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s'.'^'-'^'.'ssjr.. r FATAL FALL THROUGH SPAOE. YouDg Mao Carried to a Great Height lliDging to a Balloon, ^^ AMU THEN UASIIBU TO TUE QKOUND. A lldrrlfyliiK Spriitai'U' Prcnenteil l(> tli« Vlnlliirn at thu Ollawa ratr. PIUJF. WILLIAMS' NAUUATIVE. A Use (WiMluosdavJ uij^ht'a UCtaws des- patch ei;!i: Thoinaa \Vuiialey Hiiffarcd death here today in tbii most api»iiliij({ly tragic rnannir, in the pretence of uveuty thoiiaanit horror-stricken Bpeclatora. Amon" the attractions at the fair bein^; hold here Id a balloon auceusion, in whiub the acroiiniit, vvliuii he reaches the height of some twi) thou-iand feet, leaves his air ahip and reaches the earth by means of a parachute. A great portion of the after- noon was occupied in inflating the moueter uphere with hot air. A score of men sur- rounded the canvas holding it down. Just previous to the ascent, the aeronaut crawled in and got into bis cage, arranging with the men that ha %TOuld shout "Let go" as soon as he was ready. He did so, and every man dropped liia hold except one. When th^ balloon became clear of tiie ground the ga.'.lng muliitadc were ama/.ed to see a man clinging by his hands to the side of the balloon and out of reach of the aeronaut. The great bag rose like a bird, and in an instant was 20 feet in the air, but brief as the iirnu for thought was, a Bsore of people screamed for the man to drop. Ue eeeuied not to heed them, but dang to his perilous hold. For a moment many thought that he was a confederate of the performer, but it was soon clearly seen that the uufortuuate fellow was rushing Qp into spai'} wiih nothing to gave him from an awful death but his own weuk hands The great multitude ga/.ed (m thu terrible aceue being enacted in their eight, hushed into death-like silence. I p and up went the ballooD, and the hope grew on the trembling sightseers that the iinwillini^ voyager was cai'^hl ill eoii-e of the tackle •nd would Biill' r lo worue fate than what- ever might beiall I'le balloon This hope was doomed to almoK. instant cvtinct'on, for when about a thousand fei t had been traverned, he le. t;0 his hold and be;;'4.i his fearful descent ij eu.li. "God help him I" burst from a 'liousand throats. Men's faces grew white, and liundreils hid their faces, lieart sick women wept hysterically, and mail) faint, t outright, tiuch a cceue can only be witnessed once in a I'fe.inie. The |ioor wretch fell for twenty fret in a jMirpenilicular posiiiun and then slowly turned horizontally on his back. His arms and legs were B]ireBd out, and he had all the appearance of an inanimate object as he rushed with siukuuin» veluc'ly earth- ward. He fell just behir a the dwelliu'.; cf a Mr. Holt, who livesou lianks. root, which forms till' -western limit of the fair groun<l. The thu I which his body made on striking the earth wa* distiiiotly heard by ''>o liorri fled people who lined the western p*rt of the grounds. Tlie body was picked up and taken into Fiolt's house, where it lay await- ing recognition. It was not long btvfore it was identilii'il as that of '1 luimaB Wensliy, abont J.'i years of ago, son of n man of 'he same name employed in the Civil Service as an engineer. As the body lay with the clothing on, it gave no evidence of the frightful impact It ha<l sustained-, but an examination showed that the neck Wiia broken, thu right arm fairly shivered, and probably many of the other bones of the body fractured. There was not a speok of blood visible on his person. Hundreds of curious p.eople Keemeil (airly mad to see the body.and Chief McVeity and bis men had a hotijnarter of au hour's work keitping them back. The peopln then began to speculate how the nnfociunateyiiiing fellow hail gone up with the bitlloon. li was ipiile evident about nine hundred feet from the ground when he let go. I fell four hundred feet once before my parachuto opened, and ! was the next ihiug lo uuuonsoious when it opened and slowed up my dcfecent." "Will you go on with vour act on Friday?" " Oh, yes, I'll be all right by then, al- though this business shook me np pretty bad. It was terrible to be so near him and yet rpiite impossible for me to do anything to help him." The affair caused great excitement, and nothing ehc is talked of on the streets to- night. An ini'nest will be held to-morrow morning. The proiegts of the Ministerial AsKociation againot fair attractions will now be thought by many to be justilied by this event. Til THK .SMITTKN I11FI\» I,<).M.