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TIMELY TOPICS. The reappearance of the star of Bethle hem is predicted by astronomers for this year or the next. On Nov. 11, 1572, Tycho da Brahe discovered a star in Cassiopeia which equaled Sirius, and even Venus, in brightness for a month, and then fell back into its former insignificance. Conjecture has failed to establish a connection be tween this ephemeral phenomenon and two similar apparitions in 1264 and 945. A not unnatural inference was that the same increase in volume of this remarkable star occurred before 945, which would bring us to about 630 and 310, and to the date of the nativity. This star is now again due An interesting relic of President Lin coln's family is now to be seen in an antique furniture store in Washington. It is a brass breech-loading cannon, capable of throwing a two-ounce ball a mile, and was ope of a pair made in the early days of the war by Frederick, a well-known gunner, as playthings for little "Tad" Lin ] coin. The other gun was an exact model of the famous Dahlgren gun, and was j bought a few days aero by Mrs. Dahlgren, after Secretary Lincoln had identified it as ; having once belonged to Tad." His mother,; he says, would not allow "Tad" to use the dangerous toys, and finally gave them j away to the furniture dealer. 1 madagaccai: to whose Christian missions allusion is made elsewhere is a great island in the Indian ooean. It is 1,000 miles in < length, with an average breadth of 240 \ miles, and contains 240,000' square miles, j Its population is rated at between two and j three millions. There are several races or i tribes, the Malagassy family being tho chief and ruling tribe. The government is a monarchical despotism. The monarch is hereiditary. A queen is the present head j of the government. The prevalent system j of religion is Presbyterian Christianity, j though numerous other denominations j havo missions more or less successful, j Slavery ii tolerated, and a large majority j of the people are slaves. The queen is a i convert to Christianity, has been baptized, ' and by royal command all the idols in ' Madagascar have been burned. The heat i on the coast is often intense, but on the I high land the temperature rarely rates j above 85 degrees, and in the winter it often • ?inks r.n 40 dep-rama. Those persons who say it does not pay to advertise, lack enlightenment as to the secret of business and commercial success. These vhe think a man a fool for "throw ing away money in advertising," would be surprised to know what "foolB" the mos socoessful business men in the country are, and verily their number is legion The liberal advertiser goes on in an ever increasing tide of prosperity, while the non-advertiser is left to bewail j his barren fide. The following statement ought to be an enlightener to non-adver tisers: The Chicago Tribune, it is said for a column a year, receives $25,000. The New York Herald receives for its lowest priced columns, §39,723, and for its high est, 348,000. The New York Tribune, for the lowest, §39;4Gt, and for the highest §S5,64S, and these papers are never at a loss for advertisements to fill their col umns. Their patronage comes, not from any desire to assist the respective papers, but from ifciness men who find it profit eble to advertise. The sensible business man does uot consider whether he likes the paper he advertises in or hot! What he wants to kno-s is, in what T;.iper shall I insert my adveriisamont so that it will reach the greatest nc ruber of readers? It does not tako lODg to find out In ex perience where it pays thein best to adver tise. That it does nay they have ho doubt and raise no questions. Long experience with almost every business mnu who hat' succeeded has proved thei beyond ques tion. n-a __j_^hmj fci-iiusiiuinu una oeen ■ making, 'as he thinks, some logi cal deductions as to the increase 1 of population in this country. He ' starts out with the statement that onr pop ulation has increased in a century from tlnee millions to fifty millions, and as- i same.} that a iikG per cent, of increase for another C3ntary will produce a population of eight hundred millions. But this as- , tute statistician loses sight of the fact that the inducement far foreign emigration whioh has produced this rapid growth of j population, will not continue forever. With enlarged population cheap lands will not, ' as they have been, be obtainable. Even j now emigration is constantly pressing for- j ward to the far away interior, and as ; broad and expanded as our territory is,it is ! sonoeivable that the time will come when • there will be no more cheap lands to be ; acquired and a decided check will be • given to foreign emigration, if it is not j stopped entirely. And again, it j should be considered, that this unlimited j rate of increp.se of population will at last \ le.iva no staudiug room for such unlimited j increase of population. At the expiration i of I .