Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, Marion County, 31 March 1889 — Page 11

THE INDIANAPOLIS ' JOURNAL, SUNDAY, MARCH 31, 1889-TWELVE PAGES.

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The "Wind Blows East. . ind blows east, the wind blow west ?Sa wind Mows where It Leteth bestTint whether I may laugh or cry. Sit caret me wind a-whistling byl The rain till fast the rain falls free The ram star not tor you or meAnd whether rain brings Joy or pain. kat re tot that the reckless rain! in rlde trd rift the white flake sift, indT)iletbmselvesl;adowny drift; With . ipoie pall they cover all Ilffe o'er fair and foul they faiL And. Held or town, the sun shines down On ralace roof and cottage brown On ereat and small God's sunbeams fall. And Lots dlrine is over all. -Grace Applcton. i gondaj-Scbool Issson for April 7. Tub TarxrnAL Extbt. (Mart: xL Ml.) r.oldtn Text Rejoice greatly. O daughter of too? shout. O daughter of Jerusalem; behold thy King cometh unto thee, (Zech. lx, 9.) DOME READINGS. Mon.-Tbe triumphal entry Mart x1MJ Tnei-JThy King cometbA Zech. lx, 9-17 We-Siren'.ralse Matt. xxl. 10-17 Tbur.-A reason for rejoicing.... John xll, 12-19 FrL Tears and triumph Luke xlx, 37-44 Fat. A iwns of triumph rsalm cxvlii. 19-.9 Ban. Christ's final glory Rev. v. 6-14 After the healing of Bartimeus our Lord was entertained by Zacebeus. at -whose house was spoken the parable of the pounds. (Luke.xix, 1-38.) Leaving Jericho, he then came to Bethany, reaching there Fnday evening. March 31 (Msan 8). The Sabbath -was spent quietly, and at its close he sat down to the feast prepared for him at the house of Simon the leper (John xii, 21). The next day he continued his journey toward Jerusalem, which city he entered amid the acclamations of the people, as recorded in the present lesson. WHAT THE LESSON TEACnES. New Tort Independent. Mark relates, in the lessons of this quarter, events that occupy only about a week. He, the most thrilling of tne gospel narrators. We shall see how the enormous outrages upon Christ are the result of relentless and momentous currents. Each scene becomes the result of the awful logic of events. It is a natural sequence until barbarity culminates in crucihxio. The humblest means to extend the Chustian ideal becomes sacred. We cannot doubt but that Christ had nsed horse-cars or the railroad if it had been in operation in Palestine. We hail new discoveries, any advance of science, any nw development of locomotion with joy. They are new and valuables means of retting at sin quickly and exterminating it. t is a good example the owner of the colt eft us namely, to hold any possession at he immediate service of Christ, and to '. end or give it cheerfully. Christ was the popular hero of the day. He was loved universally by the poorer classes. He was adored by tne countless invalids and their friends whose lives were Idessed by his cures. Any movement made to revive the popularity of Christ not through catch-penny shows, operatic music or arabesque churches, but through unfailing kindness toward everybody, unremitting attention to the sick, unswerving inspiration to high planes of living, will be found to excito attention and create adherents. There is no doubt about it at all. The mere name of Christ is enough to excite enthusiasm in comparison with which the magic name of Napoleon or Bonlanger, or that of any great and magnetic party leader is insignificant. At a recent meeting of tho lalor party in New York the names of prominent political leaders wero hissed: but when a speaker apoke the name of Christ, the audience rose to a man and cheered. Like enthusiasm, not fickle, but pennanent, inspires hundreds of thousands to lead unpretentious consecrated lives. Christ is the greatest party leader the world ever saw. lie is the church. Are money-changers in the outer courts of our churches? Would he look about with approval or anxiety if he came to your cherished building? Religious Statistics. Rev. Daniel Dorchester, D. P. is recognized as the leading statistician in this country in matters pertaining to religious denominations. His compilation for 1888 may be found in the Christian Advocate of March SI. The following figures give Dr. Dorchester's summary, aggregates and estimated populations: , Churches, fcocirtles Todies Advent .. or Cones. Min. Com. 134,f77 4,051, 3tiO 1,030,970 4,801,340 1,47,!W2 1,374,163 .. 