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VOL. XVI P. 50.
TIONESTA, PA., WEDNESDAY. MARCH 26, 1884.
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I
ENDEAVOFL
The aoul growt strong in noble strife
This Is the law, forever;
Be It the motto of thy life
Emleavorl Oh, endoayorl
Strive for the mastery of self,
From all low nim to sever,
From ruuision, prldo, and love of pelf
EiuUav(ir, anJ ondoavorl
Let thy mind entertain the good:
Corrupt guosts harbor never;
Feed on high thought 'tis angel's food
Kndoavor, still endeavor I
Spurn all the blandishments of sin,
Hut follow virtue ever;
Her smile 'tis bleasednoss to win
Eudcavor, aye, endeavorl
Frank E. llale.
FRIENDS.
Kerne A C'unNrrvntwry Adjoining- a
HnlNICvoui.
She.
not?
-A bit of heliotrope. Pretty, is it
lie. Yes, very pretty.
She. Are you fond of heliotrope?
Ho. Of that heliotrope, yes.
She. I would put it ill your button
hole, but Pin afraid.
He. Afraid? Why?
Sho. Miss AVinthorpo might object.
Bho is watching us.
He. AVhy should Miss AVinthorpo ob
ject? She. I don't know if you don't.
He. I don't think Miss AVinthropo
has any special interest in me.
She. 1 do.
He. Are you jealous of her?
She No. AVhy should I be jealous?
He. I wish you were.
She. AVhy?
lie. Oh, I don't know. A fellow
likes to be of sullicient interest to a
woman to inako her jealous.
She. Yes, I suppose ho docs. Arc
you trying to make Miss AVinthorpo jeal
ous of me?
He. Why do you bring in Miss AVin
thorpo so often ? Will you put the helio
trope in my button-hole ?
She. You might think too much of
it.
He. I couldn't. Perhaps Mr. AVin
thorpo night object.
Bho. AVhy should Mr. AVinthorpo ob
ject ? .
. He. If you don't know, I don't.
She. I don't think Mr, AVinthorpo
takes any special interest in me.
He. 1 do.
She. There 1 It looks decidedly
(esthetic on its back-ground of black.
He. May I think as much of it as I
like?
She. Oh, yes; a flower means nothing.
If it diJ, how would I read the bouquet
a gentleman sent me to-day ?
He. What is it you call this cluster
you wear in your corsage, is it ? 1 um
not up in milliner's terms. 1
She. You will be some day.
Ho. AVhat do you mean i
She. AVhen you marry. Your check
book w ill be your dictionary.
He. If money could buy such a thing
of beauty as this
She. That will do. Don't carry my
joke so far.
He. Is it very expensive ?
She AVhat ?
Ho. A wife.
She. I don't think so. Hut I've never
been a wife.
Ho. You might be some day.
She. I shall. But I have ngt seen my
husband yet.
He. Are you sure ?
She. I seo plenty of gentlemen I like.
I have no heart, I um afraid.
He. I'm afraid you have not.
She. AVhat do you know about it?
He. A good deal. 1 have been look
ing for it.
She. Aro you ns foolish as all the rest?
I don't like men who talk nonsense.
He. It is not nonsense. Men some
times mean what they say.
She. Very rarely.
He. AVe have not known one another
long enough to mistrust one another.
Sue. To trust one another, you mean.
He. No; I do not mean that I mean
what I say. Do you remember our lirst
meeting?
She. No. Our acquaintance never
seems to mo to have had any beginning.
I simply knew you.
He. And trusted me?
She. And trusted you? My! I don't
know. It was not
Ho. AVhat?
She. Never mind. AVhat a lovely
dress Miss AVinthorpo wears.
He. AVill you not finish your sentence?
She. It was nothing a thought that
should not have been uttered anyway.
lie. Stay. Y'ou aro not enrared for
this dunce?
She. If I stay I shall not bo.
He. I do not wish to detain you,
but- 3 '
She. I don't care about dancing any
more.
He. It is curious that I too have al
most foften the first time we met. '
She. I don't quite know if that is
complimentary.
