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The Exeter Advocate, 1889-10-10, Page 2voices of the Fair* !.'e°131c1 Ii5329‘7, &00eopie Tina way to the "They'refresli and thermiuleY,they're ripe arid e they're zero'," uph, west ere thoeethings witlithehigwoneing wbeels?' e4ow go be there, girls; lees go siee tae seals," ;lob, islet that SWeett" "PUB* yolle einh " Take beet; that bammer; the eerie thine'e r decayed! " Oli, test aeo tier face and tee neat on las user; wondethilly painted.e1 auegit me a oie elartir ; Deed sakes. I'm most dead!" "Here you er row. the!. way A half dime! a 'nickel! just five cents to -day!" e She's the only lady with two distinct beetle 1 Peal wise it!' "On, ma, what's that wader them pleads!" "Berea all eaa can ase eew for thereteee coast', e I see the balloon over there by the iencei eft ten you there' no pork in these: net a bit' "*Don't eat them, good. eeople ; you'll all balm a' ilt!" " Why.yours are ail cluders ; they halt raw, svnue mine Come here tor your pictures; rtt make youlooli few!' On, may. abet it croweed ; I wisht I was bome I" kaaa eive a. lee cup a clear 08, WW1 f041,14: ugh. molt rob, my graciege. eupeese he el:weld feat ' aqs4 eee him go up! Olenty, lean he email ?" "Just ll:pow. hen ontipede" "Here's bot eelee net teal" " reeelly Kipp:tee la's sca.red ae can be." "Tnat ear's nen clank ; 1meet steed up I vosv 1 Won't MI MYSelf zenlin' next yesr." AMERICAN MR with mild dignity, "And en improving conversation is frequently most benefinal to the pc*rtess engaged In it.' 0,1'm. afraid," Onayie eeeservedl'",teett ierwer heard movie imprOving 00417804**4" She was realiy AO fonder of meeteeline gaiety -than the generality of girls, but she eould. not help wondering if there woad be A OPT 7CrElng men preeeet, and ifeeineeed, there were any young men in Slowbridge who might gaessibly be precinced upon, featly() occasions, even though ordinarily kept in the background. She had not heard Mist( Belinda mention Ray maseeline name, eo far, hue that of the curate of St. James', and, when the had seen him past; the house, the had not found his slim black figure and faint eoclesisatio whiskers especially interesting. It mut be confessed that Miss Belinda suffered many pangsof anxiety in looking forward to her young isinewoman's first appearance in society. A tea at Lady Tbeobald's house tonstitated formal pre. sentatien to the Slowbridge world. Eaoh young balsa within the pale of genteel sooiety, having arrived at years of discre- tion, on returning lioness from boarding- ethool, was itivited to tea at Oldoloogn Duelog an entire evening, she was the isedsjeot of watchful critieitim. Uer de- portment was remarked, her aeoompliele- manta displayed, the.performea her new "pieces " npoo the piano, she was drawn ioto coriVereation by her hestees, and upon the timid modeety of her zeplies, and the eaverenee of her lieterting attitude% de- peuded her future social atattie. So it wae very witurer indeed that Min Bulimia ehould liSteuzious. "I would wear something rather quiet autle-end eireple, ray deer Oetavia," the said. "A whew =wit)), perhapa, with blue ribbees.1 "Would yen? " aeewereactoteviee Then, atter apeeariug to oflegt upon the matter few gegonde, " I've get oail that wonia do t War133 entnegh to merit, Ihght it New Yorli,bet t came ham Pena, rve never worn it yet," " It would be nicer than anything eise, ray love," gab" miaa Betaaa, aelighted to find her diffietilty so easily diepoeed of. Nothing ie so charraieg in the dress of a young girl as pure einaplicity. Our Slows bridge prom ladiee rerely wear anything but wbito tor evening. Miss Chithie &sieved me, A few weelts ego, that the had toride titteen white nagoliu dreeeee AIX after one eimple deeigh of her Qin," "I should *husk thee WAS particularly nice myeelf," remarked Ootavia, parlay. "I Should be glad One of the tette= didn't belong to roe. I should feel aa it people might eity, when, I none into a ore, 'Good omelette, there'e Another."' "The Stet wee made for Miss Lucia Gaston. who is Laely Theobeltre Piece," replied Miss Beliuda, "And there ere few young ladies in Slow. bridge who would not &size to omelet° her =ample." "On," asid (Mavis, "I dare esy the is very nice, and all that, but I don't believe ahould care to copy her dream. I think I should draw the line there." But she asid it without any ill.neture, and seueitive as Mies Belinda was upon the inebject ot her cherished lbw), she cooldnot take offence. When the eventful evening arrived, there was =Cite:mint ittrano than oue esteblislement upon Iligh street, and the streets in its vicinity. The stories of the dim:coatis, the gold-digger', itud the silver. mince had been added to, and embellished, in the most ornate and atertlingane.nner. It wee well known that only Lady Tbeobald's fine appreciation of Miss Belinda Bassett's feelinge had induced her to extend her hospitalities to that lady's niece, "1 would prefer, ray deer," said more than one discreet matron to her