f DAINTY AND NEW. INNOVATIONS AND NOVKMIE3 ON FEMININE UARMKNT9. Bolero .TncVct With Holt Sleeves for Early Full Wear -Heecnt Change In the Slylcs of Sleeves. IIE bolero jacket with hell I sleeves, writes May Manton, I in among the latest importn (, tioni for enily fall we nr. Het.vy block corded silk in tho nin terlal represented, the trimming being bnuih of embroiderod jot or net laid over cream faced cloth.. The cbilTon rucha worn around the neck that ends in a lorge bow with jabot ends in front may be omitted in favor of the flnring Medici collar. The jacket is simply shaped by shoulder and undcr-arm ee-uus, the round outline renchiug the waist with slightly pointod corners that flare apart in front. The bell sleeves are a special feature cf this fashionable jacket, being conveniently adapted to slip over the present style of dress sleeves. The sleeves are circular in shape and reach to below the elbow, the gathered fullness adjusting them gracefully at the top, Jackets in this styles can be worn with any stylo of waist and skirt and aro usually made of satin, velvet, rioh heavy silk or broadcloth to match or contrast with the skirt. LADIES FANCY SLEEVES. The styles depicted in the double column cut are an innovation on the plain full models so long worn and are quite a foature of tho new basquo and fancy waists this soason. No. 1 is of light figured silk, shaped with smooth under and full upper portions over fitted linings. The upper portion is gathered at the top and on tho side edges, the centre having a tucked shirring that arranges the fullness in butterfly style. The outlino at the wrists can be pointed, or plain, as pro ferred. No. 2 is developed from Persian silk lawn over fitted linings of yellow silk. The sleeve is shirred in inousquotaire stylo, its soft wrinkles aorons tho arm boiug caused by gathers long the edges of seam and tucked shirring on each side of the full pouf, that droops from shoulder to near tho elbow. The top is deoornted with a bow of satin ribbon and the wrists can be plainly completed or finished with frills of lace as shown. THE IATE3T DEBIONS IN The quantity of material forty-four inches wide required to made No. 1 design for a lady of medium size is two yards ; and to make No. 2 design two and one-half yards. ATTBACnVaOWM FOB A GIRTj. This attnaotive gown, says May XCanton, is made of cream and cherry colored ailk, trimmed with insertion over cherry ribbon, and deooraUd with belt and rottw of ribbon to NOVEL BOLERO JACKET WITH BELL SLEEVES. hJ'W Difltcb. The fall front and bucks are nrrnnged over fitted linings that close invisibly in centre back. The front is gathered at the centre of neck band and waist line, three tucks being shirred across the front at square yoke depth with novel and becoming ef fect. The sleeves are mounted with shortfall puffs, according to the latest mode, the waist being decorated with singln rows of insertion. Tbo stylish bretellcs are edged with insertion over ribbon, and a frill of lace falls from the upper edgo of thojstanding collar, which is decorated to match bretellcs. The skirt falls in graceful shape, the front side and three back gores funn ing a smooth adjustment in front and on the sides, the back being plaited or gathered at the top, as proferred. Very pretty dresses iu this style can be made from organdy or batiste in colored floral designs over silk or cot ton linings. The mode will be found among tbo newest designs for fall wear and can be copied in woolen fnbrics with bretellcs of velvet a vest of silk in this stylo giving added smartness to the costume. ' The quantity of material thirty-six inches wide required to make this JP.W ft V 9' a m C I SUV V " ' miuvs oown. waist for a miss in tho medium size is two and one-half yards. To make the skirt it will require, of tho samo width material, threuand ono -half yards. HATS IN CCDAX STRAW. Hats in Cuban straw have taken the 6LEEVE3 BY MAT MANTON. fancy ot some of oar mondainei, and it is said that birds and feathers are to supersede flowers. yThe novelties in millinery which have been so success ful during the "granyisemaine" aro gray hats with white leathers, pale pink straw caught up on one tide with panache of white ostrich tip and black velvet bows, a a osobe-peignt rice strr.ws and white velvet, with Malmaisou roses half bidden beneath feather, Ilil it a n jrn BICVCLE SKATE, An English Invention for Fast Road Traveling! Inventive genius in England hat turned its attention to the perfeotion of a road skate, an adaptation of the con' PSErMATIC TinED WflEEL OX A I10TiT.EH' SKATE FIUMB. ventinnal roller skate, which will en able the skater to skim along over any road smooth enough for a bicycle. Two years ago the "skaycycle," as it is called, made its appearance, lis had a pneumatic tire. Tho original pattern was introduced in the United States, but has never been popular, probably on account of its high price $25. There is too much ice skating in the Unitod States to admit of tho permanency of tho popularity of any form of roller skates. Not so, however, in England, whera the iuventor of the skate claims that "a skate which is independent alike o tho tlokleuess of the climate and the more or loss intermittent onterpriso of the skating-rink promoter is a long felt want. The new appliance, which is roally nn adaptation of the princi ple of tho cycle to the old-fashioned roller skates, is furnished with pneu matia tires nud ball bearings, and it will not bo long in all probability bo fore the slight exertion of energy on them over u reasonably smooth and solid road is still further reduced by tuo introduction of the priuciplo of geared action. The skates ore held to tho soles ot the shoo by tho ordinary clamp iu mo on ico Bkatcs of tho club pattern, but have an ankle, support, which is kept in position by a leather brace lined lamb's wool nud which fits about tho calves of tho legs. It is claimed that tho skatos may bo safely used iu both up and down grades, and that with praotico a speed of ten to twelve miles may bo reached on a fairly good road. Several of tho English papers aro enthusiastic over the future of the road skate, pointing out that in its use every musolo of tho legs, back, nock and arms is brought into play. This is true also of sawing wood, an cxcrciso which has never b6 como a National fad. Tho English road skats is a cumber some thing. The wIicuIb are about lour inciioH in diameter. Tho skate may be folded up for traveling. A Onions Test uf Coins. In America au alloy of one-tenth copper is used in coins to harden them and make them less susceptible to abrasion. In Lnglaud the amount of alloy is less only one-twelfth. 11a cently a controversy aroHo among the mint officials ot London as to which coins, English or American, would last tho longer. In order to put tho mat' tcr to a test two small stoel cylinders wrro fixed on a revolving rod and ono filled with United States aud the other with British coins. It is needless to sav that nil of tbo letters, milling. etc., were worn from the English coins twelve honm I'ofore they wero finally totally effaced from tho American coins. A llmnnii-Kflccd Hen. . Ono of tuo strangest freaks of nnturo has been unearthed by a New York resident in a New York market. Is consists of a human-faoed huu, whiou he found in a lot of 10,001 chickens whiou had been brought to New York from Michigan. Tho hen is a Ply mouth Hock. Its eyes aro But bolow beetling brows. Tho chin is double, and the nose resembles that of a man. Its touguo also resembles that of a hu man being. Several of tho claws havo fingernails. The fowl is said to be a deoided opi euro, spuming the corn wbioh gener ations of its anoestors have considered wholesomo, preferring moistened bread and cake. The present owner of this strange freak iutonds keeping TBS WEAK HEN FHOM MICHIGAN. I it with the view of ascertaining whether the odd marking arc trans aitted by it to it progeny. WAVE W DEATH. DETAILS OF TIIR TIDE THAT SWEPT NORTHERN JAPAN. Boms !i7,O0O Persons Were Killed unl GClOO Injured Whole Towns and Village Swept Away. T ITE story of the tremendous tidal wave that swopt tho northern shoreu of Japan and cnused the loss of some 27,000 lives on June 10 is told in full detail in the advices recently received at Sau Francisco by the I'nolflo Mail steamer China. Tho first reports were not ex aggerated, and in addition to the loss of life there wero over 0000 persons seriously wounded and in bad condi tion owing to the destruction of hos pital facilities and medical stores. 1'ho damago to property is enormous, and is roughly estimated iu the offi cial report at nearly 1,000,000 yen. DIGQING IN TfIE Thomas D. McKay, for two vears past General Passenger Agent of the Central and Union Pacitio Railroads at Yokohama, arrived on tho stcanicr China for a short vacation trip. He has travelod on three different oc casions this year through that portion of Japan recently devastated, and in talking about the remarkable seismic disaster he said : "Tho earthquake affected fully 250 miles of the coast line. A great wavo rolled inland and wrought havoc to many villages and their ithabitauts. i ishermeu five miles out at sen were unharmed and returned at night to find their toivns destroyed nnd homes wiped out of existence. The great loss was in the Miyagi, Iwate nnd Aoinori prefectures. In tho Aomori country eight towns were badly ruined, 'tsr't. tor- HU1S8 IN THE Vir.LAOE OP QDACIIT. with great loss of lifo. In the Iwato sectiou fully thirty-oao towns wera devastated, and in the Prcfoctnro of Miyagi almost eighteen towns or hamlets. "Of course, tho survivors all havo strange and interesting stories to re late. . Ono man I heard tay tbit he saved his life by ruuniug up to tho top of a mill. His friends were en gulfed by running in their fright to wards tho