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AMATEUR CHEMISTS.
Youthful Photographers and Dynamite
Fiends-A Passion for Explosives.

Youthful Photographers and Dynamite
Fiends-A Passion for Explosives.
Boston Globe.
''Give me quarters worth of bichromate
of potassium" said twelve-year-old boy
walking into large chemical establishment
And what are you going to do with BIZ
chromate of potassium" asked reporter
after the purchase had been effected.
81 am going to make a solution and take
photographs"
Make photographs
eyes. You Just wash piece of white pa
per with the solution replied the young
ster, delighted to have listener, and lay
on a fern leaf, or anything of that kind, and
put it under the glass in the sun and where
the light reaches it. it will turn dark, and he
disappeared with paper OF potash in his
hand.
you have no idea how may youngsters
experiment on their own account" remarked
the clerk as he watched the young chemist
disappear through the door. and some of
them are very ingenious; they read a great
deal and hear lectures at school. Electric
batteries are their especial delight. One of
our most constant customers youth of
eleven, caused great CONSERVATION in his
neighborhood by exploding pickle-jar with
hydrogen gas. which he had generated with
sulphuric acid and zinc filings. | understand
his chemical experiments have been lndef-
nitely suspended by his stern parent.
You would be surprised to see the amount
of explosives we sell just before the Fourth
of July to boys. They are mostly used to
make caps for toy pistols or to sprinkle on
door-steps, They are not powerful or dan
gerous but give a good report, which
is the main thing. One enterprising
young chemist succeeded in manufacturing
about pint OF nitro-glycerine, which is very
inexpensive and easy to make. But what to
do with it after it was made was a question
that apitated that household for some time
The youngster had made it for the purpose
OF verifying statement he had read in q
chemistry book that a lighted match could
be dropped into it with impunity. Fortu-
nately he was prevented from carrying out
his experiment
lectures are very good thing, but the sub
iect of explosives should be treated very care
fully. The youthful mind is too fond OF
verifying for itself"
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FRESH FASHIONS.

Gold gravy" is among the latest tints fash
ionably recognized.
An inside waist of the same shade should
always be worn under every jersey.
Black velvet collars, with very deep white
lace around the edges and jabots down the
front, make stylish finish for light-colored
dresses.
The favorita style of making home dresses
for early fall is to be yoke and fuli-gathered
waist, with plain round skirt not gored, but
gathered to the heit and trimmed at the loot
either with a cluster Of tucks or with
hounces.
A charming evening dress is of black lace,
made with gathered bodice and elbow
sleeves, pale pink ribbon round the throat
holding ruby locket, and similar ribbon
on the hair. Black satin shoes and pink silk
stockings are worn with this toilet. and the
corsage bouquet is of pink roses.
Velvet skirts will be more than ever worn
under the overdresses of cashmere trimmed
with velvet and silk. Blouse cashmere
waists, with either velvet or alligator belt
and plain round overskirt, draped high on
the sides, and bordered by several rows of
velvet ribbon, will be very much worn.
Wraps to match dresses are to be all the
rage, capes short and half long, fichu man
ties. jackets and visites alike being In
vogue. The great novelty in walking coats
is sort of redingote, something like a very
tight ulster, and decidedly English in cut. its
effect being to make the wearer look uncom-
monty like churn.
The Moliere coat is one of the new wraps
introduced by Sara Bernhardt and which, as
matter of course, is becoming to slender
figures 1t is made of the new rough wool
stuffs in stripes or checks, or in Venetian
cloths that show several colors. 1t is large
enough to almost conceal the dress beneath
it, and its special feature a shirred vest set
on from the throat down to point below
the waist, where it is strapped with a velvet
ribbon bow with hanging ends.
Jackets for early autumn will be made of
the stockinet or Jersey cloths used last year,
and will be of simple English shapes, or else
in the French Directoire styles with a vest
and notched collar. For separate cloaks vel
vet with Astrakhan trimming will be made
in long shapes slightly different from those
of last winter, and with square Russian
sleeves, or else those that widen below the
elbows. Visites will be very short, and may
be of velvet, or else of the wool or silk fabric
of the dress.
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ing the condition of the nyer at one or two
points, when my attention was attracted by
a call from an office which was usually closed
earlier in the evening. To my surprise the
call was answered, and a message was an
nounced for little town some distance from
the telegraph Office, with instructions to de-
liver at once, regardless of cost. The message
was brief Mamie is dying; come at once
Who Mamie was, had no idea, but / pic
tured her in my mind as golden-haired,
beautiful young girl
Fair as the first beam glittering on a sail.
That brings friends up from the under
world
And fancied that the message was from her
mother TO her father. / found myself watch
ing for return dispatch, and as the night
which the father could reach his dying child
would soon pass that station. Would the
operator remain in the office to receive the
answer which l knew would be expected?
AT about in the morning | called up bis
office, and received no response. l knew
then that the operator had gone home. Be-
coming more intense in my anxiety l asked
the day operator to watch for that return
dispatch. Earlier than usual / hurried to
the office that evening, and was given the
dispatch for which l had been so anyiously
watching. 1t announced the inability of the
father to start before that night, and asked
for news, / knew them instinctively, that
he would be too late, and would never again
see his child alive. / was right Early in
the evening came the word Mamie is dead"
| am no sentimen talist, but that incident
made lasting impression. That Mamie was
dead doubtless meant volumes to Others
where it meant these few words to me. Yes,
the wires are full of history"
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Early Autumn Styles.


