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THE WASHINGTON BEE. - J FASHIONABLE. rs as well as feathers will ap- e fall and winter hats and coiffure has much to do gement of the bonnet on the hair is parted the ced a little further back ner a pompadour or bang e of rosettes are made of tiny and of violets, but the good violet rosette is lost if any velvet violets are used. lace, arranged after the fash- 1ins, are seen on the back of the small bonnets that come velvet will be greatly in vogue wraps and costumes. velvet roses are rather liked, hosen being rather small, and «ce, bunches of leaves, instead mounted on the long rubber y seen when rose leaves are parate bodice has a very fine stylish women. nsele woolen materials for a dice those that are mixtures of silk olen are to be chosen. «mohair trimmed with black r dressy occasions will be in nd embroidered muslins, mull, and wool mixtures, and occa- e ot the thin soft silks are favored for party dresses r decoration is fancied dame sitmust be upon the bodice. Sash ribbons are in vogue for chil- ages, but the very wide ones iked. brown, or gray are the best for fall traveling gowns, with a at to match. Sleeves are gradually growing but flaring skirts will prevail talland winter. an colored shoes wear better than k, but they are not suitable for ras they are cooler than black. Japes will be worn to the waist and ill, with a yoke trimming, turn- r collar or neck ruche. ing fall costume is composed javana cloth inserted panels of cloth, trimmed with chenille high belt, blouse corsage, with 1 jockeys of white cloth. autiful tea gown made of pink, or blue crepon. Box plait in t, big collar of white satin, sou- n colors, with scalloped edge , With a rosette on each side; hort balloon sleeves. \ chic full blouse of green fayetta, it skirt basques, wide eollet ed with band of guipure and 1 ruffle; full dzapped sleeves, tting. below the elbow. full lish corsage of striped silk. ll, the top shirred round, full s, trimmed with soutache, ting sleeves, trimmed with puff x corsage of red serge, nd flaring pointed reverse, {witha band of galoon and laited gnimpe and surah. 1 walkiug dress is made with plaid crepon. The corsage of , with reverse and ruching The sleeves are draped shed with a bow of red velvet op and wrist. dsome costume skirt of flow- feta, corsage of silk pekin velvet ribbon, forming corse ished by bows in front. tty cape of Scotch plaid, lined The pederine is rounded in 1 small side pockets. .ctive walking costume is of ‘igray serge. The skirt moderately ordered with a band of Russia l very warm to treat of com- n styles at great length, with in yet prevails eaerywhere. nuslin gown of distinctly at- ctail was recently seen, with sof black laces alfernating the hodice of this being of strips of tucks and the e sleeves matches it and Teachss to the elbow, while the s of white silk. en goods importers say that d mohair, especially in black, ved by brown and blne will be in ‘resses and cross bars are intro- tiguerd and plain crepons. sleeves and skirt will be seen in or changeable silk waist. Js to be very fashionable dur- and winter. ream or ecrue lace, jet black cable colors, passementeries and beads and satin rib- he trimmings selected for hich is always a dressy cos- «cable mixtures in home spun, voit and such goods will ob- “terns, where bright blue or ‘edominates, with knots or ‘light orange, green, red, ‘nt chevoits in pretty mixtures the domestic that will be in P etie its. s90len goods are y CON, as Paris has nat ag » 4rimming in vel- CHINESE SMUGGLERS. The Trouble they give Uncle Sam’s Reve. “nue Officers in Frisco. The customs officers of San Fran- cisco have to deal with some of the most artful smugglers in the world. The Chinese are a race. of smugglers. and there is not a people on earth more fertile in expedients to evade the rev- enue laws. Their stolid, impressive de meanor serves them admirably in their contraband operations, for their ac- tions seldom afford, as is the case fre. quently with white people, any ground to suspect they are trying to practice a fraud. They have taught the sailor men of the white race the shrewdes: trick practiced on Uncle Sam’s tax gatherers and are never caught in one device without being ready with an- other one equally as hard to detect. Before the influx of Chinese laborers was stopped, a Mongol, looking as if all his years were acquainted with only poverty and toil, would sometimes try to sneak ashore with a dirty old blouse stuffed full of fine silk handkerchiefs and scarfs and Indian neck shawls. The Chinese garment for cold weather is a quilted blouse or tunic, with a heavy