Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, April 27, 1873, Page 10

é?’ { ‘ation of Peter Huber, the son of Francis Huber, :gig place in the fmmer darkness of bechives. : “which the ants set about the repair and keeping %! Nvodsys some had already LARRY URARwdn Ao AiiaRBiE B ANEL Uliade AULvA iy LAk BUA wey UG, PERIODICAL LITERATURE. Instinet in Insects---Prof. Tyn- dall’s Deed of Trust. Causes Which Create Scientific Men--- True and False Science. ‘Wiertz, the Belgian Painter—- - Life Under the Ocean Wave-—--Japan. POPULAR SCIENCE MONTHLY. . In the course of an able paper by Goorge Pouchst on N ¢ INBTINCT IN INSECTS,” ¥ranslated by A. B. MacDonough from the Retue Deux, Mondes, this sketch is given of the \patient, delicate, and wonderful habits of obser- ho, although blind, performed the marvel of ‘making wonderfal discoveries s to things tak- ter describing the wonderful instincts with 4o order of tho ent-hill, inside and withont, “garrying of usefal materisls, pursming plant-lice, ‘and gathering stores of all kinds, it says that, {nasuredly, these instincts alone are very wonder- Zul; but there remains still another to bo spoken Yot peculiarly conferrod on certain species, and Perhich is indisputably the highest of all those “Wo know among animals : 4 Pater Huber discovered it on the afternoon of the flm of June, 1804, - The date is s memorabls one for blology. He was walking in the environs of Genevn, ‘between 4 and 5 O';‘_;sn\l;thn cfm!.ugs:hrmo].;a l!.'h'c; B e o of " o dour » n eight or ten fect long. Huber ches, and in & column eig mg, ‘Elaber Yollowed them, crossed s bt d *found hlmeelf in & mesdow. - The high hindered the march of the Tmy, Jef it @1d not . dlsband; It had Ha ob- . Ject, ind_Teached it. This wasthe nestof another pecies of ante, blackish-gray ones, whose hill rose in Bhe grass twenty steps {rom the hedge. A few black- h-gray ones were acattersd about the hill; as 2oon s Jbess percelved the ememy, they darted upon the “ytrangers, while others hurry into the gulleries to give jthe nlarm, The besleged ants come out ina body. The 2ailants dsah upon them, and, after a very shart but mike themeelvea an o their teoth into ' Iatersi parta of the hill They sitceeed; and the Zcmainder of the troop its way mto the be- eged city by the breach, Poter Huber had seen bat- and exterminations of ants before this; he sup- ed they were elaughtering each other in tiie deptha -Bf the caverns, What was his amazement, after three B o iy ach heliag. pebioen i ot E & 0 e 4 bles = Jarva or & nymphs of the conquered tribe | took. aaciy 0 aggressors gain by hich they had come, pasted through the hedge, Froused Wi ond, at the samo place; and made thels 5, still Josded with their prey, towards a field of tipe grain, fnto which the honest Citizen of Geneva, w;!-hfix mntt:x’l property, refrained, with regret, 4 'ollowing them. & This expedition, worthy of the annalsof barbarian aber with an amazement easy to un- i 1o his great tom ol 'y COIps ! Eur}.hgm into the galleries, while other groups labor Justly, mork: thelr duty fighting carrying b the nymphm and larvw, They choose the “hour toward sunset for their warlike raids against the ;industrious and peaceable ribes of the neighborhood. ‘Fhepever tho weather is fine, they sally out thus, and vy their tribute.of flesh. The auxiliaries, for their yat, ro emplosed in sll the internal dutics and i eeping up =nd repair o dwelling. They alone Seeping up pairing oY e fpen and ithe entrances to tho _;1@& and mambx;g; nge{fl 5nlmu mfe‘? the pecies observed P, Hul 80 frisions, for they feed . the whole establish- ‘ment, even the legionaries, which aro idle on thelr Joraye; they rear with equel care the larvmof tho Jeglonaries and those thatare stolen ; they alone, in Ane, eeemn 1o decids upon the material intercsts of the ‘tommunity, tho requisite enlargements, the need of. Amigration, sad the place saltable for it ' Peter Huber e ono experiment that shows very plainly thoabso- fise dependence of the, smszona upon thelr assoclates, use fierce warriora do not understand any house- hold work. Huber put thirty amazons into s glazed Rrawer, covered with earth on the bottom, with 8 cer- Jain number of larvm and of nymphse, both of their w0 kind snd of the suxiliary species, A littla i honey in a corner was provided for the support of the folony, At first, the amazons seemed to pay some at~ Jention {o the larvm, carrsing them sbout hers and \ bere, bat they soon left them. They did not kmow i 20wto provide themselves with food. At the end of died of hunger close along- Hdo the honey-drops, all were lsnguisbing, and |bey bed not eves bullt s chamber,’ “I orry for them” eays Hubar. adxiliary fnto the drawer, ‘This ars one rostored onder, mado a houso o, the earth © igathered thelarva into it, released several nymphm of “Fih Kinds that wero xesdy t0 leave the cocoon, and at st saved tho lives of those among the amazons that Jtill had breath, { Peter Huber refrains from any comments in Yoscribing oll these wonders; he leaves each e, ea he snys, ot liberty o draw any ‘con- Musions he plesses, This one conclusion is inevit- f\ble: We do, then, ind smong animals artificial so- Ricties, communities of beings strangers in race, yet iAving together, contributing towards one common ‘wd their different qualities and their individual Yoforts. Tho hive is alvoys one family only. A mixed oot-hill is inhabited by individuais belonging to “)pecies at Jeset ea differcnt as tho horse, the ass, the ‘lebra—so different sometimea that zoologists- have He dut #oli- 7 e jona of nelghborhiood and boundary. Esch one has Ynly the principle of its organization in common with iheTest, The eame leglonaries have sometimes one es of suxiliaries and sometimes another, the fblack-gray or mason ant, whichever is within'their g e T o o “polye " an e dark-red, mg in’ fhe mamg Bl with Ime or two species of auxiliarics, Some naturalists, 'Duwln smong others, call thess frankly *slave-hold- 3%, "and the others “slaven.” These names are un- sir. We must guard 2 any mistake asto the Yery peculisr nature of the relations existing between Ihe t¥0 castes. Each filla a special part in the commu- Rity, and neither excreises control or despotism in it. At thesasoclation, at the outset,rests on violenco and ab- ‘Huction, nothing has ever given rise to a Euspicion that Ahero is an; else in mized ant-hill than a coliec- Xion of individuals kept togsther by special instincts, { Khe names of “slavery ” and “ republic,” applied to ! yuch a form of Ufe, are quite void of meaning. Any uxion to politics, o systems, or doctrines of A wholiy out of place here; biology alone has the Fight of giving & name to a'social state which is its ‘peculiar subject of study ; the territory belongs to it aloze, The deed of trust by which PROF. TYNDALL gives to trustées whom he names the net pro- "ceeds of all his Jectures in the United States, to “be applied to the promotion of physical research “In this country, is printed in full as below, and- will be read with & great deal of interest: ., T, John Tyndall, Professor of Natural Philosophy in Aihe Rosal Institution of Great Britain, blvi.ng,Plhtytba solicitation of my friends, lectured in various cities of the United States, find tho receipts and disbursements ©on acconnt of thess lectures to bo us follows g : them in distinct geners (Polyergus formica), e provinces subject to the same form of ent, every ant-hill has, overtheleas, its local ory, ex by external circumstances, by con- L neceTPTa. From Boston, for six lectures. .. From Philadelphis, for six. From Baliimore, for te] of £571 66 6d which, st the rate of $5.50 per pound, £mounts {0, ..........v. 1z the United States: hotel and travaiing ex- ‘pesses for myself and two assistants : other expenses n, Philadclphia, Baltimore, Washingtan, New York, Brooklyn, and New Haven—covering 3 pericd of four months—plus traveling expenses of myaclf and my assistants from New York to London—make s total of. Present to Yale Scientific Clnb, '250, Sclaries to asaistants for four , . ‘which, st £5.50 per pound, amounts to.... 1375.00 Asking the total disbursementa. L The total receipts are. ‘The total disbursementa. As 10 evidence of my good will toward the people of the United Ststes, I dexire to devote this sum of S13- 033 to the advancement of theoretic science, and the promotion of general research, es in tho de- partment of physics, in the Unlted Ststes. To secomplieh i objoct, T Neraby appoiat Prof. Joseph Henry, Becretary of the' Smitha