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THE COLUMBIAN. Published Evert Frkat, at ST. HELENS, COLUMBIA CO., OIL, BT E. 0. ADAMS, Editor and Proprietor V 1 7 T1 Published Every Friday, at ST. HELENS, COLUMBIA CO., OR, BY A EL G. AD A2IS, Editor and Proprietor, Subscription Rates: Advertising Rates: One square (10 lines) first Insertion. . 2 CO Oae year, in advance ?2 00 Six months, " 1 00 ree month. " 50 VOL, V. ST. HELENS, COLUMBIA COUNTY, OREGON, JULY 31, 1885. NO. 52. Each subsequent insertion 1 00 THE COLUMBIAN. OOLUM THE ART OF THE BAKE. Ajb Improvement In the Method of Mast ing Cakes The Latest Novelties Fine cake-making is not a secret, bnt it is manifestly an art. The regulation old-time pound-cake, and jumbles arc still to be seen, but they no longer hold the palm. Even the delicious sponge .cake, so delightful in childhood's mem ory, now takes a modest back seat be fore the appearance of the mult tude of other light, feathery loaves and lave; cakes. "We sell o:i au average about .$600 worth of cake each month," t-aid a young lady behind the sma I counter of a place where genu ne donn'tic con' pounds in the way of bre id. cake. yT serves, etc., are offered !'or sale. "T demand is about e ual for del eate Inn cakes and layer cakes. We have soun call for old-fashioned fruit cake, bu there are several fruit cakes made now much lighter and le-s iml gestii.le thai really taste n:cer. too ami they ?e d lc be preferred. V-e h-p that old-titm stand-by. pound ca-. o i hand always, too. Layer cakes are tilled with every thing jellies, ch e !ate. nuts, creams, and fruit. A favor te cak. is the one made with English walnuts. A new cake is called 'walnut cream.' the flavor being in the tilling. Anot her new cake is 'pineapple.' The canned fruit is used, being chopped tine and mixed with frosting for the tilling. 'Pinafore' cake is made with alternate layers of pink and white icing, the pink being given its tint by using a few drops of the fruit coloring that can be bought at any gro cer's. -Daily Varden' cake is the same thing except that instead of pure white icing chocolate is mixed with it. The lighter anr' more delicate cake can be made the hotter it is liked. Conse quently the greasy loaves, heavy with good butter, which our mothers were taught to consider the proper tempta tioa to place before company, no longer have an existence. The cake made now is mostly harmless to the most del icately organized stomachs, but it's aw fully expensive to make. "But few ornamented cakes are used by Americans except on some pro nounced fetal occas'on like a wedding, and not always then. The Germans make the most use of ornamental cakes, but the cake is very light. Some of the ornaments designed to make the tops of cakes glorious are indeed of fearful and wonderful construction. I saw a lot the other day four or live hundred. There were those not more than an inch high, and some queer construc tions at least three feet tall. One had the form of the trunk of a palm tree given it, with an immense, bushy head composed of trailing rose vines, with sil ver leaves and orange buds. Beneath it stood a winged tigure arrayed in a cloak a la Hamlet and engaged in the act of hurling forth a crown of thorns. It was a touching matrimonial symbol. ThesUbere were hands clasp ing hands, some tinted flesh color, with the most miraculous cuffs and frills about the wrists. Of course there were marriage-bells and horse-shoes without number and of considerable price. There were brides whose candy heads and sugar features were shaded by little veils. Think of a bride standing on a cake! But more effective than the bride alone were the representatives of the bride and bridegroom; he was clothed in the prescribed full dres3 black suit, with gloves, and shirt-front as immacu late as the confectioner's art could manufacture for him from sweet stuffs. "The German people sometimes use colored flowers on cakes for special oc casions, but not for weddings. Many Americans, however, consider cakes ornamented in any way suggestive of being a thing to gaze upon and not to eat, in very bad taste, and seldom use them. It is generally understood, even by the buyers of these decorated loaves, that being for ornamentation they are of inferior quality. Chicago people buy a large quantity of nice cake, and we could sell far more than we do if we had stores in different sections of the city. It is a field of enterprise open to any wovinn w'io knows how to bake skillfull r. uu.i 1" iti sure 1 don't know why more do not venture upon it. cago Xews. Pigeon Catching in the Soudan. Miss Sartorius, in her book on the Soudan and Egypt, say": "Every village has its pigeon houses, looking like great mud cores, and in the evening the owners go out and call them in. But rfrhen a man wants to get hold of