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> " I'm Harried, Child-" ** O mother, leok ! I'va fonad a batterfly HADSiDe npon A 1*^<^^ ^<' tell me why There wab no butter 1 Oh, do see Its wings '. 1 oeTer, cover saw fluoh pretty tfaiugsâ€" All siruakeii auU stripped with blue and brown aud goldâ€" Where is its bouse, when all tbe days are cold '/" ** Yes, yes," she Baid, in acceotH mild, •• I'm hurried, cliild.' ** Ijast night my dolly quite forgot her prayers ; And when she thought yuu'd gone down stairs Then dolly was afraid, and so I said : * JuBt never mind but say em in the bed. Because 1 thiuli that Gud is just as near,' When dotis are 'fraid, do you b'pose Ho can hear ? The mother spoke fr''m out the ruffles piled ; " I'm hurried, child." " Oh, come and see the flowers in the skyâ€" The sun has left, and won't yuu. by-and-bye. Dear mntbt-r. take me ia ymr arms, and tell Me all ftbiyut the pusny in the well'.* And then, (jerhaps. about * Red Hiding Hood'.'' ' " Too much tu du '. Hush, bush : you drive me wild ; I'm hurried, child. ' The little one grew very quiet now. And grieved aud x>uzzled wa.s the childish brow ; And then it <iueried ; â-  Mother, do you know Tbe reason 'cause yuu niust be hurried ao '.' I guess the hours are littler thau I, So I will take my pennies and will buy A big clock ! Oh, as bit; as it can be I For you and uio." Tbe mother now has leisure iufluite ; She sits with folded hands, and face as white Ab winter. In her heart is winter's cbill. She sits at leisure, questioning God's will. ** My child haa ceased to breathe, aud all iB night ! Is heaveu so dark that Thou dost grudge me light ? The time drags by. ' O, mother sweet, if cares must oyer fall. Pray, do not make them Bt^mes to build a wall Between thee and thy own ; and miss the right To bIeKSedue(-8. su riw ft to take its flight : 'While answering baby questions you are But entertaiuiiig angels unaware; The richest gifts art; gath«r<.'d by the way For darkest day. Temperance Notca. Dr. Geo, A. Brooks, of London, Eng- luid, leader of the Prohibition party of that country and one of the most eloquent orators of tbe Enj^lish platform, will visit America this month. From South Africa comes the news that a new church of Talus has adopted the re- â- olation : " No member of thin church â- hall drink the white man's jirojj or native beer, nor touch it with his lips." The Yount{ Woman's Christian Tem- neranco Union of Rockford, 111., have pab- Uahed a wide awake five column four page paper for distribution at their county fair. U^e paper bears the name Our Hobhiei, and presents the different lines of work carried on by the society. It may not be generally known that John Alden, the celebrated publisher, is a Btaauch temperance man. He gave up a good potition in Chicago because he would not consent to sell tobacco. He is just briugini; out a special number of his well- known magazine entitled " Literature," devoting the September issue to temper- ance work. Mrs. Maria Bateman, of the Boston W. C. T. U., is a regular visitor among the women imprisoned at the Tombs every Sunday afternoon. This lady has also extended her efforts to the Charlestown court room, in behalf of the unfortunate, and has been cordially welcomed by the presiding judge. Mrs. Klleii \V. Greenwood, of Brooklyn, N.Y., for years an acceptable pulpitspeaker in that city, will give the annual sermon at National Convention, Sunday, Oct. iilst, in Metropolitan Opera House. It is expected that Bishop Fallows will speak at some time duriut; the convention. A good aril earnest toaipjrance worker, Mrs. Sasaki, the Secretary of Tokio (Japan) 'W. C. T I' , has resigned her office and devote.) her time to the editorial work of the Temperiince Hugiuine. Her successor ie Mrs. TakuK, well educated in both the Japanese and KtigHsh iitngoa^fes, aud who (jraduated with honor from the Tokio Normal School when ciuito a young lady. At the meeting of the Catholic Total Abstinence Society lately held in Milwau- kee, a resolution was adopted favoring the â- trict euforceiuent of all laws compelling the closing of saloons on Sunday and pro- hibiting the 8»le of liquor to minors and drunkards ; and agreeing to petition the State LegisUtiire to ptsa a law to prevent â- aloons from doing business within 200 feet of a church or school house. Mrs. Elizabeth Thompson, the celebrated philanthropist, who expands her entire annual iiicoine in doing good, has decided to present an elegant dag to the National Woman's Christian Teinporauce Union at its approaching c:onventi..