Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, February 16, 1873, Page 8

i i | i ! | | | | | i | | i i i | i ] i ! | | | i ] THE CHICAGO DAILY TRIBUNE: SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 1 1873 METROPOLITAN House *Furi . The Use of Chintz=-Cheap Lounges. ‘Worked Chairs ~-- Miscéllaneous nishing--Cheapness, Con- venience, and Elegance thase days of closetless houses, it is ifficnlt to find place. Then there being two boxes, instead of one, makes them light an tomove, a8 fancy or convenience dictates. know & lady who has & lounge of this sork which, 18 in ome box, with an immense drater instead of cover, snd in the drawer she keeps several long dross-skirts she does not wish to fold or hang. WOKED CHAIES, . either wholly composed of embroidery, or of zn embroidered stripo made up botween two stripes of reps or plush, add very much to the artistic effect of & parlor. It would not seem worth while for anybody to sit down to worsted-work for a regular occupation. But, if one have o chair-geat or-stripe of easy dosign, on coarse canvas (always more effcctive than fine in any large piece of work), lying about, there will ai- Ways be a fow minttes ouf of the day when one csn catch it up, and do a fow atitches ; and it is From Qur Oun Correspondent. % New Yo, Feb, 13, 1675, Since, from our food to our farniture, wo aro compelled, in some measure, to follow the fash- ion, becausa it is costlier to be 'fl:_lvuy_ cn?t of it, ‘than to be wholly i it, it is well if the hobbies of Fashion, and Con- ah wonderfnl how the few stitches will completo the whole. ro0m, which iere be one or HINTS. By all moans, in every livin; onld include the parlor, let two low, light Tocking-chairs,—the greatest of ‘boons to weary womankind, s A centre-table of capacious dimensions, with a warm-hued cloth, round twhich the ent i d Beauty, can trot abreast, forming | tire family can draw if o minded, plenty of A inis that even Autora might notdisdain to books snd magazines, 3 dish auc_bz]in)éem (over drive. Usually, however, Fashion, and Con- { be witkout tham, poseible), m:‘e;' ape venience, and Beauty hav to be hamossed tan- dem; with Fashion leading very, very far ahead. Bot Convenience and Beauty are coming well up with Fashion, and soon it will be the easiest thing possible for the frm-fingered .charioteers of -to-day to hold the three well in band. to IN FUBNISHING HOUBES - in thie generation, effect is moro studied than it has been, and interiors never were 0 pretty, 80 graceful, so artistic, as in this ear of our Lord. The avorage Amorican housewifo hs suddenly swakened to the knowledzarthat it is not obliga- tory on her to have & sofs, four straight-backed chairs, one arm-chair, and & marblo-topped centre-table, with its cold, slimy surface, o ber front parlor, becsusa Mra. Jonos, on the right, snd Mre. Smith, on the left, have them in theirs, She finds it quite possible to, havo her lounge covered with different material from ker chairs, and mo :wo of the latter alikein size, style, or material, without in tho lesst offending the canons of good taste. Nay, she may even concesl the chilling whiteness of the table—so adored of tho past—without running afoul of modish custom. It seems strange that it chonld have taken us 80 many years to ind out that the first requisite “t0 & well-furnished dwelling is comfort, and the second, sttractivencss. And theso -necd be neither expeasive nor difficult of attginment. o one will be rash enough to deny the valuo of unlimited means in following the dictates of faney or good taste; or to deny that ingenuity = will often produce results which no amount of moneycould. . - : id = lads, noted for cleverness and fino judgment, 1t badto choose between money without faste, and tasto and mochanical skill without moncy, Iwould unhesitatingly seleck the latter.” And I am confident the majority of women would agree with hier. . SETS OF FURNITURE. Tho timo of sets of furniture bas, nnquestion- ably, goneby. Even persons whoso eclections need be limited only by the. encomyusiug walls, refer to Liave cheirs of inpumerablo genera and ounges of different kin. Onc of the most nota~ ble improvements in modem farniture is banishing tncompromising sofss, with hard rests and barder backs, and insfating in their stesd, plump-cnshioned 'lonnges, with rolling arms and yielding backs, It was' simply impos- sible for & tird spine o obtain rest on one of the hair-cloth abominations of fifty years 3go: Tut the stniled ottomans of to-duy invite to Te- pose as does & iammock swinging in tho warm, Sest wind. ‘The stiff, perpendicular chairs, four of which inevitably accompanied the aforesaid sofn, inall well-regulated drawing-rooms, and which young and old_slike - were 50 glad not to sit in, hiave followed in the wake of tho larger but more endurable nuisance. Now, our chairsaro ‘high or low, with arms or without them, willoy or satin, embroidered with worsted or covered with chintz. In one'of themost elegant draw- ing-rooms I know, there are, I believe, but two chairs slike, and those two are the familiarly-. called balcony-chzirs, made of rosewood, light open bucks aud seats plaioly covered with cintz. " Evéry other articlo of Jarmituro in the room Las an_individuality of its oyn. The fout ensemble is charming, and the entiré cost, includ- ing pictures snd otber ornaments, would, I come ingido of $2,000. Many & drawing- room’ whoe fittings cost $20,000 is less notice- ably boautifal. The cunning of & woman's hand, | 2nd the ingennity of a woman's brain, are per- ceptiblo in every nook and corner, t i not the persons that can afford to psy for an upholsterer's judgment (if they have none of their own), but_the great-majority compolled to substitute mind for money, who need to know the little dovices for making ol things sgreeably new, and new things suitabla to tho old. To thig class, hints, economic as well as artistic, aro always accoptabic. THE INCHEASING USE OF CHINTZ 18 one of the many tasteful and simple household £zshions we arorapidlyborrowing from England. The Englieh, whatover their infelicitics in dress, bave sound jndgment in the decoration of their ‘homes, and We can appropriate ideas from them in regard to the subject for many gencrations to come without exhousting their store or abnor- mallyswelling our own. A grest advantage in the use of chintz is, that it is cheap ; moreover, it is pretty, and wears well, if of good quality. It can Ve washed (with the' exception of a few colors, always to be. dotermined by washing a snmple_before buying), and it can fraquently ut on by the mistress of the house, if she Bo'in the least, skilled in’ ko use of basumer sud nails. Good qualities of twilled chintz can be hiad 8 40 or 50 cents per yard, and, as it is 3 sard wide, it cats to advatage. In fumilies whoro there aro little children, chintz is especially good furniture-covering for tiny finger-marks may easily.be removed in the wsh-tub, and one can afford to Tenew tho covering—becsuse of its cheapness—threa or four times to tho once of reps or brocatel. If these Intter aro used, it is quite common to find them shronded in dreary Lolland tires, and the children soon learn that the farpituro is too good for them, instesd of their being too good for it. 