FOB THE FAIR BEX.
B•rakardt'a IlMklM.,
The necklace now being executed by
one of the firet jewelers of Paris for
Sarah,Bernhardt ia near oompletion, and
ia considered one of the finest specimens
of the jeweler's art of the nineteenth
century. It la of the flat shape so much
worn of late years—a mere band worn
round the throat of the kind called
collier de chien. It is composed of two
rows of magnificent brilliants about Rn
inch and a quarter apart, between which
a wreath of field flower* in rrecious
stones, representing the natural colors
of the rustic blossoms, seems to flow
with the greatest ease and grace imag
inable. The minute poppies arc com
posed ot rubies, the corn-flowers of sap
phires, the marigolds of topss, and so
on, while the leaves are of emeralds.
No two flowers arc alike, and altogether
this necklace is pronounced the finest
composed during this generation.
Cheap (.trip.
A girl who makes herself too cheap is
one to be avoided. No young man, not
even the worst, except for a base pur
pose, wants anything to do with a cheap
young lady. For a wife, none but a fool
or a rascal will apm-oach such a woman.
Cheap jewelry no one will touch if he
can get any better. Cheap girls are
nothing but therefuse and the young men
know it, and they will look in every
other direction for a life-long friend
and companion before they will give a
glance at the pinchbeck stuff that tinkles
at every turn for fascinating the eye of
any one that will look.
You think it is quite the "correct
thing" to talk loudly and coarsely, be
boisterous and hoidenish in ail public
places; to make yourself so bold and
forward and commonplace everywhere,
that people wonder if you ever had a
mother, or a home, or anything to dol
So be it.
Ycu will probably bo taken for what
you are worth, and one of these years, if
you do not make worse than a ship
wreck of yourself, you will begin to
wonder where the charms are thator.ee
ou thought yourself possessed of, and
what evil spirit could have so befooled
you. Go on, but remember, cheap girls
attract nobody hut fools and rascals.—
MacmiUaris Magazine.
!Vew and Note* for Women.
A doman has been appointed clerk of
the Nevada legislature.
Girls in a livery are substituted lor
footmen in some English families.
Queen Victoria is said to have made
F4 ,000 on her stock farming last year.
An EnglisU lady advertises her wed
ding presents, including many valuable
articles, lor sale, in the London Time*.
Somebody who has been counting
heads decides that blondes have 140,000
hairs, brunities 109,000 and red-headed
girls S8 000.
The telegraph operator at Williams'
Ranch, Texas, is a little girl nine years
old, who plays with her dolls between
the messages.
Old Monument, a Chippewa squaw
living near StiilwaUr, Minn., now lias
her twenty fourth husband, having been
divorced from ten men ir. the forty years
that the whites have known her.
After a Mrs. Buford, of Kansas, had
walked two miles to a river to commit
suicide she remembered that the oven
was full of bread, and she nt once hast
ened home to save the loaves. Western
women are thoughtful.
A Paris paper says: There is another
wedding on the tapis between an Ameri
can heiress and an impecunious prince,
which fills with gladness the hearts of
bis creditors, whose name is legion; but
would the lady's friends be pleased did
they know that M. de X. lias promised
a commission of 100,(4)0 francs to the
person who served as go-between t
English high society is turning again*t
the professional beauties, and several
bouses where they have been accus
tomed to display their charms have be< n
closed against them. A weil-known
countess has taken the lead in tbc move
ment. As the Prince of Waies likes the
company of these Indies, however, it is
thought the ban will not extend far.
George Eliot's passion for music was
remarkable. Indeed, nature seems to
have denied her only one gift—personal
beauty. Justin McCarthy said of her:
"She is what we. in England, call de
cidedly plain; what people in New
York call homely; and what persons
who did not care to soften the forms of
an unpleasant truth would describe
probably by a still harsher and more
emphatic epitbet; her facc.it is said,
not even being formed and illuminated
by the light of l.er genius."
Ww York iMklas Haiti,
Bangs and bangles are alike popular.
