ME MIDDLEBDKOH POST. T. H. IIARTER, XorrB ajtd Pna'a. MIIlf.K!ll Iliilf. PA., orr. ir 1!M. er r .. .. . a homestead taken up in Nebraska fix years n:?o (or uothiug is worth now shnlitSJOlMt. Tii-ro nr associations in Great Britain v.'bicli insure against dope uictit, matrimony ami t inn. A Muino farmer who found recently a lino gold wiuch nn1 chain hanging in o;i. of hit ripple trees thinks tho thief gut tbo worst nl it. Tlii a iir in "Barber Shop," "Shaving Parlor," "rotm..rial Studio" have all gons out r date with n Pittsburg hair dresser, relates tho Chicago Herald, who displays a film now shingle hoar in '4 the proud inscription, "Thoophilus Browne, Capillaire." The intensity of confined sound is illn itrnte 1 at Cailsbrook Castle, Isle of Wight, where th-re is a wi 11 i!00 feet deep an, I twelve feet in diameter, litieil with smooth inusonry. When n jiiu is dropped into it the sound of it strik inutile water, 1"- fret lielow, can be tfistinctlv heard. Commander Ludlow, of the Mohi ran, which has lieen patrolling Bering Sea nil summer, estimates the proiluet of pelagic sealing this yenr nt t0,()iM) skins. The total value of the year's scaling product, including the catch of the lessees of the seal islunds, ho t inifit -i at about 1,0IM,01)0. Tt into !( feared, says tho Now York Sun, thut the Infanta f'.ulaliu, of Spain, has been spoiled by her taste of thin lun I of tim free, for she is reporte.l as having n little lark in London. Sim bus been living "incog" in a fnriiislieij house, riding in th- park on n hired horse, and shopping on foot. Ifer two Hinall boys, Princes Louis and Alfonso, have been with her. The bicycle is getting to be nearly nscoiiiiuon in the country us in tho rity, declares tlm New York Suit. There is pr.thuhly not a village of any consequence in New Knluud where at least ohm performer on this instru ment cannot bo foi id, Und tlm night of three or foi r inac'iiuea beside tho door of tho local tavern at meal hour, omiii(u.4Vr"are theso obsolete forrusoi bicycle, either there are no nioro trill w heels nor wooden wheels in the country thin in town, for, in spito of tho high prices, tho farmers man age to get the best. The panic of ls:;i h is differed in several respects from all prcvioiisoiicN, reniurks tie1 New York Independent, and particularly t'lut manufacturers, producer! uud the general business pulilie liav.i b -en for months prepar ing for what we have evjierienceil ttiis summer. There has been for it long time it coiitiniiouseoiit'.'.iction of stocks on hand in almost every brunch of in dustry, tin' result being that stocks of (Too. Is of nil h u ts at this time are prohaldy smaller than they have been for ii great many years. This fact will start, mill; and shops into prompt activity to timet the dumuud which must inevitably come. Th" wonderful strides the petroleum industry has taken in Pennsylvania since the tir.-t barrel of retineil oil was offered f.r sale thirty years ago is illustrated by some figures which are found in it report recently made by Albert S. Holies, Chi, : of the Statu Bureau of Indu-tnal Statistics. The export of reJined oil now rank iu value fourth oil the li.-t, being ex cetde 1 only by c ttoii, breadstuff and provisions. For the year ending Juno :J, l-'-t, the tjt il exports were 'j:!, OOit.OO ) rail ons. 1 ivc years later thev had increased to lOO.lMJO.OOO gallons. In 1S74 to '.Mil.OOH.oiiil gallons, and in ll'Jl to 70H,i)iH,Oili) gallons. A larger jierccntage of the oil product of tlm country is sent abroad than of any other product except cotton. The re duction in price litis been remarkable. In 1M1 thi' price of a gallon of export oil wimlilj cents; in 1871, UoJ cents; in lss I, H cents; in lS'.U, C.' cents; und in 181)2, ! cents. The grow th of tho industry is also well illustrated by tho facts that '25,1)01) miles of pipe lines ud DOOO tuuk-cars have been built to convey the oil. Fifty-nine freight steamers are now employed in trans porting it to foreign countries. The capital iu Pennsylva i; wells and lands is estimated at 87,000,001), and !').", 000,000 is invested in plants for producing the crude petroleum. This is exclusive of such accessories as pipe lines, tauk-cars, refineries, docks, fleets of vessels, etc, and an estimate of 8300,000,000 as the total valuation of all branches of the industry in not too high. A BONO OP LOVE. IIr love has built his nest- Lot us rest, let oi rest, lor la peaM, or love in