LAD IKS' DEPARTMENT. TUe Msthrraf I'urli-fiiur 4 hllilrrn. If the great Napoleon's famous defi nition of superlative female excellence may he accepted as correct, Dr. Mary Austin in unquestionably the moat ad mirable woman in France. Thin lady has just completed her thirty-third year of wedded life, during which period she ban presented her husband with no fewer than forty-four pledges of her wifely affection. In the spring of 185.1, four years aftor her mar riage, Mary Austin, nee Klind, passed her final examination at the Medical College of Orleans, and obtained diplo mas authorizing her to practico in both branches of her profession. As soon as the Franco-Frussian war broke out she joined the army of the Union with her husband,and the prolific pair served with extraordinary distinction throughout the four years' struggle—she in her surgical capacity and Colonol Austin as an active militant. The former, whilo attending to the hurts of her comrades under fire, was thrice wounded in action—the lat ter five times. At tho conclusion of the war, tho valiant doctor, having lost her left eve in the sorvice of her country, but in other respects nono thejworse for her injuries and fatigues, rotnrned to her private practice covered with glory and in the enjoyment of a staff officer's pension. Since then she has lived in peace and honor, the pride of her fellow citizens, and indefatigable in her en. deavors to render her warrior lord the happiest of fathers.—Boston Transcript. Profriftlonitl Hranttra. Professional beauties, says a London correspondent, wero rapidly becoming disturbing influences in tho best con ducted London circles. To bo the rose, or to boast the presence of the rose, in a brilliant company was ono thing; tho display of a multitude of buds vying in their ambitions with tho mature and perfect blossom was another. The spirit of a burning, and in nearly every instance most unbecoming coquetry was instilled into a number of breasts. Society was agitated by the discussion of rival claims till it grew sick of hear ing about them. There was not a youthful or middle-aged beau who did not think it incumbent upon himself to start some lady who had been suf ficiently unfortunate to attract his favorable opinion in the professional beauty line. This, it was felt, was going a little too far. There was no reason why individual cavaliers might not haTe their preferences, but there was every reason why they should not ask society to indorse their choice. If Paris had only been one of a multitude of connoisseurs in feminine beauty the apple which he gave to Venus would not have been so bitterly grudged by the brace of neglected goddesses. Tho system of professional beantydom ww in fact found to be incompatible with the harmonious working of tho social machine. I>rawing-rooms were split up into different camps. The gentle men who pleaded the claims topre-emi nence of the particular lady they had honored with their championship, were growing as much nuisances as, accord ing to the refra'n of Bon Gaulticr's ballad, the man who, lost his heart a short time ago. Moreover, the alsurd ity of the whole thing was patent. The professional beanty was oniy one star in a galaxy, and not necessarily the brightest. Her own vanity might be gratified at the selection, bat the boredom which this condition of things resulted in provoked a whole some retraction. Mothers and fathers, husbands and lovers, began seriously to reflect upou what would be the general oonsequences of the system if it indefi nitely developed. The names of a score of professional beauties were so habit ually on peoples' lips, their photo graphs wero so aggressively conspicu ous in shop windows, that society wearied of hearing of them. It also began to be a little apprehensive as to oonsequences. It received some highly practical admonitions—the revelations of the law courts, and it came to tho conclusion that on the whole, )>oth in the way of enjoyment and of credit, it had more to lose than to gain by per petuating the regime. VaafcUn JfolHk Moire* continue in fsvor. Trains are of mediom length. The cost sleeve remains a favorite. Short suits continue to grow shorter. skirts are plaited in front and ok, bnt not on the sides. An old fabric revived is linen ging m. New flannel saiU show brass ball . buttons. > Terra ootta velvet trims white woolen eostumes. Plain sleeves, with simple cuffs, are most stylish. Spotted and sprigged muslin is used for white dresses. New sash ribbons have raised chenille flowers and leaves. Terra ootte ribbon on black straw