Plattsmouth weekly herald. (Plattsmouth, Nebraska) 1882-1892, September 04, 1891, Image 7
it llii X I ' 11 New Swindle. have discovered a new The police VTWlllrtln that clmiri i n that uuv,..a fcicau lut-muiy ng tne criminals practicing it. and irely novel. It is another evidence -lie deep cunning of thieves, which 'Vbeen rendered kemi i' oeen 'IT f live 1 I1 new X f-nbrol use competition among the class e on the confidence of others. new swindle takes in the cunning n s jvnorouers and the astute police detect ij ivea and is a marvel of artistic crime. M The scheme is Jin follows? A nvin n-lin bears a good reputation, but whose mo rality is below the average, buys a fine gold watch, which is distinctly marked, so that it can be easily identified. He is in league with a swindler, who takes the watch and pawns it, then skips out witli He money, The owner of the watch roes to the police, tells a plausible tale k Vow lie was robbed and leaves a do IS,...:. . i . . 'uuu 01 nis property, it is soou ml in the nawnshon and recovered. ot practiced too often it is a very d swindle. Confidence tnen without cal habitation travel around the conn- ry practicing this swindle. It is per- ctly safe. One represents himself as a traveling nan, a railroad man or some other bird f passage, and the other is the unknown rHif. It is believed that this swindle has jiefen practiced successfully for some time, but the police are now "watch ing" f jr suspicious "cases." St. Louis . - Lively Ituss in Greenwood Lake. Joseph R. Buchanan, of the American Fress Association, is spending the sum mer at Greenwood lake, and he goes out fishing almost every evening. Wednes day night a boy was waitiug for him with his tackle when the up traiu reached the lake. 9 Mr. Buchanan began casting frogs on J the way to his boarding house, nnd failed J to get a single strike. As he was Hearing i, his boarding house, in passing up West y Milford creek, which empties into the lake, a bass broke water near tho blade of one of his oars, and at the same in stant the .boy, who was sitting on the stern seat, shouted, "A bassl a bass!" Something was flapping in the boat, and upon lighting a match for it was dark Mr. Buchanan found that he had secured a larcw month hasa WHiyhinor nun I and a half nounds. The bov said that jVhe fish struck him on the breast. Mr. vhanau thinks tne ash jumped at least 1 feet out of the water, and would 'le crone comnletelv over the boat had hit the boy. Cor. New York Sun. liurclara lu iteclu' Home. t'lcitizen Elisoe Reclus. the eminent V ifographer and inveterate revolutionist, 1 . I i lt- ... ..1 .,.!.. wt in luck just now. Only recently F ' A A nnilimln diini , 1 tut noiiitii- K vi i r ,varding its biennial prize of 200,000 francs, and now his habitation has been ransacked entirely, durinir his absence. hv bnrclam. What thn malefactors ex- pected to find in the abode of the hard ; - o i - l'tinguished labors, is known to have (massed but few of this world's good3,it i difficult to say. They, however, broke into his little ifo at Sevres, forced open all the locks yIM MllUnilCU lllOSli Ul lilt) 1UIU1U1IB. I fortunately for the ends of justice a i .1 l. .. 1 l . r xi. f . : . 4-psV, tchma'n on duty near by who saw iscoy its in tne House had his wits about leJTiUi. Armed with a spade, he waited i'or the burglars to come out, and felled ) one of them to the ground with his il weapon. Tho others escaped, but will 1 1 doubtless be discovered through the in ) Btrumentality of the man in custody. f ..Paris Cor. London Telegraph. t h liniilanger'i Friend's Will. Fuller details respecti ng the will of the y late Mine, de Bonneinains, .Gen. Bou ; langer's friend, are now published. She inherited from her aunt 30,000, of which f Ashe only enjoyed the interest, the prin- VK cipal being bound up strictly, home ' fyionths after the death of her relative Alrne. de Bonneinains mortgaged for 0 flO.OOO francs half of the "nue propriete" f or unufruct of her inheritance, thus 'A Ipavinff nnlv 18 000. This Bum kIib hus iiowleft toMme. Dutens, her universal l"gatee, who has to pay the charges on fry comprising bequests amounting to 1 000 francs and dutiec The legatee is also to pay the debts of the testatrix, n hich are said to be considerable. Lon din Telegraph. Her Eye Fat Out by s Quail. Passengers arriving from Jackson, Utiss., report a strange accident occur ring on a train of the Yazoo Valley rail way, a branch of the Illinois Central, i Monday. As the train was passing . ''4;iOU8h a field a frightened quail flew a 1 1 . .1 A ... 