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Sprinkling the Streets. .. Mr. Trevelyan, who lives on Court street, has had trouble already, with his garden-hose. Since the introduc­ tion of the Holly Water system, it has been the delight of Mr. Trevelyan to turn himself into a pipeman at sunset, and with his garden-hose sprinkle the thirsty street wich the clear, cool wa­ ters of the mighty Mississippi. Miss Xorah Donavan, a young' lady who is •' connected with the culinary department of Mr. Trevelyan's house, and- is su­ perintendent of dormitories and gen­ eral overseer of carpets, had often watched, as her duties would permit, this process of cooling down the streets .: at even-tide, and she* had been honrr* to wish that this duty might be entrust- „ ed to her. She finally framed her wish " ^ in a direct petition, and last evening she entered upon the active duties of her new office. When Miss Donavan took the Eozzle from the hands of her master, it was pointed almost directly at the middle of the street, and Miss Donavan con­ scientiously retained it in this position, while her whole frame was convulsed with delight. Presently there camo dashing down the street, in a light, open phaeton, two happy young peo­ ple. In vain the male young person shouted, 44 Hi, there, I say, turn her off!" and in vain the female young per­ son shrieked and essayed to hide behind a parasol no larger than a water lily. Miss Donavan only stared at them and wonderea if peradventure they might be crazy, and when - they passed through the torrent they came out on the other side, very sad, very silent and very damp, not to say limp. Then the gentleman who lives next door came out and called to her as he ap­ proached, intending to instruct her how to shut off the deluging stream or turn it aside when anjone approached. But Miss Donovan, hearing him call her name, saii, " SorrP" and turned about and faced him with the nozzle doing its level best, wide open and a lire pressure on. He turned with the first shot and "fled for his own door, the cooling stream following him every inch of the way, like an angel of mercy in disguise. But by the time he reached his own door, he was so thoroughly drenched that his suspenders mildewed. Then a North Hill street car came rat­ tling down, an open, summer car, just crowded with people coming in from a picnic at Sunnyside, and when they w heard the driver shout, and then dodge, ** and then swear, they saw their fate and Miss Donovan, and just howled, and wailed, and screamed, and tried to get behind each other, and crept under the seats, and some of them even jumped off the car, and all of them, by their frantic gestures, wild shrieks and singular behavior; impressed Miss Don- . ovan with the idea that they were dread­ fully drunk. The street car passed on, and when it was beyond the line of Mr. Trevelyan's garden stream, the dryest man in that car could have put out a conflagration by simply leaning back against the house that was burn­ ing, and before the car reached the next corner there were four well-defined su*ts for damages fixed up against Mr. Trevelyan. By this "time, Miss- Donavan was pretty thoroughly convinced that the manipulation of a garden hose required that broad judgment and liberal educa­ tion, and shrewd insight into men and > motives, that belong only to the aris­ tocratic classes, and she determined to resign her position forthwith. She went into the hall, carrying the nozzle with her, and spreading desolation and - dismay wherever she went. 44 Whist!" • she shouted, as the torrent drenched . ' the hat-rack. 44 Murther!" she howled, when it knocked the globe off the hall lamp. " Misther Tnrevelyan!" she shrieked, " where on the wide world is the sthopper?" And then she bent over the irrepressible nozzle and • essayed to stop it with her finger. The howl of dismay that followed this attempt brought the •startled family up into the hall, and in less than three minutes every seat in the house was taken, standing room all gone, and the play declared a success.