LADIES' DEPARTMENT. Tk Glory of B Woman. They do not out off the hair of women convicts in the prisons, anil they say thrro would bo a tremendous row if they attempted it. The matron jf a New York prison says that she never saw a woman who did not comb her hair once a day, and the warden says lie lias "seen men who never comb theirs but onoe a month." It is added that " the most important ar ticles about a woman's cell, after her mirror, are the comb and brush," and it is asserted that physicians have given as their opinion that to cut women's hair would increase head aches and neuralgia among them, and "subject thein to coldsjin their beads." ' l'mgress. Wliut Disraeli TUnuthl of IVoinri, The action of women on our destiny is unceasing.— Sybil. Where there are crowned heads there arc always some charming wi unen.— L'ifym inn. Women alone can organize a draw ing-room ; man succeeds sometimes in a 1i 11 ra ry.— ('on i n gsby. Talk to women as much as you can. This is the best school. It is the way to gain fluency, because you need not care what you say, and had better not lie sensible.— Contarini Fleming. I believe women are loved much more for themselves than is supposed. Beside, a woman should lie content if sho is loved ; that is the point ; and she is not to inquire how far the accidents of life have contributed to the result. Faihioa in (ifma. Among gems the diamond sustains an almost permanent value and is perhaps less affected by fluctuations than any other stone. Cats' eyes are still quite popular; sapphires, arc ad mired and a few collectors rave over rubies ami emeralds ; but the caprice of fancy or the whim of fashion soon satiates and the translucent diamond resumes its reign as queen of the precious stones. At a leading house I have seen a bumble-bee in jewels, the body l>eing one immense brown dia mond tiiat glows with hidden fires. A parure made for the wife of the gov ernor of a Western State lias twenty yellow diamonds, the largest weighing thirty-ttve carats and three others which weigh twenty-five each, the re mainder ranging from one to fifteen carats each. A number of clear white stones used as pendants weigh six :arat# apiece, and there are many ru bies, emeralds and sapphires of three carats each dispersed among the other gems, while a trifle less than a thou sand smaller stones clear as crystal surround and enhance the exquisite lieauty of the larger gems. Tho entire set is valued at $85,000. A departure from the old gold cireu" lar bracelet is shown in a foliated gold band that claps diagonally about the arm and is ornamented with three rows of diamonds. Among other nov elties are miniature birds of gay plumage so perfectly represented in enamel and precious stones that one almost expects to see them take wing and fly.— New York fetter. Fnablon Nates. Marabout feather bands trim many nandsome cloaks and costumes. Bonnets frequently have the crown of one color, the brim of another. Ficelle gray and electric bine is an admired combination for millinery. Baby red velvet forms the dressiest sacks for little people of cither sex. Crape frills around the neek and sleeves of dresses are a late novelty. Plush ribbons with ottoman repped backs appear on many dressy bonnets. Plush and velvet Scotch caps will lie much worn by children anil school girls. An eccentric fancy edges the brims of dark velvet bonnets with clear amber beads. The tapering bonnet and hat crowns are not so fashionable as large and square crowns. Plush, velvet and brocaded stuffs will be much used in trimming ireases and lion nets. Floods, cascades and flounees of Ori ental lace are used on evening toilets of tinted and white veilings and mulls. The mandolin, zither and Spanish guitar are coming in vogue among fashionable as well as icsthetic young ladies. Black alpaca drew* trimmed with velvet and with linings of satin are among late fall importations of cos tumes. Ficelle lace is more worn on the other side than in New York. There it is combined with all kinds of lacee, black white and colored. There are brocade velvets in floral designs, on satin grounds, to be made Into court trains in combination wltk heavy corded silks. Plaids of ail kinds, somber, gray and msthetic colors, aro worn for skirts with jackets of solid colored plush, silk, cloth or novelty goixls. Velvets, which are in high favor, are introduced not only in black and somber colors but in delicate shades for evenlug and ballroom toilets. Velours