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VOL. XIV. iNO. 5. , TIONESTA, PA., APRIL 27, 1881
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The I'cnnut.
A large and healthy peanut
Lay cozily abed,
And it chuckled, oh, bo gleefully!
And to itself It sulci: '
"Thorn's a groat bis world before mfi"
And my mission yet to do; ? .
And up I'll lo mid doing it,
F.ro tlio bud has dried tho (low.
" There are greedy Ikits to conquer,
And hungry girls as well;
What a world of power I've hidden
Within this littlo shell.
Though tlmy slay mo in the battlo,
Though they crush mo like a worm,
Though they balto and crunch my body,
If I can I'llmnko 'era squirm."
And the small ljoy grabbod that peanut
And ho cracked it 'tween bin teeth,
But when ho would have on-allowed it,
It choked him o'en to death;
And tho peanut's work was ended
It had fallen in tho strife--It
had done its mission nobly,
Though tho doing coHt its life.
AN APRIL FOOL.
Helen was our beauty; there is no
contradicting that. A haughty, high
Bpirited beauty, almost dark enough for
an Asian; but bo perfectly made, with
such a glow on the olive oval, Buch a
ruddy ripeness on the full lip, such a
luster in the great dark eye. And, like
most beauties, she felt as if the world
. was made for Caosar.
Of course, none of us in the little vil
lage group ever thought of denying her.
supremacy. In fact, we all admired her
too much for that, although I doubt if
any of us loved her. But we all took a
certain pleasure in seeing her arrayed
to suit her beauty; and many was the
scarf and ribbon and rose given her,
like timid offerings at a shrine, from
Clara and me, and, for the matter of
that, from Maria and Emily, and all the
rest of our girls except perhaps Jane,
who had not no much - to give and
who never indulged herself in fineries
a little Quaker-like body in her gray
gown, with her light hair put back
smoothly from her white forehead ; not
pretty in mot eyes at all, but always so
fair and pure to me. Helen, however,
looked at Jane with a lofty disdain ;
which Jane appeared to think all right
and rjnhiral, for little Jane shared our
't.iUiOc3atfnff 'bat Helen's movements
'tuM Bomotliing'tdQ.with keeping the
earth in equipoise. And, in fact, I have
often noticed since that anybody with
some one trait of pronounced mental or
physical superiority, well sustained by
a bad temper behind it, can rule all the
vorld within reach, just as Helen did.
We were, tho most of us, better off,
as the phrase goes, than Helen, so fur
as money was concerned ; for she was
only Mrs. Knowle's companion, and,
except little Jane, who was an orphan,
and hod just enough income to dress
herself mcagerly and pay her board at
Annt Elroy's, we all had our happy
homes. Jano had set out to fit herself
for teaching. She played rather won
derfully, and she could have spoken to
you in one or two different languages, if
she had not been always bo shamefaced.
As for Clara and me, we were the hoi-
dens of the village. Maria was the flirt
and Emily was the religieuse. She and
Mrs. Knowing used to have the most
marvelous mornings together, talking of
albs and chasubles and altar pieces and
candlesticks, which somehow made
Emily rather interesting to the rest of
us, although Cousin Stanhope laughed
at us about it, if he didn t laugh at her.
( Cousin Stanhope, be it understood,
Was tho light of our eyes in that nioun-
!am hamlet, so far as connection with
lie outside world went. He was, in ono
ilogree or another, the cousin of almost
Jhll of us," for wo were all more or less
Llistantly related. He had a position in
(the state department at Washington
that allowed hira some leisure : and, as
wo were not a great way from his head
- ouarters. ho often ran up for a Sunday
hnd brought us news of that great world,
Iind occasionally brought some one of
he people figuring on its scenes now
Imd then an attache of one of the lega
lions : once in a while a traveling fur-
feigner ; once, indeed, a South Sea island
J chief, who boldly asked Helen to go
bock with him to utaneite. a primitive
savage Stanhope called him; but, if
that were true, the primitive savage was
a verv calm and noble gentleman.