beach. Ho says tho first shock he felt was slight and h.t paid put little attention to it. Thon a big wave started to come inland. In half an hour the damage was done and tho waters were bac'.t to their usual level again. He thinl.s the big rush of water proper did not, lust over five or six minutes, and it wu aocompaniod by a BHIZUKAW AFTER THE terrifio noifle. Following the first big wave there was a second one not so large, but he think it made fully a much noise." Mr. Sakai, an assisstant expert of the Iwate Local Office, was one ot those saved. A report submitted by him to the local Qovernor graphically describes what he bad to endure. On the fateful evening he was lodging in an inn at ICuji. lie felt a number ot earthquake shook whilo sitting in a room of the inn, aud observed with surprise that though objects suspended as lamps did not osoillinte much, the shock he himself experienced wus quite considerable, At about ten minutes past p. in, he beard a noise ontside like the crack of a pistol, which was followed five minutes later by a rumbling sound, resembliug the explosion of a steam boiler. The lat ter sound came evidently from the direction of the sea, At the same time an up aud down motion of the around iu leu, at orsi lomewuat ieeuiy, uut gradually growing In intensity. Con cluding that somolhlng extraordinary was abont to happen, he rose hastily and prepared to leave the house. Just at this moment a number ot sheds on the beaoh were struck by the waves, and amid an appalling din their ruins were swept forward into the street. Mr. Sakai rushed from the house, but the night was so dark that be could not decide whither to fly, Dnring a moment of hesitation hugh billows overtook Lira and swept him away. As he was being swept on bis head struck against what lio supposed to be a storehnnso floating among the waves, and his body was tumbled over and over three or four times. He at tempted to reach tho eurfaoe of the water, but lumber and debris kept him down, lie concluded, therefore, that his only chance was to keop as composed as possible, and holding his breath be remained under the water for what seemed n space of five minutes. After that he was ablo to get his bead over the surface and breathe three or four times. Again a big building drifted toward him, but PUINS AT KAMAISOT. as ho had no power to buffet with the waves bo addressed himself to husband iug what was left of his strength. At last he could no longer hold his breath, nud had to swallow the salt water. The act wan followed by loss of consciousness. The next thing he knew was that people were talking in his vicinity, nud opening his eyes he found himself in a temple of Knji, about two and a half miles atyiy from tho inn whence ho had been swept. Ho wai told that his body had been found amongst a mass ot lumber, and extricated with difficulty. An official report ot the effects of the tidal wave has bceu issued as fol lows : "On tho 15th inst. tho weather was misty from morning and tho tlicr mometer tluctuuted between eighty nud ninety degrees Fahrenheit, about ten degrees higher than in ordinary years. People snft'erod much from this unusual heat, but did not think it particularly strange, tho weather bo iug generally ficklo inthePain (spring rain) season. The 15th, coinciding with the May festival, ncoording to tho old calendar, a feast was hold in every family, and the hours were pass ing morrily, when, at dusk, repeated shocks of earthquake were felt, nnd at about 8 o clock iu the evening sound as if mado by tho firing of big cannon was heard from tho direction of tho boh, off tho coast of Higashi Hei district. Snoh a sound from tho seu tiot being uncommon, tho inhabitants did not pay much attention to it, thinking that it might bo cnused by men-of-war practicing gunnery. Only a few minutes hat elapsed when scismio wave suddenly rolled in with terriblo foroo, and towns and villages along tho coast, through n distance of 175 miles, were inundated. In a mo uient men, cattle, buildings, ships, etc., were almost entirely swept away, so that towns which had bceu thickly populated only tho day before were turuod into sandy wastes. Corpses were piled in hoaps, houses were com pletely wrecked and the whole scene prosented the most ghastly and heirt rending aspect, impossible to describo, .:5!4!S . WAVE PASSED OVEIt IT. It is reported that the wava was as high as eighty feet, and that, though more or less variation oooarred aa cording to locality, the devastation and damage iullioted by the wave were most serious in places facing the southwest. Strange to say, fishermen plying their trade about five mile off the coast noticed merely a slight swell and had no suspicion ot the ooour rence of such a catastrophe. As soou as reports ot the calamity were re ceived steps were at once taken to ex tend succor to the sufferers. The local Chief of Police was direct ed to visit the