LADIES' DEPARTMENT. AtUila'a Pretty Hkwatkrr. Atlanta, Oa., can boast of a genuine curiosity—a live female shoemaker— young, pretty ami imlnßtriomi. Having occasion to send my little nephew with a pair of boo'a to bo memleil he sur prised me on hid return, writeH a cor respondent, by remarking that "sbo" said ao and RO about tho boots. I then learned for the tlrat time that wo hail in our neighborhood a young girl nndor twenty yearn of age, the daughter of a shoemaker, who daily works at the trade hcrnelf, not only mending, but making in good style, both boots and shoos. For several years she has thus been en gaged, and has won the respect and patronago of a large circle ol! apprecia tive families. Ftar W Mlf r Uirla. Tho Woman's Journal cites the Misses bollock as four typical Western girls : The family of W. E. and A. M. Kol lock, of Madison, Wis., consists of seven members, four of whom ore sisters. Of these Dr. Mary Kollock Bennett, the eldest, graduated at the Woman's Medi cal college of Chicago, and for many years has been practicing successfully in that city. Tho next, Dr. Harriet Kollock, graduated in the modical de partment at Ann Arbor, Mich., nine years ago, since which time she has been eminently successful in her pro fessional work. The third, the Rev. Florence Kollock, graduated at Canton Theological college somo years since, and is now doing a good work as pastor in a beautiful church, built for her by her parish during the past two years at Englewooil, a tine suburban town of Chicago. Dr. Jennie C. Kollock, the youngest Bister, graduated in the dental department of Ann Arbor, Mich., last March, together with a class of thirty six gentlemen, she being the only lady, and passing the highest examination of any in the class. She is now establish ing horself successfully as a dental practitioner in Chicago. ShM >ol to Ilrri. Women who love their husbands are happy aud at rest. Those who do not are disturbed and restless; they are always seeking for some means of kill ing time; they are ready to flirt at any moment; their children are, according to their means, either hidden in nnrs eries under the care of French bonnes, or handed over to Sally, tho slatternly nurse, to shake, and slap, and stuff with sugar, as her wisdom dictatea, while society and amusement* of all sorts oc cupy their mother's time. Home is not happy to the poor woman, because she has chosen her mate foolishly—because she trusted to that love after mar riage " which mercenary old people promise those who make what they call a sensible match. Had as a neglected wife, who loves her husband well, must be, I believe she is happier than this poor, restless creature, thongh sho be worshiped. The love of one we do not love becomes simply a bore, es pecially in tho close intercourse of home life, and she who does not give her heart to her husband is not likely to care much for bis children. 80, girls, if you do not love your lover, don't marry him. Remember that marriage is a serious step, and that when you give him your band, that he may encircle it with a wedding-ring, you seal the happiness or misery of your natural life. Don't marry unless you are sure cf your love for him and his for you. Fahln In Cnlnm. The new colors are copied from fo liage and flowers, and take their names accordingly; for instance, a new dark green is called elder green, another shade is sycamore, and the olive greens are called lichen green; a purple-red like scabieuse is marked petunia, and a similiar shade is orchis; the azealea red and pale eglantine (wild-rose) pink have already been noted; the Turc andHicily reds are brighter shades than the dull garnet so long worn, and are similiar to carnation red. Sunflower yellow, like the "gaudy leonine flower" of the XMthctes, is shown in ribbons and crapes, while the paler yellow tints are maize, like the com and straw colors worn before dull ecru shades were popu lar. Cinnamon brown with red pre dominating and the yellow leaf browns are shown, with also the dark reddish seal brown. There are threo shades of beige ranging from ecru to brown, and there is pure white that has no yellow tinges, as well as the cream white that is almost as dark as Isabel yellow. Hues blue is a very pale shade, hussar blue is dark, and Russian blues have the gray shades that have been fashionable during the winter. Argent, or silver gray, is again largely imported. VMIIIU Males. Slate blue appears among new colors. New neck lingerie is very elaborate and voluminous. Shirrings will be used on new light woolen and c >ttoo goods. Poufs in the back* of dresses grow smaller and less bouffant Evening dresses are trimmed with embroidered ruffles and tabliers. Feather hats and bonnets are mori bund. Paris has condemned them. Galloons and braids will trim many spring costumes and spring jackets. Cloth and cheviH costumes are rarely made of two materials com bined. Moresque and Oriental laces rival in popularity the Spanish, Barcelona and Burano. ltibbed velvet and corduroy velve teen jackets aro the fancy of tho pass ing moment. Copper tint is a favorito tint in new goods of all kinds, including tho new upholstering staffs. For full