LADIES' DEPARTMENT. , Woman. Honored bo woman! She beams on tho Graceful und lair, like n Ik-liir ol light; Scatters nronml her, wherever she strays, ltoaea ol hling o'er onr thorn-covered way.; Hoses of I'lirnilise; sent from nlxive, | To bo guthorcil and twined jn a gnrlainl of Love. — Schiller, A l|itce,i Kmnl of Children. The queen of Italy is very fond of Children, and seldom takes a walk without stopping to chat with one or two of iter youthful subjects, especially little girls. In former days she would ask a protege: "Anil what is your father, my dear?" Hut since tho haughty reply of a mite of seven— "My father is a republican!"—her majesty studiously avoids the question. Some months ago site asked a little girl to knit her a pair of silk stockings as a birthday gift, and gave her twenty lire to buy tho material. The queen forgot the circumstance till her birth day came, when she was reminded of It by the arrival of a pair of well-knit 'stockings and the maker's best wishes. Not to be outdone, Queen Margherita sent a pair to her young friend as a ,return gift, ono stocking being full of and tho other off bon-bons. wJThey were accompanied by a little note: "Tell me, mv dear, which you liked best." A reply reached the pal ace next day : "Dearest Queen —Hoth the stockings have made me shed many bitter tears. l'apa took the one with the money, and my brother the other." Women. Tiie matrons of high fashion and the swell damsels of the Thlinket tribe, says an Alaska letter, never make a canoe voyage with' ut smearing them selves well with the black dye that they get from a certain wild root in the woods, or with a paste of soot anil Seal oil. <>n sunny and windy days on shore they protect themselves from tan and sunburn by this same inky coating- On feast days and the great occasions, when they wash off the Mack, their Complexions come out as fair and Creamy white as the palest of their Japanese cousins across the water, and the women are then seen to be stne six shades lighter than the tan-colored and coffee-colored lords of their tribe- The specimen woman at Juneau wore a thin calico dress and a thick blue blanket. Her feet were bare, but she was compensated for that l"-ss of gear by the turkey re 1 parasol that she poised over her lead with all the com- Jilacencyof a Mount ivs. ret belle. She had Marked her face to the edge of her eyelids and the roots of her hair ; she wore the full parure of silver nose ring. lf ring and ear-rings, w it it fifteen ornanx nting her bronze fingers, and a more thoroughly proud and olf satisfied creature never arrayed herself according to the behests of high fash ion. Ktilni rtnten Fashion renounces gay striped hos liery. Silver spider pins are now placed rn the toes of slippers. Slippers for children are the same shade as their stockings. Laces are the standard trimmings for India-mulls and lawns. Very deep lace flounces cover entire fronts of evening dresses-. Fancy muslins are prettily made up with colored silks and laces. China silk with printed colored (low ers, leaves or spots, is fashionable. Sleeves exclusively of lace prove an attractive feature iu many dresses. Currant red and Spanish yellow totnbine w-ell in bonnets and dresses. Large, round chenille embossed waf ers on light fabrics give them a rich look. k China-crepes in all the light shades n considerably used for corsages and ■ta fancy with French dress-mak- Hit the bottom of the skirt into Pricks, and under these to pi tee jpWtcd ruble. The fashions of the day vary, so that almost any dress is fashionable if it fits well, ha* tight sleeves, and drapes back quite tightly. Black vplvet collars, with very deep white lace around the edges andjaliot* down the front, make a stylish finish for light-colored dresses. Collarette* of lace take the form of high ruffs or a row of lace turned , down over a ribbon passing around the neck, finished with two jabots side by aide, giving a square effect Little girls of froin four to eight frequently wear the Louis XV jacket iritb large re vers forming a collar, ami jecftrt* in the same style. Under the ffiose waistcoat Is worn a pleated skirt. The gauntlet glove is coming