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-»« . -- VOLUME XXXIV. " ■ _ ^

GAPE MAY CITY, NEW JERSEY, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 1888._

WHOLE NUMBER 1188.

CAP* MAY CITY. M. J.. 1100 a T u Strictly la Advance. U4«in»nVH>n»l>mira. Xwtoi rtral tofa. ' J^EAMING * BLACK, ATTURNEY'S-AT-LAW, uA»DBt, it. j. jss-j QB J. r. LEAKING A BOM, DIHTI8TB JAKES M. E. HtLDBKTH, attuknkyvat-law ASD sOLtClTOK. H*rm AHD IXAHINCR IK yy A. LAKE, M. D. RESIDENT PHYSICIAN, OHMU !«• VuVllO COCUfV. WUI I* U J SPICE B LEAMING, ATTOIINBYAT-LAW ' amd 8CLICITOR-IN-CI! ANCERY, <1 WAABIKCITUM ST.. {'AM HAT, It. J. . oaoe rays, Twdan, nmn ui swor- "»-> pKNNlNGTON T. HILDRETR, ATTORNEY. AT- LAW SOLICITOR IN CHANCERY , IM 1ARKR ST.. CAMDllt. It. I. jraTiraaraoa...x "***'" "°°" °^T; iwlun toft. B. LITTLE, PAIMTBB AND OLAZ1ER. CAMBATCTTT, M.i. \ o. ami HOUSE, SIGN AND PBKSCO PAINTER, SURROGATE'S omcj ninoaAn or thj^ooiutt or cam TUWOAT ahd satuhdat ^mfsa william bildkrrb^ \y ABE A ELDBEDGE, UNDERTAKERS. ^gW.Att gcjpjiiiroos. JAKES T. BAILEY, ~ ritAcnoAL Blacbuitti ail Horaflw, BuniMlSTkinBB ■ nmsuhhsn. at a n wmatagira cups mat 'j. Wihtatr«' r1.r:!: . imsaiuiulSLKn, DURABLE A ORNAMENTAL IDaelrsIed catalogue and price list free, filfi E. lOth St., New Y'orit City. ( ldEeryard Schallfing#]-* Landing, Vhsn may M sous s tsrtsmooa of BUILDING LUMBER, — h%asr--w"' CONTRACTORS irod BUILDERS J. B. 8CHELLENGER8. UE0IG COMPANY'S Extract of Meat DntALOABui roa DTsraraiA

^arntturr, Carpus, 6tf. j I 827 M, MARKET | ^Ha 1 THE WAYE'S REAOERS i Arc cordially invited, when in the city, to . ; L visit No. 927 Marjcet street. They may need , : Furniture some day and it will do them good , to drop in on us and learn for themselves what 1 astonishing bargains are offered here in ail kinds of FURNITURE, Special inducements are offered to seaside s ! resort buyers who purchase extensively. We make-our own Furniture, and sell at Retail cheaper than many dealers can buy at wholesale. CHAS. WEINMANN & COmakers of fine furniture. 927 ' Successors to Wsber A .Wainmann. MARKET STREET, philadelphia - FURNITURE For Hotels, Cottages & Boarding Houses. YVe propose to gprc our customers the advantage of buying direct and thus avail themselves of the opportunity of saving all discounts allowed the middlemen. a very large assortment of 1 Furniture and Bedding from which to select It will pay you to call , and sec us. Estimates cheerfully furnished. • ALEX J. H. MACKIE, (Succsator to Mackle A Hilton.) 1 19 North Second Street, ! PHILADELPHIA. WATCHES, CLOCKS, Jewelry, Diamonds, and Silverwrre AT WHOLESALE PRICES. T. O. HAYDOCK, PRACTICAL WATCHMAKER, ( No. 12 North Second Stroot, Philadelphia. Prrrhant jgailtrinf, Grots' .fnrnlshlnfi Gosds. R. J. THOMPSON. FINE TAILORING, Southwest corner I Ith and Chestnut 8ts., TUILADSLIH1A. pa. GEORGE M. POWELL, MERCHANT TAILOR i No. 1 5 Decatur Street, Oape Mav City, 1 a te mlSSUS mock or oaum aaa ct-llll ■ sensbls to im trade i lc*a*ujoo um mm-, II ■>'. ima-'.iM : HIRAM DeWALT, MERCHANT TAILOR, ! No. 817 Ohestnut Street, Philada. : FBpbr Sins at Pupdar Pritxi IMc il teSliteral ai a Rtasaafe Pite j I L. SHEPPARD, . 29 Waehington Street. Cepe May, N. J. • GSNTS IQMgpjQS'HAR CAPS, UIBBKLLAS. IftrlS nd iaording S« «s. "V^ASH I NGTON HOTEL, Seventh and Chestnut Eta, Philadelphia. JOHN TRACY, Proprietor. , aistatoa asd all soDaan imphovshsntw <m-, s WEST JERSEY_HOTEL, ,m^*VrgraiKir^Ai«eo«Z 'WMM, era*-. . s a MISS LIZZIE SMITHERS, Spring and Summer Millinery, No. 16 SOUTH 2d STREET, PHILADA. t PARABOLA SPECTACLES, "

