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Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1894-06-03
AN EVENING GOWN.

An absolutely necessary part OF a sum
mer wardrobe Is gown 10 be worn In
the evening, but this can be made OF
the winters ball gowns carefully fresh
ened and with all elaborate trimmings
removed.
Then, too silk ginghams. cotton crepes'
or any inexpensive material can be made
up with fun plain skirt. and very simple
low-cut body. and the only trimming
necessary is either some lace for a bertha
or some ribbon for bertha and sash with
ends.
II one has all the money one wishes
to spend on clothes, q gown that Is emil
nently satisfactory IS grenadine or
gauze. This year this material comes IN
every conceivable design, the prettiest
those on which are embroidered colored
flowers. A gown OF this sort is very
cool. but the material itself Is expensive,
and must be made up over silk or SATIN
and needs also considerable trimming IN
the way OF ribbons II not laces as we'll
They are becoming, these gowns, to every
one but they are perishable and by no
means necessary II economy must be
consulted.
THE MATINEE AND THE TEA-GOWN.
A matinee or tea-gown must be on the
list. For this. India silk is the best ma
ter,al This can be made at home by
the aid of n paper pattern and a fairIy
rood seamstress. The styles vary very
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1894-06-03
ABOUT CIIFCKND TATTETAs.

black tullc with inside RULES oI White
tuIic.
ABOUT CHECKED TAFFETAS.
Tanota silk I'm small checks IS one of
tho conspicuous successes Of the season
Checks have become such a rage that
the buyer who must wear gown several
seasons may be well advised TO 60 SLOW
with thcm. FOR by tho law OF life OF "A
fashion they viii soon be run ont. Intro
duCcI last year I'm private circles, they
are being worn now by the most elegant
women. but also they have been repro
duccd for the multitude ia the cheapest
cottons and wools, which fact marks the
fatal disease I'm q mode. Next year they
will be seen on the multitude only, who
must wear out their ola clothes. This IS
the cycle of a fashion.
but for as long a time ae one does not
SEQ them reproduced I'm ugly. badly made,
cheap dress, worn ont OF place. there is
no better choice than checked taffeta for
an afternoon toilet J. has an air OF
simplicity and good taste. Also very
stylish blouse fronts are made Of the
black and white for wear with serge
gowns.
SOME HINTS TO DBESSNAKERs.
1t IS beginning 10 look as If the effort
% Introduce drapory skirts viii be n
failure Not one gown in fifty worn by
elegant women is drauel. which seems
20 prove that the women DO not want
them
Cropons are being made with over
skirts boy Felix. and Pacqun has made
many cloth costumes with overskrts
mdrape1, but somewhat shorter than
the skirt: some thin fabrics also for eve
ming wear are o. little drapc1. hut no
droseWaE'r is great enough to make the
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1894-06-03

GOWN OF PINK WASH-SILK AND
q "spriug season" IS a thing Of the past
I'm our climate. Winter stays-ihat i,
cool ycathcr-tOo cool 10 wear any puO
pght voolcn gowus-untl late IN APP"
when bang, I'm one day We are ruS,'tt
into summer weather, when n"'hl"E uu.
I.o iiar,..t clothes can be worn with
comfort
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1894-06-03

BLUE SILK AND VELVET RIBBONS.
with turncd-ovcr haring velvet cuffs:
bolt Of velvet ribbon tied near the front
with long ends; skirt edge with mar
row facing Of velvet and lace laid on the
upper edge: ncckband OF velvet plain IN
front and growing into ruche or Iul
loops round the back. Yellow straw mar
with black tips and roses; parasol or
black tule with inside RULES oI "hi'e
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1894-06-03

For spring wear and chilly days every
woman should have a tailor gown "l
covert cloth. cheviot, or serge lhlS -
NOT bv any means a cheap costume !or
II demands careful making; 1t should De
i'm two pieces, skirt and coat Ml'non' nol
any trimming. but machihe-s,'l 'lc,lll's >
around the skirt. The coat can n' iol7
to the knees, or quite Snort as one pre-
fcTs. ,,.. .,,,t~.
,.,t.,e or collar. or waistcoat. TWO shirts
nr cotton cheviot and one waistcoat OF
c,loroi duck VIII make quite enough
changes.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1894-06-03

