LADIES' DEPARTMENT. 4 IJiiPfr Hrnd-I'lecm. The gold and silver head-pieces which the Friesland women wear so universally are of two kinds, ono being a skull cap divided down the middle and closely covering the hair, the other side pieces j consisting of little disks, elaborately chased, and often of really beautiful work. The skull cap is made of thin * gold or silver, and tho prices of these necessary ornaments run very high, a gold skull cap costing from 1100 to 400 guilders (a guilder being equal to thirty eight cents), while the silver prices aro from tifty to seventy guilders. Tho greater number are heirlooms; and in cases where this canr.ot be so, tho first duty of a Frisian woman is to save up until she can decorate her head as a | Frieslander should. lolutrd Women unit liiair,. A Kentnekian tells a reporter of the Louisville Pott that colored women never kiss each other, and the leporter adds they seldom shako hands. The first may be true, bat tho last certainly is not. Tho Kentnekian says: In all my life I have never seen two genuine negro women kiss, and 1 have often heard my father remark the same thing. He was over sixty years old, and frequently told us that it was a tradition through all bis family the negro women never kiss d. A friend of mine, who has been a groat traveler, has visited j Africa and Hayti, has remarked to mo the strange fact that uegro women never j kiss. Why is it ? In social relations there is less do ~ ception among the blacks than among the whites. They are too fall of nature to pretend to what they do not feel. Scan dals, divorces and other iniquities that flow on from deception, are of seldom occurrence among them. Tho subject j of negro women not kissing has often been discussed right here Kentucky, where the customs aud the habits of the negro should be known and understood, and old men who have been surrounded by negroes all their live? declare that they never beard of negro women kiss ing. A (It ire in the llirl*. When a man chooses the profession of , law he does not expect to be a musician and a journalist also. He knows that if ho would succeed he must devote himself to tho ono chosen calling. When a woman marries she realizes that in order to reach lofty heights in wife and motherhood she mnst sacrifice lesser aims. Sho must be willing to lav aside the delightful occupations, whii-h have mado her girlhood pleasant. She must know that from tho honr her baby is laid in the cradle, dressed with loving forethought, to that darker hour when the mature man lies down in his hist sleep, that sho will giro full mean ing to the words, " Constant care."' That her mind once unfettered will bo at liberty no more, but is bonnd by ties stronger than life or death to those who have come to her from out of the great j nnknown. Wait awhile, girls; think it all over before you promise to be j come wives --to take these duties and burdens upon you. Sweet and satisfy- ! ing as are the obligations of wifo and mother, they are not to be taken hgbtly. A linsband must not be looked upon as a sort of perpetual bean, and children as extremely uncertain and improbable adjuncts. Unless, like Wilhelm Mcister, your apprenticeship ended, you reach oat of yourself sod ask for larger duties, for a wider field of labor, you hail better stay at home ' with father and mother, dignifying the relations of daughter, filling the old established homo with a mild radiance which would seem but a dim light in a new one. Phlnn ftotr*. The only small imported hat seen as yet is a turban. t , The rage for Spanish lace lias not in the least abated. Sew wall papers imitate gobelin tap estries admirably. Beaded plnsh bands will trim hand some heavy w raps. With black scarfs or flchns no white is worn around the neck. Copper and brickdust shades are as fashionable as terra-ootta. Small hats and bonnets begin to ap- pear among imported shapes. ■ Puffed sleeves are seen among a va- W rioty of noveltiea in this line. J (Quantities of bsngle bracelets are worn over mousquetaire gloves. Btanding high collars and rolling low collars ars equally fashionable. Cheviot mixtures in what are termed heather shades will be mncb worn. * Even elderly women look well in white or cream-colored all-wool dresses. Large metallic hook-and-eye fasten ings for oloaks and wraps are revived. Velvet and plnsli will be the high novelty drees trimming materials of 1881. * Tunis lace is a new effective heavy used for linen collars tad pillow grown girls, matrons and elderly women. Pale shadoa of pink and cream color aro the favorite hues for artistic icsthetic drosses. Plush stripes on wool satin grounds are seen among other novelty trimming materials. Basques of moire, black and in dark