LVIHKS' DEPARTMENT. !Irn' Clniltlim on Women. Wo would liko to ml 1 attention to the fact that tho stylo of draw influences the manner*, the carriage, of the woman. The masculine Btylo of dross lias this ob jection. It is (iifllcnlt to say what we could substitute for the ulster that we have all adopted. It is a very con venient garment for our streets, and for rain and mud and snow; but there is a difference in tho cut of ulsters, as they should lw> as little liko a very bad over coat as possible. Where a young girl has side pockets, she is apt to put her hands in thorn, and where she adds a Derby hat, how often the swagger fol lows ! The Derby hat appears to have no ex cuse. It is unbecoming even to a man, and absolutely hideous upon a woman. It is surprising to see them adopted by well-bred ladies. They have hud great countenance, to be sure, but we think that if we should lmml over all tho younger generation to the exclusive cos tume of the Derby hat, tho ulster, the Jersey, and the short skirt, it would not take more than one generation to make us lose all grace of manner, //orysr's Magazine. A Court Hull fit llcrlht. An American lady, describing the an nual court ball in Berlin, savs: At seven o'clock a stream of vehicles extended from tho Brandenburg gate, at the lower end of the Unter deu Linden, to tho portals of tho Grand Ojiera-Honse. Mounted police were stationed along the line. It seemed as though every man, woman and child in Berlin who could not afford to buy a ticket, being unwilling to be left entirely out of the festivities, was peering into the car riages to catch a glimpse of the dresses and faces. But no lounging was allowed alwut the doors. The opera-house is a large building, very suitable for an occasion of the kind. The seats, like those i the New York Academy of Music, are covered at such times with a highly-poli -bed floor for dancing; for greater safety this had been effectually tested by a regiment of soldiers. Tho rear of tho stage was covered with a scene representing a forest, while the corridors and stairways had been hung with garlands of ever greens and festooned with green branches; at intervals along the wall were minute grottoes wherein waterfalls and fountains made refreshing music, In many of the windows opening on the corridors hung cages filled with bril liantly-plumaged birds. Across one end of the room extended a balcony occupied by an orchestra and a company of boy choir singers, while at the opposite end, and directly over the royal box, another orchestra was stationed. There were numerous mirrors, and it was u notice able fact that the officers used them far more than the ladies. When at nine o'clock the members of the court appeared there was hardly standing room. The emjeror, empress crown prince and princess, with her daughters, occupied three of the central loges. Immediately on their entrance gentlemen and ladies in a confused mass pushed and jostled one another in an effort to see all of the royalty there was to lie seen. Shortly after their arrival the grand promenades began. The em- per or wulkesl first with the drown prin cess, mill IM-hiiisl came tin" crown prince with the empress, Prince Karl, with his daughter-in-law. Prince Frederick Karl with the Princess von Meiningen, Prince Alexander anil the Princes# of Hohenzollem, with other members of i the court. During the promenade the orchestra played and the hoy choristers I sang the king's |>olonaise. The emjieror, who is in his eighty fourth year, looked every inch what he is—a very handsome old man. He liowed right and left with as much grace as his son. The empress, in spite of her age and excessive thinness, ap|>eamd in a low-tns-kisl and short-sleeved white silk dress of most elalsirato design, the train entirely trimmed with flowers and green leaves, while her head, instead of its natural gray, was adorned with massif of jet-hlack hair. Altogether, she was a most pitiable picture of de erepiil old age. The crown princess looked far more queenly. She was dressed in la render silk, covered with white lace and profusely trimmed with white roses and dark leaves. Both the empress and crown princess wore mag nificent coronets of diamonds. After the promenade the royal jmrty returned to their loges, while