--Burlington Hawk-Eye. .. *»»'» • ' '-•! _V How TTe Are r&lsoued. & special meeting of the -- chuietts Grange, P. of H., No. 38, held at their headquarters in Boston, June 29, 1878, it was unanimously voted that the Master of the Massachusetts State Grange be requested to send the follow­ ing cautionary circular to the local Granges of Massachusetts, and to the State Granges of the United States: BROTHERS: We think it our duty to caution Granges against the increasing sale of poisonous articles in our mar­ kets. Arsenic is now sold at wholesale at about*five eents a pound. There have been* imported into this country in a single year 2,827,472 pounds. A single pound contains a fatal dose for about 2,800 adult persons* What becomes of it? We answer, a considerable portion goes into our wall-papers, figured and plain, glazed and unglazed; the cheap­ est as well as the more expensive. It is found in white, blue, red, yellow, green and other colors. The pale col­ ors frequently contain more than the most brilliant. The editor of a leading Boston paper has recently stated that about 85 per cent, of all wail-papers now manufact­ ured contain arsenic, and advises his readers to abandon their use, and paint their walls. The Boston Journal of Chemistry states that the manufacture of these papers is increasing. Arsenic is also used in tickets, paper curtains, covers of boxes, papers containing con­ fectionery and other papers. Aisenie and other poisons arc also ruow Uaed iu the coloring matter ox ladies dresses, gentlemen's under clothing, socks, hat linings, lining's of boots and shoes. They are found in woolens, silks, cottons and leather. T Nichols, of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, found eight rgrains of arsenic in eaeh square foot of .Adress, Another of our chemists found ten grains of arsenic in a single artificial flower. A child recently died in Troy, N. Y., by taking arsenic from a veu thrown «jver its crib to keep off flies. The Boston Journal of Chemistry states that they are now putting arsenic into toilet powders used in nurseries and by ladies, it being cheaper than starch, of which they were formerly made. It would be well also for farmers to be careful in buying new kinds of cook­ ing utensils. It was discovered last year that "marbleized iron ware," which had come into extensive use, was, in the words of the Harvard Uni­ versity chemist, who analyzed it, "alive with poison," the enamel being largely composed of oxide of lead in soluble form. We are assued that other poisonous ware is still sold. Let Grangers refuse to buy new ware unless guaranteed bw*nlf!wSS. , y Many flavoring oils and syrups con­ tain poisons. It is well to avoid them so far as possible. Tea, coffee, cocoa and chocolate are all liable to be adulterated, and to some extent with dangerous articles. It is well to buy only of the best and most experienced dealers. Drugs are largely adulterate!. It is well to buy only of the most ^experi­ enced and reliable druggists. Sewing silks and threads are made heavy with lead, and poison those who use them. Thousands of barrels of "terra alba," or white earth, are every year mixed in various forms with our sugars and oth­ er white substances. Its use tends to produce stone, kidney complaints and various diseases of the stomach. A large part of our cream of tartar used in cooking contains 50 per cent, or more of 44 terra alba." It is also used extensively in confec­ tionery, and various poisons are used in coloring confectionery. Mills in various parts of the country are now grinding white stone into a .fine powder. Jt is stated that they grind at some of these mills three trades--soda grade, sugar grade and our grade. We think it would be a paying in­ vestment for the Grangers of each State to employ a competent chemist to de­ tect and publish adulterations, and then withdraw all patronage from those who manufacture or sell such articles. We think there is quite as much need of organizations in all our States to en­ force laws for the protection of public health, as there is for organizations to catch and punish horse-thieves. In conclusion we can congratulate the Grangers that farmers are exempt­ ed from some of the dangers to which other classes are subject. We make our own vinegar. It is stated in the Scientific American that probably half the vinegar now sold in our cities is 44 rank poison." We make our own pickles. A Mas­ sachusetts chemist, who analyzed twelve packages of pickles put up by twelve different wholesale dealers, found copper in ten of them. We have pure milk and genuine cream, and not the manufactured ma­ terial which so largely supplies our cities and populous towns. It was estimated by a medical com­ mission of the Boston Board of Health, in 1874, that nearly $500,000 was paid in that city, in that year, for what pur­ ported to be, but what was not, milk. In a similar period of time there were 487 deaths of cholera infantum in Suffolk County, while in the same pop­ ulation, outside the city, there were less than 100. And, lastly, we are not compelled to eat oleo-margarine cheese, or any part of the 90,000,000 pounds of oleo mar­ garine butter which it is estimated will be made in this countrv this year, in which, as we are told "in the Chicago Live-Stock Journal, Prof. Church has found horse-fat, fat from bones, and fat such as is principally used for the mak­ ing of candles, and in the preparation of which, as has been