*N.S. t'eoplt* < oiM-eiiliii|; siiiallpox Palieiitrt F'roiii lh« .\ iithiiritieit. A last (Thursna) f night's ISuffalo despatch SHys : One death from smallpox is reported from the Quarantine Uciapiial to ilay. The victim was iNIrs. Ida Abraham, aged 27. The health physicians yesterday found smallpox in a houtiu occupied by two Polish families on the east side of the city. In one of the rooms of tim biiiHing they dis covered a woman, 2.*s )ears of age, wiih two children. The woman was in bed and had a severe attack of smallpox. Beside her was her babe, and although the little one has not conio down with the di.seate, there is no hope of its escape. The woman must have been sick over a week, for the case is in an advanced stage. Neiil.er she nor her children have been vaccinated. In the same houpc is a bo\ , aged lOyears, who has the ili!>"«so in a inililer form. Ue too hau been sick a week and has not been vaccin ated- These caxes have been concealed ami only the energetic measures instituted led to the discovery- .No physician had been employed. The wuman and boy and three children were taken to t)ie pesthouse last nigbt. In the family of Grier XCllithrope, of the Supreme Court, a case developed this morning. A boarder in the house was taken ill. rbi' physicians proii'iunced the case one of virulent smallpox, and the victim was removed to the Quarantine Hospital. Two more concealed canes wore foau>l on Shum- way bin ut this afternoon, a boy of H years and a man of -10. The latter i.s a bad case The bouee to hou^e inspetion has proved lo be a wise ineaHure, but it has proved to the phv«iciaiia the existence of the disiase to an extent not anticipated. The pbssi- i;ians hail previniiMly felt no alarm. Tluy had gauged thi- extent of ihi- di»e»fe by the cases reporle.l to llie lioanl of Health Th' y had noihotight then that there might be cases that would not come to their at- tention, as tht le utre no ph\si<'ians in th( city who would be ho dereln t of duty as to conceal them. Thu aiithnritiia had no idea that people wnuhl undertake to get throagh a rio^e of sickm SB such as small pox is without a physician, tind thus have a n.enns of c.iini:euliiig the cttM from tin pru|>er authorities, but anuh is evidentU the ca&e, and douhtleis this one thing has much to ilo with the spread of the diMMse In pursuance of this di-icovery the Hoard of Health lost n 1 tune ui getting at that class of people who have no regar^l for publio .lafelN , and as a re^^nlt of the hotn-e to houi-e inspection some seventeen cate:* havi- hi en discovoted where the existence of the disease was unknown. that he u:ti nut entangled in the roiMia, but was iniTel y hanging on and could have let go at any time. Why did he not let goat once; why iliil he nut let go when the people shriiked to him to ilo so? The only theory consistent uilh soundness of mind was that he had a very linn hold of the balloon, and wae switched into the air before ho was aware of it ; and, liuding himself then at a dangerous distance from the earth, he hung on as long as he could. It was alto gether the most wofully thrilling lught that one could well imagine. ISll;llHKW Willi TUB .\E110.N.kUT. Vonr representative was the only news- paper man who saw the aeroiiatit and got Ilia story of the ouoiirrence. His name is Williams, living thu man who performed at the Tiiiiinlo h'ttir. He Haul, ' Hefore going into the basket 1 tuld tlui men who were holding the balloon down when 1 shouted * Let go,' to do so. I got in and shouted, and iustantly felt the balloon rise. What was my horror, when 1 got clear of the crowd, lo lind a man hanging to the balloon 20 feet nway from iiie. 1 shouted at hini to let g>>, but lieilid not appear to heed me, Ue was looking down at the crowd, ap parently uncunceniedly. I slioiilud to iiim again ; bat again he seemed to take no notioe of rao. It Hashed on mo that he was deaf or niA<J. I really can't tell just what my thoughts were. Then I confenn I was totally unnerved. I oould not do anything to help. Mo was iilinging to a half inch rope which enoiroles the balloon Inside the canvas. 