Evening Star Newspaper, December 4, 1883, Page 6

SHE RECENT METEOR AND SUN- SETS. What Professor Daniel Draper Thinks of Them. 4 Tribune. rter called upon Professor ntral Park observatory yester- A Draper at the day to obtain his views about the peentiar re ness in the sunset sky on Tuesday and Thurs particularly on Tues- y. bat more day. The I Ido not know that there wa in those suns In other The sky was singularly i there were fh These are Amest ent 1 they at cirri very high. e. especially in Alpiue regions, «i peak will retain fer a very le of red due to the famous pe: rane as it nity uth America by t be doubted 8 near the sun’ ported th “Edon't t ie red sunsets. But in the of it. hind it tinits pas- TS wa: eribed as a is de 20 plecul above the ontain scl on, nickel, cobalt, phospho: never been knewn to oc- eur on this Hussiz’s BE Pei ‘4 Dispetch to the The financial situatic ‘i id. The faet is abi enormous de This, ef cour: the ineome the contrary, of ati y necessary isted by been trying nl, er at es Had the ezarsucceeded, as it was would, in obtain 1 interview with in the great empire Hy resides, a iuus affairs, how- sh not to obey, a his dynasty and 1, who divide the departments royalties among t ¥. moreover, being to respect the while this army limited in nun on the empire, and nhour. It is the fore, never seriously foreign, army to some fe, for financial that it it down for. nof the court, th pI mperor—to fay. f ti less known an send out of th the cession mn would be. fact, is a more sold Turkey, with sultan, pash: ar 1 mob st fin unequ grees. Asin Tarke ur are bound in 1 the chain of a annot be modifled. ‘Twenty-fvar Monr Watches. ne, tandard adopted nwed by the i November als, The American has Issued a notice * dials in such ir being substituted arily divided watch dials on i i, the ficures from n a siualler cireamference. sure Listhe ture 13 erver. unless p whether the ck inthe morning or 13 1 would be ivaient to 1p. m., rding to the present method of registering hese new style watches from railroad companies. “I 4 Mr. Thrall, “as the precur- e that is not far dis- Mm general use rsed from 1 to 24, in kes only one complete r hours. In most © Necessary to effect this «1 an alteration in the min- hour wheel. Meanwhile dials serve to make the 1 easy. be anew dial a pinion and the rvoyant forthe pur- e curtain of destiny moved aside from the shadowy outlinss of the the old woman, “shows peta dark complexioned That's true, the ‘oung lady. pursued the hag, he . in Ches- ight, over They have | THE COURSE OF THE COMET. Resalte of Hecent Observations at a Pennsylvania Observatory. Communication to the Philadelphia Times. At the Sayre observatory. in Bethlehem, the has been observed whenever it was possi- _ ble, and from the three positions best situated rook's discovery for determining the orb:t, three being necessary for the purpose, there have been computed the following parabolic elem Time of perihelion pas Greenwich mean time, 188: Longitude of node, 255° 20’, Node to perihelion. 197° 35° 1”. Inclination, 74° 28° 9". rihelion distance, log q.. 9.89451. Motion direct. Referred to the mean equinox of 1883, 0. These elements would be sufficient to estab- lish the prebable identity of the comet with that of 1S!2 from the resemblance to the elements Cf ne, were other evideuce we, January, 24.571 ervations were made with the ring of the six-ineh’equatorial telescope ory On the nights of Oct. o and Nov. 16. The computation of middle place from the above elements shows a ditference in geceentrie longitude of secondsof arc and in latitude of five seconds. indication of eccentricity in the orbit. elements aa ephemeris has been com- inder of the year, showing ons of the comet among the and consequently wi appear to follow among dmarks. Having crossed the of the constellation Hereules, the precincts of ith a smali tele- Veza, or Alpha irginis, which is er than Vega and rer the pole. ‘The : across the astellation Lyra and enters the Milky Way on the 10th of ecenber. According to computations founded upon the ove elements and the conditions under which ble to the It will be br id of a tole th fhe come fixed Ta part cope on the This is not a matter can be made, ct prediction one must Know ¢: be prepared to pick up quite a feint it as the calculations show. pidly inereasing in. brilliancy, and will soon thereafter be an easy object to find in the northwestern sky in the early even- ings. On December 12, if any one is disposed to A pair of opera glasses at the the Milky Way and ona ween Alpha Lyre and Alpha way from either, an ¢: Ibe obtained. The comet will cross y Way. and on the 20th of Decem- found emerging from that shining pn and entering the constellation Cyznus, on the 23d pass close to the third mag- star Epsilon. Hence across the region voted