i — oh PROMINENT PEOPLE, ASTOR'S income is $23,000 a day. Tux German Kaiser is a poor dancer, RENAN, the French historian, is sixty eight years old, Tunex sons of the great author of **Pick- wick” are still living, Deax HorrMax, of England, is the rich- est clergyman in the world, MR. axp Mus, Grover CLEVELAND have decided to name the baby Ruth. Tux late William Heary Smith, of Eng. land, was nicknamed “Old Morality.” Tirroo Tin, the famous slave dealer of Contral Africa, is about to visit England, SENATOR CALVIN SB, Brior's first labor was over law books ina country law office in | Ohio. |] GENERAL LEW WALLACE has rocontly so- cured patents on a fishing rod and rail coupler, Louis Kossurnt is now in his ninetieth ear; he lives in Italy, and his health is airly good. Ex-Goverxor J. Mapmwsoy WeLrs, of Louisiana, is now eighty-five years old, and almost blind, is now a millionaire, turnsd the windiass of a mine hoist in the early days of Helena. LIEUTENANT SCHWATKA, the explorer, has returned from a trip to Alaska, in which he explored 500 miles of totally unknown coun- try King Huumsent, of Italy, has conferred upon Professor Virchow the decoration of the Grand Cordon of St, Maurice and St. Lazaire. Litrre Queen Wilhelmina, of Hollana, has an income of about $250,000, Her reign will begin August 31, 188, when she will have attained the age of eighteen, WiLLiaM WALDORF ASTOR says he lsn't going to live abroad at all, but will stay right in New York and put his $0,000,000 an. nual revenus from rents wherait will make his next year's revenue £10,000, 000, Ox October 7 Colonel A. A. Parker, who was graduated from the University of Ver. mont in 1813, celebrated his one hundredtl birthday at Fitawilliam, N, The old gentleman's mental facultios are sound. ALBERT CUsICE, a full blooded Onondacs Indian, has been ordained a deac a of th Episcopal Church. He has been a lay reader in the mission at the Onondaga reserv ation, and he is the first Indian received into the Episcopal Church, Ha is the interpreter of the tribe, and he is learned in the traditions and dialects of the Six Nations. QUEEN Victoria has just completed a reign of fifty-four years, there befng only two British sovereigns who have exes iE her in this respect—Henry 111, who reignad fifty-six years, and George IIL. ffty.nine years. She is also third with reference to age, she baving been seventy-two vears i on May 24. Those who have sxeee ied her in this respect were George II. who died when he was nearly seventy-seven, aud George 111, who died at eighty-one year THE DESPATCH WRECKED, She Went Ashore On Assateague (Va) Shoals in a Gale, The United States steamer Despatch while on her way from New York to Washington ran ashore on Assateague shoals on the Vir ginia coast during the night and was totally wrecked, The weather was thick and nasty that night, and the commanding officer of the Despatch hugged the shore too closely in bis efforts to avoid the full fury of the weather, and her dangerous position was not discov ered until it was too late to avoid being driven on the shoals by the heavy northeast gale which Jrevaiiad, There is hardly a more dangerous and treacherous place along the const than As sateague. The tug North America went to hor assistance The Despatch was firmly fixed in the sand, broadside on to the beach. A high sea was running and rapidly pounded her to pieces, The Assateague life saving erew succeadnd in getting ber officers and crew ashore in safety, and they were properly cared for, There was little or no hope of hauling the vessel off The grounding of the Despately is not a new experience with the Navy Department. This is the fourth time within a year that sho has thus distioguished herself, but on each oc casion she bas been hauled off without incur. ring serious damage ae Despatch succeeded the old Tallapoosa as the President's yacht and despatch vessel about six years ago, Her days as a despatch vessel were already about ended. The Dolphin is now being fitted at the Norfolk yard to take her place, and it is expected she will be ready for the service in about sixty days. The Despatch upon being relieved was to be assigned to duty as a freight boat after a general overhauling, of which she was badly in need. nt DAVID HEAGAN was sentencad Tor larcmy by Judge Bond in the Saperior Court in Hoston, Mass, to twenty-five yeary impris onment under the habitual criminal The prisoner is fifty-four years of age. law Tax formally eal for $1,000,000 of organization, — ——— ————— i ——— THE MARKETS. 