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POE I‘RY. Out of Mourning. Board We gladly, " out of mourning, When bright Belle and Blanche Chose at last for their adorning Hues of almond branch. Blue of iris, gule of roses, Cross Care's sable line ; Borrow's marble cup encloses Consolation’s wine. And the low chant, ” out of mourning,” Heralds fresh'ning spring : ’Neath the rugged March Wind's warning Gleams her emerald ring ; Silver crown with sapphire eyelets, Cestus rich with pearls ; April’s feet, dew-washed, the violets Wipe upon their curls. Out of mourning I From their weaving, Sisters of the cloud, O’cr bald deserts, wild storms cleaving, Bring the rainbow's shroudâ€"â€" Violet, deep blue, azure, golden, Orange, burning redâ€" Shroud that light and life have holden For the darkness. dead. Out of mourning l Life-long vernal Love's ” blue flower” gleams 0n the border of th‘ eternal Garment “without seams ;” And forever " out of mourning " Sackcloth, ashes, earth, Drop at threshold of the dawning, And celestial birth. Among the Bend. My soul is sad to-day, I know not why ; Against my will, the brown loaves swirling round Carry my eyes down with them to the ground; I cannot see the blue, unelouded sky. Against my will. before my vision waves The hazv drapery of the golden air, In semblance of such veils as mourners wear Going with measured pace about new graves. Sad cadences in mighty billows surge Around me like the billows of a sea Of melody; but still the melody Taketh the solemn beauty of a dirge. Icall on memory, and would fain go back With her to the glad season of my youth : But stumbling progress do we make, in sooth, Because of graves that lie across the track. Well, it is well if sometimes we be led To sit in spirit by some grassy mound, 0r strew some tender thoughts, for flowers, around The quiet resting-places of our dead. If I, in truth, might lay my tired head Down softly on the grave I love the best, As if it were upon my mother's breast, Iknow my sad soul would be comforted. .0...“ What is Love ? (Translated from the German by S. Gale.) Of thy deep feelings, oh! my heart! I faiu would question thee. Know‘st thou this secret ? What is love? Ahl then reveal it me. "It is two souls fast united, Bound by a magic spellâ€" It is two hearts only beating Each thought, each wish to tell.” Then when is love the urest ? Say, is that moment nown ‘2 “ Yes. when it quite forgets itself, And loves for love alone I ” Canst tell when ’tis the deepest? Ie’t when both hearts are glad ? “ No; when they're still and silent, And others think them sad." Once moreâ€"when is't the richest? When on bright hopes it lives? “No; when it offers everythingâ€" ’Tis richest when it gives l ” When does it fade ?â€"for all things fade I When the spell is snapt and gone ‘2 “Never, indeed! though hearts may break, Loco fades notâ€"but loves on I ” FAST LONDON LADIEE. Habits of [he Princess of ‘Vulcs and Princess Louise. (London Correspondent ’Frisco Argonaut.) Afast woman in England is a totally different creature from her sister in America. What is understood by the word in England when it is employed to a woman is an independent manner and self-posses- sion not only beyond the bounds of affected prudery and straight-lacedness (as some claim),but give her a mannish style in all she says and does, of which horseishness and slang are the usual accompaniments. It does not follow, nor is it necessary, that she should be a flirt (though, of course, she may be, being a woman), for her faatness, as such, does not lie in the direction of affection for the opposite sex. On the contrary, should there be any love exhibited by her one would expect it to be for another woman, instead of a man. In short, though she may be rough and loud, and do things that shook one by their lack of feminine softness and refinement, she is never immoralâ€"that is to say, so far as her fastuess is concerned. At all events, if she is, we should not describe her want of chastity by the term f‘ fast." A forward, masculine woman is, I take it, as distasteful to all men as musta bashful and effeminate man be to a woman. My object only is to point out the distinction that exists in both countries as to the meaning and application of the term. Without these few remarks, as an ex- planatory preface, it would not be believed when I say that in her own quiet way the Princess of Wales is fast. That is to say, she has a good time of her own, and picks out all the good-looking fellows to dance with at aball. Of course, I know she is very dignified and cold, and all that sort of thingâ€"in public. She can’t well be other- wise with the eyes of Europe upon her. But in private, when staying at a country house with a jolly party, it is safe to say she is as larky as the rest of them. There is another thing, too, that people seem to forget when they hold her up as such an icy paragon ; and that is that she wears her gowns as decollete as an opera bouffe actress. I know she set her face against the sleeveless garments, and why 7 No one would wait long enough for an answer who saw her arms. The Princess Louise isdecidedly fast. She talks unblushingly wrth men on subjects which are usually supposed to come exclusively within the masculine province of discussion, and can appreciate the point of a joke whose re- cital would have delighted Dean Swift, or would make some other women’s hair stand on ends. She has a jolly, hearty laugh. Why do Women Laugh ? A divorce ease in which an elderly for- eigner sought to tear himself away from a young and pretty wife, who had proved to be more of a torment than a blessing, calls up the above question. He wanted to be forever rid of her because she laughed at him. Her “silvery peals ” of “ ringing laughter ” made life aburden to him, until he finally told her to “ glear owut,” and went straightway and