to that constellation until on December {hit enters Pegasus, passing to the west and south of the well-known square in Pegasus, Of | course, lonz before that time it will be bright a enough to attract the attention of any one in the habit of observing the sky, and many will then be interested in verifying for themselves the predictions now made of its future course. We shail not look for a very brilliant comet, like the magnificent spectacle in the eastern sky which was the reward of the early riser a little | more than a year ago, since the comet, as can be even from the above elements, does not at its perihelion approach the sun very closely, | 73,000,000 miles being its distance at that time, on the night of January 24. But it will present a mach finerappearance than the faint nebulous object upon which astronomers have been for months engaged, and which at first required a trained eye to detect at all. It is now about 116,000,000 miles from the earth, and this dis- tance is being diminished at the rate of 1,500,000 miles daily by the mutual movements of the earth and its celestial neighbor. es —— Women Who Tell Their Ages. | From the Pall Mall Gazette. The common objection among womankind to r axes be known Is not shared by the actually display the tacts ad, the forchead being left free with a curl at each side. From 15 to 30 the hair is dressed on the forehead, and put up at the pape of a fan or butterfiy, w twist her hair and a shel! pin placed horizontally at the back ot the head. Widowsalso designate thei and whether or not they desire to marry again: Oae may compare with this remarkable’ hirsute tyof the Japanese a story told in one of the nd it so happened that the actress who was cast for the part had no hair on the top of her head. But instead of availing herself of this natural advantage she wore a wig o' the bare spot, and laid thereon some palpably false bald- ness. ee Photography and Acoustics. From the Cornhill Magazine, Till recently, no one ever dreamed of applying photography to acoustics; but It is now possible to photograph sound, or, speaking more accu- rately, sound viorations, and Prof. Bolzmann is now announced as the discoverer of what at first might well be regarded with incred- ulity. The souad vibrations are communicated to a thin platinum plate, and the movements of | the plate, after being magnified by a solar mi- | very croscope, are reflected on to a screen, and pho- tographed by rapidly drawing a sensitive plate across the image. Every letter when pronounced gives a separate and distinct impreseton, each vowel showing regular undulatory vibrations, while the consonants give curves and lines of varied forms. The uses of an arrangement. like this may be innumerable. We can almost imagine that when the process Is perfected, eaves droppers and spies will have a very easy time. and need to run no risks in order to obtain | secret information; a small instrument secretly fon ot | | while of the S| fi placed in a room, and acting automatically, may copy down eyery word spoken; nay, it is far from chimerical to expect that’ photography may one dsy take the place of shorthand re- porters. oe ees The Origin of Album. From the Boston Globe. I see that one of those industrious German writers, always hunting the whys and where- fores of things in general, has discovered the origin of the word “album.” ‘The writer points out that in the middle ages the parchment in common use was of two kinds—the Spanish- Italian and the German-French—and that the main difference between these varieties lay in the method of their preparation. The German- French could be written upon on both sides, nish-Italian only the inner sur- vole. The smooth, white side of ce Was AY: this latter was called “album,” to distinguish | it from the stuined exterior; and as the Spanish- Italian parehment, being stouter and cheaper than the other, was generally used for volumes Intended as repositories for scraps and literary ‘collections, the meaning of the word “album” i | position are in broadened out into its modern signification. - — Politicians’? Wives From the Pittsburg Dixpatch. Talking of funerals and flowers, we met the pretty wife of a prominent politician at the funeral of the wife of arich coal man, who em- ploys 200 or 300 laborers. She seemed to be quite lonely among the great crowd of Irish people who assembled to do honor to their dead countrywoman. On expressing our surprise at meeting her she said: ‘Oh, I didn't know the dead woman. I never saw her in my Iife, but I ‘do’ the funerals for Jack (that isn’t his name.) It’s a matter of politics, and he doesn’t always have time. We always send flowers, too. This kind of people appreclate attentions of that sort. and it tells when election comes—at least Jack says so.” So now it appearsthat