The Tribune from Scranton, Pennsylvania • Page 11

GAME TROPHIES FOR Stuffed Parrot the Queen's Fruit Stand, and a Bear Dumb Waiter to the Prince of Wales The fad for transforming big game trophies into useful and ornamental articles of furniture, has for some time been prevalent in England. Deceased pets, also, are no longer buried and forgotten, but are sent to the taxidermist, who shortly returns them stuffed and mounted to again take their places in the family circle. When the Prince of Wales visited Russia, he brought back with him a huge black bear which he had shot. It was his intention to have the skin alone preserved, but at the earnest entreaty of the Princess he was prevailed upon to have it stuffed; so it was sent to a taxidermist. A few weeks later, when the Prince entered his smoking room at Marlborough House, he was surprised to find the big animal standing before him with a tray on which were a bottle of spirits and a number of glasses.

Since then it has been the aspiration of every sportsman to have a bear in his hall or smoking room. One of the largest stuffed bears is in the posses sion of the Baroness Eckhardstein. It yond all peradventure, and will always was shot in Alaska and mounted by have an admiring audience for' his Holland Ward, who gave it to the sporting yarns. There seems to be no Baroness on the day she was married. limit to the number of useful and orna In its paw it holds an electric torch mental ways in which this beast may wnicn nooas tne nail with a soft red be disposed of.

A tiger skin rug will always bring a good price; and if the rr'hen the pet parrot belonging to the skin happens to be mangy or discol Prince of Wales perished in the claws ored, the head can be mounted as a his favorite cat, it was considered foot stool, and the claws can be pol too beautiful to consign to Mother ished and made into articles of jewelry. Earth; so it was mounted as a flower One of the most striking of all articles and fruit stand, and presented to the I of animal furniture has just been pre jueen on ner sevenuetn Dirtnaay, and ss now a useful ornament in Windsor Castle. As usual with all fads, this one has Seen run to an extreme. Some animals were never intended to be turned into furniture; and the giraffe is certainly one of these. Still, one of the most expensive, ugliest, and most uncomfortable chairs ever constructed la made out of a giraffe.

It belongs to Mr. J. Gardiner Mulr, by whom the animal was shot: evidently Mr. Muir did not mean to be left, even if he had no i bear. From the argua pheasant some beau tiful fire screens have been designed, The first was made for the Countess Mayo from a bird shot by the late Earl 1 of Singapore, two weeks before he was assassinated.

A few very exquisite fire screens have been made from peacocks, and they are by far the most gorgeous, but owing to the superstition that peacock feathers bring bad luck, it is hardly likely that they will ever become popular. Bird lamps, too, are becoming fashionable. A very handsome and extreme ly expensive one is made out of the black swan. The bird is stuffed and placed in the position in which it wlms. The neck is curved back until the head reaches the center of the baok, and in the bill Is held the stem of the lamp.

This Is mounted on a heavy mirror. The ostrich and the emu are muoh used for piano and staircase lamps. They are stuffed and mounted on a stand with roller, and tne bird READY FOR carries the lamp on the middle of its back. There is in the possession of Sir Robert Harvey a horn hat stand designed by Sir Edwin Landseer. It is constructed from the horns of stags shot in Invermark Forest by Sir Robert and his father.

A large number of hat stands have been made from Land design, the original of which he made for his own home; but Sir Robert Harvey's has the distinction of being the largest and having the finest set of horns in England. Among the most valuable big game trophies now in existence is one composed of the head and shoulders of a pair of American Bison, which were shot by Landseer and arranged to form an ornament for his study wall. These and an otter chair were the favorite trophies of the great painter. But the East Indian "man eater" is the treasure of treasures. The sportsman who brings that home in his game bag has made his reputation be pared by a London firm for an Indian prince, a huge easy chair made from the skin of a man eater.

