Evening Star Newspaper, January 14, 1882, Page 3

WRINKLES. YUE WINTET NOV=LTIFS—PARISIAN ODDITIES, ere. Now are the days for economical shoppers. Bisck remains the cholce color for street ‘Wear. CioTH dresses trimmed with fur are much ‘worn. Warre cony bands trim many handsome sor- ties du bal. Brocapeo and damassé silk is In vogue for pera: wraps. Brace lace and black lisse neck lingerie fs | Much worn. Tue taste for embroidery az a dress decora- tion increases. Morxsqur and Grecian laces are late London | Bovelties. Rosettes will be worn again in the instep of dancing shoes. Faxs of satin, bordered with moire, appear among fate novelties. Wrire plosh and white China silk are favorite material for opera cloaks. Mauve and heliotropé shades have returned to popular favor for evening dress, ALGPRIAN pluch is the latest novelty In this Universally popular trimming fabric. Resy shades in satin, plush and moire are much worn by brunettes this winter. New Frexcu polouaises are short and very fall. Sprrzof flings and criticisms, the Derby hat hokis its own. silks and satins are winning new ct. irts are very handsome this season, and come in all the new desirable shades of colur. Turrm have been some very handsome cos- tames on Pennsylvania avenne this week. Tue latest styles in Paris give evidence of a Teturn fo the fashions of the Bourbon courts. Brow’ tulle, striped with gold and worn over , Inakes @ much admired ball cos- Prog draperies, long and fiat, similar to those Worn on dresses twenty-five years ago, aro re- vived. Tux shorter the sleeve and the longer the glove, the more fashionable is the young lady at ‘@ ball Tue Gutse dress, with high collar and fan sleeves, appears among late Parisian revivals of ald styles Farxces of pale colors, to match form beautiful trimmings for evening dresses. Seager in large masses, or the entire dressof searlet, is found to be the shade of red that hides wrinkles. ME street dress is the result of wear- trap @ete polonaise over a fine black een underskirt. b, brocade and damassé, are = cloth dresses, but plush is the most appropriate. Jockey costumes, consisting of long” coat basque and plain velvet skirt, are considered Very stylish. muffs, pelerines, dress trimmings, and fais made of peacock feathers, are much favored. Pais Pivx and silver are very fashionably combined in toilets designed for young ladies’ dancing parties. Lows white mousquetaire gloves, embroidered in silver jet beads, are worn with “second” mourning dress. Brack Lace evening dresses are very fashion- able this winter, especially when brightened with gold braid embroideries. Very pretty simple ball dresses are made of Muslin and lace, having fall bodices, flounced skirt, and wide sashes of moire or satin broché. For Arrers: ‘at home” toilets, tartan and striped pluses ace used as trimmings with good effect, but ihey are too pronounced for Street wear. Tue gigot the latest Par ¢ of the Restoration period is faney. It ianot tobe de- E is said to be equally becoming to stout and sli: fizures. Tue artistic dress revival has reached P- but the Parisian productions in this tendency toward a more oraate style thaa that of the Londons betes. A Loxnox dress novelt va reet and ptly like ol They can be nd are made of blue steel ehain armor, ring within rin worn wii ny di sort of che: the dress, A Loxpon Fas festive oceasions in th Use an ary and perfume ‘ JOURNAL says that at city “it fs the custom to natic ozonizer, a natural ar combined, which Is sold fi quires no prey 1) lon a ph e air with the fragrant and ll of the eucalyptus and the pine does modern seience bring the t air to the salons of the crowded city. . in small check patter ‘k or neutral tints, which are tened by a dash or upoa the bonnet. Tuere Are Few Nove.tiss tw Hos One style, a pair of black silk stockings. has imitation battons ani button-holes worked up the out- side. Worn with low Oxford house shoes the effect is that of an ordinary waiking-boot. Broca with peacock feathers for a design, are exhibited in new and gorgeous patterns. ‘The heavy gro wors of white or tinted satin is covered with an interlacing of these brilliant feathers, wrougut in silver, green and gold. ExrReMeLy long-tailed jackets are worn. They are cut away very mach li entleman’s dress coat, reaching to the back of the knees usually. These jackets are made of brocade and ri over velvet skirts, or of dark green over skirts of plush to mateh. Loxe camel's hair dotmans are imported, lined with dailia-colored or olive-green quilted satin, and trimmed with silk plush a shade @arker than the linings. They are with thick silk cords and larze bright fri buttons encircled with enameled silver. AMONG other novelties displa ya French milliner in w York isa bla on quickly perme: healt hy are en- red either in the ts hand-paint. i on the outside of the pro- brim,withad ign of convulvi in various - Ht is farther trin with satin and a bunch of ostrich ti eect is auite aac aiuted su: robes, muffs. fans and caps have becom but a bonnet decorated as above is quite and attractive. ARatHeR Sraixtve Costrwe lately seen upon the promenade in New York wasmadeof coffee- colored cloth bordered with Roman striped Plash, yellow and red predominating: the Ba»et coat being additionally tri browa chenille fringe set underneath the plush bordering. A Tyrolese hat of coffee-brown plush had the semi-conical crown wreathed with feathers of tropical birds. Nestling underneath the wide brim were three large Isabella roses, made of shaded chenille. With this dress were Worn Swede Saxe gloves of a deeper shade of brown, and Spanish walking-boots, the cloth tops of which matched in shade the color of the A New asp Gracrrur. “Jersey” dress has ap- peared which can only be appropriately worn by the few “divinely tall” women who have perfect figures. No seams are visible upon the sleeves, and the bodice is laced or buttoned down the baek. The garment has the appearance ofbeing moulded over the waist and sides. fitting the form to perfection. A beaat!ful model robe of this description is made of soft silver-gray satin of rare quality and color. The lons, dostag lines of the train are unbroken and unadorned. Jast below the hips isa wide searf the satin, which is arranged In panniers at the side, terminating in a broad sash, and ends low onthe skirt in the back. A-sintilar dress Is made of champarae de vin satia, with scarf drapery of violet plush. +-—______ Ie it more blessed to wtve than to “reeei on New Year day?