Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, July 14, 1878, Page 11

THE SOCIAL WORLD. Depressing Influence of the Hot .. Weather===The City De= serted. h jve Costumes to Be Seen at Long Branch---The Belles of the Season. Gloves, Pins, and a Hundred Noveities of the Hour. CHICAGO. A DULL TIME, Bodety 18 strugeling with the warm weather manfally, bt the chances are that the latter i soom et the best of §t. A great many peo- plebave 1eft Chicazo during the past week, and mary more will leave this week for the East apd the various - summer-resorts. The latter appesr to D extremely well patronized this o on, partls, 1o doubt, owing to the fact that pates have been very materially reduced by the propritars of hotels. A few sickly lawn-par- ties were given last week, and even one or two spasmodic attempts at Gancing were made, but the majority of ye society young people (those who remain at home) are content to sit about jntbe coolest places they can find and fanthem~ gelves and eat fee-cream. HASKELL-LEACHL Lagt Tuesday cvening at 8 o'clock, at the residence of the bride’s pareuts, No. 1070 Indi- gos avenne, by Bisbop Cheney, Miss Jeanie B. Leach; danghter of E. C. Leach, £sq., and Mr. Walter H. Haskell, Adjutant of the First Regi- ment, L N.G., weremarried. ‘The wedding was 4 very quict ove, being witnessed by ouly the relatives and & few of their intimate friends. SUADER-KITT. Onlast Tuesday cvening at 7:30, Miss A, MariaKitt and Mr. Auzustus Shader, of this city, were married at theresidence of the bride’s Sarents, corner of Congress and Honore strects, The Rev. Galusha_Anderson, D. D.. ofliciating, The ceremony over, the happy couple received {he congratulations of the company, consisting of the relatives and intimate friends of both familics to the number of about nifty, and then adjourned to the supper-room, where an ele- rant banquet was served, the occasion belng en- Jiened with vocal musle by artists of Jocal celebrity. The newly wedded pair remained a bref time with their friends, and then departed on a trip to Colorado. They will be absent until Sept. 9, after which date they will be at home to friends at No. 134 Honore gtreet. The presents received were both num- crous and costly, the principal gifts being from Mr. and Mrs. Kearner., Mr. and Mrs Swartchild, Mr. aud Mrs. C. N. Holden, Mr. and Mrs, Lew Jones, Migses Annie and Julia Shader, Misses Matzic and Allie Meagher, Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Burris, Mra. Meagher, Mr. aud Mrs. E. C. Race. WOUDWORTH—TEARE. At the New Ergland Church Jast Tuesday evening Miss Estber Tcare, daughter of Dr. Teare. was married to Dr. P. M. Woodworth, of 1his city. BUSH—CHARLESTON. Miss Emma D. Charleston, of this cits, and Edward D. C. Bush, of Philadelpbia, were mar- ried at Washincton, D. C., by the Rev. Dr. ‘Addison on the 27th ult. The reception was Seldat Philadelphia and wasa very elezang 1ifair, the presents and mementoes being nu- merous and recuerche. The bride gnd groom then too their depurture for Cape May, where they will spend the summer. Their home witl se at Salem, N. J. GILLET—STEVENS, The marriage of Mr. . W. Gillet and Mrs. Zophia L. Stevens took place at the home of the bnde in St. Joseph, Mich., Wednesday, July 10, the Rev. Jra R. A. Wizhtman. oflicisting. Mr, Gillet is the senior member of the firm of Gillet, MeCulloch & Co., and {he founder of Gillet’s chemical works, which he established in Chicaroin 1552, Tbe bride was tho widow of thelste Oliver Stevens, Esq., o respected resi- dent of St. Joseph, Mi and well known in Jefferson County. New York. Themany friends of both parties will be pleased to learn of the nlon of o parties so eminently fitted to make life happy, SOCIAL AND CLUB NOTES. Miss Florence ¥. Fuller and Mr. Robert Looney, of Laneaster, N. Y-, and Miss Ada F. Dunton and Chiarles F. Clarke, of Belvidere, i1, were married Friday afternoon at the resi- deace of Mr. W. W. Fuller, No. 106 Warren svenge. The marriage of Mr. Jobn Buckingham, Sec- retary of the Chizago Steel Works, and Miss Isabelle Clourban is annonuced to take place in Trinicy Eplscopal Church, Wednesday evening, Al ue. 7. Misa Jennie L. Lebman and@ Mr. George E. Cox will be united in marriaze Weanesday murning, at half-past § o’clock, at No. 959 In- iana avenue. ‘The marriaze of Miss Kittie Wetmore Jenks, franddaughter of the Iate G. §. Bangs, Esq., ¥ith Maj. Charles C. Sonntag, of San Francisco, *ill be celebrated Tuesday evening, at § o’clock, 1 the Hotel Woodruff. A pleasant lawn-party was siven] on the rounds of J. . ¥orter, at Lawndale, Wednes- day evening, Alr. Wijiam R. Wright, of No. 34 Park wvenue, on his arrival home Tuesday evening from a visit_to Milwaukee, was happily sur- origed to find a company of ladies and gentle- men in possessior of his residence. He made the most of his afliiction, hawever, and notwith- standing the weather was warm a general jolli- fication ensued. A Jake excursion will pe given to Racine next Taesday under the ausoices of the Grant Place Literary Society, which promises to be a success- fal and enjoyable affair. The Goodrich steamer Heoominee will be brought into service. ‘The Oriental and Chicago Quartettes will mive serand moonlicht cxcursion o the propeller City of Duluth next Thureday evening. Invi- tations are ready, and may be obtained of the Chicago Music ‘Company, Harry “rhomas, 144 Clark street, and of C. A. Dew, 39 Clark street; &lso from the individual members of the quar- tettes by presenting luvitations. There will e &band inatrendance to furnish music for danc- ing onder the direction of W. W. Pound. The £uccess of the cutertafuments given last season by these organizations will be a guarantee of the one next week. TheJ. B, & G. Lawn Club of Engiewooc will meet next Tuesday cvening at the residence of the Sessrs, Armstrong. From there they will Proceed to South Park by stage, where the fes- tivities of the cvening will be enjoyed. NAL. PLR: _Mr. and Mrs. W. Fitzhugh tehouse and 3lies Whitcliouse have taken 2 villa for the sum- merat Newport. They left last Monday after- Doon. Dr. and Mrs. Knox, of St. Carotine’s Court otel, have cone to Grand Haven 1o speud the ¥arm months. Miss Carrie E. Barton, of the :fi! place, bas gone thither to remain & week wo. Miss Harlor, of Detroit, who has been visit- {22 Miss Smith, of Michizau avenue, and Miss mnn,‘:( North LaSalle street, left for home weck Miss Belle Hayner left last Tucsday for the st to 1emain during the summer months. ¢ following-named Chicagoans registered # Leland’s Ocean Hotel, Long Brancn, on the thinst.: Mrs. 1. D. Booth, Miss Boott, F. B. CyNosirand and family, W. . britzer. S. H. Crand, B 2. Tobey, 4. W. Rumsey and wife. Migs Nell:e Marshali, after an absence of two or three weeks in Plano, lil., has returned, and il be glad 1o see her friends_during_the re- mamder of the summer at No. §3 Calumet wenue. Mr. Frank G. Hoyne, Quartermaster-Serzeant of theFirst Reriment, basgone to Louisville for brief sjourn. Gm Misses Robertson left Thursday for 0cva Lake, where they will remsio until fall. Stiss Molhe Bulkiey has gove East and will nd the summer in' Boston and at the Sea- . Flentye and wife, C. 0. Meyer, E.S. ol Miss Laura Brown, and Mrs. Hubbard, Cglfazm. were at the ‘CUT House, Devil’s st week. Miss Kate Garrettzon, Muscatine. Ta., who mbecn visitinir Miss Bessie Brannau, of 517 o lg\flg\ avenue, for two weeks past, left for me Weduesday, accompanied by Miss Bran- it ¥ho will epend the summer at Museatine L her grandfather. Jennic Kram, of Bloominton, is visiting J Srace Osborne; No. 51 South Curtis streets mlfzw weeks 3 iss Linnie Yatee, of this city, is a suest of 5 Town, Eiwin. . Jobn C. White, of_this city, recently ap- o BM Secretary of the United States Leation day 2L left for bis new post of duty Wednes- jcTening, going via Paris. 