LADIES* DEPARTJLEM. l>rs Hints* The geometric style of dress—that Is, cut up into triangles ami stiff forum —is trying for any kinil of figure, gooff or bad. Where the figure is handsome the nearer to the simplicity of a bit of fabric draped about it in soft, clinging linen the dress approaches the more becoming. Long lines from the shoulder to the foot give bight; hori zontal lines crossing the figures shorten the person. Short, stout women should avoid basques or any dress that makes a descriptive lino about the hips; ruffles at the shoulder or hi|w that in crease the bulk; waists or skirts of too great tightness, whore looser draper ies would give slenderness to the figure from not. defining too clearly the lines- Tall women who are too slender, may use the horizontid lines with advan tage. and increase the apparent size of arm or waist by a surrounding band, The double skirt is to them an advan tage, where it makes the short woman too short. Polnl-TrfiM. For two hundred years has the mys tery of its fabulously fine intertracery been an impenetrable secret—a secret most prized, perhaps, among "forgotten arts." For true point-tresse there must be snow white hair; alas! doubtless, " sor row-blanched locks " were often pressed into tearful, loving service for this almost priceless " thing of beauty." Hair of silvery sheen and silken quality, blended with exquisitely fine threads of flax, was the material from which patient fingers wrought out this gossamer device of shimmering arab esque. Its genuineness could be established by exposure to the strongest sunlight when a peculiar, tremulous glistening was instantly developed. Another test was by fire; if authentically pure in every thread, a very perceptible frizzle was apparent, but never ablaze. Occasionally in antiquarian collec tions one may chance upon a stray bit of this delicately fashioned lace. Among the fondly hoarded relics of a noble English family there is claimed to be a scrap of the dainty texture, the work of Margaret, Countess of Lennox, made during a weary imprisonment in the Tower. This memorial of affection, woven by eyes longisl used to weeping, and with threads of her own white bair, was sent to her unhappy daugh ter-in-law, Mary Stuart, accompanied by words of pathetic greeting and as surances of unchanging sympathy. —Bajar. A Voting Clrl't Bcd-ltoom. A' young girl' 9 room may be fur- ! nished daintily and in exquisite taste at a small expense. The chief outlay will be for a bedstead. This cannot be constructed out of a pine board and bit of inuslin, though many other things may lie; but a handsome painted | bedstead of blue and white is the first \ requirement for this room. The floor j may be covered with plain, white mat- | ting, or of blue and white plaid, with a soft rug at the side of the lied; a dressing-case of white wood, covered with white silesia and muslin, can le made next,-and a white wood wash stand is also needed. This, like the dressing bible, should have the under part entirely concealed by breadths of the silesia and muslin. They should be gathered slightly at the t ip, s<> that they will fall in graceful folds. The curtains should lie of the muslin, draped, and the lied-spread and pillnw covers of the muslin over silesia also. The bed-spread should of course lie smoothly over the lied, and he tuck ed in at ihe end and sides, unlike the lace ones, which hang over. The muslin of the pillow covers may be shirred at the top and bottom, if you like the full look the shirring gives; they need, in this case, no edges, and W x Jn fart when put over the silesia plain- I ly, do not trim them with lace, unless J you add this adornment to the curtains > but finish with a plain hem. With I the various trifling ornaments a young r girl gathers about her, the room will j receive anything it may need in color to brighten It. A room so prettily furnished may lie a real help to a girl; It will not be easy for her to cultivate disorderly habits there, for the effect she has worked to create would be en tirely marred. It may help her to calm n thoughts, but of this we cannot be certain. • 11 ruklra XMW. Cockade bows are all the rags. Colored straws are much worn. Flowers are worn to excess on bonnet*. New parasols are very showy and U large. WT Henri II styles arc gaining ground In Paris. , Black silk hosiery Is excessively fashionable. Braiding is for morning and walk ing dresses. Black straws are more worn than ( colored ones. I Oriental colors in bro -ados are much sought for. Fancy checked and striped hosiery is going out of use. Summer toilets are made dressy with lace auff embroidery. Some of the new lace mitts are ' ruched with silk at the top. Parasols of pongee have scalloped borders and tinted silk linings. The