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An Pethesiastie Yoneg tedth Writtne !Mee
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The Queen's grandchildren are fleetly
ell remarkably pretty bloedee, and she on
be proud of her soee and Sone -in -4W,
eplendid men, all of them. The dsugtiters,
Princessee Chrietian, Louise and Beavrice,
end the Crown Prinoese of GermenY, are
all vere lerge, One women, and Beatrice
has a charming face. The Princess of
Wales is a snowflake, or a white lily leaf,
end there ie a eorobiriation of stateliness
end geptleness ip the poise of her dointy
head and the contour a ber flower-like
face. She does not look over e(), and
Shop& very slender her form is beautifully
roupded. Her complexion is is sineoth
ond pele as white marble, eye e very
large one of a violet color, hair softly
curling and pale browp, golden when
kissed by the sunbeams. She is a woman
to be adored—a creature of saintly
life end with a beautiful face.
The Primes of Wales is charming. He is
very handeome, only a little too stout, and
ie se graceful. His wonderful personal
--magnetism extepds even to a great multi,.
tude, and when the crowds neer, as they do
the moment they spy him, be Mtn bis hat
and bows and makes every one feel as if he
or ehe bad been personally thanked. Prince
Albert Victor, his eldest eon, is a tail
slender youth, very like his mother, giving
promise of a handsome man when matured,
The'Queen is pot good-looking, and is very
stout, bit there is something egal in her
presence and in her stern, grave hem, with
ifs mid lips, and the weld blue eyes ef her
tardily. She bows sweetly and graciously,
ibut geldom smiles, although in the jubilee
promotion the smiled a little to the old
!pensioners when they bared their grey
bode to her, whom they had so ambly
eerved when her life was young.
. °engine,' Ugly Fashtems.
Charles VII, of Preece wore long ,ceziete
to hide his ill -made legs.
Queen Elizabeth patronized immense
ruffs became her peck was sot handsome.
It Was to hide the short 'stature of Louis
IIV. that high heels and towering rper.
rogues were introduced.
Henry Plantagenet, Doke of Anjon, had
bis shoes made with long points te soreen
from observation an excrescence on one
foot.
Short hair became faehionable in ,E1ranee
when an accident to the hinges head during
a snowball fight necessitated the removal of
his flowing locks.
Full-bottomed wigs were invented by a
French bather named Duvillier to 'conceal
the fact that one shoulder of the dauphin
was higher than the other.
The Latest Fashion Fads.
Gray in every shade is considered in
Paris jute now the ,most styligh of all
colors.
A pretty bonnet called the "AFlorentine "
is entirely covered with real appliaue lace.
The holiday dolls may be said tecepture
the Charlotte Busse, for they are esquisite.
Emeralds are sought after ,amore and
more every day, the diner grade being very
scarce.
Young matrons have re -adopted 'fanciful
breakfeet ogee for home wear in the morn-
ing.
India embroideries in metal trim.evening
wraps made of the new.changeable :velvets
and plushee.
Coronet fronts will appear on 'moot dash-
ioneble bonraets. They will be.of •beeds,
feathers or velvet.
On invitation cards the initiale 3R.Sh7..P.
„have been euperseded by the plain ,English,
" An anewer is desired:
Fairy lamps; placed in the cents* of a
large dish of flowers is It table ornamenta-
tion now on the occasion of a fashionable
dinner party.
A present style consists in wearing four
gold -wire rings on the some finger, each
being set with a eingle small etonel, as a
sapphire, emerald and ruby. .
Long black oloth ulsters trimmed with
sstracheal on ,collar and cutlet and lined
with fur are shown for men, to be worn
over the dress stet only."
Champagne 'pitchers of glees lin the
form of a tulip are new, and, if not always
useful in prohibition families, are certainly
ornarnental, They come from Vienna. .
Large breastpins, containing a picture
of some ancestor, are more or less feehion.
able among "pedigree people," who, if
they've no ancestor of their own, use some-
body else's.
Black velvet besques, with long skirts
and almost completely covered with jet of
the most costly kind, are already seen on
ladies who do not buy their finery At the,
bargain stores.
Sonne of the women of Vanity Fair are
veering buttoti shoes, with tops of ehe
same material as their dress, which, of
urse, must be made to 'order ; and thus
we get our eichisive footwear.
