Evening Star Newspaper, June 10, 1882, Page 7

Bier STONF COLOR—RICH BRIDAL DRESSES—LADY WATERLOW’S DRESB, ETC. Rep satin and silk parasols remain in favor. Tux combination costumes are most popular. Cares for the shoulder matching suits are Popular. Paxsy Mvix. in Quaker kerchiefs are new in Beck wear. Drrachante bows of ribbon are now used for trimming night-dresses. Tux old-fashioned Swiss tamboured muslins Gre again to the fore for dresses. Perricoats of ecru pongee will again be worn for summer with all but white dresses. Tue new shade of blue called bleu de mer is Tival to cadet blue for street costumes. Some of the daintiest and lightest of straw hats have the crowns entirely covered with velvet. Some of the new satins are such marvels of delicate flower printing as almost to merit framing. New Fans are very large. They are now shown in sateens to match the new costumes in this fabric. Pointe Bonices with paniers joined to the bodice by a pointed puffed band are all the rage for evening dresses. A Perry elegance of the season are the rich colored street jackets, not matched tothe tollet, made of merveilieux or moire. Po. Dors are a fashionable eruption, and ‘@ppear on fabrics of all sorts for dresses, neck- wear, handkerchiefs, parasols, etc. Veer Laror Coitans oF Lace are In vogue, both for ladies and children, the shapes being Pointed, round or square, according to fancy. Lirri® Gris wear hats, sashes, stockings and ribbons all matching each other in color, the favorite hue being anew deep shade of ebina red. AN old-fashioned style is revived in the mode N Of finishing offthe pointed bodice. A thick cord | is set at the very edge of the corsage, and the tunte and panniers are set just underneath the cord. For the evening, feathers arranged in the hair and on the bodice, fastened down with tiny dia- mond pins, are remarkably effective. These pins are in the form of birds, crescents, butter- flies, flowers, stars, and insects ot various speci Women with ljgh, broad shoulders, especially short women, should avoid too high a ruche or too broad acollar. The styles most becoming to such are Vandyke collars of open lace or pointed fichus, so arranged as to leave a bit of the throat visible under the chin. Prxuars the most fashionable colors of the season are stone color and its kindred shade, ficelle, which is a pale drab; literally, twine colers. Mouse color is more rare, so rare that it is almost impossible to find it; but it is ver distinguished and is used for serviceable dresses. Wuirr nun's veiling. cashmere, or albatross eloth, trimmed with white lace and broad sashes of white satin or moire. are favorite materials for graduating dresses this season. Not one dress of this description exhibited thus far has been made with even a demi-train. Every dress fs short, and nearly every one is made with a pointed bodice and panniers. Fratiers on bonnets are used in profusion, taking precedence of all other trimmings, and in feathers ostrich tips lead everything else. Very many tips and plumes are shaded, and in some the shading ts peculiar, as, for instance, Jong plumes shading from dark brown int cream, rose pink finted at the tips. Pompons in ail colors are popular, and are employed in many ways. . Tue Movntaty axp STEAMER Svrts are made of dark colored flannel, navy blue being the standard. They ‘have plain double or ted basque. plain and round, ith deep kilt flounce, diagonal plaited drapery and full draping for the back. They are made so that the drapery cannot be disar- Fanged by any amount of rough usage. and have @ Mother Hubbard cape and a belt of the flan- Rel for use or ornament. AT tur Last Que pretty young American bride, ly Waterlow, was presented, and fwily maintained, py her selection of a dress, the high sta which is now expected every cans. = I w’s lovely presentation pale sam Honiton lace and clusters of tea roses. Tue Snort round polka basque is much used for summer Surah dresses. This reaches two | Inches below the waist line, is nearly straight around, is whaleboned to the lowest end of each all basgques should be), and is finished e with one or two full bias puffs, or else two thick box-pleatings of satin, and per- haps on this may fall a frill of Spanish lace that is very secant on the sides, and full like a fan in the middle of the front and back. Tue favor which foulard enjoys is perhapsdae to the fact thata dress made of it is always bright and pretty in appearance; it is much cooler and pleasanter for summer wear than gros-grain silk; it lends itself to any sort of draping or