LADIES DEPARTMENT. Pimhton Funrlm. Cuffs must mutch collars. Shirred waists are much worn. Res. Ombre satins do Lyon grow more and more popular for both dresses and bon nets. Linen Scotch plaid ginghams will be < the popular novelty of the coming seas< m. Shirred effects in skirt draperies ap" pear on the most fashionable imported dresses. A dash of yellow, blue or red is deemed essential to the finish of all dark toilets. St eel buttons with glittering centers of bronze, emerald-green, sapphire-blue or garnet are very elegant and fashionable. The new Scotch ginghams are very brilliant in coloring, and the fabric is unusually fine. They are as handsome in appearance as the plaided silks of last season. , A new style of low shoe is cnt into diamond shaped apertures on the instep and is stitched with silk matching the stocking, and tied withacord ami tassel of the same color. Steel lace in the shape of simple net in figured edgings, and in crowns wrought with Iteads, will be used on all kinds of bonnets except those of yellow • straw this summer. A close curtain or piece of reversed braid finches the back of the new l>on nets ; each one is trimmed so as to har monize with the style in which the wearer nrranges her hair. A growing eccentricity is the wearing upon one arm of innmerahlo bangles hung with charms of every description, and upon the other a gold hand of massive thickness and prodigious size. Mechlin and Languedoc lace will both be used by the milliners during the season. Scarfs of ranslin and Brussels net will le trimmed with them and they w ill be mingled with flowers. Hpanisii lace scarfs will be used for black hats. The number of tints and styles shown under the name of woolen mixtures is really Itewildering. There are strijsw ami clouded stuffs and cheeks so slightly defined that one can hardly lieqnite sure that they are visible or only irnaginarr, and the hue of the material changes with each movement of the wearer. Ladies who make their Itelt ltows of j narrow ribbon with long ends reveal , their good intentions but also their lack of knowledge. Nothing but sash ribbon should be used for those ornaments, and , not less than a yard ami a half can he employed for a how. Three long stand ing 100-,*, and ono short loop and two ends about ,ton inches in length are required. Repped or satin ribbon may be used as one pleases. Stew Kraisrrs mill Mini*. One of the maxims in millinery this spring is that all trimmings are placed low, yet there are lionnets that give a high effect, for the faces that need it, by the use of full wreaths anil side pom pons with erect aigrettes, or by the long-looped hows on top. Among the novelties is the Tnscan lace made of straw as fine as thread; this is pnt on for trimming, and there are crowns and whole bonnets made of it; sneh crowns are not lined, leaving the liack trans parent to display a handsome coiffn re, while the brim has slurred surah inside. There are also imported lionnets for snmmer that are lined with black silk plush of light weight, and this fin ing is stndiled near the front with large bnttons of mt steel sneh as are seen on dresses at present. Very long ostrich plumes shaded through one eolor, or it may lie two, as from yellow into maroon, are placed high on the left side, allowed to curl across the hack to the right, and fall in front of the chin. Roses with soft flexible stems, on which are thorns, are among the expensive novelties that are on Parisian bonnets that are marked ffiO, On sneh a bon net the brim is cnt in battlamented squares, and two or three plaitinga of black tliread lace fall forward on the luiir ; the lionnat itself is made of straw droi* beaded with gold ; the w ide satin murveilloux strings are of many similes of yellow, (lilt beads aro introduced in many of tholaco Htraw bonnets, and rod is the favorite color for lining these transparent open-worked straws. Real gilt buttercups in clusters are pretty on tlio Spanish-looking lmts. The most simple way of using a laco scarf for strings is to form ono loop behind of ono end, and have hut ono string, which is brought from the loft siilo under the chin, around to the hack, and passed through this loop. The sLadeil not seen in the shops is a very effective trimming for black chip pokes, being put care lessly across the top, ami used as strings. Flowor lionnets are represented this season by crushed rose crow ns, with a wreath on tlio eilgo of the brim, and the spaces between covered by scurfs