Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 May 1892 — Page 4

gtjcflcinocralitScntiiit'l RENSSELAER, INDIANA. J. W. McEWEN, Plxlisheb.

Over 00,000 barrels of rum were tnanufactored last year in the “Old Bay Stati,” and it wasn’t bay rum either. Mb. Ward McAllister is a man of resources. If he gets out a book that does i’t pay he can always fall back on a subscription picnic. Paresii is said to be spreading among base-ball players. They have probably been reading some of the stuff that is written about them. One of the wholly unexpected re•ults of Dr. Parkhurst’s disclosures has been the inflicting of a painful shock on the moral sensibilities of Col. Bob Ingersoll. • The Cincinnati girl who refused to marry a Hungarian count unless he became an American citizen belongs in the same family as the goddess of Liberty. Here is hoping she gets first pick from the flower of American youtb. Everybody will be sorry to hear of Sir Arthur Sullivan's dangerous illness at his villa on the Riviera. He has made millions of friends by the dainty grace and dry humor of his music, the fitting complement of Gilbertian verse. THEent inent and worshipful United States Senate has “bounced” a clerk for revealing the secrets of the exective session. An example had to be made of somebody and the Senators could not be expected to ask each other to resign.

No opportunity has ever been lost or mislaid by the New York Sun to malign the World’s Fair and misrepresent all its interests. The tongue of the Sun is “an unruly member,” arid no old fish woman slings English •entfences more promiscuously. Another speculative individual has attacked the Stewart will. As time goes by the wisdom of Mr. Stewart in notattemptingtodivide his fortune equally among his legal heirs has been abundantly demonstrated. They couldn’t* have received more than 1L27 apiece. * The Great Northern is rapidly pushing its way to the Pacific. The -Kalispel (Mont.) Graphic says: “The track layers are working 100 miles west,. and are expected to meet the force’ working eastward from Spokane by May 20." Trains will run through from St. Paul to the Pacific by June.” The New York Legislature is a firoil body of lawmakers. It has passed a bill appropriating 8300,000 for a World’s Fair exhibit, but commanding that the exhibit be closed on Sunday. Immediately after this i display of Puritanism the same legislature appropriated 850,000 annually toward the maintenance of a natural history museum in New York City upon the express stipulation that it ; should be kept open on Sunday. Ex- : planations are in order. * In defense of herself against an- ( trcLists France is about to make destruction of property by eTplosion a EapitaT crime. The law-abi<ling"pe£ • pie re - threatened with a cafftfSaign of violence by thes£ license-loving sons of unrest. They not only destroy and do as they please, no matter who is hurt, but they claim the right to do so. The proper place for an anarchist to stay I la in the country where he was born, usually under a strong imperial government or despotism. A free country only spoils him, by letting him > loose.

A little word, a mere wordlet, to Mr. John L. Sullivan and Mr. Charles Mitchell: Is there no sequestered and j solitary spot on the face of the green ' earth where you and the able rhetoricians who compose long-winded let ; ten for you and your various backers and your whole outfit of howling doggers and sports can gather together and settle your differences and save the human race from the nerv•ua prostration which the din of your ■ eternal bickering is bringing upon it? x If you don’t want to come together, and we don’t suppose you do, can’t you prevail upon Mr. Vanderbilt or Mr. Rockefeller to dispatch one of you in search of the north pole and the other In search of the south pole? Do try It, and if you go, please get lost. You give us a pain.

