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About The Eugene City guard. (Eugene City, Or.) 1870-1899 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 21, 1882)
HlLF A DBE1M. I ntd oco night in front of the Ly ceum, bile a drizzling rain was fulling, and tlie cold canopy of fog and mint aeeaeJ settling lown closer erery min ute. I had llft Oiforu thttt moroBi aUJ in ordinary costumo was comforta bly surveying tbu confused sights beforo walking to mv hotel. The eagorness of hose who wen. still within poshed the in,! who had left the thoater beyond the MDtr limits of the awning, and many !tood m the street waiting for cab or car riatre. 8ndaenly my eye fell on a fam iliar face. It ws Buchanan of St. Vitus in own collego), who in full evening aostome, with a breadth of shirt-front hot the rain wa already discomposing, tood outside tue awning with a young UU on his arm. They bad no umbrella, j eviJontly would have to wait some minutes yet. The rain foil piteously on l,jg companion's pretty headdress, but be did not seem to mind it much. I pressed up to them and aaid, "Here, Bacnanan; I can't bear to see your friend jetting so wet. Take my umbrella till J0nr carriage comes." 'What, you here, Robinson? how kind of youl The very thing, isn't it?" (this to his companion.) "Lot me hold it well over you. Tiiere!" and having end d his petite soins, he suddenly remem bered: "Oh! Miss Frere, Mr. Robinson t but where have you Bprung from, old bov, eh? Shall I see you to-ulght at the duo? No, by tho way, I shan't be able to come up to-night; hope to see yon tbough to-morrow. Here, John, here!" and iu less time than I take to write it the carriage dashed up, Buchanan hand el in the young lady, who had only time to thank me with a word and a still more gracious smile, an elderly lady and gen tleman hurriedly got in, Buchanan dropped tho wet umbrella into my arms, with a "la, ta! old boy; many thauks," .and they were whirled away, leaving mo with as little ceremony, I reflected, as if I had boon engaged by the theater to stand at the door and provide ladies with umbrellas. However, Buchanan doubt less meant nothing by it. I thought he looked very much in love with his fair companion, and probably had not many ideas for any one else at present. Small blame to him, for she was very pretty; what eyes she had, and what a smile! Happy Buchanan! and here I must walk solitary home to my hotel. So I lit my ' cigar and strode on through the drip ping crowds. It was long before I fell asleep, and even in dreams the winning smile, the graoeful figure, the dainty laeo thai was orally besmirched by the rain, and which formed the head-dress of Miss Frere, constantly intruded themselves. Her face was one which derived much of its charmB from beauty of expression, and few faoes so provokingly fix them selves iu the memory as these. Next morning at breakfast my thought re curred to her, then the paper came; I fiuislied my chop, bustled off into tho city on businoss, and forgot her. The examination for the Indian Civil Ser vice was beginning in a few days, and work put everything else out of my head. In due time I was appointed to one of the vacanoies, and (it was before the prancu system) recoiveu orders to be rea iy to sail in three months. Ou lovely afternoon that Angust, I had rambled from Penzance, where I was bidding farewell to friends, down to the stern granite cliffs which, hung with a waving fringe of gray lichen, hurl back defiance on the surges that so frequently assaulted the Land's End. It was a glorious scene that I surveyed, looking over the broken water that runs so swiftly among the black reefs off tho headland on to the Longships Light house, and then to the illimitable At lantic bey end, like the vaBt unknown future whioh lays before my life-voyage. Suddenly laaghter and voices struck on my ears Turning around I saw a party of ladies and gentlemen, followed by servuuts with baskets and cloaks. Evi dently it was a picnic party, so I went ou with my meditations, while they passed round a shoulder of rock, whence occasional bursts of merriment floated over to me. At length, a lady, in a light, gauzy muslin dress, girt with a broad pink sash '"a la fionde," accompaniod by a mau who was earnestly chatting to her, passod between me and the sea, clam bering over the rooks. As he passed by he looked up; it was Buchanan. He uttered a cry of surprise, whereat his partner, the fair