HENRY A. PARSONS, Jr., Editor and publisher- NIL DESPERANDUM. Two Dollars per Annum.
VOL. XI. KIDGTVVAY, ELK COUNTY, FA., THURSDAY, APRIL 28, 1881. NO- 10
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On the Fnrm.
Roosters crowing,
Cattle lowing,
Watch-dogs baying,
Horses noigliing,
Peacocks in plumes of splendor screaming.
In the morning.
At the dawning.
Hieing early,
Heaping barloy,
The master regulating teaming.
Oxen feeding,
Weather heeding,
Bright or hazy,
Milking Daisy,
Queen of the field, pride of the dairy.
Then comes Light-face,
Then comes Bright-face,
Then Blackberry,
And Red Cherry,
The milkmaid, meadow fairy.
Ripo fruit tumbling,
Farmers grumbling,
Corn unfolding,
Women scolding,
And disappointed maidens "pouting."
When tho cream's off
Sending teams off
To tho cheese-press;
The milk weighs less,
But there may be a brook trout in.
All I the night time
Brings the bright time,
When harsh noises
And loud voices
Are drowned in deep seas of slumber.
Tho whip-poor-will
Will not be still;
She's appealing,
Without feeling,
For stripes for poor " Will " without number
In thickets hid,
The katykid
Wakes to tell na
She is jealous;
It may bo nction, of flirtations
Of some coquette
Who when she met
Sweet Katy fair
Out in the air,
Said some soft things with palpitations.
-George Hr. Bungay, inTem perance Banner.
THE MISTAKE GARNET MADE.
A little, low-browed, yellow cottage,
sleepily nestling 'neatii a canopy ol
branching hemlocks. Here dwelt Mrs
Darley, or the Widow Darley, as shi
was commonly called by the inhabitant!
of Linden. Here, since tho depurturt
of her niece, Garnet, her brother Rob
ert's child, for the city to leam the
dressmaker's trade, which event occur
red a couple of years ago, she had lived
alone, subsisting on the produce she
raised on the few acres of ground at
tached to the cottage, which she man
aged to sell or baiter away for groceries
at n thriving town three miles distant.
Day was fast verging into dusk. In
deed, for some time twilight had lain
gray upon tho scene, and only a silver
line kissed the purple tops of the dis
tant mountain. The Widow Darley sat
by the window busily engaged in darn
ing a wretched-looking stocking over a
mammoth mock orange, bemoaning
with her every stitch her recent attack
of rheumatism which confined her to
tho house, when she was thoroughly
conscious of the fact that her services
were needed out doors. Now was the
time to dig her potatoes, now the time
to gather certain appbs, and do
everything in fact; and here she was,
not only unable to get about, but so
heiiril trammeled by debts that she
found it impossible to secure the assist
ance so much needed.
" AVell, I declare I"
This exclamation wan caused by the
rumbling old stage coach, that daily
passed her house, stopping at the front
gate, from which alighted her niece,
who ran lightly up the walk and into
tho houpo followed by a strongly-built
mun, bearing on his shoulder a good
sized trunk, which he deposited in the
hall ere making his exit.
" How d'ye do, Aunt Susan ?" with a
hug and a kiss. "Not a slave to rheu
matism, I hope V"
" Yes," replied Widow Darley, who,
by the way, was a tiny woman of fifty,
with a face not unlike the wrinkled ap
ples that grew on the tree in the garden,
" the monster has me again in his
clutch. But, whatever brings you
home ? You haven't surely been Bent
adrift '"
" Yes, aunt," a tremor of ain thread
ing her voice in spite of her efforts to
appear unconcerned, "times are dull,
and Madam Brown has so little work
that she deemed it expedient to dispense
with the services of those girls who
proved the most incompetent. I, being
the least skillful of all her apprentices,
was discharged without regret. Most
summarily she dismissed me, withhold
ing the few quaint words of commenda
tion she grudgingly bestowed upon the
others. I have no taste for dressmaking,
and am termed a regular botch. Not a
very good recommendation to help se
cure another situation, eh ? But, never
mind, aunt 1 I see I am needed at
home How are things prospering V
"Not at all," in her most dolorous
tone; "the place is fairly weighed down
with mortgages, and, for aught I know
to the contrary, Mr. Lincoln may fore
close any day. YeB, any day may find
us without shelter. Our larder is about
empty and there is no money to replen
ish it ; all of the flour has been scraped
from the barrel, and to-day I was obliged
to borrow a pailful from Jane Gray;
then, too, there is not a tea-leaf in the
cuddy and I do not know how to exist
without my cup of tea. I had meant to
have dug a. few bushels of potatoes and
got Mr. Denver's horse to g to obtain
some of the things 1 cannot get along
without, but I am good for nothing
good for nothing 1" with a profound
sigh.
