LADIES' DEPARTMENT. When ti I* llcut to Itrrlarr Onr's l.otr. Tho following linos worn taken from the scrap-book of a grandmother: Long lived will the happy maiden prove Whom- lover on Monday declares hie love, l'lntua and Hymen will eweetly emile If on Tuesday ehe yields to her lover's wile. Wednesday, thov toll Uie, is lucky, hut rain- Will dampen your pros|e>ote. Oh, refrain. Itash man ten, nor plunge into ileejx'st w oe. If he sues on Thursday hid him " go." Friday, though some foolish folk may duuht it. * Is perfectly safe; that's all about it. Have no fears, maiden; ail will go well If on Saturday he his tale doth tell. As home from church you wend your way, And one short word is all you say. Oh, happy maiden, you'll be blest; Your Joy begins on the day of rest. n ha Should How First < Who should bow first ? Some authori ties insist that a gentleman should not bow to a lady until she bows to him ; the author of the " American Code of Manners" says that this is all wrong ; " A gentleman should always bow first to a lady, no matter whether she returns it or not ; if he sees by her face that she does not wish to return it ho can refrain from bowing the next time!" This is on the ground that " a lady, par ticularly an elderly one or a society leader, perhaps, lias so many acquaint ances that she does not remember all the young men who have been present ed." This, however, does not seem to settle the question conclusively, for it may be that the young man has quite as many acquaintances as the lady, even if an elderly one. Ho may himself, too, very likely lie a society leader ; in fact, a very largo number of tho leaders of society at the present time are of what would have been considered fifty years ago a comparatively immature age. Our own opinion is, and it has been arrived at after long reflection, that both per sons should bow simultaneously; per haps in the case of very near-sighted persons a little latitude might bo given, providing the fact of myopia can be clearly proved bv medical evidence. There is, however, always danger in these exceptions to social rules, and therefore it may be safer for near-sight ed persons to bow in all cases of doubt, accustoming themselves to do this with uniform courtesy whether they are themselves recognized or not .—XrUion. Fnim. l*arttol. Hosiery. rtr. The newest fan is of large size anil of cretonne figures, ontlined with crewel silk and tinsel tambour work. The faces and general figures are not touched, but the hair and lace trim mings of the dresses are elalorately worked in the silk. They are mounted on plain ivory or fancy wood sticks, and have a chain and ring attached to keep the fan from spreading when closed. Parasols are of the most elal>orate de scription, with stripes, blocks, etc., in serted in the ontside and two or three colors in the linings. They are often made of the material forming the gar. den suits of gingham, flowered satteen, foulard, etc. For street costumes they are of the trimming on the dress or are trimmed with the same striped or black trimming when mneh is used. Those having old frames often ntilize them in this way. Hosiery and slippers are an important item in the costnmc at water ing-places and country houses. The stockings mnst match if possible either the dress trimming, the tie, cap or gloves. The newest colors are a bril liant scarlet, called ponceau; that is one of the favorite colors for millinery also this season. Carmelite slate, bish op'a violet, pilgrim gray, canones, blue, cardinal red, bronze, rose, olives steel mixture, plumb blue, montarde Anglaise and sapphire, mignonette, etc., are the favorites. Hi Ik hosiery, forty inches long, is in these colors, in vari ous designs, from the plain rib at B'2 a pair to the jardinerc at 815. The latter has natural colored flowers embroidered on the black silk stocking in the most beautiful manner. Vertical stripes of alternating contrasting colors, or of a black or white stripe, with one of color, are among the newest. Embroidered and lace open work is seen on many of the choicest. Slippers are finished on the toes with steel or colored stitching, and are sometimes of colored morocco. Walking boots are made with moderate sized heels, and aro sometimes of kid, combined with patent leather. The latest importations of gloves for snmmer wear are of silk, without buttons, reach ing above the elliowsand wrinkling like the Monsqnetaire, which is also worn in the Swedish nndressed kid, eqnally long, and confined at the wrist by two or three bnttons. The silk gloves are 8-3 a pair, aad the Swedish 82.50 to 83.50.