Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, December 20, 1891, Page 16

THE OMAHA DAILY B SUNDAY, DECEMBER BARGAINS IN HOLIDAY PRESENTS An Opportunity to Purchase Two Holiday Presents for What You would Ordinarily Pay for One. Being heavily stocked with Holiday Goods, and desiring to close them out ptior to inventory, we name the following low prices, any one of which is almost a gitt in itself. 2 00 400 7 50 8 00 10 00 9 00 15 00 8 00 ..$ 8 50, worth § 7 00 Rugs... $ 1 00, worth § 5 00, worth 10 00 | Rugs. . 2 00, worth +o 10 00, worth 20 00 | Rugs.......... ciivve 3 50, worth & 00, worth 10 00 | Art Square B 4 00, worth Dinner Sets 10 00, worth 20 00 | Daghenstan Rugs. 5 00, worth Dinner Sets. ... : : 15 00, worth 30 €0 | Skin Rugs .. 4 50, worth Tea Sets..... v § 8 50, worth 00 Skin Rugs ViessiaEhy 7 50, worth Decorated Parlor Lamps. 00, worth 2 50 Children’s Carriage RRobes, 4 00, worth Beautiful Bisque Lamps.. 50, worth 00 ' Portieres. 50, worth Rochoster Parlor Lamps. . .. worth 10 00 | o rtioros i or Ladies’ Fancy Work Baskots worth g gg | Tortieres .. AT Plush Linod Work Boxes worth 600 12408 Curtalns,. 1 €0, worth Medicine Cabinets worth 4 00 Curtains....... 2 00, worth Lace Curtains. 5 00, worth Wall Pockets. .. worth 2 00 IEmbroidered Table Scarfs 75e, worth Bamboo Basels. worth 2 50 v Bamboo Fasels........ worth 5 00 pmhroidered Table Scarfs .. 1 50, worth Clocks, nickei ....... 1 00, worth Bamboo Music Stands........ worth 00 Bamboo Screens. .. .. worth 750 | © ¢ . Bamboo Parlor Cabinets........... worth 00 | Clocks, oxidized silver 0 2 50, worth 5 00 Bamboo Corner Stands. $ worth 10 00 | Clocks, walnut. . Db 5 00, worth 10 00 French Beveled Mirrors with solid onk worth 6 00 | Clocks, mantel, ebony finish, & handsome parlor clock . 7 50, worth 15 00 Ouk Ensels worth 3 00 "ok, with beautiful bronze statuar 2 50, worth 25 00 Onk knsel worth 5 00 e ol Music Cabinets 7 1 50, worth 8 00 Music Cabinets . 8 50, worth 7 00 Oak Screens.. . . worth 00 Bamboo Parlor Stands worth 00 Music Cabinets . 10 06, worth 20 00 Hull Racis 7 50, worth 15 00 Center Tables. worth 00 Center Table: worth 50 10 00, worth 20 00 50c, worth 1 00 Whatnots Parlor Tables. . worth 00 Parlor Suits. worth 00 ¥ oo ® o g 850, worth 6 00 Hat Racks with French Piate Mirror . 2 50, worth 5 00 Tables...... OO 7 50, worth ‘l'oi let Sets....... Toilet Sets. .. Toilet Sets. .. Dinner Sets worth 8 3 50 worth 5 00 worth 5 00 worth 10 00 worth 7 50 worth 00 worth 00 worth 00 worth 00 worth 50 00, worth 00 00, worth 00 00, worth 00 .8 150, 2 50 50, 00, Ladies’ solid onk rockers Ladies’ rattan and reed rocker........... Ladies’ plush rockers, antique or 16th ce o Ladiex’ rockers, upholstered in pattern silk tapestry Gents’ solid onk rocke ntique or 16th centu High urt reed rocke High art plush rocke Ladies’ desks, antiq: 3 Ladies’ desks, antique or 16th century High art ladies’ desks, antique or 16th century....... Bookcases, antique or 16th century.......... Bookcases, antique or 16th century............. Bookeases with desk combined, antique or 16th century. Ladies’ combination bookcase and de plate mirror T Boplshelves....... Children’s rockers, all colors . Children’stine rockers, all colors Children’s plush rockers. ... Children’s high chairs v Children’s fancy high chairs. . Vevo Gilt rockers, handsomely upholstered 1n plush Plush parlor chuits. ... ....... Plush pavior chairs, solid oak Plush divans...... “iesresaias Plush easy chuirs, nicely upholstered. . . Gilt parlor tables il puintings. Stecl engravings. . Imported etchings. High art steel eng Banguet Lumps. . Banquet lamps. Piano lamps. .. Hanging lamp: Hauging lumps Reception chair . Hall chair . tesseriians 16th century reed corner tables. 0, 00, 00, 09, 00, 10 00 1 50 300 20 50, 50, worth 00 worth worth worth worth worth worth worth worth worth worth worth worth worth worth worth worth worth worth worth worih worth worth worth worth oo 25 Clock Shelves worth worth worth worth worth worth worth worth worth 00 00 00 00 00 lor C a0 00 00 00 Plush Couches. 7 Plush Couches. 5 5 12 5 Beadsteads. . 560 ; 5 China Clos 12 50, Brass Easel. 5 00, Brass Parlor Tables. .. 3 00, Shaving Stands... 