" I don't know how you can say so,"
Helen remarked, as we were talking him
over on Aunt Elroy's piazza, our usual
i place of congregation, ono bright spring
' morning, April Fool's day, as we had
learned, to our cost, in a scries of Stan
hope's jests through tho mail. " A great,
1 Rwarthv barbarian ? I BUitpose it is be
i eause I am so dark myself; but I haw
J no affinity with your dusky-skinned
1 neoiilo."
(I saw Dr. Malatestata lower his book
from his own dusky face and look at
her curiously a moment.
"Being a blackamoor myself," contin
f ned Helen, "what I admire is my
antipodes.
" Little Jane, for instance," said I
"No, indeed. That colorless mor
' eel ! A vellow-haired Norse, some de
scendant of one of the old Cimbri; a
blue-eyed and red-haired Spanish
trrandee. He would like me, too," said
Helen, laughing and putting up a great
dropping curl, " on the same principle,
I expect to fall in with him yet.
Or fall out with him," said I.
" Nothing less than a Spanish hidal
go, with a string of titles as long as his
rent-roll."
" Then I suppose a poor, swarthy
Roman doctor need never hope to find
f;:vor with those of your way of think
ing, Miss Helen ?" said Dr. Malatestata,
in his smooth English, to which the
slightest accent in the world was like
sauce piquanto to flavorless meat.
" Oh, said Helen, coolly, with her
finest air of insolence. " I did not no
tice that you were there, Signor."
JJut you will notice the hidalgo,
with the string of titles and tho rent
roll? Well, hidalgos are often poor."
Then I should have no use for
them," said Helen.
" Do yon mean to say, Miss Helen,
that you would not marry a poor and
untitled man? What is the matter
with you American girls ? What better
title is prince than doctor 1 Ian to
see the secret of it. There is a legend
in my land that once the Roman-purple
was put-up at auction. Diavolo! Is
all this beauty for sale, too, to the high
est bidder?"
Helen stared at him a moment, an
swering nothing.
Iiv the wav. Clara, then she said.
entirely ignoring him and his remarks,
" did you see the bpanish lace cape Mrs.
Knowles gave Emily? I should have
liked it myself; and, indeed, it was not
expensive."
" Sho made a real April fool of Helen
with it," said Clara; " for when she un
folded it, Helen thought, of course, it
was for her.
' And I had just began to thank her,
when she turned it over to tho nun.
However, it is the only time that I ever !
was made an April fooL" said Helei. ,'
with her most superiot gesture; "and I
defy any one to do it again."
" hv, Helen I How you lorget r J.
exclaimed. " Little Jane has made you
one every year since she has known
you."
Oh! Littlo Jane! Her fooleries!
Sweetmeats under your breakfast-plate !
Yes, if you count that, little Jane has."
"And will next year too, 111 bo
bound," said Dr. Malatestata. "At least,
she would if " And I was thankful
that he wheeled his chair away and
round the corner of the gallery, for a
knew he was going to say, " if nature
had not been before her; " and if he had
said it Helen would have had her foot
on all our necks before peace could have
been declared.
Dr. Malatestata was Cousin Stanhope's
last importation an Italian gentleman
who was visiting America, a graduate of
some wonderful old university, who per
haps might Bettle down and practice in
America if he had inducement, uousin
Stanhope said, with a laugh, and who
had found his way to the Italian lega
tion at Washington, where . Stanhope
had met him. It was quUe unfor
tunate for liiin that he fell on the slip
pery pavement and broke his ankle; but
Stanhope, who had taken a fancy to
him, had brought him up to our village
as soon as he could bo moved, and had
installed him at Aunt Elroy's, where he
was waited on by inches, Aunt Jlroy
outdoing herself in fancy dishes, and
littlo Jane now and then venturing lest
he might be homesick to let him hear
his native tongue again, while she spoke
little of her timid Italian with him,
half sure that he was laughing at her,
but willing he should laugh if that di
verted the poor gentleman any from tho
pain in his ankle.
"As if it wouldnt maiie him home
sick," said Helen, high and mightily.