bonnets is very stylish. White dresses are embroidered all over the waist and skirt. Bayadere stripes appear on many new parasol covers. Dress parasols have the entire top covered with artificial flowers. Jntonso colors and icsthntic stylos are avoided by fashionabio women. Full apron skirts, looped very high on tho hips, have been revived. Balls of colorod wool aro mado use of to edge flounces and basques. Dark green contrasted with n tlowor yollow is seen in bonnets. Long gloves aro worn outside tho sleeves half way up to the elbow. Bpanisli lace trims tho handsomest parasols and coaching umbrellas. Carved teak-wood is a favorite mato rial for sticks for elegant parasols. Manila hats, with velvet crowns, aro well fitted for tho first spring days. Tho woven Marguerite laeo gloves will be worn with Bummer drosses. Black grenadine over rod, olive or yellow satin is used lor new mantles. Dark green, ecru and terra cotta aro tho prevailing Bhades for bonnets and dresses. Velvet tabliers and vests give a rich effect when combined with tine wool dresses. Few of tho fashions are new; most of them aro rovivals of styles worn only a few years ago. There is quite a bewildering variety in fancy ties and jabots, and every lady may invent her own style. Variety is all that is necessary. Spring fans are in various designs, tfome are of lace and flowers, others aro hand-painted on satin, while others aro made entirely of feathers. For morning wear, linen or cambric collars aro worn. Thoy aro immense, and aro trimmed round with Irish lace. They like children's collars. Dress skirts are wider this season. They measure two and one-half yards around the bottom. Tho draperies aro morojbouffant and elaborate than last season. Irish lace trimmed with clusters of shamrock leaves and forget-me-nots was the garniture of the green velvet dress worn by tho l'rince of Wales at the queen's last. Tho Haxony flannels, or dress flan nels, as they aro called, are largely im ported this season for early spring suits, for ladies' wrappers, mountain dresses, and for children's suits. The quaintest designs are seen in the embroideries of pocket handkerchiefs; somo represent pet animals, such as cats, dogs, parrots, and other birds, en circled by wreaths of flowers. Black and gray and black and white check, plaid, and stripe in linen ging hams will bo popularly worn the coming season by ladies in mourning; and in the heat of summer traveling costumes and ulsters will bo made of this cool, washable fabric. A Terrible Avalanrhr. Tho avalanche that came down the mountains at Genoa, Nov., was of great extent. Occurring as it did in the morn ing, when most of the people were in bed, the wonder in that more of the renidentn of the town did not lone their liven. The first intimation bad bj the people wan a rumbling nonnd like that of an earthqnake. Bella were rung, and cries for assintancc panned along the ntreetn bjr those who happened to Ire up. The slide,came down the gorge irnme diatelr south of Genoa canon and swept everything before it an far an Main street. No obstacle checked thin moving mountain until it spread ont and lost its force on the nearly level piece of land on which Genoa is built, fully a quarter of a mile from the base of the mountain. Broken lumber, splinters of furniture, pine and fruit trees, hay, clothing, kitchen ware and bedding were dia tribnted through a body of snow and ioe from ten to fifte n feet in depth and several acres in"extent The " Long'' building, which stood nearest the mountain, was occupied by Indians driven from their wigwams by tho severity of the storm. Aa near as could be ascertained but seven were in the house at the time of the catastrophe. No trace of the building could be reo ognised. Next came the residence and barn of Minerod Bowers, which was completely crushed to pieces and carried into an adjoinirg lot. Minerod and his wife were found atill in bed and almost on top of the snow and debris, both dead. The residencies of D. W. Virgin, W. D. Gray and that of H. Boerlin were on the next street below Bowers'. lioer lin's house was completely demolished. Tbeooeupaats were Mr. Mad Mrs. Boer lin, their two children and Mr. Chis holm and wife. All were bnried in the ruins.