filed a petition for a divorce. She beamed with smiles in the court-room, and when the judge asked her why she laughed at her husband in open court she laughed and said: “ I like to laugh; I was born to be merry,” and laughed again. ' Are all women “ born that way '2” asks the Bos- ton Globe. They certainly laugh a great deal more than men do. It was a mistake to call them “the sad sisterhood.” They are the laughing sex. Notice them in conversation either with their own or the other sex. Their faces are invariably wreathed with smiles, and they laugh incessantly. Is it habit, or is it the result of a more highly organized nervous systemâ€"what the superior scientists contemptuoust call an “hysterical organization"â€"or is it the woman’s inborn desire to please finding expression by seeming interested and amused, or is it that a woman really is more easily amused than amen? Per- haps it is a combination of all four. At any rate, it forms as distinctive a line be- tween tbe sexes as any of the common peculiarities which are supposed to charac- terize one sex or the other. Horses hard at work need water much more frequently than the morning, noon, or night'plan. If not allowed to drink between morning and neon they become extremely thirsty, and will overload their stomach With water, so that their food will not digest quickly. written comes to light in Berlin. writes: been fought, the most glorious victory gained. Bonaparte affair is new again about fin- ished. La Belle Alliance, the 19th early. I can write no more, for I tremble in all limbs. Academy of Sciences, M. Paul Bert, a high authority, testifies to the excellence of 8 grammes of chloroform vaporizsd in 100 litres of air as an anaesthetic. CURRENT TOPICS. AN unpublished letter from Blucher, immediately after Waterloo, The marshal “ My child, the finest battle has Details will follow. Ithink the The exertion was too great.” IN a long communication to the French His experi- ments were made on human beings of both sexes from 17 months upwards. The mix- ture is not disagreeable. Some rather like it. Insensibility resulted in 0 or 8 min- utes, and in one case was maintained 1;- hours. There was no nausea. IN a letter dealing wtth Land Law Re- form, Mr. John Bright expresses the belief that opinion has so far advanced on this question that the British Parliament will before long consent to changes which a few years ago men thought almost impossible. He feels satisfied that in the main the owners of the soil will profit by those changes not less than other classes of our population. “Some,” he adds, “may be timid, some may doubt, but future years will prove the wisdom of the changes we have suggested, and which cannot now be long delayed.” FROM 8. recent decision of the German Reichsgericht it appears that snuff is to be considered an article of food. A taker of snuff discovered . that his nose was colored blue by the use of a certain article, and chemical examination proved that the tobacco had been colored with ultramarine. Testimony was brought forward to show that this was in accordance with long- established usage, but the judge‘regarded the manipulation as an adulteration and imposed a fine upon the manufacturer under the law prohibiting the adulteration of foods, etc. Lasssrs, the Suez and Panama Canal proprietor, has a running account with sleep, taking twenty-four hours at a timev and at another none for five or six nights. In travelling he gets into the first compart- ment at hand, and sits anywhere; if he finds an agreeable companion he talks, if not he folds his arms and goes to sleep, never waking until he reaches his destina- tion. When he went down the other day to Chesnay, near Bordeaux, he requested the guard to wake him lest he should go beyond. On a voyage from Marseilles to Alexandria he slept 107 hours out of the 130 of the voyage, and then not for some days. Ax English judge, the late Mr. Justice Byles, always took his notes of evidence in shorthand, and he was therefore enabled to get through cases with most exceptional rapidity. At Bristol Assizes, a few years before his retirement, he was once quite floored by his own hieroglyphics and after a delay of some minutes he turned for aid to the reporters’ box. " Can you gentle- men kindly assist me with a word here? I have not put in the vowels, and what I have got in my book looks as if the witness had said: ‘Go and call the baby.” The witness had been referring to a policeman, which the judge had rendered “ bobby." In 1842 there stood, and there is every reason to believe, still stands, at Vostiza, on the Gulf of Depanto, Greece, an Oriental plane tree, whose girth was, in 1842, at five feet from the ground, 37 feet. This tree, situated in the middle of the village, on a gradual slope, standing on a raised plat form of flat stones. evrdontly for protection to the roots, is a striking object on entering the village, and especially noteworthy as existing in the days of Pausanias, the Greek historian, who, living in the second cen- tury, makes mention of it in his travels ; and the tree must have been of considerable size and age at that time to have made it worthy of remark, its age, probably dating considerably before the Christian era, mak- ing it more than 2,000 years old. It was in full vigor in 1842. The villagers hold it in high respect. FROM a rough draft of Prince Bismarck's Bill for insuring men against accidents and death, it appears that all the various em- ployers will be required toestablish in- surance companies, and to pay the whole of the premiums on the lives and limbs of their workmen, in proportion to the wages earned by the latter, and to the danger tariff. Thus one element in the previous Bill, which formed such a bone of conten- tion, had been droppedâ€"namely, part pay. ment by the State of the accident assur- ance premiums, with which the