trimming, being supple. yet firm In texture, and is much less liable to crumple or grow limp than lawn or muslin, and the silk is 80 Iizht that it proves a happy medium in dress for our fitful climate. Wurrs and cream-tinted Spanish net will be much employed this summer for dinner and evening dress, made wholly of lace. This net is cut in plain Princesse style over a foundation of white merveilieux. The skirt and bodice are then draped with ruffles, scarf, and bertha of painted Spanish lace. These exquisite dresses are among the most beautiful and becoming of suramer toilets. Tue Twittep Svrans, with or without satin finish, are in great favor for street suits, says the last /larper’s Bazar, and these take the place of the summer taffeta silks so long used, and rival the popular foulards. Dark Surahs are used for the street. such as navy blue, gray- blue, very dark garnet, and cypress green. are trimmed with embroidery on the ma- terial. or with the ecru mull embroidery, or else with black lace frills either of French imitation thread lace or the silk Spanish lace. Navy blue silk Surah skirts with two narrow pleatings around the foot and low apron drapery that has a frill ot French black lace four inches deep are very stylish. . Is silks, the old standard black silks are as popular as ever, and those who are economical in making their purchases should buy either pm or fancy silks at this season, when they are lower than at any time during the year. bf is hinted that heavy gros grain and ottoman silks will be extensively worn next fall, and mer- chants are making their preparations accord- ly. In the handsomest dresses of late impor- ions the satin merveilleux and rhadames formed a conspicuous part, as they have during the spring, so the change will not be made suddenly, ana, although it may be marked in black street costumes, it will probably not be seen so much in evening and reception dresses. Weppixe Torerres claim considerable at- tention, and it gives satisfaction to note that colors are as much used for costumes as the stereotyped white. The dreas of the Princess Beatrice was of pale salmon satin broche with a silvery white background and lace, the latter cee bees bow over the salmon satin. The skirt was of satin covered with lace worth £20,000, arranged in diagonal pleats wide apart and trimmed at the sides with pink roses, made bape | to match the dress. The corsage in paniers were all in one of broche, the train lined with salmon satin and edged with a wreath of the roses, the train flowing from the waist ip graceful folds in which the ends of the ers disappear; the corsage was pointed in Mk; wltte a equck ct seat ane placed near the right shoulder. Tus Junsey Gioves of silk, lisle thread, or Tinen offered for summer wear, are uncom- monly fine and beautiful. The new styles and shapes, when fitting suugly upon the hand, have all the effect of the long Danish kid gloves. ‘The handsomest are the silk gloves in the mous- ire style, in evening tints of pe salmon, lilac, straw, 1, ink and cream- white, the street coi being k, ecru — ¢ MER—NEW PANS—FEATHER FASITIONS— aded gauze, lined with | colored satin, the petticoat being | of white satin, trimmed with pearl embroidery, | EVENING STAR: WASHINGTON, SATURDAY, JU 882—DOUBLE SHEET. ROMANCE OF A GLOVE. “ Does it please you, Katy ?” “Oh, it’s splendid! Icould not have suited myself half so well had I been left to choose.” “But you haye not seen the wine cellar yet- Tt is @ treasure of its kind. Let's go down again.” They went down the stairs together, he talk_ ing gayly, she with a troubled look on her face . After duly admiring the place she put a timid hand on his arm and said: “But, Arthur, dear, let's have no wine in it.” “Why?” he asked, in surprise. “Because I have resolved, if Iam ever the mistress of a house there shall be no liquors Kept in it—no ‘social giass’ for friends.” “Why, Katy, you are unreasonabie. I did not know you carried your temperance opinions so far as that. Of course I shall keep wine in my house, and entertain my friends with it, too.” She raised her face appealingly. “arthur!” she said, in atone of voice which he knew how to interpret. ‘Arthur's brow grew clouded. “But you cannot fear for me?” he said, with half offended pride. “I must fear for you, Arthur, if you begin as he did. AndI fear for others besides, for the sons and husbands and fathers who may learn at our cheerful board to love the poison that shall slay them.” They went upthe steps again and sat on a sofainthe dining-room for a few moments, while Katy put on