— Nmr York /feral,i. Fnahlon Nairn. t Pokes grow larger and larger. Satinette is the Paris name for sateen. Pink crape has been revived for bon nets. Very little jewelry is worn with white costumes. Necklets of beads are becoming very fashionable. Walking jackets never go entirely oat of fashion. Steel and gold are the admired com bination this stunmer. Hashes of ombre ribbon will Ik> much worn with white toilets. Mother Hubbard is the fairy god mother of fashion this spring. Trained skirts are worn only by mar ried or matronly women. Tan-colored undressed kid gloves are worn with white costumes. Sateen or satinette isthemost popular wash fabric of Parisians. There is a brisk demand for batistes, seersuckers and ginghams. All young women wear Mhort, untrain ed skirts on all occasions. A new collarette called the Medici is made of pufTs of mull muslin. Charlotte collars of immense size are worn by English women. Mixed black and whito feathers are used to trim black rough straw hats. Oilded bamboo and violet wood sticks are the most popular for par asols. Hteel appears as a part of tho decor ative effects of every dressing toilet.' Block costumes are brightened with ombre Surah or Bayadere striped goods. Bright gold color, not to say yellow, is one of the most popular shudes in dress. Little puffed pockets of ombre and Bayadere silks aro worn with sashes to match. Albatross cloth is the new material destine to rival Chuddah cloth and nun's veiling. Embroidery of the finest kind is con sidered more elegaut on mull drosses than lace. Sateeu and cambrics are more in de mand at the moment than muslins, lawns or linens. Bright and soft colors harmoniously combined form tho marked feature of snmmer fashions. Many small tucks, much shirring and fine embroidery aro the adornments of mull muslin toilets. Ombre or surah is in demand for col lars, cuffs and rovers of suits in sober or nentral tints. Shirred waists, with shirred yokes and belted in fullness at tho waist line, ap j>ear among late novelties. Brocaded stuffs, with the flowers and figures outlined in gold or silver, are used to brighten dark and dnll tinted toilets. Bayadere striped goods form thectiffs, collars and rovers of k all dressy cos tumes of silk or wool in solid xdors or cheviot mixtnres. Gray snmmersilk suits are beautifully brightened with collars, cuff* and acces sories of Bayadere stripes in shades of jw-acoek bine, maroon, garnet, old gold and steel. A wide straight scarf of white dotted muslin edged with Irish embroidery is |d around the neck, brought down the front to the waist line and arranged there in loops and ends. Block and white half-inch striped silks anil satins, block patterns of black silk, light fonlards and also light small fignred brocades, are made into round basques to weal with black or dark colored silk skirts. How ail Artist Fainted a Olllnir. Probably yon have heard of Whist ler's extravaganza in house*. He was engaged to decorate a noble mansion in Belgravia; tho price was no object to the owner—and for that matter neither was it to Whistler. One day a 'riend asked me to go over and see one of the rooms that was nearly completed, and I hastened to accept the invitation. This is what I saw on entering: A very slim, spare figure extended on a mat tress in the middle of the floor; beside bim an enormous palette, paints, a half dozen long bamboo fish-poles resting on a line with their bntts close at hand, and A very large pair of binocular glasses. Whistler, dressed wholly in black velvet, with knickertxicker pants loons stopping jnst below tho knee, black silk stockings and low pointed shoes, with silk ties more than six inches wide and diamond buckles, was flat on his liack, Ashing rod in hand and an enormons eyeglass in one eye, lili gently putting some finishing tonclies on the other end of the fish-pole. Oc. casionally he wonhl pick np his donble glasses like some astronomer peering at the moon, and having gained a nearer and better view of the effect, he would again begin to agitate the paint-brash at the other end of the long pole. "Now wouldn't I be a foot" aaid he, "io risk myself on a scaffolding and nearly twist my head off my shoulders trying to look upward wheo I can over come the difficulty and annihilate space so easily, thus V—and he gavo a wave of his fish-pole. And sncb a room I One mass of gor geous purple and bine, ornamented solely with an enormons number of the eyes of a peacock's feathers. It was s room to make a man a lunatic in a week. It was as if all the peacocks inOhristen. dom had settled down upon one, and were about to smother one in tail-feath ers. And this was the celebrated " pea cock room" about which all London went wild not long afterward.