into I fashion for morning use in quiet gray, I tan and wood shade*. They nre made I In four different lengths, and thelong- I f*t cuffs reach nearly to the elbows. Bronze-colored shoes and stockings to match are a late English fashion with full-dress toilets. "Walking shoes have the uppers ot light drab kid or cloth, or are checked or striped like the dress. The l'aris correspondent of Jlurpi-i's Btuar says that the hair is worn high er and higher, and that all the coils and bows of hair, as well an the flowers or ribbons used to trim it, nre absolute ly on the top of the head. The vestal robe of white nuns' veil ing is a novel princess dress, with shoulder-pleats that are girdled around the waist and spread out in curves from the hips to the foot. The belt is of dark velvet, fastened by a white silver buckle. Two new styles of lace have recently been introduced, the one being needle run Pliant illy, to be used in combina tion with jet embroidery, the other a lace with velvet flowers and buds aje pliqucd, and outlined with colored beads. The long laco scarfs, that are no longer worn as such, are prettily used after this style : 1 >rawn close down the front of the waist, carried off" on each | side to form punicrs, finished with loops and ends of velvet in the back ; (lowers at the neck and waist where divided for thepaniers are a decidedly pretty finish. The Fsc of Sail. We have received from a corres pondent a letter making some inquiries into the use of salt, and we are given to understand that among other follies I of the day some indiscreet persons are | objecting to the use of salt, and pro. ! pose to do without it. Nothing could Ibe more absurd. Common salt is the | most widely distributed substance in the Iwdy; it exists in every fluid and in every solid; and not only is every- I where present, but in almost every part it constitutes the largest portion of the ash wlu-n any tissue is burnt. In particular it is a constant constitu ent of the blood, and it maintains in it I a proportion that is almost wholly in dependent of the quantity that is con sumed with the food. The blood will take up so much and no more, bow ever much we may take with our food; and, on the other hand, if none b< given, the blood parts with its natural I quantity slowly and unwillingly, 1 ml-r ordinary circumstances a healthy man los s ■ tally about twelve grains by one channel r the other, and if he is to maintain his health that quantity is to Is- introduced- Common salt is of immense Impor tance in the processes ministering to the nutrition of the l-My, f..r not only is it the chief salt in tin- ga-tric juice, and essential for the formation of bile, and may hence be reasonably regard'-1 as of high value in digestion, but it is an iuqiortarit agent in promoting the proeesses of difTus.on and therefore <>f i absorption. Direct ex|>eriment has shown that it pr aiiotcs the dc (imposi tion of albumen in the lmdy, acting probably by increasing the activity of t the transmission of fluids from cell to cell. Nothing can demonstrate its value better than the fnct that if albu ' men without salt is introduced into the Intestines of an animal no portion j of it is absorbed, while it ali quickly disappears if salt be added. If any ! further evidence were required it could le found in the powerful instinct which Impels animals to obtain salt. Buffaloes w ill travel for miles to reach a •salt-lick;" and the value of salt in | improving the nutrition and a-qx-ct of horses and cattle is well known to j every farmer. The conclusion therefore is obvious I that sal', being wholesome, and indeed necessary, should be taken in moderate quantities, and that attention from it is likely to be injurious.