ottoman is the novelty for brides' dresses, its repped texture form ing either the entire dress or else the train and side robes or paniers, looped back from a satin bead embroidered or brocaded front breadth. Brocaded or plaided skirts are a good deal worn at present, with close-fitting jersey basques of plain velvet in black, dark green, dark blue |or wine color, and trimmed with a passementerie of gold and iridescent beads. A favorite trimming for black vel vet bonnets consists of a black lace scarf, which does double duty as crawn drapery and strings, and also affords a setting for the tuft of ostrich tips which adorns one side of the bonnet. Ladies will do well this season to look up their heirlooms in the shape of fancy buckles and clasps, as ornaments of this description are exceedingly fashionable. Buckles, both little and large, of gold, silver, jet, pearl or bronze, are worn upon the dress, often in place of buttons. Floral paniers are among the new est accessories to hall dresses, and are made with all sorts of flowers. In white lilac or lilies of tho valley mounted on white net, they look ex ceedingly well; they aro piaeed on l)oth hips, and finish in front at the point of the bodice; at the back a long spray falls on tho train, the bouquets for the shoulder and head correspond. How They Bathe In France. In all French houses the bath-rooms are unknown, says a I'aris letter. .Such a luxury can only be obtained at a bathing establishment. An ordinary warm bath costs from thirty.cents to sl, according to whether you furnish towels, soap, etc., or not. In first-class localities these places are faultlessly clean, the attendance perfect, and the apjxiintmcnts nil that could be <ic. sired. There are no knobs on the doors. Once in the bath-room the attendant turns the key. and there you are. A bell-cord is conveniently placed within the reach of the tub and an attendant always answers most promptly any call. When yon are ready, having previously ordered it, you have but to ring and a hot linen i wrapper is brought, and enveloping yourself therein you ran stretch out on the lounge and dry off at your leisure. One arrangement which I think might advantageously introduced into our country is the luxury of lieing able to have a bath brought to your own'room at home. You leave the order at one of these establishments, and at the appointed hour a man ap pears with a large, bright, copper tub, and asking the temperature you wish—thirty-five to forty degrees centigrade is a comfortable warmth—throws in a thermometer and proceeds to fill with alternate pailful* l of hot and cold water till the tub is full. His wagon is only a large eop jier receptacle with places for hot and cold water. At the hour you desig nate he returns and takes it away. For all this you pay from fifty to sixty cents. Preserving the llair. Since we were born with hair it is evident that this ornament, given us hy nature, ought to continue to gar nish our heads even to the extremist old age. But in order to obtain this result it is necessary to take care of our hair with as much solicitude as a nursery inan liestows upon his trees. All children, girls as well as boys, should have their hair cut close up to the age of ten years. It is the only menns of making the hair strong and thick. Many mothers will not pursue this course because they think their babies would not look so pretty with their hair cut short as they do now with it long npd in curls. But is It not better to sacrifice a little of the appearance in youth than to lie bald for life at twenty-five? As the region of the top of the head is especially sensitive it is there, above all, that the hair should he cut short; elsewhere it may lie left long. Weak and thin hair should liavethc ends care fully trimmed. Falling out of the hair announces Itself by itchings in the skin of the head ; friction with rum or brandy will cure the Itching. For cleansing the hair try soap and water, hot. Many ladies owe their premature baldness to sleeping with the hair closely confined. To let it flow loosely is the best hygienic plan, as the air has a better rhance to circulate through it and get at the roots.