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Southern ladies' journal. (Little Rock, Ark.) 1886-18??, 1886-04-17
About Women.

The wife of U. S. Grant has received
a legacy of $4,000 from her fathers
estate.
The bridal dress Of the Princess Eula-
LA of Spain, who was married on March
8 to the Duke of Montpensier's son, cost
$50, 700.
Harriet Stewart Miner drew from life
the tWenty-four colored illustrations in
"Orchids, the Royal Family of Plants, "
published by Lee & Shepard.
Miss Pogson, the meteorological re-
porter of the government of Madras, has
issued her yearly observations in a report
which contains the usual tables. A part
of her work is to train students who are
to take charge of local stations.
Mrs. Imogen Willis Eddy, N. P. Will
lis eldest daughter, "Golden-haired
Imogen," as the poet called her, is
widow and lives in Cambridge, near
Boston, with her daughter, who is just
budding into beautiful womanhood.
A young woman who was earning SOL
month in the Treasury Department at
Washington, resigned in order to study
for the stage. For while she was paid
$40 month, as an "under-stu and
she has just been dropped as wanting in
capacity.
Princess Anna Murat, now Duchess of
Mouchy, granddaughter of stable-boy
who became a soldier, Marshal of
France, and King of Naples, is by birth
an American, born at Bordentown, N.
7 :, in 1871. She still remains one Of the
handsomest women in France.
Sing song o sixpence
A pocket full gold
All the little boys have gone
A-shooting am told;
When the spring is opened
No birds begin to sing,
But every lady hat is trimmed
With many little wing
Prof. Maria Mitchell, of VasSar Col
llege, advocates outdoor employments
for women. She regrets to see women
who are in astronomical observatories
work as recorders and computers rather
than observers. Prof. Mitchell advo-
Gates land surveying for women. Why
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1886-04-09

1t formerly belonged to Persian gen.
eral who used it when accompanying
the king or the army in the field. 1t was
of pattern peculiar to Persia, where it
has been the custom for the court to
spend the summer in tents. Conse-
quentiy, the making of tents has been
carried to great perfection in Persia and
has given good scope to the decorative
talents of the native artists.
My tent was of the sort called kalem-
kar, the designs of the interior being
done by hand, and the colors being also
applied or stamped by hand. Nothing
could exceed the extraordinary beauty
of the intricate designs which completely
covered the interior of this tent.
Each panel had in the center an agree
able representation of the conventional
figure Of a cypress or tree of life, which
we are in the habit of calling the palm
leaf pattern when we see it on Cashmere
shawls. But this is an error it is the
cypress that is intended in this design.
Around this figure We're wreaths of flow
ers. interviewer with birds of paradise,
and at the base of the picture were gro
tcsque elephants pursued by hunters
brandishing cimeters.
Over the junction of the panels was a
pair of exquisitely comical lions of the
most ferociolsS aspect, bearing naked
swords in their right paws This is but
feeble description of the graceful and
fertile fancy displayed in this intricate
and lovely system of decoration. As in
all Oriental decoration, the individuality
Of the artist was apparent in score OF
rcpetitions; for while repeating the same
generalplan in each panel, the artist al.
lowed himself to vary the arrangement
OF the color in several places. Cen.
tllry,
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1886-04-09
GROWTH OF BOYS AND GIRLS.
Startling Facts as to the Development Of
the Rody During Childhood