Institu. tion, Washingion City, D. 0, Dr, E. L Yo of New York, ad Gea, Heclor "Tyadals, o Bhlladelphing of take charge Trustees to e of the above sum, to carefally invest 1t in permsnent securi- ties ; and I further direct that the said ‘Board ;nut the present, l’;;mpdnm Lhe’zncaut of the fund in pporting, or support, at such £uropean universities a8 they msy oomsider most Goainalle, tWo (2) American pupls who_ musy | they are set’to bo ranked ss moro than evined decided talents fn physics, nnd who may_express a determination to devote their lives to thia work. My deaire would be that cach pupil snould spend four Fears at o German university, three of ose yorrs fo be devoted to the acquisition of knowlk edge, and tho fourth to original investigation. L5 bowever, in the progeess of ecieqce fu thio United States, it should at any time appoar to the £aid Bosrd that the end herein Dr would ba better sub- eerved by granting aid to students, or for soma spe Tesearches in this country, the Board is authorized to mn:‘: appropriations from the fncame of the fund for such purpescs, I further direct that vacancies which may occur in #3id' Board of Trustees, by death or otherwise, shall Do led by tho President of the National Academy of ences ho course ear the whols amount of (5 Ihiehast which secrta from the faad bo Tot ex- yended in tho manner beforo mentioned, tho surplia ‘may ho sdded to the addition to tho anaual gl oard of Trasices £o exercizo’ thelr orize e e oporating 1o such work from the this fund. I o s wheroot T have hereunto set my hand acitocal fhin 7t day of Fabruary, 1873, in the City of o e Joms TrapavLx (L. 8], (Signed), 1In presence of . (Signod), C. BUERITT WarTs, | (%ed, I E Forten, The current number of Herbert Bpencer's sociological serics is devoted to & discussion of the RELATIONS OF EMPLOYERS AND EMPLOYED. This article has already been noticed at length in our editorial ‘columns. Francis Saeton is one of the most urgent de- fenders of the docirine of heredity, orthe trans- foission of intellectual qualities by inberitance. He haas contributed to the Fortnightly Review an article, reprinted by tho Popular Scieace Monithly, in which he, under tho hending, : ¢ CAUSES WHICH CREATE BCIENTIFIO MEN,” notices some of the movel deductions of Can- dolle in a recent discussion of the same subject : Candolle’s scheme was £ analyze the conditions of - social and political life under which the principal men of science wers severally living at the four epochs 1750, 1769, 1829, and 1869, - The list of Dames upon which ho depends 1 that of the foreign members of the three great scientifiosocloties of Europe—namaly, the French Academy, the Royal Soclety, and_the Academy of Ber- lin—in each case about Afty in number. There iso et stricter sclection on the part of tho foreign associates of the French = Academy, who st & time, &nd boen ninety-two in {he last 200 ears. It is remarkable that wo And in this very sclect t four casea of {sther and son,—namely: a Ber- noull and $wo of his sons, the two Eulers, and the two Hers chels. From an examination of thess lists the author draws a largo varlety of intercating deductions. He traces the nationalities and the geographical distribution of the distinguished men of sci- ence, and compares under which they lived. He finds them to be confined tos triangular slico of Europe, of which middle Italy forms the blnnt apex, and s lins connect- Bweden and Scotland forms the bose ; and then he shows that, -out of a list of elghteen different in- fluences favorable to Eclence, such as liberty of publi- cation, tolerant church, and femperate climate, a large ‘majarity were found in the trisngular epace’in quess tion, and there alone. The diferent nations vary at the different ductivences ; elsborately how closely the variation depends on some or other of the eightean influences becoming favorablo or unfavorable, The suthor, Qescended from the Hoguenots, Iays just stress on the inflnence of re- liglous refugees, whose traditions were to work ina disintercsted way for the public good, and at_tho same time to avaid politics, Tuo retqgeos rarely had thelr operty , of w o overmght occuplen Tty but 1o miovablo. securities; this. they bad Ieisure for work. Then, again, se they were debarred from local politics, the ambition, especially of those who Dad taken refuge’in small cousitrics, was to earn the approval of the enlightencd men all over Earope, and this conld most easily be effected by dcing good work in gcience. Out of the ninety-twa forelgn sssociates of the French Academy, no leds than ten were descend-, ed, from religions refugees, usually in the third or fourth generation. Switzerland bad oight out of the ten, and we may ibenco easily gather how enormously ehe is indebred 1o the infusion of immigrant biood. Simiacly, the only, two American sssociatei—Franklin and Hum- ford—were descended from Puritans, ‘The blighting effect of dogmatism upen ecientifio trivestigation is shown both in Catholio and Protestant countrles, The Catholics ara the more dogmatic of the two, and they supply, in proportion to thefr popu- Iation, lesa ‘than onc-quartcr asmany of the foro- most scientific men as the Protestants, Thero is mot a single English or Irish Catholic among tke Dinety-two French forelgn smsociates, Austria contrib- Ttes 00 name, and_tho rest of Catholic Germaus i al- ‘ot barren, In Switzerland, tho acientific produce tiveness of the Catholics s only one-twenty-sixth that of tho Protestants. tho Cathollo misslonaries have done nothing for science, notwithstanding their splendid opportunities, In past doys when they were absolute masters of vast countries, 5s Parsguay snd tho Philippines, the_smallest _encouragement and in- struction given'st the College of the Propagands to young and apt missionsries would have enriched Tome with collections of patural history. If any city more than others deserved to have the Anest botanical garden end richest herbarium, it is Rome; but she Bas scarcely anything to show. “The most. nofable instance of tho repressive force of ‘Protestant dogmatism s to be found in the history of the republic of Geneva, Duringnearly 200 years (1635 10 1725)its laity as sweil aa the clergy were absolutely subject to the principles of tho early Reformers, struction was {mposed on them ; nearly every citizen was made to pass through the college, and many at- tended special courses at the Academy, yet, during the whole of that period, nota eingle Gencvess - guished himself in science. Then occurred the wane of the Calvinist authority, between 1720 and 1735, Bocial Jife and education © penctrated with lib- eral ideas ; and, since 1730, the date of tho first elec- tion of & Genevese toan important forelgn sclentifio #ocloty—our own Royal ty—Geneva has never ceased to produce mathematicians, physicists, and naturalists, in s number wholly out of proportion to ‘her emall population. M. Candolle indulges in a.curious speculation on the probability of English becoming the dominant language of the world in fifty or a ‘hundred years, and being the one into which the more important scientific publications of all na~ tiona will, as & matter of courso, be translated. It is not only thet the English-s g population will out-number the German and the French, as these now outnumber the Dutch and the Swedish, but that the Ianguage has peculiar merits, throngh ita relation- ship with both the Latin and the Teutonfo tongucs, R R K o ly _spol ways the Germsn on account of its superior brevity, When people aro in a hurry, and want to s3y something guickly, it is more easl- Iy said in French than in: Genaan.” Precisely in tho same way English beats French, _Our sentences don't @ven require to be finished in_arder to be understood, because the leading ideas come out first ; bat, as for old-fashioned tongues, their roundabout construction would be perfoctly intalerable, Fancy langusges, like Latin and Greek, {n which peopls did not say “yes” or ectfal to classical French are drives out “no.” M. de Candolle is very disTesp ZLatin. He ssys that one must have gone through the schools not to be impressed by ita ridiculous construc- Hon, Translate an ode of Horsce literally to an unlot- tered artisan, keeping esch word in its and it wulrgmduue hio” effect upon him of & b g in which the hall-door was up in the Itis third-story, 00 longer a poseible Ianguage, even in poetry. PARKE GODWIX, who waa severely buffeted by Mr. Youmans, in the editorial department last month, for some passages in his speech at