The Daily Republican from Monongahela, Pennsylvania • Page 5

SATURDAY SUPPLEMENT DAILY REPUBLICAN. family carries the babe, in a horse-car. ud to The tst of them are ar to be self-commit STRAY BABIES. EEPUBLICAN. THE FASHI0XS.

OTES. Among the. fashionable combinations black and yellow retains its popularity. Colored silk handkerchiefs, with striped and dotted borders, are used for trimming hats and bonnets. Tulle, gauze, silk mull, crepe lisse and various other gauzy fabrics are largely used for bonnet and hat trimmings, mixed with loops of picot edged riblion, into which are set large clusters of flowers.

Silk gloves are much worn in the evening in England now, and are mlnufac-tured in all lengths, even to those worn with sleeveless frocks. The prettiest are perfectly plain, but those who demand ornament can have it in lace bands and in chenille embroideries. A silk glove with evening dress seems to be in its proper place. There are many rose tints among the new colors which wiH probably take the place of the brilliant cardinal red shades of previous seasons. These rose shades are shown in various tones of color from a faded tapestry pink, known as "old rose," to the brilliant Charles colors, which repeat the shades and tints of the wild rose, and are usually called "eglantine" colors.

The Swiss belt in plush or velvets forms a perfect finish to the full bodice of a woolen or foulard tvHelte. The collai and cuffs should match the belt. Bonnets and hats are not so high as they were, but they are still abundantly trimmed with flowers, ribbon-loops, and feathers. In fact, it is more than evet the trimming that makes the bonnet. Ribbon tied about Flora McFlimsey's neck is wider than heretofore worn, and is tied in what Vassar girls call a "smashing bow" under the left ear.

With tulle or lace neckwear small brooches of rare workmanship will be worn. The edelweiss in silver or enamel is a favorite design for pins and The higher now the parlor lamp the more fashionable, and it is still the reign of brass. A long brass rod, at the top of which is a lamp with pink sunshade or parasol, is called the piano lamp now, and no fashionable family should be without one. Silk hangings now take the place of wall paper in the most fashionable houses. In Paris gentlemen's street gloves are mouse color with ponderous stitching of black.

Norma Blake. id paupers with babies of their own. The Jtbers are fallen women just out of the lying- in ana iuper women who nave gone to the hosiiital the same condition It has been found that they treat the helpless little waifs of the streets very unfairly, nursing their own babies and starving the others if they are not watched. But they are watched and the best care the humane paid nurses can exact for the little ones is given to them. The great majority die and are buried in a starthngly plain and unhal- lowtti looking pit iu tiers ami rows, toot to head in lines and on top of one another in the other direction.

The little coffins are numbered and by the records that are kept any foundling can be traced from where its mother abandoned it to its coiiin, but no need for this was ever known. No niothe: ever yet has called for the corpse of her little one. It is not because of their treatment in the city's hands that the homeless babies die. It is because their exposure after their mothers leave them, because their mothers drug them, because they are bom in mi-erv and poverty, because they are apt to have been half starved. Once in a while the public catch a mother in the act of surrendering her child to the cold world.

That is a felony and the penalty is. severe. Sometimes one af these mothers repents and seeks her babe. If it is not dead it is returned to her. If it fives three years it is sent to one of two insti tutions to lie adopted by some one who ap plies for a boy or girl and gives good refer ences.

The two institutions are the Protestant Home for the Friendless and the Roman Catholic Institution of Mercy. The New York Foundling Asylum world-famous as the haiiiest and most ad mirable haven that ever a homeless baby found its way to. It is so famous that babies have been brought to it from every State in Union, and even from Europe. People ix'lieve tnat once a baby is taken in there it will be reared with a carealmost approaching that of a mother in command of limitless means, experience and love. How true that is, I don't know, but 1 certainly never -iaw happier, healthier, cleaner or brighter little ones in my life than I found there when I called unheralded and was shown tlironeh the and beautiful building.

