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The Exeter Advocate, 1892-10-27, Page 6A GLASGOW HORROR. Gentleman's Gardener Murders and Mlitilates au TTBIMOWB WOMO,B, 4XRE, FEND V[AKS EaS ESOAB. A Glasgow cable Mem t The most horrible murder in the oriminal history of thia eitY was committed last night at Weat Lodge, a QA the Albert road ie Pollokshickle, on, the outekirte of Glasgow. A wornato still unidentified, wee inutiletecl after the moth oa of Jaok the Ripper," WO.S dismembered, and the pieces of her body were buried in the villa garden. McEwan e godeoer, .who doabtless is guilty of the crime, has sdisappeered. WeeLodge Is one of the tnese suburbs of Glasgow, and ia surrounded by a garden some 195 feee deep on. every Ride. McEwern with the assiatanb gardener, McDougall, lived in a pepareto house, aad when not busy at the villa did odd joba ia the neighborhood. He was a native of County Down, Ireland, is about 30 years old, and, al though oceadonally a heavy drinker, he has borne a good reputation. He is a man of great physical strength. At 6 o'clock this morning McDougall knocked at IVIcEwao's door to awaken him, as he has done for the last six years. Mawari re- sponded with unusual promptitude, "All right, Tom ; 1 won't get up yet; 1 am tired." Mollougall went away and worked in the garden until 9 o'clock, when he re- turned to arouse IVIcEwan. His knocks were not answered and he foroed the door. He found the walls, ceilings, furniture and fioor spattered profuaely with blood. The clothes from the two beds were scattered over the lioor, and. were sprinkled with blood. Red nger marks streaked the side of one of the beds and the door. There was not a piece of furniture or an article of clothing which was not blood-stained. McDougall ran meatless and hatless, and crying in his terror, to t'ne police station, and told his story. After fortifying him with brandy, the police took him to West lodge with them. From the room they followed a bloody trail to four fresh mounds in the garden. In a flower- bed, from which the plants had been removed, they found, about two feet under ground, the mutilated and unjointed arm of a woman. In a shn- ilar bed they uncovered the trunk. It was absolutely devoid of all internal organs. Beside the trunk was the woman's left arm, also unjointed. In another flower -bed they found the miming organs and the legs, uro jointed as were the arms. The trail led from this last bed to a tool house. There, under a pile of rubbish and tools, was a biscuit box containing fragments of a large saw, the teeth still dotted with Ilesh and blood, and several smaller pieces of the woman's body. The pollee say that the box was used by McEwan In transporting the limbs and the organs from his room to the garden. A search of McEvean's room revealed several razors, apparently unused for some time, and an axe recently washed, but still showing slight blood stains. McDougall was unable to give any information as to McEvean's deed or the disposition of the body, for he was working at the time on the opposite side of the house, as was sloven by the fresh -turned earth. He be- lieves that when he knocked at 6 o'clock MeEwan was carving up the body, as Me- Ewan's voice indicated that he was wide awake. So far as can be judged from the mutilated remains of the body, WIcEwan's victim was robust, of medium height, about .30 or 25 years old. Her clothing was well eamde and of good material. McEwan probably took her to the house after 6 ' o'clock, for at that time McDougall called -religion him and found him alone. This was the last time licEeran was seen by anybody near West Lodge. How and when Me - 'Ewan induced the woman to enter the house, and evhet was his motive in the murder, are mysteries. It was reported immediately after the news of the murder got out that McEwan was "Jack the Ripper," and that the time of the "Rip- per " murders he was absent from Glasgow, bat these reports are discredited. McEwan was engaged to marry a re- spectable girl, veins is maid in a Glasgow family. The girl's mother, when she heard of the murder, supposed that her daughter was the victim, and ran to West Lodge. She could not identify the clothes as her daughter's, however, and this morning the girl was found. Tbe police eley that McEwan had little money and -will soon be captured. The woman's body has been. put together as well as possible and now lies at the morgue waiting identification. It has been ascer- tained choice is certainly a nimble one, for tained by the authorities thet McEwan had' the diagonals hang, wear and look well to the last. All the serges are splendidly wide, and the prices marvelously low, considering the excellence of the quality. Plain corduroys in colors are still to be seen, but in black the surface is varied with a pretty little knot of silk at regular intervals. Now that black is likely