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FAMILY MOURNING. The Wearing of lllnck Apparel Not n ite- llnblo Kl(tn of Sorrow. For one I believe tlint the custom of wearing mourning npparcl in the way of a badge of sorrow and aflliction is going out of use, and tliat tlio time will come and possibly may not be far distant when sucli a practice will have become obsolete. Various reasons may bo offered why Christian people should --discountenance such a custom alto gether. It is said that in European countries black is employed generally, because it represents darkness, unto which death is like, as it is a privation of life. In China, on the contrary, white is used, because the people hope and believe their dead have gone to Heaven; the place of nil-purity. In Egypt yellow is worn, because it rep resents the decaying of (lowers and trees, which become yellow as they de cay. In Ethiopia brown is used, since it denotes the color of the earth from whence we came and to which we re turn. In certain parts of Turkey blue is worn, because this color represents the sky. where the people trust their dead have gone; but in other portions of the empire blue and violet are adopted, since these colors, being a blending of black ami blue, represent, from one point of view sorrow; from Uio other, hope. Now, in reality, to wear mourning signifies nothing and answers no valuable purpose. It is in, truth no certain index to the state of the mind. To .see an entire family clot lied in black a person would naturally conclude that the family are true mourners, needing con solation in their sorrow. Yet what is the fact in a large majority of instances? l'opo speaks of those who bear about the mockery of woe: "To nililiillit ilancos mill tlio public slinw." Ami, alas! mourning apparel is but too often "the mockery of woe." The great expense incurred in providing mourning garments is also a considera tion of weight which should not be overlooked. The clothing of an entire family, and especially where the family is large, in mourning garments is no trifling matter. Of course the wealthy and such as can afford the expense make no account of it, but to those who are poor or are in moderate circum stances it is a serious tax, and in fact proves nothing short of a most grievous pecuniary burden. Ami in many eases the custom of wearing mourning amounts to a prodigal waste of money. Many families are abundantly supplied with clothing, the wardrobe is filled with siiporlluous garments, and speedi ly, perhaps, the mourning apparel is laid aside so that it is the same as money thrown away. An estimate made of the amount of money ex pended in purchasing such apparel would astonish, I fancy, almost any community in the laud. Besides, what is there in the good moral inlluence arising from such a custom to balance this vast expenditure? (Iconic Newell Lowjoy, in Good Ihusikeeping. ALL ABOUT GOLD. Hint fur I'itmiim Who Aro About to 1'nr- I'hilMti Mine In thti Kur Went, Auriferous gravels can of course only exist where auriferous quart, veins existed before them. Without a bank to draw upon in the first place, you can not possibly get your bullion. In Cali fornia the materials that make up the gold-bearing gravel beds were washed down by streams ami Hoods in the Plio cene period from the mountain tops above and dcposit' d in the basins of ancient lakes and rivers now no more. (ut Pliocene gravid would, under nat ural circumstance., long .since have been washed away. It has been pre served in California to the days of Hill Nye anil Jones ol Calaveras, by a pe culiar accident which those amiable gentlemen would no doubt regard as "almost providential" for the mining interest. Toward the close of the genial Pliocene epoch, that usually well-conducted chain, the Sierra Ne vada, suddenly burst forth "on the spree" into volcanic activity on a grand and generally Western American scale. Like the cowboys who "paint the town red" in their simple joy, it covered the auriferous gravels with showers of pumice, ashes ami pebbles, and finally capped the entire mass with a broad sheet of solid basalt and lava. Not only did this great prehistoric eruption overwhelm the mastodons, Pliocene lamas and other extinct animals whose bones ami teeth still pleasantly diver sify the California diggings (giving in cidental occasion to the celebrated society upon the Stanislaw), but it also buried beneath its ash and lava the famous ami initeh-debated Cavalcras skull, which, if genuine, is the oldest fragment of a human body now known to exist, anywhere. The capping of lava varies from one hundred to one hundred ami llfty