Between the inner and the outer front door of this ulaee of charity is an ordinary vicker basket or crib, swinging between two uprights and curtained with pink and wnitc muslin. Ordinary it is, but only in appearance, for it is hardly a question whether any other receptacle ever held so many examples ot microscopic numanity as tnis. 1 ne oaDies that have been left in it by desperate mothers would populate what would be called acity in the far West. There must have been 12,000 to 15,000 foundlings in that crib by this time. Two or three times a night the door-bell rings, one of the two dozen sisters slips down and a mother is allowed to enter the vestibule.

Often not a word is sioken. The sister looks on while the mother ruts her little one in the basket. If the mother seems a decent girl or cries bit terlv at parting with her care the sister some times urges her to try once again to care for it herself. When the asylum was tirst oned a young woman, who was wild with grief, told a sister that she could not go home; even without the proof of her shame her parents bad cast her off. The sister invited her to stav and care for her own child.

That precedent has often been fol lowed since, and now there are always many mothers learning laundry work, learning sewing, cooking and whatever there is to do. Of course they are often women who have discarded virtue, and it has been found that the sisters can reclaim a great many, sending them out to earn their living, proud of the work they nave ueen laugni to penorm. The sisters sav that it is surprising how many of thee" immoral women have never learned anything usetui when taugni now to work they otten take to it eageny. The good mother superior at Mount St. Vincent founded this asylum in 18(39, in a little dwelling, in the month of October.

In one month thirteen babes were left at the door, and by Christmas the number had increased to 124. Now there ere always about 2.000 on the lists of the asylum, 500 in it and the rest kept out to nurse among workingwomen at $10 a month. At first it eems like helping crime to keep a basket like this one at the asylum always ready for mothers to go to when they wish to auanaon their offspring. But a moment's reflection shows vou that this is not so; that if a mother is so constituted or so situated that she can or must part with her baby, it is best that the means be provided for her. There are women whom nothing can force to this dread alternative.

They may be obliged to have their little ones cared for in theday- Hm nt nn of the many "dav-board-for- hnhips" establishments in the city, but when work is done aad home is to be sought the loyal matron always takes her darling to her breast. Julias Kalph THE CODFISH BA1X. Its Composition, Peculiarities and turesque Mode of life. ric- The common codfish ball of commerce, under our republican form of government, matures at all seasons of the year, and attains its greatest perfection in the New Eng land States. There are points of resemblance between the codfish ball and the giblet croquette, but the codfish ball is the more select of the two.

People may shine in the giblet croquette circle who would not be recognized at a first- class codfish ball. Nature certainly did a noble work when she endowed us with the open-back codfish. He enters into our life as no other insect ever can. He gladdens every heart and proclaims his presence in clarion tones. In the smallest of our cosmopolitan American towns you will always hear the still, small voice of the codfish as he converses with the Limburger cheese at the comer grocery.

The dead codfish has an expression in his eye like the man "who can drink or let it alone." I refer to the man who drinks when he is requested and lets it alone when he is not. Codfish roam around in the briny deep all their lives. They like a moist climate during life, and even after they die and mingle in the giddy round of codfish balls. The cod lives to a good old age, and then when he dies he is present like an autumn leaf, and tall young men in the grocery swat each other with his cold remains. In death the codfish has a cold, hard smile.

It is a sort of all-pervading smile, but those who know him best claim that he does not really feel it. It is not sincere. The codfish, however, is not so clannish as the sardine, though his judgment is better and he never keeps anything back. The codfish always feels free to unbosom himself, no matter whether he is in full dress or not. prepare a low-priced, home-made aquarium, put a red herring in the water-pail.

He will also give a nut-brown, grocery-store flavor to the drinking water. Codfish balls are sometimes used in upholstering a lounge, but more frequently for stuffing a boarder. I believe that the day will yet come when the codfish will be utilized as a packing for car axles, and with lime and sand make a first-class plaster for walls. There ought to be something that he is good for. The codfish ball, when properly conducted, is not morally wrong, but we cannot too careful.

Bill Nye. Pa Needed Sympathy the Most. "So you have got a step-mother?" she said the little girl of seven. "Yes." "Well, I feel sorry for you." 'Oh, you needn't do that," replied the lit one. "Please feel sorry for pa 1" Detroi Free 1 rest Mr.