!__ JMtal. [' Beware 0/ Scrofula !«S3S&££S ■ | j ernyUw bulla. .w^lUwcw. J upela an trace at scrofula tram U» blood, ' < leavtar U pore, eortehed. and-healthy, !< "I was severely afflKVfd with scngnla. ami ] ' A^iTr^M^'ib.Tki/'^lnlbUi ' | rad i«n- Rood* , Salt Rheum i . Isoneoflhen»«ttflia«rerabledlveaaeseau»ed I by Impure blood. lUsreadtlyeuredby Hood's ' , Wllllsm Spies, ByrtA. O., mnmiymBT , J hAlKnios tobacco. At tlra« bl* binds would j I araUons wllhout Ud; Snally t~* llnod'i Bar- | sapartlla. and now ■ays;" I am entirely welL" j "My Km had rail rb«tnn on bl. habd. and . ■ 00 Urn calves ot his logs. Ho took need's j i Hood's Sarsaparilla IOO Doses One Dollar maijK 1 AlulER'a | Mffil HAIR BALSAM , _ i ' I philada. Suslntss Sards. , r , I JACKSON'S CAFE, , 19 SOUTH EIGHTH STREET, I JOSEPH G. BOYD, j GROCER, ; T<HE GRAND TURKISH BUS- ' A wan baths. an n* DgfABTMntT, n H. in k. silas il rowland, sopi. BytA-y CELERY COMPOUND AND NERVE FOOD. r^?.*w°r aIn e. mT a* lisu'rara*^! rtiisd a lUiSftUanrous. Pedbtau, Mikuobs. WORKS OF ART. 806 Market 8treet, Philada. AGENTS WANTED! aSTiiS Dns"n?«'raJWBjPltTRmUW. b'sLHshnl ins , Msf§j&g?igj5 f jy8. j.m.aj. b. hobenbaca, Medical and Surgical OtBoes, ' eerntT^uu rtat amp cm A MONTH AND BOARD

| One Bight nfttr my truck su dune 1 sat down lo read the Wats. After trail- 1 1 lag the lore, story, the household column ' ' ud about the lilUe gray mare of Rio j Grande that, like Mohammed's eolHn, ' ir not auspendod between bemrrn ud ' way auaptnded between Gleen I Creek and Cold Spring pastures Then I read •umethlog about the tariff. Says I I to husband : " What is the tariff, ud • wliat do they meu by. the Mills' bill ! Hat Mr. Mills been building a boat for I of tbem Congn samen ! Mow I j | have often beard the defeated for office took a trip up the Salt River for their benltb." Husband said be hardlyunder. stood about the tariff and Mills' bill.ud ' did n't think poor folks ought to pay I "I have been Uiinktn' quite a spell tbat I would like lo lake a trip to Washington, aod maybe we cm And out all | about It" I told htisbud I was agree. to put in our parts ters ud gtrden sass ; husbands grand-mothers, sccond-cousins saying as bow lliey were in poor health, uit thought the sea air ud bathing was just what they needed. The following Wednesday we started, arrived In Philadelphia all right, ud took the cars for Brotherly love in the distance. Now of Brotherly Core I I do n't tee that . Philadelphia Uiu they do at Cape May. i cars started 1 settled myself back ud thought 1 would lei the folks in the car | all right until welcome to or™ o^them II go off I" Then the folks laughed. I tbem. bow did they know but somebody might be killed, when nil of a sudden it Cape May City after she floats her refuse into lire neighboring borough. lul places, and' Uu'ral glad whe. we ' got to Washington. Well. Ihat night notice sl'nck up on the door to hr'careful of our valuables Husband said that meant our baggage, and said if it was stolen the handler would have to pay for It. 1 askesl him if false teeth was baggage. He said tbat conundrum was a grinder, sud he would have to chew It over before he could answer, or else gum It up. (Ilusbud was trying to gel off started to ace the sights. I told husband for Cleveland, I thought we had better ' When we got to the White House we front or back door. Ilusbud. Ixlog u it wan early In the morning, be thought ' Mrs. President might be busy in the | kllchen, ud II might i mtmrisa her to ■aid they were engaged. I told him I s knew belter tbu that. .lor tbc W svg , said they were married. Well, we went to sec the Capitol. It L is a splendid place, prettier tbu the ' Stockton or Columbia hotels, ud CooJ great Hall could n't come up to it. even If you took tbem ugly kitcheos away. While we was looking around we teed - some folks looking tt ■ big door. Thry of Columbus. A real nice gentleman told us all about It. He said It was designed and modeled in ltome in 1838 and cast In Munich In 1880. He said It weighed #90,000 pounds and coat #28,. 