It appears that seventy-five per
cent, of English chimney-sweeperß die
in the workhouse.
Socially the Siamese are undoubtedly
advancing. There aro now a number
of men of good position whoso wives
accompany them in public, driving to
entertainments, aud 60 forth.
The Medical Society of Berne*
Switzerland, has inaugurated a plan
for the suppression of press notices of
enicides, as it has been observed that
epidemics of suicides, so called, come
from "suggestion," acquired through
printed accounts of them.
Spurgeon's sermons aro among the
great literary successes of tho century.
The Westminster Gazettee says that
2396 of theso sermons have been
printed and sold, and that tho sum
total of the sales reaches nearly 100,-
000,000, an average of about 35,000
copies per sermon.
A mint is about to be established at
Nanking for silver and copper coinage,
making two mints for the Chineso
Empire, the other being at Canton.
The common monetary unit of China
is a copper "oash," of which between
1600 and 1700 mnko one tael and
twenty-two make one penny.
There are in the neighborhood ol
100 big office buildings in New York
City, employing about 3500 men nnd
women, and paying out about $200,-
000 a month in wages. In the very
largest buildiDgs a superintendent
hires the help and rents tho offices,
but in the majority of cases these
dnties are divided between the owner,
real estate agent and janitor. And
the janitor is the most important man
of the trio.
There are forty-eight thousand
artists in Paris, more than half o!
whom are painters. We wonder how
many of there realize tho far-reaching
moral offeots for good or evil of which
the products of chisel, pencil or brush
are capable? muses tho New York Ob
server. It is to be feared that artista
frequently fail to tako any serious
thought as to the ethics of art. And
there appears to ho some foundation
for the witticism in which n German
paper has recently indulged to the of
feot that the secret of success in
modern art is to be crazy in an origin
•l way.
The 1,411,000 square miles of Can-'
ndian territory previously unnamed
has been divided and named and ap- 1
pears on the new official mop duly
labeled. The new districts are as fol
lows : Ungava, which includes all tho '
district between Hudson's Bay and tho
Arctic Ocean, with the exception of
the narrow coast lino of Habrador.
Franklin, tho groat group of islands
north of Hudson's Straits and lying
betweon the sixtieth and 125 th degree
of west longitude. West of this again
is Mackenzie, taking in tho mainland
country between the northern limit of
Athabaska and tho Arctic Sea, and
being between tho 100 th meridian of
longitude and a line about 500 milos
west and parallel with tho Mackenzie
River. Yukon includes tho district
inclosed between the latter line and
the northern boundary of British
Columbia, the eastern boundary of
Alaska and tho Arctic Ocean. Ungava
is almost as extensivo as British
Columbia, and Mackenzie is largei
than British Columbia and Quebec
combined. Of tho remaining districts,
each is bigger than Ontario.
Tho New York Post eays: "Pew
newspapers in tho South mourn the
abandonment of the proposed South
ern States Exposition in Chicago. In
a few quarters tho attempt is made to
ascribe tho failure of the enterprise to
the rivalry of the Tennessee Centen
nial Exposition, to bo held in Nash
ville. But tho truth of tho matter is
that the people of tho South took lit
tle interest in the affair, and outsido
of some 'drumming' in the Atlantic
Coast States, little atteution wa3 paid
to it in the columns of tho newspapers
or elsewhere. It was evident from
this apathy in tho South that the ex
position would not be a success, and
for this reason it was abandoned. One
North Carolina paper says of it: 'The
underlying idea was never a very prac
tical one. It was to divert the cotton
goods trade of the South from the
North and East to the West. The
laws of trade are inexorable. The
North and tho East are the South'*
natural customers ; tho South and the
West are both agricultural section*
and are competitors. The business
men nevor took hold of this Chicago
Southern States movement. There
never seemed to them to bo anything
in it.' This quotation may bo ac
cepted as a fair illustration of feeling
at the South over the attempt to fore*
trade, through an unnatural channel,
to Chioago.'*
A LITTLE LOVE SONG.
Thi>re is never a blossom that blooms for
Love's bosom
As sweet as my blossom—my sweet!
Aud not in God's skies auy stars like her
eyes-
Like the eyes of my blossom—my sweet!
Like her beautiful eyes, of tho rainbow's lieh
dyes,
With tho blue and tbo dew of God's infinite
skies!
She is wonderful sweet, she is wonderful
wise—
My beautiful blossom, my sweet!
