TungnvsurnchaAzErrn LONG HAIR FOR MUSICIANS. Its Value Practically Illustrated Through M. Ysaye. “Is long hair an unfailing mark of genius?” The answer is: 1Io,notnec- essarily, but it is certainly a mark of policy. It does not require any pro- found wisdom on the part of a public performer to know that it is better to be talked about for his ugliness or his eccentricity than not to have his per- sonality discussed stall, and if a man lye, so unfortunate as to possess .9. nor- mal face and figure, with the average number of features and limbs, in what « quarter must he look for individuality save in his hair? . 'M. Aime Lachaume, the young French pianist who is this year touring with Rivarde, and who did the same last year with Ysaye, tells how he hap- pened this seasontobloom 0113.11.51 one of the long-haired brethren. When he first came to this count-r3r M.I.achau1:1e wore his hair in every-dayl 'ashion,a 11d also Cultivated a rather tenta.-v. beard. People heard him play, exclaimed: “How unassumingi” went away, and forgot him. Since his court. ‘- sicn, how- ever, the same pcisc us crx: “wIIo hid- eous! but the man is evidently a gen- ius. Bravo!” and they depart. and this time do not forget. It was Ysaye who brought this change about. Last year, in the course of their travels, the two artists found themselves in a. town somewhere in the west. They were sitting in a room to- gether, when Ysaye exclaimed: “It’s no use, Lachaume, I can’t stand that beard of yours any longer; it is too ugly, and it must come off! " “But, my dear man,” answered the alarmed pianist, “I have taken such pains to grow that beard; it has cost me years of labor and anxiety; besides, you know one must have something dis- tinctive about one.” “Yes, of course, I know that, but all you’ve got to do is to let your back hair grow like mine. And there’s no time like the present, either, so you just sit down in that chair there and'we’ll make short work of the business.” No sooner said than done. In a few seconds Lachaume was sitting trem- bling in the chair, while the great Ysaye wielded the razor about his de- voted chin. “In future, my dear boy, use a razor, but never scissors, and you are sure to become famous.”——London Truth. BULLION EMBROIDERY. Little Shops Where Uniforms Are Made - Gorgeous with Gold. One sees from the sidewalk of a quiet street east of Third avenue a big base- ment shop where two or three girls are bending over well-worn embroidery frames. The samples of their work displayed in the windows show that they are making bullion embroidery to decorate the coats or caps of mili- tary oflicers, policemen, and others whose trades or professions require uniforms. There is less to be done in the bullion embroidery trade in this city than in most old world cities, but there is a constant and growing de- mand for the handiwork of the bullion ' embroiderers, and the trade is one that keeps its own in spite of labor-saving devices. Bullion embroidery worked directly upon the stuff of the cap or coat is still the proper thing for the uniformed man who would have all his accoutre- ments right. The embroidery shops are usually little places, and the pro- prietor is sometimes a woman. The frame is a simple device of hard wood, enlarged or reduced in accordance with the needs of the particular piece of work in hand. The embroiderers are usually girls, often very young, though the designers are sometimes men. Embroidery designing is not a very difficult business, because little originality is demanded. since the trade has well-established traditions, and there are plenty of books to guide the designer. There are no new designs to be made in masonic, military or naval emblems, and even the myriad shooting clubs of the German quarter are not likely to require anything that will demand great ingenuity of the em- broidery designer. The girls that do the actual. work of bull1on embroidery are often native Americans, though the trade is mainly controlled by foreigners, French and German for the most part. The par- . ticular shop here indicaied is managed by a Hebrew, and the pretty girls vis- ible from the street as they lean over their work seem to have Jewish fea- tures.