J STYLISH SLEEVES. HRDITCRD IMMRNMON AltR lK C'KKRI) 11Y DAMK tf.ASIUOX. Put The? Must He rtosc-Flttlna. From Wrist to F.lhow l'nb onnltlo llolero Vor Young Irln . 1 THE slocvn which Mew Itself j I I out o long n ml no proton 1 1 tiottsly in enortietionll.v sup ta pressed by Damn Position to Its proper dimensions, nnd n-w, write May Mnnton, show 1 he truth of thn olil prjverb, "Modesty adorn," n. it appears in the roiluooit slate both LAMES' AND JIItUKV BLKEVER. more graceful nml ornnmontnl tbon liefore. Fashion dictates however, that the sleeves iniiHt be closo-fllting from tho wrist to above tho elbow, whore alight puff in permissible ; when the alcoves lit snugly to tlio ehouldcr they nro somewhat reliovod by volants, draperies or opnulots. Two pretty designs nro given iu tho tllustrntion. No. 1 is doveloped iu brown cnnvnn cloth with fluurcB in hynointho purple. The adjustment, oloso to the shoulders, ban n graceful drapery nliove termin ating in n (oft knot nt tho shoulder. The wrists have slight point extend ing over tho hand. No. 2 may be rightly termed a modified sleeve, serv ing ss s oomnrouiiro between tho leeve of last season and the extremely tight-fitting ones of this. It is mado in (rranito woolen nnd has a sepnrato portion. The fulness stnndH ont fash ionably from gathers at tlio top, fit ting the arm closely below. Tho wrist is finished with s cuff of decidedly original shape. To mnke these alcoves for a lady in the medium size requires two and one fourth yards for No. 1 design nnd one and three-eighths yards for No. 2 do sign, of forty-four-inoh wide mnterinl. For a miss in tho medium size re quires two yards for No. 1 design and one nnd one-eighth yards for No. 3 design of the same width material. FASHIONABLC BOLBUOS FOn Ollltil. The short bolero or zouave jnokct, ooording to May Mnnton, is the most fashionable of the season's aooessorie. Here ere shown two of the very latest . FASHIONABLE BOLEROS FOR U1BL3. designs, whioh we give as one pattern, No. 1 is made of oream-colored satin faced eloth, the levers and small edges being dsooratod with green braid in terwoven with gold oord. The front re shaped in rounded outline nnd the bok, of becoming lengthi is straight, shoulders extend well over the dress sleovcs and form pointed epuu. let. No, 3 Is represented in beautiful two-tonod velvet, combining tho mi tumnnl shades of green nml rod. Tim collar in of Rutin in thn tniiin deep rod lint whiln tho edges sro outlined with fancy galloon in colors to correspond. Thn junket in shaped by shoulder nml nndcr-arm seams, thn fronts being slightly rounded, while thn bock la notoliod to n point in flsh-tnilcd effeot. Tho oolinr falls deeply ovor tho shoul der and hack in nnilor stylo nml ox tend down the front in slushed rovers. Any nf tho scoson's new fabrics will make, stylish nnd nttrnctivn bolero by tho mode, plnin colors being nsnol ly chosen in black, brown, dark green, stool or dote gray, heliotrope, dnhlin, pintnoho-grecn or creamy satin worn with waist to match or correspond. Not only will boleros bo found nty lish iu ronovating Irnit season's blouses nnd waists, but useful as well, for when made of nlotli, velvet, etc., they will provide additional wnrmth. To mnko No. 1 detail it will rnquiro thrco-fotirths of A yard of twenty two inch wido mnterinl, nnd to mnko No. 2 dosigu it will roipiiro onn and oue quarter vnrd,i of tho snina width mn terinl, rLAio vr.i.vr.TM. Flail velvets in light bright oolors arn used for vests, collars, rovors, and bolts in wool costumes, and n?piin for tho entire hodico witu eloth sleeves auil bolero. tub dominating: coi.on. lied is to bo tho dominating oolor in drees this winter, and thero is red iu our huts, red liniugs in our drossos nnd wraps, aud red gowuu. A FAVOIIirS PAKfllOV. A favorito fashion for new slooves is a velvet sleuvo, rnthor close, with n drapery of brocade, or other material of whioh tho cootumo is mado. A dress of this sort is of largo iloworod brocaue. Tho waist la in coat basque fashion. There is a wry wido turned over collar aud lapels of volvet, a vol vet corselet with large rosette bow with long ends, aud a vatvet standing oollar with bow at tho back; The velvet sleeves are modoratoly close fitting, and there ere voluminous drap- eries of the brootde caught np front and baoU and falling ovsr the arm to elbows. From figures recently published at Manioh it appears that there ere now in central Europe 15,61 gas engines whioh sggrvgste 63,894 horse powtr. k