LADIES' DEPARTMENT. A Combination l>ralre>f last season. The fancy of tho moment is to tuck the front of the bodice In the form of a square yoke. 1 lady's cloth costumes as popular, and almost as costly, as those of velvet. All drapery, both at the front and back of the coming costume, is exceed. I ingly bouffant. Many new buttons glitter like Jewels, being made of colored pearl | and colored metal. The blouse-Jackets Bnd baby-waists remain in favor; the latter lieing neat, simple and attractive. Astrakhan plush and beaver in its color are tho preferred trim- for winter wraps. Fancy aprons are mado of all *#ts ■ materials, lace, velvet, silk, satin and fancy gauzes. New brocades In velvet have in- I P dented brocaded figures of brilliant colora on a somber ground. Winter cloaks will be very long I high on the shoulders, fitting close, and with small ottoman sleeves. Surplice folds and pointed waists will 1m worn even in the thickest fabrics, such as cloth and velvet. Strings are used a little wider hut not as long as formerly. Velvet faced with satin has the preference. Popular dress trimmings are velvet in the piece, velvet ribbon, applique em broidery, braids and galloons. A strikingly military effect appears in the new plain coat, rolling collar and cuffs and largo metal buttons. Twine netting is becoming fashion able, not only for tidies but dresses. The netting is made to admit of rib. bon being run through it, and the effect is happy. Dates Worth Remembering. Plays were first acted at Homo twen ty-three years 11. Horso shoes of iron were first made A. I. -18. Stirrups not made until a century later. Saddles came into use in the fourth century. Pens first made of quills, A. D. ♦585. < Jlass windows were first used in ; 1180. I.inen first made in England, 1285. Chimneys first put to houses, 1236. Lead pijies first used for conducting water, 1252. Tallow candles used for light, 1290. Paper first made from linen, 13<>2. Woolen cloth made in England, Fill. Introduction of the art of printing in nil, 1 120. Printing invented at Meiz by Hut. tenburg, 1150. Printing first introduced into Kng land, 1471. ( Watches first mado in (Jerinanv, 1477. " ~ Movable types used in printing, 1510. Telescope invented by Porta and • | .lansen, 1590. .lupiter's satellites discovered by I .lansen, 1590. j Tea tirst brought to Kurope from China, lflMl. Theatre erected in Kngland by Shakespeare, Ifio:!. i ! 1 Clocks lir-t mad in I'ngiand, 1 6AB. Thermometer invented by Sanctori* ous. 1012. Circulation of the blood discovered . by Harvev, 1019. Coffee first brought to Kngland.lo2l. } Wine made from grapes, 1095. Rricks first made of a moderate size. | 1625. Printing in colors invented, 1026. I Newspapers first established, 1029. Shoe hm kles made. 1080. I Pendulum chick invented, 1 630. Sugar cane cultivated in the West j Indies, 10 n. l'.arometer invented bv Toiticelli j 10.8. \ ariations in the mariner's compass first noticed. 1 'l5O. I tread first made with yeast, 1650. , Ktro engines invented, 1742. Steam engines invented. 1749. Steam engines improved by Watts, j 1750. Cotton fir-t cultivated in the Fnited States, 1759. Animal magnetism discovered by Mesmcr. 17-8. Daguerreotypes made by Daguerrc . in France, 1839. Telegraph invenbsl by Morse, 1-12. First trans-Atlantic telegraph cable ( laid. 1858. Commencement of war in the I'nit cd States first gun at Fort Sumter. 1801. Centennial celebrated at Philadel phia, 1870. The electric light chiefly developed j by Edison and others, 1870 1877. The telephone Invented by Hell came into use, 1878. The Brooklyn bridge opened for traffic, 1883. Life in San Francisco. The people of this city, like those of Paris, live largely at restaurants, says a San Francisco letter. The number i and variety of eating houses are re markable. They are on every street, ; and of all grades and finish. The pro prietor of one of the largest told me they were furnishing from 4000 to 4500 meals per clay. I know of no American city where one can live so cheaply so far as eating is concerned as here. Housekeeping is more ex pensive thnn in tho east, as rents are very high. But restaurant living is reduced to the lowest possible cost. The result is that hundreds of couples, together with much of the single ele ment, hire rooms and then take their meals at an eating-house. At the "Poodle-Dog," a dining-room patron ized by wealthy people and those who desire to lie numbered among the "tony" ones, it Is very easy to run a dinner up to $2 or $3, but at most of the first-class restaurants a good dinner can be had for from two to four bits,fa lilt Is five cents) according to the vari ety of dishes desired. A lady told me her breakfast usually cost her five cents. Outli Taking In India. Many of the most vivid of my recol lections of my boyhood relate to the trials of prisoners. I remember I used to watch with rapt interest tho administering of oaths. Some of the methods were very remarkable, and