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in the fact that the public knows that in
Miss Abbotts entire outfit there is not a sin
gle sham thread, not paste jewel, lies part
OF her wonderful success. 1t is this same
principle underlying performance, contract,
advertisement, wardrobe, everything that
has earned for her the title Of Honest little
Emma"
The lady has always some magnificent
dresses, but this years costumes excel all in
which she has hitherto appeared. OF this
seasons wardrobe Worth and Felix, the
great Partisan dreSsmGkers, have said ::
There is nothing like them in the world.
No members OF any royal family have ever
ordered gowns of such beauty and quality
OF SO high priced as we have made for Miss
the fabrics were designed by the lady her
sell, and woven expressly for her at Lyons,
Frame, and many yards OF exquisite lace,
.Old venetian Point we're made expressly
for her during her stay in Paris" For two
months, night and day, one hundred women
were at work on the wardrobe.
In "Ernani. Act i, Miss ABBOTT wears one
OF the greatest works of art ever designed
by Worth, gown of white moire antique
silk and lilac velvet. The combination is a
striking one, the silk forming the right side
Of the dress and the immense court train.
The style is princess, and the white half
bodice crosses from the right shoulder to
the waist line on the left, joined at point of
starting and continuing 10 the foot by
panel of lilac velvet. The garnitnre is en-
broidery Of lilaes, leaves and buds in natures
colors, purple blossoms on the white, white
blossoms on The purple. and extends
from the waist line on the right side. around
the train to the foot on the left, aud again
up the lilac velvet panel to the waist line.
The extreme foot of the skirt is faced with
leaf-green velvet cut in leaf shape ana
appliqued to the skirt. The bodice is low
and round in front with Y back and is fin
ished with tiny pipings of purple; white
and leaf green velvet partly covered with
lace. The sleeves reach the elbow and are
formed of bands of purple velvet (iped in
green), crossing in diamond, the interstices
being filled with mousseline de sole. The
sleeves are finished with velvet bands and
lace to match the neck.
The lilacs are French flowers, such rs are
used in the most costly millinery work,
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an Immediate result But the enamel mixer
has to put his combined colors on a piece of
nat metal and submit them to fire bath be-
lore he can have any Idea Of what the actual
work.
Frequent experiments are therefore neces-
saIy. ana after a whole day of experiment.
ing 1t frequently happens that a desired
color Is as yet beyond his reach
The John Wanamaker pink postage
stamp Is case in point. The colorist has
got within hailing distance Of its peculiar
tint, but its exact hue refuses to be ma.
terialized. probably in Difference to the ex-
pressed wish Of the Government that coins
or stamps shall not be put before the public
In counterfeit presentment
The enamel mixing once accomplished
successfully, young women experts proceed
to apply the thin paste to metal objects pre-
pared for 1t. This application is made with
steel point, which is dipped in the mixture
and passed along the surface or in the cuts
of the piece of jewelry. When the paste is
on the article it Is hardly perceptible to the
inexperienced eye. The article is hardly
dry before 1t is taken to the furnace TO be
fired" The firing" of. an enameled OBJ
ject is one Of the more delicate operations of
the art.
In high brick furnace, with an opening
about . foot square. into which the work is
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LOVE. AS LOOKS TO A STRANGER.

l swing in my hammock. and swinging dream
oflove-iove! What wonderful theme!
muse in my soft sylvan shade by the hour
or many who wander unknown to its power
And Loneliness, keener than ever knew
Is filling my soul with desolate hue,
No home have here-no welcome is mine
Alone, without love. at Thanksgiving time.
No loved ones TO join at tRis festive board,
Or share the great blessings with which they are
stored,
But memory we have OF loved, loving time,
When life was In harmony with Thanksgiving
time.
Love is the nectar to sweeten our life
Love bringeth peace, the coasoer of strife,
Love lightens labor III sharing the load
God send us love to smooth the hard road
Love for the wife and child at her side
Love for the father in homes far and wide,
Love rewards effprt-Let all who shall hear
Bear my message of love to the gad new year.
Honolulu NoU. rs, 1890. NATAL
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Army and Navy Death Rates.

