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INDIANAPOLIS

SATURDAY EYENING; MARCH 31, 1894.

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i came fre*h April—[Spenser. UCH ingenuity tns been exercised in the effort to discover the exact origin of the custom of “makinc fools’' on the first day of April. Addison, • writing in the Spectator, remarks of the i year 1711: **A custom ^prevails everywhere among us on the first of April, when everybody takes it into his head to make as many fools as he ean. A neighbor of mine, a very shallow, eonceited fellow, makes his boast that for these ten years successively he has not made less than a hundred April fools. My landlady had a falling out with him about a fortnight ago for sending every one of her children upon seme 'sieveless errand,’ as she terms it Her oldest son went to buy a half pennyworth of inkle at a shoemaker’s; the eldest daughter was dispatched half a mile to see a monster, and, in short, the whole family of innocent children were made April fools. Nay, my landlady herself did not escape him. The empty fellow has laughed upon these conceits ever e.” An old commentator tells us that the first of April was anciently observed in Kngland as a nigh and general festival ‘‘in which an unbounded hilarity reigned through every order of the inhabitants.” The season of rural sports was thus ushered in. Among the Jews there is a tradition that the custom arose from the fact that Noah sent out the dove from the ark upon a fruitless errand, the waters not yet having abated, on the first day of the month corresponding to oar April. Another and perhaps a more probable conjecture is that it had its origin in the ancient practice of celebrating with festival rites the period of the vernal equinox, or the day when the new year of Persia formerly began, for under the name of the Huli festival All Fools' Day is kept by the Hindoos, os well as by Europeans, the English and Americans. It has been observed that a custom so widely followed mast have originated at a very early period, and it is believed by many in some country of Asia. A third attempt to settle this question has placed the beginning of the custom in the mocking of Christ by the Jews, whetr he was sent from Annas to Caiaohas, from Caiaphaa to Pilate, from Pilate to Herod, and from Herod back again to Pilate, as the persons to-day whom we wish to ridicule are sent about from one place to another. Whether this is true, or whether it jtmd no nobler origin than some heathen rite, it would be difficult to say. The fact that a miracle play representing these scenes in Christ’s life was anciently ven about the 1st of April would seem to ^ weight to this argument. '•hunting the gowk.” he Scotch have a custom of “hunting rk” as it is called, or sending credulous persons upon fools’ errands, accompanied by a letter, which when received with a laugh by the person addressed, and read to the bewildered bearer, is found to contain only these words: On the first day of April Hunt the gowk another mile. In the north of England persons imposed upon in this way, are called “April gowks.” A gowk or gouk is a cuckoo, and is used here metaphorically for “fool,” cuckoo being in that part of England a common term for the expression of contempt'From the Saxon “geac” is derived “geek,” an old word meaning one easily misled. In “Twelfth Night,” Malvolio, who has been “made a fool" by a letter purporting to have been written by Olivia, inquires of her: •

and not the prince, deserved the term, which, meaning literally an April fish, is used in the same way as our term “April foel.” ANOTHER VERSION. Another, and probably more correct version of the story (though one that does not explain the term), recounts that the prince and his wife, escaping in the disguise of peasants on the first of April, were recognized by a servant girl as they were passing out of the castle gates. The girl rushed to the guard-room and gave the alarm, but the soldiers, remembering that it was the 1st of April, refused to believe her, and while she endeavored to convince them, the prisoners completed their escape. The French have another story in regard to this day, which is as laughable as it is improbable. A young woman, accused of stealing a watch froita the house of an acquaintance on the’1st of April, when brought to trial said that it was un poiston tl’Arnl. A detective having found the watch in her apartments, she was asked why she had deceived the court. This, she said, was another potoon d’ArrU. But the court thought more seriously of it and ordered her to be imprisoned until the 1st day of the April following. FIRST STEEL SAILING VESSEL.

