The Times-Picayune from New Orleans, Louisiana • Page 11

2Xt KOSKixca, dec. President Hayes weighs 174 3 sterlidg. will soon return to her lonely Chiselhnrst. berries la black beads are berry i rimmed eyes ornament the centre .3 newest jet buttons. male factor is not necessarily of masculine gender.

orprise parties are booming among hand novelties of the holi 'a birds with sweet little human 3 appear on" some of the Christmas is most fashionable stuff seen for and. ulsters ia invisible i a a a iavb nfl nnnwi nil naac wwa a cf Mercedes. He calls his present 3 tiost ill used objects in the i at iChristmas. Everybody i 'em. 1 cornet band toots at Green Indiana, and nobody makes rye 3 Dora, the youngest of the Sky i poets," is said to be a Goodale the Of 'the 5 'i: i February the Washington I'.

ry corps will have a funeral nionu cf its own. Oh, howsadf embroidered, with irridescent '3 is the most favored material for ly wedding dresses this searon. or zuuu convicts in tne lexas pent only five are' of the fair sex.1 i paper Yes, it Texas to keep out a Augustus Sala is coming after orange blossoms and the tjped Sunny South." He must tkiug of a Sala mander. raost sell ebrated beauty now a i the one who sells the most copies own face at a commission of ten ca the dollar. A AAV1A a vj; Leroy, New York, man has' been 1 to four sisters and all on ao cf admiration for his mother in Lie ia deaf and dumb.

Iraore paper savs a perfect eoi cf marriages is raging from that far South as Atlanta, Georgia. .1 ra The more the marrv er. 7 Utile' dolls; no longer than your i er, but as full of antics as a are kicking up their heels all 3 toy counter at Danziger's. i 1 roily colored flags and banne blazoned with holiday greetings are among the favorite They can be rolled ened and used as screens. j.

Mrs. Potts! It is said she was 1 out of the money for which she tlat long and awful tramp from re to New Orleans and back. accounts or the skillet on in Mrs. i closet. 1 vHv rccple, both men and women, of have gone crazy over Gen.

X. he is there, the city will nirtinatiVl in th nirtimii fls wa 1 1 ft.a 1 1. That shows they are light v. Father Eyan, a boly man. and poet, knows that the pen is than, the swoid; but that prevent, him from going at his with a Hapier.

Venison, Texas, handsome squaws lo Indian Nation attend the balls 3, and are considered lovely. Per iliat accoonta for some of the tling at the Texas hops. 3 "Eartley medal, which is to be ted for on the 29th by the pupils of nmraar grades, will be apt to make sigh. "Would I were a boy Girls are not allowed to medal confab with the City Fathers, ted by our reporter, Messrs Jack 1 ForstalL of the Gas Company, ltd light the city for a certain sum, I fallow the moon." Wouldn't that 3 rather naughty considering that a is a lady All we have got to tley had better look out for the jstars. Vf tiern, girl, writing home from 3 land, says Yankee girl never, her lover as my beau" or "my rt," but always as my fellow," "tTiohby Knobby means "1 the Yankee gentlemen, are as really nice, being remarka and almost as fond of "fixing girls.

i Twain is in trouble. A Georgia a ceases him of plundering her "Prose and Poetry," published in md using the proceeds of the Lis volume The rzma is Gay. If true, this is a gayety for which the public will forgive the great D. S. Helton, Baptist preacher, county, Tennessee, had; eigh jjin the late war twa for the 1 Bars, and sixteen for the Star 1 Banner.

'Bather a pa triotio cher, that, though he did'nt do ting himself. has invented an Autom 3 tuilder," which on being at any ordinary clock, and the far a certain hour, will strike a 1 start the fire at the time de I are preparing to build nt to him. v'c i Truth is beginning tomur 1 carvel that so many American 3 securing matches among the Erlstocrats of England.1 Now Ity Hiss JlacVicker, has just rrabbed Lord Grantly all by nations, of course. 'v style of "axming" practiced via, when a lady and gentle enade together, consists in the a passing hig arm through the vice as heretofore) ling over her; grace's he gently lolls upon her with 'ng air. It is said to look too cnything.

'V I museum at Hawley, England, a a set of pink English china ucers, made by Samuel Bui icturer, out of the bones of general killed at the battle of They are very pretty but could bear to them on 11 be herself a ctiriesity a instance. i lecturer, Pr, reeles by 00 name, ia telling some curious things about New He says there are SCOQ Voudous here, and that many of our prominent men believe in them and consult in them. He specially mentions Gen. We presume this will be news to Beauregard, However, we have no fear that it will ruffle his temper, he ia Toussaintly. If your little people need new boots and new shoes for Christmas, go to lie Guinness's, on Canal street.

His shoes never pinch, and "hardly ever" wear out. 'fj, Mothers, be sure to get your little ones the toy called The Beach Brought to your Door." If you have ever been a little toddleMns yourself, you must know the charm that is experienced in makin mud pies. In this play thing there is a large box filled with sand, shovels, paddles, and pretty little tin moulds and pans, like jelly moulds and cake pans. Just think of the fun in store for the midgets in figging and pottering in this pretty sand, which is so clean that, if spilled, it will not soil the nicest carpet. It is your pie ous duty to lOOk at this toy Bright Eyes, the daughter of the Omaha chieftain, in her address at Steinway Hall on the 12th, pleaded for her persecuted people in a way to move a heart of stone.