"Never mind, aunt, don't worry. I'll
see what can be done in the morning."
And next forenoon, about 10 o'clock,
with a hoe swung over her shoulder, and
a half-bushel basket in her hand, in
w hich reposed a half-dozen potato bags
end a dainty repast done up in a news
paper, she (rudgftd to the potato lot, to
see what could be done ; for the widow's
niece, Garnet Embers, was a girl equal
to any emergency. She was a slender,
graceful girl, neither blonde nor bru
nette, but a combination of both, as
pretty a creature as one would care- to
see, with her wonderfully fair complex
ion, tinged with tho merest flush of pink,
her dark eves, almond-shaped, and full
of vim, shadowed by black, curling
lashes, and a superb abundance of red
brown hair, coiled low on her well
shaped head. She had donned a dun
hued calico dress, which she had fastened
up ou all sides to keep clear of the dirt,
thereby displaying a foot arched and
lender as sn Arab's and over her head,
hiding her wondrous hair, was one of
her aunt's snnbonnets, making her look,
as she declared, a regular guy. She
reached the lot and set to work in earn
est, but somehow she made little pro
gress. Oh ! if some strong-handed mas
culine creature were but around I What
short work he would make of that job.
At this juncture the report of a gun
sounded near, and Garnet looked up
just in time to see a chipmunk, running
along the fence dividing her lot from
Mr. Denver's, topple over and an instant
aftei a man in gray, muscularly framed
and handsome as Apollo, with wide
sombrero shading his face, appeared in
sight. How propitious the fates were !
What she had devoutly wished for
was yonder a man. Mr. Denver's
hired man, without doubt. She sus
pended operations, and with her hoe
raised aloft, cried out:
"Here, young man, come here! I
want you to help in digging a few
bushels of potatoes. I will see that you
do not incur Mr. Denver's displeasures
by doing as I desire. And, indeed,
for that matter, you might as well be
working for me as to bo idling
away your time in killing harmless
creatures. Come, what do you say ?"
" All right, miss ; I'll be with you as
soon T iij exchange my gun for a hoc,
for I suppose you intend to keep on
digging?"
"Certainly. Now don't be long about
it. That's a good man 1"
She was earnestly digging away when
ho vaulted over the fence and stood by
her side, hoe in hand, his hat lower
down on his face than ever. But
Widow Darley's niece paid no attention
to his personal appearance. He was
nothing but a hired man, so whether
ugly or comely what mattered it to her 1
Old Sol, an inflamed ball of heat, glow
ered upon them savagely, and the per
spiration stood in beaded drops upon
heir faces as they toiled on, Mr.
Denver's hired man making no better
progress with his row of potatoes than
Garnet with hers. The girl glanced at
Lim contemptuously.
" You don't succeed any better than I
i girl. You are tho greenest hand at
di ;ging potatoes I ever saw. Mr. Den
ver '11 not keep you long, I know."
" Perhaps not," ho said, in a uon
chilant way. "I am a green hand at
it, I acknowledge, but I guess I can
earn after a while. See, miss, if I have
done my work well."
" Oh, my !" she cried out, vexatiously,
" how stupid how very stupid you
are 1 Yon have not got the potatoes
half out of the hill, and those you have
hauled out ore well-nigh chopped to
pieces by the hoe. You wield that
instrument as if it were vour intention
to mutilate, to destroy. You need dig
no more !"
" Well," leaning contentedly against
the hoe-handle, and wiping the perspir
ation off his forehead with the daintiest
of white handkerchiefs, from which
emanated the perfume of violets, " what
next shall I do ? Issue your commands,
Miss Miss"
" Embers, young man, and an espe
cial friend of your master, Mr. Denver.
Well, aa you do not manage the hoe
adroitly enough to be anything but
detiimental to auntie's potatoes, you
may as well take the half-bushel basket,
gather them up and put them in the
bags. They are peach-blows, and are
sure to bring an excellent price in the
market; Mr. "
She stopped and eyed him narrowly
for the first time, styling him a remark
ably handsome and distingue-looking
person for a hired man.
" You maj call me Bob," he said, with
a comical grimace. " Mr. Denver culls
me that."
"Well, Bob, to work! Don't lag, and
when noon conies you may share my
lunch with me under the apple tree."
Quite an inducement. A feeling of
ludicrousuess came over him, and he
fairly shook with laughter Was he
laughing at her ? Garnet drow herself
up proudly, a spark of fire in her big
dark eyes.