Secretary Bickford, of the Government Board of Exhibits, assisted by two confreres, spent a whole afternoon recently in going over the items ■ »f expenditure for World’s Fair curi- ' osities made by the Government board.. All the* items met with Mr. ; Bickford’s approval with the excep-, fcfon of one. He objected to the purchase of “one striped skunk,” at the I price of 11.50. Mr. Bickford's watchdog vigilance is to be commended, ; but he should not misdirect it. Let as have everything at the fair, from the striped skunk of Baraboo to the i behemoth of holy writ And it mav j be added, iii this connection, that if •o greater misapplication of funds ! during the history of the foir than tliat headed off by the mitwvpk Mr. Bickford, tlie people, •fil be fortunate. -- r - - Tn present is the era of advertising- • Adrertisibg is the best mode of bwyers we can Suggest. By MNM«< it men cm sell articles that •re nflwffr acd make fortunes by ftfcMSld »ot those who have •Mfaglfoarticfoa so dispose ol? Au

extensive system of advertising is invariably resorted to by those who have trash to dispose of, and it succeeds; how much easier, then, to sell a useful and valuable article. Advertising and politeness are the main levers to get customers. Advertising will draw them, ability to fill theii orders will satisfy them, and politeness will induce them to buy. The jury in the case, of the seven victims slain by the fall of the Pearce street building at Chicago has introduced a pleasing innovation by holding the Commissioner of Buildings and the building inspectors who passed the tottering structure equally responsible with the contractoi and the owner for the fatal consequences of its collapse. Public officials have long been accustomed tc accepting the emoluments' of office and shirking its responsibility. Inspectors have industriously drawn comfortable salaries for not inspecting. It is high time thfit some of those who have long enjoyed rewards for incompetence and inefficiency should be made to understand that penalties attach to the neglect of official duty.

Capt. L. P. Leathers, the most experienced boatman upon the Mississippi River, tells a States reportei that the cause of the great cotton fire recently was due to the manner 1b which cotton is baled at present. Nowadays there is hardly sufficient bagging to cover the sides, so that the lint is left exposed to catch the slightest spark or flame. Captain Leathers ran and owned seven steamers named Natchez, on which he transported to New Orleans ovei 3,000,000 bales of cotton, and on that amount and during the existence ol those boats the underwriters did not pay one dollar of damages caused by careless handling of that amount ol cotton. Leathers says in the day mentioned cotton was properly covered and baled in merchantable order, and notwithstanding the fact that boats used the old torch basket with flying pieces of fire during strong wind, it was safer to handle cotton then than now. To-day cotton if packed in bales weighing from 700 tc 800 pounds, with merely sufficient covering to get corporations to handle it.

The estimate of Walt Whitman has not been uniform. It has not been in his lifetime and it is not probable that he supposed it would be after his death. Mr. Ingersoll, in his eulogy at Whitman’s funeral the other day, said: “The most eminent citizen of this lepubllc is dead—before us.” Some have said this was extravagant praise. Others have said that he was the equal of Emerson; still others that he was greater than Longfellow,, but not greater : than Lowell. It seems to us there is I not much profit nor yet much sense iin the comparisons. While it is true ■ that Whitman did not and probably could not write after the manner of Longfellow, nor either Whitman nor Longfellow after the manner of Lowell, it is also true that neither Longfellow nor Lowell has written as Whitman wrote. In thought and expression he was nearer to Emeiuun. It seems to us the relative places of thes? eminent men is of little consequence. It were well worth while for the curious to read them all, in which case the reader may think the last one be reads is the greatest. AU Konor toeacm of

Friends and relatives of Mr. Claus Spreckels, the sugar kitlg, are mourning his majesty’s premature burial with sincere regret ur relieved by the sure and certain hope of a blessed resurrection. Particulars of the interment are not yet at hand: it is known only that the royal refinery at Philadelphia has passed into the possession of the trust. As the country has had Mr. Spreckels’ solemn assurance that this would never occur while he was “on top of the earth,” and as he is a disciple of the late George Washington, the inference is obvious and inevitable. It is obvious, too, that the interment must have taken place during life, or the transfer could not have been made by him, as it appears it was. It seems rather a mystery with the light we now have, but doubtless the customary public statement will be made under some such title as “A Voice from the Grave,” “Hark! from the Tombs,” or “Talking Back,” and we shall then Jcnow how the thing was done. At present we can only wait, cheered by the hope that if the inhumation is permanent an appropriate monument maybe reared at the spot to commemorate the virtues of the heroic soul who preferred burial alive to refusal of a good offer. He leaves a large ; circle of sorrowing friends.

