LADIES' DEPARTMENT.
Sin kin if I.ldle .'<> a i,rrl v.
It is not generally known, of course,
that many women, considered most
extravagant dressers, manage with
clever finesse to look extremely stylish
on small allowances. Nothing can he
of greater interest to the average
woman than the secret of how to look
well at a small expense. Some ladles
own themselves that they buy inces
santly, yet are nover stylishly dressed.
In the first place it is tedious to wear
one hat with all costumes. Therefore
procure one becoming in shape, trim
med for exigencies, (let a black hat
with a handsome feather as a utility
hat, one which can be worn at various
points of the compass; then when buy
ing a new silk buy a spray of tlowers
to suit, and utterly change the aspect
of the hat. If possessing any skill,
get a capote frame and cover with the
dress goods. Learn to make collarettes
and fichus; get reversible ribbons and
alter at pleasure. Always get dresses
whose waists will interchange; this is
the best of the black Jersey. Do not
go out on successive days dressed the
pame way some slight change will
suggest a variety of toilets. Comb the
hair differently when the hat is placed
back to form a puke. Always carry a
handkerchief to suit the dress, and as
they are cheap this is within possibility
always. Above all, get nothing so
striking that it will always be recog
nized on the street. Do not vitiate a
black anil white ensemble by an oddly
colored Imw or handkerchief, strive
for a general effect. Cut overdresses
full enough to allow of different drap
ings. (let a black parasol, all black <
which will suit any costume. St.
Louis lit j >ll hi in in.
"Xrw n ml for %%'oiiirn.
The average life of French women
Is said to be thirteen years longer than
that of French men.
Washing t lie hands twice a day with
Indiau corn-meal, and rubbing on a
little glycerine at night>, will keep them
Soft and white.
Queen Victoria has received a woman ;
physician. Mrs. Scharlieb, with un
usual favor at Windsor castle, given i
her a likeness of her royal self, and ,
encouraged her to excel in her profes
sion.
A cotton plantation, a few miles
from Monroe, La., has l>een run for
the last four years by Mis.f Adah Par
ker, supporting her mother and two '
young brothers, and overseeing the
work in person.
The first woman to arrive in Car- j
bonate. Col., received an ovation,
markisl by such snlstantial tokens of
welcome as a town lot, a mining claim
and the money with which to buy a
silk dress.
A local statesman of Marion, Kan. !
offered s■'> for a l>oU-quilt produced in
silence, rather than stitched in g'>ssip,
after the usual fashion of sewing soci
eties. Twenty-three women perform
ed the work in two hours, without
speaking a word.
The Princess de Segun has given to
an interviewer of the Fi'jnm, as the
sum necessary for the toilet of a fash
ionable Paris woman,for dress-making,
1-1200; millinery, t"kN); linen, $W)0;
boots, shoes and slippers, f'100; gloves,
hosiery, ribbons, ties and other tritles,
11200; lace,s'>oo; hair-dressing and per
fumery, s'.*<>; umbrellas and parasols,
1100; total, fsTOO.
There are two women now living In
Ohio whose husbands fought in the
war of the Revolution, fine of these
Is Mrs. Davis, of Perry county; the
other, Mrs. Catherine Cline, of Cincin
nati, now eighty-three years of age.
whose first husband, Hubert Cumming,
was a soldier in Washington's army.
Bho is a native of I'enn's valley. Pa.
Fifteen Chinese ladies at Canton,
assigned by their parents to husbands
they did not like, and to whom they
were to have been respectively and
Bimultaneously married on a certain
festive day. entered their protests,
which availed them nothing; but on
the eve of the feast they plunged to
gether Into tho river and became the
brldc9 of death.
I'aihlnn Sum
The coffee colors are revived.
Copper color and mignonette are
again fashionable.
Suits of terra-cotta color arc fast
losing their popularity.
A dress entirely of silk is no longer
correct for street wear.
Pretty table-cloths have a band of
flowered satlne down the center.
Taffetas aro In favor to make up In
combination with other materials.
The fashion of dressing the hair
high is becoming more and more gen
eral.
For evening wear are wide sash rib
bons In gold and wblte, or silver and
white,
Some dresses have two nnd even
three vests, only one of which, how
over, buttons.
