Indiana State Sentinel, Volume 26, Number 28, Indianapolis, Marion County, 28 February 1877 — Page 12

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Borne day she will come back, my poor lost Dove My Dove with the warm breast and eager eyes! How did It fall toward her, my passionate Jpve? Where was the flaw? since flawed It must have been. Or surely she had staid with me, my Queen. HT heart was full of Inarticulate cries Which my heart failed to catch; and yet she strove To cleave to me. Ah, how she must have striven. Praying, perchance, ofltlmes for strength from heaven t But no strength came; and so, one fatal day, Despairing of all help, she went away. And there her half completed portrait stands Tbe fresh, young face, and gray eyes brimmed with light. I painted her with flowers In her hands. Because she always seemed so bright and good, I never thought the studio's solitude Would hurt her ujway. I thouicbt the sight Of painted forms and unfamiliar lands Would be enough for her. she was too mild, Too patient with my painter's life. Poor child! Had she complained at all, by look or tone, Had she but said, "I seem too much alone; I grow half fearful of these painted eyes That oerer clianxe, but, full of sad reproof. Haunt me and watch me; and these southern sides Reflected in deep streams: and that dark boat From which a girl with bare sweet breast and throat Droops willow-like, and dreams of life and love; And that youth's dying face, which never dies; And then, again, that picture of Christ there, Christ fallen in an agony of prayer. And Hit disclplos near Him, stern and dumb. Like men who know the fated hour is come:" Had she said thus, and added, "Take me dear, Outside of these sad faces; let me stand Once more within life's thallows, and there hear lAzhl laughter of the surf upon the beach, For here ihe very ea i without siieech, So still it is. ami far away from l:tnl; I w.ni. iife's little Joys: this atmosphere Oppresses me; I cannot breathi In it; The l: it that lights your life leaves mine uir.lt'' 1 shoutl liave answered tenderly, and sought To carry out in nil her slightest tiiouht. She knew I loved her, through those Winter luv; Did it not comfort her at all, my love? It was such joy to look upon her face. I ;' for hour, content to be quite still, Keel in sc tier warm bright beauty Uli ily soul and brain; fearful lest she should move, And pe;tk, or go; hut when she rm-t my gaze I turned away. a-s if I had done wrong In looking ou her loveliness so long. I rarely kissed her, rarely took her hand : And now, I think, she did uol understand. Percha-iee she thought my love was passionless, Wanted what I withheld yet longed to give; She did not know my silence a caress All past-ion was by reverence controlled Ana so sne deemed my ways of love were cold. Ah me! the lonely life she had to live! And I knew nothing of its loneliness. Here was a natuie quick to give and take, . A nature to be broken and to break; Hhe loved confiding valleys, sun-kissed rills, Cat saddened at the solemn peace of hills. All thinzs had been so different had I known Her nature then as now; and yet, and yet, If she cane in, as I sit here alone. The April twilight falling through the room, And all the pictures lapsing into loom Came in, knelt down, and prayed "me to forget, Forgive her, and reclaim her for my own, I should be glad, and draw her to my heart, And kiss the rising tears away, and part The sweet hair b-tck, and fold her to my side, Yet leave, pei chance, the want unsatisfied. But here 6he comes not. I must wait and bear; Live on, and serve my art as best I may. If I can catch the color of her hair And the .neck's poise, and set beneath her name. Shall not her loveliness have deathless fame? Now lights shine out along the London square. 0 dreary place! where no Joy comes at all. There! I must turn the easel to the wall! 1 cannot bear her face as yet O Love ! O, wounded of my hands! my wounded dove! Phelps Bourke Marston in Harper's Magazine. roR srXDAY. Cambered Abont Much Serving. Christ never asks of ns such busy labor ' ' 1 As leaves no time for resting at His feet: The waiting attitude of expectation,He oit times counts a service motl complete. He sometimes wants our ear our rapt atten- - tion, ' - ' ' That He some sweet secret may impart; . Tis always in the time of deepest silence, That heart find deepest fellowship with heart. We sometimes wonder why our -Lord doth place us ' . Within a sphere so narrow, so obscure. That nothing we call work can lind an. entrance; There's only room to scflVr to endure. Well, God loves patience ! Souls that dwell in stiliutss, Doln.? the little things or resting quite. May lust as perfectly fulfill their mission. Be just as useful in the Father's sight. As they who