000. I expect there was a big strike In America and Ihat Is reason tbem foreignat the pictures in the rotunda. The gentleman said they told about finding the Mississippi ltiver. Another told about the baptism Of Poky-h tubus— baptised him In the Mississippi Hirer I suppose, poked hint under and that Is why they gin him that funny name. And there was a picture about the resignation of General Washington— donY know what be was resigned to. And there was lots more pictures. I wonder if when they find out what lb# Elephant on Weal Cape May beach is good for, will they make a picture of It and send It to Washington. I told the gentlemu I didn't see why they old n't write It down In a book ud not put pictures all over the I walla to tell about iL Now that Is just the way husfaaod doea. He -keeps the I ac ount of his pertaters on the barn f floors wlln chalk! and il somebody owes I him he puts It down su the door past 1 with lead pencil. The gentlemu said I more tbu #100,000. Wo went lo the I top of the dome. I was pretty nigh fag. I gad out when we got lo the top. It was I just like going np to the top of Iho light I house. Y'ou could see ever so far, only J everything looked different, ,6 much [ smaller. 1 had orten heard that when ■ folks got up in the world they did n't >- know their relations. Tbc figure of freedom on the top ot the d' me was l»j ft. high, weighed six ton, ud coat #23,798Husband said he knowed freedom coat a good deal but he thought tbat statue a wee a pretty high figure and they bad J put it on purty heavy, r Well the way. that gentleman raced husband around Washington, he made J almost as good time u Barmtm or Mote. J He took us to the Patent office, to the a PoatoOce, and the Agricultuaal Dcpart- £ ment, where they have all kinds of plants ° The gentleman said there wu 1,600 dlfs erent kinds. 1 declare It Just brat the ® hot houses at Oape May an out. The - gentlemu raid they gave away 1.200,000 packages of seed and 23,000 buna and ' eaWngs every year. lOIer lboklng all around husband thought we had better ^ go back to the hotel. He told the gen- " hts hat, and rays he : '^y time Ureh f uable and I will be obiged lo charge you . #6.00 lor showing youths public instlI lotions." Husband raid he had often fWart-thstthnr wurraoocy ratnc WP-" pcand that wax the reason that some peo- ' pic never had time to pay their debts. ' Next morning when husband went to 3 settle our board bUl l bey charged its cxJ tra tor. every glass of water, extra If we v wra too sariy for our meets extra, if loo

ling out " Extra." And I declare It just I took every penny that husband had got „ for his plnaten last fall to pay tor our t ~ trip to Washington. They blra us wus „ 1 than Jersey mosquitoes. Husband raid: 1 | " Wife, 1 have found out what they [ ' meu by tariff, ami If anybody wants to I know what tariff isrjust go to Washing. a J Ion." „ H Hev. Dr. Buckley In the July CatcrriiT jj ' eoDtjbittca u article under the title of | "Dreams, Nightmare, ud BomnambuI llsm," from which wc quote the follow. v ' *"*" i us Mm f ' * Is see when persons talk In their sleep \ ^ They are plainly asleep ud dreaming; , between the physical orgua aiqi the i. images passing through the mind Is re- 4 " tallied or resumed, In whole or In part. . It Is very common for children to talk t * more or leas In their sleep, also many , r liable to mutter ir they hare overeaten. \ * or are fereriih or otherwise 111. Blight '* exhibited the germs of somnambulism " with ideas passing through the mind. From these incipient manifestations of 0 no Importance somnambulism teaches ( * frightful intensity ud almost incou- , ^ ceiveablo complications. D Somnambulists to thta^country b.ve 1 J Clocks, Ignited conflagrations. A | ° file a raw: but the nobo of the operation I ' of houses, threading dugcrous places. ] ^ and doing muy other things which i cases mttoc'ttMi>subjectof ' dose'lnvrahL ' y gmtion. Formely it wu believed by | '* skirted the brink of dugcr safely, the ( a Essays bsvc been written by sonmatu- , ^ anxious about a prise for which she wu 1 0 wrote a paper upon a subject which she 1 ^ asleep selected u obnoxious paper from several documents, put In a cup, and set , L fire to IU She wu entirely unaware of | the tranuetion to the morning. ^ Intellectual work baa aomc times been { done in ordinary dreams not sttcoded by J( somnambulism. The composition of the ie "Kubla £hu" by Coleridge while asleep n ud of the "Devil's Sonata," by Tartlni, , arc pantlellctl to a small way frequently. 