of d'Aurillac lace ; the pale coral pink and salmon roses aro vory pretty in these dressy bonnets, which aro usually of ! medium size. Tho vellow-green shades ! that are sometimes called mustard and j sometimes olive, are shown in velvet i and thin plush for strings ; this quaint | eolor is used with black blonde lace, | and is as new as the silver lace with pink already described, //ue/ier'* I In-nr. tliirrliiiic mill sUm-Mim*. The following letter accompanied a , present of a pair of stockings to a young , bride: Dkaii I'orsiN : -Herewith you will j receive a present of a pair of woolen | stockings, knit by my own hands; and j be assured, dear cox, that my friendship ' for yon is ns warm as the material, active as the finger work, and generous as the donation. But 1 consider this the ' occasion of your marriage. You will remark in tho first place that there are two individuals united in one pair, who I are to walk side by side, guarding against coldness, and giving comfort as long as they last. The thread of their texture is mixed, and so, alas! is the thread of life. In these, however, the ; white predominates, expressing my desire and confidence that thus it will be with the color of our existence. No ; black is used; for I believe your lives wiy lie wholly free from the black passions of wrath and jealousy. The darkest color hero is blue which is excellent, where we do not mako it too I blue. j Other appropriate thoughts ri*c to i my mind regarding these stockings. Yon will perceive that the tops of these | stockings (by which 1 suppose court ship to he represented) is seamed, and by means of seaming ore drawn into a snarl, bnt afterward comes a time when ' the whole is made plain, and continues iso to the end and final toeing off. By this, I wish yon to take occasion to con gratulate yourself that you are now ! through with seaming and have come to 1 plain reality. Again, as the whole of I these comely stockings were not made at once, but by the addition of one little stiti-h after another, put in w itli i.kill and , discretion, until the whole pr< -cnta a fair, equal piece of work you see, so life does not consist of one great action bnt i millions of little ones combined; and so may it lie with you. No stitch drujqied where duties nre to lie performed —no : widening made where Iwnl principles . are to be reproved or economy pre served; neither seaming nor narrowing j where truth and generosity are in qnes | tion. Tims every stitch of life is made ! right ntul set in the right place- none either too large or too small, too tight ; or too loose ; thus you may keep on your smooth and even course, making your i existence one fair and consistent piece, ; until together, having parsed the heel yon come to the very toe of life, anil here, in the final narrowing off, and dropping tho coil of this emblematical pair of companions and comforting as j sociates, nothing itpiiear* but white, the token of innocence and peace, of purity | and light—may yon, like these stock - j ings, the final stitch being dropped, and I the work lieing completed, go together j from the place where yon formed, to a j happier state of existence, a present from earth to heaven. Hoping that these stockings and admonitions may meet a cordial reception, I remain in the true blue friendship seemly, with out seeming, yours from top to toe. Hontbs that Killed the Czar. Alexander 11. was killed by Orsiiq tiombs. These destructive shells are very dangerous, not only on acconnt of the quantity of fragments they scatter about on exploding, bnt also on ac connt of their special oonstmction, which renders them exploaiblo at the least shock. At the time of Orsini's at tempt against the life of Napoleon 111. one of the conspirators hail his arm blown off by one of the bombs he wss holding in hia hand. These bomiis are of spherical or ellipsoidal form. In the first shape they aro covered all over with cap* ; in the other, the basis of the shell lieing heavier than the other parts, the projectile thrown in the air always falls on the same end where the c]* are, and the explosion takes place. The iin|iortation of thoroughbred horses, cattle and sheep from Europe to this country for the past year nxcoods in number that of any former year. TIIE FAMILY IMMTOIt. Poison from bees, hornets, spider bites, etc., in distantly arrested hv the application of equal parts of common suit and bicarb, nate of nodu, well rub bed in on the place bitten or stung. A standing antidote for poison by dew, poison oak, ivy, etc., is to take a handful of quicklime, dissolve in water, let it stand half an hour, then paint the poisoned parts with it. Three or four applications will never fail to euro the most aggravated eases. The food of tho eye Li light, as air is for the lungs, bread for the stomach, and us the fins of tho fish pro-suppose water. To shut ourselves up in dark rooms, with or without weak light, is simply suicidal. Weak eyes, indeed, aro the accompaniment of dark rooms, stained glass and gas. 7>r. ./. 