grapple with some giant evil. Clearing a iUi that every eye may seel Our Saviour cares for a cheerful acquiescence, Rather than for a busy ministry. And yet. He does love service, where 'tis given By grateful love that clothes Itself in deed; But work that's done beneath the scourge of duty. Be sure to such He gives but little heed. Then seek to please Him, whateo'er He bids thee! Whether to do to suffer to lie still! Twill matter little by what path he led us, If In it we sought to do His will ! The Rev. Phillips Brooks, in one of his Yale lectures on "Preaching," tells a story of a backwoodsman, who, after hearing an extemporaneous sermon from Bishop Meade (Protestant Episcopal,) remarked: "He is the first of them petticoat fellers that I have ever seen that can shoot without a rest." Two things characterize every church that is in the liighest condition of spiritual health. . The one 13 that they all worship, the other is that they all work. The first appertains more directly to the heart; the second appertains as well to the head, the hands and purse. The fullest combination of the two would almost reach the ideal of church life in its highest form. Theodore Cuyler. , . O Lord, if lest I should be proud and should say in my prosperity, I snail never be moved it pleaseth Thee to tempt me.yet forsake me not over-long, thatis, if Thou hast forsaken, me and I may know how weak I am without Thy help; yet forsake me not utterly, lest I perish. I know that of Thy good will Thou hast giyerrme strength; and if Thou turnest away Thy face from me I shall forthwith be troubled. 0, forsake me not, that I perish not. Augustine. When occasions of extraordinary Interest arise in the church, the very men who are best fitted and readiest to take hold of the enlarged work are the men who have never lost their grip cf the work when it was a little work. It is Cideon who looks after the fleece when the fleece is dry, and it is Gideon who wrings bowlfuls of heavenly dew out of it when God has wetted it It was Peter who preached to the hundred and twenty in Jerusalem before Pentecost, and it is Peter who evangelizes the thousands when the day of Penteccst is fully come. Hanna, What you need, dear friend, is courage. You ought to be in fact what Mr. Greatheart (rightly named) is in Bunyan'i "Pil

grim's Progress." You are entirely too timid and desponding. When vou take a bold step forward, lo! "there is a lion in the way," and you stop and your cheek grows pale. Go forward and you will find the lion chained, and if not, why you can chain him if you will. Never give way if you are in the right path never give way! Forward, not backward, lies in the path of usefulness and honor, the path on which rests the light of heaven. Methodist, A Methodist paper requests all who have anv sort of patience in listening to the Blow, dragging singing in some of the church services, to sing the following stanza, written by Alfred Taylor, to the tune of "Joyfully:" Dismally, dolefvIly, downward we drag, Making our music most mournfully lag ; Kingins the songsof salvation so slow, Groaning and grunting along as we go. Painfully poking o'er pious old poem. Weary, the worshippers want to go home; Droning so dull they don't know what to do. Pleased when the plodding performance is through. The miraculous cure said to have beerf wrought upon Mr. Moody should have been attributed to F. W. Fields of Chicago, one of his co-workers: and in spite of contradictions, the circumstance is reaffirmed by his friends. One leg having become some two and a half inches shorter than the other from hip disease, and the use of crutches having become necessary, it is said that Fields prayed one night lor restoration in order that he might be a more efficient Sunday-school worker. When he awoke in the morning, the limb was restored to its normal soundness and length, and all the excruciating pain previously experienced had gone. Did you ever find lying in some neglected spot, buried among the grass, perhaps, some old tool, which you remember sharp and bright and useful, but now covered with rust, and useless? The rtt arid its dull edge have come of its Jong rest. Had it been constantly used if might have been broken, but it never would have been that dull, useless thing while it lasted. It is just so with human beings. Inaction is worse for them than hard work. Unused talents rust. The mind that is never sharpened prows dull. One who has not done what he might rinds his power gone at last. Sometimes, when minds lie useless and hands are folded, the soul rusts also. Though the word of God is indeed written for the instruction of all, yet to you who are in trouble, and frym whom the Lord hath taken children, and whom He Lath exercised otherwise, there are some chapters, some