Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, March 3, 1877, Page 12

AY, MARUIL 1877-TWELVE PAGES refer to purchase Xectite wonderfull; It i5 certalnly dainty varior wo substitito for the anci ing, which, like Per conie to completion. T crepe scarfa slow an a tastefal admixty Breakfast-caps conti; oung and ofd, that of a aweepin, known as & mob-cap, *| Is generaily a double fluted lace, Througls tho centre pass bon, which ties on top with tho back give ad the materfala and themselves pretty things, rk, and’ a capital dent tatting tand crocact seemed neyer to he most elegant of China embroldery of ¢ tre of gold and allver, nue In favor with matrons Pfobably the favorite 'ASILIONS. in Silk and Woolen Spring Goods. A Heart-Breaking Toilette Which was Devised by Worth, ming on these file, edged with es 8 hand of rib- a8 bow, ana long ditional effect. Styles in Lingerices=The Liberal Use of Lace aund Tinsel. TIE COMING SEASON. Hats and Trimmings—A Pretty Overdress Nt Fork Krening Pout, —Fichus and Fans, The capote-shnped bonnct Is likely to be the most favored {n the coming season, with certaln modifications from the shape now worn In silk and velvet, Tho brime of straw bonnets aro narrower, allowing room for a valenciennes or tulle ruching next to the faco; the crowns are lower and broader,—~very broad, in fact,—dolng away with the Tyrolean point, which are entire- 1y hidden by bows, flowers, or drooping feathers, Wreaths mostly of leaves with nendant buds or blossoms Interspersed, ana falling on a fringe ot the back ana on the siles of t! NEW YORK. SILK AND WOOLBX GOODS, Speciol Correspondence of The Tribune, Nzw Yorw, March 1.—Wjth the openine of this month there is a more liberal dlsplay of tho spring atyles. And though Parls Itsclt has not dectded what shall actuaily be tho fashions of the season, one cun almost judgs what will be from the few importations already received. As there is just now a comparative dearth of now materials, ono may ‘always dopond on varlous fabrics comprised under tho generat head of sitk and woolen goods, There are, however, a few novelties. Varle- ties of heavier spring goods exhiblt bayadera stripes, In which the ground Is diversified fmporters of flowers have all is beautitally and closely Imitated, it does not ‘st all prevent desigmers from Indulging In flights of the fmagination whenever It scoms necessary tomake a flower or a leaf which s no% included In noturc's category; or, when the shape of some known flower s prescrved, It {s often disguised In the borrowed shade which fashion has made the favorite of .the hour, This has been the case with the rich designs in flow- ers for winter cvenfog dresses, and Just now the call for sulphur roses and light-green buds Is allowing nccessity to bo the mother of Inven- tion, Yellowis the color at present in tho ascendant, and #o cases of light-yellow flowers arc the most prominent, althouy shades 1n all othi There are man; a harmonfzing color. Thus, upon brown, are tiny stripes of blue and white, and dark- Llue with lines of red and white. preferenco for siriped and figured goods, and, combined with piain silks or sclf-colored cloths, Abey make charming toflettes. New vigognes arc,this month particularly de- sirable, showing pretty combinations of colors or barmonious ehade-blendings. Tho striped vigognes are most affected, and are chiefly dark-hlue, with stripes of a lighter shide; or an cxquisite silver-gray upon dark-green, black, or For those desiring lighter fabrics is furnished » handsome goods known as Cuban There aro several rhowing n se2ded ground, others a twll Tace, coarss or flne, in varfuus rhades of er colurs are cou spring tlowers which'are yellow, fon I8 perhiaps not very much oul #hapes have scarcely been dectded ome later In the reason, although hat they are to be much smaller hat the relgn of thy wide- ats fs at “an end. A new fashlon now much in the copylug of the Henry I11. the tugue or smiail Do seen I the old plctures the recont dinner and cvene out this now flen by the closc- tiphtly fitted with whalebone i squiare neck amd high-standin or ruche. ‘Thees ncauln are moditled quare or cutaway coat, with fnsflo test Lude of satin, worn also Wwith ruches and folls of This cloth comes chielly grny. Those having a green, lavender, nud stone tint are coneldered particularly cholce. A primary recommenda- tlon for the Cuban cloth, 15 its cheapmess. Mcasitrh in wwldth, It ean bo hought Anotheradmtrable suftin 1t ia all woul, roft and delicate, and is to be had either in stripes, pin-chedl twills, 1t, too, Is remarkabl brimmed “coaching shiapes polut to vogue in Pars, bealdesits real beauty, twentv-seven inchics or () ceuts per vard, I8 casimere deluine, 15 copiett, suelae of that thue; and Ing drcescs carry fittfue boddice, and Hintshied wit or sclf-colored 8 are less generally used. Woolen goods, or allk and woolen, tuko the ey have mentloned, figug ©, muterials aro most rought. Henee, ywhen an all-sfik fabric {s desired, * 8 {hunasse or a brocade, Iu thcee latter elegant selections arg shown, Tho hand- arranged that the cly into white, and clfeet {s produced by the artfstie co) various flowers. Ong ‘varlety of *tl (fileut shade has hiids aud roses 80 ralsed on thic surface, presenting u finest plush.” In thieee ne: ulso a favorite “nupnce,” Avery cadelus a round of pale! embossed pattern In whif o pencock’s feather, the radiating lnes beauti- Among -the striped materials one Is much admfred that hins atter of rleh marvon and sllver gray. somo brililant sl saunre, and filled in nch lnce; embroklerivs, cousistin silver, apd steel, and act th of thu vests, the flu ur de is belng repro- duced most frequently In all possible combina- Clienllle will of courso cnter trivuning of sprin; tulle embroldery sometimes thickly m! beads; the s faco ter In trimming largely Into the bounets; searfs ang with chienille in all colors, ixed with small gilt oratec fying been used this win- nvonlug dresses, Condings of nud the brims of round s coma glready worked handsoué bro- lavenderupon which the te resciibles Lhe end of hats und edges of bonnet: In patterns of chenllle ot DPSIGNS YOR 8UITS. uns 18 gencrally a timo when n the idens for néw iressess the do ndt oceur until March {n and ut firat thero is much difliculty in hon the hest deslzns; thosy most In to becoma comn {ll newer ouce, It s always s¢ experiments have. been on firmly fixed. suits ary’ mnde np of cashe over silks which uneed freshe Is used over silk, dearth occurs fn are now worn #o Ton, pring openings fr that it (s & question with they can hest arrango skirt trine- anfngs that they insy be at the sunio tline sulfl- clently fli;ulcnm:ll In space and anu;ry Inappear er, e e vopular, ug "sver. sunerscded lator b best to walt till the: tried and the foshiy scason, thereford, wmere ju all shades s o black cashiuero “The ovendress 1 1ot ov 2 and draped; rosettes or used tnuch for trimming. slecveless, are added for liot inade on the patterns not very longs Some™® dresses TOW heading-ol a stinple hiaa foi cut tn saw-teeth points, and have a ver ids - Narrow flouncen, are oxtensively used, L overlylng knifee trlmminga ure ex- metal “galloons, red, il vink hich