'How much botter to bhave every article in the xoom covered it something - which, while it is retty, will ot be oasily spoiled by unclean 2nds, aud i not too precious for daily use. It is a matter of moment if a fine, rep-covered fuuteuil be spoited through carelessness; but it is only the question of an additional piecs in tha “week's wash if o chintz drapery bo staived. CHEAP LOTN . Very comfortable and cheap lounges 2o form- edin this way: Have two largo boses mado, of pine or otaer inexpensive Wood, » vard aud s, quarter long, & yard wide, and fourteen inches®]- high; and let the top be put on hinges, 50 as to £hut close, and prevent any uneven surface, “Then have two large pillows, or cushions, tho size and shape of the top, and stuffed with hair, if it can be afforded; if not, with spongo, which is a very good substitute. ‘Theso, Inid o £he top of the two boxes (they are sct with their narrowest ends togothor), form tho seat of the Jounge. For the back, it 1S wiseat to bavo thres cushions, ench 1 inches long by twenty brcad, and six deep, liko the cushions for the seat, and stufled similarly. When thesearp pre- ¢d, all is done that needbe dono by tho up- olsterer or carpenter, and will, probably, be found to hava cost less than balf tho price of an ordinarily good lounge. The coveriug can be put on by any skilfdl pair of Lands in the house, and with the help of tha sewing-machine. The boxes should bo first covered with coarsa cotton, nailed aver the top and_sidea smoothly, to prevent the chintz or Teps from coming fo Lard wear on the corners-and edges. The nn— der-side of seat-cushions may be covered with the cotton,thus saving & yard ortwo of material. After the cotton is nailed on, tack on_the chintz or reps around tho sides of the boxes. Some- | times, when plain reps is ueed, it is tacked on in side plaits, about an inch and a half wide, and Lield in place by sirips of pasteboard (cut ont of cost-away boxes) pailed over the fold - on the wrong side. Then the cush- ions are to be covered smoothly, and, when done, the two large ones placed on ike two boxes, and the three smaller’ ones sob end to end sguingt_the wall against which tho lounge stands. I forgotio say that tho boxes should be provided with castors at each cornar, 10 render moving easy. -, Theselounges, though so simple, 5o ezsily and Chmsgimde, have the appearanco of thé real 3“;.‘:‘; “h;x_:eg;s,rm% costly, and much in ogu egent, and are really Iuxurions. Their great width and length, their well.stuiod sests and cushions, render them very com- forteble beds for any ‘‘lone” man or majden upon those often-recurring occasions in most Lonseholds, when one more bed must be found for some unlucky wight. They can be kept free from Gust, becsuse the cushions, being scparate, can be beatenalittle evéry day. if desizable, Tho two square boxes with lifting lids ave inval- jpable as repositories for extra g: is tor to in hes od a pretty photographin standin & Ebrong papee it i o tap gatter, or 2 ‘make dur fellow-creatures better whilo we neg- Joct their physical conditions. aper-imife, are most desirable." If book-cases can be obtsined, lot them be not over four or four and s half feet high, with flat tops. 'This brings all the books within reach of & short pm’em‘lL and gives a nice shelf on which place small busts, roses, or easels with pic- tures on them. Do not neglect odd little tables, and queer footstools, &nc 3 &nd roses,and photographs and chromos, i better pictures cannot be afforded. Never_ ‘ment lose sight of besuty in fu.mm]:un.sl kome. A protty two-ply carpet and daintily. wi plenty of brackets for & mo- ecorated are & thousand times more desirable than velvet and great blanks of ghastly Tintod walls aro far proferable to white, and papered walls to cither; and, o5 beantifal Amer- ican papers can 3 upvards, it _seems a pity that the walls of any new house ehonld bo loft bare, If s light tint is proferred, a_pearl-gray, with a tiny thread of gold widig over it, s vory offoctivo . and, for ko ‘be had at from 40 cents s roll colors, rick browns in leather desigus, and rich crimsons_snd maroons, are the choice. Green should alway danger of arseni bo svoided, becanse of the ‘poison therein. . Bayond all material decorations, however, are Naturo's voluntary offerings,—fresh air and sun- shine. Let these be hadat anycost. They ive umb b brightness of the overarching hesvens. bysical and mental hoalth, and gird tho st cottnge with the sweothoss aud the B FurseLow, SELECTIONS. DY DUFE PODTER. The embryos of all forms aro alike. —The setivity of love is goodness. —Good expands and wars with evil all over tho earth, first to contract and imprison, aud fially to destroy it. g : —Faith, not sight, must be our guide. Wo cannot do without & compass. —We should judge of & man mruch moro surely from what he dresms than from what ho thinks. —Tll-health is often not only & sin, but & pro- lific mother of ‘sins. —Discase seems to be a more fertils source of ovil than doprevity. —To be able to bring your.thoughts to & point is genius. —Blessed io the day whose morning is wakened by tho patter of littlo fect. —Most new truths crawl out of the shell of some old one. —Ho dics in whom all daily life and thought are fashioned into words. —A just retribution for any wrong on woman sure to come in the vice and crime of her children. ‘—No other creature has the hold on Heaven that & mother has. —Those men aro alwags hest, noblest, and ‘most harmonious, in whom is seen the reflected influence of elevated and refined women. —Itis one of the fatalitics of humanity to be condemned to an eternal struggle with phan- me. —To speak alond and allalone, bos the effact of a dislogue with tho god one ha# within one’s gelf. 'aith is 08 much the Ley to happiness here a8 it is tho ko to Luppiness horeatior, ~—Clouds never send down to-ask the plants and grass how much they need; thiey rain for the relief of their own full bosoms. —Puro instinct is but & law of Nature, like germination ; there is in it only one degreo more toward lifo. ~—The morality of the intelléct, when it hasa ‘morality, is only calculation applied to ambi- Lion. 7 ~—If angels were visible, they would be seen ‘much oftener in the mechanic's workehop and in the children's nursery, than in the hermit's cell or the nun’s cloister. ~—Work donp under protest, like an oath taken ith s mental reservation, lacks its true life- force. ~—All minds are fissured with incapacities in one direction or another,—clipped away on this &ido or that ; ll are fragmentary. —Wo may as well throw our money into the 0 fighting wind-mills, as to try to —In a valisnt suffering for others, not & sloth- ful making others suffor for us, did noblencsa ever lio, will ever be, & ¢rown of thorns. very noble crown is, and on earth —A little word, act, or look, when the heart is soro, lingers as does ' tho fragrance of the roso long after the vese is broken. il N - PRISTINE PROVERBS PREPARED FOR PRE- COCIOUS PUPILS. Dedicated to the Educational Board Observs yon plumed biped fine ! o effect his captivation, Deposit particles saline Upon his termination. Cryptogamous concretion never grows O abhierl fragumeats tiat Qeriiss repoce. Whilst self-inspection it neglects, Nor ita own foul condition ses, Tho kettle to tho pot objecta Tts sordid superficies, Decortications of the golden grain ‘Are set to allure the aged fowl, in valn, “Teachnot a parent’s mother fo extract The embrso julces of un ¢gg by suction ; That good old {ad can the feat cnact Quite frrespective of sour kind instruction. Pecunfiiry agencies bave forced TTostimulate to speed the female horse, Tho earliest winged songster soomest sees, Ana first appropriates, the annelides. With 503p, and bruch, and fxnnel, on tiekl Iu vain, e Ehlopie paticier 0 50U Hekley . Bear not 10 3on famed clty upon Tyne Thie carbonsceons product of the wine, The mendicant once from bis indigence {reed, And mounted aloft on the gencroun stexd, Down fhe procipice soon will infallbly go, ‘And conclade his career in the zogions below, 1t s pormitted to the feline race o contemplate cven s regal face, ~Punch. . « £1 Capitan,» This ié & romance of Sen Diogo, Californis, and tho horo is * El Capitan,” now 103 years old. Once, as Chief of the warlike Cabuillas, he claimed royal poeition ; and it is said thero was & time when he was distinguit man on the Pacific coast, war, and athletic sports., It appears that in hig prime * El Capitan” had no fower than ‘20 wives ~—the women wwere of the Chieftain’s_own race— whom he compelled to go with him into battle. About forty years ago tho beach during a violaa storm o procure oys- tors. Peering t bt i T a ler aud his family. e ship foundered, and 21l on board- 4 % %ht excoption was a woman, who clangto & oat been washed away. od, beyond any for_suctess_in -love, “El Capitaa ™ went to ough tho driving pray, he saw On board that veasel wee a fur, —rwith one exception—woro drowned. -’ from which her companions had The bost drove mear the shore, and was upsot in the brogters. Dut tho * Gopitan * plungod into the surt and brought the womsn ‘was the daughter of the Xu:~tnd!