Rensselaer Republican, Volume 14, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 April 1882 — Page 7

FASHION’S FROLICS.

Russian fog is a new gray. It is essentially a season of ribbons and satins. Filigree work of silver cord is worn as ornaments. »■ * . Satin flowers appear freely in the fresh millinery. Blue is a much liked color now in the fashion sense. Tawny gloves are accompanied now , by tawny stockings. blowers will again be worn on ball dresses after Easter. The medium length dolman is the leading spring wrap. Tt e coming parasol is to have a shirred ruffle around it. Crescents of jet and steel beads are very effective garnitures. Chen el le in net trimmings and fringes is revealed this spring: “Throat latches” for neck bands, of velvet are made of silver wire. In spite of the greenery-yallery rage red will be fashionable this summer. It is fashionable to wear from seven to nine bracelets with an evening toilet. Opera hoods of soft silk to match the cloak is* a new feature in fine dressing. Flowers are used in great profusion on train skirts and as borders to tabliers. Plain velvet skirts, with satin or brocade overdress, are greatly admired by society fashionables, Spanish lace overdresses are effective when worn as drapery over rich black velvet and royal purple velvet. Opera cloaks made of gold tinted plush, and adorned with dove’s plumage or ostrich feathers, are very effective. Tinted plumage is very effective on full dress.' This fashion of garniture is a little too old for the blooming belles. The Princesse style of dress ia very # popular for evening wear, and is always becoming to well-proportioned figures.

Plush and brocade make excellent combination toilets (or grand occasions. The trimmings are beads in various forms. A ball dress is of gold colored net, embroidered with blue corn-flowers, the trimmings being corn-flowers and golden ears of wheat. MSGloves are worn that nearly reach the elbow, and there are gloves that come up over the elbow. From ten to twenty buttons is the rule. Elegant small bonnete in Fanchon, cottage, directory and "capote shapes will be exhibited at the millinery opening previous to Easter Sunday. Another lovely costume imported from Pingant lias the train skirt of brocade plush, white ground and blue figures in relief. The oyer garment is gold cloth laid on in Greek folds. Fans are not quite so large as they have been. Those showing jeweled decorations come very high. The hand painted fans rank as first-class, and these are indeed artistically executed. Handsome fringe of combined bead is very popular in trimming ball toilets. The iridescent beads are well displayed with jets and steel. This combination produces a splendid effect. Adress from Worth for a well known society lady has the skirt a full Court train and made of wine colored velvet; the drapery is silver tissue, neatly adorned with seed pearl fringe twelve inches wide. An evening dress, made at one of our leading stores, has the skirt cut walking length; the material is red satin, combined with green brocade, showing scarlet devices; garniture, lace ana steel fringe. Low neck and short sleeves are the rule for evening dress. Full court trains are chiefly worn, although high toned fashion gives countenance to short dresses so«- the blooming beauties of tender years. A ball costume of azure blue crepe and pink "atin, beautifully combined, formed after the latest model for full evening dress; the corsage is very low, front and back short sleeves,and trimming of seed pearl applique. A rich ball costume of sea green brocade, intermingled with Surah velvet of a clear scarlet. The effect is very startling. The sides are adorned with beaded plaques, and the front shows an embroidered tablier of silk tissue —a pure flesh tint. Scarf drapery is greatly favored in grand toilets. The chief texture in this line of dress embellishing are gold and silver tissues, embroidered ganze and costly lace. The loopings of the folds hre held in place by jeweled ornaments and clusters of flowers. * Among the new woolen dress fabrics are ladies’ cloths,of American manufacture, which successfully rival those of the Frepeh looms'. They are notably in mixtures oT colors, and in mixed tones or shades of color; and are soft and delightful to the touch. Moire or watered silks have a lease for life another season. Watered ground is given to checkered silks, and watered eftects are seen in the new grenadines and nun's vailings.