-•••> centuries hence, at the same in- j crease of population, we should number ! 13,600.000,00). Tin's would give to each ! peison only one-seventh of an acre of | tillable land. These assumptions | of the presumptuous statistician ] aro Utopian, weak and foolish, j Bat a few years more can the present tide i of emigration b* kept up, and long before ' the end of the present century is reached ' emigration will be slight, if not entirely [ slopped, for no chance will be left for i poor people to better their condition ! when the price of lands is greatly snhanced, as it will be. Mb. Beeches in the course of his re marks before the Bible class of Plymouth churoh said: When Philip and the eunuch i went down into the water, and when Philip had baptized the eunuch, the spirit coming took away Philip, and the eunuch saw him no more. You will notice that both Philip and the eunuch went into the water, and that Philip taking water in his hand bap tized his companion. We are bound to believe in the truth, but we are not bound to believe in and practice the little technic alities with which it is surrounded. The Lord &nd his disciples in partaking of the last supper reclined upon couches. But we are not bound to follow that example. The Quakers believe that baptism by the Spirit superseded the baptism by water. If a man wishes to bo baptized let him be bap tized by all mean-. But if he does not want to be baptized, lot him not be. There are brothers and sisters in the church who have never been baptized, aud they are just as good Christians as you or I. They participate in it in the spirit. There are three ways of baptizing, by immersion, affusion and sprinkling. If a person pre- fers immersion or sprinkling, let him have his own way. Mr. Beecher here related an anecdote illustrative of his way of think ing. A man, a Baptist, lay dying in a Catholic hospital. Ho sent for Rev. J. Hyatt Smith, who, you know, is a Baptist minister and baptizes by immersion. Mr, Smith went to see the man. There were no means of immersing him at hand. He called for a basin of water, and baptized the man by affusion, the Catholic sisters assisting in the ceremony. Now was not that good common sense ? What if Mr. Smith had said "I can't baptize him by any other way than* immersion?" Mr. Beecher also related some other incidents of the same tenor which had occurred dur ing his lifetime, and said he thought they were good arguments toward proving that every man had a right to have his own idea of baptism. Wno are the Malagassy envoys of whom the papers just now are saying so much? They appear to be devout Christains, and representatives of a harvest of missionary labor on the island of Madagascar.of which few people in this part of the world have had any knowledge. If the reports made are reliable, it is the most fruit-bear ing field of missionary efforts on any part of the globe. All the leading sects have missionaries stationed there. Religious literature, Bibles, Testaments, sermons, magazines and books, such as Baxter's "Saint's Rest," "Pilgrim's Pro gress," and the like, abounds. The Lon don Missionary society prints 20,000 books a month in the Malagassy language, for the Madagascar market, and four or five other missionary organizations are said to be hardly less prolific in their publications. The capital town is called Tanarivo, and so saturated with religion is it that tha American con sul there says it "boats Brooklyn® for churches; there is one for every corner." For all this rosy hue of results accom plished by missionary Christian labor, there is a darker shade. With all their al leged Christian attainments and enlighten ment, they remain wholly ignorant of the great world and its ways; are destitute of any true knowledge of national civil repcirocity; have no just sense of the rights of man, a real Christian hu manity, but remain essentially barbarian in the midst of the multitude of Christian churches, and in their vast number of mis sionary publications. A missionary work that produces no better effects than this, is simply skin deep.