L A DIES' DEPARTMENT.
What Mhr na Cant* For
t Mrs. Anandsibui Joehee, the wife of
a Brahmin employe of the govern
ment in India, has coine to America to
study medicine in the Women's Modi"
cal college in Philadelphia. The
women iu the harems are not permit
ted either to soo or to touch a strange
man, and when they arc ill, thore is
nobody of skill to minister to their
wants. Hence the necessity for a
I woman physician. Mrs. Joshee says
that, contrary to conjecture, she does
not become unclean, and lose her high
caste by crossing the sea. Arrange
ments have been made to enable her
to cook her own food, and thus escape
tho penalty of losing caste by eating
from dishes that luive been touched by
persons who are not of her caste. She
Is eighteen years of age.
Howrr- Itooki,
Very many ladies have a habit
while travelling of gathering leaves,
sprays, or single blossoms, small remi*
niscences of pleasant journeys, etc.,
and pressing them in a skotch-liook or
small portfolio, previous to their being
taken home and prettily arranged in
the long winter evenings, when they
awaken pleasant or sad remembrances,
as the ease may be, of days long past
w The dried (lowers, leaves, grasses, moss,
etc., should be arranged on pieces of
cardboard cut the same size, either in
different groups of flowers, or like a
■ graceful frame around a small sketch,
■ with a quotation from a favorite poet
V below. In this case tho single flowers
■ must be gummed on with a rather
I thick liquid gum, which of courso ro-
I quires great care. If kept In a case on
f purpose, the collection will soon form
a pretty album.
The *iMttilah Marriage Ntone.
If Ireland has its Blarney Stone,
which assures to any one kissing it
uncommon eloquence and persuasive
ness—"blarney," i fact, for there is
no other equivalent for tho myste
l rious gift—Spain has her "marriage
1 stone," the virtues of which are equally
I remarkable; for any single person,
I male or female, who absolutely touches
it, is absolutely sure to be married
within a twelvemonth. The stone
■ forms part of the masonry of the c>l-
Bli'ge of Sacra Monte, in Granada.
■ About twelve months ago, two young
ladies paid a visit to the old Moorish
I capital, and were shown over the col-
I lege by one of the resident clergy, who
acted as cicerone, and who treated the
- #*ur„Yi*i<r3 wRh wnusual deference
I and res pet. When they came to the
k "Marriage stone," the padre smilingly
k explained the peculiar powers with
■ which popular superstition credited it.
I "Touch it," said one of the ladies to
I her sister, who laughed incredulously
■ but followed the advice none the h-ss
B —touching the st- no, not once, but
■ twice or thrice. Now the two young
I ladies were the Spanish Infantas I)ona
■ Isabella and Dona I'az, and the latter
I it was who touched the stone. She did
I so on the 3d of April last year, ami
' she was married to I'rincc Louis of
Bavaria on the 2<i of April of the prea
• ont year.— fit. Jnmrn' Utwtte.
k Fmlilnn Xofes,
■ Velvet turbans ar>- fashionable.
Gloves contract with the costume.
1 Quantities of chenille fringe are
:
| lb <1 is a favorite color for children's
res^.'
s mm Hunter'sgreen is a fashionable color
tailor-ina<l<- dnsses.
Little people, boys, mi see**, and
H grown women all wear jersey
The leading sleeve is in the coat
shape, fulled in on the shoulder.
Veils of plain Brussels net are
- fashionable than the dotted
'
The high-looped, very full oversklrt
' the prevailing style for ordinary
Bur,
I Highland kilts for small lioys are
in velvet and plush as <-ll as in
I Turban-shaped hats with the rounded
shqiing Langtry crowns are in
Handkerchief.! wit 1 ,j Kale Grxqn
jiit ay borders are most liked with sv set
Hrhere ir as much variety in milli
v ornaments as there la in shap-s and
Hralsi and grays are favored, seve-
Hteee subdued shades are blended in
Kl and alligator skins are used In
colors, and in dark green
Bnwn shades for bonnets.
broad bamls of bias velvet on
; Bt(itn of skirts with self-trim-
are again in vogue,
preference for black
■till exists, particularly when
low cut shoes are worn.
