HomeMy WebLinkAboutHuron Record, 1881-02-25, Page 3WOMEN GOSSIP.
Meet me in the moonlight—
Meet me in the dell.;
If the stars behold us,
Will they ever tell?
Though the moon be bright, eove,
Never heed the skies I
Need we gaze at heaven—
Are they uot your yes?e
Let the gentle breezes
Whisper as they fly;
Still they cannot eoho
All that we may siih.
Who shall ever listen?
Who shall ever tell
VVe were in the moonlight,
Kissing in the dell?
. Fashion Notes.
Vandyke red is to take the place of car-
dinal.
Iron rust is the latest shade of brick -dust
red.
Yellow will again be fashionable in the
'spring.
Violets are the flowers of the passing mo-
ment.
Eoru and drab kerseymeres will be much
worn.
Gingbams plain and plaided will be worn
again.
Black lace and white face are universally
becoming.
The popular border for dark periebles is
the daisy thain.
There will be a run on Roman striped goods
this spring.
Bonnets are large and worn projecting dver
the forehead.
Stewart% counters are already bright and
gay with apring goods.
Muslin fiches showing the throat are to
take the place of linen et:inane
Shirrings will be used to excess on cotton
and linen dress goods suits. •
No young girl should dress in velvets,
laces, and jewels fit for a dowager.
New cotton dress goods show a repetition
of the colors of the passing season.
Pale, invalid women should not Weir dia.
monde nor flashing jewelry ornansents.
Lineu Scotch plaid ginghatne wilt be the
popular novelty of the coming season.
Heavy surfaced camel's hair goods, ker.
seymeres and serges will again be fashion-.
able.
No radical changes are observable in the
new plates sent out with spring goods from
Paris.
Do not emphasize the large stomach of a
little two-year•old child with a broad sash
tied around it.
Red or blue woollen sword sashes will be
worn_over, spring dresses -by -small -children -
• of both sexes. •
Two film rings on the fingers.of-one hien&
look better than both hands loaded With
flashing diamonds.
Jersey -shaped waists, low enough in the
front ot the neck to show the throat will be
worn next season.
Berges and cheviots in gray, drabeand tan
shades and mixtures are shown for early
spring travelling suits. ,
Tight lacing And tight shoes will destroy
the most radiant beauty faster than opium,.
hasheesh, or absinthe.
Some of the new goods show broken plaids
of indigeblue with bright fiowers and small
fruits scattered over them.
Men, Women, and Suicide. MATTERS DRAMATIC. is always the deem on the atage that fam- ,A. Remarkable Picture.
Men are everywhere becoming more weary
Of the burden of light. Authorities on sane.
teflon and vital stetistic tell us that of latos
ears life, e averagelife, h been
considerably prolonged by greater attention
to the means of preserving bealth ; yet, eon.
current with this improvement, there are a
greater impatience of life itself and a greater
desire to escape its burden. Women arelees
prone to commit suicide in Europe than men, e
and extensive investigation on the subjecthaa
convinced Signor Morselli tbat the tendency
to suicide increases with age more strongly
among the unmarried and widowed than
among the married, of beds sexes. The fol-
lowing table curiously ilium rates this fact:
Among a million of persons of each class in
Europe generally, in so far as the re urns
enable d him to compare them, the following
numbers committed Suicide :
Married men with children 265
Married men without children .....
470
Widowers wi:h children26
Widowers withoat children 1,004
Married women with children .., 45
Married women without children.. .... .„ 158
Widows with children .. 104
Widows without children ... 238
Women cling to life much more strongly than
men, and that under the most wretched con-
ditions. A childless widow would appear to
be far more desolate in the world than a wid.
ower similarly situated; yet she bears her
loneliness better—doubtless from seligious re.
straints, or from possessing a larger rneaeure
of that hope which springs eternal in the hu.
man breast:
Men and Women.
The genders or sexes we know are three,
—masculine, feminine, and neuter,—. -or, as.