— London Laif ret. What ('heap Postage lias Done. Fenny postage has worked wonders in England. In 1839, the year when it was adopted, 76,9fH),000 letters pass ed through the postoflice. Tho next ! year thenumlier bounded up to nearly 169,000,000, and has ever since increas ed rapidly. La>t year the number of letters delivered in the United King dom was no less than 1,280,1>36,200. In i addition to the letters there were 144,- 016,200 postal cards, 140,682,600 news papers, and 2*8,209,400 l*ok packets and circulars. The average number of letters per head of the |x>pul,ition is larger than in nny country of tho con tinent, and considerably higher even than the average In the United Mates. Tho average number of letters per head of the population in the United Kingdom is 36, and In the United States, 21. The highest averages on ttie continent are in France and Ger many, 15 and 13 resjiectlvely. In Eng land and Wales together tho average reaches as high as -10; in Scotland 30, and In Ireland 16. Women visitor* to the Yosemlte have to ride a* men da t'LUTINUS FOR THE CURIOUS. Monkeys follow leopards on their way through the forest, shaking branches at them, chattering loudly, and oven making faces at tlu-in. A lady on Staten Island who "col lects" them writes to a New York newspaper that it takes exactly forty sparrows to make a presentable pie. Tho tumble-weed derives its name from the circumstance that when ripe ( the wind tears it by the roots and , sends it over tho fields rolling hither and thither, so that its seed is soon thrashed out. It is sometimes seen piled fence high on the prairie farms. According to tho census the army .of Man appear* to consist of thirty-one officers (effective and retired) and twenty-three non-commissioned officers and men. Militia, yeomanry and volunteers include four individuals, while there are thirty-ono army pen sioners. A "canina" recently exhibited In London, is an instrument called musi cal by courtesy, and producing its tones by dogs who sit in a box and growl or howl or bark, as 'tis their nature to, when struck on the head by a wire connected with a key manipu lated bv a player. Different tribes of Indians use dif ferent sorts of |Miisoii f'T their arrow points. The t'omanches use the juice of the Spanish bayonet; the Apaches bruise the heads of rattb -nukes with bits of (leer liver, allow it to putrefy and dip their arrows in it. The Moquii irritates a rattb-snake until lie bites himself, and moisten tin ir darts in the ■ blood, l'oisons made from the stings 1 of bees and from ants an- used by ; other tribes. The following curious sign is kept before the eyes of the public at the f'sit of a steamboat landing in Fort land. Mi-.: "Nopasses given to tramps l Do not take the trouble to it-k for tlu-in. In those days were no passes given. Search the Scriptures. Thou 1 shalt n"t puss. Xuinb., xx., 1-. Suffer not a man to pa-s. Judges, iii., 2-. The wicked shall no more pa - Nohum, i.. 15. None shall paw.— Isaiah, xxxlv., F>. This gem r iti n shall riot j a.-s.— Mark, xiii., 3", Though they roar yet (.in they not pass. Jeremiah, v., 22. Si he paid the fare thcrisif and went. -Jonah, i., ! :J " Great men. whose lives are spent in the study of e. lor, will n-t paint a flower' Anything but that a furred mantle, a jeweled zone, a sllk-n gown, a brazen corslet, nay, an old leather chair, or a wall-paper if you will, with utmost 'are and delight; but a flower by no manner of means, if avoidable. Titian, hi his early w..rk. sometimes earrie a blossom or two out with affection, as the columbines incur Baiehusand Ariadne. In bis portrait of I.avini.i, the r ses nre pi-l touched finely enough to fill their place, with the most siiMmsl risl JKfs s ible; while in a la'-r portrait of the -ame there are n<> roses at all, 1 it a belt of ehased, golden balls, on every stud of which Titian has concentrated his strength, and. it is b lien 1. f..rgot the face a little. s-> mm-h has the mind ( been set on the g-Men belt, liwkiiu Mhnt They Believed Centuries \go. Most of the writers of the middle ages Ix-licvc l that cinnamon, ginger, cloves and nutmegs were the produce of the same tree; that the bay, the lig tree, eagles and seal-skin afford protec tion from lightning; and that the use of bitter almonds is an effectual guard against intoxication. Two fallacies are attached to the herb basil. Halle rins declared that it propagated scorpi i ons, while Drihasius, on the other hand, i asserted that it was an antidote t > the sting of these inserts. | Ono gnat authority, quoted by Browne, states that an Ivy has the property of separating