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ST. HELENS, COLUMBIA COUNTY, OREGON, SEPTEMBER 8, 1882:
NO. 5.
An I migrant JI )s's Story.
A singular life history was involved
in an adjudication filed yesteiday by
Judge Ashman, of the Orphans' Court, in
the estate of John Naulty, deceased. Mr.
Naulty was widely known in business
circles in North and South America, and
in Europe. -He died at Buenos Avers in
January, 1S7U, leaving an estate valued
at! 8."00',000. lie came to this country
fibm Ireland about sixty years ago. He
was a boy seeking his fortune. He ap
prenticed himself to a tanner in this
city. Before he was of ag his master
failed. His niiis'er conceived the idea of
going to South America to engage in the
trflio in hides and wood. Young Naulty
accompanied him. When Naulty came
btck to New York he said that he had
bejen successful beyond his hopes. He
deposited as a nest egg $50 of his savings
arid went South again with a decent
working capital. He engaged in the
work of. cattle-raising, and wool and
hide exporting. In time he purchased a
alieep ranch in Buenos Ay res, miles in
extent, and employed a Philadelidii.in
to superintend ihe the rearing of his
Hocks. 'His brother Domnick, and his
mother arrived in this country about VI
years after John. The latter, who was
then growing rich, sc-nt a generous draft
to his brother, with instructions to buy
home for his mother.. A Lome was
purchased in West Philadelphia, and
Domnick and his mother lived there to
gether until a few years ago, when Mrs.
Naulty moved to Greensburg, where she
died, in her ninety-seventh year.
John Naulty came North only at inter
vals of years. He did not remain in this
city at any time for a longer period than
four months, except during the Centen
nial year. He quietly purchased con
siderablj real estate here, that now has
grown to be worth about $70,000. He
acquired consideiable property in New
York, also in other cities. He made
frequent trips to Europe, both for busi
ness and pleasure. He was identified
with the house of S. B. Hale k Co., and
his visits North were frequently to con
sult them. His bankers were W. W.
DeForest Co., of New York, to whomjhe
sent large sums for investment. At the
time of his death they held in his name
$120,000 in government securities. He
was a man of great reticence, and few
were acquainted with Lis affairs. He
conducted all his business matters, how
ever, with the nicest method and the
suA&i fccruuulous regard for right. When
he lav upon his death-bed lie Raul: "I
owe no man a dollar, save for service in
this last illness."
He lived altogether in Buenos Ayres
about -41 years. He had no relatives
there, but many friends, and he always
spoke of it as home, and even when here,
with his mother arid among his kindred,
longed to get back. He was never mar
riel, but his life was not without its epi
sode cf love. Years ago he edncated a
beautiful girl who was to be his bride.
He sent her abroad to the finest sehoolsl
She ripened into an accomplished as well
as beautiful women. Then he came to
claim fulfillment of her promise. His
hair was gray; he might have been his
affianced's father. His bride-elect could
never fulfill her pledge. She had met
another, younger, fairer. She had fallen
in love with him. She was to marry him,
though he had not a dollar. The old
man gave up all his claim. "Marry," he
said, "and God bless you." When his
will was opened the name of the bride,
whom he had educated for another, was
found there, kindly remembered. .
He was wandering always. He was
shipwrecked many times. He lost as
well as made fortunes. In a letter to
Mrs. William Conn, a cousin, to whom
he was much attached, he once wrote: "I
am sitting upon the shore at Montevideo
looking at a ship and cargo, in which
my all is invested, burning to the water's
edge. Some drunken sailors have reck
lessly caused this disaster. If my insur
ances in London have not been elfected
then I (to not own the coat on my back."
The insurances, however, were all right,
and the rnin which seemed to be
pending was averted. Once he was
stricken down in the streets of Bio
Janeiro with typhoid fever. He was
known to no one. Charles J. Harrah, of
this city, happened to be in the city, and
learning that the stricken man was an
American or a European hastened to his
assistance. He learned the sick man's
name from a bill of exchange which he
found in the man's hat band. The bill
was drawn on au English bank, and
called for A'COOO. Mr. Naulty was re
moved to a hospital and nursed back to
health by bisters of Charity.
Upon his last visit to Philadelphia he
deetz-oyed three basketsful of letters the
gathering of ."0 years. Among them
were notes for thousands of dollars that
had become outlawed, ire was suffer
ing then with softening of the brain.