1 had made up my mind not (>> make my descent until 1 saw whether my oonipanion would he able to keep his death gripof the rope. 1 knew that with our nombined weights the balloon would soon begin to descend. In deed, it was beginning lo slow up when he let go. He went by me with a rush, and the balloon, relieved of his weight, shot up •gain. 1 watoliiid his body descend fairly a|>ellbound, and it was as much as I oould do to carry out my own act. Ho novur said a word nor cried out even when he dro])ped bis hold. 1 could not see his face very well, but it ap|i«ared set and white. After shouting to him the sonoiid lime 1 never spoke, hut the two of us nionnted Bpoeclilossly into the air. I i^annot ao- oouiil for his act. I never had such a thing happen to me before.' â- â€¢I)o you aappose hn was sensible when ho struck the earth '.'" I asked. " lie never knew vthat happened him. I out the missing link as we would be if we He would lose hi-< senses before he got h»l( had it, henaiise if we had it there would no the distance he (ell. I reckon we were longer be a miising link. Latest .S4!utilsh N*«ws. The Ilelmsdali' li-hermen have met and passed this resolution : " That this miwting adopt ilie I'laii of Campaign, ami that llie harbor dues collected be paid int" the bank and kept th-re until satisfactory improve- ment lie made in the Helmsdale harbor." Kx.l'rovost A. Corner, Wick, died at his re>sideiioe, Willowhank, the other day. He was one of tli-i original membera of the Wiok Chamber of ("oinmerce, foundeil in lH:tt), and held for over a quarter of a cen- tury a seat in the Town Council. Au nveiit of uncommon oouurrenue hap pencdat HtonehouHc, Lanark- hire, recently. Mr. and vlrs. Matthew Hamilton, New street, celebrated ilnir diamond wedding, having been iiiarrnd for I hi' long period of 00 years. With the ezoeptiuii of eleven years spent in the neighboring pariah of Lesinnliagow, the old people have lived all their (lays at Ktoni litiuse. Allhoiit.li both are in their HOili year, they are hale and hearty and pnrsue their daily avocations with as much spirit as if they had only seen half tliiir years. Tlmy have brought np a family of twelve, iiyhl of w hom are living .Vt a nieeting of the Clyde Defence Coin- mittee on Hepi. Lull, a nport presented by tha Joint-Conveners, Mr ,)obn IJurna and Kir Hoiiald Matheson, was adopted. It ex- pressi ii approval of the soheinu of defence siibmitteil by the Cuyernmeiit, but proposes that ill addition a (Irst line of defence shouhl be estahlirthed by the i reotion of forlilicationa on Carroch Head and the GumbrHes. Kev. Mr. Douglas, of the Abbey I'ariah- Arbroath, I'orfanhire, at whom several shots were lately lired through his study window, has receiveil a threatening letter, signed " Your Assassin," in which the writer intimates that " 1 yet will have your life before the year is gone." The annual .-Vrgyllshire (Jathering tixik place at Oban on Kept 12th and was largely attended. Among the visitors were I'rince Henry of llatteniierg, llaroii Von I'awul Kammingen and the Mar<|iii8 of Lome. A ball was held in the evening. All archway erected at the foot of Illack ford Hill, ICiinhurgli, in memory of the late Kir (Jeorge Harrison, for some time Lord I'rovost of the city, was on Kept. 12th formally inaugurated by the Larl of Kose- bery and handed over to the custody of the corporation. BtVOH HABKIED MB. BKOWX. TliB Fiilysamlnt Kunteured to Four Years anil hix .'VIoulhs Jiiv Aliiouj; tlie Wiv«f. A Detroit (Mioh.^ despatch says : About fifteen of the thirty-three women who were married to James W. Brown, the champion biganiibt, tince l«a3, confronted him in the Kecorder'a Court yesterday afternoon. The list of victims included Helen Brown- lee aud Anna Winters, of Chicago, who, with M. Hazel, Mary Benjamin and Nancy Robertson, were the only ouea called upon to give evidence agaitst Brown. Tbe Benjamin woman was the prosecuting witness. It was established that Brown's method was to advertise for a housekeeper, select as a victim the one from among the appli cants who pleased him most and marry her as soon as possible. Ue would desert her after a few days. Five clergymen of this city certitied to marrying Brown to as many diflereut women, and the case against him waa so clear that the prosecutor left it to the jury with- out argument. Brown testilied in his own behalf and made a sorry mess of it, contradicting himself at every turn. Ha professed not to remember any ofhisdu[>es; asserted that he waa only once married, aud that bis wife was dead, and that be had once been conlined as' a lunatic at New Orleans. Brown was pallid aud looked like a eick man. Dtiriug