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SOME WINTER STYLES ‘The Changes Are Very Rapid Now- adays. ae OF THE TIME OF LOUIS XII. ‘Ribbons Will Be Used as Trim- ming for Everything. ee ee MODERATELY FULL SKIRTS. eile Special Correspondence of The Evening Star. NEW YORK, December 8, 1893. Rapid are the changes of styles nowa- @ays, and the iatest scanning of the firma- ment of modes discovers the fashions of Louis Xi on the horizon. This means an accession of dignity and grace. A few char- acteristics of the period to be reviwed are @s follows: Bodices withiong point in front ‘and cut high on the hips; skirts of the Same material as the bodice open in front over a contrasting petticoat; shoulders are Bloping. and sleeves puffed to a great size emphasize the sloping effect Sug- @estions of all this are already ap- Rearing. Wr may expect soon to see Btiffened collars of muslin and lace that extend smoothly from the throat away out over the shoulders, adding to their slope. Buch collars are worn with low neck @resses, being set into gown's neck. The richest needlework will be used on these accessories, and they wil be finished usuaily with Vandyke points. Cuds likcwise turn back from the wrists, being narow at the hand and spreading aver the sleeves half way to the elbow. Other cuffs give the effect of an uader sleeve loosely turned back. Many delicate fints are put together in gowns, and stom- achers richly jeweled will be worn. Already wome are for sale in jet, gilt and embroid- ery. Evening gowns will have long sleeves. Ribbons wili trim everythin: in the Gays of Louis XIII, when every one was “ribbon mad.” Skirts will be only inoder- ately full and their spread will be much re- Current Styles. As has been said, these styles are onl on the horizon, and whether (yey will rise ®o the zenith or sink out of sight for a lou: Jong time, like a Norway winter su! Yet rot determined. Pretty gowns in the eurrent styles are for present safer models. One may be described as a dress of brown diagonal cicth, with the skirt per- fectly plain and very full. The front und euffs are of brown velvet, with brocaded and horizontal designs in buttercup gold. Whe draped belt is of surah and the front is set off by a jabot of cream lace. The ether dress ts sued as a visiting cos- fume, and is made from helictrope cloth trimmed with velvet in the same shade and fet Passementeric. The sicirt is three and a if yards long and snug at the hips. ‘Tne trimming consists of three bias folds of Velvet heavily embroidered with jet beads. Whe bodice hes a fitted lining, the stuff ts draped. and the fronts may nave the usual darts or the fuliness can be pusa- ed usder the vertical bands of embroidery Bsed for adornment. The belt ts made of liotrope vel laken bias mmed on oth and the jacket de ides be is Welvet and reaches to the top of the belt @t the back and sides, while the fronis terminate in sharp points. it is lined with silk, and its revers are faced with cloth and garnished with jet emoroidered with Nelvet. The standing collar is hidden by a Henri {I ruching of white merabout seath- a The last bodice runs to perpendicular wisions, but there is a tendency just n ‘which prompts woman to divide herself i any number of zones horizontally, givi each zone a different coler. Her cupe or collar will be one color and material, the ®est of her bodice another, and the skirt will show two or more shades distributed horizontally. but you never see dresses made ‘with one color and the other side a cont ng shade. Sleeves may be different in color and materia! from ali the rest of the gown, Dut they are always lke each other. It is to be hoped that mention of these facts will not suggest another pnase for fashion’s frenzy to follo: The little girls’ aprons run to stripes, foo, but in most cases the up and down divisions are only the pattern of the batiste which comprises it. The garment 4s garnished with two bands of insertion embroidered with clover leaves. It has a square bib attached to a square yolk, alike dack and front, and has two straps fasten- ing to the band. The yoke and small pocket th embriodery. be an elaborate y cloth with a faint white moire antique for varse neiting for the round th embroidered with alight train, is linet The pointed med with a pointed of watered garnished Plastron collar with bands ruching on the sho eut in connectio: eiged with a de @rately to sleeves have bail th a gray futlle trimmed with « tulle ruching and long €uffs of gold of embroidered tulle. Overskirts. Overs! have yet not interfered with the smooth fit ab« An espectally Pretty sort is c point reach- img to a ite ow knees in front and shertering at > almost noth- img at the back. * nips m front for the Elderty. @e age ade from black satin di esse st ellow. The bretelles form &@ round collar In back and leave the top ©f the bovtice open. The standing collar ts Baished with ac pleated friit or ruch- fe of yellow crepe de chine. ‘The ave a large shirred near the to form a puff or ruching tie? h black satin ribbon having a yellow of the bodice is unce or basque of yellow gatin covered h black lace and edged | with jet fringe. The bo:ice is slighuy point- @d in front and back and the basque stops @bout four inches from the center on each de, thus Ica tre front open for about j @izht inches. This full space ts covered with a narrow pointed belt of yellow and Diack ribbon, held place by a velvet eon either side. ‘with yethy silk and trimmed on the inside with a dia frill. Both sides of the skirt are ap 1 panels of veilow mn eoveret with * sd tulle and heid 4m place by ttes, one aear the bottom, fhe other thirty inches higt With Sleeves Which Are a Care. of them, made with the elbow, is narr many ee pail inside of the than on the ov Woman who wears them must stand or znd on her hip or crush her for getting on a coat! Well, is made big enough for sueh sh either way. The el- © dress worn by the}! : figure in the last i ion are| ef the order. and the wearer is shown} S Such | and the| il be pretty apt, | to take up an gtritude s mind of them. | AP is made of lilac broche | silk, with the panels, sleeves and revers of | Biack velvet. 