Blake's. In the directory Mr. Blake I formally set down as the. superintendent out-door poor, an omce ol tne oepartment ott charities and correction at Eleventh street and Third avenue. I wish we could tarty awhile with Mr.

Blake bis is such an interesting office, so utterly impossible anywhere than in a great city, and he is so genial and noble a man. One wall of a little loom has been removed and in the aperture he sits, looking out upon a great bare hall into which blows and drifs the very sediment and refuse of humanitv. Poor bloated, tattered, shriveled, ill or disheartened men and women are his company from morn until even, and all file past him and tell him their woes. This one has a son in the penitentiary may she visit him Yes, here's a permit. This one has a husband in the Charity Hospital.

Can thisjelly be sent to him? Yes, hand it over. The next one is so poor and so ill and cannot buy coaL Will the city send half a ton? Stand inside and we'll see if you are deserving or not. The next is also in need of coal. Get along with you, Mary Flannigan, you're a fraud. Did you think you would not be recognized I'll send you to the island if you corue here again.

Thenextisarichlv-dressedlady accompanied by another equally stylish. They want tosee Blackwell's Island the prison, hospital, alms-houses, lunatic asylum and all the rest. Certainly madam, here is a permit and so oes the day with Mr. Blake. But, hold here is our foundling, on the arm of a pretty young woman.

Mr. Blake's cheery voice rings out with a "Hello! Mary, did you bring us a dov or a gin a little girl, enr iow, that's nice: will von stay to the christening? No cake or lemonade or flowers what, you won't well, good day, Marv." "Here, John," says Mr. Blake to his office boy. "Do you hold the baby now till I name her. D'ye think she's German or Irish I think she's American by birth, anyhow, so we'll name her Anna Calhoun no, I don't like that.

She's Martha York, that's what she is." This name is at once entered on the great journal of the office and upon a ticket to accompany tne child. Mr. Blake explains used custom fo betical ALL ABOAKd! tern, calling the first one or Armstrong, or Adams; the next Beardsley, or Burroughs, or Berry, and so on. That, you remember, is howr Oliver Twist was named. He came after a boy named with for an initial, and so he took for his and became Twist.

Later still it was the custom in New York to name foundlings after the place in which they were found, as Washington Park, or John Battery, or Mary High bridge. That was seen to be inhuman. It cursed the little ones for life. To-day, Mr. Blake gives them all good practical names as they occur to mm, such as Mary Howe, Peter Cooke, Isabella Winters or whatever may pop into his head, lie probably christens more babies than any clergyman, sometimes 500 in a vear.

Martha York, our foundling, has now been handed to the driver of the ambulance or panjHjr-wagon standing at the door. He took it with the same unconcern with which he also took the jelly for the sick husband and several other bundles. A dozen broken-down women, rum-soaked and diseased, or paupers out of house and home, and two or three men of the same sort, climb into the wagon, and off it goes to the foot of East Twenty-sixth street, just beyond the morgue and Bellevue Hospital. Beside the wharf a large and pretty steamboat is lying, and all about it is a scene of bustle and confusion. Policemen are iu charge, ladies and gentle- men on siglit-see- ing trips stes on the gang-plank, ivwsrC shoulder to shoulder handcuffed and being led from a prison van to the boat, ana side by side with a OS THE WAY TO BLACKWELL 8 ISLAXL.

clumsy, stumbling herd of what are called "drunk and disorderlies." The steamboat is going to all the official islands up the East river to Blackwell's, Ward's and Randall's islands, where are the hospitals, mad-houses, alms-houses and penitentiary. Consequently unfortunates destined for all these places are among her passengers. Flitting about among all the others on the boat and on the wharf are several women in clean, neat suits of what we all know as "bed-tick." Some are of repulsive aspect, with battered and bruised faces, but here and there one sees a healthy, rosy, pretty one. To- one of these little Martha York is handed, and she takes the foundling on board the steamer and feeds it with a bottle. These women in suits of bed-ticking are what are called "ten-day prisoners." They are abandoned women arrested for waiting the streets, drunken and quarrelsome wives from the tenements, and vagrants.

