Th}£ £®l©Ts' Off ASH'ON- New York City (Special).—The dis play of dainty, expensive things for the neck is so irresistible tliis season that they seem to be a positive necessity DAINTY THINGS TOR THE NF.CK. Ms an accessory of every well rcgu- i luted outfit. Added to all the smaller j fancies in neckwear are the fichus | bertlias of expensive lace, the little | pelerines with long ends and the most charming sik scarfs with applique lace . \JODELS OP WASH TAILOR TED FROM A INCEST IMPORTATION' on the ends. The pretty fichu, shown | in the illustration, which is repro- j duced from the New York Sun, is made of cream mousseline de soie, trimmed with black c'hantilly lace al ternated with groups of tucks. An other fichu, very stylish, is made of chiffon in gathered frills separated by rows of lace insertion run with bebe ribbon. This is made on a shaped foundation of the chiffon fitting the shoulders carefully. There are cape collars of Venetian and Ilenaissauce lace; all sorts of jabots, made of lace and chiffon; dainty collars of lawn, trimmed with lace; pretty, inexpen sive stocks of duck with narrow white lawn ties; ties of wash ner finished with lace-edged ruffles, and little turn down collars of India muslin, finished with a narrow insertion. Vgeful Clothing For Summer. Having a friend at court enabled us io get an advance peep at the very irst importation of wash tailor gowns, just received by one of our most ex clusive shops. The only trouble was among so many beauties which to •lioose to show you. says the I'liiladel phifi Record. The two sketches here, however, embody several of the new est and most desirable of the features of these gowns for this season. The first is made of khaki, the smartest and most exclusive of cotton stuffs for this summer's tailor-mades. The round, dip front, Eton jacket, with very plain sleeve, is the very proper est spring jacket model. The revers are covered with an applique of heavy white embroidery, and a band to match heads the circular ruffle on the skirt. These circular ruftles are still la mode 011 tailor gowns of either wool or cotton, but only run across the sides i»nd hack, finishing at each side of the box plait. Then, too, they do not flare nearly so much as last season, being cut plainer, with a scarcely percepti ble flare. The combination of the tan nisli yellow of the kliaki and the heavy white embroidery is stylish in the ex treme. A white pique, cut whh one of the new kilted skirts, is showu in the uec ond sketch, with heavy white insertion ! trimming the bodice. This is also a very smart gown, its trimmed and fitted bodice making it rather dressier than the other one, although their styles do not conflict with one another, as tli«y are designed for different oc casions. While the jacket suit may, with perfect propriety, be worn for any occasion where a wash gown is i permissible, yet, as has been said, the ' J design of the other makes it more ! ! dressy and gives it rather less of gen ! eral utility style than the jacket model. Klegarit Petticoats. , The woman who drives need not j give tip her petticoats, and, let fashion j I take what whim she will, nothing can rival the soft "froufrou" of a satin or silk underskirt, or the delightful \ daiutiness of white cambric and Va lenciennes. When we wear a petti- i coat now it is of the most elaborate order, and here brocade is really j requisite. The most fantastic old Watteau brocades, and even satin grounds with floral designs outlined with panne, are utilized for the under j skirt, with bright flounces trimmed J with beautiful lace, caught up with j I ribbons or held in place with dainty i headings and gofferings. Kill* Enamel ISracelot. A pretty bracelet is made of sky- j blue enamel, with here and there a j ! touch of gold, sometimes a mere lino j | of gold appearing. These are most be ! I coining to a fair arm. But there is lit- j tie doubt that a white arm looks its j whitest when a black velvet baud is I worn at the wrist. This seems to em- ! ; phasize the fairness of the pretty arm I ! and hand. I A Pretty Bodice* A pretty bodice to a gown is made ! | Eton effect in black lace insertion and j ribbon, the jacket stopping about ; • throe inches above the waist, tho inser tion being carried down to tlie waist line like straps over the plaited chiffon bodice of white worn nuderueath. This stylo bodice has been worn iliis winter, and is very pretty. The lixlii'ppuKikble Cravat. A waist without a cravat this sum mer is like the play of "Hamlet" with Hamlet left out. One of the vfery latest designs foi* a summer silk shirt waist and its cravat is here repro duced. It is of white foulard, tucked bath lack and front and slightly Mous ing in front over a narrow girdle. Much of the style of this waist is ob tained from its exceedingly stylish double collar linished with rows of machine stitching. The indispensable cravat is of white foulard, with navy blue polka dots, and is tied in a four-in-hand knot just NEW STMMEK WAIST. at the bust. Its very sharply pointed ends add much to its effect. A good feature of this attractive waist is that | its shield and stock may be made ad- J .instable and much variety obtained by ! having several of different tints anil SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY- The population of the earth as esti mated by Eruest George Ravenstein some few yeara ago for the Koyal Geo graphical society was 1,487,900,000. Electro-medical treatmeut is given patiouts by means of a netf sofa, which has batteries and an induction coi! contained in the lower portion, with head and foot plates to be placed in contact with the patient. Tha fact that many profitable peach orchards exist 011 the eastern shore of Lake Michigan is explained by Mr. M. B. Waite as due to the influence ot the lake in moderating the temper ature along