Cashmeres OF a single grave color-grey,
sage green, brown, or pilot blue-are being
made up for the earliest autumn weather
with trimmings of velvet ribbon and OF vel
vet cut from the piece. The round lower
skirt may be tucked 1engthwise in half-inch
tucks to within fourth of a yard of the
foot, then left flowing, and the lower half
of the flowing part is bordered with velvet
an eighth deep. The drapery
is pleated to the belt in fourteen
large pleats on the front and
sides, and drawn away in curves to the side,
where it meets short fuli-back drapery;
large knot of velvet and cashmere is placed
in front at the curve. The pointed basque
has an officers standing collar of velvet, and
below this a square Marie Antoinette collar
which extends to the tops of the darts, and
inside this square collar is shirred and
pleated cashmere vest which extends to the
waist line, and is strapped across there with
velvet ribbon that is afterwards tied in a
bow with ends. To vary such a suit the
skirt may be in large kilt pleats with five or
six rows of half-inch velvet ribbon near the
foot and the basque may have a pleated
vest with revers beside it extending around
the neck and covered with rows of velvet
ribbon. The sleeves are all high on che
shoulders bouffantly set in, yet without
gathers, and finished with very simple cuffs
of velvet Small bullet-shaped buttons of
dark metal, or velvet, or crocheted silk, are
used. Velvet ribbon is also set on in fig
ures, with squarely turned corners, and
Greek keys, or in many rows around plain
skirts, with only narrow pleat-
ing at the foot. Sometimes only
the back of the skirt is pleated, while the
front and sides are plain, and trimmed across
the foot and up each side with folds OF vel
vet. or else rows of velvet ribbon. or of
braid. Vests and plastrons will be used
ngain; the newest vests are pointed and are
very broad at the waist and below it, but are
nearly concealed at the top where the basque
meets at the throat, a nd is fastened by two
or three buttons below the collar and over
the vest Very large tournures formed by
ample and intricate drapery are on all the
new costumes. There are also many con-
trasts of color seen, even new velvet dresses
having marion (chestnut) skirt with blue
overdress. The Astrakhan trimmings are
seen on costumes as well as on jackets. Very
simple polonaises for wool dresses have the
front like basque. and the back drapery of
the skirt hooked upon the basque Just below
the waist line, giving the effect of princess
polonaise. Irregular punches of lengthwise
pleats are placed in lower skirts SO that they
will be displayed in the opening of the
drapery
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ReeolleetiOns of Veteran Teiegraphsr-A
Pathetic Message.

