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Ik
Oar Ships nt Sea.
How tunny ol us hnve ships nt tea,
Frelghtod wilh wlnhes, nnd hopes, and fears
TosMing nhoitt on tho wnvos, while we
Linger and wn't on the shore lor yonrs,
Oii.ing nliir through the distance dim
A yfigliinu, will over onr ship come in ?
fjjiit them uwfty with laiiiditcsr and song,
Tho' deck wore white, and tho sails were
. now,
Tho Inigi'iitit Inwiwn boro thoni along,
Tlin hcii wiim cnltn and the skins woro bine,
An l wo thought as wo watched thorn sail
nvrnjf
Ol tlie joy thoy would bring us some luture
luy.
Long have wo watched beside tho shore
To catch the glcmn ol a coming sail,
But w only hour tho breakers' roar
Or tho sweeping night wind's dismal wail,
Till onr clocks grow pulo, and our eyes grow
dim,
And wo Kinlly uigh, wi.l thoy ever come in ?
Oh! poor tnd heart, with its ourdon ol cares,
lis Hinu iloleutod, its vorthloFS lile
That has garnered only tho thorns and the
tnrcs,
That is searod and torn in the pitiful strife
Aiur on the heavenly golden shore
Thy ships are anchored lor ever more.
An Idea in Decorative Art.
"I I'd perfectly useless; the thing is
my beto noire don't laugh, Elsie, I'm
not joking. If there is nny such thing
as 'the contrariness of inanimate ob
jects,' then of all inanimate objects that
hiileoua biack mantelpiece is the
most contrary."
I'ictty Mr?. Van Schcnck threw her
self bmk in 1 er hair, gazing with min
gled wratli and disgust at the object of
lir r animadversion, a high wooden man
Uloiece, i (tinted black, and diversified
with various dull jellow streaks and
spots, fondly supposed by housekeepers
tiiirty yearn ago to be a most faithful
imitation of marble. Fastened across a
portion of the front, and from thence
trailing to the floor, hung a strjp of
mummy cloth richly embroidered with
a gurUnd of poppies, but looking Badly
our. ol, keeping, . epending lrom tin
high narrow shelf it was intended to
. ndorn.
"Nowjmt look tl ere, Elsie! Ove
and again I have tried to eover, drape,
alter that detestable marde'picce, and
each iit'cmpt lias proved a mon
wretched failure than the last one.
l'o blistered my Aimers knotting
macranie late, hahin.yred my thumbs
till tin v were blnck ami blue trying all
sorts ol devices suggested by all sorts of
people. I rei.lly did think I should suc
ceed this time, and perhaps if tho bor
der hud 1 een twice as deep it might
have looked passably : but that narrow
strip half way between floor and ceiling
is p rleeily ridiculous. Grace Alston
gave me the pattern. It was lovely on
.her. modern mantelpiece. Hew stupid
in me not to think of making it wider!
1 believe the tiling is bewitched."
Here she paused to take breath, and
meeting her, sister's merry eyes, burst
into a ringing laugh.
" It dees Seem absurd to rail so, but
tho whole room is spoiled, and it wou'd
be so pretty but lor that frightful old
mantlcpiece."
"I am sure it is lovely a9 it is
Nothing can spoil the beautiful oak
floor and wainscot," replied Elsie Hor
ton. glancing around the spacious apart
ment of oblong shape, lighted by four
large windows, two on the southern
side, overlooking the SDarkling waters
of IiOng Island Sound, and two facing
the west, where a dense pine wood at
no greut distance from the house
huge old mauaion dating from colonial
days slip t in the view and gave an im
pression of great seclusion.
The first glimpse of the room revealed
the fact that the pretty hostess wor-
. sliiped at the shrine of decorative art
though good taste fortunately excluded
the honors ol scrap vases, bedaubed
drain-pipes, and spatterwork tidies
Nay, at this moment, brightly illumined
by the flood ot sunngbt pouring througl
ttie southern windows, tlie apartmen
might have given an artist a suggestion
for a most charming interior. The
floor and richly carved wainscot were
of polished oak, almost black with age:
handsome Persian rugs lay scattered
hero and there; soft muslin draperies
shaded the windows; bits of rare old
china made spots of bright color on
bracket and table; arj easel supported a
line old painting; Kbnsington art work
appeared in screens and chair cover
ings; and a quaint spindle-legged table,
nearly a century old, stood in one
corner.
