The Brenham Weekly Independent. (Brenham, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 5, Ed. 1 Thursday, February 9, 1882 Page: 3 of 8
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FASHION POINTS.
Now flounces are gathered.
Paniers grow more bouffant.
Raw silk underwear is much
in use.
Scotch ginghams are now off-
ered for sale.
A tiny silver teapot is the new
watch charm.
Lavautitta satiiu are super-
ceding surah silks.
Drab and violet combinations
will be popular for spring.
India foulards are imported
for ladies in mourning.
Virgin gold is a pale shade
that is to replace old gold.
Greek and ra'adheval co3tume3
are appearing at receptions.
Shoos of satin, same shade as
the dress, are used for dancing.
Moine is the ehief element in
the latest imported costumes.
No wardrobe is complete du-
ring Lent without a severe black
dress.
A gold sunflower is the iesthot-
ic design for breast-pins and
linger-rings.
White brocaded petticoats
have corsage and train of myr-
tle green velvet.
Surah silk still remains a fa-
vorite tissue for young ladies
dancing dresses.
. A single piece of Russian lace
is made to cover the front of
satin dress skirts.
lias Terne (escape the ground)
skirts are more fashionable than
very short ones.
Strips of white and black and
white and color are features in
new spring goods.
Black velvet costumes trimm •
ed with shrimp pink feathers
are fashionable in Paris.
Young ladies in general show
a great preference for white
toilets for dancing parties.
The lighter shades of chamois
gloves with loose writ-ts are ap-
propriate for the street.
The most effective costumes
are those which are- fashioned
with a view to the requirements
of the face arid figure.
Independent bi-squcs, house
jackets and poioriaises are es-
-Y- —— tabfehed iavorkcs. and are worn
with black or well-contrasting
skirts.
. Some of the latest gloves of
Danish kid are decorated with
tiny butterflies made of gold or
silver tinsel and chenille in
raised work.
Very elegant visiting toilctets
are of cachemire embroidered in
different shades of one color, or
in open-work in Richelieu guip-
ure style.
A superb wedding dress of
American brocade is exquisitely
interwoven with silver threads
glinting through its creamy
white floriated groundwork.
The screw earring of solitaire
diamonds, and the hoop earring,
made of pearls or filigree work
in fine gold, are the only boucles
'ToreUle just now in vogue.
Artificial flowers, except for
debuntantes, seem: to have had
their day, as the married ladies
all wear corsage trimmings as
well as head dresses of ostrich
tips or plumes.
Among the now machine-made
laces one of the daintiest of silk
is the Point d'Amillac. There
are besides the Moresque and
Marguerite, in addition to those
above mentioned.
Maize and lemon, even orange,
Are fashionable colors, and their
effect is g*e *ly ofnham-fcl v.-lien
peeping -jut discreetly from be-
neath banks of snowy clouds of
fulle or finest softest mull.
A good test of the purity of
silk is to burn a small quantity
of the threads. Pure silk will
instantly crisp, leaving only
charcoal; heavily dyed silk will
smoulder to a yellow greasy ash.
White toilets are still exten-
sively trimmed with pearl beads.
White, ivorr, and cream-colored
silks are always much favored
by brunettes, as they are more
becoming than other light colors.
Oscar Wilde received a set-
"back at Washington 4he first
time he went out. He took in
the House of Representatives,
and during the proceedings sent
Ilia card to Speaker Keifer, evi-
dently expecting that gentleman
wsnld adjourn the House, or
perhaps announce the sacred
presence of the resthete, and no-
tify the members to braoo up.
But what the Speaker did do was
to send word to Mr. Wilde that
he did not receive callers during
the sessions of the House ana
this caused Mr. Wilde to go off
in a frame of mind.
costsir.
Mr* Gladstone has completed
bis fiftieth year iu Parliament.
Mr. Low, the new reform May
or of Brooklyn, is only thirty-
two^
Frederick Douglass" autobio-
graphy is to be reprinted in Eng-
land.
