of ee epee Sosy Se. Hristo CRUSHED IN THE SHAFT. __. Ten Helpless Miners Carelessly Sent to Their Death. Two Ignorant Hungarians Cause a Frightfol Accident, At Kaska William colliery, near Middle port, Penn., the cage containing ten miners was ascending the shaft when an empty car ‘was pushed over the top of the shaft by two Hungarian laborers. Tho car struck the shaft with terrible force, dashing it to pieces, and instantiy kill- ing every one of its occupants, whose man- gled bodies ware afterward found in the wa ter at the bottom of the shaft, Tho men had thus been killed by a most stupid blunder of an ignorant Hungarian la- borer. The names of the killed are: Michael Boyle, inside foreman, wifeand children: John | } Pritiavish, who was married four weeks ago; Hugh Carlin, aged 22 years, single; Patrick MeDonald, nd 25 years, single; garian. At about five o'clock, as ten inside miners were being hoisted up the shaft, and when | had reached a height of sixteen feet, two Hungarians ignorantly pushed an empty mine car over the top. shaft descends a depth of 500 and through this awful distance half, went hurling down, knocking timbers <out, breaking the wire rope wit the cage was being hoisted and ing it into the sump, and ding on the top of it ful crash. shaft is a pit info which the filthy water of they feet, the the mine is drained, and whence itis pumped | out. At Kaska William this suap was IMPORTANT APPOINTMENTS A Public Printer and Two Civil Ser vice Commissioners Selected, The Dresident has appointed Frank W. Palmer, of Illinois, to bo Public Printer; Theodore Roosevelt, of New York, and Hugh B. Thompson. of South Caroling, to be Civil Service Commissioners; Arthur L. Thomas, of le to bo Governor of Utah; Elijah of Utah, to be Secretary of Utah; Ellsworth I t, of Utah, to be Burveyor- General of tial , and sixty-one Presiden iy inclu Alexander C, Yard, at J. vice Eckford Moore, removed. Arthur N, Utah, is a member o On appofuted Governor of the Utah Commission and is said to be Shoroughly familiar with the Mormon question. He is a native of President Hayes to be Secretary of Utah. Theodore elt, appeiied a Civil Service Commissioner, is ny years of age and a native of New York cf ph He Ue ated from Harvard and was admitted to the | New York Bar, but has never actively prac- | stirring scenes of | on his Goorge | Bendel, aged 30 years: John Moore, aged 21 | ears; Albert Dwyer, aged 20 years; Edward | Stultz, a Polander; Steve Watson, a Hun | tised his profession wreferrin polith wand of Western ranch. He was elected to the Assembly in 1881, In 1880 he got the Republican nomination for Mayor of New York, and made a fight against Abram 8, Hewitt and Henry George but was defeated. F. W. Palmer, the new Public Printer, was | ! born in Indiana in 1827. He learned the art of tting in New York city, and was pub. i lisher and editor of the Jamestown (N. Y.) The | Journal. He was a New York Assemblyman in 1855-4, and went to lowa in 1858 bee | , toming editor of the Dubuque Times. He | was State Printer of Iowa eight years from the weight of which was a tonand © | | and Forty-second Congresses from which | drop- | finally | with a fear- | At the foot of each slope or | twenly feet deep. The cage, with its load of | human freight, fell into this hole. The foot of the shaft was surrounded by men waiting to be hoisted. saw the ughter, but were paralyzed with fear and poweriess. The alarm was sounded as quickly as possible, and an attempt was made to help those in the cage. At 10 o'clock that night none of the They heard and | H jes had been recovered. | They were ground in a shapeless mass of hu- | man flesh, discolored and rendered less pos- sible of recognition by the flith and black | water of the sump. A sad circumstance in connection Foreman Boyle's death is the fact that it was not his turn to come up the shaft. cured passage on the o by trading with Tem Hoolihan, a driver boy, in order that he (Boyle) might catch a train up the valley to New Philadelphia, and procure a supply of «il for the night men. with | Ho se | ! cal Engineer Harold P. Al! the people who gatherad about the | scons were outspoken in their denunciation | of the company for employing the ignorant and ~ieap laborers in such important places. There was talk of lynching the two Huns who | had carelessly caused the disaster. ‘ire Inspector Gay did not receive the | news catil late, and he was