But it didn t seem to do so. He used
to watch little Jane a good deal. Per
haps it amused him. When she came
back, with her basket on her arm from
Aunt Elroy's errands among the poorer
people of the mountain (and she was
always sure to have one or two cases of
want in reserve as her own property),
he would ask her a swarm of questions
and apparently derive infinite entertain
ment from her answers. But he was
occupied the most part of the time with
notes that he seemed to be collecting
and arranging for a book;
Singular person! said Helen, m
her sweetly scornful tone. "What
could Cousin Stanhope have been think
ing of to bring him here He hasn t
even the manners of a gCntloman."
" W hy, nelen ! ' came a chorus.
"I think heia a consummate gentle
man," said Aunt Elroy.
"Just about as much of a gentleman
as Jane is a lady," continued Helen.
Look at her now, bringing in the
eggs, one hasn t a soui aoove ner
hens."
" She gives every egg to the poor and
sick people up the hills."
'Goody! goody I Just my ideal or
an old maid. Scanty gown, puritanic
collar, plain hair, generally drab. Well,
there must always be one such in every
circle."
" One such !" I cried. " I wish there
were a dozen such."
' Oh ! well," said Helen, wo won't
quarrel over little Jane. She s tco
small, dear."
It was lovely April weather up our
hillsides. Everything was blossoming
into May. All life and the future seed
ed to our hearts as bright as tho bloom
ing world was. We passed the time in
one long picnic Mother and Aunt
Elroy and Uncle John and Mrs. Knowles
and all climbing the mountains, catch
ing the brook trout and broilin; them
on our wood fires, and coining back
with our arms full of flowers. At least,
we all did but little Jane. She iaid she
had not the heart to leave their lodger
alone in his condition to the mercies of
Old Sally ; and she used to do her little
gardening around the house, ard carry
her pensioners our flowers of the day be
fore if wa had left them with her, and
be back again at short intervals. And
the last I saw of her one day she had
her davenport on the piazza and was
writing away at his dictation, as if there
were no such thing as May breezes and
flowers and mountain rambler., and lit
were good for nothing except to make
it pleasant to his swarthy, lean, ill
favored foreigner. But it was only
Jane's way with everybody.
"That is one of the troubles with
her," said Helen. " She hasn't any
identity. She forgets herself in the
next person always. A bit of white
glass that is all she is." And there was
such an assumption of authority in
Helen's sayings that, after a few repe
titions, one was apt to take them as
gospel. Only Dr. Malatestata never
did; and his polite way of looking over
her and through her as if she were a
transparency or did not exist at all, was
the only way he had of rrtovirg nelen.
And that did move her. Iresently I
thought I saw that Helen had deter
mined to change it; and although she
did not care a sou for him himself, ske
could not brook a rebel within her
dominion, and she meant to make
him care for her. In the full flow
of admiration long received her
pride hod sailed upon a smooth cur
rent, without an obstruction. This ob
struction of the oblivious Italian doctor
caused a disagreeable commotion in the
tide. What made me first think of it
was Helen's picking- to pieces a bunch
of yellow blossoms she had brought in
from the woods, and as she passed the
doctor in his chair scattering a rain of
them all over him, and then looking
back with a laugh that ' showed her
glittering teeth and brightened all the
carnation on her olive cheeks and the
luster in her eyes. Well, she was too
beautiful for anything but dreams. The
doctor must have seen what I thought
where I sat in the window-frame, for
presently he said to me: " Too brilliant
for use, is it not ? As for me, I prefer
What was it Miss Jane read to me to
day?" " You mean
" 'A creature not too bright and good
For human nature's daily food V
That would bo Miss Jane herself,"
said I.
"St. Jane," said he.
" I suppose," I said, " tliat one sees a
plenty of such faces in Home r
" As Miss Helen's ? Plenty."
" I always thought Helen looked like
a Roman lady.
" Like a Roman peasant girl," said
he.
But I knew better than to repeat his
words.
" So your peasant girls have that
golden tinge under the carmine?" I
asked him.
" All of them."
In a day or two Helen, who often
came over to Aunt Elroy's. where she
saw a group of us, when Emily and
Mrs. Knowles were having one of their
seances, was standing by a pillar of the
gallery, twisting a budding vine about
herself, and a humming bird came dart
ing along, and hovered a moment, just
as if he took her mouth for a blossom.