Frondeure, raised her head, and once more I beheld the face that had burned itself into my memory the night after the theater. It was fresh, gay and lively as the glittering waves before ns, while, as with them, slumbered under its arch expression an undercnrrent not to be fathomed or un derstood all at once. "What ! Robinson! where have you dropped from, old fellow?" said Buch anan. "I remember you well, Mr.Robinson," added thel dy. "What a romantio place tit mnnt. in?" "I could not forget you, Miss Frere," i Observed in an seriousness, lor buuu was the thought that at once passed through my mind; then adopting a lighter tone for Buchanan's benefit, I said, "haven't yon brought a parasol to shade me from the sun in my time of need at present?" "No; but we have plenty of cham pagne and ice to cool you. Come along round the rock!" "Do come, Mr. Robinson! it will please papa to be introduced to you and a family picnic." she added with archness, "is generally so dull." There is no need to describe the charm of th ninnic. to me at least, heightened as it was by the pleasure of watching the varied expressions mat swept uTer iu.io Prpi-a'a fnra In ilia nnt faa Wordsworth ays) in her eyes, and by the singular rock-scenery amongst wnicn we ieasieu. Buohanan was very attentive to Miss Frere, and I had not doubt that a few more months would see them married. Declining a pressing invitation to dine leave Penzance for town, I once more . . . ... . . i. lost sight of the lace that possessed sucu tftAn rw affMtf.tn tfrtF fflA. Shortl Y afterwards I started for India, and after Ore years service, during which x nan neard notbing eitbea oi beroruucnanao, I returned home for a year's rest. Hitherto my story has dealt in sud denly changed kaleidoscopic combina t i DT .'ft 1 I w, ItAMAftua mAM atpaiiT. That summer I spent with my brother and sister at Guilford, and was return ing there by the last train ou a lovely July night, from a cricket-match at Aldershott. Suddenly there was a vio lent lurch, then the carriage seemed to spring into the air, turned over ou one side, and after plowing up the ground for a few yards, subsided, along with all behind it, into a general wreck, covered with clouds of dust. Tho engino had gone on, and the carriage I was in, having rnn off the line, had carried con fusion and rnin into all behind it. To my utter amazement, beyond a good shaking I was not hurt; so having ex tricated myself from the smashed car riage, I proceeded to help the other pas sengers. There were very few of these, and none were seriously hurt, though contusions aud broken heads abouudod. Loud was their wrath and dire thoir throats of actions, and of the compensa tion they would exact from the ooni pany. I left them to thoir grumblings, and passed to a first class which had not been overthrown. By the aid of tho guard's lamp we saw a lady sitting with clasped hands, apparently paralyzed with terror; while to add to the contu sion a thunder storm now broke forth in a deluge of rain. It was out of the ques tion to loave the lady where she was. "Madame," said the guard, anxiously, "I trust von are not hurt." t The lady did not stir or speak. "Madame," I said, coming to the res cue of the guard, "suffer me to help you out; you must not stay here; pardon me!" and I took her arm and tried to raise her. She burst into a torrent of tears, with her hands before her face, but without uttering a word or rising. I saw that she was utterly unhinged in her mind.though it seemed fortunately not in person. What was to be done. Guard and I looked at each other in doubt; still she could not be suffered to remain; so I took up dressing-bag and oloak which lay on the opposite side, and handed them to the guard. On doing so, a name caught my eye, whioh was engraven on the lock of the former article, "Ellen rrere. It touched an old key-note within me, but that was all, and I ap plied myself again to remove the lady. "Thank God!" at last she Baid, de voutly, and I started at her accents. Once such tones had viberated in my mind, but that was all gone still, could it could it be? Swifter tnan thought I siezed the guard's lamp, and in the rudest but most eager way held it up to the lady's face. There were the well remembered violet eyes, suffused no with tears, the fair, ohoek blanched with terror, the half-opened lips that had twice before so powerfully attracted icy fancy. "Now, then, sir, look alive!" said the guard