Evening Star Newspaper, November 5, 1881, Page 6

,e ee eT eee ~ Eight out of every ten of these dresses are made FASHION WRINKLES. THE FALL NOVELTIES. Gripen Roses on small tulle veils for brides. Mvrrs of velvet will be the fashion this win- ter. Featuer Heappresses are adopted by fash- Jonable matrons. ‘The Importance of American Tradi- The difference in the importance which is at- tached to the war of independence in the mind ofthe American and in that of the Englishman is of course immense, and naturally so. To the former the spot upon which each skirmish was fought is sacred ground; while the dearth of Frost Grasses adorn some of the latest im- | exciting incident in thelr short national and ‘sorted bébé bonnets. Te CammsaRD, or French refugee cloak, is sonsidered very stylish. ‘Tue big sunflower still holds its own in the esthetic world of fashion. IuMense white satin bows are worn at the beit with white evening dresses. Large Alsatian bows of moire silk are worn pon the head both by young and elderly ladies, the latter choosing black alone. Tue Star's columns are resplendent with the advertisements of the leading dry gocds, lace and novelty houses. Read them. Rep plush bonnets adorned with flaming red feathers, held by large, old-fashioned paste bucklers, are the choice of a few eccentric ladies. Coxontt WeeatHs of pure white or gay-col- ored flowers will be very fashionably worn with full evening toilette, with the bair arrangedala Josephine Reau Sitven and also fine steel buttons are | igplayed. cut in facets which sparkle like dia- | monds and lock exceedingly rich upon street | Jackets of embossed velvet. Praxt-oxay silk stockings, either plain or | delicately embroidered in fine pink flowers, are the rule of the hour. They are worn with Ste- phanie sandals of plain black satin, fastened with tiny silver clasps. Scarrs, sashes and revers are made of the | new striped and plaided fabrics in silk and wool. In dresses of monochrome color the panel facings, camisole, pelerine and cuffs are fre- quently made of these bright materials. A Late Frenen caprice is to wear earrings made of real Brazilian beetles. Another style is that ofa tiny bird about an inch long made of fine, beautiful feathers dyed crimson and The eyes of the bird are formed of diamonds. Gioves, no matter how long, that button up the arm are no longer considered in best style. Two or three buttons at the wrist only are | allowable. The remainder of the glove is in a solid piece fitting loosely over the arm. Tur “Repixcote Joy,” or the coachman’s redingote, as it is otherwise called, is a very fashionable early fall wrap. It is tailor-made, and has a coachman’scape of the same material, with long coat-tails, after the style of a coach- man’s overcoat. Later on this cape will be changed for one of fur or plush. Pretty Haxp Screess or other house orna- ments are made of the large oval straw fans fer sale everywhere during the past summer. Clus- ters of bright flowers, ferns and bits of wood moss are arranged as a frieze around the edge of the fan, and in the center is set a large bow of satin ribbon. Two of these fans tied together make a very pretty mantel ornament. Uxper Jackets made of what is called cha- mois leather are now very much worn by ladies, or will be when the weather gets cooler. They are made to fit tightly to the body so as to be worn beneath the dress. The sleeves are long, and the body extends a short distance below the waist. They are said to be very comfortable to the wearer, and for out-door wear are almost equal in warmth to an ordinary cloth sacque. Some of the novel and elegant house dresses of tinted surah have deep, pointed yokes made wholly of rich openwork lace, underneath which is set a lining of surah matching that of whieh the dress is made. A very handsome Grecian robe of peach-blossom surah has a yoke of cream white Venetian lace, with duchesse int medalliot each point, front and back. inderneath this lace yoke isa lining of pale pink satin, which shows plainly through the meshes of the delicate lace. ‘Tue Dance portion of society are again de- lighted at the number of superb imported toi- Jets made short. They are, asa general thing, very much trimmed with lace, are all very bouffant about the hips, and most of them have Louis XIV. bodices with delicately shirred plas- trons, terminating in asharp point in front; eibow sleeves and immense sashes in the back. either of moire silk or satin, or are at least com- posed in part of this exceedingly fashionable material. ‘Tae Newest Basqves havea Watteau pleat in the back, instead of the two double box pleats, which are still more used than any other ar- Fangement, though they are no longer new. This Watteau effect is precisely like that just described for over-skirts, but is, of course, middie forms of the back with its shortest part at its cen- ter seam, a contrasting facing showing in the folds, and the long sides, loaded in each pointed end, fall overupon the side forms. Tue New Motner Hessarp wrappers for ladies are most comfortable garments when made of soft sleazy flannels, and are very dressy when fine camel's hair cloth or Surah satin is used. ‘These are shaped precisely like the Mother Hub- bard cloaks worn by little girls, with the full straight breadths of the front and back gathered toa yoke, or else shirred at the neck to form @ square yoke. The full shirring below the plain yoke is preferred by most ladies, as it gives | sas fullness, and the garment will then en- ly conceal the outlines of the figures. Garnerep flounces are fashionable again for ich stuffs, such as satin and velvet. For in- stance, satin is doubled and gathered in flounces six inches deep when finished, and put on lap- ing in fuli bunchy clusters at the foot of front ‘hs of satin or velvet skirts. Bias gathered flounces of black velvet trim the back ot some of Worth’s skirts from top to bottom. Other velvet flounces are doubled and box-pleated, while some frills of satin are lined with a con- trasting color, as chocolate with shrimp pink, or dark blue or green with the new terra-cotta red. A Haspsome Reception Tore recently worn in New lork was of deep hunter's green surah, with long panels faced with canary-colored satin. The bodice trimmings