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felts. Their name is legion. l may add
that the ingenuity of mani refer to the
male of the human species, for we may
as well confess that men do our thinking
for us in fashions as in physics-has pro-
vided us with shapes piquant and charm
ing enough to please the most fastidious.
For instance, observe the delightful nov
city pictured in the second illustration;
quite the latest thing, you know-a white
felt cut in shape somewhat resembling
a heart. Under the wide brim in front,
arranged in a very attractive manner, is
long ostrich feather, shaded from deep
petunia to palest mauve. Other feathers
in the same lovely coloring soften and
conceal the outline of the crown, and
droop over the hair at the back in a very
graceful style.
1t seems to be pretty well determined
in the world OF fashion that ribbon
garniture is to share public favor with
ostrich feathers the coming season, and
especially is satin-lined velvet ribbon to
be popular. In fact, velvet ribbon of all
kinds, from the epingle or uncut to the
satin dotted with velvet, satin-lined vel
vet with gros-grain edges, fancy-plaided
velvet, half-Width velvet and half-satin
velvet with plush and metal stripping,
gros-grain center with one edge satin
and the other uncut velvet, etc. Nor
will these beautiful ribbons serve merely
as garniture. They will also be used
for the CONNECTION of bonnets and
capotes. In the opinion of some strings
will be suppressed on account of the i'm
possibility of wearing them in conjunc-
ton with the feather ruffs, necklettes
and collarettes.
The ribbons used for hat trimmings
will be wider this seasonal least two
inches in width-not only for garniture
but also for strings. In jet ornaments,
too, there viii be found many novelties
for the decoration of bonnets, especially
in the line of butterflies and dragon-fiies,
some of them being large enough to
make up the whole bonnet except the
| fold or puff of velvet in the brim.
| Aigrettes viii have faceted jets; so,
| too, will buckles, clasps and slides. For
those designs of pronounced effects there
will be found an endless variety of
buckles, slides, clasps, long pins with i'll
agree heads, small pins with heads sim
ulating blossoms, insects, etc, in French
gold, in OxidiZed silver, in copper, silver
and steel, to say nothing Of mock gems
of all kinds, snowy enough to suit the
tastes of all sorts and conditions of
Womankind.
In the third illustration You will find
another style of felt hat, a pale-gray of q
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1890-10-02
J reachers and Gentle voices.

That excellent thing in woman
and in man also. when in the school
room-the gentle" voice, though not
necessarily soft" or "low." is a means
of grace TO teacher and taught alike.
Few teachers realize how accurately
their gain or loss in influence can be
measured by the quality of the tone in
which they talk There is 10 excuse
for the hard, sharp, rasping tone so
common as to be usually reckoned one
of the characteristics of a School
ma'am," even in the noisiest room or
among the most unruly children. The
law of similia similibus curantur does
not hold good in such a. case. Scream
ing and shouting at children is to make
demons even of little angels, and they
must be angelic, indeed, who can es-
cape such transformation. The teach
er should know how to make distinct
ness serve in place of force, to the end
of sparing her own throat and the
nerves of her pupils.-LGdies' Home
Journal
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1890-10-02

known as the bleached-out blonde. but a
very delicate and pleasing type withal,
as it usually indicates a skin of hue to
put the lily to the blush.
The last novelty in hats to which I
shall call your attention is crownless, and
consists of deeply curved and crinkled
brim OF Swiss rush, turned up very
sharply both in front and at the back.
This graceful and picturesque hat fits
closely to the hair, encircling the coil and
giving very charming and naive eX-
preston to the Wearer, who should, Of
course, be young and handsome, for 1
have always found that novelties look
best on the heads of such people, strange
as it may appear. A French writer has
said that we should forgive everything in
a young and handsome woman, even her
lack of heart, that being too much to eX-
pect along with the other charms. But
how about the ugly ones? Are they to
go yelled or keep within doors? Possibly,
they are te be put 10 death?
Well, to return to this pretty hat. On
one side there is large pink rose with
mass of foliage and buds, the rest of
the trimming being formed of cream
chiffon, printed with an old world pat
tern, consisting of large red roses and
pale-green leaves, the whole effect Of
which is most artistic. Possibly it might
be well to end this chapter on hats by
talking about something else, the hair,
for instance, which must abound in
"waVy" effects and not mar the outline
of the head. So extremely fashionable
are these "wavy" effects that even gay
Paris has felt itself called upon to adopt
our English word to express the proper
thing in the arrangement of the hair
The word "interview" which they adopt
ed some time ago caused death and de-
struction in violent attempts to pro-
nounce it, and now it's hard to say what
they'll do with this new word "waVy-"
In perfumes, too, there is manifested
refined taste-a very agreeable change,
for the sitting odors of former years
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1890-10-02

