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Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-06-09
Copyright, 1889. All rights reserved.
WIGS FOR THE FAIR.
Boston Girl Who Wears Several
COlors-Bes ging Curl.

Boston Girl Who Wears Several
COlOrs-Bes ging Curl.
There is very pretty young married
woman in society here, writes Boston cor
respondent of the Albany argus, who lost
all her beautiful dark locks a year ago
through the use of patent bleaching
preparations. So now she has to wear a
wig until they shall grow out again in
their original blackness. But she makes the
best of the misfortune, and, having small
number of artificial coiffuIes, varying in
shade all the way from straw color to ebony
hue, she is accustomed to ask the gentlemen
of her acquaintance jocularly what hair she
shall wear this day or that. As long as the
opportunity last, she says, she means to
make the best of it by varying her COM
plexion at least three times a week. Her
eccentricity reminds the writer of an old
man he used to know, who always wore an
ordinary brown wig on week days and a black
wig for best on Sundays. Such thing as
wearing differentsorts Of bangs on various oc-
casions is common enough among girls, the
correspondent is led to believe And this
reminds him of a young woman he knows
who affects good deal of the lack of senti-
ment and excessively common-sense ways
characteristic of the Boston girl. One even
ing not long ago, young man whom she
cordially disliked had been making her a
visit, gushing over, as usual in his CONVEX
sations, with idiotic compliments. At
length, with an air and accent designed to
be quite irresistible and heart-crushing, he
said:
''My dear Miss P, your hair is so beau
tifull Should 1 be venturing too gross a
liberty if begged you to give me one little
lock Of it7"
s'Not at all, Mr.. K, replied the lady, in
a perfect matter-of-fact tone. ''You are
quite welcome
And with that she deliberately detached a
small curl from above her pink little ear on
the left side, and gravely presented it, hair
pin and all, to the importunate dude. OF
course he took it. He could not perceive
that there was anything else to do. But he
has not been to call on that particular young
woman since, and she indulges great hopes
that he will never come back any more.
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GREAT TROUBLES AND SMALL.
Meeting a Calamity With Smile and .
Small Annoyance With Rages.

Meeting a Calamity With Smile and .
Small Annoyance With RaEes.
The Youths Companion!
"Man is bundle of contradictions. He
breasts a calamity with a smile, and flies
into rage at some annoyance. When the
foolish conduct Of LandOE, the scholar, had
made it necessary for him to sell his per-
sonal property, transfer his real estate TO his
eldest son, and hurry of to the continent,
he arrived suddenly at Mr.. Forster's house
in London while Dickens and other guests
were at dinner.
Dickens fastened to greet his friend, e1-
pecting to find him cast down; but the old
man illustrated one of his notable sayings,
"Most things are real to me except reali-
ties" He sat upon his bed, and talked in
his most genial vein about Latin poetry.
He went to Florence, and lived in rooms
above those occupied by his friends, the
Brownings, who used to send his dinner up
to him every day.
Dinner was TO him an important event.
He would stand watch in hand as the hour
drew nigh, and if the dinner was moment
late, he would seize the dish and throw its
contents out of the window. Mr.. Brown
ing's son says that when young he remem-
bers seeing leg of mutton pass the WIN
dow Of his fathers room, when 1t had
been sent to the irritable old man minute
behind time.
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CHAPTER II,

