LADIES' DEPARTMENT. A Varan's Wnlnin* Dross A sensible walking dress is worn in the Carpathians, for mountain climb ing. by the queen of Ronmauia, her maids of honor and other ladies. Her majesty's usual morning dresß when she went to take the douche 'at the new baths and for a long walk after ward, was a chocolate-colored serge, the skirt plaited from the waist in large box plaits. The skirt only came to the calf of the leg, and was met by gaiters of the same color as the dress; a loose thick jacket and a Tyrolean hat. The maids of honor usually wore high boots (to the knee) instead of gaiters, dark green serge, short dresses and large hats. Every one had a spiked Car pathian stock, oven those whose gowns and boots would quite preclude any thing hut walking on level ground. A Mpurtnu Ilrlde. A young man and hiß sister were hired to teach a school in Clay county, Kentucky, in partnership, the young lady to teach the first half of the school and her brother the other. Very soon after the young lady began teaching one of her largest male studeuts became her "fellow," and in a very short time they were married. Not long, however, after they were married the young groom and another one of t he bride's students engaged in a little "knockdown." Each of the offenders woco bronght before the fair disciple of ;the rod, was given an impartial trial, and the young groom was proven to be equally guilty with the other, and was given his choice of leaving the school or taking a whip ping. lie chose the latter; so his new ly-made bride did herself fair justice in tho use of the rod, gave her husband not a few stripes, and cutting the blood oQtin not a few places. Since then every thing has passed off smoothly.—Chi ¥ign Time,s. Wuan'a Answer*. We do not know the origin of the following talk on the intuitive methods of women : " In a talk which followed our defini tions I called the attention of our friends to a marked peculiarity in woman's way of answering questions ; a peculiarity which even Mr. Howells— the finest, keenest and gentlest modern observer of feminine traits—has never noted, so far as lam aware. It is the oonstant habit of women, when asked a question, to make no direct response, but to reply by another question sug gested by what they believe their inter locutor's intent or wish. I noted this four times yesterdav in talking with your anut, who, saying your presence, Clara, is the most intelligent woman I ever knew. And yon shall have all five. In the morning I said, 'Orsula, do you thiuk it look'i like rain?" To which she replied, 'Vthy, do you think of inviting me to take a ride?" Soon after I asked her if she 'thought alias Win dermere was as old as twenty,' and she responded by inquiring 'if I thought the girl too young to be engaged T A little later I wanted to know if we bail any brandy in the house, and she asked me where I felt sick. And toward evening, as I was dressing for dinner, I interrogated her as to the number of handkerchiefs I owned in the world, and she replied, ' Why, rani, can't you find a clean one in your upper drawer?" This trait sometimes occasions, I remarked, great inconvenience to the more simple masculine mind. But on the whole it is charmingly feminine, ahowiog as it does the qnick sympathy of the sex and their consequent desire to avoid nnnccessary processes anil get directly at the arriere pensee. They generally guess right, too. Yonr aunt did, three times out of the aforesaid four. It is when a man is in a hnrry and really want* the information lie auks for that he finds the habit a little ex asperating." Fnslilnn The tailor-cut jacket retains its place among faehi matile winter wraps. Large pokes with sugar-loaf crowns take precedence of all other bonnets. Plash is the prettiest trimming for a cheviot dress when it is trimmed at all. Bed, yellow, bronze green and tnr qnoise bine are Immensely fashionable. Puffs a la epaulette appear in a gath ered, shirred puff on many tight sleeves. Two or more materials combined to form one costume is as fashionable as ever. Frog buttons and parallel rows of Titan braid trim oloth dresses very ele gantly. Satin and plnsh muffs take the place of fnr ones in all bnt the severest weather. The fiahionable brocades of this winter are very magnificent, but very expensive. Fall ruffs of hleck or white lace ap pear among the latest production* of neck lingerie. Jackets of black Jersey cloth with triple collars of red are affected by very yonng ladies. Pilgrim gray beaver felt bata, timmed with large and long red pinnies, ar very fashionable. White bonnet* are much worn at theatera, receptions and for evening visits of ceremony. Tinsel effects are introdnoed with ad mirable taste into fabrics, trimmings and millinery goods. Crystal and pearl t>eads decorate with fine effect pale blue or rose colored evening dresses. Seal-brown