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TOPICS OF THE TIMES A CHOICE SELECTION OF INTER- ESTING ITEMS. Cotmnmit* mid Criticism* Bunnri Upon the Happening* of tbc Day?Ulntorlral \u25a0?><! Now* Note*. What, is needed at Ithaca Is a scries of academic convictions for manslaughter. An Interesting and refreshing fea- ture of summer journalism is the ap- pearance in the St. Louis liepuhlic ?of an ;ililc and exhaustive illustrated article treating of the proper method of raising snow blockades on rail- Wl)ys '' Tim Paris-born families become ex- tinct in three or four generations, in consequence of their feeble fecundity and high rate of mortality, and the average length of life among them is only 28 years and 1 month, as com. pared with 4!i years and - months for the rest of France. When an Illinois woman learned that her husband had lost $1,500 she did not repine nor grow hysterical. She calmly sued the keeper of the game for three times the amount of the loss and got judgment. One husband has parted forever from the privilege of sneering at the financier- ing of the other sex. Philadelphia is race crazy, and horses of elongated pedigree are Vic- ing ridden by gentlemen similarly distinguished. It is true that most ot the horses tumble down, and most of the gentlemen tumble off, but the sacrifice of a few bones upon the altar of fashion is something .at which no Phihidelphian worthy the uaue would pause. The craze for old furniture TS a stimulant to a questionable industry. In the courts lately a witness gave as \u25a0his occui ation that of a \woruihole ? borer.\ Inquiry dis-losed that he was an expert at his peculiar trade, and made a good living by the skill- ful way in which he imitated worm- holes in oak furniture to give It an antique effect. Tbcumskii, O. T.. is evidently lack- ing in the refinements of civilization. Thirty \leading citizens\ of that place have been indicted for horse stealing and will probably be sent to the penitentiary unless a mob gets -hold of them Qrst. In Chicago lead; ing citizens tap the water mains and steal the citv water, and everybody ftays they are deuced shrewd business men. The Hanoverian succession to the British throne is uow about as secure as ever the prudent Victoria can make it. Three generations of her descendants stand between it and the <Dot well-beloved Louise of Fife, who ?would succeed to the crown were tne \u25a0Hanover stock to become extinct Looking at the situation from all sides it would really seem that the living Hanovers are very likely to outlast the monarchy itself. When the Columbia is steaming ten knots an hour her furnaces use up coal at the rate of thirty-five tons a day: at fourteen knots, seventy, (iovernments do not like any better than individuals to pay big coal bills, especially where, as in the case of warships, there are no earn to offset expenses. Those magnificent bursts of speed, like that of the Co- lumbia last year when she struck more than a twenty-two knot gait, are reserved for occasions when cruis- ers want to get there, or to get away from there. People who think the world is Browing worse instead of better should compare the treatment ac- corded Santo, the assassin of Presi- dent Carnot, and Havalllac, who stepped into the carriage of King Heury IV. ot Fran; e and stabbed! him to death, l'availlae was broken on the wheel with most ingen'ous deliberation and melted lead was poured into his stomach through an abdominal incision. Santo, on the contrary, was protected from the angry crowd by his victim's olllcial servants and will receive a fair and deliberate trial in open court. The first step which a man takes in the direction of his own over- throw Is not to do some overt act of evil. A beat that lies on the water's edge does not begin to wreck Itself by thrusting itself out abruptly into the current; it begins by lying on the beach and letting the current play with it. If It is chained to the rock, no harm can come to it: mis- chief begins wheu it half lies on the beach and half floats on the water The trouble with people is that they are driftinir. They are the chip on the wave instead of the watch-tower ua the shore. Neither the people of Chicago nor j the newspapers of that city will feel otherw se than honored by the at- tacks of W. C. P. Breckinridge upon them. Chicago is not a puritanical community. It might bo well, in- deed, it some of the latitude allowed i'i this city were curtailed. Put