roughly. I awoke from my amazement. "MissFrore! how very fortunate! I am thankful indeed that you are not in jured. You remember me? Robinson, whom you met at the Land's End? Now you must let me take you out, and I will see to you, ana not leave you till I have safely "handed you to your frionds." "Mr. Robinson!" she aaid, dreamily; "ah, yes; 1 will leave this now," and she took my arm, while I hurried hor out of the train. Luckily the accident had happened a hundred yards from a little station, and we were soon underwits shed, she trembling convulsively still, and clasping my arm tightly. I let her remain sileut for a few minutes, I then poured out some sherry for her from my flaek. This revived her, and she said with a sweet resumption of her own graceful manner: "Mr. Robinson, how can I thanlc you enough? but what shall I do? I have forty miles yet to travel to S , and my luggage.lost, and I with Buoh a headache! so shaken with it all?" "The first thing is to telegraph to yonr friends at S that you are safe. To whom were you going?" "To the Lamberts." "Thev are friends of ours, oddly enough. You must let me telegraph to them that von cannot ko further to-night. Then stay with us, only a few miles on with mv mother and sister. They will do everything in their power for you; and you can go w-morrow, wnen you have rested. At this moment the station-master's wife came to beg Miss Frere to enter her home till a few carriages were got ready to proceed, and I devoted myself to helping the wouuded, and doing what could be done to aleviato their sufferings. In an hour the road was sufficiently clear for an engine to tke three or four oarrieges on. Miss Frere accompanied me, and much to my mother's amazement I took her home. It was quite clear that she could not proceed, however, for she fainted more than once before I got her safely housed for the night. Nor oould she leave her room for three days. It was impossible for the above events to have happened without my having old feelings strongly recalled to my heart. I was miserably anxious and distrait un til she was able to be brought into the drawing-room. I was decidedly in love with Miss Frere. I could not, however, do more than worship my goddess assiduonsly, as if that did aught but heap fuel on the fire! She was a rich man's daughter nay, his only child. Mr. Frere had been down to see her while she was ill, but had been obliged to hurry off, and grate fully commend her to our further care. What right had I to interfere with his plans? Another consideration had still more weight with me. She never namod Buchanan, which I had magnified into an acknowledgement that they were en gaged especially when I remembered the familiar terms on which they had been on the only two occasions when I had previously met Miss Frere. How could I be so treasonable to my friend as to undermine him in his absence? Clearly I could not make love to his fiancee. But I was nettled all the same; and I, too. never mentioned his name. , Our talks became longer and more confidential. Sometimes I even read to her. Then there were always little cares to be attended to, flowers to be put near her conch, her shawl to be ar ranged over her feet, and so forth. It was a sweet yet a terribly dangerous thing to be thns brought into such close relations with a lovely and loveable girl. Perhaps she felt it too, for she was in no lively mood the last two days of her "it- ... i4 The end must come to the sweetest dreams. Miss Frere wu aow well eaoagh to leave on the morrow; I was to depart or India on the following meek. Natur ally that evening we were neither very cheerful. My sister waa gone to vuit a friend; my mother knitted in silence; our talk at the sofa bad gradually died also n silence. Twilight crept in ana brought ts store of sad memories. We were to Sart for a long term of years to-morrow, till, how could I speak of love? Be base to Buohanan, and abuse his trust? Never! At lontrtu Miss Frere rose and went to the piano. She had a light touch, and a voice as full of expression as her face. After a few soft bars, she broke into the droamv musio of "Faust ' and sang with the utmost pathos. I liatened, leaning on the back or my chair with rapture. Presently she stopcd, and re mained seated at the instrument as if in (teen thought. 