pain-' ' Iior in loss, or love in (fnln Bo that love at last remain, '. Btlll is best, still U best. ITrs love has built his nest , Lot u rest, let us rwt ! Life In love's abode la spent In the swxotest heart content, And the love that pays the rent, Btill U best, still Is brat ! Atlanta Constitution. RECONCILIATION. . ' Bt THOMAS T. MOTJTORT. T was it close, Bnl try HUtniner af ternoon, with scarce a breath of air stirring, while tho sun 1) u it r c il h i a f0&;lvs2i aeorchinir rava Cf'VWW from a cloudlet sky. All nbont tho old Hurt on farm house n dr'nthliko stillness reigned. There were no sounds of voices from within, no creaking footsteps on the nnenrpcted floors; while without, even tho songs of tho birds were hushed. The dingy, forlorn-looking house, with its utipniuted, wrnthcr-stained exterior, its low doors and its small windows, was even more desolate and forsaken in appearance than was its wont, and at lirU glance one would have thought it completely deserted. Hut n closer observation, proved that such was not tho cace. Is'.uo Hurtoii, old and gray, and bent under tlm cares and bur, lone of years of trial and toil, sat on the door step of the house with his face buried in liis hands, now and then casting n furtive glance throuph tho open door in the direction of n bed in a corner of tha ro iin. While he sat there tho sun crawled down tho western sky, casting its shadows obliquely through th" open door, yet he seemed unmind ful ot the fact that time was passing, ltising from the steps finally, he stood an instant listening to the slow, regu lar breathing that came from tho bed, then walked out across tlm neglected yard, mattering, half audibly: ".Sho sleeps well but I doli't like l!m 'jiearanee of her face." Peaching the crooked rail-fence that separated tho yard from the public highway, oi l Isaac stopped and for a little while stood looking down tho hard, white road thnt ran through tho long, straight lino to tho east. Tho road was deserted, not a living object being visible on nil the two miles of it that lay within his view. "She ort to have tho doctor," ho muttered, "yit I don't like to leave her to go an' fetch him. ; Sho looks tnouty quaro 'bout tho faeo an' oyes, an' I'm ufeerd she's bad tuck." TDen, ftftop nitfiolt silence: "If only some- wviy was pasfA'A this way, so's I could Scud word to the '.till au' get the doc tor." m limn Isaac cast a loot-;', the siirec tioa of the ridge, it fourth'1 t. milo to the west, where it Hinall Yg house, similar to his own, stood, uud some, thing like a sigh escaped him. Shak ing his head sadly lie turned away. "Neighbors l bo powerful helpiu' an' eomfoi tin' just now," ho mused, "an' I'd give it heap if we had some. I never got lonesome w hen Li inly was up mi' about, but now she's down I feel like half tho world is gone, an' it pears like I hono fir Homebody to keep me company. Them people," nodding toward the house on the op posite ridge, "ain't no neighbors, an' no matter what comes I can't go to thoin fer nothin." 1'ifr some time old Isniio walked to and fro iu the little path leading from tho gate to the, door, then again he went and leaned over tho fence to look down the road. Instantly his face brightened and a glad light ciinio into eyes; for, away down the lane, ho saw man approaching. Nearly u quarter of an h )tir passed before the man came up, but Isaac waited for him and ac coste 1 him at once : "Sam, I never was ho glad to seo anybody as I am to aeo you. Aro you goin' over to tho mill?" "Yes," Sam replied, after eyeing old Isaac iuquiriugly for almost a min ute. "What has happened, Ike?" "Lindy is bud sick, Sam?" Ike said in a low tone, "an' ull night an' all day I've been stayin' with her alone. I knotted, too, thut sho ort to havo tho doctor, but I was afeerd to leave lier, an' there wa'n't nobody to semi. You kin tell him to como when you git to tho mill?" "Yes, I'll tel) him, Ike, an' if there's anything else 1 kin do for you I'll do it au' bo glad to." "No: that's all. Tell him to come ns quick as ho kin, Sam." "Yes, I will, lint you ort to have somebody to stay with yon, Ike. Some body to help 'bout nuHsiu' uu' 'tendin' tn Mia' Hurtou." "I know that," linao replied, with a sigh and a slow shaking of his head. 