Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, May 11, 1873, Page 11

L | THE CHICAGO DAILY TRIBUNE: SUNDAY, MAY 11, 73. GENEVA. _ rasgingfrom.Winter to Sprinlg' ‘. in a Single Day. ; ) Joumey Through the Wine-Re- gion—Some - Cockney Com- ‘ parisons, Eeclesinstical Matters - Ameri- cam, English, and Russian - Visitors. Fyom Our London Correapondent. B - Geszva, April 22, 1673, Itignot given fo every one to pass from vintertoepring © ) . IN A EINGLE DAY, But, leaviog Paris in the morning, you will Jeae too the lilac just struggling intoleaf under {he cold northeast- wind, and by 8 o'clock” your sc-bushes will be covered with groén'; whilo at for theresbouts, it your journey is rightly | directod, you will seo the lilse in fall bloom, shd {ho wistaris tossing its delicate violet blossoms into every cottage-window; and.'in.tho litlle rosdside gardens. are arum-lilies-by the dozen smong- tho fruit-trees that aro blooming 8 if they were forced -for a flower-ghow. -~ Suppose sou elect to journey s THEOUGH THE WINE-COUNTRY, toGeneva. As you- go' southward, the earth, whichi is 85 red a8 the generons juice it yields, | bristles with & perféct forest of littlo sticke. These, later on, will bend’ under the weight of the grapés; but now -only a gnarled root showa whero the tendrils and the fruit will grow. Tho choicest of the vineyards lie on the elopes of tho bills thatlook south and weat, or nestlo into the valleys between huge shoulders of rock. As you near Nuito and Beanne, the vineyards, that £* Vbegan eo coyly to steal corners off the bills, as- \ gume quite a feature to themselves. Broad; fist fields, scres on 'acres in extent, are devoted to the cultivation of the vine. You ses the oxen turning up the rich earth with the glow, and men and women by the ecore prepar~ g the soil for the sprouting vines, After Ma~ con, the scenery changes, and with it the char- seter of the goil, which is light in texture, and calored like the wine it bears.. The hills grow info mountains, imperceptibly, 28 & tall boy grovs into & man ; you seo the flash and sparkle of water in. the hoilows, and tho drip. from & pundred water-wheels, and here and there a fac- {ory-<himney. But, in every promising nook that lios open to tho middsy sunm, bundles- of sticks ara Iying ready for the setting, or are sl- seady sot in Tows, like tho hop-sticka of. Kent. Indeed, ol A COCENEY night compluin that the vineyards sre s dwarfed seproduction of the pleasant hop-gardens about Bevenoaks. He might comparo, too, tho great 4 rmnges of hills, that seem Like billows petrified ¢ justwhen they were tossing their wildest against the eky, to Epsom Downs secn through & bad gheet of window-glaas that distorted their pro- portions and set their porspective all swry. .He Dight, if ho penetrated as far as Genova at this unseasonable geason of tho year, compare the gest hills, with the etornsl snows abont theirheads, to those same Downs. after s coat of vwhiten : ash,—go - the irreverent com- puison euggests iteell.. As to the Iake, the beamtifal Lake Loman, in praise of which 0 much good paper has been epoudt, hu night a7, and eay troly, tbat ho had manys time seen his own f{amiliar Thames 88 good s. color, and that his_olfactory organs had been ‘more pleasantly assailed at Waterloo Rridge than where the hone comes rushing out from the ko under the shadow of Jean Jacques lous- mesn; The fogs, too, that enwrap thoso Alps of which ho read with reverencs in his childhuod, aro pearly related to the London fogs, quitc as thick, only not 80 yellow. As{o ihe rain, it nios'every dsy ; and Hount Blanc ia wrapped in w0 ihick & coet of mist and clonds that it might ssvell be Nelson's Column, for aoything he weof it. 5 5 - TN GENEVA ITSEL® r travelod cockney will find little that is now. .} Tiher Hyacintho proaches oceasionslly ;- tho. Protestant papera say that 8,000 of his auditors s nightly turned a5y, while the Catholic pa- pers remacrk that it must be very discouraging {0 ¥, Byacinthe-Loyson to have to preach to ompty benches. Mgr. Mermillod—to turn tc the other s of the ecclesiastical medal—lives peaceably ough in his French villa, which issome quarter of an honr's walk from- the Genevese frontier. The Iadies of Jus late dioceso make -pilgrimages io him’ and " interview him ; it 18 oven said that: ono_. enthusinstic - . devotee, . having cllected fhe momey for a testimonial, ot teoded with s deputation to’ proseit” tho Bishop with a chalite of considerable value. Epeechien on both eides having been exchaugad, the alegant velvet casket. was.opened by-Agr. Yermiliod, and found to contain nothing but & tmmon’kitchen pot, which some wsg - bad. sub- situted for the jeweled and engraved chalice in- tended for the présentation. Tesil ecclosinatical squabbles; of Which you sill havo heard more than enough, there ia little [oteresting in Geneva. Ths theatra is open two orthres days 2 week, but though the orchestra is §d, the chorus is indifferent, and--the -rest ‘of the company are bad. ‘This is *not- encouraging b 2 apera figuros an the’ bills. * The hotels tem | P ENGLISH AND AMERICANS, though both are of & different class to that. rep- resented Inter in the sesson. Buckwheat cakes ud fish balls struggle for precedence on the Dests in ' company with- beefste ) and Pat-pudding ; English hats and e gs " are every shop windaw ; and Englit ivertise- Rents, in striking capitals, are arranged to catch Lo eye of the traveled Briton snd his Trane- tantic cougin. But the Americans who now cnt s ures s o hotela axo, for the ‘o8t part, Rings those enormous trunks which are 8o char- uietigtic,_of the Now York belle later in o: pesson; while tho _English visi- trs-have » distressed and out-at-elbows. tpeanance. A groet many of the latter sleep in e room ; they go to bed late and get up enrly; 1dhey Bave a habit of opening their doors ly and dropping their boots on the wooden. foor, which is distressing to the nerves of a per- faxho iz just composing himself to sleep. ] They eat seldom, and then usually by contract. 2y club together to take in the Swiss Times, i they resd sn English paper with gusto, he they can getit. In the summer, this class dvisitors disappears altogether. Where thoy ~ e from, where they go, and. what they do, (wy”_,m to Imow. Perhaps they hsunt E_:flijflflln summer, -2s they haunt Gepevain s winter; and probably they pay a flying visit’ London in August and September. 4t the present moment, Geneva is full of - e 'BUBSIANS, 5 have arrived hero to keep their Easter, Yhich, 8 most poople know, is a week lator than "I, Tho Russian Church, with its gilded dome dgables, ina conspicuous object in this liberal Blestant city ; and visitors, no matter to whab ;fld-m-m denomination they belong, will h‘.flflwfiz_ a place of worship -p to 10191 English Customs. of us have heard of Nottingham, in Lghod, In this plensant city for many years 22 has existed an orgenization known a8 the < The dutics which de- 1 upon a Nottingham Lamb were sundry. tho most part they. consisted in getting Onghly and unmistakably dronk, apd in nest people’s heads. The *Lambs” B (o lsharvma at alwh;:xfis, l;:d did s o cause—generally of con- Jenton Tn Tuct, un clection at Nottingham rd gy izoduction of vote by ballot, was & o, ' fashioned “ trae blne and orange” eleo- ¥ ni, D1k of an intoxicating kind flowed like ?]