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VOL. IX.
EIDGWAY, ELK COUNTY, PA., THUKSDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 1879.
NO. 39.
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Lessons on tbe Way.
Starting from the cradle
Toward the grave below,
Trending in the footprints
- Made to long ago;
Do we note the landmarks
AU along the way T
Do we stop to gather
Wisdom, day by day T
Do we see the rivers
Made ol human tears T
Swelled by evil passioas
Fed by craven fears ?
If so, are we stronger
Battling with the foe ?
Are we hourly growing
Wiser as we got
Do we heed the breakers
With thoir sullen roar T
Do we see the timbers
Strewn along the shore T
Wrecks of human greatness
Foundorod in a night
Do we mind our rudder
Bettor for the sight T
Beacon lights are shining
From the hills and towers j
Angel voices calling
In the darkest hours!
Let us heed the warning,
AU along the way
Lot us gather wisdom
While we watch and pray!
THE DAISY'S PROPHECY.
"Rich man, poor man, beggar-man,
thief, doctor, lawyer there Julia, my
fate is at last decided. Three times the
daisy has said I am to marry a lawyer ;
so let me hear no. more abeut Luke
Hartwcll's well-stocked farm; or the
significance ot'Squire Day's glances into
our pew at church;" and Kate Morrison
looked up into her elder sUter's face
and laughed merrily. Julia's annoyed
expression was very amusing to her.
" You are so foolish, Kate," said Mrs.
Bertram in a tone of vexation. " Not a
day passes that you do not get sone new
freak into your head ; and you are as per
sistent ami stubborn in clinging to it as
as "
" A mule," said Kate, as her sister
hesitated for a comparison. "Don't be
afraid of hurting my -feelings, Julia;
you know I am hardened to scoldings,
and willing to confess that I do cling to
an idea with tolerable firmness. Hut I
always did bolieve in telling fortunes
by the June daisies, and I am morally
certain that I shall marry a lawyer. I
shall wait for him if I am as gray as a
badger when lie comes along," and
. again Kate laughed, tossing her long
curls with a determined motion of her
small head.
" I don't know where you ever ob
tained such notions, Kate," said Julia,
whose fair brow was still drawn witli
its vexed expression. "I am sure
mother has taken the same pains it.
your bringing up as she did in mine,
and tried to instill into your mind cor
' rect ideas of woman's duty. And yet,
here you are twenty-three unmarried
and unsettled. Why, I was engaged to
Charles when I was only nineteen and
married at twenty."
" But then you had such a good offer,
Julia. There are not many men like
unaries."
The wife's face wore a serene expres
sion again" as her sister paid this
tribute to the manly excellence of the
absent husband.
" But you seem so hard to suit, Kate,"
she argued ; " I am sure Luke Hartwell
is a very fine young man ; do be a little
civil to him; and there's Squire Day,
who is as rich as a prince and owns the
finest span of horses in the county."
" wouldn't marry a man for the sake
of his horses," said Kate, setting her
lips firmly together.
"But you would learn to love him
for himself after a time, Kate."
"I'm nfraid it would be a very long
time, Julia. The old scarecrow wears
false teeth, a red wig, and has six cross
red-headed, uninteresting children. I
know I couldn't do my duty to them."
" But suppose mother should die.
Kate? Luke Hartwell will have the
farm nt once, and you will be left pen
niless." " I will teach the district school when
that happens," said Kate, cheerily. "The
squire is one of the trustees, and lie
would see that I got it if I was just the
least bit pleasant to him."
"Very well," said Julia, now really
Hushed with anger. "Go your own
way. The doctor said last week that
mother was breaking up very fast in
deed, and you will leel sorry for your
obstinacy when you see Luke Hartwell
in possession of this place."
"Oh, my lawyer will come along be
fore that evil day comes," said Kate.
" It is of no use to croak yourself hoarse,
Julia. The daisy has spoken, and I
have faith in its prophecy. I felt sure I
was not doomed to be the wife of Luke
Hartwell. or the second Mrs. Day."
The sisters had now crossed the mea
dow, where the litt.e daisy had been
ound by Kate, and were within the
sweet old garden of Bower Farm. Julia
went at once into the house, but Kate
stood under an old, gnarled apple tree,
and looked around her. Was this dear
old place with its wealth of fruit and
flowers to pass away from them, and be
come the property oi Luke Hartwell? It
Feemed hard that at the mother's death
it should not become the property of tier
daughters. The cottage was half-smothered
in creeping roses, white and red,
sweet honeysuckle and passion-flowers.
Three old oak trees mounted guard ia
front, and at the hack stretched out the
old orchard, in which Julia and Kate
had played in childhood. The commo
dious barn, the airy stable and the grass
crown farmyard were all dear to Kate's
heart from long association with her life.