3,492..45.11i .. 7.H1U ..47,470 ..15,101 ..l'J.GSO 1.3.' I 30.9'Jf 4.5 12 30,0s S 11.42 12,01)6 H-iptlt Lutheran Methodist J'resbytfrians Unclassified. AGGREGATES. Cb. Par's or tone's. Mln. "Evangelical" bodies 131,477 90,3tH New Church 141 113 IjiluntD... 31 4!0 Universalis 071 701) Komau Catholics.. 10,557 7,99tf POPULATIONS. "New Churchtnrn 10,173 Universalis 2U7.370 Unitarian (no means of estimating) KonianCatholio (adlier's estimate).. 7,855,294 Lvanlical bodies (three and onehalf times as many as the enrolled members) 48,570,977 The evangelical population of the whole "population of the United Mates is 77 (plus per cent, per ceot. The Koman Catholic is 11 (plus In number of communicants tug are figures: Total bearing name Baptist Total hearing name Methodist.... Total bearing name Irebytet lan. Total bearing name Lutheran..... Keformed (Dutch) Reformed (German) Congregational episcopal Protestant the follow 3,175,599 4,443.484 l,ltrt,H56 .....1,036,970 87.015 190,527 4.7,."84 456,729 Personal and News Notes. The Philadelphia Record finds that most of the Episcopal clergymen of that city are r opposed to prohibition. Of the 432 theological and religious books published in this country last year, 339 were the work of American authors. For the last three months of 18SS, seven hundred and thiity baptisms were reported from three stations of the Baptist Telugu : Mission, in India. Recent news from Bermuda. Turkey, Afnca, Australia and the Sandwich Islands . reports Christian endeavor societies that are doing a good work. "aop t oster, or tne si. j-,. Church, re grets that the ministry of to-day is in some respects a hireling ministry, and does not think that anv minister is worth a salary of $10,000. J ArchhifY T?tri "Phil Oil a1T5 the Koman Catholic clergy of Pennsy lvania &re opposed to the proposed constitutional iuyuumeni pronioiung tne manuiacture and salo of liquor. Bishop Lightfo ;t, of Durham. England. come (7,000 a year) on church and educa tional work, and not a shilling of it has gone into his own pocket. An effort, i a ItAitirr inmlA t m'ca t anvn ; snthcient to increase the endowment of the ujrs m ti nion l neoioffica i seminary from v-v. w eacn to suw.uju. ut tne sum re quired (fiun.ooo) $40,000 is already conditionQ 111 1 Tha "RrAl,-,K t anew Lutheran society of two hundred Norwegian sea captains, who pledge themselves to have regu lar services on board, and vuuuucx. everytning on Doara ana on ahnr in ).. tfii rai ui uvau jnst one nunarea years since the introduction of Methodism illto"w Unirlnrnt Jesse naj ne distinction of having me nrst circuit preacher, and a bronze equestrian statne on thesiteoftheoldapplo tre at Norwalk, whero lie held his first "ung, is proposed. . Tne Rev. Fred D. Hale, pastor of a BapH3i.cn ircn in louisviiie, lias inaugurated a new lashion in collection. He announces before thj services the niuoiint he desires gataeivi in. and if the collection falls short , n straiEiarily dbmicscs the congregation -smoa, which is attracting so much at-"-uuon now. is peneraiiy reganieu avage island, but a large portion of PCODle A r fht i-i at i i MB A mutiinninr as a the says: ould guarantee to take the first twenty Ueo. women, and children that I should meet with iu Samoa, and I would back them j oioie knowledge against any twenty 1 suouw meet in this country." A 11 trni ti.fir.fr fitnm ci f ihf mUiinnTnr work at the present time is tho rapidly increasiug number of instances in which , T'hoiw communities Rive up their idols and weenie, m name, at least. Christian. It proves conclusively that the intlnence of i-uus caunoi uo tiumaicu uy mo nuiu

