THE UNTAMED KIOWAS INTERESTING INDIANS TO FIG URE AT THE WORLD'S FAIR. Relics of a Tribe That is Rapidly Disappearing -The Order of the Dog Soldiers—Feats of Dolls on Horseback. The exhibit of the Smithsonian Insti - tution at the World's Fair in Chicago will include a display illustrating the manners and customs of Kiowas, who are the most interesting of all the Indian tribes in the United States. Originally % they were, perhaps, the wildest,carrying a their raids from their home in the Indian Territory as far south as the City of Mex ico aud as far to the north as the present State of Washington. They are tamed now and rapidly dying off, so that it will not be long before their lands will be open to the invasion of a horde of boom ers. What renders them chiefly remark able is their extreme conservatism. While other aboriginal nations have mostly adopted the white man's ways and more or less of his costume, the Ki owas are much the same intelligent sav- ages that their forefathers were when Columbus discovered America. One of their peculiarities is their method of burial. Their cemeteries are up in trees. A frame work of 3trong withers is constructed among the branches, aud on this the bodies of the dead ure laid, each warrior wrapped in his blankets and with all his property about him. No survivor would ever venture to U3e anything that had be- to a person defunct for fear lest the latter's spirit should haunt and de stroy him. At the lisk of the lives of himself and his party Mr. Mooney, of the Bureau of Ethnology recently pro cured one of these burial platforms, taking it down from the tree in which it was built. Also he brought away a lot of bones that were found on it, and the whole will make a feature of the exhibit referred to. There was oue curiosity of the Kiowas for which Mr. Moouey would almost have been willing to give his own head, but neither he nor any other white man has been permitted even to look upon it. It is a bag containing the palladium of the tribe—all the grand medicine parapher nalia, etc. Not least important of the conteuts of this sacred receptacle are 300 scalps of white men and Mexicans, taken in war or by murder. Also there is the outfit of the famous sun dance, in which the young braves acquire their title to warriorship by passing luriats through strips of flesh in their breasts and bucks, fastening the other ends to the saddles of their ponies and causing the lutter to tear the ropes loose at full gallop. Among the things which Mr. Mooncy did secure are a tomakawk that has killed six men and a spear with a long steel point which has slain twelve persons in fight, wielded by the big chief who owned it. The most interesting battle trophy ob tained, however, is astandaidof war be longing to an order of knighthood among the Kiowas, which is ailed ths Order of the Dog 3oldiers. It is a stall six feet high, wrupped spirally with ot ter skin in strips, and ornamented with eagle feathers and bells. When the tribe fought one warrior was chosen to bear this standard. He was always the bravest, because he was pretty sure to be killed. His duty was to rush as far as possible to the front and plant the staff in the ground, at the same time fastening himself to it in such a manner that he could not leave it. He carries with him a broad strip of tanned leather with a slit in one end of it through which he put his head, while through a hole in the other end ho thrust the staff as he planted it in the earth. Thus he stood, bound to his post and immovable, while the fight raged around him. Under no circumstances was he permitted to lift the stuudard, although a fellow warrior might release him. "No retreat," was the motto of these fierce wild men. ■ Like the Comunches, the Kiowas lived, 1 as they have nlways fought, on horse back. Consequently when on foot they are awkward and bow-legged. The very ' dolls of the little girls usually ride. ' teach female child in the tribe has her "doll stick," as it is called. It is a stick of wood, on which is mounted and set a-straddle three or four doll bubies, securely fastened. Sometimes each doll has a little saddle beneath it. Oue of the doll sticks secured by Mr. Mooncy has four doll babies on it. One repre sents a woman witli a pappoosp on her back, another is a miniature warrior carrying a shield with a scalp attached to it, a third is a girl and the forth is a boy. Some of the bigger dolls, which do not ride, are very elaborate iudeed. There is u warrior doll two feet high, with long hair that evidently once be longed .to a dog, a shield with a picture of a buffalo painted on it, a quiver, a bow and arrows, a hair brush and two wooden spoons attached to his belt The face of the doll is made of buckskin, with the features marked upon it. Sucli a one the little Kiowa girl does not carry in her arms, but in a sort of cradle on her back, because that is the way in which she will carry her own children when she has them. Very interesting are the gatncs played by the Kiowas. The boya are very fond of tops. They are always whip tops, of the same shape as those used by Caucasian youth, with pegs of bone. These adolescent savages are wonderfully expert in making them whirl and take great pride in their skill at the sport. Another form of amuse ment is throwing with wooden lances at a target made out of a withe bound in circular