NAVAL" WONDER, IN TIIH VUltlilV The Monitor Puritan, .lost Cnmplnt Hi. Is thn I'rlits of I'nrle dnin'e Knvjr Kent ores of tli n Monstn I'lnlitlng Mnelilne. Till' nrinnrail monitor I'nritnn, the best eqnippnd nnd stnneli rut craft of her kind iu tho , entire world, a fighting ma chine, of thn most modern kind, fit to withntnnd thn aMsnult of tho puns of any enemy, is now Moored between thn two dry docks nt thn llrooklyn Navy Yard. Iter nide nro pninted white, her powerful turret gnus nrnin position nnd her military mast with rapid lire guns aloft is gnrofnlly shroud ed. Naval ofileers who have watched the TI1K I'NIVF.n KTATE1 MONITOll rnftlTAN. (Onn nt our most formidable eiiKlrics ot war Just put In cmnniMorO progress mnilo in tho evolution of modern nnvnl architeetnro regard this novel lighting mounter with pride. No wonder the old salts, and tlio young ones, ton, for that mutter, have chris tened her tho l'rido of tho American Navy. "With ships liko the Pnritnri at the rntrnncn to this hnrlior," said an ofll cer, ns lie stood on tlio deck of the mouitor, "tin people of New York never need bo at mid that nn enemy's Hhips will ever dnro to hhh inside of Hiiudy Hook. New York's commerce iNTRiuon or ronwAnn Tirnnp.T. is safe. Tho l'uritnn is the ablest, grnndest, lnot powerful, best equipped lighting machine of tho century." Every oflloer ami every .Tnok tnr in the llrooklyn Navy Yard, from Com modore Hioard, the commandant of tho borne station, flown to tho youngest midshipman, nnd from tho chief boat swain's mate doom to tho aftoiguard nwooptr, fools a lively interest iu tho Turitan. The l'uritnn was begun in 1875, nt the shipyard ot the lato John Koaoh, nt Chester, I'eun. Hlia is !!H1 feet six iuohos long, with sixty foot J inohes greatest breadth and a draught ot water of oighteeu feet, iler displace ment in 00(10 tons. Tho Puritan curries four twelve-inch broeohdoading guns in two turrots; iLLLi ' ' VIEW OF THE MONITOR PURITAN L00KINO FORWARD. six fenr inch rapid fire guns protected by armor shields and apontoni ; two six-pounder rapid fire gnns on the bridge deck ; fonr six-pounder rapid fire guns on the superstructure, deek and two one potefler rapid fire gnns, whioh are counted in the military top aloft. "Yon eonldn't put another big gnn aboard her," sail a naval oflloer, if you tried. She actually bristles with modern fighting guns. But won't she roll in a heavy sea way." There are two big turrets on ths main deok, one aft and one forward, and both can be revolved easily by bydranlio power, so that a rapid fire an be maintained in almost enjdirto- tlon, Thn tnrrel.1 known as the ITttnh born turrets, make it possible to raise the gnns to height of ten feet sit Inehns above the water lino. These turrets do not projeot down through the deck ns do those in thn Minntnno mah, bnt tho lower part, or barhotte, is scoured to tho deck, forming a watertight wall nronnd thn bnsoof the turret to n height of fit feet nliove ths deck. Tho upper pnrt of tho turret containing tho gnus Is made, to re volve nbovo this bnrhelto just re ferred to, nnd linsj inclined sides which mnko it nppenr something like Rtnutio rivot head. Doth tho upper and tho lower parts of tho turret nro well protected by heavy plntos of steel armor, thn latter being fourteen Inches thick, whiln the inclined sides of tho npper pnrt present but n small target nnd nro very difllcnlt of pone trot ion by the shot of nn enemy. The turret guns weigh forty-five tons eneh nnd enn throw a steel RfiO pound shell a distanoe of fifteen miles. A finO-ponnd chnrge of powder is re quired to lire each ball. Thn hull itself is protected by nn nrinor belt II vo feet seven inches deep. fourteen inches in thickness to a point below the water line, from which it tapers to six inches at tho armor shelf. This belt extends 150 feet nlong the middle part of tho ship, protecting engines, boilers, magazines nnd shell rooms. Immediately forward nnd nft of this belt tho armor is reduced in thickness to ten inches for n distance of twenty feet, nml is further reduced to a thickness of six inches at tho euds of tho ship, Tho nrinor is strongly supported by n wood bucking nml a system ot rigid frames and girders. Tho main deck Is covered by stoel plating two iuohos thick. Tho ship will carry ISO tons of coal in her protected bunkers. lioforo tho l'uritan's nrinor wan put in positiou it was carolully tested. In February, 1H!I4, a plain eightaen foot long, nix feet wido and fourteen inohes