Fit subjects, oo, for any artist'B
brush were the occupants of the room.
Mrs. Van Sihenck dark-eyed, dark
haired, add slightly flushed with exer
tion and wrath, formed exactly the
right contrast to brer sister Elsie's
blonde beauty, as the latter, leaned care
lessly back in a laro easy-chair, her
white draperies, relieved by knots of
blue ribbons, sweeping over the dark,
polished oaken floor, and her violet
eyes sparkling with amusement at her
companion's vivacious tirade.
"i like to listen-to you, Kate," she
said at last. "It seems like the dear
oldyimes before you were married to
hoar you set off on one of those Don
Quixote tilts against windmills. Now,
in the name ot common-sense, let me
ask why, instead of blistering your
lingers and hammering your thumbs,
you didn't have tho mantelpiece taken
down, and another one put in its place?
You could have had something carved
just to match this beautiful old wain
scoting." " My dear, that highly sensible sug
gestion strongly reminds me of Marie
Antoinette's equally pertinent query:
'Why, if the poor people can't get
bread, don't they eat cake r You tor
get that, we're not rich enough to
gratify all our whims, and an oak'
mantelpiece carved to match the wain
scot would co9t a pretty penny, I as
sure you. If only the original one had
been left! Harry remembers it per
fectly, and says people would rave over
it now. Great cLtstPrs of fruits and
flowers on the panels, connected by
drooping wreaths exquiitcly done,
too. And they split it up, and burned
lor kindling-wood, the Goths and
Vandals, when this new and elegant '
monstrosity took its place."
"But couldn't vou have the lovely
Dutclutiled mantelpiece in the dining-
room moved hero at very little ex
pense P"
" Ah, my dear, don't pride yourself
on striking out a brilliant idea. Did
not I suggest that to Harry long ago?
No, indeed, lie won't have this hideous
thing removed, because it was his
uncle'd dying wish that it should be
kept here. I can't blame him either,
dear-lellow. ,Ud Air. van Jschenck,
with all his eccentricities, was very
kind to him, and in his will left him
his whole fortune, but the wretches
who murdered him took everything,
stocks, bond?, and all it was one of
his peculiarities to keep his property in
portable lorm and ttio will was
doubtless among them. The law gave
Harry the house "
"Tell me all about it. Kate." inter
rupted Elsie. " You know I only had
the bare facts while I was abroad, none
of tho particulars, and the three days I
spent at home before coming down to
you"
"Wre filled with descriptions of
travel, displaying your finery, etc. Yes,
I know. I her isn't really very much to
tell; tut, 'to begin at the beginning,'
1 11 inform you how my bete noire came
to ho the hane of mv life. It seems that
thirty years ago old Mr. Van Schcnck
hen a rich bachelor ol htty tell des
perately in love with a beautiful girl.
wtiose tatlier lie bad befriended, blie
engaged herself to him, and he began to
remodel the housa to suit her taste
fancy the taste that would destroy a
lovely carved oak mantelpiece to make
way for that monster! when an old
lover appeared on the scene; and she.
probably fearing that her father would
torce her to keep tier promise, ran away
with him. It was a terrible blow to
Mr. Van Schcnck, an excessively proud
man. lie stopped ttie repairs ust wliere
they were, dismissed all his servants
except one old woman, and, in spite of
the entreaties of all his friends and rela
tives, persisted in living alone up to the
d iy of his murder, lhis was the room
lie always occupied. The bed stood in
that corner, facing the mantelpiece.
Phe mnrderers entered by one of the
western windows, and had doubtless
been hiding in the wood, watching their
opportunity. His eccentricities were
well known in the nughhorhoon, and
lie was reputed to be immense ly rich.