1 ont is pale yellow crepe chine e: red with velvet applique. Choker collars fastening in the ving-like piece turned of the « “k have Mar, and this edge stands ¢ and is very stylish, contrast- protection ny col is worn inside ar o> sleeve, and the the Worn so short a time that protection for the Mning at the neck and sleeves is unnecces- the edge of the) is as} xed for those past mid- | The skirt ts lined | over at the top| pws at the turn-over | idea | ms to be that a gown will of course be| | “Penny in the Slot sary. THE EVENING STAR, WASHI GTON, D. ©, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 9, 1893—TWENTY PAGES.. 15 SO. At the same time, the tailor-made TOYING WITH A DEADLY DRUG. BEAUTY IN A FLURRY. | NEW PUBLICATIONS. girl can always wear collars and cuffs if she likes. Yea, verily, she has taken to herself the privilege till now monopolized by her brothers, and she means to wear the shirt front all winter. She, too, has discovered that its summer-like appearance is appearance only. and having shared with her brothers the delights of roasting in a “boiled shirt’ in the summer, she is now going to be comfortable in one in the win- ter. But it will look queer to see a shirt front peeping from the loosened sealskin sacque. coe. | A Carriage Costume. | A striking costume for carriage wear is made of black veivet and fur. The skirt is | cut with seven gores decorated vertically | with sable heads and skins. The bodice is made with yoke of fur finished with stif- fened bretelles edged with fur and a ripple skirt. Double puffed sleeves and leg-o’-mut- ton lowers, high collar bound top and bot- tom with fur and little velvet hat trimmed with sable, forms a very rich effect. A Visiing Costume. A handsome iting toilet in the golden | brown effects, now so popular, is of benga- line and veivet trimmed In fur. The skirt is cut umbrella front and straight plaited back, the upper part of the front is of vel- vet and lower portion and back of bengaline divided by a band of marten fur. The back is separated from the front by a strip of the fur running from the waist down on either side. The tight-fitting bodice has the yoke back and entire front of ermine with h bretelies of the veivet edged with fur forming a cape in back, the front crossed in fichu style and knotted in the back and fall- ing in two long tops. The sleeves have arge puffs of bengaline to the elbow and tight-fitting to wrist with cus of silk and velvet. edged top and bottom with fur. The neck finished with ruff of veivet and a mar- ten mut completes the handsome toilet. —_— A WITNESS IN TEXAS. “FINING™ Pepper Put on His Handkerchief on Behalf of the Prisone “Old Dave Culberson Is a great constitu- tional lawyer, but I know of a case in which had Dave relied more on his erudition alone his client would now be in the peniten- tiary,” said a Texan to a reporter for the Fort Worth Gazette. “Dave's client was accused of horse theft. The evidence was so strong against him that Dave got sev eral continuances in hopes that the most damaging witnesses would in some way disappear, leave the country and so on. Well, after half a dozen continuances, all the witnesses but one had left the coun- try. Dave tried strenuously to get another continuane>, but the ju announced ‘se- ver that the cese must be tried then and there. Well, the case bezan, and when the court adjourned for Dinner Dave saw con- | viction w vitable, and so he told his client. an schem! ant thereby i himself. ‘The first witness. after the reopening of court, was the pros- ecution’s most importa itaess, on wh: testimony al. pa convic n couid be for. The witness was a very large mar, and as the lay was exceelingly warm, tne man used his handkerchi-f quite frequent ly. And it was noticeaole that the int vals between the use of the handkercniaf mmtinued to grow shor ati the man s ently in axon misery a'- racved the « Pefere th rt and a doctor was sent for. of agony and was rolling as azy. hho was unase k. but merely groan+!. The phys amined h able to say what was the but he advised the 1 to be take ‘this was don», the prowcutts. attorney, in his dis F mUnuance o* the case ant Whe: and his client . the * . ‘Dave, iy reporied er bad Seen 's und, the "s being open. 2 ect. That case was ‘lis- red at ths next term of ccurt and Dav> sot his fee. * nines in Ancient Egypty From the St. James’ Gazette. Ancient Egypt, writes a correspondent, is “looking up” in every way. Some of its contrivances appear to have been quite up to date. Actually, they had already, more than 2.000 years ago, what we cali “a penny in the slot” for tne extraction of useful, pleesant, or otherwise desir: Heron, the philosopher of Alex- andria, describes an automatic machine, which he asserts to have been in use in the Sgyptian temples already for a long time past, even before his time. By throw- ing a piece of money in the slot, the wor- shipers received some consecrated water through a valve. The stature, or stand, the two-armed lever, with its closing valve, and the other details of the machine are all correctly described. Truly, the sage was right when he deciared that “there is noth- ing new under the sun. ——— eo ___—_— The Sly Pugs. From Fllegende Blatter. |a WORKING DIRECTORY Is What the City Post Office Will Pre- pare. On the Lines of the 1890 Directory— Practically a Complete List of the Cities’ Inhabitants. Several years,ago the officials at the city Post office, in order to facilitate the deliv- ery of mail in cases where the addresses were defective, made fur their own uses a city directory, which was wonderfully com- plete as compared with the general busi- ress directory. This additional aid has worked so well that Postmasier Sherwood and Capt. James E. Bell, the superinten- dent of the city delivery division, have de- cided to make another directory of this sort, and next week the work of getting to- gether the necessary information will be begun. In most large city post offices a force of officials is employed for