rich colors, will bo worn with skirts of various kinds. Xonnve turbans of red and blue tine wool, with red tassels, are much worn by little girls. Little owls in black metal, with dia mond, ruby, or emerald eyes, aro fav orite ornaments. Eight or more bridemaids, one-half being little girls under twelve, is the latest style in England. Floral decorations for wedding, din ner, and reception tables aro more pro fuse and eccentric than over. Short dresses continue in vogue on all occasions, and there is no indication that there will be a change in rospoct to length this season. Tho latest style of new shoo has u heel of tho dice-box order, poetically called Louis (Quinze, and has a lattice work of straps across tho instep. Laun handkerchiefs, with bine or pink borders, are often worn around the neck in ploco of collars, the ends tucked in the folds of the surplice waists. Satin cords in passementerie are the features in dress trimmings. They add the luster that all dull silk passemen terie nocd for trimming sdk fabrics. In artificial flowers there is a great ■ vogno for cut silk blossoms, the blue- I bell, geranium, hyacinth and polyanthus being all reproduced in this manner. Pink gingham has been worn to such an extent in London that tho good natured Princess of Wales has been forced to fly to the rescuo and wear blue. Ancient Elections, As hitherto, so again, we must go back to tho beginning to take up the clew. Out of that earliest stage of the savage horde in which there is no su premacy beyond that of the man * hose strength, or courage, or cunning, gives him predominance, the first step is to the practice of election deliberate choice of a leader in war. About the conducting of elections in rude tribes travelers are silent; probably the meth ods used aro various. But wo have ac oounts of elections as they were made by European peoples '.luring early times. In ancient Scandinavia the chief of a province, chosen by the assembled people, was thereupon "elevated auiid the clash of arms and the shouts yf the multitudeaud among the ancient Gorman* he was carried on a shield. Recalling, as this does, the chairing of a newly-elected momber of parliament np to recent times, and reminding ns that orig,nnlly among ourselves election was by show of hands, wo are taught that the choice of a representative was once identical with the choice of a chief. Our house of commons had its roots in local gatherings like those in which uncivilized tribes select their bead warriors. Besides conscious selection, there occurs among rndo people* selection by lot. The Bamoans, for instance, by spinning a cocoanut, which on coming to rest points to one of the surrounding persons, thereby single him out. Early historic races supply illustrations; as the Hebrews in the affair of Baal and Jonathan, and as the Homeric Greeks when fixing on a champion to fight with Hector. In both those last rases there was a belief in supernatural in flnenre; tho lot was supposed to be divinely determined. And probably st the outaot, choice by lot for political purposes among the Athenians, and for military purposes among the Romans, as also in later times the nso of the lot for choosing deputies in some of tho Italian republics, and in B|iain (as in Leon during the twelfth century), was , influenced by a kindred belief; though doubtless the desire to give equal chances to rich and poor, or else to as sign without dispute a mission which was onerous or dangerous, entered into the motive or was even predominant. Here, however, the fact to lie noted ?s that this mode of ohoice, which plays a part in representation, may also be traced back to the usages of primitivo people. Hrlirt Sptnctr. quirk at Figaro*. The Syracuse (N. Y.) Courirr alludes to a youthful prodigy who is an in mate of the penitentiary. His name is James Nolan, bnt is better known as "Jimmy the Bootblack." "Jimmy' ;is a lightning calculator. Although I possessing little or no education, he is as mnch at bom among figures m a fish is in ita natural element. In this re spect the boy ia a wonder. A glance over a column of figures ia sufficient to enabla him to give tha footing. If standing before a blacklward, while another person is patting down figures, he will be ready with tha sum total ben the laat stroke ia made, no matter boWj'fapi'.iy one miy make them. DELMONICO'S." Hcorlm of n Olebriitnt Hrilanirnicar. < >f the late Lorenzo Delmonioo, the best known restaurant keeper in the United States, tlio Now York Herald, in its obituary notice, says : Head and front of the entire median ism, controlling all the business of all the houses, was Lorenzo Delmonioo, with a capital of 9500,000 invested, with an expenditure of over *1, 000,000 a