—Lowell Couriex. A Lowell firm recently sent a lot of bills west for collection. st came back with the re- name, one being marked dead. Three months after the same bil @ new lot that was fowarded. and when the st A Warbling Widew—A Man Who Fell in Le: i ife. ve With His Own W: N.Y. Cor. Cincinnati Enquirsr. ‘The other day I had a pleasant chat with one of the professors of our principal musical col- lege in regard to the new Conservatoire to be built with the money the late Mr. Wood left for that purpose. It was hardly strange that his heirs-at-law contested this will, for the funny oid gentleman did not know one note from an- other, could not distinguish the differeace be- tween A CONTRALTO AND SOPRANO, despised the title of prima-donna, and never patronized any form of musical entertainment except that ground out upon the strect by a wan— tian. Knowing this superb indiffer- t sounds, naturally those who ex- pected to step into his shoes were profoandly astonished on finding he had left. $1,500,000 for the founding of a musical college w! hould rival that of Paris, Fortunately for that portion of the coming generation who feel their souls tunefully in- clined and themselves destined to shed luster upon the Mr. Wood's impugned sanity was proved by two of his in friends to whou: ad conf i for the le: acy. One of the most common human wea nesses had governed him in the matter—pe sonal vanity and an inordinate desire that hts name should GO DOWN TO PosTRRITY. He rejected the idea of any charitable instl- tntion, because he was afraid of being con- founded with other philanthropists, and he yearned to distinsuish himself from them by founding some new inst!tution. He consulted hie old friend and physician, and that gentleman, a musical enthusiast, sug- gested the establishment of a school for music that would obyiate the necessity of young students going abroad to acquire a musical ed- cation. The idea was novel. It pleased Mr. Wood, and, as nothing that would give his name greater notoriety was suggested, he made his will accordingly. Of course, it is a grand thing for the city, and, indeed, for the country at large, that such an institution shonid be establisiied here, but it must be confessed that the beautifal reverence and cratitade that straggling young aspirants would naturally feel to a zenerous sympathizer enefactor will be chilled, if it exists at all, by the thought that THE MAGNIFICENT CONSERVATORY. was founded, not for love of art and compassion for those whe eubrace it, bit merely as the self- built monument of a selfish man. In the course of my chat with the mnsician referred to the conversation drifted onto the romance which music isso rich in, and I was told such a charming iittle story in this connec- tion that I make no apology for giving it in full. “A year azo last fall,” began my informant, “a card was broucht into my masic-room, bear- ing the ne of a well-known and fashionable Wiea she was ushered in I was surprised to see so young a looking woman, thouzh, to be sure, sie is not yet forty, and a fair complexion and clear blue eyes make her look youn, She seemed a little embarrassed, but asked me to try her voice. I did so, and found it unenitivated, but SINGULARLY FRESH AND SWEET, in quality a light soprano. I told her so and her face flushed eagerly, as she asked: ‘Professor, could you teach me to sing? “Yes, I reptied, ‘if you choose to apply yourself earnestly.’ “I will, and it you ean manage it so that I | Reed not be seen, and that no one knows of it, I willtake a lesson every day.’ We made the best arrangements we could, and the lady never failed to appear promptly at the hour. She was so anxious and so persevering that she made the most extraordinary progress, and when spring came her yoice had so strength- ened aud developed as to be almost beyond re- cognition. “During the summer I heard nothing of her beyond mention in the society papers of her being at Saratoga, bat about a month ago she upon me, and taking both my hands in shook them earnestly, as she said: ‘Pro- fessor, [ have come to thank you for making me the happiest woman alive.” Sue then told me, what I had already A FAINT SUSPICION OF, that her husband, to whom she was deeply ate tached, tely fond of vocal masi and ways regretted that ehe could not sing to him. ad never cultivated her voice before e. and afterward the coming of children ims of society had prevented her a! it, but the antic rn 3 5 R ui married lady. mptin, R. m: widew wit realy eet sons to hin he way of spendin; rT. to his wife, he was uncon- dual nexlect of her, and would ented his en- -tetes. About 40t prepared to speak. Mrs. the widow Tat K., like A NICE WOMAN, did not tit, but undermined the enemy, as you will see. Her musie lessons she kept a profound secret trom her family. In the sum- mer they went, as usual, to Saratoga, and Look possession of one of the pretty cottages at the | United States Hotel. The morning after their arrival the local Spaper contained a notice that the leading prano of the Episcopal Chureh was ill with a throat affection, and the congregation was asked to make due allowance forthe disabled choir. ‘The next morning, Sanday, Mr. R., with two of the children, wended his way to the chureh of his belief, Mrs. R. having excused herself on the plea of a headache. “After the opening service, the minister an- nouncgd that ‘a lady from New York had kindly volunteered to sing in place of the sick soprano, and in consequence the musical service would be the same as_uasual.?