) I ICE YACHTING. Host exhiijArahiso or all WINTEtt SPURTS. TravMIng it the tl te of a Mile Minute The Vtu-.r Apotheosis of Motion Construction of Ice VA-.'hU. B1 E who has nolboen ice yacht ing is blessed in that be bas new sensation to experi ence something to live for. To ride on the wings of the wind At a tate that sets one dizzy, so great is its peed, and yet to ride, or rather to glide without Jolt or a jnr, bnt with friotionlem smoothness as easy as a bird's (tight, is the very apotheosis of notion. Man has invented nothing to beat this; the exhilaration of a ride in the eab of a cannon-ball locomotive, the zest of sitting behind a team of record-holding trotters, the keener joys of a gallop 'cross country, the de lights that a free sheet and a flowing 'Wind bring to sailormen, must all yield to the sense of intoxication con tained in the flight of the ice boat. Like the honse in Why to Melville's Iioem, the ice yacht is "not much to ook at, bnt a good 'un to go." Adorn it and fix it up as yon will, it is to the smiling yacht as the skeleton is to the body a mere framework. It is ns primitive and rough an I ready in its brought down to about three inohes at , the npper tide and 4 by 4 inohes at the ' extrome stern. The two tide timbers are each abont 13 feet long by 8 by 8) inches, and are bent into a slight bow. The runner plauk, fastened by lag screws at exactly right angles to the backbone, is in a boat of this size about 12 feet by 14 incher. There are several ice yacht clubs on the Hudson. Poughkeepsie has the Oak Point CI ill) and there Is the New Hamburg Club. The Orange Lake Club is also in a fiourishingoondition. Orange Lake is situated just outside of Newbnrg. N. Y. The record for speed in a race among Orange Lake Clubs is held by Vt. Kidd's Snowdrift. On January 14 of last year she sailed over what was ostnusibly a ten-mile course, bnt what, with t&uking, etc., roally amounted to eighteen miles of aotunl sailing, in 17 minutes and 14 seconds, something less than a mile minute. The nee was for a 8100 silver eup and open to all tab-bouts, without handi cap. It is now held by the Shrews bury Ice Yacht Club, of New Jersey, whose html, the Scud, came to Orange Lake with 1000 feet of canvas and took away the trophy most oovetcd of ice yachtsmen. Any man who can tail an ordinary boat oan sail an ice yacht if be will only remember one thingthat the latter craft cannot sail dead before the wind. A glance at the construe t on of au ioe yacht will show the rea rUAtlSU DT WHEEL. Home Queer Habits of the Tibetans Described, It is In their dress, their way of pre paring food, in the ornamentation of their persons, that the Tibetans snow their peculiarities, says the New York Times. Has the evolution of the chimney pot bat ever been discovered? Where did tbe stovepipe incumbrance eome from? Here is the print of a summer hat as worn by the Tibetans. It is of straw, covered with red or blue cotton. Boing apparently topheavy or made indifferent as to the size of the bend of the wearer, the hat is pro vided with a throat-latch. The crown is eight inches high, and the brim fif teen inohes in diameter. One funny business peculiarly Tibe tan is the use of the khata, or scarf of - mm k w A TAKIXa sriN SPEEDY YACHT ORANGE LAKE, NEW YORK. design as the savage's first "dugout" a horizontal piece of timber, a transverse piece of timber and an up right stiok, in other words, a keelson, runner plank with its glossy shoes of oust iron or steel, and a mast tor tbe sails, that are the motive power. Simple as is the main design; there is as mnoh care given to the oonstrnc ' tion and to the details of an ice-boat u to i sailing yaoht. The rigging ICS BoVtlXO OK TITB HUDSON. u must ba of the best and strongest, and every bit of the frame work has to be pnt together with as muehcare as were tbe component parts of the "one-boss hay." The ordinary ice-boat weighs well over a ton, and for anything to give way when a body of such weight is traveling over a hard surface at the rate of twenty or twenty-five miles an hour wonld be in the highest degree unhealthy for the man sailinor it. The V braoes and bolts that hold the runner 'nk to the keelson cannot be too though they may be too rigid. son for this, liy letting out tue mainsail the boat would head herself so qnickly as to outstrip the wind,and thns leave her without any driving power except ber own momentum. Moreover, with a yacht making a mile a minute in the teeth of a snorting northerner there is no time to trim sheets. As you start with your sheet so you must finish with it. In loot all ice yachting is olose-hauled work, and many a yachtsman makes his sheets fast with three half hitohes at the beginning of the season, and never gives them an inch of drift till his boat is placed ont of commission for the season. Windward work ia the ice yachts man's forte. He can work right into the eye of the wind and still make progress