daughter, as they attired themselves,--" I would muoh perter that you would remain neer me during the earlier pert of the evening before we know how this young lady may turn out. Let your manner toward her be kind, hut not familiar. It is well to be on the safe side:" What preoise lido of tondos:It it was generally antioiphted that this gold.digging and silver -mining young person would adopt, it would be clifdouIt to say; it is suffiment that the general sentiments regarding her were of a distruetfal, if not timorous nature. OILIXTER VIII. snare eteMnio hero were othere who etheed leer driblets worae afterward, though they echoed them privately and with more caution then my lady telt neeeseary. It is certain thee Mee Qatayia Bassett aid. not Improve, as time progeeteeds and she bed. enlarged opporteeitiee tor studying the nelele example eets beforeber by Slowbridge. On his arrival in New York, Martin Bessett telegraphed to his daughter and Water, per Atlaetio cable, infortame, them that he adithe be detained a oolepie cf menthe, and biaelbeg them to be ot.geod theer. The arrival of the menage, ea int *Metal eavelope, so alarmed Min Bellude *bet she was supported by MaryAnne While it was reed. to her by Octavio, who reeeived it without any eurpriee whatever. For game time otter ita empletiou, Slow. bridge had privately disbelieved io the Atiaotio eehle, aud, until this occasionthad certainly disbelieved in the eminence of people who reeeived menegni through it. In feet, on Oen ilualug that the wee the reeipient of teeth a =awe, Mille Belinda, baa node immediats. preparations for fainting quietly Away, beteg tally convinced that A thipwreck bad mitered, which had resulted in brotheeeteleath and that ble executors bad chosen this delicate method et bresking the awe, "A meows by Atlantic; obi° ? " the had gaeped. "Don't -don't reedit, my love. L -let menu 9120 elle do that. Poor -poor child Trust in Providenceeray love, and -and bear up. Ab, how I wish I had a stronger mind, and could he of More envie° to eou." " It is a menage from tether," aaid Ootavia. Nothing is the matter. Iles ell right. He got in on Saturday," All" pentad Mies "Are you via sure, my dear -are you quite eure?" "That's what be says. Linen." Got iti Seturday. Piper ran me. Senn looking up. :day be kept here tero months. Will write. Weep up your spirits, elevare Desareer." Thank heaven!" sighed Miss Belinda, "Thank heaven I "Why? " Gadd (Mavis. "Why?" echoed Mies Belinda. "Ah, my dear, if you knew how terrified I WAS; I felt sure that something bad happened. A cable message, .my dear 1 I never re- ceivea a telegram en ray life before, and to receive a cable menage was really a shock," "Well, I don't see why," said Ootavia. "It Benne to me it is pretty much like any other message." Idles Belinda regarded her timidly. "Does your papa often sena them?" ahe inquired. "Surely it must be expensive." "1 don't suppose it's cheap," Ootavia re- plied, "but it saves time and worry. I should have had to wait twelve days for a letter." "Very true," said Miss Belinda, but -h She broke off with rather a distressed Shake of the head. Her ample lames of economy and quiet living were frequently upset lathes° times. She had begun to re- gard her niece with a slight feeling of awe, and yet (Mavia had not been doing any. thing at all remarkable in her own eyes, and considered her life pretty dull. If the elder Miss Bassett, her parents and grandparents, had not been so thoroughly well known and so universally respected; if their social position had not been so firmly established, and their quiet lives not quite eci highly respectable, there is an awful possibility that Slowbridge might even have gone so far as not to ask Ootavia out to tea at all. But even Lady Theobald felt that it would not do to slight Belinda Bassett's nieoe and guest. To omit the customary state teas would have been to crush innocent Miss Belinda at a blow, and place her -through the medium of this young lady who, alone, deserved condemnation -beyond the pale of all 000.81 law. "It is only to be regretted," said her ladyship, "that Belinda Bassett has not arranged things better. Relatives of such an order are certainly to be deplored." In secret, Lucia felt much soft-hearted sympathy for both Miss Bassett and her .guest. She could not help wondering how Miss Belinda became responsible f or the calamity which had fallen upon her. It really did not seem probable that she had been previously consulted as to to the kind of niece she desired, or that she had in a distant manner, evinced a preference for a 2liece of this description. "Perhaps, dear grandmamnsa," the girl ventured, "it is beo,ause Miss Wavle Bassett is so young that—'' "May I ask," inquired Lady Theobald, in fell tones, a how old you are ? " "1 was nineteen in -in December." "Miss Octavio. Bassett," said her lady- ship, "was nineteen last•Ootober, and it ifl Dow June. I have not yet forma it news - any to apologize for you on the score of