Chicago has never seut to Congress or elected to any other public posi- tion a self-confessed, bra/on roue and libertine, and she never will. From that standpoint, at least, Chicago has the right to criticise the conduct of Col. lireckinrldge or any other sys- tematic and avowed enemy of female \u25a0virtue. _______________ Mil Oohnelius, the Chicago ton. *orial artist who paused in his work only long enough to kill a man and then calmly resumed shaving the cus- tomer in the chair, Is entitled to praise for his consideration. Mr. Cornelius evidently felt that his per- ' sonal quarrels should not be allowed ! to Inconvenience his customers any further than was absolutely neces- sary. This point will probably have little weight with a jury, but It will appeal to thousands of men who have writhed In half-shaved anguish while the otllclating barber has been dls- cussing the horse races, the railroad strike, or other topics of interest with the artist at the next chair. j Most people will be puzzled to un- derstand the alternate severity and lenity shown by the police of Chi- cago in dealing with the violators of the law. On Saturday a thief who robbed a man of a diamond at the Union Depot was captured, but al- j lowed to go free upon giving up the pcm. That is one extreme. On the other hand the guardians of the peace will promptly haul out their revol- vers and blaze away at any man they S see running?the idea being that the runner is a malefactor who is seeking ! ' safety in flight. There should be some uniformity in these matters, j If the police are to combine the functions of judge, jury, and execu- tioner they ought to treat everyone alike. They should ether shoot all their prisoners or turn them all loose, i The existing system is confusion and unjust Dit. & Wieh Mitchell, the famous ; expert In cases of insanity and nerv ous diseases, delivered an address in Philadelphia before the American Medico-Psychological Society, in the course of which he severely denounced the administration of insane asylums in this country. As the result of his observations he finds that phy- j sicians and nurses get their appoint- ments by political pulls; that asy- lums are prisons, and not hospitals; that they are not provided with modern appliances: that nurses are not properly educated and examined, and that \If the object of the Insane j asylum is to restore the patient to ! sanity and usefulness in society the present methods of procedure are de- servingof nothing but denunciation.\ No man has a clearer authority to pronounce upon this matter than Dr. Mitchell. That he is correct |in his observations has been demonstrated over and over again by exposures of insane asylum methods where they have attracted oßicial attention. The investigation of the recent murder of a person at Cornell College by trolicsome students who) used chlorine gas as t e agency of their exuberant spirits has come to noth- ing through lack of testimony or, ratner, through abundance of Der- jured testimony. The Justice of the Supreme Court who presided in the case gave it as his conviction that \there was a deliberate plan on the part of some unknown parties to thwart justi<e and t! at there was no question in his mind that witnesses had deliberately violated their oaths before the grand jury.\ In the lace of this disgraceful and shameful per- jury to cover up murder It is aston- ishing to see that the President of the College at a rceent banquet de- clared that \in all universities, in human nature itself, and even among the brute creation there is a ten- dency to worry the new comers in a spirit of fun.\ It is hard to decide which is the most disgraceful feature in this case, the deliberateness with which t e students violated their oaths or the levity and unconcern with which the President of this university treats the crime of murder. Stunted Trees of Japan. Of considerable importance and in- > i tere t, especially to people who care about trees and flowers, is the secret possessed by the Japanese guild of ! gardeners of stunting the growth of j trees, says a writer in the New York Tribune. Ido not think there is any ! white man who has ever been able to i solve the mystery which surrounds the methods by means of whi h the I Japauesc agriculturists can dwarf cedar trees and oaKS so that, gnarled, j mossy and showing lud sputable signs lor being hundreds of years old, they are not more than two or three feet ] lin