feet in thickness, and it has preserved from erosion the subjacent gravel which would other wise hate been swept away, ami so rendered posibh) the very existence of the California diggings and the town of San Francisco. Cornhill Mtujtuine. - i m t A Fourth Warder, says the Now York Sun, slopped a dignified man on the How cry recently, saying: "Say, joung teller, give me a" light, will ycr?" "I will give you a light," said the gentleman, "but 1 am not a young feller, and that is not the way to ad di 'Wis mu." The Fourth Warder got a light, and as he handed the cigar back, witli his politest manner wild: "Thank J ou, pop." - The following sign adorns tlio front of a boot-blacking establishment on Blnekstono street, Huston: "Pedal teguments artistically illuminated, lu bricated ami embellished for the fit tin Itcsiimil compensation or remuneration of lite ceuU per operation." CARE OF THE SKIN. A Sjstnn or Dint nncl Kxerelse That Will Amur a (Inoit Complexion. Plenty of exercise, good, wholesome food, well digested, will do more for the complexion than all the toilet ap pliances in the world. Use the llesh brush with vigor, walk, ride, row, run, giving every muscle in tlio body some thing to do; eat beef, brown bread, cereals, fruit, vegetables and milk, and a good complexion must lie the result. Wood, nourishing food must be eaten and well digested ; the circulation equalized by plenty of exercise in the open air and frequent bathing. Each woman must be a law unto herself as to the number and temperature of the baths, as what strengthens ami braces ii one may be found to weaken and enervate another. For those who have vitality enough to react, the cold sponge bath in the morning will bo found a delightful tonic. Delicate women will find that by beginning them in the warm weather they will, in most cases, bo able to continue during the entire year. A handful of sea salt dissolved in the water will do much to strengthen the weak chest or back. In many cases the hot bath at nightquiots the nerves, refreshes the body, and induces sleep, lint care should be taken not to remain in the watci too long; otherwise it will he found debilitating. Distilled water is, of course, the best, but as all can not like Queen Victoria aflbrd so expensive a luxury, it will be found that clean rain water or any ,s-oft water will do nearly as well. I Hose wno can not ootain either one of these may use a few drpps of am monia, which will make the hardest water soft and clean oil" all impurities. A box of powdered borax is also an indispensable article upon the toilet table; a pinch of this will soften the water and is said to whiten the skin. Oat meal used externally and eaten frequently is very beneficial to the skin, as are also cracked wheat and other cereals. Put a handful of oat meal in a howl and pour a cup of boil ing water over it. When this is settled wash the hands ami face in the starchy water that rises to the top 'of it. The continued use of this for a week and the wearing of gloves at night will soften and whiten the roughest and darkest skin. Ladies with oily or greasy skins may use, sparingly, a few drops of camphor in the bath, or a few drops of diluted carbolic acid. The latter removes the odor of perspiration from the body and leaves it clean, wholesome smell. Care should be taken that it is not used too strong, as it is not only poisonous, hut the odor is very offensive to some people. Borax and glycerine combined are used with good effect by some ladies, while thoroughly disagreeing with others, (ilyrcriuo alone softens and heals, but used too frequently will darken the skin and make it very sensi tive; the borax obviates this and has a tendency to whiten. 'fo remove tan and sunburn use a preparation composed of equal parts of glycerine and rose-water, to which mid the juice of two lemons after hav ing strained it through line muslin. More or less rose-water mey be used to make tin preparation the required con sistency, as it is rather disagreeable if ilieky. I'resh freckles may frequently he removed by touching the discolora tion with a tiny earners hair brush flipped in lemon juice. Finely powdered pumice-stone, which may bo had at any druggist's, is very .'llicacious in removing all superfluous mil roughened skin. Hub the hands uid face thoroughly with it, dry, then wash oil' with tepid water and soap, l'he use of warm water is also very hcucticial; some people go so far as to vlai m that the continued use of it will not only preserve the skin, but prevent wrinkles. The proper toilet observances at night should be considered as a personal duty. Home Knowledge. SMALL