There are more American vessels on the great lakes than on the ocean, and their combined tonnage is greater. Europe has increased its population by sixty-two per cent, witllin the last sixty two years but in the same time ,1 ),0 i },O )() of its .uimbitauts have emi grated to other countries. I )y a recent (leeisiou of a Paris court "continue 1 gambling" is regarded as a sufficient ground tor divorce. A good raauy impecunious foreigu noble men will doubtless continue to regard it as also a sufficient ground for mar riage. The last of the old toil gates in Connecticut has been removed, and now there i not a road in the State that is not free to all who drive, walk or ride. The day when the toll road served a useful purpose has passed, comments the American Cultivator. I opnlar knowledge on the question oi road making has increased, making many of the free roads better than some that have long required a tol to be paid for using them. It is i particular injustice to the farmeri who, by underdraining, have improvec their land for cultivation, and have thus done most of the improvement that has been made in country roads, yet are obliged to pay toll for the us* of improvements which their laboi and money have accomplished. Somebody has been investigatinp the relation of the number thirteer with the career of Nansen, the Swed ish explorer. Among the facte he pre sents are the following : The expedi tion numbered at lirst twelve men, til a thirteenth was picked up in a porl on the way North ; no oue of the thir teen, however, lost his life. On March 1-1, 181)5, Nansen decided to leave the ship himself and press north with one companion. The Frurn struck a souther ly current ou January 13,1890, and OD August 13 she gained free water ami Nansen reached laud again. On Feb ruary 13, 1890, the false report wag telegraphed that he hail been HeoQ in Siberia. Three times were litters of thirteen pups bom in Nausea's pack of Esquimau dogs, though it is rare that more than six appear iu a litter. And finally it i 9 said that thirteen publishers attempted to secure the publication of Nansen's book, giving his report of his adventures. One of the curiosities of commerce is a French report on the caravan trade of the Libyan Desert aud the opening of a new trade route. To this is appended a list of prices iu Bornu last year. Nothiug could show more strikingly the difference between the value of articles at the place of pro duction aud at the place of consump tion, or the universal readiness to sell cheap what we have iu order to pay tiigh prices for what we have not. Green glass beads were worth two Maria Theresa dollars per oko (2.09 pounds). Ivory was worth thirty Maria Theresa dollars for forty okes. An equal weight of green glass beads was worth SBO, so that the beads were worth nearly three times as much as ivory in the Bornu market. White and black ostrich feathers were worth 12.50 per oke, which was exactly the price ot soap. Slaves were worth from *3 to $7 a head, while Martini Henry rifles were worth SIOO each, and even the cartridges were worth half a Maria Theresa dollar apiece. The important paper on "A Pre- Columbian Discovery of America," published some two years ago by Mr. Youle Oldham, late lecturer ou geog raphy at Owens College, England, is iguin brought into prominence in the "urrent number of the Geographical Journul, says the Manchester (Eng land) Guardian. The facts are, short ly, that in a manuscript map of the west coast of Africa, drawn in 1148, by Andrea Blanco, there is an extensive coast line indicated towards the south west of Cape \ erde. Along this is a half indecipherable legend, which Mr. Oldham reads "isolo otinticha xe longa a ponente 1500 mia;" that is, "island authenticated, distant towards the west 1500 miles." In the bauds of un- believers the words cau be interpreted differently, according to the bins of their unbelief, after the fashion ridi culed by Dickens. But Mr. J. Batalka Beis defends the reading here quoted, and criticises iu detail the objections urged against it by Signer Err an and others; for example, the alleged igno rance of the Portuguese government on the matter, and the silence of his torians. While strongly supporting Mr. Oldham's conclusions, he warns us against assuming as proved that which is only at present shown to bo probable. It will be observed that the coast of Brazil, which is bore in question, was thus apparently discov ered nearly half a century before Co lumbus made his famous voyage. DETTE.H THAN GOLD OH FA. ME. ! Bolter tliaa coiilus when applied To work that aids the wrong I- conscience linked to common sonso j In effort clean and stroug. | Better than good by cheating won Is honest labor's pay; Nobler than one enriched by fraud Is he who toils each day. Belter than deeds by sin inspired, Though they success impart, Is one kind act that friendship gives To some