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Bargains in Fancy Check and Stripe Silk. Our buyers are now in Europe, purchasing for fall, and this sale is in the interest of cash paying customers. There are a few old play‘goers who re. member the great night when she fi’st came “floating on the stage" of the King's Theatre. on the 3rd of June, 1830. Her engagement was for three weeks only, and the house was “packed to sufloc ition." She took the part of Flora. in the ballot of “Zephyr e Flora," and she had not been five m’uutes on the stage before her triumph was assured. It was the old story; they had seen no one like her for grace and purity of motion, ffl' poetry of movement wh ch was the perfec- tion of art, because it seemEd so wholly art- less. “Signora Taglioni,” wrote the F90 aminer, “is the mest p».rfect specunen of grace and elegance as a dancer we ever he held. Her movements are all a series of classical studies. " " " Every move- ment is accomplished with such extrairdi- nary ease and with the airiness of thistle down, that it would scarcely h we increased our wonder had she ascended like a spirit." A writer in the Alhenmum raid: ‘ She is certainly angelicalâ€"almost Eve-angelica] ; ‘grace is in her steps,’ whether heaven be in her cye.’ or not. The manner in which she occ isionally springs from this cold sphere leads us to think that by an extent of voli~ tion she might with perfect ease visit the lively inhabitants of Mercury ; but her de- scentâ€"her returnâ€"her feather-like snowfal resumptien of the ‘tread of earth’ is beyond description. Her bound upward is graceful and natural; it is her coming back again that is supernatural.” Chorley, in his “Recollections,” thinks that in her first season in London she war not so highly ap- preciaied as she deserved to be ; but the] critics, at any rate, seemed to have apprais- - ed her at her proper warth. Daring :her first and subsequent visits to London Tagli- oni danced a great deal, and oftm in com pany with three of the most famous baller- inas of that or any ageâ€"Carlotta Grisi, cousin of the renowned singer ; Fanny Els- sler, the siren “whose charms had squall power over a philosophic historian and the‘ heir to a usurper’s throne," and Cerito, sur- named the Fourth Grace. The iminortal “Pas de Qustre,” composed for these four New Washing Summer Silks, 22 inches wide, all seasonable colors, at 250. a yard. Regular price, 400. Silk. New American Colored Muslim to be sold at 50. a yard, regular price being 100. New American Muslims, 715a, regular price being 12$c. All colors, new All-Wool Beige, selling at clearing prices, 15, 20, 250. AILWool N un’s Veiling at Sale prices. Big Variety Black Grapes and Mourn- ing Goods at clearing prices. Extra. Quality Black Silk, 40, 50, 600. a. yard up. 190,192,194 81 196 Yonge Street, New Silk Warp Dress Goods at 1250., Ordinary price 25c. Figaâ€" thk Brocade Silk, warranted pure, 75¢. per yard. Regular price, $1.10. Bargains in Fine Colored Silk. Bargains in Fine Black Gros Grain TO ARRIVE. These gopds are not old shelf-worn goods, but brand new,§never saw daylight until opened by us this week, and selling at clearing prices. Comprising some of the newest goods in the market, and many of them at not half ordinary prices. New Goods just opened, direct from the manufacturers, selling retail at clearing prices. Odd lines in each depart- ment marked down. The Career of the Greatest of All Dan- cers. SEMI-ANNUAL SALE EATUN’S SUMMER SALE Big Sale of Dress Goods EATON’S UHEAP A H. EATON <82: CO TORONTO. LETTER ORDERS ATTENDED T0 GOING ON. :0 much difference? whether you own the house or whether you have one little room in that 110.198 ; you cm make that room a true hone to you. You can people it thh such sweet fanc'eithac it will be fairly lumi- nous with your presence, and it wnl be to you the very perfection of a. home. Against this home none should ever transgress. It should be the piace to find true love and courtesy. The future of our country depends upon the youth of the land. \Vhile educatleu, then in the usual sense of the word, should be highly valued, at the sxme time our people should not forget the most important education of home influence, and home dis- cipline. Asound reasonerâ€"Tne inventor of the telephone. divinities. was perhaps the finest exhibition of dancing ever seen on any stage. But Taglioni then, as ever, was the star; the others were but the satellites revolving round her. It was, however, in Paris that she made her home during the ha‘cyon period of