1 ol . A. Porter lefs the city last week for a ceks’ sojourn st the pleasant summer TeROMs ot Wisconsin. Eltic Judd left Chicazo Thursday to ang g, ¢ Sumimer witn friends at New York msl!srm.vm, Vi s Clara_Brown. of Enelewood, is visiting T at Waukegan, Til. Hropgy g, £ reidman left for an extended trip "ouzh the country basy evening. k. £ Y THE- CHICAGO TRIBUNE: SUNDAY. JULY ‘14, 1878-SIXTEEN PAGES, - Miss French, of Cleveland, 1s visiting Chica- £0, with headquarters at St. Caroline’s Court. 7 Y&Ifl family of Capt. Jevert Wileox, of the ont House, are Man, o \'tc: are spending the summer at Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Stanton depart to-night for the East, and will spend several weeks at th§[§unillncr—%sorls. s ss Mary Day, of Shelbyville, IIL,, is vislting the Misses Hawiey, No. 1710 Brook strcer. S. P. Rounds, Esq., and family leave Saturday moruing for Manitou Sorings, Col., to be absent *Brok & Niebtfozal Prof. A. P. Nichtingale, of the Lake View Higb School, has gone to Geneva Lake with bis family to spend the summer. Mrs. Charles. W. Parker will return from Oconumowoc, where she has been spending two or three weeks with her husband, to-morrow. Mrs. Gen. Sheridan and Mrs. Col. Grant left last wmg;l byl Steamer for Mackioar. Mrs. Char] . Ki ‘“g rs. Charles khaw bas zone East for & ol. Hulbert, of the bave koue Fact SHeoan BV UL Elazl‘l:s Fannie N orton, of Chicago, is visiting in Perty H. Smith, wife, and_daugbter will sl for Europe fn the'steamsbip Bosnia on the itk Mr. and Mrs. A. C. Mather leave Monday for the East, aud remain several weeks visiting New York, Boston, and the sea-side. - Mr. and Mre. Eben Lanc, of 745 Michigasi avenue, have gone to Maine for a few weeks' sojourn . i‘-""cncém aud Mooscliead Luke. Miss Nellie Gardner will | iy i eave this week for o Miss Boysoton, of Brookl: i Misses Durkee, of Michigan aggr’ni:‘ Tisting the J. W. Doane, Esq., and daurhters leave for their summer residence in Connecticut next Stonday. Miss' Towner, of Michican, is visiting Mi Belle Jansen, No. 007 Wabach myeos 108 i 3ir. Tenry W. Mazee hasreturned from Hills- dale, Mich., much improved in appearance. 1t isrumored that a wedding will take place in that section of the gountry scon, aud that a falr lady of tha vy will be one of thy oLt e of the contracting NEW YORK. DRESSING AT LONG BRANCI. To the Editor of The Tribune. Nmy Yorr, July 9.—Probably nowhers fn America does one see more clegant dressing and more porgeous display than at Loog B}‘flm:ll. 4 hop at oue of the superb hotels is a sight well worth seeing, and, realizing this fact, impressed upon me by experience, I forsook the cool quictness of my own little nest to witness the last and very brilllant “hop.” The toil- Iettes worn may, as a rule, be considered ex- act exponents of prevailing styles, for Long Branch is both the type and the abode of wealth and fashion. A very elezant costume Waa of eanary-colored satin and heaviest corded silk. The skirt had a long fan-shaped train. Across the front and sides at the foot are three very fine narrow pleatings of satin separ- ated by others of canary-colored crepe lisse. Across the head of the topmost pleatings runs & garland of shaded damask roses, in which deep rich crimson oues predominate. The foot of the train is left without ornament save a valayeuse of erepe lisse. From the hip on each side come broad long scarfs of satin which ure lined with sflk and bordered by pleatings of crepe lisse. ‘In careless profusion large clusters and garlands of roses are placed upon the searfs, which zre knotted low down uvon the train. The waist s a tizht-fitting, corsage of satin cut in front with three points, the centre one being the longest, and at the back having a little pleating skirt, while between every two pleats {8 1aid a plisse of the crepe lisse. The neckis more than square, but is not entirely low. Tt Is finished around the neck by o pretty shirring of silk, edged on both sides by crepe lisse. Garnitures_ of the richly-tinted roses .or- mament it, and o belt and chate- laine are made of “the same. With this_toilette was worn a mnovelty which I think I have mentioned. A pair of Jong white gloves, reaching quite to the eibow, arc but- toned up the outside of the arm—a style of gloye much worn aud admired, because it molds the hand and arm into exquisite symme- try, and fits without crease or wrinkle. On the back of the giove are painted by hand, fn water- colors, sprays of yellow jasming, with a crimson bud or Lo resting amone, like a ruby in 2 set- ting of rarest yeflow gold. Gloves of this de- scription are much aflected; they are, however, a costly caprice, but this probably will only serve to make them more popular amous the bappy few who can afford to indulge in sucha Juxury. * ANOTHER VERY STRIKING AND ELEGANT COS- TOME was worn by an extremely attractive blonde from your own city. Theré was that peculiar completevess, that curious and audacious ‘bleuding of shades that Americans are wary of venturing upon, that stamped the dress unmis- takably os an imported one, It is, in fact, one of Pingard’s most successful (and _expensive) efforts. A long, gracefully trained Princess of very dark but clear-touedgreen velvet furnished the nuclcus of this bandsome dress. The bot- tom of the skirt is cut out in large squares, and theseare finished bya cording of pale-freen satin, of that lovely tint once known as sea- foam, but now answeringto half a dozen names. Below and under thesc squares is a finely-lald Pleatiog of Ching’crape of the same delicate ghade as the satin. It is richly embroidered by extremely fine seed-pearls. The waist of the Princess is very low, with no slecves of velvet. They are replaced with pearl-wrougnt pufls of crape. Down the front of the robeis a plain inserted piece ot satin, over which 13 loosely arranged with considerable fullness a section of the embroidered crape which covers the whole satin_insertion. The edges of thia latter where it joins the veivet robe are con- cealed beneath a superb galloon or mmp of fine pearls. It is quite four inches wide, and its beautiful pattern, licht and lace-like, siows with deligbtful effect azainst the rich darkness of the velvet. The shoulders are framed- in a perthe wrought of pearls. It is pomnted back and front, 4nd covers almost half the body. A close collar of jewels—medallions of pearls with cemerald centre—clasps the throat, and similar but smaller ones are Worn upon the arm The effect of the whole toilet is charming, and the white, dimpled shoulders, the dainty, golden biead, and witching, riante face rising "above all this beauty are not the least of the charmns. ANOTHER DRESS, SINPLER BUT VERY AT~ TRACTIVE, was of pale pink tissue made over rose-silk, This dress also is a Princess, low-necked and short-sleeved. The bottum of the skirt is trimmed with three ruflics of Spanish blonde. Betweeu these ruflles, and over them, fall loops of palest-blue satin ribbon. A deen flounce of tace trims the shoulders, and is’ headed by a garniture of forget-me-nots and blush-roses. The sleeves arc formed of the deep lace, wl is caught up on the shoulders by a cluster of the flowers. A broad belt of rose-hued satin encircles the waist. From it depends s full, mathered flounce of lace, and over the lace @roop the loops of the pale-blue satin ribbon, A cluster of flowers fasteus the belt at the side, A very bandsome dress, attracting much ad- miration, was of white embroidered crape, pale- blue satin, and black velvet. It was also a Prin- cess Tobe, ns indeed were scven out of every ten dresses in the baltroom. The robe itself was of Canton crape, the sides beiug richly embroid- ered. Down the front, from throat to tout, is an insertion consistinz of upturned