Largo crinoline, so offensive to
good taste, nood l>e no longer dreaded,
f us its dimensions Are now on tho
wane.
j Soino leading Now York drnss
. makers are trying to introduce the
} straight, unloopod old-fashioned over,
skirt.
s All kinds of hats and bonnets
j largo, small, and medium sizes, and In
r every imaginable shape, aro in
i fashion.
Felt, cloth, velvet, chenille, wool
t braid, leather, kid, cashmere, anil wors
i ted embroidery bonnets are all worn
- or will be worn this winter.
White velvet, white cashmere, shot
* and ilottisl with silver and gold, and
C j whito brocaded stuffs are tho
' \ materials used for white evening bon
' nets.
A new Paris fashion is that of
wearing a small bird fastened on the
left shoulder, and a larger bird of the
same color to loop tho drapery of the
| skirt.
The great variety of subdued and
j brilliant tints in browns, blues, grays
| and greens, leave it at the discretion
! of each wearer to choose for herself
| what will appear to tho best advan
tage.
Velvets aro indispensable, and plain
! ones are specially liked; in fact, all
plain materials lead in millinery this
season, there being very little aje
proach toward fancy styles of any des-
I crlption.
Tipping and Feeing,
The English, or, rather, the conti-
I nental, habit of "tipping" is becoming
one of the habits of this country also.
At large and fashionable hotels and
restaurants it is hard to get served
j properly without feeing the waiter.
Ho and the sleeping-car porter stand at
the heal of the "tipping" profession,
but beneath them aro hotel porters,
messengers, baggage carriers, janitors
and others. The man who resists or
overlooks them has more courage than
Wellington himself. We know a gen
tleman who among his acquaintances
is esteemed a veritable hero for having
given a sleeping-car porter ten cents
l instead of twenty five, claiming that
the ten was all the porter earned by
blacking his boots, and that the sleejv
ing-car company paid the porter for
i making up lasts and attendance.
The system of "tipping" or feeing is
still young in this country; but it will
probably grow, as everything else does,
to enormous dimensions. Tho time j
may come when our farmers will, as
we once knew an English farmer to do,
demand a sixpence for showing an
American gentleman the farmer's own
fat cattle at a cattle-show; and tailor,
will, as we once knew a London tailor
do, charge an American sixpence for
allowing his traveling sack to stand in
his shop an hour or so, even after the
American had bought a suit of clothe®
of him. Indeed, it is said that one
ne.-d scarcely be afraid to offer any
body, no matter what bis appearance,
either in England or on the continent,
a fee in return for service rendered.
Only he must not make a mistake by
handing over a small piece to a social
ly large js-rson.
There cannot, however, lie many
persons of the sort in England concern
ing whom Prosper Merirnee, a French
man, tells tills story; "I gave a half
crown to a black-coated person who
showed me the cathedral, and then
a-ked of him the address of a gentle
man to whom I had a letter from the
dean. He found it was himself to
whom the letter was addressed. We
both looked foolish, but he kept the
money."
The First Confederate killed.
"Do you know," asked ('apt. .lames
K. Crowe, of Pulaski, Tenn., of a Louis.
; ville Conrirr-Jonriuil reporter, "who
was the first soldier killed on tho Con
federate side doxing the war? Well,
j his name was N'ohle Devotee, of Ainer
icu.s, Ga, and his father was a Baptist ,
minister. We were pupils early in
| I*ol at Marion, Al V " n 'l heroically
organized acompany to repel the 'fowl'
invader. Anxious to lo in among the
lirst, the go •'"■ nor or red us to Fort
This was about the 11th of
January <( 1. After trying the hard
realities of poor beef and hard tack a
few days, we appointed a committee of
i one to go home and procure more
palatable commissaries, and young
Devotee happened to be that one.
The very outset of his trip was fatal,
stepping from the shore to the boat he
lost his balanee and was drowned—the
first enlisted Confederate soldier who
lost his Ufa This happened January
20, 1861, and, coining so unexpectedly,
it was quite shocking. We hail not
then seen tho death and desolation of
Richmond, Ferry ville, fhickamauga
and a hundred other terrible fields of
battle."
The corn crop of the United States
is worth about $800,000,000.
PONTAGE NTAMFB.
Ihir ClritOniitolM Dud Ahrawl
■ nil lu til* llulUd Wist**.