1 uai never mi tnou noticed that my mother had been called out of the room. After a pause I rose. "Miss Frere, to morrow will end the sweetest week of my whole life." "Will it, indeed?" "Can you doubt it? And next week I go to India. I positively hate India." "Yes; no doubt." "I hope, Miss Frere, that yon will bo very happy. I am sure that you de serve it. "Do I? but thank you alt the same!" and still she remained pensive. At last I said, desperately: "Well, 1 shall sometimes often think of you. When is the happy day to be? Excuse my asking.but I feel quite an old f riend, you know." "To-morrow." "To-morrow! Good gracious! Miss Frere what do you mean?" She looked up startled. "To morrow. Did you say when was the unhappy day?" "No; I Baid when was the happy day?" "What happy day!" "What happy day? Why -when when you know well when you are to be marrit'd?" "Married!" and sho jumped up and opened her eyes widely; "married! who ever aaid I was to be married! What do yon mean?" I remained silent a moment. We lookod into each othor's faces, and then loudly laughed. "Why, of course," I said, feeling very much rolieved, "I thought you were going to marry my old friend Bu chanan." "Marry my cousin Die!:, whom I have known from his cradle? Vbo ever thonght of such a thing?" "Then if you are not going to be mar ried, I-I r" "I am not going to be marriod at all, I tell vou," she said, archly. "But, Miss Frere Ellen don't let us make our lives a waste for want cf a word. If I asked you to be married for the sake of a very old, old love that I have cherished for yon, and because well, because of our preservation the other night and I drew near and took her hands eh, Ellen?" "Well, if you asked, perhaps I might m.i' ... a- i... possiuij cuuscm iu cuuk UIJ Uliuu that was all she said, for in another mo ment she was at my heart." After a moment more I said: "Well, when is the happy day to be now?" "When you like." yquok-hlug a Weather Fiend. "Ia this wot enough for vou?" in quired a mau who met an acquaintance in the rain yesterday, and stopped to let lia umbrolla ilrio nnon him undor the nrfitensn nf enxriiuriiii? in conversation. "Thank vou." said the other, "for the Viitrli nnmniimnnt whioh is imolied In your question, but which I must reject as quite undeserved. "V.I.! What!" rnnliad the first aPOakor. not understanding the remark, "I don't know what von mean bv 'compliment.'" "Well." replied the other, "I don't know that I ever met you in my life without your asking me whether it was hot, cold, wet or dry enongh for me, as the case might be, and, althonorh vonr evident anxiety to know if I am quite satisfied with tlifl nnnriitinn of the weather is ex tremely touching, I must confess to you that I am not, as you seem to mint, tue il ironf nr nf til A filftmpnts and ruler of the seasons. No, I am not consulted as to the proper amount of heat or com, moisture or dryness that is to bo put into the nir at any given time, and, while your kind inquiries fill me with pardon able iride that I am rotrafdod in the pvfl of even one man with a species of rflvnrnntml wt I am ooinnelled to in form vou of course in coufldonoe that there is a higher power in universe than mine. But lot us go no farther" and, iri-inirinir liin frinnil'a bund with an BU- nearauce of trreat emotion, he walked rapidly away, leaving tne weaiuer ueuu . " . . .. .1 n 1 staring blankly alter him. In Oe of Emergency. "TTar.i'i tlmt rpftst. " (mid a little Ctrl to the lady of a family who had recently moved into the neighborhood. "Why, couldn't your mother use it?" innnirAfl thA IaiIv. "Oh. we buvs all our bread at the halrAr'a " m "Bnv all vour bread? Then what did vnn want malli mv vnast?" J " . .. . "Oh. ma said she couidn t mint oi anvtliinir she needed to borrow just then ami ah wnntml ta see if vou could be depended on in an emergency, so she tried you on the yeast. Style is Doos. Tho prevailing style nf iWa fnr this season will not be chan&red in any marked degree. The wimlnw Virn)i rim? still continues in fa vor among the young women who have lxun irniPi1 in lava and have the dvs- pepsia. A favorite style ot a dog has a princess nose and is trimmed with an ostrich-plume tail curled tightly over the polonaise, ine rnnce Aioen cat . ainmura Ana is not nsed to warm weather. Ci'y dogs that undertake to depopulate the country news oi tne or nate festive bull will be gored. Shaggy dogs will be worn with the bair "bouff ant" around the neck, plain about the waist, and polonaise and pompadour tail. Brooklyn Eagle. Osooda (Mich.) News: "A Bay City young lady, recently