Sydney Smith said, "Men, women, and
clergymen." The men Charles Kingsley
aptly divides into—(1) Honest men, who
mean to do right, and do it ; (2) knaves, who
mean to do 'right, and do it: (3) fools, who
do whichever is pleasantest. The old women,
over 60, Coleridge conclueively dispoaes of
by dividing them also into three classes—(1)
That dear old 80E1; (2) that old woman; (p)
.that old witch. But the younger and more
numerous portion of the community appears
to defy philosophy and epigram, and is gen,
erally handed over to the poets, who are, as
i•ulee not particularly • geed at logic, and
eontent themselves w th such vague asser-
tions as, " Woman's at best a contradiction
still,' etc., which can hardly be said to con -
'elusively settle 'anything. An .eminent as•
trowels:ler "that all women should be
divided into. (1). sunny women, and (2).
mooney women." That both oases exist
there is, I think, no doubt, and the marks
of the species are, elearly recognizable. Thi
sunny girl brightens our daily life ; there is
a sunny warmth about her, which all, .from
peer to peasant, who approach her, are sen-
• sible of. The mooney girl has a brighlness
of herown indeed, but it is v sible to the
few and not to the many; besides; the sini
always turns his full glowing fa •e to us, the
_
inoon is onfy in
ite full 'radiance -theefeen
times in sthe year. Lovers and poets may.
dream the. moon, but the Work of the world
must be done in the sunshine. " Which is
very romantic, my dear Prof. Stargaze, but
not exhaustive," says Mre. Countup, 'Profee-
.sor of Mathematics 'at Cranium College ;
" men and women are merely plus oe.minus
quantifies, or married or 'single. Two minus
• quantities equal to one plus quantity,—an
axiom in Mathematics, my dear.sir ;" which
also true, but. not 'certainly conclusive
for, take the married only, and you might as
well call .fis'a a specific term for all the in-
habitants of the sea, as apply the same term
old maid to the whole class of single women..
While, illogical as it may• appear, there are
'MeV W0111011 in my own acquaintance, with
all the most striking attributes of conven-
tional old'maitlisin most strongly marked,
who have by some strange freak of nature, a
husband attached. Signor de la Cherde,
'too, strikes in: "The Teets are nearer than
you all," be cries. One of them says "For
_ beeoty. born of mum:wring screed -111;11 piss
into her face." Your _good. and fair women
•
are geed and fair because they are harmom-
ous .; your bad women are,disetardre. Every,
variety has ite counter/nut in mriani. Some
woirien are bright arid rippling little fantas-
ies, fascinating at first but tiresonie as soon'
ae. One has learned the air. Some are sym-
honies full of deep and hidden mennizeg, and
rounded with perfect art in every phase of
their tharacter. Some are like re Scotch jig,
which makes one's bones ache veith *eerie,
some repetitions and ,endless iterations.
Seine %omen are musical scales,. conaciens
tious, but monotonous, in the major key al- .
ways on the strain of effort, in the minor key •
always dissolving in tears. Then again we'
may classify characters according to Colors.
Thus vire. find blue women, drab women ' aid '
pink and white Women. The first are learn.
ed in blue books, blue china, and blue stock-
ings; tbelsecond are hard-working and con-
scientious e and the third are for show and
note* u -e ; intellect subordinate to coin,
- plexion and health to fashion. Combine
these in varying proportions and you have all
. •
' known hues of character.
. .
The latest novelty in black kid gloves for
evening wear is a lacing on the back of the
arm with gold cords and tassels.
Shaded flounces, stripes, and plaids in ono •
color running through all its tones, are a
marked feeture in new light wciollen dress
goods. •
The American printed lawns in delicate
• colors and designs imitate the foreign goods..
to perfection, and they are sold at 12e- cents
a yard.
Turquoises, moonstone, velvet surface
finished amethysts, and pale, pink corals are
the ornaments for delicate, pals and slender
women. ' •
The new cotton satteens, momie cloths,
and percales have both light and dain
rkgrounds, on which e borders rind egures
Oriental and floriated designs.
Waifs.
Women of let-ters—Real-estete agents'
wives.