the Tyndall banquet, in which he asserted that the modern theorios of evolution and natural selection, in their various shapes of Huxleyism, Darwinism, Spencerism, must not be regarded as approved and author- itative scientifio truth; that they are still hy- potheses, and even as hypotheses necessary for the classification and development of our Imowledge are at best only provisional, however ingenious, simple, or besutiful they may be; that certainly they have no such firm basis of suthority as to warrant their promulgators in stigmatizing the beliefs of others in Revelation a8 old wives’ fables, and the like. Mr. Godwin returns fo his defense this month in a very ‘brilliant letter, which we aro sorry not to have rToom to give entire. After showing that his re- marks were made in the ioterest of true science, “nd: c;ypmd to false acience, he continues: lology, - peychology, and sociol i sclencea shd mmlnogsydunm; o whieh oy rep iy '1:? mn;?mu::nnd;&m oy aro not 3 they sclenocs. saving in s and cone Yenient gense, Tahould b dpared o Qocht ’:na:gr choate sclences, “Thoy belong to the d gutlered somo o the Hchest astouel o7 Seinch oag Bave attained to some extent n aclentifio valus 2 but thers is yet 80 much uncertainty hanging over broad Teglons in each that we must awalt the future for the Tosolution of many unresclved questions, which may given newaspect 1o the whole, Biology s the most advaced, but rather 1o its natural history and classificotion, than in its Xmowledge of the pro- founder 1awa of life, hat mre yet fo ' be found. Psychology is so littie of a sclénce, that the teachers of 1t hardly ngroo on the fundamentsl potnts 3 ar, if it be a sclence, Whose exposition of it are wo {0 sccept, Sir Willlam lion’s or Mr., Mill's, Herbert Bpencer’s or Dr, Porter’s, who all profeas to be experi- ‘mental and inductive, and all dissgres? An o sociolo. g3, tho name for which was invented only a fow years iloa by Comte it is sfll o chuotic, condition; ‘and, unless Afr. Sponcer, whoso fow introductory chipters are alone made public, succeeds in giving it consistency. and form, it can hardly bo zalled mors thana hope, But, be the truth what it may, in tto these par- {celar: bianches of knowledge, I stil fasist - that bore tainty is the criterion of true science, and that, i6me give that criterion up, acience loses ita suthorlty, its ige, its_scurance of and its soverelgn ‘position’ss an arbiter in the trine. . . Well, then the of doc- I gave, without men. a1 considered faleo - sclence, wers, first, the gross material- im of Buchner, who derives all the phenomens of life from eimple combinations of matter and force ; seo~ the atheism of Comte, Whe cientifio preten- o B, Hosiey Hdlomite, und whoso Tesulls , the dentification of mind Fati? whien Tyndall, in one of bis ‘sayn oxpizins nothing, and is, Spencer impugns ; o motion by Mr, meet eloguent pazsages, morcover, utterly ¥ unthinkable Spencor’s ovolutiontsm, which, 15 spite Of the marvel: loua ingeaulty and Mor'zxpd:le' Wity which it s wrought oul T ”fin‘l P “fithrm Mg study, a capablo ‘them I am of forming jndg. tha wrong in 1% thess ero- Ty, and Dot sclentific 7 Az Ito infer, from your ob- Joctions to my remarks, fhat the', lar - Science Aonthly Bolds’ materialism, 10 - bo the logitimate outcome why sm I armaigned for designating as unworthy of science and as having Bno rightful claims o the name, under which their de plorable conclusions are commended to the public? My object in these alluslons was to indieate ¢wo ca ital distinctions, which it elways importact to keep view when estithating the acientiflo validity of 8 doo- trine, The first is, that many questions determins- Blo by acience sre not yet determnied by it ; and, untll thoy are so determined, ars to be regarded ol conjectural opinions, more or less tinent. Of this sort I hold the Nebular, the Darwind- an -and Spencerian viows to be, ‘eses entirc and capable, phenomena to which they refer; probable even at the first glance; but disputed authority, and not at all 80 verified as to be into the rank of sccredited science. They are ru sitions to which the mind resorts to help it in the reduction of certain appearances of Nature to & gen- eral law; and, 38 such, they sy be simple, ingenious, and even beautifal; they are no more than suppositions not proved, and therefore not cntitled to the suthority of sclentific truth, You are probably too familiar with the history of sclentific effort—which like the bistory of many ‘otherkinds of intellectual effort, is a his of human Hhe Pk ot good’ methodi I i alan ho perk otk lo of ‘method, 0 the mos lisble to WKE‘:}. Tho records ible ot satzonomicaly of ‘geological, of physical, of chemical, and i o biologleal research, are strovn with the’ debris of abandoned systems, all of which once had their vogue, but none of which now survivoand many of which are ly rememi Recall for & moment the Piole- hard} maio cycles and_epicycles ; recall Kopler's nineteen- invented and different hypothes Toand fhe true. orbial motion . of bafore he found the Mars; in geology Werner and Hutton, and the Plutonians and the Ne 203, superseded by the uniformitarizns and tastrophists, and now giving place to-the’ evolu- tionists; rocall in physics the many. imponderablo fluids, Including Lamark's resonaut fiuld, that ware held to bo os real as the rocks only & fow years ago; recall in chemistry, not {o montion the zlchemists and ‘phiogistion, a dozen different modes of accounting for molecalar action’; recall in biology the snimists and tho vitalists, the devotees of plastio forces, of of organizing ideas, and Of central monsds, .| =il o;l'lhnm now deemed purely gratnitous assump- tions that explained nothing, though put forthas science, . > Even in regard to the question, 80 much discussed at present, of lh;frnduu progression and harmon of being, the old monadology of Leibnitz, whicl endow the mitimate units with conscl and which builf up the more’ complex stru 2nd fanctions of 0 combination of theso—this fheory, I eay, somewhat modified and stripped of ita ‘mere metsphyaical es; could be mado quite s rational and eatiafactory as tho more modern doctrines of development. Indeed, some emi- nent French philosophers—Benouvier, a Arstclass thinker, among the resi—have gone back to. this notion ; Darwin's suggestion of pangenesis, and AIr. Spéncer's physiological units, look toward it} and its adherents matnitain that, beset with difficulties as it is, though not more £o than others, it has not yet this meri, that it leaves a way open tosheculative thought alike Femoved from tho yagariss of mere entoloy sbetraction and fhe entiro subjoction of mind toa muddy and bruts extraction, They zmlght add also thatdhis theory shows that, in the interpretation o the shut ) specific B spasmodio creations and his own theory of evalation, a8 Mr_ Spencer {rimmphantly assumes throughout Lis Indced, nothing is more eisy than to mako theories ; but the difficulty is to get them adopted into Naturo as the satisfactory reason of her processeu, But, until they aro so adopted, thoy are no more (han 'the ecaffolding of ' science—by Do means the compicted have the Darwinian an hypotheses Dbeen 80 ndopted? Can wo say that any questions on which such _cautious observers and life-long students s Darwin, Owen, Huxley, Wallnce, nnd Agassiz, etill debate, are settled ques- tions 7 '¥rof. Tyndell, for example, says: ¢ Darwin draws heavily upon the sclentific tolerance of the age " and ngaln, that “ those who hold the doctrize of evolution ars by no means jgnorant of the uncertainty of thelr data, and they yield no more fo it than 3 ‘provisional aasent,” With what propriety, then, can a " merely provisionzl conclusion be erccted into an assured stand-point whenco to sasail traditionary be- licfs s if they were old wives' fables? More than that, a theory may be far more advauced than any of thoso’; may be ablo o account satisfacto- xily for oll the phenomens within ita reach, s the Ptolemadc theory of the eidereal sppesrances did, even to the prediction of eclipses, or s tho ema- nation theory of Bght did, up to the time of Dr. Young, and yet turn out aitogether baseless, Naturo is a pro- digioua force ; with all her outward uniformities she is often more cunning than the Bphinx ; aud, like Emerson’s Brabima, she may declsrs to her students— “ Thoy know not well the subtle wass 1 keep, and pass and turn sgain.” Wo have looked into her faco & ifttls, meas. ured of her ellipnes and ° angles, weighed hor gases and dusts, and