Ho. It never occurred to mo that wo
were to be more than mere acquaintances,
and now for a year
She. AA'e have been friends.
He. Have we been truly friends?
She. I think so. I always liked you.
You did not speak to mo as other men
spoke. Y'ou did not pay me a single com
pliment for the first six months except
one.
Ho. I have forgotteu. AVhat was it?
She. That is your flattery a flattery
no woman ever passes unnoticed.
He. Flattery. AV herein is it flat
tery? She. Don't you know?
He. I only know that if it was a com
. pliment, it vas meant.
' She. Ami that is the most effective
flattery. AVhat was tho compliment?
That I was perfectly lovely with my hair
in this stylo.
He. And so you arc. .
She. Tho compliment does not go a
second time.
Ho. Tho truth goes always.
She. Havo you heard anything more
about your Now York appointment?
Ho. Yes. I told you I should hear
to-day. Y'ou arc tho only ono who
knows anything about it yet.
She. I am afraid you always put too
much confidence in my opinion. The
idea of your consulting mo on such a
subject.
Ho. Y'ou have always been so sen
sible She I think you taught mo that. I
heard from my sister to-day. Sho thinks
you wero perfectly right about tho com
promise in our law business, and says
she would very much like to moot my
adviser.
Ho. Docs sho know of all our confi
dences? Sho. Oh. ves. Everything. Sho
wrote a week ago to toll Harry we al
ways sncttK oi you as jiarry i lorgoi
what tho message was now. Of course,
sho knows of our friendship.
He I am glad to have her good
opinion.
She Oh, slic thinks I ought to
But tell me, are you going to New York?
He. Y'cs. I suppose it is best for me.
She I suppose it is.
lie There will be a field for me there,
and I will have an opportunity to make
both money and fame
She Yes; you are right. This is but
a sorry place for a man as clever as you
are.
He I Bhall not bo so happy there, I
know.
She Oh, yes, you will. There where
there is life, and gayety, and society,
you will find another I mean other
friends.
He Is this so sorry a place for you?
Sho, A woman is different. She
must patiently await her frfte A man
may go and meet it.
He And so you wish mo happiness.
She. Indeed indeed, I do. Y'ou
have been more to me than all the rest.
lie And you to me
She. I have been nothing but a help
less woman, left fatherless, who has
found ono man among tho barren lot who
did not sicken her with adulationor bore
her with love; who was as tender as a
woman, and as manly as a man; who did
his services with such evident pleasure
that thanks were out of place. Y'ou
thought all this was nothing. Y'ou
thought tho word of sympathy was of no
value the little office of friendship that
everybody was ready to do, that every
body did.
lie If I have helped you, it is all the
world to mo to know it.
She. AVo have talked frankly enough
before: let us talk frankly now.
lie. If there is anything wo may not
tell one another frankly, our friendship
has been wasted.
She I know of nothing. I have
never felt the slightest hesitation in trust
ing you. You are going away. To say
I Khali miss you is to say nothing. I dare
not sjR'ak so to anybody else not to any
man living. Y'ou will not misunderstand
me.
He. No; you may be sure of that.
do not believe I need to tell you the feel
ing with which I shall part from you
As I hold your hand and look into your
face, I feel that wo are alike Neither
you nor I need terms of endearment to
show how much wo think of each
othei.
She Y'ou neid not squeeze my hand
quite so hard.
lie I think you nre cruel. But am I
not right ?
She. You are perfectly right.
He And when I am gone
She. You are not goue yet.
lie. Shall wo bo as dear friends as
ever ?
She Y'es.
Ho. And when the man comes who is
to take my place perhaps to be dearer ?
She. You will be here.
He Y'ou sjieak as if you were never
to have a real sweetheart.
She I waut no sweetheart who can
not be my friend.
He. And ho who would be both
Sho. Must be both. 1
lie I have never spoken of love.
Sometimes a little sentiment has stolen
in, but you have not encouraged it.
She. I don't like sentiment. It's al
ways hollow and foolish.
He. But have you not sometimes
thought I loved you?
She Y'cs. Sometimes that you have
not encouraged it.
He I was afraid it might throw a
doubt upon the purity of my friendship.