extra pigeons, instead of calling them he frightens the pigeons away. They do not . understand this, keep circling above, and swoop down now and then toward their houses. Other pigeons, eeing this commotion, join them, and js soon as the man sees there are fnouch he hides. The whole of the birds? old and ne v, then go into the house, and the man returning shuts them in. This would be a fine business if it were not that all of them do the same thing, and, therefore, each gets caught in his turn. They know this perfectly well, but no Kgyj.tian fellah cou'd resist the tempt atio.i of cheating his neighbor." A Remarkable Case. - ' A wri'er says: "Talking the other day of General Grant, and the expect ancy .some peop'e had that he would die on the anniversary -f Appomattox, Sen ator Pal:iur. of Michigan, said to me: I knew of a remarkable case of hold ing pro to 1 fe in M'ehisran a year or two ago. Tsiere was a clergyman at Detroit named Barn -s. I was over at Grand Kapidson the cars, when he came rush ing in just as the train was starting. I noticed that he was flushed and ex eited. He said to me that he had just received a telegraphic mossag- that his wife ' was suddenly ill and dying: he had answered: "I'm coming. Mary: hold on till I get home." AU the way over to Detroit the clergyman sat in silence by liimself- I think he was praying. His wife got the dispatch and her at tendants .said it revived her. She held out till her husband arrived and died shortly afterward in his arms.' " After the death of a man at Bidde ford, Me., over $10,000 in cash and b' nda were found concealed :u bis bad. NOT A BLAMED WORD. How the Tender Feelings of a Bright Young Man Were Trampled Upon By m Iesirnin? Voting Woman. The And tor of State, hearingsomeon enter the room, looked up and beheld a man who looked as though he and melancholy had long been compan ions. "Good morning," said the Aud tor. "Only tolerable." He sat down and had, during a half hour, ma'ntained an unbroken s'lence, when the Auditor said: "Have you any busness with me?" "Not in particular." Again he settled down into deep si lence. The Aud tor became impat ont. "V hat can I do for your' "Hah!" "What can I do for you?" repeated the Auditor. Well, if you were in my place what would vou do?" - I don't know, 1 am sure. "Haven't heard anything about me, then?" "Nothing." "Not a blamed word?" "Not a word." "Well, I'll tell vou. I live out about twenty miles from here. I'm the feller that killed the big rattlesnake. Now, 'you hare heard oi me, haven't you?" No." "Not a blamed word?" "Not a word." That's stransre. Well, some time ago I fell in love with Nat Pearson's daughter. You've heard of that, I reckon?" "No." "Not a blamed word?" "Not a word." "Well, Nat he wan't agin the affa:r." "Wasn't, eh?" said the Auditor, be coming amused. "No. When I asked him he 'lowed that he didn't care, jes' so I waited till he got through plantin corn, for Sook that s her name can k:ver more corn with a hoe than any man in the neighborhood. I hadut said anyth ng to the girl all this time, thnkin' that I would wait. Well, when I spoke to her about it she 'lowed that it suited her well enough. Concluded to git mar ried in town by a Jestice of the Peace, so this mornin' e sot out an' come to town. I got mv license an' bou't her a ot of apples an' eatin' truck an' sweet stuff. I left her at the 'Squire s othce while I went to the wagon yard after our horses, mtendin' that as soon as we was married we would r de. Well, 6ir, when I came back she had dun married ke Jacobs. You Know him. don t you "No." "You've heard of him. haven't you?" "No, never heard of him." Not a blamed word?" "Not a word." "Well, he is a little bit tae ugliest an' good for nuthin' man I ever seed. The State of Arkansaw can't show up such another feller. Why, sir, he let Darb Andrews fling him down. You've hearn o' Darb?" "No." "Not a olamed word." "Not a word?" "Well now, if vou was in my place what would vou do?" "I wouldn't do anything." "Not a blamed th ng?" "No." I tell you, cap'n. It wan't so much that I love the girl, but that I need her." "Need her. eh?" "Yes. I've got ten acres of new ground that I want to put in corn. It is so rough that it can't be kivered 'cept with a hoe. That gal caa kiver it in three days. It's awtul to be disap pointed so early in life. Well, don t iay anything about it." "I won't. "Not a blamed word?" "Not a word." "Well, good-bye. Grief has tuck possession of me." Arkansaw Trav eler. The Turpitude of Church Choirs. In no sphere of human effort is greater progress shown than in the pulpit. But, as we bear witness to the fact, a dull pang of regret abates our joy in con templating the peccant of humors of church choirs. The pews feel many a qualm of con science under the fire of the pulpit. Sin cannot perk itself shame-faced