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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Advocate, 1892-12-1, Page 7NOME CARLO'S GAMBLING HELL Profits Made Out of a Years Coquet- ting With Fickle Fortune. snerve and his critics—A eirood-Thirsty Toutii Asins a name cheat the unto Mid /41,all)8 Inn* Li WL the ineart—warie nleoliselliers' and Inarmiters, legacy — Josegoteine's chateau, or i1aillant$011 Makes Way for etrictui and Mortar. PARS, Nov. 0 W the Monte Carlo Gambling House Com- pany which is euphemistiea 11 y cl e- scx•ibed as the Societe Anonyme des Bailie de Mer and du Cercle des ]ranger, bas issued accounts which how that it has rnade a gross gain of the tidy little sum of 84,500,- 000 in the course ef the past financial yearoind a net gain of about $2,- nn." 300,000, which will en- able it to pay 36 per cent. on the original value of the ordinary shares (500 francs or $100) of which 60,000 were iseued. The shares have, however, risen enormously in value einoe then,and they now stend at $23000 francs ($400). Even at this enor- mously increased price the dividend repre- sentsi 9n per cent. which is very docent in- terest these days. BETTER TXIAN A GOLD MINE. In 1891 the dividend woe ten francs less than in 1892, while in the previous+ year snareholders had to content themselves with only 160 francs—that is, a paltry divi- dend of 32n per cent. Besidell thie, in the kat six yearsea million francs has been set aside annually au a reserve hind, which now amounts to $1,00,000; so that, by 1913, in the ordinary course of events, the company will have a reserve fund aa big as their capi- ta, addibion to the gardenia buildings and property in which the original capital svas sunk, and will have been paying divi- dends varying from 30 to 40 per cent. all through on the original capital. There figures do not, however, represent the full winnings of the company, for they have Ent to pay immense expenses.ER metre, A QUARTor A MILLION DOLLARS. l'iret item is the rent of $250,000, which they give to the Prince of Monaco. Then there is the cost of the whole of the busi- ness of goverronent, sanitary arrangements, etch, winch is thoroughly well done. After tbat come bribes to newapapers, subsidies to theatres, pensions to persons who have been ruined at the tables, aalaries to croupiers, chuckers-out, and detectives, the total amounting to about $2,250,000, which is about half the gross gam of the company. The explanation of those enor- mous winnings is the fact that the company possesses a monopoly of roulette, and that, as it seems that man is determined to play roulette, the only result of :suppressing the game elsewhere is to enable a single com- pany to offer every possible attraction to draw people to their rooms, and at the same time to pay enormous dividends to their nbareholders. NOT TILE 01. -Er GAMBLING 10ILL 3N wonorz. On the other band, though Monte Carlo las the monopoly of roulette, it is quite. a mistake to imagine that gambling in sup - presaged elsewhere. There is plenty of gambling, but it is done in a shady, un- recognized way. For instance, gambling is prohibited by law in Belgium, but, in apite of this, the casino:4 at Ostend and Spa are nothing more nor less than gam- bling-heils. The niunicipalities of Ostend and Spa know perfectly well that the '"club" is used mainly by the visitors for baccarat and trente-et guarento, but as they receive a handeoree subsidy to keep quiet, they do so, and take no notice even when the rooms are kept open all night, or when ;diegraceful scenes occur which make all Zurope ring. The result is that the Belgian Senate has been considering the advisability of a more stringent law to deal with the subject. This bag woke the Government up, and in consequence the police wore instructed to make raids on the Ostend Casino. GOLD SQUARES THE TOLME. The Ostend police, hovvever, arrested nobody, fined nobody, and only reported that there were "no irregularities." This 'means'therefore, that this Casino at Ostend is now •particularly licensed by the police in defiance of the law. The sordid explanation ef the see- saw movement> of the authorities is tbat gambling has brought prosperity to Ostend and Spa; and though both the Belgian authorities and their advisers are ultra - moral in matters where the Congo State is concerned, they aro afraid to be too straight-laced at home. They take the watute view that though it is a sad pity that men will gamble, yet if they insist on it, and experience shows that •they do, it is better that Ostend and Spa should benefit by it than not. And this, no doubt, is a highly practical and patriotic view, if not a moral one. belX1R np 0YOliTHF PA Rine1889 SlirAKE 1:: • mARmixteS 33o01WORBTS FEAST. Not only do the bouquinistes of the quays intend to have a good dinner on the 20th with the money left, to them for