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It is proposed in Greece that no
bachelors shall be allowed to bold
seats in the National Parliament. The
idea appears to be that a man who
won't marry is neither a gentleman
vor a statesman.
There is a new spurious $lO certifi
cate. It is said to be a bungled allair,
important details being badly imitated
It is sad to note an artistic falling oil
in the work of the forgers. Ale they
beginning to despise the intelligence
of the jiublic.
The United States have shown ex
traordinary capacity for successfully
assimilating a diverse population com
ing to ns from every part of Europe.
Every human element that is amena
ble to tho influence of our great civil
izing forces—liberty and equality, a
free press, free schools, r. free church
and the ballot—has been or is being
transformed into the material of which
republics arc made.
The latest thing in dueling is to use
eggs for weapons. Two members of
a fashionable Camden, N. J., club
bad a disagreement and agreed to
fight it out with eggs. A. committee
selected the projectiles, being careful
to secure fresh fruit. The battle ended
with a couple of badly spoiled dress
suits, but with the honor of each con
testant fully amended. This will bo
a pointer tu some of the over-sensi
tive Parisians.
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An irremediable wrong or an irre
trievable failure is at the bottom of
all remorse. But not always does re
morse follow such events, as the fol
lowing will show. "The other da*,"
says the New Orleans States, "an Ala
bama mob lynched the wrong man,
and they 'deeply regret it.' They
might do as a Texas mob once did.
They hanged a man for stealing a
mustang, nud shortly afterward learned
that ho was innocent. After debating
the question they decided that the
captain should call on the widow and
apologize. Hiding up to tho fence,
bo called her to the door and explained
the mistake that bad been made, clon
ics thus: 'Madam, the juke's on us.' "
The prime agency in the civilization
of the world and in the advancement
of sciences, arts, and invention has
been commerce. The great business
of exchanging the products of one
country or state for those of another
has led to the discovery of new coun
tries, until the habitable world
is fully charted; bar established
t iles of vi ssels upon every nav
igable water; has compelled the con
struction of railways in every pro
gressive land. Commerce built up
the ancient Pbienieiaus and the mod
ern empire of great Britain at the
beginning aud end of a long
lapse of centuries, during which
China, sleeping behind her wall aud
declining intercourse with commer
cial nations, made no advance what
ever that was not forced upon her.
Commerce has built up the great
cities of the earth, and those which
have become greatest are those best
situated to command the comweroo of
the ocean. Inland towns which can
depend only upon the intercourse of
contiguous states, whose products
must be moved by rail, are necessari
ly more limited in growth than tho
cities ou the coast, on great lakes, or
011 navigable rivers, which, from their
situation, can exchange the products
of every portion of the crlobe.
Very Close to Us.
The war comes very close to ue
when our own sons or the sons of our
friends depart for service on the other
side of the world. In our present war
tho best manhood. Is rcpresenled in
our army and navy, the recruits are
not bounty men or mercenaries. Many
of them are the sons of Christian par
ents, who let them go In the carrying
out of what they deemed a sacred duty
to their country. It is more than
merely a martial spirit when a mother
lets her son go to the front ar.d peril
his life lor his country.—The Evan
gelist.
Some women are not ns bad as they
are painted, and some artists are not as
bad as they paint.
A LITTLE NEW YEAR SONG,
Ob, New Year,
Be true year
To all oJr hearts and handsl
Oh, year so new,
Bring *kies of blue,
And sunlight to tho landl
Oil, New Year,
Be true year
To uge and hopeless youthl
Lot every ilay
Still pass a-.vay
In God's while light of truth?
Oh, New Year,
Be true year.
True to the soil and seal
A. beacon-light,
That ia tho night
Mankind may look to thee!
—Atlanta Constitution.
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HE American brig
from Norfolk,
/fffiwT a - > entered the
P ol 't °1 Liverpool
some time dur-
JmLj ing the month
pwVj °f June, 1809,
r ./ with a full cargo.