é, and she fell ely to Jand. She love with her preservar. “El Capitan” bore r t0 his wigwam and tho girl was soon restar- tohealth. The jealousy of tho twenty la- dles,alroady in posseseion of tho noble eavege was with enamored o her and. they were regularly mar. ried according to the rites of Ro- man Catholic faith. uieted by clubbing them over the h is canos paddles. He became deeply the “El Capitan” had the in time, mot immediately—to detach imself {rom thé other demes of his household, and he lived with hia Caucasian bride through forty years of mutual condidence and love. the chief has been called upon to give up at last what had been sent to his arms. At tha age of 60'zhe was taken away, and he, at the age of rmore than & hundred, still stalka msjestically across But d-clothes, for, | the plazs. . LONDON. The Beeting of Parliament--Topics to Be Brought Before It, Does Mr. Gladstone Contemplate a Speedy Retirement from Polities ? The New Lord Lytton, Baptist el, and Dr. Lushington. From Our Owcn Correspondent, Lowvoy, Jan, 25, 1873 THE MEETING OF PARLIANINT, By the timo this lotter reaches you, both Houses of Parlisment will have commenced’ their sittings. I caunnot say that the publiceeem to care very much sbout it. People need to be reminded of the fact, and then they méroly ro- mark, “Oh! Parlinment moets, docs it ' Par- bheps this indifferenco iz o healthy sign. It proceeds, in tho present case, from two cadses—ono . boing the general prosperity of tmde; and - tho other, tho absonce from the Ministerial programme of exciting proposals. Business -ia good, althongh the unbappy strikes in tho conl trade hamper traneactions. New companies appear almost aaily, and » large proportion of them float. 0dd ideas get o chance. Soveral people seck to per- suade us that they have discovered in a manufacture from peat -a eubsiitnte for coal, 'literally cheap &8 dirt; ers declare they can put a wire in the ocesn without any covering whateverupon it; aud ono son of genius believes ha can estab- Lish correspondence Lotween opposite consts by pipes of water. Xfeanwhile, the safe and nober trado of the country is in o prosperous state. Tho SURJECTS FOR PARLIAMENT aro not such as to break tho rest of a Premier, but thore are “snags” among them, which might, in & possible construction of circum- , sink the ship. The Alabema award will be vigorouely debated. There is mo excuse for indisting any longoer upon the for- ‘bearanice of honorablo members. The monoy has to be paid, and tho least satisfaction aboutit will bo to blame the Government for everything. The attitude of Russia in Central Asiz must bo dealt with, though wo may expect to sco the offi- cials imploring tho House to be silent, and not to embarrass delicato negotiations. This i gon- crally dono until the country is bound herd and fast o a particular policy, and then the gagis taken away. Among the home questions, tho grave one of University-education in Ireland is foromost. Is the English Government propared to give_the Irish » University so shaped as to meet all’ the prejudices of the Roman Catholic pricsthood ? Substantially, that is the point to bo decided. 3any Liborals, tied nlrendy to the principle of sectarian educetion in England, say # Yos ;" but Iimagire the Coneervatives and tho dissentient Liberals will bo numerous enongh to decide it with 2% No.” I Liear, however, of a compromise. Thou thero is the meditafed roforms in the land' laws. This is said to bo 25 bold asean be looked for in these timorous days, and I cannot £ay that, just now, thers is much_enthusissm regpecting it. In fact, the only ebullition of foel- ing-in politics is a unshimous dislike of one or two mombers of the Ministry. Ar. Ayrton car- ries his usual serdonic smils, despite—perhaps all the more ostentatiously becanso of—the dreadful hobble in which ho is made, by a rocent legal decision, to plungo his colieugues, ns to tho bolding of public meetings in the arke; but Dis emile will lhardly savo im. 'Mr. Gladstone can only be wanting to at- tain the ropatation of the late Lord Palmerston, ~iz.: that of nover forsaking his ucderlings, or this iil-conditioned, bad tonipered ma would have retired into private life Tong ago. He cor- tainly is not worth the odium v:e excites, Ho is aman of average ability, who has brought to perfection, ofter considerablostudy and practice, the art of being disagreeable. Dot 30, GLADSTONE Dimeelf, somo say, i3 Dot 1o bo Premier long. Ho sighs, it is snid, for rest. One of his most intimate friends deciered in my heering, a few days back, that Le (the spealor) &new of his own knowledge that MIr, Gladstoria iutended to retiro from public life at tho close of tho session of 1873. He was not going into a convent, s somo supposed, bub_merely to his count estate,—~thera to read Homer and furbish up ol china, T believe mot & word of it. I have learned to distrust these *special” informanta. That the ides has frequeutly crossed Ar. Gladstone's mind we do not doubt. Who is in the activities of public lifa that does not sigh for rest ? But thoso are the dreams of the mind. Repose to Mr. Gladstone would bo death. I would not givo two_vears’ purchase for his lifo if ho retired from Parliament while_bis mental characteristics are what thoy are. Ho is sensi- tive, oarnest, irritable. He is ambitions and impatient of control. To sit at thoe fireside, and {:fid of the battles of emalléer men, would him, So at lesst I read his char- acter. Should it be ofherwise, a&nd if we e really destined to sco Lia dissppearance from polities at au eurly dsy, tha Liberal party will beall privates, Thers will' be o oflicer smong them fit to take com- mand. They will almost be s badly off in that respect as French politics: will bo when M. Thiers retices. THE NEW LOED LYITON i, in outward form,—in stature, figuro, gait, and nearly in festurcs,—a counfepartof his father. It is strange how ofien u personal ccaliarily is repeated in o second gencration. The new Peer, in his walk, in hia lcok, in the little idiosyncrasies which bolong to evory man, constantly recalls the imego of the colebratod author who this morning was laid in Westmin- ster Abbey. Eventho tones of tho voico are similar, though . the son, fortunatoly, Lus not 'the thickness ' which marred hig father's oratorical efforts. Tho new Lord should be on tho Liborel sido of tho Honge when the Pecrs reassemblo ; and, if tho Gov- ernment car, no doabt they will basten to bind Lim by the ties of officc. Bat a title works wondere. We may eee 8 another Lord Bane than “chargo his mind.” Ho does not stand committed, go far as the public know anything sbout it, to Liberaliom. Lns avoided polit- ical discussions, and, in his diplomaticcarcer, haa sorved Tory and Liberal indiscriminately. ~His private acqusintances only 8o familiar with his road of inions upon mattera of public thought.” In literature, ho has_contributed lately to the Fortnightly Review,~that organ of Positivists and Radicals; bt then it is alro truo thet he is at regent writing in the pazes of Dlackwood. uch interest attaches to his carecr, both for his own sske end for thet of tho nome he bears. Thongh the som of a rich Pecr, there have been periods in his career when his incomo was very narrow. and the money produced by his books was reaily of servico to him. He was sent to no University, and_ the bitier enimosity of his molher towards her husband (she can wear now_that % widow's cap” for which, in one of hor literary _attacks | upon Lord Lytton, she publicly prayed) was o trying circumstanco for son who deeired to Lo atpeace with both. He tried gt one time tolive with bia mother, but was_called away by the exigencies of his official life. Ho took a pride in his fathor, aud has very recently epoken of the forti:coming book as his father's best pro- duction. The mew Peer sympathized wamly with the North during the Civil War, and was only restrained from publicly advocating the causo he admired by tho fect that his father was aqually emphatic on the other side. The father has complete justice dono him by the press. A voung euthor writes to me: ““When I remember ail the pleasant hours his genioa has afforded me; tho kind personsl interest ho showed in mo; the warm sup- port and spprecistion which he gave my work when older friends had nothing but depreciation for mo and it; and when I remem- ber, too, that hia death-suffering must have been peculiarly sgonising,—just fancy what inflamma- ton of ho brain mugt ba !