poor aohmg heart. I "SAREY." j! BY CHARLES 3. REfD. I was night "fjjj j that settled dowu ./Y 1 I over the moun- K % I tains of Upper South Carolina. - —=. The sky was re**? % heavy with black j| V clouds, and the -5= low mntterings : of thunder which seemed to issue from the ravines and gorges, and the zigzag flashes of lightning which darted away from the hill tops, all foretold the coming storm. Down over the rocks and among the shrubs a young mountaineer was making his way. He seemed to know his ground, and moved onward with unhesitating step until he reached a point overlooking a deep.w lid, gorge, where, far dowu through the darkness, shone the faint glow of light. The young woodsman stopped a moment, then muttered: "He's thar alraady. 'Pears to me that tire makes too much light,though. Wonder what Bob's a gwine to say when I tell him! Tuis is about the safest pocket in the hull ridge, and now I guess we'll have to move." He turned away and passed around to the side of the gorge, where he made his way down by a circuitous path to the bed of the ravine below. When he came within the glow ot the light, he entered the doorway of a small log house built up from the ground. In oue end of the place was : a rock furnace, and on it was a large , copper kettle with a cap and stem. A I lire was burning under the kettle, and j near the furnace, seated upon a rough i bench, was a young man with light reddish hair, sandy mustache, ami blue eyes. His trousers were stalled down into his boot legs, and by his side on the bench lay u large, wide brimmed white hat, the brim turned up iu front and pinned to the crown with a large thorn. In a belt about his waist were two shining revolvers. The young man who entered the place was dressed and acooutered very much like the young man on the bench, and in his face was a blood resemblance, for they were cousins —Bob and Alf Bankiu. Alf entered through the doorway of the cabiu aud crossed the earthen lloor to the furnace, where he stirred and replenished the fire. The place was a blockade distillery owned by the two cousins, aud operated l>y them, with the assistance of Tom Drake, who worked ou a profit sharing basis. Along one side of the shanty was a high platform on which rested two lurge vats. These were the mash tubs, and entering through the end of the house was a little trough which sup plied the cool water barrel, in which the "worm" was coiled, with the waters of a brigut little stream near by. When Alf had "chunked" the firo, he sat down by the other man on the bench. After a little pause, Bob asked : "Where is Tom?" "What d'ye reckon?" answered Alf. "About Tom? Dunno." "Well, von moughtn't think it. Bob ; but he's jined the reveuuers." "You don't mean to tell!" "Yes, but 1 do, though. Ho went lown to Walhalla to-day to take the jath; aud he's promised to gin us all away." After a loug pause, during which Bob sat with his chin in his hands, he spoke. "Alf, I never 'spected it, I never did." "No more did I; but hit's a fact, for Sarey told me uo more'n a hour 4g0." "Sarey told you herself?" "Yes, and she's powerful cut up about it." "We've worked together right here, Tom and me, for nigh ou to seven year, and never had airy shootiu' or cuttin' scrape a'.ween us—not airy i.:ue. Alf, I dou't hardly believe it." Bob shook his head slowly ami dropped his chin into his hands aguin. "Well," said. Alf, "1 guess you'll have to arter a while. I seed Sarey jest about a hour ago, aud she told me all about it; aud, Bob, she actually shed tears,she was so cut up, she was." "What did she say, Alf?" "She said as how Tom had jiued the revenuers, and turned agin us; and as Low we'd all better keep a sharp look out, b'case Tom knows every smoke on the ridge." "Poor Sarey," said Bob, half to him self. "She sot sick a powerful sight by Tom, and she was a gwine to mar ry him this fall. And i loved her enough more'n Tom did ; but I seed she loved him, so I didn't try to come atween 'em—didn't ever try to. And now he's gone aud disgraced hiiself, and maybe broke Sarey's heart. Alf, we'll meet, him and me, aud 'taiu't a gwiuo to be long off. And when we do, Alf—well, it's him or me, him or jue, that's all;" and the young block Bettor than fame by sacrifice Of manhood's honor won, Is honest reputation trained By manly actions done. Better than vice, though it be clad In purple rich and rare, Is virtue, though a homespun dress, 'Tls doomed fore'er to wear. Better than pa'ace where sweet love llus never held its reign Is home where true affection dwells, Though it be e'er so plain. —Caleb Dunn. [ ader tapped one of the revolvers in I his beltsiguiticantly. "J loved Sarey ; I and Tom—well, I'd hate tc do it, Alf; ! but it's him or me; thar ain't no other ' way, as I can see." | Bob arose and "chunked" the fire under thekettle.theu walked around to the side of the furnace, where a little white stream of