the trial Nancy Kobertson's indignation could not be repressed, and she denounced Brown as a pertidious wretch. The jury agreed with her evidently, for they took but four minutes to tind him guilty. Sentence waa deferred so that they could further investigate Brown's doings. A Detroit, Mich., despatch says : When .Jamea W. Brown, the convicted polyga- mist, was brought into tiie Uecorder's Court this afternoon for sentence several of his numeroua wives were present. Judge Gartner asked him the usual ijuestion, if lie bad anything to say why sentence shoulu not be p«8sed. Brown answered that he hail Ins say yesterday . " As far as your case is concerned. Brown," then spoke up Judge Gartner. " you have been convicted of bigamy. Vou failed to remember anything about these numerous marriages, and it seems to me that a man of such poor memory as you is dangerous to the community. Thestatute:. prescribe thu penalty, but the court is left some discretion in the matter. Your phy- sical condition seem?* deplorable, but it in more a mutter for executive than judicial clemency. It is thu sentence of the ocart that you be conlined in the Ktate Prison at Jackson for four years and six months." The extreme penalty is only live years, and Judge Gartner took into consideration tbe aix montba lirown had spent in jail mmediately after the sentence three hand- some brunettes, tall, slender and fashion ably dressed, entered the County Auditor's otlice to draw (HO apiece for witness (tes in Brown's trial. Two of them were Brown's wives â€" Mrs. Hagel and Mrs. Benjamin. The clerk, anxious to identify them, asked laconically, " Both Brown's wives?" The women looke<i at each other, giggled and assented, while the third, anxious not to t,et mixed in with the wives, shifted nn. iihilv away. " Well, it was prottv bad case, wasn't it ?" .pieried the clerk, by way of showing a kindly interest. " Yes," sttid Mrs Hagel, the tallest and handsomest meinbii' of the Mormon family " We were very much dei'eived in that old Br.nvn," added Mrs 11. spitefully. later tiioreof Itrown's wives came in for their fees, and all expressed the liveliest 8aii-*faction over his sentence. EIGHT YJUkusi WITH A BROKEx BACK £SPEOIALLY TOE THC LADIES, But the Sterner Sei May lind ReMure in iieading. strange Case at Black Itocl< that Has I'Qitzled Fbysieiansâ€" A Wife's Oevution. (Buffalo I.'eWB.) " It is one of the strangest cases on re- cord ; he has lain on a water bed for eight years witli a broken back," waa said by one Eccentricity of tlie Plionograpb. who knew George West, who died at Black A curious fact revealed by the phono- Kock on Monday. j 8r»ph 'b that people geuerally do not know " The devotion of his wife cheered him '^"'' °"'" voices. The husband will recog. all through these years of pain, and it was nt^e the wife's voice in a phonograph, and her tender care that prolonged his life," I ^^- *''* ^'•â- '" recognize the husbaua's, bat waa also said, and it was true. neither uill recogni/ia their own speech. Exactly eight years and six months be- ^'''^ '"°''' ^ mighty disappointing to tha fore he died George West, a yottng, hearty, | â„¢*° ^^ho thinks himself a silvery-tongued well-liked railroad man, stood on the top orator. of an Krio car in the yard ac Black Rock. I . -Scene in a Slioe Shop. Ue was employed by the road. By an acci- She wslked into a shoe store and said to dent fcr which another employee was to . '^? polite clerk ; " Y'oa may show me a blame he was hurled froai his place and P*"'' °f walking -boots. No. 4- I used to was picked up insensible. He waa carried ! wear Ds, i)ut I go in for solid comfort now," home to his young wife aud a physician ^*>'^ *" '•xchange. The clerk tried the summoned. The latter declared that i ''°°'^' *>'•'' '^^ey would not goon. " btrange," West's back was broken, and that he could ; ^''^ '""'â- "•°''*d ; •• it must be rheumatism, live but a few days at furthest. But West ; â- ^''y ^^: '* width. I know I can swim in hung on to life. Dr. Marclay, who waa called into the case, decided that the in- jured man could not live. He wrote to a famous New Y'ork surgeon, detailing the facts, and asking if there waa anything that could be done. " Nothing can be done ; the man mast die." was the reply of the skilled New York man. X. P. Laning, the famous Buffalo awyer, partner of Hon. D. H. McMillan ami James Prazer Gluck, undertook to prosecute a claim for damages. For