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The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1896-11-06
GOWN GOSSIP.

Sets of trimming, collar, cuffs, vests,
and wings to project over the sleeve
tops are done in embroidery, aud are Tor
sale in the best shops.
Many grumblings are already hearn
about the new models, and we may
expect that with the coming in of set
tied winter fashions some notifications
will be adopted which will do away with
the most serious objections to the new
sleeves.
A stylish jacket has high fiaring
collar deliberately braided and Bolero
fronts to match. The cuffs are also
deliberately braided, and the moderately
full sleeves are slashed at the tops and
black velvet puffs are set in. The braid
ing on the garment is black, and I'll"
lining of black satin.
Exceedingly pretty and stylish head
gear is made of an embroidered cloth.
The needlework is closely and carefully
wrought and used in folds, fans or plalt-
ings. A very large circle Is decorated
in this way, and pulled in and plated,
and caught up with tiny iriaescent but
TONS Quilts or ostrich plumes are the
trimming.
Almost solid masses of braiding is one
of the new fads. While it is admitted
that the Paris designs show work that
is not equaled or scarcely approached by
anything yet done here, it is quite
certain that it will take but short
time until our own maids and matrons
will fashion as dainty embroideries and
braidings as any Of those that come
from the other side of the water.
The ornamentation of waists is n
natural sequence of the decline in
sleeves. There must always be an OBJ
jectiye point in dress, and as this is no
longer possible as far as sleeves go, de-
signers are turning their attention to
waists, and seeing how elaborate and
complicated and labored they can make
them in style and trimming.-N. Z.
Ledger.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1896-11-06
FUNNY THINGS.

Very Unkind of -Cunso-"Tha,
parrot is a male" Mrs. Cumso (greatly
interested) = "How do you know?"
Cumso-"It doesn't talk" Harlem
Life.
"There is something strange about
these seismic disturbances" said the
thoughtful man; ''the earth yawns, you
know, when it is most active''-Bos' on
Transcript.
One lady said to another: "Have you
been to church to-day? We had most
beautiful sermon on training children"
"No, l was at home doing it," was the
reply.-Tit-Bits.
A Valid Reason. = Magistrate-"Ii
you were innocent, why did you run
away the moment the policeman APP.
peared?" Pat-"Because, yer honor
thin cops do be always arristin' the
wrong man."-Harper's Bazaar.
81 have just thought of another diff,
ference between a baby and cow
remarked Mr.. Bloomfield, as he carried
his youngest, thickly dressed in cold
weather clothes, from the house to the
street car. 81 suppose l must listen
to it" replied Mrs. Bloomfield, resigred
ly. "It's this: A COW weighs less wher
1t is dressed, and baby weighs more
Pittsburgh Chronicle-Teleg:a
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1896-11-06
YOUNGEST LIFE SAVER.
dow Boston Boy Saved a Young C0Ha.
panIon from browning.

dow q Boston Boy Saved a Young COHa.
PanIon from Drowning.
The youngest Iife-saver on record ig
u-year-old Victor E. Gilbert, of Bos-
ton, Mass, who with his parents is
spending the summer at Winthrop
Beach. Regardless of possible conse-
qnences, while older boys than he stood
aghast watching their playmate strug-
Cling in the water, he plunged in and
brought his drowning companicn safely
TO land. He himself tells the story in
the following words:
You see it was this way. We all
went down to the beach for a swim.
and were having great time, when
along came Robbie Turnb ball, and he
oene in with us. Bobbie is nice boy
but he can't swim much There's no
place to dive on the Winthrop beach,
and we went back little ways to an
inlet where there is high dock to dive
from.
THE water there is about ten feet
deep, and the inlet is maybe 100 feet
wide at that point. It's a bad place
for beginner, but all right if a boy can
swim. Bobbie took a header and went
out little way, and we watched linn.
| thought he was doing all right, and
so did the rest. We saw him splash
ing around a good deal, and be looked
very funny with his head under wa
ter half the time
Il don't remember who it was. but
somebody said: He's drowning No
body believed it, and 1 called out to
him: Keep it up. Bobbie, you are do
ing right He didn't answer and then
| saw him throw up his arms and go
down. | thought that was funny
way to swim; and then he came up
again. That time l was sure he was
in trouble, he had such a funny look
in his face. can't tell just what it was
like, but he looked as if he had seen
something he was afraid Of
II don't think thought much alb nut
anything at the time, except.I remcm-
Der ] felt sorry for his mother. and
wondered how she would feel if Bobbie
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1896-11-06
THE WORLDS RAILROADS.