A suggestion of silver throughout
an entire bluck suit is popular for
second mourning.
Lace fichus are in demand. Favor
ite stylos aro known as tho Fedora and
tho Mario Antoinette.
The now brocades have corded edges
around the figures or tlowers In tho
style of the ICseurial laces.
Dresses entirely of silk are, as they
should be, relegated to carriage wear
by women of taste and fashion.
Much attention is now paid to *af>-
estry, which has come largely into use
in the decoration of fine houses.
Canvas belts are worn with the llan
nel and cloth dresses. These come in
a variety of colors, as well as in
white.
The most elegant French dresses,
made of the richest India, changeable
Venetla and Lyons silks, have blouse
bodices and cutaway over-jackets.
Among new fall goods aro woven
tapestry patterns with borders of an
tique designs and in blocks, bars,
checks and plaids, the fabric rough
but soft camel's-hair.
Sashes aro still greatly in favor for
the adornment of young ladles' festival
and dinner dresses, those with chine
patterns, or flowered centers with satin
edges, being preferred.
For trimming hats and bonnets, for
garden parties and other dressy occa
sions, New York milliners are using
Turkish muslin embroideries, pinks,
greens, blues and whites, with gold
and silver tinscL
School Life In China.
Very much is thought of education
in I 'hina, and if a poor hoy takes liter
ary honors ho can fill as high a posi
tion ;us though he were a boy of rank.
All I toys, especially in the south of Chi
na, are expected to go to school, but
beside the mission schools there are
not many for girls. A tutor has not
only to teach lMys bow to re:id and
write, but jMiliteness forms the basis of
Chinese education, and the many cere
monies belonging both to public and
private life have to l>e learned at
school. Very much trouble Is also taken
with the writing lessons, "an elegant
pencil" being thought of great conse
quence, and all the mistakes made in
writing the master corrects with red ink.
Like boys of Japan, the Chinese barn
their lessons out loud, and sometimes
make a great < latter in the school ro>m
while doing so. llut lews may not talk
together in school, and to prevent their
doing this the desks are arranged some
distance from one another. When a
lesson is known the 1 >oy tak-s his D-.k
to the master, lows, turns his hack
and repeats it. This is called poychou
or "hacking the lMmk," and is to pre
vent the l>oy from reading the lesson,
dthn h the large characters make it very
easy for him to do. The way that the
Chinese are taught is on a very differ
ent system from ours. They learn i>y
heart first, anil then have explained to
them what they have learned. Their
first lesson is on filial piety, and
throughout life the Chinese, lew, and
girl, and man, and woman, are noted
for their love toward parents. They
then learn the sacred tritnetricnl Imnk,
which treats of the nature of man,
moles of education, social duties and
many other things. Next come the
four classical hooks, and then the five
sacred, so when Chinese lews go to
school they are well set to work. I'n
likc the Japanese, however, they do not
think that they have anything left to
learn from other nations.
The Care of n Watch.
Few persons who wear a watch
know how to take rare of it. It is a
most delicate piece of machinery, and
yet more is expected of it, without
care and attention, than of a steain en
gine or any other piece of machinery.
We oil the engine or sewing machine,
or whatever it may le, keep it free
and clean from dirt and exposure, but
our watches are frequently let run as
long as they will keep ticking, and
then when they suddenly cea-o to beat
we wonder why they have stopped.
Could an engine or sewing machine !e
run five, six or even eight years with
out oil, or cleaning,or attention? Cer
tainly not. A watch should be clean
ed and oiled not less frequently than
once in two years, once a year Is not
too often. If this is done it will last a
life time, nnd. If a good article, may
be handed down to several generations.
Neglected, It will wear out and become
worthless In a few years. Just think
of your watch making 18,000 beats an
hour, 432,000 a day, and 168,680,000 a
year. Is there any other piece of ma.
chtnery doing the same amount of
work that really has so little rare and
attention and costs so tittle to keep in
order ?
'l'll I'M) Flt-STOIIMN.