"You will love only me, Geterge, darling?'
"Sometimes," he said.
The Boston Courier gives the following
wise piece of advice to its bachelor
readers "Never marry a ;girl unless you
have known her at least three daysand a
picnic."
Extract from a letter from Angelina":
"Dear Henry, you ask if 1 return your
love. Yes, Henry, I have nouse for it,
and return it with many thanks. By -by,
Henry." •
When you hear a young lady Nary care-
fully say "I haven't saw," you may be quite
confident that she is a recent graduate irom
one of the most thorough of our numerous
female seminaries. .
'My wife won't even hear of my going tO
the theatre with another lady,'' said Galla-
gher. Ragbag didn't seem to construe Gal-
lagher's remarks aright, for he said: "Won't
eh? Don't you be too erste of it. I thought
my wife wouldn't, but she did; and I had a
fearful tiineabout it,"
Johnny came home from school the other
day very with excited. "What do you
think, pa, Joe Steward, one of 'the big boys,
had an argument with the teacher about a
question in grammar ? ' "What position did
joe take ?" " Hislast position was acrose a
chair, with his faoe down."
"Have you the End -man, by Beacons.
fiele I° said a lady to a hooter -seller. "
said.the rather puzzled elerk,'as he banded
out " Endymion " to the purthaser. "Was
Beaconsfield himself the End -man 7° said
the innocent lady, who evidently was fem.
iliar with minstrels. "Ys, inadani," maid
the clerk, bowing her out.
ilarity will breed contempt. According te
forrnanoe a few mitts ago be Philadelpie,
has brought a fortune, intend to try ano-
tber mining camp play next fall,
"THE Datilit08 " had its thousandth per. the modern plan we ere too much at home
with the ghosts. We lose eight altogether
of their shadowy attributes. We remem-
ber remfing a letter by Dickens describing
the first representation of G'onned% "Faust."
So carefullehael all the stage been contrived
that Dickens says it give him quite a weird
sensation. The Laid glare we are accus-
tomed to see whenever the Fiend -appears,
was cleverly contrasted with the tender,
soft, ethereal.bluish color ourrounding Mar,
guerite, and giving the heroine an appear-
ance of delicacy that threw into stronger re-
lief the figure of the Tempter. We wish
the stage had pkeserved to a greater extent
mime traditions of the past. For instance,
we have read that in Marlowe% Faustus, the
audience was deeply impressed by the ap-
pearance of the demon. When the modern
version of Faust is played little attempt is
made to give him a aupernatural character,
The Prince of;Darkness is, in fact, a "mod-
ern gentleman:" But since there are plays,
operas, and tragedies, in which ghostly per-
aonages have to appear, it might be Fell for
our stage managers to oonaider whetherthey
could not make them a little less real. Play-
goers are willing to lend themselves to the
illusion of the stege, but the stage should
lend itself to the imagination as well. Sure-
ly it need not be so difficult to get somenew
ghost business so as to make " Hamlet,"
" Sfacbeth,:' "Richard," and other grand
plays in which spectral figures appear more
effective than under the ordinary condi-
tion!.
and is worn out. he Rsailtins, ta whom it
*mean, the baritone, who sang so ac-
ceptably in New York a few years ago, has
been engaged at tit° Paris Opera for three
years. He is to receive pc* a night, and is
to appear at least ten times a month during
his first year, eleven times during the se-
cond, and twe.ets° during the third. He is
to have three month's leave of absence in
each year. At present he is singing at
Florenee.
Classic Tickets.
Common in olaesical antiquity were the
tickets of adruissioa to circuses and amphi-
theatres. These are frequently little
"squeezes" of baked clay*: the material
having been premed into moulds bearing the
effigies appropriate to certain stages, as tiers
of seats iu the theatre or such as were pro-
per to the city to whale eaoh belonged. For
example, an elepluiet stood for one place or •
eke, an eagle for -another. Oa the back of
many of ' these tickets are to be seen the fin,
prints of the thumbs of thei makers, veri-
table signe-manual of classical antiquity—
marks of thumbs that perished 2,000 years
ago. ss
What Caused SOthern's Success.