her career. Her first appearance there, says Miss Mabel Collins. had been considered to mark an epoch in the history of dancing. In her later years “she became the object of a culte, and so high did the en- thusiasm about her run, among the compos- ers no less than among the general public in this and in other capitals, that Mayerbeer would not put his opera of “Ribert le Diable” on the stage in Berlin until he was was assured that Taglioui. f0' whom he had written the music, hu'l been engigad 10 dance in the part of the nun in the third act. ,5 You are to be pitied if you cannot find your first and greatest happiness a: hone. There Is where you should find it. The in- dependence thac co nee to a. man when his day's work is over and he feels that he has run out of the storm into the quiet harbor of hovne. where he cm rI st; in peace with his family. is something real. It does I 0'. make Clearing prices in Brussels, Tapestry, All-Wool, Union and Hemp Carpets. Clearing prices for Lace Curtains. Odd Sets of Lace Curtains marked away down. cleared out. CARPETS. Clearing prices in Hosiery. Children’s Stripe Hose, 50. a pair. Women’s Plain and Stripe Hose at 9c., regular price 12%0. Bargains in fine German Hose. Clearing prices in Silk Hose. Eaton’s Big Clearingr Sale Clearing prices in Parasols. Clearing prices in Boots and Shoes. Clearing prices in Corets. Clearing prices in Buttons, 6150. Clearing prices in Ladies' Leather Sat- chels and Purses. ‘ Clearing prices in Linens. Clearing prices in Prints. To arrive, New American Prints, fast colors, 7&0. a yd., regular price 100. EATUN’S SUMMER SALE Eaton’s Semi-AnnualE-Sale Ea-ton’s Semi-Annual Sale KID GLOVES, A lgt 0_f remnants of Carpetals to be Kid Glovesâ€" Clearing lots in Kids. Glovesâ€"Clearing lots in Silk. Glovesâ€"Clearing lots in Lisle. Glovesâ€"Clearing 03 by the single pair pnces prices prices prices prices Home. m in in in Parasols. Boots and Shoes. Corets. Buttons, 6150. Ladies' Leather Sat- I “The Rev. Ray Palmer of Newark, writes no more. as he is Very aged ; but a number of his hymns are pipular, and several of them will live. 'My soul looks up to Time' is perhaps the best known of his works. Tue Rev. William H .incer, recently deceasel, wrote a great number of beautiful hymns in his younger days. He was in latter years editor of the Pittsburgh Christian Advocate. ‘ My Heavenly home is bright and fair,’ and ‘Who shall forbid our chastened woe,’ are by him, and are destined to stay. We have one hymn from N. P. Willis. which he wrote by request. that is popular, “The perfect world by Adam trod.’ and we have one by George P. M rris. Pmnbe Ctry wrote one beautiful hymn, beginning, ‘ One sweetly solemn thought.’ though we have none from her sister Alice. Dr. Muhlen- berg. formerly Chaplain of St Luke’s Hospital, this city, and Author of ‘ I would not live alwsy.’ wrote ‘ King of Kings, and wilt Thou deign,‘ and other vigorous hymns that are popular and will remain so. Rob- ert Hastings. a musician of this city who died in 1872. wrote the great Methodist revival hymn, ‘ Delay not, Delay not. Oh, Sinner, drrw near,’ as well as other hymns remarkable for their grace and easy metriu flow. R. A. West, of Brcoklyn, is the author of the very popular hymn, ‘ Oh, let us tune our loftiest song.’ The Chin-hes Waiting for a New Hymn Writer. “We are at low ebb tide in the art of hymn making.” said the editor of one 0' the leading religious reviews recently, “and have been for many years. And the worst of it is there does not seem to be any in- dications of the tide setting the other way. The fire of the few writers of sacred songs that we have left is burning dimly, and there are no new lights appearing to take their places. Probably Bishop Cleveland 0318 is at the head of living American hvmu writers. He has four hym IS in the Methodist Hymnal, 0'. which or or two are quite popullr, as for instance the one be- ginning ‘ In the silent midnight watches.” In melody and in poetry, as well as in number, his works excel those of any living hymn writar. Bryant has eight in the hymnal, three of which were WrItten ex preeslv for it. ‘Nesrer my God to Thee,’ one of the best and most popular hymns, was written bv Sarah F. Adams, 3 Unitari- an Iadv of Massachusetts. Bryant, too, was a Unitarian, and it is a. rather curious fact that many of the best hymns in use in the evangelical churches were written by [ersons of that filth. 