LADIES' DEPARTMENT. Itlvna the Avere Women. The wisest men unite in the belief that intensely intellectual women are not always the most desirable cent, pan ions. Auerbach, In "On the Heights," describes the Countess lrma. with all her wit, grace and beauty as "an unspeakably fatiguing woman, requiring an everlasting firework dis play of mind." Pyrotechnic displays are wonderful and delightful, but an eternal Fourth of July, mental or material, would soon wear out the staunehest man. ltlces the dull day and the average woman. Each has t lbs niche to fill. The Iteaiitlful 1%OUIA. There is a woman whose whole nature is beautiful, and, being lieauti ful. is noble, chaste and true; whose life is the outward expression of the inward thought, and who cannot choose but set forth the lesson of love liness drunk in with her very being; whose mind makes itself seen as much in the graceful fashion of her dress as in the sweet words which fall from her lips, as much in the rhythmic offering of her household as in the glorious teachings of her children. Such a woman gathers round her forms of R beauty. l<otli outward as well a*spirit ual, as flowers gather dew by night to fashion it into living food by day. Slie is never heard to use a vulgar word, never known to do a graceless deed, nor seen to prefer a meaner taste. Her soul is a noble lyric set to gentle music, a low, sweet chant with words of love for the cathedral verses. This is the woman who elevates and purifies, and whose lessons >f beauty and outward harmony have a deeper meaning than lies on the surface, and spring from a nobler source than mere artistic taste,— l'rorith wv Journal. '1 he Kitgngruifnl Itliiff. About the happiest day in the life of a young lady is the day upon which she receives an engagement ring. Fhc will hold her hand up and look at the ring from all points and admire it, and assure Adolphus that he is just too awful nice for anything for giving it to her. And she always wears it that day, no matter what happens. If the ring is too largo for her, she w ill ram hits of wood under it. just as a boy puts branches of trees and other things under his skate straps to keep his skates on. And. after she gets it fixed to suit her, she starts out to call on her friends. They will know l>c. fore she arrives that she has received a ring, and are on the qui vi\e. They either tell her it is very pretty, or else pretend not to notiee it at all, in k either of which cases the recipient <f P the ring is delightful beyond di-si rip. tion. Because if they compliment her she thinks that they are affecting an indifference to her good luck that they do not feel, and that they wil' tear her to pieces after her departure. And if they don't say a word or notice the ring the young lady knows that they are wild with envy, and would give their ears to lir, her place. And she is glad to think that she has destroyed their happiness. And she calls on every one site knows and removes her gloves at every house, even if she remains therein but two minutes.— Puck. fr •■hlnn >olf Velvet is all the rage. The favorite balmoral skirt is black Wool costumes are the correct street Wear. Ps Silk underclothing is very much worn. Paris affects English fashions at the moment. Steel soutache appears among metal lie braids. Blouse effects on tight waists re main in favor. Nasturtium red is a fashionable f color for bonnets. M The newest shopping hags are made undyed sealskin. Common-sense laced shoes arc the 1 f most popular for street wear. Long tight-fitting sacques of Jersey cloth are much worn by young ladies. ; _Mitta of soft black wool will lie fashionable this winter, worn over kid gloves. Parisian dressmakers discard all sleeves except the close coat sleeve for street costumes. Waist eoatsof all kinds. superini|>osed ■ r on the Isslice or corsage, grow more and more popular. M Colons! tlannel skirts edged with woolen lace are preferred to white ones or balmorals. ■ Fedora waistcoats are sometimes ■ marie of Mack and white Spanish lace or F.scnrlal lace scarfs. V Parisians sre combining velvet with Vlctorlenne, Slclllenne, and liengaline , ' for carriage costumes. The Jersey is condemned by the Princess of Wales, but it enjoys high favor In Paris and in New York. Tucks are used to excess by some dressmakers, even velvet flounces be ing trimmed with two or three tucks. Some of the new greens combine beautifully with other colors, mid un becoming