>n in Metropolitan Opora House, New York city. It will bo Mrs. Thompson s idea of a " woman's flag," emblematio of peace, purity and justice. The motto will bo " For God and Home, and Humanity." The border will be made up of Uags of all oountries and will predict " the Parliament of Man the Federation of the World." '.iioh W. C. T. Union of Brooklyn, N.Y., appoints some of its members to visit the jails two days in each week. They not only take part in the regular religious exercises but labor personally with the prisoners trying to inlluence them to lead better lives. A movement ia on foot to establish a home to which those wishing to prove by their sitiom the sincerity of their repentance can go alter their release from prison, and from which they can be recom- mended to some honest and respecttble employment. The Jail Committee of Hamilton have found it a necessity to have such a house, and one has been conducted in a small way for the past year with good results. No statistics are needed to assure you that temperance reform lies at the bottom of all further political, social and religious progress. Drink is the curse of the country. It ruins the fortunes, it injures the health, it destroys the lives of one in twenty of our population, and anything which can be done to diminish this terrible saorilico of human life and human happiness is well worthy of all the attention and study we can give it. * • ' The agitation will go on without us it not with us. If we are silent, the stones would cry out. If there is in the whole of this drink business any single en- couraging feature, it is to be found in the growhig impatience of the people at the burden which they are forced to bear, and their growing indignation and sense of the ehame and disgrace it traposeB upon themâ€" JviephGhiimberluin, M. P., PrttidnUo/ the London Board of Trade and Vhairman of National Educational League of Etinland. SALMON FISHING REGULATIONS. That was a sad story of the shooting of Mrs. Susan Howes on the New Brunswick salmon stream, and scarcely less sad is that of Miss Annie Phillipiae, the sister of one of the young men suspected of the crime, as given in the Andover correspond- ence of the St. John Sun . Not many years ago the father of Annie, Henry Fritz, Eugene and Mary Phillipine lived in very comfortable oircamstancea in London, and Annie, his eldest child, received a very liberal education in Switzerland and France, the countries from whence her parents came. But Annie's mother died, and in the course of time Mr. Phillipine took unto himself another wife. Then followed reverses in business, his wife refused to share his humble lot and re- turned to the comfortable home of her people, but Phillipine set out with hid little family for America, hoping in the new world to win back the smiles and favors of capricious fortune. At Halifax he secured a clerkship with Messrs. Darley Bentley ^V Co., agents for the ocean steamship line operated by the Societie Postale de 1' Atlantique, while the boys and Annie tried their hands at farming in the Annapolis valley, with the resalt that so often attends the efforts in this line of city-bred emigrants from the old world. Their father rendered what assistance he could oat of his slender income, but that only served to delay the downward progress. Two years ago the five children aetlled on the Tobique and twelve months later their father died Annie seems to have bsen the boad that kept the boys together on the farm. Under the direction and control of a capable farmer they might have done as «ell as hundreds of ctriers who build uphomea in the forest, but they had little or no know- ledge of farm work, and lacked the steady application necessary to success, tbe latter possibly owing to the mutations of the life through which they had passed. At times they worked in the woods; at times they tilled their land ; occasionally they labored for their ceighbors. No one with whom your correspondent talked gave them a bad name, or credited them with the nerve to originate an evil deed. They were rather of that class who, leading a restless life, follow where bolder men lead. Everybody who knows her speaks in the highest terms of Annie, who has been mother, sister and Christian counsellor to the boys. Without a murmur this noble girl, Qttei by educa- tion for a higher life, immured herself in the forest depths that she might care for the orphans left in her