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The Exeter Advocate, 1892-12-8, Page 3WOMAN AND BOIL A bet Winter Entertainment to Young People. eDOSTURES THAT SIMULATE F,ROBT, *end 'weather iraiste—Dalitee Bagged at itedtone—eillotasehoid Mitts and ithets tor Shoppers. The party and fair season is now at hand, and as young people will be devising novel enter- tainments for Allah occa- sions, the following is suggested for their benefit: A snow cotil- lion may be made every charming feature of a fair, or it may be a leading idea of a home w Party. The hostess and all her daughters or'as- ters indeed all the ladies of the family, sbotild wear white gowns and white orna- =mats, whether they be jewelry or flowers. Where are numberless pretty fabrics in white, both thick and thin; gauzes dotted with silver for the younger folk and white *repeals for the mothers. In the way of enitunents one can End plenty of white flowers and feathere, silver jewelry, white and aline^ fans. Roman pearls for the neck and white feather trimming for gowns, &leo swanedown and fur wherewith to simulate frost and snow. The rooms should be decorated' so as to keep up the snow idea, with evergreen branches powdered with flour and hung with shreds of cotton battivg powdered with 'diamond dust. At the toy stores there are sold all sorts of devices in imitation of snow and frost, and, I believe, imitations of Melee, at love prices, that would dress a louse very nicely. Then there are the pretty glittering mamma of frosted tineel thread which Cali be flung from branch to branch with Hach gay effed, to carry out the idea .of winter. Those dancers only should be selected for the cotillion who are dressed in pure white, with euitable ornaments of crystal and silver and pearl—indeed, their gowns should be trimmed with white fur or feathers or down. The favors should all carry out the idea of white'and ingenious younggnrls will know how to do lt The =Rohr should carry out the 13110W idea, also, in its cakes and other confirm tions, cream Its, bonbons, etc., for every coun- try ouriewife has herreceipeaforsnow cakes and snow puddings, snow creams, blame- /nal:ogee, etc. The table decorations should, as far as possible, be in white and eilver. is at a tiny watch. The dawn is charm- ing as well err novel, and for nee with e pep fob eallivg costume the purse hi as dainty aeything that can be imagined. It is intended to he carried in the band, end, besidee holding emir change as may be rlesired, will warn the visitor of the flight of time, 1$0grs Pillows. Sole pillows are more numerous than ever before, eed in manytnetanoes become gro- tame, But the admirable Bagdad equaree, imported for their making, cannot fail th aivo se.tiefaction wherever• they may be used. Like the stripes they aro rich in color as well ae durable in material, and, once they become generally known, are destined to certain popularity. They are woven in jut the eorrect elm for an ample pillow for the 0011011, and are finished on all side's with a fringe. Venetian plass. Delicious bits of color for both deorative uric and the table are imported io Venetian p,lass. They are excellent in iform, thor- oughly artistic in their ornameot, and so traesparently delicate as to seem like jewels rather than gime. Yet the prices are far from extravagant, really good pieces being within the reaoh doyen a moderate purse, and some excellent specimens can be bought for less than we are at to pay for geode of far los valve. )(Sours for Decorators. Fats for Winter Food. Thefats in oonunon use as food are the fat of railk, as butter or cream; the fats of fruite, of which olive oil is an example.; that of grains, as the fats of wheat, oatmeal and Indian corn, and the fats of meats, as sueb, lard and dripping. Olive oil is one of the moat easily digested and palatable of fate. A genuine oil of the first quality is, in this country, unfortu- nately expensive, muelt of that sold under the name being adulterated with cotton- seed oil, poppy oil and essence' of lard. Tbeelecline in the sardine trade during the last few years, is accounted for by the fact that cotton -seed oil has so largely re- placed olive oil in the packing of these fish. People who once regarded them as a great delicacy no lorger find them palatable. Cotton -seed oil has no especially bad flavor, but it is unpleasant and indigestible when seed raw, as in maims and salads. The after-taste, which it leaves reminds one too forcibly of castor oil. Olive oil of the best quality is ahnoat ab- solutely withoutflavor. It is prepared in aeveral grades; the first pressing from the fruit is the best, the second is fair, the third inferior, and there is sometimes a