labor-givers or capitalists are now to be exclusively burdened. Should, however, any of the companies (Genossenschaften) prove un- equal to their liabilities they may be aided, or even taken over by the State. TECHNICAL newspapers in Germany have for some time been discussing the relative value of clover grown in this country. The opinion lately expressed by a farmer in an agricultural association in Elbing, East Prussia, on the subject will be of interest. Herr Schwann said that he had used American cloverseed for more than ten years, and never noticed that it suffered in winter ; that he had previously used Ger- man elovor, which suffered considerably, and once the crop entirely failed. He has, too, noticed that, though American clover has a thinner stem, it grows fuller and yields more. So, notwithstanding be cautious of the papers, he intended to con- tinue sowing American clover. He con. sidered the Canadian the best, and recom- mended applicants to be careful to procure fresh seed. THE words “sewerage” and “sewage’ are so often confounded that even our best dictionaries have been compelled to give each of them the same pair of meanings. Yet it was just to avoid the embarrassment and make a useful distinction that they were invented. They were coined by Mr. James Pilbrow, an eminent English civil engineer, and were first used by him in a report in 1850. They soon came into general use, but as they were not then in any distionary, he was on one occasion summoned before the Lord Chancellor of England to state their exact meaning. He then explained “sewerage” as meaning ‘ the complete system of sewer-pipes and drains of any city or district," and “ sew- age ” as denoting “ the refuse which passes through such pipes or the soil.” This dis- tinction is plain and should always be ob- served. Tns absurdity of the existing English marriage law is well illustrated, says the Pall Mall Gazette, by a piece of persecution about which a question was asked in the House of Commons a few days ago. A parishioner at Eppisg and his wife were refused the Holy Communion by the vicar on the ground that the woman was the man's deceased wife‘s sister. The hus- band was 82 years old, and the wife 77, and they had been married 50 years; but Dr. Claughton, the Bishop of the diocese, ap- parently held that they both came within the definition of “notorious evil livers," and sustained the vicar in his action. The Attorney-General, however, has now pointed out that the marriage, having been contracted before Lord Lyndhurst’s Act, is strictly valid, and the Vicar has been ad- vised by the Bishop that the two parishion- ers “cannot legally be repelled from the Holy Communion.” the law been Dr.Claughton in a letter to the parishioners, " I should have been spared the painâ€"no less to myself than to yourselvesâ€"of order- ing the said repulse.” strong reasons for desiring the accession of the Tory party to power as that of the Duke of Aberccrn,whose sons are the bitter-est personal assailants of members of the pres- ent Government. for his position, and the action of the Land Commission has by no means raised his income,which is chiefly derived from Iro- land. His daughters have married men who have no need of money with their wives, but he has five sons, three married pend upon their father’s purse, while in incurred those of elections. eeives a salary as a lord in waiting to the Prince of Wales, the second ekes out his income by being ViccChairman of a rail- .as he could wear to bed. But when he “ Had this view of present to my mind,” adds No FAMILY in Britain probably has such The Duke is a poor man and with children, all of whom mainly de- addition to domestic expenses four have The eldest re- read and Director of about a dozen com- panies. The ablest, Lord George Hamil- ton, married a lady with some 05,000 a year, which his brothers did not. It may easily be imagined that to men so situated exclu- sion from office year after year is a serious mortificaticn. The Duke has now to find money to pay the election bills of his son who has Just been defeated at Paisley. TITLES 0F POPULAR NOVELS. The “’ny in Which the Authors Came to Hit Upon Them, Shortly after marrying his first wife, who, though a most sweet and charming creature (see “David Copperfield ”), wasn’t very much of a housekeeper, Charles Dickens came home from the lodge one morning in the wee, sma’ hours, and as usual struck a bee-line for the pantry. He was unusually hungry even for him, and as he stole stealthin across the kitchen floor in his stocking feet he thought to himself that the best half of a cold fried chicken would be about as acceptable a nightcap got there the cupboard was bare. From the top shelf to the bottom and from one end to the other of all of them there was not to be discovered so much as a pickle. It is said that upon this occasion Charles Dickens uttered his first, last, and only oath. ” By gad, sir l” swore the great man, “this blawsted cupboard presents as blank an aspect as the rest of the establish- ment. It’s a demnition bleak house ;" and Mr. C.Dickens was so struck with the happy significance of his last remark that he im- mediately forgot his hunger, and, rushing upstairs to his study, wrote on the titleâ€" page of his last half-completed novel: “ Bleak House, by Charles Dickens.” A noted Frenchman of an alleged scientific turn of mind ran away to sea in his early youth. Failing to gain either fame or fortune in the sea-faring business, he became despondent, and finally, re- solving to learn what the next world held in store for him, plunged one day from the mast-head into the sea. Several seconds before he came to the surface he had come to the conclusion that he was hardly pre- pared to die, and wondered how many miles it was up to daylight and air. He was at last discovered, hauled on board the ship, the water