Moire antique ribbons are again in
fashion.
Orange blossoms are not worn on the
skirts of wedding dresses.
Cream-colored velvet is now much
employed for bridal dresses.
Comfortable fur hoods are finished off
with wide loops of brown, blue
eardina. satin or gros grain ribbon.
Pretty jabots sre made of Languedoc
edging, with clusters of moss bads or
violets placed between each fall of iaoe.
Very elegant peignoirs are made of
white cashmere with the revers, cuffs
and broad collar embroidered in bright
colors.
Novelties in'slippers are'.very clabo
rate, and some have a row sf beads all
around the edge; in black they are jet,
in white, pearl.
The jaunty peasant Brasses are ex-
ceedingly pretty for children made of
Prafgiarar tweed, aad trimmed with
plush or gay plaids.
Handsome fichus for street wear are
of the new striped mull, scalloped and
embroidered on the edge.
Many of the now evening corsages
are laced down the front, and aro made
high at the throat and sleeveless.
On full dress occasions long undressed
kid gloves, with or without buttons,
wrinkled on tho arms, are fashion
able.
Table covers arc no longer made
square, but arc just wide enough to
cover the tablo and very long. They
arecalled "table-scarfs."
Black velvet garments aro very hand
some when trimmed with Russian lace
in geometrical figures, arranged in a
slanting manner across the surface.
Point d'Auvergno is nn inexpensive,
soft, graceful and becoming lace, rather
after the stylo of point d'Alencon; the
new pa terns are in floral or pompadour
designs
Pretty collars are made of fine em
broidered handkerchiefs, two corners cf
which form the turn-over collar, and
the other two are knotted to form the
bow on the throat.
An attempt is being made to revive
the use of artificial flowers. Tho new
siik blossoms aid plush leaves are too
pretty for the milliners to be content to
throw them away at tho end of the sea
son.
Tho fashion of wearing full front
breadths in gowns, introduced by M'lle
Bernhardt, is not| favored. It is only
appropriate for wedding gowns, which,
as they are to be worn but once, may
well be somewhat exceptional.
The most fashionable French gloves
arc composed of alternate hands of kid
and lace, which shows a fair hand and
arm as well as the glitter of jeweled
rings to perfection. This fashion ac
cords well with the lace sleeves and lace
trimmings now in vogue.
Even for halls, or occasions requiring
elaborate toilets, ladies now prefer
wearing their dress bodices cut square
or heart shape in front, or in a decided
point fnnt and back. Dresses cut quite
low and round showing the shoulders
aro more and more becoming the ex
ception.
Crinoline, when worn at all, is very
small. The hustle, however, continues
in favor. Those made of tine steel and
lace net or pique arc most desirable, as
they arc light and really form a support
for the skirts worn. For wearing with
long trained evening dresses they nrean
absolute necessity.
The "emigrant twist "is a style of
hair-dressing wornprincipally by school
girls. The hair is waved in front, and
simply wound round and round the
bark of tho bead in wide flnt plaits,'ex
actly in the style of the bonmtlesa
pudgy-looking littie emigrant women
who, with their quaint faces and curious
provincial costumes, turn Castle Garden
New York, into a picture of life in the
old world.
The polonaise is again in lavor, and
admits of great variety of form. Some
of them nearly reach the foot of the un
derdress in front, and are heavily draped
in the bark; others are cut in the Wat
tcau style, with rounded panicrs at the
sides, and again, very elegant polonaises
are made with long panels open on tie
left side, and laced across. The skirt is
simply caught up on the right side with
a silk cord and tassel.
Handsome sets of jewelry are made of
hammered gold, with miniature land
scapes, fruits and flowers made of very
small jewels, which are inlaid so closely
in some instances as to resemble fine
mosaics. For example, a bluebird is
made of closely set turquoise stones, a
rose bush, its flowers and leaves is
made of small rubies and emeralds, a
cluster of daffodils of topnn stones, nn t
a hunch of bine bells is formed ot
brilliant sapphires.
