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At the Seaside.
Philadelphia Press.

Many of the handsomest dresses are all of
lace, with merely enough of soft surah or
satin merveilleuse to hold them together.
Black Spanish lace, or Chantilly is the usual
style for black lace dresses, save when an
exceptionally elegant toilette is OF real thread
lace. In white lace the oriental is most
popular, and next comes Spanish. Valen-
ciennes is regaining all its old-time popular
ity, and ladies who have handsome thread
t~1ounces, black or white, are to be congratu-
lated. A very handsome black dress is trim
med with TWO such ~iounces, and a lace point
to match. The dress is of satin merveilleuse
with deep side-pleating at the foot. One of the
founces falls over this, extending quite
round the skirt-while the other is taken
twice across the front without cutting, the
ends being hidden under perpendicular
pleatings of mervilleuse. The point is draped
for the overskirt, forming'an apron, and the
ends are mingled at.the back with wide loops
and ends of satin merveilleuse. The bodice
is pointed in front and short on the sides
with square back, and is fully trimmed with
lace to match that on the skirt in narrower
width.
White is, by all odds, the r~eigning color of
the season. A great many simple white
dresses are worn; plain lawns, tucked to the
waist, either in clusters or in single tucks;
from one to two inches wide. The waists of
such dresses are made with yoke and belt,
and have, usually, wide sashes of the ma
terial tied in a great bow behind. Other in
expensive white dresses are OF dotted Swiss,
fiounced to the waist with the material, or
else with two founces on the lower skirt,
round overskirt, ruffied and draped high on
the sides and rufled basque to match, or else
a shirred waist with ribbon belt and bow.
White nuns veilings are made in styles as
simple, with from three to five side pleatings
across the front, short, wrinkled apron and
waterfall back, the waist being either basque,
yoke bodice or polonaise, as may be pre-
ferred, and the only garniture white rib
bons-the more the better. This is a season
of fine woolens for evening wear, especially
at the shore, where they resist the dampness
as no other material can.
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sUPERsT1r1oNs OF ENGINEERS.

Railroad Men Haunted by Recollections of
Famous Accidents.
Albany Journal. .
Amsterdam is now on the dead list" said
an old grizzled engineer of the New York
Central railroad, last night. as he glanced
over the account of the third fatal accident
at the crossing In that village. A Journal
reporter was ignorat of the significance OF
the term dead list" He expressed his curl
osity.
BY a dead list I mean" said the engineer,
responsibility, that that crossing is now out
of danger. Three deaths, you know, bap-
ties it. That is what the boys say.
You know they believe that if one man or
woman is killed at a certain point,
there are dead sure to be one or two
others before long. Superstition? Yes,
that is what it is, and no mistake.
But some of the engineers who have run a
machine for twenty or thirty years, as l have,
take stock in it because we have seen it
proved time and time again. l don't believe
that three deaths are sure to come one after
another, butt can't help wondering why it
is so often two. That's what they call the
duality, isn'tit? When you come to think
of it, everything goes by twos. You have
two legs, two eyes, two hands, two ears, two
nostrils and two rows of teeth. There are
two parts to a day, two divisions of the year,
winter and summer, and two orbs of light.
The pair is the natural number. l b ave a
| lCAOl0 hOLllC Va Ii aCSldCulS Ludt AdVe OC-
CURED while | have been on my engine. l
can show you the dates to prove that they
have been in eight cases out of ten two at a
time. Several times three have happened in
succession, but two is the usual number.
People would say that was superstition,
but when you see it over and over
again o can't blame us. l know engineers
who will knock off for a week or so after an
accident TO their train, in which somebody
has been killed, rather than run the risk.
There was a case when young Plat Truax
was killed near Schenectady in 1878. You
know they are now trying three young fell
Jews in this city for derailing the train. A
few days before a freight on which he WAC
running had an accident, in which the fire.
man was hurt so that he died. think he
died-but the accident was not at the same
point. 1t was west of Schenectady. The
men told me afterward that Truax
had a premonition of death. If
1 had my book here 1 could give
you a heap of information about deaths
on the rail to show you that there is some
thing strange in it. Anyway, most of the
engineers have a rather strong fear of repeti-
ton whenever blood is spilled along the line.
Of course there are those who are as super
stitious as cid women. Those are the fellows
who see ghosts"
'See ghosts?"
Eyes, the disembodied spirits, as the me-
diums call them, or people they have run
over. Not long ago an engineer you know
by name resigned because he said the specter
of a woman he had ground to pieces at Fonda
used to appear every night at the exact
spot"
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Ye Banquet Editor.