1 l'ublic speakers often dream out discourses; ud there Is s clergyman now residing to the wcalran part of Mew Y'ork State who, mstiy^ars ago, dreamed lltat he preached 1 powerful sermon upon a certain topic, and delivered that identical discourse the following Sun5 " Whistling wu invented to giro t man noises in creation. Hie other noises io ' nature are all attnned to the character of the aiticle that produces tbem. The breeze makes its gentle sigh, the brook haa Ita peculiar sound, the storm Iras its 1* crash aod Ita roar. Ererythlng tirade a ' noise to the world except man when he wu alone. A nun cu't talk to hlmle self ; it la Idiotic, although il to utontohtog how muy people do It. A cough to ®' la'es the lungs to produce it A sneeze always goes with a oold in the head. ™ Tree, a mucu stag; that is. he cu try to alig, built It ln-4l_sU agreeable it " seems somehow to be rusted it somebody bu not paid an admission fee to ^ hear It. Thai's why women have audi ** a terrible reputation for talking. They jT cu't whistle, ud they have nothing to , relieve the ralrtlnt when they are alone; m when they get hold of anybody they But whlstllog wu Invented to corceal 8 music. Y'ou don't need to have music * in your soul to whistle. It to simply tho "" nuisc of a vacant mind. The loud laugh ™ of Oliver Goldsmith that bespeaks tho *} mind applies to s crowd. The whistle shows the vacant mind In lu solitary state. When you hear a man whistle who palpably doea not know a tone, he *" to cither a very good fellow or a very " had fellow. Did you ever notice tbat Jews dont whistle much I They hav n't I got much vacut mind. When II la n't ^ needed In their own buaineas they rent ' 1 tiers the young gentlemu going home (rem Went Oape May about 1 o'clock to a the morning, who whistles " II Trovatore " or " Sweet Violets " with all the band parts, taken the bakery, id Hhllonophy of tna Stroot. Women will never really love the tele- ^ phone until It appeals to Abe eye u well <- A man may loan fiMnds, fortune and infiuonce and Mill retain his rutty in its t* original freshneaa The only qoestloo a boy will not ask while riding on the can to whether be ie cannot lay down ud go to sleep. u The polltlciu who does not secretly 30 rejoice when one of h to compatriots 5 meets wlUi disappointment to generally ■I crowded out of the business early to life, er Financial disasters may be retrieved, and time will cause a untie of charity 1° to be thrown over numerous faults ; but *1 when we lose uy test It to gone forever, d- —Milwaukee Journal. m . » rn "My ealltog,"*rald^he letter-carrier, IF "dUTers'raslanaUy from all outer.," o- "In what wayY" asked his Mend, la. "Mom people get their walking papers to when they are discharged, donl they?" x- "Y'ra." re "VtB I got mine when I was appoint- [ *> ed."— Chicago Tribune. '

Stupid, or Jolty. A young mu who had spent the sumat work at home to the city, met his college fricod, who had xpent a What kind of a time did you have, " - ' " Stupid enogh. The scenery was fine, * ud the house well kept, but there wu ' nobody there that I knew. None of the f men to oar fraternity would go down, J nothing to do but lo read ud smoke. b Who wu there? " who .rat utl prosed to his office. Sec. " oodly, a lot ot shabbily dressed Usher- ^ West I hale pooplc from the country, aod their wives, who spent their on the cliffs. The only Phtladcl- * phlan there wu one of the Fosters. I ° Bo you have been down at Point Fesr. f Y'es. the most jolly place ! Msgulfl- r cent scenery, and such delightful people! 1 get outside of our own set ami see dif. c erent phrases of bumu nature. There 11 Coke the famous lswyer, and great S •peciallat. Dr. Sauglet were smoog them. ■ shrewd old fellow' ud w^l used to f Who had been 1 revel log lor years • to Europe, up the Nile, end In Syria. clever, well bred people. ^ ^ : two ways in case of Ibl. Imtncrgcocy. , f little set at home, or he tn.y meet hto \ ! Tlirre is an old Irish story of ■ fairy, ! 