11. Ihtn- Persons convalescing from rln nma- I tism should choose a residence where j tho death rate from heart disease Ls low. ; It is desirable that ull persons whose ; family history indicates a proclivity to I rheumatism should choose for their j homes such localities and districts as | experience has shown to have a low mortality from the secondary result > of | this disease, 'lhils may he avoided di t ease to which their con titutions .tri al ready prone. Exercise should not be continued after tho effort has bccotnc at all | ain ful. Our inn i lcs, like tho rest of our bodies, are mado susceptible of pain, i i for the beneficent purpose that wro may know that they an in danger, and tnnv i thus be excited to do everything in our jHiwer to remove them from it. It is a mistaken notion tliat exercise of all 1 j kinds, and under all circumstances, is > beneficial. Unless it is adapted to the ' Condition of the muscles it will prove the agent of death—not the giver sound health. For earache take aliont the i.ize of a walnut of raw, fresh mutton, burn it on a rod hot iron plate, till it is reduced almost to a cinder; then put it into a clean rag, and squeeze the moisture out ||. * into a silver spoon. Heat the sjioon well in lioiling water, and dry it well before you drop the expo <1 juice of tie- inntton into the ear, as hot as it can jbe endured. This remedy has been known to prove efficacious after lauda num lias failed to afford relief. A tic dual authority sars when you get chilly all over and uway into your 1 wines, and begin to sniffle and almost struggle for.jour breath, just begin in , time and your tribulations need not hist | very long. Get some powdered l>ra\ and snuff the dry powder up your nos tril*. Get your camphor bottle, smell it frequently, jKinr some on Tour band i kerchief and wijw "your nose with it whenever needed. Your no e will not I get soro, and yon will soon wonder what has become of your cold. Begin this treatment in the forenoon and keep on ut intervals nntil you yon go to tcd, and you will sleep as well ai you ever did. The Magnetlc Poles. The reason why tho needle |oints in tho northerly direction is that the earth in itself is a magnet, attracting the mag ; netic needle as ordinary magnets do. and the earth is a magnet as the result of certain cosniieal foots, much affoobsl by the action of the sun. The laws have periodicities, all of which have not as | yet been determined. Tin* infervnt and ultimate reason of tho existence of any t fart in nature, as gravity, light, heat, etc., is not known further than that it is in harmony with, and the direct resnlt | ant of, the action of forces existing | under general laws. A condensed ex j planntion in regard to the needle point ! ing to the northward and southward is |as follows: The mngmtic pole* of the earth do not coincide with the geograph ical | xilcs. The ax in of rotation makes an angle of alsiut twenty-thn-e degrees i with a line joint to tho former. The northern magnetic jk>lo is a present near the Arctic circle on the meridian of ; Omaha. Hence tho needle docs not everywhere point to tho astronomical north, and is constantly variable within certain limits. At* San Francisco it points aliont seventeen degrees to the east of north, and at ('alnis, Maine, a* much to the west. At the northern mag netic jiole a balanced needle point* with ts north end* downward m a plumb line; at San Francisco it dips aliont six ty-three degrees, and at the southern magnetic polo to the south and ]>oint* directly down. The action of tho earth npon a magnetic needle at its surface is of about the same force as that of a hard steel magnet forty inches long, strongly magnetized, at a distance of one foot. The foregoing is the accepted explana tion of the fact that the needle points to the northward and southward. Of course, no ultimate reason can lie given for this natural effect, any more than for any other observed fact in nature.