particular promises in the word of God made in an especial manner, which would never have been given, so as they are now, if you had your portion in this world like others. It is no small comfort that God hath written some Scriptures to you which He hrth not to others. Read these, and think God is like a friend who sendeth ''a letter to a whole house and family, but who speaketh in His letter to some by name who are dearest to Hku in the house. It is not the proper thing to come to church after the service has been opened. Where circumstances have made it impracticable to be early, the lste comer may be justified on the grounds that it is better to come late than not at all. But it is afact that some people have a habit of coming late, and it is very plain to those whom they disturb that they might have been in time had they taken pains to be so. Invited to dinner they would regard it very rude to keep the other guests waiting, or to make a disturbance by-coming five or ten minutes after the dinner is served. But it is almost an unheard of event, probably it was never known, that a Christian congregation had the privilege of beginning its public devotions without being immediately afflicted by the arrival of those who come tearing up the aisle while others are trying to pray or praise. New York Observer. : If all the Christian women all over the land who spend so much time on "unniakable dogs and cats on canvass," on fashion and dress and in fashionable calls, would each of them reach out for , but one child a year, lift it from the slough of .filth and sin, clothe its body, feed" its soul, provide for its education the world would be converted. We teach more by what we are than by what we say. It is the deeds that last the .longest. If that Christian woman who exclaimed to me the other day, "I think it no loneer a question of duty as regards the Sunday-school when one has a family,' would only stop and think what would become of the Sunday-school if all the fathers and mothers were withdrawn and only young people were left to conduct it, she would learn the greatest lesson of her life; for if she is a child of God, Hü does not want her idle in His kingdom. Not all the same gifts? I admit'tliat; some are not called to teach, yet there is not one of us but can do something to help on the good work. The world is dying for want of sympathy. One of America's greatest poets told me she had made it a duty never to pass a newsboy or a bootblack, a washerwoman or a day labororer without a kind word; it cost her nothing, it went a great way with them. Go thou and do likewise. Study to show thyself approved of God, a workman (not an idler) thot needeth not to be ashamed. God will bless your efforts. 8. S. Workman. A story was told of a street boy in London who had both legs broken by a dray passing over them. He was laid away in one of the hospitals to die, and another little creature of the same class was laid near by, picked up sick with famine fever. The latter was allowed to He down by the side of the little crushed boy. He crept up to him and said. "Bobby, did you never hear about Jesus?" "No, I never heerd of him." "Bobby, I went to the Mission school once, andjthey told us that Jesus would take you to heaven when you died, and you'd never have hunger any more, and no more pain, if you axed him." "I couldn't ask such a great big gentleman as he is to do anything for me." "But he'll do allthayouax him." "now can I ax him if I don't know where he lives, , and how could I get there when both my legs is broke?" "Bobby, they told me at Mission school as how Jesus passes by. Teacher says as how he goes around. , How do you know bat what he . might come around to this hospital this very night? You'd know him if you was to see him." "Bat I can't keep my eyes open. My legs feel so awful , bad. Doctor , says I'll die. "Bobby, hold up yer hand, and he'll know what you want when he . passes by." They got the hand tip. - It drooped. Tried again. It slowly fell back. Three times he got up the little hand, only to let it fall. Bursting into tears, he said:. '.'I give it up." .. VBobby, lend me yer hand ; put yer elbow on my piller; I can do without it." So one hand was propped up. And when they came in the morning the boy . dead, his hand still held up for Jesus. You may search the world and you can not find a grander illustration of simple trust than that of the little boy who had been to Mission school but once. John B. Gough. ..

A New York lecturer on health ridicules1 the Grahamitc system. He recommends less starch and more mastication, less tea at.fl more milk. He said bran bread had killed nearly all of his family, and rendered twenty-five years of his own life miserable before he discarded it, .

FOR THE K.ADIES.