A Woven Book. A curious book, in which the text is neither writen nor printed, but woven, has lately been published at Lyons. It is made of silk, and was published in twenty-five parts. Each part consists of two leaves, so that the entire volume contains only fifty leaves, inscribed with the service of the mass and several prayers. Both the letters and the border are in black silk on a white background. Large Heathen Temple. The largest heathen temple in the world is in Seringham, India, and it (jpmprises a square, each side being one mile in length, inside of which are six other squares. The walls are twenty-five feet high and five feet thick, and the hall where the pilgrims congregate is supported by a thousand pillars, each cut from a single block of stone. Evanston. Ills., is now a city. All it needs to complete the sum of its civic grandeur Is few boodlere in its common council, and they, no doubt, will come .in due time.

THE JOKER’S BUDGET.

JESTS AND YARNS BY FUNNY MEN OF THE PRESS. Cheering Him Up—Alas, Poor Bee! —Very Likely—Ye Boston Maid — The Whole Truth, Etc., Etc. CHEERING HIM VP. Friend—How are you to-day? Sick Man—Pretty bad. I’m afraid I'm going to die. Friend—Nonsense. Cheer up, old fellow. Only the good die young. ALAS, POOR BEE. How doth the Presidential bee Improve each shining day By gathering delegates galore In such a quiet way! How skillfully he lays his plans, How well improves each minute! And yet when the convention comes Ofttimes he isn’t in it! —[Chicago Times. VERT LIKELY. “Why do they have so many fine oil paintings in saloons nowadays?” “Probably because water colors would be inappropriate.”—[Truth. YE BOSTON MAID. Prof. Astral (in Boston) —I understand that your daughter is an enthusiastic student of theosophy. Mrs. Hubbs—Yes; she was last week, don’t know what she is enthusiastic about this week.—[Puck. THE WHOLE TRUTH. A rattle of poker chips sounded In the collector's ears as ho opened the door of the office, « “Is,Mr, Brinkins in!" he inquired. “No, sir,” replied the office boy, “He’s out about seven dollars.”—[Judge. SINCERE. Friend—-What did he say to you when he proposed to you? Miss Rox—lie said life without mo meant nothing. Friend—He was sincere In tliat, That's Just what his possessions amount ALL PULLING TOGETHER,

“Who is that long-haired young fellow who seems to have nothing to do ? ” inquired tho casual stranger, “That’s our poet," said the Squire. “Town chips in an' pays his board and clothes.” “ Where are his works published ? ” “Ain't never been published. He's arranged to have ’em printed arter he's dead. That’s w’y we are tryln’ to keep him alive long's we can.”—[lndianapolis Journal. A MATTER OP WAGES. “I observe, James,” said the Boston employer, “that "you say ‘eether’ and ‘necther.’ Are you not aware that such is not our pronunciation of those words ? ” “It doesn't seem to me,” replied the boy from New York, despondently, “that you ought to expect me to say ‘eyether’ and ‘nyther’ on a salary of |l6 a month. UNPROFITABLE GAME. City Sportsman—Any game here? Jerseyman—Plenty o' snipe. “Snipe ! It doesn’t pay to hunt them. Too small.” “Too small ter cook ? ” “Too small to hit.” A LUCID INTERVAL. Doctor—How is the patient this morning? Nurse—AX ell—he has been wandering a good deal in his mind. Early this morning I heard him say: “What an old woman that doctor is ! "—and I think that was about the last really rational remark he made. —[Punch. • SELFISH PARENTS. Small boy —Jfatnma, when will there be another Iyar? '"***»- Mamma—Never, ! hope. Small Boy—Huh! You and papa saw a great big war when you was young, an’ now you don’t care whether us children has any fun or not. —[Good News.