1 1 la mrouKU a wiuuuw uu su ut nu ageu la-dy in the face with such force as to destroy one of her eyes. The bird was instantly killed. Vicksburg Cor. St. Louis Republic t 'Uneasy indeed must be the conscience I of an inartistic tailor in Keyport, N. J. A TTfi tnniU H ctiif fnr a Ttanpdipf mid nil hi night of the wedding over 200 guests ' re assembled at tne Druie s nouse. i ne ur for the ceremony was near, but the xn did not come. Fancy the disnp ntment of the assemblage when the . TTi-i 1rt uffr fwni vinrr tills Arid;! "- B - f ' Ho us note, "I can't come, as my wed ( .'.i;. r oni ia n fit 1 ' Ul&lg DUl ID im VTtUiVllUVA Jit. A shoemaker at Manchester, N. H., has. an order for a pair of shors which are to be twenty-one inches long and eig',ht inches across the ball of the foot. Tliuy are for a North Carolina clergy main. T he house owned by Moliere's widow, Arniande Bejart, the actress, is still Stan ding in Mendon, near Paris, and has just been classed among the historic mon uments of France. . Ai noug recent inventions is an auto- :iti c electrical pump. It shuts off by a closing switch when the tank is and starts again just before the becomes empty. new American machine, recently iatei ated, is designed for the rolling ol front inuous steel sheets with an aim to ftavetl by Hi ThlnneM. Usually when a man has been rnnover by an engine and a train of five cars the coroner sits on what is left of him. With the exception of the coroner's inquest, that is what happened to Jacob Kahn. Nevertheless he is nono the worse for his remarkable experience. Nature made Kahn a very thin man, and to this fact he owes lis life. Kahn is about twenty two years old, and m -journeyman baker. Ho is nut very tall, but his thin- i ness is a standing joke in the neighbor hood. Being good natnred, it never angered him, and he was wont to laugh and re ply that some day they would envy hiio for being slender. About 7 o'clock he was talking to some acquaintances at Second street and Uemantown avenue, when a shifting engiue, drawing five heavy freight cars, came along. Just at it was almost opposite to him Kahn step ped right between tho tracks. A dozen people shouted and screamed, and Kahn saw his danger. Whether he suddenly realized that bis remarkable thinness might be the means of saving his life, oi whether it was merely fright is not known, but he fell fl:vt on his face as the engine came up and passed over hiin. The engineer could not stop and went right on, while the people stood trans fixed with horror. The five cars passed over him. A policeman and a big crowd ran into the street to gather up the mangled corpse. Imagine their surprise when Kahn jumped up, apparently un hurt, brushing the dust from his new trousers. Philadelphia Press. Another War Dlble Story. George Althisar, a veteran of the war and now filling the place of letter car rier at the postoffice in Port Jervis, at tended the Grand Army reunion at De troit, and took occasion while there to restore to a comrade a long lost Bible with an interesting history. The Bible was originally a gift to David Webster, a Michigan tolunteer, from his mother on the eve of his departure for Virginia in ItiGl. Webster lost the book at the sec ond battle of Bull Run. It fell into the hands of a Confederate soldier of Stonewall Jackson's command named Hayes.. Following the moth er's inscription to her son on the fly leaf the soldier wrote a brief statement of the circumstances under which it came into his possession. lie abandoned his knapsack containing the book on the battlefield at Bristows station. Althisar picked the volume up and had carefully preserved it for twenty six years as an interesting relic of a des perately fought battle. He was for tunate in finding Comrade Webster at the Detroit reunion and in restoring to him a relio doubly precious because the mother who gave it had died. Cor. New York Sun. Swarmed on the Farmer. Peter Gross, who lives near York Springs, Md., had been working hard all the morning and about 10 o'clock concluded to take a nap under a cherry tree. He had jnst fallen into a doze when he heard a buzzing sound. He awoke to find a hive of his own bees swarming on his head. Rushing into the field he thonght that by covering his head with earth ho could get rid of them. But that did not have tho desired effect. Being on the crest of one of the high hills which surround his house, he then threw himself on the ground, gave his body a shove and down he went, rolling over stones, sticks and bushes, until at last he reached the -kitchen door. By that time the bees had left him, and, al though he was very much cut and bruised, none of the wounds were seri ous. Baltimore American. Remarkable Growth of Tobacco. J. W. Cook came in Saturday and told about some tobacco he is raising. Last year he raised a crop of the weed, and after lie cut it in the