were faced to cor- respond, including a dainty shoulder cape fas— tened with a rich gold clasp set with emeralds. The crown of the puke bonnet worn with this was covered with smooth Venetian-green | feathers, and the brim of drawn satin was of the darkest green, with face trimmings of eanary-colored satin. Outside the bonnet was adorned with deep green ostrich tips and Isa- bella roses. Tuere is no change In the fall dress worn in the evening by gentlemen. It remains a black broadcloth suit, with swallow-tail coat, ent low in front, vest also cut low, close-fitting trousers, plain shirt front, with standing jawn necktie folded narrowly, and ‘her white enameled studs or a diamond or other gem. But this must not be worn until the six or seven o'clock dinner. Day dress consists of a frock-coat and vest of black diagonal cloth and gray trousers. The vest and coat are so | hizh that they conceal the shirt front, showing | only the dark flatly folded scarf. A Haxpsome but exceedingly plain dress made in New York for a noted vocalist was of very rich black gros grain. The skirt was un- trimmed. and all the fulness was brought from the hips to the buck of the train, when they fell in heavy unbroken folds. The dress was made princesse shape, and laced down the back to a deep point where it was met by avery broad sash of black watered ribbon. The close-fitting sleeves only reached the elbow, where they ended in double frills of Tuscan colored Spanish lace. A full Henry VIII. ruffof the same lace encireled the neck of the dress. Contrasts of color are very attractive in some of the new costumes; for instance, Worth trims very dark blue satin with brown plush Most effectively, or he makes a suit of green velvet with brown fur beaver or other fur trim- ming. Coats or basques that are tobe worn with black or other ‘dark colored skirts of satin or of velvet are made of rich tapestries and of Surahs with gold-colored ground, on which the raised woven figures are of black olive of heavy pile. Very dark red plush or green coats are also used for this pur- ‘pose, and are made short and single breast Ix THE Dresses brought from Worth’s to New York by modistes who remained late in Paris in order to get the newest styles, the | still live in the fireside lore of every colonial history drives the author and the poet with neve freshness to those with us almost forgotten fields for his story and his lay. The names and deeds of each general have been imprinted on the mind of the American from his See up. Toclaim descent from those legis- and warriors who were called from com- parative obscurity to be the founders of what must soon be the greatest nation upon earth to the it generation is a source of the most pardonable ride. Names and traditions that we in England haye never heard—nay, the names of even British soldiers that bled for us in the long list of fruitless victories and disas- trous defeats, and that we have long ra ‘meri- can’s household. When the whole facts of the case are bornein mind, and when it is recol- lected what a sorry figure we cut asa nation throughout the whole business, there is noth- ing very remarkable perhaps in the oblivion to which British literature has consigned those ill- starred campaigns. But in these days when every well-informed and sensible Englishman not only feels no bitterness connected with that struggle, but sympathizes unreservedly with the motives that led the colonists to fight, and when the magnitude of the great nation to which that war gave birth is considered, and the growing significance that in consequence must attach to the date of its entry into the family of nations, it 1s a little singular how in- significant a place the events of which we speak and the participators in them occupy in the minds of even cultivated Englishmen. The almost unique perfection of Washington's ca- reer and character has, it is true, lifted him out of the obscurity that veils the names and deeds ofhis contemporaries. Howmany are there of us, for instance, to whom the name of Patrick Henry would have =, significance? And it this was the man, self-taught, sprang from the jower classes, once considered too ignorant and uncouth for a colonial country lewres, who, by @ natural eloquence so extraordinary of its kind and so remarkable for its effect that an exact parallel for it would be hard to find in history, completely crushed out the clinging to the mother country that was so strong through the southern colonies, then the.most important portion of the continent. If it was the sword of Washington that actually severed the bonds of union, it may almost be said that it wae the voice of Henry that caused it to be unsheathed. Forif the south had not risen, Washington would most certainly have remained at home, for a strong sense of duty only drove him to the field, and he owed no kind of allegiance to an; thing but his own colony, Virginia —Pal ¥ jazelte. ——_+e-____ From Girlhood to Womanhood. ‘From the Century ‘There are two periods in the moral and intel- lectual development ofa girl which cause the profoundest anxiety toa mother. At five years old, or thereabouts, the period of babyhood is past, while the period of girlhood is not yet reached, and, between the two, comes a time of anarchy and chaos. The little soul is now bursting its shackles, and trying to readjust itself to anew condition. The child is ceasing to be a mere pet and plaything, and is beginning to live an individual life. Nothing is more common than to see a docile, well-trained child suddenly develop, without any apparent reason, @ willfulness and insubordination entirely at va- Tiance with its previous habits. The mother, who has been dreaming of a sweet daughter who is to walk beside her all her days, making life fragant and beautiful to her by sharing with her all her youthfnl hopes, and joys, and turas heart-sick at the naughtinegs of the half- fledged termagant. For it is the good, cheru- bic little girl who usnally manifests the change; aspoiled child is so thoroughly disagreeable the while that any accession of badness is not noticeable, A great deal of self-condemnation and unhappy foreboding would be spared the mother if she would only recognize that much ofwhat is so very unlovely is not essentially