Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, November 10, 1872, Page 5

THE CHICAGO ur TRIBUNE: SUNDAY, OVEMBER 10, 1872 1855--1872. Sixteer Years of a City Re- tormatory. How Goodman Nichols Gath- ered His Gamins in 1856. Soiuc Yetes of the Chieago Reform School-- Tho Closing Report of the Lato Board of Guardians. IWhat Bad Boys Cost the Com- munity in Which They Live One cold November day in the year of our Lord cighteen hundred and fifty-five thero was an unusual stir in the Court Housc Squaro, es- pecialiy centering about the basement corner where was the old Police Conrt. The dingy lit- tle cells were filled with streot gamins collected from all parts of the city. The policomen came and went, swept here and there, and that night the alleys and choice warm locations under the ‘bridges,and enug covorts under the highwooden eidewalks Jost their occupants, for the poor un- fortunate little strect waifs were to begin & new regime. The mester spirit of tho occasion was Rev. D. B. Nichols, a large-hearted, simple- minded clergymen, with his heart so full of love for the boys that the sentiment gushed all over him. Me had been appointed Superintendeat of the Chicago Reform School, Len being “established by the City of Chiza- g0, 85 & 6chool, or place for the education, em- ployment, and reformation of all children in said city between the ages of 6 and 16 years, who were destitute of proper parental care, growing up in a state of mendicancy, ignorance, idlences, or vice.” No one doubted that, under some one or the other of these classes, so described, there were enough of tho small unfortunates in Chi- cago to give the school a respectablo start in life, so far as numbers were coucerned. On the November day in question, therefore, good Mr. Nichols got bis outfit. A rare et they _ were. Do you know that there are few sadder eighis in lifo than a.bad little boy? Think of the capacities, the possibilities, the alarming certainties of a fature of crime bound up in these littlo ragged strect-cditions of bumanity. That little fist, now not larger then & wren's claw, is hardening for deeds that may fill the zolumns of criminel horrors, Community has begun to find that criminals are among ourmost expensive citizens, if you take only tho tax- payers’ view of the subject. Goodmau Nichols <was an optimist, however. He always faced to- ward the better posibilities. His kindly chimes were elways of the sort that rang “ Turn again, Whittington, turn again, Whittington, Lord 3ayor of London.” He was always hunting for future American Presidents and predestined George Stephensons under ragged small jack- ets, and insisted that the bare, bruised little fect might be ghod to run for all that was glorious telow and godly abov > We remember when he called the roll of his first fifteen boys ; sad gutte:-gnipes in tho eyes of the policemen,—how they chcered, and howled, and made the welkin ring in the Court House sard, while the bills of lading were being made up fortheir now destination. Mr. Nichols' element of hopefulness came in quite a8 strongly in tho matter of selecting a location for the new insti- tution. No one Lut he would have dreamed of finding any utility and remaining valuo in the fwslorn woodon shell, rickotty and rattling, tha old Cook County Peor Hoase on the lake thora at Cleavervillo, nea¥ the site and on_the same grounds with the present Reform School build- ings. The Poor Farm at_Jefferson had taken thie place of tho old esteblishment in our suburbs, vhich bad beon left to fall in- to a frightfully dilapidated condition whon Mr. Nichols brought Tis ragged squad into its occupancy. There was no such thing as prison discipline attempted, or even posai\fe, but, had there been, the mew Superintendent resorted only to the law of love. And the boys loved bim. It is & fact, woll remembered, that Mr. Nichols and his Loys were quite & Happy Family of the rares show order. Mo mover wearied Dbimself in chanting the praises of his pets, and they loved him after a shaggy, uukempt pat- tern. So the Chicago Reform School was estab- lished Nov. 30, 1855. A month lster, ono night of intense, bitter cold, when the very air scemed to pelt you with its stinging particles, lashed by a winter tempest, ike overheated stoyes made necessary by the jutense Tigor, st the old Poor Houso ablaze. It bumed 'like a_brush heap, and &0 suddenly that_good Mr. Nichols aud his boys £to0d alwost litorally in their shirts on the opon sLore, tiaukfal for only so mucb, for of a verity their peril of a borrible death by fire came g0 near that it brushed tbem with its wings. Six- teen years ago Cleaverville was only tho Bparso neigliborhood of soap factory, and smelled liko 2n Gxaggerated wash day. Residents wero not prmerous, and it was no small undertaking to fud ehelter fora brood thus pitilessly turned over to Curus, Notusn and Nox all at once. It oked as if the Chicago Reform School bad died, aged one month. But Superintendent Nichols was not to give up his boys. Tho very next day hohad them Tocatedazain, and vas as cheerful and happy a8 if . 2y were all (ho sons of a king and he & rand Almoner. Oa the lake shore stood, where it will stands, an_ old browers, aud thither went the ~_ forlorn troop. The _boys stuck to Goodman Nichols like burrs. They might have run nway, but they did not, keld as they were by the magic withes of kind- aesa. Quife toolittle of that kind of harnessing in this world. In the old Lrewery the boys cossed the winter. In the spring the Cily ‘athers began the buildings which grow into tho Chicago Reform Schaol, nover pretontious, inexpensive always, ouco ubd agaiu visited by partial destruction from flre. Hince that time tho school has been one of our city institutions. Mr. Nichols rotained_his Superiniendency until 1860, 1lis uceess did not grow more ehining a8 his_sphero increased. The ghepherd caunot ather all the lambs in his bosom, pretty as the guro may ecem, und as the first Superintend- ent bad really uo other ]\uhc", tho lambs that rouldn'’t be carried, got iuto thickets, eut up all manner of gambols, and in four years' time, alay, it was demonstrated that much as this ghty world nceds Love, it must have Disci- liug. At tlo outsct Mr. Nichols used to punish imself to move the penitenco of the boys. 1lo would sit and cat a dry crust before them, wa- tered only with his gontle tears, becuuse thuy were nouzhily, and at the outset of the expori- ment it is +ud tho urchins broke down at tho eight. But it was ouly a transient influence, wnd tho Board of Guardinns, with the kindliest regard for the firt Superintendent and founder of tho Institution, put George W. Porkins in his placo iu 1860. From 1860 to 1868, Mr. Ierkins, the ‘lrcncm Buperiniendent of the State Reform School ut Pontiae, held coutrol of tho ufairs of the Chi- cago Reform School, which porition ho resigned for “the Wardenship of the State Tenitentiary et Joliot, Robert Tauruer succeeding him, and’ remaining b his post until tho fmd roturns of the institution were handed in and its Tovord of ncfuluess closed, in what is now be- fore us, the Sixteenth and’ Final Keport of tho Board 'gf Guardians of e Chicago Reform Behool £6 tho Common Council. e Chicago Ticform” School is no more. In accordance with a modification of the Slate Inws the boys wero sent to the Poutiac School in May Tnst, and the entire furniture and fixtures of (lo institution were gold at auction in Augnsi, the real estato m\'urtiufi to the county. The Reform Schoo}, thrgughbout | ad its encmics, persistently its opponchts, but it is' not our Purpod here to revive & matter 80 frequently ditcussed. The iesug,is & past one. Tho results are stuted in the report, as follows : ) “First, Thé Supreme Court of this Stalo rendered sécivion, declaring the I which fave s the power to “are for the ignorant, destitute, "etcy, Al wmd il Tereby restraining tho {ustitutiou fron: continuiug to Jerforia the abject for which it had beex called futo ixistence; o, in