married, sent a friend here one of her stockings filled with wedding cake. The balmoral was emptied, and it contents filled a six gallon churn, and enough was left for the girls of the family to play 'keep Louse" for a week." The Life of a Prince. No one has solved the oroblom of per- petnal motion, but the nearest approach to it, says a correspondent of tho New York Sun, is undoubtedly to be found in the life of the Prince of Wales. While the queen is enjoj ing the Arcadian re tirement of Osborne, the seclusion of Win"'r, or the simidii pUiasnres of Bal moral, tin heir apparent fulfills the duties his mother shirks, and contrives with almost superhuman energy, to at tend to them without foregoing his own pursuits. ...... i . . ... . . . .. .1 Witn almost incrediuie UDiquity, tuo irinee is snen in the remotest parts of his future kingdom apparently at one and the same moment. No place is too distant, no ceremony too protracted, no claim too contemptible, but that he is present, smiling, urbane, a speech ready, an answer at hand; cool, collected, as if he were not hard pressed for timo, and evory minnte cut in quirters, with its al lotted occupation. The long summer day hardly dawns when his royal highness is hurried into a special train, destination unknown and immaterial to bim; he is whirled along sixty-five miles an hour to Birmingham or Liverpool, reoeivea a deputation with an appropriate address at tho station breakfasts with tho mayor, on his way opens a fish market, lays the foundation of an asylum for decayed gentlewomen, receives a bouquet from the least de cayed of the future inmates, hears a second address, unveils a statute, Gener ally his father's; christens a boll, lunches at Lady Blank's fifteen miles off; gets back to town to wing a uozen or so oi pigeons at Uurlingham, attend a fancy bazaar, listen to a report of the com missioners of sewers, have a cup of tea with the reigning balle of tho day, dine at a prime minister's, look in at the opera, stop an hour ut a theater to hear a screaming farce, go to a ball or two, play high at the Marlborough club, sup anywhere and return to Marl borough house to find it time to start by another express, which be catohos by that miraculous interposition ot provi dence, which delays trains whnn royal passengers are late. Then he has to dress in the train, sleep, perhaps, skim over frosh speeches aud fresh addresses, and land himself to inaugurate more work-houses, mectiug-housos, musio halls, and "du capo." The Home or the Cod. Stretching for hundreds of milos southward and southeastward of this island, and sixty miles from shore at the nearest point is the grand bank of New foundland, that mystio tableland of the sea, whose limit and nature are still un defined. A little way oceanward from its slopes tho soa reaches some of its greatest depths, and within its bound aries aro depressions where tho fisher man s anchor nover touches botton. uu fishormen say that the grand bank is steadily rising, and that a few conturios will find it Hitting above the suriace The grand bank, with its adjuncts, is some six hundred miles long, and from two to three hundred miles wide. The shallows over it vary from ninety to four hundred feet in depth. The grand bauK is, without comparison, the finest flshin j ground in the world, tor con- turies the fishermen have visited it, and millions on millions of tons of codfish have been taken there, but still the ... . . . i. . . . .. vield is undiniinisueu. oumonuiou W two or three vears the fish will be scarce, and the report will spread that the bank is "fished out," when sud denly a vear of unprecedented catches will give the lie to the notion. For about six months in the year, beginning with May, the codfish swarms, not only over the grand bank, but in lesser size and nnmbers. along the whole North Amnrinun coast, from the latitude cf Mew York to an unknown distance north ward. They are found from the eastern waters of Long Island to the further ex tremities of Labrador, and evon up to the regions of eternal ice. What lures the cod from the ocean depths to which ho goes in winter is not certainly known, but it is surmised tnat be eithor follows up the small shore fish or seeks tho sea cherrv a small red berry that often trrowa on the bottoms where tho cod is fnnnit. It is also Drettv well established that during the visit shoreward the female fish spawns. The immonse race of cod, far outnumbering all the other great fish of the sea, is accounted lor oy its fecundity. Nine millions of eggs have been computed aa the roe of a and all tho oodfish nanolit bv man are a mere oipher com . wit t i in imiinna. inrLfH bum puibia swallowed bv sharks and other fish of prey .