to be popular, I take the opportunity of saying a fievorable word for the new broahe cloths, which are woven in many different atyles. For mantles thero are broches matelasses of extreme riohness and beauty. Many fabrics will be of bruise in the ensuing season, but the brach° reps will be first favorite, especially for the making of handsome cloaks for matrons. The silk -shot reps, which fall with inimitable grace around a youthful figure, can be obtained at moderate prices'thus bringing them within the range of pur- chasers, and Yorkshire woolens are well represented by stylish checked tweeds. Fine skirtinga must not be, forgotten, and tor dreesing gowns the latest idea is " woolenette," a soft flannel that will wash without detriment to the elaborate pattern upon it. There is mute a conflict between several of the leading dressmaking firms in Paris as to what fashions are to be in vogue for the winter. Deuced) wants to revive the graceful style of Louis XV., with perniers, short skirts for day, and long trains for evening wear, and, of couree, with this a tournure will have to be used again. Other important houses, Felix among them, desire, to bring back the modem of the First Empire with short waiete and clinging skirts; time will prove. oar Daughters. The household bleseed with noble daugh- tore ought to be a happy. one ; most parents forget, however, to imbue them with love of nature which is so invigorating and healthful.' Clive them nedonly noble teachings' but noble teachere, and give them the help which alone has eometimes done more than all other itiflumices—the help of wild and fair t attire, You cannot baptize them tightly in inch -deep church fonts 'unless you baptize them in the meet vverters which the great Lawgiver strikes forth from the rock of yoer native, land. You cermet lead them faithfully to those narrow, axinheeta church altars while the azure alters in heaven remain, for you, without inscrip- tion ; altars built not to, bat by, an u. known God.—Eitskin. Vor the shopping woinan the first point to notice is that all the new deems aro of a " Tinnnins Is one of the mostchsagraeable Walking length, with fair amount 6£ fulness fellews to play poker With I ever meta" ad in at the beak, While the edge is Usually " Why I Mee he ,alWays grumble when firtiehed off with rowtiof braid ot a foot frill. he loses " He never lostai Altogether the modern *IA has h trim • FOR THE FAIR SEX, New and Stylish Gowns for Autumn Wear. THE NEWEST IN BRIDE'S GOWNS Mow to Make Beef Soup--liangtry's tage Dresses—Some IrastY HislatS e'en Yuri — Sunday's Alittuer Bill -of. rare —littera to NOtherS and Useful Elousehold Notes, OST certainly the simpleet of cos- tumes aro in beet taste for the coun- try; blouse -bodices of an styles, chiefly of plaid or spotted surah, which are worn with allskirts ; _ open jackets, under which pretty che- misettes of fe.noy batiste or flannel are eharmingly effective. For the afternoon, dresses of very light oreponette are combiaed with surah or glace silk, trimmed with unbleached guipure, quite plain, lined with glace silk of the same shade. The bodice, in the cuirass ahape, faetened on the left aide upon the shoulder and under the arm, is triznmed with a corselet of unbleached guipure. Two deep frillings of the same guipure form full epaulettes over the shoulders, and are con- tinued on each side, at the back, down to the waist. The sleeves are much puffed in the upper part and finished with clinging sleeves of the guipure. A scarf of brocaded silk in the Byzantine style is tied round the waist and falls in two long lapels at the back. The above style of sleeve, puffed in the upper, and clinging to the lower part, is still much worn ; but the most novel style of all is the full sleeve, short to the elbow, open and finished with lace frilling. It is worn with the very long suede glove, reach- ing up above the elbow, with all walking toilets. This glove is of the natural shade of the skin, that is, in various shades of bluff or chamois color; it is pale gray with black lace dresses and white with evening costumes. Some ladies have small clinging under - sleeves to match the dress, made so as to be added on at pleasure to the semi -short puffed sleeve, which avoids the necessity of always wearing the very long expensive suede glove. The plaid blouse -bodice of silk or batiste is ease an economical device, as it allows of wearing the skirts of dresses the bodices of which have become worn or out of fashion. Fichus, collarettes and plastrons, of the fashionable but inexpensive unbleached gui- pure, go a great way toward fresheuing up toilets of a former season. An elegant and very new model consists of a deep flounce of guipure put on to a small yoke, finished with a narrow stand- ing -up collate A number of narrow velvet or satin ribbon bows are put on here over the collarette. This