ft,;; TIIK FAIR SKX. >V i-tltllng \tttli*BrftT>- The wedding anniversaries ,M '° ns follows: First year, iron; llftli , vcur ' wooden; tenth year, tin; fifteenth year, crystal: twentieth year, china; twenty fifth year, silver; thirtieth year, cotton; thirty-fifth year, linen; fortieth year, woolen; forty-fifth year, silk; fiftieth year, gold; seventy-fifth year, diamond. ,\ llrllrttlf Mltllrr. A truly modest girl will shrink from being under money obligations to n young man, even though ho bo Iter lover. Hut, on the other hand, many a girl is careless as to how mneli money a young man spends for her. Three and tivo dollars for a horse and carriage ho can poorly afford, perhaps, yet she will go with him week after week, with 110 par ticular interest in him, unmindful appar ently whether he earns tho money or takes it irom his employer's drawer. He makes her expensive presents. Ho takes her to a concert in going to which usually, save for her pride aiul liis gal lantry, a horse-car for ten cents would bo far wiser than a carriage ride for several dollars. A young man respects a young woman nil the more who is careful of the way in which he spends his money, and will not permit too much to be used for her. A thoughtful aud well-bred girl will be wise about these matters. Saraitier Jrwrlry. Very simple jewelry is worn with summer dresses, and the absence of all jewelry is far more distinguished-look ing than the use of too much. The nec essary articles— pins, sleeve-buttons aud cliatclainc for the watch aro in verv light designs, and the merely orna mental bracelets aro only slender rims, while necklaces are not worn at all ex cept for full dress. The fashionable breastpin takes the shape of a bona tide pin, and may be like the long scarf pins worn by gentlemen, with merely a ball head, or else there is a separate pin at the back, like that on an ordinary brooch; the latter has the advantage of showing all the pin, which cannot be done when the scarf pin is used, though t is the caprice of the moment to thrust the scarf pin so slightly in the lace that the greater portion of it is seen. Some of the prettiest brooches are a gold pin about three inches long with a pearl head, while resting on the center of the slender pin are two dia monds, or else a sapphire with a ruby, or perhaps two opals or two colored pearls. Sometimes a jeweled bee, a butterfly or a great spider is poised on the long pin, and sometimes there is a flower of colored stones or of enamel. Less expensive brooches are of red gold, made to represent a long letter, the initial of the wearer's name a script capital of slender gold lines. Scarf puis with ball heads like those used by gentlemen are chosen by ladies to pin ficlins and kerchiefs. Some of these have a ball of cream white enamel dotted with colors, others have tiny turquoises set in, or else a eat's-eve, or perhaps a ruby, a sapphire and a diamond aro set in star shape. Fans, spi ders, butterflies and daisies are also favorite heads for such pins. A nnmtier of pins of medium size aro also used for fastening back tho loops of mull or lace neckties, or to fasten the ends of a neckerchief as well as to confine it at the throat. The most popular pins of this kiid are of sterling silver, with round or with pear-shaped heads, and there are also larger scarf pins of silver with hanging chain and pendant pieces. Dull yellow gold, either smooth or hammered, is pretty for pins that are to lie used in black lace fichus. There are also pearl heads to gold pins of various sizes, costing from 81.7."> each to 8-0, according to tho size and value of the pearl. Silver brooches in floral de signs are also very popular, especially in the whitened silver, when a pretty little spray of white flowers is repre sented. A silver daisy brooch is espe cially popular with young ladies. With simple morning and traveling dresses a brooch is worn with a linen collar without a necktie or lace, but for more dressy occasions fichus are fastened low in surplice fashion witli from two to four pins, or else a lace scarf ]tnssed around the neck is tied in large loops and pinned in reveral places: black net with tinsel dashes is prettily worn around the neck with a hammered gold pin holding each loop of the large l>ow tied at the throat. A long straight scarf of tamboured mull is worn artmnd the neck, passed down tho front of the corsage and fastened in a bow at the waist line, with silver pins to hold it at the throat and the waist. —Harper'* lhutr. Fashion hairs. f Pointed shoes are revived. Circular fans grow in popnlar favor. Silver gray silks, satins and snrah are coming in vogue. Tliere is a rage for peacock feather decorations at present. The latest novelty in bonnets aro pokes of shirred tulle. Tournures are made more bouffant and book draperies grow ful^r. Gold bangles aro tlio only jewelry much worn in street continue. I'oreelain blue in a lovely nhado for a chevoit traveling unit for a young jier non. finiall eaniago parasols are made with feather decorations nil over them. Very large lidWl - of colored velvet are worn in the hair to for.'