Evening Star Newspaper, November 19, 1881, Page 15

THE EVENING STAR: WASHINGTON, SATURDAY, OVEMBER 19, 1881—DOUBLE SHEET. —It Is said that nearly half of the strength Of the Presbyterian church in the United States is in the states of Pennsylvania and New York. — Some mea, when they go to church, never think of studying the freseoing on the ceiling of the edifice until the collection plate is being Passed around. —A Chinese sallor said in prayer meeting, “The more I pray, the more I forzet to swear. Another man arose and said, “The more I pray, the more I forget to gr —The “Lucy Hayes Mission Band” fs the Mame of a society organized in Fairmount, ‘Ohio, a few weeks ago consisting of young amisses under fifteea years of age. tour of the southern M. E. conferences. He ‘Will preside at th be held in Gain —In his charge to the clergy of tlie Bristol Archdeacon: stt, of Gloucester tinct inerease either in infidelity or nee, not even in the great towns. Jaglish Liberation Society has issued acireular which states that, in the opinion of the executive committee, the present is an aus- icious time to press the qu of disestab- hinent, so that it may come up for legislation. —Prof. Christlieb, who visited Scotland re- iy to lecture, said in one of his addresses the accounts published in regard to the in- 'y and rationalismipf Germany have been He said aout 70 per cent. of the preach the Gospel more or less fully. —The war over the affairs of the Amer Bible Society has began in good e: Connecticut bret hren who have atta fociety say that they mean busine: that they can prove all they charge. agers denounce the c! proceeding from mali —The archbishop of Fitualists in talkin; “Secularism” in the Yeceat chureh con: Shame upon us,” he cried, “if with foes closing in upon us, instead ofstudying the map and the routes and divid- ing the commands, we are studying the color of the uniform and the lace upon the jacket!” and that The man- evil to contend with. in the cultivation of the gtape for the purpose of making wine and brandy, and the Conzrezational association at ‘Los Angeles, recently passed a resolation to the eifect that such business was demoralizing and recommending church members to abstain from it. —Rishop Littlejohn, of Long Island has ap- pointed acommittee of the American Chureh Building Fund Commission, which was establish- ed by the last general convention of the Episco- palchureh. The committee expects to 1 of $1,000,000 by October, 1883, in which year the centennial anniversary of the American ehureb will occur. —The Methodist ministers of Montreal have adopted resolutions denouncing Dr. Burns, of that city, for his expressed sympathy for Dr. Thomas, of Chicago. The resolutions state that Dr. Burns does not represent the views of the Methe church of Canada, and that the church has no sympathy with Dr. Thomas. The excitement touching the heresy case seems to be increasing. —Professor Huxley, even, makes a plea for the retention of the Bible in our public schools. “There still remains in this old litera- ast residuum of moral grandeur:” and Feviewing his impressionsof the Bible, which he or six years old, left to itself, may be deeply in- terested in the Word of God moral substance from it. — Bishop Wiley will preside over the Balti- More conference, M. E. church, which meets in Baltimore March 8th, and over the Washington conference, which meets in Baltimore March 22. Bishop Simpson will preside over the Virginia @onference, which meets at Manassas, Va., March 9. ‘Bishop Foster will preside over the South Carolina conference, which meets at Spartanbarz January 12, and over the North Caroiina conference, which meets at Laurinburg | January 26. — The New York Evening Post philosophizes on the dismissal of the North American Review from the publishing house of the Appletons, and “When a real believer like Judge * Black and an old-fashioned atheist like ‘Bob’ Incersoll are pitted against each other the fray is sure to be hot, and it is only natural that no one should fare worse in it than the ) sate who gets up the match and undertakes x the rules under which it is fought.” —The Presbyterian church in the south feels the need of more ministers. At the ninety- fourth annual session of the Presbyterian Synod of Virginia, resolutions were adopted stating that the south ought to have an increase of fifty licentiates annually, and requesting “pastors. elders and parents to instruct the consciences of Christian young men in regard to the claims of the ministry The increase in the ministry in the south was stated to be only about six each year. — Ritualists and Anti-Ritualists are having a Tively time at Manchester, Eng. The other day @communicant in a Ritualistic church there ‘Was convicted of “indecent conduct” in that, in- stead of consuming the water given to him at the communion table, he stuck it on the cover of his prayer-book, where he gleefully showed it afterwards. He will try to have his revenge for the conviction, however, as he will prose- gate the clergyman for mutilating the prayer- k mentioned by scraping of t fer with his penknife. The cause of