Show fail ue DRESS DEESS IN ENGLAND A london correspondent of the chicago tribune under date of may 26 writes as follows thero there has never been a time during the present reign in england when so much money has been spent as at the present period upon dresses our fair ones are running a race of extravagance in many families the cost pe per r person for dress averages 1000 a year this of course exclusive of jewelry for a single I 1 person prices varying from 40 40 to are frequently paid it is in the rareness of material and its amount that the excess usually consists not in the skill or art of the design during this week I 1 have been present at the opening of what iss iff termed an in ter national horticultural exhibition in the fashionable part of london an occasion on which the tickets of admission were one guinea and there I 1 saw the prevalent wastefulness displayed in the morning dress trains of satin some yards long were ero ere seen dragging over gravel walks and collecting all foreign matter r from the grass lace was there in shawls hawis and cloaks which used to be e worn only in very small quantities by our grandmothers As to our bonnets very soon will they disappear if they continue to dimi diml diminish nishat tut tit the rate rato they thoy have followed for the last two or three seasons they have dwindle dwindled dinto into some thing of the size of a broad piece pleto of rib nib bohi bonaut but the ab shapes ipes that arec chosen are scarcely to be numbered watching the fine figures of many of our english broadt girls ris surrounded by an immense breadth of some exquisite precious stuff and wearing on their heads some odd jumble of ribbons and flowers we are frequently forced to admire but if in the midst of our ruminations rumi ruml nations the form arises in our mirds minds of the chaste and natural style of a few years back with its simple adornment and harmony with the native grace or of ti classical drapery such as adlle rachel bachel used to wear in her tragedies these walking bales baies of goods these drapers and dressmakers models cease to charm can any kind of dress be suited to us which prevents the baxer Laxer exercise cise of muscles and limbs the countesses count esses and duchesses whom I 1 saw on tuesday at kensington were ex exposed posed to a hundred mishaps to walk with such trappings ings is a difficulty but to walk and to stop and to turn round is a danger you may take your hat ont off ta 6 a lady these days but if you advance to shake her little hand you fluster her for foe you may tread upon her dress it if she phe is alarmed her admirer is still more so 80 some men have hilve acquired the greatest de dexterity in avoiding an uli ull unfortunate fortu nate step for there thero are men who can stand on anything on the spire of st Pa pauls tills but to the average the modern garb of our ladies ladics is a snare and alid a vexation SOME sore OF ENGLAND childred CHILDBED I 1 I 1 A correspondent of the pall mall mail ga zette who has visited some gome of bathe athe iron furnaces in the blaek black country olf of staffordshire and Worcester worcestershire shire ohire tells these sad bad stories st dries in the mills and dud forges boys of all ages from eight and arld upward may be found amid the labyrinth of machinery and the thu coils of heated iron en engaged by dagand day and night in tugging long red hot se seething ething bars their activity is it great owing to the nature of their requires rapidity of movement and contrasts strangely with their otherwise other ise lse jaded and worn appearance in addition to the labor of dragging along the tho iron each of these little fel fei fellows aws has hag to run in short stages a distance of more moro than eleven miles day das in an oppressive atmosphere thick with dust and steam owing lo 10 q u un 1 certain ertain movements mo of or the hot hob iron bars in in their passage through successive rolls before having haring time to cool fhe the gee bee occupation upa of ot these boys ys is attend attended edwith with some danger dan gera A serious burn being irl lri an ill almost every day c e the liv lives ilves of t these lles ilese 0 boys are almost entirely spent in their forges except alie the hours allotted to sleep thy have hav e their meals there I 1 and in the tile suat snatches ches of leisure it is their playground in most of the works is the arm ar basin of a canal danal the water of which is kept in a state of chronic fever and in which despite its inky color they delight to jo bathe both in winter and summer so constant are they ill their ablutions ablution that they often come out parboiled pAr like a 1 wash omans thumb soma of the tho proprietors of these those wom woh works have hive provided night schools for the instruction of the children in their employ but as a rule they are arc in min dand body alike neglected n and tile the densest ignorance pr prevails emalls they have no home homo training most of their houses being locked apall up all ali dy day the parents and alli aall the children being out at work and returning home homo fatigued at night nothing but bed ora ord carousal in the fox and dragon is acceptable cep table returning home late one evening I 1 saw two little children a boy and girl lying asleep upon a doorstep door step which