her hat and drew on her gloves. The argument was keptup. It is unnecessary that we should repeat all that was said on both sides. It ended, at last, as similar discussions have ended betore. Neither was willing to yleld—Katy, because she felt that her whole future happiness might be involved in It; Arthur, because he thought it would be giving way to a woman's whims, and would sacrifice too much 0; his popularity with his friends. He had bought this house, paid for it, and furnished it handsomely, and in a few weeks was to bring Katy as its mistress. But when Arthur closed the door and put the key in his pocket, and gave Katy his arm to see her home, it was “brol up” between them, and a notice, ‘o Let,” was put over the door on the very next day. It was the most foolish thing to do; but then Ls can always find something to quarrel about. They parted with a cool “Good evening” at the door of Katy’s lodging house. She went up to her room to cry; he went home hurt and an- gry, but secretly resolved to see her again, and give her a chance to say that she was in the wrong. He would wait a few days, however; it would not do to let her see that he was in a hurry to “make it up.” He did wait nearlya week, and when he called at the modest lodging house, where he had been wont to visit so often, he was told that Miss Gardiner had been gone three days. ne where?” he asked, slow to believe. he did not tell me, sir. She said she was not coming back. Her aunt lives at Bristol.” He then took the next train to Bristol, and investigated; but neither there nor in any other place, though he searched for months after- wards did he find sign or trace of Katy Gardi- ner. . . * * « All this happened more than a year before I saw Katy; but we three “factory girls,” who lodged at Mrs. Howell’s with her of course knew nothing about it. She came to the fac- tory and applied for work. The superintendent thought her too delicate for such labor, but she persisted and in fact she improved in health, spirits and looks after she became used to the work and simple fare of the factory girl. She was a stranger to us all, and it seemed likely she would remain so. But one day Mary Bascom’s dress caught in a part of the machinery and, before any one else could think what to do, Katy had sprung to her side and pulled her away by main strength from the ter- rible danger that threatened her. After that Mary and Lizzie Payne and I. who were her dearest friends were Katy's sworn allies. We all iodged together, then, in the big ‘‘Fac- tory boarding house.” But Xaty took it Into her head that we should have so much nicer times in a private lodging to ourselves; and when she took anything into her head she gen- erally carried it through. In less than a week she had found the very place she wanted, ar- ranged matters with the superintendent, and had us sheltered under Mrs. Howell's vine and fig tree. We four girls were the proud posses- sors of a tolerably large, double-bedded apart- ment, with a queer little dressing-room at- tached—and the liberty of the parlor to receive callers In—a proviso at which we all laughed, This was “home” to us after the labor of the day. In deed and in trust, Katy made the place so charming that we forgot we were “* fac- tory girls” when we got to it. She improvised cunning little things out of trifles that are usually thrown away as useless, and the flowers growing in broken pots in our windows were a glory to behold. She always hada fresh book or periodical on our table ; and better than this, she brought to us the larger cultivation and the purer taste which taught us touse oppSrtunities within our reach. “What made you take to our style of life, Katy?” asked Lizzie, one evening, as we all sat in the east window, watching the out coming of the stars and telling girlish dreams. “Destiny, my child,” answered Katy, stopping to replace the little boot she had thrown off to rest her foot. “But you might have been an authoress, or a painter, or a—book-keeper, or—” Lizzie’s knowledge of this world was rather limited; Katy broke in upon her. “There, that willdo. I was not born a genius and [ hate arithmeti “But you did not always have to work fora living Katy?” said Mary.. “You are a lady, I know.” Katy laughed aqueer, short laugh. “Yes.” she said, ‘and that’s why I don’t know how to get my living in any way but this. So behold me a healthy and honest factory girl.” She rose, madea little bow, and a flourish with her little hands, and we all laughed, although she had said nothing funny. “Milly,” said she, “please light the