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the same material as the waist, and must be
quite short, as they are not now allowed to
appear below the edge of the child's dress.
The legs are wide, and may be tucked, ruffled.
or embroidered.
The princess petticoat has the long waist
sloped over the hips to keep the bulky gather.
ing OF the flannel or muslin skirt from spoil
ing the taperlng natural waist. The skirt is
| cut straight across the goous. The waist is
provided with side forms in front and back,
and closely buttoned behind. Yard-wide mus.
Inns are commended for these garments. The
pattern OF this waist may be used for the drill
ling waists OF kilt dresses worn by boys not
yet in trousers.
Inc french apron is pretty little garment
that has come into favor again since dark
wool dresses have been revived for little girls.
IL 1s low and round in the neck, has short
sleeves that are little more than Soaps" or
epaulets, as they are sloped to the armhole,
IL is necessary to have this little garme MT
quite fun around the figure, hence the neck is
supplied with a drawing string. The apron
Is long enough to reach within an inch or two
OF The bottom of the dress skirt. These little
aprons are imported in nice sheer French
the gray and drab linens also. The most
dressy ones have hem and cluster of tucks
around the bottom, while the neck and sleeves
are finished with a tiny frill edged with Val
enclennes or thread edging. Sometimes in
a stead Of drawing-string, a tiny band is
STITCHED on the outside and this band is
wrought in brier-stitch or in tiny dots. Still
others of linen, either white or gray, have a
needle;worked scallop, dots, or notched edges
around the neck and sleeves. A deep Spanish
hounce, also needle-worked is added to the
potion OF others. All these imported aprons
nave the seems neatly felled. Very pretty
ones are sold for 50 cents at the French linge
RE establishments. These white aprons over
dark red or blue dresses make up a quaint
and effective little toilet for the house and are
Another easy way to make these full aprons
and still simpler than this pattern, is to take
breadth OF yard-wide cambria of the proper
length, cut out armholes, and trim them with
frlll OF muslin rutfiing; then face the neck
Tor drawing string, and when drawn up, the
neck has little frill to match those in the
armholes. The straight fullness of this apron
adds to its pretty appearance.
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Brown Hands.
How I reverence a brown haf

How | reverence brown hand! Soft,
white hands may possess more of grace
and beauty, and doubtless do great
deal OF good in the world, but what
would become of us, were it not for the
strong brown hands? We visit a machine
shop and note the wonderful mechanism
OF everything there; watch the workings
OF the curious, Intricate machines, from
the great Corliss down, see how perfect
they are, and with what harmony they
all perform their tasks, seeming more
the creations of some far-away fairy land
than the wonderful children of mems
brains, and we know brown hands made
them all, and brown hands guide them
to their allotted tasks.
We view the splendid buildings erected
all over our land, standing So proudly.
aud so grand in their architectural beau
ty, compelling admiration from every
passer by, and we know cunning, skill
tul, brown hands put every inch of those
vast edifces in their place. Brown hands
are to white, what the strong, sturdy for
est trees are to the tender, graceful,
smaller growth; protection, an ever
present help in every time of need.
Go to the farm. What. think YOU
would white hands accomplish here?
Simply nothing; in few hours time thew
would be bruised, blistered, bleeding,
useless appendages, not even capable OF
doing their duty as white hands. Send
out pair of brown hands and how
strongly they grasp the plow handles |!
How easy for them to guide the heavy
plow through the mellow earth, to bind
the sheaves Of golden grain, or toss the
great terkfulls of sweet-scented hay!
They hardly realize their existence. and
when the days work is over, and the ex-
ira accumulation of mother earth washed
away, they are brown hards still, none
the worse for the days work and Just as
ready for the next to come.
There are those, I know, who predict
that brown hands will soon become. OBJ
solete; that Edison and kindred spirits
will soon end the necessity for brown
hands. | have never had the pleasure of
seeing Mr.. Edison, but Icandidly believe
has hands are brown, and will be until he
can invent machine that will thencefor-
ward do his inventing for him. Fancy
IT you can, a man who will work for
sixty consecutive hours, SUD denly chang
ing his course of life, and sitting quie tly
by on downy cushion while some
machine does his lnventing for him.
Don't you know brilliant idea would
strike him SO fquickly, lie would jump
to his feet. smash his machine and 90 to
work himself? Never for one moment
entertain the thought that the work for
brown hands is done. The only trouble
is, there is not brown hands enough TO
do the work that ought to be done.
Because you cannot go to the wheat
fields with your sickle, or the corn field
with your hoe, don't creep back into
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Mental Life Below the Human.