—1 can hardly Lelp literally weoping when I think he is dead.” It 18 a sign of the age when Dickens and Bal- wer ghould rest in Westminster Abbey. Wo are grateful in theso days to such as smuse us. But is something also thereis in the fact that the Desn_of the Abbey is Dr. Stauley. If the srerago High Chutchman or Low Cliurchman Tas ore. L greatly question whother these Populaz fasoritea would find a place in the vener- able : uilding. ME. PAPTIST NOEL wag one of the most amisble of men. His soft emile and kindly manner bespoke for him sym- pathy, even where his Calvinistic opinions wera | exceedingly wearisome. oth- - " apart from its traflic with camp beartily dieliked. Few people understand the uature of the sacrifice which he made. A mem- bor of theanstocracy by bixch, and reared smidat all tho refinements and luxuries of & high gocial position, he gava them nearly-all up in order to join tho least fashionable, per- haps, of the sects in England, and to pos- vess the companionship of men who were often pure strangers to the conditions of lfe from which he had come. I remember once, when in Lancashire, hearing & gontleman, in 5 pesticular neighborhood, say: “Only thibk of aptist Noel! ~Here is he, used to tha choicest of Tnglish tociety,—to Bishops, and Deans, and Primo Ministers, and the like,—and now staying at a wretched stone cotlage just by, where he will Beo nothing but sand on the brick floor, and where his diet will be chiefly sour oat-eske and milk:” “Bat,” 8aid 1, * whyisho thero? Whatis our meaning ?” ¢ Oh! he is to preach at the ittlo Baptist Chapel fo-morrow, end he is staying at the house of the Doacon.” The speaker went ontoadd, that the congregation were unedu- cated peoplo, and the perticular bost exception- ally rough. Such was the frequent experience of this good man, But, 88 & proacher, Lo was Of course it was a novelty to 'sco ‘““an Honorable™ in a Baptist ulpit, and, for somo time, folks ponred to hear Lim; but evon bia titla and connections could not long componsato for the tedium which his dmgding voice and commonplace matter pro- duced. ~ DR, LUSBINGTON e g Imew the secrot of Lady Byron's life. Did it dio withhim? No ono supposes it did. The pres- suro which will bo pt upon tho oxccntors to ox- tract jt will bo vory great ; but it is by no means certain that Mrs, H, B. Stowe's story will re- ceive in her lifetime tho conclusive confutation or confirmation which Dr. Lushington was ble to give. o S SRS, BISON BUTCHERY. Tremendous Slaughter of Buftaloes in Southern Kansas—HBoomed to Speedy Extinction. From the Topeka { Kan.) Commonucealth, Dodge City, on tho A. T, & S. F. road, is the rincipal point of shipment of buffalo mést and Bides in Hansas, Tn fact, tho trads of the town, supplies, con- eiata in tho outfiting of hunters aad exchungo of their game, Tho townjisscarcely our months old, nnd 1s in that time' attained considersble notoriety for its livoliness. Whilo the bison lusts, there will bo_“meat in the honge” in the ArLabsas valley, Tho terriblo arithmetic of hia destruction would indicato that this finsh season cannot last long. The railroad resched Dodge an tho 280 of Rept,, 1672, and the foliowisg is tho record of shipments of hides and meat during that time: Shipments ot hides from Sopt. 23, 1872, to Dec. 81, 43,039, Shipment of meat, 71 cars, or 1,436,290 pounds. ‘Each hido counts 8 buffalo slain, and 43,000 hides in throe months convey en idea of magnifi- cent butchory that forecasts the speedy extine- tion of the prairio denizen, The buffaloes that ero killed in summer or in carly antumn in wanton eraclty miseallod port, ant for food for the frontier residonts, aro not taken into this account. The bullc of this: mest has been shipped io Tansas City, thongh considerable consigyments bave beon 'made to St. Lous, Chicago, and Indisnapolis. The raw hides of the buffalo which aro sent East are tanned and dressed by a much moro rapid, but less perfect sod ollctual process than that in voguo among the Indians, and aro not nearly so valuablo. It is necessary tokill them in winter, or the robes bhave no valuo whatever. Tho meat market is not _open until thomiddle of November, when the weather is cold enough for its transportation. The abote figures, though indicatiog an immencoe sisugh- ter, do'not represont the total of the season’a bunt. The horzo diceaso haa interfered scrionaly with the transportstion of hides and moats from tho Lunting grounds to the line of rosd. Tho disappearance of fhe disease has put tho tredo briskly on its feot agains tho weather hag mod- ersted, and tho roturns for the month of Jan, will exceed those of the preceding montha by 150 per cent., making the grand fotal of killing around the station of Fort Dodge and the neizh- borhood for tho season of 187373 over 100,000 ‘buffaloes. Lo The railroads and remorsclesa civilization have invaded tho home of the buffzlo beforo he had time to get out of their wsy and seck another solitary range. They will till pursue him west- ward, 1ill somé sentiment-monger will immortal- izo the last of the npecies in some bullet-scarrod bull, standing on the summit of Mount Diabolo, gazing sullenly snd mournfully out through the Goldon Gato over the bl Pacific. i The buffala is subsérving a great purpose in 110 eocial cconomy of the nation, if thatis any satisfaction to Lim. The tide of cmigration that has ect in to the Arkansas valley Lasa subsistence uutil thoy can open and improve their farms, sud by the timo the lost buffalo hes disappoared from Kauses the frontier will be subdued to civilization, and be_self-supporting, The buffalo will in this, or at tho farthost the noxt generation, take its placo in tho matural history book along with tho dodo, as an_inter- cating animal no living specimen 'of which can be found in nsturo, TENNYSON'S HEW ODE TO THE QUEEN. Tho following s the full text of Tennyson’s ode to the Queen, which will bo published at tho end of the new edition of his poems ‘TO THE QUEEN., 0 logal to the rozal in thyrelf, And logal to thy land as thia £ thoe— Bear witness, that rememberable day When, palo a yet, and fever-worn, the Prince, Who scarce had pluck'd his flickeriug lifo again From half-way down the shaddw of the grave, Tast with thee thro’ thy peoplo and their love, ‘And London roll'd one tide of joy thro’ all Ter trebled millions and long leagues of man ‘And welcome, Witness, too, the silent The prayer of many a race and crecd cli Thurderless lightnings striking under sea From sunsct snd sunrise of all thy reaim. ‘And that true North, whercof we lately heard A strain to shame us—* Kcep you {o ydursclves: 50 loyal ia too costly ! Friends—your love ut a burden : loose the bond and go,” T this tho tone of Empire? Hero the faith That made us rulers? This, indecd, her voica And meaning, whora the roar of Hongoumont Left mighticat of all peoples under Heaven? ‘What shock has fool'd her