Cafe bars have been introduced on the
trains running between Paris and Saint
GERMAN, and will soon be placed on
those running to Versailles.
A shower of toads recently fell on the
railroad track in Topeka, Kan, and so
impeded the progress of freight train
that it came to a halt.
Two masked railroad robbers got into
the pay compartment of the Paris e
Toulouse express the other day, held the
paymaster at bay with revolvers, helped
themselves to S., 600 in cash and jumped
off Ito train while it was in motion. One
was found badly hurt on the track, ard
the other was arrested as he was leaving
a later train.
All the New England railroads SO far
heard from report a better business dur
ing the fiscal year to June 80 than in the
previous year. The Boston & Maine
system, the last to make a statement,
carried over 100000 more passeng~I's
than in the previous year and over 5ac,
600 more tons of freight.
Germany's fastest long-distance TRAN
is the OstendSt. Petersburg, which runs
sS1 miles over German territory in 225A
hours. mean speed, including stops, Of
1871 miles an hour. On the return jour
ney better time is made, the rate then
being 400 miles, or, in actual running
time, excluding stops, 43H miles. The
train between Berlin and Hamburg.
however, makes 1761a miles in hours
36 minutes. the mean speed being 49-1
miles an hour
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1896-11-06
FOR THE COOK.

Baked Pears.-Cut ripe pears in half,
without peeling or removing the stems.
Pack in layers in a stoneware or glass
jar. Strew a little sugar over each
layer. Put a small cupful of water in
the bottom of the jar to prevent burn
ing; fit on a close cover, and set in a
moderate oven. Bake three hours, and
let the jar stand unopened In the oven
all night.
Delicious Sandwiches.-A sandwich
that is excellent with iced tea or lemon
ade is made with a raisin filing. lie
move the seeds from halved raisins, and
lay the raisins closely together upon
very thin slices of buttered bread.
Sandwiches of brown bread, with a
filling of finely minced cheese, to which
has been added a little mustard, are de-
lightful.
Celery Salad.-Well wash the celery
and keep it in the cool till wanted; then
dry on cloth, and cut in thin sliced
sticks, one and a halfinch long, or in short
julienne shapes. Season it with pepper
and salt, oil, and tarragon or other vim
egar, and chopped shallot; mix well to-
gether, and serve in a salad-bowl. Gar
nish with slices of tomatoes or beet
DOT, cut in fancy shapes and seasoned
ike the celery~-N. Y. Ledger.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1896-11-06
EDUCATIONAL ITEMS.

Subscriptions to the fund for the new
museum of science and art for the Uni
versity Of Pennsylvania have been re-
ceived to the amount of $1S0,000.
The statue of Cardinal Newman
which the University of Oxford declined
to receive has been set up on a vacant
plot of ground adjoining the cardinals
house at the Brompton Oratory.
The duke of Bedford has placed at the
disposal of the technical instruction
committee of the Bedford county coun-
ell a farm of 275 acres, 149 of which
are arabic land and the rest grass.
Twenty boys receive free scholarships
by the county council, emitting them
to two years board. residence, and in
struction in the science and practice
of farming.
Official information has been received
in Washington by the Franco-American
committee, organized for the purpose
of securing fuller privileges for Ameri-
can students in the educational institu-
lions of France, that in all probability
the faculties of letters will soon be open
to Americans, as freely as the other
faculties that have already been opened.
Awkcanpr Hazunobr, the principal
of a college for the blind in Odessa, Rus
STA, is making tour through this coun-
try to examine the methods of teaching
used in the schools and colleges for the
instruction of the blind. He says that
Russia has nearly seven times as many
blind among her population as the
United States.
To maintain the Boston public library
cost, during 1895, little more than
$4,000, and for the present year $685.
600 has been appropriated by the city
council. Of this $4,000, about $103,G0o
went for salaries, $27, 900 for new books.
$4,000 for bookbinding, $1,000 for peri
odicals, over $4,000 for coal, and $4,000
for transportation between the central
library and auXiliarieS
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1896-11-06

A party of tourists were out riding
In Kansas one afternoon, when they
came to an old house in the dooryard of
which were some peach trees loaded
with magnificent yellow peaches.
"Let's see if we can't buy some," said
one of the party, and he agreed to go to
the door and ask for a basket of the
peaches.
A wiry. active little woman came
to the door.
"Howdy dol" she said, cheerily.
slot an dusty, amt It? We need rain
terribly. 'Scuse the looks O. my house.
We're all in a clutter here now. Idon't
keep my house in such a nuss as this
all the time, 1 kin tell We, but the fact
Is we're all upset to-day. To come
right out and tell the honest truth, my
ole man went an committed suicide
right after breakfast, an it's kind o.
upset things centrally, an when it
comes TO a suicide, it's good deal more
20.
II never was quite so upset. If he'd
only be consolidate enough to choose
some other day but Monday, when
have got both bakin' an washin' on
hand. Some peaches? Oh, help your
selves to all you want. I'd go out an
pick 'em for you If he hadn't cut up
this hangin' himself caper. It's terri
Bile Tpsettin' all round."- IN. Y. World
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1896-11-06
DECORATION NOTES.