* ! trimmings with largo hats. Checkerboard patterns in boi-' wool J and cotton materials are much tineu i" | forming parts of costumes. Ombre watered silks in new designs in the shaded and watered effects ap pear among late importations. Pongee hunting jackets worn with black or colored skirts make pretty and modest morning toilets at watering places. Sewing silk grenadine with square meshes, canvas grenadine, and black all wool nun's veiling are the proper materials for summer mourning. The flounces of striped nun's veiling gowns are usually made of goods cut crosswise, but the basque may be cut in the ordinary way, if one prefer. Gay, striped, awning cottonades are used for the skirts of country dresses to be worn under plain flannel polo naises, or jackets and overskirts. Immense bows of wide satin ribbon frequently tako the place of corsage bouquets, being placed on tho left Bide over the supposed region of the heart, j In spite of the fashion journals bring ing out most Of their plates with long basques, tho most fashionable women wear corsages without basques, or very : short basques. The latest French extravagance in hoisery is silk openwork stockings, handsomely embroidered and having delicate lace tops tinted a deeper shade than the color of the stocking. White dotted mull scarfs two and a half and three yards wide uro used as scarf sashes, to U> worn in any way that fancy dictated bv good taste directs, with colored, black t,r white dresses. Iho most fashionable American women wear very simple coiflurcs, with the coil low in the back and fluffy but flat front hair, tho only ornament Icing a long, low comb, with a riviere of dia monds for its heading. Many of the new orubre ribbons are bordered on one side with scalloped bands in delicate shades of color, woven to imitate On others, embossed daisies dot the surface, and the effect is very pretty. 'lliis ribbon is much used for 1M)WB for the hair and belt. A new fichu, cnlletl the Princess Louise, has been brought out in Paris. It is made of Canadian cra|o, edged with Istuvain lace and trimmed with the flownia of the season—lilacs, daisies, buttercups, roses, honeysuckle, or what ever is the flower of the passing mo ment. Hlack grenadine is still in grt at favor for summer dresses. There are manv varieties, but tho smooth sewing silk grenadines tike the lead in popularity. Spanish lace, l>caded silk, net fringes and fine trench laces constitute the trimmings generally nsed with these fabrics. Finely-plaited frills of the dress material aro also used, finished with an edging of black lace about two inches wide. The most elegant of these cool-looking toilets are adorned with very deep flonnces of .Spanish lace, and further adorned by sashes of satin surah, either of crimson, bine or black. These dresses are usually made up over underskirts of black surah. FKKNCII IT>. " Here, waiter, this fish id not fresh I" "Not fresh,sir? Why—Oh, hog par don, sir; thonght yon won? one of tho table boarders. ISring yon tho other fish immediately, sir." ——— Tho bravo Z ,an excellent man, 1 hnt not an intellectual marvel in tho ordinary sense of the word, moots a friend who asks concerning his children. "They are all doing well, thanks," re plies tho fond parent, "and all that 1 have to oak heaven for them iathat they may l>e no stupider than their father." " Make yon mind easy on that point," says his friend; "the ageof miracles has passed." Tho father of the family examines his watch with j>erp|oxity. " I can't understand, my love," he says to his wife, "what's wrong with this watch. I gncss it wants to bo clean od." "Oh, no, pa," replies one of his olive branches, "it can't In? dirty, for I>nhy and I were scrubbing it all morning in tho bath-tub with the hair-brush, and we used plenty of soap." In the garden two six-year-old chil dren, a girl and a boy, exchanged vig orous blows and scratches, meanwhile calumniating each other at the top of their voices like Homeric heroes. Mamma interferes, and after mnch difficulty succeeds in separating them. "What in the name of goodness sre yon upto, you unhappy little wretches?" " I'laying linsband and wife, ma I" fhl •' Jjyj •* . tfi? 4 ' SL ' CLIITIXUS FOIt I'll K (i'KIOUN. It rain H twice an often in Western OH in Eastern Europe. Goeso have been known to livo to the