ACTFlrtbUT BALDNESS.
J.rermaUoa as to How It Comte
■ nd How to Treat It.
'ODD AVOCATIONS.
Bow Snno Bntorprlsln* Now York Worn««
—
Moke a Comfortable Living.
LEGENDSjOF FISH.'
Popstar BoperstttUMM Provamn< Io Varloas
Tortious oí the «Mobs.
REVOLTING ORUELTY/
Aa Educated Rnaaian Woman*« Htory o
Privation aud Suffer In*.
The Japanese have a legend that fish
T. G. Jackson read a paper re-
A woman who has seen better days
Mme. G----- , nee Koutouzoff, was
v before the New Yo|k Comity once had a fine house of her own, and ere the embodiment of the souls of foqnd guilty of opening a sehool for
naval
officers,
aud
the
African
negroes
•al Society on baldness and its the usual eufbarraMment of bric-a-brao
peasant’s children, independent of the
ment. Ho'described four varieties in her drawing-room, which she was believe that magicians assume the Ministry of Public Instruction. As her
4dse»s, or alopecia: 1- Alopecia accustomed to arrange herself with ex shape of fish and come to their nets to crime was not penal, ami as, moreover,
to, the congenital form; 2. A. quisite tastefulness. When the wolf work evil.
she was married to a foreigner, Genera)
An amusing story is told of tho
ie: 3. A- prematura; 4. A. areata, came to her door she begged one or two
Gourko merely orderetl hwHo be sent
skate.
It
seems,
that,
in
years
gone
by,
mills is that form which ocours in of her former friends having fine man
over the frontier. This is how she do-
ige. or after the age of forty-five, sions to employ her in arranging theit when the fish assembled to select for scribes her journey from SL Petersburg
themselves
a
king,
the
skute
was
be
is «iften preceded or accompanied drawing-rooms oooasionally.
With
•to Prussia. I shall give extracts from
■syneM of the hair. Its cause is a thoir consent she began an industry hind, and his mouth is now one sided her narrative without comment, merely
from
his
not
being
chosen
king.
ual hanlgfljPff of th® subcutaneous which has developed into a business.
premising that its, accuracy even to
According to a popular notion once
es of the scalp and a diminution of Once a month this lady—for she is a
the minutest detail, is absolutely un
1 supply, followed by an oblitera- lady—goes to the houses of her patrons credited, the plaice was produced from a impeachable.
of the hair follicles. It is but one with her two assistants and superin small crustacean animal of the shrimp
“I was sent to Wilno with fifty pris
ession of- that general lowering of tends the cleansing of the parlors, after kind. But vulgar error has been oners—men and women. Erorn the
ition incident to advancing years, the furniture has been removed, and explains«! by the fact that the oVr is de railway station we vere taken to the
n the scalp is atrophied nothing then rearranges them in the most ele posited in localities frequented by town prison and kept there for two
..
ge done in the way of treatment, gant style. If she finds certain articles shrimps
There was an old Highland tradition hours, late at night, In an open yard
irophylaxis may do a great deal in are needed to make the room attractive,
that the herrings Quitted the coasts under a drenching rain. >At last we
joning those changes.
a la mode, she purchases them and
were pushed into a dark corridor and
prematura is that form of baldness puts them in place. She also selects where blood bad been shed, and it counted. After many oatlis and much
h occurs before the forty-fifth year. articles of virtu, having consummate seems that this notion was revived after foul language the fire was lighted, and
iis there are two varieties, the idio- tsate and juhgment in such purchases, the battle of Copenhagen, “when it I found myself in a spacious room in
ic and the symptomatic. The for which she receives a commission was said that they had deserted the which it was impossible to take a step
er occurs most commonly between from the merchant of whom she buys. Baltic on account of the noise of the in any direction without treading on
ge of twenty-five and thirty-five, It would scorn possibly an extravagance gun*-”
A story is related of St. Corenttn, of the women who were sleeping on the
IS not due to any antecedent or to the reader to employ any one for Brittany, that every morning a little fish fl«x>r. Two women who occupied a b«-d
omitant disease. It differs from such a purpose, but considering the
was seen in a fountain near the hermit took pity on me and invited me to share
erile form in occurring at an ear- wretched careless methods of servants
1
age. The saint caught it, cut off a it with them.