The farm had belonged to Mr. Andrew
Hartwell, an unele of Luke's He
had loved Mary Penrose, but she had
given her heart and hand to Arthur
Morrison, who had led her a sad life for
tweive years and, dying, left her penni
less. Andrew Hartwell had not mar
ried. Ho had remained an old biehelor
for the sake of his early love, and when
he found that she had been left forlorn
and poor, with two little daughters, the
younger only a year old, he installed her
at once on Bower Farm, and at his death
l ift it to her for life; then It was to re.
vert to Luke, Andrew's brother's child
, This decree was only just; yet it seemed
- hard to Kate, who had lived here
twenty-two years and loved every sticK
and stone on the place. She it was who
managed the dairy and poultry-yard
who hired men to farm the land and
made money enough to support herself
and mother comfortably. Mrs. Morri
son's days of activity were long
past. She had managed the farm
with great executive ability until rheu
matism crippled and confined her to - an
easy chair, and the farm had gone into
Kate's willing hands. Julia, who was
elder by nine years, had grown up and
married ; but every summer saw her at
Bower Farm with her two children.
She found it both convenient and eco
nomical to pay her mother and sister a
long visit during the hot weather.
Kate's happy disposition made her a
general favorite in the neighborhood,
but in spite of much attention from the
sterner sex she was still single, which
Julia seemed to think a disgrace to her
self and family. But Kate only laughed
at her arguments and snubbed Luke
Hartwell on every occasion, and was
deaf to the compliments of Squire Day,
who had singled her out as the one best
fitted to minister to the wants, and un
dertake the education of his six auburn
headed olive branches.
The month of June was fast passing
away, and the roses were blooming more
luxuriantly than ever, and sending their
fragrance into the kitchen where Kate
was kneading bread, when Luke Hart
well came over the meadow with shamb
ling gait, determined to try his fate, and
" win or lose it all."
Kate's sleeves were rolled up to her
shoulders, and her arms were white with
flour, but she was net at all embarrassed
by Luke's appearance.
" Good afternoon," she said, shaking
back the curls whicn were drooping over
her face, "will you stay out here, Luke,
or shall I call Julia to take you into the
parlor P It's none too cool out here."
" I came to see you, Kate, and I don't
mind tbe heat."
" Well, sit down and make yourself as
comfortable as you can. I am too busy
too talk, but I 3an listen well enough.
But now Luke did not know how to
begin his tale of love. He had prepared
a neat speech in his mind as he walked
over the meadow, but every vestige of
it naa nown irom ms memory at the
first sight of Kate. He therefore twisted
ilia fingers backward and forward in an
awkward manner, moved his chair half
a dozen times, and coughed repeatedly
before he could summon courage to
speak.
" Kate," he said at length, with a kind
of choked gasp, "I've been intending to
come over here for some time back."
" I believe you were here only yester
day," replied Kate, coldly. "Oh, was
I ?" stammered Luke, " but I've come
for a different purpose to-day."
" You came to ask the address of that
man I had to cut wheat for last year, 1
believe."
" Yes, I wrote to him yesterday. But,
Kate, don't blnft"me off so; I've come to
ask you to accept Bower Farm as your
own," and he blushed crimson as he
made what he thought a neat speech. '
" Very kind of you, Luke, I'm sure ;
but it isn't yours yet, so I don't see how
I can accept it from you."
"I see you won't understand me,
Kate; and I'd better be plain in my
speech. I have. had a liking for you for
a good many years, and I believe I'd
make as good a husband a9 you would
find in the county."
Kate made no reply, and the droop
ing curls concealed her laughing face.
Encouraged by her silence, Luke pro
ceeded :
" You shall dress equal to any woman
round here, and I'll make you a present
of that colt I'm breaking. You know I
ain't poor, and you shail live as well as
anybody in these parts."
" I'm sorry to disappoint you, Luke;
but I don't care to marry you. Please
don't begin to argue, for it would an
swer no purpose."
" I made sure you would have me,
Kate. But I'll wait, and try again after
a spell"
Ao, it would be useless to try again,'
interrupted Kate. "The fact is, Luke,
I am going to marry a lawyer." she
added, with a pucker of her rosy lips at
Luke's unconcealed amazement at hear
ing the information.
"A lawyer!" lie exclaimed, "Well,
that does beat all! And I never even
knew you wcro receiving 'tentions from
anybody but me and the squire. I s'pose
you wouldn't tell his name, Kate?"
"No!" said Kate, " You'll know it in
time."
Luke bade her " good afternoon " and
went out, meeting Airs. Bertram in the
garden.
"I took your advice," he said, stop
ping in the path, "and asked her to
marry me; but she says she's going to
marry some lawyer," ana witnout wait
ing for a reply, walked rapidly away,
his heart sore with chagrin and disap
pointment. Julia went into the kitchen and
"spoke her mind" to Kate verv freelv
To throw away a chance of keeping
Bower Farm in the family, was, in her
opinion, reauy criminal.