— (ianoa (N>.) CmtrUr, Belgium has sixty dally papers, of which fifty-two ate printed in French and eight in Flemish. The number of the weekly journals is 808, of whioh 237 are in the French and 101 in the Flemish language. Over 2,600 men In Utah hare more than one wife a piece, m. PEARLS OF THOUGHT. Distrust him who talks much of his honesty. Measure your mind's height by the shadow it caHts. It is a good thing to learn caution by the misfortunes of others. Make not thy friends] too cheap to thco nor thyself to thy friends. Every to-morrow extends either a hand of anxiety or a hand of faith. Men's lives should be like tho days, growing more beautiful toward the evening. Tho most diilicnlt thing in lifo is to keep the heights which the soul has reached. What wo are merely taught seldom nourishes tho mind like that which we teach ourselves. Opportunities are very sensitive things. If you slight them on their first visit they seldom come again. Human experience, like the stern lights of a ship at sea, illuminates only tho path which wo have passed over. Ilow Jesse James Was Killed. The following are the particulars of the shooting of Jesse James, the notor ious outlaw, at Bt. Joseph, Mo: After having eaten breakfast Jesse James and Charles Ford went to the stable to curry the horses, and on returning to the room whero Robert Ford was, Jesse said: "It's an awfully hot day." He pulled off his coat and vest and tossed them on tho bed. Thee he said: " I guess I'll take off my pistols for fear somobody will see them if I walk in the yard." Lie unbuckled the belt in which ho carried two fortv-flve-calibcr revol vers—one a Smith A Wesson's, and the other a Colt—and laid them on the bod with his coat and vest. lie then picked up a dusting brash, with the intention of dusting some pictures which hung on tho wall. In order to do this he got on a chair, his back being now turned to the brothers, who silently stopjied between Jesse and his revolvora, and at a motion from Charley both drew their guns. Hobcrt was tho quicker of tho two. In one motion he had tho long weapon on a level with his eye, with tho muzzle not more than four foot from the back of tho outlaw's head. Even in that motion, quick as thought, thoro was something which did not escape the acuto cars of tho uunted man. He made a motion as if to turn bis head to ascertain tho cause of that sus picions sound, but too late. A nervous pressure on tho trigger, a quick flash, a sharp report, and the well-directed hall crashed through the outlaw's skolL There was no outciy—just aswating of the body, and it fell heavily back upon tho carpeted floor, the ball having en tered the base of tho skull, and made its way out through the forehead over tho left eye. It had been fired out of a Colt's "iy improved weapon, silver mounted and pearl handled, which had liecn presented by the dead man to his slayer only a few days before. Mrs. James was in the kitchen when the shooting was done, separated from tho room in which the bloody tragedy oc curred by the dining-room. She heard tho shot and dropping her household duties ran into the front room. She saw her husband lying on his back, and his slayers each holding his revolver in his hand, making for the fence in tho rear of the house Hot>ert had reached tho inclosurc and wai in the act of scaling it, whensho stepped io *bc door and called to him: " Hubert, you have done this; come back." Robert an swered: " I awear to Ood I did not.'' They then returned to where she stood. Mrs. James ran to the side of her hus band and lifted up his head. Life was not yet extinct, and when she asked him if he wero hurt, it seemed to her that be wanted to say something but could not. Hhe tried to wash away the blood that was coursing over his face from the hole in his forehead, but it seemed to her that the blood came faster than she could wash it away, and in her arms Jesse James died. Fooling Willi the XlnlMippl. Will 8. Hay*, the Umooi aong writer, baa been making a cruise of the re cently flooded region* of the Miaais aippi. He wa* aaked what he thought of the plan of atraigbtening the rirer a* a preventive of disastrous overflow*, and be replied: It'a all nonaenae. Right here at the bend (near Mam phi*) the river run* at the rate of flvo or aix milee an honr. Where the river ia atraight it i* about eight milea an hour. I (thia immense a weep of water, sixty feet deep, and running at the rate of eight milea an hour, had a olean, atraight channel, it would aweep Ead'a jettiea and everything out of ex istence. The benda in the river aavo it, by cheeking the current. If yon were to take away 300 yard a here, It would form a bar three milea long bo low on the other aide. I believe in letting nature take her oourae. It won't do to tinker with the Miaaia aippi. We have had flood* before, but never anch a one aa thia, beeeuae there'* bean too muoh footing with the river thia year. Oongreaa may ran the government, bnt abe cant run the Mississippi rivet. WELL-KNOWN I'll It ASKS. How iln- Following nrr Hald lo lUvr Orltl uaird. " Do, ro, mo, fa, sol, la."