THE NIGHT AND MARY wARRINER.
The full moon looked for Mary Warrin-
er's little house that night. as soon as a
clearance of the sky permitted, and then
beamed down on her abode effulgently.
But it was IL o'clock before the gusty wind
blew the thick clouds aside and let the orb
illumine Overlook. Back of the shed in
which the telegrapner worked by day was a
structure in which she slept at night. 1t
was built of slabs, with big growing trees to
form its irregular corners, and their lowest
limbs contributed the rafters, while stripped
bark and evergreen boughs made the roof.
The foliage swayed above in the fttul wind
and covered the cabin and grass around it
with commingling, separating, capering
shadows of leaves as though a multitude of
little black demons were trying to get to the
slumbefer within. Their antics looked
spiteful and angry at first. but as the wind
lessened to breeze and as the moon seemed
to mollify them, they became frolicsome
without malice; and at length, when the
merest zephyrs impelled their motions, they
gamboled lazilY, spontaneously above and
around the couch of Mary Mite.
the open space around the cabin like a mis-
sile. He ran first to the front of the struct-
ure, where tarpaulin curtained the shed
for the night, and gazed for moment
blankly at this indication that the hour was
not one Of business. Tremendous haste was
denoted in his every step and gesture. He
plucked twice at the canvas, as though to
pull it down. Then he skurried around to
the single window of Mary's apartment,
whose only door opened into the shed, and
bounded with his knuckles on the nl-ftted
sash, making it clatter loudly. Silence
within followed this noise without.
Hello! Wake upP' he cried. "Don't
fool for minute; wake upl"
There was no response, and he skipped to
and fro in his impatience. He was an ordi-
nary shoveler and FOUNDER, with nothing
to distinguish him from the mass of manual
laborers at Overlook, but unlike the usual
man with an errsnd at the telegraphic sta
tion. fourished a scrap of paper.
81 want to telegraph" he shouted, and
struck the window again. "Get up quick!
It'slife and desthl"
Mary Warmer was convinced that her
services were urgently and properly re-
ouired. She peeped warily out to inspect
the man, estimated him to be merely mes
senger, and then opened wide the sash
which swung laterally on hinges. Her del
icate face bore the same sort of calm that
characterized it in business hours, but the
moon shone on it now, the hair had got
loose from the bondage of knot and pin, and
for an outer garment she was carelessly en-
wrapped in white, feecy blanket. The man
did not give her time to inquire what was
wanted.
You're the telegraph girl, amt you?" be
exclaimed. "Well, here's something to tel
egraph. It's in hurry, hurry, hurry.
Don't lose a minute"
81 couldn't send it tonight" Mary said.
'TYou must"
1T isn't possible. There is nobody at the
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AR.mnrknhIs noror Prant.

A novel application of electrical trans
mission is being made at the Nevada Mill
of the Comstock mines. A head OF water
of the height of !, $50 feet after leaving the
water wheel, Is carried down the main shaft
Of the Chollar mine, and delivered upon
six wheels which operate dynamos in q
chamber excavated at the bottom Of the
shaft. The dynamos. in turn operate motors
in the mill above, and wonderful economy
Of power Is attained.
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To Reduce a swslled Head.

Atlanta JOURNAL
He had been out all night-he told the
tourist so-but this morning he looked as
fresh as daisy. "R-." the tourist said,
chow is it that you haven't head this
morning?" II have, sir, beastly head. :"
ri tell you why. never look sleepy in
the morning. wet the end of my finger
in cologne and rub my eyelids gently with
it, being careful not to get any in my eye.
gone and 1 look as if I'd had full nights
rest. That's the whole secret, sir, the whole
secret"
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622-HOUR GLASS.

AcroSs-l. Certain boards to game on. 2 Re-
lating 10 the navel. 3. An altar screen. 4 An
inhabitant of Germany. 5. An insect. 8. A
letter. T. An insect. g. Firing of a building.
9. To send forth anew. 10. Hoofed quadrupeds.
II. A certain kind of grass.
DiGgondlS-Down and up, left to right the
same. Possibility of being remedied.
CentruLs-Down. Without censure, A.
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619-MAGIC SQUARES IN MAGIC
SQUARES.

Arrange the numbers from to 81 so that the
whole will make a magic square having the
sum of its lines, files and diagonals the same.
Then if the marginal numbers are dropped.
magic square will still be left, and the process
NAV be repeated until but one number remains,
which will be the greatest common diVisor Of
the sums of the several squares.
R K Nus
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6l4-l. Bonnet. 2. Cyg-net. & Garnet L
Cor-net. 5. Sonnet. s. Hornet. 2. Sig-net.
8. Spig-net. 9. Lin-net. 10. Spi-net. IL. Gan
net. II Jen-net
6l5-Manes. names, means, mean, mane,
amen, men, me, m.
616-Ass-ass-i-natioD.
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618-TRANsPosIrIoNs.

Give US still the thoughts that jangIs
In the tantalizing tangle,
Seeming sense and nonsense minglinR
With good rhyme and reason jinglin2.
Let us hear the "Lezzup's" singing
And the merry 'tIddLeT's'' ringing,
With the "GeBlfnd's" so rhythmic
With "a rag man" pantomimic.
These may fill an hour of leisure
With restful, harmless pleasure.
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Amin the Family.

