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 (( â- *â-  '^^-^ YOUNa FOLKS. Bob White. BT DORA BEAD GOODALS. Look the valleys are thick with grain Heavy and tall Peaches drop in the grassy lane By the orchard wall Apples streaked with a crimson sta'n, Msk in the sunshine, warm and bright Hark to the qnail that pipes for rain â€" Bob White I Bob White 1 Au((nr of mischief, pipes for rain â€" Bob White Men who reap on the fraitfnl plain Skirting the town. Lift their eyes to the shifting vane ' As the sun goes down Slowly the farmer's loaded wain Climbs the slope in the failing light, â€" Bold is the voice that pipes for rain â€" Bob White 1 Bob White I Still from the hillside, pipes for rain â€" Bob White I Lo, a burst at the darkened pane. Angry and loud Waters murmur and winds complain To the rolling cloud Housed at the farm, the careless swain, Weaving snares while the fire burns bright. Tunes his lips to the old refrains- Bob White Bob White Oh, sound of the blithe refrain â€" Bob White! OBSEEVIHG LITTLE THIHGS. BY JOHN BUBROUGHS. I read a statement not long sgo, about the spiders' webs that cover the tields and meadows on certain mornin(;s in the summer, which was not entirely exact. It is not quite true, in the sense in which it was uttered, that these spiders' webs are more abundant on some mornings than on others, and that they presage fair weather. Now the truth i6, that durint; the latter halt of summer these webs are about as abundant at one time as at another but they are much more noticeable on some mornings than on others, â€" a heavy dew brings them to view. They are especially conspicuous after a momintr of fog, such aa often fills our deeper vaUeys for a few hours when fall approaches. They then look like little napkfais spread all over the meadows I saw fields last summer in August, when one conld step from one of these dew-napkins to another, for l3ng distances. They are little nets that catch the fog. Every thread Is strung with innumerable, fine drops, like tiny beads. After an hour of snnahine the webs, apparently, are gone. Moirt country people, I find, think they are due to nothing but the moisture others seem to think that the spiders take them in aa morning advances.. But they are still there, stretched above the grass at noon and at sunset, as abundant as they were at sun- rise and are then more serviceable to the spiders, because less visible. The flies and other insects, if any were stirring, would avoid them in the morning, but at midday they do not detect them so readily. If these webs have any significance as signs of the coming weather thu may be the explanation A heavy dew occurs under a dear cool sky, and the night preceding a day of rain is usually a dewlesa night. Much dew, then, means fair weather, and a copious dew dis- closes the spider's webs. It is the dew that is significant, and not tiie webs. We all need to be on our guard against hasty observations and rash conclusions. Look again and think again, before you make up your mind. One day while walking in the woodi, I heard a sound which I was at once half per- suaded to believe was the warning of a coil- ed rattlesnake it was a swift, buzzing rattle, and but a few yards from me. Cautiously approaching, I saw \,he head and neck of a snake. Earlier in my life^ I should have ' needed no further proof, and probably should have fled with the full conviction that I had seen and heard the dreaded rat- tlesnake. But as I have grown older, I have grown more wary about jumping to conclusionsâ€" even where jumping serpents are concerned. I looked again, and again, and drew nearer the rattler at each glance. Soon I taw that it was only a harmless black snake shaking his tail at me. Was he try- ing to imitate the rattlesnake I only knew that there he lay, with his tail swiftly vi- brating in contact with a dry leaf. The leaf gave forth a loud, sharp, humming rattle. The motive or instinct that prompted the uiake to do this seemed a suggestion or a prophecy of the threat of the rattlesnake. It evidently was done on account of my pre- sence