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ABBEVILLE PRESS & 13ANNEK.1 ^ ' " " ' - M BY HUGH WILSON AND H. T. WAEDLAW. ABBEVILLE, S. C., WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 17. 1880. NO. 24. VOLUME XXV. ? ?? ? - _ Twickenham Ferry, 'Oh, hoi ye ho! he ye ho! who's for the ferry ? (The briar's in bud, and the sun's going down.) And I'll row ye so quick, nnd I'll row ye so st eady, And 'tie but a penny to Twickenham town." The ferryman's slim, and the lerryinan's young, And he's jnst a soil twang at the end of his tongue, And ho'e Iresh as a pippiu and brown as a berry, And 'tis but apenuy to Twickenham town. ' Oh, hoi ye ho! ho ye ho! I'm lor the ferry. (The briar's in bud, and tho sun's going down.) Anci u s jp.te as 11 is, ano i uavon'i a penny; And how shall I get m0 to Twickenham town?" She's a rose in her bonnet, and, oh, she looks sweet As the little pink flower that grows in the wheat, With her cheeks like a rose and her lips like a * cherry. 'And snro and you're welcome to Twickenham town." ?Oh, hoi ye ho! ho!" you're too late tor the lerry. )The briar'3 in bud, and the sun'9 going down.) And he's not rowing quick, and he's not row. ing steady; You'd think 'twas a journey to Twickenham town. Oh, hoi! and oh, ho! ye may call as ye will; The moon is a-rising on Petersham hill; And with love like a roue in tho stem of tho wherry, There's danger in rowing to Twickenham town. Principal and Interest. J. Ob, mother, mother, I am so tired!" The dewdrops quivered like imperial diamonds upon the broad green plumes of the cornfield by the wayside; tLe grass that bent over the footpath was heavy with evening moisture; yet these two wanderers clung together homeless and alone in the falling shadows of the night. "Cheer up, my child, we have not very far to go. Come closer, let me brush the dew from your curls. Now take my hand." But the child hung back, sobbing with weariness and exhaustion, and the pale mother, bending over her in the vain attempt to soothe the hysternTPifnmimt dirl nnr,hp<iT Hie mmhlf! of advancing wheels until they passed close to Iier, and a rough, hearty voice exclaimed "What ails Ihe little girl? Is she sick ?" , Mary Eilsw.orth had never seen Farmer Raynesford before?yet the moment her eye rested upon his wrinkled, gunhurnt face, with the shsgffy bipws overshadowing kind eyes, s'-.e felt that he was a friend, and made answer promptly: " Not sick, sir, but very tired. We bnve walked a long way." ' Got much farther Lo co?" asked the farmer, tickling the horse's ear withjthe tod of his whip. "To Broeton." ' That is four miles off, and the little fal is pretty nigh used up a'ready." '1 Lnow it," said the woman, with a Fign. " But I have no money to hire a lodging nearer. In Broeton I hope to '.btain work in tlieiactorv." " I won't hear 110 such thing?" said he, energetically. 44 Why, that child < an't eo twenty rods further! Here, get in 'Jong with me. You won't be none 1 lie worse for a bit of supper and gocd night's rest. I know Hannah'l! scold," lio muttered, as be lifted tho little girl ! o liis side and extended his hand to the mother; "but I can't see folks perishing by the wayside and never otter to help 'em. I don't care if she scolds the roof of the Louse off." It was an oddly shaped oid farmhouse, gray with the storms of nearly half a ccntury, with a broad door-stone, overhung by giant lilac bushes, and a kitchen where even in the bloomy month of-June, a great fire roared up the wide-lhroated chimnev. and shining rows of tin3 winked and glittered at every upward leap of the flames. Such a neat kitchen it was! Mrs. Ellsworth's heart involuntary warmed at thegenial sight. Mr. Raynesford jumped out of the wagon, threw the lines over a post, and went in to conciliate his domestic despot. " Look here, Hannah," said he to a tail, angular-looking female who emerged from a pantry near by at the sound of his footsteps, her face nearly or quite ns sour as the saucer of pickles she was currying, "jest set a couple more p'ates on the table, will you? I've br&ught home a woman and little gal Hiatal found a niece below e'en a'most tirf d to death. They was calculating to walk on to BroctoD, but I thought it wouldn't burt U3 to keep 'em "over night." "I'm astonished at you, Job Rayncsford," said bis better-half, in a tone of indignant remonstrance. "We mi^ht jest as well bang otft a tavern sign at once, and done with it; you're always bringing home some poor miserable creetur or other, and?" "There, there, Hannah," interrupted Mr. Rajnesford, "I'm always willin' to hear you when you're anyways reasonable, "but it goes clear agin m y grain to ?te p<x>r folks a sufi'erin' and never stretch out a helpin' hand. 'Tain't O , Li\jt uuu L uuLu.ui naiui . "Weil, go your own giit, Job Raynesford," responded his wife, tartly; " only mark xny words, if you don't end your days in the poorhouse, 'twon't be through no fault o' yourn." She slut the pantry door with a bang that made all the jelly cups and milk pans rattle, while Job. with an odd grimace, went out to help his guests to nlieht. " Don't mind my old womau," said he, apologetically, as Mrs. Ellsworth sprang to the ground; "she's kind o' sharp spoken, but she mrans well, arter *^>4. ~ uii. c <wu t juao aiiM iu uui uuLiuiis, you know." " If all the world were like you, sir," said the young widow, with tears in her C}-(s, "there would be less want find s'.iii-ring by far." Farmer Raynesford prt tended not to hear?lie w:is busy helping little Mary out. * S?t on them blackberries, Hannah ?" said he, toward the close of the evening meal; " the little gal's so tired she can't eat nothin' solid !'*' " I w; s calculatin' to keep the blackberries i<?r the donation party to-morrow," s iM Mrs. Raynesford. rising with rather an unwilling air. "Nonsense!" quoth the farmer, with a 'jrof.d iaugh. " I'm liavin' a donation pnrly of my own to-Tiieht! Here, little olio, see if these berries don't put some color imo your cheeks." All the evening little Mary sat by the hearth, with her hands in her mother's, and her large blue eyes fixed earnestls on the farmer's faoe. "What arovou !;h inking about, dear?' asked Mrs. Ellsworth once. She drew a Ion;? sigh and whispered: "Oh mamma, he is so kind to us." The tops o." the far-otf eastern woods were being turned to gold by thai wondrous chemis:, the rising sun, whet Mary Ellsworth ?.ud her child set oui upon the long walk to Brocton. Job Rayne^foni went to the gate, fumbling uneasily in his pocket, and glancinj guiltily around to make sure that Han nah was not within seeing distance WlK-n .Mary expended her hand to saj goo'l-b v a b:.iik !>iil was thrust into it "l>on'f. : ay nothin'," muttered Job with a sheepish air. 44 Ten dollars ain' -J.. ... . ? * much to me, and if you don't got a f i chance to work in the factory right | tl; away, it may be a good deal 'o use to til you. Needn't thank me?you're as ' welcome's llowers in May." sa I '"Ten dollars!" ejaculated Mrs. b; Rayncsford, who had witnessed this M little episode from behind the curtains of her milk-room window. "Is .lob a! Raynesford cr.izy? To give ten dollars hi to a strolling vasrant! If he don't get w a piece of my mind?" And she hastened m out, her cap border fairly standing on end wilh horror. Job awaited the m coming tempe.-jt with philosophic cool- he ness, his hands in his pockets, his lips in parted in a good-humored smile. mi "She means weil," lie said to mpi?eii, when the volley of wrath had been d is? on charged on his luckless head, and Airs, pr Raynesford had returned to the butter c!< making, " but she's got the greatest facility lorscoloin' of any womau I ever saw." th ? ?