This, then, is the introduction of one of the city's wards to its new career dandled by a courtesan from the lowest depths and by her taken into the thick of a crowded boat-load of thieves, pickpockets, paupers and bad women, and among the halt.the diseased and the mad. Ah I this is shocking cruelty, the very refinement of outrage and yet tlie little' innocent knows naught of its environments, but looks on with wondering eyes, happy if it but escapes pain. It is taken to the last landing the boat makes, the Infant Asylum. on Randall's Island a great well-lighted, scrupulously clean three-story brick building, with an average "census" of 150 foundlings coming and dying daily, mainly the latter. Some paid nurses move about the wards superintending the women who nurse the foundlings.

The poor little wait lias not escaped lie guardianship of vice and crime and will not while the great heartless city is its guardian. The nurses are the same bad women, paiiiers and convalescent Invalids we saw on the boat. be the 1 laflKWaa to name II jiK mas sraaam i with criminals. JmSsfW be to tie SOME NOTABLE ACHIEVEMENTS OF THE MODISTES. Woolen Fabrics in Great Tone Some Specimen Coetne The Latest Styles In Millinery Illustrated-Fresh Notes on Accessories to the Toilet.

PRrxa styles of millinery show the bonnets very small, and the hats, despite all controversy to the contrary, decidedly in large shapes. The Tuxedo or Jess, of which we give an illustration, is one of the most becom ing and stylish of the large hats. It has a moderately tall tapering crown and a flat brim turned np abruptly on the left side. In the present in stance it is of brown straw, THE TUXEDO. velvet, ribbon and ostrich feathers.

trimmed with large bunch of But the novelty is the Devonshire, of which the accompanying is a representa tion. This low-crowned, flat-brimmed hat is spoken of in both London and Paris advices, and is said to be the mode that is to follow the extravagantly tall hats that have ruled so long. A return to this style TriE devoxsiiire. will undoubtedly bring into fashion again the old time Leghorn flat. Indeed, a recent Paris letter mentions a hat of Leghorn braid, the brim caught back with pale, loose petaled pink roses over a diadem of green leaves resting on the hair.

The model illustrated is of ecru hip, trimmed with ecru crape and a bow af ribbon, surmounted by a large cluster ot black ostrich tips. Although an effort is being made to introduce again the combination gown of ilk and wool which was the rule for dressing costumes a few years ago, wool is still first choice for all toilets in tended for outdoor wear. Checks rule the day for spring wear, those of the smallest pattern possible being very fashionable. For general wear cheviot, tweed and canvas goods take the lead, with broadcloth and various other smooth finished stuffs for tailor suits, which last are more in favor than ever. Braid, buttons, stitching, galloon and passement erie, and moire and velvet ribbon, laid on in rows, are the fashionable trimmings.

Cashmere, that pretty soft material that! has been displaced by the more, coarse and heavy woolens of the past few easons, is once more restored to favor, and some of the prettiest of the new lresses are made of it. It lends itself easily to the pleated and looped style of drapery now in vogue, and makes very pretty and becoming dresses tnmnltd with rows of velvet or moire ribbon on the edge of the draperies, many looped ribbon bows, a ribbon trimmed side pane! and vest. Dove gray dresses are trimmed with blue and silver or green and gold colored ribbon velvet, and ecru or fawn colored a -mere dresses with rows of golden brown velvet on a foundation of ecru or fawn col-o faille. The prettiest of hats and bonnets are made to match such costumes of straw in the new shapes trimmed with velvet, gauze and lace and great clusters of flowers, which, by the way, are always massed in bunches of a single kind. Roses, white and purple lilacs, pansies, violets, the little blue forget-me-not and the yellow-primrose are particular favorites just now.

vv hue In the style of making dresses there is but little change from the modes of last season, the large tournure and full pleated draperies still holding full sway, a few minor modifications are to be noticed. Basques are still cut very snort on the hips and high in the bust, and with very short shoulder seams, but sleeves are gradually undergoing a transformation, most of the new models having sleeves that are half or wholly loose. In the accompanying illustration "several of the new features are seen, noticeably the loose sleeves, the vest and soft fichu trimming, the very hish collar, the girdle (a finish seen on the new French costumes) and the irregular, capricious style of draping now in vogue that is the result of the utmost skill, yet seems so unstudied. This costume, of plain and striped goods, is suitable alike to the mndsomest silks and woolens as well as he simplest wash fabrics. lOW.