-—N. Y. Sun. ‘ , THE QUEEN AND THE “ORB." How the Brave Girl Suffered Silently at the Coronation. At the coronation the ceremonies lasted more than four hours, and throughout the queen played her part with wonderful composure. Care, say: a writer, had been taken to provide a crown suitable for her small head, but no one had thonght about reducing the size of the orb which she was required to carry in her tiny hand. “W hat am’I to do with it?” she asked, in concern. . “Carry it, your majesty,” replied Lord John Thynne. “Am I? It is very heavy,” the queen answered in a tone of amazement. However, it was too late for protest, and she obeyed the exigencies of the situation. A worse- mistake had been made with regard to the ruby coronation ring. The jeweler had made it to fit her majesty’ 5 little finger, whereas the archbishop declared that according to the rubric it must, be put, upon the larger finger, and accordingly forced it into that position. The queen bore her painfully swelling finger with the same heroism that she carried the weighty orb. Afterward the finger had to be bathed in ice water before the ring could be drawn off.—Wcstminster ' Budget. —-The British islands are better pro- vided with rivers than any other coun- try of the same size on the globe. 1 : FIRESIDE FRAGMENTS. -—A little flour dredged over the to; of a cake will keep the icing from run- ning. —-F1uit cake can be preserved for a long time by placing it in a box witi an apple, and keeping in a cool place If the apple shows signs of rotting, i' ‘ must be replaced by a good one. —A most delicious homemade flavor- ing may be prepaied by grating intL one-half pint of alcohol the yellow rinds of four lemons. Shake this daily for three or four weeks, and at the end of that time it will be ready for use. ——A Delicate Pudding. ——Cream a pound of butter and sugar, add eight well-beaten eggs, flavor the mixture with nutmeg. Line a pudding dish with thin puff paste, pour in the pud- ding and set in a very hot oven for ten mi miles. Serve without sauce. —N. Y.1_Cdgcr. -—Baked Ham. —Scak the ham' 1n cold w atei over night; trim, wipe dry, cover it w ith .. paste made of flour and water and ha! :0 in a slow oven. When done, take off the c1 ust and 'peel off the skin; allow to cool, glaze and garnish with can ots and beets cut into fancy shapes. —Iln. pc1's Bazar‘. —l3:11a11:1 Charlotte makes a good desert and one capable of being pre- pared in a hurry. Line the sides of a- quart mold with slices of sponge cake. Correr the bottom of the mold with a thick layer of thinly sliced banana. Fill the mold wit-h stiff whipped cream and set it aside in the ice box until wanted, then remove carefully from the mold and serve. —Apple Rice Pudding—Pare, quar- lcr and core three tart apples and spread loosely in a buttered agate pud- ding dish. Add three-quarters cupful of sugar and three tablespoonfuls rice to one quart of milk; turn the. mixture over the apples, spread a few bits of butter over the tops and bake in a mod- erate oven four hours. Serve hot with sweetened whipped cream.—-Orange Judd Farmer. —Colds, With or Without Fever.— On gong to bed, let the feet and legs be bathed in a warm bath. Drink free- ly of warm, thin gruel or warm weak tea with plenty of milk in it. If there is pain in the head, apply a mustard poultice on the back of the neck until the skin is red and painful. If there is pain in the chest, the side or any part of the- abdomen, put the mustard plaster directly over the painful part until-the same effect is produced.— Liverpool Mercury. A Dangerous Passage in the Rhone. Below Viviels the Rhone breaks out from its broad upper v.A lley into its broader lower valley through the de- file of Donzere. Here the foot hills of the Alps and the foot hills of the Cev en— nes come together, and behind this nat- ural dam there must have been ancient- ly a great lake which extended to the northward of where now is Valence. The defile is a veritable canyon that would be quite in place in Sierra Madre. On each side of the sharply narrow river the walls of rock rise to a sheer height of 200 feet. The rush of the water is tumultuous. In midstream, surrounded by eddies and whirling waves, is the Roche des Angalais, against which the boat of a luckless party of travelers struck and was shat; tered a hundred years ago. Indeed, so dangerous was this passage held to be of old, when faith was stronger and boats were weaker than in our day of skepticism and compound engines,' that it was customary to tie up at the head of the defile and pray for grace to Come through it safely; but nowadays (with the same practical result) they put extra men at the tiller and clap on more steam.