recently widely published, upon what seems to be re­ liable authority, not sufficient heat is used to kill the parasites, which enter and breed in human bodies. „ , „ , „ BENJAMIN P. WABE, Master of the State Grange «f Manachtntfifp. A Diplomatist's Dilemma. The Deputy X-- was recently elect­ ed for one of the richest departments in the northwest, triumphing over a certain M. D---•, who hau been invali­ dated. The person who secured the victory of X-- was'none other than the uncle of M. D^--. Shortly after the election the uncle committed suicide, and the clergy, who had always found in him a determined adversary, re­ fused to allow him to be buried in con­ secrated ground. X---, on learning this was greatly troubled; he wished at all hazards to avoid the scandal of a civil interment. It occurred to him that the best thing he could do would be to get the doctor of the locality to sign a certificate to the effect that the deceased had long been non compos mentis. The doctor made no objection. X-- took the certificate to the cure, who ordered the church doors to bev thrown open, and M. D., senior, was buried in Christian ground. Tne will was then opened, and it was found that the defunct had left all his prop­ erty to the Deputy X ; but the nephew is going to contest the validity of Jhe instrument on the ground that his uncle was out of. his mind when he signed it. The question is what will X-- do? Will he let the millions slip through his fingers, or will he acknowl­ edge the fraud to which he resorted in order to secure Christian burial for hid protector. --Paris Fitiaro. "I HAVE calculated," said the emi­ nent arithmetic-man, 44 that the aver­ age man speakes three hours a day, at the average speed of 100 words a min­ ute--say twenty-nine octavo pages an hour, or 600 a w.eek; consequently, in the course of a year, the t*veraye nmu talkjs fifty-two large volumes." 44 Sir," said one of the audience, a man of scant respect for the sex to which he owed his mother--44 does your calculation apply also to women?" 44 It does, sir," cold­ ly replied the eminent arithmetic-man; 44 all you have to do is this," and he puts au 0 after the 52. A MAK may elude a disagreeable cred­ itor for a long while sometimes, but there's one thing in this uncertain vale of tears he ean*t dodge. When a sneeze has business with a fellow it always finds him at home. MISCELLANEOUS vest pre- now Is jjent, with fine d in but us a --The bite of an owl lias been kn< to create hydrophobia. --Young men cannot Inherit chaf own ter along with their father's money --At a recent Sheriff's sale, at anon, Pa., coffins went at one do! apiece. --False friendship Is like the p sitic moss which feeds on the life of tree which it pretends to adora. --Young men do not die for uj Suited love in these times. They s le lady-cause of it.--Boston Post. --A sour heart will never mak sweet life. Plant thecrabapple wh ting you will, it will never bear pipoins --On the morning of the 'Fourth was formed in Gold Hill, Nev., to thickness of a pane of window glas --Now when your pate is like bodied beef. From noondsv's rays so fiercely shed, Skirmish round for a cabbage-leaf, And put it on your head. ' ' --Trenton (tawi --It is a very good thing to m Well, but if you expect to get on in world you must also do well. Intentions pay no debts. , # --The chap who ate a pint of c ries in the dark, a few nights thinks it was the wormest night of season.--Norristown Herald. • --In the way of worship in weather, a man thinks he is doing enough when he allows his wife t to church.--N. O. Picayune, --An old Grecian philosopher I vises all men to know themsellw^° That's suggesting to a good manjpver form disreputable acquaintance. --As they passed a gentleman wh optics were terribly on the bias, li Dot murmured: "Ma, he's got one that don't go."--Syracuse Times. --One of the most ambitious thijilne in the world is the bottom of a ber box. Its motto is that sterling old oL>ke "There's plenty of room at the toi ' --iVhicago Journal. --Bartholdi's statue of "Liber* will not be able to stare people out igh- ls at € imes tie nt meat mes. ts of him tling can- im- t on ilnd eins r8es her the bad- orri- was countenance. The young woman 1 have her stairs inside of tier head- T. Commercial Advertiser. --4 4 We never saw a man," says exchange, 44 who thought it a sin steal an umbrella." Then you ne saw a man whose umbrella had been stolen.