* * e(j The years flitted by, sprinkling the steep old farmhouse roof with crystal kn drops of April sliowers, and thatching it tel with the dazzling ermine of January Hj snows many and many a time. Gray dii hairs crept in among the raven Iccks of ' Farmer Raynesford, careworn wrinkles sk began to gather around h:.3 mouth and rei brow. Alas! those swift-footed years po brought troubles innumerable to the ' kind old man. mi " Twenty years!" mused he, onebrteh W June morning; " it don't seem possibly pr Hannah, that it was twenty years ago tbis very day that I caught that ucly mi fall from the hayrick and got lame for ' life." And he looked down at the foi crutches by his side. Hannah stood in the door throwing corn to a forlorn col- sat ony ol chickens. Twenty years luid not ev improved her in any respect?she was 11 gaunter, bonier and more vinegar-faced hu than ever. for "Ye-," said she, slowly, "and per- dis haps you don't remember that it was bu twenty years ago this very day that you su< threw ten dollars away on that woman 'J and her child. I told you that you'd ras end your days in the poorhouse, and I Mi | don't, fee but what my prediction is pri likely to come true. Didn't ,1 say you 4 would live to repent it?" to: " I don't deny, Hannah,' said the old sai man, " butthat I've done a eood many I things I've been sorry tor?but that is sui not one of them. No, I never for a she moment repent beiag kind to the widow and fatherless." Hannah shrugged her shoulders, but made no answer. ~~ i^iuu t yuu any y uu j were going up to see .that rich lawyer wij about the live thousand dollar note to- an day?" she";asked. js t "Yes," but I don't s'pose it'll be much art use. It he'd wait a little, I'd do my 'w|j best to please hiin. Jones says he'll be jj]e sure to sell the old place from over our tC9| heads, however; tbcy say he's a hard mo man. I mean to tell him just how the p0? matter stands and?" vfU " I told you how it would be long ?ot ago!" said Hannah, unable l;o restrain her \ vexation. " Whatever possessed you to p0J sign lor Jesse Fairweather?" go~ " I s'posed he was an honest man, and js j wouldn't see an old man wronged!" un] "Fiddlesticks! That's just your cal- qU( culation. Job. There, Zeke has brought hjr the wagon; do start off, or you'll be too late for the New York train." And Job ea? meekly obeyed, only too happy to escape from the endless discord of his wile's ,0 railing tongue, Rjl( The rays oi tue noonaay sun streamed ine brightly throush the stained glass ca3e- sav ments of Mr. Everleigh's superb eothic nol library. The room was decorated with A j every appurtenance of wealth and taste, wo Velvet chairs, with tall backs of daintily ob( carved rosewood, were scattered here eig and there; marble vase3 occupied niches lar beside the doorway, and the rarest pic- inc tures hung on the paneled ani gilded the walls. But the prettiest object oi' all? po< the one which the rich lawyer oftenest thf raised his eyes from his witting to con- his template with an involuntary smile of thi pride and afl'ection?was a lovely sen woman in a white cashmere morning the robe, trimmed with velvet, who stood soi opposite, arranging flowers in a bou- str quct. She wore a spray of berries carved ha' of pink Neapolitan coral at her throat, on and tiny pendants of the rare stone in tal her small shell-like ears, aDd the slender lor waist was tied around with a bright ap] pink ribbon. vie "There, Walter, isn't that'fpretty," Pr alio ?sk?L holding ud her comoleted mt bouquet. "Very pretty," he answered, ha looking not at the roses and geraniums, un but directly at the blue eyes and golden ini curls of his beautiful young wife. ni^ "You are not even noticing it," she thi said. "Because 1 see something so much Ch better worth looking at," ne said, play- ar1 fully. ou "Do you really love me so very bri much?" she added, throwing down the flowers, and coming around to his side. j?1( "Oh, Walter, if mamma couid have only ^rc lived to see how happy we are." so There was a knock at the door. Mrs. br< Everleigh slipped fro a her husband's ^ arm witti the prettiest little blush in the world, and was busy with her flowers J*P when the rich lawyer's "right hand p6man" put his grizzled head into the "J? room. *h: " The old man wants to see you abont yc the Fairweat her business." do "Show him in. Don't look sodisap- n9 pointed, love," he said, as the grizzled J-1*1 head disappeared. "I shall not be de- lla tained three minutes, and the horses are at the door." ?r? Mary Everleieh never troubled her c'11 pretty little head~about business matters, Pa o she never locked up as the halting ?? ound of oid Mr. Riynesford's crutch chood ou tne carpet. But the instant he spoke she started as if an arrow had Lr: smitten her, and stood with her largfl eyes dilated, and her slender arms ?1' ~i -J i:..... VV Ui&spcu LUt;cuicit udLuujij^; ?i3 liticuuj as though her life depended on her he ar- mi ing every word. The old man was W( pleading and sorrowful, her husband W) politely indexible. At length Job Raynesford turned to eo! :in "Well, sir," he said, in a subdued tone. "I don't know much about law and law books, but it does seem hard :l? that an old man should be turned out of the home that has sheltered him for P11 sixty years, and all ferr.o fault of his UJl ovvn. Ttiey say you are a very rich P? gentleman, sir?five thousand dollars pc may seem a small thing to you, but it is my all." Mr3. Everleigh's soft voicc broke the tl( momentary silence that succeeded this last appeal. "Walter, come here one minute?I want to SDeaK to you." se He obeyed, somewhat in surprise; she se: drew linn into a deep recess ot the i,lJ stained class bay-window and standing there, with the rosy and amber shadows 51C piayinsr about her lovely brow, ;ike st! some pictured saint, she told him how, ^ twenty years before, a wearied child and f*( its mother were fed and sheltered by a kind-hearted stranger; how he had given f11 them money and kind wishes when they J" were utterly a*lone and desolate in the } < wide world. u? "But. my love, what has all this to do P1 with my business mattersP" w ' "Much, Walter! I am that little c.r > child!" sii "You! my dearestP" ! "I, my husband; and the noble man co , who, I am persuaded, saved my life that r1 r night, stands yonder, with gray, bowed ia head and a sinking heart." se ' "Marj, you must be mistaken." w r "I cannot be mistaken, Walter; I Ul , should know him amone a thousand. ^ You said you loved me this morning? 3 now grant me one little boon f'5 *a t "What is it dearest?" rc i "Give me that note he spoke of." 111 t Mr. Everleigh silently went to a small ^ > ebony cabinet, unlocked it, and drew * I out a folded paper, which he placed in ? t her hands. She glided up to the old t< man. who had been gazing out of the i window in a sort of reverie, and laid her j hand on his arm. " I)o you remember u . the little golden-haired Mary, whom you si , found with her mother, wearied out on it t the roadside, twenty years ago?" n "Do I remember her, ladyP It was but lis very morning that I was recalling ie scene." "And don't you recognize me," she id, smiling up in his face, as she drew iclct' e drooping curls, "I am little ary!" He stood in bewildered silence; all of sudden the truth seem to break upon m, and lie laid his hand upon her head ith a tearful blessing "and your oilier, my child?" She has been dead for years; but it is y dearest task to be the instrument of r gratitude. Here is the note you dorsed; my husband has given it to 2?see!" A small spirit-lamp was burning in eof the niches; she held the bit of ?per over the flame until it fell in a >ud of light ashes upon the floor. "Well?" Mrs. Riynesford met her husband at e door the instant his crutches soundon the little graveled path. "Why don't you speak? Of couree I ow you have nothing but bad news lo J, but I might as won near it at once, lve you seen the gentleman? What 3 he say?" 4 Hannah," said old Job Raynesford, >wly folding up '.'is gloves, " do you member the ten dollars I cave that or wanderer, a score of years ago?" "Why, of course I do; didn't I rend you of it not twelve luurs since? hat has that to do with our troubles, ay?" Just this?to-day I received paymt. principal and interest." 'What do you mean, Job Raynes* d?" rim little frolden-haired child that , beside our hearthstone, that June cr.ine, is Lawyer E^erleigh's wife, and lave seen her "burn the note that has ng like a millstone around my neck \ears. She said that she was only Sharping a sacred debt of gratitude; t heaven knows I have looked lor no tfi reward." L'here was a moment's silence. The old m was pondering over the past, and s. Raynesford was so taken by surse that she could not speak. 