ago of eighty yearn. The word lent come* from n Bsxon word, meaning spring. Thore are 1,500 square miles of ice in tho Alps from eighty to 000 foot thick. Tho Bodleian library at Oxford con tains 420,000 volumes and 80,000 MBS. The greatest mortality of mankind is [ between three nnd six in the morning. The averago rate of sailing of a West Indian trader in 174G was ono mile an hour. Aristotle's opinion was that the pyra mids of Egypt were lmilt to " koep tho people well employed and poor." In "cages and stocks" for the punishment of offenders were ordered to be set up in every ward of tho city of London. Shells six feet in length and weighing 500 pounds, the covering r.f a clam which weighed sixty pounds, are among the curiosities in the Smithsonian in stitute. Ink used in England was formerly more lasting than at the present day. A deed of the reign of Hichard 11. is preserved in which the ink is as black and brilliant as though of last year. In b 180 a Polish gentleman who was convicted of having denied the existence of God, was executed at Warsaw. His body was burned, the ashes put into u cannon and shot into the air toward Tartarv ! There are a cotiple of Shoshone In dians in Tusrarorn who have licavv beards, something which is seldom seen upon the face of the red man. They arc both old bucks, and their whiskers are nearly white, giving them quite a venerable and patriarchal apfx-aranee. \ cry few of those who have used the expression, "He's a brick," know that it comes from Plutarch. An ambassador from Kpirtis was shown by King Age silans, of Sparta, over his capital, and expressed surprise nt the absence of walls and fort i float inns, "tome to morrow," quoth the king, "and I will show you our walls." On the morrow he showed him an array of 10,000 men, remarking: "Each one is a brick." An Aged Bandit's Career There recently expir<l in the infirm ary nf the prison at Odc*a an indirid tJal, by name Vacili Tchonmaik, a na tive of Ismail, of Kalmuck descent, who, •hiring the major part of the ninety-nix yearn of his life, np|>cars to have Wen an unmitigated pnhlie nuisance. Horn alio tit 17s.">, Vacili grew tip to the phyw ical proportions of Hercules and the strength of Hamson. He was duly dman for the e inscription, and served his time as a soldier, lint lie disdained ntieh placid laurels as those which crown the shako of the celebrated Hon sian drum-major whose waxen efligy, in full uniform and holding a wax dwarf in the hollow of onn big haml, smile* j through his mustache upon niankinil at Mine. Tiissaud'*. On obtaining his dis charge, Yacili Tchoumaik adopted bri j gaining.- as his profession, an lit is sti- j mated that in his career as a bandit he committed no fewer than eighty murders. During many rears he and the ; outlaws forming his l<and kept the conn I try round abont t Mcssa in a continuous ! state of terror, while Itnssian police rather connived at than interfered with the miscreants' misdoings. At length an exceptional snperintende ,t named Khorsohevsky undertook the task of abrogating him. The brigand chief was surrounded in a roadside inn where he \ had taken refuge, and after a sanguinary strugglo he and several of his follow- j era were captured. The fine old Ibis- ! sian code of criminal jurisprudence' being then prevalent, Yacili romxined nine years in prison before be was tried. In 18.7J, however, he was sentenced to the knont and to twenty years' hard lalmr in Sileria. The hrigand was at that period seventy-fonr years of age. Five years afterward ho esca|>ed, and made his way back to Odessa; but he was again caught, tried and relegated to jw-nal servitude. Once more, in lKfiil, he made his reappearance at Odessa, and after two years' confinement in jail put justice to the trouble of again trying him and sending him iiaok jto .Siberia. In the middle of la*t May this patriarchal bandit made a fifth and Anal appearance in the vicinity of Odessa, and distinguished himself by attempting to steal a wagon and horaea belonging to some German coloniats. The sturdy Teutons, however, gave the . veteran desperado a very war m recep tion. They soundly belabored Yacili and a coni]mnion of his, and, binding tbein hand ami foot, delivered thein over to the authorities. Tchoumaik was found to have had aev. n of his rilm broken, and to have I teen otherwise so ronghly handled that he was removed to the prison infirmary, where on the dOth ultimo he died. He was ninety six years of age, and but for the drub bing which he received at the hamla of the German colonists, might have sur ! vived to hare been a centenarian among I convicts. H * * ■ ** s' PKtHI.S OF THOUGHT. Do not, as you hope for success, spend your time in idleness. Flattery