Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, April 10, 1892, Page 15

OMAHA DAILY BEE: Sl THE INDAY, APRIL 10, 1892—TWENTY PAGE MAIL ORDER DEPARTMENT The p Sample of the title page of our new 180 page Illustrated Catalogue just issued. Write for it. finest catalogue of House Furnisnings ever issued in the U. S. LA 1 0 YOU Iivo ata distance? 8ond "HIS CATALOGUE, et N et eent stampmand sou Si PLIASE bear in mind, only represents a fractional part of I o e sites, WS our stock. But also remember we here show our BEST gy ikt 00 miles. Sampies uf STYLYS3, our NEW T GOODS and our GREATEST bt BARGAT Wo have ONE PRICE for all, and you can YU CAN ordor by mail and bo as woll served as thongh you vis- 1t0d our store. Guods nre sewed up | tn burlaps, stufled with Exeelsior, { and reach you In_perfect condition, ' ever groat the distanc e Py NG e Special Refrigerator Catalogue send for goods and be as well served as though you visited our storo. Disabuse your mind of the error that housokeoping goods cannot be shipped to you and arrivein the very pink of condition. We sew them up in burlaps, stuff same with excelsior and they actually reach you in better shupe than usthough they were sont across the city on one of our teams, Remember, we keep everything for the home, from the Lower A CARD_ UK Deoplers Mummoth fnstatl | Southeust Corner of the Cellar 1o the Upper Northwest Corner of the o ot e IS S L. | Attic, and our Mail Orders aro perhaps larger than all other Furniture 1 AT Kwiro of tha NBUABaL ths setiarice it 0 LM RS | DI or Housefurnishing Establishments in the W EST combined. ADIo/GPOWIH O] the BRODEME I A an ot | B e B ) “ I{L I< SEND FOR SAMPLES of Carpets, Oil Cloths and Linoleums INETALTALRNT HLOUSH BAS oL, Baly aa IV ) % Send for Sumplo Dishes. Send for Special Cataloguo of Baby Carri- | tonished tho wost gonorally, but 1y hus — i ages, Rattan Goods, Folding Bods, Chairs, Refrigorators, Church and EFOULSE Lhie RmbACy BPUHE e e T ; Lodge Furniture, Desks, Office Furniturd, ete. Send & trial order Shagte ot ABE RHBWE HEVBVAR o s | A pransam: xouowso i these ; SEND IT NOW. u aroe to blame for solling goods lowor than | times for i to delivery sucl I 1 keoat Asortinent of Crpets, Dra they have ever been sold, and at prices i which dealers here in our large Cities eay will not pay a living profit. If the best Manufacturers, far and near, choose (as they do) to make vs i SOLE OUTLET FOR TIHEIR GOODS IN THE WEST, and are willing to make us large coneessions in view of the fact that they thus seil more good and are at no risk or expense, pray are we to blame? We have never or demanded in any way, anything but a *“Fair hold and no fa- Our motto is “*Live and let live.” We were bold enough to in- troduce Eastern methods into the West, chief and foremost of which is our “*One Price System.” This is, indeed, tho chiof Corner Stone to | awako moth | popular pr but always 08, B0t only Just now ANOTHER CARD. I3 ARE able to adequately represent our goods, ns this catalogueattests, and the = IN@IR—— Baby Carriage Catalogue MAILED FREE. People’sMammoth Instal h e ) 1 Tenst person in the romotest himlet in our prosperity, and the main secrat of our being able to build up such porso ) Ricle 1 an cxtonsive Mail Order tradé over Nobraska, Towa, Dakoti, Wyoming. tho Wost can buy by wail any articte in Minnesota, Mentana and on to the Coast. We take pleasure in promptly our stock at the Y EAME PRICE paid | answering all ingu 10ODS SOLD on our partial pay- X ment plan anywhere this side Phcific Ocenn. Ono-third, -t (h down. bal price o all. N store. Wo pay frolght 100 miles 1 pellar, writers for the Answerlng oxpl sole tomers. nt House, 131 ies and we guarantee satisfuction. T, OO SR S SIS S I ) persons ordering by matl evor patd more for an article than 18 charged eustomers who visit our EMEMBER, we keep everything d In the home, from the np- per northeast corner of the attio to the Jower southwest corner of the ST S O ()R Matt Order Department ha three stenographers and ty 5 Iy al \cations from our out-of-town cus- only getting & fair margin ABOVE SI1 GOODS. bout our Liberal System of Payment ule on the inside of cover expiains itself. by any person in which to pay for all the Furnishings requir PRICE AS FOR CASIL and charge no interest y days, nothing ext PAY FOR T Now a delight. purpose of commun} seil on timo AT SAM 1 down, balance monthly. added; if a longer time’is taken, we add a nominal charge of 5 cents on each dollar to cover the actu of months. by the Mightiest Dignitar: As to prices, we do not, and Jur store. who visits honestly can not, usk the samo that the small listablishments no way disparaging to A word to the wise is sufficic If paid within s al expense for carrying t No one need wait until he or 5-1317 Farnam St