The Princess Beatrice's "Birth-
day Book" has netted her $15,-
700.
Mrs. Brigham Young, XIX,
known as Ann Eliza, is lecturing
in the Illinois towns.
Oscar will turn away from Ni-
agara in tears and murmur, "A
worse bilk than the Atlantic.''
A Boston man jumped at a cat
to give her a scare, struck the
wall, and broke his neck.
Henpeck seems much more
cheerful since he began to caii
Mrs. Ilenpeck's observations
"re-scripts."
Dr. Bain, of Aberdeen, is abont
to publish in two volumes duel
biographies of the Mills, Father
and Son.
The autograph fiends pursue
Oscar Wilde, but the jesth^te
does not like to write his name
next to Giiiteau's.
The number of new books fell
off in England last year, but the
poets bubbled over into 111
fresh volumes.
The Peace Society will be sor-
ry to hear that Bismarck's favor-
ite drink now is a mixture of
champagne and porter.
Dr. Horatio R. Storer, of Bos-
ton, has purchased the famous
Hunter estate at Newport, It. I.,
for a summer residence.
Colonel WalterS. Gordon, one
of John B. Gordon's brothers
has bought a $200,000 cotton fac-
tory at (Jarrollton, Miss.
Ex-Representative Alexander
Mitchell is the heaviest taxpayer
in Milwaukee. Last year he
paid #24,000; this vear but $20,
000.
Seats in the Massachusetts
House of Representatives are
drawn by lot, and the lucky
ones who get the best seats often
sell them for sums ranging from
$5 to $100.
A handsome monument of
Quincj' granite,•twenty four- feet
high, has just been erected over
"Parson" Browfilow's grave in
the KnoxvUlOj (Tenn.) Ceme-
tery.
An Iowa girl husked lifty-one
bushels of corp at one sitting, it
is astonishing how much husk-
ing a girl can get through with
when searching for red ears.—
Philadelphia News.
llolman Hunt's long-looked-
for picture. "The Flight into
Egypt," is nearly completed, and
is said to surpass all his previ-
ous works. The size is about
eight feet by four.
Louis Frechette, the Canadian
poet, is to be publicly enter-
tained at Holyoke, Mass., on
January 31. Among the guests
will be Governor Long and sev-
eral literary men from Canada.
A delegation of boarding-house
keepers who went to see the play
of "Macbeth," got mad as blazes
at the wftoh scene, declaring
that the mixing of hash on the
stage was a deliberate slur at
them.—Boston Post.
No use in going to Mackinaw
next summer. Prof. Brysen will
lecture on the Icelandic Saga
literature, and Mr. James Gor
don Bennett is at St. Petersburg
getting up the avalanche of po-
lar news from the Jeannette.
A boy at Moline, 111., had to
be whipped thirteen times before
he would consent to be, vaccinat-
ed. A man refusing to bo vac-
cinated out there would not be
disturbed. How many worth-
less, grown up cowards did it
take to beat the boy ?
Joseph E. Temple, of Philadel-
phia, who gave $60,000 to the
Academy of Fine Arts of that
city, has just purchased and pre
sented to the same institution
two flue paintings which will be
catalogued as Nos. 1 and 2 of
the Temple Collection.
The Duchess of Cambaceres
has just made a gift of an annu-
al income to the Academy of
Beaux Arts as a memorial toiler
husband. The principal will be
employed as a foundation of
three prizes of 1.000 francs each,
which will be under the name of
the "Prix Cambaceres," given
each year.
Ex-President and Mrs. Hayes
will neither go to Washington
this winter nor go to Europe in
the spring. Mr. Hayes is satis-
lied with the little village of
Fremont, where he is participa-
tor in the debates down at the
shoe store.
AM ■Bf(l*l«M Ctuuirrfrilrr.