A "blushing bonnet" is the very
latest invention of the age. This wonder
ful capots " is fitted on the inside with
two springs, which whenever the wearer
bends her head press upon the arteries
of the neck and send the blood into ber
cheeks!'* A Frenchman of course in
vented this convenient and ingenious
contrivance, and as blushing is said to be
one of the lent arts the patentee will
doubtless rise to fame and fortune right
in his own beloved Paris.
A pretty deviation from the casaquin
or ba*que is the "Esmeralda" "-slst,
which is particularly adapted tosiender
figures. It is n modification of the
blouse waste, and is cut with a doep
yoke, upon which the full blouse is
gathered in fine sbirrings front and
hack, the side seams, however, being
perfectly plain and fitting closely to the
form. The waiat is very pretty, made of
•ilk or cashmere, and the yoke and cuffs
are frequently made ola contrasting
material and color.
The modern taste for mixed colors
shows Itself in the wearing of feather
trimmings which display a wonderful
intermingling of varied hues. In the
manufacture of hats and bonnets the
impaya pheasants is in great demand.
The head and neck of the idrd glitters
with a metallic brilliancy that is very
beautiful. Many hate and bonnets are
made exclusively of this lustrous
plumage; in tsci there is quits an erup
tion of bright birds and feathers of
every kind, and a few ladiee / Nratric
tastes are now wearing a Nyld
colored Indian parrot, percb \e
left side of their large Gi r
bats.
Chewing Una.
We have it upon coxmon report tha
chewing gum ia a imbalance well-known
to the youthful part of the community.
The qualitiea which it posseses at the
time that it oomen from the confectioner
arc all familiar to tho youngeat of ua.
It certainly aeema a very attractive edi
ble. The reaaon for thia ia not ao hard
to find. Think how much eating there
ia in it in proportion to actual weight
and cash value. But there ia more in
chewing gum then ia dreamed of in
juvenile phiioeophy. One can eaaily
comprehend the main ingredients of
candy, but who, without being told,
would auapcct that chewing gum ia often
only a refined product of petroleumP
The time wa* when the
fragrant spruce furnished the
moat common material purpose. But
thia is no longer the case. The reader,
familiar with the processes of refining
coal, ia aware that the thick, brown
liquid which comes from the earth, at
one stage of its manufacture, is strained
through heavy linen cloths. The residu
um left after this operation is a dirty,
brownish yellow wax that smells abom
inably. Tliut unpromising substance,
melted, bleached, deodorized and pre
pared for com merce, appears In masses
that weigh about one hundred pounds,
resembling oblong blocks of clouded
ice. It has no odor and no taste except
what belongs to nny wax in its purest
state. It may be used for many pur
poses which it is not necessary to de
scribe now. Tho manufacturer of chew
ing gum purchases these blocks ready
made to his hand, and at once melts
them down. To two hundred pounds
of wax he adds about thirty pounds of
sugar, and gives the mixture a flavor by
the use of some essential oil. as lemon 01
vanilla, and perhaps adds some color
ing matter. The melted mass is poured
out upon a clean marble slab and cut
into the various shapes known to
chewers.
The youthful epicure rarely becomes so
luxurious as to demand balsam of tolu;
but, if he dries, the manufacturer is
ready for him. This resin, which is
obtained from South America, is at first
in an almost fluid condition. It is the
product of a tree known as—now hold
your aw. for the name is worse than a
whole box of chewing gum— myrasper
mum toluferum. This lialsam is boiled
by the manufacturer until finally It is
brought to such n consistency that it
can be run through rollers. It comes
out in the shape of a little slender rod
of a brownish-yel.ow color, which Is
cut into picrvs, each about two or two
and a half inches long. The balsam
may sometimes lie mixed with a lis*
eostiy wax. since its flavor is vrry
marked.
The Imlsam from the "chicle" tree,
from Central America, is used in making
what is known as snapping gum. It is
very ductile when worked and moisten
ed, and the process of making is similar
to that of pulling taffy. The original
gum exudes from the tree and forms in
a mass sometimes several pounds in
weight. Kvon in this natural state it
would he a very satisfactory suhstance
to keep the teeth at work. It cannot be
worn out.