MHEY ARE she is forehanded before making the home a place that the Children will remember with Many who are now living in Sumptuous Homes would still be without the meagre comforts of lifo had they not availed themselves of our Partial Payment Plan. do, and this is in them. ent Our “Terms” sched- We give ali the time needed d. We 4 or L is he account open they are situated in a region which is five days distant_from the nearest port or rail- ANTIQUITIES OF SALVADOR Goorze W. Mercer's Rambles Among the Ancient Ruins of Central America. road, 1n @ locality in whioch yellow fover is always prevalent, it is probable that they will not be visited by the scientific party now in the country. I am told, however, by the gentlemen who own the finca on which they are situated, that they are even more extensive ana seem to have an earlier date than those of Copan. In the uorthern part of Guatemala, not far from the boundary line of Mexico, in the wildest ana most remoto region of tho cordilleras of Central America, there is said to exist a cave which can rival The Mammoth © of tucky in extent and magnificence, and which for the numberless curiositios and wonderful ap- paritions to be seen there would be worthy of a description in one of Rider Haggard's novals. 1t has never oeen explored to any extent by white men, and the Indians who live in the vicinity bold it in such superstitious roverence that they can hardly be persuaded 10 go within sight of its entrance. 2 A mining engineor who was prospecting in that vicinity told me that he visited the lace and spent sovoral hours in the cave. Hhoro is nothing very remarkable except tho beautiful limestone for the first 200 feet, but then the explorer enters a passage almost too small to aliow a man to stand, at the extrem: ity ‘of which is a room of circular shape which is at least 200 feet in circum- ference. Around the walls of this room are arranged u series of shelves, built out of solid rock and reached by several stone stairways. Scated on these shelvos, ats distance of about eigbteen foet apart, 15 a collection of stone idols, extending around tho whole room. The smallestof these stono images is about two and a half feet high and all those on the first shelf are of that sizo, There are threo shelves in all and on the uppor one of the three the images aro about six feet high, At oneextremity of the room, on the top shelf, is a sptendidly enravad vhair or throne, in which is seated a stone idol wot less than eight feet in height and crowned with a wreath of delicately carved marble. Between the lips of tnis kiug of idols is placed a ruby of considerable size and smalier stones of the same variety adorn his eyes. Iu the center of the room is a stone fountain with a basin twenty feet in iroumference around the entire length of which are placed stone engraven lions of small size but of splendid sculpiure. The geutlemun who descrived this piace to me has in his possession one of the smallest of the idi a relic which his party brought oway with them as & mem- onto of the cave. He finds it necessary to put his memento on exhidition before any P T 3ot o e e 8 story, for few people would believe without proof such a weird and unheard of tale as hetells. Iu another mpartment of this cave he as- serts that he discovered at least a Mundred earthenware jars—each one of which con- tained the skull of a human veinz. These jars are arranged in a line near the wall of oug, narrow passuge, and above each jar is u inseription in heiroglyphics, probably giv- ing the description of its owner or the date &t which it was pl there. ection of Cofiins, The party i1n question also appropriated as relics soveral of these siogular Lead coffins and have in their possession many other curi- osities from the cave which give absolute evidence that it was at some distant period the place of worship of some unknown race. ‘I'bis cave would certainly be very interes ing to persons wclived to be antiquarians, and there is & probability that it will shortly be wuvestigated in a soientitic manuer, as tho United States consul geueral iu Guatemala is much interested in such affairs and has al- ready begun @ thorough system of ox- ploration 1o one locality, with the ul- timate intention of eoxtending this work 1o all places 1mportant to archacologists, It is & well known fact that Guatemals and all Central America is o laud subject Lo fre- guent and often Lo vielent sud destructive earthquakes, out 1t is probably not generally known that the capital city of Guatemala has been twice destroyed and twice moved from the locality in which the disaster oc- curved. Wuen the conguering Spaniard under Pedro Alvarado, tirst ontered (Guate- mala in the early part of the sixteenth cen- tury they found the capital city, then called Alwa Longa, located in 8 most beautiful and fertile llfil which is oow called the Auti- qua valley. This valley 1s surrounded on all sides by nigh ridges of rooky mountsius whose 10ty poaks extend far above the sum- wit of the ridge like the watch towers on an A CITY BURIED BY AN EARTHQUAKE A §clentific Parties Scouring the Land Cave That Rivals the Mammoth One of Kentucky—Rich Find of Ancient Pottery. La. Usioy, Salvador, C. A, March S.