— The llalrdre*tm. TOPICS OF THE DAY. ' A monument to Thomas Jefferson is to be erected In Washington. W. W. Corcoran, the banker and phiL anthropist, Chief Justice Carter, Judge j Jeremiah iilirk and others have taken articles of incorporation as the Jeffer- : son Monument association. The United States interior depart ment lias decided that where a person has entered land under the timber culture act lie lias no right to dispose of his claim until lie lias complied with ' the requirements of the act. The fact j that the purchaser of an unperfected , claim carries out the conditions of the act gives liiin no title to the land so ; purchased. According to the new compulsory education Jaw in France every father or guardian of a child must present himself before the local authorities and declare what kind of education the child is receiving, whether in the public schools <>r in a private school, or at home. And at intervals fixed by law he must bring the child before thu authorities, in order that they may see that the education it is receiving in the simple brandies isr al, not a sham. A writer in tlie Indiuitrlal Review advises tlie introduction of the bam boo in the Southern States. Though capable of growing on the uplands, it is said to he especially suited to and valuable for low-lying marshy regions, such as fringe the South Atlantic and Gulf States. Its uses are numerous. As a timber for building and con. struction purposes, for tools, imple ments, etc., it is well known. As an article of food Its young shoots serve its substitutes for vegetables, and are pronounced delicious, ltarnboo curry and chow-chow are excellent. The growing plant is invaluable, also as a defense against malaria, sweeping fires and cyclones. Up to last February Mexico had no banks. Then a concession was given to Frencli bankers with a capital of I'Jd.OOO.iKX). The government gave them tlie privilege of issuing bills to the amount of s6o,'Xlo,ioo, and prom ised to give the bank the business of the government offices. In return for tlie concession tlie bank gives the government < ri-dit for $lO.- 000,000. There is now, it is asserted, n<> fear of further revolu tions in the country, as with this large sum the government can at once find means to put down an uprising, in the past the difficulty lias been a lark of means to support an army. A I tank has also recently lw-en est ale lished in Sonora, one-fifth of tlie capital of which is held by Huston parties. F.ngland lias no conception of really good coffee. That is the conclusion of the London Timet. Adulterations by dealers and the unskillfulness of cooks combine to produce a beverage that is not what it ought to be. Kng lishmen < an order the b<->t Mocha cof fee; they can l>e served with something which bears the name; they can pay highly for it; they can do everything but get it, and this, we are assured, they never do. All the lowt coffee the Yemen district produce* Is kept for use in tlie Fast. Before it moves westward it has been carefully picked over and the rhnimt berries have lecn subtracted from it. It is only what remains after this process has 10-en again and again gone through that ever reaches Kngland. The Lick observatory, in California, is well under way. It is on Mount Hamilton, thirteen miles from San fuse, and nearly 4,500 feet'ahove sea level, with an unobstructed view of the heavens, except a small part of the northeastern horixon, shut out from view by a neighboring mountain peak. There are to l>e two dome*, in one of which a twelve-inch equatorial tele scope is now erected. The other is to contain the great thirty-six-inch tele scope, the glasses for whioh are now lieing ground at ('.mihridgcport, Mass. The oliservatory is of the most sul>- stantial character, and will tie com pletely equipped, and. although re moved from centers of imputation and if scientific work, it will lie easy ac ci'ssililc from San Jose by a mountain road constructed for this piirjmsc. For years one of the familiar sights of Cincinnati streets has iieen an aged lieggar by the name of Margaret I Parker. No doubt of her utter pov- ! •rty existed, for scores of benevolent { person* had visited her squalid room And found her shivering with cold or eating scraps of loathsome food. One flay recently Margaret wits told that she must move out of her wretched apartments unless she could pay her rent That was a manifest impossi bility, and a man who had before lie friended her hired a wagon and pre pared to help her move. In so doing he dropped a v dilapidated trunk which burst and disclosed two heavy bags of money, amounting, it Is supposed, to five or six thousand dollars. The old crone, who stood by, turned pale and exclaimed: •• What sliull 1 do