among the earliest to start to the rescue. The rope was fice l as quickly as possible, and a new cage ged up. Inspector Gay descended as soon as be could. Word came up that it would be | we time before the bodies could be shed, | pit . an Bes could be reached. | threo State prisons will have one of these PROMINENT PEOPLE. Exix Pasua is an Austrian, Caavxcey Devew is just fifty-five. Tue Pope is a very fine chess player, ven. | J. H. Newuax, the Cardinal, fs eighty | London, SENATOR INGALLS is extremely careful in his attire. Lappy RaspoLrn CHURCHILL is going into literature, Mas. Harmison has lost three pounds since she entered the White House. Presioest Harrisox has hired a cottage for the summer at Deer Park, Md. Tee Kings of Belgiun:, Saxony, Greecs | and Servie will visit the Paris Exhibition. M. CazvievL, the French scientist, was a devout Christian during the 104 years of his life Bamox MaximiLiiax Styrita, is a relation of George, Fx-Presipest CLEVELAND has been a Wasmivarox, the inunortal | ual Forty-first own. After leaving Congress Mr. Palmer bought an interest in the Chicago Inter-Ocean. He remained with the Inter-Ocean until he was appointed Postmaster of Chicago by Presi dent Hayés, which position he filled during the Administrations of Garfield and Arthur, Hugh 8. Thompson, one of the Civil-Ser. vice Commissioners, is the wellknown As sistant Secretary of the Treasury appointed President Cleveland. He was born in Charleston and is about (ifty years of age. o was elected Governor of the State, Es A ant ip of reasury. . dent Cleveland in February last sent in his nomination to the Senate for the office to which be has been appointed, but it was not hg hp fon ELECTRICAL EXECUTIONS. Apparatus for the Legal Killing of Murderers in New York. 1860, and served in o General Austin Lathrop, the SBuperintend- ent of State Prisons in New York, has just completed negotiations with Expert Electris Brown, to finish the apparatus required for the electri cal execution of murderers, as provided by law. Already the electrical equipment has been shi d to Auburn prison, and in a few days Clinton and Sing Sing prisons will re sive theirs, These are the three prisons in which all murderers are hereafter to suffer the death penalty. The large Westinghouse dynamos, produo- an alternating current, have been elected by Mr. Brown as the best adapted for instantaneous killing, and each of the powerful lightning generators, The individ lants will also have each an “exciter” or | auxiliary dynamo; meters for regualat | ing the pressure and the amount of voltage, and ascertaining the ohms of resistance, and a rheostat. Btout copper wire, resembling { the ordinary telegraph wire, will be weed. Then there will be a strong oaken chair, of the reclining make, in which the condemned F_ Guxerar BOULANGER is quite a lon in will sit, and electrodes for the head and feet The former of these electrodes consists of a metal cap, with an inner plate covered with a sponge that has been saturated with salt | water, which is to be fastened on the oon | the armpits demned man's bead by means of stout straps held by another around his body under The other electrode fs simply a | pair of electrical shoes tightly laced on the : of | pointed referee in an important law suit in Sow York. Sie MorrsLy Mackeszre, the famous sur i goon, has gone to the Canary Isles for mach needed rest, Sime Juniax Pauvscevore, the new Brit | ish Ministerto this country, calls himself | “Pantsfut.” A nRoxzE statue of John Bright is to be erected at Rochdale, England, subscription, MetssoNter, the Boulanger in the i French public. Ex-Secrerany Bavann's daughter, Nan by public uence he exerts upon the inter, is second only t | nie, is called the most thorough horsewoman | | speed, and the driver being unable to get the in Washington. land from Africa, Henn Muvzen the largest ivory importer in the world, and brother-in-law of Carl Schurs, «died recently at Kiol, Prussia. biting a quarter-section out of a sandwich. Ex-Rernesestative Matsox, who was the Democratic candidate for Governor of Indiana last year, has gone into railroading GusEnal, Lew WALLACE says there are two things of which he is immoderately fond ~horse-racing, when conducted honestly and baseball, Ma. 7. P. O'Coxxon says that the Prince The ad Taz operation jjormed two weaks moon the Mrs. Sidney Smith Ton mother of Loo, of Virginia, has Frac emire] y successful and ber sight is re Ora by he Roget A n 10en t of Spain, but it was Ricvared by the au. nt tr on oe iv a t , sovereign, so Wire Senator Cameron at | abroad for lis health his w pA ear, remains at pt ir Ix the Court of ! 