Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, December 18, 1887, Part II, Page 12, Image 12
THE OMAHA DAILY BEE : SUNDAY , DECEMBER 18 , 1887L BIXTEEN PAGES. n. . L. . OMAHA BOOK AND STATIONERY COMPANY 1 1513 DODGE STREET. Sale of Fine Books and Fancy Goods , Christmas cards , Etc. , Etc AT SPECIALLY REDUCED PRICES. Weltoii's Poetical Works. . Dante. Illustrated , Chamber's Buskin's .Works Encyclopedia Byron's Poetical Works. Lady of the Lake , Illustrated. Victor Hugo's Works Lucille , Illustrated. Holmes' Novels ' . Works. Tennyson's Poetical ' Novels , - Tennyson , Illustrated. Flemming's . ' Poetical Works. ' Browning's Irving's Works Byron , Illustrated. Burns , Illustrated ' ' . Dickeu's Works Longfellow's Poetical Works. . Lalla Rookk , Illustrated. George Eliott's Works Shakespears Poetical Works. Sketch Book. Irving , Illustrated. Cooper's Works Waverly Novels , set. History of Our Own Times Whittiers' Poems. Bret Harte's Poems. The Works of Oliver Wendel Holmes , set. . Epochs of Modern History Lucy Larcom's Poems. Gary's Poems. Shakespeare , sets. E. P. Foe ; set Epochs Plutarch's of Ancient Lives- History Holme's Poems. Burn's Poems McCauley's England , set. Purgatory and Paradise ' , . . ' . Gibbon'Rome , set. Milton's Paradise Lost Edwin Arnold's Foe in sE. A. Foe's Poems. Dante's Inferno Red Letter Poems. Hume's History of England ; set. Bible Gallery ii Dore" Frescott's Works ; set. La Fontaine's Fables We have the finest line of Bibles , prayer and hymn books jn the city , These Goods must be sold and in order to com pete with other houses we havemarkefl . them down to the lowest possible figure , 4 gf mah k and Stationery I Com any y 1513 Dodge street , just West of the P , O. HONEY FOU THE LADIES. Spanish girdles arc exceedingly fashion- nblo. nblo.Bonnets Bonnets for afternoon teas , weddings mid receptions ure nearly all white. Cloth iirincosso gowns demand trimming of fur as their make-up forbids drapery. Black lynx is thu favorite fur of matrons and elderly maids who cannot afford soul , Walking shoos of Angora kid , made over lasts delightfully big and square-toed , are do riguor. Some damsels nro comforted when they hear a person spoken of u.s "a man after their own heart. " For very little folk , hoods of chinchilla , with lining and loops of shell pink are the highest fashion. Wo are promised in the near future now gloves of the favorite tan and gray , wholly without stitching. Husbands.aro now said to write "W. P. " in the corner of their letters , which means "Wife permitting. " Half-low shoes of bron7C , patent leather French kid or suede , are preferred to slip pers for evening war , Some of the new silk stockings for wear at balls and operas are open worked and em broidered with tinsel. Trained princesso dresses of velvet , over 'petticoats of moire , are the rage for elegant reception and dinner costumes. People who have never watched a woman drive a horse have missed a great deal that tends to make this life amusing. The Now York Association of Collegiate Alumnae nro described collectively as a "well-groomed" sot of women. The wife of the president of the French re public is a thoroughly domestic woman , de voted to her children and to the church. Hats are segregating themselves into dis tinct species low , with wide brims , and Btceplc-like , with a bare suspicion of projec tion. tion.The The Ago of. Women Is the title of a forth coming magazine. Wo venture the predic tion that the editor will not dure to give it away. CSmnrt looking fur capes nro cither plas trons acres the chest or in shape of n habit skirt , with epaulets and loops of cord passe menteries. Lower skirts nro plain and stright , without foot pleating , and often bordered with n deep band of velvet or brocade , above which ap pears braid or passementerie. AH kinds of furs will bo acceptable as holi day presents , but sets of the fox furs , black and silver , red , blue , and gray , are the llrst favorites with young women. It Is computed that there are nearly a thou sand women in Iowa who own farms , and give them their" personal attention. Only eighteen of thcso farms are motgaged. When a girl wears n flower garniture to her ball dress she uses the pcrfumo of the lower ( lower that , forms the bouquet , gar- lauds , and purure or spray for the hair. Mature women wear wide bonnet strings Folded narrow , and tied in long loops that ire pulled out to the ear and pinned with lewollcd pins , leaving ends couspieouslj absent. Miss Mary J. Colnmdn is registrar of