as a warning note. Since then I have seen a small garter snake do the same thing. He was found in the oat- bin. How be got there is a mystery but there he was, and when I teased him with a stick he paused and vibrated the end of his tail so rapidly that, in contact with the oats, it gave out a sharp buzzing aourd. He also was an in- cipient rattlesnake. Such facts were of great interest to Darwin, as showing marked traits of one species cropping out, casually or tentatively, in another. Ip line with these is another observation which I made two summers ago, and was enabled to confirm last summer. Our blue- bird is no doubt a modified thrush that is, its ancestor in the remote past was doubt- less of the thrush family. One evidence of this is the fact that the young of the blue- bird has a speckled breast like the thrush and Darwin established the principle that peculiar markings or traits confined to the youth of any species are an inheritance from early progenitors. In addition to this, I have noted in the song of the female blue- bird â€" one of a pair that for two seasons have built near me â€" a distinct note of the thrush. Whenever I hear the voice of this bird it re- minds me of that of a certain tlimsh â€" the olive-backed. But I am wandering far from my aabjfct. I set out to talk ab^ut spiders. Do you know that we have a spider called ths wolf spider, and one that well deserves the name, so fierce and savage is he He is a weldess spider, that prowls about seeking whom he may devour. I had not seen one since lioy- hqod till the other day, when I met one in the path between the house and the study. He was so large and black, and was inaroh" ing aloqjg so boidtt^. rAutsined, apan Ms eiffht ioa^ ypgi,jia Uy j » jit^^ tion at once, l psIKI StlSm mm me foe of my shoe, when he loldly charged me, and tried to run ap my leg. Tide deepened my iatntab in faim, and I bent down to him uid ehalleond him with a lead penciL At fint headed off he faced me in an attitode of de- fense. He reared up like a wild uuma}, his forward legs in the air, his row of minnte eyes glistening, and his huge fangs, with their sharp hooks, slightly parted, ready to seize me. Aa I teased him with the pencil, he tried to parry my thrusts with his arms, like a boxer, till he saw his opportuni^, when he sprang fiercely upon the pencil, and, closing his fangs upon it, allowed himself to be lifted from the ground. When he had let go, two minute drops of moisture were visible.where the fangs had touched the polished surface of the pencil. This was the poison they had secreted, and would probably make his bite very danger- ous. After he had discharged his wrath and his venom in this way, once or twice, he grew reluctant to repeat the operation, just as a venomous snake does. His valor seemed to subside as his supply of venom diminished. Finally, he would not bite at all, but held up his arms or legs simply on the defensive. His fangs were two thick weapons, surmounted by two small black books, probably a sixteenth of an inch long They were very formidable in appearance. The spider himself was an inch and a half in length, black and velvety and, with his ei?ht prominent legs all in motion, was striking to look upon. I captured him and kept him a prisoner for a few days in a box with a glass cover. We put large flies in his cage which he would not touch while we were present, but in the morning only empty shells of flies remained. Then we put in wasps, and to these he seemed to have a great antipathy. He probably knew that they also had venom, and knew how to use it. When the wasps buzzed about seeking to escape, he would shove up a wall of cotton (for there was cotton in the box) between himself and them. In the morning the wasps were always dead, but not devoured. We also put in grasshoppers, and their kicking much annoyed the spider, but he would not eat them. In one respect he showed much more wit than the insects which we placed in his cage they labored incessantly to escape through the glass but, after two or three attempts to get out he made up his