>& few moments later a clear, sweet voice rang through the church, and touched the hearts of the people, perhaps, even more through - THE EXQUISITE EXPRESSION and feeling with which the music was rendered than the qualities of the voice itself. Mr. R. was fascinated, de ighted, and inwardly made comparisons between it and the witching widow not flattering to the latter. After the services were over he eagerly souzht the minister to ascertain the name of the charming soprano, whose face he had not been able to see frum his seat. *Come with me and I will introduce you,” sald the minister, who knew Mr. K. by reputa- tion. They entered the choir together, and the good man began, ‘Miss Brown, permit me to | inteodue when he was interrupted by Mr. R. 1 ant ‘Great heavens, it is my wife!’ And, | place and company notwithstanding, he gave her a hearty embrace in his delight and surprise. | Yo cut the story short, | We FELL IN LOVE WITH RER all over again, the singing siren was forgotten, and I don't believe you could find a happier couple in this great city. To mark the occasion Mr. R. gave his wife a magnificent set of dia- monds, which she wears with a great deal of pride.” All of which is true. pre ———_-o-_____ Hiow it Feels to be Hanged. From the Lite Rock Gazette, Yesterday several gentlemen were speaking of capitat punishment, when Mr. J. L. McNeely, one of the most prosperous farmers in Pulaski county, remarked: “Gentlemen, go far as the punishment is concerned. banging does not amount to anything. I was hung once untilT was insensible, and the feeling could scarcely be called pain.” The bystanders thought that he was joking. “J aim in earnest,” he continued, “Tn 1865, Just at the close of the war, robbers came to my house in search of money. As a precaution against sneh yisitora I had given two watches and in gold to atrusty colored woman to keep for me until times improved. T was lying in bed, crippled. Several men en- tered the room, and, without saying anything, i a rope around my neck and to pull. told them that if they were going te hang me to wait until Lcould get my crateb, so that I could walk be pang eae lace. whey took me out on the , and, throw! ie Fo over a cross beam, asked me for phages told them that I had none. They drew me up. Fora moment I experienced a slight choking sensation aud then | became insensible. When I became conscious, after being taken down, 1 was sitting on the steps. The sensation while recaining consciousness were very much like those experienced during a nightnare. oo Nellie has four-year-old sister Mary, who complained to mamma that her ‘button shoes” e “hurting.” “Why, Mattie you've put feet.” Puzzled id them on the wrong an ready to Re Sees made . “What'lt I do, | mamma? y's all the feet I've gotl” Deterioration of the Eye. By the law of development man progresses to physical perfection. But by the accidents of civilization tne eye, which is the light of the whole body, Is in imminent danger of deteriora- tion, and after being evolved by the brute, it is being ruined by man. Already the increase of shortsightedness and color-blindness ts attract- ing considerable attention, and even when these defects are not present the eye of civilization Is much inferior to that of many birds and beasts and savages. Not to speak of the cat’s ability to see in the dark, what ss can compare for range with that of the condor of the Andes, or for keenness with that of the Indian on pa] trailof hisenemy? Mr. Brudenell Carter, whose. address at the Health “Congress at Brighton is one of the most interesting and suggestive of re- cent contributions to popular science, Insists upon the importance of checking this gradual deterioration of the organ of vision. School boards, he says, shonld educate the eye as well as the tongue, volunteers should institute tests of distant vision, and trade unions shouid strike every employer whose factory is badly m Even the most short-sichted people see the importance of Mr. Bradeneli Carter's warning, and as the spectacle makers are not @ very powerful corporation there is some possi- bility that ‘science, common sense, and huinan- ity” may succeed in arresting the further deteri- oation of the eye.