this pur- pose by the late M. Marmier, the academician, but they have resolved to seize such an excellent occasion, when they will be more united in spirit than they have ever been before, for " syndicating them- selves." These vendors of old books, who carry on their open-air business in every kind of weather, excepb rain and snow, have a common grievance. They object to the practice adopted of late years by many regalarly-established booksellers, with nhopsa of renting space on the quay wall and spreading their second-hand books upon it. They tonsider thie an infringement upon the Tights of the legitimate bouguiniste, whose ishop is merely a tray. By banding them- selves together, the genuine stall keepers hope that they will be strong enough to drive away the greedy librarians. It was the chief solace of the late M. %lathier in his old age to stroll along the quays and to turn over the book e on the stall. He who had travelled so much in the Arctic regione, and had felt all the grandeur of emit horizon, found at length all the excitement that he %leaden in walk - big over the same half -mile of pavement Arty after day, year after year. Many of the rare old volumes Which he left to hie native town were acquired in this Way. ,Arisrbody who has spent a few half-houra at these stalls knows what English books lave been chiefly read in France during the present century. First on the het ,etand Walter. Scott ti works, and next to theise probably menee the a' Vicar of Wake. eld." was yether 'severely bodied by one ef the writers in the-Pigwo the other dey* and Me nerve has just written to the editor telling him that he wili no longer eubscribe for hie paper. Tne editor eapenda to the letter 0. wicked ;rote to the effect that M. Herve has written many isa amusing piece,. but nothing quite so funny as the 4spiatle m which he cries,"Stop fay paper !' The other eournele, as a natural conse- quence, have taken the farce up, and nerve at the preeent moment has made biniself the laughingstock of Perin He is a man very much puffed out with his own conceit, winch renders the " dressing down" he is now receiving all the more salutary. The (lanky; has come out with an excel- lonb alcit in the shape of extracts from a new (and imaginary) journal palled L'Herve. The egotism of the susceptible MUMMER is well hit off in the olection address which he is•aupposed to have issued to the electors oh the asses -Pyrenees : To deny nerve is madness • to criticise him criminal ; to discuse him, idiotic '• to praise him, hardly civil. If I am elected I shall sib neither on the right nor on the left, nor the centre. I shall simply take my stand on a luminous platform. If I am not eleuted then, electors, beware of my vengeance. I shall forbid my music to be played on any pianoforte or harmonium throughout your department ; or, the joker might have added on any piano organ, throughout the world, for it is mostly by this means that the compoesitions of Herm are popularly known. mAXINQ A BEEToN. Calibot, a depraved led a little over 17 years old, has now fully confessed the rea- sons which led him to perpetrate a fearful crime at Versailles in June last. One night in that month 4 clerk named Gireud, while passing close to the En- gineera' barracks, was accosted by a youth, who asked him fora light. As the clerk was complying with the request be was stabbed right through the heart, and hie dead body was found some few hours after- wards by three workmen. The poolsets of the murdered man were turned inside out, end everything of value that he carried was taken. ' Calibot was arrested on suspicion next day, but he maintained that be had stabbed Gineud because the man made improper proposals to hhn. The boy long adhered to this statement, but he has now declared that he was instigated to the crime by two men belonging, like himself, to a band of cut-throats, who are called at Versailles "La Tierce." One of these is known as "Barbet" and the other as "Haricot." They told Calibot that they wanted him to help there to faire un Breton, the "slang" for waylaying and robbing some- body. Giraud was to be the victim, as they knew that he always carried a sum of 100f. or so about with ,him for business pur- poses. If Calibot were caught his mother was to receive his share of the plunder or poignon. If he failed to obey he would be murdered himself. The crime was then committed by °abbot, who, after having done the work, kept watch wbile his companions rifled the pockets of the victim. Only nine francs were found on the body,and "Barbet" and "Haricot" refused to give any part of the meagre booty to their miserable tool. Cali - bot has taken four months to make up his mind before inculpating his old companions, who will probably soon be arrested. 