spirits was pouring from the end of the protudmg "worm" into a long keg. "How is it?" asked Alf. "Good enough; that mash will turn out all right," said Bob, returning and seating himself ou the bench, where he again dropped his chin into his hands, and lapsed into silence. The rain began to pour down with a sudden fury, the low board roof giv ing back a melancholy sound to the patter of the big drops. The thunder and lightning had ceased, and the blackest darkuess reigned without. But the weird shadows which danced around the walls in the firelight were old acquaintances of the two men in side, who took no notice of their gro tesque pantomime. Finally the rain ceased, but the utter blackness still reigned without, for the clouds hung low down over the cliffs and the tree tops. For more thau half an hour neither of the men had spoken. Alf had made a discov ery, and had been thiukiug about it. Bob was iu love with Sarey Mauldin, and Alf loved her himself. It seemed that all three of the partners loved the same girl. But Alf and Bob had seen that Sarey preferred Tom Drake, and both had secretly resolved not to come between theiii, each one ignor ant of the fact that the other was mak ing the same sacrifice. New hope hud sprung up iu All's bosom since Sary ' bad told him of Tom's treachery. Now he had discovered that Bob loved her. He resolved to keep the secret of his own love, for Bob's sake; and again tno hope passed from his heart. When the rain ceased, the two men arose ; and, while one of them dragged the lire from under the furnace, the other removed the cap from the still, and then placed a corncob iu the bunghole of the keg that held the product of distillation. "Bob, I guess we belter move the bTill to a safer place this very night," suggested Alf. "Nary a move, Alf! This still has been here nigh on to seven years, and here 3he's agwine to stay." "All right, if you say so; I'm uot the man to step off and leave you." "Alf, you cau tote the keg dowu to the burnt poplar as you go home, and I'll stay hero till she cocls off and kinder straighten things up afore I go. I'll meet you at the burnt poplar agin daybreak iu the mornin'." Alf shouldered the heavy pine keg, and, passing through the doorway, was soon lost to view iu the darkness. Bob again seated himself on the bench, with his chin in his hands, and gave himself up to meluncholy refloc tious. Alf had been gone some time, and the embers that had been raked from the furnace gave out only a laiut glow to light the interior of the still bouse, wheu a dark form appeared iu the doorway. Bob heard the step, and instantly sprang to his feet with a re volver iu his hand, but as suddenly dropped the weapon and stood back wheu he recognized the visitor. "You, Sarey !"|heexclaimed. "What brung you here at this timeo' night?" "I've come to gin you warnin', Bob," said the girl, as she threw a light shawl from round her head and advanced across the earthen floor. The smooth, round cheeks were glowing from the exertion of her walk, her eyes shone brightly iu the dim light, and her long, black hair hung 111 charming disorder about her pretty shoulders. "Warnin' for what?" asked Bob. "Warnin' agin Torn Drake. Has Alf been here to-night?" "Yes; he's been gone about a half hour." "And didn't he tell you about Tom ?" "Yes; but, Sarey, somohow I couldn't more'n half believe it." "But hit's so, Bob; ho told me so hisself, aud he's gwine to git you and Alf fust. I couldn't sleep to-night for thinking about it, so I jest got up and come over here to bog you and Alf to move your still somewhere else this very night." "But I can't do it, Sarey; she's been here a long whet, and here she's a gwine to stay." "Oh, Bob, jest to think o' Tom a turnin' agin* all you uns, aud I been a thinkin' o' him as a feller what would stick by u body forever; and now he's gone aud upsot it all. I told him I never would speak to him no more." Sarey caught up her apron, pressed it to her face, aud began to cry. Bob looked at her, and choking back a great lump from his throat, turned away a step or two, then came back ■ and laid his big brown hand gently ou : the girl's arm. "Don't, Sarey, don't!" he said,"for Tom ain't wuth no tears o' yourn." 