the wives of prowinent politicians who have any social tities, though debarred from voting. They ‘‘do” the funerals, the weddings, the dinners and the social ‘‘inflooence” business generally, for the benefit of the party. —e. Have to Work. Capt. Noah Fairbank, who commanded the first steamboat in Virginia waters, died at Fred- ericksburg, Va., Saturday, at the age of 97 years. Elections on the question of “licence” or “no license” were held Bataetay in the towns of Ma- rion, Wimsboro’ and Ogdensburg, S. C., result- ing in each instance in overwhelming victories for the prohibition party. A bnoy made to whistie by the action‘of the waves Is a popular marine signal. A boy made to stop his whistle es the vigorous wave of a matronly hand would be more popular still.— Hartford Post. Mrs. Thurman, a widow of Cairo, N. Samuel Clay, aged sixty-five, who proposed marriage, that he was too gray. He dyed his hair aay and then resumed his suit, but she tarried & younger man, uad Clay then drank the batr-dye ard will die. ’ Y., told eleven | rly view of the | = BROOKVILLE’S DOUBLE MURDER A Possible Clue to a Possible Mur- A Bride Imprisoned. ~ derer in Long Island City. —- A newly-married couple gding east on the Union Pacific train, last week, created a little excitement for atime. The lady had gone to the ladies’ dressing room to arrange her toilet. Upon entering she closed the door, and when prepared to return to her seat was surprised to discover that shecould not unlock the door. The train was making about twenty miles an hour, and of course the prisoner was unable to make her voice heard above the roar of the cars. In the course of an hour the groom became uneasy and proceeded to hunt up the missing bride. He waa horri- From the New York Times, Dec. 24. + There fe still no solution to the mystery sur- rounding the murder of Mrs. and Misa Maybee at Brookville, L. I., on Nov. 17. Six detectives are still at work on the case. Of the parties ar- rested on suspicion ofcomplicity in the crime, all but J. Doyle, the tramp, have been discharged from custody. Doyle is held under a charge of vagrancy. The theory upon which the detect- ives are working is that revenge, as well as a hope of gain by robbery, prompted the com- mission of the crime. Revenge is supposed to be a factor, because, had robbery been the only motive, the robber could easily have ac- | complished this while the women were in ithe barn and before an alarm could have ven given by blind and crippled Mr. Maybee. Astatement just made public by the cashier | and a waiter at Miller's hotel restaurantin Long Island City leads some to believe they have dis- covered a vague, but possible, clue to the mur- derer. These men state that at about 7 o'clock | on the Sunday morning following the murder a | Fough-looking man, whoge appearance seemed | } e that he had traveled all night. ordered tin the restaurant. According to them | ad an unprepossessing face and thick. sieveled sandy hair, and wore a broad- | brimmed hat “and dark clothes. He seemed to try to avoid the gaze of those in the room, holding down his head, and when during his meal reference was made to the ac- count of the murder inte morning papers, he exhibited great uncasiness, and shortly left the restaurant without finishing his breakfast. When ing for his meal at the desk he showed to conceal his features. The men | in the restaurant say they had an idea of notify- | ing the police. but before this could be done the man had disappeared and is supposed to have taken the ferry for 7th street. New York. A detective investigating this clue to- day, but 80 has failed to discover any traces of the man after he left the restaurant. —.e- AMERICAN CATHOLICISM. | The conductor was appealed to, but he could not get the door unlocked; as the bolt had in some way become fastened. He informed the excited husband that as soon as the train reached the next station they would have an employe enter through the window and unlock the door. Stooping down to’ the key-hole, the fond husband called out to his imprisoned bride to “Be composed, dear; we will have the door ext station, and it will be only Upon reaching the station the ed and the lady liberated and restored to her husband. He acted as though the hour of her imprisonment was the longest one of his life. A Word About Christmas, From the Century, When what was designed to be a pleasure be- comes a burden, it is time to stop and examine it carefully, and see if it is the thing itself which has grown to be such a weight, or whether it is simply an awkward manner of carrying it. Cer- tainly there must be something wrong in any celebration of Christmas which results in serious fatigue of mind and body. During the first three months of the year, nothing is more com- monly given asa reason forill health than