unveiled certain fozces, far and near—all which are glorious things to have done, and some of them uun'snal! ‘miracuions ; but we are still only in her outor couris, Humboldt's #4Cosmon,” written thirty years ago, is £aid to bo already an antiquated book ; aud Comte, who dled but Iately, and whom thece eyes of mino have seen, could hardly pass a college examination in the sciences he was sup- posedto have claseified forever. Let us not. be ‘too confident, then, that our little systems of natiral law eill not, like other systems of thought spoken of by Tennsson, # have their day.” HARPER'S MAGAZINE. - Wirt Sikes, in Harper's Magazine for May, tells the story of 3 ANTOINE WIERTZ, THE BELGIAN PAINTER, and the Wiertz gallery, which he filled with his marvelous works. As Mr. Sikes says, this will be new even to those who have visited Brussels, Americans who visit Brussels rush to see the bare battle-fleld of Waterloo, and buy relics, made in the factories of Manchester and Bir- mingham, with all that enthusiasm for the past which finds its ridiculous side in the woman who wept piteously at the grave of Washington—with all that love of things in themselves uninterest~ ing, but aasociated with the great, which made the tavern-keeper labol and put awsyon a shelf the water-bucket on which Gen. Grant sat down onoday and emoked. Tho ladies esgerly flit sbont among the sellers of lace, or dwell en- chanted over the little shops in the Galarie de St. Hubert; thoy visit the Cathedral of Bt. Gudule ; they stare at tho epire of the Hotel de Ville and the statuc of Godfrey de Bonillon, and go away fancying they have scen whatever is worth seeing in and about Brussels. Bradshaw is obeyed, and there being nothing in Bradshaw about the Wiertz Gallery, they go nway serencly oblivious of tho fact that they have not seen the most interesting sight in Brussels, and one of the moet interesting in the world. The extraordina: tinge, aa_well as the turesin, the Wiecis, Gallery ke all tho work or oL hand—that of Antoine Wiertz, son of a tailorin the Ardennes, The tailor had been a soldier, and enter- tained a dream of glory. He transmittod the fire of his ambition to the son, where it became a steady and consuming flame, with clear, pure light, and Dech nprociated gmatly aming the Greek Bioe, ot en amon, but which saemed Quixotio n his Terens minctertcons fury. Hemight have lived in luxury by his art, but he preferred o live {n abjoct poverty for his art, ' His thiret for fome was insatisble—his contempt for for- tune incrediblo, The story of his life is as curiousand pthelic as tho works of bis genlus are faatastic and me. Wiertz was borm in 1808, n thecld town of Dinant, on the banks of the River Meuse, At st sga when glher chilgren play, this child occupied himself with the toys of art. He made drawings almost_before he could runalone, and tried to color them with Juices, plants, bits of clay, Ho oarved cturious ng;u'el with his jackknife. Ono of ths triumpha of his baby- hood was a wooden frog, which he cut with his knife, and which was 80 marvelous an imitation of the living creaturo that visitor, to the tailor’s shop tried to Kick the counterfeit reptile nto the street. A Captain of gona darmes who tried fo plercs the woodea {rog with sword was 80 amazed by it that he talked sbout it everywhere hio went, and the nows coming $o'the ears of M. Paul Maibe, an art connolsseur st Dinant,-he visited the boy, and became his patron in & small woy ; oy, that {s to aay, o took him homo and hod him taught ousio and drawing,—for the boy had an aptitudo for musictoo. The result was that at the nge of 14 Wiertz could teach his drawing-master, not only, but Bo Bad acquired & wonderful facility in_engraving, in which - latter -art he was eatirely self-taught. There finsll; man did what he could for his little friend—found him .| excellent masters, and got him a pension of about §5 from the King-chd J&s bl to make his sag.. o this altry sum the boy lived, practiuing the' most rigid economies. He had no’ pleasures, no ooem ‘ottern 10 his tions, outeide of his art, In cme of his mothier, to whom he was tenderly devoted all is life, he wrofe, “Except for f00d, I hardly sperd two farths inge.” Hia lodging was hiss tudio, and that studio was 8 miserablo corner in a granary, without fire and with- out lighta at cvening, the roof o low that as his stat- nre increased he conld not stand upright in it, but 3" and, fourthly, Mi good ¢ thos far || {cal ns Diogenes. If ho could havo painted in & tub, he would have lived in a tub. % Tempting offers wero made him to paint for money, but he would not. To one connoisseur who offered 5 large sum of money for oo of his studies, Wiertz mado a reply worthy to live among the cele. ‘brated specchesaf ‘genfus, ¥ Keop your gold,” he #ald; 1t is tho murderer of art.” ° This sentenco sirikes the key-note of *his remarkable man’s anthem of fiife, He would never sell s works. Hence the ery in Brussela to.day crowded with the offarts of fancifal and ‘grotesquo genius, while out.in the ,world you shonid seek n vain for one of_his picturcs. ‘ ts form the cnly exception to this statement, for portraits ho painted now and then throughout Lis 1fo ns pot-boflers.” To the day of his desth he ad- bered firmly to tho programm when he was 20, as the only noble ane for artists— for Wiertz wrote also, much and well, about the art he. Joved 80 passionately. * In an epoch When mechanism is preferred to expression,” ho said, “one must have courage enough to imifate the great Poussin, and pint for posterity ; and, struggling slways aguinst taste, “kmow Lot to remain poor, in order to re-, b main a great artist.” g JUSTINE, YOU LOVE ME Nor! * Helas! vous ne m'aimez pas."—RIRON. 1 know, Justine, you speak me fair As often na we , 1 swear, To hear 8 voice eo sweet; And yet it docs not please mo quite, The civil way you've got ; For me you're samething too polite— Justine, you love menot ! 1 know, Justine, you never scold, At ught that'T may do; I Iam . i # A charming temper,” say the men, ¥ To smooth a husband’s lot ;" T vish *twere rufficd now and then— Justine, you love me not I 1 know, Justine, you wear a smila As s the sun ; But who supposes all tha while 1t eliines for only ona 7 Though azure skics aro fair to ses, A transient cloudy spot In yours would promise more to me— Justine, you love mo not 1 1 know, Justine, you make my name Your sulogistlo theme, And say—if any chanco to blame— You hold me in esteem. Buch words, for all their kindly scope, Delight e not a ot : Just £0 you would Liave praised the Pope— Justine, you love me not | I know, Justine—for I have heard What {riendly voices tell— You do not blush {0 ray the word, #You liks me passing well ;7 And thus the fatal sound I hear That seals my lonely lot ; There's nothing now to hops or fear— Justino, you love me not | ‘LIFE UNDER THE OCEAN WAVE” is an exqgisitely-illustrated article of tho scien- tific order, now. happily becoming €0 popular. It descrthes and pictures the sea-weeds, the anemones, the polyps, the corals, star-fishes, cattlo-fishes; ; ochinuses, and cotntless other forms of life the dark, unfathomed caves of ocean bear. .“The terrestrial forests,” eaya Charles Darwin, ‘“‘do not contain anything like the number of snimals that those of the sea do.” The surface of the waters, which, plowed by storms, are such a source of dread to man, aro the protection of these children of the mother ocean : At 550 fathoms there fs's pertoe&}{ uniform temper- sture, the same in all latitides. No cold pierces this wonderful coverlet, no storm ever disturbs the walers beneath. - Hete in their hidden home, safo from the disturbances of this upper life, are myrisds of crea 7 7 tures, living, marrying, dying; warring one upon the Sihers orpen ‘into kingdoms, republice, famikies ; working in every form of manufscture, as spice ners, weavers, architecs, buildera; = endowed with' mysterious instincts’ which aro quito as wonderfal in their way as our higher reason,snd bound together by mysterious ties which we aro equally unablo to comprehand or to call in question. 80 trua {s it that the mystaries of science far outweigh 1hoso of morals snd thealogy. Theso inhabitants of the ses sro found in absolutely countless * nwimbers, No of ol 's populstion ever has been taken, or evoer can be. They exist in all waters the hot s well as the cold, the freeh as well as tho ealt. The mariner in the tfopic sea is startled 10 ind the ocean all about him growing luminous, as though the yery water beneath the hot equatorial sun Bad turned to fiame. Flashes of vermillon-colored light dart from the keel of hia vessal as it plows the surface of tho waters, and streams of light like lightning spar- klo and play apon e waves. 