—Pali Mall Guzeite. New Year's Day im New York. From the New York San. Shortly after noon s host of district telosraph boys spread over the city and rang door beiis, or placed cards in boxes. They were the proxies of gentlemen who did not make New Year's calls in person. The postman delivered great numbers of small envelopes containing cards. Private dwellings all oyer the city burst out Into the flowering of baskets. A stroll down any of the brownstone blocks showed that New Year's calls had fallen into disrepute. Two houses out of every three had a basket on the door bell or attached tothe knobs, There were baskets at Mr. Wm.H.Vanderbilt’s and Mrs. A. T. Stewart's and a fancy vase stood in the vestibule of Mrs. Astor's residence. In many instances every house In a block had a basket out. The baskets were of ali shape and sizes; some with lids and some without. Most of them were tied with bright blue ribbons, though other colors were not wanting. When tied with black ribbons, as was done in some instances, it was plain why the family did not receive. There were indications about many of the houses, where baskets were displayed, that the inmates were ont of the city. An unusual number of fashionable people went out of the city Saturday, to pass the two holi- days at residences in the country. The card writers had a busy time yesterday. Those of them that had desks in any of the big hotels were kept at work from noon till late into the night. The polite young man who writes cards in the Fifth Avenue Hotel was surrounded -alt day by well dressed men with tall hats. Several young ladies sent to him asking that he should write the names of twenty-five young men upon different kinds of cards, and send the lot to them. He wrote the names, putting in a colonel, ®& general and an M.D. At houses that were receiving a ring at the bell caused the door to fly open immediately. Obsequious servants bowed the zentlemen into the parlors. where the ladies of the family were in waiting to receive them. The congratulation of the season followed, the gentlemen said they had only a moment to stay, and a minute later they disappeared. Refreshments were offered on theside table, but very few of the callers took anything except at the houses of politicians. A crowd was usually there. andevery one made a point of taking something. Generally speak- ing, there was less liquor aud wine drank than on any previous New Year's day for many years. The wealthier people offered cordials, and others only tea and coffee. A Dearth of Debutantes. This season, writes a New York correspond- ent, has been highly deficient in debutantes, Not, however, because there are no new candi- dates for dramatie honors, but simply on ac- count of the expense attending such an effort. It will cost any ambitious beginuer from $2,000 to $3,000 to make a first appearance, and it is said that in the ease of Frederick Paulding the above figures were exceeded toa large dexr nt that no one need look for & ouic honors y are ready to } them, and idea is recalled by the fol lowing advertisement extracied from a morn- ing paper: Any wealthy Indy desirous of distinenishine Ion bie Stace, uperd pliy, address in onflience, with full personal particulars, “Ex- Congressman.” ‘There Js a large number of ladies at present ng efforts to obtain an anpearance, and agers aremuch annoyed by such appli They do not, however, belong to y.” and mt them. A e referring to this snb- rhe number of amateur who want to go on the stave pro- ly_ is enormous. ° ng to ass that so © dd the doors ¢ al man: ib y dramatic a ply to pla; ing $1,000 or more from the candidate they let the thing drep, and she goes home with @ new but costly lesson. A numberof amatenrs © gratnitonsty, merely for the by . and they find their awn cost- ly dresses, In one theater at least half the actresses are of this class, an plone to soud families. One woman of wealth. and who believes that she possesses histrionic genius, has expended £15,000 in_ bringing herseif befere the public, and yet after all has failed to win a position.” Such was the statement of a man of experience, which I give for the benefit of such of my readers as may be severely stage struck. ———_—_-e-_______ New Finds at Pompeii. From the Pall Mall Gazette, I visited Pompeli next day, and went straight to the diggings. The only wonder is that any- thing is ever dug up at all; the process ts ridic- ulously slow, even for Italy. The director sit all day on the rubbish heaps smoking, and doz- ens of children file up and down with their little baskets of earth, whilst a few idle peasants shovel up a few lazy spadefuls at atime. Still, the first thing I saw was the side of a dining- room, uncovered oniy a few days ago. On one side was a bright picture of a fine cock and hens in a great state of excitement over a large bas- ket of grain and red cherries, all upset—Land- not have done it better. The fondness peliaas for birds, beasts and fishes is very apparent; and tuey always seemed to bedin- ing. The wealth of cooking apparatus in the mu- seunm is astouishing. You lave saucepans per- forated with countless holes, in must elabarate patterns—every conceivable kind of botler and caldron, casts fo ies. representing the pros- trate hare and tie sucking pig; ladles, spoons, skewers, disies for roasting six eges or a dozen eges at once, toasting-forks, gridirons, and faucy machines for pastry and’ delicate confec- tionery, what in Elizabeth's day were called “con- ceits.” In Pompeii itself the oil-pots and wine amphorz let into slabs, and of mosaic work of colored marble. are among the quaintest features of the ruined shops. I saw in another new part a fine dining-room, found three months ago, with some of the liveliest animal painting imaginable. The first section of the walls all around represented the boldest, seenes under the sea—a conger struggling with an octopus, a shark pursuing its prey, a shoal of fish flying through the water, all glittering and fresh. The middle sectfon dealt with birds and wild fowl floating, flying, quarelling, diving; and the up- per and largest section gave fierce hunting scenes—a horse pursued by a lion, an ox in de- sert scenery sprung upon by a tiger; and all these were set in scenery of great force, variety pos character—woods, rocks, rivers and green i The corridors and anterooms of this house are equally nich, the walls copiously vignetted with fizures—dwarfs on stilts, street scenes, animals. ie white sulte of terday, without a soil or chip or scratch. oy seem now to be coming to some of the richest houses, and have brokeu into the outer court of one in which stands a beautiful fountain cupola and niche of elaborate mosaic work, represeat- ing gods and goddesses in the deep blue heavens, half-velled with fleecy elguds. The house is still embedded under 80 feet of ‘earth; but, if this is the back |, what must tne halls and corridors be? T! lan now adopted is to leave as much as possible in sita. Speci- mens repeat themselves, und it is needless to go on removing similar mosaics or of which there Kid ath in the Naples muscum. Asarule. tnerefore, all the later excavations are more interesting than the old ones, becanse they have been left unspoiled of their treasure. 