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THE HBBITAGE. n um acmxLL •CtMl rich auui'L MB Inherits land*. And piles of brink, and stone, and gold: And he inherits soft, white hands " ̂ And tender flesh thai fears the cold, . ^ Xor dar«« to wear a garment old,;, ( * A heritage, it seems to me, ; One scarce would wish to hold in f||£ « She lich man's son inherits cares: J The bauk way bresk, «>e factory burn,^ ;; A breath xna> burst hi® bubble shares, : " And eoft white hands eoulu scarcely ear#---- £ livino «>«•; would «>rvB hill turn ; A heritage, it seems to me, OQ« would not wish to hold In fee. , "What doth the poor man's son iiiheiitf. Stout muscles and a Bines? heart, A hearty frame, a hardier spirit; _ King of two hands, he does his part t ' In every useful toil and art.; A heritage, it seems to me, s A king might wish to hold infee. What doth the poor man's son inherit? Wishes o'erjoyed with humble things, A rank adjudged by toil-worn merit, Content that iron empioyuicut springe, • A heart that in his labor sings; A heritage, it seems to me, A kiiifc mifcht wish to hold in fee. Vlfhat doth a poor matfs son inherit? A patience learned by being poor; Courage, if sorrow come, to bear it; A fellow feeling that is sure To make the outcast bless his door, A heritage, it seeing to me, A king might wish <•> bold in fee. 0, tich man'B son! there is a toil That with all other level stands; Larpe charity doth never soil. But only whitens soft, white hands-- This is the best crop from thy lands; A heritage, it seems to me. Worth being rich to hold in fee. £), poor man's son! scorn not thy state; TlK»re is worse weariness than thine, In, merely being rich and great; Toil only gives the soul to shine, • And makes re?t fragrant and benign A heritage, it seems to me, Worth being poor to hold in lee. Both heirs to some six fe*t of sod, Are equal in the earth at last; Both, children of the same dear God, Prove title to your heirship vast ,< By record of a well filled past, A heritage, it seems to me, - Well worth a life to hold in fee. THE BRIDAL WINE-CUP. "Pledge with wine--pledge wine," cried tlie young and thoughtless Harvey Wood. 4 'Pledge with wine." ran through the bridal party. The beautiful bride grew pale--the decisive hour had come. She pressed her white hands together and the leaves of the bridal wreath trembled on her brow; her breath oame quicker and her heart beat wilder. "Yes, Marion, lay aside your scruples for this once," said the judge in a low tone, going towanlhris daughter, "the company expect it. Do not so seriously infringe the rules of etiquettie; in your own home do as you please; but in mine, for this once, please me." Every eye was turned toward the bri­ dal pair. Marion's principles were well known. Henry had been a convi- valist, but of late his friends noticed the change in his manners, the difference in his habits--and to-night they watched Virm to see, as they sneeringly said, if he was tied down to a woman's opinion so Boon. Pairing a brimming cup, they held it with tempting smiles towards Marion. Bhe was very pale, though more com­ posed; and her hand shook not as, gmiling back, she gracefully^ accepted the crystal tempter and raised it to her lips. But scarcely had she done so when every hand was arrested by her piercing exclamation ol--"Oh ! how terrible!" "What is it?" cried one and all thronging together, for she had slowly carried the glass at arm's length,]and was fixectiv regarding it as though it were some liideous object. "Wait," she answered, while a light which seemed inspired, shone from her dark eyes, "wait," and I will tell you. "I see," she added, slowly, pointing one: jeweled finger at the spark­ ling ruby liquid--"a sight that beggars all description; and yet listen--I will paint it for you if I can. It is a lovely spot; tall mountains crowned with ver­ dure rise in awful sublimity around; a river runs through, and bright flowers grow to the water's edge. There is a thick, warm mist, which the sun seeks vaiHy to pierce. Trees, lofty and beau­ tiful, wave to the airy motion of the birds; but there a group of Indians gath­ er; they flit too and fro, with something like sorrow upon their dark brows. And in tbeir midst lies a manly form--but quivering faster and faster and her voice more and more broken; " and there they scoop him a grave; and there, without a shroud, they lay him down in that damp, reeking earth. The only son of a proud father, the only idolized brother of a fond sister. And he sleeps to-day in that distant country, with no stone to mark tho spot. There he lies--my fath­ er's eon- my own loved brother--a vic­ tim to this deadly poison, father--oh, my father!"