" What makes you laugh so immoder
ately, Bob 1 It is not polite of you, and I
shall certainly report your ill-behavior
to Mr. Denver."
" Pray don't, Miss Embers," with an
affected humility. " I couldn't help it.
Indeed I couldn't. If you had seen that
ill-favored hop-toad leap over that
potato, you'd laugh, too. It was so funny.
The toad was so small, whereas the
potato has grown to a enormous size a
regular whopper I Look ! Miss Embers,
there goes the fellow now under that
straggling vine I"
"Humph!" was all the answer she
vouchsafed him as she went on with her
digging, but she doubted the existence
of the toad and believed he was making
sport of her.
The minutes crept np, 12 o'clock
came, and Bob was waxing savagely
hungry. As he emptied the fourth
basket of potatoes, he said:
" It is noon now, Miss Embers, I'm
sure. See I Old Sol is directly over
us. Come, let's have our lunch under
the apple tree. I m hungry as a canni
bal."
" I too," acknowledged Gurnet. " Get
that parcel yonder, Lob, and don't
squeeze it, else you'll crush the cran
berry tarts in it. Aunt Sarah made
them, and she's a famous pastry cook."
" Cranberry tarts 1" Lis mouth begin
ningto water. "You bet I'll hold it
lightly. I am especially fond of them,
But what delicacies does the luncheon
contain. Miss Embers, prepared by your
hands?"
" Not any, Bob," with something that
sounded like a sigh. "Iain no better
epok, than dressmaker, We have both
missed our vocation. I worked two
years in Madam Brown's establishment
endeavoring to learn how to cut and
make dresses, but failed ignominiously;
was therefore rent home minus n recom
mendation. So it will be with yon,
Bob. Although a thoroughly good man,
Mr. Denver is a very exacting one, and
if your work to-day is a specimen of
what yon can do he will not keep you in
his service any longer than what is ab
solutely necessary. What up-hill work
life is for the poor! Dear me ! I won
der what I am good for, anyway ?"
" Good to look at," he muttered, un
der his breath, wishing that she would
toss off the sunbonnet that almost con
cealed her face. Then aloud, " Good to
dig potatoes, I suppose."
At which both laughed heartily, and
together they wended their way to the
apple tree, weighed down with golden
fruit, at whose foot they were to par
take of their lunch. A musical stream
let threaded its way over a pebbly bod,
washing the roots of the apple tree as
it ran merrily on. Here, on the grass,
in sound of its babbling voice, they
scate6!themselves and prepared to par
take of the repast, which Garnet spread
daintily out on a newspaper, first throw
ing off the offending sunbonnet, which
motion caused the red-brown hair to
tumble about her face, making a pic
ture at which Titian would have raved.
" By Jupiter 1" ejaculated Bob, " she
is even prettier than I imagined. She
is a perfect witch."
He had doffed his sombrero, and his
picturesque, Moorish face, illumined
by darkly sjilendid eyes, Garnet thought
the handsomest in the world.
"If ho wero not a hired man," she
mused, " or even had ever so small an
income, I believe I could love him. As it
is, the idea is simply ridiculous. I will
sound him to see if he is as intellectual
as he looks.
She did so, and they fell into a con
versation so agreeable to both that time
passed by unheeded. A man's voice
aroused them. It was Mr. Denver's.
" Heigho 1" he cried, in a hearty tone,
" having a picnic on a small scale ? Pla
guy mean of you, Miss Garnet, not to
extend an invitation to your nearest
neighbor. When did you arrive '!"
" Last night. And, Mr. Denver," as they
shook hands, " I took the liberty of so
liciting help from your hired man in
digging a few bushels of potatoes to take
to market.
" Ha, ha, ha 1" The good man's laugh
rang out loud and clear. " Did you
really take Bob for a hired man V Why,
this is my guest, Mr. Lincoln the
gentleman who owns the mortgage on
your iiunt's place. He, to use an ex
pression in vogue, is fairly rolling in
riches. Ha ! ha ! ha 1 my hired man !
Miss Embers, Mr. Lincoln."
iie strolled away, ami the two were
leit alone. No reply; the fair face was
buried low in her hands, and Garnet
felt as if she could never meet his gaze
again. How came she to make such an
egregious blunder. Well, no apology
would be admissible now, and she must
brave it out as well as possible.
" Uurnet, ond now the hands were
removed from the flushed face and held
in his warm clasp, "listen to nie. Yon
have made a mistake, and the only way
you can rectify it is to accept me as your
irieua. ill von t
And plucky little Garnet, with a
coquettish glance from under her jet
black lashes, said:
" I will. That is," with a pretty hesi
tation to her voice, "if you take me and
auntie's potatoes to market with Mr.