filling of cotton. Silk handker- chiefs being light and fine, a single blouse would sometimes contain a val- uable invoice. Sometimes a demure Chinese maiden would step ashore with the thick soles of her shoes stuffed with silk. A whole covey arrived some years ago with their shoes stuffed in this fashion. An inquisitive inspector had his attention attracted to the extraordinary thick- ness of the soles and made an investi- gation, which resulted in a valuable seizure. To a man the Chinese crews on the steamers plying between San Fran- cisco and Mexico, South America and the Orient are smugglers. They hide their contraband goods in the oddest places imaginable and get them ashore past the eyes of the customs officers in ways that almost baffie detection. They have brought opium skilfully stuffed in bananas still hanging to the stalk and in oranges. One day about six years ago a Chinese dressed as a cook walked leisurely down the gang- plank of a Pacific Mail steamer with a basket on his arm containing several loaves of bread. He shuffled right by a customs house officer and would have got away all right, but on the wharf came into collision with a drunken sailor. The sailor, who was to blame, gave the Chinese a violent shove, send- ing him sprawling and scattering his bread loaves. A policeman interfered and noticed that one of the loaves had broken open. He started to examine and the Chinese started to run. Every loaf was filled with opium. Chinese have been detected with boxes of the drug deftly bound up in their queues or tied under their arms. Overy bit of baggage and every arti- cle they take ashore is a hiding place. Beams on ship and table legs have been hollowed out as receptacles for contraband opium. False bottoms are put in cubby holes and pantry draw- ers. Hiding places are sought in coal bunkers and under the engines and boilers. The methods of secretion are so varied and ingenious that frequent- ly the officers are unable to find smug- gled opium, even after they have defi- nite information that it is aboard a vessel. Only recently the officers fail- ed to find a lot, although they knew positively that it was on board. How- ever, keeping the closest watch on everything that left the ship, they finally intercepted the opium as it was being taken ashore. Dinner in a Circus. Dinner is the great event of the day, for to this meal all the people employed “in the biggest show on earth” sit down at once. The mess tent is an oblong affair. There are six rows of tables with a broad aisle down the centre; it will seat 500 people. The aristocracy sits on the right side and the masses on the left. The aristoc- racy has a little better service than the others, but the food is about the same, here is roast beef, vegetables and desserts with soup and fish at the -ook’s caprice. The cooking is done n a wagon fitted up with two ranges. The coffee making and boiling and broiling is done in the open air. It takes the tea and coffee of the mess every lay, and more when the boys are tired. After dinner there is an hour of rest at twilight. This is the only time in the entire day that the per- »rmers have wholly to themselves. It s the social hour. Little family groups her in the open air, lying on the picnic fashion, about a chariot ir a tree; the women cluster in ‘ass, 0 little groups and talk woman wise, and make a feint of doing fancy work, sewing or reading. The Bathtub Trunk. Some novelties in bathtubs are made abroad especially for travelling pur- poses. They are made of best tinned ron with japanned oak outside and white inside. The novelty is that they ‘am be closed up with a strap and util- zed as a trunk to hold the clothes of the owner. A self-heating gas bath s made upon the following principle: An atmospheric gas burner being em- ployed from which the heat is conduct- ed around the body of the bath by flues, and after doing this duty escap- ng by a main flue. A bath can be heated in this way in forty-five min- utes at an expense of three cents.— Hardware. Southern Railroad Building. The financial depression has not had a very decided effect on railroad con- struction in the South. The total num- ber of miles of railway built in this section since January 1 of last year is only fifty-seven miles less than was built during all of the year before. The total new mileage in the South for last year, up to December 1, was 1,112 miles. Texas leads with 216 miles, Florida comes a close second with 208 miles, and Georgia is third with 171 miles.