weeks and months West was expected to die, but he hung on with marvellous tenacity. The railroad people offered t'^ settle, but were refused. Then Laning i.. I. and a settle- monv was made by Mrs. West receiving her husband's salary for two years. That started her in a little cigar and stationery business next to the Kherraan House, be- side the International Bridge. She made a living for herself and crippled husband, and has taken cure of him all the time, although be waa unable to be of tbe slight- est service to himself. Ho lay on a rubber bag tilled with water, and gradually wasted away. He had no children. The prolongation of West's life has been a marvel to many physicians. .SOLU lll!« WIFE Ft)K SJO. Au A ll.*NI>.\KiN.\ (IIIIL. fjhe CapUiren a Auriflar .SIiikIu tlauded niul I'rvneiitN lllin to the l*olle«. A Port Wayne, Ind., despatch fays : Miss Ldith llaniilton, the l.'i year old daughter of Hon. Montgomery Hamilton, a leading banker and politician, is the heroine of the day. Kho has captured a burglar single handed and turned bitu over to the police. About I o'clock this morn- ing Miss Lditli awoke. Hearing somebody prowling around the house, she jumped out of bed, snatcheda revolver which lay on the bureau and ran out into the hall, where she was confronted by a masked burglar nearly nx feet tall. The plucky girl or dered the fellow to surrender, but wilh a savage word he advanoeil upon her, when :die, <|iii<^k as a flash, raised the pistol, and, Hiining at thu burglar's head, tired. This prompt action thoroughly cowed the man, and, although tbe bullet merely inflicted a slight wound on his forehead, he begged the girl not to shoot again. Hhe kept the fellow covered with her pistol and called lor help. The inmates of the house were too frightened lo come to the rescue, hut two police olTicers, who had heard the shot, appear<Hl on the si^eiie, and the girl turned her prijoner over to them. When out of range of the girl's revolver the burglar showed tight again, but was (luickly overpowered. Thu morning Jiulge O'Uourke seiilenooil htm to fiiur years in tlu< Pt>iiiteiitiary . His name is Martin Iv HilliH.aiul was formerly employed in the inachiuo shop of the Penn- sylvania Uailroad. Kev. J. M. Uobinsoii, of Spring Hill, N. H., has accepted a call to the paslorale of the Moiiototi Presbyterian Church as sue cesscir to Mr. Hogg, who yvoiit to Winnipeg. UeT. K. W. Waits, of Chatham, N.U., has accepted a call to Knox (!huroh, Owen Hound, and will take charge of the congre- gation on the 1st November- Jay Gould pays his physiciaii, Dr. Win. Miinn, 1>'20,000 a year, and has contracted for Ilia eervicea for twenty years, or until the time of Mr. Gould's death. A philosopher has recently made the discovery that we are jaat au well otT with- .\ ItrlilnlTrlp In ii llalliiiiii. A North Kastoii (Mass.) despatch aavs : Professor James 1\ Allen, who made a balloon ascensioii from the fair grounds at Providence this afternoon, accompanied by Mr. and Mrs. I'.dvvard 'I'. l)avis, who were married in the baskit just before the asoen sion was made, landed in a cedar swamp III lOaston last evening about ll o'clock. The liallcon dragged across the swamp for nearly two miles, the party being obliged to cling to the ropea above the basket to keep out of the water. They were tliially rescued by the drag rope being caught and made fast to a tree. Mr. and Mrs. Davis will proceed on their bridal trip by rail, while Mr. .\llen will make another ascen sion in the morning. Eitntordluary -Matriuiuulul Trauiac- tloo Ue/ure » llubulieii Justice. .\mos Snyder, a baker, of North Bergen, N.J., on Monday caused the arrest of his wife, Julia Snyder, and his hired man, Charlea Wilkins, on a charge of undue intimacy. Snyder married his wife about three vears ago, and a year or more ago hired Wilkins lo work in the bakerv. It was not long before Mrs. Bayder began to show a stroug liking for Wilkins. Snyder was not fully convinced that Wilkins'was paying marked attention to his wife until Batarday last, when he accused his wife of being unfaithful to him, and a .