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PREPAIDS.
From Naples $17
OUTWARDS
To Naples $18
“ Genoa figs “ Genoa? 17
“ Mgssinai‘z‘o “ MeSsina 56
‘* ' “ Palermo 20 “ Palermo 19
TICKETS CAN BE OBTAINED AT THIS OFFICE.
Smart Traveling Gownl.-‘ "'11
The navy and army blue serges, fou-
lards, mohairs, and light-weight cos-
tume cloths are made into stylish tal-
ler-costumes for traveling and general
wear, that hold their own against all
the endless smart and novel gowns
which the present season has produced.
A Clever Ruse.
At Scotch weddings, some years ago,
it used to be the custom to batter the
hat of the bridegroom at he was leav-
ing the house in which the ceremony
took place. On one of those occasions
a newly married couple—relatives of
the bridegroom—determined to - carry
out the Observances of this custom to
the letter.
The bridegroom heard them discuss-
ing their plans, and despatched a mes-
senger to the carriage—which stood
waiting-with his hat some time pre-
vious to his departure.
the hat of a male relative who had
plotted against him—a new silk‘chim-
ney pot of the iatest’style—he prepared
to go out to the carriage. .
No sooner had he, got to the door
than his hat was furiously assaulted,
and almost destroyed. He walked out
of the house amid the laughter of the
bystanders and entered the vehicle;
then,.taking the battered hat from his
head,'he threw it into the hands of its
proper owner, exclaimingz— ’
“Hey, McDougall, there’s your hat!"
and donned his own, amid the cheers of
all present. ‘
Fancy Grenadines.
The fancy grenadines are lovely this
year, as indeed are all the new grena-
dines, for never was there such a won-
derful and‘ beautiful variety. Very
elegant, also, are the silk nets, and dif-
ferent importing houses show different
treatment of these handsome textiles.
At one establishment the black net is
in princesses form, over a sheath~
shaped slip .of cherry-red moire.» At
another noted house the beautiful black
not has a foundation of ivory satin
with bodice trimmings of white lisse
almost covered with black guipure lace
sprays and insertions. A third gown is
decorated" all over with cut jet bow-
knots,_- garlands, arabesques, . and
scrolls.- This gown is made up over
nasturtium, satin, and , the collar and
girdle are of briiant orange velvet.
For Slender Women.
Less of the opaque white fabrics are
shown among the season's patterned
transparents than those; in cream.
canary, and Spanish yellow, willow
green, ciel blue, reseda,.rose, and vio-
let in exquisite tintings. In making up
these textiles the greater portion show
an airy overdress, loose from its gored
underskirt, but united at the top, one
belt holding both skirts. Less diaphan-
one looking toilets for rather stout wo-
men show the outside skirt sewed in
with each gored breadth of the un-
derskirt. The very popular frills and
fiounces must likewise be eschewed and
the narrOW ruche substituted; for none
but tall, slender women look well in
frilled skirts.
Rain Water for Blankets.
A city housekeeper contrives to have
rain water to wash her blankets before
putting them away -for the summer.
She does this by tapping the eaves-
pipe, using a large clean barrel to hold
the water. It should not be put under
during a shower, but after a steady rain
has washed the soot and dirt from the
roof, and the water is flowing clean.
Nothing is better than this kind of
Water for .the blankets. It is easy to
manage their washing at home with a
little care. Some housekeepers put
them in a pair a week, but if an odd
day towards the latter end of the week
is taken, it can ‘all be done at once.
_ The‘Wasp Pest.
This is the moment when in coun.
try homes a little preventive action
will be productive of much comfort in
relation to the wasp pest. These bel-
ligerent little insects have by this time
appeared and located themselves in
their nooks in the crevices of piazza—
railings and stone house foundations.
In one of the tracts issued from the
Entomological Department at Wash—
-'ington, it is advised to watch when the
hole is full at night of the wandering
insects and then pour a generous dose
of chloroform into it. This will ex-
terminate the colony at one blow.
The marine lamprey’s adhesive pow-
er is such that‘121 lb. may be raised
without-forcing it to loose its hold. It
is so tenacIOus of life that its head re-
mains for hours attached to a stone
when its body is severed.
Then donning .