'I'd give a heap to have somebody here, but I can't git nobody now." For a moment Sam was silent, cast ing a glance, first at Isaac, thou at the hou.se on the ridgo to tho west. Isaac I saw the action and understood. "No, Sam," ho suid, half sadly, half ' vindictively, I'll never go there for a favor, never ! "Iu a case liko this things ought to bo different," Sum suggested. "Peo ple ought to forget and forgive, Ike." j "Mebby so, Sam, mebby so; but they wouldn't feel that way. All that's been said au' douo iu thirty years can't , bo forgot in a day." It was tt little while before Sam spoko again. He wished to proceed just right iu his kiJdly purpose that of reconciling two long estranged fami liesand for a time he was at a lotts how best to do it. Finally he said : "Ike, if Mis' Martin felt inclined to come you wouldn't object, would you?" IM shook his head. "She won't feel so inclined, Sam. It ain't natural that she should," I don't know," Ham replied. "Mia' Martin has it kind heart, an aha is tytnpathizin' with tha sick an' the needy. She's a good woman, Ike." "She maybe, but I ain't ready to say so. It's been thirty years sinoa my family an' the Martins have neigh bored, au' in all that time not a word has passed between us. It's hard to forget an' forgive after so long, Bain, an' I 'low Mis' Martin can't do it. She may be a good woman, but she ain't good enough to do that." She said no more, but went on np the road toward the mill, while Isaao returned to his seat on the doorstep. Lindy still slept, and as her husband sat listening to her breathing, his thoughts ran over the conversation he had just bad with Sam Gross. "I'd bo glad to have Mis' Martin here," he thought, "bnt I ain't no right to expect her to come, even if she was Christian enough to forgive an' forgit. Three months ago, when Martiu lay sick, I never went about him, an' even when he died I kept away from tho house, not so much as seeiu' him buried. I ain't no right to expect her to be more forgivin than myself." When Sam dross arrived at Mrs. Martin's house ho went in and asked for a drink of water. Sho gave it to hint, then asked hitn to stop a while to reHt. "I'd bo glad enough to," Sam re plied, mopping the perspiration from his brow, "but I'm in too much of a. hurry. Cumin by Hur ton's just now, Iko he comes out an' says Lindy is bad tuck, an' that he's afeared she's goin off, an' he asks me to send the doctor up, so I'll have to git 'long as peart as I kin. Poor Lindy f" Sam went on, after a short pause, "I 'low that doc tors an' medicino an' sich likes ain't agoiu' to do her much good 'less'n she has proper iiussiu'. Ike can't tend on her wnth shucks, no matter how hard he tries, au' if ho goes 'bout in sight of 'er with that forlorn, sad look like ho wears, she'll die shore, jest o' that alone. Sho needs a good, cheerful woman nuss, Mis' Martin, seech as you'd be, now." Sam stopped and waited, as if for a reply from Mrs. Martin, but sho did not speak, and ho went on : "Iu cases liko that," ho said, "it's a great pity folks ain't got no neighbors, fer good neighbors is a power o' com fort to tho sick an' them as is related to tho sick. There's no knowin' what good nussin' would do fer Mis' Burton, ner how coiisolin' a word o' sympathy would bo to poor old Ike in his lone liness. I feel fer them poor critters, Mis' Martin, an' I do wish somebody would be neighborly with 'em." Again Sam paused, but Mrs. Martin said nothing, and he saw that he must speak plainer in order to mako the im pression he desired. "Mis' Martin," he eontjmwcV ."lifo is powerful short, ' - people expect to Y.pM 1eT eternity they ain't got no time to waste in useless bickeriu's. Thorn as experts to bo happy iu tho next world can't afford to spend their time here in contentions. Fer my part, Mis' Martin, I'd hate to let a cross-fence atween two farms stand be twixt mo an' my neighbors, much less betwixt mo nu' heaven. Now fer thirty years that cross-fence np there has kept you tins an' tho Burtons apart, makin' you enemies w hen you ought to 'a' been friends tin' neighbors, an' it was all on account of contentiousness. Lit her family would 'a' made up in a minute if the other would 'a' tuck tho fust step, but neither would budge an inch, nu' so it's gone ou an' on, ull of I you bein' as miserable as sin. Mis' ' Martiu, 'tain't right. People as hopes to bo forgive iu tho next world must fergive in this. I put it to vou, now, i Mis' Martin, if I ain't right?" "Sam, you are right," Mrs. Martin replied. "That cross-feneo trouble i has caused mo many sorrowful days, I mill there never has been a tituu when ; I wouldn't gladly havo buried the