Edison )ri)lipnifB tlmt in ten yenr
horseless carriages will be the rulo.nnd
horse-propelled vehicles the oxeep
tioii. Tlio money order business during
tlio litKt quarter of 18SK5 In said to liavo
exceeded tlmt f nny previous qtuir
tor in tlm hiMtury of tlio country.
Clnusoti Collude, tlio agricultural
school of South Carolina, has dropped
French nml German from its curri
culum, mid will tench only English.
Each yenr brings nn increase in tlio
unmlinr of bicycle factories nml they
nil seem to l)u busy. The wheel has
surely coino to sljiy, predicts Farm,
Field ami Fireside.
Pioneers in tlio Bangor (Me.) Jail
nro to liu hii ppl i !! with potted plants
to euro for in their coll. It is be
lieved tlmt tlio curd of tlio plants
will liavo nn "elevating nml reform
ing influence."
In Snxouy no one in permitted to
shoo horses iiiiIohm ho bus passed a
public examination, nnd in properly
qunlilk'it. A school nt Dresden hint
students from nil parte of the worlit
studying "furriery." Thin inclining
not only shoeing horse, but thuir
euro nml trrntment a provision that
save n grcut deal of money for farm
ers mnl others owning horses.
The Juneau (Alaska) Mining Record
published n story to tlio effect tlmt
Seattle merchants buy up nml ik'Htroy
nil Alaska paper which much Henttlo,
Wash., to prevent people intending to
go to th'j in i nes from finding out how
olieup they c:iu buy outfits in Juneau.
The iirao paper any n movement is
oa foot to transfer t li? trade of Ju
neau to Portland, O.-cgoti, in conse
quence of these alleged facta.
Speaking of cotton ninuu'actni ing
in the South, H. II.' Edmonds, editor
of the Manufacturers' Record, tiivs :
"It would require in the South nn in
veHtment of over 81,000,000,000 of
capital to build nnd equip milU enough
to consume nil thd cotton tlio South
now raises, nnd if the South could
manufacture at home nil tlio cotton
which its cottou Molds turn out, the
product would be worth to this section
about $1,200,000,000 a year, instead
of selling for au average of 300,000,
000 a year, as it now does."
The latest fee of the now woman is
the grammarian, who complains she is
making linvoo of the language, says
the New York Advertiser. One crusty
old bacheior complains became author
ess, Uocti tjux nml sculptress are con
stantly misused for author, doctor or
sculptor. Au author is one Who write?,
doctor ono who practises medicine,a
sculptor one whose profession is soulp
ture. If you give the feminine termi
nation to these words when applied to
women authors or sculptors, you
should be consistent and speak of a
a woman skater as a ukatrcs, a manu
facturer as a manufactures, mid a
writer as a writress, a woman cook as
cookess, pud a womau walker as a
wnlkereks. One is just as correct as
the other.
The Chicago Chronicle says: Some
years ago Rev. E. P. Roe, an Ameri
can novelist, of whom the lute Mat
thew Arnold wroto iu very sneering
phrase, yet whoso books went into
American households by, the tens oi
thousand, tuld in pleasant fashion
the story of a New York family un
willingly "Driven Back to Edon.'MIe
described as only a man enjoying hab
itually tho fresh air and the ample
elbow room of a country homo could
describe the squalor ami indecencies
of life in a city touement-houso. He
went on to toll Low ono family, well
nurtured nnd woll oducntod, but
brought by divers misfortunes to low
financial estate, drifted deeper iuto
the alums, clinging ever to the city,
though suffering always from tho city's
oppressions, the city's brutalities, un
til at last, all unwillingly, ' they
were led by kindly hands into
the couutry, whore began for them
a new life, physical and intel
lectual. Allowing for some ami
able literary exaggeration, remem
bering, as folk who knew E. P. Roe
must remember, that the author of
this iustruotive tale spent in a vain
attempt to raise strawberries profit
ably the iuoouie from an unusuully
profitable literary vogue, oue still
must aokuowledge the absolute intel
ligence of his argument in this par
ticular case. If the people in the
cities who live in squalor and wreteh
eduess, who, being themselves up
right and honorable of purpose, yet
are forced to rub elbows with vioe,
could be induoed to shake from their
feet the dust and dirt of the city and
go back to mother nature vast stride
toward tho solution of the problem of
poverty would be taken. -
A..