7 . <?/ She was eo in -
SO] mauded by Cap
tain William
Brown, and his first mate was Tom
Alacdouough, a true-hearted Yankee
' sailor, who hailed from somewhere in
the little State of Delaware. After the
brig had been duly entered at the Cus
tom House, she was soou cleared of
her cargo, and within one week after
her arrival she was loaded for home.
Ono pleasaut evening—the one pre
ceding the day on which the brig was
to sail—Tom Macdonongh took a stroll
up into the town, was seived by a
press-gang, and in less than half an
hour found himself on board an Eng
lish frigate, which lay at the mouth of
the liver.
"A flue set of men," said the Eng
lish captain, as he ran his eyes admir
ingly over the stalwart forum of tho
impressed seamen. "They will just
till up the list of our main-topmen."
"Are you the commander of this
frigate?" asked Tom, addressing the
man who had just spoken.
"Captain Downie, at your service,"
replied tho commander, with much
gravity.
"Then, sir, of you I demand my im
mediate release. lam second in com
mand of an American brig now ready
for sea, power in England can
legally detain me."
"That won'tjgo down, youngster,"
i returned the eflptain, with a sneer. I
"You are a little too young for such
an office. The king needs men, and
you must take your chance with the
rest."
"Do you mean to say that I am to
be detained on board your ship?"
' "Certainly."
"Then, sir," replied Tom, while his
eyes flashed ffre, "you will do it at
your peril. Already have your people
run up a heavy reckoning, and the
day shall yet come when your king
will have to settle it. lam exempt by
your'own laws from impressment, and
you know it."
Tho captain showed a little anger
as our hero spoke, but, turning to one
of his lieutenants, he said:
"Mr. Monson, have these men's
name 3 entered, and then station them
and mess them;" and without further
remark he walked aft to his cabin.
In a moment Tom's mind was made
up, and without resistance or remark
of any kind he allowed his name to
be entered on the purser's books, and
his station and mess to be assigned
him, after which a hammock aud bed
ding were served out to bim, aud bo
was directed to "turn in" as soon, as
possible.
The frigate was well guarded by
sentries, there being two upon the
poop, one at each gangway, one on
the forecastle and one on the bowsprit,
besides those which were stationed at
various posts below, so that no further
notice was taken of the newcomers
after they had received their bedding,
excepting to give the sentinels ad
ditional caution with regard to watch
ing well that no one left tho ship un
less he was passed by the officer of the
deck.
Tom's hammock was already clewed,
and, having hung it up, he turned
into it without undressing. The night
was warm and sultry, and as a means
of giving a ch.nlation of fresh air tho
gun-deck ports were lowered,aud from
the place in which our hero swung he
could look out upon tho water as it
sparkled beneath the beams of the
bright moon. Tom lay quiet until
midnight, but as yet he could think
of no means of escape, Shortly after
that hour had passed he heard the re
lief guard called, aud in some ten
minutes the corporal of the first
guard came down upon the guu-deck
and unlashed the hammock which
hung next to his own, which opera
tion being performed he proceeded to
undress himself, banging his clothes,
as he did so, upon the elews of his
hammock. The four hours' duty had
given tho corporal an excellent appe
tite for sleep, and in less than five
minutes after he touched the mattress
he began to snore.
"Now or never," thought Topi, "is
my chance," and with this idea in
his mind he slipped quickly out from
his hammock and proceeded to divest
himself of his own clothes, which,
having been accomplished, he very
unceremoniously substituted those of
the snoring corporal in their 'place,
and then sat down upon the breech
ing of a gun to meditate further upon
his plans.
One bell struck and the sentinels
passed the usual "all's well." Then
Tom heard the corporal as he started
to go his rounds, and ere long he de
scended the main-hatch ladder to visit
the posts below. No sooner had the
marine officer passed the gallery than
onr hero sprang up the ladder and
gained the spar deck.