Burlington Free Press.l
Little Boy-Mamma, are you really going
to marry an italian count7
Pretty Widow-Yes, my pet.
Little Boy (delightedly) )-Oh, then can
have the monkey to play with, can't n
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624-VERBAL oCToPoD.

NV open mouth, By eight strong limbs,
In only troubled water swims.
Two members cut from either side,
An ancient monster will abide.
Both sides of me, again bereft,
Still somewhat of old times is left.
Cut of again from both, my beak
In many an olden tongue can speak,
As Saxon, Latin, Hebrew, Greek.
X. T. CHER.
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623-cHARADE.

OZ3-CHARADE.
Blind must he be indeed
Who takes no loving heed
OF springs sweet dawn. 'Twere right
To soundly first the wight.
Fold tired hands. sweet friend,
Let care and worry end.
Second, indeed earth's guest
Who. can't afford to rest.
Blindfold the weary eyes
To vexing shapes that rise.
The burden will fit the day:
The third brings ever the way.
Sing songs that, thrush-ike, clear,
Bring to the heart good cheer,
Not grief and misery's dole,
Like him-the dreary iUhoIe.
JOSEPHINE
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621-CURTAILMENT.

Girls walk funny nowadays;
Some like rOpers, who are "high,"
Wiggle, snake like, long the ways;
Can body tell Us why?
All intoxicated prime;
Maybe mad, from fashions craze;
Tight shoes, Is it? makes 'em go.
Funny, moving long the ways.
Tight shoes-twos instead of fours,
Cause them to go so strange;
Maybe, ere year is Ger,
Fashion and the walk will change.
ASP
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617-A MYSTERY.
o, there are eyes that choose TO weep
Their bitter tears with me alone,
But hopeIessly from them seek
A friendly glance when make moan
And there are lips that murmur low
Their joys and griefs into my ears,
But 1t were vain from them, I know,
To seek the friendly kiss that cheers.
Those eyes and lips may sweetly smile,
Their power never, never feel;
They never may this heart beguile,
1t is to them as heart of steel.
Ye readers of the human mind,
Explain for me this mystery
Why lips and eyes to others kind
VIII not bestow smile on me. 8
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625-REvERSAL.

Read forward-I mean give out. or send;
Read Notwithstanding without end.
NELsoNIAN.
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ANSWERS.
er. Luke xvi. I'll

BU8-MoreoYer. Luke XVI. ID
6O9-(6) 9; 81
6l0-Caprice, a price. price, rice, ice, G. E. e.
6l1-100 yards long; zS53.9S square yards In
area
612-Tastefulness.
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62O-ANc1ENr BOOKS OF sAGEs.

620-ANCIENT BOOKS OF sAGEs.
To an old heroic time
Wanders back my babbling rhyme,
When the race great truths were taught,
Clothed in enigmatic thought.
Wholesome lessons in disguise,
Ambushed for full surprise:
To the teachings that concealed
All unconsciously we yield.
A story told in fabled guise
Once caused a monarch's ire to rise;
His judgment on the wretch pronounced
Unwittingly himself denounced.
A woman wise, in widows weeds,
For this kings own son impleads-
Banished-and his father mourns,
Till his exilcd son returns.
With her allegory caught,
Captured in the kindly plot,
The sad king may call his own,
With welcome from the throne.
In what ancient books of lore
Are these tales. and many more;
Showing that in all the ages
Fables have been used by sages. 8.
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THE FIRESIDE SPHINX
A Collection Of Enigmatcal Nuts for
Home Cracking.
617-A MYSTERY.