—Sow i Prnnciaco Urn. The longest private telegraph line leased by any newspaper in the world > is suppose! to be the wiwt which con nects the office of the Chicago Inter- Octan with its office in Washington, D.O. lIaMN ami Fancies of Author*. Htrange have been tho habits and fancies of authors. Curncados, th* philosopher, seldom wrote witboilt dosing himself with hcllclmrc. A: chyltw, Kupolis, Crati iiuh uml Ennuis aro said never to have Mtit down to oomposc till tlioy wore in toxicated. Dryden oftrn hud himself hied, imd, like Fundi, uts raw meat to assist, BO ho Haid, bin imagination. H hud well, l)o Quineey, pMilmanoazar, Dean Milner, Ooloridgo, and JliHho|i llorsloy ntimulntod themselves with' ojiium, as Do Mussot was helpless with out absinthe. Gray seldom nat down to compose without lirst reading through some cantos of the " Faery Queen." Corneillc fired himsolf witli the jjonmal of " Lueau." Bhckstono never wrote without a bottle of port wine on his desk, nor Heliiller without a flask of llhenish within call. When his imagination was sluggish ho would nit with his feet in hot water, drinking 1 coffee "to thaw the frost on his wits." I Montaigne was never happy without his cat, and with tho pen in his right hand while the left was smoothing the glossy back of bis favorite tabby, meditated ! bis " Kssuys." Boxhorne, tho great Dutch scholar, could never write a word : without a pipe in his mouth, arid as he j prefern d a long pipe and yet required the use of both hands, he bethought him of a very ingenious device. He hod a hat wi h an enormous brim, which impended in front of his face; through this he made a hole to sup- ! port his pipe, thus Securing the double advantage of shading his eyes and on- ( joying without inconvenience his favor itw luxury, and in this way he produced his voluminous and valuable writings. Uobbe.s had the i ani" weaknc s, "ten or twelve pipes, with u candle," being bis invariable concomitants at tlied< k, and Dr. I'arr was not h dependent on to lmcco. Southey could never write a line except at bis desk, with his books round birn, and with familiar objects by. Milton could, he said, never compose anything to hia satisfaction except lie- 1 tween tho vernal and autumnal equinox. At those 'a ins hi poetry came like an inspiration. At other times, in spite of the meet strenuous efforts, lie would ' Is* unable to bring to the birth a single verse. Thomson, Collins and Gray hod the same -upcrslition aliont themsi Ivc . Johnson, with his usual bluff common sense, ridicules such fanrii**, and call, them unworthy of any sinsilih man the good doctor's the.ry leing that a man who hail the power of writing always could write "if he set himself doggedly to it." Crablie's .fancies sl>out hirn*ower of comjKisition. Temple Ihvr About Editors. Every editor loves to have hia friends, and particularly his readers, call on him. They belong to the same family, as it were. But when yon call to ace the editor don't star too long. Editors arc generally very busy in business hours. If you have any suggestions to make or news to communicate, state it in as few words as possible. Don't offer any excuses or indulge in a long preface to what you have to say. Blurt it right out ; tell the editor yon wish him well, and bid him good-day. Editors dote on such men as that; they love to re ceive calls from them. Don't argue with them ; don't try to do it; he lias no time for argument while at his work. When yon write to an editor for pub lication, make it short—boil it down. Pitch right into the middle of your sub. jeet, and be sure to stop writing when yon are through. Editors nlways like j something fresh and original in the way of communications, and aro especially fond of news. But the editor must al ways bo tho judge [of what is worthy of publication. Of course every writer thinks his own production tho best, just as every mother thinks her baby | the prettiest tliat ever was born. But the editor may tie so stupid as to have a different opinion. If so, it can't be helped. Don't try to argue him out of hia notion. If he is too stupid to ap preciate a good thing, yon can't expect to remedy his dullness. Yon may think you are a good deal smarter than the editor, and that may lie true, hut the editor may be responsible and you are not. Tliore is no class of people so covetous of the good opinion of others. It is well to remember that fact— Print- Ps Circulitr. Over 150 new tmttei' and ebecee factories will be erected in lowa this year, making 400 in all. TOPICH OF THE OAT. M. Boulcy has lately recommended that children and young girls should he i taught to detect infection of pork with trichina*, so that they might In- able to 1 give Much assistance to tin* meat in spector an would insure his work bciDg speedily done. If this plan suoceds, it is probable that the present restriction on . importation of American jiork i into France will be removed. 