10 00, GHBIToniavBRRIER G o 15 00, 1ith Century Reed Tea Tubles. : 5 00, Solid Oak Gents’ Basy Chairs, plush seat 6 00, worth Polished Fancy Card fables.......... 7 00, woith Buffets. ... 7 50, worth 15 00 20 00 50 00 10 00, worth P 25 00, worth Rovolving Office Chai 4 00, worth Children’s Folding B 5 4 00, worth Children’s Cribs ..... ¢ ... 250, worth Brass Beds ... 25 00, worth | Cheval Mirrors 15 00, worth 5 00 ' sideboards. ... 20 00, worth 00 isiducourds. 30 00, worth ibinet - s e ———— o R — Our acres of salesrooms will be open every evening this week until 10 o'clock, Never in the history of our business have we been able to show such a vast assortment of beauitiful goods suitable for the holiday trade, as this season. Never have prices been so low. About 1,000 styles of Rockers to salazt from, in the various woods and upholstering. Hundreds of Ladies’ Desks, Parlor Cabinets, Brass, Mahogony, Oak and Maple Tables. Hundreds of Easy Chairs, delightfully comfortable. 'Fancy Plush Chairs, Cheval Glasses, Screens, Bookcases, Couches Chambsr and . Parlon Suite. ranging in below any other’house in the city, allof which we shall sell for cash or on our usual easy payment plan.ine We deliver daily free of charge to Council Bluffs and South Omaha. quality from the lowest to the finest goods made, and atprices that are guaranteed to be far spection of our stock is invited, PEOPLES MAMMOTH INSTALLMENT HOUSE % 1818 and 1817 Farnam Street, Omaha, Neb. 3 No trouble to show goods. Passenger elevators to all floors. of cublo feet of alr contalned in the room. Pemperature outside che buliding. 7. llu- midity outside the building. 8. Baromoetric pressure in inches. 9 State or condition of the weather. 10. Kind of hoating apparatus n use. 11, 8ystom of ventliation employedl. 12. Number of cubic feet of fresh air supplied per hour. 13, Number of cubi¢ feet of fmpure air discharged per hour. 14, Temperature ut the frout of the room—() at the floor, (b) wv the mouth, (© atthe celiing. 15 Temperature at the reir of the roon. sure conditions as in 14, 16 und 17, Humidity it front and rear of roon, sime conditions as' in 14, 18, Amount of oar- bon dioxide found in the airof the ety per 10,00) parts. 19 und 2). Amount of . eirbon dioxtde found In the nir ‘per 10,000 parts at v groon of the leaves rondering it very attractive material, © of the mistletoe is supposod to bo n, Probably by way of dinavia. Atany rate, in early mythology it is rolated that Nana, oue of the goddesses, took a shaft or stick of mistlotoo to collect tears on, and he who examines will still find them ou tho fruitful bush of tho mistletoe in the form of little white berries, So much for sentiment, and much counceted with this peculiar plant is of a sentimontal charactor. Ualike the holly und other de- corative plaats 1t has not much to recommond their plants. From their experienco we can gain the knowledge weo seek. +0I course this will be met with the cry of Yunker.” But [ hold it is not u_junket. It is aduty. Whenever an agent seeks to sell the board a heating plant he offers to_stand the oxpenso of an_investigating trip, assuring the board that if his especial brand of heat- ing apparatus is not found to be tho best, then no obligation to any is eutailed. This is wrong. When the board has mado a 1p at tho oxpenso of a private firm, it 15 under a moral ovligation at least to that firm, and it cannot ignore the picture moulding on either side of the man tel aro pretty and fill up nicely. In the dining room the same arrangement can be mado of ropes of overgroen, sud in- stead of the ribbons fastening it up use a bit of twiuo, and over each hoolc put a bunch of holly, with plenty of berries onit. Finish the corner with large branches of holly, tops turned towards the Hloor and stems reaching to the ceiling, tied with ribbons as red as tho AND WIPE THE TEARS OF WANT AWAY, | borries. . Ximas comes but onco'a year— I would that 1t came not at all. For O it is hard to make good cheer TALITIES, Bacholors aro creaturos who have con- sulted thoir fomale relatives beforo venturing on matrimony. Aftor tho new year opens the young man who proposos to bo married in Maino must give to tho city or town clerk a certificate showing