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a 6 -Copyright Knnkel Bros., 1888 KUNKIX'S OUT OF THE ORDLVARI. A curiously-twisted root from an oak tree, exhibited at Punta Gorda, Fla., is said to show all tho letters of the alphabet in its convolutions. ...... Three bullets were extracted from the tail of a shark captured last week near Cuba. From appearances the fish had been carrying them around for sometime. Wild razorback hogs played such havoc in the potato patches around Dunedin, Fla., that the people rose up in their wrath, organized a grand hunt, and killed . fourteen of them. Continental swindlers are palming off upon British agriculturists great bargains in clover seed that has been treated with sulphur fumes to give it a bricht and new look, but that is really old and worthless. Farmer Tuttle tills a small ranch a little way out of Petalnma, Cal. The other evening he heard a noise in his back yard, and, going out, found four Calafornia lions trying to scratch a hole through the side of his barn. French engineers are utilizing the poppy to strengthen railroad embankments. Tho roots or tho plants form a network that cannot be exterminated without great difficulty, and are therefore admirable for the purpose named. Woodmen say that three-fou.hs of the moss on trees grows on tho northern side; that the heaviest boughs on spruce trees are always on the south side, and that the topmost twig of every hemlock tips naturally to the east. A lady of Albany, Ga., who went over to Nassau, purchased a pink pearl from a native for $10. Upon her return to America she wrote to a leading jeweler in New York, Riving the size of the jewel, lie offered hor 500 for it. She refused to sell. A boy living near Abilene, Tex., was recently bitten by a snake, and was soon taken with convulsions. An old Mexican scraped out tho bowl of a briar pipe, applied the scrapings to the child's wounas, and the next day the boy was well. The process of manufacturing India ink has been a secret of the Chinese for many centuries, but a firm of English chemists claim to have discovered a process of treating camphor with sulphuric acid that produces a pigment identical with India ink. Recent explorations show that the Florida reefs grow the finest corals and sponges, equal, if not superior, to the best quality of the Mediterranean sponges. Hundreds of Sicilian divers are emigrating to America and find profitable employment around Key West. There is a small fortune waiting for the man who can discover some process of making the veneer used in making fruit basket llexible without the use of steam or hot water, and thereby save the manufacturers the time now wasted in the drying of the material. Two men in Tioga county, Pennsylvania, who had jointly bought a cow, quarreled about dividing the milk, one claiming that tho other owned only the "front halt" of tho animal. Subsequently the owner of the rear half was lifted by the cow's horns, and he wants damages of the front" partner. The court will settle it. The Albuquerque Democrat says: "New Mexico covers a vast lake, and as wells are being sunk in different parts of the Territory this, fact is being assured. A well sunk at Gallup has penetrated a body of water sixtv feet in depth, and wherever a hole is sunk to the water it is found to exist in inexhaustible quantities." TiiA. Jelcrl Ifil.ind Club, of Georeia. is meeting with great success in propagating the Endish pheasant. A few months ago the club received seventy-eight birdsoutof 1()0 which wero sent to it from England, twenty-two having died on the journey. From the eges of these seventy-eight birds 1,000 chicks were hatched out last fall by common barnyard hens. Marion Hooley, of Granger, Kan., stuck her lump of chewing-gum to the parlor stove ana went to school. When her father came home he built a big tiro in the stove nml wont out to an adiacent shed to cet hi mm eoal. On his return he found the house m names. The gum had ignited and fallen to the iloor, netting the carpet on fire. The house burned to the ground. 'r'iilo iin wnmnn h:is raised a cabbage that is almost the exact tdiape of a turkey gobbler. Tho stem, from the root . " , r- 1 ...1 1... to the leaves, is aumu a ioot aim ma every appearance of a turkey's rough neck, even the piu feathers being on it. Tho luulr ia rortrosMiitt'il hv n. tl:lt Tin. ft of the cabhact. and is about a foot wide and a foot and a half long. From this larc and