1f over s super- Btitious fears by growing mccustomed to the might, o drops s bucket into the luminous ses, ho up what scoms less like water thas like molten load. It lighta the forecastl like a torch, o plunges his hand into the water. It comes out covered with luminous articles glittering liko diamonds fall of light. How umersble must bo theeo .almost infinitesi- mal glow-worms of the £c3, thus to convert tho ocean into s sea of light! Bometimes theso tiny creaturcs tint instead of flluminating the sea. Insccts whoeo diameter is less than that of a hair, 300 of whom placed inline would not make an inch_in length, whiten the waters of the ocean - by thelr. presence, and make what the st;:nnu.wzhmuma mg.fsé:“an“' In in_ the Bay of pt. EKingman paseed for thirty miles throngh tho muddls of s large paich. of sca white with theso crestures. Thirty miles of les 300 of whom would hardly constitute an inch] Besmen sometimes meat with ired fogs,” ly in tho vi- clnity of the Cape de-Verd Isiands. Ehrenberghns examiined this fog with his microscope. Ho finds that its tint in given {0 1t by infinitesima] ahells of infasoria ‘brought by the winds from the coasts of South Amer- ica. Let the resdor if he_can, how many of these ahells, so amall s -to be quito invisible to tho paked eye, {here must be to produce a _cloud enough and denso enough to perplex the navigstor. Now, are the planets less minute or less numerous 7 Frescinct and Turrel, when on board the corvette La Créole in the neighborhood of Tsjo, in the Isle of Lu- can, observed an extent of -Aive squars ocean-tinted a light red. This color proved to be dus toths presenco of & marino plant 66 small that fn a square inch thero were 25,000,000 individuals, the coloration ed to s considerable dopth, it would be impossible to form any adequate conception of thelr namber, still less to calculate it. It i the presence of & similar natural dye which has {given to the Bed Sea its name, These minute objects, owevar, are by no means ed to the surface of 6 sea, climates ; they are found in all Iatitudés and in all waters. The great rivers teem with them. The Ganges fransporis in tho conrss of ome yesr & maas of invisible infusoria in volume to aix or efght of the great Pyra- ds of Egypt, Water ht up from the depth of 21,600 feet, betwoen the ppine znd the Mari- anne Islands, was found to contain 116 species. In the arctio regions, where the. intenso cold forbids all ‘animal 12, tho infusoris are stil to be found, possessinga hardy constifution which defies all cliz mates, In the residum of blocks of ice, mearly fifty different species have been discovered. Ata depth of the sea which excoeds the hieight of the loftiest moun- tains, Humboldt_asserts that theroare to'be found an indumerablo phalanx of animals, imperceptible to the human eye. . THE NEWSEOY'S DERT 18 & homely, but affecting, piecs of poetry, which owes a great deal of its charm to_the extreme rarity of the partioular genus of newsboy there- in described. All the verses cannot be given, ‘but the following give the main points : “ where's the ¢ » T Thomis have broaeht i howt g0t e wolll ah well | they're all alike] T was s fool fo tempt him so. “Dishonest | We'l, I might have known ; And yet his face seemed candid, too. Ho would have earned the difference If he had brought me what was due, “But cantion often comes {00 late.” ~_And so I took my homeward W3y, Deeming distrust of human kind The only lesson of the day. Just two days later, as T aat, ‘Half dozing, in my office chair, i 1 beard a timid knock, and call In my brusque feshion, * Who is thers 27 An urchin entered, barely seven— The same Scotch face, the same blus eyes— 'And ‘half doubtful, at the door, Aberhed ot oy Zorbiading guise. “ Bir, i please, my brother Jim— i iy g, s f ‘He couldn’t bring the money, siz, ‘Bocause his back was hurtod so, "t e aidn't meen to keop the ¢ changs;® Haggl:l\mnz;i uve{, up theh’txuu One wheel went right across his back, "And tother fore-whec] maalied bis fect, "4 They stoj the horses just in time, And then | "f-ly took him p for dead, And all that day and yesterday. Ho wasn't rightly p his head. #They took him $o the hospital— Ong of the newsboys kuew *twas Jm— And I went too, becauss, you goe, ‘We two are brothers, I and him. # He hod that money in his hand, And never saw it any more. Indeed, he didn’ mean to steal | He never lost a cent before! - “He was m-'zm un‘;: you ‘might think He meant to kecp i, a2y woy ; This morning; when they brought him to, He cried becauss he couldn’t paz. 4 Ho made me fetch his jacket here ; Jus torn and disled preley bad 1ths o or rags, . VB0t then, you know, it all ba had 1 4 When he gets well—it won't be long— 1¢ you will eall the money lont, ‘He says he'll work his fingers off ‘But what he'll pay you every cent.” And then be cast a reful glance At the soiled jacket where it Iny. X0, no, my boy ! Take back the coat, Your brother's badly hurt, you sy ? #Where did they.taks him? Juet run ou} And ball & cab, then walt Yor me. bay asha' e which he laid dovn | y John G. Baxe dashes off these spirited lines ;,{. A half hour after this we stood Together in the crowded wards, And the nurse checked the hzsty steps That fell too loudly on the boards. I thiought him smiling in hie sleep, And scarce bolleved her when she said, Smoothing 3wy the tangled hair . From brow and clieek, * The boy s dead.” Dead? dead 50 500n? How fair h Jooked | One treak of sunshino on his haif. Poorlad! Well, it is warm in heavent No need of *change " und jackets thero! _And something rising in my throat Alado it 50 ard for mo £0 speat, 1 turned away, snd loft & tear Lying upon his sunburned cheek. - -E. H. House, in . THE PRESENT AND FUTURE OF JAPAN, calls attention to the universal ignorance upon the subject of Japan. The singular political and social constitution of s vigorous and intelli- gent nation numbering 0,000,000 of inhabitants is regarded with an indifference which is be- siowed upon no other poople "of ancient j or modern times. Scholars véuchsafe s {ar greater amount of consideration to the stady of the vanished empires of antiquity, and to the common mind the existence of this by no means contomptible body of tho human race is as re- mote 88 that of the lost tribes. After describing. the different steps by which that secluded ‘people have drawn near the light of modern civilization, Mr. Honse sketches the prospects of the future : The determination seems to have been to hastily as poesible for the loat u:?uumpu: country was ehut in from forelgn contact; but the Taco against time has been too rapid. With'tho gen. eral plans for constitutional reorganization, internal improvement, and educationsl development, no fault uld fairly be found; but the precipitate manner in which “thote have altogether been taken threstens, for two = important to bring about's serfous reaction at mo very distant day. In the first place, the nation is utterly exhausting its finances, The total revenus is quita limited—not much greater now than In the time of the earlicst sioguns, Nothing worth ) of is de- rived from forolgn sources, while the outlsy is un- censing and enormous. For reasons of its own the Government declines to remove_ the restrictions or ex- portations of its staples, by which its excessive impor- tations might in some degreo be balanced, and is consequently cramped to the last extremily, and compeiled to seek relief in repested issues of paper currency, which long g0 resched an almost intolerable execss, and 1s Leld in circulation only by the exercise of that peremptory power which may still boemployed in cataof need. In fact, tho Government s nearly t, notwithstanding which it continues its course of munificent expendi- ture as if its resources were yet unlimited. In eve direction new planafor post-routes, railros lines, l\'ukmmu::gu, &nd augmentations o DAYy are announced, for the execution of which for- ¢igu services and forelgn matorials are required which ‘must be promptly paid for in solid money, A state of things 80 ruinous as cannot Lt forever, and, When the end doea como it scems only too likely tha 4t will come not merely with the evil of financial pros— tration, but with the dditional ehock of what in itself may constitutes second and quite independent cause army ead and many respects