the purpose of de- ciphering addresses that to an outsider un- accustomed to the work should be absolute- iy unintelligible. Thus at the very begin- ning of the search a number of letters are switched off the track to the dead letter office by these expert workers. There is another class of letters, however, which are more troublesome. Frequently after the ad- dress has been deciphered or when it is 80 plainly written as to give no trouble on that | Score the person for whom it is intended | cannot be found. He may not be well known to the officials at the office and the address may be that of a house where he lived | years ago or neve did live at all, or it may | bear a number and street not found in the | local geography. In this case the first re- | Sort is to the city directory to see if the person’s name is to be found there. This is not of so much service as might be ex- pected, for the city directory is reasonably accurate only with the class of citizens with whom the post office has compara- tively little trouble. The directory of Wash- ington has in it less than 100,000 names, three times that number. There are no names of children in the directory, and yet they are nearly as likely to receive misdi- rected letters as are their elders. Thus it is that the city directory is only of use to a certain extent In order to remedy this defect the city post office made its supplementary direc- tory, which contains the names of a much larger number of citizens. The directory, as completed, and which has been of so much assistance to the office, fills twelve large volumes, some volumes having sev- eral letters in them, while others can only accommodate one. Thus B has a volume of one, and a larger sized book was needed to accommodate all the M’s. To the letter M, for instance. the supplementary dir tory has added 6,720 names and 8,120 have been added to B. The practical advantages of such a work need hardly any comment, but it is interest- ing to know that, with the aid of this book, even before it was completed, more than 40 | Per cent of the letters that were on their | Way to the dead letter office have been | saved and sent to their proper destination. However, the population of Washington is , Sult is that so many alterations have been | necessary that it has been decided best to make an altogether new set of books. Gathering Laformation, Karly next week ail the setter carriers in the city will be furnished with slips which each will be expected to leave at every house on his route. ‘The slip reads as follows: To the occupant of No. Street, Please fill out this blank and write, with ink, the names of all persons, including servants, using Mrs. or Miss as a prettx in case of females, with their own given names in full, who receive or are likely to receive any mail at this number. ‘The given names of married women must he stated, and not those of their husbands. For example: Mrs. Mary Brown must not be described as Mrs, William Brown. Write in full one name on a line, and add number of house and street after each name. The !nformation will en- able your post office to promptly dispose of mall which would otherwise go to the dead letter office. Notify office of all “hanges of address. Hand this name blank to your letter carrier, or drop in letter box, wher completed, without prepaying postase. , Postmaster. Must Be Complete. The residences of the various houses are expected to fill out these slips in full, put- ting the full address of each individual in its proper place, so that when the slips are cut up for entering in the big blank books it will not be necessary for the clerk to fill out the spaces themselves. Every letter carrier will be expected to see that each house along his route receives a copy. Then each carrier must see that these are prop- erly filled out and returned. in case no at- tention is paid to the notice, another will be sent, and if this elicits no resp rier will be expected to call in pe house eit. the car- | ‘son at the | and, if necessary, fill out the sip him- The carriers will not be allowed to return their slips to the office until they are | all complete and a reply has been received from every family along the route. In the early spring of 1800 many of the carriers took a personal interest and pride in their | work, and as a result the records of many | parts of the city are well nigh perfect. Oth- | ers did not do quite so well, but the work as a whole was very thorough and satisfac- | tory. After time enough had been allowed | for all reports to be turned in, the work of | sorting and arranging the names began. Arranging the Slips. The system of arranging all these names | into books will be the same this year as it | was in the first case. Then the work was begun by cutting up these slips so that each name wes on a separate piece of paper. Then these all had to be arranged alpha- betically. It will be readily understood that this was no slight task when it is stated that there were 75,000 more names in this | post office book than in the city directory. After they had all been arranged in perfect order large blank books were obtained and | the names entered in these. On the right- {hand pages were pasted slips from the regular city directory. The slips with the names written upon them were compared | with these and wherever the two corre- | sponded the written slip was thrown aside | to avoid entering the same name more than | onee. Wherever the same name occurred | jin both, but with different addresses, the written address was used as being the more recent and likely to be correct. Then all the 75,000 names not found in the printed slips had to be entered by hand on the left- hand pages of the books directly opposite to the corresponding letters on the printed | slips. Plenty of room was left for future additions, and corrections were made with- out any trouble. Pleased Everybody. The directory made up in this city receiv- ed the highest kind of a compliment from Mr. Wanamaker, who was then Postmaster General. Some time prior to the making of this directory