—Atlanta Journal. Lady and Woman. It has been decided by an English court that it is not libellous to call a lady a woman. This recalls the fact that in a Western town, a couple of years ago, a young woman who work- ad as a clerk in a dry-goods store threatened to sue a newspaper for libel because it referred to her as a sales- woman and not as a saleslady. She did not carry out her intention, how- ever, as she was advised that she had no case. seventy gallons of milk to put in | PLATT SNOWED UNDER IN ERIE. A Solid Anti-Machine Delegation will go to the State Convention. Buffalo, Sept. 10.— The result of last night’s caucuses in Erie county will be 4 solid anti-Platt delegation to the State Convention. The organization which is opposed to Platt won easily in the eight Assembly Districts, and not a Piatt man will be elected as a delegate to the convention to-day. Congressman Rewland B. Mahany, the leader of the Platt forces, failed by sixty votes to carry his own ward. The only ward which went for Piatt was the teenth, where John Kraft, Deputy Superintendent of Canals, was elected hout opposition, as the organization confident of carrying the Assembly district. Senator Henry H. Persons named the delegates in the Seventh and Eighth Asse Districts, composed of the of the county, and they were elected without opposition. In the First and Second wards, where the district mitteemen were for Platt, the or- sanization won by large majorities. un- r the leadership of ex-Alderman ck” White. Daniel O'Grady, a other of Assemblyman James M. E. O'Grady, led the fight in the Fifth As- sembly District, and was most feared hy the organization, but did not carry a ward, The State Convention delegation will oe for Roberts for Comptroller. Ed- ward W. Hatch and Frank C. Laughlin will have the solid support of the coun- ty for Justices of the Supreme Court. Congressman Mahany charges the or- ganization with counting his men out, and announces that he will take a con- testing delegation to the State Conven- on, and is confident that they will be seated. SSS ELECTRIC FOUNTAIN AT ATLANTA. Millions of Gallons of Water Pouring into the Grand Basin. Atlanta, Sept. 109— All the work on the magnificent electric fountain in the grand basin at the Cotton States and {nternational Exposition has been com- pieted, and for the past few days mil- ions of gallons of clear water have been pourinfg into the lake from the city nains. It is filling rapidly and will soon de up to the level of the boathouses ‘rom which the electric launches are to nake their trips. The fountain will be 2ne of the most beautifu and fog banks are aglow the col d lights that will flash from celow, it will be one of the most gor- enic illuminations ever pro- luced. The advance guard of the foreign la f the Midway Heights at States and Interna- ition is already beginning ve in Atlanta. Some of the Jap- are already here, and over 200 hi se boy actors, direct from Hong Kong, have landed on the Pacific coast, and are en route to Atlanta. The Jap- znese and Chinese viliages, with the theatres and bazaars, will be ready for the public on opening day, September tighteenth, It is probable that an exhibit will be nade by the Newport News Ship 2uilding Establishment at the Cotton States and International Exposition. = Se Se eee LEWIS COUNTY REPUBLICANS. Nominations and Instructions of the Con- vention Hied Yesterday. Lowville, Sept. 10.—The Lewis County Republican Convention was held in this village yesterday afternoon. Delegates co the State Convention were named, follows: C. <A. Chickering, C. L. (Knapp, M. W. Van Amber, M. R. Lefevre, and Hugh Hughes. The Siate lelegates were instructed to the nomination of Pardon C. Williams ‘or Court of Appeals Justice. 2s support to the Senatorial Conven- tructed to vote for Joseph . of Watertown, for te Delegates form the Fifth Di Lowvilie, was no Treasurer. The nom- ree for member of Assembly is very po- vular throughout the county. ae eee FRESH ARMENIAN OUTRAGES 1,000 Turkish Soldiers Said to Have Ren- dered 5,000 People Homeless. London, Sept. 10.—The Daily News publishes a dispatch from Kars saying that fresh outrages have been perpe- trated in the Erzinziian district. A band of brigands attacked, on August twelfth, a company of Turkish gendar- mes, killing a sergeant. Therefore, the h authorities, without making enian revolutionists from , who intended to release ex- vited Armenians who are still in pri at Kars. A force of 1,000 Turkish troops was sent to Komakh, and five villages were pillaged. Five thousand persons were rendered homeless. Men were tortured and women assaulte i. Four monaster- tes were sacked. It is reported that the Turkish minor officials have formed an anti-Christian society to slaughter | Christians if the F rte accepts the scheme of reforms the powers insist upon. —— i NAVAL VETERANS PARADE. | Nearly 200,000 Strangers in Louisville for the G. A. R. Encampment. Louisville, Ky., Sept. 10.