Only a wrek before Harry had been
here, represented tne danger, and Deg-
ed him to have at least a trusty man
servant on the place. He obstantly re
fused, and tne next news we naa was a
oummona to his deatti-bea. My hus
band reached here a few minutes before
dusk, and found his uncle still alive, but
unable to speak the principal wound
was a deep gasli in the throat, ihe old
mm seemed terribly anxious to tell him
something, and made a motion of writ
ing on the coverlet, but his strength was
failing, the room growing dark, and
Harry could not understand. At last.
struggling to a sitting position in bed,
lie pointed to the mantelpiece, gasped
'Kept, kept,' then the blood gushed
from mo wound in his throat, and he
sank back on tho pillows dead."
"Horrible! horrible!" cried Elsie.
"Poor old man. how he must have
loved the girl, to think, even on his
death-bed, of preserving the, one thing
she had given him time to preparo in
his home for her fake! Doesn't it lend
the uglv old mantelpiece a touch of
romance? No wonder Harry won't
alow it to be removed! I should feel
as if it were sacrilege."
I don't want it removed either," re
plied Kate, slowly. "But" with sud
den animation ' how 1 1 hould like to
cover it up, every inch of it!"
Elsie looked at her inquiringly.
" I'm half ashamed to tell you," con
tinued Kate, lowering her voice, " but
1 believe I s'lall aetual'y grow afraid of
that thing unless 1 can find some way
to change it. Of course it sounds silly
enough to say so now, sitting here in
this broad, bright sunlight; but its
quite another matter when the dusk
comes stealing in, casting shadows in
every corner, and the wind howls and
shrieks around the old house. A week
ago I sat yonder at one of the windows,
watching for Harry, who was a little
later than usual. It had been a gray
raw. chilly day, like a forerunner of
November, with one of those dreary.
moaning winds sighing through the
trees that always do make me dismal
and I was troubled, too, about Harry's
business. I can trust you, Elsie, I know
of old. so 1 will tell you the whole story
He is on the brink of ruin. Hard times
have sorely crippled tho old firm into
which he was admitted when he married
me, and Mr. Van Schcnck was to have
advanced $100,000 tho week he died to
carry them through to the first of J anu-
ary. liarry has always reproached him
self lor his carelessness m discussing
the arrangements while walking with
his uncle in the wood behind the house.
He thinks the murderers may have
overheard them, and killed the old man
to obtain the money, for he was to have
delivered it to him the day atler the
murder, and not a trace of that or any
other property could be found. With
this amount the hrm would have been
eafe: now, it is very uncertain whether
they can hold out. That's the reason,
Elsie dear, why we are obliged to stay
here this winter instead of going to
New York. We must either live on the
dace or st 11 it for since the murder no
body will rent it and the old mansion
has been in the family ever since Long
Island was settled, so of course Harry
won't part with it until the last cent is
gone.
"Hut to return to the reason why I
am more than ever anxious to alter the
old mantelpiece don't laugh at me,
Elsie! Just a week .ago I sat here,
thinking of Harry's troubled face when
he left mo in the morning, wondering
why he was so late, and listening to the
wind moaning drearily outside, when
suddenly I fancied 1 heard a loud, pierc
ing shriek; the windows rattled vio
lently, the whole house grained to shake,
and I heard, yes, I really did hear, the
ringing, clinking sound of coins. The
noio appeared to come from the man
telpiece. I glanced toward it, and oh !
Elsie, every one of those horrible
streaks and spots, instead of being a dull
yellow, was tlie brightest crimson ; they
looked like fresh blood streaming from
wounds.
"I would never have believed I could
have been so frightened; if my hair
didn't stand on end, it was only because
my net held it too tight, and for one mo
ment I fully expected to Bee tho old
man's ghost on the heart-stone, ready
to protect the solitary memento of his
love for in my annoyance at my last
failure to remodel it I had been heartily
wishing it away. I sprang from my
sett and flew out of the room. There
in the hall stood Harry, who had been
carried on in the train to the next sta
tion, and returned home by another
way. Luckily it was too dark for him
to sec my white, scared face, and he in
stantly exclaimed : " Come quick, Kate,
there is such a strange effect from the
sunset light.' We went down to the
hall, and ho threw the door wide open
1 saw nothing but the same low gray
clouds, the same wan gray atmosphere
that had dem cased my spirits all day
long.
