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ished on the inside with lace ruff1e. The bodice is of white silk shaped in long, sharp points at back and front, and fastens at the side. Its plain parts are embroidered with black spangles, and the draped sides are yelled in dotted chiffon. Embroidered points ornament the high stock collar of white silk, which is trimmed with a large bow in back, and the moderately full sleeves have embroidered white cuffs.
 The current shift of favor from fam cy waists to coat styles is more lenient to the woman that has little money to spend than are most of fashions changes. The new shapes are so nu- merous that an economical woman has a chance to choose the one best suited to her needs. It is often possible to take the pretty and becoming bag front right out of your favorlte blouse and put in as the front of the new coat. The front of blouse is often as pretty and becoming as ever when the back is really worn and the sleeves are all gone. Another thing, in the sleeves of the fancy waist that is being discarded is iSd!iy PleHly ol HdleIldi lor lHdhlHs front or waistcoat for a coat. Like wise, you can, perhaps, take the loose front of the discarded blouse, get very little skirts out of it for tile back and perhaps a little of the sides of the to-be coat and allow just a little of the orig inal bodice to remain either side of the front as an apology, so to speak, for the front of the coat. A wide new in- let vest or panel fill up the rest, and behold! Q stylish coat out of next to nothing. It's enough to make wo- man think of the sleight-of-ha mans adjuration, Watch me closely and you'll understand but little'
 FLORETTE.
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few who have already entered will be- gin operations by cutting wood to keep themselves warm and to fire the pros pective brick kilns. which it is hoped to operate next spring, when seventy more students have promised to come. They will live in tents until they can con struct more substantial dwellings,, which they hope to do before next Sep tember.
 More foolish ideas than this are domi- nant in some well established institu- tlons of learning, Such school as MT Mills has started would certainly lead to plain living, and it might encourage some high thinking.
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F.1SLItON NOTES.
A rlehu Elaborated Into a Jacket.

