THE OLD AND THE NEW. He gnllcped away oa his flo.y steed. And his armor shoue as h« tripled his speed; Ou through the villa at breakneck tear, Away to the heath of his ladye fayro; Arriving within he rattled his steel Andswuug his blade when ho went to kneel; He pleaded his love in that spacious ball— The old-fashiouud love that was best of all. He spins away on his ohainless wheol, An urmorless knight on a steed of steel; Onward he flies! 'Tis a moonless night, A brakeless wheel and an oilless light, A thoughtless youth—he reaches the door And kneels to her on a rugless floor. He gives ills mustache a faultless curl, And pleads his love to a heartless girl. I HER HAIR. | | A SOCIAL COMEDY. i "Yes," said Claudia Wallace, with soft, liquid eyes uplifted and coral lips apart, "i kuow it is a worthy object—l always did sympathize with widows and orphaus. I'm an orphau myself, you kuow, Miss-Rivers, audi would cheerfully subscribe something, if I only could. But Uncle Percy keeps me so close for pocket money aud I seut my last 85 bill dowu this moruiug to buy tickets for the opera matinee ou Saturday. If I can pos sibly get auy funds I will send them to you tomorrow moruiug. I'm so sorry, dear Miss Rivers! Please let me know if there's auvthiug else I can do at auy future time." Miss Rivers swept her silkeu flounces out of the room, carrying her brother iu her traiu—metaphoric ally, not literally. Aud the iustaut they were seated iu the little coffee colored brougham she burst out: "I've uo patience with that Claudia Wallace! Close for pocket money, in deed! Did you see the rings on her hand, the bracelets around her wrists? I had a mind to say I would take auy one of those gaudy ornaments iu lieu of a subscription." "I am glad you did not, Hestor," said her brother, severely. "Why?" "You judge Miss Wallace too harsh ly. She is all sweetness, gentleness aud compassion. I saw the tears in lier eyes when you spoke of the destitution of Mrs. O'Hare—and you may depend upon it, those jewels are all gifts from tier uucle, with which she is not at liberty to part." "Fiddlesticks!" said Miss Rivers. "Of all fools, men are the worst. If it were uot for Claudia's straight uose aud blue do'l-like eyes, and the two little dimplq? on her cheeks, you wouldn't be so eager to trump up ex cuses for her." "Now you are talking nonsense, Hester!" "Am I? I thiuk uot. But you'll just please remember, Everard, that I told yon before we stopped here I wouldn't give much fjr all the cash we should get from Claudia Wallace." "Belisve me, "persisted Mr. Rivers, "you misinterpret her sadly." "Here we are at Kitty Griggs' Kitty is cross-eyed aud re.l-huired, but she will givo me a $5 bill—see if she doesn't." Aud Hester jumped out of the car riage and rau up the Grigg-.' door stops, leaving her brother to his owu meditations. Presently his sister returned with a face of triumphant glee. "Didn't I tell you so?" she cried, holding up a United States bank note. "And uow we'll go home to lunch." Mr. Rivers was iudulging himself in a quite afternoon cigar, just about dusk, whan Hester popped her head into the library. "Oh, Everard, are you there? Don't yo i want to do me a favor -a very great favor?" "If it isn't to much trouble." "Do please go mound to San tarelli's, and see if my yellow wig is Tea ly for the masquerade tonight! I can't see why they haven't sent it home ! The idea of my playing 'Lady Andley' without a yellow wig!"* "Bother your wig!" said Mr. Rivers. "Now do be a darling, and go," coaxed Hester. Everard smiled. "Well, I suppose I shall have to go," said he. M. Sereuo Santa.'elli was a fashion able hairdresser ou a fashionable "street, who charges fashionable prices —and he came bowing aud scraping forward as Mr. Rivers entered his «liop. He professed himself "de solated beyond belief" whan he heard the young man's errand. "Mad emoiselle's coiffure was but half com pleted when the stock of blondecurls gave out," he said. "The lot they had last imported did not match it, sad to relate, but " "The long and the short of i' is that I can't have the wig, I suppose?" im patiently interrupted Everard Rivers. "Monsieur is too rash ! Monsieur waited uot to hear mo out," said the Frenchman. "I have yet hopes if monsieur will but wait a fraction of time. Francois!" to a white-aoroned assistant, "bring