%?fi!honumbla csadidates had each their Il e Eunporters. Votes were paid for 13y Botten eges and dead cats and turnips th L nd the heads of the exalted fow T ¢ Lustings, liko cannon balla at & seige. o7, ** Nottingham Lambs ” engagod daring the spesking_ of the’ candi- o pai murdering any_luckloss voter who iy, " Buinsay anything sdvanced by the can- hose behalf the service of the wera enlisted. It i with regret we note the. fact delicious relic of good, English times is ot last consigned along with everything elso old English. head of the Nottingham Lambs was & v%‘“wbm_ nsme was Bill ‘Bendigo. Bill WA & prize-fighter, and_half Lilled his Pl it man o an( . The rottennces of the times, or rather, as Artemus Ward would have said, “the’ cussedness’ of things in' general,” have brought about Bendigo's conversion, to the fix"" joy, no doubt, of the worthy Nottingham agistrates, but the amazement of the Not- -| tingliam Lamba. Bendigo was “‘called” sbout six weeks ago by one Richard Weaver, a collier, backed up by & gentleman by.the name of Tukes. He was ‘“‘called ™ and he had for- enken his lambs and gone down into filthy White- clspel 1 preach, of, 1o tso Lis owa words, 1o fight for the Gospel.” ~Alas, alas, inatoad of tho manly Bendigo beafing to pulp’the massy head of a Nottingham laboror, we v a oo stont, strong-buill man, of square face, with spectacles on nose,” preaching * with considerablo .zeal but with much oratorical finish,” to Whitechapol costermongers. - Bendigo's conversion: has re- ulted in the broak-up of the admirablo protos ive organization of Nottinghamr, and henceforth’ we ehall haye no moro piquant accounts of “ contasted eloctions ” from England. - BVERDUE. * The beads from the wine have all vanished, - Which bubbled in brightusss 5o Iste : The lights from tl:0 windows are banished ; Close shut is the gato g Which yosterday swung wide in foysnee, And beckoned to fate * The goblet stands jdle, untaited, Ur, tasted, is tastoless to-uight § The breath of the roses ls wasted ; 1n sackeloth Lediglt, . Thicsoul iu the dusk of ber palace, * - * Sits waiting the light. . Ak why do the ships woft 10 to] 1 O grace to this sarrowful realm? - - st supg shine in vain, whils their broken Rays clouds overwheim? - Ténder Dreezs, if some sail bear & mestag: Bule thou at the helm! 5 B, 1f haply thie roler bo coming, Drug the sea-sirens cach with & kiss; . Stroko the waves into calmest of humming Over ocean’s abyes ; . = 3 : ‘the shora of the stresiger ‘Speed bim Boft from To the haven of this. - A4 be soul-bells in Joyous.revival - - - . " Shall peal all the caTols of spriug ; . Tberoses and ruby winoTival - i Each : In the ‘Delight to the king. ing, 3 v n crimeon and fragrance of welcome, = Mary B. Dodge, in E ippincott’s Hagasine, e — £ Advertising Medley. ‘We.learn from an exchangoe that o German musician-intends to compese o serios of nirs to a medley of newspaper advertisements. The idea eeems to us to be s good one, and it has oc- curred to us (hat wo may help tho composor a little porhaps by arranging a few advertisements in asuitable form for adoptation to music. For instance, suppose it is o tailor's advertisement that is gelocted. We should work it up:into some such tender strain a8 this: - -. 2 OB com fnto the gardon, Maud, ‘And sit bepesth the ross. And sco me prance around tho beds ‘Dressed in my Sunday clothes, Oh't como and bring your uncles, Mand, * ~ Your sisters and your aunts, i And tell then Johnion made my cost, . " My waistcoat and my panta, This is pathetic and practical.- The verse is filled with eentiment and with a sweet melodions eaderice peculiarly its own; and yet it makes Johnson's ‘pants’ charmingly conspicnous, and calls attention to his waistcoat, while it idolizes 2nd spiritualizes that useful, but comparatively uninteresting article. Then, say we want to-sok to music & tobacconist’s advertisement.- Wonld ‘we not choose some such fairy-like verso aa this ? * * Gayley young Ferguson Boueht his cipa Bought it at Mulligan’s, . - Where tho best aro. ks TWhen ho wants fine-cut, or AR Sauff for his nose, = Gayly young Forguson Purchases thoso, Few poets could-soar 83 we do thus into the realms of fancy with such a thomo; but it ia ever thus with genius wlien its salary is prompt- Iy.paid, as ours is. We would soar highor if the compensation wero larger. As it is, wo bave given exactly the money's irorth. Or, again: Supposo the composer desired to wed s grocer's advertisemont fo immortal music. We slonld give him a chance with some such glowing im- Bgery as this: R . Ob! say not that T love you becauss the molasses Yon purchssed st Simpson’s was golden and eloar; Tho ayrup, the sugar, the jelly in glasses, *The crackers, tho mack’rel, I know, wero not dexr. But when you-came to me wiih Simpeon's smoked - walmon, _ And showedl me his samples of Limburger cheets, T Zelt that his claim to be chiesp was not gammon ; 1 loved you, and said 0, dear Jaze, on my knees. Tt will be porceived hero that the mingling of mackerel with emotion, and Limburger cbecse with heartfelt affection, gives to each object a pecnliar exaltation, and, as it wors, tends to Sl tho sympatbetic spirit with—with—fill it with— but neser mind. .. Take another case. We_have gh umbrella man fo_deal with. Wo desire to enbalm bis advertisement in verse, and wo {hereforo offer it, lot us say, in the form of & seronade: & .- OB! wakedesrest Tilly, s Ana list whilo T tell & Story of where you may, Buy an umbrells, 0On! go to McGuinnigan’s “Ask for » ginghant, A 'silk or alpacs, And make the man bring ‘em, If you want Tibs put in, Or a new cover, Como o McGuinnigan's— Come with your lover. 2 ‘We charga our German friend notbing for theso suggestions. As far as he is' concerned, we offer_them. in the intcrest of .art, If theeo songs—the labor of an idle honr—gholl make any_sorrowfal and care-laden soul happier, or shall bring consolation to any stricken heart, we shall not only be lm'gl: repaid_and deeply grai fied, but we shall be excesdingly surprised.— Afax Adeler. B gt ST : Sewing Butto: ¢ From the Danbury News. . Tt is bad enough to see & _Dbachelor 6w on o button, but he is thoembodiment of grace along- sideof & ed man, Necessity hascompelled experience in the case of the former, butthe Istter has always depended upon. some one else for this service; snd, fortunately for the sake of society, it is Tarely he'is obliged to Tesort to the naodlo’ himself. - Sometimos tho patient wife scalds her right hand, or runs a sliver under the nail of the index finger.on that band, and it is then the man. clutclies the needle around the neck, and, forgotting to tie 2 koot in tho thread, Ccotarfiences to put on the- button. It is always in the morning, and from five to twenty minutes after o ia_expected tobe down in the streat. ‘He lays the button exactly on the site of its pre- decessor, and pushes tho needle through oneeye, and _carefally .draws tho thread after, loaving sbout three inches of it sticking up for tho los woy. He saysto himself: * Well,if women don't have the easiest time I ever see.” Then he comes ‘back the other way, and gets the peodle throngh the cloth well enotigh, and lays himself out to- find: the eye, but, in_ spite of a_grest deal of ntiont stabbing, the needle-point persists in Ench'ng sgainst the solid pact of that button, and finally, when he loscs patience, his catches the thresd, and that three inches ho had Jeft to hold the butten slips through the eye in & twinkling, and the_button rolls leisurely across the floor. He picks it np without s single ro- mark, out of respect for his children, and makes anotherattemptto fastenit. Thistimewhen com- ing back with the needle he keeps both tha thresd and button from elipping by covering them with his thumb, and it is ont of regard for that partof him that he foels around for the eyein a Yery careful and judicious manner, bat, oven- tually losing his philosoppy a8 the search be- comes more &nd more hopeless, he falla to jab- bing abont in a.loose and savage manner, and it is : just then theneedle finds the opening, and comes up throngh the button and-part way through his thumb with a calerity that no human ingenuity csn guard againat, Then he lays down tho things, with s few familiar quotations, and presses the injured hand between his knees, and then holds it under the arm, and finally jams it into his mouth, and all the time he prancessbout 1he floor, and_cails upon heaven and earth to witness that there bas never been anything like it since the world was crested, and howls, and ‘whistles, and moans, and sobs. * After & while ho calms down, and puts on his pants, and fagtens them together with a stick, and goes to his busi~ ness a changed man. 5 Chinese shl:pb_s!g'xst. i . The shop signs, it must bo understood, are not, 28 witl fi, disp!mfid merely upon the she fronta; but each establishment is furnished wif projecting