wrong—that it is merely what is good ina state of unripeness. The fragrant blossom has with- ered and fallen away, leaving in its place the hard and acid embryo fruit. A wise mother will be very careful to distinguish between those patties which promise evil in their developed form and those which are mere erudities, and her aim will be to foster all the unfolded possi- bilities In her child’snature, and help to bring them to a beautiful maturity. Every one knows how tiresome and unat- tractive a little girl usually is when she has out- grown her infantile sweetness. The little im- pertinences, the saucy retorts and unflattering personalities which have won for hersmiles and caresses, or, at worst, an admiring reproof, all at once become intolerable, and are rebuked with acerbity. The very ways which she has been taught to consider charming become sub- Jects for displeasure when the baby roundness and dimples are gone. Her sense of justice is outraged, and the unwarped sense of justice ina child is often very strong. She becomes alittle Ishmael, her hand against every man’s, and every man’s hand inst her. In a certain sense this can scarcely be avoided, but, if the mother's love be unfailing, and her sympathy always ready, she can keep sweet the fountain oflove and trust which, without that refuge might become very bitter. Just when this new life is unfolded, a mother’s wise care is most earnestly needed. The soul which has seemed to draw its life from hers is beginning to lead an individual existence. It isto the perfect de- velopment of this individuality that the mother should bend all her strength. Each human soul contains within itself the germ ofits own life. To make of it all that may be made, themother should only guide the growth, leaving it free within the limits of moral probity to yw into its fullest possibility. She cannot lop it off here and there, or suppress its growth yonder, without maiming and stultifying the whole na- ture. The dangerous quicksands of this period safely past, the mother begins to breathe freely again. She again begins to sce visions, and to dream dreams, till the second and more serious season ofanarchy comes to try her faith. Child- hood is over, and womanhood Is yet far away. The whole being, moral, intellectual and phy- sical, is ina state of ferment. New motives, new principles, new emotions, are battling for predominance, and, until these relatiye claims aro adustee BO peace can be hoped for. This second chaotic period—which comes at about 14 years of age—iasts longer, and brings a more hopeless and radical overturning of that which had seemed so firmly established. Ifa mother’s care were needed in the earlier change, it is in- finitely more needed now. New traits seem to be starting into life, new developments are manifested. Changes not only in purposes and ideas are taking place, but changes in tempera- ment, in disposition, in tone are manifesting themselves. There is need of a wise hand which shall guide without galling, a tender heart which shall sustain without compromising with evil. To aid in the conflict and insure Victory, nothing will help a mother more surely, nor direct her more easily in this difficult task, than the recognition that this, also, is merely stage of growth necessary to a full'and tah Hi development of her child’s nature, and that to her is intrusted the privilege of fostering the growth, while she shall be looking tothe end with the prophetic eye of love. ——_——_-e- ____ Bad Spelling Good for Rogues, A curious case has just been decided in the Californian courts. Nicholas Sepulveda and Francisco Salazar were Jointly indcted for the crime of grand larceny, and tried tegether in the Santa Clara county court. The Jury ren- dered a verdict in these words: “We, the jury find the defendences guilty as charged in the inditisment.” The clerk, in recording the ver- dict, corrected orthography, and wrote the word defendant for defendences. Upon ap; to the supreme court by Sepniveda, it was determ- ined that therecord of the clerk must be takenas the verdict rendered. And as there were two de- fendants on trial a verdict Onding the defend- ant guilty without specifying which of the two ing shrines ‘on the continent, and forbids us condemn as mere random lying the tales are told of the cures effected by them. sues eas ook rounded by stones shaped like the several parts of the human‘ body, called the “ “thead-stone,” that bore the same form. This is the oy stition of the Vui-stone in the New-Hebrides. Some offering was always left behind by those who tried the curing powers of the waters, even if it were only a rag the patient’s clothes. These tributes were hung up near the well, and ererrons abstained from disturbing them, as it was believed that whoever did so would get the disease that had been cured in the former pa- tient. Just the same sort of thing was done as early asthe time ofthe Romans. Votive offer- ings of hands, feet, almost every part of the body, have been excavated in the island sacred to #sculapius in the Tiber. The mode of cure in vogue then, however, was for the patient to go to sleep on the sacred spot, when it was re- vealed to him in a vision what he must do to in- sure recovery. Among the cures for the whoop- ing-eough, which are very numerous and im- probable, we donot observe one which was in favorin some parts of Scotiand. This was to sew a living caterpillar between two pleces of flannel, and wrap it round the patient’s throat, leaving room for the animal to crawl round. By the time the grub died the whooping-cough was cured. Three roasted mice were an infalll- blecure for the econ cout The same remedy is still much esteem in Norfolk. There, however, swallowing one mouse is con- sidered enough. The charming of warts is one of those perfectly unreasonable modes of cure that often prove efficacious when medical treatment fails. Dr. Carpenter cites as an instance of this strange truth the case of a girl who was cured of twelve warts by a friend who merely counted them, and then with an air of importance wrote the number down on a paper, assuring her by Sun- day they would all have disappeared. And so it proved. By the day named they were all gone, though the girl's father himself a sur- geon, had