since, that she should speak Sofechly? _Wealthier—wealthicr—hour by hour | ‘The voice of Britain, or o sinking land~— Soma third-rate isle, half-lost among her seas] There rang her voico when tho full city pealed Thee sod (hy Prince! The logal to their Crovn Are logal to their own far sons, who love Our Ocean Empire with her boundleas homes, For ever-broadening England, and her throut In our vast Oricnt, and one isle, one isle, That knows not her own greatness. If sho knows - And dreads it we are fall’z~but thou, my Queex, Nor for itself, but thro’ thy living love Tor one to whom I mado it o'er his grave Sacred, accept this old imperfect tale. New-old, and the shadowing Scnse at war with Soul, Tather than that gay King, whose name, o ghost, Streams like a cloud, man-shaped fror rmountaia peak, And cleaves to Cairn and Croml ; or kim Of Geoffrey’s book or Lim of Malleor’ Tonch'd by tho sdulterous finger of 5 timo it hovered between war and wantonness, And crownings and dethronements: take wit Ty poct’a blessing, and his trust that heaven Wil blow the tempest in the distance back From thino and ours, For some arescared whomark, Or wisely or unwiscls, eign of atorm, Waverings of overy vano with every wind, And wordy trucklings to tho transient hotir, “And flerce or careloss looceaers of the faith, ‘And softnezs breeding 6cora of stimple life, Or cawardice, the child of lust for gold, Or labor, with » groau and not a voice, Qrart, with poisunous Loney stol'a from France, And that whick knows, but careful for itself, 34 that which knows not, ruling that which knows, Tots own harm, The goal of this great world Lics boyond sight : yet—if our alowly grown ‘And crownd republic's crowning common sense, That saved her many times, not fall—their fears Are morning sk3dows huger than the shapes “That cast tliem, not those gloomier which forego The darkness of that battle in the West, Where all of high and hol diea awa, A Caravan of Deain. A fearful pilgrimege is described by the great Tastern explorer, Vambery, who met it once on bis travels, and ‘wes decply impressed by its weird and dread appearanco. It was a proces- sion of the dead, aad not of the living, and yet stretched us far a5 oye conld reach across the vest plain. There, in distant Persia, tho followers of “Ali, falling in straugely enough with the belief of {he Chinese heathons, fency they cannot rest in foreign soil, and, if they can at all serapo the pittance together, provide for their bodies 3 rest- ing plico at Kufa, where their great chicftain Ties buried. Heace overy year this foarfal pro- cesgion of cofiins slung o the backs of camels and assos starts from the uttermost confines of Persia, and, swelling by additions in overy town and hamlet, Fndu y reaches gigantioc propor- tions, till ab Jast a yast army of horrid decaying pilgrims reaches the sacred burying grown The unfortunate Arabs who underiake tho dis- task, with thoir heads enveloped'in thick shawls £od faces of deadly pallor, not infre- quently succumb long befors thoy resch the end of their jourmey, snd countless cofins are simply cast down, till abuge pile rises like a terriblo mausolenm on_the 1mmenso plain. It is ot without reason, therefors, that travellens and physicians bave looked upon this awe- inspiring place 88 the very cradlo of the cholers, where the fearful disesso is, phenix-like, ever born _again, when it_has made its fatal journey round number of victims, A NERVGUS TRAVELLER. Those of you who had tho pleasure of living in the country four years ago, know how remarka- bly hot the weathor was, Flies and wasps, bees and epidors, struggling for their lives insa ocean of tepid cream, tes-kettles boiling withoat being put ou the fire, hayatacks burning of their own accord—these were some of the horrors which char.cterized tho summer of 1563, Butif England was hof, Russis was hotier. The temperature was. often 80 high, that India, was left, speaking literally, in tho shade. It was dangerous to ventare out in the sun in the mid- Qlo of tho day ; it was spoutancous liquefaction !o put ong foob beforo tho other. When yon tried to put your boots on, you fourd them full of beotles, who had gone thera for the saka of s littlo shelter. When you had got them on, you called, with all the lit- to voico you had left, for two men and & boot- Jack to pull them off again. All the worldstood vtill, or sat still, or lay still, and gavo iteclf up toits fato. You had not the energy fo abuso even the mosquito which perched iteelf on the end of your celestial noso. If yon brushed it away, it returned in moment or two with sov- eral lively frionds, who converted your faco into 2 baitlefiold, and dug trenches, soon o bo fillad with human goreand their own shattered re- mains. And 5o you may imagine that I found it no pleasant prospect. in the midst of these an- nosances, to coniomplate s railway journey {from_St. Petersburg to Borlin. Moreover, 28 I was only just recovering from 4 sovera illness—brought on by drinking incau- tiously somo of tho dotestablo river-wator—I a8 not in tho most charming temper orin tho bighest spirits. Behold me, howover, scated on a four-wheeled drosky, without springs, with 3 large trunk bekind ms, sud o small bat-bos be- fore me, speeding towards the railway station ; the stronz, wiry littla Russian horses pulling with a will, in spite of the fierco glare of the sun; the driver emitting oaths, mingled with strong odor of onions, Russian leather, sheep- skin, 2nd atalo tobacco; the passenger holding on for his life, of which ho had nof much left. At Iast the station is reached; porters rush for- ward; away goes my luggago; away goes the drosky on ita return passago, the driver suspect- ing that change will be asked for. Thoroboing only twotrains daring the day which ran throagh to Bexlin, you mayimagine that they» wero nsually well fillod with passcngers, After taking my ticket, I took s survey ‘of the com- artmonts. They were all occupicd. Just as I d decided on going into one of them, which hold four persous, I was asked in_French, by s man evidently excited and hurried, whether this was th train for the Continent. I replied in the afiirmative, and he, n friend of his, end myself, took our seats, The whistlo eounds and we start. Let mo hore explain to you the conséruc- tion of " the carriages, which differ from thoso of both England and America. A door opens in the middlo of the eido of the carrisge, On entering this door you go _straight forward for about o yard; to the right and left of you are two other passages, st the ends of each of thiem being a door. Tho door opens into compartments extending tho wholo width of the carriage, and_capablo of sesting about eight persons cach, Facing tho mein entranca i8'a coupe to hold four people. You viill under- stand, then, that, supposiog the middle com- partment to be empty, peraons occupying the two cud compartments aro separated from one another by two doors enda long presage—this renders it impossiblo to overhear what is said or dono in either placo. If you will keep this in mind, yon will readily understand what I am ‘about to relate to you, 1 examined my two companions over tho top of & newspaper. Onle was, s fair, fall, strongly- built min, with moustache and’ beard ; the oth- er, dark, with rather the air of s Frenchman Lout him. Both were well, yet pleinly dressed, 1t with an amazing profusion of rings on their fingers, set with diamonds, evidently of great valuc, or clse of no value af all. ‘The survey was, on the whole, then, satisfac- tory, and I buried myself in my paper once more, when, to my astonishment, I Deatd the dark man eny to his friend, 1w phin, unmistakable English: It is fortunato'that wo havo secured a compartment with 80 much room in it.” I cannot tell you how imuch pleased I was once more to bava tie op- portunits of speaking a little English, and I 800n joined in the conversation. 