eaves, frequently elaborately -carved and decorated, and under these st -either -corner next the street, is suspended, or erected & per- ‘pendicular board richly varnished, and inscribed ©on both sides with the name of the concarn and s niotica of the commodities sold, 8o thst it may ‘borsad at s distance by persons passiog up or down the street ; very frequently & scroll ofcloth, alao inseribed on both sides, is hung scross -the street for the same purpose, The lon live of these gaudy signs, stretching overhead and on ‘both sides, and visible at times for a full ‘mile or more, forms 8 very atiractive vista. Shops and business houses are not known in - | -kdfero. finget | Chins by the names of the proprietors or ‘firms, a8 in our Jphm, common-genee country. ' Whon Brown, ‘Jones; and- Robinson; -or; to select pa- tronymics correspondingly, common in China, when King, old, " and -"Btone ~set = up shop ‘or commenca business, they 'assume & style or designation, which is, as & rule, composed - of two 'words, the most felici- {fous in their meaning that can be selected, such, for example, ay * Celestial Affuence,” " Par- petual” Buccess,” * Overflowing Abundance,”- etc.; and the concern'is thenceforward known by that title,” all bills, notes, and business docamenta” being suthenticated by its employ- ment. st - Some idea of theworking of this ico may be dorived from comparing it with the similar one common among the French and other conti- nental uations, of glving fancy names to thei establishments, such. aa. ‘‘ Au bon diabl “Au fidele berger,” “A .la. corbeille des! fleurs,"” etc.; the bnly differenco ‘being that”in the case of tho Europeansthe natnos of the partners in the firm‘are employed or displayed likewise, wheresa with the Chinese they never appear, not oven in correspondence. Innany cases, the aame - designation is proudly. retained by the family for several generations, and niot unfrequently thisconceil is carried {0 the loogth-of cherishing ‘and even'.exbibiting the griginal old sign-board with which (o ancestora the fouodatiou of. the busioess, religiously, protecled from paint . or repairs.. 1t may Ecem straugo tlat.any Janguago hould con- tain s suflicient number of felicitious terms to'suit the wants of the business portion. of. 8o vasf a population ; but the difficulty does not oxist iu practice, aud although many characters must of nocessity be roileratod over, ana over again in the sigus of & inglo stroet, not Lo say town, yet so cleverly aro tLo changes rung upon the clasy;of characters employed, aud 80 excal- Iently. is their dietribution ~ contrived, that it would not occur to sny oe rambling through o -town, that any sign Lo obsorves bis mot his aya W. B. Medhurst. 5 A Netwly-Discovered . Painting by RuphaelwXi is Valued at §300,000. Jome Correspondence of the Cincinnati Caselte. ‘A very romarkable painting is now. in -Rome, which bas been Iately. overed. to be_one of tho.masterpieces of the immortal artist, Raphaol Sanzio da Urbino, *Ton out of tho twelve of the members of the Academy of Bt: Luke, which is the highest authority in the judgment of paintings, bave given unqualificd certificates that thisis & ting in the 1ast and best atyle {tia wellknown that it ia impos. of Rapsel. sible to-purchaso any of these, and that their value is almost inostimsble, They.are all in_public gallerios or in the possession of Princes or persons ol immenso weslth, except this one, "called the Madonna della Tends, or the Madonna of ihe Curtain, because there ia' a curtain. behind the figures. The Ma- donna is seated with the child in her arms and the infant St. John near, and the picture is about the size of the Madona della-Sedia in the Pittl Palaca at Florence. 1t belongs to Cavaliere Daviso, s professor of lawin the University of Turin, is brother, Baron Daviso, has the picture with him in Bome Lhig wintor {oF tho purposo of baving it judged by the Academy of Bt. Luke, and it is for sale at tho moderata sum of $300,000. This wonderful painting is upon canvas, and its_height is seventy-nino centimetres, and its width fifty-nine. Although we cannot maintain that it is entirely untouched, for certain small restorations may be seon executod with -discro~ tion in the last century, it is, nevertheless, preserved in a remarkable manner for the worka ©of those days and the bestof this artist. Tho painiing bolongs to_the.third, otherwiss the grand manner, of Raphael, and sccording to all probability, was painted by bim 8con after he . executed the marvelous frescoes of tho four Bybils in the Church of Santa Maria della Pace, "The influence which frescoes of such importance and excellence would exercise on tho soul and 1hand of the wonderful painter would naturally be very great, and several points of analogy cane not fail to bo discovored between them and the picture of the curtsin painted in oil soon after. The tint of tho vest of the Madonnas, which, in 8l the copics known until now, is red, in this is yellow, with a shade of dark red, which combi- Dation'of tints is ropestod. three times in tho freacoos of tho bg)m, and _is also seen in the 8t. Cecelia of Bologns, and in many other works of the Sanzio. The grandeur of the styla and charnctor of the figures, tho expression, the light and harmony, are the same 23 in tho pic- tares of the Bybils. One would say, on_seéing how -the light is distributedin the Madonnn dells Tends, that when Raphacl pasnted it he Liad already scen somo works of Correggio, and had profited, according to his custom, by. tho art of that painter,in chiaro oscuro and the distribu. tion of light. In this picture, finlly, are seen thoso subtle strokes with which Raphaol was ‘accustomed, with his pencil, to give the last touches to his pictures, and theso are not pre- sorved, excopt in the originals. This account is chiefly a- translation from & Qescription of the picturs written by Cavaliero Daviso, who has owned it for eight years, with- out being quite certain of its value, ‘Wearing n New Boot. From the Danbury News, Ttis a little singular how well a pair of boots can be mado to fit at the store. You may not bo able to got your foot only part way down' the leg at the first trial, but that is because your stock- ing is sweaty, or you hayn't started right, and tho shoemaker suggests that you start again and stand up to it, and e throws in & littlo powder from & pasper-box to ald you. And soyou Btand up and pound down:your foot, and partly trip yourself up, and your oyos stick out inan unpleasant mainer, and every vein in your body. appoars to_bo_on the point of bursting, and all the while that dealer stands around and oyes the :}parllion an intently a8 if the wholo affair was'perfectly new and povel Lo Lim. When yourfoot has finally etruck bottom, thore is a fnint improssion on your mind that’ you hsve stopped into an open stove, but ho rémoves It by solemnly observing thathe never saw a boot fit quite 28 good as that. Youmay suggest that yonr too presses too hard against the front,. or that gome of the bones in theside of the foot are too much emashed, but he says’ this i!nlm{l tha Way with 5 now boot, and that tho trouble will entirply. d.ixs:‘]zvpz:\r in a fow dsys,. Thon you take e old pair under your arm and start for homo . as animated . as a -relic of 1812, all ‘the while feeling that thie world will Dot look bright and happy to you again until you have brained that shoe- maker. You limp down-town the next day, and ‘smile all the whilo with your mouth, whilo your eyealook s if you were walking over an oyster- bod barefoot. “Whex no one is looking you kick lgmnut 5 post or eome other obstruction, and show s fondness for stopping and resting agamst something that will sustain your wolght. on yon got home at night yon ga for those old boota with an ‘esgerness that cannot be de: An the remarks that_you meke npon learning’ that your”wife hag disposed of thom to =& widow woman in the suburbs, are calculated to jmme- diately depopulate tho carth of women and shoo- mokers generally. . —_——— . Purification of Sewage, A plan Lias recently been proposod in_Edin- burg%, Beotland, for