is a false coin which has cir culation only through our vanity. Conscience is the voice of the soul j the passions aro the voice of tho body. | Menial pleasures never cloy. Unlike those of the body, they are increased by repetition, approved of by reflection, and strengthened by enjoyment. Adhere rigidly and undeviatingly to truth ; but while you express what is true, express it in a pleasing manner. Truth is the picture, tho manner is the frame that displays it to advantage. Those passionate persons who carry ! their hoarts in their mouths are rather ] to bo pitied than feared ; their threat- j filings serving no other purpose than to 1 forearm him that is threatened. It is only the connection of this world with the higher world that gives it any importance. It is only the things of eternity that render weighty and solemn and momentous the things of time. The wise ones say that nothing is so hard to bear as prosperity; hut most men would lik< to engage in sum • bard work of tbut description, just to have u practical illustration of the adage. Character is a mosaic which takes u lifetime for its completion ; and trifles, ho little things of life, an- the instru ments most used in preparing each precious stone for its place. Consolation indiscreetly pressed ujion us when we are sufficiently under affic tion only serves to increase our pain and to render our grief more poignant. 'fhe (.lass Snake. Kli Perkins tells this terrific snake yarn Along the I pper Hray.es and in Western Texas, where flourish the horned frog, is the strangest mak<- known to naturalists. He is sometimes called the glass-snake. He is from two to four feet long, with a striped hack. He is not poisonous His way of de fending himself when attacked by a powerful foe is similar to that r.f the 'possum or skunk. Instead of fighting buck, lie breaks into a down piec<-s, and every piece, distinct in itself, lies ap patently dead on the ground Some times the pieces are a foot apart. When the foe dinap| tears, the pieces gradually come together, unite into one snake ami crawl off. The naturalist will naturally a-k if the piece* are entirely separated. I answer, they are. No film or tendon holds them together. You can chop the ground with nu ax between the pieces. Mr. H. Edwards, wh< pmtoflice address is Montgomery, Alabama, showed me one of tin se snakes at Waco. H,. still has it alive, and will prove with the living snake, or bv answering a letter from any naturalist, the accuracy of this stor.. The glass-snake which Mr. Edwards showed me had lost the tip of its tail- When I asked the owner how that hap pened, ho said: "The snake went to pieces one dav, and liefore it got together, a hungry king snake, which I still have, swallowed the tail." Mr. Edwards has several king snakes. Like the gla's-snake, they are not poisonous, still, they kill the largest snake in the liottoms. They make a spring at a large snake or rabbit, coil instantly aronnd its neek and strangle i t —choke it to death. A king snake five feet long will Strangle a dog or rattle snake. The only snake able to defend itself against the king-snake is the glass snake. When the king-snake springs at the glass snake; the glass-snake breaks into pieces, and its foe might just as well try to strangle a basket of clothes pins or a pailful of sardines. Sporil at Which irgs arc Driven The speed at which some wings arc driven is cnormons. It is occasionally so great as to canse the pinions to emit a drumming sound. To this source the bnn of the fly, the drone of the l>ce. and the lioom of the lieetle are to be referred. When a grouse, partridge or pheasant suddenly springs into the air, the aonnd produced by the whirring of its wings greatly resembles that pro duced by the eontact of *i< ,-l with the rapidly revolving stone of the knife grinder. It has been estimated that the common fly moves its wings three I hundred and thirty times per second, j nineteen thonsand eight hnndrcd times per minute, and that the butterfly moves its wings nine times per second, or five hnndrcd and forty times per minnte. These movements represent an incredibly high speed even at the roots of the wings; lint the speed is enormonsly increased at the tip of the I wings, from the fact that the tips rotate j npon the roots as centers. The New Orleans Picayun giro* this recipe: " To take iron sUinsont of mar ble: An equal quantity of freah spirits of vitriol and lemon jnica Iwing mixed in a bottle, shake well, wet the spots and in a few minute* rub with soft linen until they disappear." There is no way ! to prove that recipe as unreliable, for it •aya "rub until they disappear," and a ; man may rub for forty years and not bare fulfil led the conditions. THE