model is veryeasily made and will give elegance to the simplest Very pretty bodices are also entirely composed of strips of guipure insertion, divided by stripes of satin or more ribbon. For the sleeves, which aro very much puffed up, the stripe of insertion and ribbon are pub on bias fashion. Skirts are no longer made with a slant- ing seam in the middle of the back; they have One width in front and one at the back ; the front one is cut straight, the back one entirely on the cross. When the material is not full width, the skirt is com- pleted by plain widths at the side. In tact, skirts are now much more ample than they were at the commencement of the sum- mer ; they are longer also, and fall quite plain, but are much less clinging. Some of the new sleeves are formed of two or three puffinge and finished with a deep frilling. New hats are flat, with narrow brim, trimmed with bows and light aigrette or wings, and are edged round with a fall un- bleached guipure. A Bride's Travelling Gown. Every other woman you meet in London is clad in costumes of diagonal serge, and 'been in the habit of receiving the woman in the house during the absence of the family. This is the extent of the information thus „far learned in regard to the victim. STEAD TO THE RESCUE. The Sensational kditor Takes up Mrs. Maybrick's Cause. A London cable says: In the next issue of the _Review of Reviews, Mr. Stead, its editor, will have an article headed, "Ought Mrs. Maybrick to be Tortured to Death ?" in which he vigorously and at great length reopens the whole case of the unfortunate American woman who is now undergoine a sentence of life imprison- ment in ''Woking prison for the alleged poisoning of her husband. Mr. Stead says that both be and Sir Charles Russell, the Attorney -General, have received from South Africa copies of the death bed confession of Harry Wilson, who declared that he, with a woman whose name is not given, placed arsenic in the medicine that was administered to Mr. Merybrick during his last illness. Mr. Stead investigated the matter and declares that he attaches weight to the confession, nut, he adds, even it it were valueless, it will be of service in directing attention to the traveety of Jusbice whieh has exposed Great Britain to serioue remonetrances from the United States, and which is not un- likely to become a subjeet of diplomatic re- Trionstre.nces. Mr. Stead makes a strong appeal for the release of Mrs. Maybrick before Christmas. Her conditiot ie be sale,- that she will speedily die if she is not released. If Mr, Herbert Asrmith, the Rome Secretary, will not, hoar the cam, then Lord Romberg, the Foreign Minister, and Mr. Gla,dstone must. Brown—' -I believe that Smith's baby will grow up to be a pugilist. Janes—Why; has ib a reniatkably large arm and fiat? Brown—No; but it ha a a remarkably large mouth. A father reoentler wrote to Harvard Vials verity : " What are your berme for swear ? ' And does it cost anything extra if toy son 'Manta to learn to read and. write est well as to ronr a boat ?" . Oh, Mamma, Jack Longacre proposed to me last night and I accepted him" "Are you afire you love him, der?" " Why, mamma, how old fogey yen are 1 ,1 What in the World has that got to do with Ib?" appearance, and atiggeste neat ankles and apeitleise bots. The princess atyle Will be adopted by those whom it suits. A blue serge,.pretry and 'simple, is opt in We when fastening up ahe haela. 'Braid is breught, down the front on each side, terminating just above the waist in an elougated V, while at the back it falls in long ends from waist to hem. It is observable that the POinted bodices is once more in fashion— pointed in front, but either out round at the beak or in peat *ails. A graceful autumnal costeetne is roade of plaid woollen, with a good deal of green in it oeloring. Over this is fastened a bodice of forest -green cloth, buttoning up the back, and edged with cord, The shoulder puffe are of plaid, and the clue -fitting eleevise are of the cloth. Very elegant and rnore dresay is a composi- tion of golden tan cloth and yellow -green bengaline the latter composing the, under bodice full sleeves and Empire sash with rosette in front. The tan cloth is arranged as a simply dreped sleirb and Zouave bodice,• while the shades are charmingly united with a galloon of gold, through which threads et green ailk are woven. The going -away gown worn last week by a bride, at whose wedding all royalty was present, is presented in thia letter. It was made of rends and rose woollen mixture, resembling orepon but firmer, trimmed with ehot rem& stud rose velvet, and hand- some gimp to match. The eleirt has a double row of gimp and velvet. The bodice fastens slightly to one side witle velvet rosettes • and folded belt. Smart little shoulder cape of velved edged with gimp. , Mo. langtry's New Devisee. Mrs. Langtry, in her