wine from wa ter, the former soaking through, hut the latter remaining. Sir Thomas se riously tried the experiment, hut in vain, whereupon a hostile critic ascnle : ed the failure to the "weakness of our racked wines." Another sage w rote that cucumbers have the power of killing by their nat ural cold; and yet another states that no snakes can endure the shade of an ash tree. I'ost-Ofllre in a Ke. The simplest post-office In the world is in the Magellan Straits, and lias lieen established there for many years. It consists of a small cask, which Is chained to tho rocks of tho extreme cape In the straits, opposite Terra Del Fuego. Each passing ship sends a Mint to open tho c ask and tako letters out and place others In it The post oflice Is self-acting, therefore; It is under tho protection of All the navies of all nations, and up to tho present time there is not a single case to ro Girt In which any abuse of tho privt go it affords lias taken place. THE CAPE ANN FIBIIEKMAN. | lII* Adrrnifirou* Trilt li i>nimra nml I'roflt* - I Imrnrlrrlallt of tlir Men- A Gloucester, Mass., letter to the New York Kruntn;/ l'oxt, suys: "The more one studies the Cape Ann fisher man, the greater becomes Ids respect for him. lleally the courage, energy and fortitude displayed in the found ing and building of a flourishing city, j among these sterile crags, is most ad , mirahle. Fishermen havo reared it j from the beginning. The fourteen j men who may be said to have founded the town in Ibii'J, were fisherinen, part of tlio crew of a vessel despatched to i this coast for a fare, by a llshing com -1 pany in England, and left here with the design of founding a lishingstation | and depot of supplies; and since then the prosecution of the fisheries has j been the only inducement for men to settle or remain here. The town has j literally grown up through and in spite 1 of disaster; every year Neptune has titled its population, and every year ! the gap has been lilbsl, and the town given a sturdier and more tenacious hold on life. From lists kept in the toun.it appears that between l*'i", and April, 1' — J, 2,Til men, in I't- ves sels, were swallowed up in the goa. Of the thousands lost before the date, no record ha* la-en kept; they are as utter ly forgotten as though they had never Wen. Singularly enough, the most terrible gales, involving wholesale destruction of life have been of comparatively re centdate. Tin- February gale of l-02, swept down on "George's" from the northwest with terrible force; thirteen of the seventy sail there at anchor, were sent to tin* lttoin with th-ir crews, two were abandoned, the crews being rescued, and of the remainder not one esraped unharmed, ail losing anchors, looms, masts, or being badly stove as searecjy to ! able t > make port. In a few hours 1J men .were overwhelmed, lea\ ing behind ,n th< home ]>rt, seventh widow-, and I'o father!'■ - children. The reader can imagine the scenes present"!, be yond all j-ower of description, when the battered remnant of t!,. fleet < imc weeping into port, bearing mw s • t! • disaster. In the northeaster of March Ifour v ••--•!*. with fifty-seven im n vvi re lost The gale of F hru .ry "J" and 21. 1-7:'. was them<<-t p >rt during the last ten years, oni would conclude that the hardy tilers must S'H.n la-come wealthy. For a long time the largest "sto- k" ever made in a season by a banker, was that of the schooner. I lac -r. in 1 *'>'•. lb-r cat h brought s22,"'*'. William Thompson who was "high linos" that year, re • eiving #l. !is f, r his ea.>n's work- The schcs ner Mary ('an*h, in I*7l, after an absence of thirty-four days, brought in .'".',",.1 p .unds of halibut t>,'.i jHiunds of codfish. rutting $l.