That e’er invention played out To which Olivia replies; after affirming that the letter was not written by her, “Aka, poor fool, how have thev baffied thee.” All Fool's Day is well known among the Swedes. Toreen, one of their travelers, in an account of his voyages, says: “Wo set sail on the 1st of April, and the wind made April fools of us, for we were forced to return.” This and simikr experiences have suggested that the uncertainty of the weather during April may have had something to do with the practice of “making fools” on the first day of the month. In Lisbon this custom is followed somewhat earlier in the season. On the Bunday and Monday preceding Lent, people are priv- ' ‘ ged to tease and mislead each other in rious ways. “It is thought very jocose,” says one writer, “to pour water on any person who passes, or to throw powder in his face, but to do both is the very perfection of wit.” The laugh is always in proportion to the amount of trouble given. A LONDON HOAX. Probably the greatest hoax ever practiced on this day was one which had for its subject several thousand people of London. A few days before the 1st of April a neatly printed and official-looking card, with a seal marked by an inverted sixpence at one of the eornert, was widely distributed. It read: “Tower of London. Admit the bearer and friend to view the annual ceremony of washing the white lions on Sunday, April 1, 18*50. Admitted at the White Gate. It is particularly requested that no gratuity be given to the warders or their assistants.” The attempt succeeded remarkably well, and for many hours that Sunday cabs were wending their way toward Tower Hill, the drivers asking everyone they met how to get to the White Gate. At last the deception became apparent, and the thousands who had expected to see some entertaining ceremony returned home in a highly unumiable frame •f mind. The author of the hoax was never discovered. It is somewhat surprising that anyone should go to so much trouble, and not a little expense, for this piece of non-

sense.

Cardan relates that having found among his lather’s papers that prayers addressed to the Virgin Mary on the 1st of April at 8in the morning, were of wonderful efficacy, provided a Pater Noster and Ave Maria were added to them, he made use of this rule of devotion on pressing occasions “and found it to answer perfectly well.” OLD-TISiS JESTS. Among the favorite jests of a century ago was the sending of some unsuspecting rusUe to see a statue descend from its pedestal; to buy a, history of Eve’s grandmother at the bookseller’s.or a pennyworth of pigeon’s milk at the baker's. The only penalty in these instances was the feeling of humiliation (sufficient to keep the servants of a whole neighborhood in merriment for a week), but the person who consented to go to the cobbler’s for a little strap oil was usually wakened from his delusion by a smart cut on the shoulders from the cobbler’s leather strap. Most of this nonsense took place at or about breakfast, before many had occasion to remember the day or there had been opportunity for warning by previous attempts. e French use the expression utipoimm

The IJirlgo, a Four-Master From a Maine Shipyard—Designed For Foreign Trade. fNew York World 1 The first steel sailing ship built in this country was launched recently at Bath, Me., and has been christened tbe Dirigo. Dingo is the motto of tbe State of Maine,

and is a Latin word which means “I direct.” The vessel will be fitted for the sea in this city, and will load soon at pier 19East river with a cargo for San Francisco. She was built by Arthur Sewell A Co., the Bath ahipbuiiders. _ ’ Her dimensions are: Length, 312 feet: breadth, 45.15 feet; depth, 25.6 feet: gross t^nnate, 3,004.80; net tonnage, 2 8 5.79. She will spread on her four masts, an area of about twelve thousand yards of canvas. She is a four-master, and the first three masts will be square rigged. She will carry 4,500 tons of freight, and is designed for the foreign carrying trade. ’One may get some idea of her immense size from ihe fact that she is taking aboard 1,000 tons of sand as ballast, which is placed in the bottom of the ship, where numerous partitions have been built to prevent the ballast from shifting. She bas a flush main deck of steel, fore and aft, sheathed with three and three-quarter-inch hard pine. The lower deck has steel stringers, and tee plates, planked with two-inch hard pine. Forward is a high top-gallant forecastle, with lamp and storerooms and two deck-houses, the forward one containing quarters for the crew, the cook's galley and engine-room for twenty horse-power engine. The bowsprit is all one piece, sixty-seven feet long. The lower masts are one piece of steel. The lower yards measure ninety-two feet and the vessel has wire rigging throughout. She carries for anchors two bowers, weighing 6,300 pounds each, a stream, a kedge and a space auchor. Two large cranes take the place of the usual catheads. Her personnel is captain, three mates, two boatswains, cook, steward, carpenter, engineer, four boys and a crew of twentyfour men. The Dirigo is commanded by Capt. George W. Goodwin, who has for the past eighteen years bad cotnmnad of the ship Sterling, built by the Sewells in 1873. RHINESTONE 4.

An ability to mind his own business has secured many a man a confidential position. The sooner a man becomes convinced of the things he can’t do the quicker he will succeed in life. The man who thinks he knows it all is generally willing to impart his information to any one who will listen to.him. It is only by a succession of judicious tips one way and another that the homeless vagabond who exists at a hotel is able to keep things straight HOPELESS. May Kimover—I am willing to be married just as soon as yon show me that you can make a good living for us both. Justus Eyam—Am I to consider the engagement broken? ASTROLOGICAL. “I'm going to quit working and live on my income as soon as the sign gets right” “What sign?” ♦*. PERISHABLE. His Mother—You shouldn't throw away your piece of buttered bread in that wasteful way, Willie; you may see the day you would he clad to have it. Her Son—Huh! It wouldn’t keep. •*» PUKING THE COLD SNAP. “What’s become of the gas?” asked tbe matches. “The old man gave it a turn down and it got mad and went out,” replied the grate. THE TRUTH OF THE MATTER.