She. I Know that. I shouldn't won
der if you sometimes thought I loved
you.
He. I have, sometimes.
Sho. How could I love a man who
never sought to bo anything but a
friend? AVhy should I fetter the man
who was so kind and good to me, and
tie his love to my miseries, when be had
so many qualities that might draw him a
worthier wife?
lie. And why should I ask the woman
who truuted in my friendship and gave
me hers, to accept my love as a reward
for mine? If I had made love to you I
would have como to the level of all the
rest.
Sho. Now you aro talking nonsense
Do you believe that I would ever have
given you my confidence if there had
been nothing but friendship?
He. Take care; you are committing
yourself.
She. And I am very much mistaken
if friendship ever could be so warm as
yours that hal no deeper motive power.
He. This is leap year, and you must
take the consequences.
She. Lea j) year or not, why should I
uot bpeakf Jiarry, you are Jioint away;
you are going to leave me hero without a
friend, without any one that 1 can rely
upon. lou have taught mo to trust
you. Y'ou have weaned me from nil
other confidants and made mo ono-half
of i you. Y'ou have said wo aro not
tho kind who break our hearts. AVe
arc not. If ihnre is any other woman
whoso lovo will make you happier than
mine, tell me, and I will join your hands,
so dear is your happiness to me You
have known all tho time that I loved
you. If I havo read you wrqngly, it has
not been your fault. Our friendship
calls for us to speak tho truth woman
or man.
He Y'ou have rend me aright, as 1
have you. No woman that had not all
my love could have had all my friend
ship, as you have had. Y'ou are my
other self; and now you have spoken, let
me speak. I believe that God made us
lor one another. "AY hero thou gocst 1
will go, where thou abidest there will
abide; thy people shall be my people,
and thy God my Ood."
Sho Boaz did not propose to Ruth in
a conservatory, but, Harry, darling, 1
don't mind if you do indulge in a little
sentiment now. Peter llobertwn, in Argo
naut. The Gay Head Indians.
Tho Gay Head Indians inhabit tho
recently incorporated town of Gay Head
on the westerly end of tho County of
Dukes, Mass., which embraces the whole oi
the island of Martha's Vineyard. This In
dian town has an area of about 2,40(1
acres, which is divided into three penin
sulas, Nashaquitsa, Squiqnoeket and Gay
Head. This town is nearly severed
from the rest of the island by Menem
sha pond. At the present time there art
about 200 Indians at Gay Head, and un
like many other remnants of Indian
tribes in tho Commonwealth, they have i
for a few years past been gradually in
creasing in numbers. There are about
fifty families, and tho people here have,
been marked through a series of years
for seeking more profitable sources of in
come than their isolated situation natural
ly afforded, and some of them have
achieved somo distinction as efficient
masters of vessels. Tho morals, educa
tion and marked indications of civilized
advancement among them aro so strik
ing that they attract attention among
those who chance to visit their seques
tered island home
If there is a spot in all New England
where a recluse might wish to find per
petual repose, free from the troubles and
anxieties of life, Gay Head is tho place,
and yet the Gay Headers are quite jealous
of the influences aud approaches of for
eigners, having had a good deal of trouble
with those who have married somo of
their daughters and settled among them.
Formerly any member of this tribe at
Gay Head could take up, fence in and
improve ns much of the laud as he pleased,
and when inclosed it became his own. It
might very naturally be inferred that such
a state of things would engender many
disputes and quarrelB, but such was not
the case Such a state of things was a
kind of "imperium in imperio," not con
ducted by any code of laws except bone
and muscle of those taking up thejand.
The Gay Head Indians nre a mixture of
the red, whito and black races, and there
is, too, some Southern blood among them,
and also Portuguese and Dutch ; for
listen, here are some of the names among
them, to wit: John Randolph, Madison.
Corsa, Silvia and Tanderhoop. Through
tho intermarrying and the coming in of
foreigners it has almost pushed out tho
prrely Indian names. They arc, on tho
whole, a moral, frugal, industrious and
temperate people, and are quite equal in
these respects to white people, with simi
lar surroundings. Jiuston iW.
An Overwhelming Compliment.