year, and ulways with his balance on the right side of the ledger. Riro and Charles wore like the sons of the Biblical woman, ono on his right, tko other on his left, forming a trio of res taurationnry excellence to whom New York is largely indebted. When Alexia was here, ho being a sailor, it was deemed the correct thing to dino him. The jolly tars of the New York Yacht club got together and resolved to in vite him to their quarter deck, sling the hammock of courtesy in their fo'castl', and overwhelm him with the binnacle of their hospitality. They did it. Ho came, they ate, and the en tertainment in honor of the Bursian i grand duke was ono of the most ele gant of its kind, gotten up in Delmon ico's best Btyle. For .*5,000 Delmonioo could make flfty people quito gastro- j nomically comfortable. When Charles Dickens was here ho ma le his home further up town, but was a frequent vis- j itor at the Fourteenth street honso. He was a heavy eater aud a heavier drinki i. Two bottles of champagne at lunch > were a mere trifle to him, but his favor- j ite gargle was brandy, "Give me a thimbleful of brandy," said Dickens, as he was about driving to the Lecture j Hall. A bottle and a tumbler were j produced, and considering the size of the "thimble" and the fact that it was ! literally " full," it may bo said that he ! took a tolerably good drink. The I'reis club of New York gave Dickens a din ner there, presided over by Horace Greeley, and the speech of the occasion was made by Henry I Raymond. All the press nobs were there, and a very jovial evening was passed. When Grn- 1 oral Crant was general he breakfasted in the smaller room with Horace Grec ley, and subseqn ntly A. T. Stewart. Ed wards l'ierrepont ami other dis interested patriots gave him a grand dinner and reception. At the reception, which was very high-toned, there was a dais at ono side of the saloon on which the general stood to welcomo those who crowded in to do him honor. On one occasion Mr. Ddmonico talked freely with a representative of the Hrrald, who said: " What wages do you pay, Mr. Del monico ?" "Ten thousand dollars and more the first of every month." " What rent f " All told 8101,00*) a yer. You see, besides our houses we have three great wine cellars downtown. We get wines and liquors by the 100, 200, 300 casks at a time, and can bny direct much cheaper than any dealers here can afford to sell us." " Do hard times affect you any ?" "Yes, indeed, and mainly in wines. I remember the time when I walked through tho rooms and saw from one to three bottles ot wine on every table. Now if we hear a cork pop we turn to see where it is and then it's generally a bottle of Bass," " Rime of your orders aro silly, 1 suppose?" " Yes, indeed. We often give dinners that cost 8100 ahead. Why, sometimes the flowers for each cost 820, and I have paid as high as S2O for each and every bill of fare! Yon know tho mottoes they have for the ladies. Well, there are people who pay as high as 810 each ( for those things. Ho you see it does | not Ukr. long to run up to 8100 in that way." Delmonioo got up many a dinner for i A. T. Stewart, but no matter what ; temptations were prepared for the ■ guest the invariable dish for tbp host was a simple chop, with possibly a ■ plate of chicken broth. Mr. Btewart dind many noted people, among them often General Grant. When the late Andy Johnson was swinging around tuo circle he WAS festively din<-d at Del monico's, and after dinner held a re ception. He was full of fun, at all brents, and kept his friends in roars of merriment. After they were all gone he called to his servant to " Come to tied." Mr. Delmonioo told the Presi dent that after his servant had undressed him the waiter would show him his | room. " No, he won't," said Andy; " I'll undress myself, but that boy sleeps in my room and nowhere else to night, and that I tell you." That end ed it, and the colored attendant shared with his master the liest room in the house. Among the regular patrons is counted "ttorosis." Not that Rorosis spends any considerable amount of money at its little Innohea or even at ita annual festivity; but Sorosis is a feature of any place it makes its home. College boys like the hospitality of Delmonico's, aud at certain seasons of the year mtny a hardened ear in the dining-room below is pierced by the jolly shouts of the undergraduates up stairs, and many a hardened heart is tonchel by ths memory of days and nights—mainly nights—gone by, when the same songs und tile same hurrah lioys choruses were the regular thing with them at Harvard, Yale or Prince ton. The late Colonel Fisk was not a regu lar patron of Delmonico's. He went further uptown, lint now and then he spilled over from his bowl of