. lain plush .wraps are to be exception-
ally pepular. They will be trimmed with
flat -beaded trimming and with rich ores -
=elite at the front of the collar, on the
sleeves and at the lower ends of ,the fronts
A Capital Recipe for Cheese Fritters.
The following is a capitat reeipe for
theme fritters Grate very finely three
ounces of cheese, I3eat the whites of three
eggs to it very stiff froth ; throw the theme
Into this, edding it little salt and pepper.
Mit well and lightly by beating with a fork.
Take lap dessert.spoonfuls of the mixture
and fry them ie boiling lard until they
becalm' a nice Woven complexion,' The
fritters must be seht Mee table iinmedi-
Moly they are cooked, and eaten at omit).
For Young Housekeepers.
A much were broom is very hard on the
carpet.
If possible, keep one utensil spored tet,'
onioes Mote.
Bteathing the hence of terponthle or
cerbolie acid is said to relieve WhOoping.
cough. '
Clam breth ie Fiala to be extellent for si
weak !Abele* aed ginger de for stornecb
tranips.
Do hot allow the epice bineti to beconee eeeheeeeee
dieoreerly. Heye eaeh division earefully
lanelled told permit pp ralitieg ef the cen-
rents.
To take greage !Fete out ef .olething wet
them tbOolighlY iualorreePie Water, then
ley White soft paper over thelhi tted ireb
witb *het iren, •
08487117.80 iroe eati4 fpr drinhiee Water
should not be used. The hino coating is
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readily 'tete(' Plion by Water, forraie$
Poieon914 eaide
HOneh Sometimes has an onion flavor,
!nen the bees gathering from fields of
onion seeds. If It allow d taf w we h se e e 8
the unpleasant flavor will soon pass off.
remedy or catarrh is te gather hops
when perfectly dry and sift the .pollen
*1 flour" through Swiss enutilin. Dee as a
'muff early in the morning or on retiring at
night.
If the stove is cracked, take wood tithes
ond salt, equal proportions, reduced to a
paste with cold water, and fill in the cracks
when the etove is cool. Itwill soon harden,
It is said that in canning feuit, after the
jar is filled, if the fruit is stirred with a
spoon that reaohea the bottom of the jar,
until sir bubbles rise m the top, the con-
tents will pever mold on top.
Fee bunion e get 6 cents worth ef as 1-
petre and put it into bottle with uffioient
olive oil to nearly dissolve it; shake up
well and rib the inflamed joints eight and
morning, and more frequently if painful.
A starch superior to glom starch for
calico and cambric can be made of flour by
wetting the flour up with very warm water
a day before you need the tarch ; add boil-
ing water ante cook when you wont to
use
To keep moths out of closets'clothes
and carpets, take green Miley, It is better
before it goes to seed. Put it around the
edges of corpete and bang it up in closets
where woollen clothes are hung, end no
moth will ever come where it is.
To prevent pie juice from running out in
the oven, make a little opening in the
tipper crust and insert a little roll of brown
piper perpendicularly. The steam will
escape from it as from a chimney, and all
the juice will be retained in the pie. '
A carpet, particularly a dark carpet,
often looks dusty when it does not need
sweeping. Wring out a sponge quite dry
in water (a fesv drops ef ammonia help
brighten the color) end wipe eff the dust
from the carpet. This saves ntuoh labor
in sweeping.
A Neva substitute for rdwrpleine.
" Pretty near tiaisehogo hottcre;ain't it'?"
said one Ninth Warder to another, as the
two stood at the our corners waiting •for
the last ear.
"Well, I guess it es, though I have
already been to bed to -night," replied
No. 2.
How is Meat, do you say r
" Well, for years I have been troubled
with insomnia, and I used to take ,quantel-
tiesof anoriphine to invite sleep, but that
lost its virtue. Then I tried dumlebelle
and Indian clubs and other violent exercise,
but as I had Aldermanic ambition I woe
afraid I would Lhurt my chances, and so
one night I bit 'upon a substitute that never
fails—riding on the street cars. Before I
can get to 'Bleep at night I aide ,a boletail
to the four corEers and beck as regulaely
as I ,used to take morphine. Sometimes I
nutlet necessary to 'take two, and I have
taken as many as three trips, but usually
10 cents' worth of street car puts me ha
such .a condition that I fall asleep as soon
as Ietrike the bed. The only time it has
failed me was the Saturday night before
it wee ,announced street oars would be
ordered off Sunday to comply with Sun-
day 'laws.. Then I suppose I worried at the
thought of returning to Indian clubs.