new play, "The Queen of Meama," wears some marvellous dresses made for her by Worth. A ball - gown of buttercup' satin hail a train of enormous length, edged with soft fluffy Upon the front and side widths are worked what look like harps of silver, entwined about their strings with jewelled blossoms. The. diamonds worn with this dreee include a diadem which eompletely encircles the head, and a riviere round the throat, besides stars and brooches galore. A bird of Paradise is worn as an epaulette. Another garment, scarcely- less rich, is of pale pink satin, each seam bound with gold. Over this is thrown a pretty little pink cape with a deep collar of blue fox. But the most marvellous gown is reserved for the fourth act, and conaiste of a tablier and bib of pink China crepe, thickly set with silver spangles and worn over a petti- coat and bodice of ivory satin. The fashion- ing of this dress is very complicated and Mats at a revival of the polonaise style of yore. A little picnicking frock of white silk muslin, flounced with violets and trimmed with knots of green velvet, is quite as be- coming to the actress as the more sumptu. ous creations, and she looks girlishly fascin- ating in a foulard with a Swiss belt of heliotrope silk and lace and quaint little boulder -straps. Delicious Iteft•Over Dishes. A delicious dish is made by cooking to- gether a tablespoonful of butter and one of flour, stirring these until they bubble, and pouring on them a half-pint of mills, still stirring constantly. Into the white sauce thus made stir the picked -up remains of cold boiled, baked or broiled fish. About two cupfule will be the right proportion to the amount of sauce. Season it well and toss it with a fork until it is heated through. Add the juice of half a lemon just before serving. A dish that will commend itself to vege- tarians is prepared by heating a pint of stewed tomatoes and adding to this a cup of cold Mina beaus and one of cold corn cut from the cob. Cook together five minutes and serve. Cold lamb, veal or chicken is excellent warmed in a sauce madeby melting together a tablespoonful of butter and one of currant jelly, and adding to it a saltspoonful of dry mustard. When the mixture simmers lay in the meat, cut in thin slices and let it cook about three minutes. Pepper and mit to taste. is corning. You must not forget, girls, that on the 31st—the last day of the month—it has been the custom of many fun loving lads and lassies, from our grandmothers' time to the present, to try to tempt inexorable Fate to reveal to them whether or not there was some other heart waiting for thein some- where whom they would soon meet, and all this is determined by merry groups who gather together on this winsome night and "duck for apples," peel apples and watch eagerly what letter of the alphabet the peel flung over their shoulders to the floor will form, naming apple eeeds, and westing corn and a score of other harmless romping games, to say nothing of retiring silently that night, and Crossing your shoes in the shape of a T In hopes your true love you will see, Not in his riches or grand array, Bub in the clothes he wears every day. Oyster Soup. Put in a stewpan a pint of milk, a blade of mace, with a heaping tablespoonful of butter. Put in another stewpan the juice from fifty oysters ; place them on the stove. When the milk begins to boil thicken it with a heaping teaspoonful of flour pre- viously mixed with milk ' • then stand it back on the range where itdoes not boil. When the scum oegins to rise on the top of tbe oyster juice skint it off; then add a pinch of powdered cloves and 00n10 salt and black pepper. When it begins to boil pour it into the atewpan with the milk, stirring gently, so it does not cutdle or lump. Then turn in the oysters. Let them boil about erre minute, or until the edges curl. Then Wiwi into a soup tureen, where you have previously placed a teblespeonful of chopped parsley. Serve it at once. English Plum Pudding, Out of 500 recipes sent the London Queen .the following was awarded she prize: lOne pound of raisins, quarter pound of Gut', one pound of suet chopped fine, one pound of currants, three-quarters pound stale bread crumbs, half nutmeg (grated), quarter pound brown sugar, five egge, grated rind of one lemon, half pint of brandy, half pound minced candied orange peel. Olean, wash and dry the currants: stone the raisins, Mix all dry ingredients to - gather. Beat the eggs, add them to the brandy, then pour over the dry ingredients and mix thoroughly. Pack in greased. small kettles or moulds this will make six pounds) and boil ;six hours when you make Id and when wanted for um. Serve with hard or brandy sauce. Household Newton When sealing fish hold them under water in a pat ; •then the scales will not fly in yeur Moe, but will fall to the hottorn, and when the water is poured from thein are