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The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1891-08-01

LrGnTNISd played queer freak in 4
New Hampshire town. I; took off
the tail feathers of zach of twenty
hens sitting IN a rno,t, and affected a
rooster SO that he has not been able to
crow since
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1891-08-01

The charred remains of an infant
wore found in pile of burnt logs on
the farm of Frank Searcy, near Kear-
pey, Clay county.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1891-08-01

1t is said that half the patients in the
St. Louis hospital are shipped in by
outside towns to avoid the expense OF
keeping them
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1891-08-01

BosToS, July 26.-Receipts Of WOO,
the past week: 2a,6s4 bales domestic,
and S,5ls bales foreign. Sales, $780,
600 pounds domestic, and 40s, ,0oJ pounds
foreign.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1891-08-01

At Nevada a year-old colored child
was sick and fretful for several days
and while an examination was being
made it began vomiting. and threw ur
a green maple worm inches long. The
worm was alive and wriggling. The
mother says the child must have swal-
lowed it when she left it for short
time unattended.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1891-08-01

DIR. HINCkLE, of Americus. ia. has
piece of chinawarc 19l years old The
date, 100, is plainly stamped on the
bottom, and its only flaw is u broken
handle.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1891-08-01

John abel, ~ years of age, suffer
ing from cancer of the stomach, placed
his head on a rail in front of an engine,
in st. Louis, and was killed.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1891-08-01

TIE Italian government has taken
steps 10 restrict emigration 10y refusing
to allow minors to leave the country
except under certain conditions.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1891-08-01

HASNIRAL HANIIN's grandfather had
seventeen sons the eldest of whom were
named respectively Europe, Asia, a fri.
ca and America.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1891-08-01

Mrs. J. Witmire and boy nameo
Cord FessennOr were thrown from a
buggy while out driving in Sedalia, and
received injuries that may prove fatal
to the woman. The boys collar bone
was broken.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1891-08-01

sessment of 1890 of 81. O46.6O. The
number of miles of railroad in opera
tion in the state on June ], $500, sub
ject to taxation for 1891, was 5,90l.63
which shows IN average assessed value
of $40, $50. .OaO3 per mile. including roll
ing stock, buildings on right of way
and bridges, which is all used wholly
In the operation Of the railroads and
considered as railroad property for the
ptirpOscs of taxation
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1891-08-01

The Confederacy's Daughters will ex.
pend funds TO supply necessaries for
the confederate home. This was de.
cided upon at the St Louis meeting.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1891-08-01

The iewelry store Of Ed Wall. at 81. 10.
seph, NO., was forced open and robbed OF
81 900 Of goods while the proprietor was q
lunch. He was only gone sttsea miuasse
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1891-08-01

A woMASat Sabinsville. pa., counted
the stitches as she knitted quilt,
There were nearly UJ0 0l0.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1891-08-01

Seventy-fve thousand dollars will be
expended in St. Louis to illuminate sho
streets during the fall festivities II
VIII be grand.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1891-08-01

Ton,cc" merchants handle Il larger
amount of ready money than any other
class of business men.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1891-08-01

J. Wilkes Powell, stenographer OF
]. J. Frey. of Sedalia, was drowned in
the swimming school at the natatorium
in Fort Worth. 1t is supposed to have
been caused by heart failure.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1891-08-01

State Auditor J. NJ. Seibert, who Is
member of the board of equalization
and ex-officio secretary, has completed
the work of tabulating the assessment
of the railroad bridges and telegraph
property of the state, and laid the same
before the board. The values fixed by
the board last year and this year are as
follows:
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1891-08-01
Poor Thing.