Fhcte rs 10 inc OF
the Body During Childhood.
During the international medical con-
ference held in Copenhagen in the sum
mer of 1894. a paper read by the Rev Mall
ing Hanson, principal of the Danish in
stitution for the deaf and dumb, was
listened to with marked attention and
interest. 1t gave the results of the daily
weighing and measurements of height
which he had carried on for nearly three
years on the 1870 pupils-seventy-two
boys and fifty-eight girls-of the institu-
ton, and demonstrated facts as TO the de-
velopment of the human body during
the period of childhood that perfectly
startled and astonished the assem-
bled medical authorities. opening an en-
trely new field for investigation and re-
Election.
Since then Mr.. Hanson has continued
his observations. and though he has yet
tremendous amount of work before
him, he believes himself able to state
now the outlines of the results he has OBJ
tanned. The children are weighed four
times daily in patches of twenty-in the
morning. before dinner, after dinner,
and at bedtime-and each child is meas
ured once day. The common i'm
preston is, no doubt, that increase in
bulk and height of the human body dur
ing the years of growth progresses evenly
all through the year. This is not so.
Three distinct periods are marked out,
and within them some thirty lesser
waverings have been observed. AS for
bulk, the maximum period extends from
August until December; the period of
equipoise lasts from December until
about the middle of April, and then fol-
lows the minimum period until August.
The lasting increase of bulk or weight is
all accumulated during the first stage;
the period of equipoise adds to the body
about fourth of that increase, but this
gain is almost entirely spent or lost again
in the last period.
The increase in height of the children
shows the same division into periods,
only in different order. The maximum
period of growth in height corresponds
to the minimum period of increase in
bulk, and vice versa. In September and
October child grows only fifth of
what it did in June and July. In other
words, during "a part Of the year
autumn and beginning of winter-the
child accumulates bulk, but the height is
stationary. In the early summer the
bulk remains nearly unchanged but the
vital force and the nourshment are ex-
pended to the benefit of height. While
the body works for bulk there is rest fol
the growth, and, when the period OF
| growth comes, the working for bulk is
suspended. The human body has. conse.
| quently, the same distinctly marked
| periods of development as plants
| Chambers Journal.
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She merely bowed her head. Then he
rose, and continued in such manly, yet
tender voice:
GLADYS, my dearest, my hope in this
world has been to call you my wife.
You have flattered me with the idea that
you would be mine. But Ihave seen my
error. Perhaps, had rescued you, you
might have loved me-"
"Oh, no, mol cried Miss Anderson.
"Indeed, / always liked you. but when l
consented to try and love you my heart
had already gone. told you that
"Yes, you did; and this man Martyr
Henry is my rival still. Oh, my darling,
must give you up? Give me one word
of hope. What, not word? Not one?
Oh, Gladys, Gladys! | have worshiped
you. My whole heart is yours, and you
deny me even a crumb of comfort. All
is over. Is it really true?-really true?"
The tears were running down her
cheeks. His eyes We're dry, but so mild
and sad, as he turned away.
Goodbye, Gladys. Our first meeting
for three weeks, and our last for ever!
God bless you, and-forgive you!"
He kissed her and went out, leaving
her in torrent of tears. | believe she
cared more for him at that minute than
she ever had done before. ] know she
declined even to see the captain when he
called with her father. Poor Mr.. Hemp
hill"
He went away almost Immediately
Miss Anderson soon got about, and be-
came really engaged to Capt Martyr
Henry again, and will marry him in the
Adapted from Lucy Farmer in Cassel's
Magazine.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1886-04-09
OUR NAVY DURING THE WAR.
One of the Marveis of the Ags-Monsy
Value of Its Captures,

Value of Its Captures.
The growth of our navy was one Of
the marvels of the age. 1t cost the gov
ernment, in round numbers. $4s0. 900. 900,
or Sl2O.OOO, 900 for each year of the war,
$4,000. 600 per month. or nearly third
of million dollars for every day of the
war.
1t employed over 600 vessels of war
and over 10000 men, which force greatly
exceeded that of any other nation in the
world.
1t guarded over 1000 miles of coast.
including bays. rivers, etc, effectually
preventing the importation of arms and
munitions of war, and so compelling the
earlier exhaustion of the Confederate
forces.
1t captured the immense number OF
1,165 blockade-runnerS, many of which
Were fine steamers ratio of nearly 300
captures per anLum. OF almost one each
day during the entire war The money
value of lis captures was at least 800
00O. 600. or 81. 1000. 900 worth for each
year of the war and 81, 250, 900 in value
for each month of the war from first to
last.
1t co-operated with the army wherever
there was water enough TO float a gun
boat, while ON the high seas our navy
covered itself with glory. The river
work of the navy on the Potomac, the
York, the james and the Mississippi,
with its branches, the coast line work
from the Chesapeake 10 the Mississippi,
and its work ON the high seas totally
eclipse in martial valor and brilliant sue
cesses all other naval achievements OF
the world, While history records
the names of Fort Henry, Fort
Donelson, Island No. TO- Vicksburg,
Port Hudson, Fort jackson, Fort st.
Philip, Fort Sumter, Charleston harbor,
Mobile bay, Hatteras inlet, New Orleans,
Port Royal and Fort Fisher, and score
more of such famous names, the Ameri-
can navy will be universally honored;
while such deeds as the sinking of the
Alabama in square naval battle will ever
be NAMED among the most brilliant
victories of the age.
1t opened the harbors by the perilous
work of removing obstructions, torpedoes,
etc, and by utterly destroying the hostile
batteries which commanded them. Ii
| held in check the hostile elements Of
many city and rural section while a
dreaded gunboat quietly lay before it; in
short, it displayed heroism of the noblest
| type and made our reputation ON the
seas equal that of any ation.-Admiral
| POrters Book.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1886-04-09