Denver's horse. I wish to purchase
some groceries."
It is needless to say that he did as
she desired, and late in November,
when the air was chill and keen, and the
flakes of snow eddied to tho grouud and
covered it with a mantle of white, Rob
ert Lincoln presented Mrs. Darley with
a deed of the place and took Garnet
away with him to his city home, where.
as his wife, she reigns quite royally: ond
he always blesses the day when he dug
potatoes with her, and she took him for
" Mr. Denver's hired man."
CURIOUS FACTS.
Celery seed will germinate when
twenty years old.
A snail's head may be cut off, and in
a certain time another head will be
formed. At least, so says Spallanzania.
The elephant has been known to die
for grief when, in a sudden fit of mad
ness, he has killed his keeper.
In one district in Japan seventy-one
Buddhist temples are reported to have
been diverted to secular uses since
1873, and more than 700 in the whole
empire since 1877.
Women never nppeared upon the
stage among the ancients. Their parts
were represented by men until as late
as 1CG2, when Charles II. first encour
aged their publio appearance.
It has been discovered by a micro
scopical examination that the crystalline
lens in the eve of a codfish, which is
never half an inch in diameter, is made
up of more than live million fibers,
which are united by more than 62,000,
000,000 teeth.
A little girl at Davenport, nine years
of age, will without a moment's hesita
tion spell backward any word of what
ever lengtn, given to nor in English,
more rapidly than the majority of chil
dren of her ago would spell forward,
and invariably correct.
An old soldier's overcoat was sold at
auction in Pennsylvania the other day
for $75.60. It was worn in the war of
1812 and during a part of the first winter
of the rebellion, and is still in a good
state of preservation considering its
long and severe usage.
It is well known thut certain fowls fill
their digestive apparatus with gravel
and pebbles, which act as millstones in
grinding up their food. Recent investi
gation snowed mat ouier animals are
addicted to similar habits on a larger
scale. Seals swallow stones weighing
irom one to two ana sometimes even
three pounds each, while one investk'a-
tor found, not long since, ton pounds of
tnese uouiciers in the stomach of a seu-
lion.
Kisses.
"Kiss mo softly, and speak to mo low."
There is a story told of on old Scotch
deacon who courted a girl for a good
many years but never found courage
enough' to ask her to marry. One day,
ofter they hod been " keepi'n' company"
for abotit ten years, he ventured to
solicit a kiss.
" Let me first ask a blessing," he
said, and falling upon his knees he im
plored the Divine benediction.
He next, with due circumspection and
Scotch deliberation, possessed himself
of the kiss, when with a sounding smack
he exclaimed: " Eh 1 woman, but it was
good I Let us return thanks I"
That prince of good fc;.lows, John G.
Saxe, has added this to the kissing lit
erature: Give me kisses all is waste
Save the luxury of the taste.
And for kissing kisses live
Only when we take and give.
Kiss me, then,
Every moment, and again.
There are poetic kisses and Platonic
kisses such as the beautiful Malam
Recomier gave to Chateaubriand; there
are historic kisses such as those re
corded in the book of Genesis; spiritual
kisses such as Solomon tells us about,
and treacherous kisses, that betray:
And the jest seldom slips
But it strikes a tender chord;
And a kiss was on tho lips
Of tho wretch that sold his Lord.
What is the sweetest kiss in tho
world? Who can tell? Passion puts
a sting into its kisses love is selfish
duty cold. The kisses of friendship are
mere compliments. The kiss of recon
ciliation between those who truly love
should be the sweetest of all kisses.
There is a kiss that is the embodiment
of purity, innocence, and tender, trust
ful love. It is a fluttering, clinging,
rosebud kiss, that leaves a memory as
pure and loving as itself; it is
TnE BABY'S kiss.
" Mistress Mary, quite contrary,
How dors the baby grow ?
Colic spells, and ears like shells,
And kisses from top to toe."
It is upon the baby's kisses that the
heart of the mother lives. Oh, the lit
tle ones that have been laid away bap
tized with tears and kisses 1 the kisses
that wero given not back again, and yet
.finch were so dear so dear.
" Dear as remembered kisses after
death," says Tennyson.
There is a pretty legend that Christ
had a dimple in his chin, laid there by
an angel's kiss, and whoever he kissed
would surely receive that dimple, so the
Germans say of one who has a dimple
chin: " be is Christ-kissed.
The kiss of respect is given upon the
forehead; that of admiration upon the
eyes; that of beauty upon the cheeks.
The kiss of love is given upon the lips.