CAREFUL ABQPT HIS DIET. “That's something I never eat for dinner,” said a man in a Spring lane res* taurant." “What’s that?” asked his friend. “Breakfast,” was the absent-minded reply.—[Boston News. NOT A MATTER OF WAGES. “Say,” said the elderly .farmer-looking man. “I want a little piece put in the paper that I want a woman who can .cook, wash, iron, milk four cows, an’ manage a market wagon.” “All right,” said the advertising clerk. “Shall I state what wages will be paid?” “Wages nothin’!” shouted the far-mer-looking man. “I ,want to marry her.”— [lndianapolis Journal. THE MODERN WAY. “I like the bonnet very much. It is simply a dream of beauty. But do you think it matches my complexion?” “No, I don’t think it does. But that needn’t cause any trouble. You can easily fix your complexion to match the bonnet.”

a gentle hint. She (to idle youth)—Why don’t you engage in some work of charity? He (who has been calling quite frequently of lute) —Ah, yes, I catch the spirit of the author, and begin at home, eh? Clever, by Gawge! eminently fashionable. “You were at a high tea the other day I believe?” “Yes.” “Was it a fashionable affair?” “0, decidedly so. It was attended by the very best people. Very select.” "Indeed?” “Yes; I know they were the very best, for they had a professional reader there, and while he was reading Antony’s oration everybody talked and laughed just as if there litid been no reader there.” —[New York Press. FORCE OF ARGUMENT. She —If you don't let go my hands, sir I’ll ring for the servants. He —But if I don't let go how can you ring? She (thoughtfully)—That's so—and—and poor mamma s got a headache, so I dare not scream.—[New York Herald. the pleasantest part. He (preparing to leave) —I assure you Miss Smarte, the time has passed very pleasantly this evening. She (abstractedly)—Yes, it is pleasant to know that it is past —[Boston Trans. -ript.

Il aBOR-SAVING devices. Mamma— l wish you would go to Madam Modestte’s and tell her that dress is too tight, and I want it altered. Small Son (complainingly) — Madam Modestte’s is so far off, and I’m tired playin’ ball. Mayn’t I go to a nearer dress-maker? Mamma—Another dress-maker won’t do. Small Son (after reflection)—Well, mayn’t I go to th’ drug store around th’ corner an’ get you a bottle of Anti-Fat? —[Good News. one enough. “Dear me!” said Mrs Hobbs, just before the guests arrived. “There are sixteen peraons and only fifteen spoons.” “That’s all right,” said Hobbs. “Fanny Harkins and Dave Fisher are engaged. One spoon will do for them.”— [Bazar. GIVING AN ORDER. Small Boy—Mamma wants you to send her up quarter a pound of coffee and a pound of tea. Careful Grocer—lsn’t it a quarter of tea and a pound of coffee she wants? Small Boy—Well, it’s somehow that way, and —oh, I forgot, send us up a barrel of onions and half a dozen Bermuda potatoes and a peck of eggs; now don’t forget. THE HEIGHT OF HOSPITALITY. Mother—Why have you put on that old dress, and, dear me, why are you rubbing that dirt on your face? Little Daughter—Susie Slummer has turn to call on me, an’ she's dot an old dress an’ a dirty face.—[Good News. EQUAL TO THE OCCASION. First Boy (with bundle) —You stop sicking that dog at me, or I’ll—l’ll give him this meat. Second Boy—He, he! Wot good’ll that do? First Boy—While he’s eatin’ th’ meat I’ll lick you. Second Boy—Here, Tige!—[Good News.

THE BODY AND ITS HEALTH.