simplest forms of making up summer dresses please most. A flower epaulet on the left shoul der is a pretty fancy of the moment. The Louis XVI shades are most preminent, dull-reds, faded blues, dried rose leaves, and dead wood. Tucks in bunches across the skirt in flounces, arid In lengthwise rows on front brea litis, are still in favor. Triple liox-plcats, kilts and panels, with bouffant drapery in the back is the leading style for making skirts. Silk gloves in the popular Jersey shape are worn and embroidered along tiie back of the hand an I across the arms. A favorite dress for little folk is the white Mother Hubbard dross, worn with colored gimp and sleeves or vice versa. There is no fabric handsomer for an elegant evening costume than royal i satin with brocade bouquets of detach ed flowers. Buttons most nsed for children's dresses are gilt or silver halls, gilt diagonals, black cut jet metalincs or crochets. Napkins, table-covers and babies feeding aprons are covered with out line embroidery representing a variety of subjects. Lunch cloths with white centers gay-colored borders and doylies to match have supersededed the solid colored cloths. A great amount of liox-pleating and kilting is displayed upon costumes in fine reps, French melange, bunting and cashmere. Black brocaded grenadine with large velvet flowers makes a graceful basque, and draperies for plain grenadine sk.rts i that have lace flounces. I Bonnet trimmings are made attrac tive by cashmere and metallic effects, : while the most gorgeous shadi s prevail j where one set color is preferred. Infants' caps are composed of fine I ! French embroidery, plain with three | | shirred ruffles of the embroidery around j the face and tiny bows of narrow rib* j 1 Ixi n. Cashmere cloths are making very ! highly prized w raps, and for travelers j 1 and pleasure seekers in warm weather, serve a much tietter purpose than silk 1 or light cloths. Large bows of gay colored ribbon.* | arc worn, tied around the arm at th elbow, with dark iin-se*, by ladies | ambitious to s'art new fashions. The ! | effect is quite striking. While short dresses have ty.e prefer- j ence. for tin- street, the reapix-arance I 1 of the train for the house is hailed j with satisfaction by many, for its j graceful fold* h-nd an essential el*, j ganee to all rich costumes. Among the fashionable trimmings for summer are bands of Persian em broidery of colored ilk worked m can. van. The designs are similar to those seen tin Chinese tea-chests. Evening bodices have Creek sleeves, the point on the shoulders where the i ends are crossed being ornamented with a brooch or flowers, anil with these are worn very long, light silk ; gloves. Pins attached to very small fancy buckles are the novelty in ornaments Trimmings are male secure by the use of the pins in the same manner the hall-headed pins were utilized last seast in. The material as in dress goods pre- i vail for umbrellas and parasols, both the Ottoman and Persian. Some are quite plain with heavy sticks, while others abound with ruffles of lacc,* and have handles of Ivory, crystal or porcelain, with carved serpents or heads of ani mals. He Was Deeply Afflicted. There was a sad. sad lOOK on her face as she sat down at the piano and, deftly evoking tTie music of its chords sang to him: "Desrwt, I sin growing old, Silver threeds eosoog the gold." Deeply affected by the revelation, ho said to himself: "Is It indeed so had as that?" and, without waiting for the conclusion of the song, went out and bought her a bottle of hair dye. TIIK FAMILY DOCTOR A Cure far Htoa. 1 Among the most troublesome and often noticed eye affections are what ' are known as hordeolum, or common stye. I>r. Louis Fitzpatrick, in the - I.ancvt, differs from some of his pro fessional brethren, who persist in or dering the application of poultices, bathing with tepid water, etc. These no doubt do good in the end, but such applications have the great disadvan tage of prolonging the career of these unsightly sores, and encourage the production of fresh ones. Dr. Fitz patriek has found, after many trials, the local application of tincture of iodine exerts a well-marked influence hi checking the growth. This is ly far preferable to the nitrate of silver, which makes an unsightly mark, and often fails in its object. The early use of the iodine acts as a prompt abortive. To apply it the lids should fie held apart by the thumb and index finger of the left hand, while the iodine is painted over the intlamed papilla with a line camel-hair pencil. The hids should not fie allowed to come in contact until the part touched is dry. A few such applications in the twenty four hours is sutli ieut. | It would he better and safer, how ever, to call in a doctor to apply this remedy, as the eye is too susceptible to injury to be trilled with.