height. The ob.ect of thus stunt Ing the growth of these trees is worth ' while relating. The J.ipanese are passionately fond of gardening, not as we understand it?that is to say, , beds of I owers, etc ?but of the land- scape order, aud almost every house- holder J.idea .ors to have a garden, ' no matter how small, attached to h s ; residence. Now, in the cities and towns, where spa e is limited, theie is manifestly no room for landscape t gardening of the ordinary character. ' The I ridges, the ponds, the hills, the pagodas, and the temples aud trees would take up too much room. Ac- cordingly the ingenious gardeners contrive everything on a miniature scale. The river is but a rivulet, the grass-cftvered hill but a few feet high, the temple the she of a doll's house i and the pond no bigger than a large i sized pocket handke chief. Of course full sized trees would appear incon- gruous, therefore thegaideners have managed to dwarf thorn until they are in keeping with the miniature landscape, llow It is done no one outside the guild Knows, aud the secret Is as jealously preserved as thoso of the masonic order. 1 i The Kiss. lii England, down to the rtflgn of Charles 11, or a little later, the kiss was the common greeting to Iriends and strangers alike, and shaking hands was a mark of close intimacy or high uvor. In the diary ot Anne, Countess of Pembroke, her ladyship thinks the fact of her shakiug hand* with auy one worth noting. A woman ought to be pretty to console her for being u woman at all TO INCREASE TRADE. THE INTERCONTINENTAL RAIL- WAY COMMISSION REPORT. If the Read is Built It Will Be One of the Wonder* of the World. The forthcoming report of the In- tercontinental Railway Commission, giving the results of the recent Gov- ernment surveys through Central mul South America, to connect by rail all the republics on the American continent, will be certain to create a profound impression on the country. Advance sheets indicate that it will be a marvelously Interesting work from every standpoint. It will give important information concerning railway possibilities never before of- fered to the world, and will trace a continuous railroad route extending from Mexico clear down to Argen- tina, a distance of 4,600 linear miles. It will fairly bristle with newly as- certained facts and practical statis- tics touching nil the republics to the south of us; it will be illuminated by a profusion of photographs of life and scenery along the whole route, and will bo still further enriched by a vast quantity of charts and maps? topographical, geographical and geo- logical?of the regions traversed, thus combining the attractions of a fresh book of travel and adventure, with the more substantial features of a technical report. But, above all, the report will demonstrate the en- tire feasibility of constructing an in- tercontinental railway, and will show conclusively that no insurmountable engineering difficulties stand in the way of such a momentous undertak- ing. This elaborate report is now in process of completion at the head- quarters of the Commission in Wash- ington, and will doubtless be pro- mulgated from the Government Print- ing Office in the course of a few months. Its publication will mark an epoch in the history of great rail- way surveys, outrivaling in novelty, masrnitude and interest, if not in im- portance, the great l'aciiic Railway Survey Reports of 1858. I It will bo remembered that three separate surveying corps were organ- ized for the work and sent into the field in April, 1891, and that the last corps returned in July of last year, since when the engineers have been engaged uninterruptedly in the re- duction of their field notes and the preparation of drawings and other details of their reports. The whole survey was divided into three sec- tions, the upper section reaching from the Mexican-Guatemalan bound- ary down into Costa Rica; the second ( from Costo Rica down to Quito, I Ecuador, and the third from Quito ' down to the lower terminus in Peru, i As the Mexican system of railroads is being extended to the northern boundary of Guatemala, and is now ! in operation as far as Oajaca, 400 1 miles south of the City of Mexico, the Commission was not under the necessity of making any surveys in j the Republic of Mexico. Accordingly, the work of Corps No. 1, under Lieut. M. M. Macomb, U. 8. A., was begun at Ayutla, on the northern frontier of Guatemala, and a continuous line of survey was run from that point southeast to the Rio Savegre. Two years were devoted to the surveys and explorations in this part of the route, and in addition, astronomical, geodetic and meteoro- logical observations woro taken and a largo amount of data collected bearing on the resources of the coun- tries traversed. Corps No. 