folds of pale-blue satin. The back of the Princess is tnade immensely long to admit of its being Jooned up._ A species of drapery or festooning is obtained. The looping is_ sccured by large square bows of wide black velvet. A deep col- Jar of black velvet, lined and corded with blue satin, finishes the neck, and is clasped by an oblong brooch of onyx set with pearis, and hav- ing a magnificent sapphire in the centre, THESE LONG, SLENDER PINS were first introduced as scarf-pins, and almost solely for street wear. But, like many things that bave less to recommend them, they have succeeded . working their way up, and are pow in *ihe best socicty,”—in other words, they are considered appropriste and desirable for elezant occasions. A Iavorite strle is an oblons of polished onyx about a finzer long aud balf on inch in widih. Three larze Solitaires 'are set at regular spaces in the centre of the brooch. ~ Another simpler style is a glender bar of Etruscan rold bavingaline of turquoises through the centre, or three disgonal bauds of small pink coral balls. A superb.pin and bracelet lately made to order and desiued as a° ift to a *sweet girl-graduate” has heen shown me. The bracelet consists of a narrow rounded band of gold. - Across this run tbree flat atago- pal bands of gold of auother variety. The middle band, which fs the widest of tlie three, has set i it an immense sapphire, a laree black pearl. and a handsome white onc: The bands on either side arc ornamented with a row of beauziful diamonds. _The long, lender pin cor- responds exactly; and the set is simply superb. Silver fillgree jewelry is largely worn, and cer- tainly deserves much admiration. For young pirls what can_be prettier, and it is eurely in far better taste than the profusion of diamonds ‘which are much better snited to maturer years and ostrich-plume-bedecked coiffures than to The fresh, bright bloowr of maidentiond. The desierns shown in eilver ornaments are exquisite. Floral patterns are reproduced with wonderiul ‘accuracy, end can be obtained in great varicty. The other styles are besutiful, some as delicate as frost-work, and as light and fairy-looking as rarest old point-lace. They are nog very costly and wear admirably. MarTie S. SOCIETY TOPICS. Mrs. Princess of Wales is spoken.of as ¢ the Iady with the lame foot.”? What {s a billberry?” Why, its old Elder Berry's second boy. Didn’t you know that. The summer every-day suit of a Madagascar entleman costs only 15 cents, and 12 of those are laid out for a cane. Although the patrons of Giles, Bro. & Co. well know that it is characteristic of the firm to always more than fulfill their promises, yet all who visited thelr new place, corner State and Washiurton. streets, last week were fairly sur- prised at the superb display of dazzling wems. In ope window flashed a diamond neckldce valued at $10,000, and beside it shone a §4,000 emerald, said to be the larpest in America, while sil around was artistically arranczed the magnificent jewelry, gold and silver ware, and other attractions which mzke this stock in many respects Lhe finest in the United States. He ot up this morning fecling heavy at heart, without knowing the cause. He went to the back door and there saw his garden, the pride of his waking hours and the subject of his dreams, looking like an editor’s office. He sat downon the door-step aud said: **Of all the sad words of tongue or pen, the saddest are these: T keep a hen!” The _watering-place outfits produced by Ghormley this scason are attracting an unusual amount of attention on account of the pleasing novelty of the designs and the artistic excci- lence of the combinations of colors and ma- erials. s A little Cinciunat{ girl, when asked what God ‘had made her for, replied: * To wear a red fed- der in my kat.” Many an older person of her sex bas, to all appearances, pretty wuch the same conception of Heaven's designs. Tne novel featuresof the Bryant & Stratton Business Exchange are attracting many visitors. Here may be seen & community of business houses, with elegant offices, where the youne men and women et as bookkeepers, cashiers, clerks, ete. The rooms are cool and pleasant. A well-known actress belng asked her age, frankly replied: * 1 have four ages; the family archives unfortunately procialin that I am 503 by daylight I pass for 36; by maslicht not more than 30, and, with all my war-paint on, in a soft Jizht, and no rude glare, I pass for five-and- twenty.” The following letter from Prof. James Gill, the distinguished teacher of vocal music, ex- plalos jtself: W. W. KiMBALL, - EsQ.—Dear Sir: It gives me pleasure to state that I have used the Hal- let, Davis & Co.’s piauos for the past seven years in my vocal classes, and 1 find -them in overy way - satisfactory, The upright I pur- chased for my own use I regard as exceedingly fine, both m quality of tone and «etion. It has stoodin tune equalto any square or grand I have ever seen. Jaxes Gior. #Grandisther’s Clock ?.did not believe iu the #No trust ” principle, as * Ninety vears, with- out slumbering ”’ it went on ** tick, tick, tick. tick,” and 5o it is no wonder that at last It stopped , short, never to £o again, when the old man dicd.” ‘The wonderful popularity of the steamer Flora is shown by the fact that she has been chartered tor prominent socicty excursions for every day this week, except Monday and Wednesday, when she will make ber regular trins and offer the usual attraction to the pleas- ure-seeking public. 5 The Boston Post can’t see thav the death of millionaires helps the hard times at ail. Soda water is still five cents per glass. Hundreds of dollars may be saved to the tour- ist in Europe or America by knowing just what route to take and when and where to make con~ nections. Full information in these details is furnished by Cook’s July Excursionist, at 77 Clark street. Dr. Cameron, of Dublin, says that the secret of female beauty is a layer of fat under the skin, That's why a 250-pound woman is always bandsome. Anmonyg the maoy busy offices on LaSalle street that of Georze P. Treadway & Co., insur- ance agents, at No. 123, is particularly noticea- ble. This tirm siuce the eeneral ageacy of the old Lycoming of Pennsylvania bas been added to their list have been obliged to doublo their clerical foree. To gecomplish its work of death nature fs obliged every year to invent new diseases, with new names, in order to keep ahead of patent medicines that cure all ills known. Mr. Heory Killam, tbe great New Haven car- riage builder, and_President of the Carriawe Builders’ National Association, will visit the Hou. C. P. Kimball the coming weck. Thought is not as rapid as philosophers have asserted. A'mau who is sitting behind a run- away horse may bounce along a full mile before he has thought of balf his mean deeds. ‘The Home Life-lusurance Company, of New York, has vaid its entire death losses swce organization bv its interest reccipts alone, at the same time has only had to foreclose two small mortgages. This fact is most conclusive that the funds of the Company bave becn ad- mirably manared. “The Home Dow holds a sur- plus above Habilities of over 30 per cent, which, with its othergood points, makes it. one of the the best companies for insurance. Mr. Kellogg, the Company's Superintendent of Awcacies, states tbat Jast vearat the Chicago Agency of the Home only three out of every hundred of the policies in force were surréndered or allowed 1o lapse, Wiich shows what the people think of their policies in the Dome. 1t js the coufession of 2 widower, who has been thrice married, that the first wife cures a man’s romance, the second teaches him hu- mility, and the third makes him o philosopher. The arrivals et the Townsend House, Ocono- mowor, show that the for-famed Forty Lakes have lost