— EDITOR. J Care for the Kar We do not think that most people suf ficient ly realize the imjwirtaneeof earing for the ear. In the case of the cele brated Dean Swift whose life-long suf ferings were due to a simple cold taken before his twentieth year, there were ringing in his ears,deafness, headache nausea, vertigo or giddiness, with a staggering gait. Hut there are multi tudes of eases in which the trouble is confined to simple deafness, slight at fir.-t and hardly noticed, yet steadily increasing with years. Every winter thousands lay a foundation f• r it. The part affected is what is called the "middle ear." It is sometimes inflamed hv cold air striking continuously on the out-udc* just behind and In-low the ear, or pene trating the open cavity. Fashion, which sends young children from over heated rooms into the winds .if winter with the ears wholly unprotected, is j responsible for many sa l cases. When there is a "cold in the head" (nasal catarrh j the inflammation ..ften extends to the Eustachian tubes i the tuties that convey ,ur to the mid dle ear ), and them e into the e.ir itself, "•otnetlines the throat and back <>f the j mouth (pharynx) are inflamed, and ) the inflammation spreads upwards in ! the same way. An inflammation is ! often thus extended frolll the nostrils I to the ear by an improper blowing of i the nose. One n.istril should be cleared at a tune, the other remaining j fully open. As the result* —not noticed for ' year*—may he Increasing discomfort for life, the e-irs of the young should occasionally lie examined by a com* I petent physician. The tendency to deafness may be checked if taken in time. In the alxive cases there is a thicken ing of the membrana tympana (ear drum i, which thickening tends to in" crease with every new < old. or some of the inner inflamed surfaces grow together, and the action of the ear ia interfered with. or the Eustachian tube i becomes closed. Sometimes the ear drum is perforated, the inflammation giving rise to suppuration. PEARLS OF THCII'OHT. That you may lie beloved, be amia -1 ble. Candid thoughts are always xalua ! ble. A future full of oats doe* not help the jaded horse. Luck is a swift horse, but ill-suited to a long journey. Death is the highwayman who de mands both money and life, Hotter a soft heart and an iron hand ; than an iron heart and a soft hand. Perfection is attained by slow de grees; she requires the hand of time. However things may seem, no evil thing is success, and no good thing is a failure. All other knowledge is hurtful to ' him. who has not honesty and good i nature. Nothing is more dangerous than • friend without discretion; a prudent '< enemy is preferable. lie that wrestles with us strengthens ( our nerves and shar|iens our skill Our antagonist is our helper A more glorious victory cannot b j gained over another man than this that when the injury began on his (tart, the kindness should begin on ours. CLIPPINGS FOR THE CURIOUS. A mammoth's tusk was recently founi 1 fifteen feet below the surface in i • gravel claim near Canby, Oregon. 1 It Is calculated that fifty Atlantb s liners will be aide to lie broadside or the quay now being made at Antwerp The yellow cedar tree of Alaska hai a fragrance like that of sandal woodi The wood is grainless, and the Itus sians build many ships of it. ( There was formerly a wooden hrldgf at Portage, N. Y., B'K) feet long ami 234 feet high. It was said to bo tin largest structure of the kind In tin ! world. i A Danish sailor, in a ship sailing off Capo Lew in, West Australia, went aloft with a can of oil and was pitched overboard. The oil left such a trail on the sea that the man was traced and | picked tip more than an hour after the ! accident. Hose-ball, as now played, is an out growth of cricket, and is a creation of i 'he last twenty years. Previous to i j 1860 the round bat and present bard ' ball were unknown, at li-oat in New England, where a flat bat was usi-d, and the ball a soft one, thrown at the player to put him out. The tradition that aromatic vinegar was invented by four thieves who dur ing the plague at Marseilles plundered j deal bodies with impunity, and re j vealed tin secret of their prophylactic i on condition that their lives should be spared, is made doubtful by the fact 'hat Cardinal Wolscy used aromatic vinegar, and that lie died more than a century before the first plague raged A French sc lentist explaining why , fish eaten in Holland nre superior to those eaten elsewhere, savs that the , dutch fishermen kill their fish as soon as taken from the water, by making a slight longitudinal incision under the tall with a very sharp instrument. Other fishermen, on the contrary, allow their fish