--turning suddenly, while the tears rained down her beautiful cheeks-- " father, shall I drink it now?" The form of the old Judge was con­ vulsed with agony; he raised not his head, but in a smothered voice he falt­ ered--"No, no, my child--NO !" She lifted the glittering goblet and let­ ting it suddenly fall to tho floor, it was dashed into a thousand pieces. Many a tearful eye watched her movement, and mstaiitaiieously every wine-glass had been transferred to the marble table on which it had been prepared. Then, as she looked at the fragments of crystal, she turned to the company, saying, " I>et no friend hereafter, who loves me, tempt me to peril my soul for wine. Not 1 inner are the everlasting hills than my resolve, God helping me, never to touch or taste the poison cup. And he to whom I have given my hand--who watched over my "brother's dying form in that last solemn hour, and 'buried the dear wanderer there by the river, in that land of gold--will, I trust, sustain me in that resolve. Will you not, my hus­ band?" ." . His glistening eye, his sad, sweet smile, was her answer. The Judge left the room and when, an hour after, he re­ turned, and with a more subdued man­ ner took part in the entertainment of the bridal guests, no one could fail to read that he, too, had determined to banish the enemy at once and forever from his princely home. Those who were present at that wed­ ding can never forget the impression so solemnly made. Many from that hour renounced forever the social glass. DONALDSON. his cheek how deathly, his eye wild with fire of fever. the fitful otands beside One friend should say ay. kneels, for see, he is pillowing that poor head upon his breast. "Genius in ruins. Oh, the high, holy- looking brow! why should death mark it, and he so young? Look how he throws back the damp curls ! see him clasp his hands! hear his thrilling shrieks for life! mark how he clutches at the form of his companion, imploring to be saved! Oh! hear him ca^l piteously his father's name --see him twine his fingers together as he shrieks for his sister--his only sister-- the twin ol liis soul--weeping for him in his distant native land. " See!" she exclaimed, while the bri­ dal party shrank back, the untasted wine trembling in their faltering grasp and the Judge fell overpowered upon his seat--" see! his arms are lifted to heav­ en--ho preys, how wildly, for mercy! hot fever rushes through his veins. The friend beside him is weeping; awe-strick­ en the dark men move silently away and leave the living and dying together." There was a hush in that princely par­ lor, broken only by what seemed a smothered sob from some manly bosom. The bride stood yet upright, with quiv­ ering lip an<* tears stealing to the out­ ward edge of her lashes. Her beautiful arm had lost its tension nnd the glass with its little troubled red waves, came slowly towards the range of her vision. She spoke again--every lip was mute Her voice was low, faint, yet awfully dis­ tinct; she still fixed her sorrowfid glance upon the wine-cup. "It is evening now; the great white moon is coming up and his beams lay on his forehead. He moves not; his eyes are set in their sockets; dim are their piercing glances; in vain his friend whispers the name of father and sister --death is there. Death--and no soft hand, no gentle voice to bless and soothe him. His head sinks back--one convul­ sive shudder--he is dead!" A groan ran through the assembly. So vivid was her description, so unearthly her look, so inspired was her manner, that what she described seemed actually to have taken place then and there. They noticed also that the bridegroom hid his face in his and was weep­ ing. • a *' Dead!" she repeated again, Her lips The Aeronaut's Own Account of Some of His Ascensions, Showing Him to have been a Most Extraordinary Dare-Devil The Cincinnati Enquirer gives some interesting extracts from a diary left by Washington H, Donaldson, the ill-fated balloonist: In describing the thrilling and blood-curdling event that occurred in an ascension made from Norfolk, Va., on the 18th day of January, 1872, we will simply quote Donaldson's own words. At 4:20, the balloon being full, the aeronaut stepped forward and grasped the trapeze bar, gave his orders to cast loose the ropes, when the balloon went up and off very rapidly : " The balloon as­ cended with a calm, steady motion. When about 300 feet high I went through with my performances. After being in the air about fifteen minutes I thought it was time to descend, and pnlled the valve rope to allow the gas to escape. The valve did not open, and