Tim i.itti.k hii.ks' corsTRT.
There's a wonderful country we nil of na
know.
Whets" tin' strniiRi'St thing talk nml tlm
lllcerest thlnifs itrow.
Where the fairies nnd llmwnles guard every
thing nice.
And ilelh-ht the small children with charm
ing n Ivleci
Where there's intimity rich there's nobody
poor,
For all nro, content, light of heart nnd se
cure. And the name of this country where nil
tlies ' thl n its lie
Is Innocent llabyland, land of the wen,
I lived In this llnhylitiul long years ngo
(We ail of us lived there at some time, you
knov.i,
I'.ut soaietio Iv kept m one morning from
play.
And took me to nehool as they called It that
day.
I snng as I went. for I gueuse.l nothing then,
Ami thought myself wise with my hook nnd
my pen.
Oh ! little I knew ns I danced on III Kits',
That I had left Ilaliylnml.laad of the wee.
They taught me to read nml they taught me
to write,
They lllle.l my head so that It thought In the
nltfht.
I wnntcil to iro hack to lultyland then,
Ami have no more hot her of thinking attain,
Hut try as I would to remember the way
'Twas lost nml forgotten forever that clay,
For none may return onen they leave It, ami
SCO
Their Innocent llabyluud.land of tlm wee
Oh. little folks, living In Dnbylnud now,
Hlng with the birds ns they shut Inthcboiiuh
Fiaaeo with the blossoms that dam e at your
feet.
I.niitrh with caeh other wherever you meet,
Hleup, ati I in dreaming kuow naught of the
cam
Kept far nwny from your llnbylaml fair,
Know that our happiest hours must be
While you nro at play, In the limit of the wee.
Maud Wyninn.
KITES A3 AX AID TO FLtOIIT.
Some aro studying kites us nn nid
to flight. Iiawrouco Hargravo of New
South Wales bus made a great number
of simple and successful models the
latest being driven by compressed air,
and Hying over tliroo hundred feet.
Ho has lately giveu his attention to
kites; and in Novomber, 1894, made
ono that carried him up along a string,
ami brought him safely down. He
cluims that this kite, which looks
like two boxos( without top or bottom,
and fastened to each other by sticks,
will carry a man up and bring him
dowu safely, and thus offer nn ex
cellent chance to try any new flying
apparatus. Su Nicholas.
A FEW TONOUE-TWISTEns.
Most of you probably are tho pos
sessors of a limber tongue; but if you
waut some good exercise for it just
try to repeat these sentences rapidly
several times iu sucoesaiou. You can
a so derive a great deul of fun getting
your friends to do the same:
Six little thistle sticks.
Flesh of freshly-fried fish.
Two toads, totally tired, tried to
trot to TeUbnry. .
The sea oeaseth, but sufllcoth us.
Give Grimes Jim's great gilt-gig
whip.
Strict, strong Stepheu Stringer
snared slickly six sickly silky snakes.
She atood at tho door of Mrs.
Smith's fUh'-suueo shop welcoming
him iu.
Swan swam over the Sep, swim, swan,
swim ; swau swam back aguiu ; well
swam swan.
A huddock, a haddock, a black
spotted huddock, a black spot on tho
black back of a black spotted had
dock. Susan shinoth shoes and sock, socks
and shoos shiueth Susan. She ocas
elh shining shoes and soaks, for socks
and shoes shock Susan.
