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YOL. IIT. ST. HELENS, COLUMBIA COUNTY, OREGON, SEPTEMBER 8, 1882: NO. 5.

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A singular life history was involvedin an adjudication filed yesteiday byJudge Ashman, of the Orphans' Court, inthe estate of John Naulty, deceased. Mr.Naulty was widely known in businesscircles in North and South America, andin Europe. He died at Buenos Avers inJanuary, 1S7U, leaving an estate valuedat! 8."00',000. lie came to this countryfibm Ireland about sixty years ago. Hewas a boy seeking his fortune. He ap-prenticed himself to a tanner in thiscity. Before he was of ag his masterfailed. His niiis'er conceived the idea ofgoing to South America to engage in thetrflio in hides and wood. Young Naultyaccompanied him. When Naulty camebtck to New York he said that he hadbejen successful beyond his hopes. Hedeposited as a nest egg $50 of his savingsarid went South again with a decentworking capital. He engaged in thework of. cattle-raising- and wool andhide exporting. In time he purchased aalieep ranch in Buenos Ay res, miles inextent, and employed a Philadelidii.into superintend ihe the rearing of hisHocks. 'His brother Domnick, and hismother arrived in this country about VIyears after John. The latter, who wasthen growing rich, sc--nt a generous draftto his brother, with instructions to buy

home for his mother.. A Lome waspurchased in West Philadelphia, andDomnick and his mother lived there to-

gether until a few years ago, when Mrs.Naulty moved to Greensburg, where shedied, in her ninety-sevent- h year.

John Naulty came North only at inter-vals of years. He did not remain in thiscity at any time for a longer period thanfour months, except during the Centen-nial year. He quietly purchased con-sidera- blj

real estate here, that now hasgrown to be worth about $70,000. Heacquired consideiable property in NewYork, also in other cities. He madefrequent trips to Europe, both for busi-ness and pleasure. He was identifiedwith the house of S. B. Hale k Co., andhis visits North were frequently to con-sult them. His bankers were W. W.DeForest Co., of New York, to whomjhesent large sums for investment. At thetime of his death they held in his name$120,000 in government securities. Hewas a man of great reticence, and few-wer- e

acquainted with Lis affairs. Heconducted all his business matters, how-ever, with the nicest method and thesuA&i fccruuulous regard for right. Whenhe lav upon his death-be- d lie Raul: "Iowe no man a dollar, save for service inthis last illness."

He lived altogether in Buenos Ayresabout 41 years. He had no relativesthere, but many friends, and he alwaysspoke of it as home, and even when here,with his mother arid among his kindred,longed to get back. He was never mar-rie- l,

but his life was not without its epi-sode cf love. Years ago he edncated abeautiful girl who was to be his bride.He sent her abroad to the finest sehoolslShe ripened into an accomplished as wellas beautiful women. Then he came toclaim fulfillment of her promise. Hishair was gray; he might have been hisaffianced's father. His bride-elec- t couldnever fulfill her pledge. She had metanother, younger, fairer. She had fallenin love with him. She was to marry him,though he had not a dollar. The oldman gave up all his claim. "Marry," hesaid, "and God bless you." When hiswill was opened the name of the bride,whom he had educated for another, wasfound there, kindly remembered. .

He was wandering always. He wasshipwrecked many times. He lost aswell as made fortunes. In a letter toMrs. William Conn, a cousin, to whomhe was much attached, he once wrote: "Iam sitting upon the shore at Montevideolooking at a ship and cargo, in whichmy all is invested, burning to the water'sedge. Some drunken sailors have reck-lessly caused this disaster. If my insurances in London have not been elfectedthen I (to not own the coat on my back."The insurances, however, were all right,and the rnin which seemed to bepending was averted. Once he wasstricken down in the streets of BioJaneiro with typhoid fever. He wasknown to no one. Charles J. Harrah, ofthis city, happened to be in the city, andlearning that the stricken man was anAmerican or a European hastened to hisassistance. He learned the sick man'sname from a bill of exchange which hefound in the man's hat band. The billwas drawn on au English bank, andcalled for A'COOO. Mr. Naulty was re-moved to a hospital and nursed back tohealth by bisters of Charity.