3 Bapems Canada the Chier convict's feet, On the day appointed for the axecution the Prison Warden and a physician will enter the call of the condemned, tie his arms, and ad- Just the two electrodes. Then by means of a pial wire for the purpose, the man's “re oe” will be measured. He will then be moved to the desth-room and placed in the death-chair, to which he will be quickly fast ened by irom hooks, An electric Pit will be touched, the Sheriff will close the clreuit, an electrical current of the alternating system, of 1000 volts, will 8 into the murderer's body, and instant death will follow, ER ——. _ a Ee HURLED TO DEATH, w i An Engine Runs Into a Street Car Killing Six Ladies, A shocking accident occurred about 6:30 Main Michigan Cen o'clock in the evening at the West street crossing of the tral Railroad in Kalamaso, Mich A street car oontaining eight “la dies and two gentlemen was crossing the track when a switch engine dashed down upon it from the east side at a high rate of Iris groposed to confer public honors u car out of the way the helpless passengers Hee f. *anioy when he returns to Eng | the work of a moment were hurled to a terrible death, It was but The street car was carried almost to Academy street, the pleces flying in all dk rections, and the human freight being | mangled in a frightfal manner Tox President was photographed in New | York at the Centennial while in the act of | {dieton, Mrs. Van Antwerp, Mrs, | Gibson, | later, | two male passe Those in the car were: Mrs Alexander Haddock, Mrs. M. E. Watiea, Mis Gertrude Tillotson, Mrs. George Smiley, Mra Mid B.A Mrs, Jonathan Barnes, Mr. Ia C Ll and Dr. Sutton. The first-named six were killed, two found dead in the cattle guard, one in the oreek near by. two on and Mrs M ton died an She was thrown in the roadway, Mrs. Gibson was injured in the head and side and Mrs. Barnes was bruised badly, The | escaped, The driver of i ate] the car jpud by jumping The swite! ie mate of sped. gates at Whats the acelient, acuuierad sre hot Waed be- tween B: Br OM, tekooper ng home at that time This custom oly deceived She defyurof the stra oar, who was a new man and probabl supposed that ‘he gates would of OTe D8 Soe TIE ah gine were coming, EXPLOSION ON A WHALER, The Result of Lighting a Cigarette Near a Keg of Powder, r Bedford, Mas. at . The ship bad and an 4 eb In 1877 ho was appointed by | Montreal; A.B. the more | adventure | to the | only by General Howard, but by the delegates, | Mr, Chamberlain sald he thought the cons mittee had made a mistake in selecting him | | to preside, knowing that he was not the man | to lead the pith 3 i ask Divine guidance. and hoped to succesd. The prominent foreigners who attended | i don; Fries, Stockholm; E. Hoffer, Becretary of the | track, | hour | Finland will form an orchestra and pla was running at a high the oromting | Orleans niece, and the diva's Seven hundred delegates were in attend. ance at the opening of the twenty-sighth annual convention of the Young Men's Christian Association, held in Philadelphia, The convention assembled at 11 o'clock, and the morning was devoted to organizing The convention was called to order by 8, Blake, of Toronto, the Chairman of the last meeting. The Gommittes on Permanent Organiza tion reported the following nominations for officers, which were unanimously confirmed, President—Humphrey B, Chamberlain Denver, Col. Vice-Presidents—John E. Irvine, St. John, New Brunswick; Dr. Frederick W, Kelly, oodworth, Boston; Charles D. Alexander, Ban Francisco; of esson Charles W. Dabney, Jr., Knoxville, Tenn; William E. Higmay, Sioux City, lowa; | Charles D. Meigs, Jr., Indianapolis; Walter McDonald, Kansas City; Francis W. Ken nedy, Philadelphia, Becretary George B. Townsend, Chicago Assistant Secretaries— Harry Kinpotts, Minteapolls and H. 0. Williams, Richmond, a President-elect Chamberlain was escorted chair and was warmly grested, not m. the convention were M, H. Hodder, of Lon. Baron Von Starck, of Berlin: Karl Zurich Association; Robert Burns, Secretary of the Aldersgate Branch of the London Association; Robert McCann, Becretary for Ireland; Viscount Michima, Japanese nobleman of Tokio, and Jobn T. Bwift, Secretary