- N. Y. Post. Overloading Cows' blomaehi. When cows are changed from scanty to flash feed it often happens that the benefit of the more liberal supply is neutralized for somo time by allowing them to gorge thomselves to the extent nf nnnnmfortab e fullness. An excessive rliKj.ninn of the Btomach produces im action and impedes digestion and tends to diminish the flow of milk and to impair its quality. Overloading a a av a tnmach invariably gives strong and disagreeable odor to her milk that injures it for buttor or for cheese making, and also its healthfulness for rwi Mniih an overloading is always miinatirA of a double loss a loss from failing to utilize aa fully as might be the flush feed, and a previous loss fmm a annnlv of food insufficient to ena ble the cows to give as much milk as thav am nambla of giving. When cows ... fo.l mith a lihnralitv that develops full flow of milk, tbey will not overload ;ti, a innA an little concentrated as gree ngrass. The fact that they do over load is an evidence that their previous fiuul vaa too acantf for profit, and con sequently that Joss has been endured on annmint of it. But when auoh a course of feeding has existed, and a change is to 1 mailA ta a bttnr one. loss from over- Aiting may be prevented by admitting the herd gradually to the new feed and .nnr,iinr thAm with all the salt and water they desire. The increase in the naar atinn ahonld nereT be so great as tn ntiantra the flavor of the milk. National Live Stock Journal. A oonflrmed vctarian who recently uifai an nmnivarons friend to dine with him escaped criticism by providing kidney beans, oyster plant, egg plant, cow peas, crab apple-, beefsteak toma toes and ex-beart cherries, and by decor ating the table with fish geranium. 8U0RT BITS. The Lady Burdott CoutU-Ba'llett has arranged for the dispatch to Egypt of a small staff of nurses. A "blind po dH is one where you can not see how it is going to affect your chances for a re-nomination. Cardinal Newman was a skillful violin player in his earlier yeara,aml even now, when he is more than BO. hn sometimes draws the bow. Ex President Brown, of Hamilton Col lege, has been engaged to fill a chair of instruction in Dartmouth College dur ing the fall term now approaching. The creameries of Iowa now aggregate pward of 0(H). while the high prioo of dairy products this year will cause an increase in the number for another sea son. The Troy Timossavs: "TJuited States Justice Field is quite Democratio in his manner, and wears clear down to ins ears a big ailk hat which needs block ing." It is a phase of divine providence. which men regard as singularly severo, that atlliotion is made to fall where they are least able to endure it. Rev. S. B. Uerron. There is no harm in making a mistako, but great harm iu makiug noun. Show me a man who makes no mistakes, and I will show you a man who has done noth ing. Liebig. The latest froak of un enthusiastic member of tho Society for the Preven tion of Cruelty to Animals is to out his horso's tail that the animal may not an noy the poor flies. 'Young man, aim high," says Emer son. "Aim low, said Uencral Jackson. Whioh is right? Denends on whother ou are aiming at tbo moon or at a molon thiof crawling off on his hands and knees. Tho youngest insano patieut who ever entered Belivue Hospital, New York, is lllie white, aged ten years, ills do plorablo mental condition is due to a physical malady that hai partially para- j rod him. Sin brought its own punishment in the cose of the Peoria Irishman who bit a red-poppor whioh he had stolon. He, however, has something elso to atone for in the exclamation: "Be jazes,they'vo poisoned the tomatys. The often heard-of but Soldom-enooun- tnrAil aton.mfithnr has hfifln fonnd at last. She lives in Peoria, and bos had hor hus band s daughter arrested for taking away with her a handkerchief that did not be long to her. A Syracuse dog tried to walk through a $200 plate glass window one fourth of an inoh thick. Finding that no easy thing, he "took a start" ot twenty feet and with a terrifllo bound went clean through and scampered away uninjured. It novey pays for two young men to fight about a girl. Nine girls out of ten invariably nurse and marry the one who gots whipped, while the victor always finds that no other girl wants a lellow who has made such a fool of himself ovor that "horrid Miss' An Omaha paper says that the Mar quis oi ljorue wore "a loose nine saoa ooat but eo high in the neck as iust to show a suspicion of a travolor's giay i .. . .