And not for the queens of tho loveliest lands
Would I give her—my blossom, my sweet!
Not a kiss of her lips, not a clasp of her hands
For tho loveliest lady you'd meet!
For tho loveliest maid in whoso honor a
blade
Hath flushed whore tho battle made foomon
afraid;
Her lips to my own! May God's tempests bo
stayed
For my blossom—my blossom, my sweet'
—F. L. Stanton.
THE MADNESS OF SIIERE
BAHADUR,
BY S. LKVKTT YATES.
rf HE Mahout's sir.",ll
sou, engaged with
an equally small
friend in tbo pleus
nnt occupation of
stringing into gar
lands the thick yel
low and white champac blossoms that
strewed the ground, under the broad
leaved tree near tho leutena hedge,
was startled by an angry trumpet, and
looked in the direction of Shere Baha
dur.
"He is must," said one to the other
in an awe-struck whisper; and then, a
sudden terror Be'zing them, they
bounded like little brown ape?, silently
and swiftly into a gap in the hedge
and vanished.
There were 100 evil desires hissing
in Shero Bahadur's henrt, as he swayed
to and fro under tho huge peepnl tree
to which ho was chained. Indignity
upon indiguity had been heaped upon
him. It was a mere accident that
Aladin, tho maliout who had attended
him for twenty years, was dead. How
on earth was Shore Bahadur to know
that his skull wa3 so thin? Ho had
merely tapped it with his trunk in a
moment of petulance, and the head of
Aladin had crackled in like the shell
of an egg. Shero Bahadur was re
duced to tho ranks. For weeks he
had to carry tho fodder supply of tho
Maharaj's stables, like an ordinary
beast of burden ; and nlow-casto slave,
a fool to boot, had been put to attend
on him. It was not to be borne.
Shero Bahadur clanked his chains
angrily, and. ever and anon, flung
whisps of straw, twigs and dust on his
broad back and mottled forehead. He,
a ICemeriah, of Kemeriahß, to be
treated thus! Ho was no longer tho
stately beast that bore tho yellow-aud
silver howdah of the Maharaj Adhiruj
in solemn prooossion—who put aside,
with a gentle sweop of his trunk, the
children who crowded tho narrow
streets of Kolesar. No ; it was differ
ent now. He was a felon and au out
oast, bound like n thief. Something
had given way in his brain, and Shore
Bahadur was mud. The flies hovered
an tho soro part over his left ear,
j where tho long peak of tho driving-
I iron had burrowed in, and, with a
trumpet of rage, tho elephant blew a
j iloud of dnstinto the air, and strained
himself backward.
Click! Clicit! Tho cast-iron links
of the big chain that bound him
snapped, and Shere Bahadur was free.
He cautiously moved his pillar-like
legs backwards and forwards to satis
fy himself of tho fact, and then, with
tho broad fans of his ears spread out,
stood for a moment still as a stone.
High up amongst the loaves the green
pigeons whistled softly to each other,
and a gray squirrel was engaged in
hot dispute with a bluejay over treas
ure trove, found in a hollow of one of
tho long branches that, python-like,
twined and twisted overhead. Far
away, tier upon tier of purple hills
rose, and beyond thorn a white line of
snow-capped peaks stood out against
tho sapphire of the sky. Hathni
Khund was there, the deep pool of
Jumna, where, thirty years before,
Shore B&dadnr had splashed aud
iwum. It was there that ho fought
ind defeated tho hoary tusker of tho
herd—tho one tusked giant who had
bullied and tyranized over his tribe
'or time beyond Shere Bahadur's
neraory.
Perhaps a thought of that big light
stirred him; perhaps tho breezo
jrought him tho sweet scent of tho
fouug grass in tho glens. At any
rate, with a quick, impatient flap of
uis ears, Shere Bahadur turned and
faced tbe hills. As ho did so his
twinkling rod eyes caught sight of the
Kalesar state troops, on their parade
ground, barely a quarter of a mile
from where ho stood.
The fat littlo Maharaj was there,
standing near the Fainting point.
CJlose to him was the Vizier, with the
oourt; and last, but not least, a know
ing littlo fox terrior dug up the earth
with his fore paws, scattering it about,
regardless of the august presence.