Tell us not what the Indians did at the White River Agency Uor elsewhere but tell us of the thou sands, the millions of wrongs and thefts they have experienced at the hands of the white people. Let a white man, with wife and children, put binwilf in the place of these poor creatures, driven from their homes and farms by greedy white adventurers robbed, while starving, of their rations by the very men paid by the Government to supply their wantsand then let him ask himself if he can blame an Indian for hating a white man. If he has a heart in his body, a grain of truth in. him, he must answer no, a million times KO I How Far Belts be Heard. Scientlfto Ameiicso.

In a hilly locality a bell will not be heard half as far as if the land were level, or nearly so. A bell will be heard a great oeai xurtner lengtnways ox a valley than over the hills at the sides. It is frequently the case that bell rooms are lower than the surrounding buildings and trees, and these obstructions break the. sound and prevent its free passage to auunauce. is is xrequeuuy ine case, loo, that towers have small windows or open ings, with the louver boards so close to gether as to almost box up the sound, in cities the noise of steam and horse cars, manufacturing establishments, carriages and carts rattling over the pavements, i is so great that bells are not expected to be heard at any considerable distance, and this is the reason why, in ail cities, several bells are used for fire alarm purposes, it being impossible for one bell, no matter how large it may be.

to be heard above the thousand ana one noises incident to every large place. The largest bell ever made in this country weighed 22,000 pounds, and, before it was fractured, hung on the City Hall in New York. On one or two occasions this bell was heard up the Hudson Hirer thirteen miles, in the night, when the city was 1 comparatively quiet. Water is a good conductor of sound, and aided materially in making the bell heard as above mentioned. It is a great mi stakes to suppose that bells can be heard in proportion to their weight that is, that a bell of 2000 pounds will be heard twice as far as one of 1000 pounds.

This is not so. for the reason that the larger bell does not possess anything like twice the resonant surface of the smaller one. What is gained and admired in the burger bell ia its deep, majestic, dignified tone, which it is impossible to secure in the smaller one. the weight of a bell invariably governing its tone. A bell of 100 or 200 Sounds, an open belfry, on a school onse or factory in the is frequently heard at a long distance, out of all proportion, apparently, to one of 1000 pounds in a church tower near by and instances of this kind frequently cause no little comment in the way of comparison.

The reason for this is, that the small bell has a sharp, shrill, penetrating sound, that must, of necessity, be heard a great deal farther in proportion to its weight, than the low, mellow, "church going sound of the church belL The same principle applies to the whistle of a locomotive, and it is heard a long distance simply because its tone is shrill and penetrating. When hung stationary and struck, or tolled, bells will not be heard, as a rule, half as far as when swung. The swinging motion throws the mouth of the bell up, and not only carries the sound off, but imparts to it a richness that is always absent when the bell is at rest and struck. A great deal is to be gained by ringing a bell properly, throwing the mouth well up, and not lazily jingling it. It is not physical strength that is required in ringing a bell so much as "getting the knack" of catching the rope just right, particularly on the second down pulL" The windows in the tower shoula be as open as possible, and the tower' should be ceiled just above the windows.

Another Big: Organ. The great organ being built for the Stewart Cathedral, at Garden City, will, it is thought, be the largest and most remarkable in the world. placed in position it will occupy four different parts of the Cathedral. The main body of the instrument "will stand in the chancel, where the organist will sit. In the tower at the west end of the build ing, directly behind a large stained window, is a room in which a part of the organ will be placed to be connected with the chancel by electricity.

The window will be opened and closed by electrical apparatus, controlled by the organist from the chancel, which will afford fine crescendo and diminuendo effects from that section of the organ in the In the centre of the Cathedral over the ceiling will be placed another part of the instrument, to be called the which is also to be operated in the chancel by electricity. In the chapel underneath the chancel there is to be still another section of the great organ, which will be so arranged that it can be played in the chapel as well as from the chancel. The famous Centennial chimes in the tower are also to be connected with the chancel by electricity, so that the organist can strike them from the keys of the organ. The bellows will be operated by hydraulic engine. Graphic.

2Vb Chance far Serrmxt. Mirabeau TnmAA. ama 4 ta mmin ran or fnr Vii a valet and to him did says 'You are i i iaitnrui, nonesc ana mieuigeii; uiueeu, I have no fault to find with you" M. le Vicente is too says the flattered servant. "Only I won't require your services after to day." But why.

sir Because, you rascal, in spite of your positive agreement on the subject, you get drunk on the same days that I do, instead of remaining sober to take care of me. That's why, sir." The valet (with dignity) "And am I to blame, sir, because you get drunk every day t'' Alira beau Tonneau kept him. The finest and lareest display of bolllay presents at Kavra's China Palace. That coupa mar lead to opusnmptlon, prevent it by using Harrisons Coagu Cpecino. ruill rpyotir d.

rasiU ty ivtag tytsa a CL Aleck Hectare Ilia Btaurr, FaetO ties mm Ohmtit tm jhm Feteal Clty CIs Mrs sf a Farelga War aDs Isilsi The Ileal Danger a Fraadaleat mm Him IafllTl ay the WJLSHIKGTOK, Dee. 17, MT9. CoL Aleck If cQare, of Pennsylvania, Is one of tbe brishtest men of that State. He is entitled to the credit of baring saooessf sir It established the first real newspaper ia that Boaotion region. I know that there is a popular Impression that there are numerous newspapers published In tbe Keystone State, and thai even as far back as tbe time of Jefferson and Franklin there were newspapers published there.

This is a sad error, and bo intelligent man should fall Into It. The Pennsylvanlaa mind does not take to news papers naturauy, ana ne is a domi man who onaertakes to break tbe lee and risk bis parse there on tbe vest are. I do not renrd, nor will you consider that the merely taking np a sheet or two of white paper and imprinting thereon a certain impressioa by means of types eonatltates a newspaper. By this expression we sseaa, la this eouatrr. news, vitality, freshness, individuality and independence.

