Vr GOWNS IN SEASON, WHAT liKAP YEAR 19 PRODUC ING. IN WOMAN'S GARMENTS. Happy Combinations In Materials for Basque Waist for Women and Blisses' Norfolk Unique Cape Collar and Mult. ILLUMINATED serge in a stylish mixture of golden brown and delft bit) e is charmingly com bined with brown velvet in the two-column illustration. The nttrao-tive-lookipg waist is provided with glove-fitting linings that close in centre front, the fullness of the ma terial being disposed in overlapping plaits of the lower edges on front and Lack. The fronts are slashed in "V" IADIES' BASQUE WAIST. - . ehape from shoulders to bust, expos ing faoings of velvet placed on the lining, the edges being finished with the sequin trimming. A long "V" haped vest is exposed between the front edges, the vest being sewed to the lining on the right and hooked in visibly over on the left. The stock collar ends in loops at the back, two Paquin points of velvet, edged with . sequins, flaring widely apart in front. A roll of velvet with broad tie bow at the back finished the lower edge of basque. The fashionable gigot sleeves have the fullness disposed in close gathers at the top, two burnous loops tailing gracefully on eaoh aide. Many handsome combinations of different fabrics or coloring can be effected by the mode, ample scope being allowed tor decoration, for mourning goods crape or orepon, dull jet or passemen terie furnishing the trimming. The quantity of 41-inch wide mater ial reqnired to make this basque for a having a 3:Mnon bust measure is tarda; for a 33-inch, 3 yards; for inch size, 3 yards. ES' NORFOLK BASQUE. luated serge in brown and tan nly combined with golden I brown velvet, making the stylish basque piotnred in the second large cut deservedly popular for school, ovoling. best or general wear. The 1 adjustment is glove-fitting to the waist I line, below union it tans witn a sugnt I ripple to fashionable length over the I hips, the box-plaits being graded and 3 HISSES' HORFOLK BASQUE Applied from the shoulders and the centre of fronts and baok to lower edge of basque. To styles of collar arc provided, a high close-fitting collar end a low-out revere collar, both of which are made of velvet. A belt of -velvet is worn around the waist. The fashionable lull mandolin sleeves are shaped in three seotions, eaoh seam being piped vrith velvet. The top ia gathered and arranged over comfort able linings, the wrists being finished with a velvet piping. Simple in con struction and dressy in effuot, this style of basque requires neither deoora tioa or trimming, and oan be made II of one material, If so desired. Cheviot, sergo, camel's hair, viouna, covert and ladies' cloth and all r"'tlcs of smooth and rough-faced f in plaid, striped, mixed or i Ltd design develop stylishly by The quantity of 44-inch wide ma terial required to make this basque for a miss twelve years old is 8 yards for a fonrteen-y ear-old sizo is yards ; for sixteen-year-old size is 8 J yards. titmXO OP StiKETCS. All sleeves are lined with stiff and crackling material, and when in thea tre or opera house, the audience arises to go and a thousand obedient escorts tuck 2000 sleeves into the sleeves of wraps the crackling thereof drowns the orohestra. tADTEs' CAfB COLLAR AND MT7FP. This stylish cape collar and muff, in Marie Antoinette style, is here pictured in ermine for, but astrakhan, plush, velvet and cloth are the ma terials usually selected to make up these comfortable accessories for or dinary wear, an edging of fur being a desirable finish. The cape collar ia shaped in eight bored sections, a fao ing being provided for the inside of the high flaring collar. A stiff, warm interlining is neoessary with a pretty silk lining, as the cape ripples in rounded outline over the shoulders, and is of uniform depth, front and back. The round muff and lining are joined and drawn on their edges with an elastio in a casing, otton being used to stuff it warmly between the lining and the outside. The pattern will be found of value in remodeling old-lashioned fur capes, and great ex pense is saved when this oan be done at home. These cape collars oan ,be worn over basques, jackets, coats, and will impart a stylish and oomfortable air to the plainest top garment. The quantity of 27-inch wide mo OF BEItGE AMD VELVET. terial required to make the oollar for a medium size is 2i yards; to make the muff, J yards. 0 OWNS AND UBS. A famous dressmaker has ventured on a new idea. Let the bright sun light shine directly in your eyes, and the predominant color discerned there in will be the oolor to choose for gown, irrespective of hair or oomplex ion, when you wish to look most be witohingly and becomingly arrayed. In brown eyes shines a sort of grayish hue, in blue eyes a watery azure, and in certain eyes a greenish shade. However, all the tints are purchasable, and, with the promised results, there is no reason not to be beautiful The flake of rook cocoa i ths eak made bora the ground seed. WEIUftS 718 POUKBS, Leo Whlttoa, With Seven-Foot Wnlst,Clalms to Bs the fattest Man. "the fattest man in America" is the way in which Leo Whitton announces himself. Up to a year ago Leo had been growing broader, rounder and more uncomfortable for the past thirty-seven years. He weighs 715 pounds. Daniol Lambsr', the Norfolk giant, tipped the beam at 729 pounds, scor ing the world's record. Mr. Whitton had only just arrived mo