9 NEW TORK. BAYER, + ouvonsinnissiiiansss 355 a4 10 Mileh Cows, com. to good... 22 00 @45 00 Calves, common to prime... @ Ss» 8 RARE EE meat of the World's Fair has upon the city of Chicago $5,000,000 voted to the te Door ENPSESRRL BE graded Mixed... Oate~No. 1 White. ......... Mixed Western. ...... Hay—Fair to Good, ........ Straw RES..c0n0nns. Lard—City Steam.......... 08.30 Butter—State Creamery... BEE! 2ESgRE.S83 25583880868 Bevenes x TILA | ae abBEE Po Westorn, . Egpy—State and Penn........ BUFFALO, Medium to Good, ... Flour Best Winter, an Wheat No, 1 Northern..... rere 11 BES3BER ere wk SEL H86E63 SOSELBE8SE6S FR EA RRs aa an —-_—- Rose,..... 1 00 q es Cheese N Hay~Fair...... ar ti JA on paetrine.. .14 LARA EE ETT ERE EERE AP AAAAL LEE TE TT TT TT BESSEE araztIsse FX = 382820 ses : SEEERR ce23 AEE ET] Bhd wy Extra Ahad % | bas osen nouvtied that A —-— WORLD'S FAIR NOTES. PENNSYLVANIA'S Exposition building will 20st $75,000, Tux Florida Horticultural Society has asked for three acres in which to show an orange groveand make a fruit dispiay, SOUTH DAKOTA is now engage! in raising £30,00 for its representation at the Exposi- ton, It proposes to errect & building 144 | Tost square, BIDS ure soon to be iuvited for 450,000 Square feet of sidewalks for the Expositioa grounds. hese walks, for the most part, will be torty feet wide, INDIANA will have a $100,000 building at the Fair. It will uot cost that much, how- ever, as a large share of the material, all of which will come from that State, will be aonnied, I HERE will be not less than twanty-five restaurants, as weli as numerous cafes, in the Kxposition buildings, It is toe intention of the Exposit.on authorities to protect visi- tors from exhorbitant coarges, IT is expected that thers will be fully 3000 { dogs entered in the Exposition bench show, The various kennel clubs proposes to supple | ment the already satisfactory premium list + by a number of very handsoms medals, Ex-Govenxor Houser, of Montana, who | ’ : THE total expense of organization, admin. istration and operation of the Exposit on is estimatad at nearly $5,000, 000, Chis takes no account of thesams tw be speut by the Government, the States or foreixu nations Ine State Department at Washiagwon Hussia nas appointed its royal World's Fair Commission, and that tae Presmdent of it is Privy Coun. cillor Bear, Director of the Deparinent of | Finance, Fraxce has asked 25,000 and The Ha sue 11,000 square feet of space for their picture exuibits alone, Until recently it was thought that the weakest feature of the Exposition would be its fine arts exhibit, Now, howe. ever, it is believed thas this wil be one of the vest of all, Tue owners of one of the finest business corners in Chicago have decided to erecta $1,000,000 sixtesn-story building to be called “The Columbus” in honor of America’s dis. cover, The plans contemplate a structure strikingly artistic and ornate in appearance, Of the Spanish style of architecture Tue Western Union Telegraph Company intends to frame handsomely the first tele Eraplr message ever sent, which was in May, 1544, and exhibit it in the Electrical Depart ment at the Exposition. The message was received by Professor Morse at the Capitol in Washington, from an assistant in An Hanoi HE American Pomological Society, at its recent annual meeting in Washington, de cided to make an exhibit classified by State and conuty associations, and also by indi. viduals; and it appointed a World's Fair committee of six ww confer with the Hort cultaral Department, and to perfect ar rangements 17 is not thought probable, now, that there will be any tower at the World's Fair, The projectors of the most promising tower scheme abandoned it when they found that they would have to take down their tower when the exposition ciosed, because the Park Commissioners refused to grant any subse Guent use of a site, DR, BErroLLTE, Commissioner of the La Platte Republics, bas informed the Latin American Depart neat that he is endeaver. ing to securs for the Exposition & coway of lace makers and gold and silver workers from Paraguay. These people are ingen. lous, their product