charge. The young lady told the Court that when her brother Henry started out to catih a fish in tbe river near by, there was nothing save a few potatoes in the house to oat. And this delicate girl of 'i4, who for two years has acted as tbe head of a family of live orphans in a strange land, bitterly re- proached herself for having given a tardy assent to Henry's proposition to take a mild revenge on the armed men who drove him from the pool whence be was trying to replenish the empty larder. " I felt mad- dened," said Annie, that " Henry was tired at, but it I bad forbidden him he would not have gone out to frighten those men the next day." The Sheriff of Victoria, when he went up to the Phillipine house to sum- mon this witness, found the family on the verge of starvation. The wife of Sheriff Tibbetts states that when Annie was brought down to Andover, she was utterly destitute of underclothing. Without food or money, or sufficient raiment to protect her from the coul night air, her only thouKht was to save her brother from the gallows. Uo you wonder, says the Sun, that tears rolled down the cheeks of the sturdy farmers in court, and that women sobbed as if their hearts would break, as they listened to Annie Phillipine's evidence and realized that while aiming to prove he had not tired the fatal shot she was but forging link after link in the chain of evidence identifying her brother as a participant in the terrible deed .' Had she been his wife, tbe law would have closed her lips as tightly as if sealed by death, but being only his sister hr;r testimony was not debarred by statute. Henry Phillipine went to the Tobique River, in New Brunswick, to catch a tish to feed his starving brothers and sisters. Mr, Howes, of Boston, tired a gun to frighten away the poacher. The next day, Phillipine and some other young men fired at the Howes party, as they say, with no worse intent than to frighten them, but Mrs. Howes was shot and killed. The settlers express their horror at the crime and desire to see its perpetrators punished. At the same time they take advantage of the opportunity to protest against the system which preserves tbe fishing for wealthy aliens and prevents the native population from obtaininj, food for their families. From the .S'im'» account of the tragedy and comments thereon wo learn that the lower part of the Tobii|ue is by no means a wilderness. It is peopled by intelligent and, for the most part, in- dustrious, law abiding settlers, who will compare favorably with any like com- munity in the Maritime Provinces or the New England States. Deeds of violence are practically unknown, though the dwellers along the river bank have pretty strong ideas about " fishing rights," ami bitterly resent the selling of the best pools to "absentee landlords." Much thitt is calculated to deceive the public has been set afloat concerning the fishery regulations and leases. No man is prevented from fishing in what the law prescribes as a legitimate way in front of his own land He can sell that privilege to another as freely as he can sell the right to cut hay or logs on his own farm. There is some un granted crown land on the upper part of the river, from which the local government probably receives fifty to one hundred dol lars a year for the right to catch salmon there, but the chief owner of wild lands is the New Brunswick Railway Land Com pauy, which csntrols the fishing within its territory. The lessees of the several pools combined together this year to rigorously suppress poaching, and have caused notices to be posted all along the river that tres- passers on their reserves will be punished to the full extent of the law. Whether the enforcement of the law has been at all rigor- ous, as compared with former years, isdiffi- oult to determine. There have been some convictions and forfeitures, but it is pretty clear that the poachers have been more soared than hurt. Be that as it may, much ill-feeling has been aroused and sweeping threats have been indal^edin on both sides It is contended that so long as the owners enjoy tbe right to fish in the waters that run through their lands they have nothing to complain of, no matter how the fishing privileges on tbe crown lands are disposed of, and on its face this appears to be a reasnna- sonable contention. But many ot tbe set- tlers do not think so. Said one, in reply to the Sun's inquiries : " The law as it exists has been framed for the protection cf the rich man from tbe States and is