His memory was becoming impaired.
Mrs. Conn, at whose house he was stay
ing, begged hiai not to go South again.
"But I must go," he said, "I want to
see my friends again; j
most settle . up my affairs,"
"And you will come back when!" "I
cannot say; perhaps soon. How much
I have traveled! I have still a long voy
age, and I cannot tell what is before me."
He sailed on his 63d birthday in a furi
ous storm. The voyage was unusually
long, and when Mr. Naulty arrived at
Buenos Ayres his health was shattered.
He recovered somewhat, but soon de
clined again, and in a year -he died. He
was buried in Buenos Ayres.
He had made a will in this city, dis
posing of his North American property.
He wrote it Himself, and-a wrangle fol
lowed on the question of interpretation.
A duplicate was found in his trunk,
that was more clearly stated, and helped
to secure an adjustment of the difficulty
by compromise. After a number of in
dividual bequests, the property is given
to Domnick Naulty. The will disposing
of the South American estates was writ
ten by a notary in! Spanish. It gave tho
bulk of that estate to Mr. Naulty 's
aiother for life. She, at her death, gave
it to her son Domnick. De Forest k Co.
were made distributors of John Naulty's
property. Tho question before Judge
Ashman was as to! whether the estate in
North America was liable to collateral
inheritance tax. After reviewing all the
circumstances and considering the tech
nical questions that arose, tho judge de
cided in the negative. Tho estate in
Buenos Ayres hasjnot been settled.
Farmers rjfty Years A so.
Fifty years ago farmer depended al
most entirely upon the products of their
farms for the supply of their tables, and
largely for their clothing. A writer in
the Boston Journal .thus sketches the
raising of the raw material for garments
and the process of manufacturing them
at the farm housed
Every farmer kept a Hock of sheep
and wool constituted a large proportion
of the clothing of the family. It was
carded, spun and woven at home, and
made into garments for both sexes. The
best clothes for the men and boys were
niade of what war called "fulled cloth."
This was made; at home of the liuest
material, and taken to the mills known as
"fulling mills'wbere it was put through
a process of thickening, dyeing aud fin
ishing. The women used to wear gowns
of cloth called "pressed woolen."
This was simply home-made flannel,
taken to the mills above named and there
pressed so as to present a glossy surface.
Every farmer had a small patch of tlax.
This was pulled and spread out in rows
on the ground, f "rotted," ami then
"broken" and "swinged," and was thus
prepared for the combing, carding, and
the "little wheel,' as the machine was
called on which the tlax wrs spun, todis
tingnish it from the larger machine for
spinning wool. j
It was woven into cloth for table-covers,
toweling, sheeting and shirting. Tho
"tow," gwb ich was the coarse portion
combed out on the "hetehel," was spun
into a coarse yarn,! of which a cloth was
made for Summer Uuits for men and boys.
The tow skirt, so commonly worn, was
when new, an instrument of torture to
the wearer, as it was full of prickling
spines left fioui the woody part of the
stalk.
The tailor of tie I days, with his
goose, traveling fro ouse to house to
make ap the clothes, "or tho men and
boys or to cut and..Jt them for the
gossiping "tailoress" to complete is not
known to the present generation.
IMsjdpated Mies.
"Them ar flies is old topers, ever one
of em said a Dock street beer-arawer.
as he handed over a glass of the foaminsr
beverage to a thirsty reporter every
newspaper office has a thirstv reporter.
IPS, tuey are topers, ne spoke up, as
he drew the reporter's attention to a
swarm of flies that were regaling them
selves in a trough from the drippings of
a 6pigot. "Now, what I tell you is the
truth; them ar' 11 ids drink a pint of beer
every day, and then they g.j aud s )ber
up. See that netting over those pictures?
Well, the flies come down and fill up; then
they shut one eye like a drunken fellow
going for j lamp post, and start for that
netting. Sometimes they don't make it,
and fall to the iloor, where they lie
until they sober up. You're laughing,"
put in the bar chemist. "I am not," re
plied the reporter; "I am .taking it all
in." "Well, they stick their feet in the
holes in the mosquito retting, and sort
o' tangle their legs around it. You see
they feel prett' -limber, so 'taint ,no
trouble, and,, theyj hang till the bugle
passes out of their heads. That's so.' Do
j'ou know I've . got jan idea some of those
pesky dies go out aud bring in their
friends? Them flies drink a pint of beer
a day; that's over a gallon a week. Now
there's over a million flies on that
netting how much does it take to make
each one tight? Here's a slate," and the
beer slinger handed it to the reporter to
figure it out. Just then the clock struck
four, and ten thousand of the topers
started to the beer 'trough with a whirr,
to take a nip before supper. Some of
them drank long and deep, and then lay
upon their backs and kicked vigorongly.
f Philadelphia Record.