Address Communications for this department.
to E. R. CHADBoURN. LetOtston, Aatne.
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1 wonder how our services sound to the
ear of G6d?. wonder how much of them
get up to him? Is there full harmony of
responding voices, or is there only dim
murmur; here and there, perhaps, a voice
sounding clear, and that only at times? Do
the prayers and promises go up clear and
entire before the throne of grace, or are they
broken and discordant?
Sir Arthur Helps has suggested that it
would be an immense advantage to use a
peculiar kind of ink for printing history,
such that after certain time all the untrue
and mistaken portion would fade out and
become illegible. What curious reading
some histories would be after that time had
passed. How many adjectives would dis
appear, how many sentences vanish,
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above Overlook, and the party stood aghast
in the presence of the man dead and the man
condemned.
Bring him to the telegraph station"
O'Reagan commanded.
Nobody disputed the detectives methods
| now-noG even Gerald; and, a prisoner as
completely as though manacled, although
not touched by anyone, he went with the
rest.
Mary Warmer had taken down the tar
paulin in front of her shed when the men
approached. In the ordinary course of her
early morning doings she would wait an
hour to dispatch and receive the first tele-
grams of the day, and then go to breakfast
alone at the table where the engineers and
overseers would by that time have had their
meal. She was astonished to see nearly the
whole population of Overlook crowd around
her quarters, while few entered. But she
went quickly behind the desk, and took her
place on the stool. The soberness of the
faces impressed her, but nothing indicated
that Gerald was in custody, and her quick
| thought was that some disaster made it
necessary to use the wire Importantly.
81 wish to send message" said O'Rea-
gan, stepping forward.
The eyes of the girl rested on him inuuir-
ingly, and he palpably finched, but as OBJ
viously nerved himself to proceed. and when
he spoke again the Irish accent became
more pronounced to hear, although not suf-
fciently to be shown in the printed words:
''I will dictate it slowly, SO that you can
transmit 1t as speak. Are you ready?''
Mary's fingers were on the key, and her
bright, alert face was an answer to the
query.
To Henry Deckerman, President, the
detective slowly said. waiting for the clicks
Of the instrument to put his language on the
wire; ''Tonio Ravelli, a sub-contractor here,
was murdered last night
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-08-07

The millinery for children is exceedingly
dainty. A new trimming round a fine straw
or a silk hat is what is called dropping roses,
a band formed Of rose leaves, the roses them
selves elongating into long bands of falling
petals Hats are much crumpled at the back
and no two would seem to be alike; the hats
are high, though some of the straws have
only satin crowns piled up with ribbon and
other trimming. For young children caps
made of loops of narrow ribbon are placed
beneath the hat brims, but even for older
ones band of ribbon is often introduced be-
meath, coming next the face. Pretty bonnets
in soft silk are becoming in the extreme to
little faces, and fullings at the edge of the
brim are novelties, the drawn brims showing
quite founce of the material, while in
others wide frill of lace is added, or work.
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is either more common or else the physicians
of the past failed to recognize it when it did
exist.
After long experience and special study
DR.. Darling concludes that cardiac disease is
not necessarily fatal; that many grave forms
are entirely recovered from; that enlarge
ment of the heart is not in itself disease;
that with serious valvular disease developed
in childhood, patients have been known to
live to be aged men and women, and that
with large majority of those supposed to be
suffering from disease of the heart, that or
gan is in reality perfectly sound and, if af-
fected at all, is suffering secondarily to func-
tional disturbances of organs remote from
the heart, and which are capable of proper
hygienic measures.
DIR. Darling divides heart troubles into two
classes. The first of these, valvalar disease,
is common to all periods of life. A person
suffering from valvular disease is crippled,
but, according to DIR. Darling, if the nutrition
of the heart be good, by avoiding indiscretions
and adopting an occupation that does not re
qulre great physical strain, by living on a
level, as it were, life may be prolonged in
comfort for many years.
Heart diseases of the second form are, save
hereditary influences or of indiscretions in
life, and by proper knowledge and precau-
lions can, in the ma ority of cases, be avoided;
or if already established, be checked in their
progress.
The predisposing causes of this form of dis
ease are long continued mental work, and
such indiscretions as the habitual use of wine
or excess in the eating of food highly charged
with nitrogen such as beef, mutton and veni-
SOM, which bring about conditions of the
digestive organs, especially of the liver, that
result in arterial changes which cause the
heart to fail long before it should.
The author asserts that the forms of heart
disease which kill so suddenly, and which do
not result from endocarditis, or the presence
Of a specific poison in the blood, arise in
nearly every instance directly from a patho-
logical condition due to certain arrangements
of the liver.
Conceding liver disturbance to be the
primary cause of premature wearing out of
the heart, two questions arise: What modeof
life will prevent these diseases? and, when
they exist, how shall life be so regulated as
to avoid sudden death? The answer to the
first question is: A discreet life, temperance
in all things, particularly the avoidance of
the habitual use, even in moderation, of
stimulating drinks, and the ingestion of too
much meat. In answer to the second are
quoted DR.. George Harley's rules: Ql Take
exercise without fatigue, ~ nutrition with
out stimulation and O. amusement without
excitement.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-08-07
Az ENGLISH RIDING HABIT.