1PAIR JOSEPHINE'S RETREAT. The Chateau of Malmaison will shortly be set up to auction. It was the favorite resi- dence of Napoleon and Josephine during the Consulate, and in the early years of the first empire. Through the vicissitudes it has preserved a grand air. The house is piain, with tall windows and high roofs. There are still woods in the grounds and old trees, but the walks and Lin conservatory, which was the joy of Josephine's life are in ruins. The chateau stands on a billaide, but low down and near the Carches road, where George Cadoudal laid his ambuscade for Napoleon. The celebrity of Malmaison dates from 1793, when Josephine bought the house and the large park surrounding ib for about £6,090. She made it the centre of the artistic, world, and drew there authors, scientists and political men in the design of forming the nucleus of a party that would stand by Bonaparte when he might be try- ing to realize the mnbitious dreams which she knew haunted him. Josephine kept Malmaison after her divorce and received the allied 'sovereigns there in 1814. One of her visitors was the late Emperor William, then a lad of 15. He went to see her along with his father. She died of diphtheria a few days later. It is probable that the house will be pulled down. The Dark is to be sold in lots for building. Chrysanthemums. Chrysanthemums are all the rage this season. Everybody wears them ; they adorn the windows of fashionable residences, are carried for hand bouquets and worn as boutonnieres. For the time carnations are quite distanced in the race for popularity. So general is the favor for this flower that its devotees are no longer particular as to the variety they wear; simply let it be a chrysanthemum. An ordinary little speci- men, one of the variety that stands outdoors proudly during the first snow flakes and laughs with brazen indifference at Jack Frost, is found peeping from the folds of a sealskin sacque, where next time may nestle a great shaggy Jap. There is re modest little flower' coming into favor this season. It is called bouvardia, and its dainty little sprays of red, pink and white blossoms, much resembling honeysuckle, are very pretty for corsage wear. Time Free Trade Nightmare. "Being me a lobster and milk, a Welsh rarebit, a bottle of ale, some pig's feet and a mince pie," said Mr. Squawker, the edito- rial writer, to the waiter half an hour before bed time. "Good heavens 1" exclaimed his friend Liverpadd. "Don't do all that. You'll get a nightmare:" "Nightmare 1 That's just what 1 want. I've got to write a campaign article to- morrow morning telling about the horrors of free trade."—New York Herald. Not So nitre. " What are you doming about, Josiah '1" nquired Nina Chugwater. " Nothing 1" roared Mr. Claugwater, throwing his hat on the lounge, " Noth- ing, only I've made a fool of myself again ! That's all! I gob a 3.cent piece in change somewhere this morning and I find I passed it on a street car conductor a little while ago for a dime and cheated myself out of seven—ont of—er—no," he continued, moderating bis tone, "1 gimes it'e all right, Semanthan , . . The Sensation 'Was So Similar. Oustozner—Did you get it out? Barber—.Hien; how% that ? Custerner—Oh pardon Me ; I thought.' wag at the dentisten " 6110.0 Mt' PAVER.' George Bobertme, the regular party Herve, the well-kri own 1rnoh converser, nominee, and John A. .Chealey, both Coo- nms had the misfortune to fall foul of the sereativern were nominated_ yesterday in newspaper °titles. His "Bacchisn, now St. John, N. B., for the Meuse of Coin, beteg played itto the Menne-Fialeire Theetre, MAME. CAPTURED DOWN IN MEXICO. 0. R Davideen, Alleged Bank of Hamilton Forger, Hader Arreet) AND WILL BE EXTRADITED. 0, H. Davidson, ot Burlington who some months ago disappeared with the proceeds of about $10,000 worth of forged paper, has, after a long abase across the continent, been captured. Word was received yesterday of his arrest by Government Detective John Murree', at Ciudad Juarez, a city on the Mexioan side of the Rio Grande, directly opposite El Paso, Texas. The prisoner, who was a member of the firm of 0- H. Davidson Ss Sons, nurserymen, of Burling- ton, turned in and discounted at the head office of the Bank of Hamilton, at Hamil- ton notes to the value of between $9,000 and $10,000, purporting to be signed by several prominent and well-todo farmers of the dietrict Then he fled the country. The farmere, one and all, denied the genii- ineness of the signatures, whereupon the bank authorities set in motion the machinery of the law in the hope of running down the fugitive. The Attorney-Getterare department was com- municated with, and the eervices of two Pinkerton men were alms moured. Their inveMegations were unsatisfactory, how- ever, until the discovery was made by Detective Murray that Davidson's wife, who had followed some weeks after her husband's flight, had gone to Mexico. He went over the route travelled by her, and