San Francisco News Letter.
We have a vacancy on this paper for a ban
quet editor, death having been very busy with
US in that department lately. The fact that we
have lest three this year should not, how-
ever, discourage candidates for the position.
The salary is $50 a week, and we supply the
office s~wallow-tail and nicely-cleaned kids in
two sizes. The editor has to find himself in
pants, vest, shirt-collar and neck.tie, and be
able to rattle off a Democratic, Republican,
religious toned or %jocular after-dinner speech.
The regular s~tereotyped reply to the toast of
THE Press" we have on hand. Mr.. Bumple-
ton, our last editor, was %imprudent, and sue
cumbed at the recent medical banquet to the
effects of pate de foie gras after turtle soup,
pompano, lobster outlets, boned turkey, and
pigeons on toast. He died, however. at mis-
post, with his pencil in his hand, and the
last words he wrote were: Beware of mac
caroni and cheese" The banquet editor is
not permitted to strike any Of the guests for
display advertisements or star notices, under
any circumstances, though he may casually
refer. if he is seated near a big dry-goods
man, to the immense advantages of advertis-
ing. Gentlemen who can sing a good after
dinner song will have the preference. Apply
between II and l.
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Chinese Futures"
Ciiihoso
Wall Street News.

Wall street News.
There is no such speculation in China as
buying and selling futures. Two or three
years ago the chief official of a province
heard how Americans raked in showers OF
golden ducats in this manner, and he used
the funds of the government to speculate on
the outcome OF the opium yield. He sold
short and was busted ali to shingles, and soon
found himself in the presence of the chief
Wangdoodle of the Flowery Kingdom.
where's them cash2' was demanded in q
voice Of thunder and lightning.
"Slid out" was the reply, in tones which
betrayed a desire to go off on a blackberry
excursion as soon as possible.
"How-Hop, you are a ~defaulterl Get ready
to see the angels!'
And he was taken out and his paper collar
torn off without regard to his ears, and a
Chinese Sullivan walked up to him and spit
on his hands and clutched a sharp sword
and whacked his head off as slick as molasses
running down the outside of a jug. Since
that little episode no Chinaman wants any
futures in his. If he knew the country
was certain to raise 500, 900, 900 bushels Of
turnips he wouldn't dare to sell for Noyem-
Der delivery at $40 per bushel.
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Miss Lincoln Catches a Shark.

Secretary Lincoln, his daughters Mary and
Jessie, his son Abraham, DR.. Muhlenberg, of
Philadelphia, and Mr.. w. e. Cochran. of the
Brighton, went on a fishing and sailing ex-
cursion this morning. The party left the
hotel about 7 o'clock, and went on board
Captain Sam. Gales famous yacht, the Nep-
tune. They took with them an abundance
of fishing tackle, but no other equipment, as
they expected to take lunch at Peters beach.
The sea being rather rough, and the tender
years of the young people being considered,
it was determined not to gooutside. but to try
the more peaceful waters of the thorough
fares. After varying success with
weakfish and sea bass, it became
evident that the Secretary was a bet
ter fisher Of men than of fish; his children,
DIR. Muhlenberg and Mr.. Cochran prov
ing both more lucky than he. His sole cap
greatly enjoying the sail, he was evidently
suddenly his daughter Jessie, a bright ten
year-old, gave a little shrek, half of delight
and half OF terror, as her line was dragged
from her fingers.
In a moment DR.. Muhlenberg grasped the
line, and at once became aware that Miss Jes-
sic had hooked a heavier prey than she could
manage The Secretary, as we'll as all on board,
became eagerly interested in the struggles OF
what was evidently a very large fish. After the
drowning-out process had been pretty thor
oughly carried out, a shark about Jour feet
long was brought up to the side of the boat
and dispatched. 1t proved to weigh some
thirty-odd pounds. Soon afterward the party
stopped at Smiths Peterss Beach House and
partook of refreshments, after which they re.
turned to the Brighton.
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How to Detect Classical Music.