fall suckers grew out from the stumps. These suckers re tained their vitality all winter and in the spring began growing with increased vigor. Mr. Cook pruned them down to one to the hill and cultivated the crop. He says it is just as good as the crop he planted last spring, the leaves being broad and heavy, instead of narrow and peaked as the leaves of suckers usually are. Elsberry (Mo.) Advance. A Mean Swindle. Newark, N. J., has a man with a novel idea of the installment plan. He sells a clock for one dollar down and fifty cents a week. In a couple of days he visits the buyer, saying that his employer had sent a clock which had not been tested, and therefore might not keep good time. Then he takes the timepiece away, prom ising to bring another next day, but never shows up. There are about a dozen cases of this kind charged to his account in Newark alone. Philadelphia Ledger. A Bra Sewing Machine. A sewing machine that was exhibited in Boston a few days ago stitched easily and rapidly through layers of leather five eighths of an inch in thickness. In a second trial stitches were made evenly and rapidly through a piece of birds eye maple three-eighths of an inch thick, and in a third test the machine sewed through a layer of brass one-eighth of an inch thick, placed between pieces of leather. New York Journal. A recent order from an Australian firm for 20,000,000 feet of lumber will require twenty-five large vessels to carry it. Recent extensive developments in mining interests in Central and South America have led to large shipments ot timber from this country. Boys in Crawfordsviile, Ind., have a balloon parachute craze, and cats are daily sent up, the parachute being so ar ranged that it will detach itself from the balloon at a certain time. The cats are not taking kindly to this aeronautic mania. The famous manufactory of porcelain at Sevres is likely to be closed. Tiie sale of this style of china is said to have fallen off so greatly as to make the mau nfacture of it unremunerative. i rire. In a recent western fire ltws again dwaionstraU'd in the clearest manner possible that California redwood as a building material comes nearer being fireproof than almost any other Material of which building are constructed. In this instance a firo broke out in the up per part of a one story building while th wind was blowing a gale that war recorded at the United States signal sta tion as moving at tlio average rate of thirty miles an hour. But notwithstand ing this, and the fact that it was several minutes before water was' gut to the building, the fir laths under the plaster were burned dowuward nearly to the floor, and whole squares of the side plas tering were thus loosened and fell in be fore the fire had burned through the thin redwood shingle roof. It was a most wonderful illustration of the fire resistiug qualities of redwood. Had the whole building been as com bustible as the laths nothing could have saved the city. The roof was old and as thoroughly ready for the flames as red wood ever becomes, yet the fact remains that it resisted the ignition, and bystand ers could see a seething furnace of flames through the apertures under the eaves, while nothing but smoke issued through the roof. The peculiar manner in which redwood smothers flame and prevents its flashing forth is an impor tant fact in suppressing conflagrations, as fires are conimunicatfd to neighbor ing buildings by means of the external flames and sparks which they seud up. Chicago News. IIow to lie Ilnppy in Summer. Batho early and often. Seek cool, shady nooks. Wear lightest, lowest shoes. Ride at morn and walk at eve. Believe that waiters are human. Let hats be light and bonnets airy. Eschew kid gloves and linen collars. DrebS in cambrics, lawns and ging hams. Bo lavish with laundresses, fruit men and faus. Court the sea breezes, but avoid the hot sands. Stir up the sweet and give small place to the bitter. Let melons precede and berries follow the breakfast. Remember that seeming idleness is sometimes gain. Retire when in the mood and arise when most inclined. Order freshest fish and corn cake; never mind the heavy fri; .ers. Remember that nine-tenths of the peo ple are at the seashore for rest. If you feel like doing a good deed, treat a dozen street children to ice cream. That is mission work. Look pleasantly at the tired stranger who glances wistfully at the part of your car seat not occupied. Ladies' Home Journal. Monument Opened at Fompell. Two important monuments in Pompeii have now been opened to the public, af t er remaking closed for the .last thirty years because they were used as deposits of art. They are the temple dedicated to Augustus and the Women's baths. The