'Ihey seemed 'at first affable, but €oon, no doubt, felt tho natural distrust which is’ so_characteristic of John Bull on his travels. However, it turned out that, alihough they spoke English, 1t was hero aud thera interspersod with a_slight smat- tering of “Artemus Wardism.” They both be- longed to the Northern States, and our reserve Boon wore of as wo argued out the respectivo claims of Fedorels and Con- federates, I -meed mottell you that both my . companions Liad travelled a great deal. Inover wet an American who had not ! They hod_gone to the very extremity of tho line.of rail which was then being Inid down from Moscor to tho East. _Thoy bad slept with tho workmen in the open air, and snored away quite calmly among & hordoof gemi-barbarians. Of courso, ono of them had been to Jernsalom to g2 Low they were goiting on with_the excava- tions there. We got om_well together, and were on sufficiently intimato - terms at the end of the day to sgreo to sleep in the same carrisgo. Tho win- dows wara double, and only half of the doublo window wonld open; tho seats Ywere thickly cushioned. The sun had beenshining in through the double glaes upon our unfartunate heads, 8o that wo wero anly too glad _to solaco ourselves with iced beer and execrable clarct at the few stations wo saw. For miles and miles wo. went on through thick forests withont sceing s single house. And then the cvening camo; and after tho sun had set, tho air seemed almost a8 sultry as before. We dined together, and then adjourned to au end compariment of znother carriage. A lamp had been lighted in it, and thero wasa . car- tain, which, when drash over the lamp, ren- dered the carriago almost dark. Soon after we Ieft the station where wo had dined, @ sudden glare of light burst upon us; wo felt the train quickening itsspeed, and o moment ar two we were overpowored by n suffocating smoke. We closed tho widows, and found that the forest on each sido of us was in_flamos, Long tongues of fire darted out here and thare, and scorchied the carriages. If I wero an,adept at word-painting, [ would attompt to doseribe the scene, but it was far beyond anything I conld make you feol or undersand. A’ quarter of o mile or 5o of this, and wo loft the fira he- hind us, oly too thankful to have escaped so easily, ” And now wo began to make our preparations for foing to slecp. My two fellow-travellers were ovidently old bands ot this gort of thing. They took off their coats, and folded them into pillows; their collrs and ties were neatly pinned to the wall of tho carriage; slippers replaced their boots; and aiter epreadiug a larga silk hoaudkerchief over their coats by way of a pillow-caso, aud get- ting out their tratelling rugs, they were ready for bed. In the netting over my head ywas placed o small carpet-bag belonging to the latter man of the to, whom I will call Douglas. He and Brookes, Lis companion, lay down on the scat opposite to me, thus leaving mo the other seat to myself; 'Brookes with his head next to the window, and his face towards me; I with my face turned towards him, so close that I comld almost have touched him. Douglas loy on tho opposite _geat, with his head nest the other window, .and also faciug me. This prolix statement is necessary tomake you understand my story. Under wy head was an overcoat, in the pockat of which re- posed a gix-barrelled revolver, on old travelling compenion, g0 that by merely putting my hand under my Bead, I conld placemy £nger on the trigger. Howover, scarcely a foeling of suse picion crossed my mind, Douglas asked me if 1 objected to having the cartain drawn over tho lamp, “Of course not.” This done, wa could just seo ome another, but very indistinctly, Then holay down agein, and thero wass dead silence, The train went on &nd on, not a house to bo cecn through the thick foreats. Suddenly s thought flashed upon me: * What would bo casier than to rob a mau, znd throw him out of the window 2 Ho would lie in the forest, and s0on tho wolves wonld find him out, and digperse all traces of him, eating his acal-skin waiscoat with 28 much relish a3 his carcass.” I laughed to myself. “ How absurd this is,” said L~ I have no reason for suspecting these men.” True, they lad beca whispering togother, and theirrings wera rather. too numerous. But what 8 foolTam, Iwillgo to sleep; at any- rate, I am tired énough.” Lhad searcely closed my eyes, when, in the stillness, I heard a sharp quick sound— click.” I held my breath, and listened; every nerse strained to the utmost. ‘‘That sounds to me very much liko the sound of a pistol being cocked. - Absurd; mo one carries pistals now, Auericans, especially, always carry revolvers.” Agein, click. “This is the second time," I thought. Stll not s traco of any movement. The mg under which Douglay ‘was sleeping at tho otuer end of the carriage, and from which tho sound came, did not move. I noiselessly pacsed my hand under my head, and felt for my six-shooter. Thank God, it was there. Tgrasped it, and lsid my finger on the trigger; and, thinking of the favorite plan of ebooting s min throngh one's pocket, I turmed the muzzle of my trusty friend fowards Douglas. e world and demanded its periodical | I; ““but I shall be able to return it before he bas fired a second. But slone with two men, who sro doubtless armed, T shall have a poor chance.” I cannot tell you tho rapidity with which 'the thoughts went through my mind—thoughts of fn unabsolved; strangely intermingled with others of calm, Unpitying hate towards my ene- my. But Iremained silent. Once more a sharp click, I nearly firad~thank God, I did nob— and then, again, click, click, click, in quick suc- ceesion. Ah, my friend,’ thought I, “I sea what you aro abont ; yon are turning your revol- ver Tound, in order to placo the caps on the nipples.” And again, click, click, I could not Belp it. I strung myselt i the task, and asked with a cold_calmiess which makes me almost shudder to think of it : “What the devil is that noise #" “Iam only winding up my watch 1" . What an idiot I am,.and doubtlees you will all concur in the statement.” Very well; wait a lit- tlo. T immedistely woundup my own watch, which had been forgotten, and dotermined to g0 to sleep. “ What is tho uso of all these absurd suspicions ?" T reasoned. . At 3ast, with my hand onmy revolver, I went to sloep.’ I slept woll, but awoke suddonly, No! Yes! 'Thero, as plain'as posaible, stood Dong- Ias by my side. The hammer ot my revalver was raised within o hair'g-breadth of the point at which it would fall and striko the cap. Should 1 firo or not ? 2 In the dead of night, to be_roused suddenly from one's eleep is startling, but to sc 8 man stooping over you when you do awake, is do- cidedly very startling indeed, especially if you have roason to suspact him of bad intentions. And now, wich my finger pressed firm- ly- upon 'the trigger, bub without an: attompt to lesp to my feet, as I k 8¢ fust thought of doing, I watched him. Ho looked hard st me. I did not move, and then I saw him take out something’ which glittered in the moonlight : i 1as @ key. -And, then ho leaned over mo. Then said I witha feol- ing of rage in my Leart: What on cartn are you doing 7" Ho was 80 startled, that ho almost fell back- wards. The sudden movement nearly mado me fire ; and then he answered: ** I am only going to tako something out of my bag.” This bag, aa 1 told you, ws in tho netting over my head; hence he was obliged to lean over me to rachit. Tesid, very bad-temperedsy: “Takoit down, then.” He muttered to himself, and got the bag down. Ho little thought that there was only & hair's-breadth between him and doath. If ho could havo looked through my rug, Le would Lave soen the muzzle of 3 revoler pointed to oart. Ho turned aside, keeping an oyo on me all the ‘while, and took something frpm his bag. What it was, I could not see. Then ho went back and Ia; down, sud all wesstill. What was it he taken from higbag ? I could ot alegp; I darad not turn my back to them both. Thay lay so quietly, withont a sound of broathing, thatI was suro they wero not asleep. At length, by iy of hastening matters, I pretended to sleop; broathed heavily; Ido not know whether I did ot give a snore.’ However, -nothing happened. 1 grew raore and more sleepy ; I was worn ont, ill 281 was, with tho fatigues of my long_journoy. Soon, howaver, the traiu stopped. This was the only station at which we should pause for the next six or seven hours. Igota strong cap of coffee, and returned, Iwas dstermined not to chango into another carrisge; I was determined to conquer these foolich foelings, no donbt cre~ ated by the wretched state of my nerves. * I opened the door of my compartment, and Rused for & moment near to the seat whore ouglas was lying. That moment, 2a 1 aftor- vards_found, nearly cost me my life. Witha voice like thunder, Donglas lesped to his foet, and asked me what T was doing. Wit inexpressiblo politeness, I answered that T [ bad beea into the station: I wondered if he wished to pick & quarrel with me. Ho did not reply, except by a surly gramble, T went and Iny down as beforo ; I conld not kee giving myseif up fo my fate, { awake, At last, turned my face fo the wall of the carrisge, and, with my rovolver in my hand, went off fatg & sound sleep. Tho next morming came. Went into tho station and performed gur _scanty ablu- tions together. And then, looking very tired, sud very thankful that day had come, we gradu. ally began to talk with civility to ane another. ouglasa asked e what Kind of a night I had passe - T lnughed and said : *Not & very good one.” “For my part,”snid ho, “Ididnot sleep a wink the whole nigh At last, the whole reason of these alarms came ont. The night before, whon we wero getting zeady for bed, he had noticed the butt of my 16 volver sticking out of my pocket. This arotsed his suspicions, He bogan, as I had dono, to think over what might happen. He though of mo at Baden-Baden with his_bank-notes, and of himself Iying out in the woods, and of the affoc- ton thoa wolves would havo fora fall-sized American; andso his nerves were shaky, just as mine had been. His snspicions wers alsg sronsod by the way in which Thad asked what the noise was when ho was winding up his watch, At last he could not rest, and, going very gent~ :il and with great caution, lest he should aronss e elumboring lion with the revolver, ho unlock ed his bag, and drew ont of it a formidable six- shooter also. He Imew of the plan of firin withont exposing_onos weapon to sight, and o expected, said, to feel my bullet every moment sa Lo staod exposed with his "ams raised to the metting over my head. Then, when Icamein from the sts- tion, L waa suddenly aronsed from a doze, and it was with the greatest difficulty, for & moment, that he rofrained from firing. Had either of ua given way to our firat lmpnlie, we should prob- ably bave gone on firing our gix barrels_at one another, until one of us could fireno longer, and then the other would have hud to pap'the body through the -window, and sap no moro - sbout’ it, and, whether confessing tho fack or not, hava & good chance of being sent off to the mines of Siberia without any more guestions being asked. After a mutnal explosion of laughter, wa becama excellent friends, and travelled togetherin much harmony to Berlin. - The moral Idraw from this sdventurs i A1l this without speaking a word. “Howillavoth iret shot ateny rate.” thonght word and & blow, bat the word first.— Chambérs' Journal. S My S MARAH. “ Only a little picce of silver chain 17 300p ink & worthlets, snd with wonder ses v face grow wlhite as from some hidden Whtle sudden toars aze veling It from ae Hush, Busht Not e yon ey sndely tresd pon the grave whero lieth my d Bo satisted 1o know that 1t 5s s And that you have me now, and hold me fast, * O _restless woman's heart { Bosill, be still, Leat bitter mom'ries wake to life again, 0 siern Despair and iron-hearted Wil Guard yo the stronghold where Pride keepeth pain § O fond! O fool! Is this thy boasted strength ? . Weak moans and tears when moans and tears are vanz TLangh lightly while you gaze, unmoved at len; O Jus: ' Hitlo Fioch of sUTer chadnin 2 Emrrasp, — g Sir Charles Dilke and ¥is Adhcrents. A despatch from Derby, England, gives the following acconnt of Sir Charles Dilke's 2d- ventures in ‘that town: ‘A fow days ago hand- bills hended ‘The Land and the People,’ were posted thronghout Derby, and stated that & pablio- meeting of the Land-tenure Reform As- sociation would be held in the Temperance Hall, Curzon stroct, Derby, this ovening, whon ad- dresses would be del{vbred by Sir C, W._ Dilke, Bt 0, P Josoph dreh, founiier and President of the National Agricultural Laborers’ Union, and other gentlemen, The chair wasan- nounced to be taken at 8 o'clock, but long before Chasles was oscorted to his hotel by a srmod with sticks and Hadgeons, Loy ey having hold of hisarm. On reachisg tha hotel three cheers wera given, and the mob disparsed. Bided ot i HUMOR. Can a medium be eaid to write with i rvisib] ink whon ko weies Wil pirc? Hh ikl —“What s 3 nile?" aaked a man of & lire girl. “Tho whisper of o laugh,» saig gret LFC0 “Why may not women ¥ote?” said oe who Sugsd or s And Susan sald, 58 wWomen always ey, “Ob, law [ —A Troy man made complaint to the pali the other day because his wifo eats dr s i bed. He was advised to get s suit of under- clothes mado of sheet-irou and wear them st nights. —The home circuit—Walking abont with haby in the night. —A woman on ing needs to for one of tio things in Lo husband—the Tovs: wigs blinds, or tho good-nature which excuses. A boy staggered his motber on Sunday by ssking if ¢ bats waro mico angels.” —The editor of the Congressional Globe com- plains bitterly of contemporaries who take his sqni?vnb m:‘honka-zdit, Da{;bury (Mass,) 1:;2‘7:. —Why does a photo, er use & black cloth? To mako his cattorn obecurn. - — Sally, whathave yon done with the cream ? Theso children cannot et skim_milk for break- fast.” “Sure, ma'sm, and it isn't mysolf that ‘would be afther ing the scum to yez. I tuk that off and gave it to the cats.” —A Danbury man was explaining to his wife, Sunday morning, how his _mother used to coot: pancaken, when she interrupted him with the a new kind of saive. ; —A New Orleans woman on the witness-stand Iately in » divorce suit romarked : Tife estate of widowhood is inconvenient, for one must Ing abl to foign her ignoraaco. -4 socioty for the supprossion of slang has been formed among tho pupila of the girls High Scliool of San Franeisco. - Said a roposter torns of ita mombers: *Your object is & praiseworthy one. Do you think yon will succeed in eradica. {ing convérsational ‘slang?" Said gho: “3oa 8 —A awoet little boy. only 8 yesrs old,—blesa his Titlo heart,o-paliod Jotc the seshe ot s teachors’ examination at Oswego, last week, and bawled ont: *Anns, your feller is down to the house.” —A boy in Danbury who wes told he should always try to cheer the sged, tried “ thres times thréo and » tiger” on his _grandmothor, Christmas morning, and the old lady was sp startled that she spilled & boxful of snuff oq him. Ha laoks upan the beauties of nature with hia left ayo now. . —An Amorican found himself brought face to face at Rome, last montb, with an old schoolfal. “ Yes, my dear fellow, I have just been martied, aud sm como to pass the honeymoon iy Italy.” " “ind your wife 2 left her in New Yerk.” —Thero i always Something lacking for per- fect human contentment. Salisbury, Conn., for examplo, Lizs & beautiful new cemetery, which it proudly rogards 2s “ superior to many of the race-courses in the State;” bat, alas! thers isn’t & doctor in the place, and tho most attract- ive vanlts actually go begging. —Robert Kottle, 'a temperanco missionary in Glasgow, loft a few tracts with 1 young Iady ona morning. - Calling 3t the tame house & fow daya afterward, he was rather disconcertod at obserye ing the tracts doing dnty as