—London LtUmr. SCIENTIFIC SCRAPS. Water is called hard when it holds limo in solution. Melted snow produces about one eighth of its bulk uf water. The greatest natural cold absolutely known is 60" below zero. In slacking lime the water becomes fixed by combination, and the atoms exhibit their lost motion in the heat of the lime. All plants require alkalies, which are contained in some in the form of sili cates, in others in that of tartrates, cit rates, acetates or oxalates. The telephone is used with great success in the scientific explorations now conducted in the Bay of Naples. By its means the diver can communi cate with those in the boat above with out the possibility of mistake. The light from the sun occupies 8 1-1 minutes in traveling to the earth, the distance being 92,000,000 of miles. The light of the fixed star Hirius, supposed to be the nearest of the stars, ia 3 1-1 years in reaching the earth, the dis tance 1 icing over twenty millions uf mil lions of miles. It is maintained by Professor E. \\ oolnev that soil heaped up around plants has, during the day, a higher temperature than earth not so treated. During the night the billed earth ta coinos colder. The explanation sil van ceil is that earth which is heaped up around plants dries much more rapidly than level soil. In winter, spring and autumn, the sudden falling of the mercury in the barometer, and tbat for a large space, denotes high winds and storms ; but in summer it pressages heavy showers, and often thunder. It always sinks lowest of all for great winds, though not ac companied with rain, but it falls more for wind and rain togothor than for either of them alone. A Romance of Our Day. < HAITEII I. Pi ton was in trouble. His check was wan and his eye lasterlees. He bit bis mustachios nervously and ga/cd ab stractedly out of the shop window. The sun was shining. The birds twittered merrily in the trees. The human tide ponred down the street, some laughing, all happy. But Pitou was sad. Nobody came to do business with him. Nanine entered. Hhe was I'iton's •laughter. Hhe was also sail. There were traces of tears atatit her. "Where are yon going, my child ?" asked Pi ton. " Nowhere, pajra," replies! Nanine, " I am waiting," "Waiting? And for whom 7" inquired Pitou. "Jacques," answered Nanine. "Ah !' said Pitou. ciiaitkh u. Jacques was Nanine's lover. Ho was also in love with Julie, tho daughter of Pierre. Jacques was a pleasant gentle man, but bo was poor. He was ambi tious to link his destiny with a made moiselle of financial ability. Jacques stalked gloomily down the boulevard. He intended to visit Nanine, but Pitou * shop wore s deserted ap pearance. The people passed it by and surged in great swelling billows into Pierre's shop. Jacques was quick to de tect this. He was a man of the world " Mon Iheul I have had a narrow es cape," he said to himself as he paused Pitou's dcor and entered that of Pierre. • MAitkh 111. " 1 on have come," exclaimed Julie, as Jacques clasped her to his t>o*om. "And you love me!" asked Jacques, giving a hasty glance at the crowd of patrons in the shop. Ere she could * ply, Pitou and Nanine stood i:i their presence. " Monsieur, von are a rascal!" said Pitou. " You have broken my Nanine's heart." "No, monsieur," said Jacques, "It is yon who have done this. Look around yon. This is Pierre's shop. All is thrift and prosperity. Wealth ponrs in. Cus tomers comes leagues to buy of l'ierre. lietnrn to your own shop and look around you. You see deserted space, goods unsold and bankruptcy staring you in the face, fs it not so?" " Monsieur is right," aaid Pitou, low ing his head. " Leave me with Julia," said Jacques. "Go to your ahop. Advertise In the paper* as Pierre has done, and yon may yet prosper, and Nanine may yet find a husband." CHAITKK IV. Pitou went. Next morning ho hail a double half colnmn in the Tim**. That week he sold sixty thousand francs' worth of dry goods, and taught a corner lot in Mnlkey** addition. In two months Nanine married a plntnber, and now lives in a palatial residence, and ia the happy mother of twins. " Ah!" says Pitou, softly, " I did well to follow Jaoqnea' advice." Pitou's head is level. Well, yes. We should smile.