1 Ho led her to the br.ck, where she sat down, and in a fesv moments had dried her eyes. "►Sarey," continued Bob, after a pause, "Tom ain't wuth nary 'author thought o' yourn, and 1 wouldn't waste 'em 011 'iui. Thar's a plenty 011 us left yit that's a sight better 'll Tom." "I know it; T only wish I'd a knowed it sooner." "Sarey, won't you answer me one question? .Cease I think a power o' you, and T want to know." "Of course I'll UUSWCT any question you ay, Bob, b'caseyou've allers been so ■ good to me, jest like a brotter." "Well, Sarey, tell me which one of the boys you liked the best arter Tom." "Why, T allers did like Alf jest as well as Tom, but Alf never 'peared to like me, and Tom did." Again Bob swallowed a great lump that had gathered in his throat. "Alf is a good feller ; he'd never go back on us," he managed to say as he arose from the bench, and began to put things to rights about the distil lery. His task completed, he turned to Sarey, who stood in the doorway. "I'll walk home with you," he said. Bob threw some water on the dying embers of the tire, then led. the way through the daik, wet woods, followed closely by Sarey, neither of them speaking a word until they came to the highway, about a mile distant. They did not have far to go after they had reached the road. When Bob bade Sarey good night, he gulped down another choking sen sation which arose in his throat, and turned about to retrace his way some distance aloug the road before turning off toward his own home. In less thau twenty-four bours every moonshiner throughout the mountain district knew that Tom Drake had turned traitor and joined the revenue force against his old comrades. Dur ing the whole of the second night af ter this iuforiuutiou went abroad, men were at work moving their distilleries to safer retreats, one only remaining at its old stand—the one that belonged to the Rankin boys. It was more than a week after the night ou which Sarey had visited the still house, when Bob and Alf Rankin were riding along down the road to wards the home of Sarey. Neither of them had uttered a word for some time. At length Bob broke the si lence, speaking without turning his eyes from a direction straight ahead of him. "Alf, you air the man." "I'm the man?" "Yes, you air the man for Sarey." "What do you mean, Bob?" "1 mean that Sarey loves you bet ter'n airy 'nuther man on the ridge." "You don't say? How'd you find out?" "Arter you left the still house that night, Sarey was tliar." "She was?" "Yes, and she was a cryin' about the disgraceful doin's o' Tom; and uud, Alf, 1 axed her if thar warn't airv 'nuther feller she liked jest as well as she did Torn; and she 'lowed she allers liked you jest as well, but you never seemed to like her. Now I've told you, Alt', and i want to know if you love her." "I allers have, Bob; but I stood back for Tom; and arter what you said t' other night, 1 was gwine to stand back for you." Again that sensation as of the heart rising into the throat came to Bob, and the two men I jde on in silence. The sun was swiftly dropping to wards the crests of the western hills when Bob and Alf stopped in front of old Jerry Mauldiu's long, double cabiu. Sarey was sitting in the open hallway, shelling beans; but she arose and came out to the road when the two men had dismounted. "Tom's been seed a foolin' around Dong Creek to-duy," said Sarey, "and I meant to send you uus word afore now, bat pap's been ailiu' all day, and I couldn't leave him." "We ain't much afeared of him," said Alf. "He's been a keepin' quiet u sight louger'n 1 'spected, though." •'We've been a lookin' for hiui to come down on us at the still house afore now," added Bob. "Sarey, have you got any cider?" asked Alf. "We're kinder thirsty." "Lots of it. One of you hold the horses while t'other one goes with me to the spring house, aud we'll fetch up the jug and gourd." "I'll hold 'em," said Bob dreamily. Alf and Sarey turned away along the path which led around the house, and were lost to view. Bob stood between the heads of the horses with his chin against his breast. He was thinking of the treachery of Tom Drake, aud of the jewel ho had lost in the love of Sarey Mauldin. For once Bob allowed himself to re lax his watchfulness. About thirty yards beyond the house the road bent .suddenly to the right, and turned abruptly down the hill toward a little stream that wound its way along the base of the ridge. Bob's ear, usually sensitive to the slightest sound, did not hear the approach of hoof beats up the little hill behind the shrubbery until the horseman had reached tho bend in the road. Bob's band Hew to his revolver a3 he looked up; hut ho was too late, he was under cover of a weapon in the bauds of Tom Drake. "I guess you are mine," said Tom, as he rode up. "Yes; like a fool T went to sleep and got ketched. What's wanted?" "You air gwine with mo to Wal halla jail." I "Tom, yon air a measly, low down sneak." I "No, I've just now got to be a gen- I tlemau, and I'm a gwine to make gen ! tlemen out'n all you fellers." | "Alf and Sarey will he here directly I with some cider, then I'll go with you." "Bob, you'd better let rae have that weap'n." [ ••I'll never do it, Tom Drake 1" "Weil, keep it, then ; I guess I can watch you." At this moment Alf and Sarey came around the house, Alf briuging a large jug in his hand. The young man's quick eye took iu the situation I of the two men iu the road, and in the j twinkling of an eye his revolver j Mushed to a dead level with the in former's breast, j "Hold on a minute, Alf!" shouted Bob. "I'm