strife ' and made friends with tho Burtons. Hut I thought tho first advances to ward a reconciliation ought to como from Isaac. Ifo was most to blame." Mis' Martin," said Sam, "I don't kuow who was most to blame. I ain't no cull to speak of that. But this I kuow If it person is a true Christian, an' wants to soact, that person mustn't stick at no fine p'iuts; au' in a effort to fetch about a reconciliation he must bo williu' to go iuore'n half-way to meet t'other party. Scriptur says, Mis' Martiu, to do good to them that despitofully use you,' an' as Christians we're bouud to do it." Sum spoke with deep solemnity, and it was plain that his words had a great effect on his auditor. Mrs. Murtin was a Christian woman, and she meant well, but, like many other good people, sho found it hard to humblo herself. There was a long silenco, during which a conflict between duty aud prido waged within Mrs. Martin's bosom. "Sain," she said at last, "do you think Isaao would not resent my com ing into his houso?" "I know ho wouldn't," Sara re plied, promptly. "More than that, Mis' Martin, I know he'd welooino you." "Then I'll go, Ram, an' let the out come of it bo what it may, I know I shall feel tho better for goin'." Sam started ou his way, happy in tho thought of what he had accom plished, aud hoping that his efforts might lead to the burial of the differ ences that had so long kept the two families at enmity. Mrs. Martin went immediately to Burton's, and when old Isaac from his scut on the doorstop saw her coming up the yard-path he was more sur prised than he ever had beon in all his life. However, he composed himself sufficiently to give her 'a fitting recep tion and remove from her mind all far of her visit being considered au intrusion. At first there was an air of restraint about tha actions and eon versation of both, bnt that gradually died out, and in time they boo am s easy and natnral in their deportment. The doctor came, but he could not give Isaao any enconragement, for he fonnd that Lindy was in a dangerous eondition, with little prospect of im provement. "She is very low," he said, "and w ran hope for no change for the better. I'm afraid she cannot last long." And the doctor was right, for day by day the siok woman sank, and after the lapse of a week she closed her eyes on earth forever. All throngh the week Mrs. Martin stayed by the bed side, devoting herself to the invalid aa faithfully as ever nurse did, receiving tbi blessings of her charge and the heartfelt gratitude of Isaac. Then, when all was over, she returned to her homo happier than she had been for thirty long years. A year paasod, and tho people of Possum Ridge began to wonder it the cross-fence trouble was to be revived in court again. Tho time for which a stay of proceedings had been granted had nearly expired, and at the next sitting of the court the case would be called up for further action. Isaao and and Mrs. Martiu had become neigh borly, bnt neither of them had ever mentiouod the cross-fence, and the matter stood just as it had before Lindy's death. People had talked a great deal about it, some conjecturing that old Isaao would dismiss the case after Mrs. Martin's kindness to his wife, eomo maintaining that he would not, and some going so far as to pre dict that Mrs. Martin, in tho forgiving disposition of her heart, would dismiss the case herself. Late one afternoon old Isass donned his best clothing, and taking down his cane, walked up the road to Mrs. Mar tin's. Tho widow received him graciously, inviting him to a seat on tho long, rambling porch, anil exert ing herself to tho utmost to mako him feel welcome. "Mis' Martin," Isaao said, after they had exchanged a few cointnou place remarks, "you know, of course, that tho cross-fenco suit is to como up in court next week?" "Yes; I know it," tho widow an swered, sadly, "and I wish with all mv heart thut it wasn't. I'm tired of it.'" "So am I, Mis' Martin," Isaao said, with a slow shaking of his head. "I wish now thut cross-fenco had never existed. It's been a source of sorrer to all of us, an' many's tho time I've regretted deeply that the suit was ever brought, an' I've regretted it a thousan' times more thau ever durin' the last year." "So have I," tho widow replied. "If we could only all been friends an' neighbors while Martin and Lindy lived. We've missod a great deal, Mr. Burton, by our contentious, an now that t'other two is gone we ought to try to live