fourth known as "refuse" oil. For deep.' fat frying, nothing is so good as olive oil, but its costliness will exclude it in this nozuotry from common use. Tea Disunite. It is a greet mistake to make a termite& biscuit. Properly speaking, a tea biecuit alermld not be more than two inches in •diameter and pisporbionetely thick when leaked. This gives a delicate, ambit, flaky biscuit, which will be cooked through be- fore the outside cruet has become hard or over brown. Many of the muffin tins are ton large to cook thoroughly through before the mist hardens. In such a case it is a good plan to dampen the upper crust while the muffins are hot by Eying a wet cloth error them and covering it with a dry cloth. Cookies, on the other hand, may well be of liberal diameter, as they are rolled out so thin that their size does not prevent their cooking through. Reale Women in Zondlon. The eingle young woman in London who has to live economically, and who is, by tho way, much better off than a young man in the same circumstances, will soon have =thing to complain of in the matter of residence, if London builders tontinue to be as attentive and generous as they are at the present moment. Single rooms at the moderate rent of $10 a month are obtain- able in many of the nesv apartment houses is London, and their tenants as well as those who have more expensive sets, are 'entitled to the use of the genere.1 room—in one instance a eplendid apart- ment, with salmon -colored walla and granite welter'. Babies in Dago. The beet time to see the babies at the House of Mercy for Children, says the New York Sun, is at night, when every mother's mon and daughter is slipped into a woollen bag made of the blankets of the cribs. In feet first goes every baby, and the draw string at the top of the bag is tied loosely about the neck. The matron says she has tried sewing the babies in bed, tyingthem in, pinning therein, and the result is only torn bed elothing and an uncovered baby with a cold the nerd. day. But the most etre:mous kicker can't get bie arms whim& out of the soft bag, though he flop all he Dresden 117kina. The rage for Dreaden china seemto be till upon the inert:an. All Sorts of ob.' jack: are shown in its familiar colors and Amigo, but the newest and the latest are the cabitteats to harm 14011 the wall. They Aro iliab two shelves high and have their emeighte only of the favorite china. The shelves proper are either of fine wood, or sre covered, with handtiome plush. The oonceit is a curious oho, and as it is de- niderily novel, will undoubtedly " go " for a time, but as there in no good thought but 'only bizarre effect embodied in their makeup, they aro likely to enjoy tem- porary favor only. Parses. Purace, seemingly too exquisite to be put to their legitimate use, are made of the ElieSt gold netting, They are finished with :a round clasp, hot more than three-quarters of an inch =diameter, in the top of which Don't let the fashion of the hour override your common sense, not to speak of your taste and judgment, in arranging your apartments. Don't put extra heavy drapery in anall rooms. , Don't overload your rooms with furnibure and brie a -brae. Don't place an easel, with a large picture thereon, in the middle of the parlor floor. Don't have a big Chinese porcelain jar in a room only four times the width of the jar. Don't use a table lamp of heroulean pro- portions on n small table, or in a smallroom. Give the eye space as well as the lungs. Space in the centre of the room is ati precioue as the 1110Elt costly piece of fur- niture, for it enriches all the furnishinge. With the nousewife. HE WAS EIGAileAltlele. A Good Mau otherwise. Rot Thu Fault (loot UIwI*sLfle. A man of about tiity years of age got on the train at Clarksville and tooh a peat ha front of me. He had a shongun in hie hand, and soon after sitting dewn he pulled out big revolver and ahoved six cartridges into the cylinder. My curiosity wee aroueed and I hewed forward and asked ; My friend, is game plenty in this local. ity V' "Wall, not so powerful plenty, stranger, but times aomethiu' around )1ONY and then." "Small game, meetly ?'