I HARRY PEPPER. ' -tbliss, place, If from the old faBut for the sound of s vshe who drives the clouds a - way, com -forts ,mo when I am sad. And And beau - ty and In worth ; I, in -deed, am blest Her In 3T 3 1 BOYAX EDITION. small ru filed leaves project, which splendidlv represent the feathers of a turkey. The only thing lacking to complete tho turkey is the legs. A little bov who lives at Snarta. Ga., met with a singular accident. In running after arobbin ho stepped on some object which gave his foot a sudden twist. This caused the bono in his lee to split, from the conseJuences of which he has su tie red very much, t was somo time before the cause of his troubles was found out. The fine compact sand which gives such firm footing upon the beach of Anastasia, Fla., is scarcely half an inch in depth. Below it lies a bed of loose, broken shell. Under the microscope a pinch of this debris from the ocean bottom is transformed into a myriad of grottoes, towers and minarets built of glittering crystals and gems of every hue. A story comes from Georgia to the effect that an immense wildcat entered a farmer's house at Good Hope, snatched an infant from the cradle and ran off. A short time afterward the child was found beside a high fence on the farm. The cat was one that had been prowling around the neighborhood for some days, and had been seen half a dozen times or more by farmers. Jim Warner, of Cook Valley, Pa., while shooting at a lox in a piece of woods a few days ago, saw a black animal as big as a deerhound iump from behind a log and go up a tree like a flash. It rested on a limb twenty feet from the ground and glared back at Jim, who sent a charge of shot into it and brought it to the ground. The animal was not yet killed, but fought ferociously. Another shot settled it. The animal proved to bo a black wildcat. Jesse Hess is a bark peeler of Logansport, Pa. A few nights ago he was awakened by something jumping on his bed and walking quickly and lightly over him. He shouted for a light, and his brother ran in the room with a lamp. Perched on one of the bedposts they discovered a big raccoon. The coon looked scared and dazed at the situation, and Jesse killed him with a boot. There was no way for the coon to get into the house except by climbing down the chimney. Tho lightness of snowflakes is the result of their surface being so great when comared with their volume, and is accounted or in some degree by the large quantity of air amid theirfrozen particles. Snowflakes contain about nine times as many volumes of air, entangled, 60 to speak, among their crystals, as they contain water. Very tine and lightly-deposited snow occupies about twenty-four times as much space as water, and is from ten to twelve times lighterthan an equal bulk of that fluid.. In Dalmatia chrysanthemums are largely cultivated to supply the chemists with the substance from which the well-known ''Dalmatian insect powder" is made. The Island of Lesina isthechief seat of cultivation, and the flower most generally grown is C. cm erariocfolium Trev. It is said that no other local crop pays so well, the product of a single acre of ground selling from $."500 to $1,500, and the government yearly distributes plants at very low rates in order that the industry may be still further developed. . A remarkable metal crucifix has been discovered beneath the chauccl-tioor of a. church in the Holderness district, Yorkfdiire, England. It is of bronze, and the figure is hollowed out at the back. It is six inches long, and the stretch of the arms is five and a half inches. The feet are not folded over each other. The full drapery round the waist is fastened with a girdle, and comes down nearly to the feet. The crucitix cannot be later in date than the twelfth century, and is possibly not a little earlier thau even this. Metal crucifixes of such a date are exceptional; the British Museum contains nothing within two centuries of iL Becoming Americanized. Minneapolis Tribune Slowly, but as surely as the flight of time, is the diamond-eved son of Confucius emerging from the ignorance which has shrouded him for centuries, and basking in the sunshine of modern enlinhtenment and civilization. A Chicago Chinaman skipped to Canada tho other day, after having embezzled money from his employer. A Misnomer. Chicago Tribune. A tonnnanent of chess players is disTinguisueu irom most other contests bv the miict and good order that prevail nnH ti. intellectual activity it calls forth. Itsounds grotesque 10 cau sucn a gathering a con grc&s.