none of their sttractions, and the am- ple accommodations of that, excellent house offer extra fuducements to pleasure-seckers. It wasawish of Bryant, they say, that he might dic in June. We never thought serivusly enough on the subject to insist on a time, but, 50 far as we have anv preference, to be definite about it, we have alwavs thought we should like to die on the 30th of February. Cheap factory-made shoes have no attractions for tne ladics Who can_have such dylish work made to order by P. Keller, 41 Mouroe street, at the 10 per cent reduction which he offers during the next sixty days. s A cheap revolver is a bandy thing to have about the house. A Missourian drew one in a luttery, and whben his wife tried to shoot htm with it it exploded and shattered her wrist 50 that her arm had to be amputated. Special bargains in_fine millinery, trimmed and untrimuicd, are offered by Hagedon, Boyle & Co., Noe. 42 and 41 Madison strect, before involeing. Englaud has been ten years trying to find out whether one of her prominent clermymen is a Curistfan _or a heretic, and the end is not yet. He has had time to change his views. Everybody says Harkins’ shoes at No. 133 Dearbornean’t be beaten for style, comfort, and aurability. A New Hampshire tramp stole a tin box con- taining $609, but was too lazy to break it open, and lett it in the road to be recovered. ‘Lickets to Denver, Colorado Springs, Pueblo, and the Rockv Mountains at reduced rates, at Cook’s Tourist Offices, 77 Clark street. Amerfcan girls scem to have quit the busi- ness of tryin to catch titled husbands. They were only mustacics and debts when caught. Love is blind. ' If it wasn’t no woman could adore the bow-legzed man that parts his hair in the middie.—Phiadelphia Chronicle. Eleven thousand inquiries about thehealth of poor Mercedes came to the poiacetheday before she died. Now is the season when the wicked husband can cut short & domestic argument by striking at a mosquilo and hiting bis wife's nose. Bouvicault s going to write a new play this summer, if be eau find one. . —_—— Love and Pokor. Is there anythinz more delightfa]l than a home where the poker rules and the husband’s ~will is law? There’s such peacefulness, such quietness, such zentleness, such stufling Yor the turkey, such sauce for the goose, such fun for the gander, . Why, it's dreadful to think how some neglect their privileges in this regard. .1 know of one man whohasn't seen'his kitenen in three years, knows no gas-man, butcher, or grocer, who simply forks out the spondulix, and never knows what he is to have for dinner il he sees it on the table. Aud that man is the humble man who talks this talk. B But there are men who know all about the flour, the coal. the beans, the wood, the pota- toes, the grass in_ the yard, the swill-man, the soap-fat barrel, the cheese, the bread, the salt fish, the horsc-radish, .the currant jelly, the curtains in the back parlor, the tringe on the chairs, the beas in the attic, and the very bed- clothes in the locker. Such men must be happy. And bappiness is the chicf end of man, cate- chism to the contrary nouwithstanding. Everybody longs fof it. Everybody seeks it. From the baby at the breast to the old man taking rest. the’ whole world is after happiness aud nothing else. i \We don’t all want the same kind, any more than we all want the same wife. And that’s lueky. But we all want all we cin get, whether we be poet or beggar, rascal or priest. Cash seems fo satisfy must people, in spite of all that’s written against it. Wealth may not b _abla to bring happingss, and yet eversbody seeks it. 1 don’t, because I couldn’t keep it it I had it. Bat I'm like the rest of you. Still, I like to be comfortable, and if anybody thinks of dying and leaving me $100,000, I hope h‘:-i won’t be deterred by anything I may have written. GOSSIP FOR LADIES, FORGOTTEN THE LOVE. The roscs of June are sweet and fair— Are they truer and purer than blossoms of May? You clasped to your breast my violets— There were none could oe dearer, you whispered, than they. But now on your bosom a red, red rose, And red is the bud in your glossy hair; The httlo May violets now forgot— Forgotien the troth you plighted there. The month“is now changed, and clanged your Tove— Will it last, do you think, through the coming July? ‘The rose will be crushed and cast aside, And the bud tossed awsy withont thought or & sigh. Another chat lesson of lifa will learn: That love s 0 short—not 8 month to stay; Another will look In your shining eyes, And think that your love will be hia alway. The roses of Jane are sweet and fair, But the flowers will die, and your love'do the same; 4 When costly the gem yonr hand receives, You will treasure no mora nor c'en think of the name Of him who has worshiped and loved yon most. The promise you made, and the vows you wave Were made, and but given, T think, to breal ‘How dear will be those you will give as slavo? Ab, well! T have thought it is better so— 1t i3 better ta kuow yon are fickle to-day, Than after the altar's vows are said, And go throuzh our Jives in a mock, loveless way. But white is the hund, and deep-red the rose, You clasp to your heatt on this night so fair— My little May violets all forgot— Forgotten tho vows you plighted there. JEAN AGAVE. AN AMERICAN FAIRY STORY. Zouisville Courier-Journul. Once upon a time there lived upon the banks of the Ohio River a young and comely Prince, who wore a helmet hat, and whose father owned a pork-bouse. And this Prince of the Helmet Hat was of goodly micn ana degree, ana was celebrated far and wide among his people for the prowess with which he wielded the billiard cue and the skill with which he tied his eravats. Npw it happened that, on a*certain evening, this Prince went to a grand Charity Ball, where there were hundreas and hundreds of masquers and thousauds and thousandsof dazzling lights, all red, and green, and blue, and sticiked. But the most effulgent luminary of all was a young and ravishingly beautiful maiden, who moved in the mazes of the dance as airily as a sylph. and wore blonde bangs. No sooner did the Prince of the Helmet Hat behold her than he rapturously exclaimed; “1 GANNY! and swore that thenceforward and forever she was the light of his eres! He obtained ao iotroduction to her, and when bhis arm encircled her waist in the waltz he felt, through and through; just like a placid pond of water looks after you have thrown a stone into it. He took herinto supper, and helped her to salmon salad, und ambrosia, and pickles, and things. Aod when sie looked up and met his ardent gaze, and blushed, and coyly asked him, “Aln’t you goin’ ¢’ eat noth- in’ 1 he sighed and amorously murmured: «Don’t talk to me of mundane provisions now; I'm a-feasting ou your blonde bangs.” And then she kuew that she had cauzht a Priuce—caught him with ber bionde bangs. On the following evening he escorted her to tne theatre, and while she divided her uitention between him, the staze, and the audicnce he Dod eyes only for her and his peanuts. Alas! however, the peanuts did not taste as did pea- nuts of yore. He had lost his relish for their delicate flavor, and the Prince of the Helmet Hat was compelled to acknowledge that he was irredcemably in love. And yet he did not feel as those who love in vain. Her ways were sweet and gentle, as becomnes a modest maiden, but they were so demure, SO suggestive, o shyly encouraging, that he could not doubt that she returned his love. And 1s he looked upon her i her radiant and inuocent beauty, a lover’s queer conceit entered his mind, aud he wished and wished azain that ne was the fvory fan with which she {dly toved ana pressed to lier glowing cheeks and touched hier® carmine lips and rested on her opulent bosom._ “Ah, me! ab, me!