'And now, wile, what have you got say about my financial mistakes?" d Job, archly. tfrs. Rayneslord had no argument ted to the exigencies of the case, so i very wisely said?nothing. Kleptomaniacs. Imong the various kinds ol insauity .ich are pleaded in courts of justice as excuse for the commission ol crimes hat irresistible propensity to pocket icles, or, more correctly, to steal, ich lias been elegantly denominated ptomania. According to authentic timor.y, this mental disease i3 far re prevalent than is generally sup;ed, an.I the recorded instances of ious kinds and degrees of such are ;h numerous and peculiar. Vith regard to the intensity of the disiition to commit thefts, this is often Ejrcat as to become incurable. A case related of a man who wouid not eat less ins juuu wy.3 siuiuli, m luuac;nce of which hi* attendant humored a by placing his food in a corner, icre it appeared hidden, but cnuid ii]y be, so to speak, purloined. A y was affected with this monomania strongly that upon her trial for theft f stated that she had such a mad long: to possess he self of everything she v that it she was at church she could ; refrain from stealing from the altar, famous physician informs us that a m^.n who was exemplary in her ?dience to the moral law, except the ht commandment, was so addicted to ceny that, when she could take neither more valuable, she would often at ; taoie 01 a iriena secretly oil ner :-keis with bread. Lav.ater states it a doctor of niidicine could not leave 1 patients' room without takins someng away unobserved; and his wife .rcked liis pockets, and returned to sir owners the knives, thimbles, sciss, etc., which her husband had abided. The wile of another physician d so strong a propensity to steal that | making purchases she endeavored to :e something away that did not belg to her; ami two German countesses pear to have been guilty of the same ;e. The almoner of a regiment of ussian cuirnssiers, a well-educated in, frequently on parade stole the ndkerchiefs of the officers; and one fortunate man was so far under the iuence of kleptomania that, being ;h unto death, he actually secreted 2 snuff-box of his confessor! We knew a parish clergyman, says ambers' Journal, who stole every iicle he could lay his hands on. If t at dinner, he pocketed scraps of ead, table napkins, or anything, hen lodging at hotels he carried off ;ces of soap and the ends of candles >m his bedroom. His larcenies became notorious that he was ultima'ely ou<rht before the church courts and rned out of his living. The London ines, a few yeai s ago, in commentiu/i on the subject of a lady kleptomaniac ing prosecuted for stealing cambric ndkerehiefs in a draper's shop, stated at "every one who is acquainted with intlon society could at once furnish a zen names of ladies who have been torious for abstracting articles of fling value from the shops where they bituaily dealt. Their modus operandi is so well known that on their return mi their drives their relatives took re to ascertain the nature of their Itry peculations, inquired from the achman the houses at which he had en ordered to stop, and, as a utter of course, reimbursed the idesman to the fuil value of the pilrcd goods. In other cases a hint was yen to the various shopkeepers at \\r\er\ oof o k ] \ i m OVi t Q Hi PQP mnnn. luiacs made their purchases, and they ?re simply forewarned to notice what is taken away, and to furnish the bill, iiich wa3 paid for as soon as furnished, da3a matter of courso by the pi irer herself, without any feeling ?>f aiue or emotion of any kind." It is <o stated in the Quar\crly Review in 5G, in an article upon the metropolitan lice, that " the extent of pilfeiing rried on even by ladies of rank and sition is very greut; there are persons issessing a mania of this kind so well town among the shopkeeping cornunity that their addresses :tnd descrip>ns are passed from hand to hand lor utual security. The attendsmts allow em to secreie what tlicy like without ming to observe them, and afterward nd a bill with the prices of the goods irloined to their houses." Abnormal conformations of the head compamea witn an lmDecne unuermding arc olten the cause of kleptoania. Gall and Spurzheim saw in ;rn prison a boy twelve years old, who described as " ill organized and ckety." who could never avoid stealg. An (x-commissary of police at julouse was condemned to eight years' iprisonmentnnd hard labor and to the llory lor having stolon some plate hilc in office. He did not deny the ime, but persisted to the last in a ngular kind of defense. He attributed ,e criuie to a mental derangement aised by wounds he had received at Marseilles in 1815. Another case is reted of a young man who, after being verely wounded in the temple for hich he was trepanned, manifested an nconquerable propensity lor theft, hich was quite against his natural iBposition. He was imprisoned for rceuy alter having committed several )bberies, and had not mcdical testilony been produced to show that he as insane, and which attributed his leptomania to a disorder of the brain, e would have been punished according ) law. " Young man,1' said a studious parent > his garrulous son, 41 you have a mision oi mercy to perform." "What is pa, what is it?" " It is to keep your louth shut."?Feoria Transcnvt. i4 HLASS EYES, now Kyea Are Made-A Trnile Whlcli ia a Ileal Flnt Art?Counterfeit Outlet for Does and Horics-Spmethliic About Dolls' Eyed. "The French no longer monopolize the manufacture of giasa eyes," observed a Broadway optician to a New York News reporter. 41 We an?, or rather one New Yorker is, making as perfect ones now as were ev'ir turned out; of any ol Ihe French factories, and it will not he many months before our market will be fuliv supplied with eyes ol home manufacture. I ship a great many to South and Central America, and where I had to keep the supply up with imported stock last year, I am now sending: more tlmn half of American make away. My shipments are almost all to private customers. There are no dealers in glass eyes down there, though the orders lor them generally oome from physicians who make a neat percentage out of their customers. Is the business an extensive one? It is much more so than you would suppose. I don't know whether eou?ing is a favorite amusement in Bueous Ayres now, but I sent several gross of eyes to that place alone last year, and nearly as many to Rio Janeiro." v The secrets of the manufacture of glass Royes are very jealously guarded ones [ very manufacturer claimi ng to possess tin sole recipe for the composition of those limpid enamels which so closely approach nature in the colors they im part to the artificial optic. Most of them do have special formulre for the manufacture of their enamels, the result of extensive experimentalizing, ane which they set high value on. The general method of glass-eye making, however, is by no means as mysterious as it is interesting. Artificial optics are made, in the first place, upon a very minute description of the eye whose loss they are intended to conceal. The color, shape, size and general appearance of the sound eye are specified as closely as possible, together with the dep'th and dimensions of the empty socket, and the size of the siump. For it must be known that there is always, or aimost iuways, u lliusuuihi remnant of a lost eye left, to which the hollow of the glass substitute is fitted. Thanks to this stump, the wearer of a glass eye may move it about aimost a3 naturally as if it w ere a real one. Artificial eyes nowadays arc only a light shell of enamel, differing very much in form according to their wearers. They are all made by hand, no mold of any kind being use:!, and the artificiers bccome so expert that a good workman will produce an infinite number of eyes so identical in form, size and color, ttiat it is impossible to distinguish between them, with no other tools than his breath and hands. Glass eyes, asi everybody knows, are made to be placed under the eyelid. They consist of two distinct shells, the exterior one, which presents the aspect of the natural eye, and the interior, or lining one, which is fitted to the stump. The workman labors at a table on which is a lamp, to whose flame the blast of a bellows worked with his foot gives a pointed jet of ".lie varying strength he may require. The first process consists of heating the end of a hollow tube of colorless crystal, which is then blown into a ball. Tnis transparent shell is colored to imitate the sclerotica or while of the eye with enamels applied while the glass is still a vitreous paste. The tint of the white varies from a very clear one to a bilious yellow, according as the person who Is to wear it has his other cyo to match. To su^h a fine point is this coloring business carried, that it is affirmed to be a very rare thing that glass eyes for any two different people are exactly alike. When the sclerotica is finished, a round hole i3 made in the center to receive the globe of the eye. This varies in size even as the white does in color. In washing the globe the iris is first formed out or several amalgamated enamels. In the center ol this iris the pupil as fixed in black enamel, encircled with its au rcola, and finished by the deli rate tracery of those infinitely small fibersi which are found in the iris of the natural eye. The eye globe, when finished, is soldered into the opening, in tne sclerotica shell, and the optic is after a little delicate general fixing up, complete. Artificial eyes are nearly as old as history. When an ancient Egyptian lost an eye he replaced it with a kind of painted bandage, concealing the socket of the lost member. Later on, a metallic shell was invented to fit in under the eyelid. Glass eyes seem to have been first made at the commencement of the pregetit century. 