— and <n being unaccompanied in New York, and tfie numberless arti
“When I awoke next morning’Lwas
sufficient quantity for his repast, ihén
flier signs of diminished physical cles of bric-a-brao -now HP vogue for
threw tlie rest in tbe water, .when the suffering from the scuncszof yesterday,
r, such as loss of teeth, dullness of drawing-rooms, it is an economy amt fish became whole again, and on the but the female prisoners—assassins and
; and hearing- The chief cause of not an extravagance to employ a woman
following morning was ready for thieves—were so kind to nie that by
variety is heredity. Every one has of discretion and carefulness to keep another quartering.
and by I grew calm. Next night we
,n of families in which the fathers them in order. And then our new rich
“An Author" writes Miss Pliipsoh, were ‘turned out' from the prison and
sons have become bald at a very people do not know how to arrange a
In her “Animal Lore of Shakspere's paraded in the yard for a start, under
r age. Another cause ¡ b improper drawing-room, and it is a comfort to
Time,” "actually affirms that the whale a heavy rain. I do not know how I
pficient care of the scalp. It is a them to hire some one who does know,
was designed by Providence for the happened to escape the lists of the
non practice for men to souse the or, rather a necessity.
special purpose of, at certain seasons jailers, as the prisoners ditl not under
I daily in,water. Ellinger has note«!
Another lady, formerly wealthy, of the year, frightening the herring stand the evolutions, and performed
habit in eighty-five per cent of his charges a good round sum per day for
away from its native shores into those them under a storm of blows and
B of baldness. Thinkers «nd brain escorting ladies—strangers, of course—
legions where it would be obtainable curses, those who protested—saying
tern are very ofton bald. Eaton to the most eligible shops for purchasing with greater ease by man.” —-—• ______
— that they ought not to bo beaten—wore
<L in the audiences attendant upon stylish garments, furniture, etc. Still
A popular nickname for the bream in put in irons and sent to the train, in the
■ches anti operas in Boston, that another lady acts as guide to the picture Cornwall is “choke-children.” The story teeth of the law. which says that in the
I forty to rifty per cent, of the men galleries, museum and public amuso-
runs that one day BL Leven was fish cellular wagons no prisoner shall be
i bal«l; while in cheap museums and ments for ladies from out of town, who ing, when he caught two of these fish chained. Arrived at Kovno, we spent
rise fights the. percentage was only write to her in advance.
on one hook tlirde times in succession. the whole day in going from
L-e to twenty-five.' Stiff lints may
For many years women have been He took them home to his sister, byt one polico station to another. »In the
L baldness by compressing the ar- employed by ladies of fortune to go
the result was unfortunate, for “the evening we were taken to the
L that supply the scalp. Tight and abroad and make purchases for them
fish
were cooked and, the children be prison for women. Here I spent a
Lntilatc«! hats make the scalp warm in Paris, London and Berlin; in short,
ing hungry,. were choked by eating the week among murderesses, thieves and
bause it to perspire, thus favoring to buy novelties at a chenper rare thau
women arrested by mistake. Misfor
bones.”
Less. King says that baldues* of -they cau be .purchase;! -here and to bo
"hr Normandy,” writes Hoai-o.in tune unitos the unfortunate, am! every
he'rtrx is due to compression by in advance of the modistes of New York. his “Giraldus.” “a few days before the bo«ly tried to make lifo more tolerable
pats of the arteries which supply These" (some of them) aro ladies who death of Henry II., the fish of a certain for the rest; all were very kind to me
part The little tuft of hair often boast that they never wear dry goods pool fought so furiously with each other anil did their best to consolo nie. On
hed on the H>p of the forehead is purchased in this market, every thing that the neighboring people Were at tin» previous day I had eaten nothing,
fished by arteries which escape conies “from abroad”—and if the truth tracted to the spot by the noise. So for the «lay tho prisonet* are brought
lure.
were known from second and third- desperate was the conflict that scarce to the prison they reeeive.no food; so I
Lit women do not become bald so rate shops in the cities where their ly a fish was found alive in the morn fainted from hunger, and the prisoners
Las men is probably because they agent finds them. Shopping on oom ing, thus by a wonderful prognostic gave me of their bread and were ns kind
Li ve the cushion of fat under the mission has grown to be an enormous foretelling the death of omt-by thjit of as they could fie. The female .inspec
| longer than men do. They do business in New York. One woman en many.”
tor, however," was on duty. She was
Lear their hats as much as men; gaged in it has an cilice and clerks; she
The fishermen in Scotland declare shouting out such shameless oaths as
are these so closely-fitting, or-mado buys furniture, jewelry—in fact all that the salmon’s tail is pointed •‘since few drunken men would use.