Mr. Wanamaker had sent out letters of inquiry to the postmasters in | most of the large cities throughout the country asking what action might be adopt- ed to lessen the number of letters which never reach their destination, but find thelr way to the dead letter office. Numbers of suggestions were received from all direc-| tions of more or less value, but it was left for the ingenuity and enterprise of the offi- cials at the post office in this city to go to work and put into effect a practical work- ing method of improving the accuracy of the letter delivery. An account of this directory, with a full description of the methods which were used in its making, was printed in The Star in March, 1890, and so much pleased Mr. Wana- maker, as suggesting how the same thing might be done in other cities, that he had the article reprinted in the form of a circu- lar and a copy sent the postmaster at every free delivery office In the country, with the recommendation that he should’ profit by | the suggestions it contained. | ——- eee Orthographical. From Life. He—As you're a student of character,what can you say of mine? She—You're one who makes big mistakes. He—How can you tell? She—By your handwriting. - -——s00 He—A fellow told me yesterday he thought I was such a bright fellow. She—That's an awfully bad habit. He—What is? She—Talking to yourselt.. ‘Life. while the population of the city is nearly | its own, while A and C are in the same a notoriously changeable one, and the re- | .|the sausage makers to add from sixty to The State of Feeling Produced by a First Attempt at Smoking Opium. I made a point of watching the effect of | the successive pipes on myself carefully, | Says a writer in the Pall Mall Budget. As before, the first pipe had no effect at all; | after the second pipe I found I was begin- ning to perspire gently, and the skin was soft and relaxed. I smoked five pipes one after the other, and fancied that the action of the heart was slightly depressed; but beyond this I felt nothing whatever. After | I had left the place about a quarter of en hour I began to find that the oplum was | taking effect. My limbs felt as if they did | not belong to me; I could control them, but they seemed to be a part of some one else. My brain seemed quite clear and very act- |ive, but I became aware that it was doing | the thinking on its own account; I could not govern or direct the chain of my thoughts, which proceeded in the most grotesque order, the most irrelevant ideas following | one another, and getting mixed up with the | ideas called up by external surroundings. | My sight, too, was affected; I fancied there | was a very faint haze over everything, and it seemed as if the power of adjustment was | lost, and size and distance were difficult to |determine. I had slight hallucinations also. | For instance, I was, for a moment, certain | that a centipede about four or five inches long, with a chain round it, was walking up |my leg; at the same time I know it was) only a vision, and that it arose from my having seen during the day a man in the ages selling one of the reptile toys which run along and are held by a string. Soon jafter I found the greatest difficulty in keep- ing my eyes open, though my brain was still | abnormally active; this passed off and I felt no ill effects of any kind, and I may men- tion that next morning I had neither head- |ache nor the least feeling of discomfort of any kind. ———_—-+e+--____. Ingenuities of Adulterated Food. | From the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. ‘The adulteration of articles of food is by no means an “invention” of modern times, | but was practiced by our classical ances- | tors. Daring the middle ages the cunning | baker mixed his flour with lime, sand and gypsum, and on discovery was thrown into @ prison cell and compelled to eat the prod- | uct of his entire bakery, which cured him of the fraudulent habit. The most important article of food in ev- ery household is the meat. ‘The meat which comes from healthy animals is distinguish- ed by a pleasent odor and fresh color, from a delicate pink to a deep carmine, accord- ing to the animal from which it comes. it must be elastic to the touch. ‘The dent which is caused by pressing a finger on it |must disappear when the pressure is re- moved. The fatty substance of the meat is @ good indicator of its quality. In healthy animals the fat is yellow and elastic and has a pleasant odor. The fat in the meat from sick animals is pale, gray and smeary and has an unpleasant odor. | Sausage offers a wide fleld for adultera- tion of the most dangerous kind, and in the pamphlets which vegetarians send broad- | cast over the land from time to time they give prominence to an anecdote which is as terse as it is illustrative of the esteem in which they hold the sausage. “A man saved the life of a butcher by endangering his own. The poor butcher, overcome with gratitude, cried out in a moment of self- forgetfulness: ‘Never in your life again, my | friend, eat sausage,’ ” |, The adulterations in this line are mani- fold. To produce the fresh red color, so al- |luring in sausage, fuchsine is mixed with the ingredients instead of blood. It is a very common practice to put flour in sau- sage, and, while a lite of it is harmless, it nevertheless leads to early fermentation of the article in question. The buyer, how- | ever, is very much imposed upon when flour |is added in large quantities, for it enables seventy per cent of water, which is paid for | at the rate of meat. France has lately put | a stop to this fraud by limiting the addition | of flour to three per cent. | Fish are adulterated in the same way by | rubbing their gills with aniline, which gives } them the appearance of freshness. ‘The ant- |line is easily washed off and the fraud de- | tected. In fresh fish the eyes are full and protruding, while in old fish they are opaque, dull and sunken. The best way to recognize an old fish is to watch the gills, which emit an odor of decay if the fish is too old for use. ‘ Crawfish or crabs should always be bought