The late Edward A. Sothern once said
that he owed his Success on the stage
chiefly to earnestness,. "doing as well as I
knew how," he added, "never acting on
the impulse of the moment, and thoroughly
understanding what I had to do. I owe
much of my anthems to the elder Wallack
and to Rachel. Walliolt showed Inc the
necessity of conveying at a rehearsal what
you intend to do at night, and. the import-
ance of plying strict attention to the min-
utest detail. He was one of the most
thorough stage managers I ever met. We
Were like a set of sohool-boys under discip-
line. We had to give a reason for every-
thing, and therefore to study bard."
Pinafore's Successor,
Pinafore is to have a successor. A new
nautical comic opera is soon to invade this.
country. Its title is " Billee Taylor." He
P. Stevens, the writer of the libretto, is a
clever man, thoagh this is his first success.
The music is by Edward Solomone, and is
light and catching. The story of the opera'
is foundered on the old Ong of " Billy Tay-
lor," a well known mariner's ditty. and the
authors, in order to preserve the copyright
of their work. spelled the name differently.
It now reads " Billee.' The time of the
actiomis 1805, when the press gang was in
full sway. The first act opens with a view
f Southampton Harbor at the 0141 inn of
the Royal George, where the villagers have
met to rejoice over the approaching wedding
4,1
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•Can't Do Without it.
The •following correspoutleece over the
telephone wires yesterday is a further proof
of the fact that no one but a hald.headed
lean could die without oue
" Hello, central!
" Hello
" Connect me with the sigma bureau,"
"Alt right—go ahead."
" Hello ! signal
" Hello
' "Is it going to thaw to -day ?"
"Yes, there are indications."
"How's the wind!"
. "Getting around to the male'
"Do you think I can safely have my hair
out I" •• • •
. "Wait a minute until I coneult the baro-
meter, therinoineter mid wituleguage."
(Siience for half a minute.)
" Hello I"
" Hello!"
" Yee, yoircan go their& There eyelet be
• any change to ?peak of for the next twelve
hours. 'There is a cold Wave inoving up the
Ohio Valley, and a anowetorm is reported
at Cheyenne, but if were you I'd take in
chances on the hair sutting and get my neck
allayed to boot."
"Alt right—muck obliged,"
"Goodsbye,"
In a Captive Balloon,
This is almost my first introduction to
captive work, and the sensation is most' de-
cidedly not too pleasant or reassuring. The
great balloon above tugs and struggles as if
'perfectly conscious of a humiliating eelte of
captivity, and 'longing to be free. This is
especially the case whenever a gust of wind
puts a considerable extra strain on the guy
rope. The latter, as I have said, is fastened
to the hoop above one's 'head, But it rides
against the light . wicker work of the car,
which creaks and groans in response in a
doleful and somewhat distressing manner.
Were it not for a powerful spring of india
rubber, which checks the oscilliations of the
guy rope, and tends to steadythe balloon,
the effect on one's nerves might be much
than it is. But, fortunately, there is not
toe -much time for noticing these matGers,
for there is a constant necessity for letting
go ballad, to meet the continuity increasing
weight of mumencled guy roe° below, or the
balloon would soon ceaset0 rise. At rase the
ballast is all expended, and the guy rope is
paid out no further. The wind has caused
the balloon to drift' off to a considerable dis-
tance horizontally from the point of depart-
ure below, and she now settles into a .cen-
dition of approximate equilibrium. The
of Billee and Phebe, a charity girl. Two height above the ground is shown by the:
years elapee_leeetnee the 'second get besini. ' barometer to be about 1.000..feet. The long
The scene .represent; Portsmouth Harbor. "g-tre) Wee hangs --nr.a griteful -curve- below:-
-Ships. are corning ane going, while the Sail. The portionnextthe balloon, for hundreds
ors and their sweethearts sit around the a feet, is nearly vertical, and that near the
docks watchin.z tome searnea dancing tlie ground.almost horizontal. But of this I see
hornpipe. In Pinafore there are' "the sis- little. One or two tiinid glances are quite
ters, and thecousina, and the aunts ; " in suffiaient„ for one's head, naturally a very
the Pirates of. Penzance there are the ewers_ indifferent ono where it is a queetion, of
tv-four charming daughters of the Bleier- looking down from giddy heights, is not yet
General ; anclin " Billets Taylor " there will acclinutized to the situation by practice in •
be an array of charity girls and another set balltioning. So I cannot look at the ground
of peasant girl?. It requires sixty . persons under, or nearly under, the balloon without .