GEMS OF THOUGHT.

Whoever flatters betrays, m I id life as in chess forethought wins. Strength of mind is exercise, not rest. ' : - Literature is the immortality of speech. Goodness thinks no ill where no ill seems. Distrust him who talks much of his honesty. The human soul needs to develops all its value. Measure your mind’s height by the shadow it casts. Enjoy -what you have; hope for what you lack. Politeness is a wreath of flowers which adorns the world. All philosophy lies in two words — ‘‘sustain” and ‘‘abstain.” Hypocrisy admits the worth of what it mimics with such care. Consolations console only those who are willing to be consoled. Love is like the moon; when it does not increase it decreases. The statliest building man can raise is the ivy’s food at last. It is chance that makes brothers, but hearts that make friends. ‘‘Who has daughters,” says an old proverb, “is always a shepherd.” To remind a man of a kindness conferred is little less than a reproach. “I don’t care for money,” said George Sand, “but for spending it.” Being all fashioned of the self-same dust, let us be merciful as well as just. That action is best which procures the greatest happiness for the greatest number. Learn to say no! and it will be of more use to you than to be abl%.to read Latin. Services t© be rendered reconcile friends whom service rendered have estranged. Laws are like cobwebs, where the small flies are caught and the great break through. 9 & Society is like a large piece of frozen water and skating well is the great art of social life. The man who sells four quarts to the gallon is the best product of the Christian religion. Our grand business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand. Tombs are the clothes of the dead; a grave is but a plain suit, and a rich monument is one embroidered. The men who make fewest conquests among women of the world are those who have the best opinion of them. Houses are built to live in, not to look on; therefore let use be preferred before uniformity, except where both can be had. No matter what his rank or position may be, the lover of books is the richest and the happiest of the children of men. Beauty is a great thing, but beauty of garment, house, and furniture are tawdry ornaments compared with domestic love. ‘Tis as much a trade to make a book aS to make a watch; there’s something more than wit necessary to make an author.

Most people know something about the discipline of poverty, and leel quite ready to experience some of the awlul responsibilities of wealth. Do not marry, because your wife will be ugly or because she will be pretty. In the former case you won’t like her: in the latter some one else will. When you make love to her the cold woman says, “No;” the passionate, “Yes;” the capricious, “Yes and no” and the coquettish neither “Yes” nor “No.” All the elegance in the world will not make a home, and I would give more for a spoonful of real, hearty love than for whole shiploads of furniture, and all the gorgeousness that all the upholste/s in the world could gather.—Dr. Holmes. I never saw a garment too fine for man or maid; there never was a chair too good for a cobbler or a too per, or a king to sit in it; never a house too fine to shelter the human head, These elements about us, the glorious sky, the imperial sun, are not too good for the human race. * - - I had rather eat my dinner off the head of a barrel, or dress after the fashion of John the Baptist in the wilderness, or sit on a block all my life, than consume all myself before I got to a home, and take so much pains with the outside when the Inside was as hollow as an empty nut. The man of cheorful temperment raises above all earthly alls. If hit breakfast is late and ne misses the train, he hangs around the depot and hills stories until the next train comes along, if his wife is cross he laughs at her till she becomes good again'; iHbe fades to be nominated, he rejoices oyer the defeat of the man who is; if the election goes against him, he talks about the weather and laughs at Uaose vho carry long faces) in short, if you haven’t got a sunny temperament, cultivate one, if the soil is deep enough.

OUR LITTLE JOKF.