-.I i.. .r l. Niuri, bruutwra ami a uavuitu a oun u. When any man. be he marquis or peas. ant. woar a coat that is out so high in the neck as just to show a suspicion of light tronseis, it is time for that mants friends to bnv him a shirt and a bosom- oouoealing soarf, and then admonish him to take a reef iu his "galluses The most candid young man in Austin is Nioodemus Murphy. He called at the oflloe of a wealthy citizon and oame right out and aaid: "I want to marry your daughter. I can t live without her "Are you acquainted with my daughterr "Not in the loast." "Jtlow, thon.ao you know you can t live without bert Well. I beard you were going to give her lots of money when she married, and mr perconal expenses are bo heavy that I can't live without her or some other woman who has got lots of money to support a husband." Texas Sittings. FABUIOX wonts. Astraoan cloth with tufted surface is revived. Shrimp pink, strawberry red and blue velvet bows aro worn at the nook with linen collars. The fashionable linen collar is a stand ing militerr band, with a vine, of em broidory near the edge. The newest contrasts ot color for walk ing dresses are mass green with.straw berry red, seal brown with oerise, garnet with oopper color, anu macs wim rnuy Plaques of braid made of row attor row oi Bontaone wound aroanu to lorm solid spot throe inches across, are nlaced all around the skirts of cloth dresses: also on the collar, cuffs and edge of the basque. . Hussar iockets of cloth trimmed with braid or with narrow soutache are the wraps to be worn by young girls during the autumn. Shorter cadet basques with high military collar will be worn as parts of house dresses. The newest cloth suits have a riding habit basque with a kilt skirt and long overskirt that is caught np almost to the waist on the left side, beneath a larg buckle of dark oxidized silver. TnnnA. cans or tutbans of what is called velv t felt will be worn with cloth dresses. The brims are oovered with gathered velvet, and the crowns are cov red with the head, breast and tail foath ers of a bird of colors kiodred to that of the velvet Among the handsomest garments for evening wear are caiaquins oi crepe ue chine, or silk gauze, trimmed with ten or twolve frills of lace and many long loons of ribbon. Sometimes a hundred yards of lace are required for a caaaquin and skirt, In summer the daughters of the Prince ot Wales wear wash prints (calicoes) for morning and white mnsliu for evening toil. American girls would not thin of dressing in that way. They fear that thev might be mistaken for common princesses. Floweis are banished from millinery, and feathers of every kind are to be worn. Cook's feathers will be made to serve in ornamental ways, both for hats and bonnets, while tropical plumage of scarlet, yellow and bluish green will re lieve the sombre brown shades of the itylish partridge and pheasant feathers. rKlISMl BRlTITtEt. The New Orleans Picayune states that point-lace stockings are both fashionable and expensive, but doesn't tell just how igu they como. A north country flshwifo wont to buy dress. "None of your gaudy oolors for me," she said at once to the man at the counter; "give mo plain red and Taller." A young man recently marriod, said: I thought when I got married my wife would darn my socks and let me alone; instead of that sho lets my socks alone and darns me." A strong-minded woman of Woodstock, Ont , built a fire and deliberately stood over it until she was horribly and fatally burned. Her last words were: "I am going to Jesus." Bv long custom everybody in Bethle hem is expected to congratulate ac quaintances on evory birthday. Imagine wholo town congratulatiug a kittenish maiden lady on having entered hor 47th year. A young ladv residing in a neighbor ing village, says an exchange, wrote from Saratoga as follows: "We're just as gay as a cockatoo's ten-knot down hero, and you just bet I m a hummer ith my duds." When Hood wrote, "There is a hap piness that makes the heart afraid," he was probably thinking oi one evening hen he sat np very late with his girl. and did not know what