Tbe Wife' Reverie. 0 Heart of mine. Is our eslate, Our sweet estate of Joy assured? ' It came so low, It came so late, liougbt by such bitter pains endured; iJare we forget those sorrows sore, And think that they will come no more? With tearful eyes I scan my face. And doubt how he can find it fair; Wistful, I watch each charm and grace 1 see that other women wear; Of all the secrets of love's lore, I know but one, to love him more! I see each day, he grows more wise, His life is broader far than mine; I must be lacking in his eyes, In man v things where others shine. O, Heart ! can we this loss restore To him, by simply loving more? I often see upon his brow, A look half tender and half stern : His thoughts are far away, I know; To fathom them, I vainly yearn ; But nought is ours which went before; 0 Heart! we can but love him more! 1 sometimes think that he had loved An older, deeper love, apart From this which later feebler moved HU soul to mine. O Heart! U Heart! What can wedo? This hurtet h sore. Nothing, my Heart, but love hi m more! Having no children of her own, Mrs. Trotter, of Hemlock. Pennsylvania, supported and educated 21 orphans. Senator Stewart has introduced a bill into the senate of Nevada, which provides that women-beaters shall be tied to a stone post erected for the purpose, wearing a placard on their breasts marked "Woman-neater" or "Wife-beater," as the case may be, and further punished by im prison met t and fine. Grace Greenwood and her daughter are in Washington, and one of the letter writers says the mother's writings have become more rhythmical and the daughter's delicious voice more musical during their three years' absence. Mrs. Lippincott is a remarkable wytnan, and has had a life so full of sorrow sorrow of that kind which bends but is not merciful enough to break that one wonders how she keeps so fresh and sweet and pure the fount from which conies the thoughts that her facile pen weaves into those delightful letters. She makes her home on Capitol Hill, and is much sought after by the best people, who know and appreciate the noble traits which are so marked in this gifted woman. Yankee girl? are now cutting and polishing diamonds.. The art has . been monopolized by Amsterdam-experts, who have uniformly refused to teach any apprentices except Dutch boyB of their selection. Henry D. Morse, after employing Dutch diamond cutters in Boston .for many years, learned the secrets of the trade. He opened a shop in Roxbury and privately taught six or eight young women this mysterious occupation. He finally apprised his Dutch workmen that American boys must be taught by them. They eremptorily refused to instruct the apprentices, lie then discharged them and brought Jthe young women from Roxbury to fill their places. Twenty-three of them ara now at work. A bill making women eligible for positions on school boards has been introduced in the senate of the New York legislature, and has already attracted special attention to the subject Memorials and petitions have been forwaded to Albany, praying that the bill may pass. The strongest argument in its favor seems tobe that women are needed on the school board to provide for the necessities of the female teachers and pupils, whose wants men are frequently unable to appreciate from sheer ignorance of the sex. Women have served with success on school boards in Massachusetts, Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Wisconsin and other western states. In Michiga women not only serve on the boards, but vote for the officers. ' Oara Morris superstitious. At the last rehearsal of a new piece she often picks up the nails on the stage; if she finds an odd number she is firmiy convinced that she will have good luck during her engagement; if an even number she looks out for trouble. Kpowing of this feeling the manager of the Union Square theater took pains to put three nails on. the .stage at the last rehearsal of "Miss Multon,". and to clear away ail others. She found them and was rejoiced, but dismay seized her- a moment afterwards on picking lip three other nails making six in all. Her husband had been at the same game with the manager, , 'and they had thwarted each other. The run of the piece was unlaoky, being interrupted by the Brooklyn fire and by the serious illness of Miss Morris. . . . 1 It is contrary to custom to invite guests to the marriage of a widow. If a widower marries a young girl, the etiquette is the same as that of a first marriage. A widow must marry in the morning early, without show, and has only her witnesses and those of her intended. Her dress must be plain, of quiet Cjlor; black, however, is not admissible. On leaving church the bride invites to breakfast the witnesses who have formed the party, but no other guests are invited to this repast. On the fifteenth day after the marriage Cards are sent bearing the new address of the married pair. A widow never makes wedding calls after remarrying. Those who receive the cards do the visiting. There is a month allowed for the return of cards and the visits. When a single lady marries, after having passed the usual age for marriage, the ceremony should be simple and unobtrusive. Two Fifth avenue belles, as a practical test of the generosity of their friends,dressed themselves in old clothes, and as the shades of night were falling went out upon the avenue and solicited alms of every gentleman they met. A shake of the head or a muttered remark that they were "busted" was all that was vouchsafed by the greater number of passers-by. Their masquerading lasted an hour, thiy met nearly all their acquaintances, they gained only 10 cents, and though fair to see even in their poor attir, no Cophetua asked these . maids to share his fortune. They then- turned their attention to the houses on the avenue, and their success furnished a striking commentary on the modern proverb that charity begins and ends at home. A crust of bread was all that could be spared from the tables of Dives. These damsels bad much sport in getting be-' neath the crust of conventionality, and pronounced their experience superior even to private theatricals. ' '; '. ' ' It is really- pitiful to see a good, conscientious little mother resolutely shutting herself away from K mach that is best, and sweetest in her children's lives, for the sake of tucking their dresses and ruffling their petticoats. How surprised and grieved she will be to find that her boys and girls at . 