-1NAE 1aNAoAAs
l can give a simple rule by which the most
ignorant may know whether any given piece
of music should or should not be admired.
If you know at once what it is all about; if
it seems to be saving l, 2, 3, hop, hop, hop,
or l, 2, 8, bang, bang, bang, you may con
clude at once that you are listening to some-
thing OF a very low order, which it is your
duty to despise. But when you hear some
thing that sounds as if an assorted lot of
notes had been put into a barrel and were
being persistently stirred up, like a KIND OF
harmonious cruel, you may know it's a
fugue, and assume IN expression of pro-
found interest. If the notes appear to have
been dropped by accident, and are being
fished up at irregular intervals in a sort Of
placid or drowned condition, it is likely to
be a nocturne; and noeturnes, you know, are
quite too utterly lovely for anything. If the
notes seem to come in car loads, each load OF
a different kind from the last, and if the
train seems to be an unreasonably long time
in passing a gwen point, it will turn out
most likely to be symphony, and sympho-
mics are just the grandest things that ever
were. If the notes appear to be dumped out
in masses, and shoveled vigorously into
heaps, and then blown wildly into the air
by explosions OF dynamite, that is rhapsody;
and rhapsodies are among the latest things
in music.
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The Sunday Theater.
CLEVELAND Herald.

OleVelanu herald.
Whether it is a fact to be deplored or not,
it is evident that the Sunday theater has
come to stay. The people who attend these
Sunday performances are not, it is proper to
presume, the people who patroni1e the thea
tiers most during the week. While we oc-
the production of comedy is common, and
this would seem to justify the inference that
the people in attendance are for the most
part those who cannot get off very well for a
weekday night, but will patronize the popu-
lar-priced Sunday entertainments. The
week-night audience is not, therefore, edu-
Gated into patronizing this innovation in
the matter of amusements. A non-theater.
going class of people is reached, and man.
ayers are quick to note this fact,
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Joseph Cooke a Failure.

temperance Evangelist.
/. Christ did not say 'Go lecture the Cos
pei" 2. He has contributed somewhat to
an awakening of thought, and he or some
body must have coined money" out of the
published lectures. But, 3. His day of USE
fulness is over. 4. He has sinned as Saul of
old (f our information is incorrect we will
correct it, in seeking of familiar spirits that
knowledge thai cemes alone from the Father
OF spirits. 5. This counts for his future
probation - eternal Observation-Disclosures
hell ideas. 6. In leading up to the very
verge of this awful hell-born heresy, he has
done more than all men now living to I'M
settle true faith. 7. He is on the verge of
either plunging into full-ledged infde1ity or
ceasing to lecture and go to preaching. If
he would go to the mourner's bench and get
a good Holy Ghost baptism, he might pos
sibly be elevated to the position of a fair
circuit preacher. s. Fol the present, as a
subscriber, we demand that our papers be
filled with something better than the one,
two, three, four and fiftieth OF his so-called
logic, the result OF which is to destroy that
which is essential to the salvation of souls.
For the present, as he now is, we pronounce
him q failure.
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A Vision of Death.
PHILADELPHIA Record.

Philadelphia Record.
A pathetic sequel is told to the drowning
week. On the night before the accident Mrs.
Patton, the mother of one of the drowned
boys, was awakened from her sleep by cries
OF help from the little one. On going to his
bed she found him throwing his arms about
in his sleep as ii struggling in the water and
calling Tor help. Though the child was
awakened, he soon renewed the imaginary
struggle and calls for help on going to sleep.
This SO impressed the parents that they re-
solved not to let their child play alone on
the beach any more. On the fatal morning
the parents forbade the children to go out
until some one could accompany them. How
ever, they soon, slipped away, and in a few
minutes were drowned.
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with a sigh, "since the little white hearse
drove away from the house the other day.
But -"
The little old man stopped and looked all
around with his little twinkling eyes.
II will show its face to you, sir; it's so
very, very pretty"
And the little old mans chin went twit-a-
twit-a-twee.
They will be angry" he continued; 'but
I'm so proud of its pretty face that 1 must
show it.n
Suddenly the little old man took the lace
that covered the baby's face in his tremulous
fingers and the reporter prepared to burst
into EXPLANATIONS of delight, even if the face
should prove to be the homeliest face in the
world.
Mustn't" a little child said, coming from
behind the bushes and selling the coat-tails
of the little man. "Danpa mustn't"
''rhe flies will annoy Rose" a gentle girl of
twelve said, joining the little group and care
fully replacing the lace.
Close observation showed a tear trembling
in the girls eye as the little old mar wheeled
away the carriage, with the little child dane
ing by his side.
10, it's such a deception" she exclaimed,
burying her face in her hand. Baby Rose
died last week." she continued, and we are
afraid to tell grandpa, as his mind is weak
and she was his idol; so we put a doll in the
carriage, closely velled, SO he cannot see its
face, and-let him wheel it around But its
deceptive"
Just then the little old man paused, left
the little child with the carriage, and came
back to where the girl was seated.
He put his face close to hers and whis-
pered:
What is it," he asked, "that they car
ried away in the little white hearse?"
The poor girl turned away her face.
Flowers" she said, "only flowers, grand
pa"
II wonder" the little old man unused,
why they all turn their faces away when
they tell me what they carried away in the
little white hearse."
Then he went to the carriage again and
chirped like the merry little old man that he
was.
Flowers, only flowers the reporter
heard him murmur as he wheeled the doll
away.
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The Beautiful Day,