1 should like to spend a week at Pompei every , ifonly to watch the uncove: and el in the new finds, . se, gsi Bolling har in sation of tea wil darken i, gays an some folks don’ have their tea in that way. . ON PACIFIC'S PRESIDENT. Mistletoe. The Office of Siducy Dilion and a | From the Pall Mall Gazette, Sketch of the Manu. New York Letter to the Boston Herald. Sidney Dillon, who is called on Wall street “Gould's right-hand,” is ordinarily found dur- ing the short but busy hours of railroad mag- nates in New York in the president’s office of the Union Pacific railway. The office is on the second floor of the Western Union building, and has a peculiarity of construction. The outer office for clerks is hedged in by a high screen that prevents any one from obtaining even a glimpse of the closely-occapied presi- | dent, though affording a full view of hissubor- dinates. He is saved from intrusion or inter- ruption in this way, and ean devote his mind fully to the great concerns that he is engaged in. The furniture of the office and the wooden fittings of the wall are suggestive of the interior of a railroad drawing-room car. You expect every moment to hear, “All aboard!” and to feel the jerk, jar, and rumble of car motion. There is a pleasant suggestion, too, of the broad prairies that the Union Pacifie traverses in two ornaments of the walls. ‘These are the graceful, antlered head of a big buck deer, and the shaggy, frowning front of a monster bison bull. On the ground girss of the door you read, “Sidney Dillon, President,” and then a list of a few of the railroad corporations that he is prominently con ed with. To those who satisfy the vigilant clerks that they have busi- ness with Mr. Dillon, ready admission is given. He gives very few’ words, and those to the | point, to most callers. Indeed, his brevity of expression has given him a reputation for curt- ness that he may not Intend. However this! may be, it is undeniable that he leaves no visitor in doubt a3 to bis meaning upon the subject spoken of, or as to his course uf con- duct in reference to it, and that with a most business-like and commendable economy of words. Visitors to Mr. Dillon are shown into the pres- ence of avigorous, elderly man, of fine eight and mass build. There is a plain, alinost farmer- like air about the simple though scrupulously neat attire of this man. Indeed, ifhe did not wear “city clothes,” one might, at a hazard, ray that he was a farmer. or, at least, a man who had spent much time amid green fields and pastures new. There is a wholesome country likeness in the rugged face. Mr. Dillon's abundant iron gray hair is worn in an easy style of waviness. Tron-gray whiskers are on either side of his tace. His chin‘and upper lip are kept as smooth, and almost as shiny, from recent and wasparing ap- plication of the and his eyes are dark and piercing t mouth indi- cates the pluck and self-reliancé of Mr. Dillon’s whole li Mr. Dillon's private office is fur- nished with stadious plainness, and there is no inkling of the luxury of his. up-town home. Business, and only business, is, wamistakably, the desideratum In that room. The second floor of the Western ion building is a concentration of wealth. The offices of all of the railroads that make up Jay Gould’s mighty span from ocean to ocean are on this floor. " The front offices, divided into many little compartments, by walnut and ground glass par- titions, are devoied to the master spirit of all. On the shaded central pane in the outer door is simply “Jay Gould.” But the mysterious little man has no regular times for entering or quittins that office. "It is oaly one of his many down-town retreats, and he enters it only to consult with Mr. Dillon or others of nis railroad lieutenants. I may give here a uew feature of Mr. Gould’s life—new at least to the public— and that is his taste for the theater. The pop- ular {dea of Gould is a close student, who speat his evenings in his finely-appointed library, and is accessible to no one froin the outside world. The fact {s that. most of his evenings are spent in our theaters. Hisconstant companion is his son George. As the latter said recently: “Father and [ live in the theater.” For instance, young Gould bought two seats at yesterday's auction sale of places for the opening night of Wallack’s new theater. One of those places was for his father, who flads rest for his mind, wearied by the immense realities that it has been burdened -with during the day, in thepleasant fictions of the stage. eg eee A Reporter's Pledge. There is areporter in St. Louis sworn to re- form. who deserves all the encouragement. his employers can give him, lest, ike the just man, he fail seven tines a day. This is his oath. 1, 1882.