Better were it to be unborn than to be illbread.—[Sir W. Raleigh. The acts of this life are the destiny of the next—[Eastern proverb. Proverbs—the wisdom of many, and the wit of one.—[Lord John Russell. Man is an imitati. e creature, and whoever is foremost l«ids the herd.—[Schiller. Kindness in women not their beauteous looks, shall win my love.—[Shakespeare. Incredulty robs us of many pleasures, and gives us nothing in return.—[Lowell. No fountain is so small but that heaven may be imaged in its bosom.—[Hawthorne. He that worries himself with the dread of possible contingencies will never be at rest —[Johnzou. As small letters weary the eye most, so also the smallest affairs disturb us most.— [Montaigne. Toil, feel, think, hope; yon will be sure to dream enough before you die, without arranging for it.—[J. Sterling. The years write their records on our hearts as they do on trees; inner circles of growth which no eye ean sea.—(Saxe Holm. You may depend upon it that he is a good man whose intimate friends are all good, and whose enemies are decidedly bad.—[Lava-

ter.

W'hen we advance a little into life, we find that the tongue of man creates nearly all the mischief in the world.—[Paxton

Hood.

Leave your bed upon the first desertion of sleep; it being ill for the eyes to read lying, and worse for the mind to be idle.—

[F. Osborn.

No error is more fatal than the* of those who think that virtu re has no otL r reward because they have beard that she is her

own.—[Colton.

Nothing destroys authority so much as the unequal and untimely interchange of power, pressed too far and relaxed too

much.—{Bacon.

The chief pleasure in eating does not consist in costly seasoning or exquisite flavor.

Do you seek sauce by

WHAT MARK TWAIN SAID.

A REPORTER’S ATTEMPT AT AN INTERVIEW WITH HIM.

Starting Abroad — The Humorist Talks, But Discloses Little ot His Plans— His Itinerary In the Holy Land.

[Copyright. 1894, by 8. 8. McClure, Limited.) Mark Twain sailed for Europe on the steamer -New York on March 7. At 11:30 o’clock on the night previous to the vessel’s leaving, he stood on the deck near the gang plank, smoking a cigar, with an overcoat thrown loosely over his shoulders. He was leaning over the rail looking at the busy scene on the pier, which reminded him of the old days on the Mississippi, when, as a pilot, he first heard officially the words that he adopted as his nom de plume. His curly, white mop of hair stood out from his head and pressed close up against the broad brim of his black soft hat. His drooping brown mustache had few silver hairs, and his eyes, keen and snarkling, were eloquent with the humorous conceits which are ever flitting through his mind. He was chuckling with the thought that he was stealing quietly oft’ to Europe without undergoing the cross-questioning of a parting newspaper interview, when a soft and plaintive voice sighed into his right ear the words: “Pardon me, but isn’t this Mr. Clemens?” He turned his head slowly—he never turns anything quickly, not even a sentence—and saw, standing by his side, the i writer. He shifted his cigar to the other corner of his lips, and answered: “Is that a bug, or what is it on your shoulder?” j It was a bug, and the reporter brushed it j oft’. Then he said: !

inquired tbe reporter, in a falsetto voice, io attract Mr. Clemens’s attention. IN THE HOLY LAND. The author reflected for a moment Then he drew a little book from hie overcoat pocket Opening it ke said: / “I have been thinking of taking a shy qt the Holy Land again. Here is a fascinating place, which I have longed for years to visit It has a quaint suggestive name, which itself has always pleased me. I refer, you may have guessed, to Kibrothhattaava, I shall probably remain there for a few da\ for rest, if I go there at all, and then wi slide over to Hazaroth. Then I may go Rithmah, and, if the traveling is good, mak go on to Rimmon-parez. From there to Libuah, thence to Kehelathath, thence tj> Mt. Shapher, thence to Haradah, thence to Makheloth ” “But ” i “Thence to Tahath, thence to Taraty thence to Mitchcah, thence to Mashmonah. thence to Moseroth, thence to Benejaa 1kau ” 1 “Mr. Clemens, if you ” J “Thence to Hor-hagidgad, thence to Jothathath, thence to Ebrozah, thence to Eziom gaber (that’s easy), thence to the wildert ness of Zin, then.I shall skip a number of unimportant places and go straight to Ijet abarim. From there I will take little ex» cursions to Almondiblathaim, Oboth and other near points. i “However, I have not yet fully deterxnineq upon this route, but may instead begin a{ Zalmonah and go thence to Punon, thence to—excuse me, but have you a match?” , Mr. Clemens paused to relight his cigar[ which had gone out, and the reporter said? “I am afraid I haven’t time to get another* route before the steamer goes.” “How lone did you say you intended tej stay abroad?” * MEMORY. “I had originally made up my mind to remain about five weeks, but my memory) is so wretched that I find it difficult to re-, member how long I had intended to stay.That recalls the wonderful memory that! old black cat of ours had. She did have 1 the most remarkable memory of any cat; s

MARK TWAIN.