awe did not mean to do wrong" she said,
With a mist in her eyes of tears unsAed,
Like the haze Of the midsummer weather.
W thought you would all be as happy as we;
But something most always goes wrong, you
see,
When we have our play-time together.
"Before the dew on the grass was dry.
We were out this morning, Reuben and I,
And truly, / think that never
For all that you and mamma may say
VIII there be again such a happy day
In all the days OF forever!
"The sunshine was yellow as gold, and the skies
Were as sleepy and blue as the baby's eyes,
And a soft little wind was blowing
And rocking the daisy-buds to and fro:
We played that the meadows were white with
Where the crowding blossoms were growing.
''The birds and the bees few about in the sun,
Aud there was not a thing that was sorry-not
That dear morning DOWN in the meadow.
But we could not bear to and L
Ths. our beautiful day would be done, by aid
And our s~unshiny world dark with shadow.
$50 into the hall we quietly stepped
1t was cool and still, and a sunbeam crept
Through the door, and the birds were singing.
We stole as softly as we could go
To the clock at the foot Of the stairs, you know.
Withits big, bright pendulum swinging.
know that the sun dropped down out of
heaven,
And brought the night when the clock struck
seven
For so I had heard Mamma saying;
And we turn back the hands Till they pointed to
ten,
And our beautiful day began over again,
And then ran away to our playing.
'Tm afraid l can't tell you the rest" she said,
With a sorrowful oroop of the fair little head,
And the intsty brown eyes OVERLOOKING.
1--WE had,only been ont such a few minutes more,
When. just as ii always had happened before,
We found that our dear day was going.
"The shadows grew long, and the blue skies
were gray;
And the bees and the butterflies all few away,
And the dew on the grasses was falling.
The sun did Lot shine in the sky any more,
And the birds did not sing, and away by the
door,
We heard Mammals voice to us calling.
"But the night will De done, I suppose, by ard
by,
And we have been thinking-Reubep and l.
That perhaps"-and she smiled through her
sorrow
Perhaps It may be, otter AL, better So,
For II to-day lasted forever, you know,
There would never be any tomorrow"
Margaret johnson, in August st. Nicholas.
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full beauty. He had just put forth His
hand to welcome a young maiden, hardly
older than those with fne, and the smile that
lit up His features was the most glorious
vision | ever beheld. 1t seemed to tighten
everything. 1t was the effulgence of light
ming without its sharpness. 1t passed every
conception of. earth" But the two girls
who accompanied Mr.. Tory were rejected,
because they had in Sunday-school refused
to welcome a ragged child to their class. He
describes these things apparently with the
utmost sincerely. and much impresses his
hearers with them.
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SCENES FROM TIE RESORTS
Sunset on the St. Lawrence.

Sunset on the st. Lawrence.
Here room apd kingly silence keep
~ComPanionship in state austere.
The dignity of seas is here,
The large, lone vastness of the deem.
Here toll has journeyed to the West;
Here time has set him down to rest.
Above yon cleaning clouds of gold
One lone imperial peak is seen;
While gathered at his feet in green
Ten Thousand foresters are told.
And all so still 80 still the air
That duty drops the web of care.
Beneath the sunsets golden sheaves
Ihe awful deep glides to the deep
Where wreck and storm their revels keep
while commerce keeps her loom and weaves'
The red men long have gone to rest;
Their ghosts illume the lurid West.
-Joannin Mil1ar
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Grandpa and Baby Rose.