being equal to that of the Brussels working women, and the fact that they use vegetable fibre exciusively makes their work of even greater value and interes: ASIDE from the cost of the great building, which will be not far from §7,000,000, the following are among the sums which have been or will be spent in preparation of the Exposition grounds: Grading sad filling, $450,000; landscape rdesing, $25 M0; viaducts and bridges, $125,000; piers, #70, 000; waterway improvemeots, S285 000; raliways, $500,000; steam plant, $800,000, slectrio Nghting, FLO: statuary, $10, 000; vases, lamps, ote, $50,000; Inke front adornment, $30.000; water supply and sewerage, $600.00); other expenses $1,000 - 000; total, $5 948, 00, NEWSPAPER MEN KILLED. They Were Riding on an Engine Which Lett the Track. A terrible scoident, res Hing in the death of three members of the Cuicago Inter Ocean stall and the serious injury of several other passengers, occurred on the Chicago and Eastern lllinois Railway a few mornings ago about 11 o'clock at Crete, II). The desd are: Leonard Washbarne, sporting editor of the Inter-Ocean, Fred. W. Heory. a re porter recently from Loulsville; J.J Meo Afferty, an artist, recently from St Louis; James Clark, engineer The train left Evansville early that morn. ing and preceeded miely to Crete, where it ran into an open switch. The three news. paper men who were killed were on the engine, Henry and MeAfferty having gone out for the purpose of writing up and illus trating a midnight ride on a fast train. and Washburne, who was returning to Chicago from an Indiana trip, bavieg Joined his friends on the engine. As the locomotive plunged from the track the four men were caught and burried beneath the wreck. The engine and CAr were oom pletely destroyed wo passenger conches | and the sleeper wore more or less . K | The round-house at the a nal. | #troyed and fell upon the wrecked engine, engine Fireman Lafferty jumped from the wan slightly injured about the breast stomach, and and — RIOT IN URUGUAY, Revolutionists Shot Down by Troops In Montevideo, There was a serious attempt at revolution at Montevideo, Uruguay, on a recent even | ing. The membars of a revolutionary club in the suburbs of the city fired upon the troops statione | near at hand The latter returned the volley with deadly effect. Several mae ware killed outright and many wounded. Many of the ringlea i ors of the assault, including a priest, Rave been apprehende |, Attempts were made to asswmsinite Presi. dent Obes and to cupture the members of the Junta, but they wers unsacomsfui, Babe sequently the Insurgents ware dispersed ani ths city me quiet. The troops ia the neighborhood number about 500, WHOLESALE HANGING, Three Mon and a Woman Expiate men and a woman for the murder of John Aller, bis wife his mother and a man named | SABBATH SCHOOL INTERNATIONAL LESSON FOR OCTOBER 25, Lesson Text: "Christ Comforting His Disciples’ —John xiv, 1-8; 15-27 Golden Text; John xiv, 16-Commentary, L “Let not your heart be troubled; ye be. Heve in God, Uelieve also in Me.” The pass. over lamb had been eaten, the supper to commemorate. *‘The Lord's death till He come” had been instituted, and very soon now He would go forth to His ony in Gethsemane, but He thinks not of {imself; He fools for thess sheap whom He is soon to leave, and He comforts them, 2, “In my Father's house are many man. slons; If it were not so I would have told you. I go to Prepare & piace for you." After the resurrection He sald, “My Father and your Father xx., 173. Being in Him, His Father is our Father, and all the glory liven to Him Io shares with us (xvii. 23), Phat the mansions are we may not know, is one prepared for me, If we are redeemed at such infinite cost, what must the prepara-~ Hons be which He is making for our eternal welfare? And should not such a divinely preparad place wean us from the vanities of this present world? 8. “And if Igoand prepare a place for Faw I will come again and recsive you unto {yself; crept into the church upon this verse. A yery common idea is that when we die our | Lord Jesus comes for us to take us to heaven | and thus fulfills this promise, Bo the blessed Lord of life and glory is said to come in the | Kuise of a great enemy, the last that is to be | destroyed (I Cor. xv., 20), and instead of the 1 complete victory of a redeemed body as well | as a redeemed soul, we are sald to have at | tained the highest possible bliss when Christ obtains part of us—the spirit and the devil holds en to the other part—the body in the | grave. Mary and Martha did not so look upon the coming of Christ to their home; | read John xi, 21, 32. Neither did His discl- | understand His coming to mean death (chapter xxi, 23 23 | 18. “If ye love Me keep My command. | ments." 