Governor Matthews recommended in his last message that n compulsory education law be passed in Indiana. In tho dominions of tho British empire alone some 8000 individuals vanish every year without leaving any trace. Only two miles of steam railroad were built iu New England during last year, nnd these were equally di vided between Maine and Vermont. Twenty acres of good land in many parts of California, says the California Fruit Grower, is a sufficient area to provido a good living for au average American family of refined tastes and industrious habits. In 1790 Benjamin Franklin loft SSOOO to bo loaned to needy appren tices at fivo per cent. Tho accumulated principal and interest now amount to $360,000. Poor ltichurd himself could hardly havo managed it more thriftily. It is proposed that a collogo for fireman bo eutablishcd iu Now York City. Iu sueh an institution men could receive a oonrso of instruction in scientific fire fighting by the most ap proved methods. Tho project is being advocated by a number of prominent business men. Professor Henri Moissan, tho dis tinguished chemist, who came to this country to lecture at tho Princeton celebration, says tho thing that struck him most, apart from tho superb equipment for touching, wns the feel ing of affection betwocu tho students and the professors. In liis recently issued auuual report lo tlm President, Secretary of tho Interior David P.. Franois called the attention of Congress to tho ncoessity of legislation looking to the reclama tion of arid lands. Ho asserts that oi the 500,000,000 acres of arid lands 100,000,000 acres might bo reclaimed by the conservative use of water. The eighty-nine Senators, compos ing the upper houso in tho iirst ses sion of the Fifty-fourth Congress were divided as follows: Lawyers,6B; busi ness men, including bankors, miners, ship-owners and stock raisers, 13; preachers, 1; farmers, 2; journalists, 2; surgeons, 1 ; and ofiico holders, so called in the absence of a better class ification, 3. According to tho London Figaro the Prince of Wales is tho greatest spend thrift in tho world. The statement is made that he has spent 850,000,000 in the last thirty-thrco years. From the English nation ho has received 825,- 000,000, and $5,000,000 more for traveling expenses and special allow ances. He has, besides, privato debts amounting to 820,000,000. The Now York papers are sounding a noto of warning to tho effect that if tho port charges be not reduced that port will shortly take a hack seat to Norfolk, Baltimore, Newport News ami Philadelphia. Thoy carefully ab stain from any refereuco to New Orleans, which has lately been cutting a big swath iu the matter of graiu ex ports, notes tho Picayune, As a proof of what has been done by forty years of careful breeding, tho re sult of last year's shearing of tho Boo borowie flock of pure Meriuo sheep, South Australia, is given as follows: 15,705 grown sheep averaged 0 pound® 151 ouncos of wool per head; 12,509 lambs averaged 3 pounds 11 ounces per head,being a general average of 17,214 shoep shorn, including lambs, oi 8 pounds 8! ounces per head. Professor Krafft-Ebing, who holds the chair on mental diseases at tho University of Vienna, Austria, intro duced a startling novelty iato ono"of his insfruotions a fortnight ago by permitting a madman to lecture in his place. The man isalUicted by periodic uttacks of mania, during which he is much more elevor and witty than when snne. His lecture on "The Mental Condition of tho Maniacs in Periodical Attacks of Madness" was a brilliant success. At tho closo of it ho was again placed in confinement. Tho Young Men's Christian Assoeia tion has recently celebrated its thir tieth anniversary. Its membership it now 263,298. Thirty years ago thorc was not a singlo building oweed bj tho associations. Now thoro are 315, valued at $16,750,590. Lost year tin expenditures for carrying on thoil work amounted to $2,206,441. They have 195 gymnasiums, 700 reading rooms, 355 educational classes, witl 25,886 students, and 761 Bible-train iug clnsscs. Among the Indiatu there are -11 associations, 61 anion; colore 1 people, 163 for railroad mot und 4SO for college students. TWO VIEWS. Who dwells within a shadowed