The Maharaj was proud of hiR
troop?* He had raised them himself
in an outburst of loyalty, the day af
ter a birthday gazette, in which His
Highnoss Sri Ranabir Pertab Sing,
Maharaj Adhiraj of Kalosar, had been
Admitted a companion of an exalted
order. The Star of India glittered 011
tho podgy littlo prince. Ho was
Iroaming of a glorious day when ho
he himself —would lead tho victorious
lovy through Khyber, first in tho field
against tho Buss, when a murmur that
swolled to a cry of fear rose from the
ranks, and the troops melted away be
fore their king. Rifles and accouter
ments were flung aside, there was a
wild stampede, and the gorgeously at
tired Colonol, putting spurs to his
horse, mingled up with the dust and
was lost to view.
The Maharaj stormed in his native
tongue, and then burst into English
oaths. lie turned in his fury towards
the Vizier; but was only in time to
see the snowy robes of that high func
tionary disappearing into a culvert,
and the confused mob of his court
• running helter-skelter across the
sward. But yet another object caught
the prince's eye, and chilled him with
horror; it was tho vast bulk of Shero
Bahadur moving rapidly and nois
lessly towards him.
Sri Ranabir was a Rajpoot of tho
bluest blood, and his heart was big;
but this awful sight, this swift, silent
a Ivauce of hideous death, paralyzed
him with fear. Already the long
shadow of tho elephant had moved
near his feet, already ho seemed im
paled on those cruel white tusks,when
there was a snapping bark, and the
fox terrier flew at Shore Bahadur and
•lanced around him in n tempest of
rage. The elophaut turned and made
a savage dash at tho dog, who skippod
nimbly between his logs, and renewed
the assault in tho rear. But this mo
ment of reprieve roused llis Highness.
The princo became a man, nud the
Maharaj turned and fled, darting like
a star across the soft green,
Shere Bahadur saw tho flash of the
jeweled aigrette, the sheen of the or
der ; and, giving up tho dog, curled
his trunk and started in pursuit. II
was a desperato race. The Maharaj
was out of .training; but the timu lie
made was wonderful, and tho diamond
buckles on his shoes formod a shreak
of light as he fled. But, fast as he
ran, tho race would havo ended in a
few second 4 if it had not been for Bul
ly, the little white fox-tcrricr. Bully
thoroughly grasped tho situation, and
aetod accordingly. He ran around
tho elophaut, now skipped between
his legs, and tho next moment snapped
at him behind; and Bully had a re
markably fine sot of teeth.
Tho Maharaj sighted a small but,
tho door of which stood invitiugly
open; it was a poor hut, mado of
grass and sticks ; but it socmod a royal
palaco to him. With a desperate spurt,
he reached tho door and dasho 1 in.
But Shero Bahadur was not to bo
denied. He stood for a moment, ami
then, putting forward his forefoot,
staved in tho side of tho frail shelter
and brought down tho house. Sri
Ranabir hopped out like a rat, and it
was well for him that, in tho cloud of
dust and thatch flying about, lie wa3
unobserved, for Shero Bahadur, now
careless of Bully's assault and certain
of his [man, was dibgontly searching
tho debris. But ho found nothing
but a brass vessel, which he savagely
flung at tho dog; then ho carefully
stampod on the hut and reduced every
thing to chaos. In tho meantime Sri
Ranabir, unconscious that tho pursuit
had ceased, ran on as if ho was wound
up like a clock—ran until liis foot
slipped, [and tho Maharaj Adhiruj
rolled into a soft bed of a mullah, and
lay there with his eyes closed, utterly
beaten, aud careless whothor the death
ho had striven so hard to avoid came
or not.
Then t'acro was a buzzing in his
ears, aud everything became a blank.
"Blessed bo Vishnu ! He liveth"—
and the Vizier helped bis fallen master
to rise, aided bv the heir apparent, in
whoso heart, however, there were
thoughts far different from those which
found expression on the lips of the
Nawah Juggan .Tung, Primo Minister
of Kalesar. The sympathetic,if some
what excited, court crowded round
their king; and a little in tho distance
was tho wholo population of Kalesar,
armed with every conceivable weapon,
and keeping up their courage by boat
ing on tom-toms, blowing horns aud
shouting until tho confusion of sound
was indescribable.
"Come back to tho palace, my lord.
They will drive the evil one out of
him"— and tho Vizier wavod his hand
in tho direction of the crowd, aud
pointed to where, in tho distance,
Shere Bahadur was making slowly and
steadily for tho hills. But the Ma
liaruj Adhiraj would do no such thing.
"Ryful lao," ho roared iu his vernac
ular; "Gimme my gun," ho shrieked
iu English. There was no refusing.