hither Miss Claudia Wallace's hair; it is of the p.de bloude-like flax—it may uf a pos sibility work in. It is not even wavy, but we may curl it with toug*. Art, manipulated by an artist, can conquer everything!" The last words were meauingless and unheard by Everard Rivers. "Miss Claudia Wallace's hair!" Thot was all his sense took in. He could penetrate now the mystery of her words of the moruiug, and his heart gave a great thrill as he recognized ,ihe royal generosity of the girl who /could thus sacrifice her greatest natural ornament to a cause of charity. "Miss Wallace's hair!" he re peated, with rising color. "Is it pos sible that " "She sent it here to be sold mon sieur," observe ! the hairdresser. "To be sold?" Yes. He was right; Hestor wrong. His instinct had been truer that) hor reason! "I will take it," said he, abruptly. "But, monsieur " "I will take it—at auy price." And so he paid down u $-0 bill far the privilege of bearing away Claudia's wealth of golden hair. Home he went, utterly forgetful of the flaxen wig which was to help Hester in assuming tho identity of the beautiful aud fieud-like Lady Audley. "Have you got it?" was Hester's first question when he entered the room. "I have got it. I paid §2O for it!" he breathlessly answered. "Twenty dollars!" echoed his sister. "Everard, you are mistaken; it was only to be ten!" "Oh, you mean the wig!" said our hero, somewhat crestfallen, as he re membered the unfulfilled errand which had so completely slid out of his meni jry. "Of course I do. What do you mean?" "I am talking of Claudia Wallace's hair." "Mercy upon us!" cried Hester. "Is the man raving mad? What on earth has Claudia Wallace's hair to do with " "Much. I told you she was an angel, Hester, aud perhaps you will believe it when I tell you that to gain money to help the poor she has sold her magnificent hair." "I don't bslieve it," said blunt Hester. "But I know it." "Then the world is coming to au end, that's all," said Hester, with au incredulous shrug of her shoulders. "But my wig?" "I forgot it,"confessed the sheepish lover. "I'll go back for it at ouce. ] was thinking of Claudia's hair." Hester looked after him iu comical despair. "Thauk Providence I'm not a mau," said she to herself. "Aud if I were I dou't believe I could possibly be as spooney as some of 'em are." Back again through the rainy twi light dashed Mr. Everard Rivers, never staying until he once more entered the salon of M. Santarelli and breathlessly asked for the flaxen wig. "Exactly. It awaits monsieur," said Santarelli. "You sent up the money?" "What money, monsieur?" "The $-0 to Miss Wallace. Tel) her the hair has found a purchaser— that her dream of mercy and charity may now be fulfilled—that " "But monsieur, pardon. Monsieui does nt fully comprehend," bowed the hairdresser, courteously. "Miss Wallace left the hair here to be sold; it was a switch we made up for her u year ago; and she never quite liked the color—it was not a good match, she thought—and whatever it sold fot was to be applied toward a uew one we are weaving—a S(SO switch, mon sieur." Everard Rivers stare 1 blankly at the knight of wigs aud curls. He began to perceive that ho had been making a fool of himself and iu rather an expensive manner, too. "Oh," said he, rather awkwardly. "I—l'll take the wig if it's quite ready." He went back, considering how lie could best make the embarrassing ex planation of the truth to his sister. "Hester," said he, "don't laugh at me. I've been a donkey." "\'eu often are," said Hester, saaelv. "That's nothing new." "Oh, but this is a little worse than the common." And lis valiantly told her the true story of Claudia Wallace's hair. To his surprise, instead of laughing she went to him and threw both arms around his neck. "Everard, I am so glad," said she. "Twenty dollars is a cheap price tn pay for being undeceived. I told you before that she was shallow, selfish and coldhearted. Now you will be lieve it, when you see that she can pay $1)0 for a mass of trumpery false hair, eveu while she complains of having uo money to spare for the poor." And Claudia Wallace never could comprehend how she lost the devoted loyalty of Everard Rivers. The Lout I.el tor. Sir Edward Russell's new book, "That Reminds Me," contains a num ber of legal stories, some of which deserve to be repeated. One of the best is told as follows: "There was once a Sergeant Channell, who for some reason was at fault somehow about his h's. One day before Justice Creswell, a sometime sayer of sly and acrid things, a ship case was being tried, and Sergeant Channell was ou oue side aud Sir Frederick Thesiger on the other. Every time the former mentioned the vessel he called her the Ellen; every time the other counsel mentioned her he called her the Helen. At last the judge with <juaiut gravity said: " 'Stop! What was the name of the ship ? I have it on my notes the Ellen and the Helen; which is it?' "The bar grinned. 