1 o take a drink in Oregon costs a man so indulging ?5. The rum is not worth that money, hut the city requires a li- ' ci nse costing that sum before a man can get any hitters at any hotel or saloon. It is a js nal offense fur tin- proprietors of these establishments to sell to any |s-r --hod who is not armed with such license. Every six months the local papers pub lish the names of all who have applied for such documents, and tho public then by know who are the drinkers. ihe precautions taken in Prus'-ia to guard against trichina- in swine an- ex eei-diugly can fid and thorough. Berlin is divided into districts, each of which has its se urate inspector of swine's meat, an oflh ml who is In Id to strict ae- countability. In Knnigßbcrg here is un establishment in which the anat in fected with the dreaded parasite, after being cut into small pee. *, is boiled for twelve hours, and then subjected to the action of chemicals that rcdno it to a jKiwder. If tho t'anadian press fairly repre sents public opinion in the dominion an unusual degree of interest is felt in the workings of the prohibition law in Maine and elsewhere. Numerous al lusions to the subject within a few months have attested a general dispo sition to consider the temperance legis lation, and tin* Toronto (/. k has just dispatched two correspondents to in vestigate the working of the Maine law, one from the prohibition point of view, and tho other from the point of anti prohibitiot . I i>-da,\ many of the homes in Denver compare favorably with those of anv city in tho country, in all thi.t wealth can provide of culture and refinement. Colorado has made rapid stride* in wealth and population during the |>a*t year. 50,000 js-rmaneot settlers located in that Slate in 1kjo, Her taxable proje crty increased more than i?H,0oo,000, while tin aggregate yield of her gold, silver, lead and cop]>er mines amounted to B'Jo,<**i,i*io. The area ..f the State i* lfl.Ooo square mile* larger than the whole of England, Scotland and Wales. The county of Gunnison alone i* larger than M iHsarhnsetts. Ix>rd Beaconfield's peerage of August, IH7nl Brougham made, and ha* the title divert to his brother. He has a brother, lUlph Dis raeli, living, who holds an office under the government which |>ay* him §lo,ooo ' a year, ilalph ha* a son. Coningsbv Disrae-li, named after the h< ro of one of Beaconfield's novels. If the transfer is made, Italph will get the Hnghendcn estate, with the earldom and other property of the Earl of Beaeonsfield. An English capitalist, Mr. Gaston proposes to dam the Nile at the cataract*, and subject alwuit *OO,OOO acres of land, which is now desert, to the influence of it* fertilizing waters. This is a stiqien doua undertaking; but it is beyond a doubt that the present rapids are pro duced by the debris of ancient works of this description which are now strewn on tho boil of the stream, and from an engineering point of new the work would lie perfectly feasible. The inundation would then lie under com plete control, while the company which should carry out the work would lie reimbursed by the lands allotted to it out of nearly a million acres, which would now for the first time lie brought under cultivation. It is said that the preliminary capital has already leen raised. The question is asked along the ; Pacific cqast what is to lie the future of Nevada, if, as seems more than likely, tho Comatock mines aio wholly ex hausted. The Htate has a population of scarcely 50,0( 0, and offers few induce ments to new settlers, especially if her mines are used up. Only a few patches and streaks of the land arc fit for agri culture. and not much is good for stock raising. Even the small population now possessed by the Bute is diminishing, many of the miners aliont the Corn stock migrating to California, Arizona and Colorado. The expense of con ducting a Bute government in very burdensome under the circumstance*, and it is thought that a return to the condition of a Territory will be con sidered an imperative necessity before