" You are crazy, Kate. Haven't I
warned you over and over that you will
be left penniless, old and faded at
mother's death? You will be an old
maid, no one will have you then, and
oh good heavens, what do you ex
pect
"I expect my lawyer," coolly an-
swereu ivate, pairing iu imooui loaves
of bread in the pan.
"That is the craziest notion of nil
I gave you credit lor more common
sense, Kate, than to believe ineuch trash.
It is really too ridiculous ot talk about."
" men don't talk about it," said Kate
"lam not anxious to hear your elo
quent harantues on my poor little
daisy s prophecy."
" But vou can't mean that von will
throw away good chances for the sake
ot a suiy notion."
" I mean that I will wait for my law
yer," said Kate, still smiling.
" How you cling to that idea! I've
ni patience with you at all. If Luke
had been a lawyer, would you have
married him ? Come, let's see now much
you really think of that idea,"
"I didn't say I'd have any lawyer,"
answered Kate. " I mean to choose my
lawyer. I pulled every leaf off the
daisy, and it left the last one a lawyer;
so a lawyer it will be : and I mean to
wait for my lawyer until my lawyer
ramM"
"Honors!" cried Julia, "don't use
that detestable word again. I am
utterly sick of it. I hope I'll never
more see one of the profession."
Kate laughed out loud as her sister
fled to the parlor, worsted in the battle.
Tke first week of July came, and one
fine day when the sun was sinking in
the west, Squire Day drove up to the
front gate of Bower Farm, hitched his
horses they were certainly handsome
creatures and entering the house asked
to see Miss Kate. Jul fa saw tke arrival-.
and leaning over the railing at the head
of the stairs, heard the question. She
knew at once what was meant by it;
he knew on what errand the portly
squire had come, and she prayed that
Kate would not throw away this second
chance of settling herself advantage
ously. Squire j Day, was able to buy
Bower Farm three times over and
twenty more like it, as far as money wss
concernea. . , . . - r .
Kate went into the parlor without
even a glance in the glass to see if her
appearance would be apt to please her
elderly lover. She knew as soon as she
siw the shiny appearance of his boots.
the new suit ot broadcloth he wore, and
the general aspect of -the whole man,
that lie had come to ask her a very im
portant question. And she was not
mistaken. Ia a brief but impressive
manner Squire Day offered her his name
and heart.
Julia kept her head out of the window
until the squire came forth. She had a
good view of him, and knew by his de
jected aspect that he had been refused.
This was a little too much 1 Kate de
served a serious reprimand now: and.
prepared to deliver it, Julia ran down
stairs and met her sister in the hall.
'So vou've rejected the sauire." were
Mrs. Bertram's first words. "Well,
vou've taken your own stubborn, foolish
course, Kate Morrison, and sou'll have
only yourself to thank when you are an
old maid with your pretty looks all
gone."
"I won't spend much time thankine
myself," said Kate. " I will buy a bot
tle of Bloom of Youth,' and paint my
cheeks, and go to work at the district
school."
" Kate : vou mav laueh now s but vou
won't laugh so much ten years from
now. Squire Day is so rich, and those
lovely horses"
" And lovely red-headed children," in
terrupted Kate.
" What matters the color of their
hair. The squire is rich, and loves you,
and would give you an elegant home.
Good heavens! what do you expect?"
" I expect my lawyer," was the laugh
ing answer.
Kate! I told vou never to mention
that word again. I have no patience
witn sucn tolly. lou refuse Luke Hart
well; you refuse Sauire Dav. Do vou
think a prince is coming to "woo you?
if ijt-ii uiwi jruu uc wuiLllig lui r
" Waiting for my lawyer," answered
Kate, and Julia went out, slamming the
door behind her in a manner that spoke
volumes.
A few days after the squire's call,
Kate received an invitation from an old
school-mate who lived in a town a
dozen miles from Bower Farm to pay
her a visit. Julia connented to luanage
the. farm affairs for a week, and so Kate
went off for a holiday, and was gone
ten days.
'I have news for you Kate," said
Julia, as they sat at the . tea-table the
evening of gate's return homo. Your
lawyer has actually come at Jast."
" I knew he would come sooner or
later," said Kate.
"Well, he is here; or rather, is stay
ing at the Farmers' Rest in the village."
"Who is he?" asked Kate, with an
appearance of interest.
"A Mr. Alfred Pendexter from the
city. He is to be here a couple of
months. It seems he knows Charles
quite well, and enme out here the even
ing of the day you left to call on me.
He is full of fun, and you will be sure to
like him." .
Kate did like him. He. too, was very
evidently pleased with Kate. He was
tall, handsome, and a thorough gentle
man, and a favorite everywhere. He
came often to Bower Farm, and when
the fall was throwing her brown man
tle over the earth, lie told Kate that he
had learned to love her, and asked her
to be his wife. She gave him a differ
ent answer from that she had given
Squire Day ahd Luke Hartwell.
"Now, Julia, I told you I should
marry a lawyer," said Kate, when she.
announced her engagement to her elder
sister.
