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The Forrest City times., 1891-09-04

small The temperature Of the waters of New England from the middle of June until the middle of September, is, as a rule, warm. but it is not the warmth of those at Long Branch, for instance. where they are almost tepid. Theirs is a real, healthy warmth that requires . little exercise in order fully to enjoy them and obtain healthful results. The bathing suits of Puritan maid ems are in all colors. some blue as old ocean, or scarlet as Holsters. and look ing very much like those animals mak- ing one's eyes ache to gaze on them; some arc of green, and yellow, and brilliant tartan plaid. and the impress sive sable suits that are so popalar | cause one to fancy wildly that whole | theater full of Nadjie has escaped and | taken to the sea, like the rats of the | Pied Piper
 Some of the silk bathing suits are el- egant. One, seen at Narragansett Pier the other day, was very striking af- | fair of black corded silk. It had two skirts, and was trimmed most elabo- | rately with jet ia most inappropriate | garniturcl. It was very pret y, how | ever, to look at, as the wet jet glinted and glistened in the sunshine. Another modern Naiad splashcd and l sported in costume imported from l Dieppe 1t was of blue and white l striped stuff. relieved with rows of red braid, The waist and skirt were in one piece, fastening in front over d | striped red vest. A wide straw hat, | trimmed with blue and white striped l silk, was tied under the chin with /! silken ties.
 | xyhfta ,yAAl
 rather dainty, having short rufled skirt and puffed | elbow sleeves, wide girdle and rutiied | collar.
 ! I could not help thinking of white l spring chicken, however, every time l looked at the young lady who wore 1t, | for the reason that she wore long vel | low stockings, and am sure that you l can imagine how apt the comparison
 might be.
 l have studied carefully the effect of
 color in the water, and l find nothing | is prettier than green in the light
 shades It seems to blend so beauti- | fully with tho colors i'll the waves which
 reflect the glorious sunlight. It is | moreover very becoming to the drip ping wearer of whatever complexion
 she may be; it makes the skin look
 very white and fair and is really the | most desirable of colors for the pur- pose.
 | noticed one last week from which
 l drew my conclusion. It was of soft
 wool, in two kinds-plain green and
 white, with green polka dots. It had
 short gathered trousers of plain green,
 with little spotted ruhe about the
 knees. There were three skirts of
 alternate plain and spotted stuff. They were very full. and were edged with
 narrow green braid. The gathered
 bodice was of plain green, with a wide ruffie of spotted stuff about the rather
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naturally, all hands, the impresarii, machinists, scene painters, etc, put their wits to work Gin most cases with succcssl to gratify his taste. Each new spectacular piece reveals to us some novel innovation. and, in truth, 1t IS an occupation not without interest or util- ity to study the notifications and i'm provements that have been made in time in the same scenic effect.
 Let us take, for example, the rep resentation of fires, in the thcater. Formerly, as in Mignon, or in the Prophet, some flames of lycopodium and some red Bengal lights sufiiced to satisfy everybody. Great improve ments have been made since, and in re- cent years the slSillful stage mounters of the opera-housc have twice shown us first in Sigurd, and but few days afterwards in the Magian, Mir. Mas sent's new opera) contlagrations that have been improved to such q degree as to be capable of wing with real fires, as far as effect is concerned. In this regard the setting of the Ma gian is particularly remarkable. We are at the last act of the drama The temple of Djahi is in ruins The Tu- ranians have burned it. Alone stands intact the triumphant statue of the goddess, before whom like smoke of incense, rise puffs of bluish vapor from the rubbish The Magian Larastra contcrnptates the pile of debris with horror. and near him stands Anahita, the queen of Turan. Meanwhile, the priestess of the temple, Ware dah, mortally wounded and lv- ing prone upon the earth. revives and, seeing Zarastra triumphant near her rival. invokes the Diahi in a burst of fury. The latter obeys her voice. The fire, which is still smoldering under the ashes, breaks out agaln. At first, the smoke becomes more intense, and its spirais. on rising in the air. become tinged with red. Then the flames soon reappear along the eorniees that are still in place, the statue gives way, the fire extends by degrees. and the stage is soon nothing but an immense glowing brazier, in which sparks are cracking, flames are flickering and smoke is curling.
 Now what is the secret of this wonderful stage mounting? It will be recalled that in Ssgurd the effect ob- tained is produced by jets of steam to which n rose color is given by means of Bengal lights. The steam under pressure enters through large conduits running under the stage and escapes through small tubes soldered to the supply pipes and traversipg the stage floor. The maneuver is executed by operating n cock. The inconvenience of the process lies in the loud strident noise made by the steam escaping into the air.
 In the Magian, where the orchestra music at the moment of the fire is rela- lively soft and low. this circumstance would have been most annoying. It therefore became necessary to find u means of producing the steam in abun- dance, while at the same time prevent ing noise being made by its escape. The difficulty was happily surmounted as follows:
 The steam generated by boiler is
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Caught on che Fly.