——Thomas Janvier, in Cen- ' tury. She Was the First Star. Every now and then an anecdote comes to the front showing that our first president liked the theater as well as do his followers of to-day. The point is mentioned in one of the many the- atrical stories narrated in that new book: “Shakespeare’s Heroines on the Stage.” Says the author of the book: “A Philadelphia Portia of this same season of 1703 and 1794 comes of a noted family, being none other than Mrs. Eliza Whitlock, the sister of Mrs. Siddons‘ and of the Kembles. In Eng- land, at the age of 22, she had made her .London debut as the heroine of ‘Shy- lock’ on February 22, 1783, and, though somewhat masculine in face and figure, yet displayed so animated acountenancc and so graceful a hearing as to win a moderate degree of ‘favor. A few years after coming to this land she enjoyed the distinction of playing the first ‘star’ engagement on the American stage, be» ing engaged for $450 and a benefit to play at the Boston theater in October, 1796. There she repeated her Portia, contending with the remembrance of Mrs. Powell’s impersonation of a pre- vious season. She also had the honor of . playing before George Washington in . ' charged with the magical chemical. Philadelphia.”—'Chicago News. Lord Bramwell’s Piety. The late bishop of Winchester is said to have possessed among his many other qualities that of sarcasm. A good story is told of a retort made to the late Lord Bramwell, who, meeting him on his way back to his room to take off his robes after reading prayers in the house of lords, apologized for having been ab- sent from the ceremony. “When I kneel down it gives me palpitation of the heart,” said Lord Bramwell, “and it would not be respectful for me to sit or I stand while your lordship was pray—' ing.” Bishop Thorold, perhaps know- ing almost as much about the old bar- on’s sanctity gs did Lord Bramwell him- self, answered in measured tones: “Pray do not mention it, Lord Bram- well! I am sure your lordship can be equally devout whether you are stand- .ing, kneeling, or sitting—I will not say lying!” The playful old judge after- ward inquired who had read prayers that afternoon, and, on being told re- marked, with' a sparkle in his eyes: “He’s a sharp fellowl”—Household . Words. FOUND AMONG THE 'RUBBISH. Check for a Fortune That Lay in 8. Wash- ington Storeroom for Months. “lid I ever enlighten you, with the story of a great ‘find’ I once made"” said an old government clerk to a. Post reporter. a day or two ago. “During the war, and for some time afterward,” he said, “Iwasaclerk' 1n the war department. Stanton, as you know, was chief of that office, and a mighty ‘Big Injun’ he was,” put 1n the story teller, by way of parenthesis, “and Lafayette C. Baker, dead now these many years, was chief of the gov- ernment. secret service. In this capa- city he was paramount in authority. He had unlimited power and unlimited means. He could do whatever he pleased with the persons and property ’ of citizens of this great country, and Stanton always sustained him. The arrests and incarcerations in dun geons and jails that were made by his orders were legion, and when he made an arrest he captured all the papers and documents he found on the unfor: tunatc devil’s premises, from a child's primer to a deceased grandmother’s last will and testament. His bureau—- I mean his official apartments were filled to overflowing with books and pa- pers and documents of all sorts that he had seized from persons suspected of _disloyalty. After Baker left the de- partment, after his death, in fact, an immense mass of refuse was gathered up by order of the judge advocate gen- eral and carried into a spare room of the division in which I was employed and literally dumped on the floor, and there they lay for months, bunched up like, well, this bunch of decaying leaves just here at our feet,” said the gentle- man, stirring up the scattered leaves with his foot as he illustrated his simile. “One day I was directed to look into this mass of papers and put them into some sort of shape for examination, wi tl: a view to their final disposition. It was not a part of my current work. It was not thought of sufficient importance for interference with regular duty, but I was to go at it at my leisure, so I oper- ated in a sort of perfunctory way until one day I received a sort of thousand volt shock by finding'in the pile a drai‘ 1; on the Bank of Montreal for 12,000 some hundred and‘odd dollars in gold. This, I assure you, changed the char- acter of the search and made it inter- esting. I, of course, went at once to the chief of my division and startled him with an exhibition of .the wealth lying around loose under his very nose. The chief clerk of the department was made acquainted with the circumstan- ces and the whole matter reported to the secretary. The result of it all was that the bank was communicated with, and it was ascertained that the draft was genuine to the core. The money it called for was still in the bank’s v aults awaiting the order of the ownc1. He, poor fellow, had ‘gone on the journey we all must go.’ He was a Kentucky man, and died. in the old' capitol prison where Baker had placed him. He left children, however, and they benefited by my discovery. And all this is as true as Gospel writ,” said the Post’s informant. .—~ Washington Post. - WATER AND GOLD. The Simple'Process by Which Millions of Dollars Are Annually Gained. It is not generally known, even in Caliornia, that millions of dollars are. annualy taken from rude heaps of base looking quartz by the flowing of water over huge piles of broken rocks that lcontain th precious metal. The proc- ess of robbing the earth of its gold has now been reduced to such a. fine point that the gentle flowing of water over the ore gleans it of its golden treasures, and this works well in cases where the old chloride and other methods are not so useful. The water used by miners in bringing gold from piles. of mineral-bearing quartz is cha1 ged with a simple chemi- cal, which has the potency to dissolve gold and hold it in solution. The spark- ling liquid, which flows over hundreds of tons of quartz, trickles through the mines and seeks its level, laden with gold, is charged with a deadly poison, cyandine of potassium, a drug which ferrets out the minutest particles of the yellowish metal, and dissolves them vats for conversion into refined gold again. The cyanide process is as noiseless. and unerring as the laws of gravita- tion. The method is based on the fact that even a very weak solution of cya- nide of potassium dissolves gold and sil- ver, forming, respectively, auro~pot— assic cvanide and argento-potassic cya- nide. The solution is separated from the solid material, and the gold and sil— ver are precipitated in metallic form. During the last five years the process has been introduced into almost every gold field in California and elsewhere, and more than $20,000,000 has been re- covered by the gentle flowing of waters Precipitation is effected by the use of fine pieces of zinc, so arranged that when the rich waters flow over them the fine gold clusters in rich deposits over the zinc, for which it has an affinity. The gold deposits itself in the form of fine dust on the plates of zinc.—Boston Journal of Commerce. ~ Oscillation for Palsy. People afflicted with shaking palsy are greatly relieved by traveling long journeys in fast trains. The greater the oscillation the better they are. Dr. Charcot, noticing this, has had a. chair made to which a rapid side-to-side movement is given by electricity. The effect is to give a healthy man na’usea, but a palsied patient enjoys it, and after a quarter of an hour in it is a dif- ferent man. He stretches his limbs, loses fatigue and enjoys a good night’s rest afterwards—Chicago Inter Ocean. Not Enlightened. J ohnny—Papa,what do they mean by “preliminaries. 9” Papa—Can’ t you find anything bet- ter to do than reading about prize fighters ?—-Puck. ‘ \. a j“—- ,, MUSIC AND MUSICIANS. from his recent serious illness and has begun his concert tour in Germany. An expedition sent out from St. Petersburg four months ago to collect Russian popular songs in the provinces has already secured over a hundred songs, many of them of great antiquity. Not more than a hundred copies of the full score of Mendelssohn’s “Mid- summer Nig t’s Dream” music, of which the copyright expired recently, had been sold in 50 years, as conductors borrowed the score from one another. Georg Henschel has just had a new piano made from his own designs by Broadwood. The case is of solid oak, the exact shape of a harp; it rests on six columns, connected by horizontal beams, and the pedal rods are concealed between two columns. Lady Macbeth, Verdi, it is said, has undertaken to revise for her his opera of “Macbeth,” which was originally produced in Florence in 184.7. It was greatly changed by the composer 30 years ago for its first performance in Paris, but was not successful then. FOREIGN GOSSIP. The first thimblcs were made in Hol- land. They were brought to England in 1695. A famous oak in Palestine is believed by the simple peasant folk in that coun- try to have been planted by Gain on the day before he killed Abel. Half a pound of dried currants, in lieu of oats, is said to be