cusfvely used; tuted brald, sk Drafids, beaded or embrolde among drcesy garnitures, Blos bands liovo ule ways o prominept place, and fringe: uch ndmlired and used. dress of the maroon-striped vigogne | 28 of muroon bralids, trimming, {8 made ton; bows of satin are Over-Jackets, made atrect wear; these are worn during the winte ey are temmed with galloon o d~materfals are nppropriate for thess vluin cashmero §s not lkod; dark low atripe being one of zid {n fmported sufts, the fringe hivdes repeoduced {n it. y ha varled by having Lo stindes of hit tut of siiver gray s trimne:d with flourices head by the maroon easbaere bound with sllver-z Visiting dresscs canalst of mixtures of sllk, sathy, aud rich brocades, An Iy the favorlte shade of yc derdress of satln, andup the front with ul folds and flat ealloon em °| fine atecl beads; thesa trly closcly o8 to lup each other; the itk, o shade darker, drawn back Lo show ¢l terles, ele., are of tingel or metal ay, In cxecrablo ud use Is” certafuly ver ainest dress, and henco ad- thio fuvorite desl; has the two sh muroon fn cashuere ma; the galloon embrotderes naroots and 1l derdress of sl arnamentation, I8, I nced not tartes hut o jud )vrigl;,tulvxxllxg to the pl A JIANDSOMH TOILETT P on of this styld of tlon dress of rich vurple rocaded with silver, cr the Princesse shope, und hog | d walst of the * habit-rube” vute sible sllver brald one finger wide, enrlched with clusters of embrol acinths of Ltwo shades of pure he samo brad completes the bottom of tho ekirt, and o shnflar Aproposof thisstyleof teim- luve just seen a d of which the gariiture Is as magnificent us it Iy unique. ‘The sress of han the trained skiet, rhowlhe an adn trimming, Is a rece) urmur‘e, umn{uly dress {8 et aft the fong-skirted tnported dress of 1low brouze Liad an un- i1 around the bolton ternate rows of satin broldered thickly with cry representing trima the slecves, was open in front and i@ front of the underdress, A PRETTY OVERDIBSS, A favorlte style of overdress for th suits made by tho best Freyeh liouses g loug breadthis which are continuutio leces which fo suft, heavy white silk ornamented cuthered blas ruflles of ‘silk, o Lo this there Is a he rn tho walst; - theso 1l are trimmed with but notwo breadtha are Ide aro perhaps u bow made of nding of crepo lisse ruclics, overskirt of some oxquinite materlal batlles deseription, might boe appro called sllvery ** tish-seale ™ hrocado, a long tabller, gracefully and Around the edio {8 placed th ture, which Is at once the of half the belles of Gotham, It conslists of rare lnce #ix Inches wide, richly stuccoed with 1, nrments of mother-of-pearl, i particle having In the centro a uny rulling sprays of rich crini- cream roses, beginnlug at the proceed from the walst, and follow the The walst fs decollel artatically uniting both materials, trimmed “with the Tace, and i “houuuet decorsage entlre drevs I3 Iie satin, and by gasligh #lon us one with - Fortunatus embroldered gallouns, trimmed alike. Fioso on ong sf Jolned together by u sash tled fn pridress; wiidle tho hreadths on the oth ro trimmed at the edg he whle chenlile fringe, ol over the baci the walat aro allow Itke two low sash end trlmined with fringe. oud for elegunt bl Irregularly draped. c Ixum}a&x]lm‘gu‘:?:l- aud nalf-way envy and admiration 2 AN Jway tn 3 s nlxed withs bafls K breadths the side wed to continue down day ikl thess ure agaln This stylo Ia o favorito ack sllk costutes, and on theso 11 fringes are muck put o us an edzing up the il toste for vertleal ranand delleate the small balls ore sldes o tho breadi lines b the dress is found rasse walsts mady for dinner o low neek or syquares; the deej With scallops, and tho flat edice them 1y earrfed u seallops, ana divides t| which look like Innumerable This contributes to dressedd In the % Valol, to us the predomina seen, of course, that the wmuch worn, lned Just them to the of roses at tho left. A throughout with white beautiful a possca- ’ cap could deslre, owner's seeret dol opon distress of her “dear 500 frie; of thls specles 8 to mako more, trimming used” to ward after turnin o walst Into vertle cafitted togeth- hus no duplieate 8" fushlon before alludo! it one In Paris, ¢ husquo walsts ure stil) Ll whalebone, to ad- the sleeves ara Whilst o thu sub- WORTIL AND BLEGAN: Jet mo tell youof o fuw that were displayed at shington reception, s undentubly the ball par Irat and foremost comes 0 worn by the wie of one fzure and hipss 4ud are somettiies slashed und ow the shoulder and about the 1 the magniticent tollett of our most promin THIMAI, ro let e puy par parenthe For skirt-trlmmings, ru elther payed out: or cut agaln coliug into fuvor wirluge widp or even poluts und set one above: cr of five or duven, findsh, these dressca 8e A tribute to I ons well and widely wotanly charftivs ne shie eleguncs of her wardrabe, ul dress was a lovsy, Ivet, upon which polnt peeulinrly ches of silk or antin, into sharp poluts, are and narrow flounces, ess, are cut fnto saw T the othor to the num- With the full rosette for reacinble those of some CArs uoy the rosctte, firit seon on childre Is now much used on dressvs or folded satin, Luown for her sw ‘The back of her be; Howing one of richest Ly were tlounees of rarest round arrunged. These flounces wer down the back, and for headin an - exquisite carniture, caslon, of pansfes und dalnty 1lie The front of the dress wus superbly udorned with polut | fieid by tournures of pansies und Jace und other ornament dlamonds wado tho toll resses uinl sults, it s of sitk ribho all these full roscttes *chiny, bave been worn this winte: aud vventng head-dresaes, combin ers, s of the valloy, of white satin, ace, and heauti. r on honiiets’ ed with feath- PICIUS AND NECKWEAR, d with capes and collars of pes arv polnt- bboni the little collar ade standing, apd the a plaiting, and { the saine shape sscdy mado of mushin und open and edged with rufs tms the cave; therels o llar of some light shade of n Lhe cajie, and’ around the the sllk, which tics th of * fmmcnse solltuire ctte all that couldbe de- 1 costumo was also of black 1 @ long Princesw robe with fnsorted front delicate rose brocad garnished with fiue cld lace and blush roses, Titanta™ herself, wass of palest blue crepe plissus, and pufls, wly novel amd chuste, wricetly sleevelegs, tig Dressca are finlshe us] Another beautlfu! ued with colors tho entlre drees | fustened with a which tinlshes them 18 mo kI sometines mbd bord, are warn uver silk dre; i theneck i Jute thie Jace which tri lurge turnover eyl foulard or sllk set standlig rache a ¢ u 8 Jooke knot on the breas ‘The gverdress Thero wasa low-necked, -ttt walst of pale, This camo tu & decy L, 1o two pofnts in the back, an Was ws sinvolhly drawn as o glove. There was penlng to this corsage until 1 revealed the fact that It laced T eords at the guder ar, was secdred with simdlar cords 1o _upparent o| cluser nspection usten up lu the uare collarette to Lunsists of & wide guuzy, edged on onda Ince; the front hits ereve llsse, nes u Buther ahapo |3 u s i seams, and and tesscls on A dellieute fringe of blue and ¢ basque, and at th of silver ouk ress £s o billowy profusion sath pipings und Luttom of the tabller