'Oh, my lud,' said Thesigein his blandest and most fastidious manner, 'the ship was christened the Heleu, but she lost her "h" in the chops of the Channell.' " - Loudon Law Journal. Seeking Information. " The indications are," 10marked the man who was lookiug at the sky with an expression of great wisdom, "that it will be cold aud raw." Th > man who has trouble with the servant-girl problem meekly inquired: "Which are you talking about, the weather or dinner?" Washington Star. m YORK FASHIONS. 112 signs For Costumes That Have Be- jl H come Popular in the Metropolis. |§ NEW YORK CITY (Special).—Very long trained skirts are demanded for house wear. Tea gowns, and all gowns to be worn for formal occasions and DRESSY TEA GOWN. strictly for the house are always more graceful when they are made long. The present idea of the dressmakers seems to be to make these skirts—and the same idea is carried out iu some of the street gowns—with a silk drop skirt that only just touches, but is finished with two or three accordion pleated rntttes. The unliuert skirt itself has a facing sewed in with the tiniest of stitches, that must not be allowed to show; the facing is deep DBA.PKD COTTON WAIST. l MODEL IN SILK. enough to make the skirt hang well. ; The idea is that when the long skirt is ! lifted there is only to be seen the silk ' under skirt, with all its frou-frou of j ruffles. For a light gown the ruffle ' should be edged with lace; the effect is very dainty and attractive. One beautiful tea gown is in the : form of a sweeping coat of soft, creamy cloth; from the shoulders to the waist is an inset of coarse lace, embroidered in gold, and through this one can see the shoulder waist encircled with blue, while soft yellow chiffon falls in front. Another tea gown has an underdress of white satin, with a lace coat, cut to follow the lines of the figure and em broidered with brilliantly colored roses; and having scarf ends of pink chiffon floating in front. A blue tea gown— although white, rose and yellow seem to be the favorites this season—is sin gularly pretty. It has a trailing coat of silver mail, with a black and white sash, the ends of which are delicately flowered. Broad Belts Now. Broad belts of Liberty satin or vel vet are seen on some of the new cos tumes, in sharp contrast to the nar row belts that are so much in fashion. It must be confessed that a broad belt, wheu worn under auEton jacket, looks very smart, just the edge show ing at the back, but these belts must always be of satin or velvet, cut ou the bias. A broad ribbou belt is quite out of style. Two Lute Waist Models. A draped waist model is pictured in the large engraving which can be easily copied in cotton. The founda tion is silk and indicates an entire bodice closely tucked. The round yoke is of mousseline tie soie, aud the draped scarf which out lines the yoke is also of the same ma terial, edged with silk ribbon. This idea would servo excellently for the vaist made of Persian lawn, and the draped portion could follow the model shown, made of lawn, tucked and edged with a narrow niching of Valen ciennes lace. It could also be cut in to deep points, sort of haudkerchief points, made of strips of insertion edged with laoe, or of lawn more sim ply finished. In a design of this kind rosettes would be omitted. The second model in this group is | of silk banded with narrow black vel- vet ribbon, an entirely new concept tion, and one which lends itself excel lently to the copyist. In a cotton waist it would be made entirely of tucks, or tucks alternated with insertion. The baok shows an unbroken line of tucks from the neck to the waist. At the front the line is broken at the bust, from which point the bands