ld oh only as specifically ansvring my friond’s inquiries, ¥ have here : ten down what Mr. Mitchell told me, with the idea that others may be intor- ested. : Io 5 The Cost of Style. ) ! If yore friend wishes to be a really . well dresswd New Yorker in appear- ance,” said Mr. Minohell, ‘I 46 not see “how he can get akong without expend- ing at least §700, and he pay easily pay ont $1,000 for his ontfit—that ig, if be has to buy ‘from the ground up.’ He ought to have fonr suits at jpast besides his evening dress suit, which should have a ‘Taxedo sack’ aswell as a claw hammer coat; a Chesterfiel _oyereoat, two silk hats, two derby hats’ '—-Mr. Mitchell calls them “'darbies’'—* ‘a soft traveling hat, several pairs of shoes, several pairsof gloves, one or two canes, shirts, neckwear, collars, uf, etc. i he would be eure of the fit of his clothes, he must have them made by one of the city's first class tailors, and if he docs “that they will eout from $id to RIGO a suit. his avésceat will stand him in from 23 LRT, and the aggregate, with- out hats, shoes, gloves, canes, ete, wi pot be far from $500. His shoes wil cost from £12 to $iSa pa will be from #5 to 815 cach, ote. clk pd dollars, beowill 8nd, Ww “hen 4 t too nach, : 1.d%8 rot, I om sare; iiongh Mr wl avs thoroughly accu ou daguitc reliable, many © ard wh Dass for vory well dresed men indeed rnd agood deal less than $700 on thei: glothes for a whole yoar, ‘not that, w! > tho prices for suits quoted Michell are not at all beyond by the swellest tai- ywn, there are wery good tz here whe will make ’ all most of us can see, are Ba ever way just as wall made and . just as stylish for half the money, while if you happen to be of mediam size and 1 ir: his canes Seven ill not sxplain to fhe suits that, proportions : “ready made’’ for s quarter of | th money charged. by the swell tailors : .. The three suits given herewith and the one of the second are sonsidered by Mr. Mitchel! to be in- dispensable to every men whe would ap- Pou fike a well dressed New Vorker. shows ion the central figave of the first oy So. 1. X02. Nai : CUTAWAYS AND FROCK. : * cut (Na. 2) is the proper morning suit . _smong men who ard quite ap with the times. The long frock suit on the figure to tho right (No. 3) represents fall dreis for afternoon wear and for most evening occasions at this season. The suit shown at the 1aft of the cut Mo. 1) is for nie at almost amy time wear. Nos 4 and 5 are also mentioned by Mr. Mitchell as being especially de- | sirable. The material of MN ed, the material of the eat and vest in No. 2 is a cheviot, and of the tromsers a striped worsted. The vest is single breasted, with five buttons, The material of No. 8 isan Oxford mixture, and the . yest may be cut as for No. 1 or No. + No. =, a four buttcn sack suit, is made of mized cheviot. The material of No. 4 a three button cataway sack, is vicuna for the cout and vest and. a neat check for the trousers. No. 6,2 double breast- | ed sack suit, is ‘made of brown fine checked cheviot. : In all of these suits it will be obsery- ed that there is a tendency to ‘shape’ the tromsers at the bottom £0 as to fit rather closely at the ankle. ' In gloves gubdued tan color is be for some time, gradually changing to soft browns, grays and wood colors 4§n the summer and fall. Almost all fashionable materials are rough finished | pow, but there is an indication that harder goods, ineluding twilled worsted ‘and even broadeloth twills, will come .in again before another svinter passes. Derby and soft hats this spring aro brown and black. They will follow the gloves in coloring ahd gradually change to grays and wood colcrs. The general tendency in men's clothing will be toward nore a hn Mitchell's | New York- shown ia Ce first cut st tho left (No. 4) are the Tour that | The sack subts | shown in the second cut are for business | o. 1 i9 8 gray worst. good form and will © | | | No. 4 Nob | : BUSINESS SUITS, | bln breasted catawny, the trousers being | interchangeable. | The double breasted a ig of about the Na 8 i | feock of current wear 1s same Jength xs last fall, but the waist ja now shorter, the skirts fullar and the corr Jonger. The three botton cutaway coc’: differs materially from. lest fall's ofl 7 in the fact that the skirts are cut te « Laz close to the hips and cot away Tau sicntly to show one hattun of the | fust. At a point pear thedr full length | thoy are rounded boldly to a very nar- | row bottom, The vests arc single or donble breasted, ascording (0 fhe wear- | e's faney, bot the single | aro very much more syarn than the doa- ble breasted, | pow in nearly | have been for sevemil Seasons. | rials | tnederatoly fine stripis and “neat checks | isd wool fabrics in neat designs i Business Tress, “Tn half dross —n term thn refers to | ‘dross far gentocl business. purpos 37 | more latitnde in the nu of fabric is | allowed, ‘but cntaways and frocks are fy styles. A hol dress suit may be a composition of gay, Or gray with faney ‘tponsers, or of thee dierent materials, or of any quiet “gentecl’’ mixture, even to a very delicate stripe The double | breasted frock may have an outside st ot, but side flaps are mitted. The dexlile iy much