the em|ieror re {wired to the box of the diplomatic corps, and entered into earnest conver sation with its occupants. The royal family left aliout eleven o'clock, after which the interest flagged, and the floor became less crowded. Them was mom or less dancing all the evening, bnt of a kind Americans do not cam mnch for. Fn.hlon \olvm. All (>oko bonnet* have strings. Handkerchief* will again be worn. Olil blue i* a now shade of this color. Bordered rolsi dresses will bo much worn. Ponilsnt lockets are no longer fash ionable. Ball earring* in rolled gold are very fashionable. " Poke bonnets of medium size will be worn again. Htnall women cannot wear bordered robe dresses. Lace pins have superseded all other kinds of brooch. White continues to be the livery of festive occasions. Mahogany red shades prevail in tho new Tuscan straws. Very wide ribbons are used in trim ming spring bonnets. Stool and silver laces appear utiinng new millinery goods. Egyptian designs are preferred in millinery ornaments. Feathers and flowers are usisl to ex cess on spring bonnets. Hmall bonnets will be revived in the spring to a limited extent. The use of gold thread in embroidery is the feature of tile season. The new millinery ornaments com bine gold, steel, jet and silver. Coral and seaweed patterns appear in the borders of new printed g<sds. There is an effort made to mitigate tight sleeves with slashes near the arm hole. A large proportion of the new printed cotton dress goods are bordered on the edges. Panaches or tufts of feathers will be more used on bonnets than long single plumes. Handkerchief and robe pattern dresses are becoming only to women of good stature. Long scurf pins, with rich, ornamen tal heads, are coming into vogue for ladies' wear. Children's costumes .ire cut up into too many sections this spring to be pretty or in good taste. English and French I.islo thread gloves will be as niucb worn next summer us they were last. Flower pompons, in which a few heron feathers form the central aigrette, are seen in leading millinery IIOUM-S. Art needlework societies in smaller tows produce more truly artistic em broideries than those in large cities. The * mootli wooden or tiled floors of the French, dotted over with nigs, are eoming int" favor in American hottMa. Peasant waists laeed ill the hack are worn over tarlatan waists and skirts, with a tunic to match of the material of the waist. Sphinx heads, Egyptian lieetles, asps, obelisks, pyramids and lotus designs are the favorites in bonnet and bat ornaments. Tlie new jßitterns for summer suits have elaborately trimmed skirts with a small quantity of dmjiery, and basques of absolute plainness. The sleeves are of tho coat sliajie. Momie cloths conic in dress patterns this year, jart of the material lieing of a light color anil part of a darker shade, with flowers strewed upon it and hav ing n flower horsier. Little boys wiwr the richest of lace for the collars and cuffs to their velvet suits. When they grow big enough to care aliout their fine feathers they are jtiit into the roughest of rough cloth. The old-fashioned twilled Scotch ginghams, in patterns which Duly Mac beth worn w hen Macbeth went a woo ing, still hold their own, andapfwmntly will until " Awe's fierce stream shall lmckward turn." A Boy Seized by an bugle. While Willuuu Itanicls, a youth, was eating his breakfast, a large eagle swiMijs'tl down upon him through an o(icn window and seized a Hsh he had in his liAtid, which he was alwmt to put in his month. Quickly drop ping that, the bird attacked Dan iels, tearing the flesh from his twek and face in a fearful manner. He made an attempt to defend himself, hilt was no match for the eagle. The boy was finally dragged out of the door into the yard, where the attack was renewed with lieak anil talons. Daniels called, loudly for help. His father, who was in another |>art of the house, answered bis calls, but not know ing what to make of the singular figlit, as lie savs, thinking it was the devil, scam|>crcd away as fast as his legs eon Id i-arrv him. After a desper ato battle of nearly half an hour the i-agle finally stuck a sharp stick in its neck that w as standing in the ground, and was fatally wounded—not 1 adore, however, it had administered a terrible drubbing to the whom it left upon the ground, bleeding, mangled and un able to riae. The fight was witn>sscd by several planters on the op]>oeite side of the river, but as they had no means of crossing the stream they were unable to give the boy any assistance. The oc currence was one of the most remarkable ever known in this section.