It is said men do not waste kisses
upon each other when they can do so
much better, but in every other chapter
of the Bible some old patriarch hub
upon the neck of some other old patri
arch and kisses him, and the father of
the prodigal son ran and kissed him
and however distasteful it may be men do
kiss each other at the present time when
they meet after long absences and are
clohcly related, or have a David and
Jonathon sort of friendship for each
other.
The late Princess Alice, eldest duugh
ter of Oueen V letoria and wile of on
Vustrian prince, lost her life n year or
two ago through a kiss; two of her
children died of diphtheria, ond she
I'ould not resist the pleading of her
lving bov to " kiss mamma;" she kissed
his paling lips in an agony of mother
love and took the dread disease, which
resulted fatally.
No doubt the kisses of young lovers
taste better than any luxury yet discov
ered they must be spooney and inno
cent and untutored for kisses like
other nectar of the gods lose their fla
vor in time.
" They stood above the world
In a world apart,
And she dropped hor happy eyes
And stilled the throbbing pulses
Of her happy heart ;
And the moonlight fell above her
Her secret to disc-over
As though no human lover
Had laid his kisses there."
The hero of Lockesly Hall said:
"Many an evening by the waters did we watch
the stately ships ;
And our spirits rushed together at the meeting
of tho lins."
The dramatic kiss has attracted con
siderable attention lately. The way in
which Emma Abbott kisses that hand
some Castle, who plays " Paul " to her
" Virginia," is too, too much 1 It is re
corded variously us " emotional," " par
oxysmal," "spontaneous," "absorbing,"
and everybody wondered when little
Emma learned to kiss in that way.
Suruh Bernhardt makes a little rush at
her vis-a-vis, and kisses him behind the
ear before he knows what it is all about.
Mary Anderson's kisses remind an actor
who plays with her of the time he put
his tongue to a frozen lamp-post when a
boy, and now all the old boys are look
ing for frozen lamp-posts to kiss. Hero
is a darling
HIT or SENTIMENT :
" Up to her chamber window
A slight wire trellis grows,
And up this Borneo's ladder
Clambers a bold white rose.
To her scarlet lips she holds him,
And kisses him many a time ;
Ah, me 1 it was he that won her,
Because he dared to climb."
Detroit tree free$.
While there is a gratifying increase
in the number of Presbyterian churches,
there is a discouraging decrease yearly
in the number of communicants added.
Thus in 1870 there were 5,077 churc hes
and 48,210 accessions by examination;
in 1877, 5,153 churches and 43,008 ac
cessions; in 1878, 5,209 churches and
32,277 accessions; in 187S), 5,415 churches
and 29,190 accessions, and last year,
5,489 churches and 20,838 accessions.
Here is a steady decrease, the causes for
which are not yet understood. It is
needless to say that these facts are dis
cussed with care at each general assem
bly, but as yet without finding any
remedy. Christian at Work,
Heliotropes, when growing rapidly,
should be supplied freely with water,
When somewhat dormant they should be
kept rather dry.
Undiessed kids will be quite common
at the s( shore this tumnier,
FOB THE LADIES.
The Russian Priest's Wife.
There is only one hoppy woman in
Russia; it is the priest's wife; ond it is
a common mode of expression to say,
as hntmv as a nriest's wife." The
reason why she is happy is because her
husband's position depends upon her.
If she dies he is deposed, and becomes
a mere laymen; his property is taken
away from' him, and distributed, half to
his children and half to the government.
This dreadful contingency makes the
Russian priest careful to get a healthy
wife, if he can, and makes him take
extraordinary good care of her after he
has got her. He waits upon ner in tne
most abject way. She must never get
her feet wet, and she is petted ond put
in hot blankets if she has so much as a
cold in her head. It is the greatest
possible good fortune for a girl to
marry a priest, infinitely better than to
be the wife of a noble.
Women of Many Husbands.
It is asserted that a lady in Calhoun
county, 111., although seventy years old,
has recently married ner sixtn husband.
Her last deceased husband was named
Race, and the man she has just married
is named Farris. A romantic feature of
her last matrimonial venture is tho fact
that Mr. Fan-is was her first love, but
cruel fate intervened and prevented
their union. All her dead husbands are
buried in the family graveyard upon the
farm on which she resides, and her
present husband, as he"counts the green
mounds, will nave ample opportunity to
reflect on the uncertainty of married
life. Of another Woman, living in Geor
gia, it is related that she has had five
husbands. She married four widowers
in succession. The first widower lived
one and a half miles from the lady, when
she was a widow; the Becond, third and
fourth lived about the same distance from
one another,so that she hud in turn charge
of each of the residences, ond she is
now living happilv with her fifth hus
band within seven miles ot ner origmnl
home.
l'liNiiiiitis III It oil nil Hals.