alive. Crabs that are sold already cooked have usually been boiled after they were |dead, and soon decay, generating a very | dangerous poison. A crawfish that has been | boiled alive will show a curled and twisted tail, while, on the other hand, one that was cooked after death has the tail perfectly straight. The best way to tell butter from oleomar- garine is to put a piece of it on a hot po- | tato which has been boiled in the jacket and freshly peeled. The taste of butter is more pronounced when eaten in this way than any other, and the fraud is detected. It is also the safest way to discover the age of dairy or creamery butter. Lard is frequently adulterated with water to increase its weight, and mixed with corn- starch, salt, chalk, &c., to bind the water | to the fat. This may be discovered by care- | fully melting the lard and setting it aside in a lukewarm place. The fat not only separates from the water, but collects at the bottom of the dish with all the other foreign ingredients, Tu tell good eggs from bad ones it is only necessary to put them in a dish filled with water containing from five to ten per cent of salt. Fresh eggs drop to the bottom, old ones swim on the surface, and those of me- dium quality sink half way down. All spices suffer nore or less adulteration, but most of all those which are sold in a pulverized state. Ground pepper is mixed with paprica, millet, bread, powdered olives, almond meal, dust, sand, gypsum, sawdu: spar, and almost the same ingredients are used for the adulteration of cinnamon. Pul- verized ginger fares no better, and is mixed with potato flour, wheat and cayenne pep- per, while the sweet-scented anise seed comes in for a share of earth, sand and lit- tle biown and black stones. Housekeepers will always be more or less cheated in buy- ing powdered spices,which should be bought in their natural state and ground at home. The vanilla bean before the invention of the artificial vanilline was deprived of its natural aroma and basted with balm of Peru. Coffee is adulterated in all forms and in every possible way. Machines have been invented and large factories erected, where artificial coffee beans are made from acorn flour and gum arabic, and these are mixed with the real coffee; and even the real beans are covered with polsonous chemicais if they have been damaged by sea water in transportation or the influence of the sun or time. Ground or roasted coffee offer the best opportunities, however, for fraud. But all these perpetrators of fraud and deception cannot hold a candle to the Chi- nese, who are masters ‘n the art o* the adulteration of tea, which they dye mix and prepare from leaves that have but a bare resemblance to the real tea plant. - eee Boiling Water Not Always Hot. From the New Orleans Times-Democrat. “Cold boiling water,indeed! Boiling water is the hottest kind of thing. Don’t I know? Haven't I scalded my fingers more than once with water from the teakettle?” James is right, and yet he is wrong. Boll- ing water is not always very hot water, in spite of his painful experience. This is the way it happens. When water boils ordinarily it is because great heat has separated the tiny particles of the water, forcing upward and outward in lively bubbles the air which is contained in them. This is done in spite of the down- ward pressure of the atmosphere. After the water has become hot enough to boll it can get no hotter, because the air escapes as fast as it is sufficiently heated to do so. There are places on the earth where the pressure of the atmosphere upon the water is so slight that it requires but little heat to push apart the particles and set free the air bubbles which are confined in the water, so it begins to boil before it becomes very hot. It ought hardly to be called cold water, per- haps, but it is certainly far from being as hot as ordinary boiling water. This state of things is found on all high mountain tops, as the atmosphere grows weaker and its pressure less as one ascends. A gentleman traveling at a great elevation in the Andes mountains put some potatoes in a pot of water over a hot fire. The water began to boil almost immediately, but the potatoes did not cook. All the afternoon and all the night the water bubbled and boiled, but still the potatoes were not cook- ed. The boiling water was not hot enough. ————-ee- Doubtfal About It. From Life. She—Before I give you my answer, I think you would better interview papa. You can see him at his office tomorrow and then walk around here and let me know the re- THe There te only one objection. I may not be able to wall. | mind putting it in the satchel. After She Had Everything Fixed She Found She Had Nothing Fixed. From the Boston Herald. It wanted about ten minutes of train time and the cars were already pretty well filled. Some of the passengers were buried in newspapers; some, divested of their surplus clothing, were lounging on their seats, pre- pared for a long journey, for it was a through express on the Boston and Maine. The forward door of the coach opened suddenly; there was a rust of skirts and a rattle of small baggage, a little girl appeared in the doorway,followed and guid- ed by a young lady of prepossessing appear- ance, The little girl started up the aisle, but was promptly recalled by these breath- less injunctions: “Here, Jessie, better take this seat right up front, you'll have it all to yourself; you can put the box down there, then the bun- die can go up there (in the rack overhead), the satchel can stay right on the seat, so that you can get what you want out of it.” “Is the lunch in the satchel?” asked the girl, timidly. “No; guess the lunch is in the box. I'd better take it out, too.” The young lady, flurried and excited, ex- plored the large cardboard box, fished out @ small parcel, laid it on the seat, and said: “Better let it stay right here—needn’t Now let me see—oh, yes, you've got your ticket; better put it where you can get it easily—ye: The little girl's broad hai wasn’t at a ood range with the seat, and she rested uneasily. “Can't you sit comfortably