his namo, ago, color, occupation and ce of rosidence; his birthplace, and, it widowed, tho uumber of times ho has véen proviously married, The Buffalo woman who wants damages against the doctor who was responsiblo for THE SEASON OF GOOD CHEER, Bid Good Will R use a1d Proclaim Ansthar Y.ar's Nativity, WARMING MODERN SCHOOLS. feme Thoughts on One of the Tmportant Topios of Metropolitan Life. SUGGESTION OF AN OMAHA EDUCATOR. is | fact. Turn on the “Fount of Joy's Delicious it. Now is the Time to Learn What Good znd What is Not—Result of a Sclentist's Re- seéarches. “Here is a matter to which 1 want Tnr: Bee to direct the attention of the people,” said a member of the Board of Education. “We mre about to expend nearly $100.000 in the ercetion of mew school buildings. These structures will bo ercotod for all time, It is, therefore vitally essential that they aro cor- rectly constructed. A mistake 1 the plans will entail endless exponse iu tho way of re- pairs and alterations; and then, no matter how much money wo may put into the build- ing for the purpose of correcting it, we can nover malke it right after we have onco made 1t wrong. No sano person will dispute this, Jt1s therofore obylous that we must be right from the beginning. ““Phere is no moro vital point fn a school building than its arrangements for heating and ventilation, Not alone doos the health and comfort of tho teachers and scholars depend upon this, but, directly following, tho health and strength of future genera- tions are entailed. For unless the childron oF today are given an opportunity to grow up In robust mentai and poysical health the children of the next goneration whl suffer as o result. Thero 18 a great deal of theory and fol-de-rol connectod with this thing of beat- Ing and ventilation. Many absurd idoas have been foisted upon the public, and between the extreme positions taken by ardent advo- cates there is a wido rango, Omaha's Experie “Omaha has had a rather costly experience 10 search of perfection in this lie. Various plans have been experimented with, and some expensive plants have besn put in and failed to give the satisfaction souht. It.is quite fresh vet in the minds of tho peonle how Dr. Clarke Gapen reportod, uftor an elaborate examination, that tho sauitary con dition of the Omaha schools was uniformly bad. Iagreo with the doctor in this, al- though I think he hus set his standard of porfection rather too high, His figures on the amount of pure air demanded for cousumption por pupil are, 1 think, consid erably greator than warranted by actual ex yerionce. But his general wea is correct, and I know woets the hearty approval of the dical men of the eity, “it is scarcely necessary for me to tieularize concerning the Omahn schools, u ouly two are there what I consider unything near efliclont arrangements for supplying a sufliciont quuntity of warm, pure air. The | Park school, supplied with s steam heating | apparatus, and tho Kellom schoel with the Smead furnace system, aro the nearest right of any of our schools. I am & Smead advo- cate, though I think the direct and indivect stoam heat with fan ventilation is the only absolutely correct way to warm and ventilate large building, *Why i3 it that Omaha is 80 unfortunute? Well, for the very simple but. sufliciont rea- s0n that the men who have hithorto and even now make up the Board of Education are not possessed of great exporience in the matter, They know littio or nothing of the subject savoin a general way and depend almost wholly for information upon the statements of the agents who seeis to sell a_heating and ventilating plant to the board. This is, of course, simply tho result of noglect to ook luto the matter. Educate the Educators *What I bave to propose is that the mem bers of the Board of Education be given a thorough education in tuis matter of beating aud vootilation, There is only ouo way in which this can be done. That s to visit the @ifferent cities adjacent and examine into ce. par- | O., read in the sectio Therefore, I' suy that the only way to ovtuin this information 1s to seleet & compe- tent committoe and send it out to learn ana report of the advantages and_inconvenionces of the various