'J, under Civil Engineer William F. Shur.k, of Harrisburg, Pa., went to Quito, Ecuador, and from there surveyed northward to the Rio Savegre in Costa Rica, thus con- necting with the work of Corps No, 1. The section between Quito and Popy- an, passing as it does through the very heart of the. Andes, is pro- nounced expensive to construct, but at the same time the surveys prove the entire feasibility of the route, with no grades as high as 4 per cent. From the lioad of the Cauca Vulley the matter of grade censes to be a ruling consideration, and the con- I struction of a road could be otrocted 'at a moderate cost. This Columbian region abounds in natural resources, and the Cauca Valley is destined to become one of the richest mineral and agricultural portions of all South America. Corps No. !1, under Civil Engineer William 1). Kelley, of Philadelphia, Pa., likewise started at Quito, but worked southward through Ecuador and Peru to the confines of Bolivia. In certain stretches the building of ?she line would be expensive, owing to various deep canyons and heavy grades naturnl to so mountainous a country; but. in other partsnonstruc- lion would be inexpensive. In some localities, Indeed, more populous and Inore level, a railroad would prove F decidedly remunerative from tho local traffic alone. Summing tip. Corps Xo. 1 surveyed a stretch of 800 miles. Corps No. 2 carried the line on l,7ooiniles further south, nnd Corps No. Si extended it on to Cuzco, tlio ancient capital of l'eru, a distance of 1,784 miles?the sections together measuring 4,284 miles not. counting the extra brauch from Medellln in Columbia to Carta- gena, or the remaining little links below Lake Tltlcacft. The successive stops which have resulted in this preliminary survey may be related In a few words. The survey was recommended by Mr. Blaine's Pan-American Conference of 1880, in the belief that a railroad connecting all or a majority of the nations reprosented in the conference would greatly aid in the material and commercial development, of all concerned, and at the instance of a Committee on Railway Communica- tions the Intercontinental Railway Commission was created to blaze the way for that. work. The commission first met and or- ganlzsd in Washington, under the patronage of our State Department, on December 4, 185)0, and remained in session until April 22, 1891. The scope of the work was carefully map- ped out, and the surveying parties sent into the field as above recited, with instructions to shape their sur- veys so as to utilize as far as practi- cable the already existing railway systems of Mexico, Peru, Chili, Bra- zil and Argentina, and to connect with the larger cities in the vicinity of the route in the general project of establishing a complete chain of railroad from our Northern bounda- ries down to Argentina. Funds were contributed by the several Govern- ments interested, the United States, as the strong eldor brother of the Southern Republics, furnishing the larger share. Up to date the United States has contributed, in three installments, $195,000; Brazil has given $80,000; Colombia, $4,000; Guatemala, $!t,(iOO; Chili, $8,028; Ecuador, $8,000; Costa Rica, $2,000 a*id Bolivia, $1,997, making $242,- 025, in all. The Mexican trunk lines connect- ing with the trunk lines in the Uni- ted States running southeast, south and southwest from San Francisco, St. Louis. Chicago and Boston, through New York, Philadelphia, Atlanta and New Orleans, would be availed of to supply connection be- tween the northern terminus of the proposed route, while from Lake Titicaca, the southern end, connec- tion can be had with a Peruvian rail- road and by a new link southeast- ward to La Paz, whore it would join a railroad already running south to Huuuchaca, in Western Bolivia. From this point there is now a railroad running westaiul southwest, through Chili to Antofagasta, on the Pacific, and by additional surveys three more linos, branching from Jluan- chuca, are contemplated?the first one to run south to Jujuy, in Argen- tina; the second to run east across Brazil to Bio do Janeiro, on the At- lantic, and