Evening Star Newspaper, July 3, 1881, Page 7

1 rrr rere nee EEE se SP FASHION WRINKLES, ‘WUSTLES Increase in dimensions. “OVERDRESSES are shirred from belt to knea, ‘TER potnted shoe ts again Teturniag to favor. Bacay Tay CoLorep Giovas above the wrists ‘are etylish. SMaLt Roman pears are braided In the hair “WIth fine effect. PARAsots of fine plaited straw are odd—and that fs about all. £CARFS Or rows of beaded lace make mos: cl arm ng lace bonnets. CHILDREN’s Dresses are again cut with low ‘Reck + and short sleeves. SUMMER Goons In novelties and bargains are Sdvertised In to-day’s STAR. CLUSTER: of coral pink roses adorn hats, to- Sether with ja>ots of cream lace. A Dez CoLt.aR of linen batiste may be stylish- y<ecured with a bar of lapis lajull. THE StUwMER StYLEs of boat-shaped hats are these with :coop points back and front. 4 Srriisn Bowser Is of brown Spanish lace, Sncircied with a wreath of marsh battercups. ‘THB HEAD cr 4 SrayNx 13 introduced in a bed Egyptian design in the new cotton Isprax Crore ts itke rough-dried mull mastin, ‘With delicately tiated ground, enlivened with tal designs. A FASHION abs MOURNING Car of cream lac and point d’-sprit 1s ornamented with bows of Claret satin riovon. DRESSES Of tinted mull, over princess slip3 of Pale pink, 'tyht blue or cream white batiste ar» Stylirb and beccming. Leng Lace Mrrrens tn black, white, cream or the colors of the costume are wora with sleeves Of eLort or med! length. A Styuiss Evening Dress {sof cream and Dlue satin, almost covered with rows of blush roses and Mirecourt lace. AN.Y. Fasuton Lerrer says from a velvet -Collar an amethyst pendant be sus- Beaded with -c'egant reaute ™ SICK HEADACHE. A Hygienic Love Story. (Harper's Bazar ] Cocks had crowed and hens had- cackied for full hour at least. This was a world of Scratching, they said to themselves, and eggs were not built ina day. Early to bed and early to rise make fowls healthy and lively and Wise. The robins in the apple trees, tue swal- lows In the barn, the Uttle Drown Dioeves that held town-meetings in the meadow, had been Piping and trilling that it was day, day, day, Uli they half expected to hear tne’ noon bell Tinging. The shy quallin the hedgerow had Cailed Ubelr warntog of “hot and dry, hot and .” over and over, to any ears that would listen. ‘The spiders had long since hung out | thelr giittertog webs a-drying on the wiid-rose | Dushes. The velig of the moratog glory, blue and pink and purpie, had swung fer hours Outside the buttery window, before the deiln- >. 0d, don't want look owlisb, an’ don’tdono, ay'd steal the wonen fut-r the business. Rue -am en0ug trade in no time. There's sour ore. * flapjic<s, an’ I told her I'd make some tip-toy step for for supp2r. ‘Don’t you take an extry. ston me. Sarab,’ she says. ‘I'm goin’ to fom 't brown bread an’ milk while I stay.’ There au. nothin’ betiern ‘n sour cream flapjacks, Dav she’s 80 ’frald o’ givin’ trouble! Tnat’s what I call & real lady.” It Nathan gueased that the name of this ex- tolled delight was written on Dr. Allis’ Index Expurgatortus, he nevertheles3 ate his own share with dup satisfaction, and equally en- joyed the rich preserves, the fruity cake, the crumbling tarts, atd the delicate strong tea, Set forth in the best china to honor the visitor, who, much to Sarah's dissppolntment, elected brown bread and milk. after all. How it was brought about neither Aunt Larkin nor Nathan could have toid. but 091- diah’sSarab, whose Declaration of Indepen- dence bad always read that she ‘wouldn't live out for nobody,” found hefself permanently in- quent Aunt Larkin lifted the latch ana entered, | Rot as her wont was, quickly, as witn desire, | Dut on leaden feet of dui resolve, and looking white as ber own ilnen. Toere si the row of milk-palls wattlag to be emptled. to be washed, to be spread in the fun, aiready ferce and not outside, There was the lorg array of pans mantling with yellow Cream. There, in the corner, waited the ex- acting churn, the dasher leaning toward her hahd.with what seemed a malevolent readiat As she took up the skimmer the kitchen c.0%: struck six. “Ou dear,” sighed Aunt Larkin, ‘‘morain’ lost, evenin’ crossed.’ ” Sut when, with conselentious care, sho had Stuipped Che third paa of iis ricu a duodance, Sav laid down Ler Weapons, so wo speak, aud Capitulated to the Ove toe able to Couquer Unat Teseived soul. Taauny,’ she called, at the foot of the stairs. answered a cheerful voice “Yer, mother,’ from smong the Iflac busues, and a bron curly bead, set on the slender should-r3 of ycuvg manhood, showed ftself in the doorway “What, abother of the evil Drood! Go suraigot to Led, moiwer. I'll go right over for Odsdia’s Satab. Aud I'll make you some tea, Aud man- my own breakfast. Don’ you worry about me. But you see I was right. mother. You must haveagirl Shai! help you up statrs?” Hanpsome Ev sino DRegsses are of stlver and steel hand-painted satins. or rich brocaded fabrics, in silver or gold thread. ‘THE Porviak BALaYEgvse tsof muslin, em- broldered in the designs of Carrickmacross lace, and 1s used laid fat inside the skirt. JERSEY WEBBING, sometimes called stockinet, resembles the elastic texture of knitted work, and Is used for the new Jersey basques. LaRGE SaiLon Hats are in favor for seaside nd mountain wear, and those of stiff white Straw can be easily cleaned with s2ap, water and a brush. TaE NEW AND FASHIONABLE TatvMinG for batiste dresses ts called feu de cartes and tllus- trates the various cards in the pack in solid ‘Dgures on a lace net work. AN ELEGANT MATERIAL for a wedding dress {s Niebly brocaded white velvet,in wotech the Isrge velvet flowers stand out tin relief upon the glosey white satin ground. MUSLIN Drasses for little girismay b> trimmed On the shoulders in deep collar fashion, with Tuffies, which can also be used to finish sle2ve3s and the bottom of skirts. EVENING Drgsses for young ladies are of Ia- Gla muslin or gauze elaborately trimmed with | lace, and garnished with loops and knots of rib- ‘bons or cius'«r3 of charming flowers, ~_ SMALL ScywsR Wraps have clusters of shirr3 ‘upon the shoulders, and the tabs are arranged in clusters cf cross shirrs at the belt line; Urey are trimmed with Spanish, French, gutpure or Breton laces. THE Huguerot collar for a child ts very Pretty. It is douvle pleated on the under part and fat on top. with narrow lace all round. Specimens are made of batiste, mull or rows of wide and Larrow embroidery. A Frencu fancy is for pink bonnets or a Combinatiqn of pink and blue, One of pink Mirecourt lace is garnished with crushed blush roses and another of pink crep2 de chine,drawn in diamonds, ts shaded and decorated with pale pink apple biossoms. A Naw Snare in morning caps fs In the exact Style of the bead dreas worn by the Neapolitan Peasent girls, and another shape called the “Russian” cap. is made of white surah, with beyadere stripes acros3 the fabric in bright colois of green, gold and scarlet. A CHARMING little baby frock 1s mado of Pale blue surab, low-necked and trimmed with @ shirred plastron edged with Vaiencleanes lace, which is set up the entire front of tne dress. A broad sash ed on tne ends with lace ts carried around walst and knotted Tcoaely at one side. A QvaIst Srxgat Dress for a child has Straight front, with pleated bick, shaped at the waist, finished by a breadth gathered at te top and lined in contrasting color. Tne sieve is gathered at the wrist and bows of ¥ bbon are pixced on them and down the froat; im addition @ broad ribbon sash may be worn. Fans are shown in varied and beautiful styles for the ccim :.5 season. A novelty tuat promiaes ad wire, and renovated each tim? order of mountain ferns 1s plac. d and in the center ts set