- MiUon )A'. C.) Chronicle. "My friends," said the political speaker, with a bnrat of ingenuous elo quence, " I will he honest—." fbero was a large nnmlter of his neighbors present, and the terrific outburst of ap plause which followed this remark en tirely upset the point which the speaker was about to introduce. (tolling Iteaily for m Fire In New York. Engine Company 24, in Morton street, if* said to bo tlio ijnickoHt in tho world. Captain William McLaughlin wiih found yowtorday in his room on the second floor. Ho raid, when asked how long it took him to hitch up: " Excuse mo, I decline to Htate. Why? Because yoti'd think mo a liar. Do you know how to Use a stop watch ?" "I do." The captain walked down-stairs to the tirst floor, where his men were standing about in little groups. The floor was as clean us could be. Every little bit of metal work i ii the engine and ten der was glistening like polished gloss. \\ itliiu fourteen feet from the head of the shuft of the cngiuo were two horses in stalls, directly hcsiilo the wheels of the apparatUM. Formerly the horses had to run from the rear of the building. Twenty-four's horses are magnificent animals. They are js-rfoctly matched eight-year old grays, nearly fifteen hands high, with clean, tu|w-riiig legs, perfectly arched necks, small heads ami fiery eyes. Y'estenlay, when waiting for the stroke of the gong, read v to jump forward under the harness, they were pictures of animation. Their im mense strength and rigidity seemed to melt away, ami they became as lithe and agile a* kitten*, pawing tlio floor, throw ing their beautiful heads high in the uir. "They know there'h something in tho wind," muttered the captuin ; "mighty clever beasts." The captain handed a watch to the reporter, any in g : "That watch belongs to Captain l ( .ustis, tin oarsman. It was iumml by William It Curtis to time Court m_v ami Hun Inn at Washington. It register* an eighth of a Hecotnl. When I strike the gong, you push that little knoli. When the driver shouts • Heady I' you push that one. If yon hear u click or see any part of the out tit uuclas|w>d, don't stop the watch until it's remedied. lam going to hitch up ten times." The reporter *tep|sl within a little inclosure on a line with the end of the pole. The harness, already ottaehed t<i tin- engine, was suspended by a system of pulleys over the places where the hoi s . were to stand. The eoliars were hinged at the top, but Were ojmui at the hottoin, and they hung like a pair of ojn'ii scissors. When the horse'* ris-k is Is'iieath this collar it is only necessary to let it drop and close it around Itis ms'k, when it cla.s|* automatically. With the same movement the reins are clasped to the lut, which the horse al ways has in his mouth, and as the whole harness falls ii|*>n the animal, at the clasp of the collar he stands completely harnessed. The captain approached the gong. The firemen were all on the floor. The horws were on the alert. "Clang!" The watch was started; the horse*, whose halters were unhitched by the same current ( >f electricity that rang the liell, leu|ied forwanl, ami st<H*l like rocks under the harness, with their neck* held up n ady for the collars, which two firemen sprang forward and seized. Then was a quick click,click,the driver vaulted into his seat, seized the n-ins, ami shollbsl "Iteadv!" The watch waa stopped. The lioi-m>* were examined, and fonnd to 1- perfectly harnessed and n-ndy to start. The captain n*k*l the rejtorter: " How much 7" "One second and five-eight ha" "If I'd said that I'd Ix-en called a liar," said the captain. The horse* were released. They ran hark again to their stalls and were haltered. There was another trial, and the team was lutein*! and harncsiu-d in one and onc-lialf seconds. This made the captain smile. The time occupied liy each of the other eight trials was ex pressed in seconds, as follow*: 2, '2, *2, 1 7-8, '2, 1 7-8, 1 7-8 and 1 1-2.