Army and navy death rates in time of war
and Of peace deserve much attention. The
official tables give us not only the number
OF men killed in action, but the relative
tendency to disease in divers armies. For
example, in the Crimean War the British
army lost 2940 men killed on the field and
2l,0eo who died In hospital. 1t took $40
Russian shots to kill OF MORALLY wound an
Englishman or Frenchman and 700 English
shot to kill Russian but the havoc caused
by disease was far greater. If we study
these statistics with attention and act upon
them, we may reduce our campaigning
interesting physiological facts. as that the
proportion Of Frenchmen who died after am
pu.ation or other surgical operation is greater
than Of British or Russians.-The Contem-
porarY Review.
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THAT LITTLE DOG.

The orchestra had played its strain,
The parson said his prayer;
The valedlctrian came forth
To welcome all us there.
He started ont with ease and grace,
with words and thoughts profound,
When all at once there rose without
A loud and thunderous sound.
; II was no soft and minstrel lay,
No natures heavy groan.
Nor children laughing while at play,
Or suiferinss hollow moan.
But like the waters meeting,
Or waves upon the strand,
The heavy sound it hoated in
That hail so large and grand.
The speaker paused; What can 1t be ?"
The whisper passed around;
And with blanched lips and pallId cheeks
They hardened TO the sound.
1t must be some great monster from
midas wild. jungied land.
That king o. beasts who terrifies-
That beast SO large and grand.
Now who was there among that crowd
Who would attempt to save
Some OF Its feeble creatures
From destruction and the grave.
Up jumps he-Johuson-yes, a man
OF ways and manners bright,
And said: "Fil kill this monster
with my main force and mightr
He rushes forth to victory or
To death, with Quickened tread:
An ominous silence 'vades the hall,
The silence OF the dead.
He barred his arm-he sees his prey.
Ills eyebals bulge ana start;
He PUSHES on his victim
once-twice lie pierced his heart.
1t falls; II writhes in agony.
And Johnson fa!nts away:
They lifted him, with tender hands.
From his victim cold as clay.
And when they viewed his victim,
As stiff as any log.
They uttered in lie accent,
johnson killed a yellow dog"
Per College. j. A. McINNIs,
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GEMS IN VERSE.
Written for The SUNDAY CALI.
A M1Np.rLoMN DAY.


~ HE north wind DER the valley blows
~ In angry gust;
w BE leaves as trademarks on his way
Great clouds Of dust.
Great clouds OF dust that wrap the earth
In veil of gray,
And circling to the azure skies
Darker the day.
Wherever still the eye may glance.
The ashen pail
The wind-god weaves In moody sport
Lies over ALL
All through the long and dreary hours
Itraves and blows;
TIL nature worn out in the strife
Full weary grows.
But 10, the sun is waning; Its light
Begins to fade,
And in the wild days dying hour.
The gale is laid!
All, fierce, strong wind thy strength was vain /;
Thy reign Is past!
And now the clear blue skies shine forth
Undimmed at last
The birds that hushed their songs all day
Have found their voice;
The flowers lift their frightened heads;
All things rejoice.
o life that bears the storm-wind's brunt,
The strife must cease!
The hour will come that brings to thee
AT length sweet peace.
To all the host of specter fears
Oppose thy trust
And look with faith divine beyond
Earths clouds of dust.
San Francisco, Dec, 1880. SELMA SCHMIDT
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EMMA ABBOTT'S
PRETTY GOWNS,
Corrections of Worth and Others
Costing Fortune.
Some Of the Most Artistic Productions of the
Drsssmaker's Art-Poems in Velvet,
Silk, Lace and Gold,

XGHYH1LE Miss Emma Abbott was IN
N1EyE2 Paris. previous to sailing for the
AMEV United States, she was waited on
by representative of the New York
World. and during the course Of the inter-
view she said:
"The Americans like to see their operas
beautifully dressed as we'll as to hear them
beautifully sung and played. for one am
willing to spend money to make my operas
beautiful in dress and scene. Whatever
adorns and beauties opera makes it that
much mole delightful to the beholder."
This year more than ever is ner wardrobe
attractive, containing, as it does, dresses and
accessories amounting to nearly quarter
million dollars.
Many may deem it extrayagant to spend
such sum upon stage wardrobe, and vet
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Putting The Work in the Mttele-7he Fire at the Back
One of the most common formulas for the
making of enamel glass is given in an
English work. Lead is melted until it is
wasted away" The residuum of this is
an oxide. The ingredient mixed with this is
an equal roTtion Of a powder got by grind
ing up small white pebbles found in brooks.
These substances melted together make the
me glass known as enamel. The colors are
given to the enamel in its first form by mix
ing in certain metallic oxides
Red Is an exceedingly difficult color to get
in all desired shades, but continued experi-
ments have produced great many tints not
obtained until recently. The reproduc ton
In enamel of the well-known pinky two
cent postage-stamp is now puzzling an en-
ameler, and daily experiments are being
made to get its odd color exactly counter.
feited.
"A visitor to an expert enameler's studio
discovered many interesting things in con-
nection with the work. The leading ex
pert takes piece of enamel of the desired
color and breaks it into powder in a por-
celain dish with an agate mortar that is
not very large, but exceedingly hard at its
business end.
When the glass is ground to very fine
powder water Is mix d with 1t, and it forms
sort OF paste. The same expert attends to
getting shades of color. This is done by
mixing other tints of glass with the first one.
Tbs work is as artistic as colOr-mixing bv
painter, but the painter has the advantage
Oh being able to lay on a little of his COM
olnation with brush, and can get almost
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Eggs In manufacturers aud Az,