We all exclaimed and laughed, even the
doctor; and when the next moment a
saucy robin in the black-heart cherry
tree gave forth a burst of his music,
and Helen opened her lips and answered
it in delicious trill on trill, we felt as if
the scene was sometlung ideal.
' You could hardly do better than this
in Italy," said I to the doctor.
"The robins take you for one of
themselves, Helen," said Aunt Elroy.
" It is one of tho wise birds," said the
doctor. " He wants another song from
you, Miss nelen, as I, indeed, do too,
And then Helen sang again. She had
been chary of her songs before; but
after this you always knew when Helen
was coming by the music that ushered
her, and where she was going by the
sweet sounds that went dancing after
her.
" How can he help falling at her feet ?"
said I to Cousin Stanhope, on one of his
Saturdavs with us.
" He is lame," said Stanhope.
" Nonsense!"
"And then I should have fallen in
love with her myself long ago, if it had
not been for her temper."
" You, Stanhope ?"
"Yes, I; and if "
"If what?"
" If I had not fallen in love with
somebody else."
But juist then the doctor, who had so
far improved as to be able to use a
crutch, came down the garden-path and
took Stanhope off with him. I saw lit
tle Jane gaze after them intently a mo
ment; and I wondered vaguely if she
were too fond of Stanhope, and I felt
vaguely disturbed and unhappy, and
went homo and practiced a sonata till I
was tired out.
How fair and sweet Jane was in those
June days, as they came ! There was
such an unspeakable tranquillity about
her. I never looked at her without
thinking of perfect, placid dawniugs.
" What a complete lady Jane is," I
said to Stanhope once, as wo were walk
ing in the wood.
" That is because her temperament is
so quiet. It gives her manners repose,"
he answered. ' All her ways are pleas
antness and all her paths are peace.' "
And I knew I had no right to be vexed
with him for speaking so. Who could
be blamed for loving Jane ?
" Only I never could see," added Stan
hope, " how any man could fall in love
with Jane. I should as soon think of
kissing a statue. But then, I suppose,"
he said, looking half askance at me,
" when one is in love with somebody
else" And he stopped, because two
people were 6lowly coming through the
wood, although they were not observ
ing us. It was Dr. Malatestata, who
could now walk tolerably with his stick,
and Helen, whom he had met.
" Ye . was saying, " I have quite
rec
res..,
u so far tliat 1 shall be able to
yiy journey in a short time.
And, Miss Helen, shall I tell you ? When
I go home I hope to take a wife there
with me."
"Why in the world should Helen
think he means her?" whispered Stan
hope. "Look at her ! l or Helen had
suddenly averted her face, and, thrust
ing her hands out before her in a beau
tiful forbidding gesture, had cried:
Oh, no, no, no ! I could never leave
America !"
Dr. Malatestata stopped short in his
walk, in blank amazement.
" I beg your pardon, Miss nelen, ho
cried. "You misunderstand mo," he
said. " Believe me, I had no thought of
asking you." And then he drew himself
up proudly. " I was about to tell you,"
he said, " that I am the promised hus
band of Miss Jano."
But at that time Stanhope, who had
been in the secret for some time, could
not forbear a moment longer, and burst
into a roar of laughter.
And then such an angry man as
Malatestata was may I never see again,
when he began adjuring Stanhope in
foreign tongues, while the latter leaned
against the tree and laughed on.
" At any rate," said Helen to me.that
night " the fact remains that I refused
him. He didn't misunderstand me."
Well, it was the loveliest little wedding
that we had two weeks later on Aunt
Elroy's broad gallery, with all the
flowers and vines and birds. And a
grand Italian gentleman came up with
Stanhope, too, who treated us all like
nobles, and delighted Emily and awed
Maria. The doctor would have his
wheel-chair present, for he declared
it had been the best friend ho ever had;
and he looked at Jane in her white
muslin and jesamines, as if it were too
much that any of us should touch her.
And then he took her on on the journey
over the comment; " for we will see
America before we go back to our home
in Italy," he said.