v.ilo Knows only grass and tree, The mower's scythe, the milkmaid's pall, The streamlet flowing free; Of sky a slender, shining space; The tiny wren, the sparrows The world is hut a littlo space, How narrow, ob, how narrow! But he who breathes keen mountain air Views spreading field and wood; There spired cities glisten fair, Here eagles find their food; Above him clouds are vast and coo' Afar dim seas abide: Of rushing thoughts his soul is full, For ourth and heaven are wide. —Ximmo Christio. A HIGHWAYMAN. ( v. ) ON'A SHELDON was making the European R-1/.o* tour ; her education was finished and she and her mother had spent MW*— N the last two years in C~~d[ I ) traveling. Zona's mother was a wealthy widow, and Zona was an only child. Her reading nnd culture had given zest to her travels, and she had understood as well as seen. The important subject under discus sion on the October morning whioh brings thorn to our notice, is an invita tion to bo present at a wedding in tho north of England. But hero was a dilemma. Mrs. Shel don was so indisposed as to bo unfit for tho journey, yot she did not wish Zona to stay at home. Unhappily, among other ideas, per haps a littlo erroneous, Mrs. Sheldon had a firm belief that it was a perilous undertaking to travel in a compart ment car, uuloss there were so many passengers that there was no possible danger of assault. "I don't want yon to consider mo at all, Zona," said her mother, "I am not ill, oniy just indisposed enough not to feel able to take such a journey. You know Mrs. (iaunet will take good care of me. If you will onlv promise not to go into au empty compartment, I think I can rest easy." "Very well, nnft'uer, I will promise you that," said Zoua. Morning saw our hcroino at the King's Cross station anxiously scan ning the carriages to mako sure of one well filled, and at least ouo or two ladies in it. At last oho saw one that met her requirements, nnd slipping a coin into the hand of the guard sho entered. The train stonmcd out of tho station nnd Zona took a survey of her follow travelers. There was a family—father, mother and three children, an elderly lady, two business men, and in one corner a man whom sho did not par ticularly notice. She took out her fountain pen and ' a sheet of paper nnd wrote: "All sate; compartment full." At the first stop ping place sho gave it to tho guard and the busy wires carried it to her niothor, settiug at rest her fears. And now Zona, who was a good traveler, settled down to enjoy herself. For awhile sho looked out of the win dow, admiring the fiying landscape. Then she produced r. book and began to read. Anon a new sensation stirred within her; she drew out her dainty little watch and looked at it. Twelve o'clock and twenty minutes. Two hours since she had started. She laid down tho book and opened the little lunch basket, then sho drew oil her gloves, tucked them in tho pocket of her jacket and began to cat. The man in the corner took this opportunity to road the title of her book. "Bigelow Papers." "I know she's au American," he thought, "I can sec it from the tip of her no3e to tho toe of her little boot," Zona,all unconscious of hisscrtitinj, ' finished her dinner, returned tc bet book, nnd I must admit, fell asleep l'or a while. She did not know when some of the oilier occupants of the compartment got out, and about 4 o'clock sho was roused by hearing tho mother of tlio family my : "Wake up now, Tillie ! Wake up ! We get out ut tho next station." Zona looked about with a start to see tho October day darkening down nnd realize that when tho family party should leave tho train, she and the man in the corner would ho tho ouly occupuuta of the compartment. Hereupon occurred u strange thing. Zona, who had never before felt a fear in traveling, began to rcenll all her mother's stories with which sho \va3 wont to fortify lior theories of the dangers of traveling in compartment cars. For a moment Zona was possessed with an insane desire to scream, and only by a strong eflort controlled her self. Tho man in the corner, who up to this time had not moved from his seat all day, now roso and walked to tho other end of tho ear. Zona trembled with fear. He reached under tho seat