Sanitary I spection of House.
Lewis Angell, Sanitary Inspector
West Hum, in Essex, an outlying dis
trict of London, says, in illustration of
the prevalence of j sanitary defects even
in the best houses,! and of the need of
thorough inspection, that in the civic
palaces of the Lord Mayor of Loudon,
"three quarters of j an inch of floating
fungi scurf was recently found on the
surface, and three-eights of an inch of
mud at the bottom ;of the cistern, while a
bottle of water on his lordship's table
contained hundreds of nematoid worms."
Offensive mud arid animal organisms
were also found in! the cistern of the
Athenjoum Club, St. James. We habit
ually defv disease) when we leave the
doors of our closets open and the window j
shut. The reverse: ought to be the prac
tice. He believes j that sanitary science
should be put on a par with literary and
mathematical studies in the schools, and
tnat public and official inspection should
be provided for everywhere, the expense
in the cate of new buildings to be met
by f ?es charged upon the owners and
builders, who expect to derive a m-ofit
from them. He commends what has
been done in Chicago in the official in
spection of tenements, aud the official
supervision of plumbing that has re
cently been adopted in New York.
A conspicuous increase is noted in
the importation of j foreign wares. The
entries of dry goods alone for July at
New York City foot up $11,370,040. ;
A Ba3 Scrape.
One of the most terribly awful things
that ever was occurred .Friday at the
Sunday-school picnic giVen at; Boyle's
Gr jvp, west of the city. It was a warm
day and everybody wore as few clothes
as decency and health would permit.
One couple from this city went to the
picnic all bedecked in their spotless
linen, swiss, etc. In some unaccount
able way the couple very nice couple
they are, too strayed a little ways off
from the rest of the flock and sat down
upon a log and looked at tho cows and
dandelions, and talked about what kind
of a house they were going to have when
they got married. All went as merry as
a sleigh bell at a ehmvari until a big
red-headed ant crawled down the girl's
back, just where she couldn't reach him.
When first she felt the sensation she
thought it was the strong arm o! the
young man beside her, and she didn't
kick. Presently it dawned upon her
that it might not be her beau, whom she
suspected was trying to keep her from
falling by holding hia arm about her
gentle waist, so she looked around. The
horrible truth flashed upon her and she
began to squirm and scream. The young
man was of conrse very much frightened,
thinking, perhaps, she had seen a mouse
and, would faint on his bands. Between
screams she told him what ailed her.
Here was the ticklish point what would
he do? He could not leave the dear girl
to tho mercy of the ant and listen to her
piercing shrieks, nor did he feel like ram
ming his hand down liex back and haul
ing up the dread monster by the fetlock, j
but something had to be done, and very i
quickly, too. Pulling olf his coat and
rolling up his sleeve he made a dive for
the enemy lurking in the ambush, and
lunching off a choice spar rib. He suc
ceeded in ripping tho lady's garments
from Gehenua to breakfast on the first
effort. After a protracted chase, and
just as he was about to give up in de
spair he espied the animal, and the way
he slapped it against her architecture
nearly paralyzed the frame-work. The
blow was hard enough to have knocked
a pound of Peoria butter off its feet. Of
course the ant was ready to bo laid out
aud kiln-dried in j bread-dough,
or palmed off for reasoning in
fruit cake. It made its-mark in the
world and left it upon t e back of its
last sad resting place. The unhappy
pair fixed up the maiden all forlorn tho
best they knew Low and started for
home. When they reached tho camp,
the other picnickers all looked' suspi
ciously and wise at them. Some even
went so far as to say, "Cow hooked you,
or did you stumble over a blackberry
patch ?" Others wondered if tnev hadn't
been struck by a cyclone, or tried to fall
up a tree. When the girl's mother came
to tne iront sue wanteu to Kin tne young
man, and chased him 11 over tho grove
with a piece of custard pie, and wouldn't
listen to an explanation. Whv she
chased him we can't guess. That young
man s life has been a burden to him ever
since, and when he sees anybody com
ing he looks wild out of his eyes and
talks mad, and shrinks away like a frisky
creditor. He says that if he ever goes to
another picnic he hopes that he will
know it, and if his girl was being swal
lowed by an ant he wouldn't pull her
out to save her life. She says that her
young life has been blasted like an early
tomato, and tnat she is going to Normal,
or curl up and die. Bloomingtou Eve
In- us (r al
Education.