latter is the only building in Pom peii in which are preserved intact, with out any restoration, the ceilings of the rooms, the pavement of the tepidarinm is also intact. In the temple only one object but that of great value to art is preserved, the altar on which sacri fices were offered up. It is of marble, perfect in all its parts, covered with rich bas reliefs, representing the different forms and incidents of sacrifice. On one side is represented a virgin scattering incewover the altar, while the sacri cial Ufill is brought up in a procession of priests and musicians. On the other side are scirfpfured a wreath of oak leaves and two branches of laurel. Lon don News. Collecting a Debt. A Gardiner man collected a bill of $2.10 the other day and feels well over his success. He rode ten miles into the country and found his debtor in the hay field just about to pitch on a load of hay. "The money is up to the house," ex plained the farmer, "and I'll get it just as soon as I get in this load of hay. Do you mind getting on and building the load?" The Gardiner man got on and when he reached the barn he found the lady of the house, who had charge of the money, out blueberrying. So he stayed and built another load and then got his money. Some folks think he had earned it. Kennebec (Me.) Reporter. A Small Hoy Suffers Under the Law. One of the cases where injustice may be legally done was witnessed here re cently. Ervin Hodgdon, a little boy who knew nothing of the fish law, saw a large trout in the Monsam and managed to catch it with an unbaited hook. For this he was arrested by Fish Warden Lord, of Acton, carried to Biddeford, and fined twenty-six dwllars and costs, amounting to forty dollars. Springvale (Me.) Advocate Photographed by Lightning. When Charles Tunnison and Ed Cald well were killed by a stroke of lightning at the ball game at Warren, O., they were sitting beneath a tree. On the chest of Tunnison, the white man, the under taker found photographed, apparently by the flash, upon the skin, the image of a branch of a tree and its twigs. The strange freak is the talk of the town. Cincinnati Commercial-Gazette. Four Little Girl Kill 37 Snake. Four little girls went berrying on WTard's hill, in Winsted, Tuesday, and encountered a nest of thirty -eight snakes. They succeeded in killing thirty-seven of them, the largest one 3 feet and 9 inches long. On Wednesday the girls went over the same ground and killed three more of the same kind of snakes. New Haven Register. L'aeful at Well a Ornamental. The man who lost his false teeth at the depot a few days ago can have his prop erty by applying at the conductors' room, where they are now doing duty as paper weight. Springfield Republican. Wood That RhIiU And the FrlglitriK-.l Hoy Fairly Flew. Adir'vfaiv l btiV bnv. ii. eased in a single garment of shreds and patches, was caught clinging to the rear end ol a train th;.t tolled into the Orniid Central station a few n:.,i:ts He was about four years old and si" ,li for Ins age. In the expressive l;:ng .iigeof a Westchester farmer, "ho didn't look much l;i0',,vi'n a jngo' cider." A zealous trainman espied the tiny lad before ho could dismount from bis dangerous perch on the car J platform. A policeman was summoned ; and lliu arrest of the marauder was do- i manded. The boys who catch on trains 1 are a nuisance and should be punish, d maintained tho trainman. A polite; officer 0 feet 3 inches in height and broad in proportion, took bold of one of the child's arms with his thumb and . forefinger and marched the little culpt it , almost the etitirj length of the long sta- tion, a crowd of fifty or more people t.l lowing. Some of the people uttered indignant i and sarcastic remarks, such us "Do you ! want any help, officer?" "Look out, Mr. Policeman; he'll trip you up." But the oflker paid no attention to tho crowd. He grimly marched his prisoner to the Forty-second street exit of the station, and with a twinkle in his eye ho lifted the child in hi arms and addressed him sternly thus: "Prisoner at the bur, ymi nave been arrested. But this is yer first oflinse. If yuse gits arrested agin you'll be punished till the full extint of tho law. Now git." The youngster got nit of sight in t he throb of a second. New York Times. Guunlliin of the .lull In India. The jail fixed establishment consisted of a native jailer, with deputies and a i few paid warders, with a semiinilitary guard for sentry work, armed with muskets and provided with ammunition, most of which was so old and damp from the climate that it had to bo destroyed periodically. They were commanded uud drilled by a handsome old pensioned Bubahdar (native officer). This old gen tleman wore u collar of gold