fs 'd bund o silver ouk leaves a wurns upen crepy llsse, A aimllur leaves Torms the coilfure, 7T fresh nnd airy, und partieularly tante, Ad regurds dross, this of novelty lu other departucuts, the shops exldbie | i cither sldo with whits L) fustens under a full roset ends of which are trlumed with oL uh near tho lelt shoulder, hues lues §s ¢ ends, mixed with cordings volor, or candingl, sud chenflls sulxed In to form ends, Cravats of myrtle-green plush have balls und friuge of green und allver trims the the bust s beautiful wrea! ol crepe Usse puils, ullied up for eravat il tedle hand-vinbrofdere i trimined with ®old, mixed with B pgauze, or checked wauze, b, und alternating with lucs with rutiles and chenillo usertlons, urs ey udelphia “scarfs; ¢ ure kuown as Phi, geacrally {u scurle esc cullarette for oyenlug wear ks of Spanish blonde, gathered and sur- frivged-ut ruche of pale-blue luco 13 ‘used to orn high at the back, e laro quite far back; wacd-over cuds just bes les Litherto uuthought of, Laco llower “the better) Iy datuty devices. the Ue most selected fy of white 51, ull(ud‘:v(lh n&tlwfih‘l’flrm ng. Crepe do chlug crae particularly elerunt, resay ovearions, ado, mapy ladics mornlug wear, vilk; & [rlnged- close It fu frout, Linen collars ure all w -0 i{ 3 ciennes of Hunby; ut rosette iy vats, edued with {r] but are chlerly re for In Heu of buylsg thew Teady-m Tow the chin; rome have somc quite sharp; there arc scveral styles equally fashlonable. For morning wear bands n? colored linen sre ket on them fnslde, and turn over with the points in front. For morning tollets collarettes and aleeves in black or whita lace, embroldered with vlolet chenille, are worn, Flander lace I3 also much in vomue for trim- ming any style of cvening dress, and especlally on children's dress sults. ? FANS, Fans are made to slmulate leaves; the stlcka are of Ivory or torfolso shell, and the unrer part f leaves, In silk, plush, or velvet, in all shades ot 5mn:' Thev e “Solnal a” fniehed wih 1 (:Hn fans, The florist makes the sticks ot dark buds, and the upper part of fine flowers, Hilles of the valley, fern, or any delicate an plumy plants, —————m— WESTERN PATENTS, A weekly lst of United Btates patents fssued to the inventors of Iilinols, \Wisconsin, and Michigan for the week ending Feb. 27, and each patent on the list will bear this date. Reported expressly for Tne TRinux® by A. I Evans & Co., patent solicltors, Washington, D. C. Charge for obtalning a patent, $20. A copy of tho Patent laws sent free on application: . ILLINOIS, W. W, Barlow. Chicago, door lateh, F. IL Tant, Chieago,’ hydraallc clevator. Reltz & Echolzer, Jolict, vexetable catter, @. E. Sulphen, Aurora, doorepring, ¢+ J.' Chieatman, hecatur, roofing composition. €. L. Lricrlein, Chicago, coal mining machine. W, T. Nichols, Uhlengu, rotary harrow, J. . Powera, Chicago, monkey wrench. T, 1t Wolnger, Chlcago, ticket case. N. M. Boll, Mcllenry, gate. A. H, Cheitlaln, Chicago, cotton prees. CT. C. & 4, Curtis, Chicago, Indicator. J. Elder, Deardstown, car axlo box. ‘T. A, Frakes, New Holland, tico tighteney, J. E. Gary, Chieago, steam vacuum pump, P Tawley, Odin, ¢orn sheller, B. son, EMngham, reciprocating charn, M, C. Mills, Chlcago, knob latch. H. 1L Patee, Monmouth, cultlvator, L, 1, A, Q. & A. J. Reynolds, Chicago, anto. matie frait drler, C. Rhondes, Rockford, rotary churn, D. 1t. Roach, Atlanta, hiay loader. M. D, Temple, Chlcago, pump. i .I’l' A[. ‘Toompson, Chicago, detectors of countere oltcoin, J. A Ware, Morrix, faldlug chalr, 4. D, Woods, Aurora (relesued), churn dashers, @G, Evenden, Chicago (derign), cans oll, cte, E. Norton, Chicago (trade-mark) ,can, Hlartmann & Bro., Belleville, lager bocr. WISCONSIN, W, B. Whiting, Waukesha, constructlon of hull for veascls, 8. E, Frazfer, Tronton, chnrn. (. B. Plckott, Paoll, potato digger and cultiva. T, c". Allen, Milwankee, sawer cleaner, . A P. Goodhue, Fond du Lac, box-nafling mae ne, Al Lally, Eau Claire, enw-mill carringe, Cr A. Libby, Evanssille, mop wrlnger, €. A. Weed, Itacine, rods for wagon bolsters, MICITGAN, 4, 11 Prentice, Saginaw, car stove, E. It, 8gllman, Burr Ouk, car starter, L, b, Allyn, Graud Rapids, measuring machine, W. L. Carier, Monroe, lamp burner, W M, Curtis, Wyandotte, nre saparator. L. Granger, Arminda, frult drler. B Ulnu{. Detrait, spring bed bottom. 0. Perry, Filnt, scvder. A.dL, Itisscll, Adrion, Lee:hive, B, Stevens, Alleyton, detachable link, % J. 1. Sweetland; Pontlac, charn. S ———— ' PORK-PACKING, Spectal Correrpondencs af The Tribune, Des Moives, In., Fob, 28.~Tacking-housca hero have now closed for tho season. But two of the four ran at hll, and that of Gen. Tuttlo closed carly owing to the scarcity of hogs. Tho demand was principlly for light hogs. A lurge proportion of the meat was prepared'for En- elish wurkets, J, 1E. Windsor & Co. having al- ready shipped over 9,000 boxes to Liverpool, Toga Liiled, Avernge gros. Averaze prico pals iilghest prico pald, ¢ Lowent price paid, car-] Ponuds shoulder; Founda lang cle Pounds ahort clear: Ponuds lony hawnn, . Pounds Stafordahire ham: 000 Pounda Cumbarlands 2, 000 Tounds Dublina. 18,009 Ponnds Yorkahir Itarrels mess pork., 2,800 Ticrcen ureass 110 Tiarrels tonguer ny Darrcls hocks.. ‘1K Averago lard per hog, Ms, o .- il Every part of the hog Is utllized exeept the aqueal,, ‘Tho small entrails arecleaned and sent to Chicagos tho Lristies to 8t, Louia; the blad- dors aro citanied aud filled with Intd for the English market; the hoofs plekled or sold for lua to Chicago, Over $1,100,000 were pald out ‘:EIU by thoso two houses for hozs. Wiidsor & Co, have uniple and complete urrangements for simuser-killiug, and will start agaln next stim- mer, with 12,000 tous of e In atore, as a cooler, s o alna AUGUSTUS AND ANESTHUSIA, "Twas in lghted parlor lov, Of senne o feast, of woul aifow, Into her liquid eyes Atgustus gaz'd, and in this wine ~ Heuapokoand wald: ** Upon your brow A pensivo shadow resteth now: What troubled thonghts atlr your sweet breast? Bpeak, love, and toll me,—Iot me share With you thia deep, corroding care ! She ainii'd, and aigh'd, and soft cunfessed Uer mind fhuslys ° ++ it polonaise «Just after Eustor holldays Are going out, ~ I wish [ know,— T eall nuy old ones o a Jew;' Theu added, with a thoughtful smile, **'f'bey sy pull'd sleeves will bo in style, ** *Twan on the bounding blllows, wet, Where onco sho and Augustus met: +! Hehold, ' he aafd, ' the moonlight gleam Upan tho dancing waves' falr green!™ L3 lovo, ' ah anid, whila & ewcet smile *’d sround her dalnty Hps the while; I8 Just cxactly thosame sbado Of whicl tny new spring hat s made, " And thon sudden shadow foll I]PMI the faca he lov'd sa well, S4\What 1a 1t, Aneathuala denry" **1 wish that Madame Fazz wos hergs Buch fosmy fringe would bo too aweet For auything un a box-pleat!" Once, in a manslon of sandetone, Blic said to him, hi tender tone, vl hiat dreams ullulury light your eyet Where in the lamP v hiyh of Famo ‘Woull my Augustus write his namo?"™ Al grimly thea ho heaved a sifh, And to her question thi 1. 