an overstrain during the, holidays. ‘She got so worn out at Christmas,” or “She worked tou hard In finishing her Christmas presents,” or “The week before Christmas she waa tired out. with shopping,” are excuses which appear as surely as January and February come. The question must appear sometimes’ to every one, whether allthis worry and wear of heart and hand and brain are really worth while Is there not some better way of celebrating this day of days than for women to wear themselves out in making or buying pretty trifles for people who already have more than they can find room for? Setting aside all effort of eyes and fingers, the mental strain is intense. Merely to devise presents for a dozen or more people, which must be appropriate and acceptable, and which they do not already possess, and which no one else is likely to hit upon, Is enough to wear upon the strongest brain; and when one’s means are not unlimited, and the question of economy must come in, the matter Is still more complicated. The agony of indecision, the weizhing of rival merits in this and that, the distress when the article which is finally decided upon does not: seem as fascinating as one had hoped, the end- less round of shopping, the packing to send to distant friends, the frantic effort to fin- Ish at the last moment something which ought to have been done long ago, result ina relapse when all is over into a complete weariness ot mind and body which uniits one for either giving or receiving pleasure, Now, when all this is looked at soberly, does It pay? It is a remarka- ble fact that. although Christmas has been kept on the 25th day of December tor more than a thousand years, Its arrival seems as unexpected as if it had beenappotnted by the President. No one is ready for it, although last year every one resolved to be 80, and about the middle of De- cember there begins a rush and hurry which is really more wearing than a May moving. It seems to be a part of the flerce activity of our time and country that even our pleasures must be enjoyable at high pressure. While it Is almost impossible, 1n matters of business, to act upon the kindly suggestions of intelligent critics that we should take things more leisurely, surely, In matters of enjoyment, we might make an effort to be less overworked. Cannot the keeping of Christmas, for example, be made to consist in other things than gifts? Let the giving be for the children and those to whom our gifts are real necessities. As a peo- ple, Wwe are very negligent in the matter of keeping birthdays. “If these festivals were made more pf in the family, especially among the elder members, we should not find that: we were losing the blessedneas of giving and the happiness of receiving, even if we did omit presents atChristmas time. Tm many large families a mutual understanding that the Christ- mas gifts were all to be for the children would be an immense relief, although, perhaps, no one would be quite willing to acknowledge it. Sometimes a large circle ot brothers and sisters can unite in a gift, in that way making it possi- Ule to give something of more yalue, and at the same time to lessen’ the difficult task of selec- tion. Above all things, if you give presents, be more anxlous to givesomething which “supplies a want” than to send some pretty trifle, which can only prove in the end an additional care. A little forethought and friendly putting of your- self In another's place will make this possible. In the great world of books something can be found to suit every taste. Flowers are always a graceful gift, and can never become burden- some by lasting after one has grown tired of them. ‘There are numberless other things which can be procured, without a wear and tear of mind and body, which make the recipient feel as David did of the water from the well of Beth- Ichem, that what cost. so much was too valua- ble to be accepted.—Susan Anna Brown. ee ee, su A Semi-Official Organ of Ro the Catholic Church of the States. on ited The Moniteur de Rome, the semi-ofMicial organ ofthe Vatican, often inspired directly by Car- dinal Jacobini, secretary of state, publishes a long editorial on the future of the Catholic church in the United States, eulogizing the lib- eral Christian spirit which allows such rapid de- velopment to the Catholicism of the American republic. The editorial continues as follows: “I a few weeks her bishops will assemble tn a. national pl It will be the most im- mbly of the kind yet seen in the United Wishops of the New Rome come here to prepare a subject for discussion at ths appro Ing national council and to get strength and advic | from the Holy See, In this solemn assembly the | Catholic chureh of the United States will aftirm us a legal existence (existence juridique) and tighten the bonds of the terarehy