1-‘1’ “ We use one of the songs in Tennysoa’s poem. ' The Princess,’ beginning ‘ Lafe, Late, So Late, as a hymn, and likewise one or two culled from VVhittier'a and Langfel- low's poems. ‘ “ The fact is that we are still principally dependent for our hymns upon the writers of the latter part of the last and the early part of the present century. Prior to the time of Watts the hymns were, for the most part, the veriest doggerel. But Watts awakened the slumbering soul of sacred song. and we soon had Doddridge, Cowper, und Newton, to say nothing of Haber, with his immortal ‘ Greenland’s Icy Mountains,’ and ' Brightest and best of the Sons of the Morning.’ The well-known ‘ Awake, my soul. stretch every nerve,’ is Doddridge, Following the Watts era came the \Vesley- an, of which the style may be characterized as the \Vatts style set on fire. Charles Wesley is, of course, the central figure of this epoch, with his ‘Just as I am without one plea,’ ‘Jesus, lover of my soul,’ and many other masterpieces of hymnal poetry. John Wesley translated, at this time, many l‘ymns from the German, some of which still firmly hold their ground. Of the three great hymns of this era, however, Charles Wesley wrote the two above named, and the third, though perhaps the first in rank. ‘ Rock of Ages,’ was by Toplady, who had caught the Wesleyan fire. 0f the modern English hymn writers two, Faber and Cardinal Newman, are Protestant converts to Cithnlicism. Faber is best known by his hymn beginning, ‘ There is a. Wideneis in God’s meroy.’ and Newman by ‘Lead, Kindly L7ght.’ Dr. Raffles, a Pres- bytarian clergyman of London, who died about ten years ago, wrote a. number of hymns that have found a permanent place in the hymnals. There was a Welsh school of hymn writers that cannot be overlooked. William \Villiams was of this group, and also Thomas Olivers. Their songs had a. flavor of the wild mountiin chant which caught the immagination with their weird- ness. Olivers wrote the remarkable ‘God of Abraham Praise,’ which was set to Gregorian music and had a run of several years in the cathedrals. ‘ Oh. Thou Goi of my salvation ’ was also written by him. Nearly all the Welsh hymns have great power and vivacity. ‘ “ But the day of hymn writing seems to be over, as far as may be judged from pre- sent appearances. We get barrels of so- called sacred son s sent to us, but 95 per cent. of it is twa die, and of the scant 5 per cent. that gets into print next to none will survive five years. The few passable good hymns that we get now-a-days cosue to us through the Sunday schools. ‘ Fannie Crosbie ' has written a number of songs of this class which have been promoted to the hymn book. I don’t know that th« re is any special cause for this dearth of hymnnl inspi'ation, any more than there is cause for the occasioral intervals that occur in the production ofa high order of poetry or of fiction. I do not think that a falling off of religious zeal has anything to do with it.”â€" N. Y. "No MEN NOWADAYS." â€"“Ab! anthad y a gooc iuneral?" asked the old man in Glen- elg, when hi sons returned from the cere- mony. “And had ye plenty to eat and 'drink ‘3” “Yes. plenty." “And had ye a goof. fight ?" “No, no, there was no fight- ing.” “Ah,” nigth the veteran, “there are no men nowadays.” A story is related of a. recent occurence, the characters in which were an oldisb lady of fortune, a. middle-aged gentleman, and the lady’s maid, young and pretty. The gentleman was pre‘s‘ng his suit warmly and called every evening. But once, when arriving to pay his customary devoirsl the door was opened by the pretty maid, and she receiv- ed ardent vicarious attentions from the visitor. The elder lady, however, was on the stairs, and observing “that little man- u-uvre," calmly observed, “Annette, how often must I tell you that I insist upon you receiving your friends in the kitchen ?” That ended it. OUR ~ HYMNOLOGY. A Costly Maumuvre. A resin obtained from Xunlhorrhrea has- tilln. a free indigenousin New-South Wales, is used in the maqufacture of picric acid. of varnishes sui9a.ble for well seasoned wood in dry, warm climates, of sealing wax. of brass chquer, and of japan gold size. It is worth in Sidney $120 a ton. Trichinm, if the experimental results of the work of MM. Mignon and Tonard. of Paris, are to be relied upon, are said to be rendered innocuoua after the meat contain- ing these parasites has been subjected to a. tamperafiure so low as 20" Centigrade. A Malachite cavern is aaii to have been dis- coverpd in the neighborhmd of Cerdon, in the D‘partment of Ain, France. near the had (ormectinsz Lyons with Geneva. Only a. few cuantry people are alleged