*' It does not really af fect the heart, healthfully .enlighten the intellect, and improve and purify the morali of the people. In the midst of all this boasted Christian work and advance ment, this people are wedded to their great idol, slavery, at which none of this extrav agantly, vaunted religions work has yet struck a single blow, nor attempted it. According to a statement of Mr. Robinson, the American consul, "nine-ten of the natives are 6laves," a.pd of course the other tenth are their owners. Mr. Rob inson, like the missionaries, does not an tagonize the holding of slaves, but . fully assents to it, and in . justification uses the old ante-bellum arguments, put forth by slave-holders and their apologists when the Southern statea were reeking in human oppression. Consul Robinson is an apolo gist for slavery ia Madagascar. He says: "It would be impossible to carry on any kind of business or occupaticn in Mada gascar without using slave labor. No for eigner ever thinks of walking a mile in Madagascar. Tho heat and the mud pre vent. : He must bo carried in a palaqnin by slaves. All freight is.carried by slaves; in fact no foreigner can perform any man ual labor except undor shelter from sun and rain." These are the olu time fallacious andlaise arguments, eo familiar to American readers prior fco the rebellion of 1861, the force of which the rebellion in its results have dissipated. But why are ;he.-<« "Christian" envoys from far away Madagascar here? They are accompanied by Consul Robinson, and their ob ject is to get tha United States government to ratify a treaty nego tiated by Mr. Robinson with the government of Madagascar. This treaty contains two remarkable stipula tions. One is, that American citizens 6hall be permitted to employ slave labor in Madagascar; that is to say, become lessees or owners of slaves. It gives the moral support of the American government to the holding of slaves and the per petuation of slavery. But will the American government go back on its great emancipation proclamation and ratify a treaty which commits it to a sanction of human bondage, a crime which it has itself wiped out in the best biood of the nation? We should disoount largely that type of Christianity inculcated bv missions that tolerate human slaverv. Hop Bitters Are the Purest and Best Bit ters Ever Blade. 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Hundreds have been saved by 60 doing. 1800 will be paid for case they will not cure or help. Do not suffer or let your friends suffer, but use and urge them to use Hop Bitters. Remember, Hop Bitters is no vile, drugged, ! drunken nostrum, but the Purest and Best M»xli cine ever made; the "Invalid's Friend and Hope," and no person or family should be with out thorn. Try the Bitters to-day. A Vermont youth, at his mother's funer al, B&id to the neighbors: "Me and father are obliged to yon all, and hops sooa to be able to do as much for you." *Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound ranks first as a curative _gont in all complaints peculiar to women. This fact ought to stir a feeling of right eous indignation in some quarters: There is not a mortgage debt upon any Presby terian church in the state of Nebraska, the one upon the First church in Omaha amounting to $5,000 having been recently paid. *$*"Evil dispositions are early shown." Evil tendencies in our systems are to be watch-*! and guarded against. If you find yourself getting bilious, head heavy, mouth foul, eyes hollow, kidneys disordered, symptoms of piles torment ing you, take at once a few doses of Kidney- Wort. It is nature's great assistant. Uso it as an advance guarddon't wait to get down sick. Read advertisement. TEE ST. PAUL SUNDAY GLOBE, SUNDAY MOBMNG, 4PBIL 8, 1883. SUNDAY GLOBKLETS. Addison: Look what little vain dust we are. * Dugaske: Pleasure's court is virtue's grave. Feanklin : The morning hour has gold in its mouth. '. j Bubke: Man is an animal that cooks his victuals. < Theodoee Pabkeb: No man is so great as mankind. Jombbbt: All luxury corrupts either tho mind or the taste. Young: On the soft bed of luxury most kingdoms have expired. Bvbon: And, after all, what is a lie? It is but the truth in masquerade. Shakespeabe: God made man, and, therefore, let him pass for a man. Napoleon: The future destiny of the child is always the work of the mother. Jombebt: The morality of some people is in remnants enough to make a coat. Milton: Sweet is the breath of morn; her rising sweet with charms of earliest birds. Montaign : He who has not a good memory should never take up the trade of lying. Hake: He that does bad that good may come, pays a toll to the devil to let him in to heaven. Colton: To despise our own species is : the price we must too often pay • for a j knowledge of it. j Hannah Moee: Fell luxury! More peril ous to youth than storm.3 er quicksands, poverty or chains. Young: How poor, how rich, how ab ject, how august, how complicate, how wonderful is man. Theodore Pakkee: Man is the jewel of God, who has created this material world to keep his treasure in. Mabohioness de Spaed aba: If there is aught surpassing human deed or word or thonght, it is a mother's love. . William Penn: He that does good for good's sake seeks neither praise nor re ward, though sure of both at last. Locke: To give a man a full knowledge if true morality, I would send him to no Dther book than the New Testament. Abbott: "What is wanting," said Na poleon one day to Madame Campan, "in order that the youth of France be well educated?" "Good mothers," was the re ply. The emperor wa3 most forcibly struck with this answer. "Here," said he, "is a system in one word." Washington Ibvino: A father may turn his back on his chiid, brothers and sisters become inveterate enemies, husbands may desert their wives, wiyefe their husbands; but a mother's love endures through all; in good repute, in bad repute, in the face of a world's condemnation, a mother still Iove3 on, and still hopes that her child may tarn from his evil ways and repent; still she remembers the infant smiles that once filled her bosom with rapture, the merry laugh, the joyful shouts of his child hood, the opening promise of his youth; and she can never be brought to think him all unworthy. A guarantee c»f good faith — a church .$10,000. A Protestant Spanish paper is to bo pub lished in Spain. Several prominent Philadelphia preach ers read their prayers from .:*5cript. The tt»mperanc3 movement is making gigantic strides in the Church of England. Thy Philadelphia Baptists are quietly discus -ing t'.c danger of cold water im- U-iirsioiJ. , The latest novelty in the way of raising money for church purposes iu England is pie suppers. The number of native Hindoos who are members of Christian churches is said to be nearly 530,000. The number of free and open churches in London increased from 651 to 903 from 1871 to the present time. A bed of Shamrock is growing in the Catholic church yard at Athens, Ga., that was set out by Foster Ryan. The late Gov. Alexander H. Stephens was a devout Presbyterian. He had the eccentricity of believing in omens. There are twenty-five of the leading and most commanding Congregational pulpits in New England vacant and wanting pas tors. At a Baptist convention in Virginia the Rev. Dr. Hawthorne defended fox hunting as among ihe innocent sports to be en couraged. Whose fault is it that there are 9,000,000 children in lha United States who are out side of our Sunday' school education and influence. All the leading Philadelphia hotels have church directories near the bar, where they can be 6een by sinners in quest of morning cocktails. There is in Washington city a Young Catholics' Friend society, tho object of which is the clothing aad educating of young boys. Dr. Somerville, the venerable evangelist, who has labored in many of the countries of Europe, is now at work in Cape Colony, South Africa. At the opening of this century all Prot estant Christendom expended annually only $250,000 for foreign missions. It now expends $7,500,000 annually. The Young Men's Christian association, of Worcester, Mass., have secured pledges to the amount of $50,000 for the erection of a building for their work. A moralist says: "Bvery man is occa sionally what he ought to be perpetually." Then again some men are perpetually what they ought to be occasionally. A. leading Methodist church of Omaha has introduced a new point of discipline in dealing with unruly members. Ik has just expelled a tattling female scandal monger. "I suppose it just means that he hired 'em out," was the reply of a small Sunday school child when asked what was meant by the expression, "And the king rent his clothes." There are 200,000 members of temper ance societies in twenty Episcopal socie ties in England. Among 3,000, abstaining ministers are five bishops and seven of the queen's chaplains. - Things have come to a pretty pass, says the Christian at Work, when a preacher has his salary docked for time lost on a trip to fight a duel, in a distant par. of the state of Georgia. Portland, Grgon, has an expressman who, on a cold day recently, was seen damping on the sidewalk in front of the Occiddntal hotel to keep himself warm while his overcoat was spread over bis horse. Mr. Henry Berg will at once send this man a blanket for his horse and a rattle for his baby. \ j A Quaker hearing a person tell how ' much he felt for another who was in dis- I tress and needed assistance, asked him: ' "Friend, hast thou felt in thy pocket for ! him?" I "Now Johnny," said a school teacher, ' "what happened after the angel with the | fiery sword drove Adam and Eve out of the ; garded of Eden. "They had to eat bread ' to make them sweat." j It is stated that some members of the ! Methodist conference in India, and dele gates to the decennial conference at Cal- j cutta, traveled as much as 2,098 miles to ! attend their appointments. When Pere Hyacinthe preached to an ! audience of 3,000 persons at Marseilles on a recent Sanday.a great uproar was caused i by the hissing of persons who were op- ' posed to the doctrines he advanced. The Methodist mission board has pur- I chased as a site for its university in Japan about twenty-five acres of land in Tokio, ' near the emperor's palace, and which was I used by the government as a model farm. ! Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowo is longing for a new church at her Florida home "a church with a bell in it," 6he says, "as I want to hear the sound of the church go ing bell here as I did in my New England home." The Congregational ministers, of Chica go, have unanimously decided not to sol emnize marriage when either party has procured a divorce on other than Scriptur al grounds. A movement in the right di rection. Rev. P. K. Hawkhurst, of the Central M. E. church at Yonkera, N. Y., recently re ceived on probation a lady four months over a century old. She haa a clear in tellect and good eyesight, but is dull of hearing. There is said to be a tribe of Indians in Washington territory who believe them selves destined to be the only survivors of a flood which is yet to come, and they are collecting material with which to build their ark. A small boy in South Carolina raises canary birds and gives the proceeds of their sale to the board of foreign missions. In three years this enterprising benevolent young person has thus gathered and given about $100. The Free church of Scotland is still ex ercised over thc. organ question, and it is said that .the next general assembly will receive a protest against the use of instru mental music in the churches, signed by at least 200,000 persons. A temperance sermon comes from a pawnbroker's shop in Pittsburg. The pawnbroker has found that 99 per cent, of the money he lends is spent for strong drink. Other pawnbrokers could preach the same sermon. The seven Catholic dioceses of Russian Poland numbered last year 5,290,277 Cath olics, 2,415 secular priests and 409 regular priests, with 420 novices, 224 nuns of various orders and 254 Sisters of Mercy, 1,574 churches and 594 chapel*. A church in Bavaria, accommodating 1,000 people, has been almost entirely built of papier mache, which car. bo sup plied at a cost little above that of plaster. It can be made to imitate the it-est marble, as it takes a polish superior to slate. The Presbyterian Journal suggests the following as the ideal church Sabbath: "Morning, churoh service; afternoon, Sab bath school, aud the whole church in it as ci asses, studying the Bible; evening, f iiniiies at home in family communion, reading and worship." The Holiness band, a fanatical religions organization, are raising a general excite ment at Oorsioana, Tex., and it is expected they will prove themselves as obnoxious as they did two years ago, when the leader was ridden on a rail and the band dis persed as a nuisance. The Eglise Libre, a French Protestant journal, referred in a recent issue to the statement that M. Gambetta had burnt tapers on the anniversary of his mother's death, and pointed out that no such anni versary has yet occurred, since Mme. Gam betta died on the 22d of July last. Tbe new archbishop of Canterbury is re ported to have said recently to General Booth, the leader of the Salvation army: "Go on; do all the good you can; get at the people. We rejoice, only we would like it to be done somehow or other in harmony and in unison with the Church of England." "What's them things, ma?" asked a Iil tie girl at the table the other day. "Why those are Turkish prunes, my dear." "Where did they come from Her small brother looked up with an expression of, disdain on his face as he exclaimed: "They come out of turkeys, sis. Guess you don't know much about vegetables." "Yes brethren," said a preacher from his pulpit, "you are the passengers on a train speeding its straight and narrow way to glory, and I am the conductor of the train, thank the Lord." "You run her first-class, I should say," remarked a stranger, look in over the congregation, "from the num ber of sleepers you're hauling." The state of Texas is to buy for $900, 000 the old Alma church at San Antonia in which during the Texas war for indepen dence a band of Texans, opposing the ad vance of the Mexican army . under Santa Anna, intrenched themselves and fought to the death, and died to the last man. The