Immigrants are pouring into the western part of Louisiana. - The population of New York Is now enlarging at the rate of about one hundred thousand a year, Groenlund, the German political economist, believes that socialism will be tried during the next century, Judge Arnold has decided in Penne sylvania that a married womun who gave a note in payment of her hus- band’s debts is responsible therefor. The cost of living in India increases year by year simultaneously with the depreciation of the currency. important article of consumption considerably dearer than ago. Every is 20 years The amount of precious metals that go into the gold and silversmith’s arts Europe consumes up- wards of $24,000,000 worth of gold and silver annually for plate, jewairy and ornaments. is enormons, They are seriously discussing in Eugland the project of building a cantilever bridge 200 feet high, and carrying two railway tracks, the English Channel. cost is $173,750,000, The estimated the official published by the Ministry of Comuni- cation, 12,000 According to returns persons have suffered f:om railway accidents iu Russia dar. ing the past ten years. Of this num. DCTONS | | satin-striped tuffetas or a changeable | surrah, LADIES’ DEPARTIENT, ——— VALUABLE AID TO TRAVELERS. The Woman's Rest Associa purpose | Tour tion of Boston exists for the of enabling women whose means are | moderate to travel intelligently, to get the best and most out of ther wanderings, whether for rest or in-| formation. and | The annual fee of £1 on- | titles its members to a trustworthy schedule of expenses, (oa list of good lodging houses on the Continent and in England, and to various books pubs | the viuluable suggestions. lished throughout year giving | Though this is its first year, the association has 850 menibers.—[ New York Post, the { pearl necklace 6 narrow flounce, The bodice had zouavo fronts, tastefully trimmed in lace truils uf orunge wime and flowers, The slooves were slashed at the top with lace and finished ul the with a pufling of satin and orange wrist buds, A long, square court train fell from the shoulders, trimmed with lase in deep points and ornamented with A of orange blossoms with a long tulle tratls of orange blossoms, coronet veil surmounted this costume, und tho jewels worn were a diamond and with pendants.—New | York Presa CHRINOLINE IN PALS, Discussing the chanees of crinoline, | the Paris correspondent of the London GOWNS FOR THE EXPOSITION, | to cotton Chicago, for very | It is not advisable mnke gowns for wear in often there are not five days in a| whole summer there when they could be worn, A better choice would be a soft white or challle. Wool-—crepon, A white serge, with a blazer or jacket and silk blouse, would be comfortable | and if further change be desired, add a heliotrope | cooi-looking; and silk-and-wool silk, crepon or a novelty | goods, and a preity one of the These can be made as elabor. | ate as fancy dictates. - SEEING MRS. [Demorest, | CLEVELAND, | Mrs. Cieveland, wife of the Presis | | dent, sces a few people by appoint. ber 4500 were killed and 7500 wound. | ed. San Francisco is the banner city for saloons, declares Picayune. to every 93 persons, the New Orleans It has one such institution Albany, N. Y,, comes next with one to every 110 per- sons, and New Orleans one to every 121 persons. No deed is not copied by other philosophizes the Yankee crime is so heinous that it too terrible to be some perpetrator, Biade. No will not be imitated. y flocks. Burglars, assassins and ras- cals of all Kinds sheep. Firebugs usually fly in are as gregarious as The women of Kansas have had the right to vote in municipal elections since 1877. The Populist Legisiature has voted to change the Constitution 80 as to give them clections, suffrage in state provided the proposed amendment shall be ratified by the 14 uia Fil tion. Wt tiie Next general cloce Pacific rails The I roposed Dritish road, to be baiit from Vancouver to the northernmost limits of British Colombia, will open up a timber belt exceading in area the timber belts of Washington aud Oregon, the Chicago Herald estimates. This road may at no distant day become a part of a ye to Alaska and evenfu- tem extending ally to Behring Straits and Siberia, The route to Alaska has been traveled over and found to contain few serious obstacles to the building of a railroad. If Brooklyn is a city of churches, remarks the New York Tribune, Ha- vana is a city of hospitals, nearly all devoted fever patients, and as the disease is not prev- These are to yellow alent during the winter they are closed The Mil- itary Hospital is the largest, and it is said by those who have quar- tered thero that it the dirtiest. Every club—military, politi- cal or social—has iis own private hos until warm weather sets in, been is also one of pital, to which members are sent when poverty or necessity for isolation ren- ders it impracticable