/ " Yeas, mealy, but sometimes it is purt9 nigh six feet high. The game Pm after ie purty nigh that, I reckon." " You linnet mean a man ?" "That's exactly whet I mean, stranger. I hain't got no time to be huntin' around eater foxes and 'possums and sich. I'm goin' down to Erin to hunt a man." "Someone you have had trouble with?" "Exactly. He's bin Query 'with me fur over twenty years, and I can't abide him no mo'; I domes want no4usaite with nobody, but I dun can't put up with such a oritter forever.' hr.: ,iexpecting you 7,, "Reckon he is, for I dun sent him word yesterday. He'll rnost likely be at the depot when we git thar," And will he be armed, too ?" " Sartinh He ain't the hied to sten' 'reund and be shot at without shootin' back. No, sir." "Why, man, you don't mean to tell me you are deliberately going down to Erin to kill or be killed I exclelmed, almost over- come by his coolnese. ".1 ain't giant) for nothin' else !" he re- plied. "Aa I tol' you, Pve stool him as long am I kin, and somebody has got to drap. Mebbe it'll be me, and mebbe it'll be _ He put up his revolver, put on his spec- tacles and had been reading a newspaper for , some time when we reached Min. As the train alaoltened up he picked tip his shot gun and went to the door. .A minute tater he stepped out on the platform and de. wended, and just as he left the last step the report of a gun was heard and he fell in a heap, shot through the head. The " onery critter" had got hie message and was on hand. As the "train moved on I asked the conductor for further particulars, and he replied: "They'll send the body horae--that's all, I told hint how to work it, but be Was pig- headed. He ought to have gone out of the other door and fired under the oar, but be thought he knew it all and got left. Good man he was, but dreadfully pig-headed."— New York llerald. A judicious cook always puts abutter paper on the bottom of the tins in which ehe bakes layer cake. She says that in this way she avoids anxiety. A nice dish can be made of celery in this way: Stew till tender, pour over it a half pint of cream ; after you have pat the celery into a baking dish cover it with bread crumbs and little bits of butter ; bake about 20 minutes. Always pack the freezer before putting in the mixture to he frozen. Chicken should be washed with hot water, one dish of hot water will cleanse moze than O continued soaking in cold. An extravagant cook recommends fried bananas for a luncheon dish. She first pours over them the juice of oranges or pine- apples. A good dish for a convalescent is made by chopping some oysters fine, and stewing them ben little -water, then add cream, pep- perraud salt and pour over toast. WRECKED THE BAND. A. Political Anecdote Ranted About Cana. dians. This story was told during the campaign by a Michigan orator in defence of the re- publican declaration that the tariff was made to give the American producer an ad- vantage over the foreign competitor: "A circus went over to Canada from New England and at the first performance the circus band played 'Yankee Doodle.' The Canadians wrecked the band and tidied up the zing with the bandmaster. Then they asked him why he had played Yankee Doodle.' 'Because the. horses won't go round to any other tune,' the bandmaster said."—/V. Y. Press. "The 'Gets' Have 117" LONDON'S GOSSIP, A 1' Op into the Afraire of Brigs} Royalty end Nobility, i—easteetem he Blite.Illooded Timor—Wales illidee a Trieeete—elarthorough's New Duke— The Pepe palls Foul a Victoria, semi press—The Dulte of Pork—Attotheo Beauty Queen. Lonoos, November, THE ebay of QueenVin. toria and her oourt Windeor wilt be limited to O month. Oe the 14th De- cember there will be the usual mourn ful family gathering at Frogmore, in celebration of the death -day of Prince Consort and of the Prineees Alice, and a few days later, prob- ably on the 2Qth, Her Majesty will proceed to Osboene for the customary Chrietraas attleprii; remaining in the Isle of Wight February. Christmas ia observed at Oeborne in the goad old-faehioned style, for the Queen loves old onstorns and has no sympathy with the modern tendency to pooh-pooh " the cheery observances by whieh our lets Union' ancestors trot truth store. Holly, mistletoe and evergreen are plentifully treed in the decoration of Oshorne House and the Christmas baron ofbeef for the Royal tabbe is sent down espetnally from Windsor. A •Christmas without, . the "good cheer" traditionally associated with the festival would be as impossible to Her Majesty as it would have been to ChaielesDickenshimself. In another importomt iterticular, too, the Queen maintains the sp"trit of the season, for members of her family and personal friends never fail to receive handsome Christmas /Resents from her heads, ac- companied by an autograph mote conveying the time-honored wish of 21th:home, Christmas and a Happy New Year." YOUNG BENEDICTS ABODE OP BLISS. The world of shopping women is a very full and complete one. All types of woman- hood are to be found there, and some of them are curiously interesting. Sitting in a large dry goods store the other day I heard one woman ask of another: "Did you visit the Smiths when you were in Columbus?" "No," was the drawled -out answer, "I didn'tgeb to go." , While I was