vase which it has taken four years to complete, has just been sent to Lon don from the MInton China manufac- tory. It was made by M Tolon, is val ued at s1 ,5o0, and is considered the handsomest thing of the kind that has ever been made. Venus, Bacchus and a group of Cupids are represented in the design.
 It has been estimated that one ton of coal gives enough ammonia to furnish about thirty pounds of crude sulphate, the present value of which is about a1c per ton, and there being 10, 900, 600 tons of coal annually distilled for gas, no less than 133,920 tons of su1phate, of the money value of El ,607, ,l4S, are pro duceG.
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lowed of the spreading of the steam,
 which soon filled all the parts beneath
 the stage. They are now made of gall
 vanized iron, and leakages are impos-
 sible.
 This new method of producing the illusion of a fire is not the only innova-
 tion made at the opera house apropos of the hrgian, says Paris writer. The method of initiating thunder has
 also been improved. In the third or
 mountain act, we sec terrible storm, the lightning flashes of which are as vivid and binding as those observed in | nature. They are produced in a very simple way, and are due to the sudden combustion, upon n highly heated grille, of d mixture of three parts of magnesium in powder and one part of chlorate of potash Zig. s). It is . similar process that is employed by photographers for taking instantane-
 ous pictures ut night. Com bined with the flames of lycopodium, these mag
 nesian flashes produce surprising effects of realism and far exceed any thing that can be obtained in this direc- tion with the electric spark
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low~cut neck The full sleeves were spotted, and came only to the elbow. and were finished with a rutfie of the same. Green silk stockings and white bathing shoes completed the dainty costume.
 The girl who wore it was beautiful with great laughing, saucy eyes and cherry lips. She wore a little silken handkerchief knotted over her ruddy locks when she appeared on the sands, but she snatched 1t off and tucked it into her belt as she plunged into a great foaming breaker and came up laughing and panting, with her skin shining like alabaster and her kinkv hair all wet and clinging and curling about her sweet forehead and little ears.
 Her motions in the water were full of poetic grace as she splashed her white arms about and fioated and swan in the opal waves. She attracted a deal of attention when she sprang out on the sand, all wet and limp and lovely, and her maid threw great, soft white wrap about her.
 Almost every third person that one meets at the seaside is gowned in china silk. There is nothing, in fact, that is so common. and yet one never tires of it. The gowns of it are as refined and dressy and distingue as if there were but one or two to look at. They are fresh and light and always elegant
 One that saw the other day in the yellow sunlight is we'll worth telling about A girl with the fairest of fair hair, and the sweetest of faces had it on. It was of white with large polka dots of yellow, and was trimmed with frills and frills of yellow silk The long coat was cut away at the front, and was frilled all round, the neck and sleeves being trimmed with frills also. The long skirt was cut in bell fashion and set out gracefully about the bottom. It was finished with fine yellow frills. An aggressive leg horn hat of generous size, trimmed with punches and loops of white gauge ribbon, was worn with the gown, as also was large parasol of the yellow spotted silk, trimmed with festooncd yellow frills.
 Another china silk that had every- thing its own way, as far as oddity was concerned, was of brilliant magenta color, which, as every one well knows, makes ell colors about it appear hid- eous. The girl who wore it evidently knew what she was about, like Jose |Dina e4 old. when shc sat on that a ol olenel Gyeen nofa h hsf nnpwy
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stood talking at the foot of the stairs with the girls husband, whom he had known slightly in college. Suddenly he looked up and saw her with her sad, sweet eyes and wonderous beauty He pulled on his friends arm, and said husky:
 Good God, Jack, there's Maud B--"'
 No" the other replied, "shes mar ried. you know"
 "Married!' and the first lover's face hardened. Do you know, Jack, that that is the only girl ever loved in my whole lifetime, and l know that there was time when she loved me- and his strong voice shook when he asked "whom did she marrv?" And the other answered.:
 ''She married me :" MARIE.
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The Editors Weak Point.