cared for at home. for them to be The New York News observes: “The recent speech of Senator Dawes on the growth of the United States was necessarily interesting. In his active political carcer the venorable statesman Las witnessed pearly half a century of his country’s advancement. One feature upon which ho dwelt is worthy of special mention, It is the fact that in the westward movement of the centre of population, the line almost oxactly follows the old division between the free and the slave states. Starting at a point 23 miles castward of Daltimore in i800, it lias traveled westward st an average of almost exactly five miles a year. It has so closely followed the 30h peraliel of Istitude that the extreme variation is only 25 miles. And now, afier hay- ing traveled 500 miles to a point near Columbus, Ind., it is x miles south of the starting point, The salient fact Liere developed is the steadiness with which tho Bonth has maintained its share of population in spite of the fact that the great bulk of Immigra- tion has been absorbed by the northern sta‘es.” ment. In fact, any one can meet Ler | who takes the trouble to send a note requesting the favor. The secretary, | who has charge of the matter, answers | the letter, appointing a time for the ] | of small-flow ‘red, and dotted | ; . i t-stik-eanvas nd eclamines, a visitor to call, Care is taken that | many engagements for one day are not arranged so as to bring a crowd to- gether. Each is shown person into the receiving-room gradually so that every one has a chance (0 converse a few moments with the President's | wife before the next guest is anp- nounced. These appointments are generally made between the hours of 12 and 1. — [New York World. MOURNING SILKS, For summer uses in mourning - are | new semi-diaphanous silk and fabrics imitating crepons and China wool crapes that are very handsome, also of silk veiling, or creped lustreless silk. grenadines with alternate stripes There are also many elegant varieties | silk for light mourning called surah Antoinette, and checked and halr-lined black The India silks with black ground sprinkled with and white surahs. white flowers, and whitegrounds with be effects allover arabesque design will 8, equally fashionable with shot in Liack and white, plain or with the changeable ground dotted with black. The choice French ginghams this sea. son, both in colors and in black and white eflects, follow very closely the handsomest designs in summer silks. ~ [New York Post. ERUNETTES AND BLOXDEA, The brunette type is becoming more numerous in England and on the Con | tinent. This news for the blonde. Mr. Gladstone, who observes most things, said some years ago (hat | is sad light-haired people were far less nu- merous than in his youth. ment was borne out by the results of the statistical inquiry undertaken by Dr. Beddoe, who examined 7 and found that 369 were brunettes and 867 blondes. Carrying the inquiry a step farther, Dr. Beddoo learned thal 78.56 per cent. of the brunettes had Is 26 women the blondes wero married. From this it appears that in Eugland a brunette bas ten chances of being wedded to the nine chances of the blonde; and Dr. Beddoes went on to argue that “the English are becoming darker be- canse the men persist in selecting the dark-haired women as wives." The same thing is happening in Germany, in France, in Switzerland and else- where on the Continent.~ [New York Commercial Advertiser. — BRIDAL GOWN OF A FUTURE DUCHESS, At the wedding of Lord Arthur (Girosvenor, who will one day be the Duke of Westminister, to Miss Shof- fleld in London, the bridemalds were all dressed in bongaline, with short skirts and large, coarne, brown straw hats, hued with Malmaison pink vel. vot, bows, lined wd pluk. The bride's dross was a rich ivory satin with a deep flounce of old Fiem. ish laos in front falling over a fringe of orange flowors lhield by three rouloanx of satin, and small bowsof the latter with orange blosseins placed at short intervals along the heading. Above this, near the waist, there wes { 18 divided on the subject, i is dead | voted in Seg | opened women candidates | stadies, and to conler ils those who are successful in i aminations. This state | News says: “The dressmuking world M. Duchet against it, but in favor of { & modification of the present fat skirt which fulls behind in the form of a half-closed fan, and outlines (oo closely the back breadihs veut them tratling, flounced under skirts to be worn with | the bell-shaped dress skirts he is turn. | ing out, The flonnces are thickly | gathered and extend higher than the | Knees, and when in white muslin or cotton, will be stiffened with starch. But I do not think that the crinoline, taking the form not of a stiff Lair. { cloth, but of steel hoops, can ever be revived in a general way. The tidy, short, chinging skirts with little sar- the of 1DLro- plusage are too well suited for tramacar