6 Verse we are now upon will ba { more fully before us in verses 21, but notices [| xv., 10, “If ye koop My commandments yo | shall abide in My love." and I John v,, a “This is the love of God, that we keep His | commandments” Then I Joba iil., 23, opens | to us the meaning, “This is His command. ment, that we should believe on the names of | His Son Jesus Christ, and love one another | as He give us commandment. 16. “And I will pray the Father and He sballfgive you another comforter, that He may abide with you forever.” The Spirit is pot Christ, but a different personality, evea another comforter, who would be to them all that Jesus was, and who would never | leave them. The sams word Bere transiated Yocomforter” inin I John i, 1. translated ! Yadvoonte” and 5 used in reference to | Christ 17. “The Spirit of Truth: cannot receive, because it sooth Him not, | peither knoweth Him; but ve know Him. for Ho dwelloth with you and shall be in you." Because He is a Spirit of Truth we exnnot | know Hun unless we are truthfu “Thou | desirest truth in the inward party” (Ps il. | 6). Jesus is “The Truth,” and He will not | send His Spirit to one woo is not wi Hag to be freed from all deceit and Iving 18 “I will not leave you comfortiess: | will come to you" The comforts of the Spirit do not depend upon health, wea th, mition or {riendship, but may be enjoyed Jy every true believer. Yet the child the bride chamber will long for the personal coming of the Bridegroom, and like Mephi- bosheth, will fast and mours for Him til He come) Matt, ix. 15; [I Sam. xix. 4 3 {10 “Yet a litle while and the world seeth ! Me no more; but ye see Me I live i yo shall live also.” He is alive forevermore (Rev, 1, 18, and wing reconciled 1 death, much more shall we be saved by Hie (Hom, v., 10 Hut we tor the when we shail be with Him ant like d John $15.; 8 Phil, ii. %0 9 20, “At thatday ye stinli know that | in My Father, and ye in Me and | in vou” Hearts ized upon that day hen we shall sit with Him on His throne t i and wee His oneness witht with Him will constral | sewvice 21. “Fe that hath My comms keepeth them, be it is that Jovets that loveth Mae shall be loved of and I will love him ant will mas self to him.” This includes verse fi{teen and indicates how we may know that we Him. If we love to do His will and take 4 light in His commandments: more to us than gold or silver, our daily food, then we may know that we love Him and may expect manifestations of the Father's love Jesus Himself to our sous 2. “Judas mith unto Him, pot lsoariof an of tw atine omg Him an sdmentis and a M w that aval Lord, how is it that Thou will manifest Thy- | self unto us and not unto the world™ This was | Judas the brother of James, the sou of Ak ous, who also wrote the Eolstie of Jude | y he knew | with | (Lake vi, 16; Jude ©). Like iil not Jesus though he had been so loug Him (verse #), 2. “Jesus answers] and said onto him, If a man love Me he will keep My woris: and My Father will love Him, and we will come unto him and make our abode with Lim.” Here He again enforces the test of our love to Him, as our love to His ward. How can one be said to love another even in this word if they love not to hear from each othes when absent? If we love not to hear from Him every day, and take no delight in laying His # in oar how can we be abd to love Him* 34. “He that loveth Me not keopeth not My sarings: and the word which ye hear is not Mine, but the Father's which sent Ma* He here repeats the marvelous statement of verse 10, and chapter xii, 40, that whatever words He uttered wers not His own, but only the Father gave Him to my. Yet thers are those among us who covet to be to my ng ia prayer or testi. mony which no ous else I 2. “But the Comforter, which is the H Ghost, whom the Father will send In M but every beliover may thankfully say there | that where I am there ye may be | also.” A great perversion