Upon his last visit to Philadelphia hedeetz-oye- d three basketsful of letters thegathering of ."0 years. Among themwere notes for thousands of dollars thathad become outlawed, ire was suffer-ing then with softening of the brain.His memory was becoming impaired.Mrs. Conn, at whose house he was stay-ing, begged hiai not to go South again."But I must go," he said, "I want tosee my friends again; jmost settle . up my affairs,""And you will come back when!" "Icannot say; perhaps soon. How muchI have traveled! I have still a long voy-age, and I cannot tell what is before me."He sailed on his 63d birthday in a furi-ous storm. The voyage was unusuallylong, and when Mr. Naulty arrived atBuenos Ayres his health was shattered.He recovered somewhat, but soon de-

clined again, and in a year he died. Hewas buried in Buenos Ayres.

He had made a will in this city, dis-posing of his North American property.He wrote it Himself, and-- a wrangle fol-

lowed on the question of interpretation.A duplicate was found in his trunk,that was more clearly stated, and helpedto secure an adjustment of the difficultyby compromise. After a number of in-

dividual bequests, the property is given

to Domnick Naulty. The will disposingof the South American estates was writ-ten by a notary in! Spanish. It gave thobulk of that estate to Mr. Naulty 'saiother for life. She, at her death, gaveit to her son Domnick. De Forest k Co.were made distributors of John Naulty'sproperty. Tho question before JudgeAshman was as to! whether the estate inNorth America was liable to collateralinheritance tax. After reviewing all thecircumstances and considering the tech-nical questions that arose, tho judge de-cided in the negative. Tho estate inBuenos Ayres hasjnot been settled.

Farmers Years A so.rjftyFifty years ago farmer depended al-

most entirely upon the products of theirfarms for the supply of their tables, andlargely for their clothing. A writer inthe Boston Journal .thus sketches theraising of the raw material for garmentsand the process of manufacturing themat the farm housed

Every farmer kept a Hock of sheepand wool constituted a large proportionof the clothing of the family. It wascarded, spun and woven at home, andmade into garments for both sexes. Thebest clothes for the men and boys wereniade of what war called "fulled cloth."

This was made; at home of the liuestmaterial, and taken to the mills known as"fulling mills'wbere it was put througha process of thickening, dyeing aud fin-

ishing. The women used to wear gownsof cloth called "pressed woolen."

This was simply home-mad- e flannel,taken to the mills above named and therepressed so as to present a glossy surface.

Every farmer had a small patch of tlax.This was pulled and spread out in rowson the ground, f "rotted," ami then"broken" and "swinged," and was thusprepared for the combing, carding, andthe "little wheel,' as the machine wascalled on which the tlax wrs spun, todistingnish it from the larger machine forspinning wool. j

It was woven into cloth for table-cover- s,

toweling, sheeting and shirting. Tho"tow," gwb ich was the coarse portioncombed out on the "hetehel," was spuninto a coarse yarn,! of which a cloth wasmade for Summer Uuits for men and boys.

The tow skirt, so commonly worn, waswhen new, an instrument of torture tothe wearer, as it was full of pricklingspines left fioui the woody part of thestalk.

The tailor of tie I days, with hisgoose, traveling fro ouse to house tomake ap the clothes, "or tho men andboys or to cut and..Jt them for thegossiping "tailoress" to complete is notknown to the present generation.

IMsjdpated Mies.

"Them ar flies is old topers, ever oneof em said a Dock street beer-arawe- r.

as he handed over a glass of the foaminsrbeverage to a thirsty reporter everynewspaper office has a thirstv reporter.

IPS, tuey are topers, ne spoke up, ashe drew the reporter's attention to aswarm of flies that were regaling themselves in a trough from the drippings ofa 6pigot. "Now, what I tell you is thetruth; them ar' 11 ids drink a pint of beerevery day, and then they g.j aud s )berup. See that netting over those pictures?Well, the flies come down and fill up; thenthey shut one eye like a drunken fellowgoing for j lamp post, and start for thatnetting. Sometimes they don't make it,and fall to the iloor, where they lieuntil they sober up. You're laughing,"put in the bar chemist. "I am not," re-plied the reporter; "I am .taking it allin." "Well, they stick their feet in theholes in the mosquito retting, and sorto' tangle their legs around it. You seethey feel prett' limber, so 'taint ,notrouble, and,, theyj hang till the buglepasses out of their heads. That's so.' Doj'ou know I've . got jan idea some of thosepesky dies go out aud bring in theirfriends? Them flies drink a pint of beera day; that's over a gallon a week. Nowthere's over a million flies on thatnetting how much does it take to makeeach one tight? Here's a slate," and thebeer slinger handed it to the reporter tofigure it out. Just then the clock struckfour, and ten thousand of the topersstarted to the beer 'trough with a whirr,to take a nip before supper. Some ofthem drank long and deep, and then layupon their backs and kicked vigorongly.

f Philadelphia Record.Sanitary I spection of House.