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A Calendar Box. " I
Steamer letters as a fad pure and'L
simple are losing their novelty to the
transatlantic traveller. They'are still
very grateful to the voyager when they
come from his immediate family and
closest, friends, but the wholesale
writing among exuberant young peo-
ple of dozens of scores of steamer let~
ters on the strength of a slightac»
quaintance, has brought the idea into
disrepute. A variation of the custom
was that illustrated the other day in
the going away for a year’s study
abroad of a young woman who re-
joices in the possession of an extended
family circle. Her parents and broth—
ers and sisters arranged a calendar-
box for the voyage, which was taken
on a slow vessel and was to last eleven
days. In this box, committed to the
paid care of the steward, was a gift
for each day of the crossing, the ar-
ticles embodying the fulfilment of
some expressed desire of their recip-
ient. The climax of the treasures, de-
livered the eleventh morning out, was,
a. beautiful cabinet picture of the
young girl’s mother, taken in the gown
and bonnet which she were at the ship,
so that her counterfeit presentment
would appear in this latest and most
familiar guise to the daughter. The
picture was enclosed in a little flat
leather frame that could be easily car-
ried about, and the delighted girl wrote
back that she stepped on foreign soil
hugging her mother’s picture. In def-
erence to the war season, the first day
out, as her young brother wrote in his
note of bestowal, to preserve her pa-
triotism, a pretty silk American flag
was .bestowed. The charm of this
calendar-box, as of any gift, was large-
ly in' the thoughtful care that its con-
tents showed rather than in their
money cost.
New Ideas.
A new riding cushion for bicycles has
been designed to attach to the body of
the rider and inflate to desired degree
of hardness. ’
A French woman has patented a
scrubbing brush which is to be attach-
ed to the shoe by straps and a heel
plate, thus making it possible to clean
floors while standing upright.
The handle of snow shaving brush
is hollow and contains a stick of soap,
which is forced into the bristles by a
spring and discharges a small quantity
when the brush is dipped in hot water.
Russian Don Cossack regiments are
now, being drilled in crossing rivers on
a novel sort of improvised bridge.
Seven or eight lances are passed be-
tween the handles and tops of a dozen
cooking kettles, and are held firmly in
place by the handles, and are besides
tied together by forage ropes. A dozen
bundles of these lances fastened togeth-
er form one section of a raft or floating
bridge, which, it has been found, will
support half a ton of weight. A sec-
tion can be put together in twenty-
five minutes.
Blue Lawn Shirt Waist.
A simple shirt waist for a young girl
may be made of light blue lawn. This
waist, is made without a yoke and is
adorned- with groups of tucks, running
up and down. the corsage. Two
groups of three tucks trim the top of
the sleeves, which are the regulation
shirt sleeve pattern. A standing col-
lar, white accordion pleated tie and a
black satin ceinture gives the finishing
touch to this pretty waist.
The most attractive point about the
blouses and shirt waists this season is
the diversity of ties which may be
worn with them. Besides the stiff As-
cots and four-in-hands there are all
manner of fluffy ties of net and mous-
selaine which tend to give a dressy
finish to the plaifiest waist.
Plain and Embroidered Linen Waist.
' A novelty in blouses is composed of
plain and embroidered linen and trim-
med with ribbons. It is cut low in
the neck to wear over a guimp, and
fastens invisibly under a shield of
plain cadet blue linen, in the front.
The guimp of finely tucked white
lawn has a high stock collar. The re-
mainder of the corsage, the sides and
back, are of the embroidered linen,
made slightly full over a tight fitting
lining. Two straps of blue velvet rib-
bon extend from the under arm seam
and terminate beneath the shield. A
ceinture of velvet encircles the waist
finishing at the left side beneath a
large rosette. The sleeves are of the
plain linen.
Spinach.
Boiled spinach is a vegetable for all
housekeepers to order during the
spring as it is a very excellent blood
purifier. Prepare it as follows: Take
a peck of washed spinach picked from
the stalks, shake dry and put into a
saucepan without water, add a little
salt, and let it cook for about a, quarter
of an hour. Then take up, pour into
a colander. preSs dry, turn on to a
board, and chop very finely. Have a
clean sauce-pan ready, put the chopped
spinach into it, ,season with pepper,
salt, and add a lump of butter. When
all is hot, set in a hot dish and serve.
Why “'12 Are Right Handed.
Primitive man being by nature a
fighting animal, fought for the most
part at first with his great canine
teeth and fists, till the process of time
added to those early and natural weap-
ons the further persuasions of a club
or shellelah. ' _
He also fought, as Darwin has con-
clusively shown, in the main for the
possession of the ladies of his-kind
against other members of his own sex
and species.