pumped out of him,and lived long enough to embody his submar- ine experience in a voluminous lie entitled “Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea.” Messrs. Gilbert & Sullivan had always belonged to that despised class of human beings known as laud-lubbers until a few years ago, when they accomplished a short voyage aboard one of Her Majesty’s men- of-war. As might be expected, neither of them proved good sailors, and the weather throughout the entire voyage being un- usually tcmpestuous, they encountered no little difficulty in keeping anything on their stomachs more than an hour or two at a time. At last, to save their shirt-fronts from utter ruin, both these gentlemen were compelled to resort to an arrangement usually applied to very young children under similar circumstances. And “ Pina- fore " was the name they naturally chose for the opera they subsequently produced in commemoration of that remarkable voyage. “ Put Yourself in His Place” is a title which is supposed to have suggested itself to Charles heads on observing the hope- lessly henpecked condition of the unfor- tunate man who married his former sweet- heart. “ All that glitters is not gold,” moaned a certain song-writer when he discovered too late that the coins he had received in change for a crisp new greenback were counterfeit. He immediately set to work and wrote a song about it. One night Wilkie Collins awoke suddenly out of a deep sleep, oppressed with a sense of horror for which he could not account, but which almost deprived him of the power to move or breathe. After several which seemed to him superhuman efforts he man- aged to raise himself up on one elbow, but fell quickly back with a smothered shriek, and covered his eyes to shut out the un- natural shape which stalked mysteriously about in the moonlight of the room. The familiar voice of Mrs. Wilkie telling him that the baby had the colic, and the pare- goric was out, brought him to. Before Mr. Collins had returned from the drug store he had already blocked out that thrilling story, “ The Woman in White." __.._.._._â€"___ llow [incl-ions Change. A lady of prominence in society can almost start as a fashion any freak that may occur to her. If it is in dress it will be surely copied. Women, as a rule, are like so many sheep and must be led. Mrs. Ogden Goelet was the first lady to wear a jewelled pin at the back of her bodice, where the lacing meets at the top. The pin was handsome and contained some very precious stones ; it was first seen in its new position at one of the Delmonico balls this winter. At the next ball two or three ladies appeared with handsome pins attached to this part of the dress, and it was only a few weeks later that the number of ladies who wore valuable pins on this peculiar spot had considerably increased. And so it is with almost everything that appertains to dress.â€"â€"N. Y. Mail and press. Other People. From the lowest to the highest all of us in our way spend money, and dress and eat and drink, and generally order our lives, on a scale we should not think of adopting, if it were not for “ other people.” The great bulk of our money troubles, and nearly all the cheating and lying and wickedness in the world connected with money, which has been described as the “ root of all evil,” maybe traced to the, love and desire of standing well in the estimation of ‘»‘ other people,” of being thought richer than we are, and of being credited with the possession of property or resources which do not, as amatter of fact, belong to us. A WsAssL’s SINGULAu Faraâ€"A Biddeford gentleman found in his woodshed a dead weasel with his tongue frozen to an axe blade. The axe has been used in cutting beef in the morning, and the animal, in at- tampting to secure a piece of the meat which adhered to the blade, had singularly met his deathâ€"Boston Journal. Osman Digna’s martial robes consist of a sheet and a straw hat. He does not depend upon the set of his clothes for his Dignified appearance. Decorations that will Make the ordinary gar-donor’s size. flower-pots containing flowers, hiding pots with green moss. inside fix a wooden trough, and in this and all along plant hanging creepers and lyco- podium; also some ivy, and let this latter fall over the wheel. arranged, gild the barrow on the outside. It is best to get the dry gliding powder, two packages of bronze and four of the yel- low gilt packages, with a. liquid that comes for mixing with it. brush an inch wide. thoroughly dry, varnish the surface with white varnish and it will retain its bright- ness. THE LADIES’ COLUMN. House blore Beautiful. , "‘42.... . THE LATEST RE CIPES . Buy “’indow Decoration. A novel decoration is a wheelbarrow, Fill it with the Round the edges After the flowers are Use a flat camel‘s hair When the gilt is Stand on a bright red rug or mat. Arrangement of Curtains. A tasteful way to arrange the narrow curtains at each side of ahall door is to make them of muslin or of lace, gather them at the top and bottom, have the muslin full. About midway between the top and bottom tie a ribbon around the muslin, make a pretty bow and let it come next to the glass. Tie the ribbon so close that the muslin will be drawn in at the centre, let the muslin hang loosely and gracefully, not in stiff folds. If there are no other windows in the hall, plenty of light will be admitted by this arrange- ment. Dotted muslin is preferred to plain. Fancy Bunker. Shallow open basket of wicker-work cov- .e dwith a clear eerucolorcd satin, tufted. The flower pattern is worked on the ground as follows: The centre flower with coral silk of three shades, in satin stitch, and gold bronze in overcast stitch; the sepa- rate point russe and chain stitches with red silk, and the calyx with reseda wool. The rest of the flower with three shades of blue in buttonhole stitch, and gold bronze in