Tom Ballard,the (jinious coun-
terfeiter, pow iuthe penitentiary
here under a 30 years sentence
imposed by Uuited States Judge
Wallace, offers to give the gov-
ernment a secret for making
bank note paper which will pre-
clude all counterfeiting of notes
and bonds, if the government
will grant him a pardon.
"Your process, 1 believe," said
a reporter,"was to plate the fibre
with either gold or silver, and
thus raise an effectual guard
against unking the paper by
hand, was it not J"
"It-aid I could do that, among
other things; but the govern
ment raised an objection to the
method,saying it would interfere
with writing signatures upon
the bank bills, and besides,
would offer temptation to pick
out the gold or silver threads.
Now, I don't mind telling you
one or two things in connection
with this subject of paper mak-
ing. I can produce a paper
bearing the private mark of any
bank or the denomination of any
bill printed inside the paper, or,
in other words, a transparent,
tough, fibrous paper that will
wear, and which, by the marks
alluded to, will prevent any at
tempt at raising a bill, for a
simple glance at the paper be-
fore the light will show the true
denomination of the bill. This
private mark cannot be obliter-
ated without destroying entire-
ly the paper."
A movement was started
among prominent men here to-
day tosecure Ballard's pardon.
—Chicago Times.
V. T. Koteh and his merchant,
both Catholics of Bryan, Tex.,
were unable to agree upon a set-
tlement of an account, so they
called in their priest, who took
Koteh to his closet and consult-
ed, and tried, if possible, to rec-
oncile the brethren, but Kotoh
was obdurate and declined all
offers to compromise. Anger
arose and Koteh accused the
father of beinga liar and a thief,
whereupon the reverend father
made use of his boot to propel
the audacious laymen from his
presence. The battered brother
hied himself to the. court house
and made complaint against the
father for assault and battery.
The father was arrested and
pleaded guilty, and has retalia-
ted by ex communicating Koteh,
his wife, children and grand-
mother. '
A novel and ferocious duel is
to come off shortly at Lyons, un-
less the authorities interfere to
prevent it. Miles. Nouma-ilfawa
and Bidel, both notable lion
tamers,, are just now at Silkopo-
lis drawing crowded houses.
Mile. Nouma-Hawa has challen-
ged Bidel to enter her cage, and
offers in return to enter Mile.
Bidel's cage without having any
preliminary acquaintance with
the wild beasts in it. Bidel has
accepted the challenge, but stip-
ulates that the struggle should
have additional interest given it
by a bet. She suggests that the
stakes should be $2,000, and of-
fers on these conditions not only
to tame all Mile. Nouma-Hawa's
lions and lionesses, but also to
teach them a series of entirely
new gymnastic feats without the
least preparation.
A stone bridge to bo built at
Minneapolis bids fair to become
one of the notable structures of
the world. It will consist of
sixteen 80 feet spans and four
100 feet spans, and, including
the shore" pieces, will sup-
port two railway tracks at a
height of over sixty feet above
the water, and will run diagon-
ally across the river below St.
Anthony's Falls. The cost is es-
timated at nearly $500,000.
The Duchess* of Edinburgh
having deposited with the Art
Department of South Kensing-
ton a collection of water-color
copies from the old masters by
StohT, they will be exhibited at
Bethnal Green. There are six
ty-five of them, and were origi-
nally ordered by the Empress of
Russia.
The XLVIIIth Congress will
probably contain 319 or 320 rep-
resentatives and If the McCold
bill is adopted many representa-
; ves will be elected at largo.
A Texas cattle-ranger, own-
ing about 3,000 head, asked
Morgan, the New York banker,
to lend him some money on
them so that lie might increase
his stock. He told the banker
how. much the cattle were worth;
how they doubled in value every
five years, and made a large
annual profit; but when he told
Morgan that they didn't have
any fences in Texas, he exclaim-
ed in a tone of holy horror:
"No fences! Why good Lord,
young man, I'd as soon take a
mortgage on a school of codfish
off the bank of Newfoundland."