a bou- w. /3, COrrespouding with the floral “crn With the costume. OvpRE Weopines are avtuatly tn order; that is, tke brid. wears, of course, the whiteat of “0, Out of six brides aatds, tae the youngest, wears pale pink . Sud the tallest, or the eldest, wears the deep: st crimson roses, while the four tn- termedia'es shade upward. This novel effect is repeated tn flowers of other color and form, Ovg Lapres should adogt the economical fea- ‘tures of foreign dress making. Trains are Partly discarded because the expense is le2- fened considerably; thus ladies have more Gresses than fogmerly, as they cost 1-33, and that’s the way they save. Another saving plan is to have for each plain stik a counterpart made up In cotton, and in all the underpart of the dress th's ma‘ertal ts used. SoMB Or THE Novel Brocapss recen‘ly ex- hibited at an up-town Louse in New York were Of such stariling desigas and combinations as to cause vo: der as to who wears oreven pur- Chases tht se fabrics. It would seem that mach money mu-t be lost by the importers of these materials, some of which range from $15 to a i in price, and are heavy with threads of Sold and silver tinsel, the silk itself being of the richest quality. AT 4 Recast club reception in New York a lady from st. Louis wore an exquisite dres3 of Peach blossom satin. The corsage was em. Droiderec al. cver with a lattice work pattern | im small pesrl beads. The semt-long sleeves Were of brocaded net, Interwoven with pearis. Ep the trent of the skirt were set three deep Meunces of pink-tinted silk ne\ embroiderad With pearis in a delicate lace-lze desiga. The hhgir Was Gricsed Japanese fashion and fastened ‘With large pearl-headed pins. WHITE SUKAH, with its milky tin's and soft sheeny fo'ds, nas taken high rank as an even- Ing dress, both for blondes and brazettes, 4& lace or pearl beaded passemen- ge, it is one of the most exquisite lollets that a lady can wear. A for adorning these dresses Is the latted draperies, beginniog from and coming down od eaca side ted fulness €) the lower edge of the Podiee. Wheie they open fan wise to form the ‘tablier. ‘The Bess Head mer. ‘There ar- Lead lmers and head liners. The foliow!ng ‘ ium the Fargo (vakota) Argus: coME Erne. the Long Week Through orkest Well, Thy Towns te wise Thy Ce p bist to AL. he Sunday Golden La: ne b's, Doom, hens 22 A" Tota te ea FOP, “t = a4; knvest “= Cateh” on -—s Heavenly Boom. Now an Qu dby B, poe ———— SUDDEX Deatzor VERWAMEN. CONTRAC= Om.—At Harilcou, NY. yea Matthews, a well- Soverument contra tor, and who accu- mulated @ fo:tube of muliom duriag the war, Sea sadeeuly of apoplexy a, His Tesidenoa Sunday eveving. He had pay ‘ust ret from churco when he wag setzed dn, * dled. The Geceaced was the richest man in th,’ WD. If hot We.tchos:er county, N.¥. Tne Te. ae was living tu ccat not'far from $200,000, ‘Missouri legisiature last for Mam- | “No cear. You just see to youcself. The fee's ready, and the bread’s th the stone pot, &od there's plenty of dougnnuts, and a carrant ple, and dited beef, alid Cheese 1a the dat- tery; and if you want to fry yourself a slice of meat, there's the fat in he red jar, and the Veal’s out in the spring house, Gut Lhougi tue mother-tastinct insisted oa thus making the way easy for its young, human nature shuddered at unis Catalogue, aud poor Aunt Larkin staggered to her too horribly lil to speak again for bours, Sight and sound Were uilke dreadful Tue swift jingie of the Wootng bobolink swinging outside iu the golden Fopes of the laburnum plerced ber sensitive ears like the steely Ciash of swords. Aud tne droping hum of bees, plunging deep in the white sweetness of the syringas, Was as the Dray of a trombone. Her heavy ilmb3 ached, to ache the more as she trled io rest them 10 ew postions. It seemed to her that tne deadly bausea was in ber feet, in her arms, io her spine—every where. Tnat the entrance of any haman batog, even | her beloved Thanny, would be woeaduravie, she kuew. But oh, if some phantom, some tn: Stalled tn that cool and spotless kitchen with'n three days of Doctor Allis’s advent. Auagt Larkin having repeated for thirty years that she “dido’t ‘see the sense of havin’ a girl clutterin’ round to pick up after,” and her son being accustomed to accept as final whatever domestic views his mother promulgated, re- ceived the new dispensation with submission On the one part and rejoicing on the other. Tae doctor's luggage appeared to consist in great part in “Franklin Square” novels, and the in- finite ricnes, in a little room, of the ‘ Halt- hour Series." And when Nathan came home one afternoon to fiad his mother con‘ rocking in her large chair on the verand. in the fortunes of ths Greatest Hvress in Exg- land, instead of stirring up pancakes or mak ing button-holes, he said to himself, “Allis Is a witch, bless her!” Yes, already it had gone so far that the unwomanly doctor was “Allis” to him. And at tea this studious young sage, whe spent all his letsure in gardeniog among cla:sic Toots, annoutced that as to-morrow would be Sa‘urday, he was sure they could not d) ber ter than(o drive over to Bethesda Sorings, all of oe ‘and spend an idle day in that greac Vebity Fair. But to-morrow it was Nathan's turn. His head was chained to his pillow with shackles of pain, It was seasickness, he satd to himself, Without the palsy of the will. It was fever, without the Diessed Intervals of un2onscloas- ness. It was the rack, the thumb acrew, the jron boot. If the faint stirrings of desire might be called hope, he hoped bis mother would not prescribe magaesia, or bring him the dreaded “cup 0° tea.” By-and-by came Dr. Allia, with nolseless presence, cool hands, low voice. aud potent pre- scription. Asthe slow hours dragged the heacache yielded grudgingly, trresgiutely, with Spastos of re-asserting power. Nexiday Nathan Was free from pain, but tired out and despon- dent. Sitting in the cool dusk of the honey- suckles, he sa'd, “I'd give a third of mny life, Allis, to buy off these headaches from the rest of it, Sometimes I think they will shut m2 out. from any career whatever. Can't you cure them, little Galer.?” . Herr Professor, not while you invite them, solicit them compel them.” “I, Allis? I don’t give them an inch of van- tage. I rise early, go to bed early, don’t even Swcke, and fight them to the death when they come.” “Nathan, I should like totalk to you for your good, though you'll hate me for it. You've halt forgotten that I ama female doctor, and Visible, Inaudible agency, Would Duc’ turn tne swivel of the biind, where a ray of abuorribie , SULIEht Wes already creeping tn: Low could | she ever have let that bottle of Bohemian glass | 8'abd on her bureau, even thouga Tuaaay had | givea it ber, tilted with cologne for ber poor | + Dead} Its vivid red seemed to smite her through | ; the cloud of dull pain above ner brows. Andift | she shut her eyes, ic did eut glare the reddar. Thanuy brought her the tea, and it was vile. Preseuuy Ovadia’s Sarah came creaping in With demonstrative quietness, 10 shoes that creakec and gown that crackled, to set down a tukling way by the bedside. Aunt Larkin, Who would bave mourned over a lle as over a Icst soul, had she been capabie of telting one, frigned sleep to dismiss that amlable vandal. Bu. when she opened her eyes and saw the yel- low butter, vhe deep biue plate, the brown toast, the red milk pitcher, the black eartuen tea-pot, she felt that sex al®ne, not gratitude nor Christian grace, bridied her Tongue from profane and vata babblin: Meantime, natuie, who did not inciade sick headache, or any-other mortal malady, in her Scheme of existence, went about ner usual busi- ntss. The sun mounted higher and higher, cattle browsed, sheep