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The daily morning journal and courier., 1896-05-07
FASHION NOTES.
En,eets nad From Ribbons.

Never mind how many shops are sell ing ribbon bows and collars for next 10 nothing, don't think them common. Collars are as pretty as they can be and three or four of them are very good things to have in wardrobe. They give touch to a costume fresh en up an old rig, and if gown IS per- haps not just as becoming at night as it ought to be, or as it Is in the day, It may be that all it wants is little brightening up, and little ribbon collar of the right shade will do it. A cerise collar, for instance, will often make q whole costume seem changed for the better. There is another advantage about these collars; the bows and the collarlength will adapt itself to other use, as on hat at the belt or on the fan. Who is to tell that in the extra loop is concealed a pair of hooks and eyes
 On the finest of new dresses ribbon trimming is plentiful, and every one knows how general it is on hats; in deed, the gay ribbons and the garnl- lures they make constitute one Of the most marked characteristics of the seasons dressing. On the dress that the artist presents to-day there were bows of Persian ribbon fastened as shown with gold buckles, and twists of the same ribbon around the hips with long ends hanging in front. For other trimming there were bands of bead en- broidery on bodice and skirt, and em- broidery of spangles at the neck. The material was violene satin.
 Black satin is made up effectively over white satin vest and skirt. Vest and skirt are one and are draped with jeweled white net. The black satin makes the rest of the bodice. fits with out wrinkle and is in no way elabora- ted. It is one with the skirt portion, which is open in front to show the white skirt, and which is also parted at the hips to the hem, showing the white skirt again there. The train is very long, princess with the bodice, the ef- feet of the dress at the back being all black satin Such dress is suitable tc a young matron, or to an elderly one | or to the girl who is of fine height and | dignified carriage and desirous of em- | phasizing her youthful slenderness by | the dignity of her dress.
 FLORETTE.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1896-05-07
AN INTERESTING FACT.

A fine audience was present at the fine performance of a fine old comedy at the Hyperion last evening. In 1t were more of New Haven's best and brightest than one often sees together at one time and place. The distinguish ed, the successful, the pious, the learn ed and the beautiful were there. Es- pecially the beautiful. And to the sem piternal honor and glory of the beauti- full be it recorded that they were as oonsiderate as beautiful Not single Alpine peaked or vegetables garden hat was to be seen. Indeed, there were few hats of any kind in view. Instead, there were delicate and sleek little heads, with the most elegant ears stuck on the sides thereof and with simple yet profound hair wads on the tops and backs thereof. Oh, it was a refresh ing sight--a sight calculated to dispel gloom, mollify cynicism and renew hope.
 But what we started out to do was to notice very interesting fact which cropped out-yea, stuck out--during the performance. The fine old comedy which was so finely played has num- Der O. more or less pat and forcible "damns" in it. And it was a curious and interesting thing to notice how that fine audience, representing every thing that is glorious and good in New Haven, appreciated those "damns." {" Why, it actually rose to some of them as the eager trout rises to the alluring fly. It gobbled them right down and gloated over them. It liked what it had and would evidently have liked more. Of course it has been decided by the High Court that damn" is not profane, and so there is no real bar to it's hearty appreciation by New Ha- ven's best and brightest. But some people didn't know before last evening how hearty that appreciation is. If Henry Irving had only known what
 became so apparent last evening he could have improved the satisfying lit- tie speech he made when he played Shylock here last week. "Damns" in place os some of the "agains" in that speech would have been a change and would evidently have evoked even wild CT applause from the, highly cultured audience than the "agains" did.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1896-05-07
M1RKED.
FLoRETTE.

If woman is rich and has coarse features, they are referred to as being strongly marked. "-Atchison Globe.
 De Tanque-You don't take enough exercise for man of your habits.
 Old Soak-Why, have been shaking dice for drinks all the afternoon Philadelphia Record
 MT. Wellington Ships Where did you get that girl from? Mrs. Wellington Snips-From the intelligence office. MT. Wellington Snips-She doesn't look 1t. New York World.
 "It's my ambition to be millionaire, 9 said Fakely. I've made the one, and now I'm after the zeros." Well go on in your own way" retorted Synicus. You will make 'em ''-Harpers Ba- gar.
 Half the people in the world are al- ways crossing the bridges before they come to them" Yes; and the other half keep on going over bridges after they've crossed them. Chicago Rec ord.
 Cobble-That Miss Slimson is very sensitive girl. She didn't like it be- cause called on her last night without being shaved. Stone What did she say? "She said she felt it very much. D Life
 MT. Nuwed--Is all the ice gone? Mrs. Nuwed-Yes; the cook book said to boil potatoes in cold water, and l used it all in keeping the water cold while they were boiling, and the horrid things are not soft yet-Washington Times.
 The old hen flew from her nest and cackled loud and long. When eggs are cents g. dozen," said the old roost- CT, eyeing the performance with lan- guid disapproval, '.it is a ridiculous ex- hibition of vanity to make all that fuss over one egg. Chicago Tribune.
 "Josiar," said Mrs. Corntassel, Eye was a sayin' the other day that Hiram didn't seem ter have no bent fer any thing in pertickler" Yes Well, ye can't say it no more. Jes' go out an look at him some time when he's a scorchin' on his bicycle Washington Star.
 Grandma (who has just arrived for a visit)-Well, Freddie, I suppose your father was greatly surprised to get my telegram saying I was coming? Fred die-Yes; but mother was the most sur prised. Grandma-At the glad news I suppose? Freddie--No; at papa g language-Detroit Free Press
The daily morning journal and courier., 1896-05-07