The United States is fast becoming a vaccine nation. The fly who was invited into the spider’s parlor did not make his party call. Cardinal Newan says that a gentleman nefer inflicts pain. Then no dentist can be a gentleman. The pensive mule is not usually regarded as susceptible to pathetic emotions. And yet he occasionally drops a mule-teer. What is the difference between an old tramp and a feather bed? There is a material difference. One is hard up, and the other is soft down. “Where’s the molasses, Bill?” said a red-headed woman sharply to her son, who had returned with an empty jug. “None in the city, mother.” A little girl who was watching a sunset of crimson, orange and purple, said, “Is that the power and the glory?” “That is the most refined fire I ever witnessed,” said Oscar, while watching Havemeyer & Elder’s sugar refinery dissolve. It may be right sometimes to .take a bull by the horns, but it is always well to keep in mind that the horns belong to the bull. An exchange wants to know “whether our colleges turn out gentlemen.” Certainly not. The gentlemen are allowed to go on and graduate. Young clergyman (at a clerical meeting)—“l merely throw out the idea.” Old clergyman—“ Well, I think that is the best you can do with it.” A fashion writer says “raised figures” produce excellent effect. Well,’ that depends; if they are on a check, they sometimes produce the effect of sending the raiSer to ttate prison. Teacher —“John, what are your boots made of?’’ Boy—“Of leather.” “Where does the leather come from?” “From the hide of the ox.” “What animal, therefore, supplies you with boots and gives you meat to eat?” “My father.” Old Mrs. Skittleworth don’t know why people will make counterfeit money. She says she “tried to pass a bad half dollar a dozen times the other day, but nobody would have it,” and sne thinks it a waste of time to make such stuff.

He slipped quietly in at the door, but, catching sight of an inquiring face over the stair rail, said: “Sorry so late, my dear; couldn’t get a car before.” “So the cars were full, too,” said the lady; and further remarks were unnecessary. “So you are going to lecture?” inquired a friend of a musical professor recently. “What on?” “Well, if I am entirely sober, on my feet,” was the reply. “That’S wrong,” was the response. “Never give superficial talk on large subjects.” An old miser, who was notorious for self-denial, was one day asked why he was so thin. “I do not know,” said the miser; “I have tried various means for getting fatter, but without success.” “Have you tried victuals?” inquired a friend. A lady who had been traveling in Italy, was asked by a f riend how she liked Venice. “Oh! very much, indeed,” was the renly. “I was unfortunate enough, however, to arrive there j ft at the time of a heavy flood, and weTaad to go about the streets in boats.” Master Tommy (he had been very naughty, and was now amusing himself with his scripture prints—“ Here’s Daniel in the lions’ den!” Mamma (incautiously)—“Ah, what was lie cast into the lions’ den for?” Master Tommy (with triumph)—“ ’Cause he was good.” We frequently hear a lady exclaim, “Odear! Iwishlwerea man!” but we do not remember ever hearing a man wish himself a woman. No man ever dared allow his wishes to soar so high. He is content to admire rather than be the thing admired. N. B.— this is not tafty.—[Boston Transcript. An old lady who had no relish for modern church music was expressing her dislike of the singing of an anthem in a certain church not from that is a very old anthem. David sang it to Saul.” To this the old lady replied: “Weel, weel, I noo for the first time understan’ why Saul threw his javelin at David when the lad sang for him.” Is this boy a hero? Let us see. He lies stretened acioss the master’s knee and whimpers not. Every second the cruel rattan rises and falls; every second there is a dull sound as if somebody were thrashing mud. The dust flies but the \ ictirn utters no sound. The perspiration stands out on (he master’s brow, and he begins to wonder if that boy’s basement is constructed of sheet-iron. Nothing of the sort; it is a wild foolish conjecture. The lad’s life has been passed in the full blaze of the nineteenth century civilization. He is no fool. He knows that nobody knows what a day may bring forth. He doesn’t venture across the dark gulf between the Now and May-be unprovided against contingencies. The lantern that guides his footsteps is the light of experience. There is a great future I’eserVed for this boy. The rattan goes up and the rattan comes down; wljo cares for rattans? When he left home in the morning he took his father's last remaining liver-pad with him. It’s the right liver-pad in the wrong place. Yes, this boy is a hero. —Brooklyn Eagle.