—I solemnly -pledze myself y the use of dull thud.” “Doomed man.” “Mounted the seaffola with a firm step.” that ever stained the an- nd painfal duty.” We are “n. “Caned,” or “Watched,” in writing up presen- tations. “E fan revel,” as applied toa common a@runk. “Then commenced a feast of r “Terpsichorean revel,” as app nilemanly and elfivieat, 1 clerks. usher.” “The ason,” ke. Oats an of pencils.” “The np of unconsidered * tn referriag to Fabe trite Flow to Judge a Horse. The week points of a horse can be better dis- covered while ling than while moving. If he issound he stand firmly and squarely on nbs without moving any of them, the feet planted flatly upon the ground, with legs plumb and naturally poised. If one foot is thrown for- ward with the toe pointing to the ground and the heei raised, or if the foot is lifted from the ground aad the weight taken from it, disease may be suspected. or at least tefderness, which is a precursor of disease. If the horse stands with his feet spread apart, or straddles with the hind legs, there is weakness in the loins and the kidneys are disordered. Heavy pulling bens the knees. Biuish or milky cast eyes in horses indicate meon blindness or something else. A bad tempered horse keeps bis ears thrown back. A kicking horse is apt to have scarred legs. A stumbling horse has blemished knees, When the skia is rough and harsh, and does not move easily and smoothly to the touch, the horse isa heavy eater and his digestion is bad. Never buy a horse whose respiratory orzans are at all impaired. Place ear at the side of the heart, and If a wh g sound is heard, it is an indication of trouble—let him go. . A Scarcity of Corn Cobs. From the New York Sun. “There isa corner in cora cobs somewhere,” said a wholesale dealer in plpes, “for the de- mands of manufacturers of corn-cob pipes can- not be met, even at advanced prices. There has never been such a scarcity in the supply. The pipes, too, seem to be in greater demand than ever. Many men won't smoke any other kind. I know one rich society man who would be in disgrace if he was seen in public with a corn-cob pipe in his mouth, but who keeps his pipe in his bed-room, and has a quiet smoke before he goes to bed. The man who invented the process of hardening a corn cob has become independently rich. Some cob pipes are costly because of the silver mountings, but the pipe that sells for five cents is the most popular. Smokers say that a corn-cob pipe is sweeter than any other. South- ern negroes, who know what is good, from a hoecake to a "possum, wouldn't give a cob pipe for the nest meerschaum, if they couldn't cet another. I suppose the short corn crop bas had something to do with the scarcity. The cobs of @ poor crop are not iit to make pipes out of.” ge Most Justifiable Homicide. About 9 o’clock on Christmas morning, just as. the people of Austin were preparing to goto church, they were thrown into an intense state of excitement to learn that Col. Jenkings Kim- ball had shot and instantly killed Judge Sher- lock Sloan. The parties to this ead tragedy were near nelghbors, and the families were ap- perentiy on the most friendly terms. Col. Kimn- il immediately gave bi “up to the sheriff. Rumors of all kinds were afloat on the streets, but the real cause of the tragedy was not re- vealed until Wig freee when the inquest was held on the ay of Judge Sloan, which was riddled with buckshot. It from the testimony of the witnes on Christ- mas morning, before Col. Kimball was up, the deceased presented the two sons of Col. Kimball with atin trumpet and adram. Upon this evidence the jury promptly rendered a ver- dict that the deceased came to his death from gun-shot wounds Infticted by Col. Kimball, who was fully Justified by the provocation he had re- ceived. The verdict was received with cheers by the assembled crowd. and meets with the warm approval of all our citizens. What Austin needs is a tew more such public-spirited citi- zens as Col. Kimball, A subscription haa raised to present Col. Kimball with a fine silyer- mounted *hot-gan. Nothing has occurred for years that has given such universal Gencroy the fence and. barncay ot 8 worth yy the peace “mony of family. Let the good work go on—Teaas Sift Apart trom its real or mythical connection ygith the Druids, and its practical use in mod- ern Christmas festivities, the mistletoe is un- doubtedty a very curions and interesting plant. | It is a naturally uncanny-looking thing; and, no doubt, the uncanniness of Its appearance and mode of growth has had much to do with the | place it fills in po ular superstitions and folk- lore. The bongh *‘guod non sua seminat ‘. | 1s almost the only good example of a vegetable | parasite to be found in any northern climate; sv that it has reasonably enough attracted a great deai of attention from al! northern peoples in | every age. Even when detached from the trunk of ita host, a mistletoe-bongh is a curions ob- ject, with its flat opposite pairs of succulent leaves, its jointed green branches, its suspicious- | looking glaucons color, and its terminal twigs abruptly ending in an unfinished rnob. {_ Secientifleally speaking, the mistletoe has af- | forded aa open datile-fleld for inaameradte sys- ,tematists. The question whether four little | leatiets in the flower were to be called petals or | ealyx-pieces—in itself about as important as the | question who was Hecuba’s grandmother—has | often crueliy diviled the botanical world. We now know that the mistletoe is really exactly | what each of the contending parties con orily asserted it to be. Like most Oth plants the mistletoe derives its ori afamily of climbers. It is closely connected with those four-petalled flowers like the corne dogwood, guelder-rose and elder, whieh com- pose a perfect network of connecting links be- tween many very distinct groups of plants, These types, in fact, form