Future Greeley--''Have you any va. cancies on your editorial staff2' Busy Editor--"No, sir; no, sir. Good da --"
 Future Greeley I'm sorry you haven't, because it's my only chance tc get position in this town"
 Editor tsnspieiouslyl-- l--"Ehl Have you been working on the Daily Blower across the way? Did you come to me after being discharged from that mis. erahle sheeta"
 ''Oh, no, sir: never worked on tha, paper
 'soh. you didn'ta Then, l suppose you applied for position on its edi. torial staff, and
 Editorial staff?"
 "Yes-s
 Editorial staff Bless you, no. didn't suppose from the looks of the sheet that it had any"
 "Young man. your handl Sit down! Have a cigar. I'll see what I can do for you"
The Forrest City times., 1891-09-04
AN UNDERGROUND BOILER.
Alabama Has Another Natural Curt-
 osiay of Great Interest

The family of Raymond Malsch, a respectable German, owning small farm near Birmingham, Ala, was awakened a few nights since by the re port of tremendous explosion some where close at hand and iarring of their dwelling On rushing out they found the whole air heavy with steam, and it was not for some minutes that 1t was possible to discover what had taken place. It was then found that reut had been torn in the earth about 200 yards from the house and that from this hole was being thrown up jet of boiling water. The jet was as large as n stout mans body and was projected fully thirty feet into the air, rendering 1t dangerous to approach it.
 Huge volumes of steam also issued from the chasm and occasionally quan- tities of small stones were thrown out, when the shock of some snbterranean explosion could be felt At daylight the stream still flowed, though ex. pelled with less violence and greatly diminished size. and continued until late in the day, when it grew less ire quent and dwindling to thin spurt ceased altogether. Vegetation for a distance of over a hundred feet around the rent was entirely killed by the boiling water and injured for much greater distance by the clouds of steam.
 The ground surrounding the hole for several yards is still so warm that it is unpleasant to walk upon, and it has been difficult to measure the gap, but as near as can be aseertained it is about six feet in length and from four to five in width, being very irregular. The few who have ventured to ap- proach it report only dense darkness. broken occasionally by flash of light from water dashing apparently over q rock.
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Fashionss FOIlies.