Autenrieth, the celebrated German natural
isr, has described for us the metamorphoses
through which pass the individuals of species
OF butterfly named by him Nachtptauenauqe.
Its grub-life, like all Of the same genus, is one
OF unbroken m0notony and dullness. The
sum-total of it's experiences consist in gorg-
ing on leaf-pulp, crawling under cover when
1t rains, and now and then casting its skin.
1t has no home-life, its parents having died
before it began to live. It has no companion
ship, it seeks none. This sluggish, solitary,
gormandizing, creeping worm is at certain
set time suddenly arrested by the electric
thrill of some new strange life. It stops eat
ing, and under mysterious, prophetic i'm
pulse, commences to weave about it's body,
out of delicate threads that issue from it a
silken palace of double.roof, so ingeniously
braced by innumerable supports that it both
withstands violent attacks from without, and
yields to the almost spirit touch from within,
of that most fragile offairies which, out Of the,
homely and prone body of the grub, rises
erewhile, on brilliantly tinted wings, to futter
and float like stray bit of sunset on a Sum.
mer's evening zephyr. By this unique con-
trivance this little creature escapes on the one
hand from outside violence, an on the other
able that this worm possesses such intimate
acquaintance with the occult laws of mechan-
les as this piece of work presupposes, that it
has acquired, BY its own exertions, this mas
terful skill in architecture, or that it really
discerns with clear prophetic vision approach
ing changes in it's form, its capacities, its
needs and its destiny? It has no instructor,
no personal experience, no working model.
This is it's first a tempt, yet it bares the stamp
OF absolute perfection. The butterflies of 9TH
er species, when the hour is ripe for them to
issue from their cocoons, secrete fluid that
acts on the silks as solvent This grub, as
if conscious from the first that such power
will never ho Ouon ~ ~
widely different principles. To affirm that it
inherits this knowledge, skill, and prescience
does not, in the least, clear up the mystery; it
only carries the inquiry farther back, for the
grub must have been equally able to spin a
similar cocoon on first trial, or it never could
the progentior of a species. Penn Month
Zu
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Street Cars Driven bp Compressed Bi,

From the New York Sun.
An alr-car. or pneumatic dummy,
made by the Pneumatic Tramway En-
CINE Company, is running regularly on
the Second avenue railroad track between
Ninety, sixth and One Hundred and
Twenty ninth streets. The motive is
compressed air. An engine at One Hun
dred and Twenty-sixth street pumps the
air car full as often as required. The
vehicle is capable of carrying one hun
dred persons. Nothing Of the apparatus
that runs the car is visible. Six rolled
steel cylinders are situated beneath, two
under the seats and four in an inclosed
place under the body OF the car. By the
engine at One Hundred and Twenty sixth
street air is condensed into them until it
reaches pressure of $50 pounds to the
square inch. The six cylinders together
hold 100 cubic feet of air. The driver OF
the Car stands il front and manipulates a
pair of levers similar to those employed
in steam locomotive. He is not neces.
sarilv an engineer; any one may learn
the whole manipulations readily. The
air compressed in the cylinders iscapab e
of propelling the car for six miles, and
the speed may be regulated up to thirty
miles an hour. The car can be stopped
almost instantaneously. By the multi
plication of cylinders it is feasible to
make trips of any distance. The time
required for charging the cylinders de-
pends wholly upon the power of the en-
gine employed. The car that is running
is charged in about six minutes. No
smoke, of course, and no noise greater
than that made by the ordinary horse
car, attends its progress. The Second.
avenue Company intend to have ready
six cars of this sort to do all their carry
ing between Ninety sixth street and Har-
lem River by the 1st of March next.
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A Strange Presentment.