AIiDCAIUIH, A Iteninrknblr Hare of Moult, Ilnrliurlooo. The Araucanian country stretches east and west from the Cordilleras to the Pacific. Within these limit* there are several tribes, whose numlters are variously estimated at from 24,000 to 70,000, the true figures being some where between these two estimates. The inhabitants are divided into four principal divisions, each headed by its own prince. These, though indejendent of each other, form a Hand or confeder ation for runtual defense against a for eign enemy. Each of these four great • divisions is divided into five smaller ! ones, and these are again sub-divided ! into nine districts or septs. I The numbers five and nine have a 1 mystical character among the Amucani ans. Leaders of all the sub-divisions puKH on their office* as hereditary to their KOIIH in the order of primogeni ture; and the whole body of the chief or caciques form the nobility. The caciques coni[*osc the great council of the nation, which meet* annually under a great tree for the transaction of pub lic business. As a matter of fact no decision come to at one of these diets is accepted by the people in general un , less the latter admit its propriety; for the clansmen, being free and armed, rigorous!v impose limits on the exer cise of authority. I olygaiuy is the rule, at least among the cacique*, two un.l three wives being common in a chief 1 * household. The Araucanian Pantheon contains three if not four divinities —a .Supreme Creator, a god of good, a god of evil, and perhaps a god of war. Keligiou* rites and cere monies there are few. Exorcisms bv the mucins, or wise women, and the sacrifice of some animal under the shade i of the drymia, or white cinnamon tree, are among the few that the Araucanian* are known to practice. I hey all believe in a future state, and at the death of a cacique sacrifioe a horse to keep him company ; while the coast trilie burr him in his canoe. Mar riage by capture exists among them in a ceremony of a very remarkable kind. 1 tie bridegroom approaches the bride's house on horscbai k and carries her off with him, in spite of the apparent opj*>- aitionof her family, on his steed. The i .atom must have |>een in existence 1 -ng before the Arauranians could have |M>s*c*Hed or ever have seen horses, uiijeh were unknown to their neightmr bood a little more than three centuries ago. It lias, however, survived tl„. :nt ro il lotion of the**) animals and the ro markahlc change* of their war of life which til list hare leetj caused hv it. They are not noma 1, but intelligent and industrious agriculturists, who, how ever, occasionally shut their ab<.den in •i-arch of more fertile soil or for other reasons. Ther live in well-built bouses. the interiors of which ar- cleanly and The almost unanimous testimony of credits them with many 'They are said to l>e " hardy, hospitable, faithful to their engagc menu, generous t< fallen enemy, ar •lent, intrepid and enthuaiaatic lovers of libortT." Physically they are a well-made and good looking people They manufac ture their own clothing, which is 1H coming and oven picturesque. Thev seem to combine much of the civiliza tion of the ancient Mexicans and Peru vians with a freedom from Isarbarish and a love of lilierty to which those races were strangers. They have man fully maintained their independence for .'MX) years; and though their dreaded neighlor (Chili) lias had her hands quits) full during the last two years they have never taken advantage of her leing engaged in war to troable her. Mr. Boyd attributes the few raids on farmhouses that have l>een niado of late to the instigation of Chilian desjHUw does or runaway convict*. The one fault of this interesting people appears to le an inordinate fondness for the " fire-water" of their more civilized neighbors. By means of this their lands are easily got from them, and under its influence they sink to the level of the most irreclaimable savages. Away from it they retain all their virtues, not the least among which are those domestic ones in which they show an excellent example to their Christian acqnaint nncea in the repnblic. The natural resources of their coun try are so great that they are not likely to l>e allowed to retain it very long; and, as spirits and the diseases brought by the white men have already liegim to diminish their numliers, it is to le feared that before long this noble race of men will have disappeared altogether before the advance of a civilization which promises to exterminate them for the sake of the territory which they in habit. - /'„// M, t U GomtU. Waal Point officer: M Owlet, what in that TOU hare stuffed in your pocket, air?" Owlet: " Tobacco, air." Officer: "Gire it to