other words, tho ignorant, the idle, De destitite, had to become crimiunls befero they Zoud logally be placed in _the Reform Schools. Tuls {oft the Doard of Guardizus almost powerless to carrs >n the work of reformution to » succesiful iseue, for 3n the very day that » boy's, seutenco, expired (uter Jhe decision all fumates were committéd for a stated ferm) thclr guordiansbip over him coascd. They could not offer tho same inducements and rewsrds for continucd gooil behavior us they had heretofore, nor ‘onld they, under the _ohove decision, perform_their entire duties an guardians, according to the law by Which they held their appointment, Second. Tn September, 1871, the city and_county au- thorities concluded £n arrangement ‘whereby the. city on hier part agreed to remove the inatitution and de- tiver up the grounds aud improvements to tho county Oct. 1,1872, and {he enuaty authorities agrecing on Gacir part topsy tho City of Chicago tho sum of $50,000 for all improvenicits on the premires known 25 the Reform S.hool grounds, Immediately after the above coutract was arranged, the Board of Guardians (notwitlistauding the legal difficulties they had o en- counter, for they “hoped, at that time, to have them Tighted) commeiced to 1ok out a nev location on whiteh {o build, but the fire eame and changed things very materially. Third. The firo of Oct.9, which lnid onc-hird of our city in asbes, combined with the decision of the Supreme Court, and tho giving up of our buildings to the county in October, conld I6ad to but one inference, which the Board wero ot slow to adopt, for at their first meeting on Oct. 16, 1871, a resolution was passed, urging upon our Representitives, at Springficid, the necessity of introducing a bill, providing for the {rane- for of the sentenced ‘nmatcs of this_institution to the State Reform School at Pontiac, which bill, a previously stated, came into operation May 21, 1872 Some facts deserse to bo stated presented in this sixteen avma' history of tho institution. In that period, 1,234 boys wero the subjects of its care. Of these, 531 wero Irish, 217 of Amer- ican parentage, and 218 German. Tho eges of & Jarge majority of thesc subjects werc from 12 to 15 years. Petit larceny is set down as the causo of ‘arrost in neatly onc-half the entire number of cases. More than onc-third were sons of widows. But 30 have died in_the institution in the whole period. For tho whole time, it is noteworthy, thet Hon. Mark Skinner, E. S. Wodsworth, Josoph H. Gray, and E. H. Sheldon have been members of the Board of Guardians. The total expenditures of the Chicago Reform School, in the sixteen years of its existence, were £52,797.15 Deducting receipts from industrial department, and the value of improvements, and the total current expenee is $339,707.50, ranging from $4664 in 1856, to £40,635 in 1867, tie year of largest ex- penditura. 1t i3 not 80 easy to present tho balance-column of this expenditure. The msged little mudlarks that were bland Mr. Nichols® first charge have ueen gixteen yeara oll over their heads, and huve, some of them, it is known, entered upon lives of usefulness. Indeed, Mr. Nichols used to dampen with frequent tearsof joy avol- ume of manuscript letters from "his boys abroad, and probably docs so yet. though of Inte years his pets have taken a darlker shade, Tor ho has been long a worker among the Freed- mon, and is now Librarian of their College in Washington. o Community is still turning out bad boys to ripen into bud men, and the roformatory process maust keep even pace with the other funictions of our social schome. Only we now send our Chi- cago gamins to Pontiac, and the State of Tllinois foots the bills—one circumstance we shall not re- grot, until wo have wiped out from city oxpense- account all traces of the Great Fire. ————————— SEWARD. Clarum et venerable momen. My soul forth from her humble hall Steals nute and trembling. The pall Of greatness gorgeously o'erwrought with wee, Has passed ; the wondrous wave Ofpublic pageantry, solemn, and grand, and slow, With scemly splendor Lore him to an honored grave Yet, O my soul, 'tis meet—tis meet; Lay tho soiled *andals from thy feet § Tu holy Lueh of tisilight thoughts, draw near. So, bare thy brow, and stand With reverential love; thy friend reposes her Weep ler him soltly, aad sirew flowers wi band. pious What matter thongh {he toagues of Fame, Adown the long years, {rill Lis name, In Liarmonies atfuncd to noblest thought And nweetest charities The grand heroic deeds his will and wisdom wrought ‘His tollful life, replete witl virtuous victorias ? Tilustrious dead ! who held thee dear, Tair Liberly! whose spirit’s ear, i ot listen now with glad surprise il s feet _ nutumn leaves; Wwho, from the warm . Tat «kics, Looks .. vingly,—for Heazen and Earth do eometimes ‘moet. Look thou, O Union, sore bereft! What bright exarople has o left | Ewrap thee in his shining mantle—Peace; 8o shall thy sons awake Toone fraternal bendshake—feuds fraternal cease~ One common interest all unite, from Gulf ta Lal America! well-may’st thon bring Thy tears—tho choicest offerivg That ever graced tho proudest conqueror's shirine; Tiodow tha preclous pod | TTis {hine—ihe Fatriots grave—Humanity, tine, thine,— His n:\mfi, 'who lived for Freedom, Brotherhood, and od. VIDA VENTURE. FASHION. T.ace shawls appear to be again in style. onkoy skin will bo s fashionablé fur this winter. ZSpotted short veils, or voilettes, bave gone quite out of fashion. - The latest place formonograms s in the cor- ner of ladies’ veils. "~ Alligator leather is a fashionable material for goutlemen’s walking boots this winter. '~ linute diamonds are now worn for vest but- tons in full dress. " Tight-fitting sleoveless jackots of volvot will bo much worn over street costumes of silk dur- ing November. 2 Sixty-fivo new colors in dress materials have boon, introdueed to the notico of the fominine world this fall. ~Vinaigrottes are now made of dull gold, to represent a hunting horn, and hung at the waist belt, —The red leather belts worn for the past six months by our fashioable women are going out of stylo quite as rapidly a8 thoy came in. Monograms on note paper are larger aud mora elaborato than evor. 2 Bohomiau garnots, sot in gilver, are becom- ing fashionable for demi-toilette jowelry. >_The most populer round hat of the eeason is modelled after a Spanieh bull-fighter's Lelmet. 2 Blue and black aro tho only colors admissi- ble for gontlemen’s neck-wear this fall. —_Diamonds are now, to & great extent, sot in dull filigroe work. g " The latost thing in fruit-dishes is a hugo silver watermelon cut in points and lined with gold, tural flowers aro used for decorating the hair in Berlin, and from a coucentration of fash- jonables at tho opera a very strong and pleasant perfumo arises. —Roman scarf ashes continue tobe highly fashionable, aud_young ladics just from Paris tell us thoy arcall tho rage. _T,adies and gentlemen promenading together of afternoons this fall aro commanded by fash- jon to wall; arm in arm. ~ Tilod henrths, with glittering fire-dogs and lowing wood firos, have become vory fashiona~ Elo for back parlors and libraries. AL tho roully solect partios and recoptions of the coming seaon in Now York, wino will be banished me the tablo and no *“‘cold tea” pro- vided in tho gentlomen's dressing-room. Double-breastod jackets,—similar to thoso worn last_wintor,—will bo fushionsble among our Beau Brummols ouco more. Those of heav: cloth nre proferred, as thoy aro Bufliciontly thic to do away with overcoats, —All sorts of t‘xmurly-colorml Bohiemian glass aro now fashionublo for dinuer-gets. —It in_fasbionablo iith aristocratio young ladios of France to have their monograms em- Droidered on tho bottom of thoir bottinos. —Chignons nto_groviug higher overy day. Tull dross structurcs on Indies' hoads aro” archi- tocturally graund—cantlew in the hisir, in fact, ~The Gothic stylo (so cnlled) of jowelry is much in vogue. Itconsists of