16 regard ."mother" shiefly as a most excellent person to keep shirts in order and to make new dresses, and not as one to whom they care to go for social companionship. YeL oefore they are snubbed out of it by repeated rebufla, such as "Run away, I'm too busy to listen to your nonsense," children naturally go to their mothers with all their sorrows and pleasures; and if "mother" can only enter into all their . little plana, how pleased they are! Such a shout of delight as I heard last summer from ; Mrs. Friendly's croquet ground, where her two little giiis were playing! . "Oh, goody, goody, mamma is coming to play with us!' She was a busy mother, too, and I know

would have much preferred to use what few moments of recreation she could snatch for something more interesting than playing croquet with little children not much taller than their mallets. She has often said to me, "I can not let my children grow away from nie; I must keep right along with them all the time, and whether it is croquet with the little ones, or lAtin grammar and base ball with the boys, or French dictation and sash ribbons with the girls, I must be 'in it' as far as I can." Mr. T. W. Higginson has an article on "The Feminine Element in Literature" in the last number of the Woman's Journal. "We all have an impresnon," he writes, "that there is an element of swift inspiration and glowing enthusiasm which is the proper birthright of woman, and which should make a part of every contribution of hers to the literature of the world. And what is true of writing is true of public speaking also. An external training is desirable; but I always dislike to hear a woman speak who has tried to renounce her sex's gift of enthusiasm, and to convert herself into that 'cold, clear logic engine which Huxley thinks the highest symbol of human intellect. It is worth remembering what delight has been given by women of genius who simply exercised their inherited power of enthusiasm and expression, and were quite without even the pretense of systematic intellect and trained thought. Enthusiasm is the privilege of woman, and I trust she will never consent to renounce her wings." One lady begs that mothers make confidants of their daughters. What necessary information has a mother to impart aside froia the laws of her daughters' health? None. But it should be her duty to guard and preserve the innocence and purity of her daughter, and she will have the satisfaction of seeing that he is at pure a woman as she was a girl, and not that the effort to appear innocent while a young lady was such a task that she bails marriage as a happy release. The mask falls off, and the woman sinks all the effort which that mask cost her. And these are the characteristics of three-fourths of our young girls and married ladies. Other knowledge will come with the need.' If the mother cannot be with her to gWe it, the only other person to accept it from is her family physician. "What? ' says 60tne one, "would not you rather a friend would talk on such . matters than a doctor?" No, ma'am! When 1 consult him I pay him for it, ana whenever I meet him sgaia he does not presume upon that consultation, dragging such subjects into the conversation. Besides, physicians' treat such matters with a delicacy which should suggest itself to those women who scatter scandal as profusely as the former scatter seeds. i - . ' Civilizatiorr-and hunger are incompatible. All the virtues and graces of humanitycertainly of male humanity fly before an empty stomach. It may be possible for a man io be hungry and amiable at the same time, but it is not safe for any wife to presume upon so unlikely an occurrence habitually. Ignorance of this physiological truth has been the ruin of many an otherwise happy household. And we may set it down from both observation and experience premising that our experience in this respect has been exceptionally happy that preprandial discretion is the severest test of a good wife. Just before dinner is the worst possible time to bother a husband with questions or complaints, or even with efforts to be aggressively agreeable. Then is time above all others when social silence s lould grace the home, and make it seem to the tired man the most delightful and restful place on earth. Half an hour of quiet just then is the best possible preparation for the social enjoyment of the coming meal, for then the nervous tension and mental strain of business care and anxiety can be gradually relaxed, and the entire system brought into ' conditions for enjoying food and the amenities of social life. Scientific American.''";, .' Young women always look well. with their hair taken off, so as to show the face. The ear,, according as nature has formed it with more or less delicacy, may be entirely uncovered or partially hid; the forehead, if high if, longer, than theinofe should be concealed a little, and the, face only uncovered near the temples; long curlaeuih as Lawrence' figures ;wear, falling n 'their cheeks, have an expression of sentimental reverie which may suit