long. It is feared there has been great mor- Ulity among the bees in Western RU s daring the pest winter, not on account of the severe weather, however, hut I*s cause there wan aucb a scant mipp\ y „f food hint summer that the industrious tribe failed to lay up sufficient stores for tin- winter. A correspondent of ths Chicago Tim**, wlio ha* visited a num ber of bee-raiscra in Kane county, ill., reports the prevalent opinion that two tiiinlH of the Iwi'H in the Northwest Ji*v died nine*; last fall or will lie dirad I*-- forc .Inly 1. He was told tliat D. Mar tin, of (icneva, lia/1 lost nix or eight swarms—all lie had. IJ. C. Yates, of 'icneva, hail lost all hi*. James Wood man, of Blackberry, hail two hundred swarms; he now ha* two. The Barber brothers, of Jjn fox, have lost twenty, hugone Otis, of Butavia, hail sev enty swarms last Mpring ; all are dead, William Way, of iiutavia, put eighty-five in the cellar lust fall; he will not have twenty-five by the first of JnJv. William Urie, of Aurora, haa three swarms left out of a total of eighty. W. Webhti r, of Klgin, lias two out of thirty left. J hen© htati-rm nts are rather dis couraging, it mtiMt be admitted, but the losses enunieraU.il are all in Kane coun ty, where the white clover crop on which the IMCH chiefly rely wan a bail failure last year. Sonic remarkable revelations concern ing the win Iteration of foodan- made in the annual rcjtort, just published, of tin- inspector of viri'gar for the city of Boston. The total amount of the liquor iold and u*foen sold in the Boston market as " Pure Apple Vinegar." Fifteen hun dred liarrels of it in a single cargo were seized by the officers, and fifty barrels more were captnrcd in a wan honse and shipped Lack to tin- former owners. The < xtent to which this illegal and in human business is carried on is shown by the fact that the wholesale price of vinegar in Boston averages nine cents per gallon, much of it Wing sold as low as six cents, while the genuine arti cle cannot be manufactured for loss tlian twelve and one-half cents per gallon. It is only natural that the inspector, in concluding his report, should attribute the high death-rate of the city largely to the consumption of these deleterious compounds. It is related that a California pioneer seeing a Chinamen coolly draw a "navy six " and shoot a white ruffian neatly through the abdomen, exclaimed, with much earnest enthusiasm: "Them Chinese is takin' on civilized ways sur prisin' fast." If that same pioneer could to-day take a peep into any of the cheap photograph galleries of San Fran cisco he might be still more impressed with the rapidity with which his Celes tial are imitating the enstoma and vanities of our civilization. From reports made by the proprietors of the galleries in question, it seems that the desire of the Chinese to have their pic tures taken amounts almost to a pas sion. They seem to have very fixed notions of their own as to just how they ought to be "taken." Almost without exception they stand before the camera with their arms akimbo and their heels pointing toward each other. Hav ing taken this position thev seem to imagine tliat they present the very picture of dignified repose; and upon many points in regard to which white people are most particular the Chinese sitters for photographs seem to care nothing. They never ask to have their wrinkles touched up, and they are en tirely shove the petty deception of having the nnevenness of their features toned down. Their chief concern ap pars to lie in regard to their clothes, their feet and hands and their fans. If these are all well and distinctly taken, particularly the fan. without which no Chinaman regards his photograph aa complete, then the proprietor of the gallery seldom has any trouble in collecting a good price for his work. Before paying, however, the Chinese of both sexes, made justly suspicious by some knowledge of the ways of their Christian brethren, always demand to see their picture* and lie assured that the camera has not entered into a con spiracy to cheat them. It is noticeable that Uus pasaion for having their por trait* taken is not confined to tho poorer or more icnormnt classes of (hinamen The rich and distinguished among them display the same innocent weakness in even s more marked degree. The Chineee consulate at San Francisco, for instance, is reported to have recently expended tfiflO for photographs of its attaches, which were seat to friends in the flowery kingdom.