of Beripture has | ve 3 ey Sn Ne PEAR PIES. i The late pears that do not ripen until they have been picked some time make | nice ples. Line a dish with rich crust {and fill with sliced pears, dotted with , butter, and sprinkled with sugsr to | sweeten and cinnamon to flavor, | With a top erust and bake. | raise the crust and pour in a couple of | HOUSEHOLD AFFAIRS. tablespoonfuls of sweetened cream, — | American Agrieulturist, MUTTON COLLOYS. Have ready some neatly trimmed, rather small, thin slices from he chump | | { | | | in butter until a nice brown all over on | both sides, remove from the stewpan and | {add a little more butter with chopped parsley and a little finely-choppe | | onion (or shalot), stew quickly until | done; then add a tablespoonful of catch- | Up, a little less of flour, hall a pint or | less of good stock and the juice of half a | lemon; season well with pepper and salt, | return the collops to the sauce and make them very hot, but do not boil them. | Berve with potato balls or mashed potato, ~~ Chicago News, MKS. WASHINGTOX'S CREAM DRESSING, Boil four eggs bard; whip a pint of | Sweet cream in the usual way until about half of it has been used; have ready four | teaspconfuls of lemon-juice and dry in | the oven parsley enough to make 8 tes. spoonful powdered; rub the hard yelks | to a paste with a fork, mix with them | one qyen teaspoonful each of salt, pow- dered sugar and made mustard aod half that quantity of white popper; with thess ingredients smoothly biead the liquid cream, a few drops at once, then the roasted parsiey and the whipped cream, | aod finally the lemon-juice a few drops at a time with coustant beating; serve as { #00n as the dressing is done on any kind | of salad. This a fair substitute for a Freach mayonnaise. ~Julict Corson, MUTTON POTPIE. Cut most of the meat from three or four pounds of the less shapely parts of your mutton, and put the bones over in plenty of cold water; then cut the meat in thick slices and these in inch squares, Cut also half & pound of salt pork in thin strips about two inches long by balf an inch wide. Add a small onion with two cloves stuck in it, snd simmer the whole for an hour longer uatil the meat is quite tender. Have your crust ready, prepared as for chicken pot pie; drop it in with a handful of chopped parsley or a little thyme, and boil until the crust is dome. Roll threes or four milk crackers, and add this powdered cracker to a cup of sweet cream. Take {| up the meat and crust, thea drop this in sad let it come to a boil, and pour over, Now York Olserver, KITCHENR XOTES. A large earthen bowl should always be used [or stirring cake in. A rug under one's feet is restful when long standing is necessary, as in froniog, | or in washing dishes. | If the kitchen table has no casters buy a set and put them on. It is not a dif filoult matter and will save a deal of strength, Clocks are too cheap for the tired housewife to spend her time and streagth in running from the kitchen to some other room to consult one, Many vegetables are better for not having the skin cut before being cooked. For this reson, as well as ease in cleans. | ing, a vegetable brash is a nocessity, Put a little peariine in the greasy pots and roasting pans, and it will greatly facilitate cleaning them; especially if | you stand them on the range to heat the | water, Not only have a hagh stool which per- | mits of your sitting to do many kinds of work, bul an easy rocker in which you can do many others, or can rest in an | oceasional odd moment, Pieces of pasteboard, with holes an inch in dismeter by which to hang them lacing under hot cooking dishes, Or, papers ALSWeEr every purpose, holding dish towels in miny weather (lor like. A twine bag, with a pair of shears found in every kitchea. So, too,should 8 pincushion and small mirror. One can table that would not be given if com. pelled to go to one's chamber or the bathroom, The dampness and unwholesomeness of an under cu such as one finds in nearly all style kitchens, can be remedied by boring numerous holes in the front and end with an inch a soln ime 1 design and detract in no way from its looks, Cover | When done | | of the Gulf Btream Is » end of a loin of mutton. Fry the collops | | detect the scaly animal without actually some | { rather than for | around the great circuit