to die slowly, and this slow peath softens the tissues and renders them more liable to under go change. SAYINGS AMI WIIO Still TIIEM. familiar *lailin* Ihkl *rt 1 *rd Without H uow Itdgt of their Aullirtrthlp Many of our common sayings, so irite and pithy, are usid without th least Idea from whose mouth or pen they first originated. Probably tie works of >hakesp< are furnish us with ! nore of these familiar maxims than iny other writer, for to him we owe 'All is not gold that glitters." "Make t virtue f necessity," "Screw vour T'urage t ■ the sticking place" (not sunt/, "They laugh that win," "This •s the short and long of it," "Com pari ! vtns are odious," "As merry as the da\ Is long," "A Daniel come to judgment." | "Frailty, thy name is woman," "M ike insurance doubly sure," and a h*nth loves a shining mark," "A fool at forty la a fool Indeed." From Macon comes "Knowledge is power," Thomas Southern* remind* u that "Pity's akin to love." Dear Swift thought that "Hread is the stall of life." Campbell found thai a "Coming events cast their sbadowi before," and "'Tls distance lends en 'c chuntment to the view." "A thing ol " beauty is a joy forever," is from Keats !>• Frankin said, "God helps those whe is help themselves," and Lawrence Stern* comforts us with the thought, "G'KJ I tempers the wind to the shorn lamb " ~, The Northern Boundary, ,1 The northern Ixmndary of the ~ I 'niteil States is marked by stone c airns, ~ iron pillars, wood pillars, earth mounds ami timber posts. A stone cairn is seven and a half feet by eight feet; an ( iron pillar seven feet high, eight inchcrs I square at the bottom and four inches at the top; timber [costs five feet high I ami e ight inches square. There are •'l*.', of these marks between the Lake of the Woods arid the- base of the Rocky mountains. That portion of tto- boundary which lies cast ami west ' of the Reel River valley is marked by c ast-iron pillars at even-mile intervals. I he liritixh place one every two miles 1 and the I'nitcd States one between each Hritish post. Our pillars or mark.' were made at Detroit, Mich. They are hollow iron castings, three-eighths r of an inch in thickness, in the form ol a trum ated pyramid, eight feet high ' eight inches square at the- Imttom, and - four inches at the top, as alcove stated They have at the top a solid pyramidal cap, and at the bottom an octagon 1 flange one inch in thickness, l.'jton the opposite faces are cast in letters 1 two im lies high, the inscription, "Con vention of London," and "Otober 21" The inscriptions begin alcout four feet six inches alcove tin- base, and ro-ts well-seasoned logs are selected, ami the [notion above the ground , painted red, to prevent swelling and I shrinking. These ]..>sts do very well. I but tbe Indians rut them down f- r I fuel, ami nothing but iron will la t very long. Where the line crosse* lakes, mountains of stone have 10-n b ult, the bases being in s sue j la c-s eighteen feet alcove the lake's surface at high-water mark. In forests the line is marked by felling the timber a rod wide and c h aring away the under brush. Tly work ccf cutting through the timbered swamps was xery great, but it has leeen well done, and the tcoumlary distinctly marked by the commissioners, the whole distance from Michigan to Alaska The Result of Ohserx stion. An observing individual says: I have noticed that when a horse gets uj) he gets up forward first and jerkt his hind parts after htm. while a cow will get her rear half up in place; also, when drinking, a horse w ill draw in water rapidly with every breath; tht cow, on the rontarv, will suck in on continuous draught as long as she ran hold her breath. I have noticed that sheep and goats are lsith butters, yet a sheep has to run a few steps backward before he can butt, while the goat has to raise himself on his hind legs to execute the same movement One is called a buck sheep, the other a battering ram. They are the only two animals I know of whose butt ends are in front. A squirrel ran run down a tree head lirst The cat and the bear must get down tail first, < if left to themselves, j If your clog finds his way into your cellar and sees a nice steak he will ] steal it and run out. but if your cat gets in and finds a steak she will sit right down l>y St and eat what she wants, (if not surprised la-fore, j I have noticed that a leather strap buckled atout the height of yourself around a young tree in a few years w ill Ice aw ay beyond your roach, but if naihsl at that distance will never get any higher, (only the outer shell runs up.) Although turkeys are much more swift of foot than geese, yet in a week's drive a flock of geese will come in ahead; for geese you ran drive aj night, especially moonlight, but w hen evening approaches