a central stacion, were, from which diverging brancies 'y direction. Several of the from this interlacing center have tak: ing habits; among them are ivy on the one hand uit es much like those of mistietoe) to- gether with the little clinging cleavers and bed- straw of our hedgerows, which are somewhat more remotely connected with the original an- cestor. But certain allied races, like the san- dalwood family, are parasitic on the roots of other plants. The ancestor of tie mistletoe, which was clearly intermediate between those two types—whence the dispute as to its proper place in the old linear arrangement—must have more or less combined both habits. It must have been at once a creeper and a parasite. In this way it could ascend the trunks of trees, and then fasten Itself on to. the soft tissues of the bark, at first no doubt by means of suckers. The mistletoe has become, in the ordinary but very incorrect langua: parasite. The means by which it has accom- | plished this change may stili be observed in the existing berry. Looking closely at the top of the little whi fruit one can see four email blackish marks, are the scars left behind by the four ealyx-picces off. These scars show the plice of the plant beside such other bushes as the Cozwood and the waytgriug tree. Now, if the berry iseut ner pulp appears as aa extremely 8 of slime—indeed, the very word iscid” is but the adjecti f viscum; and from this pulp birdiime is manufactured. Embedded in the slime is a single hard seed. The use of such an arrangement to the mi enough to understand. Birds tat the i and thuscarry the seeds from tree to tre: times, no doult, the fruit simply clings by own sticky substance to their feet or feathers, and gets rubbed off when they alight on another bough; but in other cases it is probably swal- lowed, and the seed then passes undigested through their bodies. In either event the plant obtains its desired result, t! ting and fastening on the tissucs of its host. For such a purpose the glutinous pulp is obyiousty wells or seeds, which are simply turned looss any- them may happen to light upon its proper prey. But the possession of a iruit in the shape of an edible berry, provided with natural gum to fasten the seed on the branches of trees, saves the mis- tletoe from any such desperate shifts as these. So successful has it been, indeed, in getting Its youes, well started in life that. like many other rTy-bearers whieh trust to birds for dispersion, it has actually been enabled to dispense with some of its primitive qnotum of seeds, ee ge fce-Making in dine the coll weather, which, except in small sta- tions distant from the rail, is fas that is the manufacture of ice. Whe out in 1853, Calcutta, wholly dependent on Ame T came and Bonibay were iee, supplied by 4 entireiy dependent on which could only be made w 2 the cold weather w: © we were obli y felt; in ail other ed ta cool our dri By these appl down to 6 ying on the cooli is, we could even f . Fa with tre: ze wate as tedious and expel raid; and sulphuric ether ame wradually into vogue, wonderiul pueumatic m: the pr Science came to ou Ja chine, which I minutes in a temperature of ¥5 deg. With these great appli , block-ice is now available in where it could not formerly be had at from lg to 2annas per ser. To return to the old process—it depended entirely on the pro- duction of cold by evaporation, as also on suffi. cient cold weather and res west wind; the east wind being absolutely fatal to the production of ice. The essextials for the process are: 1. Exposed and treeless ice fields, which are partitioned off into four to five feet squares, in which two to three inches of straw aid down. ads of flat, porous hes in diameter. 3. An unlimited supply of water. 4. An army of coolies and water carriers. 5. The ice pit. This, the most important adjunct in the proc is very carefully constructed; a great pit is dus. andin itrests a huge timber cone, the space between it and the sides of the pit being ram- med with charcoal, chaff, or straw as non-con- ductors of heat; the cone itself is lined thickly with coarse felt or blankets, and then a layer of matting; over all a straw hut, with very thick roofs and walls and avery small entrance, 1s constructed. Now for the process. Whenever the outside thermomet r reads 42 deg., then Ice can be manufactured by evaporation. Half an inch of water is poured, over nizht, into the saucers by bheesties, (watcr-carriers;) then, at 2a.m., a great drum is beaten at the pit to summon the coolies, who assemble in hundreds, ach armed with a scoop, with which the ice is skillfully turned out of the saucer into an at- tendant vessel, and well ra.nmed into it. When full itis taken to the pit. emptied there, and again rammed down. Thus all the ice has a chance of consolidating by regelation; ain a good season thousands of pounds’ weisht of ice may be stored. according to pit-room available. Chambers’ Journal. ———— Mow Cheaply One Can Live. From the American Miller. Bread, after all, is the cheapest diet one can live on, and also the best. A story is told that shows Just how cheap a man can live, when he gets “down to mnsh,” figuratively and literally speaking. Col. Fitzgibbon was. many years ago, colonial agent at London for the Canadian gov- ernment, and was wholly dependent upon re- mittanees from Canada for his support. On one occasion these remittances failed to ive, and as there was no cable in those days, he was compelled to write to his Canadian friends to. know the reason of the delay. Meanwhile he had Just one sovereign to live upon. He found that he could live upon sixpence per day, or about 123¢ cents of our money—four penny- worths