and other cheap modes locomotion which have been | duced under the republic to be quietly given up. The Jady in the wilor- made dress can scale the top of an omnibus, This would be impossible with cumbers m e underskirts. Toure ing would, by reason of the many trunks which the proposed change in the fashion would necessitate, become much more difficult, This is a time of locomotion and the wealthy are those who rush about over the world the most. WOMEN AT COLLEGE. President Andrews of Brown Uni. | versity and Dean Snow of the Women's College adjunct to the uni- versity, have issued a circolar in the interest of the college, showing what has been done and what is jotended. The corporation of the university ptember, 1891, to opens all its examinations to women. 1892 In June, » it voted to open all its degrees women. In the ft to women holding to same month already bachelors’ degrees of liberal edueation securing special permission, all the conrses of ustirucs tion intended for graduate students on the same terms as to men. So far as . foci 8 HS graduaio uepariment is concerned, the university now places women on exacily the same fooling as men. lun respect to justruction, examinations, degrees and, substantially, expenses, The all the (v0 sexes are treated alike university also offers to examine in undergraduate degrees on these ex- The cireular says; “The considerable number of wo. men candidates for undergraduate ex- aminations has induced a number of gentlemen in the faculty to institnte systematic preparation for these exam. inations. all Classes are formed in the branches elected, and are in- structed by the same men who have in charge the correspunding classes inside the university. There Las thus sprung into existence a women’s college, tech- nically and legally under the university only so far as ‘its examinations are s , | concerned, yot in effect a department husbands, while ouly 68 per cent. of ! did . of the university, so closely connected are examinations with the instruction therefor.”"— [New York Independent. FASHION NOTES Neapolitan straw hats will again be worn this summer, The leading color for outdoor wear is undoubtedly purple. Kid gloves with gauntlets of finest lace have appeared. the What is called “white wool grena- dine” is a new material for evening dresses, The fancy in jewelry is the making over of old-fashioned earrings into stickpins. Among the newer things is the Egyptian bangle of silver, from which miniature mummies hang. Plain materials are employed more largely than they would otherwise be, because of the many beautiful trim. mings, Cuffs worn outside the siceves are among the new fancies, and are shown in Jace, linen and kid, while with onl- ing gowns the kid culls sre chosen to match a iace corslet of the same. are held up to pre- | M. Worth has not | { made up his mind, but he is preparing * and to other women 4 ) FOR THE HOUSEWIFE, HOME-MADE TOILET SOAP, A thrifty housewife who has pienty of time makes a very pure and agree- able toilet sonp for clapped handg from white Castile soap. The soap is sliked very thin and put in a double baller with glycerine equal to ones twentieth of its weight, After the sos) has melted and mixed with the glycerine, let it partly cool, then stir inenough oil of cassia to give a deli If essence of orris root is used instead of cassia the ente odor and monld. sap will have the fragrance of violets, TO CAN DAMSON These ure a small, dark plum, and a Pick ofl the plums; PLUMS, great favorite for canning, the stems and wipe pire ctpful of water to one of sugar, when pre- a sirup in proportion to half a it boils, put in your plums and cool shwly, from five to ten minutes; have your glass jars hot and clean, especi- wily see that the covers have been stalded, dip into jars and screw covers an, stand them on the head awhile, to le sure they are air tight. Keep all canned fruit in a cool, dry and dark place. — [New York Observer, SCALLOPED ONIONS. Onions may be peeled easily and vithout discomfort if they are firs! @vered with boiling water. After tiey are peeled boil them for an hour u F's al bh salted water, changing the water that waler, Past twice during time. Drain cut them divide tiem in eighths) and arrange them in be white tie onions from the ia quarters (if they are large 8 baking-dish that to ta- tle. them, sprinkle can sent Then pour sauce over with butter and sea soned bread-crumbs and them in the set oven brown. This makes =n to toothsome and sustaining dish hot weather, A By souffle Wash Itis a FYLE OF of sonal SPINACH. spinach is especially nice. Iwo diffi quarts itl sili spinach, uit Lo give this measure, becanse of the liberality of quantity. arecn-grocers in giving out this [here shonkl be consider i ably ever a cup « { spinnch when it is cooked, Look Lik spinach n abu - dance of boiling, salied wale fo abou hea drain it and minnies: i plunge it into cold water, When it has become a little oold press out all the moistare and rab it through a tne 3 Add the volks of three eggs, a Hite tablespoonfals of whipped cream and sieve. pinsh of pepper, salt, " the whites of four eggs whipped fo a siif! froth Ir thie cream aud egy n as delicately and alitly y ih, raliu folding them in than s 2 them, I buliers ¥ m o With the | ( iration an Dane 15 mintntes Mashed parsnip AE A very delicate sonffl aid Wo Vv i vegetables may be assed for it pose.