transpnront eu- amelling of various colors ot in gold lligreo work. —\White corduroy jackets, trimmed with black volvel, 6ro quito in favor for houso Wear among fasbionablo young Indics. —Thio latest thing in gontlemon's jowolry con- gists of nmall bronzes, modelled from the ai tiquo. A bonutiful sjecinion is o scar{ pin of the head and shouldors of the Apollo Bulvidere. —A Frouch fushion writor says: **Almost every yoar fushion adds anothor buttonto Ia- dioy’ kid gloves. ‘Thoy will reach to thoe cibow shortly, as in tho days of our grandmothers.” Yot ladios fiut roturiiod from Europo anmounce tho fuct by appoariug on the strects in most cecontrio garments and suits, which are roclaimed to admiring friends as the *‘very atost rago in Paris, my dear.” —Ladios' leathor belts are now worn three inchos wide, colored to match the toilotte, with alurgo bucklo of oxydized silvr, and s ‘short chain of the ssmo iuatorial, to which is sus- Pendod tho umbrolls, fan, bunch of keys or watel. At ono of tho Now York up-town_churches, aslate, containing o list of the weddings to bo celebrated during the week, is hung in the ves- tibulo every Sumiay for the boueflt of the young ladies of the congregation. A neat littlo gilt button-hook, with o tor- toise shell or agate haudle, is now carried by la- dics as & glove-fastener, and is much suporior to the lairpin. It sometimes has = handle shaped like the haft of & dagger, and worn in & TRussizn leathor sheath, swung by s eoupla of gilt chaint to, the bolt. "ENGLISH STATUTE-FAIRS. The 01d City of Warwick---An Anti- quarian and Artistic Para- dise. The Fair as- It Was and Is---Appearance of the Girls and Men. Picturesque-Grotesque Scenes ---The Merrymaokings. From Our Own Correspondent, LOxDos, Oct, 22, 1872 Amid the many cvidencos sround us of the ‘business-liko activity of the modern spirit, it is very deceitful to be now and then reminded of the leisurely enjoyments of the olden time. The annual Statute Fairs in England, dating from most ancient days, may scrve this purpose. Sucl fsirs are common in the Mother Country at this season of the year; and the last, and per- Taps the best, from our point of view, was held at Warwick on the Saturday following Michael- mas-Day. WARWICK is avery old city, and ils proximity to Leamington enables it to enjoy the dignified ‘repose of age. Leamington does the hard work of the district, receives visitors, buys and sells, and generally transacts business for all the country round,—leaving the older city but little more to do than tosit down and contemplate its own wrinkles in the glass of Time. Warwick is tho antiquarian’s and the artist's peradise,— full of local history for the first, and, for the last, of those precious “bits " of Liouse-scenery of which fine pictures aro made. You may hear there of charities many conturies old, and enter the dwellings of their foundors, ranged in delightfully quaint sirects. Seen when fow people are about,—2nd they mey e thus scen very often during the day,—these street seem to have mo sort of association with this age. The imagination readily peoples them with the gures of our earlier classical drama; but it costs 2 groat mental effort to fill in the ideal picture with the forms of to-day. Coun- cillor and jester, gallant and knight, may at any moment, it scems, atep forth to talk blank veree about tho many-colored lifo of the past. The modern dreamer most fortunately cannot seo himself, or his garb sud air would at oaco stamp Lim an intruder. Should another porson of tho period come in view; the anach- Yonism is as kecnly resented 2s thougha prompt- or or a call-boy had stepped in frontof a Shak- spearcan set-sceno. Even the newer houses are of the red brick of Queen Anne's time, and the offonco of thoir comparative youth is judicious- 1y cloaked in ivy and in moss. THE POOR have their share in this_inheritance of associa- tions ; and twelve peculiarly privileged old men of their number live eecure from want in a building which, sithough it is buta kind of alms- bouse, seems a very Palace of Delight to overy stranger visiting the town. Nothing finer in its way than this ¢ Loycester Hospital” is to-be scen in England. 1t stauds as it was left by the artificers of Queen Elizabetl’s time ; and its old oak cabinet and chairs are each worth a volume . of history. In_one of ‘its chambers hangs & scrap of Amy Robsart's embroidery ; in anotler Ring James I once sat down to feat, with Fulke Greville st the board. The carved Doar with Tagged Staft keeps Watch over the courtyard; and his efiigy, stamped in silver, <i8 stitched - to the cloaks of -ancient- pattern in which the + Brethren” walk abroad. An inscription over the refectory door reminds these aged pensioners that they should deal kindly one with another; 2 logend ruuning above the Master's porch says that rulers of men must be just. Itisa great thing for England to possess, along with Ler docks and warehiouses, these: sores of FINE OLD CRUSTED POETLY. T Warwick, tho logacy is rarcly diminished by the hands of innovation. The man who left the place alf-century ago would still find it the city of s youtly, Such a traveller, on catching pighit of the spire of St. Mary's, might with porfect propriety-yield to emotion ; if Lio were approach- Iug the chimneys of London in the like caso, it would be inoxcusable to shed u toar. " THE FAIR. As for the Tair, it has been greatly diverted from its original purpose. The old Statute Fair supplied ouo of the prime wauts of rural life. Tt offered masters and men in the aggrogate a ‘most their entire opportunity of communication for business purposes. Farms were fewer and farther apart them mow; advertising was - unknown ; #ud so it came to be & castom. sanc- tioned by statute, that on & given day, all mas- tors who wanted ‘servants, and nll servants who weoted masters, should astembloin the market pleco of tho provincial capital. ‘These mestings gradually assumed a festive character. The Liring was for & year; and it was natural that, after an cngagoment of that maguitude had beon concluded, the parties should seek a little divorsion. In_England, institutions rarely per- ish ; they simply change, Althongh farmersand servants in_time found other weys of making thoir wants known to each other, they continue TO ATTEND THE ANNUAL FAIR; but they came more aud more for amusemout, and less for businces, To-lay the hiring still takes place at Michaclmas; but they aroeffected mainly through the medium of the registry- oftices and the newspapers. But many of the good old-fashiioned sort of ervants stand in the market-place, if only for the fun of the thing; and somo few go there to seek engagements in the anciont way. Nearly overybody, in fact, finds somothing to his mind in the incidents of tho gathering. The thrifty rustic meets the potty chapman and laye in a storo of house- goods, and tho convivial rustic meots his fricod; it is_ oo sonual mar- keting for the one, aud an annusl rovel for the other. So that, on this October day of 1872, tho market-place seems just as full 3a it is said to havo been of yoro, and_long rows of men and women await th bidders for their service. Onue looks in vain for the typical peasants of porco- Inin paintings or of the stage. TRE GInis are by no means all rosy or plump; and if thoy weur pretty rustic Lats, it is only because that is the last fashion which' has reached thom from town. Their dross is a distorted reficction of tho London modes, wholly uncharacteristic, and therefore wholly ' unbecoming,—s jumble of styles: Tho ekiris of Rogent sireot and the hob- nailed boots of the field, this year's novelty in Dodicos and the ugly woollen * comforter” of il time. Thoir great hands are renderod doubl Comenicaons by baing ancased 1n bulgs cloth gloves of proposterous dse. Some of tho wear- S, indocd, seom all henda and feat, and may be said to bo porsons with a constitutional tendon- cy to oxtromes. But, side by sido with thoir pale facos nud shrunken