FOR THE FAIR HEX Marry a 4 Women of ilw York, A writer for the Cincinnati Rn/juirer has been looking critically at New York women, and the following is one of the conclusions- As a rule, the higher you go up in the social scale of New York the less beauty you find. I could name top-lofty fam ilies whose women are generally ugly to the extent of positive hideousness. There is a theory that the product of several generations of high culture is a palpably superior article of women, with small hands and feet, arched insteps, sensitive nostrils, nnd other points sup posed to indicate physical and mental refinement. Observation proves tba* the truth is no such thing. The shop girls of the Bowery are prettier, as a class, than the idle girls of Fifth avenue. This reads like heresy, no doubt, but it is nevertheless a plain statement of a fact. Criticise the two sorts without allowing the judgment to be prejudiced by the matter of dress, and the prixe medal must be awarded to the Bowery, notwithstanding its sins of clothing and manners. luhlss SotH. Irish poplin is again in favor in Eu rope. Dresses are worn fattened at the beck this winter. Rose colored tufted gauze veils are very becoming. Small buttons are preferred for silk and wool basques. Ribbed cardigan tickets are worn under the plush basques. A chenille fringe makes the prettiest collar for a street jacket. Little satin-lined shoulder caps are worn with house dresses. English brides now wear the veil drawn back from the face. Real Spanish or Alenoon are fashion able laces for bridal veiling. English women think that serge makes the best of costumes for all weathers. Americans do not like the material. Combs, if worn at ail, are now placed low on the left side of the hend. A little circlo of fringe is sometimes placed around ornamental buttons. Six plaiting* of different colors are used to trim some black veivct skirts. Tight sleeves are sometimea left open at the wrist and finished by a bead fringe. Fringes, having each strand finished with a jet ball, are used to trim satin dresses. White, yellow and red are the colors most in vogue for evening dresses this winter. Kerchiefs of black hernani, edged with fringe, aro worn with mourning cos tumes . Collars and cuffs for morning wear are made very large and are embroidered in colors. White plush is the newest trimming for bridal robes. It is becoming and stately in effect. House dresses aro made to,fit rather tighter than last winter, and no longer suggest dressing gowns. Sicilienne and brocade, in pale colors, are the favorite materials for young ladies' evening dresses. Gold embroidered scarls of black lace are wound around the neck and fastened with a large, old-fashioned gold brooch. The hair is now worn in a loose twisted coil or a bow-knot, instead of the braided coil, lor full-dress occasions. Chatelaine - of gold or sliver, with a multiplicity of breloques, are again worn by both French and English la dies of fashion. A late style of coiffure is to coll the hair in tight rings on tho side of the head, Japanese fashion, keeping the ring in place witli long jeweled pins. Chatelaine bags are worn far bark on the left side now. Thr>3e which nccom- j pany street costumes have e stiff lining. Those meant for house wear are liaip. Honeycomb silk and wool stuffs aro used to make the Watteau overdresses worn with tea gowns, nnd surah or satin forms the vest and the pinitings under the train. Many house ressrs have the corsage cut pompadour or heart-shape and filled in with a full shirring of brocaded Spanish net, and a high ruching of the same lace about the neck. " Ths cagie's-wmg tunic" is the latest shape in overdresses. It has two long, sharp, sheath-like points in front nnd two in the back. Very little trimming is used upon these tunics. The Marguerite gauntlet sleeve is very fashionable and stylish. The top is made of the material of the dress, nnd the long cuff" which reaches to the el bow is made of plush velvet or satin. The cuff fits closely to the arm, and is buttoned or laced up the ba k. Gioves are much the same as they have been for some years past. Woolen gloves are worn over kid ones by ladies who do not carry muff's. Kid gloves lined with fur aiso serve for this purpose; they are called " gants moscovites," and have only two buttons. Many gloves for evening wear are laced. On the ends of the fine cordings are small tassels. These gloves come in different lengths. A Desperate Duel. The I'eith correspondent of the Lon don Rtaruiard describes a tragical affair which occurred recently at Bittse, in the Trenczin county, Hungary. M. Smia lovsky. who was in his nineteenth year, and son of a landed proprietor and M. Moravsky, aged twenty-one, whose father was district magistrate, agreed some weeks ago to settle some romantic differences by a duel. Having ordered pistols from Vienna they went together the evening before the combat to a local ball and appeared to be on the most friendly terms. In the early morning, when the