" ' How strange !' he cried. ' J ust as
I reached the steps the clouds suddenly
parted in the west, and a blood-red
light illuminated everything; trees,
walls, stones, werecrimson in the glow.
I rushed in to cail you and now it has
van shed as instantly as it came. But
how pale you look, Kate! Are you ill?'
You may imagine that I felt heartily
ashamed of my folly. And yet, scold
myself as I may, I never can be at ease
in this room when it begins to grow
dusk. I always have a horrible fear of
seeing those jellow spots and streaks
suddenly turn b'ood-red again. .Of
course it's absurd; nobody knows that
better than I, but I can t help it."
Elsie sat looking thoughtfully at her
i-isters's bugbear for a few moments.
then her blue eyes flashed with delight,
and clapping tier uttie hands like a
child, she sprang from her chair, ex
claiming, "I have it, Kale dear, I have
it; just the very idea. We'll change
the old mantelpiece completely with
out using anything but a little paint.
and, moreover, not anger the old man's
ghost by even driving a nail into the
beloved souvenir of hi3 youth."
"Paint!" asked Kate. doubtfully,
" I'm ued to being helped out of diffi-
culties by your bright ideas, Elsie, dear,
but 1 don t see how paint "
"Don t your" interrupted her sister,
quickly. "' Of course not, else it would
be vour idea, not mine, listen quietly,
then, to my superior wisdom draw-
naruo her nreltv hgure with an air ot
mock cienitv as she spoke "ana i n
ucidate. lou remember the pair ot
borrento brackets 1 brought home, and
which you admired so much yester
day?"
" Yes ; but what have they to do with
mv bugbear?"
Didn t you say the inlaid-work
looked like painting?"
"Yes."
" well, then, here is my idea, my
brand-new, bright idea, ever so much
easier to carry out than my wise sis
ter's blistering of lingers and hammer
ingof thumbs. You see the long nar
row panel over the hearth?"
Yes."
And the two oblong panels, one on
each side, and the little square panels
above them r"
' Well, what in the world have they
to do with Sorrento brackets?"
" Wait a minute. You see. too, how
verv deenlv sunken they are in the
woodwork, much deeper than I should
think necpssarv. but iust the thing for
mv idea. I'll get very thin pieces oi
wood to fit over them exactly, paint
lovely garlands of poppies, corn-uow
ers and wheat on the long panels,
charmine little bouauets on the square
ones, then you can have the rest of the
wood ebonized, and I assure you your
bugbear' will be far from the least
pretty thing in your drawing-room.
Whprfi'a vour vard-measure. Kate?'
and in a second her white lingers were
deftly taking the dimensions of the
various nanels.
" The svstem of modern humbug had
beeun thirty years ago, Kate. This
mantelDiece isn't half so substantial
as the work put into the old mansion a
century before. Why, tne central panel
is really shaky ; the wood has warpeu,
I suDDose: Derhans it ratuea a ncue
the other evenine. and vour lively im
agination made you fancy you heard the
chink of nionev."
" Perhaps so. I'm ready to admit
anvthing in sheer gratitude for being
delivered from the sight of those horn
ble streaks and SDlasUes. loure a
jewel of a sister, Elsie, and Harry-
dear old leiiowi win De as aenguieu
as I am. I know he has been on the
noint of telling me to have it taken
i urn iMan I rt-oa tlinn TPI'A 1 t PP
tion of his uncle's last words stopped
him. I wouljn't have had it demolished.
much a8 it has tormented me, but your
idea wnl make a complete transtornia
tion. Yes. it will be lovely. I can see
it in mv mind's eve ' already."
" And you shall see it in reality in ten
days. I sha 1 begin as soon as I get
home to-morrow, and work like a Tro
jan to deliver you from your guostiy
visions, such a lunny thing ior you
to be superstitious. Kate."
Mrs. Van Schenck to Miss Elsie Her
ton:
" Oh. Elsie, my darling, I am the hap
piest little woman in the world, and all
through your ' idea.' Let me try
whettier 1 can tell the story intelligibly.
for it all happened scarcely two hours
ago, and 1 sit scribbling, while my lord
and master, like the king in Mother
Goose's rhymes, is counting out his
money.' I really feel giddy with the
sudden plunge from dread of approach
ing ruin to tho possession of wealth be
yond our dreams; and iust here let me
assert that I really did hear tlie chink
of monpy that ghostly afternoon.