certain romantic ladies; but,- .in a general c way; the cheeks left., bare and the Jiair .turned back is more graceful and natural . than these drooping ringlets, which the most chaste and tender kiss would disarrange. Why display beautiful curls on the cheek when they look so elegant on the najHä of the neck or the shoulder?.. To conceal a part of the face, is it not, and make people suspect some defect, or to lead them to believe more than really exists? Women who hide under cork-screw curls their faded complexion, or the mark which the finger of time has left on their faces, make themselves look old by this very precaution. Sincerity is the best. As regards young girls, they are always charming when they display the whole of the face, youth is such a skillful hairdresser. We knew a young girl, naturally observing, who, when dressmaking was doae in the family, by carefully noticing the way the dressmaker measured, fitted, cut and basted, began to think it not a bad idea to attempt to make her own dresses. She made some mistakes at first, but was not discouraged, and very soon became quite expert. 1 She had no thought of ever attempting dressmaking for any one but herself. But time wrought changes by which it became important that she should seek more remunerative employment than she was then engaged m, that she might better minister to the necessities of those depending o-1 her, and she bethought her that through .the influence of ) friends she might turn what she had gained by observation to some profit. At first she went into some families simply to assist their regular dressmaker. Little by little she gained the confidence of those who noticed her great aptness for this occupation, and . was often employed to nt and make children's clothes. From "that she soon advanced another step, and went into a fashionable dressmaker's establishment to work as an assistant, and in less than two years she rented rooms, and secured some of the most fastidious customers, and thus built up a fine, remunerative business. Why have we told this? ' Because, as "riches sometimes take to themselves wings and fly away" abruptly, we think It might be wise for those who now "dress in rich attire and silver have to spare," to amuse themselves in their days of prosperity with some useful employment now and then.. The Countess de .Bassan villa, who la responsible for the almanack du tavoir litre, admits the decline of good manners in France, for which she thinks Anglomania is to blame to a great extent, and does her best to remedy the evil by laying down a code of etiquette end behavior of the most comprehensive description, embracing rules for the various incidents of social life, from the correct way of raising a man's hat down to the usage to be followed in christening a ship or unfolding a table napkin. According to this lady, who piques herself on being one of the old school, and therefore an incontestable authority, the ladies axe as much to

blame, if not more so, than the men. How is it, she asks, that, now that ladies have ceased to be as ignorant as plow boys now that they are well read in astronomy, travels, and poetry, and can talk glibly on the evolution theory or the latest change in the ministry how is it that men avoid the society of ladies and spend their time at the clubs or in still worse company? This is a question in which our own countrywomen are equally Interested, and which our monitress and guide above mentioned answers by charging the ladies with a want of common politeness toward the male sex. How few ladies nowadays are well-bred enough to respond by a slight inclination of the head to the politeness of a man who makes way for them, whether in the street or on a crowded stairCase. How often do they exercise Christian charity when a cavalier, in spite of all care and diligence, happens to have the misfortune to tread on their voluminous trains? The reward he gets for his apologies and fdeas for pardon is too often only a black ook, if not a less gentle and more audible rebuke. This being the case, it is high time to start on a crusade for the restoration ef good manners and amiability, and the best and most elementary advice that can be given to both sexes, for perhaps both are equally defaulters, is not to be too sparing with what has been called the small change of courtesy, which costs so little and goes so far. London Globe. BITS OF NflEXfJC

The cultivation of the vine in Madeira is steadily increasing, plantations being continually renewed ana extended. The ravages of Phylloxera in many districts do not discourage the industry. The annual production of wine is also increasing in Ten-eriffe-The Oidium is here gradually dy'tur out, and the Phylloxera has not yet iu:i;t its apiearance. At a late meeting of the Belgian academy, the discovery of 15 burial caverns in the neighborhood of Hastiere-sur-Meuse was announced. Fifty-five human skeletons and 3- skulls have been disinterred. Explorations in 1G dwelling places of the people who dwelt at this jeriod on the plateaux have produced numerous flint weaions, and other vestiges of the age of polished stone. Von Brie gives the following method for preparing an ink for marking linen and cotton:1 Neutralize 75 grains of carbonate of ammonia with pure nitric acid,and triturate 4 ) to 00 grains of carmine with the solution. Morda.nt the fabric with a mixed solution of acetate of alumina and tin salt, and write upon it, when it is perfectly dry, with the ink. ,. . ...... :,, . , ! Russia is engaged in the construction of $ military and caravan road from Kra.snovodtli, on the Caspian sea, to the city of Khiva. A series of wells will' be provided along the route old ones being repaired and new ones being excavated. Some of the