The first government to use stamps
for the prepayment of postage was
Great Britain, and, although it was not !
until 1840 that the stamps were used
In that country, they have now become
common, aH many a hoy's stamp-album
will show, in every nation on the globe.
The original stamp of England was in
the form of an envelope for the trans
mission of letters to any part of that
country, at 1 penny for a single-rate
letter. This plan was originated by
Sir Rowland Hill, who has been aptly
termed "the father of postage stamps."
There is, however, another aspirant for
tno honor of inventing the postage
stamp. In Italy, as far back as 1818,
letter sheets wore prepared and stamp"
ed by the government on the lower left
hand corner, and the letters so stamped
were delivered by specially appointed
carriers on the payment of a sum of
money equal to that represented by the
stamp. This stamp represented a
carrier on horseback, and was of three
values. It remained In use In Italy
j until 183b, when its use was dlscontin
| uod. But whether Italy or Great
! Britain originated the postage starnj*
! it is evident that it w.is the movement
| of tho latter country in the use of these j
convenient articles which was the in.
contive that caused their adoption by
tho continental nations of Europe-
England, however, enjoyed the j
monopoly of using stamps for two
years, and has. at the same time, made
I fewer changes in the designs upon her
stamps than any other country In which
they are used. Since 184') the main
design up<>n all British stamps, except
the half-penny, has been the portrait of
the queen, anil ever since that date the
, British stamp has borne the girlish ,
1 form of Victoria forty-three years ago-
While In Great Briton no other
portrait than that of the queen has a|e
poared upon any of the st,uii|s, in this
{country, tho Sandwich islands, the j
i Sjuth American republics, Mexico#
Brazil, and some other countries the
honor of portraiture has ls-en distrile
uted among the various prominent
officials, and the denominations have
been designated by the different
portraits they born, as well as by the
different color of the Ink with which
they were printed. There has ls-en
only one exception to this in this
country, when, in 17)1'.), a it-cent stamp
was issued, the design lteing a train of
cars. It was however, in use only a
; short time, when it was replaced w-th..
' another Waring the Koinan none and
queue bc.longing to our esteemed fellow
citizen, George Washington, and, with
that exception, his classic features
have invariably adorned (he stamp
most in use. The first country to
, follow Great Britain in the use of
stamps was Brazil. In 1-1J Brazi|
adopted a seritr* of thri-e stamps, the
designs ts-ing targe numerals print**]
in bla< k, denoting their value. Brazil
was followed by Switzerland and Fin*
land, and then by the following
countries in the order given: Bavaria,
Belgium, France, Hanover, New >oiith
\Vales,Tus< any, A ustna, British.uiana#
I'russia, saxony, Ohb-nberg, Trinidad#
Wurtemhurg, and the l'nite| Mat**
It may not IM< gratifying to our nation
al pride to know that we did not adopt
the (Mistage stamp until after it had
found a place in New South Wales and
Trinidad, but su h is the rase. FoL
lowing the 1 nite#l States were tho
many other nations in which it is as
common now as it is here. The man
who brought the stamps into use in
this country was the Hon. E. A.
Mitchell, the postmaster at New Haven,
Conn., who adopted it in his office in
I*l7. It did not differ in form and
sir-- much from the stamps now in use
but was of a brown color, and printed
jn black. I'jMin it was printed: "I'aid#
New Haven I'ost office; 5 cents. E. A.
Mitchell, I'. M." The merchants and
biisineas men of New Haven complain
t e-1 at the loss of time occasioned by
their having to wait while they paid
their [>ostage, having to take their
places in the line at the clerk's window,
and also l>eeanse they could only maij
and prepay postage while the |>ost. '
office was open. For their accotn- !
■ ■nidation he had these stamps printed,
which he wild to them, thus enabling
them to mail their letters quickly and
at hours when the office was nosed. — ]
Chicago Neiift.
He Withdrew.
"Aw, can you sell me. awr, a bine
necktie to match my eyes, yon know?" !
inquired an Austin dude in a gentle- ;
man's furnishing store.
"Don't know as I can, exactly," re- j
plied the salesman, "but I think I can
fit you with a soft hat to match your :
head."
Then the dude withdrew from the j
store, a crushed, straw l>erry hue suf
fusing his effeminate features.— ,
Siflingt.
SCIENTIFIC NOB A PH.