Thf llral I'lnrr for Nafty when the
Tliuiuler Holla nml (he l.lultt olnu
Klaihci*
AH tho human body Is a good com
ductor for the fluid, it becomes over.'
one in a heavy thunder-Hhower to seek
a place of Hafety. A thunder-bolt,
though seemingly at "the sport of cir
cumstances," does move really in obe
dience to most perfect law. In descend
ing from a surcharged cloud, it seeks
the nearest and best conductor. I*,
makes a zig-zag movement through
the air, because this element is a bad
conductor, and does all it can to resist
the intruder. The lire of the bolt it
self is but tho consequence of its battle
with the air through which it lights
its way. Sometimes a bolt passes from
one cloud to another, and then the
thunder-peal is one long-continued re
verberation. Hut when a holt strikes
the earth, the peal Is sudden, solid,
sometimes deafening.
As sound travels at the rate of 1120
feet per second, ami light with such
velocity that we need not here con
sider it, the distance between the ob
server and the s|>ot struck by the Ixilt
may be readily estimated. It is done
by counting tin- seconds intervening
between the flash and the report
Thus: If ten seconds elapse, ttie dis
tance is 11,200 feet; if thirty seconds,
or half a minute, 33,' Mi feet.
In caw of near and heavy die
charges of electricity, it is always un
safe to stand beneath a tree, la-cause
it is a g>M>d conductor, or near a large
risk, or mass of iron, or Ixxly of
water, for tie- same reason. It is also
unsafe to stand in an open fie ld at a
considerable distance from any promi
nent object which might serve as a
protector. If alone in smli a place, it
were well, in an electric battle, to
draw near, but not too near, to some
rock or tree-, or l-udy of water which
would be likely in your stead to take
the ls.lt. Refuge in a barn, especially
when filled with hay and grain and
cattle, should always be avoided.
If in a house in a heavy thunder
storm, the doors and windows should
be closed, for lightning tends to follow
an atmospheric current, and licm c so
many persons are killed while standing
in a doorway, or while sitting at an
open window. When lightning strikes
a dwelling-house, it usually goesdown
the chimney, or a corner of the build
ing, runs along tho walls, biking 1m 11-
uires. looking-glasses, lamps and other
metallic artirh-s in its course. Hence
it is always dangerous, when the storm
Is near, to remain in the corner of a
room, or to rest against the walls, or
near a stove, or lamp.or 1<-king-glass,
or. indeed, any g<**l conductor of < !■<■.
tricity.
A tall tree standing close by a dwell
ing-house serves as a kind of light
ning-rod; yet, sometimes, the fluid
leaves the tree, as it d-s-s a r<l, and
enters the building; hence rooms thus
excised should 1-e vacated till the
danger cease-. I'erhnps the safest
place in at- rrific thunder-storm is on
a hair or fi ather-l-ed in the center of
a room well clos-al and without a fire
place or much metallic furniture, in
the lomst division of the house. Hut
if the room IK-carpeted, a chair in a
similar situation alb rds comparative
safety. Lottnn I'm r*ll> r.
A Tramp's Mistake.
A tramp passed through Flatliush,
Long Island, a few days ago. Next
door to the Reformed church is the
parsonage.
A man with a big straw hat. a linen
duster ami ecclesiastical pants was
pulling weeds in the garden.
"Oh, yes!" remarked the tramp,
over the fence; "you're a nice kind of
a man, ain't you? Pull your own
weeds, don't you? You'll get up In
the pulpit < n Sunday and lteg for the
heathens in Klamshatka and Hinder
stand and Cannonball islands, while
there's heathens nearer home wot can't
git work. I'd like to come over there
anil mash you all to pieces."
And then the big straw* hat and the
linen duster and the ecclesiastical
pants got up, crawled over the fence,
and knocked the tramp into the mud.
The "minister" was the hired man,
who had just l*-on told that he could
leave on the first of the month.
A s'otcl Dnel.
While gentlemen shoot each othei
with pistols or pierce each other wilb
swords, the common folk settle theii
troubles in their own way. Recently
near Kalish two Polish peasants,
blacksmiths by trade, had to settle th
question which one of them should
have a girl with whom lx>th were in
love. Without much ado they armed
themselves with the heaviest hammer*
they had and Itegan the flght The
one swung his dreadful weapon
straight at the head of his antagonist,
but the latter skilfully avoided the
blow, and then in his turn he swung
his hammer and crushed the head of
his rival. He got tho girL
rOPIt'M OF TIIE DAY.
