.ADIES' DEPARTMENT, The Dirnnl !%et Crmr. The "darned net craze" just now af fects a large part of the feminine world. It is a coarse luce work wrought on laco netting with darning or knit, ting cotton, though much of it is done in linen tloss, and it can be made as fine as the finest luce in the market. Still, for the most part, the numbers eight and ten are ttie cotton used, the lace netting, being bought by the yard and of a size of mesh to suit the cot ton. The materials are not dear, but the working of them up into the fig ures and patterns that please the fancy is difficult and tedious, and the finished work, on this account and the time oc cupied in completing it, comes rather high. A great many patterns are produced, but those known as the star and fern leaf and the five-three-two stitch seem to be the most favored. One lady liv ing not far away lias fifty different pat terns worked by herself; and the one most liked is a vine pattern, and it is the one most easily learned and worked. In every direction we find ladies at work trying to learn the art of teaching it to friends. Some acquire the art with great ease. One young lady, self-taught, is wearing a lace sack of darning cotton, and of a most elaborate pattern, made t- her own hands. Hut of *■ Athlon. Great manufacturing interests sprang in France and England out of the revival by the Empress Eugenie of hoop petticoats. In a day they col lapsed. The industrial crisis which the fall of "crinoliue" brought about was indirectly due to M. Rochefort's theatrical fellow-worker, a confectioner of the Itue de la I'aix. lie placed in his shop window two large dolls. One was the first Cousuless, (afterwards Empress) Josephine, in the slim ele gance of the Year I. She was attired in the pseudo-Greek fashion, which she had divested of its original meagre, neas, into which she had infused a pe culiar grace. The other doll was the Spanish lady who had been elevated by Napoleon 111. to the imperial throne- She was robed in crude Metternich green, trimmed in a geometrical pat tern with purplish Magenta red. The bonnet, parasol, and mantle were in the same tone, and crinoline gave w ide expansion to the -kirts. Caricature lay in contrast. All I'aris went to see the two dolls, and was amused by the ingenious manner in which M. lbs he fort's friend attacked the empire. The court people enjoyed a laugh as well as those who were in opposition. At the next Monday evening dance the em press and her ladies were all in limp toilettes. Crinoline was at once shelved, and crier, of distress were sent up from M. Kt'enne and Birmingham, which manufactured steel hoops, slen. der and elastic, for petticoats. The fashionable whim by which gentlemen in the evening appear in society un gloved has latterly destroyed all the finer kid manufacturing for men's wear. Tne masculine band is now only gloved in the morning and at race courses. A strong kind of old-fash ioned cavalier glove Is alone permissi ble. fashion A new style of hair-dressing makes the head appear small. Cockade bows are all the fashion. They are employed on liodice, coiffure and bonnet. Belts of pig's skin are much worn. They are said to lie made of alligator's skin in the stores. The hat of the passing moment for young 1 mlies is trimmed with white mull and yellow butterc tups. Fancy headed pins are used in place of brooches or lace pins to fasten the collar and lace jaliots at the throat. Escurial lace remains in favor and 1 is found exceedingly appropriate for trimming velueta and heuvy fabrics. For full-dress occasions are satin parasols, worked in gold twist and silks, in Japanese style, with ten rilis- j Foint lace, while not considered np. propriatc for young girls, is fashiona- j bly worn for wedding bounces and veils- The popular colors for evening mitts and gloves are pale pink, pale blue, flesh color, mauve, cream and pure white. Butterflies are popular as ornaments; they are employed on bonnets by milli ners and are a favorite design in em broideries. Lace woven silk gloves and mitts with rlblied tops and lace trimmings come in both Bernhardt and mousque taire shapes. Changeable silks are as much fa vored as the Foulards, Taffetas, ami Surahs; they combine most effectively •with plain goods. Jerseys for evening wear are miulf of pale silk and are one mass of beads. They are not pretty anu resemble a coat of armor. I.igbt lap robes for babies' carriages are of linen scrim, with borders of drawn work and a scant ruflle of Irish point on the edges. Black