evening dress there are bands of gold and silver or strings of I>earls worn in tho hair. Morning dresses for unceremonious visits are mado of black faille or black caahemire des Cevennes. Spanish aud Oriental laces will both bo used for trimming nnn's veiling when worn in tho ovening. n Nun's veiling is eqaally becoming to old and to young women. It is tho very stuff for children's dressy suits. Basques are shorter in the skirt anil aro frequently pointed in front and drawn up in the back to form tho pouf. Butterfly wing poufs in the back, formed by tho scarf employed for the tablier and hip draperies, are much worn. Among new pongees, tho plain white goods, striped horizontally with hair lines in lace effects, are tho unique and novel. The Princess of Wales' favorite bon net is tho cajtote. According to Lucy Hooper, in tho llatar, she actually invented it. Somo authorities in matters of dress say that kilted skirts are going out of vogue; others announce that they will be more worn than ever. Costumes for street wear should be of woolen material, one kind only, with which a felt hat or t>onnet simply trimmed, and a cloth jacket, may be worn. In Paris skirts are frequently seen of which the only dra]>ory is a broad sash tied around tlib bottom of the waist and looped back on tho tournnre to form the pouf. One of the prettiest lace pins in dia mond jewelry is a reap hook set in grad uated stones, with a serpent also in dia monds turned around the blade, its eyes Wing small rubies. In spite of the high looping of back and side draperies the costome of the season defines tho hnmau form divine as much as ever. The effect is still of a princess rol>e or fourreau, whethor tho dress is short or trained. The hair is worn low on the brow, either in a curly fringe or waved. Be hind, it droops in tho nape of tho nack in a coil, in loops or braids. Flowers are sometimes worn in the hair in the evening iu small quantities— just one large fiowcr or a spray near the left ear. American llorse-Shne* In England. The poetical surroundings of " the village blacksmith " and his harmonious anvil, says Chamber*' Journal, aro threatened with a powerfnl rival by the introdnction from the United State# of a new indnstry; namely tho manufac ture of machine-made horse-shoes. A company whose premises face the Thames opposite Greenwich, have just opened their works, to supply the Uni ted Kingdom with these machine-made article#. Tho iron is rolled from scrap, coming from the rollers as a grooved bar, which is afterward cut into lengths, punched with the neoessary holes, and finally is t>ent by a machine into the horse-shoe shape. It is calculated that there are in the United Kingdom abont three million horses; in Enrope general ly more than thirty million; requiring annually a million and a half tons of shoes- 80 that if the new company tnrn out good work, there aro plenty of cus tomers for their goods. It is said that the now shoe has met with the approval of some eminent anthorities, and is al ready used by several tramway com panies. Farming on a Big Scile. E. O. Bprsgne, who live* jast south of Fargo, Dakota, remarked that he wonld in three year* have a larger tract of land in wheat than any other private individual. He now haa 3,000 acres ready for crop, and will thin spring break 7,000 more, and the following year will prepare 3,000 acre* more on which to raise wheat. The land is all in Olay conntv. Mr. Sprague ia prob - ably one of the largest land owners in the world, now having a clear title to mora than half a million acres, 56,000 of which are in Minnesota, abont 2,000,000 in Texas, 30,000 in Missis sippi, and various other tracts in all part* of the Union.— tforthw*t. Congressman Moore, of Tennessee, wrote "Be a good boy and you'll be a good man" in an albnm which he snp posed belonged to the small page who handed it to him, only to find that it belonged to a gray-haired officer of the Hovae. PEARLS OF THOUGHT. Jealousy is tbo homage that inferior ity pays to merit. Vice stings us even in onr pleasures, but virtne consoles us even ia onr {mine. It is with life as with coffee, ho who wonld drink it pore mast drain it to the dregs. If yon wonld net have affliction visit yon twice, listen at onoe to what it teaches. No books are so legible as the lives of men ; no characters so plain as their moral conduct. It is a solemn thought with the mid dle-aged that life's pust business is be gun In earnest. Dark clouds roll up and obscure the sun, but we know that there iH light above the elonds. To the generona mind the hcaviost debt is that of gratitude, when it is not in onr power to repuy it. The best of all prayers is to act with a pure intention, and with a continual reference to tho will of Ood. The generality of men expend tho early part of their lives in eoutribnting to render tho latter peH of the fr lore. Who is wise? He that is teachable. Who is mighty ? He that conquers himself. Who ia rich ? He that is con tented. Who is honored ? no that honorcth others. Men Who Paint and Powder. There aro men in New York wbo paint and powder. The number in small, but tliej exist, if the statement* of druggists, barbers and