before tried to remove them with caustic and other applications in vain. If so very simple a prescription was enough to charm away a dozen of these unpleasant excrescences, we cannot wonder that the more elaborate forms of exorcism here enumerated should prove equally efficacious. In Switzerland the approved mode of charming a wart is to rub it with a snail, and then put the snail on a thorn bush. Indeed, charm cures for other diseases are not by any means obsolete. In Yorkshire it is still believed that a set of mole’s feet tied in a bag and worn round the neck keeps away cramps. And it is quite accepted as a fact by some persons that to carry a potato in the pocket secures immunity from rheumatism. ‘These cures like the miracle wells, prove that the will, if concentrated in sufficient force, has the power to cure any local affection of the body. The most remarkable case of this on record is the way in which the Prince of Orange cured the garrison of Breda of the scurvy by sending them @ small phial of a decoction of cammomile, wormwood and camphor. It was diluted with a gallon of water to every three drops of the tincture, and served out as medi- cine to the sufferers, who from that day began to recover. —_____-»-—__~___ ‘The Ghostly Visitations at Airlie Castle. The recent death in Colorado of the Earl of Airlie has brought once more to public atten- tion in Great Britain tne curious ghostly visi- tations which, it is said, have occurred a short time prior to the death of the head for the time being of this family. The Scotch noble families have always had a strain of mysticism con- nected with them. The reader will remember Sir Walter Scott’s poem of ‘Roslin Castle,” which glowed with a strange and brilliant light “ When death was near, ‘The lordly line of high St. Clair.” The line of Airlie, of which the deceased noble- man was the tenth representative, had the pre- monition of death given, not so much to them, as to others, by music and the beating of a drum, which sounded through the corridors of the ancestral castle which the family had for its country seat. and which came from invisible mu- sicians. There can be no doubt that the mem- bers ofthe family did, and even now do, believe in this strange summoning, and it isa matter ofrecord that a number of persons of seemingly cool judgment have heard this mystic music, and what gives their assertions greater weight isthe circumstance that, in several instances, those who heard the music and the drum ‘beata were not aware of any connection these had with the family happiness, but horrified their hosts and the guests by asking for some expla- nation for the phenomenon of music having heard while no players were to be seen. Certainly it is curious that music should be heard in the halls of the famiiy castle in Scot- land just prior to the sudden death of its lord far Sears Denver, Col. It must be confessed that to believe this requires a strain upon one’s credulity which few will care to comply with. ——_—_+e. ‘The Use of Short Words. Wemust not only think in words, but we must also try to usethe best words, and those which in speech will put what is in our minds into the minds of others. Thisis the great art which those must gain who wish to teach in the school, the church, at the bar, or through the press. To do this in the right way they should use the short words which we learn in early life, and which have the same sense to all classes of men. The English of our Bible is good. Now and then some long words are found, and they al- ways hurt the verses in which you find them. Take that which says '-O ye generation of vipers, who hath warned you to flee from the wrath to come?” There is one long word which ought not to bein it, namely “generation.” In the old version theold word “brood” is used. Read the verse again with this term, and you feel its full foree. ‘O ye viper's brood, who hath warned you to flee fromthe wrath to come?” Crimegome times does not look likecrime when it is set before us in the many folds of a long word. When a mansteals, and we call it “defal- cation,” weare at alossto know ifitis a blunder oracrime. Ifhe doesnot tell the truth, and we are told that it is a caseof “prevarication,” it takes us some time to know just what we should think of it. No man will ever cheat himself into wrong doing, nor will he be at a loss to judge of others, if he thinks and speaks of acts in clear crispterms. Itisa good rule, ifone isat a loss to know ifan act is right orwrong, to write it down in a short, straight-ont English.—Horatio Seymour. ————_--—______ Ira Humphrey’s Dread Fate in the Michigan Woods. It is hardly probable that the many thrilling incidents attending the fiery cyclone that swept over and devastated with sickening effect cer- tain portions of the wooded districts in northern Michigan will ever be written. The iron frag- ments of a United States mail pouch, afew charred coins, and the warped and defaced casings ofa locket, yet containing the faint outlines of a comely mother and child, that hhave recently been forwarded from Sanilac county to the post office inspectors, vividly por- tray at least one of the incidents of this latest fiery horror. On September 5th last, Ira Humphrey, the mail carrier be- tween Mariette and Argyle, a distance of about fifty miles, started out from the latter place to secomplish a duty he had faithfully performed. for more than eleven years. His road lay t! country then being traversed by pom the wrodient Ae Raye Mesey suppose that the Unit 'es mail come life or death. During the winter of 1881 he had carried the mail on schedule time, andin no instance missed a trip he um skirts are far more bouffant than those early in the autumn. This fuliness is me but in the panier , Which is in various ways. Sometimes the bouf- thwise ponfs in on the sides; crino- quitted, either was deen has Jus has just from the conclusion that the titled to his discharge under the and consequently E f i i i Fy F i 5 = E 8 F i i g E ‘Upward of EM the work shirk? jab Ik? 1¢ schoolmaster. ‘Whose head ts never out of school? Whose o’erworked brain 1s never cool? do the pupils oft befool? The schoolmaster, Who's kept in constant fear and dread? At end of year whose heart’s like lead, Lest he