bodies, aro young women of Horculean mould,—tho *strapping wenches” dear to the English matron's heart. This Michaclmas trip to Warwick is, with them, » first outlook on the great world; but their im- mobile features fail to givo oxpression to the wonder that must stir their hoarts. Stone statucs, transferrod from Thobas to Blooms- bury, 0~uld hardly scem loss sonsible of a change of condition. THE FARMERS' WIVES who hiavo como to inspect thom havo all the dav ing curiosity of the visitors to » museum. who look right into tha oyes of the naturcsque curi- ositios, withiout fonriug any answoring gazo of surprise or indignation. In thoir dross and gon- oral appoarance, thoso rustic dames staud mid- sy botweon tho farm-giriy and tho groat town- Iadicy, their common model. The younger ones havo bronght with thom certain little dnlity aira of gontility,—just littlo damagod, indoed, by tho jolting of “tho cartw, but still quito s offec: tivo for country-use as if thoy had been convoyod on carriage-apriugs from London. Their moth- orn, though not abovo tho vanitios of tho toi- lotfe, Lwvo a lnrgo resorvo of attention to bo- stow on the immediate business in hand. They quostion tho sorvan(-wenches as toage, strongth, and capabilitics, with the minutest earo, and, when thoy hoar of anything likely to -suit them, book tho names and addressos of Toferences, an tako all duo pracautions against dacoit and dis- appointment N THE MEN standing for hiro are & more entertaining study; for, unlike tho girls, who aro, in nearly all cascs, accompanied by reltives on guard, they are free to enjoy all the fun of the fair. They are more numerous than tho domestic servants, but they aro grouped with less precivion. They form knots of gossippers here and thero, and thoy Liavo sometimos to bo fetched out of the public houses to conelade s b indicated by little distinctive labels tied to ‘the batton-hole; a twist of whipcord for the wago) ers end plowmen i a tuft of wool for shepherds ; and, for the cowboys, a fow hairs.out of Sukey's Their callings aro |- tail. Porhps some young genius, with the un- devoloped germ of a steam engine or a volume of poems in his brain, is in the throug, and will hereafter date his first opening in life from his vikit to the Warwick “Statties.” 1t i a scene worth remembering by all, if only for its effects of THE PICTURESQUE-GROTESQUE. The men, like the women just noticed, wear no distinctive garb, but each is a coarae carica- tureof the dandyism of the capital. Afew ancients appear in the smock-frocks of their calling; the grest ‘majority are in shining biack from head to ecl, save for their green end yellow tics, which Larmonize to the eyo about a8 Well as cream and venegar to the palate, And this best suit of cloth is evidently no very modern iunovation, for one old fellow is comspicuous by a cut of coat dating from the reign of His Majesty George the Fourth. Words can hardly do jus- tice to this portentons garment and ifs wearer. The skin-tight slceves, made toehow off the rounded arm of tho bean, aore strained in all sorts of wmsightly angles over the poor plowmon's wrist and elbow- ‘bones. The great roll-collar which should gerve as au imposing frame-work, for the glories of the vest and tie, reveals notling but the wretched nnti~climax of & trip of hounet- riband twisted round the neck in & sailor’s knot. There is 2 waist to the garment, but nono to its owner. Poole might look on such 2 man aud die, a8 many another artiat has succnmbed under a shock to tho nice susceptibilitics of taste. But the rustic has the calm happiness of a ‘sene of erfect propriety. The younger oues ere more emonstrative in their joy. Men aro distinguished from the lower ani- mals in growing.insolent a8 they perceive them- selyes to be numerous. Five hundred sheep are 28 timid as one, but five hundred of the weakest and most downtrodden human beings on earth could not come together without manifesting & desire to © SQUARE TP" TO FORTUNE. The countryman, isolated in field-labor, has Tiere a sense of unity with hie clags: and it re- quires but & very little ale to make him look as though he would religh &'row with s policeman. His shouts of % Come on, Tommy,” to lagging Iriends, ere frequent, and they aro significant as the rough expressio of the universal man's de- light at the thought that he has a backer in_the world. The * Tommy " in question would, in general. make but a poor second in the strife with Fate ; but, where no contest is imminent, it is but natural that the utmost confidence should be felt in his powers. This new soul of valor in poor Hodge finds its werrior's joy in contests at THE PUNCHING MACHINE,— a figure of Robin Hood with & spring-cushion filled to the chest. You strike the cushion, and 2 dial-plate rogisters the forco of the blow in figures which stand for stones of weight. Ttis is a8 seductive a8 gambling. Hodgo strikes 30 stone; Giles strikes 30. ~ Hodgoe gathers him- self together for a mightier effort, and registers 31, 'There is o cloud on tho face of Giles,—a redcloud, for_he flushes with the supprossed Preathing of determination. His lips are as one straight-Yine with wrathful purpose. He delivers 2 blow which malkes Robin tremble in every Timb, aud sends the needle fiying round to 33. ‘At this juncture, it is quite on the cards that Hodge, carricd away by the associations of the Bport, may offer to fight him, and they will forth- with 'register their punching powers on each other's bodies until the police Intervene. Which- over way it may turn out, there will Le plenty of bustle and noixo, for sound and fury signify very much at fairs. Hero are the hawkers Dawling out & “new " ballad, ‘THE OUTLANDISH ENIGHT.” An outlandish knight came from the Northlande, *” And bie came wooing to me e told me he'd take me unto the Northlands, “And there he would marry me.” And g0 on, a8 ballad-hawkers have bawled out the sxme novely for the centuries since first the song was written. But_these little deceptions are readily tolerated at the Fair. THE ‘' CHEAP JACK” over there is known to be full of them, yet people crowd round his wagon for all that. Long abit has given the man the first requisite of ‘success in * public life;” he can seoat & glunce the'humor of his crowd. He serves them with ehilling pocket-knives, with sixpenny pairs of braces, and with fourpenny tobacco-pouches, in ‘quick succession, laying one article asido for an- the demand, for it would never do to let his cus- tomers be the firat to find out that they had had | enough. ¢tz IN THE MORE ENTERTAINING, a8 dintinct from the useful, parts of the fair, we have monstors, wild animals, and performing brutos, in the ususl variety. A womon in charge of & peop-show nurees & baby, plays an organ, and boats & drum, all at the same “time. Her heart is clearly in first-mentioned part of the work, though she contrives to throw a groat deal of physical coergy into hor musical ap- peals to the crowd. Somehow showmen seom more natural then others, because of the fine foil afforded by the artificialities of their calling. The question, HOW SHALL THE PEORLE EAT? hes been suswered by & speculative butcher, who invites the public to that old English ‘elicacy, * an ox roasted whole.” Those who Liasa once tasted this dish will never have their eef done suy other way. It is a samplo of a somewhat costly practice: First, buy your ox ; then bind him fast with chsing to a long hori- zontal pole, aud kindle & groat coal-ire againet a brick wall, built up some_three feet from the gpit. Puthim down atmidnight, and by 10 tho next moruing he will afford you 2 prime_cut of the jnciest beef. To kecp him from burning, wrap him up In newspapers, with the leading articles outside, 50 that the two lusty fellows who turn the handle of the spit may beguile the fedium of their tesk with ~mental im- provement. The beef 8 sold st sixpence snd o shilliog the portion. but those who are not satisfied with that fare may find a subtly-compounded delicacy olso- whare in the shape of a whelk laid out on an oyster-shell,—a dieh which belongs to the poe- try of good eating by virtue of its appeal to tho imagination. en all lave feasted their fill, snd the day's ghow of business is over, the: sorvants of both sexes moet in the large tap-rooms of the public- houses, where DANCING FETS IN with great severity to the music of the fiddle. But such festivities are not for the Muse of this history; ennufih that the Licensing law most forltmmtcly obliges them to terminate at 11 o'clock. SO TEIS WERE BEST. 1t seems (o mo that Mother Earth 18 weary fram eternal toil ‘And bringing forth by retied soil 1n all the sgonies of birth. Sitdown 1 sit down | Lo! it were best That we should rest, that sho should rest! Let buffalo porsess the land, Let fozes populato the towns, And wild deer wander through the downs, Here we will laugh, nor Lift a hand And lsugh that e ‘should ever care For flock or flold or manston fair ! No ship shall foundler in the seas, N soldier fall {n martial line, Nor miner perish in the mine. Hero we aball tent benesth the trees, Where wife nor maid sball wait or weep, . For varth shall slecp, and all shall slecp. 