Mrs. Ellen Miller, of St Louis, at
tempted suicide by jumping into the
river. but was rescued. She was ad-
dicted to the use of strong drink.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1891-08-01

John Edward Brady, of st. Louis,
wound up course of neglect and abuse
of his wife by a deadly assault with a
hatchet He is in Jail and his wife may
die.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-08-23
RdisinU the Curtain.

inch wide, running the full width of the
shade; cut two lengths of tape, each half
inch wide and four feet long; tack one end
OF one piece of tape to the extreme left of
the wooden roller and carry it down on a
slight angle and fasten to the top of the
shade-to this thin, firm top bar at point
about five inches from the left-hand side.
Adjust the other tape by tack at the ex-
treme right-hand of the roller and carry it to
the shade bar below slightly inclined to the.
left, striking the bar as with the left-hand
tape about four inches from the end The
shade is thus suspended yard or so from
the roller. When the roller revolves it
turns the tape about it, preserving a paral-
lei spiral arrangement which distributes the
tape evenly about the roller when the shade
is drawn up. If properly attached to the
shade there is nothing Objectionable in its
appearance. The tape should be of the color
OF the roller, and the roller should be stained
and vanished as neatly as q curtain pole.
IT BEATS AN ALARM CLOCK.
The other day we heard truthful man
tell of bed that is worth dozen alarm
clocks 1t worked by machinery. You 90
to bed, set the movement at o'clock, and
at sharp, rollers from underneath do
lively massage movement and undulate the
mattress like ship in a chop sea, This
thing is kept up for a minute, and then the
bed firmly ascends, and if you are not
awakened by the bumpers in the massage
aot, you will surely be wide awake when
deposited on your head and slowly asphyxi-
ated.
For years and years we have been hang
ing curtains over poles, fixed at the top of a
window or brackets. A clever scheme now
is to put the pole about foot below the
top of the window and fill in the corners
with brass work.
Two events of great industrial Importance
happened last month. First, the organiza-
tion of factory to make Brussels lace cur
tain In Philadelphia, the first factory of the
kind ever started in America. Second, the
establishment of mill in Camden, n. J.,
to make Tambour curtains, like those man
ufactured in Switzerland. This industry
has never heretofore been done in America.
Both industries are the direct result of tariff
which placed protective duty
upon these goods.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-08-23
BLAINE's FLORENCE DOCTOR.
Something About the Man Made Famou
by Newspaper Comment.

Something About the Man Made Famous
by Newspaper Comment.
The American doctor from Florence,
Italy, who treated Blaine while the latter
was in Italy, has created quite q stir in
America In appearance DR.. William
Wilberforce Baldwin is most prepossessing,
having finely shaped head and bearing in
his countenance the marks of strong char
acter. His eyes are dark and piercing, and
you feel at the instant of meeting him his
wonderful intuition, his firmness and alert
ness. .
The man commands at once your respect
and admiration, and you recognize also hi,
common sense and tact As physician his
skill Is unquestioned, and during his vaca-
tions, instead of taking the rest he so much
needs, he goes to the hospitals in Vienna
and London and keeps up with eyery
new thought in the medical. world.
With an immense practice, he is a very
busy man, and rises at 6 o'clock, or often
earlier, every morning. His friends in
Florence say that he is generally So ab-
sorbed in the contents of some medical Jour.
nal as he goes his daily rounds that they
seldom have bow of. recognition; in fact.
he has anything but a dolce far niente
existence, and his services are in great
demand not only by the American tourists
and residents In the fair city on the
Arno, but by the English and Italian aris-
tocrats.
1t may be remembered that several years
ago Mrs. Astor was dangerously i'll in
Florence-so i'll that her life was despaired
of All the skill of the English and Italian
doctors availed nought, and she was rapid
ly sinking, when some one suggested that
the young American physician, DR..
Baldwin, be called. This was done, with
most happy results, and ever since that
time DIR. Baldwin has been a personal
friend of the Astor family. He wears,
with just pride, most valuable pear
shaped pearl scarf pin presented to him by
Mr.. Astor. 1t is a rare and costly gem and
greatly admired. DR. Baldwin also counts
among his friends the Duchess of Teck,
cousin of Queen Victoria. and he has several
times been invited to visit the Teck family
at their home
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-08-23
sT0KERS OF AN OCEAN RACER.
Awful Picture to Be Witnessed In the
Depths of the Great Vessels.
New York WOrld.1