tho third to run southeast to Asuncion, the capital of Paraguay. In ttddition, besides the link connect- ing Modellln in Colombia with Car- thagena on the Caribboan Sea, where our trade is as yet comparatively un- developed and awaiting our enter- prising ovortures, another link is pro- jected eastward from Modollin to Venezuela. Thus tho only South American States not directly em- braced in tho grand project are Guiana and Uruguay, and of these Uruguay is a contributor to the en- terprise, and Guiana is connected by rail with Venozulu. From the lower border of Mexico on down through the snow-clad ranges of tho Andes to Argentina, the survey extends through a wide diversity of climate, geological formations and products. The eleven Central and South American directly in- terested, exclusive of Moxico, with her 12,000,000 souls, have a combined population of 15,000,000, ready and waiting to be brought into commer- cial relations with our own 05,000,- 000. Tho products and resources of all these republics are valuable and ex- ceedingly desirable in North Ameri- can commerce. Guatemala, with an aroa of 4(5,800 square milos (about equal to Now York or Pennsylvania), produces a groat variety of articles useful to the United States, among them being coffee, cocoa, bananas, hidos and hard woods. Her coffoe crop alone amounts to between 80,000,000 and 100,000,000 pounds annually. Bven now the United States imports j from Guatemala over $8 000,000 Worth of goods every year, which from lack of facilities are brought princi- pally by sen and enter the port, of San Francisco. Salvador, though the smallest of the Central American States, Is proportionately the most populous and prosperous of them all. 1 Coffee, indigo, sugar, medicinal ' plants and rare woods, together with gold, silver, iron, copper and mercury are among her products. The exports of Honduras, one of the largest of the Cent nil American republics, are chiefly cattle, mahogany, cedar, hides, india rubber, bananas, cocoa- nuts, bar silver and gold bullion. The resources of Nicaragua also are very great, especially in fine hard woods, dyewoods, rubber, sugar, j coffee, cocoa and indigo, besides cat- tie, corn and potatoes. Indeed Nic- : aragua's trade with the United Statos already is larger than with any other country, amounting to about $4,000,- 000 annually. In return for her ex- ports she imports from the United States machinery, iron, steel, flour and manufactured goods. Costa Rica, with her exceedingly fertile soil, already ships to the ' United States large quantities of I coffee, bananas, hides, rubber and mother of pearl, and in turn imports j silk, woolen, linen and cotton goods, machinery, agricultural implements, furniture and hardware. Recently the American trade there has almost entirely superseded that of England, and now amounts to nearly $5,000, i 000 a year. Colombia, with her area of 505,000 square miles, possesses enormous natural resources, but heretofore, through lack of intelligent labor, transportation facilities and means of communication, she has been un- able to develop them properly. Among her products are gold and silver, emeralds, opals and other pre- cious stones, marbles, mineral salts, coffee, hides, ivory nuts, cocoa and cinchona bark. She imports all kinds of manufactured goods and her trade with the United States amounts to about $12,000,000 annually. As to Ecuador, owing to the fer- tility and diversity of her soil and the variety of her climate, all sorts of plant life flourish within her bound- aries?rice, pepper and semi-tropical fruits, cotton, corn, sugar, wheat and barley, Her exports, mainly shipped to England, include cotton, cocoa, rubber, ivory, nuts, cinchona, straw goods and precious metals. In Peru, besides her wonderful treas- 1 ures of gold and silver and coal and I iron, largely undeveloped as yet, a wide range of agricultural crops is produced. Sugar to the amount of 100,000 tons, cotton to the value of $8,000,000, wine to the value of $4,- 000,000. and also enormous yields of rice, cinchona, rubber, fruits and vegetables. Corn is also extensively grown and constitutes the staple food ol' all classes. The export of wool brings $5,000,000 a year, and other exports are guano, cubic niter,sugar, cotton and sulphur, at present sent principally to England and Germany. But the construction of a section of railway through Peru, Ecuador and Colombia to Cartagena on the Carri- bean Sea would put them in easy communication with the southern ports of the United States and very materially increase our trade, even should there be a delay in the con- j struction of the entire system north- ward. ?