1 He earliest glass eyes were solid; the pupil and iris being painted on the retr surface with oilcolors. But these, liko the rude work of the ancients, were a very poor apology for real eyes, and deceived no onewiih any eye3 to see with. They had an unstiterable, dead, liixed look tliab was little, it anything, better to gaze upon than the empty hole they tilled would have been. The discovery of the value of the eye stump as a motor was the hrst step in the manufacture of glass eves ot a really decept: ve character. Now some are made whose sham it is really next to impossible to detect, even by close scrutiny. At a casual elance their counterfeit character passes absolutely undiscovered. There is a youn? society lady here who has worn a glass eye from childhood. Vailed by iior lovely lasnes wmcn sue :ias trained to that languid drooping which was a historic characteristic of the eyc3 of Napoleon the Third, no one of her man; intimates dreams that the dark orb whose pensive beauty is so much admired is a mere shell of glass It is in this that the perfection of the eye-maker's art consists, and out of this that his profit comes. There are plenty of glass eyes to be cot cheap, like that of the old maid in Mark Twain's story, which had to be stu:Ied around with cotton to be kept in place, and which had ruch an uncomfortable habit of dropping out in the middle of a sermon and troing rattling along; thcfloorlikethe glass alley of some careless urchin. But a good glaS3 eye costs a gojd price, and, as people who have to wear one generally keep a couple on hand in case of an accident to which the frail objects aro particularly imuie, mi; e)c-ui;iiin nvvm lias to complain of dull times. Human beings do not monopolize .bis labors altogether. Glass eyes have oecn made to supply the gaps left by accident in the heads of both dogs and horses, and these animals learn to wear them, it isl averred,as comfortably as their mas'.ors can. It would be about the right thing now for some one to invent false teeth for the same brute benefit. A wellknown sporting man here actually has the teeth of a valuable speeder plugged Willi SJ1VC1* It the French have gained the supremac of the world in the matter ol artificial eye-making, there is one sort ol optics which they do not control the manufacture of. One of the oddest industries of Birmingham, England, is the manufacture of dolls1 eyrs. Several thousands of persons are employed al this apparently insignificant industry, Its origin there wa9 told by the pioneet manufacturer before a committee of thf house of commons, as follows: "Eighteen years ago, on my first journey to London, a respectable-looking man in the city asked me if I could sup' ply him with dolls' eyes; and I wai oolisli enough to feel half ofl'<;nded. ] thought it derogatory to my new dignity as a manufacturer to make dolls eyes. He took me into a room twice a wide ..nd t-vice the length of this (om of the arge rooms for committees in th< house of commons,) and we had jus room to walk beneath the stacks, fron the door to the ceiling, ot parts of dolls He said these were only the legs am arms, the trunks were below; but Isuv enough to con vines nie that lie wantei h great many eyes; and, as tl>e article appeared quite in my own line of busi ness, I saia I would take an order b I way of experiment, nnd lie Bhowed rc several specimens. I copied the orde k and on returning to the Travisto' . hotel, I found it amounted to upward > t ?500." Bean Brnmmell. J George Brummcll, better known 1 [ Beau Brummcll, ;weis born in 1778, ii ; he-riled a portion of $200,000 which 1 | ran through, nnd in 1816 fled from h creditors to France, where he spent tl ; rest of his days. He had been the frier: ; of the Prince of Wales, afterward Georj ' IV., but quarreled with him. At the last interview Brummell had the in I pudeEce to tell the prince to ring tl: : bell, which the latter did, only to direi ; the servant who answered it to shoi Mr. Brurumell to bis carriage. In a ri view of a recent lifc of Brummell, b ! ^ ' r il.. XT "V" 1. O..M or.T?c uaptaili tJ(2SS<J, LLIU JL1CW iuia ktu/i> aaj* ! His close of life realized the most d< plorabls pictures of those satirists wh ; nave earned mankind against praye for multitude of days. Poverty, diseasi idiocy, and a paralysis of tlio bowel.1 ; Captain Jesse pursues through thei minute details with a result at one mournful and mirthful. A.fter 30m : time lie was taken to the "Bon Sai 1 veur,"a religious.asylum for the insant 1 There lie died on March 30, lb40, hi loof Ur>- oi-liiViifirnr -rohfiUlpr ronsciou-il or accidentally all his former sense c propriety. He turned his face to tb wall, so as to be hidden from the attend ants on the other side, and in that posi tion he expired. Though Brummcll had the reputatio: of a wit, he exhibited very l'ttle reji wit. Like Theodore Hook, and perhap most oi;bcr reputed wits of society, hi mind was of the buffoon cast, redeeme* from buffoonery only by reserve ani causticity. What Johnson says of Toe Brown is not far from the truth respect ing the class we speak of: " The whol< an.mation and point of these composi tions arises from a profusion of ludicrou and affected comparison." In othc words, from exaggeration so great as t startle. Such was Brummell's reply t< the beggar who solicit'd charity,"if only a half penny " " My good fellow I have heard of the coin, but I neve bad one; there is a shilling for you.' When asked, during a bad summer i he had ever seen such a one, he replied "Yes, last winter," which is of thesami character. Sometimes the mere irnpu dence of the deed or word produced th< same eu ?ci or surprise, unue m ? part he asked an acquaintance with a grea air of curiosity who that uely man nea the chimney piece might be. " Wh: surely, Brummell, you know him; tha is the n'aster of the house." "No,' replied the unmoved cornet; "hov should I? I was never invited." H< does not appear to have been good a retort; perhaps he had prudenceenougl to avoid the risk of having to make one But the following approaches th repartee: A doctor's wife at Caen triet hard to net him to her house. Walkinj one afte*noon with a friend, they passe* through an archway under the lady' balcony, in which she was. Leanini over, she accosted the beau earnestly requesting him to walk up and take tea " Mnriam." sstid he to the medico's wil in the calmest and most dignified man nor, "you take physic, you take a walk you take a liberty, but you drink tea.' Bcirial In Naples. A Naples correspondent writes: Ai rivod at the gateway we were told b the old " eustodethat the public is n longer admitted to assist at the funerals " But I have an order from the prefect. "That alters the case." he said, asi h opened the door. For the last twent years every time I have visited this hoi rible spot I have been told that ne^ land has been bought, and that the ol Campo Sr.nto is to be closed. But; a that has been done is this: Irritated b the repeited protests of the Italians froc the other provinces and of foreigners tt;e authorities have shut out the publi from a spectacle that is as difficult as i is loathsome to describe. The enormou churchyard is divided into 365 squares in each square a stone with an iron tin in the center closes up a separate hol( which is reopened on the samo da every successive year, r musing in church on the left side of the yard are lot of boxes fixed in the wall, whict opening downward, serve :is tenipoi ir coffins. In these were nine babies i.ni little children, each with a flower in it mouth. "And La Raffale?" I asked The Raftale used to give the little corpse ea?;h a kiss, to send them more auickl; lo paradise. "Oh, we