shape with a network of raw hide strips. Counts are made according to the distance from the bull's-eye of the mesh in which the lance sticks. The boys also play a sort of shinny with a leather ball stuffed with deer hair. Still another favorite spot is the throwing of smooth bones plumed with feathers along the ice in winter. Among the men the most popular game is played with strips of woods variously marked, which are thrown upon the ground, counting according to the marks that fall uppermost. At this much gambling is done for horses or other property. The great women's game is called the "game of the two dangerous Rivers." It resembles backgammon somewhat, the moves being determined by the throwing of five sticks. When a player's throw lands one of her pieces in one of the s.treams marked across the checkered blanket she must return to the starting point. Among other Kiowa curiosities obtained by Mr. Mooncy is the parapher nalia of the "mescal feast," which is a semi-religious celebration. The Indians sit around a fire on their haunches, each one holding a fan before his eyes to shield them from the heat, while they take turns in tapping a drum aud rat tling a dry gourd monotonously. At the same time they keep chewing the root of a sort of cactus, which produces a stupefying effect, pawing each piece of it quickly through the flame before put tiug it in the mouth. The scene at such a festival is described as being exceeding weird. The Kiowas mix their tobacco for smoking with sumach leaves that have been boiled in grease. When they have bad an unsuccessful hunting trip they revenge themselves upon the bad spirit, who is resposible, by shooting arrows at him into the air from a bow made of buffalo rib. They make wooden flutes for serenading the young women, which produce very melodious notes. Formerly they cooked their food in leather bags on heated stones, but now they have adopted the pots and pans of the white man. Their spoons, however, are huge implements of wood, the bowls holding about a pint. They say that their hun ger could never be satisfied by eating with the wretched little spcons the I whites employ. How Deep Does the Earth Quake? I lie Mississippi Valley has recently experienced an earthquake shock which for severity has not been equalled for years, an incident which revives interest in the query: llow deep docs the earth "quake" when nature shakes her crust as the cyclone does the circus tent? At Virginia City, New, the groat earth quake of 1879 was not noticed by the miners in the deeper portions of the Comstook mines. The famous earth quake at the same placo in 1874, which shook down chimneys, fire-walls, etc., and cracked every brick building in tho eity, was merely noticed by some of the miners working in the "upper levels," but did them no damage, not even shak ing down looso rocks and earth. The station men in the various shafts felt it strongest, and tho deepest point whore it was noticed was by the ninth station man, who was on watch at the 1100-foot level, which is, of course, 900 feet below tho surface. Ho said it felt liko a faint throb or pulsation of air, as though a blast had been firod above, below, or iu some indefinite direction. In some of the Virginia City mines the shock was not felt at all, not even by station men iu the shufts. The Gold Hill News, commenting on this curious fact at the time, remarked that earthquakes seemed to be of electricul character, coming from the atmosphere, and not from the depths of the earth.—[St. Louis Republic. Old European Churches. Tho oldost church in the Continental Europe is the Church of Stn. Maria in Trastevere in Koine. In the year 221, Popo Caliixtus I. obtained permission from the Emperor Alexander Servius to build a church. This church, it is said, was tho first that was made public in Rome. It underwent a number of re pairs, nnd was rebuilt from tho founda tion in 1189. If the foundation is taken into consideration it is the oldest. There is, however, another old churoh in tho same city which lias not been built over. It is St. Clement's and is reputed to be on the site of the house of St. Clement; it was built in 417, and its primitive style is still preserved. Tho Mosque of St. Sophia, Constantinople, was origin ally a Christian church, having been built in 325 by tho Emperor Constantino. It was dstroyed by fire in 404 and was rebuilt upon the same foundation in 415, and destroyed about 530, and rebuilt in 532. Wlion Constantinople was captured by the Moslems, it was converted into a Mohammedan Mosque. In Spain, the Cathedral of Zaragoza is said to have been the Temple of Diana, and was con verted into a church after that city (the first in Spain) professed Christianity un der the preaching of St. Jamos. As lie suffered martyrdom in the year 44, this places the Cathedral of Zartigoza in the tore rank, but tho authenticity of its antiquity is defective. In England it is claimed for the Abbey Church of the Abbey of Glastonbury a great antiquity. Tradition snys that tho church was foun ded by Joseph of Aramathea. It is, howevor, in ruins, as are its two com panion chapels, St. Joseph's and St. Mary's, both of which were built in 1140.