")To, sir,; for suicidal purposes I sup-
pose morphine hes its friends, but hs,acure
for insomnia give me the bob -tail oar."—
Roe/rester Democrat.
Two Faith Cures.
Mr. Eli Forsythe, one of the most promi.
ennt setizens of Hannibal, Mo., hobbled into
a faith cure meeting in that.city 'recently 1
on‘a cane and kneltat the altar to be cured.
For forty years, as his neighbers could
testify, .a steff knee had made walking a
most painful thing for him. After remain-
ing in ,prayer, a few minutes Mr. Forsythe
arose, declared himself cured, threw away
hie male ,and walked around the church
like a young athlete.
A wonderful case of faith cuee is re- I
ported from Toledo, wbere the Christian
Science Convention was recently in session.
Mies Edna Coffin lost her voice last Janu.
pry, and from that time until last week she '
could not speak a word, although the best
physicians treated her. On Monday, De- I
comber 5th, she was converted to the faith ,
cure doctrine, and on the following morn- i
ing she walked inte the convetttion hall at
Toledo and e.stonished everybody...ley speak-
ing in a loud voice.
OURAENT TPPW P.
*me- Mint said the Ober (11Y *at
since Omar Wilde had out riff his hair apd
, .
become o hither Isoeden we no. loner
pisteereeque or &mope. Ile is a prised
Parfait p1 s behY Who Pi less like
haPPilYi 9114is beaUtiN1 410t4,32.1WhO haa
lost noneof her girlieli lovelinesein Matron.,
404 sbe waa m a svfell reeetetielb the
other day in a gown designed by her hes-
band. le *as it tbick broeede of dell, dei -
co pink, mecin in the empire fashion,
with the waist under the SATIB apd long,
loom eleevee henging hem the sliteulder,
lined with that soft, quiet shade known ps
old blue. There wasp Medici collar lined
with the same lilue ,and hdged with pink
prairie. Her dark eluting hair was beaked
high on her bead, with little Remitter
carla on the brow. In her hand ebe oar.
ried a big hip et peek fepthers with silver
IT is a favorite phrese of the Mob land-
tord, remarks the Leleidon Truth thia week,
that the Irish peasant is impoyerithed be-,
cause he is idle and, dishonest, No more
effective repudiation could be desired than
was given at the private view of the exhi-
bition and Christmas sale of Irish hand-
work in embroideries, laces and home.
spuns at the Dopegal ,Industrial Fund, 48
Wigmore etreet, on fipturday. It is only
four years since Mrs. Hart, finding the
Gweedinore peasants starving, set herself
to improve their skill in epinning and
weaving, and to teach them the arts of
vegetable dyeing. Within that time she
has developed what was a private charity
inte an important public enterprise and
now the embroideries, homespuns and all.
wool underwear of the fund make their
own way into the wholesale markets. The
Irish peasants have shown themselvea deft,
eking, lab'orione and honest. Eight hun-
dred pergolas now find it living in these de-
lightful hand -wrought stuffs, among whom
some eighty distressed Irish ladies are em.
ployed.
Tits seven Bibles of the world are the
Koran of the Mohammedans, the Eddas of
the Scondintivians, the Try Pitikee of the
Buddhists, the Five Kings of the Chinese,
the three Vedas of the Hindoos, the Zends-
vesta and the Scriptures of the Christians.
The Reran is the most recent of the seven
Bibles, and not older than the seventh cen-
tury of eur era. It is a eompound o quo -1
totem from the Old and New Testaments,
the Talmud and the gospel of St, Barna.
bits. The Eddas of the Ohnizidineviane
were trot published in the fourteenth mu
-
they. The Pitikes °Edna Buddhist's contain
sublime moral e and pure aspirations, but
their au tleor died in the sixth oentury beifore
Chriot. 'There is mothing of excellence in
these sacred books not found in the Bible.