rouneen years ago Ji.zra L-orneil, a
wealthy resident of Ithaca, N. Y. .found
ed Cornell University. He was a self-
T a . . -n r-i i
made man, and his main object in estab
lishing tho institution was to provide
poor young men with the means of get
ting an education. Many of his plans
were visionary, but there was nothing
theoretical in the establishment of a vol
untary labor system, by which those
without funds earn enough, in their
leisure during the term and in the long
summer vacation, to pay for their tui
tion and board. The standard of admis
sion was low;?r than at the other colleges
and a wide' liberty was given to the stu
dent in the choice of especial studies.
Dormitory buildings were provided for
those who chose to reside on tho Univer
sity grounds, but the student was al
lowed some what of the freedom given
to the German undergraduate and could
live in the town if he desired. Work was
paid at a low rate, but any vouth with a
strong physique could earn enough to
support himself.
The opemnx? year of the University
witnessed a largo number of students,
the majority being of slender means and
compelled to work for their support.
Tuition was nominal, only $30 a year,
while food was cheap. There were ex
cellent profess .rs, many of whom adopt
ed the German system of lectures, in
preference to the" old-time method of
text-book recitation. There was mnch
life, vigor and enthusiasm in the work.
Gradually the character of the students
changed. More of the wealthy class
applied for admission, and the former
simplicity was lost Manual labor fell
into disrepute ; the University farm lan
guished ; women were admitted to the
institute aud granted equal privileges
with the men ; many gifts were received
from generous men', but nearly all were
for buildings and equipments very few
for the endowment of professorships.
The founder's endowment comprised
uieny umi.er laiuiin ine west. wiiicn
or several years
the University was financially crippled.
j and great parsimony was shown in the
! payment of professors. Many of the best
j men left, and their places were filled by
j tutors fresh from their studies. The cost
', of tuition was raised from $30 to $75 per
j year, and the voluntary labor system was
i dropped. The number of students had
I been steadily declining, and these tneas-
tires, so alien to the spirit of the found
er's plans, served to swell the defection,
until now the number of students is not
near so large as it was twelve years ago.
To-day the institute is in good financial
health ; it is very wealthy and has many
rich friends ; it has many fine col
lege buildings ; but 11 these do not save
it from failure in carrying out the found
er's plans.
It may be that other causes are respon
sible for this decline, but to any casual
observer these three are evident; neglect
of the labor system, advancing the coat
of tuition and raising the standard of ad
mission. Coeducation has no doubt had
its share in driving away the very men
for whom the college was foupded. The
practical results have been that tho in
stitution is coming every year to more
nearly resemble Harvard and Yale, and
to show a wider divergence from tho
plans of its founder. It costs more in
every way to live there and to get an ed
ucation, while the means of self-support
are less. If the endeavor is to make the
college take rank with the older institu
tions in scholarship, the result is a suc
cess. If it is to help poor students and
to make the college distinct from all
other Eastern colleges, the result is a
dead failure. The vice of the older col
leges in this country is the fostering of
extravagance. No young man of limited
means succeeds at Harvard or Yale as he
would at a German university, where i
scholarship is the sole criterion. It may
be said that it is foolish for a poor boy to
feel the covert sneers of his wealthier
comrades, but youth is not philosophi
cal. It is greatly impressed by associates
and surroundings. In an atmosphere of
wealth Spartan virtues languish. No
collegian is at ease in satinet where nine
tenths of his comrades wear broadcloth.
He may start out with the highest aim ;
lie may even complete his college course
as laid down at the beginning, but. he
will be heavUy handicapped, and he will
not do so good work nor develop into so
robust a man as he would had his atmos
phere been one of genuine literary cul
ture, and his companions men of simplo
tastes and small means.