mind that that course was useless he was capable of being convinced, while the flies and bees were not. But when the glass was removed and he felt himself in the open air once more, with what haste he scampered away t He fled like a liberated wolf, mdeed, and struggled hard against recapture. When we gave him his freedom for good and all he rushed off into the grass and was soon lost to view. Next in interest to the wolf-spider ia the sand-spider, which yon may have observed in the sand upon the sea-coast. They sink deep wells into the sand, and lay in wait for their prey at the bottom. When yon are upon the beach, notice these little holes in the sand among the' coarse,' scattered, wild grass. Insert a straw or a twig into one of tt^em and then dig downward, follow- ing this 'tky », guide. A foot or more bdow the surface you will unearth this large, gray sand- spider, and with a magnifying- glass yon can see how fiercely liis eight eyes glare upon you. Try also to force a cricket into one of these holes and see how loth it will seem to go in. One's powers of observation may be culti- vated by noting all these things, and the pleasure which one gets from a walk or from a vacation in the country is thereby greatly increased. Nothing is beneath notice, and the closer we look the more we shall learn about the ways and doings of Nature. Gosjnring in India. Indian jugglers are famous not only for their tricks, but for the apparent ease and openness with which they perform them. Dr. Norman Macleod desctilMS hia own fu- tile attempt to discover how one of their most celebrated feats was accomplished Through one of my friends, I asked for the well-known Mango trick. I am told that many intelligent young men profess to know how it is done, but whenever I have made inquiries, I have found, to my regret, that at that momtnt they have always forgotten the secret. While the tomtcm was beating and the pipe playing, the juggler, singing all the time m low accents, smoothed a place in the gravel three or four ydurds before us. Hav- ing thus prepared a bed for the plant ti grow in, he took a lasket and placee it over the prepared place, severing it with a thin blanket. The man himself di# not wear a thread of clothing, except a strip rotmd the loins. The time ' seemed now to have come for the detective's eye So, just as he was be- coming more earnest in his song, and while the tomtom beat and the pipe shrilled more loudly, I stepped forward, wit^ dignity, and Mgged bum to bring the l»sket and its cover to me. He cheerfully complied, and I carefully examined the basket which was made of open wicker-work. I then examined the cloth covering, which was tliin, almost trans- parent, and certainly had nothing concealed in it. Then I fixed my eyes on his strip of cloth- ing with such intentnees that it was not possible it could le touched without discov- ery, and bade him go on, feeling sure that the trick could not succeed. Sittins down, he stretched hia naked arms under the basket, singing and smiling as he did so then lifted the Basket off the ground, and behold a green plant, about a foot high I Satisfibd with our applause, he went on with his incantations. After having sat a little, to give his plant time to grow, he again lifted the baet, and the plant was now two feet high. He asked us to wait a while, that we might taste the fruit 1 But lieing assured by those who had seen the trick performed before that this result would be attained, I confessed myself " done," without the slightest notion of the how. I examined the ground, and found it smooth and un- turned. Apparently delighted wii^ my surpriae, " jtiggler stood up laughing, when one of his companions ehncked a pebble to him, which he put into hia mouth. Immediately the same companion, walking backward, drew forth a cord of rilk, twenty yards or so in length after whiolithe joggler, with his hands behind him, tlirew forth from liia month two decater stoppers, two ahella, a â- piniungtop, a atone, and aav«ral other thin^ followed by a long jet of ffire. ^Jbh^-Iaay;^ Brown is something of