I People know I've got money now, and I'll be murdered for it." General Hnzen, chief of the United States signal service, has issued from that office a paper intended to aid gard eners and planters in t!io foretelling of frost. Frost predictions are given in the special bulletins issued to the prsss, and special warnings are issued forthe benefit of the sugar, cotton and to bacco planters, the fruit growers of Florida, and the cranberry growers of New Jersey and Massachusetts, but this paper is intended for the use of horticulturists and others who are not within reach of the bulle tins sent by telegraph. The paper was prepared by Lieutenant Juines Allen, ami an edition of 10,000 has been priutisl for distribution. Within seven pages Lieutenant Allen lias given a char and complete ex planation of how to find the dew-jsiint by means of tlie dry and wet-bulb I hygrometer. Having found the dew j point the horticulturist can tell with certainty whether frost on the ground , may Is- expected. The paper also gives j complete directions for the care and | use of the hygrometer, and there is a I table giving tlie dew-pe .t for tem perature between thirty degrees rjid eighty degrees. Yrgrtable Wonders. The entrance to the Botanic garden of I'eradenia is through a noble avenue ofindia rubber tree*. This tree, which is known to us of the North only by puny specimens in greenhouses, grows in these tropical regions to a giant's stature, of a size comparable to that of our largest oaks. An immense crow n of many thousand leaves covers with the aid of its horizontal linil**, which are thirty or forty feet long, the ar*-a of a stately palace; while from tlie i base of its thick trunk extends a frame work of toots over a space of often between one mid two hundred feet in diameter, and much larger than would i correspond with the height of the tree. This wonderful structure con s.sts of twenty or thirty chief r<ots ' proceeding from as many correspond ing ribs iuthe lower part of tlie trunk and spreading themselves like great snakes on the ground. The tree is hence called the snake tree by tlie native*, and has been compared by the poets to the coihsl serpents of the Laocoon. The roots, with the rilis which mark their swelling out from the trunk, f"rm strong buttresses to the tree and enable it to bid defiance to the storin. Tlie spaces lietween the buttress** constitute mimic chambers large enough for a standing man to conceal himself in them. Among the other arlioreal wonders of Peradenia are the giant bamboos which are a marvel to all visitors They here form thickets along the banks of the stream, a hundred feet high, and as many feet w ide, bendingi their great beads, like the waving plume of a giant, high over the river and the adjoining mad. On a nearer approach, each of the thickets is seen ' to consist of cylindrical steins a foot or two thick, which, closely crowded together lielow on a common root— offshoots from a creeping stem-- diverge as they rise, and 1-oar on slight nodding branches dense tufts of the most delicate foliage. These gigantic trees are nothing hut grasses. Like all grass-holms, their gnat hollow reed-stem is divided into joints ; but the sheath of the leaf, which is reprc sented in our tender grasses by a thin wale at the base of the leaves, become* in thate gigantic bamboos a hard, woody plate, that might without further preparation serve the purpose of an armor for the whole breast of a strong man. A three-year-old child could hide itself in one of the joints of the stem.— Popular Science Monthly. A Legislator's Joke. Hon. Lewis Barker was a member of the Maine legislature. Of course, he was conspicuous, so too was Ids large black shaggy dog. One day when "Lew" was address ing the house, iiT the midst of a very exeit ing debate (he was w ell under way pouring forth his smooth flowing hut impassioned sentences), the dog also rose in the middle of the house, and looking toward the speaker,commenced a vigorous bow-wowing in his big voice, completely drowning the Bilver tone* of his master. " Lew" stopped, and called out to hi* dog ; " Down, sir I down 1 I have •the floor. It is against the rules for more than one Barker to address the hocae at one time." The dog yielded the floor, and, of course, there was tremendous laugh ter. SCIENTIFIC SCRAPS. The assertion is made that from an nntial cotton crop of 6,600,000 bales He*-*! can lie obtained to yield $100,000,- | 000 worth of oil. It