finally brought up in Ciudad Juarez, where he arrested his man. Davidson will be extradited, and will be returned to Canada byway of Bermuda and Halifax in order to avoid American territory, where proceed - tugs might be taken to resist extradition': Davidson was well known in this city and in all the surrounding •country. He had long had dealings with the Bank of Hamil- ton and with the farmers in Wentworth and Halton, and great was the surprise when it Was learned a few months ago that he bad fled the country. It is believed that he went to Mexico believing that he could not be extradited from that country—a mistake which many have fal'ea into. If Detective Murray cannot get a steamer from Bermuda to Halifax, he will take his man to Liver. pool and thence to Halifax, rather than by way ofnhe United States. A. CANADIAN TENNISON. A Kent (Ont.) Farmer Claims High Rela- tionship. An item having been going the rounds that the late Lord Tennyson had a brother residing at Dresden, Out., a reporter visited this pleasant ittle town to interview him. Dresden itself is rather romantically situ- ated town in Kent County, the lazily -run - zing Sydenham River dividing it in two. The country hereabouts is a fine farming district. The thickly -shocked cornfields and orchards, with apples in great red and yellow heaps, indicated thrift and pros- perity. The Tennyson home is a modest four -roomed cottage on the outskirts of the town. Mr. Tennyson m a short, rather thio-keet man with a strong Cornish accent, a typical "Hodge." The reporter said: It is stated in the papers that you are a brother of the late laureate of England." That is not true, then, The late Lord Tennyson was my uncle. My father's name was John Tennyson, a tenant -farmer in Cornwall, England. Besides my father; there were Alfred, the poet; Charles. a Church of England clergyman, and William,'a whole- sale tea merchant on Chatham street, New York. "Have you any remembrances of Lord Tennyson ?" "Iremember visiting with my father at his place in the Isle of Wight, and remember the poet as an odd-looking man, though I read by the papers these late years that he was the greatest man in England. My own father was a better -looking man, though." "Did Lord Tennyson ever write to you ?" " When this boy was born," pointing to his grand- son'Alfred Tennyson, a boy of 10 or 12— "we decided to call him after the poet laureate, and I wrote my uncle so. A reply came back from Allem Tennyson, and shortly after Lord Tennyson himaelf wrote me a kind letter, and I CEO tell you he could write. None of the scratching like the lawyers write, but a hand Ake copper- plate." "Have you those letters with you r, " No ; they are at my married daughter's on the North Branch (near Wallaceburg). Her neighbora wanted to see them, but I can get thern for eim to see them, but I won't sell them. Some man wrote to me from London, England, want- ing to buy them, but I don't want to sell them." TUE DAV NITEDER RECALLED. The Woman for 'Whom He Killed Ufa Wife Marries. When Arthur Day was hanged in Wel- land jail on Dec. 18th, 1890, for murdering his wife, nee Deseriah Charleston, of Syra- cuse,N. Y.. by throwing her over the precipice at Niagara Falls in the previous July, he left a widow, having been married on July 12th, 1890, fifteen days prior to the murder, to Miss Lizzie Breen, of Trenton, Ont Day married Miss Breen under the name of Hoyt, and it was in consequence of wife No. I learning of the, bigamous mar- riage that he deoided to murder her. The facts 13 connection with his decoying the woman to the Falls with his sister. Mrs. Quigley, and of her subsequent murder are familiar to all. After Day's arrest Miss Breen, or wife No. 2, returned to her home in Trenton, and on Tuesday she was married to a re- spectable farmer of Sidney. The couple registered at the Walker House, Toronto, last evening on their honeymoon trip. Went in Deep. "So you had to stop work at the gas well, eh ?" "Yea ; ran out of money." "How deep did you go ?" "About fifteen thousand—" " What 1 Fifteen thousand feet 1" " dollars." Tender F,00t—Why did that fellow call me a poor orphan when I told him I had no revolver Texas Bill—Because you have no popper. See Dix—I will say one thing for my coal dealer ; he is ea honest as the day is long. Hicks—Just like mine ; you notien it mere in summer than in winter. London Truth understands that nearly X1,500,000 will go to the dowager DUchesh a Sutherland tinder the late duke's will, and says it will take the Sutherland estate three years to recover from the drain. It is repotted that Sir Algernon Borthwick will lease Dunrobin Castle, one of the Hata of the late Duke of Sutherland. Dude A.—Well, 1 euaPeee I must go and get ehaved. Dude B.—Going to the bahbah shop, eh? Dude A.