Old papers for sale At 2se q hundred at
DISPATCH afdaA
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For church wear or afternoon r1ceP-
tiors q very useful gown is cr,p"h. IL
dos not take tn- place Of an lndla si'N'
for Of course il is much Warmer' pu'
tbsee crepous are so much the iashioh
tnia wear that every woman ieeI5 aS
though she must have one.
Tho pretti.st ones are those OF piItH'
blis or the wood shades ana gray Iei-
bs,.i the bright blue is the newest oil any
THESE gowns are almost always uIm-
mod with lace insertion and falls OF lace
n,,.r m. sleeves. the lace being a deeper
yellow than has been worn during 'h7
winter. c,.., ,o,
At reception at the Players OIup nor
long ago il seemed to me as II every o'her
woman had on a crepon gown, each ana
e,erv gown more or less elaborateiy ttlm-
mod with lace. In some Instances mere
ycas n regular cape of the heavy lace
6tt,d smoothly over the figure and hang
ing loose over the sleeves.
4 SUMMER SILK.
The summer silks are beautiful, ana
c,arybodv must have at least one summer
| eilk A careful search in old trunks VIII
generally bring 20 light some SIX whlch
| is far prettier than any at present made
| some of the prcttiest gowns l nave seen
e.w the light first sixty years ago
rf,.a l,roptitv needed to make q pretty
The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1894-06-07
A Little Mailen's Bright RetOrt.

A young British soldier was conduct
ing party from the United States
over the citadel at Quebec. One men,
Der of the party was small maid OF
nine, and to her the young soldier de-
voted most OF his attention. She was
saucy child, full of enthusiasm, and
blessed with the earnest, aggressive
patriotism of extreme youth.
Here" said the soldier, as they
stood before two worn brass cannon,
''are two guns we took from your
people at the battle of Bunker Hill, "
and he smiled in triumph.
Nonplussed for a moment, the child
was still; then she looked mp. "Come
home with me, she said softly, "and
I'll show you a whole country we took
away from your people about the same
time. - Life.
The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1894-06-07
Netting Crows.

John G. Glenn and Benjamin Glenn
recently netted 800 crows, 24O in
one day, on the meadows adjoining
the House of Correction, along the
Delaware River, near Holmesburg.
This is considered one of the best
places in that section for catching
crows. They are caught IN net
about 80 feet long and II feet IN
width. 1t is placed between strong
hickory spring poles, set loo feet
apart and bent backward, so that the
net lies fiat on the ground some dis
tance from the bait. Chunks OF meat
are laid at point the net Will cover
when sprung. When the hungry
crows congregate on the bait to feed'
the net is sprung by the trapper IRON
a blind, 800 feet distant, by means OF
a line which reaches from the trigger
to his bower. They are sold 1or 20
cents a pair. Forest and Stream.
The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1894-06-07
The Black Death.

In England, during its first and
most dreadful visitation in 1348-9, it
was noticed that it carried off an enor.
nous number of the laborers in the
country villages, the poor and the
workmen in the towns, the monks and
nuns and friars, that is, all that por-
ton of the population who were i'll
housed, i'll clothed, i'll nurtured, or,
like those in the religious houses, lived
habitually upon insufficient diet,
among whom the practice of asceti-
cism in various forms tended to bring
about weakening of their stamina
and their vital power.
On the other hand, the mortality
among the clergy was far in excess of
that among any other class, and this
can be attributed only to their noble
self-sacrlfce in the discharge of their
ministerial duties among their parish
oners. Breathing day and night the
pestilential air, working heroicaily
among the people in every stage of the
disease, comforting the dying, and
burying the dead in the large pits that
were dug to contain the putrid corpses
the priests dropped by thousands into
the same graves in which they had
helped to lay their people and, before
the year was out, the supply of clergy
begun to fall short very seriously over
all the land.
At Florence, Boccaccio tells us, cit
became necessary to dig trenches, into
which the bodies were put by hund-
reds, laid in rows, as goods packed in
a ship; little earth was cast on each
successive layer until the pits were
filled to the top" At Avignon, sew
eral, almost as soon as they were seized
with the sickness, "were carried off to
the pit and buried. And in this way
many were buried alive" At Vienna,
''the dead were buried in the trenches,
each of which, according to one chron-
icle, contained some 5000 corpses. "
In London, Sir Walter Nanny provi-
ded new cemetery, more than thlr-
teen acres in extent, Gin respect of the
danger that might befall in this time
of so great plague and infection. -
I The Athenaeum.
The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1894-06-07