mentally trying to digest this singular rhetorical statement a vouie on the other side of me said, with a decided nasal intonation; "I hate shopping, 'but I've got to get me a riew dress." ^ "The gets' have it," I said to myself in parliamentary. speech. And I recalled an illustration of the availability of that ob- jectionable word which I beard or read some- where in my school dap, says a writer in the Detroit Free Press. A woman who was more energetic than grammatical began the day in dile wise: Hannah, get up; breakfast has got to be got, and somebody has got to get tip to get it." Sunday choel Slethads. Mrs. Kate Gannett Wells, at a meeting of the Unitarian Sunday School Union in Boston, the other evening, "gave a raking criticism" of the method of teaching now employed in Sunday schools, according to our esteemed contemporary, the Boston Herald. She said she was heartily tired of the sentiment and religion as taught there. The ethical side is what ought to be culti- vated. The mere study of the biblical text and golden rules is teething. It drives children away rather than attracts them. It is hard enough to get children to come to Sunday school now, as it is. It is a ministerial delusion that they like to come. Put in good teachers—intellectual teacher's —that can handle the aubject as it deserves, and bring the children to a love of God that shall he lasting. A German authority says that almost a third of all humanity—that is, 400,000,000 speak the Chinese language. The Hindoo langungeis spoken by more than 100,000,000, the Russian by more than 80,000,000, the German by 57,000,000, and the Spanish by 48,000,000. Of the European languages the French is fifth in place. A man who studies points says that a needle is one of the moat persistent forces he has seen. It always' has an 0370 open for businese, and invariably orrice Air point. A physician asserts that yawning is better exercise them dumbells. This may explain why churchgoers Diemen; bailee Buell ti 1.11V- enons appetite after t long sermon. A Sootchmen who had long served under Garibaldi came home with a red jacket. One redeemer he was walking through a field near Dumfries, when a large bull went for him and emit him flying Over the hedge. As he picked himself up the !)1111. Stood on the other tilde, putting clown his head and pawing the earth and roaring. The Geri- baldian mistook the bull's meaning, and, abetting his fist at it, he exclaimedowith great indignation "Nene o yotir spot' ogles I You meant it, you brute I , Clara (fiahing ter a compliment)—Thia your fourth dance with me. Why don't you dance With some other girl° Cherlie— Well, the fad is I delta° O lAtuy that t hate to tisk them, The Colors of the Ninety.lirst. The scene on the Castle Esplanade at Edinburgh when the Princes Louise presented the Argyll and Sutherland High- landers with new colors was singularly striking and picturesque. The occasion was a memorable one. The colors that were APPLICATIONS THOROUGHLY REMOVES DANDRUFF D. lb. CATEN. meeete, TrevonIng ransegar AM% 0 RA., 1 SAM 4101/enerairtil a Pe1154re1s0MArnall- aetionls eiervolhal$—.1a lelif OS gate a few spOldineee 10 On1Y OeteeS111 IV 00 ekeyehre defalran aeaemulatrao n a - GUARANTEED' 0-446114:431=1,44ortoa, 043 Restores Fading bar Orn! color. Wee falling of hair. Keeps the Scalp clean. Makes hair soli sod Pliabis Promotes Growth. end heir of the Duke of Weetminater, prot ably one of the greateot of the London ground the richest of Britieh noblemen and. CARTERS lendlorde The Berl is not yet 14, When, ' 'rie grandfather was at school at Eton his ITTLE, Thera is much speculation rife about the apartments in Sb Janaes' Palen° now being prepared for the Duke of 'York. Every day fresh rumors are current about theoccupanb of the beautiful boudoir that has been fitted up, and studiously as the secret of her identity is being kept there are occaeional little details brought to light from time to time which point unmistakably in the Teck direction. The Duke will certainly have a much more sumptuously furnished residence than the late Duke of Clarence would have possessed, although the furni- ture and fittings chosen for his rooms were soltoohnatee gave hint the nickname of jack Sheppard, because of his striking resem- hi:taco to CI uikshatik's piotnee of the celm breted boy -burglar. His father, whine eicath in 1884 was a sad blow to the family of the Grosvehore, was an amateur engine - driver, and canned the fad so far that he would often take his place on the engine when the Irian mail was about to pull up on the journey to Holyhead. While ou one of these extraordinary excursions he orno traded a chill which led to his death. Eton's latest reoruit