I was always eager to see tho various witnesses sworn. Tho Christian, whether Protestant, Boman Catholic or Armenian, would, of course, kiss the Testam nt. But there was the Mohammedan, sworn by the usual in vocation of itismilab, or Haliman, cr Itahinc-en ("In the name of Hod, the Compassionate, the Merciful!"), with the sacred Koran, wrapped in cloth, placed by tho attending moollah (mosque official) in hisextended palms; the Hindu, by fixing his ryes on some water in a small brass vessel placed in a like manner by his guru (family priest), containing water which did duty as Hanga-pnni (water of the Hanges), inasmuch as some muntras (prayers) bad been pronounced over it by a Brahmin; and the Chinaman, who was sworn by burning at a taper a narrow slip of paper on which were written "characters" containing, as 1 understood, an appeal to bis deo-a-i-d ancestors. I have the impression that the Parsec w hen dealing with Parsees, also swears by fire, but in a llriti-h court be is put upon bis oath by kiss* ing the y.end-A vesta, bis sacred l>ook. I am not sure, but 1 believe that 1 am right in s;ying that I also occasionally saw a man put on his oath, as is done among the bill tribes of India, by crush ing in his hand a leaf fr-.in a tree sacred as the dwelling place-, among its branches <>f sylvan die-ties, who are thus invited to crush lnm and those belonging to him should be- sp. ah any thing bu: the truth. The—c- re-minis* ecnees belong tothe- -tr.i t of Malacca, but there* i- now throughout India proper, one establishes) form of legal path. This arrangement is ha-esl on tin-a .timed fact that in ill it- r>-* ligions there-i-a re. ognition of ,i-n. preuie dietv. With the more- intelli gent Hindu- it is well know n that the multitudinous divinities acknowledged are really but various forms of tlu- one and only eji-l lara • r De-va. The oath differs, however, in th<- form of Ms commencing nttestation. AH j• r- S 'ns profe -sing Christianity, whether native or foreigners, "swear," while others 'Solemnly affirm." The following is the oath: "I swear (solemnly affirm). in the presence of Almighty Hod, that the evidence I shall give in tins ease shall be true; that I w ill n>. i! nothing, and that no part of my e viib nee shall be false." This is re-garde i a. more explicit and complete* than the- ordinary form in our l.ngh-h < eiirt-. and a- sj <. i.-illy meeting tlo- part • ul.tr elire-ctions in which e astern witne IS e scape- fream tlie- obligatle.ns to lee truthful ; I' it I believe the gene ral impression among English eilli. ials i- that the- ei.'itllas such has only in tbeeao-ot a-mall minority any jeower in insuring true- evidence Farragtit's Self-t'onepiest. Admiral I'arragut's own story of his ne-lf ronque--t is exceedingly inter" -t. ing. "When I was aleout ten years old," he says, -*I accompanied my father as < abin leeey t• New Orleans, with ttie- little- navy we then had, to ' look afte-r the* treason f Aaron Hurr j I bail seime epialitie s which I thought made a man eif me. I could swear like- an old saih>r. I conlel drink as stiff a glass e.f grog as if I hnel sailesl round c.ijh- Horn, ami could smoke j like a locoimit i ve. I was great a' cards, and feinel e.f gambling in every j sha|>e." Afte-r elinner one- elav the father turned eve-ryleody out of the cabin lockeel the eloor, anel saiel; "David what elo you mean t<> lie?" "I mean to follow the sea," WBj David's reply. "Follow the sea"' exclaimed the father. "Yes, be a poor, miserable drunken sailor before the mast, kicked and ctiffeel about the world, and elie in some fever hospital in a feere-ign land." Young Farragul was sobered. After a moment's reflection be said: "No. I'll tread the quarter deck, nnd command, as you elo." "No. David, my boy; no lnty ever tread the quarter dork with such prin eiples anil habits as you have. You'lj have to e - hange your whole course of life If you ever liecomc a man." "My father left me and went on deck," said the great Admiral Farra gut in after years, as he tolel tho story "I was stunned by tho rebuke, and overwhelmed with shame. A poor, miserable, drunken sailor before tho mast! kicked anel cuffed about tho world, and to die In some fever hospi tall That's my fate, is it? I'll change my life, and change it at once I will never utter another oath; 1 will never drink another drop of Intoxicating liquor; I will never gnmhlo; and, as Clod Is my witness, I have kept thes* three resolutions to this hour.' RCIK!