with bis boat in a way that would make Captain Uaff, the Defend er's Captain, wonder if his eyes weren't deceiving him. ; Interpreting the Koran. The Koran is at the same time a re ligions and a political code. All Mus sulmans admit it to be so, and it can not be expected therefore that, sinoc their religion is connected with their National polioy, they will not make use of the former to carry out the lat ter. Their policy may be briefly de fined namely, the maintenance of their faith in its purity by exclusive Dees and isolation ; the emancipation of the countries which have fallen un der Christian rule ; the extermination of tbe infidel Nations and races who, by refusing to pay tribute for the re demption of their blood, are pro nonnoed by the Prophet to be in a state of open rebellion against the law, felioitation. This is a bit of silk, abont as fine as gauze, of a bluish white, and is fringed. If you were a Tibetan, you wonld be quite lost with out this soarf. - You mnst ttke a sup ply with you for all ordinary occa sions. If you meet a friend, quiokly you must ram a khata at him, while you take the one he offers you. When you aond a letter it mnst be folded upon a scarf. You might give the finest present or convey the noblest sentiments ; tbey would go for noth ing without the aocompaniment of the khata. The good Father Huo writes entertainingly of the scarf of cere- I AN ICE YACHT BACK THE YACHT START. An ice-boat sails all the better for a little elasticity in its baokbone. The runner shoes must be perfectly true and straight and touoh the ioe ou their entire cutting aurfaoe. Soma ioe yachtsmen, with plenty of money to seud, have their runners cast of U'obin bronae and tinad down by ma chinery. Daring the past twenty years all ioe raft have had three runners. The apreed and length of tbe two forward ones bave been gradually increased long with proportionate deorease in the sail area. Ice 'yaobtamen have iound out that thia ia the best way to prevent their craft rising and rearing, for an ioe yaoht develops its highest peed, when olose hauled, over smooth, blaok ioe, with its windward forerun ner shoe held steady three or four inches above the ioe and the leeward shoos bearing the brant of the whole rork. , . Tbe first essential for an ice-boat is tbe very beat Masoned lumber, free 'from knots or checks, Basswood ia C asrally ased, as it oombinea strength 1 L'xbtneaa in an uncommon degree. '. i I "tbons of the average boat ia c t II fMt e by 4 inches. whUa la and consequently deserving of death. Enlightened and tolerant Mohammed ans will endeavor tofpalliate these pre oeptt by quotations from the Koran and Hadis, (Traditions ;) bnt they are not tbe less cherished creed, tbe con soientious belief, of upward ot 200, 000,000 Mohammedans. English Oon inlar He ports. Brans Doorkey Ceases Death, Daniel Haggart, a resident of Paw paw, JUiob., died reoently from cause wblon dootors were unable to explain. Before his death, in a delirium, Hag gart said be had swallowed a large nrase aoorcey. -jne doctors neld post-mortem examination and a brass key was found in hi stomach. The poison produoed by the oorrodinor of tbe key had oansed death. Chioage Beoord. Dr. Cannl, of Leghorn, the special ist on diseases of children, who died a short time ago, has bequeathed his entire estate, amounting to 1180,000, for the establishment and maintenance ot children's hospital devoted to the serum treatment of AiphthsrU. . TIBETAN FRATBB WHEEL AND HAT. DETAILS OF DRESS. DECREES JOF FASHION AS TO THE UAKMKNTS OF WOMEN. Some of the Newest Modes of Halr dresslnjr Handsome Thing In Tea Gowns Stylish nd Attractive. IT HERE ia a radios f in the manner ot ' hair," said a hair other day. "The radical departure dressing tbe hairdresser the The mania for Madonna-fnoed girls is now dead as last year's leaves, and Madame Pom padour has the stage. If yon want to be very distingue and smart you mnst brush your hair straight baok from the faoe and let it form a soft puff, held baok with fanoy pins and stiok combs. It does not in the least matter whether your face is the right shape or not, or whether you have a high forehead that will make yon look like 'peeled onions' with yonr hair that way, it is 'the go,' and if you wonld be in the swim yon mnst do as the swimmers do." If one has a low Oreek forehead, of oonrse this style of dressing tbe hair will be becoming. It calls for absolu- this winter. They are ohanged lit tie from the style of those days, bnt are palpably "rats and mice," made of wovon hair into tiny little cushions, over whioh my ladies' locka will be oombed. One of the popular styles for an evening coiffure is to draw the hair back from the faoe, waving it a little, and allowing a few soft curls to fall over the forehead at tbe temples. Tho hair is parted direotly in the middle and rolled down over slender false puffs and baok toward the long knot, whioh is slightly like the