™ he signed, “I would T were her ivory fan!? Now it happened that the Frince’s fairy God- ‘mother was at the theatre that night, she hay- ing been enzaged by the mavager to take part in the play, in tights, a wand, and wing: At the close she stepped up to the Prince of the Helmet Hat and gave him a shoe-string. “Young man,” she whispered, ‘*vou have been at your wishes again. Tie this charm around your neck to-night, and when you uwake in the morning, you shall be her ivory fan.” e followed her instructions, and when he awoke he had gained his wish. He was her ivory fan, Iying in a perfumed rosewood box. All the 1ong, long day did he lie within the box, and not ouce did he see his fair enslaver. But'when the evening came, and the stars came out, and the moon rose o'er the hill, and the frogs began to sing, she came and lifted him from the rosewood box, and carried bimn in her own soft, rosy pahn down stairs Into the par- Jor. Aud in the room Was a strange young man with a red mustache, and she sat down on the sofa beside this strange young man and con- versed with htm, and fauned hersell with her jvory fap, which was the Prince of the Helmet Hat, * Why don’t she press me to her lips, ef cetera ? thought the Prince. * Any way, she's fanning with me, though—though it is not ex- actly comfortable for a fellow to be held by the head and have his legs flung sround in this— this style, even to raise the wind for his darling. Gadz!'she’s about to smother e and about to dislocate every bone in my body—and I'd like to know who that Red Mustache is, anyhow!™ And then the Red Mustache says to the maiden: “ Look-a-here, Lucy, who 'n thunder was that milk-eyed feller with you at the theatre last meht?? “Oh"—giggle—**that was the Prince of the Helmet Hat, Charlie. Waan't he a noodle.” “And what does he want a-foolin’ roun’ you, T'aJike to be informed.” Gigele. “Why, Charlie, couldn’t you see he was dead in love with me. Ob, the jewelry, and loves, and ice-creary and things Il get out of fitn berore yogt and I marry P And then tfle Red Mustache caught the hand of the maiden which heid the Prince, and the Red Mustache squeezed that hand snd the poor Prince until he thought his time had come, and he would have said in his anguish, By Guilii- buck P71 he bad had the breath. And the Ited Mustache and the maiden talked softly of the **happy day” and shirt-buttons; and she cast down her tender eyes, and blushed faintly, and enawed nervously the head of the unhappy Prince until _Charhie, the Red Mus- tache, exclaimed, *“You are eatin’ up your ivory fan, Luey "' And thereupon the maiden said: “Lend me vour pencil, Churlie, and I will write you some- thing uice.” Aud he gave her the pencil; and she wrote 2 certain lezend on the back of the ivory Prince, and she handed him to Charlic with a smile and a sidewise look; aud the legend which Charlie read upon the back of the Prince was in these words, to-wit: **Cnarlie, My Darlie!™ Whereupon Charlie oressed his red mustache ardenily to the tender inscription; and it tickled the Prince’s back exceedingly, and the Prince wazed wroth and exclaimed within bim- self, *Dog-gon a ivory fag, anyhow ' After that Charlie "tie Red Mustache _gent- 1y folded up the unhappy and protane Prince, and put bim in the left breast pocket of his coat; and there the Prince zrew exccedingly sick. for the pocket was full of bad tobaceo and cardamon seed. 3 And when the clock struck one, Charlie arose, and the Prince heard him say, “L must go,” and the maiden answered, #So soon?” And ne replied, * Until to-morrow eve, Ta ta, Duciie!” aud she murmurred, ‘‘To-morrow eve. Ta-ta, Chuckfe!” and then the Prince was sorely mashed and mixed up with the tobacco and the cardamom seed, as Charlie orought a great ueeze and squeezed something oh! so close to ;?s left breast pociet! s ‘Then Chaclie the Red Mustache went to his lodgines, and huog bis coat containing the un- happy Prince on the back of a chair, And the Prince was extremely miserable o body snd in spirit, for the **Lizht of his Eyes” had gone | ont ineloriously, and he was standing on his head fn the [eft breast-pocket midst the tobacco and the cardamom séed. And he wished a great wish, and he wished to be no longersu fvory fap. but simoly the Prince of the Helmet' Hat forever more. Aad when he awoke mext morning he was Iying in_bed, no longer her ivory fan, but the some old Prince of the Helmet Hat. - But to Ius dying day he earried with. him mementoes of the time when be was an ivory fan, for the maiden had gnawed off, for good and. all, bis right ear, and neyer was able to erase from his back the legend she had written— **Charlie, i My Darlier” e moral of this s, that you always don’s have t0 o to the Iands of tha OFlent for » fairy story. America, though Jouse and utilitarian, can do something in that line for herself,” WOMEN IN AUSTRIA. Fulton's Letter to Baltimore American. The road from Vienna to’ Munich, over 800 miles, is through a beantiful country, mostly & broad valley, finely cuitivated, the ‘principal crops being grain. Most of the. field-work on the farms was being done by the women, who werd mowing and reaping in the hot snn, and swinging the scythe with a steadiness which showed that they must have beén raiscd to this kind of labor. There is no country in Europe that cquals Austria o the severe labor that falls to the lot of women. On our way to the deot in Vienna yesterdsy morning we passed two wagons filled with barrels of plaster, each of which had a woman yoked to the tonguc. with struPs over her shoulders, and was bending to the load as she drew it over the stones. In each case there were two_men walking behind the wagon, with one hand on it, but giving very lit- tle assistance. Thev were, doubtless, plaster- ¢rs, whilst the women were laborers, the latter dofug ail the laborious work for both plasterers and bricklayers. The ladies took occasion to give'the omnibus man o picce of their mind on the.subject, telling him that they did not treat women in America that way, and they would like to see the man who could make them do the work of horses whilst he strolled lefsurcly along. ‘The fact {s that most of the young men to be found in Austria wear a military uniform, and it is not to be wondered thatlaborious work falls to women where the young men are all draggea off toserve inthearmy. In ali this fine country through which we passed the only implements used seemed to be the hoe and the plow, and tha latter mostly of very primitive construction. the saving of labor are not used, as mow- ing and haymaking was in progress, and there were no patient mowers or horse-rakes to be seen. On the train with us were the mother and sister of the Emperor of Auatria, on their way to visit the King of Bavaria, who viewed thesc field scencs without a thought for the poor women who were bending to the scythe. his reminds us of a remark made in our hearing by an Austrian a few days previous. In speaking of the Empress, he said she was fond of horses and dogs, and kept a great nwnber; that in hunting she would break down several horses in a day; that she would nurse and pet a lame dog or a sick korse, but that she never gave a thought to the condition of the poor among her subjects. SOE ENEW HER BUSINESS. Detrots Free Press. When Collins went home to dinner Monday lie found the house tenantless, the cook-stove cold, and there was a lonesome look about that part of the Mouday washing still feft in the tubs in the summer-kitchen. Hurrving through o the back-yard he saw his wife braced against the fence, holding to the end of a broken elothes-line to keep the newly washed garments from the ground. “Yow'se got here at last, have you?” ex- ciaimed the wife as she caught sight of him. * Yes, I’m here—what’s the matter!” he re- peated. ** Here I've been holding