The officer of the deck was aft upon
the starboard side, the sentries were
! walking their posts with regular tread,
; while the old quartermaster stood
I upon the poop, with his nighglass un
| der his arm. The sentries performed
their walk upon gang-boards raised
I even with the bottom of the hammock
| nettings and running forward from
I the ladders. The larboard gangway
was shaded from the light of the moon
by the awnings, and, walking delib-
I crately up the ladder, Tom looked
I over the ship's side.
| "Sentry," said he, in a mumbling sort
of a toue, "what boat is that at the
boom?"
"The second cutter," returned the
marine, showing by bis manner that
he had no suspicious of the spurious
corporal.
Tom immediately walked of to
where stood the officer of the deck,
and being reassured by the mistake of
of the sentry ho pulled his cap down
over his eyes, and, touching his visor
respectfully, remarked:
"I should like to overhaul that sec
ond cutter, sir, for I think there is
rum aboard of her." %
Tom knew he was playing a des
perate game, but liberty was to be the
result of success, aud he flinched not
a hair.
"Ha! the vidians," uttered the
lieutenant, "Up to their old tricks
again. Go,corporal,get down into the
boat, and if you do find rum in her
they'll catch it."
Tom started quickly forward, but
just as he got abreast of the fore-batch
way he saw the Simon-pure corporal's
head rising above the tombings. The
marine ascended no higher, for with
one blow of his fist Torn sent him back
from whence he came, aud then
sprang quickly out through the port
upon the swinging boom, and, having
reached the place where the second
I cutter's painter was made fast, he
j hauled the boat up and leaped into
her. The flood timo was setting up
the river very strongly, and quick as
thought Tom cast off the painter aud
rapidly dropped astern.
"Help! help I" shouted our hero, at
the top of his voice; the boat's got
loose."
"Get out a couple of oars, you lub
ber," cried the officer of the deck, as
he jumped upon the poop on hearing
the cry, where ho arrived just as the
cutter was sweeping past the quarter.
"You can hold her against the tide."
Tom did get out a couple of oars,
but the moment he got them balanced
in the rowlocks he commenced pull
ing for dear life, and, to the utter
oonstornatiou of the lieutenant, the
boat begau rapidly to shoot up the
river. All the sentries on deck were
immediately called upon the poop, and
their muskets were fired at the de
serter. Only two of the balls whistled
near the boat, but neither of them did
any harm. On the next moment Tom
heard the third cutter called away, but
he knew the men were all sound asleep
in tlieir hammocks, aud so ho felt se
cure.
It wa3 ten minutes before the third
cutter cast off from the ship, and
long ere they reached Tom he had
gained the shore and was running at
, a remarkable speed toward the city,
which he reached in safety, and be
fore 2 o'clock he was on board his own
brig.
The next morning the Sarah
dropped down with the ebb tide, and
as she passed the frigate Torn saw the
second cutter swinging in her usual
place, and, as he gazed upon the
proud flag that floated at the Eng
lishman's peak, ho murmured to him
self?
"If I live, I'll some day take the
pride from those proud tyrants."
How literally was that saying ful
filled! Tom Maodonough had been
Decatur's favorite midshipman at the
t siege of Tripoli, aud "wherever De
catur led ho dared to follow." Subse-
quent to that brilliant chapter in the
page of our history occurred the event
which is embodied in our sketch; but
five years afterward, on the 11th of
September, 1814, Thomas Maodop
ough met one of England's proud
fleets on Lake Champlain. At the
first broadside, the British Commo
dore, Dowuie, fell, aud at the end of
a tight which lasted two hours and
twenty minutes, without intermission.
Commodore Thomns hlacdonough was
tho conqueror of Champluin. He had
gained a proud victory—he had in
deed humbled the pride of tho tyrant,
and that day's achievement forms one
of the brightest page 3 of the history
of America.