—It is doubt- ful if this city ever before entertained as many guests as are here to-day. Certain it is that the town never before had within its limits so many battle- scarred soldiers. It is conservatively estimated that nearly 200,000 strangers are here, and the majority of them 30 years ago bore arms efther for the Blue or the Grey. But the blue and gray are one to-day, and men who were then at war, walk arm in arm as brothers. The event of to-day was the grand pa- rade of the Naval Veterans’ Association. All Louisvilje turned out tp see its old citizens. Naval Veterans’ parade started after 10.80, the hi fixed, with fully 10,000 men én line. course, they were not all ang of Uncle of Sam’s war navy. But the vgterans of the navy were the center eotton. Girl Bicyelist Killed by a eam. : Cc wn, Sept. 10.—Theresa Masohke, the 12-year-oM @aughter of Moses , &@ Clothier, died last night from injuries Tecelvell yesterday afternoon by coming intocoHision with a team of i ol &@ bicycle around @ 00: 5 vas fright- fully cut the | and face. 85 MINERS MAY BE LOST. They Did Not Heed the Warning of Danger at Houghton, Mich. Houghton, Mich., Sept. 9.—It is posi- tively known that thirty-five doomed men are entombed in the Osceola mine with no possibility of the recovery of their bodies until the fire is extingui 21, which may not be for months. ‘he opinion of some of the oldest o of the mine that the tire was the wor an incendiary. All of the doomed miners might have escaped had the heeded warnings, as Captain Edwards, who was the fi to detect the existence of fire, dispat messengers to every slope where m were known to be working. As the m not heavily timbered except in th shafts, the idea of serious danger w scouted. By gaing a roundabout way the men who were in the lower levei 5! No. 4 shaft might have escaped, but they preferred the shorier route of ascent by that shaft, and when they got up to th eighteenth level they found themselv eut off. Some passed into lateral shaf expecting to reach other shafts. Twenty of the thirty-five are married men and most of them have large fam- ilies. aoe HILL SPEAKS TO FARMERS. Twenty Thousand Persons Heard Him in Chemung County (N. Y.) Fair Grounds. Elmira, Sept. 6.—United States Senator David B. Hill spoke to 20,000 persons at the Chemung county fair yesterday af- ternoon. He refrained from discussing politics further than to refer briefly to the last Legislature in this State. Speak- ing of it, he said, among other things: “I may be pardoned for suggesting that in the matter of law-making it out- did any of its predecessors since the or- ganization of the State government. It actually passed 1,045 separate and dis- tinct bills, which became laws. It is not possible that all of these laws were actu- ally necessary. On the contrary, there were hundreds that were unnecessary, special in their character, mischievous in their tendencies, unwise or uncalled or. “In the multiplicity of laws there is no safety; there is confusion, a tendency to corruption, a waste of valuable time, un- likelihood of their enforcement, and gen- eral demoralization.” sat ROYAL PAUPERS SHOULD BE BARRED Trades Union Congress Favors Salaries for the Commoners. Cardiff, Sept. 5—At the session of the Trades Union Congress to-day the Par- liamentary committee was instructed to urge upon Parliament the passage of a bill declaring for the principal of payment of salaries to members of the House of Comons. Mr. Sexton, a delegate from Liver- pool, in seconding a motion for the adoption of a resolution in favor of the prohibition of the landing of pauper aliens, said he wished to include with- in the scope of the resolution royal paupers who arrive without visible means of subsistence, but who soon found them. These, Mr Saxton said, were the men who controlled the empire while the as British taxpayers har no rights at all. ge POPH’S INVITATION REJECTED. Archbishop of Canterbury Protests Against Reunion With the Catholic Church. London, Sept. 6—The Archbishop of Capterbury has issued _a long pastoral letter dealing with the Pope's recent let- ter to the English people and the appear- ance in the Church of England lately of porter foreign usages and forms of de- votion. He recognizes the desire for reunion as characteristic of our times, and admits that divisions among Christians are the chief obstacles to the progress of the Gos- pel. He accepts the many expressions of anxiety for delivery from these divi s as a sign of God’s purpose, but pr ts ‘against the introduction