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q the Said uin H. fssai 10 adhere % Il. ukiIe
neh . nof the ease II water has be~n added o. the
iniik IN The smallest prgpogtions.-
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1878-08-17

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The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1878-08-17

DEOrIN BUSINESS YoU CAN ENGAGE
DLIO Il IN. IS 10 SO per day made by any
worker of either sea. right Ia their exn loeaaiss
Particulars and samples worth Is free. Improve
your spare time At this basiness. Address stixsox
q Co., Portland, Maine. (Mar.2,Ts-ly.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1878-08-17

Na-0rdsss Tor BALLS, PARTIES 4 CHURCH
FESTIVALS viii be promptly allsd At short no.
tee. IAPril s,7s.-Iy.
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and AL kinds % Carving aud Sculpture In Marble
and Sandstone designed aud executed in an excel.
lent styie aud at reasonable prices. Guarantee 10
ssii - per cent. cheaper than any other place In
Baltimore. lApril l5,Ts.-iy.
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WESTERN MARYLAND RAIL
ROAD.

Y. Z. kkNNki. Superintendent.
wM CRAWFORD. General Agent.
The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1878-06-30
"Kermesae. -
Paris Correspondent Boston Post.l


There is charming sGuye and simplicity
with the ladies Of the high social circles oil
France that no other country can compete
with. Lately saw this exempliied in way
that most pleasantly impressed me. A fancy
fair or "kermesse" was held in the Tuilleries
Garden, and the presiding spirits were some
seventy of the most djstingatees ladies Of Paris
society. 1t was the creme de la creme meeting
of the season, and everything and everybody
seemed to make 1t a brilliant, sunny affair. A
theatre built OF flowers, the platform only
being visible boards. On this the most popu-
lar opera-bOuffe singers appeared, and made
life one day longer and brighter. Many cele-
brated actors and actresses performed, and
from the Theatre Francois galaxy of stars
came forth to delight and interest. These
performed in another theatre, constructed af-
ter the design Of the one on which Moliere In
his early day acted.
In addition to theatres there were merry
go-rounds," wheels of fortune, revolving
horses Of wood, and puppet shows of endless
variety. The graceful and lovely Princess
Poniatowsh presided at an American bar,
and made some of us roar with laughter at
her assumed knowledge of linked drinks"
She is very witty and full of Jokes, many
good Western ones OVERLOOKING with spice
and spirit. She was dressed q Ia mode de Tfi-
anon, and was the belle of the fete. The
Duchess de la ROchefoicalt and the Princess
de Leon played the part Of milkmaids, and
actually MIXED the enstalled cows, to the
amazement of children and city DANES The
dress, the cow shed, and the entire picture at
this spot was most rustic and attractive.
"Only five francs for glass Of true milk !"
sold the simple fluid! | hear her receipts
were 4000f. A countess was gypsy, mar
chioness a washerwoman, and princess d
nurse. What spirit and grace! And the
men? Gustave Dore contributed sketches,
Destaelle paintings, Protalis impromptu por-
traits and ,Sardou music. The Princess SATAN
sent a ieweled ornament in diamond and
pearls that was estimated at S25,0O0, to be
ratified for-and lost. But the band played,
and we all laughed and Charity smiled.
The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1878-06-30
AvENGHNG MOTHER EVE.
The Colossal snake story that Comes to
Us from Pike County, Pa.

SHoHoLA FALLS, Pike county, Pa, June
19.-Jennie Wurtz, German girl of New
York city, who is summering at Shohola
creek, and her cousin, Miss Wolf, went trout
ing in the Shohola on Tuesday last. At about
4 o'clock in the afternoon, having caught
nearly 100 trout they started for home by
the way of BALL HILL" place noted for its
rattlesnakes. After they had walked about
half q mile Miss Wurtz stepped upon an
object that moved and threw her down Re-
gaining her feet, she saw two large rattle
snakes crawling into the rocks and under
brush. She had stepped upon one Of them:
With stick that she had seized Miss Wolf
cut one rattlesnake in two. Miss Wurtz struck
at another, but missed it. The snake that
Miss Wolf killed was five and half feet in
length and had thirty-two rattles. The girls
took the rattles and continued on their way
to the summit of "Ball Hill" Here, while
resting they heard frequent and distinct
rattles from the foot of the hill. They walked
to the edge Of the summit and saw that the
rocks beneath them were covered with rattle
snakes. Gathering together pile of stones,
they threw them in quick succession among
the reptiles. Ten minutes later not live
snake was visible. The girls descended, and
found ninety-eight dead snakes, measuring
from two and half to six feet in length, and
with from three to thirty -seven rattles. Tying
a string to two of the largest and dragging
them along, the girls reached home at about
dusk On the following morning two neigh
bors brought from the den the remaining
ninetV-SiX
The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1878-06-30
Curious Facts in Nature.