The most picturesque round hats for
dressy wear at summer watering-places
are of the open lace straws, with wide
brim rolled up on the right side, or else
just above the forehead. They have the
trimming massed inside tho brim, and
consisting of shirred or plaited surah,
either pale blue or cream, and some
short nodding plumes falling over the
brim at the top, and a longer plume
curling down the left side, or else a
wreath of crushed flowers without leaves
takes the place of feathers. Outside, the
hat is almost without trimming, having
perhaps a single long-looped bow of
satin ribbon low down on the left of the
crown, or a butterfly that looks as fine
us a jeweled brooch ; or perhaps a long
pin with an Egyptian head is thrust
through the right side, or, it may lie,
the ribbon that forms strings crosses be
low the crown, and is fastened each side
by a dragou-fly pierced by a pin ; or,
stranger still, the strings are held bv
gray silver heads of skye terriers with
tinted glass eyes. Very large ox-eyed
daisies form charms or wreaths for the
front of such hats.
For move general use are rough straw
round hats with higher conical crowns
and wide flat brims, trimmed with pom
pons ana cords outside, or else a folded
bayadere-striped handkerchief, or some
snort ostncli tips, eight ol which sur
round the crown, spreading out ou the
brim. Sometimes eight or ten pompons
of red, or black or cream white silk are
around tne crown ; on otners mere are
but two pompons, with a cord of steel or
of gilt laid around in two or three rows.
The flat brim is faced with velvet of
becoming color, and may be studded
witn jet or steel nulls near the edge, or
else a row of steel or gold lace finishes
it. Another becoming lasliion easily
copied is that of turning the w ide brim
back on top and making it flare slightly
on the sides, then covering it with
wreath of soft crushed roses, which is in
its turn covered by a wide scarf of black
Spanish lace, and letting the luce fall
over on the crown sufficiently for trim
ming, and then form strings that drape
the sides with the effect of tho Spanish
mantilla. The coronet round hat has
steel lace sewed at the top of the
coronet so that its pointed edges fall
toward the face. Tho flaring hats are
worn very far back on the head, while
the coronet hat is placed further forward,
and gives a very broad effect. Tho poke
bonnets are sometimes so shaped thut
they may poke downward toward the
none and thus afford protection from tho
sun, and save the eves, as tho excellent
English walking hats formerly did.
Round hats for little girls have shapes
similar to those just described with the
wide brim turned back on the top, and
are of either rough Btraws or hue lus
cans. Pompons of white silk and bows
of long loops of white satin ribbon are
the trimmings; the dark velvet linings
for brims frame childish faces becom
ingly, and the daisy clusters at the top
remain the most popular flowers for
them. Dark rough straw huts with dark
pompons and cords are for general wear,
while large conical poKe shapes are
shown in Tuscan braids for dressy occa
sions; the latter have white plumes and
white satin ribbons, and there are also
little pokes of white plaited lace, with
flowers for trimming. Larger girls and
misses in their teens will wear the poke
shapes that are so becoming to youthful
laces. iSazar.
Fashion Note.
A decided change in grenadines will
be made the coming season.
The rage for Japanese figured stuff
for dresses is on the increase.
All new collars, whether of linen
batiste, mull or lace, are large.
Drop ball trimmings are used for
trimming satin foulard dresses.
Loose light curls at the back of the
head are much worn by young girls.
Low-necked linings are used in the
lace dresses made for this summer.
The lace straw bonnets are open-
worked ana require a colored lining.
Tunic- jackets with wide cascades of
lace arc much worn in the morning,
Strong contrasts of color are observ
able in most of tho new satin costumes.
Rome of the now polonaises ore made
with full, punier-like draperies over the
hips.
The favorite designs for steel lace are
similar to those for point and Torchon
lace.
The real novelty in ribbons is the
double-woven ribbon without selvage or
seam.
Steel is used to trim rather simple
jackets as well as those of rich ma
terial.
Steel is much used in decorating
laces, passementeries, guages and trim
mings.
Normandy bonnets of the most prim
itive shape are among the summer mil
linery.
Velvet collars, cuffs, bow for the
waist and bands for the hair now come
in sets
Lace and flounces alternate with
muslin plai tings on tho summer
dresses.
Shirred effects in skirt draperies
oppear on tho most fashionable imported
dresses.
Ombre satins do Lyon grow more and
more popular for both dresses and
bonnets.
Gingham and momie cloth parasols
to match suits, will be much used this
summer.
The shining on the front and sides of
skirts is to be in horizontal rows hidf on
inch apart.