— <Correspondence of Tuk Bee.|—In the early paYs of the sixteenth century the vast do- main, now known as Central America, ex- tending from Mexico to the Isthmus of Pauama aud including all territory between the Atlautic and Pacitic oceans, was called Guatemala. From that date a few traces of history are in existence from which we can obtain a meager idea of the notable events which oc- curred in that country during the next bun- dred years, but before thatdate everything is durk, and we can only make conjectares and draw our conclusions from the wonder- ful and interesting discovevies that have ‘been made there in the last few years. From the relics and ruins and antiquities that have been recently brought to light we have posi- tivo evidonco that Central America at some far distant time was inbabited by arace who were masters in sculpture and architecture, in science and in engineering, but as to what race it was, where the people came from, or at what time they flourished, uo one has yet been ablo to determine. The localities in which the prineipal ruins aro known to exist are the ancient cities of the Yucatan peninsuls, the ruined city at Quirigua o the east coast of Guatemals, and the one at Copan in the republic of Hoa- duras, The latter place has recently at- tractod the particular attention of the arcbaological world, and the Honduranlan overnment granted not long 8go & con- cession to the Peabody museum of Harvard college, allowing them the free use of tho ruins for purposes of exploration. At the resent tilne o party of gentlemen from that natitution are on the neld, and although the excavations have been going on but & short timo the discoveries already made are pufliciently encouraging to give Assurance of Splendid Results, At Copan, in particul: great many ovi- dences of an watique babitation are visible «_wilhout any excavaung. Numbers of splen- didly carved columns, often sixty feet high, usually surmounted with some work of mnolent sculpture, are to be fouud almost | anywhero in the forests about Copan. Several arches, the like of which have never Dbeeu found here on the western hemis- hore, protrude more than twenty feet above {‘M surface, und from the width of their col umus 1t is estimated that this 1s not one. baif thoir entire height. A great many of broken pottery, Y jars, which are sull inisct, L varied collection of ;8loup engraven images have already been takon out, sud 1 am told that the sizo and quantity of Lhese increase as the excaya- tions proceed. Nearly all the articles so far discovered are either beautifully engraved wflh animals or flowers or are cove: enun ) hierogiyphics, the key to which has not yet \ been dotermuned. The members of the party now at Copan are highly elated with their s 80d say that they are confident that the ruins of Copan and 1hoso in the other /&(’nml Awericay states will dofinitely prove r oxisterco of a civilization which lived and perished even before the Aztecs of My fco. As yet uoneof the figuros or bierc- phios 50 far examined bear any resom- 108 10 the relics of the Azteo civilization, #nd the carvings and sculptures ave said to bo far superior toany yet found which are ttributed to the period of Lhe Aztecs. ‘The Quirigus ruins Lave never been ex- ored by experts in archmology, and as ) ancient fort. The most important of these Deaks are those of Aqua and Fuego, both volcanoes which give evidence of violent eruptions in former times. At the time the Spaniards took possession of the country the crates of the Volcan do Aqua was a vast lake of water, the accumu lation of centuries, but the Volcan de Fuego was in & stato of semi-activity. The Span- iards secwed to have no fear from these sources, howover, and erected a city of cou- siderable magnificence on the site of Alma Longa. Here Alvarado lived as governor of the province under the king of Spain until the year 1541, whon the lake in the crater of the Volcan de Aqua broke through the side of the mountain and with the force of o Johnstown flood completely demolished the city and destroyed most of its innabitants. A subsequent cruption of tke same volcanoes covered the ruins of Alma Longa with lava and it has since been known us “Cindad Viejo" (tho city of the ancients.) The few ~ 1nhabitants who escaped destruction removed further down the val ley, which is about thirty