dealers in toilet preparations ara to be trusted. They are usually young nun, not of the highest fashion, and are to lie found 1 occasionally in the lobbies of theaters, or speaking English at the French liall*. The practice began a few years ago, and has not flourished. The custom of banging the hair among men, on the other hand, grew very rapidly. Cajmul, the tenor, gave it impetus, and now in almost any assembly frequented by the well-to-do youth of the city there are one or more men's heads with banged hair. A druggist of this city, in apeak ing on the subject, said: "Wo sell many bottles of cosmetics, blooms, lily whites and the like to men, and the inference is that they bur for their wive* or sisters, but in some instances they unquestionably buy for themselves. It doesn't need a prac ticed eye to tell this. The effect on the face is easily discernible." "Speaking of cosmetics, are sny of them absolutely harmless f" " 1 could not recommend a tingle one conscientiously. They all contain in gredients more or lesa injurious, and should not lie used with sny frequency." A barl* r, whose place is near Twen ty-third street, and who counts many yonng men about town 'among his cus tomers, said: "The'desire to look lieantifnl is about as strong in an idle young man as it is in an idle yonng woman. Many of my customers have no end of trouble in fixing themselves up. I sell s good deal in the wsy of liquid cosmetics, thongh nothing like lily white or pearl wash. Young fel lows will oomo here twice a day to have their faces well rubbed with a mixture of lisy rum, glycerine and several other fluids, which has s smoothing effect on the skin. They come ostensibly to be shaved in the morning and to have their hair dressed at night, bat they really want their faces attended to. They often say, "Pnt a little powder on m? chin, it looks so black but if you pnt a little powder all over the face and then amooth it down and make a feint of rubbing it off with a towel, they're snre to come again." There is quite a house in Fourteenth street, devoted entirely, according to its many signs, "to the boantiflcation of the person." The reporter climbed to the second floor, opened a glass door, and found himself in a small reception room. A girl was addressing circulars at a table. Her complexion is decided ly bed. Ferhaps, however, she is only a subject. Again, she may be a rosnlt. " What did yon wish, sir V she asked. " Do you do up men's faces f " Oh, yea," with a critical look ; "I'll call madam." Madam came and the reporter stated his errand. Who thought a moment and then said: "I see no reason why a gentleman should not im prove his complexion. I have eeven regular male customers. Two of them come three times a week and have their nails and hair attended to, besides the fsoe." " What do you do to the face V " First we use s stringent lotion with considerable camphor in it, which takes the natural oil out of tha face. Then we remove the blemishes. Moles are taken out with a preparation of iron. Then we build the complexion up with " and she went on to give a list of eonooctions. " What kind of men are these, madam r " Oh," said aha, "they are nioe young men ; quite nice."— Norn York Sun, SCIENTIFIC SCRAPS. Thirty per cent, of forest is consid ered the l>est proportion for the most lioneflcial effect on climate. Strychnia acts only on certain por tions of the spinal marrow, and opium on certain parts of the cerebrum. Agassis: says: The pupil studies na ture in the school room, and when he goes ont of doors he oanuot find her. Many butterflies take no food and have no digestive organs. The eating and storing of nutriment was performed in I the earlier larva state. It is said that the Japanese huveinade practical tests of paper belts to tho transmission of power, and that the rv units have been satisfactory. Experiments on tho effect of the elec tric light on plant life tend to show that it contains rays detrimental to them. Plants constantly exposed to it tsocome spotted and weakened. The increase in atrength in iron bolts from working tho metal cold, is esti mated at between fifty and a hundred per cant, and the effect in general is to give the iron a good ileal of the quali ties of hard steel. A "solar" locomotive has been placed on the French Northern railway. It is so called owing to an electric light which is placed in the front and fed by the engine itself, and intended to il luminate the way for u lontr distance ahead. A. Weill finds the decay of teeth to be caused by tho development of a fungns. The acids of th month may promote decay, hut cannot give rise to it. He ooncludes further that dmeases of various parts of tho body may be ( clearly traced to excretions from the month and teeth. Among the Itlflf.pit*. The following •* from Harry M. Kieffer's " Recollection* of a Drummer boy," in March St. Nich'daa : Fifty yards in front of the sbatin the pickets were stationed. When first the siege began, picketing was dangerous business. Roth armies were lient on fight, and picketing meant simply sharp shooting. A* a consequence, at first the pickets were posted only at night, so th.it from midnight the poor fellows