i h 4--1. mimt -er - rart vcm will not tfnd 2. hav-ing euch a charm .lag bird ft ft ft ii L e'er Che does, Ap - pears ex - act - 2. qua! 1 ties Thus bold - ly I 7 XX EIIXTS SZUQST-24 HUMOR OF THE DAT. lie Got a Reply. The Epoch. Political Prohibitionist Yes, sir, a year ago I was in liquor. Where am I to-day? Voice from the crowd In tho soup. No Use for It. Philadelphia Record. Mr. Slimdiet "Ilavo some of the soup, sir?" Experienced Boarder "No, thank you; I am not thirsty." Willing to Oblige Her. Once a Week. She (enthusiastically) Ah, how nice it must be to be famous! How I wish I had a name." He (bashfully) Aw er what would yon say to mine? Accounting for It. , Philadelphia Record. Medical Examiner (for insurance company) You appear to be in a very weak, nervous, depressed physical condition? Applicant tor Insurance Yes, your agents have been chinning at me for six months. A Question of Degree. Jndge. Physician I think from your symptoms, madam, that your liver must be quite torpid. Mrs. Haceide Land sakes alive, doctor! I guess yon mean frigid instead o' torrid, for I'm jist about froze the hull endurin' time. A Necessary Precaution. Time. ' Old Mr. Candid (sexton) The minister told me to close the windie, an' I said tn him as how the young leddy wished it open, but, says he. "I run this congregation! and no lamb shall be lost from the fold with such a overhanging debt on the church." Johnny's Forceful Logic Time. Teacher Johnny, what part of speech is nose? Johnny Tain't enny. "Ah. but it must be." "Mebbe vour'n is, because yon talk through it, hut the on'y part o' speech that I've got is my mouth." Bobby Was Surprised. Time. Bobby Say, Mr. Updyke, what do you suppose Clara said about yon just before you came in? Mr. Updyke I haven't an idea in the world, Robert. Bobby (amazed) Whew! lou've guessed it. Thars just what she said. ' It All Depends. Merchant Traveler. "Does Mi6s Hysee sing?" asked a traveling man of a friend, who had just introduced him to a young lady. "Well, that's largely a matter of faith." "I don't understand you." 'It depends altogether on which von believeher mother or her neighbors." Naming the Baby. The Epoch. New Yorker I congratulate you on the latest acquisition to your family. Boy or giNcbraskan Girl. New Yorker What's her name to be? Nebraskan Well, she howls so much nights, we thought we'd call her Cyclonla. A Cautious GlrL Merchant Traveler. "One minute, mamma," said a young womau. "Pll be down as soon as I have finished taking this photograph." "Photograph of what?'' 'Of George's last letter to me. In these da vs of perishable writing fluids, it's just as weil to bo careful Poor Cash. Time. Customer Have yon any new patterns in cut steel trimmings? Saleslady (who has just made out check of previous sale) Yes, ma'am; in a moment Cash! as soon as I-Ca-a-sh! Where is that wretched cash girl? Ca-a-a-sh! V hat kind of cut steel did Ca-a-h-a-sh! Would von like wide or C-a-a-a-a-a-sh! If I bad hold of that cash girl I'd make her hump herself or I'd know the reason why. Let me see. yon wanted some cut steel for Cash! cash? CA-A-A-A-SH! Here, you. No. 4: can't you take this? Oh. you could if you wanted to, you hateful thing! Ca-a-a-

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What With - in the dear home-ncst; ft ft 6 But 1 I 1 i is ly right; Us notstramre at cn-viousBwain will re cite, a-sh! That abominable Iso.2 must be asleep. Here is a lovely new pattern just in. Ca-a-a-a-a-a-sh! Aha! I've brought vou at last, have I? I'm going to tell the floor-walker on you. Vou see if I don't. Oh. I will. Now, you waltz along there and bring that change back in two shakes of a dead sheep's tail or I will tell on you. Now, madam, I'll show ycu that trimming. A Question of Room. Ilfirper'ri Magazine. T declare," said Noah, as he wiped tho perspiration from his brow, "we're going to hct damped for