intended to prevent the poor residents from catching fish even for their own use. You know very well that salmon are only to be faand in (juantitits in pools here and there along this or any other river. Cast your tly, if you are rich enough to own a proper outfit, for miles and miles and tbe fish will not rise. They are either not there, or if there are intent on making their way along tbe stream. You might waste days and days and not land a single fish. If you want to catch one with the legal apptracns you must go to tbe pools. You are not al- lowed to use a net or a spear even in front of yeur own door to save your ami y from ttirvation. A common book and line will not land a salmon in the same way that ynu catch a sturgeon or a balibat â€" by main strength â€" for the mouth of this fiah ia ao tender that the hook will tear out as soon as any great force ia applied. Vrou most have a forty or fifty dollar outfit, swell rods, reels, lines and ever ao many flies, for the salmon has a very capricious taste. Now how many of ua can alford to put the price of a waggon into fishing tackle that we can only use in front of our own farm, with the possibility of not catching a salmon from one end of the year to the other? The prohibition to use spear and net does not in the least worry the men who are rich enough to lease pools and spend ever so much money for fancy outfitB. The law might with equal fairness prohibit the shooting of partridge or duck except with a gun coating over SIOO. I hold that when men living along a river want a fish they should not be forbidden to feed their fami- lies by means of a spear or net. Prohibit netting and siiearing in the pools or wheru- ever salmon congregate in numbers, if you will, but do not take away all of our anb- stanoe and i;ive it to the stranger. The salmon is a food fish, intended for the use, not amusement, of man. Protect it in every legitimate way for the benefit of the people who pay the taxes and make New Brunswick what it is; bnt do not turn our free countrv into a private pleasure park for the millionaire alien." How Stanley's Kxpe<lltlon Started. Mr. Herbert Ward, the African explorer, met Mr. Stanley and his followers as they were setting out on their present expedi tion. " I never," he says, '• in my life was so struck with any sight as with Stanley's caravan on the march. Egyj't »«», Sou danese, Somalis, Zanzibaris and others, nine hundred strong. It took me two hoars to pass them, and then I met the second in command. Major Barttelot, a young fellow, burnt very dark, with a masher collar fi-\ed on a flannel shirt, top- boots, etc. He was carrying a large buek^t that some fellow had abandoned. ' I say. are you Ward ?' he shouted. ' I am Ward,' I said, ' and I now belong to your expedi- tion.' ' I am very glad to hear it,' he replied : ' Stanley has spoken of yon ; and so you are coming along , that's right â€" very good busineas " He seemed to bet ill of tremendous spirits, looked very tit, and I admired him immensely. Tippoo Tib. the notorious sl>ve trader of Stanley Falls, has come round from Zanzibar with Stanley, and in his silken robes, jewelled turban and kriss, looks a very ideal Oriental potentate. It is thought ' good business,' as Captain Barttelot wouM say. getting him for an ally. He had forty-two of his wives along with him. Some of them are handsome women. One little stout lady, decked out in magnificent costume, appeared to be rather free in her behavior, 1 thought ; she winked at me, decidedly. 1 gave her two fowls, and we parted on a friendly tooting." ^ ^ GlurlUed Splnatara and Batcheloro. As for "tbe Glorified Spinster," we decline to think her glorified at all. She is simply a woman who lives a more or less unnatural life of self dependeooe the degree of tbe uuuaturaluess depending on tbe degree of her self dependence and the completeoeas of the disappearance of that religious devoutness which prevents loneli- ness from degenerating into self-dependence â€"just as a glorified bachelor, if there be such a being, is simply a man «ho lives a more or less unnatural life ot anxiety for himself, instead of tor others, on behalf of whom his nature craves to act. There is no gratification in any kind of mutilation, aud it is as much a mutilation of the femi- nine nature to live the self-dependent life without the power of constantly entering into the feelings and wants of others, as it is a mutilation of the masculine nature to live a life of self-dependence in which there