deeds In Clay county , Kan. Deeds must bo clcau M a pin whoa she takes hold of themand she knows a good title from a false one when she iocs it. A western paper nays that some education' Mints are questioning thnu&cfuliicss of Vas > ar college , Against them uro arrayed in one solid mas a tlio [ fain manufacturers of the country ; Ttrti new-rut fancy in pcrfumo sots for the lollcl tublo In to have the glass bottles en timed In mutnl cavern , imitating n picco ol cloth tlull around the irix'k with a blver 01 fc-old tord. A Immlsomu Spanish opera cloak fron Worth's house In Purl * is made ofvlilto am johl bmcatollu lined throughout with prim rose plu&h and edged with a wide border o Dstrleh feather bunds. A Louisiana lady of aristocratic rearing who was nnca famous for her wealth and tin number of her slaves' , now earns a few ccnti a Uay by picking cotton on the plantation tUa was her own bnfora the war. Hnlva Loolr.vood sr.ys.nhe doc not wan Iho nomination for president from the Ka iouiil' WOUIUK SufTornga association n s year , but that Miss Anthony and Mrs. Lucy Stone are both fighting for it. Colored silk gauze lace trimmed handker chiefs nro made to do duty as fancy lamp shade covers by cutting a hole in the center for the chimney to pass through , and trim ming the same with lace to match the border. When a man comes homo latoatuight.aftcr working hard all the evening at the ofllco on the books , it is mean for his wife to require him to say , 'Should such a shai > cly sash shabby stitches show ? " before sho. will un bolt the front.door. All street jackets have some some sort of braiding. The handsomest show tinsel braiding on the waistcoats , but very popular are those of dark blue , edged all around with a cording of block astrakhan and black braid ing of richand , heavy design. Bridesmaids' ' dresses are of whlto satin. An overdress of some light materials , point 'csprit or embroidered silo mull , is usually worn. The corsages are in best taste when ligh , but V-cut bodices nro not infrequent. They are never very decolletto. United States Marshal Gordon , of Trenton , N. J. , lias appointed his daughterAlphonsino M. Gordon , as his deputy. The mhrshal has been too ill for several months to attend to the duties of the otllcc , and his daughter has full power. Shu is but out of her tcen prutty , and smart. Mrs. Smith ( to Mrs. Jones' servant girl ) 'What ' do you want ! " Servant Girl "Mrs. Jones sends her regards and says would you bo so kind as to count your children and see if you haven't got one too many , ns our Kitty hasn't come homo and suhool has been out two hours. " The favorite jewel ornaments for Christ mas gifts are diamonds or ' 'roso diamonds" paste brilliants in the form of suns , stars , crescents , flowers , butterflies , and loaves or < balls or other forms , mounted on hairpins , which can be utilized for other purposes as well as coiffure. > The loveliest evening dress for a tall and handsome brunette 's one made of shot silk , the colors changing from orange to palo lemon and pink. Over this drapery of amber dotted tulle , looped with agraffes of amber and pink crystal beads , and rain fringes fall ing over cgscades of lace. Ilibbon braces for trimming simple cor sages are very pretty and effective. The ribbon is usually of moire and fastens on the shoulder in a simple knot. At the waist in the b.ick the braces terminate in a knot and a number of loops. In front they finish with n shower of long loopo and ends which fall low on the skirt. Oversklrts are nearly straight by consequence quence very full at the top where they nro stoutly pleated at front and side , and so deeply at the back that the folds reach the suirt hem. For looping ono or two big pleats each side take the plaeo of the multi tude of irregular ones seen and wrestled with this live years past. Miss Prime Philosophers disagree as to which period of life seems the longest to man kind. What is your opinion , doctor ! Doc tor ( meditatively ) Well , it varies. In women , for instance , the longest generally is between twenty-nine and thirty. I ( .know In my wife's case ten years elapsed between her twenty-ninth and thirtieth birthday. Mrs. York is a practical little woman with no nonsense about her. * 'My dear , how shall I leave you } " said York , when a ( It of the gout , and consequent limitation of liquor , had reduced him to a state of morbid melan cholia. "My love , " was the sympathetic reply , "leave me as comfortable as you can. " The Now York World recently related the