Some of the beautiful tints in canary, tea roses, honeysuckle and corn-yellow are even more becoming to blondes than to brunettes, which is saving great deal
 The costume dinterieur is of mouse gray Sicilienne. The corsage has . blouse cut. and is fastened at the waist by three buttons. The vest is made of gold lace.
 A French seashore dress which came over with one of our American women. who went to London for the season and has now returned, was of most un- pretentious homespun, in shade light tan color.
 Chiffon cannot possibly be in greater favor. It is now produced in shot ef- fects, one pattern, for instance, being of pink shot with pale yellow, with rather wide selvege of yellow silk, thus accentuating that color.
 Among the extravagances of the hour is a necklace of pierced diamonds, each stone being strung like bead on fine wire. The necklace is worn close at the throat or is twisted as an orna- ment in the hair.
 Dress collars are worn either very, very high or they are not worn at all. There is really no medium. Of the high ones, the lowest are two inches. The highest are nine inches in the back and as high in front as woman's chin will permit.
 Low-throated dresses are everywhere worn and large share are collarless, with sometimes bit of passementerle in points, or band of ribbon as a sub stitute. Sometimes the void is lace. filled but many corsages are left empty and unrelieved.
 Green and white are much used to relieve black for day wear, and mauvc and yellow are the colors chosen for combining with black net or lace even ing dresses Only certain shades of green, however, unite with black in an artistic manner for day wear.
 It has become the style to trim hats in front underneath the crown brim. The pancake sailors are all provided with little crown piece underneath the brim, and this little false crown is used as vehicle for displaying fruit. flowers and folds of bright material.
 At the present time when metal trimmings are fashionable, it should be remembered that it is difficult to find any white wool goods on whicE gold or silver trimmings may be used without their becoming tarnished. This is due to the use of sulphur ir bleaching white goods
 New silks delightfully."- cool for gen tune hot weather wear are imported from Tussah, India. They have gray or pale cream grounds decorated with large dots, cubes, blocks or palms, in various colors. They have also stripes of delicate colOrs on ecru foundations.
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here again led by pipes as in Sigurd but instead of its being allowed to es' cape through thousand narrow ori' tices, it is made to pass into special ap- paratus large boxes in the shape of an isoceles triangle connected In pairs at the two extremities of the same Supply-pips, These boxes, which are fixed by the apex opposite the base of the triangle. have, at their point of attachment, considerable thickness, which gradually diminishcs in measure as the wide part of the ap- paratus is approached. At the base of tie triangle the thickness is greatly reduced, so that the steam, which is distributed throughout the whole ex- tent of the box. escapes without any noise, and throughout its width, through narrow oritice between the two faces of the apparatus. In the in terior of the boxes there are pieces of felt, the principal object of which is to absorb the drops of water carried along mechanically Zig. T..
 The advantage of this peculiar ar rangement, which at the opera house, was installed entirely by Mir. David, is that it permits of the disengagemento of steam everywhere where 1t is neces- sary. These boxes, in fact, are easily manipulated by two men, and hooks fixed to their surface permit of attaching them at will, and in an instant, along strip of light or elsewhere, abovessthe stage or on level with it. After simple coupling pipe has been connected with the steam con duit, the apparatus begins to operate.
 In the Magian, twenty-nine of these double boxes are employed. Seventeen are distributed over the stage at differ ent points and nearly up to the height of the soffit curtains. The twelve others are beneath the stage and the orifce whence the steam escapes and traverses the flooring.
 This system of confiagratiou. the ef- fleets of which are heightened by Ben gal lights, lycopcdium flames. variously colorcd jets of electric light, and small pieces of fireworks designed to stimu- late the leaping of the sparks produced by tho sinking of the statue, h not ab- eolutsly new. It has, In fact, alreody Len empAcyed at DFosden. axd n the
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A Power Hack Saw.

A powerful little machine for saving steel and other metal bars is. manufac- tured by the Millers Falls company, of New York city, and Is auapted to be run by belt One saw blade used in this machine will do much more work than one used by hand, as the speed and pressure are regulated and uni form. We have seen a steel ba. five inches in diameter that was cut quite clean by this machine. It may be used for cutting railroad rails. The machine runs at the rate of forty strokes min ute, and does it's work without atten- tiOn
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chair in full view of the spectators, spreads over her piece of tilmy silk, so gauzy that the outlines of her figure may be discerned through it, and while she is in this position he whisks off the silk. The chair is there; the lady has vanished.
 The explanatory details of this wonderful trick, which are not known by every tyro of the profession, would weary rather than instruct. have often experimented with the trick my self as curiosity. Suffice it to say that
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the elaborate mocha nical operations necessary for its production would al- most build locomotive, and yet they arc exhausted in hundred springs and bolts of steel, working like the springs of q watch, and all cooperating, with the aid of confederate working through a trap-door under the stage.
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one particular illusion as the most brilliant know, l should un-
 hesitatingly mention that of the vanishing lady, invented by Buatier
 de Kolta- The effect of the trick upon
 the spectator, the first time he sees 1t, is nothing short of marvellous. The performer brings forward Il lady to the front of the stage, seats her upon d
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Social Aspirations.