reiigion is not likely to be helped much by this sort of thing. — Now that Sankey has so immensely popu- Tarized a particular class of gospel song and melody, it is considered the correct thing in Many highly respectable quarters to give this lass of hymnological and musical aids a smart Fapevery now and then. Thus the Rev. Mr. Lioyd, of New York, contributes his effort: “Use very sparingly the modern trash known under the now generic name of Moody and Sankey hymns. There are in the whole collec- ps @ dozen hymns and tunes which are worth preserving, but the mass, both in words and musiv, is whipped syllabub. with bad satthat. Rowland Hill said he did not see Why the devil should have all the good tunes; but there are some tunes in our modern revival hymuals we would be willing to give to that in- dividual or any other who would promise to burn them. The effect upon the spiritual life of ace ant use of the wretched doggerel and Tollicking melodies of these books is, I hold, bad. A weak, elfervescing, unhealthy emotion~ alism is fostered, instead of earnest, intelligent, Tobust piety.” —Under the head. “Rome without the Pope,” The Pall Mall Gaztte of a recent issue discusses the rumors that the Pope is about to | leave Rome. It seems certain, The Gazelle says, that these rumors are not the mere gossip of Roman Catholic religious circles. Their foun- @ation appears to be certain conversationa of Leo XIII, with French bishops. who have Brought back to their homes a very strong im- pression that the Holy Father is meditatins the Femoval of his person and court to some place outside the Kinz step. if contemplated, will only be taken with the greatest reluctance. There Is no doubt, however, that the position of the Pope at Rome H is becoming very nearly untenable. The rv- mors which have prevailed give Salzburg as the at which the Pope proposes to settle him- self; and there is no question that it is only at some place in the dominions of the Austrian Emperor that he can find comfort and the honor which he asserts to be denied to him in his own country. —The Rev. N. W. Miner, formerly of Spring- field, Sil, and a neighbor there of Abraham Lincoln, related at the Baptist ministers’ meet- yesterday, some of his reminiscences of Lin- *) In Mr. Miner's opinion, Lincoln was a Christian; perhaps not an experimental Chris- tian, but one who read his Bible and prayed and | acted like a Christian. “As to the q ne fornia churches have a peculat | = of Italy's dominions, The | | the spread of this disease as well as its origin, | from the Panama and tropical fever. | south aad southeast for six weeks, which has | not counting those in the city of Annapolis, and _. | examined one, and the above indefinite descrip- | in from four to ten days. Of course if any com- read when a child, he declares that a child five | | be futal, depending upon the type of disease as- id draw sound | | character | death is thus produced. Or, if the blood vessels | “the facts of each | law, how much more difficult is it fo determine | and define what is moral insanity? Dr. Sam | to find how invariably the modern imitator of PINK EYE. How to Cure It. Els. Country Gentieman:—The re is-a terribly | fatal disease, called pink-eye, carrying off the | horses in this section. All that are taken die, with few exceptions. Only two, so far, in this immediate neighborhood, have survived, and they are still sick, though reported slowly con- | ee they were treated with so many remedies that it is difficult to tell which did the | most good. The first sy mptoms are sluggish- ness, hanging of the head, and total loss of ap- petite, witha tenden cy to. lean against some- | thing; they are found to havea raging fever, | and in a few hours stagger, lose the use of hind * ig . | legs, have fits and die, all the while dripping — Bishop Simpson has left Philadelphia for a | with a cold perspiration. ‘Those w hich live over | 24 hours lose the use of all th eir limbs, and the extremities swell and get cold; t hey refuse both | drink and food, and finally die from exhaustion. The cervical region of the spine or cerebrum (rather cerebellum) or both (cerebro-spinal me- ingitis) must be the real seat of the disease, as ni | this is the only way to account for the paralysis, though the bronchiw, lungs, and stomach may | be also implicated—a malarial epizooty. We have had the wind almost continuously from the (besides bringing myriads of musquitoes from the swamps south of us) spread a malarial epi- demic up the Atlantic slope, even upon the highlands, which have been considered exempt. ‘This horse disease resembles very much, in its incipiency, our dumb ague. The continuous southern wind may have a great deal to do with with us it fs our most unhealthy wind, jing as it does from the deadly yellow fever ion. The yellow fever is closely related to if not identical with our malarial troubles, be- ing mitizated by temperature, for our continued and intermittent fevers are not many removes Twenty horses have died in my neighborhood. the disease is spreading. Ihave never seen or tion is from what I have heard. Many are painting