"liarry brought the box ol panels'
down from the city, and after dinner I
pretended I could not wait till to-morrow
to try their effect, and begged him
to open it. I really only did so to divert
his thoughts from his business cares; he
looked so white and sad, poor fellow,
that I had little interest enough even in
laying my ghost. He hesitated a mo
ment, then said : I have something to
tell you, Kate j but it cm wait till we
have seen Elsie's pretty work.' And
added under his breath, but I caught
the words : ' Trouble will come to her
soon enough, poor child.'
" we easily wrenched off the lid, and
Harry really seemed to lorget his wor
ries a moment while admiring the
lovely garlands and bouquets. I'm so
glad you chose morning-glories for the
little square panels, l never saw any
thing so perfect as the way you have
grouped the buds and blossoms. The
mantelpiece had been painted dead
black, as you suggested, bo we set to
work at once, put in the side panels,
then the little square panels above
them they fitted exactly and after
gazing at the effect a moment, tried to
slip the center panel into its place. It
seemed a little tight, and one end Bank
lower than the other. ' Will it stand a
blow, Kate?' asked Harry. ' I must
crowd this side down a little more to
make it even.' I wrapped the ham
mer carefully in flannel, and gave
it to him, saying : First try pushing ; it
will never do to bruise the paint.' lie
did so, and suddenly shouted: 'Stand
back, Kate, the whole mantelpiece is
giving way.' Before the words had
left his lips his end of the panel van
ished: mine, which 1 had been holding
to steady, swung straight out into the
room, and such a clinking and rattling
echoed in my ears, as a perfect Danae's
shower of gold pieces came rolling down
tae hearth-rug, glittering and flashing
in tho lamplight, while we stood en
veloped in a cloud of dust, staring into
what looked like a huge blac ' hole.
After a few minutes the shower stopped,
and we began to look about us. On
the hearth with the money lay some
dusty papers, bonds f nd stocks, liarry
said, and inside the black hole were
bigs ot gold coins, one ot which had
burst onen. more papers, and among
them the missing will. Imagine our
astonishment, our aeiighti i can
ban ly bt Ik ve it now. It seems hkea
fury tale. And, oh! the re'ief of Harry!
Ho had ben trying all dinner time to
iummon ud couraae to tell me that the
firm was hoi elesslv involved, and
would be declared bankrupt to-mor
row; every resource was exhausted.
Think of it, Elsie; a few days more
anu tho house would nave been sold
tho property lost to us forever. What
a narrow escape. Blessings on decora
tive art! I have been laughing and
crying by turns for the last hour, and
liarry hasn't behaved much morr
sensibly. We've 'had a war-dance
around my poor old bugbear
Such a simpleton as I was to
fancy all sorts of gliostlv horrors, and
run away when the dear ugly old thing
rattled its secret in my ears with every
gust of wind that blew! It shall never
be taken awav and SDlitup ior nrewood
now. that's certain. Wha'. nonsense I
am writing! Nevermind: I've felt lit
tie inclination for nonsense during the
last few months. I have a right to in
dulge myself in it now. Poor Mr. Van
Schenck ! Ho tried so hard to tell Harry
the secret. He had had a safe for silver
built in the wall when the mantelpiec e
was put up, and afterward used it for hi a
valuables. A spring hidden in tne cen
tral panel opened it. I wonder you did
not find it when you wero taking tne
measure and spoke of it being shaky
Do vou remember? liarry has hnished
counting out his money, and authorita
tively ordeis jae to bed, saying it is long
past midnight, and no proper hour for
anvbody but ghosts to be abroad; so,
unlets x uieu i my iciui iaj wc u&c
Tennyson's brook, and ' go on forever,'
T t . i ..... - . i. l : I.
1 am to close it at once, like a good
wile. I obey. I am too happy to be any
thing but dutiful. Shall I confess that
I took a base advantage ot the oppor
tunity, and asked my liego lord a short
time ago what he thought of my 'hobby'
as he calls decorative ait now. 'His
answer I need not record; sutlice it to
say it was perfectly satisfactory. Good
night, my darling, l can c mm words to
express my gratitude, but if a pair of
solitaire diamond earrings as bright as
vour idea- Another warning from
liarry; now l really must stop.