I pulled again ; it still remained closed ; I had no tune to lose, the ocean was near. I pulled led with both hands ; again a failure. I then gave a strong, steady jerk. There was a sharp, hissing sound, as if made by the tearing of cloth, followed by a rushing noise ; then I knew that the balloon had burst. The balloon did not collapse, being prevented from doing so by the rush" of air from beneath, but closed up at the sides ; the balloon, swaying from side to side, descended with frightful velocity. I clung with ail my strength to the hoop; I could not tell Jiow bad I was frightened, but I felt as though my hair had all been drawn out. I scarcely had time to rea­ lize that I was alive--I was so fright­ ened ; but with a crash, tearing and crushing, I was projected with the ve­ locity of a catapult into a bur chestnut tree. The netting and rigging, catch­ ing in the tree, checked my velocity, and I had my grasp jerked loose, and was precipitated through the limbs, and landed flat upon my back, with my. tights nearly torn off, and my legs, arms, and body lacerated and bleeding." After his fall he soon rallied, and was himself again, and proceeded to im­ mediately examine his balloon, when he discovered a rent extending from top to bottom. He packed it up, and left it with a Mr. Newman, and in his bruised condition walked five miles back to Norfolk. On Jan. 22, 1872, Donaldson made an­ other ascension from Norfolk in the bal­ loon "Comet," but encountered the most fearful descent upon record where a mpn came out alive. We give the aeronaut's own account of his thrilling adventure: " After cutting the basket loose the balloon darted up very rapidly. I pulled the valve-rope and opened the valve, but the gas escaped too slowly. I was then almost to the water's edge, and go­ ing at the rate of a mile a minute. Quick work must be done or a watery grave. I had either to cut a hole in the balloon or go to sea, and as there were no boats or vessels in sight I chose the lesser evil. Seizing three of the cords I swung out of the ring into the netting, the,balloon car- eening on her side. I climbed half way up the netting, opened my knife with my teeth, and cut a hole about two feet long. The instant I cut the hole the gas rushed out so fast that I could scarcely get back to the ring. I came near being suffocated, but I managed to get back to the ring, though half stupefied. After reaching the ring I lashed myself fast to it with a rope. While I was cutting the hole in the side of the balloon my cap fell off, and so fast did I descend that before I got half way down I caught up with and passed the cap. Continuing to descend, I struck the ground in a large cornfield, and was dragged nearly a thousand feet, the wind blowing a perfect gale. Crash­ ing against a rail fence, I was rendered insensible. When I Came to I found myself hanging to one side of a tree and the balloon to the other side, ripped to shreds. I could have thrown a stone in­ to the ocean from where I landed, antf the tree on which t was a hanging was the last one on the land. After resting myself, I concluded to climb the tree and get the fragments of my balloon, but, on attempting this feat one of the limbs of the tree broke, and I had a fall of about fifteen feet, knocking, the breath out of me. " On this trip I traversed ten miles in seven minutes; the balloon was emphati­ cally in ribbons." Donaldson thus describes an ascension which he made from Chillicothe, Ohio, April 29, 1872 : " When the balloon was loosened I saw that it would strike against the wall of Lansing's drug-store, and I put my feet out; they struck the building with great violence. After striking the balloon rose, then the ring struck the wall and was almost doubled ; passing over tho roof I was dragged over the chimney, tearing off sixteen layers of brick. I was almost instantly hurled against a second chimney, tearing a num­ ber of bricks from that also, I thought once. I would let loose and drop, but concluded to hold on, as there were no more objects for me to come in contact with. I rose to the height of a mile or over. Finding myself much exhausted and bruised, I was not in a condition to go through my performance on the trapeze; I therefore concluded that for my own safety, the best tiling I could do was to descend.. In looking for the valve- rope to enable me to do this I was disap­ pointed in finding it out of my reach, and it was with difficulty I could climb to the concentrating ring to reach it. I finally succeeded, however, and pulling the rope, descended rapidly, landing in a field belonging to a Mr. Bonner. The landing was very