— [New York Wor HOUSEHOLD HINT I ink is spattered on woodwork it may be taken out by scouring with sand and water and =a little ammonia; then rinse with soda waler. (wo? When acid has been dropped on any | article of clothing, ame the appy acid: liquid monia to kill then app chloroform to restore the color. The fine Japauese cement is made by flour quantity of cold water and then mixing rice with a sufficient boils ing gently, with constant stirring. Pine tar is excellent burned in a sick as a disinfectant; it janduces A of hot milk flavored with orange flower waler, or one of room sleep. cup beef tra, is excellent for an invalid just belore retiring. When matlrosses are stained starch wet into a paste with cold water. Spread this on the stains, first putting the matiress in the sun. lo an hour or two rub this off, and if not clean repeat the process. Bonben dishes of gold are made take | more beautiful by the litle Dresden | panels with copies of celebrated paints Ings upon them. They can be almost a monopoly only for the rich, as they are worth their weight in jr ciow metal, To remove specks of dirt from the eye, immerse the eye in cool water, then wink and roll the eyeball until the desired eflect is obtained. To re. move a cinder, draw the upper eyelid over the lower one and blow the nose with sufficient effort to force the tears to flow. To wash a muslin dress, Make good lather and wash the muslin in cold water, never puiting it in warm water, even to rinse it. If the muslin In green, add a wineglass of vinegar to the walter in which it Is rinsed; if lilac, the same quantity of ammonia, For black and white musline, use a small quantity of sugar of lead, | | VEARLS OF THOUGH, He who foresees never nets, The busy Lave no time for tears Wise men never attempt anything, Noture aud wisdom always say the game, Cheerfulpess may be an admirable cloak, Without trampling the cleverest cane not get rich. The greatest things are done by the greatest fools There may be pride even jo cone fessing mistakes. Observe moderation in ull things especiully in virtues, There 18 no grace in a benefit that sticks to the fingers. Men's motives are mercifully hidden by their shirt fronts, Zeal without knowledge is like ex- pedition to a man io the dark, When you lose a leg begin at onee to practice with a wooden one. There is no calamity which right words will not begin to redress, The consolation of those who fail ig to depreo late those who succeed, If you cannot become rich, remem- ber the many miseries of the rich, I'he most charming attribute of friendship is the right of candor. Dives is never an example, because nobody considers himself really ric Aun extraordinary haste to discharge an obligation is a sort of jugratitade. Oat of ten men nine are born to work for the tenth, Resoive to be the uth, The veil which covers the face of faturity is woven by the band of mercy. The Lest way to make a man Lonest is to make Lim sshamed of being found oul. The power lo do great things gone erally arises from the w ngoess tn do small things, Everybody says that gentle 3 Ja an accident, and everybody (treats it a8 a0 achievement, —-— o— Can't Stop Tipping.” “] see,” remarked a well-known man aboatl tows the other dav, “tha we a ¢ in the midst of anot L] of thos period ontbreaks agninsg I ng, but it wou't make a bit of diflerence; tip. Ping will go on ust Lhe same, NO few people will conceive the notion that as 8 matler of principle they onglit to refrain from tipping and they will try it for a few days and then will con ide that for the sake of their own peace of pind ‘ j hoy’ yn lin ue i “(13 Cy ior Lin eal { ei ® “The fact is requires m . Ri ebel aga Ave tein than if does lo 1eVoil agaifsl ale most any other so astom. 