overcast stitch. The vine leaves,tendrils and arabesques with. several shades of olive and reseda erewels; the raised spots in satin stitch with crimson silk. The scallops at the lower edge are worked with brown crewels. The basket is finished with bright chenile, braided with silk pompons. The edge is decorated w1tb long tassels made of bright-colored worsteds and silk. The handle is twisted with satin ribbon and tied in full bows at each end. The basket can be gilded, and looks much brighter. Original Recipes. To canvas hamsâ€"When the hams are smoked ready for canvasing roll them in stiff paper. Cut your brown muslin to fit them, and sew it on with a large needle and twine. Then make a starch of flour and yellow ochre, and with a small white- wash brush cover them well with it. Hang them up to dry. Snow-Flake Cakeâ€"Three eggs, one cup and a half sugar, half-cup butter, half-cup milk, half-teaspoonful soda, one teaspoonful cream tartar, two cups flour, whites of two eggs, half-cup of sugar beaten together. Bake in jellvcake tins, frost each layer and sprinkle with grated cocoanut. This is excellent. Delicious Hot Cake for Tes.â€"â€"Beat two eggs to a froth, add to them half a cupful of sugar. Into one cupful of sour cream beat half a teaspoonful of soda dissolved in boiling water. Stir it into the eggs and sugar, Adda pinch of salt and flour enough to make it a thick batter for griddle cakes. Bake in “ gem pans ” or shallow biscuit pans, and serve piping hot. Pudding made of cracked wheat is very agreeable and nourishing To one quart of sweet milk allow nearly half a cupful of cracked wheat; put it in a pudding dish and bake slowly for two hours, stirring it several times. If you choose to do so you can add raisins and cinnamon for flavoring, but most people prefer it well salted, and to eat with a little cream and sugar. This is nice, both warm and cold. Domestic and Useful. Never neglect acold. The attack may not seem severe, but a cold is a cold, and therefore an enemy to be looked after with the greatest watchfulness. To ensure the cracking of pork being crisp and eating short, just before the pork is done moisten the skin allover with a little butter, dredge it with flour, and place it near the fire to brown. It may not be known to some housewives that if flour is kept in a closet wrth onions or cabbage it will absorb unpleasant odors from them; you may not notice this until the flour is cooked, but then you will. Irish poplin is likely to be once more fashionable, and herinterest in its manufac- ture is again instanced by the action of the Queen, who has selected this material for the bridal dress of her granddaughter. Princess Victoria, of Hesse. To Whiten Linen that has Turned Yel: lowâ€"Take a pound of fine white soap, out it up into a gallon of milk, and hang it over the fire in a wash-kettle. When the soap has quite melted put in the linen, and boil for half an hour. Now take it out, having already a lather of soap and warm water ; wash the linen in it, and then rinse it through two cold waters, with a very little blue in the last. Pincushions.â€"Pretty round pincushions can be made in semblance of a sunflower. Make the petals of yellow cloth, each one curled and fastened together like a small paper bag with the top opened and painted, and arranged around a stuffed circular cushion of brown velvet or velveteen, with afrayed row of gold-colored silk sewed round the centre, which is studded with pins. The whole is the size of a large real sunflower. «,___L. England’s Necessity. France is reconstructing her navy; Ger- many is reorganizing her’s ; Russia is fast strengthening her's; and Italy is develop- ing a very powerful fleet. All Europe is, in fact, recognizing the necessity of having heavily armored ships, fitted with modern ordnance and carrying trained crews. The British Admiralty are not unconscious of this significant fact, and the constructive programme which is arranged for this financial year will show that Lord North- brock and his colleagues are also alive to the importance of increased expenditure, rather than retrenchment, in the building of line-of-battle ships. During 1883, four- teen vessels were launched for Her Majesty’s navy, twelve vessels were ordered to be con- strueted,and in most cases were commenced, and at the present time there are, in ad- dition to the number just mentioned, seven others on the stocks, which were under construction prior to the commence- ment of last year. The vessels now in progress, some of which are in a forward state for launching, include a sixteemgun screw corvette, built of steel and iron, cased with wood, 2,770 tons and 3,000 horse power engines ; a fourteen-gun screw composite corvette, of 1,420 tons, with engines of 950 horse power; three twin screw steel armor-plated barbette ships, each of 9,600 tons and engines of 7,500 horse power, to carry ten guns each ; a similar vessel, but of less tonnageâ€" namely, 7,390 tons, but with engines of greater horse powerâ€"namely, 8,000, and a ten-gun double screw steel second class steam cruiser, of 3,750 tons, with engines of 5,000 horse power. L...__._..