building has been used as a warehouse. Mr. Joynea, who, because he traveled with' Henry George, wasreoently obliged to resign his mastership in consequence of the peculiar whims of the head muster of Eton, has been asked to become editor of a weekly paper whioh is shortly to be started in London for the promotion of the views advocated in "Progress and Poverty." The Pall Mali Gazette arraigns the au thorities of London for failing to protect the Salvation army from the attacks of the, "Skeleton army," which, it says, is com posed of a "beggarly array of hobblede hoy* led by a 'prentioe boy just out of his teens, who but the other day left the ranks of the Salvation army to head the rabble of its assailants." The members and friends of the Metho dist Episcopal church at East New Market, Md., presented their pastor recently a "Dorchester pie." It was a very peculiar sort of a pie. The bottom crust was a sack of corn; the top crust was a sack of gold; the filling was made up of sausage, hams, coffee, sugar, cake, lard, fruit, honey pack ers, eggs, jelly, butter, hominy, potatoes, hosiery— a pie with a stocking in it— handkerchiefs, chocolate, catsup, bread dried fruit, fresh pork and beef. SEW YORK FASHIONS. Kscentr.citics-Oaeen Y-llow—Velvet. in Bows and Bows-'Graduating Dresses- White 'Xhat Is Xot White—The House hold. ECCENTBICITIES.. '. >.'.'^ Great circular 6pots, three inches in di ameter; great square or oblong or many sided blocks or triangles, cast about as if awaiting the mason's hammer. Birds and butterflies, and heads of four-legged beasts , on dresses, or on broad sash ribbons. Great 1 palm leaves a foot in length, and propor | tionately broad; immense sprays and wide, ; feathery or leafy columns sweeping length ! wise; baskets or sprays of flowers bestowed I on checks. Call you not these eccentrici ties? Then, too, one can render an or 1 dinary piece of goods, such as plain wool, silk or satin, as eccentric as the most ash ; ionable heart could desire, by cutting out I large velvet spots or blocks, and putting j them on in applique with a narrow braiding or rows of stitching as a finish; while sprays for such purposes can be bought ready-made. Goods with ■ cheoked grounds are seen united with vel vet blocks, and stylish costumes show the ! basque and sleeves so devised, while the j skirt is of plain check plentifully bestrewn j with velvet bows. All that I have told you ; seems nothing, however, compared with a | young lady's costume at the Vanderbilt j fancy ball. She went as a white cat. Her dress was decorated thickly with cats' heads and tails, a cat's head worn just above her own, and her coiffure showing a finish of cat tails. In considerably better taste, Mme. Christine Nilsson, after singing at a Brooklyn concert, appeared in a dress of blaok velvet and jet, as Marie Stewart. To journey back from a Brooklyn perform ance and then attend a ball is not such a feat after all, when you consider that the entertainment only began at 11 o'clock. QXJEEN YELLOW. Yellow is queen, and queen regnant. In dress goods, there are of mongrel yellows, many: yellowish, reddish, brownish yel lows; leading up to yellow proper, which, in millinery, attains supremacy. Not so much pale, delicate yellows, but flaring, I flaunting yellow; dashing boldly into orange. Scarce as yet the entire bonnet thus pronounced: very pronounced dasher ■ of orange ribbon (narrow of course, this ' season) very bright yellow flowers or i pompons of equal tone. Just now, too, ; scarce anything renders a lady more j happy than a band of narrow ribbon I (chiefly yellow) which passes somewhat in i hangman's style about her neck, and is ! finished by a dangling mass of loops and ' ends either in front or on the left side. I When the new bonnets begin to be worn, moreover, what a dangling there wiH be; since a bonnet is scarce a bonnet un- ' less provided with at least one, aud j.t.-t, two, pairs of ribbon 6tring», which are rig orously narrow. I bows AND BOWS. The fashionableness of velvet ribbon j must not be forgotten. Many of these new j bonnet strings are velvet; while on a sur- i vey of spring costumes, one is struck by ! the frequency of velvet ribbon as a trim- j I ming. Laid in rows or fancifully disposed ■ in bows. Bows upon bows, until veritably '■ j this may be called a season of bows. Not I I always, indeed, of velvet; gros grain or sat- ! • in ribbon do duty, and often take the place I of brocade, on dresses of plain material. I i For, beyond a doubt, fashion is bidding j j good-bye to combination costumes. A ; slow good-bye, it is true, and a good-bye ; i said and said again. Yet they are vanish- J ing, slowly, and even now