|uarrel was tbe result. Ou Sunday, while Snyder was avray from home in New York, his wife drove away from his hoaae in a buggy in the direction of Giitteuburg. When Snyder returned home he searched for his wife without success On going to his bakery he discovered that the safe in his office had b<en opened and that 91KX) in cash had been extracted therefrom. Ou the counter was the following note in his wife's hand- writing ; Pk »n Amuoâ€" Mj love for yon ha.s died aiece I saw Charlie. I have cno with Mm Jti.ii. 1' sâ€" Have taluo soma money. Snyder' hurraed to the office of Justice Sevi'Kinr, in Uohoken, and sA'ore out a warrant for the arrest of the eloping couple. When oonfronted by them in the court- room ho oCfuruU to withdraw the complaint if Ins money wet's returned to him. His wife thereupon handed him over the cash yvhich she had taken from the safe. Snyder then startled the court by offering to sell his wife to Wilkins for iiO. Wilkins promptly accepted the offer and counted out J.'.O in bills to Snyder, which the latter pocketed With a serene smile aud left the court room. Wiikiiia aud Mrs. Snyder went away together, and were ast seen boarding a train for Pennsylvania.â€" .V.rir York Pr.»». C'liarle* Olrlieus' Kvportorlal Mrthods. It was my good fortune when a resident of Lngland to form the ac<iuaintanco of the great master of novelists, Charles Dickens. 1 picked him up from tbe street just as he had b-jcn knocked down by one cab and was in danger of being rnn over by another. He was at the tiuio, as he always was, a re- porter. 'That night 1 tramped with him through the worst slums of London. He told me hii business, aud in some way wo became friends, and often after that 1 ac- companied him on his night walks. Many characters that I saw on these excursions liav'< peered at me since then from the pages of his novels. One thing that im- pressed mo about Dickens was that he never took notes. I never saw him with a pencil in his hand, nor did he seem to be paying any attention whatever to what was going on around hiui; yet lu I he newspaper articles that made up the complete volumes of " Sketches by Boz " 1 recognized that everv scene, sound or ino'dent of the trip had been indelibly impressed upon hie wonderful mind. Ilennj Manistr^ in d'f.'if- Otttocrat. Slie Mearly Mwallowetl aii K«). A New Y'ork despatch says ; Miis Mamie Nolan, of Newark, has been in the habit of drinking water directly from the a<|iiedunt by putting her mnuth to the tap. While she was drinking theotherdsy aiieel about ton inches long passed tlirohgh the faucet and went half-way down her throat. The eel was pulled from her ttiroat and she fully recovered from her fright in an hour, but her throat is still sore. Same IMaev ; DlflVreut Olrl. A Boston artist deolarrs that % newly- betrothed lover oomtnissioned him to paiiit a certain secluded nook in the rocks on the shore beoanse there he had declared his passion. The picture waa painteii, but before it was dotw the lover said to the artjat : " Of course I will »t>e you through ou that picture, but my engagement is off, and, of course, it would be iMinfully sugges- tive to me. If you can sell it to somebody else 1 will take another picture and be ex- tremely obliged besides." The painter assented to the ogreement, but within a week his patron again presented himself. " It is all right," he anuoimced joyously. " I'll take that picture." " Am 1 to oon- gratuloto you on the renewal of your engage- ment ?" the artist asked. The other seemed a little confused, but quickly recovered his self posseaaion and grinned, as ho said, " Well, not exactly them, bat my feet are so tender." While the clerk was getting them on she said : " I used to have a beautiful foot : not small, but such a good shape. I never had a small foot, but 1 wore 2^ sizts for years, until I walked so much and grew heavier," " Yonr foot is a peculiar shape ; the instep is so highâ€" that is why you require a large size," sail the clerk, who haU no fear of Ananias befoie his eyes. " I've heard, " she said, " that the Venus dee Medeechy weara No. 5, and she is a model of tree proportion." " Kxaolly," said the clerk, growing red in the face as he pulled and lugged to get them on. He had uever heard of " dee Medeechy," hnt he was up to a trick or two himself. " Afterall, " he said, " these are too large. You'll tind the -Ja just right " He was only gone a moment, but in that time he had erased a .' E from the maide of a pair of ahoes and aubstitated t B- "There, I thought it was strange,'' she said, when they were on aud paid for ; " why, those are just as easy as my old ones. I believe I could just as well have had 3s after all." And the young maa- without-a conscience went back to his dnties with