THE METROPOLIS ACTS MOTHER TO THE WAITS. AS tVhat WoaM Befall the Reader If He Were Baby Abandoned on a New York Doorstep Efforts Charity to Making to Save the Homeless Foundling Asylums. IXFAST ASYLUM BLACK WELL LAXD. Will the reader, merely to oblige me, fancy himself a foundling, kicking bis heels in air and rubbing his swollen eyes on a doorstep in New York If you are practical you say you prefer a humdrum routine babyhood, or if you are sentimental you remind me that foundlings have often climbed the highest ladders of power and fame that Moses was a foundling, and that Cyrus the Great and Romulus and Remus were no different. But if yon really were found on one of our Sew York doorsteps you excite much interest or attention.

Foundlings are altogether too common with us. There is one stoop in this city that catches two or three a night the year around, and two miles further down town is a woman who gathers in foundlings, officially, for the city at the rate of from 3o0 to 500 a year. Really foundlings are so commonplace that nothing is printed about nine in ten of them. The baby must be very peculiar, must be left on some famous man's step or must be clad in very fine and pretty clothing in order to attract attention of the populace. As the care of foundlings has grown into a systematic and regular business it will be interesting to follow the career of a modern city Moses and see what befalls it in its progress.

We will have the baby found by a citizen returning at midnight from the theatre. He pushes open the outer door of his house and stubs his toe against a soft and yielding bun dle which proves to be a baby, drugged with soothing syrup and sleeping peacefully No matter how tender-sfc! hearted the citizen IS THE HANDS OF THE LAW, munity where foundlings are rare and far apart. In that case he would probably awaken his household and his wife would take the hapless innocent in tharge at least until morning. Here Rew York the citizerl would turn over in his mind every chance that there was some reason why his particular stoop should have been selected and, finding nothing to hang upon the peg of conjecture, would softly proceed down the steps to the street and up to the first police man. "Some one has left a baby in my doorway," a friend of mine said to a policeman under these circumstances.

"Hang it, man I 'Why did ye come to me?" said the officer. "They do cull me Lrigham Young already. I have brought in so many. This'll be Neverthe less he went to the house and picked up PUT TO BED. the' pink and white innocent as as if he had practiced upon some at liome in addition to the official half dozen he had found.

It woke and the brawny officer hucked it under the chin and cooed to it like a matron or a dove. In the station-house sergeant in charge looked up sleepily, and taking a dip of ink on his pen, asked questions and wrote something like this Foundling, I suppose. Looks like a boy call it a boy. 'Where East Thirty-sixth street. Oh, yes What do you think.

Doran about three months, eh? Call it three months. Here Mulry (calling to a man waiting in the station on house duty), take this down to Webb." Doran, who brought the baby in, stops to say that the gentleman on whose stoop the baby was found "will be up to court in the morning" to make affidavit to the finding, and goes back to his post. Mulry, the man now in charge of the baby, takes it to the police headquarters and there climbs the weary- stairs to the top floor, where, after rapping on a door and waiting a moment, lie is shown into a pleasant sitting-roonnby Matron Webb, a practical, active little woman whom the city pavs to receive this flotsam and jetsam of humanity. Two or three cribs are standing near the walls and into one of these the matron lays the child, remarking that "its mother chose a pleasant night for leaving it," and that "it's aliealthy one." The officer bows himself out and the matron fills a nursing bottle with milk and puts the mouthpiece between the babv's lips. The gas light is turned down low, the matron disapjears within an inner room and the baby well, it is to be hoped that it slcPTO.

Early the next morning after the little one has been washed and dressed and kissed for the matron's heart i a kindly one and seems never to be hardened by familiarity with misfortune some member of her little 41 fkwA ffw notact IS! mSK II -1 Ik. MOXONGAHELA. CITY, PA. A3 nrtulf not credited to oilier ptiolimtiont art original article, trrUUn and illustrated for IN LIGHTER VEIN. ehx oocxd pisnscrisH them.