You kuow the tongue twister Peter
Piper, but there are many other jin
gle which are harder. Oue uf tho
simplest and best or worst is, "mixed
bisouits." Try saying thnt rapidly,
and if you succeed, say this, a sen
tence whioh Loudouer frequently
have to nse: "Stop at the shop at the
top of Sloane atreut." Atlanta Con
stitution. FANNY THE "WEDOB" DOO,
Fan, the "Wedge" dog is one of
the oelebritie of the water front
Fan i owned by Joseph E. Martinez,
dookmsste of Cousins' dry dock, The
canto ia a full-blodded Irish water
a
1
spaniel and possesses nil the intelli
gence and sagacity of her species. She
lias saved liumli'ed of dollars to the ,
employers of her owner.
Fanny will go into the wnter on the
coldest day of the yenr to bring a wedge
ashore Whenever a vessel is docked
she i on watch. Tlio wedges are
used iu shoreing up a vessel, and as.
soou n the dock begins to sink tho I
wedges drop out into the wnter. It is '
then that tho work of tho dog begin.
As Boon ns dockimislcr Martinez blow
Ill's whistlo n n sivnnl for tlm dock
hands to go nshore Fan runs down
tho gang pln.nk nml takes her posi
tion under the shores. As tho wedges I
drop out she picks them tip in her
tooth nnd carries them ashore. :
It is impossible, to fool Fan with
drift wood. She will pick up nothing
but n wedge. She knows her business.
Smnll boy have, thrown stick into
the bay until thoir nrm netted in their
efforts to get the dog overboard. Tho
spaniel learned her trick when she
was a pup on tho Merchants' dry dock.
During their leisure time tho em
ployees threw wedges into tho water,
nnd it was nn easy matter to induce
the dog to jump after them, liy this
means Fan grew to know the differ
ence between wedges lind sticks which I
had no commercial value. I
Tho wedges nre worth ilvo cents '
ench, nml from thirty to forty of them I
nro mod every timo n ship is docked. !
Most of them are lost nt other docks, I
but Full takes care of nil that nre used
by Cousins. The wclgo dog in par
ticular as to who goes on tho dock. A
seafaring man of any description can
pass unmolested, but sho growls at the
well-dressed man, and if ho is not
properly iutroduued, she reaches for
the creaso of his trousers. Sho seems
to realize that from thirty to forty
men are likely to bo employed, nml
tiny ono with n nautical swing or a
scent of bilge may go scot free. Sun
Francisco Examiner.
WISE IS THE WOLF.
Tho intelligence displayed by some
of the lowor nnimiils is remarkable
nnd if the many stories of them were
not well authenticated, ono would be
very much inclined to disbeliove
them.
Tho wolf is n dispisod creature.
Lean, scrawny nnd hungry looking, ho
is generally held upas the emblem of
starvation. Yet this same wolf is cn
pable of grent ingenuity, both iu his
manner of securing food ami escaping
pursuers.
A well-known hiintor who has trav
eled over tho greater part of Europe
nnd Asia tolls uu amusing as woll as
instructive story of how he saw a wolf
get his dinner.
At one oud of a small lako a flock of
ducks were disporting themselves and
catching the ninny small animals of
which their food consists. Suddenly
ho happened to look up, and there on
tho opposite sido of tho pond ho saw
tho head of a hungry, wolf, looking
longingly nt tho ducks through au
opening in tho reeds.
After wutohiug them for some timo
the head disappeared, but reappeared
a few moments Intor at the windward
cud of the luke from the flock. In his
mouth be held a small dead branch,
which be dropped on tho surface of
the water, letting the wind carry it
over among the ducks. Seeing that
this did not alarm them, his wolfship
got a small branch covered with loaves
aud launching it the samo as before,
lie slipped iuto the water, swimming
with his nose only nbovo the surface
and that hidden by the leavos.
The ducks, not suspecting tlio inno
cent looking brunch, went on eating
aud quacking, but alas, when the
branch was near enough, "snap" went
Brer Woll's jaws, and he had a fine
mallard fo,r that day' dinner.