around and up the noses of their horses with tar as a preventive. The two cases reported above as getting better were blistered down the neck and behind the ears, also bled and given 50 grains of quinine (much too little to do good) each, besides being drenched with merate mess. We are much in need of surgeon, and a proper post-mortem tion by such a one would no doubt throw much light upon the disease. Since writing the above. I have heard of a certain cure, in which sulphur and cream of tartar pre- dominate. If true, I will send the recipe for publication. GW. Annapolis. Ma. [ANSWER BY DR. E. MOORE, M. B.C. V.8.] This disease exists as an epizootic in the spring and fall of some seasons, and it may be said to be sporatic at all times. It begins with rigors or shivering, fever, and swelling of limbs and eyelids, with flow of tears down the face. The animal is dull, loses appetite, and lifts the limbs from pain, shifting them often. After the limbs are considerably swollen the pain mostly ceases. The redness and swelling of the eyelids gave rise to the name “pink-eye.” The | bowels are torpid and faeces covered by a shiny mucus, and the evacuation are dark-coi- ored. ‘There is sometimes a cough present, and some disturbance in the breathing, but not serious unless aggravated by cold, neglect or metastasis. It is not necessary to speak here of internal temperature, puise. &c., as the ordi- nary reader would not be any wiser. Asa dis- pure and simple, it is not dangerous or ob- ate in proper hands. The animals recover plications setin it may require longer time, or sociated with it. It may, however, in some sea- sons, owing to certain conditions, climate and general surroundings of animals, take on a fatal Owing to a tendency to the forma- le material in the blood, clots formed within blood cavities, and are sometim of the brainare the seat of thrombi, we may have cases of paralysis, brain symptoms of vari- ous kinds, &. Where a good veterinary surgeon can be had, he should be given charge of the animals. Not having one, give in the first stage of the disease a ball composed of 4 dr. of Barbadoesaloes. pow- dered nitrate of potash 3 dr., and powdered gen- tian 5dr. Also, give halt the following drench the first day, repeating the second: Spirits of furpentine, 4 oz.; raw oil, 12 02; mix. The ! should be rubbed with equal parts of spirits of camphor, aconite and laudanum, or with spirits alone; afterwards being bandaged. Steamed oats, bran, carrots and apples, aiso c= (if it is available) make the best diet. ‘and-rubbing of limbs is good. Box stalla are best for these patients. If the breathing is goes the following drench three times per lay will be necessary: Sweet spirits of nitre, spirits of camphor, of each 2 oz.; tiuid extract of belladonna, ?¢ dr.; fluid extract of foxglove, 20 minims; water, }¢ pint. It is well to dissolve in the drinking water }¢ oz. of powdered sal nitre twice or thrice daily. But must be remem- bered that this treatment is for ‘‘pink-eye,” and not for a score of diseases improperly so-called. Country Gentleman. State Assassi and the Defence of msanity. BY JAMES W. CLARKE. The tragedy of the 2d of July last suddenly revived public interest in an old topic—the de- fence of insanity in capital cases. It is a well- worn theme, much discussed, and always with an unsatisfactory result. What is moral in- sanity? What is legal insanity? Conclusive answers to both these questions have often been attempted, but never given with such definiteness and decisiveness as to shut off debate. Every day the controversy is resumed in our courts, and apparently will go on to the end of time. It is settled one day, and the day after we find itis not settled at all. “What,” said the late Dr. Forbes Winslow, “‘is my test of insanity? I have none. I know of no unerring, infallible and safe rule or standard applicable to all cases.” So, too, the British Judges, whose effort to define the undefinable weshall it~ ly examine at length, after all their elaboration of statement touching what does and what does not constitute legal insanity. finally confessed that ‘icular case must of ne- cessity present themselves with endless divers!- ty. and with every shade of difference in each case,” But if it difficult to define what is legal insanity, which is a mere matter of human Johnson declares that “‘all power of fancy over Teason is a degree of insanity,” and Montaigne asserts that between genius madness there is but “‘a half turn of the toe.” M. Tainecon- curs in this dictum, and philosophically avers that “insanity is not a distinct and separate em- pire; our ordinary life borders upon it, and we cross the frontier in some part of our nature.” It has been the periodic mission of the assas- sin to revive this moot question. One day the world stands and shudders with an unanimous horror, and the next divides upon the old issue, Was he insane? It Is oppressively monotonous, in looking back over these historical tragedies, Brutus comes down to the footlights with a pis- tolin one hand aud a plea of insanity in the other. In American history, so far, we have had only