agreeably to_ principles, laid down in the Council of ‘Trent. “Thus there 1s j opening a new guarantee of the prosperity and | progress to be given to the Catholicism of the Yinited states.” The article concluded with a flattering refer- ence to the American episcopate. Four-Wheclers Doomed. From the London Daily News. The returns of the public carriage licenses for the past year present unmistakable indications of the decline of the four-wheeled, or more strictly the “Clarence” cabs of the metropolis. Thus while the number of hansoms increased last year by 469, and the stage carriages by 185, the number of four-wheelers, on the contrary, fell off by 134. Various causes. probably, con- tribute to this result, apart from the natural aversion to these peculiarly uncomfortable and noisy vehicles. One Is the increasing use of the railway private omnibuses for passengers and luggage: another the growing fashion of ladies taking ‘ansoms. Altogether, 12,010. public vehicles were licensed last year for the metro- polis, represented by 6.269 hansoms, 3,713 Cler- ences and 2,028 stage carriages. ‘Three Women Tried for Murder. From the London Truth, Three women were tried last week for the murder of a woman in Glasgow. They were sisters, and their victim was their sister-in-law. There had been an old feud between them,and this, culminated in an attack by the sisterly trio on their untortunate relative at a time when she had achild in her arms. This is the description | of the assault as worded in the indictment: selzed her by the hair of the head, ed her down upon the ground, struck her with their fists, kicked her on tne breasts, belly. | and legs, and otherwise abused her, by all of imme- afterward.” At the trial nothing was to wainsay this view of the assault, but ‘Advocate depute” accepted the plea of | culpable homicide from two of the prisoners, and of simple assault from the third, because “no lethal weapon lad been used.” ‘The two | were sentenced to a year’s imprisonment, and the third to three months. The previous day the same judge sentenced a young man to eizht years’ penal servitude for “snatching a hand- bag with 4a. 25d. in it from a woman in the No wonder that modera burglars, instead of suggesting “your money or your life.” take the one with as little compunction as the other. a The All-Conquering Wheelbarrow. From the Boston Commercial Bulletin, The colliding of a herdic coach with a wheel- barrow in one of our public thoroughfares, In which the herdic was resolved into kindling wood and the horse candidated for Ward's bone- yard, shows that the wheelbarrow Is to all other vehicles what the horse-fly is to all animals, and that there is death and destruction in both. No doubt the man who invented the wheelbarrow had a grudge against every other man. The wheelbarrow pushed on the crowded sidewalk has its terrors to pedestrians. “Thunder mixed with hail, Hail mixed with fire, must rend the Exyptian sky. And wheel on the earth, devouring where it rolls.” This indirect reference to the modern wheel- barrow, “devouring where it rolls,” is well illus- trated in the accident that occurred to the above- mentioned herdic and to the horses attached thereto. The wheelbarrow in the hands of an unskilled man is more to be dreaded than the plague. which she was mortally injured, and die diate Gambling in New Oricans. From the Chicago Herald, Here the gambling houses are licensed. On Royal street, within a stretch of two blocks, eighteen keno, faro or other games of chance flourish. The police protect them. The pro- prietors pay $100 a month for official toleration. The gamblers are not only recognized, but they are patronized by the police, who do not hesitate to play keno, Spanish monte and other games while wearing uniform and being supposedly on duty. On Sunday afternoon, on the corner of Customhouse agd Franklin streets, it is a com- mon thing to see policemen playing Spanish monte with negroes and the lowest class of whites. On Canal street, a few blocks from the station of the Louisville and Nashville railway, monte houses run day and night. At 2 o'clock in the morning the writer has seen a member of the New Orleans pole dealing the game toa room crowded with colored roustabouts. ‘The officer was on duty at the time. He has a pro- prictary interest In the game, and his profits from this disgraceful connection are verg large. ee ey The Rape of the Lock Story. Miss Burwell, the school-girl of Newport who reported that one braid of her hair had been cut off in the street and the other while at home asleep, is now believed to have committed the acts herself to gain notoriety. A janitor of the school-building where the girl attended has been discharged by the school committee for having written obscene letters to her. No evidencehas come to light to