1 think we then shall all bo glad, ‘At least, 1 know we are 1ot iow § Not one. And even Earth, somehor, Beems growing old and over-sad. Thea fold your hande, for it ware beat “Fhat wo shouid reat, that sho should rost, —Joag == = A Burglar Teken from Jail and Lynched — Sndden Doath of the Jailer. From the Denver (Col.) News, Nov, 2, Afow days ago s mao named White was arrostad for burglarizing several rooms at tho Chiloott House, l'ugbla, nud turned him over to the authoritios thore. e was examined, end bound over in tho gnm of $4,400. With anda- cious cheok, be ploaded not guilty, alleging that tho property found in his posscssion was handed him by another party in Denver, and that he was ontirely ignorant of recoiviug stolen goods. It will be remembored that ho confessed to Sher- iff Cook having taken tho watches and tho money from the Chilcott Houso. His rido to Puobla made him forgot this circumatanco, After his oxamination he wat remanded to ail. * During the night of Thurkday, several partios unknown, took 1t into their hoads to dispose of White's caso in the most summary manner. Going to the jail, they effcctod an entranco by sume moans and bound _and gagged tho jailor, sftor which they took Whito from his coll an led Liim to & telograph polo sbout 200 yards from the court house, and thore hung him. " The bmii was discoverod dangling, bareheaded, barefooter and with no clothes except pantaloons and ghirt. The corpse hung there um‘\l noon, when it was cut down and interred. Tho rope used was o common clothes line. One of the most - singular features of this tragedy is yet to be recorded. The jailer, Mr. Briggs, who was in chargo of the jail, and who s'bound as above stated, died on yesterdsy, within ten hours after Whito was taken from the jail. It is eaid that his death waa.caused by, heart_disease, superinduced by tho éxcitement’ attending the transactions of the night befare. other with an insight that snticipates the {all of, RELIGIONS: ORIENTAL RELIGIONS, AND THEIR RELATION TQ UNIVERSAL RELIGION. By Swiven Jomy- 8o, Txpia, Boston: James R, Osgood & Co. Chi- cagd : Jausen, MeClurg & Co. Under tho investigations which Mr. Johnson gives us in this book lies the scientific apirit that is now nnimating modernrexearch, and giving our physicists and motaphyeicists o freedom of reach and freshness of result impossible in the dull. traditional circlo of suthority and unthinking faith. Somebody has &nid there are no golitary facts in Nature. Explorers in the realm of the material forces are showing, a3 Huxley has done, that the diverse phenomena of life are under- pinned by ope .great structarsl law. The microscopic fungi which swarm by mill- jops in a simple fly; the giant pine of California, of cathedral height; the Tudian fig-tree, shadowing ncres: the animalcules of mid-occan, sominute that miliions rmay dence on the point of a necdle; the Finner whalo, hugest of bensts, disporting ninety feot of bono and blubber on billows that would overcome & man- of-war; the flower that decks our maidens, and the- blood thet courses through their veins, are all bub varying com- binations of the samo essential germs. Tieat, and light, and electricity, and the luws of chemical combination, are believed, by the most advanced thinkers, to be cssentially one. Spencer bias developed the doctrines of evolution, till all thought, alllife, all matter, dre projected bacd Into analmost pro-deitate past, in which they exiated as_ identical ntome. Darwin end his school, in their studies, aro sugzosting the most unpledsant unities in gnimato nature, Tyndall js putting prayer on_the same physical Dasis 13 gymnestic exercisea. Buckle long go taught that, beneath all the vicissitudes snd variations of huraan action recorded in history ran the eame unifying and regnant laws for all men. Tn canrying into (ho study of human theologies this same Droad spirt of genoralization, i Johnson treads a path, not new, with such Tresh zoal, that his results bave all the charm of nov- elty, Tho point of application for his scholastic lever is India, and ho seeks to find, in its religions and_their effocts, support for his thoory that, under all the historic, traditioval, doctrinal, ceremonial, aud sentimental aspects of the world's religions, there_may. bo found tho msnifostations of one epiritusll purport of Na- ture,—ono universal religion. The studies presented in these volumes have been pursued for twenty years, The views they embody were mainly matured long 2go; but, with o patience significant again of his scien- tifio spirit, they were withbeld, as Newton with- lield the publication of hix theory of gravitation, till the disclosures of later _inquiry fortified the theory with facts. “ Oriental Religions” is written, not in advocacy of Chiristianity, or Bud- dhism, or any other diatinctive religion, but to elucidate the religions sentiment under all its great historic forms. Another generalization, Shich is in barmouy with those " of other sci- ences,—as where DeTocqueville teaches that all governments are rising to and - when Bastint shows that oll men are approaching the same level, and that the lovel 18 always rising,—is Mr. John- son's theory, that, among all religions, there is & movement towacd uity, on & plan whero all their distinctive differencas will disappear. Ar. Jolnson says that the distinction between «gacred” and “ profane” history, interpret as we will, vanishes forever a8 we look into the bistorical _derivation of ancient mytholo- gies, which sre only crude dreams of 'man's relations to the Infinite. The same fate bofalls the claims of special relig- jons to have_been given to men porfect from the first, and to have becn possessed of rovela- tions Divine, snd, copsequently, complato and final. In this view, *profane history” is a mis- nomer. If anything is from God, all must be, and all things, mundene and supernal, must bo of Divine origin. _Millions of men, in all races, Rave been pressed on,by their intuitive spiritual promptings, ‘to look into the problems of origin, lifs, sud future and 'to give expression, in some form, to_their imperfect in= sight. Civilization, our anthor says, is founded on Clristianity only as s single one of many forces; but the whole process of growth is & process of Divino force. There is mo point Where the Deity enters, either in religion or other cosmical growth, for there is no point where he is absent. What is_ distinctively called Christiani- ty, Mr. Johnson claime, is but one step in. sn _ever-unfolding evolution, or development in bumsn thought; earlier and Iator beliefs are, and are right, by the same warzant of buman nature that justifies Chris- tianity. There is, between all roligions, an ce- sential harmony of origin aud function, al- fl.