systems. Now is the time to do this, School is 1n session ovorgwhere, and the heating and_ventilating apparatus is in constant_use. This affords the opportunity to learn from actual observation of their per- formance. What wo want to learn is the cost originally of the plant, its expense in opera- tion, including attendance, consumption of fuel'and repairs, and its efficiency 1 provid- ing constantly 0 suflicient supply of warm, pure air. oux City, St. Paul, Minneapoli waukee, Chicngo, St. Louis, Kansas City, S Joseph and Denver are in easy access of Omaha, and each has a different systom of leating and ventilating. Leuus visit these places ana learn trom them which is the best apparatus to install in the structures which wo will ercet during the next year or two," Importance of Ventilution Nothing has engrossod more caroful atten- tion during recent years that the question of ventilation. Time was when it was the loast thought of of any of tho features of a school building. Now it is the first thing that secures sorious consideration after tho erec- tion of a building has beon dotermined upon. “The slecpy, noxious atmosphero of schools, once well ‘nigh universal, can no longer bo toleratod. The work of education has largely increased, as has all other phases of modern iife, demanding large reserves of vital force that cannot be had unless there be a con- staut supply of pure, healtny air. In no maodern school will bo tolerated the insufiiciont moans once thought thorough and completely adequato for all purnoses. What was thought all-sufficient thirty years ago in the way of heating und ventilation is us anti- quated now as are the geowraphies of that time. Whiloitis a branch of the applied sciences very littlo know, because in the hurry of life men and women overlook it, being encompassed by carcs more immediato, fow things bearing directiy on the comfort and well beng of the peoplo huve been the subject of more earnest thought or show greater sciontific advancement. And yotall that has baen dono in this line has beén in such manuer 4s to make tho col- lection of data for the purpose of drawing scientitic couclusions @ most laborious and almost bootless undortaking. T'he mauufact- urers of healing apparatus have worked with an oyo single to the sale of their imme- diate production,and the keopiug of a careful vecord of actual experionce hus beon almost wholly neglected. Itis this very fact that has led to the mistakes made in Omaha and elsewhero in the selection and construction of heating plants for school buildings One great blunder seews to be universal, and that is the stress usually lmd upon tne itom of first cost; this, and not what may be v of ropairs and aiterations ure sauisfuctory results in operation, gonerally recewving the most consideration, und nearly always detormining the purc Res arches of a Sclentist, One of the most notable contributions to the literature devoted to school room heating is 4he papor of D, R. Harvey Ieod of Mausfield, of State Medicino av for! nd annual meetiog of tho ican Medical association at Washington, D. €., last May. Dr. Reed was one of a cow: mittey consistiug of Dr. D. . Lincoln, Gen- eva, N, Y Schenck, Topek, Kan. ; Dr.'G . Iohe, Bultimore, Md.; Dr. J.G. Pinkbam, Lyou, Mass., and himself appointed at Nowport, . I, two vears be fore ou “school hyglede.”n To Dr. Iteod was as signed “Original Investigations on the Heating and Ventilation of Sehool Build iugs.” "AL the outset Dr. Reed learned that thoro was littlo satisfuction to bo derived Irom the study of the mauy alr analyses of school rooms of different cities, %0 he ad- dressed himself 10 the task of collecting nc- curate data. He propared a chart embraciug the following details 1 Date and tlme of day Inspection wus made. & Nulmber of pupils presont. & Nose foot and rear of room, same couditions j 19, Carbon dioxide, it may be oxplained, is the namo given under the now chomical nomen claturo to carbonic acid_ gas, the result of respiration of animals, These arrangements of Dr. Reed’s given are only a portion of the plan be followed in making a vory thorough and far reaching examnation into the sub- joct. His inquiry also embraced tho manner of heating