story of a young lady cast suddenly upon her own resources who know tww to do nothing under the sun but give dinner parties. This she tu'-ned to account by selling her services us dinner director , first to her friends ol more prosperous days. She now has a clleii' tollo which enables her to live comfortable. Hortcnso Bertraml , daughter of Count Bcrtrand , the most faithful of Napoleon' * friends. Is still living in Paris. She ucconi pan led nor father and mother to St. Helena The emperor taught the little Hortenso hci catechism and she made her llrst communion at the hands of the same ubbo who lulmlnls tered the last sacrumcut to the dying Nape Icon. Icon.Mrs. Mrs. Frances E. Wlllard , president of tin National Women's Chrisiuin Temperance- Union , has Just written a narrative of tlu rise and an explanation of the purjKiHO of thli organization , which Is by far the largest so cicty of women ever formed , It has it mom bcrship of ' . ' 00,000 , , taking in almobt everj state and territory and innst foreign coun tries. tries.A very pretty anil simple dross is of Gobo- , lln blue cashmere , the plain silk trimmed with a deep row of brown braiding of the sort that conies in patterns ready to be np- pllqucd. The long curtain draperies ore of the untrimmcd cashmere , and. the plain basque bodice has the brown braid uppliqucd back and front in V shape , the colhusand cuffs being also braided. Aunt Huttio North , who recently died in Troy , Kas. , was thought by those who know her best to bo fully 117 years old. She was a colored woman , and remembered living in St. Louis when the city was a French trad ing post , with very few houses. She often related incidonts.that occurred a full century ago , and as she novcr how to read it , was thought that she spoke from actual experi ence. Wedding parties all In white are at pres ent preferred , but at a recent onq where the bridq and all her maiden train were brun- uottc's' , nil but she wcro in palo pink. The ilalu waists and V-cut bodices were of pink inoiro , and thcso were draped and trimmed , vith the softest and palest of pink silk mull. Each bridesmaid carried a huge bunch of American beauty roses , tied with floating inolro ribbons of the prevailing color. An old woman who has just died at San Antouia , Xacatechas , is said to have quite a romnntie history. It is said that formerly she pursued the unlawful vocation of u high way robber. She used to mount on horse back and stop the stage , pistoli n hand , and several times succeeded in robbing the pas sengers. She always eluded justice , but lately , when railroads wcro built in the state , she abandoned her unlawful calling and re tired to private life. Mantels , rcdlngotes , and nowmnrkcts , pop ular as they are , are by no means exclusively worn. Jackets still hold 'thai * own , and ap pear in tempting variety. They are gener ally close fitting , though the double-breasted Battenburg , the Norfolk , and the Paris blouse are to bo found in many kinds of ma terials. Stockinette jackets abound , and some of these are very warm , being fleece- lined , thus enabling the wearer to defy the frost. The salons of New York most worthy the name are these of the literary women. Among these the corresoondents mention Mrs. Mary L. Booth , Kuto Sunborn , Mmo. Demorcst , Mrs. Martha J. Lamb , Mrs. Croly , Mas. Frank Leslie , Miss Laura C. Holloway and Lilllo Dcvereux Blake. The same corre spondents irreverently says that the political salon in New York is out of the question , "partly from the naturoof New York iwlitics. and partly because the w > inan who could hold one has not yet appeared. " " * The tailors are making for the severe weather costumes that go by the name of Spanish polonaises. 'These have a perfectly plain silk skirt of cither dark blue , gray , green , brown , dark red or black , and on the edge is set u box plaiting two inches wide of broadcloth of the sumo color. The polonaise is a long undrapcd garment of the broadcloth which shows only the merest edge of the pleating beneath. Most of them are severely plain in style , having no fullness in the back and cut to fit over the moderate tour- nurc. nurc.APcoria bcllo went to the Knights ol Labor ball the other night. Her brother had taken her to the ball and then gone nwuy. The girl wore a now pair m shoes.which were about two sizes too small. The heat of the ball-room soon began to toll and gradually her feet began to swell and the pain became unbearable. Going to an unti room she tool ) off her shoes , when her feet