--New Haven Register. --In a recent divorce case at I wich, Conn., it was shown that young wife gotdrunk a day or two er the wedding, and remained so three months. The divorce was gran --Many of the suites of rooms in new flats in New York are wit kitchens. There are restaurants on ground floor, where tenants are plied with meals at a fixed price week. --Pessimism--'Squire--44 Well, Dibbles, not much to complain of year. I never saw the farm loo well. Things grow as in a hot b Farmer--" Sad weatherfor weeds, Fuuok. --Every once in a while we hear California woman killing a bear. is all right. But we challenge world to ransack the pages of his and show where a woman has ever away with a mouse.--Oil City Derric --The argunientum ad--" Sam, yo are not honest. Why do you put al the good peaches on the top of the measure and the little ones below P" 44 Same reason, sah, dat makesde front of your house all marble and de back gate chiefly slop bar'l, sah." --It's well to look at both sides of a fan. On a 44 heated" Sunday in Phila­ delphia, the other day, the minister was fanning himself vigorously. He did not see, but the congregation- did, that the reverse of his fan bore the inscrip­ tion, 44 Buy Boggles' Bitters."--Boston Transcript. --Young mother, deeply interested in a novel, but preserving some idea of her duties as a mother, to her eldest- born--4 4 Henrietta, where is your little sisterP" Henrietta--44 In the next room, ma." Young mother, turning over page--" Go and see what's she do­ ing and tell her to atop it this minute." --Paris Paper. --A Dutchman, having lost his horses, started in search of them. Meeting a man in the road he inquired of him if he had seen them. Being a stranger in those parts, the man asked Hans to describe them. 44 Veil," said he, "dey was very mooch alike, 'specially the off one. Von looks so mooch like poth, I can't tell toder from which. Ven I vent after the one, I alvays caught de oder* an1 I whipped de one most dead because de oder kicked me. Seen any­ thing of them, hey?" --"Oh, Johnny!"^cried a nervous mother,.44 do have some pity on my poor head! Can't you play without shouting so?" Poor Johnny drew up the tape reins with which he was driv­ ing two chairs tandem, and called out in a loud, hoarse whisper: 44 Get up-- whoa!" But at length, finding little Eleasurc in this suppressed amusement, e threw down his reins, and, laying his hands upon his breast, said with a long breath, 44 Oh, mother, its full of noise in here and it hurts me so to keep it in! Don't all little boys make a noise when they playP" 44 Yes, John­ ny, I believe they all do," replied the lady. "Oh, then, mother dear," cried Johnny, in a winning tone, 41 please let me be a little boy. We will join poor Johnny in his petition. Please, mother, let your sons be little boys while the} may. Let them have a free and happy childhood, that when your heads are low in the grave they may point back to those days and say, 44 We were happy children, for there was al­ ways sunshine where our mother was.** --at. Nicholas. Ill an Ihe ato ft i *4Are now pr| pared with!! full and coii« plete Stock! e- and Summl Trade, and ts extremely;!* Low Pricq>' for Cash. All are 1 vited to ca inspect Goo! and Prices o «fore purcha iiiia:, wheth 8t o > wish. a- Sns, 'his *in |wo ed •No trouble: show Good;- A Marriage That Didn't Come Off. A young man on Minnesota street and one of the lady teachers in one of the public schools not far from Case avenue, having conciv.ded that a con­ solidation of their joys and sorrows would lead to their mutual advantage, resolved that upon the 17th day of July, 1878, at eight o'clock in the evening, they would be joined in holy wedlock. All the arrangements usually called for by a wedding were made, even to the securing of berths in a sleeping car for an eastern trip. The minister and the awful hour of eight p. m. arrived. The fch, ful ly n, he ith 3 >pe >or On er- ons or not.£' |she |ase the ing re,v en the T^fic c'ldyersT^Tie ladies took occasion to give the omnibus man a piece of their mind on the subject, telling him that they did not treat women in America that way, and they would like to see the man who could make them do the work of horses whilst he strolled leisurely along. The fact is that most of the young men to be found in Aus­ tria wear a military uniform, and it is not to be wondered that laborious work falls to women where the young men are all dragged off to serve in the army. In all this fine country through which we passed the only implements used seemed to be the hoe and the plow, and the latter mostly of very primitive construction. Agricultural implements for the saving of labor are not used, as mowing and haymaking was in progress, and there were no pat­ ent mowers or horse-rakes to be seen. On the train with us were the mother and sister of the Emperor of Austria, on their way to visit the King of Ba­ varia, who viewed these field-scenes without a thought for the poor women who wore bending to the scythe. This reminds us of a remark made in our hearing by an Austrian a few days pre­ vious. In speaking of the Empress, he said she was fond of horses and dogs, and kept a great number; that in hunting she would break down several horses in a day; that she would nurse and pet a lame dog or a sick horse, but that she never gave a thought to the condition of the poor among her sub­ jects.