Attorney-General Hrenster. In describing the appearance of the onnsel in the star route oases in Wash ington, a correspondent I*7l of the attorney-general: But the head and front of the trial and the queerest, oddest, most indesorib. able individual you will m9et with in a year's trial, is Benjamin H. Brewster, the brusque and burned attorney general. His whole face from his eyes down is a oioatrix. He was horibly burned when a five-year-old child in attempting to resoue a little sister from the flames, and he is as hide ously ugly as any "false face" or caricature you ever rested your eye upon. He is the observed of all observers. His costume contributes to the curiousness of the character before you. He appears in court dressed in patent leather pumps, with white gaiter tops and straps, lavender pants, a louble-breasted buff vest, a turtle green cutaway coat, a blue, white-dotted silk scarf, diamond pin and tall, pointed collar, the ends of which projeot out and upward like sleigh-innners. In stead of cuffs he wears lace ruffles about his soft, small white hands. Each hand supports handsome rings. A tiny gold watch chain sweeps around in a orescent across his yellow waistcoat front, and he dries his weeping eye 3 with a snow-white lace kerchief. His tall, old-fashioned, yellowish beaver bat has fur on it longer than that of a mal tese cat. He drives around in a white and yellow coach, emblazoned with his coat of arms. These and a bunch of other eccentricities and idiosyncracies make up one of the ablest lawyers in the land and the attorney-general of the United States. He is of good height, with a well poised and phrenologi cally rounded head. His argu ments are as clean cut and trenchant as the circle of a Damascus blade in a giant's hand. His language is chaste and clear, and cats to tho marrow. His "insulting" ugliness reminds me of a speech Tom Marshall made, when under the influence of liquor, to a man whose wi eho disliked. Said the Woodford orator : " Bill, your wife is a blamed ugly woman." " Well," replied Bill, flashing up, " that is her privilege." " Yes," replied Tom, "but she abuses the privilege." And it looks that way in Brewster's case. He is said, how ever, to bo a charming man in conversa tion and in the social circle. California Pears. A San Francisco correspondent writes: Mr. Mills, the editor of the Sacra mento Record- Union and the president of the California Associated Press, dur ing [a long ride around Sacramento, took me to see a Saoramento valloy pear orchard. There are millions of acres in the valleys of the Sacramento, San Joaquin, Yuba and Feather rivers, where splendid crops are raised without irrigation. There is no rain, but still the ground is constantly moist from seepage. The Yuba, Sacramento and Feather rivers are several feet above the surrounding farms—caused by the debris from the hydraulio mines in the mountains, The levee holds them up above the farms. The pear orchard visited has twenty acres in it. There are 175 trees to the acre. It is four years old. Last year the trees paid the owner $2.50 a tree and nearly $450 per acre. In a few years each tree will pay $lO. The or chard ia beautifully cultivated. Not a weed is to be seen. Every fall the top of every pear limb is cut off eighteen inches, to keep the tree down. All California grapevines are cut down in the fall to one main stem, with a few stub limbs at the top. The vines thus stand alone. Chinamen do all the work in these grape and pear orchards. They culti vate the trees, trim them and piok the fruit. Fun In Africa. I had capital fun—for even in African traveling we have our hours of ease— in my attempts to take some photo graphs of the people. I found this a matter of the utmost difficulty. At most places my attempts had proved abortive, owing to the suspicions and superstitious notions of the people, who wonld just as soon have stood at the cannon's mouth as face the camera. While the in strument was being erected they usually gathered around in crowds, open mon'hed with wonder and ouriosity. •But no sooner did I slip the blaok cloth over my head for focussing purposes than they fled incontinently, and neither bribery nor oajolery could avail to make them stand apain. They were always thoroughly imbued with the idea that I was working witohcraft, and that my supposed charming would take some vital essence out of them. Hence not a few villages remained absolutely de serted as long as the camera continued on its legs.