A late number of the Louisiana "our.
nal says: Earnest, a bright boy of seven
years, oldest son of Mr.. Samuel Temple
ton, gatekeeper on the Prairieville gravel
road, just below this city, met with an &C.
cident on Thursday Of last week which
resulted in his death soon afterward.
About noon ON that dav lie mounted a
wagon loaded with wood, with the inten.
ton Of unloading it. The lad seized a
stick and was in the act of throwing it to
the ground, when he lost his equilibrium
and fell, head foremost, to the earth. His
cries brought his father to his assistance.
led him into the house. The boy did not
seem to be much injured, he was consci-
GUS, explained to his father how he fell.
pointed out his bruises, and conversed
nationally for an hour, when he suddenly
lost consciousness and remained IN that
condition until his death, which occurred
about six hours after the accident.
The night proceeding the above sad &C.
cident Mrs. Templeton, the mother of the
child, had strange presentment of his
death. Early in the evening while the
child was asleep, she approached hislit-
tie bed, and looking earnestly into his
face, burst into tears.
The grief with which she was overcome
was intense and uncomfortable. It at
tracted her husbands attention, who in
quired into its cause. samuel" the
weeping mother answered, II don't think
we will ever raise this child" IL can see
no cause for your fears" replied the ia.
ther," "the child is as healthy as can be ;,
But this answer did not satisfy the
mother, for a dark cloud hung over her.
Her heart beat rapidly and heavily.
Strange shadows crossed her vision; an
unseen grief oppressed her: the presaee
of some horrible coming event cast bur
den on her soul he scarce could bear.
At the ususal hour the sobbing mother
retired, but her rest was uneasy. To-
ward midnight she arose from her bed
and again sought the couch of her bov,
who slept the deep sweet sleep of inno-
cent childhood, all unconscious of the
grief-stricken mother who bent over him,
bathing his face with tears and kisses.
Mr.. Templeton expostulatcd with his
wife, and assured her that her fears were
a mere whim, and begged her to calm her
grief and go to sleep. But no sleep came
to that mothers relief that night, and day
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Genius and Strong Drink Divorced

From the Chicago Advance.
The remark is frequently heard that
it is the most gifted, the generous: fel-
lows who are most apt to fall into intem-
perance. The saying is neither true nor
useful. However it may have been
formerly, it has come to pass now that, as
Professor Swing suggests, the temper
ance reform has reached 6fst the minds
that are most gifted. "Many years ago.
ne says, sit was my good fortune to serve
my country by being secretary of a tenn
perance society, and in that officialdignity
l addressed letters of inquiry to presi-
dents OF colleges and professors, to ask
what was the quality of the young men
who In those days marred their college
course by the use of ardent drinks. Long
letters came from President Woolsey, Of
Yale, and from Horace Mann, then of
Boston, and from Professor Moffat. of
Prlnceton, and they all bore testimony
that genius in their colleges and schools
drank less than stupidity; that whisky
was passing away from the higher order
OF mind, and was to be found only in
possession of the more sensual and less
bright"
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Question and Answer.

A-What is the good and what is the bad?
Where is the perfectly true?
What is the end you live for, my lad?
And what, may ask, are you?
Unproven, fear, is your heaven above,
Life is but labor and sorrow,
Then why should we hope and why should we
love,
And why should we care for the morrow?
B-There may be fight worth fighting, my
friend,
Though victory there be none;
And though no heaven be ours at the end,
Still we may steer straight on.
And though nothing be good and nothing be
bad,
And nothing be true to the letter,
Yet good many things are worse, my lad,
And one are two things are better.
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A Tender Husband.