well-founded distrust of ths valuo of this forelgn ssaistance which is obtained at such great pe sacrifice, Whoever may bo to blama for it, there is no disputing that the results of the lavish outlsy do not justify the expectations of the Japaness, In many cases, undoubt- edly, the fonlt i their own. Partly from vanity, partly from avakening suspicion, they undertske to fssume tho direct management of enterprises which are beyond thelr grasp, and find themeelvea, after protracted ex- periments, obliged to set aside al they have uzclessly accomplished, and recommence from tho starting-point, But in other and more important instances they are,and Xnow themaelves to be, the victims of unprincipled axtortion and fraud, 1t is probably impossible to find elsewhcre, except perhaps in New York City, such ex- amples of monstrous jobbery as the records of the Japanese Board of Workn can ahow. In truth, they do 2ot know how toprotect themselves, Thoy continually ‘seck counsel, vet are afraid to nct upon if, They feel themeelves Letrayod by foralgners on every side. The mercantile community is arrayed sgainst them, and it Tapacity tolerated, If not. fostered, by the diplomatio suthorities, whose duty it should'be to protect them gainst unjust dealings. Provisions of treaties which aroof vital consequence to them aro ded without excuse or explanazion by the governments in which thoy, have placed the most impliclt trust. And mow thoy are often competied to doubt the integrity of their own servants, That they should manifest disgust and alarm is not o be wondered at, and when it becomes clear—ss thero 18 every prospect that i may—that they have thrown themselves into almost inexiricablo financial confusion, principally to satiafy the" greed of insatinto strangers, their indignation will hardly be asauaged by tho reflection that to their own recklestess mauch of tho misfortuno must be attributed. Atsuch time, should the crisis arrive beforo the internal ro- construction of the country has heen settled, tho po- sition of the Government will be doubly embarrassing. There are plenty amoug tho disaffected who would avail themselves of any opportunity tondd tolta an- noyances, and, up to thls time, it must bo remembered, tho Adminlsiration does not ‘ropresent the people at 1arge, or even the powrer of all the varions clans, Years may pass before, byingenious shifting of local officlals and redistribution of the several provincial clements, 1t can bring about a thorough and secure homogeneity. “ TEe DRAWER” says: Thero aco porsons now living in Dennington who remember old Billy B—, of whom It might bo said he furnished oo example of the * ruling paseion strong fn death,” When very 1ll, and friends wero e: un early demiso, his nephow and a man hired for the oc- casion had butchercd s steer which had been fattened ; and when the job was completed the ncphow entared the aick-room, where a few friends were sssemi when, to the astonishment of all, tho old man open is oyes, and turning his head slightly, said, in a full volcs, drawing out the words, *rhat have you ‘been 'doing?” “ Killing tho slecr,” was tho reply. “What did you do with thohide?” * Leftitin the i barn + " going to sell it by-and-by.” “Let the boys + drag It around the yard a couple of Hmes it will make - it weigh beavier.” "And the good old man was gather- ‘ed unto hin father, : ‘The obituary column of our daily papers not infre- -ements that combine, in man- Halleck described as ¢ the Recently the sccidental change ching obitusry utterly Indio- us, A bereaved friend, writing of the death of an eutimable lady, said, “Bho Lus gone to her, stermal ireat.” Imagino his dismay and disgust when'the no- ftice was prosented to him and ho read, “ She has gons L LR S 0 following very curlous and very anclent predio- -tion, entitled by popular tradition Mother Shipton's Prophecy, was publishod 330 sears 3go < Garrlages without horses shall go, £nd accidents ill tho world with ‘woe. Around the earth thoughts ahall fly Ia tho twinkling of aneye The-world upside down shall be, And gold be found st the root of s tres; Through hills men shall ‘Under water men shall wall Shall ride, ehall alecp, shall %n mr‘l:en &hall be seen, n white, in_green. Iron in the water aball float, As easily a8 8 wooden boat. Gold ehall be found and shown 1In aland that’s not now knowsn, Fire and water shall wonders do. England shall at last admit a foe, The world to an end shall come 1In eighteen hundred and eighty-one, AN ADIEU. And 80 the last farewell is coldly spoken ‘That sunders me forever from thy aide, The spell of dsar delusion has been broken, ‘The flower of happy hope has drooped and disd, Scorn me, if 8o thou wilt, with angry rigor, While X confess to thee, in poignant 1imey thine income was & handsome 'And went for it with all my might and main, And when T see thee worshipt by some other 1n whom thy maiden trust is proud.l’:h My Reart, thongh stung to bitierness, will smother regrel g thought that fondly lingers Tno ardor of ita infinite regret, But, like a lo Oler the dead dream which now no more enchants, Downward shall plunge my once expectant fugers . ‘Within the empty pockets of my paats. And yet tis something to have served and sued thee: 34y sim woa lofty, though my deeds undone, "Tis something to have passionately wooed thea And sought thee as tho lark’s wing ceeks the sunl - Nay, I shall tesch my 2ad life not to languish, Though bezring, amid all dark days to be, Within my breast the sceds of silcut anguish, . Within my car g0 sggravating fleal ~—Hugh Hovard in the New York Graphic, Amcrican Ladies in Rome. From a Letter from Boston, Nor has gocicty been able fo rosist the strong- est of our warriors, the feir daughters of our land. In more than ono princely palace a beauty, Do reigns, who was, not_long sgo, ardently worshiped at Saratogs and Long Branch, and happily disposes with the eamo native graco the ‘hospitalities of her gorgeous mansjon here which sbe showed in her happy home befonrmza ocean. Only o few days ago, ono of the oldest and most. megnificent houses of Roman Princes was opened to a seloct co:gnny of Italians and Americans, spacially invited to enjoy the performance of a cg.rming comedy (*‘Cross Purposes™) written for the purpose by our gifted Stoflliy. A Tair lady, well known for the almost marvelous versatility of her talents, played the principal part, whils others were tilled by fri of the house, and the whole proved a source of high and most re- fined enjoyment. Rumor has it that the charm- ing daughter of our General of the army ac- complishes a8 many conquests by her matchless grace and marvelously winning manners, a3 her sltustrions father did at tho head of his prmy, and that more than one ducal crown has already been Inid at her feet. The boauty and the rare tact of our feir countrywomen are veritable godsends to the good Romans, who have few subjects of converastion, read littlo, and dare not touch politic A general meeting of tho Old Catholics of Ger- many has been called for the 2ith of April, and will, says a Berlin newspaper, pmhlbéy appaint two Bishops,—one for North, one for South Ger- many. of Teaction—tho culmination of the now growing ‘“OUT OF THE DEPTHS.” To the Editor of The Chicago Tribune: _Bm: Iwanthelp. Very likely, but why como to an editor, who hss both hands and his whole head full of his ovn affairs? Don't you under- stand the power of the press ? Don't you know that we never fail to accomplish any desired pur- pose, except it ba to make office-holders honest ; and that we do it by being very busy,—by having no spare time,—by alwaya being in a_hurry, and ‘always hurrying to ‘'some purpose? And yeb there was an editor once who was the busiost of busy men ; who began low down, in & wesak, un- Imown voics, that waxed louder and louder, un- til it must needs be heard ; who made himself felt in thousands of homes ; who spoke to mill- ions of attentive ears ; who influenced affairs of state; mado and unmade reputations ; who grad- ually became the schoolmaster, the trusted teachier, the educator, of awhole people. : Yet ho always had leisure to liston'fo that one cry— thie cry for help. Time, money, advice, effort, were alweys ready, and were not always - sbused. He did mot be- come President. He did’ not die rich. - But did over man have such a funeral? Did ever man bave such a living inflnence ? Was ever private citizon 80 mourned, from Maine to Texas, from the Lakes to the Gulf, from New England to Oregon? Would his intellect and odustry have