of the association which fs doing in Japan the sane work that Secretary MeConsughy is to do in India, President Francis W. Kennedy delivered an address of welcome to the visiting dale | gates, The other speakers of the first day were Albert B. Monroe, of New York, and John T. Swift. of Tokio, who discussed the obs ligations of American young men to their | brethren in foreign lands and W. A Hunton, | Norfolk, Va., who spoke of the work among colored men. Precident of the Princeton College, made an address on modern unbelief among young men, and later a reception took place at the | | | desperate efforts to escape Academy of Fine Arta, OFFICIAL CROP REPORT, The Condition of Spring Plowing, and Wheat and Cotton Planting. The condition of vanced from 9 to W of "5. The general average of winter barley is 90.9; of spring pasture, W686; of mow pg lands WI The percentages of condition of winter whont in States of princi al production are: Ohla, 90; Michigan, #2 Vy 95: Hlinods, 98: Missourd, 98: Kansas WB: Texas 55. Inthe East New York and Peninsyivania average 5 and Marviand and Virginia Spring plowing is much further advanced than on May | of last year. The percentage of plowing in preparing the seed bed and planting spring crops not inclusive of after cuitivation, which had already been done, is 83.6 per cent lonving opesixth to be done in May and June, mainly in northern latitudes Last year the percentage 7468 The average of a series of recent years has been about 77. This season is therefore unusually early The progres of colton has ad from 985.9 to winter wheat rye wns planting reported in May by the Department of Agriculture is | as follows: On the first of the month eighty seven pwr cent planted. This is one point earlier than the average of a series of years, Only Virginia, North and South Carolina and Florida re vort planting sdivhtly later MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC, Haxnrno has played Mozart's “Figaro” 100 times Cranres Gouson, the composer, will not come to America, Exite nm Najac, dracnatist, is dead Tie play “Robert Elanere™ was a failure in New York city. Joacmm, the violinist, has composed his third violin concert, the great French Muxram, Tenn, is to have a grand opera | house costing $150,000, S11 Apraun SULLIVAN fs composing the | music for a grand opera. Mame Vax Zawor is coming to America | | threatens to revolutionise {roo making, next season in [talian opera, Tix Duchess of Cambridge left Tosti, the composer, an annuity of F150 Crana Lovise Xeniooa will make a con. | men this year where they had but one last. cert tour through the West very soon Tie death is announced of Thomas James | Serle, the English dramatist and actor Mocanys opera “Die Entfuhrung” has been produced in Greek at Alexandria, Egypt. Tre new Wagner theatre near Pacis is nearing its completion. It will seat 350 listeners, Mus Suaw whistled 815,000 out of the | public last year, and expects to make it £30, | UX this Foar, Mus. Laxorny, the English society act. tress, proposes to tour England and Australia next season, Briay Binont is to be cae of the end men next senson in Happy Cal. Wagner's travel ing minstrel troupe, Lorra, the volatile comedienne, is the only woman on the we who has a fortune amounting to 1,000,000, OXE HUXORED AYD FIrry students from their national melodies at the Paris Exposition, Srexorcra Canmisnes Sanving, daughter of the illustrious Italien tragedias, has dis tinguished herself as a clever amateur actress, Avuraxa Patri has discarded her New Nicolini® daughter, ho 1s with hor ot ® you Bd in South Fount Diagcron Brawrox, of the Metropolitan House, New York city, has renewed contract with Hans von Bulow, the ist, for pext season. Bixee March 1, 1888, there have boon sixty- one divorces in dramatic circles. The most | Committes will follow in He would, however, | National | of the proposed area was | CONTESTED ELECTIONS, Cases Whaich Will Go Before the Next House of Congress, Mr, Mobley, clerk of the House Committes on Elections of the Fiftieth Congress, is dili- gently at work arranging, printing and dockeoting the papers received in the con- tested election cases which will claim the at- tention of the Committees during the Fifty first Congress, These papers, together with wshibite in the sizteen cases which have al ready been certified to the Clerk of the House, sre very voluminous, requiring no less than Wb packages