Herds of Wisdom.
There are few things that we know
well.
A delicate thought is a flower of the
mind.
L ive places a genius and a fool on a
level.
Man laughs and weeps at the same
things.
One is rich when one is sure of the
morrow.
Anything serves as a pretext for the
wicked.
The world either breaks or hardens
the heart.
Wisdom is to the souls/hat health is
to the body.
Thef do not love that do not show
their love.
The eyes of other folks are the eyes
that ruin us.
The only disadvantage of an honest
heart is credulity.
W boever learns to stand alone must
lesrn u> fall alone.
A truth that one does not understand
bfiximea an error.
Beware of him who hates the laugh
of a child or children.
Under our greatest troubles often lie
our greatest treasures.
Many a man's vices have at first been
nothing worse than grod qualities run
wild.
The man of genius is not mnster of the
power that is in him; it is by ardrnt,
irresistible need ol expressing what he
teels that be is a man ol genius.
All prosperous men can give good
counsel, and they like to do it; It ooeta
them nothing. It is easy to disclaim
against feasting when the stomach ia
ul).
An act by which we make one friend
and one enemy is a losing game, because
revenge is a much stronger principle
than gratitude.
" Where did you buy that coat f'
" At that second-hand clothing store on
Galveston avenue." " Why, that coat
is your old coat I sold him last week.
He has fixed it up and palmed it off on
you for new." "By thunder I Now I
know what the hyena meant when he
said It fitted me Uks it bad been made
for me. I thought at the time be was
iying, but I ass I was deceived in him."
-GalwMon MMS.
A Vesemeas Water Snake.
A writer in the Boston Commercial
Bulletin relates the following sad yet
interesting snake story:
While washing decks on the morning
of the fourth day out a small water
snake, most beautifully marked with
gold and green checks, was dipped up
in a bucket of water. We had notiocd
a larg>' number of these reptiles, varying
in sise from six inches to three feet long,
floating upon the surface of the water
when the ea was calm. Naturalists
have been divided in their opinions as
to whether water snakes —and especially
those found In tho salt water—were
possessed of sufficient venom to cause
death as the result of their bite. The
majority, however, favor the non
venomous theory, but here \vc had a
positive proof that the bite of some
species is as fatal us that of the rattle
snake or the cobra di capeilo itself.
One of the men, upon seeing this beau
tiful little serpent, thrust his hand into
the water, and grasping tho snake held
it up for the admiration of his ship
mates. Instantly, with a cry of pain,
he dashed it violently to the deck.
This wus a surprise to ail, for as m ny
times as several members of the crew
had seen these reptiles they had never
supposed them possessed of sufficient
animation when taken from their native
element to inflict a bite, even though
they were capable of so doing. The
wounded man continued his wort for
some fifteen or twenty minutes, paying
but lilt le attention to the bite; but his
hand, the forefinger of which had been
struck by the snake, soon began to pain
him. and upon examining it the flesh
about the m irks which the fangs had
made was found to b; fast changing
oolor.
The mate then notified the captain,
who had just come upon deck, and he
immediately bathed the affected part
with balm of Gilcad—that being the
strongest balsam he had. but ofnoavai 1
In two h iurs after the man had received
the bite he was unconscious, and in
four hours he died in a violent delirium.
This sad and sudden death served to
dampen the spirits of all on board for a
considerable length of time.
Difference Between " Cousins."
The difference between city and
their country cou.'ins is more marked
than most people believe. The first
impression a man has on finding him
self for the first time in a great city is of
vague excitement, accompanied by a
sense of danrer. The multiplicity of
objects appear fantastic to an eye ac
customed to rural scenery; the uninter
mittent noises, the entangled yet pur
poseful movements, and, above all, the
shitting panorama ol unfamiliar human
faces, combine to throw the visitor into
a state of mind to'aily strange to him.
