DRIFTED APART 
that destroyed Lisbon in 1755. The seat of 
the disturbance was at New Madrid, fifty 
miles below the month of the Ohio river. 
Here, from November 15 to December 28, 
over sixty-seven shocks were counted; then 
the enumerator ceased counting for very 
weariness of the trembling task. At Cincin¬ 
nati, over one hundred shocks were counted. 
At Columbia, S. 
C., plaster fell from 
the ceilings while 
^ the bells of 
Charleston w ere 
rung by the rock- 
ing steeples. 
gBBHSgtv Washington was 
alarmed by the 
seismic throbs. 
On the Mississippi 
valley, the ground 
rose and sank in 
awful waves, and 
split into chasms 
one or two lilin- 
dri’d feet in depth. 
tiia remarkable 
earthquake reacti- 
cd from the Rocky 
Moimtains to the 
Atlantic ocean. 
French merino (never the English) will 
oftentimes be substituted. In 
C'tonkinKM 
sacques and jackets are short, and greatly 
trimmed, after being almost entirely covered 
witli embroidery or round cord sewed on in 
various designs. Two deep box plaits give 
fullness to the back of the basque, and the 
trimming runs up 
the former seams 
to the arm hole. 
ti n e belts attach* 
ed, to confine the 
I I 
is very fashionable, 
| other graying hair- 
ter how young, 
will welcome and 
not persectite the 
; beautiful silver 
tli reads. " 
Silk 
tinners 
BY ETHEL DANK 
I remember in life’s spring tide. 
Wlien our hearts were young and gay, 
And our barques worn idly drifting 
Slowly o>r the wlud-tossed spray; 
You—a pilot true and trusted 
I—a maiden eliy und coy— 
Found our hearts go fluttering wildly 
With a now and holy joy. 
EARTHQUAKES IN THE U. S. 
Eighteen years after the pilgrim fathers 
landed on Plymouth Rock they experienced 
MINTWOOD’S conversazione 
Resorts, 
Fashionable Summer 
To see “Shoddy” in its highest de¬ 
velopment, one should spend a fortuight 
at Saratoga or Long Branch. It culmi¬ 
nates at these t wo points, but hardly equals 
the gaudiness of its immediate }mt bel- 
Urn days. Sudden wealth flared out daz- 
zlingly then, and true aristocracy turned 
away in. disgust. But time modifies all 
things, and the riches lightly won have 
jjwhtly flown,or the possessor, becoming ac¬ 
customed to his possessions, settles down 
with a matter-of-fact air, cariug less and less 
for empty display, and becoming less a 
"shoddyite.” I was greatly amused recent¬ 
ly, during a fortnight's sojourn at Long 
Branch, at the difference between a German 
and an American family. The former con¬ 
sisted of a mother, a grown-up daughter ami 
three or four younger children. In the great 
dining hall, surrounded xvith fashionables, 
they formed a perfect picture of domestic 
happiness and content. The mother wore 
some common black dress, and was entirely 
destitute of store hair, “ stick out,” (us An¬ 
aximander calls panniers,) or cosmetic. 
When it was cool she drew a handsome 
India shawl about her shoulders, with per¬ 
fect unconcern as to its quality, and seemed 
utterly insensible to the fact that she was the 
most unfashionable and sensible lady in the 
hotel. The other family sat several tables 
away, ami consisted of a Western Mayor, his 
wife and daughter. The daughter must 
have had thirty or forty different toilets, for 
I never saw her twice in Hie same one. The 
mother had fewer, but otherwise was very 
like her daughter. A hair dresser puffed | 
and braided and curled mountains of hair 
and fastened it on their heads before break¬ 
fast. Powder and paint concealed the true 
state of their faces, while their souls, if they 
had any, lay buried beneath affectation and 
an insane, effort to produce a sensation. The 
“Mayor” walked about ils if he hated it all, 
and his awkwardness said plainly enough 
that he was not. accustomed to it. The Ger¬ 
man family was to be envied as much as the 
other was to lie pitied, and it was easy enough 
to judge which had the most money and had 
had it the longest. 