to contain them. The following are the cases submitted ; Contestants, Waddill and Wise. Langston and Venable, Bowan and Buchanan. Chalmers and Morgan, Mississippi Hill and Catchings. Miatanibpt Kernaghan and Hooker, West Virginia, ...../ Atkinson and Pendleton. South Carolina... Miller and Elliott, Eaton and Phelan. Featherston, Goodrich and Bulloc:, ¥ Seymour and Miles, seasaranvy Compton and Mudd, Threat and Clark, Alabama. .......... McDuffie and Turpin. Nothing is known of the course which the dealing with the Arkansas case of Clayton versus Breckin- ridge—Clayton having been assassinated while the work of taking testimony was in | progress. No papers in the case have been | received by the Clerk of the House. Alto. | | gether the work of the Election Committes | of the next House promises to be very ar- | fuous, and it will take diligence on the part | | of the Commitisn to dispose of all the cases before the termirntion of the Congress, WHOLE FAMILY DROWNED. | A Man, His Wife and Two Children Capsized in a Mountain Stream. A drowning accident is reported from Braxton, W, Va. P. B. Harr and family lived in a thinly settled district, and be | and his wife and two children started to visit i 8 neighbor, A mountain stream in their path was swollen out of its banks, but Harr | | attesapted to cross it in a canoe, In the evening Frances I. Patton, D. D,, | . “ ry Half-way over, the frail boat capsized and the whale family ware thrown out. The wife and one child imunediately sank. arr, who was an expert swimmer, seized another and made He caught on to but was swept down stream, and ore help could reach him, The have been recovered, the canc od TRE carpet trade is very brisk now, Om10 has seventy-one glass factories. Foun new labor journals have been started. Turn are 52,000,000 spindles in the world Taz bookbinders have organised a new | undon Tax wetal workers will form a National union . Coxxzericvr is singularly free from strikes Mixixg operations are booming all through Colorado Tre strike of miners in Westphalia is spreading SzvERal paper mills are to be built in Wisconsin Tux American Watch Company employs #700 hands Waemiana, W. Va, has the world's larg eet mall plant Cricaco gas-house hands work eight hours and make 82.50, Maxy of the New York surface railroad strikers are still Mie Less than 500 of Chicago's 45,000 female workers are organised A wivesraead strike is expected among workmen in Germany Tea Freoch jewelers are crowding the parket with now goods NEsRASKA barbers must shave colored men mvs the Suprage Court Tax Pennsylvania Railroad Company has "8,00 persons in its employ ThE ginssworkers will have their usual two months vacation this summer The coal mining industry beer: pararyeed for siz onthe THERE have never before been so many | women in search of eraployment THE New York cigorauakers are in hard vned. Work lssoarce, pay very poor YEAZS ago United States Senator Kenna, of West Virginia, was ¢ Snr laborer. Tux Roberts steel making Process of Macmisneny is driving out hand labor as | inst in the nall working trade in England Tux Delaware River ship yards have two Tun organised machinists of New York city hav: at last been brought into a single bexly GERMAN ootton manufacturers have estab lished a national society” for mutual pro- | tection Tux growth of organization smong jours | neymen bakers Iv going on all over the Uni tor] States, J Tue international Shoemakery’ Union is | organizing many Joeal branches in the State | of New York THERE are eighteen breweries in Ch h which make on an average 1,500,000 barrels of beer annually, liom organized miners have cent. advance in thelr wages, led ten per It fs estimated that there are about 2000 | master painters and W000 journeymen painters employed in this country ifuphical Union of Washi 3 the enforcement of the sigh rule in the Government printing office, Prnaars no ational organization is grow. ing more rapidly than the Brotherhood of Carpenters, whic has 520 local branches, Tix cable operators who work in New | Foundland are well pall, and they have many privileges, but they lead dreary lives, girl when compared as to manser with a New = ork shop girl has to be more obsequions than her of lowa has : ing salmon deve lop | to the SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL A machine to cut rubber soles for shoes Las just been perfected in Boston. The electric lamp promises to