Commodore Thomas Macdonough
—the hero of Tripoli—the Conqueror
of Cliamplaiu! He was a noble and
true-hearted man, and a terror to all
euemies of his country. Pence to his
ashes, and ever-lastiug honor to his
memory!
Left the Doomed Steamer.
A peculiar incident is related at the
freight sheds of the Portland Steam
ship Company in Portland. Onboard
the ill-fated Portland was a cat with a
family of kittens. Tho cat formerly
occupied tho warm corner of the
kitchen in a house on Munjoy Hill,
until she was taken on board the
steamer a few mouths ago. She bad
made many trips and appeared to
greatly enjoy her life on the ocean
wave. Shortly before the Portland
left this city on her last trip to Bos
ton, however, the cat deserted. She
left her family apj. everything seein
iugly intent upon getting away from
the ship. Soon after the Portland
sailed the cat turned up once more at
her old home on the bill where she
now is.—Bangor Commercial.
The science of gardening has been
taught in Bussia since 1812. It was
instituted in the Crimea for the pur
pose of cultivating Southern plants,
but there are now many courses in the
various provinces.
A WELL SPENT LIFE.
Sixty Years As a Newspaper Compositor.
Has Seen Many Changes.
Probably tile oldest. compositor on
any paper in the United States is Wai
ter W. Woolnough, the "veteran of the
Michigan press," as he has been called
for years. The venerable typo began
the work as a boy and throughout hi 3
years as editor of many well-known
papers retained his skill with the
"stick," it being his peculiar fancy to
set up all his own editorials and other
matter.
Mr. Woolnough, who is now nearly
ninety years of age, began his news
paper work ps foreman of the Ashta
bula, 0., Sentinel, the political organ
of Joshua R. Giddings, the famous anti
slavery congressman. Subsequently
they moved, for fear of their lives, to
Rochester, N. Y., where Mr. Woolnough
remained until 1545, after laboring in
the cause.
He then came to Michigan and took
charge of the mechanical department
of the Western Citizen. In 1846 he be
came one of the editors and proprietors
of the Michigan Tribune, a whig paper,
which afterward suspended. Then the
former editor became a printer on the
Signal of Liberty, a vehement apostle
of anti-slavery, edited by Erastus Hus
sey, a leifdcr of the underground rail
way system for assisting runaway
slaves to escape.
He passed through various changes
up to IS7I, when he became associated
with Bodine, the then well-known pol
itician, publishing the Michigan Trib
une, which supported Horace Greeley
for president and became the organ of
the liberal republican wing of the de
mocracy. He soon became a writer of
the most forcible and pungent edito
rials, which were in demand over the
entire country.
Together with a long career of mu
nicipal office-holding he was also a
leading member of the Michigan legis
lature before the civil war, but left the
political, arena for the newspaper field.
Up to this day the venerable composi
tor, heavily burdened with years and
very feeble, never misses his seat be
hind his "case" at the Battle Creek
Moon office, and stin handles the type
| in a rapid and accurate manner.
W. W. WOOLNOUGII.
SCANCytL IN THE CONSULATE.
Trouble has developed in the United
States consulate In the City of Mexico
which is attracting a great deal of at
tention In the southern capital. Andrew
D. Barlow, the consul general, has sus
pended the vice consul general, Joseph
F. Bennett, and forbidden him to enter
the consulate. When Mr. Bennett at
tempted to do so he was turned away
by the doorkeeper. The cause of the
trouble is not known. Consul General
Barlow keeps his own counsel, but the
friends of Bennett declare the latter
has not been treated with justice by his
official superior. The suspension of
Vice Consul Bennett must bo approved
by the department of state at Wash
ington, and it is said that Powell Clay
ton, the United States minister to Mex
ico, is looking into the scandal. Barlow
is a young - business man of St. Louis,
Mo.
TO COME HERE.
Dr. N. O. Nelson, president of the
N. O. Nelson Manufacturing company,
is one of a party of American men of
means who are arranging to bring to
this country a strange Russian sect of
10,000 persons. They will be colonized
in the southwest.