Averting Attacks of Asthma.—According to the Journal de Medicine, of Paris, the fumes of bromohydrate of ammonia have a beneficial effect in asthma and bronchitis. By an inhalation of the fumes, under certain conditions, an attack of asthma may bo averted. More Anaesthetic and Antiseptic Agents.—lt seems that the use of solid carbonic acid as an ana-stlietic has been made the subject of a patent by the well-known Dr. Robert Wiesendanger, of Hamburg, When the liquefied gas is poured from the iron cylinder in which it is compressed, it rushes out in the form of a white mist, which may be collected as flakes of pure carbonic acid snow and pressed into solid masses that will > st a number of hours. Carbonic acid us solidified produces intense cold, w ch may be made to benumb any part of' he body to such an extent that minor surgical operations are made painless. This has been practiced with such certainty that, at the Hamburg Hospital, one of the was that of a boy of thirteen who watched without shrinking while a deep cut five inches long was made in his leg. Ventilation. The healthy atmosphere in a room is ono in which the air is changed to the extent of 3,000 cubic feet per hour per adult inmate. The air admitted need not be cold; warmed air, so long as it is fresh, is of course prefer, able to cold air in winter, but in some way the air must be brought in if we are to continue in health. 'There are various ways of doing this. One is by admitting cold air so that it is directed upward toward the ceiling, where the air of a room is at the highest temperature; the cold stream is then heated in its passage as it falls to the lower level for breath* ing. But in large rooms, to utilize at its best this current, there should be in the skirting outlets communicating with a heated up-cast flue, which will draw away the heavy air near the door. In cases where there is heating by hotwater ooils.the cold air may be brought in at or near the floor level and passed 1 Uirougltthfi SSjJV'V.'I 29.4®* tor vitiated air being in or near the celling—to a heated up.cast flue. In larger rooms or buildings for public assemblies it may be necessary with either of these systems to use a fan, either to propel fresh ait into the room or' to draw away the vitiated air. The great desideratum in the admission of fresh air is to cut it up into very fine streams, something in the way water is cut up in passing through the fine nose of a watering-can. It has been found that air admitted through a tube or orifice of equal sectional area throughout enters as a cold draught; but if the inlet be through a series of small truncated cones, the smaller section outward, the larger inward, with a wire gauze on the inside, the current is so cut up and diffused that the draught is not felt. By analogy, a mass of water entering through a narrow canal drives all before it and cuts a channel for itself, but the same quantity passing over a large surface of ground gently irrigates it. Another important point is not to let the passage of the air be at too great a velocity; the gentler the flow the better. —[The Contemporary Review.

The Devasting Moth-Worm.

It is well to remember that the moth never destroys woolens; it is the worm. It is well to remember that camphor and all the other vile odors in the world will never protect fabrics in the least. If a woman puts a garment away that has so much us one moth egg, a ton of camphor won't prevent that egg from hatching, if there's any hatch to it. The only way to preserve a garment from the ravages of the moth is to be absolutely sure in the first place that a moth has laid no eggs in it, and this is not easy to discover, because with the mother instinct it creeps into dark crevices, the more obscure the better, and its eggs are ns small as the point of a pin. It coats these eggs or incrusts them with a covering, and you might beat and beat the garment and not in the slightest degree hurt the eggs. Now you can put that garment away in a camphor chest and heap a ton of camphor on top of it, yet if one of these eggs hatches a worm, that worm will start in to feed. The only way to be sure that none of these eggs are put away in a garment is to keep the garment out under constant surveillance for two or three weeks before putting it away, and in that time any newly hatched worm will develop into a size that con be readily seen. Once a garment is absolutely free of the egg or the worm, it can then be tied up in a paper parcel, or anything else that will keep the living moth out, with perfect impunity, for a moth will never bore its way into anything.—[Tire Upholsterer.

SOME SPUING STYLES.

NO SHOWY MATERIALS IN STREET DRESSES. The Tailor-Made. EspeAaUy Affect Low Tone*—Thin Material* Will Be In Demand—Foulard* and Crepe* de Chine Popular with Young People. New York Letter.