—[Boston Transcript. Au Intruding Turk. The 11 Turkey " of diplomatists and map-makers means, not the land of the Turk, buttliose lands—Ureek, Bulgarian, Servian, and Albanian—in which their enemy tho Turk is still encamped. On no spot of Europe, on no spot of the const of Asia, is the Turk really at home. He is everywhere a foreign intruder, a burg lur who has thrust himself into the houses of other men. While other conquests have in time changed into lawful posses sions, either by the conquerors assimilat ing tho conquered, or the conquered as similating the conquorors, tho Turk ro nmins us much a stranger in Europe as he was when he first came in, more than live hundred years back. And so it must over bo as long as tho Turk remains a Turk; for no Mahometan ruler can, without cast ing aside the precepts of his own law, bo coino what a ruler is bound to be towards the subjects of other religions. It is his first duty as a Mahometan to keep men of all other creeds—the Christian in Europe, the Fire-YVorshipor in Persia, the Hindoo in India—in bondage to tho men of tho dominant faith. He therefore cannot reform: promises of reform made by the Turk are in their own nature worthless. They are nowhere curried out, unless when the Turk is afraid to break them uuder the eyo of more power ful Europeans. To talk of a " Turkish government " is therefore a more diplo matic conventionality. There is 110 "Turkish government." The objeot of u "government" is tho protection of its subjects; and that the Turk doos not give. The so-called " Turkish govern ment " is an organized system of brigand age with a chief brigand called u "Sultan" at its head.—[Forum. Carrier Pigeons After a Journey. The carrier pigeon when travelling never feeds. If the distance bo long it flics on without stopping to take nourish ment, and at last arrives thin, oxhausted and almost dying. If oorn bo presented to it, it rofuses to eat, contenting itsolf with drinking a little water and then Bleeping. Two or three hours later it begins to eat with great moderation, and sloeps again immediately afterward. If its flight has been very prolonged the pigeon will proceed in this manner for forty-eight hours before recovering its normal mode of feeding.—[London i'id- Bits. THE LADIES. LUDICROUS SCENE IN A HAREM. European ladies are often invited to visit the harems of the rich Moors in Mo rocco, and some time ago one of the in mates —a beautiful young girl—fainted at the sight of one of the lady visitors removing her gloves. The young lady thought she was removing a thick skin from her hand, and the sight frightened her so much that it was some time before she could regain consciousness.—[New Orleans Times-Democrat. WOMEN AS LABORERS. The women in mountainous portions of Germany, writes u correspondent, seem to do a greator proportion of the manual labor than any we nave heretofore seen. In the Swiss Rhine valley we saw women pulling lurge four-wheeled carts, well loaded, but in Wurtemburg we have seen them breaking stone for the road. More than this, in Bavaria we have seen a woman tugging manfully at a heavily loaded hund-cart, while her lord and master wulked in the rear and serenely smoked his pipe. But whore are the men? In the arm}' ? Yes, the best of the young men are in the army just at the time when tlioy are ready to bo useful in the common vocations of life. In the army they are apt to contract habits of idleness despite the performance of rou tine and other military duties, which leads them upon their return to civil life to select the " snaps," us it were ; to choose the light end of the log when there is n heavy end. Aud the woman? Oh, she is used to it. STORY OF A BLIND AUTHORESS. Aii eldorly lady, with a striking face partially concealed behind a white veil, attracted considerable attention at the Union Depot the other evening, snys the Pittsburg Dispatch. She was accom panied by a pretty maid with dark eyes, who attended to all her nccdß. The woman wus Mrs. Helen Aldrich De Croix, a blind authoress of some note. Slio said sho had 110 home, but was now 011 her way to Canton, to visit friends for awhile, and from thero she would go to Fort Wuyne. She has just completed a history of her life, and among her works is tho novel "Foreshadowing." Mrs. De Croix is a woman with a re markable history. She is now seventy three yeurs old, and wus born in Roches ter, N. Y. According to her story sho wus married forty-six years ago, in New York,to a Frenchman named De Croix,and while returning from church in a curriage the horses ran away, and her husband of only a few minutes was thrown out and killed. She escaped unhurt, but tho shock and her grief were so great that she was attacked by a sovero fever. After six weeks of suffering she arose from a sick bed with lior eyesight gone. Since then sho has traveled extensively and makes her home wherever it suits her in clination. She lias devoted her lifu to literature. OOWXS OX APPROVAL. They were lunching at the Richelieu and talked louder than they intendod. One was exquisitely begowned, and the other was congratulating her 011 her ap pearance. "But it must have been very expen sive, that gown," sho said. "Didn't cost 1110 a cent," said the other, witli a smile. "Why, what do you mean?" quoried the other. "Why, I took it ou approval. Don't you understand?" "I do not." "IV hy, I wont to Fiold's and picked it out, nnd they sent it home for approval." "It satisfies you?" "Perfectly." "Then it will cost you somothing." "Not a cent. It came yesterday. I am