on the cushion of repose in the highest seat in the synagogue. But who ever knew a church choir to cry peccavi? The theological sword thrusts at sin ners in the pews and the arrows of elo quence that flv over their heads never hit the choiristers. They tickle them selves with the straws of conceit. They wear an invisible c at of mail, ana, under a barricade of hymn-books, eat sugar plums and crack jokes as if each in turn had slipped on the ring of Gy ges. The man w.th bulging eyes and a bald head, who plays a fantasy on "Hock of Ages" on the cornet, fears no moral castigat'on from the pulpit for flirting with the soprano. He holds it at disadvantage. In mockery o f the preacher's meek stare of reproof, he causes the diamond on his little finger to twinkle in his eyes, as if it had caught a ray of celestial light while triple-tonguing the last cadenza with an air of "sarcastico-benigant superi ority." He knows it is not the sermon that draws, but the cornet. While the organist is holding a sus picious tete-a-tete behind a sheet of music with a choir girl, who meets him half way with a fan of peacock-teathers. the teuor surreptitously writes a note on the fly-leaf of a hymn-book and pokes it in the contralto's muft. The moral torpor of the the basso, who sits with folded legs reading a Sunday newspaper, is a contemptuous comment on the evangelizing power. of the pul pit. Then the second tenor is convuls ed, with a fit of laughter in watching a fly tickle the bald pate of a deacon be low. It seems as if the Evil One had been metamorphosed into an insect, and was making a rival pulpit of the bare patch on the deacon's crown. Us:-ge has so consecreted the levities of church choirs, that missionaries must ever regard them as sterile fields for labor. H. V. S THE BIRD SPIDER. History of a Remarkable Insect Native to Warm Countries. Few animals are more repulsive than this gigantic spider. The bird spider (Migale avicularia), for so the creature is called, excites horror In all the coun tries in which it is found. In the Antilles and in the forests of Venezuela, Brazil, Guiana and Ecua dor, its repulsive aspect has, among the residents, as well as among travelers. caused a terror that the imagination of the aborigines has still further exagger ated. How many times, while lying in my hammock during the .long equinoc tial nights, have I heard the Indiana and peons, while squatting around the camp hre in the virgin lorest, ten eacn other stonM, or fables rather, whose inexhaustible theme was serpents, bats and big spiders! In measure a the night advanced, the tales became more and more extraordinary. From heca tombs of birds devoured upon their nests by the Arana eangrejo (crab Bpider). with Jong velvety legs ana poisonous jaws, the orator passed to more dramatic facts, and the last flickerings of the dying embers often lent their fantastic accompaniment to a story about a child whose blood had been suefced while it lay in its cradle. Freed from these local exaggerations which are so frequent among these weak minds in a state of nature (and examples of which might be easily found nearer home), the history of the bird spider still remains sumcientlv in teresting to merit being narrated and be better known. Linne described this species under the name of Aranea avicularia, the specihe name recalling the animal's habit of feeding at times upon birds, and even upon adult humming birds, captured upon the nest, lhe celebrated en to motorist Latreille in 1802 established the genus Migate for Arachnids of the tribe Theraphoses. All the individuals included in this group are hunters, and live either in nests constructed in the the earth or in the clefts of stones and under the bark of trees, like the species that form the subject of this article. Some of them are wonderfully skilled workmen, as the mason spider . (M. carrnentaria. Latr.), of southern France and pioneer spider (iu. Jodtens, V alck.) of Corsica. The habits of the bird spider are not so well known as those of the ones just mentioned, either because from its Vmntino- Kain rr Hnn at nio-ht it. ia rnwlv met with, or because it selects retreats that are not very accessible. There are few authors to be found, however, who have correctly spoken of this curious and dreaded spider; several of them have copied one another, and others have devoted ' themselves especially to its anatomy. During the course of my travels in equinoctial America I have several times had an opportunity of seeing the bird spider m a' state of nature, and it will perhaps be permitted me to add a few personal observations to those of the travelers who have pre ceded me. Of the several hundreds of spiders that have been described, this ia the largest. The largest specimen that I captured measured exactly, with legs stretched out, seven