A young gentleman anxious to learn to
sing, went up into the garret ono Sun
day night about led-tiine, and resolutely
commenced his exercises with his Psalm
book. He had been singing but a short
time, when his father, a fidgety old gen
tleman, stole out of his bed-room, with
his night cap on, and on reaching the foot
of the stairs, mildly inquired :
"James ?"
No answer. James was very busy with
his exercises.
"James ?"
"Sir?"
"Have you heard a very jcculiar noise,
Jamc ?"
"No, sir; nothing."
"Oh ah I thought but never
mind."
The old gentleman walked back to his
room, muttering indistinctly.
Presently James resumed his exercises,
and was getting on famously, as he
thought, when his parent, like tho ghost
of Hamlet's father, again came forth, ex
claiming: "James!"
"Sir!"
"Are vou sure that Bose is chained
up?"
"Yes, sir; I attended to it myself."
"Very well, very well; no matter."
Once more he returned to his room.
AVondering what his father meant by
inquiring after the house dog, Bose,
James was silent for a minute, but soon
returned to his exercises more vigorously
than ever. Again, however, ho was in
terrupted by tho voice of his parent,
shouting
"James!"
"Sir!"
"I am suro Bose is loose."
"It can't be possible, sir."
"lie is, I tell you."
- "What makes you think so, sir?"
"AVhy, fortius last half hour I have
heard something that sounded very
much as if that dog was worrying the
cuT"" "
James ucver resumed his eircise.J
after that overwhelming compliment.
IN THE JAWS OF A SHARK.
THE THHILLI1TO ADVBffTUKB
SPANISH DIVER.
or A
AitK krit by a lluire Minrk While nt
Work oit ft Wreck A arrow Km
rape,
Alfetto, the Spanish diver who has
been at work on the wreck of the Atlan
ta, near Morehead, thus speaks of an ad
venture had by him a few days ago: At
the time I wa3 at the bottom of the sea.
I was just about to signal to be drawn up
for a moment's rest, when I noticed a
shadowy body moving nt some distance
above and toward me. In a moment
every fish had disappeared, the very crus
taceans lay still upon the sand and the
cuttle fish scurried awny ns fast ns they
could. I was not thinking of danger,
and my first thought was that it was the
shadow of a passing boat. But suddenly
a feeling of horror seized me. I felt im
pelled to flee from something I knew not
what. A vague horror seemed grasping
after Inc, such as a child fancies when
leaving a darkened room. By this time
the shadow had come nearer and taken
shape It scarcely needed a glance to
show me that it was a man-cater, and of
the largest size. Had I signaled to be
drawn up then, it would have been cer
tain death. All I could do was to remain
still until it left. It lay off twenty or
twenty-five feet, just outside the rigging
of the ship, its body motionless, its fins
barely stirring the water about its gills.
It was a monster as it was, but to add
to the horror tho pressure of the water
upon my head made it appear as if pour
ing flames from its eyes and mouth, and
every movement of its fins and tail
seemed accompanied by a display of fire
works. I was sure tho fish was thirty
feet long, and so near that I could see
its double row of whito teeth. Involun
tarily I shrunk closer to tho side of the
vessel. But my first movement betrayed
my presence. I saw the shining eyes
fixed upon me; its. tail quivered as it
darted at me like a streak of light. I
shrank closer to the side of the vessel. I
saw it turn'on one side, its mouth open,
and heard the teeth snap as it darted at
me. It had missed me, but only for a
mor.ient. The sweep of its mighty tail
had thrown me forwnrd. I saw it turn,
balance itself, and its tail quivered as it
darted at me again. There was no es
cape It turned on its back as it swooped
down on me like a hawk on a sparrow.
The jaws opened, and the long, shining
teeth grated as they closed on my metal
harness.
It had me. I could feel its teeth
erinding on my copper breast-plate as it
tried to bite me in two, for fortunately
it had caught me just across the middle,
where I was best protected. Having
seized me it went tearing through the
water. I could feel it bound forward at
each stroke of its tail. Had it not lieen
for my copper helmet my head would
have been torn off by tho rush through
the water. I was perfectly conscious,
but somehow I felt no terror at. all.
