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.
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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
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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,
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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.
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