It Is a curious coincidence that If
the cholera should break out In thin
country thlH year It will lai tho third
time it lias done ho at intervals of sev
enteen ycurH. In 1832 it raged vio
lently lu re, so it did in 1840, and
again, hut more mildly, in 18fi0.
A physician said that leprosy was a
comparatively common disease among
the Norwegian settlers of northwes
tern Wisconsin, and the statement was
widely copied. The Milwaukee Hintl-
U'/ has been unable to find a case In
tho state after a protracted search.
Is tho poor bachelor to be driven
from tho face of the earth? In Mani
toba he is subjected to an extra tax,
and in Prance such military discrimi
nations arc to be made against him as
to threaten to destroy him and ids li!>-
crty-loving tribe amid tho hardships
and carnage of horrid war.
This is the iron age. The value of
all the gold and silver mined In the
I'nited States in the year l s -2 was
not equal to that of iron. The amount
of silver (coining value) mined was j
(If.,8<(t,000; of gold, (32.500,0U0; of
pig iron manufactured, (l<>(i,3fifi,42'.t.
The value of coal mined during the
year was (14fi,fi32,581.
It is seriously proposed that several
of tin- Kuropean powers shoul 1 unite
in the suppression of Mohammedan
pilgrimages to Mecca by the occupa
tion of the Holy City, which is so
charged with |x*tilencealmost always,
and which sends so frequently the
scourge of cholera over Egypt and the
Past. The remedy suggested is a dar
ing one. It might cause a terrible
war. Hut something has to lie done
very st>on.
A man who has kept an account of
the weather, claims that it invariably '
repeats itself, and gives the following
a- the result of his observations: All
years ending in "or 1, are extreme- I
ly dry. Those ending in 2, 3, 4, 5 or
C, are extremely, wet. Those ending |
in 7 or 8, are ordinarily well balanced, j
Those ending in fi have extremely cold
winters. Those ending in 2 have an
early spring. Those ending in 3 or 4
are subject to great floods.
The intensity of the struggle for a j
livelihood in Kngland is illustrated by
the statement of a magazine writer
that there are ,qi *),(*• families in Lon
don who are in the habit of pawning
small articles and that more than '
C.I*MSI unclailllisl pledge- are Sold
every year in that city,while over 270,-
(i.mio are taken in pledge in the
course of the year throughout the
country. <>f course, some of these
phdgcs are of st . n gids. but the >
writer estimate* that they do not cx
rcd more than one in 11, 1 M•.
Eight million acres of government
land was taken up by settlers in Dako
ta last year, acci.rdlng to the rcjxirt of
the land commissioner at Washington.
As no person can tak more than three
hundred and twenty acres (a pre-emp
tion or holm si ad and a timber claim),
this means that not le.-s than twenty- .
five thousand, and probably thirty-live
thousand farmers locatd in Dakota, I
during the fiscal year ending .June 30,
18*3, upon government lands alone,
without taking into calculation the
millions of acres sold fnun the railroad j
land grants.
In Mexico nearly every one is a
smoker. The school children who have i
done well in their studies are reward- |
ed by being allowed to smoke a cigar !
as they stand or sit at their lessons.
The schoolmaster is seldom without a 1
cigar in his mouth. In the law courts
all |K-rs< ms commonly enjoy their to-;
barro freely, and even the accused in
a criminal trial is not denied this in
dulgence, hut is allowed, if his cigar
ette goes out in the heat of the argu
ment, to light it again by borrowing
that of the officer who stands at his
side to guard him.
The National railroad company of
Japan, incorporated with a capital of
(20,(100,000, under the auspices of the
Japanese government, two years ago,
has adopted the American system of
building railroads and is now con
structing the main line which extends
from Tokio to Anderson, the northern
seaport of Japan, a distance of 450
miles. A part of the main line, about
fifty miles in length, has already been
finished and will lie open to the public
this month or next The terminus of
the line is the commercial center of a
province where silk culture is the
principal occupation of the people.