fattened, Duds blossomed, crops grew. Among these the plantage at the Village academy ilourisued apace. Here lay the daily toll of Mr. Nathan Larkin, assistant pria- cipal, @ sensitive, consclentious fellow, of in- domitable will, loving work, and tolling to kindle in duller brains and lighter natures his own enthusiasm and his own resolve. Tne Reverend Edward Granniss, D.D., /a.D, LL D., Privelpal of the Quaboag Semiuary, be ag a geatleman of phiegmatic temperament, mach adiicied to heavy dinners at noonday, was quite willing to jet his esteemed young friend Go most of the pulling of the double team, es- pecially through the hard places, thoagh eimply for nis own improvement, of course. ‘thus the youth, tak'nz no rest, sp2niinz of his intense persouallty With prodigat readiaess, | inheriting trom bis mother a sei of tense and SWift-responding nerves, found himscif b set, obce a fortnight or so, by the saine tiead, sick headache, which had devastated years of her useful life. He was young and hviolc. Somc- Umes he could grapple with It, hold it stlil, and, thus hamperea. yo through the routtue of bis Work after adull fashioa. Scm2tumes h2sleided, | undergoing tortures greater than his mozher’s, ag his luagination was more vivid. But, eith-r Way, he counted @ month outof eaca year an unredeemed sacriffee to tuis Moloch On this summer day he felt wond+rully alert | and alive. The boys thought he wade Cesar and the Anabusis almost interesting, wit nis vivid sketch of the splendid life of th} republic, and his showing up of hot-headed Cyrus, ani Cool, cruel, able Artaxerxes, “iong-memorled” for bis wrongs. But in secret he was much disquieted. For Miss Allls Putnam was to come that afternoon, and he felt that his poor mother would “‘worry” more than was needful. Not that he had not his own miszivings. A Stropg-minded young womintwho had grad- ueted frst in her class from the medical col- lege, and walked the hospitals abroad for a year, who had written a prize treatt e ons me | disgusting and sanguinary subject, and no i doubt practiced vivisection, shou‘d ‘be, to his | thinking, though for quite opposite reasous, Uke Wordsworwn’s Lucy, «‘A mail whom thera were none to priise, And very few to love.” He tancied he khew how she would look: Slight, sandy-complexioned, her lgh: char- acteriess hair very neat and wholly uatoterest- tog, her dress very uprigat and uncompromising avout the biases, collars and cuffs prim and Spotless—no “sweet neglect” about her, nor even “th’ adulteries of art,” which, notwith- | Standing Ben Jonson, he thought ‘most be- { Witching. She was 5) distant a consin that kinsMip Lad not made the invitation obilgatory. But bis mother had dearly loved her mother, aud when that gentle widow wrote that her dear Allis had returned, and that she longed to have ker ever-beloved Candaca know her before she settled down to her profession, the ever- beloved and ever obliging Candace ‘replited at once that the young traveler should be made welcome. A caravan of unexpected guests conld not ‘upset Aunt Larkin’s perfec. ordsr, nor flaa her garrison unprovistoned. But sas con‘ded to tanupy that she “expected a girl ’t had ved i yourrelf (pardon the expression, but I am in a | the roll of that Juggernaut which crushes all to Pari would flnd their way of !ivin’ dreadtut old-feshtoned and common.” And he guessed that she secretly dreaced the incurstoa, as h> did. Polite be would certatnly be, but he thought he would move his books out to the stabl: loft, and live as litte as possible at home while Dr. Allis remained. lie wished women would keep to their own sphere, and let men’s work alone, By the time the two sessions were over, the compositions inspected, ali the school “chores” Gone, and his face turned homeward, he was sure that he detested unwomeniy women, and of these einners he reckoned female doctors chiefest. As he opened the kitchen door, Obadtan’s Sarah stood revealed, buxom, red armed, g 0d- natured, carefully stratning aromatic broth into a china bowl ‘°Twas her notion,” sge ex- iained. ‘I shouldn’t never have teched the [a sel—LO. nor made the soup nelther—tho2* tellin’, I took her up the toast a tea, 1s you a?” ed at em. But she sal wane, aus SHE NEVER 100K any hing, “MG? she must take suthin’, an’ she You never see sech a handy littl 2 y guess the full soul could eat that mess. Honey- comb’s Cloyin’ alwuz. I never see the force of that tex’. An’ she’s gave hersome sort o” reviv- in’ medicioe "t didn’t have no taste or smell, 's fur '3 7 see, an’ she’s @ settin’ up a’ready, an’ sez her headache’s "moat gone, an’ I never knowed her out 0” bed before in less ’a two days, when ’t really took fase ear a meanipg even 80 a moult gues a8 ME. Fathan. anes s would we distilled from this speech mi kuown. For at this pause there appeared In the te the most sattafactory glo3s ima ie, A fluffy head, all blonde curs, onfis, frizzes, he knew not what; Uae cheeks; laughing brown eyes; shining teeth; a cambrie that might have awed him, had it not even more picturesque than fashionab| trim slippered feet beneath its abbreviat orispness—beno!d the key to Sarah’s volavle ‘security! esa person! am less objectionabie than you feared. ’Twere pity of my life to disturb thia state ofamity. Butat heart I’m professional above all things, and you see I can’t advise your mother lest I seem disrespectful.” “Lay on, Macdufl,’ I dare say I sha'n’t know when I'm hit, And tfldo feet ‘the whiff and Wind of your fell sword,’ I won't yalmper.” “Nathan, do you kuow that’ your inotier kiled those six chidren whose ttle graves she Cee me to-day?” “Yes; although she would have died for any one of them. And but that you were tougher fibred, as well 2s flaer toered, thin the rest, you would have completed the heeatom) Your grandmother, mamma says, was exac ly Uke your motier, all ‘f.calty,’ energy and thrirt, She would clean two rosin In a’ day— aint, Windows and all—churn, get the dinner for a grest family of ‘men folks,’ take cire of her cbii¢ren, and make a pairof pantaloons before b-dtime. Of cousse she wa3 * worryin’,’ with all her nerves on the surface, and of course she had to bequeath to her girls this sama overwrought mental and physical condition. Aunt Larkin, with less muscular strength than her mother, has emulated her achievements, and, balf starved herself, has half starved her children, first, in their ‘Inheritance, and, sec- ond, in their rearing.” “Allls, you are wild. Mother, and grana- es before her, made generous living a pri- malatty.” " Thavs just what I say, child. ‘Generous living’ is sure to be semt-statvation. You have had the finest of bread, and delicious, fatal ‘ght Disenuit,’ and cake, and preserves, and pastry, and insidious flapjacks, and rich dough- nuts, and incessant coffee, and salt fish fried with pork scraps, and heavy ‘botied dishes’ velledin a film of fat, and fresh meats fried, @Ld sausages, and spare-rib, sp .re-rib, omjours spare-rib What bas your ‘brain found in this Barmecide feast? What food for your dalic ate, tente Lerves? Do you tbink tt any wonder that they collapse, as 1¢ were, from iaanition twice &moxth orco? All your life you have gorged \cmper—prcfessional of course) ’on hydro car- bor aceous foods, imposing moustrous tasks on your rebellious’ liver, which ‘strikes,’ and spreads disaffection throughout the ranks of {ts associates. You are starving for vital paos- phates. Didn’t you study physiology at seaool? Pt ps YOU teach if, even, and what do you care for its sacred teachings? Yes, I meansa- cree, ‘1 bere’s a religion of the body, let me teil Fou, unregencrate boy. I've no doubt you ren- der into beautiful English that story of Mar- yas and Apollo, and what do you know or care