A quaint modification of the fichu is garment made without sleeves. It fastens along one shoulder, and is made of velvet with pointed vest of white satin in front and panels of vel vet on either side of the vest. There is high velvet collar that is extended down along the shoulders into epau- lettes that are shaped into the back of the garment. When the whole affair is in place the general effect is that of a sleeveless velvet jacket ending at the waist, and accompanied by satin vest.
 There is shown in this picture. a dres- sy combination of black and white for a middle-aged woman. The skirt of heavy black silk is untrimmed and fin-
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The assertion was made at recent meeting of the New England Sabbath Protective society in Boston that from 50 to 90 per cent. of the population of New England are not church goers, and that the rural population was in many instances without Sabbath. This statement was vigorously denied by some who claimed to know.
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l
 New York is the first State to try to teach Germany that two can play at the insurance game. The act which Governor Morton has just signed pro- vides that if any foreign government shall refuse to permit any insurance corporations of New York State to do business in it's territory, the State in- surance superintendent shall refuse to allow the companies of such foreign country to do any business in New York. It appears that the German pro- hibition applies to the two largest life companies of New York; but the act of retaliation will apply to German fire companies now doing business in New York as we'll as the life companies, if there are any. The practical effect of the measure will be to drive out of the State or into the hands of domestic companies considerable volume of fire and marine business now being done by German companies.
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Donaldson Smith, the young Philadel- pI1ian who has been exploring Africa, will first write a book describing his recent travels, and will then go on an- other expedition to Northeast Africa The Philadelphia Times says: Perhaps of the greatest popular interest is his discovery of many new tribes whose existence was previously unknown. Among these is 9 race of pign1ies, the fact of whose discovery has caused 9 commotion in scientific circles. These curious people are of negro type, are coal black and absolutely naked. AL though of great physical beauty, with well-formed limbs, they are barely re- moved from animals, and their code of morality is very lax. These renarka- ble people are all between four and five feet high and live in primitive coni- cal huts. Their only industry is corn raising and the rearing of sheep and goats They are born hunters. In war fare they use poisoned arrows, the wounds inflicted by which prove fatal within an hour.
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the first time for over two weeks he felt positive of the ships position. The watch below turned out about a, m., without growl, to receive the pilot, and at 5:30 a. nn., with tug alongside, we passed in the capes, which We had been hunting for during the past few days. and continued up the river to Philadelphia, thus bringing our voyage to a close,
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If the new capitol at Albany is to be finished s1,716,64S more must be ap- propriated. It will be old before it is done.
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New. South Wales has a glorious cli- mate, too. but letters from there state that during the first two weeks Of Jan- uary that country was visited by q heated term without precedent in it's history. At Sidney the thermometer stood at 11e degrees in the shade, and in various parts of the colony as high as 122 degrees. At Victoria the mercu- ry passed the 100 degree mark, and in some parts of South Australia it stood for days at IT degrees. In western New South Wales there was great mortality. In one town twenty-two persons died in two days from sun strokes, and in many districts the wa
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ter gave out and live stock perlshed. In one extensive vineyard district the young grapes were all scalded, Tn the gold regions horses dropped dead while hauling the ore carts, and many birds were killed by the intense heat In sydney all omnibus and carriage traf- nc was suspended. and the daily drills at the barracks were suspended.
 Mariposa county, California, is to have the third largest electrical power developing and distributing plant in the United States. The largest is at Niagara, the next is at Folsom, in Cali fornia, and the third is to be construct ed at the Horseshoe bend, on the Mer- ced river. The location is near the cen ter of a mining district, having at least one hundred mines that are sufficiently prospected to use cheap power. At the dryest season of the year the power company calculates upon 1900 horse- power, and during eight months in the year they expect water enough to gen. crate $500 horsepower. The price the company proposes to charge it's custom CTS is S5 per horsepower a month, At the present time the expense of produc- ing steam is from $12 to S15 per horse- power, and two years hence, at the present rate of consumption of cord- wood, the hills would be bare of tim Der, and steam-power, except in a few localities, at price almost prohibitive.
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Russia is up to date in some mat ters. She is to have an electrical branch of her army, under the direc- ton of a lieutenant-g general, two ma jor-generals and five officers of lower grade, who will also have a military electrical school under their charge. Russian military officers have always been very adept in the use of elec- tricity.
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The New Orleans papers continue to note the large increase in grain ex- ports from that city. The total ship ments of corn from that port for the month of January reached 3,5O7,193 bushels, compared with 9S7,39s bushels during January of last year, an in crease of 2,519,705 bushels There were no less than forty-nine shipments of corn, twelve of which exceeded 100000 bushels each and one exceeding 100000 bushels. The bulk of the corn went to Liverpool, but that was not the only port to which it was shipped Rotter- dam took four cargoes, Bremen four, Queenstown four, Copenhagen three, Hamburg, Antwerp, Manchester, Lon don, Havre, Rouen and Progreso, Mex ico, two each, with single cargoes to Naples, Dunkirk, Hull, Lynn and Fred erickshaven.
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1896-02-15
A WORD OF WARNING.
why Care Should Be Exercised In til
"a ff Purchase of Hay.

Why Care Should Bc Exercised In tho
#t Purchase of Hay.
The London Live Stock journal
ofDofs word Of warning that may de-
serve attention in this country as well
- ebroad:
More care is commonly thken by horse
owners as to the quality of the oats
than of the hay they purchase. Yet
there is greater difference between
good and inferior hay than between
~ best and. say, third or fourth. class
0ats. Hay varies greatly, not only in
fha quality Of the heritage of which it
= composed. but in the conditions I'M
der which it has been harvested, and
IA how 1t has cured in the stack. Horses
rarely suffer from eating bad oats, while
much disease in the stable is attributa-
bic to the quality of the hay they con-
sume. 1t has been estimated that
about 80 per cent. of the cases
Of collie which occur in large
stables are due to the hay with which
the horses are provided. Owners of
large studs frequently experience an
outbreak of collie among their animals
with the purchase and consumption of
fresh consignment of hay. Hay poor
In quality and badly stacked is a most
expensive fodder, FROM the disease il fire.
quently engenders, us well as from it's
low consuming value. Great care should
be exercised in the purchase OF foreign
49,
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1896-02-15
THE MATCHING PROCESS.
How to Tell Perfectly Fresh Eggs from
Unfertile Ones.