alike to the dark and tin fair. All. or nearly all, basques have waistcoats. These are of soft silk or satin on heavy cloth and velvet costumes. Velvet flounces have deep hems, which are so heavily stitched as to be plainly visible even when the bounces are thickly pleated. Velvet dresses are full, but in the more elegant costumes they are made so by extra breadths of the material, and not by flounces. Imported cloth suits arc elaborately made of several contrasting materials, such as cloth and velvet, cloth and satin, or Stcilienne. Long pelisses, made of llnely checked tweeds or cheviots, and trim med with llvc-ineh hands of fur, will lie much worn upon the promenade this winter. Scarfs, panels, either plain or kilted sashes, waistcoats, and Watteau tunics made of Human striped or pluidi-d merveillux, are again worn as acces sories to dresses of a dark mono chrome. Silver clover leaves covered with tiny diamond chipping*. made to resemble drops of dew, are among the new designs in fancy jewelry, the sot consisting of lore-pin, ear-rings, hair ornament, slide, ami bangle bracelets. A Salt bake on Top of a Mountain. There is a remarkable salt lake, *it uated one hundred and fifty miles west and south of Albuquerque, in New Mexico, and about fifty miles from the Arizona line. The lake is located on the top of a vol can i • moun tain, and evidently occupies an extinct I crater. The 1 ike is, perhaps, three quarters of a mile in diameter, and is so strongly impregnated with salt, that a thick crust of pure white salt of a spongy consistency, like floating ice, encrusts the margin. It is so plentiful that it is carried awav by the wagon load. It has lieen long used by the Indians. The salt is white, of the purest quality and destitute of sand or any foreign ingredient. The texture is porous, much like congealed white foam. There was one -qMS'imen in closing the stem of some vegetable and could !• handled like an apple by its stem. But the most curious feature of this lake is a tall circular < 01111110, <>f moniiment-slia|s-d formation, which rose up near the centre of the lake to the height of one hundred feet, and which appeared to lie made of white lava, thrown up by .some convulsion during some ancient geological period. The outside of this singular column shqied from the base tow ard the top, and was rough enough to lie ascendisl. < fn reaching the top of the rone the in terior was found to 1M- hollow, like a tube, and at the liottom there was seen a circular |*>nd of water, with a bright emerald green color in apjiear anee, probably to he attributisl to the sparse rav* of light which penetrated this huge tulie, and were reflected from the smooth, mirror-like surface of the water. A party with some dif ficulty <les ended tin- projecting sides of the bowl, and they found n<< incrus tation of salt on the surface like that on the outside, but on thrusting the hand into the water and withdrawing it. the hand came out perfectly white from the particles of salt that adhered to it. It was evidently a very strong brine. Ilnrnside and the Dispatch-Farrier. Referring to a volurnp from the pen of Mrs. 4'lark, the widow of a southern lawyer, the 4'hirngo fnt*r-(trran'* Boston correspondent says that in early life she was engaged to tie mar ried to General Durnside, and that she actually went to the altar with him. but there changed her mind. The two only met once after that. It was when she w as carrying Important despatches to Jefferson Davis, she had baked a panful of raised lmsciiits and hidden the despatches in them. Having lieen arrested on suspicion, and, knowing that tleneral Burnside had command of the nearest division of the northern army, she demanded that she should be taken liefore him. lie recognized her. She said she was going to Mobile and wanted a discbarge and a pass. Il hesitatwl a moment, and then wrote out a pass in silence, and gave it to her. "Does that contain your luncheon?" he inquired, pointing to a small basket that she carried in her hand. "Yes." "Let me see it" She opened the basket, displaying the bis cuit. "Will you try one, (Jeneral? They're pretty hard." The (Jeneral rejected the proffer, and ordered n good dinner for her, and then himself put her on the cars. NEW NTATEH. (.lowing ■iportalloni of (he Or*at tllu ■ •slpiil Vnllrv. When the settlement of Dakota shall have been completed and this will not require many years at the rate at which population