1lo atralghtay made: V'Y ou ace, my dear, 1t Uncle Drow should die next yoar, And leuve o all his fortane clear, 1'd write my namo upon the Wall, And ssk my creditors to eall, But n w chang’d} Life |s 30 strangal Iams Iper here on "Chango!" Curvavo, 24, oty ArLpix, THE TRAMP, Hungry? Well, rather? It's finln“ Nigh on to a week since 1 ha A square nical: the truth, sure aesin, sir, Aud the fact makes mo feol kinder bad, Talu't uscd to it, this way of livin'— I was onco at the ton-notch myself; Bt things took u enddon xiop—~huvted— Laid mo up, so to speak, on the shelf, "Took todrink? Why,of course! It's the way,sir; When a chap gets a-gofn’ aown hill, There {u thewm v stands b{ fur to help him, And give hins u start with a willy nd, whon ho pully up at tho bottom, , Clean gone and used up, it's the stamp As gives him away; ho's a loafor— ey pardon—more perlitoly, a tram, It's the way uf the world, Some gots up, sir (F'sg experleuced tho same, and § knuwa) ; And them as s up Jeat stopy down, audl, When down, {u the bad sure they go L's Jeut there myself, and I telly them As 8its themselves chuck.full of alry, *Taln't potrick fur to stuwmble, and fullin' Down s casier 'n walkin' up'staird, 1aiu't hiero to discuss on the subject, Lut to eat, ef you've zat some Lo wpare, ‘old victualat Well, Lain't wo pertic'ise As 1 uved to bo once. Have a chair? ‘Well, yes, fur its pleasanter sottin® Than standin' to eat, you'll agres.’ No buttery Well, dey bread 'l wnewer, Though -g‘x.x'::t'flu‘ waziola® Il go well, 1f you Nover touch It. *Tain't much ta my lkin'; Somotbin' sfronger 'd bie belter, ‘cause § Aln't used 1o weak drlukin'; “ain'e Ilt'nllh‘y hut u chiap s boards rouud ou ¢ tho 8y, ", All outy Kinder worry, Dry catin® "Thout somethiu’ or other, you're f" chlllnm Ou vee s A 7 Ow; ly feelin', w of tea, Witsoy, Ju, ——— Dau aud atty, Aguln comes up that story of Webster's, fn- troduction to Harrfet Martineau,—a stury which 13 churacteristic enough to b repeated uivoslons ally. The ereat man was usbered up the large Tooms to whers tho voted author stood ex- peetant. A wgrmuring * hush le_{ycs were Hxed upon tie patr. Up went Har- vt's ear-trumpet, Down stooped the inkssivo head. A silenco prevailed. ery flue even- ing, Miss Martineau,” sald Mr. Webater, slow lyy '{;nu'ulv i uis sonorous voice. *Ver, uroed lhc other, takivg down bor trumpets This has nleo led to flawer-bouquets im- nn;]l mis Qufifin s | ether in public, people Bookied ae'f e’ bhou -about the worl, royatiad, All* GOSSIP. Queen Victoria, Her Children and Grandchildren, Scan. Mag, in Rome---A Grand Wedding and Its Consequences, The Dnke of Abercorn and His Family Well-Behaved Parisian Bears, : £ DBRITISII ROYALTY. In arceent letter from London tothe New Jerusalem Messenger, Mr. Hagiden glves an inter- esting sketch of the * Royal Normal Collego and Academy of Music for thoe Blind," situated at Norwood, London, a few minutes® walk from Sydenham Crystal Palace. *Not long stnce,’ ho says, by an arrangement brought about through the good offices of the Duke of Weit- minster, the whole school went down to Wind- sory amil gave the Quecn a private concert at her residence. On arriving at the Castie, Mr. Camp- bell was informed by ‘tho Queen's Becretary that her Majesty selifom listened to any kind of performanco more than twenty minutes: and that he must have some .one employed to keep wateh, and keep him advised of her motions; and If it was observed that she became restloss and twisted about fn her chalr, he must bring his concert to on end, no matter what pact of the programme ho had reached, 8o ho commenced bis performances in ciecumstances caleulated to render hilm o littlo nervous or dis- concerted. But ho proceeded with good cour age, At the eod of twenty minutes the Queen did not show any signs of wearlness,, but, on the other hand, appeared much interested as the cxerciscs went on. At tho end of an hour and a quarter Mr. Campbell, thinking they nad detained her long cnough, came forward and expreased. the gratification thev felt in being allowed to entertatn her with thelr perform- ances, and that now, with her permission they would finish the concert by singing *God 8ave the Queen,’ Mr, Campbell also saying that, as noue of his puplls could sce her Majesty, who had so graclously llstcned to them, he hoped sho would give thom the plensure of hearing her apeak beforo they left her prese nee. ‘The Queon seenied highly pleased with the sug- gestlon, and n the Inst plove rose from her seat ang llo(u od with thewm i singing it. At the con- cluslon, coming forward to them, she sald she could 1ot take the ands of all the singers, thete were 80 many of them, but if tho Jittfe rhlldn.-n would come up, of whom therewere sixteen, sho should be xlmrm shake the hand of cach one, This they accordingly did, much to thelr gratifi- entlon, And so they wero much pleased with the result of their cuncert, whilo they fondly cntertalu tho Tope, tor which thers” Is xonid ground, that they may one dn,r have the Queen down to vislt them at Norwood, ' Says 0 London letter to the San Franclsco Chrontcle: **'Iho Queen's last—no, I fear, nhy- thing but last, therefore I will say lust for thy present—gramdehild has been chirlsienod Vietorla Mclita, the second name belng In honor of bnby's Maltese birthplace. Lho wits here- abouts say there should have beeu n tratisposl- tlon of the first two vowels of the sceond appel- lutlon,—that, In consideration of the multl- plicity of her Majesty’s descendants, the name ulmuHI ruther have been Vietorla Mileta. Tho Edinburrers are, by the by, mich to ho comnis- erated; £ don't mean on account of the numer- ous bables, but because of the hostile feoliug Which exists between England and Russfa, The Duchess, Loo, Is not comtortably placed fn lier husbaud’s family, and docs not get on with her royul alsters-in-law, suve with Loulse, wltb {8 also in°_a false position. When tho Duke of Edinburg.was In England lost, alone, whila his wife and children ‘were in Hussia, he and Loulao went about together [mmctu&lly. angd probably often cumlmml notes upon e hard- uieas of their lot. "The ane member of the royal feally with whom the Grand Duchess gets on worst Is sall to bo Beatrlee, These two, says rumor, hato each other with that lively intensl- ty of dclcnlnllou which generally oxlsts between alstera-lo-luw, the chluf eause of hatred helng the old troubla of the quostion of precede 1t 1a alao eald that the Qureen fa desirous t! Beatrico should mnery the Marquis of Stalford, grandson of hier Majesty's warnily-attachod old 1rlend, the dead Dachéss of Sutherland. Ono duy, not. lun?nfiu, tho Marquls, belne Iu company with a lot of his fricnds, was asked by one of them when he was golng to marry that falr Princess, ¢ Nover,! Tie answered, lauchtlly; *I don't_ choose to walk beohind my wife, na my cousin Lorne does’ Buch s the tale the gosalps tell, I It fs not true, It s well tolds? for it fs u - fact thot In state proces- slous Loulse 18 wenerally palred oft with sutig Princeling, such as ono of her brothers or brothera-fi-law, and poor Lorne fellows miles be- hind, perhaps with a lady of hanor, And yet In overy reapect, tho guestion of descent Included, he I8, bave for ranking neither os royal por as’ screno highness, knmeasurably the support of eyery oue of his brothers-In-faw, especiatly