The evening light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1881-1883, 1883-01-19
FASHION NOTES.

Black velveteen is the favorite walking suit.
Byron collars of fur have take n the place o
boaS.
Birds of various kinds are used to ornament
muffs.
Bonnets with cloth crowns and felt brims are
much worn.
A Jersey waist is valuable item in lady's
wardrobe effects.
Camels' hair bonnets in braided bands are
late Partisan novelties.
Small heads of gray foxes trim bonnets or
turbanS of seal effectively.
Walking suits OF velveteen are rivalng plush
costumes in popular favor.
Jet goes very we'll with black Chantilly lace
and makes very beautiful garnitures.
1t takes an artist to place bird or birds
crest effectively on lady's hat or bonnet.
The newest linen collars are standing cleri-
cal bands with finely embroidered edge.
Skirts, when made of velvet, or cloth, plush
OF velveteen, need not be trimmed at the bot
tom.
The thick silk Spanish laces with cords
edgng the figures are used for trimming black
silks.
The furs most in use for bonnet brims and
trimmings are Russian sable, seal, sea otter
and Persian lamb.
Only 81, I67 persons in the United King
dom of Great Britain and Ireland speak the
old native Irish language.
No man living walks in a straight line. The
squareSt-footed walker walks to the right or
left distance of 60 feet in mile. In case
there is saloon on the way he may diverge as
much as $50 feet.-Detoit Free Press.
"Well, William, what has become of Rob-
ert? 'What, 'aven't you card, sir ~ mo,
Not defunct, hope?'' 'That's Just exactly
what he as done, sir, and walked off with
heverything he could lay his ands on!'-Lon-
don Punch.
MISS KELLY, the well-known English
actress, is dead. She was "a years old, and
performed with Kean, Kemble, Banlster,
Dowton and others of the old school Her
declining years have been provided for by old
friends.
THE notorious Spanish brigand, Juan Pei
gal.y-FOntanet, known as Pancha Ampla, has
been captured at CarcaSSone. He has been
hunted since March, 1880, and hitherto con-
trived to evade the numerous military forces
which sought to arrest him.
''Do you believe that woman nowadays
would die for the object of lover" asked a
bachelor friend. 81 don't know whether she
would die or not" answered the Benedict
"but I've known her to go wild when the
trimming didn't suit her. brooklyn Eagle.
''We shall suffocate if we don't get some
ventilation here!" exclaimed the corpulent
passenger, throwing up the car window and
letting in draft that registered about ten de-
grees below zero. "Do you call that VEN
tiation?' excitedly asked the thin man in
the next seat, shivering in the keen blast:
IL call it hilation!"-Brooklyn Eagle.
AS MOTHER SHIProN's prediction of the
end of the world for 1881 has not come true,
another old prophecy has been unearthed in
Paris. THIS declares that when Good Friday
falls on St. Georges day, Easter on ST.
Marks day, and Corpus Christi on St. John
the Baptist's day, the end of the world has
come. This peculiar combination occurs in
1856.
Bishop Duggan, of Clonfert, Ireland,
writes to James Redpath, giving some ac-
count Of the condition Of affairs in the famine
districts of Ireland. The documents accom-
panying the letter show that already one-third
of the population Of the parish where he re-
sides, numbering about 5000, including arti-
sans, mechanics and laborers, are, for want of
employment, in state of Semi-starvaton, and
that in consequence Of the artificial scarcity of
suel the poor suffer nearly as intensely from
cold as from want Of food.