Is assumed that every 400-pound hale give* 1,200 pounds of seed. A correspondent of the ReienliJU. American, who resides at a mining camp on the mountains in the south eastern corner of Arizona, says that the brilliancy of the moonlight there is such that mountains seventy mil** j distanfaro seen. —— M. Pasteur has found that in cases I of hydrophobia even tlie fluid of the I brain itself is permeated witli tlie virus. By taking some of tlie fluid portions . of the bruin of an affected animal and introducing it into the brain of a ( healthy one, the latter will invariably j be affected in a week or two, and death , ensues in less than three weeks. Further ruins, believed to have been the foundations of Icelandic settle ments, have b* i-n discovered in Green •land, and on the <o.,t coast in latitude sixty degrees thirty-*me minutes. A building was found forty paces long by ten broad, in which were stonos large ; enough to w arrant the title of Cyclo pean. Similar ruins are reported by the natives at other points on tlie coast. Contrary to tin- general opinion, tak ing tin- last five years ending in De cember, l-.po, jt doe* not appear that the supply of Asiatic ivory is falling off. On an average over these yeara th*' British iuiporbal ;},*>-l hundri-d --j weights per annum. At any time tlie highest import from the Last was in 18.7 . when it rose to 5,000 hundred weight*. It M-eins that when ele phants are tamed the tusks do not grow so long and the ivory is not of so fine a quality. TIIK FAM lI.Y DOCTOR. Dr. Foot* n Jf'alth Mottthly advises sufferers from neuralgia to try a hot dry flannel over tlie seat of neuralgic pain and r- new frequently. Burns and scalds arc soonest r*liev*fl liv an application of cold water. Dry rarbonatc of soda <>r baking s-wla i sprinkled over the burned spot is the latest renosly. and is -aid to l*e very effectual. These means are only teni porary. Ir Hall proscribes watermelons for painful and feverish "summer com plaints" and f'<r fevers of all sorts ; the fresh juice ..f apples for nervous dyspepsia, and tlie fr*-c use of raw ri;>e ■u*i perfectly sound fruit for lioth constipation and the opposite conditions for sluggish livers ami for listles apjict it ow. While you are young you ean over draw your account at the bank of , health in various ways, ami you will hove credit, of course you will suffer inconvenience of various kinds most people do who overdraw their accounts. Still you may delilM-rately think the game worth the candle. But tlie m<>- ment arrives when such imprudences an* no longer possible, when one learns that the liberties be has token with his constitution at one and twenty mean chronic ailment* and nervous exhaus | lion at one and thirty. Peculiarities of Sound. The following curious observations of sound have been carefully verified hy ui extended seri<-s of experiments: The whistle of a locomotive is heard i 3.300 yards; the noise of a railroad ; train, 2.8"*0; the report of a musket ind the bark of a *l..g. 1,800; an jrchestra or the roll of a drum, 1,600; the human voice reaches t* a distance of 1,000; tli*' croaking of frogs, WO; the croaking of chickens, 800. Distinct speaking is heard in the air from ; below up to a distance of 300 I yards; from almve it is only un- I dert*M*d to a range of 100 yards downward. It lias la-en ascertained that an echo is w* U reflected from the surface of smooth water only when the Voire conies from an elevation. Other similar phenomena connected with the transmission of sound have lieen observed, hut the results disagree, either from inaccuracy in the observa tions or from the varying nature of the circumstance affecting the mini- Iters obtained) fMirh variations occur to an extent of ten to twenty per cent. And even more. The weather l*eing cold and dry or warm and wet are the ddef influencing causa*. In the flrst •ase the sound goes to a greater ami n the second to a lesser distance. In One Year. A year ago Mike Welch had $500,- i) 00, hut to-day he finds himself a lag gar and in jail in Denver. He lust the greater part of his money in specula : tion, ami Anally started t wo*e*t an rants. Badness fell away, and aland a year Ago he found himself ruined. Then he went to Itenver.and has since fallen lower and lower, until he Is now i drunkard and a tramp. Tie G'r*Te* of soted Hen. Of those who have adorflwl the lltaf ature of our language, Chaucer, Kpen fv*r, Beaumont, Drayton, Cowley, Den