The sacred writitage of the Chinese are
-called the Five Kings, king meaning web of
cloth, or the wanp that keeps the threads
in place. These sayings cannot be traced
h period higher than Ithe eleventh cen-
tury before Christ. The three Vedas are
the most ancient books of the Hindeoe.
The Zendayeeta of the Persians is the
grandest of all the sacred books next to our
sZoroaster, whose sayings it con-
tains, was been in the twelfth century be-
fore Christ. Moses lived and wrote the
Pentateuch fteen centuries before Christ.
Christmas Tide.
A boy may be persuaded to go to bed
.eamly Chrietroas Eve, but he'll -likes his
,preeents known in the morning. By the
way, speaking of presents, we read the
.other day that a Mexican family has
thirty-eight children. Wonder how the
chimney looks when all those stockings are
bung up .
There is more pleasure in giving than
receiving, according to She proverb, but the
bey who IS given a dose of castor-oil don't
believe it, and it is one of the hardest
things in the world to persuade him that
he is mistaken.
t There are (Chrietnas.s presents that do
not overwhelm the recipient vvith joy ; for
instance, when a poor man's wife presents
hira with a worked .canvas for a nice travel-
ing •bag and he has to squander the money
he needs for regale in having it made up.
The Norristown terald Man is of the
opinion that women should not aim merely
to give their husbands acceptable gifts, but
they should also practice it wise economy
in purchasing such gifts. He suggests that
a good ' way, to achieve this object all
sublinie is to borrev.• the money feorn their
husband's pocket's, while he is asleep, and
buy him a smoking -cap. He would never
wear it, of bourse, but that's to objection.
On the contrary, it would last all the
longer for not being worn —lied that is
economy. •
The journals abound in Christmas stories,
but the most generally circulated Christ-
mas story is I don't expect anything
this year."
If `man's expectations in this 'direction
are realized—and they frequently are—he
can act like '4 philosopher, fill hiS socks
with contentment, and go about his affairs
as usual on Christmas Day.
One of the most discotiraging features
is bills. Christmas bells would be very
nice if they were not so suggestive of
Christmas billa
Ales unidentified poet bas written the
following beautiful lints on "Christmas
Tide 1"
Out of the four great gates of day,
A tremulous musics swells;
Hear, hoar'
Flow sweet and clear,
Over and under,,far And miar,
A thousand happy bells.
Joy, joy and jubilee
GoOd will to men from soa te sea,
This merry Chriatmas tide.
Yes, Chrisimeg Tide would' be very nice
if the idiots with guns and fish horns could
be tied and gagged.
It Depended on His Luck.
A young Wag uptown started out with his
gun incased in canvas to take it train for
Sullivan County the other day, and met a
lady of gteat 'heart and age.
* " Do you mean to tell me," she asked,
" that you are deliberately going to shoot
little birds and timid, inoffensive animals ?"
"No, ma'am," he replied, ("I will not go
so far as to say that. If I have my usual
luck I shall ehoot nothing but my gun."—
Ilarper's Bazar.
TITE rintosorut or IT,
A Man vinst fellow his heart, MY dear,
And I must folloW mine,
Until it's perch and part, My dear,
Of thine.
'A Man mud folio* Ilia hear& thy love, "4
When it leaps from his bread,
And beejoii. With passion and est, my love,
ror rest.
'linen must fellow his 'heart, fivieotheart,
Night mut day ; for, in Shert,
Man without heart is it pert, sweetheart,
Of babel%
Mr, O'Meare, the Leah dentist, le
in Afghttnietisti, Whete he recently
fixedtinthe menthe ofthree of His Ma
jesty's wives.
lintel* her twenty years of Married life
Mere Johie (hetet, ef Wichita, Kens, has
peesented he husband,. With twenty4tWO
011181'6M BlIe tttilOe giVell brie, 10tevirie and beheld triplets.
ChiCage phylecien eecOneeteede lierpto
derinie injections Of the ilulphateii Of
t the ei end- ar
t file h etre eine lot
ry, n p
—A little Berlington boy who saes an
open-faced watch for the first time, et,.