And if you fight you soon learn to
protect the most exposed and vulner-
able portion of your body, or, if‘ you
don’t, natural selection manages it for
you, by killing you off as an immediate
consequence.
To the boxer, wrestler, or hand—to-
‘hand combatant, that most vulnerable
portion is undoubtedly the heart. A
hard blow, well-delivered, on the left
breast, will easily kill, or at any rate,
”stun a strong man. Hence, from an
early period men have used the right
hand to fight with, and have employed
the left hand chiefly to cover the heart
and to parry a blow aimed at that
specially vulnerable region. And when
weapons of offence and defence super-
cede mere fists and teeth. it is the right
hand that grasps the spear or sword.
while the left holds over the heart fox
defence the shield or buckler.
From this simple origin, then, the
whole vast difference of right and let.
in civilizedlife takes its beginning. At
first, no doubt, the superiority of the
right hand was only felt in the manner
of fighting. But that alone gave it a dis-
tinct pull, and paved the way at last
for the supremacy elsewhere.
For when weapons came into use,
the habitual employment of the right
hand to grasp the spear, sword, or
knife, made the nerves or muscles of
the right side far more obedient to
the control of the will than those of the
left.
The dexterity thus acquired by the
right-see how the word “dexterity"
implies this fact—made it more natural
for the early hunter and artifice: to
employ the same hand preferentially
in the manufacture of flint hatchets,
bows and arrows, and all the other
manifold activities of savage life.
And to- the end the right hand re-
mains especially “the hand in which
you hold your knife;" and that is ex-
actly how your children to this day
decide the question which is which
when they begin to know their right
hand from their left for practical pur-
poses.
A Lovely Folding Sachet.
Many pretty pieces of fancy work can
be done by the woman with deft fin-
gers during the warm weather. A
pretty fashion is to- have a folding
sachet nearly as bag as the width of
the bed, laid at the foot to put a night
sachets'are decorative an‘ are often
most elaborate.
The accompanying sketch represents
one made of pale blue satin, embroider-
ed with marguerites, field flowers and
grasses, a silk cord and lace rufile mak-
ing the finish. Some dainty orris
powder is the best scent for such a pur-
pose and makes a lovely sachet.
He Had a Great Scheme. '
He was enthusiastic. '
“Talk bot your gold mines!” he
said. & I
His ey rkled, and he showed the
must intense excitement.
“Speaking of Klondyke!” he exclaim-
ed. “Dic'ussing the diamond fields of
South Africa! Referring to a corner in
tea! I have a scheme that will make
them all look small! In the first place,
I will induce meteorological authorities
to go into partnership with me. All
they will have to do will be to give me
advance information in regard to the
weather.”.
“What do you want with that?”
“Why, you’ve noticed the kinds of
wind that we get here every little
while, haven’t you? Some of them are
regular twisters, aren’t they?‘ If your
hat gets away from you it is likely to
travel four streets before it hits the
ground, and a sheet of paper may land
anywhere within a. radius of eight
miles."
“True enough, but what of it?"
“Why, I can arrange with the me—
teorological people to get advance tips ‘
of such storms. It is my intention to
' establish a circular-distributing agency
mack Net Visiting Toilet: 9
One of the many fashionable mater-
ials which has made '
this season is black net, and nothing
makes a prettier gown.
An elegant visiting toilet is made of
black Brussels net, combined with and
made over an exquisite shade of pink
silk. The bodice is quite intricate, be-
ing alternately net and silk, the latter
material Shirred. The sleeves are of
the plain taffeta with gathered epau-
its appearance _
lets over the shoulders. A belt of
black velvet encircles the waist, while ,
the collar is of silk. The skirt is a
continuation of the corsage and is fin- ,
ished at the base with a deep fiounce
of the net. .
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The oldest piece of wrought iron in
existence is believed tc be a roughly-
.fashioned sickle blade :lound in Egypt,
It' is now in. the British Museum, and it
is believed to be‘ nearly. 4.000 years old.
and do away with the expense of the
ordinary human distributors. 'Talh
about bonanzas!"
India Silks Fashionable.
The pretty silks printed in small
Pompadour designs are hardly to be
called India silks, although they cer-
tainly very closely resemble the fine,
light~textiles from that far-off coun-
try. However, whether they come
from India or Indiana, Palestine or
Paterson, they are dainty, durable, and
firm in texture, and made up in the
prevailing styles, which render them
suitable for nearly every possible oc-
casion. They will be very fashionably
and comfortably worn throughout the
entire summer and autumn.