That morning she left home early,
and the Marsh cherub escaped over to
see the Graham angel. They coaxed
q piece of bread and molasses from the
cook, with which they artistically dec
grated themselves. Then they found
can of red paint in the yard, which
had been overlooked by the house
painters, and by the time Mrs.
Graham discovered them they looked
about as disreputable as they did the
night they fell into Mrs. Marsh's
hands. For once the Graham sinner
did not get the spanking he expected.
His mother kissed him sweetly instead,
and then with smile coaxed little
Bertie to go with her to such nice
place. With calm look-a sort of
ty-performed-is is-a- rainbow to- the :
soul expression-on her face, she led
that dilapidated, paint-and-molasses
stained young one to the free kinder
garten school, where she handed him
over to the teacher to be hurried into
the circle as a new recruit picked up
outside!' -
"Adelaide! she surely didn't"
"Louise she surely did And when
Mrs. Marsh sailed in with the editors,
and began explaining the system-how
the children were taken from the most
degraded homes in the city-Mrs.
Graham chimed in: Yes, indeed
You can see the depravity on many of
the childreu's faces, young as they
are, and she actually pointed out
Bertie Marsh, who at that instant was
slyly trying to kick the shins of the
youngster in front of him.
"'The boy really has bad face
Mr.. Adams admitted, but it looks
slightly familiar.
"Mrs. Marsh, meantime, had been
diligently studying the child's face,
and had herself turned first red and
then white. Just at that instant, Ber-
tie-poor, innocent misled lamb =
saw his mother, and with yell of de-
light, flew to her
go, Adelaide What did she do !"
"Do? She didn't do anything
She couldn't! But Mr. Adams did
Before the month was out she pro-
posed.
mot to Mrs Graham, surely?"
"No; to Eveline De Puy. II New
York Vogue.
The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1894-06-07
PROFITABLE HOG RAISING.

The point to be kept in view in hog
raising is to grow the frame, writes D.,
B. Martin, of Illinois, to the American
Agriculturist The second is to put
on flesh. Some farmers try to do both
at once instead of one at time, and
fail in consequence. The next impor-
tant question is when the pig should
be farrowed so as to be handled most
economically. This involves the con-
sideration of temperature, and proper
food. Temperature enters largely into
the economy of food. A bunch of hogs
that had been gaining on an average
one hundred and fifty pounds per week
while the temperature was favorable,
bringing me fifty cents per bushel for
corn, dropped in cold weather to thlr-
ty-eight pounds per week, giving me
about twelve cents per bushel for corn,
while the market value of corn was
thirty cents. A neighbor had bunch
that in December averaged two hun
dred and thirty pounds, and he kept
them until February. He seemed to
The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1894-06-07
FARM AND GARDEN NOTES.

Gooseberries and currants do best In
! a very rich soil.
To be of the best quality vegetables
must make quick growth.
Plants raised in the hotbed should
be hardened off before being trans
planted.
Better prune annually and in this
way avoid the necessity for removing
large limbs.
Poor seed makes failure for sin
gle year only, while the result OF poor
plants lasts many seasons.
1t hardly seems good economy to
wait until the trees in the old orchard
die before planting new one.
If the ducks don't lay stop feeding
them hard food. Give them soft food
and they will soon resume flesh and
begin laying.
Along Island grower had cucum-
bers and muskmelons growing in the
same patch, and the latter were strongly
favored by the former.
The horseman who said 'fhere are
two Quarts of oats in the curry comb
and four in the brush," evidently be-
lieved in grooming the horses.
Even if you know your eggs are
fresh do not take them to customer
with the shells dirty. 1t does not help
to inspire confidence in their quality.
Bugs can be kept from the water
melons by putting pen of tobacco
stalks about the plants as soon as they
come up. The juices from the stalks
will also benefit the plants.
Onions raised from seed are trouble
some to grow, for they must be kept
weeded by hand. The first wedding
is tedious, utshould not be neglected
and the crop will be profitable.
Fight the cucumber beetles and
borers, with tobacco dust and bone
meal. Use stems or dust for fuml3a-
ton. Tobacco refuse can be gotten
very cheaply in some localities.
Enrich literally if you wish the
garden to pay. Consider well the
location, preparation of the soil;
dressing, when, where and what to
plant; cultivation and arketing sur
plus.
Milk at cheese factories should be
pooled on the basis of the butter fat
contained in it, the same as in the
creameries. Many careful experiments
have proved that this does substantial
justice.
For the farmer who raises fruit
principally for his own use it is de-
sirable to have such varieties as will
keep up succession in the supply as
long as possible.
The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1894-06-07
FROTH IN THE CREAM.