bounty there. On one occasion, at half-past 4 i'. u , ho called at the office. ** Charlie," said he, "I want a tiptop stand up lunch, witli flowers and all tliat sort of thing, served in the Erie building for 150 men at half-post six." " That's two hours from now." " Well, a great deal can be done in two hours." " All right, colonel, I'll do it, but it will be nn expensive job lor you." " Who said anything about the cost ? You do it and I'll pay for it." Of course the lunch was served and equally of course tho 81,500 bill was paid. At another time, when Fisk was work ing up tho Ninth regiment, a ball wo* given at tho Academy and Fisk was anxious that Dolruonico should furnish the supper. They declined on the ground that there was no profit in it. " How much guarantee do yon want ?' said Jim. "A thousand dollars," said Delmnnico. "All right," replied Fisk, " I'll take five hundred supper tickets," and he did. The Ring potentates never favored Delmonico's uptown house much, but sjient thousands of dollars in the Cham bers street piAco. Peter R. Hweeney used to go tln-re when h>- wished to be quiet and by himself. Wh'n Tweed's daughter was to be married tho old man called on Del moniro two months in advance, and without mentioning terms, simply -anl. " I want a supper, good one, for my daughter's wedding; 500 people Good day." The day after the supper was served lie called and paid for it. " Do you keep your people a long time?" Mr. Delmonioo was once asked. "Some of them." " The rooks—how aliont them ?" " Well, I pay the present head cook 84,000a year; his prodeoessor. 80,000. The other cooks get from 815 to 830 a week." " What do you giro the head waiter f " Fifteen hundred dollars and his j Is,aid and lodging. The table waiters get 810 a month, and average *OO in fees. I wanted to transfer one of them from ! the saloon to the bar, raising him from *3O to SO", bnt be wouldn't go because he made 890 where lie was.'' A Whale Parent's Itciotinn. Hporm whales usually travel in schools, and in going into a body com posed of "cows and calves" the latter although yielding but a small amount ■of oil, are " struck" first. By this method lmth are captured. The mother will not leave her offspring, neither will it attack tho boat, but will remain close to the calf, apparently urging it to escape by aonnding or by flight. The "little one" can only remain a short time nnder water, consequently its dam is almost constantly a target for , lances, which she will continue to re ceive, although not being fast to the ! boat, until life is extinct, when the calf will lie killed. Mhe will sacrifice her own lifo in the attempt to assist her young, and to any one except a whaler it wonld appear like a cold-blooded and heartless ranrder. Even they cannot help admiring the devotion, and wdl endeavor to make the struggle as brief as possible. The " calf" exhibits no j B sne!i filial affection, for if the mother is harpooned first he will immediately ! take French leave, leaving the " old lady" to fight her own battle*. Ex treme caution is used when striking a calf to avoid a mortal wound, as his | death is an re to be followed by tho , flight of the cow, who follows it in ! stantly. Home Life for the Blind. In an oil dress before the College for tho Blind, at Upper Norwood, Henry Fawcctt, the blind postmaster-general of England, said that, speaking of his own experience, tho greatost service that could lie rendered to the blind was to etiablo them to live as far as possible the same life as if they had not lost their sight. Thsy shonld not be im. prisoned in institutions or separated from their friends. Few who had not experienced it could imagine the indo scribable joy to them of home life- Rome persons hesitated to speak to the blind about outward objects. There could be no greater error. The ploasant est and happiest hours of his life were those when he was with his friends, who talked abont everything they raw just as if he was not present; who in a room talked about the pictures, when walking described the scenery they were passing through, and who described the people they met. When with the blind people shonld talk with them about and describe'everything they saw. The speaker concluded by remarking that there was plenty of good-will to assist the blind, bnt what was required was better organization. Our earth is moving through space - with a velocity of nine mi lea a second. • M i TOPICS OF THE DAY. Many of the recent emigrants from Germany are young men under eighteen, who thus escape the long and burden some military service. Were they to remain after reaching their eighteenth year, their emigration would not lie per mitted. Bismarck is reported not io like their departure