two creatures corresponding to what, in the vocabulary of Europe, would be called regicides. In the first case there was no oppor- tunity offered to the assassin to plead insanity. A vast amount of legal lore and medical meta- Physics was forestalled by the summary shooting of Wilkes Booth in the barn where he was brought to bay. It is, perhaps, worthy of note that not one of the men who have of late murdered, or at- tempted to murder, czars or emperors, have offered the plea of insanity. Im Great Britain and the United States it seems to be the assas- sin’s invariable defence. And in both countries counsel for the accused start with the advantage of being able to ask the jury, as Mr. Cockburn did in the cases both of Pate and McNaughten: Could they believe that any sane man could have comni! such an act? “And that is the question which the tragic event that has re- cently shocked and saddened both hemispheres once more invests with melancholy importance, and presents for decision to an American jury. — December Atlantic. ———_—__-e-_—____ we of a Kind. “I know,” said the little girl to her elder sister’s young man, at the supper table, “that you will join our society for the protection of little birds, because mamma says you are very fond of larks.” Then there was a silence, and the lim! cheese have been heard serambling “wound ae tie bor eee board “There's aman,” pent ‘ mids wey to ioe Sic ee eee FASHION WRINKLES. THE NEW COLORS. Tar December fashions are radiant. Cuemors leather gloves are worn. Dress Skirts cOntinue full and short. Basqvesare much trimmed, and worn as much a8 ever. Tue Dotman is crowding out the fur-lmed circular, Garters are nearly superseded by stocking suspenders. INVISIBLE GREEN is revived for walking jack- ets and cloaks. Suapep Featuers are a marked feature in winter millinery. Faxcy Jewe.ry has multiplied itself ad infini- tum this winter. SMALL, Rounp PELeRINEs appear on many of the imported dresses. THe new poke bonnets have immensely pro- truding brims in front. Fur or beaver felt is the leading material for winter hats and bonnets. - Osrricu Pi.vMgs are seen on some New York dresses as well as bonnets. Fors will be much used this winter, whether the weather is very cold or not. Dresses are made in as great a variety of styles as they were last season. Very Lance Hats and medium-sized and small bonnets are all fashionable. Two op More materials combined to form one costume is as fashionable as ever. Lone Vistres, dolman cloaks, and circles will all be worn for midwinter wraps. Tue winter novelties advertised in to-day’s Srak are worth seeing and buying. 5 Licut-covorep Usrsrs of heavy cloth, trim- med with undyed sealskin, are very fashionable. OWN CLOTH, with plush to match, is orite material for elegant promenade cos- Brocapep plush leaves are used for trimming plain velvet dresses, and borders and ara- besques of leather work are to be seen on plush dresses. ExquisiTs TorLets are made of vin de cham- pagne satin, embroidered with silver blossoms and leaves, and combined with pale primrose. velvet. Morner Husparp Bonnets of dark olive green beaver or plush, trimmed with full ostrich plumes a shade darker, held by large antique gold buckles, are exceedingly becoming to blondes. Tue WEARING oF Jackets like the dress is really an expensive fashion. It would bea glad announcement to some women that one winter cloak to be worn with all street dresses was again the mode. AUTUMN Costumes of dark green cloth are trimmed with many rows of fine gold braid, put onstraight. The first effect is very good, but the glitter of the tinsel soon wears off, and then the effect is very dull and dowdy. Flowers are still worn on bodices, both at the wast and on the left side of the neck. Be- gonia leaves and autumn leaves in shaded plush, yellow and red peonias, asters and nasturtiums are all worn at the present time. Dovsix, and triple collars of embroidered muslin, are among the novelties of the season for indoor wear. Habit collars of linen are worked in small squares, are three inches deep, and turned over straight upon the yoke of mus- lin, which is fitted to the neck. Kirress’ and monkeys’ heads are rivalling the autumn owl in popularity. They are seen upon the outside of new plush and far muffs, made up envelope fashion. New gilt buttons also show the faces of both the monkey and the zlish colley in bronze enamel. AT THE MarniaGE of Mile. Grévy, daughter of the French President, the bridal dress was a white satin one with a tabller of embossed vel- vet and an immense veil of point d’Angieterre. Mme. Grévy was in chestnut brown embossed velvet, trimmed with appliques of brown and fawn beads. Tur AvtuMN Novevties in fashions can be found at W. M. Shuster & Sons, Seaton Perry's, Gunnip, Day & Co., Jno. T. Mitchell’s, Mrs. J. P. Palmer's, C. M. Towson’s, Mrs. M. J. Hunt's, Woodward & Lothrop’s, Cochrane & Co.’s, M. Willian’s, Carter's, yen & Chewing’s, Brown & Claggett’s, George J. Johnson’s, Mrs. C. Y. Smith’s, Douglas’ and Noots’. A New Compination Garment called the “Victoria” is seen in New York. It combines in one the corset, petticoat