cloth, with plush to match, is the favorite material for ele gant promenade costumes. Ribbons striped in moire and plash, or moire and satin, are in high favor for bonnet and hat trimmings. Largo hats with obelisk crowns and halo brims are the first choice of the most fashionable yonng ladies. Brighter color and stronger contrasts are worn this winter than have ap peared in many decades of fashion. Velveteens are so beautifully im proved nowadays that they can scarcely be distinguished from silk velvet even by experts. Prince's feather is among the new flowers used in embroidery. The foli age is worked in crewels, the flower in French knots. A new stuff which is especially de signed for dress goods imitates plaited pekin on the right side, bnt on the back one sees that it is woven, and that the plaits are held in place by a net work. Shaded surah fans have the mount cut from the whole width of the material so as to show every tint, from the darkest to the lightest, and the down with which they are bordered follows the shading of the material. ihc lien Convention-A Fable. A Fox who found bard picking in a certain neighborhood one day visited a farmer's Dog and said : " I have lately undergone a change of heait, and I wish yon to make known the fort to yonr master's Fowls. They treat me as if 1 was a murderer, and it really hurts my feelings to see them hurry into tho coop at snnset. The Farmer, too, seems to distrnat me, for he has made the coop so tight that I cannot find a single knothole. What sort of away is that to treat a Fox who is doing his best to earn an honest liv ing P " I presume yon would like to stst yonr case to the Fowls in person T observed the Dog. "That's it—that the very idea," re plied tho Fqx. "B*y to them that I should like to meet them in convention under this tree to-morrow at noon. I will then explain my feelings toward them, and trust that the Fox and tho Fowls will hereafter live in the great est harmony. Innerd, the only differ ence between ns is the fact that I have no wings, and they ahmldn't hold me in suspicion on that account." The Dog agreed to act a* mediator, and at noon next day the Fox crept carefully through the weeds to the rendezvous, and crouched down to await the coming of the Fowls. There was presently heard a great whirr and clatter, and two-score hens alighted in the branches of the tree over tho Fox. " The convention will now proceed to business," said an old Hen, as she peered down npon the Fox. " Jnst so," grinned the Fox. " Please come down, and we will proceed." " Thanks ; but, if it's all the same to you, we'd rather you'd come up here,'* replied the Hen. " But I can't fly." " And we are poor mnners." The Fox not being able to fly np, and the Hens refnsing to fly down, the for mer was skulking off, when he met the Dog, who said: " My friend, the difference Ist ween undergoing a change of heart and de siring to undergo a change of diet and position is so oliscnre that many people never stop to fish for it. As a Fox, yon were respected for yonr canning ; as a hypocrite, even tho old Hens despise yon ."—Free Frr,*. Peculiar Acrid* nls. A. O'Connell, of Helena, Montana, met with an accident that is perhaps without a parallel. While sneezing he fractured one of his ribs. A boy riding on top of a load of hay with a nmfll-r abont bis neok at Ghent, N. Y., waa drawn from the load by a branch of a tree and hung by his mnf. fir nntil almost dead. In a runaway accident at Brighton, Mich., John Dnffey was canght under the box and a bag of flonr in the wagon was thrown over his head and pressed down by the box so that he was smoth ered to death. William Allen, of Eckford, Mich., died from the bite of a weasel. The animal was robbing a hen'* nest, and in crying to catch it Mr. Allen was bitten on the hand. Tho bite cause I a pain ful illness, whioh terminated in death. Miss Ma>y Ps|>e, of Muscatine county, lowa, aged sixteen years, lost her life by wiping tier month with hr apron npon which some strychnine hid acci dentally been spilled. Bbe waa taken sick the same day and died at night in great agony. PEARLS OF THOUGHT. A little praise upsets a little mind. The pureat water runs from the hard est rock. A man of littlo wisdom is a sage among fools. The thing that makes people strong is the moral oourage to do right. It is right to be contented with what we have, never with what we are. An untruthful man ia taking his first lessons in learning the language that fills the vocabulary of crime. " Man is moved by his senses, woman by hor imagination; hence absence oondncts him imperceptibly to forget ting, while it exalts her pasaion to idola try." If man, or woman either, wishes to realize tho fall power of personal beauty, it must be by cherishing noble hopes and pnrposes, by having some thing to do and something to live for. A certain