— Good Words, Frankfort on the-Main, containing a population o4 abcut 100,000, is said to be the riohrst oity of its size In the vided among its inhabitants every man, woman and child would have, it is said, 20.000 marks, or some $4,000 a piece. THE FAMILY DOCTOR. HOT MILK AS A RESTORATIVE.— MiIk that is heated to much above 100 de grees Fahrenheit ioses for the time a degree of its sweetness and its density; but no one fatigued by over-exertion oi body and mind, who has ever experienced the reviving influenoe of a tumbler of this beverage, heated as hot as it can be sipped, will willingly forego a resort to it because of its having been rendered somewhat less acceptable to the palate. The prompt ness with which its cordial influence is felt is surprising. Some portions of it indeed seem to be digested almost immediately; and many who fanoy they need alcoholio stimulants when exhausted by labor of brain or body will find in this simple draught an equiatlent that shall be abundantly sat. isfying and more enduring in its effeots. —Phrenological Journal. CURES FOR BALDNESS. — The Chemists' Journal says : Dr. Xavier Landerer, of Athens, has again been so obliging as to send us some notes from the cradle of pharmacy : Numberless remedies for baldness of French, English, German and American origin stock our markets, but none, according to Dr. Landerer, equal in efficiency the following, which he has used and prescribed for many years past. Prepare a tincture of the cups of the Quercuscegilops, which are known in oommerce as valonia, and digest with it powdered cloves and cinnamon. Make a tincture by digesting tho leaves of the Laurus apollonis in acid wine, and mix the two together. Before ap plying this remedy the skin of the head should be well washed with a decoction of saponaria root ( Saponaria levrtnlica), to cure any exanthema pitliyilatis which may be present. • Instead of pomatum or hair oil, laurel oil should be used, this being the usual hair oil in vogue among the ladies of the East. Dr. Landerer calls this remedy for baldness alexitrichon , or hair preserver. Utah and the Mormons. A visitor to Salt Lake City writes in the Conqrcgationalist as follows : Sev eral days lately spent by the writer in Salt Lake have afforded a fresh and in teresting view of the matter as it ap pears from this standpoint of the Mor mon Mecca. At the Sunday service the tabernacle, which will seat 13,000 when filled, was not occupied at all in the galleries, though they were formerly were filled. The addresses wore shaped specially for the benefit of the non- Mormon hearers, of whom there must have been at least 290 present, seated in front by themselves as usual. One of the speakers, the su perintendent of Mormon schools for the county, argued at great length the reasonableness of a new revelation to Joseph Smith, and both the addresses had about them a good deal of the assumption that the doctrines preached must be true because I, the speaker, say so. The praying was to a very large extent similar to that in evangeli cal churches, though there was once or twice a more direct supplication that all the world may be converted to Mor monism. The (Mormon) men and women were seated by themselves, and the babies and little chil dren, of whom there were a good number present, cried vigorously, keep ing up sometimes a sharp competition with the fihoir. Bread and water are distributed to the entire congregation every Sabbath as a communion sorvioe, those who do the preaching stopping to allow the announcements and the short prayers, but going forward 'with their address while the elements are being distributed. On Sabbath mornings Mormon Sabbath-schools are held in all the ward school houses of the oity, and the same buildings are used for local meetings in the evening. Since the passage of the Edmunds bill the Mormons are somewhat more reserved in their intercourse with others, though heretofore they have done their trading almost wholly at shops kept by their own people. The non-Mormon population of the city is between four and five thousand, out of twenty thou sand in all, with a Congregational, Pres byterian, Methodist and two Episcopal churches. It is a mistake to suppose that polygamy, as bad as it is, la the worst and most dangerous feature of the Mormon chnroh. The offense is one of which only about one-tenth part of the people are guilty. The infallibility ac corded to the Mormon church and its priesthood is the thing most to be feared and hardest