--Baltimore American. J. O. ELDRIDGE, the well-known auctioneer of the firm of H. M. New- hall & Co., of this city, writes to the Virginia Enterprise the following note: "A gentleman called my attention to an item in your paper regarding a lad whose arm had. been amputated, and what he suffered, and the removing of the same and its results. Fifteen years ago I lost a leg, and it was closely packed in' a casket, causing me con­ stant, terrible pain. A good wife, un­ known to me, sent a faithful servant to arrange the amputated limb comforta­ bly in a new and larger casket. The moment the leg was handled I knew it, and the comfort began then and has never ceased, and 1 could tell the posi­ tion precisely in which the missing member was placed. I am glad to know my experience is verified; but just how to account for this let the wise man tell."--Sow Francisco Bulle­ tin. THEY were in the parlor together. The light had gone out, and they stood at the window in the radiance of the moon. He had his arm about her, and was looking dreamily at the Queen of Night. Softly he spoke: "Darling, 1 am thinking how happy we will be in our home when we are married. It shall be a pretty home, and you shall be its dear little mistress. We will have a little parlor nnd a little dining- room, and a little kitchen for you to manage. We shall be there all by our­ selves, and we shall be happy, my dar­ ling." 44 Oh, Henry," she despondent­ ly uttered, 441 thought we were going to board." There were tears in her eyes for him to kits away, but he let her remove them with what facilities she could oommand.--Danbury News. The Habits of Mammoths. Prof. Henry A. Ward, of Rochester, N. Y., who recently mounted the cele­ brated Stuttgart mammoth, speaks as follows, in a letter to the Rochester Democrat, of the habits of the animal: 44 But by far the greater mass of the great herds have left us nothing except their bones, teeth and tusks. The num­ ber and volume of these remains, which are dispersed over this entire region, i3 something almost incredible. Certain islands in the Siberian Sea have the soil crowded full of them. This is particu­ larly the case at the Laichovian Isles, north of the mouth of the River Seva. The tusks are here so numerous and sre iu a, state of such excellent preser­ vation that they form an important arti­ cle of commerce and are annually shipped in large quantities to Russia and to England, then to be employed by the ivory turner in the same works as is what may be termed the living ivory of Asia and Africa. The preser­ vation in Siberia of these countless large bones, buried under ground and frozen in the ice, has long been a won­ der to the inhabitants of the country, who had no reasonable explanation of their source or origin. With an absurd credulity they attributed them to a gigantic mole, which, they thought, burrowed in the ground, living on roots and only appearing at the surface dur­ ing the darkest nights. To this crea­ ture they gave the name of mammoth, which in their language is a term ap­ plied to any burrowing animal. This name has been universally accepted in Europe, but limited to the species studied by Cuvier and described by his friend Blumenbach as Elephas primi~ genius. Cuvier showed the near rela­ tion of the mammoth to the modern Indian elephant, its degenerate succes­ sor, while another fossil species called Elephis priscus was more closely allied to the African animal. Bones of these and still a third species of, mammoth are abundant in nearly every part of Europe from England to Spain and Southern Italy, although, strange to say, they become less ana less abundant as we approach southern lands, the present home of the race. 44 In short, the mammoth was once an inhabitant of northern temperate and frigid zones; now his descendants in­ habit the tropics. Its remains occur chiefly in beds of gravel, clay and other loose materials of the post-pilocene age. In Europe, at least, it seems to have lived coeval with early man. In the bone caverns of England, France and Germany, those gredt charnel- houses of early animal fife, there are found scores and hundreds of the re­ mains of the mammoth commingled with those of the rhinoceros, hippopo­ tamus, aurochs, cavern bear and other animals now quite extinct or living in other continents. It is clear that the mammoths did not themselves crawl into these caves, often with an extreme­ ly narrow opening, and die there, nor do the