rich woman and your literary woman
and your very poor woman The reason
why it is so easy for hat to be ridicu-
lous is that it is the most unnatural
thing in the world. Nature gave us hair
to serve as a covering for our heads, and
she thought she had solved that
problem. Ancient art took this view
of the matter, and you'll find that,
with very rare exceptions, it gives no
other covering to Women's heads save
the natural one. Hence it is a very dar-
ing piece of business-this attempt to
devise headgear which shall be at one
and the same time useful and ornamental.
In this age, the men alone attempt to
unite the two; we women strive only for
the ornamental. A very witty French
woman once wrote book to prove that
everything and everybody in this world
are ridiculous. If she were alive to-day,
and could gaze upon our tiny toqueS, our
dainty little bonnets and our huge, wide
reaching big hats, she would tip-tilt her
nose and eXclaim, Ciest ridiculei But,
ridiculous or not, we must have them.
For centuries fathers, husbands and
brothers have scOffed at women's hats.
They have either been too big, too little,
too fat, or too flaring. My advice to my
erring sisters is, SEQ your ways and take
no note of these captious critics.
81 buy my bonnets to suit my husband"
exclaimed lady in a calm, self-suf1icient
tone of voice..
Its pity you couldn't get him to
wear Them" thought l to myself.
Although the summer hat has several
weeks to run yet, I don't think it is bit
too soon to give glance ahead. Light
colored felts will naturally be the first to
make their appearance, and of felts in
general I may say that they will be finer
in texture and quality than ever before,
one of their good points being increased
lightness in weight. 1t would be simply
out of the question for me to attempt to
give you, any idea of the new shapes in
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1890-10-02

A RECENT expedition has gathered
much interesting information relative
to the numerous tribes inhabiting the
Chin Mountains in Asia. From an.
official report it appears that some of
the tribes are almost as barbarous and
ignorant as the s6vages of Central At
RIGA. They wear scarcely any clothes,
and the historic igleaf accurately rep
resents the full dress of some of the
villagers. Their dwellings have no
furniture; they have no laws, no relig-
ion, and no government, except an in
complete village system. Medical
science and surgery are absolutely
unknown. Their habits are repulsive.
Certain tribes are confirmed drunk
ards, consuming great quantities of
beer brewed by themselves. They,
however, display remarkable mechan-
zeal ingenuity, constructing wonderful
bridges on the cantilever principle.
In some tribes the sole arms are small
knives and bows and arrows. They
are skiIlfu1 archers, killing tigers and
bears at eighty yards. The women of
all the tribes have their faces hide
ous1y tattooed to prevent their being
carried off by the Burmans.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1890-10-02
Why Choate Did Not Defend Professor
Webster.


It has often Eeen wondered why
Choate was not employed to defend
Professor Webster against the charge
of killing DR.. Parkman-the most
noted criminal trial in the annals of
New England, if not of the whole
country-and it has sometimes been
said that the great advocate shrank
from the odium of securing the acquit
tai of the culprit But is now known
that, although urged by Franklin
Dexter, one of the leaders Of the bar,
who believed Webster innocent and
wanted him defended on that ground,
and by Charles Sumner, who took a
similar view and urged the defense in
the interest of humanity, Choate would
not accept the case, because he would
not undertake to declare that Webster
did not kill Parkman. The alterna-
tive plea of justifable homicide in self
defense, or of manslaughter by reason
of sudden alteration, was the only
one which Choate would accept. But
Professor Webster and his advisers
would not agree to this line of defense,
and the consequence was that he lost
the services of the great advocate, who
would probably have saved his life
had he been allowed the only method
of defense which accorded with his
convictions of policy and of truth
.ATe1l1
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1890-10-02
Extreme French PoIit-ness.