to uproot; and polygamy rests upon this. A lady of our party meeting a married daughter of Brigham Young, drew from her the frank statement that like other women she should shrink instinotirely from such a step as her hnsband's taking a second wife, but added that she should submit without protest, as the church requires it. Here is the keynote to this bondage of polygamy, but oontaot with the outside world is beginning to be felt, and polygamy is looked on with decreasing disfavor among the young people, as they begin to see how it is regarded by others. About $25 000,000 are now given to foreign missions where but $1,000,000 was given sixty yean ago. MORAL AND RELIGIOUS. llow People Die. Rev. Henry Ward Beeoher in one ol bis sermons says: "I think the great majority of people die very mnoh as ■ leaf does. Its snpply of jnioe grows less and less, and the stem is less and less nourished, and it gradually re traots and shrinks within itself, and hangs on the branoh; and soma day when the wind blows in very gentle puffs the leaf is lifted a little and the connection breaks, and it wavers and wavers through the air and settles with out a sound upon the ground. I sup pose that the majority are as uncon scious of the phenomenon of dying as children are of going to sleep; it is so like it that it is called in Scriptnre 'fall ing asleep*—only there the figure is sweetened and made more beautiful, in that we fall asleep in Jesus, or in His arms." Worrying. Every mortal has burdens and dis comforts. By picking the burden up fifty times a day and weighing it, it be comes no lighter, but rather produces an increased sense of heaviness. By worrying over the discomforts they be come none the more comfortable, but are harder to endure and give cause for more and more worry and complaint. To ignore them may be im possible. We are not called upon to do that. But by turning the sunlight upon them and greeting them with the merriest laugh we oan raise we oan lighten them and melt them as cakes of ice are meltea in the noonday sun, so that when wo look for them we find they are gone and wondar who has oar ried them away. Blessed be the sun shine that comes with its benediction to the weary and lightens the burden ol the heavy heart. Religious News and Note. The British people gave 85,310,950 for foreign missions last year. The Episcopal bishop of Pennsyl* vania has sailed for Europe, to be absent three months. A party of 1,004 French Roman Cath olics has jußt completed a tour through tho Holy Land. Pastor Newman, of the Madison Ave nue church, New York, has had his salary raised to 810,009. The Boston Y. M. O. A. is said to be the oldest in the United States. It reoently celebrated its thirty-fir ot birth day. The Lutheran Observer says that over ono thousand ministers have been sent to America by ten theological institutions in Germany. The American Bible sooiety is under taking the fourth general supply of the Holy Scriptures throughout this coun try. The first was in 1829-30, the seo ond in 1856 and the third in 1866. Mr. Kimball, the debt extinguisher, is proving quite successful in Califor nia, having recently cleared off a debt ol 815,000 on the First Congregational and one of 820,000 on the First Presbyterian churches of Oakland. The Methodist Episcopal chnrohea North and South unite in a oentenary conference, which will be held in Bal timore, December 25, 1884, to celebrate the famous "Christmas Conference," which was held in that oity December 25, 1784. Tindestak, Alaska,"is a Chiloat vil lage of sixteen houses and one hnndred and sixty two people. Each of the houses cost the Indian owners over a thousand dollars. Their desire, how ever, for the Gospel was so great that the whole population left the village last October and moved to the new mission station at Willard, that they might have school and church privi leges. Lovers' Strategy. The matrimonial aspirations of Lee Hale and Katie Morgan were opposed by her parents at Ohattanooga, Tenn. She was kept so olose a prisoner that all plans of elopement failed, as she was not allowod to go beyond the veranda of the house. At length Hale made up a party of friends, including a minister, and approached the house near enough to signal Katie to come out. The obliging clergyman had shortened the marriage ceremony for this occasion to a few words, and it was supposed that these could be spoken before any interruption occurred. The girl was caught on the veranda by a big brother, and in escaping