MISCELtANE OUS • <<'• Q*ft * L p. •• "a Spring mantles are short. St. Louis has 1,809 saloons. Cannibals eat pretty girls raw. t' r Niagara is to have another bridge. We paid $3,500,000 for buttons last year. There is good fox hunting in Virginia. Shipherd used to be a Chicago preacher. Radical Clubs do not flourish in Scotland. Texas reports forty-one completed railroads. Florida anglers are taking forty pound bass. The New York PressJ,Club has one lady memDer. Oscar Wilde dotes on American canned corn. The southern textile mills report no labor strikes. Victor Hugo mixes water liberally with his wine. Sending Easter cards to friends is a growing fashion. A Stock Exchange is to be established at Chicago. A Philadelphian had champagne nerved hot for soup. The revenue of the Suez canal last year was $10,000,000. Victor Hugo is represented as exceedingly pompous. The Duchess of Endinburg protest against late dancing. The editorial expenses of the Paris Figaro are $350 a day. Woman suffragists are coming to the front in England. An easy way to close an estate is to will it to a spendthrift. Judge Blatchford’s whiskers are nearly all on his throat. Chicago gamblers annually fleece their dupes of $8,000,000. • Kalamzoo celery crop this season is put at 12,000,000 bunches. “Tyrian Purple,” as it is called, is the magenta color of old. Seven murderers will be hanged in Pennsylvania next week. Mr. Tilden really subscribed to the Garfield monument fund. Oscar Wilde will give twenty lectures in the Pacific states. Berlin sometimes scores twentyeight suicides in two weeks. “Opera Houses” are going up in most of the Colorado towns. Beecher has removed his residence from Brooklyn to Peekskill. General Grant has absolutely no vanity in the matter of dress. Texas received a quarter of a million of immigrants laßt year. There are 2,024,009 acres devoted to wheat in California this year. <0 New York City Savings banks paid $8,000,000 in interest last year. We are sending about $600,000 worth cf oysters to Europe this year. Glass eggs for paper weights are among the seasonable conceits. In swell Parisian society it is not the fashion now to dance much.

The number 6f flour mills in the United States is stated at 21,366. Catching whales off Dcleware bay was a good business in old'times. At Cairo, 111., a huge catfish was caught in the parlor of the hotel. There are now in operation in the South sixty-seven cotton-oil mills. Mrs. Lincoln drew $15,000 extra pension in Chicago a few days ago. Nearly a thousand emigrants pass through St. Paul, Minn., every day. A Massachusetts goat has whipped a Newfoundland dog in two rounds. M. Tran-Uguyened-Hauh is a Chinese lawyer now practicing in Paris. Statistics show that the average life of street-car horses is only four years. Finding $5 worth of gold ore on a Georgia farm raised the price $2,000. John Brown’s daughter Sarah asks a position in the treasury department. A Chicago doctor who was opposed to vaccinnation has just died of smallpox. The Garfield Professorship fund of Williams College has reached $42.000. The State Government of Texas paid off $1,000,000 of its debt the past year. Cardinal Manning refused to drink wine, though ordered to do so by his doctor. Froude’s life of Carlyle will cover only the first-forty years of the author’s life. The Ruslans will send an expedition to explore Northern Siberia in the summer. « , , Ex-Governor Stanford, of California, lias bought the stallion Peidmont for $30,000. Dover, N. H., which had seventeen shoe factories ten yeas ago, now has only three. . Mr. Menges killed, near Fort Meade, Fla., a few days since, six alligators at one shot. ,■ A big cast iron dog In a Sacramento store frightened away three armed burgurlars.

RELIGION AND SCIENCE.