Some of the prettiest Holland win
dow-shades are now made with two
bands of open-worll across the bottom
and handsome lace edging to finish.
Such shades are decorative as we'll as
useful.
You can buy very good plaster busts
about eight or nine inches high for 25
cents each. By coloring them to deep
ivory tone they look like much more
costly productions.
For a library decoration a row of
busts of poets, authors, artists and
musicians in this ivory finish is a sug-
gestive one. A shelf above wide fold
ing doors is an excellent place for such
a display.
Busts of Mozart, Handel and others of
the old masters in music, as well as
some of our modern musicians, are
suitable for a music room. The back
ground for these old ivory-toned busts
should be, preferably. a pale clear
green or a soft terra-cotta.
A plaster bust may be made to look
waxy like alabaster by thoroughly dry
ing it in a warm room and getting it
very warm, then suspending it by a
fine wire in the finest, purest white
wax melted in any suitable vessel.
Adulterated wax will not answer. The
operation must be repeated until the
wax begins to rest unabsorbed on the
surface of the cast, then the east must
be suspended in room perfectly free
from dust for 81 hours; then it can be
polished with a clean brush.-Ladies
World
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1896-11-06
WHEEL TALK.

Tahiti, until within n few years ,
cannibal island, has advanced to tn
point of patronizing bicycle races.
The surest way to locate punctur
ia to lather some soap and smear i
over the tire. A soap bubble will form
over every puncture, no matter how
small it may be, and it can then be re
paired in the usual way.
Skating and cycling seem to have /,
special affinity as athletic pursuits, ant
9 proficient at one is usually goot
performer at the other. The exhilara
ton attaching to the sense of speed ant
the ease of motion pertaining to boil
Is no doubt the source of attraction.
California woman is reported tx
have ridden over Mount ST. Helena Oh
her wheel. The distance is IA miles
and the road steep and dusty. Non
ton is made of how many times she
got off and walked, and only time car
tell what damage she has done to her
system by such toilsome and fool
hardy trip.
Eight soldiers of the Twenty-fifth in
eantry, United States army. with four
lays nations and accoutrements, have
made the distance from Fort Missoula,
Mont, to Harrison, 1872 miles, in Sc
hours, on bicycles. The trip included
the passage of the Rocky range. The
Lverage weight of wheels, with riders
ind baggage, was 240 pounds.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1896-11-06
NOVELTIES IN AMERICA.

There is a bedstead in the Whitney
mansion, New York city, which was
purchased by Col. Oliver Payne IN 1885,
and which cost exactly $4,000.
A village improvement society at
Woodstock, VT, encourages the keeping
of neatly trimmed lawns by renting
lawn mowers to residents. 1t is wom-
ans idea.
Paper collins are the latest novelty III
mortuary furniture. They are pressed
into shape from mass of pulp, and
when stained and vanished. look just
like wood
At a Chinese funeral at Visalia, Cal,
three Mongolians stood at the gate OF
the cemetery, and to each person who
passed ou6 they gave new dime,
wrapped in paper. Some cute boys
quickly tumbed to the racket, and re-
turned through a hole in the fence sew
eral times, TO emerge publicly, on each
occasion with q fresh dime.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1896-11-06
THE WINTERS FURs.

The price of genuine chinchilla skins
is exceedingly high, so high, that only
single skins are to be had at all. A
fine imitation has appeared.
The novelty of the season is the CON-
bination of chamois leather, in all col
ors and even embroidered, with long
haired furs. Wonderfully effective de-
signs are shown.
A general view of the fur trade this
fall shows an increasing love of COM
binations and great variety of form.
Furs are combined with each other,
with feathers, ribbon and lace, and
some of the more recent effects are in
gold or soutache embroideries.
Bison seal has made place for itself
in public opinion and is no longer re-
garded as an imitation; indeed, it has
been initiated in a sort CT rabbit fur.
limitations of sable are SO well made
that only a trained eye can detect them.
Blue fox is another fur which has been
successfully initiated. = Dry Goods
Economist.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1896-11-06
WHIM-WHAMS.