Summer habits of tweed or light diagonal
are sometimes made with ''step collar
notched like that of a mans coat, or else cut
open slightly square like clergman's collar
Still others have white pique or cloth vest
set in, with the habit buttoned over it in the
middle, and the vest showing only at top and
bottom. With the step collar q white scarf
such as men use is worn and n scarf pin is
stuck in it. Bone buttons with holes in the
center are on habits of all kinds, those of
Melton for the park as well as those for the
country. Hunting habits to be worn in
rough country roads are of the strongest
English Melton, and have a gay vest Of red
cloth provided, as well as a white one to
make them useful on other occasions.
Very young girls just in their teens have
habits of blue or dust colored tweed or di-
agonal cloth made up with the narrow
short skirt precisely like those worn by la
dies, but the bodice for their slight, Undevel-
oped figures is often laid in lengthwise plaits,
and sometimes belt defines the waist. Caps
with visors, in favor with these young riders,
arc made Of cloth like the habit or of cordu-
roy, or else they wear Derby felt hats. Their
long hair is worn in a single hanging braid
tied with ribbons a few inches above the
end, or else it is plated in two slender braids
and coiled round and round close against the
head in the English coil such as ladies wear
when riding. In the cut is shown an English
habit which, as will be seen, is almost if not
quite identical with the New York outfits.
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The summer Vacation.

The great thing when you so for change
is-to get it. If you are tired bodily and
mentally, what on earth is the use of wild
stampede through miles of picture galleries
and scores of cities? You are not in a fit
state to assimilate all tho information you
are passing through, you only become twice
as jaded. Then if only families would not
think it necessary to take their change in
drovesl
Father" and his eldest son, to do them
justice, fully realize the fallacy Of this idea,
and do their best to keep both the time and
locale of their holiday, as far as may be, in
dependent of the grand family move; but
mamma and the girls and children seem in
dissolubly bound together; and yet if mother
would only now and again take a thorough
change, what a good thing it would be, not
only for herself, but for her family. She
would return to her work with renewed
energy, and a fund of new ideas; while the
others, left to themselves, would learn to APP
preciate the sympathy and management they
had learned, from its invariable presence, to
take as a matter of course.
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A French firm have succeeded in applying
electricity to the art Of tanning leather in
such way az to accelerate the process.
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FASHIONS FREAKS.
Styles Approved in New York,
Paris and London.
WHAT SUMNER VACATION MEANS
Riding Habits Worn by Fair Equestriennes-
Outfits for Summer Season and Country
Wear-Negligee Garments.

During the summer season and for country
wear, fine diagonal cloths in light gray
shades and in dust colors, will be much used
for riding habits. The outfit, as made for
New York's fair equestriennes, according to
Harper's Bazaar, consists, as does the English
habit, of three pieces-bodice, skirt and trous-
ers. These are all made from one piece of
cloth, and instead Of any fanciful trimmings
in the way of braiding, the edges are simply
stitched or else finished with cord in tailor
fashion. The underwear is a very short cor
set with cover, and long merino or silk gar
ment combining vest and drawers. The long
top boots are tipped with patent leather, and
the gloves are of glace kid, double stitched
and short wristed, and are preferred quite
large on the hands. The silk hat is most
worn, but round crown Derbys of felt are
seen in morning rides. The high white linen
collar may have a small white tie or brooch,
but the brooch is more often omitted, as all
jewelry is Objectionable for equestrienneS
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Fashionable Headdresses.

The newest headdresses consist chiefly of
parti-colored bows, little scrap of embroi-
dered lisse and an osprey, all tastefully ar
ranged together. One in salmon color and
green was particularly successful. Also a
dead gold lace model, twisted into fantastic
shapes over terra Gotta silk, and a charming
little Alsatian bow of vieux rose, arranged on
foundation of velvet in deeper shade. The
various embroidered lisse handkerchiefs to be
seen here are extremely pretty for various
ornamental purposes. ThGse make charming
headdresses, and, gracefully arranged down
the side of a bodice, are effective