The famous Pictured Rocks on the
Evansville pike, about four miles from
this place have been a source of wonder
and speculation for more than a century,
and have attracted much attention
among the learned men of this country
and Europe, The cliff upon which these
drawings exist is of considerable size and
within short distance of the highway
above mentioned.
The rock is white sandstone which
wears little from exposure to the weather,
and upon its smooth surface are define
ated the outlines of at least fifty species
Of animals birds, reptiles and fish, en-
bracing i'll the number panthers, deer,
buffalo, otters, beavers, wildcats, foxes,
wolves, raccoons, opossums, bears, elk,
crows, eagles, turkeys, eels, various sorts
of fish large and small, snakes, etc. In
the midst of this silent menagerie of
specimens of the animal kingdom is the
full-length outline of a female form,
beautiful and perfect in every respect.
Interspersed among the drawings of ami
mails, etc, are limitations of the foot
prints of each sort, the whole space oc-
supied being $50 feet long by 30 wide.
To what race the artist belonged, or
what his purpose was in making these
rude portraits, must ever remain a
mystery, but the work was evidently
done ages ago,-Morgantown CIV. Na)
Letter.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1886-04-09

The christening dress of the first born
of the young Princess di Galatro Colonna
formerly Miss Eva Mackay) is perhaps
the most unique specimen extant of the
finest point d Alencon lace of great
beauty and rarity. The dress, made as
a loose slip, is bordered with antique lace
OF a quarter of yard in width, the re-
mainder of the garment being woven to
correspond, and having the arms of the
Colonna family designed in lace upon
the corsage. The Princess Anna Murat
declared that the dress surpassed in
beauty the famous christening robe of
the late prince imperial.
The lace is the most superb that has
been seen in Paris for years. Even the
wedding fiounces of the queen regent of
Spain can not be compared to it. Mrs.
Mackay, the mother of the princess, has
collection of lace that surpasses any OF
the royal houses of Europe-so it is said.
at any rate. She possesses the cele-
brated tunic and fiounces in point
dAlencon manufactured for the Empress
Eugene in 1869. This lace was copied
from piece originally in possession of
Nine. de mpadour.-London Court
,IOurnal
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1886-04-09

The turbot lays l4.000,000 eggs, well
knowing that 13,999, 999 will be eaten up
in the state of spawn or devoured by
enemies in helpless infancy, or drifted
out to sea and hopelessly lost, or other
wise somehow unaccounted for. The
fewer the casualties to which a race
is exposed the smaller the number
of eggs or young which it needs to pro-
duce in order to cover the necessary
losses.
In fish generally it takes at least 1OO,-
900 eggs each year to keep up the aver
age of the species. In frogs and other
amphibians, a few hundred are amply
sufficient. Reptiles often lay only a
much smaller number. In birds, which
hatch their own eggs and feed their
young, from ten to two eggs per annum
are quite sufficient to replenish the earth.
Among mammals, three or four at a
birth is rare number, and many of the
larger sorts produce one calf or foal at a
time only.
In the human race at large, total Of
five or six children for each married
couple during whole lifetime makes up
suihCieHliy lor MIAMI iilortdilty anu All
other sources of loss, though among,
utter savages far higher rate is usually
necessary. Even making allowances for
necessary deaths and celibacy, however,
believe that as sanitation improves and
needless infant mortality is done away
with, the human race will finally come
to a state of equilibrium with an average
of three children to each household
Cornhill Magazine
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If reports be true, the princess of Wales
is an eminently clever milliner and gives
finishing touches to all her own bonnets
and hats, and Judging from the individ-
uality of her taste in the direction, it is
quite likely rumor may be safely cred
tied. A very pretty story has long been
current as to the royal lady's gift Of art.
Not a member of the royal family, not a
person intimately attached to the court,
could venture to suggest that after long
years the queens mourning might with
advantage be lessened, whereupon the
princess of Wales gently took the matter
III hand.
Without word to anybody she re-
modelled the queens somber bonnet, re-
moving the weeds" and, with few
artistic touches, relieved her maiesty's
head-covering of its mournful aspect.
Silently the queen submitted to the
change, but all the court knew she did
80 for her daughter-in-laws sweet sake.
The Housewife.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1886-04-09
WHAT is DYSPEPSIA?

