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No. 80 in their handbook series-Of the classic
style in size and appearance, entitled "Mis-
takes in Writing English, and How to Avoid
Them" by Marshall L. Bigelow, author of
Punctuation and other Typographical Mat
teTs" In this book the writer who has had
an extensive experience in proof-reading Mt the
celebrated University Press in Cambridge,
Mass, aims to point out the errors TO which
accomplished writers of English are liable
and while admitting that mere slavish fol-
lowing of the rules of grammar does not nee
| essarily constitute elegant English, he insists
that no writer however brilliant his or her
attainments may be, should be excused from
grammatical errors. The volume has 81 con-
else chapters, besides an appendix on the
Formation of the Plural" Compound
Words" and "SOme Typographical Matters y
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proper use of the latter being learnedly ex-
| planned.
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Why you continue to suffer from
various ellis that flesh is heir to, why
your complaints remains obstinate in
spite Of efforts to cure by home doctors
and patent medicines, you should con-
suit a specialist in chronic diseases.
DIR. Foote, of 12O Lexington avenue,
N. Y, has made special study OF them
for thirty years and he may be able to
give you some points worth knowing
It will only cost you paper and pos
tage to state your case and get the cpin'
ion of physician Of large experience
DR.. Foote is the author of "Plair
Home Talk and Medical Common
Sense" of which the Rev. A. H. Bryan
has written: Il am positively charmed
with it, have not met before will
such useful and valuable book a
this ofyours."
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The Dressy Senators.

The most dressy Senators are Messrs.
Ingalls,, Manderson, Ransom, Butler
and German. Mr.. ingalls, almost in
variably wears Prince Albert coat
buttoned closely with punctillious
care. He does own, however, very
conspicuous seersucker suit of the most
pronounced State prison type OF pat
tern, and on really hot days he is not
ashamed to wear it. In spite OF the
season most of the Senators adhere
still to the regulation black broadcloth
frock coats, with sober vests and trous-
ers to match, which constitute the un'
form Of the American politician, but
others have been forced into rebellion
Mr., Frye appears this month in an or
dinary sack coat, light colored trousers
and Messrs. Logan and Mcmillan, il
skeleton alpaca-coats. Messrs, Chace
Gray and Evarts diversity the genera
gloom with jaunty grayish suits o
spruce appearance. White vests arr
affected by Messrs. Wilson, of Iowa
Conger, Allison, Miller, Coke, AM
Call, while corpulent old Senator Saw
yer wears no vest at all. Mr.. Congo
persists in adhering to his time-honol
ed claw-hammer coat on all occasions
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FOrtune Telling.