given to the khedive’s horses in Egypt, and this is claimed to be the secret of the animals’ great endurance. Alcoholism is spreading in France. The consumption of absinthe, a liquor distilled of wermuth (wormwood),pep- perminth, annis and one or two other ingredients, has increased ,seven—fold since 1880. i In the Bohmerwald, near Pilson, two gypsies fought'a duel with knives for a girl in her presence. She looked on the fight with great interest, and with- out interfering, till one stabbed the other to the heart, when she drew a re- volv er and shot the victor through the head. She stayed by the bodies till ar- rested. " . ;'_ LINES OF WISDOM. “rho can refute a sneer? It is inde- pendent of proof, reason, argument or sense, and may as well be used against facts and truth as against falsehood. —- C. Simmons. In the light of eternity we shall see that what we desire would have been fatal to us, and that what we would have avoided was essential to our well- being.——Fenelon. Were any man to keep the minutes of his feeling from youth to age, what a table of variations would they present ———how numerous, 110w diverse. how strange!~Hare. - Not armies, not nations, have ad- vanced the race; but here and there, in the course of ages, an individual has stood up and cast-his shadow over the world—E. H. Chapin. The true past departs not; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die; but all is still here, and, recognized or not. lives and works through endless changes—Carlyle. MY LADY’S GOWN. Jeweled trimming is at its height. It is used for everything, but especially. for‘ evening gowns. Immense cape collars, spreading rev- crs and moderately large sleeves are everywhere seen. Some of the plain rich cloths have a bourette stripe raised in rough lus- trous lines on their smooth surface. Changeable effects in silks, satins, silk and wool mixtures and in fancy, 1 elvets are stillthc very correct fashion, notwithstanding their long limit of favoritism. The jacket with stitched bands sim- ulating box plaits belted in the back, and having open fronts over a fancy \est, retains favor for youthful wear- ers, both here and abroad. This model has full sleeves and two cape collars . edged with narrow fur. and brings the precious burden to the ‘ JOKES ABOUT JAGS. The man who hits the bottle may ex- pect the bottle to hit him.——Dallas News. The man who drinks whisky runs the risk of cultivating a sort of corn-husk- ing voice—Philadelphia Record. With regard to the increased use of strong liquors in cool weather, the ther- mometer may be said to start it by first taking a drop—Philadelphia Times. Manchester——“Young Topington is a hard drinker, isn’t he?” Birmingham —“Not at all. He drinks more easily than any other man I know.”——An- swers. , q De Tanque—“Drunk again, eh! For shame! You dissolute wretch, I blush for you.”—Old Soak—“You (hie) blush f’ me! Ratsh! Your face ish so red wiz rum, blush would’n’ show through.” —-Amusing Journal. SCIENCE OF ALL KINDS. The entomologists have captured and named upwards of 21, 000 varieties of ’ butterflies. The distance to the nearest of the “fixed” stars, as computed by Astron- omer Ball, is 20,000,000,000,000 miles. The mOOn moves 3,333 feet per second, day and night, and always presents the same side to the view of the people on this earth. The snake moves by means of the ribs and the scales on the abdomen to which each rib is attached by a. series of small muscles. In about 22 seconds a drop of blood goes the reund of the body. In about every two minutes the entire blood in the body makes the round through the right side of the heart, the lungs, to the I left side of the heart, through the ar- 5 teries, the veins, again to the heart. Tamagno, the tenor, has recovered THE As Calve is bound to'sing the part of ‘ EVENINQ AZETTE. "-—-—-. ”'T" o—Q<—.~0” -—-< *— =me Eight-Page 01w 0611"- Paper in Gunnecticut SO]. D IN Norwa k South N orwalk East Nora walk, Westport, Saugatuck, NeW Canaan, Darien. Rowayton, and Neroton. No other Paper in Norwalk compares with it for Local and, General News. I Its local news is bright, reliable and well written. Afteri'once reading The Evening Gazette you will be convinced that it is the best evening paper in Western Connecticut, and will take no other. Having a special correspondent in each town, it is en- abled to furnish the latest and freshest news. .. LYICENT. SUBSCRIBE FOR IT. OFFICE OPEN DAY AND EVENING. g3? Ask your newsdealer or newsboy to bring 1b to you for a week. q
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