wrought all this work, without his divine “ Joving kindness ? Why not help yourselt? Sure enongh; but how? Icame hero with fivo years’ experience in a commercial house in New York City and twelve years in a country bank. . I could fill the position of bookkeeper, or cashier, or entry- clerk, or salesman; conld oversee men, or at- tend to shipping goods, or almost anything that did not require too much strength or too much parely technical knowledge. I could even re- port the proceedings of a public mesting, and give as much of speeches as any ono (but the maker) would care to read. I have answered sdvertisements (giviog good city roference) until I was tired and ashamed, never getting as yot & syllable in reply. Perhaps your hand- writing was not good onough? Probably not. If one of the respected employers who advertise for *help” will write on a washstand, in a Chi- cago boarding-honse; with-no fire in the room, and uso the pen that “bolonga to the house,” it is barely possible he might not do his writing- master much credit. Let them change the pro- grammo; give the subscriber & * squars meal,” hot ; then put him into an office, with s good fire, a black-walnut desk, and one of Gillott's 303, dipped into Arnold's . i im- portod, and thoy might form a different opinion. If I only hadagood trade! Ah! my young friend, of a mechanical turn, well instructed, if you only knew how lucky you are! The old boss that took you as an apprentice, and drilled you, and made you get up in the morning, and turned you out, after years of labor and patience, & ‘master-workman, has done more for you than you can ever thank him for; for he has given Jou whatno one can take awsy; he has mede you, 88 mear 88 any one can bo mado in thig World, an indopendént man. Don't you offend God, 22d disgust sensible men, by envying any- y. If I was a drunkard, the thing conld be nicely arranged. If I had beggared my flmflimnnd nearly destroyed my life drinking poor whisky, there aro Elenty of men in Chicago, and women, 100 (God bless them!), who would gather araund me and say, “ Ba o man, now! Just giveitup, ‘and we will help you, and encoursge. you; we will furnish you with ‘employment, and help you carry your load; and you may look up and be hopefal. Inalittle while you will find yourself enrninfa ood income, and you can gend for _your mfiy 2nd have & home onco more.” omo! my God! home! Why, that's the great ‘beauty of ‘the promised life,—the lifo men used to believo in, and dio for, and, what is harder, live for. A home in- Heaven,—in the “Now Earth,”~a whole universe without & siranger in it; no more loneliness ; no more homesickness ; 1o more boarding-houses | Porhaps you never lived in & boarding-house. I don't mean a-very young man, s mere boy, who has gotten away from his native place, an: can endure anything for what he thinkaia lib- erty. Imean s man,—one who has really had a home, and knows the meaning of the word. Not a boarding-house in a emall country village, whero there is plenty of room, and where some good old mother of a womsn geats you at her amily table, and sees to the -buttonson your shirts, I means city bosrding-house, where gehorla oxist because they can't help themselves. hard it is gorgeous ! The room is 7 by 9, with & bed, not burdened with blankets, & narrow ‘washstand, just room enough for your trm and somo elegant nails to hang your doflx&;’ on,—and nothing more. Don't shat it up too tight, my unfortunate friend; Jeavo the one ‘window open a little way, if you prefer air that has not been used yet, aod then, in tho morning, Just at the bresk of day, you aro awakened from our dreams by the song of birds? Not exactly. the smoke (not the emell) of fried ham. Pah! Ican scent it yet, and it is ‘near midday. Cole- -gelf;” and how can T “not ,h:mw ridge found s great number of separats bad smells in the City of Cologno, but who shall tell us how many differont odors can come from boarding-house ham, pouring its sweetness on the morning air? Moses did not cheat the Jows much when he bade them beware of ham or shoulder, sido pork, or jowls—this deponent not “’h’f anything at present of either spare-rib or_tenderloin. = ad half & mind to write to Robert Collyer, who is & mechanic and & ““man” o boot, with & hard head and a soft heart; who knows a little about tho *blackness of darkness;” who has Dot always seen his way clear; who knows what it is to breathe an air that is not eoftened l'z glowing anthracite, or sweetened by the breaf of flowera. Would ho help you? Yea, verily, if it was in the power of his hand to do it. But, bleas you, he doubtless reads a score of such let. ters every time the moon changes. I listened to Mr. Collyer's: sermon, the other Sunday, when he spoke of our Savior's fear that God de- Barted him; and he proved so clearly that the Divine Father was never 8o near to a strugglin; soul as when he seemed to be the farthest off, and in that thought I found great consolation— 1o others. 1t soemed just the thing for men in my s, who sign their namesin a different way from mine; b, as for me, I coald but thiok of the godliness that has the promise of this life, as well as that which is to come. It ia » strange thing how implicitly one can trust God's promises” to other people; and, even for ourselves, how frankly we confide in for a whole eternity of happiness, and yot how we shrink and tremble at the idex of relly giving him credit for ** thirty days.” How did I become” =0 helpless ? ‘Why, I was l\mt foolish enough to put all Ihad into the anking-house I spoke of,—heart, and sonl, and mind, and effort, and money; and when it went, my all went with it, or is 8o bound up in tho red- tape of a bankru Ftcy sottlement that it might as well be in the boitom of the sea. And I wasmot smart. Idid not know how to hide. I did not see tho wisdom of grabbing what I could lay hands on, and then fight for the title with tho very property that was in dispute. *‘Men will spoak well of thee when thou doest well for thy- expect a Chicago man to trust mo with his money when I did not lmow enough to take care of myown ? What a parade they make sometimes when a' poor fellow has blown his brains out | How they cast about far reasons, as if impocuniosity was not harder to bear than being rossted over s slow fira! ¢ If 'wo had only known,” they and say it truth- fully. ““We nover: dreamed of such a. thing! Ho was' quiot,—s little resorved,—did not say much about - himself ; and, on _the whole, was rather cheerfal. Really, it's quite shocking! If we had only known!” Aye, truly; but we do until it ia too late. - *'To be, or not to be.” Curious—i8 it not ?—that life should seem 80 Bweet just as the meana by which we live are taken away. Whon all was bright, and cheerful, and prosperous we ‘did ‘not think about it; we of the vanity of life with great cheer- fulness, and even look upon death, away of, in- distinct with distance, ns not s very great ovil. But now, how dear life seems, it only we could get a standing place.—~if wo conld only get a fair chance ! t bright pictures] What undoveloped powers! How pleasant the thonght of friendship and social intercourso; of books and mumo,—fl{’a: all to be’ swept into oblivion by the want of that which wo cannot. gain, and can- not do without. If we had only known? - Traly. “Then the caing for what comes after,—the slirinking from ucmhl;ietv)und! and an unknown gravel. Very foolish, is it mot? “Dut the romises, my friends, think of tho proraises: ow broad ‘they arel™ So broad, indeed, that all can stand upon them who do not feel their footing insecure. Aon do not eay to themselves, “We' are able to stand without them:” they only feel 80, There are men, I verily bellevs, ‘who do trust them, blow high or low,—who sel- dom waver, and who neyer forsake,—and God does ““halp™” them, Maybo they are the only men who are worth halgng. “'If, when 'twera done, it were well done. then it were well it wara dono quickly.” But that point. +It may not bs well not undoit. 8o, peace to and good luck to the happy, aud * the more thy -merrier.” I.am sure the ranks of sorrow conld are them many a recruit, and yet not grow oo T bid you good-bye, Mr. Editor, with the assur- is just the sticking done,” and yon can- the fortunate ones, -| ance that writing in a cold room, with colder 3@;‘;::& is ;&rlmma plensant pastimo. RO Cemoaco, Kgrn 2, 1873. i WONDERFUL INVENTION. A Boon to Journalism--Bogardus’ Pa. -tent Irresiatible Combination Kicke er. K From the Louferille Couricr-Journal. 