[N. Y. Recorder. Big Money in Ambergris. i The Sydney Bulletin is responsible for the following ambergris story: Two years ago one of Macgregor's (Tasmania) whaling captains, having cut the blubber from a whale, was about to cast the rest of it adrift, when there came alongside two Ho- hart fishermen?\Portuguese Joe\ and his mate, an African. The Por- tuguese begged to be given the car- cass, so t hat they might tow it ashoro and make what they could out of it. \All right.\ said the skipper, with the generosity of a satisfied exploiter who knew the blubber business to its omoga. Joe, having got tho levia- than's framework on the beach, begun to search for ambergris, which drug was quoted at that time in the cur- rent price lists at somewhere about $()\) per ounce. He found 17T> pounds. Many peoplo interviewed him, and wanted to give him $25,000 to $45,000 for the lot; but the man understood the luck of his find. Meanwhile the ambergris was lodged in a bank, which was presently served with an injunction on behalf of the Macgregor firm to restrain tho sale of the precious prize pending a discussion on tho ownership. But these legul fireworks fizzled out, and the ambergris is still being realized in London, the two fishermen having already received several thousand pounds apiece. The Foot of a Fly. If the foot of a fly is put under the glass of u good microseopo it may bo seen how simple is the contrivance that seems able to dofy the luws of gravitation. The foot is made lip of two pads, covered with lino, short hairs, with a pair cf curved hooks above thorn, liohimi each pad is a tiny bag filled with clear liquid gum, the hairs ulso being hollow and filled with the same sticky fluid. As the fly glides rapidly ever a smooth sur- face every step presses out a sunply of gum strong enough to givo hTiu a sure footing ami to sustain him in safety if he halts. So strong is the cement that upon one of his six feet is quite s.iHi .lent to sustain the wei.jht of hiu whole body. If lie stands still i.ny length of timo the gum is apt i>o dry up and harden, and so secuic*y fasten the fly's foot as to mukf a sudden step snap the leg itself. ?[Chicago Herald. FOR THE FAIR SEX. I SEASONABLE HINTS AND MAT- j TERS OF MOMENT. Enterprising Femininity- -The Small Girl's Coat- - Danger in the Balloon Sleeve--A Claim to Fame--For Engaged Girls Only--Etc., Etc. ENTERPRISING FEMININITV. The young women of Tenant's Harbor have raised $.\>() with which they have bought lumber for a new sidewalk, and now they say that if file boys don't turn out and build the walk they will do It themselves. ?[Lewiston (Mo.) Journal. THE SMAI.L GIRL'S COAT. A coat of pale blue piquo is con- sidered the latest fashion for the small girl. It is trimmed with bands of white insertion, and u collar of white embroidery falls well over the shoulders. Wide blue sat in ribbons tie at the neck, the long ends reach- ing to the bottom of the little frock. DANGER IV THE HALLOON SLEEVE. The big sleeves are becoming as great a menace to woman's safety as hoops were in their day. The spectacle of a blazing sleeve startled a crowd coming out of a theatre the other night, and though the tiro was extinguished the wearer was much frightened and very mad at the ruin of her gown. It seems a boy struck a match for his cigarette and care- lessly threw away the light. Ho wasn't a bad shot, but the enormous sleeve was wholly to blumo.?[Boston Herald. A CLAIM TO FAME. The Mother Hubbard wrapper was dosigned by a woman in a little coun- try village in Now York State. She made three or four of these garments and sold thein to the people in the village. A buyer for a clothing shop was passing through tho village and i saw the garments. He gave an order I for some to be shipped to his firm. I The woman who invented them now employs 200 or UOO women. For the name Mother Hubbard she receives a certain sum, and has literally laid by enough money to keep her from want, even though the demand for these articles of feminine attire may cease any day. FOH ENGAGED GIHL9 ONLY. If you are an engaged girl of course you have started u \medley trunk.