1 who disguised u s wrinkled beldame, , , gave a coin to alMvho paased^her hut. , * princely It became gold. | Of all nigbt wandering birds Ibe most ' [am liar to the owl. Its large eyes, with their wonderful mechanism of bony T rings for alteriog their focus art special- ° ly adapted for seeing iu the dusk. Its downy plumage, with the odgce of the ' quill feather softened so u to look fjuite ragged, gives it the power of noiseless '' nestlings In their ancient tree. It neldom leaves fur for feather, but a bird to no doubt token now ond then, probably '' home often In no very secluded spot. J We pass and repass the old dm that has sheltered generations of Owls within Its J1 lisps of the staid and solemn family ihat " dose within. WThe screech of the bam3 owl is a weird ud awful sound. Ilk", the scream of a murdered child. Coming " suddenly down of the dark overhead it T to enough to appal the stoutest heart. But there to DO terror in the musical call ' of tbc brow n owl, beard to the soft twl10 light as it floats down from coppice on ° the hill, from the tall elms on the edge meadow, or in the darh shadows of the 0 sombre pines. In answer to halloo, now from yonder tree, now overhead"— * a.wuderlng voice, the phantom cry of a e bird unseen to the darkens. Skaptloram. 'I By reason of the state of chronic tot credulity to which muy men para their >1 lives they miss half the good of this 1 world. They seem to think that doubt e and unbelU f are proofs of wisdom, ud n through fear of being deceived reject much that to true ud good. To such e minds the statement that Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery to a real ud proven cure for all diseases caused by torpid liyer, bad blood or scrofulous buayxrs carries with It Us own condom. 1 nation. They do not believe |lt, apparently, because we ray to ; and yet what 1 more, or lev, than this cu we do f We ' know the tacts, and if we did not make public the great value of this remedy k few would profit by it. We try to do * our duty to the matter and It remains for the doubter who needs help to overdoeae I hto prejudice and give It a trial. * #300 reward Jor so Incurable case of ' chronic Nneal Catarrh offered by the b manufacturers of Dr. Sage's Cataarh I. Remedy. J it Judge (to prisoner who has Just been ', brought Into court)—" What to your Prtoooer— •' Billings." " Where you from, Mr. B filings ? " bra nothing to do with the tue." " But we will Compel you to state, a I Mr." * I " Ural win be a dangerous proceedI lag. I aesure you. 1 shot a Judge finec." I- Judge (musingly) — " The pctoonrr to I from Kentucky. "-Ar Axasos. TrmtBtr,

This can vara [Harrison— Van Buren, 1840) was one of tho moat exciting to our history- Every expedient was re- . sorted io by politicians of both parties ^ play upon popular feeling, and Ibe _ whole country was aroused. The , c eufucled what has comedown us as "the shouting campaign. " _ The Democrats having sneered at Harrison for firing in ■ log cabin with nothing hard cider to drink, hto partisans ■ raised the cry for tho "log cabin and ! hard cider candidate " This touched popular imagination, and people . fairly went wild with cothualaatn— and . hard elder, for from the barrel which, tbc candidate proclaimed, he was • ready to tsplor any one who entered the country. Log cabins and Iran els feature* st nearly all the Harrison large processions organized by Harrison's supporters. — Ibe first political prooesdona to our history— on which occasions the barrels were usually found to be more persuasive orators than the speakers. T"c Harrison medals faith, record the popularity of the bar. tel. for the medalists even suspended their regard for perspective, and to their representations of Harrison's primitive ho ne made the barrel so landscape that beside it the mountbushes. As the Harrison canvass progressed, it grew sx exciting that is One church was turned over to Harrison's partisans Tbey built a log cabin on eighty yoke ot oxen, young girls on hornets sek. each representing a Stale, and banner ■ ami -trewiog the mail with among Harrison's adherents, who thus made cap! al out of his military explolU \ tierihnrr'M Moyui sr for September. Dr. Chomp' on. one of the oldest docthe following anecdote : " When I seas resident medical officers of the General ' Hospital. This was long before highlyen enough, and did their work fairly 1 well. t»nc day wc bad recs'ived a very case of delirium tremens. I was ' svas to time 10 see soil hear?7 Why, the sentence at a time, one nan uer supper ^