the “school buildings, arrange- ments for ventilation, etc., the wholo boing carefully classified under appropriate sub- headings. Dr. Reed was actuated solely by a motive of contributing a worthy papor to the annals of science on the tovic under con- sideration, His General Conclusions. It is not intended in this articlo to givo the rosult of Dr. Reed’s investigation in ex- tenso. His general remarks in conclusion will bo found to be very intorosting. After presenting a formidable array of facts and fizures, all of which are extremely inter- esting, as showing the oxtreme dinfculty of obtaining regular heat of tomporate degree together with a constant supply of reason- ably healthy puro air, and tio universal provelence of carbon dioxide, Dr. Reed says: “Tho noxt important question that con- frontsus * * ¥ iy how shull wo proceed to heat and ventilate our school rooms in the most sanitary, economical, practical and sci- entific mannsr! In answer to this question 1 will sa; “First. That to hoat and ventilate our school rooms in the most scientific munner will require a system of heating ana ventila tion which will avoid tho necessity of having either opou doors, windows or transoms, and which will at the same time supply each scholar with not less than 1,000 cubic feet of esh warm aiv every hour, and which will remove a corresonding quantity of foul wir at the same time, without subjecting any scholar in the room to an uncomfortablo draught of eitnor cold or overhoatea air. Suf- ficiont warm air should be supplied to each scholar at an average temperature of about 702, and an average humidity ranging from 402"10 502 ; whilst the foul air should be re moved suMciently rapidly as to prevent an ac- cumulation of carbon _dixide to excead ten parts in 10,000 parts of air at any time, or in any gart of the room, or & variavion of tem- perature between the floor and the ceiling to excoed 10> Fahrenheit, or at any level of the same betweon tho_front and tho rear, or either, to excesa 50> Fahrenheit, Socond. To accomplish these results in tho most economical manner will require an air warmer with sufficient capacity to heal the required amount of air to the desired tomperature without superheating it (for under no circumstancos should it be allowed 1o pass over red hot iron plates); and which fresh warm air will ba discharged in a gentle current at the floor, and exhausted at the same lovel at the sides of the room, without the assistance of u ton veatilution, or the aid of an open door, window or transom, But, if top veutilators aro used at all, they should only be used to cool the room in’ the event it bocume overneated from uny cause; outside of tbis they are of no value whataver, ex cept to wantonly waste our heat and fuel without giving us any advantages in return for their loss." From this may be gleaned some 1dea of the importance which attaches to the question of school room heating and veutilation. In an- other articlo Tik Beg will have something to say in the abstract oun tho systems ew- ployed. - - ‘Ihey wanted to get married, but had no money to pay the preacher. The girl wi equal to the oceasion, Sho took the presacher asido and stated the case. She had no mouey, but she did have a bottlo of Haller's Sure Cure Cough Syrup. Would ho marry them for that! The preacher would and two hearts beat as one. Glasses fitted, - Dr. Cullimore, B bldg. Spring” and O'er Woe's Wan Face the Flowers of Charity Fling. Ah! thero aro songs of gladness, Good will and peace for aye, As in the distant dawn-time, As on that Christmas day, When from the angel chorus Echoed the deathloss strain: “Glory to God in the Highest, Peace be on carth again.” —Aug ista Hancock, Dr. Tamazo says two things dovolve on those whom these holiday times find fn com- fortable circumstances: ‘'First, helpfulness totho holpless; and next, cheerful tall." “The poor yo have always with ye,” is a truism as forceful toduy as when uttorod cighteen conturies ago. ‘Timo but gives it emphasis. No matter how lavish are the an- nual bounties of nature, or how ercat the prusperity of a people, poverty shadows the sunshino of countless lives, In tho joyous Christmas times those having an abundanco