Irritation destroys young fish, as has
been proved by M. G. Havcrct- WateL
The young fry penetrate suddenly
into the channels and die when the
1 current is quickly shut off.
if it is true that sparrows arid
swallows forsake a district when chol
era la about to make its advent, the
fact should be generally known and
thoroughly established on all credita
ble data.
That the wild horse is not of exclu
sively Asiatic origin Is disputed not
only by Dr. A. Mehrlng, but by Prof.
Morse, the latter showing conclusive
ly that the nutural country of the horse
was America ; out there is reason for
tho belief that the animal ox isted near
ly in its present form as far back as
tho tertiary age.
The Loudon Lawet says that a se
ries of investigations into the origin
of the yellow fever has resulted In tho
discovery that the blood of a patient
suffering with the fever contains a
micro-parasite which, In one form or
another, continues in existence after
the death of the sufferer. A guinea
pig that was kept closely upon earth
taken from a yellow fever cemetery
died In five days, and Its blood was
: found to contain similar parasites to
! those in tho blood of a yellow fever pa
UenL
Dr. I'. P. Dchorain inaltivalns that
the electric light contains rays hurtful
! to vegetation, but those, he says, can
Is-held back by transparent glas-i. The
light itself, he finds, contains enough
of the rays useful to vegetation to
maintain the life of plants two months
and a half; but the quantity of favor
able rays is too small to bring crops to
a condition of maturity,
j Very simple natural phenonema
i often excite surprise and sometimes
alarm. Some travellers walking
along the shore of Loch Ktlne, Ar
gyllshire, Scotland, noticed that they
: cast a double shadow. The explana
tion was simple when the facts were
examined. A well-defined shadow
was produced by the direct rays of
the sun, and a fainter one by the sun's
reflected rays from the lake, which
happened at the ti.ne to l#e quite still
and mirror-like. The strange appear
ancc might, however, have caused a
shock to sensitive nerves.
The Street* of Jerusalem.
The streets of the holy city are
,narrow, badly paved, and crooked as a
corkscrew; the principal tiring m#-"
street of David, leading from the Jaffa
gate to the Haratn: the *tr<-et of the
gat#- of the Golutnns, running from
the Damascus gate to th>- stn-et of the
gate of the Prophet David, under
which nam#- it continues to /.ion gate;
Christian street, running from the
street of David to the church of the
Holy Sepulchre; and the Via Dolorosa,
running from the church of the Holy
sepulchre to St. Stephen's gate. There
are very few oj#en plan-*, and not on#-
street in which a carriage ran be
• Irivcn; the bazaar* are |#oor and not
to le compared for a moment with
those of t 'airo or Damascus; they arc
in narrow lanes, for the most part
vaulted over, and exhibit the usual
articles to be found in eastern bazaars
- shoes, pipes, tobacco, harilware,
jewelry, cutlery, etc. ea-h stall Wing
under the superintendence of a man in
flowing robes and turban, who sits
cross-legged and smokea while the
crowd buzzes unceasingly around him.
There are two goo l hot# I*. the "Medi
terranean" and the "Damascus," and
several hospices—thet'asa Nova of the
Franciscans, the Austrian hospice, and
the Prussian hospice of St John—but
the majority of travelers who are mak
ing the tour of Pal vine, camp outside
the city, a* indeed do many of the in
habitants in the summer time for the
sake of purer air. Almost every
house in Jerusalem has a cujKila with
a fiat surface on the roof to allow a
stroll round it, and all the houses arc
iof stone. Very few of them exhibit
any traces of architectural beauty; in
| fact, the dwelling-houses generally
suggest poverty and dirt.
I#o*t Its Romance.
"I tell you, pard," said old Jimmy
Cannon, a guide, "the west has lost its
romance. Only a little while ago, it
i seems to me, where once there was
nothing but the whoop of tho Indians
and the song of the six-shooter, now
there are railroads and churches and
' commercial men and high schools and
: threo-care-monto men ami lecturers
and daily newapa|>ers and every little
while a natural death. Why, within
two months. If the papers tell the
j truth, several men have died in Wyo
; ining of disease. I tell you, it look
as though us old-timers would have to
inoveiaway. When we have to wait
, for lingering disease to snuff us out,
| its light out for the frontier."
Ths Amy of the Revolution.