from the ranks of the nobility hi a handsome and high-spirited ad, ger emus to a fault. about to be retired commemorated the exceedingly handsome and tasteful. But passing away of the old order of things in the Duke of York will have, in addition to the wedding gifts that will be =de to him, those that were presented to his brother, and, so it is said, there are not a few already in the boudoir and the drawing room, which last week was being "sol in order," that have hitherto been kept at White Lodge, Richmond, the residence of the Teal family. the regiment's history, and the closing scene was carried out with fitting impressiveness and solemnity. As the Highlanders swung through the old gateway from the Castle, and were formed into line on the Esplanade, every one in the vast crowd of spectators Mien have felt with Burns that "a tide of Scottish prejudice had been poured along his veins." Many of the historical and romantic associations that gather round Edinburgh are connected with the Highland clans; and the Esplanade, with the old Lawnmarket stretching away from it, and the Castle rook towering above, seemed a natural background for a Scene expressive of all that is most inspiring in the country's mili- tary history. The trooping of colors is at all times an imposing ceremony, but on this OCCaSiOn there was a peculiar impressive- ness about it. Round the new colors asso- ciations cannot gather with the same glow of loyal devotion which attends those old and tattered and weather -stained flags that have been borne through the thickest of the fight. At the best they can be but symbols and memorialsof past devotion and hermsm. The sentiment may remain; but the strong personal link must be broken. As the old colors were borne aloft,between the lines of the regiment to the pipes piying.a quick march of "The Campbells Are Coming," all the passion and fire of the Highlauu race seemed embodied in these faded rage Then as the wild strains of the pipes died away, the band stfuok up "Auld Lang Syne," and slowly, solemnly, for the last titne the colors were carried past the regi. ment whose fortunes they had shared and whose endurance and devotion they sym- bolized. Men and officers stood 1.ke a re- giment turned to stone; but among the orowd were many old soldiers who saluted as the colors were carried past to the moat moving of all strains. Then they were furled, and after tbe new cetera bad been consecrated with fitting solemnity, and pre- sented by the Princess Louise, they. were borne away, cased, and brought up in the rear of the regiment, the new colors being borne in front to the strains of the National Anthem. The decision that was made some years ago, that colors should no longer be taken into battle, was perhaps a wise one. It certainly was not waved at without xnuch consultation with those most capable of giving an opinion. But when the then See retary for War announced in the House of, Commons, on July 291h, 1881, that, in consequence of the altered formation of attack, and the extended range of fire, the colors should not in future be taken with the battalion on active service, but be left at the depot, an era in regimental life passed away which can never be revived. The names on the old colors of the 91s1-- Corunna, Orthen Peninsula', Vimiera, South Africa and others—are emblazoned on the new flags, and their memory will not die. But the old personal devotion, stronger than death, sacred as honor, must enter upon a new phase.—Saturday Review. Iminigraat Children. Canadian Prison Sunday, a Toronto pub- lication, says "In answer to a letter of inquiry, the Secretary of the Interior in- forms us that, during the year 1891, orphan and other children brought to Canada by De Bernardo and others totalled 3,418, and that for the leet teu yeare there was a grand total of 21,744, all of whom, we believe, were settled in the Dominion. Nearly 22,000 in ten years And, so Inc es we can learn, without any proper supervision or oversight. To whom shall we look for the remedy ?" singular stony is going the rounds about an interteeve between CanoVaill the Spanish Itopublican, and Alfonsei, the boy King The yoting govereigo was 111 and Caztoves asked : flow to Alt:omit° 1" (little aortae.) he cleeemidant 01 a long lino of princes loolied at Oinievas a moment and made this kingly atieWer "To mamma, I an Alfonsito ; to them E am the Elem.'