BEGINNINGS. I'ho Dullclit SI t'll Tukit III Kcllltlnc Mm Story ot Tlii'lr l'ro;rei. Man is made in the image of Hod, iiiul his mind is peculiarly interested i till impressed by this feature of the Divine handiwork. And when, on a far humbler scale, it characterizes his tiwn works, he is greatly moved. Wit ness the delight of the school-boy when i handful of snow rolled patiently ilong the garden becomes a huge lump, taller than himself. Witness ,ho satisfaction of some laborious writ er, who for years upon years has been '.oiling at some dictionary, or a history if the world, or a philosophy of the aniverse, or some such tusk, ami at last sies the slender lir.t day's page multiplied into a work of a dozen norinous volumes. A successful man if the peoplo who founded an institute in a provincial town in Scotland, placed in it a little green box, more in teresting to him than to the public, be cause when he started in life it con tained the whole of his earthly posses sions, lu the hall of a splendid man sion on the edge of Loch Lomond I have seen the picture of a little sailing resel, which carried the owner and all Ids goods when lie set out for the East to begin w hat proved a vast and most lucrative business. And how often at tirenides, or dinner tables, in the course uf friendly saunters by the way, do men who have acquired a position de light to rehearse the story of their progress; and how interested are most if us in hearing or reading how the julf was spanned between the lawyer's til's t brief and the woolsack, or the lector's first foe ami tho baronetcy, or, u the caw uf the Amerioan President, between the log cabin and tho White tloiuc. - (Juticr. J SUPERSTITIOUS TERROR. 1 The I'ownr It May Kiort Upon tlio Strength , anil I?vn Life of H Mini. Ono of tho survivors of an early Polar expedition lately told an incident which illustrates tho power which superstitious terrors may exert upon the strength and even life of a man One of the strongest anil most hopeful members of the expedition was a young Scotcliiunn. The party was obliged to spend the second winter on tho ice the rations were low, and many of the men already had died of scurvy and cold. C , the Edinburgh man. though weak, was the life of the party. His joke and laugh never failed. One night, after they had shifted cam) to new place, lie sanl: "I am sure to go back home. An old Gypsy read my fortune ten vears ago. I am to die in Van Dicman's Land, and it's many a league from here to there. "Not so far," said one of his com panions. "The captain named this place 'Demon's Land' this morning. J Hat is near enough, for your pur pose. The .Scotchman laughed uneasily, Hut from that moment lie gave up all onenry and hope. In twenty-four hours he was dead. Cold ami hunger did their part. But it was fear that killed him at last. Among the records of Washington's campaign of 1777, a well accredited story is told of a young English olllcer, Lord Percy, who served under Corn wallis. On riding to the crest of the hill which overlooked the Hrandywine, he suddenly cheeked his horse and looked about him in silence for a few moments. Ho then said to a friend: "I dreamed of this place before I left Lnglaud. I saw it all, in every detail. 1 shall die here." He called his sen-' ant, and gave him his tnonev, watch and a message for his mother. He was one of tho first men to fall in the en gagement. The coincidence was singu lar. But when wo consider that prob ably ninety men in every hundred go into a battle believing that thev shall fall in it, the proof of the truth of pre sentiments, is not. established by one or two fulfilled premonitions. No record is preserved of the cases in which a very strong presentiment is followed by events which bear no re' semblance to those anticipated. These, nevertheless, constitute so large a pro portion of the whole that when the matter is viewed merely as a problem of chances, it is extremely improbable that any particular presentiment will be fulfilled. ioutli a Companion. ABOUT SPECTACLES. I'l'oplc Jn'ot no Thnlil About Wearing Thmn l 'I boy 1'm'cI to lie. "I do not think that eye troubles are on tint increase, said a dealer in optical goods, "although the demand for spectacles is greater in proportion than the growth of population. The reason for the .increase is that people have less timidity about using specta cles. I here is an impression, not yet eflaced, that the use of spectacles once begun can never be laid aside. This is not true. The fact is that a person who really ought to use spectacles bv putting nil' the adoption of them only necessitates the wearing of a