proved rove ato to be that of their home homo on a awaking w a k ing them they told me they were w walting waiting a t I 1 n g fo for r their mother to come out of the neighboring tavern and open the door they had bad no father and had been hard bard at work all day the boy worked in a forge the girl in a foundry and the mother in aja a ja panning factory and though thus separated all day there seemed no bond n d of affection to bind them when they met together west of dudley is a strange wild region known as the nailing district composed of scattered hamlets to all the houses of which la Is attached what appears a pears to 0 the stranger a black blacksmiths smiths 8 shop op the he manufacture of wrought nails is and has been for a century or more the great staple industry of the districh district it is carried on by the in their own houses in few trades of the district does the employment of women and young children assume a more objectionable form than this the women seem to have lost all traces of the modesty of their sex and from childhood are addicted to swearing s wcarl ng smoking resembling as far as possible the other sex in their habits babits an and deportment even to the wearing of their coarse flannel jackets they mostly marry very young often at fourteen and seldom later than eighteen or twenty with such women for mothers it is not difficult toj to judge of their ep children hildren F from rom ten kenderest tender derest est cst ages often from five or six years they are trained to that round of labor in which their lives are doomed to be spent the first stage is blowing the bellows and next they are taught to forge the smaller kinks of nails the hours of labor are dreadfully prolonged often exceeding sixteen hours per aday day the rate of remuneration is very fe low jow 0 w and the homes are consequently wretchedly poor entering one of them late lately ly I 1 saw the father mother and eig elg eight lit so sons ns and daughters all toiling tolling in a small ill lii ventilated dirty hovel it was growing late in the evening and I 1 inquired ja Is it not time to cease your days work oh noa malster maister maisu malsi cr rejoined the mother weve a bolts afore us yet or therell be no bread ol 01 0 the loaf 01 0 sunday runday it was friday night audit and it was as I 1 learned a practice to work from friday morning until saturday afternoon without having more moro than short snatches of rest for foz meals while I 1 lingered a little fellow who could not have been more than eight fell from his work apparently exhausted but his father on observing it threw at him a hammer handl handle telling him with an oath to recommence his work he took oart no part in our conversation having like his big two eldest daught daughters erk erg a shori pipe in his hia mouth which seemed to him and them the calumet of peace this is by no means 4 solitary case hundreds of such instances are to be found of little boys and girls just emerged from babyhood ill lii fea fed ill clothed and overworked trained amid vulgarity and vice and in the densest gloom of of ignorance were it not for sunday bunday schools I 1 shudder to think of the future of these hapless children their lives could only be compared with those of the I 1 heathen in his blindness on whose behalf exeter hall is plea piea pleading d ll 11 so eloquently during this month of M may ay I 1 visited a sunday school in the na I 1 in district a few sundays ago and fo found U rii there a multitude of these little christian savages they were lustily singing ng a hymn as I 1 entered which is very popular in the district rather I 1 suspect because it goes to a lively tune than because many of the children can heartily appreciate the sentiment of the wa ads I 1 ithane the goodness and the arace which on my birth have smiled and made me in these Christian days A happy english child iwas I 1 was not born horn a little littie slave siave ve to labor in the sun and wish I 1 were but in the grave and all my labor done A feeling came over me as I 1 I 1 looked 0 upon the crowd of wan pale faces and worn frames and compared that scene to the burden of the song of praise and I 1 could not riot help wishing from my heart that the contrast was somewhat more striking between a little slave siave and these happy E english children in other branches of the hardware and metal metai trades thi tho the evils pf af child labor equally abound especially in the foundries japan works and nud tinplate tin tip plate plato factor ies jes but as a a ruie rule they are less aggravated I 1 in the large establishments than yhan in the sni smaller aller alier workshops RESOURCE RESOURCES PF FARM MANURE thise kim nim subject 51 1 ia is always in order among fari farl banners pers whose soil has been lon ion gunder long iong under cultivation and ana its fertility part partially filly exhausted western farmers oc occupying epps eppy a virgin soil who a few years since thought there was no use for it and j moved their barns to get out of the way of its accumulation begin to see the 1 utility of saving and applying it they find that better crops are raised with it I 1 shall not attempt to suggest anything new for it would seem impossible after all that has been said and written on the subject I 1 but a frequent iteration reiteration ic of similar 