dancing was over, they went arm-in-arm to the apartments which tbey were occupying in common and took a few hours' rest. At 8.30 o'clock they went out alone to a neighboring forest and took up their positions at a distance of only three paces from each other. Both fired and both fell. M. Smialovsky was unable to move from the spot, but M. Moravsky was able to drag himself to his lodgings. An hour elapsed before a surgeon was able to reach the man who had been left on the ground. On the sixth day after the duel both of the duelists died, each having previously made a formal declaration tiiat the cause of this desper ate encounter was an affair of honor. A Hollow MM. Joshua Joynes, a man well known in the eastern part of Virginia as a glutton, sat down to dinner near Onaneock, Ac comae county, and disposed of a bill of fare which consisted of fifteen pounds of pork, twelvo links ol bologna sausage, souse from one large hog, one large goose, which the gormandizer had been fattening for a month, one full grown chicken, one peck of sweet potatoes, one dozen large biscuits, one large mince pis, and six cups of strong coflee. Joynes sat down to this repast at one o'clock, and at 9.30 he had disposed of every article named, picked the bones of the fowls, and took a glass of eggnog. lie then smoked a pipe, jumped ou a horse, and rode five miles through the frosty air. Joynes weighs 880 pounds, and is a good-humored old fe;iow ol •Ixtv. There are 90,000 hounds in Great Britain, kept at an estimated cost oi 99,900,000. One of Mr. Moody's Stories. One of the secrets of Mr. Moody's power is his nbilily n* a story-teller. This is well illustrated by the following from one of his addresses in Him Fran cisco: " When I was a young man, be fore I loft my native town. I was at work in the field one day in company with a neighbor of mine. All at once I saw him begin to weep. I asked tlim what the trouble was. He then told me a strange story—strange to me then, for I was not at that time a Chris tian. He said that his mother was a Christian when he left home to seek his fortune. When he was about storting his mother took him by the hand and spoke these parting wo da: 'My son, seek ye first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all things else shall be added unto thee.' 'This,' said he, * was my mother's favorite text.' When he got into the town where he was going, he had to spend the Babbath there. He went to church, and the minister too this very text: 'Seek ye first the kingdom of God.' He thought it very s ange. Well, he said he would not seek the kingdom then; he would wait until lie got a start in life, until he got a farm and some money. Yet that text troubled him. Again he went to church and to his amazement the sermon was on the very same text. He did not attend church for some time. At last he was induced to again enter the church, and behold, he heard the preacher take that very same text. He thought then it was God speaking to him, that his mother's prayers were being answered. Hut he coolly and de liberately made uo hi* mind tiiat he would not be a Christian. 'I never heard any sermon since,'said he, 'that lias made any impression on me.' I was not a Christian myself then, so I didn't i know how to talk to him. "The time came lor me to leave home. , ; I went to Boston, and there I became a convert. Who I got to be a Christian, j the first thing that came into my mind ! was that man. I made up my mind to , j try to tiring him to Christ. When I j came home I mentioned the name to my j mother, and asked if he was living. ' Is ho ItvingP' she exclaimed. ' Didn't I write to you al>out him?' 'Write me what?' ' Why, that he had gone out ol his mind, and is now in the insane asy lum.' When I got up there he pointed his finger at me. Says he: ' Young man, seek ye first the kingdom of God.' He had never forgotten the text. Al though hi* mind was shattered and gone, the text wa* there. The next time I returned home my mother told me he we* at home idiotic. I went to the house to see him, and there wa* that va-nut look in his eye. I said: 'I)o you know mo P' He pointed his finger at me, and said: ' Young man, seek ye first the kingdom of God.' God had driven that text into hi.* mind, hut his reason wa* gone. The next time Ire turned home he was dead , and when I visited my father's grave I noticed a new grave stone had been put up. 1 stopped to read it, and found it was my friend's. The autumn wind wa* making a mournful noise, and I seemed to hear it whispering the text: • Beck ye first the kingdom of God.'" The Turkish I'eople, A Constantinople correspondent of the Ixmdon Standard, ignoring, for the moment, the eternal Eastern question, write* a* follows of the Turkish people: "The commonest form of a rich lady's cloak is entirely native as regards material and shape. It is a piece of heavy silk, rarely good in color, upon one end of which formal and meaning- Ira* devices have been worked in gold. The character of them suggest* that in former