the disfavor i j shown is towards the more ordinary classes j ' of goods, since never were unitings of ex | pensive stuffs more in vogue. Then, too, | if there vera no longer "combi nations," what would bo done witb thoso eccentricities of which j I have writ! Eccentric as fashion may be, she would hardly termit one to drag around such floral or geometrical monstros ; ities, withont an amelioration. In the cotton stithies likewise, it must; bo con fessed that impostors show plain material, i beside fancifully printed. Yet ruiiiing* of ] lace are much liked, and there ari Cash's • Coventry .trillings, both plain and with lnos edge, which are more in favor this season than for some years. The narrow are used for trimming underwear or morn ing dresses, either white or colored; for grown people or children,while housekeep ers rejoice over pillow cases, shams, cur tains, etc.. showing ornamentation of the wider. The wear of these goods is almost everlasting, and accounts doubtless for some of this popularity. The makers guarantee every dozen to run full measure. GRADUATING DBES3E3. A grand decision has been made in favor of simplicity; and mull, covered with stars, sprigs, dots, etc., is to be more U3ed than anything else. The dresses are called, by courtesy — but for the most part, the white ia dingy enough, though "cream white" is the accepted term. The cream, however, in which some have apparently i been dipped, must have been very, very j stale for the fabric is presented us of a hue that, in olden time, would have caused an j outburst from the good lady mother who I prided^ herself on snowy laundrying. These soiled looking costumes, neverthe less, must be set down as among the eccen tricities, and so pass muster. Gloves, still : wrinkled, long, and sometimes as muddy ' looking: as the dress, only a deeper shade ] of mud. Then, thero are uncertain yellows, j terra cottas or black; and if the young lady i decides on black silk stockings, for which i there is now a furor, there will be cornend- ' able harmony. Other solid colors are worn, cheifly those prevailing in dress goods, but black silk is, par excellence, the thing.* Even babies are wearing black silk stockings. Think of it, and tell me if fashion be not a little un sound of mind ? At watering places, many a dainty stroll will be taken by young la dydom attired in white and black; black shoes and stockings, gloves,accessories and hat, and especially stylish results will ac crue from the carrying of a boulevard par asol. A flat parasol with canopy top, and in silk or satin to match or contrast hand somely with costumes. Introduced last sea- Bon, it promises to be very popular. , cabds AS ORNAMENTS. 'Tie a phase of New York life, this giv ing and carrying of picture cards. Exact ly what merchant inaugurated such dona tions, I know not; but once inaugurated it has grown into a curious subject of specu lation. One lady after another goes hug ging these devices, and various are the ideas adopted, as each dealer strives after novelty. So we see vases, birds, dogs, cats babies in baskets, and I know not what. The other day I picked up what seemed a pretty autumn leaf. On it I read in deli cate, fancy letters, just legible through ths diversities of coloring, "The light running New Home sewing machine, simplest and best." The company present packages of these leaver deftly bound together with fine wire, and the recipient can ar range them into garlands,- bouquets or any ether wall ornament. Is not this worthy of the nineteenth century ? Then, as to Christmas, Easter and birthday cards which are sent and received by the thou sand, what may not be done? What is not being done with them? They are ranged on mantel-pieces, cover one's tables and brackets, till ingenuity is busy contriving unlooked-for uses. Some cover fancy boxes with them, others make variously shaped stands for them; and thus disposed of, they make pretty enough wall orna ments. :4^M Rosalind May. .- , ■■ . , BUSINESS COLLEGES. AND TELEGRAPHIC INSTITUTE, • Has long since established its claims to public favor and has now entered upon its 13*h yesr cr 1**3 the most favorable auspices. Send for catalogue giving fall particulars. Cor. 8d and Jackson .-.-^^^...^^^ tv. A. va toots. pVtr.^iTpal. * MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS. ———— —___ WEBER PIANOS.- AciiMifiil lif Artists tte Best ii lie Worlfl. I know of none superior to the Weber and none that can com pete with them for durability.— Carreno. The tone &t the Weber Piano is so sweet, rich and sympathetic, yet so full, that I shall always rank you as the greatest manufac turer of the day.