. When the Meg is older lie may regret thie speech, Even a child may say things that, rankle long in the Mind 61 a wise man. he beer g1aees of Some bars aro so small they are ripe 011 of us tempcnance meastires, %VALES WENS CYCLIST. There are rumors that the Prince of Wales is about to join the noble army of wheelmen, and has been talking of invest- ing in a tricycle and perhaps a safety bicycle. His physicians, however, are rather inclined to object, as his Royal High- ness' health is not such as would be bene- fited by violent exeroise. The Prince, however, is obdurate, and 80378 18 will be a cyclist or die in the attempt. THE POPE AND TBE ROYAL ISIARDIAGE. QUEEN OP THE BEAUTIES. Lady Ulric% Duncombe, whose beauty bids fair to eclipse even that of her famous sisters, promises to be the lioneee of the coming mason, though rumor has it that be charms have already led ceptive an admirer willing to sacrifice himself as the husband of a eociety belle. Lady Ulrica is the sister of the Duchess of Leinster, whose photograph is to be seen ia every 'stationer's window. She is also the sister of pretty Lady Helen, who married last year Sir Edgar Vincent, the rupture of whose en- gagement with the present frisky Countries de Grey was at the time the talk of every boudoir and smokinmroorn. AILESBTJET MOATS AT CARDS. Lord Ailesbury is a young gentleman who is quite unlikely to be affected by recurring " disclosures." He is the fin de sieele illustration of the fact that "evil com- munications corrupt good manners." The friends with whom he associates care nothing for the dictum of a judge unlees-- as fe eepasionally the case with Lord Allem bury's eiwrogietes—it is accompanied by imprisonment, " Nor do they care very much tor the Lukens criticism of society. The House of Lot is should also be proud to Possess a member Ore its body in Dolly Tester's huaband. The Brighton card Case, in which the Marquis of Leilesbury formed the central figure, has now been decided, and the judgment delivered by Lord Well - wood at Edinburgh is one whieh might make the lowest turf or mad sharper blench. Lord Wellwood conveyed his belief that the game in which 'the dronken man was induced to engage might' not have been a fair game; that no game . could be regarded as strictly fate m which the only loser was in a state of hopeless intoxication, and that consequently the cheque which he drew for 825,000 while in a semi-conscious condition, could not be regarded as a document, the amount of vvhich could be successfully sued for in a court of law. Many more points might be cited trom this disgraceful recapitulation of offences, but the above is sufficient to show what manner of person is this bright specimen of British hereditary legislators. It really seems monstrous that the man (if he can be called such) vtho tries to rob a drunken acquaintance of the sum of $25,000 should be allowed to eiwape punishment, while a beggar who might steal fivepence from Lord Ailesbury's pocket would be hounded off to jail. Summed up, the case stands that in the opinion of one of the judges of the land Lord Aileebury has cheated a drunken man at cards and ob- tained a cheque from him for a large sum, nob one farthing of which will now find its way into either his pocket or into that of his accomplices. This is not the firen occa- sion on which the Marquis of Ailesbury has had a little difficulty about a cheque ob- tained under somewhat similar circum- stance. Hereditary legislators are cheep to -day. Apropos of the Edinburgh Can Rou- manian marriage, everybody is anxiously awaiting the Pope's decision on the matter, which will be announced in the course of a few days. When he was originally consulted the Pope maintained that all the children of the marriage must be baptized ie the Catholic faith ; but here His Heti-. nese was met with a decided negative. The Pope has now given way and agreed to make the conceseion which used to be the rule in all cases of "mixed marriages" until a few years ago, when, encouraged by so many perversions in Eng- land, the Vatican changed its tactics. Am cording to the new arrangement, the sons of the young couple will be reared as Catholics, and the girls as Protestants. Queen Victoria hates being compelled to agree to any arrangement of this kind. She objects to being driven to acquiese in any of these trumpery little dodges, and poor Alfred has been having a terrible time of it ever since the religious difficulty began. If the Queen is a staunch Protestant, the Duchess of Edinburgh and her brother, the Czar, are even stauncher members of the Russo-Greele Churcli, and both of them have had a great deal to nay on the subject of the approaching nuptials. Royal Alfred loathes all discussions on ecclesiastical topics, which he doesn't understand at all, and as the boys say, "doesn't want to." The late Duke of Marlborough's first wife was Lady Hamilton, daughter of the Duke of Abercorn. When he married her he was only 25 years of age, and his wife was three years