'claimed, "'Look, mamma 1 There's a
watch that has lost its hat:'
—A dream of fair women is meet pleas-
ing if the dream be not of women who
Made yori buy things yeti did not want at
the fair and gave no thange back.
Wanamaker, the groat Philadelphia
olothier, was traployed or years in his
Lather's brickyard at Scant wages, and his
first work away from home breught hint
billy $1.50 it Week. He neW has 3,000 clerk§
to do his hnsieess.
N. X, eirbank, the big soap and lard
martefecturer �f Chicago, is New Yorker
by birth. He begari life as a brichlayerh
appientice at the age of 15. He is now
worth several millions, mid i� 1ontider�d
One of the haridsomest Men In Chicago.
nettio .14hee *ad Bee, Aheilt—lietteefeethit
9rterftele Whe Aletetee Barefooteds
ggxcept the kieg hinteelf, the Most note-
thertbY AbYekiPla* Alt the P*1346001' of
.t4t) *MY; Wbe this Owner has defied ehe
Itelfane It the very Oates of *Pestneah,
Ree Ahdo is deaerihed by Puropeans who
have peen latne 'sone 9; the best -red mad
handsomest of his wet. "Are you a
Cheiethiet ?" is the firet questten this ins.
Petboes warrior addressee to his white
visieors, all of vshom he wonle willingly
oopsign to perdition if he mistrusted them
of ceveeipg en acre et hie petite land.
Lees than 50 years of age, he hos leng been
one of the chief agent's of the king's abso-
lute will. Last week's despittobes indicate
thet Rae Alulu is tip and doing, determined
to rottineein We fames a' hard fighter,
everywhere at ouce, and very difficallt
to catch. The coast tribes promised
Italy 1.0,000 warriors, many of whom are
now in comp neer Massowah. The dashing
Abyesinion improved the opportunity early
thie month to swoop down upon the coast,
knocking to, pieces al) the native. forces
brought agausst him and advancing to
Assaorta, about fifty miles south of Masao -
'ash, It has been Italy's pelicy to make
nohiggressive movemeet until prepared to
take the field in earnest and settle the
quiterel once for all. For five naonths,
therefore, Ras Aluluei cavelry has amused
itself se frequently by charging through
the environs of Manowah that no soldier
has been permitted beyond the protection
of the guns.
Barefooted like his Overeign, Rae Alelu
is noted for the elegante of hie aitirtehand
the richness of his belongings, both at
home and in pomp. His cheerful and
lively Manner is in striking contrast to the
demeanor of the gloomy, morbid and
fanatical king. Scarcely older than his
general -in -chief, and hiroselt a noted
fighter, King John has all the
fears for his personal safety that
ueually torture a despot. A king who de-
nies tobacco to his pipe -loving subjects be-
cause theemell of it offends him is probably
justified in fearing that internal plots may
'some day prove his overthrow. The best
picture of King John representg him on a
,spirited charger, carrying a lance, the chief
weapon of his array, and looking like the
brave soldier and the leader of men be bag
proved himself. His big toes alone rest in
the stirrups. Perhaps it was , this picture
that induced Queen Victoriaupon a certain
occasion to send a pair of soarlet-topped
boots to the barefooted king. By way of
compliment tel his distinguished friend, the
king with great .difficulty pulled them on.
He had never 'enjoyed the civilized luxury
of tight boots before, and as his attendsnts
could not pull them off again his majesty
went to bed with his boots on. It was not
long before the king's distomfort became
insupportable, and, with all due respect to
Queen -Victoria, her present was removed
from his feet in pieces.—New York Sun.
The Canadian Northwest.
Over one hundred excursionists left for
Ontario to -day to epend the Christmas
holidays.
At a meeting of the officers of the Central
Congregational Church this evening Rev. J.
B. Silcox tendered his resignation, taking
effect at the end of January. He will pro-
bably accept a call to a California church.
The buildings of the Winnipeg Gas
Works Company were entirely destroyed by
fire at 9 o'clock to -night. The blaze was
started by an explosion of gas near the fur-
nace in the centre of the main building and
the large structure was soon a mass of
flames. By hard work thefirernen managed
to save the lerge gasometer fifty feet away,
in which the supply is stored. This will
last but a few hours, when the city will be
in darkness. Harry Avery, the engineer, is
raissing and, it is supposed, perished in the
flames. The loss is 60,000;0no insuranee.