—No, I'm going CiVah to the hattah's to buy a five dollah derbeh. The oavalty sent out to drive Osman Digna back into the desert bine returned a froin Sinkats after burning the dairies there p. that °email Digne, had deserted. t LONDON FASHIONS. Everything in Dress Fur -Trimmed From Hats to Boots. The Froch Coat Riding ticult—An. Epidemic of BultY Bed Sieeves—Inallletee Silk for Reception Dresses—Chrome Velvet Shot With Burnt Ember Blanes an Even,ing Costume. Lucky fqrriers 1 A good time ha% come to slit*them at lasteafter many and many a season of bitter complaining that e,...nefes their trade svas going n' the way of all earthly .• things. It seems that it requires a few winter of intense cold e're the 11, creators of new faehions, With all their vaunted 0, nine cleverness, can call to mind the facb that winters are cold and furs are warm. However, thia fact having fortunately once more been disoovered, the fancy for furs is such that furriers have every reason to be thankful. .And in our admiration for 4' skins," we have now arrived at the stage when we wear fur wherever we go. Here is a description of a Parisian morn- ing drew*. The color and texture of the material are, it appears only very sec- ondary matters, but the points to be strictly' observed are these : Have three narrow rows of Inc round the skirt, and a bolero jacket and sleeves of the same. Otter and astrachan are the most suitable furs for this indoor parure. It only remains for us now to trim nightgowns and umbrellas with "a bit of Inc." THAT HORRID SKUNK. Pretty women look charming in their furs, but some of them must be disagreeable rieighbore in church. Is there no possible way of ridding skunk of its really awful odor? There is something inainuating, mean and sneaking about the smart way in which it assails the olfactory nerves, not with a direct shook like eatchouli or par- affin, but subtly and assiduously approach- ing them and suggesting something ex- tremely disagreeable. Sable on the oontrary amens pleasantly, and though seal -skin when toasting by the fire on its owner's shoulders does not exhale the precise perfume one would tielect for one'a handkerchief and laces, it cannot be compared in intensity with the honied smell of skunk. And yet the fur is so handsome, so warm and so thick and glossy that no one has the heart to say to it " Never no more." Some of the new Granine muffs are as large as pillows. A little lady the other day, height somewhere about 5 ft. 3 in. carried an immense fleecy white one. It almost extinguished her, but she was un- aware of that fact, arid looked highly pleaeed with her appearance. She seemed over -weighted with the muff, but tbis was only an outward impression imparted by its size, for it was light enough. Only tall women should carry these very large muffs. Short ones become more diminutive still by force of contrast NOT RUSSIAN, BUT BRETTy NEvERTIIELESS. Side by side with the infinite variety of large winter hats the fur or fur -trimmed toque comes moreandmoreinto prominence. And there is, iadeed, hardly a single hat, be it never so.picturesque, which looks more charming above a fair young face than do the unbrunmed, untrimmed little soi disant Russian caps. They are both useful and ornamental, but one thin which they pre- tend to be they are not—they are not Russian. It is the Pole and the Hungarian, both man and woman, pan and paniza who wear the oblong cap of astrachan or oblier abort - haired, dark fur, with the brush -like bunch of bristlee at the left side, mounted above a curious cockade. But the true Russian wears his, or her, fur cap round, with the top either alightly arched, which looks ugly, or slightly "battered in," which looks nonchalant and rather pretty. They have no trimming at all. The round caps snit moat faces; why not adopt them ? In sealskin they are particularly becoming. A DREAM OF A GOWN. The nescription of an exquisite evenin dress, designed by an artist for a leading elegante is most fascinating. The dress is composed—to borrow the terms of the studio—of velvet the tint of pale chrome, shot, with burnt umber, which, with every movement takes the loveliest shifting shades. The ornamentation consists only of big velvet pansies, those which combine the various tones of brown and yellow. The upper part Of the corsage is composed of these beautiful flowers, and a long spray coming from the waist cunningly defines]: the outline of the graceful figure, and then is lost among the sweeping folds on the left side of the skirt. The shoes worn with this creation are of passernenterie in harmony with the prevail- ing colon, and are worn over silken hose of pale yellow. The wrap is of the darker shade of velvet, and the lining bop. and cloak of the lighter shade THOSE IVORY RED SLEEVES. It is amusing to notice to whet an extent velvet sleeves have forced tl w by into public favor. Go where one v ilh is town and in the country, the drawingneom or