abcut our own skin, that texture of miraculoas skill?” You read that Minerva sprang trom the brain of Jove. But why should you expect wis dom to be born from yours? You use tt without mercy sixteen hours a day. You are subj-ct to that fatal drain which stupidity is always Making upon cleverness. There’s no vamp're like 1. You never play. Why don’t you swim, Tide. dance, row, play base-ball, practice arebery, whist, and goto town every vaca‘ion for an instructive course of theaters?” “When, Allis? Why, there isn’t time, I leave out half the work 1 ought to do as it is.” “Ought! ought! Ob dear! how shall we stop your race? You have uo pure jay in existence. It doesu’t even seem that you Have any love of Ute tn itself. It’s only useful for the work you can wring out of it. You make yourselves ieas than your moods and tenses, less that your butter ard cheese. Time! It’there tan’t time to get well and keep well, you’a better change for eternity, as you will, my dear young friead, if you con'treform. I Enow that the kind of headache which you and-Auat Larkin are Cursed wih never comes except with over- work and under-feeding. She must go on to suffer, poor thing, though less, I hope. But you can cure yourself 1f you will. Obey me, and you shall be a new man in a year, giving me that delight in your growing health which an artist feeis iu Lis growing picture.” “ Dear Ailis, I abhor bran, and mother would never cook it.” “ Dear simpleton, who asked you? No, you Shall have delicious soups, and inviting meats, and salads of celestial Uneage, and vegetabies, and mijk, and such bread as'you have never lasted, made of tlour whose whole value has not pa'd tribute to the miller.” « But Obadiah’s Sarah- “Oh, yes, she Can. I'ilteach her. Wecan do ib all, and more, it only you will persuade your mother that it 18 my lark, or your whlin, or What you will, so that we do not seem to sub- Vert the law of generations, or reproach the old order with the new. Don't you seo what a new creature she is since I have made her reat? And when she says, plalatively, as in her mo- ments of revelljon she does, ‘The house is not what it was’ (if, peradventure, Sarah has for- gotten to Set the salt Dox on the right hand of the sugar crock, instead of the left), I reply, ‘Never mind. dear Aunt Larkin, the home 13 more. Did you ever see Nathan so happy about you, ag Dow that you tuck up your feet and 1eaq in the afternoons, or go out riding with me?’ And then she is sfleaced, and takes Saother turn at The Maid of Sker with visibie satisfaction. Do you suppose anything io life would make her 80 happy as for you to escape your beadaches? And I bave shown you the ay. “Raving put myself in Putnam, lam bound to follyw your prescrip- ton, I sup} e. The preserves shall mould upon their shelves, the cake box shall rust upon its ninges, flapjacks tronr henceforth be c: accurstd, and tne majestic shades of Sylveal Graham azd Bio Lewis command my obedience «+ Blowly their phantoms arise before us, Suet a table they lord iteeruae and ey ver AMVith looks of beauty aad words of g20d."" “admirable, Master Nathap ' I can stay two weeks longer to see my remedies in action, an then you are to beon honor. At.the Taanks giving vacation come to town, and I will ad- minister the course of theatera advised, and measure yourimprovemant. To-morrow after- noon, if you, please, We wilt go to the top of that beaut le hill, up which you have your hands, Doctor ot a g ‘house : yhantom. remodia! menaer T Provecas} wal % a 3; wen! » d In a atric 7 Bt itop se oar mech | My, amano a Pat | aie es resulted in closing every gambllag-house in S". deligt +” and I beg your 2 ne From that day a new king arose over Egypt. No Sarkote., ed. But we ‘the late train di "king trook hid itael so cunntogty among Lovrsiar, unanpoun.. And mamms said Auat kia leaves that Nathan and Allis did not flad 6 4 REPUBLICANS. — The Beattie Re- | not connect. “en at a disadvan Ha in the Jong summer cons, when work was Eas adn areas Scate Commnvttes of Louisiaas | Gould not be tas “ional nose sulited action at | done: Neil was too for their nimble adopt d see iapions endorsing the Virginia | come, my - the best of assistante”— | feet, no berry ‘too far,no lily-beal poni fhe pleogs sgaizat proscription ioe Sosa | Obes wos. “emilo on tuat staring | too’ loacceasible, " Somecines’” Aun at her: ex- brilliant * was inclined joined them in thelr frolic, s Haag née in Lovina’ anatanmaiie" coe | neoptyes, walsh Nathan “ana rasroom us wo Hench Seda feat oft Rational repubitcan , Rational committee doné, ‘tm the fun of these ¢ itl sng Presdeat caracla extend vo the Vie | ve eal ot sdmtniscerm, "ae Yong’as | ftehs Sellen tho ot nono brown and very ald, countenance and then taik with ungry. — ~ Operation in their power. sherk Metan.T think wo oan rea. ota i ea Doctor Als — grpacsaate iat ‘The dieparity in the ages of oh 2iesourt elop- arcoee (a I “Mog Detake herself to town. vo oe Logg ke— greater women, Don’ ‘beat all?” Inqui bus. or, Patterns of -vall, paper, used this fact to avert suspicion in | Sarah, intent on the impending usin ana ‘SpO'ls of her in Wass it by registering at the hotels ag mo-, “Pooty’s that wild rose, an’ smarter ’n ~ \ Nathan sew 2 Otons of the eer and to: Bin’. “Taint strange tho old doctors, that Jeat y- Bye November, us fitness of professional life for women under- went further disintegration. “Nothing could be more refined,” he said to hims-lf. “My mether/s house, even, does not 1cok baif so feminine. Ph gee gg at_her pretty and _ pro! jaughter would establish herself in apother vocation when she sent her on a missionary visit amon; ~ Frabklin ain, hers Was a hope deterred, the @ year afi¢? Wiis before the corres. Mee ane of which a specimen ts appended, Poriched 1." department: HE 79 HEH? 80} hay,” Deel offered the « rotesso Pct of the Classicwat - ~~ © Will 3 were too? I would not as.” JOU whHe my Hine.’ WEE fixed at Franklin, wan:.'Dg WO leave you fre‘ © live your own life of bu OKS aud tought an. work, which there you cu Uld net do. “at — the eoctety is deligétfat, and i think you would behappy. If it is your wisn still to practice your profession I have no more m,zbt, as [ tru-t T have no more wisn, to object, than you would have concerniog mine. And, indeed, I hold that there is no nobler work in the world than yours. Personally it would 11 become me to iumit your beneficence For know, Doctor Alits, that T nave not had a vestige of sick heaiache 1m Six months. I said I would give a thira of mny life to save the other two from ita ravages, Take, O Deotor, thrice the fee; ‘Take, I give it early; For, ‘invirible to ikea, Levils b ue hase gons from me, Does this not sound lie a love letter? If Ido not say that I adore you atl my heart, And soul, and mind, aud e*rer sia, ti 18 Decanse you feund it out, as you found out everything else about me, by witcheraft, I belleve, months On Mouths ago. And if I scem too Jolly for the aitlinde of prascr Laseume, it is because the Lope of having you always has gone to my. bratn (Weaktucu as who knows better than you. by intervals ot agon'zing piln from mv birth), and intox1 ated me, as with the mead of the gods. We ‘d not ‘Doctor Larkin’ serve every €Ld 4s Weli:4 ‘Doctor Putnam?’ Brutas will starts spirit + soun as Cunsar, “I Use this foi cf entreaty rather than Another MOic fan: ar Lo poets and lovers be- cause you assure; me that, before all things, you were profess.wnal. My litle darling, I am hedged about with Guuger. At— the other day I waseven offeicd aud pressed upon with —Pis! if l have a housekeeper, I doubt not that potsonous compound will be dally on the table, and presently, in an unvigilant moment, perhaps when I am lost in reflection on & doubtful ictus, I shall fall! My life, or at least my digestion, which In your view is more than Jife, ligy at your feet, We are rica for country folk, little Allis. I have bought charming house at ——, and the recepuon- room seems to me pecnilarly eligible as an cfiice. You shall have it on the most favorabie terms, and permanently, by addressing at once, “Your devoted, NL? SHE TO HIM. DEAR S1R:—My diagnosis is favorable. Your summary of symptoms I find satisfactory. No headache in six months, Good. A capacity to laugh over serious issues, and make the best of things, such as would have been quite im- sstble to you a year or 20 ago. Better. A opeful, because gradually developed, sense of the necessity of obedience to your medical edvicer in all things. Best. What you say of the advantages of the office you offer me has received my attention. I consider myself Well placed, wiih a rapidly growing practice. But as my greatest success has been in the relief of maladies of the nerves and digestion, and as a college town Is a settlement of dyspeptics, martyrs to sick headache, the temptation to enlarge knowledge in my'spe- clalty is overmastering. 1 will therefore take tLe cflice on the terms proposed, reserving to myself the right to use it for boudoir, reception rccm, study, or Bee growlery for the Profes. for Cf Greek and Latin at College, should it £efm to me advisable. I will trouble you to have the key ready wheneverl demand tt; end remain, with recommendation to follow irc aument as previously advised. Truly yours, A. P. “P.S.—It was the D:llef of the ancients that the liver was the seat of the affections. ‘This was come Ume @ paradox, but now the time gives It proof.” “Dog Lost? Wi a WAS Gh, who has seen my dogsy dear—he is of the stub- by tail— Ee of a soft and liquid eyes, ard melancholy wail? Nom e, ¢ Ihear his gentle step, nor see his happy sc When licking off his dinner-plate, or running on a race! . 6 He was as ugly as they grow upon the isle of And that’s what makes his logs so great, and made. his price so high! 2 Sotell menow, ‘tye winged winds that round my pathway roar," . ‘t Will ny dear dqwy ne'er comeback? Shall I ne'er see him more? Hewasa, brown and curly thing, who ran about the house, : i And up and down the stairs he'd go, as still as any mouse; Thave revere Aud will that € na Cog so small, 60 horrible to see! ling, precious 'thi.~ come never back t Oh, ro! My heart will break! That terrier from Skye Bas lett me for come other home! ‘The tears fall from myreye. Ir should seareh the world, I know not be ‘That 1 should find another dog as ugly as was he. Alas! could And so I mourn my doxiry lost. any wail He wasthe dearest little dog that ever wagzed a Good people join tail. He was #0 ugly! Precious dear! So blest I can- not be As cyer to possess 4 dog as ugly as was he! (U-r-r- -r-r, Ow, Ow, Ow!”) But stay! What's that mellifluous sound that Ureaks tpon my € it is! Oh, can it then rt time, bring all thy woes—I care not b etrue! It is his voice I they be— dehehtful ugly pet has been restored to ‘ [St INPORTED QUALLS. They are Fluttering Their Wings Now in Two States. Last summer the Cavier club. of Cincinnatt, turned loose a large number of Messina quali, which, when the cold blasts of last winter came on, spread their wings and took an alr ine for the south. Several communications have been received at the Times-Star office asklpg whether these birds had ever returned. A Tines-Star reporter took the trouble of hunt- ing up Col. L. A. Harris, who, by the way, 13 one 01 the hardest workers in the Cuvier club, and the query regarding the quail was pro- pounded to him. “Those quall have never returned,” replied the Colonel, ‘but we have strong hopes that they will, for some of them have been seen in New York and Maine.” if “Does the club intend to import any more?” “Ob, yes. We have made arrangements for the importation of 200 more.” “when will they arrive here?” “Not before next spring. You see the Mes- sina quatlare an African bird that cro3s the Mediterranean Sea to Messina In the fall of the Year and there they are captured. One order Wiil be filled in the spring and we will try our luck again.” “ The Cuvi'r Ciub is dolng considerable good tomatoe the preservation of game in Onio, isn’t 112” ‘icholas for July. “A great deal. Our club here is the largest in the country, and every member takes @ per- Sonal interest in seeing that game ta protected. We are now making arrangements for stocking all the streams of the state with the finest fish. ere has been great trouble caused us by the fectiy- game laws of Ohio, which we hope to have rm wedied next winter when the legisla- ture me ts For instance: The Fish Commis- SioD sets aside $1,C00 for stocking the stream3 i one LAE — and nd the same time the legislature passed an act giving perm shoot ai.d spear fish, and tosclue for “multets.” Now what are mullets? Tney are wortal fish commonly called the “red horse.’ When seloing for mullets a person 13 lable to seine a jew black bass. Is he going to pick out the bass and throw them back Lito the stream and keep the mullete? Not much.” The Murder of Lieut. Cherry. STARTLING STORY OF A PLOT. {Omaha Herald, Jase 17 J ‘The first report of the murder of Lteut. Cher- Ty assigned insanity as the motive of Locke, the cavairyman, for killing that gallant yoing officer while in- pursuit of the ranche robbers near an Nipbrara, and this has been the accept theory in most quarters, But Daniel Kilpatrick, a laborer, resent arrived from Niobrara and now ‘employ: — hes meaterweres told a Herald ‘rej a start version —_y¢ the affair, wile puts itin the fora ot a racy abd not an accident. about Several of the ever: tblatere, as Kilpatrick gla formed a La to rob Colonel Stanton, of this city, the depart- ar atascy lathatemae gt four months’ 80! : learnes of, the) plot and revealed it to the Fort Niol Lieu! went detail of with a strong trusty men toward O'Nell City, met Colonel Stanton and feately tO the fort, Be Med 1n this attem made an attack upon THE SUMMER RESORTS, The het term starts the tide of travel to mountain and sea shore, ‘The Long Braneh hotels fill slowly, except the Eiteron. Saratega did well for June. There wera a good many conventions and comimencements ere. Oakland and Deer Park promise to do well this seacon—better than last. The new Cresson hotel, on the P. R. R., will have many Pittsburg aud Cincinnati pope. Fortress Monroe 13 quite full There are Waby Visitors there, White Mountain travel begins to-day and Eeeps up tll Sepiember 1. ad Nisgara Falls nasa dally paper which gives: ,leasant personals respecting local hackmen. Wn ‘lenpis has commenced at Newport, and t.* daughters of the aristocracy are sald to play sy TY “too too” game. The Mar, V3 of Lorne’s visit to Manitoba and the €: adfan Northwest this summer, the Lon- don Times thin * WHl attract the attention of British emigrants ‘© that a eos a A nurhber cf distin, “¥!Sh! snopal clerey- men will preach inv. % James’ Chapel, Lan Branch, during the sum, “er..This ts the caapel for which Mr, Childs kas Showa so much in- terest. A party from Saratoga retam, °4 recently from. the Adirondacks, bringing wih." them about seventy-five pounds of Diack bax The fish were cavght with hocks and Iines ..