LADIES' DEPARTMENT. After a Quarter of ■ Century. At a fashionable summer hotel near this city for several weeks an elderly couple have attracted much attention. The husband is tall and line-looking, and his abundant hair and beard are beginning to be tinged with gray. The wife is a dainty little lady, with pre maturely white hair, that contrasts ad mirably with her clear, rosy complex ion. Husband and wife are turned ol ilfty, but they are full of life and spirit. Their devotion to each other is a pleasing spectacle. They stray about to dark corners of the porch, or find secluded seats in the grounds, and hold converse, apparently, with the zest of young lovers. The history of their lives is roman tic. The husband, who is now a pros perous business man of this city, WAS a suitor for the lady's hand more than a quarter of a century ago. Hut her parents objected because he was young and poor. The lovers parted and the lady married a suitor chosen by her parents. Years afterward the young man married. To neither marriage were children born. After nearly twen ty-live years of married life the lady became a widow. A year ago theother whilom lover became a widower. Last winter the widower and the widow met accidentally in this city. The old love was rekindled, and a month ago they were married.— Nor York IS un. IVlint H Ivri Are l or What the true man most wants of a wife is her companionship, sympathy and love. The way of life has many dreary places in it, and man needs a companion with him. A man is some times overtaken with misfortune; he meets with failure and defeat; trials and temptations beset him, and he needs one to stand by and sympathize. He has some stern battles to light with poverty, with enemies and with sin. and he needs a woman that, as he puts an arm around her, feels that he has something to light for, will help him fight, who will put her lips to his ear and whisper words of counsel, and her hand to his heart and impart new in spiration. All through life—through storm and annshine, conflict and vic tory; through adverse and favorable winds—man needs a woman's love- The heart yearns for it. A sister's and mother's love will hardly supply the need. Yet many seek nothing further than housework. Justly enough, tvalf of these get nothing more. The other half, surprised above measure, obtain I more than they sought. Their wives surprise them by giving a nobler idea of marriage, and disclosing a treasury of courage, sympathy and love. Cleveland Sun. A Port nn*l Llnxiilit t Nrrrnlfm. When we read of a Mithridates or a Mezzofanti we wonder how a single mind could grasp so many forms of human speech, and are almost inclined to acknowledge the truth of the ancient saying, that with every tongue a dis tinct individuality is acquired. Great linguistic powers have, however, rare ly been combined with poetical talents of a high order, but Elizabeth Kul mann possessed both gifts in a remark able degree. Although she died at the early age of seventeen, and during her brief life had to struggle with many difficulties, yet by her rare ability and great industry she acquirer! a complete mastery over eleven languages, and wrote jtoetry in no less than eight. Goethe and Jean Paul Richter have both borne high testimony to her genius; her German poems alone fill a closely printed octavo volume of more than 7W pages, and her Russian and Italian poetical works are also volum inous. Speaking with the fluency of native French, Italian, English, Span ish, Portuguese and modern Greek, .as well as Russian and German, she was at the same time well versed in Latin, ancient Greek and Slavonian. Her favorite authors were the great |oets and historians of Greece. A diligent - " student of Homer, Pindar Thiicydides, she was engaged on a translation of Ilesi'sl's poems when death cut short her literary career. In her last writings she speaks with sorrow of all she leaves undone, hut wo may well be astonished at what she lias accomplished. Her original works comprise epic poems_ lyrics, ballads; and as we peruse them we know not whether most to admire the beauty and simplicity of the lan* guage or the marvelous accuracy with which she describes the events of past ages and the scenery of the moat re . mote countries.