\nu‘ghbstwecn the defenders of the faith at the’ front, thore Lia over beon porverse misun- derstanding and conflict. Our author's sense of justice is touched by the partiality which seems tobim to_have been shown to the Christian creed at tho expense of other faithg, and ho pro- poses, a8 part of his task, to ‘placo them on their real morits before the conscienco of & civilization which has, uatil very recently, ox- pended almost all its hospitality on the claims of Cristianity alone.” He ropresents the re- action against the assertions, that moral and ro- ligious truth liad no oxistenco before the Clris- tian epoch, as if the Sermon on the Mount in- troduced into humanity the love and trust it taught; that beliof in immortality camo into the world through the teachings of the Now Testament; that tho virtues of Pagan philos- ophers wers, as Calvin smisbly charged, hypo- critical; that the Swskrit language and litera- ture were, as Dugald Stowart szid, inventions of Drabmans; that all that was noble and Divine in Lieathen religions was imported from the He- Drew books. ‘Lhe older religions ghould now be studied in tho light of their own intrinsic values, “in the maturity of ecience, with something of the tendorness we fecl for our own esr- liest intuitions sud emotions; with & re oront use, too, of thoso faculties of im- agination and contemplation which are our renl way of mccess to essontial relations and etornal trutbs.” Religious _philosophy, for Hastance, must look into tho religions toleration provailing in China from antiquity, to dacide whether there was not initthe gorm of the highost spiritusl digoity attained in Europo or America. The self-abnegation of the Buddhists is equal. in practical benevolence, and in ardent zeal for ideal dovelopment, to tho finest aspira- tions of our day. Hven in the ‘“ecle- ment-worship” of the early ans s s germ of Monotheism which destroys the claim of tho Shemitic Hebrows to the ex- clusive depositarics of the doctrine of One God. “Thus tho cardinal virtues and beliefs belong not to_ ono religion, but to il religions; and the diversities of forma into which each of theso ideals is broken by differences of race and oul- ture do not affect its essential identity in them all. We everywhero find ourselves at home in the worlda great faiths, _through their common sppeal to what s nearest and most familiar to usin solving tho ot facta and relations wikh which the soul is oreyor called to deal. Everywhere wo groot es- sontial meauings of the unity of God with man, of fate and frocdom, of sacrifice, inspiration, progress, immortality, practical duties, and hu- manities, just as we everywhore find the mys- torios of birth and denth, tho bliss of loving and sharing, thie gelf-respect of moral loyalty, the strose of ideal dosire.” equality, Theso Divine _ insights, which have boen appropristed exclusively by Chris- tinns, aro found sgitating tho crudo, social systoms of Asis, and have illustrat- o thoir universality by tho onergy with which they have pormeated early Oriontal mations. Theso Divino insights and aspirations, under all religions, aro but tho humanitatian senti- mont, which socks in_religion, in domocracy, in social reform, in culturo, to Droathe into”our philosophy of Tife that oldest windom : tho wls- tow of lovo, and that great principlo: truth, whatover be it cousoquencos. Whethor thoseinventigations, conducted by Mr. Johnson in this spirit, are. orare not, -in har- mouy with tho dominant religious thought of thin day, tho reviewor doos not hesitate, without in any way stauding sponsor for thom, to com- mend them to all who lovo scholatly resesrch, and aro willing to woigh their statement tho philosophic mood of Horbort Spencor, who bas fald: The profoundcet of all infidolity is the four lost tho truth be bed,” e Alpine Climbing—Ascents During the Pant Summer. A Gonova lotter to tho Now York Post says : #7'he mountain climbers have beon as busy ns usual this summer. The summit of the Fins- teraarhorn lias been iwico attained after in- credible difticulties. In both instances the travellers’ lives were endangered by a frightful tourmente. ¢ \Tywo young Amoricans ascended the other day from Bex the Dent du Moncle. The youngest was but 15 years of age. They re- mained all night at the village of NMoncle, and at 43. m. bogon the'nscent. “For a short distance, at the foot of the peak, they followed a chamois track over sharp stones on their hands and knees. Tho latter part of the way is up an a'most perpendicular . wall, but by--noon the yaunganb of the party had . surmounted it and stood, ‘“Young America “ in propria per- sona. on the-very summit, The view is gaid to e very fine and including seven la] scénding they T In de- | sonted themselves on the glacier of Jidtinet cna took suclt o wlide s their young Dbrethren in Bostor or Portland would like to at- mede ¢ The Last Touanament” s gloomy co- nundruom. The featurs will be noticed. the number of lines that are wholly monosyllabic. TIn lsying aside the littlo volume 1t is with & re- fompt, They timed (hbmolves, snd made o | grob that itis tho Ist of the Arthurian idylls, for mile o minute. Whother thov ate; or conldhiave | for mavy of which thers seemed to be abundant Dbeen right in their calculationd, and whatweld | moterial. have become of them, if_they had not léet, we ‘Howaver, at 8 o'clock st Bex, and that same do not protond to say. they werein the bith of evening tle pet lions at a b2l 4 Tho glacior botween Pitz Hosctesh and tho Deraina to climb, which has often beeil i vain attemptcd, was 280 ascended last month by Gussfield,’ of Derlin. teel Yigh, Iad to every omo of along. Indecd. their of it thoy wero obliged to dnscond and rest the night on the Alp morning they resume 0 sovere wes thin part A wall of ice, 1,000 be climbed by steps, ich wes cat ss they went labor, that after heving accomplisied Lalt Misauu. Early the next their Iabor, however, and e | FUN. A pioas Oregon woman wants & divorce from Ter husband Because he shot, on Sundsy, a bear that was kitliag bis hogs. 4 —\Why should one bs cautious about confiding & seeret to his relations? Decauso *binod will tell.” —The first exclamstion of an American beile on entering the cathodral ab Milan, was, # Ob, what a chutch to get married in!” 2 Woman ought to do all she can to make this world a paradise for men, as iv wes all her fault he losf the other. of for o Bitle S(tor noon reaclied fho swmmit. Among | —Smallboy (at play with pop-gnn, to sensi- fl1o%6 swho have ascended Mont Blanc are » gen- | tive eldaily goatloman): +Does, thidnoies so- tloman 60 years of age, and three young English | BCY, ¥oU, e erly goutleman: girls, the “eldest of whom is but 21, soungeat 14, as far as the Grands fatigued, was persiaded to go no further. TENNYSON'S NEW POEM. Gareth and Lynettes Frow the New Yori: Enening Post. and tho Their Tittle sister, nged 12, weat Mulcts, but seeming my bog. 1t sounds liko 4 > —¢Remember, I know morality,” said an actress to Dumas fits, * Yes, madam, as robbers Inow the police,” was the reply. —If your ncighbor's hens are troublesome, and ateal across the way, don't let your angry passions rise : fix 5 place for them to lny. —Railors are not necessarily waking plum- duff when they aro stemming the cutrents. ¢ Brodder Dear,” said a colored elder to his the pop of & cork. e 2 tor; * 't yo preach once without The Asthurian idylls ato mow complete. A | White Rasiot, \CAmd each onco with prefatory note to the present poem, which comes ;‘:hLtflka?!;z‘;fflx;!:i‘n??:fis'}%?;; an’ giv s one Prom tho press of Mossru. James K. Osgood & | 947 10 % i 5 Co., tells us that, in the sequence of the legends # (fareth Follows The Coming of Arthur, and the Last Tonrnament precedes Guinevere.” willbe for & deliberate and earefal criticism taking the whols wonderful series togsther, snd judging of the relation of the several p the whole, to assign *The Idylls of the King” wrings of tho pres- its proper place among the ent Laureate of England. Whatever