Jinks-'sThat fellow winkers is try ing to get in the Four Hundred, isn't hep
 Binks-'T don't know. Why do you think sop
 Jinks-"He has given up business, and has begun living on his wife's mo0ey.n
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PEEPS AT NAIAD QUEENS
MARIE OUTING DOWN AT THE
 SEASHORE.
She Tells About the Latest styles in Feminine Ba athinc Suits-A Lovely Gtrl Rather Seen Near old Oceans Roar.
--HAT IS THERE

IS THERE m o re enjoyable, m ore healthful, more invigora ting, more exhilarating, 2, than a plunge in the briny waves, and to swim grace fully and well?
 hile there is not as much bath ing and swimming along the New Eng land coast, north of Cape Cod, as there should be, still the number who dip and swim .
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SOME STAGE MECHANISM.
q PEEP BEHIND A MODERN
 THEATERs CURTAIN.
How 0ag Stage Fires are Produced Flashes of Lightning that Make tho Falling Water Drops Appear Like . Real Shower Of Rain

FACE MOUNT ing has become one of the most complex and re- fined of arts. The spectator, In fact, is no longer sat istied, as of old, with q vain illu. sion that his irnag~ ination is called upon to complete,
 but he requires a semblance of real ity capable of giv-
 ing him the sensa- tion of the genu- inc thing, and,
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Greek George, the wrestler, who went over to England to wrestle An- toiue Pierre and Tom Cannon, is stop pipg at Liverpool.
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Yole Dolan, the American ylgeon ahot won the lpternatiQpal 5wesp- ssks, l4llipg tsp ltFaisht be1e
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loafer, who was a familiar figure ip this town, is no more on earth. Yes torday we paid Henry Towner, the bop ular undertaken, S36 in cash for Reube's burial expenses, and his headboard 10 already set up in our private grave yard. It is marked No. 10.
 We had nothing in particular against Reube. While he had refused to sub scribe for the Kicker, we didn't lay it up against him. A man who can't read has no use for a newspaper. Two or three weeks ago, when we wroto brief local in regard to his biting Jim Smalls ear off, we didn't bear down on Reube very heavy. We said we tho ght he'd lived here long enough, and that he'd have to either skip or hang, but we made it rather light for him. Sunday afternoon Reu- 'sen found us in the United States hotel and spat in our hat and pulled our nose and slapped our jaws. That's where he made the mistake of his life. He thought we were a coyote, and he probably crossed the dark river still carrying that belief. We pulled on Reuben and dropped him in his trackk As in the nine other instances, we had him buried on our own lot, paid alt expenses, and shall keep the head board in good repair.
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SUED HIM FOR LIBEL.
THE ARIZONA KICKER IN
 TROUBLE AGAIN.
Pete Foster Wants Cash for Dcfama- ton or rCharactcr-Thc Coroner Wtll Bring Suit-The Editor ora COntems porary In Dlseracc-

E A R F $ Y E D again. Tfore is c certain el, lent in this town which ia a deep and lasting disgrace to it. IL is composed of men who haven't the sand to strike from
 the shoul d CT or pull a gun md let flicker. When the urs
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A HAPLEes CROOK.
Out ef One Prison Into Another 11la
 Fate.

i notorious George Miles of New York, recently sentenced to Sing Sing for nine years has had re- markable criminal career. As a gen.
 eral rule, when long term prisoner is released from his long confinement, he
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Ae sIAs Reuntaan,

Mother ssWhy don't you drink ysur eodarwater, potf'
 Ltsls oiil''ls ssatsAAs =, zsII
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Jink.' Son.

Wlnks-"Your son is mighty clever fellow, isn't hep
 Jinks (proudly)--.'Who told you sop Winks-'sHe did"
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1x1cmaatv TDln1<ao,

De Poker That stranger r n I1nG liah lord in disguixe.' 7 a' x K. pe Club < How s1o ron lfNnlu q X N IT. Hoker oH1&|<
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A Warm Day.

A warm O0ys Mothsr-"I'm afraid you'll catch cold If you ctt in that draught." Little Boy--"2ut mamma, I'll catch hot if don't.'
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Ne nanger.

Little Boy-s'Msmma, may eos swimming?''
 Mamma- -"I'm afraid you'll oeA drowned.
 Little Boy"Why. this isn't su..I day. x