don't have he now, as the children don't get buriei until morning." As he spoke, up cam the Royal Albergo del Poveri. The fla of the car fell backward, a leaden i;ra such as is used for transporting slaugli tered oxen, wjis dragged out, and th l)ody of a man, dressed in nature's cloth ing, was taken up head and heelsanr llung into a box by the church wall. Next came the carrozzome of th municipality, all gilt and splendor,]lik the lord mayor's carriage, and out of i was taken a corpse?this time with som clothes on it. "lie is a particohire, said the guardian. And it appeared tha he Lad had the fortune to die among hi own people. Presently the priest ap peared, and hole No. 212 was opened i"n<; ;>:irticolare was thrown into a ?in box, which, by means of a crane, wn liii?ci over the open hole and Jowern down. You heard a " tonfo;" the zin box came up empty; the particolare ha gone to his last resort on the top of las year's skeletons So for the rest of th corpses, male ami female. Then cam the car of the Incurabili,with the liastiie members of the human forms which hai rendered their last service to humanit nn the dissecting table of the hospital These were pitched into the hole on to of the rest; and above these, to-morro\ morniny, would repose the little dea ones whose mothers had placed a flowe iu their mouths! "Hasta!" said m companion. And it will probably sal isfy the veriest skeptic as to the miserie to which the poor of Naples are subjec to visit the Campo Santo Vecchio an day in the year at six o'clock r. m. Lost Countries Found by Coins. In citing the historical inforraatio derivable from coins, the geographic* facts we acquire from them are of equt rnporlance. A case was stated som time ago how an island of the JEgear which had been lost, was aiscovered b means of a coin (the piece not bigger tha a hal.f-dime), and how retent sounding piovtd the existence of this isle. Thei v.*tis a lost cny which owes piace to coin. For over a thousand years n one knew where Pandosia was. His tory told that at Pandosia King Pyrrhii collected those forces with which h overran Italy, and that lie established mint there; but no one could put thei linger on Pandosia. Eight years ago ; coin c ;ime under the eye ol anumismatis 1 There were tho letters, Pandosia, ii scribed on it, bir;still better there was a 1 emblem indicative ot a well-know 1 river, the Cratliis. Then everything wj ' revealed with the same certainty as the piece had been an atlas, and Pai dosia the mythical city, was at on< * eiven its proper position, Bruttiui Nov/, a coin may be valuable lor artist ' merit, but whsn it<*lucidates a doubtfi ' p.iint in history or geography its wort ' is very much enhanced. This silv ' coin, which aid not weigh more than ' quarter of a dollar, because it cleared i ' the mystery of Pandosia, was worth 1 the British museum 81,000, the pri? t'lAtthey paid for it. a i J Virginia has raised 1,400,000 bu?.hr >. of reanuts this yvar. Just aboi i enough to keep !< gate-courting coup f in ammunition for a month, and near [1 enough to supply a circus for a thousar s years, making the liberal allowance - six peanuts to a glassfu l.?Rontoti Tra y script. -A.' ' - . , le FARM, GABBLE AM) HOUSEHOLD. r, ik Exhaustion of Moll. i)f The following, from the pen of Doctor J. R. Lawea to the Ixjndon Agricul ural Gazelle, is worth the attention of all farmers: It is now exactly forty years is since we beean to exhaust a portion of a- one of my fields by continuous unma JC UU1CU wuc:vu UU})3. JL u LUUj 9 LUciUiUIU, is be interesting to show the evidence we 10 are in a position to bring forward upon d the subject of exhaustion, as rpgards the je soil at Rothamsted. It would appear ir probab e that the annual decline due to i- exhaustion may amount from onele quarter to one-third of a bushel of wheat Dt perfacre per annum. If we take the 7T smaller quantity and add to it thcordin3 ary proportion of straw, the result >y would be equivalent to about forty s: pounds of produce; and, as there is little 5- doubt that the bulk of the organic mato ter of the crop is obtained from the :.t* sr mosphere,the amount ot matter annually 2, taken from the soil by these forty pounds 3, ot produce (including the nitrogea It ir contained) would be between two :e pounds and thri;e pounds. The evidence e derived from other experiments in the i- same field proves that the decline in ;. produce is due to an absence of nitrogen, ia lib uiou Lijuu miuci:n? arc ILL UUL y the actual amount of nitrogen tbat these >f forty pounds of produce would have e contained would be les3 than one-half I- pound in weight! It will, I am afraid, i- appear to your agricultural readers something like an absurdity to suppose ti that one-half pound, more or l.ss, of li any substance upon an acre of ground s couid have an appreciable influence s upon a crop. I may observe, however, i that this annual decline of forty pounds d of produce, small as it appears to b'e Q amounts in forty years to ten bushe's per - acre. Analyses of the soil, made as i different times, show that the nitrogen - is declining, and, as the free use of ruins erals in an adjoining experiment doet r not prevent the decline of the crop, we o can come to no other conclusion thai o that the gradual decline in the produce is due to the diminishing amount of , nitrogen in the soil. As far as the wheat r crop is concerned, it would appear that the total amount of produce to be obf tained from any soil must depend very ' much upon the stores of nitrogen already e in tne mna. it is true taat tue soil ob tains a certain amount of ammonia from 3 the rainfall, and it probably condenses Y more or less from the atmospheie; but t on the other hand, drainage carries r away every year more or less nitrogen, 7 in the form of nitric acid, and it is cvit dnnt the atmospheric supply, whatever it may amount to, does not suffice to 7 prevent a decline of the crop. It is, e therefore, also evident that the source from which the forty crops obtained 1 their supply must have been the stores of nitrogen already existing in the soil J when the experiment commenced. 1 Further, it seems most probable that ? the yield of future crops will depend 1 upon the amount of nitrogen liberated 8 each year from the soil. rr Gas-Tar vs. Poultry !Llce? A short time ago my poultry-house e was swarmiDg with lice; it could not be . entered without having the clothing gray with insects wherever one touched ' the roosts. If a hen brushed my hand with her wing, dozens of lice could be seen running over it. Indeed so desperate did aflairs become that even ot look at the poultry-house produced a '* sensation of crawling things. Swaby bing the roosts and sprinkling the nest. 0 with kerosene had no perceptible effects Fumigating with gas-tar and sulphur met with no bettor success. The e youngest broods of chickens grew weak, y moped around for a time, and finally died. Some of the hens also gaveevi^ dent signs of weakness, and their combs f turned a sickly color. At this staple of afl'airs, I applied for a remedy to a V friend noted in poultry-raisin a a? well as n in other things (Professor J. B. Turner). I learned that twenty years before he c had painted the inside of his poultry1 house with gas-tar, and, although keep13 ing constantly a large number of fowls, ? had not been troubled with lice since. ? I got a few quarts of gas-tar from 'he ' fiA3 works, a; the rate of ten cents per y gallon. This tar is about the cone sistency of new paint, and was readily a applied to the inside walls of my heni. house?with an old whisk broom?as y high, up as the roosts extended; the ind side of the nests and roosts were also s thoroughly coa'ed with the tar. This ' was done on the morning of a clear day, 9 and by night the house was dry enough y for the chickens to roost in it. Before r the tar was applied the old nesting was d removed, and the floor, which is of e dirt, was well scraped and sprinkled P with wood ashes, 'lhe chickens began y to improve lrom that time forth, and in i* les3 than two weeks not an insect pest e was to be found about the house or i- chickens.?New York Tribune. I lteKenerat'mr the Potato. Captain May no Reid, the well-known 0 writer of books of adventure and travel, ? has been for the past three years exoeri1 meuting with seed potatoes from Mex? ico, the original habitat of the plant, f with a view to escaping the bli<rht * which has been so disastrous to the 9 potato crop in England