"Well, I am very glad you have
found him. I didn t believe you would,
but I wish you much joy and a speedy
wedding."
" He is to return to his law office next
week," replied Kate. " But in Decem
ber he is to come and take me away. I
shall believe more firmly than ever in
daisy fortune-telling after this, and shall
never forget to pick one every June."
In December Kate was married, and
her dress was trimmed with daisies
artificial, of course and a bunch of the
pretty white and gold flowers was at her
throat. Mr. Pendexter smiled as he saw
them, for of course Kate had told him of
how she hart decided her fortune.
They went at once to the pretty home
In the city which the young husband
had made ready for his bride, and over
the qyiet elegance which Kate went into
testacies.
One morning, when they were fairly
settled in their new home, Kate told
Alfred that she wanted to walk down
town with him to see his law-office.
" You won't find manv books there.
Kate. I have ledgers by the dozen, but
nothing appertaining to the law. You
can see all the grain and hay you want,
though. "
"Why, Alfred, what do you mean?"
asked Kate, pale with surprise.
" That I am not a lawyer, my dear, '
but a commission merchant. Let me
explain this mystery: I went to the
Farmers' Rest ' to stay a couple of
months, and indulge myself in hunting
and fishing. I called on your sister,
and she told mc all about you, and your
fancy concerning the lawyer. With no
thought of ever becoming more than a
friend to you, I proposed passing my
self off as a lawyer, wearied of the
courts, and in search of rest. After I
learned to love you I would have told
you my real occupation, but Julia
begged me not to do so, saying that you
were too full of notions for me to risk
it. I did not believe that, dear; but
since it was a harmless deception, I con
sented to keep it up until after I had
married you. Perhaps I had a faint
idea of being a second Lord Burleigh.
Do you feel very sorry I hoaxed you,
KateP"
" No; I don't care at all. I love you
now, so it makes no difference to me
what your ousiness is. -
" But you will never again believe in
daisies?" he laughed.
indeed I shall, she cried, with
energy. " How could the poor little
daisy tell if I was to have a bogus or a
genuine lawyer?" Florence H. Birney,
n Domestic Monthly.
Tickling induoes lauguter, except tickling in
the thro it, whioh causes coughing at once
removed by Dr. Bull's Uougn Syrup. 2S cents
a bottle.
TIMELY TOI'ICS.
It is estimated that the evangelical
work of the Young Men's Christian As
sociation, in the United States, reaches
800,000 railroad men,. 60,000 college
students and 100,000 commercial travel
ers. It is also officially stated that work
is being done for the benefit of 600,000
who speak the German language alone,
and of 500,000 young, colored men .
The councils for the settlement of
trade disputes in France in their last
year considered 35,040 cases. Of this
number 85,834 were heard in private,
and a reconciliation was effected in 18,
415 (seventy-one per cent.) ; 7,555 could
not be reconciled, and were remitted
for hearing to the general council, and
9,076 differences were settled upon
advice of the councils. As to the causes
of dispute, 21,368 cases were relative
towages; 4,7 to dismissal, ana i,75
to matters affecting apprentices.
An old Bible is now in a bookstore in
Albany that was picked up by a Union
solJier in the streets of Fredericksburg
on December 14, 1869. The soldier gave
it to his chaplain, who forwarded it to
Albany, and there it has been ever since.
It is a Latin Bible that was printed in
the year 1500. The first person ot the
Godhead is represented in it in the sem
blance of an old man with the Papal
crown on his head. The flood is pic
turedNoah and his wife with their
heads out of the window looking at the
flight of four birds. Manna is repre
sented about the size of a bread cracker,
Moses is invariably pictured as having
horns.
The Western Michigan Methodist
Conference at its recent meeting gave un
mistakable expression to its sentiments
on the use of tobacco by the unanimous
adoption of the following resolutions:
First That hereafter no young man
using tobacco in any form coming i ts a
candidate for the ministry, shall be re
ceived into this conference. Second
That those members ot this conference
already addicted to the use of tobacco
are exhorted to desist from it in public
and when in company of persons who do
not use it. Third That all circuits and
missions are advised not to send dele
gates to this conference hereafter who
are users of tobacco. Fourth That no
local, preacher will be ordained an elder
who uses tobacco.
Emigration to the United States will
reach for the current year about 160,000.
n nine months the number of emigrants
from France has amounted to less than
1,700, and will not much exceed 2,000
for the whole year. This is inferential
proof that the French are too well off at
home to make emigration desirable, a
fact whichj is a direct result of the fru
gality andSndustrv of the people and of
the enormfms benefits of a subdivision of
landed property among millions Of small
proprietors who till their own grounds,
live in their own houses, raise theirown
food, pay no rents, support no non-producing
landlords, contribute liberally
to the support of a who government and
repose in contented industry litera'ly
under their own vines and fig tiees,
with none to make them afraid of want
and none to monopolize the results of
their thritt ana ton.