It takes very little observation to see
that this growing taste for luxury is bar
ring out from.our colleges the sons of
workingmen. It is advancing the grade
of scholarship and making a distinctively
educated class; but, in a country like
this, the work is done at too heavy a
cost. A day has not yet come in Amer
ica for a class like the English gentry.
The longer the simple, wholesome vir
tues of our forefathers can be retained,
the better for all classes. The value of
an institution such as Ezra Cornell at
tempted to establish is that it sought to
demonstrate that a man could be edu
cated and yet work with his hands. It
sought to provo that the educated me
chanic is a better workman than the un
lettered mechanic, that the scientific
farmer has a great advantage over tho
average agriculturist, and above all, that
there is no shame and no reproach in
manual labor. Properly carried out.
such an institution would do good work
in discouraging the prevalent mania
among young college graduates for en
tering the so-called learned professions.
It would demonstrate that a tirst-rata en
gineer or machinist, a skillful worker in
woods or a trained farmer is of far more
value to the community than a lawyer or
preacher, of infinitely more value than a
speculator, a middleman, or any of the
great class of non-prouucers wnicn is
growing every year. S. F. Chronicle.
Hints lu
Hegarrt
to cho
Dr. Lincoln, of New York, in a pam
phlet recently published, gives practical
rules for the heating, lighting and venti
lation of each type of school house, with
illustrations of the faults that can be
corrected, as well as those that are mat
ters of construction. Some of" his sug
gestions are of general practical applica
tion, and notably his advice to look after
the cellar, for the purity of honse air
depends largely on the purity of cellar
air, and the danger of severe sudden ill
ness lurks in cellars a? often as in the
sewers.
One advantage of frequent rests in
school work, with young children at
least as often as ten minutes in every
hour, is that then the windows can be
opened, the children exercise in light
gymnastics, and fresh air and fresh ac
tivity, mental and physical, would all
come together. Children cannot be treated
in the mass, for individual peculiarities
are mucn more important elements in
their training and development. After
all that is possible has been done in
building, still much remains for the
teacher to do, in order to find out exactly
how far there are among her pupils those
except:onal cases, both in matters of
temperament and intellect, which need a
special consideration.
Particular care should be taken that
children are not punished for failure to
conform to mere disciplinary rulej,while
the limit of hours of mental application
should be x-ather under than over the
average. An average cnild ol six snouid
no more keep the same school work as an
average child of twelve, than the same
power should be expected from an en
gine of fifty-horse power and another of
double its capacity. .
Hie Reason Why.
"Patsey, mo darlint, where do ye wish
to be buried when yez are dead?" asked
a sobbing wife of her dying husband.
"Down in the Jew's cemetery," came
the faint and strange answer.
"Ohone! an are yez gone crazy rn
toirely, Patsey? An' why do you want
to be buried there?"
"Because, Biddy,, the divil bad cess
to him wouldn't think of lookin' for an
Irishman in a Jews' buryin ground."
A man on theTshady side of life likes
to walk in the sun.
Man ana Ills Buttons.
Did you ever see a man in the solitude
and privacy of his study attempt to sew
on a button by himself ? Iflsinall its de
tails one of the most interesting perform
ances in the world. First, he hunts for
a button. Generally to seenre it 1 e robs
Peter to pay Paul, and cuts one from an
other 1 garment. -This button may be
much larger or much smaller than the
size he is wearing. Next he hunts a nee
die. Probably lie goes ont and buys a
paper! of needles. He always chooses
the largest needles, having an , impres
sion that large needles will sew stronger
than small needles. As to thread r he
gets the coarsest he can find, and this he
doubles. He would thread his needle.
He takes his needle in one hand and his
ooarse( black thread in the other. He
bites off the thread to the desirable
length. Then he tries to twist it to a fine
point. Generally in this he succeed in
making two and sometimes three find
points: out of one end. Of course he
can't get all these points through the
needle's eye at once. He tries hard to
make that needle and . thread get
on frieudly terms with each other, but
Ihey won't. They don't want to get ac
quainted. They do not wish to have any
thing to do with each other. Sometimes
it is the needle that kicks; sometimes the
thread. Sometimes he imagines he has
really threaded his needle. It is an
ocular, delusion. The thread has missed
the needle's eye by half an inch. I
It is ! harder work than sawing 1
wood. ! At last the needle is threadel.!
Now ne tries to sew the button on with
out taking his trousers off. This proves
a failure. He twists himself into an un
comfortable position, and so would sew.