1 have invented a machine for the purpose of ‘reducing the number of exchange fiends now in existence. Asmanyof your exchanges know, sxchznia flends are persons of L persave ance who continually drop into the room whera the exchanges of & nowepaper office axe kept, and wrestle with them under the pretense of searching for the Daily Ban Francisco Crusher, or the Waco Weekly Bullwhacker, or some other sheet that they offer to swear they can't find at the newe-stands. Theae persons, as if their pres- enco alone wers not sufiiciently harrow- ing, have & way of sitting for at least half an hotr at a time, and rattling the papers in the * exchange-basket in & manner evidently intended to_exasperate and confuse every ome at work within range of the noise. They do warse. ‘When one of them is informed that the paper wanted is8 not to be had, he invariably says : 4 An old one will do just a8 well;” and his brow darkena with unmanly suspicion when he s told that the paper he wants has posilively been car- ried out. ese persons also make tedious and Tunnecessary. explanations, consuming much yalusble time and wearing out the patience. They know everything that's disagreesblo; and practice it persistently. All their faults, if written of here, would make this thing too long. The invention to which I refer is known as #Bogardus’ Patent Irresistible Combination Eicker, for the Use of Newspaper Offices,” and itis in every respect superior to the buzz-gaw now in use insome of the Western newspaper establishments. It consists mainly of, first, & large, strongly-constructed chair, in the'bottom of which are cmxzsffl.ed numerous rezgmkublo springs of extraordinary power; second, an im- mense boot, made of & g:rd, unyielding sub- stance, and connected, beneath the fioor, with the chair; third, s number of strong rods and things comnecting the whole with the steam- engines of the cstablishment, The boot and chair are also connected with a powerful hook, which is concealed in the ceiling, - Asthe unsn?ectinguxchange fiend approaches heis x:guum to be seated in_the chair, which is placed close to the basket in which the ex- changes are kept. Just as he settles in the seat and reaches for an exchange, a member of the editorial staff suddenly jorks a convenient knob; the powerful and wonderful eprings in the chair begin to toss the fiend in & most oxtraordinary manner ; a portion of the floor slides away;" and theimmense boot swings into view, making a kind of-crashing noise, a8 though the ‘building wers {falling. - In a for seconds more the remarkable 8 apringn, true to their task, throw the astonished - end into a position which makes him face the door. " The concealed hook then drops from the ceiling and seizes him by the coat-collar, and then the boot, with the rapidity of lightning; ia put whereit will do the most good. When the boot has gone rapidly back and forth . for sbout half o minute, tho inery is stopped, the shattered fiend-ia lowered to nrh:tter and carried out, and for eix weeks he languishes under the impression that he has been assaulted from behind by the tutelary domon of the press, OF semo equally exasperated momster top HIl: eous to describe. He never returns to the ex- change-basket. J. C. BrarrawAITe BooARDUR. LomsviLre, April 8, 2873, MY FRIEND. Abovo a thoughtful forehead, lies Dark-hrown halr with sunny flashes ; ‘Beneath arch brows, two radiant eyes ‘Peep from under wicked lashes, A mouth not noryet too mall, B it to 15 ovnive face; From laughing oyes duth lightly fall Upon red lips & merry grace. . - et not for these I say “My friend ;* Part good does not prove good the whole, And outward loveliness can lend No whiteness to a woman's soul. The strong, brave heart which dares o call God's truth “the truth ” in any place; Which saddens o'er another's fall, And counts the sadness nodisgrace; The ready sympathy which gives or whilo while mem il Hert and metaley Bod ber i Almezast A Very Remarkable Story. From Hearth and Home. Thore lived in Brooklyn, not long ago, & man ossessed of a dovil. .He had inherited the ovil from his father, in the first place, and had nursed it until it grew so_strong it took entire ‘possession of him. The dovil was & very familiar one, and its namo was Rum. The man had many noble instincts, and, better than all these, bhg bad a loving, faithfal, brave wife, who made skillful .war upon the demon, hor husband’s master. _Recognizing the fact that her husband wos under an overpowering impulse, that he Ionged and struggled manfully to free himself from the passion for drink, she bent all the enorgiea of her woman-nature to tho task of helping him. She loved, and suffered, and toiled, until at last the loving, and suffering, and toiling accomplished their purpose. .Bhe took her hus- band bythe hand, and shared with him his strog- lc, until, after years of Iabor, sho overcame his lovil, and saw him & free man again. Her battle with Rum bad been a fierce one, taxing and wasting her stzength sorely, but she was con- ueror at last. Her husband etood upon manly foot, and showed no sign of falling again. Bev- eral ifiem passed away, and this reformed man foll ill'of consnmption. The distinguished phy- sician, from whose lips we have the story, pre- scribed alcoholic stimulants as the only means posaible of prolonging his life. The poor wife was in terror, and begged the physician to recall the prescription. Bhetold him of her long strug- EIB and her victog and said she preferred thak or husband should die then, & sober man, than that he_shonld fill a 's grave & year later. But the frced spirit of the man was strong, and he undertook to take alcoholic liquors a8 a medicine, and to confine himself absolutely to such times and measures in the matter as the ghys:r.\m_ should glxlucnbe This he did, and luring the months thus added to his life he never once o single drop more than the pre- scriptiop called for, and he died at last a sober man, an the wife had so earnestly prayed that homight. But the end was not yet. When the Ioving and patient woman laid him in his grave, . and eaw her long Iabors thus ended in_the vic- tory for which she had toiled 80 hard and suffered £0 bitterly, she turned, in grief, to tho_brandy ‘which had been left in” the house, and drinkin; it, she fell herselfinto the pawer of the de & which she had fought o heroically. And that . woman died, not many months later, a hopoless, - helpless drunkard. _— The Laughing Plant. Palgrave's work on Central and Enstern Arabis furnishessomething new for botenists. A plant is doscribed, under the name of “laughing plant,” the seeds of which produce effects very much liko Iaughing gaa. It onlyin Arsbis, at- taining & height of only about six inches at Kaseem, while at Oman it riges to three and fonr feet, with wide-spreading branches, being woody . and the lenves green. Its flowers, in tufts, are - ellow. Twoor three black seeds, rench beans in size and shape, are produced in a 5oft, woolly kind of a capsule. Thoy havo Bweetish taste, with a slight flavor of opium. The odor from them is rathor offensive, produce ing a sickening sensation. Tho essential proj erty of this extraordinary plant is in- the ‘seed, which, pulverized and administered cantionaly, Boon begina to operste in'a way to create astonishment. The person begins to laugh bois- teronaly; then he dances, sings, and cuts fan- tastic capersof a ludicrous character. Buch ex- travagance of manner was never witnessed fromr any otleer dosing. It is uproariously funny for about an hour. It ia & common amusement ta charge food with the der, for an act- ing individual, for the harmless enjoyment of his capering antics, When the exatement sub- eides the exhansted exhibitor falls into a pro- found slumber. In another hour, on waking, ho is totally unconscions of what has occurred, It'is » common expression that thero is nothing new under the sun. Surely to men of scienca this is something new, demanding their careful investigation of euch extraordinary properties of & vegetable growth that exercise ‘such potent influenco over the brain. But it is morally cer- tain that this recontly discovered vegetablo growth, g0 extraordinary in its potent influence on the human brain, is something new toscience, demanding the attention of dispensatory makers, a5 well as thoze fessors of Aateria Medica who are suj to kmow all that is to be known of plants, -the cedars of Lebanon to the ‘ynsop that springeth out of the wall. Eight convicts in the Nebrasks Penitentiary ‘were recently confirmed by Bishoo (larksoa. much like * |