to peoduce the opera.. a shudder and a decidedly.creepy sensation.
Stage Ghosts.
We fear the ghost of the stage has by no
e
means the awe-inspiring effect upon the
youthful play -goer of the present day that
it once had. We remember many a gear ago
how even amidst the primitive surroundinge
of Richardson's show the appearance of the
ghost deeply moved our Juvenile hearts.
There was a sort of creeping shivering gen-
option cembined with the expected mystery
that we should not altogether object to feel
again ; for instance, when the ghost revisits'
the glimpse% of the moon in Hamlet," or
coulee to young De Franchi in his Corsican
home with that strange warning Of what is
taking place in Parie. 'Phe pleasant writers'
of these agreeable essays recently published
under the title of "Free Lance " have •
some amusing speculations upen the ghost
theory, and possibly they are eight in sup-
posing that some respect for ghosts yet lin-
gers in the minds of a few, especially in a
lonely, remote, shadowy, old houses with
avenues of trees leading up to the front door
where in the autumn shadows it weuld net
seem unreasonable to eonjure up ghostly
Voices from the rustling of the amp wither-
ing leaves, or to fancy a spectt.al shade
-floating in the evening dust from the dim
distant meadows. In many old houses too
there are legsnds and strange traditions of
strange noises and unexplained tones, which
amongst the imaginative easily suggest
supernatural visitations. There are vermin
,degrees of ghosts. Some are altogether of
80 shadowy a kind that, beyond a passing
feeling of strangeness when they are re-
ferred to, they leave but 'a faint impression
upon the mind. ; but the stage, ghost is gen-
erally of 'a substantial kind. In " Hamlet"
he has a good strong voice, not at all affect.,
ed by the chilly atmosphere of the sepul-
chre, or rendered husky by the warmer
place, wheels for a time he is supposed to
have been immured. He walks 'about the
stage with a firmness of tread altogether
.different from the kind of ghosts we read of
in romances. If any reader would experi-
' enoe the old fashioned mysterious feeling
about ghosts he should read the stories of
Charles Brockden Brown, the Aperients
novelist. They were mum popular in Eng-
land, but appear to be now utterly forgot-
ten. Yet Mr. Wilkie Collins himself hardly
tinges our nerves to the extent that Charles
B. Brown does in epme of his descriptions.
We remember a scene in one of his novels.
where he describes with astonishing force
..the effect of hearing somebody or gometeing
peeing the floor of a • room overhead, where
the listener feelsit impossible for any he-
man creature to be concealed. Our modern
novelists would find it difficult to reach the
power displayed in this scene. But the
writer has the advantage of being able to
work upon the feelings and to appeal to the
imagination of the reader. There is not
rho same difficulty there is upon the stage to
awaken an interest in the ghost. The super,
natural viaittion in tho novel is only
described, and therefore, the reader clingier°
it any shape or horror he pleaties. But there
.... Intatt
•
Above all, one must avoid looking down the
guy rope, for this, in its loug certenary, ex-
tending far below, reach after 'reach, and
ending almost in a vanishing point, gives a
• measure to the key° ofthe giddy height.
And to look along it mades one's brain reel
--far worse, as I afterward find, than look-
ing down.from thrice the height in a free
trip where there is no guy rope. For mili-
tary purposes, for reconnoitering that ie
there can be no question of the value of such •
1:Iolman Hunt'spicture "he Shadow of
Deatb,"representing the daviour ae a carpen-
ter raising his arms to stretch himself at a
pause for rest in bis labor, and thus throw.
mg the shadow of the erre:file on the wall,
to the horror of his mother, who m at the
moment in the same room, hats arrived in
Beaton. The picture is said to have out its
owners $50,000, and this Bum waelearned by •
it in the first year of its exhibition. Mr.