lamp and get the magazines, while I hunt up my thimble and thread. Ladies, I find myselt under the necessity of mending my gloves this evening. Oh, poverty! where is thy sting? In a shabby glove, I do believe, for nothing hurts me like that, unless it be a decaying boot.” Katy’s gloves were a marvel to us. She never wore any but of good quality, and always the same color—a brownish, neutral tint that har- monized with almost any dress—but just now a new pair would seem to be the thing needful, noe the appearance of the ones she brought out. She sat and patiently mended the little rents, while I read aloud, and when she had finish the gloves looked almost new. The next day was Saturday, and we had a half holiday. Katy and I went to make some slight purchases and on our way home stopped at the big boarding-house, to see one of the girls who was ill. When we came out Katy ran across the street to get a magazine from the news-shop, and came hurrying up to overtake me before I turned the corner. She had the magazine open and one of her hands was un- gloved, but it was not until we reached home that she found she had lost a glove. It was too late then to go and look forit. We went and searched for it im the morning, but couldnot find it. Katy mourned for It. “It was my only pair, girls,” sald she, tragic- ally; “and it is a loss that cannot be repaired.” . s e's . . What people call a ‘‘panic” had occurred in financial circles in the spring after Arthur had lost his Katy, and almost without a day's warn- mghe found himself a r man. He left his affairs in the hands of his creditors—having sat- himself that they could gather enough from the wreck to save themselves—and set his ‘fre bad boon educated f physician, though le cated fora cian, thor fortune made a -merchant of ‘iim. Learning from a friend that there was an opening for a doctor ane; he came thither and began to r Sewell had gone off on a visit, leaving his patients in charge of the new doctor; and so it came about that on that Saturday evening he was on his way to visit Maggie Lloyd, the sick girl at the lodging house, when, just turn- ing the corner near the news shops, he saw a brown glove lying on the pavement. He was about to pass it by; but a man’s instinct to pick up anythi of value that seems to have no owner, him put it in his pocket. He for- got all about it the next minute. But when he had made his call ‘and returned to his consulting room, in taking a from his pocket the glove fell out, and he picked it up and looked at it with idle curiosity. It was old, but well It had been fading light, stowly drawing on her glove. her sweet eyes filling as they talked—quarreled, we should say, perhaps—had gone with him as an abiding memory of her until he had come to know each shade of the picture—the color of the dress, the ribbon at the throat, and the shaded plume in her hat. He looked at the little glove along time. He had thought it might belong to one of the fac- tory gris as he found it near the lodging-house. But it aid not look tike a ‘factory hand’s” glove. He wouid ask Maggie Lloyd, at any rate; 80 he put it in La had until he should make his lay. calls the next He had suffered the glove to become 80 asso- ciated with the memory of the that was sacred to him that he felt his cheek burn and his hand tremble as he drew it forth to show it to Maggie, who was sitting in the comfort of con- valeacence in an arm chair by the window, watching the handsome young doctor write the prescription for her benefit. “By the way, Miss Maggie, do you know whose glove this is?” Maggie knew it at once. It was Miss Gardi- ner’s glove. The name made his heart beat again. “Yes; she lodges with Mrs. Howell, quite out of town, almost. She was here to see me yes- terday.” “Oh, I see!" said he, not the most reer “And can you tell me how to find Mrs. Howell's house? Tsuppose I could go by and restore this glove to the owner?” * * * . * . Mary and Lizzie went to church that Sunday morning. Katy declared she could not go, hay- ing but one glove. I stayed at home with her and offered to keep Mrs. Howell's children for her—and so persuaded that worthy woman to attend worship with the girls. And this is how it came about that, while we were having a frolic on the carpet with the chil- dren in Mrs. Howell’s room, we heard a ring at the door; and Bridget having taken herself off somewhere, there was no help for it but for one of us to answer the eummons. “You go, Katy!" whispered I, in dismay. “I cannot eppesr.” Katy glanced serenely at her own frizzy head in the looking-glass, gave