velvet collars with very deep white lace around the edges and jabots down the front make a stylish finish for light colored dresses. A new dress-trimming is a repro duction of piece net with the designs darned in and then studded with heads, pearls or pendants. The same styles <>f hats appear for children its are worn by older people. Many of them resembling tin- Capotes. Fanehons and Greu/.o bonnets. French dresses are the adopted styles for little ones. These neatly and sim ply made robes are especially favored where wash material is selected. Yellow is a fashionable color, and it is becoming to many people, but it is also a warm color, and therefore to he used judiciously during the dog-days. Fancy linger rings take the form of serpents, gypsy, bangle, and gernel or triple rings having for the top two golden hands clasped over two golden hearts. Costumes for the country and sea. side are made of short length, with plaid or cheeked skirts and tailor-made jackets, of cashmere or light cloth, or worn with jerseys. The only wraps which young girls wear are the pelerine pelisse, the paletot, and the Carrick. which last is a double cape with a ruche around the neck, and fastened with a bow of rib bon. Little girls of from four toeigbt fre quently wear the I,.litis XV. jaeket with large rovers forming a collar, and pockets in the same style, l'nder the loose waistcoat is worn a pleated skirt. The Parisians have given up the lit tle knot of hair twisted tight in the nape of the neck and now twist all the back hair into a thick torsade in the sha|u? of a figure s i>n the t<>p of the head; in the hair is waved in bandeaux. The ErurlLli Royal Family. The list of menders of the royal family of England is as follows: Vic toria, Queen of Groat Britain and Ire land and Empress of India, was born May 24, I*l'.', was married Feb. 1", 1840, to 11. R. 11. Francis Alliert, Prince Consort, who died I>e\ 14. Wl. There were nine children. The eldest child is Victoria Adelaide Maria Louise Princess Royal, married to the Crown Prince Frederick William, of Germany Jan. 25, I*sB. Her eldest son, the second child, is the Prince of Wales, Alliert Edward, heir apparent to the throne; married to the Princess Alex andria, eldest daughter of the King of Denmark, March 1". 1 *•'*{. Her third child was Alice Maud Mary, married to Louis IV., Grand Duke of Hesse Darmstadt, July 1, 1*02; died Nov. 15, ISTH. Her fourth child is Alfr<sl Kr ne.t Albert, Duke of married Jan. 2-5, I*7-4, to the Grand Duchess Maria of Russia. Iler fifth is Helena Augusta Victoria, married July l*'i' - >. to I'rinee Frederick Christian, of >ehleswig-Holstein. Her sixth is Louise Caroline Alberta, married March 21, I*7l, to John. Mar quis of Lome, present Governor Gen oral of Canada. Her seventh is Arthur William Patrick Albert, Duke of Connaught, married March I d. 187'.'. to Princesse Louise Margaret, daughter of Prince Frederick Charles of Prussia* Her eighth is Leopold George Duncan Albert, Duke of Albany, married April 27,18*2. to the Princess Helen, daugher of the Prince of Waldeck. Her ninth is Beatrice Mary Victoria Feodora, still unmarried. •Genriinj; to Kerosene I,.imps. Kerosene oil is generally used for lights in the country, and the cleaning of lamp chimneys is quite tiresome, lint must be attended to every day. The burners often get out of fix and it is very vexatious to keep them in run ning order. When they are clogged and will not turn up or down, and are all covered with soot and gum, do not throw them away, hut take a little iron kettle and put in a pint of WO<NI ashes and a quart of water; put in the burners and set them on the stove and let them Isiil five or ten minutes; take them out, and with a soft rag w ash them, clean and dry them well. They are as good as new, and will dy another six months. It Is very little trouble to do it, and saves much vexation. After one has tried it once she will not lie apt to forget It. Nlce lo king. clean lamps, are quite orna mental, while a smoky chimney and bad smelling burners nrc not agreea bla— National DrvygitVt Journal. THE NEW BABEL. The Stritnur <Olll tit lit|j I laitf I'rnpntril In l.tfe at Man Francisco* Here are airs of Marseilles ami of I'rkin. Tlit? nho|)s along the streets are like the consulates of different na tions. The passers by vary in feature like the slides of a magic lantern. For we are here in that city of gold to which adventurers congregated out of all the winds of heaven; we are in a land that, till the other day, was ruled and