going to make some calls to-morrow. I shall wear it and to-morrow send it back." The other didn't reply, and the beauti fully begowned one continued: "It is n perfect dream of a scheme. Whenever oue wants to be a little swell one can do as I have done, and without cost. To be sure, one mustn't go too often, and once in a while one must buy a gown. But doing us I, yes, and us many others do, for the price of one gown one can have the use of several. Only one must be careful not to commit the error a friend of mine did." "What was that?" "Why, sho took a gown and kept it for several days. Of course, gowns sent 011 approval are not expected to be worn. But the clerk who received it and found in tho pocket a lady's card case, at least have hud his suspicions aroused that the gown had been worn. I don't know what word was sent back with tho case, but I do know that sho doesn't give Field the benefit of hercustom any more." W licreut both laughed heartily, and calling the waitor, ordered two pieces of pie.—[Chicago Post. A ZULU WOMAN'S MANSION. Tho Zulu woman is tho architect and builder of tho Zulu house, and tho style of architecture is known in the colonies as "wattle and daub." It looks like an exaggerated beehive, for the Zulu mind has this peculiarity, that it cannot grasp the idea of anything that is not round or elliptical ill form. There aro 110 squares in nature. To build her house tho wo man truces a circle 011 the ground four teen feet in diameter, and gotting a num ber of long, limber branches, she sticks them firmly into the ground and then bends the tops over, and ties them with fibre obtained from the numerous creep era, or "monkey ropes." Then she twines thicker creopers in and out of these sticks, ull round tho circle of spaces, about twelve inches apart, and then tak ing wattle (a kindof coarse grass or reed) she thatches the edifice, leaving a small hole at the top for a chimney and another hole three feet square for a door. In front of this she builds a covered way, extending outward about tliroo feet, and tho exterior of the house is finished by a coating of "daub," or mud. She then soeks the nests of the white ant, and, digging them up, obtuins a quantity of white clay, which she beats to powder, dries, and then, mixing it with water, kneads it until it is quite smooth. This sho spreads all over tho ground inside the hut and beats it carefully until it is quite lmrd and frco from cracks. This floor a good housewife will scour twice a day with smooth stones until it is like a pieco of polished marble. The fir-place is near tho door, and is simply a ring of this clnjr to confino the embers in one filace. Tho other necessaries found in a lut uro a bundle of spear shafts, some tobacco drying and sevoral bunches of millet bunging from the roof. Grouped round the walls are the three nmasi (a species of sour milk) jars, the native beer jars and open jars holding grain. Of course tho dense wood smoke rising coats tho roof, millet and tobacco with soot, and loug "fingers" of it hang in tvery direction; but the floor will bo clean enough to eat on, nnd HH long as that is so the social Mrs. Grundy of the Zulu is satisfied.—[Ladies' Home Journal. ENGLISH WORKING WOMEN'S DRESSES. The evening classes and mutual-im provement institutes have opened their doors for the winter, and I write to you, as a practical educator in popular art, to ask if there is no possible forco, educa tional or artistic, which could be utilized for the amendment of the hidcousness of our workingwomen's style of dress? Let ine at the outset say that I do not want to advocate any of the so-called "na tional" forms of attire, since that would only be shifting the inelegance from one shape to another. What Ido want to "know is why the charwoman, the factory hand or the flower girl should always be in uniforms of such supremely unpic turesque ugliness, while the district nurse (who would bo unfettered by any partic ular hospital garb), the respectable do mestic servant or the underpaid girl type writer on their comparatively little higher earnings, can always look neatly, and generally, indeed, tastefully dressed. I have used the word "uniform" ad visedly. Who is not familiar with the dress of shabby black or rusty brown of the char or washer woman? With it she either wears a shawl of dirt-colored dingi ness, folded into a triangle and tightly drawn ucross her chest, or a shapeless jacket and a crape bonnet. To this she may have added some shabby flowers, but the bows and the foundation are in variably of the funereal muterial. The factory girl's gayly colored velveteen and feather hat bids fair to develop into a national characteristic of dress. For the price she pays for it she could buy at least three simpler and moro bocoming hats; but the solo variation she allows herself upon the particular shape and style lies in color ami the amount of tin sel ornaments loaded on to it. Her outor wrap is either a brown ulster, made of a rough-surfaced shoddy, with what are, I believe, technically known as "sling sleeves," edged with velveteen, or else it is a half-long jacket, tight over the chest, too long and too largo at the waist, and fastened with about four enormous but tons. The flowerseller's hat resembles that of the factory girl in shape, only it j may be of straw or crape; but it is her | brown shawl,with a