- 7:-.71, the crew sharing $2 I".21 each. | ('apt. ItenjamlQ Ilines, however, cclipseil Isith by arriving in Ortolwr, with .120.H01 jiMtinds of i sliisli and l.ti'"t pounds Ih-tehcd halibut. These voyages might ho often dupli cated; but it must )>e rememliered that in too many eases the fisherman toils for weeks and gets nothing. In the fresh halibut fisheries, 11.500 to $2,000 is considered a gloarc rare. A Grand Hanker averages ataut nine trips a year, and the trips vary from 1 $B,OOO to $17,000. As showing the uncertain nature of their occupation, ] the fishermen tell the story of Mr. Tnlwr, who launched his dory one day, pulled out to the fishing grounds, took 2,114 pound* of codfish, and pull ed ashore, having spent but three hours on the trip, in contrast with that of Mr. Woodbury, who [hauled three tulm of trawls, comprising 1,500 hooka, and secured five poinds of fish; and ; with that of a neighbor, who hauled six lubsof trawls, and failed to secure even a dogfish. It is owing, |ierlin|is, j to this system of "shares," that wealth is so evenly distributed in the town. One sees in his walks few pretentious mansions, but many neat and comfort able homes. The native American goes no longer to the fishing tanks, preferlng to re main at home, fit out, handle the products, and transact other necessary business of the city. His place is sup plied by men of the provinces, and by . waifs and strays from all nations. There is quite a colony of Portuguese, chiefly from the western Islands, who occupy a quarter by themselves, and are worthy and industrious citizens. There are Irish, Swedes, Norwegians, and Danes, hut exceeding all others, the Itluenoses, from the maratime ' provinces of the Dominion. These men are horn fishermen, reared to that occupation in lack of any other. Nat urally shrewd, the swift, staunch well appointed vessds of Yankee skippers, and their improved methods of fishing, i earlv attracted their attention, and led to their shipping on them w hen oppor j tuiiity occurred. There has been for ' years a steady stream of these hardy fellows flowing into port. They make j excellent fisherinen; many of them, ris ing to he skippers, marry here, settle down, and add much to the town's prosperity. There are others, again, to vvh am More of romance attaches im-n of birth and education from Eng land and the Cuntim-nt, whom some youthful error had driven into exile, others seem to have adopted the lmsi iie-s because of its danger and adven ture. A volume might be made of the tale - told in the town of men <>f this character, who are now, or have been forecastle men on the cod and macker el cat' hers." The tlordilp of Cholera. In lower bengal. Dr. Macnamara, a gr- at authority, whose "History of A-untie < l.- b-ra" is a text-tank on the subji ■ t an i a v-ry confused te\t-l>k it is- says that the natives have for a for a long time past worshipped the Goddess of ' hob-ra as the " bring offerings. The idol was at "tie period j -ductiveof a large income to the pric-tly family info whose p"s -m-don it had | a-vol. but latterly tlic in- oiuc has or.lv amounted to between and i. Pi a year. Originally the home of the i- ut 172" an English lner rbant. to give ph-a-ure to bis native friends, t mlt a temple for it. This l-r ming inconveniently situated thirty years lat* r, Mr. Duncan, who inarr.' i a Mahomm "The old rudest n<- was transferred to the new temple, and a somewhat elaborate idol constructed. It represents in the centre a carcass, with a vulture prey* ing upon it. I'j'on the back of the vulture tin g*ld( with folded hands, is represented in a sitting posture, 'in her right is Munch.i. the goddess of serpents; next t<> her is Shiva, the destroying principle. Next comes a female in a suppliant po-ture, and a male afflicted with the disease; the female is supposed to !>e praying to Shiva for the recovery of her husband. ' In the left <>f the goddess are the idols of >heetola, the goddess of suiall|K)X, and of Miusthee, the goddess presiding over infants and children." Hangman's Day. The origin of the custom of execut ing criminals on Friday, now fast going out of vogue, is not certainly know n. Hy s<>mo it is said to have originated in the fact that Friday was early considered an unlucky day, ('handlers says: "Some |*>rtion of its maleficent character is protably due to , the character of the Scandinavian Ve nus Frega. wife of Odin, the goddess of fecundity. Hut we are met, on the other hand, hy the fact that among the Hrahmina of India a like suporsti. tious aversion of Friday exists" The popular aversion to the day may have lieen the reason for its taing selected