from him fell down the steps, bruising herself considerably, bnt the ceremony was successfully performed, amid the cheers of a multitude. An Epigram by Emerson. In London is made publio an epigram which Emerson wrote in the album of a well-known firm of photographers to whom he sat for a photograph daring his last Eaglish visit. When asked to write something he readily consented, and, without hesitation, penned these words: " Tlio man who has a thousand frienda • Haa not a fricn tto spare, Bnt he who haa ne enemy i Will meet him ererrwUere." LADIES' DEPARTMENT. Derllnrd to be Married. When a suitor at Mount Vernon, 0., received an emphatio no to his proposal he was about to give up the suit and go back to his home at Columbus, but the girl's mother accepted him, appointed a wedding day, and assured him the daughter would be ready for the oere monv. He was there again at the time fixed, and so were numerous guests, who found the house deoorated with flowers and a collation prepared. But the bride was missing. She was caught at the railroad station and taken back home, where she disobeyed her mother's stern command to stand up and be mar ried, and the oompany was dismissed. A Determined Wife. When Mrs Qutzkow found herself on the road to Redwood City, California, her buggy upset, her horse run away, and her husband disabled by a lamed leg and a broken arm, she was in a sore quandary what to do. After a while a man came driving by, and she begged him to take herself and husband to town. He refused, saying he was in i hurry. Thereupon Mrs. Qutzkow snatched up her husband's overcoat, pulled out a revolver, seized the man's horse by the bit, leveled the shooting iron at him, and threatened to put him out of the necessity of ever keeping another engagement if he did not com ply with her request. He saw dead earnestness in her eye, weakened, and look husband and wife to Redwood City; and now Mrs. Gutzkow's reputation as a heroine is firmly established on the Pacific coast. Her husband is a son of the popular poet and writer who recent ly met his death in 'Germany by suffo cation during a chloral hydrato sleep. New* and Note* lor Women. Queen Victoria has grown very gray. The Princess of Wales and her daughter takes exercise on the tricycle. It is proposed to revive the pillory in England for tho punishment of wife beaters. Upon Mrs. Nellie Grant Satoris rests the responsibility of having made brick red kid gloves popular in Washington. Mirs Hannah Reynolds, arrested re cently in Ireland for conspicuous ad vocacy of "no rent," was sentenced at Birr recently to six months imprison ment on a charge of intimidation. Mrs. Scott Sexton, of Louisville, Ky. has instituted, organized and success fully carried forward a school of elo cution and oratory, and this snmmer opens a " summer school" at Fredonia, N. Y. At a school district in Lancaster pre cinct, just east of Lincoln, Neb., as many women as men attended the an nual school meeting, and Mrs. Perkey was elected as a member of the school board. The Beaver Oity (Neb.) paper says: "Ttie woman's suffrage movement is gaining ground in this part of the State. Miss Itinkin, the county superintendent of this oounly, was elected unani mously." Mrs. Rebecca Taylor, mother of the late Bayard Taylor, bas presented to a dry goods house in Philadelphia a hand some skein of silk, reeled and spnn with her own hands, in the eighty-third year of her age. In her endeavors to eliminate from her clothing all products which involve the death of animals, Mrs. Anne Kings ford found great difficulty in procuring vegetable boots, but a London cobbler succeeded iu making some which look exactly like leather. Mile. Lucy de Rothschild, daughter of Baron Gustavo de Rothschild, was married recently to M. Leon Lambert, head of the Brussels house of Roths child, in tho synagogue of the Rue de la Viotoire in Paris. She is eighteen years old, graceful, thoroughly edu cated and accomplished, and brings her husband a dowry of 600,060,000 francs, or 8120,600,000. Pn.hlon Notes Very plain skirts are in high favor. Laces were never more worn than this summer. Tinted and colored grenadines are again worn. Nile green and lavender are favorite tints for grenadines. Wash dresses are almost de rignenr for children just now. Jerseys aro much worn for the jackets of lawn tennis costumes. Lengthwise tucks aud tucked yokes are features in bathing suits. New bathing suits have short sleeves, and trousers loose at the ankles. The