of Christlan. Lord Lorng's grandmother, tho deud Duchess of Butherland, ajready mentioned, was 80 beautiful and re; looking that when she in years past appear to- d the Duchess always 88 1f she should have been the Quecn, The liouso of Hrunswick may be llustriour,—nt. luast 1t 1s, porhuru, tho duty of us Britishers no to conslder it,—but asifutnily it 18 anything rather than arfstoeratle looking, sadly Incking that di- vinity which would, but scldom does, hedgo o g, "’f)! all the members of that house the Princo of Wales is decidedly tho most popular, fils tastes xnnr not bo very clevated, but ho is thor- oughly kindly und urbone, A pleasant littlo story Is just now afloat about him, Durlng his lato’travels he met with o queer old Kentleman who, notwithstanaing the disadvantage of belng deal and dumb, was much given-to wandering (‘. and in Egyl]’lt or elsowhere tho two beesme very friendly, ” During s fylng visit to his notive England on the part of this ven- erable truveler ho recelved an mvitation to one of the Prince's partles, Now, It is & well- kuown fact that l{llben. Fdward ulways makes It & polat to shuke hunds warmly with amd saylng something pleasaut to cyery one of s guests in “turn, never sllefiting any one one or shewlng favoeltlsm; but as it would have been usecless to wske o {"“:{ speech to & man who could not have ieard n word of it, the Royal host, to make up for the inevituble omisilon, took loth his mute gueat's hands in both hls own, aud afterwards In dumb show introduced’ him to the Uriucess, who, being atso reduced to spocehlessncan, gave Wm one of her sweotest stnlles. ‘Tho first thing the Priuce of Waled is #ald to do every mornlng afier rising is to give sudicnco to the Pulr of Rayal pickles 1 told you about some whilo agu. ‘Theae two cumne burst- ing into the room In uproarious fashion, and toimedlately luy hands ufmu wihutever is nleest upot papa's breakfast-table, 1f both pickles take 8 fancy to one particular delleacy, a seram- ble, ending perbaps o a fight, cisucs, and sunietines half poor papa’s mntutinal meal Is on the floor, But the ‘good Bertlo' of the Queen's Journal in the hg‘zmumh' tukes all things foud~mumredly and Jully; fudeed, one cutinot hielp thinking how much he renlly must enjoy these morning romps (s which slso his thres littlu daughters fo!n) ere buckling to the dreary round of "ia datly public Jite, ‘The best thllui about the Princo s that love for the do- mestle hearth which he hoas inherited frow his mother, 1lis privato suite of rooms on board the Berapls, the ship which was his howe duriug his late fourney to and from Inala, were hung with poriralts of his wifo and children, one pho- tographle stand alone contalnlig a dozen por- tralts fn diffcrent uttftudes of the former.," 4t A ROMAN SCANDAL, Anne Brewster writes from Romo to the New York Worlds *Tho Black or Nerl Crelo— s the Papulinl are called in Rome—has been shaken to Its very fashionable centre lately, by & mmost sstounding act of ono of its membery, Tho affalr has been discussed ot dingor-tables, served up at receptions, and oven fu the high and mighty eceleafastical sudionce-room¥ of the Princes of the Church ft has been treated upun with ull the notes of Interrogution and weuder thut can bo thrown inta speech. The haudling of the fucldent, too, has proved very duwaging unluckily to the *antecedents,? as we AmSrivans suy, of the principal u the scandal, The recent date of bls nobllity has been disclosed; snd anembers of the same sockal elrele no better oft than be ls, in" date and condition of sucestry, will eaolly attribute the shocking hehaylor of tho sun to tho mezzo-ceto (Bouryevisc) blood of the father. ‘* A fortnizht or so ago tho daughter of tho Slarchieov Lezzuni was murried with great pomp acd ceremony to Conte Polidorl,. Tho Leziaul, thouzh yot belunging to the highest and oldest uobility of Rome, are well vonnceted, und sup- posed to bo enornously wealthy, They ure ro- Juted by marrlage to the Frincess Baudini, Duchessa i Gallese, ete. The weddlng cone puuy Was & diativguished onc; mauy uotabills ties of the old Church and the old Btate wero present: Cardinnl Berradl, Cardinal i Pletra. . the Duca della Reging, ote. The presents of the bride were very hanidsome, and they were spread out in an clegant dressing-room with streat pride. While the grand company was assemibled At the breakfust, after all the ceremonles wero over, and the youne spost were preparing for thelr_fourncy ‘to Florence, they missed from the large - table-tloth a superb parure of emernlds and a dlamond eing of great value,— wedding-gifta from the Marchieas Lezzant to his daughter. Tho whole family, It sceins, lost what little head it had, and thic father was com- pletely out of himsclf, Moflew into a greit rage, eent oft for a polico-oflleer, closed the doors, and {nsisted upon sublecting’ his gucats to nn examination! Think of baving a Ilol; Apostolical Prince—a member of the Sacrei College and n 5mmlcfl of Bpaln—handted of- Nclally, on susplelon of mhbcrf. by & pollce-of- ficerl” "Tho puckets of the Caniflual purple rum- muyzred by a policeman| d Marchese Lexzang r)sucn!cll but_onc-tenth 8t his reputed riches, 0 had better have let his daughter lose nll her Jowels than to have put such an Insult on his guests and auch an unending shame on himeelf and his fumily, Of vourse, no jewclswere found by the police-ufilcor, *Now comes n mysterious denouement,a strange uneaveling of the matter, Tho brideand groom departed for Florence, When they arrived there the missing jewels were found tn one of the {nnug Contesaa's traveling-cases! 1t is sald her makl put them in, and did not know that they wero the missing ones! Tlio cross purposea of this ill-fated marringe are not ond- ed yet. The fi-mmnqmn' havo fallen ofit with cach other whilo on” thele honeymoon. Thes have found stinging bees of discontent with cach other fnstead of sweet houey, and Conto Polldord has written to the Marchese Lezzaul to cutne to Florence and take his daughterl *‘Now soclcty opens all lis lttle trumpets of gossin, and as it chnses the offending Adams and Eves out of its Edcns, it brandishes doublo- edged swords of sorrowful family scandals, lonte FPolidorl, they say, isnot really Conte Yolldorl, Hisrcal father was- the old Prince Corsini, who died in 1863, uncle of the present Prince, and who lcft this young gentleman 100, 000 scudl , 1lls mother was n, Jinndsome ltoman otll‘.:m morala; her hushand, Conte Polidord, n foolish old wam, was ensily deceived, the child was allowed to puss as his, and in the course of time to succeed to the titfe, *Tnen the bride, they also sy, Is not fault- less; she hus had a love affalr, clandestinely, « withan oflicer of the King's culrasslers, iler howe-life, too, hns been an unbinppy one, it is now declared. The Marcheso Lezzan! ana his wife, though accupylng the same %nlnl‘e, have tved apart for yenrs, and the Matchesa's lovo afalrs, 1t apoenrs, have been subjects of scandal a long while; with such n mothicr wnat could bo expocted of tho daughter? cvery one asks, " The Lezzani, as T anld above, do not como of noble blood. 