of modern Roman innovations in the ritual and doc- trine.”” He contends that “‘the suggested reunion only means forgetting our own church,” and exhorts clergymen and churchmen as heir first duty “to preserve the puri of be faith and practice which character- d our primitive Catholic spiritual re- ‘ormation.”” Se = GEN.HARRISON FOND OF THIS STATE. He is Negotiating With Dr. Webb for Land in the Adiron Old Forge, Sept. Harrison is negotiating with Dr. Sew- ard Webb for a number \dirondacks, near here. Some time a endeavored to buy the land ar Moose Lake which is owned by Webb. The land was found to be in Jtigation, however, and General Harr: n will not be able to get it. Since en he has been given the refusal of lots on First Lake. atoga, Sept. 6.—Ex-President Ben- ja Harrison has leased a Saratoz cottage for three months, and will o cupy it with members of his family after eaving the Adirondacks. ome ae PLATT BEATEN IN NIAGARA. Yhe Antis Elect 70 of the 99 Delegates to the County Convention. Lockport, Sept. 5.—The political fight between the Platt and anti-Platt fac- ons of the Republican party in Niagara county has resulted in a com- plete victory for the latter. The anti-Platt forces, led by Richard “rowley and Assemblyman Clark, have elected about seventy of the ninety-nine delegates to the county convention, in- dicating the nomination of an entire anti-Platt ticket in this county and John H. Clark for Senator. The fight has been a very hot one throughout, and the feeling is very bitter between the Republican factions. SSS ATTEMPT TO BLOW UP 4 CHURCH. Michigan Vandals Use Dynamite to Get Money From a Corner Stone. Greenville, Mich., Sept. 9—An attempt was made yesterday to bow up the rst Congregational Church of this city with dynamite. The charge was placed under the corner stone, but not being put under far enough, little damage was done. ‘The supposition is that the attempt was made for the purpose of obtaining a lar sum of money that is reported to have been deposited in the corner stone when the church was built. SS Peppermint Plants Used for Hay. Niles, Mich., 6.—Owing to the scarcity of hay the farmers in this vicinity are curing peppermint plants. Experiments hrve dicated that they give better resui- timothy hay when fed to stock. Gro of peppermint have realized over $100,K" this season. The growing takes place in wet lands. Fireman and Trainmxn Killed. Lexington, Ky., Sept. 9.—A colli occurred on the Cincinnati Southern railroad last night, near Blanchet, be- tween two freight trains. John Slosser, the fireman, and James Hendricks, 2 trainman, were killed, and Engineer Roberts, was injured fatally. 3 THE REMORSELESS BARBER’ Experience of a Lecturer with the Hair Trimming Fiend. The wild ungovernable passion barber has for trimming your h On the 4th of December I was in B ton, thinking about a lecture I was es pected to deliver in the evening. and so badly red that I couldn't re member the subject nor what it was about. I went into a Tremont street “Institute of Facial Manipulation Tonsorial Decoration,” and inquired for the professor who occupied — the chair of Mediae teenth Century Shampoo. junior members of the who was brushing an undergraduate’s coat pointed me to a chair, and I climbed in. When the performance about concluded, the barber said to me: “Have your hair trimmed, sir?’ 1 believe not. “Needs it very badly, sir,” he said; “looks very ragged.” I never argue with a barber. I said: I , trim it a little, but don't make it any shorter.” Immediately he trimmed all the curl out of it, and my hair naturally, you know, has a very graceful curl to it. I never discovered this myself until a few months ago, and then I was very much surprised. I discovered it by looking at my lithograph. Well, anyhow, he trimmed it. On the 6th of December I vy at Bath, Maine. Again I was shaved. nd again the barber implored me to let him trim my hair. When I an- wered him that it had been trimmed only two days before, he spitefully asked where it was done. I told him, and he gave expression to a burst of sareastic laughter. “Well, well, well,” he said at last, “so you let them trim your hair in Boston. Well, well. Now you look like a man who has been around the world enough to know better than that.” Then he affected to examine a lock or two very particularly, and sighed heavily. “Dear, dear,” he said, “I don’t know really, as I-could do anything with that hair or not; it's too bad.” Well bis manner frightened me, and I told him to go ahead and trim it. but please not to make it any shorter. “No,” he said, “oh, no, it wasn’t ne ary to cut it any shorter; it was really too short now, but it