Washington, with it's asphalt streets, is perhaps the best place for bicycling in the country, and many of those who live there are at it. It is said that bicy- cling there has cut down the street railroad revenues four thousand dol lars a day, and it has also hurt the theaters. Says the manager of one play-house: There are constantly in creasing thousands of wheelmen and women in this city alone, and since the mild weather we see them every even ing riding in squadrons, platoons, and troops past the theater door, scornful of the bright lights and attractive bills. Moreover, the people who in the sum mer would ordinarily be attracted by the reduced prices and popular attrac- tions are the ones who own their wheels and enjoy riding more than theater- going.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1896-05-07

One of perhaps many e-consider- country are being eaten up is in sup plying timber for railroad trestle work. There are two thousand miles of trestle ing to an estimate by the Forestry di- vision. This trestle work has to be re- placed entirely every nine years, on an average, and every year timber amount ing to 260,o00,000 feet, board measure, isused for this purpose. Nearly all the timber Is cut from the largest and fin- this work is estimated at about s7, ,000,- GOO.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1896-05-07
Advertising Rates.

Situations. Wants, Rents and other small advertisements, One Cent Word each in- sertion. Five cents word for full week (seven times.)
 Display Advertisements-Per inch, one ln7 sertion, Si. 20; each subsequent insertion, 4O cents one week, $3.20; one month, Slo; one year, $40.
 Obituary notices, in prose or verse, ID cents per line. Notices of births, Marriages, Deaths and Funerals 50 cents each. Local notices, 15 cents per line.
 Yearly advertisers are limited to their own iectlonabe). and their contracts do not in- clude Wants, To Let, For Sale, etc.
 Discounts-On two inches or more one month and over, 10 per cent; on four lnches
The daily morning journal and courier., 1896-05-07
Notice.

wecannot accept anonymous or return re- jected communications. In all cases the name of the writer will be required, not Tor publication, but as a guarantee of good faith.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1896-05-07

After four years hard work the ad- vocates of women's financial rights in France have succeeded in passing bill providing that married woman may have control of her own earnings. Hith- erto she could neither receive nor dis pose of them without the consent of her husband.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1896-05-07

Eighteen bills now before congress providing for statues to great men make appropriations aggregating s1,- 4S6,OOO. Among the men whom it is thus proposed to honor are General Grant, President Lincoln, John Paul nemann, John Amos Comenius, Robert Dale Owen, General Zachary Taylor, General Spinner, Salmon P. Chase and stthe private soldier" The plan is to erect all these in the city of Washing ton.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1896-05-07

How women have changed, according to Mrs. J. Ellen Foster, who proudly declares that women have no favorite sons.,
The daily morning journal and courier., 1896-05-07

With a view to improving the sani- tary condition of the public schools, the city council of Ludwigshaven, on the Rhine, Opposite Mannheim, in Ba- varia,) very progressive commercial town, has adopted the new system of pavilion schools The buildings con- sist of separate pavilions, surrounded by open grounds. On six acres of land fourteen one-story and three two-story buildings, with an aggregate of thirty four large and well-ventilated recita- tion-rooms, have been erected. The grounds around these elegantly finish ed structures form arenas for games and leave space for gardens, so that plenty of sun, air and exercise be pro- vided for the pupils. The cost of the whole establishment amounts to about s15S,
The daily morning journal and courier., 1896-05-07

The Panama canal project appears to be looking up. A new company has been formed, with a, capital of $10,0OO,- 900, for the purpose of making borings along the route and building what may be called a trial canal, fifteen metres wide by four metres deep, along the
 most difficult part of the system. If the outlook is encouraging when this is done, it is said that financial institu- tions are ready to advance $10O, ,O0O, 900 to complete the great work.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1896-05-07

That will be a. very interesting race which is to take place June 5th between a New York Central train and a ''sex- tuplet," driven by six athletic cyclists. It is necessary that the track should be five miles in length, as the full speed of the sextuplet cannot be attained in less than two miles. The race will be over the third or center mile of the track The start will be so timed that both train and cyclists will begin the racing mile together. and then both will be sent along at the utmost speed. The cyclists claim that they can do the mile in 37 seconds.
The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1896-11-07