rough, and I rebounded tip •ee times, striking first a stone wall, then a tree, and then a fence, to which last I succeeded in fastening my trapeze rope. I was then driven in a carriage to the Emmitfc House, physicians were called, and upon examination they found that my ankle was sprained, my leg scratched and br aised, and my shoulder badly injured. My injuries not being of a serious character, I was able to be out in a few days." The daring air-navigator had another narrow escape from death during an ascension from Reading, Pa. We quote from the diary : "As soon as I had fairly cleared the outskirts of the city I climbed up into the ring, took hold of the valve rope, and gave it a vigorous pull. It resisted my efforts for som$ time,'until finally a strong jerk tore a hole in the silk, and the gas began escaping at a fearful rate. The balloon fell with appalling rapidity, the rent increasing as the gas escaped, until it was torn nearly three-fourths of the length of the balloon, and the latter was turned partially inside out. While thus falling with such velocity, the bal­ loon, or rather the hoop and trapeze, struck the top of a large tree in the swamp in ' Buzzard Neck,' on Tanner's creek, which broke the force of the fall and let me down at a considerable less velocity, but still hard enough to give me a terrible shaking." His account of an ascension from Chi- tago on the 4th of July, 1872, is the most thrilling of all. We give the story in his own words : "I had no trouble in filling, and all was rea4y by half-past 11; the ropes were cut, and up I went, performing my feats upon tne trapeze-bar. At the height of H miles I was surrounded by large bodies of clouds, and beginniiijj to suffer from the intense cold. Upon reaching the higher strata, I was carried eastward over Lake Miclrigan. Not knowing the geography of the country, I was afraid to cross the lake. I pulled the valve open quick, and tied it to the ring. It was fully twenty minutes after I pulled the valve before the balloon began to descend and struck the water. A heavy breeze was blowing that dragged me through the water rapidly enough to keep pace with an outward-going passen­ ger train. Not knowing whether they saw me or not, I took out my- pocket handkerchief, squeezed it as dry as I could, and waved it at them, and in­ stantly it was responded to by a hundred handkerchiefs fluttering from the win­ dows. I since learned that the interest manifested by the passengers was heart­ felt and intense, As the cars ran into Kenwood Station the galloon approached the shore, driven at "perilous speed. I was finally brought up against a stone pier, striking with fearful force, and bounded up only to come down again in the surf, where I was dragged like a bullet skipping the water to the shore, and landed Upon a pile of stones, nearly breaking my ribs. I was numb and senseless from cold, and could not speak. I was picked up by the kind people and placed in bed, rubbed with dry towels, and kindly cared for. I soon rallied, and was enabled to reach Chicago that even­ ing. "The force of the water tore my trav­ eling-bag open that I had tied to the ring, and a n6\v suit of clothes and $120 in money was lost in the lake. I passed a propeller, and had I not been waist deep in the water I would have far eclipsed the train in speed." Attacked by a Grizzly. H. Wilburn, of the Sespe, on Wednes­ day night aboilt 10 o'clock, while with his band of sheep on the east side of the Sespe, in the hills, heard his dog bark­ ing savagely at some object, but was not alarmed. Suddenly the dog came howl­ ing to him, with a bear immediately be­ hind. He had no firearms, and no time to think what was best to do--and before he could even turn around was attacked and thrown, he thinks, about ten or fif­ teen feet. He fell upon a sharp rock and was severely cut in the hip. After falling the bear came upon him and scratched him badly about the abdomen and shoulders, but did not bite him. Wilburn remained perfectly quiet as if dead, and the bear hearing the dog barking at the cubs which she had left behind, ran off swiftly. He then hob­ bled home, about one mile distant. He has six or eight severe cuts on his body, and a dozen or more scratches and se­ vere bruises. He will recover, but will be confined to his bed for several weeks. Wilburn says that if the dog had not at­ tacked the cubs he would have been de­ voured.