"Speaking of Mrs. Robinson and Mrs. Jones," remarked Fangle, "they resemble each other very "Yes. they look a good deal alike," assented Mrs. Fangle.

"In fact, I can't tell them apart; but 1 suppose you can, my dear?" "Well, I should just think I could "Why Mrs. Jones' bonnets cost four times as much as Mrs. Bobinson's." ALBERT EDWARD' 8 SCHEME. "Well, that's a queer idea for royalty ex- claimed Mrs. Snooks, looking up from the "What is the idea, love?" asked Snooks.

"Why, the daughters of the Princeof Wales all make their own bonnets." "Nothing very queer about that," replied Snooks. "You see the prince owes some heavy debts about 11,000,000." Well, what of that?" "Why, of course he'll be able to pay them all in a little while now." A FRIES!) OF THE FAMILY. "Smith, do you know Surplice, the boy preacher?" "I should say I do, Robinson I went to school with his children." his bog's honor. "Jim." said one Dakota man to another, "Dick Eawmeat's down the street telling the crowd you had to leave the East for burnin' a school-house." "0, that's nothin'," replied Jim lazily. "I don't mind a little thing like that from Dick." "An' he says yer a horse thief, too." "That don't hurt me, neither." "That ain't all, though." "What else, podner?" "He says if his dog can't lick yer liver-colored hound he'll grind him up into sausage meat." "He said that, did he? Why didn't yer tell me at first he'd insulted exclaimed Jim, bolting down the street.

"Not let me get the drop on the varmint THEY WERE DOWN. "My dear," said Mrs. Fangle to her husband, "I think I will buy some quilts. They are down now." "Certainly," replied Fangle; "always consult economy by purchasing supplies when prices are low." A few days later, when the bills came in, Fangle asked with some asperity "How do these quilts come to $10 apiece? Didn't you say they were down "So they are, my love," replied Mrs. Fangle sweetly, "they are eider-down." QOPS.

Kot amiss A Mr. Yolk fellows A couple of eggs. Grate friends Poker and shovel. Died in the wool A deceased sheep. If gold comes in quartz, how much is a quart of it worth? There is not always room at the top.

Some houses have no finished attic. It is generally believed that gas men, when they go to church, prefer to sing long-metre hymns. A glance at a Welsh newspaper will convince anyone that only a Y's man can master the language. Let's see. Has anyone ever remarked thai if you eat onions evidence of your crime will be sure to leek out? We do not know much about the behavioi of the geese of Rome, but we know there is a Propaganda at the Eternal City.

THE MANDOLIN. Banishment of the Banjo and Zither to Out-of-the-way Cupboards. Just as the pet dog has been ignomini-ously banished from the drawing-room rug and a cat substituted in his place, so have banjos and zithers been consigned to out-of-the-way cupboards while the woman of fashion occupies herself with the latest craze in the musical line the Neapolitan mandolin. A few years ago this quaint little instrument unknown here save by hearsay, but now the music shop that does not have several of them in its windows, appropriately bedecked with gay ribbons, is decidedly behind the age. New Yorkers are never slow to seize upon a novelty, no matter what particular tonn it may take.

Of course, however, there are novelties and novelties. The mandolin belongs to the category that one may affect with credit to one's self. Women I use the word advisedly, as the number of men who learn the instrument is proportionately small women, therefore, who have mastered the mandolin sufficiently to play, even though much be left to the imagination in this respect, certainly present to the observer a more or less picturesque appearance. Perhaps this is one of the chief reasons for the enormous popularity the mandolin has of late maintained. It was first introduced to us by the Spanish students, and since then their talented conductor has 'successfully attempted to make the instrument familiar to New York society.

New York Mail and Express. LATEST PATCHWORK CRAZE. How to Make Beautiful Portieres of Small Pieces of Silk. Ever since the craze for silk patchwork quilts subsided to a certain extent people have been wishing for some new device to make use of the bits of silk that are constantly accumulating in a household. At last it has been found they maybe made into a beautiful portiere.