Gatneuc message.
Interview with Old Operator.
Would you like to hear as much as l am
able to recollect of what believe to be the
most pathetic dispatch ever received? Well
a few days ago ! was stationed at Philadel-
pha A little BOYS mother died at Cam
bridge, o., and to notify their relatives in
the former place of the bereavement they
wrote down the bewildered talk of the little
boy, who could not understand death, and
sent it. 1t made such an impression On me
at the time that think | can repeat it to
you almost verbatim:
''I've just been down in the parlor to see
mamma. She's in a long box with flowers
on her / wish she'd come and battle nv
head-it aches so. Nobody ever makes it
feel good but mamma. She knew how it
hurt me, and she used to read TO me out of a
little book how my head would get well and
not ache any more some day. wish 1t was
some day now. Nobody likes me but
mamma That's cause I've got sick
head. Mamma used to take me
in her ans and cry. When | asked her
what's the matter, she would only say: I'm
only tired, darling j guess aunt Agnes
made her tired for when she came and stayed
all day mamma would take me up on her
lap in the evening and cry awful hard.
amt had any dinner to-day. Mamma always
gave me my dinner. and little teenty pud-
ding, with D. for Danny on the top. / like
little puddings with ID. s. on the top. / like
TO sit in my little chair by the fire and eat
EN- | wish mamma wouldn't stay in the
long box. ! guess Aunt Agnes put her
there, cause she put all the flowers on and
shows her to everybody There amt any
fire in the CRATE, but guess L II sit by it, and
make believe there is. I'll get my little dish
and spoon and play I've got pudding with
ID for Danny on it. But anyhow / want
mamma so bad
Can you give any other incident that you
happen to remember
lit is difficult TO recall them at will but !
think of one other that have never forgot
: ~, and never shall while memory serves
ane. | was the night operator at little sta
sion on one OF the roads leading into Cincin-
sIati. There was little business to be done
except reporting trains, and on the night in
question there was nothing to break the
znonoteny. The Cincinnati operator had
s,nnounced the departure of No. g. and for
hhree hours all had heard was the regular
report as the train ratified past reporting sta
sions, Then there was press dispatch, Civ
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you kindly hand these brawses faw me boxes
to the luggage mastah? Avis this-this
the vehicle?' And all the way home the old
man didn't say a word, but he just drove
and thought, and thought and drove, and
nearly all that night he sat up twisting hicK-
cries and laying them to soak in the water
ing-trough down by the cow-barn. And he
told neighbor next morning that Charles
Francis Adams was right, and that The had
about four years OF college larnin' to unlarn
fer Bode afore the boy could boiler at yoke
of steers like he used to, but the boy seemed
TO be comm round all right, and he reckoned
he'd do, by an by"
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One Thing Women Don't Know.

Springfield Republican.
THE women all think they know good
piece of meat" remarked a butcher, yester-
day, land think they know just what part
of critter lit comes from. Rut none of
them know anything about it. A butcher
can give them piece from the neck and call
it lon. and they wouldn't know the differ
ence. The men aren't any wiser, either |
tell you, people have got to know their
butcher, and trust to him. or they won't get
good meat very often. People think it's
easy to learn all about meat, and that butch
ering is a fit BUSINESS for anyhody with lit
tie money. That's why all sorts Of men are
continually taking a turn at the meat-busi-
ness Bur they nearly always fail up.
There are more failures or unsuccessful ven
lures in this business than in any other.
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ROME, Ga. May 23, 1888.
Editors Constitutiol