literary man. Smithâ€" Literary man, yea. Why, Brown writjn for the waate baaketa of aome of the leadiog newspapara and masaziaeaia the It Looked Fresh Enough. " And how," the lady asked, " do you like my new gown " " Your new gown " returned the genue- man addressed, looking at the dress, which was so painfully tight that it made one fair- ly breathless merely to look at it. •• Of course. Don't it look new " " Well," he replied deliberately, "it looks fresh enough, bat you really must have been much smaller when you were put into it. A Lone~Headed Lover. " George, dear," ea d Mabel, "I thought you and papa were not very good friends." " Well, yes, that's so to a great extent, I'm sorry to say." " Why, then, did you send faim that great, big, handsome bulldog " " Why did I send him that dog ' George smiled a tender, thoughtful, far-away smile «' You see, dearest, iha iog and I are old triends." Too Liberal- Tourist. "What are your terms, Mr. Browne?" Landlord Browne. " Twenty dollars a week, sir." Tourist." And what am I expsoted to do?" Landlord. " Do What do you mean " Tourist. " Why, you surely don't intend paying me twenty dollars a week for staying here, do you It's too high. Fifteen dol- lars would be enough." He Knew How it Was Himself. Murderer â€" " Do yon think there is any chance of my escaping the gallows ' Lawyerâ€"" Only one chance in a hundred, but I think it wculd be wise to take the chance." Murderer â€" " To be aure. What do you propose ' Lawyerâ€"" I think I shall plead insanity in your case." J Murderer â€" " And if it works I tro to an asylum, eh " Lawyer â€" "Precisely, but that is far bet- ter than being hanged." Murderer â€" ••That's where your opinion and my experience differ. ^1 was once a keeper in an insiane asylum and know what the patients have to go through. Guess I'll let em abut off my breathing apparatus with a rope." He Was Candid, Anyhow. Tramp (to youns housewife) â€" " I'm very hungry, ma'am. Conld yon let me have a piece of bread " " Certainly, poor man, but wouldn't you rather have some pie " " No, no I'm a very plain eater, and I like bread." " That's singular mpst men of your stamp prefer pie or cake." " "That's so, but 1 saw yon bnying the bread at the lakery to-day and I'll feel safer in eating it." She Had Heard It in French. " Isn't that beautiful?" said a yonng travelling man to Mrs. De Poique, as the orchestra finuhed playing the " Marseill- aise." There is something so sublime and soul-stirring about that grand old air." •• Yes," responded Mrs. De Porque, lan- guidly. " But you shcnld have been with me to Paris and heard it played in French." Music in the Uight- Miss Clara (retired for the night)â€" Ethel, wake up there is the sweetest music yon ever heard in front of the house. I just ex- pected that Charley and his friends would serenade tu to-night I Miss Ethel (excited)â€" O'a, Clara, isn't it lovely Oughtn't we to drop some flowers from the window Miss Claraâ€" Oh, I think so (dropping a bunch of roses with great caution). There, Ethel 1 Voice (below)â€" Mein Gott in Qimmcl, ve no lif on roses. A Dearth of Witnesses- Magistrate (to prisoner) â€" Are those people your witnesses. Uncle Butus, who will vouch for your good character Prisoner â€" No, sab I hain't got no wit- nesses to vouch fo' my good character. Dem gen'mena is only frien's ob mine, aah, come to Ink on. An Explanation Desirable' He waa doing very nicely in the parlor, when a aolemn voice came through the open window from the porch " That young man makea me very tired." " Don't be alarmed, Mr. Sampson," aaid the girl, aa he haatily atarted up," it is only Polly, onr parrot. " I understand it's the parrot," he replied, " but I would like to know who tanght her to talk. Some Conscience Lefc Woman (to tramp)â€" I kin give yon a piece of dried apple pie for breakfast. Trampâ€" Madam, I only eat pie at break- fast in cases of the direst necessity But if I should eat dried apple pie in July I would feel tliat I were flying in the face of bounti- ful nature. I will try and break bread fur- ther on. Qave Herself