the concert hall, it is the same everywhere, the velvet sleeve is with us still. At a concert ab the Albert Hall, Mame. Albani wore a black dress:, a bodice en suite covered with yellow lace and ornamented with truly magnificent diamonds. The balloon sleeves were of red velvet. Next to her sat Miss Midst Wilson, the second soloiet in Dvorak's "Requiem." She wore an ivory satin dress, with a bodice composed of muoh lace and satin, a little red velvet and red velvet balloon sleeves. Among the audience, in the body of the hall, in the stalls* and boxes, red sleeves were everywhere, "like poppies spread," mostly a set-off to black lace or velvet gowns. In most cases where a ruby or cardinal red WW1 used the effect was very pretty, but where the brighteet imaginable scarlet had been used the sleeves were not exactly things of beauty. r, /MST IN RIDING COSTUMES, The lovely daughter of an EMT Bari, who is a great horsewoman, has two Oxford grey skirts, a coat to match, and two riding bloats made of of red -brown tweed. One of thee() is tight -fitting, with long skirts rounded off and clinging found the figure. The other is loose from the side seams, and the Oxford grey rough oloth boat 13 tight- fitting to all hate/its and purpose, but it can be opened to show its owner' pretty taste in waistcoats. Of these there are many in an outfit for a woman who is a 'Jest min - tress in the art of dress. One ie Of pale fawn velvet cord, dotted over with pale blue spots, and mede eingle.breasted, With a watchlocket high up on the We side. Another is of tan -plush leather, made donblebreassted, With small pearl buttons, nd having tvvo pooketh in the oh:hoary eeitiota A third 13 of a material used by he bops iend jockeys when galloping the APP,LICATIONS,THOROUGNLY 1EMOVES DANDRUFF rata Trgre T D. Xe 0440,07‘t, 0,,,, 1 (.14,-Itma, n ii, fellriptilkatko,190313 CWOORRfl e al ma, 1, S ;1,630 A**, . , q UARANTEED M/4th ve 4sadruff lamuotetta 4,7,1Vicrowth," Restores Fadien bale tit Skint Wag e4 noilk Keeps the Melee Owe, MAN bait sea awn Pramehte arleete. tortes, and only to be had in one color, and that a bright yelloiv. This waistcoat is single.breasted, with pearl buttons arid a small turn down collar and lapele. Two white waistcoats are in- cluded, one in plush leather, the other in kersey. The make of most mad waistcoat is (mite perfect, every line being one of beauty, and the figure shown to advantage in every way. LIRE A MAN IS ALL MIT PANTS. Another etyle of coat follows the fashion eet by hunting men who now wear pink eingle-breasted frock -coats, which look businees-like and protect their legs. The woman's frock riding coat is just so far daintier and more dignified than a maxi's as it should be. It is a metter of wonder how it could be produced to eit so exquieiteln* sidering the peculiar position of a woman in the saddle, but the genius brought to bear upon such things nowadays is of no com- mon order. Even the covert °oat is so ar- ranged that it will cover the pomel knee, button right up over it, in its curved posi- tion, fit like a glove, and sit without a writilkis wrinkle. Iurioue to find that dark blue and green, once the favorite colors for habitS, are now never used for them. Blaek, rough cloth, Oxford grey mixture, and dark .grey mixtures are the favorites. There is no change in skirts except that each year they aeem to sit better and better, and women begin to learn that not using a eafetyaskirt is too risky if they mean to ride ;straight. Covert coats are made in tans, dust colors, or greyieh green. They indicate the waist at the back, but do not accentuate it, and have strapped seams. REvELATIoN Th• TAILLETEE SILK. In new tissues is a material called " pailletee " silk, which looks as if millions of tiny spangles had been thrown over it. The ground es black or very dark blue, red or brown, and the soft glitters of the spangles produce a most lovely effect. This will be used for dinner and reception dress. A handsome model is made of a plain skirt, wibh a fluting of dark blue satinshow- ing just below the edge, the pailletee silk being on a blue ground, of course. The front of the bodice is trimmed with pleated black guipure laze. At the baok, between the shouldera, a handsome bow of satin ribbon has two long lapels falling to the edge of the skirt, and two others which are rounded off at the sides and tied at the waist in front. At the top is a lace ruche, with bow at the side. The aleeves are in the Neapolitan style, falling loose to the elbow,anddoubled up; the undersleeves are of guipure lace. Children are looking very quaint and delightful this season in their Dutch bon- nets and fur -trimmed pelieses. Their even- ing dresses are to be specially pretty for the winter parties,and most of them are sensibly warm and made high in the neck, as parents who consider their children's health will be