A dash of yellow, blue or rod is
deemed essential to the finish of all
dark toilets.
Fine velveteen is combined with the
black and white checked silks used for
summer costumes.
Little soft loose rings of hair falling
over tho forehead are taking the place
ot the long-luvored hangs.
High neck ruches of black luce and
wuite lace plaited together ore very
fashionable and exceedingly becoming,
A novelty in English straw bonnets is
in poke or coal-scuttle shape, with a
brim in cnleche style, formed by turned
up brunts ot the straw.
borne ot the black open straws m
bonnets ore so fine thut they look like
tnreod lace, utner designs are in imi
tation of Torchon lace.
Albatross cloth robes in full shades of
olor, cream and pure white, are taste
fully embroidered in Oriental colors and
designs with floss silks.
A new sort of trimming is made by
shirring satin, doubling the material
where the thread is run so as to produce
the etlect of alternate tucks ond puns,
The favorite shape for tea gowns of
ceremony is the loose dolman, visite
iKo ruck witn elbow sleeves, worn
over a ricliiv-trinimcd dcmi-trained
skirt.
Tho gowns are made' of the most
costlv brocades and gauzes enriched
witli silver, gold nnd steel threads, ond
rimmed with lace, fringes nnd tassels
o mulcn.
The Flying-Fish.
A letter in the New Orleans Times
says: An extract lrom future threws
iloubt on tho pursuit of Imng-hsh by
the so-called dolphin, the coryphene.
As I was once a witness of such a chase,
accompanied by a circumstance much
rarer, 1 append an account. One otter
noon, during a voyage on a sailing ves
sel bound to a West Indian port, while
the ship was making some four or five
miles tou hour, a coryphene was ob
served gamboling under the bows, goi'g
ahead a little, as if to show its superior
speed, and then returning to its frolics.
While the sailors were fastening the
harpoon to a line, the corvphene sighted
a flying-fish. At once it stiffened itself;
its wholo body quivered as if with ex
citement; its tail was agitated from one
side to another, and it Btarted in pursuit,
bounding over tne surlace ot the sea
with leaps of some fifteen or twenty
feet. Although a stern chase is held to
be a very long one, this lasted less than
a minute ; one of the leaps brought the
coryphene right under the ten-ified fly-
lng-nsn, whicn seemed to fall into its
enemy's jaws. The latter returned to
its "play-ground" under the bows, and
was harpooned, brought on board, and
cut up within two minutes after
meal. The flying fash was taken .put
wnoie, uninjured, me corypnene is
the beautilully colored fish noted for the
slutting and varieties of its tints when
expiring. It is commonly but erroneously
i-aiieu a uoipniu, an in tue weu-xnown
verse, " The dying dolphin's changing
nues." jsow, in regard to the Hying
fish, I have watched them on many voy
ages and I can confirm the observers
who describe its motion as a leap, not
an act of flying. It springs out of the
water, gradually rising to the middle of
its course, then falling, describing a
parabola just as an arrow does in its
night. 1 have repeatedly seen them
change direction during the leap, mak
ing a deflection amounting to about a
halt angle, never more. But I cannot
agree with Mr. Whitman, who estimates
the length if their leap to be as much
as 800 or even 1,200 feet. I opine that
about 200 feet is a pretty big jump for
one of these fishes, and, instead of forty
seconds, I calculate the time occupied
in a long leap at fifteen seconds, which
gives a velocity of nine miles and a frac
tion per hour.
Conversation turned on a late mar
riage between December and May, some
of tho gentlemen poohpoohing the
match. But the lady stoutly cliaru
pioned the frost-bitten Benedict,
" Why," said she, " every man ought to
keephiniself married as long as he lives,
Now, here's my husband 1 What would
he be good for without a wife ? If
should die to night he would get an
other wite to-morrow, I hope. Wouldn't
you, Josiah ?" Josiah breathed heavily
and seemed to sum up the connubial
torments of a liletime in his calm re
sponse: " No, my dear, I think I should
tone a restr;
The agricultural nroducts of th
try during the past few years foot up
enormous figures. In 1879 they amount
ed it) 1,019,959,397, and tho estimate
lorhe present year is 82,000,000,000.
First Time nt Church.
A grave sweet wonder in thy baby face.
And look of mingled dignity and grace,
Stick as a painter hand might love to trace.
A pair of trusting, innocent bluo eyes,
That higher than the stained-glass window rlso
Into the fair and cloudless summer skies.
The people round her sing, " Abovo the sky
There's rest for littlo children when they die "
To her thus gazing tip that rest seems nigh.