peopled by the countrymen of Cortes; and the sea that laves the piers of San Francisco is the ocean of the east and the isles of summer. There goes the Mexican unmistakable; there the blue -clad Chinaman with his white slippers; there the soft spoken, brown Kanaka, or perhaps a waif from far away Malaya. You hear French, German, Italian, Spanish and English indifferently. You taste the food of all nations in the various restaurants; passing from a French prix fixe, w here everyone is French, to a roaring tier man ordinary where everyone is Ger man; ending, perhaps, in a cool and silent Chinese tea house. For every man, for every race and nation, that city is a foreign city, humming with foreign tongues and customs, and yet each and all have made themselves at home. The Germans have a German theater and innumerable I>eer gardens. The French fall of the hostile is cele brated with sipiibs and banners, and marching patriots, as noisy as the American Fourth of July. The Ital ians have their dear domestic quarter, with Italian caricatures in the win - dows, Chianti and polenta in the taverns. The Chinese are settled as in China. The goods they offer for sab are as foreign as the lettering on the sign l>oard of the shop; dried tlsh from the China seas; pale cakes and weetmeats the like, perhaps, once eaten by lladrouhadotir; nuts of un - friendly shape; ambiguous, outlandish vegetables, misshapen, lean, or bulb ous—telling of a country where the trees are not as our trees, and the very hack garden is a cabinet of curiosities. The joss house is hard by. heavy with incense, packed with quaint carvings and the paraphernalia of a foreign ceremonial. All these you la-hold, crowded together in the narrower ar tcric* of the city, i--1, sunless, a I,'tle moldy, with the unfamiliar races at your elbow, and the high musical sing song of that alien 1 inguage in your ears. Yet the houses are of Occident al build; the line-, of a hundred tele graphs pass, thick as a ship's rigging, overhead, a kite hanging among them perhaps, or perhaps two. one European, one • him-se, in shape and color; tuer - eantile Jack, the Italian fisher, the Hutch merchant, the Mexican vanque ro go bustling by; at the sunny end of the street a thoroughfare r--ars with European traffic; and meanwhile high anil clear, out breaks, perhaj>s. the San Francisco lire alarm, and j-eopb pause to count the strokes, and in the stations of the double lire service you know that the electric bells are ring ing. the traps opening and clapping to and the engine, manned and harnessed, being whisked int-• the street, before the so.in-1 of the alarm has reused to vibrate on your ear. Haj'tziw <f ,-lrf. Telling Whore His Treat ( ainc From "Where 'd'y' get 'em "Well, I might a ketched 'em in the sawkill or the Haym'skitl, or the t'a pow. Or I might a yanked 'em out o* Gordon's mill pond. I didn't though. But I've got 'em" The I'ike county small boy know" that if he brings in a nice mess of trout before any one else has had good luckonanyofthestreams.be is of a H much Importance as a circus proces sion. He hail a basket of trout that set every one crary. N tine New York fishermen were stopping at the hotel ( and the landlord was anxious to find out for their Item-fit where the trout had leen captured. "I>o you want to sell 'em ?" asked the landlord. "Yes, I'll sell 'em," said the boy. "but the price I've sot on 'ein nieblte won't suit you. They'm sixty cents a pound, these Is." "I'll give you seventy cents a pound if you'll tell me where you got 'em,'? said the landlord. The Itoy scratched his head. He lookisl his trout over, as If he was pon dering the question as to whether o r not it would lie a good stroke of busi ness to sell his secret with them. Fi nally he said; "If you'll make it seventy-five I'll go you." It was a bargain. The trout were weighed, and the money counted out tc the loy. "Now then, where'd y' catch 'em said the landlord. "I said I'd tell you where I got 'em" the small boy replied, as he walked to the door. "I didn't ketch 'eni. I traded six ily hooks an' that rhes'nut tlsli pole o' mine to BUI Smith's boy lor 'em."