With tile hope that it will reach the eye of
other sufferers, desire to write you statement
of my case and my wonderful rescue from death
from malarial blood poison by the use OF the
great s. 8. 9. (Swft's Specihe).
In 1880 came from the North TO take charge
OF the gas-works in Rome, superintendent,
ana after the overflow which occurred i'll the
snring following, was very much exposed to
malarial poison, and in 1882 found my blood
contaminated with the poison that forced
to give up business. was treated by the Rome
ply sicians without relief, they advising me go
North which did. The doctors North told me
that my only hope was to return to the milder
climate and accordingly I came back To Rome,
completely broken down and DearIy skeleton.
My trouble finally determined in an abscess OF
the liver, ana nearly every one myself Includ-
ed) thought was doomed to die within Il few
days. In this condition was advised by friend
to take Swift's Specific, and took it just as a
drowning man would catch at a straw, but as
soon 1t my system got under the influence of the
remedy the abscess came TO point and burst,
passing off without pain. In fifteen days after
this up at my work, and have since enjoyed
excellent health.
Every sufferer from maiariai poison should
take SwfJs Specific. Yours truly,
G. G. SPENCER,
Superintendent Rome Gas-lignt Company.
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Was Charles Francis Adams Richtq

Burlington Hawkeye-
1t was September, 1879. The train that
bore Bode Hawkins to college caught him
away from the arms of his mother and the
kisses of his sisters Very glum was Bode
Hawkins, and very reluctant he to go to
school, Jaw, shawl" be growled; Il don
kare to go, nuther, so what's the use? Dog
gone the coolidge. it don't do no good, and l
won't know no more wen come back than
| do wen go away. I'd ruther drive team
n learn trade r somethin. bod fetch the
thing, anyhow" June, 1888. Ambrose Haw-
kins returns 10 his ancestral halls on the
farm. His family weep for joy. All rush
to embrace him as he steps from the train,
Ambrose Hawkins gazes fixedly at them
through the oriel window that includes one
eve and delicately extending two
fingers for them to grasp, he murmurs:
"Aw, fathawl gently, my deah fellah, gently;
easy on the rings, We knaw. Bless you. me
nothaw-how no, thanks; kiss you when
we get home We knaw. How do brothaw-
brothaw-well. bless me soul, but aw, I've
forgotten the boys name. Sistah deah, win
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New York Letter in Philadelphia Record
Mr.. +. C. Stedman is one Of the most
nervous men | ever met. He is a small man,
and, like most small men, possessed of
mercurial temperament When he talks his
whole body takes a part in the conversation,
and his eyebrows flash even when he is not
talking He is a man who should not be put
TO too great excitement. / am afraid this
blow will set him back so that it will be
long time before he will go at any literary
work again. 1t is too bad Il am tired of
living about in boarding-houses and hotels
and writing on drum-heads," said Mr.. Sted-
man to ME some four years ago. Il am not
as young as / was, and | want home
and place to write in, where l can have my
books and papers at my hand" He bought
a cozv house uptown, and fitted it up to his
complete satisfaction, and has been living
there in solid comfort, thanks TO Wall street
rather than to literature. In the third story
of this house he has his study, and jolly
place it is. too Every night, when he was in
town, he would go up there at O'Clock
drink bottle of ale, and go at his writing
bottle of ale would make the most of us
sleepy. particularly after big dinner, but it
seemed to freshen up Mr.. Stedman. ! sup
pose it quieted his excited nerves after hard
day on the street. Though he has made an
assignment in behalf of his creditors, don't
believe his friends will let him give up his
home particularly as they have already Of
fered him $500, 900 to continue his business.
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though perhaps it merely seems so to me be-
cause always notice them. Its not an easy
business to learn, that's sure. Why, 1 once
had a man working for me who had been
around meat for ten years, but he didn't
know much about it. I've been at it TWEEN
ty-eight years, myself, and find that am
learning points all the while"
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Whenever you read of very old person.
you invariably find that be always gets up at
O'clock works at all sorts of drudgery all
day. eats only of the simplest food, and never
goes anywhere sees anything. This is
probably the reason why 50 few people are
willing to stay above ground long enough TO
be counted in the ranks of the hale and
hearty old men and women.-Boston Trans
crint
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The Female Bather and How She Improves
Each Shining Hour.