should lena & generous belping hand and brighten the cheerloss homes of misfortune, Cheerfulness is the sunshine of life, the electricity of existonce. *Happy Christma sweot heraid of good will,” is an annual car rent from neuven's storage batterios, re- froshing and reanimating mavkind, inviting all to forget tho strifes and burdcns of life, to throw aside dull care, and becomingly pac- ticipate iz the festw event that bringeth *‘tidings of groat joy" and ‘‘on earth peace to men of good will.” Hail, Christmay Day! whose fair festivity, With brightniog glaw of mirth, now comes to cheer His lingering hours, ere siaks the dymg year; Time-burdened, downihis dork aeclivity. e Home decorations are an essential feature of the festal season. A parlor cun b turned into a fragrant, beautiful hohday room with very little trouble. ‘Thero are the yards and yards of twisted evemgresn, soft ~fragrant codar and fir, which mako the first decora- tion to put in place. Mhis can be fostoousd from the picture moulling, fastening itu pon pictura hooks by loopsof bright narrrow rib- bon—red romatiow always seamy tho pret- tiest at Covistmas timo The hooks should be about three or founfeet apart and where windows intervene iwshould be looped across the curtains and fastened upon eitber side by a bunch of brighy holly, It should hang in the middle of the curve from eiehteon to twonty-four inches below the moulding, ac- cording to the height of the coiling, In the corners it can bo finished by a sheuf of daried grasses interspersed with asters or any convenient gay Howers that will keep. Mother’s picture deserves a touch of dec- oration from her auughters' hands to make her heart glad and pay her back for all the little stockings she his satup to fill—and daro. The picturo wire can bo twisted with ivy; from the bookcase can bo suspended by @ knovor bright ribbons a holly wreath, which harmonizes with the ivy better than codar does, wnd over the corner can be draped & treasparont scarf of gray moss such as one finds in the south or can buy at florists for the merest trifle, or failing in that get from an obliging dealer in southern fruit. The moss can be easily matted to gether and huug over the left hand corner of the picture, then trawed over the top of the framo balf way across and allowed to hang in taperiug fasnion seyeral iaches below the lower left hand corner of tue frame. Cedar or holly wre aths bung from the Whon friends are many and prosonts dear, And funds uncommonly small. —N. Y. Telegram. 1f you entertain Santa Clausand have liwtle ones in the family, be extravazant enough to havoa Christmas tree, Fir or codar with spreading branches not too close together are easy to trim. Au ordinary kitchen tablo with a greon felt cover is & wise thing to set. it on. Plant it in a square box of earth and cover the earth with golden brown moss,such as you used on tho dining room mantel. Swathe the box with preity tinted cheese cloth, pink and groen make a protty combiua- tion. ' Put candles with httle tin saucers on overy availuble spot where they will remain crect and not set anything on fire. Tio on who presente for big folks and little, with number one ribbon {ustead of string, as so many people do, putting the little ones at the top and the heavy ones at the bottom,of course. At the apex put a rag Santa Claus, such & one as you can buy in a pattern, and stuff with cotton at home, Tho Germans have a sensible fashion of putting things that can bo used on their trees, instead of the bright, and in_the long run expensive, baubles wo use. Thoy make a tree very protty witn fancy cukes, cut in all sorts of shapes and decorated with coloved sugar. Tho gild nuts—English and blwk waluuts—and tie them on to givo brightness. They wrap candlos injzay fringed tissuc paners and gold and silver papers and garland tho tree with them, and they loop strings of pop corn, pink and white, all around it, and when Christmas is over let the litte ones raid it. A few strings of the shiny baubles add much to a trea, particulariy when it is hghted up, vut the German examplo 15 a good, economi- cal oue to follow, “The children’s’ toys, the family presents and the servaut's prosents (for it is