Ifrt nrniiiu to New York 
afer a month’s absence, 1 find it to be the 
bust of August, and the shops full of winter 
goods—bonnets, cloaks, furs, dry goods, etc. 
Buyers are home from Paris and report a 
variety of things. One says the French are 
all in mourning, consequently the rest of the 
world will wear black. Manufacturers are 
offering artists great sums for new designs, 
and the famous milliners are busy tying 
such loops and bows as American milliners 
despair of ever equaling. Another says, in 
consequence of there being no Court in 
Paris, and that fast, wicked women who 
have hitherto given the styles to the world 
to copy, and who went down with the em¬ 
pire, there is nothing essentially new nor 
novel. But some things are certain, and of 
these I purpose to give you a few hints in 
advance. 
Bonnets 
are larger in every way, and almost entirely 
of one shape, which is provokiugly like a 
deep basin with a rolling brim halfway 
around, and a disc-like projection on the 
other side, which serves for the bonnet cape. 
The face trimming or coronet consists of 
velvet, or silk like the material, in gathers 
or a hand with a bow in the center, or more 
generally of a white ruche, called the queen’s 
niche. Ties are not over three inches in 
width, and often of velvet ribbon to match 
the bonnet. Ostrich plumes are in shaded 
colors, and as the trade is largely monopo¬ 
lized by an English company, they arc ex¬ 
pensive. Two short plumes are used in lien 
But the lllo bo sweet and pleasant. 
Which our fancy painted then, 
As we slowly drifted homeward 
From that lonely, starlit cion; 
Never by ns has hern tasted. 
For wo’vd spent those weary years 
You, In sentcinji after Fortune, 
I, in loneliness and tears. 
Ah ! our sails were then together. 
And wo had it in our might 
To muke the Future, us It should be— 
Beautiful, und fair, und bright: 
But, instead of joy and sunshine. 
Which should freight our barques to-day, 
We have only gloom and shadow. 
Haunting Still Life's loveless way. 
For our paths have widely severed — 
You into life's busy limi t 
I, a lonely nook have chosen ; 
Aye! wo’ve drifted wide apart 
Drifted from the glorious brightness 
Of those happy bygone years 
Drifted into gloom and darkness, 
Where Dove’s sunlight, ne’er appears, 
When wo roaeh the Unseen River— 
When we touch the farther strand. 
May our barques be moored in safety 
In a glorious, heavenly land 
Where we'll view the Golden City, 
Afterall our weary strife 
Chant the praise of Gon our Father, 
In a new and sinless life, 
toms for fhmtlist 
LIFE-AND LOVE 
IN THE “LAND OF FLOWERS 
OR, GERMAN EMIGRANTS IN AMERICA. 
HV ADOLPHE EJSjENBACH, M. D 
.soiling case in 
England in 1845 
was followed by J 
an extraordinary 
increase of t he 
same form of 
crime, especially i 
among the poor in I 
the agricultural 
counties. After 
the execution of 
the English poison¬ 
er, Palmer, about 
fifteen years ago, 
for killing his wife 
with strychnine, 
an English gentle¬ 
man named Dove, 
got. rid of his wife 
i n precisely the 
same way, and ac¬ 
knowledged that 
reading about the Palmer case induced him 
to do it. 
Between 1588 and 1685 occurred the mur¬ 
der of William of Orange, the Duke of Guise, 
Henri III., Ilenri IV., the Duke of Buck¬ 
ingham, Wallenstein, and perhaps Gustaves 
Adolphus, whose fate is surrounded with 
mystery. 
Suicide by d row ing was once so prevalent 
among the women of Lyons that to check it 
the authorities ordered the bodies of all the 
victims to be publicly exposed in the market 
place. At, Versailles, toward the close of the 
there were 1,800 suicides in a 
Dresses—D«- 
111111111 fov Needle¬ 
work, etc. 
“ Saratoga. ” — 
Make your black 
silk w a 1 k i u g 
length; trim with 
same, adding black 
lacc if you like. 
Tbelavcndersilk if 
intended for an evening dress, should be made 
with a demi-train. The skirt may be made 
“PRESENTATION OF THE CHILD MOSES." 