Lewis Angell, Sanitary InspectorWest Hum, in Essex, an outlying dis-trict of London, says, in illustration ofthe prevalence of j sanitary defects evenin the best houses,! and of the need ofthorough inspection, that in the civicpalaces of the Lord Mayor of Loudon,"three quarters of j an inch of floatingfungi scurf was recently found on thesurface, and three-eight- s of an inch ofmud at the bottom ;of the cistern, while abottle of water on his lordship's tablecontained hundreds of nematoid worms."Offensive mud arid animal organismswere also found in! the cistern of theAthenjoum Club, St. James. We habit-ually defv disease) when we leave thedoors of our closets open and the window j

shut. The reverse: ought to be the prac-tice. He believes j that sanitary scienceshould be put on a par with literary andmathematical studies in the schools, andtnat public and official inspection shouldbe provided for everywhere, the expensein the cate of new buildings to be metby f ?es charged upon the owners andbuilders, who expect to derive a m-of- it

from them. He commends what hasbeen done in Chicago in the official in-spection of tenements, aud the official

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the importation of j foreign wares. The j

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A Ba3 Scrape.

One of the most terribly awful thingsthat ever was occurred .Friday at theSunday-scho- ol picnic giVen at; Boyle'sGr jvp, west of the city. It was a warmday and everybody wore as few clothesas decency and health would permit.One couple from this city went to thepicnic all bedecked in their spotlesslinen, swiss, etc. In some unaccount-able way the couple very nice couplethey are, too strayed a little ways offfrom the rest of the flock and sat downupon a log and looked at tho cows anddandelions, and talked about what kindof a house they were going to have whenthey got married. All went as merry asa sleigh bell at a ehmvari until a bigred-heade- d ant crawled down the girl'sback, just where she couldn't reach him.When first she felt the sensation shethought it was the strong arm o! theyoung man beside her, and she didn'tkick. Presently it dawned upon herthat it might not be her beau, whom shesuspected was trying to keep her fromfalling by holding hia arm about hergentle waist, so she looked around. Thehorrible truth flashed upon her and shebegan to squirm and scream. The youngman was of conrse very much frightened,thinking, perhaps, she had seen a mouseand, would faint on his bands. Betweenscreams she told him what ailed her.Here was the ticklish point what wouldhe do? He could not leave the dear girlto tho mercy of the ant and listen to herpiercing shrieks, nor did he feel like ram-ming his hand down liex back and haul-ing up the dread monster by the fetlock,but something had to be done, and veryquickly, too. Pulling olf his coat androlling up his sleeve he made a dive forthe enemy lurking in the ambush, andlunching off a choice spar rib. He suc-ceeded in ripping tho lady's garmentsfrom Gehenua to breakfast on the firsteffort. After a protracted chase, andjust as he was about to give up in de-spair he espied the animal, and the wayhe slapped it against her architecturenearly paralyzed the frame-wor- k. Theblow was hard enough to have knockeda pound of Peoria butter off its feet. Ofcourse the ant was ready to bo laid outaud kiln-drie- d in j

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or palmed off for reasoning infruit cake. It made its-mar- in theworld and left it upon t e back of itslast sad resting place. The unhappypair fixed up the maiden all forlorn thobest they knew Low and started forhome. When they reached tho camp,the other picnickers all looked' suspi-ciously and wise at them. Some evenwent so far as to say, "Cow hooked you,or did you stumble over a blackberrypatch ?" Others wondered if tnev hadn'tbeen struck by a cyclone, or tried to fallup a tree. When the girl's mother cameto tne iront sue wanteu to Kin tne youngman, and chased him 11 over tho grovewith a piece of custard pie, and wouldn'tlisten to an explanation. Whv shechased him we can't guess. That youngman s life has been a burden to him eversince, and when he sees anybody coming he looks wild out of his eyes andtalks mad, and shrinks away like a friskycreditor. He says that if he ever goes toanother picnic he hopes that he willknow it, and if his girl was being swal-lowed by an ant he wouldn't pull herout to save her life. She says that heryoung life has been blasted like an earlytomato, and tnat she is going to Normal,or curl up and die. Bloomingtou Eve