may lose hfs official head? ‘The schoolmaster. Whose place 1s sought by not a few? Who drudzes hard the whole year through— Except a few vacations? Who? ‘The schoolmaster. . The curiosity I haye to show you to-day, chil- aren, is perhaps the most wonderful in the col- lection. He beats all. The, schoolmaster, it is said, trains the young idea how to shoot. ‘He is not himself given to shooting, however. He takes more delight in tiie rod than the gun. The schoolmaster is supposed to know every- thing. This is a mistake. There is one thing he does not know. He does not know how soon the school committee will finda man who con- trols more votes to take his place. The schoolmaster is not a military man. but his principal assistant is. The name of this as- sistant is Corporal Punishment. It is to be hoped the corporal will soon-be remanded to private life. The schoolmaster is sometimes called a tutor, and occasionally he is called an ass. On the whole, an astuter man is seldom found. The schoolmaster thoroughly understands the Tule of three, but always insists upon the rule of one. So you see his understanding is out of all proportion to his rule. Although the schoolmaster isa ruler ‘of the boys he has his own ruler. if he be no stick himself, his ruler always is. The schoolmaster is a very inquisitive person. He is always asking questions. His is a ques- tion-able calling. The schoolmaster can be found in all classes. He is also given to classifying knowledge. I sometimes think I would be in his claseify could. The schoolmaster is good at figures. He would cut a pretty figure if he were not. He is the figure-head of the school, or should be; but sometimes a boy gets ahead of him. , He is also good at spelling. He can standa long spell in a good situation without flinching. He is always correcting the errors of his pu- pils, and consequently has but little time to at- tend to his own. The schoolmaster is not aman of war, but he often employs a monitor. He would be all at sea without his monitor. He gets the monitor to see in his place. O shun misbehaving, children, or the see of the monitor shall overwhelm you. The schoolmaster teaches the A, B, C, but he cannot make a bee see. Every sort of ology is taught by the school- master, but tautology is no better coming from him than from anybody else. Ina school of young rascals the schoolmaster is always the principal. Someschoolmasters are actuated entirely by the law of love—love for their situations. Some entirely by hate—hate to give them up. The schoolmaster loves to have callers at his school: but habit has;so possessed him, that he not only collarshis scholars, but he also scholars his callers. I used to wonder at the schoolmaster during my school days, but iay school daze will never return.—Boston Transcript. ——_—_—-e-—____ The November Meteors. Professor Daniel Kirkwood, of Bloomington, Ind., an excellent authority of meteors, thus explains the origin and nature of the meteoric showers of August and November. The Novem- ber stream crosses the earth’s path, and hence at times encounters the earth. The meteoric matter striking our atmosphere with a velocity of morethan twenty miles per second is ren- dered luminous by the collision, and is gen- erally dissipated long before reaching the earth’s suriace. A remarkable difference be- tween the streams of August and November has been noticed by all who have studied the phenomena. The matter of the former is spread entirely around the orbit, so that meteors are seen in considerable numbers every year about the ninth or tenth of the month. That of the latter is chiefly collected in a single cluster, whose period ‘of revolution is about thirty-three years. The great showers occur, therefore, but three times in a century. Many persons still living well remember the wonder- ful rain of fire on the 13th of November, 1833. The writer, who was then teaching a country schoolin York county, Pennsylvania, met per- sons on the following day who expressed great curiosity to see how the heavens would appear the next night, as all the stars were believed to have fallen. The shower of 1866 in Europe and that of 1867 in America were quite remarkable, but far inte- rior to that of 1833, when the earth probably passed through the most dense part of the clus- ter. Another very brilliant shower need not be expected till 1899 or 1900. ‘The fact, however, of the existence of two minor groups moving in the same orbit has been clearly indicated. One of these crossed the earth’s path in 1852 or 1853, and hence a slight display may again be looked for about 1886. The third group furnished a punesbe number of meteors in 1879 and patents thrust hich in their laziness the But although many meteors are not expected for some years to come, it is important that watch should be kept and observations recorded in order that the relative densities of different portions of the stream may be determined. The point from which they radiate is in Leo, and the time for observation is from midnight to day- light on the morning of November 14. a A Mouse in a Connecticut School. From the Waterbury American. A mouse came near breaking up a school in the Center district yesterday. Trotting about on the floor, the children spied him, and a buzz of whispers called the teacher's attention. “Now, children,” said she, in a kind and moth- erly way, “keep very quiet, every one of you. Don’t move nor say 4 word if the mouse comes toward you. He is perfectly harmless.” The scholars were very quiet and watched the capers of the mouse breathlessly. The teacher had scarcely finished her brave address when mousey ran directly for her and began to walk over her feet, This wastoo much, and the preaching was turned into syne which refuse to dove- tall, as it were. In short, the teacher screamed and yelled with fright, and ran as if a pack of red adders were in mad pursuit. The whole school hereupon became uproarious, and the mouse was boss of the situation, The little fel- low was so delighted that he stood up on his hind legs and danced a hornpipe, and then ske- rome Sercogs the prornny: lesving the eacher ani tigkled pu @ peculiar state of mind. n “Oi Am Not.” A crusty looking old gentleman, accompanied by the regulation well-fed consort and a