But he can't sew so. He runs the needle
into himself. And the contrary thread
always insists in fouling or on doubling
round the next button. Then one part
of the doubled thread won't work harmo
niously with the other part. One part
draws through the button's eye first, and
leaves the other part behind. Then it
gets hitched up, and the embassador
swears. Or the needle breaks; and theu
he swears. He may not swear audibly;
but the recording angel knows what is
going on inside of him, and debits him
every item. He sews hard. Ho has for
gotten all about the necessity for a thim-
ole. He jams his thumb down on the
needles head, and it punctures the thumb
or runs under the nail. By and by he
sews the button's eye full of thread. His
big needle won't pass through any more.
He must stop. He ends by winding the
thread as many times as it will go uuder
the button, and perhaps he leaves off
-with two or three inches of thread stick
ing outside. A woman can, through
many outward directions, tell when a
man has been trying to sew on a button.
He doesn't know the shibboleth of needle
and thread, and it catches somewhere
every time. At last the button is sewed
on, and he is proud of his work.
A Black. Squatter's D gnity.
Fifteen miles out of Chattanooga, on
the Bridgeport road, I came upon a ne
gro squatter. The cabin was a structure
of poles which a man could have pushed
over, and the roof was simply a lot of
straw and weeds and bushes thrown upon
the rafters and held down by large
limbs. ! The one room was not over
twelve feet square, and in this, with no
floor but the earth, lived a family of
nine. r jThere were two straw beds, one
chair' one old table, three plates, one
knife, one fork, two spoons, and a bowl.
It had leen rainiuir. and part of the
earthy floor was a mud puddle. The
family had about five pounds of meal
and three or four of bacon, and of all the,
patches one ever saw the greatest show
was right there. The old man had thir
seen patches on one leg of his trousers,
eleven on the other, seven on his vest,
and bis cotton shirt was patched in a
dozen places with red, yellow, and white
and bine woolen. The old womau's
dress looked like a crazy quilt, and two
of tho boys had only one trousers leg
apiece.'
"Great Scots! but ho do you live?" I
asked while one of the boys was water
ing the' horse.
"Lib, sah, how does we lib?" repeated
the old man; "Well, sah, we is gainin' on
it right smart. I reckon its gwine to be
a good y'ar fur poo folks."
"What do you raise?"
"Chil'en an' dogs, sah!" he soberly
replied.
"Do you work any?"
"Only when I feels like it."
"And" is this all your furniture?"
"Well, p'raps dar may be a cha'r
behind Vie cabin."
"And these are all the clothes
out
you
have?"j
"Yes sah, cept one o' my oie hats on
do roof."
"And you call this living, do you?"
"See heah, sob," he began, as he rose
up from his seat on a log near the door
step, '''pears to me like you was inquirin'
a leetle too much! We doan' advertise
to kee no fust-class hotel heah, an' if
you doan like de way we fling ourselves
aroun' you'd better be saijin' along down
deroad! Some white folks is so mighty
nice an' peart an' perticklf r dat nuflin on
airth am quite up to deir ' style. Boy!
bring up dat hoss an let dis pertickler
white man git dun gone afore dem two
naked chil'en, enm home wid do sassafras
and skurry hisfeelin'sl" Detroit Tress.
While a large number of ministers
were waiting iq the Fitchburg hotel read
ing room this, noon, for dinner, one of
two driiu.ners laid down a paper, and re
marked: "I see there is a meeting of
ministers in this place to day." "Yea,"
said his companion, "they manage to get
together two or three . times a year and
exchange sermons."f Fitch Sen. :
Fancy II air.
There is at present a scarcity of fancy
human hair in market. The scarcest
hair is pure white, and its value is con
stantly increasing, and if it is nnsnally
long; that is, from four to five feet, the
dealer can get almost his own price,
while if it's of ordinary length it is worth
from J5 to $100 an ounce. The fact
that pure white hair is the court coiffure
in Europe keeps the demand for it very
high. Moreover, it is much prized 'by,
American women "whose' own 'hafrfs3
white, and who desire to enrich itsfolds,
for white hair is held to give certain dis.
tinction to the wearer. There is no"
fanoy market for gray hair. It is too
common. It is used to .work into wigs
of persons who are growing old. What
is described as golden hair, is either
a washed -out pale red. or a dull
blonde. The gold color so much valued
has no relation to red hair, except
in the vividness of its coloring. The de
mand for the virgin gold color is great in
the capitals of Europe. A woman who
gets a coiffure of it is considered fortu- "
nate. A young Brooklyn lady of much
beauty possesses a splendid wig, which
she chanced to find in a shop in Nice.