—A 'nana Oily Tim**. Bleaeed ta he who gives to the poor, albeit only a pinny ; doubly blessed be be who adds kind word* to bia gift. How Kentucky Horses are Trained. A letter from Lexington, Ky., describ. ing how horses are trained, Hays : " One after another beautiful saddle horses were ridden out over the track, moving at a gentle, easy gait, flying at it rapid canter, racing or breaking into a trot, iih the rider willed. All these horses, I believe, were thoroughbred, and their prices ranged from 8300 to 81,000. Ho well were they gaited and trained that the rider hail but to touch the mane in a given place or make a certain signal to have them take a rack, canter, trot, run or lope. Any one can learn to manage these gaits in a very short time, as I found from experience. But the method by which these horses are so perfectly trained I could not learn. Either the trainers do not know exactly how to impart this information, or they are determined to keep it to themselves. "Home answered my (pieslions by say ing : 'lt is easy enough. You can mako a horse do anything you want to. Only let him know what yon want him to do. You had better wear spurs in riding, give him his head freely, and if he takes one gait when you spur him on (Ee right side, just spur him again there when you want the same gait.' Here a horse (lasscd on a rack, and as the rider touched him with the top of his finger on the head, he Ktruck out on a fair trot. 'Now,' said I, 'bow was that horse trained so as to strike a trot by that signal ? ' " Why," answered the Kentuckian, "our saddle-horses all learn that from the time thev are colts." I asked Mr. Lindenberger, ' What is the secret of the superiority of Kentucky horses?" "There is a combination of causes,' he answered. " 'The great majority of the hcraes here liave some good blood in them, and you will find it crossed somewhere back in their iKsligrees. The liest strains of running or trotting blood have been taken from here to other Htates, and tliey there fail to produce the desired results. There is something in the blue grass, the water, the ntniosphere and the general climatic influence, and then, as Mr. Treacy told you this morn ing, there is everything in judicious breedand training. We force our horses to a gait when they are one year old, anil at three years old I hey are pretty well developed. The Northern men, however, always improve them." ' How long have Kentucky horses held their high place?* I ijueried. "Noone heroetaut can tell. I know men who have lived here eighty-five years, and they state that from their earliest child hood they have heard of the superiority of our horses. Their fathers before them hail the same story to tell. The fact is, that somewhere in the past there wa brought into this Htatc a pure strain of thorongh blood, derived from the best stock of the mother world, and it has transmitted its qualities from sire to son to the present time. It is a lamentable fact that wc have not the exact data upon which to l*se a history of the Kentucky horse." The fastest horses in the world have been bred and trained in this ncightarhood. Matid Htone, lietter known as Maud H., record, 2:10 34; Wedgcwood, 2:19; AAoislford Mariibri no, 2:24 ; Trinket, 2,191-4 ; Diek Moore, 2:22 ; John Morgan, 2:24 ; Indianapolis, 2:21 ; Voltaire, 2 2", are hut a few of the racc-liorses that have Iwen sent out of Kentucky, while the number of her carriage, saddle and trotting horses that have Iw-en sold alive, and are now scattered throughout our large cities, could no more lie calculated than one could count the trees of the forest." A Petroleum Deposit. A very remarkable deposit of petrol eum is deserilied as existing in Venet ucla between the Kio Tara and /ulla. Near the former there rises a sandliank about thirty-five yards in extent, and some ten yards in height. On its sur face is visible a collection of cylindrical holes, apparently artificially made, through which streams of petroleum, mixed with boiling water, gush ont with great violence. occoni|>anied with a noise resembling that of several boilers blow ing off steam. The column of vapor that ascends from tlio spot would doubt less be seen from a long distance were it not shrouded by the thick forest, to which the petroleum liedsthat evidently lie underneath give a |>erpetual green ness and richness of foliage. From one of these holea oil has leen collected at the rate of four gallons per minute. A carious phenomenon has been occasion ally seen in Venezuela, consisting of frequent lightning unaccompanied by thnnder, wbicli is oliservablo from the bar at the entrance of the Lako of Mara caita, and which has l>een attributed to the vapor ascending from the ('ienega do Agna Oaliente. It is more probable that this appearance, called by mariners " Elfarol do Maraeailio," is dno to the inflammable