amount of opposition is a great help to a man. Kites rise against and not with the wind. Even a head wind is better than none. No man ever worked his passage anywhere in a dead calm. In general pride is at tho bottom of all great mistakes. All the other jute sions do occasional good, but wherever pride puts in its word everything goe wrong, and what may bo desirable to do iniotly and innocently, it is morally dangerous to do proudly. t onxuntptJon. Consumption usually begins with a slight, dry cough in tlic morning, then on going to bed, getting more and more frequent, with more and more phlegm, increasing debility, thinness of flesh, shortness of breath, and quickening pulse. In fatal cases its average course is about two years; hence the import ance of arresting the disease at as early a stage as possible, and the sooner ra tional means are employed for this pur pose the greater the chances of snocesa. Tho disease is owing to an irritation commencing in the throat and extend ing to the Inngs, ao that their action is interfered with, and the blood does not receive sufficient oxygen to purify it- The first thing to he done is to remove the obstruction, which is the irritation or congestion of the lungs. Four ounce* of glycerine, two ounces of alcohol, two ounces of water, snd one grsin of morphine make an excellent mixture for relieving the cough. It should betaken in tlosraof two teaspoon fnl* every two hours until the ootigh is relieved. The chest just below the neck should be rubbed with tartar emetic ointment every morning over a space ss large as the hand, nntil a thick crop of aorcs is brought out; then mb the ointment between the sores to bring ont s Dew crop. Meantime, the patient should take regular and vigorous exer cise in the open air There is nothing that equals horseback riding as n r- ns edy for this disease a consni ip'.ive were io " live in the saddle " and sleep out of doors, taking care to keep ihe feet dry and warm, and to live upon good, nourishing food in short, o " rough it," he wt txl.l recover his bont 4,200 plants lathe average for an acre of gruund. At a certain age the plants must be " pruned," which ooDsista of breaking oil the anoota and suckers snd pinching off the head, and again the tobacco worms must be hunted off the plants. Tobacco growers generally put in corn and other crops as well, so that bands can be shifted from one growing prod uct to another as necessity requires or the state of the crop permit*. A fair average per acre is 700 pounds. This must lie sun-dried on scaffold* in the field, end afterward hang in barns and rmoked. The stflwt price for this heavy toiiacools seven cents per pound. An acre of land is thus made to yield abont SSOO. Grow ers estimate about 1,000 pounds to every hand jmployed, and the care of the tobacco crop is only one-half of their labor. SCIENTIFIC SCRAPS. As we ascend from the earth tho air grows thinner and thinner. From this fact astronomers believe that the limit of the atmosphere is 200 miles from tho earth's surface. In Alpine regions thore are more nar row, partly-closed flowers than else where, and u greater proportion of long-tongued insects, the flora seeming to be exaatly adapted to tho insect* feed ing on its honey. Coal consists of from eighty to ninety - flve per oont. of carbon mixed with a small proportion of mineral substances, whioh, after it is burned, remain as ashes, and of an inflammable gas con tained in its interstices. Professor Morangoni shows by a ooa elusive set of experimouta that moist air ia not a conductor of electricity. He proves that the loss of enrrent in telegraph wires and tho want of action in electrical machines during misty or wet weather aro duo to the condensa tion of moistnro, carbonaceous deposits, adherent dust, spiders' webs, or the contact of branches of trees. According to M. Treve the flame of a lamp ap(>eara brighter, and a vertical shaft, a post or mast is seen more dis tinctly through a vertical than through a horizontal slit, while a house, a land scape or the disk of the sun or moon is perceived more clearly through a horizontal slit. He flnds similar dif ferences in photographs, according as the light passes from tho object to the plate through a vertical or horizontal slit, and ascrihea the results to the action of diffused light. Iteuulled After I went) Years. Tho following romantic story comes from Davenport, Iowa: One day re cently the raft steamer Clyde went Into Davenport on her way north, and Cap tain Dons lass tied up his boat for a while in order to permit some of his crew to go ashore and mak<- purchases. Among others who went ashore was Aaron Carter, a rafUman. The weather was very oold, with a keen northwest wind. While going along the street Carter m.