show that the girl has ever re- sented the questionable attentions shown her by the Janitor, and no one believes that he so far forgot himself as to cut off her braids. Shot and Killed by His Father. James Boyd shot and killed his son Alfred, aged 17 years, Saturday afternoon, at his home in Cumminsville, Ohio. Boyd is a huckster, 49 years of ago. Returning home Saturday after- noon, he found his son playing marbles on the common. Hereproached him for not working, and then roughly caught the boy by the collar and dragged him home, a distance of 100 yards. On reaching the perc door the boy struggled, and, catching hold of the door, refused to enter. His father then drew a revolver and deliberately shot his son through the chest. Boyd was im- mediately arrested, The Bigger Foo) From the Arkansaw Traveller. “When I married you,” said Mrs. Pepperton to her husband, “I thought that you were & sensible man, but I have learned that you are a fool.” “Let's see,” the husband mused, “we have been married five years, haven’t we?" “Yes, I um sorry to say that we have.” “And you married me under the impression I was a sensible fellow?” 5 —_—_——+e-_______ Brother Jasper’s Church Divided. The Rey. John Jasper, colored, of the Sixth Moant Zion Baptist church, in Richmond, Va., made famous by his “sun-do-moye” sermon, is in trouble. Some weeks ago a division oc- curred in his congregation, resulting ina number of members forming the Union Baptist church. Brother Jasper, in a sermon last Friday night, denounced these bolters as corrupt and Jealous of him by reason of the fame gained by his sun sermon. Saturday at a convention of members of the colored churches it was resolved to with- draw the hand of fellowship from Brother Jasper. A resolution was also adopted advising. the Union Baptist church “to keep the door of | refuge open so long as the iron laws of Rome exist in the Sixth Mount Zion Buptist church, so that all who are in good standing may es- cape the fangs of the emperor by coming out and Joining the Union Baptist church without letter.” Mr. Jasper defies them, and says he can run his church alone. —_§_-e.—___. A Political Trial in South Carolina. THE RIGHT OF THE GOVERNMENT TO STAND ASIDE JURORS FOR THEIR POLITICS. In the United States court In Columbia, 8. C., Saturday, before Judges Bond and Bryan, inthe case of J. H. Mitchell, charged with interfering with the registration of voters and resisting the United States marshal at the election for Con- gress in Charleston in 1882, the question of the right of the government to stand aside jurors was argued by Gen. Youmans and Col. John Haskell for the defense, and District Attorney Melton and Emory Speer for the government. Judge Bond decided that the government had the right in a court in that state. Judge Bryan disgenting. The Jury was sworn after nine white democrats had been stood aside by pepe yon: It ie sunpceed to be ede up of all eee ow ers and republicans, with one,negro. The trial will proceed to-day. ee you have just discovered that I ama ——— 4+'Yes, I have.” ‘The Name to Conjure With. “Well, you were & long time in making this From the Chicago Herald. discovery, which provesthat you are a bigger foolthan’I am. Another thing in my favor i that I knew you were a fool or you wouldn't have consented to marry me.” seg EE ee See The town of Calais, Me., now keeps local time, New Brunswick railway time, and standard time, and the boys are in much p-.plexity about the proper time to go to school. The city council ot Columbus, Ohio, has for- mally rescinded the resolution adopting stand- ard timeas the official time of the eH and re- verted to the old or actual standard of time. Some young lady equestrians, school gists, weie fined 5 each in Lynchburg, Va..on Mon- ay for driving faster than the law allows. The fathers, who pald the demand, were indignant, of course. The colony of Russian refugees in Middlesex county, Va., has now been finally sbandoned, and the have returned to Russia. The New York Sun may keep right on advo- cating the fitness of one William Steele Holman for President, but ir it wants to make the people of Posey county understand the drift of its re- marks it must call him Bill. A Hot Poker. From the Detroit Free Press, It is believed in Washington that the govern- ment could lay its hands upon Capt. Howgate inside of three days if his arrest was desired. He is a hot poker to handle, and is carefully let alone. ————_~++-— A young man who went to the late war began his first letter to his sweetheart after this fash- ee “My Se wep nerest am sonned to lo wrong ink of yo : ‘Get thee behind me, satan.’ sous sh fled upon learning that she was locked in. | November and December are the great months for the Jewelers and trinket makers. In view of the demand for New Year's gifts they bring out their new models and dress their windows in the most tempting manner. As far as my observations go, and they go all over Paris, fashion in jewelry continues to be materialistic rather than decorative. Jewels, both in metal | and in precious stones, are not made witha view to beauty of design; richness or chaste sim- plicity, elegance of line or delicacy of ornament | are no longer aimed at by the designers of the moment. The great thing is to invent some- thing amusing. It will remembered that |@ year or two ago talismans or te bonhew in {den pig had the form of a little gol- immense success, then the iden pig was ousted trom favor by a hump- *ked manikin, and the hump-backed manikin was threatened in his turn by a mushroom. The | fashionable talisman now seems to be the owl and the owl's head. A beautiful brooch is made of an owl of diamond dust perched in a gold crescent moon, and framed in a wreath of flowers in diamonds or brilliants. Jeweled owls’ heads are used as hat trimmings, as well as tufts of real owls’ heads, which are also stuck on the front of the little surah or velvet or plush muff elaborately frilled with Chantilly lace. The new mantle agrafe consists of two medal- Hons united-by a curb chain; each medaliion is a lizard of oxydized silver ‘colled round upon itself. The new hair or hat pin is a long gold skewer with, at one end, also in gold, a minia- ture Japanese open bamboo ecran’ or hand- screen, into the interstices of which are worked flower and other designs, relieved with enamel. Two other new ideas are black silver jewelry— not to be confounded with oxydized silver— and mineral crystal jewelry. This latter is sim- ply a thin spat of gold set irregularly with pre- cious stones, as if a bit of molten gold had been dropped on the table and then strewn over with emeralds and rubies and diamonds. The spat is then mounted as brooch earrings, or what not. In another form of the mineral crystals the metal has the actual form of ery tals, and amid the irregular mass of octohedric, hexagonal. rhomboidal, and other shapes pre- cious stones are set as abovedescribed. The fancy of the designers is generally divided between the animal and vegetable kingdpms, and the accessories of the table, the stuble, the fen and the carpenter's shop. You find brooches, ear droppers, pins, clasps, in the form of sawa, hammers, blow pipes, water- ing potsand spades. Whole scenes are repro- duced in gold and precious stones. Onagoiden gable roof two swallows in diamonds are shown building their nest; the head of a terrier, iu brilliants, emerges through the crevice of a golden board, in pursuit of a silver rat; a couple of kittens, in diamonds and emeralds, playing with a big pearl, make a brooch: a clown in full costume, drawn® and colored with gold and stones, or harlequin, pantaloon, and columbine, or clown’s head alone, executed in the most brilliant stones, forms likewiee a brooch. Diamond horses galloping through a horsehoe and diamond poodles leap- ing through hoops are also in high favor for buckles and brooches; go, too, are skye terriers’ heads executed in diamonds, and camels and elephants and all kinds of birds, and even toads. The skill with which the brilliants and colored stones are employed in accentuating the model- Ing of these objects {s marvelous. Your toad, for instance, will be a simple mass of brilliauts, and the mounting quite invisible. Besides these fantastic baubles, splen work Is done by the great jewelers now in making flowers and branches of foliage in diamonds, roses, clematises, a branch of diamond holly with coral berries, and the like, all of exquisite perfection in modeling. As for the poodles and skye terriers, not only are they worn as jewelry, but they also in their torn wear Jewelry. Every black poodle who respects himself wears a gold bracelet on each of his fore paws; the dog collars are made of the most varied designs, with elezantly chased grelots or bells. or with pendants of medals or droppers, exactly like ladies’ necklaces, and with, on one side, a bouquet holder, for when Monsleur Poodle accompanies his mistress he requires a buttonhole, simple violets in the morning, a gardenia or some fine flower when they go to the Bois together in the afternoon, or when Monsieur Poodle appears in the draw- ing room on Madame’s reception day. If the dog Is a skye ora pug or a short-hair terrier, he will wear pearis and even diamonds in his lined with silk and satin when he goes out to ride. All these remarks about Monsieur Poodle and his canine rivals are made from actual ob- servation. Tam recording tacts. His Highness Prince Poodle plays an inportant role in Parisian Ife, and he is by no means the least honored or the leat petted me:ber of the French fatally. “Ned Buntline’s” Home. From the Buffalo Courier. The