and took out a small hand- Batohel, whioh ho opened. Was he going to get a revolver? No, it would be n knife, a revolver would make too much notice. Shu watched him with fascinated oyes. Ho took out some thing small and slipped it into the pocket of his coat. Moon ho rose again and sauntered to tho far end ol' tho oar. Ho lit a taper, bent down and was engaged in something—what was it? Zona put her hand to tho window und made a desperate effort to open it, that she might bo ready to call tho guard. The innn heard aud turned ; ho came quickly forward: "Allow me," ho said. "Oh, no, thank you," said Zona hastily. She l'elt sure ho had dosigued her purpose and that there was a co vert menace in his tone. He settled down in his cornor again, and Zona cast furtive glances at him, and always when she locket? he with drew his gaze from her. "What a powerfully built fellow h is," wont her thoughts. "What a villainous countenance. One can see he is a desperate fellow. How foolish I was to let my watch and ring bo seen ! lam sure he is looking at my ring." Now the ring was a beautiful dia mond, given to Zona by her mother, and Zoua, with a disregard of conven tionality, wore it on her finger which is usually set apart to carry the signal of engagement. Therefore, his thoughts were, "Engaged 1 Well, I don't wonder, she surely is tho loveli est girl I over saw. I wonder who the happy fellow is. What can bo the matter with her, though? She doesn't look a hit like sho did tho first part of the day. I've a notion to Hpeak to her; an American girl isn't likely to ho so squeamish as a native —hero goes." "I beg your pardon," he said aloud. 'You look wearied, 110 you go much further?" "An Englishman wouldn't speak without an introduction," thought Zona, "if ho hadn't some design." It was some little timo before the question was answered, for sho was making a calculation whether if sho should tell him that her journey's end was near ho would he likely to mako tho best of his time, and attack her immediately, or whether he might perhaps abandon his purpose alto gether. Bo that, as I said, sumo timo had elapsed iu tho uncertainty when she said: "I don't know, sir." "You hive never been in this part of the country before," ho said tenta tively. She answered in brief monosyllables to this and Beveral other remarks, and he, perforce, relapsed into silence. "Ho wants to mako mo talk and throw me oil' my guard," thought Zona, again attempting to open tho window, aud this time with success. Soon tho darkness increased, and the hollow imubling told that tho train . had entered a tuuuel. With tho echoes thundering in her ears. Zona's nerves strained to catch any sound of motion mado by her companion. All at once sho felt a sharp sting, and a shriek from her mingled with the yell of tho engine, as it gave vent to its joy at omerging into tho daylight again. The man was at lior aide. "I bog pardon for intruding; are you hurt?" ho askel anxiously. Zona thought his anxiety was caused by fear lest the guard might havo heard her scream. At the samo timo sho became conscious that tho pain was in her right eye. A cinder from the open window had lodged ill it. "If you would let mo," said the stranger, producing from his poeket a handker chief. "Chloroform!" flusliod through Zona's braiu, aud sho shrieked out. "No! don't come near me." "Poor thing!" thought the would-be Samaritan. "She must suffer dread fully." Then aloud "I am suro if you would only—" "No, I toll you," said Zoua, voko ffieutly, with a stamp of her foot. Tho man subsided into his corner and Zona, with her eye fast swelling, bitterly repented lior temerity in raking the journey. "I'll never travel alone again ! Oh, dour ! I don't suppose I'll ever travel ut all again ! I have laughed at dear mamma, nud thought her l'ussy. I ought to have considered that she knew the world bolter than I." Ind then came a long whistle. Tho man in the corner rose, snatched his soichel, the guard unlocked the door "Nowcastlo, ma'am; you're at your journey's end," and ho picked up her 1 valise. Will Zona Sheldon ever again know such a sense of relief, or will any other faco over bo so wolcomo to her as was that of tho burly guard, as ho made this