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The Penn's Grove record., 1886-08-21
PREPARING FOR CHRISTMAS.
Designers for Holiday Novelties Al
ready Hard at Work.

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ready Hard at Work.
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''Few people sweltering in thistAugust
heat have an idea that we have women
hard at work at the present time rack
ing their brains over what shall be the
new designs for Christmas cards next
winter, " remarked a deales to a reporter.
Not only that, but it would surprise
YOU. perhaps, to see some of the entirely
new and elegant models for next Christ
mas already made. Just wait a moment
and | will give You a surprise. y
The dealer brought out from a small
back room a pile of large fiat pasteboard
boxes. They contained the cards re-
ferred to. Most of them were i'll white
satin and plush. There were fifty diff
ferent designs. One was a banner s by
II inches in size, with white satin folded
down each side and tied back with gold
cord to represent curtains. The picture
represented an angel, the face being re-
markably pretty. Another was a stan
dard banner, leaf. shaped, covered with
white plush and having a border of gold
cord. On the centre was the represen-
tation of an artists palette containing
a hand-painted picture. Through the
palette was put a bunch of dried grass.
Another handsome design was a PIN
cushion of white satin, with white-plush
border and containing embossed flowers
in colored plush. A very beautiful de-
sign was a iewel-box Is inches long by
6 inches wide covered with pink plush
and bordered with gold cord. On the
top there were embossed flowers in plush,
and the whole was lined-with light-green
satin. A number OF the models were
made in Japanese silk, which is to be a
prevailing novelty for the coming holl-
day trade. One of these was a wall
pocket in white, with a corner turned
back. On the front there were embossed
flowers in plush. Another odd design
resembles a poc%ket-book. 1t is covered
with pink plush, and the corner is turn
ed over, showing a lining of green silk.
The point where the part turned "
meets the plush is marked by a bug Of
white plush and gold wire. A very
pretty design is a white satin satchet
bag on which is embossed in white plush
a half moon and an open lily with natur-
al colored leaves, all in plush. Designs
of autumn leaves, in white plush and
gold, with hand-painted winter scenes
and gold-wire bugs at the stem, were
also shown
The Penn's Grove record., 1886-08-21
The Folly of Hair Dye.

| regret very much to notice the grow
ing popularity of the custom of dyeng
dark hair locks light among my fair
country-women. l was present at an
afternoon reception at the house of an
American lady the other day, and in my
immediate vicinity sat four ladies, all
Americans, each II of which had her
hair dyed of a different hue. One head
boosted of reddish chestnut locks, an
other was of a red-gold color, Il third
was canary yellow, and a fourth was OF
the palest gold. Now, there is nothing
positively immoral about the practice of
dyeing ones hair any more than there
is in painting ones face or of blacken-
ing ones eyes. But all these perform
ances tend to give the person that In
dulges inthem a highly improper aspect.
Moreover. to certain constitutions some
forms of this h~air-colOring process are
highly injurious. A most lamentable
case of this nature has just come under
nv own observation. 1t is that OF a
Young French married lady, who, not
being content with her own hair, which
was of apretty light browntint, went toa
fashionable hair dresser and went
through a tiresome and ott-repeated
process to change the color of her tresses
into a golden hue. She was forced TO
remain some hours every morning for
several days with her head coated with
a sort of paste, and this process had to
be repeated every month, as the blonde
color wears off as the hair grows out.
1t results in agonizing headaches. l
have seen her ut a soiree with the large
tears running down her cheeks IRON
sheer excess of pain. The other day
her sufferings eliminated in an attack
of insanity. She was removed to an
! ASYLUM, and the physicians in attend
ance give very little hope of her recov-
cry. If there exists such a malady as a
braln-poisoning she is undoubtedly its
victim.
The hair-dyeing business is by no
means a cheap amusement. For the
purposes to which the unfortunate lady
aforesaid submitted herself, and which
must be repeated every month, $40 for
each application is demanded by a fash
ionable hair-dresser. A bottle OF the
most potent and popular of the blonde
narratives costs S.. Each bottle sutices
| to color a good head of hair just once.
| Some Of these dyes destroy the hair,
causing it TO fall out by the handful.
Others produce terrible headaches, that
| result being by no means uncommon.
But the sufferer usually attributes-to
the malady to neuralgia or to dyspepsia
anything in short, rather than It's
real cause.
The Penn's Grove record., 1886-08-21

The scheme of NJ. de Lesseps to unite
the Mediterranean Sea with the Bay of
Biscay by means of a canal from Mar
bonnie to Bordeaux. is being revived in
France. The distance between the two
cities, as the crow flies, is at least two
hundred miles. The expense of con-
structing such a canal, Of dimensions
requisite to admit the passage of large
men-of-war, even though the Gironde
river could be partially utilized, would
be enormous.
The Penn's Grove record., 1886-08-21