*TIPIC Mt'ltAPH. An Indianapolis inventor is trying to perfect an electrical headlight for liM'onioti ven. A new rille, eapahle of discharging three projectiles at a time, lias been made in France. Some (ierinaii chemist is at work on a substance which he claims will su persede giitta-purcha. From experiments at Caracas, Ven ezuela, M. Mari ano concludes that the sap of tropical vegetation circulate* completely through the plants within a period of twenty-four hours. A shark of the genus Sycmnus ls> according to Weidcmann, phosphores cent on its whole under surface, with the exception of a hlack stripe on the neck. Its hack is non-luminous. j A curious fact has been observed ! by Profs. Ayrton and Perry: Soft iron | when heated between a red and white | heat ceases to be attracted by a mag net. When soft iron is bent between | red arid white ln>t iron it ceases to ! he attra< ten<<-ware t,, j'leeiw and render tbein unfitted for any employment as utensils. In a paper read before the Academy of Sci ences, Paris. M. L. IVyrusson demon" -t rated very cl<-arly how the germs of cholera, ty| lend fever, and similar dis eases may be pn-served and cominuni" ' rated by even the slightest crack or ' -sure which may le cau-i-d by verv trilling aci .dents to crockery and faience. -——-—————— linking a Pottage. ••I Ismght a cottage over there, en l '!'," rcmarkisl .lay Oouki, as we sighted a duster of toy villas close to the shore. "It was of the (pu-en Anne unit r, furnished. even to the cricket on the hearth, the builder who sold it to . me asserted. The plumbing was es pecially perfect. It had, in addition, all the modern imj r viicrit-. hot and cold water, gas. stable-.graveled walks and the green grass kept growing all around by a movable fountain, where a tine rainbow playel, for two cents , an hour, 1 think. The lawyers said ' the title was perfect. The deeds were p:ie-il I pay them? Well, yes somelxxly hal to. Hut 1 drew the line i on the movable fountain. 1 said they could move that back to the store. I . avid I didn't like its shape; 1 want is] a | different make in fountain*. No the sheriff took it awav. And that is one j reason, I suppose," the master conclud ed, musingly, "why my green grass all got gray and died in tho next two j days." BUFFALO HILL'S DUEL. Th oul'a |lt|ool> F.nrintr will* nn I itllaii I hlef. One of Jllll's comrades tells this Tory of the noted scout's duel with an Indian chief: "it was just after the massacre of Custer," he saiil "Bill was with fjen. Miles at the head of tho scouts. They were trying to cut ofT Yellow Hand from hitting Bull. Farly in the morning Yellow Hand rode up at the head of a war party, and chal lenged Bill to an open combat. (Jen. , Miles and others tried to dissuade Bill from accepting the challenge. He replied that a refusal to accept it would ruin his prestige among the savages, and that was something he could not afford to lose. He told Yellow Hand that he would fight him. The two armies were ranged less than a mile apart. Nix mounted scouts accom panied Bill, and six mounted Brule Sioux rode forward with Yellow Hand. They were to open the fight on horse" back with rilli-s. Their escorts drew aside, and the combatants dashed for ward. Yellow Hand began to spin around Bill in a circle, and Bill began to circulate on a circle himself. Around and around they went like swallow ; in j the air. Both white mm and savages : were eager spectators. Kach comba tant had his leg over his horse's fore shoulder, and cadi w as swinging head : downward, awaiting an opportunity j for a fat;d shot. They fired so close together that it sounded like the crack of one rille. in a twinkling both lmrses were biting the dust. Bill waA as sprv as a cat. He was on his feet before his horse struck the ground ellow Hand was partly pinned to the earth by tin weight of his pony. The two men Were not over seventy feet apart. Before the chief could extrL • ate himself, BiU had shot him through the lsxly. It was, however, a llesh woiirnL Yellow Hand gained his feet, drew his si alpirig-knife, ind went fo r Bill like a dene n. The Indians were yelling like hyenas, an ! Miles' t r< opers w ere rending the air with their shouts. ellow Hand's knife went through . Bill's hunting—hirt. barely scraping the hide. There was a quick strug gle, MUSIC lain .rod breathing and grit ting of teeth, and Bill's kiuf.- slid between the chief's ril*, and pierced his heart. lief. 11 Lf. lcss on the plain. In a second Bill encircled his. topknot*, and yanked the scalp from his head. With fiendish screams the Indians poured down "O him. But old Miles* troopers were there on time, and there was as lively an Indian fight as was evi r se-n in the Big Horn country. Yellow Hand lost his scalp as well as his life, and his soul never reached the happy hunting-gi' iiMl." The Jnmho of < rickets. Throughout the whole territory of I tah the < ricket is one of the common objects of the country, but there are cricket-and crickets, and it is just a well when in March of the best article to "sec that you get it." For a con sideration. therefore, I.will put the spei ulator on the track of some of the grossest locusts that over devoured green stuff—locusts, moreover, that squeak when pursues!. Foots (Ainerl ran JKMUS especially) are very partia I to what they are pleased to call the | cricket's merry chirp. But the poet's cricket is the* insect of the domestic hearth, a