— Good Wards. Fuhlon VM. Hlack toilets are again in high vogue Vests of white lace are worn on eve ning dresses. Wraps entirely of black jet beads are very fashionable. Velvet Is an exceedingly popular fabric at the present time. The rage for hlack hosiery continues. Infants sucks are out in black silk. W ide ribbons are folded into soft belts and tied at the hack in very large hows with short ends. Classic and esthetic styles of dress are still affected by many fashionable ladies both here and abroad. An effort is being made to bring into fashion again tho bordered lace veils worn ten years or more ago. A charming toilette of cream canvas batiste can be trimmed with a quantity of line Baxony lace and ruby velvet. Velvet ribbon trimmings, recently introduced, have already lost favor, having been adopted on very common dresses. A London dress-maker cuts open overskirts like half shawls, knots the corner and allows it to fall on tho left side of the skirt. It is now quite the fashion to hand paint your given name upon the handle or panel of your parasol, your poeket book, glove-top, etc. Watteau morning dresses have a double box-pleat from the neck to below the waist line, where it merges into the drapery of the skirt. Curtains are hung on poles and drawn to one side when light is de. sired. In a word, they hang in straight folds, and not looped hack. Rirds are in active demand among milliners. They are used for trimming summer hats, and promise to he a pop ular garniture during the autumn. There is a tendency, even in Paris, to wear lower and broader heels on walking shoes. Many ladies have adopted the broad, low English heel, ltedfern, the Princess of Wales's tailor-dressmaker, is trimming plain skirts with mohair braid, putting it on in vertical as well as horizontal hands. Satin is an appropriate and fashion able material for the inner curtains to | a drawing-room. The curtains are j often triple-lined, the outer lining being a soft Japanese or India silk. The English fashion of saturating a straw fan with lavender water has been introduced; with the gentle mov ing of the fan the face is slightly sprinkh-d with the water and the per. fume generally distributed. Dressmakers are now employing pail, ding just below the waist line in every dress. This d --s away with the neei-s sity of a hustle, and most ladies And it more comfortable, as well aam>recon. : veriient. Waistcoats of.- almost every shape and material are exceedingly fashion able, but this style of bodice demands the most careful lit and finish, other -1 wise their introduction will often mar j the good effect of an otherwise stylish J toilet. Telegraphy and Mesmerism. Forty-eight years ago Mr. Joel Suth erland, a member of congress from Pennsylvania, introduced in the house of representatives a resolution request ing the secretary of the tre. isury to re port to the house the propriety of estab lishing a system of telegraph for the • United States. The secretary address j ed a circular-letter of inquiry to many j scientific and practical gentlemen in | different sections of the country invit j ing their attention to the resolution of : congress. Th -results of this inquiry ! brought forth many useful and pracll i cal suggestions, and urged the necessity I of a system of telegraph for public and | private purposes. The idea of using i electricity AH a means of communira | tion between parties many miles apart j seemed ridiculous even to many learned statesmen at that ami it WAS then characterized as W twin brother ito mesmerism and milierisin. In the , house when an appropriation of £s<•,- 000 was aske of great value to the business interests and commerce of the country, and do not doubt that the time will como when electricity will bo extensively applied in the arts and commerce of the world. Washington Hepubliran. Ramrod Bread. As a curious souvenir of the war, Albert Ross has preserved in a glass case a piece of what WAS known in tho confederate army as ramrod bread. It was made by stringing out a piece of dough and twisting it around a ramrod and then linked by suspending on two forked sticks. The piece preserved by MaJ. Ross was baked in 1864 In East Tennessee, • CLIPPINGS FOR THE CURIOUS. The Nnvajoa Indiana make blankets which are BO closely woven that they hold water. The cholera, savs somebody, lists ap peared sit exact intervals of seventeen years, nauiely 1 H.'iJ, 1819, 1800, and 188:1. Many of the old tall clocks now so much admired are made in Berkshire, with works from Connecticut, and aro less thsin si year old when bought for genuine antiquities. A good Cremona violin has ilfty cight divisions. The back, neck, sides and circles are of sycamore; the belly, base-bar, sounding-post, and six blocks of deal; the flnger-board and tail-piece of ebony. The Chinese have a law that if tho elder brother in a family should have no children when fifty years of age, he may claim the eldest son of any of , his younger brothers, and make him his j heir. You can hear the whistle of a locomotive 33'*) yards, the noise <>f a trai l 2WX) yards, the report of a mus ket ami the bark of a dog 180*1 yards, | the roll of a drum 1000 yards, tho creak of a freg 900 yards, and a crick et's chirp, SIX) yards. How many (says an exchange) know that a horse gets up b< fore and a cow gets up behind, and the cow eats from lor and the horse|eats to him. llow many know that a surveyor's mark upon a tree never gets any higher from the ground, or what trees Ix-ar fruit without bloom? Bayard