Wolves have on ingeuiou manner
of crossing a Btroain. Oue of them,
generally tho leader and patriarch oi
the pnek, lead the wny, swimming
slowly; aoou another follows, and
taking the leader's tail ip his mouth,
swims directly behind him. The rest
of the pack follow tho same way, go
ing iu one at time till thoy are all
"in tho swim," as it were, nnd eaeb
holdiug the tuil of the ono in front in
hi mouth. Thus the weakest is en
abled to keep up with the rest, and
they are prevented from beooming
eparated.
A figure of a dozen wolves thus en'
gaged was ohuseu by the auoienl
Greek to represent the year, each
one Btnudiug for n mouth. Thil
figure waa called "Lyoubu ; or, thi
March ot the Wolves." New York
Journal. .
TEAM. OP THOUGHT.
If yon would not txcite envy, do
nothing great.
It' a gross.grainml wifa that will
scold in a now bonnet
Keep the hens scratching If you
would keep them laying.
Theory is no more like fnot than a
photograph is like a mnu.
Every man looks ns though he
needed a new suit of clothes,
Every bncliolor thinks he would
mnke n mighty Hue husband.
Homo people hnvo too much good
nnturo; others have not enough.
Some mortals talk bo much that
people don't hear what they say.
The w ise man mentis something even
by tho rental lis bo does not mnke,
Tho trouble, with giving women
spending money is that they spend
it.
Truo happiness ne'er entered nu rye i
trim happiness resides iu thing un
seen. The man who is easiest npproacliod
if usually tho hardest to get uwuy
from.
If wives don't want to catch their
husbands, they should not watch
them.
He travol fa To nnd not unpleasantly
who is guarded by poverty aud guided
by love.
A man says ho is going to button up
bis coat and then proceeds to button
it down.
Muuh heart and littlo brains is nl
inost ns pernicious as much brains aud
littlo heart.
Wo do not nl wny have the most
reason for sorrowing when we nre sor
rowing most.
Homo men can never get along be
cause they always keep uu elephant
ou their hands.
Thinkers nro the pioneers; they go
before to prepare the wny for those
who lire to come after.
lie honest iu your heart White
wash may look like paint for awhile,
but tho world soon learns the differ
ence. Good manners frequently conconl
tho ubsouco of good nature, nnd ill
manner frequently conceal the pres
ence of good nature. The South
West. Refrigerating Flowers.
Quito u revolution iu horticulture luii
boon in progress during the past decade,
ulthougli.owing to thesocret manner iu
which tho experiments lending up to it
hnvo bceu conducted comparatively few
persons hnvo beeu aware of the new de
parture. Every one knows Unit flowers,
as woll us fruits and vegetables, are
forced, so that those who ure rich shall
have tho use of them before unaided
nature brings, them to innturity.
This forcing business is nu expensive
one, requiring constant attention and
skilled labor. Many attempts, there
fore, have been made to get at the
golden eggs by chenpor menus, und
ns a result of many trials the opposite
proeesi to forcing has been adopted
with suocess.
The bj stem consists in retarding the
flowering of the plant by refrigera
tion und is, of course, only appli
cable to those which are hardy in
this couutry, by which we uieau those
which wilt stuud several degrees of
frost The lily of the valley is one oi
them aud it is much in request foi
proposos of decoration. Under the
old foroiug conditions only , about
ilfty percent of the buds treated
could be induced to flower, but by
the froeziug process an average ol
uiuty-flve percent can be secured
from the end of summer up to Christ'
mas. It will be uot.-d that tho proc
ess cauuotbe applied to tvergreout
of any kiud,and it would be death to
camellias and probably hyacinth
and tulips. It is said thut near Berlin
three groves nloue have neurly three
hundred acre of, lily of the valley
uuder cultivation, and that they have
adopted the refrigerating method with
great success. It has long ago beeu
proved that the plunt can be culti
vated in England with equal suoatis,
and we trust that the new method
will soon be tried ou an extensive
scale in this couutry. Chambers'!
Journal.