The seat, back, and arms are covered with the skin, and the head and fore paws appear over the back. So realistic is the crawling attitude of the beast, as it appears to be coming over the back of the chair, that at first glance it is startling. An elephant's foot seems, at first sight, to be about the least useful and most hopelessly unornamental thing on earth, but a clever taxidermist has hit upon a plan for making it into an artistic piece of furniture. The larger feet are carefully stuffed, and mounted as liqueur stands, the covers being made of undressed aligator skin. Tney are lined with either crushed satin or plush.

The smaller feet are made Into foot stools and door stops, and some Into cigar and tobacco boxes. Innumerable funny things have been done with the smaller varieties of monkeys. They manage to look absurd in almost any position in which they are placed. Nothing could look more grotesque than a tiny ape placed at either end of a mantle holding a pair of lighted candles, or a couple of these funny little animals chasing each other up the stem of a lamp; but since they have become the slaves of fashion, these are their ordinary duties. Even the lumbersome elephant humbly goes down on his hind legs to make the hall porters a chair.

It is the baby elephant only that can'be used in this way. though a huge "cosy. cWer" baa ANY CONQUEST. FURNITURE. been made by an enterprising taxidermist out of a full grown elephant.

This, however, was done more to show the skill of the mounter than for practical purposes. The skulls and bones of large animals have many uses in animal furniture. The sculls of lions and tigers are highly' polished and Counted with open jaws on shield sed mahogany boards. In the jaws dial of a clock is inserted. Others ai Jiounted so as to form letter boxes fr rarden gates, the letters being dropped "between the Jaws.

From hippopotamus sculls easy smoking chairs are made, and from the sides of some hang tobacco pockets made from the ears of elephants or wild asses. Bent iron hall stands with snakes twisted In and out through the pattern are another phase of the fad. Almost any animal may be fitted up so as to form a card receiver; a very elegant one is made from the flying opossum. There is a concern doing a flourishing business in London which keeps on hand a large variety of birds so that customers may choose what they like in the feathered line; and the manager says that very often ladies come with bits of silk or tapestry coy ering that they may match it with a poll parrot or cockatoo of the same shade. Such is fashion! Copyright, 1897, by Bacheller Syndicate.

A GREAT OIL WELL Its First Day's Flow Was 14,560,000 Gallons. The flow of oil from Kirkbridge No. 1 well In Madison township, Sandusky county, Ohio, began Nov. 18, 1S94. The spectacle was one of the most magnificent ever witnessed in that part of the country.

First appeared a column of water rising eight or ten feet into the air. This was followed by a blai.k stream of mud and sand, which gradually changed to yellow. Then, with a deafening roar, the gas burst forth In an immense column, hiding the derrick from view. As this cleared away a solid golden column a foot in diameter shot from the derrick floor 100 feet into the air, there breaking Into fragments and falling in a shower of yellow rain for a quarter of a mile around. For a period of five hours this great column of oil shot upward.

In a very few minutes the field about the well was covered several inches with petroleum. Within three or four hours the ditches for miles around were overflowing with oil. Dams were constructed in order that the product might be estimated but these were overflowed and swept away as rapidly as built. Some persons living in the vicinity, alarmed at the spectacle, packed their household goods arid fled. The Buckeye Pumping station, a mile distant was compelled to extinguish its fires on account of the gas, and all other fires within the district were put out.

i was a literal flood of oil, the estimated production for the first twenty four hours being 14.560,000 gallons. An Embarrassment. It is told of a certain "effective" preacher, that Just as he became very earnest and dramatic one Sunday evening the voice of a child startled the congregation by calling: Mamma, what's the matter with that fellow? Won't they let him run out el Jhat box?" 1 BATCH 1 Monkey Candelabra. 2 Elephant's Tiger Cinir. 6 Pheasant Foot ALL ABOUT THE MUN OF FASHION The Horse Show as an Object Lesson in Fashionable Colors.

ORANGE AT NIGHT. The Correct Picture Hat Athletic Girls With Square Faces. for There is nothing like an object lesson to fix a fact in one's mind. In matters of dress we have always two annual object lessons from which to learn the ways of fashion for the ensuing six niumns master ror spring ana sum mer, and the Horse Show for fall and winter. From the horse show we have learned that yellow in its various tints is to be the fashionable evening color.