AZSk CERTAIN sashionable tailor of I*/ th l ® city, being remonstrated with ’iffl for charging such an exorbitant ft/ price for a pair of Ff SSI trousers, replied Vu Zjjfl ffl that there was no help for it, as only TO, _ every other pair ,lw^ = ’ wa 8 P a id for, writes our New ‘ York correspondIf cnt - Biß a ®e- ; $ vere commentary 5 « upon hitman vanity, but I opine that W?il you would have iAIWWa h difficulty in finding at a wornan who, in spite of her love o f dress, would be

willing to strut about in plumes acquired so dishonestly. True, there Is a 1 legend that a certain dashing society voman, when threatened with an action at law for a dress ordered four years previously, replied: “How ridiculous! I wore the dress out years ago!" April showers have brought May flowers with a vengeance, and the summer girl bids fair to require a table all to herselfdn order that she may wear her hat into the dining-room. But street dresses show no tendency to run to showy materials. The tailor-mades, especially, affect low tones, such as dove-gray, slate, suede, cuir, and putty. I notice that there is always an elegant simplicity about these street gowns. For instance, the bottom of the skirt has three or four rows of stitching and there is on the underside a bias of velvet to hold it up. For young people foulards and crepes de chine figured with all sorts of flowers will be favorite summer fabrics. There will be a craze for thin materials, you may depend upon it. If you are fond of something a bit eccentric, you will find it in my Initial

BLACK SATIN AND LACE.

illustration, a very pretty negligee made up in Turkish stuff. You cut the breadths bias at the top, in order to form the pleats and train, and the sides are also bias above the waist. You don’t make the usual gores, but substitute very small ones at the waist, and there must be material enough on the right to make the fold over. Cut the left side as usual, and finish with a velvet rever. On the right the rever is sewed on with reversed seam. The cascade in jabot style may be of surah or crepe de chine. There is a straight collar, and pocket flaps and cuffs are of velYtt- ' ' - Some doubting souls might deny that there is such a thing for a woman as a sunny side of 50, but I need only instance the Princess of Wales, who still enjoys the reputation of being a handsomer woman than any one of her daughters. Certainly she is one of the best dressed women of this day and generation, and her taste is wonderfully correct. True, she has kept her slender figure, and that gives her a great advantage. In my second illustration I set before you a very handsome costume for the woman on the sunny side of 50— either side, for both sides of a hill may be sunny; it depends where the suff'ts. This gown is a black duchess satin, trimmed with jet and lace. The lace flounce, ornamented with bows of broad ribbon, extends around -to the back breadth. The front of the skirt is set off its full length with a strip of yellow silk covered with lace. The corsage is pointed, front and back, and has pleated basques of lace. At the back the basques fall scarf-like to the bottom of the skirt. The corsage is covered with jet embroidery, and there is a collarette of lace arranged like a bertha and set off with a jabot of yellc*.’crepe de chiae, below which there is a plastron of le.ce running to a point at the waist. The sleeves have deep lace cuffs. The princess form, either complete or ending with a bodice over blouse effects,

CLOTH BUN WITH BIBBOX.

still holds its place of favor with young folks, especially when they have those slender figures now so popular. It does seem ridiculous to call a figure or a face fashionable, but,we must chouse a type for the summer girl, otherwise she will lose half her charm. In my third illustration you will find pictured a pretty house dress in woolen material run with ribbon. Of course it must be made princess. You make the back and sides all of one piece. Their seams extend to

the bottom of the skirt and are very bias. The fron -l < is only partly made Into the form of corsage and skirt, the corsage being composed of two parts, the yoke and blouse portion. The long flat lower sleeves are also run with the ribbon, and so are the yoke and collar. In order to keep the lining from showing in case the blouse were disarranged, you should bind the side seams with a strip of the material. The corsage closes on the side. On the right of the yoke there are small bows of the ribbon. To secure clinging effects, skirt foundations are discarded, nor is it necessary with woolens that can hold themselves up, to line the whole skirt; a deep false hem is sufficient. Nor is the balayeuse made any leoger of muslin, preference being given to plain silk flounces of the same color as the skirt, scalloped with a pinking machine. The tendency is still to lessen the fullness of the skirt at the bottom, without disturbing the train, but care must be taken not to get it too scant, for the effect is very bad. I don’t see so many velvet jackets, the woolen sack matching the