fairly took, uud I guess I'd better go with him." Alf quickly looked into the eyes of his cousiu, and the two men seemed to understand each other. "Bass the cider over here, Sarey, and I'll drink you a farewell for a while," said Bob, smiling. Sarey passed the cider in silence, never once lookiug at Tom, who took the gourd offered him by Tom and drank. "Now I'm ready. Good-by, Alf! Good-by, Sarey!" said Bob, us he mounted his horse. Tom mounted, and the two men, captive and captor, rode away in the soft light of the lin gering sunset. When they reached the turn iu the road Bob looked back and lifted his broad-brimmed hat to Alf and Sarey, who were standing side by side ga/iug utter him. Then they faded from view, and the two horse men rode on iu sileuce. They were approaching the brook at the foot of the hill, whou Bob spoke. "Tom, I uever would take no meau advantage of a feller ; so I'll tell you now, hit's you or me. Pull your gun !" Instantly two revolvers leaped to a level in the gathering light, and four shots passed with what seemed like two simultaneous reports. Alf heard them, and, weapon in hand, sprang down the road, closely followed by Sarey. A riderless horse swept by them at the turn of the hill; und when they reached the sandy level near the brook they fouud two lifeless forms lying close together iu the nar row road. Bob Rankin and Tom Drake had settled the question of houor between themselves, and had settled the ques tion of love for Alf and Sarey.—The Puritan. SCIENTIFIC ANI> INDUSTRIAL. A wild elephant has a keen sense oE smell. At a distance of 1000 yards it can scent an enemy. Compared with other largo Euro pean towns, London is easily at the head for the magnitude of its electric al supply. Numerous experiments to determine the best ilre-resistiug materials for the construction of doors have proved that wood covered with tin resists fire bet ter than an iron door. While Emperor Francis Joseph of Austria was visiting Bucharest, after the formal opening of the Iron Gates of the Danube Canal, he bestowed on Dueen Elizabeth of Roumania (Car men Sylva) the order of merit for science and art. The remarkable peculiarity of the new dark rays, or "critical rays," re ported by Professor E. Friedrich, of Flbiug, Prussia, is that photographs by them of the living hand show the bones, while only the flesh is seen if the hand is dead. Birds differ very much in the heights to which they commonly uscead. The condor, the largest of vultures and of all Hying birds, has been observed soaring over twenty-nine thousand feet, or about five miles and u half above the level of the sea. Persian papier-mache articles are made out of Bibles seut out by British mission societies, accordiug to Mr. Hodgetts, a recent traveler in the East. He quotes the British consul at Tabreez as saying: "You have no idea what a boon these Bibles ore to the village industries of Persia." A present of some deer from Queen Victoria is said to have been to the French colony of New (Jaledouia a pest similar to that of the rabbits in Australia aud the mongoose in Jamaica. The deer have multiplied with great rapidity, and now invade the planta tions, causing great loss to the farmers. Petrc.leum is extensively used in Russia as a local application for the cure of gout, rheumatism, eczema and other chronic skin diseases. The city of Elizabethpoßconducts an establish ment called "Naphthalan," on the style of a watering place, where 500 to 000 patients are annually treated. Gratifying results are claimed. A Remarkable Mexican. Alejaudro Ruiz, a Mexican antiqua rian and traveler, whose collection of antique curios, paintings and carvings (ills a private museum at his home in Puebla, Mexico, at the age of seventy is learuiug the English language as a means of occupying his time. He has traveled in almost ull parts of the world, collecting whatever of interest was old. He has beeu an iutimate friend of President Diaz since long before the time of his elevation to the Chief Magistracy of Mexico, and the President visits his home whenever he travels through Puebla. Her Banes Brittle as Chalk. Mrs. Mao Wilcox, of Bainbridge, Peuu., has a peculiar disease. Her bones have become as brittle atf chalk, and she is compelled to wear a plaster cast. Recently she was carefully placed iu a carriage for a drive, when a slight jolt of the wagon caused the fracture of her left hip. Her condi tiou puzzles the physicians of that section of the State.—New York Press. Device to Dry the llair. To dry the hair quiokly a new de vice has a cylinder, with teeth project ing irom its side, in tho interior of is a flamsn of tire fed by a reser voir in the handle, from which a wick runs into the cylinder, thus producing sufficient heat to dry the hair as it passes over the drier.