Away. She (at Hanlan's)â€" What is that the band 11 playing, Mr. Sampson Heâ€" Mendelssohn's "Wedding March." Sheâ€" Oh, is it. I have so often longed to hear it. Dirt Cheap at the Price. Wifeâ€" Wliat did yon bay such an expen- sive umbrella for, John Husband -It was the last one of the kind the dealer had, and I got it at a bargun. The handle is solid silver it waa ecoaomyko bay it at the price I did. Wife â€" It dosen't ^match that shabby suit very well. Huabandâ€" No, I a'poae I shall have to get a new suit of clothes. Appreciates a Good Thing. .Customer (to, saloon keeper) -» What an ^a langbing at, utchy t " S^oon keeperâ€" A young feller Vaa ohooct telling me a very fanny choke aboidd doae goot timea oomuig vendot Uan and dot lamb dey lie down togeddar, bat dot lamb vaa is. side dot lioD. Dot vaania ohMtsntL vmJ\ Canadian Indians at Home- The inmates of this Indian home were the strangest part of the scene. The tidy women were squatting on the floor, aome cross legged like Turks, others sitting on one foot as a cushion, or on their toes turn- ed inward under them, or on their knees and heels. They were quite erect, yet easy, in these attitudes, as comfortable as we are upon luxurious furniture. One of them changed her dress by detachments at my elbow. The men were waiting for dinner one slept juried up in a heap near the wall another ssit flit on the floor by his wife and the other two lay stretched across the opposite end of the lodge. The children showed a remark- able capacity for stowing themselves away in groteEqae shapes in nooks and corners, whence they stared at me with black bead- like eyes as expressionless as those of animals. Meanwhile the people kept np a general conversation in their o vn tongue their voices were low, even in laughter, and expressive of a kmd and considerate nature. You notice a good deal of abrubt. ness in their talk but this is due to their language, in which you hear many inarti- culate grunts, shor;, brusque inflections, and long, disjointed, unmelodious words. But when they talk French, which the most of them understatd, their speech is quite agreeable. I tried in many ways to engage the squaws in conversation in this langue, but they turned to me a deaf ear, or else their husband's. It seems that the missionaries advise the tribe to have bat little intercourse with waites they will often pretend not to understand yon, or will grant your request without replying to vour spefch. Tbe dinner meanwhile had been prepared by one of the squaws. She set out a nnmbei of plates on the floor, and Louis invited me to eat of their stewed ducks. I accordingly settled from the chest where I sat to the floor. Only the men came to the meal for it is the custom among them to serve the men first the women, having less exposure and travel to endure in the winter, consider their needs as secondary they will absolute ]y last when provisions are scarce. And yet, notwithstanding their extra nonrish- ment, in times of starvation the men always sucjumb first. We helped ourselves from the kettle and when we had finished, two of the men rolled up into heaps and went to sleep. The women, children, and dogs then gathered abont th^ diiliea. Each |ie had an attendant dog at iier ^bow, i«ady for any emergency. ThtrtoMil^wBa aodial and pleasant, 'with good-natured tiJUng, and mannera qatt«f deferential. But the dogs were aa aggniasiw denient. Theiy. were eager and nnacrapnlona if a hand reihaiiiad too 4ong Away tnm the' plate a dcg captnr ed the oontei^ Noi^ and then a yelp' or a crescendo M ire on the word " ahwis," broke the caluneaaof thaconveraatien. The dog of the prettiest maiden kept advancing his nose ^oward her plate, and she kept pounding Kis head with her apoon till be concladed to retreat. Another onr sat very quietly for aoii)e time bc«id£'« diild bat at last he rose in open rebellion and rushed to the plate. The cbUd acraamed, spoons flourished in the air ikh' finally the dog settled liack In hlahaancfaKs with a revenge- ful anarl. When ^e womett had finished their meal tliey eat atill mod let t^e dogs