suddenly puffed to an enormous size. Shotried every means , but to no avail , and , worst of all , horibrothei could not bo found. She was obliged to walk home in her stocking feet. Among the many clovor'devlccs for giving variety to plain dresses is to cut the bodice front out slightly at the throat and trim it with a small mediei collar. There are then prepared half a dozen inside collars of vurl ous shades of irah to wear with it * Thesn uro made by laying upon the foundation ol stiff muslin half u dozen overlapping folds ol the surah mid adding a tiny chemisette of the surah shirml. This color closes In the bacV where the Juncture Is concealed by the medic : collar of the waist and may bo made of blacli for btreet wear , and of blue , white , straw berry or Charles X pink for the house. The Balteiiburg style of embroidery is among the nowest. It is formed with braid and resembles guipure laco. Among othoi adaptations it is found suited for Churcli uses , as In ultur cloth. MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC. Mrs. Langtry will spend the summer in England. Fauro , the baritone , is going to Vienna to sing in opera and concert. Will H. Bray , the minstrel , will sail from San Francisco to Australia about Now Year's. George H. Jessup , a graduate of Trinity college , Dublinis , writing a new play for Mrs. Langtry. Joseph Jefferson will go to his Louisiana plantation this weekto remain 'there until the spring. Mrs. James Brown-Potter has announced that she Is going to play Lady Macbeth. The costumes have already been ordered. Adelinn Patti's concert at the Paris Opera Comiquo , on Friday , for the booellt of the French hospital in London , drew an immense audience. . Kate Forsytho aas returned to Now York from San Francisco , and will leave for Eu rope immediately after the holidays in search of n new play. Mrs. Cleveland has always shown a par tiality for pretty actresses and good actors. She loves to go to the theater to see a good play or a popular star. The boy pianist , Josef Hofmnnn , is to re ceive $25,000 for his season's work , and all his expenses and these of his father are defrayed - frayed by his manager. "Le Syndic do Vcrono , " a now opera com- Iquo by MM. Albert Geres and Henri Glen- tat , has been put in rehearsal at the Theatre Uoyul of Liege , in Belgium. ' The gross receipts of the engagements of Booth and Barrettand Mr. Henry Irving nt the Chestnut Street opera house , Philadel phia , reached nearly 1100,000. Herr Nlemann is to be defendant in a suit for $10,000. It appears ho played poker with Frederick Wolfe and subsequently spoke of him as u gambler hence the trouble. In Lizzie Evans' now play "Our Angel , " the villain pursues her through four acts and then is hanged while the heroine sings and dances the audience into a frenzy of delight. ' Coquelln has been giving six performances in Budo-Pcsth. the Hungarian capital , with the usual results viz : the multitudinous audiences , deafening acclaim and the presen tation of the time worn silver laurel wreath. "Lo Kol Koko" is the name of a three-act vaudeville by M. Alexandro Blsson , which has been brought out at the Theatre do la Renaissance in Paris. The Ashantoo king in native costume is shown on a visit to Paris. I Massenet's "Lo CId. ' has been coolly re- celvod ut the Koynl Vienna opera house. It was a grand success for the scenp painters , thecostumers and the singers , but the music was condemned as hollow , artificial and rcm- inisqcnt. | The queen of Spain bos fallen In love with the art of song , and is'jtaking lessons from the baritone , NapoletUf Verger , who sixteen years ago was a member of the concert troupe that visited Aiqorica with Mlle Chris tine Nilsson. < f\\ \ Considerable interest attached to Clara Morris' recent pngagc-ment at Harrisburg , Pa. , from the fact that it was the great act ress' first visit to that'city , although It is the birthplace of her mother. She received a perfect ovation. - ( Henry Irving Is the , most scholarly looking of all living actors. Ho is us much inferior to Booth as an actor as ho is superior to him as a manager and mobtpr of stagecraft. 