A Kerr Country,
A party of tourist were examining
one of tho large trees of California,
One of the party remarked:
"What a maguittoeut speoiuienl
Surely it must be the oldest tree io
thewprldl"
An Irishman who was with tho
party oried out: "Now, faith btw
oonld that be?" and burst out in o
laughter. "Sure any one knows this
ia a new country, and how the mis
chief oould that tree be ouldr"'
Harper' Young People.
A now 'neath hkb emu.
White tulle tied in a largo bow in
front is one of tho popular decora
tions for tho neck, nndninoug the new
collar bauds arranged to wear with
different dresses is one ot white satin
ribbon, with a teiilloped frill of ecru
embroidery niched on tho vdgo with
very narrow satin ribbon.
one nEsrt.T op ntrrci.E r.tntxa
There is ono result of bicycle riding
which makes itself evident, iu addi
tion to the greater freedom it allows tho
two sexes in thoir association with
?ach other, nml that is the careless
ness with which tho wheel habitues re
gard their costuming. Dainty maid
ens, who formerly picked their wny
larofully over dump spots ou the side
walk nml who flecked with disdainful
jesture from their gowns the smallest
ipeck of ilust, now, with joyous in
foiicinnco, "got off nnd push" whon
jvor they nro no minded, heedless of
tho fact that thuir skirt bunds may
liavo slipped from their moorings, a
jaiter button, or may bo two, hnvo
Oeeu lost iu Unit Inst race for tho
brow of tho hill, nnd if their lints aro
U ono sido mid their veils nskew it
nly Boom to mid more elements to
tho joy of bicycling. Washington
Stur.
AI1T NEEDLEWORK.
At ono of tho art rooms was recently
ihown some lovely square table
rpronds; ono of silver cloth full of
mbduod lustres aud shimmering of
ulver is ornamented by uu applied
irabosqueopon border of light sago
lilk, couched to the spread in the del
icate silver threads aud faint pink
siatio fllo flosses; the edgo is set
srith fluffy pink tassels to match.. A
icnrf of silver-green plush full of
blooming eolors in the shadows and
il silvery brightness in tho high
light is adorned nt tho ends by a
bordor of silver cloth over which tho
plush ia cut in open work of arabusquo
.ouobed with silver throad J the ends
ire iluished with an interlacing of sil
ver green silk cord with long ends and
'.assels; both spreads are liuod with
ireuin silk. A charming spread is of
lilk bolting cloth over bronzy-olive
lilk ; iu two comers diagonally oppo
lite are embroidered groups of suow-
balls in Asiutio fllo floss, the coloring
it the blossoms aud foliage light ami
tender. Sorao scattered petals have
fluttered over the body of tho spread ;
in odge of gold luce finishes the
iprond. Some fine liuon five-o'clock
tea cloths are ohnstely adornod by
group of large flowers, a a mas of
nrnter-lilios applied in cream-white
lilk, veined, outlined and partly
(haded with whito Asiatio Roman floss ;
i wide hemstitohod border fluishos
these spreads. A buffet soarf of loose
woven linen is ornamented at the ends
by a bordor of grape leaves aud grape
clusters, tho leave darned in solidly,
and the grapes, atems and tendril in
siithne. - The fluish is a deep fringe
sf the ravelled linen. Two cushion
ira worthy of notice ; ono of
pule salmon plush has it top or
uumontod by n sqnnro panel of
tilver cloth, decorated by nn applied
Japanese pattern, the skeleton of
which is in pale salmon nnd light sil
ver grecu silk plushes of very bloom
ing pile couches to the silver cloth by
eontrustiug Asiatic illo flosses.aud the
inner spaces filled in with various
stitches, as darned work with lattioe
of gold thread over it, lattico of old-
pink silk and couching of pale blue.
The second cushion of rich red gold
or orange silk plush show the top in
light fawn silk ; ou this is embroi
dered a group of palo yellow und
tawny, deeper yellow chrysanthe
mums, springing from the lower left
corner aud spreading over toward the
upper right huud. Tho fawn silk ia
couched to the plush with orange.
Atnerioau Cultivutor.
OX THI TYING OF VEILS.