If the paper is to be edited the manager must be capable of thought, and not a mere creature walking in a treadmill. A regard tor tbe truth of history cem pela me to record that the first newspaper publish ed in this benighted region of Pennsylvania was started by one A. M. Gibson, now tbe Washington correspondent of the New York Sun. This daring man 'began his work in the winter of 1870 71, at the city of Pittsburg.

Whea the fact dawned on the minds of the honest burghers thereabouts, through tbe smoke and sin that envelaped the city, every one stood aghast. Gibson was not mobbed, as he might have expected to be, nor starved to death, as he deserved; but he was Sat downnponln a degree and manner some wbat proportioned to what was deemed the character of his offense. For four long months he defied the pabllo opinion of Western Pennsylvania by publishing a live newspaper and giving the news, and then asphyxia and remorse sealed his doom. Bis paper gave up the ghost. Dullness and don once more settled down on the city and good men breathed freely.

Work on the monument to Kip Tan Winkle was regularly Undismayed by this spectacle. Col. Aleck McClure, not long afterwards, mads tbe same dating experiment in Philadelphia. Be was far too shrewd to try it at Pittsburg. He, thought, perhaps, that tbe vicinity of tbe New York press to Philadelphia might make a sort of cover and apology for publishing there a real newspaper, and at any rate, if the worst should some to the worst, and the mob shogld gather to chastise his exuberance, he could Jump on a ferry boat and in ten minutes be safe on New Jersey soli.

I suppose that like a pro dent man he must have studied tbe mode of getting out of his scrape if he should break down. Bat unfortunately for the anHen regime of Philadelphia dullness, and lnoktlj also for our audacious hero, tbe Philadelphians were so tolly persoaded that all that was necessary to do was to let McClure expire by Inaction, that before they knew it the daring rebel had eonauered a neace and built up a first el sm newspaper, it was a wonderful feat under ail tne circumstances, ana i aouot to nay McClure could exactly explain how he did it, smart as he undoabw dly is. But while I look with wonder at CoL Mo Oare's Journalistie performances, I say that I rate him equally high as a politician. In the first place he haa keps a good deal of bad company, speaking polltiolly, and no man who has ever wallowed la the mire of Radicalism or indorsed the reconstruction laws is a safe man, even though he may have qe arreted with Grant, or run a tilt with the Camerons. or oonqaered, or rather outwitted Philadelphia stupidity.

CoL McClure cannot (ret rid of his Repub licanism; be is no Democrat; he runs a paper largely patronized by Republicans he lives in Philadelphia on Chestnut street, and nothing very good can ever come out of that Nazareth. But he Is a pleasant, polished, and strikingly handsome man, shows his sense by having a pretty wife, and is altogether a bright and Improving person to talk to. He haa been down here this winter diagnosing tbe political situation, and some of his ideas are worthy of notice aad com mnt.s A There is force in CoL McChirs's remark that both parties are split upon the financial ana larm questions, ne wnvs cnese issues considered at once, and is indigaant at their postponement. CoL McClure fails to note the fact that Congress cannot control the President, that the latter blocks tbe way for all honest and healtafnl legislation on tbe auhleet of the tarter and all others, and that with business wonderfully reviving all over the country, the tinkering of the currency may be safely postponed till experience shall more elearly tndtesvte what la required. The tariff will be reached under a reform Administration.

What CoL McClure says as to ins uanger 01 tse tanag up a candidate whose nomination shall be a triumph over either the Til den or the Kelly is simply what I hear many others say. On the subject of the election laws. Mr. McClure thinks that the Dsnlocrats will demand their repeal, and that this demand will afford capital for the Republleaaa, Oa this subject 1 may say very positively, from mv conversation with Democratio Politi cians, that they will indeed demand the re peal ex the election laws, but that they will also pass promptly and unconditionally all the appropriations necessary to carry on tbe Government. Can any one at the North ask more than this Is this unreasonable or unpatriotic Can it be expected that tbe Democrats will not protest against tbe use of the people's money by the Republicans to pay tbe expenses of employing thieves, hollies and gutter entpes to carry the elections In their interest If this be treason.

Colonel, you and all et yoo majjnake the nMt Of it. CoL McClure disquiets himself much with' tbe idea that we are going to get up awar wits Mexico. This nightmare troubles him vastly. 1 could cure him easily. Instead of drinking! sweet champagne and loafing around Washington hotels and Congress, let tbe Colonel drink a pint of the best Bordeaux at dinner, eschew drinks at odd hoars and fancy suppers, take a ride twice a week on horseback, make love enthusiastic all to bis pretty and my word for it his clear vision, even without his askisg me Ifer the news, will enable him to see that the real danger is not of our bullying Mexico, but of the Northern Democrats and Conservatives being cheated and bullied out of the next election of a Presidents as they were in 1878.

Aye I Just there's the rub. Tbe Repuav lUans can call' the New York legislature together and pass a law conferring en themselves the right to elect the electors for President, or give it to the districts, taking care to gerrymander the State so as to give the Democrats only ten districts out of S3 votes. This would finish and extinguish the chances of the Democracy in the next Presidential election. It would be an outrage, yea say, too monstrous to be practiced or submitted to. But It would have mors of the color of law than tbe outrage which was committed by the Republicans in 1876, when they stote the Presidency.