there?” asked the other. “Let me take off your hat and put it on the seat in front,” and she pro- ceeded to do so with great haste. That done, she stood a moment in deep thought. In the minds of the other pas- sengers there seemed to be a dead stillness in the car, The young woman exclaimed: “Qh, my, I had almost forgotten to give you the checks! Now, wasn’t that terrible?” Everybody looked up. The old gentleman with the banking house air peered over the top of his paper with a frown, which grad- ually relaxed into an amused smile as he caught sight of the young woman—a smile from which it could be inferred that her at- tractiveness might make her excusable, no matter if it did interrupt his digestion of the financial column. The young man with the foot ball hair and the wide-rimmed der- by crawled out of his corner, looked up, and seemed half angry with himself for not tak- ing an interest in the prepossessing party fore, and thereafter apparently believed that so much fluttering was sufficient ex- cuse for his gazing in that direction without showing bad taste. Several women ex- changed glances, which indicated that in their opinion the young woman was con- scious of her charms, and that they consid- ered it all very amusing. It was quite evi- dent, indeed, that nearly every one in the car agreed with them, no matter what ad- ditional notions they might have about the matter. The train boy stopped in his oration on “The greatest magazine in the world—just out,” as the young woman, looking at her watch cried: d Now, you remember what I said— stay in this car till it stops—now, remem- ber, not the first time, but Stay in till the man comes and says it doesn’t go any fur- ther. Now good-bye; they'll meet you. Don’t forget to give them the checks—tell them we are all well and will go up soon—now I must go—good-bye. (Kisses.) I'll watch you from the platform.” Three minutes and the train would start. The pretty young woman stepped from the car to the platform, while the young man with the foot ball air mourned because she was not going to take the journey, instead of her young charge. She stood on the platform opposite the window at which the young charge sat, and she wore a perplexed look as if she were not satisfied that everything had been looked out for. Then she went over to the brake- man, as if to relieve her mind. In an in- stant she was in the car again more flurried than ever. Everybody again tooked up. “Come, Jessie, quick! How stupid! This is the wrong car, next one ahead, he says,” and she flushed furiously, while the men smiled behind their papers, the women gig- gled right out, and the train boy resumed his oration on the “Greatest and only mag- azine of its kind in the world—just out.” When she had got the little zirl and the bundles together and hurried them out of the car, the problem which seemed to bother the passengers who remained wa: “How will she ever get the child settled in her new quarters before the train starts?” you DIGGING GOLD WITH A STEAMER. A Hundred Dollars a Day Be Out of a River i Extravagant stories are told about the wealth of gold sprinkled throughout the Snake river country in Idaho, says the Helena Independent. As a general thing the gold is very fine, the particles being of so light weight as to be elusive. Save when worked on a large scale it is difficult to make good wages in recovering the gold. Numerous bars along the river would prove Profitable could water be commanded for sluicing or hydraulicing. An adequate sup- ply is hard to obtain, on account of the slight and gradual fall of the stream and the level character of the outlying lands. To overcome this lack of water, as well as to insure sufficient dumping ground, a big floating gold-saving dredge has been con- structed and is now at work on the Idaho bank of the Snake river, about ten miles above Payette. it is a stern-wheel flat- boat propelled by steam. Substantially con- structed, 65 feet long and 22 feet wide, it is equipped with a. thirty-five horse power marine engine and boiler, and adapted in every way for navigating Idaho's great waterway. With a slight alteration it could be transformed into 2 steam dredge and used to scoop up sand and gravel from the bottom of the stream. That has never been attempted. As in the past, operations are now confined to working bars out of the bed or channel of the river. The method pursued is to anchor along- side one of these gravel deposits and by the use of scrapers bring the material to be handled within the reach of the gold-wash- ing machinery with which the craft is rigged. The gravel is scooped up by buck- ets attached to an endless chain. There are forty-eight of these receptacles on a belt sixty feet in length, and each has a capaci- ty of about twenty pounds of dirt, which is delivered into a hopper. This is also an agitator, and the process employed may be described as a stream rocker, with the ex- ception that it has an end motion instead of one sidewise. The gold is caught on cop- per plates with quicksilver. The tailings are carried off in sluice boxes by the force of a stream of water of 150 mineral inches, sup- plied by a China pump, run by the engine which drives all the other machinery. The gravel is worked so thoroughly that no gold escapes in the tailings that are dumped into the river. An average of 100 tons of gravel are daily handled. and for this work three men are employed—an engineer, one to work the scraper and another one who shovels the dirt into a pile so that the buckets can scoop up 2 full load. The bar now being worked covers an area of ten to fifteen acres. The gold is on top or close to the surface, and will not pay to handle to @ greater depth than one foot to eighteen inches. This shows a value of 11-2 to 3 cents a pan. A clean-up is made every night, and the average of the runs for the first three days was very satisfactory to Thornton Williams, the owner of the craft. He says he expects to take out upward of $100 a day as long as he works. “A face that grows on one.”