! THE IC.1IALG FIOl'HE.
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Its trllmlc U«frrl«— Advantages aud
■i Dliadvuutugrt of tlte Corset.
While every one must agree
with artists in their admiration
of natural forms, says Miss
Humphreys,it should be remem-
bered that in speaking of dress
they have always in mind the
perfect woman, the ideal form,
and ornament seems rather
meretrieous than otherwise. But
to many women dress is not so
muyli to reveal beauties as to
conceal defects. Certain fash-
ions, indeed, often serve to draw
attention from the form, and
dress in this way sets up for it-
self an independent existence,
instead of being tributary to the
underlying structure. Tho cul-
tivation of form is, in fact, tho
first step to tho success of ar-
tistic dress. The nearest ap-
proach to ideal form is pop-
ularly supposed to lie in the cor
set. This is another point of
disagreement between the artists
and the wearers of corsets.
There is no doubt, says Mr. Sey-
mour J. Guy, that the corset im-
proves some forms, as those of
obese, flabby women, with re-
laxed muscles,by confining them
into a definite shape. But a
woman of good form is only
spoiled by tho corset. The
curves of the body are all out-
ward curves, one arising out of
the other. But tho chief curves
of the corset are inward curves,
which are not only incorrect,
but are the source of grave dam-
age in compressing unnaturally
th6 organs of the body. Anoth-
er objection to the corset is in
the bones, whose rigidity ob-
scures that rippling movement
of the body which is one
of its chief beauties. As far as
this is concerned, tho body might
as well be incased in cast iron.
Another objection is iu the hard
cross lines of the bust, which
distinctly shows, as do often the
laces, under a tightly fitting
dress. Every artist knows how
impossible it is to find a well
formed woman among the mod-
els. There is scarcely a man or
woman who answers, save in
small part, to any ideal concep-
tion oi the human figure. One of
the most perfect forms, according
to Mr. Guy, was that of a cele-
brated Mine. de Lucy. She never
iiuse, she al-
her form. In-
own Holland
waist, fclosely buttoned. Nor
di/o.s .-rny woman of ordinary
good fofrin need a corset. Women
would lose their tendency to
obesity, jf they exercised and
cnroil for themselves properly.
On the contrary, as they grow
older and exercise less, the mus-
cles get flabbier while the flesh
increases. There are women
who become so instinctive that
they can not lift their hands
above their heads without faint-
ing. The remedy for this would
be a course of free gymnastics,
which would harden the mus-
cles and furnish the proper sup-
port for the body without the
intervention of the corset. It lies
greatly with parents to cultivate
good forms in their children.
These should be regularly ac-
customed to gymnastics and their
muscles strengthened as their
bodies develop. Girls trained
in this way from childhood
would never need corsets, either
to correct their shapes or to sup-
port their bodies, and wo might
look forward to a race of women
whom it would be worth an
artist's while to stop across tho
room to look at.
UldttU. iUlllt* Ut LlUtj
wori a] corset, beca
leged, jt spoiled hei
tead, sTip wore a bro
1'AB.H AND HOME.
The Philadelphia quinine
manufacturers have been com-
plaining of the bill repealing
the duty on foreign quinine, and
asserting that it had not accom-
plished the result aimed at, of
reducing the price of this neces-
sary drug. The New York Eve-
ning Post investigates the matter
fincl discovers that quinine was
$4.35 an ounce at tho time duty
was repealed, and is worth only
$2 an ounce to-day. The Phil-
adelphia chemists will have to
discover some other excuse for
objecting to the law repaling this
duty.
A piano teacher in Philadel-
phia has for years studied the
anatomy of the hand with a view
to discover why it is so much
more difficult to raise the third
finger of the hand abeve the kej's
of the piano than the other
fingeis. He thinks if ho cuts a
cord attached to that finger,
which is wanting in the others,
the difficulty will be removed,
and he has induced a pupil to
submit to the operation, which
will shortly bo performed.