From the Danbusy News
When the news of the Adelphi's ex-
plosion reached Danbury, citizen, whose
wife had saileed from New York that
morning by way of the boat, took the
tlrst train for Norwalk. They never had at
the best been very loving couple, but
they are eminently respectable. He had
pursued bis way and she had gone hers,
each finding pleasure in characteristic
cnannels. But now with the presence of
her death upon him, the old tenderness
Win which he had won her came back to
hlm, and during the long and dreary ride
to the seaside his thoughts were busy
with the past. He could recall with
painful dlstinctness every help he had re-
iuseo ner, every cross word he had given
her, every coldness he had shown her.
All the little acts governed bv petty self
lshness of which he had been guilty, and
which had passed from his memory in
the doing, now rose up before him as
oeeos OF monstrosity at whose presence
MS heart sank trembling away.
AS the last train reached Nolwalk, he
hurried out on his wretched search, ask
ing here and there for intelligence of her,
ms white lips and trembling frame testi-
tying most eloquently to his anxiety. At
last MS search was rewarded and he found
her. Not dead and mutilated, but alive,
unharmed. It was happy meeting,-
not demonstrative, because both we're sore
~ out OF practice in that, but he was re-
leved OF q terrible weight on finding her
as he did.
$50 you are all right?" he said.
YES" sac answered; ~ amt hurt q
bit, but | was terribly frightened"
"You must have been,-horribly so.
It was terribly narrow escape. Where s
your satchel2'
~ don't know. l think it must have
blown overheard"
"Din't you have it with you?'
"No; | left it on bench, and had gone
to the front of the boat to look out on the
water when the explosion came"
'sThat was dreadfully careless. I don't
see what you could have been thinking
of to have gone off and left your satchel
like that"
"Why never had thought the boat
was going to blow up, did II"
''It don't make any difference" he per-
sisted. Some one would have stolen it,
as likely as not, if the boat hadn't blown
up: There was no sense in it anyway,
and it was foolish thing to do. l don't
suppose there's any use to go looking for
it now"
II know there ain't," she answered,
because was sitting right where the
boat blowed out, because it was warm
there"
We'll, it can't be helped, I suppose,
but 1t IS too bad. The next time you go
away you'll show more sense, hope,
than to go gallivanting all over a boat
without your satchel."
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monitor never deceived. He contrived
to communicate with the army of his
coun trymen, and its generals, who duly
estimated his character, relied upon his
assurance that within few days the
waters would again be passable by troops.
They delayed their retreat; within twelve
days the frost had returned-the French
army triumphed, Disjonval was liberated
and epider had brought down ruin on
the Dutch nation.
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her into German. Their daughter, Lillian,
closely resembles her father as he appear
ca IN his youthful days. Taylor built
the house near Kennett Square where his
parents still live, and where they cele-
brated their golden wedding nearly ten
years ago. He called the place Cedar
croft, and hoped to pass his old age
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broke to bring her no respite from the
sad burden her bleeding heart bore. The
slightest unusual noise about the house
thrilled her with evil forebodings, and
the weary hours dragged on until the
foreshadowed end came in the accident
as above related,
Daily globe., 1879-02-23

Many of the latest models in overskirts are
cut in points. It is fashionable to have the
fronts OF the basque cut in point; the back,
center and side forms are also pointed.
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Tins standard article is com.
pounded with the greatest care.
Its effects are Us wonderful and
as satisfactory as ever.
It restores gray or faded hair TO-
its youthful color. .
II removes oil eruptions, itohine
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BY its tonic properties it restores
the capillary glands to their normal
vigor, preventing badness, and
making the hair grow thick, and
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A. A.. Hayes, M. D., State As
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\ little fellow rushed into the street
recently, o.look at monkey that &C
companied an organ grinder who was
playing in front of an adjoining block.
Never having perused the Origin of
Man." he gazed in wonder and ADM
ration few moments, and then rush
ing into the house he met his grand
mother to whom he addressed this in
quiry: "Grandmother. who made
monkeys ?" God, my boy" replied
the old lady in her candid way.
We'll, said the excitable grandson
in rejoiner, I'LL bet God laughed
when he got the first monkey done ~
i Norwich Bulletin,
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At Victor Hugo's they were talking
about age Hugo, in charming hu-
nor, confessed that the most disagree
able advance to him was that from
thirty nine to forty, "Ohl that ter
..ble forty" he said. But" remark.
/ some one, Il should think it a
Ircat deal better to be forty than fifty.
Not at ALL" replied Hugo. Forty
ats is the old age of youth, while
~ years is the youth Of old age"
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The New Capitol