miles in extent, and laid the foundations of the first Guate- mala, a city which grew rapidlv in wealth and population, and which, through the in- fluence of the Spaniards and the clergy, soon became one of the first eities of the Spanish possessions in Central Ameri The Earthquake's Devastating Work. Although this city from 1ts foundation was peculiarly subject to earthquakes, many of l+which were quite disastrous, the industry or perseverance of its people did not give way until the city was totally destroyed in the year 1773, Accordiug to the tesumony of an autbor of that period the city had been very unfortunate from the early part of that year and the people were in such terror of the eoarthquakes that they fled from their houses at the least quake of the earth, As a conseqenco, when tho disastrous shocks of July 29'in that year first began to be felt every one fled into the streets and plazas as the ouly place of safety. If the accounts of the time are authentic the shocks of this earthquake are among the most violent 1n history. ‘The earth seemed to move in horizontal and vertical jerks, and sometimes to take the motion of sea waves. The shocks lasted from four to ten minutes at atime and continued all night long. Large crevices opened in the earth, intd which many people wero tumbled heaalong to de- struction, Many were suffocated by the dust and lime from falliog houses; and to add to the misery, the immense aqueduct, which supplied the city with water, broke loose with great destruction, drowning many and rendering all efforts to save prop- orty useless, After the survivors bad somewhat recov- ered from their confusion and terror they found that the entiro city was completely de- moralized, Besides the majority of all the small buildings in the place ail the chief edi- fices wers destroyed, including the govern- or's pal ce, tho residences of the archbishop and mayor, the mint, uciversity und several large academies and seminaries, Tho church, bowover, was the cnief loser, all the principal churcbes being entirely demolished, aa well @s sixteen convents and monusteries, lour hospitals and threo prisons. Although so wuch destruction had been wrought by the earthquake, the majority of tho people escaped with their lives, and alter the “Counsel of the Wise," and the “‘forces of the valiant" had delib- erated on the matter the inbabitants decided 10 move away from the valley and out of the unfortunate district. They selected as the site of their new capital a beautiful spov about fifty miles distant and there built the oty which is st present the pride and the capital of the Guatemala of today, ‘The old city is now callea Autiqua and is probably 0oe of the most interestiug and ro- mantic places in Central America for the every-day traveler 10 visit. For some years altor tho groat earthquake few peoplo re- mained in the vicinity, but the wonderful fertility of the Antigua vailey has gradually led people to return ther and today the town of Antiqua is @ bustiing liwtle coffeo market. On a person’s first visit w0 this town one cannot ¢help belng immedistely impressed with what the stately grandeur aud magnifi- cence of the place must have been. The churches and monasterios were es| all, splendid with their bronzed and gilded ceil- ings, their enormous choirs and domes, labyrinth of vestry aud communion erected with walls six or elght feet thick, showiug an idea of permanency as well a8 of beauty. No construction of that age, howaevor, could prepare for suca ruthless de- struction as the earthquake of Antiqua, and tho greatest ana strougest of all these substantial edifices are now ruins. The ancient edifice formerly known as the monastery of Belen is one of the most exten- sive ruins in Antiqua. It covers inall about eight acres of ground. Within its walls are two immease churches, ana bofore the days of the earthquake it was the home of more than a hunared Franciscan monks. A few years ago this building was pur- chased by “an_enterprising Spaniard, Senor Don Jose Maria Fernandez, who has rocently turned the place into a furaiture fuctory, and today one can find sights far from appropri ate in that splendid old home of the monks. The whistles and blasts of steam engines ring through the corridors of the finest old chapel in the establishment, the buzz of a hundred saws is heard in the sacristy, the private appartments of the abuey in command wre stored with coffins of tho Iatest patterns, the fonts for holy water are now filled with lubricating oil, the statue of the Virgin Mary has been taken down from its pedestal which is now occupied by a clock of large dimensions, and the bonco of the pious saints who died in the daysof yore have been taken from the erypt to fer- tilize the coffee land in the rear of tha fac- Burled