— N. Y. Suit, „ . BABY. He Want Down To lVllli l.ranilpa, lull Won't t Any More. Grandpa lovi-d the baby. The baby Is three years old, with the prettiest big blue eyes, the plumjicst, reddest, checks, the dearest, dimpled mouth, and the eiinningi-st ways in the world. Baby has sturdy little logs, and rest less, strong little arms, and is an exam, pie of perpetual motion. Baby's grand jut accompanied him on various walks, hut grandpa's ambition was to take baby down to the store, where the hoys could see what a phenomenal child he Is, and what cunning ways he has. One morning grandpa dressed baby nj>, and when he started away with grandpa he looked, with his wavy golden hair, bright eyes, and little brown cloak, like one of Kate Green way's creations imbued with life. When the jutssengers in tie-1 ar smiled lat baby and remarked how sweet he j was, grandpa was happy, and churkh-d I as he thought of the enjoyment of hav ! ing hal iy with him at the store. Once at the store, baby w as the centre of an admiring crowd of grandpa's business companions. Baby was shy at lirst. and one fat list was pushed into the little mouth, while baby's eyes were cast upon the iloor. Pretty soon, though, baby regained his usual sj-irits and started on a tour of investigation. His first venture was to joill over a lot of ledgers and a< > -unt-lw?->k- that | had been undergoing an investigation, • and on toji of this juh- he jMturcd the contents of a big little of violet ink. Pursuing his investigations further, ; baby found himself in the oflicc where j the brightly varnishi?! safe, with its 'tnj ihh-l.m-lv a; e, at once attract ed his attention. The heavy iron d--or was closed, and baby, by standing on a chair, could just r>-u h tie- combination knob, the brightness of which had aught his eye. He played with the pretty knob, turning it round and I round cm rso many times, and laugh ing to himself. But the man who came to o|>on the s.ife, and who was in a dreadful hurry, didn't laugh, f• r the ■ lock had been worked for years on a part - J the < •mbinate-ri and baby ha 1 1 destroyed it completely, an 1 three hours were required to hnd it again • tut in a ha- k room ha by found a ham mer anil some tacks, and filled soine new desks full of j retty tin tacks. Then following the promptings of his . busy little mind he pulbsl a j-icce of string to <-c \xhat was on the other I end of it. There was a mantel orna ment belonging to one - f the boys on the other end, and when the baby pulled the ornament tippislover and was shattered. Baby was frightened at the muss he had made, and hid him self in a lux that st-xl on end near the door, and that had ls-en used t-> hold soft coal during the winter. Grandpa found htm there, but in what a plight! His little face and hands ami his beautiful white dn-sa were lie grimed with the na-ty coal-dust- Grandpa brushed him off and washed his fa< e and hands, and male him somewhat presentable, after which he j set him down In a big chair, and told him to set still. Baby sat still almut a minute and then slid down out of the chair, and wandered away into the bark t room, where he suddenly sjiird a little d-g rurbsl up asleep on the top of a 1 l">x. Baby stood on his toes, gut a g'*l griji on doggy's tail, and jmlled . The d->g woke uj>. And the next min ute baby's little legs were xwuking for dear life as he lbs) towards grandpa's quarters. Grandpa met him. kirki-d the dog, and quieted baby, tried to patch up the |daces in hahv's dress where the dog's tix-th had made ragged rents, and began to club himself for bringing baby down town. Finally baby cajipod the climax by upsetting on himself a can of lard oil. and grand pa quit work for the rest of the day wrapped the bahv in thick brown pa per. tied a string aroun<\ him and took him home. It will be some time lie fore grandpa will take his js-t down tow n with him again. Bahv had a good time, though. The Great Pork Xpernlalor. P. I). Armour Is of sturdy -Scotch Presbyterian stock. He was Itorn in one of the central counties of New- York, on a farm among the hills, it was the highest ambition of his Itoy liood days to earn money enough to buy the farm adjoining his father's. When the gold fever broke out he h u still a mere striding; hut, full of youthfrtl enthusiasm, he started for California, driving aw agon across the plains and mountains. He remained there three or four years, and in that time saved a few thousand dollars. He had rash enough to buy that farm and settle down. He had no smnor reached home than he experienced a sudden revul ion of feeling. The streets of the village looki-d narrow, cramped and dull; the house apjH-ared mean ami dingy. lie only remained on the farm two or three days, and j then betook himself to Cincinnati Enter lw drifted to Milwaukee, and at the close of the war he sold a great lot of |iork at $lO a barrel, and bought it again at SIH to SP., realizing a jiroflt of about ,-t million. To-day he ranks as the wealthiest man in Chicago, being rated by those who know something of his business at $J. r i,000,000 or ismmhhi. 