" lour loving sister, katk."
Harper's Bazar
A Terfect Home.
'1 he mo6t perfect home I ever saw was
iittle house into the sweet iacense of
w'.iuso fires went no costly things. A
thousand dollars served as a year's liv
ug lor father, mother and three chil
dren. But the mother was the creator
of a home: her relations with the chil
dren were the most beautiful I have ever
seen; even the dull and commonplace
man was lifted up and enabled to do
good work for the souls by the atmos
phere which this woman created; every
f . l i .. : .r.. 1 ....... I
ininaiB ui me iiuusa luiuiuuwinii
looked into her face for the key-note of
tho day, and it a! ways rang clear. rom
tho rose bud or clover leaf, which in
spite of her hard house work she always
found time to put beside our plates at
breakfast, down to the story she had on
hand to read in the evening there was
no intermission ol her influence. She
has always been and always will be my
uluilot a mother, wife and home-maker
If to her quick brain, loving heart and
exquisite face had been added the ap
pliances of wealth nnd enlargements of
wide culture, hers would have been ab
solutely the ideal home. As it was, it
w:is the best I have ever seen. Helen
Lu'tt.
There are now
about 200.0(H) Chris-
tiaps in China,
FOR THE FA IK SEX.
1'nrUlnn Marriages.
The rarisian, an American paper
published in Paris, says: Our lady
readers will perhaps be interested to
know how a grand marriage is arranged
at Paris. The preliminaries are gener
ally arranged between the two families
with the help ot the notaries; lessoiten
the marriage is more romantic and
springs purely from love, in which case
the traditional steps of courtship and
marriage are much modified, ouppos
inir. however, that a marriage has been
recognized as advisable between the two
families the first thing to do is to ar
range an interview between tho young
folks. For this purpose some neutral
ground is generally chosen a reception
at a friend s house, a concert, a Dan and
the theaters. The opera is preferred by
the world of fashion: the opera comique
is popular with the bourgeois and the
provincials. The young man sits in the
orchestra and the young girl dressed in
her best, is placed in Iront ol a box.
Between the acts the young man pays a
visit to the box and is presented. The
next day lie pays a visit to the father
and makes a formal demand of the
young lady's hand. If it is accepted, he
begins to pay court to tho young girl.
Every day, a; this stage of proceedings,
the young man is admitted to the house
of his future wife as if he were one of
the family.
He is called by his iChristian name.
The day alter the "accordailles," or his
acceptation by the lamny, ne presents
his future wife with a ring, always the
same o:i0 pearl or two pearls mounted
with two diamonds. xou may see
these rings by the score in the jewelers'
shops. Every day, too, he sends a oou
quet"of flowers. Nowadays these
bouquets are spienoia ana cost, a smiu
fortune, for it is the custom to envelop
them with lace.which is sometimes re
placed by watered ribbon, on which the
name oi tue young gin is eiuuruiucieu.
In aristocratic families the nrst person
to whom the marriage is announced is
the pope, who sends his benediction by
telegraph, on tue day i me ceremony
at the church. The mother, accom
panied by her daughter, visits her
friends in order to inform them of the
happy news. In Madam de Sevigne's
days a young girl's wedding trousseau
contained only thiee dresses. In tho
year of grace, 1880, a wedding trousseau
HI UJU 13 1 TC1J giauu nut.., "in
comprises twelve dresses, ail made up
with Blockings, shoes, sun snaues ana
h its to match. The trousseau, together
with the linen, is worth from SO.OOO to
so. 0.00 francs In the trousseau of the
Princess Isabella de liroy, tne who oi
tho Archduke Frederick of Austria, all
tho linen i3 counted by the gross. There
are twelve dozens of everything.
Summer Dresses.