\ Don't you know what a \medley trunk\ is? It is the latest fad, and a very sensible one, too. As soon as the engagement is announced the bride to be buys a trunk, the larger the better, and then her friends and acquaintances at once proceed to fill it for her. One donates a fine table cloth and napkins, another a few towels or a bit of lace, another a bureau cover or a couple of pair of gloves, and so it goes on, gradually filling up with odds and ends, the > gifts of generous friends, until at last, I when the wedding day has actually , arrived there is a varied but valuable assortment in the medley trunk that puts some of the utterly useless offerings that will be stored away in sufe deposit vaults completely to shame.?[New York Journal. WHAT IS THE SECRET? The finest head of hair in San Francisco is said to bo the possession of Mrs. Switzer. It is dark, glossy and fine, and reaches almost to the bottom of her dress, while a few years ago it trailed a yard on the floor. She wears it high on her head, and no one suspects her of such an over- abundance until she lets it fall around her. She is obliged to 1 have it thinned very often, and there is enough cut away to make a plentiful amount for another woman, but she never misses it. A young lady student in l'alo Alto has most remarkable hair. Light in color, fine in texture and naturally curly, like the liair of poetical fancy, it falls in great undulating waves below the waist like a veritable mantle of golden silk. One woman of German extraction has quantities of yellow-brown hair, : which reaches below her knoes, and yet she can coil it high on her head and fasten it with one pin. Soap and water are the only tonics ) used. The color of tho hair seems I to make no difference in the quantity, the dark hair being quite as abund- ant as the fluff j - blond locks. San Francisco boasts of seven maidens called tho \Berltonl Sisters\ whoso hair is tho envy of all the ladies on the block. FASHION NOTES. A roso, a buckle, and a twist of ribbon uround a wire is now called an evening bonnet. Blouse waists, tightly belted at the waist with broad belts, and loose just above tho belt, are worn this summor. Make wash dresses up plainly, without \frills if you would have them look dainty after they have gono through tho wash. The Eton jacket has lengthened, and taken the form of a cutaway, which looks very masculine, and not always becoming. Almost every woman who can afford it, has a silver buckle for her bolt. If tho children woar tan shoos and stockings, bo sure to have them match in color. It, is hotter for them to wear plain black than to have their little limbs decorated with ugly combinations of red-brown and yellow-brown. A very summery affair in capos is nmdo of black chiffon, finely plaited over a second capo of tho same ma- terial in white. It is caught yp with satin bows on the shoulders, and lias a yoke of spangled net, finished with a shirred flounce of chiffon. Stiff bunches of tiny rosebuds are used on hats. Tlioy are ij variably used In twin fashion, and not infre- quently mako a pretty nest from which aigrettes, single quills or single narrow loops of ribbon stand dofiantly erect. , Green, in its light, ctal shudes, and tho rosy blues known as mauve, aro being used for class day gowns, one in tho groou boing of cropon in the delicate golden greon shude, com- bined with white and lavishly trimmed with white Venetian silk. For some women, linen cuffs new*? go out of fashion, and these will bo glad to notice the return of them to use. II Is a fact that nothing will add an air of prim neatness to the plainest gown more a small pair of starched white <{|®s. Sleeves are worn larger thartVver. They are generally made in one piece, very balloon-like at the top and fitt- ing rather snugly up to the elbow. They are made the same way for shirt waists, except that a cuff is added, which may be either straight or turned back. Bodices have become oven more decorative, if possible. What with adjustable sleeves, yokes, reefers and other similar inventions, tho waist is often a mystery. Round waists predominate, finished with a soft band of silk fastened with a buckle or bow. Buckles aro indispensable with shirt waist bolts. Big bows of ecru lace fastened in front to the middle of the crown of coarse yellow straw hats are very stylish. These bows are generally secured with rhinestone ornaments and the additional trimming consists of black velvet ribbon rosettes with pink or satin ribbon with violets, chiffon drapery and lilacs, <fcc. Very pretty silk waists are made