Scientists are just learning that man
hears as mueli through liis mouth
as through his ears. The roof of a per
son's mouth, and the skull entire are mi
crophones, or sounding diaphragms, of
excellent properties, and serve as valua
ble assistants to the tympanum. Hence
it is that deaf persons are now being ma
terially aided in hearing, by discarding
the ear-trumpet o long used and adopt
ing a better apparatus the audiphone
a new-invented, fan-shaped instru
ment held between the teeth. The re
sults are marvelous. With it all per
sons possessing the auditory nerve may
hear. , Soueh the ears mav not be of anv
service Many who have passed as deaf
and dum vm converse with the aid of
thelnew instrument . The deaf hear, the
dumb speak let this be called the age
of miraculous inventions.
Crime is rampant and misery unnre-
ceaentea in raris at present. "The
series of crimes," says the Parisian,
"which have been committed in Paris
during the last eighteen months, in con
stant succession, has hitherto failed to
attract attention to the misery of this
great city. Foreigners who come here
and walk about the boulevards and
Earks, and visit the sights, only see the
right side of Paris. They do not visit
La Villette, Montmarte, Saint-Ouen,
the Quartir-Mouffetard, and the banks
ot the Bievre. l hey do not see the chil
dren in rags, huddled up in damp holes
that are warmed only by the heat of the
fermentation of rottng ordure. The
Parisians themselves see this misery.
and if you speak to them about it they
reply with an incredulous ' Is it possi
ble?' Yes, and from these dens come
the criminals the Troppmans, the
Prevosts, the Abadies and Gilks. In no
city in Europe is social reform more
needed than it is in Pans. The Mont
deplete, the hospitals, the relieving oftl-
ces, tne aaministrative ana judicial sys
tems are such as were created by fallen
dynasties. To say that they are defec
tive is to say very little."
Kangaroo Tongues.
A new Australian delicacv is findinsr
its wav into the London markets in the
shape of dried kangaroo tongues. The
ians nuu Dims ui uiese animais nave
long been utilized the former for mak
ing soup, the latter for leather ; and the
recent enormous destruction of kan
garoos has given considerable impetus
to tnese two trades, struck by the waste
of food occasioned by the slaughter of
so many thousands of these marsupials,
whose bodies are frequently left alone
to rot where they have fallen, a Warroo
settler maa an experiment in curing the
tongues of some of the slain, and so
highly were thev anoroved that . con
siderable trade has sprung uu in this
commodity. The tongues are usually
cured by drying in smoke like the Rus
sian reindeer tongues ; but a much better
plan is to preserve them in tins, like
sheep and ox tongues from America.
Tongues lend themselves to this treat
ment better than almost any other por
tion oi an animal, and they stand exces
sive boiling better than beef or mutton.
The Colonies and India. -
Be patient. Wait. Don't fret over
last summer's ice bill. Scientists tell
us that in 17,600,000 years ice sixteen
feet thick will entirely envelope this
planet, and then the ice man's extortions
will end. Saturday A'vW.
FOB THE FAIR BEX.
Fashion Notes.
The fashionable muff is quite small. '
Jet ornaments are beautiful on black
hair.
SuiUlare much trimmed in apron
shape.
Gold-embroidered lace is among fresh
extravagances.
Quillings of different kinds are much
used as trimmings
Brunettes are wearing tics and necker
chiefs of bright buttercup yellow.
Ostrich feathers in contrasting shades.
are now found to match the changeable
silks.
Colored chenille fringes, finished with
cashmere beads, are among new trim
mings for costly dresses.
All sorts of crawling things, lizards.
spiders, beetles, frogs and cterpi liars, as
well as serpents, are reproduced in jew
elry. The richest toilets are of black satin
and silk profusely decorated with et
embroideries, fringes and passemen
teries. A coquettish addition to a set of furs
is a bag to be worn at the side. When
the suit is fur trimmed a fur belt may be
added also.
Engagement bracelets are sometimes
substituted for rings. They fasten with
a golden padlock and the lover weais the
key at his watch chain.
Long neckties of "bright colored silk.
embroidered on the ends, have again
appeared in the shops after an absence
of two or three seasons.
The Zouave jacket reappears in vel
vet, heavily braided or embroidered
with gold, and in satin richly orna
mented with iridescent beads.
Colored underwear has been imported
in very large quantities this year, and
it is thought that it will be more popu
lar than it has ever been before.
White is much worn by young ladies
in the evening. Cream and ivory white
are mucn used. The materials are faille,
cachemire, light cloth and muslin.
Some of the new morning dresses
have the front breadths opened to show
brocaded skirts, and others are made
with House waists and panicr sashes.
Short waists are predicted as among
coming styles. Inthatcasethe "slim slip
of a girl," who has reigned so long, will
retire in favor of her more plump sister.
The fine shirrings used on undercloth
ing, are sr parated;by plain bands about
a sixteenth of an inch wide, and stitched
on both sides so that they are as firm ad
cords.