couple of well-favored daugitters, entered the dining- room of Del Monte, and, as he tucked his the napkin beneath his generous c! turned. cae rad eens kguerous ch, turned round his chair: " “Look here, my ” said the old sharply, ‘‘before I give ‘my order I want to ask aeons Terao: Are=you an Italian count in ise ‘hobleman, the unaccount- | tween de | the deepest interest in their personal appearance It has been much to the credit of the English press that it did not drag private matters before the public, but it must be confessed that this reticence has largely been inspired by a snobbish obsequiousness to rank. If, however, things were carried to an ex- treme in this direction, and are still so carried by the leading papers, the opposite extreme hi the lately established sheefs already mentioned. Their existence shows not only that the English, like all other people, are fond of scandal, but their toleration indicates change in popular sentiment. Only jew years ago, Mr. Gough temporarily ruined his fast growing popularity by venturing to point a temperance moral on the melancholy death of the son of a nobleman. The reference was deemed impertinent and cruel, and the lecturer was made to feel the fall weight of public dis- pleasure. All this is changed, as the reade of the very transparent satire from Mr. Labou- | chere’s Truth published in Monday's Gazette | shows. Our readers wilt remember its venom- ous, if witty, ascription of rather weak prin- ciples to the Princess Louise during her long absence fro her husband, the Marquis of Lorne; the saney nicknames of Miss Carry Loo, the fractious danghter_of fhe landlady of the Crown and Scepter at Windsor for the lady, and of Mr. Mull for the marquis, who is said to be running a hotel in British America. The Rev. Mr. Duckworth, who is said to be the first love of the Princess, is styled ““Duckey.” We printed the satire, which is ill natured, and probably libelous under English law, as an illustration of the tendencies of the day, and having previously published an exposure of its exaggerations, our readers will be able to estimate it at its real worth. It is possible that there is more unhappiness in the Lorne-Louise union than the explanation admits. Still, the story in Truth is a perversion of facts in some particulars, and its insinuation that the Princess is oyer-free and easy in her behavior is really mean and malicious. “Shortly after their marriage the Marquis and his bride visited her German relatives, and by the enforce- ment of a rigid court etiquette he had to hang about in ante-rooms while she sat with royal dignities at entertainments. The English laws of court precedence were also brought to be on theirreturn. From these facts, and possibly from other causes, there was some jarring, but the London Times denied that a separation was intended, and said that the troubles were set- tled. It was also alleged that the Princess ab- sented herself from court that she might not be compelled to see her husband’s feelings out- raged. Her absence from Canada is declared to be necessary to her complete recovery from the injuries received in a sleighing accident. These explanations may not be wholly true, and the marriage may be uncongenial. still the travesty is eruel as well as impudent. No right minded | person would consider the freedom of the press trampled on were the Marquis or the Queen's officials to begin a suit for libel. Still it is not so much with the moral of the scandal as with its illustration of a growing irreverence for roy- alty that we are at present concerned.—Cin. Gazette. “One Hundred Pretty Girls Wanted.” A scene of considerable confusion was wit- nessed yesterday afternoon outside the stage door of Drury Lane theater, in Russell street, Covent Garden. The management had issued an advertisement in the following terms: “One hundred pretty young ladies wanted. One hun- dred pretty, well-made and intelligent young ladies, from seventeen to twenty, for the forth- coming pantomime at Drury Lane theater. Ap- ply stage door, Drary Lane, on Wednesday next, the 19th inst.,at 1 o'clock.’ Any one who is not young and not pretty will be stopped by officials appointed for that purpose.” The wide pub- licity given to this announcement seems to have been regarded somewhat in the light of an invitation to idlers tocome down and see this noyel exhibition of youth and beauty. In fact. even before the time appointed a large crowd assembled under the colonnade and in the street at the side of the theater, and the thor- oughfare from Drary Lane to Bow street and Covent Garden was almost completely block- aded. A suspicion seemed pretty generally pre— valent at first that the whole affair was a hoax, and that the advertisement had been the work of some person acting without authority. It ‘was soon discovered, however, that this was not 80. The stage door was flung wide open and inside stood the officials—the judges of beauty and age—ready for the discharge of their some- what invidious duties. Those among the candi- dates who were not tobe deterred at the last moment by the thought of the scrutiny to which they would be subjected inside thetheater found that they had torun the gauntlet outside be- rows of “spectators,” who displayed and in their prospects of securing an engase- ment. Ever and anon the appearance of a lady who could not by the atmost stretch of courtesy be held to comply with the stern requirements of the management was the signal for an out- burst of cheers and yells. For the most. part, however, the applicants, who were three or four times as many as the required number, were quiet and respectable-looking young women, who were naturally somewhat surprised at the reception accorded -to them. Many had per- force to leave in despair of ever reaching the stage door, while those who did succeed in push- ing their way through the crowd were hustled and jeered at by the roughs, who were prescnt in considerable numbers. ‘Several policemen were on the spot, but were only partly success- ful in maintaining order, the scene lasting for upward-ofan hour. Finally the candidates, to the number of about 400, Were all admitted in- jsun discriminately, and retained inside with closed doors until the exeitement had had time to sub- side, and only a few stragglers remained in the street.