The 1881 sales of trotting stock
from Fairlawn, property of Gen.
W. T. Withers, Lexington, Ky.,
amounted to between $40,000 and
$50,000. The Fairlawn trotters
tlins disposed of had a wide dis-
tribution, going to Canada, to
England, to the Sandwich Islands
and to all parts of tho United
States.
The Pmmmm Cwili
Sunflower seeds, fed in small
quantities, impart a beautiful
gloss to the plumage of poultry.
A correspondent of the Scien-
tific American reports success in
growing potatoes on top of the
ground, in rows two foot to three
feet apart, covered with sawdust
six to twelve inches thick.
Keep the fowls warm and dry,
foed some warm food and give
them a variety of it. Take out
all the old hens and keep only
young ones, and the egg basket
will be well filled, oven at this
season.
A veterinary writer oondemns
high managers for horses, claim-
ing that they irritate the throat
and create a tendency to heaves,
llesavs the mang< r should be
on a ievel with the feet, as that
is in accordance with nature.
It is tho opinion of many that
a fowl fattened quickly will
make a far more juicy and tooth-
some meal than a chick. One
thing is certain, a 3 year-old
fowl will make much better
broth for an invalid than a
6-months' chicken.
The weight of hen's eggs
ranges from fifteen to twenty-
four ounces perdo/.un. A weight
of twenty-two and one-half
ounces may bo taken as a fair
average for good-sizod eggs,
although a weight of nearly four
ounces is not unknown for single
specimens of eggs.
Pigs thrive so much better
when kept clean and comfort-
able that it is surprising any
farmer should let them wallow
in filth. A dry, warm bed, with
the samo food, will add one-half
more weight to a pig over and
above one that is kept in filth
and wretchedness.
According to Dr. Von Loiben-
burg, all air dry, at the same
temperature, radiate heat equal-
ly. He insists strongly on the
injurious effect of any agency
that lowers the temperature of
the ground in spring, as that
will certainly influence the quan-
tity and quality of the crop.
Stable manure is preferable to
any other fertilizer. No farmer
can afford to waste his manure.
All of it should be saved and
utilized. In many cases farming
would be more profitable if less
lanl was cultivated, with higher
fertilization. One acre highly
manured should pay better than
three but half manured aud half
cultivated.
Greaso for belts, which renders
them more adhesive and more
durable, can be obtained by
mixing oil of resin with 10 per
cent. tale. The grease is spread
on the belt with a br; <h several
times, or until the /ather will
not absorb any more. The ope-
ration is repeated after some
weeks, a smaller quanity of
grease being used. The belts
acquire more flexibility and re-
sistance, adhere better to the
drums and do not slip. The
greasing is only required every
few months.—Design and Work.
When young poultry have
been allowed to contract the
habit of roosting in the trees, no
time should be lost in breaking
them of it. Confinement to the
poultry house and yard for a
day or or two will generally ef-
fect a cure. Get your dust baths
ready for winter. Sand and
finely-sifted coal ashes, with a
pound of sulphur to cacli bushel
of the mixture, is the best. This
should be put in lavge boxes,and
kept out of the rain. White-
wash the houses, putting in a
gill of crude carbolic acid and a
pint of common korosene oil to
each pailful of slaked lime.
Tho most remarkable result of
the rains, which have prevailed
almost continuously in Chatta-
nooga for the pa9t 30 days, oc-
curred Friday. The tallest peak
on Buffalo mountain, in East
Tennessee, known as White
Rock peak on account of its pe-
culiar formation, being a ledge
of white rock which towered sev-
eral hundred feet, fell, with a
terrific crash, which was heard
for miles around, and the whole
surrounding country was almost
overwhelmed with terror. It ap-
peared as if the whole end of tne
mountain had fallen. It is said
that when the crash first occur-
red, people congregated and
prayed from the falling moun-
tains.