A double-barreled gun was thrust into
his hands; he scramblod on to the
back of tho first horse he saw, aud,
followed by his cheering subjects aud
tho whole court, dashed after the ele
phant.
"Mirror of tho Universe, destroy
him not," advised tho Vizier, who
rode at tho prinoe's bridle hand.
"The boast is worth 8000 rupees, and
canuot bo roplaced; tho treasury is
almost empty, and we shall want hiin
when tho Eat Shaib comcn."
Tho Maharaj was prudent if ho was
brave, and tho empty treasury was a
strong argument; besides, they were
getting rather oloso to Shero Bahadur,
and outpacing tho faithful people.
But ho gave in slowly.
"What is to bo done?" ho asked,
taking a pull at tho reins.
"The people will drive him back,"
replied tho Vizier, "and we will chaiu
him up securoly. Ho is but must,
and in a mouth or so all will pass
awav.
Shero Bahadur had now reached an
open plaiu, where ho stopped, aud,
turning round, faced his pursuers.
"Go on, brave men!" shouted tho
Vizier ; "a thousand rupoes to him who
links tho fiist, chain on that Shaitan.
Drive him back I Drivo him back 1"
There is tho courage of numbers,
and this tho people of India possess.
They gradually formed a semicircle
round Shore Bahadur, cutting off his
retreat to tho hills, and attempting by
shouts and tho beatings of tom-toms
to drivo him forward. But they kept
at a safo distance, and the elephant
remained unmoved.
*'Prick him forwards," roared tho
Vizier. "Aro none of ye men? Be
hold ! tho Light of the Universo
watohea your deeds! A must ele
pliant! —Pull! w but au ani- :
rnal?''
"By your lordship's favor," answered
a voice, "be is not must, only angry j
---thero is no stream from bis eye. j
Nevertheless I will drive him to the j
linos, but I am but dust of the earth, j
and a thousand rupees will make me
a king." Then a rod-turbaned man
stepped out of the throng. It was '
tho low-caste cooly who had been put ;
to attend to the elephant on Aladin's j
death. Ho was armed with a short |
spear, and ho crept up to the beast on j
his hands and knees, and thou, rising j
warily, dug the weapon into the 1
elephant's haunch. Shero Bahadur '
rapped his trunk on the ground, gavo
a short, quick trumpet, and, swinging
round, mado for the man. Ho did
this in a slow, deliberate manner, and
actually ullowed him to gain the I
crowd; thx*n he Hung up his head with !
a screech, i*nd dashed forward.
Crack !—crack ! went both barrels j
of Sri Banabir's rifle, and two bullets j
whistled harmlessly through tho air. I
Tho panic-struck mob turned ami tied, j
bearing tho struggling prince in tho '
press. Tho elephant was, however, I
too quick, and to his horror, Sri '
Banabir saw that ho hod chargod j
home.
Then Sri Bauabir also saw some* !
thing that ho never forgot. Not a i
soul did tho elephant harm; but, with j
a dogged persistence, followed the red '
turban. Some, bolder than tho rest, j
struck at him with their thin talwars,
some tried to stab him with their
Hpears, and ono or two matchlocks j
were tirdd at him, but to no purpose.
Through tho crowd lie steered straight;
for his prey, and the crowd itself gavo
gavo back before him, iu a sea of
frighteued faces. At last tho man
himself seemed to realize Shero Baha
dur's object, and it dawned like an in
spiration on the rest. They made a
road for the elephant, and he separated
bis quarry from the crowd.
At last! Ho ran him down 011 a
plowed field and stood over tho wretch.
The man lay partly on his side, look
ing up at his enemy, and ho put up
his hand weakly and rested it agaiust
the foreleg of the elephant, who stood
motionless above him. So still was
ho that a wild thought of escape must
have gone through the wretch's mind,
for, with tho resource born of immi
nent peril, he gathered himself to
gether inch by inch and made a rush
for freedom. With an easy sweep of
his trunk Slicre Bahadur brought him
back into his former position, and
then—the devil came up, and a groan
went up from the crowd, for Shore
Bahadur had dropped 011 his knees,
aud a moment after arose and kicked
something—a mangled, shapeless
something—backwards and forwards
between bis feet.
"Let him be," said tho Vizier, lay- 1
iug a restraining hand on Sri Banabir. '
"What has he killed but refuse? Tho I
Shaitan will go out of him now."