beads round his neck, and over his dress of spotless white an embroidered sword belt sup ported a native sword in .1 green and gold scabbard, lie was a striking look ing old man, with strict notions of dis cipline aud duty. His father had been at Plassy with Clivo. It was part of this officer's duty to make his morning report at tho magis trate's house, if the magistrate had not had time to go to tho jail on his morn ing round. His usual report was brief and emphatic. "My lord, the jail is all well." One morning he continued it thus: "Be it known to your lordship that the jail cat has had five kittens. Will your lordship order that the cat have an extra ration of milk?" This ho said in the gravest voice, with his hand still at his forehead in military salute. When the order was given for the cat's extra ration he marched off without the shadow of a smile on his face, while the magistrate remained almost convulsed with suppressed laughter. National Re view. Taiianin Hat. Panama hats are so named from the circumstance of their being shipped from the port of Panama. They are manufactured in Ecuador and the neigh boring states. The material used is tho fiber of the l-3af of the screw pine, which is related to the palms. It grows only on the slopes of the Andes. The tree is described as having no trunk. The leaves are on slender steins that spring from the ground. They are about two feet long, fan shaped and four parted. Each of the segments is ten cleft, so that when the leaf is folded, as in the bud. there are eighty layers. The fiber of these leaves is finely plaited, and each hat consists of a single piece of work. The plaiting of tho hats in a slow and tiresome process. Coarse hats may be finished in two or three days, but the fine one takes as many months. The work is begun at the crown and finished at the brim. The hat is made on a block, which is placed on the knees, and hus to be constantly pressed with the breast. About 200,000 dozens of these hats are made every year. The price varies ac cording to the firmness of the material and the quality of the work. They are valued at from $5 to $100. Youth's Com panion. How Old the Earth I. Dr. Haughton, calculating from the observed thickness of the rocks down to the miocenn tertiary, and assuming a period of 8,610 years for each foot de posited on the ocean bed, finds, for the age of the stratified rocks, a period of 1,526,750,000 years., Assuming the rate of denudation, however, as ten times greater in ancient times than at present, and adding one-third for the period since the miocene tertiary, he arrives at a fiual result of 200,000.000 years. Dr. Croll doubts the validity of Professor Haugh ton's assumptions, especially the total thickness he assumes, namely, 177,200 feet, or over thirty-three miles. Gentle man's Magazina Sugar Id Clover. An enthusiast on the subject states that each head of clover is composed of about sixty distinct fLwer tubes, and each of these contain sugar not to ex ceed the five-hundredth part of a grain. The proboscis of the honey bee must, therefore, be inserted into 500 clover tubes before one grain of sugar can be obtained. There are 7,000 grains in a pound, and as honey contains three fourths of its weight of dry sugar each pound of clover honey would represent the insertion of its proboscis into 2,500, 000 clover heads. New York Telegram. A Drntructlve Scarecrow. Since the corn canning shops com menced operations in Maine the fanners have found a brand new defense against crows. They corral whole baskelf uls of the disdarded tin scraps and next day hundreds of poles toss ami flaunt a daz zling array of adornments in the eye of the sun. This will scare crows, horses and cows, and when travelers find them selves in the gutter with the carriage on top, they at once understand that a tin field is in view. Lewieton Journal An Army of Ant. Silently, deadly and irresistibly mov these battalions; out of the folVbt, down, into, across and up the ditch, through the boma (wood Ftockade), across the square, and into every nook and cranny conceivable they swarmed. The first j notice (they generally came at night) would be a loud yell from some of the men, "LooJ' out! Slain!" There would be no more ideep that night After experience gained we found it the best plan to clear out of our houses, rush into the square and build rings of tire around us. To put on oue's clothes was to get bitten by dozens all over out's body unless the garments had been first thoroughly smoked over a fire. Every uow and then yells aud curses told how a lazy one had got caught in his buuk. The walls of the huts, the roofs and floor were simply cue seething mass of strug gling ants. They were after the