aid ir exploring the internal parts of living ani- mals, The fastest of British cruisers, the 8hel- drake, twenty-one knots, just launched, is a steel twin screw, Belfast, Ireland, is the centre of real linen making, as Dundee, in Scotland, is of hempen fabrication. An alloy that will solder either copper or porcelain is made from fine copper dust or granulated zine, The root of the garden poppy is now largely used in France t= bind the earth! of railway embankments, A mountain of nearly pure iron has just been discovered near Lewisburg, in Greenbrier County, W. Va. i { | Saxony wool, the very finest in the | world, comes from sheep that sre a cross | of the Spanish upon the Saxon merino, | By breathing hot air at about 212 de. | grees for two hours daily it is said that | consumption can be radically cured. The new Bwedish process of electrical | tanning promises to revolutionize the | leather trade in the old world and the new. is the weighs Among very late inventions “pocket typewriter, than four inches, less | by four which ounces ana is thre In an electric road the power the en. | gine devolops is directly in proportion t« the work being done, whether or a dozen cars are in the one Cireuit Paper makers will shortly have all sub. stances for their own. A Frenchman has just patented a process by which excel ent pulp is made from forest leaves, Osnaburgs were originally made of flax, instead of, as now, coarsely spun cotton The name comes from the Dutch town of Osnaburg, where the fabric had its rise. A novelty in the application of electricity to musical instruments has lately a in Germany by which a me electro-magnets changes the timbre of the tone. wement Owners of the pine straw pater to establish five mills, each guar: turn out 2,000,000 yards of bag time to wrap the bales of this 3 ton crop. Lightning has slready been known strike overhead electric light wires and discharge itself through the dynamo earth to the imminent danger of the machine, Big beds of asphaltum rom which can be made the best asphalt pave. ment in the world, have just dis covered the Western Kentucky t is stated that the only part inderground line that will not maintair a very high insulation during the part that is exposed for the purpose of making connections X sandstone, been song new railway lines of f ar storms The fashionable bent-wood furniture is made of red beech timber, which is sawed into two-inch strips, then softened by superheated steam till it can be bent by hand to the iron molds ypon which it © left for several days to dry. The Calumet and Hecla copper mine in Michigan is to have an immense wheel that will weigh, including water, 400, 000 pounds. It will lift 30,000,000 gal lons and 2000 tons of sand every twents four hours. It will be the largest in the world. A - A Canadian Game Fish, In appearance a fresh-run salmon and 8 fresh-run winanishe do not differ much more than salmon from different rivers, The back of a winanishe is greener blue, and in a fish just out of water can be seen to be marked with olive spots, some thing like the vermiculations on a trout: the silvery scales are moe iridescent, “he X-marks are more numerous and less sharply defined; the patches of bronze, purple and green on the gill-covers are larger and more brilliant, and with them are several large round black spots. As the water grows warm the bright hues get dull, and toward autumm the rusty red color and hooked lower jaws of the spawn. | As the winanishe, | unlike the salmon, feeds continuously, | and in much heavier and swifter water | than salmon lie in, it has a shmmer body and larger fins, so that a five-pound win- | anishe can leap higher and oftener than | th of a grilse and fight like a ten-pound salmon. 8 SS080n affvanoces. The variety of its habits, which are a | | compound of those of the trout and those | Ix England rsore than a quarter of a mil | A | of the salmon, with some peculiarities of | its own, gives great charm to winauishe- angling, and opportunity for every style from the ‘floating fly” on tiny hooks cast. It takes the fly readily when in the humor, though wary and capri. cious like all its relations, and fights hard, uniting the dash of the trout with the doggeduess and ‘~~muity of the salmon. In railway and hotel prospectuses the winanishe weighs from five to fourteen pounds. In Lake 8t. John and the De. charge the average is two and a half; four-poundors are