latter, between Uzun Rui and Dehche, will have a depth of from 120 to ISO feet. Embankments are to be built on the TJsboi, the old bed of the Oxus, and near the Sarykamish lake, after which the Amu will be diverted into its ancient bed. The annexation of Khiva by Russia seems inevitable, as the Khan is unable to protect his domains from the Turkomans, and many of his subjects are looking to the Russians as their only defenders. Thousands of people suffer from wakefulness who in other respects enjoy good health. Dr. Cooke lays down the theory that in numerous cases of sleeplessness it is only necessary to breathe very slowly and quietly for a few minutes to secure refreshing sleep. Taking note of Dr. Cooke's idea, the Medical Examiner remarks: "Certainly, when the mind is uncontrollably active, and so preventing sleep, we have ascertained from patients whose observation was worth trusting that the breathing was quick and short, and they have found they became more disposed to sleep by breathing slowly. This supports Dr. Cooke's practice, but at other times his plan quite failed. It is certs-inly worth any one's while who is occasioually sleepless- to five it a i trial. - ,In , doing so they should reathe very -quietly, but not long enough to cause the least feeling of. Uneasiness." ; Some 'experiments recently raade:' with, a view to ascertaining the quantity of water in different coals, show that water exists io several classes of coal in two conditions that is, combined and uncombined, but in these condititions ..not. constant - ixi relative proportion., i It. also appears" some coals will and . some will i not irrespective of the class to which they belong when finely pulverized and left open to the air, gain in weight by taking oxygen, while at the same time they lose in weight by losing water and hydrocarbons, at temperatures varying in amount or degree between that of boiling water and one that is sufiicient for destructive distillation. Again, these, experiments prove that all coals when deprived by heat of any portion of their normal water, will, upon exposure to the open air at common temperature, immediately begin to regain their loss, and it therefore follows that correct weighing can not be done with the material uninclosed. Tbe Wabash and Erie. The Chicago Times has a dispatch from Wabash in this state saying that the following call has been issued for a meeting to rejuvenate the Wabash and Erie canal: "We ask a meeting of farmers, factory men, millers, lumbermen, shippers, and all others interested in the industry of Wabash valley and cheapfreights, to meet at Wabash on Wednesday, Febiuary 28, 1877, to confer as to what is necessary to put the old canal in and keep it in use. It is now plain that the pretended sale last year was meant to abandon the canal. It is now going to waste. Though the canal is the property of the people of Wabash valley, paid for by us in buying our lands in the wilderness at from $3 50 to $7 per acre, when. , all other lands in the state were sold for $1 25, the state, which was the guardian for us to build it, has agreed to sell it away from us to pay. her othpr . old debts. The state today refuses to touch it No private parties can. The ten . counties ' of Allen, Huntington, Wabash, Miami, , Cass, Carroll, Tippecanoe, Fountain, Parke and Vigo,' with a population of half a million, taxable property in 1870 of $142,933,669, producing grain ennually to the amount of 16.332.952 bushels, besides? an -amount of 'meat ' and cattle, hogs and sheep, are" suf ficient In numoera, wealth and industry to be respectfully heard. By the act ot congress of 1824, which granted the right of way.' it is expressly provided that if the state does not keep np the work of navigation ill her right shall be forfeited. :We can1 now ask congress to rescind this grant, take control of the work in spite of everybody, and make it what it was meant to be, a navigable highway from Lake Erie to the navigable waters of the Wabash, so that by means of it a loaded barge of sugar, cotton and tobacco from New Orleans and Memphis can be landed without transferring at Toledo. Oar If elrbbar Comment. ' Peru Times land Sentlnel.1 ' The Indianapolis Sentinel comes to us improved in all its departments, and .as a family paper, is unequalled by any In the state. It gives a full summary of national and state news, and as a weekly paper, it has few equals and no superiors in the west. , ; , .

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Gray is to be the fashionable spring color. Dresses are made narrower than ever in front Summer silks will be In black and white checks. ' Spring prints and percales are in all the delicate tints, such as pale buff, pale tea, Chinese blue and green, and pale lead and ash colors. Sulphur color now replaces all the different shades of yellow lately in vogue. Ivorywhite and caroubier form a beautiful combination. The new spring woolens are the fire importations displayed. They are soft and yielding, and though of pure wools, have scarcely more weight than the sheerest cambric. A new and nseful philopena present for a gentleman to give a lady is a gold hairpin. Almost every lady prefers a hairpin as a glove buttoner to any patent that has been invented. Lace pins for fastening the lace scarf at the throat are slender arrows, daggers, bars, or whips, sometimes of pale yellow gold only, while others are enameled or studded with precious stones. It is almost impossible to make the bodice too high in the throat for the present fashion. The sleeves to a high bodice are very narrow, but are cut so as to be slightly wider at the wrist than elsewhere. English calicoes are commended for morning wrappers. These come in dark green grounds dotted with white, in