■ch impermeable material. They sorts of merchamlise for her customers Loktbccamn"!VKittnTnn, "aiii1 was caught
“Affdr a week's stay-in Kovno I was
I give more attention to the hair. ' in every State in the Union; lias whole by that appendage while slipping sent on foot Io the next town. After
Ho not wet the head so often. Of wardrobes made up for ladies, for through a net set for hint by the gods.”’ three day's march we came to MariaQi-
jese reasons Dr. Jackson regards elilldren anil infants, and lias purchased Curious to say. in some parts of Seot- pol; my feet were wdunded and my
■reservation of the fat and connec- artificial limbs, to order. There is a lanil the salmon is held in great stockings full of blood. The soldiers
lissue of the scalp, and the greater commission from those she buys
uis for and aversio
aversion.rits name notevep being men- advised me to ask for a car, but I pre-
I ol the ‘scalp, as the most impor- from, yielding a very good percentage.-tinned.
[
. Thus, in certain districts, fits .ferred physical suffering to the contin
in this double arrangement. ’
known as the “So and so’s fish," and in uous cursing anil foul language of- the
chiefs. All the same, they took mo
Streatment of this yarietyof bald-
The last odd industry of women to be others as th<i beast.
is mainly one of prophylaxis and mentioned here are the hieniling girls,
The pike is an important fish in folk before their commander, and he re
*ne. In families where it is berod- who go from house to house to sow but legends. In Russian fairy-tales the marked that I had walked three days
tliis should begin at birth and tons on boots and gloves, to darn stock pike is a form assumed'by the devil in and s«> could walk a fixirth. ty*e»nie
Due through life. The scalp should ings and linen, and to make repairs on order to eat the young hero, who has next day to W dkowsk, wheniie we
spt clean by an occasional sham- ladies' drosses, and to brush them. become a little perch. Son»«’ old natu were to bo sent on to Prussia. I and
< swap and water, borax and water, Such girls nsttally hat^ engagements I ralists have Accounted for the sudden" five others were put provisionally in the
pine such simple means. This for one day in the week for a family, and mysterious appearance of tho pike depoL The women's department was
n not be repeated oftener than or lady, or, perhaps, half a day. Lit in ponds far from other water hy the in ruins, so we were taken to th6 men’s.
in two or three weeks; and after erary women and artists find the mend theory that they were produced dv the
"I did not know what to do, as there
Malting the scalp should be care- ing seamstress very convenient aud heat of the sun from a weed known as was no place to sit down, except u|mn
pried, and vaseline or sweel-al- economical.—«V. K 'Hhfbune.
pickerel-weed.
the dreadfully filthy floor. There was
I oil applied. Women should dry
A curious legend is relatod by an even no straw, and the stench on the
air by the fire, or in the sun, and
Eastern traveler, who, ,«i«*tcribing a river floor set me vomiting instantly. Here I
—Truth is beaittHirf. but societ/ ns which flows front the Caucasus into tho
ress it until dry. The hair should
spent two «lays and two nights, passing
poroughly blushed and combed yet has not offered a premium for its Black Sea, says: “Every year there the whole time at the window. On tho
steady
use.
—
Pomeroy's
Advance
I for five or ten minutes, with
arrives in this part of the river a great third day a soldier of the depot, a Jew,
sufficient to make the scalp Thought.
quantity of fish. The people cut off took me into his room, a tiny-cell,
—
An
Omaha
editor
has
discovered
For this a brush should have
Ute flesh on one side of them, eat it, where 1 staid with hid wife.
knd moderately stiff bristles, set that there is no such thing ns a bald* and let the fish go. The next year the
"The prisoner» told me that many of
bups widely separated from each headed idiot.— Atchison Globe.
fish return again and offer the other them were detained ‘by mistake' for
— ••Train up a child in the way he side, which they had preserved un seven or eight months awaiting their
| 8uch a brush will reach the
I »nd brush out the dust. A comb should'go,” and keep a little ahead of touched. It is then discovered that palters before being sent across the
large. smooth teeth should be used him in the sntno way during the train new flesh lias replaced tho old.”
frontier. It is easy to imagine their
The oyster -is the subject of many condition after a seven months' stay in
she brash, to often up the hair to ing, to be sure he goes. — Picayune.