—AW York Sun. A Klral to Kerosene. M Kordig, a Hungarian, has been lately |M-rforming some ex|ieriments at scientific meetings in Paris, with a vola tile combustible liipiid, which is offered for lighting pur|io*c*. Having nrrang<*l on the table several lani|is in which the fluid hum* with a beautiful bright flame, M. Kordig states that the sub stance presents no danger of fire or ex plosion, and gives the following tests: He jMinrs a quantity of liqiudon the hat and lights it, whcrenjion a long flame springs np to the ceiling. lie puts his hat on his head and waits till the flame goes out, and the hat is then shown to lie intact. Kcxt he |murs some of the liquid on the floor, and on a handker chief, and lights it; the floor and handkerchief am noways damaged. Home drops may lie put in the lud low of one's hand and burned without producing appreciable pain. These facts are readily explained. M. Kordig'h mineral essence lsiils at about thirty-flve degrees C, and the tension of its vttpnr is considerable, so that it is not the liquid that lmrns but its vapor The new liquid is said to lie obtained from rial lira I oil Is* Is recently discov ered in Hungary. It has a slight smell of pctmlcnm, and produces on the hand a cold sensation like ether. A match loss story—On* in which i hare are no weddings. TIIK LOOKINIMILAMH. Hmr <|u**rr Huprrmlhlunm I'onrctiilnu It— VI nil If Mirror*, Kir, As a piece of furniture the looking glass is most necessary, and its very im portance is among the chief reasons why superstitious fancy has invested it with those mysterious qualities which cer tainly do not belong to chairs and tables. A chair, however beautiful and costly in its manufacture, may be cruelly broken with jsirfoct impunity; whereas, if some wretched, dilapidated mirror is accidentally cracked, such an event is sure to bo followed by misfortune of some kiml or other. Most readers are, no doubt, acquainted witli Bonaparte'.-, superstition on this (mint. During one of his campaigns in Italy lie broke tlx glass over .fosaphina'n]iortrait. So di turbed was he at this, as he thought, onlinous occurrence that he never rested until the return of the courier whom lie had forthwith dispatched to convince himself of her safety, so strong was tl • impression of her death iqon hi* mind. In Cornwall, breaking a looking-glu i, believed to insure seven years of sorrow ; and a Yorkshire proverb inform* u that such an unfortunate occurrence entu-lx "seven years' trouble, but no want." In Scotland to smash a looking-glass hom ing against the wall is regarded I 1 an infallible sign that a member of the family will shortly die. (irone, alludin," to this superstition, says it foretells the speedy ibs-easo of the master of the house. In tin- south of England it is reganh 1 highly unlucky for a bride on her wed ding day to look in the glass, when sin is completely dt 'eil, 1. fore starting for the eiiurch. Hence Very great care is usually taken to put ou u glove or some slight artiele of adornment, after tin- last lingering and reluctant look has Imm-ii taken in tin- mirror. The idea, we are infoniusl, is that any young lady who is too fond of the looking-glass will Ik* unfortunate when married. This is not, however, the only way in whi<-h sujs-r --stition interferes with the grown-up maiden's jiecps in tin- looking-glass. I litis Sw• dish dam-- 1- are afraid of look ing ill the gla s after dark, or by candle light, b-st by so doing tbev forfeit the gmsl-w ill of the other sex. <tn the other band, in our own country, the looking glass occasionally hold- a prominent js>- sition in love divination*. In tin- north ern counties a number of young men and women meet together on St Agm-s's • vi at midnight, and go one by one, to a certain Held, where they scatter some grain, after which they rejs-at the fol lowing rhyme; " Agnes sw" ft inn! Aglww fir. Hither, IntlK r. ism njAir. IWmiir Agnes, let m< s-s- The Iwl who i tomsrn w." On their return home it i* Wlievcd that till- shadow of the destined bride or bridegroom will lie wx-n in a )icking gla-s on this vitv niglit. Hence, for many an hour togi flier the young in quirer* sit nj> w.,f ling tin* looking-glass, I fori- which th<y not unfrrquontly fail aal.)i. mistaking the vision* that have tip|nn-d in