cockroaches, mice and insects that had taken up their abode in tho roots. Now and then squeaks of young mice told their story. As fast as the nut found their load, generally a cockroach, they would make off down tho hill in long lines. Luckily they never touched our granaries; they seemed to prefer animal food. Toward morning there would only be a few thousand lost ones, aimlessly tearing about, apparently looking for tho main body which had just decamped. Usually these raids onus were made after a raiustorm; many of them came into the fort already staggering under loads; these appeared to wander about till tlie others were ready. Next day not a cockroach could be found in the pjace, so that the ants did us a service n ridding us of these pests. The rats had decamped also, and did not return for some days. Nineteenth Century. The "Lightning Arrvnter." To tho uninitiated it is a great puzzle how tho dangers of lightning are ar rested where there are so many con ductors of electricity as there are in a telegraph office. More than 2,000 wires enter the big Western Union building in New York city, aud from one to a thou sand in other offices of that company throughout the United States. Each of these wires run more or less directly to the desks of the operators. This being the case, how do they guard against dan ger from lightning during times of great electrical disturbances? Even when less electric attractions are wanting most people confess to a certain feeling of in security when the elements rage and wake np terrifying flashes of forked fury. But science has provided an an swer to the question asked above, as well as to almost all other puzzles which stand in the way of human progress. Every wire as it enters a building passes through the bottom of a long, narrow board, and then again through it at the top. This board is the "light ning urrester.' If the current is heavy tho first effect of the board is to deprive it of much of its force. Should tin- first contact with the "arrester" faU to (lim inate tho lightning of ita fatal powers it passes on to the top of the board and touches a spring which communicates with a "drop," instuntly shutting off all connection with the operating room. Tho spring is called the "pliv-h magnet," and beyond it no overcharge of light ning, whether proceeding from a storin or from contact with other wires, can possibly go. St. Louis Republic. Doge Help Each Other to Drink. The fountain on the Clark street side of the county building was the Ecene of a very funny incident the other after noon. Two dogs, water spaniels, were trotting north when they came to this place and stopped for a drink. They were both thirsty, but neither was tall enough to reach the trough, and they talked the matter over as dogs will, and wondered why they had not been treated with as much consideration as had the horses. Presently they solved tho prob lem. One of them ranged himself under the edge of the trough, and the other, rest ing his fore feet upon his companion's back, was able to roach into the pool and slake his thirst. When he had finished he hop)ed down, seemed to say the wa ter was good, and then in turn ranged himself under the edgoof the fountain and the other reached np for the drink he hnd earned. When he was satisfied they trotted away together, as well con tented as any man could be who had met a problem and vanquished it. Chi cago Herald. Fan In Japan. One of the necessities of life in Japan consists of the fan, of which there are two kinds the folding and the non folding fan. Paper enters largely into their composition. Bamboo forms a ma terial very handy for the framework of the cheaper kinds. The paper is either decorated with paintings in all the dif ferent styles of Japanese art, or else brightly colored and sprinkled over with silver and gold leaves. These fans are manufactured of all possible qualities and prices, the richest and largest being used for ceremonial dances, where they form accessories of great importance. The place most noted for its produc tion in fans Is Nagoya, and superior ones are made at Kiyoto, while the inferior descriptions come from Fushimi and Tokio. Several millions of fans are ex ported annually from Japan to America and Europe. Paper MilL When Silk Wa Costly. When silk was first worn In England two mantles on the shoulders of noble ladies belonging to Elizabeth's court at tracted more attention than even the queen. The manufacture of goods from raw silk began in England in 1G04, ant, was brought to perfection by the Hugue not refugees in 1088. Eveu at that time, however, silk was very costly, a pair of stockings costing in our money a little over $100, a cloak a little less than f 