demand as they Mate. " i i er ‘to 56 wars indide cor out. A | should he as this mand soft na possible. Overcoat sleeves mre ont wider at the | bottom than they svere a year ago, and Styles In Furnishings. In neclkwear the stock has of course | already got quite a foothold, but the eck of today is quite a different affair from that of the tire of Beau Bromumel. The stock may of may pot last after the close of spring, but the tie or butterfly , fe im white lawn or dimity or Black satin for evening wear and in many and evlors of silks for day dress, is now consid form. The proper tie iv made in such a | way that it is almost impossible to imi- tate it in ready made form, ‘as it de- : on that cone litle finishing touch | of tha individsal for the artistic beauty which will make it a joy to the heart of the man of taste.” Bath the princes knot or flowing end and the gradaated two ineh four-in-hand will continue to enjoy a large share of favor. Spring shirts will be chiefly made fram delicate i Vi A — pe pinks, blues and heliotropeshades, plain | it is to prepare con stripes or delicate spray or figure effects White collars will be worn with the fancy shirts. Evening dress shirts are . anid will be severvly plain, showing two and somctimes thres studs : a JO. B: Ens Gold gring In dentiand. grey about to be resumed { the Duke of 1elda. are on the vailale, and dar- Gold rig 14 ‘on the Sutherland badgks. of ing the iifeting summers’ digging re ery of gold worth abont 844, 000. wf % oe XE $ the River FU as of fhe The late duke, for somo caprice or other, | suddenly put a stop to the enterprise, | »-hich is now to le resumed by his soe | CERBOT. Smallest Race of People. Jands are the smuillest race of people in the world, taken os a whole. The average height of a full grown Andaman is 3 feet 11 inches and the average weight Jess than 70 pounds. They are very war like, and as they throw poisoned spears with marvelous accuracy it is mot at all | strange that travelers do pot care to en- | counter them. es soe nt fre A Peculiar Faith. There is a family in Oregon which bas a member of it is obliged to take six baths every 24 hours. No outsider is allowed to enter their dwelling. They work ev- ery day for six years and rest the whole of the soventh year. They ligion on the Bible and claim that all | Other religions are false. Te Hrogsted vests: and fancy vestings ave not. for trousers sr worsted In flare and | not por- | red. in good | {his ernzy d late duke two 4 uit] in the diseoy- | The inhabitants of the Andaman is ! peculiar religious faith. Each! base their re- al and has been heard of no more Oolonel Maurice Pinchover, who tor- mented every new member of congress with his claim against the Pennsylva- nia railroad for $2,000,000, of which he asserted that Tom Seott had robbed him, became violent at last and died in a lu- 5 | = | A HARANGUE IN THE HOUSE. | patic asylum. Al that strange drift of | humanity which poared into the dis | trict from every direction soon afl | war has been wasted away by death, | lunacy commision oF gentle res by friends unt roe {owe ara left and & comparative its place i The approach of Coxey’ Lever, has warmed into fife : | and creeping things of the capil | foom miserahlo ‘tanomionts in districts, fron obaenTe ro | hotels and oven from lonely old fan. | homsee Fhairedd nen and t bave 1 tempted Te OF oome,. For | phain evidenco of | cially in yes which | glare of wureascnnbleo ange { infui vacancy and frequen § i a 2s £7 110 $1 « 11 %t t ! i aririy wer CoA tal in chen ¢ in the adiscent conntry the long he she appeared on the oy 4 BER whas dad y 3% ws most part they carry t sometimes show (ho r, oftener bunted arimal Crisiks st the White House, What Lawrence, the painter who snap- ol twice at Prosidout Jackson, yoars in a lunatic asy lun. everybody knows, died by shown thas his exssution so apd justifiable, for no subs wan wise attempt has made upon the a scheme for a new system of sewerage, the pipes to be above ground and paint od gorgeously in the national colore. Of course he has a bill which he want congress to pass ond has hasameredl away for years making the lives of nev 2% § | { i meals by chance. congressmen a burden. He is weally gomething of an enginess and an other subjects quite intelligent. A Favorite Subject. The coparhitiee on education and 12 hor suffers most from these fellows, and its chief business i to preven t then from annoying other members. Huti- dreds of hills are brought to this con: mittee almost every session, and it is worth noting that the most gOTEEONS schemes ar gaacrally sent in by the sar- riest looking specimens of humanity, and the bills calling for largest expendi- tures and promising most wonderful 1e- turns are mostly by men who dwell in 15 cent lodging bonses and get thoir ven here, however, oheoring evidences that Wash- ie no longer the erank heaven it was from 1865 to 1876 or a little lator, In these days the conunittos wore wim. there is ingtan troint | ly harmless set has taken | uae and eraey | Ke how- i § As and | tho bark | France, Dus i eri 3 ot haired women | ? stroats and ot- | in bands of wrels i disrased minds, espe : oh i tly the an | easy, feverish