its eastern coast. This iut'nence is less decided on the west ern side, the general direction of at mospheric movements being from west to ea3t. Tests made on the South Lomlou ; Electric railway show that the trac- j live re-istance per ton of train meas- | ured at tha draw-bar at the moment ot starting is 40 pounds, and this falls to 10 pounds as soon as a speed of six miles per hour is attained. Between six aud L! miles per hour the resist ance remains almost constant, while j above that speed it seems to rise | almost proportionately until a speed if 2(3 miles per hour is reached, when the resistance is about 21 pounds per ton. A case of green vision, everything fe _*ii appearing to be green in color, has I eon brought before the British O] hthaimologieal society by 11. W. i odd, and records have been found of L; other cases. The condition was not one peculiar to age or.sex, and it was not due to errors of leftaction. Its existence does not appear to have ben explained. In at least seven of the cases the general health was no ticeably impaired, and in 10 of the patients there wo e eye defects— mostly connected with the optic nerve aud retina. The nutmeg groves, called "nutmeg gardens," are singularly beautiful. The nutmeg trees blossom and bear fruit continuously, so that the harvest season lasts the year round. Their straight, tali trunks ave covered with ziossy, dark foliage, amid which hangs the yellow fruit showing where it has bm fit from ripeness, the rich red of I'ue mace within. Above tliese orch t'ds huge canary-trees weave their branches into a canopy, from which tiome the cooing of nut-pigeons, the ji'y of ) a Tots and the song of the Indian nightingale. referring to the opinion entertained iv many physicists that the blue color of the sea and lakes does not belong to the water itself, but to the reflec tion of the sunlight from invisible particles which the water always con tains in suspension, a writer in the American Chemical Journal remarks that this idea origiuati d in the theory ; held as to the cause of the blue color jof the sky. The very exhaustive ex ; j eiiineii ts, however, made of late in j Europe show that the particles to j which clear water, distilled or natural, i owes its illumination have the power to reject the red, the yellow and the green waves, and that they cannot, therefore, be the cause of the blue color of the water, reflecting with equal facility waves of all lengths, ; they letuin the sunlight to us without chro.i atic change. Thus, it is con j eluded water is blue of itself, and the I particles it holds in suspension are i the principal cause of its illumination | —according to their nature, too, de | termining, also, the modification of the ; color of the water, and producing ! greenish tones when they do not de j stroy all the natural color. New-F'otmrl Wood for ISailrontl Ties. A new and thoroughly suitable wood for railroad ties has been found in the forests in the northern part of the Ar gentine Republic. It is the red que j bracho. It is ail exceedingly hard ! wood, aud in its interior, not, alone in ! the bark, is 15 to 20 per cent, of J tannin, which keeps tho wood from rotting, no matter in what substance |it is buried. The wood has been used i in Europe for tauuiug, but outside of the Argentine Republic its utility to railroads, it seems, is yet to be dis covered and appreciated. Posts ; made of„this wood which have been buried fifty years in land furrowed aud | gullied by the torrential rains of sum mer have been found to be in as good conditiou as if they had been felled recently. It not only is so hard a wood that it has to be bored before spikes and bolts can be driven into it, i but it is unusually heavy. It does ! not split or become compressed with j blows. Chloroform bv Kleetrieity. An Italian chemist has devised an ex* celleut process for the manufacture of ; chloroform. Into a lead-lined still, I provided with a carbon stirrer, is in ! trodnced a solution of common salt. An | electric current is then pass ed through i the liquid, using the stirrer as one of I the electrodes. By this means nascent j chlorine aud caustic soda are formed. The appaiatus is theu raised to 100 degrees Centigrade by means of steam. When this temperature is reached ace'one is cautiously added, a reaction taking place, which forms | chloroform. This is theu distilled and | i9 ready for the market. Where Napoleon Spent IIIM Exile. Nearly four miles inland from I Jamestown, the capital of St. Helena, is an isolated farmhouse, ou a elevated ! plateau about 2000 feet above the level of the %ea. This is Lougwood, whore I Napoleon lived from ltfl.o until he j died there in 1812. The house is a ; lone, low, whitewashed, trim build -1 iß * PEARLS O- THO'JCHT. Most men would rather carry the kitchen s f ove around down town than the baby. A man always feels foolish when he first takes ofi' his hat to the girl he has known from childhood. We mny think people who always agree with us r o mushy, but some iww we keep on liking them. Men who let the gns burn just a little, in order to save matches, have been known to succeed as financiers. A woman's trouble in buying n shoe that fits is mainly in deciding whether it pinches her as much as it ought to. It is probably called the "mother tongue" because it is so different from the one mothers use to talk to their babies with. The man who will do anything for his friends or anything to his enemies frequently becomes known outside of his own township. The woman whose husband has the most enduring love for her is gener ally married to the man whose wife feeds him the best. A man who tries to win success in a hurry, intending to be worthy of it at leisure, generally forgets the latter ! part of the contract. The instinct that teaches the bird J to come back to the same nest the ! next