wildwood home of Col. Z. C. Judson, better known as *‘Ned Buntlini in the Adiron- dacks, is one of the attractions of t! famous region, The house, if it may be dignified by that name, fs constructed of lozs in the most primitive style, and contains but two roo It stands near Eagle lake, at the foot of Blue mountain. As far back as 1836 ‘Ned Buntline” invaded the wilderness and built his little log cabin In the heart of the woods. At that time he was a slaye to intemperance, and recognized the fact that his safety lay in flight from the busy haunts of men. He succeeded in clearing alittle farm, and when the cabin attained the appearance of a home he presented it witha mistress in the form of a young and handsome wife. The furniture was of the simplest de- scription, and the pair were dependent upon thelr labor for the necessaries of life, but not- withstanding these drawbacks they lived hap- pily, and “Ned Buntline” produced volume after voiume of thrilling backwood stories. The war of the rebellion called the author from his wildwood haunt, and he did not retu ‘n until long and arduous service had elevated him to the rank of colonel. In the meantime his wife and only child died, and they were laid to rest near the cabin. Four cedar trees mark their lonely graves. “Ned Buntline” is now lecturing on temperance down among the Cats- kill mountains, and the Adirondack home has passed into the hands of strangers. It has many visitors each year who look upon the graves beneath the cedars and try to imagine the sort of life the little family led. The thought of the brave wife who willingly aban- don home and friends to help her husband in his battle against his appetite is invariably a source of sadness. ——__—_-es______ Funerals in Japan. Correspondence New Orleans Times-Democrat. Ifit were evening you might see a Japanese funeral procession. The funerals here are al- ways conducted at sunset, in accordance with asuperstition that is rather beautiful than otherwise. The procession is headed by priests anda company of musicians, who play upon samisens and beat tom-toms. The coffin Is a wooden tub in which the deceased is squatting as he has lived, with his feet tucked under him. There is this difference, however, the face of the dead mania looking toward the north where- as this position {s religiously avoided by the living Japanese. Indeed, the points of the com- pass are frequently marked on the ceilings of sleeping-rooms that the sleeper may arrange his mats so as to avoid this unfavorable position. The wealthy class are buried in earthern jars in- stead of wooden tubs. but the mode of arrange- ment is.the same. These peculiar-shaped cof- fins do not take up the space required by Ameri- can caskets, and burial need not be so large. One priest in the procession carries an oblong tablet, containing the “dead name” of the deceased, and another bears the precious lotus blossom. Ifyou follow the cortege you will find your way into asurprisingly well-kept ceme- tery, with headstones all erect and fresh flowers strewn upon most of the graves. Litanies are chanted and the body is lowered into a shallow grave lined withcement. Then a life-sized pink lotus plant is placed upon the fresh mound, a lacquer tray of bowls of tea or sake, beans and sweetmeats provided near by, and you walk away from the spot st ly moved by the solsen, unfamiliar lepecianls a Swiss Superstition. ‘From the London News. An extraordinary instance of superstition is reported from the Swiss village of St. Fiden, in the canton of St, Gall. The keeper of the ceme- tery remarked that one particular tombstone was thrown to the ground every night, though he put it back in the perpendicular position every morning. The inhabitants ot the village, who are very credulous, believed that it must be the work of “spirits,” but the solution of the mystery was, a8 may be imagined, a natural one. It ap that three men living in the village had formed an association for the pur- pose of “raising” money after a recipe which ey aa Slesorered ie hide on sorcery by us Mangus. ey lieved that by throwing down a tombstone at midnight several times in succession, depositing under it 82 5-franc pieces, and certain incanta- tions, the 32 pieces would be converted into 5,000,000 francs. After hiding the money they retired to a hut away from the village, and re- mained there for a week without clothes, eat- ing potiog but bread and drinking nothing but. water. This they thought would propitiate “the spirit Hisis.”. Two of the three men were discovered in this hut in astate of semi-starva- tion, but the third, being of a more practical turn finding that the miraculous multiplication was not effected, quietly took up the 32 pieces of silver and disaj with them. 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