Treasures of the Church. Many other scenes of the same kind greet one's eve in ail parts of tho town. I noticed an ordinary appearing butcher shop, built of mud, adorned with a splendidly corvea aoor and casing, which would and probably had done dit to some extensive mansion, The only livery stable in Antiqua has for an en- trance an arch carved out of solid stone, with the weil sculptured figure of a lion guarding each approach, ‘The whole city of Antiqua is undermined by an extensive system of subterranean passages connecting each monastery and cou- vent with the other and the entire lot with the palace of the archbishop and the palace of the governor. These passages haye been but littie explored and are to a great degree broken up and in ruins, " It is said, however, that they contain a largo amount of treasure and valuablo belongings to the church, which were hidden there by the clergy at the time of the earthquake, Taking 1t as & whole, Antiqua, with its basy populace, working and living among the classic old ruins, gives the visitor o vivid contrast batween the past and the present, the romantic and the real, and is surely a it place for some socond Bulwer 1o produce a a novel equally as 1ntoresting as “Tho Last Days of Pou,peii,”” Gaomge W. Mencen, Couxcit. BLUFFS, 1ay Aug, 5, '00,—Dr. J, B, Mooro: I feel it 'is notouly a privilege, but a duty, to say a good wofit “for your Catarrh Cure. ' After doctoring,With saveral of tho best specialists of the aaustry without relief, I was advised to try vour Catarrh Cure, and am pleased to say [ am gRArely cured. Yours truly, V. A. BTRON Traveling Agent Fajrbanks Scaie C For sale by all druggists, When his wifo suggests the inevivable Easter bonnet the avétfge husband nes a feeling as if a cold eastéMy wind were blow ing through bis starboard whiskers, e St A Prize Lnazle. If a frog isat the qmfifimn of a weil, ten feet deep, how many days will it wake him to get to the top ;Pm climbs up one foot each day and slides back six inches each night. = One Hundred Dollaws in cash will be paid to the person who sends the first ct answer to the above prize puz- zle, and elegant pair of Dinmond ear- rings in solid gold settings given to the ore sending second correct answer. A complete education at business college given for fourth correct answer. An imported Music Box (playing six pieces) given for fifth corvect answer. A siik are:s pattern for cach of the next flve correct answers. A handsome parlor lamp to each of the nextten. AND A SOLID GOLD WATCH FOR THE FIRST CORRECT ANSWER FROM EACH STAT) Every person answering must enclose six U. S. two-cent stamps for two sam~ ple copies of the finest iliustrated publi- cution on this continent. We give these prizes simply to introduce it. Addre LaAD1gs' Prororan WeEKLY (22) Tor onto, Can. A RARE POEM. Kolkomo (Ind.) Dispatch. In the house of a gentleman in this city we saw a poem written on the fly leaf of an old book. Noticing the initials “E. A, P at the bottom, it struck us that possibly we had run across a bonanza. The owner of the book said that he did not know who was the author ot the poem. His grandfuther, who gave him the book, kept an inn in Chesterfield, near Richmond, Va. One night a young man who showed plainly the maurks of dissipation rapped at the door, asked if he could stay all night and was shown 1o & room, That was the last they saw of him. When they went next morning to call him to breakfast, he had gone but had left the book, on the fly leaf of which ho had written these verses: LEONANIE, Leonanie—Angels named her And th y ok the light Of the laugbing stars, and framed her In a suite of white Aud they made her hair of gloomy Midnight, and her eyes of glowing Moonshine, and they brought her to me Tn the silent night. In a solemn night of summer Wnen my lheart of gloom Blossomed up to preet tho comer Like a rose n bloom; All forebodings that distressed me 1 forgot as joy caressed me Lying joy that caught and pressed me In the arms ot doom, Orly spake tho little lisner In the angel’s tongue, Yot 1, listening, heard her whisper: *Songs are ouly sung Here below, that they may grieve you— Tales are told you to deceive you— So must Leonanie leave you While ber love is young.” Then God smiled, and 1t was morning Matchless and supreme, Heaven's glory seamed adorning Earth with its esteem; Ivery heart but miuo seemed gifted Witk the voice of prayer, and lifted Where my Leonanie drifted From me liko a dream. E. A P, Really J. Whitcomb Riley, —— ' FOR THE LADIES, ‘The new silk bengalinesare very handsome and ara much used for visiting and promen- ado costumes, After a young woman gots to be thirty she stops calling attention to her nirthdays by giving parties. 