room. I don't know where we'ro troing to put all these animals." "Boss," suggested the elephant and the mastodon, both of whom were switching tV?r tails viciously, "why not leave out the flics and mosquitoes? They take up raoro j-oom than we do." IVIU ate Attention to the Author. MsrpTs Magazine. iCDgbtr (to mother) Young Mr. Light pome has irst written a book, and has pretentcd me -with a copJ Mother That is very nice, Laura. l)aughte-Yes; ana as Mr. Lightsome 8iid sop.ftl ing about making a call this evening, ar.d I am very busy, I wish you woild sit down and cut tho leaves forme, and place it in a conspicuous place on tho parlor table. Under the New Postmaster-General. Puck. Scene (Country store, postoflicc in corner; enter Mr. Partridge, a Philadelphia drummer) Can I show you anything today? Mr. Robert White (postmaster and country store-keeper Naw; don't want nothin' to-day. Partridge (closing sample case) All right; but first time I'm in Washington I'll see your boss in regard to your term of office. White (in terror) Hold on, Mister! I do want twenty pieces calico, some galluses, and fifty pairs 10-cent socks. Partridge (outside, with, broad grin) That fetches 'em every time. My fortune 'a made. Ye Latest Fadde. Belinda's carraige stopt ye waye; I knew its Nagges full well; A winsome Wenche was on ye steppes A makynge Bright ye bell. "Why doth Belinda barge her Head And looke sae monstrous Pale!" "An't pleae you. Mr," ye mayde Replycd, ''lis butto her Hadynge veil." "How doth she Rlgge it fore A af te And Winde it round her Hatlef" "Hweet gir. I fear your Wit 1 dull; Her Hand-mayde doeth That." "How doth Belinda Wipe her nose Pray tell my little Ian." "Ods bods, she doth such Vulgar tryckes Before she Quittes her Glass." Time. John Wesley as Physician. London nopltaL It is not generally known that John Wesley was something, of a physician, though his medical creed is founded more on theology than physiology. In a volume which he published in 1747. and which went through twenty-two editions in forty years, he states his views on the subject. He holds that the great antidote for many diseases is contained in the curse: "In the sweat of thy brow shalt thou eat . bread; for the power of exercise, both to preserve and to restoro health is greater than can be conceived." He holds, however, that all medical treatment is, or ought to be. empirical; and decries scientific study. The prescriptions ho gives are haphazard enough; here are a few examples: For dropsy, eat a crust of bread every morning or be electrified. For deafness, put a little salt in the ear. For a cancer of the month or throat, blow in tho ashes of scarlet cloth. For consumption, eat cow-heel soup, and every morning cut up a turf of fresh earth, and breathe into the hole three-quarters of an hour. And so forth. From One Who Has Evidently Tried It. Lowell Times. According to a Boston socieiy paper, "the oly correct way to greet a friend . or acknowledge an introduction in ultra-fashionable circles is to keep the elbow close to the waist, elevate (he hand almost to the shoulder, then crook it at the wrist, and with three fingers give one decided shake." They do these things differently in lwrence. There the arm describes a graceful semi-circle, the ellww is crooked, the hand lifted to a level with the nasal organ, and Ilireo lingers arc wijlcu uuuui u m