If that was submitted to by tbe Northern Democracy why not this outrage 1 Borne times I wish that the Republicans would do It, if it were only to ascertain whether there was any possible point where Republican frauds and outrare and Insult would provoke the Northern Denuv erats to resitaaee. Let me assure you or on thing. This eontlngency is being con tinuaUy eJacusaed Democratio circles in this city, and I suppose also among tbe The belief of some persons is that the thing will be dons. Few seem to frel assured that it will not be tries. The Northern Democrats dinar to the stupid idea Chat their liberties ean be preserved without a ngnc, or naving tne roaainess to ngac They want to postpone the evil day of conflict.

The Republicans will not alarm them un necessarily, but at the proper time thev will take the Disk. If Don Cameron be made Chairman of the National Republican Committee and Grant be the Republican nominee both very probable events you may be sure that our Republican opponents mean bn rBess," and are preparing a scheme which will test the apparently lanaite capacity of the eeonle for submission to wtoor and usurpation. It was only the ether day that a leading Republican of New York. Mr. Ellis Roberts, said to a Democrat: Tsa moat make up your mind to get along with ten oiexncts or less.

I. therefore, put it imom the probabflltleB of the near future that the New York Legislature. Republican in both branches, posst. bly this very winter, may when they come together pass a law to have the Presidential electors chosen bv oonrressional districts. which would secure beyond a peradveuture a majority of such 'districts to the Republi cans, ana tney can also get up a gerrymander which would rive the Dsmojrals only ten or twelve districts.

In the old days when men are ready to strike a blow to pre serve their rights, such an outr would not have glv? i much trouble, lue people la Allacy, epirU were sarvived, would hang Cornell and his fellow conerlrators In itofrrante delicti, and the Democratio masses in New York city would adorn the lamp posts of our great capital of New York city with the eangling bodies of the miscreants who were aidiaa; and abetting it in newspapers or otherwise. But ail this Is past. sir. Hewitt will tell you that it is better to submit to anythinc, of wrong or fraud, rather than spill one drop of blood. The soothing cry would be raised wait awhile, and in tbe same way the wrong will be made right." Another possibility is that in part.

It not an of the Btateof New York, the Democrats would vote for Presidential electors, as they have heretofore done, and that the electors thus chosen would send up a eer tificate of their vote to the two houses of Congress to be counted. Which is to be counted the honest vote of the people at the polls or the franduleat vote of the Cornell Legislators! The two houses of Congress are Democratio. Their power over the Presidential count, by the language of the constitution, is full and absolute to give affect to the popular choice, and they need not foolishly give it up by passing as electoral bill, unless they choose to be fools. Again, there Is Pennsylvania a State habitually carried by Republican frauds In Philadelphia, Allegheny county, and other localities. If the Republicans begin the grab game in New York, why not throw out this spurious, dishonest vote of Pennsylvania, If in a word, if the Republicans attempt to defraud the people of their right to elect a President, the two hocses have the power to correct the wrong, and the Democratio party of the country will demand that they shad do so.

I notice already a rising feeling of Indignation among the most conservative members of Congress at toe very thought of tne snameiui proi sition openly urged by prominent Republi cant to steal the vote of New York. The proposed nomination of Grant, the selection of Don Cameron, of Pennsylvania, a most resolute and unscrupulous tactician, to be chairman of the Republican National Committee, all chime in with this programme of repeating the game of fraud and force which triumphed in 1876. 1 look eat, therefore, for contested Presidential election. In snob a contingency it is of vital Importance that the Democratic candidate should be a game man in every fibre of his body. He must be one who will be the very type and impersonation of the best manhood of the Democratic party man of blood and iron," if yoa ean find one.

He need not be an army man a regular army man might take his orders from Gen. Sherman, and Sherman will be ready to do his part promptly to install a usurper. I should think It would be far safer to take a civilian, whose personal character, record and antecedents would give assur SDeeof a man that would not allow the Democratic party to be dishonored in his person, than to elect some amiable, well meaning soldier, who had always been aeeustome ed to look to his superior officer for his chart of action. If wrong, fraud and farce are to be met it must be by a man of nerve, who will not stand on niceties and trifles, or procrastinate. He may wear, as did Jet ferson, the garb of a student and aphitoo pber.

Thomas Jefferson had never been a soldier, and some persons even questioned his courage. He was a man of books, aad a quiet, thoughtful statesman. As such he became the Democratic candidate for the Piesidency and he was looted. There was a deep plot laid to defraud him of his election. Having accepted tne highest trust and honor of his party Mr.

Jefferson shirked none of its dangers and responsibilities. He came bo'dly to tbe seat of Government, pot himself in the lead of his party, gave them orders, courage and an lu vincible determination not to endure wrojg. In a critical juncture of the drama he waited in person on Mr. John Adams, then President of the United States, and the leader of the opposite party, and told him flatly to his face that if the Administration should dare to do certain things then threatened, and which I may ssy are similar to those now menaced in New York, tbey would be met with armed resistance by him, the President eiect, ana py nis parry, unut quauea De fore this bold resolute front. It was the verysame spirit that had confronted George the Third and his armies and hmnbled the British flag at Yorktown.

Before such a spirit now this conspiracy against popular iiovernment woma cower ana wiener to tne ground. Perhaps it mar be that there Is more than one man in the Democratle party who woold be found equal to such a crisis as seems to be impending. I know of some four or five gentlemen that I believe woold not fall of the nerve and decision necessary to face these villains and their villainy, but If Judge Stephen J. Field, of California, were the Democratic nominee, i saouia snow that the election would be decided by the honest votes of tbe people and not by the frauds of Cornell and Cameron or the sword of Gem Sherman. If he were chosen President be woold be lnsugn rated.