is no large element of constant responsi- bility for the external necessities ot fellow- creaturea. â€" London Sptclator. The Farson Gets In Firstly. " Well,' pleasantly remarked Brother L.oeg, as he greeted the pastor on his return from the long vacation (six weeks is a long vacation for a preacher!, " well, you have coiuo back to work at last. And what do you suppose the devil has been doing all the time you were away on vacation .'" " I don't know." replied the parson, for it was he. " but if he has been any busier in some of the pews than he was before I went away, he needs a great deal longer rest than I've had, aud ho needs it a great deal more, too, poor fellow." And Brother I'oeg forgot what he had intended aaying and couldn't think of anything new until after the pastor had announced the lirst hymn. â€" Deacon Utirdctte. ♦ One Way to Make Money. There are more ways than one of making money, and there is a man in this city wlio i- profiting by one of the other ways. All photographers use a paper impregnated with a silver solution. fhiB man makes periodical visits to the photograph galleries and secures this paper. Ho burns it and refines the ashes, securing quite an amount of silver. His bargain is for '20 per cent, ot the silver produced, and some weeks he eecures over SIOO. It is hard work, but he makes a fair living at it. -Chicago Herald. • The richest and most influential China- man in Chicago ia Hip Lung, the Mayor of the Celestial colony there and the laundry king of the city. He is a little man physi- cally. His fortune amounts to 1200,000. A STKBB ON THE STAIRS. Lots of Kxeitemeut In a itoach Park Fist. Strange noises came from the direction of the front door of '.J 80H South avenue. The second flat is occupied by Mr. andMrs. John Fowler and their son William. Tbe strange noises grew louder. " Burglar," whispered Mrs. Fowler with a shudder. " Nonsense," replied Mr. Fowler, " no burglar would be fool enough to makeancb a racket as that." Mr. Fowler got up and lighted the gas in the hall. Presently Mrs. Fowler heard him say : " Well, I never I" When the gas blazed up Mr. Fowler was amazed to see standiug on the atair^ just below the first turn a large Texas steer, with the back yard gate on one horn and the front hall bat tree on the other. The ateer looked at Mr. Fowler and Mr. Fuwler looked at the steer. The steer seemed to have no explanation to offer as to why he should call at that hour of the night. Bo Mr. Fowler inquired: " What do you want here '? This ia no china shop." The sieer dropped the back-yard gate and shook the hat tree at Mr. Fowler. Then he pawed up a yard or two of stair carpet, and bellowed in a rich baritone voice that awoke everybody in the block. The ateer climbed a atep or two higher. " Shoo I" said Mr. Fowler, #avin(i the front flap of bia nightgown at the animal " shoo ! scat 1 Gat out ; you're act wanted. " But the ateer only pawed up another yard of carpet and shook the hat tree at Mr Fowler. The steer, having recovered his wind, bad made up his mind to come up those steps at ajurap. Mr. Fowler got inside and ahuc tbe door barely in time. The animal knocked, bnt was refused admittance. Then he hung the hat tree on the door knob, pawed up some new carpets, bellowed sonorously and started up the stairs to tbe third flat. Meantime quite a crowd of neighbors had gathered in thii front of the house. Presentlv a couple of men in slouch hats and spurs, Aithcoils of rope in their hands, came up, " Seen anything of a strange steer '''' they inc)uired. " Yuu 11 find him up stairs in that lionse," aaid a bystander. The cowboys dashed np the stairs. They had a rope around his horns in a jiffy, and ha came down humbly enough, 'fhe cow- boys explained that the steer had got away from them at the stock yards. â€" (.'.'iii ii;;o Trthuiiif. Frei»h Frein Vanity Fair. Some charming models in children's head gear are just imported : they are Uirectoire shapes in drawn velvet on silk and nothing more becoming could be devised. Scarlet of a yellow tint is pronounced bad, hence it will not be worn the coming season except by children whose bright complexions will stand such trying color, although by right it ia not at all a child's color. Veronese red will be worn by chil- dren also and with more satisfactory results. Tbe combination of red and purple is not a pretty one, nor is purple and green, yet both will be worn the coming season, and the fashion which sets ita seal upon these coinbiuations is