Associated with Mr. Nelson in this
enterprise are William Dean Howells,
Bolton Hall, Ernest H. Crosby and
Isaac N. Seligman of New York; Jane
Addams of Chicago, William Lloyd
Garrison of Boston and George Dana
Boardman, D. D„ of Philadelphia.
Dr. Nelson said: "Yes, I am interest
ed in the plan to bring the persecuted
Russians to this country. The persons
O. NELSON,
for whom a home is sought are nonre
slstlng Christians; that is, they decline
to take part in military service, like
the quakers of this country. They re
side in the extreme eastern part of
Russia, and for a hundred years have
been persecuted and driven from place
to place. Count Leo Tolstoi is inter
esting himself in their behalf and hae
support of quite a number of prom
inent people In this country and Eu
rope.
"The Idea lr to secure a large tract
of land in this country and establish
the colony, which numbers 10,000 per
sons, upon it. It will be similar In mofl
respects to the quaker and Moravian
settlements. No place has been decid
ed upon yet, although several points in
the south are under consideration.
Light of Nature.
Men strike their knife through the
Bible because they say that the light
of nature is sufficient. Indeed! Have
the flre-worshipers of India, cutting
themselves with lancets until the blood
spurts at every pore, found the light
of nature sufficient? Has the Borne
sian cannibal, gnawlngtheroasted flesh
from human bones, found the light of
nature sufficient? Has the Chinese
woman, with her foot cramped and de
formed into a cow's hoof, found the
light of nature sufficient? Could the
ancients see heaven from the heights
of Ida or Olympus? No! I call upon
the pagodas of superstition, the Brah
mlnic tortures, tho infanticide of the
Ganges, the bloody wheels of the Jug
gernaut to prove that of the light na
ture Is not sufficient.
TTtftti Knough to Cnuiie Anything.
"Is Mr. Buck's gout the result of
high living?" "I shouldn't wonder.
They live In a flat twelve stories up."
I NEWS AND NOTESI
I FOR WOMEN. |
So!o(eieK>tG^x^eK>!a!e<eieie<CK>ieieieie{3i^i
A Novelty For the Waist.
A novelty in waists to wear with
your Eton coat is made of white vel
vet, and simply finished with ruches
or shirriugs of yellow chiffon, and has
a rhinestone clasp at the centre of tho
cravat bow, also of yellow.
No Unsightly Hairpins.
An inventive genius has come to
the women's assistance with a very in
genious contrivance, and made it
possible for a woman to curl her nat
urally straight looks and yet not be a
guy during the process.
This is done by the use of a set of
hairpins aud small rods and bits of
baby ribbon of the hue desired. Tho
hair is wound iu and out on a hairpin
and a piece of ribbon, which has its
two ends left out. When this is com
pleted the ends of ribbon are tied in a
pretty little bow, the hairpin slipped
out, and there you are, with your hair
done np on ribbon.
Pretty Street Gowns For Winter,
Handsome street suits are made of
smooth-finished cloth in brown,
bright blue or gray. Velvet trims
both wool aud silk goods. The new
est jet trimming is in open designs
like embroidery with beads, spangles
and moiißselino appliques. Heavier
passementeries are of silk cord and
braid in scroll aud geometrical pah
terns. If tho belt is for a street
gowu have it of velvet with steel
buckles, but the sash for the evening
dress may have tho buckle of Rhine
stones and be worn at the buck with
out any bow, only long rounded ends
with a narrow frill of silk mousseline
all around. —Ladies' Home Journal.
Handkerchief llevers.
A pretty use of old-fashionnd fine
embroidered enmbrio handkerchiefs
with their exquisite corner pieces, and
iu size equal to two of those now iu
vogue, is to cut off each cornfer so as
to turn it into a rever. A straight
baud of cambric should bo sewed on
tho bias side so as to keep it firm.