Some curious facts from the world of ma
ture crop up occasionally, which are well
worthy of consideration. For instance, it
has been proved that the bee may, under
certain circumstances, turn out to be any
thing but the pattern of industry it is pro-
verbally supposed to furnish. Australian
colonists have from time to time taken out
swarms of bees to their adopted land, in the
hope Of deriving practical benefit from the
profusion of flowers with which the whole
country abounds. For some little time the
newly imported bees maintained their repu-
tatiOn for industry, storing up their food in
the comfortable hives provided for them, and
supplying the colonfsts with far superior
honey to that collected by the Indigenous
honey--pooducers, the "mellipones." Pres
emily, however, the hives wers discovered I'M
stocked at the end of the autumn, notwith-
standing the long summers In the northern
parts of Australia, and it was found that the
bees entirely neglected to lay by stock of
food, as was their wont. Though the bees in
creased, and the hives were always regularly
tenanted, no honey was brought home. It
soon became evident that, finding the peren-
NAL summer of the tropical parts of Australia
afforded them an abundance of food without
the intervention of long winters, the bees for
sock their old habits, gave themselves up to
life of happy Incidence, and no longer took
the trouble to convey their superabundant
supplies to the hives prepared for them In
short, there being no winters to provide for
the bees gave up the practice of storing
honey,
The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1878-06-30

beaux go there every night in the week, and
on Sunday am going TO wear my dew-Tom
and Jerry are coming over to see-rny new
suit Of garnet linen lawn for-the horrid old
thing. wouldn't speak and he promised to
take us to see-Mary Bront's bourette dress!
did you oversee more lovely shade Of silk
than-Grace Lamans brother Joe said-Good
gracious girls, I've sewn this on the wrong
side of-Jack FentOl's carriage cost-as much
as fifty cents yard for new passementeries,
and I can't see what Carrie means by having
that awkward BOBBY running after-her nose
is no more Grecian than Pm-an old piano not
worth"
And so on, ct cetera, ad infinitum to the end
of three columns-all about beaux and dress:
and the monograph was sick for two days
after being relieved of the stuff. When a
young lady reads this she will Indignantly
observe that If q photograph was to sneak
into room and absorb the conversation of q
half dozen young men, it would swear more
than Brete Harte poem when the handle was
turned, and would smell of sulphur and brim-
stone for two weeks afterward And perhaps
she would tell the truth.
The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1878-06-30

not, alas! in purity; and the Iago was young
servant girl, whom her master reprOved one
day for levfty of conduct. 81 have done no
HARM" she replied, and then with significant
expression added, "and If have, / am I'M
married; l have no husband, like some other
persons" Jealous by nature, and loving his
wife passionately, he began to make Inquiries
among his friends. His suspicious fell upon
Enrico Fiorentini, and to put his friend to the
test, he invited him to q supper. Having
taken two men into his confidence, he contrived
to have the conversation shifted to q domestic
tragedy in which husband was betrayed by
his best friend, but no change came over the
face Of Fiorentini. Varani was treasured by
his friends conduct. The next day Sara, the
domestic, dropped other insinuations, and the
husbands suspicious returned with redoubled
force. He hit upon the common expedient OF
pretended journey into the country, and re-
NAMED concealed at home, making no discov-
cries. Was 1t possible, he asked himself in
the morning. that he had been tormented by
q shadow, and that his wife was true to him.
He met Sara and asked her where
her mistress had departed very early,
saying she was going with q friend
to the cemetery of Campo VeranO. On hear
ing OF so unusual an expedition, all Veranl's
doubts came back. He questioned the girl
further, and she told him that his wife and
Fiorentini had been q long time together the
day before Maddened by the idea that while
he was watching at home and becoming con-
WINGED of his wife's innocence as he saw her
quietly go in and out and finally retire for the
night, she had taken the opportunities Of see
ing her lover elsewhere during the intervals,
he resolved to place the matter beyond q
doubt. He sent for his wife and her lover, led
them down the cellar, drew knife and fell
upon them both. The wife recovered from her
wounds to confess her guilt, and the husband
was convicted Of numbering his friend. When
the verdict was announced on May %, the
prisoner lost his reason and went raving mad.
The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1878-06-30