younger. The marriage was not a congenial one, and ended finally in the Duchess obtaining a divorce. There were four children of this marriage, two boys and two girls. The late Duke wars at one time understood to be on very friendly terms with the Prince of Wales, and accompanied his Royal Highness on his famous visit to laidits. He had the reputation of being a student, a politician and a writer. He was' an astute financier. Soon after he became Duke he sold a number of family pictures. One of these, the "Ansidei Madonna," is now in the National Gallery. It was bought by the nation for 8350,000, more than three times the highest price ever before paid for a picture, and equal to more than 870 per square inch. It is by common coneent one of the most perfect pictures in the world, ENTER BLANDPORD. The Marquis of Blandford, who now he - comet Duke of Marlborough, anteing hie majority this month. He has been at Cambridge for aboub two months and is very popular there. His first net was to floor the examiners, to whom he put questions they were quite unableto answer and the eolution to Which hcs himself evolved. He hag brains, Is small in stature and in features is said to prepent a strong reseMblance to the Great Duke. His forehead is high and his nose verges on the aquiline. He has many no. cemptishmenter and a Netinutelteb which is the admiration of the feiiiale pope. lation. He plays pejo' arid crickeb, tho latter with greet predawn and accuracy of style. He hati great taste in colors and his recoil pregents a pleasing mixture of redo and lettere. He weara a turndown collar and tiniokee a pipe and does not put On style, He will he popular. ANOTTitit YOUNG Mad Or -±tOZMITT. Among the new nitrite toceetly entered at Eton is the Earl of Grorivencm, grandson Jumping at Conclusions. Wife (to husband, who has just returned home)—What's the news from town? Husband—Nothing. "01 course not Oh, well, there is never any news for a woman unless she finds it out for herself." After a long silence, says the Chicago Journal, the husband breaks in with : " lv does seem to me that people ought to be more careful." " What about " "1 was thinking of something that oc- curred last night. Jack Baxter and his family sat out in the garden until quite late, and when Baxter got up and went into his room he had noticed that his prankish little son had slipped away. Just as Baxter slipped into his room he heard something under the bed—in fact, sew something—and, thinking that a robber had secreted himself there, he seized a pistol and fired under the bed and".— "Merciful goodness 1 and shot his little son ?" " Who said he shot his son ?" "You said his eon went under the bed." "1 didn't." "What did you say 2" " I said that he did not notioe his son when he went into the room." •" And wasn't the boy under the bed ?" 41 No ; a cat was under the bed." "You are the most hateful man I ever saw." "Why so 1 Just because the boy did not go under the bed and get shot? I had nothing to do with it, I assure you. The Talkative Girl. She talks about the weather and she archlywonders whether it will rain when to the theatre she will go next week with me. She says that she's been painting—feels quite weak, almost to fainting, but her tongue keeps right on moving just as lively as Can be. She asks if I'm a dancer—never stops to get an answer, but she tale me all excite- ment what exquisite times she hadi Asks me what 1 know of &swam, and ha confidence conforms that the one she wore last eveniog was a fright and made her sad. With nods she fairly bubblee, tells me all her girlish troubles, and her tongue keeps on a -wagging with a never -ceasing flow. And thus for Miters I'm sitting, with the golden mihntrei flitting, fOr she will not lot me tell her that 1 think I'd better go. — Life. - Tennyson is believed to halm merle Moro money by his poetry than any other poet. te—a-enti NERVE ..13EANS lIVER PILLS. =Goo Witlivennitanta air it fie* ceP, coves, thab turp net 4.o0ritreetrat FI111''4°5IIII64. body.woatmesi .1 ot it be etetiot%worsatits we; ttrsoto eme ,00111t407 eland the need elzbleelei SOAtie hare tatted &di td rsisalblpsrpatitdtkt reenitt of priconiithotab* toltrita. Oat, wntirier Steel:bade:Me and reinve all the troubles inen dent to a bilious state of the system, out% aft Disaluees, Nausea. Drowsiness, pistress atow oxeye, Pain in the Stile, &e, While their roes) remarkable success ties been theme, in curing S Headache, yet Intretzeis Lime haven X't ter are equaily,valtiable in oenstspatton. es,t, mid preventerig this atiporieg cotenant A, elk, cy also eorrea all disorders of ta,o s s'titi11lte the liver aod regulate the C.3 Beet if they onty cured Oche tiny would ie ant