Hunt when preparing to paint the picture,
trevelied for years in the land where Christ
lived and died, and. sojourned amongst the
people, the deecendants of those who cruci-
fied him. Living Jews of the tribe of Ben- '
jamin were his models for oolor form and
dress. The picture was begun in Bethelhem
in 1863, studies for it were made in Nazar-
eth, and it was completed in Jerusalem in
the autumn of 1872. The Saviour is repre-
sented at about the age of 25: He is sup-
posed to have stepped over the plank whiok
he has been sawing, so that he might better
see out at the open doorway, and that he
might also have more room in. which to
stretch hinmelf, tired with a hard day' la-
bour, . Looking through the open doorway,
he sees the sun is sinking ; it is time for
evening prayer in the East, and a moment
after his arms have been extended in repose
'and relaxation they are now drawn inward,
the palms of the hands raised to heaven, the
head thrown backward, in the Oriential at-
titde of prayer, and our Saviour is now
supposed to have lost the sot of stretching '
himself in that of intense devotion. The
strong sunlight coming through the open
.doorway casts that deep shadow anon the
wall where the tool rack forme the cross -bar
of the cross, the upright tools in the centre
forming the head or upright of the cross.'
The shadows from the hands fall upon the
tool rack AS if they were nailed there; the
nail mark is suggested in the shadow of the
right hand by the point of the gimlet pierc-
ing through it; and so it has foreshedowed
to tho Virgin Mother the death that he
would suffer (the foreshadowing of the
death upon the cross). She has there been
examining the presents treasured up so long,
presented to her at theNativity by tho Wise
Men of the East—a golden crown with
spiked ornaments, a green enameled censer,
with the gilt holes in it corstaining frankin-
cense, and a little red • ivory jar containing
myrrh. They are held in a richly carved
ivory casket; aud over them has been thrown
a richly embroidered Persian robe or thawl.
The landscape out of the window is an exact
copy of that portion of the country looking
southeast from Nazareth, and painted on the
epot. The part of a tree is the portion of a
fig tree. Onthe window till areetwo pome-
granates. • They are the apples of the East
alluding to the fall; while close alongside
them is a scroll ofthe scriptures, a book of
the mw; on a bench . just below • is our
Saviour's outer garment,the coat Or keptan,
a plane and some shavings; on the floor at
the feet of thebench, and to the extreme
right Of thapictere, is a green.. jug or -vase •
thritalning water for chinking perposee, in
the mouth of which hasheen placed a small
bunch of aromatic herbs or flowers to. pre-
vent the flies from entering and to keep the
water pure and cool. Just behind the saw
is our Savour's outer girdle, rolled'up to form
a knee -pad -or a 'rest for the knee while
sawing; the teeth of tha saw, are set in the
contrary direction of our own, viz: upward
towards the handle, thecat being clone with
a pulling stroke towards the body,. instead
of with a thrust away from it., Tbis would
aceouut for the cramped and stiffened peel -
tion cif the fingers of .the right hand,the
whole straiu of the cut been thrown upon
them. • The garny•nt which the Saviour
wears is called the. camice, usually worn
over the .shoulders, but in the heat of the
day when the work is laborious and the -sun
Shining upon the figure it is thrown off the
shoulder .s and girded rotted the loins, just
as cair Saviouris supposed to have done,
lender the right foot of the Saviour is a
a suspended point of observation as this.