In- - us (r al Education.T a n r--i irouneen years ago Ji.zra a

wealthy resident of Ithaca, N. Y. .found-ed Cornell University. He was a self- -made man, and his main object in estab-lishing tho institution was to providepoor young men with the means of get-ting an education. Many of his planswere visionary, but there was nothingtheoretical in the establishment of a vol-untary labor system, by which thosewithout funds earn enough, in theirleisure during the term and in the longsummer vacation, to pay for their tui-tion and board. The standard of admis-sion was low;?r than at the other collegesand a wide' liberty was given to the stu-dent in the choice of especial studies.Dormitory buildings were provided forthose who chose to reside on tho Univer-sity grounds, but the student was al-

lowed some what of the freedom givento the German undergraduate and couldlive in the town if he desired. Work waspaid at a low rate, but any vouth with astrong physique could earn enough tosupport himself.

The opemnx? year of the Universitywitnessed a largo number of students,the majority being of slender means andcompelled to work for their support.Tuition was nominal, only $30 a year,while food was cheap. There were ex-cellent profess .rs, many of whom adopt-ed the German system of lectures, inpreference to the" old-tim- e method oftext-boo- k recitation. There was mnchlife, vigor and enthusiasm in the work.Gradually the character of the studentschanged. More of the wealthy classapplied for admission, and the formersimplicity was lost Manual labor fellinto disrepute ; the University farm lan-guished ; women were admitted to theinstitute aud granted equal privilegeswith the men ; many gifts were receivedfrom generous men', but nearly all werefor buildings and equipments very fewfor the endowment of professorships.The founder's endowment compriseduieny umi.er laiuiin ine west. wiiicn

or several yearsthe University was financially crippled.and great parsimony was shown in thepayment of professors. Many of the bestmen left, and their places were filled bytutors fresh from their studies. The costof tuition was raised from $30 to $75 peryear, and the voluntary labor system wasdropped. The number of students hadbeen steadily declining, and these tneas--

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tires, so alien to the spirit of the found-er's plans, served to swell the defection,until now the number of students is notnear so large as it was twelve years ago.To-da- y the institute is in good financialhealth ; it is very wealthy and has manyrich friends ; it has many fine col-lege buildings ; but 11 these do not saveit from failure in carrying out the found-er's plans.

It may be that other causes are respon-sible for this decline, but to any casualobserver these three are evident; neglectof the labor system, advancing the coatof tuition and raising the standard of ad-mission. Coeducation has no doubt hadits share in driving away the very menfor whom the college was foupded. Thepractical results have been that tho in-

stitution is coming every year to morenearly resemble Harvard and Yale, andto show a wider divergence from thoplans of its founder. It costs more inevery way to live there and to get an ed-ucation, while the means of self-suppo- rt

are less. If the endeavor is to make thecollege take rank with the older institu-tions in scholarship, the result is a suc-cess. If it is to help poor students andto make the college distinct from allother Eastern colleges, the result is adead failure. The vice of the older col-leges in this country is the fostering ofextravagance. No young man of limitedmeans succeeds at Harvard or Yale as hewould at a German university, wherescholarship is the sole criterion. It maybe said that it is foolish for a poor boy tofeel the covert sneers of his wealthiercomrades, but youth is not philosophi-cal. It is greatly impressed by associatesand surroundings. In an atmosphere ofwealth Spartan virtues languish. Nocollegian is at ease in satinet where nine-tent- hs

of his comrades wear broadcloth.He may start out with the highest aim ;

lie may even complete his college courseas laid down at the beginning, but. hewill be heavUy handicapped, and he willnot do so good work nor develop into sorobust a man as he would had his atmos-phere been one of genuine literary cul-ture, and his companions men of simplotastes and small means.

