. But this was not the origin of it, and I have found no'elew to the word save in Ifo-v. W. B. Stevens' history of Georgia. And I think it is explained in that work, though he does not refer to it or use the word. In describing the ex treme destitution of the few " whjgs" who field out in that struggle, how alxiut 350 men in Burke and Wiikes counties were kept from their homes, scouting nb,,ut to avoid the tories (for Savannali and Augusta were in the hands of tories and British, and the whole State was overrun) the women and children remained in the seclud'd forest, at their little huts, and culti vated with much difficulty small patches of Indian oorn, their only rnrans of food. There were no mills to grind tiieir corn, and they parched and cracked it best they could, and ate it "They ate parched corn," and were em phatically "corn crackers." An old citizen of Revolutionary fame here lias been heard to relate the description his mother gave him of dividing a crop of corn among some sisters who mad it, she covering her pile with a cowhide until she could get some place to slon it ; the m n not being able to bui.d pen* or barns. When the war cloed and the singular people visited the "celestial city" of Savaunali to trade, they must have presented s striking contrast to the more fortunate colonists, who were wei, fed and clothed with British golo, and it was a good appropriate epithet to call them "crackers.'- If this le the origin of the word, it points a period of scif sacrilioe and suffering, of heroic en durance and devotion to principle, evinced by n people, and parents of whom Georgians need not b< ashamed. Itnm Made from Bid Shoes, Speaking of the industry statistics, says a New York letter to the Spring field (Mass.) Uttim. reminds me that several curious business* have been discovered by the census deputies, of which so for no newspaper has given an vccount. The superintendent of the Brooklyn census was much puzzled some we< ks ago upon discovering that there was some use made of old shoes, which was not known to any of the deputies in iiis employ, and couid not be discovered. It was found that old shoes were collected in large quantities by ragpickers and junkmen, and sold to certain mysterious persons, for what purpose no one could divine. It was well knowp that Prussian blue is made of old leather, but the persons engaged in that business were perfectly willing to have their works inspected. Alter rnueh in quiry and investigation It was found that the old shoes were mode into Jamaica rum. When they came from the ragpickers the good pieces were cut out and sold to small cobblers for patch ing purposes. The rest was distilled with spirits, colored with burnt sugar, and sold as Jamaica rum, and tb>- most singular tact about the business is that It is bought, not by saloon keepers, but by druggists, who pride themselves on the purity of their articles. Many industries were found in which, though the value of the product was considerable, no value was attributed to the raw material. One man who made tomato catsup acknowledged to making SIB,OOO worth of catsup every year, but aaid that bis raw material cost nothing. When pruascd for an explanation he sent to the factorh-s where tomatoes are canned big tubs into which the peelings and trimmings of the tomatoes were thrown by the men who prepared them for canning. This material he got for the trouble of carrying it away. He ground it up, flavored it. and sold it as catsup to the extent of tlfi.OOO a year. Associated Press. " The Associated Press is a great boon, is it not P" said a young man to a beautiful Boston giri. full of sentiment and oysters, as they were returning from the theater. "It Is, Indeed," the replied, in soft times; "Georgeand I had one ail last winter, but papa came in one night be fore George could take his arm away and acted dreadfully. Do they have them in New York P* "I should blush to murmur," re sponded the untutored Gothamite, as he measured bar surcingle belt with bis strong right arm. Wot Vanquished. In 'UrkiiMw und in etotm my apirlt stand*. Am! doubt and desolation round it lie, And somber cloud* have hid the diirtant sky And coM, blank hill* girt all the diurnal landa, I lo'l th '-Intelof ruthlosa hand*, And hiuir the surging win i knon drawing nigh, While down their ruahing fury sound* the cry Ol souls tliat sink todualhsrnid drijar aand*. 1 *-t thi-ro are *tar*, and *uri*, and Iragnsnt bloom*, And day* of rial, and atiil *ea* bright and vast, And grand u jj ( orolU tuii oi wind'tnade song, I on lily ojain* in night'* deeped glooms. The flen-e storm |