ready to turn into the slop pail or cornpoet heap. To clean a stove zinc or einc-lined bath- tub, mix ammonia and vviiiting to a smooth paste ; aamly it to the zinc and let it dry. Their tub it off ttntil tio dust reitains. Five or aix quarts of biscuit flour can be prepared at a timely taking one tablespoon - fel of soda and two of cteani-oHartisr, Or three of baking powdet to evety quart of floor, sifting it thoroughly three times and put away /dr nee. • Xeep flotvers froth by ptating a pinch Of soda in the water. WO keep water (Soot tor drinking get a eonairagi earthenwate pitcher, the commoner the better, AS it will be snore poro; wrap 0 all around, leaving no inoh of 0 bare, with wet flannel. Keep the flannel wettsnd the water will shortly be as oold as is good for drinking purposes, almost ice cold, According to the Vledieel Rocord, castor oil has not foiled hi any case to remeve everts to which it was applied oace a day for two th ex weeks. Boil the clothesline and it will not "kink," as a new rope is apt to do. Do Not Wear Small, flat bat if you are short and etoua. A high, narrow hat if you are tall and, thin, Very coarse net veils wheu the fine light ones are so much prettier. A gown that hes been made for you with- out a careful 'study of your figure. A jacket simply because it is fashionable, if it ia not becoming to you. Gloves of brilliant colors. They make the hands look large, aud they are not in good taste. Soiled. white slippers. They look untidy, to say the least. Menu. SUBDAY, OCT. 1.6TE. BREAKFAST. Fruit. Rexwheat. Sugar and. Cream, Stewed Kidney. Saratoga Potatoes. Scrambled Eggs. Toast. Cabe. DINEErt. Clear Soup. Frickendeau of Veal. Brown Sauce. Mashed Potatoes. Stewed Okra. Succotash. Mayonnaise of Cauliflower. Wafers. Peach Ice-cream. Caret. SUPPER. Broiled Sweetbreads. Milk Biscuit. Preserves. Cake. Tea. That Moihers should Do. Let the children make a noise sometimes, their happiness is as important as your nerves. As the boy e grow up, make companions of them '• then they will not seek compan- ionship elsewhere. Allow them, as they grow older, to have opinions of their own, make them indi. viduals and not mere echoes. Bear in mind that you are largely respon- sible for your child's inherited character, and have patience with faults and failings. Respect their little secrete ; if they have concealment, worrying them will never make them tell and patience will probably do ite work. Remember that without physical health mental attainment is worthless; let them lead free, happy lives, which will strengthen both mind and body. Find out what there special tastes are and develop them, instead of spending time, money and patience in forcing them into studies that are repugnant to them. As your daughters grow up teach them at least the true merits 'of housekeeping and cookery; they will thank you for it later in life a great deal more than for accomplish- ments. Try and sympathize with girlish flights and fancy, even if they seem absurd to you; by so doing you will retain your influence over your daughters and not teach them to seek sympathy efsewhere. —Detroit Free Press. Talk hopefully to your children of life and its possibilities ; you have no right to depress them because you have suffered. Teach boys and girls the actual facts of life as soon as they are old enough to under- stand them, and give them the sense of re- sponsibility without saddeniug therm A Few Scotch Notes. Beveridge public Park, Kirkcaldy, the gift of the late Provost Beveridge, was formally opened on the 241h ult. Mr. Archibald Downie, inapeetor of poor, St. Andrews, Fifeshire' accidentally shot m hiself dead on the 30thult. while trying to shoot eorne cats which had stolen his pigeons, Sir James Ferguson, the late Pos tmaster. Generel, and formerly Under Secretary of State of Foreign Affairs, is understood to be engaged to the widow of the late Earl of The death has occurred in the Free State, Africa, of Mr. Gad Jeffries, an associate of Livingstone and Moffatt. Deceased was born at Banff in 1809, and went to Cape Colony in 1820. At a meeting of the Queensferry Town Council, held on the 261h ult., a letter was read from Lord Rosebery intimating his desire to present to the inhabitants of Queensferry a reading -room with hall attached as a memorial of the late Countess. The Gaelic songs which Miss McLechlan sang to the Queen at Balmoral on . the 271h ult., were : " Ho Ito Mo Nigheari Donn Bhoidheach," "Fear a' Bhata, "Air fal- al-al 0," and "Am Fieugach Donn." Her Majesby expressed herself as delighted with the performance. Mr. Homly is not a beauty and he knows it. When his firet baby was born be asked : "Does it look like me ?" Of course they said yes. "Weil," seid he, "you mueb break it to my wife gen ly." Here is a good story about the little Ceown Prince of Germany: A clergyman was recently explaining to