81 LEFT a little check for $4,000
among the wedding gifts" said the
girls father to his prospective son-in-
law, 'and after the ceremony is over
we will quietly tear it up. Seep That's
the style nowadays, George" "Ye es,"
hesitated George, ''that's the style,
but I'm afraid it's too late to
tear it up now." ''Why?" because
1 went down to the bank and got it
cashed.n
There are many things that are
thorns to our hopes until we have at
tanned them and envenomed arrows to
our hearts when we have.
The Penn's Grove record., 1886-08-21
Punish your passions. lest they punish

Punish your passions. lest they punish
you.
Electricity is now applied to the
bleaching of cotton and linen fabrics.
Moderation Is the silhen string run
ming through the pearl chain Of vir-
tues,
Judge O'Gormon, at New York,
recently refused naturalization papers
to an Englishman who admitted that
he had not read the Constitution Of the
United States.
The Penn's Grove record., 1886-08-21

when Baby was sick, We gave her castciA,
When she WAS . Child, she cried for CastorA,
When she became Miss, she chung to CastOria,
When she had Children, she gave them Castori~
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1886-05-20

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 a 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 in the number panthers, deer,
buffalo, offers, beavers, wildcats, foxes,
wolves, raccoons, opossums, bears, elk,
crows, eagles, turkeys, cells, 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 &C.
cupied being $50 feet long by so wide
To what race the artist belonged, OF
what his purpose was in making these
rude portraits, must ever remain
mystery, but the work was evidently
done ages ago.-Morgantown CIV. Va
latter
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1886-05-20

The west, ike the south, Is more free
from insanity than the northern sea-
board states, the average being one to
every 6l0 in the interior states, and one
to $40 for the. northwestern states. In
the far western states and territories it is
only one out of 1,263, they being settled
by picked population, whose energy
and soundness makes them pioneers. 1t
is noteworthy, however, that insanity is
about rs frequent in the Pacific states as
in New England, the explanation being
that vice and indulgence prevail to an
exceptional extent among the population
drawn to the Pacific by the mania for
gold. The average in Massachusetts,, for
instance, is one to 34S; in California, one
to 3i5. 1t is also remarkable that the
rate of insanity decreases as we go west
and south of New England, as these av-
erages will show; New England, one to
800; middle states, one to 424; interior
states, one to 610; northern states, one to
$50; southern states, one to 629.
The state where the proportion is high,
est is Vermont, to 1877; and New Hamp.
shire comes next, with to 500. We are
at loss to understand why insanity is so
frequent in the District of Columbia, the
average given being to 1S9; but perhaps
the large average in Vermont and New
Hampshire may in part be due to the cir
cumstance that those states receive the
refuse of Canadian poor-houses, they
having much better organized system
of charitable relief than the Dominion
hN1St nf IT lS no
some of the very worst of our immigra-
ton comes from over the Canadian bor-
der.-New York Sun.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1886-05-20
Discoveries in Old Aztec Ruins.

A citizen of Tempe. Arizona territory,
has been excavating in some old Aztec
ruins near that place, and has found
quantities of flint arrow-heads of splen-
did workmanship, superior to those now
found among the Indians, nicely painted
pottery, ornaments made of shell and of
slate representing different birds, num-
Der of toys made of clay, beads made of
shell, a number of what seem to be
precious stones, stone axes and ham,
mers, stone and bone tools, "metates" or
mills for grinding grain, large stone
mortars and pestles, and numerous other
curiosities. He also found during the pro-
cess of excavation anumber of furnaces,
which had evidently been used for smelt-
ing ores, as there was among the debris
Stag and considerable rich copper and
silver ores that had been taken there by
the Aztec miners.-Chicago Times.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1886-05-20
Henry Ward Beecher on Music.

Some men say that they would rather
hear one ballad than the whole of
Beethoven. No doubt persons who have
advanced but single step would say SO.
Melodies are only one step away from
love of single sound, as of the horn or
bugle, or what not; when one has adj
vanced beyond that, the love of melodic
strains is developed, People say they
do not care for what is called harmony.
OF course they don't; they are not high
enough up.
When persons come to harmonies they
have only simple ones. That is natural
But when We come to Handel, to Bach
to Beethoven, we have then the suprem
est developments of music, and the mere
outward form is comparatively lost in
the sweep of the inwardness that it is
carrying along with it. As the vast null
titude of persons are not developed yer!
highly. so the vast multitude of persons
do not like these masters; but, if they
i've long enough. they will; for I th:ns
We shall have something of the music -
earth even in heavep.-E1changs
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1886-05-20