It would be a little far fetched to say that the popularity of the golden color has anything to do with the craze for getting the yellow metal, but the coincidence remains, and there is no denying that it is all very appropriate. Two shades are the really correct thing, and those to whom the color is not becoming need not lament this fact, for one cannot look worse in two unbecoming shades combined than in one by itself. Deep orange and pale gold look much better in fact than in fancy. They are used in hats and capes for evening wear, and the horsiest and most swagger swells of New York's horse show have been parading the combination for the past week. The most gorgeous example appeared in a cape which was so made that it showed to best advantage when the wearer was standing.

There were long stoles of deep orange velvet which hung nearly to the bottom of the brocaded silk skirt. These stoles were veiled with fine creamy, lace and edged with white Thibet. The orange velvet also formed the broad, Medici collar, with a lining of white Thibet, that stood up around the head and face. The pale gold velvet formed the capes that hung down over each arm. An evening hat to match this handsome wrap was made of two shades of yellow velvet, with white lace and aigrettes for trimming.

I A fetching hat, which could easily be fcopied by a woman of taste, graced a box at the horse show for more than one evening. It was a large hat, but fortunately the boxes at the "Garden" are so arranged that those behind are not discommoded in the least by any kind of headgear, however monstrous. The hat in question began with a Tarn NOVELTIES Liquor Stand. 8 Dumb Waiter. 4 Fire Screen, 7 Queen' Parroi jfruit IN ANIMAL O'Shanter crown of Jetted velvet.

Around this was gathered a frill of fine white lace about three Inches wide which stood up around the crown like a corona and formed the brim. For a band, there was a steel buckle that reached half way around the head, resting of course against a velvet bandeau. Black and white plumes, with an intermixture of black aigrettes formed the trimming and furnished the necessary height It is a very easy matter to make a hat like this, and in general it is inexpensive, as one usually has feathers and aigrettes left from an old hat. Jetted velvet is easily made, if one has sufficient patience. Sometimes one can muster a buckle that will serve for a bandeau, but one must have new lace, as no other has the dressing necessary to make It stand out as it should.

A bit of handsome passamenterle may le used instead of a buckle for the bandeau especially on a hat of an evening shade such as pink or yellow velvet, but cut steel Is the most fashionable thing. A steel buckle Is a necessity with the black velvet picture hat for certain types of face. The woman with a round broad face requires a hat that sits up high and turns away from the forehead. It is a style that is quite generally becoming, and is particularly pretty when worn by the woman of square Jaw a type which is growing more and more and more numerous in proportion as girls become in athletics. There is no argument in the question as to whether athletics develops the will power, and the square Jaw is the physical exponent of this quality.

The golf girl, the basket ball girl, and above all, the football girl, are well provided with jaw, to speak rather but this facial devciop inelegantly; ment need not be unbecoming whec properly treated. Part the hair in th middle, curl it, and bring it down over the temples as near the eyebrows as possible, so aa to reduce the effect of squareness in the upper part of the face. Side combs will hold it in place about the ears. Then wear a picture hat of black velvet, with a large buckle in front like the one in the illustration. A broad, pointed Medici collar, with an edge of soft fur, together with such a hat is well calculated to soften the squarest of football faces a fact which will be clearly seen by referring to the picture of the young woman who, whether in football costume or in the latest form of exquisite and dainty attire, is ready for any conquest, be it on the athletic field or in Cupid's own bower.

This is the kind of girl who should either go to one extreme or the other in matters of dress. She should avoid tailor made gowns they are too severe without being actually jaunty. In football or bicycle clothes, she may look saucy and fresh, or in laces and furs she may become dainty and bewitching, but the intermediate stages are dangerous. There is of course a type of girl who looks well in scarf ties, for instance, and they are undoubtedly stylish and pretty, but the square faced girl should avoid them as she does shirt fronts and bloomers. The Roman stripe four in hand is the correct thing and when tied It is wrapped twice around the neck and then tied in front in the usual knot.