The plan Of the new capitol has been
placed in tho senate on exhibition by
the architects, Messrs. Glen u Mar.
enburger, Of Austin. Its description
is about as follows:
V 225 feet square.
247" from base to the top Of
dome.
G5,025" superficial area.
10000" area house.
O,0OO area senate.
6,000" appellate court.
G,O00" supreme court,
5000 "musem.
5000" library,
1t provides thirty Offices for courts
Libraries, etc., forty.eight Offices and
committee rooms, and forty.eight doc
ument and storage rooms, fire proof,
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4 correspondent Of the Lockhart
Echo, writes from Msrtiudale as fol.
lows. If more Of our farmers would
follow Mr.. Thoml sons plan, there
would be less complaint Of the failure
Of the wheat crop In Texas: - NJ
In view of the fact that the wheat
crop has not been as productive this
season throughout the county and par
ticularly in this neighborhood a. it
had been heretofore, it msy not be out
OF place to give your readers the sub
stance OF conversation your cores.
poudeDt had on the subject Of wheat
arowiug, With Mr.. Fred s. Thompson.
the prince. planter, and most success.
tul cereal grower in Western Texas.
lie invariably plants his wheat from
the LIT to the goth of November, and
never later in the season. In prepar-
ing his land, as sosn as his wheat is
harvested. he plows the stubble under
ut depth of ten inches, and in beds
twelve feet in width, and let's the land
70 remain until the second week in
October, when he cross plows at o
depth Of eight inches.. and then har-
rows with a rotary implement Of i'm.
proved pattern, and afterwards plants
with an ordinary cultivator. 1t is
we'll known that Mr.. Thompson has
never failed in the most inauspicious
seasons to make more than an average
crop, and he has not deviated from
this mode of procedure for several
years. He gives it as his experience
and obsei walton to he the best plan to
follow in the preparation of land for
tho growth of this important cereal.
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North Carolina contributed one Gen.
al, two Lieutenant Generals, ten
NijOr-Geuerals and tven,y-iour Brig
~ cr-Genersls TO the Confederate Ar
.a-. Brlxton Bragg was the General,
ID i.conidas Polk and T. II. HOLMES
=. Lieutenant Generals.
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Dye
FOR THE WHISPERS.

This elegant preparation may be
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"A sssssssser ldyl.


We fingered on the .houss steps,
To watch the young stars twinkle;
A week Of country lIfs had smooihsd
Away each busissss wrinkle.
She was the farmers only child,
Her name was Susan ho~ef;
She stood upon the upper step.
And upoa the lower
talked Of mt,io and Of sri.
OF science and invsntiopi
Ifslt THAI had won her heart,
She paid suoh sweet attention.
I wondered u my city friends
Would be inclined TO tease me,
And u those slightly rustic ways
She would not doa TO please me-. .
Such love mast cot Be TITLED with.
90 I began, "Dsas susan."-
whersst she whispsssd 10 my ear: :
30 my. there's John vsndussnl-
81 wonder what has brought him here.
dispose I'ii have 70 meet him."
1 overheard Q word or two
A. she s.sppt d down greet him:
20. dear. I'm awful glad you're comsi
Irealiy thought ia die since
vor,,. A..u ..ss aSSa been A bored
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