announcement to her? Sho ■ was safely on the platform, and a conehuian narrowly watching tho pas sengers. stopped up to her, saying "Mr. Mowbray's carriago lor Miss Sheldon." "I am she," sho said, iu u vice which her mother would not have rec ognized. "Let mo have your valise, then," said the coachman, extending hin hand. He opened tho door, nnd Zona, step ping into the carriage, sank back on tho cushions and burst into hysterical tears. The man who had been iu tho cor ner, standing with satchel in his hand, gave a low whistlo as tho sight met his gazo through tho window. Walking forward to the coachman he said, "Give mo a lilt, Kiley; 1 guess I'll rido with you." "Ail right, Mr. John," said the coachmau, lifting up the satchel. "Como down from Edinbro, Bir?" "Not directly, Riley. Let me down at tho gate, and don't toll them I've como. 1 waut to have a bit of a joke with them." "Hall right, sir." ".So that is tho traveled young lady who is to bo bridemaid to-morrow, nnd stand up with mo! If I'm not much mistaken, she will bo in no condition to stand up." Ho swung himself lightly down at tho gate. The carriage was drivon up to the hall. Zona was helped out aud warmly greeted by her friend Louise, while Hiloy, to avoid answering ques tions, drove away. Tho first greeting ovor, Louise looked about her. "Where is Ililey? Didn't Cousin John come? I thought maybe he would come with you ; he went down to London a fow days ago." ' "No, there was no ono with me, i ouly a horrid"—nud hero hysterics I j again threatened lier. "My dear Zona," said Louise, noticing her agitation, "let mo take , vim in ; you arc positively trembling , \ with cold." "Oh, yea ; do let mo get up upstairs, while! I hud a dreadful timet .I'll II you all übout it." Aud iu Louise's snug room tb® prospective briilemnid rocouuted her woes, and was pitied and comforted, and assured that she should not bo allowed to po back alone. "Cousin John Piorpont, who is pomp to bo best man, is going down and ho will see you safely back. You know he is an American, a graduate iu medicine, and has been studying in Edinburgh. Ho is going to spend this winter in tiio London hospitals, and I know you will like him. I hear a bustle now. I boliovo ho has come. Will you excuse mo till I go down aud see?" Of course Zona would, and Louise soon ran up agaiD. "Yes, it is tie; and now, dear, din ner is ready. Lot rao help you." "Oh, Louise, dear, you must excuso me from dinner. I can't go down with this horrible black eye." Thus Louise went down nlono to diuuer, where she related in full the sad journey which her friend had. "Would she recognize the villain, do you suppose?" asked Dr. Pierpont, who had listened with much interest to Louise's recital. "I don't kuow, indeed," said Louise. "She says ho was a tall, powerful fol low—very sinister looking." "You had better let mo see hor eye, j at all events," said her cousin. <4 lf, you don't she will not bo fit for duty tomorrow." 4 'Zona," said Louise, as she came in after dinner, "Cousin John thinks you had better let him examino your eye. lie savs it is dangerous to let the inflammation run on, and he thinks it will be quite well to-morrow if you get a good night's rest." 44 Well, if you wish it. I don't want to spoil your wedding, after all." "Miss Sheldon, my cousin. Dr. Pier pont," said Louise, as she ushered in the doctir. Zona, whose vision was much impaired by the sore eye, did not recognizo him as the man iu the corner. JJo merely bowed. "A clean pocket handkerchief. Louise," ho said cheerily. At tho sound of his voice Zona looked up quickly. A twinkle ehono in Johu Pierpont's blue eyes. "Now, Miss Sholdou, one moment and it is out," he said. 44 What instant relief!" exclaimed Zona. "Thank you, doctor." "Yon are quite wolcome,"ho ro plied. "By to-morrow I hope you will iiuvo quite forgotten it." Thoro wa3 little sleep that night for Zoua Sheldon. 