gas that permeates the whole district to such an extent that it is known by the natives as "El In | ferno." There ia no donbt that the supply of petroleum is very large, not only at this point, bnt in the neighbor ing republic of Colombia, where, be tween Esemjne and Bettijoque, the laborers gather if up in handkerchiefs, which when saturated are sqneesed out into barrels. RELIGIOUS READING. A Carl Cat aft With aa As. " Do you see thin lock of hair?" said an old man to me. " Yea; but what of it? It in, I sup pose, the curl from the head of a dear child long ago gone to heaven V " It in not; it in a curl of my own hair, and it in now nearly seventy veara since it wa cut from thin head." " But why do you prize a lock of your own hair so much ?" It hoa a atory belonging to it, and a strange one. I keep it thus with care because it sjwaks to tne more of God ami his esjiecial care than anything I pomeaa. " I was a little child of four yearn old, with long curly locks, which in •ran or rain or wind hung down my cheokn uncovered. One day my father went to the woods to cut up a log, and I went with him. 1 was standing a lit tle way behind, or rather at his aide, watching with interest the strokes of the heavy ax as it went up and cartie down upon the wood, (tending off splint era with every stroke in all directions. Home of the splinters fell at my feet, and I eagerly stooped to pick them up. In doing so I stumbled forward, and in a moment my curly head lay upon a log. I hail fallen just at the moment when the ax was coming down with all force. "It was too late to stop the blow. Down came the ax. I screamed and my father fell to the ground in terror. He | could not stay the stroke; and in the blindness which the sudden horror caused he thought he hail killed his tay. "Ws soon recovered—l from my fright, and lie from his terror. He caught me in his arms and looked at me from head to foot, to find out the deadly wound he was sure he had in flicted. " Not a drop of blood or war was to be seen. "He knelt ujmn the grass and gave than ks. "Having done so, he took tip his ax, and found a (gw hairs upon its edge. He turned to the log ho had taen split ting. and there was a simple curl of his boy's liair, sharply cut through and laid Upon the wood. "How great the escajiel It was as if an angel had turned aside the edge at the moment when it was descending on my head. With renewed thanks upon his lips, he took tip the curl, and went home with me in his arms." Mrllgloua NmißDd Nolct. It is stated that all the members of President Garfield's cabinet are regular church-goers. Doctrinal topics will be excluded from the Methodist ( l>timenical confer ence for the sake of harmony. The Iter. Silas Hatch, a graduate of Madi*on university, died recently at Colorado Hpringa, in his thirty-fifth year. The great camp-meeting of the sea son at Ocean Grove is set down for August, beginning on the 16th anil continuing for ten days. The opponents of organ music in a Presbyterian church in Toronto stopped its notes i ffectually by j>ouring hot glue into the pipes and upon the keys. The Baptist church nt Port an Prince, Hayti, presents an ojien opportunity for candidate seeking a pastorate. The climate ia hot and only moderately healthy. The Year-Book of the Presbyterians, issued in Philadelphia, gives the nuni- Wr of Presbyterian communicants at 3,2; from other sources, $30,566.44; total, 82hh,- 802 *4. The debt of the union now stands at 812,650 OH. The following is a general summary of work by the missionaries of the American Sunday-school union from March 1, ]HHfI, to March 1, IHHI, and eoni|iariaon with previous year: lsMi. isan. New arhools organised 1,415 1,277 Teachers 6.295 5,629 Krbolsrs 52.43H 46,727 Hi-Ihsils ailleil B.HK7 2,9tt* Teachers 16,014 16.510 Hcholars 157,649 147.491 Miles travcliil 29M25 2*2,136 Addresses and sermons 6,704 5.977 nildes distributed 5,476 5.614 Testament* distributed 10.177 9.176 Families visited 23.396 1H.173 Etlwin Cowles, of the Cleveland (Ohio) IjKuicr, ia the victim of a singu lar infirmity of hearing. He says it I>artakea somewhat of the nature of color-blindnesa aa that affects the eye, he Vicing unable to hear certain sounds at all. For example, he has never heard the sound of a bird's song in his life. A whole room full of canaries might be in full song and yet he could not hear a note, but the rustling of their wings would be distinctly heard by him. He can hear all the vowels, lint there are many ronaonate sounds which he has never heard. He can hear a man whisper bat could not hear him whistle. The npper notes