checks, or plaids of one color with white, or in two darker colors, or in stripes an inch wide tuade up of hair stripes of various colors. The cool, fresh looking Scotch ginghams reapjear in characteristic cross-bars, checks, plaids, and stripes. Rose with blue is a favorite combination of colors in this material, and is shown in all designs. There are also the usual gray and blue mixtures, drab and scarlet, and a great dial of grten or blue with white. Thereis no better wearing material among all wash good than these ginghams which claiiu to be Scotch, . but are evidently French; they cost 37 centa ' a yard. They will be made up in prince see : dresses for the house, and in biniple pol on- : aises or basques with round over-tkirte. i ' The princeses basque with tablier skirt is 1opular for the house and etreet alike. On., right days the velvet basque is sufiicient for warmth, but in colder weather and for driving a wrap is added. The basque is fitted by two darts in the narrow front and . an under-arm gore; this gore extends far toward the back, and its outlines are eurved to correspond with those of the side form of the back, making the appearance of the two side forms and the ample array of seams that is now considered stylish. The fronts are made of velvet, and are nearly concealed with a series of upturned silk folds that have no darts, and are really a. Plastron. The back is of velvet, with a side body beginning in the armhole, and a pretty flap turned toward the middle, and very like those on postilion jackets, riding habits and English walking coats. A row of buttons is on each of these flaps; there may be only six buttons in the row, or there may be a dozen, lapped at the edges in the Breton fashion. There is no fullness in the back of the basque, and to be stylish it should fit the hips as if moulded upon them, and should be perfectly plain across the tournure. which is now too small to be spoken of as a tournure. The collar is a reverse formed of the folds of the silk. The bows down the front are long looped, and are set on a trifle diagonally. The tablier is a simple square apron in its outlines, and is , formed entirely of folds with ,loops and bows.- ! Some simple check or striped silks of thin , make can be washed in a' lather made with . hot water and curd soap, allowed to become nearly cold before it is used, Only the . worst parts should be rubbed: the rest should , be pressed and dabbed in th,. water in the same manner as lace, then rinsed. in litke- .. warm water, pinned out to dry and ironed with muslin or . paper between the iron and the silk. The most satisfactorymethod of ... cleaning brocaded, silks . at home is to. use stale bread crumbs or a "mixture of bread Crumbs and powdered blue; but it in far better to send these, as well as all rich makes of silk, to the professional cleaner. If made limp in cleaning.a stonge,diped in isinglass , and water, should be applied to the back of the material to stiffen it, Black silks can be eleand in a variety of ways by sponging carefully with an' kind of spirit, such as whisky, spirits of wine,gin( unsweetened), or with cold ea or coffee (well strained), or with ammonia and water (either liquid or lump ammonia may be used; if the latter, a piece the size of a walnut, dissolved in a small basin of hot water); also with water in which ivy leaves (in the proportion of a handfull to a quart) have been boiled; or with potato water, made by grating 12 potatoes into a quart of water and allowing it to stand. If the silk be very dirty it should be scrubbed with the potato water, or with, ox-gall and water. Black silk that has become shiny can be renovated by being sponged with either of the following preparations: 1. Tie one ounce of black tea in a piece of muslin and boil it with a teaspoonful of common gum fifteen minutes. 2. Boil two pairs of old black kid gloves in two pints of water until they are nearly dissolved, then strain the liquid. Black silk that has become . brown and very shabby may be boiled in a decoction of a small quantity of logwood in water. In all cases the silk must be ironed with paper or muslin over it, as the iron must never come in direct contact with tbe fabric; if stiffness is desired, damp it previously with gum water, in widch gin or brandy is mixed. These receipts apply equally well to black and colored ribbons. Tassore,. foulard, or any soft kind' of white or colored silk, may be washed with bran instead of 'soap.' .--A lukewarm lather Z of yellow soap, without soda or washing powder, will also serve for washing tassore, which must be rinsed, shaken out and hung up to dry, but while still damp must be rolled in a cloth and ironed on the wrong side. It : must on .no account be sprinkled, as every spot shows. White and colored pocket-handkercbeif8 can be washed and ironed in the same way, but when muff has been used they, must, be previously soaked for an hour in cold lather, rinsed jn cold handkerchiefs are . generally of fast colors, . hnt if there is anv doubt of their stand ine , the washing a ; handfull of . common salt , snouiU W luru i , juw ixic suuiuK mkj, Scarfs and neckties of crape ox soft washing silk should be washed quickly in a lather of white curd soap, previously prepared, and . then be pressed out of them as much as possible, and they must be well pinned out wirhont rinsinff or wrinrine. Crane must not be ironed, but silk is the better for it, Erovided the iron be cool and the paper laid etween. . For white silk or crape of a bad color, add a little blue . to the water, and if stiffening is required, a second weaker water in which some gum is mixed, must be. used. If .the colors are delicate and, likely to run they mut be dipped in salt and water , before washing. -