There was only a feeling of numbness. 1
wondered how long it would bo before
those teeth would crunch through, and
whether they would strike first into my
back or my breast. Then I thought of
Maggie and the baby, and wondered
who would take care of them, and if she
would evef know what had become ol
me. All these thoughts passed through
my brain in an instant, but in that time
the connecting air-tube had been
snapped, and my head seemed to
burst with pressure, while the
monster's teeth kept crunching and
grinding away upon my harness. Then
1 felt the cold water begin to pour in,
and heard the bubble, bubble, bubble, ns
tho air escaped into the creature's mouth.
I began to har great guns and to see fire
works and rainbows and sunshine and all
kinds of pretty things, then I ' thought I
was floating away on a rosy summer cloud,
dreaming to the sounds of sweet music.
Then all became blank. The shark
niitrht have eaten me at his leisure and 1
never would have been the wiser. Im
agine my astonishment then, when I
opened my eyes on board this boat and
saw you fellows around me. Y'es, sir, I
thought I was dead and ate up, sure
Alfetto was found by his comrades a
few minutes after the snapping of tho
line Ho was picked up insensible, with
several holes punched in the metalic part
of his diving suit. Panama Jit raid.
HEALTH HINTS.
It is said yellow dock, root or leaves,
6teeped in vinegar, will euro the worst
caso of ringworm.
Linseed poultice: Take four ounces of
powdered linseed anil gradually sprinkle
W into a htlf pint of hot water.
AVhen putting glycerine on chapped
hands first wash them thoroughly in
soap aud water, and when not quite dry
rub in the glycerine This process. will
be found much better than the old one.
To make a bread poultice take stale
bread crumbs, pour over them boiling
water and boil till soft, stirring well;
take from tho fire and gradually stir in a
little glycerine or sweet oil, so as to ren
der tho poultice pliable when applied.
Oil of wintergreen, mixed with an
equal quantity of olive oil, when applied
externally to inflamed joints affected by
acute rheumatism, is maintained to be,
on high therapeutic authority, a means of
iustant relief from pain. At any rate, its
introduction to the sick chamber is un
objectionable, if only for the agrecablo
odor it imparts to tho atmosphere.
If you have great talents industry will
improve them; if moderate abilities in
dustry will supply their deficiency.
Nothing is denied to well directed labor.
Nothing is ever to be attained without it.
Massachusetts lias 80,000 more women
(hau men.
Jay Gould Outwitted by a Journalist.
Jay Gould was never fairly outwitted
by a reporter but once, and tho excep
tional incident occurred at the time
Gould was in Denver after having just
purchased the Kansas Pacific railroad.
The financial world was agog for infor
mation as to Gould's intentions and
plans, and the Denver newspaper offices
were overwhelmed with telegrams from
Eastern dailies asking for special dis
patches regarding the railroad magnate
and his movements. Mr. Fred Skiff,
who is now manager of the Denver
Tribune, was at that time city editor of
the paper, and ho detailed three of his
best reporters to get at Gould and in
terview him by hook or by crook.
About 9 o'clock at night these reporters
showed up with the information that
Gould could not be seen; that his sen
tinels were posted all along the hall
leading to his rooms in the Grand Central
hotel, and it was impossible to run the
gauntlet of theso wary creatures. Per
haps with a view to showing his subordi
nates what genuine enterprise could ac
complish, Skiff announced that he
would secure access to Gould's apart
ment, and would literally beard the lion
In his den. Accordingly, he hustled
around, borrowed a Pullman car con
ductor's coat and cap, and stalked bold
ly into the Grand Central. "Look
there," said he to the first sentinel he
met, "what does Mr. Gould propose
to do about that car? I must know
right away, for if he isn't going
to use it to- morrow, I've got to take it
back to Chicago. The sentry knew noth
ing about the car, of course, and ad
vised Skiff to see Gould about it him
self. So Skiff successfully ran the gaunt
let of the half-dozen lackeys, growling
all the time about the bother of being
compelled to attend to other people's
business. Judge Usher, one oi uouia s
attorneys, was in consultation with
Gould when the bogus sleeping-car con
ductor was shown in. He immediately
recognized Skiff, having known him
back in Kansas. "AA'hen did you get
out of the newspaper business?" in
quired the astonished lawyer. "I
ain't out of it," replied Skiff,
"but I hnd to put on this disguise in
order to get in here to interview Mr.