How TO Tell Perfectly Fresh Eggs from
Unfertile Ones.
1t is a common practice for those buy
ing eggs to hold them up 10 the light,
and such as have had any experience
can in this way easily tell whether an
egg is fresh or stale. A perfectly fresh
egg will have comparatively clear
look, with the air space of only moder-
ate size; whereas stale egg will not
have such clear look, and the air space
will be larger, according to the age of
the egg. In addition to this there are
other indications, such rs the appear
ance of the shell. which, in the old egg,
loses that bloom so striking in new
ones. Unfertile eggs are always clear
no matter how long they have been sat
upon. There are those who say that
the sex and fertility of the egg can be
told before they are set. All sorts of
plans have been put forth and declared
to be sure and infalliblc tests as to the
sex Of chickens, such as the shape of the
egg, the time of day II is laid. etc, but
,'esc have been found. when tested, to
I've unreliable, or at any rate not suf-
ficiently reliable to be accepted. That
the fertility of the egg may be proved
before it is set, we are not prepared to
deny. as we have known persons to pick
out fertile eggs by breathing on the
broad end, and must acknowledge that
they have proved to be correct in a
large number of cases. We have never
been able to disprove this test, and
have often found it to be correct. but
not sufficiently so as to rely entirely
and unreservedly upon it. When work
ing nnincubator there is no need for it.
for we have always been able to dis.
cover 60 hours after they have been put
into the machine whether the eggs were
fertile or not; and as the quality of
barren eggs is then unaffected in any
way. 1t is not worth running any risk
with the other tests.-Prairie Farmer.
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1896-02-15
ANATOMY OF A BEE.
The Most Wonderfully Constructed of All
Useful Insects.

The Most Wonderfully Constructed of All
Useful Insects.
A bee Is divided into three sections
head, thorax and abdomen. 1t has five
eyes-threc In the form of triangle
on each side of the head. These, looked at
under microscope, are very beautiful.
The antennae are the two flexible
black horns on the head; with these
bees recognize each other, and In them
orc supposed to be located the ex-
tremely sensitive organs of smelling
and hearing. They are to the bee very
much what the brain is to man. a
bee deprived of her antennae loses
her power of movement.
In the head and thorax of the worker
bee are the nursing glands, which Sc
crete milky food fed to the larvae.
These glands are very large in the
young worker while they act as nurses,
but reduced in the old bees of BROOD
less colony. In the old bees they wither
more and more till they become shrunk-
en- and seemingly withered up. The
queen, when egg-laying, is also fed from
these glands. When honey is coming
freely, and the queen is well fed. she
has a very wonderful power of pro-
ducing eggs, laying over 1900 per day.
or more than three times her own
weight.
In bees, as in all insects, the skeleton
that supports the body is not internal
as in animals, but mostly external, and
is formed of horny substance called
chitine, which is flexible and is capable
of being nodded into every conceivable
shape and appearance. 1t forms the
hard back of the repulsive coclSroach.
the beautiful scale-like feathers Of
the gaudy butterfly, the delicate MEM
brane which supports the lace-wing in
mid-air, and the black and yellow wings
of our native and imported bees, be-
sides internal braces, tendons and ducts
innumerable.
The internal skeleton. hard for the
most part, and varied in thickness in
beautiful adaptation to the strain to
which it may be exposed, gives con-
sistency of. form to the little wearer:
but 1t needs, wherever movement Is
necessary. to have delicate extension
Joining the edges of the unyieldin9
plates. Here the thick coat is reduced
to thin, easily-creased membrane,
where by flexion one part is made to
press over the other.-Cable.
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1896-02-15
A STUDY IN ANCESTORS.
Result of Following Up, or Rather Down
the Family Line.