cling dresses. For mode of making, the
basque with pleated vest and trimmed
dem1-trained skirt is the favorite. There Is
sometimesan overskirt, but more often there
are sGarfs edged with lace forming aprons In
front, and intricately draped behind. White
lace and ribbons make these dresses gay
enough for summer festivals. The ribbons
are doubie-faced, watered on one side and
satin on the other, are in stylish contrasts OF
color, and are disposed in long-loOped bows,
with ends Lotched out.
PINK BATIsTE SUIT
has olive blown watered ribbon, with pink
satin on theopposite side. A white batiste has
amaranth ned satin ribbon, with yellow satin
on the revefs. A pale blue has pink and yell
low ribbons and q white dress has roSe-c0l0r
and leaf-green. Polonaises are also seen in
these batiste dresses, and are made up with
damask silk vests and skirts. The shapes are
long, slender princesse garments, and the
vests are IL large. side-pleats. One pretty
dress has a gray and white striped batiste
polonaise, with dark cardinal damask for the
vest, and in the two middle cores Of the back.
WHITE BAREGE AND GRENADINE
dresses are used for the most dis
tinguished summer toilettes. Some are
msso and 4nsr P" With O Harrow sk pea
ings Of blue satin. Another has scarfs of al
ternate folds OF straw color and blue silk.
Real camel's hair bordering, embroidered
with gold threads, trims another white dress.
One lovely dress of white barege is trimmed
with Emany knife-pleatings made of Scotch
plaid silk, In which red and blue are the prin-
cipal colors. The skirt has several plaid
pleatings, and a single row edges the over
skirt and Marie Antoinette fichu. The waists
of such dresses have blouse fronts with plaid
silk vests.
WHITE DRESSES FOR AFTERNOONS
at home and FOR girl graduates are made OF
finely dotted Swiss muslin, trimmed with
pleatings Of the same, simply hemmed not
edged with lace These have basque and
elbow sleeves, while the simply shaped and
bouffant overskirt has long Topped bows of
pale blue ribbon holding it up on the sides. A
bunch OF dark red jacqueminot roses is worn
at the waist.
The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1878-06-30
MOusfaches.

In nothing has public taste in England
undergone so complete revolution as In the
matter of mems hair. About the period of
Waterloo whiskers were the rage, and a
London paper records In the previous year
that Lord PalmerstOn and Lord Yarmouth
(afterward Marquis Of Hartford, the Lord
Steyne of Vanity Fair'(, met on Sunday In
Pail Mall and were enabled to catch q
glimpse of one another without putting aside
their whlskers." This state of things con-
tinued until the death of the old Duke of Well
lington, who religiously shaved his own
moustache, and permitted no infantry officer
to wear such appendage. Soon after his
death the infantry were permitted to wear g.
moustache, and then came the volunteer
movement, and the amateur soldiers followed
the example Of the regulars. Up to that time
the prejudice against moustache, unless In
the case Of a cavalryman was so strong as
to be a bar to any one wearing it in society,
and to wear beard was regarded as the
height of eccentricity. Mr. Muntz, member
Of Parliament for Birmingham, was the only
member Of the House of Commons who in
dulged in one, and was always spoken of as
'the man with the beard, and gazed upon as
a natural curiosity, and even up to 1856 uni-
versity authorities sometimes requested the
young men under their control to shave,
Nowadays, the English are the most hair
wearing of men. The army, however,
though allowed whiskers and moustache ID
not permitted to wear beard, but the navy
may do so, and the London police, since SIR
Richard Mayne's death, have enjoyed SINH
lar privilege.
The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1878-06-30
WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT.
BY MRS. NJ. $. WHITAKER.