'You will not find_the name In the Librod' Oroof the Capitol. ‘The father of tho Marchese was o lJucky bullding con- tractor. The ulnrr rung, that onve, while building fu the Via llnnclln. lie eame across o greut treasure In some of the cxcavatlons, and this was the foundation of the fortunc of the lnmll‘v. However it may be, money gathered together nbout him, Ha bought the whole lnke of ‘Albano and the lands ad)oining, und varlovs other voluablo properties. The vast cstate ho left bis son made him_of sulliclent Importaney to be ennobled. Tho Pope treated hhin a Mar- ¢hese, and he has married his sous and daughters passubly well according to soclety standard. As a tiuale’to the whole and affalr, tho last wcws Is that thu poor Marchese Lezzaniis a rnned man that all the imtense cstate of his father fs gome! “One fallare after nnother bos “injured gradwally hls means, and now the. decamplng of the onlan bauker Bunbucctti has fintshed matters for the {l-fated Lezznil, You sce, * soclety® can aiford tohurl stoncs, and sticks, and mud after tho downfallet man and his family, If he had re- tatucd his fortune, his conduct in regard to the missing jewels would have been lushed up3 the fruilties“of his wifa and daughter would not have been disclosed ; Conte Polldor! would have been moro lenlent, and the low birth of the Marcheso and the illegitimney of the sou-In-law would lave remalucd untold] Within the sacred precinets of fashionuble lifo there {s no such un- !mrllunnlllu #in as poverty, no such brilllant vie- ug a8 great fortune,” TIE DUKE OF ABERCORN. - A Dublin (Jan, 30) lctter to the Now York Tmessaya: ““Bluco 1 wroto Inst wo have had o new Vicoroy, The Duké of Abercorn has gona away, and the Duke of Marlborough relgns in his stead, Thero Ia not much to chooss butween then, The Duke of Abercorn was courtly anit dignified, and the Duko of Marlborougli Is sc- rlous and slow. A good deal of gosslp hus been aroused: by the Duko of Abereorn's de- purture, and a thousand reasons have been ns- sizned for tho step, but the gossipers ailmit that noadequate reason has. been adduced, and so the mystery remalus, The facts of the cass are plaln enough. IHs Graco Is a puor mans hoe lins cleven sous und duughiters and forty-ono grana- children, Al his duighiters ure married, save one, Lady Qeorglun Humilton,whiose lonelinosa Ia accotnted fur byan carly :lluu);nmmmuut, which has never been shaken oft. Three of tho sons are in the Ilouss of Commons, one of them belng Under-Sceeretary of State for Tndia, These sons cost a good deal of moncy, and the pa- tornal estates are nelther frea nor large, Tho Duke himsclf {s o very youme uam, al- sthough he has seen 68 years, and he carries Lis fancica and follics of youth with a lght hand and an_casy mind. The estate in Iroland Is pretty lorgely Ineumbered, and the yacht ang the town-house tu London and tha festlvitics of tho season run throueh the £40,000 n year, and leave nothing for creditors. As has been freely remarked here, most of the chilldren came into the world owlng money, and_are likely to leave it in the same condition, Well, o mion whose family Is fn this predicament cun hardly nfford to throw away £21,000 n year,—the salury nt- taching to tho ofilcs of Lord Licutenant of Tre- land, Bestde' having this dircet income, he cscapes all the cxtravagance of the I’,un- don scasori so that tho residence In Ireland wus doubly advantageous, 1ie had heen tho Vico formerly, and had wmado himscl! so popular that life in Dublln, with its semi-regal atate, scemned to be very attractive, - His daugh- tors had made the best inarrlages In this genera- tion; for, although thele poverly was well kuown, one of thew murrled o Marquis, one of them the helr to n Dukedom, and four' of them married Enels, For uirls \\'B\l nothing but good looks aud pretty graces, this wus not bad. am gorry to tell you, but the lady who married the helrto the Dukedom is decldedly unhia, py. Lo helr Inn great scatp and an absenteo hus- band, [ hardly know how to convey to you the exuct 1o of conduct he hns hitherto pursued, but Ty signify it. 1o effects s reconcillation, behavea hlmself Tor o weok, and then flies oll, In thoe course of that year tho lady has n lmbly, and, after thae, the samo s,}'alum I repeated. fn this way the Marchioness of Blandford has had three children, A T'ARIS SENSATION. Lucy Hooper writes from Parls, Feb, 8, to the Philadeiphia Telgraph: * Conslderable oxelte- micut was created ot the Jardin des Plantes yesterday by an aceldent which happened there to a Jittle cnlld not quite & years old. The nurso who had chargo of tho Httle fellow had placed hiin on the edgo'of tho rafling surround- Ing the bear-pit, still keeping him cuclreled with her arm. A sudden movement releascd the child from her clasp, and be fell headlomg futa tho pit, then terauted b¥ two full-grown i t, - bears. univeraal sbrlck from every one prosent preeted this sccident, s ft was of courss thought that the hears would inatantly selzo tho little Intrnder and tear hlin to pleces, But whether the bears wero tamed by long fa- inftlarity with the publie, or whether thoy wero Intimidated by the unfversal outery, has not .been declded, but ag all evouts they ninde no at- tewpt to molest the child, How to get him out wus tho noxt ntuemun. ‘The keeper happened at that moment to be absent, und it would nover. havo dono to trust too long 'to the forbearanco of tho sayags inmates of tho pit. In this cmergeney - & workingman came forwand, clmbed ° down uto | thu pit, picked up the cblld, and climbed ouf ugeain, the bears scemlng too nuch astonishe at these summary procecdlngs to offer. any ob- inulluu t0 then. “This dune, the man placed the ittle creaturo fn the nurse's arms, and_retired amid the apnlauso of tho crowd. The child was very slightly Injured, o spralned wrist Leing the ouly result, of it fall. Thls morntug M. Berthice, the” futherof the reseued Infant, puts torth an slvertiscment n the Mgaro, bcugluuh to by in- forned of the nunig and’ address of bis vhild’s reseuer, Far wore fortunate was the poor little ereaturs thay a chitd th whom o simliar aceldent Lappened at Berne some years ago, and who was fnstantly selzed and straugled by one ol the lurgest of the bears,” e —— WAYS AND WILLS, Twa worshipful cronles, both Willlai lznnnu. Tt hoppei Lo unian A ot o e e b ; With @ sight &h_ny hick Loth the Don Juana * bouuvad, And] b‘ncnr‘l{hlm exclalie, **Something wrong, It {s cleart' Th:nhu‘lumm to Madame with, **Now, hark you, wydear: Tlmu;iu, 1 cannot approve of your ways, and your s, 1 sball never bo slow, wmind, in footing your Lids, " i Jortiag 4 8 uhun[\l" B . “No, ma'am, I don't knmvlm:{ such man," e GOSSIP FOR THE LADIES. How Superfluous Wedding-Gifts Are Disposed Of. Bhe Was Looking for S8impson---Choos- ing Femalo Servgnts, A Disappointed Wifese=¥Woman in Chinaese Mafernal Anxlety. % CUPID'S ARCHERY. n 4 rocky glen by s purling brook, Whera lh{r Iunmfi'g hgnsmfnmla a cosy nook, A lovely mald had found a seat, Whlle 8 youth lay yazing, by her feet, P Lint high above on a rocky ateep. Lay minchiavous Cupid—half aslcep. The little god with a Inzy biink Took h}l ready bow nnd{nld *¢1 think 1 wlli apoed 1o the malden's heart a dar And then to tha yonth sho will ose her honrt," Thue, high sbove on the