their dream* f<r actual re alities. It- lgian girl* who d<-ire to *f their liu-lsmd* in a dream lay their garter* crosswise at the foot of the l<eil ami a looking-glass under their pillow ; in tliia glass, they believe, the desired image will appear. The practice of covering or removing the looking-glass from the cliatnlior of death Mill prevail* in some |*irts of Knglaml tlo- notion, aeeonling to some, Iwing that "all vanity, all care for earthly lieanty are over with the di-ei-amx!." Mr Itaring tlouhl consider* that the true reason for shrouding the hsikitig-glas* la-fore a funeral was that given him in Warwick shire, where there i* a |>opiilar notion that if a jw-rson look* into a mirror in the cliamlicr of death he will see the cor]i*c looking over hi* shoulder. A similar snjierstition prevails in some part* of Devonshire. If the looking-glas* is associabsl with marriage and death, so it i* with in fanry ; for, aeeonling to a piece of lhir ham folklore, a Imy or girl should never lie allowed to look in one until a year old. In days gone liy, too, it np]*-ar* to have ls-eti enstomary for Isitli sexes to wear small looking-glasses a fantastic fashion ridiculed liy Ben Jonson ami other* of his time. Men even wore them in their hats. " Where is your |tgo? Call for your caMing bottle, and place your mirror in your hat, a I told yon." This, we may suppose, wa* the very height of affectation, by the man ner in which Ben Jonson introdncc* it; lint there can lie no doubt, to nse the word* of Mr. Gifford, that both men and women wore them publicly—the former as brooches or ornaments in their hats, and the latter at their girdles or in their breasts, nay. sometimes in the center of their fans. Brand informs us, in his "Popular Antiquities," that looking-glasses were formerly used by magicians in "their superstitions and dialiolical ojierations.'' He quotes an old authority, who says: " Home magicians, l>eing curious to find out by the help of a looking-glass, or a glass full of water, a thief that lies hidden, make choice of young maids to discern therein those images or sights which a pcrsou defiled cannot see." Potter tells ua that, when divination by water was performed with a looking glass, it was railed " raloptmmanry." Sometimes our ancestors dipped a look ing-glass into the wafer when they wera anxious to ascertain what would become of a sick person. Accordingly aa he looked well or ill in the gIaKM, so they foretold whether he would recover or not. In the list of mu| strati toua practice* preserved in the " Life and Character of Harvey," the famous conjuror of Dublin (172H), "with fortune-telling, drenms, visioriH, pulmiHtry, physiognomy," etc., there oecur also "looking-glasses." It is curious to find this species of su|s-r stifion existing among the Africans of the fiuincu const. They believe in a jmr ticularly hideous devil, but say that the only means of defense they require against his ossailments is a looking-glaaa. If any one will only ke<-p this preserv ative at all times lieside him, the devil cannot help seeing himself in it, which cau*es him titmice to rush away terrified at the sight of his own ugliness. Another source of ill luck consists in seeing tin- new moon reflected in a look ing gloss, or through a window jiaiie; and Mr. Henderson, in his "Folklore of the Northern Counties," relates the cow of a maid servant who was in tlio habit of shutting her eyes when closing the shutters, fur b-ar she might unexpectedly catch a glimpse of it through the glass. Once more, it was once customurv in Scotland on Allhallows Even, to practice various kinds of di virtual ions, among which Hums mentions the following; •' W.