French. Modistea were the first to put theae trying colors together. but now the molistea and milliners both essay to make something stvlish if not very harmonious out of these dillioult sliades. There is an innovation in the folonaiae which is ever a convenient and useful gar- ment. The waist is shirred or amocked and a girdle is worn with it ; the sleeves are of the mutton leg variety and are gathered into a wide oulT of velvet or other trimming; ihe petticoat may be plain or with a shirred rullleon tho edge. .V very pretty model for a young girl is such a costume in a woolen fabric, plaid or plain. NEW COSTUMES FOE BEAUTIES. Some Vi8:oQS of LovelineBB in Frocks. No Lnveter Like Misfortuue. Robert Gi»rrott is the riiTheat patient in the records of lunacy. When you find tbe representative of SlO.OOO.Ol'll in such a sad condition it certainly seems aensational. What an estate to go into the hands of a uuardian ? It may be remembered that Robert Garrett was holding a private con- ference with William H. Vanderbilt at the time the latter died. They were in Vauder- bilt'a oliice, and no one else was present when death seized one of these magnates ot wealth, while the other gazed on tbe scene with horror. Garrett's mind soon after- waril began to fail, and various theories have been advanced. It is well known that they were rivals for tho western tratfic, one representing the Baltimore it Ohio iid theother tbe Central- Uiidsoii. How strange that of theee two contouciiug capitalists the one should be resting in his tomb on Ststen Island while tho other ia in a state of mental eclipse, which to hiin is little better than a living death. Who would have forecast such a fate .' But the great have their share ot misfortunes, aa Shakespeare aa> a ; " Yes. like enou«h lilt;'! bftttletl Ciesar will Uustale his hapi'iliews-aiid tbiUMs outward Do draw their inward tiuality after tlioui To suller all alike." True enough, therais no leveler like mis- fortune, and the loss of reason ia one of tho greatest that can befall anyone of tho race. â€" Macaultty Cor. Rochrgter Democrot. or Couriie He Uad It. Doctor (in passenger car) Is there a gentleman from Kentucky on board? "Yes, sir; I'm from Kentucky.' " Well, there's an injured man in the baggage-car and he needs some liqnor ; let me have a little from your bottle, please." Iiiilopi-ndent ot Marriage. Jack (who haa come into a foitnnel â€" Now tliat I have all this money, Dick, I don't know wiiali to do first. Dickâ€" Why don't you marry? Jack - Never I The fortune has done away with all necessity of marrying. MBS. LANaiRT AND MftS. POTIER ISVE8T A Paria correspondent cables that he in- terviewed Mrs. Langtry in Paris and askeit her about the new dresses which she has gone there to obtain for her next season on this continent. " Are they pretty ': ' queried the correspondent. ••Pretty;' echoed Mrs. Langtry. •â-  Dan' I let me say -ask Worth. I call them frocks : he calls them creations. 1 think he is right. They are very elaborate. •• He comes to me and says, • I will make you one like thia and another like that, and I aay, 'Oh, not another single one.' Then he persists and aays, ' Just let me tempt) you with this,' and he begins to explain and it sounds so nice that â€" well, I find another ' magnificent creation, aa he calls it, added to the list." "Give me an idea of some of theee crea- tions,' please." Mrs. Langtry beamed, for where is the woman worth the name who does not dis- cuss dress with gusto .' '• Well," she replied, " I have frcm fifty to aixty dresses for my now plays. You may imagine, therefore, that it is no easy job to remember e.vactly each dress. la- deed. I have not seen them all, aud a great many more ' creations will be revealed to me next week in Paris. Among tnose I have seen ao far these are the cnea that have taken my fancy most. My favorite is a iliricUnrf style of dress. The skirt is made of white and black embroidery, which is copied from designs in tho Museum in Lyons. 'â- â€¢ Another remarkably beautiful :08tuaie is a ball dresa. The bodioe is white, crossed with a sash like the Order of the Garter. I am to pin all my jewels on thi-^ sash. No. 3, to my mind, in point of lovelinesB ia tu orchid dress, quite a novelty. It was de- signed from lovely, rich orchids. The mast vaporous dresa, as far aa you can imagine, ia made to imitate the delicate dower of pale Ophelia, maavo in the centre, growing darker and darker at ita ends. Let me see again. I have two dresses of a peculiar striped velvet made very simply, after the style worn in Gainsborough'a ilrs. Siddoss in the National Gallery. Cue ia c.d bine and pink, the other pate blue a.