Lieut.. Greely's Tribute to Celia Thaxter.
Concerning Celia Thaxter's poem, "A
Tryst," which Lieut.. Greedy says his men
were SO fond of reading during their
Arctic exile, writer in The Philadelphia
Press relates that, in the summer of 1884,
Greedy, who was seeking rest and health
at Portsmouth, N. H., went over to the
Isles of Shoals one day to visit Mrs.
Thaxter. AS he reached the porch of
her house the poet came forward and ex-
tended her hand. Greedy took it,
dropped on one knee, and kissed it, II
have come" he said in his husky, tremb
ling voice, ION pilgrimage to thank the
poet for the lines that have ightened
many a weary day and night for a hand
full of men who never expected to see
their home and friends again." Here he
had to pause, and, raised by the kind,
motherly woman, sank into an armchair.
Among those who witnessed the scene
there was not dry eye. After he had
rested little, and had told of the many
times he had read aloud the poem sin the
desolation of the north" he asked her
how she could have written it and if she
had ever seen an iceberg. No." she re-
piled, "but have over lived by the sea,
in summer and winter, and suppose
imagination has done the rest" won
derful!" was all that the pilgrim could
reply,-Chicapo Tribune.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1886-05-20
Queen victoria's Daughter-in-Law.

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 member of the royal family, not O
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
in hand.
Without a word to anybody she re-
modelled the queens somber bonnet, re-
moving the weeds" and, with few
artistic touches, relieved her majesty g
head-covering of its mournful aspect.
Silently the queen submitted to the
change, but all the court knew she did
so for her daughter-in-law's sweet sake.
The Housewife,
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1886-05-20
RAPID INCREASE OF INSANITY.
A Prime Cause of the Alarming State o
Things-what the Statistics Show.

A Prime Cause of the Alarming State Of
Things-what the Statistics Show.
The very rapid increase of insanity in
the United States during the last two or
three decades continues to be the subject
of much discussion among alientists and
all those who are concerned in public
charities. That a prime cause of tits
alarming state Of things is the shipment
to our shores of the enfeebled and de-
fective of other countries is now begin
ming to be understood.
The statistics of insanity show that, in
general, the proportion of the insane is
greatest in the older states, where the
foreign population is most numerous,
and it is least where the communities are
new, as, for instance, in the pioneer
counties of Wisconsin. The south, which
has drawn comparatively little from i'm
migration. suffers from insanity to a
much less extent than New England and
New York; and it is an established fact
that the negro race is much less liable to
insanity than the white. The average of
insanity in New England is to every
$50 of the population; in New York, New
Jersey and Pennsylvania, to every 424;
while in the extreme southern states Tic
may \ s.,
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1886-05-20
No Progress I'm Fiadle-Nrakine.

In walking through the exhibition of
musical instruments at South Kensing-
ton 1 was much struck with the contrast
which does not appear to have thus
forced itself upon general attention, if l
may judge by the critical notices that
have been published. I refer to the
great and still continuing progress of
improvement in the construction of the
pianoforte, as compared with the abso-
lutes absence of even the smallest step of
improvement of the violin, violo, violon-
cello, or violone. The clavichords, harp
sichords, clavicymbalums, spinets, gray
icembai col piano forte, were all mere
tom-toms compared with the modern
piano, while the fiddles, big and little, of
the same date are the models which our
manufacturers can only endeavor to ap-
proximately initiate.
Innumerable attempts have been made
to improve upon the model of Stradiva
rius, but all have pitifully failed. Every
curve of his models, their thickness,
their bulge of back and belly, and even
the queer maccountable f-shaped open
ings must be initiated with abject servil-
ity in order to produce fine instrument
Had the Cremona makers any theory, or
did they work by rule Of thumb" or,
more probably, did they, by patient and
persevering study of a number of fail
ures, arrive at practical truth by prac-
teal exhaustion of error SGentleman's
Magazine
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1886-05-20
Scarcity of Wood in Italy.

Wood is so scarce in sunny Italy"
that it is actually sold by the pound; and
yet it is almost the only fuel used by the
common people. In Venice we saw
steaming-hot boiled potatoes and other
cooked food for sale in the groceries.
Every device is resorted to to save fuel.
American tree-murderers ought, by all
means, to see Italy as warning of what
a country stripped of wood may become.
The climate of southern and middle
Italy in summer appears to us tourists
very like that of America. There is the
same brilliant sunlight and fierce heat.
The dust is binding. Mountain and val
ley are as parched and brown as the
Ohio river clay hillside in August. We
have now journeyed over half of Italy in
one direction and another and I have yet
to see the first good-sized tree. They are
scrawny, little, dried-up things such AZ
the American farmer would chop down
and throw away. There are not very
many even of that kind.-Foreign Let
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1886-05-20
Sold for q Hundred Cabbage Plants.