and bustle, and is admirably adapted to the wants of actresses and all ladies whose occupations require quick changes of garments, as well as for those whose weakness of spine will not admit of the welght of many skirts around the hips. PaRTY AND Bay Dresses are imported, hav- ing no sleeves to speak of. Sometimes a nar- row band adorned with garniture, corresponding with that upon the skirt, is seen. Solid “pearl sleeves,” about four inches in length, are much in vogue, and with them, to correspond, is worn a Medici collar made of the same is. These are very effective with evening toilets of white surah or satin. Inptana Cioran is the name of a new dress material of British manufacture. It is made from the best Indian longwool. It is manufac- tured in the north of England, and is soft and woolly. It is 44 inches wide, and, although made entirely of wool, is light; and another quality— it does not crush or crease. The colors comprise all the fashionable zsthetic shades, as greenish blue, faint yellow, terra-cotta reds, etc., as well as the browns, blues, greens and reds now fash- jonably worn. Daxcixe Dresses are made short enough this season to display the elegant little satin san- dals, delicately hand-painted or hand-embrold- ered, as well as a bit of the dainty silk stocking, a favorite color of which is a pale peach-blossom pink, embroidered with white rosebuds and white _ lillies-of-the-valley. Another French fancy equally the vogue is to wear rich white lace stockings over silk ones of a delicate fiesh- color, and with them the arched Stephanie slipper of satin, fastened by French diamond buckles. An ELecant Watxine Sorr, just completed in Washington, of bronze moire frances and em- bossed plush, consists of the skirt of moire and formed entirely of box pleats, with a full frilling of knife pleatings set on the box pleats at the foot. The waist is of embossed oe cut in the style ot Louis XIV., fitting closely to the figure; the sleeves fitting somewhat loosely at the shoulders and tapering to close fitting at the hand with Spanish lace frills. with large opal buttons with steel points. This is of the richest materials and consequently plain and elegant. AyoTneR Rick Costume, just completed in Washington, is of black velvet and moire frances, is as follows: The waist is of vlack velvet cut in pannier polonaise style, with a handsome Alsatian bow of moire lined with Rhadame satin at the back. The skirt is of moire and velvet, with a narrow double box poeting ot ae pees _ es en oo se Above it is a imming of pant vely with fans of Bees inated Surmounting this is adeep soft puff of the moire, also cut bias. Then foilows another row of paneled velvet and moire, which completes the front of the dress, the back being handsomely draped with Maes ‘The rich materials like the costumes described will aliow little or no trimmings, the materials being so rich in themselves. A Few Costumes have already been created after ideas given by foreign authorities of Mme. Patti’s tollettes, designed specially for her American tour. One of the most attractive is made of chamois plush, so brilliant that it gives to the costume the ay ice of being sprin- kled with silver. The flounces and the bodice are made up with bands of embossed leather of the same tint, and tne skirt shows a rich appli- cation of leather Giving Hima Fin. Derrick Dodd in San Francisco Post. The other evening, as a party of “the boys” were smoking and lounging .in the office of the Occidental Hotel, an English tourist, of the most pronounced cockney type, emerged from the elevator, and took seat in the reading room. He wore the usual short waisted Eng- lish coat. and tight pants, much bagged at the knees, both being of the most startling red, green and white check. His feet were encased in song and dance toed shoes, fresh from the Strand, while over his shoulder was suspended the orthodox Cook’s tourist flela glass. A white puggaree hat with blue vail band and fiery red mutton chop whiskers completed his remarkable appearance, the “stony British stare” we are so used to on Kearny street be- ing intensified by the usual pair of green goz- gles, or “dust defiers” the average Saxon tray- eler clings to so obstinately in foreign lands. As he passed the group of young men-about. town referred to, a broad smile diffused itself across the entire gang, so to speak. “I say, boys,” said one, “let's go and have some fun with that fellow? ’Spose we give him a grand a —a proposition that was unanimously car- ied. Edging up to the red whiskered chap, the spokesman, a well known curbstone broker of approved gall, said polite “Stranger, si I presume?” nk eving,” replied the cockney, mM. ry good—very good, indeed,” “I thought you were a new luded to give yon a pointer.” “Hi ’ave no use for ha soe “T mean a little hint, yon know. I wouldn’t go in the barroom to-night, if I were you.” “Hand why?” “ There was a man shot there this afternoon by the barkeeper., and as some of the corpse's relatives propose to take it up it’s likely to be pretty warm around there to-night. “Think 802” “Yes, indeed. These Californians are awful