is pouring into that territory at present the j business of founding new States in the west and north-west will be virtually ended. The St. Louis /{<j/tih/irtin says: Wyoming, Montana, Washing ton. I tali, Now Mexico and Arizona, the already organized territories, will gradually and slowly develop into full i Hedged members of the Union, but there will be no more such amazing I settlements as wo have seen on the fat wheat lands of Dakota. Kvery new - state in the west and northwest has been successively the receptacle of an immense tide of immigration which converted it in a few years from a wil derness into a full panoplied State. Hut it will not he a great while before the choice lands that have attractcsl immigrants to the Northwest will have been taken up, and then immi gration, instead of Mowing in one- deep, strong tide in one direction, will break up into many smaller streams ami Mow over the Mississippi Volley States. These States are not yet fully settled; they are not half settled. Missouri has a population of a little over 2,000,- 000; it may have 1,000,000 and still be only half setthxl. Farming lands in the Mississippi Valley States do not command hall their real value, and the reason of it is that the immigra tion from Europe to this country is of a character that seeks very low-pricod lands, without regard to situation, and so it has gone into Kansas, Nebraska, Minnesota and Dakota Hut farming lands are rh< apcr in Missouri and parts of Illinois, all things considered, at slo.l*l to iIM p.-r acre than they arc- in the- remote northwest at $1.25; for in Missouri and Illinois arc t<> l-e found churches, schools, roads, settled society, cities, towns, ad;ace nt manu factories, tnim-s ami g'xl markets advantages which are chcaplyvcstiiuat cd at 2" cents a bushel on -til the grain rai-ol on a farm. Ihe settlement of the Northwest will not arrest immi gration, bllt it will ' .rise it to deposit itself in the Matis b -rMcruig -n the Mississippi river. The tendency of people to move westward cannot l>e arrested. Europeans will continue to coine to our shores; thousands of them will s.-ttle in the Atlantic st;, n . deed, they are doing this already, and the manufacturing ami mining dis tricts m N'-w England and Pennsylva nia are rapidly tilling up with foreign • rs. and the native fanner* ot the East thus displaced will steadily ne-ve into this \ alley an 1 < < upy the lands now overlook)*! in the eager march to the far \Y. st llow Walking-Canes are Made. The manufacture of < arms is hv no means the < unple pr>- ess of cutting the Sticks in the Wood*. peeling off the hark, whittling down the knots, sand papering the rough surface, ami add ing a tourh <d varnish, a curiously earved handle or head, and tipping the end with a ferrule. In the -ami Mats of New Jersey W hole families silpfxirt themselves by gathering nanneD-rry stirks. which they gather in the swamps, straighten with an old vise, steam over an old kettle, and perhaps scrape down or whittle Into size. These are parked in large bundles to New- York city ami sold to the cane facto ries. Many imported sticks, however, have to go through a process of straightening by mechanical means, which are a mystery to the uninitiated. They are buried in hot sand until they become pliable. In front of the heap of hot sand in which the sticks are plunged, is a stout Dard from live to six ft lung, tixed at an angle inclin ed to the workmen, ami having two or more notches cut in the edge. When the stick liecoines |>erfect!y pliable, the workman places it on one of the notch es. anil, bending it in the opposite di rection to which it is naturally D-nt, straightens it. The sticks, apparently crooked, D-nt. warped and Worthless, are by this simple process straighten ed ; but the inost curious part of the work is observed in the formation of the crook or curl for the handles, which are not naturally supplied with a hixik or knob. The workman places one end of a cane firmly in a vise, and pours a continuous stream of fire from a gas pi|>e on the part which Is to lie lient. When sufficient heat has been applic*!, the cane is pulled slowly and gradual ly round until the hook is completely formed, and then secured with a string. An additional application of heat ser ,*es to bake ami permanently fix the curl. The under part of the handle is I frequently charred by the action of the ' gas, and this is rubbed down with sandpaper until the