It takes very little observation to seethat this growing taste for luxury is bar-ring out from.our colleges the sons ofworkingmen. It is advancing the gradeof scholarship and making a distinctivelyeducated class; but, in a country likethis, the work is done at too heavy acost. A day has not yet come in Amer-ica for a class like the English gentry.The longer the simple, wholesome vir-tues of our forefathers can be retained,the better for all classes. The value ofan institution such as Ezra Cornell at-

tempted to establish is that it sought todemonstrate that a man could be edu-cated and yet work with his hands. Itsought to provo that the educated me-chanic is a better workman than the un-

lettered mechanic, that the scientificfarmer has a great advantage over thoaverage agriculturist, and above all, thatthere is no shame and no reproach inmanual labor. Properly carried out.such an institution would do good workin discouraging the prevalent maniaamong young college graduates for en-tering the so-calle- d learned professions.It would demonstrate that a tirst-rat- a en-gineer or machinist, a skillful worker inwoods or a trained farmer is of far morevalue to the community than a lawyer orpreacher, of infinitely more value than aspeculator, a middleman, or any of thegreat class of non-prouuce- rs wnicn isgrowing every year. S. F. Chronicle.

Hints lu Hegarrt to cho

Dr. Lincoln, of New York, in a pam-phlet recently published, gives practicalrules for the heating, lighting and venti-lation of each type of school house, withillustrations of the faults that can becorrected, as well as those that are mat-ters of construction. Some of" his suggestions are of general practical applica-tion, and notably his advice to look afterthe cellar, for the purity of honse airdepends largely on the purity of cellarair, and the danger of severe sudden ill-

ness lurks in cellars a? often as in thesewers.

One advantage of frequent rests inschool work, with young children atleast as often as ten minutes in everyhour, is that then the windows can beopened, the children exercise in lightgymnastics, and fresh air and fresh ac-tivity, mental and physical, would allcome together. Children cannot be treatedin the mass, for individual peculiaritiesare mucn more important elements intheir training and development. Afterall that is possible has been done inbuilding, still much remains for theteacher to do, in order to find out exactlyhow far there are among her pupils thoseexcept:onal cases, both in matters oftemperament and intellect, which need aspecial consideration.

Particular care should be taken thatchildren are not punished for failure toconform to mere disciplinary rulej,whilethe limit of hours of mental applicationshould be under than over theaverage. An average cnild ol six snouidno more keep the same school work as anaverage child of twelve, than the samepower should be expected from an en-gine of fifty-hors- e power and another ofdouble its capacity. .

Hie Reason Why.

"Patsey, mo darlint, where do ye wishto be buried when yez are dead?" askeda sobbing wife of her dying husband.

"Down in the Jew's cemetery," camethe faint and strange answer.

"Ohone! an are yez gone crazy rn-toirel- y,

Patsey? An' why do you wantto be buried there?"

"Because, Biddy,, the divil bad cessto him wouldn't think of lookin' for anIrishman in a Jews' buryin ground."

A man on theTshady side of life likesto walk in the sun.

Man ana Ills Buttons.

Did you ever see a man in the solitudeand privacy of his study attempt to sewon a button by himself ? Iflsinall its de-tails one of the most interesting perform-ances in the world. First, he hunts fora button. Generally to seenre it 1 e robsPeter to pay Paul, and cuts one from another garment. --This button may bemuch larger or much smaller than thesize he is wearing. Next he hunts a needie. Probably lie goes ont and buys apaper! of needles. He always choosesthe largest needles, having an ,

impression that large needles will sew strongerthan small needles. As to thread r hegets the coarsest he can find, and this hedoubles. He would thread his needle.He takes his needle in one hand and hisooarse( black thread in the other. Hebites off the thread to the desirablelength. Then he tries to twist it to a finepoint. Generally in this he succeed inmaking two and sometimes three findpoints: out of one end. Of course hecan't get all these points through theneedle's eye at once. He tries hard tomake that needle and . thread geton frieudly terms with each other, butIhey won't. They don't want to get ac-