youth." But it was her ladyship who took the initiative and set an evening for entertain. ing Mies Belinda and her niece,in company with several other ladies, with the beat bohea, thin bread and butter, plum -cake and varions other deliaaeies. "What do they do at such places ? " asked °deviate " Half -past 5 is pretty early.e We spend soma time at the tea -table, my dear,'explained Miss Belinda. " And afterwars, we -we converse. A few of us play whiet. I do not. I feel as if I were not °levee enough, and 1 get flurried too easily by -by differences of opinion." "1 should think it wasn't very exciting," said Wavle. "1 don't fancy I ever went to an entertainment where they did noth- ing bet drink tea and talk." " It is not our intention or desire to be exoiting, my dear," Mies Belinda replied, 011ArTER IX. 3)117,1314111, • As ;the goodlittta spinster was arraying herself/ on this partiouber evening, haying jaid won the bedathe greeter portion of her 4001eat she Went to her ward, robe, tend tech therefrom the gamed band. hex (*asinine- bee beet cap. All the ladiea of Slowbridge wore caPate and etil tieing reepeetfally plaglarieed from Lady Theobalds without any reference to age, size, complextion or dem'eanor, the result was sometimes a little trying. Lady Theobald's bead -dresses were of a severe and bristling order. The of lacewhich they were composed was in40,0ea by some ingenious deviee to form itself into aggressive quango, the bows seemed lined with bookram, the etrine niether fleeted nor fluttered, "To e majestic) person, the style is very appropriate,' Mae Belinda had said to Omavia, that very day; "bat to one who is not so, it israther trying. Sometimes, 'judged, I have almost wished that Miss Chickie mule vary a little more in her To Mies Bassett, who felt all this in the very air she breathed, the girl's innocence of the condition of affairs was even a little touching. With alt her splendor, she was not at all hard to please, and had quite awakened to an interest in the impending social event. She steepled in good spirits, and talked more than was her custom, giving Miss Belinda graphic descriptionsrof various festal gatheringe she had attended in New York, when she seemed to have been very gay indeed, and to have worn very beautiful dresses, and also to have had rather more than her share of partners. The phrases she used and the dances she described were all strange to Miss Belinda, and tended to reenaing her to a bewildered condition, in which she felt much timid amazement at the intrepidity of the New York young ladies, and no slight suepioion of the " German "--as a threatrioal kind of dance, involving extraordinary figures, and an extraordinary amount of attention from partners of the stronger sex. It must be admitted, however, that by this time, notwithstanding the various shooks she had reoeived, Min Belinda had began to discover in her young guest divers good qualities whioh appealed to her affec- tionate and susceptible old heart. In the first plaoe, the girl had no small affections; indeed, if she had been less unaffeoted she might have been less subject to severe comment. She was good-natured, and generous to extravagance. Her manner towards Mary Anne never ceased to arouse Miss Belinda to interest. There was not any ciondesoension whatever in it, and yet it could not be called a vulgarly familiar manner, it was rather an astonishingly simple manner, somehow suggeritive of a subtile recognition of Mary Anne's' youth, and ill.hick in not having before her more llvely prospects. She gave. Mary Anne presents in shape of articles of alothirig at which Slowbridge vrould have exclaimed i12 horror, if the reoipientlead dared to wear them; but when Miss Belinda eapreased her regret at these indiscretions, Ootavia Was quite willing to reotify her mistakes. " A.h, well," she said, I can give her some money, and she can buy some things for herself." Which she proceeded to do; and when, under her mistress' direction, Mary Anne purchased a stoixt brown merino, she took quite an interest in her in making it. "1 wouldn't make it so short in the waist and so full in the ekirt, if I were you," she said."There's no reason why it shouldn't fit, you know," thereby winning the hones - maiden's undying adoration,' and adding. much to the'shapeliness of the garment. "1 am sure she has a good heart," Mies Belinda said to herself, as the Ave went by: "She is like Martin in that. I dare say she finds me very ignorant and silly. I often SEie in her face that she is unable to understand my feeling about Maloof]; but she never seems to laugh at me, nor think of me unkindly. And she is very, very pretty, though, perhaps, I ought not to think of that at all." &alone." Perhaps the sight of the varigne artiolee contaixied in two of the AVO trunks had inspired these doubts in the dear old lady's breast ; it is certain, at lead, as she took the best eap up, a faint sigh fluttered upoa her lips. It is very large -for a smell person," 0110 