wnrrros. in town when he was met by a Re corder reporter yesterday. In ap pearance he is remarkably like Orover Cleveland. Whitton' tremendous girth is not o apparent when he stands, but when he sits he is startling. His measure ments are: Height, 5 feet 10 inches; neok, 20 inches ; biceps, 28 inches ; chest, 6 feet ; waist, 7 feet ; thigh, 49 inches ; calf, 20 inches. He comes of a stook noted for fleshiness. He was born in Northumberland County, On tario, Canada, of English parents. Up till the age of twenty-one years he worked on the farm at home. Then he went into the butcher business at Brighton, Oat, which he attended to up to three years ago, when his extra ordinary girth rendered it impossible for him to handle the chopper. When asked il he had endeavored to avoid growing so fat Mr. Whitton re plied that he had tried all remedies. He has never tasted alooholio drinks in hli life. He loses from ten to fif teen pounds during the summer, but does not feel much relief from the loss. In winter he regains the amount that was missing. He is married to an average-sized woman, and has five children, the eldest of whom is seven teen years old. None 'of them shows any signs of abnormal stoutness. New York Reoorder. INTERLOCKED ANTLER; Curious and Valuable Trophy of a Michigan Hunter. In a taxidermist' window in Madi son street a pair of aut'eie 1 deer heads are displayed. The taxidermist says they form the greatest curiosity ever seen in that line. The outlors are in terlocked, and, he says, it is the only pair in existence with the beads well preserved. Other pairs of antlers have been found tangled together but he says it was after the animals to which they belonged had long been dead and nothing but the whitened skeletons remained. The theory has always been that the animals had died thus fighting. The deers of which this exhibit originally formed a part were discovered in combat, and with their homs inseparably tangled. H. L. Brown, of Albion, Mich., was hunting near BUmnrok, North Dakota, November 15 last, when he came upon two Virginia deer bucks looked in a mortal tangle How long they had boen thus he could not say, but it must have been some time, because they had nlowed un about two acres of around in their struggle. ' They could not (un away and Mr. Brown ended their DEBB WITH HORNS IS DEADLOCK. struggle by shooting them. He out off the heads and sent them to this city to have them mounted as he found them. N. Slotkin, the taxider mist who prepared them, say the horns could only be untangled by breaking them or loosining them from ths skull, and this was never done, so they remain as the hunter found them. The doer were young buoks of about the same age, probably two years old. The taxidermist said if they had been mounted full figure they would have been worth more than 85000. As they are now, be says, the pair of heads is worth $500. They belong to the man who killed them, aud who will keep thorn as a trophy of his rare good luok a a sportsman. Chicago Chron icle. Peat and Dumb t'ouplo Converted, It seems to be a striking compliment to fervent eloquence, or some other pcouliar power of parauasion, that among the converts made by a revival ist at Tekonsah, Mioh., reoently, were two deaf and dumb person., a man and hi wife, New York Bun. "BEAD, B0D1 AMD LEGS," aaaaa A Winter Night's Uame That Will Af ford Amusement, . Good games, ths Waihington Path finder thinks, are always worth know ing abont, especially those innocent winter-night games that, witn their fnnny consequence, offer such real relief from the day's cares. No one wants to make a business ol playing games, but the greatest minds are not above simple diversions, nay, they must have them. One of the best pastimes of the kind is the old English game of "Head, Body and Legs," the origin of which is Inst in the past. Get a slip of brown paper about two inches wide and four inches long, say. Let the first player draw at the tup of the slip a head, using only the upper third of the paper. This head may be that of any imaginable or unimaginable creature. If Its something mongrel and absurd it's all the funnier. The first player then folds the paper down so as to cover up what he has drawn, but leaving the neck extending just bolow the fold. He then passes the slip on to the next player, wuo in turn draws a body on the middle third of the paper, joining it to the neok and, then folding the paper just so as to leave enough of the body showing to indicate where the legs should join on. A third player then adds legs and feet to the strange being, to suit his fancy. It will add to the fun to have a fourth player name the portrait. Finally the paper is unfolded. To say the least the company will bo sur prised at the queer composite. It may be that the head and the legs will dis agree over the direction the creature is supposed to be fronting. Often times one of the members will be so out of proportion with the rest as to make the whole effect very ludiorous. The best way to see the possibilities of the game is to try it. ion needn t be an artist to make a success of it, since the most awkward hand will frequent ly produce the most laughable result. The combinations may not always be so comical, buc out of half a dozen THE NEW WOMAN. trials there are sure to be several roar ing auocesses. when there is quite a company as sembled eaoh may be given a pieoe of paper and a penoil ; eaoh draw a head ; fold the paper ; pass to the next ; then each draw a body ; fold ; pass ; then eaoh draw legs; fold: pass, and tho next name it In this way all those present will be ocoupied in the sport, and the larger variety of portrait will increase the entertainment. "Kcspect Old Ayr." The Rochester (S. Y.) Union talis of a seven-year-old boy of that oity who reoently got even with his gover ness. H!ie was obliged to punish him, after which she administered a solemn sermon for the youngster's benefit. "Now, Willie," she said, in conclud ing the leoture, "you must remember this that at all times yon should re spect your teaoher." Yet'm," sobbed Willie; "I t'pose I'd ought to respect you on account of your age." lloriug a Houss by Water. A remarkable feat of engineering has just been succestfully accomplished by a Paoifio coast firm. An attorney named Ernest Sevier ia the owner of a two-story house at Areata, twelve milos from Eureka. On ing to a de cline in the value of property at Ar eata Sevier determined to have the house moved to Eureka, where he in tended having it set up on some land that he owned. A firm of oontraotors nndortook to remove the house intuot and sot it up, uninjured, for the sum of 81200. In case it was unfit for oooupanoy upon its arrival they were to receive the dwelling as their compensation. The trip was made principally by water. To remove the house to the edge of the bay was the first diflloulty to be overooine, as it necessitated tak ing the building over a large dyke and a marsh. This was accomplished satisfactorily and the house was trans ferred to two railroad lighters that had been lashed together in readiness for the trip. 'ihe journey by water was com pleted with the aid of a tug without accident, and an immense crowd assembled at Eureka to welcom the strange craft. Amid the oheers of the spectators and the tooting of steam whistles the THS DOUSE AFLOAT. lighters were made fast and the hou transfer; jd to land once more. It was a comparatively easy matter to convey it to its new site and the strange engineering feat was aocom- pusnea without any more aamage being done to the house than flight cracking of the plaster. lifts . . -,H iiim - SPONGE FISHING, i A THRIVING INDUSTRY OFF TUR FLURIDA COAST.) Hundreds of Men at Work Search ing for the Sponges In Snlllug Vessel Methods Kmploycd In Other Places. -' TIM BCANLAN, with hi back to the stove in a warehouse on the river, was telling the group of lake sailors how he had fished for sponges off tho Florida Keys. "You see, boys," said he, "you tick your bead in a bucket over the side of the dingy, and you can see the sponges hard fast to the bottom. Then yon put down your hook and haul away, and get a beauty." "How can yon see through a bucket, Tim?" asked one of hisfrionds. "Because, d'ye see, the bucket has n glass bottom to it, and that s no lie. wuen tbe liffht ts on the water yon oan t see below the top, can you, be cause the water is a sort of a looking glass, but you can see nnder water, unless you are blind, if you keep your eyes open. So what do those chnps do but clap a piece of glass in the bottom of a bucket after knocking out tho wood, and then they stick their heads in the buckets, with the bails around their necks, and shove tho buckets un til the glass is under wator, and they can see down ten fathoms or more." "I mind the time when I was sail- BPONGE FISHING OFF ing on a fruiter in the Mediterranean, seeing some Qreeks diving for sponges," said another sailor, "But they dived, they did, and did not fish with hooks. They carried a full diver's outfit with them, pump and all, and the diver was let down over the side and filled his basket with the nasty things." Then Tim, who had been sponge fisher for more than a year, spun his yarn. Said he: "We worked the fishing grounds just off Anclote Keys, moving from there to Cedar Keys, and we worked in from three to six fathoms. Some of the finest sponges in the norld oome from that ooast and hundreds of men are worked there. We coasted np and down in a thirty-ton aohooner-rigged craft, with a broad beam and drawing but little water. We carried ten men, including the cook, and four dingies, which, you know, are small yawls. Two men to a dingy was the way we were told off, one to skull and one to hook. The dingies were eighteen feet long and five feet beam, light and strong. They are made light because two men handle them, and they must be strong and seaworthy because we worked sometimes in a heavy sea. "The sculling notoh was to one side of the oentre of the stern, and it was cnt in the end of a short bit of plank whioh could be taken off if it was in the way. The sponge hook are made of iron, have three prongs and are curved. They are about sis inches wide, and a long pole fits into ths socket. One man, as I said, soulled the boat slowly along, and the other hunted for the sponges. He used the sponge glass and motioned to the man in the stern to go this or that way. When he saw a good sponge he shoved the hook down over it and fastening the prongs of the hook in it pulled it from the bottom and into the boat "When we got a boat load we sculled to the schooner, and the sponge were piled np on the clock un til the 'gurry' ran out of them. The LOOKING) FOB SP0N0E8. driod-up sponges that are sold in the drug store are the skeleton of the sponges. When they are pulled from the water they