So letters came to us from Niagara,
from a shooting season in Colorado,
from Mexico, from Calif ornian ranches;
then from the islands of the Pacific
seas, from Japan, from India; and Jano
was going to her home by way of the
Red sea and Egypt and the Mediter
ranean.
" Just think of our little Jane !" said
I. " She is putting Marco Polo in the
shade."
" It's about time he settled down to
his practice now, though," said Aunt
Elroy, not meaning Marco Polo, but the
doctor. "I declare, what a gap it
makes in life 'io have Jane gone; and
now Mrs. Knowles and Helen too.
wonder if Helen is having the triumph
ant time she hoped for in Rome." For
Mrs. Knowles had gone to Rome, and
Helen had been buoyant with expecta
tion.
" Are you speaking of Helen ?" said
Emily, coming up with an open letter
from the post. "She has seen some
very pleasant people. She has been
guest at a grand villa, been present at a
6uperb festival in the country and been
received by a prince and princess. Do
you want to read about it ?" And this
was what Helen had written on that
page:
" It was just a morning of mornings,
this April day; and Mrs. Knowles end I,
having left the city and come up here on
the Apennines, were taking our stroll
a stroll where we crushed the violets at
every step when we saw that the vil
lage was all aflame with flowers and
banners, and the people decked out like
a scene in a theater, and there was music,
and there were throngs of children, with
garlands, and I don't know what and all.
It was the home-coming of the prince
and princess, they said. And we had
time to hear no more; for, as we stood
just inside the gates of tho lovely gar
dens, we stepped aside, to let the low car
riage, with its four cream-colored horses,
dash by. And all of a sudden there was
a cry, and the horses were pulled up,
and two people sprang out of tho car
riage. And oh, Emily ! I had reason
to remember, all in n rush, that it was
April Fool's day, and I tho merest fool
that ever was I, who had actually re
fused this man ! For who do you think
the prince was but Prince Malatestata ?
And the princess was our little Jane !"
Independent.
As an illustration of the enormous in
crease of the use of opium and morphia
in the United States the following sta
tistics have a painful interest, and it
must be remembered that this is no ex
ceptional case. In one of our large cit
ies, containing twenty-five years ago a
population of 57,000, "the sales of opium
and moi-phia reached 350 pounds and
1)75 ounces respectively, or about forty
three grains of opium ami three grains of
morphia yearly for each individual, if the
consumption was averaged. Tho popu
lation is now t) 1,000, and 3,500 pounds,
of opium and 5,500 ounces of morphia
are sold annually. While the popula
tion has increased fifty-nine per cent.,
the sale of opium has increased 800 per
cent., and morphia 1,100, or an average
of 20(1 grains of opium and twenty-four
grains of morphia to every inhab
itant. But there are additional
sales oi from 400,000 to 600,000
pills of morphia, which would give
us 170 ounces more of the drag. One
fourth of the opium sold is consumed in
its natural state, and three-fourths are
made into opiates, the principal one
being laudanum. The imports of opium
into the United States for the years 1879
and 1880, tiding the thirtieth of June,
were 633,451 pounds, valued at $2,786,
606. Since 1SW5 9,000 divorces have been
granted in Italy, Milan being set down
for no less than 3,000. Since 1870
Homo has had tJOO.
FOR THE LADIES.
.1 Broom Drill.
A new Hea in amusements this, and
its inventors were some girls in Lowell,
Mass. Twelve young ladies, com
manded by a captain, gave a public
drill of their proficiencv in handling the
broom. The girls were uniformed in
red, white and blue. The brooms were
decorated with colored ribbons, and as
tho young women marched with the
streamers behind them they looked
very martial and were warmly applauded.
A voung lady, dressed in the national
colors, was the " drummer boy" of tho
broom corps. A fan drill is performed
in somewhat the same fashion, only the
fan can be used more gracefully and
effectively than the broom. But, after
all, perhaps, the best broom drill is the
one that takes place m the kitchen,
where there is only ono broom and no
streamers. " , .
IIowuu Enipi-e.a (cta TlnounU a Hay.
