Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1894-05-01
mAkIRu DOLLS EYES.

MARKING DOLLS EYES.
 How Queen Victoria Set This Fashion in
 England.
 Who would think of such thing as a queen deciding the color of the dolls eyes within her kingdom?
 Such thing has been done-not by royal edict, however, but simply by having her own eyes set the fashion.
 When Victoria became queen of En- gland more than fifty years ago, she was fair and young, with very blue eyes, whereupon blue eyes became all the fashion, and all the loyal doll makers of her kingdom began sending b1ue-eyed dolls from their factories
 In Italy and Spain, where all the great beauties have olive skins and dark handsome eyes, a blonde doll is not common sight. Japanese dolls in their heads aslant, while the gayly dressed dolly from Singapore looks from her copper-oolored face with a pair of coquettish black eyes, quite different in expression from either the Spanish or Chinese beauties.
 The making of dolls eyes seems a funny trade, and yet there are many thousands of dollars spent in this one item of don-making every year.
 Dolls are SC perfectly made and seem so individual in themselves that it is hard to realize that each one passes through as many as five or six handa before she comes into possession of all her members
 There are head makers, arm and leg makers, wig makers, eye makers, body cutters, sewers and stuffers-not to mention dressmaAars and milliners who never sew stitch for living per. son, but spend all their skill upon de- signing and making doll dresses and l headgear.
 When dolly has any vocal or other accomplishments, of course other work men have a hand in her makeup. If she calls mamma" and papa" and recites Little Boy Blue," as many do. a special and delicate bit of machinery goes in within the stuifing and the dolly that has speeches or sGngs shut up within her bosom bears very decided likeness to a real baby, and, indeed, in at least two respects the doll has the advantaGe-sh never speaks unless she is bidden, and sine can be depended l upon UO Say tHS cOtfcCt buiug. WHICH IS 1 scarcely true of most babies we have met.-N. Y. Commercial Advertiser grhe island of Manhattan, which was purchased by the Dutch for about 1 e24, was surrendered te the English in ] 1864. At that time New York City had but l. 300 people, most of them speak ing the Dutch language. Until the revolution New York was not so large town as Boston. Philadelphia, which l was started later than the other lead ing cities, grew fast and became the greatest of all the cities in the colonies
 The Sunday laws were rigidly en- forced in the New England colonies For more than one hundred years after l the settlement of Massachusetts people were not allowed to sit on Boston 1 Common, to walk in the streets, except to church, nor to take breath of air on hot Sunday by the seashore in front of their own doors. Two young I people were arrested in Connecticut | for sitting together on Sunday under tree in an orchard!
 Since his retirement Mir. Gladstone has received many hundreds of tributes ! AfOul aObCIe tAG U O41JSo Kingdom. and the gifts are still pour ing in. He has received several dozen walking canes and um brellas A num- Der of admirers clubbed together and sent him handsome armchair, and many more pretentious presents have come to him. The tributes have been entirely spontaneous. no suggestion of such thing having been made fn the newspapers until their number became notable.
 A singular alteration of the side arms of marines on board English ] ships is reported. It appears that the I bayonets belonging to the marines have, in many cases, become highly magnetized through contact with, or close proximity to. dynamos, and the result is that compasses have become affected by sentries passing near them when wearing these sidearms. An order has been issued that in future sentries are not to wear sidearms when on duty in the neighborhood of dyna- mos, and 1t is Sx4 Esd that this will