Said, "And I san not at ail sure that amber is beeteitieg to inc." And just at that moment there IMMO A tall at the door, width elle kaeW was from Oetavia. She laid the cap beak in some ocinfueien wateakue beitg Intrprieed in a moment of " Come le, my love," ales mid. Oetevie pushed the door epee And 041110 MI She had not arena yet; and had on bee wrapper and elippere, Nadal were both of quilted grey PM, gayly rahroidered with earnatione. But Min Belinda luta seen both wrapper eudelippers before, and had boom used to their eumptuoutheee ; what the had not eene wee the trifle the girl held in her hand. "See beret," oho said. "Seo what I have been making for yon." She logleed quite elated, and laughed triumphantly, "I di Ant know 1. could do it until I tried," elle geld. "I lied !teen soree. in Now reek, and I had the Ian by inc. And I Wive =with lett to mthe reales for your neck and wrists. It's "My am 1 " magma Mies Belinda. "My deer!" ()chyle laughed nate, "Don't you know whet it is?"she said. "It levet like A Slowbridge cap; but We A neVerthel0fie, They 'max them like this in New 'York. And I think they are ver so much prettier." It was true that it was not like o Slow. bridge cap, and, it was also true that it was prettier. it was A delimit° affair of softly quilled lace, adorned here rind there with loops of pale mole ribbon. "Let me tryit on," geid Ootavia, i advancing, and n a minute the had done so, and turned Min Banat about to face herself itt the gine. 4' There 1" she aeid. "Is that better then—well, than amulet- iug Lady Theobald? It was se vary pretty, ered so booming, and Mine Belinda was so touohea by the girl's innooent enjoyment, that the teen mime into her eyes. "My ---my love," she faltered, "it is so beeutibel and expensive, that though indeed I don't know how to tlwelly oVet-I 412l afraid I should not dare to wear "Oh," answered Ootavia, "that's non. sense, you know. I am sure there's no reason why people ahouldn't wear beoont- ing thive Besides, I elibuld be awfully disappointed. I didn't think X could make it, and I'm real proud of it. Yon don't know how bottoming it is." Min Belinda looked at her eeflootion and faltered. It was becoming. "My love," stieprotested, faintly, 'treat Mi Mechlin 1 There s really no molt Ian in Slowbridge I" "All the batter," said ()devils, oheerfully. "I'm glad to hear that. It isn't one bit too nice for you." To Miss Belittde's astonishment, she drew a step tearer to her, and gave one of the satin loops a queer, caressing little touch, which actually seemed to mean something. And then suddenly the girl stooped, with a little laugh, and gave her Inn a light kiss on her cheek. "Thera 1" she said. "You must take it from me for a present. I'll go and make the taffies this minute, and you must wear those, too and let people see how stylish you can tt;." And without giving Miss Bassett time to speak, she ran out of the room and left the dear old lady warmed to the heart, tearful, delighted, frightened. (To be Continued). . etonaae GIRD AND DOLL. Touching Scene IBrougbt to Light in tb.e Ancient Italian egg. . Rfay last the workmen `ether were, digging the ;,feundletiolla for the netv law 'solute' in ROMet discovered a esercephligna buried thirty feet below the surface. Jaime, neediately the telephone, gelled to the spot the members of ehe Archteolegigal Com, mission; eoientifio and literary men who watch with jealous oare all the excatetioos made in the Eternal City, Under their direction it was caretally raised and opened. Within lay the skeleton of a young girl, with the rerasina of the linen itt which. She had beau wrapped, some brown leaves from the myrtle wreetle with which, embleMatio of her youth, she had been crowned in death. On her hands were four reap, of which one was, the denble betrothal ring of plain geld, and another with Filetus, the name of her betrothed, eugreved upon it. A large and most exqn, site amethy et brooch, in Etruseen setting of the finest wok, carved amber pine, ana a gold necklet with white maid pen - dents were lying about. Bat whet is most etre/age, as being almost unique, was c doll of oak wood, beautifully carved, the jointa articulated ea that tbe legs and Arno and hands Molre 94 sockets, the hands and feet daintily cut, with emelt and deli:ogee nalle. The eeatures and the hair were carved oat in the most minute and careful Way, the hair waving 10W MI the towhead, and Dein beam/ with A Allet, Otm the outside of the aercepluigue was egelptured her name,, Try, heme Creperia, and a toughing wane, eubtleatetaitlaully repreeenting her part. leg with her Reroute. She is Irma 911 N1ow bedand etriving to MOO bereelf on her left arm to Beath to leer heartbroken father, who ettinde leaning on her bedstead, his head bowed with grief, while lier mother OW on the bed, her heed covered, weeping. It geeme het yesterday, 04 130=4 20 the ace= mid yet it was nearly geuturiee ago dud these etrieben parole 1aii so tea- derly away their dearly beloved daughter with