-e Jet hit to tier grannie says ' Will v go wi mi-, grannie? I 'll < at lie- apple at the glow, I gat frac t n< h- Johnnie.'' The custom here alluded to was this; Ihe young woman took a candle and went alone to the looking-glass, where she either ate an apple or combed lu-r hair all the time sh<" st<s| Is-fore it; meanwhile tin- face of her future jiartner wit- said to peer in the glass, as if js-ep i'ig over In r should" r /.ore/on Owrn. ll(inittii Nose*. A writer in one of the English n< ws ji.qM-rs snv s Fram-i* Grose, in hi* ap |s-ndi\ t"i Hogarth's "El-ments of Beautv," dclincati ■ ( -ight tvpical no*-**. Th ••re is tin- angular, tin- aquiline or 1 toman, tin- parrot's Is-ak, tlx- straight or f im-ian, tin- Hullsiu* or botth-d, the turmsi-up or snub, ami the mixed or broken Of the latter, by the way, the now - of at hwt two illustrious men may I*- taken a* illustrations Tvclio Brule and Mi<-liael Angi-10, tie- latter of whom owed hi* ungraceful u]i|*-mlix to a vio lent blow from a < oiii|*iiion with whom lie wa- at vaiianc"-, ami who thus disfig ured tin- gnat artist for lib-, and in slant ly fled. Tn these may 1* adih-d the i.niter Cicero, ujsin whom nature w * 'ins t-i have Is-stewisl a nasal organ of a tyjM- ili•• nli-dly " mixed," if not broken. I'lutureli, in Ins life of the querulous I lot nan, says that he had a flat excres cence on the top of his now- in resem blance of u vetch <-ic r in from which In- t<sk his surname. l'linv says, with more probability, that tin- nnme original"*! in an extensive cultivation of vetches, just as others hod previously lecn Kurnariusl from cto|s of other kinds. ilnWi Vi-r this may Is-, the fact of Cicero's snub now- may no doubt Is accepted, and it accords with tin- tradi tional lielief that this description "if nose is usually indicative of a fiery, quick, impetuous temjsir, Cicero having |M>sm sw-,1 tins characteristic in a marked degree. Horace s-i-nn t<i regard the short nose, with a little turn-up at the end, a* the mark of a js-rson given a good ileal to jibing and jeering. Mar tial call* it the rhinocerous now-, and says that it was highly fashionable in bis "lay, everyliodr affecting this kind of pmlsvscis a* an indication of a satirical hnmor. The "angular" nose, as Grose calls it, is the long, clear ly cut. ]Minted organ, and wa*, no doubt, the tvjie to which Horace alludes when he says it is indicative of satirical wit. The "|iarrot js-ak" i* the nose with which Mr. Punch usually adorns hi* caricature of the sultan or khedive and is akin to the typical Jewish nose all over the world. The eight tyjies given embrace every description of the feature, and students of caricature are strongly re commended in the treatise alluded to to make themselves perfectly familiar with the simple lines liy which these curiously comprehensive sketches are ef fected. A very singular fact ha* liecn olmerved with regard not somncli to the shape of the now as to the netting of it in tli* face, no to s|s>ak. To 1H strictly correct, from the artist's jxiint of vie*, the now should le accurately in the middle of the fare and at right an gles with a line from the pupil of one eye to that of the other. As a matter of faet it is rarely ever found thus placed. It is almost invariably a little out of " the square," and the faet of its Iteing so is often that which lends a ]s>rn]iar expression and piquancy to the faee. A medieal writer |s>ints out that there are anatomioal reasons why a slight de viation from the true central line may lte expected, and that the nose which is thus accurately straight between the two eyes may 1e considered an abnor mal one, and that the only absolutely correct organ is that which deviates a little to the right or left. Begging; as a profession, pays even in England, where it is prohibited. At the Huirey sessions recent ly a young man was convicted of liegging. He made on an average six dollars per day, be side* spending froiu one dollar to two dollars and a half for liquor. He had In-cn convicted sixty times Iwforc of lugging, and on this occasion was mm fenced for one year, with twanty strokes I I KIOi H FACTS. Fifty year* ago tomato** jwere called love applnn, and were considered poison ous. It iH calculaN-d fliat sixty tone of steel are annually consumed in the manufac ture of ste-| nil In. Ibe canon* of Houtb Utah alxonnd in Aztoe picture writing of a curiam and remarkable eharaeter. Thorn i* u kind of lemon which grown in Southern Kurojs- an sweet an an orange, but all other H|M-i< of lemon* are intensely sonr. The game of backgammon is the oldest we know of, and wan (xnunog a thou sand yi-ars In-fore Christ's time. The water of the nea and rivers con tains more animal life than exists on tin- land, if we can Indie re scientists. According to I>r. Kdward Krnith, an egg eontainn 15 1-4 per cent, of nitro gen. Another writer cntimaUw that