well to divide one’s Chiristmas with them instead of banding them over their presonts) soon il up a tree. Such prosents as are too big for stockings or treo can be laid on the table around the box, and if there are none left to put there, dishos filled with bon-bous, uuts, fruit and littlo Christmas cakes take ' away the bare look and are good cheer. On Cnristmas ive a malden strayed The holly branch beneath; 1 kissea her and s0 startled her 1 swallowed her falso teeth, —New York Horald. By the common beople of England the holly 15 catled “Christmas,” from its uso for so long u period at that hohduy. It was known in sncient times as holly, holm or bulder bush. Tho name holly i supposed to be a corruption of the word noly, us it was onco culled holy tree, and by the Germans “Christdor,” the Danes “Christorn’ and the Swedes HChristtorn,” seoming to justify the supposition. The use of holly in this city dates back in very small quantities fifteen or twe years, until row it has risen to several hundred cases, eich caso equaling nbout five burrels. The supplies come from Delaware and Tonnesses, the latter, howover, not b tho best variety. It used to bo obtained from New Jersey, ot the long-continued cutting has shortened the supply thei American holly is classed by G.ay as an flex—from & Latin wora for the holy onk rather than a true holy. The specilic name of the true Awmerican holly is opaca, and iv can be found wild in moist woods from Maine to Pennsylvania, but is more plenty from Virginia southward. It is & treo from twenty to furty feet high, the deep greeu foliage less #lossy, the berries not so bright red and the nutlets not so v ed as in v uronean holly; the leaves aro oval and flat aud tho wayy warglns scattered with spiny teoth Tho' other growtns of Amorican holly a without teeth to tho leuyes ana not so desira. ble. 1t is used to make wreaths,especially round ones, for general decordtions in halls churches and dwelling the bright-red ber- A fow sprigs is all that is called for und the entiro quantity domanded is not large. The American mistlotoe is called a phora- dondron—composed of two Grook words,thicf and troe—because those plants steal thoir food from the trees tney grow on. It wus classed a3 a viscum by Pursh,the samo as the Kuropean varicty, but by Nuttall as noted above. Its berrios ave white, whilo thoso of tho English erowth are yellow. It is a true parasite, growing on mauy kiuds of troes. 1t is common from Now Jersoy to southern Il- wnois aud southward. Dayout and most considorate, His supplication tender, For that sud youth who trusts his fte Lo the Christmas gift suspender, —Wasbington Star. When flowors or other bright, decorations for the church ure hard to obtain, a most pleasing substituto is afforded by the cones of pine_or Norway spruce, write Eben IS Rexford, In tho Decembor Ladios” Homo Jourual. These, ia thew uatural color are very protty, but thewr effo bo groatly neightened by bronzing or gilding thom. Tho liquid zold paints sold by all dealers 1 ar- ists’ gooas, are cheap, and produco gond ro- sults, Apply two coats so that the cone will be well covered. A cluster of them shining agamst 1 backeround of dark groen, will stand out brilliantly by lamp light. For a good deal of decorative work about archos over the altar, and in making crosses und similar aosigns, they are much preferable to flowers or fruit,us they are more in harmony with the evergroens amoug which they are used. Provided your gilding is good, most pleasing resuits ‘cau be secured by giving coues such a covering. it, and you will be sure to bo pleased with this new ‘method It is always well to remembor that artistic effects do not depend upon claborate designs, The simplest decorations, espociully in a church altar are oftentimes the most effec. ve, and whore taste is used rather than quantity, success is, as a rule, far moro cer. tain . What shall we buy for Christmas timat* "They sing it and they sigh it, Nor pauso to say with thougntiul rhymo, “With what are we to buy iv?’ ®ound Ploating Judge nands down tne following hints: IRub the prico mark off the present uuless it i un exponsivo ono. Though money makes tho mare go it makes Santa Claus como, Don't usk your child what he wants unless you intend to give it to him. 1t wo don’t havo baso ball ou Christmas we have the ericket on tho hearth, When you have the Christmas t doesn’t mean that you have it nxed up. 1f you wish to surprise your girl, never ask her what she would like for Christmas, At Christmas timo it is woll enouzh to ape the English as far as ths plum puddiog is conco “The bachelor who puts his thumb into the boarding houss Christmas pie is apt to pull out a collar button. Santa Claus would nover make a school waster. Whatever is good he puts at the foot of the stocking. Somo persons never wish Christmas unloss thoy think somethiug for doing so. Don't buy your bast girl & present on the installment plan. as sho might jilt you beforo you had made all tho paymonts. Glasses fitted. Dr. Cullimore, B bl - - Louis X111 after a yoar fromn memory tho plan of & country with its dotails up it you a merry they will got time could draw ull Dr, Birney cures cutareh. Bea bldg breaking her engagoment with a matri monial correspondent will have difiiculty in con- vincing a jury that sho has a case. License to wed was issued 1 Salt Lake recoutly to Charles Odd, aged (6, and Bliza- beth Ray, aged 62 IRathor an Odd-Ray com- pination, Juige Hugg Camdon, N. J the world over. A truly wonderful “train” was worn by Miss I'tolawny at hor recont wedding i London. Dres3 in rich whito satin, draped in old Brussels point laco. Tho' train is bordered with a satin rucho, and e lice upon it is studded with bows of baby ribbon, ‘The bridegroom’s crost of five ostric feathers ornaments tho train. Long Bru sels point lace veil und wreath of orangs blossoms. A correspondoat who nas boen looking over somoold files of the New York Tribuno calls attontion to this deodedly quaint marriage notice, which appoarod in the Daily Tribune of Saptamber 15, 1854: MARRIED, INSLEE—-BIRCH -On Wednesday, tho 13th inst., by Rov. Mr. T. A. Baton, Mt William Insléo of New Orleaus to Miss Theresa Birch of this city. Strange! what he hated most whon young, He dearly loves iu ripor yoars: And Bireh, which once his hoy hioart wrung, W provos his solaco, calms his fears, In Birch ho finds his carly bliss, Nor hositates the rod to kiss, Itis 4 common thing for & woman to re- mind her hushand, “If you ouly had some women,” but it is nov to be presumed from this that sho is any hurey to give hum the chance, The mi never ca; prosides ovor s court in His namesaice holds court who i3 Just going to bo married undorstand how it is thai any man can over desiro a divorco. Tho marringe of u DBoston spinstor to & Chinese preachor was an ovout dear o the neart of the Now England coolie lover, says the an Francisco Curonicle. In abouta Vear we mayv expoct to hear thut the mission- ry has develonod unlovely traits and that tho fair bride has docided to try Chinese ex- clusion. Joan ' Busha, a Fronchman living in o fish- ors' village in North Michigau, sold his wife to auother fisherman vawed Chopeau, for 5, the woman consenting to tho transfer, which was o in a formal manner, Busha vassing a quic claim deed to Chepeau, the snme us be would for tho salo of a borso. Tho woman has borae Busha throe children and to ull uppearance has been a faithful wifo. Miss Enld Hunt, daughter of Mes. William Morris Hunt, was' marricd to Mr. Sumuel Slater of Providence, . L, in Washington on the 10th inst. The bridal dross was of white satin brocaded iu tiny gold true lover's Knots, and tho beautiful luco that trimmed it was the Spanish blond that her mother and grandmother had worn before her, A dinmond crescont, the groom’s gift when she 1o aid last summer av her sister's held her tullo voll to her bair, Her gift, an immoenso sapphire and dias mond pin, glistened in her bodico, - Dr. Birney cures catarrh, Beo bldg. BELIKVE AND TRUST, John G Wh € ter “Believe and trust, h stars and suns, Through all oc und events, His wise, paternal purposo runs, The darkuess of His providence 1s star-1it with benign iutents.' - Dr. Birney cures catarrh, - o publi onsiuy, tho famous orator, attend in ovder, all the objects sold und the numes of alo lasting a wholo duy and re tho purchasers. Glasses fitted. Dr. Cullimore, B bldg,