1'ho chief fault of Irving' * acting is too little na ture and too much ur.tj Mile. Van Eondt , who has entirely recov ered from her recent Illness , will appear in "Lakmo" ut Budo-Pcsth , January 15. At present she Is filling nn engagement in Vienna , and later she will sing "Ophelia" for the first time ut Nice. In order to try the extent to which a tragic actress is moved by the whirl of stage pas sion , Sara Bcrnhardt's pulse was once tested at the win ; : * Immediately after a scene of great intensity. It ticked us regularly and normally as an eight-day clock. Mr. Joseph Murphy , the comedian , ij about to take a long rest from the stage , and will travel In Kuropa and otherwlbo court leisure for a year at the close of this season. During fifteen years of continued work the actor 1ms accumulated a largo fortune. Mmo. Gerster will probably sirs only onrb moro during her sjxy in America. That will bo on the xcasJ n of a monster complimen tary benefit in Now York which Mr. Abbey will tender her in her own name. She has determined to abandon America for the time being ; und it is not probable that her voice will again bo heard upon the concert stage. Miss Sarah Jowett writes to Manager Palmer from Clifton Springs , N. Y. , thnt she is very much improved in health , notwith standing the relapse which followed the re cent publication of a cruel yarn regurdingher und the consequent scundul which surrounded her name , and she hopes to resume her posi tion on the stage toward the end of the sea son or the beginning of next. Mrs. Langtry is particularly partial to the moonstone , and owns ono of the most beauti ful of its kind known to connoisseurs. It is largo and of oval-shape , almost transparent , and flushes the colors of the opal under cer tain lights. Its beauty is enhanced by a setting of small diamonds , which brings out its transparency , und its owner asserts that she always succeeds best in her play when she wcnrs this ornament , which is used as a pin uuild luce ruflles. Mr. George M. Ciprlola , on actor who loft the stage on account of an unfortunate acci dent , and has since last spring been running a school of elocution in Minneapolis , hus fully recovered his health , and will return to the boards the coming your to appear as Hamlet , .Macbeth , Othello , Homeo , etc. Mr. Cipricio. who is to bo' known ns the "West ern Tragedian , " will shortly appear in St. Paul and Minneapolis in readings. Mmc. Modcsku ] is going abroad to sell her properties situated in Crucow and Takopauo. She has become so thorough an American citizen that she wants all her interests cen tered in the United States. When nil the actress'property in Earopo is disposed of she will play a season in Uussia , Germany und Poland , and In Kussia und Germany she will use her present company , speaking in the native language herself , while the company will use homo bred Anglo-Saxon. An English builder of theatres has invented a panic lock for threutro doors. It is con tained in u panel which occupies a largo sur face on the msido of the door , anel any one coming in contact with the door must press the panel , upon which the door opens in stantly. It is impossible for the doors of a building fitted with this lock to bo fastened so thnt egress is prevenlcd , but from the outside - side no entrance is possible except with a regulur key. Terry's theutro in London has been fitted throughout with the new lock. Chicago is to have a now opera house , called "Tho Auditorium , " with frontages on Michigan avenue , Congress street and Wabash - bash avenue , the total of the frontages being Toy feet. The opera house proper will bo located in the center of the buildlng.-which is to include a hotel ten stories hlKh , with ' .too rooms , und n tall lower , fourteen stories high , in which business oOlccs will bo installed. There will bo ti.OOO scuts in the body of the opera houso. The place will bo lighted by electricity , will bo fireproof , and is to bo equipped with a stage that will embody every device that has proven successful In the opera houses of Europe. The oullay for Iho building is estimate nt $3,000,000. The European career of Tcresina Tua , tha young Italian viollniste. has been n remark able ono. On July 23,18SO , when she was but thirteen years old , she won the grand prUo nt the Paris Conservatoire , Ambrolso , Thomas , and Godard being the Jury. In Germany arlisls like Joachim and Hurtslick were were admirers. The epjcen of Spain made hcrcourtviolijiisto and the Queen of Ituly decorated her with Iho order ol "Slella d'ltulia. " The Queen mother of Spain gave her a genuine Amuli violin , on which she pluys in her concerts. The prince of Wales sent her a gold violin studded withdiumonds. ho emperor of Kussia n valuable diamond , ! and so on through a long lists of nobles. Bu- SignorlnaTcreaitia Tua's , American mana gcr has given her up as a bad speculation. The fair violinist's