Guelph parties are heavily interested.
The exodus of pastors continues. Fol-
lowing up on the announcement of .Rev.
Mr. Silcox's call to California comes the
news that Rev. Mr. Pitblado, of St.
Andrew's Church, has received an offer to
accept the pastorate of a prominent Pres-
byterian congregation in San Francisco.
Rev. Hugh Pedley, of Cobourg, is spoken
of as Mr. Silcox's successor,
John Lee, a Chieaman, who had been
running a laundry here, and who waskilled
by being struck by a hand car, was buried
to -day by the Presbyterian ladies, of this
city, whose class he had been attending fob
religious instruction. The other China-
men in the city were all present.
Coal is being mined at Edraonton for $1
per load.
The first through train for four days
arrived from the coast last night. Land-
slides have been the cause of delay.
An Indianhust in from 100 miles west of
Battleford reports having seen four buffalo
and tracked _fourteen others in that
neighborhood.
The city carpepters have resolved to de.
mend thirty cents per hour and nine hours
per day after February lst.
Girls Had Dolls In Pharaoh's Time.
Dolls have amused the girls for ages and
seem to have been well known in the days
of the Pharaohs; for, in the tombs of
ancient Egypt, figured of painted wood, of
terra-cotta, of ivory and of rags have been
foetid whose limbs were naade moveable for
the delight of children. It is quite probable
that Pharaoh's daughter threw aside a
mimic child for the real baby whioh she
discovered in the famous bullrush basket.
Li the tombs �f Etruria—by the way,
where was Etruria ?--similar toys haVe
been discovered; they were spread in the
East, and in China, as well as iri
moveable figures were made td act frota
time immemorial by hand and on strings,
or as shadows behitid a curtain. The
Ancient Greeks were experts in the mann.
facture of puppets, including Wax dolls, and
several of their poets allude to offerings ef
dolls to Artemis and Aphrodite made by
maidens before their marriage. —Philadel
2:sh1rt Times.
the Shadow ft oming bare:
Mary to Ailed—tone dell leeks very
poorly. What ails It?
frote a good deal, Alfred
keocked Mit 0110 of its eyes last Week, and
it loat a greet del of letw,duet, and hadn't
been the sante doll einee.-hPoston Herald.
;AVE IN !HS PXNITP4'0AX1r.
,!4001eticoss After a Visit to the Inmate, of
stents
Tbinle what it is to enter those Welle end
htee that 0104, whose eldw pendelum shall
beet eateelietseeeocbh minutes, henna dile!
weeks or molithseebut Yearof your Pre -
ohms yepth and manhood before you spin
see the wmld Which lute discertied Yoe
Think of the prelieved rouud. of toff, stue
ceeded be the solitary ceIl end miserahle
hours of thinkipg whet mighe tisve been apd
what ie 1 How plow tis 'mimeo him with-
out hope, without.prolit in his bitter toil,
without respecthis solitude, without
hence, without comfort, without liberty 1
How slow the days mole the week, and the,
weeks the menthe where each is drearily
the same, season en and tieeson put, till the
doleful year is told 1
To 'be the companion of the effete, cheek
by jowl; to wear the garb of infamy ; to ho
driven from the cell to labor, and from the
labor to the cell ;to see on all sides the high
walls and the redoubts, where gleam the
rifles ready to kill the insurgent ; to know
that however skilfully the escapeisplanned,
however bravely executed, there are keen -
scented and lynx -eyed pureners to track and
the strong arm of the law to recover; to
feel that by no power Min relief come until
the long distant day ppointed, save the
power Which can bless an untisppy life by
ending it.
What a record of ho,peleseness, of
despair, remorse and gnseteng misery the
pitiless stone of those cello could tell !
Small wonder that after years of confme-
meet every kindly trait of nature is with-
ered, root and branch, and only sullen
desperation and hatred oh, societh remain.
Look at their facies to read their story.
Not one in a hundred bas the face of
shame, of unhappiness, but of stolid resigs
nation to inevitable privation and disgrace.
See that long line of gray misery marching
to ite noonday meal—a human centipede—
s hundred locked together—shuffle, shuffle,
shuffle—the verystep is a degradation.