a pull at her over- a and a touch to her collar, and opened the joor. Immediately afterwards I was shocked by hearing her uttera genuine feminine scream,and seeing ner drop on the floor; and that man, a perfect stranger to me, gathered her up in his arms and began raving over her in @ manner that astonished me. He called her * and “his own Katy,” fore I could reach her. I was surprised at myself afterwards that I hadn't ordered that geutleman out; but it never occurred to me at the time, and when Katy “came to” and sat up on the sofa and heard his speeches, she seemed so well pleased that I left them and took the children up to the room, feeling bewildered all over. What shall I say further? Only that Katy lives in the pretty house in the town known as Dr. Craig’s residence, where we three ‘factory girls” have a home whenever we want it. And there are no liquors found on her sideboard nor at her table. One day I heard Arthur say, “‘you were a silly child, Kate, to run away from me. I should have given up the point at last, I snow.” “But there would have been the splendid cel- lar and the ten thousand a year,” answered she. “It would have been such a temptation. We are safer as it is, dear.” ————_++______ PHOTOGRAPHY IN RURAL VIR- GINTA, Its Exciting Perils. Montgomery (Vs.) Letter. An amateur photographer leveled his instru- ment at a picturesque shanty in the mountains of Giles. Doubtless it would have made one of the most striking views in his collection, but— The door of the shanty was flung wide open and a flerce-looking, dirty little man stepped out with an old horse-pistol in his hand, followed by a tall, wiry woman grasping a dangerous-look- ing axe, while a multitude of children, more or less naked. brought up the rear. “Take that ‘ere thing away! take it away!” the man howled, “Darn yer hide, what d'yer mean, anyhow—makin’ my house a target for yer ne’ ngled shoctin’ things? Get out!” A brief and excited colloquy ensued—the man flourishing his ancient pistol and the woman making threatening gestures with the axe. The artist tried in vain to explain himself and his in- strument. He was fain, at last, to bundle up his apparatus and make off. —__—_<_—+e.__ Modern Inventions and the Old-fash- foned Spelling Book, From Bill Arp's Last Letter. The clover is blooming high this year and looks too lovely to cut down, but such is life and the end of all things. Old Father Time used to go about in summer clothes with nothing on but his bones and a seythe blade in his hand, but now we can cut down ten acres to his one with a buckeyereaper. They ought to get upa new picture with the old feller sitting up on a machine and driving a pair of Kentucky mules in a wheat fleld at harvest time. There area heap of the good old primer and spelling book pictures going out of date. Nobody ever uses an hour-glass now. Nobody ever sees an old-fashioned bee-hive witha round top and made of straw. The old farming ple- tures look curious to this generation—the hump- backed man cutting his wheat with a crooked sickle, holding a bunch in one hand and cutting it with the other. And there were two men & plowing—one was driving the steers and the other holding the plow, and that’s where Ben Franklin got his maxim— “He that by the plow would thrive Himself must either hold or drive.” But now one man will sit upon a cultivator or a pulverizer and do ten times the work in a day. I don't see how them old time fellers did make a living, for with all our improvements it is nip and tuck to get along and keep even. But some of those old spellin’ book pictures stick fast, and don’t degenerate abit. That rude boy still climbs the apple tree, old dog ‘Tray stil Cae into bad company, the bull gores the ox and the milkmaid has vain expectations and turns over the bucket just like they did in the olden time. We can mend up our machin- ery and invent new ones, but our old habits and traits of character remain about the same. I don’t know that our people are any happier than they were 4,000 years ago, and the same old truth prevails. ——_—_—_-e+—_______ Reminiscences of Emerson. ‘Miss Louisa M. Alcott in the Youth's Companion. My first remembrance is of the morning when I was sent to inquire for little Waldo, then lying very ill. His father came to me, so worn with watching and changed by sorrow that I was startled, and could only stammer out my mes- sage. ‘Child, he is dead,” was his answer. Then the door closed, and I ran home to tell the sad tidings. I was only 8 years old, and that was my first glimpse of a great grief, but I never have