Mourn, for the dulcet western harp ia still;
It's Doric echoes mute on sea and hill;
A grand old bard, with glory crowned, de-
parts,
Whose heavenly music fingers in our hearts
H.
White with the snow Of years, his reverend
Lies in the dust which shroud's Earth's roydl
dead;
Nor purple robe nor gem-illumined crown.
Gould add one 1.-THE to Bryants just renown.
His were the flashing jewels Of the mind;
A heart where love and tenderness were
shrined;
He loved the Iyre-he loved the poets thrall;
Great bards he honored and encouraged all.
To his large ken all beauty stood revealed
The ice-capped crag, the daisy-dotted field,
The laundering cataract with its awful roar,
The towering forest and the silVery shore.
Y.
Loi mounting to the heavenly cline | see
Our angel singer from times bonds set free;
He shakes his plumes from every stain OF
earth,
And godlike glory crowns his second birth.
The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1878-06-30
Municipal Extravagance.

NJ. KOrosi, director Of the Bureau Of Stats
tics OF PeSth, has collected some interesting
information on the rise of municipal ex-
penses in many of the chief European cities,
between 1864 and 1874. In Berlin the NUM-
cipal budget was, in 1862 1919, 600 francs
100000 francs are $780, OO0,) of which S,724,0 900
francs were for extraordinary expenses. In
1875 the expenditure was 10000 900 francs. OF
which 100000 were for extraordinary ex-
penses. In 1865 Vienna spent q 900 900 francs,
100000 being for extraordinary expenses
In 1874 her expenditure reached 81, 100000, Of
which the extraordinary expenses figured at
$500, 900. The Increase In population during
that period was about 10000. Munich, on the
other hand, is very economically managed,
and the expenditure, which was 1000. :
600 francs in 1864, was only 5,340,000
in 1874, although the population
had increased in that time by $4,000 inhabi-
tants. The municipal taxation In Munich is
about as at Vienna and 81 at Berlin. Stuff
CART, on the other hand, which used to be re-
garded by English and Americans as so
cheap, has been "going ahead" at frightful
pace. In 1864-5 the expenses were but 2,575, 600
francs, of which 1,737,000 were extraordinary
expenses. In 1874 they amounted to 30 OPS
GOO francs, of which 26, 1886, 900 were eXtraordi-
nary expenses. The budget for ordinary ex-
penses is thrice what it was. At Copenhagen
the municipal expenses have nearly doubled;
in Florence, which has now suspended cash
payments" trebled; at Rome, between 1871
and 1875, doubled. The municipality of Ma
drid following the example Setby the Spanish
government, pursueS the economic course of
borrowing from the British hereto, and per-
iards are In fact, the Rawdon Crawleys of
Christendom, the ungodly who borrow and
pay not again, while the Briton Is CredulOus
and lendeth.
The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1878-06-30
Six Young Ladies'

A rainy afternoon kept six young ladies in
the house, and three hours their tongues ran
could it have heard them, would have com
mitted suicide out Of sheer envy. The phono-
graph was loafing in the room during the con-
versation, and the next day when the crank
was turned it spoke very Verbatimically as
follows:
ga lovely Swiss organdie, trimmed with
Charlie Edwards moustache looks Iike-a per-
feet fright in the belted basque-and six yards
Of fly fringe on the-Sunday night George
was here and he-wore handsome chip bon
net and-I was aWfully ashamed with my old
wrapper on-such stuck up thing as she is,
and her Princess oYerskirt with sixteen
The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1878-06-30
A Sensation worth Diving For,