Slowly they Ale into the cheerless room,
and in silence, and with bowed head, esch
sits to devour his portion. Not a word, not
a whisper, all wants expressed by signs.
Long lines of keepers, each coldly and
keenly watohful, eaoh ready with pistol to
suppress the slightest token of revolt, for
this is the time of danger in a State prisons.
The meal is soon over. At a beckon they
arise and lock together—shuffle, shuthe,,
shuffle; shuffle—back to labor again.—
Henry Guy Carleton.
A NEW SWINDLE ON THE RAILWAY..
The Man With Safety Match, Who Can,
Light it Anywhere.
General W. F. 'Walla, of Arkansas, veico
is now at the Hoffman House, New Yorke
has recently made an extensive tonrein the,
West, and he Rays that the safety match
has become a substitute for the three-card
monte game se a swindling device upon
railroad trains in the West. General Walsh
says that On his way East helm California
two weeks ago a typical looking frontierman
got on the train at a station in Wyoming.
The man seemed utterly uncivilized snd
the other passengers began to C0113133014,
upon hie strange appearance.
Finally the man took a safety match fronn
a box attached to the side of tbe car and,
tried to light it upon the sole anis', boot..
He scraped away, for . some time without:,
the maton showinganysign of ignitisg, and,
then attempted to light it against the wood-
work of the car. In the meantime every
one was laughing at the fellow's apparent'
ignorance. Finally a passenger, whose.
egotism had made him conspicuous, told,
the man that the matches were of a tenth
that could only be lighted upon the box.
" I bet you $10 I can light one without.
the box," said the man.
"I'll go you," saidthe egotistical passen-
ger, as he selected a ten -dollar bill from a
roll.
The strange -looking man covered it, and
then, taking a match, lighted it against a
groove in the car window. Of course raost
of the other passengers knew this was
possible. GeneralWalsh afterwards learned
that the man was a regular bunco man.
Living After Decapitation.
A very peculiar argument was once urged
against the guillotine.It was said that a
man could feel after his head was off. The
instant the head fell the trunk ceased to
feel, because cut off from the brain, the
seat of sensation. but it did not follow that
the head immeiately lost all feeling or
even consciousness. Ridiculous as it may
seem, it is asserted that the lips of the ill-
fated Mary Queen of Scots moved for a full
half.hour after she was beheaded. Guillo-
tine himself was present at an exeeution,
and attests the fact that a criminal's de-
capitated head being addressed by name
the eyelids were raised and the eyes turned
from side to side. Another case occurred
at Coblentz, when the half-closed eyes
opened wide and looked with reproach at
those standing. around, These instances
are hardly to be dame with the cases of
the Irish knight beheaded by Saladin in
the holy war, whose head got tip and
avowed that it was never cut off by so
sweet a cimeter before; or the case of
Legere, the assassin, Whose decapitated
head ewers roundly at the exechtioneer for
not keeping it sharper axe.—Pittsburg
patch,
Ferry Boat Collitlion,
A Jersey City despatch says A colli-
sion occurred in the North River last night
between the steamship Bteakwater and the
ferry boat Pavonia. The guards and a
portion of the stern cabin on the gentle-
men's side of the Pavonia Were demolished:
Three race Were caught le the Wreck and
seriously injured. Frarik Moriarty, 30
years old, of Medford, Masse was hurt
&bout the hips and bhest; ex•Assemblymett
David Henry, aged 50, was 'neighed about
knee", and abdomen Richard Cough/Vie, 75.
years old, was hurt about the side and
head and both of his ankles were broken.
The excitement among the uninjured pas-
songere on the ferryboat quiokly stbsided
when it was ascertained that she was in no
danger of sinking, Several of these Who
Were slightly hurt left the boat at Jersey
City with iraproeised bandages of hendlter,
Objets.
Many of the farmers end lumbertnee itt
Northern Michigan ere making ese of dogs
this winter to draw theft eletive It is daid
that the. dOget become very ekpert at the
hsAbout the fattest leen bi 'the Weat al e ereirltaftef it little training -Rod in eittny
the towboys who hold npopress trains: ; ways et:retitle the Esgaititeti abget
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