Broad bead laces and bead embroid
eries are used for side trimmings upon
dresses, separating the back from tbe
front, or for the back of mantles or the
front of bodices.
Pretty little black silk chatelaine pock
ets are painted on the upper side with a
single flour or a bouquet of roses, lillies
of the valley, forget-me-nots, or any
other favorite flower.
The finest ntvelty of the season in mil
linery is what is known as the " feather"
bonnet. This is composed almost wholly
of mounted feathers taken from the
necks of pheasants, at least half a dozen
ot which are required for one bonnet.
, The birds that find most favor are of
the parrot species, witli long bills and
very gay plumage, in which there is
yellow, green and red, as these colors
are much seen in the cashmere combin
ation. Dragon flies of brilliant colors
are for the .same reason popular orna
ments. Recently imported fans are of silk and
satin in all the new colors, and also
white and black with hand embroideries
in artistic leaf and flower designs and
jardiniere colors, and bordered witli a
double or triple row of feathers colored
to match the embroideries; the sticks
are ot carved ebony.
Harper's Bazar says that in New York
the echarpe (or victorina), with long
wide ends in front to cover the chest is
fast taking the place of the boa in sets of
fur; indeed, the boa is almost confined
to fur seal and black marten, as these
furs are more effective when made
round instead of flat.
The walking jacket of the season is
small and close-fitting, perfectly plain,
no vest, so.netimes in fact double
breasted, witli side lappels upon the
short skirt of the back, which do not ex
tend below its edge; English collar,
square, not large pockets and cuffs. It
fits like a glove, except the buttons,
which are often striking, always hand
some. News and Notes for Women
Queen Victoria's income is over $2,
000,000 a year.
A London physician lately advertised
in the Times for a lady housekeeper,
offeringliberal terms, and received 1,100
applicants.
There are now five ladies in the school
of theology of the Boston University. In
the college of liberal arts there are
eleven ladies in the freshman class.
An English school board has expelled
an eight-year old pupil who came to
school with ornamental beads in her
ears, and a Philadelphia private school
teacher refused to readmit a girl who
had been playing in the juvenile
"Pinafore" company during the sum
mer. Miss Alice S. Hooper, of Boston, left
$100,000 worth of property by will to
friends and r ublio institutions. She
eav $ 1.000 each to the Boston train
ing school fornurses and the Bethf sda
society, of Boston. The rest of her
valuable property she bequeathed to
personal friends and relatives.
Mrs. Mattie Potts, who in Mav last
left Baltimore for New Orleans, has re
turned, having made the whole distance
on foot. She averaged twenty-one miles
a day. wore out five suits of clothes.
" didn t spend a cent," was entertained
tree at all hotels and eatinir houses, re
ceived innumerable presents and sent her
trunk ahead of her by express all tho
way " without charge." .
The King of Siam,' appreciating the
results of tke English education of his
childhood, is giving the same advantages
to his own children. Princess Civili,
liis bright, clever ten-vear old daughter.
receives from an accomplished English
lady regular instruction in French, Eng
lish and German, music, dancing and
arawing. ine queen, her mother,
takes great interest in the lessons, and
is so pleased with foreignjwayg that she
triKS oi auopting the European dress,
The poor authorities of Dover and
Canterbury. England, are ereatlv nuz
zled over a supposed Japanese girl who
was recently found wandering about
the streets or the latter city
No one
there or in Dover being able to converse
with her, she was sent to London. 1 The
Japaneso consul of that city says that
there is no similarity between her lan-
?;uage and that of Japan. The girl and
ler story remain mysteries. As no one
will support the poor stranger "in a
strange land," the authorities send her
from one city to another. ,
Two Children's Trip in a Balloon.
When Mr. John Wise, of Philadelphia,
was lost in his balloon called "The
Pathfinder," the newspapers printed
many accounts of trips made into the
air, some by brave men and some by
foolish ones. A lady who lives in the
town of Centralia, 111., said nothing
until all the rest were through talking.
Then she told the editor of the St. Louis
Republican to look into the number of
the Republican that was printed On the
21st of. September, 1858. Tne editor
looked and found nn account of how
two little children took a trip in a bal
loon all by themselves. On that day an
aeronaut or sailor of the air, named Mr.
Brooks, filled his iron ship with g is on
the farm of a Mr. Harvey, who lived
near Centralia. He expected to sail up
in the afternoon. About noontime Mi.
Harvey put his two children into the
basket of the balloon just to please
them and not thinking for a moment of
any danger. The balloon was . tied to a
tree by ropes. All at once a gust of
wind broke tho ropes and. the balloon
shot up into the sky with nobody but
the two- children in the basket. Mr.
Harvey was wild with grief and shouted
aloud, "They're lost! they're lost!"