-- Ventura (Cot.) Signal. A JACK rabbit was killed in Marshall county, Ivan., the other day, wliich measured fourteen inches from ear-tip to ear-tip. --Lawrrrwe Mtdndard. If there is any Milwaukee editor traveling in Kan­ sas, his family may as*well put on mourn­ ing and send for the corpse, for the above item clearly shows that he has met with an untimely fate. " Gone to meet the Cincinnati jackass." -- Chicago Times. . THE heat on the Southern Pacific rail­ road grade, near the Colorado desert, is so intense that the thermometer often marks 120 degrees in the sliade, when shade can be found. A considerable number of the laborers on the road have died of the heat. There is probably no other spot in the United States that can equal this. ( LOST IN A CORNFIELD. A Frenchman LOIM HIMSELF on an Illinois farm. We have received a report this morn­ ing from one of the townships in the eastern part of the county, adjoining the State of Indiana, and among other items ef interest is the following, which illustrates in a striking manner not. only the unequalled fsrtihty of tho soil of Illinois, but particularly the extreme growth which crops of all kinds have attained this season: « A Frenchman by the name of Cantell A. Goodlie, living in the French settle­ ment, having occasion on Saturday last to visit his brother-in-law, living some five miles distant on the prairie, left home about 5 o'clock in the afternoon, and to save a considerable distance, at­ tempted to shorten hid walk by taking a cut-off through the intervening corn­ fields. To those unaccustomed to seeing Illi­ nois corn-fields, it may be well to say here that in that section of the country corn is almost tho only crop raised over the whole extent of the country for miles and miles, and the country being comparatively young, there are but^ few fences or even hedges to mark the divid­ ing line. To the eye it is a sea of com, and to Mr. Goodlfe nearly proved a wilder­ ness as dangerous as the trackless North woods. Shortly after he left home a severe storm, such as we have had numbers of during the summer, arose and came driving down upon him, and5' he was drenched to the skin. The walking be­ came fatiguing at every step ; the earth, moistened by the rain, adhered to his boots in great quantities, until it be­ came impossible for him to drag them after him. He took them off, and pushed on the best he could ; but min­ ute by minute the soil became softer un­ til he sank nearly to his knees in the por­ ous black earth. Night aj >proaclied and darkness settled down upon the fields. He was miles from any habitation ; wet, tired, and nearly exhausted ; unable to get any landmark, however slight, by which he might be guided to home or friends. The tall corn waved over liim, and its depths were impenetrable to his eyes, and he realized that he must pass the night in solitude as profound as jf he were alone in the midst, of an African jungle. As he could no longer tell the direc­ tion to go, and could scarcely drag one foot in advance of the other, re gave up the hopeless attempt, and with a clasp- knife--his constant companion--cut down enough of the waving stalks to make him a bed and covering, and shiv­ ering with cold and exposure, he sank into a heavy oleep. Night passed, and the glowing sun rose above the horizon and took its slow but tireless course along the trackless sky, and still he slept profoundly insensible to the passage of time. The second night sped by, and just as the gray light of early dawn was lighting up the world, he awoke. Confused by the light after his long sleep, although unaware that more than one night had gone by during his rest, he stumbled about in un­ certainty for a few minutes, until, ascend­ ing a small hillock, he cast his eyes about and there beheld his own home within a few minutes' walk. In the darkness he had become confused, and.'instead of getting forward, had constantly crossed his own track, finally lying down within a stone's throw of his own fireside. We can easily imagine with what eager haste he crossed the dividing space, fofc in his lonely condition the sight of a fa­ miliar face seemed an oasis in the desert of life. And great was his surprise at his wife and children greeting him as returned from the grave, for his pro­ tracted stay had made them fear that the lightning had struck him in his lonely path, and search had been at once insti­ tuted, but without any result, as they had not thought to search the adjacent cornfield. All hope was departing from them when he returned.