These bits look wonderfully well turn
ing over tho opou bodice we are wear
ing as double revers or only a single
pair foraV shape high opening. Hand
kerchiefs which have the sides em
broidered in an even, narrow border,
and very mnuy were so designed, give
further opportunity to use those
straight borders for the bottom of the
sleeves, aud for turuing over the collar
aud, in other words makiug a collar
and cuffs.—Philadelphia Press.
Umbrellas to Match.
No more black umbrellas. The
umbrella must match the costume, for
tho winter. If you wear a dark red
cloth suit, you must carry a dark red
silk umbrella to match; aud dark
blue, dark green, aud even-shaded
umbrellas to matoh costumes are be
ing mado for the winter season. Al
ready sorno of tho best tailors in town
are receiving orders for umbrellas to
match costumes. Ordered in this
way, they are naturally very expen
sive. Thrifty women who want to
follow the new fad will purchase silk
to match their tailor suits, take it,
with the frame of an ojd umbrella, to
a local umbrella or parasol maker,
aud, for a comparatively small sum of
money, keep iu the rapidly moving
van of fashion. It should be borne
in mind that the fad is for a storm
umbrella, not a parasol, to match tho
Buit.
This Season's Style In Corsets,
There is a change in the style of
this season's corset. From the ribbon
girdle and short French corsets which
have been in vogue for the past few
months we ure to change to the high
bust aud long-waist affairs—the Eng
lish style being the order of the day,
while the size of tho waist is to un
dergo no ohange.
For several seasons the demand for
a corset which would allow women to
enjoy, as well as participate in, the
outdoor sports, by giving them more
room for breatliingpurposes just above
aud about the waist, has been inces
sant, and as a result, though the cor
set romains as popular as ever, certain
changes have been instituted in its
muke-up which are entirely beneficial
and hnve made the old-fashioned,
heavily boned corset a thing of the
past.
First, French cambric, satin, silk
and doaskin have entirely superseded
coutille, which was generally consid
ered the ideal material for corsets, and
is as far as wear is concerned, but is
now thought to he far too stiff and
heavy. Another change is the de
crease in the number of bones em
ployed. As they are now made the
corsets are boned only in the back and
front, the nnder-arm lines being omit
ted. That the size of the waist is not
lessened by this style of corset seems
to make no apparent difference, and
the opinion is that after they have
once been worn thev will not be re
linquished without a struggle.
To the stout woman a corset is an
absolute necessity, and to the slender,
when it serves as a support for the
bust and helps to carry the weight of
the clothes, it is in many cases indis
pensable.—American Queen,
Bedtime.
A physician of courtly old-school
manners used to give prescriptions
marked respectively for early bedtime
and for late bedtime. A discussion
arose the other day between several
friends as to what constituted early
and what late bedtime. Some of the
ladies maintained that ten o'clock was
the limit between the two, others
thought that early bedtime lasted un
til eleven, and a few who believed in
beauty sleep pleaded that early bed
time began at eight and ended at half -
pust nine o'clock.
So many people are engaged all day,
and the dinner hour is necessarily, U
city life, deferred to so late an hour,
that families do not break up from
their quiet evenings nntil after ten.
Society pushes its hours later and
later, and the votaries of fashion coins
near having no bedtime at all, snatch
ing their rest when they can between
ono gay rout and another. The in
valid and the aged person and the
ohild must perforce retire early. For
those steady-going persons who regu
late their lives by rule, and who
habitually riso af an early hour and
breakfast punctually at seven o'clock,
ten is certainly a good bedtime hour.
Brain-workers would find their ac
oount in seeking tho repose of the
couch and the darkened and silent
chamber, with preferably opaque cur
tains to exclude the light of the moon
and street lamp alike, at ten o'clock.
A long sleep rests the mind as well
as the body, and prepares one for the
work of the next day, whatever it may
be. Far better than an opiate or a
narcotic is the habit of seeking the
pillow at an early hour, and quietly
lying still, with closed eyes and re
laxed limbs, until sleep, gently wooed,
comes with its healing touch and soft
ly weaves its spells of balm.