—A Western editor asks, "How shall strange legends, and as far back as the this sewer without a change of linen.
fr. Pomades should not be used,
le daily sousing of the hair dis we get our girls to road articles on the time of Pliny was su'p|x>se<l to las They advise«! me to give the jailer
ked. \v omen should not use scientific subjects?” Why, mix them produced by the dew. In his “Natural money, as he would then send me
History” he thus describes the origin of qn to Prussia immediately. But Idiad
Bine, nor pull or twist the hair, up with the fashion notes, of course.
—Young women ought never to get the pearl oyster: "It is engendered been six weeks on the way already
torch it with ciirlvig irons, nor
br it under false hair. Easy fit- Into a way of.thinking that it is better by the dews of heaven falling in the and my letter had not reached my
o|>en shells at the breeding time. The
■ght and ventilated hats should to marry imprudently than remain quality of the pearl varies according to people- At last the soitfier allowed
rn. and working under hot arti- single and exposed to absurd comment the amount of dew imbibed, being me to go to the post-office with
Bight should be avoided. Mr. thereby.— Pittsburgh Chronicle.
lustrous if that were pure anti dull if it his wife, and I sent a registcivid letter
—Laziness grows on people; It be were foul. Cloudy weather spoils its to S l Petersburg.” Mme. C----- has
Bock, writing on baldness, gives
bopinion thatitis due principally gins in cobwebs and ends in iron color, lightning stoppeth the growth, influential kinsfolk in the capital, anti
......................................
un-
maketh the shellfish
Ibigh hat and the hard felt hat, chains. The more businesss a man and ‘ thunder
in a few «lays the Governor-General
I »ny other covering that con- has to do the more he is able to ac productive.”— Chicago New».
telegraphed for her to be sent on in
I the blood vessels which nourish complish, for*he learns to economize
stantly to Prussia. “My papers (she
“A LITTLE NONSENSE."
•
Br bulbs. Few, he says, will es- his time. — Texas Siftings.
says) were discovered immediately, and
—
Why
is
a
jack-o-lantern
like
■
b« evil effects of twenty or thirty
—A printer up in Canada is said to
I was sent to Eydtktinsn and set at
watch-key
P
Because
there
’
s
a
b
in
lot rigid tight-fitting hats, the be one hnndred and three years old.
liberty.” It must be owned that the
fit
both.
(N.
B..
This
answer
will
btive process being delayed only He has made so many typographical
picture is horrible. But it is not a whit
overcharged. To such of us Russians
■ length and frequency of respite errors during his career that he is any conundrum.)
—
Yacht
owner
—
“
Haw!
What
’
s
the
bhis tourniquet of fashion.— afraid to die.— Somerville Journal.
as have had to do with prisons every
—Small boy (at church picnic)—“1 next move, captain?” Captain—“Drop word rings true and every scene looks
f
_ T,______ r
say. Johnny, where’s them nice ham the hawser.” Yacht owner—“Haw! normal. Oaths, filth, brutality, bribery,
|A Ridiculous Irish Bull.
sandwiches *your ma put up for youP do you mean to insult me. sirP— Judge. blows, hunger—these are the essentials
—You can now send a postal card to of every ostrog and of every depot from
baton servant, like many of her These ain't no good.” Johnny (bit
■oes nut know her age. She has terly)— “The superintendent an’ the China for two cents, bnt unless you Kovno to Kamchatka and from Arch-
have made a special study of tea chests, at^el to Erzeritm.— Krgpotkine'e hue-
bith one family eleven years, and teachers is a-eatin’ of ’em.”
b»ys been twenty-eight. But not
—Experienced Llry-goo'ds Clerk— you won’t hnveanx thing very intelligi sian and French Press.
«0 »he read in the newspaper of "Ladies, have you seen this pattern ble to say.— Jas/f i City Journal.
—ina inconvenience oi naving vaw
—Private (arm- in arm with his sweet
yvoman who had died at the age elsewhere?” Ladies—"No. we came
bidred and six. "May be I'm as to you first of all.” E. D-g. C. —“Then heart, meets his sergeant in the garden wives, both living and locking for
b that niesilf," said sbe. “In you will pardon me if I decline to of a restaurant.) “Sergeant, my sis blood, has caused a Texas editor to
Bean t remimber the time when show It to you, for if you have just be ter." Sergeant—“I know; she Was evaporate to South America.—Anton*«*
OaMfU.
- ...........
Btalive.”— Hgrper's Magarine.
gun shopping vou will not bur her»” mine once.”— Eberncalder Zeitung.
NEW FANCY WORK.