struerie over tiieir lapa, and take poayeesion of the entire ftnlinary department. After setting tilings to righta the women reaiuned their aewing on the floor, and I left them chatting away the afteraoon, more bappily than many of oar oare-worn honae- keepers in their palaces of taste and educated dis- oontent. Onr Natural Meat Market -- St. John, X, B., Sun The Bangor meat market ia utterly demoralized by tlw com- petition of Texas beef. We learn from the Commercial newapaper that hundreda of carcassea of this iMef are coming daily,drivin(r nearly everything else in the shape -of beef bUt of the market. "Two weeks ago," says our contemporary, " beef was sold at the refrigerators at 9^ cent for sidea, and 12 cents for hinds, and now hinda are 10 and lOi. and sidea 8. Texaa beef is 6 to 5^ cents by the carcass, Colorado 7 to 7^, and native Western 8 to 8^. Good plates for coming may be had for 3 to 3^ cents, and fore- quarters at 4 to 5 cents." The Commercial says that the native butchers cannot com- pete with this beef at all, for it coats no more to raise a Texas steer to four years than it does to keep a single h«hd in Maine one winter. The glut in the market will, it is hoped, be temporary. The meat of Texaa ateera ia largely u«ed for oannin?, and the new England butchera hope that the anrplua will preaently be aufficiently work- ed off to allow the Eastern product a chance. At present, however, one honae in Bangor is reoeivtng 75 head of Western oattle daUy and other eatabliahmenta probably aa much more. {_ When the United Sutea firat proposed to pataaembargo on theimportationa of foreign contaULCt labor and to cxeroiae a atriot sa- pervirion over immfa;ration. Radicals and philantldropiata were horrdr-atrack, declar- ing that oomlDg «id going were tbe very essence of freedooi, bot now Jbbjth policies are adcoowledged to be emLaeatly wiae. It haa hitherto been the proud boiaat til Englishmen that their coantry waa free to all, but they, too, are b^glnninp to reflect whether it la not possible to pay too high a price for the emancipation of others. Im- ported foreign labor has eaten into the very marrow of home indaatry, and ia almoat en- tirely responsible for the present distress among the native working dasaea. In for- mer yeara this was not ao much felt, because the preaaure waa relieved by promiscuous emigration, but now that that has been checked, our kinsmen across the sea are be- ginning to find that Poles, Belgians, Swedes, Germans and other nationalities are squeez ing out native labor and that something must be doup to check this movement. A committee of parliament has for some time been investigating the subject, but it is im- possible to foresee that its members can come to any other conclusion than to' adopt the system of snperviaion in uae in the United States. The first stride of any magnitude in the manufacture of paper in Britain wu made at the besinning of the eighteenth century, when Mr. James Whatman estab- Usheda miU at Maidstone, where for the nrst time white paperâ€" with any pretensions to whit^ass-^wai made. £vmt then they were paying one hundred tboaSiuid poonch ^•^ « Pf P" *® ™««"»'»«tarers in France andHoUand. Dutch paper was renowned sofar bank as the slztaenth oentory, aai ChUJren, limagine .1, "^l^ fancy about the neMnni^" •»»»»» ij their favorite autKr M-'PP«»i^T, constantly appealed fo l^Z,}^" 4 herself. A friend of hers toft*'«^pl«^ ' day an amusing anecdote n^ *««4 I day, after seeing various trZ" S whom had a variety of 3""»'U there came another summol? *»it .ng^room_"A lady anTa nlu ' M J^. first the wearied hostess S ^^" At eo down, and thn.o ^-TT "" Me •â-  ' ly unselfish, so she de' pleasant-looking ladv wC"",*" »« fiei little girl had beenl 'P'"'" M.SS Alcotfr thev i,.T.°."'^lO'Wtoteeet tilt Wome-n "V^^l^U^kTS.t^^ verv week. Whil^ » ,:. "^^l tunei le c.c repeated tale to whiS **»•-' variations the anthorj'i" go down, and those around her'lSl?'""