Long Branch Letter.
Perhaps the most astonishing bathing at
tire-it cannot be called dress-ever dis
played on this beach was exhibited near Sea-
bright short time ago. The person .sho
wore it was an actress, but not an American
actress. She was foreigner, and had proba-
bly, obtained her ideas of American customs
from the Saturday Review. She thought that
she was doing as the Romans did when she
put on that bathing dress. 1t consisted, as
nearly as it can be described in permissible
language, of mans rowing suit made of
fine blue silk. The lady rejoices in a figure
that closely resembles that of the Venus of
the lamented Mr.. Milo only there is little
more of it. Consider the effect of that
in blue silk jersey and tights reaching to
the knee-wet 1t is not necessary to
give the name of this person. She
played one brief and sorrowful engagement,
after which she sank into oblivion and her
statuesque bathing-dress. 1t ought to be
stated right here, in order to prevent a stam-
pede of dudes to the seaside, that young
ladies who rejoice in positions of any alti-
tude in the social life of this country do not
wear this kind of bathing suit. They draw
the line somewhere. But they manage to
display great deal of taste and ingenuity in
their costumes likewise great deal of girl.
The general tendency of the times in regard
to bathing-dresses may be perceived from the
fact that corsets and jerseys are almost uni
versally worn. Frequently the jerseys are
worn under blouse of a different color,
which has the neck cut low and no sleeves,
in order to show the jersey. Sleeveless dresses
are the rule. The majority of the young
ladies are endeavoring to lean to swim, or are
making believe that they endeavor. In
order to do this they have discarded sleeves,
which impede the motion of the arms.
Moreover, they are beginning TO discover
that the average man has no inconsiderable
admiration for the CLEAN of white arms
through the ripple of green waters. 1t gets
the aforesaid white arm into a combination
that cannot be worked up during the winter
season and adds novelty to the summer at
fractions of the seaside Then another uni
versal fashion, as your correspondent is told
by an expert is to have all bathing costumes
made with yokes and gathered waists.
This is very technical but it is also very sug-
gestive. The yoke is suggestive of that matri-
monial bond which is SO earnestly sought by
the fair creatures and the gathered waist
well. where is the girl who does not like to
have her waist gathered, providing it is prop
erly done?
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L. TANNER. druggtst. Tanner, Marshall county
Says: Browns Iron Bitters sells well and gives
good satisfaction"
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wATERING-PLACE ECHOES.

New York Mail and Express.
A ''pineushion fair was held at Narragan-
sett the other day. and $50 was realized.
Nothing but pincushions were sold, pincuSh-
ions of every sort, kind and shape, none
being sold for less than twenty-five cents.
Bostonians and New Workers at Mount
Desert are very much at swords points, aud
1t is Stumbling and giving in snubbing" con-
tinnally. At last accounts our fellow-citi-
zens were ahead, and pools were being sold
that they would keep ahead, 100.
Among other things, the present season at
number of runaways, some of which have
been followed by very serious consequences.
Give fool horse and cart and he is bound
to hurt himself or somebody else.
The real elegance and magnificence OF the
Grand Union Saratoga, is a subject of fire.
quent remark among foreigners, who have
not imagined anything half so fine in con-
nection with American watering place hotels.
The hotel may well be included among the
wonders of Saratoga
No less than half dozen families have
been refused accommodations at the Equi-
nox House, Manchester, VT, because they
would not conform to the rule against the
admission of dogs. The proprietor of the
hotel is a consistent man, and when he puts
his foot down it stays down.
They are talking at Newport about a fash
ionable woman who went to a dinner party
in low, very low, neck dress without
sleeves. The hostess demonstrated with her,
and then she cried and went home in rage,
What perfectly glorious season they are
having OF it at Newport this year to be sure!
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RAILWAY TIME TABLE

Trains marked thus, r. c.. reclining chair car: thus
g., sleeper; thus D.. paror car; thus, h., hotel car