glad to hear. Ab the same time the mistake of dressing them too warmly for their parties is very often made, with the result that it is sought to avoid, namely, cold - catching. The little creatures become over- heated, and on the journey home receive a chill which ends in one of the numerous varieties of catarrh. How to Clean Brass, Brass, to be kept in proper order, should be cleaned stleast once a week, while it is the custom in households with well-trained domestics to have brass andirons, fenders and other fireplace furniture given a light rubbing every day. In cleaning brass it must first be relieved of all canker and other spots to which the metal is subject, from contact with acids, exposure to water or other cauees. An application of alcohol, spirits of turpentine, benzine or kerosene will generally remove all ordinary spots on brass, unless in very old spots, the metal in some cases seeming so perfectly to absorb foreign substances that the removing of them amounts almost to an impossibility. Spots removed, there is no more certain cleansing and polishing application for brass than rotten atone and oil. Rotten stone usually comes in lumps. Before using for polishing brass it must be reduced to powder,and in this state it quickly dissolves to a smooth consistency when mixed with olive oil. A thin paste of the preparation should be rubbed lightly on the metal, and when perfectly dry it sbould be rubbed off vigorously with a flannel cloth, the finishing polish being given with the powder dry,and subsequent rubbing with a flannel [cloth. For Better, Not For Worse. "On what grounds, madam, do you wish a divorce ?" " Why, I married Barlow for money, and he has lost everything!" THE meteoric display so far has been a failure this year, the weather having been unpropitious. But on the 27th of this month we are promised a grand display. The meteors are technically known as Leonids, because the point from which they seem to radiate is in the constellationof the Lion, which is known astronomically as Leo, and are easily distinguished from other groups. These star showers, as they are called, are accompanied this year by the appearance of the cornet recently discovered by Holmes, which was at first supposed to be Biellons missing comet. The comet is located in the constellation of Andromeda and can be seen by the naked eye. In November, 1872, the shower continued for three days, that on thethird,November27th, being magnificently brilliant. Biella's comet and the Leonids have equally romantic his- tories. The former disappeared for several years and then reappeared tie two comets, having been divided ina collision probably in ins wanderings through space. The Leonids, in the year 126 of our era, ran too close to Uranus, which turned the comet from its course and imprisoned it in the worldn sylitem. The cornet reaches the earth's crossing place once in thirty-three and a quarter years, and then the great Meteoric showers occur. The meteoric sworms are said by astronomers to be the debris of the comet which holds a place immediately hi the center of the great display. The most relnarkable Meteorie shower on record Was that of November 1215, 1833, in the early. morning. For five hours the atmosphere of the earth wail hombartiedwith meteors esti- meted to number 2150,000. Not one of them was known to have reached the earth, ha. ing been ignited by our atmosphere and (mistimed almost irninediately. .A.11 we re- oeived from the great display Web a silent shower of tneteorie dust in probably larger quaneities than usual. An official despatch from Gen, Decide states that he will give his troops a rept be. fore attacking Aboxney, the 0a ital o Din homey. King Ilehanzin now o erri to negd. tiate for notice. Sick Headaelw and rebeveaU the troubles inSt• dept to a buena state of the system„ oten es Diazirkeas, Nausea. Droweintse, Disteent alter eating, Pain in the Shle, <he,. 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They are subtle as light—you can never undo them, And swift in their flight—you can never pursue them; And, spite of all clasping and spite of all bands, I slip like a shadow, a dream from your hands. Nay, call nie not cruel, and fear not to take me ; I am yours for a lifetime, to be what you make me. TO wear my white veil for a sign or a cover. As you shall be proven my lord or my lover; A cover for peace that is dead, or a token Of bliss that can never be written or spoken. —ALICE CAIIE. A Bachelor's /Lament. I am a jolly bachelor, Have learned to sew and mend, To keep my things in proper shape And on myself depend: But there is one thing, I'll confess That does my efforts mock; No matter how hard I may try, cannot mend a sock. luso a patent button that Requires not any thread; ru sew a rip without a skip And make a feather bed. 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