| am no teller Of stories says HazIitt. vet
there is one belonging to Bureigh House of
culars. The late Earl of Exeter was divorced
from his wife, a woman of fashion and of
somewhat more gravity of manners than
'1ords who love their ladies" like He deter
mined to seek second in an humble sphere
of life, and that it should be one who, having
no knowledge of his rank, should love him
for himgelf alone For this purpose he
went and settled 1ncognito, under the
name of Mr.. Jones, at Hornet, an obscure
village in Shropshire. He made overtures
to one or two damsels in the neighborhood,
but they were too knowing to be taken in by
him. His manners were not boorish; his mode
Of life was retired; it was odd how he got his
livelihood; and at last he began to be thought
a highwayman. In this dilemma he turned
to Miss Hoggins, the eldest daughter of a
small farmer, at whose house he lodged.
Miss Hoggins, 1t would seem, had not been
used TO rOmp with the village clowns !;
there was something in the manner of their
quiet but eccentric guest that she liked.
Having inspired her with that kind Of
regard that he wished for, he made
honorable proposals to her and at the end of
some months they were married, without his
letting her know who he was. They set off
in postchaise from her fathers honse across
the country. In this manner they arrived at
Stamford, and passed through the town with
out stopping till they came to the entrance of
Burleigh Park, which Is on the outside of it..
The gates flew open and the chaise drove
down the long avenue OF trees that led up to
the front OF this fine old mansion AS they
drew near to it and she seemed surprised at
where they were going, her husband said:
"Well, my dear, this is Burleigh House; it is
the house promised to bring you to; and
you are the Countess of Exeter!"
1t is said that the shock of this discovery
was too much for the young creature, and that
she never recovered from it. It was sensa-
ton worth dying for. The world was worth
making, had it only been for this. I never
wish to have been a lord but when think of
this story
The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1878-06-30
WHAT THE GIRLS NEED.

Pater and Mater Famiias sat
Their visages puckered with care
Pond'ring what they should do with their
girls,v
Their girls with the auburn" hair.
:" They play, and they sing, and they dance, ="
she said,
"And they sketch with pencil and pen;
They speak the German, and French, and
draw
"Oh, yes ANY object but men;
And there they all stick" the old man
growled,
"With all their gable and DutchW
And he gave the poodle beneath his chair
prod with the point of his crutch.
" But what can they do that Is useful p he
yelled,
With an oath that was really shocking.
Scan they sew or sweep, or cook, or clean,
Or darn the holes in their stocking p
Darn the holes in their stocking ?" she
cried,
With half hysterical Shrek
!" All, no, indeed! What the poor girls need
Is thorough knowledge of Creek!
The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1878-06-30
Mrs. snifktns Corrected.
tChicago Journal. ]

friends in Philadelphia, received new D. O.
o. D. Dollar of our Daddies) last week, and
of course the event was celebrated in the
prevalent mode. Late in the evening S. was
explaining to his wife why he had been de-
new (hic) dol'r? Thash was a mazzer. osson
said 'er (hic) Lobbess O Giderty-wash fatern
er ole Giddess er (hic) Loberty-I mean 'er
Liddess O. Gobberty," Mrs. S. interrupting)
--'Snifkins, you're drunk; you mean the
shay Loddess of elderly" STRENGTHENING up
and speaking severely)-"Mrs. S., you're
drunk you own (hic) Shelf er you wouldn't
shay er Libbess of Godderty while ludin' to
er Gibbess of Lodderty"
The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1878-06-30
COnfugaI Love.

The love of Mr. and Mrs. Patrick Mulligan is
beautiful to behold-would there were more
instances like it. They live upon a Jersey
City ice barge, of which Mulligan is captain,
and on Tuesday night Mrs. Mull1gan lost her
balance and fell overheard. The husband i'm
mediately jumped into the river and tried to
save his wife, but being unable to swim, he,
together with the woman, would undoubtedly
have been drowned had not Roundsman Bush
and Officer Conklin, Of the Ninth precinct,
AS the officers we're about to grasp hold of
Mrs. Mulligan she cried, Don't save me; save
my husband tirstw Both were saved and
cared for,
The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1878-06-30

The Chinese have habit of carrying mate
rial for alcoholic drinks about with them in
the form Of powder called Kin-tsu, for the
preparation of which certain manufacturers
have obtained great celebrity. The powder is
made from wheat or barley, with or without
certain aromatic herbs, which has been sub
iected to fermentation and then pulverized.
Rice is also used to make a liquor after
similar process. A spoonful of the powder
greatly in request in the Flowery land. Good
brandy in this form would be Invaluable In a
campaign.