If the ends are not edged with lace, the upper one is cut straight and the under one bias a small matter, perhaps, but then style is made up of lit tle things. r. ANNIE LAURIE WOODS. Copyright, 1897, by Bacheller Syndicate. Elephant Hall Chair.

Stand 8 Emu Lawo. 5 Man F.atinir FURNITURE." 4 HIE BEIIGo OF CHRIST New Design Button in Rings That Around the Napkin. STRIPS OF LINEN Embroidered With the Initial of the Individual Who Will Use It Thrifty and provident souls who are always on time with everything that is expected of them have doubtless finished all their Christmas presents and folded them carefully in tissue paper to await their day of triumph. The plain, every day, procrastinating mortal, however, who never for any consideration does to day what she can possibly put off until to morrow, is at this moment cudgeling her brains to decide upon what she will make for Christmas just as soon as Thanksgiving is over. For such as these a de script ion of some dainty novelty may INITIAL NAPKIN RINGS.

lem which confronts the generously Inclined at the end of every year. Something new in napkin rings has been lately devised by a clever woman. These rings are made of two thicknesses of medium, or rather heavy weight, round thread, bleached grass linen. They are cut with on pointed and one square end, close to the required size, with a button and buttonhole, and have a small design of ah initial jewel, or Initial flower letter, or bird, or a tiny spray embroidered on the outside toward the pointed end. Jeweled initial letters are much In favor.

They are outlined In gold color or royal blue, and then set with Jewels. The initial of the Jewel must be the same, ir possible, as tne letter in which It is set. for instance, calis for rubles; for sapphires; for amethyst; for beryl or blood stone; turquoise or green tourmaline, and so on. Flower letters are worked on the same principle: for rosos; for forget me not; for (swoet) William, wall flower, wild rose, wistaria, etc. If possible, the favorite flower of the Individual for whom the ring Is Intended should be used, but if Fanny happens to like roses she Is unfortunate in having a name that does not begin with and the only thing to do is to take her second favorite.

A very pretty variety can be ob tained in this manner for half a dozen or a dozen rings. The linen is cut in strips about 214 inches wide and 8 Inches long, which allows of one quar ter inch turnings all round. A true half square point Is made at one end of each eight Inch strip before the rings are made up. The embroidery is also done on the upper piece before putting together, and the design Is placed near, but not too close to the pointed end, so that when buttoned the design will be uppermost, thus enabling the members of the family to distinguish their own rings at a glance. The embroidered piece la then sewn to a plain piece for a lining, turned through the square end, smoothed, pulled In shape, the square end bllnd stitched up, and a tiny trail of brier stitch of French dots carried all round the ring to keep edges in shape.

A buttonhole Is worked In the point, and the ring completed by a button at the other end. This button Is a very distinctive feature fact, whore money is no ob ject, It is apt to be made the feature, and become rather expeilnlve. This Is not necessary, however, as In all cases where linen is concerned, daintiness is better form than much elaboration. Anything neat will serve, from linen or pearl to beautiful enamel; but the buttons should not be too small, as most people, children and men particularly, like something definite to get hold of. If buttons with shanks are used, the shanks can be sewn In place, or an eyelet hole made at the square end of the linen and shank put through and secured by a ring or small tape tie on the under side.

This plan admits of easy removal for the laundry, 'and as no two buttons need be alike. Is a good way of using up odd buttons too han some to throw away. The same kind of ring made larger (about three Inches wide by ten or twelve inches long) in colored linen, may be used for music rolls, handkerchief holders, etc. One dainty matron has several in her piece basket for holding together various kinds of pat terns, scraps and the like, In their respective rolls, and finds them as convenient as they are decorative. Copyright, 1897, by Bacheller Syndicate.

Sarah Bernhardt. When Sarah Eernhardt she worked for a year and a half for $20 a month, and even that amount was unearned, as It was paid to her, although she did not know it, not from the treasury of the theater but from the pocket of a friend. The box office considered her absolutely worthless. That Is tha story told by the friend who paid the money, in a signed article published in Figaro: and mere isa.i lb slightest 1 I A.