Awful Picture to Be Witnessed In the
Depths of the Great Vessels.
New York World.l
In the stoke room, under the splintering
silver of the electric lamp cones of light
illuminate great spaces garishly, and leave
others in unbroken masses of shadow.
Through bulkhead doors the red and gold of
the furnaces checker the reeking floor, and the
tremulous roar of the Gagged fires dominates
the sibilant splutter of the steam Figures,
nearly naked, gritty and black with coal,
and pasty with ashes, and soaked with
sweat, come and 60 in the blazing light and
in half gloom, and seem like nightmares
from fantastic tales of demonolgy.
When the furnace doors are opened
thirsty tongues of fire gush out, blue spirals
of gas spit and reel over the bubbling mass
of fuel and great sheets of flame suck half
burnt carbon over the quivering fire wall
into the fues. With averted heads and
smoking bodies the stokers shoot their slice
bars through the melting hillocks and twist
and turn them until they undulate like SER
perts. The iron tools blister their hands,
the roaring furnaces scar their bodies, their
chests heave like those of spent swimmers,
their eyes tingle in parched sockets-but
work they must, there is no escape, no holi-
day in this maddening limbo. Steam must
be kept up and cruel record must be low
cred,
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-08-23

times screen the bottom part of a window
and admit at the same time q full flood Of
light at the top, specially if her bureau
glass may be near the window; for, If she
pulls down the shade when dressing, she
shuts off a quite necessary light. Then
again, if of an evening, when the room is
heated by the lights, one attempts to let in
air by lowering the top window, the wind
blows the window shade in all directions.
II they let the shade go up to the top of the
window, they admit the neighborhood to
their privacy These needs have been met
at various times by the arrangement of q
roller which may be fastened along guide
ropes or tracks upon which it travels, at
auy point from the top to the bottom of
window easement. But the simplest way
you can possibly arrange a shade is the way
we illustrate:
The shade is not tackled to the roller,
which is usually the case, but is provided at
the top with bar of sheet iron as thin as
the average cardboard and one-eighth of an
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-08-23
ASPARAGUS AND cAUL1FLowER
Sydney Smiths Recipe for Q salat

Sydney Smiths Recipe for Q Salad.
To make this condiment your poet begs
The pounded yellow of two hard-boiled
Two boiled potatoes. passed through kitcher
sieve
Smoothness and softness to the salad give
Let onion atoms wink within the bowl
And half suspected, animate the whole;
or mordant mustard add single spoon,
Distrust the condiment that bites toe
But deem it not. thou man of herbs, fault
To add double quantity of salt.
Four times the spoon with oil Of Lucca
And twice with vinegar procured from
town,
A magic soupscon of anchovy sauce.
o! green and gloriousl o! herbaceous treat
'Twould tempt the dying anchorite to cat!
Back to the world would turn his feeting
soul,
/ To plunge his finger in salad bowli
Serenely full, the epicure would say,
Fate cannot harm me, I have dined to
day.
For Lobster Salad.
Take, take Holsters and lettuces
Mind that they send you the fish that you
order;
Take, take decent-sfzed salad bowl,
One that's sufficiently deep in the border
Cut into many a slice,
All of the fish that's nice.
Place in the bowl with due neatness and
order.
Then hard-boiled eggs you may
Add in a neat array,
All toward the bowl, just by way Of q
border.
Take from the cellar Of salt a proportion.
Take from the castors both pepper and OIL
With vinegar, too-but q moderate portion,
Too much of acid your salad will spoil;
Mix them together,
You need not mind whether
You blend them exactly in apple-pie order,
But when you've stirred away,
Mix up the whole you may,
All but the eggs which are used Is q
border.
Take take plenty of seasoning;
A teaspoonful of parsley that's chopped in
small pieces
Though, though the point will bear reason
ing,
A small taste of onion the flavor increases.
As the sauce curdle may,
Should it, the process stay.
Patiently do 1t again in good order,
For if you chance to spoil
Vinegar, eggs and oil,
Still to proceed would on lunacy border
M. E. W. SHERWOOD.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-08-23
MANY NEW FABRICS.
Importers Have a Greater Variety
for Decorations Than Ever.
THE NEW STYLES In CURTAINS.
AcKinley's Tariff Law Starts Up Two New
American Indus tries.
HANGING SHADES FOR THE BoUDo1R
rrsoM THE UrRoLsrEREn.I