him that all n are sinners, whereupon the royal pupil as ed gravely if his father, the Emperor, was not an exception to this rule. replied the clergyman, "he is not. The Elaiser in a sinner, like every other mortal." " Well, I am positive of one' thing," in- si ted the little prince, 1` and that is, that in dear mother is no fanner." Farmer—You had a fire at the manse this m ming. Any serious loss? Minieter— s, ten years sermons were •completely b4lrnod. Farmer (with the memory of many .ajweary Sunday morning)—Mon' they had ade a gran' blaze, they were so dry, ye ken. Grandma (from the couhtry) — Now, Ralph Waldo, you mut give your sister the largest half of this peer. Ralph Waldo (of Boston) ---Grandma, I would gladly do as you wish, were it not impusible. Grand- ma—Impossible? Relph Welder — Yes; there is no largest half. It will, however, efford me great pleasure to give her the larger half. The royal children of Germaty have an English nurse who is always treated with great kindnefie and consideration. The present Emperor, whets a child, wee voted to hie English nurse, Mrs, ECobbs, or " Ilebbey," as she WW1 called in the royal nursery. When, after Many long yetirs of faithful service, Mr. llobbe announeed her intentiou of marrying, the was overwhelmed with preseote from her little charged, and the then Crown Prince carried on his royal back up to the nursery a groat load of beautiful household linen, which was his own apealal glib. It is becornieg the faelitoia in England to give domeetio abirnale as Wedding ptesenta. When , Mitt Loitori Wee matried Queen Victoria 'net to. of the customary Indian Shawl sent het a heatitifat white eollia Willster fig SAID Or 'WOMEN. Some Quotations That Show Tennyeett'S 140r7IPTS:11117Y:nen, Weh4110,14:::prenotpt1.7‘hinli, was scarcely less a philosopher whose opin- 'mns are authorative than a poet whese words are a delight, iiedd in the course of his career many things about women, pap the New York World. If he had been merely a poet the fact would not hove been so important, for poets are forced to 0V " Whatever suits the rhyme," babas he was a ',Walker also 11 15 interesting to eve how he interprets the puzzling half or meation, One thing thati he insists upon is the in- dissoluble bond between them and men. "The woman's cause is Mao's; they rise or sink together, dwarfed or godlike, bond �t'afbrieee, how wshall ni ksheabeszaTlgl,rsolwil,t;natured, Min' e That places quite a burden of respond- m bia ir itk ys upon woman, but elsewhere he re - A$ the husband is, the wife 18," which again plues the burden on the masculine shoulders. Probably the poet meant to divide it. About the esteem in which elle should be held, he speaks in no unceitain manner: "Who does not honor his wife, diehonore himself," and It is the low man thinksthe woman lorv." Somewhat equivocal is this : " It is had to wive and thrive in a year." Which probably merely means that so much good fortune does not befall a man in so short a time. His various heroines were all a little above the ordinary. " Her eyes are homes of silent prayer." Eyee not down -dropped nor over -bright, but fed with the clear -pointed, flame of chastity. ' "By common clay, taken from the com- mon earth, moulded by God and tempered by the tears of angels to the perfect form of 7111an. ‘ Pure ' veztal thoughts in the translucent fano of her still spirit." "Happy he with such a mother 1 Faith in womankind beats with his blood, and trust in all things high come easy to him ; and though he trip and fall he shall not blind his soul with clay." "She stood a sight to make an old man young." So much and much more did he say of women. And they in gratitude may well apply to him other lines of his : He rested well content that all was well," "He crowned a happy life with a fair death." Times nave Changed. I was looking over a file of magazines published 75 years ago, and failed to notice any of that "rot" about woneen which is so prominent now•a-days in the newspaper and periodical literature. Not an allusion to the " fair sex "nothing about "angelic females "—in fact, very little about women at all. There could not have been any 'Siety in those days, or any 'Siety organs. In a search over a whole volume, there was not revealed a single paragraph, deal- ing with " 5 o'clock tea" or giving the names of those presented thereat. No allusion to the " frocks" that persons wore. What a benighted people they must have been 75 years ago 1 They couldn't have enjoyed themselves a mite, in the way that we do now, when grace ancl. elegance abound on every hand, until one is sometimes led to fancy that he is reading a description of scenes in fairy land, and to doubt whether it is all a reality, or a dream such ae the Mabommedans have of Paradise. —Corres- pondence Acadian Recorder. Threrovieg the Dice for Bibies. Last June twelve children in the