Democratic Sentinel, Volume 6, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 January 1883 — Where the Man-Milliner Gets His Hints. [ARTICLE]

Where the Man-Milliner Gets His Hints.

It is not generally known that M. Worth is a Lincolnshire (England) man, and that he served his time at a wellknown London establishment. He has a country house at Plassy which is one of the most interesting houses in the neighborhood of Paris. It has an aviary attached to it, which is perhaps the finest private one in France. M. Worth gets many valuable hints as to color and combinations from his brill-iantly-feathered birds. —New York Times. The Boston Transcript has seen a theatrical audience applaud an actor who vowed never to touch liquor again, and then three-fifths of them rush out for a beer as soon as the curtain went down. Of the mail matter sent out from Washington, seven-tenths goes free, being either franked or put up in the free envelopes. In London 17,545 stray dogs were taken into custody during 1881.