“Mr. Clemens, I was sent to interview vou and to inquire about your European

trip."

“One of those bugs eot on my shoulder a, little while ago,” drawled the author. “At first I thought it was a spider; then I thought it was an ant, but 1 didn’t find

out”

“Do you expect to remain abroad long?” asked the reporter. “If I* had a light here I could very quickly find out what it was. If you will j kindly stand still a moment I will ask the ship’s steward to bring a lantern and we can discover whether it was an ant or a

spider.”

“But, Mr. Clemens, if you will excuse

me, it’s getting late, and—”

“If it was an ant,” continued Mark Twain in a musing tone, “he is different from any ant I ever saw. I knew an ant once in Nevada who used to come out every evening in clear weather and roll a little

pebble along for about ”

‘‘Excdse me, Mr. Clemens, but how long did you say you intended to remain

abroad?”

“Five weeks,

tinually rolling that p never could find out.

fool of an ant I ever knew, and I have

Exactly why he was con-

pebble

never could find out. He was the biggest

le or where, I

...j with this day. Charles »Gentleman’s Magazine,

' r the term by the -— . ...chouseof Lorraine, but m yourself, of Louis XIit’s pri*- labor?—[Horace,

on the ist of April by It is a sad weakness in us, after all, that ia moat, sad is accord- j the thought of a man’s death hallows him su as a poifni ‘VArril to this day. anew to ns; a* if life were not sacred,

however, that the guards, j too.—[George Eliot.

watched a good many fool ants. Once in the Sandwich Islands ” BOOKS OP TRAVEL. “Are you going to write another book of travels?” “No; there is no use in writing a book unless one puts hard work into it, and no book cai\ be successful or worth reading unless the author puts his heart and soul into it. I can’t do that in a book of travels any more. It is depriving me of a big source of income, too—a big source of income. I think I’ll just keep on lying quietly and systematically hereafter. A goodJieis always worth writing. A man who can lie well ought never to do anything

else.”

“Where do you propose to go?" “Well, I think I shall visit some points in Europe which I have never seen—more than once or twice.” “Do you go on business or pleasure?” “Exactly. I always visit Europe with that idea in view. You see Europe is a capital place for that sort of thing—much more so than this country.” “Business or pleasure?” “I haven’t thought much about it, to tell tbe truth, although it opens up an interestesting train of thought. Thought is after all only an ascription of a mathematical reason for a coexistent plurality ami if we eliminate iu cogency we will get right back to the starting place, every time, and that reminds me of that bug. What has become of him?” “Will you do any writing while you are away?” “That depends upon circumstances. You see, 1 never write when I am reading, and 1 never read anything while I write. 1 find that if I read a book for a while and then begin to write I can’t help borrowing that author’s style. Just read Shakespeare for fifteen minutes and try to write afterward, and you'll find yourself embarrassed. You’ll be trying to describe an ordinary, every-day incident in his high and mighty style and you’ll be thinking in blank verse. That is one of the reasons why 1 should advise Herbert Spencer not to read too much of Laura Jean Lihbey’s works. If the unconscious association of ideas should i affect his style so that v “Pardon me, but won’t vou tell me, Mr. | Clemens, what part of Europe you will : visit?” “Certainly,” said he. “I am always glad j to oblige a newspaper man. They have inj variably misquoted me in the pleasantest and most charming manner, and I owe much of my success as a moral instructor to their efl’orts. If it wfre not for the newspaper men of America, much of the valuable information which 1 have acquired in the study of—” “Where did you sav yon were going?”