—Gaido, an Italian of tbo eleventh century, baa l>een called tho father of modern music. It wan he who invented, or for tho first time systematically uaed, tho lines of tho ftaff and tho intervals or spaces, and thus fixed tho principles of mod ern notation and introduced tho names of the first six notes of the scale, do, ro, me, fa, sol, la. Guido was a monk in tho monastery of Pumposo, and, while chanting with tho choir a hymn, ho was struck with tho regularly ascending tones of tho opening sylla bles, which lead to his invention of an educational method by which, accord ing to his own statement, a pupil might learn within five months vhat formerly it would have taken him ten years to acquire. "The king is dead 1 Long live tho king!"—Tho death of Louis XIV. was announced by tbo captain of tbo body, guard from tho window of the state de partment. liaising his trancheon above bis head, he broke it in tho center, and throwing tho pieces among tho crowd, exclaimed in a loud voice: "Lo roi est mort!" Then taking another staff, he flourished it in tho air, as he shouted : " Vivo 1c roi P " What shadows wo are and what shadows wo pursue,"—This quotation is often supposed to have been derived from tbo Bible. It is from an elec tioneering speech of Edmund Burke in 1780, referring to the death of one of his competitors for a teat in parlia ment Agnostic.—A word of late coinage. It is composed of two Greek words, sig nifying " I don't know," or " I have not sufficient evidence on tho subject to enable me to decide." An agnostic is a kind of know nothing in religion ; be neither affirms or denies. One author defines such a person thns: "An ag nostic is a man who doesn't know whether there is a God or not; doesn't know whether he has a soul or not; doesn't know whether there is a future life or not; doesn't bolioro that any one else knows more about tbeae mat ters than ho does ; and thinks it impos sible and a waste of time to try to find out" "A Kowland for an Oliver."—These wi re two of the most famous in the list of Charlemagne's twelve peers, and their exploits are rendered so ridicu lously and equally extravagant by the old romancers, that from tbenco arose that saying, amongst our plain and sensiblo ancestors, of giving one a " Rowland for his Oliver," to aignifj the matching one incredible lie with another.— Thnmat H'arburtrm, "Where the shoe pinches."—Plutarch relates the story of a Roman being di voroed from bis wife. "This person being highly blamed by his friendai who demandeil : Was she not chaste? was she not fair?—holding out his shoe, askrd them whether it was not new and well made. Yet, added he, none of you can tell whore it pinches me." " Am I not a man an.l a brother T'— From a medallion by Wedgwood (1768), representing a negro in chains, with one knee on the ground, and both band* lifted up to heaven. This was adopted as a characteristic seal by the Auti- Hlavery society of London. " Bravest of the brave."—A title con ferred npon tho celebrated Marshal Ney (1769, 1815) by the French troops stFnedlsn l (1H07) on acconnt of bis fearless brsTery. He was in command of the right wing, which bore the brunt of tbe battle and stormed the town. Napoleon, as he watched him passing nnterrifiod through a shower of lialls, exclaimed, " That man is a lion and henceforth the army styled him "lo brave dea braves." " Catching a Tartar."—Signifying tho encountering of an opponent of un expected strength. "ITJO story ol the origin of the expression is as follows : "Ins battle an Irishman called ont to his offioer, 'I have caught a Tartar.' ' Bring him here, then,' was the reply • He won't let me,' rejoined Pat, And as the Turk carried off his captor tho say ing passed into a proverb. " Before you oau aav Jack Robinson." —This current phraao is derived from a humorous song by Hudson, a tobacco nist, in Shoe lane, London. He was a professional song writer and vocalist, who used to bo engaged to sing at sup per rooms and theatrical houses— St, Ijorlit Globe-Democrat. All She Could Afford. She waa a real aweet-looking lady, with a aealakin aaok and a big pluah hat, and ahe stood on the etep of an up. town reeidenoe, having Juat pulled the bell. " I called to eee," aaid ahe to the lady of the honae, who waa very red in the face firm frying doughnuta over the kitchen fire, " if yon wiah to give any thing to the heathen