And nmid so much tumu tuous life
he sees death every where on the lookout
for a victim. But il the visitor to these
strange regions Icoks at the fares of
thoee he meets in sean u of >ome re
flection of his own perturbation, he
looks in vain.
The countenance of the city man, as
he threads his wny along the streets, is
curiously impassive. At a first glance
it appears also to be unobservant; but
this is not it. For though he seems to
look at nothing, it soon b-oomea evident
that he sees everything.
He mechanically informs himself out
of the corner of his eye, of everything
that might tend to obstruct or threaten
him; and though he passes through a
thou-and people without encountering
the gaxc or treading on the toes of any
one of them, he will recognize an ac
quaintance or calculate to an inch the
rate of speed at which he must make the
crossing in order to escape the omnibus
from one direction and the truck from
the other.
Doubtless custom and memory will
account for a large part of it; yet the
impassive face would probably appear
tar less impassive than it does had not
the contraction of the facial muscles,
brought about by toe constant assaults
ot innumerable impression* and the im
possibility of responding to them all.be
come in a manner fixed.
The houses and the pavements, the
vehicles and the hub-bub,produce an ef
fect upon these muscles just the reverse
of that exercised by the hills and dales
of the country; ihey press them in in
stead of drawing them out —in other
words, the mind resists them instead of
sympnthlxmg with them.
Popular Kaaies of Cities.
Philadelphia, the Quaker City-
Boston. the Modern Athens; toe Hub.
New York, Gotham.
Baltimore, the Monumental City.
Cincinnati, the Queen City.
New Orleans, the Crescent City.
Washington, the City of Magnificent
Distances.
Chicago, the Garden City.
Detroit, the City ot Straits-
Cleveland, tho Forest City.
Pittsburg, the Smoky City.
New Haven, the City of Rims.
Indianapolis, the Railroad City.
St. I/ouit, the Mound City.
Keokuk, the Gate City.
Ixraiaville, the Fall City.
Nashville, the City of Rocks
Hannibal, toe Bluff City.
Alexandria, the Delta City.
Opium is smuggled into toe Bandwich
Islands in the cans labeled " Boston
Baked Beans." Another method of in
troducing the prohibited article ie to
bore cedar fence poets and pack the hole*
with It. The Cbineee are adepts ia thie
sort of trickery, and they clandestinely
peddle large quantities of opium and
rum amoug the natives.
Turkish Carpets.
One of the most important industries
of ibe Ottoman empire, and certainly
the chief industry of Asia Minor, always
excepting agriculture. Is the making of
carpets. Borne of the factories are now
furnished with looms quite in the Euro
pean manner, but It is not in such fac
tories that these famous fabrics are
chiefly produced; tho peasants in their
mud-house and the nomad Yuruks in
their tents all contribute to the many
kinds that are made. The annual value
of the carpets of Anavolia ap
proaches WOO,0(0; and of these but
a small number remain in Tur
key when compared with those
distributed over Europe and America,
where the demand is constantly
increasing. About three-fourths of
the carpets come to England (but not
all for home consumption> and about
one-sixth goes to France. These large
exports keep prices at a fair level, nnd in
the best shops ol Ixmdon and Paris all
kinds of Eastern carpets can be got for
ready money more cheaply than the
casual traveler can buy them on the
spot. This applies to the finest old
carpeis as well as to the new ones; for
even with a good and trusty dragoman
one may have to Jose the best pnrt of a
day haggling for half a dozen veivety
mellowed Daghcstana with a carpet
dealer of Symrna. Cairo or Alexandria,
and after all be victimized to some ex
tent.
Oosbak, a large village of artisans
about six days' journey dae cast from
Smyrna, is the headquarters of the
manufacture of the carpets known to us
for generations as " Turkey carpets,"
and in France as "tapis de Smyrne."