hignei' number when he does put them on; whereas, it be had worn spectacles in time he might have so nursed his ocular strength as to discard tliemat pleasure, for a period at least." "Are not eye-glasses very often worn when there is no real need for them?" "Quite likely they are," replied tho dealer, "but I notice that the salo of eye-glasses docs not keep up in tho same proportion as the sale of specta cles. The eye-glass mania seem, to he dying out. "Where are spectacle manufac turcd?" "The frames are made in this coun try. Foreigners can not compete with us in making the frames. Tho pebbles are mostly ground abroad. Pebbles are also ground to order heroin special eases." "1 would sooner soil one pair of spectacles to a man," added the dealer, "than half a dozen to a woman. A woman seems to be more anxious as to how she will look in the spectacles than how she will look through them, and seems to think we ought to have looking glasses here as big as thoso in tlie dry goods stores." A'. F. Sun. Sharks In tho Rhine. In a bathing establishment in the Hhine at Wyltlen, near Basle, conster nation was caused not very long ago by the capture of a shark of the species called spotted dogfish, its presence in the peaceful waters of the Khiue was finally accounted for as follows: Years ago there was employed in the large chemical works of Wyhlen a gentleman who was greatly interested in zoological researches and to whom it occurred to try whether salt-water fish could not live in the salt springs of Wyhlen. He had a number of fish sent him from (lie aoologienl garden of Frankfort-oii-the-Mnin, but the experiment proved a failure; most of the young fish died, and he tliiHfly threw the survivors into an outlet of the springs emptying into tlio Hhine. It seems that just there the conditions were favorable to the propagation of some of the tlsh. Al ready last May, a laborer while bath ing was bitten in the leg by what he described as a large animal, but his story was not believed. Now, however, since the presence of sharks has been iudubituhly demonstrated, the author ities have warned tho inhabitants of that region against bathing in tho Hhine. The shark lived nearly a day nftvr its capture, and was stmt to tho museum at Cnrlsruliu.--8wiiJ Ga- JUDGING AT SHOWS. Views of n Writer Who llnm Not Ilellnvo In KxIstiiiR Method. I have never been able to seo that justice would be done by a slavish ad herence to the card, and unless it is to be strictly observed, it would bo better to leave it alone except as .i mere sailing chart, which a capable mariner would not frequently re quire to consult. itic ctitiicuity in apportioning values by a gen eral. standard of merit is manifest. If an animal is decidedly deficient in an important point, it should not be al lowed a place among the winners at all, whereas it might happen, by a mere enumeration of the counts as signed upon the basis of an ideal stand ard of perfection, that it would come out at the top of the list. Although I am of opinion that breed ers and critics should alike exercise a little restraint in commenting upon tlio decisions of the judges as given under the present system, and in sug' gesting either incapacity or unfairness on their part, I am far, indeed, from considering that improvement in tlio method of adjudication is undesirable It is a marvel to me that the mode of selecting and appointing judges has not long ago been reformed. hen shows were established it was not re niarKaiiie mat a detective plan was adopted, Imt why we should have gone on in these lines for a hundred years is inconiprohens'ti'le Could any thing be more ridiculous than wJiat occurred in several classes at Heading recently? we aro told that a Short-horn breeder and a Hereford breeder decided upon the merits of Short-horns and Ilerefords, ami a Devon breeder and a Sussex breeder did the like service for Devons and Sussex. 1 have nothing whatever to say against the qualifications of the gentlemen whose names appear in the catalogue as regards their own variety ol stoeK some ot mem l Know are very high but I have yet to learn what special fitness they possess for deter mining nice points m character and form in the case of breeds they have never themselves owned or reared. What would a manufacturer, showing goods at tho inventions exhibition, think if an expert in iron work were appointed to decide upon his ingen iously-designed articles of upholstery, or a rope anil twine manufacturer on delicate specimens of textile fabrics. It seems to me that there are onlr twointelligiblesystenisof judging one is for the society privately to select a jury of