thick, taporinft to six inches was tostod nt tho proving grounds nt the llothle hem, 1'enn., Iron Company's works. Two shots from a ten-inch gnu were fired at it at a distanoe of UflO feet. Carpenter projcotlles, weighing fitIO pounds esch, were used. Tho velocity wns 1,'lHl nud 1(1110 feet respectively. The penetration of tho first shot was 12) iuohos nnd that ot the seooud 13 inches. There was no radiating cracks from tho point of impact, nud tho backing showed no disturbance. Tho test was omiuontly satisfactory nud tho result wns tho noceptnnoo of tho armor by tho Oovcrnment. Than ngniu the Purituu is so con structed that her bulkheads can be llllod with water, causing her to sink so that her deck would remain bnt a lew inchos above ths water. The mon itor is provided with eight boilers, whioh are llttod with appliances for foroed draught. Khe has twiu screws, with engines of the horizontal com pound type capnblo of developing 8700 horse power with natural draught, whioh will develop a speed of twelve knots, while with forced draught she will develop nearly five thousand horse power aud a speed of more than thirteen knots. All the machinery aboard the Puritan was tried and found in exoelleut working order. The quarters of the men are large and commodious and the wardroom officers and jnuior officers have splen did apartments. But as for the oaptain't cabin. This is about as small as one oonld imagine, and hjs office has just room enough to hold a small desk and a man. Two conld not possibly tnrn around. There tut two powerful Marohlighta mounted on the monitor, one on the forward bridge and one on an after bridge where the signal quartermaster is stationed nnd where his Bag ouest is located. The pilot house nnd chart room nre in one. The small wheel oonnnots the pilot Lone with a steam steering geer below. ISnmorons ttilios connect tho pilot limine with every part of tho ship, thun enabling tlio nommander nud thn officer of tho deck to communicate with thn ongltio room, the men stationed in the turrets and olsowbern about tho ship without leaving his post. There is a lighting wheel in thn af ter enbin below tho water lino. ThU has hand steering gear nnd onn be nsed in nn emergency. Thn cost of tho I'nritnn In about 83,000,000. Mold In Hirer Hands, (told exists in the Ilivor Heino In a state, of division so flno as to bo in visible to the naked eye, and when the sand of the river near Paris is nsed in making glnss the ornnibles in whioh it is melted are sometimes gilded ovor at the bottom. In for mer times a sort of mining was in vogne at Paris by men who wonld buy five f ratios' worth of qnioksilver, nnd, after passing river sand ovor it all day, would sell it in the evonlng for six or seven franca. Almost nil the rivers of Kurope carry small quanti ties of gold in thoir sands, such as the llhino, Koine, tho Aur, tho Hen so, tho bsnube and others, also the C'lydo nud many oilier streams in Koolland, Wales nnd Cornwall, and thongh sand from the bed of the Itbine, for in stance, yields only one-fifth of nn onnee to the ton, yet tho total amount of the yollow metal in that one river is immense. It has been found by calculation that that part of tho Hiver Ithine nlono which flows through what was formerly French territory, con tains no loss than 1)0,000 tons of pure gold. A MONSTEIt fOW. Kho Is at Product of California and Welths '2r,r, rounds. Farmer William Urnoe, of Tnlnre, Cnl., owns a cow which has thn dis tinction of being tho largest by long odds of any nniinnl of her box in that pnrt of tlm world, Hhe conld give pounds by tho score to n Clydcsdnlo stallion nud then win the laurels from him as n henvywoight, nud alio is but six years old nt that. Wlion plnoad THE COW THAT upon the scales to be weighed and nftcrwards photographed for the Han Francisco ICxaminer she tipped tho bean at precisely 2050 pounds. Keinarkablo as she is for weight, hir hoight is even moro astonishing. The measurements taken as she posed for her piotnre show that she stands ex actly sixteen bands high, or, to oome down to ordinary tape measure, five feet aud fonr inches. Of liar own claim to fame she is very. mocleBt, but of her calf, she is very proud, ns, in deep, she might well bo, for it is nearly as large as an ordinary oow, and as it persisted in being photographed nt the same timo as it mother it neces sarily came in on tbo weighing and measuring process. While it is just half as high as its mother, it weighs but one-fifth as mnoh. A Cnntllo