light seen in the eyo of un becomes of all the cranks any- | a dent. It is true that ssuro- ly: pases without a oall at the White House by some crank who insists npon seeing thre: president, but it is very sdidom that any such are 0 revidents tell many queer. stories shout House in the days carefully administration when one . apother’'s heels, so fast did they follow—the members of the eabiuet of the big gun, the member's son en the government's rig Somers and other minor tragodis— many threatening messages were ro- ceived, and the political animosity against Mr. Tyler i took these messages by the bursting a mysterions looking box was deliversd at the White House and was at once pranos mach trepid od to open it very cautiously, ation the coachman consent and in it was the model of a patent stove anda | | latter foam the inventer requesting the | | president 10 868 that tha pre | was issmsd of once “ye Good Rends Idea. " Commple: i is Cokon { generally for the wondérfal i which the Clood Roads association is to bring about. Every day he may be seen in the hall of the house far an hour or sre the sexsion opens distributing eernents and buttonholing Ag first he was something of ia nuisance UO the statesmen, bul now ‘he no sooner takes his stand at a desk than he is surrounded by a crown of witors, pages and loafers, who uy him swith all sorts of and jokes on his He 1s 1 i | 80 bef | members. FIAOK questions mtasion and | personal appearance. serious, however, tliat very little fun | can be made cut of him. At other times he hostens Haek and forward between 3echabite hall apd other resort of | gnemployed, canvassed the hotsl { sr holds forth on thestre singular feature of the i programme is its moderation. nx an issue of 700), 000, 00 haeks, while no other finane y cof thad class spenks of starting in with * loss than g2, 000, 00,000, and the fun fem sa awin?y the lobhios EE COrners dbs Lodetone-Conoy Phu vin) They a ive : +1 vind 13d refon? ¢ L ite amount with most fF is £5 por capita. Social Cariositios. Most noted . of our present cranks 13 his stuffed man,” © son of “hg t the gues | eminent Judge Dunlap of Georgetown. He was educated at Heidelberg and in herd ted a competence, but developed an: ides that he was the glass of fashion and the mold of form when properly dressed. His chest and shoulders are paffed out with padding to an amazing extent, and he wears a child's chip hat .on the crown of his long and curiously i head. Iu this queer getup he 1a | nmhod the cranks with so killing of Two | ‘hanging of another | was 80 great that he | gserionsly. One day | Si ; | legitimate reform need an infernal machine. Afton | yper patent | ply overwhelmed, and as it was a time of gyneral ausettioment af old ideas end Cpagh cxperinenis a hearing was given : The great army of the descended upon Wash- valid attionnt Wt vidienlens iy their ox- Woman safirage, for in- a phrase of conte pt pang congmessnen oeande of the wild regiares who used it a8 startang Cwlvoeate polygamy, polian- none, the phinlanstery and of : xr subsequent history it is + to everyinsly, ak iat ry ie . - Is $e wh ty Se i» Pas i © yisl 0 thie {ry Ears In view of he 41] the address of Victoria efore the senate judiciary thn respect with which she was listened to and the high praia be- stoeved upon her production. It aaght ro ligve Deon abla, for it was written by | Theodore Tilton. Tha experience of that | time put an end to such hearings bafore the committees a co : Insane on Oae Sulgect. : Labor reform wis another victim of the cxoessive seal of the cranks Finan dal reform was stirply laughed cut of court. The movemetit to put God in ccistitution and recogrilse Christianity be notional law was se completely only of late thas any ann be found willing Tu. Seton to an argumenton it Temperanos yefori was simply ron in she ground But of all the subjects on which there was discussion at that time none fare wuriod and at | tometive a flald ss the negro AThelutere historian will probably. sey thot tha American people then went insine Cannietions-~At Wilism pert with Philadel phil Rending Railroad At Je with the Fall Brook reliwey dar pile in York statennd the west, at Munson with to amd from Phillpsbang and with Angee Kylertown. Ab Phulipsharng with Trrone Clearfied Division of Pinna, i’ 13 Atidean field with the Buitide, Rochester pnd Pit rafiway. At Guesan with stage for A ville snd Herwinsinis Al % Drin adit Clear field daivisio milpasd, and with he Northwestern allway : Slarping car between Witltaa ascdpirin gachis yom, Hi ates; ¢ jackals have sat these tails straight our another croaiuro The king drin TY : 3 an * Hind ty to be Y4 Has poe tops ir foo ing rind avol a Baal makes the whole peel niaddy ind refines _soleraniy, bving his subjects, whiz how cathor ronml to make the best of what he has fouled. This is the king iy the opinion of beasts.” hE Tadle A Comforting ¥aith. “An African belief is that angels spend their time pulling off the bills of os quitoes. ; Xd on twins Na Si Serta at ry i SHIR TM : 4 0 PALMER, y ren’) {nse [uperintendent. Piper Teain 5 JID Ge A. Tain 1 BRR bo Ce For teks, time tables and full formation ive bry Woeeldave, 800 pu Sundeys,