T. W. Hlgglnnon, tho author of an
artlole In the "Dawning of lndepend- J
once," In Harper't Magazine, says; All
that was experienced on both sides at
the beginning of tho late American
<•1 vil war in respect to rawness of j
soldiery, inexperienced officers, short
enlistment*, local jealousies, was equal
ly known In the early Continental
army, and was less easily remedied.
Even the four New England colon!)*
that supplied the first troops were dis
trustful of one another and of Wash
ington, arid this not without some ap
parent reason. In a state of society
which, as has town shown, was essen
tially aristocratic, they had suddenly
lost their leaders. Nearly one-third ol
the community, including almost all
i those to whom social deference had
I been paid, hod taken what they called
, the loyal, and others the Tory, side.
Why should this imported Virginian
be more trustworthy? Washington in
turn hardly did justice to the materia)
; with which he had to deal. He found
that in Massachusetts, unlike Virginia
the gentry were loyal to the king
those with whom he had to consult
were mainly farmers and mechanics—
a class such as hardly existed in Vir
ginia and which was then far roughei
and leas intelligent than the same clasi
now is. They were obstinate, suspi
j cioua jealoua. They had lost theii
natural leaders, the rich men, tin
royal councillors, the judges, and ha)
to take up with now and Improvised
guides—physicians like Warren ("Doc
tor General" Warren, as the Britist
officers called him), or skilled median
i'-s like Paul Revere, or unemployed
'awyers and business men like Ihotx
whom Governor .Shirley described :u
I "that brace of Adamses." The l<-w
men of property and consequence win
sto #d by them, as Hancock and I'res
oott, were the exceptions. Their line
officers were men tak#-n almost at ran
d# #Jn from among themselves, some
uujks turning out admirably, some
times shamefully. Washington
• .tshiered a colonel arid five captairn
for cow ardice or dishonesty -luring tin
| first summer. The Continental army
as It first assembled in Cambridge was
as was sai-l of another army on a latei
occasion, an aggregation of town ine#-t
lngs, and, which is worse, of twE
meetings from which all the accus
, touted leader* ha! suddenly lx*n swept
j away. No historian has yet fully por
traved the extent to which this social
revolution in New England etub&r
raised all the early period of the war,
n<ntal troops chafe under Washington
andN-huyler, and prefer In theirsecre)
souls to l#e 1*1 by General Putnam,
whom they could call "Old Put," an#
w ho rode to battle in his shirt sleeves.
A Hlue-Gra** Stork.Farra.
General William T. Withers' "Fair
lawn" is just at the edge of Lexington
Ky. It is a comfortable modern stent
house, in the midst of fin<- sha<le treef
>f the natural w-#ods of Kentucky. II
is approa- h*l up an avenue through *
patent self-acting gate. Around it are
scattered numerous barns, stable*), and
other out-building*. The land is <li
vided into various paddocks and pas
tures. in which the reddish spots ol
f#*e#Bng colts are scattered about, by
stretches of excellent white fence. A
fence here, arc irding to a saying of th*
section, must Iwmule-hlgh, bull-strong
anl pig-tight." This j-lace has but twc
hundred and forty acres, but the brood
mare* are kept on another farm, of
five hundred acres elsewhere# At on#
side of the grounds is a commodious
I training track, laid out like one of
those mythical fairy circles <m which
the spinning of rapid fc*-t weaves sjw-llj
of enchantment and prosperity. It is
| visible from the library window, and
the general may stand there, even with
i the curtain closed, and sec the per
, fortnanoes of his horses, and act a* a
check on any negligent practices of his
grooms. The host seats us In this
comfortable library, and explains to us
his theories and shows us his books of
record. Every birth, every pedigree,'
is accurately entered. It Is a business,
as thus conducted, which calls for a
high order of intelligence# Horse
breeding as at one time conducted w as
but an innocent form of gambling.
The processes were hap-hazard and ths
result of ignorance. Again, much
money was lost through the choice of
inferior stock. Of late the theory pre
vails that the very l#cst is not too ex
pensive ; a great deal of valuable cer
tainty has been deduced from the col
lective wisdom of the past, and. as a
rule, money is made instead of lost.