1t was great month-last month-for the
decorative trades of America. The import
ers showed all their new fabrics from the
European and American workshops, and the
immense variety was something bewildering
to the eye of the average man, who in a
vague way, supposes that there are two
kinds of lace curtains, Nottinghams for the
poor and Brussels for the rich. Muslin
covers and bed sets are being brought out
embroidered in white, red and blue cord
like figures. These sets include curtains,
spreads, pillow shams, bed lambrequins,
bureau scarfs, tides and mats. A novel
thing introduced recently, in lace curtains,
Is Brussels of an amber hue, the embroider-
ing being done in rich brown silk. This is
decidedly different from the ordinary Brus-
sells with net and white embroidering.
A novel thing in portieres is made on the
order of the Japanese bead or reed portieres
1t consists of long silk cords, upon which
are strung round or oval moles, overthrown
with silk and arranged on the cords in q
manner to form designs, letters or figures.
We saw the other day an exceedingly good
thing in wall paper frieze. The design
showed shelf effect with little colonial
railing about it, relieved here and there by
a realistic figure or PLAGUE pattern on the
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-08-23

shelf. This comes in an 1S inch wide frieze
and in variety OF colori6gs, so that it could
be applied to almost any wall paper Moth
ing is more unsightly than the gaping re-
cess beneath the bed. In some houses they
drape the bed clothes down to the floor, but
this is not always practical. A clever ar
rangement can be accomplished by looping
along upon a curtain rod, beneath the bed,
any light fabric like a cotton pongee.
PRINCIPLES OF DECORATION.
The great trouble with folks is that when
they attempt to arrange the movable artl-
cles of room-the bric-a-brac, pictures and
such things-they don't know what they
are after. They don't understand what L
may be permitted to designate the theory of
arrangement; and results are consequently
aphazard-sometimes good and sometimes
bad. Now, the human face preserves GER
tain defined rules Of expression that can be
literally followed in matters of house dec
oratioh. Thus:
When the lines which form the mouth
and eyes remain parallel with the lines of
the nose, then the face is in what 1 should
call repose; when the lines are heightened
to form downward angles, the face expresses
joy; when heightened to form upward
angles, grief is depicted. Apply these
principles to your home surroundings and
the expression will be the same. Straight
lines, as well as curved lines, produce the
effect of solidity, durability and support
This is constructed axiom, accepted from
the earliest ages. On this principle wains-
cotings, doors and mantels are built in
straight and curved lines. But it would be
manifestly wrong to furnish a mantel with
ornaments whose tops or proportions would
give a rounding or straight effect, unless
you desire such room to be stiff and prim.
The poplar tree, with its up-shooting
branches forming down-pointing angles, has
a look of. cheerfulness about it, while the
willow. with its dropping branches forming
up-turning angles, produces quite An oppo-
site effect, and in all countries typifes
and sadness. If. in the putting
up of decorations, we see to it that lines
from the tops of the different objects with
which we are to decorate mantel form
angles pointing downward, then the effect
produced will be cheerful. If the points of
the article point upward, the effect will be.
STYLE IN THE WHITE HOUSE.
1t has been announced officially, or as
officially as such thing is possible, that
of a decorative character which
goes into the White House from now on
would be of American manufacture and it |
seems pity that with this very Iaudable |
and patriotic annunciation the designs
should have to be all foreign. Everything
in the White House decorations are Louis |
XIV Louis XV Colonial or Adam the |
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-08-23


buildings has hitherto been its highest use,
but now it takes out wrinkles. Faded beau
ties who have watched with apprehension
the coming of crowsfeet may take heart of
grace and go to Mdme Evelyn, 13 Vigo street,
London. She will smooth away all the lines
of care with a sponge charged with electric
ity, and freckles and all other face blemishes
go with them. The sensation produced by
the sponging is, 1 am told, extremely
pleasant, and acts as refresher 1t must
indeed be refreshing to fnd-if you are
really very anxious to improve your beauty
that even Times hideous marks can be
wiped away. But that this is done by cleo
tricity. which has given the light so muck
dreaded by the beauties compelled to seek
the shade, is another curious work
ing of the law of compensation.
If there is one thing that should make a
woman have hopeless sort of feeling, it
would be, one would think, scraggy arms,
especially now that the long sleeves fashion,
which has permitted their concealment, are
going out of style, barring the scraggy arm
In all its ugliness. But even the scraggy
arm can be cured by the lady. This is
piece of public benefaction compared with
which the making of two blades of grass
grow where one grew before sinks into in
significance
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-08-23
TIE CHAUTAUQUA REFORM IDEA
It Will Fail Because Sentiment Cannot
Be Formed by Legislation.