and Ireland. J" He writes to the London Live Stock ' Journal from his place in Hereford u sLiire, brietly detailing liis experience, ? from which it appears that of eleven A different varieties, planted at the same c time, in the same soil, and with the q same cultivation, the Mexican alone ; showed not a spot of blight, all the e other kinds having been found to be ? diseased in a greater or less degree. In ^ addition to the immunity from disease, b he finds also that while the best of his y English seed yielded a crop of but live tons, or considerably less than 200 P bushels, to the acre, the Mexican seed v produced over ten tons without special d care in cultivation, many single specir mens weighing a pound, or even a y pound and a half. After being stored through the winter in ordinary field 3 pits they come out perfectly sound, and appear to improve in quality as the y spring advances. As a table potato, or for feeding to stock, he thinks they have no (qual in England, and he proposes that the government shall fake in hand the importation of seed from Mexico or n Peru as a preventive of the blight.? " mnssacfiuseiis tiouguman. Take Care ot the Farm Tools. (e Farm tools will rust out sooner than ' they will wear out. Many farmers iuJ ure their larm implements more by ex" po-ure to the weather than by the use * on the farm. An implement which with good care would last twenty years, will, when exposed to the weather, become useless, in live years or even loss. A farm cart.which with good usa.ee,would last almost a lifetime, will last only a 1 few years, when exposed to the weather. The explanation of the reason why farming dops not pay with money is . found in this neglect to take care of the " farm tools. All farm implements are " costly, and the farmer who has to buy three or four times as many as hisneigh? bor because he does not take core of If them, of course will not lind much profit in farming. The same carelessness in " any other kind of business, would in^ sure equally as disastrous reiuits. c Keep Sheep. At least a lew sheep should be kept on every farm. No kind of stock is more er profitable. Tn starling a lloek, a few a superior nnimals should be chosen iulp stead of double the numbtr ol inferior to ones. The increased value of a tlock ye range from good aheep, will greatly exceed the increased cost ot a few good ones !o jUrt with, over what inferior ones would have cost. Start with cood sheep and keep them good or make them :1s better, by generous keeping. If one hint tends to half starve his sheep he might le a well begin with half-starved one3, as ly they would be more likely to " hold id their own " than those used to better of keeping. Sheep-keeping, however, is n not profitable when the starving pr >cess is adopted, and we would not recom mend it to farmers who practice an sucli methods. When good sheep ai purchasod to start with and are we kept, sheen-keeping is profitable, bem I liciai to the farm, and is to be con mended.? Lewislon Journal. Fatted Fowls. As a general rule the farmer should n< desire that his poultry should be vei at, for there is a kind of antagonism bi tween reproduction and the storing < ti.? i:..... Te iiiuuu KiL in i/uu tissues. 11 it wua :i mt] question of what to do with the materli there would seem to be no reason a fow once having attained licr full weigh should not then always begin to la; Fat in a living being i3 generally as fo eign to the system as if it were tried oi and stowed away in a pantry; and yet certain proportion of it seems to be tt rule with all animals in their ordinal health, the amount varying with the ii dividual. Household flints. To clean marble take chalk (in tin powder), one part; pumice, one pir common soda, two parts; mix. Was the spots with the powder, mixed wil a little water; then clean the whole* the stone and wash off with soap at water. To boil eggs properly, place them i a dish having a closo cover; pour ovi boiling water; covcr and set away froi thn frvr ton nr fiftr-pn miniltM cooked in Jthis way are more delicioi and digestible than when allowed 1 boil in the old way. The heat of tl water cooks them to a jelly-like consis ency, leaving the yolk harder than tl white. Any one who is piecing a silk quilt, c expecting to piece one this winter, wi be glad to know how to dye silk orsati a beautiful old-gold color. Teke gree horsereadish leaves, steep them in wate make a strong dye; after dipping tl: silk or satin into the dye thorough!: wash in soft soapsuds; iroa whii damp, laying a cloth over the silk. Thi should always be done when ironir silk or ribbon, even if it has not bee washed but simply sponged. To do up lace cur^tfe, wash an starch them the same as you would lac collars. Tt is a good plan to put a littl gum arabic into the starch. Wring ver carefully, as there is danger of drawin or breaking the threads. After the are washed and starched, tike clea sheets and spread on the carpel or floe of an unoccupied room. Then shal the curtains out carefully, and sprea them on the sheets. Be careful an smooth everv wrinkle in the lac< Now open all'of the windows, and yoi curtains will be dry in a few hours. .1 e<ti [lints, The following is recommended forii flamed eyes: Borax half a drair camphor water three ounce3. TL above simple prescription is in commo use by the highest medical authoritiei It makes a wash unexcelled for th treatment of inflammation of the eyei In using it, lean the head back and dro three drops in the corner of each, an then open the eyes and let it work ii Use it as often as the eyes feel badly. Dr. Ebrard, of Nimes, states that b has for many years treated all his cas< of sciatica and neuralgic pains with n improvised apparatus, consisting merei of a flat-iron and vinegar, two tbim that will be found in every house. Tt iron is heated nntil sufficiently hot I vaporize the vinegar, nd i3 then co; ered with some wolen fabric, which moistened with vinegar, and the appa atus is applied at once to the painfi spot. The application may be rcpeutc two or three times a dav. .Dr. Ebrai states that, as a rule, the paindisappea in twenty-four hours, and recovery c-i sues at once. Homo of the Peculiarities of Maud : Mmid S.. the chaniDion trotter of tl world, is a Ions-bodied mare, standir fifteen Lands two and a half inches his at the withers and fully sixteen hatr high at the hip3. Her weight, in tro tiriir condition, is 960 pounds, and hi stride, when going at her best on straight track, is about eighteen fee In her great feat at Chicago, when si trotted a mile in 2.10-J, her stride, wh< coming down the homestretch again n high wind, was a little less than sevei teen feet. She wears " shin boots" ar " scalpers," and carries a lifteen-oum shoe with a four-ounce toe weicht i front, and an eight-ounce shoe behin' She is usually driven in a bridle witl out "blinds," but in the trial above n luded to a blind bridle was used. Ti reason for this change, as given by hi driver, Mr. Bair, is that in her trial i ttonfnmKnv 1ft ti/linn ohfl ftAf' flH n mi A Uj i4V CUV to Wk in 2.lli, he thought it beat to touch h ightly with the whip when comir down the homestretch. She saw tl whip lilted for the stroke and swerv< from it. He thcr. touched her on tl other side to straighten her course, ar another swerve, which resulted in break, by which she lost a second < time, was the consequence. This wi trie first time he had ever touched lv with a whip, and he argued that wil "blhkers" he could do" this withoi causing her to swerve. The result ( her last trial proved the correctne: of his conclusions, and in her tria l.nrAafl-rtr f ho mill o 1 rrro r* a 1 lici LUV; ununv.1 J >11 ix iniruyg ? used. She is a mare of very strong will, an it is necessary to handle her with grei gentleness. A man who would fight In would soon render her entirely unmai agruble. And in this she is the counte part of lier grandam Enchantress, : well as of her sire, Harold, and his fu brother, Lakeland Abdallah. The ol mare had the courage and resolution < the bulldog, and this quality dcscendc to all of her produce. Harold and Lak 1 tnd Abdaliah both possess it to a r< warkable decree, and, if they had lalle when young into gentle, careiul hand as Maud S. fortunately did, it is certai that they wouici both have been distir guished as fast trotters. Black Maria, daughter of Enchantress, also possess) the same peculiarity of disposition Her head is almost an exact fac-simi cf that of Maud S , clearly