The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1875-10-16

Winter Bonnets.
Luch Hooper writes from Paris to the
Philadelphia Bulletin: The winter bon.
nets are beginning to bloom forth like
autumn flowers in the miliiners' shor
windows For the benefit of thrifty wo-
mankind at home ! am happy to be able
to state that the shapes show very little
variation from those of last winter. The
close gypsy shape, a trife closer to the
head and lower on the brain in front than
formerly, will be the most popular. The
fashionable tints appear to be different
shades of brown, the beautiful rich dark
blue, known as loutre," and beautiful
delicate fawn, called beige. Felt will
retain its popularity. The hat of a fash
| ionable lady must in all instances match
her walking-suit, and the felt hats and
bonnets. come in all the different popular
shades. There was charming hat for
young girl shown to me of pale fawn-
colored felt, trimmed around thr crown,
with bias folds of colored silk, twisted at
one side into two loops, which were held
down bv light brown wing, and by two
small round brooches in oxydized silver
connected by silver chain. This hat,
which was of the close gypsy shape, was
bOrdered around the edge outside by an
inch-wide band of imitation fur interwo-
ven with the felt itself The face trim
ming was composed of bias folds of vivid
scarlet silk, twisted into knot at one
side. Long loops and ends of scarlet
ribbon fell from the inside of the brim
behind so as to drop over the chignon.
Another hat was of light gray felt, dot
ted with light blue in a sort of chine pat
tern. The crown was encircled by full |
broad ruche of pale-blue velvet, lined |
with gray silk Bias folds of blue velvet |
filled in the inside of the brim. A very
lovely hat of light gray felt was trimmed
outside with bias folds of black and white
silk in a tiny check; these folds were
confined atintervals with humming birds
wings. The face trimming was of the
check silk, with a single cluster of pale
pink roses.
CURIOUS CLoCK.-The first thing a
stranger does at Fortwagen is to see the
exhibition of the Gewerbe-veretas, and
at Freiberg the Gewerbe hall, open from
May to October. The latter is a wooden
building of some taste, where every va
riety of clock can be seen which the in
genuity of the Schwarzwalder can devise
or his fingers execute. Round the walls
and on the tables are clocks of every sort.
Nearly all are of wood, though here and
there is a fragile one of straw or ivory.
The first which attracts attention is a
very fine specimen of wood carving; the
figures and design are cut in llmewood,
and it stands two feet high: The figures
and hours are of ivory. The attendant
puts it to 2o'clock. and it forthwith plays
nmelodious air, as of the most delicate
a otes. The next is still larger, and as
the hour strikes, miniature band plays
"Die Wacht am Rhein-" We pass on to
onesmade of beech and walnut, the dark
and light wood bein~ charmingly blended.
As the fingers touu't the hour, two nei-
meted trumpeters step out ana blow the
reveille Then there are cuckoos which
strike up at the hour and threshes who
sing at the quarter; venerable monks
beneath the belfry ring the hour
when midnight comes. The automatOn
clock comes next, and we watch a sort of
fat boy feed himself with
rolls till has finished striking. The
taste and minuteness of the carving in
the largest or the smallest point are very
great the regulator on the pendulum of
the smallest clock represents, perhaps, an
oak leaf, or some simple, but still grace
full object Nor are more methodical and
clocks wanting; they
will suit the kitchen or the boudoir. The
excellence of theexternal work is equaled
by that of the machinery, for having
once gained Il reputation, the inhabitants
Of these hills take care that 1t shall not
be lost The Gewerbeverein, or Union,
the goodness of each clock
which hangs on the walls.-LOndon Spec
'ator.