dingy, sandy border, J that is her exclusively distinctive fea | ture. Give to any of these classes a j sufficiency of money to buy now clothes, j and it will be found that she only pur ! chases a more expensive specimen of her 1 particular style* Dress of this description has not even the merit of convenience for its wearer's special vocation. It is excessively liable to damage by mud and bad weather, and its utter colorlessness is the chief reason that an English crowd is always such a depressing, joyless spectacle. We read much of the tyranny of fashion upon the middle or upper classes, but it is really not so exacting as it is among those who wave to work with their hands. They have evidently neither the taso to deviso better things nor the strength of will to break away from the old forms, so that there is room indeed for a dress-reform crusade in this direction. And improve ments can be effected by tact and good example, as may easily be soen from the members of the Hon. Maude Stanley's Working Girls' Club in Soho, who very soon after joining begin to manifest a marked amendment, not only in manners, but in dress.—[London (Eng.) Graphic. FASHION NOTES. Tweed and shawl capos are very popu lar. Importers are exhibiting some very pretty wool delaines. Scotch tweeds are making their ap pearance in every possible color and pattern. The large shaggy chocks are many of them made up with a gored seam on the front and sides. A lace the color of the green-yellow - marigold comes in wido edgings. A now ! pattern has openwork wheels rolling over lit. j Hose face powder consists of rich starch, seven pounds; rose pink, half dram; attar ot roses and santal, two drains each. One of many pretty dresses seen re cently had a white leather waistcoat, the skirt bordered all around with leather about an inch wido, worn with a gray and black check open jacket. Evening shoes are being made of suede leather to match the dress trimming, and lurge bows of satin ribbon of a comple mentary color are pinned 011 with small buckles or fancy buttons. A very pretty way of relieving the excessive plainness and 41 drawn-back " look of a smoothly fitted skirt is to leave each breadth open at the bottom to the depth of about six inches, and to fill in with piaitiugs of another material. The most effective party dresses this season are severely simple. If a woman has a good figure, andean trust her dress maker for a perfect cut, the loss trim ming she has on her gown the better. The pieces under the arm fit the slender figure like a glove up to the sleeve, but the front is cut away deeply and filled in with beautiful old lace, which forms the only trimming of this perfectly simple toilet, which could not be worn, however, by every one. The sleeves ore small and are made of mousseline do soie and lace. A Three-Eyed Calf. An Aldernoy cow belonging to Samuel Woods, of North Union Township, gave birth to a female calf that has ulmost two heads. The head has an enlarged or double appearance, as though two heads were grown together. Away around on each side of the double head is a perfect eye, and directly in the centre is another eye. The centre eye is well formed hut is sightless. The nose and mouth also run together, and the culf has that kind of a mouth sometimes spoken of that runs from ear to ear. It is misshaped, hut double. The regulation number of ours, feet, etc., are properly nttuched to the calf, and it is lively and will from all uppearanccs live.—[Uniontown (Penn.) Standard. Use for the Fifth Wheel. The fifth wheol for a coach has found its place at lust. On the tramway at Brussels, Belgium, they have cars (Trams deraillables) which are fitted with a fifth wheel, so that they can easily he inudo to leave the rails and ho replacod upon them, and their use is said to be increas ing. The fifth wheel is placed in the fore part of the car, and can be raised by" means of levers, so that the other wheels are free to leavo the rails whenever there is an obstacle 011 the lino of route. In order to replace the car on the rails, the conductor uuclamps the guide wheol, and the other wheels are thus made to reguin j the rails. —[New York Telegram. Ov>rc*vp !y Cur p. "*• The introduction of carp into the water near San Francisco by the Cali fornia Fish Commissioners has not been productive of good results. The newcomers are called water hogs, and are considered a scourge in many ways. The demand for them in the market did not last long, and when the demand ceased the breeders quit the industry and turned the flsh into the nearest water courses, where they flourished, and thence spread until now they infest all of the tide sloughs adjacent to San Francisco Bay. Winter floods carried them to the marshes and left them landlocked. They have multiplied so largely that they may spoil the sport for the mem bers of shooting clubs that have pre serves of natural water and planted feed for ducks in their ponds. The carp have bred-by thousands in the ponds and have almost destroyed the grasses. In the Suisun marsh myriads of flsh have destroyed the feed. In the tulc swamps up the bay and along the San Joaquin and Sacramento rivers vast shoals of carp may be seen. One club is consider ing the advisability of draining its ponds and keeping them dry for a 6eason to kill the flsh. 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