the Family Line.
A South side man tells a good story on
himself. He comes of revolutionary
stock and his family for several genera
tions back has been prominent in New
York state, but he has never worried
much about his ancestry, having been
too busily engaged in trapping the un-
wary dollar. His wife comes Of good
old Virginia stock and knows all about
her lineage. She has frequently in
sisted that her husband make some eff
fort to trace his family history, Of which
he could give no earlier account than
that one of his ancestors moved from
Massachusetts to Connecticut about
1850. AS the family name is thorough
~ English she believed it possible that
this ancestor came in direct line from
some old pilgrim settler. At last the
husband yielded to her persuasions and
wrote to specialist" in the east to
find out what he could about the family
in Massachusetts prior to 1760. In the
course of few weeks he received let
ter reporting progress. The man who
digs up family histories said he had OBJ
Inl1leu II crew. lie Hdu ltuTIleu ITOHl
carly records that in -, Mass, in 1855,
one James - had been sentenced for
six hours in the stocks for public in
toxication. and that in the same town
the following year this aforesaid James
----- enjoyed the unique distinction of
being the first prisoner to occupy Il
newly built Jail, the charge against
him being the theft of a cask of rum.
"My dear" said the husband, after he
had read the report to his Mortified
wife, 1--WE haven't gotten far enough
along to prove that James was rela-
tive of ours, but think we can do it
with little more research" THE in
vestigation has gone far enough" said
she. Now when she tells of her hus-
bands family history she is content to
dwell on the revolutionary period
Chicago Record.
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1896-02-15
HOME HINTS AND HELPS.

Common seashore sand will greatly
improve the appearance OK old velvet
and remove all the dust. Sprinkle the
velvet well with the fine snnd and then
brush until none remains, always brush
ing the pile The wrong way
Graham Fudding.-Take one cup
full of graham -four, one cupful of sweet
milk, one of nolasses and one ofchopred
raisins; add one teaspccnful soda,
STIR and stand for three hours. House.
keeper.
Egg Grrel.-Beat the yolk of an
egg with q tablespoonful Of powdered
sugar, add tcacupful of boiling water,
then stir in quickly the beaten white,
season with n dash of ltm' g.-Orange
Judd Farmer.
Mend your gloves witt fine cotton
thread instead of silk. The silk is apt
to cut the Kid. In mending gloves turn
them insid-. out and sew them over and
over. If there is tear in The glove
set piece of kid under it and secure
1t with few stitches.
TO make use Of sweet, lnsipid and
tastcless apples stew them and mix
them with stcwed cranbcrries in the
proportion of one part of Cranberries
to two parts of apples. Not quite as
much sugar will DE required us for the
cranberries alone. Strain them through
colandcr. and serve cold with meats
or fowl.
Breakfast Fritters. Two eggs,
beat well, two cupfuls Of buttermllk
or sour milk, little sail, half tea
spoonful of soda. and -four to make a
batter stiff enough to drop from the
spoon. Have n skillet of hot lard and
drop IA small spoonfuls and fry light
brown. They are nice and light. For
change you can put in sc.ne chopped
meat or oyster for each fritter, for
those that like oysters. = Western
Rural.
Walnut Cake. TO be pat together
as above. One and one-half c1pfuls of
sugar, one-nelf cupful of butte, whites
of four eggs, two cupfuls CT gifted -four,
ONE heaping teaspoonful of Laking pow
der, three-q ,artera of a cnpful of new
milk, one cupful of walnut meats. II
English instead Of shell Dack. break
the pieces, os they are rather large To
use whole. BE sure that no bits of shell
get in with the meats. ] have found
that to leave out half the butter of any
recipe leaves n good batter fer lut cake.
IN. Y. Observer.
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1896-02-15
LIVE STOCK NOTES.