may tho result of such general jud vere” will probably be reckoned the ent, “ Gine- finest pieco A wealthy gentlematr, who owns & country seat, nedrly lost bis wife, Who fell into a river \hich flows through his cstate. Ho announced the narrow escape £ his friends, expecting their congratulations. One of thom, an old bachelor, rote a8 follows: I always told you that river wag too shallow. '—A somewhat illiterate gentleman up towo has named his dog Michael Angelo, cn the sup- position that Mr. A. was ono of the old mastids. A colored gentleman went to consult ono of It to be in 2] T the most couscientious lawyers, and, after stat- e, et Tometie® mil Bso | 0 Nis case, said, * Now, AT —— T know you'e Thain smong bis minor offorts, yot deemed wor- | 3 lawyer, but % ish you ould plasss, o, jise e Ao % Pelloss and Bitarre” or © The Last | toll me do truft 'bout dat matter. Tournament ” to be part of the warp and woof of the wondrous tapestry. The story is of a youth, son of Lot and Belli- cent, who, thus royally born, is not permitted to imself a knight by deeds of arms, but ept ingloriouely tied to the Queen's spron- Gareth chafes at this the more because 4o brothers already enrolled *in that fair order of tho Table Round,” and entreats his apntote string. ho has mother to let him go to Arthur’s Court. She fuses, upon one or another gratext, for a time, oubt a8_to Arthur's right to the crown, many supposing him to be & changeling, but Gareth Tojects thesuggestion of roven " the rightful King with citation tolling him there is oven & “ not. of his kingly decds : “ Not proven, who swept the dust of ruin'd Rome, From off the threshold of the reatm, and crush’d ‘The Idolaters, and rade the people free Who should be King save him who makes us free ™ Bellicent at last, to stop fnrther entreaty, con- scnts that Gareth shall go to Arthur, but only to assume 2 menial position in the household, little dreaming that he will so degrade himself— 4 Prince, thou shalt go disguised to Arthur's hall, ‘Aud Lire thyself to serve for ments and drinks ‘Among the scullions and the kitchen-knaves, ‘And thiose that hand the dish across the bar. Nor shalt thou tell thy name to any one. ‘And thou shalt serve a twelvemonth and & day.” Tt is indeed o hard condition to impose upon the high-spirited boy. Bilent awhile was Gareth, then replied : #The thrall in person may be {ree in soul, And T shall see the jousts. Thy son am I. ‘And rince thou art my mother, must obey. I therefore yield me freely to thy will; For heneo will 1, disguised, and hire myself TTo serve with scullions and with kitchen-knaves; Nor tell my namo to any—no, not the King.” Gareth, then, taking with him two compan- all throo clad a8 reach Camelot, which has fiashed upon_ them from_sfar through the mist, md cisappenred snd Sealed sgain, no- it an_onchanted city, and en- ious, sets out on his_journey, tillers of the soil. They til they believer toring its gatewsy, richly wara of Arthar, fects their disguise, but lots them pass. & hun s city.” heretofore, is glorious with well-get wor and lovely images, such a8 belong to Tennyson the palace, Garath ir Kay, tho Seneschal, and sponds s month amopg tho pota and pans, ‘him from the promisé of scullionery. The youth then in heart of hope approaches the King and begs the opporiunity alone. At length, reachin is consigned tothe care of when his mother releases him for distinction in knightly prowess. 41 have staggered thy strong Gawain in 8 tit For paatime ; yoa, he said it : joust can L. Makome thy knight—in secret lct thy name Bo hidd', and give me the first quest, I spring Like fiame from ashes,” - Here tho King's calm eyo Fell on, and checked, and made bim tlush, and bow Lowly fo kiss his hand, who answered him, 4 Son, tho good mother let me know thee here, And sent her wish that X would yleld theo thine, Mako thee my knight ? my knights are sworn in vows Of utter hardthood, utter gentleness, ‘And, loving, utter faithlessness in love, ‘And uttermost obedicncs to the King." Then Garetb, lightly springing from his knecs, My Ring, for batdibood I can promise thec. For uttermont obedience make demand 0f whom ye gave me to, the Seueschal, No mellow master of the meats and drinks1 ‘And as forlove, God wat, I love not yet, But love I shall, God willing.” The_ King _accedes, follow and that Lancelot shall be sent by Arthur to rele: her. These bandits guard four passes of river that runs in_loops around Catle Perilous, #nd, in Lynette's langnage: # Three of these, Proud in taeir fantasy, call themaclves the Day, AMorning Star, and Noon Sun, and Evening Star, Boing strong fools, and never a whit more ‘wito Tho fourth, who a{waya rideth arm'd in black, ‘A huge man beast of boundless eavogery, Ho names bimaeif the Night, and oftener Death, And wears » helmet mounted with a skull, ‘And bears a skeleton figured on bia arma. To show that who may slay or ’scape the threa Slain by himself shall enter endless Night. ‘And a1l these four be fools, but mighty men, ‘And therefore T am come for Lancelot.” Instead of Lancelot Arthur sends Gareth, who is continually soubbed by Lynette as Kitchen knave, but who rejoices none the less in one yanquishes ‘The first thie proud mission, and one by these *time o’ day ” bsndits in turn. ho encounters is “ Morning Star,” whoso i ing at the hands of his_feminine’ attondants thue described or pictared in tints so exquisite {hat, in producing it, Tennyson, like the an in Dr. Holmes' little poem, must have taken sapphire pen and writ in rainbow dew " Then at his call, ** O daughters of the Dawn, And Bervants of the Morning Star, spproach, ‘Arm me ;" from out the silken curtain-folds ‘Parefooted and bareheaded threo fair girls Ingilt and rosy raiment came; their feet Tn dowy grasses glisten'd ; and the hair ‘Al over glanced with dewdrop or with gem. Like sparkies in the stone Avanturine. Theuo arm'd him i blue arme, and gave & shield Biuo also, and thereon thie morning atar, ‘And Gareth silent gazed upon the knight, Who stood & moufent, ore his horse was brought, Glorying : and in the stream beneath him, shone, Tmniingled with Heaven's azure waveringly, The gay pavilion and the uaked foet, His srins, tho rory raiment, and the star, Taving disposod of the threo guards of the aroth meots Lancelot, who rides incog., tilt with Lim is uohorsed of course, but atterward cloaves tho helm of tho Black Knight ortho Dark Knight, who calls himself Death, and out thoro comes the faco of & blooming boy, Pasucs, andina “ frosh as a flower now born,” orying 4 lay me not: my threo bretbron bade moedo it, To make & horror all about the houso, And stay the world from Lady Lyonore, They nevor dreamed the passes would be past.” This is, of courso, tho heppy ond of the 5y dogroos the {0 look on Garoth with loaguor of Iady Lyouors, and didnintal Lynatte 1 lod more favorablo eyos, which good fortune thus celobrates in song : « 0 Morning Star that amilest in the blue, 0 tar, my morning dream hath proven true, Smnilo Bwootly, thou ! my loved hiath smiled on me. 4 0 §un, that wakenest all to L 0 Moo, that layent all to sleep a) Shino sweotly : twice my love hatl paln, in, miled on me. “ @ dewy flowera that open to the run, 0 dowy flowers that closo when day s done, Blow aweetly : twice my Jove hath smlled on me. - @ 0 trofoll, aparkling on the ralny plain, O rainbow, with three colora after raln, 8hine aweatly: thrice my love hath smfled on me. Despite this tender lyric, howaver, it igleft in doubt whether Gareth married the Ledy of Cas- tle Perilous or her sister: And ho that told the tale fn older times Hays that Sir Gareth wedded Lyonors, But he, that told it later, says Lynette. *" The roader, recollocting the aids of Lynetto and the petalance she showed on the journey, will wish for Gareth that be should take the La- dy and leave Lynette io lead apes in a fature stato of existence. - This istics o sculptured With the they comeupor a seer who de- The description of Camelot, which wo remember