Among the many symptoms
of Dyspepsia or indigestion,
the most prominent are; Va
riable appetite; faint, ,gnawing
feeling at pit OF the stomach,
with unsatisfied craving for
food; heartburn, feeling OF
weight and wind in the stom-
ach, bad breath, bad taste in
the mouth, low spirits, general
prostpatior, headache, and
constipation. There is no form
Of fdisease more prevalent than
Dyspepsia, and none so pecul-
lar to the high-living and rap
id-eating American people.
Alcohol and tobacco produce
Dyspepsia; also, bad air, etc.
BURDOCK BLOOD
BITTERS, will cure the worst
case, by regulating the bowels
and toaing up the digestive
organs. Sold everywhere,
aug. 2S-1y-ald.
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saw Him at the Very Moment

Nine. ", who has never been outside
of Montmartre, has the innocent fault of
trying to make her acquaintance be-
leve that she has travelled all over Eu-
rope. when you were at Venice" in
quires visitor one day to whom she
was telling the story of her travels, did
you see the lion of st. Marks" ?" Did |
see him !" replied she. What ques-
ton! Why, saw him at the very mo-
ment when they were giving him his
dinner, and l gave him piece of meat
myself Paris Figaro.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1886-04-09
@. Washington as an Aristocr.t.

Washingtons pompous ways were se-
verely criticised at this time. His gor
geous, cream-colored coach with its six
horses was talked of, and they said that
it was ridiculous for one who posed as
the great champion of American liberty
to keep men in livery and to own 500
slaves. There was probably some truth
in this charge. Washington was great
swell and he liked to strut about and
have his fellow-men toadying him. He
believed in high honors being paid to the
president of the United States. and his
receptions as president were of the stiff
est kind. He dressed in the richest OF
clothes. wore silk. satin and lots of gold
lace, and | doubt not he was little
proud of his figure. which was tall and
well formed, with the exception of the
chest, which was sunken.
Washington had probably as fine an
establishment in America as any man in
the country at the time he lived. He
kept the finest of horses in his stables.
and had an army of liveried servants.
AT Mount Vernon he had 100 cows, and
he entertained like an English lord. He
always had wine on his table, and he
drank several glasses at every dinner.
His wife was addressed as Lady WASH
ington in those days, and his friends gave
him the title in private life of your ex-
cellency." have seen manuscript pri-
vate letters to Mrs. Washington, and I
doubt not that during the first adminis-
tration of our government she was toad
led like queen. She and the president
had their coat-of-arms, and George
Washington had buttons made, at least
there are such buttons in existence, with
his initials on them. The Washington
family had the finest of china. They
liked good furniture and even now at
Mount Vernon one might keep up an es-
tablishment which would not discredit
the times of to-day.-Cor. Cleveland
Leader
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1886-04-09

The carrying or transporting power of
water increases as the sixth power of the
velocity--a prodigious rate of increase,
as may be inferred from the fact that
stream having velocity six times as
great as another will be able to trans
port material weighing 1866 times as
much as that carried by the slower
stream. The data from which engineers
commonly calculate the effect of scour
on q river bottom are about as follows:
A stream flowing with a velocity of three
inches per second barely produces an eff
feet on fine clay; six inches per second
will raise fine sand; eight inches per Sec
ond will raise sand of the coarseness of
inseed; twelve inches per second will
sweep along fine gravel; twenty -four
inches per second Tor one and one-third
miles per hour will carry pebbles of
about one inch diameter; thirty-six
inches per second (Which is about two
miles per hour, or about two-thrds the
rate of speed of a moderate walk will
sweep along fragments the size of an
egg.-Boston Budget.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1886-04-09