1t is an error, says Bradstreet's, to sup
pose that eggs have no considerable use ex-
.cept for food They are employed in calico
printing. in photography, in gliding, in
clarifying various liquors and in book-bnd-
ing. A large business has sprung up in the
preparation of Photographic paper with
sailed albumen, and one establishment alone
is said to have used more than 1000, 600 in six
months for this purpose. Many attempts
have been made t. find vegetable or ami
NAL substitute for albumen, but in vain. A
prize of $1,000 offered thirty years ago by an
English society for the discovery of q ma
teral or process for replacing abumen in
calico printing still remains untaken. Nor
are The yolks of eggs used in manufacturing
wholly wasted. They are also employed in
the arts, and manufacturer in Vienna
snlidifes them. Possibly, toe, the develop
ments in canning will before long give us
canned eggs. or perhaps condensed eggs,
suitable at least for cooking. At any rate,
it would seem worth while to try to raise
part of the eggs which are consumed by
other countries
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Imagine the four words printed MS above
upon the table. Deal the first card upon the
imaginary M in Mutus and the second the
imaginary NJ in NoneD, the next two on the
Imaginary US. the next two on the two rs,
and so On. You have now only to ask each
person in which row his two cards appear,
and you will know at once which they are.
Thus, If erSon says his two cards are now
in the second and fourth rows, you will
know that they must be the two cards rep
resenting the two rs, that being the only
letter common to those two rows. If per-
son Indicates tie first and fourth rows you
Will know that his cards are those repre-
sentIng the two SIS, and so on.
THE MAGIC TRIPLETs.
This trick is very similar in principle to
the last, twenty-four cards being used in
this instance, dealt in triplets instead of
couplets. Alter the spectators have made
their selection pack up the caids as directed
for the last trick. taking care to keep the
respective triplets together. Then deal
them in rows of six, the formula in this
case being:
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ANELEH
A "REMINISCENCES,

A weary traveller far from home,
Beneath a strangers distant dome.
While rambling through an artists hall.
With painted scenes about the wall.
upon picture careless glanced,
Then all amazed stood entranced:
For On the wall in painted truth,
There stood my home of early youth;
And as to travellers it seemed to me,
The self-same house. the garden, tree;
The hill top sloping up behind,
And cen the green and oolored blind:
The streamlet flowing by the gate,
where oft In childhood would walt,
For father, who, with tears of ioy,
would come ami kiss his darling boy.
The rocker by the old front door
Contained no form like days OF yore:
FOR mother. she has passed away,
And gone forever and Tor aye
These scenes brought back a saddened train.
lived my childhood days again;
romped the fields, roamed the hills.
L played among the laughing rllIs;
heard my mothers voice again,
My erring footsteps to restrain.
i left the scene the artists hall,
But memory ever Shall recall
The recoilections of that place,
Oh fathers form and mothers face
And Though they both have passed away.
And their bones are crumbling into CLAW.
Snail ever hope and wish and pray
To meet them in eternity JARNcop
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CANNIBALS
DO Not Like the Flesh of White
People Because 1t Is Salty.
Mn. Lumholtz. a nrominent .rau.,o- ~.