Every detail in the innumerable buildings
below—the workmae going is) andfro in
their work, the ships passing and repassing
on the. Thames, the Beckton gas -works on
the further shore and lower down the river,
the artillery exercise ground on Woolwich
Commons, the Herbert Hospital and other
buildings further away—everything is seen,
and in the clearest possible manner- • For
there is a Very.sensible . advantage in the
clearness of view from a balloon as contrast-
ed with that obtained on the ground level,'
even where the latter is peefectly free and
unobstructed by obstacles.. It is iveil known
to astronomers, and to all who have to make
wept .odserva.tiona of • distent object!,
that the vision in e horizontal, 'direction is
greatly interfered with by the unseen exhal-
ations from the ground, .and the varying
density of the Itivvest strata, of air at and
near the ground. Whereas,. at a high angle,
as hero from the rialloon, the rays of light
have only to traverse a weer limited amount
.of light of these disturbed strata, and are
consequently much more unimpeded and
Butthe day is wearing on, and e.
want to get away .as early as possible fora
free run. so I signal with a flag to lower.
Tho drum is set in Motion, and the Sappers
below apply themselves ateadily to wind the.
talisman down This& rather a long busi-
ness, and the oscillations of the rope Which
it dausee-give rise to sensations wheel' re-
mind me very tinpleasanty of the rolling of
serene], at sea in a ground emelt. • It is not
without much thankfulness that at last
terra firma is reached. The sTalisman has
lost some considerable amount of gait in the
captive ascent, owing to theexpansion due
to • the diminished barometric pressure at
1,000 feet from the ground.
- — - • -
• TILE Masonic fraternity,' ficcording to the
latest figures, has 44,500 memberin Ger-
many. •
If the time ever comes se heti a lie will help
a Man you will be able to tan leathei with
the bark of a dog.
A single fine jewel gives more character
and richness to a lady's toilet than it quan-
tity of bangles, chains, bracelets and chatel-
dine ornaments,
ALGERIA. is beginning to . deve'op a taste
Tor the fine arts'. Not long ago the success
of tlie exhibition at Algiers took every' one
• by surprise, and now another, which has
been organized at Ora* is equally success-
ful "The pktures sod,"says an enthuei-
natio correspondent, "as if by enchant-
ment,"
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large curled shaving, rest:mei:up a serpent
struggling to eacape. ,
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The Ladies Virante'd Some Breakfast.
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A le* years ago a steamer drew into the
bay of Neples with a lot of passengers,
among whom Were' a large party of Ameri-
cans. The night had been rough' and the
ship was behind time.. It was ten o'clock al-
ready, and no breakfast. The stingy captain
had resolved to economize. A stout, quiet
man, with a stout hickory stick, went to the
captain 'and begged for a little coffee, at
• least for his ladies. The captain turned his
baek, fluttered his coat tails in the face of the '
. stout man, and walked up his deck. The
stout, quiet man followed, and still respect-
fully begged for something for the ladies,
who were faint with hunger. Then the cap.
tain turned and threatened to put him in
irons, at the game time calling his officers
around him. --'The stout pan with the
istout stick very quietly proceeded to thrash
the captain. He thrashed him till he could
not stand • and then thrashed every officer
that a'to showhis £ace,_ 11 as haif
the crew. Then be went down and. Made
the cook get breakfast. This was an old
' .0 Colton,
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cell him. up at Yreka. ' Of course, an act
like that was punishable with death almost. .
'IPiraoy on the high seas' and all that sort.
of offence was charged; and I know not
how h gold it heal the wounded
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head and dignity of the captain of the
ship. But the Californian neither _knew
the law nor cared for the law, Ile had a
little party of ladieswith him, and he
would not see them go hungry. He would
have that coffee if it cost him his head.
Dear Dave Colton 1 I hear he is dead no'.
We first got acquainted one night in Yreka
while shooting at each other':
ENGLAND proposes .to send a regiment of
1,700 colons t troops from Barbadoes to tire
Gold Coast; dfficerel by Englishmen.
Mireyarokee. has pained an terdinance
easing its horse . read companies $5,000 a'
year for each mile of the streets on Which
their tracks are laid.
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Calm, quiet grief is apt to last a long '
time . but th tt kind of grief which is boas- .
terous, is vooeut like an Al r.1 shower and
assoon.over. The first keeps the heart sad
for years, while the latter 1/1 apt to °home
the second wife at the &at wife% funeral. '
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