1,000. Among the 8,0."52 dresses left by Eliza beth at her death only twelve were of silk, uud Leicester, more than his knight hood, prided himself on a pair of silk breeches which he had imported from Italy at an expense of over fo00. St Louis Globe-Democrat. NEWSPAPER S-DER. A Convenient and ITetty A fMm tot ti SiitiiiL,--l..,m. This Is a very com. ri-'n, pre: y and useful article to hang i, a sitting -oom, or on tho outside wall t.f a !iOiife un-lcr the shade of a piazu- root, to ntUdi the pupers, which, for want ui k entiveiilent receptacle, aro apt to lie t 'u'.trred the floor. Cut for tho foundation - a yuve , twenty-four inches long and fn-rti-on wide of straw matting, coft'ee-siu Ui i,-, very course foundation muslin, or any thing of this sort that can be doublet without breaking, aud is soft enough, to allow a needlu to pass through. Kouud the four corners. Then cut from India silk, cretonne, Turkey red, or any similar material, either figured or plain, a strip one yurd long and four inches aud a half wide. Gather this on botlr edges, uud commencing in the middle of the long side of tho founda tion, sew It two inches from tho edge up one side, across the top, uud down tho other side. Then draw it over tho edge and catch it down one inch below, thus making a full puff. Cut u piece of material twenty-three and a half Inches long aud fourteen inches wide, turn the edge In and baste It on tho deepest side of tho puff, cover ing Its raw edges. Run or hem it neat ly down. At tho ends of tho puffs the material must be slashed and turned in to cover them, then the remainder ia drawn smoothly over tho half of the lining not finished by the puff, turned down over the edge und basted inside. Next cut a lining, either of tho suma material us the outside or of a contrast- MiWSI'Al'lilt 1101. UKU. ing color, long and wldo enough to cover the raw edges, baste it down smoothly, turn the edge under and hciu it. Then fold together bug fashion the broadest side of the puff on tho outtidt, catch tho four corners firmly together, sew a loop of the material threo meters long on tho outside of tho back at the middle to Kang It by. If ribbon can bo had, nu.ite u Vow with loops and short ends and pluue it "on, tho right hand side of the lio!di,-Siuit'aii 1'ch inside of the puff 't iiree-quarter of a yurd of rtbbou thiw? I.teheti w;d will uc reed ed, and the eokii' may match or rtntrast with tho material. A pretty effect can -be obtained by having boih th Imw and the puff tho sumo color, a'.d t no. covering a pretty contrast. A gathered rosette of the material can bo used In stead of ribbon; for instance, light blue crepe cloth for the puff and the rosette, and Turkey red for the cover ing. Harper's Young People. AN ELEGANT SCARF. It Make a Keautlful Appearance with Very Little Work. Oue ot tho most perfectly satisfac tory scarfs, because making a beautiful appearance with very little work, Is made out of scrim and ribbon. The il lustration indicates the manner in which this scarf is made so plainly that a description is almost unnecessary. Tho materials used in the scarf shown in the illustration are a yard of scrim of an open pattern, and a yard each of light blue and old roso satin ribbon. Half a dozen skeins each of rope silk, of the sums shade of light blue and old rose as tho ribbon, and a dozen tassels of each shade, complete the list of materials. . ' The ribbon should be the width of the plain part of the scrim, and should be basted down bo that it comes just to the edges of the open-work part. SCARF OF SCRIM AND 11IBUON. The old rose ribbon is then brier Btitehed down with the blue rope silk, and the blue ribbon with the old rose silk. Another row of brier-stitching is worked down each of the narrow strips of plain scrim, that intervene be tween the narrow and the wide strips of open work. The clusters ox three threads that are separated from each other in the nar row row of open work are decorated with over-and-over stitches of old roso and palu blue silk alternately. Tho ends of the scarf are turned up and hemmed and tho tassels sewed on, with tho colors alternating. The scarf was then caught up in the middle with a bow of ribbon made of tho two shades of ribbon. The ribbon used In the bow was not included in the two yards men tioned in the list of materials. Tho sides of the scarf are also hemmed and tinishedfith a row of brier stitching. Good Housekeeping. If the eyes are tired and inflamed from loss of sleep, by sitting up late or long travel, apply in the morning s jft white linen dripping with hot water vm hot as you can bear it laying tho cloth upon the lids. You will feel tho eyes strong and free from pr.ln or ' -tress in half an Ire. ;- - : J