Leaders of fashion, with their craving
for variety, are already protesting
against the use of figured fabrics to such
mi extent that Pans dressmakers send
to the modistes here dresses ot plain
surface and solid color, lhis is espe
cially noted in the use ot sewing-silk
irrenadines in preference to brocaded
ones, nnd of plain Surah silk instead of
figured silk, also in the attempt to re
vive taffeta, which is always plain and
lustrous. The most elegant black
dresses this season are of the plain sew
ing-silk grenadines, trimmed elaborately
with black lace in which gin tureaas
are thickly interwoven, or eiau wun
open trimmings entirely o? jet, or per-
bnns with tine eniDroiaery uone on
arpnadine for flounces- and panels.
Danish laces over colors, especially red
or yellow, are aUo used ior trimming
h -.u:k irrenadines. i.ne Equare-meenuu
cunvns irrenadines is liked for parts of
dresses that are completed by Surah, or,
if ritrures are not objected to, by very
rich brocaded grenadines that have
sm.int.h cround of satin luster, with
larc-c. onen-worked figures. Ihe plain
canvas grenadine in such combinations
is used tor three or lour narrow piaueu
frills at the foot, and these are sewed
directly on the black siik skirt used lor
the foundation. There are men pyra
mids of such olaitings up each side, or
on lv uo the Iront. Folded plaitings ot
the n'.ain crenadine are then laid like a
diagonal scarf across the none ana eiucs :
Hiuive this is tue aoron oi orocauu, ami
the hooped drapery of the back is also
hfrmade. Rows of ietted fringe laid
on knife-plaitings that pass up the sides
or front add to the rich effect. Another
caprice is that of lining the waist ot
h ,i'k 0-rpnnmno nresscs wuu ieu ui
vcllnw silk, and omitting it in the skirt
this gives a touch of color, and makes
the difference between waists and
skirt ilint. urn now so noLiular. A very
narrow plaiting ol red burah should db
spr. under t ha lowest row of black plait
ing around the skirt of such dresses, the
aiudi helt mav a so be lined with lea,
and there may be one or two large ro
settes ot hack with cav lining set un
the sides. Harper's Bazar.
ltaln.
Riin is the moisture of the atmos
nbrre enndensed into drops large enough
to fall with perceptible velocity to the
nnrth. The water thus prtcipitatcd is
quite pure, except in so lar as it absorbs
a slieht auantitv of air. carbonic acid
and ammonia irora me aimospm re
Tt.e formation ol rain is in general a
continuation of the processes of the lor
mationof clouds, dew ana log. ihe
d.-nnsition of moisture depends upon the
cooling ol the atmosphere, but eoncern-
ini the precise process oy wnu n mat.
mmlinir is affected erroneouH views have
been w idelv entertained. In general it
may be said that the temperature of a
i ven mass of warm moist air is low
ered in the ordinary course of atmos
phi ric phenomena by one or other of
the following four processes: 1. By
rriint inn to the cold skv. 2. By radia
tion to neighboring masses of cold air
or the cold ground. 3. By mixture
with cooler air. 4. By the absorption
of heat in the expansion of ascending
air. The fourth of the above processes
u doubtless bv far the most efficient ot
nil in lowering the teiupe iature and
producing rain.
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
The boy with the gold watch wants
to know what time it is twice as aften
as the boy with the silver chronometer.
It is said that there are one hundred
different ways of ctokina onions, but
unfortunately there is only one way of
smelling them.
A gentleman who was asked for his
marriage certificate quietly took his hat
off and pointed to his bald head. The
evidence was conclusive.
Mr. Jame3 G. Fair, of mining fame,
is just now amusing himself in China.
Thence he is going to India, Eypl and
Europe, not forgetting the Emerald
isle.
Florida's orange yield will, it is esti
mated, increase over tenfold in the next
four years, owing to the immense num
ber of trees that wili come into bearing
within that time.
The production of cotton-seed oil in
the United States has risen from 2.300,
000 gallons in 1873 to 7.800,000 in 1879 ;
about one-third of tho present product
going to France to be sold as olive oil.
Take a bran new straw hat, drop it
into the cylinder of a threshing ma
chine, and when it has been run out
on to the straw stack by tne carrier
you have the latest style of ladies' hat.
Watcrho Observer.