the air of one well satiatied with him- self. â€" S(ic York Sun. JuttlnKs. The autumn fashion will show among really well-dressed people a modification of the mnch-discuased " bustle," not the abandonment of it. If women would learn that being " well dressed " does not mean a fortune upon the back at one time, what a stride art and elegance would make ! Diamond earrings with a tailor-made gown is a tirst-rato example of being badly dressed. Sashes will be worn with almost all cos tumes and in every way â€" back, front, or at either side, to the taste of the wearer. Miss Elizabtth Parsan was recently elected Principal of the largest publio school in Chicago over a number of male conipeti- tors. She IS a very popular la'lv, and tha people living in tlie ward in which the school stands- the richest and most popa lotis in ths cityâ€" are delighted iiy tbe ap pointment. Tartans in Style. .V Ne-.v Y'ork correspondent writes : Sous of Scotia and dan_-litcrs, too, v.-ii: leiirn with pleasure that the coming winter brings \vi;htta "rage" for the clan tartanp. They are shown everywhere. The Knyal Stuart, theGordon, with their bright colors, are thrown ot! against the sober but rich and handsome black and white ef the Mac- Phcrson (Cluny,, while the Mackenzie, the " Seventy. first. ' and the Campbell are all in demand. Little tots of .•liildren are all clad in kilt,. i skirts, and very bright and attractive the costumes are. Kougl' materials, too, are popular, and a bright cardinal red in bonnets and ribbons is seen. Bed cloaks are to be worn largriy as wraps, the old " Connemara" shape coming np again. Ooaalp Around Ihs Work llaslcet. Rich Mrs. Crocker has given 519,000 to the Young Woiiion's Cbrisiian Association of San Francisco. 1 his, presumably, is a fair specimen of a bonan;ta widow's miit â€" a mite which many a widow would think a moun- tain. .\ new dinner-table wrinkle, according to the foreign gleaner in the New York .Sim, is a dish of dark-colored jelly, in the centre of which is anelectriclight.' The effect of itr sudden ilh'miuation is said to be niagni- ticent- " The college hat, or mortar board," says the New York Sun. '• U neooming fashionable for street wear by Londor women- Leather bells of great cizo and coarseness, with steel buckles, are also showing uj)." Denial is maile of the much talked-of engagement of Joseph Cliamberlain to Miss Lndicott, who is said to be the Ix trothed of " a young lawyer of Mas.^achusetts" The Oomtesse de Paris has ordered 1,500 small gold roaee to present to some of the most faithful adherents of her husband's family. Pampas plumes sell at :> cents each, and the farmers of Santa Barbara county clear more than SI. 8(H) an acre raising them. Of the tilteen students sent by the Gov. ernment of Siam to receive profe-isional training in England, four are young women. A lady in Jersey City wears the bloomer costume in tho street for the comfort of it. Mrs Lyman Beecher has given ?.S0 OOO to Baldwin ^0 ) Piiiyersity. which m turn pays her an annnity. A NovelUt's Arithinetlo. lu Dickens' Christinas number, " Dr Marigold's Prescriptions," one of the tales "To Be Taken in Water," describi<a the adventure of a clerk who was travelling through Franco in char,ie of " a ouarter of a million " in specie He had it "in two iron boxes, inclosed in leather to look like samples." The French porters seemed to have noticed that the boxes were heav but managed them well enough, two porte to each K).x. My copy of " Dr. Marigold has a marguial annotation by an impatient r,<ader. " Bosh ! A .piarter of a million 111 gold would weigh upward of two tons." the calculation does i-- «eem to be accurate, but it would eavy, ers i|Uite . . , , s'l abont one ton seventeen hundred weight, avoirdupoia \ ,. .u ,1 ''"'â- ' "'>" «»' »' "'" iHVves is described in , , . '» "*'" **"• »*">» P'*"*: »he storv as atopm-d in uiakin». his vl.. ^ but the girl was .iit Terent." of a window wit'h' a car;:::''^,^ hllf",:,;,"^ A . TT Z 7 . ' sovereigns. The aunotalor reokons a^ain A veteran waa relating his exploits to a from the description of the bae th f J crowd of boys, and mentioned having been must have yveighed -.00 oonnl= ,y in live engagenienta. "That's nothing!" wonders that errors eo ealilvm 1' broke in a little shaver. " My sister Sarah's -- â€"' .»-- ..i.-- " '".''asily noticeable been engaged eleven times." « 4 I ♦> escaped the sharp wlitorial eye "of Charlee