—London Daily News, Oct. 20. ee Jimmy Brown and the Ico Cream Party. From Harper's Young People, There was pretty nearly a whole week that I kept out of trouble; but it didn’t last. Boys are born to fly upward like the sparks that trouble, and yesterday I was ‘‘up to mischief again,” as Sue said, though I never had the least idea of doing any mischief. How should an innocent boy, who might easily have been an orphan had things happened in that way, know all about cooking and chemistry and such, I shouldlike toknow. Itwas really Sue’s fault. Nothing would do but she must give a party, and, of course, she must have ice cream. Now the icecream that our cake-shop man makes isn’t good enough for her, so she got father to buy an ice cream freezer, and said she would make the ice cream herself. I was to help her, and she sent me to the store toorder some salt. I asked her what she wanted of salt, and she said that you couldn’t freeze ice cream without plenty of salt, and that it was almost as necessary as ice. I went to the store and ordered the salt, and then had a game or two of ball with the boys, and didn’t get home till late in the afternoon. There was Sue freezing the ice cream, and suffering dreadfully, so she said. She had to go and dress right away, and told me to keep turning the ice cream freezer till it froze; and don’t run off and leaye me to do everything again, you good-for-nothing boy; I wonder how you can do it. I turned that freezer for ever so long, but nothing would freeze; so I made op my mind that it wanted more salt. didn’t waut to disturb anybody, so I quietly went into the kitchen and got the salt-cellar and emptied it into the ice cream. It to freeze right away; but I tasted it, and it was awfully salt, so I got the Jug of golden syrup and poured about a pint into the ice cream, and when it was done it was a beautiful straw-color. there was an awful scene when to eat that icecream. Sue handed it round, and said to everybody: ‘This is my ice cream, and you must be sure to like it.” The first one she gave it to was Dr. Porter. He is dreadfully fond of ice cream, and he smiied and took a whole spoonful. Then he jum apa if something had bit him, and went out d t mains yet to be determined which will be adopt- of the door in two jumps, and we didn’t see him oe oy ittances has temporarily tt , Harvard, and estranged m your father, a Heat Boston banker, ig as unyielding as your own, i “Ol am: “All right, here's a dollar, and you can bring the gn Blow Geas Linow gon are not re now-a-days; that ‘The Ptanets im Nevember. AN INTERSSTING DISFLAY—THE SUN AND MOON TAKE A PART IN THE NOVEMBER suOW. Mercury is evening star until the 7th, andthen morning star for the rest of the month. He wins the place of honor on the November record, for, on the 7th, he makes a transit across the sun's disc. Unfortunately, the transit commences at 8o'clock in the evening, when sun and planet are safely below the horizon in this longitade, and it is invisible; bat dwellers on the Pacific Coast, if the sky is clear, will havea fine oppor- tunity for observing the phenomenon. "Observ- ers fortunate enough to have access to a good telescope will see Mercury passing over thesun’s face, looking like a black ball, and taking about five hours for the passage. Jupiter is morning star till the 18th, when, passing to the eastern side of the sun, he be- comes evening star. If Mercury deserves the palm on the planetary annals of November as the hero of the transit, Jupiter will win equal renown for the most brilliant In his course, his opposition with the sun. This grand event occurs at 4 o'clock on the morning of the 18th, when Jupiter will be nearer to us than he will again be for more than a year to come. He will then riseat sunset, being opposite the sun, and no one who looks at the eastern sky, almost as soon as the sun has disappeared be- low the western, can fail to recognize the prince of planets as with majestic steps he treads his sparkling pathway towards the zenith. In brillianey and | size he exceeds every star then visible im the | heavens, and wins from every star-gazer tributes of wonder and admiration at his maznificent appearance. He will be a superb object in the heavens during the frosty nights of November, when the moon is out of the way, and for three months to come he will outrival every member of the starry host in the nightly pageant. He is only 13 days behind Saturn in reaching the same goal, and passes the meridian when in opposition ‘at forty-two minutes past 11 o'clock, forty minutes bebind Saturn. Jupiter is now about four hundred and eight million miles from the earth, instead of five hundred and ninety-one million miles, a8 when farthest away. One hundred and eighty three million miles, the difference in distance, is something our iniinite powers can form little conception of, but it is of insignificant dimen- sions when used in celestial distances. For the distance of the earth from the sun, more than ninety million miles, is the unit of measure for computing the distance of the fixed stara, Alpha Centauri, the nearest star in the myriad host, being estimated to be more than two hundred thousand times as far from us asthe sun. In comparison with these distant shining orbs, Ju- piteris our near neighbor, and his mean distance from the sun is not much more than five times greater than our own. This superb planet now rises about half-past 5 o'clock; at the end of the month he sets at half-past 3 o'clock in the morn- ing. Neptune is morning star until the 7th, when he takes his turn in reaching opposition, and thereafter takes his place among the evening stars, reaching the goal seven days after Saturn and six days before Jupiter. It will readily be rly in line with the earth and the the three great planets, Saturn, Neptune aud Jupiter, are at the present time, and it will be interesting to note if the preponderance of attraction on the same side of the great luminary leads to any perceptible increase of commotion on his storm-tossed surface. Saturn is evening star, and still retains his place as the leader of the five planets travelling towards the sun. He would make a more brilliant appearance if his rival