11 Jh transactions ure colossal, j His firm ernjiloys between and I li.ood men, and on his jiay rolls are ; about lifty men who retrieve salaries of (•VMi and over. He is not yet fifty* j live years of age. MASSACBE OF THE CAXEXKX. Hrmorirleaa linnilf the lH>v W Im llrm no II omr. Venn at the lurk l*oiiml• A New York rejiorter describes the method by which the unmuzzled dogs • aught iii the streets are killed at the jiouml, on the East river. Ninety-two dogs were disjio-ed of on the day of the rejiorter's visit. I taring the fon noon a numlicr of jieojile called at the [Miami to • lairu their animals lost the night before while dlssijiating on the streets. While the weather was yet in that uneertain state Is-tween a heavy downjiuur of driving rain and a sejia ration of the clouds for the admission of sunshine, an old gentleman in a lirr ' en duster and a tall hat, xvith a blue gingham umbrella in his hand, was de. seried by the keejier jus-ring anxiously over the outer wall. When questional lie adiuitteil that he was in search of 1 "Erarik," who had mysteriously diap* jiearol from home. It required a go<l deal of persuasion to induce the ol 1 gentleman to enter the door ov cr whose jiortals might be approjiriatcly in- ril-- e<l, "Who enters here leaves hope lie* hind." <(m e inside, he kejit very close to the side 11 f the keejier and was •rv reluctant t > survey the jicns in which a number • f restless and protecting dogs were confined. Finally, when half-way through the jard, lie recog nized his js-t - j lit z shut up with half a dozen ragged and dissipatcd-l-Miking canines, among whom lie was lolling in utter ignorance of the fate he was barely escaping. He sjirang almut the j.en in great delight when lie saw h.s master, and when the latter had jiaid (h- $ I tic esary for his re lemjiti'Ui. he .iM-otnjianifsl him uji the stre-t with Ids tail elevated in triuiuj.h at the .sue. cevful rescue. While a dozen or more were saved from an unhapjy fate by thoughtful masters, the others did not fare so well. Al"ut two o'clock in the after, nn :i a large iron < age four fed square xx a* wheeled into the incbisure, and the d<ir unlo k<sl. A number of d igs xx ho had xx at< hsl the jiro< -e!ings xx itli tongues protruding through the bars of the pens evidently liegan to suspect the ajiproach of a v iolent death, for they set uji a lugubrious howling, and communicated tlu-ir terror to their coiujianions. In an in-tar.t the yard resounded with weeping and wailing and gnashing of teeth. A black and white sjiitz was first s> izel by the legs and thrust into the rage, lamenting th error of his ways at the t<qi of his voice. A jMKslle followed him with jiittsixis yelling jirotesta. and then half a hundred rurs of mongrel breed were sent < • join their company. The sjiitz jus-mod to resent his forced eonijxanion* shiji, and cngagisl at once in a j.itched battle with a big yellow dog. whom ho I drove into a c.irner. where he licked his wounds and howled dismally for succor. When the cage was filled it was wheeled along a short railroad tra k to the water's edge, where it was attach. ■<! to a largo crane. An executioner stood at the crank, and when the sig" nal xvas given, he let go his hold and stojqied lack upon the platform. The ! rage swung out over the water and de-; scrnded amid yells of rage, cries of ! fear and harks of derision. As it Is-- 1 gan to sink the dogs fought desperate- 1 ly for the npjxer places, and it disap* ju'arel with the disreputable sjiitz at the top of the cage, battling fiercely with a black-and-tan who disputed his supremacy. A choked wail tloattxl over the white-* ajijied waves, and the , checkered career of the unfortunate ( canines came id a sudden and unex pected termination at the 1m it torn of the East river, amid the sea-weed, pels hies and dishes. After the lapse of a few minutes the rage was raised and the wet, limji bod* ies thrown into aw aiting cart. The unhappy dogs who had witnessed the departure of their comrades from their j>ens In the yard were then taken out and treated to a similar exit. One of these that wore a huge .Spinola collar snapped viciously at every dog as he was put Into the rage. Another went at his antagonist savagely, ami they sank licnenth the restless waters locked in a fierce and juissionate embrace. When the pens hail been cmjitiod the carcasses were taken to Barren island wherp they will lie boiled down and convene! Into soap and phosphate. CHILOBtf* COLUKI. "y.rtrtr Inrli • M." Ri went ijfi tL* jiu'hwojr 'iiHl> ri J£i i mw tli 'mun > eye* lim* widi H. WRL/UNM, At wiuahine warmt the kie. "Hank HKnm, sweetheart mother," Hi; cried am) to km The loving luce that wu lifted For w hat aome mother* rniaa. Tliat l*i y will ilo to depend on; I hold that tliia ia true— ' From la>la in lore with their mother* Our hiavcat lieroea gi'-w. Karl ha gme leat hare heen Wring heart*, Hinco lirne and oarth lutgan! And the boy who kiaai-1 hia mother L every inch a man' triHwlliri arid AMlvatora Alligator.