forgotten the anguish t made a familiar face so tragical and gave those few words more pathos than the sweet lamentation of the “Threnody.” Later, when we went to school with the little Emersons ue their Eee apt mots I remember many py times when the illustrious papa was our ood playfellow. Often piling us into a be- deeked hi ay cart, he took us to berry, bathe, or picnic at Walden, making our day charming and memorabie by showing us the places he loved; the wood- le Thoreau introduced to him, or the wild flowers whose hidden homes he had discovered. So that when, years afterward, we read of “the aweet rhodora in the wood’ and “the burly, dozy humblebee,” or laughed over “The Mountain and the Squirrel,” we re- cognized old friends, and thanked him for the delicate truth and beauty which made them im- mortal for us and others. When the book manta fell upon me at 15, I used to venture into Mr. Emerson's library and ask what I should read, never conscious of the audacity of my demand, so genial was my wel- come. His kind hand to me the riches of Shakespeare, Dante, and ‘le, and I gratefully recall the sweet patience with which he led = Sat the page eng eae “the new and very interesting was found; or the indulgent smile he wore when I proposed something far above my comprehension. ‘‘Wait a little for that,” he sald. - “Meantime try this, and ifyou like it, come in.” For many of these wise books Iam iting still, very pati- ently, because in his own I have found the truest delight, the best inspiration of my life. the volumes right on dat road an’ you'll Tiga hill. Den you’! gofren some woods. Den you'llgo down hill ‘an’ cross a branch an’ right dar!” “Right “where ‘“I dunno, sah; die one go to” “Wall; you'll go freu de woods Den ole mule balked wid ant’ to, do Tight, an by salah ‘an’ by” you'll see de place.” ‘thet poate anne, ah, but I reckon you'll im down in dar somewhar’.” **, the HOW TO UTILIZE COTTON SEED. Col. Wall’s New Process. Col. William Wall, a well known citizen and business man of this city,has for some years been engaged in perfecting an idea which will result ina revolution in many of the methods em- ployed in prepargtion of cotton for the market. His invention relates to the preparation of cot- ton seed for planting, also fitting it for more ad- vantageous use by the oil mills. One of the re- sults of the process to which the seed is sub- jected under his patent is to make ita mer- chantable commodity like wheat. By his process oe divested of all the lint alien vert adheres to It after passing throagh in, anc it becomes as clean as a grain of corn. this the Utara 2 power of the seed prrtatnd but is - id to be quickened, the sont us prepared coming up er ant wing off better than those planted with lint upon them. After the seed, hasbeen cleaned, the planter can readily separate the defective seed, leaving only the sound ones for planting. Hess — thus eee can. be purchased for i and manpfacturing purposes with advantege tothe purchaser. At the mill the hull is necessarily off m order to tid of the lint remaining ,on .the seed, and It is thus ent lost. But under Mr. Wall’s pro- ess the hull is ground along: with the kernel, and augments the uct .of meal or cake. which is valuable both, as food and asa fertilizer. The seed uncleaned has really no es- tablished market value,but when cleaned can be shipped even to Europe with advantage." The Process involves the use of sqme acids, and one of the results of the 0} is commonly known as “the Comme ber,” which is very valuable and much in the manufac- ture of some commercial fertilizers. The oe cess is in use, under the direction ot Col. Wall, at Newbern, North Carolina, and also at Golds- boro, and a mill has been put et Hertford and other points in the same state,and practical test has given great satisfaction. The manufacture of cotton seed ofl in the south last year amounted to 125,000 barrels, most of which was exported to Italy, where it was refined and returned to America marked olive oil. Its fine delicate qualities make it a most desirable acquisition for numerous domestic purposes. After the Opera. From the Boston Advertiser. We one t, on Beacon street Before ‘We just had lett the theater, Had heard “Ii Trovatore,’ And, on the doorstep, talked about The music and the swory. She raved about the wondrous voice ‘Of Signor Campania; She praised his acting and his face, While I stood like a ninny. I wanted to—but why explain? (I half suspect she knew it.) Ihemmed and twisted like a fool, And hadn’t pluck to do it. I waited long, for some excuso My stupid brain perplexing, And then, at length, a silence fell, ut guidenty she brightened jut suddenly s! ‘up, "This loveliest of mises. “Oh, by the way, did you observe How gracefully he kisses t” B. W. Davis, Saturday Smiles. — Solomon was the first man who proposed to part the hair in the middle.