parish of St. Ives, Hants, Eng., gathered together in the parish church and throw dice for the possession of six Bibles. This curious cus- tom dates back to 1675, when a certain Doctor Wilde provided by will that once a year six English Bibles should be raffled for by twelve worthy children in the parish. The sum of $250 was devoted to this end, and this amount was invested in an orchard, the rentals of which are annually devoted to the purpose opecified in that old will. So for over 200 years the practice of throwing dice for six Bibles has been religiously observed, and the occurrence is now at- tended with considerable ceremony. The Height. of Credulity. "-One hears so many lies nowadays that ibis impossible to distinguish truth from falsehood." "Oh, that's an exaggeration. Now, I believe everything that I hear, and I am even credulous enough to believe everything that I say." A Frank iEseulaplus. First doctor—I thought you intended to buy some new paintings this year? Wasn't the season as good as you expected? Second doctor—Oh, ; it was very poor indeed. I expected a good deal from the cholera, but I have been disappointed. "The papers teem with advice to stout worneis on how to rid themselves of auper- fluous flesh," said a woman who is not stout the other day," hut I seldom find a para- graph on the opposite side of the question. I should be very glad to take on a few pounds of avoirdupois, ancl in a recent vimit to my physician I asked him how I could accomplish it." "To begin -with," he said, "don't worry, to end with don't worry, and between tintes don't worry. I never saw a thin woman yet," he went on," who was not a nervous one, a,nd worry is a 'ergo part of rervee. Stout women are often nervous aa well, but thin women are sure to be so. When you have become thoroughly imbued with the desirability of calmness in all emergencies, Borne other aids to flesh are plenty of sleep, tight hours out of every twenty-four at least and more if you can get it, moderate regular exercise, and fat- tening foods such as soups, butter, cream, farinaceous footle, fat juicy meats and pleety of olive oil. Eat often rather than muoh ab a time, take warm baths at night and don't worry."—litargaret Welch sn Utica Herald. When you go into the Marble Collegiate Church, at Fifth avenue and Twenty-ninth street, you will find ifs the bookrack of each pew a Card of the size of a faslaionable enve- lope, says the New York rinses. It is an " acquaintance card," bearing the paatot's name and church address on onc: aide with a nieo little square in the upper right-hand corner, in which is ;Hinted, '111 mailed, tvvetcont stamp here." On the other side is printed, " In order that the pastors may have the opportunity of seeking personal acquaintaime and extending to you the courtesies of the church, please write your namo and address below, drop the card in the pastor'a mail box, hand to azi tither, or return by mail. Signed, David ,/amee Bur,, roll, D D,, Pastor; Rev. Palmer S. Hulbert, Rev. Altred E. Myers, Assistant Pesters." It is a bort of a drop-a-card-in-a-eltet-and- receivesa-pastoral-call echetne, and they say Id works well. "1 say, welter, I'Ve dropped A six.penee, If you dricl it, let rne have it back ; it you don t, you can keep it. Stisies—Cartabily not, My dear; We tinder. stooa siadh other too we I, TOM vaunts stisrobisiox.. General Herbert Says Eke 1,10.101, Alava- Discipline in the IF orce, A Winnipeg despatch says : There is 4 row brewing among the officers of the local militia over the suspension of Lieut. -Col. Villiers frosn the once of Deputy Adjutant - General during his absence on his wedding trip. It is hkely that a court of inquiry,' will deal with tho matter, when all the facts will come out, An Ottawa despatch : Tho following in- terview with Major-General Herbert appears in this evening's journed ; "'see the vapors say that I did not know what I was about mad what not when I euspended, Lieut. -Col. Villiera, of Winnipeg. I am not in the babit of actiug in such a hasty manner. So fa,r no one outside myself and the Minister knows why Lieut, -Col. Villiers is suspended. It was not necessary for me to know whetherdie Was iu or outside the district at a particular time, us men- tioned in the deepateh in the • press." " Then you did not act on tile report of a busybody, as stated in the deepatch ?" "1 acted on the information that was beforeme in this effice, and which was sufficient for me to order hie susperodon until such time as I had the matter inquired into. I had not a despatch from anyone." " So he is still euspended ?" He is still euepeuded, . I must have discipline in the force, but I would not have any officer suppendell with- out cause." The Missing Ciao. In the North of London a few weeks ago a crowd might ,have beea seen question, ing a ragged urchin who had lose himself in the whirl of the