The good doctor probably meant by
early bedtime any hour between eight
and half-past nine, and regarded the
later period as between half-past nine
aud midnight.
Growing children cannol too care
fully be enjoined to get plenty of
sleep. Tho 'ooy or girl who has les
sons to learn must waken early after a
good night's rest, aud this is insured
only by punctuality in retiring. " Eight
o'clock is a good bedtime for all young
people under fifteen, and should be
insisted upon by parents.—Harper's
Bazar.
Mrs. F.vangelinu Cisnero3 Carbonell
is back in Havana, Cuba.
Miss Josie A. "Wanous, of Minne
apolis, Minn., has been elected Third
Vice-President of tho American Phar
maceutical Association.
Miss Marie McNaughton and Miss
Sarah Atkinson accompanied the
United States Peaco Commission to
Paris, France, as stenographers and
typewriters.
Mrs. Mary Haweis, wife of the Rev.
Hugh Reginald Haweis, of London,
and long and favorably known in phil
anthropic, artistic aud jourualistio
circles, is dead.
Ernestine Schumann-lleiuk, who ia
one of the notable strangers this sea
son at the Metropolitan Opera House,
New York City, is the mother of seven
children aud a young-looking woman,
who seems nowliero near the end of a
professional or domestic career.
Mrs. Louisa Heston Paxson, who re
sides on the summit of Schuykill
Mountain, Peun., celebrated her
ninety-seventh birthday anniversary a
few days ago. The aged woman is one
of the few surviving daughters of a
participant iu the Revolutionary War.
Miss Agnes Irwin, Dean of Radcliffe
College, has been nominated by Gov
ernor Wolcott, of Massachusetts, to
serve on the Paris Exposition Com
mission in place of Mrs. C. H. Crafts,
resigned. Miss Irwin is n great
granddaughter of Benjamin Franklin
on hor mother's side.
Mrs. Adelia A. F. Johnston, dean of
the women's department of Oberlin
College, Ohio, tn-st woman professor
in this first college to practice coedu
cation, has inspired her friends to
raise a sum of §50,000 to found a per
manent Adelia A. Field Johnson pro
fessorship, whose incumbent shall al
ways bo a womnn.
Miss Lois Knight is a practical en
graver on advanced lines. For two
years she worked eight hours a day,
being the only woman among seven
hundred workmen. In the past year
her name was attached as engraver to
several thousand illustrated catalogues,
representing wholesale and retail sil
ver houses of New York City.
Gleanings From the Shops.
White damas satins.
Black and white silks.
Long broadcloth ulsters.
White satin shirt waists.
Stock collar's of tucked satin.
Shirt waists of large plaid velvet.
Plaid ribbon soft belts with bucklei.
| Stock collars of plain and plaid vel-
I vet.
Fancy ribbed, striped and barre vel
vets.
Fancy velvet embroidered with silk
dots.
Long tan-cloth coats with a loos*
sacque front.
Girls' lined serge waists for con
trasting skirts.
Deep checry-colored broadcloth for
street suits.
White satin ribbon ruffles edged
with black lace.
Black taffeta waists having front
shirred on cords.
Jardinieres of Japanese pottery with
gilt designs.
Infants' eiderdown sacques with
silk orocheted edge.
White satin embroidered in colored
flowers for vests.
White taffeta shirt waists in tacked
and corded effects.
Rosettes of gauze edged with span
gles for millinery.
Short-back felt sailors with arosetta
of ribbon and quills.
Embroidered polka-dotted velvet for
trimming and waists.
Teagowns of crepon, fur edging,
velvet ribbon andohiffou.
Evening hats of spangled gauze,
velvet and ostrich tips.—Dry Goods
Economist.
It is said that if the "voice" of an
elephant were as loud in proportion as
that of a nightingale hie trumpeting
could be heard around the world.