The island OF Dominica is the home
and natural habitat OF the Hercules
beetle (Dynastes Herculesl, the very
largest known species OF the Coleop-
terra or beetle family. Full-grown
specimens of this gigantic representa-
tive of the hard-winged bug family
average six inches in length from the
tip of their pinches to the termina-
ton of the wing covers. The speci-
men have before me as / write IS
slightly smaller than the average Dy-
nastes Hercules. 1t has long, black
horn growing out OF head which IS
even darker than the horn itself. On
its lower surface the horn is covered
with thick setting OF go!d-colored
brist es, which the entomoiogists say
are used by tho insect in capturing its
prey. Another aud shorter, but more
powerful, horn grows out from be.
meath. the two forming powerful
pa OF pinches. The creature has SIX
powerful legs. each armed with claws.
The elytra or wing covers are OF .
dapple gray color and the under parts
of the body black. Taken altogether
il is a formidable creature, with
strength sufficient to catch and hold a
bird of the size OF the English spar
The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1896-11-07
Silver Dollars Specified.

There is recorded among the leeds
in the County Clerks Office a transfer
made by Nathan B. Warren. Stephen
e. Warren, and George Henry Warren
to Edward Garfield OF plot OF ground
in West Troy, dated lay l, 1850, In
which tue covenant sets forth that
payment of the ot shall be made in
silver.
The land conveyed vas what vas
Their known as lot Twenty-Five on
map made by George a. Warren and
was twenty by 100 feet. the
guarantee was to have and to hold the
devised premises, with the appurten-
ances, s'for and during tue iuii term
of ten years." providing he pays
"yearly therefor, during each and
every year of his occupancy, INTO
the pal ties OF the first part, their
heirs or assigns, the yearly rental OF
ten silver dollars OF like weight and
value OF the silver dollars now the
lawfnl money of the State OF New
York. Albany IN. " Argus.
The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1896-11-07
CHATTER L.


The cause of the uproar proved to be
simple enough.
Emerging In o the Bischofsp,atz from
the side street that l had followed,
found great crowd gathered before tho
Marmorhof, shouting Death to Conrad
and Where is Ma,hilde?" with all the
force Of its collective lungs. Tho Mar
morhof was the residence OF Prince
Conrad, brother te the reigning Grand
Duke Otto-reigning, indeed. but now
very old aad i'll end like to de. The
legitimate successor TO tho throne would
have been Ot;os granddaughter Ma
thilde, the only surviving child Of his
eldest son, Franz Victor, who had been
dead these ten years. But the Grand
Dukes bro.her, Conrad, was covetous
of her ghtS-coyetous and, as her
friends alleged, unscr = u!ou5; and if
she were but out Of the way Conrad
would come 10 reign. Rumor, indo ed,
whispered that he had made three actual
attempts 20 compass her death: two y
poison AMI one by the dagger, each,
thanks TO some miracle, unsucces sfui.
But fortnight ago, upon the fist out
break Of fatal symptoms in POOR old
Otto, Mathilde had mys eriousiy disap-
pea. cd. Her Whereabouts unknown, all
the world was in q great commotion.
@She has iol AMI is in hiding" surmise ed
come people, ito escape the designs OF
her wicked uncle. ""No," retorted others;
"but he, the wicked uncle himself, has
KIDNAPPED her, sequestered her, perhaps
made away with her. Who can tell?"
As an inqu ring stranger, the situation
interested ne: end, from the top OF q
The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1896-11-07
A Horse Bies From Grief.

The emotional life OF horse is re-
markable. There are instances on
record where the death OF the horse
has been traced directly to grief. One
instance is called to mind, which oc-
Cured more than twenty years ago. "A
circus had been performing IN the
little town of Unionville, Penn, when
one of the trained horses sprained ons
of his legs so that he conld not travel.
He was taken to the h ,tei an put In
n box stall. The leg was blndaged and
he was male as comfortable as posi-
bic.
lie ate his food, and was apparently
con tented until about midnight, When
the circus began moving out OF town:
When he came restless and tramped
and whinni. As the caravan moved
past the hotel he seemed to reallze
that he was being deserted, and hls
anxiety and distress became pitifui.
He would stand with his ears pricked
In an attitude OF intense listening,
and then rs his ears caught the sounds
of the retiring wagons he would rush,
ns best he could with his injured leg,
from one side Of the stall to the other,
nu.hing at the door with his nose and
and m king every effort to escape.
The stableman, who WAS stranger to
him, tired to soo,he him, but to no
purpose. He wonll not be comforted.
Long after all sounds of the circus
had ceased his agitation continued.
The sweat poured from him in streams
and he quivered in every part OF tina
body. Finally the stableman went to
the house, woke up tho proprietor
and told him he believed the horse
would die il some OF the circus horses
were not brought back to keep him
company. At about daylight the pro-
prietor mounted horse and rode
after the circus. He overlook 1t ten
or twelve miles away, and the groom
who had charge OF the injured horse,
returned with him. When they
reached the stable the horse was dead.
The stableman said that he remained
for nearly an hour perfectly still and
with every sense apparently strained
to the utmost tension, and then, with
out making sign, fell and died with
scarcely struggle. The veterinarian
who was called remarked after tue
circumstances were told him that IN.
ouestionably the horse died from
grief. -Kentucky Stock Farm.
The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1896-11-07
Predicament of "a Young Lady.