Many people who use the hand-sep-
arator frequently find that they pro-
duce q great deal of froth in the
cream, and it is not uncommon to
notice that they are unaware of a
method of avoiding this, says an Eng
lish exchange. A visitor to recent
dairy exhibition, who had met with
such difficulty, saw plan which
prevented it, and, although it is not
new, he does we'll to speak of it. He
SAYS that while watching the opera
tions he noticed that the cream of the
separators, after the milk was whirled,
had no froth or foam upon it, and in
appearance resembled the cream from
the deep settlers.
AS this was matter worthy of an
inquiry, it was soon demonstrated
that if the cream as it came from the
separator spout was run through a
small hair-seive on its way to the
cream can the foam would be all OBJ
liberated or diffused, and in the cream
can it would be solid cream. Every
one who uses a separator finds that
the foam or froth on the cream is a
serious matter at times, and the run
ming of the cream on to a sieve as it
falls into the cream-cans is remedy
worth while to know about AS the
expense of hair-sieve is only few
shillings, the benefits that will follow
its use will pay for it over and over
each month, and especially in the
small dairy where the hand-separator
is used.
The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1894-06-07
Largest Damned Body of Water.

1t is proposed to build at Cloquet,
on the st. Louis River, dam 900
feet long and 80 feet high, by which
back water on st. Louis will be ex-
tended sixty miles and the largest dam
med body of water in the world be Sc
cured A line of steel piping to the
hills above Duluth will be laid, where
a reservoir is to be built, whence, un-
der 600-foo head of power, electri-
city will be generated and distributed
Water will also be furnished for fire
protection, and, if wanted, for drink
ing purposes. This project, which ri
walls the Niagara Falls power utiliza-
ton, is we'll matured, has the consent
of the War Department, controlling
the river and also of the saw milling
interest at Cloquet 1t is stated that
the money needed for the project,
some SO, 10000 is secured. A large
share of the Fond du Lac reservation,
which is, however, valueless for timber
or agricultural purposes, will be flood
ed Minneapolis journal.
The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1894-06-07

be satisfied if they held their own. de
is throwing away his feed at that re-
suit, unless there is q great advance In
the price of pork.
If the pig is farrowed the first OF
March or April, and weaned IN two
months, there will be plenty OF green
food, milk, and slop, and the best av-
erage temperature for the year. BY
the first of September the pig should
have a one hundred and twenty-five
pounds frame, and then be fattened
and sold before cold weather begins.
A farmer said recently: 81 have hogs
weighing three hundred pounds that
were dropped the seventeenth day OF
June last" replied that | have
some that were dropped about the
twenty fifth of June which, while well,
did not weigh over one hundred
pounds, and had not been hungry
since they would eat corn. He had
fed his hogs plenty of milk, and said
no food will grow the frame Of hog
like milk. Surely three hundred
pounds at five and one-half months
old is very strong proof. An
other farmer asked if my hogs were
first litters. On affirming his ques-
ton, he said that made the difference;
the first litters did not grow as .a5t as
later ones. The fact I had noticed,
having both kinds together. The sec
onds were as large again as the tirsts.
The first farmer in reply said: "My
hogs are the first litter. Their moth
er dropped them before she was one
year Old That the pigs from awell-
developed mother will outgrow those
from an undeveloped one believe to
be a fact worthy of attention, sconomi-
cally considered. Based upon my ex-
perience, I hold that the best plan is
to have pigs dropped in March or
April, wean them at two months, run
them through on grass, milk and slop,
with little grain until new corn. Fat
ten and market them before cold wealth
er sets in American Agriculturist.
The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1894-06-07
An Exnerlencad Salesman.