—Pam's Horn. MILLINERY NOVELTIES. The semi-annuul prediction that bonnets are to be worn more than hats has cropped up again, but as usual it is a doubtful one, since hats are sure to be more popular in summer. Among the novelties iB a rather startling shape with a bell crown and a brim much wider at the sides than either back or front. A new idea advanced in bon nets is that we are to have cape effects, not exactly in the old style, however, as they stand up instead of falling over the neck; but there will be bonnets and boouets, and width is to be one conspicuous feature of them. One little shape is like a Flemish peasant woman's capote with a square crown and a four-inch brim. SALARIES OF WOMEN TEACHERS. New York Citystill follows the anti quated custom of discriminating in salaries against her women school teachers, notes a writer in the Illus trated American. Take, for example, the teachers of the grammar grade. The highest salary for men is S2OIO ; for womeu, only slll6. The lowest salary a man may receive is SIOBO, while the minimum for women is $573. The salaries of primary teachers, all women, range from S9OO to $504. The average of salaries of the male teach ers in the city in 1890 was $1503, and of female teachers only $O9l, less than one-half. Should a womau attain the office of Principal hor maximum salary is SI9OO, and that only after fourteen years of service. Three-fourths of the male Principals are receiving the maximum salary of S3OOO. ETCHING ON LEATHER. A new thing in the line of fancy work is etching on leather. Undressed leather is required, and the implements of the craft are very simple—a bottle containing benzoline, which looks at first like an atomizer; to u round tube or rubber is fastened at one end a bulb, which is held in the left hand, while the platinum pointed pencil at the other end of the tube is held iu the right hand and does the work. All, you undoretand, are con nected with the bottle, or the con tents of the bottle, and by some mys terious process the platinum pencil is at a red heat all the time and thus etches the pattern upon the leather ; the pattern is first drawn or traced upon the material. It is only neces sary to trace the outlines of the de sign, because by keeping the pattern before one the shadings are easily added. It is fascinuting handiwork and re quires no special skill with the pencil at the outset. Groups of cupids, gar lauds of flowers, dragons, heraldic de signs are best suited for this work. And the purpose to which a leather etching iB put? One's first attempt may result in nothing more elaborate than a roll for music or a belt to wear with one's new spring suit. As skill is required, possibly a dado for the dining-room may be compassed, or new seats for the dining-room chairs. TO TAKE RARE OF SHOES. Hub patent leather shoes, particu larly new ones, with the palm of the hand until quite warm betore putting on, and it will provent splitting and cracking. Wear overgaiters only when they aro necessary to protect the upper part of your shoes from the swish of your wet skirts in stormy weather. The fashion of wearing them is out of date. Don't have fancy pointed tips on your shoes these days—they are quite passe; the proper kind is a plain, straight-across one, with just a single row of perforations to mark the edge. Calfskin shoes should not be pol ished with liquid dressing; it will crack them. The paste that men use is better, but too muoh of this should not be put on, or it will not polish so readily, besides hurting your shoe. Dout neglect to turn the uppers of shoes down and put them by au open window for an hour or two after wear ing. It is more hygienic, economical and fastidious. Shoes run down at the heel are abominations. They detract from the nicety of a woman's dress and will very soon lose their shape. Take good care of good shoes. Don't put them away soiled and dusty. When packing for a journey stufl them out with tiHsue paper, so they will re tain their shape, and wrap eaoh shoe in tissue paper, so it will not get rubbed or scratched. THE SUMMER GARDEN* OF GOWNS. Most women who possess homos of their own, and who have a natural love for a needle and pretty stuffs, su perintend the making of t'aeir summer gowns, using the LenteA season for the work. Thin materials are to be worn more generally this season than over before, and they are to be found in a variety of exquisite designs. The earliest samples, shown late in Janu ary, were so much like those of last Beason in their set patterns that they inveigled few purchasers. Among the really new goods aro some called "painted muslins," which are quite equal to their name, many of the pat terns looking as if the hand of a mas ter flower painter had wandered over them. The gowns are not to be trimmed with co muoh laoe as last year, "footing" taking its place. This gives the same light appearance to the dress, and is much less cumbersome, being simply patterniess net strips. In its train come hats