1 know wlicreof | sveak. for i've *veen there,’ and I'Jl jast tell you how it works When you withhold the usual tip you become palufally aware that the wal. ter thinks you are frightfally mean. You would like to explain to him that yon sre only making a noble and be- roic fight for principle, but of course that is out of the question. Now, nothing hurts a man’s pride so much as 10 fee! that somebody thinks him mean. He could betler endure being thought & gambler or a bunco steerer, Lis You become afraid 10 look thal or a man who didn't pay debts, waiter in the face. Next time youn dine some where else and again incur the odium You don't get hardened to it: you hate it worse of undeserved contempt, each time, and after it has gone on three or four days yom just say to ‘Hang something else~<this thing has got to stop. | can't stand having people think 1 am mean when I know I ain't. ; devil take the principle of the thing.” Then you resume tippiog and are happy owce more.” [New York Herald. yourself, iv —or —-— Anwmsthesia from Terture, An extraordinary thing happened daring Mr. Seney’s last illness. While a friend was with him he was smitten with a violent attack of angina pecto- ris. It seemed as though his sufferings were more than the body could stand and survive. The paroxysm lasted for more than an hour. After it had passed he opened his eyes as one who awakes from a sound sicep and said to his friends: “Why, 1 have been asleep, haven't I 7 So that it seemed the ex cons of pain and struggle had really produced a sort of anmathesla, and the case will be discussed at a meeting of onaof the medical facultios. [Phila delpaia Press The United States exported during 1802 canned goods valued at $1,008 £20, In 1891 the tolal export was vals ued at $703,880, QUAING AXD CURIOUS, ——— The first wasps. Petroleum was first utilized by the Indinns, the papermakers were The Japanese name for bicycle is jetensha. The largest cave is the Mammoth cave of Kentucky. The Pennsylvania, 1701. first cosl mining was done in The only fresh water fish in the Caunry Islands is the eel, The largest mammoth tusk ye! dis. covered was sixteen feel, Two Philadelphians are in jall for counterfeiting one-cent pieces. There are 122 diflerent varieties of roses in a garden at Lexington, Fla, A watch carried by the Emperor Charles V, In 1530 weighed tween’) seven pounds, The tomb of Mohammed is covered with dismoads, sapphires wm ad 1 £, valued at 10,00 The diamond, if laud in the sun ar then carried into adark room, distinet phosphorescence Excessive rope- cmed the armping death of Dessic Woodward, a girl of Washington, D, ( The diamond mines of Braz ve yielded over 15,000,000 carats of stonos, valued at $1 . A third set of natural tect 5 comme to Dbiess Mrs. Join Su { Kingston, Canada. Her age is 9 Tie Roman army under Augustos, B.C. 3, comprisnd 40 legions, with 25,000 Lorse and 37, ig it=armed regulars. The misericorde was a small dagger with thin blade made to reach the viiais of an a agouist between the Joiuls 4 the armor. Boiling oil, hot water, melted pitch mn and salphur were always in rea liness slur. during a medieval siege to repel ing foroes The battle-ax was originally a Celtic Weapon. The aucient Irish carried axes as the men of other natious - ried swords, A humpback whale which went ashore in Crake's Bay, California, t other day measured seveuty-eigh: feet ong and nine wit The Pelew Islands ve about 1 } inhabitants and are very fertile. Their situation between the Philippine Islands and the Caroline Islands, both Spanish colonies, is regarded as a sign that Japan intends 10 encroach on Spanish possessions in the Pacific. as int John Christianson has made one of e deepest dives on record. He ged into the waters of 1} 3 I Washingt and afer ty y 1 os 14 : y 1 ead ' and a bucked from one of the haiches of 1 tug Majestic, lying at a depth at half £ i de of 16 [eet He “p= parently suffered y great inconvens ence, People who have taken fhe Lake Superior steamers at Port Arthur have noticed the high, jong dike of basal that pushes into to water from the northern limit of Thunder bay. The Indians believe that this ridge is the grave of Hiawatha, or, as he is called there, Manibozho, and few red men pass the spot without dropping a few | of as an obiation to his sj wads or a) tobacco in the ipefu walel nil He Was a Little Dull, A Penobscot County farmer, speaks. ing of a former hired man in his em- ploy, remarked “He's a pretty good sort of a fellow, John is, bul he's a little duoll—a After a moment's further thought he “It may be necessary to explain that a bit. I'll tell you how ‘tis with him. I had a pretty nice field of onions growing, but they stood a little thick together and need. ed thinning out. So 1 told John he might do it. Heo worked away at them for a day or two and then I wen, out to see how Lo was getting on, 1 found he had pulled up all the biggest ones and thrown them away, leaving only the smallest plants in the rows. I asked him what in creation he had pulled out all the best ones for, and Le said "twas "to give the little fellows a chance, ‘cos the Lig ones had crowded them and they couldn't grow.’ A little duil, John is, a little dull "Lewis ton (Me. ) Journal, He Was Answered, He~—Well, what have you there? She—Two of your old letters, my doar, “ He~Umph! What's the first o that 40-pager? i Bhe—One you sent mo when I had a slight cold before we were married, This balf-pago is the one you last winter when I was neacly dead with the grip. That's all, dear.’ [Trath, quietly: little dali.” continued,
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