The sharp ers aad blacklegs in this plot would have to get out of the way or be hart. Q. W. The Causes of the Negro Exodus. Hew York World.

WasHnvoTOH. Dee. 11 It la possible that the Inwardness sf the negro exodus move meat may seen be divulged by official inves ragatwn. iimuj mt. eaeuey, ex a.iaoama, introduced a resolution for tbe appointment of a committee of five to investigate tbe cause of the emigration of colored people from the South, and report such measures to the House as win afford tne reuer that tne exigencies of the ease may demand, as stated in the preamble of Mr.

Shelley's resolution, there Is Indisputable evidence that the malority ol negroes have been induced through false representations to lesve their homes in the South to go to parts of tbe country of which they have no knowledge ana to tne climate ox wnica tney are not adapted. It may be remembered that recently nearly three hundred negroes arrived here from North Carolina in a destitute condition. Having no means to proceed on their Journey they were compelled to lay over here several dava. during which thev were quartered together ia a church and fed ty cnanty. Many ex tnem were questioned regarding tbe motives which prompted them to leave their Southern homes, and their answers tndieatea beyona ail ooudi tnat tbey had been duped by tbe emissaries sent among them.

Mr. Shelley proposes to expose the cruel deceptions practiced upon them. Wright's Benevolent Hobby. CmrlTmafl CXHiimerclaL Washtkotox. Dec.

18. By the grace and favor of the Committee on Pablio Hands, Mr. Hendricks B. Wright has been again permitted to report what is known as his "Twenty Million BllL" and have it referred to the Committee of the Whole. His bill proposes to loan money et tbe Government to the extent of twenty millions, in sums of $900 and upwards, to impecunious homesteaders te purchase seeds, farming implements, etc.

The money is to be secured by mortgage on tbe land. The committee declined te make any recommendation, but simply allowed Wright te report the bill on his individual responsibility. Sirs. 'Gov. Sprague Seeking a Di vorce.

INew York World. WAsnncGTOir, Dec IS. Mrs. Sprague has authorised her attorney to draw np papers for a divorce from Gov. Sprague.

It is said that she tn tends te push the ease to the courts as speedily as possible. She has made arrangements to leave Edgewood. and is fitting up a house ia tbe dty on Connec ticut avenue. A Chess Crongresa, A Bfeettaa ef Pi assist Flayers tm Km York. Next Maath.

New.Yokx, Deo. 14. A convention of ef chess players from all parts of the world wm assembis at the rooms or the Manhattan Chess Club, in this city. Tuesday. January 6 This will be the fifth Chess Congress held In this The first assembled in New York in 1887, when Paul Morphy startled ail players by his wonderful skill.

The second american Congress was held in 1870 la Cleveland, tbe third in Chicago, ia 187S. and the last in Philadelphia in the Centennial year. In tbe meanwhile there have been several conventions in Europe, and at the one I held last year In Paris, two Americans contested Cept. Mackenzie, the present champion of this country, and James Mason, who is now in liondoa. Tbe American champion carried off the fourth prize, and sabsequenUy in private play defeated two players who had received bigger prizes than that awarded to him.

In connection with the approaching Congress in this city, a problem tourney wul be opened. competitor hi to send in a set of four broblema. one la two in S. and one lu 4 moves. American Layers wLl have until eoruary uana loreizners t.u usrea send in tueir problems.

ota general ana special prizes are to Deosereo. The fziest and largest of holiday CLD TOILETS. UmUvm Tw Qudred Yi New York correspondent of the Chicago Time. trivMth fnllnw. ing interesting account of some of the toilets of ancient grand dames xt win not require a very ueepiy diseased imagination to suspect that a who dressed in a modern dinner toilet is a perambulating poetieric, or an uprising of all the Oriental rugs in the house, so gorgeous is she in the colorings which she lavishes upon herself.

Perhaps I should have written that sentence in another way, and say that she lavishes upon her because it real swr si wVt a aniiiAt'iAA warKae ltsan 4 Vv mj acr toiv e)uuicuvvf xatoicg i wio liibititor, that suiter during such exhaustive spectacular performances. It may be two or three years since the upholsterer save awa the fabrics which were his stock in trade to the lady of xasmon, ana uetoot himself to textures that she had east off: and now. that he endeavors to claim his own again for certain peculiar services, she permits him to share bin old nosseasiana. but she rtubbornly refuses to resign to him her beauties of brocade, broche and embroidery, and she is not wholl nninnti llable in maintaining their uses for her gowns. i The rmblishtnir of the life, and corre spondence of jlra.

Delany, in a condensed edition for the entertainment of American is eagerly seized upon as a justification of woman in her fondness for pomps, and especially as these letter were written a hundred and fifty years ago they prove to us that our male ancestors were just as abjectly devoted to extravagant fineries of dress as were their wives and daughters, i a With this potent scrad'of authentic history in her hands, any clever woman is able to deiena herself, against ail attacks which are made upon her habits of extravaganos by that arch traducer, man. She may insist that it is impossible for him to prove that she inherited ner xonaness xor costly personal decorations through the female line of her ancestry, snd more than likely her arguments will be based upon a solid foundation of truth. Mrs. Delany's descriptions of the costumes which adorned the personages of her day snd generation are by no means wholly unlike in colors and in the fashionable fabrics of the gala robes which are worn by the women of society at the present time, except, of course, that the excesses of expenditure of those days were very, far in advance of our outlays. Queen Caroline's petticoat, at her coronotion.

was ornamented with jewels which were worth $12,000,000. AOt ueing eaiiBueu wini iicr unu orus menta. which were manv and valuable. Mrs. Ueiany explains the necessityofJ ner omamenxauon in una wise; xne dress of the Queen on this occasion was ss gne as the accumulated riches of the citv and suburbs could make it for.

be sides her own jewels, she had on her forehead and on her. shoulders ail the pearls she could, borrow of the ladies ox quality at one ena ox tne town, ana on her petticoat all the diamonds she could hire ef the Jews and iewelers at the The italicised word is of Mrs. Dela neys own emphasizing. anisy is saw wpea counorta uu companion to its possessor, but it does not appear to good advantage in history, as it stands by the side of the costumes of quality in the years which rolled between 1725 and 1800. i Our own biographies will read as if they belonged to a really sensible and modestly costumed race of eminines in comparison to those of our elders, even though we are compelled to endure present censure and ineffectual revilings.