six or ten, or any number above the orthodox three, and let them ar range the order of merit. This is tho happy family arrangement, a very pretty specimen of rural felicity. The other, and to my mind the practical and businesslike method, is to appoint a single expert judge. Most of the breeds have now specialist societies to look after their interests. Let them recommend a number of their most distinguished members to the agricult ural .societies as competent judges The societies will be compelled to ap point one of the authorized pidges, be- cau if they do not their show can be boycotted. The name of the judge should he published when the schedules are sent out. and breeders would then be in a position to know whether it is worth while to exhibit under him. If a judge proves himself incompetent or displays partiality once, he is not likely to have an opportunity ot exercising judicial functions again. The judge should he a man of sullieient intelli gence to be able to draw up a detailed statement as to his work, and he should be obliged to deposit this written report with the secretary, so that exhibitors could have an opportunity of consult ing it. Against the adoption of some plan as this, for which I need hardly say I lay no claim to originality, there are no arguments except those of frivolity or sentiment. The show system has re cently been compared to a "comic grammar," and as at present conducted it tloos not wholly escape from this re proach. Tho late secretary of the national society could say no better of the chief work of his institution than that it was throwing down money to be scram Died for. isow these aro not times when agriculturists can waste money ou "comic business" or undig nified scrambling. The shows, 1 be lieve, are of very real value, anil even under their present faulty manage ment they have done more for agricult ure ,thnu all the wasteful and abortive field experiments that ever were at tempted. But the time lias come for a change of method as regards judging, mil also in other points, as to which I have not left myself room to write. llritish liirc'Stoek Journal. How Is Business? To tlio question, "How's business?" the tailor answers: Sew, sew; the ac robat, jumping; the yachtsman, boom ing; the distiller, still; the baker, ris ing; the writing master, nourishing; the trial justice, fine; the apartment hotel keeper, flat; the weather bureau clerk, fluctuating; the plumber, pi ing; the gardener, springing up; the furniture t,eiuster, on the move; the minister whose church is in debt, fair; the shoemaker, awl right, with an up jK'r tendency; the rag gatherer, picking up; the hod carrier and the elevator Ixiy, now up ami now down; the undertaker, rim into the ground; (lie doctor, recovering; the cobbler, ou the mend; the astronomer, looking up; the cooper, (w)hooping her up; tho ieronaut, going up; the divor, going town. notion Courier. About half the work of reclaiming the Potomac lints has been completed, unci J3T6 acres have boeu evolved for the pic ndid new park that the flats are to (urnish. THE KISS IN HISTORY. Curloin Cixtoin Obtaining In Mnny Tor tious of the tllobe. There was an old belief that unless a maiden was kissed under the mistletoe at Christmas she would not be married during the ensuing year. When Fox was contesting the hard won seat at Westminster the beautiful Du dicss of Devonshire offered to kiss all who voted for the great statesman. In the ceremonial of betrothal a kiss ha played an importantpart in several nations. A nuptial kiss in church, at the conclusion of the marriage service, is solemnly enjoined by the York Mis sal and the Sarum Manual. The beautiful Lady Gordon, when the ranks of the Scottish regiments had been sadly thinned by cruel Badajos and Salamanca, turned recruiting .ser geant, ami, to tempt tho gallant lads, placed the recruiting shilling in iicr lips, whence each who would might take it with his own. In Finland, according to Bayard Taylor, the women resent as an insult a salute upon the lips. A Finish mat ron, hearing of our English custom of kissing, declared that did her husband attempt such a liberty she would treat him with such a box on the ears that he should not readily forget. In Wesley's journal, tlated Juno 1G, 17S, is given the following description of a duel between two officers at Lim erick: "Mr. H. proposed tiring at twelve yards, but Mr. J. said: 'No, six is enough.' So they kissed one another (poor farce!) and before they were five paces asunder Doth lirctl at tlio in stant." The Code of Justinian says "that if a man bothered a woman by a kiss and eith..