did need trimming.” So he “trimmed” and when I aced the Rockland audience that aight, I looked like a prize fighter. In four days from that time I was sitting in the chair of a barber down in New York State. He shaved me in grateful silence, and then thought- fully run his fingers over my lonely hair. “Trim this hair a little, sir?” he said, ‘straighten it up about the edges?” I meekly told him I had it trimmed twice during the preceding week. and I was afraid it was getting too short for winter wear. “Yes,” he said, “he didn’t know but what it was pretty short, but you didn’t need to cut it any shorter to trim it. It was in very bad, ragged shape at the ends.” I remained silent and obstinate, and he asked me where I had it trimmed last. I told him and he burst into a shout of laughter that made the win- dows rattle. “What's the matter, Jim?’ inquired an assistant partner down the room, holding his patient in the chair by the nose. Jim stifled his laughter and replied: “This gentleman had his hair trim- med down in Maine.” There was a general burst of merri- ment all over the shop, and the ap- prentice laid down the brush he was washing and came over to look at the Maine cut, that he might never for- a al Shaving and Nine- One of the faculty, it, get it. I surrendered. “Trim it a little, then,” I groaned, “but, in the name of humanity don’t cut it any shorter.” “No,” the barber said, “he wouldn't make it a hair's breadth shorte When I left that shop, if it hadn't been for my ears, my hat would 1 fallen down cl on my should: When I reached the hotel, eve started, and a couple of men got up ind read a handbill on the wall. des- eriptive of a convict who had recent- ly eseaped from Sing Sing. and looked from the bill to myself very intently. That night several of the audi drew revolvers as I came out on the ody platform. ees Then I went to Amsterdam, N. ¥ The barber of that s village, in the interval of his other du acts as mayor of the town, and edits the local papers. undertook to shave me with a piece of hoop iron he pulled out of his boot leg. When I resisted he went out into t <i and came back with a kitchen kutf: ind a can-opener, and offered me m3 choice. I selected the can opener, and who, he began the massacre, rking in- cidentally that he used to keep a good sharp spoke shave for his partic r customers, but he lost it. hen said my hair needed trimmin very badly. I protested that it was im possible, it had been * ‘uumed_ thre« times within ten daj and was as short now as a business man on tic 1st of January. “Oh,” he said, “it wasn’t too s! and beside there wasn’t no style about it at all.” He could give it soine shape, however, he said, without mak ing it any shorter. So I surrendered and told him to shape it up. And if that foredoomed abandoned, Amsterdam son of 4 oakum picker didn’t go out into the woodshed and come back with a ru old horse rasp and began to file what little hair I had left. He « ed a few shreds and patches to re main, however, clinging here and there to my scalp in ghostly loneli ness. I rather feared that my ap pearance that evening would create panic, but it did not. I observed t the majority of the audience had tt heads “shaped up” after the san manner, and were rather pleased wit my conformity to the local custom and style. Well, I got along to Corry, Pa., and rushed in for a shave and got it it no time and two motions. “Hair trimmed, sir?’ barber rae posed he king sarcas I sw was speaki sarcas tical and so I laughed, but vers feebly, for I was getting to be a littl sensitive on the subject of my hair or rather my late hair. But he re peated his question, and said that i needed trimming very badly. I tole him that was what ailed it, it b Deen trimmed to death; why. I i my hair has been trimmed five tm during the last thirteen days, and | was afraid it wouldn't last muci wt. the longer. “Well,” he said, “it was hardly the _ thing for a man of my impressive ap- pearance, who would naturally at- tract attention the moment I entered a room (I had to stand on tiptoe and hold on with both hands to look over the back of a car seat) to go around with such a head of hair, when he could straighten it out for me in a minute.” I told him to go ahead, and closed my eyes, and wondered what would come next. That fellow took a pair of dentist's forceps and “pulled” every lock of hair t had left. “There,” he said proudly, “now when your hair grows out it will grow yut even.” I was a little dismayed at first when T looked at my glistening poll, but ‘after all it was a relief to know that the end was reached, and nobody could torment me again to have my hair trimmed for several weeks. But when I got shaved at Ashtabula, the barber insisted on puttying up the holes and giving my head a coat of shellac. I yielded, and my head look- ed like a varnished globe with the maps left off. Two days after. I sat in a barber’s chair at Mansfield. The barber shaved me silently. Then he paused, with a bottle poised in his hand, and said: “Shampoo?” I answered him with a look. Then ne oiled my hairless globe and bent over it for a moment with a hairbrush. Then he said: “On which side do you part your hair?’