Mr. Lumholtz, a prominent traveller thus
writes:
The Australians are cannibals. fallen foe.
Dc IL man. woman or child, Is eaten as the
choicest dellcacy; they know no greater Injury
than the nesh OF black man. There arc suner-
stiIi0ns notions connected with canuIbali,m.
ana though they have no idols and no form Ok
divine tS worship they seem to fear an evil being
notions are very vague or supreme gnnd
Delng they have no conception whatever, nor do
they believe In any existence after deaih.
The uncfvilized Australian native ia usu-
ally sound and healthy and not much
troubled with sickness, with the execution
OF skin diseases, which he gets from the
white man; but when the Australian be-
comes more liable to Illness; he regards
clothes simply as ornaments. which he may
all day in a wooden jacket, but in the even
Ing ne will throw it off and sleep naked. On
.I hnnt ne is quite naked. no matter how
trees and pursue animals; and of course
THIS thoughtless way of wearing clothes
brings on colds, rheumatic fevers. ana inng
diseases.-The Edinburgh Review.
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A TeIerrsph to the Brain

From the stomach is the great sympathetic nerve In
the epigastrium. Let digestion become seriously
disordered, and that disorder Is sure to find reec
tion In symptoms which react disadvautageously
upon the organ OF thought. Insomnia, nervousness
causeless depression and anxiety are all manifesta
lions u dyspepsia The best means of remedying
and restoring tranquility to brain and stomach
and OF regulating IL may be added. bilious secre-
ton, is to take awinegassful of Hosteters Stomach
Btters before meals during the day and before re-
firing. This course begun, reform In the direction
OF complete bodily weli-being has begun with it.
Constipation, sick headaches, neuralgia, rheumatism
and malariai complaints are among the troubles in
which the Btters is speedily and thoroughly bcne-
heiai. Don't delay, but take the sure course at
once. az
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WHEN THOU ART NEAR,

When thou art near, o my Beloved
How swiftly pass the happy days.
Oh! would that had but the power
TO keep thee by my side always.
One glance of thy dark tender eyes,
My throbbing heart with rapture thrills.
Thy voice, so soft, so sweet, so low,
My soul with heavenly music fills.
When thou art with me, cherished one,
Thy dear head pillowcd on my breast;
My cup of happiness o'erfiows,
IT'S then 1 feel most truly blest.
Forgotten then are dark sad hours,
Yea, long, long hours OF loneliness:
When all prayed for was thy love,
My heart to cheer, my life to bless.
May heaven speed that joyful day.
When thou t be given for aye to me:
When may claim as mine alone
Thy blessed love and sympathy.
seenaber 8. 1880. LEIGH LYNDON.
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AN ADDRESS.

I'm memory of Lydia H. SgourneyI
Lydia, you have won name, a crown,
Through misty clouds and darkness down
10 our present moment, the sweet songs OF your
heart
Have left their meaning, piercing through with the
dart
oflove and soul. They have raised us up to God
And though you now sleep under the sod
The goodness of your nature, aye sweeter far
Than the melodies OF your own Niagara CLEANS
like star
In our dark world, and would 'twere so conld to
day
Clasp yonr hand in love, 1 would remember IT
Away.
San Francisco. Nop, 1890 ALMA A1nrN
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MY NEW ENGLAND ROME.

A vision fair OF gu ct town
Memory brings to me tonight,
town on the banks of river C hill,
Asleep In the pale M oonli ght
Tall trees stand OH the river banks
Mirrored ghostly in depths below,
Green tangled wealth of blackberry vines
And goldenrod by the roadside grow,
Across the village street the eIms
Whisper together In voices low,
The moonlight soft ia sIlvery showers
On the brown earth falls like snow.
i see the white church on the hill,
And the clock In It's tall tower
With iron hands together clasped,
As 1t tolls the midnight hour
The moonlight is fading fast away,
MY home rs now by a tropic sea.
Outside my window are stately palms,
But my chlldhood's home Is dear to me-
December, 1880. GRACE HIBBARp
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Heligoland s,.mr.

During the last few days of the British
occupation of Heligoland postage slamns of
the island to the amount of several tbousand
marks were purchased by the numerous for
eHIsheis VINO were present on the island
Notwitnstanding this, however, when the
German officials took possession of the most.
office stock Of stamps was found of the
nominal value of $4,000 marks or e4o0o a
Berlin dealer has offered to take the whole
OF OF ot them en- at the full value, and pay down
the market price. The authorities how
ever, informed him that they could not i'm
mediately accept his offer, but must take
time to consider 1t. s"As
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HEARD ON THE STREET.