her ornaments and her Youths' Companion. Life in Chicago. Visitor (in Chioago)-I should think you would be dreadfully afraid of burglars in a place like this. Hostess -Burglars? Mercy, no. We.don't mind the burglare. It's the police we're afraid of. Of Two Evils Choose the Lesser. Mao. Lurakine-doshua, I am going to a dentist's to have a tooth pulled out. Yon mind the baby while I'm gone. Mr. L. (jumping for his hat) -Say, you mind the baby and I'll go get a tooth pulled, you know. Ready for the Waste Basket. Young Poet -Now, to tell the -truth, I don't think this poem of mine can be im- proved on. Friend -Is it as bad as that? THE GENTLER 1,3EX. Latie'''Kesus of iiitlfitsifirosii the World of Fashion. Tre bight= in furallear winter may -be °bullpen:41y expected.tteleen chiefly to the skin ohsthe laokleatnit boat, e, kind of lynx, about the size eatte A new light wool f thrice is called Ana- -Wen serge, It is beautifully fine, and as it demi not wrinkle easily, like Henrietta °loth, it is destined to takeits place in the formation of utility oostunies. The tist has gone forth in, London's best seolety that bare anus will appear as much at, dressy afternoon teas, kettledrums, lunches, and, other post meridian fetes, as ia the evening. Thehair will be powdered, the long gloves drawn off, and then fair rounded, ems will emerge from laces and draperies bare to, and above, the elbows, without bracelets, but the fiegers glittering with costly rings. The popularity of the iiailorhae is still EA greet that milliners both here and abroad are usingthese simple flat-orowned, straight-brinamed shapes for airy models in net and tulle. The buff shoe's econontie side By all should be beholden; Although it is the autinner's Pride. Bow well it fits the autumn -tide. So russet and so golden. Rest color will be the fashionable red net winter. Zouave laohgra will be a featnrea winter feehicene. Englisla walking jecbots are Made A trifle louger thie enema than Wt. Silk petticoats are now lined with twine]. This obviate the necenity ot wearies retire thee one. Cloth aresanarepeade with tight.atting eleevee, as tell eleevea of ao thick a materiel could net be worn with eletneen and Whiter jaokete, An idee ter table aneration ie to hove A wreath of flowers edge the tele* ee divided that they may be used as hOutonnieree by the gums Wiler they are wend. The Wu thee may have a permanent toter° after all. Otto at the resulte of the recent manonvree of the British fleet has beep the euegeatien that the marines should wear tau or brown elioes henaeforth inetead Qt black mesa and brown gloeeetanned of white. sneirenons Mama Kissilig on the Platrores. Belesmian" writes in the St. Themes 'sieritel; The railway attitioug are the great isiesing made of the world. It is there you can gee idesiug in all ite etylee, and, it le iutereatius to watch the people doing the kiealug aot. All the different varieties at kiesieg Ineown to civilized and =civilized men can be ;seen, and to wituna the exhibition tikes all the sentiment out ole bias for the speetater. People in every walk of life go to the railway atetion to meet Wade =a relatives, and the styles of kiesing to be found there are about as plentiful as the leaves that edam the hrooke Of Vollombroes. Some oome together with a quick movement, a short, sharp report and break away again, the osculatory exercise being over before it had hardly begun. This is the ordinary kin of greet- ing between friends and relatives. The kiss that occupies about the mediate duration of time is that between husband and wife. The husbeua for eonee weeks past hes pat in jun a "mieerable " time whilst his wife has been rusticating with friends. Tho poor fellow has been out with the boys every night, playing Whist, billiards, Wring in everything in the simpe of fun, and taken altogether lute teen having A very ready time. To tell the truth ho is not sorry to tiee his "Lindner" back, but he (unmet for. get what a 4" mineable " time he has been having, and he has to =eke out he is more pIeeseci that aho is back than ho veiny is, and he makes a desperate attempt to kiss her as he used to in the old days before end • Snot after marriage. But he has not the staying power and the kiss is only a counter- teit-there is not the cling to it there was when the couple were only lovera. The true leveret Mae is a thing of beauty and a joy forever. Aa soon as they got their eyes upon each other, tbese two smile with but a angle thought fall upon each other's nooks, wind their arm around each other with a lock hitch at the batik, their lips come to- gether with a lead report, whioh gradually diet; away like a distant eoho, the lips are Wordy drawn quirt, the arras unwound and the clinging kiss is over. There is no 'per. sons in the wide world so oblivious to what is passing ArOalla them as a couple engaged in a clinging kilning bee, and they will atand right there and cling no matter if 300 persons are taking it in. A case of this kind was witnessed