almost I ever knew. Why, once she came into the kitchen and sat down on a hot stove-lid, and do you know that ever after that, as long as we had her, she never sat down on a hot stove-lid again. She wouldn’t even sit down on a cold stovelid. At one time I thought it was her sagacity, but now i know it was her memory. She was like the bull pup that belonged to Miss Appleby’s old uncle, Ezra Pilkius. He was a wonderful old fellow. Had a bald head all his life from his babyhood. He never did have a single hair on his head, so old Mann Wilson said. Harm Wilson lived in the family, you know, for years and years, and I don’t believe she would have left them if it hadn't been for the accident to young Jabel Endibott. That was the most peculiar accident I ever heard of. You see Jabel was acquainted with Miss Appleby and used to visit her house a good deal, and people said he was going to marry her. Well, her uncle’s bull pup had one of his eyes put out when he was very young and Jabel bought a glass eye and fitted it into the socket It was not exactly a match to the other eye because the oculist that Jabel got it from only kept human glass eyes. Said he had never kept a stock of bull pup’s glass eyes anyhow. So Elihu V T edder—that was the name of the pup—used to wear the light blue glass eye and be did have the strongest expression of most any dog I ever saw on the left side of his head—that was the side the glass eye was on. He was mighty proud of that glass eye, though. He used to kind of sidle up with his left side turned to strangers just so that they’d notice that eye and they always did notice it, too. Well, one dav——” “Excuse me, Mr. Clemens, but really about this European trip. If you ” •‘‘Yes; I was coming to that. As I said, one day while Elihu Vedder was feeling so cocky about this glass eye of his and poking it up under everybody’s nose, so to speak, a strange bulldog came along. He walked up to Elihu in the friendliest kind of way, and there wouldn’t have been any trouble at all if Elihu hadn’t tried to show oft’ that eye of his. He turned it suddenly on the other dog and kind of lifted his nose in the air in a superior, supercilious sort of way. That made the other dog mad clean through and he made a jump for Elihu and grabbed him by the throat. Just then Jabel came along to call on Miss Appleby, and when he saw her uncle’s bull pup being choked by a strange dog he sailed in to separate them. In doing this he jabbed his finger into Elihu Vedder’s glass eye and cut it most off. Of course he pulled his finger out again right away, but " DISCOURSE ON PLANS. “Mr. Clemens, I don’t like to interrupt you, but if you will tell me just a little about your plans I would be greatly

oblieed.”

‘Plans,” said Mr. Clemens, “are things that always appealed strongly to me. There is a certain mystery to my mind about plans that is very captivating. I was always a great felloe tor making plans. It is a little hobby of mine. I remember a dinner that was given to me in London twenty-five years ago, and of how I bad planned to make the great after-dinner speech of my life at it. I found out beforehand justwhat the man who was to make the welcoming speech to me was going to say, and I carefully prepared my answer. It was one of the most perfectly planned speeches I ever heard of. and 1 rehearsed it in the cab on my way to the dinner, so that I would have it ..down fine. The thing would have worked all right if the other man had ni^de his speech, but at tbe last moment he sent regrets and said he couldn't possibly attend the dinner. George Augustus Sala mack' the weicomine speech in his stead, and lie was wonderfully eloquent. There was: thought, history and oratory in it, for hewpoke of my country as well as of me. \\Tien I rose to reply I knew I couldn't do] anything after such a speech as that But U made up my mind to

take something he had said and use it as a text and to lead up to it So I began in a rambling sort of way, with this plan in my mind, and I tried to work aronnd to the text, but I never got there. I suddenly found that I had talked too long and hadn’t come within pistol shot of the text. I told the story of the duel I didn’t fight in Nevada at that dinner and Tom Hood, who was editing “Fun,” got me to write it oat afterward and he published it I believe that I could repeat it word for word to-day, just as I wrote it twenty-five years aeo. and yet there are other things that I can’t memorize at all. There is that jaybird story of mine in one of my books. I nave tried again and again to commit that to memor , and the other night I wrote ont some catch phrases from it to help me out when I went on the stage at the Madison Square Garden lecture halL But I had to give it up and tell another story. I can not learn ten lines of anything, so as to be sure of it, to save my life. Now, I knew a man bnce in California, whose name was Silas P. Smallbeester, who had a second cousin named Zachias M. Botts. This man Botts had a trained horned frog—” t “Mr. Clemens, if you will pardon ma, I should like to be able to wnte only a few lines about this trip of yours. It is getting “My dear fellow, you may. Just write everything I have told you and submit it to me before the steamer sails. Use all of the information—every bit of it 1 don’t want the public as a general rule to know too much about my intentions, but in this case IT! make an exception. Give it all without reserve and let me see it before I go. Go into the smoking-room now and write it out.” Mark Twain turned away to speak to the purser and the reporter went into the smoking-room and wrote what he had said. Then he hunted up Mr. Clemens and showed him what appears above. The author read it over carefully and said: “That is all right It is all right. It is what I call a perfect interview. Just as incorrect as any interview I ever read. Young man, you understand your business. Keep at it and some day you will be one of us—one of the perfect liars of the world.” “PORTO'S” PLEA WAS A BARK.