___. In the attack on Bacninh the French forces made use of captive balloons for observations, heliographs for signalling, pontoon trains and other scientific re- sources. The 'l‘i'oublcs- “'hich Fashion [leaps on of our day errs against common sense is the excessive weivht that characterizes it, owing to the quantity of material now used for dresses. now, is it not ?” asked a gentleman in the days of round crinoline and distended skirts, referring to the quantity needed for a gown, and the satire is applicable now, though even the duodecimo edition of crino- line known as the crinolette is no longer known. ally incoherent trimmings and too often irrelevant draperies. skill is too costly any but the wealthyâ€"to tumc that shall have the air of being rately trimmed, and yet be light enough to wear without inconvenience during a. brisk walk. riches of during the last few years, to have chosen a fabric, selected the style of making, and do. cided upon the trimming, with the result of a gown delightful to look upon, but im- possible to wear. for woolen materials, combining warmth and lightness, a demand which was T00 "EA VY DRESSES. the Fair Sex. The chief particular in which the dress I“ “ Silk is sold by the acre The stuff is absorbed in occasion- It needs skillâ€"and to be at the command of produce a cos- elabo- It has been within the expe- thousauds of Englishwomen Thus arose the demand promptly responded to, with the occasional result of disgusting old-fashioned shoppers, who test a fabric by its weight, as well as by a peculiarly horrible way of trying to scrape a hole in it with the thumb-nail. Minds open to more enlightened impres- sions were soon, however, convinced of the value of these viougnas, serges, tweeds, and other cloths; but. unfortunately, they have had the effect of encouraging, rather than discouraging, elaborate trimâ€" mings. Thus, the fact remains that for the million unduly heavy dresses are the rule. It seems absurd that fourteen or fifteen yards are needed to make a gown for a woman, while about five yards are suffi- cient to make a great coat for a man. It is fortunate, in view of this fact, that trained resses are worn only at dinner and in the form of tea-gowns. The added weight and inconvenience of a train, which must be held in the band, would render a walk a penance instead of a pleasure. It may be hoped thatfashion will never reintroduce the long skirt for outdoor work. It has nothing to recommend it, even from the point of view of the dressmaker, who has now found it possible to crowd all bearable trimmings upon the limited surface of the short dress. When trains first went out, leav- ing the feet plainly visible, coquetry brought them more prominently into evidence by the introduction of the high-heeled boot. This, in its turn, has now almost entirely disappeared from the walking gear of the fashionably dressed; and there is even a gleam of hope that high heels may vanish from the ball-room before long ; and, with them, their peculiar influ- ence on the dances of the day. The jerky verse, now in so much vogue,would soon be consigned to oblivion, together with the sharp little *‘tapvtap” of the narrow, elongated heel of the fashionable shoe ; and those who realize that even ball-room dancing mightbe softly poetic and dreamin graceful would cease to be irritated by the sudden swing and the violent onslaught of couples engaged in the arduous [mix-temps. Let such as these hope for the abolition of the high-heeled dancing-shoe, even though itbe followed by the mournful elegies of those deficient in stature though not in the ambition of preferring a tall partner.â€"» London Standard. wolvaan’s unnaosrrv. “’th Excited II in Japanâ€"[lonely No! in Favor. In the country house of a ruined daimio, where we obtained lodging and entertain- ment, writes an English lady travelling in Japan, I was accuse of much amusement. A number of ladies were invited to meet me at afternoon nice (the name for dinner.) They cation their heel: around the little table which I used as a chair. My feet were stretched out before me. The hostess with, as 1 took it, many apologies, began to inspect my boots. As her curiosity was keen, I drew them off. All the ladies pounced upon them, and some of them asked leave to fit them on. Before doing this, they caused bowls of hot water to be fetched, washed their feet carefully and dried them by fanning them, which made the wet evaporate quickly. As they all had children’s feet, my boots were awkwardly big and more ridiculous than I can say. The ladies next handled my skirt and acreage, and, to oblige them, I took them off. The pettiooats had their turn, then my stockings, which they did not laugh at, after them my buckled elastic garters, and last my stays. Japanese politeness here broke down. Every one shock and cried with laughter in looking at the stays. One of the ladies had picked up some French at Osaka (a treaty port), and ex- plained to me that the others wished to know whether the stays had been invented to serve as a cuirass to protect fair Euro- peans from rude men, or was it worn as a penitential garment to expiate sins? I said: “No, but to beautify the figure." This answer convulsed them. Astaycd- up woman affected their impressionable and well»educated eyes as something mon- strously ugly and absurd. Japaneso dress is beautiful, and so easy. There was yet another question to be answered. There are, so far as I know, neither cows nor goats in Japan. Children are not, therefore, weaned until they are nearly big enough to go to school. I had noticed that poor little Miss Mite was an object of general commisera- tion. I did not know why. The reason came out when my stays were being ex- amined. They were a barrier between the mother and the child, which was out off by them from its lacteal rights. I told them that we delegated the nursing duties to poor women and cows. I am afraid I was imperfectly translated, for I saw that I was for a moment an object of horror. Ten lllillfon Car Wheels. “There are more than 10,000,000 iron car wheels in use on American railroads,’ said the master mechanic of one of the trunk lines, “and it requires about 525 pounds of pig iron to make one wheel. About 1,250,000 wheels are worn out every year, and the same number of new ones must be made to take their places. The iron men are called upon for only a small proportion of the 312,500 tons of maternal required for these new wheels, however, for nearly 290,000 tons are supplied by the worn-out wheels themselves. Formerly the life of a ear wheel was estimated at eight