at the station the other day. A young dude waited around for several trams, and when no familiar face showed np in the crowd he wont& retire looking disconsolate. At last the party he was looking for appeared. She was a young girl of the dudine order. He could barely reatrain himself until she came within reach. As soon as he dared he made a dash and grabbed the object of his affeetion. "Oh, me dawlin!" he exclaimed, and their lips met in a clinging kiss. The brim of her big hat came down over the dude's little • head and completely hid it from view. Those behind them stopped to enjoy the sight, and a small boy fired a volley into them like this: "Break sway there 1" "Como off the roost 1 " "Ain't we all in it?" But they paid no attention to the gaga, and did not break away till they were good and ready. Joseph Arob, the English labor leader, is a stout man with a pock -marked, weather beaten face, covered with stubby' beard. His eyes are blues When roused by eaoite- ment his chest expands, his voice roars and he exhibits the characteristics of an angry lion. ' A rum= The Season greic's colder apace, The winds begin to roar; • So, when you come info flue place, Please,mister, shut the door. It's most tee warm ler fires as yet, 'They'd open every pore; But frost has come,,numkind to fret, So, mister, shut the door. Don't leave it swinging while we sneeze, And christen you a bore; Unless you want to see us freeze, ..Why, hang it, shut thodoor 1. , Don't n3ake us shiver 'till we're blue, And hanker for pour gore; Look here, we've said all we're going to on this subject, and the next thing you know we'll be over there wiping the floor up with you Unless you shut that door., , -Hotel guest (sitting up in bed, watch itt band) -Six o'clock and nobody comes to wake me. I shall be 'sure to miss the train, ' Manager 3. C. Duff's tannic opera oom. pony, which is presenting " Paola " at the Fifth Avenue Theatre, New York, will shortly take to the road, playing in all the large cities east of the Mississippi, and will return in the spring. no at fealeloola pet peojeete joie 00W la to dud TIOVel oruamentetioes for areas WitialS. It was at e recent Newport luxxeh- aou, nye Teide Taik, that one lady wore a costume of beigedintea glorion silk, a ma- teriel at high 'mitre, that is Anaiug rare fever at present, touebea oil with rolling caller erld deep guile of tan-colorea Suede bia. Odder etill is the fancy for using bends of real silver for trimming. The metal is rollei out very Oahe, ena is lead over a foundation at cloth, silk, eta roe revers, collate and cuffs, as may be our - erased, this trimming is moat effective, opt:dolly, es was recently instanced, when it is used on a churning diweer toilet of Sevres blue japeneee crepe -a fabrio, by the way, that has a far homier mesh than Chinese orepe, and is therefore the more du rabic). SZAT =Tina. A pair of beating candela recently made for Lady Colin Campbell have uppers of navy blue eseivae, goffered and eyeletted, The Wilco runs from the inatep to tolera. bly high ill the leg, but nowhere do the aides meet when the sandal is worn. No covering at all is furnished for the toes, but the sole ,consee well to the front. Two loops of gut are inserted la the sole, ODO for the big toe and one for the small one. The uppers are edged with red, and in color and &alga meet* Lady Colin Cerapboll's bath- ing dress. Demoralizing Drinks. Testing Soils by the Color of Plants. M. Georges Ville, a French scientific+ agriculturist, after almost thirty years of assiduous researches on the experimental farm at 'Vincennes, has made a remarkable and important discovery of a relation ex- isting between the color of plants and the richness of soils in fertilizing agents. His conclusions, recently reported to the Paris Academy of Sciences, deserve consideration by all farmers and horticulturists. He finds that the color of the leaves of plants undergoes marked ohange whenever the soil laoking in phosphate potash, lime or nitrogen. The color remains light green or turns to yellow when the soil is deficient hi phosphate potash or nitrogen, 'When none of the fertilizing elements are wanting the color is a dark green. By his experiments M. Ville furnishes agriculturists with posi- tive indication)3 by which they min deter- mine with the greatese facility what kind of fertilizer the soil needs most or in what elements of fertility it abounds. His ex- periments should be repeated by our De- partment of' Agrioulture and the results publiehed. The practical information which might thus be supplied ao American farmers would enable many of them to "make two blades of grass grow where one now grows.' Within the Law. Wild-eyed Man -I want a lot of poison right riff. . Drug Clerk -It's against the law to, poisons to people who look as if t wanted to .commit suicide; but I'll let you have a bottle of Dr.131aok-Sequin's Elixir of Life. That seems to be pretty sure death. It is announced that the Queen has post- poned nntil next year her contemplated visit to 'Strathpeffee Spa Rossehire, but will prolong her stay at Balmoral, until November. She will probably go to Aix - les -Baine early it the spring. "Give me a great double-barreled, centre. fire, back notion drink of soda and phos - plate," ordered a jolly customer at a drug store lest night. "Do you know what this favorite of yours is doing for you?" asked the venerable druggist, as the customer drained his glass. 