taking from foul water im- punities of every kind, whother of sewsge or of Tanufacturers’ and dyers’ waste waters. The substance proposed to be used is & peculiar kind of animal charcoal, made fiom any eubstance wwhich is not bone. It is stated to be not only & powerful decolorizer, but has peculiar %:’“" of abzorbingfboth organio and inorganio substances, while it is from 20 to 60 times cheaper than ordi- nary-bons charcoal. In: carrying out the pro- osed method of using this material, the sewago § caused to fall into & bed of sand which lios on a thinner bed of gravel, under which lies & bed of the charcoal. _After passing through another layer of gravel, the liquid goes upward ihrough ‘more charcoal-and flows over into a bed of sand. Itisthus thoroughly filtered and purified. The charcoal, aftor use, may be lzid aside in the open air without causing any smell, and in » little time Will recover its original power, or it’ may be ro- burnt or distillod profitably; the iwhole.of the nitrogen taken from the Sowage passing over in the distillation as ammonis, uccompanied by other valusble products. . Organic Matter fn Water. - Que of the most interesting discussions of what should bo the charcter of water used for domestic oses is that contaired ina paper o by Dr. Woods befare the London gnemfln Hoclety, in which he insists that organic matter ‘| is injurious to heslth, and.that sttention to this point is every pbysician's duty.. The author Sfatad that his mind wsa pointediy. directed to this ‘snt:{ect by the case of two French ships that had been dispatched simultsneously with men from Algiers to France, and under aimilar circumstances excepting 88 to the water with which they had been furnished. The waterof one was obtained from s marshy place, where the ague was proyalont; that of tha other from ‘an_levated position where the aguo did not pre- vail.. Boon after . sailing, the men on board the vossel supplied with water from the marsh ring were ceized with remittent fover, while ot a case occurred on board of the other vessel. ‘As a-rule, oll animal excreta in water should bo considered 28 poisonous to animals of the same _clase, and all organic matter of a decomposable character in health. waler is highly prejudicial to —From The ¥oragner in ¥ar Calhay, by THE GUARDIAN .CAT. 1 bave grown tired of photogrsphy, partly be- csuse my fingers . were. continually l;_[upk, [.ymly because people who meant to praiee me always 8aid that my results-were very good for the work of an amateur; but some years, ago I was wild, about jt. My mania_was 10 photograpk bits of sconery and ruins which had Dever been focused before; and, in sscking to indulge it, I was per-. petually getting away into cornere.. The corner-: et corner I over explored in these rambles was in the west of England. The wildest parts of Scotland, Ireland, and Wales have a tourist-taint about. them; _ elimy. touts and -cicoroni have crawled over their surface with snail-like perae- verance and stolidity, and left traces: ; But no one has ever written hand-book of . Dowd ; no one would buy itif he did. Dowd has no scenery in particular, no waterfall, no antiguities of torical or philosophical interesf. "TLere was ruin, indeed ; but commonplsce, impecuniosity, not fomantio war nor mysterious baunting, had causod its decay,. acd, What Was' more, 3 fellow. lived in it,—nol a.smuggler Lor coiner, either, ‘bot the Tightfnl owner. v 1 should not baye found that ous, if 1t had not been for a thunder-storm, 1 was; hard at - work with my apparatus and imagination, Huin, _near Doy d,ve‘« - Ruia near Dowd,. suppot atc.,—wheb the aky . ‘becams so biack that you would have thought i was going 10 rain ink, aud the first electric gun was tired. Now, Dowd, a village consisting of a farm, 5 few Iaborers' cottages, a forge, and a small beer-shop not liconsed to sell apirits, was. quite four milss off. 1had my knapaack, and some bread and cheese with me; 80 it was per- fectly indifferent whereI paased the day or the night, o Jong 88 I got shelisr. Part of ihe roof | seemed to buin goud enougk yepair; 8o I utruck my camera and little tent at once, 20d commenc- |’ edan esploration of ,the interior s tho firat drops Legra to make -their half-crown-sized bplashes. Afler penotrating the dilapidated outer walle, 1 ougbt to have sesn thalthe kernel of tho placs was in a more habitable condition; for thero_had been. an attempt st. culfivating. vegetables in’ an. inner garden, and the frame- work of certain windows wsa glazéd. Bt 1 was 20 eager to got my apparatus under ehelter be- foro the rain came on " in varnest, that .I noticed notbiug of this; and so it happened tliat X blan- dered into & furnished spartment. Not thet the furnitare was extensive ; but thero was enough to swear by; a dsl.l-lniflu, tbrée cherry-wood clinirs, and ‘s portrait of a gentleman, in oils, ‘about totaled it. A man was sitting at the deal- table when I entered. Ho jumped np at the in- trusion ; and I saw that he was tall, youog, thin; and dressed iu a suit of ehepherd’s plaid coneid- erably the worse for wear. .- X beg your pardon,” stemmered L. “Iran in out of the thunder-storm, not knowing that the house was inhabited.” *You thought that a bat, or, at best, an owl, would bs tho only tenant of 8o tumble-down a lace,” be gaid, amiling somewbat bitterly at my questionable apology; ‘‘bot come in. "Ihave nothing besides eheltor to offer.you, I fear;- buy- that you sre welcoms.” *A thousand thaoks,” ssid I, “I would not, intrude on you, if it were not that I have been taking some large photographs, and do not wish, them.to be spoiled. Not that I sm sorry to keep my skin out of such a deluge ag this.” 'or the storm -had now burst with gent fory. Flashes of lightning averaged about three to the minnte; the thunder was rather & succession of explosions than tho normal roll; and the rain. came down as.if all the gargoylesof Europe were baving an international epouting match overhead. 5 1 d.g:nind Ty traps in & corner, and immedi- ately became aware of a tlurd personage, hith- erto -unpoticed. This wes a very leage black oat, which- emerged from undor the tsble, stretched himself, and, without taking ths glightest notice of mysclf, proceeded to ex- 8I0Ins my lngglge with grest interest. Do not tell mo that he had no roason. The way he reared about, gently lifting up -cloths, and otting them -down “again, alone proved tho contrary. That he perfectly mastered the uses of the camers, I am not. prepared o avow; but, be eatisfied himsclf that there was no great mis- chief to be apprehended ; for presently he came in to his master's side, .gavo glm arub on the knee, and then began to groom himself with hi tongue. ** Poor old Dabble!” said his mastsr, scratch- ing his head with a forefinger; and the animal, instead of purring like another cat, gave o little murmured * Yow, yow I"—as evident an attempt to speak as possible. - 2 4 “‘Dabble. Polite for diable 2" I inquired. “Yes. Ho is wy familiar, and, with one ex- ception, my only, fricnd and companion. Ars you not, Dabble : *“Yow, yow. “Ig he old 2" “Very. Tifteen years, I zhonld say.” I do not think I am very carious about other pecple’s private affairs, 25 & general rule; but I cortainly confeas to having felt that impertinent passion in the present instance. Who was this young man, whoss manners, phroseology and ac- Cent bespoke bhim asan cducated gentleman 2 And why did helive in & ruin alone with a black cat double tha’ size and intelligence of other blackcats? Well, he didn't gquite. There was a witch' connected with tho establishment ; and presently she camo in. Her hooked nose, curved chin, and general sppearance might fair- Iy have bumed her, wera faith mot cold - without collateral evidence; but she carrisd her. broom in her hand; and tho bllaclk oat. ran o b;:r, r;ll);li)er‘ifl against bes o0ld legs, sat up, and plunged bis claws again an aguin into ot dress with gostatic grasps. Dem- natory signs against the Whole family: “Tor- tares for - threa I" * the ‘order * peremptorily demanded by the ‘fitnesa of- things, - Mr. Toole. Yot ahe w=e &'poor, degenerate, harmless witch ; porhips a Japsed witch, who had been baptizad ; for shio was afraid of the thunder, and shook lika & 8crey-steamer in & gale whenever a fresh clap came. Sho had takou refuge in & -vault which was once a cellar, and had been flooded out. Tho sight of me frightened Lor almoat as muchas. tho thunder and the water. - “ Wo_are not used to visitors,” eaid 1he young ‘man, with & smile of explanation, - ** This gen- tleman has comein for. abelter, Molly... Have we myflu'nq to offer him besides dry bread and ‘lard cidor 7 X = ' _% Dabble brought in a rabbit early this morn- ing‘, Master Walter,” mumbled tha Woman. .. Good Dabble!” and he patted the cat’s head., 4 Well, cook the rabbit for us, pleaso, Molly." There were some smoldering wood-embers on the Jarge hearth, which the old woman raked to-, f:nm, and blew up into a flame; and then add- g fresh fuel, she disappéared to skin the Dab= ble-captured bunny,which was in due timeboiled and set befors us. Our tablecloth, uzou%l: very conrsa, was clsan ; and the same might said of the iron forks. ;I added the bread and checso from my knapsack to the common stock. MMy host took.the head of his table with tho air of a Bolgravian entertainer; Dabble stood at his, side op_ his _ hind-legs, ‘with his foro-paws and . blick hesd sppear- ing over the adfe of thio board till he received a lluwufls Ilt'norla b vaban he "went dow'nh “db patche on the floor, reappearing when it wag finished.. If his master Foved dilatory, he outa ?nw sideways, and dabbed his at the same time nttafll;glvhmfi"mmw. When we thres hed finisbed our ‘meal, we left the table ; and the harmless witch sat dos ond -had her dinver beforo clearing away. "Of course 1 bad ‘bean abstemious. ~ One ngbit amongst four is ‘not & gorge: tryit: . ; I bave gono into thess detsils of my first mnfin&mm Walter Ausgrave in his ruin, cause they made a greal impression upon Ie. Ishould not have been surprised to find a poor but proud don placed in a corresponding posi- tion in some corner of Spain; or even in Ire- 12rd the situation would not have seemed ab- nommal. Bub that an :Euglish gentleman, 80 reduced, and hlfinlghgood health, should not bave emigrated, or enlisted, or dnven & .cab, Bupposing no one would give him £00 a year a8 & clerk, was an unintelligible munddle to me. But an impatient reader will decline to take sny *_interest in such ° reflections; #0 1 owill- sungly state, without _explana- tion, that my host and I grew very friendly be- fore we parted that night, that I walked over {rom Dowd again next day, and -persusded him o go back with me, ‘and eat o réturn 'ainner; that I became very intimate with him, and pro- longed my stay in_ the neighborhood in conse- quence ; and that he told m his hiatory. It was s story of a lawsnit. For three genera- tlons the Musgraves had been throwing away substance in their race after a shadow, until the family and its acres had dwindled down fo this one member, the old ruinous mansion and & fow roods of grags-iand abont it. Lawyers had de- voured tbe rest,—honeat lawyers, look you; for. the ahadow appeared very tangible, and I believe that tha cleverost of them had a bons fide confi- dence in pulling his client gafe through. Tho b"gge of _cgnt&nhonwls {freehold dful‘;d t‘yn‘f iving city—s very nice bons, wil nty of mes$ upon it, The Musgraves could Bot masko their title clear; neither could the Contrsmus- graves make their titleclear ; and so tne property remained unproductive. Ihe bouses could not be let, nor Juued down, nor patched up. The Musgrave claim was admitted to be very strong; but ope link in the chain was wanticg,—a cer- tain deed which wia kuown 1o exist ]&:;: conld no .found anywhere. Tho oking P! o8 tho ‘matter ws, that It had Boan discovered ance by the present claimant’s grandfather ; but at that time other necaasarylegal avidence, since collected, had not boen got together ; and the 01d man, who was queer from tho effects of hope deterred, combined with that of a pistol-wound inthehead he hadreceived ina dnel arising ont -| of the suit, had wtowed the important docu- ment away in a safe 80 carefully that 0o one had since besn able to' find it; for he was struck down by a fit, and died without Eaving wer to com- ‘manicats the hiding-place to. hia_only son, who was harriedly sammoned to his dying-bed. ° A- minate description of ; the: document, -togather with an account "of how “ho " obtained " It, was found in his will ; and in’ the’ next legal tussle - thia was put in with some confidence that, com-. ‘bined with the rest of.tho case, it_would be ac- cepted as evidence. DBut, after a deal of learned argument, and some hezitation, the authorities ‘who hiad to'decide the -matter’ declined -to “take | the will for the deed ; and ‘the case .was kept for the benefit of & fresh set of lawyers; at that time not out of their dinners and articlea. Thus the Musgrave property remaincd: bleoding. My friond'a father got pretty well -the last drop out ot it, and then married, not for love, but partly -io hopes of an helr to carry on ‘tho suit, partly becanes the lady Liad a little money to be sucked into the chancery quickasnds; He did getan hoir; Lo did sink the monsy. . Fortunately for _ her, the wife died befors it was anito spent, * The goodly Musgraye cstates were now “glt “'gone, " 25 has “been ‘eaid, tho house and Lomestead being slone retained. This Iast bit of strand was stuck to tenacionsly, because it was protty certain_that the iron safe, withi tho covered parchment inside it, “was some- where sbout the. premises’ But where? | It is needless to say that it had been well hunted for, experienced detactives having been -woll em- ployed in the search; and, indeed,.the ruinous state of the house was, in no small measurs, +owiog to the ruthless manner in which somo of these'investigations liad been conducted. Happily, not quite all the -money of Walter Musgrave's father went to the Iawyera ; some of it was spent in edugating him in & maoner be- fiting the position Le would Lold when tho Jaw- suit was over, and the valuable houss property at his disposal.’ But his father died; and thy funds: gave out, befors ho bed finished his it~ tended “course; and ho found, himea!f -in the queer, tantalizing, poverty-stricken corditicn in which T discovered him whon photography sid s thunder-storm bronght us togetber. = - -~ When he firat commenced his confidances, I was beyond exprossion dismayed. O my pros phetio soul, his great-grandfatber!” I mentally, exclaimed, when he opsned with & shori biogra- phy of that gncestor, But by degrees I grew in- torosted; Lis account was clear enongh, if mino isnot; and be had confirmatory documents to show for everything he advanced. At last Iwas sble to conceive how it was poasible to keep him ont of what seemed o undoubtedly his own; but then I am not a lawyer. Neverthelcas, 88 soon_as_we wers intimate enongh for such liberty, I talked reason to him,* urging him to throw tho, losing game up, leave the ruin to.the cars of BMolly “and Dabble, and look sbont for some method of earsing bread znd bacon; for even aa an unskilled artisan ho would livo better than ho did at prosent. He'let his remaining patch of grass-land’ for £40 ayear; ha iflh _about £10 for tbe apples in his orchard, and haif as much- more for the hay that was cutin'it. Dabble, who.was-an amrant, but not a sclf-secking poacher, occa- sionalfy brought in s Tabbit or s leverst; and that was what the last of the Musgraves lived on. He-owned that it savored of Junacy to go on like that; that his beat course would be to sell what Little homestead remained to him,— ‘which ho conld do at fancy price, as his Tetein~ ing possession of ‘if deatroyed the compaciness of the remainder of the estate,—and make s . fresh atart in tho world; but. ssid he simply could not do . ;Erx‘ualy, you could make one vigorous effort,” si “0f course I could,” be replied, **if that were all ; but after it was made,—s week after, or & month, or & year, or five years after—I ghould bo dravn back into this inherited struggle ; aud if I then bad to bear the reflection tuat