mandoline is coming in vogue as the musical instrument of the roa thetios. There is as mnoh variety in the fash ions of bathing suits as in all other garments. Making ficelle lace Is among new fancy work for ladies daring tne snm mer season. Oarraokmaoross lace is used upon fancy round bata of cream-white straw, also trimmed with white ostrich tips. The Zonave form of bathing sm't, combining tha blouse and trousers in one pieee, is revived. Pale yellowish pink shades are much used in fine millinery and for neck rib bons and bows on white morning dresses. Terra-cotta satin dresses, trimmed with real Spanish laOe, relieved by huge clusters of "Jaok" roses, are im ported. Parisian-laced shoes, with pointed perforated toes of patent leather on French kid tops, are rapidly taking the place of buttoned boots. Among the rapidly appearing eccen tricities in fancy jewelry is an ornament for millinery in the shape of six tiny birds transfixed on a gilded spit. The Alpine peasant hat, called the Montagnard, with broad brim bent down over the eyes, is to be an exceed ingly popular head covering for seaside use. Striped lawn tennis cottons for the skirts and whitq lawn tennis cloth for the aprons are worn with white on bright wool jerseys for lawn tennis suits. Pure wool-mixed cheviots with a dash of Cayenne red in the woof will be much employed for traveling dresses all summer. The facings and cordings are of red satin. Muslin round hats, for country wear, are made of polka-dotted white and ecru muslins; the trimmings are fanoy muslin handkerchiefs and artificial daisies, buttercups and white and pink Scotch roses. Black openwork chenille wrapß in the directoire shape are much worn this season. They form a rich and elegant addition to promenade costumes of moire, foulard or satin, and have all the becoming effeot of a black velvet mantle. White Madras muslin dresses worn by very young ladies are draped over white moire and have sashe3 of satin surah. The illuminated pattern of many colors on ecru grounds makes very showy dresses with dark velvet ribbon bows looping the drapery and also a collar and cuffs of velvet. Sitinette and Tarkey red parasols of lustrous cotton are more appropriate than silk ones with the ootton dresses worn in the country. They have bril liant grounds strewn with large detached flowers, or with large balls or polka dots. A bow of the same material is tied around the natural wood^,handle. Chicoree or pinked ruches of heavy silk trim the foot of the cashmere dresses that aro made for seaside resorts. Embroidery of the Bame color and flounces of silk lace are added byway of further garniture, and there is then nothing in the whole costume that will shrink in the moist atmosphere. The coolest and most becoming morn, ing gowns are mado of linen lawu in the Mother Hubbard shape, that is, the full skirts are shirred on to a tucked, puffed, or embroidery or lace-trimmed yoke; a ribbon belt confines the fullness in front at the waist line, but the demitrained back falls loose in full Watteau folds from the shoulder to the tucked or raffled bottom of the skirt; pretty shirred and ribbon trimmed pockets and sleeves finish such gown. 0 Notable Trees. An oak tree reoently felled at Ohioo, 001., measured eight and a half feet in diameter at the stump. A horse chestnut tree on the premises of Mathias Baser, 328 Washington street, Boston, was covered with pink blossoms this season. Madison countj, Ky., prides itself on an elm tree, recently cut down, that measured twenty-five feet around the body and more than 300 feet around the top. On July 4, 1812, Dr. West, of Ches ter, N. J., stuck into the ground in front of his door his walking stick. To day the circumferenoe of the trunk is seveoteen feet. A peach tree in the garden of Mrs. John Arnoy, North Hanover street, Phil adelphia, had double blossoms almost as large as the common Jane rose, which they resemble in a remarkable degree The tree is ten or fifteen feet high, of the white freestone variety, and though not prolifio bears double fruit. A Mistake. Anatomically and physiologically it is a complete mistake to have the heel of the foot raised from the ground be yond the level of the palm of the foot. The moment the hoel is raised the plan of the arch is deranged, and the elastio, wave-like motion of the foot impeded. The aroh always onght to have full play.