ex tend around the body to the side seams. In the silk waist black velvet stock and cuffs are piotured; in the cotton waist the linen oollar would be worn and the sleeves finished to the wrist. The Latest in Veils. One has heard on all sides that veils are out of date; certainly they were hardly worn during the summer. In fact, no smart woman wore them last 6eason, but now the winter winds are with us again people are glad of the protection of a veil to keep stray locks of hair in that perfeot neatness which is necessary. The very clearest veils are now worn; they are of Russian net, with a very wide mesh, the spots being far apart. At a distance these veils are hardly noticed. SUIT Silk* Used In Milliner}. Stiff silks, such as glaces, navebeen relegated to millinery, being employed for bats and sometimes for the back of a cloth gown, satin occasionally be ing substituted. It is usually of a lighter or darker shade than the rest of the gown, and also forms the lower part of the skirt, the cloth falling over it like a tuuic. A favorite style for tea gowns is draped with chiffon in the front having satin or brocade at the sides. Old Boclico Like New. A bodico that has been worn for some time gets rubbed under the arms and across the back long before the rest of it is at all shabby, and yet it looks far too old to wear. To renovate and make like new make a little bolero or zouave jacket to wear over it, either of velvet, lace or cloth. Narrow lace sewn together does equally as well as that bought in the piece. "'he cloth or velvet could be edged with fur, and you will have a new bodice for a trifling cost. A Model Plaid Skirt. It is generally understood that plaids, especially the large plaids that are worn this season, show off to bet ter advantage when made up on the bias in a circular skirt. The illustra tion gives a model skirt desigued principally for plaid materials. The upper part is'sheath fitting, but from the knee down the skirt flares stylish ly and falls in graceful folds toward the back. The Binglo box pleat is ap plied narrow at the waist line, but flares at the bottom, where it trains slightly. Although designed especi ally for plaid and for double faced materials, this model would be ap propriate for cheviot, camel's hair, homospun, Venetian or any of the new novelty cloths. CIRCULAR SKIRT WITH BOX PLEAT IN BACK To make this skirt for a woman of medium size will require three and three-quarters yards of material fifty four inches wide. SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY The sweet bay tree, or laurel, was sacred to Apollo, and in both Egypt and Rome its leaves were used to dec orate the victors in games or in war. These leaves are much used now in the culinary art, the practice having been borrowed from the French. A gentleman in Louisville. Ky., makes a pot of a large white gauder, which is devoted to his owner, and accompanies him on his walks. If ap proached by a stronger the gander flutters to his master, squawking for protection, aud is comfortod as one might comfort a dog. The cowardliness of sharks is well known among men who have been much to sea iu Southern waters infested by man eate 1 s. The fiercest shark will get out of the seaway iu a very great hurry if the swimmer, noticing its approach, sets up a noisy splashing. A shark is in deadly fear of any sort of living thing that splashes in the water. The most beautiful and costly fishes iu the world come from China, and the rarest aud most expensive of all is the brush tail goldfish. Specimens of these have sold for as high as >57011 each, aud in Europe the prices range from $250 to 8500. The brush tail goldfish is ST small that a five shil ling piece will cover it, aud probably there is no living thing of its size aud weight that is worth so much money. It is not generally kuown, but a law exists in New England, still mire pealed, that would have a surprising effect if put into practice at the pres ent time. The Puritan Fathers decreed tha' "all women, of whatever rank, pro fessiou or degree, whether maids oi widows, who shall, after this act, iru pose upou or betray into matrimony any of His Majesty's subjects by vir tue of scents, cosmetics, washes, paints, artificial teeth, false hair oi high heels, shall incur the penalty of the law now in force against witch craft