When ho had done tho deed, Shero
Bahadur moved a few yards farther,
and bogan to cart clods of earth over
himself.
Then it was seen that a small figure,
with a driving hook in its littlo brown
hand, was making directly for tho ele
phant.
"Come back, you littlo fool!" shout
ed Sri Bauabir. But the boy made no
answer, and, running lightly forward,
stood before Shero Bahadur. Ho
placed the tiusel-covercd cap ho woro
at tho beast's feet, aud held lip his
hands in supplication.
The crowd stood breathless; they
could hear nothing, but the child was
evidently speaking. They saw Shore
Bahadur glare viciously at the boy, as
his trunk drooped forward in a
straight lino. The lad again spoke,
and the elephant snorted doubtfully.
Then there was no mistaking the shrill
treble—"Lift!" Shore Bahadur hold
out his trunk in an unwilling manner.
Tho boy soized hold of it as high as
ho could reach, placed his bare feot
on tho curl and murmured something.
A moment alter he was seated 011 the
elephant's neck, aud lifting the driv
ing iron, waved it iu tho air.
"Hai!" ho screamed, as ho drove it
on to tho right spotr— tho sore part
over tho left ear. " tail Base-born
thief—back to your lines."
And tho huge bulk of Slioro Bahadur
turned slowly round and shambled off
to tho peepul tree like a lamb.
"By the trunk of Ounpntty. I will
make that lad a havilder, and the 1000
rupees shall bo his," swore tho Ma
haraj.
"Pillar of tho Earth!" advised tho
Vizier, "let this unworthy ono speak.
It is Flittcli Din, tho dead Aladin's
son—givo him fire rupees, ami lot him
bo mahout."
When I lust saw Shoro Bahadur ho
was passing solemnly u nil or tho old
archway of the "Gate of tho Hundred
Winds" ut, Kalesar. Tho Maharaj
Adhiraj was seated in tho howda, with
his excellency tho Nawab Juggun Jung
by his side. On the driving seat was
Futteh Din, gorgeous in cloth of gold ;
and they were on their way to tho
funeral pyro of tho hoir apparent,who
had died suddenly from a surfeit of
creara.
As they passed under the archway,a
sweetmeat seller rose and bowed to tho
prince, and Shero Bahadur, stretching
out his trunk, helped himself ton pound
or so of "Turkish delight."
"Such," said tho sweetmeat seller to
himself ruefully, as ho gazed after tho
retreating procession—"such are tho
ways of kings."—Pall Mall Gazotte.
A Emieli Cafe Freak.
A man banging by the neck thirteen
days anil nights was tho attraction at
a Montmartre (Paris) enfo recently.
The doctors, however stopped tho per
formance at the end of tho fourth day,
the man being in a critical condition.
His name is Dnraud. Ho attained no
toriety some tirno ago by standing on
a pedestal at Marseilles for twenty
eight consecutive days.
BICYCLING FOR GIRLS.
Does a girl lose casto by riding a
wheel? Emphatically no. It is as
proper to ride a whool as to rido a
pony or to walk. But a girl must ride
with grace and foarlcss courage. Sho
must have the right kind of saddle,
must have her handle bars at the right
height, and bo dressed so that her
skirts will not ontangle or entrap her.
There is no pleasure which surpasses
that of swift motion, when ono is
young aud strong and tho blood
courses buoyantly through the veins,
whether tho motion come from skat
ing, running, riding, or going forward
in any sort of progress which requires
exercise. The old Greeks understood
this,and one of thoir favorito goddesses
was always flyiug along. Look her up
in your mythology, and you will find
which one I mean. Ilcr name is very
short, aud a popular American author
wrote a beautiful story about her,
which I am sure you all havo read. —
Harper's Bound Table.
SMALL, CLOSE-FITTING, QUAINT BONNET.
Beside tho poko which bears the
stamp of Parisian approval, there is a
small, closo-litting bonnet, quaint in
shape, and made of rather coarse
straw, or lso of the fancy braids.
These bonnets, though not unlike the
Dutch cap in shape, aro somewhat
larger, and are worn further on the
face. Tho trimming in Rome instances
takes tho form of a wreath and en
circles the bonnet. Then the dexterous
milliner bonds it so that it seems al
most oval. Sometimes the chief decor
ation is at one side and stands up very
high ; again, the cutiro front is quite
plain, tho trimming is at the back, and
either flares out in bows at each side,
or stands up quite straight just in tho
centre. Bosottes of] pieco volvet or
gauze ribbon are liked on these bon
nots, and many good color effects aro
obtained when a little care is taken,
and some thought is given to the con
trast between tho rosettes aud flowers.