The “Harrison revival” continues in Cincinnati, and is now entering upon its ninth week. The Welsh bishops hfcve decided not to proceed for the present with the revision of the Welsh new Testament. Every pointing of the great masters in Rome is now photographed, and some of the photographs are sold in the Eternal City at a cent a piece. O ver sixty steamboats on the Mississippi R ver and its tributaries now employ the electric light, which adds much to the safety of traffic and travel. The Northwestern branch of the Woman’s .Foreign Missionary Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church aeld its regular quarterly meeting on March 10 in Chicago. A womans’ institute of Technical Design hds been started in New York. It is intended to give ample training in such of the industrial arts as women can lollow (o advantage. The Rqv. Phillips Brooks, of Boston, is understood to have reoeived more than $5,000 for the American Memorial wjndow which is to be placed in Westminster Abbey to the late Dean Stanleys The custom of employing artists to paint the outside of houses with artistic designs which formerly prevailed not only in the south of Europe, but also largely in Germany, has been revived in Munich. The shovel-makers in the United States manufacture 12,000 shovels every week. About one-half of them are used at home and the other half are shipped abroaa, mostly to Panama aud South America, It required 1.000 cars to carry exhibits to the Atlanta Exposition, but 200 were suffleent to take away those which remained unsold, Nearly everything except the heavy machinery found a purchaser. The visit of Mr. Moody and Mr. Sankey to Edinburgh is to be commemorated bv the erection of an evangelistic hall for the city. A suitable site, within a little distance of the house of John Knox, has been secured. It has been noticed as a fact which is prooably not without significance, that a number of our best kuown deposits carrying sliver native in large quantities, as for instance, Batopilas and Silver Islet, are closely allied with diorltic rooks. A parasitic plant, has been di-icov-ered by Mr! Berkely, on the lilac. It becomes manifest in large brown patches, sometimes occupying almost the whole of the leaf. It belongs to the order of peronosoroe, and has been named Ovularia syringes.

The annual meeting of the American Institute of Mining Engineers will beheld in Washington, D. C., beginning Tuesday, February 21, 1882. Members are requested to give early notice to the Secretaryof their intention to read papers at this meeting. The ancients slaughtered those taken in war. The first step toward civilization was enslaving the captives that may be said to have been the or; igin of the employment of labor in manufactures. The second step was exchanging prisoners of war, and that was the origin of international commerce. r An important memoir has been presented by Leehantierto the French Academy of Sciences; on the modifications which plants preserved in silos undergo. Indian corn and clover lose much glucose, sugar, starch celulose, and the amount or fatty matter is increased. There is little less of nitrogenous matter. A Sonoma, Cal., farmer has raised' five cork trees, which are now twentyfive to thirty feet in height, and from ien to twelve inches in diameter. One coat of cork, one and p quarter inches thick, has been stripped off. The tree resembles the live oak in foliage. The seeds were brought from Spain twenty years ago. A Lowell, Mass., gentleman, Just from China, visited the Atlanta Exposition, under Chinese orders, to make a critical study of the cotton manufacturing machinery there, in order to select that best adapted to a Mongolian company’s enterprise. Before returning to China, he will place orders for a cotton mill, to be built in China in the spring. The English Wesleyan Conference has just issued a revised edition of its Catechism for Children of Tender Years. In the original edition the child is taught to answer that “Hell is a dark and bottomless pit full of fire and brimstone,” where “the bodies of the wicked are tormented by fire” forever. In the revised edition, the name of Hell is retained, but the words quoted have disappeared. Mineral-tanned leather is impervious to water, and is said to be much more durable than leather prepared in the ordinary manner. Tests have been which show that belts of mineral-tanned leather are not only 30 per cent cheaper, but are stronger than common belts The mineral _ process of tanning is reported to have been introduced into eight tanneries in Germany. A new and interesting proof that, the earth is round has been presented by M. Dufour in a paper recently read before the Helvetic Society of Natural Sciences. In calm weather the innsges of distant objects reflected iutho Lake Geneva showed just ex--aetly tire same degree of distortion which ..calculation would predict through taking into consideration the figure oLthe earth.