44 What a little idiot I liavo boon! llowcould I have imagined such things ofhiui? lie iu tall aud poworful— that was right. Hut dark and mur* ! derous looking! Why ho is fairer i than I. What blue eyes, and what a pleasant smilo! Oh, how can I meet him in tho morning? I wish Louise had not told him." But sleep came at last, and Zona woke radiant as over. Sho dressed and went out into tho park to sottlo how she should meet Dr. Pierpont. But it was settled for her ; a sudden turn in the path brought her face to face with hip#. A moment's confusion—a flush that dyed her wholo face, and then thosiuiloon his became contagious, and sho burst into a peal of merry laughter, which he ccliood. "Dr. Pierpont," she said, 4, 1 hopo you will bo merciful and keep my so cret." "I am not likely to tell a secret so much to my disadvantage. What was it? Villainous—" "Please, doctor," sho implored, "1 did not notice your looks at all. I had parted with my souses." "Very well, then," ho said. "It is a compact. Let us go back to tho house for breakfast aud say no more about it." Had not tho whole housohold been absorbed iu tho wedding, they must have seen that there was a secret un derstanding between tho compatriots which . quickly ripened into intim acy. "And Zoua is to go back to London uudor your escort. Johu," 3aid Louise. "Provided she is not afraid to travel with me," ho said, with a laughing bow to Zona. A smile was her only answer. They were seated—tho sole occu pauts of the compartment. 4 'Will you tell mo one thing?" said Zona. 44 What was it you took out of your satchel and put iu your sido poc ket?" "►So you don't wholly trust me, even yet," ho said with a smile. "It was a mirror. You looked at mo with such a horrified face that I thought there must bo something wrong with my looks. Now, will you answer me a question? Had you made up your mind what to do if worse came to tho worst?*' "Yes," she said laughing. "I was going to tako off my watch and ring and offer them to you, as well as my purse. I lanciod you looked at my ring particularly." 44 1 did," ho said after a pause, "be cause, you know tho linger you wear it on. May I ask, Miss Sheldon, if there is any particular significance in "It was given mo by my mother," sliO said simply. "Then," Liotuid, "will yon give mo the right to put one on that linger?" "I am very grateful, indeed, Dr. Tiorpont," said Mrs. Sheldon lato in tho evening, ns the three sat ill her parlor, "that my daughter has had your company. 1 never feel Bafo to have a lady travel unattended in a compart-" Her auditors glanced at each other and burst into inoontrollable laughter. —Atlanta Constitution. Australian Cattle. Tho annual "cattle crop" of Now South Wales is about 400,000, with an annual consumption in Sydney of 110,- 000 head. The Queensland "cattle crop is übont 1,000,000 head, with au annual consumx>tiou of about 50,000 1 head. A STRIKING COINCIDENCE. Miss McKinlcy, a favorite nicco of tho next President, and Miss Bryan, a second cousin of the defeated Demo cratic cnudidato for tho Piesidenoy, have entered Mouut Hclyoko for tho class of 1900. It is a singular coinci dence that those two young ladies should havo beon thrown together so intimately during tho late election. They are now boarding iu the South Hadley Hotel.—New York Tribune. FASHIONS IN OVERGAITERS. This season's newest design in pretty overgaiters for carriage wear when the party slippers are worn havo notice ably high tops,some of them roaching nearly to tho kuee, and are fastened by three ribbon bows instead of one, as was the mode last winter. They come in all tho deiicato shades, and are made of quilted satiu or ooze kid. The fur-lined ones aro more in do mand than ever this winter, the favor ites being ermino and beaver. They rango in price from $2.50 to ss.—New York Telegram. VICTORIA'S NEW WILL. Queeu Victoria recently made a new will. Tho last o:io was completed twenty-five years ago, aud biuco that timo thoro havo been several codicils added. They were made necessary by tho rapid increnso iu tho Queen's wealth, as well as by the numerous births in tho royal family. It is said that tho amount of money at tho dis posal of tho Quoeu has moro than trebled during tho past quarter of a century, and it now amounts to per haps $125,000,000. This entitles the ruler of Englund to rank as one of the richest persons in tho world. The dividends she receives from this vast wealth, added to her salary, allow ances and perquisites, probably make her income larger than that of any