in Sred felicitous touches as the dimrich but on condition thab Lancelot shall know of it, and then he charges T.ancelot, without Gareth's kuowledge, that, as the youthis yet untricd in fonts of arms, ho ghall him and rescue Lim from any serious danger that may impend. The Lady Lyonors is besieged in her castle by four mighty bandits, er younger sister, Lynette, comes to beg Foem is marked by all the besk character- of its author, but it is singularly {ree from inversions and perplexities of preterites, such a8 A loguacious blockbead, after babbling some time to Lord Erskine, observed he was afraid he was obtruding on his lordship's ear. _ Ob, not at all,” said Brekine; ** I have not been listen- i‘—A ‘barber in Titasville, while cutting thehair of rural customer, ran hisshears against some hard substance, whicl proved fo be a whetstone. The old farmer said he ** had missed that whet- stone ever since haying time last July, and had Jooked all over a ten-acre lot for it, bat now re- ‘membered sticking it np over his ear.” —At a funeral in New Jersey, the other day, a friend of the deceased asked permission to ruake fow remarks, When he got upon his feat he informed tho officiating clergyman that it wonld have made his Lair to stand on end to watch the corpse planking shed st a picnic, while it was a Woll-known fact that ho could shake s livelier leg in the Virginia reel than e'er amanin the whole West Jersey Conference.” The farmers then proceeded to the grave. —One of the saddest sights_in this season of the year (says the Danbury News) is & young men who has waited outside the church of an evening until he is chilled through. only to see his girl walk off with some rascal who has been inside all the time, toasting his sinful shins at tuestove. A —Sho tripped lightly o'er the crossing, lisping “Dear Augustus,” ad was on the poiwnt of em- ‘bracing him, when a rude boy ran up, and, hold- ing ont a bundle of papers, cried out, yon dropped your readin’ room,” and shied away down & dark alley. —Ono of the passengers upon the _Sound steamer *Metis,” attha timo of the disaster, wasan exceedingly mervous man, who, while floating in the water, imagined what his friends would do to acquaint his wife with his fate. Saved at last, he rushed to_the tolegraph offico, and sent this message: ‘Dear P., Iam saved. Break it gontly to my wife!” —A man advartised for a wifo, and requested each candidate to enclose her carte de visite. spirited young lady wrote to the sadvertiser ix the following terms: Sir, I do not enclose my carte, for, though there is some suthority for putting & cartbefore a horse, 1 know of none for putting ono before an aes!” —A singular episodo took placo st achurch near Momphis reoently, where a revival was go- ing on. During a very ilont and solemn part of the services, a penitont brother, who had been Testing bis aching brow on his pslm, suddenly ‘st&xtefi up, and _cried out in o loud voice: * I haveit! 1haveit!” Aniniquitons person, who waa_dozing_beside him on the seat, jumped to his feet, atill half aslecp, and said, with em- phasis, **Keno, by Gaorge!” A new dish is grape leaves fried in egg bat- ter ; it is called a Freuch dish. An oxchange re- marks: ** We can't think of anything that would bo more delicions than fried grape leaves, unless it is a circus poster on toast.” —A young lady, who is studying Frencli, Tnte- 1y wrote to her parents thut she was invited Sut to s dejewner tho day before,” and was * going to & fete champetre tho noxt day.” Tho profes- gor of the college was surprised to receive a despatch from the ‘ old man" aday ortwo after, saying, “L{youcan't keep my daughter away from these blasted n:enageries and side shows, I will come down and see what ails her.” —A rurel sport who tried to eat his pie with fork at one of the Titusville hotels. bocause a city girl waa sitting opposite, had the misfor- tune to hufiqnn his tongue ot the second mouth- ful, and in his offorts to pull out the fork upset a dish of cranberry sauce in the Isdy's lap. He sayahe ‘““don’t go ncent on_style now, and will shovel in his food in the old manner here- after, if Queen Victoria sits next to him.” —At & certain church fair, a set of Cooper's works was promised to the individnal who should snswer & et of conundrums. A dashing youn; fellow was pronounced the winner, and receive set of wooden pails. The young manraceived his reward with a sardonic smile, and would have been angry, but one of_the sweet-voiced sisters standing near suggested that they might bo useful for housokeepiy some day. The con- undrum eliminator suddenly discovered that the Iady had pretty eyes! —A lady who had received a severa bite on her arm from a dog went to Dr. Abernothy, buk y ‘hearing of his aversion to hear the statement of particulars, she mercly uncovered the injured part, and held it before him in silence. After examining it he said, in an ' inquiring tone, “Scratch?” “ Bite,” said theledy. ‘* Cat?” in- quired the doctor. ' Dog,” rejoined the lady. Ho delighted was the doctor with the brevity and promptnosu of the lady's suswors,” that he exclaimed, *Zounds, madam, you are tha most sensible womau I have met with in all my At Te- rds 856 the —Pioty aud business are very plessantly Blended n tho followiag copy of & cirular which it is sid has recently boon issued by & commercial firm in Bombay : “ Gentlemen, we have the pleasure to inform you our respacted father departed this life on the — inst. Hia | business will be continued by his beloved sons, whase names are stated below. ‘Thoopium mar- ket is quiet, and Malwa 1,500re. per chest. ‘O gravo! whereis thy stiog ? O death whare is thy victory 2 Wo are yours truly, —." * __In the days of question-books and **Mother Goose,” a bright boy, more familisr with the Iatter than the former, once ssked in the Sun- day School: “ Who wore thrown into the fiery farnace?” He couldn’t answer; and tho quos- tion paesed to bLis seat-mato, who responded with *Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego.” The backward boy was sorry mot to bomora prompt, and when tho nozt questlon camo— “Who put thom in?’—he snswored instantly, out of his memories of Mothor Gooso on * Pus- oy in tho Well”: * Little Johnny Greon.” —The parson went in to condole with Mrs. Jonos. Poor Jonos! It was vory sudden;; and tho widow was altogethor inconsolable. So the pareon proparad o depart, eaying, a8 e took io bat: 1 will leave you, poor boreavod one. with this injunction, pray—pray that God will Tonchante Hin comfort: that Fo will ensble vou to porcoive tho promised bow in the—"" “ Oh! parnon!” sho buret in, “how can you think of auch & thiog ? 1t's too—tdo—too promature, I'm sural” Tho old gentleman dopsrted, slightly myatified ; and it was only uftor muny minutes, and_much cogitation, that it occurred to him that the “ bow " hie was talking of was not at all the *boau ” of which Mry. Jonos was thinking. And ho pulled up “old Charloy's ” rolns just long enough to smila.—Christian Union. Eel ho New Eloctoral Laws in Russis. The Messenger Official of St. Potersburg pub- lishos tho result of the firat elections in Russia for tho officers of Mayor, manicipal Councillors, atc., in 125 Russion towns, Tho new law iy based on the principle of giving votes to those who pay local taxes, and tho results of the eloc- tions are that in only forty-six of these towna have nobles been olected to Alll the post of civio magistrate, In ten_towns the nobility form tho majority of tho Council, while in thirtecn 110 noble Lias beea elected to any post. = To 16 per cent of the Councils, and to 15 perfcent of the magisterials officers in those 125 towns, the lactors bave returned nobles, whils 20 per cont of the Councils and 17 ver cont of tho magis- trates wore filled w3 or small trades- men. The merchaui, «.. —.unufacturers sup- ly the romaining €3 per cent of the municipal Bduncils, and 68 per centof the magisterisl S e s [ does ot apply to St. e~ tersburg, Moscow, or Odeses.