surroundings allow the idea that they were brought there by the flow of waters. In many cases the abundant marks of teeth and gnawing of the bones show that they were dragged to the cave by wild beasts who made it their den and fed upon them. But in a few special cases the cavern has been the home of early man, who brought there remains of the animals which they had hunted and killed. In these caves there are found, with those of other animals, many bones of the mam­ moth, and of these every long bonS, as those of the leg, has been carefully split open to obtain the marrow from the central cavity. Mingled with these bones are found here ana there the flint knives and stone hatchets which served as utensils at these early feasts. On a tusk of a mammoth found in one of these caves in Dordogne, in Southern France, was a rude engraving of the animal itself, scratched thousands of years a^o with the sharp point of a flint. These troglodytes are now no more. They ana their giant neighbor, the mammoth, have perished one after the other in the lapse of infinite ages by these changes of circumstances in the organic and inorganic world which are always in progress." > * What Women Are Wearing. Great latitude is allowed in styles this summer, and it is difficult to enu­ merate them all. The princesse dress, fitting like a glove, with plastron from neck to foot, plaitea, embroidered, banded, or covered with lace or ribbon loops, with no drapery and no fullness until the long train spreads itself out like a handkerchief plaited onto a cheap umbrella, is very fashionable for even­ ing dresses. A ribbon loop sewed on the train is passed over the arm and holds it and the train up when dancing, yet it is hard to understand how the wearer can dance or even walk in the sheath-like garment. Letters from Paris prophecy that the era of clinging skirts is nearly over; that next winter will bring fuller and more flo\ying draperies. We shall see when the time comes. But meanwhile slender figures are having it all their own way. Si out people are unfashionable, and, being so, must take the consequences. Twb new and suitable methods of making up lawns and cambrics appear among imported fancies. One has the skirt just clearing the ground, the polo­ naise only a few* inches shorter, with loose fronts belted in with the Russia leather belts, which are again in vogue. The other has the short skirt, with a kilt plaiting twelve inches deep, a round overskirt, turned up on the low­ er edge, and a plaited waist sot into a yoke or ^gathered instead of plaited, and worn with a belt or else with two tongues of the material set in at the side seams under the arm, then cross­ ing and fastened in front. Plaited blouses hare hfld a return of favor. Tnose most liked have a cluster of nar­ row plaits down the front and back. A new basque, at once simple and stylish, has the center pieces of the back bend­ ing each in a double loop, while the side bodies are faced and turned bank up over these loops, and held by a long looped bow. The old fashion of mak­ ing the sleeves of thin dresses without lining has been revived, and is especial­ ly popular for black grenadines in­ tended for evening wear. This fashion displays to great advantage the costly bourette and damasse grenadines of which we have hereto­ fore spoketo. It {he Sleeves are' elbowK long the fancy it to have them met by long gloves--kid or laced-top thread, Mits are only for evening, whether they are black, white, or colored. Rib­ bon loops are a favorite trimming for grenadines, but beyond all else thd fancy is for black French lace in quillpH mgs, ruches, iaoots, or in row abovd ' row, either plaited or gathered, buff never plain. Fringe also is often seen, and expensive embroideries on grena­ dines are used for the costly damasse- fabrics. Except for mourning toileufc and ergo for plain grenadines, satin is preferred to silk for cordings and pi­ pings. White dresses are very fashionable. , Dresses of v ictoria lawn for morning are made for young ladies in the pop-- - - E > A U V U T P V J J - ular kilt suit, with cutaway coat, trim­ med with Torchon lace or Hamburg edge. Plaitings have lost caste for these dresses, since they are nothino unless skillfully launiried, and"the quantity of material they consume, makes them fully as costly as the pret­ ty and durable Torchon lace. Prin­ cesse dresses of sheer, nainsook or white organdie, have the fronts formed of diagonal puffings, alternating with insertion of Italian or Torchon lace. These dresses are frequently made up over the new silk-faced Silesia, which comes in all colors and shades, and which is as effective while iar less ex­ pensive than silk. Dotted muslin, al­ so, is an old fancy revived. It is often combined with the