Grnde up your stock, for both home
md foreign markets require better
QUelity of meat than ever before.
n eve should not be required to
move nbout much for few hours after
lambing. If her teats are closed against
the efforts of the lamb, squeeze them
out with the wctted fingers.
~ eve which disowns her lamb OF
one which is required to adopt another
oh6uld be confined alone with IL in u
DIRK place, and out of hearing of other
sheep, and she should be held several
times day for it to suck.
In order to secure the many dcsira.
kle good qualities which go to make
first-class flock of sheep, great
20 is taken in the selection of a buck
reference to the particular flock
YES with which he is to be put.
MA 1fore sheep are changed from hay
r. rass in the spring they should be
carefully looked over, and all horns and
hoofs that threaten to be troublesome
carefully removed. The hoofs can be
taken off with pruning shears, but a
fine saw is needed for horns.
There is real economy in feeding
straw and corn fodder. There is nc
WESTON but that stock can be wintered
~ well upon these as upon high priced
law. When these are fed with bran
wing higher albuminoid ratio. they
liable IN animal to digest and assimi.
Re better than when corn is fed with
em.--Farmer's Voice.
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1896-02-15
Cracked Corn for Fovl..

The use of cracked corn is more
largely employed among those who
breed the smaller breeds of poultry,
yet some use 1t with all varieties. 1t
always seemed to me that the bette
way would be to buy smaller kernel
corn or plant dwarf variety that
would avoid the necessity of cracking
II ut the mill. In doing 30 you got just
what is wanted and avoid the trouble
of having to pay for great deal of
meal made in grinding the corn, which
is not eaten by the flock and permitting
II to lie in the feed bins long brings
the meal worm about and makes the
entire grain musty and unpleasant to
handle.-J. w. Csughey, in Farm and
Home.
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1896-02-15
Ration for Cattle or Sheep.

jake up complete ration in growing
eAttle or sheep. 1t makes cheap food,
a will bring little better result IL the
otraw and clover could first be run
|1hrough feed-cutter and then the
bran be added. But, il this cannot be
Zone, the next best plan is to feed the
traw and clover in racks or managers,
IND the bran in boxes OF troughs.
There will be much less waste in this
way than by allowing the stock to run
IN the stacks and help themselves.
What is left in the racks or managers
'cah be used for bedding, and in this
way he converted into a valuable fer
|tilizer.
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1896-02-15
WARM FEET.
They Are Essential to Health = Proper
Covering for the Feet.

They Are Essential to Health = Proper
Covering for the Feet.
You will never be ia good health and
never do your best work il your feet are
constantly cold. Grave diseases OF the
throat and lungs are caused by cold feet
alone, and these troubles are always ag.
gravated by frigid condition of the
lower extremities. If proper footwear
does not give relief, consult n physician,
for the chances are the system is run
down" and radical measures are neces-
sary. In nine cases out of ten, however,
the foot covering is to blame, either be-
cause of it's shape or it's material. Save
in warm weather, and for low-cut shoes,
leather, as ordinarily prepared, has seri.
Gus objections. 1t lacks two prime quail
ities-porosity and capacity for alb
sorption-being in this respect too
much like rubber. No foot can remain
either comfortable or healthy il keptina
perpetual bath of it's own emanations
and excretions. Leather, especially
that of the more porous varieties, may
be tolerated for the outside, but for
cold weather IL should always be lined
WIN WOOieu Ciotn, VI, octteT, With WOOL
felt. In fact, for all cold climates and
for winter wear in all climates where
there is any winter, footgear made
from all wool felt approaches the ideal.
According to modern notions, any ill
ness in one part of the body may be oc-
casioned by some irritating cause far
removed from the seat of the trouble.
just how this is cannot always be clear
ly explained but that such connection
does sometimes exist is beyond dis
pute. In the matter under discussion,
IL the nerves of the whole body are irri-
tatcd by a tight shoe, or the extreme
coldness of the extremities makes extra
demand upon the blood supply. there
in neither nerve force nor blood enough
left for other functons.-vocalist-