The patterns are Turkish, or, rather,
arabesque. At Oosbak there are at full
work hundreds of the looms called
iesyak, employing about 3,000 women,
and turning out about *5,000 square
yards of carpets of all sizes and quali
ties annually. A carpet of between
seven and eight yards in length will
'mplov eight women at once, working
side by side. Their wages are about
eight piasters a week, which, it is
calculated, comes to about one shilling
and nine pence for each yard of carpet
woven. The wood used comes from the
villages round about, and is bought for
about a half-penny a pound in its un
c leaned state. When washed and
bleached it loses at least one-third of its
weight. The foundation of the carpet
is made of an inferior wool, and the
whole material of the fabric may cost
about two shillings sixpence a yard.
This does not include the dyeing, which
is managed by the men, and form- the |
chief item of <x>st The colors that have j
so long satisfied our western eyes are I
produced tor the most part with mad
der, cochineal and indigo. Madder |
root, or alizard, gives the fine old
"Turkey red," and is largely!
grown in Asia Minor; the best roots i
cost from four to five oenta a pound.
Cochineal is imported from England and j
France, and, being an expensive dye, I
considerably raises the price of the car
pets. It was not used b fore the y-nr
1856; anterior to that date madder alone
was employed for reds, and this fart
gives an epoch for the carpet-fancier.
The indigo is brought from England or
from India. Yellows are got from the
seed of Rhamnus alaternus, which ia
cultivated largely in the east* rn parts ol
Karamania and it getting dearer every
day; it now costs one shilling fourpence
a pound. Other dyer, which are im
ported from Europe, are used in small
quantities to obtain the more tender
;ints and tone down to the general eficct |
The " velvet" carpets which have at
tained such a vogue were not made at
Oothak till the year IB6o.— Si. J. mm'
Gaulle.
A He* ef fire.
Among the petroleum springs of Baku,
on the western shore of the Caspian,
now beginning to he known as they de- i
serve, is one communicating with the
sea which produces at times a very
striking phenomenon. Toe floating oil
that covers the surface for many acres
round is frequently ignited by accident,
turning the smooth water into a verit
able lake of fire. The most famous of
these conflagrations, to which the super
stition of the natives gives the name of
"Shaitaun Noor" (Devil's Light),
occurred in the autumn of 1878. It j
broke out in the middle of the night, and
was declared by a Russian naval officer,
who witnessed it from the deck of a gun
boat, to be the most striking spectacle
he had ever seen. The sheet of flame
waved to and fro in the wind like a flag,
lighting up the shores for miles, and
making every point and rock clear as at
midday. Far as the eye could reach the
smooth water was all one red blase, and
the deep crimson glow which it tore a
into the sky was visible to the inhabit
ants of several inland districts far out of
eight of the sea itself.
Distress Is herasaay.
A German correspondent of the /till
Mall Gaulle writes that the financial
distress in Germany is very great- Sell
ing prices and lard rents are falling
frightfully low. The result is that
debtors on mortgage cannot pay toe in
terest of their debu, and are din
possessed, and their properties fre
quently sold st half the value they had
some time ago. This depreciation can
not be attributed to foreign competition,
ss the importation of com and othei
produce has been taxed. It is generally
believed that the fail Is prices is das to
thesoarcityofoasb.
It is asserted that the dairy products
of the Unitsd Skates have twine the
value of the wheat cm p.
A CcMrtM WMMMU
One of the mod beautiful and cele
brated women in Paris, asjs the Quincy
Argo, is Mme. I-opea, widow of the
dictator of Paraguay. Few hare each
a strange and eventfni career and spring
from obscurity to a position of almost
absolute power. When in Paraguay
her rule was undisputed. She Jived in
a palace and reigned a queen. She is
very tall, has a fair complexion, large
blue eyes, an abundance of light brown
hair and a commanding figure.