The library cases are lined with books
on the horse ; the walls, with those of
the house generally, and indeed of the
blue-grass region throughout, are hung
with his picture*. Over the door is the
historic llysdyk's Hambletonian,
Hoinan-nnard, hollow-hacked, and far
from a model of good looks, upon a
field of plain grass and sky.
i CLIPPINGS rOK THE CURIOUS.
The first savings bank was Institut
ed at Buuroln 17rJ7, and was Intended
for servants only. Another was se
ll j< at Basel in 17!f2, open to ail depos
itors. t
HnufT taking took Its rise in Eng
land from the captures made of vast J
quantities of snuff by Sir George
Booke's expedition to Vigo in
and the practice soon liecatne general. V
The ways in which the memory lx- ■
gins to fall are often very curious. ■
There is a case on record of a man V
who could never remember words be- I
ginning with "d," and another jx;ron ™
attached no idea whatever to the fig
ure "5". j
Timothy Shields, of Baltimore, is
the colored giant of America. 11l A
stands six feet, eight inches in his 1
stockings, and weighs 220 pounds. Mr.
Shields hits four children, three of
whom are sons, averaging six feet,
two inches in height, and weighing
21H, 230 and 210 pounds respectively.
The largest oyster shell in the
world, it is said, Is used in the church
of St. Snlpice' in I'aris, as a fount for
holding holy water. The shell weighs
over 500 pound, and was presented to
Francis 1, by the Venetian Republic.
A teacher of mathematics, named
William Lawson, who died at Edith- j
burg in November, 1757, on one occ I
sion to win a wager male by his pa
tron, undertook to multiply regularly
in succession the numbers from one to
forty, without other aid than his mem
ory. He began the task at seven
o'clock in the morning and finished at
six in the evening, when he rejxjrted
the product, which was tested on paper,
and found to te correct.
The emj>eror of China, who Is yet a
minor, lives in the same apartments as
did his predecessors. There he eats
with gold-tip(ied chopsticks of ivory.
There he sleeps on a large Xingpo bed
stead, richly carved and ornamented
with ivory and gold He is knelt to
by all his attendants arid honored as a
g<L Even his father and mother
kneel to him.
The king of I'russia recently visited
a needle manufactory in his kingdom,
in order to see what machinery, com
bined with the human han't, could
produce. He was shown a number of
superfine needles, thousands of which,
together, did not weigh half an ounce,
and marvelled how such minute ob
jects could be pierced with an eye. But
h<- was U> '•■, at in torn respect even
s urn-Wing still finer and more perfect
could ie creabsl. The borer- that is.
the workman whose business it is'to v
bore the eyes of these needles—asked
for a hair from the monarch's head. It
was readily given and with a .smile.
He placed it at on' 6 under the lairing
machine, made a bole in it with the
greaUxt care, furnished it with a
thread and then handed the singular
needle to the astonished king.
Raisins.
A very pretty device for s banner in
a temperance procession, says the
Youths' t 'ompanton, was a bunch of
grapes with the motto, "If you eat ua
we are food; if you drink us we are
poison." Institutions have been built
for the practice of the "grape-cure," a
diet of grapes lieing considered corrects
the and restorative. In the dried form
such salutary food is certainly within
the reach of everyone; and the superior
ity of it to a fiery drink is almost self
evident
According to Sir William Gull,
Queen Victoria's physician, and of
course eminent in ids profession, it is
better in case of fatigue from over
work, to eat raisins than to resort to
alcohol In his testimony before
the Lords' Commission in Lon
don. a few months ago. he affirmed
"that instead of flying to alcohol as
many people do when exhausted, they
might very well drink water, or they
might very well take food, and they
would le very much bettor without
the alcohoL"
He added, as to the form of food he
himself resorts to, "In cases of fatigue
from overwork. I would say that if 1
am thus fatigued my food is very sim
ple—l eat the raisins instead of tak
ing tt. wine. For thirty years 1 have
hail large experience in this practice.
I have recommended it to my personal
friends. It is a limited experience, but
1 Ixdieve it is a vary good and true ex
perience."
A Touch Ins Romance.
Twenty-five years ago two lovers
dwelt in New York city. They quar
reled oTer some small matter. A let
ter of explanation miscarried. He
went west and settled in fk. Paul
Bhe removed to Buffalo. This story
doesn't seetn to come out Just right,
for he it in St. Paul yet and she is
in Buffalo. Both are married and
have large lamlliea.