scene of the disaster, tho Secretary of the Prefecture was dispatched to Higashi Hel, the Coun cilor to Kieou nnd Minanmi Hei and tho Chief Tax Colleotor to Kunohe. At the same time thirty-three clerks aud police iuspeotors, together with 113 polioe constables and 450 ooolies, were sent to various afflicted districts, to succor the survivors, to dispose of the remain ot the killed aad ft ii n u n ii ir .n Ufs-M , store order. Neighboring towns and villages that escaped unhurt offered the services of their fire brigades and coolies, and the number of working- ingmon avnilablo altogether amounted to above 4000. The disaster having proved fatal to many medical prao- itioners living along the coast, and the survivors having lost their anpplr of drugs andinstrnmcnts, the greatest difficulty was experienced in extend ing efficient aid to the sufferers. A nrgo quantity of carbolia add, ban- ages and such things was qaioKiy sent, nnd nt the same time fifteen doc tors and fifteen nurses were expressly engaged and dispatched to tho scons of disaster. .L.ven this proved insuf ficient, in oonsenuenoe ot the multi tude of sufferers, but how to meet the urgent need ot the moment was a per plexing problem, the number of medi cal practitioners in this prefecture being from the first comparatively small. At this junotnre twelve sur geons from tho Heoind Military Di vision and seven doctors, two phar maceutists and twenty-eight names from the Rod Cross Society arrived, and were forwarded to ono or other of tho afflicted districts. Put the ambu lance staff still proved inadequate, and on the arrival ot a party of troops belonging to the Sondai En gineering Corps one surgeon from the samo division and five physi cians and one nurse from the Fnka shims branch of the Red Cross Soci ety, tho detachment from the Bendai barracks was hurried forward to Mi- yako, nnd the physicians from Fuku- shimn were disttibutedto otherplnces. In addition to the above a nnmber of medical men have been requisitioned from towns nnd villages adjoining the afflicted districts, and drugs, instru ments and other matters noedod in sargical operations are boing for warded to places where they are wanted. Further, in ordor to give prompt relief to survivors suffering from starvation, more than 1000 koko of rico have been sent with all speed to the scone of the disaster. "According to the latest offloial re ports tbo casualties to life and prop erty in the afflicted districts, including Hokkaido, stand as follows: Houses Washed Awav or Doaths. Woiimled. Wreokorl. Iwato. .. ,23,3'IU 4.8W1 7,429 Mlyasl 8,814 770 1,81X1 Anmorl B40 'J13 4C.5 Holtkaldo ... 0 5 !15 Total.... 20,075 6.33J 0,313 Tho damage to boats and fishing gear, that were washed away or de stroyed by the big wavo, is estimated nt 250,000 yen in Miyai, Oio.uuu yen in Iwate and 90,00'J yen in Aomori, all in round numbers, II to these figures be added the dnmage to cultivated fields, to houses and the loss of o'.hcr valuables as well as cash, the whole mast reach a very large figure. The fishing industry alone in each of the tbreo districts produced over 1,500,000 yen a year on the aver age, nud this has been Beriously crip pled, especially la Iwate, owing to the destruction of the fishermon aud their implements." A Winsnmo Welsh MnTorosD. The Prince nnd Prinoess of Wales lately mado ft tour of their ancient principality, nnd at Aberystaith wero TUB MAYORESS OV ABERYhTWTTH. the central figures in nr. important function. The Prince was installed Chancellor of tho Welsh University, and the Prinoees was given the degree ot Doctor ot MusH The Prinoess of Wales wore the hood, cap nnd gown of a Doctor of Music of the university, the rioh scarlet of the robe, the outer hood ot indigo blue, and the inner hood ot puce being particularly be coming. Mr. Gladstone, who, with his wife, attended, was enveloped in the ample scarlet folds and puce hood of an LL.D., his grandson bearing the train of the Chancellor. A less im posing figure than the big folks, but quite as winsome, was the Mayoress of the town in her quaint, National garb. .She reoeivel the Prince and Princess of Wales at the station. Loudon nn Overcrowded City Arthur Clayden, leoturing in Lon don, stated, as a "startling fact," that ot the 850,000,000 inhabitants of 11,. 000,000 square miles ot the British Empiro, no fewer than 310,000,000 are crowded upon the 1.11,000 square miles of the United Kingdom and the limited area ot British India. Nearly 40,000,000 people are paoked like sardines on 121,000 square miles, while on the 3,000,000 square miles of Australasia there are fewer that 4,000, 000 inhabitants. On the area which constitute the Metropolis, although only a four-thousandth part of th size of the seven colonies ot Austral asia, there are over a million mora people than are to be found. i th whole of thon vait areas. II
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