are covered with a glue-like stuff and filled with slimy matter. Thi (limy matter i the gurry and the sponges are kept on the deok until this gurry run away. Sometimes they are kept aboard two days, and the man who cannot work in a smell whioh is worse than any down at the stook yard will never be able to make living fishing for sponges. "But you get used to it in time, and you get so you oan tell just when the sponges should be taken to the sponge crawls. A sponge orawl ia made by staking out a spaoe about twelve feet square in shallow water. The partly cured aponge are put to aoak in tba crawl and arc beaten with club and thu washed out The waer ot'tha crawl to only two or three , feet. Uep found, the old method of divine; h and the men who wash them use flat clubs. Then they are taken out, strung on strings, packed in bale and sold. Sometime sponges are bleached. That make them white, but hurt tho sponge. "The sheep wool sponge is the best sponge. It is soft, just like velvet, and strong. Sheep wool sponges are sold for bath sponges, but most of them are need for washing carriage. The yellow sponge i a good sponge, but it is not so soft end strong as the sheep wool, and the grass sponge ia poorest and cheapest." s I The sponge belongs to one of the lowest orders of animal life. Its skele ton is a strong fibrous substance, and the animal part of it is a gelatinous matter which fills tho pores and cov ers the entire surface. If this matter ia not removed within a few hours af ter the sponge has been torn from the rock or stones to whioh it was fas tened it is almost impossible to purify it. The hooking or harpooning meth ods used in the Florida and Cuban fishing grounds are useless when the sponges lie in deep water. -- In some parts of the Mediterranean Se. whore very fine sponge are used. Tho diver fastens a stone to his feet and with a long rope in his band goo down feet first. Some divers can remain nnder water for three minutes at a time. They snatch the sponge from the bottom, working rapidly a possible. If lucky the diver fills the little basket he carries, tugs hard at the rope and is drawn to tho surface. THE FLORIDA COAST. Another method employed in sponge fishing is dredging. The dredge is a strong, heavy net, from six to eight yards long and about one yard high. xt is made or coir cords, with the meshes about four inches square. This is dragged along the bottom by a rope attached to the bowsprit of a small sailing vessel. A it passes over the bottom it tears tho sponges from their anchorage and they fall into tho net. Of late vear divers clad in armor have become common off the Greek ooast. They descend in thirty and forty fathoms and bring up the finest snrgeon, nursery and toilet sponges and rare oup sponges. After the sponges are brought to the land they are buried in sand and kept there un til they aro deoomposed. Then they are washed in a running stream of fresb water, carefully dried and packed in bales for the market. If the sponges are not perfectly dry when packed tnoy are liable to catch the "cholera," whiob means that they be come heated and are disoolored with orange colored blotches. The demand for fine sponges always exceeds the supply, and some particu larly fine cup sponges have brought 8100 a dozen. The prices of Florida sponges have doubled in the last twen- ' ty years, and sponge experts deolare that they will be still more expensive. A sponges are sold by weight, dis honest dealers frequently fill the sponge with sand to inorease tho weight, but this praotioe is dying out. The practical value of the sponge lie in its great absorbing capacity and also is due to the fact that water soft 6ns the tissues until they become soft and pliable. Although sponges ara found in all tropioal or semi-tropical waters, the commercial sponges are oonflned almost exclusively to tho - waters or the southern and weBtera ooast of Florida, the Bahaman archi pelago and to the Mediterranean and! Red Seas. The: sponges, as they ara found in their native waters, vary in form ; some are cup or vase shaped, others half round, other globular. ome are fan-shaped and some cylin drical. The Sawdust Iuiiustrj. A growing industry in thi city is the sawdust business. There are a least five hundred,, men who make living selling sawdust. They have in vested a capital of J over two hundred thousand dollars and are now doing a business of $2, 000,000 annually. Forty year ago the lumber mills here were glad to nave sawdust carted away; twenty-five years ago it could be bought for fifty oents a load ; now it brings 83.50 a load at the mills. It is used in hotel, eating houses, grocer ies and other business places. It is wet and spread over the door in order to make tho sweeping cleaner work. Plumber nse it a great deal about pipes and buildings to deaden the walls and floors. Soda water men and , packers of glass and small artioles of every kind use it, and dolls are stuffed with it. Mew xork Advertiser. The Hajnuierloss tiun, A corporation to manufacture new hammerlesa gun, the invention of a young mechanic, is being loomed in Baltimort. The look is the-'new fea ture of the invention, andJiaitaid to ba simple and strong. . Thegun will also be provided with two ts of barrels. -one set choke bored end the other the plain cylinder pattern, with nu in exesMta prin. Yfyi York Telegram
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