Gould." " Y'oung man," said Mr. Gould,
sternly, 1 ' if you're a reporter you can
take yourself right out of the room, for I
am not to be interviewed." Skiff argued
the point, and, not being invited to be
seated, coolly sat down on the floor.
"Unless you put me out," said he, "I
shall stay here till you tell
mo what your plans are." ine
audacity rather pleased Gould.
He looked at Usher, and, see
ing that party chuckling heartily, he
broke out into a hearty laugh. " AVell,
what do you want to know i" ho asked,
finally, in tho tone of a man who is
weary with objecting. Skill knew he
had triumphed. He produced his note
book, drew up to the table at which
Gould 6at, and set industriously at work
plying questions and noting the replies.
The result was a reliable forecast of the
immense railroad enterprise in which
Gould subsequently embarked, and of
which the public would not have been
forewarned but for the audacity and wit
of the dauntless Skiff. Chkajo Daily
Powerful in Prayer.
"One of the most remarkable and
original prayers I ever heard, "said a gen
tleman to a llerald reporter, "was just
after the war closed, and I was taking a
run down through Georgia in hope of
finding a desirable cotton plantation.
One bright summer night found me at
the cabin of nn old negro who had once
been a slave, but who locateel on the old
plantation after the war, and was his own
master. He gladly welcomed me to lin
humble abode, and to such bed and
board as he could provide
Supper over, anu a most excellent one,
too, the old man regaled mo with stories
of plantation life, until his son, a good
chunk of a boy, came home from a
neighbor's. Before retiring, the old man
asked me to read a chapter in the Bible,
when ho would pray. He said he couldn't
read, but was powerful in exhortiu' aud
prayer. After reading a chapter from
Job aud part of a Psalm, we knelt down,
and the sable brother let his soul flow
out to God. He prayed for the Presi
dent of tho United States, all his cabi
net, the army, the navy, the overnors
of all tho States, for me, his guest, for
his neighbors, for absent children, fot
himself and family. He asked forgive
ness for many sins and thanked the Lord
for many blessings.
" AVell, I began to get tired. I had
rested my knees the best I could, but
wanted to get up badly, and, at the same
time, did not waut to give offense to my
kind host. The boy reclined next to me,
with his head in the chair, sound asleep.
Touching him gently, I whispered :
'About how soon will your father get
through?' ' Has ho got to the place
whar Moses crossed do Red sea?' Being
assured that said point had not yet been
reached, the boy yawned and continued :
'AVell, when he gets to whar Moses
crossed the Bed sea, he's jist half done,'
and he relapsed into unconsciousness."
Dayton Herald.
How frequently is the honesty and in
tegrity of a man disposed of by a smile
or shrug; how many good and generous
actions have been sunk into oblivion by
a distrustful look, or stamped with the
imputation of proceeding from bad mo
tives by a mysterious and seasonable
whisper.
Correspondents' Club is the nunie of an
organization in Paris, composed of Eng
lish and American newspaper men, who
meet once a week at an informal dinner.
There's one waist that tho most amor
ous poet doesn't care to hug. That is
the waste buskct. The Judye.
KEA1S AND NOTES FOR WOMEN.
The majority of evening
dresses are
made with trains.
The fifty ladies employed in the San
Francisco mint receive each $2.75 a .
day.
Mrs. Strong was the first cotton raiser
in California, and last year she produced
190 bales.
Ttie newest chatelaine watches havo
the monogram of the owner in sapphires
on the back.
Mrs. Mary Krone, the present principal
of the Denver Bchool of mines, is the only
lady assayer in the United States.
Many "at home" dresses are made of
pale-colored satin in princesso style, and
have thick coquiles of lace down the
front.
A daughter of Minister Sargent, who
graduated at an American medical col
lege, is making a specialty of the eye, at ,
Zurich.