inches in diameter, The first one I saw was at Martinique, not far from Saint Pierre, in the trees skirting a road. Its nest was suspended from the branch of a Falicourea, an elegant shrub of the Rubiacere, and its appearance strikingly recalled those large caterpillar nests that we so fre quently find upon the Aleppo pine (fmus halepensis) on the mountains m the vicinity of Cannes and Nice. It con sisted of a beautiful white silken tissue. of several thick layers, strengthened by very strong threads capable of arrest ing a small bird. In the center were placed the eggs, perhaps 1.500 to 2,000 in number. As soon as the young are hatched and escape from the cocoon. large red ants of the genus Myrmica wage a bloody war on them, and feast upon their whiteish flesh of no consist ency and without hairs. Such destruc tion happily counterbalances the rar ages that the spider would make were it to multiply too abundantly. In fact, the adult animal, whose body measures no less than four and one-fourth inches in length, not including tne legs, is as ferocious as its aspect implies. Its en tire body bristles with long reddish brown hairs. Its eyes, e'ght in num ber, are strangely grouped upon a small elevation (cephalothorax) ; six of them are arranged in a triangle on each side, and the two others are separated at the apex of the warty prominence. At the extremity of tne strong, black, smooth jaws are the palpi, shaped like legs, and each terminating in an enormous, black, shining sting, which is obliquely swollen like that of the scorpion, and. like that, filled with a dangerous venom. These are not its only weapons. At the extremity of its abdomen two elongated glands secrete an abundance of lactescent, corrosive jiquid. which the animal is capable of ejecting against its enemy at will, in order to blind it or render it insensible. Add to this a muscular power so great that it is vry difficult to make it let go, even when it has fastened itself to a smooth body, and we shall obtain some idea of th- formidable manner in which this species is armed. It is rare that the bird spider is seen to hunt during the daytime, except near its nest, and principally in dark places; but as soon as night arrives it leaves its lair. Its wonderful agility, a char acteristic Which it shares with its con- f eners, is coupled with rare boldness, t attacks large lizards, like the anolbj of the Antilles, and likewise serpents, it is said. These it falls upon as - quick iis a flash, and seizes by the upper part of the neck, in order to prevent them from resisting. If it surprises a hum ming bird upon its eggs, it buries its terrible pinchers into it between the base of tiie skull and its first vertebra. Injects therein a poison which paralyzes it, and then sucks the' blood of its vic tim at leiiure. La Nature. If thire is a craze called roller ikating rtging in the land, as reported, tt is very itrange that some of the para-tn-aphistion't make a joke about it. Horristoun Herald. Someone has discovered that the reason wjy men succeed who mind their owt business is because there Is tittle competition. MUTTON AND MERINOS. The Two Factors Which Render Sheep Raising: ProHtab e. Sheep husbandry would not be profit able if we saved the fleece only. Mut ton and wool are the combined object we seek. But as we once before stated the larger the surface the larger the quantity of wool;- and thus far certain It the argument is on the side of size What argument can be urged against it? That it rcqu res mor ? lood to keep a large than a small t-hceot Withou saying and prov ng more than tins. is no argument at an. uoes it cos more to keep a large sheep than the profits which . its returns compensate for. is the quest on. As to the . d Iter ence between the amount of food con sumed by two sheep of different szes the opinion must be largely speculative. Indeed, we can not see how a defin te rule could be faxed, for all sheep of one size do not make the sameeconom ic d use of food. One may assimilate perfectly, and another may "not. It is true that the digest on and powers of as limitation of the sheop are very strong. and may be said to be almost uni versally nearly perfect Still thre is a difference, ana may be more differ ence than we are able to see. But we do not bel'eve that a large Merino eats more than it pays for; .n fact, we do not believe that the di.ierence is worth consider.ng. At the Mich gan Sheep Breeders Association last year we noticed it at the t me it was stated that a French flockm aster had demonstrated that a heavy sheep -shear ing seventeen pounds of wool ate twice as much as a light sheep shearing six teen pounds of wool. As between two individual sheep this might be true but as we understand the statement, it was that the Frenchman found this to be true throughout