A pleasant parlor amusement is al
forded by a knowledge of palmistry,
and young people may find food for
mirth in the examination of the hand
for signs of character.
1t is absurd to judge any one by
these signs, but the process will please
some
Some of the rules are as follows
II the palm of the hand is long, and
the fingers well proportional, not soft,
but rather hard, it denotes the person
to be ingenious and changeable.
If the hands are hollow, solid and
well knit in the joints, it predicts long
life.
Observe the finger of Mercury-that
| is, the little finger; if the end of it ex
ceeds the joint OF the third finger
such a man will rule his house, anC
his wife will be pleasing and obedien
to him; but if it be short, and doe
not reach the joint, he will have
shrew for partner, land she will rul
her husband.
Broad nails show the person to b
bashful and fearful, but Of gentl
nature.
Narrow nails denote the person t
be inclined to mischief and to do il
jury to his neighbors.
Long nails show person to be goo(
natured, but distrustful, and loyin
, reconciliation rather than difference
: Oblique nails signify deceit an
want of courage.
Little, round nails denote obstinac,
anger and hatred.
If they are crooked at the extrem
ty, they show pride and fierceness.
e Round nails show choleric perso
; yet easily reconciled; honesty, a low
of secret silence.
u Fleshy nails denote the person to
. mild in temper idle and lazy.
Is Pale and black nails signify the pc
0 son to be deeeitful to his neighbC
g and subject to many diseases.
Red and marked nails signify ch,
t. eric and martial nature, and as MAJ
x little marks as there are speak
4 many evil desires.
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it occurred, Senator Norton gave q
grand reception at which his beauti-
full niece's betrothal to the distin-
guished foreigner was formally an
nounced
Cecil looked radiantly beautiful as
she received the congratulations OF
her guests. And none, looking upon
the rose-hued lips and cheeks, and in
to those Misunderstanding gray eyes
clear as crystal, guessed what heavy
heart lay beneath it all.
All at once she started, trembled
violently, and every tinge of the bright
beautiful color left her perfect lace.
She recovered from the shock, what
ever it was, almost before it was no
ticed, and with one hand pressed
against her lace-coyered bosom, went
on calmly raceiving her guests. What
had startled her so strangely.
Only an unbidden guest who had
paused before her for one instant
touched her little gloved hand ant
murmured a few low-toned words
which reached no ear but hers. Bu
the white, heart-broken face, ant
those stern, hopeless, sorrowful blacl
eyes belonged to the man she loved
Frank Clermont.
J An hour later, when the band wa
clashing out its merriest music, ant
the light feet of dancers kept time t
Z its sweet strains, Cecil was missed iron
; the parlors, and one of her friends, sc
: ing to search, found her in her ow
, pretty chamber, lying face downwar
1 on the floor, her silken skirts trailin
across the carpet, her hands claspe
D tightly over her silent heart--ston
! dead
}, Heart disease, they said, Ay, so
: was, but OF kind they little dreamc
e of. She had broken her own hea
and another's, and the Nemesis of h'
= "deatiny' had overtaken her here.
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The New York girl, when she bathes
at all, attitudinizes with half her slight
ly clad person out OF the water, looking
for all the world Ikea merry mermaid.
The Baltimore beauty plunges bold
ly in and is generally seen head under
water with symmetrical incarnadine
hosiery waving high above the waters
blue.
The New Jersey girl is timld and u.s.
ually requires pair of stout arms to
hold her. ii there is no gallant hand
to toss her through the gallant break
ers she hugs the rope.
The nice Presbyterian, girls at Sping
Lake like to have somebody 'hoat
them and, held up by the bathing mas
ter or some stout, middle-aged deacon
will lie rigidly on top Of the waves
with their little noses and toes out o
the water, for quarter OF an hour.
The Virginia girls at Old Point an(
Cape May swim and tumble like dol
phins, and love to swim out to the lii
boat, and clambering into it, take
long dive, coming up close to shore.
The fashionable Philadelphia girl
very particular to have somebod
"nice" to go with her, and is usual
so exclusive that she won't even bath
in the same ocean with any one not
her set.
The Boston belle prefers to take hC
ablusions in private, but her fayorit
wrinkle at Narragansett is to lie at I'll
edge of the surf, and when it vets h,
on one side then roll over and get W
on the other,
French maids at the seaside hotels
rule put on an old skirt, witho
stockings, and go trooping into Il
! ocean about dusk.
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Acute SensibiIities.

Aute sensibilities are intended as a
direct means Of inspiring generous
impulses and cultiyating a benevolent
character 10 him who is.always sem
sitive for others as well as himself they
are not torment but blessing. The
pleasure and pain he feels and the
sources to which he traces each are
his continual guides to show him how
to diffuse the one and to mitigate the
other in his intercourse with man
kind Nothing is more selfish than Il
narrow, sclf-pitying sensitiveness
nothing more ennobling than sen
sitive spirit keenly alive to all gooc
and kindly influences.
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Too Horrible ror belief.

SAVANNAH, GA. A horrible re-
port from the lower end Of Tatnall
county has just reached the city. A
negro woman, engaged to prepare din
ner for a colored picnic, murdered a
young child which had been left in her
charge, cooked half the remains and
served it to the people. The other hall
of the remains were found salted down
in barrel. The negroes become fren.
zied on making the discovery, seized
the woman and burned her at a stake
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Parson BrownIow,s widow.

The public knows but little how WV
idly similar to the character OF her hus-
band is Mrs. w. G. Brownlow. She
would not exchange the old family
residence close by hillside street in
Knoxville for a palace. Her delight
is in memories of "Mr. Brownlow,"
and in attention to her handsome and
popular granddaughters along with the
widowed daughter and grandson, who
reside with her. Bound copies OF the
Wing are kept in the house and she
refes to them with pride as exponent'
Of the ex-goyernor's and: ex-senator
views in the most trying period OF ouI
national history. She is OF medium
size, and, though her black hair, partc'
in the old-fashioned way, has hardly
sprinkle OF gray she talks about grow
ing old and she don't mind telling
that she is sixty-six.
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women's World and Work.