concerts have not paid as it was expected they would. A few eluys ago her manager paid her $5,000 lo release him from his onerous and unprofitable duties , nnd turned overall his contnifls to her. Putli left London on the 12th hist , for Lis bon , where Mio is to give A c.i&on of opura , opening with "Trnviata ; " A London corre spondent says of Tier now dro-sist The whlto satin train , covered witli numulllaii , its fleecy soft tulle front with fringe * of petirli. and silver - ver threads , for the firat act of Verdi' U superb , in the second act she will wear a Louis XVI. house dress , made of satin , cov ered with gauze , embroidered in all color' , mingling with hand.puintPd flowers. The satin train Is palo giuun. The wliitq drosj in thi ) third net is cmbioldercil with forget-me- uotb und velvet rotus. Thu train is looped with clusters of the same , of artistical splen dor. Her dress for "Lucia1' is white und green satin , embroidered in pearls. Silver tulle is sot aside for ' ! ! Puritan ; " for "Cris- pine , " yellow satin ; for ' 'nigoletto , " pale blue corded silk ; for "Tho Barber of Se ville , " shrimp velvet , with black lace ; for "Lakmo , " white embroidered crejKj do chine. All the Jewell were inudo here in heavy gold. For "Traviatu. " the diva had three sets of Jewels reset. She Is to sing in Madrid and Lisbon until ' April , when she goes to Ulo Jnnerio. * EDUCATIONAL. Thirty-five tons is the estimated weight of the telescope mounted hi the Lick Observa tory at Mount Hamilton. A now academy and technical school for homeless and destitute boys is shortly to be established in San Jose. There nro opportunities for young men and yonng women to go to China and Japan , sus tain themselves by teaching. President Barnard , of Columbia college , has promulgated the new rules , and the marking system in that institution is no more. % In the records of Cambridge university , England , has been found a valuable autograph of John Harvard , the father of Harvard uni versity , The late James M. Pierce of San Diego , Cal. , at his death left n fortune of over ? 100- 000 to found und support u school for home less boys und girls. , The Sun Diego college company has filed articles of incorporation. The capital stock is $200,000 , divided into 2,000 shares , all of which have been subscribed. Prof. Francis Wayland , of Ynlo university , has been elected u fellow of Brown univer sity , Providence , It. I. Prof. Wuylund's father was president of Brown for twenty- nine years. Miss Helen A. Slater , professor of mathe matics in Wollcsloy college Is to become act ing president of the institution on the retire ment of President Alice E. Freeman , who will soon retire. An unknown frlond has given Yule college - lego $125,000. to bo expended in building a recreation hall. The now building will bo placed on the campus , near the corner of College - lego and Chapel streets. The centennial anlversary of the birth of Hov. Thomas B. Galliiudet , LL. D. , the founder of the American asylum for deaf mutes , the first institution of its kind in America , occurred Saturday , December 10. Prof. Fechner , of the university of Lelp- sic , died ut Dresden on November It ) , ut the ago of eighty-six. Bo was ono of the leaders in the modern movement which aims at giv ing philosophic speculation a scientific basis. In the election of lord rector of Glasgow university the vote was equally divided be tween Lord Lytton and Lord Koscberry. Lord Lytton received the casting vote of the chancellor of the university , und was elected. Eduurd von .Hnrtmunn's "Philosophy the Unconscious" in its ninth addition in Ger many , and l t been twice translated into French and once into English , Swedish , mid Uusslun. An Italian translation Is in prepar ation. The new law of Colorado which provldcw for the study in public schools of the stnto of the nature of nlcohollo drinks and nnrcotics and their effects on the human system , has gene into effect with the opening of the pics- ent term. Lclnnd Stanford , jr. , had ho lived , would have reached his majority in May , 18S9. H was hoped by his parents that the university bearing his name would bo In running order bv that time , but It Is now by no means cer tain that the buildings will bo ready for oc cupancy ns soon as was expected. Thfro were found In the stomach of the de ceased Alice , the eminent elephant , several dollars In pennies. A well within twelve miles of Cincinnati Is producing 5.000,000 cubic feet of gas dally , and roars like u thunder btonn. It