other singlo individual in tho empire. ODD WAY TO AVOID RIO IIAT3. Unable to obtain a view of the stago by reuse n of tho sizo of tho hats worn by tho women seated in front of them, tho male portion of tho audience iu the theatres at Brest, France, have now, byway of protest, adopted the fashion of taking cushions with them to tho theatre, which, when placod on tho seats, add a considerable number of inches to their staturo and onablo them to see over the hats in front of them. Inasmuch as, however, this in turn interferes with tho view of tho people behind them, tho theatrical performances at Brest of lato havo been characterized by so much dis order that tho authorities havo been asked to intervene in behalf of tho managers, failing in which tho latter declare that they will bo compelled to close their houses. RADDING IN TIIE NEW GOWKS. After a woman has been through the hands of her dressmaker it will be more than ever difficult this year to determine her physical proportions, or even to make a reasonably accurate guess as to whether sho is plump or scrawny. In tho first place, tiio now. sleeves, tight almost to the shoulder, call for pretty good-looking arms in side of them or they have about as much stylo as pump handles. Some young girls havo actually gono into physical culture for the sake of de veloping tbeir arms. By tho time they havo rouudod them out there will probably be a complete change in tho cut of sleeves. "In tho meantime," said a fashion ablo dressmaker, "we pad. I have scut homo but two waists this month that haven't had tho sleeves pluinply interlined to give a good outlino. And then tho princess gown that is coming back into favor looks a sight unless tho wearer has an ideal figure. It's an art to pad up to tho requirements of this dress. Tho hip slope must bo perfect or tho 'princess' is ruined. Yes, iu deed, it's a year of liguro padding, sure enough."—New Orleans Picayuue. A NEW BEAUTIFIED. Did vcu ever, dear madam, purchase a basket of peaches at a fruit stall? ►Spread over them was a bit of inno cent and guileless pink netting, and through it they blushed rosy red, aud alluring beyond all resisting. You took them homo with great delight, aud, behold, when tho pink netting was re moved their charms all resolved them selves into thin air, and you had noth ing but a littlo haif-ripo fruit. It is not in human naturo not to resent such a fraud, but you felt at tho same time that you would gladly give $lO a yard for a veil that would just throv/ the sarao roseate and attractive hue over your own face. This is precisoly what the new doublo veils are intended to do. They havo been invented by a philanthropist, and are warranted to lend a becoming Hush to tho palest cheek. llouges, powders, pastes, beautifying compounds of all sorts are on tho way to be superseded by this simple and inexpensive device. With the aid of a yard of tho new veiling the palest complexion takes on a tingo of health, and tho girl who wants to look peachy and pinky and yctl hates the rougo pot may revel in a rosy Hush. Tho doublo veil doesn't look as if the wearer had deliberately put on two veils to onhunco her good looks, yet that is precisely what sLio has done. It is true that tho two veils aro joined together, and this is tho secret of tho new veil's construction, it is mado after this fashion: The inner veil is of very thin tulle of tho palest pink imaginable. This suffices to convey tho impression of a superior com plexion. Attached to this is a black dotted veil of dolicutc mosh and varied design. This is to set off the pink tulle complexion and make it appear positively brilliant. The result is a pronounced success, and, in spite of the two layers, the veil is not so heavy in appearance as many single veils. This most ingenious contrivance adds f. most alluring touch to tho toilet, and every girl who is dissatisfied with tho insufficient glow of her llesli-and blood cheeks should raako a trial of tho pink tulle complexion. It is par ticularly becoming to dark-oyed maidens. GOSSIP. A Virginia woman named Susan has been elected Sheriff. Tho Queen Regent of Spain smokes rnoro than a dozen cigarettes a day. An anti-bloomer bill has been de feated in the