Siberia is an empire in itself. There
have been discovered along its line ,of
road 54 bituminous coal-fields,,20 gold,
{0 copper. and 2 silver deposits. »
CURRENT COMMENT.
Twelve girl friends of the bride at
a Kansas wedding supplied the music
by whistling the Wedding Mar‘ch. And
HOMES we are pleased to add, was
rude enough to remark about crowing‘
hens. .
France hashad thirty-six ministries
in less than twenty-eight years, and
so many Cabinet crises that the
count has been'lost. The chief quali-
fication for keeping up with French
politics is activity.
An American flag, with eighty-three
stars, which floats over a tug in New
York harbor has a history. Each star
stands for a life saved by Captain
Grace, commanding fae boat, during
the forty years he has served as cap-
,Maceo, the great Cuban leader, died
too soon. He rode all over the island,
pretty much at his will, with less than
a thousand troopers; He outwitted,
outflanked and, when it was neces-
sary, outfought the Spaniards at ev-
ery turn. He would have laughed at
the idea of mars-balling 100,000 sea-
soned troops to ‘drive the Spaniards
off the island.
“Old Ironsides" may be called our
luckiest as well as most famous bat-
tle—ship. In her hardest fight, that
with the new British frigate Java in
1812, she lost but nine killed and
twenty-five wounded; though the total
loss on her adversary was 161. In
destroying the Guerriere, Cyrene and
Levant, the Constitution’s casualty list
was eight killed, seventeen wounded,
while that of,the defeated vessels was
fifty killed, 105 wounded. The Lon-
don Times said in 1813: “The fact
seems but too clearly established that
the Americans have some superior
mode of firing.”
The Society for the Preservation of
Historic Places and Objects wants to
have the railway stations of this State
beautified. It points out that “the
avenues of steam traffic through the
cities and villages of the State are, in
the nature of things, almost invariably
bordered by unattractive ’conditions,
which, unless counteracted by more
agreeable surroundings at the halting
places of trains, create in the minds
of the traveller an unfavorable. im-
pression of the community through
which he is passing.” .So far so good,
but wouldn’t it be better for the so-
ciety to begin by attending to the ugly
adverisiug signs that border the
tracks?
The announcement that Hayti has
decided to live up to her agreement
regarding the taxation of Americans
within her borders must be taken to
mean far more than appears on the
surface. To be sure. it is an important
success for the American Minister,
Powell, to secure rights for which
this country has been working for
years, and by which our citizens re-'
ceive the same treatment at the hands
of the Haytian Government that is ac—
corded to citizens of that land. This
was a diplomatic victory, but those
who have watched the course of
events in the Black Republic are set-
isfied that had Commodore Dewey’s
squadron met 'with a reverse instead
of a complete success the news from
Port on Prince would have been far
different.
Our diplomatic relations with Hnyti
are of a peculiarly intimate character.
The treaties between the two coun-
= tries practically make Hayti an ally in
, time of war, and when the President
I of that republic thinks, be generally
'turns his face toward Washington.
5 These relations have been solidified by
years of honorable and friendly deal-
ing, both politically and commercially.
When, after the blowing up of the
Maine, war between Spain and this'
country became imminent it was an
open secret that Hayti strongly fea-
vored the renunciation of her treaties
with us. Not that she was against
our cause, but because she desired to
assume a more neutral attitude to-
ward -the belligerent powers. There
was perhaps a feeling of pique that
this country had not interfered in her
little affair with Germany. In any
event, her executive objected to stand-
ing in the light of an ally of this coun-
try. Definite action was postponed
from time to time, and now comes the
announcement that Hayti has con-
ceded fihe only point that she has ever
contested in the treaty.
A lump of sugar is a mighty small
thing. It takes 100 to make a pound,
which we can buy from our grocer
for 7 cents. The anual consumption
in flie United States is 1,500,000 tons.
equal to 3,000,000,000 ‘ pounds and
worth at retail $210,000,000. The
Sugar Trust pays 12 per cent. on $36,—
968,000 of common stock and 7 per
does a business of over $100,000,000 a
year. Its profit on refined sugars is
less than 1 cent a pound, a’ccordingto
Mr. John E. Scarles, its treasurer. As
the total - dividends on the capital
stock amount to only $7,023,920, and
the trust is said' to be lending $30,000,.-
000 on call, there must be a good-sized
+melon to cut somewhere.
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tain and pilotron the river and Sound. ‘
cent. on $36,968,000 of preferred. It"
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