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e'er the cars, whatIf her lor - all that saefcnouiu euro-ly ctcalFroa V SmiXG STYLES. Cream wool, sparsely dashed and splaRhed with a bright color, will be the favorito stun ior summer tenuis gowns. Alpaca is likely to be a favorite stuff thi spring. It comes plain, in stripes and with flower and lace patterns printed over it. Persian figured brocades on cream-white grounds wijl bo in great uso the coming pay season in the creation of elegant toileta in pompadour and Directoire styles. About the quaintest of the new old style is that showing a full, plain skirt fullygathered to a short waist, with wide revers, skin-tight sleeves and stomacher of gathered muslin. The new crushed strawberry is one of tho colors which should never be allowed to po out of fashion; for it is beautiful in itself and is becoming to most persons, if not by itself, in combination with cream color or with black. A Connemare cloak of Chantilly laeej costs about $.VX). Its effect is that of elegant simplicity and of making its wearer move very slowly. One takes no risk of tearing a garment like that, and Chantilly is not strong. Tho so-called Greek polonaise is a princes garment cut full upon the right shoulder and draped across slightly below the left hip. The back falls quite straight, and at t front there are breadths reaching from tho belt to the foot under tho polonaise. Washing silks, also called silk cheviots, are amoug the spring importations. Thcao ' are made into pretty redingote tea-gowns, feather-stitched blouses, skirts, etc. They are also used in tho formation of night' dresses and underwear for summer use. Mousseline delaine with very deep borders will take the place of nun's veiling in this summer's gowns. The bordcrel stuff makes the skirt that is cither open at one side to show the underskirt or else: lightly held together with gimp or frogs of braid. There are at least twenty-five different and distinct shades of green visible in thff gTcat cmporia of fashion this year, ranging from the palest water tints to the deer' moss and myrtle shades, all the varying; tones displayed in nature being perfectly reproduced in art. I The price by the Ward of good strong surah or washing silk is now 60 very reason able that the purchase of enough foranrm ber of silk petticoats is a really useful, economical, as well as fclepant, investment. These are light, cool, dainty, and save innumerable washing bills during tho summer. 1 Tho seventy-inch-wide chantilly flouncings are modeled into enveloping nuns' cloaks or connemaras, the fullness shirred into a neck-band of velvet, ribbon, or pa, sementerie. long angel sleeves of tho lac fall from the shoulders to the hem of th garment, Thete novel diaphanous wrap are to be worn over black or colored sillc dresses, straightDirecto're gownsof pompadour satin brocade, or, later on, over toilets of foulard silk, muslin or lace. Flatter than an inverted sonp-plate vara some of the newcet hats. There is a radical and sudden change in headgear; a rollnpe which produces a feeling of a tornado having passed, sweeping all towering object" before its devastating fury. This entirely upsets preconceived notions fostered by familiarity with a style wholly dissimilar to that now presented to us. There is Ouaker-like. rigid simplicity, a goneness, about the depressed sat-down-npon-looking shapes, which, in contrast to what has become so familiar to our eyes, look dowdy and unfinished in tho extreme. Draping the fronts of dress waists straight across from one nnder-aim seaui to the other, hiding the darts that lit tha lining, is still a prevalent fashion for higa and low corsages alike, giving the favorita empire effect. Very many of the bodices for evening wear are cut oil round at th waist or very slightly pointed, tho edges covered by a folded saoh or ribbon garniture laid on flat. A large portion of tho French corsages are devoid of darts, beinij adapted to the form by the deeply archI side-seams and by tho arching of the fronts, down which it Ls closely fastened by hidden hooks and eyes. Justified la Not Taking Chances, Pittsburg Dlapateh. That 6tory of a plot among Mexican bandits to capture Robert Garrett sounda rather fishy, but after his experience of th wav in which his telegraph line can bo captured. Mr. Garrett is justified in concluding that he docs not wish to take aj