| Mrs. A. F. Newman, Of Salt Lake
City, has appeared before committees
of Congress in favor Of proposition
to build an industrial homo in Salt
Lake City for Mormon women who
desire to escape from polygamy. It's
designed to give Mormon women who
want to break away, a place to live
and a chance to make a living.
The queerest divorce case is report
ed from Cleveland Mrs Eliza HuX
ley, who had been reared in the coun-
try, lived happily with her husband
until she became discontented with
city life and pined for the rural scenes
to which she had been accustomed.
She could not accustom herself to
"buying butter by the pound and po-
tatoes by the peck so she went where
she could dig her own potatoes and
churn her own butter, and Mr.. Hux-
lev went before the court and obtain
ed a divorce.
A woman's liking for the trig and
trim and tidy, and mans innate
sloucmness and sloppiness, are beau
tifully shown by the manner in which
the Norfolk Jacket is worn by the two
sexes Indeed, it is shardly to be recog-
nized as the same garment On the
woman it is jaunty in the extreme,
!, fitting to perfection, with every plat
in place and belt snugly strapped; on
the man it partakes of the nature OF a
dressing gown, tapping loosely in
:, front while the two ends Of the belt
are always floating in the breeze from
e the rear.
" The London World says that OF
PATHS return to London she founC
awaiting her on her table several pale
O blue velvet boxes from Lady and All
. bert de Rothschild, the first one con
.r tanning brooch about four inche
long, representing two large pansie
- in white brilliants, with nine big blood
"a red rubies in it; heart all diamond
and large ruby in it goes with tn
brooch; a cigar box OF violet leathe'
t. with an inch-wide gold frame, and o
one side an. Ernest Nicolini," and o
., the other "From Mr.. Alfred de Roth
er child" both names all in diamond
rs and rubies, and sundry other article
in gold and silver
IN "The beauty Of the female figure
er saws Leigh Hunt, Consists in beir
ce gently serpentine." Stiffness is ute
ly ungraceful. The movements Of q
Y" unconscious child are the perfectiC
ed of grace; they are easy, unstudi'
ro- and natural. The throat should
m round and pillar-like. The wal
BILE should be twice the size Of this tow
ly. of ivory"-not, as fashion has too oft,
made it, about the same size. III
it'll shoulders should be sloping and n
ing too broad neither should they be t
it narrow, but occupy that soft and rour
in ed. The figure should be, above
easy. Too small waist is an actu
md deformity, and young ladies who
aad foolish enough to imagine that a wa
ack Of eighteen inches is lovely shot
ore. bear in mind that the famous stat
of of the Venus de Medici, the ackno
the edged highest type of female beal
her measures twenty-seven inches. I
new hips should be high in woman a
,ny and wide; the feet small but in
for proportion to the height OF the figu
a higlr instep is beautiful, and a !
re- lowing OF the sole is considered by
late Arabs mark of higi birth. Thea
y Of is seldom sufficiently developed il
after woman Of fashion to reach the sta
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ard OF classical beauty; she does not
use her limbs, particularly her arms,
sufficiently to give them the muscular
growth OF which they are capable.
The arm should have q round and
flowing outline, with no sharpness at
the elbow; it should taper gently
down to a small wrist.
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There is no such certain badge and
ensign OF a sovereign mind, as that
tenacity Of purpose, which through all
change OF companions, OF parties. OF
fortune, changes never, bates no jot OF
heart or hope, but wearies out opposi-
ton, and arrives at its port.
Because hairpin is useful to a wo
man as toothpick, button-hook and
hair-iastener, is no exduse for having
one in your vest pocket when YOU
wife doesn't know where iteome from
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AN EXTRAORDINARY OFFER.
To All Wanting Employment.

We want Live, Energetic and Capable Agents
in every county in the United States and Cana
da, to sell patent article Of great merit, ON
ITS MERITS. An article having large sale, pay
ing over 100 per cent profit, having no eompe-
tition, and on which the agent is protected IN
the exclusive sale by deed given for each and
every county he may secure from us. with all
these advantages to our agents and the fact that
it is an article that can be sold to every house
owner, ut might not be necessary to make an
EXTRAORDINARY OFFER" to secure good agents
at once, but we have concluded to make 1t to
show, not only our confidence in the merits OF
our invention, but in its stability by any agent
that will handle it with energy. Our agents
now at work are making from SI5o 70 1000
month clear and this fact makes 1t safe Tor us to
make our offer to all who are out OF employ
ment. ANY agent that will give our business
thirty days trial and fail to clear at least 500
in this time, ABOVE ALL EXPENSES, can return
all goods unsold to us and we will refund the
money paid for them. ANY agent or general
agent who would like ten or more counties and
work them through sub-agents for ninety days
and fail to clear at least $3.50 ABOVE ALL TX
PENsEs, can return all unsold and get their
money back. No other employer of agents ever
dared to make such offers, nor would we II we
did not know that we have agents now making
more than double the amount we guaranteed |;
and but two sales day would give proht OF
over S1as a month, and that one Of our agents
took eighteen orders in one day. Our large de.
scriptive circulars explain our offer fully, and
these we wish to send to everyone out OF em-
ployment who will send US three one cent
stamps for postage. Send at once and secure
the agency in time for the boom, and go to work
ON the terms named in our extraordinary offer.
We would like to have the address Of all the
agents. sewing machine solicitors and carpen-
tiers in the country and ask any reader Of this
paper who reads this offer, to send US at once
the name and address of all such they know
Address at once, or you will lose the best chance
ever offered to those out of employment to make
money. RENNER MANuFAcTuR!Ne Co.. n
r16 Smithfeld ST., PittsbuEg, Pa
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PEN and Paper.