I bad thrown away s chance, I feel certain that s sen- timent of remorseful regret would drive me mad. No ; you might just as well tell“Laocoon to make an effort, and wrench bimsell free of the serpentfolds. It ho could, they would twino round him again when lie was weary. % So Inever annoyed him' with common-sense again; and, indesd, after a little while, I caught the cory affection myself. Of courss, it weabut in amild form, 3s 1 had no proporty of my own at stake; but I had it sufliciently to al- ter my ideas entircly, and sympathizo with tho orsistent strugglo ith fate in which my new end was engagod. To tell tho truth, T wea in an unhe; state of mind_at that time, havin been recently jilted,—n misfortunc which, ti they grow sccustomed to_it, often makes young men sulky with the world in general.. My sulks took the form of isolation, tempered by photog- raphy; and residenco at Dowd, with a man bound to go crazy, a witch, and an uncanny black ' cat for ‘my sole ‘acquaintance, exactly suited me just then, Thers is a freemasonry amongst the #arlon inlove which enables them to recognizo cue another; and I soon learned tlist Musgrave ‘had met s certain Mary, tho daughter of s poor clorgyman who had acted as his private tutor, and that he had indulged in duy-dreams of taking his degres, going into or- ders, and ‘ leading & life of married bliss in & pirsouzgo on hundred & yoar ; but he had to oave tho university abruptly when his father died,’ and left him the dormant lawsuit, and nothing else. Thon at first ho was sanguine of being sble shortly to offer his A a better homs than they had modestly pictured for them- Gelves; but after a while, when he had well stadied the story of the-family failures; hislove wai but another wedge in the torturo-boot. I consoled him with the refloction that his case wea far better’ than mine; bis girl.was faithful to him, orat least he_thought 8o, aod ho had a chanco; whereas, I knew for certain that the- heartof mine was & mere’ pop-gun, and that I ‘Thad been ghat out of it as another fellow popped in. Buthedid not pity me properly; -for ha considered that.T was lucky, in that she Had chenged her mind befors mafriage, intead of after, and T oould niot contradict that.” = But the cup_of * Musgrave's: misfortunes not yet full. - Dabble died.. P Do you laugh at people who grieve for pet animals? I-don’t. “Only a dog!” folks Eay. Well, a dog who loves ma is better worth my regrot than & continent foll of men and women who don't. Btill moro zbsurdly, argument is sometimes attempted ; and we are told mot to give & second thought to the loss of an animal % that has no soul.” . Nov, surely, if ‘the death . of & dog, cat, or horsa meant its utter anihila-, $ion,- that is an extra canse for -sorrom. Put-thera ia no reason for sach 4 -no- tiob.: Read - Butler's ' Anilogy,” and perer speak ‘with - that . ignorant’ confi- dence again. ‘I do not refer you to Plato, s heathen Greek, but to Bishop Butler, ss ortho- | ‘dox s men as yourself ; perhaps more go. Well, _whatever -msy be the spiritual endowment- of other animals; Dabblo must have had a soul; af Jenst; he Teasoned, and certainly would have talk ‘was odif the formalion of ks month had per- mitted him. Do you mear to tell me that a° ‘mere bresthing machine would have found out that his ‘master wanted rabbits, without being 40ld,” and so_brought thom homo wben he caught them, instead of esting them quietly in the woods 7 i i ‘He took nomedicine ; ho had no doctor; and yet bie died, poor dear,—which looks 2a if the Inedical profession was slandered sometimes. His illness was short, Ho did not eat one morn~ ing; the next his cost was rough, snd he did 2ot lick ¢ ; on the third be went abont mewing, 2nd his eyés got filmy ; on tho fourth be had con- Yulsions, in the course of ono'of which Be suc- cumbed. We made a wooden box for him, and Gotormined to bury him in the orchard, under Lis favorite tres, where he used to ecratch holes, and lie in wait for dickey-birds. It wssona Iovely sutumn- evening that we ‘bors the box to this spot, and commenced our sad preparations, Musgrave being ‘chief mourner, 1 took tho part of sexton, and strack the spade fnto the ground. For » Little while the task was easy ; then I cama on roots, which delayed me, Hacking throngh fhom, however, I dug & grave Eomo thres fost Goap, ud we tried to carzy the obsequies s stage further; bus the box stuck; the grave was not ‘wide enmough. I began again at the sides, and goon wideped it; but then it locked too shallow, 5041 dug down aJittle deeper ; not much, for % stopped by something harder thau a root,— sbig stone, probably. It was impossible to make any impression o it ; 80, 88 oue does not Jike to be beaten, I dug round. it, and tried fo got it up bodily. ' Musgrave bad to help; and then we disinterred s square iron box. 4 By Jove!” cried I, I wonderif it is the safe nr sndfather 2" D A aehed very zod, aad *hen tiraed desdly pale. unfafilam be,” said he; “and the deedis it e of the suspense, he put the eafe on Lo gt o twe ‘hag. lowored Dabble into ifa placo, which ho. exacily fitted, . and filled in the grave. Then we took our discovery home, and wrenched the lid off. -There was the parch- ment safe enough, considerably-discolored, but legible. % T Masgrave hud no other way ‘of raising money for the recpening of tha big suit, so he sold arnig' 81 tzhi; o e enou BOW issin gu':;; 384 established hia claim Erty which had bean 8o long in dispute much trouble or delay. - He married his Mary; did not cnt e when the incroasing. valua of his froeholds made him very Ticl, and was alwass e caso was link . was to_the prop- fe without grateful to Dabble, who had broughthim rabbits when living, and a fortnne when desd.—Cham~ ders’ Journal. - i ———— THE RED_MAN'S PRAYER. & Md00 chisttati siood, when day was dyiag, ATz within the roay-tinted Weas: 4 “Bis useleas rifle at hia feet was Iying—- .. . ‘His army 1s sorsow crossed upon hls brexst, His haggard eyes, his.wild and snken festurec - Betrayed the angutal all bis race bave felt, Aud fourteen scalps of murdered human creatures ¢ Tn'wild profusion dangled at hia belt, ' “ And snall o pale-face drive us aye hafore htiri 7 Sear, (hon Groat Spiri, thla tha chiaftalu’s prayer *are he prayed he cracked a flea that K BUQ the GATk meshes of his matted Batr. 5 “Tts sorrows of I tho Indlap, they are many: . . J1is woes ara as the fulling wutumn leaves. T'vo onlr fourteen scalpi—whisk) not ang, And 161 GreatSpirit, now the red man 0, send once marethosa days of ol Whea_ children’s brains by dasnett oo ‘gatnt troas: Ana tore off women's scalps, ali w; 5 The whila b war-whoop Fan adown 1a paseza, 4 Shack Nasty Jtm's wild bresst s racked with sorrow, And Boston Obarloy sleeps to wake no. m':(r‘: v And I upon these lsva-beds to-morrow The purple current of my life may pour. # Yet, Manito, beforo that day has risen . Alo¥e yan Yills eo wildly fresh and yreea, Grant me to slit some palo-face soldfexs wizzan, And falling, fall with moath at his cazteen.” —New York Graphic, - - o A i ST S Tilloy 2lotve, nnd the Secret of His 2 Cnreer. - - A recent namber of the Congregationalist con-, taics au intercating biography of Tilley Howe, ‘whose name ‘was a_household word. throughout New England woll-nighs century since. Hisessy, aimlees Jife, and his_eccentricitios of.costumd and manner, as he rods his favoritonsg up and down the country from Maine' to Connecticat, gave him and his character a notorfety that hss eryetallized into the familier proverb of “ Eaay as old Tilley,” Ninoty years ago Tilley Horwe, then good-lookinig and fresh from Dartmouth Collega, & preachar of tho Goapol, and delighted with Lis profession, stood up to bo wedded to ‘s Yankee Fm. Then came on the unsolvablo myatery.of & long, clonded, wasted life. His own—his *“law- fully wedded " wifo, with the nuptial vowr still warm on her troncherous lips, suddenly ond snllonly refused to remain with her own hus- “band! Ten minutes later she was on her ‘way back to the paternal mansion, which .ghe "had ] ilmi:’ covenanted to exchange for her own life- long _home! She absolutely’ sealed her lipa sgeinat the first word of explanation. She o nosign. The deed waa done. The reasonswere her. own. She was persistont. No ingenuity, no importunity, could draw the secret out. She took it to her grave. - Never on carth would she seo Tilley Howe any more. Nover s syllablo from bia pen would she ever resd. Overtures for re-union could not reach ber in this world, or-ever procoed from_her. By her own handd the veil was not lifted, and now it never can bo. ‘We turn the leaf to say that Tilley Howe was thereafter a wreck. He abjured sll knowledga of a single fact on his part, or on hers, that conld bave stimulated her to. such strange’ recreancy. Bnt the. delicato balances of resson had been struck, and could mever be restored. He wes bewildered. He knew not what to” make of it. The mental energy to breast the storm could not be ralliel. He outlined a - life-work, with -the simplicity of a child. He felt an essurance. that he would work it all through by the’aid of ono co-working hand. - Alas, that that very band should have boen lifted to defeat and destroy him forever! Ever afterward he me tho impersonation of indolence and incfficisncy. A Modiste’s Trinmph--She Engages n Special Traix to Carry o Balle Dress. = b s From the San Frencisco Chronicle. May3. . On Wednendsy last, Miss May Thompson, 3 modiste, of thiscity, received sn order from Mra. Murphy, wife of the new Msyor of San Jose, to make a magnifieont silk robe for her, and have it ready to forward by s lady friend, who would-leave Ban Francisco by the afterncon irain on the following day. As the dresswasre-. quired for the Mayor's party, which was to take place on Thursday evening, no delay waa to be thought of, and go Miss. Thompson, aided byas- sistants, eet actively to work to fill the order. Time pressed, but it seemed.that industry and persistency were to conquer, for the work was completed -on Thureday afternodn, sufSciently early, 08 it was thought; to_catch the Iady’ 5t home beforo ehe started on her journey. Cares" {fully preparing the parcel, Miss Thomeon hur- ried in & back to the address, but, on arriving tere, discovered - that. tha Iady had . praviously started for the train.: Instructing the driver to haston to the station, she n had the mortifi- cation to find that' she was Ewo . or three momonts too lato, for the train had just left. Tho modiste, however, proved equal to the emergency, and, s she hsd tele- §raphul that the dress shonld be received in S8an ose in time for the pariy, sho determined that he would keep her promise, in spite of all troublo and expenee. Accordingly she_went in search of a fast team to drive her the distance, but_again she was baulked, for the epizooty having Inid up al! the horses, & carriage for tho journey was mot to be obtained atsny price. ow came & coup @' elat. She returned to-the. Tailrod station and negotinted fora special lo- comotive and tender for San'Jose, which wers farnished her for €100, . Triumphant at laat,” shae forwarded the dress to its destination, an: tho happy wife of the naw . Mayor received it, as promised; just in time for the party. e " Morals and Business in the Sandwich = Xslands, 4 The census return of theso " islands. for 1873 ghows a fearful decline 2mong the nativo popu- Iation—a decrease at the rate of about 1,200 & year. The people are not_peculidrly subject to disease, bu tie women will not bear children. -They will calmly tell you thst thoy don't want tho bother of childbirth, and have deliberately practiced infanticide; or feeticide. A -gentle- woman Lind in manner will tell you this, It is astonishing to observe their -good nature and amiability, and yot be assured' of the. terrible thinge that they sro cagablo of doing. They “have no idea of virtue or - personal chastity. woman cannot loze caste among them. Proatitu- tion does not _alter in -the, slightest a woman's position -among her friends. There is no {amily organization. They iive in groups, and, to. B groat extent, Jive in common. Polyandry 8 cormon, and pub- licly avowed ; and they do not seem to roalize the bideonsness of the practice; Ilmowtwo leagant men in business who avow that they vo- but one. wife between them. There are nearly 7,000 more mou thsn women in these ialands. | However, public men are entirely oc- cupied with the intoreats of property, and partic- Tlarly of sugar, und caro nothing about the hu- manitarian questions which the condition of this Tace 50 foreibly presonts, The salubrity of this climate is attracting & great many invalids even from the mild climate of ity of the volcano alao brings a great many tour- iats. Businessis very dull. The decline in the Ban Francisco sugar merket is ruinous to our plantora. 1€ sugar does not improve, they muat get reciprocity, or bring about annexation, or Presk. Real estato is much depressed, and ee- tates could be bought cheap.—Honolulu Lefter. et e O el Lord Lytion’s Women, 1 TLord Lytton, with all his gifts, did not possees ¢hat of drewing women. It is raré among men almost, if mot quito, as rare as the faculty of Tepresenting men is among women, though the failure in the one caso is very much less remarked upon, and loss noticeablo indéed, from the fact that women have bat Iately come_ to occupy leading places in works of fiction. A beautiful and sweet . abatraction of womankind; with bair,. eyes, throat, etc., Bicoly put in, with emiles and tears handy, 20d & few protty speeches, joall that ia really necessary for a heraino of the good"old-tashion- ed type.. Lord Lytton bas two of thesa types, the heroic and the gentle, a3, mndeed, Bir Walter also had; and most novelista of_eminonce keep within these safe lines. Tha sentimontal splen- dor of Violante, the sugary swestness of Helen," ‘may dazzle the hiasty reader; but how to come to any gort of realization of these young women we are unable to inform ~him. Every mortal man has Ius tether, and here-is one region in which Lord Tytton's tether is apparent, thongh ho does hia best by glowing diction and Iavish sentiment to throw glamonr in our eyes and blind. us to the, ot $re does blind us 8o far that we nccept the graceful ontline enveloped in rainbow-mists of beautiful effect 28 the symbol of woman— woman the consoler, woman the inspirer, as be himself says. The sbstraction is_enough 'for him—he haa no need for anything further; noither, we suppose, has the majority of read- ers, or the typical would not have been 8o long +and so placidly accepted instead of tho pe) iiwood's Magazine. —B © . powerof the Imngination.. . A manof science in Paris once; prevailed on "the Minister of Justice to’ experiment upons “murderer who bad beon condemned to death. T criminal was of high rank, and he .was in- Formed that, in order to save the feelings of his Jamily, he would not bo_put to. desth upon the scaffold. but bled to_ rlu?h within the Dprecincts .| in the apartment, broken only by the - the Infinite.” of the prison; also that his would be free from_ pain. His_6yss_wars . "bandaged, - he ~was - strapped -£0 - s - table, — and, st a preconcerted ; four veins were gently pricked with & pin. - At esch carner of the table waas small fountain of watar, 50 contrived aa to flow gently into basina _placed to receive it. He, believing that it was hisbloo _., g ‘weskiand” " < b6 heard flowing, gradually. - becam tho couveraatios of tha dootors i confirmed him -in " this ~opinion.” blood!* exid ope. *What & should Bo condemned ta” i lived a long time. * Hush!" said"the other; then approaching the--first--he—asked him in a low voice, but 80 as to bo heard by the crin ‘*How.many pounds-of ‘bload are = . thero in the buman body?” . *Twanty-four; {du soe already abont ten pounda :extracted ; bat man is now in a hopeless state.”, The phy- sicians then roceded by degrees and continued to lower their voices. The stillness which reigned drippin, fountains, the sound of which was iy, Jessened, 50 affected the brain of :the “poor pe- tient that, althongh a'man of- very strong :gon- stitntion, he fainted and*died without having lost & drop of blood.