«J should not But second tSou^hw^isie ly unselfish, so oho -i-.._ ,S«»»,j„^^_ pleasant-lo hei little g Miss Alcot etc.; the c certain var Women " very week. While this" wa"sTl'" 't« ^Icott-s gaze wandered rtrS' ^!? had been absolutely dumb Vk- ' '"' person was seated very carpfnii" """ edge of the chair and regaS £/^^^ with an expreBuon of pfSt ""' Something in the look of E ""•"i'J' became rather oppressive in time andt^' Alcoit said, eucouraginaly 7.\?"^?^»a dear, have you nothing to say '• ' "^^ " Oh, no " came in gemilMi,.! .. "oh, I'm., o d.appciated7Til'r^ pointed '" ' m eg d^,^ AlcoS^^' "" """â- " "'"°""rated ilb •Oi!" continued the wailing vciw m thought vou d be beautiful '" expression of countenance known t mothers ,• but Miss Alcott laughed withd. light, and insisted upon the little girl beii, allowed to express her opinion, declarinti was the most refreshing thing she U heard m many a day. Hints for the Toilet. The wise woman who wants to keep hv face looking well during the summer win be the one who will carry out of the citr sundry little botties, the glass stoppenrf which will preserve whatever is inside them. One should have benzoinâ€" that istobe iwd when the face is flushed or gunlumt. A few drops of -it put in the basin of warn water in which the faue is to be bathed will cause it to grow milky in appearaace and the water itself will have a delightfully 'soft feeling, wUIethe perfume is del^hf ally aromatic. The benzoin cools the iku, aid in addition tends to keep it smooth. Another bottle must have ammonia. If you are going to the country, water aa hud as the heart of average man may be gireii you in your bedroom, and only the grace contained in the spirited Ho uid will make it suited to hands accustomed to the water of the cities. Another bottle should have in it some witch-hszel to be liberally applied when mosquitoes are especially bad, and more particularly if they prey upon one about the ankles in the daytime. Te beat thing to do then is to pour plenty of tbe witch-hazel right on your ankle* letting the stocking absorb it thoroughly and become perfumed with it, for if there is anything a jnosquito does dislike, and from wluch he will flee, it is this powerful, if not agree- sole, odor. Then, of course, you will take your own favorite cream or milk for eun- bum, and if you are wise you will have some old linen to dabble it on your face with, so that when the sun has treated yoo mdely you may cot irritate the already super sensative skin by rubbing it in. Fasdions. Striking colors and a great vaiiety of fab- rics are among the prominent features of this season. But from among them the skillful and ingenious housewife may fashion very pretty and becoming costumes at com- paratively a small outlay. Many persoM delay the purchase of Summer goods until quite late in the season, so that they can avail themselves of the reduction in prioea that generally occur at that time. WhUe the general features of dresses have changed somewhat during the year, yet these chMigee have come so gradually that they are adopt- ed almost imperceptibly, and so extremes are avoided. The waists ot dresses are either made round and abort, or " '°°f sharply-defined points. Vests are almost universally worn, and are of great variety of shapes. If of thin material, they are generally made of tiny pleats or pntfe; n oi velvet or the like, they are made flat, ana bordered with gimps, galloons or revers. Full sleeves, especially the mutton leg, vn growing in favor, though the coU sleeve, made a trifle looser than for sometime past, is still most popular. Toumurea are lesa prominent, and some reject them »l»8f»" The front and side breadths of «lk ano woolen dresses are still gored but the ba» are very full. Flounces are again m use, and appUed in a variety of ways, as a smgW one of tbe bottom of the skirt, or in row one above the other, up one "^e^°«"r., the drapery, and in others, across the rro» or back or both with the drapery betvree • The sides are draped unlike, and crow loi in the back over the tournure owitXf\^ nwdiste arranging the drapery to preu Uhe best effect, takintr "t" ""Sp^ figure' to be fitted. High cellars »^l PJ^ vail, though some pretty costumes are without, and in their place a turneo sUk-pleating is used, with folds of mik » against the neck. AGreatFaTor. ' ,. Old Gentieman (to !»