That Is Transparent, A French chomist makes a new kind of caudle by dissolving five parts ot colorloss gelatine in twenty parts of wator, adding twenty-five parts of glyoerine and heating until a perfectly dear solution ban been formed. To this is added two parts of tannin dis solved by heating in ten parts of gly cerine. A tnrbidity is produced whioh should vanish on further boiling. The boiling is continued nntil the water has been driven off. The mass is then cast into ordinary glass candle molds. The candles obtained in this way ore as clear as water and burn quietly, nnd witbont spreading any odor. American Druggist. , A Milling Purlshionerl A rector in a Suffolk village who was disliked in the pariah bad a oorate who was very popular, and who, on leaving, was presented with a testi monial. This excited the envy and wrath of the rector, and meeting with an old lady one day he said: "I am surprised, Mrs. Bloom, that you should have subscribed to this testi monial." "Why, sir," said the old lady, "if you'd been a-going I'd 'ave subscribed double." London Tit Bits. Tho Speed of the Camel. The speed ot tho camel when on journey of considerable length rarely ixoeeds three miles an hour, and the swiftest dromedaries are rarely known to go faster than ten-mile gait, bnt this can be kept up for twenty hours in the, day, and for sii or MTCH (lays. at s, time. Ansvtza. - 4 j A Veer Horn Inside ef Tree, Not long ago a hnge oak tree wart ent down in Michigan forest. As) the woodman split it wp his ax strnek; something hard, whioh lie thought at first wns a knot. lint when it nicked! a iRsi nnim i a trf.b. the edge of tho steel Mado he made np his mind that it must bo something very much harder than a knot. Bo he ont around it carefully, chipping and? splitting nntil bo laid the object bare.; It was a huge door horn, bnried in that very heart of the big oak. How ik catuo there in mystery. Perhaps, some pioneer hunter or some Indian of a hundred years ago had shot s deer, and, to keep it from tho wolves, i had hung it by the horns in the limbo) of a young onk, expecting to coma book soon and claim it. But either be forgot where ha loft it or else soma' accident happened whioh prevontecF his return, nud the horns remained in the troe year after year, nntil tho wood grew entirely around them. The pnrt of tho troo containing tho horns was sent to tho musenm of tho Michigan Agriaultnral College, whore it now is. Mexico's New tiiinlionU Mexico has virtually no navy. Sho has nna or two so-called vessels of war. bnt they nre the flimsiest apologies for nny kind of naval servioe. Tho He pnblio is, however, having a little gun boat built at New Orleans for speoiat service on tho coast ot Yucatan to pro tect the (loveriimmit'e mahogany in terosts from Indian depredations. It is tho first boat, says the New Orleane Times-Democrat, whioh Mexico ban contracted to have built in the United Htatcs. Tho boot has cypress ribs ; will be WKIOnS 23M POUNDS. plankod on the bottom and sides with cypress three and fonr inches thick ; will have pine planking between the docks snd will be finished in oak. The length is sixty-five feet by twenty-fonr feet beam by twelve feet depth and the draught will be two and a half feet. When completed the total height will be twenty-four feet. Tbo heavy armament will consist of two guns, one in the bow, tho other in the stern. These and the small guns will bo placed aboard the boat after it haa been delivered to the Mexloo Govern ment and is in Mexican waters. Tho cost will be 89000. The Ilnln Tree or tierro. Travelers in the Canary Islands tell of a remarkable tree that grows on ono of the group. It might well b callod a rain tree. Eierro, the island referred to, is extremely dry, cot a rivulet traversing it anywhere. Yet a tree grows there around whioh is gathered a cloud, from whioh a gentlo rain is always falling. Underneath tbo tree the natives of Fierro have constructed cisterns which are kept constantly full, thus giving them a -water supply which they otherwise would not have on the inland. Case of "Hard Tack." Wandering Ike "For heaven sake. Bill, watcher at cow?" Weary Bill "Why, de old woman, over in dat house jist gimme e hank o sometnin she called pie, and it's so tough dut I got tcr sharpen np mo grinders sc I kin wade through dev crust." Twinkles. The Piute Indiana of Austin, Ns v.. Me making an effort for the establish ment ef sehooi at that place r c
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