Mme. Lopes has a striking re
semblance to Eugenie. and indeed
has often been mistaken for the
ex-eniprrsa. She entertains beauti
fully, with great dignity and grace,
making each gu'nt believe he ia a fa
vored one. She speaks many langaagm,
ail without aootnL Mme. Ipz U
very brave, and during the war ia
Paraguay followed the fortunes of the
soldiers, sharing their food, and walk,
jng as they did, with bare feet, thinkjag
the troops would be braver and surer oif
success if the wife of their own com
mander shared their hardships. Hue
went through the war, and when her
husband fell dead at her feet she was
covered with his biood. There was no
time for tears. She took command, and
turning to the soldiers bade them ftre on
the enemy. With her husband fell an
old comrade of his, and on the battlefield
M me. Ix>pez promised the dying man
to tie a mother to his orphan girl, a
promise she has nobly kept. The cause
was lost, and with her sons and adopted
daughter the brave woman fled to Paris.
She is a devoted mother, and lives only
for the future of her sons. She feels
confident that the eldest will occupy a
high position in Paraguay, and it is the
dream of her life to see him dictator, as
his father was. Taking her eldest son.
M me. Ixipez returned to Paraguay two
years ago, thinking when it was known
that the son of the general was in bis
native country the people would
call him to the dictatorship. In
this she was disappointed. They were
received with hisses, and followed from
the steamer to the hotel by a crowd of
excited people, who only remembered
the cruel acts of "the tyrant," as the
general was called, and forgot all the
good the general's wile had done. Fear
ing violence, not for herself but for her
son, Mme. l/>pes, being a British sub
ject, claimed the protection of an Rnglisb
ship, then in the-harbor, and at night
was taken through the streets, with a
| pistol in her hand, determined to sell
| her life dearly. Since Mme. Ipes re
torted from her unfortunate trip she
has resided in Paris. Among her friends
are many who knew her in ber day of
power, and who are now proud to show
their regard and admiration for one of
the most heroic women and devoted
mothers of the age.
That Obellsh.
The New York correspondent of the
Detroit Fret Prtu has a few remarks to
make about the Egyptian obelisk:
Commander Gorringe has been '-'ng
about the obelisk and letting in some
light, as it were, on a dark spot. People
must not call the venerable shaft Cleo
; patra's Needle any more. Gorringe says
I she never saw it, and Gorringe ought to
know. Cleopatra was dead, he tells as
when this old block of sandstone,
hieroglyphics and all. was carted from
Greece to Alexandria. Gorringe was
not there at that time, but he bae looked
the whole thing up, and Is quite sure
that the carting did not lake place till
some years alter Cleopatra's death. 80
it is a mistake to call the thing Cleo
patra's Needle, and it is to be hoped that
people will hereafter remember to speak
of it as monolith of the period of Totb
mes 1., 11. or 111., I am not sure which,
but it was 1.400 years ago. anyway,
j Gorringe has got the monolith over to
the place in which it will stand in Cen
tral Park, at last. He has made beUer
time with it than we expected.
A Detective (lamere.
A little apparatus which may well be
a detective camera baa recently
been invented. To all appearance it
looks like a shoeblack's box, which my
I be slung over the shoulder with a strap,
or rested upon the pave men', if need be.
In fact, when wanted for work, it ia
put dowt on the ground. It carriea
gelatine plates already iu position, with
a lens that is always in locos for any
distance from twenty to thirty feet. The
camera may be used without the least
| fear of discovery. It may be dropped
in the street in the middle ol the pave
ment, before a shop, upon n bridge, any
time the owner sees a group be wants n
I picture of. As the box touches the
| ground a bulb is squeseed. and the ex-
I posnre ia made. The inventor abows
an instantaneous sketch taken on board
a steamer of two men by the sidae of
the paddle box. one of tbem robbing
his forehead tu the most innocent and
unconscious manner, while the other
reia.es some story or incident.
Little six year-old waa taking hie first
lesson in addition, and when the teacher
aked him, "If I were to give you two
cats and another nice lady gave you twu
more, bow many rata would you havef
be quickly replied: " Why. pretty sotm
I wouldn't have any, for my mamma
would break their aecka with the brooaa.
She don't like cats."—Afcrrfofomm
Herald
Of oaah Ssala left just tve dollars, the
remnant ol his cues ample fortune. Bin
pqreooal property amounted to very
1 Mile. He commenced his long debauch
with a purpose which HUH to have
been fully accomplished.