In Wichita. Kan., the city council has
passed a law compelling householders
to plant a certain number of trees be
fore each place, and already 44.000 trees
have been set out along the streets in
obedience to tho law.
The author of "Nancy Lee "-made
$8,000 by the song ; the owners of " My
Grandfather's Clock" netted $11,500;
the " Baby Mine " man counted up
nearly 87,000, and yet honest and Irre
proachable citizens are toiling away lor
$2 a day.
Simultaneously, in the Audubon
flowa) counlv clerk's office, one man
applied for a copy of a decree of divorce
from his former wue, ana another man
for a license to marry her. The former
wished the latter joy, but sarcasm was
detected in his tone.
Intelligent servant to caller: "Will
ye kape still a minute while I look at
yeP No. Missis hain't at home. She
told me if a woman came with a wart
on the end of a red nose to say she
wasn't at home, and there'd no mis
takin' that wart."
A woman in New York accidentally
went to church with two bonnets on
her head one stuck inside the other
and the other women in the congreg
ation almost died of envy. They
thought it a new kind of bonnet, and
too sweet for anything.
Tho Deep Sea.
Some interesting results of recent
deep sea explorations were concisely
stated in a late lecture at tne royai in
stitution, London. Four-seventh, or
nearly three-fourths of the surface of
the eaith, are covered by sea. Ihe
average depth of the ocean is, accord
ing to the latest calculations oi uuo
Krumraell, about 1,877 fathoms, or
somewhat over two miles. The great
est depth known to exist was d iscovered
by the United States ship Tuscarora,
near the Kurile islands, in Northeast
Pacific. It is 4,655 i.-ithoms, or about .
five and one-quarter miles, l ho high
est mountain existing is ot aoout uio
same height as the deepest sea is deep.
Mount Everest is ,ojj miucms in
height. So insignificant, however, is
the total volume of land raised above
sea level in proportion to tho vast cav
ity occupied by the sea, that were this
cavity emptied of its water, the whole
of the land now above sea level could
be shoveled into it twenty-two ana a
lmlf times over beforu it would be filled
up to the present sea level.
Nevertheless, the acpin oi me oceans,
arfiat. ns it is. is as nothing in compari
son with the vastness of their extent of
surface. As Mr. Croll has said, the
oceans in roauon to ineir nupcnicwi
area are as shallow as a sheet of water
100 yards in diameter and only an Inch
in depth . The sides of theocefji basins
are not at all steep. They are mostly
so liUle inclined that an ordinary loco
motive engine could run up them in a
straight line with ease. Their inclina
tion is usually not more than three or
four degrees or less. Around some
oceanic islands the slope is greater. The
steepest slope known is at Bermuda,
where, t here is an inclination oi nearly
twenty degrees from the edge of the reef
to 2.000 fathoms. There are no such
things as mountains and valleys on tne
deep sea bottom. Animals cannot slip
down against their will into the depths,
but must move deliberately into them,
and travel a long journey to reach them.
The pressure exerted by the superin
cumbent water at great depths is bo
great as to be almost beyond concep
tion. It amounts roughly to a ton on a
square inch for every 1,000 fathoms of
depth, about loo times as mucn ita mo
pressure to which people are subjected
on land. At the greatest depths the
pressure is about lour tons aa a nan.
Vast though this pressure is, it is, how
ever, only anout one-cisum m mv
which Professor Aoei anu ipim
Noble have measured, as produced in
their experiments on gunpowder. The
deep sea animals, being completely per
meated by fluids, are probably no more
conscious of pressure acting upou them
than we, and, so long as they move
slowly from one depth to another, are
most likely unaffected by the consequent
changes of pressure.
With regard to the temperature of
the deep sea waters, tho conditions
which would affect animals are com
paratively simple. Nearly all over the
ocean the temperature at 500 fathoms is
ui l.iur a fnrtv decrees F.. and this is
' ,w . - 'j n .. . , ,
. .n 1 ,.l i i ka v nnitpr till.
LIIU Case even ijj.ixn...j .
equator in the Atlantic and Pacific
oceans. Below 2,000 fathoms tho tem
ncrature is never more than a few de
grees above ireczing puim, cHTimg
in the peculiar cases lof land-locked
seas, such as the Sulu sea.