¥ two men in atent tix hours. Three Boston sisters intend to siectrity_Hamp- se bis year with bathing sults of pe cock ine. Cap2 May bathing has alreaiy bezun, Thee were hurdseds In the waves on Tuesday last. ‘The Lops begin July 10. The Ocean House, the ultra fasiionayle hotel of Nev port, is now biossom!ng out in red blinds. That iv the seaside color. Mount Desert people say that if New Yorkers insist on coming there they must pay New York prices. ‘This season. a3 usual, the most extravagant dressing on the part of the ladies will be at Sar- atoga. Fashions are now go varled ahd bewild- e1lng that the display ts likely, If not to wake the dead, at least to drive the living crazy. * About fifty cottages have been butlt at Long Brapch since last season, most of them in the Queen Anne style, and painted India red, biack abd dark green. About half of them Lave been built by investors, and the yearly rental is 335; per cent of their cost, All of them were rented a month ago. Newport follage is remarkably heavy this year. Nowhere else are to be seen such beauil. nul ard bighly cultivated lawns as at Newport The ocean and a fresh-water lake almost within a stone's throw of each other Is the freak of nature which makes Spring Lake at- tractive in New Jersey. Countess Lewenhaupt, the wife of the Danish Minister at Washipgton, 1s In Pittsfteld, Mass, where she will remain throughout the sum: mer. “ anything bistorical here?” he sald at Mount Desert to @ native. “Wall, yes,” was the re- pis, (rihat there cow used'to belong to Ben Buuer.” Everybody wants an end seat at the theater, and likewise everybody must have at tne sea~ side a room facing theocean. The city woman “can’s breathe in a lard breeze.” F The Virginia reel will be danced at Long Bianch and Cape May this season. ‘The owners of Foxhail aud Iroquots are voth summer residents of Newport. Rev. T. De Witt Talmage will spend his vaca- ticn at White Suipbur Springs. President Garfleld will not be able to visit Newport in Quy as he had exp:cted. Adirondack guides have their ghost stories fer the season already cut and dried, There will be more bicycle riding at the sea- shore this summer than éver before. The Cataract House, at Niagara Falls, will place al the rear of the hotel one of the Weston electric lights for the purpose of lighting up the rapids, which at this point are the mos: besutiul in the river. The ligut will pe oae of atcut 10,0¢0 Candle power, ana will be placed before a perabolic reflector. This will adralt of its being turned in any direction. @Xearly all the Newport cottagers have put in an appearance, and the beautiful old town begins to be gay and jively. The social festiv- iues will begin a few weeks hence, and despite the €xodus to Europe, they will be as brilliant as ever. “There ts an observatory at Richfield,” says an exchange, “perched on top of on2 of the highest hiils, from whitch the Views are of sur- passing extent and beauty. It 1s sald that upon One occasiop, the atmosphere being espectaliy Clear, a man up there caw his mother-in-law in New York, and was 80 alarmed that he feilia a fit. Auother time a man saw a tailor la Al- bapy to whom he owed money. No one should fell Uo visit this cbservator; At the summer resort—First week, ladies, ts glven Lo showing your dresses; second week, to lelling where you went last year; third week, to tal about the Browns, who have gone home; fourth weck, to compiaints of the house, After the fourth week life at _a summer resort 13 inet ftiera ript. es bave beea runnlag ds since the ist of ube loursts’ itne began this week. rivale steam jach's are in use ard Learly sil the otvers are being put in oder tor the season. The mest tnportant improvement at Old Orchard Beach Uns season is th buth ling of a rellread four miles in length, just below the Old Orchard Hovse, to con’ with Eastern railroad, three mil on 1S WH be tegdy Jur business about July ‘The A few cf the eles uificence, A Tew years azo Ub been looked upon as good e1 tbe bell this evening, whe how they are only regarded as the proper outit ior riding cut Lo. A rallroad now runs through the heart of the Catskilis and there are few grasder rides any- where, The farmers don’t lixe the adveat of the Iron horse, but when satirieally asked what they are golug to do about it, mak haste ta say tkey dou’t know. Funny storles are toid of the Atlantic City Porteoflice. If your name ts Jonn Jones and your letters come addressed “Jack,” you must Inquire for “Jack” aud *Johu” ooth, or they may lay there for a couple of days. Taey are careful about delivery, and always saut the dcors untfi the mail 1s distributed. It 4s sald that the efforts of the Coney Island botel keepers to create sympathy 1a thetr favor by Saying that their losses are 35,00) every rainy day, have proved a failure. People d> Lot telleve them, The national reputation which Klberon has secured through the recent visit of the Prest- dent and his Cabinet, has started the report that a new and magnificent hotel will be erect ed on the site of the present house before an- other year. Tiny children drive nuge horses all about Newpori, and the wonder Is that some accident 1s not recorded every day. A local paper well says that parents must be quite indifferent to the safety avd welfare of tneir little ones to subject them to such constant risky and dan . ‘A Saratoga, correspondent, referring to the approaching races at that resort, says: There are now nearly 70 thoroughbreds at the track, embracing several southern and westera tiyera The track 13 the scene ot lively work these bright June mornings as the jockeys take thelr swift-looted steeds out for their prelimtnary spins, There are many promising youogs'ers among the throng, and there will oe more sur- prises and fat French pooi dividends this year Upan ever before, unless all the signs tat Tne grand stand has been* repainted and some 60 stables have been added. There ts now roon at the track for over 400 horses, and there are engagements to fill every one. “The track has been widened at the place where the five fur- long and three quarter mile dashes start. Tae Helds are now so large that until the noble Steeds get strung out in the race lt takes a wide track for them to gallop abreast, Tne track itself has also been improved by a top- dressing of loam, and is now thought by ex- perts to be the most perfect racing und 11 the world, It certainly has more b cee tee ayaa rOportio) ow e Papnivuds Racing every day for a week is about a8 much as you can find anywhere elss, elther in America or Europe; but at the Sara- toga course the contests will this-year on July 16 and continue every day, Sundays only excepted, until September 1. ‘There will be the usual fourraces per day, including a steeplechase. — AN Evghy-DaY STREET SCENS: ‘Hi! stop that car!” Driver screws down the brake 80 Vigorously as nearly to dislocate the necks of bis gers, who fall up against each pther and smile or look cross accordip ticular tions. Now, a and be sure to comeand see me very don’t fe be yg Midi Ny sw Sasan aad Unele dvhn and all the reat of the folks, and remember not to trouble yourself about matca. ribbon unless you can a8 do take care of yourself j On the mass cf the nucleus, and gives in “PHE NATURE OF COMETS, Pro! Renjamin Pierce's ose ee “ts and Me Ful! Brothers of Plana —Tail- fcors—The Electritied Trnim~_ jess Comets—Mow They Are Weighed—Their Orbits—The Nebu- lar My pothesis, In the Lowell lectures of the late Professor Benjamin Pirice, of Harvard College, recently published in book form under the title of “IGeality In the Physical Sciences,” 1s a caap- ter treating of the nature of comets, from ch ihe following extracts are made as be peclal Interest &t the present time, whe y one Is talking of the new visitor which made such » Dil ilant entrauce t0 our skies last week : The tical stage of the nebitiar Distory 1s the corgealed star, of which ptaner, sateii Comet abd meteor are special forms, and watch Is Gs- {ned to become again, at last, a chaoule mas, They are simultaneous in existence, and not belonging to successive stagesot the history Staring from a common origin, they have passed through a