1t Will Fail Because Sentiment Cannot
Be Formed by Legislation.
If we understood in the least, says Ada
Bache Cone, popular fashion writer, the
demands which taste makes on dress we
should not now be agitating the question of
proper dress for business women. Anal
ogy ought to teach us that the dress suited
to a particular kind of labor must be
evolved, and cannot be adopted or imposed.
The bloomer costume failed because it
was offered for adoption to women who had
no use for it. 1t was not for itself that it was
ridiculed, but because it was incongruous
with the habits of life of those for whom it
was designed. When an unusual garment
harmonizes with its environment it is fol-
lowed by no ridicule; q woman on battle
field in a soldiers dress would not be
laughed at. People laugh when they per-
ceive an incongruity.
You cannot adopt business woman's dress
by act of convention or recommendation of
committee. If you do, no one but crank
here and there will wear it. Such proceed
ing is on a par with that enlightenment which
would vote for national fower-as if all
the sentiment in the idea must not come
from the flower having grown out of the old
root of some ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS is to say,
some racial tradition, which ground for
sprouting we have not yet ploughed In
these matters sentiment must pronounce
first, and intelligence coming after may ap-
prove, but you cannot produce sentiment by
vote This subject is inexperienced by so
many intelligent people that should REIN
force my assertion and will quote Carlyle.
Speaking of the constitution which the Con-
stituent Assembly framed for adoption
by the French people, Carlyle says: '"The
that men will five under, is the one which
images their convictions. Other laws,
ready made, are usurpation, which men do
not obey, but rebel against and abolish at
their earliest convenience"
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-08-23
GILMoRE's LATEs T IMPOSITION,
A Prediction That He Will Give the Street
Arabs Another Tune to Whistle.

A Prediction That He Will Give the Street
Arabs Another Tune to Whistle.
st. Louis Globe-Democrat.1
This fall the street boy and the amateur
musician will revel in brand new tune.
Gilmore has the reputation Of being the
best public musical taste creator the world
has ever seen, and the way he inflicted
unoffending population will never be for
gotten. This year he has in practice the
'Latchkey March, q new French importa-
tion, with the most fascinating airs in it,
and this is almost certain to be his stock
encore piece this Exposition.
1t is a very remarkable production, with
great variations in time and tone, and after
playing it or listening to it few times
the desire to whistle the air is overpower-
ing.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-08-23

thing for the beauty
who loves neatness
in her boudoir. 1t
is made of white
c a m b ric and
trimmed with in
sertions and rumes
of embroidery. The
neck is furnished
with a sailor collar.
All the ladies
now are hammock
mad, says the st.
Louis Post Dispatch,
for the fad is for
9 ,ch stay-at-home
girl to have a ham,
mock in her room,
where she can idle,
reld and chat with
delicious abandon.
"Cone over and
share my hammock
this afternoon" is
the fsvorite invita-
ton of the st. Louis
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-08-23

The model is of chine
light green and white
striped tafeta, COM
bined with light
green crepe de chine.
The coat basque and
the back of the skirt
are of taffeta, the
front or inner skirt
being of crepe de
chine, crossed by
three open work in
sertions. Two simi-
lar insertions are in
the skirt of the coat.
A pleated shirt front
of crepe de chine
with jabot frills is in
the front of the coat.
-HG'pcr's Bazaar gives
the patterns for this
costume.
The wond erful
ipower of electricity
!is at last being di-
frected to a worthy
end. The lighting of
our streets and public
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-08-23

= - --NAN y VI AA-G
dependent upon the
temper of her horse.
She can only leave
the saddle with diff.
Guilty, q drawback,
that in case of a fail
or stumble, is often
attended with ser
ious consequences.
Only the LETT thigh
can prompt or lead
the horses move
ments, so the riding
whip is an indis-
pensable addition to
her outfit. Conse-
quently our ladies
are only provided
with one spur for
the left foot, whilst