requisite degree of smoothness is attained. American 1 Merchant. A DETECTIVE'S DISCOVERY. I'° w Mr. I'opDfrm n liritw Nuapii loiii W*tr Mysterious llur. "Where "lid these burs coine from?" and Mrs. i'opperman pulled three real old-fashioned burs from her husband's coat a* In- Jay on the loungo t'.ie other evening. Now, it would have been I cry easy for .Mr. I'opperiiian to have/did where the burs came from, but ha thought it would be a good joke to mystify iiis wife, so lie pretended to be surprised. "I—l —don't know." "Have you been into the country to-day ?" "No." "Well, it's very singular how a busi ness man can get burs on his clothes in ! New York." "Well, I'll tell you. The health offi cers have plant**! burdock bushes on Broadway to purify the air arid pre vent the lmrses from having the blind Staggers, Sometimes I brush up ugainst these hushes." "Oh!" Mrs. i'opperiiian eyed her husband suspiciously, but said nothing more. The next morning two more burs were picked from his pants. "Now, I want to know what this means. 1 went to New York yester day on purpose to see if there were hushes on Hresd way. There wasn't one. Now I want an explanation." "Well, I'll t*ll you, my dear. These are burs. They an- the fruit of a re markable tropical plant which is now on exhibition at the Fifth Avenue hotel, Tuis plant is twenty feet high. Occasionally I go into the hotel, and, while standing under the leaves of this plant, the fruit, which resembles burs, drops on lIIS clothes." "W hat i* the rami- of this -ingular plant ?" "The Dit.aiiic.il name is I.unity turn olius," After Mr. I'opperman had departed the next day his wife sought a 'Dtect tive. "My husi'ami comes home everv night with burs on his clothes Now I want you to follow him and find out where he go-*." The detective undert ■ok to Solve the mystery. No burs on Mr. Popper man's rlothi-* that night nor the next 'lhe third night he returned with tin* usual ' 'inj I" im-.'ii The next day the detective called upon Mrs. I'op fx-r man. "I have discovered all. 1 followed your hualtam! two days He att<-nd<*l strictly to his huxim s* The third day he left his office aDuit 2 o'clock, anil' "Went into the country "No, ma'am. He came to llrooklyn and ride t • the vacant lot which he has just purchased on xhermerhorn street. While superintending the erection of a fence around the lot h' often came inconta t with the burdock bushes, and there is where he gits the burs." "Dh, lam *o glad. You have done your work will Hood day. sir." That evening when Mr. I'opperman returned Ins wife threw her arms around his nok and said "My dear. I'm so glad to know that you arc not a villain." "What do you mean "Well, about those burs, you know. I put a detective on ymir track and he told me that you got the burs in that lot on N-herim-rhorn street, and that ymi are Innocent." "Ha' ha' Ni you put a detective on my track, did you?" "Yes." "flood joke;" and Mr. I'opperman laid bark in his chair and fairly roared with laughter. "Yes dear, and here's the detective's bill, which you have got to pay." "To shadow ing Mr. I'opperman for three dayx at #'. per day. #27." The laughter subsided, and for an hour it was so quiet that you could have heard a bur drop. Increase of Salmon. There have !>een fears expressed that the enormous consumption of sal mon in thisiountrv will cause a scarci- ' ty of that delicious food (ish. Hut these fears are groundless. At Asto ria, Oregon, all the offal of the salmon 1 used for canning is thrown into the sea at the shore, the canneries being so situated tlint the Pacific ocean ul the mouth of the Columbia river re ceives all this refuse. According to the Portland (Preymian this seeming wastefulness is a means of constant reproduction of the salmon. The first operation In the canneries, the writer says, is to relieve the fish of their en trails. fins, heads, and spawn, and these are in almost every instance dropped into the river. Much of the spawn is, of course, eaten by fish or destroyed, but a goodly share finds lodgment in the bottom, where it hatches. It is a well-known fact that the water aDuit the canneries fairly swarms with young fish during the summer* and j falL 1 A I'reelotis Pair. | Sinnie Pippin la a yellow-haired girl, ■ tall and wiry, about nineteen years old, and weighs about 1 l. r pounds. She runs in the woods with Payette, and | tliey live there together more like In dians than white people. As noon as