a flock; and if that is the statement, though it may prove nothng to say we do not believe it. still we say it. The principle in regard to large cattle is equally applicable to sheep, viz., that it does not make any difference how large an animal is, if it is gvmmetrically developed, compact in foiin. A speaker at the convention re ferred to recocrnized this principle. though he did not comprehend it. He advocated a sheep of medium size and compact form, evidently believing that we could not secure compactness if we went beyond the size stated. But we all know that this is not true, for we see large compact animals every day. An angular sheep is not more desirable than an angular steer. Such an ani mal will eat, and eat. but will take on fat very slowly, if it does at all. The system will utilize that part of the food consumed which maces bone and mas cle, or enough of it to keep the bones and muscles in fall strength, and will excte the fat-producing elements. It is a waste of resources to feed such an animal fa t-proiuc;ng.' foods. If they are useful for other purposes than meat production, thev- should be fed the non-fat-form ng foods as long as thev can be made to se.-ve the purposes for which they are kept, and then oe s:ot rid of in the easiest way. .1 there is no other purpose in keeping them than meat production, everyone must judge for himself what he will do with them. As to the sheep, the bone and muscle of the angular animal wdl secure the nourishment, to the detri ment of the fleece to some extent But if we had a sheep that was s mmetri cally developed it would not be objec tionable if it was as large as an e.e phant. In th s country, where we have so much feed that wo "desire to convert into greater than its original value. what we particularly want is an ani mal that will consume all that it will p-ive an account of. It is fortunate t at but lew tnougtit- ful breeders will agree with the gentle man to whose remarks we have refer red. Unless there is some special rea sot of a selfish character for a d fferent advocacy, all breeders w;ll advocate large sheep. As one gentleman said at Lansing, the champ on shearer ot the world was a laree sheep. vv hen a man has a family of high ped greed Merinos that are small, he will advo cate small she?p. of course; and he is pretty nearly tne oniy man wno aoes, i . i i j This was shown by the results of the attempt at this convention to deter mine the idea of the members of the association in regard to the s ze of a stock ram. Those who bel eved that one hundred and thirty pounds. independent of fleece, was the prop er size, were asked to stand up, but none responded. The same request with reference to a hundred and forty pounds met with no response. A hun dred and fiftv pounds drew four to their feet, and six thought that a hun dred and sixty pounds would be satis factory. But already the reader, who knows that many high-priced merinos will not come "up to these higher weight, have begun to wonder how the owners of such could consent to be put on record as favoring large sheep. This was the thought that came to us as soon as we began to read the re port Well, they would not be put on record. The four who voted for 150 pounds, of course, had rams of thaf weight, and those wno stood up ipr itu had rams of that size. But when those who believed 170 pounds were ind ca- tive of the proper size, the convention remonstrated aga nst being put on rec ord upon such a matter, and we think very properly, for the merit "of an ani mal, as already stated, depends upon other things than size. At the sugges tion of 10 pounds, some one stated the requirements in the an mal in a nut shell, as we have stated it above: a sheep could not be too large, or, as the speaker put it. "scarcely too large," if balanced up with other good qualities. Western Kural. The annual Teport of the Ohio Ag- r'cultural ExperinvntStation urges the preservation and maintenance of for ests, and says this concerning wood anas: "lhe nrst step should be to re move all worthless varieties, and to encourage the valuable sorts to take their place. Stock should not be al- owed to run in. wood lots for purpose of forage; there should be a careful guard against fire; seeds should be planted in vacant places of such va rieties as are most desirable; shoots of interior var et es should be kept down and valuable sorts should be trimmed up, so that they may grow tall, form ing trunk rather than branches." Cleveland Leader. . IS THE CONSERVATORY, fiarl Marble. i "But w must return! What will they say I i. es, I know it s awful nice. In the window here, from the others away, With a taste now and then of the ice, And now and then of Oh, you wretch! It wasn't at all required I That you should illustrate thus with a sketch ilie speecn tnat ol course you