GAUZY EFFECTS

color of the dress being greatly affected. It should have broad revers, and open on a jabot or chemisette of silk gauze in a bright color, to lighten up the street costume. Gauzy effects are to be one of the modish fads of the coming season, which, by the way, are very becoming to the girl of ffisthetieal type, giving her the dreamy and unsubstantial look which many prefer to the plump and rosy style of beauty. What with tulle gowns, gauze wraps and chiffon trimmed hats, the summer girl will seem at times to be on this earthy but not of it. In my fourth illustration you will find pictured the appropriate style in which to wear one of these filmy wraps entwined around the neck. The hat, too, is prettily trimmed with chiffon. In spite of threats of pouf and panier, it is only too evident that the clinging bell or umbrella skirt is to hold its own, notwithstanding its being such a trying style for women who are inclined to be stout, and theie seem to be hosts of them nowadays. The American woman no longer fits the type to which all foreigners think she belongs, namely, the tall, thin, angular and sharp-featured type. It may be that she has abandoned the puritanical of diet, and hence the change in the national figure. Anyway, the clinging bell skirt calls for appropriate foot trimming, either narrow or broad box pleated ruches, Vandyke flounces, with fillings of lace in cascades, old-fashioned ruckles, made by three runnings of a band of material with the raw edges turned inward, or plain bars of velvet topped and edged with plush and covered with lace. Fancy trimmings, too, are much In vogue, such as imitation feather, pleated velvet, passementerie braids and jet, and there is no tendency to mix these styles of trimming. In my last Illustration you will find a correct delineation of a very stylish afternoon costume, the bottom of the skirt of which is in a striped woolen material, having one of the pleated velvet ruchings around its border, imparting a very refined air to the gown. The skirt must have the requisite glove-fit

AFTERNOON COSTUME.

over the hips, and the back breadth be cut so bias as to prevent any show of pleats. The velvet corsage has a round yoke, which should be trimmed with passementerie. The back pieces flare somewhat below the waist. They have no seam, and are made full enough to for:« a box-pleat in the middle, and must be trimmed with the same galloon as the fronts and basques of the jacket. The pleated front of the waist should be made ,up over a buckram lining. The hat worn with this charming spring toilet is of black lace, with bows of yellow and lilac ribbon, and with a sprig of lilac for aigrette. You can’t go amiss in ordering your summer dresses made up with vests and waistcoats, sometimes made full and covered below the waist with lace or net bibs, or else plain silk vests, fastening invisibly on one side and set off with ornaments set band or brace-wise. The corselet, too, accentuating, as it does, the wasp-like smallness of the fashionable waist, is sure to be extremely popular. I saw a very stylish skirt and corselet made up in changeable green silk over a nun’s waist of white silk gauze. The effect was a bit eccentric, but in summer modes are apt to run a bit wild. A stranger who tarried at the house of Jacob Prinkey, a rich farmer living neaz UnioaKwtt, Pa,, told how for three nights he had dreamed of a tree on the farm that was filled with money. Prinkey recognized the tree from the description and cut it down, when heaps of shining coin fell out to the amount of $4,000. The stranger could not carry his share. Prinkey gave him paper for it and as he rode away pressed him to come again. The next day an expert pronounced the coin to be a fine quality of pewter. The inexplicable thing about this tale is the idiocy of Mr. Prinkey. A German physician. Dr. Krug, makes a nutritious cake for cattle out of wood fiber by chemically transforming the telluloae of the wood into grape sugar.