-t a poorly-clad little boy, who was running along, crying bitterly. Carter asked him what was the matter, and the little lad sobbed out: • I'm cold." "Come with me," said Carter, and taking the boy to a clothing store he bought him a suit of warm clothes and a pair of mitten*, lie th- n asked the boy bis name. " Aaron Dunlap," was the reply. Carter was thnnder 'truck. •' Aaron Dunlap!" be cried. " Where are your father and motuerf" " Father ia dead," the boy replied. "Well, take me to your mother, then, as quickly as you can." aaid Carter. The boy took him to his humble home, and when Carter entered the house the boy's mother rushed into bis arms with a shriek that msd<- all the other occupant* of the tonerm-nt-houae rush into the hall to see what was the mat ter. Carter had found a sister he had not seen in almost twenty years, or since the year 1862, when he went to war with a Maine regiment, for his father was a lumberman from Maine. She married and cam* West the year after, and the family in the course of ten veers lost all sight of her because her husband turned out bally Ho died in West Liberty, lowa, ten years ago, three months before her yonngest child was boni. The joy over this meeting cannot be described. Carter returned to the steamer sod told Captain Donglass that he would go the real of the way home by rail, and on the fol lowing Friday morning he took the flrt train for the North, with his siater, her two dsiighters and her son, clal more comfortably than they had Wen before in many a year, for the family had seen bitter poverty. Carter is un married, and is a re>idnt of Chippewa Falls, Wis. He has been s ItimWrman in that region for many yeara, rafting in the snmmer sod logging in the winter. He sai I he ahould buy a home and place his sister in it. His benevolence to the half frozen bay restored his sister to him. I'rics Under the Confederacy. A friend eenus us the fallowing cir cular, and writes; •' Provisions are high now, but they might be worse; for ex ample, note the inclosed:" Ooiotdbbatr HTATKS FAMKIIK A, 1 ctrnsisTF.scK DKPAtrrMENT. v IltrnMoKD, Va.,September 2d, 18 A J The following prices, Wing the average of late schedules established by commissioner* for States east of the Mississippi river, with cost of transpor tation iocltided, will be charged for subsistence stores sold to officer* under the aet of February 17, 1803, and amendments, in Virginia, North Caro lina, South Carolina. Fiori la, Gs >rgia, Alabama, Mississippi and East L>m-i --ana, until further order-: Bacon, $2 50 par pound; fresh beef, 70 cent* per pound; flour, $lO per liarrel; corn tin a', $4.50 per bushel of 50 pounds; riw, 80 cents per pound; p*, SO.IO per bushel of 61 pnnl<; sugar, 8,1 per pound; coffee, $5 per pound; soap, $1 per pound; candles. $3 26 per |ound, vine gar, $2 5u per gallon; $lO pr gallon; salt, 80 cents per pound. —CV lumbia (cf. C.) Hgi*trr. TUB FAMILY DIM TOtt. Starch poultices arc very nnirritating, and may be used on the most delicate skin, even if there ba an eruption on it —as in "shingles," for instance. Taey also retain heat well, and are lighter than linseed. A glass of hot milk is au immense stimulant for a person fatigaod either by mental or physioal exertion. Milk heated to above 100 degrees Fahrenheit loses while hot much of jis sweetness and density. Mothers and nurses cannot be too careful ab >ut the soap they use on the little ones. Few but physioians know how many of the so oalled skin dis eases among children are caused by the use of adulterated, poisonous soap. An analysis of several cakes of the pretty and perfumed toilet soaps tlut are sold on the streets showed the presence of ground glass, solablo glass, silex, pipe olay, rotten stone, borax, plaster of Paris, tin, orystal, migaosia, pimice stone, oat meal, and oth *r substances, which are added to give the soap ; weight, hardness, toughness or oloar | ness. The common colorings are ver j miliou, Venetian rod andfiarmine, ultra j marine green, pot pigment green, cop • peras, Spanish brown, ultramarine blues, yellow an 1 starlet anilines, anl burnt umber. .Many of the perfuming ingre limit*, though harmless in them ' selves, become oh-mically poisonous by admixture. Alding,tho danger fro a all these to the rancid, dissassl, putri 1 , qualities of grease ;use 1, *n 1 mothers I may well be appalled at the permanent | evils these neat-looking, delicately j Hosnlol blocks soap contain, rea ly to be released whenevor moist- I ent one wants to get it stuffed, but the live birds sre not kept on sale. It would not pay to feed and take care of them. There is, however, a market for white owls, which are csnght in Canada an 1 the West and ex ported. The highest price for a nice white owl is $5. Sometimes owls are used as decors to catch other birds- Tney sit ao still in the daytime that other birds will go near them feirleasly. Other methods of bird-catching are, however, more in favor. Owls are