turkeys w ill roost A man can stand on one foot In tht middle of a room and pull on his shoe, while a woman must lean up against something to accomplish the same thing. A man holds the needle in his left hand to thread It, but a woman holds it In her right In or* thing I think every one will agree with me: Dress a man aa a wo man dress*/ and yon will frecae him to death. ,0 I hO£ VI It'lC HCBiPtt. fl I •solar eruptions or prominences, hlth ri rrto awn only at the sun's edge, here been observed by Moos. Taccblnl ot it very disk. #. An electric light for deep sea Ashing o adorns the new steamer Albatross, ot 0 the fifth commission. When sunk be ent parts of the globe have beea brought together by lir. Langkavel In s a very Interesting manner. White u and gray horses are, perhaps, the most * general favorites; but a great variety 8 of other colors are held in esteem. It Ih notice,aba- that black horses are lit ® Me sought for, except by Europeans. ' I'r. A. L. Child Is authority for the ' statement that trees known to be only ' twelve years old were found when cut 1 to have thirty-five to forty of the rings V which are popularly believed to be an nual marks. His experiments point to the conclusion that the formation and thickness of the rings dejs-nd upon ' changes in the atmosphere, aijd the more frequent these < h.inges the great •r the number of rings. The Face of the Farth. ' It is estimated that the proportion nf the surf me of the globe covered bv water Is to the land surface as 278 to l ( *), arid that the average Light of and or continents over the world xliove sea level Is somew hat less than liKS/ The great mountain chains by which the continents are more or ess traversed form narrow ridges, which rise in m> case more than 29,000 feet, or say alsiut *> J miles above sea ' level, and add but comparatively little io the mass of ground above the sea level. On the other hand the contour 'in<-s of the oceanic basins tell a very liflerent tale of the great submarine depressions. The soundings made on Ihe voyage of the Challenger in the V •rth I'aciiic ocean have shown that ts mean depth i* not ics- than 15,000 feet, and that of the South Fsciflc about feet, while the mean depth of the North Atlantic is found '.o Is- H.'ski feet, and of the South At. 'antic 1 .'l,OOO. It is only in high north ern latitudes, in the North Atlantic ind North l'acjflc, thgt the soundings 1 ?ive evidence of shallower seas—of a iiean depth of at>out 8000 feet. Thus t is extraordinary how small the mass >f land projecting al*>ve the sea levej is compared to the mass of waters fili ng the depressions beyond that level. Taking the average depth of the ♦eas and ocean at 10,000 feet, and the height of the land at 1000 f ( H-t. the mass of the land above water as com pared to the mass of waters filling the ocean troughs is nearly in the propor lion of one to thirty. It is curious : that the deepest sounding recorded by the Challenger in the North Pacific registered a depth of altout five miles and a quarter—a depth which closely | corresponds with the elevation alwve sea level of the loftiest point of land, namely, the summit of Mount Everest, in the Himalayas, which is 29,002 feet, or very nearly five mile* and a quarter. We must remember, however, that the one measurement is that of a mere peak, while the other probably gives the depth of an extended trough. We may thus realize how irregular are the contour lines of the globe, and how deep the depressions and abysses con cealed from our view by seas and oceans. Could all these waters l>e drained off from the surface, our earth would present the asjxvct of a solid sphere everywhere wrinkled and deeply r pitted. Nevertheless, its actual dimen sions are so great that mountains five miles high and ocean troughs five miles deep bear no greater relation tot he bulk of the glole than the irregularities on 'he skin of an orange. Opened Both Doom. The other day, when it was pouring rain, a citizm turned aside to enter a store on Michigan avenue, the door of which was open. He male several at tempts to push the umbrella in before him, but the space would not permit He was standing there, looking puzzled and annoyed, when the dealer came V Mn> door and asked: "Well, what is It V "The door is not wide enough to ad mit my umbrella" v "Ah! I see- just wait" And he straightway fiung open the other door to permit the man to enter. After they had talked of this and that for half an hour the man with the umbrella suddenly slapped his leg and called out: "By George' what a dolt! If 1 had closed my umbrella I could have enter ed the door as It was!" "That's so! Come to think of it I see you Could." replied the other. "Well. well, not a day passes that we can't learn something new " —Frm