By their veil they are known. Tho
woman who tie piece of white ma
Hue, adorned with blaok applique lace
about her sailor hat write herself
down aa ignoraut of the first law of
veil usage. The woman who tie a
veil when sho should pin it, or, who is
guilty of pinning it when she should
tie it, commits grave offeni. against
millinery law. For it is written in
tho books of those who decide these
momentous matter that certain Vari
eties of gunzo and cortain methods of
fastening belong only to certuiu stylof
of lint.
For inslnnoe, when milady don her
tnilor-mtnbi frock nnd her smnll walk
ing hat, sho may not, with the sanc
tion of tho milliner or the diotator
of modes, wear a chiffon veil or a lnce
embroidered veil. Neither may sho
pin the bit of net so thnt it bungs in
... . . m
grnceiui loops nt tue uncK oi nor neaa.
Him must wonr a veil of fish net, dotted
or undottod.as hor fancy aud hor ocu
list dictate, and tied neatly iu the
back, so that no loosj ends float upon
the breeze.
When she sallios forth wearing her
church or reception hat, howover, she
has u wider liberty. She may woar
either dotlod or undotted mousseline
du soie, with nu nppplique bordor, nnd
she may pin it iu the back, so that
graceful ends full over her hair almost
to the nape of hor neck. On the
whito veils the dots are frequently
black, though the border of both
black nnd white are usually whito.
With the big picture hat which is
tho delight of the garden party girl,
a very elaborate veil may bo worn. It
is also of mousseline de soie, but in
stead of mere dots scattered petal of
flowers are apptiqued upon it The
bordor which is wide at the corners,
extends up the back aa well as around
the edge. The veil is gathered slight
ly in front, bo as to fall loosely away
from tho face instead of being drawn
in closely about the chin. It i mere
ly pinned in the back nnd the elabor
ately embroidered edge droop graco-
full
The newest thing in veil i a com
bination of mnline and fishnet It
comeslin many eolors, white, gray,
black and pink. The net is generally
of black against a maline of another
color. Sometime it is dotted and
sometimes plain.
The Vulouoionne edge whioh was a
feature of lust summer's veils has given
place to nu nppliqued border of Honi
tou. In creamy and yellowish shades,
it is fastened to the black nets and iu
white to tho white ones. Embroi
dered net is also seen, but it is much
less popular thau the applique work.
Brown, black aud white are the fa
vorite color .for ordinary woar.
Brown chiffon affords such a kindly
screen to freokled- and suubur ned
faces thnt tho prophets say it will have
nu unprecedented vogue for wear with
sailors, Blnck and white maline,
mousseline de soie and tulle are to be
worn with all other hats. Even the
remarkable confeotioua of green, pur
ple and pink tullo which adorn the
millinera' windows are designed to be
worn with black or white veils. The
effect of almost all oolored nets upon
tho complexion is something too start
ling to bo permitted. With a few of
tho t,ulle brimmed bonnets, boasting
long strings, however, tulle veil of
tho same color are worn. It, there
fore, behooves a woman to study her
complexion well before indulging in
one of those fascinatingly fluffy bits of
headgear. New York Journal
FASHION NOTES.
Dottod mnslius, blnck with white
dots, or all black, mako smart gowns.
Guimpes of soft silk, such a China,
surah or foulard, are used with wool
drosses.
Dimities and lawns, blaok gronnd
with hair line of white, are among
the new goods.
For young girls' evening wear ailk,
muslin, chiffon, orepe de ebeue or any
of the pretty orepe ailks may be
used.
Bonnets of fancy braids, straw lace
and horsehair braids the latter en
riched with tinsel, spangles, jet or
appliqued with cream laoes will be
thowu later.
The white ailk ground with black
satin stripes is too conspicuous for
street wear, but for dinner gowns, or,
again, separate waist, is always be
coming and in fashion.
For wear with white pique dresse
pale yellow, blue or pink dimity over
batiste, are charming. Embroidered '
ruffle of the same fabrio mtk a dainty
neck aud waist trimming.
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