Alabama Stato Legisla ture. The Royal College of Surgeons, in London, lias decided to confer de grees upon women. Irish women aro said to havo tho most beautiful oyos, comiiloxiou und hands in tho world. Mrs. Htimphroy Ward, the English novolist, has turned hor energies to wards writing a play. It has been ascertained that in Russia 573 pur 1000 girls marry before reaching tho age of twenty. Nine women obtained tho doctor's degree at tho University of Beruo, Switzerland, at tho last examination. Tho Queen of Portugal was instru mental in introducing thoserum treat ment of diphtheria into that country. Tho lady manager of a California insuraneu company is credited with tho largest salary paid to any woman —§lo,ooo a year. There aro three sisters in Kingston, Jamaica, who had, respectively, nine teen, twonty aud twenty-one childron, nil of whom aro still living. Mrs. O. H. P. Belmont purchased a now lunch wagon to be used on the "West Side," New York City, by tho Woman's Auxiliary to tho Church Temperance Society. Miss Ethel Nordhoff, a daughter of Charles Nordhoff', tho American journalist, has chosen bookbinding us a trade, and has learned it atthoDoon bindery, near London. Mrs. Aimerio Hugh Paget, tho Duchess of Marlborough and tho Countess of Castellaue aro all devoted to howling, and Miss Helen Gould has a fine bowling nllev nt her placo in irvington-ou-the-Hudson. Mrs. M. E. Fritz, of Bntte,Montana, is engaged in sinking a shaft on a claim known as the California, and is doing all the work herself, in addition to which she does all hor own house work und splits her own cord wood. Tho horses of (he Queen of Wurlem berg ran away with her one day not long ago, pitching tho coachman and footman from tho box. Her Majesty immediately climbed to their place aud checked the horses unaided. Lady Har'oerton, tho npostlo of dress reform in England, is tho wif'o of the Viscouut of that name. She is described as a "weird-looking lady, who parts her hair on one side, scorns corsets and belongs to the Pioneer Club." Professor Brnnncr, rector of tho University of Berlin, bus refused tiie uso of the university aula for a lecture by a woman. Frauloia llelone Lange bad been invited b.v a stiidentb' so ciety to speak on "Man aud Woman" there. Tho highest paid choir singers in the world aro two Americau ladies, Miss Clementina Do Yere, at a church in New York City, who receives §4500 a year, and Miss Button, at a Baptist Church in tho same city, who rcceivos §OOOO for her services. FASHION N0T153. The waving-brimmod toque is bo coming when the hair is worn lull on the forehead. Cheap white lace can bo mado to assume an aiistocratic yellowish tinge by being steepod in weak tea for a few minutos. Eton jackets of far and cloth jackets with wide for revors comploto the most fashionable skating costumes, which aro often made of volvetccn or corduroy. A silk "stovepipe" modelled after tho masculine stylo of headgoar, is no'- worn by women. I'hoy aro smaller, of course, but aro exactly liko the tall silk dress hat worn by men. Coat bodices of light fancy broeado eilks aro worn for afternoon dress with dark skirts of cloth or silk. Thoy have tho fall toft vests of lace or chiffon, a short, rippled basque lined with u plain color, and a narrow bolt of volvet or jewelled galon across tho back und sides. Gold braid and gold and silver threads aro a telling feature of dross decoration this season, and boleros and entire waists are mado of a cloth of gold. Military braid is omployed for belts, with u gold clasp in roooco designs. Gold otteots in any form are much sought after. LOVE'S MESSENGERS, The roso shall be my messenger, The herald of devotiou; Each petal sweet shall be the seat Of tenderest emotion ; And in the heart of each fair rose, Deep hidden in the core, Thorerosts my soul, my inner self, To love but you e'ermore. Each roso will die, eacli petal fade And wither fast away; Each freighted heart that speaks my lovo Will anguish and decay; Not so with love—my soul that's hid Within each rose's core; That love will breatho and speak and live Forever, evermore. 