A Floral Prayer

Messages of s mpath w.-ro sent to tlio bed lür of the w. Era Krederlck, j duriug h s long iil.,es. trom ererywhere - frotn America from !!■ ss:a. Irom ISrazil, from Afr ca. ut the o erin i tlint most ! deeply affected tne emprror w s a eautiful cu-thion made of 20, CO viólate Rathe - I ed by tlie little ebllden of the town of Aussleben, in east l'russia and brouqlit to Cbarlnttenburg wüh the ish that eacli i flo.er v.as a prayer to Col lo spare the! empe or. The verse insertad on tito cushion of vlo ets In letier; eomposed of lillies of the valley were as fo ows, and as theempress read theni to her husliand tear.-i carne to liia eyes: LJeber Kui: er: Elndorhaende, Winden dir den sclültibteii sinuiss. Das die i 1 1 r t i ? ■ ■ blnmensponde, Bring den fruehling dir ins Iuiur. Und so viole kinderl r.cn. Hitten tueftlich Gott fuer dioh, DaHsdurch allen kam pi und BObmerzen, Er dich fuehre vuctorüih. Lieber Kaiser: Stots aufs ueue, Wenn dich vcilichenduft umweht, Wird durch unscro lieb and treue, Jede bluetho ein 'ebet. 1 m - It is a strange fact that silk dresses cannot be sat in. Very new hairpins have hoads of amber, or of uugget silver. Mrs. Gladstone, wife of Eugland's expretnier, is a horneo puthist. The dresses of engaged young ladies wear i o'it soonest about toe walst. The solitaire diamond ring worn by Mrs. VV. K. Vanderbilt cost $48,(KX). Miss Delphine Baker is about toestablish a christian newspaper in Jerusalem. The writer who saya that corsets are unhealthy surely never heard any of them complain about it. If your wife wants an "allowance," givo her the whoie income. She will save more out of it than you can. The Indiana women's prison and reformatory, near Indianaiolis, is managed exclusively by women. A new silver girdle shows the square i inarkings of crocodilo skin, and is made flexible by rings of chain. Women aro the state librarians oí Indiana, Iowa. Kentucky, Michigan, Louisiana, , Mississippi and Tennessee. "Woman is man's counselor," says a i divine. Perhaps that explains why her fees are so notoriously high. Turkish stuffs agleam with gold or silvcr throad make draperies, scarfs or overdresses that are simply ravishing. According to a Itichmond paner, iris thore go to school lugging twenty pounds of scholastic literaturc :ml wcaring a thrce foot bustle. Heaven be praised ! The cffortof certain ll-conditionai designers to have street gowns made a bare draggiug length is I ly unsucoes8ful. A young woman at Bcloit, Kas., was recently paid the bounty on thescalps of nine young wolves which she had captured while herdini cattle.