queer people, as you must haye heard. Have only been here three years, and haven't gotten quite used to their ways myself. Now, my friend here, Mr. Skidmore, shot a waiter’ this morning for bringing him cold cakes. Don't you think that absurd?” “Can't help it,” growled the party indicate “when @ man comes at me with cold buck. wheat cakes, or any other deadly weapon, he's got to die right there;” and Mr. Skidmore took a derringer out of his hip pocket and blew into its muzzle, to the extreme discomilture of the Englishman. “It was only the other day,” continued the first speaker, musingly, “that somebody started a row at the Palace Hotel breakfast room, and every blamed man at one of the t s was killed. Singular, wasn’t it?” ‘Why, a never ’eard hof sich a thing,” gasped cockney. “ Fact—though I must say, that Palace Hotel crowd need weeding out the worst way. By the way, have you been over the bay after bu th 80 close hat ‘and?” “Oh dear, yes—t’other side the bay just full of ‘em; have to put up fences to keep “em out of the sfreets of Oakland. Killed ninety-two last unday and it wasn'ta good day fer buitaio. “Not really? “That's nothing. Right across in San Rafael last Sunday week, the co: i found a couple of Califor pew. Got in through the soon as they started up the or: he animals skipped ont, chased the audience home, chewed up most of the choirand kept the minister up on the stove pipe for sixteen hours.” “Great evings!” “It's just a: ju teil it, Mr. Chairman,” said another of the gang to the speaker. “I was there myself, and got pretty badly nibbled by one of the cats, too.” = ‘What har you Chairman hoy?” asked the be- wildered sojourner in a strange land. OW nothing really—that is only another peculiarity ‘alifornians. You see, whenever four or more Americans come to- gether anywhere, or under any circumstances, they immediately organize as a meeting and elect officers. ingular custom, but they will I met these gentlemen just now. by ac- ident, and as soon as we had shaken hands t. ‘00k a vote and elected me Chairman.” on ‘onhor — most extrzordinary thing hi hever‘eard hof! Will you hallow me to make a note hof it?” and the subject of Queen Victoria eagerly took outa note book. “An! T see you intend to ‘publish fhe usual book of travel when you retarn—excellent idea. There's another little peculiarity these remark- able people have which you would do well to mention. I allude to their lightning divorce system.” Yes, I cago.” “Oh, the Chicagoans don’t amount to any thing nowadays, They are too slow for the times. Now, for illustration. You see this gentleman. ‘His name is Guffey, andI met him for the first time in my life out at the Clit House this morning. Had his wife with him whom he had married three months ago. I was also accompanied by my wife, a bride of three weeks, ‘Beautiful woman that,’ says Guftey, referring to my wife. ‘Splendid creature you have with you,’ says I, referring to his wife. ‘Think so,’ says he; ‘let!s swap.’ ‘It’s a go,’ says I, and the ladies being satisfied, we stop- ped at the court coming home, got our divorces Tushed through this afternoon, were married this evening, and, as we both board here, have just sent up the porter to change trunks, Now, how does that. strike you?” “Why it strikes me that you are about the biggest lot of softies on record,” said the tour- ist, suddenly bracing up and dropping his cockney dialect. “Great Scott! It isn’t Bill Simmons?” gasned his interviewer, his jaw dropping abouta foot. “Yes, itis, though,” said that well-known hotel clerk, removing his wig, whiskers and goggles. “I fixed up to-night to take in the Germania, masquerade; but I'm ding blamed if I thought I could deceive a lot of regular old know-it-alls, like you fellows. Lemme see, I guess we'll takea quart of Heidsick on this.” And feebly protesting that they knew who if was all the time, the disgusted lot of “guyers’ led the way to the barroom and set up the champagne. ———_____+9-____ The Boy Peddler’s Monomania. In Reading, Pa., dwells the “boy peddler” who has 29 fine suits of clothing, 24 overcoats and 83 pairs of kid gloves. Periodically the boy breaks out in local advertisements an- nouncing an addition to his extensive ward- robe. a8 follows: “Thomas Jefferson Cummings has the honor to announce that he has just ad- ded another suit to his fall afternoon wear, and now his fine wardrobe consists of forty fashion- able full suits, twenty-four overcoats,” &c. It is his boast that he can appear on the street every oa inthe monthand wear a different full suit of clothing each day, and allow at least three changes on Sunday. Cummings is 18 ie of age, peddles notions, with a basket on ‘is arm, helps to support a widowed mother, pays cash for all he gets, sells close and is a standing republican candidate for Congress, On the streets his appearance is that of a Beau eard something hof that hin Chi- Brummel. His dress is exceedingly loud, his weakness running to green kid gloves. corn- colored ribbons, pink eye-glasses, and silk hats of the latest style. In the country, on business, his appearance is that of a poor, humble, meek, and