aud like misdemeanors." To attend a church where the music is supplied by a liarrel organ must be very like stepping into a bygone cen tury, bat it is an experience which the parishioners of Trottiscliff—a Kentish village within 25 miles of London cau every week enjoy. Its adherence to old customs may be pardoned, for the church was standing at the time of the Domesday Book, and the ex isting chancel is more than 800 years old. Its pulpit is the one that stood in Westminster Abbey uutil 1824. The musical capabilities of a barrel organ are limited, but the parishioners of Trottiscliff have a choice of (50, there being six barrels, supply ing 10 tunes—most of them very old fashioned. In ancient times there were some very curious superstitions attached to the pins used in tlio toilet of a bride. If one were left about the person of the new wife she must school herself to sorrow, for nothing would go right. 11l luck was supposed to haunt the bridesmaids, too, if they kept the pins, for they would not be married until Whitsuntide in the next year, or at earliest until the Faster. When Mary Queen of Scots married Daruley she went to her chamber to change her apparel, aud then requested those who stood by each to take out a pin and to carry it from the room and throw it away, in order that she might be save 1 from the ills supposed to follow when the pins were kept. Donkeys I-Vel the Cold. In the care of donkeys in out cli mate it is a common mistake to suj)- pose that they are not sensitive to eold. A donkey, on the contrary,can not begin to stand the degree of cold which is comfortably supported by the horse. In other respects, ho is a far easier animal to care for than the horse. As a beast of burden his en durance is greater; he may be fed coarse herbage aud will thrive upou it. His coat needs regular brushing, but not that particular g ooming with out which the horse cannot tie kept in health. In Englaud, the costermou ger's donkey is so invaluable to his master that he is known as "the poor man's horse," while in France the "baudet" and in Spain the "borrico" —a larger, heavier type of ass which is used for mule-breeding—is of equal importance. The term "donkey" refers to the ordinary dun color of the ass's coat, aud has come to be the popular name by which he is known to English speaking people. Iu the treatment of the donkey the essential thing to re member is to house him warmly in winter, being careful never to expose him to snow or to extreme cold. —Our Animal Friends. Trinngiilatlon in Texa*. Tlio newly founded town of Tri angle, Tex., promises to be unique. It is laid out in the form of an equila teral triangle, its lots are triangular in shape an 1 the ground plan of each of the twenty-three houses which have thus far been erected there is three cornered The three principal streets are namod Equilateral, Scalene aud Isosceles, and the resideuts have even carried their curious idea into the local government, which consists of a so-called triangular council, having three members.—lndianapolis Senti nel. \V!i:»t tlie llov <lvei heard. The Caller—So Albertiue is the eldest of the family. Who comes after her? Littls Brother—Nobody has come after her yet, but I heard papa say that if anybody did come he could have her for the askiusr. Tid-Bita LIVINC MAN A MERE AUTOMATON. A Mur<ler HAH Developed a Catalepsy Thnt riiyrtieiaiiA Tall UuuMial. When tliey shove Mieliael Buczny's right log out at light angles with it? leit fellow and say "Halt!" that lim'i stays there like the peg-leg of a still militant veteran, who, having lost both arms, can't salute otherwise. When they say, "Michael, we'll put your leg over your head and you'll keep it there," and place hitu in the position of one of those painful-laced ■blench quadrille dauc rs who make what is called a succes <l'estime by pointing toes (none too small) in the direction of the high heaven that they never hope t reach—poor Michael's leg stays there. And thus it goes. They twist him; they turn him; his arms are spindles or windmills by turns; they will swing wherever the wind iisteth: but those logs, particula ly that rigut log, wheu pushed up, seem to say: "Well, here 1 am! What are you going to do with me next?" They may stand Buczny on his head; tilt him over oa one ear; still further unbalance him by making him