of a piano, violin or other musical instrument he never heart, bnt the lower notee bo bean without difficulty, j I'FAKLH OF TIIOUOHT. To him that liri* weJI every form of life in good. Hhe grieves sincerely who grieves when alone. H'ippioeM consists in the oonstitution | of the habit. I lie torment of envy i* like a grain of sand in the eye. Dcsjieration in sometimes an powerful an innpirer an geniu*. Craftiness in a quality j n the mind and a vice in the character. Men with mission* do not disappear till they have fulfilled them. The nymjiatby of norrow in ntronger than the sympathy of prosperity. There are aome nilent people who are more interesting tiian the bent talkers. He tliat han no inclination to learn more, will be very apt to think he knows enough. A) warn there in life while life lasts, which, rightly divined, implies a divine nat infection. Hoeing much, and suffering much, and studying much, are the three pil lars of learning. As many an are the difficulties which | virtue han to encounter in thin world, j her force in yet sujierior. Human nature is no constituted that all see and judge better in the affairs j of other men than in their own. Who is jioworful ? Who can control his passion. Who is rich ? He who is contented with what he lias. He who can contemplate his past and not receive many warnings from it, must have a remarkably stupid exist ence. Kailroad (rovrth. The vast railroad system of this coun try, and, indeed, all the railroad sys tems of the world, are the growth of half a century. In 1830 the whole number of miles of road in operation in the Uni ted Btates was only twentv-tliree. For nineteen years ending in 1849 the pro gress of railway construction was very slow, and there wan comjmratively little system .aliout it. The average annual rate of construction was only .114 miles. During the next twelve years the av erage annual rate wan 2,055 miles. Then came the war period, w*heD the energies of the people were diverted from peace ful pursuits, and the average annual rate of construction; for the four year* ended in 1*65 wa* only 812 miles. But the war period was not lost, for it brought to the knowledge of men cer tain possibilities in railroading not be fore realized. The consequence was thst when peace was restored railway con struction was resumed with great en ergy, and the number of miles of track laid increased year by year from 738 in 1864 to 7,670 in 1871. Daring the years of depression following the panic there was a decrease to a minimum of 1,917 miles in 1875. Then came another re vival. and the construction last year was aliont 7,500 miles. We had twenty* three mile* of road in 1830 ; we have now more than 94,000 miles, and by the end of the present calendar year we will have more than 100,000 miles, or more than enough to girdle the globe four times over at the equator.— Chicago Ttntm. Fretting. There is one sin which seems to me is everywhere and by everybody under estimated, and quite too much over looked in valuations of character. It is the sin of fretting. It is as common as air, as speech; so common that nolens it rises above its usual monotone we do not even observe it. Watch an ordi nary coming together of people and see how many minutes it will be hefors somebody frets —that is, making a more or less complaining statement of some thing or other, which, most probably, eTery one in the room, or the stage, or thejstreet-car, or the street oorner, as it may lie, knew before, and which, most proliably, nobody can help. Why say anything abont it ? It is cold, it is wet, it is dry; somebody has broken an ap pointment, ill-cooked a meal; stupidity or bad faith somewhere bss resulted in discomfort- There are always plenty of things to fret about It is simply astonishing how annoyance and discom fort may be fonnd in the course of •very day's living, even at the simplest if one only keeps s sharp eye ont on that side of things. But even to the sparks flying upward, in the blackest o( smoke, there is s blue sky above, and the less time tbey waste on the road the sooner they will reach it.—/ Man Fsst " Owgtu" Those who are sometimes troubled to know how to pronounce the termina tion " ongh " —so troublesome to for eigners—may see bow simple sad assy the following makes the task; " Wife, make m*mem* dumpling* of dowgh. They're better than meal Cor my cough; Pray let them be uoilcd till hot through. Bat sot till they're heavy and tough. H Now 1 sort ha off to my plough. And the boys (when they've bad enough; Moat keep the flies off with a hough, WIUI* the old mare driakaat the trough. I