lowly Hebrew, and his customarysalutation to the people he cails on is, “Have pity on a poe boy and help him along.” The young man affable, and agreeable, and succeeds in sell- ing large quantities of goods at very fair prices. The farmers havea strong liking for him, and when they visit Reading on business and see the well-dressed young swell sweeping past in broadcloth, kids, and gold-headed cane, they little dream that the young man is the peddler boy they know so well at home. His savings are entirely invested th clothing and articles of adornment. At times he is not seen for weeks. He ia then out on the country highways, coin- ing moneyin a small way, He neither smokes nor and has’ no worth 3] ing of. will break ont in reading, set, week or wore, » = = appear. He ge ly leaves, starting: Lf home on M morning, invariabl; be that is a ea tnvnite 9 ycrte song Know him as *Colling ne Econemy in Dress. A dress that is so peculiar as to be striking. either from Its brilliancy of color or any other cause, should be adopted only by a woman who has many changes of raiment, and so may wear it only occasionally, or the sight of it becomes a bore, even if at first it is interesting from its novelty. The woman who has many dresses can afford also to give it away or convert it to some other use before it is worn, while the un- obtrusive dress easily lends itself to some diifer- ent areemens which gives it an entirely new aspect. Awoman who has but one best gown can “wear it with a difference,” like the rae Ophe- la offers to her brother, so as to make it suita- ble to many occasions, especially if she have two waists, or “bodies,”.as the English call them. One skirt will casily outlast two waists, and therefore this is areal saving. But sup- se that there be but one waist, orthe dress made allin one piece (than which there is no prettier fashion), and it should be worn one day high in the neck, with collar and cuffs, on another day with the neck turned in, and a lace or muslin fichu gracefally adjusted with bows or flowers, and a bit of lace at the wrists, apairof long gloves, and a more elaborate dressing of the hair, it will be scarcely recogni- zable. But the dress must be of a very general character, like black silk, orsome dark eolor, or the pleasure of the new impression is lost. The wise person with a small capital never bnys any but a good and lasting thing. Each year she adds one or two really solid possessions to her wardrobe, which, treated with care, last her many years. Thus on a really smail sum she may dress very beautifully. Without a capital one is often obliged to buy what can last but for a few months; but there is choice even here. There is certainly a great economy in a wo- man’s adopting for oceasions of ceremony one dress from which she never diverges. It be- comes her characteristic, and there is even a kind of style and beauty in the {dea, The anging fashions in color and material pass without affecting her, Sheis never induced to buy anything because it is new. She is always the same. The dress in this case must have a certain simplicity. It costs her little thought and little time, and when the old edition, be- coming worn, gives way to thenew, the change is not perceived, nor is it noticed when the new in its turn becomes old. Such dress as this must of course lie within certain limits. Suppose it to bea black velvet: it would last, with care, at least five or six years. Suppose it to be a white cashmere—a Gress of small cost: it could, with care, last two seasons; and then. cleaned, last another season or two; and then, dyed, be turned into a walk- ing dress to last two seasons more. Ifa dress is pnt on with grace, its owner alone is aware of its defects, and it is a kindness to the spectator if she will keep her own secret. In France, and I believe also in Italy, they have a poetic fashion of dedicating fora ¢er- tain number of years (five, ten, or twenty Years, according to the parents’ fancy) young girls to the Virgin. I do not know in what way they demonstrate this dedication e: color ot their dress, which is alway casions, summer or winter, blue or’ white, or | white and blue mixed. This affords more’ va- Tiety than at first thought it would seem to be cepable of, for any shade of blue may be used. here isa great economy in deciding on a few becoming colors in their several shades, and | confining one’s dress to these. « Choosing col- ors that harmonize with each other, like gray, black, purple, blue. yellow, white, and never buying any other colors, one may, in making over garments. use one with another so that | nothing is wasted. it isalso important to know what point of. dress to emphasize. For instance, one may ex- pend a large sum ona gown, and ifthe shoes | are shabby or ill made, the gloves worn, and | the bonnet lacks stvle, the gown is entirely thrown away. But the gown may be no longer new; it must now be carefully brushed and well put on, the collar and cuffs, or other neck and wrist trimmings, must be in perfect order, the boots well made and well blacked, even if not new, the gloves faultless, and the bonnet neat and stylish, The effect is of a well-dressed wo- man; no man, and very few women, perceive that the dress is not_a new one.