The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1891-04-07
THE ADVOCATE.
PEN. SCISSORS ANp PASTE.

Of the New York police force ll6
are laid up with la grippe.
Now the dear girls are wearing
studs and buttons of enameled gold.
Sandwiches of foie gras with egg-nog
is smart bite to serve the afternoon
visitor.
Women are shorter now than at any
time in the last ten years, all because
of the low-heeled English walking
shoes.
All the collars and cuffs on jackets
and wraps flare. They are braided
and the loops are tackled down with
buttons.
Fancy putting bottle of champagne
in 800 silver holder! That is what
some Of the descendants of Cresus are
doing at stag and bridal spreads.
The new face vail has only one
beauty spot, and to the locker on
comes the recurring thought, did the
other patches blow or fall off?
Small potatoes with cream sauce is
the popular form for ice cream just at
present. Individual creams of this
sort are So dozen.
The world of womankind is hunting |
New York high and low for green
gold snake-pins to wear at the neck or
hold drapery.- Sadly enough, the mar
-ketis.ss bare, I reptiles as it is Of June
bugs.
There about 200 tea-tasters In New
York City, well-paid class of men,
says the Sun, most of whom in the
course of nature will die of kidney
disease superinduced by their I'M
wholesome occupation.
The greatest meat eaters in the
world are the people of America
whose average consumption is IT'S
pounds per annum. The English
come next, with an average of "a little
over ITO pounds. The French eat
only half as much meat as the Eng
lish.
La grippe is prevalent to a great
extent in Chicago. All classes are
afflicted with the disease and consid-
cradle inconvenience is experienced in
various lines of business on account of
the large number of business men laid
up with this malady.
Louis A. Monroe, aged 65, of De-
troit, was married the other day for
tho Z r. wonder. LaierrEied his bride
mast time. ne -nIasnsx: fur F9Lt
through matrimonial agency,S OF art
was so happy that when the ceremohroul
was completed he threw up his hands =
and exclaimed: "Bless the Lord. g
Amenp |
President Harrison has given the U. I
S. Marine Band permission to visit /!
some of the principal cities and give
grand concerts, a favor never before !
granted them. They will appear at I
Music Hall, Boston, April 3, with {
Mile. Marie Decca, famous English
prima donna, as soloist.
A most beautiful cloth from which
church and promenade costumes are
designed, is alphabetically nailed
with metal. Steel-gray is one of the =,
favorite shades, over which, at inter- ,
walls of one inch, are small steel tacks.
The same ornamentation is put OH
brown cloth and the entire costume is
fashioned from it. A year or SO ago
this nailed material would have been
objected to on account of weight, but
now no underskirts are worn and the
novelty is approved.
Joseph Perrin, a bachelor aged So |
years, owner of the Gratiot Touring q
mills in Detroit, and reported worth 7
was kidnapped lately. He
went to see a friend on a fictitious |
summons to his deathbed, and has not i
again been seen. His nephew, Albert '
Hasselbacher, has received a note &
from Perrin, imploring him to get a '
check for $4,000 cashed and deliver /
1t to his captors as the ransom de- i
manded. The handwriting on check C
and note is pronounced to be Perrin's. 1
A letter from his captors is unmistaka- q
bly, pronounced in an Italian hand. 7
Considerable astonishment was Gre a
ared the other day by the declaration b
of railroad engineer in the testimony t
with regard TO the Fourth Avenue a
Tunnel disaster in New York City {
that he would prefer to run through q
black darkness rather than through n