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.
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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.