The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1877-10-19
EvE-ANGELIcAL CORNER.

The newest lace is the Oriental.
Fancy buckles are worn with belts.
Dress trains grow longer and longer.
Belts are worn with street costumes.
A favorite dark shade is lees of wine.
Box-pleated corsets are coming in vogue.
George Eliot has slender and frail fingers.
Filtration is to love what flowers are to
fruit.
Colored silk torchon is one Of the new
laces.
Birds of Paradise plumes will be much
worn.
Marine blue and dark maroon are coming
in vogue.
Bronze brown and bronze green are lead
ing colors.
Buckwheat cakes will soon be down to
hard pan. r....
Moonlight beads is another name for
clair de la lune jet.
The necks of all new dresses open en- chale
or Pompadour.
Colored Smyra and guipure laces are COM
ing in fashion. .
Cleopatra's Needle is now threading its
way to England.
Bronze velvet is used to trim white felt
Gainsborough hats.
The steam of hot water will restore the
smoothness of velvet.
A great many ribbon bows are seen on
all the new costumes. .-rs4 .....
A "Ladles' lager beer parlor" is the
lates Boston wrinkle. Bis
Lace bonnet 81 rings and lace scarfs are
no longer fashionable.
The new bonnets have coronet brlms and
elaborate puffed crowns.
The Serbian is the costume destined to
take the place of Breton.
The new fringes combine crimped braid,
silk, and clair de la lune let.
Basques, tunics and polonaises are all
worn, but the shapes are new.
The Avalon is pretty, modest, close
brimmed bonnet for fall wear.
The newest straw and felt hats are the
Helmet, Vesta, Ashley, Vera and Rival.
Queen Victoria's allowance last year was
So, 033, ,545, and the Prince of Wales was
5000, 900.
Caps and bonnet crowns are large, high
and fantastieally treated in the looping and
arrangement of the folds.
The latest novelties in scarfs are of crepe
lisse, embroidered at the ends with silk in
Oriental colors and designs.
The last of the quartet of children recent
ly born in Phelps county, Mo-, has died,
and the mother is dead also.
A handsome fancy feather for dressy
hat is made of India gamecock's tails and
lophophor tail feathers combined.
A young lady being asked by politician
which party she was most in favor of, re-.
piled that she preferred wedding party.
There will be marked change in the
tendency of things, or our stylish young
ladies viii get to wearing their hats SO far
back that they will have to lift them when
they want to sit down Worcester Press.
It is said now that Prince Bismarck wants
to marry King Alphonso of Spain to the
Princess Victoria, of Hesse, a agranddaught-
er of Queen Victoria, whe is in her fifteenth
year, and well grown and advanced in learn
| ing for her age.
AnAmherst grocer offered young school
teacher a bushel of potatoes free if she
would wheel them home at an hour when
most of the students were likely to be in the
streets. She did it, and says she is ready
to receive more at any time on like con-
| ditions.
| When you make a beef stew have good
steak, cut it into dice and use plenty of
| onions. There should be an amount of po-
tatoes equal to the beef. Celery is an
addition, and, if you can afford it. there is
nothing better than half can of mush-
rooms. The juice should be plentiful and
should be half thickened.
A young lady, on Hoyne avenue, asked
her young man why he called her his Ultra.
and he courteously replied that it was
Latin quotation. /" This" said he, ais my
knee, and when add you too it have my
knee, plus Ultra, which is the Latin for Il
don't want anything more on my knee
Don't you see, my darlinga" She said she z
did.
| The war correspondent Of the London
| Nesas says that at the battle near Kazeleyo,
where the Russians were defeated, .ssa Rus
ssap nf;oor xuho nv, q ofearva,7 ~, ,finr%IS ~ 81.
deavoring to rally the men, was killed, and
the. body, when subsequently discovered,
proved to be that of a woman. She was
buried where she fell.
'JennIe june says that the only thing
| that stands between the American woman
and perfect health, is the size Of her shoe.
| Men at forty-f are in their prime, while
/ women at that age have lost their freshness
and beauty. That is because men wear
loose boots, while women pinch their feet
SO numerically that they cannot walk COM
| fortably. ssh has al.
| Martha's Vineyard has an eccentricity in
| Nancy Luce. Born nobody knows where
or when, she lives entirely alone with her
hens, and when they finally depart she has
them decently inferred IN graveyard at 4
tie back of her house, and erects marble
stones over their graves. Her support Is
gained from the sale Of her 'sbook, - which,
in mixture of prose and verse, is about
herself and hens. 9sg eaar1s
/ ID. An Opportunity Lost.
WASHINGTON, Oct. s. 1877.
In . dispatch to the War Department
General Sheridan recapitulates the facts