Fayette gets hold of any plun der. Sinnie eomes to town anil sellH it for him, and buys coffee, eartridges and Hiieh things .'is he needs, and gooa haek into the woods, and they start j out on another expedition. Once they commit a robhery, they start off as fast as they can through the woods, sleep ing in the day and travelling in the | night, until they get into another coun ! try or across the Kentucky line, but al ways manage to get a good way from the robbery before people < eminence to hunt for them. Anderson's plan is | to meet a man travelling along the j road, (Ind out what he can about him by talking friendlydike, and if he thinks the stranger is worth robbing, he will take a short cut through the woods, and he waiting in the bushes when the stranger passes along the road. "Halt and throw up your hands," is the first thing that the wayfarer hears, and before he has time to collect his thoughts, Anderson has a pistol muzzle up against his temple, and is going through him with his left hand. Will Fayette Anderson fight? Well, 1 just believe he is one of the gamest men in the world. Deputy sheriff Jiailey M< < lill.in, of Putnam county, shot him about a year ago and broke his arm badly. What do you think Anderson did? Well, he and the girl went to a a spring in the woods, and she kept bathing his arm with cold water, washing it and keeping the wound elean, and the Dm<- knitted up. His .trrn has recovered so well that he is able to handle a six-shooter with as much ease as most any of them ; bast wise he has never leen eaptured yet, and there have la-en plenty of jieople after him, and game on* * too. Hut Sinnie, his girl, makes it hard to cap ture him, D-cauxc she lays around the towns m Putnam, Smith and Overton c '-unties, and gets all the news and ' irr.e-, it to him. This ke< ps him jxist • d ami puts him on his guard. Why don't we capture sinnie Pippin, you a*k - Well, we have had her in jad. but Dung a woman, we couldn't tret anything ag.unst her, so we had t turn her out '-u the rang' aga.n, and th.s pris ions pair keep robbing and running by niglit, and sleeping in the wood* and mountains by day, arid tle re i* no way of doing anything to stop them so far. hut their time will coine ju-t like ail the rest AVt/i rillt Am> r i on. Tims Is Money. There livei in Pawtucket a man w hi-e w hole existence seems to D- c -n -diirtcd similar to a piece of machinery. Hi- movement* and tran*;ictions are always "on time;" in fact, his great hobby is time. "He on time and save time" is his motto. At the sam u hour every morning he gets out of D-d. A few seconds later his right bxit is on and then his left, breakfast is finished in a separate time. a\d he is seen at his place of business just at the stroke of 7. He is constantly enlarging on the immense quantity of time that is wasted and thrown away by every man and woman every hour, lie illus trates! his hobby the other day in a rather amusing and indisputable man ner. A friend presented him with a very line-looking cat. Calling the next day, he found the cat without any tail, the tail D*ing cut off as close to the body as could be without cut ting the tail off D'hind the cat's ears. When askcsl why he bad done this, he remarked: "1 have to let this cat in ami out of this store a gcxwl many times a day. Now. if that cat had a long tail, don't you see I would have to lose so much time waiting for the tail to go >ut and in, whereas now I have only to wait for the cat A tail is of no earthly use to a cat, and es pecially to this cat, so you will see I have the cat just the same, and only the time in letting the cat in and out, thus saving alt that time that would lost ,n letting the tail in and out" A Permanent Hoarder. Mr. .laics was talking to his oldest daughter about a visitor who was at their house. "How long will he remain?" the young lady askcsl. "I guess lie will stay here all the Mi:c " "Hood heavens, we don't want him." "But lie told me he was going to stay." "Did he positively say so?" "Well, not exactly, but lie said he'd remain until your mother got into a good humor, and if he really means what lie says I guess we might us well prepare for a permanent Uianler. At lea-t, daughter, that has !