13 precepts may induce some one to adopt a better system of saving and applying his manure does tile the reader make the tile most of his hid resources Is there nothing left that can bo be converted into fertilizing material when every resource is exhausted then it is timo tim sto to resort to commercial fertilizers how is it rith eith with the hogpen hog hod pen Is that well supplied with good material to absorb the liquid as well weli ell eil as ammonia A k free supply will tend to keep the hogs bog s clean and furnish a quantity of rich manure then there is the privy which is too frequently allowed to waste its 10 ammonia instead of having absorbents to fix it A tight vault into which dry muck plaster loam kec kee fec c may be introduced tri trod and arid mixed will supply several loads of good superior to what the market affords with little labor the hen roost will supply several barrels barrel of good guano of the quality of which there is no question when home manufactured by supplying dry loam plaster ac with frequent overhauling A pit so constructed that it may receive all the slops and wash from the house without waste will by filling in loam muck fine coal dust ac give several loads af 0 f rich material suitable eto to be bead applied to any garden or field crop chopi wood ashes comported composted com posted with dry muck or loam bones broken and mixed in a cask with fine loam and kept constantly wet with urine will dissolve and make good bone phosphate then thon oftentimes animals die from accident or disease which may be converted into manure by being cut up and comported composted com posted with some of the various various absorbents to be found on every farm urine of all ali kinds is the most valuable of manure and should be saved by having absorbents applied as bedding when it ia is convenient velli veni ent stables should be so sp arranged as to lotse be drained into pits or tanks were lvere every farmer to save what is at pr present besent wasted the inquiry where shall ahall I 1 get fertilizers for my ground that I 1 may have the wherewith to gr grow w good crops would be less frequently eard heard boson boston cultivator A zoological curiosity the jardin on in aris laris has recent ly been enriched by a species of guinea hen from australia called the by the natives it bears hears a strong resemblance to the vulture vui ture turp and procures the hatching of its eggs by what may bo be called artificial arti fical heat in a curious way in the be beginning linning of spring ngit it collects all the vege vegetable able auie refuse it can get into a heap for the site of which it generally selects selects the shady side of a hill bill round hound t thia this ig heap it lays its eggs each five or s six bix x inches apart from its neighbor with ti tho the le bl big i g extremity turning upwards it then buries them under the refuge refuse three feet deep and lets the heat generated by the putrefaction of the vege rege vegetable table tabie matter latch hatch them it has never been ascertained how the tho little ones got oat out of their strange prison p lis ris 0 but when they thoy do they are fledged c d i ed and able to ry fly FAMILY TRAGEDIES ift itt it seems seenia that murders of entire fai fal families nilles are ara becoming becoming frightfully numerous in the ull mil united to states first we had the deering tragedy near philadelphia and the deerfield deer beer field murder in tennessee the thie perpetrators petra tors of which had h a remarkable i resemblance to each other the shuffling gait the light hair the boyish countenance and even oven the absence of the thumb of the right hand band then was announced the tragedy tra tri edy in york count county y arid the murder murde r 0 of a I father and a son in in arkansas and now how we vve have in west baden orange county indiana the murder of a family of four persons t killed to prevent heir testifying a against I 1 list their murderer t A who was soon to be tried for arson in this latter case the murderer has been arrested bu but everi even arrests and convictions and nd executions do not seem to prevent the occurrence of df these terrible family butcheries but cheries the marq mere description of which is almost too horrible for belief A SIGN OYTHE TIMES edward RD J AD ajl THE JEWS now that the oaths amendment bill has become law of the land hind and t the I 1 last of intolerance has im been 1 wiped v out from r nr tile the statute book 1 a glance glauce at the legislation in refer reter referenced reference eilee erice 1 to the jews as etwas it was lu the second half of the century may not be uninteresting the penal laws jaws passed under edward L I 1 are as characteristic e of bf his age ag as the acu act of parliament equalizing all parliamentary anial dutary oaths is of that of queen victoria JuA Juat contrast the tho two codes under edward ed ward 1 I it was wa enacted I 1 1 no jew howshall Jews Jow shall liall come for or depart from england without license on pain of death 0 2 no jew shall walk or ride without ith sut a yellow badge upon his or eer her outward va r d or upper garment on pain of deatle 3 no jew shall contemn jesus christ nor blaspheme his bis divinity on pain of being ident b arnt 4 no jew shall 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