with blouse fronts and trimmed with diagonal rows of wide white guipure inserting. The belt of such a waist is of ribbon or of narrowly folded silk, and the collar is of insertion and silk turned down, or, if a stock be preferred, is made of tho silk laid plain or in plaits. Handsome white linen dresses are embroidered with sprays and bou- quets of flowers in natural colors. The waists of those gowns have sleeveless Eton jackets with turn- back revers of tho prevailing color of the embroidery. Grayish blue linen, embroidered with yellow, is the material employed for one of these dresses made abroad. The silk ginghams, muslins and all such soft wash fabrics need a great deal of ribbon, and it adds immense- ly to such gowns to have two sets of color, viz., with a yellow gingham to have yollow ribbon for susli and collar, and bow on tho yoke, if bows bo used, and the same quantity of heliotrope to be used when one doe 3 not care to bo all In one color. It makes a woman appear ordinary indeed to wear large quantities of coarso or cheap lace. This has been a very common failing since \berthas\ and stocks with the lace bib cams in vogue, and it should be avoided. If one must trim summer gowns with lace it should bo fine, even though thero is little of it, und if that is impossible do not have any lace. The vile odors of chomicals useu in a factory In a suburb of Montreal rendered its neighborhood uncomfort- able, and property owners protested that the nuisance had seriously less- ened the value of surrounding real_ estate. A suit was brought for ages, but through tho powerful influ- ence of the manufacturing company and the arguments of the skilful lawyer whom it had retained for the defence, the case was apparently in a fair way to be thrown ont of court. The lawyer for the manufacturing concern had just clossd his speech with the remark that \an alleged smell was too intangible a grievance to grusp,\ when one of the opposing lawyers left the court room and re turned after u moment's absence with two glass retorts. \Here he said, \are the offending subjects of our contention.\ The retorts were passed to the Judge and to the jurors. Judge and jurors smiled and declared the contents of both retorts to be odor- less and Inoffensive. \But con- tinued the lawyer, \the company mixes them.\ Suiting tho action to the word, lie suddonly poured the contents of one of the retorts into the other, and the result was a nau- t seous gas which filled the court room and half suffocated judge, jury and spectators beforo they could escape. It was found necessary to adjourn the j court until tho following day, when ! heavy damages were assessed against ; the company. The island of Ceylon is one'of tho I most valuable possessions of the J British Empire. It has an area of i over twonty-five thousand square miles and u population of over three millions. Great progress has been made within the past few years. The people are Industrious and education is making progress. Ceylon is situ- ated off tlie southeast sido of the ex- tremity of India, and tho Island is supposed in past geological ages to have formed a part of tho mainland, between which and Ceylon thero are now some islands and some reefs. The depth of water on tho latter is small. A railway is now projected to connect Ceylon with India. It is estimated that the waterway requir- ing to bo bridged is about tliirtj miles in extent. The whole work, it is supposod, will cost not more than $3,000,000. A Great Locomotive. A mogul locomotlvo recently built for tho Dolaware, Susquehanna and Schuykill Railroad by the Baldwin Locomotive Works is the largest en- gine of this typo over built, its total weight in working order being 151, 000 pounds, and tho boiler being 72 inches in diameter. It is a simple engine, wilh cylinders 22 inches in diameter and 2(5 inches stroko. The six driving wheels are 02 inches in diameter, tho driving wheel base being 14 feet, tho total base 22 feet f> inches, and the total wheel basest both tho engine and the tender b(M \u25a0 50 foot. This engine weighs 76 * u tons in working order.?[Scientific American. A Peculiar Tree. A peculiar tree growth is noticed at Do lluyter, N. V. Two beoches, joined logethor, stand about twenty feet apart, eacli is over a foot in di- ameter, and it is impossible to toll which tree originally sent out the joining limb. The appropriate name of Ferrot is borne by one of the detectives of the Loudon police.