She was a blonde, but had a scanty sup
ply of dull hair. It did no take her an
instant to decide to have her hair cut
short and to wear the wig.
There are four tvpo colors of hair
white, blonde, black and brown and
each of these has been sub-divided into
sixteen different shades. The common
est types are black and brown, and
these are cheap. Golden brown is much
in favor, as is pure black, or what is
called blue black, or whose natural hair,
streaked with gray shows in contrast
with the false covering. Next to pure
white hair the demand is for hair of the
color of virgin gold. There are many
braids made of hair colored to meet
the demand with certain preparations,
but they prove unsatisfactory. Many
foolish women have sought to" change
the color of their own tresses, but they
have uniformly repented tho attempt. A
fine suit of hair of the purest blonde
type will sell from $300 to $500. It is
said that the Empress Eugenie paid 1000
francs an ounco for a braid of golden
hair that exactly matched her own.
The largest supply of hair comes from
France, Switzerland, and Germany. The
country fairs are attended by agents of
merchants in London, Paris and Vienna,
who ingratiate themselves iuto the favor
of young girls and persuade them to fll
thoir tresses for glass ornamehts or other
gewgaws. Only at intervals .is a prize
like a perfect suit of golden hair Ob- -tained,
and it is said that there are or
ders ahead in the shops of Paris and
London for all the golden hair that can
be obtained in the next seven years
When a stock of hair is collected by
traveling agents, it is assorted, washed
and cleaned. Then each hair is drawn
through the eye of a needle and polished
When the stock is ready for the market ,
in Europe, the nobility is permitted to'
make first choice.
Fashionable Floor Covering-.
Carpets now show improvement in
styles and patterns. Small figures are
iirdemand and, in fact, large ones can
not be found in the stores where ancient
stock is not kept. There was a timo
when a room of the ordinary flat size
wouldn't show a single figure complete.
In some of the patterns now shown small
designs are crowded together in wonder
ful harmony of color and device. Many
a treasured old tapestry has less art than
the ordinary carpeting of the present day.
Some are veritable pictures that can be
studied for hours without growing famil
iar. Some 6f tha favorite designs repre
sent ferns, leaves, branches and foliage
in 8ymetrical entanglement. Borders
are still used, and often are wholly dif
ferent from the body, though harmoniz
ing with it. A feature of our carpet
stores just now is the display of Oriental
mattings. Not only are they bought to
put down in summer residences, but
they are coming into use in chambers of
city houses.
A bedroom provided with white china
matting with a half breadth of colored
check for a border, and a Turkish rug in
the center is quite correct. Another
thing for the center of the sleeping room
f the sleeicr be an unmarried woman, is
d-small bed. This is a bran new affecta
tion. A brass bed-stead, a trifle larger
than the woman, and not much wider
than her greatest breadth, is placed in
the piddle of the apartment, and fur
nisbed with the dantiest possible bed
clothes; but everything about tho affair
musfc be perfectly plain, desire being to
suggest the utmost simplicity on the
part qf the maiden. . Sometimes a cot is
used, and, if tho occupant be a light
weight, she selects a structure of frail
dosign,-Bo as to provo how airy and fairy
she is.
The Brain During: Sleep. Somecuri
ous experiments as to the action of tho
brain during sleep have recently been
maae upon mmseii oy Al. JJelaunov.
Working on tho known fact that the ac
tion of the brain causes a riso of temper
ature in the cranium, the experimenter
found that the converse of this was true,
and that he was able by cdvering his
forehead with wadding, to stimulate the
action of tho brain, Dreams which are
naturally illogical and absurd, " become
under his treatment quite natural and in
telligent. He also, f pund that their char
acter was much modified by the position
assumed dnring sleep, -whereby the blood
might be made to flaw, toward particular
parts of the body, and thuincrease their
nutrition and functionalctivity.. These
exoerimentshave-: bul: slight! value.
Those whose lives are spent in hard work,
either physical or mental, Will prefer
their dreams as illogical and vague as
possible so that ibe poor brain may not
go on working wdiilo the body ia at re
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