Empress Elizabeth, of Austria, begins
the day's work and amusement with a
cup of cold chocolate, taken at 7
o'clock. Then she goes to the stable to
see her hunting pet; then receives her
steward and makes arrangements for
presentations, interviews, etc. At one she.
takes a beefsteak and a couple of glasses
of Hungarian wine, after which her
lady-in-waiting tells her the news and
reads to her paragraphs from divers
newspapers. She dines at six, and then
dons her riding habit and goes to the
large circus which is connected by a
covered -passage with her private apart
ments. Here she mounts some mettle
some horse and trains him with wonder
ful skill and boldness. When some ani
mal usually wild and spirited is to be
conquered a few appreciative guests are
invited to come and look on at the dar
ing empress' proceeding.
A Queen's Kobe.
A fashionable modiste of San
Francisco had her parlors crowded one
entire day with guests inspecting an.
outfit which she had just completed per
order for Queen Kaprolam, the wife of
King Kalakaua, of the Sandwich
islands. Among the many handsome
robes was one which is intended for a
grand state occasion. It is made in the
native stvle of the Hawaiian islands.and
is termed the "holoku." The design
is the same as is known in the South,
especially in Now Orleans, 'as the
" volonta," the robe being in one piece
and gathered into a deep yoke that
covers the shoulders. The material is
of the very richest velvet, of a Marie
Louise blue, striped with gold and
combined with plain velvet of the same
shade. Another was of embossed velvet,
of the most delicate peach-pink shade,
which constituted the train and corsage.
This was over a petticoat of plain Turk
satin, also peach-pink, and was richly
embroidered with white jet. The half
sleeves and high-rolling collar were of
the satin, and thickly covered with jet
embroidery. Handsome white jet
ornaments fastened the corsage, which
1 was pointed in the front and back. The
most beautiful of the lot, however, was
a marine blue satin combined with ecru
satin and finished,, with a heavy garni
ture of crimson-crushed roses. This
gown was also made in the " holoku "
style, with long, flowing sleeves open at
the shoulders and extending nearly to
the bottom of the gown, and were lined
with crimson satin. Each suit had two
pairs of slippers made of the same
material as the dress they were to be
worn with.
Japuncxe Factory (iirU.
The Japanese have just made another
advance in their imitation of European
customs. Up to the present time popu
lar prejudice has greatly restricted the
field for women's labor. In the interior,
indeed, the weaker sex take part in
agricultural operations, but at the great
centers of industry men have monopo
lized almost t lie whole area of remunera
tive work. This system appears to be
doomed, as some of the more enterpris
ing manufacturers are offering employ
ment to women, and so far as the ex
periment has yet been earned theso
philanthropists havo no cause to regret
the venture. Tho i'eminiue employes
are content with considerable lower
wages, and yet work tho same time
twelve hours as the masculine monopo
lists. Whether they turn out the
sume quantity is not stated, but in
quality the result of their labors is said
to compare not unfavorably with the
average of men's work. So great has
been tho success of the experiment that
several new factories, chiefly for the
manufacture of cloth, are about to be
built exclusively for tho employment of
women. A factory act will soon be
needed, if it be true that tho feminine
hands now in employment are kept at
work without intermission from 5 a. u.
to 5 r. m. Japaneso women are not, as
a rule, very robubt, and such prolonged
labor as this must necessarily impose a
severe strain even on the strongest.
Va.hioa Notes.
The new dolman sacks are shorter
at the back than in front.
Batiste embroidered in colors is im
ported to trim summer gowns.
Robin's-egg blue will be much worn
by young girls this 6ummer.
The summer pilgrimage costumes have
a watteau plait in the back.
The short street dress seems to have
come for a long vitit this time.
Irish point-lace wrought with gold
thread is used to trim cotton dresses.
Basques are to be 8 little longer this
season than they wero in the winter.
White muslin petticoats are the only
garments that are mode fuller than for
merly, '
Pink tidle, trimmed with holly hemes
without leaves, is a new fancy for ball
toilets.
The lace used on the summer bonnets
is very deeply tinted, and is arranged in
flutings.
The newest jackets have no hoods, but
collars that cross iu front and make a
pretty trimming.