plain goods in mak- ing up. ^ For this also' the silk-faced Silesia is used. Quantities of ribbons are employed. These must harmonize with the color of the dress-lining, but need not be wholly of that hue. Thus, over a foundation of pale blue, bows of pale blue and pink, or pale blue and rose, will be used, while the muslin over pale pink is garnished with rose and pale pink, pink and blue, and so on. The bouquet bow is the latest idea among bows, and consists of twelve loops of ribbons in six differ­ ent colors--two loops of each color. The ribbon uSed is inch-wide satin rib­ bon, the loops are an inch and a naif deep and are massed together in a sort \>f a rosette. Rose-color, cream, old gold, cardinal, pale blue, dark blue and pale pink are seen on one dress. Straw-color, olive-green, mastic-gray, pale blue, crimson, and pink on another. Suits of solid percale, dark blue or brown, are more worn than last year, if that can be. Those most stylish are made wholly of percale, self-trimmed, and give the effect of a walking-suit of silk of the same color. Next to these, and more expensive, are the suits trimmed with embroidered bands. These embroideries, in several colors, are also much used for linen suits, which, cool apd inexpensive, continue to be popular. Apropos of • linen, in making gray or ecru, whichever it may be, remember, my, dear madam, the tendency of lineii to shrink, and be guided thereby in cutting out, else you may find the waist of your dress up under your arms, and regret that you did not thus consider in time. A great many pretty suits for children and for grown people are made of striped and plain washing materials, i. e., linen, batistes and organdies, combined. Thus a kilt suit of dark blue and striped blue and white percale has the kilting with the plaits alternating striped and plain. The scarf is plain and so is the vest, while the jacket is of the striped percale. Another dress--an organdie of pink and white and solid pink--has the plastron of the plain organdie, while the envelope, so to speak, is* striped; all the trimmings and the whole front of the dress being of solid eolor. Striped seersucker, combined with plain percale, or with heavy linen, is a combination also frequently seen. Calicoes are extremely Cheap; fifty1 cents --ten yards at five cents a yard-- suffices to buy the material for a prin­ cesse wrapper, allowing a flounce at the foot, collar, pockets and bias bands for trimming. Fifteen cents' worth of French percale in solid color for piping will improve the garment, but it is not necessary, and you will want a dozen and a half vegetable ivory buttons, at from twelve to fifteen cents a dozen, to complete your work.--Phila. Times. Tools for the Children. • Buy tools for your boys, and if you have no boys, buy tools for your girls. It will not harm any girl to learn to drive a nail or saw a board, and do it well, and if she knows how, she will, without doubt, many times find it convenient, no matter what may be her fortune in life. For everyone, it will be a great advantage to cultivate mechanical skill--no one has too much of it. Nothing will be handier or be acceptable on more occasions than to know how to use a few common tools. " To begin with, the outfit need not cost ovej* ten dollars, but we will say twenty-five dollars. For this he may buy a square, a jack-plane, a smoothing-plane, a hand-ax, a hammer, a draw-shave, some dividers, a bit stock and half a dozen bits, a half dozen chisels, a' bench screw, a small beneh he can make, a few files, a whetstone, a hand­ saw, a rip-saw, a screw-driver. Then with the rest of the twenty-five dollars, he can buy a little wire, an assortment of screws, a few of a kind, an assort­ ment of uails, and a small quantity of pieces of boards of various dimensions. The tools should be of good quality. In a short time some of these will be lost or broken, but what of it? So is money lost and thrown away, [t is a Erofitable training for everyone to learn ow to use money properly. To learn, they need to begin early under good instruction. Twenty-five dollars in money may be spent in a thou­ sand ways for things which will do less good than the tools. Although this may seem to some a large amount to pay for tools, twenty- five dollars would be considered "a small item as an inheritance for a young man. Then buy the children some tools and they will learn to make play­ things for themselves, and be less likely to get into bad company. They will be happier, wiser, better; they will have a stronger attachment for home, and a greater love for parents, and these are a priceless fortune to any young man or woman, a fortune which cannot be lost by any failure of banks or depreciation in real estate.--Rural New Yorker. X