The silk raised in this province is
highly esteemed In foreign markets
and is exported to America as well as
to Europe in large quantities every
year. It la expected that the whole
| lino will be finished within thre
years.
Leonard Case of Cleveland, a bache
lor millionaire and the munificent
founder of the Case School of Applied
Science, was a man of amiable charac
ter, of fine culture arid of remarkable
abilities, but his life was so clouded by
constant ill health and by a singular
constitutional shyness that his talents
were unknown even to his own towns
people, and hardly appreciated by ids
few intimate friends. He wrote
poems, sketches and tales for his own
amusement, rarely publishing anything
but an occasional mathematical paper
in the transactions of tin- Smithsonian
Institution. The manuscript of a
complete novel, said to be excellent,
was found after his death in a mass of
documents and is running now in the
' '< ntury.
Dakota's aristocrat, the Count de
Mores, is a thoroughly practical man
of business. Securing a large tract of
land in the valley of the Little Mis
souri, in a region bounded by limitless
stock ranges and buffalo and deer
walks, he set to work erecting houses,
offices, stables, barns, and corrals f"T
bis cattle, gathered in a settlement of
farmers, provided their families with a
church and school-house, and t<xik to
himself 10, CM) head of cattle, many
flocks of sheep, and blooded horses.
He dealt liberally vvitli his joor neigh
bors, furnishing them with sheep and
rattle to keep on shares, and looki-d to
the organization of a refrigerator-car
company, that he might command the
means of getting his meat to market.
He is aid to have sjient (.U>o,o(>o, and
g<x*l judges think he will succeed in
his undertaking.
The death rate of the principal pen
itentiaries of the country furnishes a
re table feature in the semi-annual re
port of Dr. Hill ef the Nmthern Hii
ro ds jienitentiary, the variations in the
different institutions being almost in
• redible. In New York prisons, at
"•dug Sing, the yearly deaths from
IUOO inmates numtar a trifle less than
7; at Auburn it is 12. and at Clinton
over 2(. The lowest rate named is 3,
in Wisconsin, and the higtnet 77, in
Mississippi. The practice of letting
convicts for work on mines and rail
roads is declared to cause fearful death
rates in several southern states, and,
on the other hand, the New Hamje
shire figure is 48. The rate in Massa
chusetts is 15; in Maine the same; in
Yi rmont 22, and in Connecticut 15.
Pennsylvania has fi in the western and
14 in the eastern district.
Null Rosa.
rigin of the j brase "sub rosa,"
or "under the rose" is said to have
lieen on this wise. In the year 11.
477. I'ausanias, the commander of tho
confederate fleet of the Spartans and
Athenians was engaged in an intrigue
with Xerxes for the subjugation < f
Dree, i to the Persian rule, and lor tho
hand of tho monarch's daughter in
marriage. Their negotiations were
carried on in a building attached to tho
ti Mipb of Mim rv a. i ailed the Hrazor
House, the roof of which w as a garden
forming a lsiwer of roses; so that the
plot which was conducted with the
utmost secrecy, was lit- rally matured
"under the rose." I'ausanias, how
ever, was Ist rayed by one of his cmis
saries, who, by a preconcerted plan
with the ephori (the overseers and
councillors of state, five in number)
gave them a secret opjxirt unity to hear
from his lips of I'ausanias himself, tho
acknowledgment of his treason. To
escape arrest, he fled to the temple of
Minerva, and, as the sanctity of tho
place forbade intrusion for violence or
harm of any kind, the j-oople walled
up the edifice with stones and left him
to die of starvation. His own mother
laid the firs' stone. It afterward Ixs
came a custom among Athenians to
wear rosea in their hair whenever they
w ished to communicate to another a
secret they wished to l>e kept invio
late. Hence the saying "sub rosa"
among them, and since among Chris
tian nations.
' The Evil Eye.
The Russians are great believers in
the evil eye; and foreigners, on Rus
sian children being introduced to
them, should lieware of praising their
lieauty, or of showing for them any of
that admiration which, under like cir
cumstances would be expected in
western Europe. To praise the child
is to hew Itch it, to bring it ill-luck—to
Infect it, In short, with "the evil eyes."