—Robert J. Burdette. Ancient and Mediaeval Chemistry. The workmen who dyed clothes, clothing and tapestries in purple or other colors, an industry practiced first in Egypt and Syria and then in all the Grecian, Roman and Persian world, uot to speak of the extreme East, em- ployed highly developed chemical manipulations; and the cloths found on the mummies and in the saree phagi attest their perfection. Pliny and Vitruvius describe in detail the production of colors, such as cinnabor or vermilion, minium, red chalk, in- digo, black, green and blue colors, vegetable as well as mineral, perform- ed by painters. The chemistry of alimentation, fruitful in resources and ds, The as known of accomplishing at those delicate fermentations which produce bread, wine and beer, and which modify a large’ number of foods; also of falsifying wine by the addition of plaster and other ingred- jents. The art of healing, seeking everywhere for resources against dis- eases, had learned to transform and fabricate a large number of mineral and vegetable products. such as sugar of poppy, extracts of nigh oxide of copper, verdigris, white lead, the sulphurets of arsenic and arsenious acid; remedies and poisons were composed at the same time, for different purposes, by doc- tors and magicians. The manufac- ture of arms and of inflammator. stances—petroleum, sulphur, resins bitumens—had already, anciently well as in our own time, drawn upon the talents of inventors and given rise to formidable applications, especially in the arts of sieges and marine bat- tles, previous to the invention of the Greek fire, which was in its turn the precursor of gunpowder and of our terrible explosive matters——Popular Science Monthly. was next prac A Story Linclon Told Grant. Chronologically the talk had come to Grant's journey east to ume gen- eral Command, and his it meeting with Lincoln. ve you his ad from that inte “Not exactl, an: Grant. ‘You see, I was with him at the time.” “In Washington?” ¢ in Washington and in the » House--w it true h him and Lineoln.” that Lincoln quoted a . Bob Shorty and the from the Orpheus + to your father at that asked. though I don’t remem- that I do remember my ther that day about Jocko. Jocko wa ie com ander of an army of monkeys in a nd he was a sure ail was a little longer he the monkey war. So he ing the authorities of the y republic for more of a tail. ‘They got other monkey t¢ nd spliced them on his. His spliced tail got too long to dr after him, and wound it around his body. Still ‘anted more, and they wound h spliced tail about his shoulders. Fin- stor, him tell R end it got so heavy that it broke his Mr. Lincoln applied the stor ses of generals who were for more men and never did anything with them. They talked about the campaign. but in a desult- back. . I remember Mr. Lineoln’s ‘I don’t give tany military Some of those I do give I 10oW are wrong. Sometimes I think that all of them are wrong.’ ”"—Mc- Cure’s Magazine. Pat's Ingenuity. An Irishman on one occasion passed a grocer’s shop, and seeing a pile of cheeses on the counter, and noticing the shopman had left the shop, thought it a good opportunity to get a cheese for nothing. He therefore stepped lightly into the shop, and taking a couple of cheeses, placed o1e on each side of the scales. The shopman, hearing the noise, came from the back shop and asked Pat whit he was about. “Och,” said Pat, “don’t annoy your- self; I only wished to know if your cheese or mine is the heaviest.” “Like your confounded cheek,” said the shopman, angrily; “if you don’t take your cheese out of this at once I'll set the police on you.” Pat lifted the cheese, and, smiling at the trick he had performed, bade the shopman a respectful good-day. Following a Prophet. A false prophet has arisen on the [sland of Jamaica. He teaches that God has given him power to make a new Bethesda of a small river on the island. Every Wednesday he stands on a rock in the stream and blessed the waters, wh.ch are then supposed to have the power of healting any disease. The natives are crazy in the fanatic belief in the new prophet, and 20,000 pilgrims a day bathe in the waters.