lay in their rifle-pits under a broiling July sun, with no protection from the intolerable heat excepting the scanty shade of a little pine brush erected overhead, or in front of the pit as a screen There the picket lay, flat on his face, picking off the enemy's men whenever ho could catch sight of a head or even so much as a hand ; and right glad would he li if, when the long awaited relief came at length, he had no wounds to show. But later on, a the siege progressed, this murderous state of affairs gradually disappeared. Neither side found it pleasant nor profitable, and nothing was gaiu>-d by it. It dscided nothing, and only wasted powder and ball. And so gradually the pickets ju both sides began to l>c on qiite friendly terms. It was no unusual thing to see a Johnny picket—who would lie posted scarcely a hsadred yards away, so near were the linee—lay down his gun, wave a piece of white paper as a signal of truce, walk out into the neutral ground between the picket lines and meet one of our own pickets, who, also dropping his gun, would go out to inquire what Johnny might want to-day. " Well, Yank, I want soae coffee, and 111 trade tobacco for it." " Has any of yon fellows back there some coffee to trade for tobacco? ' Johnny Pickot,' here, wauts some cof fee." Or, may lie he wanted to trade papers, a Richmond Enquirer for a Now York Herald or Tribune, "even up and no odds." Or, he only wanted to talk about tbe now* of the day how "we 'uns whipped you 'ons up the val ley the other day;" or how, " if we bad Htonewall Jackson yet, we'd be in Washington before winter;" or may be be only wished to have s friendly game of cards! There was a certain chivalrous eti quette developed through this social in tercourse of deadly foemen, and it was really admirable. Heldom was there brcsoh of confidence on either side. It would have gone hard with the comrade who should have ventured to aboot down a man in gray who had left his gun sad come oat of his pit under the sacnsl protection of a piece of white paper. If disagreement over ooeurred in bartering, or high words arose in dis cussion, shots were never fired until due notioe had been given. And 1 find mentioned in one of my old army letters that a general fire aleng our entira front grew out of some disagreement on the pioket-lins about trading ooffae for tobaeoo. Tbe two pickets couldn't agree, jumped into their pita, and began firing, the one oalling out: " Look out, Yank, here comes jour tobacco." Bang I And the other replying : " All right, Johnny, here comes your coffee." Bang I There is nothing lower than hypoe risy. To profess friendship and net enmity is a snre proof of total de piavity. THE FAMILY DOCTOR. DAN'ISU IS NITMEOS. - Nutmegs should be used sparingly, for they possess a nareotio property that con stitutes them a drug. A lady who was induced to tako nutmeg tea by her nurse was made drowsy by it and Anally put into a profound slumber re sembling that of opium. —/>, FrAr'e Health Monthly. MIMC DIET IN BBIOHT'H DIMKASB.— Hince we know not at present any drug that possesses therapeutic value to any marked extent in this terrible and fatal disease, and since it is daily making sad havoc among human lieings, and principally among that class who, by reason of their valuable public labors, are particularly necessary to the wel fare of tho world; therefore, it be comes u medical question of paramount interest that we should discover some potent method of combating this very prevalent disease. Home years since Oarel first called attention to the treatment of liright's disease by the use of a milk diet, and since then Dun can, as well as many other prominent physicians, have written on this sub jeot. Wo have ourselves seen some re markable results fellow this treatment, while Dr. H. Weir Mitchell, of our city, is now quite an enthuaisst on this sub ject. This method of treating a for midable disease has received sufficient distinguished indorsement to recom mend it seriously to our notice. We wonld, therefore, ask all physicians whe read this artiele to try this method of treatment, and le furnish us with their experience, which we will publish. The milk is used thoroughly skimmed and entirely freed from butter. To procure the best results it has been advised that the patient shall restrict himself absolute ly to milk, and continue tho treat ment for a long time. If it disagrees with the stomach (as it will in some oases), Dr. Mitchell advises that the pa tient !