A Handsome Newfoundland Is Tried In a New York Court. [New York Herald.) “Porto, 4 ’ big, rough and shaggy, stood with his paws on the bench before Justice Ryan in the Jefferson Market Police Court yesterday morning and pleaded not guilty to a charge of felonious assault. “Porto” is a Newfoundland dog, and is owned by John Jordan, superintendent of the stables of a Sixth avenue dry goods firm, at No. 223 West Nineteenth street. He was arrested by Detective McGurkin, of the Jefferson Market Court squad, who served a summons on him on Friday. Although Jordan appeared in court on Friday, Porto neglected to do so, and Justice Ryan warned Jordan that the dog must appear for trial on Saturday morning. Porto slept on the order of the Justice, and concluded that he had better obey, so at 11 o’clock yesterday morning he marched into court, accompanied by his master. Trotting up to the. bench, he stood on his hind legs, and, placing his paws on the desk in front of His Honor, gave two sharp barks to announce that he was ready. Justice Ryan undertook to examine the prisoner, but soon gave it up, as, although the intelligent dog appeared to understand him, the Justice could not speak the dog language, neither could he understand it Then the Justice concluded to place Jordan on trial, instead of the dog, and the latter stepped down, and, curling himself up on the floor, went to sleep and paid no further attention to the proceedings. Mrs. Elizabeth Halligan was the com* plaintant against “Porto,” and also against his master, Mr. Jordan. She said that her little boy Goorgie wasplaying with “Porto" in the street when the dog turned bn her boy and bit him. The boy removed a portion of his clothing and exhibited a large piece of court plaster, which he said ■covered a bite inflicted by the dog. Mrs. Halligan lives at No. 230 West Nineteenth street, across tne street from the stable, and she acknowledged that her little boy went over to the stable to play with the dog. That the doe had bitten the boy there was no disputing, and when Jordan started in, to make a defense lor the animal he knew that the dog's life depended on his success as a pleader. John is a typical horseman, clean shaven and well-dressed.

“Your Honor,” he said, “this dog never harmed anybody. All the boys in the street love him, and more than twenty of them were in front of the court-house yesterday shouting, ‘Don’t kill Porto,’ when I was before Your Honor. The little boy was a teasing of the dog when he scratched him in the leg. He never meant to bite him, that I can swear. I keeps the dog in the stable, but the boys come to me and ask me to let him put to play with them, and I don’t like to refuse. He is a good dog, and so playful that it would be a shame to kill him. Punish me if you must punish somebody, but don’t hurt my dog.” While his master was making a plea for him “Porto” arose to his feet, and again raising his head to tbe level of the desk echoed his master’s words with several short, skarp barks. Mrs. Halligan was determined that tbe dog should die, and persisted that the dog had followed her son across the street before he had bitten him. A neighbor testified that the dog ran back to the stable and was standing in front of it when he bit the boy, the boy having followed him over. Justice Ryan decided that Jordan should be punished for allowing the dog to run loose, and fined him $10. Jordan did not hare the money with him, but dispatched a messenger to the store to get it, and_ then started back to the prison with policeman McGurkin. Porto followed at bis master’s heels, and was about to enter the prison when Warden Ledwith prevented him. “Have you a commitment for the dog?” he asked. “If not, the dog can not go inside thatprison. 1 can not have my keepers eaten up by the dog.” Court Messenger McAvoy finally settled the matter by taking possession of the dog and holding the cham with a tight grip while Jordan was locked up. The dog spread himself out on the floor in front of the prison door and refuse^ to move until his master paid his fine and walked out. Then he followed his master gleefully back to the stable. Grape Frau Fopnlar. [New York Sun.) Grape fruit is more popular in this town year by year, and it is recommended by physicians as better as a breakfast fruit than the orange. Pontoons In the French Army. Every pontoon used in the French army weighs 1,658 pounds, and has a buoyancy of 18,765 pounds.

NEW YORK SPRING STYLES. reetly in front of the dress, started a flounce of white embroidery which was looped over one hip and went into the back gathers, where it was finished with a large black

satin bow with long ends.

It is needless to add that no gown made in so elaborate fashion can ever be laundered, but, like the light India silks, must be sent to the cleaners so soon as the fresh-

ness has worn off.

PADDOCK COATS AND MOIRE GOWNS ARK BEING WORN.

The Silk Petticoats Are Run With ((.Tapes of Steel To “Stand Out”-

Pretty New Cheviots and

Shirting* — Capes.