pale-coloml ghost of a thing all voice, and with an irregular mid night appetite for the kitchen cloths that arc hung out to dry lcfore the : stove. The I'nites" cricket is very much otherwise. It is the Jumbo of crickets, and just as black. It lives on the slopes of the I'tah hills, among the sage-brush, and when alarmed tries invariably to jump down-bilk But ix-ing all stomach, and therefore top. ' heavy, so to speak, the ill-balanced ' insect Invariably rolls bead over heels, and every time it turns a somersault it squeaks dismally. To walk down the hill side, driving a whole herd of those corpulent crickets l>efore me, used to amuse me immoderately, for the spec, tacle of >o many fat things simultane ously tryingto jump down hill, simul taneously rolling head over heels, and simultaneously squeaking, was inirth ' ful enough to drive the dullest rare away. The American. In the early days of the country, the colonists usisl various designs as an 1 ensign, but usually the regiments of tho colonics carried the flag of thccolo. j ny they represented. June 14, 1777, congress provided that the (lag consist of thirteen stripes, alternately ml and white, with a blue union 1 tearing thirteen white stArs. By the act of , January 13, 179.%, the flag was altered j and made to consist of fifteen stripe* but in 1818 the original number of strip-s were adopted, while the fleld was to contain twenty stars, with one i to be added u|ton the admission of any new state. This la the flag now used as the national ensign. A nnbj'n Death. flm littln hand that never sought Kirtli * worthless all as aanda, I vvimt Kilt h/u ilealli, God a servant brought 'Jim littln hands? j W/!Bli; but love self-silent atanve, that Jewl eyes at/l wing* to thought To •/■arch where death's ditn hearnri ozf/auda. f Kro thb perchance, though love know tungbt, Klowcra fill them, grown in lovelier iai/ds, Where lunula of guiding angel* caught ® 'ilia little bamla. —Hu-tnburnt. lICMOBOUM. J When the head of the family accl -1 dentally ba< ks into a tub of hot water . he can be said to be pa-boiled. lt nitiht not be supposed that the 1 member* of a brass band are all truth ' tellers because they have no lyres. Mary had a littiw hang, J la color wua mit/ieiiM); ) Now Mary's heart i* tnily sad, For bang* aie on the fi-rice. The young men who are on the lookout for a "-.oft place," through dia ■ like for honest, hard work, can find i one —under their hats. 1 A bright girl, born and raised in ! Virginia, saw a church covered with vines, and remarked: "That's what I 1 used to be." "What's that ?" inquired her obtuse escort. "A Virginia creep -1 er, of course." One of th l ' .saddest sights in these hard times is to see a woman with a five-foot husband trying t/> alter his pants to fit her six-foot son. ! "i'a, what is a fool?" "A fool, my Son, is a man who tickles the hind leg of a mule." "Does he ever fin/1 it out, pa?" "So, my son ; he never has time." "'Tis ever the way of the foolish fair to die fur the- one who does not care," sings Klla Wheeler. Ves, hila and it is often the same way with the big brothers of the bullish fair. Week after wez-k they go down to the burlier shop and "dye fur the one that does not care." Such is life. "I tell you," said the bad loy, confi dently, to a group of youthful friends, "my neither may seem small—don't believe she'd weigh more than I do, in her stocking feet— but her slipjxr is heavy, though, you bet!" A bright little girl was sent to get some eggs, and '• her way back stuin bled and fell, making sad havoc with the cunt/ nts of her basket. "Won't you catch it when you get home, ttamigh!" exclaimed h/-r companion. "No, indi-wl, I won't," she answered. "I have got a grandmother." Young lady een duped—prob. ably bv a revengeful rival of the man Whose happineas had been so uncx pecteilly deferred. A more curious and more malignant ■ hoax—for the perpetration of which the author, if discovored, would have been branded with infamy—was prac • ti/sxi, apparently "for the fun of the thing." ujHin a Parisian lady whose husband had gone to China on busi ness. One day she received a letter/ dated from Old China street. Canton. "Madame." said the writer, "I have to announce a mournful event. Your husband, taken prisoner by Malay pirates, has 1/een burned alive and hie bones calcined to j/ow der. 1 have been aide to procure but a few pinches of this powder, which 1 enclose." As she opened the box. a strange Idea came into the head of the distract ed widow; and sending for some snuff the mixed the powder with It, piously determined to Inhale all that remained of her lout spouse. The first pinch, < however, brought on such violent bleeding, that a doctor had to be called | In; but the lady died in a few hours, shortly before the arrival of a letter from her husband, proving that the story of his capture and calcination was the cruel invention of some un known enemy. ' V > si j'V'. ". .A:t . . '■ ■ ' : :i I