to have en- tered it for any considerable distance. The authorities of Berlin are trying tile pavements for the streets. The tiles are molded into blocks 7.8 inches equare and 3.0 inches thick. and impregnated with bitu- minom products up to 20 per cent. of their volume. They are laid on concrete 6 inches Mr. J A Pmd. 0f the New Z Maud In- stitute, has given an account of the rare dis- cmery of platinum in a. vein. It has been found in octahedrals in a. quartz vein in the Thames gold district. What ought to be a. very durabie paint has been made or very finely powdered zinc, mixed with oil and siccative. A vwr- nish is thus produced which may be applied With a brush in the ordinary way. When the electric lighting of the Paris Opera. is completed there will be no fewer than 4,000 glow (incmdescmt) lamps distributed throughout the house. Liquid oxygen is estimated to have or density of between 0.84 and 0.865, but the former figures is thought perhaps to be a little too low. All the vessels of the British Navy which carry divas are to be supplied with teleA phones, for the purpoae of submarine com munication. LEADINécfiEi‘ HOUSE FIRST---Our prices are lower than those of any other house in the city. SECOND-«0 or stock is entirely new and consists of this season’s goods only. THIRD--â€"Our stock is purchased direct from the manufacturers. I FOURTH---We carry more best quality Brussels Carpets than any house in Canada. FIFTH---Our stock of Tapestry Carpets is superior to any on this continent. SIXTH---We buy only from first-class makers, such as Henderson, South- well, Templeton, Crossley, Brinton, Hughes and Firth. SEVENTH---Nearly all our best pat- terns are made especially for us and confined strictly to our house. EIGHTH-«Being direct importers and cash buyers we are in a position to sell carpets retail at and below wholesale prices. NINTH---All the net cast designs are reg- ularly forwarded to us by our Mr. J. W. PETLEY, who is a resident of Manchester, Eng. TENTH---We do not profess to be in the Carpet Trade for Forty Years, but we profess to supply our Patrons with all the leading Styles which the best foreign markets can produce, and at prices with which no house can compare. 0111s is for Many Reasons the Leading Carpet Hsuse. PETLEYS’ PETLZE THE LEANG GARPET HOUSE! Note the address, and when making your purchases be sure and visit SCIENTIFIC GOSSIP. The managvr of the zasworks at Deventer, Holland, has Ind recourse to this plan for preventing stv page? in his ascension pipes : He inserts in t. u: mouth-piece end of the re- tort. immediau 1y after charging, a sheet of iron which fits the retort a.) cloaely as pos- sible, and has in the mi idle a hole equal in area to the ascension pipe. Thetarry vapors, h avy 0115, and carbon dust are for the greater part arrested by this plate, and are thereby prevente'i frcm rising a. few feet higher and condenaing on the interior sur- face of the aacension pipe. A barber saysâ€"barbers are forever saying somethingâ€"(2133.5 it is the rich and not the poor man who becomes bald the soonest. The barber is probably right. A poor man’s blessing, you know. The less there is to in- herit, the more abundant the heirs. Exgeriments have been conducted at the Bavarian Museum of arts on a. new method nf bleaching bones. Alter digesting the bones with ether or benzine to remove the fat they are they are thoroughly dried and immersed in a. solution of phosphcric acid in water containing 1 per cent. of phosphoric anhydride. After a few hours they are re- moved from the solution, washed in water, and dried. Bones thus treated have almost the same appearance as Ivory. M. Durand has published an important paper 0 1 spontaneous combustion in collier- ies. As the engi leer of the Doyet collieries, in the Department of A’lier, France, he has had great opportunities of examining all the conditions under which subterranean fires occur. He refers spontaneous combustion to three causesâ€"the oxidation of iron pyrites in the co Ll, friction from slipping, and heat of air cursent. Vacc‘uation performed once does not act as a. preventive of smallpox after a. certain length of time has elupned. Au examina- tmu of the statistics of this disease shows that of H ole who had taken it. and had been varcinatea in infancy, 90 per cent. are over 10 years of age, while only 10 per cent. are under 10 years of age. Re-vaccination at intervals, say, of seven years, is the only kn_o_v« n efl'ective measure for proteot'ou. thick, and the spaces between are filled with hot tar.