to-day." " No, I don't mat to give anything to the heathen to-day. I j net gave the woman next door a pieoe of my mind about her aoalawag of a boy that broke down my plants. That's all I can afford for the heathen just now." TOPIC'S OK THE DAY. A French physician has made the dis covery that many children, apparently born dead, can l>e brought to life if they aro immediately immersed in a hot bath. Emigration from Uvitznrland bas be come so great in late years that'predic tions aro made that unless it ceases certain districts will lose tho greater part of their inhabitants, if they do not become literally depopulated. Tho aconitine with which Dr. Dam son, the American, murdered his young brother-in-law, Percy Malcolm John, in England, is a most astrociously virulent poison. The one-hundredth part of a grain of it nearly killed a two-year-old colt,and a two-hundredth part of a grain killed a sheepdog, which weighed 211 pounds, in thirty-three minutes. It is said that war between China and Japan is not unliksly, but that the lat. tor power has not yet began to make preparations. Bach a war wonld be very interesting here, in view of tbe asser tion that China has become such a formidable war power since her en counters with Western nations that, if she so willed it, she oould make it ex ceedingly oncomlortablo to the] United States. Though Italy possesses 57,000,000 acn s of cnlturable land, equal to the whole of Great Britain, and has only 9,000,000 of inhabitants dependent on agriculture alone, .'1,000,000 of these are laborers who are wretchedly poor, earn ing in many places less than a shilling a dav, and nowhere receiving more than Is. Bd. They have no cottages, but herd in the small towns, and die rapidly of diseases produced by bad living. Preparations for tho national mining and industrial exposition at Denver, Col., have so far advanced that it is considered safe to annonnce Its opening for August 1. Forty acres of land in the most attractive suburb of Denver have bee n secured, a plan for tbe build ings has been accepted, and abundant funds to carry out the designs of the association which has the enterprise in charge are promised. A* a display of all that pertains to the mining industry this exposition will doubtless be exceed ingly interesting and important. The czar of Rusiia seems to bo hav ing a particularly unpleasant time of it. He has to keep as much in the dark as if be were an impecunious creditor keeping out of the way of the bailiff. Instead of being an impecun ous cred itor he is ruler of all the Russian, and has more money than he knows what to 'do with. He is in constant dread of his life, and with the fate of his father l>eforo .him, it is easy to understand what a state of mental unsettlement be ' must be in. Tho following table ia interesting a* showing, approximately, the consnmp i tion of cotton last roar in acme of the I leading manufacturing Htates : Bain*. Mamuu-hnaetta 729.421 Xr Hampshire 217.859 tthod* island 2>i3,9M Maine 141.674 (Vmuortient 136,92.1 rpimaTlrania 10H.*i7 New York 88.217 iioorgia., 86,821 Total 1,711,408 AU other HUI (atiout) 2*8,592 Qrand total (abont) 2,000,000 There can be little doubt that prema ture burial occasionally takea place in France and Algeria, alao in Germany, in consequence of the lawn ordaining prompt interment. It ia no wonder, therefore, that , the following discovery aignaled in L'Electricile hat been re ceived with great aatiafaction. Accord ing to tliia journal it baa been aacer tained that the applioation of an elec tric current to the body ia a certain teat of vitality. Such a teat being applied five or six hour* after prcenmed death, the non contraction of themuaclea will prove beyond a doubt jthat] life ia tinct. Oovernor Colquitt, of Georgia, baa pardoned Kate Sothern, who killod Narciaaa Co wart, her rival in the affec tiona of her husband, in Pickins county some years ago. She waa sentenced to death for the killing, but the gover nor, in response to petitions from every State in the Union, and in view of the extenuating circumstances of the oasa, commuted the sentence to ten years' imprisonment. The Atlanta Oonmitu lion says : " Kate Sothern has been living for some time as a domestic in the house of Ookel Chess Howard. It is anderstood that she and her husband will not return to Pickens county, but will make their home elsewhere. Thus ends one of the most noted onset ever in the oourta of Georgia; one that cre ated perhaps more interest and excite ment than any ever known in tho State." An un precedent rs ll* C00k5..., 61 Bn)