—Ladies' Homo Journal.
SUMMER MILLINERY.
Never havo wo had a season of such
brilliant coloring iu hats, which are
miracles of ugliness. The most vivid
hues of tho rainbow arc brought out
in straws and worked up into a blind
ing brilliancy undreamed of before.
To accentuate this deiiant coloring
there is neither rhynio nor yet even
rhythm iu their trimming which in
many cases looks as though pitched at
them through a pneumatic tube.
Great quantities of gauze and tulle
are used and wholo branches from
flowering trees and shrubs. The
hoight to which tho garnituro is car
ried exceeds tho most daring Eiffel
tower effects heretofore attempted,
aud often the breadth exceeds the
height. Tulle brims havo rush straw
crowns, aud support a wholo geranium
plaut or a rose bush while wide rib
bon may spread as a vast fan back of
the crown. Sometimes the back of the
hat looks as though a garden had been
stripped for its decoration, a peck
measure of flowers of every hue and
kind being massed against its upturned
brim. While thcro is so much to con
demn, tliero arc yet some charmingly
dainty things that can bo found if you
havo tho time and perseverance to go
in their soareh. But remember that,
more than over, when trying on huts
you need to consider the side and
back effects as well as tho front, for
some of tho first are trying beyond
belief.—Demorcst's Magazine.
SUMMER COSTUMES.
Every week brings some change iu
style, eouio new modols for skirts or
waists, or some dainty trimming that
has not as yet been seen, until it seems
impossible to believe that Damo
Fashion can ovolvo any more ideas.
Tho newer gowns show a decided mod
ification of the more showy styles of
last month, and thero is a tendency
towards light and airy effects, with
most delicate shades of coloring, while
skirts and waists have quite distinct
points of difference. It is difficult to
say just what the outcome of all theso
[ changes is to bp. Thero is 110 ques-
I tion but sleeves aro smaller and skirts
narrower in tho very newest costumes,
j but in thin materials particularly
I there seema no limit to tho width of
skirts and no proceptiblo shrinkage
in tho size of sleeves, that is, about
the shoulder or the upper arm. From
just above tho elbow to the wrist they
fit snugly, and thcro is a wrinkled
shirred look much like that given by
tho long evening gloves. The puff
effect on the upper arm eorves to give
tho desired breadth across tho
shoulders, which accentuates a small
waist and makes a largo ono have some
slight curve. Evening waists have
most absurd little frills for sloovos,
made of double box plaits of tulle or
thin silk.
Skirts are alra<j3t invariably
trimmed. Somotimos tho gores are
defined by insertions of lace, straps of
braid, or out-work embroidery, or tho
irout breadth is embroidered so that
it looks liko a panel; but at tho bot
tom of skirts is where new fashions
are particularly noticeable; small
overlapping rallies are headed with a
ruche, or a bias rulflo is put on in fes
toons, or perhaps with a band of rib
bon. At all evonts, there is some
thing to break the straight line
down from tho waist. Tho festooned
flounces have knots of ribbon with
wee littlo buckles put on at regular
intervals, or, as in the case of a gown
just finished, with the festoon appar
ently ending in the middle of tho
front breadth and fastened with a largo
rosette and rhiuestone buckle. Wash
dresses almost invariably havo a bit of
ribbon trimming just above the tiny
ruffle. A dark bluo India silk that is
flowered all over with green and pink
has around the bottom of the skirt
three bands, the lowest of dark bluo
velveteen and tho upper two of grcou
and pink; just the narrow edge of
these ribbons shows, and makes an
extremely pretty finish.—Harper's
Bazar.
GOSSIP.
Tho Duchess of Portland is nearly
six feot tall.
Two maids of honor, six bridesmaids
and six ushers is tho correct stylo for
swell weddings.
Tho wifo of Senator-olect Forakcr,
of Ohio, and her threo daughters are
enthusiasts on the bicycle.
Friuccss Helene, tho Duchess of
Sparta's baby, is Queen Victoria's
twenty-second great-grandchild.
Miss Frances Jones, of Philadelphia,
has beeu chosen one of tho Prohibi
tion Presidential electors at-large.
A woman is tho engravor of medals
in tho royal mint at Stockholm,
Sweden, and has been for many years.