She-"Why, Will. those trousers look
as if you had been sleeping in them!''
He-"I have. wore them to church
last Sunday"
Mrs. Styles-"Have you any shoes to
fit me?" Mr.. Knowem-"Yes; but that
is not really what you want. is it?"
Bloomer-"Have you paid your first
installment on your wheel YETI
Sprocket-"No; but 1 paid the doctor
something on account"
Bacon-"Imperfect teeth are a sure
sign of civilization" Egbert--"Of
course, who ever heard of savage
breaking a comb?"
Alice-"I heard something about yoll,
to day." Anne-"Yes; this new lining
they are using in dresses makesa fright.
full noise. doesn't it ?"-Yonkers States
man.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1896-11-06
THE. ART WORLD.

annex to the Luxembourg museum
Is building on the Rue de Vanguard
side, to make more room for works by
living French artists.
Many frescoes, some going back to the
fourteenth century, have been discov-
cred on the walls of the Church of San
Floriano, at Montefiascone. during re-
cent repairs.
The late Sir John Millais' income
ranged as high as 100000 in his best
years, and from an early date in his
career his terms for portraits exceeded
those charged by Sir Joshua Reynolds.
To Jules Stewart, the American
painter, has been awarded a gold medal
by the Berlin international exhibition.
Among other American exhibitors are
John W. Alexander. f. A. Bridgeman
and Julian Story.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1896-11-06
IT WAS SAFE.
Carried His Money Where PiCkpockSh
Could Not Get 1t.

Carried His Money Where PickpockAta
Could Not Get 1t.
Walter Bradshaw's cousin from Pas
Aame, Mo-, came up to Chicago last week,
0nd he didn't come up here to be the
victim of any sharper, either.
Walter took day off and met him at
the train.
They checked the valise and the UNI
3rella at the parcel-room and started
Uut to see the town.
"Did you bring up much money,
Bluford?'' asked Walter, who had been
an town but few months himself.
''I brought up about 25."
"Got it in safe placer
"That's what / have. I've got the
go bill in my shoe. 1 guess no pick
pockets goin' to look for it there"
81 shouldn't calculate he would"
The absorbed Chicagoan who butts
his way through the crowds with his
waze fastened on the sidewalk cannot
well appreciate how many sights APP
pealed to Bluford Bradshaw that day.
He and Walter traversed Clark street
from the viaduct to the river, counted
ahe windows of the Masonic Temple,
went to see the place where the Hay
market bomb was thrown and found de-
Hight in watching the top-heavy vessels
erowd past the bridges. They became
Surfeited with soda fountain drinks and
ended the days debauch with visit to
the theater.
When they moved toward Walters
room that night Bluford was footsore
and weary. Sightseeing is the hardest
work, and Bluford felt sure that he had
walked so miles. With sigh of relief he
sat on the edge of the bed and pulled off
his shoes.
sis your money all right?" Walter
asked him.
'T guess so. Iput it in the bottom of
my right shoe"
He turned the shoe upside down and
shook it, There fell ous shower of
sman ragged flakes of paper like the
nibblings of mouse's nest. All during
the day he had been rubbing that $50
bill to powder and all the mucilage in
the world wouldn't have put it together
again.-Chicago Record.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1896-11-06
BIRD SLAVES ITSELF.
the Bearded yuiture Is an Adept at tn,
Barber's Art.

The Bearded Vuiture Is an Adept at tho
BARRIERS Art.
The lammergeyer, or bearded vul
ture, found throughout the whole
mountain chains of the old world,
actually shaves himself. The expert
barber who has for his customers the
Fifth avenue millionaires could not
ply the keen-edged razor to the stubby
beard of his particular patron more
deftly than the monarch of the noun
tain tops prunes his own bristly beard.
The head of the vulture is clothed
with feathers, end from the sides of
the under mandible proceeds a row of
black bristles. From this peculiar pro-
lection of feathers the bird derives it's
name. A layer of similar bristles be-
gins at the eye and covers the nostrils.
forming feecy mustache.
With his strong and sharp claws,
which act as the razor, he begins TO
trim his fibrous whiskers with great
care and dexterity. He does this with
great regularity, and soon the downy
beard and mustache give way to a full
growth Of bristly feathers.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1896-11-06
ELECTRICAL FLASHES.

