The Potteries Examiner : — 1878-09-21 (Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, England)

SEASONABLE. IIEAD-DRESSES.—TiIO extravagam of female fancy in the matter of dress, or, asst should perhaps rather say, of those who preseriC to the female world what it shall and shall cc wear, has of late been concentrated BEN especially upon the invention of new head-dre,sa The reign of chignons being past, and these E seemly appendages having been consigned c oblivion together with the gold dust of the les generation and the powder of the last century, e is reserved for the present age to devote its prie eipal attention not so much to the hair itself ass that which is worn over it. Accordingly, althosit. the rage for strange hats and bonnets appease to have reached its height some months ittO it is now announced from Paris that the um mania is still to be catried to far mere oat rugeous lengths, and that the autumn is to ma do in the way of feminine head-gear all the boned triumphs of the spring and summer. A similsrpnt. Mph) to that which prescribed cherries and peed blosecoms and almost every sort of flower and frn! is now about to be followed in the adoption d autumnal products. Already at the most fashion able bathing places the poppies and convolvei of the late summer are being displaced and SSt leaves with great bunches of grapes eubstitutex The Paris Figaro comes from the capital of fitshin svith tidings of other ornaments, all of a' seam, able" kind. The green said spiky knobs of the chestnut in all stages of growth am oto be sto dangling gracefully from one straw list; fro: another bunches of filberts seem to invite the hal of the passer-by; while the more modest bidde for fashionable honour attaches to her bead-dr? a collection of the small hanging globes of el plane tree. A short time more and we shall bel the fruit actually growing on the hats, and it able to watch the progress of the seasons so" see it grow and ripen and at length fall off.—GlA  A ease in which a young man, only twenty-01 years old, deliberately preferred suicide to povell or dependence upon charity was before the Lite. pool coroner last week. The deceased was a man out of employ, and being unable to MO: work shot Minima dead at Seitiorth.  Capt. R. F. Burton has sent to press t." volumes entitled ...Milian Revisited." 114 describe his last journey of four months iu North. Western Aral,* to whch a former volume, "lid Gold Mines of Nidian," has served ass prefaced m a d-rourier. The book will be published by Messrs. C. Began Paul and Co.  Captain It. D. Hay, adjutant of the 3rd Elea Artillery Volunteers, was last week appointedA chief constable of Wolverhampton, in Pia,B Captain Segrave, who has resigned. There well 106 candidates. The annual salary is Th. only other candidate who obtained any votes Vai Lieutenant-Colonel Russell, of Loughborough.  An extraordinary bicycle ride is reported. 11, W. T. Brittea, captain of the Clarence Dicvea C last week rode from London to Bath -aid ba,k. Including stoppages for refreshment, file whole distance, 212 miles, was covered to twestr threc hours fifty-five minutes. This is said tc..11 the lougest ran that has ever been acconaphib. luau. 11.11. Y.