at all. There are .'ill cities in this country, with an aggregate population of 11,- 590,558, having a net indebtedness, ex clusive of sinking funds, of 8593,344,- 518, or 851.17 per capita. New York city leads with a debt of $90,000,000. •Fust when this strangling indebtedness will be liquidated no one pretends to know, though the comptroller of New York city thinks the debt there will be wiped out in twenty years. The annual product of gold and silver in the world varies from 8200,- 000,000 to 8300,000.000. In 1853 the total was 8285,000,000; in 1803, $271,- 000,000, with a decline from that time until 1877, when the tide turned the other way. The product last year was 81 18,000,000 in gold, *114,000,000 in silver. Nearly one-half of the gold and fabout three fourths of the silver was mined on the continent of America. That European nations arc gradually learning from America something aliont '• jinfort, cotmoiotiN and safety in traveling, appears in the facts that slceping-oars on the American plan are now run on moat of the principal rail roads of the continent, anil that there has jmt t>oen introdnced into Berlin what an English newspaj>er correspond ent terms " the American system of luggage trans|ortation to and from private residences, thereby enabling 'he traveler to take his place upon the car withotit concerning himself in the least alout his baggage.". Few people know that in 1<1 seasons honey is apt to be poisonous. This an es from the fact that in such seasons the lees have to gather it from poison ous flower*. firea" care should bo taken to remove all poisonous plants from the neighborhood of hives. A specimen of honey from Trebizond, gathered from the tfmli •-um, whi- h is common in that neighbor hood, was sent in 1834, by Mi. Keith E. Ablcott, to the Zoological Society of London, and in iN'iftit still retained its poisonous qualities. In IT'.KI a gTeat many 7>eople in Philadelphia dies! from eating honey gathered from the flowers of the kilmia UuUnlin. In good seaons the lees avoid poisonous plant*. There are a groat tnar.y jeople iu tie world, it is Iric, but this little planet is very (ar from overcrowded for all tliat, anil there is vet plenty of room for hu manity to sprcn 1 it-si If. In this country alone, exclusive of Alaska, where we have large possesions, we have 710.- 668,000 a<-ys of available land not yet frtirveycdtpki open to settlement, and 7.14,951,000 acres surveyed bnt not yet taken np. And yet, Croat Britain has more virgin land than we have. In the Australian colonies she has 2,000,000,- <IOO seres of land never yet touched; in Cape Colony 52,000,000 acres all ready for settlement bnt with no settlers: in Natal, Ceylon and the West Indies 14,- 500,000 acres, and in Canada prolably something like 1,500,000,000 acres of nnoccnpicd and very fertile lands. All this vast territory of nnosrd land is enough to give a farm of 160 acres to 31,.12.1,000 families of five persons each, or to 156 625,000 persons. A contributor to the New York 7Vi !>un furnishes that pajtersome informs, tion shout the mannfacturo of cigars in New York which can hardly lie agreeable reading for smokers. Five-eighths of all the cigars that are sold in New York city, he states, are made in East side tenements by Bohemian families, who perform all the various processes of manufacture in their dirty rooms, where they not only work bnt also eat and sleep. The toliacoo is wet down and spread upon the floor over night and ia trodden npon meanwhile by the family ! n the pursuit of their domestic ope iions. In the morning, while it is yet damp and soiled it is stripped from the steins by the children, while the women mske the fillers and the men of the family roll and trim the cigars, turning out aeveral hundred in a day, which are dnly branded with some high-sonnding Span ish name and sold for an imported ar - ticle. One feels not so much sympathy for the people who smoke them as for the children who aid in their mannfac turn For fourteen hours a day they are kept steadily at work, inhaling the poisonous nicotine, while at night they sleep in the seme polluted atmos] here. Brother Kimball, the great church debt extinguisher, nays that there are three standing calamities of cburcboa. The first ia a fund for the support of the preaching, so that the people who go to chnrcli need not pay. The sec ond is the presence of one or two rich man on whom everybody leans, and whose property the church feels at lib erty to appropriate. The third is a ( debt, whether of the mortgag-*! or "floating" sort. Comparatively few churches are endowed with sncb a find OH Mr. Kimball mention*. When there it such un endowment, it* operation ia almost uniformly, w be states. In a