ea-ily caught in the daytime, as then they see little, and can be easily ap proached anw do you account for the owl being an emblem of wisdom and held, as it was lin ing the ancient Greeks and It itnaus, sacred to Minerva T" " I can't aoooant for it; but I sup po-e, as a matter of Tact, that there are many students who look as wise as an owl but know no more." " ~ The Angel of Death not Wanted. To people who in rash moments wish thern-elve* deal, comes this para'd*, to show them that if taken at their word they would soon retract and plead to j life: A certain feeble old man bad K*thor*d a la l of sticks and was carry ing it home. H • lireuM vert tired on •he road, and latingdown his burden he cried ont: -Oh, Angel of De.tb, deliver m- from this mi-eryt" At that instant the Angel uf Dea'h, in obe I ence to his summons, appeared hefo-.- him and sake I bint whs? h wanted. On seeing the (rightful (1 (Urn the eld man, tr- m hling, replied: ' Oh, litend to please I to ait me, that I taav lilt mmm more * hi* burden upon tar a >oulder; for turn purpose only have | nailed yon I" Ck iwtbcrj Jimrnat. The Heart Hoar. A silver tongas and sparkling •f* Ars lovely, to bs sure; An 1 •ana? inilas -yet all la rain, Unless the heart la para. A fairy aU|>, startle, free, • Haul* small and lily whits Ars wall enough -yot aU in rain, Dnlaaa the hoart u right. And wit an 1 beauty, wealth and faraa, All gracefully combined. Will win applauaa—yet all la rain, (Jules* the hoart la kind. Bach graoee many frion'la may bring. And high position, too; Tot know this woll—'tla all in rain. Union* tbo hoart ia Into. ToiUh'g Ojmpinio*. PO.tMBVr PAKIWK&PfIH. Switch tenders Hair-pins. " You're stu II ig tno," at the turkey" aaid to the cook. Tiie amateur comet to reaeire blow for blow. Toe wstcbm iker can't afford to do a oath business, booause he mikes his profit* on time. Peacock feataers are etnbleme of vanity. They terra to point a moral and adoro a tail. If a man really wants to know of how little importance he is, let him go with hi wife to the dressmaker's. Oorn is the worst used of all the corealfi. Ho matter how fraitfal it is, it is only grown to hare it* ears polled. A cynioal old oacholor says that "lorers are like armies; they get along well enough till toe engagement be gins." A book, m.ssing twenty years, has just been returned to the Boston publio library. Home people are snob terribly slow Madera A little boy s remirkeJ: "I like grandpa because he is sash a fgentlo miuly man; healway* tell* me to help myself to sugar." A Kentucky .girl is charged with hav mg said: "If a cart wheel has nine fel lows, it is a pity that a pretty girl like myself can't hare one." It is a mean boy who, knowing that his sister's yoaag mn is still in ths parlor, will slip downstairs near mid night an l gayly ring the breakfast belL Oae of the paragraphert has disoor orol that, as a three-wheeled rehiole is j a tricycle, and a two-waeslal rehicle a bicycle, awn* fluitely superior to it* predecessor*. •, " Where is the islsud of Java situ ated?" aske la school-teacher of a small, rather for'orn looking boy, "I danao, sir." "Don't yon know where coffee comes from T* "Ye, air; we borrows it r aly parched from the next-door neighbor." A clergyman in Scotland preaohed a few days ago from the text, "If ye do not ye shall likewise perish." Tne wife of a farmer who wa* present went home and t >ld her husband that the text was, 'df yon do not pay rent, you shall leave the parish." They know how to havo fan in Ken tacky. At a recent fair a grab-bag was a feature; it sras tweaty-five cents a grab, and the graba were numerous, bat nobody got anything, thongh every fol low wa* satisfied 1 Tue bag contained a young alligator I It has taken seven years to adit tbo correspondence of Peter the Great, the first volume of which will shortly ap pear in 81. Petersburg. Aud yat sra don't believe it will have at large a sal in this country as ' Mid Joe; or tha G >d L ttle Boy who Murdered his Kind Grandmother," which wa* written in four hours and a half. "now arcs a ass is i,i* a* ot.o saos P Hew much a mm i like old she**; Kor insUnor, bom a soli- may I MW ; 1 11 ilk have iinoo I, both am mads light lly oobbinra. IJ .th get twit mi l right; Both niwl ■ mate to i nssplrla And both tif ma le to go on l-se. Tusy both ns*d healing, ofi arc aotd. And both in Haw inrn *ll to mold. Wi htb w the last is fi at. with msa The first -hail be tbo la-t, ami whsa I'lie shoes woo out they're mm lad naw; When men wear ant thy'r.> men d-od, too. Tet lmth am tro I upon ; and loth Will tro ad on others, nothing kith. Itilh have 10l lb*. >n I b .th luolina, >\ Imn p diahs i, in iti • w wkl to shis*. Au 1 but i peg out—and won d you ehooaa To baa man or be Uia almas? —T, C. fMfs Whether or not coming events oast their shadows before depends upon the position of the sun.