this broken line for over an hour,—over a full hour, sir!"” she snap- ped. * I was determined to die right here be- tore 1'd let these clothes down I? “‘ But why didn’t you call some one?” he in- nocently inquired. *There’s that new family next door,—the woman wouid have come over io one min ‘¢ Womap* next door, you biz idiot, you! Hasn’t she been v around and pecking around for two weeks to see my wash, and d’ye think 1’d_give ber 8 chauce to come over here and see for herself whether the sleeves of my night-zown were pieced down with unbleached cotton! You don't know auything, sir, and you mase tracks for a piece of rope, sir ! “Well T swan!” growled Colling as he ** tracsed.” . A GENEROUS MINER. San Francieco News- Letter. After all, these Virginia City miners have big, generous hearts. The other evening one of them, who was fivishing up a week’s spree in ?Frisco, stepped out of the Palace after dinner, and ran against a haggard-looking, shabby-gen- teel woman, who was weepinz upon a corner * \What is the matter, marm! " said the miner, respectfully. She told him a sad story,—pover- ty, sickness, a laree family of cnildren. nothing 10 do, nothing to wear. *Is that the best frock ou've got!’ said the rough fellow, gently. She said it was. He telt in his pocket. It con- tained one twenty, which he had intended to devote to wine and wickedness that evening. **¥top here & moment. marm,” and he dodwed around the corner and into a dry goods store. Ina few minutes he returned, and. pressing a smail bundle into the poor woman’s hand. dis- appeared with the air of a man who bad done a kind action graceful The starving woman eagerly undid the package. It contained & pair of embroidered silk stockings. ° g FOR THE CREDIT OF THE FAMILY. Colimbus (0.) Stasesman,. A yonnggeutleman was passing a little girl in Seventh streer yeaterday who was sitting on the doorstens and making the air melodious hum- ming over a tute. He was interested by the sweet and intelligent. appearance of the child, und, accosting her, the following distogue took place: “Sissy, what’s your pa’s namei” This was polltely auswered by the tittle xirl. * How many brothers have you?? “Pour cr five.” “ How many sisters?””" **Four or five.” The young man’s curiosity belng satisfied he passed on. The mother of the little 4-vear-old (who had neither brother nor er) overheard the conversation, aud, calling her in, asked her why she had storied to the man, and received the foi- lowing reply: *Weli, mamma, I dido’t want the gentleman to_think we were 0 poor 8s to lave no children.” TFTEMININE NOTES. ~ Overin Europe they have Swede girl grad- uates. A Troy man lost a canal-boat, and a local paper suggests that some Syracase girl took it for a slipper. Instead of ® Dr.,” Mary Walker should be called “dock'd dress,” for grammatical and other reasons. Some scribbling wretch says: “It takes as much wit not to displease a woman as it takes Tittle to please her.” ©You may break, you may shatter the vase, if you will,”” but the [rightful keramics pasted on by the women folks will stick to it still. Hop bitters—Taking your girl to a “hop” and having some other fellow dance with her continually.—Cincinnati Saturday Night.. Noy is the season when afond-hearted parent is called upon for a 350 dress for his daughter, who is to read a 50-cent csaay at close of school. —Detroit F'ree Press. Darwin says a woman loses one-tcnth of her time looknz for her thimble. He recommends that a shelf for it be attached to toe frame of the mirror.~—New York Graphic. When a bridegroom finds all the clothes he owas in the world hungone over the other on s ook behind the pautry door, he realizes for tne first time that the Loneymoon is Gver.—dn- drews’ Buzar. A man whose knowledze fs based on actual experience says that when calling_on their sweethearts vounz_men should carry affection in thelr hearts,erfection in their manners, and confection in:thcir pockets. Here is a'slander from a Earopean paper: An American lady, while at Rome, managed to se- cure an inviiation to a court ball, and while there was approached by Prince Humbert,—now King,—who addressed her some polite: soeech. She did not rise, as is etiquette, but, pointing With her fan to 2 vacant chair near, said: ** You must be tired, Prince; won't you set down and rest your trotters awhile?” They were sitting on the piazza near the sea- side. He was her lover, handsome, and full of the ardar of impassionsd youth. She was sen- timental and pretty, but the mosquitoes were buzzing around her so lively that even love be- came monotonous. Finally there was a lnll in the conversation, which ke broke by observing: “What are the ‘;ild ‘w;ivcs slnflfil" 1vb’:-5 smiled sweetly, avd, swingiog one of ber ivor arms over her golaen curls, lisped: © 1 thlnfi they must be sinzing * Howe, Sweet Home.! He left. ——— Bismarck’s Dog. ¥ London World. ‘Tbis is the true story of Prince Gortschakoff and the dog: Upon the occasion of bis paying a visit to Bismarck, his foot accidentally slipped, and he was upon the point of falling. Bismarck Agricultural implements for’ "rushed forward to assist him, when his dog, Which is trained to attack all unwelcome fo- truders, mistaking his master's movement for s hostile "one, immediately flew at Gortschakoff's throat, and in a moment both Princes, with the dog on top of them, lay sprawling npon the floor. The' shoek caused by this contretemps, following upon = surfeit of strawverries, is snflg- Pposed to have occasioned Prince Gortschakof’s indisnosition, thourh there are some who are of opinion that it was merely assumed asan excuse 1n order that he might have an ofportunity of preparing a long speech at his leisure. CURRENT GOSSIP. KING LEAR DEFYING THE STORM. Blow, winds, and crack your checks! rage! Blow your bazoo till yon can't rest! You cataracts, and hurricancs, spont Till you have.drenched oar steeples, And made the weathercocks pray to the gods To send them life-preservers or web-feet! Yon snlphnrons and thought-execnting fires, Vaunt-couners to oak-cleaving thunder-bolts, Singe my white head! It'a nothing bat a wig Anyhow, and cost only.two dollars’and fitty cents! And thou, all-shaking thunder, Strike flat the thick rotundity of the world! R-r-umble thy belty-fuli1 Snit, fire! apout, rain! yea spout Like a country schoolmaster At a Fourth-of-July celebration! ot raum, wind, thunder, or fire are my dangh- rs: T tax not you, you elements, with unkindness; 1 nover gave you a kingdom, s erand pisno, All the pin-money you wanted, fine clothos, Nor permitted yon to tirt with every drummer That came to town; yor owe me no rubscriptions; Then why let fall your horrible pleasureY Here L stand, your slave, A poor. {nfirm, weak, and despised old man— And yet I call you servile ministers That"have with two pernicions daughters jolned Yonr high-engendered battles 'gainta head - So old and white 25 this is! 'Gainst an old man subject to rheumatism, IV ho has been cauzht out in his best snit Without an umbrel| 010! s foull —~0il City Derrick. A SAGACIOUS DOG. Chambers' ** Anecdotes of Dogs.