streets. The boy,' hows ever, who was about 4 years old, could give. no satisfactory reply, says Gripsack. "Where do you live ?" asked a sympa- thetic bystander. "Don't know." "Where do you go to school ?" "Don't go," was the tearful reponse. The audience was in despair, until a stout old lady, evidently of his own class, triumphantly solved the mystery by asking: "Where do you get your mother's beer ?" " Prince of Wales,'' was the ready reply, naming a public house a few streets away. The boy was promptly hauled off to that hostelry to be identified. Street Car Courtesy, The electric car was very bull ; 80 was the fellow who just got on. He caught a strap in front of a very pretty girl ; the other strap in front of the girl was occupied by a young man. He seemed to belong to the girl '- they seemed to belong to each other ; they were on their wedding trip. A disjointed umbrella happened to poke the drunkard, who began to jet out a string of ()atlas. The young man caught the -fellow by the shoulder and shook him : "How dere—you swear—before—before my wife ?'' " How—how—di—did—I know — your wife wanted to—ker swear first ?" he- rald. Fashion Note. . " Great scott ! another hat 1" exclaimed Mr. Harlem Flab, when his wife threw out O hint. "You are the mut extravagant woman in this part of the town. I believe you have a hat for every day in the week." • "Why, of course I have. That's just it.. I have one for every day in the week, but none for Sunday." A riees Fatally. "What makes you think they are more pious than their neighbors ?" "They have all their cooking for Sunday done 00 Saturday." Cordelia—I hear that you and Charlie • parted owing to a misunderstanding ? "We are told that wages have advanced, but for the life of me I cannot find a mart whose wages have been inereased by the tariff."—T. Id Powderly ii Knights of Labor Journal. "Captain,we are entirely out of ammu- nition," saian orderly sergeant to his commander ore a field day. "What 1 en- tirely. out of ammunition ?" exclaimed the captam. "Yes, entirely out," was the reply. " Then cease firing," said the cap- tain. Princess Maria Bibesso, one of the best known members of the aristocracy in. Bucharest, has acquired great notoriety by her recent swim across the Bosphorus. Ao- compatied by her brother-in-law, COMA 2Sbef,ertey.zensky, she undertook the difficult • feat and reached the Asiatic Shore in a " Dear me Uncle Ephriarn " she ex- claimed, as she met the old gentleman in the hellway, " you don't know how sur- prised I am to see you? Did you travel all the way from Vermont alone ?" " Naw," he replied, deeply offended at the question, as he put his carpet bag down. "There were forty or fifty people on the same train." At Carlsbad and at some places in this country going barefooted as a cure for ner- vousnesshas been practised even by ladies during the summer, Thia idea of going barefoot is stolen frem mythical lore, for who has eot, heard of that magnificent . individual who gaineti strength for his , endeaeors by kissing Mother Eerth ? The principle in this matter of shedding one's footgear and then walking on nature's soil is the same as praotised by Antseus, only. the sole instead of the mouth, is used in gathering vi t at force. According to the new theory, this contact with earth is a potent factor in the treatment of special nervous diseases'and, provided the patient doesn't catch his or her death of cold meantime, it promises to become as popular as a Swedish :movement cure, and lots cheaper. The Empress of Austria, who has, been for mute yeers a tonal lunatic, is one of the followers of the barefoot fad, and with excellent, results, it minor moy be credited. Iter Majesty has been tramping over the. cool, moist • turf in the royal demesne, ems shoes nod stockings, for: some weeks, and her dootor new pronounces her physical condition as "perfect." Whether it ie really due to this priinievid wretch° who shall my ? Von Moltkehi farnove economy in lan- guage used to inspire bete among the officers and staff every year as the King'S birthday came around, as to the number of worde he would employ ia proposing hie master's health, Some backed a nine -word fel°lheput their money onigThtZrde, Nolreehltas oeky, tO, the health of RiS Majesty, Emperor and Kirig," or, " To His Imperial Majesty's • Health." In 3883 an oyster breakfast was Staked. on the Marolial's not using More than nine words, but, becomes, ho began with the 'amid "gentlemen," the bet was lost. Tacrenpon the loser foend such com- fort as he ould in declaring that the General Was groeving lommeious in his old age. Husband—What are you sewing, Mary ? ' Wife—I am sewitg a suspender button on tny skirt. II:—And coal you 4o it? vv.— Can t do it ? Why, of ootirso 1 can. Whet ' makes you ask shell a belief) queetion IL—Nothing much, Only I thought you couldn't sevv on suspender buttons, Wars