—Emma Thursby. Weber Pianos excel all others in volume of tone and in cower of expression.—S. Liebling. There are no Pianos in the world that sustain the voice like the Weber.—Emma Abbott. p R. C. MUNGJER, Agent, St Paul. Send for Catalogues. ' " ■ BOOT AND 8H0S DKALEEi-;. SPRING STYLES OP SHOES. SCEIEK & CO., ■"-. • 89 E. THIRD STREET. THE LEADING SHOE HOUSE OF ST. PAUL. The Only Complete Stock of Spring and Summer Styles of Boots, Shoes and Slippers in the West. Sole Agency for BURT'8, Gray's, Reynold's, and many other leading makes. Ono price to all. FINE TAILOEING. WW II if* i|l|l¥30Ea!!tTIMSW, I'll If Villi IV IM II 111, St. Pani. Miii, WHOLESALE DEALERS. NOYES BROS. & CUTLER, IJFPOIITER8 & WHOLESALE DRUGGISTS, 68 and 70 Sibley Street., Corner Fifth, - - - St. Paul,Minn LIQUORS AND WINES. ~~~ II I7"¥TIffF D £H\ WHOLESAIiE " f| 17 I Pi l m, £i£\ 1 i WHOLESALE m isl iu lili w w«j Liyuultd&ninuo We have control in this market of foe unrivalled O. F. C, the Hume and Crystal Spring Whiskies, and are hand-in? the W. H. McBrayer's and Nelson Whiskies and Guckenheimer Bye. 194 East Third Sireet, - - - - - - St. Paul, Minn STANDARD SCALES. FAIRBANKS' j ECLIPSE STANDARD SELF-REGULATING S C A Ta P. B i iwHSTD MILLS. tog||||||^p ■ - 68 East Tliird Street, WHOLESALE DRY GOODS. i TT piTa"*) k fil"S ■ J.YRT/^T C IT ft Tii iVf V- tT? ', c st-irs tr*. ti S , •—' it • iU r ' 6-s •>*: If. i- "» '-V 5 -.; • ii tS 1 ■ V* ££• H^?. J 9. -; .. 1 t. ',%•%'- .'... ■</•.*■>, i« ■;'»; $ ,-A. ■■ y* _-. .... ..<»» *-... '^_. «__■. ,. ..Jl. . .-. ■. .Ltj^J ».a' J... . R.S,$ fill. . {*• '• »• i *-* ; -. ■ •M^.% mm,- H ; 1? (Ep stillest:: Compete* with the 'Mnfkf-ts of Xew York an Chicago. TAILORING. ■ .. » — . . . ■ ■ .' Srlsl Use? mvi ft » i ftp!' ws i %& & 8 I j 146 EAST TB1BB STBIH BASH, BLIND8, fte, \& «—- } WR T" » ■■*■» fi9 Manufacturers of BASH, DOORS & FRAMES, Blinds, Mouldings, etc. Contracts with builders solicited. Salesroom Jackson and Eighth streets. UNDERTAKERS. STEES BROS., [Established 1850.] Manufacturers of Furniture. Live Geese Feath ers and Mattresses. Funeral Directors. Sole Agents for Metallic j Burial Caskets and Cases, Cloth and Wood Caskets. Corner Third and Minnesota Sts. ! C. J. 1-PCABTHY. J. G. DONNELLY I M:GABTHY k DONNELLY; JO SRTAKERS. U4WaDasHaw street. ODDcsite Post-office Calls answered at all hours. Embalming . a specialty. Best hearse in the city, and fines i carriaaes at lowest rates. Ftuneralfc conducted ] unpw-h> Lie guaranteed F&EL DE__ T.,I. Full weight and measure guaranteed by Ii 013 Eelisl Foul Fin OF eEIGGB ft E0STEK, 41 East Third Street. Established in ISC.?. GOAL & WOOD At bottom prices. Best quality of anfhracit coal, pea size, only $5 per ton. Grata and egg $10.25, stove $10.50,- nut $10.50 All grades of fresh minod bituminous coal at equally low prices. We are making a specialty of dry body oak and birch wood mixed at $5.50 per cord, nearly equal to maple. Dry pi. -.e slabs $3.50, bas=,wooil $4 and maple $7. Kemomber the place, 11 Eaat Third street. MUSICAL " INSTBUaEESTG MRS M. O. THAYER, MUSIC DEALER. Pianos, Organs, Small Instrument- and Sheet Music. 418 WABASHAW STREET. St. Krai; 522 Nicollet avenue, opposite Sv "dieate block, Minneapolis. T =~z .i:ii!iii}immi cso-Asas lal&a*l&&l£lsltld. Warrant*! tes .rom ssest or • or produc 4 lj tragi. More to relie-» upon than the best Imported Cigars . Try them and be convinced. The f acili Of the manmacturera are such that the high standard ox tbo Seal Skin Cigars can and will be maintained. Fremmm Tob-cco Works. 8. P. HESS & CO. Estab" -hed 1838. M*f rs, Rochester, N.Y, SMOKERS road tho above. BEAUPRE, KEOGH & CO., AGENTS, : - ST. PAUL, MINN. "J0M WAGENERT DEALER IN WW .JIB' COIL Offica on Seventh street bridgo and oorner of Twelfth 8id Eobert. Orders received by tel ephone. . IN pursuance of an order of the Probate Outr of l Ramsey County, Minnesota, date.! March 5t:_, A. D. 1883, made in the matter of tho estate of Wil liam A. .Tudd, deceased, notice Is herehy given that the property known as Jndd's Livery, Sal ails'. Boarding Stable, No. 25 West Fourth street, Si. Paul, Minnesota-, consisting of .1 ge_fera_ livery stock, together-with good will of «t>id slabie, an lease of premises tor two year* from r".._ lirst day of May, A. D. 1883. with a privilege of year* niorA at the same rate/viz.: On" hw.hvd an 1 twenty-five dollars per month.* Will be soid at pub lie auction to the highest bidder at '0 o'clock a. m» on the tenth day of April, A. D. JSs'3. Sale to take place on said promises. Terms of * -',- all cosh. For particulars and list of pro .-rtv inquire of the undersigned. KIMBLE P. CULLEN, ' Ti,. ALICE M JUDD, Executor3 of Estate of Willta--n A. Judd, deceased 91-100 9