rock: steop, Sald mischlevoun Cnnld—lult’umey. The dart was shat from the dizzy height, And flow through the ale like & gleam of light; But Instead of working the ‘LM ‘A bohest, 1t pierced the youtl's (not the malden's) breast, While Ciipid, above on the rocky rteep, ., Bald, **Patinie ] 1 minsed—1 was haif aslecp, —Xew York Mail, . WEDDING-GIFTS, Net York Mercury, There _are at least six persons, posaibly more, in New York Clty engaged in tho purchase of superfluous wedding prescnts, thres of whom deal exclusively Ina certain clnss of atticles, One of these dealors, Interviewed by a reporter, carries on business In the Bowery, whore ko has a largo storo ostensibly for tho sale of unre- deemed pledges, but is most Incrative bust- ness fs fn the purchaso and .eale of wedding presents that aro only so much old lumber to thoowners, When asked hiow ho conducted the busiucss, he replled: “ You seewhen a young couple belonging to good familics get marrfed, thelr friends all make them presents, and, ning times out of ten, the young folks find them- gelves In posscasion Of certain kinds of housc- hold stull cnough to last several guncrations, The ¥ulll|¢ wifo often discovers that she hins o setb jcwclrf' foralmoat every day in the month. Why,some time ago I did busfucss with anewly- nmiarrled couple, now lvine in Loxington avemre, where the young bride—und a heautiful glirl slio wos—had €lght opera-glasses. OI courso sho dldn't want them all; so I bought five of thew, Here's one of them left [showing a small” but nhandsome peatl-mounted” opera-rlass), Sliver- wire and china are other things that newly- marrled people generally ind nmly have tvo much of, but I don't do anything {n that way. “There are otlier men {n the bisiness who deal ?;1 that and nothiug else, I confing mnyself to jow- clr,( and trinkots," “* But how do you know on whom to call, and whent" ¢ That's slmple onough, Yon sce, the marrlages are nllJml’llahed in tho papers, nnd, where 1L Ia o wedding bitween two rich folks, a report {8 mnde of It, and a list of the presents given. You see, whon I have got the names aud residences 1 anall right. O, nos I don't. Zo to them as soon ua they are marrled that wouldn't do. ‘they'd klck you out of the house if you went'on such busfness for the flrst few weéka, You have to let them settla down to hotsckeepe ing and find _out how much uscless atuif 1 ey have got, and even then if yon call they migy not b wilihie to seil. Tho” husband (.'nnurnlby id, but the wife Is suro to-object at tirst, * y no, deary’ shw'll says *Ican't sell that. You kuow Aunt Martha grave It me, and {f wouldn't bo tight ta sell it,’ und so on with every thing clso; but, after seeing them two or three timus, ey’ fall fn with tha ldew, and ara willing to sell anything they don't want." 1 supposy you purchaso such artlcles very ¢l {laughing] you may be sure [ don't glve more thinn they are wortli, You 8CC, T often have thoso things {n my store fora year before I sell them, und on somo things, such s fans, I often loso muney. Sometlnes 1 sell things I have bought (n that way to wentlemen wantlug to make wedding prescuts; for you see, I buy frons th rich Yuaplu. and - they ‘aro {lrst-class goods. ..When I et them they areas Rood us new, but I con sell them, for mitch less than they cost nt flrst, and people who éun't allortl to pay lllfll ‘-rh'ca tomuto me for thelr weddig presents.! v LOOKING ¥OR SIMI'SON. oJersey City Jowrnal, 8ho was a tall, gaunt woman, "and from the country, for sho carrfed a largo cotton wmbrella 1u ono hand, and o well-worn, bulky carpet-lag In the otlier, Sho was marching In and out and around tho Erlg depot at Long Dock fn a way that eauecd Oflicer Biges to wonder who or what slie wus looking for, “Wers you looking for rome one?" Lo asked, “It's nene of your affairs, mister, who I'm looking for, “Who bo you that you must kuow other folks’ busincss?™ . ““I'm un offlcer of the Erlo Road, ma'am.” “Oh, you be, Well, then. I'm from Parsip- Pmny, in Morrls County, and I'vo come_down iere Juat to put my hanids onto a man by tho nameo of Slmpson. Do E‘:;u know S8impson? ic's slick-looking, and talka tho nicest’ you ever heai Ho was o Baptlst up thero; as like as not he aln’t nothing down here, Do you know Blmuson{" “ That's Just what I expec to hear. The next thing will bo that ho is a marrled man, or mebbo that he aln't Simpson at sl _tiut if 1 Ret flv hauds onto that Bimpson onee, I'll Simpson i, 4 What's ho been dolog " ** Ile’s bicen doing lots that's mean for a man todo. fle pretended like he wanted to marry ey and kept It up L1 overything was ready, and then at the lwst minuts Simpson wa'n ready, ['m mnd, mister, and 1 I lad him 1'd Blmpson Wim." Do you think he (s here at this depot?’* “That's what I'd liko to know, for he's a man that travels, 121 Ty my hawds onto him he'll lrlru'e'l’ Lack to Parsippany, or I'll know tho reason why, '-)Flnd him, mister? I'm_obleeged to find W, Didn't I sell n cow and calf, and the only decent shoat on the place, just to buy a nice dreea und button-shoes, so I'could luok as fine Qs any woman cver In York when sho's agzoln, to be married? Do {ou think I'm golng buc! homu now without m,~—me, a wifinlcr.—nnd everyhody laughing! No, &les I'm agolng to find " thut Stnpson,” “And she marched on through the depot, iving every convenfent lonk in tho' tloor a sharp punch with her unie relia as sho muttered, “That Bimpsony CIIOOSING FEMALE SERVANTS, . New York Wortd, Bomotimes an Iudlscrect wifo sends her hus- band to tho servanta' burcau to sclect s chame bermald, and what a dellelous nss ho niakes of himsclf, to Lo sure! Belng a i, the first siflo or slrk catches bim, e calls 1t amfa- ollity—and fis doesn't want any cross, viclous buggage In Wls place, Why, thy glrl of 17, fu tho corner there with tho red checks, trips him up, 80 to speak, In flvo minutes, and when ho has chucked her under the clin and made his con- tract and departed, all the old cqoks Jouks at each other, and thu general atmosphers of the placo scems to suy: *Man, man, thy name-{s greenness,” At other ti husbaid and wife comeherotogether, Ivthinksthe pretty brunette Inthecornerls just thothingin chunbermalds, [lo fsamzn who doesu't sny anuch about these thiugs; but then Lo can tell an lonest, intellis Eent wotnan whon ho looks Into her saco; so he suys, *Now, that girl, my dear, looks to me o 1t she would be a safu companton and {ndustrivus servant, and a—" A bmun,(m‘pudunz ool for-nothing," veplies his wife. “I wouldn't glve her louse-room.” 1t is on such occasions as theso that the man percelves bow lnunnully superlorare tho intuitious of the womau. . Finale 1y shu sclects a red-halred, pock-murked female With a squint. ** What has beauty got tado with my workl" ahe asks with much force, It ou observe closely, you will percelve hut on thess occaslons - the unemployed ‘Muderstand the situstion per- Jetly, at s to ug, one-balf ot ‘theut bighten thelr unattractivencss in order to win the wife; the other hatf cmplc?ull thelr de- to hwpross the husbaud. Your vetersu housekeeper logks through the (Husions of thu bureau with a clesr eve, The expericnve of her Jifo Lus taught her that fn the matter of cooks sho lud only onc