process of differentiation, And are titicd {yr aifferent funcuoas They inay all be regarded as boltds; and they fill the cel-stial spaces wiih every cyncaivadie Variety of maguitude, motion and puyst Peet. The comet, trom the strangeness of Its ap- pearance in th Inaccessivie Armament, tres en the immemorial wonder and draii o mankind. it as been the deard or Call of sone invisb’e monster. It has been the sword of some angry god. It has been the pea of tue furles, writitg ta the book of fate the death o singe, Ube fat! of empires, the speedy comiag 0! aMILES aud pestilences and destructive wars. Ir has been a which has Ded ths sou\3 0 Garsness Even the great Aristove, with his lear beef in nature an. lus contewpt for superstition, could propose n+ theory which was not a Ussue of gratuttou: and incorsequent hypetheses. He thought the pel, With is regular motions, to bea phe avenon like the flitting and wncertain ijxis fotuns. an exhelution from the ear.h. Nevertheless. even in ccmatology, wher= Encdern progress has been 9 essentialiy ald @ by the discovery of gravitaiion and the tn- Vention of the telescope, the Isunct of the auelent Uninkers achieved some memorable Tesuits, Passing by the researcies of the Pythagoreans, we need only refer wo the Writings of Seneca tn the first eeauury of the Chrisuan era. “I know,” writes Seneca, “no nobler nesearch, nor a more usefui science, than that which undertakes the study of the stars; bul to perfect this sciences 18 1t mot ex- Pedient to examine whether the nature of Cowets differs from that of the other celestial bodies? If we reflect on thelr motions, on their vicissitudes of rising and setting. Usetr light and brilllaney, we shall be sora with the analogy which we perceive between them abd these other bodies. We need an €xact history of the comets which have hitherto appeared; for tt Is their rarity ot a} pearance which prevents our deciding upo: the regularity o: their movement. We are | nerani whether, Aecextbing: ‘xed orbits, Uh do not reappear at periodic and determinate totervals of time.” ‘Thts was the prediction of thoughttul genius. Modern astronomy, prom-- itg by the ancient sugyesilon, nas ‘demon- Strated this, like many other ‘truths, dwart of to-day who stands on th? su aiders of the gant of yesterday can seea grea‘er distance then Ube gtant, The perfect comet combines nucieus and train. “ihe beauty belongs to the trata, whien fe Unsubstantial and temporary; while the mass end density reside in the almost ivisible but Permanent nucleus The solid nucleus moves about the sun iu a nearly parabolic orDit, ob». dient to the same law of attraction which gcverns the motions of any one of the planets; whereas cach particle of the train moves in its own b3perbolie orbit, In cons’q tence of are- puirion irctn thesun, often Lwo or three tims as great as the ordinary sovar attraction. Thase particles of the Uratn are el led bodies, aad have tie same electiiclty as that of the san; the particles which are most highly electriiied advance to the front edge of the tall, waite those Whick are the least electrified fail back to the rear. Some of the particiey are electrified just enough to balance tae solar gravitation; £0 that, afier separating from the nucieus,cney te me neutrai to the sun's action and m)ze unuorraly In straight Ines. but without ceas- ing to be part af tne tall The particles which are less highly electrified remain attracted by the sun, at ey Hlthe| eapeed —la the opposite branch of the ola, however, to that in which the repe‘lea aruiesee move. ‘This theory, in an imperfect state, was rudoly applied by Bessel to the tall of Halley’s comet, 1n1s35. But the comet discovered by Donati in isss offered as ne an opportunity as can b> Gestred for its fall verification. How grand was Ube beauty Of that comet! All the worid stopped tn the street, when it became visible aticr Uwi- iight, and wondered at it with bated breath A few centuries ago 1t wou!d have caused unt- versal dismay, aud men would have paled at the frightful portent. But the Christian of to- day beholds it as the love ivst messenzer of Divine wisdom. A multitude of observ ittons were made upon the train as weil as tas head, in ali civilized coun‘ries, and the tusory of the tratn was sustained In every detail The ele- gance of the shape strictly conformed to the eter. iceal corstruction of the jt the bucieus of a comet were taken away ibe train weuld continue to move off througn Space, undisturbed by Une 1033 of 1ts head. Sin- gular as this phenomenon may seem It has bean uctually Gbserved. At midday on the 25 hot Febru: groups of people in many oi the ngland, especially at Poctla sd, coliecied at the Corners of the streets, gaclaz uptowsrd the sun. Protecting their eyes ia the sbacoss of the houses they saw a brillan ob}-cl a few Cegrees from thesun. Such amar ‘pectacic had never before been beheld. is) 8 later @ wonderfully brililant tall of Was sen ekirting the horizon s90n af- set abd reaching more than one-third of the way round the sky. What we how saw was tall without bead, as we had before seen haid & most Gestituie of tail. But head aad tall were members of the same comet. in about two hours the comet of 1513 weat Toutd the sun, from one side to the other, What couid have become Of the tall, which was reac! ing out about a hundred milifons 0° miles trom Ube sun as farasto the earth’s orbit? There have been those who have actually adopted the ive: edivic—] may say the impossible—hyp othe sis that the tall rotated through thls immense circult, Ceveloping a C-ntrifugal force which all the united powers of the untverse couli not bave sustaiped. But no! The comet practi- Cally left its iall behind ic and began to grow & rew tall as It receded from the sun. “There were thus two tails, nearly side by side, stretc1- ing from opposite of the sun fa nearly the Same direction. The new tail began at tae head of the comet; whereas the cld deserted Tall began without any head at soMhe distance Irom tbe nucleus, and extended further from Uhe sun than the new tall. ‘The Lucleus of the comet ts surrounde! by a mist, which is cailed the coma, or hair; the name comet signifying @ hairy star. "Tae height of the coma above the nucieus d>pends measure of its weight least Minit of welght tain such a helght of atmosphere. Tae nucieus 1s usually so closely surrounded by the dense uiist that 11s diameter cannot b3 measured;bat at Umes the mist rises, uncovers the nucleus, and leaves It with a sharp stellar aspect. ‘Tue leist diameter determined at such times may b>larger than the ac‘uai one, but cannot D2 smalier. From the combination of mass and diameter, the density Ct the nucleus can be computed. In the case of Donati's comet, the diameter of tae Bucieus was perhaps not more than a hundred miles. while the beight of the atmosphere ex- tend:d to eighteen thousand miles. You may be surprised to learn Unat the corresponding density of the nucleus was at least equal to that Of tron. What an unexpected conirasi is here prerented tothe prevalent notions con- c.riing the sun and the comets! Tae soita sun is reduced by sclence to the state of gas, while the substance of the etheriat comet is a sold apd heavy metal. . ; OF, more ex . the t; OF, actly. which will sumice to mata- seen, the sun, In cases of violent explosion the whole nucleus might be broken to pieces and the coma dashed around 80 a8 to give varieties of tail, and even Valls. present in interesting. end ins'ructes tel an nay 20 De parabolic aod the pod ions are Orthelr wage centers of gravil tain fo the midst of pee TS, pd ascertain how Great may: Geviations are such! as vo make If an orbut is actually parabolic OF beperbolic. and it teers ts Ler} Fg iM