large and not too plentiful, while six-pounders are scarce. we Scribner, Squirrels Raised by a Cat. Bome few weeks ago Russell Rice, a farmer living near Scottsburg, Ind. found a nest of five young squirrels in the woods and took them home and 1 them in care of the family eat. cat at once adopted the squirrels and mbsd then io the same manner as she Yigink and draw” of the salmon | —— Ep ERNIE Ho] NEWS AND NOTES FOR WOMEN, ' Tennis dresses are made with redin. gotes, Miniatures are being revived for orna- ments. There are ladies who pay $85 for their corsets. Ladies’ boot heels should measure one inch high. Greek drapery is driving ont the Em- pire style, There are 1400 Sisters of Charity in this country. Green is decidedly the favorite color of the season. Round and belted waists remain in fashionable favor, Grey cashmere house dresses have vest® of pale pink crape. Lace will be just as much used as ever for summer gowns. Wigs may be worn by some of the ladies this summer. Striped flannel as thick as a blanket is used for bath robes. Kid gloves come in a variety of colors to match cloth gowns. Ten gowns are more closely fitted to | the figure than formerly. The bridal veils worn by very young ladies are always of tulle. Mme. Clemenceau, wife of the French diplomatist, is an American. The Connemara closk was first adopted in London by Lady Dufferin. Nothing looks more old-fashioned than { a dress with a large bustle, The bustle has diminished so in size that it is not worth talking about. Ladies’ walking boots are made with tops of cloth to match the costume, Bome ultra-fashionable ladies have monograms worked on their sun ume brellas, The Geologleal Bociety of London has rejected a motion to receive ladies as members Miss Nellie Cushman is said to be a fine mining expert. She is known through. Arizona. Mrs. Ella Dietz Clymer is the fairest and youngest presiding officer that Sorosigy has ever had. Spring sky is the fanciful name of pring ¥y n poplin color. Itis a dull leaden colo reflecting silver lights. Mrs. Robert Goelet, of a fortune of $3,000,000, which her hus- band made in hardware, out Little girls wear turned down frills of embroidered muslin in the neck and | sleeves of their best dresses. Notwithstanding the encroachments of polonaises and redingotes, round snd belted waists remain in favor The bottom of redingotes is never bor- dered and the trimming is always per- pendicular and on the fronts. Few entirely black costumes are now seen. As in former years, they sre left to those who are in mourning. A Belfast (Me.) woman has entered a machine-shop to learn the trade, and proves a remarkably apt apprentice. Young Mr. Phelps, of New Jersey, has just set out with his mew wife and a steam yacht for a two years’ bridal tour, It is not surprising that the Princess of Wales is losing a little of the bloom of youth, considering that she is nearly forty- five —- 3, The ““woman with the iron jaw,” of 1 thrcus fame, is a resident of Ridgeway, Penn, She has the work . Effective combinations of seasonable colors are chestnut brown with ecru, mor- dore with biege, garnet with old rose, green with white, The Empire hat, with its broad brim in front and cut closely across st the back, bids fair to be the favorite shape the coming summer, traveled nearly all over There are many new cotton stuffs for summer. They come in all shades of red, in blue of different tints, in pink, in gray and in lavender, Miss Maxse, a girl of sixteen, the daughter of Admiral Maxse, of the Eng- lish navy, was the first lady to ascend the Eiffel tower in Paris. Very full frills of plaited lace or rib. von, like the Medici ruffs, will be a fa- vorite neck finish for dressy corsages as It is said that it will soon be fashionable for women to wear wigs instead of curls, crimps, bimids, waves and curls, “all my own hair, you know.” Black in combination with colors is still favored, but the two-tone effects now $0 popular have already moglified the former craze somewhat. Worth, the great Paris milliner, de. clares that American women know how to wear their clothes better than any nationality that comes under his hands. One of the prettiest of new brooches represents a section of fence in gold, with bars half down, aad at the base a bunch of daisies in white enamel. The women of Louisville, Ky., have rights association, the New York, has LA
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