* and crocodiles are rep tile*. They are riot only reptiles, but ugly reptiles—very ugly. Ugly In looks S arel worse in disposition. They do not see in to know what gratitude is. ami will kill and eat a Irenefactor as i quickly as an enemy. In Egypt, w here the great Nile river is, there are very many larg- crocodiles. As the croce , dile, like all other reptiles, has col blood, instead of warm blood such a we have, he is very fond of basking i the hot sun. He drags his great ugl, l**ly out of the water and lies on a sand-bank. The crocodile lays her eggs in a hole in the hot sand and then g >es away. The egg, may lie broken, or destroyed, a* they often are hy a little animal called the ichneumon; but Mrs. Croco dile cares nothing for that. The little ones may hatch out and g<t to the water as l-st they may. It must be said that the alligator, which is found only in North and South America, is a letter mother than her cousin, the crocodile, which i* found in this country, but is most common in Africa and A-ia. The alligator goes to her <-gg* altout the time she knows they ought to hat'h, and when the little ones come out of the shell she heels them to the water and feed* them. Although a very stupid creature, the alligator in some parts of South America knows that it can produce heat by putting damp leaves and other vegetable ma' ter together. A sort of fermentatiu is produced in this way. and the insid of the heap of leaves w ill lecome ver. warm. And this hnowh-dge enables it to hatch it* eggs. There is one respect in which the I crocodile has th- advantage of you. He never ha* the toothache. This 14 not Im-< ause lip do*-* nt eat candy, hut because he never keeps his teeth l >ng enough for any ache to catch thcin. His teeth are shaped like a cone, or sugar-loaf, with the part that sets in the jaw hollow. In this hollow place a new tooth is always growing, ready Ik* used a* s<>"n as the old one falls out- A dentist would have a very poor busi ness among crocodiles. Crocodiles usually live on fish ant* such other animals as are found on a under the water; but when driven b; hvnger they will attack any creatun that comes n<-ar them. In one case a party of hunters hal camped out and built a fire to cook their stipjHw. The fire was burning finely, and the supper was cooking and sending <>ut a most savory odor, when one of the party who was standing over the fire putting on some nmre wool was suddenly thrown to the ground; the fire was scattered in all directions and the supper overturned Into the mud. The lire had been made on the bark of a sleeping alligator, who had at last liecn roused by the extreme heat and had created all the commotion in his efforts to escape the torture. As he was as frightened as the hunters he male no attempt to revenge him self. but scuttled off as fast as he could, leaving the hunters staring at each other In astonishment. There Is one result of this habit which is most singular. While the al ligator is hurled in the mud. seeds will sometimes fall on his back and sprout and take root there, obtaining a firm hold in the creases Wtween the small plates that form the skin of the back. The grow th of vegetation is very rapid In these warm countries, and conse quently It will come about that th shrulis and plants will become thick and high. By-and-by when the warm weather c 'tncs and the rivers fill up. the alliga tor. still very stupid, will rouse himself and go to the water, on the surface of which he w ill float for a long time be fore seeking food. Then it is that birds will settle upon these strange islands and pick up the worms and insects that have, unluckily for them selves. gone there to live. Mr. llryant, the poet, is to l<e hon ored with a statue in Central park New York. The statue will bp it bronre, life-sue, and will cost 120,000;
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