r tlon of bis body which appears lo be J j specially mado and provided by nature ^ ' When abe finished she thus addressed l: him : ' Tncrc, ray man. yer can die now ' ! as soon as yer like, bat I wasn't agolnj ^ I exclaimed. She replied : ' Why. hto I blood curdle, which 1 thought we would 1 1 give hint a bit of a chance If he said a 1 f prayer bc'ore ho died.' "—Liverpool * D A Boa! on Ian has had the laugh turned ' s upon him recently. He to a benedict, 1 I band. His wife usually leaves him for 1 I. ■ week only during the summer, and ' , he always promises to write to her every 1 y day. Now. the unnecessary trouble In 1 i this busy business UTeTITTraving a love ' letter composed by mail-time is pretty 1 -. might embarrass him, and so the very ' ,t night of her departure he writ a tlx c and stamps tbem, and places them 00 g his desk with orders to hto office boy q to mall one each day. This plan haa ' L worked gloriously for years. But alas! U the son of the family has knocked the ] |. little scheme sky high. He went to hto n father's office one day last week, found ' e the heap of letters rr»dy for dally sere >, the whole squad. Explanations were _ difficult, but tbcv bad to be made,' and [ now the little wife will demand some ' sort of dog ear to prove that day and ' date are Identical.— flatten Horn* Jour- | Modarn Phlloaophy. | ir Laughter and song are the heart's It A smile through tears to the soul's 1 d rainbow of peace. 1 * The amenities of fife nuke the true h beauty of living. 1 » Life to a contioucl routine whatever 1 d guise it assumes 1 y Good breodtog to like affection — one a cannot have too much of lb ' 1- The simple faith of a little child 11 the ' '- world's truest homage. 1 t Dreams are ofttluua the fufifitlmont ' e of e prophecy within ourselves. I e The power of forgiveaera is the ' T noblest attribute ia the hnman character. 0 Let no day glide Into eternity without • r catching a glimpse of heaven's sea. 1 n To be autocratic to to he unjust to 1 ourselves Mo man to "sufficient unto ' it himself." , Despair and happiness are so closely , . linked that each a riven by the wraith h of the other.— Mntt Prm Frest. The Verdict Unanimous. hitlers ax the vssy brat remedy. Every is-jSifsess^sssi " affirms: 'TV b2^fiS^«Sclno i >. to*Hectrie w8£7Thra2S Me others hare added their testimony, so , that the verdict to unanimous hit Ecc- . trie Bluera du cure all .Harases of the Liver, Kidney* or Bio d. Ojl. a hjlf to dollar^a^ bottle al Marcy A Mccrsy'a ' f

An elegant young -man from Brook- ' wearing a bizarre snit with room lo trousers and a Mackinaw straw hat with barber pole band around It, eaoerted five ot six young Indira Into the ) Grand Union billiard room this raora- ' lug, rays the Troy Times. He wra Just ' , .lying for a game of btlliarda. to said. ' promised to show tbem what a fine game II wax aod how well heoowMplay. Handing tbc ladles two Ugh can# seat . chairs 00 the south side of the bBBard ' banks and fountains ot the lawn, the would like 10 play a game, receiving an . affirmative answer. The play began. Tho representative of tho City of Churches wu very airy and kept calling ' the attention of the Indira to hto "great ' shots." He brat the attendant considerably, sod a second game followed, in wtch he wu particularly fresh and made j fun of some^f the poor playing of the Attendant, healing him again. He then wanted a third game and had iL The attendant now girded up hto .' waistband and Just "went for" the dude who soon stood like a poet and saw the attendant run the game out, making B some most brilliant aod dlfflcnlt shots. J The ladles transferred their admiration to the attendant, and made the dude's blood boil by sarcastic reflections on his playing, and so another game wu determined upon. In this, too, the nice young man hat UUlc to do but stand still and see his opponent's score roll up * u though the balls were bewildered. 