Tho organ peals; she must not look around,
Although with wondorment her pulsos bound
Tho place whereon sho stands is holy ground.
The sermon over, and tho blessing said,
8ho bows as "mother" does bev golda
head;
And thinks of litCe s'tcr who ie dead.
Sho knows that now sho dwells abovo tho sky
Where holy children enter when they die,
And prays God tako her there too, by-nnd-byo.
ret, may Ho keep you in the faith alway,
And bring you to that home for which yon pray
Where all shall have their child-hearts back
one day.
Chambers' Journal
HUMORS OF THE DAT.
Shocking A mognetic battery.
When is tho most dangerous time to
visit the country ? Give it up ? When
the trees are shooting and the bulrushes
out.
The Philadelphia Chronicle says that
married men are like eggs, because by
being kept in hot water they become
hardened.
Man's Lot. ' Twixt women and wine
man's lot is to smart ; the wine makes
his head ache and women his heart.
Old Rhyme.
A hungry hen will pick up 113 kernels
of corn in a minute by the watch ond
have a second and a half left to look for
more. Free Press.
" Life is a great battlefield," says a
renowned philosopher. Perhaps that is
the reason there is so much charging
done. McGregor Xews.
Our forefathers could not harbor the
idea of paying taxes on their tea, so
they compromised the matter by harbor
ing the tea. Yawcob Straws.
The meanest man in the country lives
in Missouri. He pleaded in a breach
of promise suit that a contracv made on
Sunday night wa? not Li tiding.
Darwin, in his recent book, says that
"all plants circutnnufote." This is a
serious charge and needs confirmation.
There has been ouite too much of this
conduct. If it is true, a reform is greatly
needed.
Japanese Children.
The Japanese children have to endnro
hardships from their birth. In their
tiny houses are no bright, cheerful fires,
no easy chairs, no well-spread tables,
ound which the family gather and hold
sweet converse. You must stoop to
enter the ordinary houses, and their
oonis are not much larger than closets.
A purt of the floor is covered with mats,
on which they sit and sleep. A block
of wood four' inches high, hollowed a
little at the top, answers as a pillow.
Sometimes it has stuffing on top on inch
thick, over which a clean piece of paper
-i spread each time it is used, to save
any needful washing, The head poised
ou this pillow prevents the disarrange
ment of the hair, so that it need not bo
ombed more than once or twice in a
week. But the poor' babies, and little
hildren's heads are shaved entirely, or
have from one to five tufts of huir left
on the top over each ear, and on the
back. I have seen littlo babies with
heads entirely shaven ond uncovered on
the coldest dav, while the mother or
person on whose back it was carried, had
the face and head covered, only the
yes und nose visible. Dr. Hepburn says,
' only verv strong babies survive their
infancy."
Japanese houses have only paper
windows; they have no stoves or grates,
but a littlo box, from one to two feet
square, with some coals in the center, is
oil they have for warmth or cooking.
1 wo or three cups, as many plates, a tea
pot, a kettle ond some boxes to hold
their clothing, complete their furniture.
All the houses I have seen are very
clean, which is their only appearance of
comfoi t.
Little children are often made to
tako care of the baby. A very common
sight is a little boy or girl, from five to
twelve years old, playing with a kite,
with a baby strapped on their backs, fast
asleep, but sometimes crying, In the
latter cose, they only t-ay " Be quiet,"
ond go on with their play. But
lapanese children seldom cry or quarrel,
and are very obedient to parents and
teachers, whom they venerate. Mission
ary Link,
" Unwinding."
The thieves who infest the lower part
of the Bowery at night have a word
which, if it is not new to them in the
sense in which they are using it, is new
in that significance to most readers. It
is not uncommon for a stranger who
strays into the Bowery late at night
considerably intoxicated to find himself
in tho morning " unwound." He would
not be likely to thus describe himself,
but to the thieves the word defines the
process through which he has passed.
While making his uncertain way along,
that thoroughfare the stranger has been
caught by the arms and led into one of
the many dens which keep open doors
all night. His coat and vest are unbut
toned, grasped by- their fronts and
wound off from him with a single mo
tion while he stood just inside the
threshold. The muscles of his arms,
being incapable of that rigidity which a
sober man might impart to ' them,
offered no obstacle to the process of un
winding. After tho rotation thus in
parted to the stranger had ceased he
found himself standing on the sidewalk
with only a vague idea of the direction
whence he came. The thieves were
richer by tho value of the coat, vest,
perhaps the watch, and maybe a quan
tity of loose change in the vest pockets.
Those who profit by unwinding do not
scorn such trifles even as pocket hand
kerchiefs and, Qdd nickels.. llorjner't
Weekly. .