- party died before marriage the heirs were entitled to half the dona tions and the survivor to tho other half; but if the contract was made without the solemn kiss, the whole of tl: espoused gifts must be restored to tho donors and their lieirs-at-law. 1 lie Mohammedans, on their pious pilgrimage to Mecca, kiss the sacred black stone and the four corners of the kaaba. The Homan priest kisses tlio aspergillum, and Palm Sunday tho palm. Kissing the Pope s toe was fashion introduced bv one of tho Loos, who, it is said, had mutilated his right hand, and was too vain to expose tho stump. In Iceland kissing had deterred pen alties of great severity. For kissing another man's wife, with or without her consent, the punishment of exclu sion, or its pecuniary equivalent, was awarded. A man rondeiod himself lia ble for kissing an unmarried woman under legal guardianship without her consent, and, if the lady consented, o law required that every kiss should bo wiped out by a fine of three marks equivalent to one hundred and forty ells of wadmal a quantity sullieient to furnish a whole ship's crew with pilot jackets. in uussia tho Eastern salutation is a kiss. Each member of the family salutes tho other; chance acquaintances on meeting kiss; principals kiss their employes; the General kisses his ofli- cers; tlio ollicers kiss their soldiers; the Czar kisses his family, retinue, court and attendants, and oven his ollicers on parade, the sentinels at the palace gates, and a select party of private soldiers probably elaborately prepared for this "royal salute. In other parts the poorest serf, meeting a high-born dame in the street, has but to say, "Christ is risen," and he will receive a kiss ami the reply, "He has risen, truly." Home, in his quaint old "Table Book," gives an account of a curious old kissing festival held in Ireland: "Easter Monday several hundred young persons of the town and neigh borhood of Potsfcrry, County Down, resort, dressed in their best, to a pleasant walk near the town, called 'The Waller.' Tho avowed object of each person is to see tho fun, which consists in tlio men kissing the females without reserve, whether married or single. this mode ot salutation is quite a matter of course; it is never taken anus, nor with much show of coyness. Ihn female must be ordinary indeed who returns home without hav ing received at least a dozen hearty busses." Chicago Tribune. Beware of Old Corks. "It is strange," saitl a physician the other day, "that in spite of the great interest taken nowadays in the purity of food and drink, no ono has called attention to an abuse that is as dan gerous ns it is dirty. 1 rofer to tho second-hand cork business. Every in telligent person, every paper ami the hoard of health should protest against it. Their use should be prohibited un der all circumstances. Corks once used aro not fit to cut-down, bleached or pressed and used a second time They may bo ever so well cleaned, the fermenting vegetations that get into the cracks ami internal fissures, com municate decay, disease and death to liquids thev aro used to preserve Corks that lie around for wooks among the tilth anil dirt of bar-rooms can not ln purified. There are several firms in this city that tlo an extensive busi ness among lot tiers of light wines, welss-beer brewers, sauce ami patent medicine manufacturers in these second-hand corks, and the business should be supprosod." A'. Y. Mail nd Nzprcst. "My dear," said a vory sick hus band, "if 1 tlie will you see that my grave is kept green?" "Yes, John," was tho sobbing reply, "lpu know how gladly I would do ns much for you," lie said, jjioii tho Duly timed lor t9.M'S and the sick man tjot well. .V. Y. Sun. KALAKAUA'S PALACE. The Oorceoan Structure Krecteil by tin I'mtllgnte Ilntrnllun Monurcb. The foundation stone of Iolani Palace was laid with full Masonic ceremonials (Kalaknua being a prominent Mason) on Queen Kapiolani's birthday, tlio last day in tho year 1879. It stands on an immense block, close to the heart ot the city, bounded by King, Richard and Likelike streets and Palace Walk. The palace itself covers an area of 140x120 feet, being thus nearly square. It con sists of two stories and a basement. It lias a large central tower and a smaller tower on each of the four corners. From the base to the top of the central tower it is 8 1 feet high. The original surmised cost was .00,000. but by 1880 !?lo,000 had been expended anil a fur ther appropriation of $80,000 was asked to complete it. Then its comple tion was promised for 1881, but at its opening in 1883 the whole affair was found to have cost S3 10,000. It is built of brick (cemented) from