A Frenchman was walking calmly
along, when from behind he received
a blow from knife, just between the
shoulder-blades. The wounded man
turned quickly round and displayed to
the Mortified would-be assassin face
quite unknown to him.
ooh, I beg your pardon, sir; mis-
took you for some one else" he ex-
claimed. most politely, as raising his
hat with one hand, with the other he
withdrew his weapon.
The wounded stranger was not to
be outdone In politeness by his mis-
taken assailant.
~Oh, pray don't mention it, " replied
he, as with low bow he hurried off
to the nearest surgeon.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1890-10-02

made life at times hardly worth living.
There is considerable philosophy in the
use Of perfumes. Some don't need any
at ali, and others need delicate and faint
odors-mere suggestions of perfumes
while others still stand in need of fresh
and invigorating perfumes, such as are
called %clean SMELLS" It's d subject
which calls for study and intelligent &C
ton. Men have been known TO fall in
love with women sight unseen, as the
saying is, merely from inhaling the per
fume of handkerchief dropped by the
lady. The great desideratum is TO get a
perfume in opposition to your peculiar
temperament or physical coloring, so to
speak. If you are inclined to be dull,
somber and splenetic, don't select per
fume which viii harmonic with your
character.-DGtsy Dart, IN Chicago Led
ger.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1890-10-02

1870
MESS yon keep
your wits about you
these days, you'll
suddenly awake to
a consciousness that
yeur hat is no long
er entirely modish,
for when summer
commences to go, it
goes with a rush,
and il is the easiest
thing in the world
to find your Sc If
wearing a style Of
That which, in the
Eargot of the times,
."has been calledin. T"
There are several
kinds of woman
that can afford to
wear a shabby hat.
There's your very
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1890-10-02

The Mexicans aud Indians in Texas
say that every animal has brains
enough to tan its own skin, and so the
latter, in the case of the wolf, panther,
wild cat and some other animals, is
mainly prepared by rubbing into the
flesh side of it the brains of its former
WeaFer
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1890-10-02

An extraordinary case of matrimony
in India is reported. A boy less than
ten years old has received from a
Brahmin of Bengal the Brahmin's six
aunts, eight sisters and four daughters
in one batch. A baby bride was
brought to the ceremony on brass
plate.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1890-10-02

The ancients designated the seven
metals by the names of planets, be-
cause each was supposed to have some
hidden relation, each being denoted by
a particular symbol, representing both
planet and metal. Gold was the sun
silver, the moon; mercury, Mercury
copper, Venus; iron, Mars; tin, Jupi-
ter: lead. Saturn.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1890-10-02

IT may be a surprise to many to
learn that statistics prove the sea to be
safer to live on than land. The death
rate of sailors in the British merchant
marine is under twelve per thousand /;
the loss of life by shipwreck is about a
quarter of this; in fact, there are more
lives lost among miners from accident
than among sailors, and many more
among railway employees.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1890-10-02

The present Pope never leaves his
own rooms until they have been swept
and busted, which is done as soon as
he rises. He then closes all the doors
and windows and takes the keys away
with him. This has caused the rumor
that he is concealing some treasure,
but the real truth of the matter is that
he wishes to prevent the recurrence of
the troubles which arose in the time of
Pho Mono, when regular trade was
kept up in scraps of paper and other
objects found in his rooms.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1890-10-02
FASHIONS FOR THEFAIR
PRETTY MILLINERY FOR EARLY
AUTUMN WEAR.