1lower hats wilt be universally worn dur- ing tho early sumwer, and for theater wear or atsummer festivals they are lovely. ‘The Tartay sleeve is of Scotch cheviot, with two gauntlet cuffs iv dark plush and light colored silk, edged with double coreing. Itussian blue, a dark electric blue, is the nawo given to 8 vretty color which is said 10 bo the newest shade for gloves and stock- ngs, “Your wife must take more exercise.' “But, doctor, what can 1 do¢ She refuses to stir.’’ “(iive ner some money 1o go shopping with." ‘'ne Welch orown is the name of the odd. looking high erown which is conspicuous on many of the new hats. 1t is very quaint and unusual. Braided robes are notnow as much in de mand as embroidered robes, which come in beautiful spring shades and are emoroidered in floral patterns, wheeis, circles aud ores- conts, Handkerchiefs are very much to the front, and women are speuding their incomes upon them as of yore. The simple, dainty bits of fiimy face aud insertion are higher priced than ever. Hunker—Miss Bond is quite a belle. Goslin—Yes. but [ can’tsay I admire her cxcessiveiy. She told me Lo €0 howe at 11::0) last nignt.” Huuker—Then she is o fire belle.” Lrish point lace aud embroidery is used on summer challies, silks and the lwported ginghams, and ribbou enters largely iuto the HONE ornamentation of such dresses as well as lace or embroidery. Importers of the choicest French millinery announce tuav the large brimmed Leghorn hats, that never go wholly out of style,are to bo among the most popular und most ornate of summer head covering. Fashiouable modistes are making dainty chemisettos and blouse vests of pluk, white, cream and pale blue surah or silk batiste, to boworn with open-fronted toilets they are finishing for summer wear. There is a very large invoico of the very popular challies and pretty figured veilings this season, these goods having in a large de- gree usurped the place of the IKrench ringhams, Ddatistes, chumbrays and other wash {abrics. Crepons deeply crinkled of soft, fine wool goods, daiuty snow-flakea crepes, and dotted or striped fabrics in silic and wool, corduroy materials as sheor us crepon, yet ribbed like Bedford cord, are all popular dress goods this season. A handsome coat is made of gray cloth with a sleeveless jacket of black lace over it. ‘Tho lace jucket is open iu the back as well as the front, and the cloth back is embroid- ered with jet lines. The sleeves bave cufls of lace over cloth, Noarly all of the spring walking dresses bavo a deep band 0f waterproof goous on the under side of the skirts that are cut to sweep the grourd, I'he band can be brushed and spooged each timo that it has dragged tho mud afver it. Bretelles, braces and suspenders appear upon very many of tbo churming Krene dresses for summer wear. Sowme of tho grace- ful brotelles diminish to & mero point below the waist line, widening gradually to almost cover the shoulders, For an Easter gift give a little girl a doll sachet, Letthe doll be Japanese and dress it in China silk, liberally supplied with tpe powder. The initials and the date may be painted or embroidered on the front of the skirt, which is made ju the form of & cushion. The importation of shot-silk parasols is very large this season, and these with modols of lustrous corded silk simply finished with gathered frilis of the same, or with doubie silk tape fringes at the cdge, will be vary generally carricd, excent on dress occasions and 1n carriages when something very smart is io order. ‘I'ho fashions for the spring are in some ro- spects usually graceful and picturesque Mautles und long capes were never protiior nor made in more becoming style than now. They are composed of soveral materials, as a rule, silk, velvet, lace and jet mingled to- gether as suits tue fanoy, and the results are very pleasing. A pretty dress for a littlo girl may be made of pale applo eréen pongee silk. 1t may be smocked across the yoke and around the cuffs. With the dress goes a palo pink sash of the full width of the pongee. ‘I'ho sash should be carried loosely around the waist and tied in tbe back in two bows aad two long ends. Veil pins are now quite necessary in order that 8 woman’s toilst should be cowplets, Of course she wears a vell, and in these days it is atwached to her hat by numerous 1us; half because it is the fashion und balf cause 1t gives her comfort. These pins are usually jewellod; bugs, butterfies sud bowknots are used. Now dress galloons show beautifully shad od arabesque leaves, palms and scrolls, tiny roses in ribbon work, flowor bouquets in solid colors, also Persian effects rich in cut jei, and mixtures of reseds with rose-pink Bud damask-red, sage-green with copper- pink, ote. Largs and small buttons, stamped aud enamelled, ure made to maich these gal- loous. An Easter bonnet which “is as stylish as