Miss Agnes Adams, of Whitman Col
lege, won tho highest honors at the
first annual contest of tho Intercol
legiate Oratorical Association of Wash
ton.
Mrs. Jane Robertson, who has just
died at St. Hyncinthe, Quebec, Can
ada, at tho age of seventy-nine years,
was a cousin of Longfellow and of
Noah Webster.
Mrs. Smith, wife of tho Secretary of
the Interior, is quoted as having
grown weary of life in Washington,
and as anxious to return to licr old
homo in Georgia.
Mrs. John M. Ola}', who owns the
Henry Clay farm in Kentucky, has
willed SSO to each of the animals on
lier farm, to provido for their comfort
in their declining years.
Lotta, the actress, is living in abso
lute retirement in Northern New Jer
sey. Though she is in her fiftieth
year, she looks only about forty, and
is as cheerful and merry as ever.
Lucienno Hirsch, granddaughter of
Baron Hirsch, a little miss in her early
teens, is virtually tho heir of her
grandfather's millions. She will bo
tho richest heiress iu tho world when
she comes of age. She i 3 a Catholic.
Few would bcliovo how active a part
Queen Victoria takes in her own pack
ing, although wo havo her own words
for it in one of her diaries, when on
tho point of leaving the Highlands for
London: "Am so busy; packing all
this morning,"
Exactly ono hour after Miss Mattie
Madison, o. Nevada, Mo., had read
that magnificent high school graduat
ing essay on "The True, tho Beauti
ful and tho Good," shu was married to
Charlie Edwards iu tho hotel parlors
next door to tho "opera house."
Tho jewel casket of the Dowager
Empress of Russia is the most famous
in the world, from a gem point of
view. Hardly second to it is that of
tho Empress of Austria, whoso black
pearls are noted throughout Europe
for thoir extrcino boauty and rarity.
Lady Arthur Butler, formerly Miss
Stager, of Chicago, is counted ono of
tho most beautiful women in tho
United Kingdom. Sbo is very popu
lar in English socioty, where sbo is
known as a young woman of many ac
complishments and fuscinating person
ality.
Miss Jano Stone, a Philadelphia girl,
has gone into the oil business iu the
newly discovered potroloum Holds in
East Tennessee. JSho makes her own
leases. It is her purpose to drill ten
wells boforo fall, and she has con
tracted for 100,01)0 feet of lumber for
derricks.
FASHION NOTF.3.
A bit of black velvet instead of tho
usual red cloth on a desk is a very of
foctivo background for paper an en
velopes.
Old-fashioned silk brocade is us3d
for waistcoats, rovers and culls, and
whito moiro silk appears in this guise
on whito alapaca gowns.
Somo lovoly cut-glass sirup pitchers
aro among tho bargains at this season
of tho year tiiat would como in handy
for next Christmas gifts.
Don't put away every blanket in tho
house. There aro summer nights, and
not at the advertised summer rosorts,
where theso comforts may bo needed.
Whito gowns aro to bo worn more
than over this season for informal as
we'll as dressy occasions, and theso are
accompanied by whito hats, shoes and
parasols.
A novel collarette is made with a
stock band from which falls a deep
frill, both being made of chiffon. De
pending from tho neck baud are
heavy point do Vouiso points in cream
color.
Tho return of the balayeuso and the
rumor that tho skirts of street dresses
(>ro to bo shortened aro slight but sure
indications that the fullness is to
dimish. Ruches of silk appear inside
many of tho handsome street dresses,
and ovening gowns have ruffles of lace
and chiffon to keep tho skirt out at
tho bottom.
STORY OF THE SEEDS,
"Ono I love;" a pretty face
Bending o'er the grato;
"Two I love," a soft, sweet voic%
Measures out her fate.
"Threo I lovo, I say," and still
Other seeds galore.
"Four I lovo with all my heart,"
What need is there of more?
"Five I cast away I '
Ah, no! Fortuno thus were wroßfV,
Should tho count thus ondod be;
Love's ties are too strong.
"Six he loves," a dimpled smile;
"Seven she loves," a blush;
"Eight both love;" a sweet look :>ten'.3
O'er the fair face Hush.
"Nino ho comes ; he tarries ten,"
"Eloven he courts"—but wait!
Anxious search bus failed to find
Tho seed w'nero rests her fate.
Carefully she looks thorn o'er,
Then, as brow grows light,
"Twelve ho marries. Mercy! t
Nearly died from fright!"