days this out-door garment con sisted of two piece*, one a golden scarf for the head, with pendant fringe and tassels, the other a mantle of plain silk. In process of Urns the scarf and tassel* were incorporated, as it were, in the mantle, surviving only as a cumbrous ornament. It is not necessary to de scribe the appearance of Turkish women thus appareled. Every one knows how they stride along like animated sacks, showing ill-made French boots, or else trailing low alippers. Not a few wear socks, always down at heel, often trailing in the perennial mud. Fine eyes, both gray and black, are common, and quite enough is seen of the features to assure one that beauty of fare is not sparingly distributed. While lightly digressing in this by-path I would point out the exceeding fairness of the race. The Turkish peasant has a whiter skin than the Greek townsman. Southern Italians even are more dusky of com plexion. Fair hair and ilgbt eye* abound in all classes, and, unless it be a man evidently crossed with negro blood, you will scarcely ever see a Turk so brown of skin as are the vast minority fo Greeks. In height and.atrenglh of build, also, they are superior to alt their sub ject peoples, excepting the Albanian. This magnificent race, the Skipetar, is the Path an of Europe, but vastly above its Asiatic antitype in all the finer qual ities of man. No unprejudiced observer can doubt that the Albanian, with all Lis shortcoming* and his faults, is the most hopeful, as he is most interesting, of the nationalities subject to Turkey. Above all, he is artistic, permeated with a sense of fitness and beauty, which he displays in manner, in dress, In all and every one of the many arts cultivated by the nationality, which the utilitarian Greek rails barbarous. A New York undertaker displays in bis window a miniature hearse, drawn by four prancing horses, and a little coffin with a doll Inside, surrounded by ■ group of mourning dolls. ( hanged Her Mind. George Bovard is the name ola young Methodist minister who attended the annual conference of thcM. E. church at Mercer n couple of years ago. While there he and a young lady teacher of the Soldiers' Orphan school, located in Mercer, fell in love with each other. Her name was Clara Shaffer. Ho was about to start for India to Christianize tiie heathen. A correspondence was kept up between the two, and lie wanted her to come to him, be married, and assist him in his labors. He had no money to pay her expenses, and she had none. In thiß emergency a few months ago she mado a confidante of'• Dick " Wright, a heavy clothing merchant of Mercer, and he being a big hearted man with generous impulses, offeied to supply her with what money she needed to reach her far off lover. She gladly accepted his offer, and at once began her preparations for the long iourney. " Dick "and Miss Shaffer were thrown much together for a while, and about the time she was ready to start lie was deeply in love with her himself. Hut he said nothing, and she started for New York with enough of " Dick's" money in her pocket to take her to India. Two or three days after her departure he grew despondent, and chided himself for tiaving given away his chance for marrying Miss Shaffer himself. A thought struck him, and that was to fol* l low her, and, if possible, overtake her j before she boarded a steamsr in New York for distant India. He acted promptly on the thought, took the cars, reached New York, and found the vis sei on which she was to sail. Mi Shaffer was already on board; lie m*d. and save what little limoer they have for other purposes -sentimental squeam ishncrs should not deter them from doing so. More rooked food is daily thrown away than would feed the hungry poor, and it is done without compunction. While there can be no excuse for this wastefulness, there is good reason for burning corn when it is of more value for fuel than theprocit) Ihaminer. During the recent civil conflict there were two volunteers lying beneath their blankets, looking np at the star.* in n Virginia sky. Says Jack; "V,*ha:. made you go into the army, Tom P" " Wel\" replied Tom, "I had no wife, and I love war. What made you go. Jack r •• Well," rt plied the latter, • I had, and I love peace, so I went to the war." HOME OF TIIE VfcHDETTA. How lh CoralMM Afa Wroai-| R . of Tarrlblo Vtmaanaa. HIMHI, Vow*. A correspondent of tbo Ht. i/;uis Globe-Democrat at Vivario, Corsica, writes: The C'orsicans are brave, tem perate, hospitable, but indolent, impel uouaand particularly vindictive. Tiicy are very quick to take offense, and equally quick to revenue or resent any wrong, actual or imaged. These trait* are not much observed in the large to7ns, though they crop out constantly in the sparsely-settled districts, and contribute to the continuance of the vendetta, which the French authorities, with all their efforts, have not yet been able to eradicate. The vendetta has been the chief cause of the stationary, even diminishing, population, systematic homicide