aclixurea. "No matter how naughty. There you have siKuea The 'classical Grecian knot' In which you like my hair to be coiled, And I really don't know what I Other mischief you haven't done I You're just Real naughty I You squeeze like a vise! Why can't you men take something on trust, And be more dainty and mcei "There! I'm ready now. What! just one more? Oh, aren't you a darling tease? And love me so? one, two, three, fourl There! come now, dearest, please. I'm almost afraid of the parlor glare. When they look at my lip3 they'll see The kisses upon them. " "No, not there ; But, sweet, in your eyes, maybe !", A Modern Tower of BabeL THE PROPOSED OITK THOUSAND FOOT TOWXK. Among the plans proposed by the architects and engineers who are preparing the designs for the international exhibition of Fans in 1889 is one for the building of an immense tower. The height of this building, should it be erected, will throw all the architectural monuments of the world into the shade. It is to be 1,000 feet, or nearly twice as high as the Washington monument which at present is the biggest thing out doors. M. Bourdais is the engineer with whom the idea of this stupendous monument originated, and he ex pects to make bis work useful for various purposes. For instance, people can go up to the top in order to breathe an invigorating atmosphere, equal according to him to that attainable in mountainous regions. The Decline in the Coat of Food. The following chart is tabulated from some interesting figures in The American Grocer, comparing the wholesale prices of food staples for 14 years. The prices given were obtained by faking the average yearly whole sale price of the medium grade lor standard article in each case. : 37 36 3J 3 33 32 31 99 19 if 17 it 2X 2f 23 12 11 10 17 16 IS 3 n u to 9 CHART 8H0WINO THTB FLUCTUATIONS IK WHOLESALE PRICES OF FOOD BINCE 1870. Taking flour as an example, it will be peen by the chart that the quantity purchased in 1870 for 28 cents cost in 1873 36 cents: in 1878 it could be bought for 23 cents; cost in 1SS0 29, while in 1884 it was but 15 i cents, or less than one one-half the price in 1872. The greatest decline is shown in canned peaches, which, costing 35 cents In 1870, could be bought for 13 cents during Coffee seems to be the only article among 17 of gen eral consumption that is not much iower than it was in 1870. Speaking of the decline The American Grocer says: "A glance at the comparative prices of leading articles of food for the past 15 years evidently supports the theory that we have arrived at an era of permanent low prices. Thej decline ha.- been continuous throughout the period men tioned, necessitating a readjustment in the economy of everyday affairs. 1 1 Vices have, during the period under review, several time.-, fallen to a point regarded below the cost of production. Still, through the agency of new inventions, unproved methods of cultiva tion, cheaper labor, reduced rates of trans portation, lower rates of interest and other causes, producers and manuiaciurars nave been enabled to reduce first cohC Where Pegged Shoes Were Invented. Bill Arp's North Carolina jLetter. Aahville is the town and place where they say pegged shoes were first invented, and it came about because the town shoemaker didn't have room enough to pull the waxed ends out to their full length without hitting bis elbows against a mountain on one side or the other, and so he invented pegs that he could strike up and down perpendicularly and have plenty of room. . t . V : i V ''A FASHION NOTES. Borne of the Eccentricities Which IUtIa sralah Woman's Attire In the Blae-GAua Kegtoa. Small knots and bows of velvet will again be worn in the hair. New summer bonnets will be of drawli net, close at the sides, with trim mings very high in front. A black net bonnet with soft pink roses is very attractive, this combina tion of colors being always admired. A glove intended for evening wear reaches to the wrist, and has a long lace sleeve of the color of the glove extending nearly to the shoulder. A beautiful little jacket of black net, embroidered all over with gold, with a deep flounce of gathered lace, and a moire sash fastened about the hips is very becoming to youthful figures. A girl's hat is of gray straw, bound with blue velvet, and trimmed with a blue and gr y scarf, with a handsome gray buckle in front. Another is of fine brown straw, with high crown and curved brim. It is handsomely trimmed with brown velvet and a cluster of spring flowers. A large hat of split English straw braid is in sage color. The brim is faced with moss green velvet and edged with gold tinsel cord. A wide band of velvet, overlaid with tinsel torchon, surrounds the crown, and in front is a large drapery bow of velvet, sur mounted by ostrich tips and dark green quill feathers and a