A New York bride recently went to the
altar with her veil fastened by a horse
shoe of orange blossoms.
The littl lnntles for summer are of
all sizes, f coachman's collar to a
small Moti nbbard cloak.
The eheari st materials for really
handsome underskirts is satin, which
can be bought in all the bright colors.
Daisy chains, with a fern foliage mixed
with the blossoms, are among the flow
ers prepared to trim summer bonnets.
Fashions in every detail of the toilet
change so rapidly that it is diflicult to
say what is and what is not fashionable.
Many folds of ombre satin straight
across the crown is ono favorite trim
ming, while others cover but half the
crown, and are finished with lace on the
edges.
A handsome dress of black grenadine,
with half inch stripes pf satin and of
some open meshed design, his each of
the sides covered with a jabot of black
Spanish lace, the jabots being a half
yard wide.
Shirrings and ruffles ore seen in all
pails of costumes of cotton printed
goods, where trimmings can be used.
All dressy suits are composed of two
or more fabrics which usually match in
color, but contrasts in effect.
Weather Prophets.
Speculations about the weather are
not wholly useless it we are to- accept
the testimony of Professor J. Hyatt,
who has boon engaged for a long time
in sudying the relations between the
phases of the moon and .the rainfall at
certain stations. It has long been
known that when the moon is full the
sky is most likely to be clear. This is
not only the testimony of sailors and
farmers, but also of eminent astrono
mers and scientific men.. It appears
that the rays of the full moon have the
power to dispel clouds, and it therefore
seems not unreasonable to suppose that
the moon exerts an appreciable influ
ence upon the weather. Professor
Hyatt's observations have led him to
divide the lunar month, of about twenty-nine
and a half days, t into eight pe
riods, or octants, of three and two-third
days each, and he has found that every
lunation is apt to acquire its character
as regards rainfall within the first oo
tant, or within throe and two-thirds
days from tho time of the new moon. It
also appears that the same kind of
weather, as regards temperature, cloudi
ness or rain, is apt to occur on or about
the same day of the week, or more ac
curately, at the same stage in the lunar
quarters. A number of instances are
given, extending over a considerable
period of time, which seems to bear out
the truth of these conclusions with re
markable accuracv. and it would seem
that if seven-tenths of an inch or more
of rain falls within three and two-thirds
days of the new moon, the entire luna
tion is very likely to be a wet one ; but
if very little rain falls during that timo
the remaining seven-eight3 of tho luna
tion will probably be dry. These ob
servations verify the old saying that
the first three days rule the month. As
a result of observations conducted at
two localities, extending over a period
of three years, tho rule has been found
to hold good in at least eleven cases out
of twelve, and they would doubtless
hold good for all places in the hilly
country between the Appalachians and
the Atlantic, not too near either the
sea or tho mountains. Such conclu
sions ar only reliable for places simi
larly situated, since peculiarities of
location, elevation, the prevailing di
rection of the wind, etc., necessarily
affect tho result, and those character
istics must be studied for each place.
The distribution of rainfall is very ir
regular throughout the year ; two or
three dry or two or three wet lunations
are apt to bo groupod together.
Thread from Wood.
The manufacture of thread from wood
for crochet and sewing purposes, has, it
is said, recently beeu started in the mid
dle of Sweden. It is wound in balls by
machinery, either by hand or steam,
which,' with the labeling, takes ono min
ute and twelve seconds, and the balls are
packed up in cardboard boxes, generally
ten iu a box. Plenty of orders from all
parts of Sweden have come in, but as
the works are not in proper order, there
has hardly been time to complete them
all. The production gives fair promise
of success, and it is expected to be very
important for home consumption.
The Chinese are said to believe that
tho reason why those who road the Bible
become Christians is due to the stupefy
ing power of the ink, which takes away
his reason and leaves him ready to be
lieve false doctrines. Warnings against
the purchase of foreign books are fre
quent in consequence of this bupersti
tion. In some cases striped grenadine is
confined to the basque alone, while th
seirts are of plain iron grenadine, or
else the smooth sewing silk grenudine.
with some of the striped goods used, for
retrotihses and border.