Commenting ON Lieut.. Greey's dis
covery of coal within the Arctic Circle
in Greenland, Mr., w. Mattieu Williams
expresses himself as dissatisfied with the
prevailing notion which demands sub
tropical climate for the formation of
carboniferous deposits. He has himself
described the deposition of coal that is in
actual progress at the present time in
Norway, within degrees of the Arctic
Circle, and believes that similar deposits
may he found much farther north. No
very violent alteration of climate, there
fore, need be assumed to explain the
Greenland coal.-Bosttn Budget.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1886-04-09
singers DO Not Trust To Luck.

Adelina Patti sang a new song, called
Darling Mine" in London recently,
with extraordinary effect, The author
of the song relates that after having
tried 1t over and over again some time
ago, she sang it ON the morning of the
concert four times through and in the
artists room, before going ON the stage,
she studied every note and fioritura, as if
her fame depended ON the performance
She then turned around and asked him:
"Etes-vous content;"-are you satisfied;
Thus it is that great singers do not trust
10 luck.-Chicago Times.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1886-04-09

There is hardly anything about which
families should be more careful than in
scrutinizing the source of their ice sup
ply. | do not mean this in seasons of ex-
pected epidemic, when people are afraid
of cholera or yellow fever. Those plaques
are principally feared so much because
they are uncommon, but where they kill
one in our climate, scarlet fever, diph-
liberia and those classes of disease kill
hundreds. Now, it has been shown re-
peatedly that fatal outbreaks of such dis
eases that have occurred in otherwise
healthy localities, and which AT first
seemed mysterious and unaccountable,
have been due to ice taken from stag
nant or polluted waters. Ice that seemed
as clear as crystal has been found to con-
tain disease germs, which only needed
the application of warmth to restore to
fatal activity. Such things have been
demonstrated time and time again, and |
repeat that too much precaution can not
be taken in ascertaining the sources of
family ice supply.-Cor. GlobeDemo-
crat.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1886-04-09

French experiments on the transmits
sion of power by electricity have resulted
less successfully than was hoped, Theo-
retically the plan is feasible, but it is
found to be more economical and practi-
cable for manufacturing purposes 10 use
the power directly at the source of sup
ply. Modern railway facilities make it
cheaper to transport goods than power,
with its attendant loss of 80 per cent,
not TO mention its uncertainties. .-Scisn.
tific Journal
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1886-04-09
The Ghosts of Former Daxs

In olden times ghosts were supposed to
maintain AN obdurate silence till inter-
rogated by the person to whom they
made their special appearance.-Boston
Budget.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1886-04-09
THE SILVER CLOUD.
W a silver cloud at eYentide.

saw q silver cloud at eventide,
At eventide a little silver cloud;
With outstretched, moveess wings, . paly
dove
She sailed toward the west, and thus she said:
"Ah, joy was minel He bathed me in his
beams,
He bathed me in his beams, and all day long
Over a thousand fields, u thousand groves,
MY happy shadow fIoated like dream.
"Kiss, kiss once more my lips, my pallid lips;
Bring me once more the blush l knew al
morn;
Cast thou thine arms about me, ere die,
Ere in mist OF tears / melt awayW
While yet she spake her cloudy pallor changed,
And she became a wreath Of flaming fire
That did to scorn the sober evening star
But ah she dai11ened visibly as she went.
Slowly she darkened, slowly, till she was
Whittier than ashes or the face OF death.
Then came a cold, low wind, and breathed on
her;
She in mist OF tears did melt away.
John Philip Narley in The Atlantic.
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The city OF PnlatiaI Residences,

Washington is becoming pre-eminently
the city of palatial residences. Fifteen
senators have erected magnificent domi-
Giles within the past twelve moaths. A
structure that costs less than 90, 600 is
now considered scarcely worth remark
ing in the abundance OF architectural
beauty seen everywhere at the capital
New York Star.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1886-04-09

Dechinite, on vandate Of lead and zinc,
has been discovered in Montana. Ore OF
this nature is worth $4,000 pound.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1886-04-09

The Hotel Mail says that frozen fish or
game is about as fit 70 eat as stewsd
shingles with shaving sauoe.
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