of one poner worth. of milk, and one pennyworth of sugar. He made pudding of some ot the bread and sugar, which served for breakfast, dinner and supper, the milk being reserved for the last meal. When his remit- wereign, and he f tw possibl ony ee for over two years, ly longer. cents day is ®& small amount to ex- lees for food; but a man in Minnesota, ree years ago, worried throuch & whole on ten dollars. He lived on “Johnny cake.’ we pci oe ined br student in an Ohio college who, Grace, rice and corn bread, lived’ thirteen wi on seven dollars; but there were several good apple orchards near the college and the fariners kent no dose. Tt ts not the necessities of life that cost amuch, but the luxuries; and it is with mankind as it was with the Frenc! sald thataf he had the , as it | »elimb- | uckle on the other (both of which | j | Trenton. | | New York aud Chicago compare well as to time | On both the American and English system of eof bonatists, a perfect | 1 |i | hour for express, and twenty-five for accommo- letoe is easy | placing of itsoff- | spring securely in a proper position for germina- | lapted. Most parasites, animal or vezet- | ble, have to produce enormous numbers of ezgs | where on the chance that one or two among | Let me now allude to an industry pecutiar to | dying out, and | - | conditions, and. appr | : ot | were af : have seen produce ice in two “FLYING DUTCHMAN.” ‘The Helative Specd of Fast Trains English and American Kailways. A critical examination of the speed of the English railroad trains, writes a correspondent, does not sustain the commonly-accepted notion of their great velocity, nor prove tat progress in accelerating speed which was to be looked | for in the country where the railroad was born and cradled. The famous “Flying Dutchman” on the Great Western railroad makes the run from London to Exeter, 194 miles, in four hours and fourteen minutes. ‘With iour stops, it at- j tains a speed of alinost forty les an’ hour. A train on the Great North the “Leod express,” does better. It makes the yi froin London to Leeds, 187 miles, in four fours — | almost forty-seve es an hour, with four stops. The train carrying the Irish mail to Holy- head, over the London and Northwestern and dubbel years ago Wild Irishmar has now sunk into comparative obseurity with its mte of a little less than forty | miles en hour. The competition over several of on the Great Northera road make ops along the line from London to miles, and fies over (ie wiisle distance t ith an average rate of almost forty- ur; and on the Midland line t press runs the 425 miles to Glas- peed of forty and one-half miles an hour. The he four swiflest (rains in Eng- land, and, as will be seen, the Leeds express, with its rate 6f forty-seven miles au hour, ts the | feetest of them all." Three out of the four trains ' probably beat the running time for the same dis- other roads inthe world. They are | r, far outstripped for a shorter dis- y the train on the Pennsylvania railroad | whieh leaves Jersey City at 4:10 p.m.,and makes the run of about eighty-eight miles to. Philadel- phia in one tinndred minutes, with one stop, at The tifty-two and eight tenths miles an hour made by this American train is probably without parallel in the schedule time of an; railroad company on the globe. It may be men- ioned that the fast trains recently put on by Pennsylvania and Vanderbilte roads bet gow with a with the long runs on the English and Scotch lines, and more than double them as to distance. railroads it must also be remembered that road-bed and favoring grades, a speed of sixty or more an honr is not very uncommon. ordinary time of passenger trains on the h railroads dors not vary much, if any, from the speed of the corresponding trains on our steel-railed lines—about thirty-five miles an | dation trains. ‘The Esthetic Asses,” From the Boston Herald. The shallowness of the professional astheti- cism personified in Mr. Oscar Wilde, the visiting wisstouary of the new school in England, who is now enjoying amonz us the insidious flattery | | that is conveyed by Imitation, is revealed in a recent interview with this gentleman. “The | | ground work of gstheticism,” said Mr. Wilde, | | “is that you eannot teach a knowledge of the | beautiful: it must be revealed.” “A boy,” he remarked, by way of illustration, “can become learned in any scientific subject by the study of | books; the knowledge of the beautiful is per- ‘sonal, and can only be acquired by one’s own eyes and ears. This truth was the origin of the theory of beautifal surroundings.” Tae apostle of beauty goes too far, or not far enou: Ita Knowledge of the beautiful is “revealed” to a boy, is it not taught to him? And, if beautiful surroundings, eyes and ears are the only necessary conditions of acquiring a knowledge of the beautiful, perhaps Mr. Wilde wonld be able toreveal the clories of a sunset to an ox! A genuine—not a sham—love of the beautiful, is as much a matter of birthright and organiza- tion as any other quality ofthe individual. And, | wiile the environiieat doubtless assists gr atly in the development of special capacities, tie inborn perception of beauty in any form ‘does | not depend for its growth, or its power of en- |Joyment. upon apy of the helps of a brainless and brawnless wstueliciem. Mr. Wilde says: “Suppose you take up avolame of Keats. If you are in a library furnished as most are, you have to take a spirtiual jump, se to Speak, before you are in the proper frame mind to appreciate his poetry.” “utier” stuff and n J | h t bouk 3— e of the | erate exeryt or the fo Edwin Booth ” will never soul- poets. 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