The news of q thrilling adventure
experienced by young lady from
Oakland near Skaggs Springs, CAL,
has Just come in. The young lady was
one of party OF twelve San francis
cans who left the springs early in the
morning on tramp through the
mountains. Just four miles from
Sksggs' is rock, we'll known to tour
list, as "Msjor's rock" which towers
nearly 100 feet high. The ambitious
girl went ahead OF the party and scaled
the rock by very dangerous path.
When the remainder OF the party ar
rived she was sitting on top OF the
rock thoroughly frightened, for al.
though she had reached the summit
with apparent ease her courage failed
Ter for the return journey and she
called loudly for assistance.
The other tourists strove In vain to
rescue her, but without avail. They
could not climb the treacherous path.
Messengers were dispatched to the
hotel and ladders and ropes were pro.
cured. After much loss of time holes
were dug in the rock and the ladders
were placed in position. But how 60
convey the woman to the ground after
they had reached her puzzled the
strong men who went to her assist
ance. All other efforts proving futile,
a big bucket was found, to which .
strong rope was fixed. Into this the
vounS lady was induced to sit.
The next perplexity was how to low
er the bucket, as the men on the lad
ders had all they could do to hold on
themselves. Finally, however, by
great effort, the rescuers managed to
Scramble on top OF the rock. Then,
crashing the rope with their hands.
they lowered the bucket with IT'S oc
cupant amid the cheers of the. onlook
ers. The Young lady, although great
~ frightened, was unhurt.-San Fran
cisco Examiner.
The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1896-11-07
Bob Mason's Fight With a Buck.

Bob" Mason, a famous Sonoma
County hunter, had thrilling expe-
rience with big buck in Mendocino
township recently. Mason was out
hunting and slightly wounded fine
deer. In pursuing it he fell into
deep hole Of water, He lost his rifle
in the stream and after foundering
around q while managed to get hold
of big log that projected over the
pool. He craSled upon it, aud had
hardly seated himself before he saw
the buck swimming toward him.
The animals eyes were blazing and
he made straight for Mason. Mason
drew his hunting knife, and when the
buck got near enough he grabbed 1t
by the horns and both went down IN
the stream. They struggled, and at
one time Mason thought his time had
come. However, he succeeded In IN
fiicting q mortal wound on his enemy,
and after few moments succeeded IN
getting to shore with the buck. Tnere
a party found him lying exhausted by
the side of his dead adversary, about
an hour afterward. 1t was the fierces'
fight he ever had with deer and Ma
son has had a good many OF them
San Francisco Chronicle.
The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1896-11-07

detached from the skin and was stand
ing out half an inch aloof from his
cheek. The sight sent shiver down
nv spine. 1t was certainly most I'M
natural and eerie. His eyes were bright
and honest; his voice was soft and re-
fined; he spoke English like man and
a brother; and his character, SO FAR as l
had got at it through his talk, seemed
whimsical and open; but his beard, his
dashing, black, pointed beard. which I'm
not sure 1 hadn't been envying him
little, was peculiar; and lnstinctively l
nIace and so was my purse. Therefore
at the door of the bierhaus, in due time,
we babe each other friendly good-by.
He promised to look me up one OF these
days at my hotel.
Il have enjoyed your society more
than Won can think, he said Some OF
these days I'll drop in and see. you.
rimp:oviste.
fTo BE CoNTlNUED.t
The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1896-11-07
One T0othpick Industry.

In Harbor Springs, Micb., there is
a large and aourishing wood toothpick
industry. White birch is exclusively
used in the manufacture OF the tooth
picks, and about 10000 are turned
out daily. The logs are sawed up into
bolts each twenty-eignt inches IN
length, then thoroughly steamed and
cut up into vG-sers. The veneer IS
cut into long ribbons three inches IN
width, and these fibbons, eight or ten
of time, and run through the tooth
pick machinery, coming out OF the
other end, the perfect pieces falling
into one basket, the broken pieces and
refuse falling into enthusiastically
eastern Lumberman.