priceless to wife stiffer frdrn tl4s digt, ___e814Inq sons nut fortunately tli g0004e41 14 here, and these oace try them these little pins va1ttaie in so many ways um will not be willing to do without tit Ent after all sick head is the bane of so many Eves that here is where we make oar great boast. Our pills cure it while others do not. and very easy ta take, One or two " $ make CAPATa'S LITT= Leven Pius are mall a dose. They are strictly vegeta' e awl do not gripe or purge, but by their moors amttou please all who use them in vide at 25 wade: five for Si. Sold everywhere, or sent by mall. UST= ifillnental 00., ITsu Foit. hall Ell, Small loge, hall Piot, HIGILEST OF 'TOWERS. A. London Sky•Seraper That Will }clips the Eiffel Structure. London is to have a tower that will eclipse the famous Eiffel structure, The new tower will be built by Sir Edward Watkin in a pleasure park of 120 acres between Willesden and Harrow. The foundations, which consist of immense blocks of con- crete have already been completed, thew cost being between $25,000 and $30,0011 They go down nearly twenty feet below the ground L9.4 should be capable of bearing any weight olaced :upon them. Smioe-ideief the:magnitude of the whole undertaking may be gained from the state- ment thee thoEiffel tower, which is to be surpassed' by the English structure, was made of 7,500 tons of teel and iron, con - slating of 124000,4pm141y deigned. pieces, fastened together , With 2,500,000 rivets. The English toer.i4 be 150 feet higher that. the French wonder. The plan of the Leaden tower provides for a large landineatage4That will accom- modate 20,000 peoplemend ha t addition wi contain a dancing floor, eatoree, an refresh- ment stands. Half wayeui there will be another landing stage. tOta the top of the tower there will be angobeervetory and rooms for scientific experime4e. The pleasure grounds areittti the tower will be fitted up for the meet extensive piece of amusement in the wehlde . Ad- vantage is taken of a river - running through the estate to make an ometetnenta/ lake, covering an area of five mamma This is near the main entrance. th summer it will be used for beatinge, in. tlae winter for curling and rink. A sufficient quantity of water is feral np hill from the lake by a powerful to ferm a reservoir, which supplies a , large ornamental fountain. 'This fountaiTh bas been completed. Close by is a oriolteti ground of seyen acres. The whole area hag been leveled, well turfed and efficiently drained. On higher grounds workmen have laid out winter gardens, in thelarge pavilion. of which entertainments are to be given. The whole 120 acres will be opened to the public: early next spring, although the tower will not be completed until tee or twelve menthe later, Seine Table Talk. Never put toothpicks on the table: Thi may appeer a superfluous warning, bun at O great many otherwise nice hotels met in private families these accessories .of one's private toilet are still allowed place. The writer has oh en seen a lovely young woman at Et summer resort hotel leave the public dining room with a wooden tooth- pick wedged in her gums. A meat dish too large is for better than a meat dish too small It is enorigh to take Otib'S appetite away to see a roast or steak or fowl come in slopping over the sides at the platter. If O means clean and neatly served no hostess need ever lift her voice in apology. But there is no apology for a soiled clan or ill - washed crockeryware. It is not good form to serve butter at dinner, ear be economical of it, but most persons, particularly man, would rather have more butter and less style. Cut roast beef thin and other meate rather thick. A dining -table for six per- sons should be Nix feet long. Ihmeath the cloth atways have a felt or canton flannel cover. It brings out the design of your table linen and deadena the bony sound of dishes. Chicago Scotchmen will unveil a monu- ment to Robert Itures during the World's Fair. There are a good many people in Chi- cago, some of whom are managing the Worldni Fair, who could gain valuable points by reading Berns' fitments estimate of the relative value Of gold and manhood SLOE'S CONSU PT1ON CU E. ilk GREAT COUGH CURB„ this sue; cessful CONSUMPTION CURB, in without a pamilel in the history ed modichtet A/1 &Vedas are authorized to sell it on a Os, hive gnarentedi a test That no other Cldre snocatsfully stand. It you have a Cough, Sore Throat, or Ilronchitis, use it, for it writ cute tets, If your child has the Comp, or Whooping Cough, Mc it profppy, ead relief ft Sure. fudldthodlroald COMMOTION ii`dit, fall tome ft,t torgi tiltd you ok cost nothing, Ask year Thug.. gist fen SHILOH'S CURV, BM* 40 etc. end $1406.