1 That settled it. As he humbly paid his bill be compll. ° men ted the attendant and asked hto name. "My name, Mr," mid hto re1 that Brooklyn would-be-lady-klller had been unconsciously booming up in the eyes of Iho ladles Ibe champion bllIfsrdlst Blosson. The ladies bestowed the sweetest smiles on Blosson u tbey went out, and the Brooklyn young man d remembered "an engagement" clse- * CURIOUS "FADS" * "There are quite u many carious Q 'fads' followed by the fashionable men u there are by the fashionable women," remarked an observer, not long since, from that unequaled standpoint, tbc J variably more dainty and refined than .. those adopted bv the other sex. Let It I be added to Justice, however, to the ' 'liege lords," 10 eeoerml, tbat it to the man with plenty of leisure at his dlsj posal who hu time for the indulgence * offset quite by the Uotbsm beau, who to _ juoiog cooplcuously u a model for the tailor, the halter, the shoemaker and glover, and the notion dealer, to general. under the Comprehensive title of . "The American Glass of Fuhion and e the Mold of Form." The gentleman hu r tboMbtnxn the varied subject, and hto S snmLysardrobo would put to the r tho trousseau on 1 wealthy belle.

He bus complete outfit for each and every occuiom he changes bis morning for hto noon suit; that again for an aftercostume— a Utile further on, a dinner suit to donned, to be displaced s-UI by evening or full dress. laterals, bathing or boating suit. And each detail" A prevailing masculine "crexe" to for each man ot fuhion to wear a distinctflower. This to anotlon from "acrou seas." The Emperor Fredrick wears continually, to hto button-hole, a modest cluster of violets. Just u hto father wu always decorated with the cornflower. A well known society man of to- [ day to never seen without a single Ivy on the lapel of hto coat, and another wean, Invariably, a white rose, so . small u to be barely noticeable. By I early fall it to prophesied tbat military . fashions for men will be the rage. This . also a "fad* borrowed from our for- , eign cousins, who are sporting exten- . lively what tbey term "La /fcnancV . styles. The carnation, the emblem of 1 "glory," grows to triumph on thebreut . of every patriotic Frenchman. Taslk Taut. Humors of th» Pulpit. In one of our Virginia cities there to a clergyman of foreign birth, but who hu lived long enough In this country to preachwlth considerable fluency to our language. Nevertheless be occasionally | shows that he hu not fully grasped the significance, nor learned the appropriate [ use of certain expirations current among j us. On one oeculon he undertook to , deliver a discourse on the characters 0 1 , Mary and Martha. He dwelt long and elo- , quently on the excellence of Mary's trail, till at length, feeling that he wu somewhat derelict toward Martha, be exclaimed: "But I do not mean lo go back on , On one occasion a negro preacher undertook to give his auditors a sermon on , the fall of Adam and Eve. In describing the garden of Eden ha raid: "The Lord told tbey mlgbl have the use of all the trees iu the garden 'ceptlo' and He wanted that for winter apples." I onee knew of an Illiterate preacher being nonplurad at a revlral. Walking . lo a gentleman who wu present bo ukodi "Sir have yon made your pure : with GodT to which the gentleman replied: I wuaot aware that I had bad 1 falling out with Mm." A wOd fellow, who had been gulltr of many a rprec, wu once tying m when preacher asked Mm: Shall I pray to I the Lord to youT to which iho defln- , quint replied, "Oh, nol Please don't. I don't want hto attantlon railed to my ' case."— Detroit FWe Pram. Miss Penelope (of Bo«ton)-rve been shopping to-day, (flan, and Par nearly , tired to death. Mlm Clara -Did you icoorapHsh much? ' Miss Penelope— Only a volnms of j Browning and a five-pound boa of non10BBBSBHB3