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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Advocate, 1887-12-29, Page 7THE LADIES' COLUMN, Aint Kate' e Weekly BudPt of rdahien, AO Other Oeeeilh A reteilY qf PleOdele An Pethesiastie Yoneg tedth Writtne !Mee Iheidon, saYs 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 „ 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 • ,