"It's strange ! can't find something
to suit you, said the dog store mana
ger after he had displayed twenty va
rietics of handsome collies, poodles,
Newfoundland, Siberians and spaniels
to his customer. "Can't you give me
some idea of your personal prefer
ence?"
"Oh," said the customer, who didn't
seem to be able to make up his mind,
'the dog isn't for me; it's for my
wife," "Humph! Why didn't you
say SOP" said the dog-store man.
''Here's what you want" Then he
brought forward a shapeless yellow pug
with face like Chinese idol, a
smashed-in nose and bow legs. i Chi
cago Record.
The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1894-06-07
FOR FARM AND GARDEN.
MEASURE OF HAY IN A STACK.

The kind of hay has much to do
with the weight in the stack. limo
thy, being heavy, takes about 500
cubic feet for the ton, mixed hay
about 600 feet, clover 700 to $50 feet,
and red top hay as much as 800 feet.
10 get the cubic feet in a round stack,
take one-third of the girth, which will
give the diameter, square this-that
is, multiply the figures by themselves
take three-quarters of the product,
and multiply this by the average
height, all in feet. Then divide by
the weight of ton, as given. This
mode of estimating is for old hay, put
up last summer - New York Times
The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1894-06-07
A Pet Dog Cemetery.

Near the Victoria Gate in Hyde
Park, London, there is pet dogs
cemetery, but it is so well surrounded
by trees and shrubbery that few stran-
gers ever notice it. In the rear of the
gatekeeper's lodge is plot of ground
that looks like garden, but among
the flower beds and bushes are num-
Der of small marble tombstones. These
are arranged in regular rows, with
narrow gravel paths running between
them, and at the entrance is a low arch
of ivy. In all there are some forty
stones, and each is inscribed with the
name of dead pet.
The Duke of Cambridge's dog
Prince is buried here. On the tomb
stone over its head are inscribed the
words: "Poor Little Prince" On
neighboring stones are carved other
names, such as Jack, Tip, Topsey, Flo,
and Sprite.
The graves seem to be we'll cared
for. and the little box hedges are care
fully trimmed by the gardener. Now
and then some lonely old maid wan
ders into the enclosure and looks at
the last resting place of her pet, but
aside from these visits or a funeral the
pet dog burial place is rarely visited.
New York Sun.
The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1894-06-07
SCIENTIFIC SCRAPS.

The mean annual temperature Of the
globe is fifty degrees.
Paper spindles for yarn spinning
are now used as substitute for those
of STEEL
1t is suspected that diphtheria il
spreading at Indianapolis, Ind, by
the circulating library.
The mean annual precipitation, rain
and melted snow in Boston is forty.
six inches; in New York city forty.
five inches.
In England, France and Germany
The ratio of multiple births is thirteen
twins per /, 900; $50 triplets and eight
quadruplets per 1000, 1000 births.
Philadelphia s new Broad street sta
tion of the Pennsylvania railroad
when completed, will contain over 100
miles of concealed electric wiring.
Submarine masonry is now made
impervious to water by coating it with
coal tar, process that is quite effica-
cious, even at depth of fifty feet
M. Jablochkoff, the electrician and
inventor of the Jablochkoff candle,
one of the earliest of the practical
electric lights, died in Saratoff, Russia,
a few days ago.
A French physician has constructed
an acting model of the human heart.
1t is of the same hue, size and consis-
tency of the natural organ, with every
detail, and red fluid courses through
it and through artificial arteries.
There are but sixty-eight genuine
eggs of the great aux in existence, and
of these the United States has two,
France has ten and Great Britain forty
eight. The others are held in Ger.
many, Holland, Denmark, Portugal
and Spain.
The ship Britannia has recently COM
pleted her two hundreth round voy-
age and four hundredth passage across
the Atlantic This means she has trav-
elled q distance of nearly 1900, 900
statute miles, with her original engines
and boilers, an achievement probably
without parallel in the history OF
steam navigation.
There is every reason to believe that
! the milking of COWS in large dairies
by machinery will soon become as
common as the cutting of corn and
grass is on large farms. During the
last few years two or three inventions
have been brought into practice, with
results so profitable in the saving OF
labor as to encourage mechanicians to
further efforts toward perfection.
1t may not be generally known, but
it is fact, nevertheless, that on an
island off the Mosquito Coast, Nicar.
augua. Central America, there is
species of ape very closely resembling
the African gorilla, both in size and in
it's sunny disposition. How 1T came
there is only matter of conjecture,
for it departs unduly from the charac-
teristics of the American monkey
tribe.