Taylor used to say that of all men he had ever seen, Hawthorne was the most remarkable for possess ing eyes that flashed fire, the pupils being so diluted as to render tie-iris invisible. Gladstone has similar eyes and some of his friends attributed to them Queen Victoria's lack of fondness for that statesman. Her majesty, they say, has on several occasions been actually tcrrith-d by liladstone's guzf. A Father Hubbard. The other day .as old Major Holmau announced his readiness to proceed in the direction of tho church, his wife appeared, wearing a m ther Hub bard dress. The old man intently re gardisl her for a few moments, and asked: "Mary, what sort of a coat do you call that?" "It's a mother Hubbard, Joerns." "Air you goin' to wear it to (hup Ii ?'• "Why, certainly, .Teems. The moth er Hubbard is till the fashion now." "Well, I'm glad to know it," the old man replied. "Just wait until I get ready, and we'll go." The old man went out into the kitch. en, took a couple of meal sacks, cut the Ixittoms out, sewed the tops togeth er, and put them on in imitation of pantaloons. When he returned, his wife uttered loud cry of astonish ment, and exclaimed: "Great goodness,.Joerns, what's that." "Father Hubbard," the old man re plied. "You're not goin' to wear them sacks, are you ?" "I've got to be fashionable to kebp up with you. I've got as much right to wear these meal bags as you have to go in that bran sack." "I'll take off." "All right; off goes the father Hub bard," and turning away, he added to himself, "Only one way to boat a wo man, and that is by agreein' with her. Kf it hadn't l**on fur the daddy Hub bard I'd a l>een in a mighty bad fix." —Arkamaw Traveler. Feannt Flonr. No doubt, ere long, "peanut flour", will be an important product of the south. Virginia is set down this year for 2, 100,000 bushels, Tennessee for 250,000, and North Carolina at 135,000 bushels, these being the chief states engaged in their cultivation, and those in which they were first intro duced from Africa. In Virginia they ! are called "peanuts," in North Carol!- na "ground-pens," in Tennessee "gob liers," and in Georgia, Alabama anil Mississippi "plnders." Virginians arc iKiginrflng to turn the ]>canut into' flour, and say it makes a peculiarly palatable "buscuit." In Georgia there is a custom, now growing old, of grinding or pounding the shelled j>ea nuts and turning them into pastry, which has some resemblance, both In looks and taste, to that made of cocoa nut, but the ]H>anut pastry Is more oily and richer, and, we think, heathier and lictter every way. If, as some peoplo believe. Africa sent a curse to America in slavery, she certainly con fi rr 1 upon her a blessing in tho uni versally popular peanut, which grows so well throughout the southern re gions that we shall soon lie able to cut ft the now large Importation alto gether.—Sarannah {(la.) Telrgram. BEATIIS FROM FRIGHT. • *•!••, Anclf.nl nnil Mintern, Colls ret troiu Authentic llMlory. The distinction between fright and fear ought always to be borne in mind. Fear can be mastered by an ef fort; fright has come and gone before the brain has bad time to come to the conclusion that an effort is possible. There is no fear in human beings so strong as the fear of death, and yet, "there is no passion in the mind of man," says Bacon, truly enough, "so weak but it meets and masters the fear of death. Revenge triumphs over death; loveslights it; honor aspireth to it; grief flieth to it; fear preuccupiclh it." Pity, which is the "tenderest of passions," led many to kill themselves from compassion for Otho's suicide, Fvi* indium vita-, mere utter weari ' ness of doing the same thing over and ( over again, will lead a man to defy bis j inborn fear of death. But what pas sion can guard against fright? A Hebrew, according to Lodovicus ; Vives, once crossed a narrow plank over a torrent, in the dark, and, visit ing the place next day, saw the extrem ity of bis last night's risk, and died of what? Not of fear, obviously, be cause there was nothing to be afraid of, but possibly o( (right. So, again, j persons have been known who always fainted at the smell of certain flowers, notably, that of tin- May blossom, but it would be ridiculous to accuse them of being afraid of hawthorn. Surgeon-general Franc s, of the In dian mistical service, tells of a drum mer who was suddenly aroused from his sleep by something crawling over bis naked legs. He iinag.ncd i! was a , Cobra and his friends, collected by tln- 1 outcry, thought so too, and lie was treated accordingly. Incantations,) such as are customary with the na- | tives i n such oor.i-.oiis, were rc-orted j to, and the jtoor fellow was Ilaggcllat j ed with twisted cloths on the arms anil legs in view partly to arouse him, but principally to drive out the evil in- | flueni • i spirit i that for the time 1 ing 1 hail taken jKissession of hill). With the first dawn of light tin- cause of the fright w,is discovered in the shape of a harmless li.vard. which was lying crushed and half killed by the side of the poor drummer, but it was ton late. From the moment when lie ln-lii-ved that a jMii-onotis snak' bad 1 tten loin in-j a i-d mto ; ,t, incrc.i-ng n>llap-( until he died. The ilrunimi rw a* not a strong lad, and the -h k was too mu< h for him. The most remarkable death from 1 the in cident of fright was that of the | Hutch painter, Pen toman, in the seven- ! tcenth century. He was at work on a picture in which were repre.