—Boston Commercial Bulletin. — It was evening. Three of them were killing acat. One of them held a lantern, another held cat’s ear, and fired, shooting the man in the hand who held the cat, and the one with the lantern was wounded in the arm. The cat left when it saw how matters stood and that ill-feel- ing was being engendered. — Sleep knits up the ravelled sleeve of care, but she lets the worn-out seat of poverty’s pants take care cf itself.— Salem Sunbeam. — Mrs. P.C., Costiancegs. Tenn.: “Is there any way to keep ants out of the sugar bowl?” Yes. Fill the sugar bowl with salt.—Zexas — Mary Clemmer says only one girl in 500 can be happy as a clergyman’s wife; but as only about one man in 500 stands in need of a clergy- man’s wife, we don’t see what Mary is growling about.—New Haven Register. S —A tobacco hater says: “Two oigare aday will supply a family with ftour.” Fogg says he buys halfa dozen cigars some days, but he doesn’t find it any easier to supply the family with flour, for ali that. He thinks there must be a mistake somewhere.—Boston Transcript. — “Thirty days in solitary confinement,” was the sentence pronounced against Jim Webster by an Austin judge. “Thirty days?” asked the man. “Thirty days,” was the response. “Look heah, boss, you gib me thirty days las’ winter for de same "fense, when de days was a heap shorter den dey is now. <Ain’t you ‘ine ter allow de usual discount on account of de signs in de zodiackle?” A look of intelligence ap- peared on the judicial face; and sp1 all over It. “I declare, I forgot the days were not always of the same length. I'll make it twenty days’ solitary confinement instead of thirty.” “Tell me dat book larnin’ doh’t do a niggah no good. I gets out ten days sooner, all owin’ to my habin’ studied up de symptoms of de zodi- ackle,” remarked Jim Webster, as the constable led him off to jail.— Texas Sibegs —His last wishes: “Your future husband seems very exacting; he has been stipulating for all sorte of things,” said a mother to a daughter, who was about getting married. “Never mind, mamma,” sald the affectionate girl, who was already dressed for the wedding, “these are his last wishes.”—Hartford Times. —Cautious: ‘‘When you were last here,” sald the mi rate to the prisoner, ‘‘you promised me that if I released you you would go to work. Why hayen’t you kept your word?” “Judge, returned the victim, meekly, “I didn't want to be breeding any disturbance, and I was afraid if I went to work that I would get on a strike.”—Brooklyn Eagle. —Matrimonial pleasantry: A lady whose hus- band was the champion snorer of the commu- nity in which they resided confided to a female friend the following painfal intelligence: “My life has not been one of unalloyed delight. I have had the measles, the chicken-pox, the cholera, the oid fever and inflammatory rheumatism, but I never knew what real mis- fortune was aan I married burglar-alarm.”— Eagle. —A net account of Adam's fall: Monsieur Adam, he vake up—he sees une belle demois- elle. aslip in ze garden. Voila de la chance! “Bon Jour, Madame Iv.” Madame Iv, she vake; she hole her fan before to her face. Adam put on his eye-glass to admire ze tableau, and zey make one promenade. Madame Iv, she feel hungry. Shesee appelon ze arbre. Serpent se prone sur l’'arbre—make one walk on ze “Monsteur le Serpent,” say Iv, ‘will yous not have ze bonte to Rook ‘me some appel?)'al faim.” “Certainement, lame Iv,” say ze it. “Charme de yous voir.” ‘Hola! mon ami, ar- r-r-etez vous?” say Adam—sthop! on ae songez-vous fair? Was madness is zees? You must not peek ze appel!” Ze snake, he take one pinch of uff, he say: “Au, Monsieur A do you not know how zere is nossing proheel for ze ladies? Madam Iv, permeet me to offer ou some ot zees fruit defendu—zees forbeedén frait x, 5 ae make = ores snake ¢ fill her whole parasol wiz ze appel. He says: “Eritis sicut Deus. Monsieur Adam, he will eat ze appel, he will become like one Dieu, know ze and ze eveel—but you, Madame Iv, cannot become more of a goddess zan you are now.” An’ zat feenish Madame Iv.—Spring- after puzzling over it I rode back to where a be 4 was wi alongside the road and asked: “Can you me where that right- ded road leads to?” ‘Yes, sah. 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