the value of one ]>ound of eggs an food for sustaining the active forces of the liody in to the value of one pound of lean beef an 1,5k |to tIOO. Ah a flesh producer one I>ound of eggH in alsiut equal to one l>oun<l of beef. Storm warnings art- a distinct branch of tin- forecasts of meteorology, Their object 11 to give to M-amin notice of an approaching gale. Tliej have been now in operation for more tlian ten years, and during tliat jn noil at loaat seventy-five jHTcent. of the warning* issued have Ixi-ri justified by tiie gali or strong wind* which followed. Tear I tot tie*. In Persia tliey bottle up their t'-ars an of old Thin in done in the following manner AH the mourners are Kitting around and weeping, the master of eero nioni' j.r<nt ouch one with a piece of cottonwool, with which he wi}** off his tear - This cotton in afterward squeezed into a hottle, and the ti-ars are preserved a- a jxiwi rful and efficacious remedy for reviving a dying man after every other nn-aii>- hie failed. It is also employed a* a ' harm against evil influences. Thin <-us tom i prohuhly alluded to in I'solm lvi. f verse* " J'lit thou ra< tears into a bottle." The practice wan once universal, as is found hy tin ti-ar I Kit ties which are found in almost every ancient tomb, for the ancients buried them with their disil as a priHif of their affection. The IHKIV is in itlii-r bnrin-d. as was practiced by tho <ii< • k* and I cumin-, and is still done by the Hindoos, nor is it eml>almed, aeoord ing to the custom of the Egyptians, which was often done by the Hebrews. His best clothes are put upon the IKKIJ of the ib-ail. and it is laid, not in a coffin, but on tin- ojen bier, fully ei|K>s<sl to view. The Gn-ek* adorn it with flowers, especially in the case of young people of IKitli sejes. The funeral procession is silent with the Turks, while in a Chris tian burial the priest softly hums prayers on the way to the graTe. I loth Christians and Moslems repeat prayers at the grave. Every valuable garment or other article is then taken off the Is sly, and it is buried within a cof fin, in n shallow grave, and covered over with soil. The women of tho household do not accompany the procession on its way to the cemetery; they merely set tip the tahill as it leaves the house. They afterward visit the grave from time to time in order to weep and pray; tho priest* are hired to do the same. Tho family and relatives of the dead ol.serve mourning by wearing their oldest gar ments or clothes of dull colors, and by laving aside their ornaments. Among some Armenian Christians a sacrifice in offered, which is distinctly stated not to be propitiatory, but an act of charity to the living for tho Wnefit of tho dead. Mark Twain'* Advice lo Seribbler*. Hon- are some words of aarcaatic ad vice from Mark Twain which arc often put into an editor's head by matter* not wholly unconnected with the content* of hi* lctter-lxi*: Don't write too plainly, it ia a aigii of plebeian origin Scrawl yonr article with your syos Mint, and make pvory won! a* illegible a* yon can. Avoid all ]>ain*takiiig with proper nam OH. We know the full name of every man, woman and child in the United State*, and the merest hint at the name ia sufficient. For instance, if you write a character somewhat like a drunken figure it and then draw a wave line, we know at once you mean "Samuel Morri son," even though yon think you may mean " Lemuel Messenger." How wre do love to get hold of article* written in thia atyle I And how we ahonld like to get hold of the man who aenda them — plat ten minute*—alone—in the woods, and a revolver in onr hip pocket t I arrest Organ In the World, The little city of Freybnrg, in Switz erland, haa the largeet organ ia the world, lta builder wae n poor man, Alonro Mower, who devoted hi* life to ta construction. Without aamatanoe or auggnation from othera, he pcnievwted for years, in defiance of optmaition, pov erty and ridienhn, nntil his task and life < nde . The mighty organ a tan da among all similar worka like Mount Diane among the mountains, peer leas, alone. It baa -even thousand eight hundred pipes, and when in fall pky shaken the walla and foundations of old Bk, Nicholas church, ill which it t hands.
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