summer is probably the same i that tells a woman exactly where to find the pin that is sticking into a baby. When a minister gets into trouble there are always some women in the church who go around saying that i they never listened to his sermons | without thinking of a sounding brass ; and a tinkling cymbal. Kxetrmination of Wilt! Animals. "Do you nut find it more difficult to get your supplies of wild animals as civilization extends" Mr. Carl \ Hagenbeck was asked. "I do," he replied, "for wild ani- I mals are decreasing very rapidly in deed. Variety after variety that 20 j years ago was quite common is now j utterly gone, or only a few specimens j are left. The true mountain zebra, | that not long since could be found in large numbers, has now vanished. j Three South African varieties of the zebra have disappeared within the i last quarter century. From the wiid atiimal hunters' poiut of view, South Africa is now quite spoiled. Men , have been so busy slaughtering merely for the sake of slaughter that the great beasts are becoming extinct. Babies and breeding females are shot down as indiscriminately as bulls. Englishmen are perhaps the worst offenders in this matter, and in the English territories the least provision is made for protecting the animals. No one objects to hunters shooting down all the bull elephants they can, but what sport can there be in their slaughtering the cows and babies. This might be to some de gree stopped by a regulation forbid ding trading iu small ivory tusks tin- . der fifteen or twelve pounds in weight. ; "As a specimen of how animals are disappearing, take the Sudan. Before Mahdism swept over it it was one of our best countries. Hippopotami, elephants, the rhinoceros were all j obtained there iu abundance. We trained tribes for the chase. Since the land has been reopened a trader, formerly my agent, has gone there hoping to renew business. He writes to me that the old hunting tribes are j gone, and that the great game have ! practically all disappeared."—Lon don Daily News. Ilir Ilest <"on» II I HII i i>. "Young man," said a noted Illinois j congressman in the house restaurant i at the capitol, "when you get a chance i to be a consul for the United States select a smoky city, one where there i are many factory chimneys. Do not try for the fashionable capitals. Leave them for the ambassadors. Go where ! the air is murky, for there business is li.elv, and many a consignment is sent to the L'uited btates. This means fees, aud fees mean a good income for the consul." In the course of his chat the con- ' gresstuan made the general statement 1 that consuls who are making the most momy from fees are the quietest,most unassuming, uncomplaining employes of the government. "They do not set tip claims for a salary instead of fees," i he said. "Jh, no; but like the wise | boy where tiie raspberries are thick, I they let the wo: Id forget,so far as pos- j sible, that they are on earth. Let a consular otlice l.e changed from the fee to the salary system audit at once j becomes alluring to a voracious lot of i aspirants. Some one finds out, per haps, that the political support of this particular consul is weak,and then in fluence is used, aud soon there is a change. ''One of the most profitable consul ships is that of Liverpool. The salary j is §(i00t), but the 112 e< I ring tho emol- ; iimeuts up to several times that ; amount, aud a generation ago the in come of the consul at Liverpool was $.10,000. This has been reduced by nbolisliiug fees."—Chicago News. A Novelty Among Peer*. The new Lord Taukerville is rather ] a novelty in peers, and has long beeu 1 known iu Northumberland, England, i as a touring preacher and evangelist, j He goes about from place to placo i giving addresses, leading the hymns on the harmonium, and singiug vigor- i ously. His religious fervor has even I brought liiiu to America on missionary I expeditions, and while here four \ years ago a charming young American j was captivated by the young mau's ] religious enthusiasm and married him 1 Lady Taukerville, who met her bus- j band at a prayer meeting, spends her i life ou the same liues,so that they are 1 an ideal pair. A liallroart Wrecker. In his Ceutury aerial, "Dr. North and His Friends," Dr. Weir Mitchell thus describes a great railroad wrecker: The next day I saw Xerxes. Three years of the life of what he at first called the "metropolis," and the vigor or reacquired health, together with another infiueuce, had wrought no table changes in the outer ways, dress, and language of the great railroad wrecker. He still had the look of ani mal power. The ursine appearance of awkward strength was still present; the huge hands the strong prominent muscles of the jaws, like those of the Bonapartes, the rolling walk of the plantigrade, all were as before. Yin cent remarked later that he must al ways have been a person of varied and uuexpectable capabilities, and even of andeveloped tastes. Courageous in - action, outspoken rather than frank, lavish rather than generous, at times ! amazingly impulsive, he was, beneath 1 all, the wild beast of the jungles of j finance, strong, adroit, and merci i less. What Eiklh It. A young lady (matrimonially bent ' apparently) left her prayer book be- j I hind her one Sunday in church instead I of bringing it home' with her as usual. | Inside of it she had written the fol lowing effusion: A bunch of flow'rs, A look or two, A little billing, A little coo— A little coming And (joint?, ti'.l They goto church Ami say, "I will" — And tlial ends it. On looking at the book on the fol lowing Sunday she observed that some jne had pencilled this effusion in it: My laas>, you're wrong— You surely are; You worked thatrhvmo Just one too far. It ends right there — Oh, 110. it don't! 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