--Joliet Sun. five per cent., which the gambling asso­ ciation takes ; this five per cent, makes 86,000, and twelve day's racing will net Morrissey, Reed and Spencer $60,000. "" ' percentage on the field pools, auction, probably Mo: Their which are sold at amounts to as much. Then Morrissey, as a " book-maker." will probably clear $50,000. A book-maker is one who in­ dividually beta certain odds that no horse will win. Probably one million of dollars is invested on the Saratoga races by wagerers of all classes, and this business is rapidly working out the old system of gambling at faro and roulette. --Saratoga Letter. Fast Horses. But two horses have made any con­ siderable reputation this year on the turf--Grinstead and Rutherford. Grin- stead is the property of Puryear, a South Carolinian, residing in New York. In the great race with Rutherford, Wild Idle, Sprinkbok and Preakness, result­ ing in a dead heat between the last two, Grinstead was but a trifle behind them. Ten thousand dollars have been offered and refused for him. Rutherford is the brother of Fellowcraft, the great four- mile racer of last year. As frequently happens among gamblers and horses, Rutherford has been twice sold during the Saratoga meeting, first for $7,500, and next for $10,000; he will go to California with Springbok to compete for the $30,000 purse. Springbok was sold by old McDaniel for $15,000 to his partner Barnard ; this is a price seldom received for a horse. Belmont gave $20,000 for Kentucky, and the great Lexington was first purchased for $2,- 500, next one-half was sold for S3,500, and the racer was finally bought by Alexander for $15,000. It is believed that Springbok, when retired from the turf, will become the greatest native sire of this racing period; his size, speed and pedigree are all first-class. He is an Australian colt out of a Lexington dam, with Glencoe blood in him, and Henry Clay was the owner of his parent some generations back. The amount of money made by horsemen this season has been very unequal. McDaniel has had poor luck ; and his supporters, accustomed to back his horses heavily, are much dis­ heartened. McGrath lost here much of his winnings at Jerome Park and Long Branch. Sanford lias had fair luck. He sold his horse Brigand, which had su­ perb parts, but no confidence in himself, and the next buyer filled the horse with whisky, by which'he got drunk and run away from the whole stable on two suc­ cessive days, wiiming five times his value. Meanwhile, new adventurers on the turf, like Lorillard, have won enor­ mously, and Belmont won three races in a single day. The camp followers, whose name is legion, have lost almost every­ thing, while the book-makers and pool- sellers have had immense profits. About one hundred thousand dollars are laid out in . French pool tickets on each dliy's races. You understand that sys­ tem of betting; the horses are bought uniformily at $5 apiece, though there are also $?25 tickets. Holders of tickets on the winner divide the gross sum, less efnl Information. THE amuioniacal solution of dxide of nickel will dissolve silk; that of copper dissolves cotton also. \ RUNNING up and down stairs is woman- killing work, and should be avoided as much as possible by having one or more bedrooms below. EQUAL weights of acetate of lime and chloride of calcium, dissolved in twice their weight of hot water, is a firepr'xjf- ing mixture for fabrics. THE French method of administering castor oil to children is to pour the oil into a pan over a moderate fire; break an egg in it, and stir up; when it is done, add a little salt or sugar, or some currant jelly. SAVE the corn cobs for kindlings, es- • pecially if wood is not going to be plen­ tiful next winter. To prepare 4hem melt together sixty parts resin and forty parts tar. Dip in the cobs, and dry on sheet metal heated to about the tempera­ ture of boiling water. AD ARK house is always an unhealthy, an ill-aired house, and a dirty house. Want of light stops growth and promotes scrofula, rickets, etc., among the chil­ dren. People lose their health in a dark house; and if they become ill they can­ not get well in it. THE German washerwomen use a mix­ ture of two ounces turpentine and one ounce spirits of ammonia well mixed' to­ gether. This is put into a bucket of warm water, in which one-half pound of soap lias been dissolved. The clothes are immersed twenty-four hours and then washed. The cleansing is said to be greatly quickened, and two or three rins­ ings in cold water remove the turpentine smell. IN hot weather it is almost impossible to prevent the sinks beooming foul, un­ less some chemical preparation is used. One pound of copperas dissolved in four gallons of water, potared over a sink three or four times will completely de­ stroy the offensive odor. As a disinfect­ ing agent, to scatter around premises affected with any unpleasant odor, noth­ ing is better than a mixture of four parts dry gvoiind plaster of Paris to one part