curl-papors on th Bead of the damsel €0 whom he had given them, “#Weel, ma lassio,” he remarked, “T sce you have nded the traots I left wi yo; but he added, in time to turn confusion into merriment, #30 huve putten them on the wrang side o' yorr heésd, my woman.” - Swift Justice. A morchant left St. Petersburg to travel 2cross Europo. In the course of his journey ‘ho arrived ac Warsaw. Being farnished with 4 letter of introduction, he repaired to the houss of one of the chief citizens there, aud was moat courtoously recoived. Ho stayed at Warsaw for a week, and his host spared 10 peins to make thio visit agreeablo, and showed Lim everything vorth seeing in the town. Indeed, the visiter was_guite. overwhelmed by an amount of kindw ness_rarely shown to any but a friend of lng standing. ] At length the plessant visit drew to its close, and after breakfast the guest expreseed his wish. £0 8ee Bome poor parts of the town, of which by had heard. *But,” said he, I have with me s small box of great value that 1 do not like to risk in such places. If it were my own I should ot be 8o particalar; but it was intrusted to ms by friend, who requested ma to deliver it to's person in another tawn. It contains dismonds and other valuables. Would you do me the ffieaL favor of taking chargo of i for the dar 'ho host, with -his usoal urbanity, willingly agreod to'this_proposal, and the meschant Qe parted with o light beart on his tour of inspec vion, I forget the name, but let ns ssyin the “Soven Dials,” or “ Five Points,” of Warsay. Nect moming siter broakfast ho cordisly thanked his kind entertainers for their zealons hospitality, and added that as he was abou to dopart, he would now resume his chargo of tie box, which had never before quitted his person sinco ho had received it from its owner. The host and hostoss stared at him in well-acted smazement. “What box " asked the host, “I remember no box—do you, my dear ?" turning to his wife. ¢ No,” shassid, **1 have to recolles. tion of any box whataver.” “ What was it like?” askod the host; * perhaps you loftit in your Toom.” But on the merchunt persisting {hatit 88 with tho host himeelf it had been left, m his turning to his hostess and trving to make ber Tocolloct the circumstance, both (aftor appeal- ing to each other several’ times, and foriifying each other in their denial) became cold and dis~ tant, and began hinting that somethiug must, have happened to the merclunt, to induco him to persist in 80 strange o delusion. As the host touched his forchend with s significant glance, tho poor man rememhered that he was in & strango city; the grcund scemed to be. Slipping from undor his {eet; danger to himself loo in the distance, and Be Lastened from tho houss in alarm, Straight to the police he went, and stated his case. ~The official listenod imperiurb~ ably to the whola story, and then asked: * Yon give up this valuable box to au acquaintance of 8 week's standing without eny witness or asy written acknowledgment 7 “ Hohad been 80 very kind, a man in his ‘position—r * Bah! souaman of business ! But have you 0 proof that the boz belongs to you ? " ‘"Nono whatever—except tho key. It 13 locked, and Lhave the key—hero it is, * and ke produced a small key fromhis inner pocket. The official remained lost in- thonght far Some time, and then said: * Well, I will do the only thing I can for you. The Archdiko Constantine (the Governor of Poland) is = stern, harsh man, but ho is known for his rigor- ous justice, and if he believas vour story he will do hus best for you. Iwill take yom to himst once. " ¥ No timo was lost, and tho merchant soon found himsel in the’ Archduke's presence, and waa desired to relate his story.. Whon it wae concluded, tho Archduke, after a moment’s reflection, rang & bell. An oflicial sppoared. “Send for M—," naming the treacherous hogt. It was quickly donc, and the Archduke, withoat preamblo or question, sud to_tho guilty man: *Sit dovn at' that writing-tablo asd write.ss 1 shall dictato to you,” The man took his sest and took up the pen; the Archduke began die tati: s ::\_ Daufl‘&i{n: Allisfounannt—h" i 0, 6aid the man, springing from bis I woi't write thato b S that time the large hall became densely crowded, and it was quite evident that s storm waa brew- ing. Dilkites and anti-Dilkiteahod made arrange- 1hents for each side to be represonted, but the Dilke party prosed tobe in & mlafority, a3 the Dand-to-hand fights which took place in the hall clearly showed, Tho scene for the first hour was one which will not easily be forgotten. So soon a8 the proceediags eommenced, Mr. J. C. Cox, of Hazlowood, who is & magistiate of the county of Derby, and who has twice brought Sir Charles Dilko to the town, was voted in the chair; “God eave the Queen” and * Rule Brit- snnia” were then vigorously sung by a portion ofthe audience. A movement was next made toward the platform, sticks and blndgeons wera introduced, and & freo fight for its.fioaseusian ensted. Tho Dilko party eventually proved succesefal. Probebly such & scene, however, was never before witnessed in Derby. The most deadly utmfiglan took placo, and nathe bludgeons told upon the heads and faces of thé corbatants the injured wera dragged out and taken bleeding Lome, while fresh levies came up to take their Place. After s hard fight for nearly an hour, the Dilke party were in possession of tho and then Sir Chatles, smid some interruptions, procéeded to address the meeting with reference to the condition of the agricuitural Iaborer. He next went, on to_support the of the Land Tenure Reform' Association, as_opposed to tho extreme views of Alr. Beresford Hope an the one hand, and the Land and -Labar TLeague on the othor. Hendvocated the giving up of lands by colleges and carporations to the' State, which bo proposed should recejve tho rents of laborers laced on the land a8 tensnts for long periods uring the specch of Bir Charles Dilke several windows were broken, and fearful encounters enaued. Rezolntions {n favor of the principlea of the Association, and condemnatory of the ex- isting Land laws, were carriad, after which Sir “Then you arg guilty,” was the prompt az- awer. Puzzled and foiled, he resumed his seat and wroto 28 ke was dosired : “Xy Dear Wifo: All is fonnd ont. Send the box by the bearer. Then he signed it with his own neme, by the Arckduke's order, and a messenger was despatch- -ed with it. The messenger found the lady ather toilet; when she road tho message she turned ashy pale, trembling violently, Thon leazin u;wua!.;f:o rew the box from the recess in bet toilet-teble and handed it to the bearer, DO 8wiftly retumning, placed it in the hands of the Archduke. Ho immodiately handed it to $h8 merchant, desiring him to ualock it ; that done, he nsked whother the diamonds wers there. Tes, the box had not been opened ; ey were exgetly as the merchant had left them. Again tho Archduke rang the bell, and tothe attendant who entered, ho 8aid, designating b guilty man, * Tako him to Siberis ; he is 0ot 2 010 his own house sgain.” —_—— —Wao have been looking in vain in the Esg> ish journals for any ‘Botice of any unususl 8- tronomical sign preceding the death of Napoleed 1. The absence of any such mention, We it, is no di t to the Emperor, but rathet an evidence of the advance of educated Englis! uen out of superstition. Great terres fil‘h: -turbances did certainly precede the death of Emperor, and we hava no doubt that there o2 signa in the sky if any one had_cared to maks point of them, But the English: newflpo?fl‘g" silont. And yot, when Napoleon L, died st 5t Helena, May 5, 1821, just_a¢ tho eetting dum sun, tho London Tinks, in un editorial an tha! avent, said: *¢ It has occurred to ns 83 worthy note that & comet of great gize sppeared & fort night before his decease.” have &ll tho modesty of & young girl withont be-- tlor-pifchor. He is now experimenting with ° low whom he had not &een for years. * You * here!” My wife? Db 1