Another slide occurred on the
Cincinnati Southern Railway,
aud two slides are .reported on
the East Tennessee, Virginia and
Georgia Railway. Tn« mail
trains on both roads were delay-
ed eight honrs by the accident.
0 _ *
Maryland paid out for pnblio
school education last year the
sum of $1.004,58077. The State
has 2,039 schools and an average
attendance of79,730, There are
in the State 134,488 persons who
are unable to read or write. The
amount expended on colored
schools last year was $101,544 53.
Onr special correspondent at
Panama has been making a care-
ful survey of the canal, and the
result of his inquiries will not
be wholly satisfactory to M. de
Lesseps and his shareholders.
There is now a fair prospect that
the matter will be reopened, and
that when the present company
has been found incompetent to
complete its work, the United
States will take a new and more
personal interest in its execution.
Our correspondent believes that
the terms offered by the French
contractors are a mere bait to
investigators, being $60,000,000
less than tho minimum fixed by
the technical commission, and
considerably less than half the
original estimate. He reports
the opinion of an expert that
further explorations of the isth-
mus should be made by Ameri-
cans, and - reviews the various
routes. Each has its disadvan-
tages—Nicaragua its looks, Te-
hauntepec its poor harbors, San
Bias its tunnels—but there is a
general agreement of opinion
that a sea level cut is the best,and
that in the adoption of this plan
lies the strength of De Lesseps.
His weakness is mainly finan-
cial, and that will be soon soap-
parent that the action of Powers
which are interested in the canal
cannot long bo delaj'ed.—New
York Herald.
Alabama's total indebtedness
is $9,111,500.
Strawberries are selling * in
Florida for $1,50 a quart.
A chapter of Scottish rite
masons has been instituted at
Austin.
In Florida 3,000 pine apples
can bo raised on an acre of
ground.
Nebraska has just apportion-
ed $189 380 among her public
schools.
There are nine colored men
in the Mississippi Legislature,
eight in the House and one in
the Senate.
A child was born in South
Georgia a few days siuce with
its entrails, heart, liver and
lungs on the outside of its body,
no skull, hands and feet web-
footed, eyes as large as an ox's
and one ear as large as an ele-
phant's.
A young man in Grayson
county, Va., was working in
nejy ground when ho dug up
$1,000 in silver and $350 in gold,
supposed to have been hid by
some one during or before tho
war.
"There goes a Sam Houston
hat," remarked one bystander
to another, as a gentleman pass-
ed wearing a particular style of
tile. "Yes," replied the other,
"but it lacks a good deal of
having a Sam Houston head in
it."—San Antonio Light.
WHOLESALE PRICE-CURRENT.
Bbenham, Feb. 6, 1882.
ntlanei.
Loulnlnna Choice 70 cents.
" J'rime (Hi cent*.
" Fair ; 03 cents.
" Common OOccntv.
Sugar.
I.oiiisluna Primo 8}@9 cts.
" Choice 9 @9J cts.
" Choice Y. C 10 @10ict .
" White 10!@ll ctn
Cut Louf 13
Coffee.
Java...., 80 cents
Cordova... 1G cents
Bio Choice 14 cent*
Rio Prime 131 cents
Rio Fair 124 centi
llio Com 12 cents
Bacon.
1>. S. Side* Ill cents
L. C. Bacon ".... Ill cent*
S. C. Bacon 121 cent*
Floor.
X-X-X 8 2ft
Choleo.... «... 8 50
Family ; 8 00
Potent 10 Oa
••It.
Liverpool Ca.,.. fl 0B
« Fine 2 OQ
HIUoollameofiK.
Hams .141 cent*
Lard 181 cts,
Corn meat $3 00 ^ bbl,
Market firm «n<l advancing.
ST. Cr^^22S'
EUROPE A NHOTEL,
St. Loaf*, Mo.
THOS. P. MILLER, Prop'tr,
Opposite the New Southern,
THOMAS HOTTS33,
Ghappell Hill, Texas.
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