ham, Dryden, Ad'lison, I'rlor, Coa grevc, (lay, ./cdinson, Hhrridan and Campbell lie iu Westminster Abiey. Milton was buried jn the churchyard of St. Gile's, Cripplegate; Pope, in the church at Twickenham; Swift, in St. Patrick's, Dublin; Thompson, in the churchyard at Richmond, in Snrrey; (lray, in thecbnrchyard atHtoke-Fogia, the Hcene of the " Elegy;'' " Gold smith, in the churchyard of the temple church; Cowper,ln the church at Dere ham; Burns, in St. Michael's church yard, Dumfries; Byron, in tlie church of Jfurknall, near Kewntewl Abbey; Coleridge, in the church at Highgate; >ir Walter Scott, In Dryburg Ablx-y; Southey, in Crostli waitc church, near Keswick. In tii is country there is no one na tional cemetery of pre-eminence. Web ster is buried in "ari ancient burying ground" overlooking the sea, near Marsh field, where be- lived, and in like manner Clay's grave is near his borne at "Ashland," in the cemetery at Lex ington. Bayard Taylor lies at Long wood, a little cemetery within sight of his birthplace at Kennet. Seward i buried at Auburn. Franklin's grave and the tomlwtone covering his and his wife's remains may be seen from the sidewalk through an iron fence panel in the wall of tl e graveyard of Christ church. John Dickinson, " the Penn sylvania farmer," has an almost un marked grave in the Friends' burial ground at Wilming ton, Delaware. General Wayne's remains, cxliuni'-dfcit Erie, in the old fort, and brought by his son over the mountains in a led seventy-five years ago, are in the old church at I tan dor. Alexander Hamilton lies in the Trinity diurchyard. New York, with a monu ment above him. Joseph Hodman Drake's remains lie in a private grave yard of tin- Hunt family, on Long Island Sound, near New York. Joseph Jefferson, the elder, lies burled in the Ilarrishurg cemetery, with an epitaph by Chief Justice Gibson. Francis tScott Key, who wrote the "Star Spangled Banner," is burrii-d in Mount Olivet cemetery at Frederick, Md. James Gab* I'errival is buried at Hazel Green. Mich. The tomb of Wilson, the ornithologist, is in the churchyard of ti* old Wicaco Swedes' chun-h, at Philadelphia.— l'hUadtiphla North Am* rimn. Tlie ( aplfol at Wa-dilmrton. The cornerstone of the capitol was .'aid by the illustrious Washington, on the lhlh day of September, 17'JJ. Tlie building wasnpewd for the meeting of Congress Novemta-r 17, lbOtl. En largement and new dome completed in 1567. The <slifice fronts the east, is 751 feet long, 34# fe.-t w ide, and covers three and a half a<T<*; courtyards, three and a half acres; in all seven arres. The predominant material of the exterior is white marble. The dome is <>f cast iron. IJSJ feet in the largest diameter, and 2#7| feet high, surmounted l<y a statue iof liberty li'J feet high. The interior of the dome forms a remark aiile circular chamber or rotunda, ninety-six feet in diameter, ISO feet high. One thousand gas jets, flashed by electricity, illuminate the interior by night. The walls of the rotunda are adorned with historical paintings by eminent artists. Tlie Senate cham ber, House of Representatives, su preme court-rooms and other apart ments are splendidly decorated. The halls are lined with polished marble from every State in the Union. Fres. roes, paintings and sculptures al#>und The front porticoes are support<d by one hundred Corinthian columns of white marble. The coat of the rapitol imihling was thirteen millions of dollars. An Editor's ('rarity. Editor (reading)—" The night had draped it s folds around the dark and steely waters; the lights of tlx- dis tant city glimmered on the brink; naught was heard save the churning of the paddles as the ferryboat Fulton plowed her war across the threatening tide. There were but few passengers —weary men returning to their well won rest ; hollow - evsl girls ex hausted with their daily toil in thcrlose and fetid rooms of some city workshop. One tlgure only was seen to move restlessly to and fro. his hat drawn llrmly down over his wild and hopeless eyea Suddenly he darted from the cAhi n, gave one last look on sea and sky. There was a plunge, and all was still—" Editor—Jim, this is all very fine but it'a not the way we do it on this paper. Just say; •• Laat evening, as the- ' Fulton * was making her 9 o'clock trip, a man. ap. parenUy atout forty years <>f age, jum|tcd from her deck Into river | He was fished out by deckhand s>mith and handed over to the policy "
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