designs by Baker, remodeled by C. J. Wall, and the exterior is elaborately ornamented, while the interior is well, an artistic surprise. In all there are forty rooms, and considering that all but those in the basement are seldom used, it will puzzle the rentier to imagine what could lie arranged in so many apart ments. But the Hawaiian Kainehame has were powerful and had many visit ors,' besides which Kalaknua himself has been almost round the globe, ami the foundation of decorative on! ers brings about tho promulgation of still more decorative gifts, so that Iolani Palace is literally loaded with curiosi ties, both novel and ornamental. Tho front or state entrance to tlio palace, which entrance is only used on very special occasions, is on King street, nearly opposite the Government buildings. Entering the palace this way, then, the visitor comes first of all to a very broad hall leading from this entrance, each side of the staircase, and then right through to the back or palace walk end of the building. The first room to the right of this hall is the thr-ine, room, and here is enough conglomeration of the barbaric anil the modern to mystify the beholder. All round the walls are well executed por traits of the former Kings of Hawaii, and at the extreme end a portrait which both the King and Queen haVo often silently gazed upon. It is an oil painting of Kaahumanu, a wife of Kamohninoha the Great, who after his death, became Prime Minister and was virtually monarch during the short reign of Kaniehamcha II. Perhaps Kapiolani objects to her name ("Ca tive of Heaven") as she looks on this savage dame's determined features and longs to emulate her. But her spouse knows that those despotic times have long since gone by. Here, also, are the marvelous royal feather robes, tho gorgcousness of which no one can imagine. The robe used by Kalakaua. and exhibited in this throne room, is the identical ultimo (mantle) worn by the groat first Kainehatneha. It is eleven feet in width and five feet in length, and made entirely of golden feathers from the Oo, or royal bird. Only two feathers are found (one un der each wing) on each bird. As it takes a thousand feathers to make an ordinary necklace, what a vast quanti ty must this robe contain! And this is not only the collection of a lifetime, hut the combination of tlie hoards of eight or ten successive chiefs. At tho opening of Parliament this robo is spread upon the throne as symbolical of royalty, but at other times it is al ways kept over in tlie palace, and it is said that Kalakaua was once discov ered alone in tho throne room with this robo around him gesticulating anil voicing forth vowels to his ancestors like a child with a new toy. Kalaknua is now fifty-one years of age and has been drawing 'fi'.'i.OOO a year since bu started, besides extra money being paid his Queen, his and her staffs and their household expenses. Although the King has an interest in three sa loons anil has some good properly in laud, and certainly often helps some of his poor subjects, yet the mass of this wealth goes for tlio Poi feasts anil Hula tlances, in which his predecessors also reveled. Even when the white people aro now invited, the oltl name of Lima (native feast) is used, and the gyra tions of tho finger round the calabash of sticktaro form tlie principal event. Hula dances are even given in tho palace grounds, but under great re strictions, and shorn, in the presence of Europeans, of their dominant feat ures. See Kalakaua ou a state occa sion, and, fairly corpulent as ho is, lie seems hardly to have room to hold his medals, and decorations all one blazu of useless glitter. But creep down to the Union saloon early some evening. There you will see his Majesty King Kalakaua of the Hawaiian Islands, sit ting before a toddy, dressed in an oltl blue serge suit, with a cheap straw hat on tho back of his head, and looking, all! far happier, after all. Boston Transcript, A littlo girl, who had been careful- ,ly trained by her mother, was being dressed for church Sunday. Tlie gay gown had been put on nutl the lfttlo one surveyed herself with evident sat isfaction. "Mamma." she said, "doe Gotl see evrv thing?" "Certainly, dear," said tlie mother. "Does ho see mo now?"t "Why, yes," replied the astonished matron. "Well, then, Ho sees a pretty neat looking little girl, doesn't He, mamma?"-Exchange. m Ned's father took him' in bathing tills week for tho lirst time. Ned h four years old. Next day somebody askod him. htnv ho likod it. "Well," he said, "I liked it first rate, but I wish God would turn on tho hot water faucet HvsL"8oniervillc Journal.