-Puck.
HUMOR OF THE DAY.
"I love you unspeakably, Molly. *
"But perhaps you might speak to
mamma."—Fliegende Blaetter.
Teacher—"What is an island?"
Little Johnny Squanch— "A body of
land almost entirely occupied by in- 0
feurgents."—Tuck.
Teacher—"Can you give me any
iden of what a hollow mockery is?"
Pupil—"Yessum ; our ice-chest iu win
ter is."—Roxbury Gazette.
Once more these sad conditions come
To grieve the country and tho town;
The mercury now runneth up;
Tho perspiration runneth down.
Washington Star.
Very Amateur Singer (at evening
party) "Let me like a soldier fall!"
Agonized Guest—"You certainly
hould if I had a gun anywhere handy."
—Standard.
Depth of Woe: "Did Goorge look
anxious when ho proposed to you,
Kitty?" "Yes; ho looked as if he
were learning to ride a wheel."—Chi
cago Record.
Snobson —"I feel dwead fully, t
gave an at borne yesterday and only
ten people came." Quiz —"Why don't
you give a funeral? You'd havo it
crowded."—Truth.
Attorney—"What was thore ahout
tho deceased that lodyou to bcliovo ho
was of unsound mind?" Witness—
"Well, for ono thing, he abhorred
bicycles."—Philadelphia North Ameri
can.
Teacher—"Now, Freddie, since you
havo correctly spelled Philadelphia,
can you tell mo what Stato it is in?"
Freddie—"Y'es, sir. I heard pa say
tho other day that it was iu a state of
coma."
Hicks—"l saw your poem in tho
paper last week. How did you get
your pull with the editor?" Wicks—
"Oh, I didn't bother tho editor, 1
called upon the business manager."
Somervillo Journal.
"Now, Johnny, do you understand
thoroughly why lam going to whip
you?" "Yes'm. You're iu had
humor this morning, an' you've got to
lick some ono before you'll feel satis'
fled."—Harlem Life.
Margaret—"Don't you think Maud*
loved Charlie?" Ethel "No, dear;
it is my firm boliof that she only mar
ried him for his boautifnl collection
of striped outing shirts."—Philadel
phia North American.
He—"Which did you liko best of mj
verses?" She—"Why, the one on the
first page." He—"Let me see. Which
one was that?" She—"Don't you re
member? Tho one in quotation
marks."—Harlem Life.
"You do not go outoften to dinnor,
Mrs. Waddingtou?" "No, I don't
think tho best dinner ou earth insuffi
cient compensation for making one'*
self agreeable for threo hours at a
fctrotsb."—Chicago Record.
Daughter "This piano is really rnj
very own, isn't it, papa?" Pa—"Yes,
my dear." "And when I marry I eat
tako it with me, can 1?" "Certainly,
my child; but don't, tell any one. If
might spoil your chances."—Tit Bits.
Ferry—"Why don't you get mar
ried? Don't say you can't stand th*
expense. That excuso is too thin.''
Hnrgreaves—"l could stand tho ex
pense well enough, but tho girl's fathei
says he can't."—Cincinnati Enquirer.
Miss Bellefiold—"Do you liko Mr.
Vnu Braam, Nellie?" Miss Bloomfield
(who is addicted to slang) "Yes, 1
like him I don't think." Miss Belle
field—"That is tho great trouble witb
you, Nellie. You should cultivate a
habit of thought."—Pittsburg Chron
icle.
"What do you think of my work
with tho camera?" asked tho young
man, who is an enthusiastic amateur
photographer. "It's splendid in iti
way," replied tho girl who means well.
"It's better than any of the profes
sionnl caricaturists can do."—Wash
ingtonStar.
A Continuous Performance: "Yon
remember when I proposed to you?"
said the young husband. "I believe
I do recollect something of the sort,"
answered the young wife. "And you
told me I would have to see youi
mother." "Yes." "I must have mis
understood you. I never dreamed
that, it was the programme that 1
should see your mother every day 1
came home."—lndianapolis Journal,
A White Cooii.
A white coon that hasn't a dark
hair on its body is ownod at Weiser,
Idaho, and is a kind of town pet. It
lias distinguished itself by whipping
all the dogs in tho neighborhood, and
is sure death to oats that stray into its
vicinity. It spends most of its time
chained to tho sidewalk oiPside its
owner's store.
Bennington Center, Vt., with a
population never exceeding 300, has
I furnished four Governors to the State,