i i i] : i 3 ‘ * j been obrerved once before, but not twice, On Us Orst reappearance a comet is certain to be loaded with the name of the geometric discov- erer of 8 path. Its theory is compated; its future returns are rigidly jcted; 10s social posilon Is definitely established, and {t tates its piace Fmong the memders of our “on. Buta comet may ons os tar from the sun that the FA vet pum. aeee Seater bi istetween Its Perious .. ie es long es three hundred thousauu . There sre a few comets of which t ~ Parabolt character is evigent at once” Taetr are decidediy eluptical: their perioas a9 HOU ENcetd & baker's dozen of years; and ther sre intimately related to the Manets in their Peeltions apd directions of motion. Professor Newton. of Yale college, has given a distisct 8G satisfactory explanation of the mode in which these comets were probably diverted from thelr original parabolic paths by the action of the planet Jupiter. it was @ royai Sport, and the fluat character of the cometary orbit Was the natural termtnatioa of the game. TiLese comets musi be excluded from our gea- eral discursicn. Omitting them, we fud nothing ta the post- tion of the other orbits which Indicates reia- lien to the solar axis of rotation or vo the pianctary planes cf revolation. They are as untform| tributed as if they had entered our system indifferently from every direction and without reference to tbe prevailing motion of the planets or to their muta or Fatization. Toey are simply the largest of an MeLee SWarin Of meteors W are ft ating 8.1 sround us—aswarm of which by far the greater portion consists of bodies too small to De sven by the ight throsn uvoa them (oom the s.0; and this invisible portion grea!y sar- Passes, in number aud even tn combin d siiss, all the visible comsponents of our cons ell wy. urning to the origina! round nebuta, from h the solar system waayformud, we must suppose that it has goue through caauges Which are represented In many of the neba A central spherical portion sev ceptratee into the sun apa plan outer spherical envelope, wis slower in the of condensation, aud finally became an envelope of bolides.” The nstural orb:12 of the bolides were nearly cireu- lar paths, of which the sun wae al the center. ‘The variety Of directions of Ube planes of the Orbits was 50 great that they constituted a nearly uniform system, constantly approach. , ing each other, and by thelr mutual heat pro. ducing explosions. Tbey were thuebroken up inte an iucreased Dumber of smaller irregular messes, such as we are familiar with in the meteoric stoves. Thus we find all toe Varieties that exist among tbe bodice of the solarsystem harmoniously explained. Woald it not be stranger than aby Metton—wouls it not viola‘e all physical gdslogies—if this ideal hypotvests of the meteoric structure of our system, Sustained by sucu a Variety of observa- ton, Were bot & Close representation o> iis actual history? : Collecting Ferns. (Art Amatenr.| The winter season during the prevalenc? of mild weather 13 unquestionably the most sutt able time for removing ferns. The next bast me Is the early spring, just as Une new fronds are about to commence their growih Butthose WhO are Not experienced collectors might at such seasons often fivd a dimoulty in recog- nizipg some species, because of Uhe fact that the parts which afford the most easy means of Tecognilion—the fronds—are dead. ‘The ever- grech species mostly retain Uhetr fronds all ths Winter, and would. therefore, be easy to fad. But tt ls not so, of course, with the deciduous species, which include We most fra: Lerbaceous kinds. Ferns, however, are 59 hardy, that not only in winter and early sprivg, Dat throuzhoat spring, summer and autumn they can be up- and transplanted win but litils injary, beyond perhaps the dis airat Of one or two of the growing fronds. Even tuts mtutm am of injury may be avoided by very careful Landitng, and, Should it be tuilicted, the plant will not be long in supplying the pla: 103 lost fronds. We may look upon fern collecting, theref, ghtful pursutt, which can'be followed pat TouLd. But i must be remembered ccess In removing ferns from their hab- {tats ducog the summer, espectatly during the Prevalence of hot weather, wiil more depead upon Ube method which ts adopted and upop we Care Which ts exercised during the opera- ‘Uo0n than Will be the care duriog tue winter or early wey Where a fern collecting tour ts decided on, the coilector should i Gen fork, @ stout chisel, @ hammer, a strong Cias ped knife, a towel, and a covered basket of o:Ler receptacle for carry 7. the ferns. Sacud it be determined to hunt for very large spoci- Torns, It would be necessary to adda spade to the implements named. But in such a case Sprclal Means of conveyance would need to be Provided from some point, a3 neat as possible to the locality frem which the ferns are to be lakeb; and indeed such conveyance would be Qeqgrable whenever fern-humting on a large scale is to be irdilged in. In an ordinay Way, however. it will be found tuat the im- plemente needed for removing from thelr hao- iats the smaller and rarer ferss can b+ conve- Blently cariied in a small tourist's bag, sluug On Uhe beck Of the pedestrian collector; and ia the same convenient way 1C Will be found po:- sible, by careful packing, Wo carry a good aum- Der of planis, Whenever possible, tt 1s de- Strable to take up the speclmans wi! sufficient earth to prevent a disturbance of tne roots, but in any case ibis necessary that every po» £ ble pertion of the reo. should v8 €ak*u up, ‘ven 10 the ullimate foreas roouets. Th's 02 ject can te secured by carefully diggiog at a safe distance round avd underbesth the root~ stock of {he plant. Nothing so much promotes Uke rapid recovery of @ plant after removal ag the exercise of great care tn up the eptire mass of lets. It must be remembered that it bas often taken the rooisiock @ long time todevelcp its network of rootiets, waich as Ihey grew have penetrated into ull the sur- sounoing interstices Of the sollor rock from which the plant derives tts sustenance. If, therefore, the work of months fs ruthiessly un- Gone in 2 moment by the taoughtless tear, up cf the plant without Ils mass of rooi-feed- ers tt cannot be expected that the same vigor will be Immediately shown under cultivation a8 Was before exhibited. Yet many fern col- lectors Gn getting out of the earil or rock by a sharp pul. of the hand what looks to them like ab cutire root are surprised ana disappoimted on finding that the earliest fronds thrown up under cuitivation have sadly dwindied from their natural size. Even wea to all appear- ance there 1s a suflicient mass of redilets secured it often happens that a considerable umber are left unperceived in Ube earth. It is especially in the removal of the rock- loving ferbSe Uhat the greatest violence 1s usually done to the plants. Most of the rock- growing species have very abundant, wiry, brous rooilets, Which penetrate in a very re- markable way’ the stony interstices In the beighborhood of the rootstock. It is often made a eubject of complaint by fern coliectora, that the rock~ 8 are more qiffi- cult than any others fo establish under cultiva- Ucn. But the dificuity arises chiefly from the circumstance which has already been alluded to, No doubt it ts often a matter of diffteulty to uproot the rock-loving ferna, and it is for Ubis work that hammer ‘and chisel are neces- crown, rootstock, and rootlets of the specimen desired may be got out unharmed A livtie practice, however, if it be joined to a carefal and loving study of the plaut’s pecutlarities, will ee the however, during the often "be found conventeat— room for puttiag the to be economuzed—to g g i Hel aH i | i