How to Crookot Prottr S Ik atoeklas» OW
The newest kind of fancy work is tho
crochetmg of silk stocking^. They
can be made in about one-half tho C
time it would require to knit them,
aud, although nf t quite so dui able, aro —
more opeu and consequently cooler. A
fine crochet hook and four spools of
knitting silk are required.
Make a chain long enough to pass
around the upper part of a stocking
of the proper size and to- lap over
twenty stitches; join. First row: Make
three chain, skip one on the first
chain, catch down; make three chain,
skip one, catch down, etc., to the end
of the row. Second row: Hie chain
begins in the center of the three on
first row; it is not to be fastened in the
stitch, but about it, so that it will slip;
make three chain and catch about tho
center of the next three on the first
row. and so on tor a quarter of a yard,
then skip one group of three, make ■
five rows, skip another, then five more
rows, and so on, until the ankle io
reached.
The first row on the ankle afcguld bo
made at the back to form the heel;
crochet enough lexipe to go about the
heel of tUApathirn stocking, then tnrt^
and go"* back and forth until
long enough; double in two and
crochet together at the bottom, th»
forming a heel pocket For the foot
begin at the seam of the heel and
crochet about across the front of the
ankle and down to the other side to
join the start and so on, narrowing
gradually toward the toe.
These stockings are very elastic and
should lack several inches of being as
long as the usual size worn. They aro
very cortl and comfortable.
Mitts made in the same stitch are
also pretty^ The start is made as far
up on the arm as one wishes them to
come and gradually tapered toward
the wrist, "then out again until the
thumb is reached. Five or six loops
are caught together to form the
thumb, and four rows are crocheted
on to this, and two more on the hand
part A little narrow scallop finishes
top and bottom, and three rows of the
same scallop «re placed on the back.—
N. Y- Journal.
THE BATTLE OF HARLEM.
*4
A Revolutionary Incident Recalled by tko
Finding of a Soldier*« Body.
On the morning of the 16th of Sep
tember, 1776, Colonel Knowlton and
Major Leileh were sent out from Fort
Washington, at the upper end of Man
hattan Island, by General Washington,
to capture a small detachment of Brit
ish soldiers stationed on the high ground
at Morningside Park. The enemy dis
covered the attempt, however, and es
caped down the hill. Being reinforce«!
by the Forty-second Highlanders, under
General Leslie, they attacked the Amer
icans nt about One Hundred and Twen
ty-fourth street, between Eighth and
Ninth avenues, but were driven back
to a fence two hundred yards to the
south aqd east of the point of attack.
The Americana beiw-f reinforeed by
Colonels Richardson and Griffiths, the
enemy were dislodged from the fenoe,
leaving fixe dead on the field, and re
treated back to the high grounds at One
Hundred and Twentieth street, where
they were further reinforced by a bat
talion of Hessians, a company of chas
seurs and two field pieces. The fight
lasted two hours longer, when the Brit
ish again retreated, leaving the field to
the Americans, and the battle of Har
lem Plains was fought and won.
Colonel Knowlton and sixteen privates
were killed, and Major Leitch and forty
.otliers were wounded on the American
si«le. The British loss was fourteon
kille«l and seventy wounded.
Major Leitch died, and together with
Colonel Knowlton was buried in th«
trenches at Fort Washington. It is
supposed by many that their graves
are within the present limits of Trinity
Church cemetery. But a few weeks
since, workmen who were engaged in
cutting a new street through in that
vicinity came upon several graves in
what was supposed to have been part
of the old trenches. One grave con
tained a coffin, and the remains evi
dently of an officer of rank. A bulled
hole pierced "he fleshless skull. and the
bullet lay within the hollow chamber
of the brain. As Knowlton was shot is
the head, the description aud circum
stances tally so closely, it is believed
by some authorities that the remains
were these of the depd officer who fell
at Harlem more than one hundred years
ire— N, T. Commercial Advertiser.
i .
—Experiments are in progress tn
Russia, under the direction of the Gov
ernment, with the view of finding a •
process of solidifying the petroleums
used as fuel. The process so far em
ployed consists in heating the oil. and
afterwards adding from one to three
per cent of soap. 'The latter dissolves
in the oil, and the liquid upon cooling
forms a mass having the appearance of
cement, and the hardness of compact
tallow. It is hard to light, burns
slowly and without smoke, but develops
much heat, and leaves about two per
cent of a hard black residuum.—JT. K
Azown tsar.