The last sale O. slave in Virginia took
place m the spring of 1865. The facts
were the following: The confederacy
was on its very last legs, and the owner
of negro woman in Augusta, knowing
that alavery would be ended in few
days, sold her for what he could get.
As there was no circulating medium of
any sort then-for nobody would take
Confederate money at any value-the
woman's master bartered her off for 100
cabbage plants.-Chicago Times.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1886-05-20
How the Brides Veil Came To Re

1t was once the custom for the bride at
her wedding to wear her hair unbranded
and hanging over her shoulders. At the
celebration of her marriage with the
Palatine, Elizabeth Stuart wore "her
hair disheveled and hanging down her
shoulders" 1t has been suggested that
the brides veil, which of late years has
become one of the most conspicuous
features of her costume, may be nothing
more than a milliner's substitute, which,
in old times, concealed not few of the
brides personal attractions, and covered
her face when she knelt at the altar
Boston Budget.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1886-05-20
Singers Do Not Trust to Luck.

Adelina Patti sang a new song, called
Darling Nine" in London recently,
with extraordinary effect. The author
Of the song relates that after having
tried it over and over again some time
ago, she sang it on the morning of the
concert fou- times through, and in the
artists room, before going on the stage,
she studied every note and fortuna, 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
to hlck.-Chicapo Times.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1886-05-20
OUR NAVY DURING THE WAR.
One oi the Marvels OF the Age-Mone,
Value OF It's Captures.

One oi the Marvels OF the Age-Money
=. ., Value OF It's Captures.
Tho growth of our navy was one Of
the marvels of the age. 1t cost the gov
eminent, in round numbers, $3.50, 000, 900,
or $3.50, 00a, 900 for each year of the war,
$4,000, oc0 per month, or nearly third
of million dollars for every day of the
war.
1t employed over 600 vessels Of war
md over $1,000 men, which force greatly
exceeded that of any other nation in til,
world.
1t guarded over 1000 miles of coast,
including bays, rivers, etc, effectnaily
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
/, les blockade-runners, many of which
were fine steamers a ratio of nearly 800
captures per annum, or almost one eacl
day during the entire war. The money
value of its captures was at least $780,,
OOO, 1000, or $15,OOO,008 worth for each
year of the war and 81 $780, 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 gum
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 to 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. 10, Vicksburg,
Port Hudson, Fort Jackson, Fort st.
Philip, Fort Sumter, Charleston harbor,
Mobile bay, Hatteras inlet, New Orleans,
Port Royal and Fort Fisher, and a score
more of such famous names, the Ameri.
can navy will be universally honored;
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 distractions, torpedoes,
etc., and by utterly destroying the hostile
.batteries which commanded them. 1t
held, IN check the hostile elements of
many city and rural section while
dreaded glnboat quietly lay before it; in
short, it displayed heroism of the noblest
type, and made our reputation on the
seas equal that of any nation.-Admiral
Porter's Book.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1886-05-20
Statue of the Famous Pharaoh.

A great red granite statue has been
discovered ten miles away in the desert
near Alexandria, in Egypt. It represents
the famous Pharaoh. who was response
BILE for. all the Egyptian plaques, and on
one side of it is a statue of little baby,
said to be that of the next Pharaoh, who
persisted in his rash attempt to drive
through the Red sea. 1t has been lying
there 5000 years.-Chicago Journal.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1886-05-20
The Ridge on the House Roof,

The origin of the ornamental ridge
with which large steep roofs of houses in
England and sometimes in this country
are furnished is curious incident in
architecture, In early times turfs or
clods We're placed on the upper ridges of
the slanting sides of the rough roofs to
keep out the rain. Out of these Jumps
of earth clusters of flowers and weeds
grew freely, which builders afterward
reproduced in the conventional foliage of
the ornamental ridpe.-Chicapo Times
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1886-05-20
To Those Who Seek q Publisher.

"There never was good tongue" says
old Fuller, that lacked ears to hear it. {"
Excel and you will ive," says the prince
of French aphorists, Joseph Joubert.
There are grades in merit; it is merit to
produce work of genius; but there is
also great, though lower, merit in study
ing the taste Of your time, watching its
tendencies, and thereby producing just
the work that is currently demanded
just what readers want and children cry
for. This also needs labor and special
preparation. The advice should there
fore give to every young person who
asks me how to find publisher, would
be, if I dared-for we are all weak
First produce something that will be
thought worth publishing. w.
H." in Ha;per's Bazaar.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1886-05-20
The City of Palatial Residences.

Washington is becoming pre-eminently
the city of palatial residences. Fifteen
senators have erected magnificent domi-
Giles within the past twelve months. A
structure that costs less than $50, 900 is
now considered scarcely worth remark
ing in the abundance of architectural
beauty seen everywhere at the capital
New York Star.