>• put to bod, and the treatment •ommenced with tablespocnful doses, to which lime water is added, until the stomach tolerates the milk, when from eight to ten pints daily should be takei, and absolutely nothing else. The sanc tion of snch n distinguished physician at Dr. Mitchell forces us to seriously consider the merits of this treatment, and we trust to receive the cxjerieDCc of all readers of this journal who may have cases of liright's disease to treat. SI "J tool and Surgiral Hrporfer. .salt for the Throat, In those days when diseases of the throst are so universally prevalent, and in so many cases fatal, remarks an ex- J change, wo feel it our duty to say s ! word in behalf of a most effectual, if not positive, cure for sore throat. For i many years past, indeed we may say during the whole of a life of more than | forty years, we have been subject to a dry hacking cough, which is not only distressing to onrselve*, but to our friends sad those with whom we are bron-*ht into business contact. Last fall we were induced to try what virtue there was in common salt. We com menced by using it three times a day— morning, noon and night. We dissolved s large tablespoonfnl of pure table salt in about s half a small tumbler full of water. With this we gargled the throat most thoroughly just before meal time. The result has been that during the entire winter we were not only free from coughs and colds, but the dry hacking cough has entirely disappeared. We attribute theee satisfactory results solely to tbe use of salt gargle, and most cordially recommend a trial of it to those who are subject to diseases of tbe throat Many persons who have never tried tbe salt gargle have the im pression that it is unpleasant, but after a few days' use no person who loves s nice clean mouth and a first rate sharp ener of tbe appetite, will abandon it A Tale of the Sea. One of the very funniest stories ever heard comes from the log of the ship Gladstone, says the Sydney Mail. Down in the roaring forties a seaman fell overboard, and went down into the deep green gnlf without tbe faintest possi ble hope of coming on board again. It is not an easy thing to find a man, even if be does keep afloat, when deep calls nnto deep, and the big sea-monctains skip like yonng lambs in those lati tudes. But as this man rose afUr the first beadnr, right alongside ho beheld an albatross, and aronnd that albatross' neek ha folded an arm, and doubtless with the other hand made a sure grip of the wicked hooked bill, and with much flapping and floundering, and doubtless strange conversation between man and bird, he held on till the boat was down and .lifted him in. What tale the albatross told to his fellows that evening is to us unknown, but if any records be kept in the albatross world, little doubt there will bs found set down a reoord of a new marine monster more marvelous than the mightiest sea snake the most ancient mariner of the human raoe has beheld even in his dreams. Artificial essence of almonds may be made from bansine. Payment for Doing Good. Tbs a U pal'l by land*. With utrnams from r'ry shore, Ho giro with kindly hand*, For Ood osu give yoti more. Ha would that in a ring Hia Meanings sliuul't be actit, From liring thing to thing, 1 But nowhere stayed or spent. And ar'ry soul that Ukan, But yialda not back again, la aa a link that breaks, In heaven's lore made chain. WUluim Il not *wtbrtie, A dih-rag Kucdl; u> divine, A aqualung child la not f a! he-tic, A dirt/ floor i* Dot loonin*; A dm bring life ia Dot uj>i*rnal, B 1 flotir U not a daffodil, Tha wc*ih*r ia not aloji vernal, W !iv to mix the good u l ill. A momlwr of a fashionable con grog* tion called at a music store and in quired, " Have you the notes of a pieee called the ' Song of Solomon ?'" add ing, " Our pastor referred to it yester day as an exquisite gem, and my wife would like to learn to play it." A wicked man has been getting a dol lar a piece from simple-minded farmers by sending them through the mail, for one dollar, a "recipe" to prevent pumpa from freezing on cold nights. The answer to the farmers' letters waa: "Take them in doors overnight"—Mot ion HeraM, "When I grow up, I'll be a man, won't 11" asked a little Austin boy of his mother. "Tea, my son ; but if you want to be a man you must be industri ous at school and learn how to behave yourself." "Why. mamma do the lasy boys turn out to tie women when they grow up T— Stifling*. At a recent party a youag lady was annoyad by the impertinenoe of a young man. aad becoming tired of it tnrned toward him rather angrily and re quested him to cease his impudence. The young fellow replied, " I'lease do not est me." She replied, "Have no fear, air, pork does not agree with me." When a bashful young man finds himself in company where there ia a creamy infant of ten months, the ex pression on his face when the proad mother thrusts her tender offspring at | him with the remark, " Baby, kiaa tha nice gentleman," may be imagined, bnt cannot be counterfeited. " How do you like the character of St. Haul T' naked a parson of bis land* lady one day, during a conversation about the aainta and the apostle. " Ah, he waa a good, clever old soul, I know," replied the landlady " for he once mid, you know, th at we must eat what ia set before us and ask no questions for con science sake. I always thonght I should like him for a boarder." As grammarian* mi •*/ • aught ? Let ea eee How thing* I* Whan tbi* kind of taacbing ia taught Tha egg Mat hstaked, it is baaght ; Hj twitches arn't patch*!, tha/ are paagfct; John and Jamas am not roatchad, tha/ am ma tight. 11/ door isn't latobwd, it t* I aught; The pi* vasal taatehed, it wao wtaught j Tha oat n*v*r scratched, aha bat arrsugfct j Tha roof wasn't thatahed, it waUSpoghl. If English moat this way bo wi9|bt, It aoee will b* ana tohd- that la naught. OwrWrVewmat