quainted. They do not wish to have any-thing to do with each other. Sometimesit is the needle that kicks; sometimes thethread. Sometimes he imagines he hasreally threaded his needle. It is anocular, delusion. The thread has missedthe needle's eye by half an inch.It is ! harder work than sawingwood. ! At last the needle is threadel.!Now ne tries to sew the button on with-out taking his trousers off. This provesa failure. He twists himself into an un-comfortable position, and so would sew.But he can't sew so. He runs the needleinto himself. And the contrary threadalways insists in fouling or on doublinground the next button. Then one partof the doubled thread won't work harmo-niously with the other part. One partdraws through the button's eye first, andleaves the other part behind. Then itgets hitched up, and the embassadorswears. Or the needle breaks; and theuhe swears. He may not swear audibly;but the recording angel knows what isgoing on inside of him, and debits himevery item. He sews hard. Ho has for-gotten all about the necessity for a thim- -

ole. He jams his thumb down on theneedles head, and it punctures the thumbor runs under the nail. By and by hesews the button's eye full of thread. Hisbig needle won't pass through any more.He must stop. He ends by winding thethread as many times as it will go uuderthe button, and perhaps he leaves off

--with two or three inches of thread stick-ing outside. A woman can, throughmany outward directions, tell when aman has been trying to sew on a button.He doesn't know the shibboleth of needleand thread, and it catches somewhereevery time. At last the button is sewedon, and he is proud of his work.

A Black. Squatter's D gnity.

Fifteen miles out of Chattanooga, onthe Bridgeport road, I came upon a ne-gro squatter. The cabin was a structureof poles which a man could have pushedover, and the roof was simply a lot ofstraw and weeds and bushes thrown uponthe rafters and held down by largelimbs. ! The one room was not overtwelve feet square, and in this, with nofloor but the earth, lived a family ofnine. jThere were two straw beds, onechair' one old table, three plates, oneknife, one fork, two spoons, and a bowl.It had leen rainiuir. and part of theearthy floor was a mud puddle. Thefamily had about five pounds of mealand three or four of bacon, and of all the,patches one ever saw the greatest showwas right there. The old man had thir-see- n

patches on one leg of his trousers,eleven on the other, seven on his vest,and bis cotton shirt was patched in adozen places with red, yellow, and whiteand bine woolen. The old womau'sdress looked like a crazy quilt, and twoof tho boys had only one trousers legapiece.'

"Great Scots! but ho do you live?" Iasked while one of the boys was water-ing the' horse.

"Lib, sah, how does we lib?" repeatedthe old man; "Well, sah, we is gainin' onit right smart. I reckon its gwine to bea good y'ar fur poo folks."

"What do you raise?""Chil'en an' dogs, sah!" he soberly

replied."Do you work any?""Only when I feels like it.""And" is this all your furniture?""Well, p'raps dar may be a cha'r out

behind Vie cabin.""And these are all the clothes you

have?"j"Yes sah, cept one o' my oie hats on

do roof.""And you call this living, do you?""See heah, sob," he began, as he rose

up from his seat on a log near the doorstep, '''pears to me like you was inquirin'a leetle too much! We doan' advertiseto kee no fust-clas- s hotel heah, an' ifyou doan like de way we fling ourselvesaroun' you'd better be saijin' along downderoad! Some white folks is so mightynice an' peart an' perticklf r dat nuflin onairth am quite up to deir ' style. Boy!bring up dat hoss an let dis perticklerwhite man git dun gone afore dem twonaked chil'en, enm home wid do sassafrasand skurry hisfeelin'sl" Detroit Tress.

While a large number of ministerswere waiting iq the Fitchburg hotel read-in- g

room this, noon, for dinner, one oftwo driiu.ners laid down a paper, and re-marked: "I see there is a meeting ofministers in this place to day." "Yea,"said his companion, "they manage to gettogether two or three . times a year andexchange sermons."f Fitch Sen. :

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Fancy IIair.There is at present a scarcity of fancy

human hair in market. The scarcesthair is pure white, and its value is con-stantly increasing, and if it is nnsnallylong; that is, from four to five feet, thedealer can get almost his own price,while if it's of ordinary length it is worthfrom J5 to $100 an ounce. The factthat pure white hair is the court coiffurein Europe keeps the demand for it veryhigh. Moreover, it is much prized 'by,American women "whose' own 'hafrfs3white, and who desire to enrich itsfolds,for white hair is held to give certain dis.tinction to the wearer. There is no"fanoy market for gray hair. It is toocommon. It is used to .work into wigsof persons who are growing old. Whatis described as golden hair, is eithera washed -- out pale red. or a dullblonde. The gold color so much valuedhas no relation to red hair, exceptin the vividness of its coloring. The demand for the virgin gold color is great inthe capitals of Europe. A woman whogets a coiffure of it is considered fortu- -nate. A young Brooklyn lady of muchbeauty possesses a splendid wig, whichshe chanced to find in a shop in Nice.She was a blonde, but had a scanty sup-pl- y

of dull hair. It did no take her aninstant to decide to have her hair cutshort and to wear the wig.