of fine charcoal, by weight. All sorts of glass vessels and other utensils may be effectually purified from offensive smells by rinsing them with charcoal powder, after the grosser impurities have been scoured off with sand and soap. PROF. WILDER gives these short rules for action in case accident: For dust in the eyes, avoid rubbing; dash water in them; remove cinders, etc., with the round point of a lead pencil. Remove insects from the ear by tepid water; never put & hard instrument into the ear. If an artery is cut compress above the wound; if a vein is cut compress be­ low. If choked get upon all fours and cough. For light burns dip the part in cold water; if the skin is destroyed, cov­ er with varnish. Smother a fire with carpets, etc.; water will often spread burning oil and increase the danger, before passing tlirough smoke take a full breath, and then stoop low, but if car­ bon is suspected, then walk erect. Suck poisonous wounds, unless your mouth is sore. Enlarge the wound, or better, cut the part out without delay. Hold the wounded part as* long as can be borne to a hot coal, or end of a cigar. In case of poisoning, excite vomiting by tickling the throat, or by water or mustard. For acid poisons give acids; in case of opium poisoning give strong coffee and keet moving. If in water, float on the bacl with the nose and mouth projecting, For apoplexy, raise the head and body; for fainting, lay the person flat. Fall Fashions. DRESS MATERIALS. Nothing is called for this season but black, the darkest shades of navy blue, invisible green, and brown. There are some slate and iron grays which will sell later, because they afford so fine a back­ ground to the fashionable cardinal scar­ let, and later still invisible green, the choicest of all dark shades, will come to the front, but for early buyers there is nothing but navy blue and different shades of brown, the darkest being con­ sidered the most desirable. TIED BACK SKIRTS. Skirts are tied back as tight as ever, and there is no immediate prospect of emancipation. A plain walking-skirt does not now measure more than three yards round at the bottom. The front and side breadths are gored so that they can be set on the bands perfectly plain, leaving all the fullness to be massed into three inches at the back. The demi- trained skirts are wider. These have gores set in so that they form a fan- shape or peacock's tail, which is spread over a new and peculiar tournure, a dis­ tension very narrow at the waist and al most flat, but which gradually swells out until it acquires its greatest depth and width at the bottom of the skirt. The objection to these tournures is that they ought not to be worn going up-stairs, and cannot be worn in the street without the risk of a shocking contretemps. AUTUMN HATS. All the new hats for autumn day wear are of very dark or very light felt, a fin­ ished felt nearly as rich as velvet. The shapes as yet do not materially differ from those which have preceded them. They are, at least some of them, smaller, the crowns lower and more oval, the brims straight or rolled instead of being turned sharply back. In the very dark shades, with their beautiful trimmings of serge or natte silk, velvet, and feathers, they are very handsome and very becom­ ing. The nerr Russian lace is much used in conjunction with flowers as well as feathers upon the imported hats and bonnets, but these are for early use as patterns and models, and afford little in­ dication of what the later winter styles will be.--New York Graphic, EPITHALAM1AN OBITUARIES- [A correspondent of the New York Graphic, hav­ ing grown weary of the obituary poetry now so prevalent, contributes to that paper a tM« itih dr epithalamium:] * '1 • John .Tones has married Mandy Smith, His face no more we'll see, _ „ *. Amanda'n xnother wanted him "* t Her son-in-law to be. ; >>>!#'••"• •• '0**^:" Gone to get hw» hairpullite* - TifltiTo.t then hast left St, " » And thy loss we deeply feel, Mary Ann of thee bereft ns, And her motherll make yon squeal. Gone to buy some sticklng-pla4M^, . "We had a large-sized Johnny once, •- Who used to take his tod; . < > Hell never take a drink again, * v For his mother-in-law has thrown tha ffin-botila into the yard. Gone to soak his feet in cstfiiplMte *•' Put away the colored meerschaum That our Tommy unetl to wear ; He ageftn will never use it, Mother-in-law the thing can^Jbe^r. Gone to buy a cradle. ... • Once we had a fragrant blossom • Used to meet us at the club; A young woman came and plucked Wn» For lo make of him her " hub." < •"* -Gone to meet his mother-in-la^^ - Pith and Point* A IAJMINARY for impetuous