indicatir that resolution, will and energy, whicl it carefully handled and educated, is tl most valuable quality a horse ca possess, but which, if abused and pe verted, makes a dangerous instead of useful animal. It has long been a sul jeot of remark among horsemen wh are familiar with the descendants of O' AbrJallah, that in the matter cf endu ance and strong will power, they ha\ no supcuoi even among me most 01 tinguished thoroughbreds. It is r wonder, tliereforc, that Harold, who: sire and dam were by this l:imous ol horse, should possess tbis trait, and th. he should have transmitted it to h daughter, Maud S.?Chicago Live Sloe Journal. Wouldn't Marry In Haste. In one of Michigan's interior towi live a couple known as the "Siames Twins." They are always togethe No one in the village ever remembe seeing one unaccompanied by the othc They go to church together, they spl wood together, they walk the streets ti tether, and they tight together. N< long ago, after a severe br.tie, a gent! man said to the ;eininine twin: "Sarah Jane, why do you pumru your unprotected husband so? Tim: how bad you would feel if he wou die." "Oh," said Sarah Jane, in atone tin s'10 ved the matter was settled in In mind, " we will die together. \\ ] made that arrangement when we wei I married. You see John Henry w: I t..arried before, and seven days after li i lirsl wifa died he came to me and aski j me to marry him. 'John Henry,' sai (, 'you ought to he ashamed of you si if. Only seven days a widower! Yc should at least have respect enough fi your late wife to wait a reasonable ti:i <J;>me nack ten days after tin1 funer. and I'll marry you.' And I dM."Deircit Free IVcss. y FOR THE FAIR SEX. 1] Mew* and Notes for Women, 2- London Truth lipids that the firs l- duty of woman is to make herself nice looking. A New York bride went to the altar it in blue satin and pearls, and was at y tended by bridemaids in short white gowns. ^ Any county fair in America will call together a dozen women whose good ^ looks would make Mrs. Langtry sick abed for a week. ' The girls at St. Xavier's school, Louisp* ville, instigated a rebellion against the ^ nuns in charge and the police were called a in to put it down. ie In Dodge county, Gn., a Mrs. Wright y has made twenty yards of silk, having j. herself nursed the trees, attended to the worms and woven the silk into cloth. The price of a wife in Siberia is eight ie dogs, and an exceptionally good wife is t; worth ten dogs. But dogs are plentiful ih in that country, and a wife doesn't co>t ;h much as a number of dogs would of indicate. Melohiah, a Choctaw princess, died at Iloyt City, in the Indian Territory, the other day at the great age of 114 years. She had thirteen great-great-grandchil" dren. She had been addicted to the inordinate use of tohacco for 105 veara. jS When a woman has worked for two t0 hours to sweep a room and then, having ie collected the dirt and lint and little scraps of paper into the dustpan, goes to l0 the window, opens it and throws the dirt lrom the pan, just as a lively little )r gust, of wind comes along and sends it U back all over the room again, does she n get mad? Weil, rather!?Boston Post. ;n The trial of Homer Merry on a charge r of theft at Berdanville, Mo., resulted in an acquittal tbiough the testimony of his y wife. After his discharge, however, she e' parted from him, saying that she had j3 sworn falsely to save him from prison, e but that she would not live with a thief, n She has been indicted for perjury. Beaded Ilrocades and Plain Fabric*. d The furnishing stores import beaded :e satins in short lengths of from one and le a half to five yards for combining with y the rich velvets and plain satin de Lyon g used for dressy toilets. In these the y beading is done by hand, and consists n in covering tlie brocaded patterns >r woven in silks and velvets. 0/ course :e sucli fabrics cannot be generally used, d as only the rich can purchase stuffs that d cost from $12 to $40 a yard. The color2. ing, however, is a delight to the eye, ir and the fabric handsome enough to use for mural decorations. Heliotrope satirs embroidered with pearls, amber i- satin wrought with cheniile and with i; cashmere beads, black with gold and ie jet, garnet velvet with pink roses of tiny n cut "beads, arc shown in such large 3. figures that only two figures are needed ie across the breadth. These are for 3. straight, square-cornered tablier p breadths, ana perhaps are repeated in d the middle breadth down the train. The i. metallic brocades are also among the luxurious fabrics marked $15 a yard. e Some of these are the cloth of gold in ;3 yellow shades, while silver is found 'n most effective on black or on garnet. Satin embossed with velvet shows.most ,g delicate tints for evening dresses, ' especially in pearl and pale blue shades; -q the white brocades for wedding dresses r_ show new designs of birds of-paradise or large flowers, or else the whole design is outlined with pearls. ,i For goods within th? reif.h of peope ,d of smaller means the soft satins called ^ satin merveilleux are shown at $1.75 a rg yard upward, with quaint combinations of color in the brocaded designs. These are to be made up with wool goods, or else with the changeable satin de Lyon that has colors in harmony S. with the brocade, and costs $2 a yard, je Plain satin de Lyon at $150 a yard is jo- preferred to silk at that price for comrfj binations with the smail-tigured Perils sian brocades, and for more expensive 4)?a ?ftnr enh'w Alnnnnn a t guuus cubiu iiiuuvvii) M VU?VM*J er twilled Surah, is chosen at $4 a yard, a The brocaded satin de Lyon may be ?t. found in pure black, and in pretty de!C signs, at $1.75 a yard, though more :n stylish large detached figures bring the st expense to $3 or ?4. When colors are j. used the preference is for those oi one 1(j shade rather than the mixed colors. ce Some patterns in bronze, green or blue alm.Hi'o it- SW uMil tnnL*p lin most; effect [1. iveiy in combination with plain satin de [i- Lyon or velvet. An economical way of ,j. modernizing a black dress with worn basque is to use the striped velvet and er satin that is sold for ?1.50 a yard for a of round basque, and leave the skirts of le the costume in the designs worn last er year. The best modistes who liave ig returned from Paris say that there is ic little change in the styles of winter dresses, and that the novelties exist ie in the fabrics, which are more various and aho more extravagant a than they have been for many years, of The inexpensive striped velvets will, therefore, be used by ladies of small *r means, ;while those who have more ;h money will choose coats of plush, cither it plain, striped, ribbed, or brocaded, jf which cost from $3.50 a yard to ?6 cr $8: 3s j the brocaded velvets are shown at the !s same range or prices given ior pxusu, )C but the plain velvets are less expensive, and jcost according to the amount of silk ,d used in them. A great deal of what is it called silk velvet h-is all the sil* thrown er into the pile, while the foundation is i- cotton, or at mo3t linen, and these goods r- are now used, jusc as the Breton and ia Lanyuedoc laces are, by fastidious 11 women who formerly bought none but Id genuine fabrics and real laces; the difDf ferenee in price, and the very good ap>d pearauceof the low-priced velvets are c- considerations not to be overlooked, as j- trimming velvets begin as low as $1.25 :n a yard, while wider'velvets for parts of s, dresses are ?2.25; rich velvets of pure in silk are ?6 a yard. The striped corduroy velvets are what they profess to a be, viz., velveteen?that is, cotton 23 throughout, and these are found in triple i. stripes, or else in embossed stripes, in le all the bronze, gray, ecru, brown, gmm, ig and garnet shades now used, for $1 a it yard. For short plain skirts to be worn io with woolen (ver-dresses, formisses'and .n childien's suits, and for the box-plaited r- blouses worn in the morning with bh.ck <i or colored skirts, these are excellent > fabrics. o Wool dre ses loft over from hist year Id may also be renovated by leaving the r. trimmed skirts as they now are, and re using instead c??the waist a basque of 3. one of the Persian brocades of mixed 10 wool and silk. Thesacomein quaintly se pretty designs at seventy-live cents to ?2 id a yard, and are forty^x inches wide, *t hence only a small quaiNtoy will be reis quired. Already salesmen^n tlite shops :cl I suggest to the purchaser, whfn ohoosing