better on happier lives. We ought to drop the old suit an' bury our differences. Don't you fuel BO?" "I do. I'vo felt so for a long time, Mis' Martiu, au' I come here this evouiu' to talk tho matter over an' see if wo couldn't ugree to a plan of settle ment. I have a plan to offer, Jaue, which, if 'twas agreeable to you, would settle tho trouble forever." Mrs. Martin arched her eyebrows in surprise when Isaao spoko her first name, for that was the first time iu his life that ho had shown such famil iarity. Yet she did not seem offouded at ull, nor did sho appear displeased when ho drew his chair nearer hers and looked into her face with au unmis takable tenderness. "Jane," he wont on, in low, soft tones, "wo are gettin' old, an' wo'ro all alone iu the world. For thirty yeurs we've been as strangers, au' we've each helped to sadden tho lifo of tho other. We can blot out the old trouble, an' tho lino fence with it, an' I feel that wo ought to do it. It's our duty to forget the past, an' in tho future try to make up to ouch other tho happiness we've missod. We cun mako tho farms oue, Jane, an' then there'll bo no need of no cross fence, an' we kin make our lives an' interests one, au' theu there'll be no uoed for no more contentions." Isaao paused, but as the widow did not raise her eyes nor attempt to speak, ho went ou : "I'm a lonely old man, Jane," he said, "an' I want somebody to keep mo company through my few remain ing yeurs, an' nobody would suit mo like you. I love you, Jaue, for your kindness to Lindy, an' I want you to forgive mo for all of tho past au' be my wife. Wo cau bo comfortable, an' we can cheer each other in our de clining days. Jane, will you do it?" Tho widow liftod her face, beautiful in Hpita of its age, aud, looking into Isaac's eyes with an answering tender ness, laid her baud in his. "Yes, Isaac," sho said, "I will bo your wife, an' will faithfully try to till Lindy's place iu your home." A few days later the old couple were married, aud Sum Gross, who was presunt at tho coroniony, took to him self much of the credit for the happy termination of affairs and not unjustly, either. Isaao immediately threw the old suit out of court, then put men to work to tear down tho old line fence and turn tho two farms into oue, just as tho owners hud turned their lives and in terests into one. Thus the last vestige of the old trouble wa removed, aud the two surviving litigants entered ou a quiet, happy existence, at peace with all tho w orld. Frauk Leslie's Weekly. The Finger Trayer Book, issued by the University of Oxford, is the small est prayer book in tho world. It weighs three-quarters of an ounce, and measerea one inch in length by three quarters of au inch in width. It oon tains 670 pages. WOMAN'S WORLD. PLEASANT LiTKRATTOK FOIt FEMININE RKADEUS. A HIKDOO STTT. A handsome suit of rooms in this city lately furnished is East Indian in style, and has the bed, dressing-table, doors, mantelpiece and woodwork of teak wood, ornamented with Hindoo traceries. The chairs are of ebony with green coverings; the couch, which is elaborately carved, is covered with Hindoo stuffs. The bright brass andirons in front of the fireplace repre sent the heads of elephants, sur rounded bv the halo of a Hindoo god. -New York World. wromxa oowks i.i 1830 sttlk. Whito satin gowns in preparation for autumn weddings are made in 1S30 fashion. They are of the richest plain ivory satin throughout, trimmed with a single deep flonnco of chiffon or of lace, and are worn with a lace veil draped entirely at the back under a small tiara or a wreath of orango buds. When brocade is preferred, the new serpentino designs are chosen with the surpentine effect in artuure weaving on a satin ground. Moiro antique and tho moiro francais, cither plain or figured, will bo much used for wed ding dresses, as they lend themselves to the stately styles of tho period now in voguo. A new moire with bayadere threads of metal, cither gold or silver, is especially elegant. For those who prefer softer fabrics is tho beautiful peau do soio in pearl or milk white, tho design a pois, iu dots of two sizes, or else tho soft finished surface left plain as a foundation for rare old laces, or tho simple motisselino do soio in sol vago flounces or finished with slight embroidery. Ono of the prettiest IH'M models hits tho round boilico trimmed with a satin bertha cut in curves low on tho shoulders without fulness, and edged with a vino