chuicw of two evils: The amiuble, traciable, undobliging creature, that is M% foreyer, cannot_conk and the obdurate, refillent, (yianuical gelthn’ always ln'ls up the best diuner. It ls u ourdous fact, ful ly corrolio- raled by the keeper of the burvau, that men, Wwho aloue pretend to judgo & of ng dluners, can nover sclect o good couk, aud that women, who are notorivus] u5 indiffercut to thesy things, ars the ouly safe judges in supply- ing tho weans. e A DISAT'POINTED WIFE., Deirols Fres Preas, A dowacast looking womau, about 40 years old, called st & lawyer's offce on Griswold streel yeeterday und asked tue attorncy i ho could reo toa little bustness for nlied that he could, and she explained : **My husband went to the Biack Hing ovey i sce. That s desertio divorce," he replied. nt no divorce, sir. © S0me monoy,!? HAnd he wont! " - * Well, Iie haan't sent an HAnd what enn Tdoi" os “ Pat a Iawsult on him and scare hmingg 8] lled that the e, o Jurldition in sach a case: aht this ete 24 11 was a lawser T eoula an hour—I know I coul Well, nll right, ‘T thought lawye; and [ alwaya helil the house, Lt this { 't know any more fthan I d; ' know anything! Good day, sir} " sho sald, as she rose r8 hod some gof my breath wh WOMAN IN CHINA, At a meeting of the Chinese Commit sat nt Ban Francisco, the Hey. lived ten yeara in China, was asked: © “YWhat 18 the relatiow'of man and Woman tq *They havo an fdea that of the house,” ‘4 Is the woman an, he man is the heyy ything moro than Aslary **1 gucss it Is sbout the sam cre, I once had a Chinaman that subject, Ho was an fntel oflieer of the Government, or four of hissons to America t ‘Many Cningman laugh at s people becauso - women 3 but'women_rutg WVomen rufe the world. rule the same o s In your country, the name of rul JUST WAIT. Gold Hiti {Net.) Newr, Ty got a letter fr Ahe East, and banded it to hi: tho campaign hos inflamed his Among other things, the would nct know Dad now, halr Is as whit as snow, converaatlon with him (s glves all hls'timo to read om hls brother(y good lady read: ¢ yg, Bratus; the old boy, and he {8 80 deat {hy uits impossible, f, g and playing check. yesterday, and gy has stopped drigg. er has given up the vie wiII be glad to hear that he Wine cup; Marfar,” En'ld B Uil P'm 75, and 1’11 do * Ten minutes af chalked Lis cue nt the friends observed five sf graceless chicek.”” MATERNAL ANXIETY, 8an Antonto (Tex,) Froress, Coming down this morning wo noticed j3 8 milkcart to which way . with a flial oy ury 80 It 183 Just wyy uble discount the ¢y ter, when mlukenbcn, Faslilouablo satoon, treaks of red upon front of a negro shanty attached a mule, and an ebony urchin of abog six summers was holding an old washi-pan upfor pour the rich, creamy inilk into, d & female volce the milkman to Justas wo passe “he fnsldo of the shinty: Jawdye Washington, dor neah dat mule’s hin your ole mammy to keteh de runatiz comin' cold mornin’ to hunt foah de rem: FEMININE NOTES. A writer In the Phrenvlogical Journal ndviees young mon who are about choosing a wife 1o he governed by her chin® A Ereat, tnang o them will find themsolves zoverned by her chine musle after marrioge.—Zoston Bulletin. Two ladics aro discussing a third, who s, of coursc, absent. Bl is really charming," sary one} *“and, above all, she bas such an uir of in tellizonce.” #Ycs," answers the other, #hit {heroare no words to that alr'—\New ¥k Andrews’ Bazar: We havo heord It remarkel that men mako foola of themselves when they marry, This appears to us to be crroncous, Tk Jub of making a fool of th tho wotnun, and sho_genc {oro tho marrfago takes pl Rome Sentinel : 0 man {s hossed by rally completea It tee A Rome miss of 7 summens ded to marry a bigman for her fint for the accond, so thit the first down and A and a little one sho can cut the clotlies of make then over- for his hard thnes force home lessons of ri and practical seuse upon tender chil Tidles aro golng out of fash- and Il 1t be truc—if we nto a rocking-chalr after this witb- rom the back of | not feel a yo g up againat the then an evening's tete- & man with his muse out tearing a laco d sottle down on a 8ol wursted farm-house humiptn, end of ourspinal column, a-teto will séem as odd u tacho shaved oil. Burlington Ifawkeye: In all 8gos palnters ulus bas transferred to tnc dnll cane vas picturcs of soulful Jif huve inado the dun beauty and thought u and glory, and fbio cold marbla eloquent wit avo dled of despair in vat 4 to catels the expresston of a man's fu 0 turna ‘In spccchicss wreath Lo look the answer that his tohrus cannot framoto kit wife's “ I told you so,” 8hio stood fu tha door and watched the de- r own beloved spouse, and it that sho wouldn'tsce hin and thew she went sadly. kissed the photograpndt Whispering i soft uccents, d {8 tho world to me, I parting form of he: sighed at the though before dluner tini into her bondolr and Ler first. nuebaud, “Oh! how change prooitsed to givo me a_new silk, od liowe only callco, Why did Ono of tho Boston women's cluba hns been Cleopatra, and thero scems to be 2 oguinst her there, arlscs from the fact that thers it I lier wearlng u Koloshes when_ tmveling, nor custom to read * Lock on the Mind * and et iches out of a brown paper inthy tural presumption [3 thatste il probubly vished i . a good deal "o was a frivoluus Now York.—Noruwich Lul know a little Iady—~this I told you long ago, you then I loved hor Vory dearly: told you not her namo—come I now totell the seme, And totelL 1t (It can) to you sincerely, Now 1 told you she was falr, was tnls littls lsdy rare, 2 And1told you sho was all that could be withed ThatIn besnty and fn grace hers It wan & mudeh And o todel's Just what all of af should look for Not i the ontward show—Yanlty s sech ¥é rd air or demonstration rd glow, whera the Inward curreats it only there, we And her—Meditation. There, and only there, she' of hot queen, Basklng sweetly In the annlight of ber glory, Evar gentle, over fatr, never can sho o'cr grow hoary. n Not lu the gutwal But in the fnwa scon o the presemcd: Bhels known to every ono whoee |ife ia well b Ay 8he v known to every one who docs ot falter Ou'tio, weary rosd of Life, Beitles Ratiy wis 0 'O then proudly will she load hiz to the alisr. When, enthroned in quecnly stato, sho will walt® upon her male, . And on'hls brow will trace Lita's Ilving tressare, triple crown, and uue of fuir Fenows, s to overflowiny, willabe mesauro. The lylog light of Truth, with the liviog light o oul Tho llving light of Nature sud of Beauly— Al nh:-:‘wll whe bestow, balm for every 33 Who will say, then, Life has not a sacred duts! ‘Who wlll say, thea, Life Is not a delightfu), bsppr, ) 5 Yea, a gurdon full of honeyed sweets and pku’\ Whans ::::'k‘wml- nevor grow—yet wa faia would ave - But where blossom ever bright)mmortsl tredaurest, ok happy be, aud from every danger frece Shonwoss (i TELls indy's Bie wad 1y way not wlu theps all—that co But euough to ahow hiow beautiful her traces, Which falrly in the heart such & sweetuess o (0 arl Aud 011010l of misth and ful of glad Aud forover will it rlog, aud forever w Aud forever and forever frve from sad ——— e Sluple Diviston. New York World (Dem.). Seven Intn clght gocs once; aud Alr.