'Killing the nausea in my sternal:01e' weiethe reply. "Yes, and it's billing your stomach, too., Some of these days you'll want it copper -plated, and you'll want in vain. Phoephate is some- thing that no one should take except after a full meal. Why? Well, I will explain. You viotddn't think that the inflammable ends of matches were a 'proper thing to eat, would you? But phosphate is derived from phosphorus, and if you need it to excess it will burn out your stomach just au alcohol would if used in excess. You feel benefited by it now, but if you keep on the time will come when you will wish that you bee never heard of phosphate. Of course, we sell it because there is a foolish craze for it, but I advise DO one to use much of the fiery substance." "Should no one use it at alt?" "In moderate quantities joist after a full meal it will not hurt any one; but beware of using it in excess or on an empty stomach, for if you do that organ will need hall. soling and heeling some time." EGYFT.IA CLICICKENS. How They Are Hatchettbslallio/Asillitude Incpbaters. e The Ilgyptian ehiokenSare smeller teen atmAlericeie veriety,nostno Ego piily about. au ngt large are 'thme 44icl by the sPeekled hens on Uncle Sam's farna. The E: Yia e:re; ho ae verri ncsl uettesiel0eotxaigoh oay Prink G. Carpentee, end the 'Mosul:Wing es- tabliehments of the eountry hatch. out egge by the millions every year. At a hatohing establishment near the pyramids tha farmers trade fresh eggs for young ohi0h0p and the rate is two eggs, per chick Another artifulial egg hatchery turnEl out 500,000 little claioliene every seaeori, and the oven orop of ohickerte itt Egypt amounts, menthe to figeres„fathished we by the Consge General, to more than 20,000,000 of OhieliellS a year. We have about 3200,000,- 000 WOrt/3 of 1310ney inveeted in the fowl in- dustry iu the United Statea, art amcont sa large that jell the mottey of jay Gouldeould not equal At, and still we have to import more than 16,000,000 dozens of eggs every year, If America would adopt the Egyp- tian hatehing gyetem we could sell egge in - aged, cse buying them, and our farmers might buy little thickens to raise At a print of 20 cents & dezen. Now than 20,000,000 of little chickens are sold eaohyear in this wwitaylki,u Egypt, and there i3 eegular bud - nen in chickens jun alien old enough to The bent/Mora are vide, one-story builds Wee, mode of undried beiekle BO crrsngod that the yelp are leiti upon out nem ia woke itt roome, around the ovens, which, are kept Area itt duriug the hetthiog see - eon. The outeide wails ere eery thick and are built im they retain the beat, and that onlyetherummeter used is the blood, of the boy Or MAU who atteeds thedree. Byleeig pritetige 43180 men leave jun hew leet the event: ought to be kept, eud they replenish the Area ati the meta= anemia% A. smell anima of fuel is needed, and the tempera- ture of the oven is about that of 08 &gene above wee. The Anti bent up for eight or ten daye before the eggs Are put in, to. thoroughly warm the laid, and atter tide time it does not go out during the seasoxi. which la from March petit 1lay. The eggs Ar0 timed, fear times a day while hatching. The whole outfit of an estelillehment which hatches ever 200,000 =Lake= a Year dgett not, I AM told, cost more than e25, Ana one Mall VMS the *Tiede =whine, beeping the flees, buying Alld turning the esp, and sell - beg the chiekeue. There are, re tido in- cubator, twelve compartments, cede 70 feet long, 00 feet wide and 10 feet high, ana each of these compartments will hold 7,500 egge at A time, or 20,000 eggs in all. It produced last year more teen 230,000 ohoicolcohopsepd did the work ot more them 2lo asarning a *Mien Dollar& What about the dietribution of weelth Fortunes eueli aa the world never eew Bin= the dap when "Feat estates ruined Itrilyo are growiug up ea the American Itepublia. We ben four or live men who ar0 worth from one hundred minim to two hundred minima apiece, we have piety or enenty whose fortunes are eatiropted at from twenty millions to a hundeed seditious, while as for simple millionaires they are far too numerous to be counted. Consider whet the possession of a ebegle minion means. Conaider how lot% it would take an American mealtime or American laborer -I 'will not say such protected American laborers as the ocial miners at, Illinoiu or Pennsylvenia-after tampon. ing himself and his family, to save a million dollars. Row many lifetimes? For though he were to live to theme of Mellen - Web be could not wive a million dollen. If you