The great advantage is that while for patchwork every piece must be fresh in appearance, in making a portiere every little old bit of silk, no matter how soiled, may be used. Cut the pieces of silk in strips half an inch wide and two inches long. Sew them strongly together by lap- Sing them. Just take the pieces up hap-azard as they happen to come. It requires about five pounds to make enough for a curtain three yards long and a yard and a half wide.

After the strips Bre sewed together take them to a weaver and have them woven in a flat manner. Some have them knitted, but it is not as pretty as the flat weaving. Herein New York these can be woven for 11 per curtain. It adds much to the appearance of the curtain to place a border of plush top and bottom for dado and frieze. One who has not seen what beautiful curtaias these strips make can form no idea of how rich they look, resembling some East Indian fabric Ntv York Mail and Express.

Who says a woman Is inconsistent? She ls.at least consistent in ber inconsistency. WHAT'S THE GOOD OF IT 1 A Humorist's Objections to the Interstate commerce Law. There is a neat Latin phrase that would make a more aehnlarlv t.5H fnrtMa nm. graph, but some ignorant beggar always runs away with the dictionary when we want to be classical. But what we want to say is this about the interstate commerce bill, for instance.

After reading a few thousand comments on the same from all sections of the country, we are firmly convinced That it will make freight rates higher That it will increase the price of passenger tickets; That it will abolish commutation tickets That it will call in all free passes That it will increase the running expenses of the railroads That it will bankrupt the Western farmers and shippers That it will ruin the Eastern merchants That many railroads can't run at all under it That all others will run at great loss. And that nobody can afford to travel under it. We are anarchy. chaos and the bill are coming' along hand in hand, or rather we would be but for one thing we never knew a bill for the regulation of railroads that a blind man couldn't throw a herd of bulls through. Don't worry about the interstate bill the commissioners will get their salaries all right and regularly.

Brooklyn Eagle. MARRIED IX HASTE. The "Wild Irish Girl's" Summary Nuj- tials One January Morning. Sidney Owenson, Lady Morgan, authoress of the "Wild Irish Girl," was generally known among her acquaintances by the sobriquet of "Glorvina," from the prin cipal character in that work. Her marriage with Sir Charles Morgan.

M. was chiefly brought about oy Lord and Lady Abercorn, her patrons and friends for though deeply in love with her future hus- bana, Miss Uwenson loved her liberty and put off the wedding until Sir Charles lost patience. At last she was fairly caught in the toils. One January morning she was reading by the fire in the library at Baron's Court (Lord Abercorn's residence) when Lady Abercorn openea ine aoor ana saia "Glorvina. come urstairs directly and ba married.

There must be no more trifling!" Her ladyship took Miss Owenson's arm and led her up-stairs to her dressing-room (both ladies were in their morning wrappers), where a table was arranged for the ceremony the family chaplain standing in full canonicals, with his book open, and Sir Charles ready to receive her. There was no escape left. The ceremony proceeded and the Wild Irish Girl was married past redemption. Beauty Behind the Bws Mabel Stacey, a young woman fromTexa with the alias of Mary Francis, and a large amount of good looks and fine clothing, was arrested in this city to-night. Three weeks ago she gave as security for her at the Metropolitan Hotel a check for $25 which proved worthless.

Subsequently she left the hotel. The check was signed in the name of Louis 8mallback, cashier of the Fidelity Loan Company, and when presented at the Chatham Isational Bank, it was drawn, was found to bea forgery. The prisoner is only nineteen, but she has made quite a record in crime. A number of other petty forgeries are alleged against Jher. New York Press Dispatch.

A Monster Tooth. 3. D. Mitconer, while digging a 'ditch through marshy ground near Tiro, 0., found near the surface several very "large bones, evidently the skeleton of some huge beast. They were decayed so that they werefmere shells, except some teeth, which were well preserved.

One of these was about! inches long, four inches wide, wenty inches in circumference, and weighed two pounds and ten ounces. BANG AWAY. 'JOHN D. HEMBTRKET. First be sure you're in the right, In whate'er you wish to do.

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