years, but the reduction of the railroads generally to the standard gauge, and the improvements in loading and unloading facilities, have materially decreased the length of service that a wheel may be depended on to perform. The uni- formity in gauge keeps cars in more con- tinuous use, while the decrease in time of loading and unloading enables them to be put to more active servme even where they are run only on short local routes. These figures do not include the wheels on palace coaches and the better class of passenger coaches. The wheels on that grade of rolling stock are now made almost exclu- sively of paper. They are as serviceable as iron, and combine lightness with strength, a great desideratum where speed and economy in motive power are of paramount importance.” The Smith family fills fifteen closely printed columns in the new London direc tory, and the Browns eight. There is 111 the city acharity for poor Smiths estab- lished by an alderman of the name 200 years ago. He gave £1,000 to captiyes held by Turkish pirates, and £1,000 to poor kinsmen, and the latter fund has increased until it is worth about $60,000 a year Bladder and Urinary Diseases. $1. Druggists. Gustave Dore, is dead, aged 53 years. manifold evil. with this many-headed monster of disease you will find it expedient to keep Mrs. Pinkham’s vegetable Compound always at hand.â€"-Dr. 13cm- mug. sued one of his tenants for arrears of rent. and an educated physician. tion, but am my sole family physician, and ad- vise in many chronic cases. recommended your flop Bitters to my invalid wife, who has been under medical treatment of Albany’s l)ch physicians several years. become thoroughly cured of her various com- plicated diseases by their use. mend them to our friends, many of whom have afiso been cured of their various ailments by t cm. candidates certificates at Belleville. The examinations concluded last evening. Ask for Wells' ” Rough on Corns." 150. Quick. complete, permanent cure. Corns, warts, bunions. any moment detected and punished. Truth is calm, serene, its judgment is on high; its king cometh out of the chambers of eternity. Diamond Dye colors. lbs. of goods. for wisdom cannot be stolen or lost ; it is therefore thy best friend. Said a surf *rcrfrom Kidney to try Kidney-Wort. last dose." The man get well and is now recom- mending the remedy to all sufferers. In this case good advice came just in time to save the man. of a man by the impression he makes on the public than we can tell whether the seal was gold or brass by which the stamp was etc. memo colic ted. YOUNG MEN Send your name and 100. in stamps to F. KEY”! Engineer. BxidsePOfi. Oi: “BUCIIU-I’AIBA.” Quick, complete cure, all annoying Kidney, -L‘.“ Ernest Dore, elder brother of the late *Tlie term hydra may be used to represent any If you would battle successfully A Dublin despatch says Mr. Parnell has -n__._. ' Scrrro, N.Y.,Dcc.1,1879. ' I am the Pastor of the Baptist Church here, 1 am not in prac- Over a year ago 1' She has We both recom- an. E. It. WAnnEN. __.__. Lieut.-Col. Villiers has been examining for second-class military “ IKOUGII (EN Cfllil‘S.” _â€"_9__._. Falsehood is in a hurry; it may be at Wâ€" Lé's’ Fast, brilliant and fashionable are the One package colors 1 to 4 10 cents for any color. . ma... ._._ Riches are less wealth than is learning, *,*“ The best advice may come too late." troubles, when asked "I'll try it but it will bemy â€".â€"- One can no more judge of the true value made. “ ROUGH 0N COUGHS.” Knocks a Cough or Gold endwise. For children or adults. Troohes, 150. Liquid 50c. At druggists Meissonieris painting a large picture which represents Francis I. and the ChevalierBayard in the midst ofa gor- geous company. Crowned with success. Success has current value the wide vvorld over. It breaks down every barrier and holds the key that unlocks every door. Pre- judice, the result of many failures, and the memory of painful experiences melt away like mist before the convincing merit of PCTNAM'F} I’AIvass Ions Exrnacron, and new when thousands willing and glad to testify to its wonderful efficiency, it goes forth crowned with the success that only real merit attains. Buy Putnam’s Painless Corn Extractor. Beware of imitations. N. 0. Poison do Go, proprietors, Kingston. A little girl of 7 years, daughter of Mr. George Dunontier, of St. Suuveur, Que, died suddenly on Sunday. She complained to her mother of a headache, and imme- diately fell dead at her feet. .â€"*â€"â€"â€" The Agony Over. Pain banished as if by magic. Polson’l Nnnmmsn is a positive and almost instan- taneous remedy for external, internal, or local pains. The most active remedy hit-h- crto known falls far short of Nervaline for potent power in the relief of nerve pain. Good for external or internal use. Buy n 10 cent sample bottle by dealers. L 4‘58 bottles 25 cents, at all druggists. Nothing is so great an instance of ill- manners as flattery. If you flatter all the company, you please none. If you flatter only one or two, you affront the rest. A bomb explosion occurred at Trieste yesterday in front of the Governor-Gene- ral’s residence, causing no damage. Genius never grows old; young to-day, mature tomorrow; always immortal. It is peculiar to no sex or condition, and she is the divine gift to woman no less than men. “ He stood six feet two in his stockings, and every inch 8. man," says an exchange. him! That is seventy-four inches; “ every inch a man,“ would make seventy- four men. This must be the same identical customer who was a “ host in himself."â€" The Judge. A wound from atongue is worse than a wound from a sword, for the latter affccts only the body, the former the spiritâ€"â€"the soul. q 5-. awn...