BY F. BAllZEGill OF MILAN, IN THE INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION, LONDON 
their first New England earthquake. This I i 
was in 1638, and was very severe, so much 
so as to throw persons to the ground Since 
it occurred, down to the year 1850, one hun¬ 
dred and forty-nine earthquakes are regis¬ 
tered as having been experienced in these 
Eastern States, of which 40 happened in the 
Winter, 16 in the Spring, 32 in summer and 
46 in Autumn, while of 15 the year only is 
stated. Nearly twice as many have occurred 
in Winter aud Autumn as in Spring and 
Summer. In these cooler latitudes the sever¬ 
est earthquakes take place in cool or cold 
weather, a rule that in tropical countries is 
reversed. The shock of November 18, 1852, 
was very severe. “ Let this shock be re¬ 
peated," writes W. T. Brigham, “and half 
Boston would be destroyed and the loss of 
life would be terrible.” It came near being 
repeated October 20, 1870. 
New York and Philadelphia have never 
experienced one of these convulsions in any 
considerable degree of severity. But the 
sites of Montreal, Quebec, Cincinnati and 
Chicago have in time past been shaken. The 
extraordinary visitation of the Winter of | 
1863 convulsed all Canada in a most sur¬ 
prising maner. It lasted six minutes and 
shook down mountains, turned the course of 
rivers, and made havoc of the whole land. 
In the valley of the Mississippi, the first 
shock on record is set down for 1776, Others 
occurred in 1791,1795 and 1796. Then in 
1804 one took place near the site of Chicago, 
and of such severity that should it be repeated 
the city would suffer terribly. In 1811, No¬ 
vember 16, began an earthquake of which a 
writer in the Atlantic says:—“Since lui- 
' man history began, the earth has rarely been 
shaken by a more tremendous convulsion.” 
f Its repetition would endanger the safety of 
Some writer affirms 
routes of travel to other States where they 
might have selected homes; and, in short, to 
do whatever men could do to remove the 
feeling of strangeness and let the foreigner 
understand that he had a welcome from a 
hospitable people —that lie might build a 
home, reach a manhood and make a future 
that would not be possible in any other coun¬ 
try on earth. 
I was looking through this crowd of ex¬ 
cited but happy Germans, my countrymen, 
and giving them pleasant words in their 
own dear tongue—tile language of Goethe, 
Schiller and the great Frederic— when 
I suddenly beard my name called and such 
I a volley of exclamations and thanksgivings 
as almost, took away my breath. 
“Dr. Eisenbach 1— Dr. EiSENBAcn ! Ark! 
Gott in Himmel! Tier ist mein freund Eken- 
bach!" 
I turned towards the voice and recognized 
in the speaker Herr Muhlenberg, whose 
family bad been among my patients in Weis- 
baden, We embraced each other most glad¬ 
ly, you may be sure, and before I bad time 
to ask for bis wife and children they were 
all about me. His wife was pulling away at 
one band, while bis eldest son went at the 
oilier as if it bad been a pump bundle, and 
be, very thirsty. The younger children, 
among them the second daughter, a girl of 
fourteen, were hanging on my arms, and all 
talking at once, while two little fellows were 
playing bo-peep between my knees. I 
missed one face, Katrina, the eldest daught¬ 
er, whom I had known as a girl of great 
beauty but somewhat delicate, and who, if 
alive, must now be some twenty years old. 
Herr Muhlenberg saw that I missed bel¬ 
aud said, “She is here, doctor, but lam 
afraid not to stay with us long; ” and bis 
voice, always so brave, trembled just a little. 
last century, 
single year. 
Several cases of epidemical incendiarism 
have occulted in this country, and now poi¬ 
son is again becoming prevalent, as exempli¬ 
fied in the Sherman case in Connecticut, the 
Ruth case in Kansas, the Wharton case in 
Baltimore, and one or two others that have 
recently come to light. 
A poor toper, as a last resort for more 
drink, took his Bible to pawn for liquor, but 
the landlady refused to take it. “ Well,” 
said lie, “ if she won’t take my word or God’s 
word, it’s lime togive it up.” And lie went 
all our Western cities. 
it to have been as severe as the great shock I and signed the pledge and kept it faithfully, 
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