Light ColOred Felt Hats VIII Be
the First to APpear-Mnny Novelties in
MILLINERY Trimmings.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1890-10-02

A CAIRo bachelor, who. the adver-
tiser said, was "eighty-seven years old.
but rich, has received $50 applications
from ladies willing to be his wife-and
risk his dying pretty soon.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1890-10-02

TIE Canadian weather-seer, Wig
gins, thinks that tornadoes result from
the effort of imprisoned lightning to
break it's letters. He thinks a town
thicl1ly woven with overhead electric
wires is in no immediate danger of de-
struction by cyclones. The struggling
lightning, when it comes into contact
with these conductors, will take to
them, and go and hide itself in the
ground. Great Virgins!
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1890-10-02
PHILLIPsBURG,
KANSAS

RICHARD CARMICHAEL, of Queen
Anne County, Maryland, has kept q
diary for thirty years, and it shows that
it has invariably rained on the Goth Of
July during that time.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1890-10-02

A CURIOUS an@sthetic used by the
Chinese has recently been made known
by DR.. U. Lambuth in his third annual
report of the Soochow Hospital. It is
obtained by placing a frog in jar of
-four and irritating it by prodding it.
Under these circumstances it exudes a
liquid which forms a paste with the
flour. This paste dissolved in water
has weIl-marked anesthetic properties.
After the finger has been immersed in
the liquid for few minutes it can be
cut to the bone without pain being
felt.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1890-10-02

at was pretty piggish thing in Eve.
to eat the apple when she had every
thing else she wanted. @Oh, well
what could you expect? She was onlya
sparerib, anyhow"
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1890-10-02

A European horseshoe is composed
of three thicknesses of COW skin pressed
into a steel mold and then subjected
to a chemical preparation. 1t is claimed
for it that it is much lighter, that it
lasts longer and that split hoofs are
never known in horses using it. It is
perfectly smooth on the bottom, no
calks being required, the shoe adher-
ing firmly on the most polished sur
face. That ought to be great shoe for
asphalt pavements.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1890-10-02

B. DEAN, of Jonesboro, Ga, has a
block from garden-gate post that was
hewn out and placed in the ground in
1904. He made a visit to his sister in
Baldwin County, and it was at her
home that he secured the block from
the aged yet serviceable post. The
post was hewn out of light wood tree.
and is perfectly sound to-day. Mr..
Dean says it is good for another eighty
six years and perhaps longer.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1890-10-02

THERE are two kinds of divorces
among the Mormons. One separates
them for life and the other for the fu-
ture state The Mormons regard
marriage as binding both in this life
and the next, and, in order to be free
both here and hereafter, the two kinds
of divorces must be procured. This is
a curious religious consideration which
never enters into the ordinary trans
actions of Chicago divorce courts. As
a rule, the men and women who get di-
vorces are never curious as to the va
iditv of the decree in the next world,
and they are in no apparent fear of the
success of any celestial attempt to
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1890-10-02

PRoF. JACOB GRIMM, the author of
the most learned German grammar and,
jointly with his brother, the best Ger
man dictionary, says: among all the
modern languages none has, by giving
up and confounding all the laws of
sound, and by cutting off nearly all the
infections, acquired greater strength
and vigor than the English. Its full
ness of free middle sounds, which can
not be taught, but only learned, is the
cause of an essential force of expression
such as perhaps never stood at the
command of any other language of
men"
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1890-10-02

Loveis free, but it takes money to GO
to housekeeping.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1890-10-02

DIR. RICHARDSON cites the Jews as a
living example of sobriety. The re-
markable vitality of their race strikes
him as something astounding. OPP
pressed by cruel laws in the past, and
living in abodes where others have
died, yet they contrive to exist. The
explanation, according to this indefatig-
able apostle of Hygeia, is that which
was given by Halter, leading German
doctor of the last century. It is, that
they lead as rule, simple lives, and
are mindful of the expressive maxim in
Proverbs, "Wine is a mocker." DR..
Herman Adler has pointed out that,
although Judaism does not denounce
the taking of wine in moderation, there
runs through the Hebrew literature
the strongest condemnation of intemper-
ance. 1t is, however, we are told, a
mistaken idea that during Passover
Jews are forbidden to take fermented
wine. What is forbidden is the prod
uct of fermented grain, for which rea
son strict Jews at such time are re-
strained from the use of such liquors as
whisky.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1890-10-02