Is u singular fact that the recent cold snap in Georgia froze up tha ice factory nt Grininjind deprived the town of ico. A drove of drunken turkeys mudo n strange eight in Larlmoio , Dak. , a few days ago. They tackled u quuntity of stulo beer which hud been thrown into the stroct. August Shields of Hunt county , Tex. , is seven feel ten inches tall undjis still growing. Ho is twenty-two years old and lias sil brothers , two of them tullcr thun himself. Quite n curiosity in the shape of a twit orange is on exhibition at Anthony , Fin. I ( was found in Mr. Striplund's grove. Muny old inhabitants say they never saw anything of the kind before. A solid lump of coal , containing eighty. seven cubic feet and weighing HM5l pounds , was exhibited ut the Texas state fair recently held at Dallas. It was the largest block of coal over taken frpm a mine in the United. States.- The largest orange produced in Florida has been plucked from Gardners. Hurdco'sgrovq in Bevnnl county. The variety is known nn the London navel. The orange was fifteen and ono-half inches in circumference und weighed exuetly two pounds and two ounces. Fourteen yours ago a bottle of milk placed in u well at , Owensboro , Ky. , to cool , foil into the water. The other duy the well wurt cleaned out , and under about eight feet of mud was found the boltleand Iho milk within was apparently us sweet und good as the day it was put in. There is nn Interesting frenk of nature nt Mnrysville , Cal. , In the slmpo of a double-headed calf , the two heads being seton on ono neck. But Byron , u rlvul California town , now looks down on Mnry.svillo because ! of ils wonderful ' pig , which has two bodies und one' head. A Kentucky woman who has seven sons , all born on Sunday , has petitioned Govcrnoa Bucknor for u pension. She bii > s in her lot * tcr that she "Never herd of 7 boys nil Bcun , Born on Sunday , " und she thinks that micli nn unexampled feut of maternity should bo properly rewarded. In Oglethorpo , Ga. , there Is growing a po- tulo which bus inscribed upon one hide of it the letler "B" as perfect us if it hud been made by hand , but this grow this way , anil the hand of nature did the work. And to make the potalo a moro wonderful Ihlng , tliQ Icller Ihercon was Iho Initial of the gentle * mun who raised it. Colonel Mynutt'ft mother , living at Pine Log , Ga. , sturlled the family the other even ing by crying out suddenly : "Poor Susuu is dead ; she's gene to her rest. " The lady re ferred to was living in Texas , und hud not been seen by the family fdr years. A few days later Iho mull brought news of hop death , which had occurred suddenly ut Iho very time ut which Mrs Mynutt hud erica out. out.A A lurgo hoot owl of an exceedingly rurq and vuluublo' species mistook Iho headlight of Al Wulkcr's engine on Iho Norwich & \Vois Chester road , Conn. ' for somofur-distunt glim und runMnto itt The engineer und lu ilie- man wore considerably frigliloncd , not luiuw ing what they had struck. The bird wan found on Ihu pilot , engine whun Iho Inun reached Norwich. It measures four fuct from tip to tip of wings und will probably to to'somo museum. _ JIO.Mi ; D Muhognny furniture has been in many lij. stances disguised in white unumnl. Pearl is quito freely used In the Inlaid work adorning handsome styles of furniture. A good deul of bovulcj gluss of the first quuliuy is neon in woodwork und fumituruj of nil sorls. Light oak is frequently the selection for dining rooms instead of the dark , moro antique - tiquo style. The varieties of wood enameled for draw lug rooms in white und gold uro chiefly white wood , cherry and imiplo. A tine decoration in paper imichn b applied in whlto und gold rooms on thu high wuins * coliug und In the furulluio. Kofcowood , priina vera mid other articles of mahogany , with oak and cherry form thy ma terial for woodwork of Iho bcfet kinds , Flocks of gccso and ducks , droves eif pips. teams of homos and mules , and groups of gouts composn some of the new metal and bisque paper weights. A wholly new method of needlework Is rxprcbontcii in embroideries from imtuie , llu ncedlo hervlng lo make dlrccl copies at flowers or foliugo without Iho uy of Iho pen cil. Novelties for the Christmas tree consist of silver and gilt paper bonboiilurs In thu slmpo of helmets , bird cages , boals , ships , ynchts , fishes , ducks , and gcnso , enclosing liny silken bags , red and bluu , llluo und yellow , with narrow ribbon draw btrings to attaoli them to the tree , utter closing the bag over ( ho bonbons within.