New York World.
isn't it p~retty?" said IA little old man, as
he wheeled a baby-carriage to the place where
a reporter of the World was sitting in the
park yesterday.
1T must be pretty" said the reporter,
looking into the carriage and seeing a tiny
creature snugly nesting in a downy nest,
with its face covered with a delicate lace
veil.
old chin went twit-a-twit-a-twee, and he
ehirped like a bird.
'They keep its face covered" he said,
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Original Puzzles.

Original RuZZles.
NO. 797.-RHoMBoID.
AcRoss-1. Conducted; 2. Murmured; 8. Loves
in return tObs.l; 4. Returning; 5. To rest; 6. Be.
comes lower in situation; z. A province OF
Netherlands.
DOWN.. A letter; 2. A termination; 8. A pro-
noun. 4. In zoology, the wild boar: 5. More
worthless; 6. Cleared of knots; z. Bequea5hed;
9. More profound; 8. A bird; 10. A fsh-spear;
II. Al abbreviation; IL. Another abbreviation.
Is. A letter. AMOS QUITo.
SILVER LAKE, Ind.
NC. 79S.-ACRosTIcAL BEHEADINGs.
CTo Amos Quito)
1. Behead across and leave to cross. 2. Be-
head a plant from which the cochineal is col
lectea in Mexico, and leave a precious stone. 3.
Behead the deity of Shepherds, and leave an
article. A. Behead a statue, and leave e ma
mas, cad leave a kind OF tree. 6. Behsad TO
impede. and leave TO impede. z. Behead a sar,
e a lsW species speses' Of INV Wit tan and leave ssTes a prefix. 8. Be.
head a peasant, and leave an abbreviatien for
one of the States. 10. Behead q Jet issuing
deposit. II. Behsad learning, and leave metal.
The primals Of the heheaded words spell the
title to one Of Brysht's poems.
ATTIcA, Ind. I Liza.
NC. 799.-cRess.weRD.
In train, but not in wheel;
IL pin, but not in steel;
In dig, but not In rake;
In took, but not In take;
In raise, but not In make;
In cool, bat not in freeze;
Ia cough, but not in sneeZe;
In snuh, also in wheeZe.
My whole means resembling the taste or smell
Of roasted meat. FLYING DUTcHMAN.
MARSHALL, IN.
NO. 900.-NUNERIcAL.
My 81, Z, II, 8 is a vale.
My 8, 81, 10, 4, 16, 10 Is the fashion.
My 2, 90, 1 is a kind Of tree.
My 20. 26, %, 20, IL, %, %, 16 is an island.
My 8, 8, 80 is a girls nickname.
Ny 81, 20. 80. 81 is dear.
My IS, s. "A, 8 is water.
NV IL IL Z ia IN do zranO-
Ny "a, Is is a proposition.
My whole is the name of a poem. Z, Us.
BLooMINGToN, Ind.
NO. S01.-DoUBLE AcRosTIc.
l. Xxx
2. X----X
8. Xxx
4. X----X
5. ------
d. X----
z. -----X
1. Shakespeare's hlaokest villain.
2. Place where Noah landed.
3. One Of Neah's grandsons.
4. Character in Macbeth.
Lost"
6. Surname of a French warrior, born $50.
q. Hero of "As You Like It."
Primals name a character in "Cymbeine."
Finals name one "whO loved not wisely, but
too WE'LL" APOLLO.
New ALBANY, Ind.
ANSWERS In three weeks.1
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Who Pulled the Kitty's Taill

Day after day, Pm sad to say,
Our Hale oIments the kitty.
We strive in vain to make his reign
More kind and full of pity.
"He can be made" said sister SADIE,
T treat the poor thing better.
There, naughty Halel Don't pull her tall
Now let her go! now let her!"
~ don'tl" and higher mounts his ire,
Till sisters pleading eeols 1t.
al just catch hold" land truth he told,
And then the kitty pulls it,"
Good Cheer.
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FOR THE SABBATH
Man Crows in Strife.

A noble man may to q narrow sphere
Not owe his training. In his country he
And In the world must learn to be at home
And bear both praise and blame, and by long
proof
OF contest and collision nicely know
Himself and otherS-noJ in solitude
Grading his soul In dreams of fair conceit.
A foe will not, a true friend dare not, spare
him;
And thus in strife of well.tried powers he grows,
Feels what he is, and feels himself a man.
Goethe,
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The Difference.

Revamped by Rochester Post-Bxpress.
A mother can call Johnnie, it's time to
get up for three hours without making any
impression, but when the old man steps to
the foot of the stairs and shouts "JoHNl"
Johnnie takes his breakfast with the rest of
the family.