Charms and incantations must then
lie resorted to, and in serious cases the
priest is called in. Hy humility and
prayer the influence of tho evil eye
may be averted; but It is desirable
that the stranger, on seeing for the i
first time thec-.ildiwn of any family he
Is visiting, shall not allow himself to
exclaim; "What a prett/ girl t- )
"Whst f flna hoy f"
FEAHLH OF THOUGHT.
No man should part with til* owrf
Individuality and become that of a®*,
other.
lit! who in not earnestly Binder# liv 4*
in hut half his being, Bclf-mutila'ed,
self-par aiyzed.
The l>ost society and conversation is
that In which the heart baa a greatef
share than the head.
It Is often owing to a consciousnaß
of a designing temper In ourselve*
that we are led to suspect others.
He courageous and noble-minded;
our own heart, and not other men's
opinions of us, forms our true honor.
Opposition is what we want and
must have, to he good for anything.
Hardship is the native soil of manhood
and self-reliance.
A clear conscience is worth more
than gold or silver. Hence itlsnecee
sary to live so that our acts and daily
life will indicate it.
Discretion of speech is more than
eloquence, and to speak agreeably to
him with whom we deal, is more than
to speak in good words or in good or
der.
If you devote your time to study
you will avoid all the irksormsness of
life; nor will you long for the approach
of night, licing tired of the day; nor
will you la.* a burden to yourself, nor
your society unsupportable to others.
Esthetic Cremation.
The new crematory in the Campo
Verano at Rome w as used for the first
time a few days ago and the corpse of
hignor Cipriani, an Italian senator
was reduced to ashes in two hours and
a half. The three other existing cre
matories of importance are at Got La*
Milan and Washington, Fa, respective
ly. In s< me of them gas is used as
fuel, hut in Rome the body, enveloped
In a specially made shroud, rests on an
iron frame above a fire of wood and
mal; and it is la-lieved that no other
method of cremation is so simple and
at the same time so cheap and unot*
jectionable. The new crematory is a
handsome building in the Egyptian
atyle, arid consists of three chamber*
two of which are above the ground
In one of these latter the actual incin
eration takes place, and in the other Is
kej t a regmt- r for the j reservation of
full ] artirulars of every corpse that Is
burned. Ik-math these rooms is a spa.
do us vault, in which on shelves are
ranged ornamental urns of jiorcelain.
bronze and silver, to contain the ashes
of the dead. The establishment is, in
sh< rt. i well found and luxuriously
a) jfintM that it almost seems that we
might If entering upen an era in
which a Mio tic cremation shall If as
fashionable as {esthetic dress and fur
niture l ave la-en during the last dec
ade.
Indian Workers on n Railroad.
A wnter In theOmaha(Xeb. )Bee was
riding t<> Dmaha from Sioux city over
the- Minneapolis and Omaha railway,
The roadtfd had suffered soine from
rain and swollen streams, and scatter
ed along the- way w ere greiups of men
repairing the damage by filling in with
earth. The swarthy features of many
of th<>s<-thus e-mploye-d attracted the
attention of passenger*, and some one
asked if they were not Indians, lie
was told they were. "How comes it
they are working here as section
hands?" .asked the writer of a train
hand. "Why, they appear to be stuck
on the work," he replied. "They
come and hang around the section
houses and insist on being hired
whenever there is any extra work to
be done, and every regular gang has
both Winnebagoes and Omahas in it.
They see in to think they are entitled
to this employment" "Are they effi
cient workmen, or do they sometimes
try to shirk?" "You better hellers
they work just as good as any of 'em.
Talk alout the Chinese section hands
on the Union Pacific; they are nowhere
"longside of them Indians. They'd
soon get bounced if they didn't do s
full day. As it is they make as much
as any of 'em."
All the Time.
Mr. .Tales was talking to his oldest
daughter about a visitor who was at
their house.
"How long will he remain?" the
young lady asked.
"I guess he will stay here all the
time."
"Good heavens, we don't want
him f*
"But he told me he was going to
stay."
"Did ho positively aay so?"
"Well, not exactly, but he said he'd
remain until your mother got in good
humor, and If he really meant what he
said, I guess we might as well prepare
for a permanent boarder. At least,
daughter, that has been my experience
for the thirty-five years I've been r*.
malning."