—Life. soe Customer—Got a cure for headache? Druggist—Yes; 10 grains of capitine. Customer—Put me up 20 grains, then. Druggist—It’s two doses you want, eh? Customer. one. It's for the two-head- ed boy at the dime show.—Life. NEW _ PUBLICATIONS. OUTLINES OF PRACTICA), HYGIENE. Adapted to American conditioas. By C. Gilman Currier, M. D., visiting physician to the New York City Fellow of the New York Academy of Medicine; member of the New York Pathological Society; member of the Aumerican Medical As- sociation, &. New York: E. B. Treat. Dr. Currier says in his preface that the Preparation of the book was undertaken at the instance of busy practitioners and stu- dents, who emphasized the lack of a com pendious work upon practical hygiene, em- bodying the most modern truths, and which, at the same time, was adapted especially to American conditions. it may safely be said that the lack complained of no longer exists. Each of the following-named and several other subjects have chapters to themselves: Soil, Climate, Protection of Body, Clothing, Bathing, Personal Hygiene, Physical Exercises, Schools, Occupations— Their Influence on Health, Heating, Light- ing, Buildings, Ventilation, Diet, Foods— Their Preparation and Adaptation, Water and Water Supplies, Fluid Waste, Sewers, Drainage, Plumbing, Garbage and Other Refuse, Disposal of the Dead, Bacteria and Diseases, Infectious Diseases, Disin- fection, Restriction and Communicable Diseases. It Is a book for the intelligent men and women of this time. BIOGRAPHY OF THE ENGLIGH LANGUAGE. With critical remarks upon the works of ancient and modern euthors, and some account of their history; also an examination into the present position of English anong the languages of the world. By Arthur MacArthur, LL. D., of this ¢ity, author of “Education in Its Relation to Mauaal Industry,” &e. Washington, D. C.: W. A. Lowdermilk & Co. In his preface Dr. MacDonald says that “probably the most illiterate persons in England were those who first spoke and heard the English language. Its very ex- istence was threatened by Norman-French laws and forms of speech, but the old Saxon element was still a numerous body, and re- fused to surrender its vernacular. The two races were ulumately blended into one peo- ple, and their language was the natural re- sult of their situation.” This volume is a history of that language alone. Not writ- ten for philological scientists, it commends itself to the average reader. It is an ad- mirable production. now ready, is the most superb issue of a children’s magazine ever made. Don’t miss it. ‘The New Cover of St. Nicnoias, first used on the Christmas number of 1893. A beautiful gift-book for 25 cents. Soldeverywhere. A year’s subscription costs d ill be the in the yof toe agasion,* Fobiebed by history of the magazine. THE CENTURY CO., 33 E. 17th St., N.Y, ot America. Edited by Edward Allen Foy, Pu. D., professor in the National Deaf Mute College aud editor of the American Annals of tbe Deaf. In three volumes, Washington: The Volu Bureau. Detailed history of all that has been done within the United States, Canada and Mex- ico to enlighten those unfortunates whose inability to hear would, but for philan- thropic intervention, mean also inability to speak. The experiences of hundreds of ex- pert teachers are given by the teachers themselves, and in this concentrated form are invaluable. The work reflects great credit upon all who were concerned in its preparation. Sold by Att Bookseliers. G. & C. Merriam Co. Springfeld, Mass. er neem sees (TERA Serie ee ee ee THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON EWS, CHRIST- — INAN nat NUMBE! . eer Saks itius Bators of Baltimore, for at MAS NUMBER FOK 1593. New York: Ingram fearon aa ak Oa ee Seasonably clever and quite as attract- FISH AND THE ALABAMA a ive as any of the many popular Christmas|” chapter iu tie “story. numbers issued by Great Britain’s oldest rok, Davie. Bestun: Houghton, & Co illustrated journal. A story by Rudyard [oe K pling, with other contributions by well-| 4 Valuable contribution to American his- known authors, and a profusion of artistic ‘fy by an author who is fully qualified to exhibits of the highest class. The colored | deal with delicate subjects. Mr. Davis be- Pictorial supplements are copies of “Grand- | lieved in the greatness of Mr. Fisk, and in father’s Pet,” by Arthur J. 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By Helen | US Lone = aaa Cempbell, author of “Prisoners of Poverty,” | 4 TENNESSEE 6 thor “Prisoners of Poverty Abroad,” “The Probiem |“ TES Be ae =. = Siith an introduction by Miche ke iy, SS: Ructin” gn thhingee cae tee ith an introduction by . Ely, Pb. rant : D., LL. D., professor of 1 economy ~ pllrmpcnabregryir bined ath Airector of ‘the ‘School of Reonom of Wisconsin. Boston: Robert ington: Woodward & Lothrop. An amplification of a monograph which | © two years ago received a prize from the American Economic Association. Mrs! 4 great favorite with the lttle folks; it Campbell is on terms of intimacy with all possible, more attractive than ever. information as to women wage-earners, and ao om as in this her latest-published book gives a}NOXE SUCH? THERE WILL YET THOU- Sreat quantity of valuable information on aj North Publishing to, 2° HMyBe® Boston: The tople of world-wide interest. It is the only! sateresting: a study of the American snl Honaire. and ics, Universtty | Like all of Opie Read’s books—interesting ts Brothers. Wasi-| from beginning to end and true to life. HATTERBOX FOR 1893. Edited by J. Erskine Glarke. M.A.) Bostou: Retes & Lauriat. Wash- manual of reference on this subject, and it fills hat has long been a vacant place in practical literature. THE FUTURE OF SILVER. By fessor THE CITY OF Sf. LOUIS AND Ire REpouncES.