of orango buds and leaves. Half-long slcoves are draped low from tho armholes. The skirt, closely gored in front, with tho traiu uot too long but curved in organ-pipo pleats as it spreads out on the floor, has a deep rlounco of accordion-pleated inoUBseline do soie, houdod by a ruche dotted with clusters of orange blossoms. Tho bride's mother also adopts tho 1SH0 stylo for tho gown worn at her daughter's wedding, but adds a circu lar basquo of plain satin if the dress is brocade, or of velvet if tho waist is of satin. The now purplish-red shades, more purple than red, and the golden brown mordoro tints, are chosen for these middle-aged ladies, cither in plain satin, in the now moires with both largo and small balls, und in tho oudulo brocades with glace ground and waving stripes of armure weaving. Harper's Bazaar. TnREATEYED JtETURX OF BIX0LKT9. It is announced that ringlets aro to bo worn again by ladies and that side whiskers are coming in for fashionable men. Tho general attitude in face of such ft pieco of news is that of unbe lief, with au uncomfortable underly ing fear that there may possibly bo somo truth in it. Kinglets belong strictly to the sentimental period of tho world's history, and the practical women of to-day would hardly kuow what to do with them. They were founded on tho theory thut the hair of all pretty girls curled naturally, and that after the morning bath they hud only to shake their bright tresses in order to produce a whole crop of ringlets, all arranged in tho most picturesque and pleasing or der. This was tho theory. Iu prac tice there wero curl papers, curling tongs, curling fluids, aud many Kin dred devices, nil of which together wero far from sufficing to keep tho ringlets iu curl. It was the daily dread of tho fushiouublo woman that tho crisp corkscrew of her curls should fail her aud turn into a limp, abject forloruucss, iu which the ends drooped dowu iu raggodness and tho spirals abuvo became, attenuated aud unduly long. This iudisposod the owner to ex ertion. Should shn go out, a shower might como on, and the dump would at once affect her head of hair. Whut would become o the tennis girl, un known when ringiets were "in," should they again become tho coiffuro of the day? Sho would have to choose be tween tonuis and fushiou, for tho two would bo w holly antagonistic. Iu tho beginning of our Queen's foigu, ladies woto longriuglets at each side of the face, and whut was knowu us "buck hair." Their chief occupa tions wero Berlin wool work andrlirttt l.on, the ringlets playing a prominent I art iu tho latter pursuit, to judge by liio novels of tho time. When they ( lushed they shook their faces to hide tho curmiuo huo. These curls hung outside their bon tietu on tho streets, and then they had k double shield for their blushes, for i hey could "drop their veils" in somo iustantuueons fashion which is as mys terious us it is enviable to tho women of our own duy. Florence Dombey and Kuto Nickloby were constantly dropping their veils while they either blushed or shod tears. ; A facility for wooping, in fact, seems to havo accompanied tho era of ring lets, and it is affrighting to eonjeoture that it might possibly return with the revival of the fashion. There is really no saying what even a modern girl might do if you put her into ringlets. Sho might experience a perfectly dif ferent set of emotions from those to which she is accustomed. Londou News. INSECTS AS JEWKTA In Brazil, and in fact throngh the whole of South America, says a French writer in the Jewelers' Circular, a multitude of magniuoeut insects are fonnd from which various jewels ar mada. A few are imported to F.urop. bnt np to the present time they hr not had all the success they merit, Tho coleoptera which are designate by the name of Buprestis are especial, ly nsed. The shape of their bodi may not be be very elegant, but their color surpasses all that can be im, ined; their common name of "rirk men" comes from their shining ip. pearanoe. Some are wholly of a bri. liant metallio green, others are mora dull, with longitudinal gildod strips others have on their wingod "hoaths fawn colored spots, irregular patterns Eurplish, azure, golden reflection, ow can I describe them? Their consistency permits thorn to mounted in the form of brooches, bracelets, earrings, etc. The specif most nsed belong to the genus Car cnlio ; it is very common in its own country, where in its abundanco it even sometimes weighs down tb branches of the mimosas. They ara frequently sent to Taris. EarriD are mado entirely from Curculio;th claws and belly aro of gold. On tH4 surface of the Lystras are seen longi. tudinal rows of very sharp poititi nr dots. Eaoh point is filled with littl green scales, which shine liko enic. raids. Ono earring that I havo m -d was mado of an insoct dressed all in green, a clear green, set off in s-.