rest his entiio frame on the tip of one little finger; and still, in whatever position they place hiui—even if it be to rest solely on the tip of the one long hair upon his head—he will perch calmly and say nothing. All of which means that Michael Buczny is a cataleptic. And that is luck for him. Otherwise he probably would goto the electric chair for the murder of his sweetheart, Begiua Klein. Now that his malady has been established, undoubtedly lie will be sent to Matteawau, and drag out the rest of his toe-pointing existence there. Justice Fursman sent him there re cently. The most remarkable feature of Bucznv condition is that if any por tion of liis body is placed in a posi tion—no matter how trying or impos sible to maintain—it will stay rigid until moved back to the natural pose. In the tests given by the commis sion on lunacy Buczny was placed in the centre of the room. He stoud like a statue. His arm wan placed at right angles to his body, and he main tained this difficult position for 40 minutes, apparently without pain. When arraigned in court he stood at the bar as if transfixed, his arms folded. He never moved while the charge was read, and his appearance deeply affected .lusti e Fursman. Buczny worked in Havemeyer's sugar refinery in Brooklyn and lived at No. r>fj Columbia streot. About eight mouths ago he became engaged to ltosiua Klein and gave her sln,', tlio greater part of his savings. In last August he lost his position and sha discarded him. He brooded over his loss, and was so persistent that the girl removed to No. 27 Second street, this city. A fruitless, final appeal was made on the night of September 18. Then Buczny shot and killed her. An indictment for nutider iu the first degree followed. While confined liis stra'igo physi cal condition was developed. The c ise has aroused the interest of every alienist in the city, and is the only one kuown in this country.— Now York Press. Kveryom llontned flie Dou. There was a remarkable fune:al ol ft dog in Jersey City a few days ago. An undertake' made a real cotfin for the body, and a proi essiou of mourn ers, mosk of whom were children, walked behind a child's express wagon on which the coffn, covered with (lowers, had been laid. A baud ] lay ing dirges led tiie procession. At the place of buiial an oration was ma le, in which the good traits of tliedog were dwelt upon. The owner of it, a big hearte I German, paid the tribute o; tears, saying he lelt as if he had lost » child. It feems the dog was eveiy bodv's friend, and a great favorite with the children. He was I esides a good watchdog aud devote 1 to the family; a mongrel-—he would not have brought a dollar in o] on market. To some people, the dog's funeral, the marching children, the solemn music, the human oration,the heaped flowers and the burial lot may seem like n profanation, but there's a moral iu it ill, which any one may draw. —New York Suu. Lad'* Composition on "Breath." A boy fourteen years old, who was told to write all he could about breath ing in a composition, handed iu the following: "Breath is made of air. We breathe with our lungs, our ligiits, our livet and kidne s. If it wasn't fot aur breath we would die when we slept. Cur breath keeps the life a-going throueh the nose when we aie asleep. Boys that stay iu a room all day sh uld not breathe. Tliey should wait until they get out doors. Girls kill the breath with cor sets thut squeezes the diagram. Girl? can't holler or run like boys 1 ecause their diagram is squeezed too much. If I was a girl I had rathe l ' be a bov so I can run and holler and have a great big diagram. "—Detioit Free Press. Diploma* for Wu«lila<lie*. To the institution of orders,medals, and diplomas in France there is no limit. The latest is diplomas for washerwomen. The washerwomen, to be sure, occupy a conspicuous posi tion on the Seine, and have played an important part in the life of Paris, especially iu revolutionary periods, They aio nearly as loraiidable as the marketwouien. Either iu recognition of their ability or iu deference to their influence the government has estab lished this new order, and awarded twelve medals. The ini| ortaut duty of distributing the dii'lomas to the prize washe"women is discharged by the ministry of commerce.—London
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