Of course, we embroider our garments, and we even search me world over tonna gorgeous brocades for our own uses, and we pass much of our time in hand painting our holiday gowns; but when we read the following extract from history, are we iMt to commended and admired, net only because we are intelligent artists in ear methods and styles of personal ornamentation, but because we are by no means guilty of those reckless extravagances which distinguished both the men and women of the last century. In making this claim to superior virtues, the writer is not unmindiul of the fact that luxury is and always must be comparative, and it is to be noped that the readers of the Times are aware of the same truth and will not commend themselves too highly on account of their own economies. At the Princes birthday festival Sirs. Delanv was present, and among other toilets she describes, in a letter to her sister. Lady Huntingdon's gown with italicised words: Her petticoat was black velvet embroidered with chenille, the pattern a large atone vast, rilled with ramping fower that spread almost over a breadth of the petticoat, from the bot tom te the top Between eacn vase ox flowers was a pattern of gold shells and foilsge embossed ana most heavily ncn the gewn was white satin embroidered also with chenille mixed with gold ornaments; no rase on the sleeve, out feco or three en the tau it was a most labored piece of finery, the pattern much pxeperer for a stucco staircase than the apparel of a lady a mere shadow that tottered under every step she took under the load.

The next nne ladv was Mrs. Spencer, Mrs. Spencer's hnsband is the man who assisted to make himself famous by bis shoe buck 1ml, which cost uer ciotnesv green paduasoy covered ail over, tne imwii aa well as the petticoat, with a varw r.trv rximmiutr. it was wen i a made she looked gentle and easy, and had all the Dowager Duchess of 's jewels, which made her; look quite mag Hhe cloaca the description of this par ticular fete thus Nothing extraordinary among men much finery, chiefly brown, with' gold or stiver embroidery, and rirli waistcoata." Mrs. Spencer is reported as purchasing four gowns at one time, each ef which cost 6 per yard.

1 To prove that there are myths in fashion as well as of history, and that we are to day dressing in the same Key, ai thnncb in somewhat different harmony from the grand dames of Mrs. Delsnys time, I make just one more quotation, and Khali then proceed with a mention of the party dress, as displayed on the 2d day of December, ith. ene says: "The Duchess of Queensbury wore white mtticoat bordered around the low er edge with brown hills, and every rircuidth hsd an old stump that run no almost to the top of the petticoat, broken and ragged and worked with brown che nme, XOUna WulCll twunu luwunnwuui ivy, honeysuckle, periwinkles, convolvuluses, snd all sorts of twining flowers, which anreari and covered the petticoat. and vines with the leaves variegated, as yoa have seen them by the sun, all rather untaiw than which makes them look very light; the robin gs and facings were little green oanss wiui au awi weeds, and the sleeves and the rest of the gown loose, twining of the same kind as those on the petticoat: many of the leaves were finished with gold, and part of the stumps of trees frwnlroA lil A fu trilUlTUt Of the SUn. I never saw a piece of work so prettily fancied, and am quite angry with myself for not havin had the same thought, for it (the dress) is infinitely handsomer than mine and could not COSt much After what has already been; this Is a fiaViirrnnhle dinner was riven last nicht It was resplendent and oxa the eleeance its cos tumes, and equally notable for its originality and individuality.

mnet remarkable and cost ly dres vns really the plainest and most beautUult 1 fatric was a canr el's bair cloth, thick, fine, and of a pale rent tint. It was cut in double breasted Princess stvle. with two rows of exqui sitively carved tortoise shell buttons from the outward curve of the breast down as far aa the top of the foot trimming, which was a ten inch bordering of seal skin, with the softest of this variety of fur. Between the buttons were sus pended shell chains. A aealjoollar rolled away from the throat, and.

being cut in shawl shape, the throat was left bare to display a superb necklace of diamonds, which overlaid a fitted" necklet of seal brown velvet. The sleeves were im mense, and open to the shoulders, with linings of seaL The lady's beautiful bare arms were girdled above their elbows with seal brown velvet bands that were clasped, with diamonds. Her gloves extended up to her elbows, were buttoned with diamonds and bordered with two inches of seal fur. Her hair is nearly seal brown, and diamonds sparkled in a comb that held its grace ful coil in position. Its abundance rip piea away xrom a parang tuat was uae a thread of silver, so white and straight and narrow was it.