in dliferent quarters being far more numerous than any natural in crease. Thirty or forty years ago it was not uncommon for whole families, so far as the male members went, to be exter minated by the blood-feud, an<' at the beginning of the century the number of inhabitant* was steadily declining from the same cause. When a murder has been committed here the murderer is pursued, not only by the officers of justice, but by the kinsmen of the slain, who regard it tyi a solemn duty to avenge his death. The latter seize their arms at once, follow the homicide, resolved upon his death. | If be should escape altogether they feel bound to take the life of his relatives; so tliat anybody and everybody who is consanguineously connected with the homicide is obliged to be perpetually on the alert. Men who are hunted always carry weapons with them, and when they arc in the fields set watch to warn them of any hostile approach. At home they keep their doors and win dows —if they have any windows - bar ricaded, and as the would-be assassin is seldom farol! luey are reahy in an in- j cessant state of siege. Persons who, as the phrase Is, are suffering the vendetta, have been shut up in their boum* for ten or fifteen years, and shot dead the moment they ventured out-doors. The women incite the men to revenge by singing songs ol vengeance. These people arc noU d tor improvisation over the corpse ol the person murdered, dis playing at the same lime his bloody garments, and acting out drr.matica.ly their vehement passion. Not infre quently a mother attaches to her son's garments a bloody shred of the niur dcred man's shirt b a reminder of his duty, and enjoins him not to remove it until the vendetta has been satisfied. Comparatively small injuriessmay give rise to it, even purely casual occur rences. Mediators, termed paroianti, often volunteer to heal a quarrel, es pecially when life ha* not been sacri ficed, and when they succeed, an oatu of reconciliation is sworn, and the oath is regarded as solemnly binding; but It is broken occasionally. The brigandage which prevail* on this ; island can 0e almost always traced to the vendetta. A man kills another from revenge; he takes refuge in the moun tains, and, a* it is never safe to resume his old life, he adopts robbery as a trade. There are family feuds, independent of the vendetta as properly .nderstood. These feuds are hereditary, and exist sometimes between entire villages. The prominent families used to hand down feuds from generation to generation, and not the relative* alone, but the re tainers and servants were involved, and fought with one another desperately, like the Guolphs ana Ghibellines and the Neri and Hiancbi of the middle ages in Italy. The vendetta is not confined here to men. Women also share in it, especially where they have t>een betray ed. Any woman who slays her lover und r such circumstances is considered heroine, and ballads to celebrate her courage arc su ig in her honor. I have seen many a stoned veiling, having iron doors and perforated with holes, through which an approaching enemy could be seen and shot. I have been told of a man living near Zicavo, a sufferer from the vendetta, who hao been a self-made prisoner in his own house for seventeen years. He knew that his foe tiad all this while been lying in wait for him; but learning that he bad gone to Sartene tor a week, he ventured forth, rejoicing once more in the open air and looking up to the blue sky in tbanktuiness. "This is meet," he murmured, and as he pronounced the last word there was a sharp report, and he feel dead with a buliel through bis brain. The vigilance of seventeen years had been recompensed. His unre lenting enemy bad bribed somebody to deoeive the " sufferer " with a false re port, and the sufferer had fallen into the trap. The man who bad been revenge was slain a week later as be was lea\ iag the village of Solaro by a cousin of the vteti&j at Zicavo. Another man, a relative of Santa Ma ria. killed a shepherd in dispute, and conscious that the man bad six brothers, fled to Bitatia, and there took ship for leghorn. He remained on the peninsula ten years, and having been t ssnred that the brothers had either died or quitted the island for France, he returned home Ho lived unmolested for months, bnt one stormy night one of the brothers shot him fatally as he opened the door to * gentle knock. These occurrences belong to the past, The government has, by the severest m -names, near y rrutlied the vendetta nd its accompaniment, brigandage. It executed every a*sn> in and brigand a* a common enemy of the State and hu manity ; it made the carrying of aims a k m I - : ■ ah penal offense, not ex opting those ter - rled for the chase, and Imprisoned every one known to harbor or aid in any man ner an offender against each statute. A large force of gendarmerie was engaged for years in hunting down assassins and brigands among the mountains; they had desperate work and any number of romantic adventures. They were