made of net and trimmed in wreaths of flowers. The new piques and colored lines are prettier than ever. They are made up in stiff" tailoi fashion, which is most becoming to a tall and well groomed young woman. As braiding has been so universally used on winter gowns, the summer is loath to throw it aside. Skirts and jackets will be heavily braided in white, or sometimes with a braid matchiug the shade of the goods, but mingled with white. A very handsome pique in a faint heliotrope is braided in this fashion. It is made with a many gored skirt, lor the excellent reason that skirts cut circular on the sides, or in few pieces, usually become drawn and dowdy after one laundrying. This skirt is braided up the seams with a key pattern in mingled white and dark heliotrope braid, and the short, square bolero is trimmed in the same way. Underneath, it has a waist of dark heliotrope and white madras, which is conflned by a sash of the same colors. Some of these colored piques have a satin stripe and are worn with soft silk waists; but these are like the table cloths of mixed linen and silk, and belong to the parvenu. The self colored grass cloth seems to have played its part as a really good material for gowns, but it is being much used in white, as it has a gloss and a capacity for wear which is shared by no other white material. Indeed, this is to be a white sum mer. People of all ages will wear the color to the exclusion of other shades. —The Puritan. GOSSIP. A novel use for old kid gloves is to cut them in floe pieces and use them for stuffing sofa pillows. In Harrodsburg, a city of the Ken tucky blue grass region, the most val uable property is owned by women. Mrs. Martin, of New York City, is a sign painter. She has all the lettering, gilding and designing in that line she can do. Her shop adjoins that of her husband, though her business is en tirely separate. Mrs. Theodosia B. Shepherd, of Southern California, conducts a wholesale and retail businoss in bulbs, seeds and plants. She also grows rare and valuable plants and has brought out several new blossoms. She has very large greenhouses. Miss .lane Adams, the founder and head of the social settlement in Chica go known as Hull House, is one of the three women inspectors of that city, who voluntarily watch and report on the condition of the streets. Photographic socials are amoug the latest notions in the way of church entertainments. Each woman is ex pected to bring with her a picture of herself taken in childhood, and then men undertake to pick the originals from the picture, and are rewarded with the privilege of buying supper for them. Mine. Carlier, of Lille, in France, is a most remarkable centenarian, who, in all her life, in a nation of wine and coffee drinkers, has never touched these beverages. For ninety years she has not been ill. The ven erable widow had an interesting an cestor —a Lille merchant, known as •'Father Forty-two," because of the number of his children. The Empress of Austria has the finest head of hair of any royal lady in Europe, and yet it is never washed. Every day it is brushed through, while a lotion (of which the recipe is jealously kept) is employed. Seven brushes are used one after the other, so that perfect cleanliness may be insured, and the operation takes two hours and four ladies-in-waiting. FASHION NOTES. The white materials selected for wedding gowns are satiu, silk and satin brocade, taffeta, silu, mousseline over silk, peau de soie aad silk crepon. If one wishes inexpensive goods select Swiss,f mull,,fine woolen crepon, plain or figured Japanese silk. "Vienna cloth, with its hairy sur face, is in vogue for suits for general wear. It is being used in decided stripes, which are made up the wrong way of the goods, while the sleeves show perpendicular lines, and the bodice is cut on the bias. This spring the hangings are charm ing, and one may bo blamed for not knowing which to choose. Silk, linen and cotton all play their part, and one can scarcely believe that the primary colors could be the foundation for the variety and gorgeousneas of the shades displayed. The base of plackets in skirts is very liable to tear down. Do not try to sew up the rent, for it will tear deeper next time. Rip the stitching loose and the hem back a little way if necessary; then patch it or darn to a patch, and finish by stitching your wide hem a little farther over than be fore, and in most cases your mending will be entirely concealed. Pretty collar bands for dresses are made of bias velvet in any light or bright shade, slightly draped and gathered in two short loops at the back, where they fasten. The velvet is beaded with steel, pearl, turquoise, jet or rhine stone nail heads, and the frill commencing at the side and ex tending across the back is made of white chiffon, edged with yellow laoe.
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