THE LARGEST WATER WHEEL

Deed to Pump Water at Laxey, on the Isle of Man. The largest water wheel ever constructed. says the Scientific American, is at Laxey, on the Isle of Man, where it is used to pump water in working a lead and silver mine. The wheel is 72 feet 6 inches in diameter,

6 feet in breadth, has a crank stroke of 10 feet and develops 150 horsepower. It operates a system of pumps raising 250 gallons of water per minute, the lift being 1,200 feet. The water used in turning the wheel is brought in an underground conduit, and is carried up the tower by pressure. The wheel has been in continued operation for. forty years.

A Game Girl.

One of the little incidents which tend to explain why life insurance companies will hot accept a risk upon the life of a circus performer occurred at the Madison Square Garden yesterday afternoon. One of the features of the show is a race between six thoroughbreds ridden by lady jockeys, which calls for a large and imposing amount of firstclass grit. The short turns of the garden track are to negotiate, and when the girls fly around them they exhibit .a fixedness of countenance which shows that they appreciate the danger. Yesterday afternoon the racers struck one of the corners in a bunch. There was a thump, an eruption of sawdust, and when the mass of kicking horseflesh was disentangled the rider of the leader was found beneath her steed. The sigh which arose from the audience showed that a tragedy was expected, but it failed to materialize. The plucky little rider was extricated from her perilous position and borne away for repairs. This would have satisfied the average person for one day, but last night she tiirned up again in highly beplastered and arnicaed condition and won the race of the evening hands down.—New York Commercial-Ad-vertiser.

That Troublesome K.

There have been many estimable people whose great stumbling-block has been orthography, and it has sometimes proved an almost insurmountable obstacle. There was once in Eastern Tennessee a judge well versed in the law, but entirely self-educated, who had this same obstacle of orthography to contend with all his days. In early life he had lived in Knoxville, and for a long time insisted upon spelling the name Noxville. His friends at last educated him to the point of adding the K; so thoroughly, in fact, did he learn this lesson that when, a few years afterward, he removed to Nashville, nothing could prevent him from spelling the name Knashville. After a few years’ residence there, the Judge moved again, this time to Mifrfreesboro. One day he sat down to write his first letter from this place. He scratched his head in perplexity for a moment, and finally pyp! jlityipH • “Well, I’ll give it up! How in the world can they spell the name of this place with a ‘K?’ ”

Monkey Play.

The monkeys of India have a game like the English boys’ cock of the dunghill or king of the castle, but, instead of pushing each other from the top of a knoll or dust heap, the castle is a pendant branch of a tree. The game is to keep a place on the bough, which swings with theii weight as with a cluster of fruit, while the players struggle to dislodge one another, each, as he drops, running round and climbing up again tc begin anew.

“Eyes in a fine frenzy rolling,”

answered, “Hopping mad, sir,” has its parallel in an anecdote related oi Master Barnes, of the old Hackei School in Salem. The teacher one day noticed an idle pupil staringout of the window, and asked him what he saw there. “Houses, sir,” was the reply. “Very well,” said the master, sternly. “Look here and you’ll see Barnes.’

Good to Chew at Church.

There exists in some parts of South Dakota, Colorado, and Texas a singular variety of grass called the “sleepy grass.” When in a fresh, green state this plant is strongly charged with narcotic propensities, so much so that horses and cattle grazing on it ate thrown into profound sleep.

Novel Device.

A Utica, N. Y., church has placed in its Sunday-school room what is known as a Sunday-school thermometer. It is a novel device for registering the attendance of the Sunday school every Sunday as announced by the secretary. It runs from zejo to 560 and changes every Sunday.

Very Smart, Indeed.

McSmith —That Perkins is a smart fellow; he broke al] his friends, then went gambling and broke the bank. Bumpus—But at last I understand he broke the law and went to jail. McSmith —Yes, and last night he broke jail.

An Extensive Territory.

The French Congo country, many will be surprised to learn, is five times the size of France, and Is supposed to contain a population amountinp to 8,000,000 souls.