The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1876-09-09

from the Danb,ry News.l


from the Danbury News
Fashionable fans are of medium size.
Lace is not worn with mourning cos
tunes.
Plaided scarfs and ribbons are in great
demand.
Canvas grenadines are manufactured
in every color.
Jewelry of silver in delicate tiligree
work is in vogue.
Linen and batiste dresses are more
popular than ever before.
Pure white dresses are worn in the
house by ladies in mourning.
Navy blue grenadines combined with
silk the same color, are very fashiona-
BILE.
Red parasols which are very popular
in Paris, have made their appearance
here.
Gentlemen's stocking, in solid colors
are more fashionable than striped or
plain ones.
Napkin rings are not used ut dinner
parties, no matter how small the num-
her of guests.
A novelty is to have the front breadth
of poi0naise buttoned to the side
breadths with tiny buttons.
Laces worth $4,000, which were
made for the Empress Eugene, are to
be sold at auction in this city.
Some of the late importations of Sum-
l,ox fss, r,F In
dotted with blue and steel beads.
BOx-plaited flounces are not pressed
rs knife-plaitings are, but simply held
with tape fastened about midway their
depth.
Dark colOred dresses of linen and
sometimes Of fOulartl are fancifully
trimmed with very handsome English
embroidery.
Bias bands of silk or other material
used as trimmings, are just as frequent
ly stitched on by machine as blind
stitched by hand.
Gentlemen who wish to put to good
use returned" diamond engagement
rings, should know that they make
beautiful shirt studs.
Shoulder scarfs which have become
very popular as wraps in Paris, IRE be-
ing imported. Velvet ones for Winter
IRE in process OF making.
Double-faced ribbons that are black
on one side and cream on the other, or
Roman ribbons are nsed for looping
ec,w and ivory colored ovcrdresses.
Novelties in white bntiste dresses show
trimmings of lace insertion over Innings
of colored silk, and wide collars of silk
covered in the same manner.
For young ladies who are too slight
to wear the Princessc pOiOmaise fastened
in the back, double breasted pattern
having much the same form is used.
Lace fiounces are seldom used for
trimming the bottom OF evening dress
es. If rich lace is required it is draped
across the front something in the form
of an apron.
Tall large women should not wear
light colored dresses II they would
he sure to be most becomingly dressed.
The diamond necklace and earrings
sent by the Khedive of Egypt to Mrs.
Sherman Fitch, on the occasion of heI
marriage several years ago, are ut last
to he delivered into her hands.
Cardinal red has become too common
to continue in the appreciation of ladies
who look for something unique and sim
gular in style. Bright garnet ribbon
bows and sashes are considered pretty
accessories to Il lady's or child's toilette.
The WONDERS OF THE MICROSCOPE
Here is list of some wonders to be
seen through microscope Insects OF
various kinds can be seen in the cavi-
ties of grain of sand. Mould is n for
est of beautiful trees, with the branches,
leaves, flowers and fruits. Butterflies
are fully feathered. Hairs are hollow
tubes. The surface of our bodies is COW
cred with scales, like fish. A single
grain of sand would cover one hundred
and fifty of those scales, and yet sin
gle scale covers five hundred pores
Through these narrow openings the
sweat forces itself out like water through
IL sieve. The mites make five hundred
steps minute Each drop of stagnant
water contains world of animated
beings, swimming with rs much liberty
as whales in the sea. Each leaf has II
colony of insects grazing on it, like
oxen in meadow. A speck OF potato
rot the size of pin-head contains about
two hundred ferocious little animals,
biting and clawing each other savagely.
The male mosquito is decorated with
plumes like those of some trOpic bird.
The eye of tie common hOuse-fly is cut
| into facets nS diamonds sometimes are.