h-em umu ARCNs
Handwriting is as much an express
sion Of character as dress or speech.
The cut, the color, and the arrange
ment of the dress indicates the posi-
ton, taste, and inclination of the wear
er; the tone fyoice, the pronunciation,
and the thought expressed in speech
speechis complete index to the indvid-
ual who holds your attention, and not
less certain does the color of ink used,
the shape and quality of paper, and
the fashioning of the characters in a
written communication tell the story
of the personality of the inditer.
To be sure, we are governed or fash
ioned in each by certain arbitrary
rules peculiar to the time and place,
but it is in the adaptation OF these
mandates that the individual crops
cut.
At one time no dress was complete
without trail, and it was in its man
agement that a woman's grace or awk-
wardness was apparent.
1t was the individual surviving un-
der herculean difficulties that led a
certain young man to be spoken ol
lately as "a sensible, respectable dude :
The soft tones and smooth, gram
matical sentences Of educated persons
are noticeable even when marred by
the drawling tones aesthetic culture
gives, or the twang the Yankee atmos
} phere imparts.
} Thus does an unobtrusive color @
r ink, heavy, plain paper, and neatnes
t OF the sheet, indicate the lady or gen
tleman, Notwithstanding the style c
S handwriting in vogue.
t Fifty years ago, the very delicate
e very regular, very slanting character
of the Italian style of handwrittin
was in use this, while lacking in cha
acter, possessed the one recommend
ton OF eligibility.
Then came in the English style, ven
square, very imposing. stately as Br
tannia herself, but wholly illegible.
At this time we have in use, gene
ally, happy combination OF both al
perhaps at no former time has mo
importance been attached to lett
writing than at present.
Business men consider it II most {
sential dignity to maintain, and thu
handsomely engraved letter-heads al
carefully dictated and neat typc-wr
ten mail are carefully considered IN
cations OF their business standing,
1t was formerly believed that ile
biity and haste Indicated enterpr
and promptness but while they
not entirely abandon money-savi
and time-saving, they now consi'
beauty-saving as well.
In letter-writting it is practicable
. combine usefulness and legibilty.
Ladies' Of leisure can have no exc
for such an omission, which in Tn
.. would he at once unladylike and
courteous.
: They are aided in this work by
= perfect pens, perfect paper, and per
! ink of the day.
Steel pens are most generally use
7. preference to the more expensive
yiy- ones at one time considered indisl
us- sable.
She The variety and excellence OF p'
lily is unlimited for ladies use, but
in heavy, cream-laid, moderate-s
ght sheet, unruled, is considered in l
W." elegant taste.
and The use Of sealing-wax, recently
the t1oduced, met with hearty recep
who at first, but lately we see but littl
the its use. The convenient self-sea
she envelopes, for which wax seals arr
ents perAuous, are too neat and expec
tors to be Immediately superseded.
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Secretary Manning is at Watch
Hill, r. l., for the remainder of the
summer.
President Cleveland's motto is "mil
lions for the genuine disabled soldiers
of the republic, but mot one cent for
perjnred swindlers who are trying to
get on the pension roll through
/ fraud
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WHOLE NO. l22


"Grover step here for moment,
pleasep
ayes, dear; what is it?"
"Grover did you write that letter to
Albany-that one right there, that my
finger is on?"
ayes, darling ha, ha Pretty we'll
turned don't you think SOP
"Have they printed it just exactly
as you wrote it, Grover2 Just look it
over carefully"
"Why, yes, dearest thought it
would please 'em-yes, that's just as
wrote it, love-why?"
"Well, Grover, it remarks In pre-
sent surroundings, and in all that the
future may have in store l must re-
vert to the time lived in Albany as
the happiest period of my life Is
that as you wrote it?"
"Certainly that is, didn't they put
it on? Hang 'eml They left that Off
| added Excepting the last six or
seven weeks"
care you perfectly Sure you adj
ded that, Mr.. Cleveland? Very we'll,
| will forgive you then"