“ are» -~ « I3} A SUWE CURE :1 for all diseases of the Kidneys and It has specific action on this most important , organ, enabling it to throw off torpidity and , - " inaction, stimulating the healthy secretion'of 1 , the Bile, and by keeping the bowels in free l , t , condition, effecting its regular discharge. ' l l _ " If a ‘ fferingi'romi Malaria. 37"“ m“ » l l l l malaria, have the chills, ‘- , are bilious, dyspeptic, or constipated, Kidney- 1 “fort will surely relieve and quickly cure. ‘ In the Spring to cleanse the System, every ‘ one should take a. thorough course of it. BYDRUQâ€" ESTS. P 3% R M WEND FOR DESCRIPTIVE CIR- CULAR, Price list- and Testimonials of Brick Machines and Brick Presses. We also make the “Eureka Combined Brick and Tile Muchino ” for horse or steam power. I. CLOSE 6: SON, Woodstock, Ont. EYE, Ell/f AND Til/MAT. R. G. s. srfiouna 0.1% a S. E., Lecturer on the Eye, Ear and Throat, Trinity Medical College, Toronto. Oculist and Aurist to the Toronto General Hospital, late Clinical Assistant Royal London Ophthalmic Hospital, Moorefield's and Central London Throat and Ear Hospital. 317 Church Street, Toronto. main) YOUl‘iSELF. OBEBT’SPEBFECT WASHERS .1. to be had only from authorized agents. ’ you want to get agency and make moneyrapidly, don't let some one else get ahead of you and secure your town or county right. Too good to go begging. Particulars 3 cents. Very suitable for ladies. R. It. YOUNGER, Agent for Patentce‘ Gananoque Ihave a positive remedy for the above rise; b it; use thousands of cases of the worst kind and of (mg standln have been cured. Indeed, so strong is an (alt in its many, that I will send TWO BOTTLES Fit ,to- gether with uVAllUABLE TREA'I‘ISE on this disease, to any eutIorcr. Give Express and 1’, 0. address. DR. r. A. SLOGUM, 191 Pearl St.,NewYDrb ESTABLISHED 1869. GIBB & GALLOW All kinds of Iloa; Products handled, also Button, Cheese. Eggs. Poultry, Tallow Pat. E g Carriers supplied. Consign- 83 Colborne street Toronto learn steam engineering and earn $100 per month com Mich Circulars tree LYDIA E. PINKHAM‘S VEGETABLE COMPOUND. A Sure Sure for all FEMALE WEAK: NESSES, Including Lcucorrhoan, lr-r regular and Painful Menstruation, Inflammation and Ulccrntion of the Womb, Flooding, PRO- LAI‘SUS UTERI, &c. ml’lcasant to the taste, eflicwcious and immediate in its effect. It is a great help in pregnancy, and r 5 licves pain during labor and at regular periods. I’lfYSlf'fAXS IISE IT AND PRESCRIBE IT mum. [enlion ALLWEAKNE‘SSES of the generative organs of either sex, it is second to no remedy that has ever been before the public; and for all diseases of the KIDNEYS it is the Greatest Rmrwdg 1a the World. WIDKIDNEY CORIPLAINTS of Either Sc} Find Great Relicfin Its Use. LYDIA EJ’INKIIAM’S BLOOD PUIII'FTER will eradicate every vestigo of Burners from the Blood. at the same time will give tone and strength to the system. As marvellousin rcsul‘ tsasthc (.empomid fif‘Botli the Compound and Blood I‘uriflcr are pro par-ed at 233 and 235 Western Avenue, Lynn, Mass. Price of either, all . Six bottles for The Compound is sent bysnail in the form of pills, or“ of lozenges, on receipt of price, $1 per box for either. Mrs. I’lnlshcni freely'answers all letters of inquiry. Enclosellccnt Hemp. Sand for pamphlet. Mention this 1’...”ch P31"l.\’DI/\ E. I’INKIIAM’S LIVER PILLS euro (‘qnslipo‘ tidii, lllllonsnoss and Torpulity of tho Livvr. 2o cents. WSoId by all Drugflstsféfi is) _____________._.._._â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"- I). L‘ N. 1.. l4. “.4. ________.__â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"-â€" (Continued) CHAPTER 11. wonderful and mysterious curative power is developed which is so varied in its operations that no disease or ill health can possmly extsl or resist its power, and yet it is Harmless for the most frallwoman, weakest invalid or smallest child to use. "1‘ationts_ ' " Almost dead or nearly llying’ For years, and given' up by physicians of Bright's and other kidney diseases, liver comâ€" plaints, severe coughs called consumption, he ve been cured. Women gone nearly crazyl From agony of neuralgia, nervousnesswakeful ncss and vnrious diseases peculiar to women. Ponplv drawn out of shape from excruciating pangs of Rheumatism. Inflammatory and chronic. or suffering from tcro‘lula l l‘li‘yfilpltlafil Sulf- rheum. blood poisoning, dyspepsia, incll‘ gestion, and in fact almost all diseases frail Nature is heir to Have been cured by Hop Bitters, proof of which can be found In every neighborhood in the known Wurhl. l1 .- Dan'ymt-n itit an or” . flcial colorfo" "l'llOl‘lOllS ‘3: with great st . ._ r. in. the ' highest and c' ' prizes at both International, sozlrlliwcha‘ . cveml points, and s new offer this new color [he lmsf in the world, It Will Not Color the Buttermilk. n ; Wlll Not Turn Rancid. It Is the Strongest, Brightest and Dairy Fairs. _ _ ' [IT-flint by j: M‘. sniontific chemical ro- l _,_____..____~â€"â€"â€"â€"-â€"-â€"â€" Cheapest Color Made, ‘» refined, while prepared in 011,19 so compound .- cd utitls im"cssiblo fnrit to become rancid. g _ CEI'PEWARE of all imitations, and of ail ‘ other oil colors, for they are liable to become rancidnnd spoil the butter. ' LEI'II‘ you cannot get the “improved” write us to know Whch and how to not it without extra ' expcn . (45) - No other disease is so prevalent in this cm- H I' try as Constipaff n, ard no remedy has ever .5 0 equalled the c «bi-a Kidney-Wort as a g E cure. Wlmtov; , will overcome it. $ 5211.18 distressing com- ‘ n pluiut in very apt to be A 'ltllCOllSlipn/don. Kidney-Wort cncd parts and quickly even when physicians fore failed, MS " VEGETABLE BALSAMIG 7 EL XIR Has stood the test for FIFTY-THREE YEARS, and has proved itself the best remedy known for”, the cues of Consumption, Coughs, Colds,Whooping Cough and all Lung Diseaeeein 1" young or old. Emmi: Evnnvivnma, I’rico 25c. and $1.00 per Bottle. DOW NS’ ELleR PLACE to secureaBusfudsl Education or 8 encerian ‘en manshi at ll 0’ IAN B amass 00mins