metal aigrette. In th latest bonnet styles we ob serve one of medium size, faced with gold tinsel nicotine, the brim finished with a fringe of gilt and straw beads, having a soft crown of Egyptian em broidery in a design of tinsel and straw. The trimming was of chartreuse-green velvet ribbon, crossing the top and forming the strings, and on the left of the top a monture of green marabout tips and oats, upon which rests a large grasshopper. A pretty dress for a little cirl has a skirt of handsome brown and red plaid material, made with broad side plaits and set on a waist of silesia. A long jacket of brown velvet, closed at the throat, falls open over a full vest of red silk, the back of the jacket fitting snugly. It has coat sleeves and a small sailor ' jacket collar. A frill of lace at the throat and wrists completes the suit. Another large hat has a flattened. oval-peaked crown of rose-colored silk undervailing of Oriental piece lace. the brim being formed of bordering lace. The hat is trimmed with rose colored ottoman ribbon around the crown, a bow being made with long ends at the left side oi the back, with a monture of full nodding white ostrich tips placed on the left side of the front. Another bonnet, with mitre crown and pointed poke brim, is of pale. itraw-colored silk, covered with- tinsel embroidered net. ' The crown is defined by folds of French erepe, and the brim is faced with brown velvet and over laid with drop straw fringe. A large bow of cork-brown satin ribbon is on the top, held down by a tinseled bird, and strings of the ribbon complete the trimming. A handsome dress is of moss green Sicilienne with front trimmed with wide, handsome passementerie of cut black jet, with small jet tassels depend- ng from it. A long polonaise opens over the front, showing the passemen terie, and is edged down each side with a rich trimminer also of iet. arranged n Vandykes, The folds are caught up very high toward the back, and fall in fraceful folds over the skirt of the ress. A costume of mushroom color, in faille francaise is attractive. The skirt is trimmed with narrow stripes of tar tan velvet running round it. The polo naise is tucked longitudinally upon the bodice, these tucks supplying the full ness for the skirt of the polonaise. The folds are caught back very high and fall over the skirt of the dress. A little cape of velvet, the same color as the faille, trimmed with a thick, deep fringe, in which all the colors of the tartan are mingled, completes the cos tume. Loutsvtue Vourxer-Joumal. NEWSPAPER CUTS. How a Urleht Boton Joarnatlrt Met an Emergency. About nine years! ago James W. Clarke, who is now the managing editor of Boston Traveler J was conducting the Boston Sunday Times. Illustrated journalism had never, so far as I know, been heard of then, and the enterpris ing young man, who was always trying experiments and original inventions, bethought him of the attractions of outline portraitures. The famous Bel knap commotion was going on then, and young Clarke conceived the idea that to bring out the portrait of Mrs. Belknap would be j a very "taking" thing. So on Friday he advertised in all the city papers jthat the Sunday Times would contain this portrait, lie telegraphed to Washington for a pho tograph, and behold! none cou Id be obtained. Saturday j came. He tele graphed to a friend in New York to search Sarony's, to search every pho tographer's, but there was no success. Saturday night came, and it was demonstrated to a mathematical cer tainty that no photocraph of the lady could be. obtained. In this dilemma Mr. Clarge sought a wood engraver, arranged with him to cut the likeness of an ideal beauty that figureg on his favorite brand of tobacco, and the next morning this ideal divinity appeared in the Times, duly labeled "Mrs. Bel knap." I doubt if from that day to this any reader of that illustrious sheet ever knew the dillerence. it was MrUlarke. believe, who first introduced this illus trated journalism into Boston. Chicago Inter Ocean. In Maryland, in early times, a box of forty pounds of tobacco was levied npon every taxable inhabitant for the pay of the preacher s salary. 