Dolly Sexton, who was left with tho
Shakers at Mount Lebanon, N. Y., when
she was five years old, has lived with '
them 102 years.
The best authority in England on in
lects injurious to crops is Miss E." A.
Ormerod, the consulting entomologist of
the Koyal Agricultural society.
One of the prettiest designs in new per
cales is that of a rose with its petals
nearly all blown off the stem, showing
the calyx and stamens in fine relief, with
only ono or two petals attached, while all
the others are scattered on the tinted
ground of the fabric as if btown about by
the wind.
Mrs. Louisa II. Alberts of Cedar Rapids,
la., has entered into partnership with
her husband in tho practice of law. Tho
sign reads : ' 'Albert & Albert, at torney s-at-law."
Gray cloth dresses of tailor make, with
gray feather borders and velvet trim
mings, arc fashionably worn in shades
that look too light for a comfortablo
dress in winter.
Medallions of jet embroidery in dia
mond or oval shape aro set on black satin
slippers worn with full dress. Pearl
beads are on the white slippers worn by
brides and bridesmaids.
Queen 'Victoria's income, including the
returns from her private property,
amounts to $3,000,000 a year. The em
peror of Germany and the king of Italy
have each a larger income.
AVhito English crapo is tho newest
trimming for evening dresses of white
ottoman silk or Terry velvet. It is
gauged, puffed and plaited, but is never
laid in folds, as they are too suggestive of .
mourning trimmings.
The Marquise do Hautcfeulle is very
brave woman. She created a ..satioii
in Brussels the other day by cr .'ring tho
lions' cage with the lion-tamer. The lady
bore herself with the utmost intrepidity
and played with tho wild beasts as if
they were tamo cats. She was greeted
with tremendous applause while the band
played the national ny inn, "La Braban
conne." Catherine Kile, who recently died in
Richmond township, Penn., at the ad
vanced ago of ninety-two years, had
twelve children, eighty-two grandchild
ren, 128 great-errandchildren, and two
great-great-grandchildren. Three of her
children were born at ono time, and
theso triplets are still living at tho age of
seventy-two years. They bear tho good
old Scriptural names of Abraham, Isaac
and Jacob.
A beautiful house dress for a blonde
has a skirt and drapery of electric blue
satin with a jacket of blue velvet. The
skirt has a demi-train, and is covered
with bias velvet folds on one side and
partly across the front. The satin dra
pery is a classic apron that covers the side
uot trimmed, and is taken up above the
folds on the other side, and loses itsell
in the full flowing back breadths of the
train. The basque is curved in front to
show a satin vest. Tho elbow sleeves
have satin cuffs. Full rows of lace are
down the front. from the neck to the
waist.
An Engraver's Block.
As the lines in a good wood-engravino
have to be very thin, it becomes very
necessary that tho wood should bo of
a firm and stroug fiber that will not break,
or split, or "crumble" easily. And,
indeed, the wood used for engraving it
one of tho hardest known. It is box
wood, nnd is obtained almost exclusively
from Turkey nnd Asia Minor. The graiu ol
box-wood is exceedingly close and smooth,
and engravers' " blocks " consist of slicei
each about an inch thick and usually from
two to four inches square, cut across the
grain of the tree The box-tree does nol
grow to any considerable size,and when 1
large block is desired it has to bo made
by screwing and glueing a number of small
blocks very tightly and securely. It
is said that it would take more than jn
hundred years for a box-tree to grow
large enough to furnish a block in one
piece of a size sullicient to include the
whole of the engraving, "A Midwintei
Night," which forms tho frontispiece ol
St. A'icMis. That picture is in reality
engraved upon nine blocks of box-wood,
closely joined together. St. Jfitholas.
A Retrospect.
"And my first pair of boots," went on
Simpson, "how proud and delighted I
was! AVhy, do you know," and he
looked about impassively, "that the first
night 1 insisted on wearing those boots
to bed !"
"Yah!" buiffed tho old woman from
across the room, "and it's many a pair of
boots that you have worn to bed since."
I'hiladtljfhUt Call.
There ure eight native-born Kenturk
ians in the Uuiti'd States Senate.