-versl places on the surface by blackish duti surrounded by a golden crown. It was rather large, and would look 1 u t ter in a brooch than in au ear pea. datit. Somo pins manufactured from tlic insects arc very serviceable. I own ono mounted iu gold, tbo claws nn.l under side of the same material, im l two hooks for tho head ami tail. 'Iks insect is solidly fasteued. It is pretty kind of blue and green metallic color, with perfectly regnlnr blur tracing which contrasts finely with the clear tint of tao whole. There is ono Brazilian colecptera often used bo. causo of its very great hardness, which allows it to bo cut as though it were metal ; it is of au odd shape, flattened metallic, aud covered with dots suuki a in ; it is not especially pretty. Tho foreign coleoptera which enn hj used for ornament aro very numerous. Tho oddost shapes that cau bo ituag ined are met with, and tho most ben. tiful tints that can be desired. Pur instance, one of bamboo color with greenish reflections, a surprisingly singular mingling of colors; another, mother-of-pearl with most beautiful golden bauds ; still another, sky blue of a wonderful softness with prcttr black bauds. Ono of the most ciiriun's is of a golden red, of u red fire which reminds us of a fire brand. They re sometimes of an ultra-mariuo blue, r yellow with brownish tracery. One has green winged sheaths aud blue corselet ; this lust ono is shining, re.l, metallic, greenish; it is so brilliant that it makes the finest rubies secu pulo. FASHIOW NOTES. Oroon in all shades and tone color, ings are the popular color for tho fall Iu head ornaments the size of tin. article is small, merely adorning ths front of the head. Tho velvet bayaderes tint woro all tho rage ten yours ago hive como ia voguo und are much worn this full. A neatly-executed scroll, with i crescent or a star-shaped piceo sur mounting it, is a fuvoriti) design fur the hair. Black and white, and black trimimd with whito or ecru laeo will be tho ma terial used for many fuuhiouuhle costumes this season. Fine Brazilian mohair, woven to produce the effect of rich, heavy silk, is much employe I in tho inauufueturj of black goods this year. Material for a very stylish costume can be selected from tho lino o l'i.j llache's for this seasou, made in all the new colorings, slushed with small diagonal stripes. Dressy black satin capes for the nutumn nro showu ornameutod with neck aud shoulder trimmings of black or cere guipure laco aud colored vel- vct-ribbou bows. Fine vicunas,, caraelcon bonrcttes, novel effects iu Castor beavers, honor comb, two tone, and Loie Fuller cheviots are the most fashionable goods for jacket cloths and coating ior iuu. A laundry bag, seventeen inches by thirty inches, stamped, may be pur chased at any of the stores for a trille, uud when embroidered it makes a verr useful aud ornamental article for the bedroom. Tho silk and wool Matalasses are among tho richest of tho many novel ties in dross goods for tho year. The aro made in two tone colorings, green nearly always being one, blended with suitable shades of tan, brown, narj blue, or blue. Trivato letters from Paris say thai the iaizabethuu ruff is "coming in, aud may bo expected to c.ross tbo At lantio iu tho very near future. From the same course it is learned tht crinoline has obtained that following among tho French that hits been steadily refused it hero. Here is tha latest fad for the u o'clock teas. A thirty-six-inch h-'ifl stitched linen square, embroidered is a conventional design, which indent in two corners the figure 5 and in tha other two cornets tho word o'clock Teapots and teaoups of small design are worked between the scroll. Girls of fifteen when of mediua height and figure have the dresses jut above the instep. When they are ver tall and mature-looking they are worn longer; but when they are small sn rather childish, the dresses need m be so long. This is, however, often natter of taste with those who bsft charge o. their wardrobes.
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