that f on a convenient hook, are excellent for | king this, old wrapping sod pews. | If the range stands near a corner of | the room have two slabs fastened across the corner, three or four feet apart, for | they should always be hung in the sun | when it shines), stove.cloths and the baoging convemently near, should be easily find time to give a becoming touch | to their toilet before going to the dining | 0DD LIFE IN GULF WEED, CURIOUS ANIMALS THAT TRAVEL WITH A GREAT CURRENT, A Little blance Fish's Protective Rosem- 10 the Weed Floating Weed Crowded With Lite . It is surprising what curious ercatures live in gulf weed. Not the least extra. ordinary of these inhabitants of the float. ing alge which are borse on the current fish that makes its pest in the weeds, For itsown protection from enemies, it 18 male like the weeds themselves, being oran re. Httie Ky NEWS AND colored with white spots, that one cannot i" taking a handful of the vegetable in which it seeks shelter it. The fish builds its nests } together bunches of the grail and se long, sticky, gelatinous string are not laid in a cay buted through the finger-shaped, « the weed fronds. hands than pl wed for walking througn fing, SWithmming. ipes them in nests, The great Gu northward along "iso putting If cutrent, inj the Atlantic coast is with SArgasso bea its eddy the famous INATIDEe Tassel, CArries along wi endless stream of life the gulf weed which floats u in “windrows,"” varied kinds, bring with them from the tropics creatures multifarious, conveyed by the mighty river of warm water through the midst of the cooler ocean, Most of them die when the cooler latitudes are reached, and thus it happens that the larve of many forms are found on the Nantucket snd elsewhere in places to which the adult animals are unknown. They never live to grow up. The floating weed is crowded with life. One cannot 8 piece that does not carry many or prawns of diffe gers. There crabs, too, small and bigger, which mostly imitate the grasses in their coloring, Of smaller crustaces there are numerous species, such as the so-called Barnacies are crustacea dergone a *‘retrograde metamorphosis, as it is termed, heviog been mers in the early stage of their existence. They, too, tax passage on the seaweed mits and voyage to land of no seeking their fortune In the gulf weed, also, is an infinite number molusks, some with shells, and others without r. Among Istter are the ‘“*sea slugs.” resemblin the garden slugs, t which are true mol Another mollusk often picked up among the gulf t an in connection with pon it The wi of shore » of gulf literally pick up shrimps kinds as passen. ”t reas are egen cles which have un. free swWim- the ywhere, of devourers of usks also, weeds is the beautiful argonaut, a cephal. opod, celebrated in the mythic story. It is only the female srgonaut that is in. teresting; the male has no shell, and is very small comparatively. There are ios of curious marioe worms among the gall weed, such as the ‘sea centipedes,” abundant in the West In- dies which have long detachable bristles that sting the hand like nettles when the animal is cautiously These in cre ating drift Intter floats until destroyed soring of the ship worms that affording a lodg httle erustacea. icces of drift. grasped, worms hide oes of 8 wood, The by the | atiack it, ment for haras bmi hes they fox meanwhile WE ana follow the H wood as are carried along by the current, ling upon both crustaces and seabirds skim i meals upon the same sinall animals, There is a spe- cies of crayfish, too, found in the weed baraacle while about, depeadin many g for their that makes a curious clicking noise with its claws What most people call the “fruit” or ‘seed pods’ of the gull weed are simply little air vessels designed for the purpose of keeping these interesting vegetables afloat Microscopic creatures called “‘briveoa” weave arouad the wir cham. delicate lacework, which oftes remains io shape after the vegetable matter has decayed away and disappeared, thus forming exquisite filamentous cap- wiles. ‘However, these are only a few of the passengers that journey by the path of the Gulf Stream on rafts of drifting weeds, — New York Sun. bers a EE ——— A Mountain of Glass. A mineral discovery of unusis is reported from Kamoursska, in Caoada, It is stated that an « mountain, composed