often kiiled, but they triumphed in the end. While the vendetta is not absolutely crushed, it is comparatively so, and strangers can travel anywhere except among the mountains, with almost no danger, if they will keep their temper and mind their own affairs. Homicides are still frequent, owing to the hot blood and extreme sensitiveness of the natives, but the homicides are not followed by the old means of vengeance. At one time, on this island, which then had a population of not more than 235,000, as many as 4,500 are said u> have perished by the vendetta in thirty years- a terri ble proportion indeed. Looking for a Wife. Satki Kumara, the hero of a curious Hindustani story, preferred testing a damsel's capability before tying the knot Master of a prosperous and profitable business, he came to the conclusion that a wife was wanted to complete his happiness, and determined to go in search of one. Adopting the guise of a fortune-teller, and carrying some rice bound up in his cloth, he started on his trave.g. Whenever he enoountered a girl that pleased his eye he asked her to cook hir rice for him. Some laughed at him, some reviled him and none seemed inclined to comply with his modest demand. At last he met witli a beautiful girl who, instead of ridiculing or abusing the strange trav el! r, relieved him of the rice, and bade him be rested. Then the kindly maiden set about preparing the rice. First she steeped it in water, then drieu it in the sun. and, that accomplished, rubbed the grains gently on the ground, removing the awn without breaking the rice. Calling her nurse she di-patched that worthy to sell the bran, and with the piocerds to purchase- an earthen boiler, two platters and some fuel. By the time this mission was executed the rice had been brayed in a mortar, winnowed and washed and ready to put in the boiler with five times its hulk of water. As soon as it had swollen suffi ciently the boiler was taken from the Are, the water cleared off the scum, the boi,er put back, and the rice constantly stirred by the pretty ~ook until she was satisfied it was properly done. By turn ing the boiler mouth downward she ex tinguished the fire, and collecting the j unoonsumed fuel dispatched the old j woman to convert it into butter curds, jon and tamarinds. This achieved, she | toid the enraptured Sakti Tumara to go and bathe and not to omit rubbing him | scii with oil. Having obeyed orders, the wife-seeker was directed to seat bim se.i upon a plank on the well-swept floor, on which were already laid a large plain tain leaf and two platters. His charming hostess then brought him water in a perfumed jug and administered two spoonfuls of well-seasoned rice and ghee, preparatory to serving up the re mainder of the rioc mixed with spices, curds, butter and milk, of which Sakti Kumara ate his fill and then indulged n a siesta. As soon at he woke he asked the giri to become his wife, and she being willing the necessary ceremony was gone through without delay, and the supposed fortune-teller took Irs bride home to astonish her as the Ixwd of Burleigh astonished his rustic love, but the Hindoo lass was luckier than Tennyson's heroine, for we are assured that she lived long to worrbip her hus band as a god and made ber bouse the abode of bliss.— Chamber't Journal. The Missing Llak. Miss Bird, an English lady, describes in a hook on Japan, and especially on the Ainos. bow she was ferried across a river by one Aino "completely covered by hair, which on his shoulders was wavy like that of a retriever, and ren dered clothing quite needless either for covering or warmth; n and how in an other place she met with a second old man, whom she emphatically describes as "the missing link." His face was vacan and apathetic, his arms and Is were unnaturally long and thin, be squatted with his knees tucked under his arm pits, and bis whole body was covered with black hair more than an inch long, and slightly curly an lha shoulders, lie bad, however, a bat patch on each side.probably marking the parts on which be rested when asleep, n peculiarity found in the gorilla, who has a bare spot on his back where be leans against trrc t. Changed His IM, "Ah, that's what I lilrsl that's what I like!" chirped old Mr. Whistleblos sora as he came carefully down the hill where the boys were exercising their sleds. "If there's anything I really love it's to see the boys, fall of animal spirits, enjoying these wintry sports." And just at that Instant n hundred and fifty pounds of animal spirits cam* dashing down the hill on n double runner, end caught the unsuspecting Mr. Wbistlebloeeom between the heels. There was a sound of revelry by night, and when they picked up the unfor tunate gentleman, and had pinned to gether the ruptured back of his coat, be remarked in a tone so gsnUe that It mads him quite black in the lace, that the city government wbo would refuse to pass a tew nking it n reform school crime to slide on the streets, were n set, of pusillanimous yahoos. I M:, jy M