—Mrs. T. W. Dewing, in Harper's Magazine for December. eg eee Tithing Eggs. RESULT OF LAYING HANDS ON WHAT BELONGS TO THE LORD. From the Salt Lake Tribune. On last Sunday morning, an old Mormon, whose wife was sick, attempted tocook a break- fast on his own hook. He found sofhe eggs in the pantry, which he proceeded to fry. It was pretty hard work to fry those eggs, but a good deal more of ajob to eat them. One mouthful was enough, and the old fellow rushed up stairs with: “Betsy, what in thunder’s the matter with them ezgs?” “Did you get’em in that earthen crock on the top shelf, just alongside the sassengers?” “That's the place.” “Oh, John, those eggs have been under the red hen two weeks. They ain’t for table use. Them's tithin’ eggs, John. When I can’t hatch eggs I turn ’em over to the Lord.” ‘The old man then laughed inordinately and said that would be a good joke on Taylor, Pen- rose, etal. In connection with the above mel- ancholy exposure of the luke-warmness in Is- rael, it Is said that of late nearly all of the eggs which come into the tithing house are looked upon with suspicion. Viewing Venus. From the Las Vegas Optic. Last night on the street corner the curb-stone astronomer was standing by his instrument waiting for acustomer. Presently two miners came along and patised to take a look at “the machine.” “Whatin thunder’s that?” asked one of the miners. “It is a telescope,” said the student of the stars. “You see Venus for ten cents.” ‘Consider me in,” said the miner, and he put up ten cents and turned the tube on constellation of the fourth ascension. “Don’t think much of it,” he said after a look, and then he turned the instrament down until it was focused on a private re- sidence some nine blocks away. Here the miner paused, pressed his eye close to the instrament and became as still as a mouse. ‘Ain't you too low?” asked the planet sharp. “TJ allers was low-sighted,” responded the man of the pick. “You can’t look all night. Other customers are waiting.” The miner surveyed the crowd standing about him and handed the showman a dollar, and asked him to tell him when he had used upthe money. He lowered his eyesto the telescope once more, and was again engrossed in his observations. Suddenly he rose up with a sigh and remarked to his com] jon: “Billy, she pulled the curtain down. The \dsomest woman I ever saw in my life! She let down her hair, took off her collar, and then, just after I gave that coon a dollar, she lowered the curtain and shut the blinds. I think Tought to haye about ninety cents change. That old glass tube, though, is about two hun- dred hoss-power. It was like being right under the window with a step-ladder. I'm going to ay ang of those snnehines the dies time I make a raise.” ‘The Widow’s Touched-up Photograph. From the Montreal Witness. A story is related for fact of a Montreal widow, which, in its details, is quite as strange as any novelist’s fantasy. An English gentleman in some manner became acquainted by letter with a family of ladies—sisters—resident in Montreal. Being a gentleman who had retired from his profession, the possessor of an ample income, he had little to do saye enjoy life, and his corres- ndence went on for some time with the es asked for phot of ies. ly ener = esi te apceed isters. oan was a widow of over 40. She did not like the of holding the mirror up to nature and revealing her real features on a photograph card—the more es] Sa an eedcry husband. The potograp fogsapie er’s aoe — saaployed, and a widow of 45 was transformed into a widow of 20. doubtless to the surprise and, tera, the widow was chosen by to hasten to England eis glia gen features FAMILY SUPPLIES, HOUSEFURNISHIN( Boerer MARKET. PHILADELPHIA CHICKENS AND TURKIES, CHOICE BEEF, LEON SCHELL & CO., n18 Prornrerons._ ARD.—I DESIRE TQ ANNOUNCE TO MY friends and to the pubic that I have purebased the interest of my late brother, WM. B. 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Self-Raising Buckwheat wil be found decidedly the of time and trouble is consid- ALWAYS RELIABLE! And Perfectly Healthy. Dyspeptica and persons who cannct eat Buckwheat Cakes made by the old process ‘with yeast can use the Self-Kaising Buckwheat without nt. ANY ONE CAN MAKE THEM. No more mixing Buckwheat over nicht, but in the morning, when the gridie i hot, use HECKER'S SELF-RAISING BUCK WHEAT, And mix with Cold Water or Milk, and bake iminedi- pre- . Edam and Mine- PUDDING, DUN- cheapest when the sav: ered. it is lied ALWAYS READY! ately. This will prodace licht and delicious Cakes, ferred by many to those made with yeast. ‘For gale by all wrocers. WHOLESALE DEPOT, Corer IsT STREET AND INDIANA AVENUE, W. M. GALT & CO. ‘They are also the eole Wholesale Agents for Hecker’s Self-Raising Patent and Gridle Cake Flour, which are soextensively used in New Yorx and the New England 5 n (TABLE LUXURIES, BECENT IMPORTATION— PETITS POIS, CHAMPIGNON! THUEPERS, PATE BE_FOTE GRAS ANCHOVIES 1X of. 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