Her slippers were of an open material, and bound with far, in which a diamond star glistened as her "feet," like little, mice, peeped in and out from beneath re ral AnaHimA. 1 Ahont. thmuit went three full, broad ruffles of nnbleach 1 ed ureton lace that were held in place by tiny silver wires that were thrust through its edges, and upon each wire, between the not too lavish fullness or folds of the lace, finely cut glistening bronxe colored beads were strung The effect of this entire toilet was charming be yond description. It required no illumination, because its wearer's color was rich with the tints of a superb health, and yet, with a full knowledge of the value of centralizing or focusing color, sue wore suspended over her arm a lace like wicker oasket of crimson carna tions suspended by a seal brown satin ribbon. She looked as unconscious of her elegance as if she was wearing a gown ox divinity, but then, or course, she knew all about it.

and it was this delicious assurance that she was beautifully attired that save to her that fasci nating calm which nothing else is so certain ox bestowing upon woman Kino. Another lady, who was. dark, tall, lithe, and ss magnificent as Cleopatra, wore a petticoat of ivory white satin, embroidered with gold threads, crystal beads and oxydized silver. Her slippers were wrought with the same handiwork and were of the petticoat fabric Her train was of cardinal red and turquoise blue, brocaded velvet, bordered with a satin galoon that was overwrought with nehiy colored ana nneiy out Deads. Her brocaded waist was round and cut square at the neck.

Its upper open edges were finished like the train, and this opening was filled in with tulle plisses and Duchess laces. Emeralds and topazes enriched her throat. Her elbow sleeves were made of alternate rows of the galoon in narrow widths and Duchess insertions and frills of tulle and Duchess completed them. Her girdle was a broad sash ox soft India silk, edged and tipped with an embroidery that was deep at its This girdle was cream white, and its ornamentations were not unlike those upon the petticoat. It had a neaw netted cringe oi manv urientai colored beads, and was tied about her figure at the belt line with many wrin kles, and its ends and loops fell at the right side inst forward of her arm.

She carried a bouquet suspended by a chatelaine of old filigree golcLand its blossoms were wired clusters of stock failly in dull, rich gold, and orange brown tints. Her hair was dressed high, and a comb of filigree gold held its pull's at the front, and a blue plume, tipped with gold frost. curled from this comb round the back of her Her cloves were bale bun. embroidered in auk about the wrists, to serve as a heading to the kid lace that finished them beautifully and fashion ably. v.

There were satin costumes, lone and short, with borderings of a new style of brocaded ribbon that is very near a quarter of a yard broad for the long portions of the gown, ana narrow widths ox the same superb ornamentation are used upon the body. A pale canary colored satin skirt was short and miiea to the xnees wita siae plaited Breton lace that overlapped each other. Each row was headed with a narrow gold galoon. The bodice was deeply pointed both back and front, and laced with a gold cord at the back. It was high at the neck, and the long, close sleeves had slashes at the top, and the openings were hnished with, braid and ruches of Breton lace that stood outward through them.

The lace fell to the knuckles of the hand, and pais vellow silk lace mittens were worn instead of kids. A sold comb fastened the coiled hair, and a gold chatelain held, a gold ynbroideredkerchief and a fan of gold lace. At her girdle on her left side was placed a cluster of crimson roses with two long sprays of smilax that were caught to the bade ox her dress under a sash of Breton lace, which was knotted to the akirt at this place. I forgot to Bay mat tne pointea oouioe was simpiy whaleboned and about with a a a double row of broad lace, and the throat was finished with a similar lace in nar rower widths. Not a jewel was worn.

possibly guttering ornaments were omitted because a fine taste made their ab sence a pleasure, and possibly because tne wearer ox una areas is aware tnat sue bears the reputation of controlling an immense collection ox precious stones. and she preferred to be beautiful with out them. Pleasant surprises are among the most fascinating qualities of a lady's grand toilet. i These costumes are but one of the con sequences of our late excitements in Wall street. Those who went under neither give dinners, nor do they have appetites tor them, unxortunateiy.

The offiicial Board of Statistics at St. Petersburg has published some population figures, from which it appears that in European Bussia there are annually born males xemsies, or an average total of 3.163.405 children of both sexes. On the other hand, the average annual deaths are 1,214.467 males and L167.929 females, or a total of 2.383. persons of both sexes. The popula tion, tnereiore, snows an average increase of 781,000 a year "a percentage which, supposing the inhabitants always to multiply at the same rate, would aouoie me population in do years whereas in Sweden, according to a method of calculation, this re sult would only be attained in 62 years, fiprmanv in 68.

in Belsrium in 79. Austria in in Switzerland in 99, and in France in 165 years. Thehighper centace of mortality in Russia is chieilv caused by the numerous deaths among children, more than the fourth part of whom perish before they are a year oia whereas in Prussia, of 1000 infants only 165, and in England still fewer, 140, die before that age. Measlis, scarlatina, and diphtheria, says the Novoye Vremia, are making ravaees among children in the capital, and in certain districts of the Empire the danger is so great that several colleges and infant schools have been closed. The McGregor News says A fashionable crarment can now be made bv taking your husband's ulster, dyeing it brown, cutting off the breast pockets, gathering it behind and sewing ten cents of black niching around the neck.

With one of these on. a middle sized woman can sail into a 5 cent store with the air of aduchessJ Here are the two meanest men on record The owners of a elotiilng maidag firm in Boston employ thirty nve rm, woo, from neir poor earnings, eontnouted .2 on Tbankaeivtng Day and gave each tiie two members ef tbe firm a pretty album, occu pying a aau uoar in getc ready and making tbe yreeentanrvi. its. two mean fellows Uok ts suiU.es. and on pay cay 9 vs of tne gix lime ra for Lc i aoar U.ey Lai rock tis rrCIa Cst cf fSan Francisco Arsouant Tie was a shrewd, white headed, ell gentleman touristy who eat sippmr a Kmonada in the till win barroom other day, end who as a important looking individual cams ia and.