<ccn my ex |*rienee fot the 35 years I've been re maining." The Jlnsle of 111* Chin. , I'm ijnile it inutie I'/vint; man, , Ami would go far to hear Home (inrintii, or an African, Whom) toiif* am i*it *t><] clear. Hut Mtvn mo from tho pernoii who Will evermore txgin, Itßtorminorl he will put one through llie (otitic ol hie chin. I cannot eing the old unngt, • 'Jhough I can get them cheep; I Tbair memory to the piutf itel'Xige, I | Ho let thern idly eleep. t lint worte titan old eong* it the frond Who eeekt yonr time to win. And who, when ttarted, will not end Ihe tnuaic of hie chin. 5 i I've lietrd atearn whixtlet, hraeen gong*. And Ixll* of every tone; I've heart) the altoula ol maddened thronga, ' Anil heard ajackiuw groan. I've heai'l u leinaie lecturer eneer i On wic kl ttif-ii am) tin; g ' Thete ar ru> naught, for now I hear j "Ihe mutic ol hi* chin. Ku'jrnr Ft rid, in CMr.ayo .Ynrt. • 111 MOIKIIM. i The dentists take the stump during t a political campaign. (iur hahit-H Willi all their faults r we love them ■•till; not noiiiy. Ha* it ever occurrxl that a milk pitcher is generally a g'"d flycatcher? A little book just published is en titled "How to Talk." A copy should he jilacetl in the hands of every barber f . In the land The rain falls alike upon the just 1 arid the unjust; hut i' Is the unjust i who steal the umbrellas and let the 1 just feel the rain. '• speaking of visiting, does it ever 1 oct tir to you that the telephone girl 1 answers more "tails" in one day than '■ other ladies do in a month? f* f It is the sagacious remark of a keen ol o-rvt-r of tourists, and he offers it to tie travelling public, that you can ' generally tell a newly-married couple , at the dinner-table by the indignation of the husband when a fly alights on (i he wife's butter. lf VIIII are particularly anxious to 1 abuse a man; don't call him a fool, he might Im annoyed; don't call him a ra.sc.iJ, he might knock you down; quietly remark, with a heavenly smile. T , you present a fine large margin t for ; ini-r- s ement." , "it is pasting strange,'* mused the ] philosopher, "that SJ many people | have died during the lad decade, and yet s" few of them ha\e<ome back." 1 Then his wife hit him over the ear i with a hassock, and told him to go 1 down to the gracerv and get some red e herrings f r breakfast. M Wiggh-sw • Tib's inadame: "It is something I can't understand." said Mrs \\ igli-sw. rtli. iaying down the ' pa] er. "why every Frenchman's first name begins with an M. Here's M. Ferry and M. Wilson and M. (Jrevy and a ilc/en more. Must 1 either the l' -stina-ter tcrrihly." /{<•< khrmt Cotir ' ur-'iazrlte. Clothing and Bodily Ileal. The thinnest veil is a vestment in I the sense that ;t moderates the loss of i of heat which radiation causes the naked body to experience. In the • same way a clouded sky protects the earth against too great cooling in spring nights. In covering ourselves with multiple envelopes of which we i augment the protecting thickness ac cording to the rigor of the seasons, we retard the radiation from the Is sly by causing it to pass through a series of stages, or by providing relays. The linen, the < rdinary dress and the cloak constitute for us so many artificial epi dermises. The heat that leaves the skin goes to warm these superposed envelopes; it passes through them the more slowly in proportion as they are poorer conductors; reaching the sur face. it escapes, but without making us feel the chills which direct contact with the atmosphere occasions, for our clothes catch the cold for us. The hairs and the feathers of animals per form the same function as toward their skin, serving to remove me scat of i calorific exchange away from the l>ody. The protection we owe to our clothes is made more effe tual by their always living wadded with a stratum of warm air. Each one of us thus has bis own atmosphere, which goes with him every where, and is renewed without lieing cooled. The animal also finds under its fur an additional protection in the IKSI ot air that fills the sjiaoes between the hairs; and it is on account of the air they enclose that porous sub stances. furs and feathers keep warm. Experiments to determine the degree of facility with which different sub stances used for clothing allow heat to escape were made by Count Itumford. Senebier, Hoeckmann. .lames Starck and M. Coulier. The results were not in all cases consistent with each other, j but they indicated that the property is dependent on the texture of the sub stance rather than on the kind of mate rial, or~ns concerns non-luminous heat —lts color.— Popular Science Monthly,
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