I a new dress, to buy only enouehiof these brocades ior a basque, andaie plain stuffs for the skirts, so the fashion is a settled one, and will meet the approval 19 of conservative tastes. Another useful 3e suggestion is that of providing broclic r? borders in stripes across a fabric a yard rs and a quarter wide, po that precisely r* the quantity needed can be cut off; two 11 | stripes are usually sold, one of which I is wide cnousti for any trimming used | on theskirt drapery, while the narrower < '- ! border trims parts of the basque. The 1 most f-xciusive modistes commend the el ! si.'lid-coiored w->ol uoods. such as cashI mere and camel's hair, for entire cosI tumes; and since a cloth suit has becjtne the objoet of desire with so many, these cios^ly twilled woolens may be bought most reasonably in pure wool e and in good dark shai-lt s. Plum, green rc and brown cashmeres at seventy-tive 19 conts a yard, made up over silk lining IS at $1 a yard, and nitmr.ed with plaitd in.L's that arc half of the cashmere and d half of satin do Lyon ol'the same shade, r- will be most reiinsd dresses, ai d such 11 ms are scea at mauy leading liousej.? >r fl'trpc/'s Bazar. il "I am satisfied Willi my lot,*' said ? - ie;tl t slate owner who held a picee of | citv ground worth ?5.000 a fool. - ?' - *VLL- .. . --.liv . . - _ The Outcast. oetle him out from the warmth and lightOnly 3 vagrant leeble and gray; Let him reel on threngh the stormy night? * What though his home be miles away T > ' -* With a mattered curse on wind and rain . * He crept along through the miry lane. , . - ; ^ Lonely the pathway, and dark and cold, Shelter he sought 'ncatli a rained wall; Over hia senses a numbness stole, Round him sleep threw her mystic pall? Then an angel came with pitying tear* And lilted the veil ot bygone years. * ?$ Gayly he sport9 by a rippling brook; jSoit ia the breath of the summer air. Flowers adorn each mossy nook, Sunshine and happiness everywhere. He is Willie now, just four years old, With bis rosebud lips and curls ol gold. " Hark to the roll of the warlike drum! ' See the brave soldiers go marching by! Home from the battle young Will baa come, '/$ Courage and joy in bis sparkling eye. And his pulses thrill with hope and pride, For he soon will greet his promised Now in the fireside's flickering glow ". liM Calmly he's taking his evening rest; Fondly he kisses his infant's brow, . Sleeping secure on its mother's breast (And the dreamer stirred and faintly smiled): He is William now with wife and child. "n ?*??? ? Tho curtain dropped?the morning broko Faint was the flash in the eastern sky; Moaning and wretched, the sleeper woke, ?Brushing a lear from his bloodshot eye. i; To his squalid home beyond the hill, > ^ j With a saddened heart crept poor old Bill. * . ' -Si. JViekolat. * x - . i. I HUMOROUS. \ > 1 > * "How time changes!" murmured the , . " ^ pickpocket, as he adroitly hookegl . ? another man's watch. The difference between a goat and a *jjf Scotchman is this?the one delights hi . jvjl cold oatmeal and the other delights in an . 0 old coat meal. ? " Mark where he stands," as the shoe* ' *maker said to his assistant while taking . .y. = mfiocnra af n AfiofAmD^O frtrtV Qs\m^ * buc lu&tuuig ui ?? u iuvw j/vv % ,. on Journal of Commerce : -{ If an untruth is only a day old it is called a campaign lie; if it is a year old . ? >r . it is callod a falsehood; but if.it is a cen- 'j tury old it is called a legend.' ^ ?" *Railroad accidents have their use in* - Ja the world. They give thousands ol young husbands an excuse for not taking their newly-wedded wives on a bridal tour. A gentleman at Weatherford, Texas, snapped a revolver at his dog to let a lady see that it wasn't loaded. He got ninety cents for the animal's pelt, Be- . .' sides saving the tax on the dog. A telephone operator, when asked to say grace at a dinner the other day, horrified the party, in a fit of absent-mintt- 5 edness, by bowing his bead and shouting: "Hello! hello!" Force of habit. ~ Rc-v. Dr. Hall said that every blade of - f grass was a sermon. The next duy he was amusing himself by clipping his v . lawn when a parishioner said: "That's . " right, doctor; cut your sermons short." -r' Most of the crowned heads of Europe are sick or in feeble health. ^'From this we infer that patent medicines war* ranted to cure all diseases are not in general use among royalty.?Philadelphia * ' Herald When spelling is "reformed" shell write: "I'm sailing on the oshun, The so ia hi, no sale in site, . . " It fllz me with emoshun." But one " spell" will not change its name, For she'll be so-sic jast the saim! . ? When a Yankee is struck byathun- "- > derbolt and knocked endways clear , across a ten*acre lot, the only regret he . feels upon recovering consciousness is. . itgjga the disheartening fact that lie can't cap- :y:;? ture the bolt ana exhibit it for money.? Norri-:town Herald. . r'Jj In a party of ladies, on its being ptf ,-ii ported that a Captain Silk had arrived " frvrrm thaw OYY>l?.im<vT with one ex- ".'^d m bv/nu) mvj ception, "What a name foraeoldierf -ffl "The fittest name in the world for a . captain," rejoined a witty fair one, " for Silk can never be worsted." , fclrandfather LIctshIngle and Jlsop. V -$?8 Grandfather Lickshingle came into the office of the Petroleum World and <said if there was anything he could not abide, * f--3 it wa3 to see history " all balled up, as this man had done it." He told the reporter to get out his short-hand pencil and quote him word for word, and he would make J2sop sick: THE BOYS AND THE FROGS. "As to the fable uv the boys and the frogs," said he, "these air the facts, for I wuz present an' saw the whole business. You see, pnme boys who wuz :'Z playin' near a pond, saw eight or a dozon frogs in the water, an', boy like, amused themselves by peitin' them with stones. After several wuz killed, one of the fi ogs, a big green feller, lifted '.. - ; his head outen the water and cried i out: ' ^ ^ "Pray stop, my boys; what is sport to you is death to us!" i "Now, that's /(rhere iE9op stopped. But that ain't where the hoys stepped. i. Not much, Mary Ann. They laughed i at the frog's remarks, and cried aloud: 'Bat him in the mouth!' and gathering up each a handful of rocks they batted > him with great com hativeness. . ^ "Moral?Boys will be boys." THE MAN AND HIS WIG. ' The facts," continued grandfather, "as to the maq losin' his wig air as fol-. ;" , lows: . y "A certain man who wore a wig had the misfortune to lose both hat and wig in a violent windstorm at a picnic. His gay companions (laughed at the great desert of Nohara, so to speak, on top ua his head?all save one, a female, who j wept bitterly. 'She is his sweetheart,' * I thev said. But.no; she was the hair ! dealer who hau sold him the wig, air IWd it by a mortgage. "Moral?She should have held it by a string," I The valua of textile products produced in the United Kingdom is$775000,000. United States $42),0 >,) <HX), France $340,000,000 and Germany $240, I 00,000. t A King's Devotion to the Virgin., J There is something touching even nov | in the tender, the aimost past-'ona e deI votinn of this stern ar.d puwt ifui king to 1 the Virgin Mary. He made i.cr a duchess f and also a colonel of his anuj! It may ; excite a smile now, but, it was all dene i in perfect good faith by him. For ^ome I reason which I have not seen explained. ; hi i special devotion wu to the holy i virgin of K uhrun, in the High Alps. He i had a small image of that Iteure made, and wore it in his hat; nnd wliepc-vcr he | had a leisure momrnt he fell upen his knees before it, and was almost ecstatic i; in his devotion?. fie:i!s-> hai a grand f l enthusiasm for our lady of Clery, and I set her imnee *.!so in hi* hat. Tbts ;at? j ter image I have >een on (be liigU altaf at Clery?a small, out-of-the-way vil* | iage about ten miles from Orieans. There is something peeuiiar about it. i It is a ve ry ancient "and a very dark and i rosy doll, rather better looking tfian the majority of soch images. This Clery I virgin has no arm*, and supports no i babe, th< ugh the infant face is painted ! on her breast. Ilcr dress is also curious, coming from lie wck to the altar in such a f;i.-hi';n a?som:ik> the image look ! like :i wi<Ie-ba-?d cone of blue, goldi t rimmed satin, wit ft her Iiead appearing :ts tin* :tpe.\. l':iis was tDe figure that !. u s oit-nes "s-1 to worship, and at v-.o e feet he desired tc be buried.? I'/i'i cr's M'lyozinc. ?