would get any intelligible idea ot what these fortunes of millions, tens of millions, =rasa millions and hundreds of millions really mean, figure up how many workingmen moomes-dednoting of course the neoessary subsistence of a men and family, for even the slave owoer had to allow that to the slave -it would take to make such ineornes as these fortunes re- present. And look again. While the'lle monstrous fortunes are gathering be the hands of stew, one has but to read our daily papers to see how familiar we are becoming with oondi- tione that we once thought possible only in effete monarehies of the old world, and could not exist in the free air of our demo - natio republio-with tramps and paupers and beggars; with charities that show the need of charity, with destitution and starvation, with crimes and suicides caused by want, or fear of want; with a struggle for existence on the part of great classes of the people that makes life hard, bitter and of ttimes imbrnting-a straggle which green not len, but more intense as these great fearitttnnnioefire.go rolling op. -Henry George at B Johnnie Knew It All. Wife -John, here is eomething in this baseball report that I do not understand. I wish you would explain it to me. Husband -Read it my dear. • • Wife (reading)-" With one to tie &Da one out, he reached first in the eighth inning, and ran to third on Pfeffer's hitto right. He ahonld have floored on Tiernan's wild throw in, but became rattled and held his base." What does that mean? Husband (who knows nothing of the game)---Bless'd if I know. Wife (with a eigh)-I'll have to wait until Johnnie (six years old) comes in. Many Years a Bachelor. Young lady (to middle-aged gentleman at Saratoga) -Mr. Rivington, I suppose you are very fond of little chilaren? Mr. R. -Yes, indeed; passionately fond of them. Young lady --You have some of your own, have you not 2 Mr. R. -Oh, no; I'm a bachelor. Young lady (innocently) - You don't mean it ? • How long have you been a bachelor? . Many a towering ambition has been crushed, many a cupful of happiness hue been converted into dregs of bitterness, from the neglect of a young man to become thoroughly acquainted with a girl before marriage. , Mr. S. M. Donaldson has accomplished the remarkable feat of riding his bicycle from Edinburgh to London, 394 miles, in 2 days, 6 hone and 50 minutes -less than 55 hours -over roade unfavorable from wet- ness. This is little more than 7 nines an hour, ri olu ive of time neoesearily taken for rest and reftesennent. A humane New York undertaker delayed a funeral the other day. The dead man had not paid for his first wile's burial, and once the undertakergot him in his grip le did not propose to give him up -dead or alive -until the bine were all paid. The matter was settled by the pall -bearers con- tributing enough to appease the under- taker, who allowed the corpse to prooeed to --Women are ever dupe; or victims of the grave. Undertakers' rings e,re all of their extreme sensitivenessthe same metal. ' Indisputable Evidence. De Pole -Where do you intend to apend your vacation? De Pole -I am going to our milkman'e dairy Parra. There is the finest kind offishing in that neighborhood. "Hub! Yon don't take his word for ite do you?" "No, indeed. We've found young trout in his milk." Her Own Fault. Sympathetio friend --How are you and Miss Fanny coming on? Conceited dude -She gave me the grand bounce. She said she did not like me. Silly creature 1 When a girl don't like me, she has got nobody but herself to blame for it. Alexandre Gustave Pleiffel, who has leaped into fame on the strength of 975 feet of masonry and 'iron, is a muscular- t, built man of commanding presence with Bandy grey hair and closely cropped beard. He is also seven and fifty and has not es- caped decimation, being a chevalier of the Legion of Honor, and commander of divers other orders, yet he commences his work daily at 6 o'oloak in the morning, and he ° wears the worst fitting trousers in Europe. Wr(ERED/DY0IIGETTECATIULT? When walking down the busy street, With new and glossy tile, You fancy every one you meet Admires y ur stunning style. But how it makes you want a shroud When suddenly and pat There comes an exclamation loud, Where -did -you -get -that -hat? Wheredidyougetthathat ? ' Tiny" Que.ntrell, the English jockey, 19 BOW riding fdr mi etable in Pennsylvania. He is a little fellow, not more than four feet In height. He has had a wide ex- perience in his calling. He has had mounts in hundreds of rues in England, including a number of Derbys. Hellas ridden inthe Grand Prix at Pans has plied the whip arid spurs in saati Africa, and has raoed on every track in Australia. He has been in the west for sometime, and is melciag his way back to England, having got as far ap the Keystone State. A. riot occurred Sunday at a Hungarian christening at Allport, Pa. Mike Ketch wabenurdered and two others were seri- ously hurt. Four rioters are in jail and warrants have been issued for several °there.