While walking along the street one night,
Along the busy street SO bright
There was something struck me as very queer
And that was the amount OF slang you hear
The rich, the poor. the young. the old,
The dude, the beggar, and the policeman bold
All shout Come off," :" You are crazyn
what are you giving us p" I" She's daisy"
"Give us rest" and Break away
Are all fair samples Of what they say,
San Jose, Nouem6er, 1890. CTH
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Some Beautiful Work on Glass
Produced by Skilled
WOrkmen.
PAINTING IN MINERAL CoLoRs.
Methods and Processes Employed
in Achieving the Oddities and
Triumphs of the EnameIer's Art.
Where the Enamel Proper in
the Highest and Best State
Comes From.

7HE art of enameling has been
VI k one of the leading arts in the
II Noornamentation of metals for
over three centuries.
An authority on the work In
& stances specimen which has
stood the test OF three hundred long years
and still retains tho original brilliancy of its
coloring. This statement, of course, is the
presumption that the design could not have
been more brilliant in its coloring when
first made rather than actual knowledge that
it was not.
Enamel is really fine grade of glass, and
if it is kent from as strong a heat as that
which originally melted it into the sp ace
prepared for it on metal article its only
other danger is breaksge, for like all glass
substances it is very brittle. 1t does not
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TIL. London olearinr-uous..

house for 1888 amounted to e22, $50. 600. IL
these transactions for single day were set
tied in coin, it would require 175 tons of
gold, or 27Sl tons of silver, while probably
the documents actually used did net weigh
more than hundredweight.-Th Gentle
mans Magazine.
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THR EE LETTERS.

l-MAREIA0E-
From out the midst OF old-time souvenirs
Three faded letters thrilled me with their touch
Conluriug from the vault of buried years
friend, whom once loved aud honcred much.
The while traced her words o. tender grace
Methought saw two eyes of dreamy gray,
Twin stars that beamed from out peach-blow face
And crowned a form like scuiptured EEterpe:
Her letter burned with loves impassioned strain
Its time and tune merry rondelay;
The dlmpling, flushing face untouched by palm,
Arose In girlish beauty, as that day,
When full OF joyous hope and rosy lie
She wrote to say that she'd be a wife.
1I-DEsERTIoN.
A few short years! but oh. the searching pain
That swept DER life, its desolatiag Dasti
waiting dirge floats out its sad refrain
From every line that chronicles the past.
pailid face with fearless, haunting eyes
Looks up al me from out the mournfui page
With frozen lids appraised In wan surprise,
BY sorrows alchemy transformed to age,
She pierced the rosy clouds that yelled her dreams;
Alas! no golden bridgeway sparked there
ger which TO reach Elysiun's promised streams;
In emptiness she breathed the Dead Sea air,
And crouching heaped Its ashes DER her life
And blasted hopes-a sad, deserted wifeI
uI-DEATH.
As when sudden ringing in the ears
Suggests the toll OF pas, sing funeral bell,
This bordered letter reused recOiiing fears
And froze me with basisk's sharp spell;
In unfamiliar characters It spoke,
And held my heart in check with Icy breath
Its tone somber requiem awoke
That swept across my soul with sirhs OF death;
My spirit gazed upon that girlish form,
So still and white within Its satin bed;
smiling calm ucceeded lifcs rough storm
And shed the oid-tIme beauty DER the deadi
dare not weep nor wish thee back again,
'Twere sweet release when love and hope are vainI
oakland CAL MARY LAMBERT
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Both An'<leS Crushed.

In a railroad smash up in 1876, had
both ankles badly crushed. Soon after
Blood Poison set in, and both legs, from
my knees down, were covered with ul-
cerated sores, that refused all efforts to
heal. [ was virtually helpless for ten
years, being bedridden most of the time.
During all the time I was attended by
the best physicians in this section of the
State, and must have taken cart load
of medicine, without receiving any re-
lief or being benefited in any way. In
1887 was induced to try Swift's.Specifc
IS. S. S. e mmenced to improve from
the first .9Je, and continued to get bet
ter, unit to day [ am as sound and
well as any man in the universe. This
was two years ago, since which have
had no return of sores or any pain in
the legs. From my experience | con-
scientiously believe that Swift's specific
IS. S. S. has no equal as blood puri-
fer, and 1 cheerfully recommend it to
any one suffering from any disease of
the blood Charles E. Hamilton,
Russellville, Indiana.
Treatise on Blood and Skin diseases
mailed free. SWIFT SPECIFIC Co.,
Atlanta, Ga.