All the neighbors ran to the spot, only
to see the balloon drifting off to the north
and more than a mile high, s One of the
children was a girl, Nettie, eight years
old, and the other was her little brother,
Willie, four years old. Both cried when
they found themselves leaving the
ground and going on ; a very, very
strange journey indeed. Nettie looked
over the edge of tl.e basket and saw her
father wringing his hands away below
Soon the people looked to her smaller
than ' babies and the houses like toy
houses. She and Willie were going up,
up, up all the time. " I expect we are
goin to heaven, Willie," said Nettie.
Willie thought it. was veiy oold in
heaven, then, for tho higher they went
the colder it grew.. Nettie wrapped
Willie in her apron and held his head in
her lap until he cried himself fast asleep.
Then Nettie folded her hands and
waited. She said, "I think we must
be near the gate now."- She meant the
gate of heaven that she had heard about
in , Sunday-school. But Nettie fell
asleep, too. When she awoke she found
that some strange man was lifting her
from the oasket. The strange man was
a farmer in Northern Illinois, who had
seen a balloon drifting low down across
his field. The rope was dragging, and
so he caught it and landed tho children
safely. The balloon had floated all
night. Nettie and Willie's father soon
learned that they had been found, and
took them home two days afterward.
Nettie is now a woman the very same
one who told the editor of the Republican
to look back in its files for the story.
The Sea-Serpent Shows Himself.
Fourth Officer F. G. Rowell, of the
steamship Anchoria, of the Anchor
line, which arrived at New York port
from Glasgow, says that while on the
Newfoundland banks, he 6aw a sea-ser
pent which lie estimates to have been
fully as long as t ie steamship. Accord
ing to " Lloyd's Shipping Record," tho
Anchoria is 408 feet long, Mr. Rowell
was walking the bridge at four bells in
the afternoon watch, when he noticed a
disturbance in the water about a mile
distance on the port beam. At first he
thought the commotion was caused by
a school of porpoises, but, on closer ob
servation, he changed his mind. When
he looked through a pair of strong
glasses he saw the head and a port ion of
the body of the sea-serpent rising above
tho water. Portions of the back ol the
creature coulti bo seen rising out
of the sea at intervals as it propelled it
self along on the top of the water. Its
motions were similar to those of the
land snake as it moves along the ground.
The water in the wake of tho creature
had been lashed into a foaui by its tail.
its heaa was large and. contained an
enormous mouth, which opened fre
ouently and spat out large quantities of
water. Its tongue, which was extremely
long, could be Been at times, but no
teeth or fangs were observed. The bodv
of the serpent was round, and its color
was black, it was moving in the same
direction as the steamship,, and at a
greater rate of speed. When the crea.
tare had got a little ahead of the vessel
it sank down into the water and disap
peared. ,
Several passengers wf ro on deck at
the time. Observing the commotion on
the sea, they asked Mr. Baxter, the sec
cond officer, what the thing moving in
the water could be. He was able to
take only a hurried glance, before he was
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the performance of his duties. When
he returned with his glasses the creature
was not in sight. Mr. Baxter says he
he thinks that it must have been a sea-
serpent, and lie places implicit reliance
on the fourth omcer'n statement. Mr.
Rowell has mado marine animals the
subiect of study, and has alwavs be,
lieved in the existence of sea-serpents;
but his desire to see one of these animals
had never before been gratified. 1
. Tho Fate of Zulu Ctwards. .
What Zulu discipline and rule was.
says a correspondent in South Afrioa.
is clearly indicated by a story told by
Cetewayo himself while on his way
down to the place of embarkation. Point
ing to a bush which he designated by
the name of the Coward's bush, he in-
lormea his conductors that In front of
that bush Chake used to sit after a battle
had been fought in order to hear accu
sations of cowardice against any of his
soldiers. If a man was convicted on
what seemed sufficient evidence he was
expected to stand still with his left arm
high above his head, while an assegai
was slowly and b j degrees thrust down
ward irom the armpit till it pierced the
heart. -
One cricket would stand a poor show ,
trying to stop a railroad train, but
millions of them can do it. A Western
bound railroad train met an army of
crickets at Clarke's station, about fifteen
miles west of Reno, Nev.. and wus de
tained two hours and a half trying to
get through. To make the passage the
train men were finally forced to- take
brooms and sweep the insects cut the
rails. The crickets covered the track
for about three miles, and when the
driving wheel of the engine would
strike them thev would whirl around
I without going forward an inch.
' ITEMS OF INTEREST.
France has penny savings banks for
schoolboys. .... . ( , , ; - ,.
Postal cards, now almost universal,
started in Austria in 1865.
: The den tlst.v like the farmer may
reckon his profits per acre.
He who gives you fair words feeds
you with an empty spoon..
"Swans sing before they die." They
have to, if they sing at all.
"None' but the brave deserve tho
hair," is the way the Indians put it.
The saddest words of tongue or pen.
" Here's that collector of bills again.
There is a tea plantation atGeorgo
town, S. C., and it is paying ita owner.
Fifty is the youth of old age ; forty the
old age ot youth. So says Victor Hugo.