as the day upon which executions should take place. Others say thccus torn originated from the fact thnt the Savior was crucified on that day. hut it is a little difficult to see why that event occurring on Friday should cause it to be selected as a hangman's day generally. SCIENTIFIC HCRAPN. Electricity ban U-cn successfully ap plied as a motive powe to omnibuses in I'aris. f'otton manufactured Into duck Is being successfully introduced as a j roofing material. Aside from its cheapness it jiossesseH the advantage of lightness as compare] with Mdngb-s or slate; it effectually excludes from water, and it is said to be a non-con ductor of beat. lJrobme's experiments seem to show that in the plant there are two opera tions taking j dace—making sugar from carbonic a'id and the eonvcrtion of the same sugar into starch. sir Henry Thompson, the London surgeon, rec<>gniz-s ir: fish a con ihi na tion of all the elements of fifxl that the human body requires in almost ev ery phase of life, more csje-cially by those who follow sedentary employ ment. To women be considers lis.li to be an invaluable article of diet, but ho scouts as a compete fallacy tli" notion that fish-eat ng increases the brain power. "The only action fish had on the brain was to put a man's b *ly Into proper relations with the work he had to do." I'rofessor >ir W. Thompson, in his new treatise n natural philosophy, is i< 1 by a consideration of the n<-cessary order of ceiling and consolidation of the earth to infer that tlie interior ot our world is not, as commonly suppos ed, all liquid, with a thin solid crust of fr mi 'V) to I 1*! miles thick,but that it is on the whole more rigid than a continuous solid globe of glass of the same diameter, and probably more rigid than such a globe of steel. Edward Ilrornhy, n young I'hiladel pi ia ma hini-t, a: • rts that lie has dis covered a new mechanical law, the aj plica!!' :i of which wiil enable him to imr-a—hundred-fold the pjwerof any machine, fr m a clock t> a steam ship. without u-mg an ounce more f .11 than u .al, or driving the native I iw er anv f.ister than ordinarily. The liscoverj consists in combining the action of the s rew, the inclined plane and em other f- rm which, like Mr. Keca y, li refill- sto It• n!. Ci. Arati Courage. The i urage of the Ib-louin is one of their mo-t lauded virtues, but one whi h within the present century has nt been r 100 sly vindie-itcd. I have s to the following effect: "We 1 ravelv attacked the ene tr.v, which made it- appearance in a force of one to our ten. We t<><>k several prisoner*, and the enemy bwt l-avily, two horsi-s and several cows wing slain. At b-ngtli liis remaining forci withdrew, and we found our casualties t . include one mare hurt in the b-g bv a spear. We cut off the f re fingi ri of our j ri-oner- in remem brance of those of our trils? whose bear-Is and hair had been burned di. rerted to the healing of the breach thus caused, and to the settlement of Mood money. 'When a disagreement occurs lietween two tribes, they will gather their spearmen, concentrate their encampments, anil square up. so to speak, toward each other, but they generally contrive, lefore matters come to an open breach, to find a third party willing to mediate, and a com promise is established, to the great re lief of the lvold warriors on either sid<\ i —Magazine. K Tramp's Siesta. A woman who had been swinging In a hammock in a yard on Cass ave nue recently, had no sooner vacated it in answer to a call from the house, than a ragged old tramp w ho had ln leaning over the fence walked inside 'and coolly planted himself in the ham mock for a siesta. In alwut five min utes the woman reapjearod, and see ing at a glance how matters stood, she brought out a sharp knife, walked straight up to the fellow, and before he could chuckle twice, she cut the. head rope. He came down on his head with a thump, toppled over at full length, and slowly scrambled up and walked off. Xot a word was said un til he was outside the gate. Thea ho turned and called out: "Mayl>e you'd like my photograph just as I keeled out of that old fish-net, but you won't get it- not by a jug full!"—Fret I'rtss. i