-entisl si v- i enl death heads, grinning -keleton.* and other objects calculated to inspire the beholder with a contempt for the vanities and follies of the day. In or der t<> do bis work Iwttcr he went to j an anatomical room, and used it for a studio. One sultry day, as he was drawing thus.- melaneholly relics of mortality bv which he was surrounded, lie fell off into a quiet Sleep, from which he was suddenly aroused. Im agine his hormr at lieholding the skulls and bones dancing around tin* room like mail, and the skeletons which hung from the ceiling dashing them- | selves together. Panic stricken, he ruhed from the room, and threw him- ! self headlong from e window to the pavement below. He sufficiently re recovered to learn that the cause of his fear was a slight earthquake, but his nervous system had received so se- : vere a shock thai lie died in a few days. Frederick I. of Prussia was killed by an accident of fear, lie was one day sleeping in an armchair, when his j wife. Louisa of Mecklenburg, who had 1 for some time been hopelessly insane, escaped from lier keepers and made her way to the king's private apart ments. Hreaking through a glass ! door she dabbled herself in blood, and In a raging fit of delirium cast herself ( : upon the king. The lalter, who was , not aware of the hopelessness of her ] lunacy, was so horrified at the appear- , ance of a woman, clad only in linen and covered with blood, that he imag- , j ined, with a superstition characteristic ( of the age, that it was the White Lady ( | whose ghost, according to the time- ( honored tradition, invariably appeared | ! when death was around the house of , Bradenburg. He was seized with a f fever and diosl in six weeks. , More ridiculous was the death of the , French mnrsball, I)c Montrcvel. J "whose whole soul," says St. Simon, "was but ambition and lucre, without , ever having been able to distinguish t his right hand from his left, hut con- , coaling his universal ignorance with j an audacity which favor, fashion and t birth protected." He was very su- j perstitiousman, and one day a salt cel lar was upset at a public dinner in his lap, and so frightened was he that he * arose and announced that he was a dead 1 man. Tie reached home and died in a few days, in 1716, literally scared to death by the absurd casualty of a salt cellar's turning over. London (jfab< . Forced Labor in Egypt. The conditions of forced labor do not seem to differ much in the differ ent parts of the country. Nowhere do the laliorers receive any pay or food or shelter, while their treatment by their task-masters would seem to he simply brutal. Mr. Stuart describes the system as lie saw it iri operation In the province of Keneh, in Upper Egypt. A cut of about eighteen feet in depth had to he made through a conglomerate of sand and gravel; this was flanked right and left by high em bankments constructed of the material taken from (lie trench, and along the bottom and on the slopes "men swarmed thickly, like bees on a honey comb, for a distance of about a mile in length," The entire strength of the improssahlc labor in the province, amounting to about 40, ity of the middle ages, froin which the modern Cairo I* descended. Taffe ta and taiiby from a street in Bagdad. Cambric from Cambial. Gauze has its name from Gaza; baize from Bajac; dimity from Hamictta. and jeans from Jean. Drugget is derived frmiacitv in Ireland, Drugheka Duck comes from Torque, in Normandy. Blanket is called after Thomas Blanket, a fa mous clothier connected with the in troduction of woolens into F.ngland atxiut 1340. Serge derives its name from Xcrga, a Spanish nainc for a pe culiar woolen blanket.. Diaper is not from D'Vpres, as is sometimes .stated, hut from the Greek "diaspron," figur ed. Velvet comes from the Italian rtlluf', wooly (Latin r- llu.o- -a hide or pelt), shawl is from the Sanscrit sala, lloor. fur shawls were first used as car pets and tapestry. Bandanna is from an Indian word, meaning to bind or tie, Isvausethey are tied in knots be fore dyeing. Chintz, comes from the Hindoo word "rhett." Delaine is the French "of wool" The Lunges it j of Stone*. Dr. Julian of Columbia college, comes to the following conclusions in regard to the life of stones, defining life as the period during which the stone presented a