™ One of the most strikiog instances which we have heard of sagacity and versonal attachment in the shepherd’s dog, occurred about half century ago among the Grampian Mountais. In one of his excursions to his distant flocks, & shepherd took with him one of his children. Alfter traversing the hills for some time, attend- ed by his dog, theshepherd found himself noder the necessity of ascending a summit some dis- tance to have a more extensive view of his range. As the ascent was too fatiguing for the chitd, he left him onasmall plain at the bottom * with the strict injunction not to stir from 1t till his return. ' Scarcely, however, had he gained the sum- mit when the horizon was suddealy darkened by onc of those impenetrable mists which frequently descend so rapidly amid these mountains as, in the space of a tew minutes, almost to turn day into night. The suxious father instantly hastened back to find his child; but, owing to the unusual darkness and his own trepidation, he unfortumately missed bis way in the descent. After a fruit- Iess search of many hours among the danzerous morasses and cataracts with which these mount- u_n;labomxd. be was at fength overtaken by night. Still wandering on without knowing whither, he at lengih came to the verge of mist. and by the light of the moon, discovered that he had reached the bottom of the valley, and was witbin o short distance of his coitaze. To revew the search that night was equaily frait- less and dangerous. He was thereforc oblized to return to his cottage, having lost both bis child and his dog, which had attended him faithfully for years. Next morning, by daybreak, the shepherd, accompanied by 2 band of his neighbors, set out. in search of his child; but, after a day spent in : fruitless fatigue, he was at last compciled, by ‘he approach of bight, to descend from the mountain. On returninZ to his cottage, he found that the dog, which he had lost the day before, had been home, and, on receiving a viece of cake, had iustantly started off again. For scveral successive days the shopherd renewed the search for his ceild, and still, on returning av evening disappointed to his cot- tage, he found that the dcg baa been home, 2ud, on receiving his usual aliowance of cake, had instaotly disappeared. Struck. with this singular circumstance, he remained at home one day, and, when the dog as usual departed with This piece of cake, he resolved to follow him and find out the eause of his strange provedure. ‘The dog led the way to a cataract at some distance from the spot where the shephera had left hischild. The banks of the cataract al- most joined at the top, yet, separated by an abyss of imtmense depth, presented that appear- ance which so often astonishes and appails the travelers who. frequent the Grampian Mount- ains. and indicates that these stupendous chasms werg not -the silent work of time, but the sudden effect of some violent convulsion of the carsh. Down one_of these rugged and almost per- endicular descents the dog began, without esitation, to make his way, and ot last disap- peared fato a cave, the mouth of which was al- most upon a level with the torrent. The shep- herd with difficulty followed, but, on entering the cave, what were his emotions when he be- held his child eating with much satisfaction the cake which the dog had just brought him, while the-faithful animal stood by eyeing his young charge with the utmost complacence. From the situation in which the child was found, it abpears that he had wandered to the brink of the precipice, and then cither fallen or scrambled down till he reachied the cave, which the dread of the torrent bad afterward prevent- ed him from quitting. The dog, by means of his ecent, bad traced him to the spot, and after~ ward prevented him from starving by giving u to him hiz own daily allowance. He appeare never to have quitted the child by nizht or day, except when it was nccessary to go for his food, and then he was alweys seen runniog at fulf speed to and from tne cottage. THE ORIGINAL MERMAID. London Dally News. An important addition has just been made, rivaling, perbaps, in interest the celebrated gorilla *“Pengo,” to the natural history depart- raent of the Aquarium, this novelty being a efzantic manatee, or West [ndian mermaid, which arrived at Glasgow last Monday, and is the second specimen ever brougbt to Europe of this now nearlyextinct kind of animal. It Is, in fact, a very good example of the specles, being about nine feet long, and welghing about half a ton, waile it is roughly conjectured to be about 6 years old. The manatee is sclentifically the American and African representative of the group of syrenfe; the dugong being the Eastern one, and still ex- isting on the coasts of India and Australia. The rhytine, or northern manatee, is now quite ex- tinct, but was often found in Behrings Straits up to about a century ago. This female speci- men was caught {n a net on the Dauntless Bank, off the Island of Legnan, north of Essiquibo River, British Guiana, by some native fisher- men. It {8 very rarely scen now fn_that tropfe- al district, being the first specimen found with- in three years. After its capture it was taken to Demerara snd there purchased by Capt. Piecott, of the Direct Line West India Steamboat Company. Un the passage fu the Blenbefm it fed freely for atime on the leaves and fruit of the moco-moco, aad also on _those of the mangrove, brought from Deme- Tara. ‘When these ~ were exhausted it fed on bread and hay, chiefly the latter. During the voyage constant attention was re- quired’ to see that the waterin which it was conveyed was kept at a proper temperature,— namely, from 70 to 75 degrees Fahrenheit. Last Sunday morning the manager of the Aquarium received an intimation of its departuré from Demerars, 20d therenpon he arranged that Mr. Jobn . Carrington, the naturalist of the Society, shiould procecd to Glaszow to awaitthe urriva{ of the Blenheim.” After the ship had been met fu the Clyde a lively competition com- menced among the aquarium maoagers, the re- sult being that Mr. Carrinzton secured the stranzer. It took thirty-five men 1o raise the lerere tank in which the animal was conveved to a covered carriage truck which was in waitinzat the St. Enoch’s station of the Midland Rail- way. Ir, Smith, the station-muster, afforded al) possible assistance, aod in dne course the creature arrived in London. Thiscurious animal has mammze very much like those of the human being, and this peenliarity, combined with its curious havit of lifting the fore part of the body out of the water while searching_for food, doubtless gave rise to the fables of the mer- maid. However ridicnlous the ancient notions may now be considered, they arelnevertheless to be satisfactorily explained. - The manatee, with its fish-like tail, the roundish head, and the mamme of the breast, naturally sugeested fables of mermaids or syrens luring the mariner to his destruction. The mavatee is mentioned in * Westward Ho!” by the late Canon Kings- Jey, who devoted so much of_the latter part of nls life to wanderings“in the West {udies. Mr. Robertson, the eseral manager, and Mr. Car- rington, the naturalist of the Aquarium, may well be congratalated oo the tion of what 15 only the foarth specimien of thisaninal taken 11 Within the Jast ten years, though historical rec- o &s’:u‘r that it abounded in the buccaneer- A PIUTE FANDANGO. Virginta (ser.) Chrontcle. The Piute fandanzo is still in {nl blast, and on Wednesday crowds of whites went out to see the dancing. A Chronicle reporter went out amonc the rest and spent several hours viewing the novel sights witnessed only at such a place. It was twilicht when he reached the spot, and the camp-fires were blazine in every direction.’ Some 300 Indians were gathered about a vacant space which had been beaten down by the danc fng. They had just ‘tnished their afternoon dance "and were preparing for smpper. Tha squaws were attendiog to the work of prepar- ing the meal, the youngsters were scattered about gathering sagebrush and cedar-roots for fuel, while some of the bucks were stretehed out ‘on_their blankets, fast asleep, and others engaged in animated xames of poker or monte. At first glance there did not seem to be many Yiutes present, but a more careful fnspection of the place revealed them in astonishing numbers. They swarmed behind piles of sagebrusi in scores, and under old pieces of weather-worn canvas, raised standing frown the ground by two dozens would be packed. As the nizht came on they huddled closer about their camp- fires, the light of which fell with uiulurcsl&xa effect upon the fSaming red blankets of the bucks, and the many-hued handkerchiefls bound round the heads of the squaws. In the central space the chiidren danced and sported, throwing showers of dust over each other, and yeling vociferously. Many of the squaws were nursing their infants, and one kud 3 pair of twins at the breast. The bucks, who svere gambling, satin squads of adozen sbout the edge of their_blankets, and considerabie coin was jingled. Poker and monte were tho *favor- ite games. For a couple of days Capt. Bob (who is a sort of Bob Schenck amons the Pi- utes) had enriched his private exchequer tos corsiderable extent, despoiling his Walker River zuests of nearlyall the cofn they had brought. terday the Walker River men had a consuitation, and after considerable delibern- tion it was determined to set a trap for Bob in the shape of a_montc game. Bob watched tkho new game awhile and concluded he waw piles of ballion beyond. He firally demanded a pluce in the cirele, and inside of half an hour was flat broke. At 9 o'clock thu gambling games broke up and all hands got ready for the dance. 'The bucks, stripped to the waist, first entered the ring, and the squaws, attired in their best calico, followed suit. The first buck that entered exccuted a dance somethiog like a burlesque on the high- Iand fiinz. A squaw sprang in rext, and in a few mioutes about ifty were in the ring, Kick- ing up enough dust to slmost hide them from view, while the rest of the tribe sat round on the outside and shouted approviugly. When the revorter left at miduight, the moon, which bad just risen, shonc upon a parcel” of suages dancing Mike madmen, und darting io lugu- brious melody which Sounded like:the niwht- calls of wild an{mals prowiing soout the hills. Al was neglected but the dance; the fires were ailowed to die out, and when the reporter was Ralf a mile from the spot the. sound of yelping dogs and screaming squaws mingied with the monotonous tramp of feet 95 if no one there had any intentionof weakenfug. The fandango ended last night. “EDWIN DROOD.” N0 York Tridune. from Mr. Dickens in rezard to the plot of **The Mystery of Edwin Drood,” offered a rather commonplace solution of what had become a most perplexing : literary problem. HIs theory was that Edwin Drood had been attacked and killed by Jasper, and that the end of the story ‘was to turn upon the detection of the crime by the oplum-eating hag. If the kev to the mys- tery is so simple, it is hard to understand what Mr. Dickens meant when he told Mr. Forster that the main idea of the story was ** not com~ municable, or the interest of the book would be gone,”! and that * the curiousand new idea™ that had been **kept for & long time unsuspects: ed, yet always working itself out,” was‘*a very strong one, though diflicult to work.” The idea of a murderer’s planning the destruction of his victim's body by the corrosive action of lime, and of the detection of the crime by means of a ring which had resisted such actio, is cer- tainly an inadequate cxplanation of the plot of John Forster, who had received vague hints astory upon which Mr. Dickens had expended . unusual effort. The view which Thomas Foster has recently presented in one of the lizhter Enclish_magazines, is regarded with favor by Prof. Richard A. Proctor. ln his judgment, as he states in a leiter to the Feho, the idea of 5o arranziny mat- defeat aud punishment of ters that the Jasper should be brought about by Edwin Drood bimselt, -accords far better with Mr. Dickens’ proclivitics as 8_stary-teller, with the tone of the novel so far aswritten, and with the remarks made to_his biographer, thao Jobu Forster's view. The wstehineof a murderer by his supposed victim was one of the novel- ist’s favorite idcas. - In his short storv, * Huat- ed Down, he slightly worked this vein. From John Forster’s bouk it is plain that the assump- tion of Dick Datchery in the filth distinctly connected with the mai that Datchery is Drood himself, theory is and {hut a_ very beautiful and touching conclusion had been planned. In the last pages that were written Datchery encoun- ters the opmmteater and shrinks from a sacri- fice which is vers bitter tohim: *JohnJasper’s lamp is kindled, and his lizhthouse i3 shininz when Mr. Datchery returns alone toward i, As mariners on a dangerous Yoynge approackine 0 iron-bound coast may look alon the beams of the warning }ight to the haven Iyine beyood it that may never be reached, so Mr. Datcners’s wisttul gaze is directed to this beacon and be- yond.” “If Dutchery is Edwin Drood, 1€ 1t is the love of Rosa he is to sacrifice, anid if the Bhaven that may never be reached i3 the object of his wenerous sacrifice in Neville’s favor (since Neville is to die), the deacription, according to Prof. Proctor, is natural, and the end suggested is noble and beautiful. * QUIPS. An honest failure fs the rarest work of man. How to acquire shorthand—Fool around 2 buzz saw.—Graphic. *¢ Wheat aro the uses of adversity,” bat cor- mered speculators fu Chicago don’t sec ft.— Louwell Courier. Now that Congress has adjourned, keeping a gin-mill in Washinzton is about as profitable o3 pedding mittens in Hades.—Boston Lost. Kate Sothern, the Ueorzia murderess. has ‘been put to work In a convict camp as cook, and. now she wishes she bad * been hung—and 5o do the coavicts.—LBu ffa'o Express. Ma, are we cannibals?” asked alittle Elehth street girl of her mother the other morpiny. “ Why, my child, what do you meant” ** Noth- ing, only I heard you say to Bridzet, *Boy legs for breakfast.’ "—Cincinnati Saturday Night. On the day that Barnum’s circus performed a while oo at Meriden, Conn., six monkevs es- caped from his menagerie, and only oneof them haos been causht. The other five are starting Greenback newspapers up and down the coua- try. Irate passenger—*Driver, why in thunder don’t you whip up your horses?” Driver— ©Well "you see, sir, my_dog’s gettin’ fat, and he’s follerin’ behind. Exercise does him mi but if I drive too tast hecan’t keep up with us.! —Luck. A Jota Bull, conversing with a Canadian Tn- diap, asked him if he knew that the sun uever setson the Queen’s dominfons. -+ No,” sald the Todian. “Do you kuow the reason why?? asked John. **Because heaven is afraid to trust an Englishman in- the dark,” was the savage’s reply. Now, Heaveo help us, the metric system agi- tators ars preparing to carry this happy country | by storm. _Away with the conspirators{ Wei- come the Communists.even, i they will slay for us the men who would send a 10-year-old boy to the store to buy three-quarters of a hectometre of unbleached musiin, balf a milfimetre of bran, 2 mynagram of nutmegs, and a dekliterof buck- wheat, nnd ask the clerk how be sold dress brald a hectometre when you boughtsix decimetres of it. Away with them !—Zurdette. FRESH TRETZELS. i Dots besser you vas honoraple efen to dose dot vas fizht mit you. + Goot sence vou got from nadure, bad scents son got from Pridzeport. % Neferdond shtop to told shtory riddles vhen you vas zot work to done. Yoost let der bresbiration on your face been der vasser you mix your dough mit. Nefer dond kick efery shtons in your vay on. ackound you may get & shtoue bruise. 2 You dond can go.der world pooty vell droo, unless you got 1ron in your plood to make nerf. A dog vas know his master by der shmell of him, unds-man vas know nis friend by der scnmell of him neider. Der balm trec could’nt grow pooty velt, an- less it vas hefy on its pranthes, yoost der samo like der gharacter of a man. % Dink potty vell of a man dot vill shtoad by ¥you vhen you vas in shtormy vedder. Shwarua of inskects vill shtay around you vhen der sun shines out. RS T