Cane City, Kentucky; has been ship
ping its strawberries of the second yield.
In San Francisco-bay are ninety-two
varieties offish for food. , ., . t
America had 150 exhibits at the
Industrial Exhibition at Sydney, Aus
tralia.' VI . ' ( -...
A new kind of sweet potatoe is culti
vated in Kern county, Cal., picked speci
mens . of which weigh from fifteen to
eighteen and twenty-two pounds.
Enterprising miners are mining gold
on the ocean beach in Currey county,
Oregon. The gold is found in deposits
of black sand on or near the beach.
Letter writing in Great Britain goes
largely ahead of this country, it being
thirty-one per capita there, compared
with sixteen per capita here, for the past
year.
E. E. Mack, of Albany, New York
has secured backers and is excavating a
long mining tunnel near Idaho Springs,
Idaho. The tunnel will be four miles
long.
The Cincinnati Commercial gives pre
ference to canal boats a a safe means of
travel, for the reason that the boats never
run off from the track, and the propel
ling mules seldom explode.
Some one has invented a machine for
breaking the cactus into a mass of white,
elastic, fiber, which will be med in
making mattresses. It is said the cost
of mattresses will be reduced forty per
cent.
France, Germany, Italy Austria and
Switzerland have agreed that their em
bassies and consulates shall send home
indigent persons of their respective na
tionalities at naif the ordinary railway
fares.
It is pleasant forla man to go early to
a church sociable, and then sit 1 the
parlor and listen to every lresh male ar
ri val knock liis new silk off' the top peg
in the hat rack, down to the floor.-
Hawkeye.
The Norristown Herald tells a gooi
story about a man who purchased an
alarm clock one day and returned it the
next afternoon. - lie said that it made
such an awful racket in the morning
that he couldn't sleep. .
No boy of ordinary ability, who has to
manipulate the buck-saw and ax, and
furnish tho family with fire-wood, will
think of going to work before he has
selected a convenient place where he can
hide the knoU that split hard. Uswego
Times.
The new machine for the manufacture
of paper boxes, which threatens to revo
lutionize the important Birmingham
trade; has just been introduced ty a
company in Cleveland, Ohio. A single
machine is capable of producing 15,000
complete boxes a day.
A new occupation for the young men
who are filling Up Western Texas, seek
ing their fortunes, is to start "goose
ranches." One ranch has 3,000 geese,
whose feathers are plucked every two
mouths. Each goose averages a pound
and a half a year, the feathers being .
worth fifty cents a pound.
News comes from Peru, that an Amer
ican, knowing in the geology of coal oil,
U8 discovered more and better petrol
eum oil in that country than Pennsyl
vania or California can boast. Already,
with boring tools in hand, he has more
flowing wells than he can handle. He
is making a fine quality of illuminating
oil, and he has sent East for men, means
and appliances.
Rhymes, Ftnernl and Hymeneal.
It has long been the funeral custom
among a certain class of society in New
York to append a poetic tag to the news
paper announcement of the death of a
relative. The verse is not, as a rule,
very good ; but the sentiment is sincere
and the intention respectable. Here is
an example culled from the columns of
the New York ITerald. After recording
the death of Isaac Florence, a chikj
aged three years and ' eight months, the
bereaved parents add two verses, of
which we quote the second: i .
. . KoM away those little clothes, ,
That our Florence used to wear;
He's no more on earth to need tliein,
He has climbed the golden stair.
Underneath is gravely written by way
of postscript, " He has gone to meet his
grandmother." There is a pathos un
derlying these rude rhymes . which
shields them from criticism. But we
cannot observe without protest a nas
cent practice of invoking the family
muse on the occasion of weddings. It
has come to pass, notably in Michigan,
that no wedding is complete without a
poetio address irom the parents, which
is appended to the customary newspaper
announcement of the eeretnony. To
quote one example from a score: Mr.
Oliver Hill, of Davisbugh, marries Miss
Mira Lyon,, cf Medina. The event is
announced in due form in the local
papers, with the addition of the follow
ing verse :
Oliver, you have from her ehildhood's home
, . our pnze taken ;
May she by you be ne'er forsaken,
And may Ler love to you prove always true
and unthukeu.
It must be admitted that this is not a
cheerful marriage hymn. There is a
tone of melancholy running through it
a prevision of evil pervading it not
calculated to raise the spirits of a bride.
On tbe threshold of life Oliver is marked
with the suspicion ot intent presently to
abandon the girl whom the first line
leads us to fear he has forcibly abducted.
This may be due to a tinge of melan
choly in the constitution of the parents.
Persons of more sanguine nature, would
have tuken a brighter view of things.
But, 'aprrt from particular instances,
the growth of the custom is to be deplored-
A new terrot would unques
tionably be added to matrimonial rela
tionship if on his wedding-day a man's
f ither and ra.other-in-law were, like
Silas Wegg. expected to drop 'nto i
poetry. London Newt.