haughtily oraerea a wioi.j TiiWtrjl 'spose that gentleman is one of your bonanza fellows, and owns about two thirds of the real estate 'round heref" .1 V. Ho, he repiiea nes a mucn greater personage, tie is one 01 tne successiui candidates of the late election." "Imiehthave known 11 1" exclaims the old gentlemanv emphatically, lie acta just as I did when I was elected to Confess." vP''. v.i; liow was tnat 1 tU7.ll vnn baa. WSS elected 1.1. C.

from the Fourth District just after the war. had a pretty lively campaign of it, and, as I never had been in politics before, I somehow got the idea that the whole country had quit wors ana was watching my contest with quivering anxiety. Every time the other side accused me of being a chicken thief, or a bigamist, or something, and rd get back at them with a card in the Eedville War whoop, headed, Another Lie ailed I'd send a marked copy to every leading paper rathe country Yea. and I was diseusted to find they never paid the slightest attention to me neither. What surprised me xoorewas, although I kept the President and Cabinet advised of everything that occurred.

I never got the slightest sympaxny rrona any of them. I was an administration man, too, and I thought it was blamed sihgolsr." Did they nouce you at ur Knt all. sir and when I was elected, and the boys lighted a bonfire in the main street, and serenaded me, and I spoke for six hours in the open air as to my future course on the tarilf and finances, the New York papers merely said that a Mr. Gunn had been sleeted by a small majority' HOiy xiame being Cfonley, as you "That was nara." "WelL 1 put that all down to envy and malice, and I started for Washing 1 ton. I expected that at least the Speaker of the House and a committee appointed by the Senate, would be down at the depot to welcome me to the capitaL" "Did they do sot" The onlv persons that met me were a committee of hackmes, who tore my overcoat half oil; rammed me into a hack, and robbed me, with the ail and assistance ox a notei cierK, wn gave me a dark room on the top tloor, and asked the first week's board ia advance said it was the rule of the ouse with Arkansas The impudent rascal." "That's what I thought.

Well, the next morning I got away from the bedbugs as well as I could, and went up to the White House to see if the President would like to strolldown to the House to introduce me and see me sworn in. I sent up my card, and in an hour or two some secretary or other sent word that the President was at breakfast, and couldn't be bothered." That was pretty short, wasn't it "Well. I was just dumb founded. How ever, I went down to the Capitol and told the Sergeant at Arms to go in and announce to the members that I had arrived. 'That's devilish good, that is and rushed ofL I expected that, ot course, the members would come crowding np to congratulate me and say something like, Magnificent speech of yours that last one, Oonley 1 Beat 'em.

by forty eight votes, too, old fellow And then, mebbe, they'd give me three cheers. and all that sort ot thing." "And did they AA No, sir hope I may never stir if they didn't give me a back seat in the cloakroom until my name was and a door keeper faxed me out into the cor ridor twice under the impression that I was a lobbyist. Well, after I had been put on the Joint Committee on Spittoons and Window Washing, and spent a couple of months trying to wedge in my great four hour speech on the match tax, something occurred that let down my check rein, and took all the frills oat of ms for 1 "What was that 5 Well, I was takin a drive out to the Soldiers' Home one afternoon, with three other members, when a light bugy went by like a streak of greased lightning the trotter driven by a solemn looking man in a rusty plug hat, who wan smoking a cigar and steadying a small terrier on the seat with his elbow." That's Butcher said one of my companions, with great interest trots in 20. He's a rattling good stepper, bet your lifeP 7 a Did you notice that log said another; Best bred "pup id town tail no bigger than a rat's; infernal fine dog, thatF "As I had nothing else to say, I casually inquired who the driver was Why, that's the said one of them, with a yawn. By Jovs how I'd like to have one of those pups "That settled it.

Tve been as meek, and sad as a car horse pulling a pic nio ever since." 'Advice to a Young LlarL My son, don't be in too great a hurry to accept advanced opinions." It ia the thing 9 to be advanced in thU progressive day and 'generation, but there's a heap of shallowness in it. Did yon never notice, my son, that the man who tells you he cannot believe the Bible is usually able to believe almost anything else Yon will find men, myou. who turn with horror snd utter disbelief of the Bible and joyfully embrace the teachings of Buddha. It is quite the thing just now, my son, for a civilized enlightened man, brought up in a Christian country and an age of wisdom, to be a Buddhist. And if you ask six men who profess Buddhism who Buddha was, one of them will tell you hewss an Egyptian soothsayer, who lived two hundred years before Moses.

Another will tell you that he brought letters from Pkco nicia and introduced them in Greece, a third will tell you that she was a beautiful woman of Farther India, bound by her vows to perpetual a fourth, will, with little hesitation, say he was a Brahma of the ninth degree and a holy disciple of Confucius, and of the other two. one will frankly admit that he docs not know, and the other will say, with some indecision, that he waseitber a dervish of the Nile (whatever that is) or a felo de Be. he can't be positive which. Before you propose to know more than anybody and everybody else, my son, be very certain that you are at least abreast of two thirds of your fellow moa. I don't want to suppress any inclination, yon may have toward genuine free thought and careful, honest investigation, my son.

I only want yoa to avoid the great fault of atheism in day and generation; I don't want to soe yoa try to build a aix story bouse on a one story foundation. IJei" ore you condemn and tin ally revise thwc: cf creation, my son. be pretty conn A 1 1 you know something about it as don't, as a man who is ol ier in experience than yourself, implore you, don't turn 1 .1 3 oown ana tit down on 1 i .1 entirely out, until you 1. i cured another cne fr rst cf 1 iti live in wLiiayon 1 ta cia If ever on stlou id v. a 'advanced'' atheist, sou, just do that much for the rest of liar Lngtoa Hawkers.

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