Jupiter were out of the way. But he is now in one of the best aspects he ever presents, and deserves careful study when at opposition for four years tocome. No one will have any trouble in re- cognizing him a few d above Jupiter, for he shines with a serene light that distinguishes him from the stars twickling around him. He has passed his prime and will soon glow with a milder radiance, as he travels from the earth and approaches the sun. He sets now about 5 o'clock in the morning, at the close of the month he sets at 3 o'clock. Mars is morning star, and increasing In inter- est as he takes on a more ruddy hue and larger dimensions. His increasingnorthern declination is to be noted, for he is now seven degrees far- ther north than Jupiter, and twelve degrees farther north than Saturn. He must therefore be looked for in the northeast, rising a quarter before 9 o'clock, and may be easily recognized by his fiery color and the line he forms with Jupiter and Saturn above him. Mars now rises a quarter before 9 o'clock; at the close of the month he rises at a quarter before 7 o'clock. Uranus is morning star, and his moyements during the month possess little interest. He rises now at 2 o'clock in the morning: at the end of the month he rises soon after midnight. Venus is morning star, and each morning later above the horizon as she draws nearer superior conjunction with the sun. She measures now eleven seconds in diameter, while Jupiter measures forty-six seconds. But her day ot triumph will come when, in : 1882, she reaches her inferior conjunction, and treats the world to agrand display at her transit, She rises now at a quarter after 4 o'clock in the morning; at the end of the month she rises at halt-past 5 o'clock. The Sun is also an actor in the scenes that di- versify the experience of his family ot worlds during the month, on the 21st, when the charm- ing phenomenon of an annular eclipse occurs. But the golden ring of light surrounding the moon's dark shadow will only be visible in the Southern Ocean and in the sonthern part of South America. The November moon fulls on the 5th. She is in conjunction with Saturn on the same day,and is near Neptune and Jupiter on the 6th. e is in conjunction with Mars on the 10th, and with Uranus on the 16th. She is near Venus on the 19th, two days before her change, when early risers may behold the morning star and the slen- der crescent in the breaking of the dawn. She pays her respects to Mercury on the 20th, planet and moon being difficult to see in the light of the approaching sun.—Provi Journal. See ‘The Northern Pacific. THE GRAND SPLICE OF THE TWO ENDS TWO YEARS ‘HENCE. The Helena Herald, of Montana, gives us these points of interest concerning the progress of the Northern Pacific railway The converging point of the Northern Pacific railroad to which trains will run this fall will he Miles City on the east and Pend d'Oreille lake on the west. Equi- it between these points, as the field maps in Col. Dodge's office show, is Autelope spring, midway between Bed- ford and Beaver creek, 25 miles east of Helena. Covering this ground is a body of graders, who. in the past few weeks, have completed a stretch of several miles of road-bed, under the contract of forty miles FINANOIAL. 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WILL BUY OR SELL DEFAULTED BONDS or convert them into interest-paying investments. §r-ci piherugfeulars and other information furnished on ap JOHN C. SHORT, President. ‘WM. P. WATSON, Sec'y. and ‘Tress, o8-2awlm OPERATIONS IN STOCKS. Bankers and Broke me Nev? Wallen Ly bay, cere an lo. 12 Ws .¥., carry stocks on three to five per cont mafwit,, and whe, desired will advise when and what to (, elmo STOCK PRIVILEGES at reasonable rates which $38 ope be invested. sent free. a meee Sas FAMILY SUPPLIES. yay ‘BIELS RYE AND ROCK. Tse Onigmat anp Best. VAN BIEL’S RYE AND ROCK is pronounced the GREAT NATIONAL REMEDY for COUGHS. COLDS AND CONSUMPTION. supplied by 8B. W, REED'S 5ON8, _ ost 1216 F street eet northwest. 50 POUNDS OF MINNESOTA SPRING WHEAT PATENT FLOUR, Yrecprse 82 Pouxps or Dover. Making Snow White Bread, retaining moisture an@ eweetness. First premiums in Europe and America, $2.62 per 49 pounds, WITMER’S, 029 1918 PENNSYLVANIA AVENUR ACAzD FROM WM. M.GALT & CO. First premium for the best barrel of flour made fram. spring wheat this day awarded to entry No. 28, in ao ion 28, claes 25, department 26, to Win. M. Galt & Witness our hands, at the National bi yey the District of Goluuibia, this 14th day of October, J, M. WHARTON. a jEWOOM! JOHN D. NEWMANN, xperts on Flow, 8. EDWARDS, Marshal, sboxe-mentioned flour is CERES, the exer innesota Patent Process Flour, was First Premium against all other tore at the National Fair in 1879 and 1880 (gold and now in 1881. ‘The competition in Flour was certainly a very lively one this ‘year, yas well contested for, but it was simply an airadSteg annie: Sita tng dteeeraoeas an 5 igre cic eae ca ti the fact that e on Anderson received the fet rensiung for tke Tolls and biscuits ‘on exhibition, and they were made. CERES FLOUR, which is only apother proof glands A No. 1 among the best Minnesota mown to % For sale by ail first-clase grocers. WM. M. GALT & CO. 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The ceremonies attending the consummation of this magnificent work will undoul ly tran- scend anything of the kind yet witnessed in this or any other country, and on that occasion cen- tral Montana and its capital will be ablaze with lory. wre two most considersble tannels projected by the Northern Pacific railroad are within the limits of the Rocky mountain division, about 140 milesapart. The first of these penetrates the Yellowstone range beneath thesummit of Boze- man pass, ata grade elevation of 5,589 feet by the south prong, or 5,669 feet by the nort 8,500 feet, Tol “ f these two it re: , the former in length being e latter 1,450 feet. 0: ed. Next comes the tunnel of the Main range, by the Mullen pass, which the moun- penetrates tain below the summit at a grade elevation of 5,548 feet, and in length is 3.850. GF E. KENNEDY & SON, Dealers in. Srarce axp Fancy Gnocenmes, Weare making s ialty of OLD GOVERNMEN® JAVA COFFEE. 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