1 his tax was collected by the Sheriff, who charged four per cent, for his services, and also deducted from the total col lected one thousand pounds per annum for the payment of the Parish Clerk. By the laws of Virginia every clergy man received annually one thousand five hundred pounds of tobacco and six teen barrels of flour. ;3 WTXXIAM, ZXFEROa OF GERMANY and king of Prussia, son of Frederick Wil liam ILL, was born March 22, 1797, was edu cated as a soldier and took part in the war of 1813-15 against Prance. In 1840 be was appointed governor of Pomerania, till 1848, when the revolution drove bim to England. In the same year he was elected to the con stituent assembly at Berlin, and later ap pointed commander-in-chief of the Prussian army. When the mind of his brother gave way, in 1858, William was createa regent, and after the former's death, without heirs, he succeeded to the throne as William the L In 1867 he became the head of the North German Confederation, comprising twenty two states, with a population of 29,000,000, and on January 18, 1871, In the palace of Versailles, he was proclaimed emperor of Germany, in addition to his title of king of Prussia. William L married, June 11, 1829, the Princess Augusta, daughter of harlea Frederick, grand duke of Weimar. They had two children Prince Frederick William and Princess Louise Mary. The life ot the em peror was attempted on two occasions In 1878. A World In Pawn. Federal Australian. The idea of the whole globe being hypothe cated by countless millions of debtors to a calculable number of creditors ia a very startling one, when it is abruptly and nakedly presented. And It is difflcv ". to imagine so vast an estate in liquidation, or to conjecture to what bankruptcy court the creditors would prove their debts, or who would be the official assignees to collect and distribute the assets. Nevertheless, the fact remains that the whole world is in pawn, and that its balance sheet shows us an aggregate of liabilities which is absolutely appalling. They have been summed up in The Fortnightly Review by Mr. A J. Wilson, an experienced writer on financial subjects, and the total is the stupendous sum of 5,394,000,000 an amount which, if represented in sovereigns, it would take a man172 years to count, at the rate of a sovereign a minute, without a moment's cessation from beginning to end. To defray the interest on this enormous debt requires 200,000,000 per annum, which Mr. Wilson represent to be fully equal to the entire earnings of 8,000,000 of people; and "did each individual in these 8,000,000 sup- port a family of three persons only betiue him self, the interest uponliese debts would im ply the absorption of the entire support of a population equal to that of the United Kingdom. " Of course, a calculation of this kind takes no account of the debts owing by municipali ties, counties, cities, railway, canal, gas, water, insurance and other public companies. But these would assume still vaster propor tions, for the capital sunk in railways alone is 4,000,000,000, and this is of course a debt owing to bond and shareholders; while the local debt state and city in the United States amount to 175,00,000. The mother country is the greatest pawnbroker in the world, and draws 250,000,000 per annum from the nations and colonies indebted to her. Mr. Wilson is of opinion that the time baa arrived when a stop should be put V) this system of mortgaging the future to meet the expenditure of the present, and when Eng land, more particularly, should begin to ex tinguish her existing liabilities. But his ad vice is not likely to attract much attention. Nations are just as improvident an individu als, and not one of them has ever been de terred from rushing into a war of ambition or aggrandizement by considerations of the burdens it was entailing on posterity; and the United States is the only one which lias taken prompt measures to extricate itself from a national debt. FREDERICK B. OPPFR. Mr. Oj'por, vLoee grotesque Illustrations in Puck, notably tboe accompanying Bill Nye's articles, have brought him well earned praise, is but 27 yers of age. Ac quiring the trade of compositor in his na tive place, Madison, Ohio, he came U, New York at th age of 18, and began work on Wild Oats as a draugbtsmm, fro n .which he went to Leslie's, an I, after three years, to Puck. While his delineat.o.is of iti Iruta and Hebrew characters seem to be hi 1 jrtx-, his lampoons on social subjects hare Uen probably his best work. It is to be hoped Mr. Opper will yet show his skid in illus trating a volume from some of our well known humorists. Ills Ilalrplua.' Cor. San Francisco Chronicle. A friend of mine who knows Joaquin Mil ler gave me a funny description of how he used to go calling with him in Washington. That was before Joaquin cut his hair and then he carried it all carefully fixed up with hairpins. They would reach the house and ring the belL If the lady were out they would go away. If she were at home Joaquin would take off his hat, carefully take out the hairpins, let the hirsute mass fail over his shoulders and march into the drawing-room with the poetic Etride of Walker of Nicaragua. Philadelphia Call: People with delicate olfactory perceptions may bo intereted in knowing that as a rule out of 1,000,000 cod fish eggs only 100 survive. Boston Courier: Sugar is selling at 2 centa pound in many places in Cuba, and the question arises what do the grocers adulterate the sand with?