Paddock coats and suits ate shown now everywhere, ludeed, they are shown in such numbers that it is a serious question whether they are to be the swell thing for any length of time. Several of the private tailors are making their suits in many instances in a much shorter coat, cut-away in front to show the colored or white waistcoats. No woman need be without a tailor suit this year, for in all the leading ahop^they are selling what they call “tailor finish gowns,” which are capitally cut and have a good effect These, of dourse, are in the covert cloth, serge or cheviot, and have large buttons. The moire silks are now shown in all colors, dark and light This material, while harsh for a waist, lends itself well to tbe flare necessary to give skirts a stylish ap' pearance. The skirts of these moire cos - tumes are rarely trimmed, unless some hanging ornaments of jet from the belt may be considered trimming. They are made full and have deep box plaits at the backSome of the handsomest have jet embroidered on the reveres and around the caffs when the moire is black. Mirror moire, like mirror satin and mirror velvet, is the handsomest of this kind of material. For wedding gowns and ball gowns it presents a striking appearance. One gown shown the other day as part of a trousseau was of this mirror moire of au ivory-white, cut with low bodice which was finished with a deep fall of point lace headed with lilies of the valley. The fan which went with this beautiful gown was of

All ginghams and silks are to be made op elaborately and trimmed heavily with lace, embroideries and ribbons. Tbe only plain wash gowns are to be of the grass cloths, linens, duck, wash cbeviota and piques. These, almost without exception, are being made like the cloth suits; severely plain, with coat and full skirt, with which can also be worn silk or cheviot waists. The cheviots and shirtings this season are extremely pretty. There is to be little difference from those of last year in the making. The swellest ones are made bv tailors and have turned down collars, with which are to be worn the neat fonr-in-haad tie. Light bine, light pink, checked and white shirts are all equally fashionable. This article of one’e wardrobe is eminently satisfactory, for laundrying really does these shirts good. NECKWEAR. It is absolutely dazzling, the quantities of different frills and furbelows in neckwear that are shown in all the shops. A new kind of chiffon which looks like crepe is made up iu the most exquisite of light shades to fit about the neck and hang loose in front, finished with lace ends. This adornment is perishable and is not appropriate except for dressy occasions. The band of colored velvet with the fall of lace, or with- the stiff rhine pebble buckle with little lace ends coming from beneath it, is more worn than anything else. The incroyable bow of moire or satin ribbons about four inches wide to be tied at the throat with a big bow does not meet w.ith general favor. Like most of the fashions it looks fairly well on tall slender women, but, as a rule, \u worn by short, stout

women.

This perversion of an original idea is in many cases the reason why really gracefnl and artistic styles meet with sudden and violent death.

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white point lace, and across the center was sewed sprays of these same flowers, so that whether closed or open it looked like a huge bouquet. THE NEW HATS AND BONNETS. If the hats now shown are really the styles to be worn this summer, the jaunty, muchquoted “summer girl” is a thing of the past. No one but a beauty could ever look well in these coal-scuttle hat-bonnets of rough straw trimmed with coarse flowers and tied down under the chin. These monstrosities were shown in felt a year ago, but as they were universally unbecoming the tashion was discarded, and the woman of to-day will have to be possessed of more courage and determination than she has ever exhibited if she casts a vote in favor of so hideous a thing. The little bonnets are all trimmed at the back, and are also worn far back from the face. The hair is parted, no bangs, the back hair in a knob, around which is fastened a bit of straw and two long velvet bows of solferino, or Cerese velvet. Under such conditions only the engaged girls can be sure of receiving any attention. One of the women in New York who is always most beautifully gowned bas for spring a gown of 'black lightweight cloth, with which she wears a satin coat, made in the Paddock shape, but with deep reveres of moire and a jabot of white lace. With this there is a tiny bonnet of eminence purple velvet and jet. The jet consists of a tiny crown and side ornaments which are of the shape of corn flowers and which fasten the velvet bows at the side, the front and back to the head. The whole costume is exceedingly chic. gowns of silk gingham. Silk ginghams are very much in demand for one’s summer wardrobe. They are pretty gowns, these silk ginghams, but require very elaborate trimmings, and are not pretty made up in any simple fashion.

Capes will be worn again this spring. They are made of lace, moire, even of velvet. They are not very pretty, being almost too fantastic, but with certain dresses are an absolute necessity, for while sleeves are undoubtedly a little smaller, they are still too large to be worn with any comfort under a coat, and so for a time capes will continue.