of silicates, other- wise knowu as vitriflable stone of a purity certified by the provincial engineer to average ninety-eight per cent., has been | found. This material is used for the | manufacture of the foest glass, aod it is | believed to exist nowhere else on the | American contivent in such purity. The | RR —— A —— rh OTES FOR WOMEN] Felt is in great request in Pans, Busan B. Anthony is a vegetarian, Jet nail heads or eabochonus are sure of being in style, The Princess of Wales has paid #250 for a tabby cat, Argus feathers are to be used on hat brims this season, ’ Over 400 women are studying in the Bwiss universities. London female journalists have formed the **Writers' Club.” Black shoes with flat heels are the or- der for carriage wear, Embroidery and laces are the trim. | mings for fine lingerie. Hats trimmed only with ribbon de. | mand a generous quantity, White hair cloth is going to be fash- lonable again for furniture covers. Sofa pillows are square and the same ¥ize as the French use on their beds, Becrotary of Agricultural Rusk says that women make better meat inspectors that men, Mrs. Amelia BE. Barr, the popular nov- elist, has been the mother of fifteen children, As represented by statistics Adelina Patti, the prima donna, is forty -cight years oid, Mrs, Harriet Beecher Stowe, the au- thor of “Uncle Tom's Cabin,” is over eighty years old, Gold key rings are among the little favors sect to brides and grooms by poor but elegant friends. Six thousand women are employed about the “brows” or mouths of British con! and iron mines. The Woman's Alliance of Chicago is one of the most powerful bodies of work. ing women in existence, A favorite exercise with English women is fencing. The young Princesses ot Wales are said to be adepts at the are, An application has been made to Postmuster-General Weaasmaker by a woman for appointment as a railway mail clerk. It is said that the Duchess of Fife has had nine cradles presented to her for the new-born great-granddsughter of the Queen, White frocks are made up, piped with blue, red or some other color, having white revers and full fronts, the basques pointed. Embroidered flanselsin pale pink, blue and lavender make ve:y pretty skirts for children, and keep clean looking longer than white, Ribbed goods, after the manner of Bedford cords, are among the hand. somest woolens, and will mival the 4nest habit cloth. Miss Marie Louise Blaine, niece of Secretary Blaine, has been appointed a clerk in the United States land office at Helens, Montana. Faced cloths, cheviots and camel's bair sre commended for tailor gowns that are to be worn again, both in the bouse and street. Political sdveancement of women is rapid in Bombay, India. One woman has even been admitted to the Senate as & worthy member, Mrs. Mary E. Holmes, of Rockford, Ik... proposes to invest £75,000 in a col- ored female literary and industrial school to accommodate 150 pupils, Some new traveling bags are made in fine Mackintosh cloth, applied to firm but light-weight leather. Fire gilt and brass trimmings are used instead of nickel- plate, Emma Abbott's wardrobe, whieh is said to have cost $200,000, and was left by will to the prima donna’s sister, was sold at suction the other day for §1,- 954.05. An odd invention, manufactured at the suggestion of a New York lady, is an esamelled orange, which opens and dis. closes a watch in one half sad a purse in the other, Women, says the Postmaster-General of England, are found to make excellent postmistrésses, and 10 manage their offices as well as some and better than many pen, Plain colors remain, as always, the safest choice both for service and refined effect, but figured goods abound in telles, in F stripes, ia cronbars and in marbled designs. For walking dresses dark chestout | brown cloths, various chrysanthemum shades of purplish red and gray Provincial Government has been asked | © by a deputation to guarantee four per | cent. interest for ten years on $100,000, | if a local company subscribes that amount, to develop the new industry, and has promised to consider the request if the principal municipality concerned is prepared to take a fair share of the risk. New York Commercial Advertiser, An Apple Without & Core. i it H fail F i | + ! i: fo: | i T I | H
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