There are four tvpo colors of hairwhite, blonde, black and brown andeach of these has been sub-divide- d intosixteen different shades. The commonest types are black and brown, andthese are cheap. Golden brown is muchin favor, as is pure black, or what iscalled blue black, or whose natural hair,streaked with gray shows in contrastwith the false covering. Next to purewhite hair the demand is for hair of thecolor of virgin gold. There are manybraids made of hair colored to meetthe demand with certain preparations,but they prove unsatisfactory. Manyfoolish women have sought to" changethe color of their own tresses, but theyhave uniformly repented tho attempt. Afine suit of hair of the purest blondetype will sell from $300 to $500. It issaid that the Empress Eugenie paid 1000francs an ounco for a braid of goldenhair that exactly matched her own.

The largest supply of hair comes fromFrance, Switzerland, and Germany. Thecountry fairs are attended by agents ofmerchants in London, Paris and Vienna,who ingratiate themselves iuto the favorof young girls and persuade them to fllthoir tresses for glass ornamehts or othergewgaws. Only at intervals .is a prizelike a perfect suit of golden hair Ob- - --

tained, and it is said that there are or-ders ahead in the shops of Paris andLondon for all the golden hair that canbe obtained in the next seven yearsWhen a stock of hair is collected bytraveling agents, it is assorted, washedand cleaned. Then each hair is drawnthrough the eye of a needle and polishedWhen the stock is ready for the market ,

in Europe, the nobility is permitted to'make first choice.

Fashionable Floor Covering-- .

Carpets now show improvement instyles and patterns. Small figures areiirdemand and, in fact, large ones cannot be found in the stores where ancientstock is not kept. There was a timowhen a room of the ordinary flat sizewouldn't show a single figure complete.In some of the patterns now shown smalldesigns are crowded together in wonder-ful harmony of color and device. Manya treasured old tapestry has less art thanthe ordinary carpeting of the present day.Some are veritable pictures that can bestudied for hours without growing famil-iar. Some 6f tha favorite designs repre-sent ferns, leaves, branches and foliagein 8ymetrical entanglement. Bordersare still used, and often are wholly dif-ferent from the body, though harmoniz-ing with it. A feature of our carpetstores just now is the display of Orientalmattings. Not only are they bought toput down in summer residences, butthey are coming into use in chambers ofcity houses.

A bedroom provided with white chinamatting with a half breadth of coloredcheck for a border, and a Turkish rug inthe center is quite correct. Anotherthing for the center of the sleeping roomf the sleeicr be an unmarried woman, is

bed. This is a bran new affecta-tion. A brass bed-stea- d, a trifle largerthan the woman, and not much widerthan her greatest breadth, is placed inthe piddle of the apartment, and furnisbed with the dantiest possible bed-clothes; but everything about tho affairmusfc be perfectly plain, desire being tosuggest the utmost simplicity on thepart qf the maiden. . Sometimes a cot isused, and, if tho occupant be a light-weight, she selects a structure of fraildosign,-B- o as to provo how airy and fairyshe is.

The Brain During: Sleep. Somecuri-ou- s

experiments as to the action of thobrain during sleep have recently beenmaae upon mmseii oy Al. JJelaunov.Working on tho known fact that the ac-tion of the brain causes a riso of temper-ature in the cranium, the experimenterfound that the converse of this was true,and that he was able by cdvering hisforehead with wadding, to stimulate theaction of tho brain, Dreams which arenaturally illogical and absurd, " becomeunder his treatment quite natural and in-telligent. He also, fpund that their char-acter was much modified by the positionassumed dnring sleep, --whereby the bloodmight be made to flaw, toward particularparts of the body, and thuincrease theirnutrition and functionalctivity.. Theseexoerimentshave-- : bul: slight! value.Those whose lives are spent in hard work,either physical or mental, Will prefertheir dreams as illogical and vague aspossible so that ibe poor brain may notgo on working wdiilo the body ia at re

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