individuals --A rush light. WHEN a hog footfe in a snow Wik its nose knows snows. ^ WHY does a cat run after a xat? Be­ cause the rat runs away from it. JAY GOULD has a baby two months old, and it is said that she can't squall for over fifteen cents on the dollar* " You look as fine as a hired is the compliment a Hudson miss of finder years paid her mother the other day. "WAS not her death quite sudden ?" said a condoling friend to o bereaved widower. "Well, yesi rather, for her!" A BUND English mendicant wears this inscription round his neck: "Don't be ashamed to give, only a half-penny; I can't see." "CHARITY begins at home" is well defined by a little Sunday-school child as "giving to others what we don't want ourselves. * IT is a great comfort to bald-headed men in these red-hot, star-spangled, cen­ tennial days, to reflect that the eagle, too, is bald-headed. Style is nohair. A MAN never knows what it is to feel alone in the world until he has grabbed at a penny on a show-case window and discovered that it is fastened to the lower surface of the glass. "YESTERDAY.afternoon," Bays a Ten­ nessee paper, " the handsome Miss Jen nie Taylor was borne to the cemetery be­ fore a large concourse of grieving men, women, and vehicles." FEMININE LOGIC.--Precise old aunt-- •' It's no use, Emily; I should never alter my opinion of the young man, not if you were to convince me ever so much. I don't like him, and even wild horses couldn't make me." / A VILLAGE pedagogue, in despair with a stupid boy, pointed to the letter A and asked him if he knew it. "Yes, sir." " Well, what is it ?" " I know him very well by sight, sir--but rat me if I can remember his name." HERE is an aquatic fancy: An ingen­ ious milliner is decorating the ladies' bonnets with prepared seaweed--far more beautiful. than artificial flowers.-^ Fashion Note. Glad to hear it; be­ cause, you sea, weed give anything for a change.--Albany Argus. THE story that Mrs. Sartoris' infant had cut his first tooth is denounced by an exchange as "tooth in." It was, in fact, tooth O lessly accepted as likely. Alas! the little lady still knows "how sharper than a serpent's thank it is to 'ave a toothless child."--Inter-Ocean. EVBN after the appearance of this verse in his paper, George W. Childs says that he is no poet: " A cherry, incompletely ripe, His little business did for him; . And now, serenely free from gripe, ; He is a bob-tailed cherubim." DOWN the river road when a boy of 5 or 6 leaves the house his mother asks: "Going away, Bill?" "Yaas." "Where V' "Down to play on the saw- logs." "Well, young man, I want to tell you in advance that if you go down on them logs and fool around and fall in and get drowned I'll lick the life out of you Yum," answers Bill, and he -wanders away. --r-Delroit Free Press. Some Fat Men. They had a fat men's clam-bake at Norwalk the other day, and this is what the newspaper says of them: The fat men came down upon Norwalk yesterday like the hippopotami on the fold, and the sands trembled beneath their tread. They numbered but a little above one hundred, and they weighed considerably more than twelve tons. When they sat down to meat, five of them to each table, that accommodates ten thinner mortals, their trencher performances by no means belied their fat and hungry looks. Having, in defiance of a venerable pre­ cedent, . devoured such comparatively lean kine as mutton and fowls and roast- in g-ears which had first been set before them, they proceeded to business with due gravity. A truly great and prob­ ably iruly good man (for the acute de­ lineator of Falstaff included one fat man among the three good men unhanged in all England, and made Cajsar sigh for an entourage of pinguid patriots), wear­ ing all his weight of 369 pounds lightly as a flower, was made president and re­ ceived the cane, a staff fit for the mast of some great admiral, while Over a ton and a half of vice-presidents, eleven in number, were cnosen to aid .him in emergency with counsel of weight. After this the audience threaded the mytic mazes of the " dance to the heavy fantastic, toe, and departed homeward, it is needless to state, by "a special train. OLD Dr. A WAS a quack, and very ignorant. On one occasion he was called by mistake to attend a council of physi­ cians in a critical case. After consider- erable discussion, the opinion was ex­ pressed by one that the patient was con­ valescent. When it came to Dr. A 's •turn to speak, he said, "Convalescent! Why, that's nothing serious;,I have cured convalescence in twenty-four hours!" - • jgt - * • THE fire insurance companies of the country have lost $26,000,000 in six months.