There is a certain pattern composed of ruffles of different materials which makes a woman look as though she -vere a walking penwiper, but fortunately it is not a favorite. The longer, more graceful, pointed back and front ones will reign supreme, let us hope, for some time to come. Silk under-petticoats are to be worn as much as ever. They are absolute necessities to any woman’s wardrobe, although the latterly much neglected white petticoat is again to be worn. The silk skirts are now almost invariably held out by tiny steel tape which runs through a fold of the hem and at the top of the head ruffle. The ruffles or flounces of these skirts are made either plain or fancy, untrimmed, or trimmed with lace, as the wearer’s taste dictates. They are always pretty and give a nice finish to any woman's dress. Anhrlm. Tbe Fall Meaning of Glory. (New Yohe Tribane.) Mr. Harrigan and Mrs. Yearn ans have been playing in Boston in "Reilly and the 406,” and a prominent paper of that city declares that they are "indubitably hors ligue,” and are possessed of “reserved vis comica.” That should fill the ambition of Mr. Harrigan. To be commended in the Latin language by a select Boston paper is to know the full meaning of glory. The Difference. (London Tit-Bits.! First Married Man—I got to know my wifeionly about three months before I married Tier. Second ditto ditto—And I mine only about three months after.

An extremely stylish gingham, shown me the other day, was io a pale yellow, made with full skirt, draped a little at one side. The waist full on the shoulders and drawn in at the belt, had a yoke of jet 1

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'For the core, a dozen er more pieces «A stove-pipe wire, all of one length—say four inches—are bent into the shape of the letter U. They may be bent one by one, or all at once. Place them together when bent, and secure firmly, either by winding in two or three places with thread and then patting on glue, or by gluing paper aronnd the straight legs. A single thickneea of good brown paper will suffice, with plenty of glue working its way between tbe wiree. Next comes the winding. For this, what is sold as magnet wire should be used, and No. 20 is a good size. First, find how muoh wire will be needed. Take a piece of string, ns nearly the thickness of the wire as possible, and wind it smoothly around one ot the legs of the magnet, from near the bend to within a quarter of an inch of the end. Cut off’ its ends close to the magnet core, and take it offi This is tho

measure.

Cut off a piece of wire nine times as long as the string, double it, and then, beginning at its center, and starting near the bend of the magnet core, wind it on neatly down as far as the string went, then back again, down again, baoK again, and secure the

short end temporarily.

One-half of the wire is yet unused. Thia is for the other leg. which is wound like tha first, except that the wire ie wound in tha opposite direction. The wire must orose from front to back as it goes from one leg to the other. The illustration, Figpur* 1,

shows this clearly. USING THE GLUE.

Now brush glue, common carpenter’* glue, over the windings, and dry them. If cracks appear, give a second coat of glne. Fasten tho loose ends of tha wire bF tying them to the legs above the windings, and your magnet is made. Wire may ba used to secure the ends of the winding, or vou may glue two paper bands around tha legs and wire ends. The latter arrange*,

ment is shown in Fig. 1.

When the magnet is perfectly dry—and to insure this it is well to heat it in a moderately hot oven—you may give it a coat of

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a groove in a pieoe of board, into which the magnet will enter »o half its thickness. Bore four holes, two on eaqh side of tha groove, set in the magnet, as dhown in Fig. 2, and fasten it with two short pieces ol

wire, or donble-pqinted tacks.

Next connect the wires of the magnet with the wires o{ the battery described in the first article. Do this by stripping on the cotton covering for about an inch, and then twisting one magnet wire with the zinc wire, the other with the ctfbftn wire. Now,‘pour your solution in the glass jar, set in the elements, and the electrife current will flow through the magnet. The magnet now becomes excited. Try its attraction for a bunch of keys and otharebjects. With some tacks try to build a bridge across from pole to pole. (Fig. 2.) The ends of a magnet are termed its poles. If ydu hava more than one cell, connect them all to* gether in the manner explained in the first article, and then connect the end wires with the magnet wires. This should give a strong

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Rub a sewing needle, or a pieoe of steel knitting needle, over one of the polee once, from one end to the other; carry it back through the air, and give it anothef such rub. 8ix or eight rubs will make q strong, permanent magnet of it, and then if will itself attract iron filings, tacks aiul other small objects of iron or steeL MAHOMET’S COFFIN. Magnetize a large needle, as described above, and pass a silk thread throngh its eye, Find which pole of tbe electro-mag-net repels its point Holding the end of the thread ig the hand, draw the needla over the magnet, the point over tbe repelling pole (Fig. 3). The needle will take tha position shown like Mahomet’s coffin, suspended in the air. Move the hand back and forth and the needle will follow «nri* ously the curve shown by the dotted line.

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