^d maize. TEA 'iOWSS roR ST.\<iK VEAi;. " Tea gowns are the thinga nowadays, to mv mind, for the stage. They give freedom of action and are very adaptable to stage surroundings. Felix has made the most lovely tea gowns. One particularly ia re- markably pretty. It is in the Empire style, 'i'he skirt is embroidered in all colors and a deep jewelled belt goes 'round the waist. Another is a pale pink crepe de Chine. The train is attached to one shoulder and one hip. In another the back is of silver gray brocaded plnsh. and the front IS of white and silver silk i;au..e. em- broidered in silver, aud the traiu is bord- deer with the darkest Russian sable. " For a coit 1 have a novelty. It is of chamois leather color, embroidered all over with gold and silver, opening over a waiit- ccat of silver fox fur." ii.is. eorTi;u, riiE new volih I'li.v- TV, is also in Pans, and she told the corres- pondent that when she lauds in New York, at the end of this week, she will wear the latest description of fashiouable costume in the gay capital. It will bo a dress ot rnsaet brown China crepe, which la of all her gowns the most unique and becoming. The lower skirt hangs in simple folds, made rather (uil , the ipper skirt la siiort m front aud made with irrei;ular pleats on tho side, which have no beius, tho tinisb bung raw edge of tho material. The bodice, slightly pleated in the !rai;t and back pieces, is conliued at tho waist by an abHinthe moire ribbon in long ends and loops to the bottom of tho akirt. The neck is festooned with green e hina crepe, around which will be worn a voluminous scarf of the same green color and material. The most remarkable feature of thia cos- tume is the sleeves, which are rather Tur- kish in appearance, but have been named the Capulot. .V hat of brown velvet, made high in front, with a low flat crown, will be worn with the costume. Among the stage dresses which M. Worth uas completed for Sirs. Potter is an evening go*n of brocaded gray silk, with a court tram and an overskirt of white mousseline de sole. The bodice is low necked and the short sleeves are trimmed with a cbifion de mousseline de sole and a long fringe ot silver and steel beads, which hang from beneath tbe arms and reach to the bottom of the waist. One of the most original compositions oE M. Worth for Mrs. Potter is a wrap called the Cora. Two iu this fashion have been made. One is cf absuilhe colored cloth, to be worn with the boy's coatiiiue in • Rosa- lind, " and the other for driving- -is of brown cloth and covers the entire dress similar to an Irish cloak, but dilfering in the shoulders, where, instead ot being full or pleated, it tits snugly anil op.'ns at the left side, with an armlet arranged on tho right. There is a front seam and one on each aide, down which and aronnd tho neck are bands of black and golii galon. A reception dress which Mrs. Potter bears to America is of dark blue velvet and is made very plain. It has no trimmings, with the exception of black jet fringe, which hangs beneath the arms aud around the neck. A Boomerang Ho ( a new arrival at a country hotel, to unknown lady) .\w have you been long a captive in tbia erâ€" menagerie ? She â€" You can hardly call me a captive ; perhaps keeper would bo better, for I am the wife of the showman and have to help feed tbe animals. â€" iiazar. ♦ liev, Mr. Spnrgcou is abont to publish a book entitled "Ihe Cheque Book of the Bank ot Faith." SoiuethlDg Like >• Memory. A writer in tho New York /'/«<« says : " .\. most remarkable instance of memory haa just come to my nutioe. Its possessor is a lady member of L'r. Howard Crosby's c hurch in New York. Without having taken a single note, she will when she goes homo write out every word of her paator'a aermon, and ahe tells mo sho never makes a mistak- of a " tho" or an '• and" that every sentence not only embodies hia idea, but gives it in his exact language. For twenty -five years this laly has been performing these feats of memory, and during that tune she has written out some 2,000 sermons. 1 he iiianiiscripts of some of them she has bound and presented to Dr. Crosby. They make foriy large volumes. When a Cincinnati husband was asked in court if be dragged bis wife out of bed by the hair he sail ho couldn't realty re- member, as that was a very busy morning with him. â€" Detroit b'rce Preti.