decent ap|tearancc: Coarse brownsti ne, best uvd out of the sun. from 5 to 15 years; laminated fine brow nstone, from 25 to 50 voars; compact fine brownstone, from one to two centuries; Nova Scotia stone will probably last from 50 to 100 years; Ohio sandstone, the best of the sand stones, 100 years; Caen stone, from 35 to 40 years; coarse dolomite marble, 40 years; fine marble, GO years; pure cal cureous marble, from 50 to 100 years; granite, from 75 to 200 years, accord ing to variety; Milestone is a* yet un tried, but will prove a good building material Some of the causes that produce decay in stones are, first, solu tions are hydrations of the stones and heat of tho sun. The mammoth Russian variety of sunflower is grown on some of the Western cattle ranches to supply the deficiency of wood for fuel -• I'FAKL.S OF TIIOL'GIIT. For they conquer who believe they can. Tnemost difficult thing in life la to know yourself. Warmth of feeling in one thing, per manence another. Let every eye negotiate for itself, and trust no agent. A heart overflowing with feeling drawn love like a magnet. The deepest feeling often lies in si lence; the lightest in words. > Idleness is only the refuge of weak i minds, and the holiday of fools. Well-directed toil will insure suc ' cess in every walk of life, high or low. Hardship and toil are necessary for development of power and strength of character. Do go el arid he good, and despite all that is said about this world's ingrati tude, some one will love you and greet your coming. The world would l>e much better off if the pains taken to analyze the subt i lest moral laws were given to the prac ticc of the simplest. By rousing himself, bv earnestness* by restraint and control, the wise man may make for himself an island which no flood can overwhelm. Music is the harmonious voice of creation; an echo of the invisible world; one note of the divine concord which the entire universe is destined one day to sound. Tin: S({l ATTFR'S JIAIGHTFK. %% lil M IHil *\ot Marry a Man of Mu nition "Light and l<*>k at yer saddle," said the squatter's daughter, as a man stopporhood, and who had become so well a- quaint**] with the girl that her i handsome face was ever before him, advanced to where -he was sitting, ami iingeringly shook the hand which she < \tended to iiim: i "How are you, Emily?" "Fust rate, never felt letter nor , had i - "Where's all the folks?" "> attered. I>.t IV gone to the still {> ;-e. mam's g..ne to a quiltin', 801/s lyin' ar ind ]<<*<•, sotnewhar, and I lick's drunk. I speck." "I.mily," -aid the visitor, seating bimsejf jn the d<>r way, "don't you know that dr<-sod in anything like a , stvlish way. you would l>e one of the haml-omcst girl- I ever saw?" "Wall, I. r', I hain't thought about it." "Wouldn't you like to wear fine dresses "Now. you're shoutin'." "And have a good education?" "I don't here so much about the 1- dycation. 'cause I'm sorter 'spicious 'bout l> k sense. Ileal old boss sense is the kind to have, an' of a person's got the boss sense, he don't need the 1-M>k larn.n', an' of he haint' got the loss sense he can't take look larnin' to any great shakes." "You are mistaken. Education ac complishes wonders, and without our great colleges and schools this entire country would soon 1* worse than it w as when iirst discovered." "I know j<' what I'm er talkin' alH.ut." she replied, "an' tliar ain't no usen you trvin' ter talk l>ook larnin* agm ine. V ase I'se got the figgors. A mighty eddycated feller come to see me fur a long time, and folks lowed we'd marry, an' 1 reek in we would cf it hadn't er I wen that his eddycatioa proved to Itc a failure., tine day at a log roUin', Tony Diver, the runt of the neighborhood, arter hearin' inv eddy • ated man blow a powerful chance; went up to him nn' said: 'Look a hear, rap'n, you've been talkin' 'l>out your eddycation for some time, now I want to show you it don't amount t<> nothin',' an* tellin' the smart man to cut his capers. Tony grablted him. They scuffled aroun' a while.an' finally Tony flung him. Tony don't know a letter in the book, an* when It was diskivercd that the fellow's eddycation didn't amount to anythin', pap lie come home an' sea 'Emily, that smart man 'o yourn was (lung down jes'now by Tony Diver. Ef yer marry him I'll drive yer from under my roof, an' yon shan't come back no mo'.' 'Dap,' s'l, 'I ain't a goin' ter fling myself away'." "Emily, do you think that you could live happily with me?" "Look a here. If Gale Johnson knowed yer was er talkin' ter me that er way, he'd chaw yer niana" "What, are you engaged to him?" '.•lt hits me that er way." "I must say that 1 don't think he's— * "Hole on, right thar. Didn't he whip the doctor at Dry Fork t'other day, an' didn't he slap the jaw offen the county judge? Yer can't set here an' talk about a man with ft KU 'com plish meats, Get on tasl ar.' mo sey.— d *im r-aost#-