««"**' '"l^SamP you have promited to marry young â- *'° • J *l.o /lav is «'" Djkughter-Yes, papa, and the day ^^ ^^ and the minister selected, and we go to Europe. ., j... t have Old gentleman (timidly)-My »«»" ' a great favor to ask of you. mughterâ€" What is it, papa ^oo Old gentleman-If I'm »?* ^^^^to much, would you mind sendmg m" the wedding. Cretonne of the cheap """"^^caUy ating rooms, turns out to be *?,^tof f^rty poisonous as sreen wall paP^^-J^jn Lond(* four samples recentiy exanuneoi^j^^j „jj none were free from aw«'""vS^eetr»«* faint traces of it, twenty-one n" J„d vH» ROUGHING ^aPTEK lV.-(CosTisuED Ltoft** vir las I have already r*l%***'"';^st. Louis, at Que l••*^oas6»®*^^V|3" Tom rAs-PTSfS. «d bid a ir*"l Sy settied in the b, fr 0°^*^ «d meant to coi Ik^^^'^wm settled near LsBi^Je congratulated ol .AS^Jcfrienfhadfoundl '**»"?!f "September, tne stl '"jSdStheinn.we leJ wearrirea** not ^J 1 5 ""' tttfs that had arrived f d «* '?^*^ could obtain cne bJ *^.w M^die requested the! i ^!^i during the night bat J forme dur'ng^ ^^^ a ""*f a^ted the result in al i ^?' In another second he hsl fe'tomy^e.-'^-P«r«'1 hgiwsy "' in a crowd." I ..fom *^"JX°Lt it ♦ I fl»tter mf I "Doyou douMU^. 1 ^^^ (thfi'-^fJSdl^ the world feifSifTiSr-' Hoodie!' i-_trvinii to iij « There he is â€" "y"*s «Th«Oj^^ love or money, to le fbedfor the night." •"i^You shall have mine, said St^td'^sfttieitV the Yanks t5.^hebeetfeUow in the wort( iLwhile he^ U a Uttle parlor SSck »ff^betwo«a some of Wate for the time bemg. bte t2^IwiUgo«°'*l*«^"/^°^ "5r*T tWnk of this confoande SrUu^ find it out all ing. ^rf rubbSg his hands together Si^^STd mischievous expre fwldered his way througu t Kf«d anxious faoes. to com Sy husband the arrangement ^^tt^i^S^t^r"' °^ fM^v but we are crowd^- ZS. My wife and daughters n^p in i Uttle chamber over togive our guest, more "om I piess, for decent people to loc ""5^ matters settled Mom with Tom WiUon to the littl Xh I had already oiad*«»yf^ Twell, now, is it not f unny 1 be the first to welcome you ta «^ ""But what axe you doing hei " Shaking every day with tn I could laugh in spite of niy ti them make such aoonfonnded i would tiiink tiiey were all quai should first get out of my shaking mania forms one of th tions of this new country. "I fear," said 1, remarking pale he had become,^ " that thi not agree with yon." "Nor I with the cUm»1 shall soon be qwts, for, to le secret, I am now on my way 1 " Impossible 1" "It is true." " And the farm what D with it!' "Sold it." ., • 7;^ " And your outfit? " Sold that too." "To whom?' " To one who wiU take bet than I did Ah such a count pie 1â€" such rogues I* ' hollow yon know your c â€"but here you have to Such a take in 1â€" God fo never could take cara of m way or other, they have ch« all mine. I have scarcely pay my passage home. 1 agunst the worst, I have bear, asplenlid fellow, to with my nncle. You must dose \ij in the stable.' •« To-morrow we will pa: but to night do tell us some self, and your residence in " You will know enougt by-aod-by. I am a bad hi tinned, atretcUng out bis hon^yi " a worse bio( can find words to relate ii try wliat I can do mind, blunders." We pronuaed to be oerii ter while looking at and WOaon, and he gave ns, vals, the foUowmg aoooui " My tronUea began at fail voyage and all that my beaatifal Daohesa !- beaatâ€" died. I wanted t aervlce over her, but the â€"the bnite !â€" and tiirea into the aaa along with t the anmaima'ly ruffi va. my caiune friend. I ° ' r^afai dating the voya pened worth relating plaot, whwe I chanoed 1 new yoar brother, and to the wooda. Most a Gotham we met on the «• wooda; ao felt ha] laast, la thelaahlon. 1 Uwk and spoke in rap wUoh formed the th( "wing oar jonrney- 'vaatnan, the comioi «ai«TCd by those who I and haao insured me IfidDotldngaUdayl M A lUe in the 41waouMtotta«« eleven were classed as very p»^„,." Ob were caUed "diatoctly dange^ ^^^ specimen yielded ninetem ^^ ,^4 -^ s .^ J?^