All the street railways of Monterey,
Mexico, have been bought up by local
capitalist, who will equip them with
electricity and give the city what. it
is said, will be the first electric roads
in Mexico.
A Hungarian Keely named Hartz
has patented in France a cheap cleo
trical storage battery, in which cleo
tricity is generated by the vibrations
of the transverse rays disclosed by
Roentgen's experiments under the
pressure of atmospheric air. He asserts
that his apparatus can keep 20 lamps
of ten candle power going for 5000
hours.
In use on the electric street railway
of Biddeford, Me-, is peculiar track
tester, based upon an adaptation of the
telephone. A man sits in car and
talks continuously into mouthpiecc
which is connected electrically with a
receiver held by man Ia the power
house. A break in the conversation
shows where the track connections are
faulty.
Roentgen's rays have brought a sam
gnine Frenchman int1) trouble. Having
read that observers 1T Vanderbilt uni
versity had discovered that the rays
would destroy hair. he advertised that
he would guarantee 10 remove the mus
taches and whislkers with which some
French women are adorned. He took
his fees and exposed his patients to the
apparatus, but, as the HAIR showed no
sign of disappearing, was arrested for
fraud
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1896-11-06
FANcIEs OF THE AUTUMN MAID.
Che Will Exercise Individual Taste in
Choosing Her Frocks.

She Will Exercise Individual Taste in
Choosing Her FrocI<s.
With the coming of September and
Che oyster the summer girl has laid
away her laced and ribboned froczs of
organdie, and like diaphanous material,
Aolded up her rose and cream Dresden
Milk petticoats, consigned her gayly be-
lowered hats to their bandboXes, anil
transformed herself into a demure au
&umn maid. And she is queen.
Her robes Of state ARE varied, for it is
the day of individual taste. but whether
The autumn girl appears OH the golf
links at Wheaton or on the tennis
grounds at KenNv1od, she IS seen in the
trimmest and cocltest Of frotls and
hats. and is chic from crown ~ toe.
It is easier to tell what she will Eo.
wear than what she will. The prophe-
cies Of tie autumn styles are careful rs
yet. because f..>a on is such Il capricious
thing the prophets are finding their
position a trying one. II seems to be
settled tAa: ail t:!@ notifications posi-
BILE in ( g 10 >i@erc& are 80 be intro
ducc(l. md - sleeve shown most fire.
quentiv 50 lar is lorg. rather close
one. 70; s!.n tiglIt. but a little wrinkled,
witt all $o,!s Of n,iti'e and rlaits to re-
onc.ie -: f:'.~-7H cf he i:;g sleeve to
it's gradual i""s;:'o~.
Until Hov. E"".2 Fashion has rele.
gated the veg 81 the eh'rt waist to the
summer months. but this year the au-
tunn g.! las had Ter own sweet way
III this. IS in many other matters, and
the coming fail ard winter will see her
and her pet shirt waist almost as close
companions as in the summer time.
1t MAJ be made Of corduroy, smoke
colored being the favorite. or Persian
figured velvet. OF any of the new heavy
loosely woven novelty goods. but the
autumn girl observes an unwritten law
which says it must be worn with white
collars and cuffs.-Chicago Tribune.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1896-11-06
NOTES ABOUT WOMEN.

Miss Mary Taylor, the heroine of thu
POEM MARY Had a Little Lamb" died
recently at Somerville. Mass.
London gossip has it that Lazy Be.
atrice Butler, the most beautiful girl
or the English season, will marry Lord
Waterford.
Miss Jane Harrison, of England, who
was the first woman to receive the de-
gree of LII. d., has recently been made
member of the Archaeological society
of Berlin.
The sister of President Kruger, Mrs.
Pieter du Plessis. who died recently.
left TIT descendants. while there are
now 142 persons who can trace their
descent from the president himself.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1896-11-06
SAID BY THE SCIENTISTS.

Aluminium should always be used
alone and pure, as it readily forms cleo
trio couples with every other metal,
and is then easily attacked by water
LyeIl, the geologist, says: At peri
Cd comparatively recent all chat por-
ton of the United States south of the
Black Hills was under from 500 to 900
feet of water.
Without solar fire we could have no
atmospheric vapor, without vapor no
clouds, without clouds no snow and
without snow no glaciers. Curious,
then, as the conclusion may be, the cold
fce of the Alps has its origin in the beat
of the sun.
The greatest depth, writes Prof. See
ley in his STORY of the Earth" at
which earthquakes are known to orig
mate is about 30 miles. 1t has also been
calculated that heat sufficient to melt
granite might occur at about the same
depth.