bath bun of the summer. A jeweled oorab is stuok in close to the knot in the baok. For evening wear the hair is waved in front for a matron and parted in the centre and turned baok from the face with a tendril or two about the temples. At the back is a twist of the hair, with a soft curl or two on the neck and jeweled combs holding the waves back. An aigrette or featbor is a pretty addition. nSNDROMB TEA OOWW. Figured cashmere made this pretty morning wrapper depicted in tho large illustration, tbe decorations be ing insertion and satin ribbon. A glove-fitted body lining ot basque MEHOnUL TO MEN Of TUE PBES9. Monument to Be Erected at Cramp ton's Gap on South Mountain. The memorial gateway at Cramp ton's Gap, South Mountain, to the work of the press in the American Civil War, of whioh a pioture ia mosy, and tells how millions of them must be in use. It is the prayer wheel, the meohan- ioal device by whioh the Deity or the evil spirit may be propitiated, whioh is so astounding to us. Grayer wheels are of all sorts and kinds, and, if dynamos were in use in Tibet, prodigi ously fine prayers might be reeled off in thia way. Some of tbe native wheels ran by water power, and there are windmill prayer contrivances. A barrel of prayers, always rotating, or on tap, Is common in Tibet, borne times the formula "Om, mani padme. hum" ia printed 400 times on a sheet of paper, put in a wheel, and, with proper gearing, oan be made to repeat or ran off the formula 40,000 times, and the more frequently the wheel spins the better. Prayers are printed on bits of flimsy paper, and these papers are tied to a string. Whenever the paper flatters in the wind then the pious Tibetan believes he is credited with a prayer. Water-Bepellaut Walls. To be able to make walla that will entirely resist moisture ia of great im Sortance in localities where tbe earth i damp and sodden. Experiments have been made with briok and sand stone, saturated with oils of various kinds. It ia proven that raw and boiled linseed oil are the best sub stances with which to treat suoh wall materials. If bricks are heated as hot as they can be bandied with' bare hands, then dropped into oil and al lowed to remain there until cold, then plaoed where they will drain and laid in wall with good Portland cement mortar, they are craotioally Imperv ions to water. Ot course, a great deal of expense attends this work, but there are place where nothing else seems to answer as well, for ordinary oei lars and walls, where suoh extreme nicety of handling is not required, thiok ooating of Portland oement mor tar laid on very smoothly and washed over with several very thin coats ot almost all Portland, will seoare the utmost dryness and oleanliness. Tbe qualities of Portland cement are not tally appreciated by tut average householder. Ledger. OP THE NEWEST MODES HAIRDRESBINO. tely olean hair, too, beoause the puffs simply will not puff it tbe hair is oily or nnolenn. It your forehead is very high yoa may wear a few love locks about the temples, but they muBt be very unobtrusive, indeed. This style was onoe a favorite with Mrs. Cleve land. She may adopt it again. Too few women are careful of the mannor in whioh they dress the hair for even ing, lotting stray looks fly in every di rection, beoause there is no confining vail, but the pompadour will do away with that entirely, for it requires dainty treatment to make it "go." To oover up the ears is always a orime, and not many will regret that the ugly fashion is entirely obsolete. In the matter of hair adornments yoa can pay your money and take your ohoioe. Jeweled combs come all of six inches long, which catch back the ends of the pompadour roll and tuok in nicely around the Knot m tbe baok. Then there are tiny little combs scarcely an inoh long enornsted with gems or brignt in out stiver, wmon are to hold down the rebellious bangs in front of the pompadour. There are daggers, and swords, and combs, big and little, giant and dwarf, made of length is provided over whioh the full backs and fronts are disposed, the tops Using shirred with a beading and ap plied at squire yoke dopth. The up- p r part ot the lining is raoed to eiraa lite a yoke, aud the dosing is effeoted invisibly in cettre front. The sides fit smoothly, displaying tho 'graceful curves of tbe figure and adding muoii t the graceful appearatioe of tho gown. Stylish pointed bretellcs lio smoothly over the shoulder, tho elges being trimmed with insertion and a twist ot ribbon with rosettes at each side decorating the top. A stock collar of satin ribbon to match covers the close fitting collar that finishes the neck. The fashionable Paquin sleeves are arranged over comfortably fitted linings, the wrists being finished with pointed bands or simulated cuffs. House gowns or wrappers of wool or cotton wash fabrios can be attractive ly dovoloped by the modo, whioh is dainty enough for silk or more oostly fabrios ; with yoke or