me. It ia against the ordera of the poat to chew tobacco, air." Officer turn* hia back and cnta off a chew, and talking to hitnuelf: "That'* mighty good ping to a man that'a been nt of tobacco for three daya." TlfE FAMILY IMMTOK. A poultice of trim]i tee leaves, moist ened With water, will cure a stye on the eyelid. lor earache, dissolve assafitida in ; warm a few drops and drop in I '" ar ' l^fc " cork the <*r with wool, i lie trne physiological way of treating irriH and noahls is to at onoe exclnde " with cotton batting, flour, ,WI " The white of an egg into which . piece of alnm about the *i*. „f „ w .lnut has )>oen stewed until it form* a jelly in a fine remedy for sprains, it should Ire laid over the sprain on a pie* of lint and changed as often as it In comes dry. A medical journal gives the following simple remedy for relieving hiccough : '• Inflate the lungs as fully as possible and tljTis press firmly on the agitated diaphragm. In a few second* the spas rnodic action of the muscle* will cease. lo cure bunions use pulverized salt jieter and sweet oil. Obtain at a drug gist s five or six cents' worth of salt peter; put into a Irottle with snflicient olive oil to dissolve it, shake up well, and rub the inflamed joints night and morning, and more frequently if pain ful. The following drink for relieving sickness of the stomach is said to be very palatable and agreeable : Iteat up one egg very well, say for twenty minutes, then aid fresh milk one pint, water one pint, sugar to make it jsdat able ; boil, and get it cool; drink when cold. If it lx-comes curds and whey it is useless. A standing antitode 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 part* with it. Three or four application* will never fail to cure the most aggravates! case*. The American F air. The first European banners unfurled ujxin the shores of the new world, of which we have any authentic account, are those of Columbus, who landed on the small island of St. Salvador <>cto l>er 12, 1 UhL. Doubt leas his id ea of a new world to the westward came from Iceland, which he visited in the spring of 1177. Hia aon write* that Columbun, dr<-sed in scarlet, atp[d ashore and preaaod the royal standard of H|>ain, emblazoned with the arum of Cantile and Leon. A white with a green croaa, was ita companion. In 1439 the eastern coast of South America was explored, and eight years later the great discovery was announced to the world by a Florentine, Amoricus N ospuciuo, who gave name to the west ern continent. Alout this time the ( *lots planted on the shore of North America the banners of England and of St. Mark of \ cnice. The early voyagers found that the Indiana of North America carried for a standard a pole, well covered with the wring feathers of eaglea. The red cross of St. (icorge floated from the mast of the Mayflower, li<2o when the Pilgrims landed on Hymouth rook. For a century and a half, during the colonial and provincial ]>erioda, the use of the English flag continued in North America, with the addition of many devices and mottoes. Some flags were all red, white, blue or yellow. Others were red, with white horizontal stnjHw, or red and blue stripes. I pon those were tne pine or " Liberty Tree." and the words: M An Appeal to Heaven;" also stars, the cres cent, anchor, leaver and serpent. I'ndcr the latter, •• Don't Tread on Me." A flag at the battle of White Tlaina bore the words " Liberty or Death." On January 2, 177 G. at Cambridge, Mass., was first hoisted the "Orand I nion " flag of the crosses of Bt. Ooorge and Bt. Andrew, and the thirteen alter nate red and white stripe*, cmhlamati cal of the union of the thirteen colonies against the oppressive acts of British tyranny. This was the flag in use when th I '• < larstion of Independence was read b,T the committee of aafety at Philadelphia, in the presence of Washington in New and from tLe balcony of the State house in Boston. On the 14th of August, 1777, Con gress resolved " that the flag of the I nited States be thirteen stripes, alter nately red and white, and that the union le thirteen stars, white in s bine field, representing a new constellation." lOnce the stripes were increased ta fifteen, but in 1818 they were changd| permanently to thirteen, the original thirteen States ofthg Union, and it was decreed that for every new State coming into the Union a -tar shonld be added. Hie stars harp five points; those on our coins six. They were first arranged in a afterward in the form of a hug* alar, and now in parallel lines. Nail driving machines are now in tun in box factories and other place* on machine doing the work of front ton to l fifteen men in nail driving.
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