'Twill live for you and speak to you When rosesoensu to be; 'Twill breathe the rose's fragrance ra For tliee, my sweet, for thee! Then haste, my messengers of to vr Tell her my each emotion. Oh, petals sweet, at her dear feet, Despcak my fond dovolion. —William Jlanloy, HUMOR OF THE HAY. "What do you mean by being on gaged to three men at once?" "Noth ing."—Yalo liecord. Sho—"Doesn't hemalto a lino clergy man?" He—"He's great! X oountcd five men asleep."—Puck. Jones—"The plnv is said to bo nn nrtistio success." Smith—"Aro they losing much money on it?"— Truth. London Native —"That is quite a high building." Foreigner—"Yes, indeed ; that's a regular fog-scraper." —Puck. Hobby—"Pop, what does proraoni tiou mean?" Fond Parent—"Premoni tion, Bobby, means 'I told you so 1' " —Puck. Yon can buy wearing apparel for a song nowadays, but, uufortuuntely, a groat inauy people can't sing."—Bos ton Budget. Mamma—".Mrs. Brown says hor lit tle boy looks very much liko ours." Papa—"Then ours must lio bettor looking."—Puck. "Let's see," remarked the youth and tho damsel; aud then they turned down the gas till nobody else could see a thing.—Detroit Tribune. Sputter—"Do you supposo it's snob a very bad tlnug to bo sarcastic?" Cutter—"Not nearly as bad ns to tbink you aro and not be so."—Truth. The youug man who is anxious to lay the world at tho feet of tho girl ho adores, tbroo months after ho marries her i&n't willing even to lay tho car pet. "Aro you angry, Miss Spitely?" "I'm onragod. I'm going to imiko that man's lifo miserable if I have to marry him to do it."—Detroit Freo Press. "Tho good die young, you know," said Bilger to Sadboy, tho jicssimist. "Yes," said Sadboy, "that s becauso it's the oniy time peoplo are good."— Roxburv Gazette. Tho Countoss—"Do show mo tho coronet!" Tho Karl—"My dear, I'll show you tho tioket for tbo coronet. It was hypothecated to pay for tbo engagement ring."—Puek. Paterfamilias (walking the floor with son and heir) —"Babios, they say, aro such helpless things! But what do they think of me? Talk about belplessness! —Boston Transcript. "Do you mean to say, Chnmley, that you spend less money since yon wero married than you did before?" That's what it amounts to. I liavo much less to spend."—Detroit Freo Press. "You think Briggs is crazy becauso ho stole §10? I should say that such au act would malio a criminal rather than a lunatic of him." "But ho had a chance to take $003." "Oh I" Cleveland Loader. "George, this paper says thoro's a sermon in every blade of grasi." "That so?" Well, you don't get mo to goto church any more! I'll but teu dollars that's where I got this blamed old hay-fever."—Puck. Mr. Cumso —"This is a very bad re port to bring mo from school, Tommy." Tommy—"l know, iiapa; but you said if I'd bring vou a good report you'd give mo a quarter, and I wanted to savo you money."—De troit Free Press. "Well," said tho carcastio man at tho theatre, "I'm ever no much obliged to that girl who sits in front of mu; the one with tho frightfully big hat." "I don't sen what you'ro obligod to her for." "For not raising her para sol."—Washington Star. Misß De Laino—"You seem fo bo vory lond of your friend, Miss Hair. You never tiro of kissing her." Miss Do Silk—"Well, I do not care much for her personality; hut did you notioe what a sweet little mustache she has?"— New York Weekly. Sho —"lsn't it wondorful to think of the achievements of scionca? So many things have been brought with in tho reach of tbo masses." Ho— "Yes, indeed! Some years ago golden hair was tho boast of a favored few; now, anybody can have it that wants it."—Puek. Rat-Traps lor au Earthquake. In connection with tho Into earth quake, a funuy story is told of a woll known Conservative Member of Parlia ment, He lives in au ancient and rat infested mansion, near what seems to havo been the centre of the disturb ance. When the earthquake disturbed his slumbers, bo jumped out of bed, exclaiming that he would stand this sort of thing no longer. With tho resolutions of a desperate man, ho then procured nnl set two largo rat traps, and retired to rost, feeling that ho was prepared for tho worst. Traps hvo been set before now to catch sunbeams; but this is the first timo on record of their beiug employed agninot earthquakes.—London Truth.
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