ouffs of contrast ing fabric or color a desirable com bination oan be effected. .The quantity of 44-inoh wide ma terial required to make this wrapper for a lady having a 32-inoh bnst meaa IN TEA n an 1 1 "i fetistf'-iraTiii mtwtr ARMY COnllESPONDKNTS MEMORIAL. shown, will be bnilt of the mountain aandstono, found free there. It arches are ot limestone, and its band or frieze of terra ootta. A tablet will contain the names of the artists in the war. Tbe plaoe of the monument is central to Antietam, Harper's Ferry, Winchester, Monooaoy, Point of Books, etc., and nearest to a railroad, one mile below the point, which was also a battlefield, and is ,1000 feet elevation. It is fifty-five miles from Washington and at a cross-roads, on the settled mountain top, with a stone turnpike to tbe station. Cheap labor and material make tbe oonetruotion of this tall battlemented gateway, with its horsoshoo arob, economical oom parod to city work. It is about forty feet square, the tower fifty-one feet and the main arohof sixteen feet span. The plan was drawn by the arohiteot ot tbe Congressional Library, JohnL. Smith meyer, from tbe conception of Qeorge Alfred Townsend, one of the correspondents who gave the land and materials. Oreatness ot the Head Walter, Until one has observed the elaborate detail involved in setting a table for a formal dinner, he cannot appreciate the greatness of the head waiter. One day this week they were pre paring a table at one of the clubs. The bead waiter first measured the length of the table with a tape-line and then calculated what would have to be the distance from one plate to another. Then he calculated to find the 'exaet center of tbe table where tho floral ornament was to be plaoed. With a foot rule he was enabled to get the glasses in a perfeotly straight row down each aide of the table. 1 Then he had to meosuie by inohes to find the exact plaoe for eaoh knife or fork. How many people, when they see a woll-laid table, know that not a plate, spoon or glass is one-quarter of an inch ont of plaoe and that tbe whole glistening display bos been arranged with tbe care and accuracy bestowed on a mechanical drtwing? Chioago Beoord. Peat Coke. Many difficulties have been enoonn- tered in the production of peat ooke at the works at Elenhult, Sweden, but it is believed that satisfactory results will be reaohed. With experience, the method of working has been improved. The air-dried peat is carried by rail to the works where the more fibrous matter ia removed for textile purposes, and the remainder is orushed and car riod automatically downward through six pairs of cylinders heated by peat power.- The temperature increases downward to white heat in the bottom cylinders. The peat is only partially ooked, but thoroughly freed from water, and is finally fgronnd to dust. The cost of this fuel is now a little less than $2 per ton. New York Newt. Uow Far Blood Travels., Tbe mileage of tbe blood circulation reveals some astounding facta in our personal history, says the Chicago News. Thus it has been calculated that, assuming the heart to beat sixty nine times a minute at ordinary heart pressure, tbe blood goes at the rate of 207 yards in the minute, or aeven miles per hour, 163 miles per day, and 61,320 miles per year. If amaji eighty four years of age could bave one single blood oorpusole floating in his blood all hia life, it would have traveled in that same time 5,130,880 miles. LATEST GOWNS. most of the preoions metals and imita ted in all the base ones. There are dainty little coronets of oolored gems, and half orowns of pure white rhine tones to set just baok of tbe pompa dour, and there are aigrettes and feath ers for more formal evening wear. Bat and nice eaoh as war worn tost after the war, are on deck again nrs is 61 yards : for a 30-inou size, ft) yards; for a 40-inou size, U( yards; for a 42-iuou size, 7 yards. Andrew Carnegie gives a liberal an nnal income to the art gallery which he established in Pittsburg, with the proviso that it shall bny two picture! by American eriiaw every year. Railroad Train Loads. According to a reoent aomparison ot the different train loads on the various lines in the country, the Chesapeake and Ohio leads with 308 tons to a mile. Lake Shore ia! seoond with 267 tons. New York Central third with 249 tons, and tbe Erie fourth with 237 tons. St. Paul leads the Northwestern linea with 161 tons. Great Northern's reoord of 237 tons ia approaobed only by the Union Paoiflo with 202, as far as trans continental lines are oonoerned. The . Manufacturer. To Encourage .Matrimony. Belgium proposes to facilitate mar rlaga by reduoing the legal ' age for both sexes to twenty-one years, instead of twenty-five for the man and twenty one for the woman, as the law is now, aud by making tea consent of the father alone neoessary, instead of that of both parents. Detroit Fret Press
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