— Dr. Foofet Health Monthly, Robert Bonner has put 8382,000 into horse flesh sinoe 1850. In that year he paid 89 000 for the famons team, "Lan tern and Light." In 1804 "Pocahon tas," who had a record of 2:26 3-4, was sold to him for 840,000, "Dexter" ooat him 815 000, "Edward Everett" 82V 000, "Startle" the same sum, "R iru" represents 886,000, and hut latest pur chase is that of "Keene Jim" for 84,000. Happy LOTS. ( While they eat before the fli% Nothing more did be dealre^ Than to get a little nigher, If he oooid; And hie heart beat high and higher And her look grew ahy and shyer, 'When he sidled close up by _ As be should. Then ho ventured to inquire If her sister, Jane Mariar, And her mother and her sire, Wore qnite well ? And from time to time he'd eye her, As though he would like to buy her, And his bashfulness was dire, For a spell. Then his husky throat grew dryer When he told her that the 'Squire To himself would gladly tie her If she would; Might he now go ask her sire? And he thought he would expire, When she said, to his desire, That he could I —liurlington Hawkey*. PONGENTJPAfUUBAPHS* High heals—Doctors' bills. A toothache is always a pain invest ment. Female physioians naturally praotloe homeopathy. Mammies are the only well-behaved persons who are now left in Egypt. When the poet wrote "the bravest are the tenderest," he didn't refer to ball beef. In trade what artiole is usually con sidered as occupying the foremost rank? StroDg batter. It is a terrible come-down for a man to fall oat of a balloon and be obliged to walk home. A party who has just paid a big doe tor's bill says he wants to see high heals go out of fashion. All flesh is grass, and that's why so many men nowadays appear to have had their hair cat by a lawn mower. It is fan to see the weathei bores* dodging about*in the vain hope of hit ting it about onoe or twioe a week. An advertisement in a Western paper Bays: "Lost—Two cows; one of them is a ball." So is the advertisement. The trapeze performer is a Ligjh minded man in more ways than one. He is always above being in the ring. Simultaneously with the advent of narrow-gange trousers, the papers are telling of a great increase in the nombsi of spindles in the country. The weather BO hot I should Bay is not Z The ploasantest to be bome ( Bat please bear in your mind, When to ewear you're inclined, It'a the makin' o' wheat and corn. Beef is so high that it is now a oom pliment to be called a coward. Eves Bullock presses are advancing and steersmen on river beats are contem plating a demand for increased pay. All the newspapers throughout the country are objecting to the duty on matches. We always did think that the stamp on matches was a terrible thing, especially when a man is in hie bare feet. Buffalo Bill has brought suit to ra. cover $4,000,000 worth of property in Cleveland, and some one expresses the hope that, in case he is successful, be will put aside twenty cents of it and get his hair cut. " Now, George, you must divide the oake honorably with your brother Charles." "What is honorable, mother?" '' It means that you must give him the largest piece." " Then, mother, I'd rather Charley would divide it." " Ma, am I all made now ?" said e little miss of three and a half years old at the breakfast table the other morn ing. " Why, dear ?" said the fond mother. " Because I have had my ears pierced and was vaccinated yesterday," said little Tot. The "preliminaries" of the occasion had all been settled. That is, John had asked Julia, and she had oonsented. They were sitting on the front veranda watching for the sable curtain of night to part and give them just one look at the new oomet. ' Oh, by the way Julia," said he. a little nervously, ay income is— is SBSO now. Do yon think we could live up to it?" "Why, John, you precious, 1 can live up to an inooma twice as big as that all by myself." Tha farewell kiss that night was a mere me chanical bit of osonla ion. "Why are yon like an oil well Kate V ' The lover anted. Replied his iate, " Because I'm bored ? M "Oh, no, I mesa Yon give delight with csrens neon." " Indeed I" she laughed, "I'll ask one, too | Why like an oil well, sir, are you ? H " Because I'm deep—in love r" aald ha. "And I'm"—"A guaher ? Yea," said aha. " That's very good, bsl, Kate, I find Like oil, that you are quite refined— Yon are my flame' that will"—"no doubt Like yon," abe eaid, "soon be put oat," In walked her pa. "Bee here, my eon, If you are oil let's see yon ruu; Because, if I 'sirike oil' I might Give you a start—with iie-mau-ite." The work of the onltd States fish commission this year w