| Site" perahtent ot te Ieee eee ak Con piled by Montague and Irving. Published by lens, ther af Gan pullinone, the Pt. Aeeuts Sea pene ‘Translated by Robert Stein, U. 8. Not awkwardly large, and yet compre- Survey. Published by permission of the hensive enough to Go the subject Justioe:! SUS fees tuned Suan Seaman ee typographically perfect and an artistic suc- errment Printing Office. cess. The city’s history, and especially that SOCIALISM, ITS GROWTH AND OUTCOME. By of recent years, is cleverly sketched, but| William’ Morris, author of “The Para- the volume generally consists of portraits = oon hea -¥ and E. Bel- and biographies of the men whose brains Religion of nr ee " and energy makes the St. Louis of today Swan Sonnenscheim & Co. Imported by Charies one of the greatest of commercial centers.| >stuer's Suns, New York. Washington: Brea As a newspaper “Star-Sayings” has done much that is creditable to modern journal- ism; its efforts in the field of book produc- tion are no less worthy of commendation. -ROWNED HEADS OF EUROPE IN FAMILY CUPS. No. 1, the royal family of Great in, its Saxon ancestors and alliances. Chart and manual by S. E. Linton, author of “Lin- ton’s Historical Charts.” New York: D. Ap- pletou & CO. This work, which is dedicated to the alum- nae of the Georgetown Visitation Academy— the author having once been a pupil of that institution—aims to teach about all that Possibly can be taught as to royal geneal- ogy in Europe. To the student of history the charts and the volume are almost in- valuable, not merely for the information with which they abound, but also because of the extremely simple yet effective sys- tem by which the facts are imprinted on the frequently non-receptive memory. The work is thorough and up to date, with no appearance of error; an unpretentious but lasting monument to careful and discrim- inating study of the useful sort that labors to help others. THE ARMY AND NAVY YEAR BOOK. Compiled yy Commander C. H. Rockwell, U. SN. Phila: delphia: L. R. Hamersly & Co. More comprehensive than even its im- mediate predecessors, and containing all the military and naval information that could be looked for in such a handy reference book. Statistics of the in- teresting sort abound in its nearly 200 pages, and there is much reading matter that will both educate and please the lay- man. CHRISTMAS. By Jacob A. Riis, suthor Omer lait Lives. New Sork: ‘Charen Bete ner's Sons, Washington: Brentano's. Three of the stories which Mr. Riis is so well qualified to tell—seasonable, but elo- quent of human misery, and calculated to soften the stoniest of hearts; promotive of abundant charity. The sketches are from life, and will be missionaries long after their writer has ceased to tell of the pov- erty and vice in New York. ON SUNNY SHORES. By Clinton Scollard. With Mlustrations by Margaret Landers Randolph. New York: Charles L. Webster & Co, Prof. Scollard’s literary style is pleasing, and when it is applied to description of travel through some of Europe’s most de- lightful regions the result is entirely satis- factory. Mrs. Randolph's finished sketches add materially to the poetic and artistic charms of a dainty volume. SOME ARTISTS AT THE FAIR. By Frank D. Millet, J. A. Mitchell, Will H. Low, W. Haim- ilton Gibson and F. Hopkinson Sintth. New York: Charles Scribner's Sous. Washington: Brentano's. Decidedly the most compact and readabie souvenir of the great exposition yet pub- lished, while its profuse illustrations gives more precise ideas of things as they were than is common to the heavy crop of “his- tories.” SEVENTY YEARS OF IRISH LIFE. Being anee- dotes and reminiscences. By W. R. Le Fanu. New York: Macmil Brentano's. An informal and far from commonplace | diary of three score and ten years spent in the Emerald Isle. Rich in incident and common-sense deduction. “THE DELECTABLE DUCHY." Stories, Studies lan & Co. Wasbington: | and sketches. By “Q." author of “The Spien- did Spur,’” “Dead Man's Rock,” &e. _N Macmillan & Co. Washington: W. milk & Co. Lovers of short stories—flashlight photo- sraphs of living scenes—~ili Gnd what they want in this boor FOR LIFE AND LOVE. A story of the Rio Grande. By Richard Henry —— author of 0B- cial Wife,” “The M Venus,” “The Show,” &e. Now York: P. Tennyson Neely. THE SHADOW + F A SIX. Bracme, autho. of “Dora Thorne, me Only,” &e Ni &F THE ABBOT. By Sir Walter Scott, Bart. The latest issued volume in the series of classics for schools. New York: American DREAM LIFE AND REAL LIFE. A little Africar story. By Olive Schriener, “The A BOOK OF STRANGE SINS. By Coulson Ker- aban, author of “A Dead Man's Diary.” New York: Ward, Lock & Bowden. SHEPP’S WORLD'S FAIR PHOTOGRAPHED. Part I. Philadelphia: Globe Bibie Publishing Co. “ANTHONY KENT.” ‘The holiday number of from ‘Town Topics. N@w York: Town Topics Publishing Conpany. THE SISTINE MADONNA. A Christmas tion. By Amory H. Rradford. New Fords, Howard & Hulber ‘medita- York ——o—___ Cremation and Disease. From the Yankee Biade. In the efforts to prevent the spread of im fectious diseases there is no drawback so difficult to overcome as the burial of the dead in the ground. The microbes of di: ease are very tenacious of life, and they will remain with the dead for a period of 100 years. The microbes may die, but their spores or seeds have the vitality to live, and upon coming into favorable surroundings they will quickly develop. In digging up old burial places, scarlet fever, diphtheria and smallpox have been let loose so that epi- Gemics followed. In Quebec a smallpox epidemic followed the digging up of a cem- etery where the people had been buried for over 100 years. Similarly in England a scarlet fever epidemic followed the removal of dead bodies from a country parish church ard. 3 But occasionally epidemics seeem to break out in the neighborhood of cemeteries with- out any apparent cause. Darwin, how- ever, showed twenty years ago that earth- worms completely turned over the soil of every part of the earth in a given time, and now Pasteur comes out with positive proof that the earthworms bring up disease germs and microbes from dead bodies buried several feet below the surface. Those who die from infectious diseases are not only menaces to their friends while they are sick, but their dead bodies are constant dangers to the public heaith. see The Common Ground. From Puck. imajesty is my hat on

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