it is odd nas the brun of black lace studded with jot. Below the brim is & tuft of orange shaded anemones with black centers. They ave arraoged guite high on tho side. A huge orauge silk bow foras the soft crown of the bounet and acts as the trimming for both back aud front. Narrow black velvel is used for tne tie-strings, White in creum or ivory 1s said to have re- sumed its old supremacy fn_evoning gloves avroad, while taking bigh place in millinery snd gowniug, especially in full dress. whero wholly white toilets, whito hats adorned with either white plumes or flowers, white parasols, fans, aud even white saudals aud white silk hose, will bo iu high favor. Siiver bouguet holders are now made smali enough to hold a boutonniere. A small glass bottle in the exact shape of the holder is put within it and fillea with water, this is p d in the button-hiole and tho stems of violets and other spring flowers which are in the water aro kept fresh and fragrant for an as- tonishing length of time. These flower- lm,ldorl promise to be very popular Kaster gifts, et R It you do not use a whole bottle of Cook’s Extra Dry Champagne at once, a rubber cork will keep'it for days. el EDUC "TON AL, ‘Three hundred and sixteon American girls are teaching in China. The New York Times claims that city is the pioneer of American common schaols. Berlin umvyersity is the third largestin the world. Paris, with 9,215 students, and Vi- enna, with 6,220, are inrgor. The town of Washington, Me., at its annuat spring weeting, rofused 10 appropriote any money for a free high school, but voted to vs- tablish a ligaor agency. The annual catalogue of the Michigan unf- versity discloses the fact that it has tho larg- est attendance of any American college or university. The attendance this vearis 3,603 Green—What is this university extension, anyway! Browno—Ob, it's @ charitable dodge for exterding to professors in third class colleges opportunities to deliver locturos at $10 a lecture. To got rid of the married teacher question in Germany the muister of education has pussod & decroo that the engagement of a teacher ends at the close of the year in wiich she mariies, The division of tho Tilden estato in Now York has boen completed. Over $1,000,000 was divided aviong the heirs and §1,700,000 placed in trust for the library the sage of Grammercy park designed to found in Now York city. The directors of the” Prosbyterian college of Caldwell, Idabo, have docided to buiid, this summer, a brick building for school pur- poses, to vost §10,000, The site has been so_ lected and the ving of the ground com menced. ‘Chere are over fifty wtudents plodged for the fall term, g Mrs, Mary Sheldon Barnes, wife of Pro- fessor [arl Barnes of the chair of education i the Leland Stanford, jr., university, has been appointed assistant professor in modern bistory iu the same institution. Her work will bo for the present in the history of ‘the nineteenth century and iu the history 6f ‘the Spantsh West, in’ which courso the history of California will naturaily form s leading [ part. i President Harper of the Chicago univer- sity offered Prof. (. H. Palmer of Harvard $7,000, and his wife, Mrs, Alico I"reeman Palmer, $3,000, to come 1o Chicago, and later he increased tho latter figure to #5.000, HBut the Boston Advertiser intimates that this liverality 18 not to be accepted, as Prof. and Mrs. Palmer prefer to remain in Cambriage. “ew college classes havo contalned so many men destined to be disunguishea in aftor life as thero wore in & class that was graduated nearly half a century ago from an unprotentious and now unknown academy in I'rankfort, Ky. In that historio class were B, Gratz Brown, G. G. Vest, T. T, Critten- den, Joo Blackburn, W. C. P, Breckinridge and John Mason Brown. They all lived within u fow miles of Frankfort, were Lrought up as boys together and were taugbt by the same quaint old school- master, & man named B, B. Sayers, who bad more than & local reputation as a dis- ciplinarian, - Finaneil Advertising. Of all branches of advertisiug, the endeav- or to reach the investor direct, with real es- tate, stocks, bouds, wortgages aud mives, forms one of tho most interesting. Wo have been very much interested, therefore, in reading u short, sensible book; *‘Cash; bow to Get It,” just' issued by Lord & Thomas, the advertsiug agonts of Chicago. Some fac-simile letiors attesting to the results of tue plan outlined in the book are included. Doubtless they would send a copy of the little book to any one sufticieutly iuterested o send for it. - A very simple hat 1s made of black ehip, with a band of yellow straw let into the grim @ Littlo above the edge. The brim is wroad and fluted at the frout and turaed up @b the back and the ‘‘crowu,” which s lowW, is massed with trimmiug.