minute the old man might come thumping down stairs. At a small gathering the other even ing the host kindly said. "Would the ladies like to have a littlo sherry?" Everybody looked at eaoh other for a mo ment as it in doubt whether to accept or decline, when one lady, with character istio franknoss, exolaimed: "Well, I should hate to say I didn't like it!" Tho ice was brokon, aud the glasses clinked merrily as the host was toasted. An Iowa paper says: "A young and voluptuous couple iu the gallery of the opera house one night were so overcome by tho beautiful forms on the stage that they sank into eaoh other's arms with a kiss and a hug. The young man wore an immonse wide-brimmed nat, wnicu the young lady worked vigorously as a fan to keep him cool. A rural rooster, who saw the performance, yelped with envy." A daughter of Brigham Young, a bride of four months, when asked by a visitor, "How will you regard the taking of another wife by yonr husband, which, acoording to yonr code, is not only his right, but his duty, and whioh sooner or later you expoct liim to do?" ropliod. 'Of oourso it is a painful thought, and I try to put it away from me until the time comes; but I shall aocept it aa a duty to my husband, and because the church requires it." ES KOTEB AUD C0MM.I5TS Baron Rothsohild traveled to Beyrouth in his palace oar to attend the first per formance of Parsifal, and while there not only dined but slept under his own roof. Philin Gilbert Hamorton. the well- known writer upon art, has recoived a decoration from the French government on the recommendation of the diroo tor general of flue arts. Louis Rnbio. an Italian painter, who has jnst died at the ago of eighty-five. was distinguished at twenty-nve, anu gained a European rcpntation by many considerable pictures of historical and symbolio subjects. Charles O'Conor is described as ramb ling daily about the town and cliffs of Nantucket, with bis uat on tne dsok oi his hoad, and both bands in nis pockets, happy, contented, halo and hearty, bear ing lightly the woight of his seventy eight years. It is not generally known, says the Philadelphia Press, that Joseph Sailer, who has reoently retired from the finan cial editorship of the Philadelphia Led- . f . ... . -1!. 1 ger, was not oniy tue oiucsi euiwr iu that position in this oountry, bnt the first to write a regular money article for any dnily paper, as the Ledger was the first in this country to print a money ar ticle. Concerning the , doath of his wife, Frederiok Douglass reoontly wrote to a friond in the west: "The main pillar ot my house has fallen. Four and forty Jsars have passed away sinoe our union, life cannot hold much for me, now that she has gone. Still, I feol that tue losson taught by this death, as by all such, is silenoe, resignation, humility and hope. We are all strangers and so journers." hClENTiriC JIISIELUJT. A large proportion of the 5,000,000 of . beer glasses used annually in Berlin oome from this country. One of the probloms of the times is ts obtain silk direct from the worms. If it is "solved a grand industrial triumph will have been chronicled. Our silk worms, whose coooons can be unwound, will then be valuable. Dr. Denker. of St. Petersburg, treats diphtheria by first giving the patient a laxitive, and when its operation has ceased be gives cold drinks acidulated with hydrochloric acid and then a gargle of lime water and hot milk in equal parts every two honrs. His method has been very successful. During the late investigation of the distribution of heat in the obscure re gion of the solar speotrum, M. P. De sains obtained data which enables him to construct the curves which represent the distribution of heat in the dark spectrum and he promises soon to publish some valuable com pai ative results. The meeting of the French Association for the Progress of Soience this year has not been so successful as oould have been wished. The body convened at La Rochelle the same day as the British As sociation met at Southampton. The ad dress of the President, M. Janssen, was admirable, and called forth much applause. Professor A. A. Michelson has nearly completed his preparations fqr a re investigation ot the velocity of light at the Cass school of Applied Sciences, Cleveland, O. In 1871 he found that light traveled at the rate of 186,330 miles a second a result which differs slightly from those obtained within late years by M. Coroa and Professor New-comb.