certain church, who*e endowment ia no grout that the highest pew rent was only Si a year, the member* became 10 spiritually lazy that they had either to go to Bleep or to quarrel. Jticb men are more plenty than endowment*, and are bonanza* tochnrche* which properly nee them and teach thorn how to give. For every church which ha* either rich men or endowment, there are twenty poor one* which have nothing but a debt. Kimball think* all the chore be* ought to do business on a "C. O. D." basis, and then there would le no church debt*. The celebrated French aeronaut, M. I'.ugcne (Sodard, and throe companion*, narrowly escaped a tragic ending of al>al* loon voyage, near Vienna, a few week* ago. An auspicious *tart was made from the pleasure garden* of Hchonbmnn, and for an hour the sail through mid air was a r leasant one. Then the huge craft floato<l into the midst of a violent storm, and the terror-stricken voyagers were surrounded by flashing thunder bolts. M. Godard alone retained his presence of mind, and endeavored to rise above the storm by emptying the sand bags. Finding this impossible, he de cided to descend at once. The balloon was then some 3,000 feet high, and moving at the rate of thirty-four feet per second. The gas-pipe was opened, and the balloon began to descend with fearful rapidity. Suddenly M. Godard j exclaimed, "We shall fall into the Danube." A fruitless attempt was made ! to use the anchor, bat. the trees were too far below and the speed too great. At any moment it appeared they might *oe ! engulfed in the stream, whence, owing to the storm, all escajte would lie imjos. siblc. M. Godard hereupon cried out. ' "Gentlemen, we aie one too many !' But a* none of hi* companions appeared disposed to withdraw he threw over- Iward twenty-five kilogrammes of rope., j and, with the anchor attached to the re- I mainder, endeavored to catch the brush wood on the river edge. This, fortu nately, succeeded, and the car was se enrod within a few feet of the water. A pre|K)terous story is published by a French periodical which, from its name— Storl* Jf<*/i< tie— ought to rise superior to such temptations, of a roan who, desiring to commit suicide, drove j a poinar l up to the hilt into his head with a mallet To his surprise and mortification, so far from falling dead in his tracks, he experience! no dis ' agreeable sensation whatever. Idealiz ing that discovery would be embarrass ing, he endeavored to pull out the | poinard, but it would not yield to his efforts. At last he was compelled to summon physicians, bn neither singly nor altogether conld they start the dag ger, which was ao firmly wedged tnat the wonid-ba suicide was easily lifted from his feet by its hilt, ihe man was ultimately taken to a workshop in the neighborhood, accompanied by the medical gentlemen, and there he was seated on the floor, held down in a sit ting posture by two persona, while me chanical force was used to draw the wen]>on from the skull. The operation was no sooner over than the patient rose to his feet, thanked the doctors for their attention, and pre]>ared to take hit leave. But for fear of subsequent com plications, he was sent to the hospital and kept there for a week. Nothing ensuing to cause alarm, he was sent home, leaving scientific men to rack t heir brains over the problem bin singu lar case presented. Where I'oker Prevail*. Poker, whatever that may be. is all the rage at Hot Springs, Ark. A corre spondent rays: It is played in the hotel parlors, bedroom* and office*, in fact almost "verywbere. Day and night parties may be seen. Doctors and lawy. rs play in the back offices; all classes arc at it, from the nabob to the waiter of the dining-room. BOTS are often seen at a quiet game of " draw." In short, it is an epidemic. As to the gambling bouses, they are open day and night, Sundays included. All banking games are in full blast, from " faro " to " chuck -a-luck." Twelve tables are run in one hoase, and it ia difficult for a player to succeed in piecing his money on a card or figure, so great is the crowd around the teblea. *• Faro," '* haaard " and " roulette" are the most popular game*. A Burlington man looked into the garden hose to see why the water dido t come, just as his son turned the water on et the hydrant, and when the doctor ; came the atricken man told him that he sew the fellow climb over the feoee, but didn't see his revolver until just as be shot. And then he wanted to know how lorg he had to live and add he was not afraid to die. Bat when he got at < the true iuwanlneaa of it, he hunted for that boy nearly three hours, with a piece of lath and a akate strap to hold him, and then didn't ftrd him.
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