, 1890-10-02

Girls Taking n Healthy Outing.
A party of sixteen young New York
girls, with one or two fathers as chap
erons, are taking a delightful pedestrian
our through the Catskills. They climb
mountains or tramp through forests
with equal ease and grace. Their pretty
outing costumes, OF every artistic com
bination known to the feminine fancy,
make a picturesque scene with the hills
for a background, and the fathers are
allowed neglige outfits and every posi-
BILE indulgence New York Ledger.
An Experienced Yorker.
Quiclpen IA bookkeeper) Hello,
Thumper, where TO?
Thumper IA typewritist)-I'm going
for IA months vacation. I've just been
discharged by Closefist to make roomfor
a young m at a smaller salary. I'll
have my old place back in about a month.
Quickpen-Think SO?
Thumper-Oh, yes. She'll marry him
by that time and after that she'll make
him employ a man.-Street & Smiths
Good News.
Mrs. Deborah Powers, of Kingston,
N. Y. has recently celebrated her Tooth
birthday. She is n remarkable woman
in many respects, and is reputed to be
worth 5000, 900. She is the senior
partner in the banking firm of d. Powers
& Son, of Lansingburg, and since 1928
has managed an extensive oilcloth man
ufactory started by her husband. Her
sight is slightly affected, but otherwise
hnr Fa,r1t9aa - ,n,,,-n3-nI ,-I ,Ia
takes an active interest in all her large
business investments.
Women who belong Il the society
which prevents wearing birds or feathers
will have to do penance this winter, as
feathers are to be used as lavishly as
flowers have been during the summer,
as many ms twenty sometimes being used
on a single hat. Swallows are the birds
mostly used, while blackbirds are still
perched on some ~chapeaux, and short
ruches for everyday use are to be bought
at the milliner's and must match the
feathers on the hat.
The late DR.. Henry Muirhead, of
Bushy Hill, Cambuslang, has left the
greater part of his estate for the founda-
ton of n college in Glasgow for the
higher education of mn in physical,
biological and medical sciences, IN
what on the lines of Anderson's college.
The exact amount of the bequest has not
yet beer definitely ascertained, but it is
stated that it is likely to be between
SEQ, 900 and $780, 900.
Ono Of tho moot afFactirya co,ca;+s tbot
has appeared in woman's dress for a long
time is the use of white woods for au-
tumn wear. The idea is gaining popu-
lar favor every day, and the result affords
a noticeable relief from the influx of
black and dark toilets usual upon the
first suggestion of cool weather.
Mrs. S. G. Waer, who controlled the
Columbus (Miss,) Dispatch successfully
for many years, and brought it to the
front rank of Mississippi Journals. has
resumed the ownership and manage
men of the paper, the man to whom
she sold it having failed and suspended
publication.
Mrs. Laura j. Eisenhuth, the Demo
cratic candidate for superintendent of
education in North Dakota, was for
eleven years a teacher in the Iowa pub
lie schools, and is about 32 years of age.
When mackerel or other fish in brine
is bought care must be taken to keep the
brine over the fish. An earthen plate
laid over the fish, kept in place by a clean
stone, answers the purpose nicely.
Worlds Fair President John NJ. Palm
err has been asked to appoint DR.. Julia
Holmes Smith, DIR. Frances Dickinson
and Catherine V. White three of the
nine Chicago commissioners.
The first colored graduate from the
department of music of the University
of Pennsylvania is Miss Ida E. Bowser.
She is an accomplished violinist and has
written seN eral short sonatas.
Jean Ingelow, who is so years old,
lives in retirement with her mother at
Kensinston. England. She writes but
little, ami devotes much of her time and
income to charitable work.
Mr.. c. B. Jones, of Spring Hill, Iowa,
says: Il have used Chamberlain Pain
Balm for severe and painful burns with
better effect than anything | have ever
tried. 1t relieves the pain instantly and
cures without leaving a scar" Pain Balm
is one OF the most useful medicines that any
family can be provided with, especially
TOR rheumatism, lame back, sprains.
bruises, tooth-ache, ear ache and like all
ments. One application will relieve the
pain and a fair trial insure a cure. SO
cent bottles for sale by w. N. Hunt.
All kinds OF fruit for preserving at tn,
lC. Q. G.