—From Dcciors and Pa~ tients, by John Timbs. oS e, | . HUMOR. A notice of s peal—Lightning. —Tho child who cried for an bour didi*¥ get it. —A man up-town calls himself an * intestinal taxidermist.”, He stuffs sausages. —~A boy of the period astonished, his. mother by saying: “1 wish father wonld gek anothes, - :bx‘l,a.fi“;zlyr, nleuon 2 “Hecauge,” replied’ e 3 tired..of sseing: ¥t —A littla Concord chap, who lived next_doc to Emerson, was gngngcc!' one day lnn'dixg‘ oo: hole by the roadside; A worldly trifier, peatiog | > by, nakied him, “What are you:digging after, > Littlo boy2” - With gravity he' answered, *Aftez=. ; —Tho New Yotk Times eaya the firat. thoi prflulny q‘nda hone m.‘zh re‘ndmg ot & railway collislon is tho'wild hope that s prize-package boy his™ e fore 'p;oéb in 5 uip T i —Herois s Dbusinesg-like epitaph 3 . Z lida Jane Seaiti wife of Teomes, Bmith, marhies cutter. Thia monument was erected by her hius. ‘band a8 & tribule to-hér mémary and a epecimi g;figm work,. Mopuments cf th little boy having broken his rocking-harss. the day it was boughi. bis motha began-to Tor buke' pim Ho- leiced her- by Iuiraes “‘What is the good of a hoss till its broke ? " - _—Chemistry for the Czar—‘* Whatare the Rus- sians. to do with Khiva when thoy -hava gob. * it?” asks the Times. Wel erbaps they will docompns the Kauata of hiva, and pracipi tata the K —A man, after waltzing six times with oneledy - at 8 ball, was asked if Lo was fond of d&nflnF i it 0, no,” replied &h:xnnl.h, 1 donlt care for it . ‘but my doctor advisod me to-day to take z aws: and this is cheaper thar a Turklsh bath,” * —A Detroit German thas expresass his opinion of buffalo-meat, naw oy ‘plentifal in tha) mar- Kets of that oif ‘g aball not puy dot meat yob! streechnine and pe ish bison. Nei —An Indiana farmer don't pay-any toll on ths - plack-road. He shoots tho glfe‘kle':)’er, s0d joga. right-along. ; They have tried him twice, but. gets clear, since one of aunt’s consins used tonct Sflighty like” . . . . —A little boy in this city, after his custom! evoning prayer s -night- or two ago, continu #Bless mamms and Jenny, and Uncle Benny,” 2dding, after a moment’s pause, the explanatary.’ remark, ** His namo is Hatchinson.” e ) ~—*T wigh I was a"little French girl,” said & 10-year old. - “ Why, my dear?” asked her mamm: Because then I should-kuow two- - languages.” -** How so?” . “*Why, you know I « :;n apeak English now, snd Frencl wonld make-— %0." . i 5 —A school inepsctor, examining the boys, put’ them through their * snimal- kingdom,” and i~ the course of his.performance rather grandly-ex~ claimed : . ** Now, can any of_you hoys.pame ta ‘mo an animal of -the order, Edentata—tbat is, = . front-looth toothileas animat y” A b‘Jy‘ =t once smitten with wiadom, replied, “Ican.” * Well, what s the animat 7" --** My granamother;" ro- : plied the boy. - .° - e A Caniab being ont in resdy cash, went i haste to & fellow-student to borrow, who hap- poned to bain bed at th Shaking him; the Cantsb demaaded. -‘-Are you-aslaep ? #\Why ?? ued 1 7 ered the studant, # I'yi asteep. "~ 17, —Dr. Cleland, & statiatical writer of Glasgoi, relates that 5 criminal, alterattentively listenin tq the condemned ‘sermon which preceded his. oxecution, turned to a companion and remarked: * ©; 1 A very good sermon, but rather too peraonal’* “—Wo know-ot 'nothlng so suaceptible of per- version 28 the ‘efforts of 8 young man tokill & mosquito on & young lady's cheok. ‘A censorious world_would 'Dever. forgive him' for trying to - seizo it with his festh when' any less extraor- _ diary method would do jnst aswell. And yot,” ' it is said that in New Jersoyno gallant of sound . * incisors ever adopts any other method. ¥ —1t is thought that Victor Hugo's fortheom. g poeny; -+ Batan;” will be & davilish goo —f;nrdand bag' 8 musical socioty which, .of - rl course, alwaya has one eye out for the. Alain California. The activ- |. chants, - —+ Among afl my boys,"” said sn old man, #T nover il bt o Loy wh $00k. after e, ‘aad u:un !\’numy 800 Aaron, who took after me with —It in raported that a grest many phiysicians - * are going to Europe i -nm‘;{‘% can %7 cross the ocoan without any qualms of stomach,” a8 they are accustomed to see sickness. PR —A Canadian infant; supposed to bo dest snd. domb for five years laoly gavo its it evidénco of speech by breaking out fn a series of horript- Iafing oatha. Its papa insists'that hig proity, chicken takes after its dam. ‘-~ T 7ad R —A Wilkingon County, Ga., man became con: vinced the othar day that & woman's temper very isregular. Hé bad been -monlding Bom: bullets, and hed neglectod to_cool off the ladl in which the lesd hed been molted. Whils ki waa counting the bullets his wife camo into the~ - room Lumming-s tendor love-song. Suddenly” the song ceased, and the man-was made awaro that gometbing had happensd by caiching = adjacont cofee-mill oo, the bridga'of his now The unhappy wife and mother-had taken this, icturesque: mode_of informing bim that sbe. d pickod up the ladlo by the kot end. - - —A yonth of Danbury went off ridirg with* questionable company, Bunday. When he cam home at night Lis aged father took kim by, th small of tho neck, and, to use a worldly” expre sion; *lifted” him. ' The young msn ‘cam around o the back of tho house where his moth: or was, and complained bitterly of the trestment o wes inctined to feel hard towards his father, but his mother emoothed him down: Bhe sai #tYon musn't mind it, John; your father is got- ting Qg and childieh."—Dartury Netos, —Did you'ever sco s man fish around ‘in thy bottom of a tub of water for & plece of soap? - At the first he simply reaches down' upon it to pick it right.up, and is very -muck sur. rised to find. that: hie - haen't gob it. - Then e approaches it more cautioualy, puts b(u'fihfimd ¥ over it, abd then comes down nolselesaly till ho gota”every finger abont it and then squeezes it Hight and—minses it. Ho looks at it for & mo- - ment before making snpjher effork, undfinlnz' Y the interval with a few Yomarks.'. The third ate * ' tempt ia a sort .of semi-circle described with-a”-"* great deal of sagacity, but is a falurs. Other _ yemarks follow. Then be makea s succession of dives and slops the water over his clothes, and drenches the carpet, and catches hold of the eoap several times, and lets go of 1t n‘gunl and ¢ screams at the top of his voice and Hnally, in < perfect deepair, sits down on tho floor snd se- < ma_llyhnwl:. 3 L e = Rontes to Vienn: h : Prom the New Fork Times, . ° - Intending visitors to Vienna will be interested . to hoar that they will have & choice of snmql.hl:fi 2% Yike thirty different rontes, or rather of railroe and _steamboat combinations.: to choose frax . when they reach England. The London Stand- - ard ia the authority for the statemonts which wa " pummarise in regard to tho lesdiug rosds to, Vidana. Tho fouraey can be done in Aifty hours bymay of -Calais, Cologne, Darmstadt, Rurn: botg, aod Passsu, st s cost of es:fininlq_ & This is the price of -what 18 ¢ > # mixed ticket"—L e., first-class to Cologne, snd gecond-class cars from that polat. By way of Cologne, Frankfort, Munich, and ‘Salzburg, the sodrney requires twenty-four hours more, snd S 8 Brat.class tloket, and $32.80 scond class. Taking the somewhat lnnger channel ™ aseago, between Newhaven aod Diepps, and fhd railroad connectiona by way of’ Pt Birag- bourg, Btatigact, Augaburg, 2ad Munlelr, "the* £rip Sl cost £43.73, gold, or a return tickef can - -7 be had for $66.72. Four days are required for ihe journey by this route. Then, there is the - chespest of_all the' rontes, that by Hamburg. or Bremen and the Esst German railroads, w] 9 can bo traversed for $32.48, gold, for s firet-clase ticket, and tho almoat equally chesp routo by - Harwich and Rotterdam, or ‘Antwerp. Cologne, .. - and the Bhine, Darmstedt, or Frafikfort, Mue® -4 nich, apd Salzburg, for which o first-tlass return ,°4 ticket can be had for. 850, gold, and & second-'~ claas retarn for 240. ' By thislast route.the tray: elorean sea tha besy part. of the’ Rhine, can spend a fow hours in Cologne, & night in nx“n‘ niéh, and can accomplish the single jm four,daye; i B