The growing together of the middle
and end bones of the little toe is of FREE
quent occurrence and has been attrib-
uted TO tight boots. a German anatom-
list, however, finds about the same per-
centage of cases in men and children
as In women, and concludes that the phe-
nomenon is normal tendency TO
change of structure just beginning be-
fore our eyes.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1890-10-02

bring divorced husbands and wives to
gether again.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1890-10-02

WHAT is it to "tiddly-wink ?" We do.
not know; but whatever it is, at any.
rate the Supreme Court of Victoria has
decided that it is not hbe1ous. A co.
lonial newspaper charged shire coun-
cillor with having @tiddly-winked the
shire funds" Litigation ensued, and
the matter was carried on appeal to the.
highest tribunal in the colony, with the
aforesaid results. Some fifty English
dictionaries were brought into court to-
enable the Judges to ascertain what was
the real meaning of the word, but std
dly-winking" was not discoverabIe in
any of them. So they accepted the def.
milton of witness, that the phrase
conveyed to his mind the idea of "using
little lodges to obtain ones own ends"
An imputation of that sort, the court,
decided, was not necessarily lbeIous.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1890-10-02

NEW YORK, August, 1s9O.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1890-10-02
Large Reservoirs,

Omitting lakes, which are in many
cases natural resel voirs, the largest
reservoir or artificial lake In the world
is the great tank of Dhebar, twenty
miles southeast of Udaipur City, Raj
putana Province, India. It covers an
area of twenty-one square miles. The
masonry dam is 1000 feet long by 95
feet high; 80 feet wide at the base, and
II at the top. In Southern India, also,
there are some immense reservoirs.
That of Cumden in Cuddapath dis
trict is formed by damming the Gundla-
,kamana River by a dam fifty-seven feet
high thrown between two hills. The
reservoir has an area of fifteen square
miles. The Sluekere reservoir IN Ny
sore state is a very little smaller, and,
next to Cumbum, is the finest in
Southern India Compared with these
artificial lakes, Loeb Katrine (supply-
ing Glasgow, four and one-ha1f square
miles, and Vyrnwy reservoir Supply
ing LiverpooD, nearly two square
miles. are insignificant in size. The
Manchar tank in Scinde has an area of
one hundred and eighty square miles,
but only when fed by the waters of the
river during the months of food In
dry months it shrinks to quite a small
area.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1890-10-02

CHICAGO people are proud of their
city with reason; its growth is quite
unparalleled. It is less than twenty
years since the city was destroyed by
fire, and the rapidity and steadiness of
its increase have been alike remark
able, although a considerable part of
its recent increase is due to the annex
alton of suburban towns If our popu-
lation doubles every twenty-five years,
the ratio of increase in Chicago is more
than twice that of the country at
large, for its population has been
doubled since the census of 1880. This
rapidity of growth is, of couse, often
exceeded in the case of a "boom" but
the interests of Chicago are not special
or temporary. It's prosperity rests upon
solid and durable grounds, and its
growth, like that of New York, is an
evidence of the prosperity of the nation.
The Globe-republican., 1890-08-20

Hon. Tom HAUN. a prominent attOr-
ney of Jetmore and ex-member of the
legislature from Hodgeman county, is
in the city. Mr.. Haun said to a Capital
reporter last evening that Col. Jim Hal
lowell was going to receive larger ma
jority than was ever given candidate in
the Seventh district. ''Jim HallOwell is
the most popular man in the district.
said Mr.. Haun, land when he goes be-
fore the people and makes a thorough
canvass of the district as he has planned
to do, his competitors will hardly be in
the race" Mr.. Haun says that the ma
jority of the farmers alliance in this
section are republicans and they are
staying with the republican party know
ing that the republican party is ready to
grant any reasonable request that they
may make.-TOpeka CAPITAL.